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| US11735911B2 |
Power sharing coordination of paralleled sources
Systems for power sharing coordination of parallel sources are provided. Aspects include a first DC power supply, a second DC power supply, a first generator controller configured to operate the first DC power source, a first current sensing device coupled between the first DC power supply and the common bus point, a second current sensing device coupled between the common bus point and a load, wherein the first generator controller is configured to receive a first current signal from the first current sensing device, receive a second current signal from the second current sensing device, determine a load share percentage for the first DC power supply, determine a first voltage adjustment based on the first current signal, the second current signal, and the load share percentage, and operate the first DC power supply to adjust a first voltage output by the first voltage adjustment. |
| US11735910B2 |
Distributed power system using direct current power sources
A distributed power system including multiple (DC) batteries each DC battery with positive and negative poles. Multiple power converters are coupled respectively to the DC batteries. Each power converter includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The first terminal is adapted for coupling to the positive pole. The second terminal is adapted for coupling to the negative pole. The power converter includes: (i) a control loop adapted for setting the voltage between or current through the first and second terminals, and (ii) a power conversion portion adapted to selectively either: convert power from said first and second terminals to said third and fourth terminals to discharge the battery connected thereto, or to convert power from the third and fourth terminals to the first and second terminals to charge the battery connected thereto. Each of the power converters is adapted for serial connection to at least one other power converter by connecting respectively the third and fourth terminals, thereby forming a serial string. A power controller is adapted for coupling to the serial string. The power controller includes a control part adapted to maintain current through or voltage across the serial string at a predetermined value. |
| US11735903B2 |
Transformer with flux linkage control and method for suppressing magnetizing inrush current of transformer
A method for suppressing magnetizing inrush current of the transformer with flux linkage control includes connecting a small-capacity direct current/alternating current (DC/AC) converter with the secondary winding or auxiliary winding of transformer, detecting the primary side phase voltage before closing load, inducing the core flux linkage reference according to the relationship between the winding voltage and core flux linkage. The core flux linkage closed-loop PI control system is constructed to control the converter voltage in the synchronous coordinate, then the core flux linkage can track its reference with no static error, thus the sinusoidal flux linkage with 90-degree difference from the grid voltage can be pre-established in the core before no-load closing. By these methods, no matter when the main transformer closes, the core flux linkage is always in the steady state, and the magnetizing inrush current can be eliminated completely. |
| US11735899B1 |
Retractable data cable
A retractable data cable assembly is provided, which includes a cable, a winding assembly, a movable assembly and a housing defining an accommodating cavity where the winding assembly and the movable assembly are arranged. The cable is wound around the winding assembly and exposed out of the housing. The winding assembly includes a winder rotatable with respect to the housing. The movable assembly is disposed on a side of the winder and positioned to connect to the housing. The movable assembly includes a transmission assembly and an auxiliary member respectively coupled with the winder and the transmission assembly. The auxiliary member produces elastic deformation to provide the transmission assembly with a preload force for swinging toward or away from the side of the auxiliary member. The storage of the retractable data cable assembly is more convenient. |
| US11735886B2 |
Systems and methods for coherent beam combining
Multi-Channels coherent beam combining (CBC) using a mechanism for phase and/or polarization locking that uses a reference optical beam and an array of optical detectors each detector being configured and located to detect overall intensity of an optical interference signal caused by interfering of the reference beam and a beam of the respective channel, where the fast intensity per-channel detection allows simultaneous and quick phase/polarization locking of all channels for improving beam combining system performances. |
| US11735884B2 |
Methods and laser systems for generating amplified pulse-on-demand output laser pulses
Methods and laser systems are disclosed for generating amplified output laser pulses with individually specified pulse energies and/or pulse shapes at individually specified time points at an output by providing a first pulse sequence of input laser pulses with a same pulse energy and a same temporal pulse distance smaller than a temporal pulse distance between adjacent output laser pulses, selecting input laser pulses arriving at the output at or close to the specified time points to form a second pulse sequence of input laser pulses, coupling at least one sacrificial laser pulse (energy balance or temporal balance) into the second pulse sequence, amplifying the second pulse sequence of input laser pulses with the sacrificial laser pulse, and coupling out the amplified sacrificial laser pulse from the amplified second pulse sequence upstream of the output to obtain the amplified output laser pulses. |
| US11735882B2 |
Terminal applicator to cassette mounting apparatus
A system for mounting an electrical terminal applicator to a cassette containing a plurality of terminals is provided. The system includes a support plate for fixedly attaching to the applicator, and a yoke releasably attached to the support plate. The yoke and support plate define an attachment therebetween providing at least one degree of freedom of motion of the support plate relative to the yoke in an attached state. The yoke is further configured to be movably mounted to the cassette with at least one additional degree of freedom of motion. |
| US11735879B2 |
Adaptor for converting a ball grid array interface into a pin interface
An electrical device that comprises a printed circuit board, which has a first mounting surface, a second mounting surface, a mounting edge, and a plurality of mounting pads on the first mounting surface and the second mounting surface, and an electrical component that has a ball grid array. The electrical device further comprises an adaptor, interposed between the mounting edge and the electrical component, and comprising a body, made of an electrically non-conductive material, and a plurality of electrical pins, made of an electrically conductive material and passing at least partially through the body of the adaptor. The first end of each one of the plurality of electrical pins is electrically directly mounted to a corresponding one of the spaced apart solder balls. The second end of each one of the plurality of electrical pins is electrically directly mounted to a corresponding one of the plurality of mounting pads. |
| US11735876B2 |
Distal connector assemblies for medical lead extensions
Distal connector assemblies that are on the distal end of medical lead extensions provide increased rigidity by including a rigid holder that contains the electrical connectors. The electrical connectors are separated within the rigid holder by insulative spacers that may be individual items or may be formed from a compliant carrier that the electrical connectors may reside within where the carrier is positioned within the rigid holder. The rigid holder may also contain a set screw block defining set screw bore or the rigid holder may include an integral portion that defines a set screw bore. The integral portion may include a slot to allow a molding pin loaded with the electrical connectors and other components to be dropped into a cavity of the rigid holder. An overmold may be present to surround the rigid body containing the electrical connectors and insulative spacers. |
| US11735875B2 |
Integrated antenna unit with blind mate interconnect
Antenna units and system that has an antenna with at least one docking station, at least one radio unit; and at least one interconnect that includes first and second mating connectors. The first connector is configured to be electrically and mechanically coupled to the antenna and the second connector is configured to be electrically and mechanically coupled to the at least one radio unit. The interconnect has radial and axial float for blind mating of the first and second mating connectors. The first connector is mounted on the at least one docking station via a mounting body such that space for the radial float is provided between the mounting body and a housing of the first connector. |
| US11735871B2 |
Network cable connector with switch control
Disclosed are network cable connectors with components such as switches, displays, and printed circuit with controllers. The disclosed network cable connector may be connected to a power over Ethernet (POE) power sourcing equipment (PSE). The printed circuit of the cable connector may request power for the display from the PSE. The switch of the cable connector may be operated such that at least one component of the printed circuit is disconnected from the PSE when an external powered device (PD) is connected to the cable connector. Disconnecting components of the printed circuit from the PSE may reduce the interference to the power negotiation between the PSE and external PD. |
| US11735864B2 |
Electrical connector assembly
An electrical connector assembly includes: a first module including a mounting plate and a plurality of first electrical connectors; a second module including a housing and a plurality of second electrical connectors; wherein the electrical connector assembly has a locking device including at least one first interlocking member disposed on the first module and at least one second interlocking member disposed on the second module, wherein one of the first interlocking member and the second interlocking member is provided with a protrusion, and the other of the first interlocking member and the second interlocking member is provided with a hole for receiving the protrusion, wherein one of the projection and the hole is elastically actuatable so as to lock or unlock the first module and the second module. |
| US11735861B2 |
Socket structure and portable electronic device
A socket structure includes a casing, a switch, a linkage, a first hook, a gear, a rotating arm, and a second hook. The switch is exposed from the casing and disposed movably to the casing along a first direction or a second direction. The linkage is located in the casing and linked to the switch, and has a rack. The first hook is exposed from the casing and linked to the linkage. The gear is located in the casing and engages with the rack. The rotating arm having one end pivotally connected to the gear is located in the casing. The second hook is exposed from the casing and linked to the other end of the rotating arm. When the switch moves along the first direction, the linkage drives the first hook to move, the gear drives the rotating arm, and the second hook moves to an unlocked position. |
| US11735860B2 |
Vehicle provided with a hydrogen tank, containing at least one electrical connection device
Use of a hydrogen tank of a vehicle such as an aircraft for protecting at least one electrical connection device linked to at least one electrical device. At least one connection device is placed in a tank or in a sealed enclosure supplied with hydrogen by a tank or by any other source of hydrogen supply of the vehicle. The use of a tank that already exists in the vehicle makes it possible to avoid having to use specific chambers incorporated in a complex manner with the connection device. |
| US11735857B2 |
Mutoa and quad floating connector
A floating quad connector assembly is designed to hold two pairs of simplex connecters in a quad formation and to permit the two pairs of connectors to float within the assembly, thereby rendering the quad connector assembly compatible with different quad adapters having different spacings between the two middle simplex ports. Also, a segmental switch module is configured to aggregate multiple category-rated connectors in an array formation while permitting the spacings between the connectors to float, thereby rendering the switch module compatible with port arrays of different port-to-port spacings. |
| US11735856B2 |
Electrical connector and method for locking connection terminal in said electrical connector
A locking plate portion is disposed so as to be movable in a lateral direction. A connection terminal is inserted while a locking piece of a connection portion of the connection terminal passes through an insertion groove of the locking plate portion Subsequently, an operating member is pushed in an arrow direction with respect to the locking plate portion and the locking plate portion is laterally moved by a wedge mechanism. Then, the locking piece is transferred to a locking portion provided in the front end side portion of the insertion groove. As a result, the locking portion locks the rear portion of the locking piece and a rearward movement of the connection terminal is regulated. |
| US11735851B2 |
Connector with a cable holder and socket for engaging the cable holder
A connector (1) according to the present disclosure includes a holder (10) holding a cable (30) including a conductor (31) and an insulating coat (32) covering the conductor (31), and a socket (20) with which the holder (10) is to be engaged and including a contact (22). The holder (10) includes a base portion (11) holding the cable (30) by being integrally molded with the cable (30) and in which a portion of each of the insulating coat (32) and the conductor (31) of the cable (30) is embedded, and an extension portion (12) covering at least a portion of the conductor (31) and extending from the base portion (11) toward a side of connect with the socket (20). The holder (10) exposes a part of the conductor (31) of the cable (30) in contact with the contact (22) in an engaged state in which the holder (10) and the socket (20) are engaged with each other. |
| US11735848B2 |
Electrical connector having a metallic cover and a coupling piece grounding the metallic cover to an internal printed circuit board
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a recess at an outer surface thereof; plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and each including a securing portion, a front contacting portion, and a rear tail; an internal printed circuit board (PCB) having plural conductive pads connected to the rear tails of the contacts and an auxiliary ground pad; a metallic cover enclosing the insulative housing; and a coupling piece received in the recess of the insulative housing, the coupling piece either connecting the metallic cover to the auxiliary ground pad of the PCB or connecting the metallic cover to a corresponding ground contact of the plurality of contacts or both. |
| US11735847B2 |
Connector assembly
A connector assembly comprises a circuit board having a front side and a back side, with a connector installed on the front side of the circuit board. A plurality of first welding pads are formed on the front side of the circuit board, and a plurality of second welding pads are formed on the back side of the circuit board. A plurality of wires are connected to the circuit board, with a first portion thereof connected to the first welding pads and a second portion thereof connected to the second welding pads. Each of the plurality of wires extend away from the circuit board from above the front side of the circuit board. |
| US11735843B2 |
Connector and manufacturing method thereof
Provided are a connector and a manufacturing method thereof. The connector is configured to dispose on a circuit board including a mounting hole. The connector includes a guide pin module and a conductive cover. The guide pin module is located on one side of the circuit board and includes a base, a metal guide pin, and a glass sealing layer. The base has a perforation hole corresponding to the mounting hole. The metal guide pin is inserted into the perforation hole and the mounting hole. The glass sealing layer is disposed at the perforation hole and wraps around part of the metal guide pin. The conductive cover is disposed at the mounting hole, connected to the top of the metal guide pin, and protrudes from the circuit board. The conductive cover is bonded to the circuit board by soldering to electrically connect the metal guide pin to the circuit board. |
| US11735832B2 |
Antenna module and antenna driving method
A plurality of segments each include one input-output port and a plurality of antenna ports. A plurality of subarrays each include a plurality of elements connected to any of the plurality of antenna ports. The plurality of elements constitute a sequential array for each subarray. Each of the plurality of segments includes a distribution-combination circuit that distributes a signal input to a first port to the plurality of antenna ports and that combines signals input to the respective plurality of antenna ports to output a combined signal from the first port, and a first amplifier connected between the input-output port and the first port. In the plurality of subarrays, the plurality of antenna ports to which the respective plurality of elements included in one subarray are connected are included in one segment. |
| US11735829B2 |
Compact modular active-passive antenna systems with minimized antenna blockage
According to an aspect, there is provided a passive antenna module for an active-passive antenna system. The passive antenna module includes a chassis for detachably mounting onto an active antenna module. The chassis includes an opening or a cavity for extending at least partially over the active antenna module when the chassis is mounted onto the active antenna module. The passive antenna module includes a ground plane layer arranged within or over said opening or cavity and fixed to the chassis. The ground plane layer includes a metallic or metallized grid. The passive antenna module includes a first antenna array including one or more first antenna elements arranged, in part, over said chassis and adjacent to said opening or cavity and, in part, over said opening or cavity. The chassis and the ground plane layer are adapted to act as ground planes for the first antenna array. |
| US11735825B1 |
Antenna
An antenna that comprises a dielectric body and a feed arrangement. The dielectric body includes a first portion operable as a dielectric lens and a second portion operable as a dielectric resonator. The feed arrangement is operably coupled with the dielectric body for operating the antenna as a dielectric lens antenna and a dielectric resonator antenna. |
| US11735823B2 |
Coplanar antenna structure having a wide slot
An antenna is disclosed. The antenna can include a coplanar antenna structure. The coplanar antenna structure can include a substrate and a radiating portion that is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation and is disposed over the substrate. The radiating portion defines a slot having a width to length ratio of at least approximately 0.4. The antenna also includes a scattering element disposed over the substrate and at least partially surrounds the radiating portion. |
| US11735822B2 |
Antenna system with short cable
The disclosure concerns an antenna system having a clearance zone coupled to an antenna element, the clearance zone being further coupled to a ground plane. The antenna element and ground plane are electrically coupled by a short cable having a short cable routing. The short cable routing includes at least one bend wherein a portion of the short cable is disposed above the clearance zone. The short cable creates a bridging effect which reduces form factor while retaining lower frequency resonance. |
| US11735821B2 |
Electronic devices with probe-fed dielectric resonator antennas
An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array and a display cover layer. The phased antenna array may include a probe-fed dielectric resonator antenna. The antenna may include a dielectric resonating element mounted to a flexible printed circuit. A feed probe may be formed from a patch of conductive traces on a sidewall of the resonating element. The feed probe may excite resonant modes of the resonating element. The resonating element may convey corresponding radio-frequency signals through the display cover layer. An additional feed probe may be mounted to an orthogonal sidewall of the resonating element for covering additional polarizations. Probe-fed dielectric resonator antennas for covering different polarizations and frequencies may be interleaved across the phased antenna array. |
| US11735818B2 |
One-dimensional phased array antenna and methods of steering same
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method is provided for configuring an endpoint terminal for communication with a plurality of satellites in non-geosynchronous orbit. The endpoint terminal has an antenna system defining a limited field of regard for satellite communication. The antenna system is capable of gimbaling in order to move the field of regard. The method includes orienting the field of regard in a first position to communicate with a first satellite traveling in a first orbital plane; gimbaling the antenna system to move the field of regard from the first position to a second position to communicate with a second satellite traveling in a second orbital plane; establishing communication with the second satellite; and as the second satellite travels in the second orbital plane, gimbaling the antenna system to move the field of regard from the second position to a third position. |
| US11735815B2 |
Reconfigurable antenna systems integrated with metal case
Reconfigurable antenna systems integrated with a metal case are provided herein. In certain embodiments, user equipment (UE) for a cellular network includes a metal case and an antenna system for transmitting and/or receiving wireless signals. The antenna system includes a tuning conductor formed in the metal case, a patch antenna element that is spaced apart from the tuning conductor, and a switch electrically connected in series between the tuning conductor and a ground voltage. The switch electrically connects the tuning conductor to the ground voltage in an on state and electrically disconnects the tuning conductor from the ground voltage in an off state. |
| US11735809B2 |
Antenna system and terminal device
An antenna system and a terminal device, where the antenna system includes a first feed point, a first ground point, a second feed point, a second ground point, a third ground point, a fourth ground point, a first radiator, a second radiator, a first resonance structure, and a second resonance structure, where the first feed point is coupled to the first radiator, the second feed point is coupled to the second radiator, the first radiator is coupled to the first ground point, and the second radiator is coupled to the second ground point, the first resonance structure is electromagnetically coupled to the first radiator at a first distance from the first radiator, and the second resonance structure is electromagnetically coupled to the second radiator at a second distance from the second radiator. |
| US11735807B2 |
Antenna module and electronic device
An antenna module and an electronic device are provided. The antenna module includes: a substrate, including a floor, a first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer, where the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer are located on two sides of the floor, respectively; a millimeter wave antenna array, including N dipole antenna units, where the N dipole antenna units are successively disposed in the substrate at an interval along the substrate, and N is an integer greater than 1; a radio frequency integrated circuit, where the radio frequency integrated circuit is disposed on the first dielectric layer and is connected to feeding structures of the N dipole antenna units; and a non-millimeter wave antenna, where the non-millimeter wave antenna is disposed on the second dielectric layer. |
| US11735798B2 |
Bus bar module
A bus bar module includes bus bars electrically connected with battery cells included in a battery module, and an insulating case including a housing unit that accommodates the bus bars and a routing path in which a voltage detection line connected with the bus bars is routed. The bus bars include a first bus bar group arrayed in a direction in which the battery cells are arranged, and a second bus bar group parallel to the first bus bar group and arrayed in the direction in which the battery cells are arranged. The routing path includes a first routing path extending along the first bus bar group, a second routing path extending along the second bus bar group, and at least one connection path connecting the first routing path and the second routing path. |
| US11735790B2 |
Secondary battery having multilayer battery case and method of manufacturing the same
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed therebetween, a positive electrode tab, and a negative electrode tab; a cap assembly having a current interrupt device to interrupt current when pressure increases, a safety vent connected to an upper end of the current interrupt device, and a top cap with an upwardly protruding shape; and a battery case to receive the electrode assembly and the cap assembly therein. The battery case has an inner layer adjacent to the electrode assembly and an outer layer of a material exhibiting lower thermal conductivity than the inner layer. The inner layer and the outer layer having a welding portion, at which only the predetermined regions of the inner layer and the outer layer are fixed. |
| US11735783B2 |
Battery module
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and particularly, to a battery module. The battery module includes a lower case, a plurality of battery cells sequentially stacked and received in the lower case, and a heat conducting plate. The lower case is connected to the heat conducting plate through an engaging assembly. In the battery module according to the present disclosure, the heat conducting plate and the lower case are connected through the engaging assembly, without performing a welding process required in the related art, thereby avoiding failures of other components caused by metal spattering. |
| US11735775B2 |
Secondary battery, electrolyte, and apparatus comprising the secondary battery
The present application provides a secondary battery, an electrolyte, and an apparatus including the secondary battery. The secondary battery of the present application includes an electrolyte, characterized in that the electrolyte includes an organic solvent, and the organic solvent includes a cyclic carbonate and a chain carbonate; the mass ratio of the cyclic carbonate and the chain carbonate is from 25:75 to 32:68; the chain carbonate includes dimethyl carbonate; the mass percentage of the dimethyl carbonate in the chain carbonate is greater than or equal to 9 wt % and less than 50 wt %; wherein based on the total mass of the organic solvent, the mass percentage of a carboxylic acid ester is less than 5 wt %. The secondary battery of the present application can simultaneously obtain excellent low-temperature power, long service life and cycle performance. |
| US11735771B2 |
Electrolyte solution and electrochemical device using the same
The present application relates to an electrolytic solution and an electrochemical device using same. The electrolytic solution of the present application comprises a compound containing a —CN functional group and a compound containing a P—O bond. By introducing the compound containing a —CN functional group and the compound containing a P—O bond into the electrolytic solution, an active material can be better protected, thereby effectively improving floatation performance and nailing performance of a battery, and cycle impedance of the battery. |
| US11735770B2 |
Polymer solid electrolytes, methods of making, and electrochemical cells comprising the same
The present invention generally relates to various polymer solid electrolyte materials suitable for various electrochemical devices and methods for making or using the same. Certain embodiments of the invention are generally directed to solid electrolytes having relatively high ionic conductivity and/or other mechanical or electrical properties, e.g., tensile strength or decomposition potential. Certain aspects include a polymer, a plasticizer, and an electrolyte salt. In some cases, the polymer may exhibit certain structures such as: where R1 can be one of the following groups: where n is an integer between 1 and 10000, m is a integer between 1 and 5000, and R2 to R6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, phenyl, benzyl, acryl, epoxy ethyl, isocyanate, cyclic carbonate, lactone, lactam, and vinyl; and * indicates a point of attachment. |
| US11735769B2 |
Solid state electrolyte materials
A solid state electrolyte material including a decontaminated lithium conducting ceramic oxide material including a decontaminated surface thickness. The decontaminated surface thickness is less than or equal to 5 nm. The decontaminated surface thickness may be greater than or equal to 1 nm. The decontaminated lithium conducting ceramic oxide material may be selected from the group consisting of Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO), Li5La3Ta2O12 (LLTO), Li6La2CaTa2O12 (LLCTO), Li6La2ANb2O12 (A is Ca or Sr), Li1+xAlxGe2-x(PO4)3 (LAGP), Li14Al0.4(Ge2-xTix)1.6(PO4)3 (LAGTP), perovskite Li3xLa2/3-xTiO3 (LLTO), Li0.8La0.6Zr2(PO4)3 (LLZP), Li1+xTi2-xAlx(PO4)3 (LTAP), Li1+x+yTi2-xAlxSiy(PO4)3-y (LTASP), LiTixZr2-x(PO4)3 (LTZP), Li2Nd3TeSbO12 and mixtures thereof. |
| US11735755B2 |
System and method for integrated deposition and heating
Herein disclosed is a method of manufacturing comprises depositing a composition on a substrate slice by slice to form an object; heating in situ the object using electromagnetic radiation (EMR); wherein said composition comprises a first material and a second material, wherein the second material has a higher absorption of the radiation than the first material. In an embodiment, the EMR has a wavelength ranging from 10 to 1500 nm and the EMR has a minimum energy density of 0.1 Joule/cm2. In an embodiment, the EMR comprises UV light, near ultraviolet light, near infrared light, infrared light, visible light, laser, electron beam. In an embodiment, said object comprises a catalyst, a catalyst support, a catalyst composite, an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, an electrode, an interconnect, a seal, a fuel cell, an electrochemical gas producer, an electrolyser, an electrochemical compressor, a reactor, a heat exchanger, a vessel, or combinations thereof. |
| US11735754B2 |
Separation membrane for redox flow battery, and method of manufacturing said separation membrane
A separation membrane for a redox flow battery includes: a protective film formed on each of both surfaces of a sheet substrate along with pores, the sheet substrate having thereon a number of pores communicating between the both surfaces; and an ion-exchange membrane adhered to the protective film, the ion-exchange membrane having a matrix formed of an ion-exchange resin dispersed therein with an inorganic porous powdery body attached with the ion-exchange resin obtained as a result of sulfonating rosin. |
| US11735748B2 |
Power generation cell and resin-framed membrane electrode assembly
A power generation cell includes a resin-framed electrolyte membrane electrode assembly. The cathode of the resin-framed membrane electrode assembly has a larger surface dimension than the anode. An outer peripheral portion of the anode is positioned between a first buffer and a fuel gas flow field. An outer peripheral portion of the cathode is positioned between the resin frame member and the second buffer. |
| US11735747B2 |
Electrode structure including electrode fiber having higher density of vertical tows to parallel tows, flow battery stack including the same, and sealing structure including sealing gaskets connected by sealing wire
An electrode structure of a flow battery. A density of the vertical tow in the electrode fiber is larger than the density of the parallel tow. In the electrode fiber per unit volume, the quantity ratio of the vertical tow to the parallel tow is at least 6:4. The electrode structure includes an odd number of layers of the electrode fibers, and the porosity of other layers is larger than that of the center layer. The electrode structure includes the vertical tows, so that, the contact area between the outer surface of the electrode and the adjacent component is increased and the contact resistance is reduced; the electrode has good mechanical properties; the contact resistance of such structure is reduced by 30%-50%; and the layers of the electrode have different thickness depending on the porosity. After compression, the layers with optimized thickness have a consistent porosity. |
| US11735743B2 |
Power storage device and power storage device production method
A power storage device includes: a plurality of bipolar electrodes being stacked, each of the plurality of bipolar electrodes including a collector having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a positive electrode layer provided on the first surface, and a negative electrode layer provided on the second surface; a first resin member provided on at least one surface of the first surface and the second surface in at least a portion of an outer peripheral portion of the collector; and a second resin member provided on the first resin member and supporting the outer peripheral portion of the collector via the first resin member. The respective first resin members for the bipolar electrodes adjacent to each other in a stacking direction of the plurality of bipolar electrodes are connected to each other by a welded portion. |
| US11735742B2 |
Lead-acid battery
A lead-acid battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, an electrolyte solution, and a polymer compound, in which the positive electrode plate includes a positive current collector and a positive electrode material, the negative electrode plate includes a negative current collector and a negative electrode material, the Ca content of the positive current collector is 0.13% by mass or less, and the polymer compound has a peak in a range of 3.2 ppm or more and 3.8 ppm or less in a chemical shift of 1H-NMR spectrum, or the polymer compound contains a repeating structure of oxy C2-4 alkylene units. |
| US11735737B2 |
Binder for electricity storage devices improving dispersibility of conductive assistant
An object of the present invention is to provide a binder which exhibits excellent dispersibility of a conductive assistant; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; and an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode.The present invention relates to a binder for an electricity storage device, in which a loss tangent tan δ in a linear region of an aqueous dispersion liquid of 0.5% by mass of the binder and 4.6% by mass of a conductive assistant satisfies tan δ>1 in a strain dispersion measurement under measurement conditions of a measurement temperature of 25° C. and a frequency of 1 Hz, and the conductive assistant is an acetylene black having an average particle diameter of 30 nm or more and 40 nm or less and a specific surface area of 65 m2/g or more and 70 m2/g or less; a slurry composition and an electrode, each of which uses this binder; an electricity storage device which is provided with this electrode; and the like. |
| US11735736B2 |
Electrode, power storage device, and electronic device
A power storage device with high capacity or high energy density is provided. A highly reliable power storage device is provided. A long-life power storage device is provided. An electrode includes an active material, a first binder, and a second binder. The specific surface area of the active material is S [m2/g]. The weight of the active material, the weight of the first binder, and the weight of the second binder are a, b, and c, respectively. The solution of {(b+c)/(a+b+c)}×100÷S is 0.3 or more. The electrode includes a first film in contact with the active material. The first film preferably includes a region in contact with the active material. The first film preferably includes a region with a thickness of 2 nm or more and 20 nm or less. The first film contains a water-soluble polymer. |
| US11735735B2 |
Method for predicting processability of electrode slurry and selecting electrode binder
A method that allows prediction of phase stability of an electrode slurry through a simple method of determining a change in viscosity of the electrode slurry. Therefore, only the electrode slurry having high phase stability is selected before electrode slurry is introduced to a process for manufacturing an electrode. Then, the selected electrode slurry is introduced to the process to provide an improved effect of process efficiency. |
| US11735731B2 |
Graphene and power storage device, and manufacturing method thereof
The formation method of graphene includes the steps of forming a layer including graphene oxide over a first conductive layer; and supplying a potential at which the reduction reaction of the graphene oxide occurs to the first conductive layer in an electrolyte where the first conductive layer as a working electrode and a second conductive layer with a as a counter electrode are immersed. A manufacturing method of a power storage device including at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte, and a separator includes a step of forming graphene for an active material layer of one of or both the positive electrode and the negative electrode by the formation method. |
| US11735729B2 |
Nickel-based active material precursor for lithium secondary battery, method of preparing the same, nickel-based active material for lithium secondary battery formed therefrom, and lithium secondary battery including positive electrode including nickel-based active material
A nickel-based active material precursor includes a particulate structure including a core portion, an intermediate layer portion on the core portion, and a shell portion on the intermediate layer portion, wherein the intermediate layer portion and the shell portion include primary particles radially arranged on the core portion, and each of the core portion and the intermediate layer portion includes a cation or anion different from that of the shell portion. The cation includes at least one selected from boron (B), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), tungsten (W), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zirconium (Zr), and aluminium (Al), and the anion includes at least one selected from phosphate (PO4), BO2, B4O7, B3O5, and F. |
| US11735728B2 |
Cathode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method of manufacturing cathode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A cathode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including primary particles of a lithium nickel complex oxide represented by a general formula: LizNi1−x−yCoxMyO2+α, and secondary particles in which the primary particles aggregate, wherein a plurality of coated lithium nickel complex oxide particles are formed by disposing a compound containing tungsten and lithium on surfaces of the secondary particles and surfaces of the primary particles positioned inside the secondary particles, and wherein a relative standard deviation of a ratio of a number of atoms of tungsten to a number of atoms of a metallic component other than lithium contained in the coated lithium nickel complex oxide particles is 0.4 or lower. |
| US11735727B2 |
Lithium secondary battery
Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a cathode containing a cathode active material in which a central part has a different concentration from a surface part, and a conductive material having a specific composition ratio, and specifically, a lithium secondary battery including a cathode containing a cathode active material in which a central part of one or more kinds of metals configuring the cathode active material has a different concentration from a surface part thereof, and two or more kinds of conductive materials mixed at a specific ratio, thereby having excellent stability and high low-temperature characteristic and high output characteristic as compared to a conventional lithium secondary battery. |
| US11735724B2 |
Silicon-containing negative electrodes, electrochemical cells, and methods of making the same
A negative electrode is provided herein as well as methods for preparing negative electrodes and electrochemical cells including the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a first electroactive material, an electrically conductive material, and a polymeric binder. The first electroactive material includes silicon-containing particles having an average particle diameter of at least about 1 μm, and the electrically conductive material includes graphene nanoplatelets. The polymeric binder includes a polyimide, a polyamide, polyacrylonitrile, polyacrylic acid, a salt of polyacrylic acid, polyacrylamide, polyvinyl alcohol, carboxymethyl cellulose, or a combination thereof. |
| US11735721B2 |
Positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, method for preparing the same and lithium secondary battery including the same
The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method for preparing the same and a lithium secondary battery including the same, the positive electrode active material includes a core including a first lithium complex metal oxide, and a shell located surrounding the core and including a second lithium complex metal oxide, and further includes a buffer layer located between the core and the shell, wherein the buffer layer includes a pore, and a three-dimensional network structure of a third lithium complex metal oxide which is connecting the core and the shell, and accordingly, minimizing destruction of the active material caused by a rolling process during the electrode preparation, and maximizing reactivity with an electrolyte liquid. |
| US11735720B2 |
Method of making hard-carbon composite material
A method is described to make a metal-containing non-amorphous hard-carbon composite material that is synthesized from furan-ring containing compounds. The metals described in the process include lithium and transition metals, including transition metal oxides like lithium titanates. The non-amorphous hard-carbon component of the metal-containing non-amorphous hard-carbon composite material is characterized by a d002 peak—in the X-ray diffraction patterns—that corresponds to an interlayer spacing of >3.6 Å, along with a prominent D-band peak in the Raman spectra. These metal-containing hard-carbon composites are used for constructing electrodes for Li-ion batteries and Li-ion capacitors. |
| US11735717B2 |
Lithium electrode, method for manufacturing same, and lithium secondary battery comprising same
A lithium electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same. By using an olefin-based ion conducting polymer as a protective layer-forming material of a lithium electrode having a protective layer formed on a lithium metal layer, the lithium electrode may be protected from moisture or open air during a lithium electrode preparation process, lithium dendrite formation and growth from the lithium electrode may be prevented, and performance of a battery using the lithium electrode may be enhanced. |
| US11735715B2 |
Anode material for sodium ion battery, and sodium ion battery
To provide an anode material that can improve the efficiency of the initial charging and discharging, the anode material includes an amorphous glassy carbon material that is an anode active material, and a NaMH compound that is a solid electrolyte. |
| US11735714B2 |
Negative electrode slurry composition for lithium secondary battery, and method for preparing the same
A negative electrode slurry composition including (1) clay particles having, a plate-type structure and an average particle diameter (D50) of 10 nm to 2 μm, (2) carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), (3) a negative electrode active material, and (4) an aqueous solvent, wherein a weight ratio of the carboxymethylcellulose and the clay particles is 9.5:0.5 to 4:6. The negative electrode slurry composition is capable of solving problems due to the deterioration of storage stability and dispersibility of solids in a negative electrode slurry composition having a high solid content. |
| US11735712B2 |
Phosphate stabilized lithium ion battery cathode
A stabilized lithium ion cathode material comprising a calcined manganese oxide powder wherein the manganese on a surface is MnPO4, comprises an manganese phosphate bond, or the phosphate is bonded to the surface of the cathode material. |
| US11735704B2 |
Preparation and powder film deposition of pre-coated powders
Methods of forming encapsulated electrochemical and/or ionically conducting particles as their use in manufacturing electrochemical cells are described. |
| US11735703B2 |
Light emitting device, method of manufacturing light emitting device, and lighting tool for vehicle
A light emitting device, according to the present embodiment, has a light emitting panel, a flexible wiring substrate, a mold resin and a protective tape. The light emitting panel has a first substrate, which is transparent to light, a plurality of conductor patterns, which are formed on a surface of the first substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements, which are connected to any of the conductor patterns, and a resin layer, which holds the light emitting elements on the first substrate. The flexible wiring substrate has a circuit pattern that is electrically connected with an exposed part of the conductor patterns. The mold resin covers the exposed part of the conductor patterns and an exposed part of the circuit pattern. The protective tape covers the mold resin, and is wound around a joint part of the light emitting panel and the flexible wiring substrate. |
| US11735698B2 |
Light-emitting device and head lamp for vehicles including the light emitting device
A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a plurality of first light-emitting structures provided in a first light-emitting pixel region; a plurality of second light-emitting structures provided in a second light-emitting pixel region adjacent to the first light-emitting pixel region; a barrier wall structure defining a plurality of regions in the first light-emitting pixel region and a single region in the second light-emitting pixel region; a first fluorescent layer provided in the plurality of regions; and a second fluorescent layer provided in the single region. The first fluorescent layer and the second fluorescent layer have different shapes. |
| US11735696B2 |
Light-emitting diode, and light-emitting diode package, light-emitting diode module and display device including the same
A light-emitting diode (LED) includes a light-transmissive substrate which has a first surface, an epitaxial structure which is disposed on the first surface, a first insulation layer, and a second insulation layer. The epitaxial structure has an upper surface opposite to the first surface, and a side wall interconnecting the upper surface and the first surface. The first insulation layer covers the side wall and the upper surface. The second insulation layer covers a portion of the first surface that is not covered by the epitaxial structure and the first insulation layer, and has a light transmittance greater than that of the first insulation layer. An LED package, an LED module, and a display device including the LEDs are also disclosed. |
| US11735695B2 |
Light emitting diode devices with current spreading layer
Described are light emitting diode (LED) devices comprising a plurality of mesas defining pixels, each of the mesas comprising semiconductor layers, an N-contact material in a space between each of the plurality of mesas, a dielectric material which insulates sidewalls of the P-type layer and the active region from the metal. A current spreading layer is on the P-type layer, the current spreading layer having a first portion and a second portion; a hard mask layer above the second portion of the current spreading layer, the hard mask layer comprising sidewalls defining a hard mask opening; a liner layer conformally-deposited in the hard mask opening above the first portion of the current spreading layer and on the sidewalls of the hard mask layer; a P-metal material plug on the liner layer; a passivation layer on the hard mask layer; and an under bump metallization layer on the passivation layer. |
| US11735693B2 |
Method for manufacturing a substrate comprising a relaxed InGaN layer
A method for manufacturing a substrate comprising the following steps of: providing a stack comprising an initial substrate, a GaN layer, a doped InGaN layer and an unintentionally doped InGaN layer, transferring the doped InGaN layer and the unintentionally doped InGaN layer to an anodising support, so as to form a second stack, dipping the second stack and the counter-electrode into an electrolyte solution, and applying a voltage or current between the doped InGaN layer and a counter electrode, to porosify the doped InGaN layer, and relaxing the unintentionally doped InGaN layer, transferring the doped InGaN layer and the unintentionally doped InGaN layer to a support of interest, forming an InGaN layer by epitaxy on the unintentionally doped InGaN layer, whereby a relaxed epitaxially grown InGaN layer is obtained. |
| US11735692B2 |
Using a compliant layer to eliminate bump bonding
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for a CMOS compatible substrate having multiple stacks of semiconductor layers. The multiple stacks, at least, each include i) a layer of a tellurium based semiconductor layer on top of ii) a porous silicon layer. The porous silicon layer is a compliant layer to accept structural defects from the tellurium based semiconductor layer into the porous silicon layer. The multiple stacks are grown on the CMOS compatible substrate. |
| US11735690B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a wiring substrate, and light emitting elements. The light emitting elements are aligned in a first array, and each includes a sapphire substrate having a lower surface, a pair of first lateral surfaces slanted with respect to the lower surface, and a pair of second lateral surfaces perpendicular to the lower surface, with the pair of first lateral surfaces has an acute angle lateral surface and an obtuse angle lateral surface, and a semiconductor layered structure disposed on the sapphire substrate. In a plan view, a direction along which the second lateral surfaces of one of the light emitting elements in the first array extend forms an angle of 45° with respect to a direction along which the second lateral surfaces of an adjacent one of the light emitting elements in the first array extend. |
| US11735685B2 |
Supports for a semiconductor structure and associated wafers for an optoelectronic device
A method for preparing a crystalline semiconductor layer in order for the layer to be provided with a specific lattice parameter involves a relaxation procedure that is applied for a first time to a first start donor substrate in order to obtain a second donor substrate. Using the second donor substrate as the start donor substrate, the relaxation procedure is repeated for a number of times that is sufficient for the lattice parameter of the relaxed layer to be provided with the specific lattice parameter. A set of substrates may be obtained by the method. |
| US11735675B2 |
Solar cell and photovoltaic module
A solar cell and a photovoltaic module are disclosed, including: a substrate; a tunneling dielectric layer and a doped conductive layer disposed on the substrate, the tunneling dielectric layer being disposed between the doped conductive layer and a surface of the substrate, the doped conductive layer having a N-type or P-type doping element and having a plurality of first heavily doped regions spaced apart from each other and extending in a first direction, a doping concentration in the first heavily doped regions being greater than that in other regions of the doped conductive layer; a passivation layer disposed on a surface of the doped conductive layer facing away from the substrate; and a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from each other, extending in a second direction and penetrating the passivation layer to contact the doped conductive layer, at least two first heavily doped regions contacting a same electrode. |
| US11735671B2 |
Method and system for fabrication of a vertical fin-based field effect transistor
A method of fabricating a vertical fin-based field effect transistor (FET) includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, epitaxially growing a first semiconductor layer on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type and including a drift layer and a graded doping layer on the drift layer, and epitaxially growing a second semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type on the graded doping layer. The method also includes forming a metal compound layer on the second semiconductor layer, forming a patterned hard mask layer on the metal compound layer, and etching the metal compound layer and the second semiconductor layer using the patterned hard mask layer as a mask exposing a surface of the graded doping layer to form a plurality of fins surrounded by a trench. |
| US11735666B2 |
Gate all around structure with additional silicon layer and method for forming the same
Methods for manufacturing a semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate a substrate and channel layers vertically stacked over the substrate. The semiconductor structure also includes a dielectric fin structure formed adjacent to the channel layers and a gate structure abutting the channel layers and the dielectric fin structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a source/drain structure attached to the channel layers and a contact formed over the source/drain structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a Si layer covering a portion of a top surface of the source/drain structure. In addition, the Si layer is sandwiched between the dielectric fin structure and the contact. |
| US11735665B2 |
Dielectric fin structure
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a dielectric fin having a helmet layer, a gate structure disposed over a first portion of the helmet layer and extending along a direction, and a dielectric layer adjacent the gate structure and disposed over a second portion of the helmet layer. A width of the first portion along the direction is greater than a width of the second portion along the direction. |
| US11735654B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device and manufacturing method of silicon carbide semiconductor device
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a substrate, a drift layer disposed above the substrate, a base region disposed above the drift layer, a source region disposed above the base region, a gate trench formed deeper than the base region from a surface of the source region, a gate insulating film covering an inner wall surface of the gate trench, a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film covering the gate electrode and the gate insulating film and having a contact hole, a source electrode brought in ohmic contact with the source region through the contact hole, and a drain electrode disposed to a rear surface of the substrate. The source region has a lower impurity concentration on a side close to the base region than on a surface side brought in ohmic contact with the source region. |
| US11735651B2 |
FinFET device and method
A method includes forming a fin on a substrate, forming an insulating material over the fin, recessing the insulating material to form an isolation region surrounding the fin, wherein an upper portion of the fin protrudes above the isolation region, performing a trimming process to reduce a width of the upper portion of the fin, and forming a gate structure extending over the isolation region and the upper portion of the fin. |
| US11735649B2 |
Method for forming fin field effect transistor (FinFET) with a liner layer
A method for forming a fin field effect transistor device structure includes forming a first fin structure in an input/output region of the substrate with a fin top layer and a hard mask layer over the first fin structure. The method also includes forming a dummy oxide layer across the first fin structure. The method also includes forming a dummy gate structure over the dummy oxide layer across the first fin structure. The method also includes forming spacers on opposite sides of the dummy gate structure. The method also includes removing the dummy gate structure over the first fin structure. The method also includes removing the dummy oxide layer and trimming the first fin structure. The method also includes forming a first oxide layer across the first fin structure. The method also includes forming a first gate structure over the first oxide layer across the first fin structure. |
| US11735648B2 |
Epitaxial structures for fin-like field effect transistors
A semiconductor structure includes a first fin and a second fin protruding from a substrate, isolation features over the substrate to separate the first and the second fins, where a top surface of each of the first and the second fins is below a top surface of the isolation features, inner fin spacers disposed along inner sidewalls of the first and the second fins, where the inner fin spacers have a first height measured from a top surface of the isolation features, outer fin spacers disposed along outer sidewalls of the first and the second fins, where the outer fin spacers have a second height measured from the top surface of the isolation features that is less than the first height, and a source/drain (S/D) structure merging the first and the second fins, where the S/D structure includes an air gap having a top portion over the inner fin spacers. |
| US11735642B2 |
Methods of re-using a silicon carbide substrate
A method includes providing a layer of porous silicon carbide supported by a silicon carbide substrate, providing a layer of epitaxial silicon carbide on the layer of porous silicon carbide, forming a plurality of semiconductor devices in the layer of epitaxial silicon carbide, and separating the substrate from the layer of epitaxial silicon carbide at the layer of porous silicon carbide. Additional methods are described. |
| US11735640B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including: a substrate that includes a first active region and a second active region; a first source/drain pattern on the first active region; a second source/drain pattern on the second active region; a separation dielectric pattern on the substrate between the first source/drain pattern and the second source/drain pattern; and a first contact pattern on the first source/drain pattern, wherein the first contact pattern includes: a first metal pattern; a first barrier pattern between the first metal pattern and the first source/drain pattern; and a second barrier pattern between the first barrier pattern and the first source/drain pattern, wherein the first barrier pattern contacts the separation dielectric pattern and extends along a sidewall of the first metal pattern adjacent to the separation dielectric pattern. |
| US11735639B2 |
Array substrate and display panel
This application discloses an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer, and an area of a region overlapping the second metal layer on the first metal layer is less than that of a region not overlapping the second metal layer on the first metal layer. |
| US11735636B2 |
Integrated chip with a gate structure over a recess
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip comprising a substrate having a first top surface disposed at a first height, a second top surface disposed at a second height that is less than the first height, and a connecting surface extending from the first top surface to the second top surface. A first source/drain region is disposed along the first top surface of the substrate. A second source/drain region is disposed along the second top surface of the substrate and is laterally separated from the first source/drain region by a channel region of the substrate. A gate structure is arranged between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region. The gate structure extends from over the first top surface of the substrate to over the connecting surface of the substrate. The gate structure also extends below the first top surface of the substrate. |
| US11735635B2 |
Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof
A semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor structure, a dielectric layer, a metal-semiconductor compound film and a cover layer. The semiconductor structure has an upper surface and a lateral surface. The dielectric layer encloses the lateral surface of the semiconductor structure and exposes the upper surface of the semiconductor structure. The metal-semiconductor compound film is on the semiconductor structure, wherein the dielectric layer exposes a portion of a surface of the metal-semiconductor compound film. The cover layer encloses the portion of the surface of the metal-semiconductor compound film exposed by the dielectric layer, and exposes the dielectric layer. |
| US11735632B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a fin structure on the substrate, a gate structure on the fin structure, a gate spacer on at least on side surface of the gate structure, and a source/drain structure on the fin structure, wherein a topmost portion of a bottom surface of the gate spacer is lower than a topmost portion of a top surface of the fin structure, and a topmost portion of a top surface of the source/drain structure is lower than the topmost portion of the top surface of the fin structure. |
| US11735630B2 |
Integrated circuit structures with source or drain dopant diffusion blocking layers
Embodiments of the disclosure include integrated circuit structures having source or drain dopant diffusion blocking layers. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin including silicon. A gate structure is over a channel region of the fin, the gate structure having a first side opposite a second side. A first source or drain structure is at the first side of the gate structure. A second source or drain structure is at the second side of the gate structure. The first and second source or drain structures include a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer is in contact with the channel region of the fin, and the second semiconductor layer is on the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer has a greater concentration of germanium than the second semiconductor layer, and the second semiconductor layer includes boron dopant impurity atoms. |
| US11735628B2 |
Nanosheet metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor with asymmetric threshold voltage
A semiconductor structure, and a method of making the same, includes an inner spacer located between channel nanosheets on a semiconductor substrate, a first portion of the inner spacer located on a first side of the semiconductor structure and a second portion of the inner spacer located on a second side opposing the first side, the first portion of the inner spacer on the first side including a protruding region extending outwards from a middle top surface of the first portion of the inner spacer, and a metal gate stack in direct contact with the inner spacer, the first portion of the inner spacer including the protruding region pinching off the metal gate stack for increasing a threshold voltage on the first side. |
| US11735627B2 |
Semiconductor devices and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a device isolation layer on a substrate; pattern groups including fin patterns extending in a first direction; and gate structures extending in a second direction to intersect the fin patterns. A first pattern group, among the pattern groups, may include first fin patterns. At least a portion of the first fin patterns may be arranged with a first pitch in the second direction. The first pattern group may include a first planar portion extending from a first recess portion. A central axis of the first recess portion may be spaced apart from a central axis of one of the first fin patterns by a first distance in the second direction. The first planar portion may have a first width in the second direction and being greater than the first pitch. The first distance may be about 0.8 times to about 1.2 times the first pitch. |
| US11735626B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes first and second active patterns on a substrate, the first and second active patterns adjacent to each other in a first direction with a first trench between the first and second active patterns, third and fourth active patterns on the substrate, the third and fourth active patterns adjacent to each other in the first direction with a second trench between the third and fourth active patterns. The semiconductor device includes a first device isolation layer in the first trench, and a second device isolation layer in the second trench. A width of the second trench in the first direction is greater than a width of the first trench in the first direction. The second device isolation layer includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion which protrude from a top surface of the second device isolation layer. |
| US11735623B2 |
Micro device integration into system substrate
This disclosure is related to post processing steps for integrating of micro devices into system (receiver) substrate or improving the performance of the micro devices after transfer. Post processing steps for additional structure such as reflective layers, fillers, black matrix or other layers may be used to improve the out coupling or confining of the generated LED light. In another example, dielectric and metallic layers may be used to integrate an electro-optical thin film device into the system substrate with the transferred micro devices. In another example, color conversion layers are integrated into the system substrate to create different output from the micro devices. |
| US11735622B2 |
Radiographic imaging apparatus
A radiographic imaging apparatus including: a sensor substrate in which pixels are formed in a first surface of a base material; a conversion layer provided on the first surface; a signal processing substrate provided on one side the sensor substrate and includes at least a part of a signal processing unit; a driving substrate provided on the one side or the other side of the sensor substrate and includes at least a part of a drive unit; a first cable of which one end is connected to the sensor substrate and the other end is electrically connected to the signal processing substrate; and a second cable of which one end is connected to the sensor substrate, and passes through the first surface side or a second surface side of the base material and the other end is connected to the driving substrate. |
| US11735619B2 |
Semiconductor image sensor device having back side illuminated image sensors with embedded color filters
Disclosed is a method of fabricating a semiconductor image sensor device. The method includes providing a substrate having a pixel region, a periphery region, and a bonding pad region. The substrate further has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The pixel region contains radiation-sensing regions. The method further includes forming a bonding pad in the bonding pad region; and forming light-blocking structures over the second side of the substrate, at least in the pixel region, after the bonding pad has been formed. |
| US11735617B2 |
Semiconductor structure, back-side illuminated image sensor and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor structure includes: a semiconductor substrate arranged over a back end of line (BEOL) metallization stack, and including a scribe line opening; a conductive pad having an upper surface that is substantially flush with an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, the conductive pad including an upper conductive region and a lower conductive region, the upper conductive region being confined to the scribe line opening substantially from the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to a bottom of the scribe line opening, and the lower conductive region protruding downward from the upper conductive region, through the BEOL metallization stack; a passivation layer arranged over the semiconductor substrate; and an array of pixel sensors arranged in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the conductive pad. |
| US11735612B2 |
Display panel optical cross-talk compensation systems and methods
Techniques for implementing and/or operating an electronic device that includes or utilizes a display panel. The display panel includes an organic light-emitting diode layer, an encapsulation layer disposed over the organic light-emitting diode layer, and a color filter layer disposed over the encapsulation layer. The color filter layer overhangs the organic light-emitting diode layer and comprises a first color filter cell of a first color component sub-pixel that at least partially overlaps an organic light-emitting diode of a second color component sub-pixel that is a different color compared to the first color component sub-pixel. |
| US11735609B2 |
Image sensor with shallow trench edge doping
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a photodetector region provided in a substrate. A dielectric material is disposed within a trench defined by one or more interior surfaces of the substrate. The trench has a depth that extends from an upper surface of the substrate to within the substrate. A doped silicon material is disposed within the trench and has a sidewall facing away from the doped silicon material. The sidewall contacts a sidewall of the dielectric material along an interface extending along the depth of the trench. |
| US11735603B2 |
Display substrate, display panel and method for preparing display substrate
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a display substrate, a display panel, and a method for preparing the display substrate. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a first source-drain layer, including first source-drain electrodes in the first area, and a first gate located in the second area; a first active layer, including a poly-silicon active layer located in the first area; a first gate layer, including a second gate and a connecting electrode located in the first area; a second active layer, including an oxide active layer located in the second area; a second gate layer, including a third gate located in the second area; and a second source-drain layer, including a second source-drain electrodes in the second area, and a lapping electrode located in the first area. |
| US11735602B2 |
Display device
The disclosed display device includes: a substrate; a gate electrode disposed on the substrate; a data line disposed on the substrate and extending along an extension direction; and a connecting member disposed on the substrate and electrically connecting to the gate electrode, wherein the connecting member includes a first part overlapped with the gate electrode and a second part not overlapped with the gate electrode, and a minimum width of the second part in a direction perpendicular to the extension direction is less than a maximum width of the first part in the direction. |
| US11735588B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region. A device isolation layer is disposed in the substrate between the first region and the second region. The device isolation layer includes a buried dielectric layer in a trench that is recessed from a top surface of the substrate. A first liner layer is between the trench and the buried dielectric layer. A semiconductor layer is disposed on a top surface of the substrate of the first region. A first gate pattern is disposed on the semiconductor layer. A protrusion is disposed on a top surface of the device isolation layer. |
| US11735587B2 |
Backside PN junction diode
The present disclosure provides embodiments of semiconductor devices. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure include an elongated semiconductor member surrounded by an isolation feature and extending lengthwise along a first direction, a first source/drain feature and a second source/drain feature over a top surface of the elongated semiconductor member, a vertical stack of channel members each extending lengthwise between the first source/drain feature and the second source/drain feature along the first direction, a gate structure wrapping around each of the channel members, an epitaxial layer deposited on the bottom surface of the elongated semiconductor member, a silicide layer disposed on the epitaxial layer, and a conductive layer disposed on the silicide layer. |
| US11735585B2 |
Stacked semiconductor device having mirror-symmetric pattern
A stacked semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a 1st transistor formed on a substrate, and including a 1st active region surrounded by a 1st gate structure and 1st source/drain regions; and a 2nd transistor stacked on the 1st transistor, and including a 2nd active region surrounded by a 2nd gate structure and 2nd source/drain regions, wherein the 1st active region and the 1st gate structure are vertically mirror-symmetric to the 2nd active region and the 2nd gate structure, respectively, with respect to a virtual plane therebetween. |
| US11735584B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device, allowing easy hole extraction, including a semiconductor substrate having drift and base regions; and transistor and diode portions, in which trench portions and mesa portions are formed, is provided. The transistor portion includes emitter and contact regions above the base region and exposed to an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The emitter region has a higher concentration than the drift region. The contact region has a higher concentration than the base region. The mesa portions include boundary mesa portion(s) at a boundary between the transistor and diode portions. The trench portions include dummy trench portion(s) provided adjacent to a trench portion adjacent to the boundary mesa portion(s) and provided on the transistor portion side relative to the trench portion adjacent to the boundary mesa portion(s). The boundary mesa portion(s) include a base boundary mesa portion in which the base region is exposed to the upper surface. |
| US11735583B2 |
Integrated isolator incorporating trench capacitor
A circuit module including an integrated circuit (IC) and a method for forming an IC are disclosed. An embodiment of the circuit module includes a trench having a conductive trench liner formed in a semiconductor substrate, and further includes semiconductor device circuitry formed in the substrate, where a conductor within a metallization layer of the semiconductor device circuitry electrically connects to the conductive trench liner. The embodiment also includes an insulating structure arranged over the conductive trench liner, where the insulating structure extends to an upper contact formed within an upper metallization layer of the semiconductor device circuitry. An isolation capacitor operable between the upper contact and the conductive trench liner has one or more electrical properties dependent on both a depth of the trench and a number of metallization layers below the upper metal layer in the semiconductor device circuitry. |
| US11735564B2 |
Three-dimensional chip packaging structure and method thereof
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional chip packaging structure and a method of making thereof. The structure includes: a plurality of chips stacked to form a staggered structure, each chip has one end hanging out from a lower chip and another end exposed out and connecting to a pad disposed on the chip, metal connecting pillars formed on the pads, a packaging layer disposed on the metal connecting pillars and the chips, a rewiring layer formed on the packaging layer, and a metal bump formed on the rewiring layer. The structure and method making it do not involve the Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) process, which is commonly used to achieve three-dimensional stacking of chips but is costly at the same time. Instead, the structure and method adopt pads and metal connecting pillars for electric connection. Also, the packaging structure does not necessitate a substrate for support, which reduces the package size. |
| US11735562B2 |
Sensor package structure
A sensor package structure is provided. The sensor package structure includes a substrate, a sensor chip disposed on the substrate, a plurality of electrical connection members electrically connecting the sensor chip to the substrate, a supporting adhesive layer formed on the sensor chip, and a light-permeable sheet disposed on the supporting adhesive layer. Each of the electrical connection members includes a head solder disposed on a connecting pad of the sensor chip, a wire having a first end and a second end, and a tail solder. The first end of the wire extends from the head solder so as to connect the second end onto a soldering pad of the substrate, and the wire has a first bending portion arranged adjacent to the head solder. The head solder and the first bending portion of each of the electrical connection members are embedded in the supporting adhesive layer. |
| US11735561B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor element having a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of terminals electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element. The sealing resin covers the plurality of terminals such that a bottom surface of the semiconductor element in a thickness direction is exposed. A first terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, is disposed in a position that overlaps a first electrode, which is one of the plurality of electrodes, when viewed in the thickness direction. The semiconductor device is provided with a conductive connection member that contacts both the first terminal and the first electrode. |
| US11735556B2 |
Connection structure
A method for manufacturing connection structure, the method includes arranging conductive particles and a first composite on a first electrode located on a first surface of a first member, arranging a second composite on the first electrode and a region other than the first electrode of the first surface, arranging the first surface and a second surface of a second member where a second electrode is located, so that the first electrode and the second electrode are opposed to each other, pressing the first member and the second member, and curing the first composite and the second composite. |
| US11735553B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a support member, a semiconductor chip arranged in the support member such that a front surface and a backside surface of the semiconductor chip are exposed from a second surface of the support member and a first surface opposite to the second surface respectively, a lower redistribution wiring layer covering the second surface of the support member and including first redistribution wirings electrically connected to chip pads provided at the front surface of the semiconductor chip and vertical connection structures of the support member respectively, and an upper redistribution wiring layer covering the first surface of the support substrate, and including second redistribution wirings electrically connected to the vertical connection structures and a thermal pattern provided on the exposed backside surface of the semiconductor chip. |
| US11735552B2 |
Microelectronic package with solder array thermal interface material (SA-TIM)
Embodiments may relate to a microelectronic package that includes a die coupled with a package substrate. A plurality of solder thermal interface material (STIM) thermal interconnects may be coupled with the die and an integrated heat spreader (IHS) may be coupled with the plurality of STIM thermal interconnects. A thermal underfill material may be positioned between the IHS and the die such that the thermal underfill material at least partially surrounds the plurality of STIM thermal interconnects. Other embodiments may be described or claimed. |
| US11735548B2 |
Electronics assemblies employing copper in multiple locations
Electronic assemblies may be fabricated with interconnects of different types present in multiple locations and comprising fused copper nanoparticles. Each interconnect or a portion thereof comprises a bulk copper matrix formed from fusion of copper nanoparticles or a reaction product formed from copper nanoparticles. The interconnects may comprise a copper-based wire bonding assembly, a copper-based flip chip connection, a copper-based hermetic seal assembly, a copper-based connector between an IC substrate and a package substrate, a copper-based component interconnect, a copper-based interconnect comprising via copper for establishing electrical communication between opposite faces of a package substrate, a copper-based interconnect defining a heat channel formed from via copper, and any combination thereof. |
| US11735539B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of forming discrete antenna modules
A semiconductor device has an electronic component assembly, and a plurality of discrete antenna modules disposed over the electronic component assembly. Each discrete antenna module is capable of providing RF communication for the electronic component assembly. RF communication can be enabled for a first one of the discrete antenna modules, while RF communication is disabled for a second one of the discrete antenna modules. Alternatively, RF communication is enabled for the second one of the discrete antenna modules, while RF communication is disabled for the first one of the discrete antenna modules. A bump is formed over the discrete antenna modules. An encapsulant is deposited around the discrete antenna modules. A shielding layer is formed over the electronic components assembly. A stud or core ball can be formed internal to a bump connecting the discrete antenna modules to the electronic component assembly. |
| US11735535B2 |
Coaxial magnetic inductors with pre-fabricated ferrite cores
Embodiments include an inductor, a method to form the inductor, and a semiconductor package. An inductor includes a plurality of plated-through-hole (PTH) vias in a substrate layer, and a plurality of magnetic interconnects with a plurality of openings in the substrate layer. The openings of the magnetic interconnects surround the PTH vias. The inductor also includes an insulating layer in the substrate layer, a first conductive layer over the PTH vias, magnetic interconnects, and insulating layer, and a second conductive layer below the PTH vias, magnetic interconnects, and insulating layer. The insulating layer surrounds the PTH vias and magnetic interconnects. The magnetic interconnects may have a thickness substantially equal to a thickness of the PTH vias. The magnetic interconnects may be shaped as hollow cylindrical magnetic cores with magnetic materials. The magnetic materials may include ferroelectric, conductive, or epoxy materials. The hollow cylindrical magnetic cores may be ferroelectric cores. |
| US11735533B2 |
Heterogeneous nested interposer package for IC chips
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages and methods of fabricating electronic packages. In an embodiment, an electronic package comprises an interposer, where a cavity passes through the interposer, and a nested component in the cavity. In an embodiment, the electronic package further comprises a die coupled to the interposer by a first interconnect and coupled to the nested component by a second interconnect. In an embodiment, the first and second interconnects comprise a first bump, a bump pad over the first bump, and a second bump over the bump pad. |
| US11735529B2 |
Side pad anchored by next adjacent via
An integrated circuit package includes a substrate including at least one electrical connection to at least one of power or ground. The package further includes a bridge structure including at least one layer of conductive material and at least one layer of insulative material. The bridge structure is configured to be coupled to the substrate such that the conductive material is electrically connected to the at least one electrical connection. The bridge structure includes a side pad made of conductive material that is electrically connected to the at least one electrical connection. The side pad is in direct contact with the conductive material and with the insulative material of the bridge structure. The side pad forms an end face of the bridge structure such that the conductive material of the side pad is exposed. |
| US11735525B2 |
Power delivery network for CFET with buried power rails
A semiconductor device includes a first power rail, a first power input structure, a circuit and a first middle-of-line rail. The first power rail is formed in a first rail opening within a first isolation trench on a substrate. The first power input structure is configured to connect with a first terminal of a power source that is external of the semiconductor device to receive electrical power from the power source. The circuit is formed, on the substrate, by layers between the first power rail and the first power input structure. The first middle-of-line rail is formed by one or more of the layers that form the circuit. The first middle-of-line rail is configured to deliver the electrical power from the first power input structure to the first power rail, and the first power rail provides the electrical power to the circuit for operation. |
| US11735520B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device with programmable anti-fuse feature
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a peak portion on the substrate, forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate and the peak portion, forming a gate bottom conductive layer on the gate insulating layer, and forming a first doped region in the substrate and adjacent to one end of the gate insulating layer. |
| US11735517B2 |
Integrated circuit including super via and method of making
A method including depositing a first dielectric layer over a first conductive line. The method further includes forming a first opening in the first dielectric layer. The method further includes filling the first opening with a first conductive material to define a second conductive line. The method further includes depositing a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a second opening in the second dielectric layer. The method further includes filling the second opening with a second conductive material to define a third conductive line. The method further includes forming a supervia opening in the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. The method further includes filling the supervia opening with a third conductive material to define a supervia, wherein the supervia directly connects to the first conductive line and the third conductive line. |
| US11735515B2 |
Method for low-cost, high-bandwidth monolithic system integration beyond reticle limit
A semiconductor monolithic IC includes a semiconductor substrate having a rectangular shape in plan view, multiple chiplets each comprising a circuit, wherein the multiple chiplets are disposed over the semiconductor substrate and are separated from each other by die-to-die spaces filled with a dielectric material, and a plurality of conductive connection patterns electrically connecting the multiple chiplets so that a combination of the circuit of the multiple chiplet function as one functional circuit. The chip region has a larger area than a maximum exposure area of a lithography apparatus used to fabricate the first and second circuits. |
| US11735514B2 |
Semiconductor device and power conversion device
A semiconductor device includes: a first power supply terminal; a second power supply terminal; an output terminal; a first switching element connected between the first power supply terminal and the output terminal; and a second switching element connected between the second power supply terminal and the output terminal. The first power supply terminal includes: a first facing portion; a second facing portion; and a third facing portion. The first facing portion and the second facing portion are provided such that, upon application of a current, the current flows through the first facing portion and the second facing portion in a direction opposite to a direction in which the current flows through each of portions in the second power supply terminal that face the first facing portion and the second facing portion. |
| US11735513B2 |
Integrated chip having a back-side power rail
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip including a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first source/drain structure, a second source/drain structure, a stack of channel structures, and a gate structure. The stack of channel structures and the gate structure are between the first and second source/drain structures. The gate structure surrounds the stack of channel structures. A first conductive wire overlies and is spaced from the semiconductor device. The first conductive wire includes a first stack of conductive layers. A first conductive contact extends through a dielectric layer from the first conductive wire to the first source/drain structure. The first conductive contact is on a back-side of the first source/drain structure. |
| US11735508B2 |
Vertical and horizontal circuit assemblies
In a general aspect, an apparatus can include a leadframe including a plurality of leads disposed along a single edge of the apparatus. The apparatus can also include an assembly including a substrate and a plurality of semiconductor die disposed on the substrate, the assembly being mounted on the leadframe and an inductor having a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the inductor can be electrically coupled with the leadframe via a first contact pad of the leadframe. The second terminal of the inductor can be electrically coupled with the leadframe via a second contact pad of the leadframe. The first contact pad and the second contact pad can be exposed through a molding compound by respective mold cavities defined in the molding compound. The leadframe, the assembly and the inductor can be arranged in a stacked configuration. |
| US11735504B2 |
Power module package baseplate with step recess design
Implementations described herein are related to a semiconductor device package having an improved baseplate. In such an improved baseplate, there is a recess cut out of a region of a surface of the baseplate such that the recess has a first sidewall having a first thickness above a recess base and a second sidewall having a second thickness above the recess base. A substrate, e.g., a direct bonded copper (DBC) substrate, may be attached to the baseplate at a recess base using, e.g., a solder layer between the recess base and a surface of the substrate. |
| US11735503B2 |
Method of manufacturing chip packaging structure with dissipation layer, flange and sealing pin
A manufacturing method for a chip packaging structure, comprising: arranging a metal heat dissipation layer on a substrate comprising at least one flange on its side surface; forming a sealing pin located on an upper surface of the flange, so that the metal heat dissipation layer, the flange and the sealing pin form a cavity for accommodating an encapsulant; attaching a chip structure on an upper surface of the metal heat dissipation layer using an adhesive layer; forming the encapsulant encapsulating an upper surface of the substrate, the metal heat dissipation layer and the chip structure, the sealing pin extends to a periphery of the upper surface of the encapsulant; performing a mechanical or chemical treatment, to make electrode connecting structures on an upper layer of the chip structure exposed outside the first encapsulant; arranging a pin layer for electrically coupling to and covering the electrode connection structures. |
| US11735502B2 |
Integrated circuit chip, package substrate and electronic assembly
An integrated circuit chip has an active surface and a chip pad arrangement on the active surface. The chip pad arrangement includes four pairs of chip pads arranged in two rows along a side edge of the active surface. Two pairs of chip pads are a first transmission differential pair chip pad and a first reception differential pair chip pad respectively. Positions of the two pairs of chip pads are not adjacent to each other and are in different rows. The other two pairs of chip pads are a second transmission differential chip pad and a second reception differential chip pad respectively. Positions of the other two pairs of chip pads are not adjacent to each other and are in different rows. In addition, a package substrate corresponding to the integrated circuit chip and an electronic assembly including the package substrate and the integrated circuit chip are also provided. |
| US11735495B2 |
Active package cooling structures using molded substrate packaging technology
Package assemblies with a molded substrate comprising fluid conduits. The fluid conduits may be operable for conveying a fluid (e.g., liquid and/or vapor) through some portion of the package substrate structure. Fluid conduits may be at least partially defined by an interconnect trace comprising a metal. The fluid conveyance may improve thermal management of the package assembly, for example removing heat dissipated by one or more integrated circuits (ICs) of the package assembly. |
| US11735492B2 |
Power modules for ultra-fast wide-bandgap power switching devices
Low inductance power modules for ultra-fast wide-bandgap semiconductor power switching devices are disclosed. Conductive tracks define power buses for a switching topology, e.g. comprising GaN E-HEMTs, with power terminals extending from the power buses through the housing to provide a heatsink-to-busbar distance which meets creepage and clearance requirements. Low-profile, low-inductance terminals for gate and source-sense connections extend from contact areas located adjacent each power switching device to provide for a low inductance gate drive loop, for high di/dt switching. The gate driver board is mounted on the low-profile terminals, inside or outside of the housing, with decoupling capacitors provided on the driver board. For paralleled switches, additional terminals, which are referred to as dynamic performance pins, are provided to the power buses. These pins are configured to provide a low inductance path for high-frequency current and balance inductances of the power commutation loops for each switch. |
| US11735488B2 |
Power module
The present disclosure relates to a power module comprising a substrate, first and second pluralities of vertical power devices, and first and second terminal assemblies. The substrate has a top surface with a first trace and a second trace. The first plurality of vertical power devices and a second plurality of vertical power devices are electrically coupled to form part of a power circuit. The first plurality of vertical power devices are electrically and mechanically directly coupled between the first trace and a bottom of a first elongated bar of the first terminal assembly. The second plurality of vertical power devices are electrically and mechanically directly coupled between the second trace and a bottom of a second elongated bar of the second terminal assembly. |
| US11735487B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method of fabricating the same
A method includes the following steps. A semiconductor wafer including integrated circuit components, seal rings respectively encircling the integrated circuit components and testing structures disposed between the seal rings is provided. A first wafer saw process is performed at least along a first path to singulate the semiconductor wafer into a plurality of first singulated integrated circuit components each including a testing structure among the testing structures. When performing the first wafer saw process, testing pads of the testing structures are located beside the first path, such that a testing pad of a corresponding one of the testing structures in the first singulated integrated circuit component is laterally spaced apart from a sidewall of the first singulated integrated circuit component by a distance. |
| US11735486B2 |
Process monitor device having a plurality of sensors arranged in concentric circles
Embodiments include process monitoring devices and methods of using such process monitoring devices. In one embodiment, the process monitoring device includes a substrate. The process monitoring device may also include a plurality of sensors formed on a support surface of the substrate. According to an embodiment, each sensor is capable of producing an output signal that corresponds to a processing condition. Furthermore, embodiments include a process monitoring device that includes a network interface device that is formed on the substrate. According to an embodiment each of the plurality of sensors is communicatively coupled to the network interface device. The network interface device allows for the output signals obtained from the sensors to be wirelessly transmitted to an external computer during processing operations. |
| US11735483B2 |
Method for forming epitaxial source/drain features using a self-aligned mask and semiconductor devices fabricated thereof
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of forming N-type and P-type source/drain features using one patterned mask and one self-aligned mask to increase windows of error tolerance and provide flexibilities for source/drain features of various shapes and/or volumes. In some embodiments, after forming a first type of source/drain features, a self-aligned mask layer is formed over the first type of source/drain features without using photolithography process, thus, avoid damaging the first type of source/drain features in the patterning process. |
| US11735482B2 |
Semiconductor device structure and methods of forming the same
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a first and second gate electrode layers, and a dielectric feature disposed between the first and second gate electrode layers. The dielectric feature has a first surface. The structure further includes a first conductive layer disposed on the first gate electrode layer. The first conductive layer has a second surface. The structure further includes a second conductive layer disposed on the second gate electrode layer. The second conductive layer has a third surface, and the first, second, and third surfaces are coplanar. The structure further includes a third conductive layer disposed over the first conductive layer, a fourth conductive layer disposed over the second conductive layer, and a dielectric layer disposed on the first surface of the dielectric feature. The dielectric layer is disposed between the third conductive layer and the fourth conductive layer. |
| US11735479B2 |
Assemblies containing PMOS decks vertically-integrated with NMOS decks, and methods of forming integrated assemblies
Some embodiments include an assembly having a CMOS tier. The CMOS tier includes a PMOS deck and an NMOS deck, with the decks being vertically offset relative to one another. The PMOS deck has p-channel transistors which are substantially identical to one another, and the NMOS deck has n-channel transistors which are substantially identical to one another. An insulative region is between the PMOS deck and the NMOS deck. The CMOS tier has one or more circuit components which include one or more of the n-channel transistors coupled with one or more of the p-channel transistors through one or more conductive interconnects extending through the insulative region. Some embodiments include methods of forming assemblies to comprise one or more CMOS tiers. |
| US11735478B2 |
System and method for removing scalloping and tapering effects in high aspect ratio through-silicon vias of wafers
A method for manufacturing vias in a silicon wafer, the silicon wafer having a <110> crystal orientation, and having a <111> plane that is perpendicular to a surface of the wafer, tilted by 35.26°, the method comprising the steps of providing a mask having a rhomboidal-shaped opening onto a surface of the silicon wafer, such that edges of the rhomboidal-shaped opening line up with a <111> plane of a crystalline structure of the silicon wafer, etching a hole in the silicon wafer at the rhomboidal-shaped opening, and polishing the hole after the etching by a anisotropic etching. |
| US11735471B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same
A semiconductor structure includes a fin structure formed over a substrate. The structure also includes a gate structure formed across the fin structure. The structure also includes source/drain epitaxial structures formed on opposite sides of the gate structure. The structure also includes an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) structure formed over the gate structure. The structure also includes a contact blocking structure formed through the ILD structure over the source/drain epitaxial structure. A lower portion of the contact blocking structure is surrounded by an air gap, and the air gap is covered by a portion of the ILD structure. |
| US11735470B2 |
Method for forming semiconductor device structure with source/drain contact
A semiconductor device structure includes a fin structure formed over a substrate. The structure also includes a gate structure formed across the fin structure. The structure also includes a source/drain structure formed beside the gate structure. The structure also includes a contact structure formed over the source/drain structure. The structure also includes a dielectric structure extending into the contact structure. The dielectric structure and the source/drain structure are separated by the contact structure. |
| US11735466B2 |
Asymmetric dual end effector robot arm
An apparatus including a drive having motors and coaxial drive shafts; an arm assembly having a first arm and a second arm; and a controller. The first arm includes a first upper arm, a first forearm, a first end effector, and a first transmission, where the first transmission includes a non-circular pulley, and where the first upper arm and the first forearm have unequal effective lengths. The second arm includes a second upper arm, a second forearm, a second end effector, and a second transmission, where the second upper arm and the second forearm have substantially equal effective lengths. The controller is configured to cause the drive to extend and retract the arms to move an upper substrate and a lower substrate on the substrate holding areas such that the arm assembly and upper substrate do not travel over the lower substrate. |
| US11735463B2 |
Processing method for wafer
A processing method for a wafer includes a thermocompression-bonding sheet arrangement step of arranging, on a front side of the wafer, a thermocompression-bonding sheet of a size sufficient to cover the wafer, an integration step of pressing the thermocompression-bonding sheet under heat by a planarizing member, so that the thermocompression-bonding sheet is planarized and the thermocompression-bonding sheet and the wafer are integrated together, a grinding step of holding the wafer on a side of the thermocompression-bonding sheet on a chuck table of a grinding apparatus and grinding the wafer to a desired thickness while supplying grinding water to a back side of the wafer, and a thermocompression-bonding sheet rinsing step of unloading the integrated wafer from the chuck table and rinsing the thermocompression-bonding sheet. |
| US11735459B2 |
Electrostatic chuck
The present disclosure relates to an electrostatic chuck. The electrostatic chuck according to the present disclosure may include a base substrate; an electrostatic chuck plate fixed on the base substrate, the electrostatic chuck plate having an electrode therein; and an electrode part disposed in a hole in the base substrate to supply power to the electrode, wherein the electrode part may include a housing inserted into the hole in the base substrate, an electrode rod passing through the inner wall of the housing such that one end thereof is in contact with the electrode; and an elastic support body configured to support the electrode rod at multiple points on the inner wall of the housing. |
| US11735450B2 |
Substrate storage container
A substrate storage container includes: a container body configured to store a substrate; a lid configured to close an opening formed on the front side of the container body; and a retainer arranged on the back of the lid and configured to restrict the substrate from moving to the front side. The retainer includes an integration of: a frame configured to be detachably attached to the back of the lid; a contact portion including a convex portion configured to contact the substrate and restrict the substrate from moving to the front side; and a beam structure that connects the frame and the contact portion. The contact portion and the beam structure are configured to be spaced apart from the lid. |
| US11735449B2 |
Substrate storage container
A substrate storage container includes a container main body having an opening at the front, a support portion for supporting a substrate in the interior thereof, and a substrate receiving portion positioned more toward a rear wall than the support portion, an a lid on which a substrate pressing portion for pressing the substrate is formed. The substrate receiving portion and the substrate pressing portion are present within a range of greater than or equal to 0 mm and less than or equal to 80 mm in the horizontal direction from a vertical center line that passes through the center of the container main body when the lid is viewed from the front. |
| US11735447B2 |
Enhanced process and hardware architecture to detect and correct realtime product substrates
Embodiments disclosed herein include a processing tool for semiconductor processing. In an embodiment, the processing tool comprises a chamber, and a plurality of witness sensors integrated with the chamber. In an embodiment, the processing tool further comprises a drift detection module. In an embodiment, data from the plurality of witness sensors is provided to the drift detection module as input data. In an embodiment, the processing tool further comprises a dashboard for displaying output data from the drift detection module. |
| US11735443B2 |
Hot plate, substrate heat-treating apparatus including the hot plate, and method of fabricating the hot plate
A hot plate in which holes are formed in proximity pins. The holes of the proximity pins are connected to vacuum holes to suppress generation of air flow during substrate heat treatment. A substrate heat-treating apparatus including the hot plate, and a method of fabricating the hot plate. The hot plate includes: a body with a heater; a plurality of first holes pass through the body in a downward direction; a plurality of proximity pins formed on the body support the substrate such that the substrate does not contact the top of the body. A plurality of second holes formed in at least some of the proximity pins and pass through the proximity pins in the downward direction from surfaces of the proximity pins. The first and second holes are connected to each other, and a vacuum is created inside the first and second holes to fix the substrate. |
| US11735440B2 |
Automated wafer cleaning
In an embodiment, a method includes: spinning a wafer around an axis of rotation at a center of the wafer; applying a first stream of liquid along a line starting from an initial point on the wafer adjacent to the center of the wafer, through the center of the wafer, and ending at an edge of the wafer; applying a second stream of liquid to an inner third of the line starting at the initial point and ending at a boundary point; applying a third stream of liquid to a middle third of the line starting at the boundary point; applying a fourth stream of liquid to an outer third of the line ending at the edge of the wafer; applying a fifth stream of liquid along the line starting from the initial point and ending at the edge of the wafer; and applying a stream of gas along the line starting from the initial point and ending at the edge of the wafer. |
| US11735437B2 |
Apparatus and method for treating substrate
Provided are an apparatus and method for treating a substrate. Specifically, provided are an apparatus and method for treating a substrate through a supercritical process. The apparatus includes: a housing providing a space for performing a process; a support member disposed in the housing to support a substrate; a supply port configured to supply a process fluid to the housing; a shield member disposed between the supply port and the support member to prevent the process fluid from being directly injected to the substrate; and an exhaust port configured to discharge the process fluid from the housing. |
| US11735432B2 |
Method and apparatus for forming substrate surfaces with exposed crystal lattice using accelerated neutral atom beam
A method for removing amorphous regions from a surface of a crystal substrate uses an accelerated neutral beam including reactive gas species for removing or reactively modifying material surfaces without sputtering. Accelerated neutral atom beam enabled surface reactions remove surface contaminants from substrate surfaces to create an interface region with exposed crystal lattice in preparation for next phase processing. |
| US11735430B2 |
Fin field-effect transistor device and method
A method includes forming a semiconductor capping layer over a first fin in a first region of a substrate, forming a dielectric layer over the semiconductor capping layer, and forming an insulation material over the dielectric layer, an upper surface of the insulation material extending further away from the substrate than an upper surface of the first fin. The method further incudes recessing the insulation material to expose a top portion of the first fin, and forming a gate structure over the top portion of the first fin. |
| US11735425B2 |
Fin field-effect transistor and method of forming the same
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor fin. The semiconductor device includes a metal gate disposed over the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor device includes a gate dielectric layer disposed between the semiconductor fin and the metal gate. The semiconductor device includes first spacers sandwiching the metal gate. The first spacers have a first top surface and the gate dielectric layer has a second top surface, and the first top surface and a first portion of the second top surface are coplanar with each other. The semiconductor device includes second spacers further sandwiching the first spacers. The second spacers have a third top surface above the first top surface and the second top surface. The semiconductor device includes a gate electrode disposed over the metal gate. |
| US11735420B2 |
Wafer treatment for achieving defect-free self-assembled monolayers
Methods of depositing a film selectively onto a first material relative to a second material are described. The substrate is pre-cleaned by heating the substrate to a first temperature, cleaning contaminants from the substrate and activating the first surface to promote formation of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on the first material. A SAM is formed on the first material by repeated cycles of SAM molecule exposure, heating and reactivation of the first material. A final exposure to the SAM molecules is performed prior to selectively depositing a film on the second material. Apparatus to perform the selective deposition are also described. |
| US11735416B2 |
Electronic devices comprising crystalline materials and related memory devices and systems
A method includes forming a first amorphous material, forming a second amorphous material over and in contact with the first material, removing a portion of the second material and the first material to form pillars, and exposing the materials to a temperature between a crystallization temperature of the first material and a crystallization temperature of the second material. The first material and the second material each comprise at least one element selected from the group consisting of silicon and germanium. The second material exhibits a crystallization temperature different than a crystallization temperature of the first material. Semiconductor structures, memory devices, and systems are also disclosed. |
| US11735411B2 |
Method and apparatus for manufacturing semiconductor device
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes chucking in which a semiconductor device wafer is attached to an upper surface of a chuck mechanism with its device surface down; and edge trimming performed after the chucking, wherein the edge trimming comprises: rotating the semiconductor device water horizontally by the chuck mechanism; rotating a rotating blade horizontally by a vertical spindle to which an ultrasonic wave is applied and trimming a circumferential side surface of the semiconductor device wafer by the rotating blade. |
| US11735402B2 |
Measurement method and measurement apparatus
A measurement method includes: (a) measuring an emission intensity for each wavelength of light detected from a plasma generated in a plasma processing apparatus at each different exposure time by a light receiving element; (b) specifying, with respect to each of a plurality of different individual wavelength ranges that constitutes a predetermined wavelength range, a distribution of the emission intensity in the individual wavelength range measured at an exposure time at which an emission intensity of a predetermined wavelength included in the individual wavelength range becomes an emission intensity within a predetermined range; (c) selecting a distribution of the emission intensity in the individual wavelength range from the distribution of the emission intensity specified in (b); and (d) outputting the distribution of the emission intensity selected for each individual wavelength range. |
| US11735399B2 |
Methods and systems for generating plasma activated liquid
Exemplary systems and methods associated with activating fluids using indirect plasma. In particular, liquid can be activated to high concentrations and at high volumes by thinning and mixing the liquid as it is exposed to the plasma, resulting more efficient activation. Further increases in activation can be reached by re-circulating fluid for additional exposure to the plasma. High flow rates can be achieved with integrated systems that utilize multiple activation systems with coordinated control. |
| US11735396B2 |
Inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus
An inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus includes a lower chamber providing a space for a substrate, a high-frequency antenna that generates inductively coupled plasma in the lower chamber, dielectric windows disposed between the lower chamber and the high-frequency antenna, metal windows alternatingly disposed between the dielectric windows, and gas inlet pipes disposed in each of the metal windows, wherein each of the gas inlet pipes includes nozzles that introduce gases to the lower chamberamber. |
| US11735391B2 |
Charged-particle source
A charged-particle source for generating a charged-particle comprises a sequence of electrodes, including an emitter electrode with an emitter surface, a counter electrode held at an electrostatic voltage with respect to the emitter electrode at a sign opposite to that of the electrically charged particles, and one or more adjustment electrodes surrounding the source space between the emitter electrode and the counter electrode. These electrodes have a basic overall rotational symmetry along a central axis, with the exception of one or more steering electrodes which is an electrode which interrupts the radial axial-symmetry of the electric potential of the source, for instance tilted or shifted to an eccentric position or orientation, configured to force unintended, secondary charged particles away from the emission surface. |
| US11735390B2 |
Circuit breaker status indicating system for switchgear auxiliary switch
Systems and methods for indicating an operational status of a circuit breaker within a switchgear comprise providing a mechanism-operated control (MOC) assembly arranged within a housing of the circuit breaker. A drive plate is slidably mounted on a wall of the switchgear adjacent to the MOC assembly. A drive arm is pivotably mounted at one end on the wall of the switchgear, the drive arm engaged at an opposite end thereof with the drive plate. A status indicator is disposed on the wall of the switchgear, wherein changing an operational state of the circuit breaker mechanically operates the MOC assembly to slide the drive plate in a direction that pivots the drive arm from a first position to a second position, the first and second positions of the drive arm being visible externally of the switchgear through the status indicator. |
| US11735382B1 |
Keyboard device
A keyboard device includes a base plate, a plurality of key structures, a floating frame and a cover layer. The key structures are disposed over the base plate, and each of the key structures has a keycap. The floating frame is disposed over and separated from the base plate. The floating frame has a plurality of openings, and the key structures are disposed in the openings, respectively. The cover layer covers the keycaps of the key structures and the floating frame and is in direct or indirect contact with an upper surface of the keycap of each of the key structures and an upper surface of the floating frame. When the keycap of one of the key structures and the cover layer thereover are pressed to bottom, the floating frame surrounding the one of the key structures is pulled by the cover layer and shifted. |
| US11735381B2 |
Electric push-button switch
An electric pushbutton switch includes a guide housing, a switching element having a haptic element that produces a pressure point and a return spring that generates a restoring force, an actuator for actuating the switching element, and a resilient tolerance compensation element arranged between the guide housing and the actuator. The switching element being stationary relative to the guide housing and the actuator being movable relative to the guide housing. The actuator actuates the switching element against the restoring force when the actuator is moved relative to the guide housing in an actuating direction of the actuator towards the switching element. The resilient tolerance compensation element is arranged between the guide housing and the actuator. The resilient compensation element has a spring force directed in the actuating direction of the actuator towards the switching element and opposite the restoring force of the return spring of the switching element. |
| US11735378B2 |
Automatic transfer switch with N-phase overlapping structure
Proposed is an automatic transfer switch with an N-phase overlapping structure, the switch including: a driving unit including a drive shaft provided to generate power; a three-contact switching unit including a normal power shaft and an emergency power shaft provided to be rotated by the drive shaft, and a normal power terminal and an emergency power terminal for inputting/releasing normal power and emergency power; and an N-phase overlapping unit including a first insertion part having a first insertion hole, an N-phase normal contact terminal provided to input/release an N-phase normal power, a second insertion part having a second insertion hole, an N-phase emergency contact terminal provided to input/release an N-phase emergency power, and a connection bar connected between the first insertion part and the second insertion part so as to be interlocked with each other. |
| US11735376B2 |
Key switch
A key switch including: a support base; a key which is manually operable for being moved, with respect to the support base, between at least a first operating position and a second operating position spaced apart from each other, in order to establish or interrupt at least one electric connection; a leaf spring member operatively interposed between the support base and the key; wherein the first operating position is a stable operating position of the key in which the leaf spring member is deformed between the key and the support base so as to take a first curvilinear configuration. |
| US11735371B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes disposed with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween to be point-symmetrical to each other, first and second connection electrodes penetrating through the body in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer, and connected to the first internal electrode, third and fourth connection electrodes penetrating through the body in the direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer, and connected to the second internal electrode, first and second external electrodes disposed on both external surfaces of the body and connected to the first and second connection electrodes, and third and fourth external electrodes spaced apart from the first and second external electrodes and connected to the third and fourth connection electrodes. Each of the first and second internal electrodes includes an electrode-unformed region. |
| US11735368B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor
In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a positional deviation in a lamination direction between end portions in a width direction intersecting the lamination direction and a length direction, of two of internal electrode layers adjacent to each other in the lamination direction, is about 5 μm or less. A connection ratio N1/N0 at the middle portion thereof, and a connection ratio N2/N0 at the end portion thereof are about 90% or more, respectively, and a difference between N1/N0 and N2/N0 is about 10% or less. |
| US11735366B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body and an outer electrode on each end surfaces of the multilayer body. The outer electrode includes an underlying electrode layer and a plating layer on the underlying electrode layer. Void portions inside the underlying electrode layer are each filled with a barrier film. The barrier film is formed by an atomic layer deposition method. |
| US11735365B2 |
Multilayer capacitor, board for mounting the same, and method of manufacturing the same
Provided are a multilayer capacitor and a board for mounting the same. The multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes and a pair of external electrodes respectively including a conductive layer disposed on opposing ends of the capacitor, a conductive resin layer covering the conductive layer, and a reduced graphene oxide (RGO) layer disposed between the conductive layer and the conductive resin layer. |
| US11735363B2 |
In lead capacitor
A capacitor assembly and a method of making the capacitor assembly. The capacitor assembly includes: a power cable including first and second electrical conductors; a motor cable including first, second, and third electrical conductors, the first electrical conductor of the motor cable electrically connected to the first electrical conductor of the power cable, and the second electrical conductor of the motor cable electrically connected to the second electrical conductor of the power cable; a capacitor connected to the first electrical conductors and to the third electrical conductor; and a cover enclosing the capacitor, ends of the first conductors of the power cable and the motor cable connected to the capacitor, and an end of the third conductor connected to the capacitor, the first connection, and the second connection, and wherein after installation the capacitor assembly has an arcuate shape with a concave surface facing the pipe. |
| US11735360B2 |
Sandwich-structured dielectric materials for pulse energy storage as well as preparation method and application thereof
A sandwich-structured dielectric material for pulse energy storage is provided as well as a preparation method thereof. Employing a sandwich structure and combining the properties of ceramic-glass materials prepares a high performance dielectric material for pulse energy storage, in which the ceramic dielectric is core-shell structured powder of BaxSr1-xTiO3 coated with SiO2, and the glass material is alkali-free glass AF45, of which the chemical composition is 63% SiO2-12% BaO-16% B2O3-9% Al2O3. AF45 alkali-free glass paste is spin-coated on both sides of the ceramic and calcined to get a layer-structured material of glass-ceramic-glass. |
| US11735359B2 |
Production of permanent magnets using electrophoretic deposition
In one embodiment, a magnet includes a plurality of layers, each layer having a microstructure of sintered particles. The particles in at least one of the layers are characterized as having preferentially aligned magnetic orientations in a first direction. |
| US11735358B2 |
Bonded magnet, bonded magnet component, and bonded magnet production method
A bonded magnet is provided which includes first and second components. The first and second components have first and second non-action surfaces, and first and second action surfaces that intersect the first and second non-action surfaces, respectively. First and second flux groups curve inside the first and second components from the first and second non-action surfaces to the first and second action surfaces, respectively. The areas of the first and second non-action surfaces are greater than the first and second action surfaces, respectively. The flux densities on the first and second action surfaces are higher than the first and second non-action surfaces, respectively. The pole on the first non-action surface is opposite to the second non-action surface. The first and second non-action surfaces are coupled to each other. The first flux groups continuously extend from one to another. |
| US11735354B2 |
Inductor and manufacturing method thereof
An inductor includes a body including a magnetic body having a coil embedded therein and containing magnetic powder. The coil has a winding portion in which a conductive wire is wound around and has a pair of lead portions taken out from the winding portion. The inductor also includes a pair of outer electrodes formed on the body. In the inductor, each of the lead portions is exposed from at least one side surface of the magnetic body and is coupled to a corresponding outer electrode. In addition, with respect to a position at which each of the lead portions is exposed from the at least one side surface of the magnetic body, a magnetic powder content in a region closer to one of the principal surfaces is higher than a magnetic powder content in a region closer to the other one of the principal surfaces. |
| US11735349B2 |
Magnetic core with vertical laminations having high aspect ratio
A method for manufacturing a vertically-laminated ferromagnetic core includes (a) depositing a conductive seed layer on or over a first side of a substrate; (b) depositing a masking layer on or over a second side of the substrate, the first and second sides on opposite sides of the substrate; (c) forming a pattern in the masking layer; (d) dry etching the substrate, based on the pattern in the masking layer, from the second side to the first side to expose portions of the conductive seed layer; and (e) depositing a ferromagnetic material onto the exposed portions of the conductive seed layer to form vertically-oriented ferromagnetic layers. |
| US11735348B2 |
Magnetic component
The present application discloses a magnetic component, comprising a magnetic core comprising at least one core column; a winding winded on the core column and comprising a first coil and a second coil adjacent to the first coil; a cladding member covered on at least a portion of an external surface of the first coil; and a positioning member extending from the cladding member and the first coil, wherein the second coil is pressed on the positioning member. |
| US11735345B2 |
Method for manufacturing Halbach magnet array
The method for manufacturing the Halbach magnet array includes the steps of: (a) magnetizing at least two first magnetic material pieces in a direction parallel to a first direction, and (b) magnetizing at least one second magnetic material piece in a direction parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, in this order. In the step (a), the first magnetic material pieces and the second magnetic material piece are alternately arranged in the second direction with the first magnetic material pieces being each adhered to the adjacent second magnetic material piece, and the magnetization is performed under a condition in which a residual magnetization ratio r1 of the first magnetic material pieces is higher than a residual magnetization ratio r2 of the second magnetic material piece. |
| US11735343B2 |
Control electronics for a parallel dipole line trap
Techniques regarding operating one or more parallel dipole line traps are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a parallel dipole line trap comprising a diamagnetic object positioned between a plurality of dipole line magnets. The system can also comprise a split photodetector sensor positioned adjacent to the parallel dipole line trap. The split photodetector sensor can detect a displacement of the diamagnetic object. |
| US11735338B2 |
Multi-layered, shielded and grounded cables and related methods
Data/telecommunication cables that include one or more layers of an integral, bonded electromagnetic shield are described. The shield may be configured to form an electrical ground path. |
| US11735336B2 |
Wiring member and arrangement structure of wiring member
A wiring body includes a wire-like transmission member and a base member to which the wire-like transmission member is fixed. A temporary joint part joins portions where a first part and a second part mutually extending in an opposite side from a bending position in the wiring body overlap with each other in a state where the wiring body is bended in an intermediate portion of the wire-like transmission member in an extension direction to maintain a bending state of the wiring body. The temporary joint part is formed to be able to resolve a state of joining the first part and the second part by a relative separation movement of the first part and the second part. |
| US11735333B2 |
Manufacturing method of anisotropic conductive film and apparatus thereof
A manufacturing method of an anisotropic conductive film and an apparatus thereof are provided. The manufacturing method of an anisotropic conductive film includes steps of: (a) providing a first substrate having metal contacts; (b) disposing a resin layer on the first substrate and covering the metal contacts; (c) providing a press head having a suction pattern arranged corresponding to the metal contacts; (d) sucking the conductive particles by the press head; and (e) pressing the conductive particles into the resin layer by the press head. The conductive particles are disposed corresponding to the metal contacts of the substrate, so that the problem about the short circuit between contacts can be improved, and the product yield and reliability can also be improved. |
| US11735331B2 |
Insulation system, insulant, and insulation material for producing the insulation system
Various embodiments include an insulation material for an electrical rotating machine comprising: a curable matrix material; a curing agent; and a filler embedded in the matrix material. The filler comprises electrically conductive doped metal oxide particles. |
| US11735328B2 |
Containment building with a window
A containment building includes a wall made of a material of the concrete type that delimits a space and at least one viewing module, the viewing module including at least one window arranged in an opening in the wall, the window having a frame in which at least one optical unit that provides protection from high-energy and/or neutron radiation is placed, the frame being fitted in the opening, the viewing module also having a protective element that includes a sash bearing a pane and is arranged so as to close the opening at the face on the inside of the building, the viewing module thus including at least one interface between two surfaces. The containment building also includes at least one sealing system arranged at at least one interface. |
| US11735327B2 |
Ventilated cask for nuclear waste storage
A natural passively cooled ventilated cask includes a cavity which holds a canister containing heat and radiation emitting spent nuclear fuel assemblies or other high level wastes. Ambient ventilation or cooling air is drawn inwards beneath the cask and vertically upwards into a lower portion of the cavity through air inlet ducts formed integrally with a bottom canister support structure coupled to the cask. The air heated by the canister flows upwards in the cavity and returns to atmosphere through air outlet ducts in the cask lid. Air circulation is driven via natural convective thermo-siphon flow. Structural standoff members elevate the bottom of the cask above a concrete base pad forming an air inlet plenum beneath the canister support structure. The lateral sidewall surface of the cask has no penetrations for the air inlets, which eliminates any streaming path for radiation emanating from the spent nuclear fuel. |
| US11735325B2 |
Actuating mechanism of a system for the control and protection of a nuclear reactor
Actuator of a nuclear reactor control and protection system comprises: a linear step motor comprising an armature; a rod being coaxial with and connected to the armature to enable joint vertical movement and rotation about a common vertical axis, which rod can form an L-shaped bayonet connection with a working member; and a lock to prevent spontaneous rotation of the rod. The lock comprises a guiding inside the armature and provided with a flange and longitudinal through slot; a cross-member connected to the armature, mounted in the slot and capable of vertical movement therein; a fixed ring, on which the inner surface of the flange rests; and a vertical pin. Through slots are arranged equidistantly in the outside rim of the flange, the vertical pin being mounted in one of several openings arranged equidistantly about the circumference of the fixed ring to pass through one of the through slots. |
| US11735324B2 |
Two-way questionnaire generation for medical communication
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for two-way document generation for medical communication are provided. Patient data from a patient may be received. Medical services provider data from a medical services provider may be received. The patient data and the medical services provider data may be run through a machine learning model so that the machine learning model may produce a first document and a second document. The first document may be presented to the patient. The second document may be presented to the medical services provider. |
| US11735321B2 |
System for the prognostics of the chronic diseases after the medical examination based on the multi-label learning
Provided is a system for the prognostics of the chronic diseases after the medical examination based on the multi-label learning, including a data acquisition module, a data preprocessing module, a basic predicting model constructing module, and a local predicting module. The data acquisition module is configured to acquire physical examination data of a physical examination user. The basic predicting model constructing module is configured to construct a multi-label learning model for a physical examination scenario. The local predicting module includes a local model training unit and a predicting unit. The local model training unit adjusts the basic predicting model into a local predicting model, and solidifies the local predicting model into the local predicting module. The predicting unit outputs a predicted prognostic index for an occurrence of a plurality of chronic diseases, and finally acquires a future expected occurrence time of the chronic diseases. |
| US11735315B2 |
Method, apparatus, and device for fusing features applied to small target detection, and storage medium
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, and device for fusing features applied to small target detection, and a storage medium, relate to the field of computer vision technology. A particular embodiment of the method for fusing features applied to small target detection comprises: acquiring feature maps output by convolutional layers in a Backbone network; performing convolution on the feature maps to obtain input feature maps of feature layers, the feature layers representing resolutions of the input feature maps; and fusing, based on densely connection feature pyramid network features, the input feature maps of each feature layer to obtain output feature maps of the feature layer. Since no additional convolutional layer is introduced for feature fusion, the detection performance for small targets may be enhanced without additional parameters, and the detection ability for small targets may be improved with computing resource constraints. |
| US11735309B2 |
Method and system for automated quality assurance in radiation therapy
Methods and systems for evaluating a proposed treatment plan for radiation therapy, for evaluating one or more delineated regions of interest for radiation therapy, and/or for generating a proposed treatment plan for radiation therapy. Machine learning based on historical data may be used. |
| US11735305B2 |
Automatic configuration of user-specific data based on placement into service
A method for automatically configuring a medical device with user-specific configuration data includes determining, by a first medical device, that the first medical device is being placed into service to provide medical therapy to a patient, wherein the first medical device is a replacement medical device for a second medical device that was previously placed into service to provide medical therapy to the patient in accordance with user-specific configuration data stored on the second medical device, communicating, by the first medical device, data indicative of the first medical device being placed into service, after communicating the data indicative of the first medical device being placed into service, obtaining, by the first medical device, the user-specific configuration data stored on the second medical device, and configuring, by the first medical device, the first medical device to provide therapy in accordance with the obtained user-specific configuration data. |
| US11735304B2 |
Robotic dispensary system and methods
Embodiments of the inventive technology may relate to a robotic pill dispensing system, whether puck-based or puck-free, configured to avoid delay during the filling of orders and achieve high, perhaps even maximal, order fill rates and associated processing efficiency. Additional embodiments of the inventive technology may relate to, inter alia, a bottle placement site that is different from a bottle pick-up site, a device configured to apply lodged pill clearance forces to counted pill reserve containers; counted pill reserve containers that are large enough to contain pills required by substantially all orders to be handled by a robotic dispensary; a method of dynamically repositioning medication-dedicated pill counters to increase processing speed and a system configured to facilitate the same; a robotic dispensary configured to allow manual operation when a robot is off-line; and a robotic dispensary configured to cover open, filled vials during transport thereof to prevent pill spillage. |
| US11735298B2 |
Medical data management system
Data related to the adherence of a patient to a therapy regime can be collected from multiple medical devices, each of which may have an incomplete data set with data entries associated with times. Each incomplete data set represents a portion of a complete data set. The data sets can be integrated to create a complete data set with data entries from each incomplete data set being arranged in a temporal sequence with respect to one another. A report may be generated, the report having the data entries of the complete data set or a function of the data entries of the complete data set. |
| US11735297B2 |
Methods and systems for analyzing accessing of medical data
Various aspects described herein relate to presenting electronic patient data accessing information. Data related to a plurality of access events, by one or more employees, of electronic patient data can be received. A set of access events of the plurality of access events can be determined as constituting, by the one or more employees, possible breach of the electronic patient data. An alert related to the set of access events can be provided based on determining that the set of access events constitute possible breach of the electronic patient data. |
| US11735296B2 |
Patient-device association system
A system for associating a patient with a device may include a memory and a processor. The memory may be configured to store a plurality of orders and a set of parameters, wherein each of the plurality of orders comprises order attributes and each of the plurality of orders identifies one of a plurality of patients. The processor may be configured to receive the plurality of orders from an order entry system, receive the set of parameters from a device, correlate the set of parameters with an order of the plurality of orders based on the order attributes of the plurality of orders, associate the device with the patient identified by the order that correlates with the set of parameters, and provide, to the device, an indication of the patient associated with the device. |
| US11735286B2 |
Selecting read reference voltage using historical decoding information
Systems and methods are provided for reading data from non-volatile storage devices and decoding the read data. A method may include obtaining a unique identifier for a storage location to be read, retrieving from a memory an adjustment to read reference voltage (Vref) associated with the unique identifier, performing a read operation on the storage location using a read reference voltage adjusted by the adjustment to Vref, decoding data read from the storage location in a decoding process and updating the adjustment to Vref with decoding information generated during the decoding process. |
| US11735284B2 |
Optimized seasoning trim values based on form factors in memory sub-system manufacturing
A system and method for optimizing seasoning trim values based on form factors in memory sub-system manufacturing. An example method includes selecting a baseline set of trim values based on a set of memory sub-system form factors; generating a first modified set of trim values for seasoning operations by modifying a first trim value of the baseline trim values; causing each memory sub-system of a plurality of memory sub-systems to perform seasoning operations using the first modified set of trim values; responsive to determining that a memory sub-system of the plurality of memory sub-system failed to satisfy a predetermined criterion, determining whether the memory sub-system is extrinsically defective; responsive to determining that the memory sub-system is extrinsically defective, removing the extrinsically defective memory sub-system from the set of memory sub-systems; and generating a second modified set of trim values for seasoning operations. |
| US11735282B2 |
Test data verification for an ordered event stream storage system
Data verification technology for ordered event stream (OES) events written into an ordered event stream storage system is disclosed. The verification technology provides perfect reliability. The verification technology further requires low storage overhead in comparison to typical checksums, storing replicated data, etc. Test event data can be generated in a reproducible manner based upon determined OES metadata. OES metadata can be determined from input received via a user interface, via characteristics of an OES storage system, etc., and can be stored for later use in data verification. The test event data can be stored to a portion of an OES storage system under test. The stored test event data can subsequently be verified by using the stored OES metadata to regenerate test event data for comparison to the stored test event data. The test event ordering can be verified via sequence information included in the stored test event data. |
| US11735281B2 |
Analog content addressable memory with analog input and analog output
An analog content addressable memory (aCAM) that enables parallel searching of analog ranges of values and generates analog outputs that quantify matches between input data and stored data is disclosed. The input data can be compared with the stored data, and the input data can be determined to match the stored data based on a value associated with the input data being within a range associated with the stored data. The aCAM can generate an analog output that represents a number of matches and a number of mismatches between the input data and the stored data. Based on the analog output, whether the input data matches the stored data and a degree to which the input data matches the stored data can be determined. |
| US11735274B2 |
Proactive read disturb mitigation
A method includes receiving a request to perform a set of read operations. The method includes selecting a random read operation of the set of read operations, where the random read operation is performed on a first wordline located on a first portion of a first data block on a memory device. The method includes performing an error detection operation on a second wordline and a third wordline located on the first portion of the first data block to determine an error rate associated with the second wordline and third wordline, where the second wordline and the third wordline are adjacent to the first wordline. The method includes determining whether the error rate satisfies a threshold criterion responsive to determining that the error rate satisfies the threshold criterion and migrating data stored on the first portion of the first data block to a second data block on the memory device. |
| US11735271B2 |
Memory device and method of operating the memory device
The present technology relates to a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit configured to perform a read operation and a dummy read operation on the memory block. A discharge slope of a pass voltage applied to the memory block during the read operation is greater than a discharge slope of a dummy pass voltage applied to the memory block during the dummy read operation. |
| US11735265B2 |
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof
According to a certain embodiment, the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of selected blocks and a plurality of non-selected blocks; and a row decoder including a block decoder configured to switch between the selected block and the non-selected block. The row decoder switches a block determined to be a defective block to a non-selected block and switches a block determined not to be a defective block to a selected block, on the basis of the multi-level data. The block decoder includes a defective block flag circuit including a plurality of latch circuits configured to store multi-level data. |
| US11735264B2 |
Drive circuit and electronic device
A NAND flash memory according to an embodiment includes a memory array, a detection circuit, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit is a circuit for driving a plurality of linearly arranged memory cells through a linear word line connected to the plurality of memory cells. The drive circuit has a function of generating a drive voltage in which a pre-pulse having a predetermined amplitude value is set at a timing corresponding to rising of a voltage signal, which rises stepwise by a voltage value, and applying the drive voltage to the word line and a function of detecting a voltage value at a predetermined position of the word line and setting a time width of the pre-pulse according to the detected voltage value. |
| US11735263B2 |
Memory cell array circuit and method of forming the same
A method of operating a memory circuit includes generating a first voltage by a first amplifier circuit of a first driver circuit coupled to a first column of memory cells, and generating a first current in response to the first voltage. The first current includes a first set of leakage currents and a first write current. The method further includes generating, by a tracking circuit, a second set of leakage currents configured to track the first set of leakage currents of the first column of memory cells, and mirroring the first current in a first path with a second current in a second path by a first current mirror. The second current includes the second set of leakage currents and a second write current. The first write current corresponds to the second write current. The first set of leakage currents corresponds to the second set of leakage currents. |
| US11735261B2 |
Programming enhancement in self-selecting memory
Methods, systems, and devices for programming enhancement in memory cells are described. An asymmetrically shaped memory cell may enhance ion crowding at or near a particular electrode, which may be leveraged for accurately reading a stored value of the memory cell. Programming the memory cell may cause elements within the cell to separate, resulting in ion migration towards a particular electrode. The migration may depend on the polarity of the cell and may create a high resistivity region and low resistivity region within the cell. The memory cell may be sensed by applying a voltage across the cell. The resulting current may then encounter the high resistivity region and low resistivity region, and the orientation of the regions may be representative of a first or a second logic state of the cell. |
| US11735259B2 |
Read method, write method and memory circuit using the same
A read method and a write method for a memory circuit are provided, wherein the memory circuit includes a memory cell and a selector electrically coupled to the memory cell. The read method includes applying a first voltage to the selector, wherein a first voltage level of the first voltage is larger than a voltage threshold corresponding to the selector; and applying, after the applying of the first voltage, a second voltage to the selector to sense one or more bit values stored in the memory cell, wherein a second voltage level of the second voltage is constant and smaller than the voltage threshold, wherein a first duration of the applying of the first voltage is smaller than a second duration of the applying of the second voltage, wherein the second voltage is applied following the end of the first duration. |
| US11735258B2 |
Increase of a sense current in memory
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for increase of a sense current in memory. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells, and circuitry configured to apply, prior to sensing a data state of a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells, a voltage to an access line to which the memory cell is coupled, determine whether an amount of current on the access line in response to the applied voltage meets or exceeds a threshold amount of current, and determine whether to increase a magnitude of a current used to sense the data state of the memory cell based on whether the amount of current on the access line in response to the applied voltage meets or exceeds the threshold amount of current. |
| US11735256B2 |
Reducing disturbance in crossbar array circuits
Technologies relating to using a slew rate controller to reduce disturbance in a crossbar array circuit are disclosed. An example crossbar array circuit includes: one or more bit lines; one or more word lines; one or more 1T1R cells connected between the bit lines and the word lines; one or more ADCs connected to the one or more bit lines; one or more DACs connected to the one or more word lines; one or more access controls connected to the one or more 1T1R cells and configured to select a 1T1R cell in the one or more 1T1R cells and to program the selected 1T1R cell; and a slew rate controller connected to the DACs, wherein the slew rate controller is configured to receive an input signal. The slew rate controller may be configured to transform a step function input signal into a slew rate input signal. |
| US11735254B2 |
Error avoidance based on voltage distribution parameters of blocks
A method can include receiving a request to read data from a block of a memory device coupled with a processing device, determining, using a data structure mapping block identifiers to corresponding voltage distribution parameter values, a voltage distribution parameter value associated with the block of the memory device, determining a set of read levels associated with the voltage distribution parameter value, wherein each read level in the set of read levels corresponds to a respective voltage distribution of at least one memory cell comprised by the block, and reading, using the determined set of read levels, data from the block of the memory device. |
| US11735249B2 |
Sensing techniques for differential memory cells
Methods, systems, and devices for sensing techniques for differential memory cells are described. A method may include selecting a pair of memory cells that comprise a first memory cell coupled with a first digit line and a second memory cell coupled with a second digit line for a read operation, the pair of memory cells storing one bit of information. The method may further include applying a first voltage to a plate line coupled with the first memory cell and the second memory cell and applying a second voltage to a select line to couple the first digit line and the second digit line with a sense amplifier. The amplifier may sense a logic state of the pair of memory cells based on a difference between a third voltage of the first digit line and a fourth voltage of the second digit line. |
| US11735243B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device with static random-access memory
Embodiments of 3D memory devices with a static random-access memory (SRAM) and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, the 3D memory device includes a first semiconductor structure and a second semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes an array of SRAM cells and a first bonding layer, and the second semiconductor structure includes an array of 3D NAND memory strings and a second bonding layer. The first semiconductor structure is attached with the second semiconductor structure through the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The array of 3D NAND memory strings and the array of SRAM cells are coupled through a plurality of bonding contacts in the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer and are arranged at opposite sides of the plurality of bonding contacts. |
| US11735235B2 |
Series of parallel sensing operations for multi-level cells
Disclosed herein are related to a circuit and a method of reading or sensing multiple bits of data stored by a multi-level cell. In one aspect, a first reference circuit is selected from a first set of reference circuits, and a second reference circuit is selected from a second set of reference circuits. Based at least in part on the first reference circuit and the second reference circuit, one or more bits of multiple bits of data stored by a multi-level cell can be determined. According to the determined one or more bits, a third reference circuit from the first set of reference circuits and a fourth reference circuit from the second set of reference circuits can be selected. Based at least in part on the third reference circuit and the fourth reference circuit, additional one or more bits of the multiple bits of data stored by the multi-level cell can be determined. |
| US11735234B2 |
Differential amplifier schemes for sensing memory cells
Methods, systems, and devices for differential amplifier schemes for sensing memory cells are described. In one example, an apparatus may include a memory cell, a differential amplifier having a first input node, a second input node, and an output node that is coupled with the first input node via a first capacitor, and a second capacitor coupled with the first input node. The apparatus may include a controller configured to cause the apparatus to bias the first capacitor, couple the memory cell with the first input node, and generate, at the output node, a sense signal based at least in part on biasing the first capacitor and coupling the memory cell with the first input node. The apparatus may also include a sense component configured to determine a logic state stored by the memory cell based at least in part on the sense signal. |
| US11735233B2 |
Method and system for regulating memory, and semiconductor device
A method for regulating the memory includes operations as follows. A mapping relationship among temperatures of a transistor, body bias voltages of the transistor, and data writing time of the memory is acquired, a current temperature of the transistor is acquired, the body bias voltage is regulated based on the current temperature and the mapping relationship, to enable the data writing time corresponding to the regulated body bias voltage to be within a preset writing time. |
| US11735228B2 |
Multimedia distribution system
A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, a complete index that can be used to locate each data chunk in each of these tracks and an abridged index that can enable the location of a subset of the data chunks in each track, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and ‘meta data’ concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and ‘meta data’ external to the file. |
| US11735226B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamically augmenting videos via in-video insertion on mobile devices
Disclosed are systems and methods for rendering augmented videos on mobile devices and computing environment with limited computational resources. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video augmentation object experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in digital content to show augmentation objects in compliance with various pre-established contextual and technical constraints. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the digital content based on the contextual and technical constraints, and the computational resources of the device augmented digital content is rendered on. |
| US11735225B2 |
Systems and methods for generating time-lapse videos
Video content may be captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The video content may include video frames that define visual content viewable as a function of progress through a progress length of the video content. Rotational position information may characterize rotational positions of the image capture device during the capture duration. Time-lapse video frames may be determined from the video frames of the video content based on a spatiotemporal metric. The spatiotemporal metric may characterize spatial smoothness and temporal regularity of the time-lapse video frames. The spatial smoothness may be determined based on the rotational positions of the image capture device corresponding to the time-lapse video frames, and the temporal regularity may be determined based on moments corresponding to the time-lapse video frames. Time-lapse video content may be generated based on the time-lapse video frames. |
| US11735222B2 |
Frame buffer compressing circuitry and image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store compressed data; and frame buffer compressing circuitry which includes encoder circuitry configured to compress at least some of source data to generate the compressed data and transmit the compressed data to the memory, and decoder circuitry configured to read and decompress the compressed data from the memory, in which the compressed data includes a payload and a header including actual compressed data and flag, the frame buffer compressing circuitry is configured to reflect a result obtained by comparing an accumulated compressibility corresponding to the compressed data with a reference compressibility in the flag, and is configured to perform compression or decompression in a lossy mode or a lossless mode depending on the flag. |
| US11735213B2 |
Magnetic tape device
A magnetic tape device. The angle θ formed by the axis of the element array of the magnetic head with respect to a width direction of the magnetic tape is changed during running of the magnetic tape in the magnetic tape device. The magnetic tape satisfies Equation 1: TDSage+TDSenv−TC≤0.10 μm. In Equation 1, the TDSage is a maximum value of an absolute value of a difference between a servo band spacing obtained before storage for 24 hours in a predetermined environment and a servo band spacing obtained after the storage. TDSenv is a value calculated by multiplying a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of servo band spacings obtained in each of five predetermined environments by ½, and TC is a value calculated by TC=L{cos (θinitial−Δθ)−cos (θinitial+Δθ)}. |
| US11735206B2 |
Emotionally responsive virtual personal assistant
A virtual private assistant (VPA) is configured to analyze various types of input that indicate one or more behaviors associated with a user and to determine the emotional state of the user based on the input. The VPA also determines one or more operations to perform on behalf of the user based on the input and the determined emotional state. The VPA then executes the one or more operations and synthesizes an output based on the emotional state of the user and the one or more operations. The synthesized output includes one or more semantic components and one or more emotional components derived from the emotional state of the user. The VPA observes the behavior of the user in response to the synthesized output and then implements various modifications, based on the observed behavior, to improve the effectiveness of future interactions with the user. |
| US11735201B2 |
Speech processing device and speech processing method
A speech processing device includes a processor. The processor performs operations including: detecting a single-talk state based on a speech signal collected by each of microphones, the single-talk state in which any one of persons speaks; estimating a mixing rate indicating a ratio of a speech signal of the main speaking person to a speech signal of another person based on a sound pressure ratio of the speech signals collected by the microphones in the single-talk state of the main speaking person and a sound pressure ratio of the speech signals collected by the plurality of microphones in the single-talk state of the another person; and determining whether suppression of a crosstalk component due to speaking of the another person contained in the speech signal of the main speaking person is necessary based on an estimation result of the mixing rate. |
| US11735200B2 |
Dual-microphone adaptive filtering algorithm for collecting body sound signals and application thereof
The present invention discloses a dual-microphone adaptive filtering algorithm for collecting body sound signals, characterized in that, using at least two microphones, a primary microphone and a secondary microphone, to collect signals; the primary microphone is used to collect noisy body sound signals, and the secondary microphone is used to collect environmental noise; applying a same high-pass filtering to signals collected by the primary microphone and signals collected by the secondary microphone; using a normalized least mean square algorithm on the primary microphone signals and the secondary microphone signals after the high-pass filtering to calculate a weight of the adaptive filter and to calculate an error signal to filter out environmental noise in the primary microphone signals; processing the error signal for a first time by a low-pass filtering to restore the body sound signals, to obtain the body sound signals output by the adaptive filtering algorithm. This algorithm not only may achieve rapid convergence of filter weights, but also avoid signal distortion, and suppress environmental noise interference quickly and reliably. |
| US11735198B2 |
Digital filterbank for spectral envelope adjustment
An apparatus and method are disclosed for processing an audio signal. The apparatus includes an input interface, a digital filterbank having an analysis part and a synthesis part, a first phase shifter, a spectral envelope adjuster, a second phase shifter, and an output interface. The first phase shifter and the second phase shifter reduce a complexity of the digital filterbank, which includes both analysis and synthesis filters that are complex-exponential modulated versions of a prototype filter. |
| US11735196B2 |
Encoder, decoder and method for encoding and decoding audio content using parameters for enhancing a concealment
Described are an encoder for coding speech-like content and/or general audio content, wherein the encoder is configured to embed, at least in some frames, parameters in a bitstream, which parameters enhance a concealment in case an original frame is lost, corrupted or delayed, and a decoder for decoding speech-like content and/or general audio content, wherein the decoder is configured to use parameters which are sent later in time to enhance a concealment in case an original frame is lost, corrupted or delayed, as well as a method for encoding and a method for decoding. |
| US11735195B2 |
Signal transmission method and apparatus for transmission of data over audio transmission interface
The present invention provides a signal transmission method for data transmission through an audio transmission interface. The method includes: receiving audio data and first control data that is generated based on at least one first human-machine interaction; packing the audio data into at least one first data unit; packing the first control data into at least one second data unit; and transmitting a bit stream including the first data unit and the second data unit at a transmission rate that is higher than a sampling rate of the audio data. |
| US11735194B2 |
Audio input and output device with streaming capabilities
Methods, systems, and computer program products that provide streaming capabilities to audio input and output devices are disclosed. An audio processing device connects an upstream device to a downstream device. The upstream device is plugged into an input port of the audio processing device. The audio processing device intercepts a signal from the upstream device to the downstream device. The audio processing device converts the signal to digital data and streams the digital data to a server. The digital data can include metadata, e.g., an input gain. The audio processing device can adjust the input gain in response to instructions from the server. The audio processing device feeds a pass-through copy of the audio signal to an output port. A user can connect the downstream device in a usual signal chain into the output port of the audio processing device. The streaming does not affect the user's workflow. |
| US11735192B2 |
Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods using two-channel processing within an intelligent gap filling framework
An apparatus for generating a decoded two-channel signal, comprising: a parametric decoder for providing parametric data for a second set of second spectral portions and a two-channel identification identifying for a second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions either a first two-channel representation for the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions or a second two-channel representation for the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions, the second two-channel representation being different from the first two-channel representation; and a frequency regenerator for regenerating the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions depending on a first spectral portion of a first set of first spectral portions, the parametric data for the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions and the two-channel identification for the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions to acquire a regenerated second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions. |
| US11735189B2 |
Speaker identification
A method of speaker identification comprises receiving an audio signal representing speech; performing a first voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of an enrolled speaker; and, if the first voice biometric process makes an initial determination that the speech is the speech of an enrolled user, performing a second voice biometric process on the audio signal to attempt to identify whether the speech is the speech of the enrolled speaker. The second voice biometric process is selected to be more discriminative than the first voice biometric process. |
| US11735188B2 |
System and method for detecting fraud rings
A system and method may identify a fraud ring based on call or interaction data by analyzing by a computer processor interaction data including audio recordings to identify clusters of interactions which are suspected of involving fraud each cluster including the same speaker; analyzing by the computer processor the clusters, in combination with metadata associated with the interaction data, to identify fraud rings, each fraud ring describing a plurality of different speakers, each fraud ring defined by a set of speakers and a set of metadata corresponding to interactions including that speaker; and for each fraud ring, creating a relevance value defining the relative relevance of the fraud ring. |
| US11735181B2 |
Voice input apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium for executing processing corresponding to voice instruction
A voice input apparatus includes a voice input device configured to input voice and performs control to, in a case where a second voice instruction for operating the voice input apparatus is input in a predetermined period after a first voice instruction is input to the voice input apparatus, execute processing corresponding to the second voice instruction. The voice input apparatus changes a length of the predetermined period, according to the first voice instruction. |
| US11735179B2 |
Speech chip and electronic device
The present disclosure discloses a speech chip and an electronic device. The speech chip includes a first processing module, a second processing module and a third processing module. The first processing module is configured to run an operating system, and to perform data scheduling on modules other than the first processing module in the chip. The second processing module is configured to perform a mutual conversion between speech and text based on a speech model. The third processing module is configured to perform digital signal processing on inputted speech. |
| US11735174B2 |
Video-aided unsupervised grammar induction
A method of training a natural language neural network comprises obtaining at least one constituency span; obtaining a training video input; applying a multi-modal transform to the video input, thereby generating a transformed video input; comparing the at least one constituency span and the transformed video input using a compound Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar (PCFG) model to match the at least one constituency span with corresponding portions of the transformed video input; and using results from the comparison to learn a constituency parser. |
| US11735168B2 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing voice
A method and an apparatus for recognizing a voice are provided. The method may include: inputting a target voice into a pre-trained voice recognition model to obtain an initial text output by at least one recognition network in the voice recognition model, the recognition network including a plurality of preset types of processing layers, and at least one type of processing layer of the recognition network being obtained by training based on a voice sample in a preset direction interval; and determining a voice recognition result of the target voice, based on the initial text. |
| US11735166B2 |
Method and system for automatic speech recognition in resource constrained devices
Automatic speech recognition techniques are implemented in resource constrained devices such as edge devices in internet of things where on-device speech recognition is required for low latency and privacy preservation. Existing neural network models for speech recognition have a large size and are not suitable for deployment in such devices. The present disclosure provides an architecture of a size constrained neural network and a method of training the size constrained neural network. The architecture of the size constrained neural network provides a way of increasing or decreasing number of feature blocks to achieve an accuracy-model size trade off. The method of training the size constrained neural network comprises creating a training dataset with short utterances and training the size constrained neural network with the training dataset to learn short term dependencies in the utterances. The trained size constrained neural network model is suitable for deployment in resource constrained devices. |
| US11735164B2 |
Method and system of automatic speech recognition with highly efficient decoding
A system, article, and method of automatic speech recognition with highly efficient decoding is accomplished by frequent beam width adjustment. |
| US11735158B1 |
Voice aging using machine learning
This specification describes systems and methods for aging voice audio, in particular voice audio in computer games. According to one aspect of this specification, there is described a method for aging speech audio data. The method comprises: inputting an initial audio signal and an age embedding into a machine-learned age convertor model, wherein: the initial audio signal comprises speech audio; and the age embedding is based on an age classification of a plurality of speech audio samples of subjects in a target age category; processing, by the machine-learned age convertor model, the initial audio signal and the age embedding to generate an age-altered audio signal, wherein the age-altered audio signal corresponds to a version of the initial audio signal in the target age category; and outputting, from the machine-learned age convertor model, the age-altered audio signal. |
| US11735154B2 |
Earpiece device
An earpiece device includes a housing, a sound generator and a first blocker. The sound generator includes a first loudspeaker which includes a vibrating board. The vibrating board includes a first sound generating surface and a second sound generating surface. The first sound generating surface is disposed towards the exterior of the housing. The second sound generating surface is disposed opposite to the first sound generating surface. The first blocker includes a first portion, a second portion, a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface is disposed towards the first sound generating surface. The second side surface is disposed opposite to the first side surface. The first portion is disposed between the first side surface and the second side surface and is fixed to the cover plate. The second portion is disposed opposite to the first portion and is distant from the cover plate. |
| US11735151B2 |
Electric guitar pickup selector switch position lock
Mechanical methods for temporarily securing or stopping the pickup selector switch of an electronically amplified string musical instrument with multiple electromagnetic pickups. |
| US11735149B2 |
Double-stepping linkage pedal for bass drum of jazz drum
A double-stepping linkage pedal for a bass drum of a jazz drum is provided, in which a left pedal assembly is connected to a left hammerhead assembly, so that a front end of the left pedal assembly moves up and down to drive the left hammerhead assembly to swing back and forth. A left tension spring assembly and the left hammerhead assembly are elastically linked to the left pedal assembly in a swinging direction front-rear consistent manner. A right pedal assembly is drivingly connected to a right hammerhead assembly in a front-rear swinging manner, so that a front end of the right pedal assembly moves up and down to drive the right hammerhead assembly to swing back and forth. A right tension spring assembly and the right hammerhead assembly are elastically linked to the right pedal assembly in a swinging direction front-rear consistent manner. |
| US11735145B2 |
Periphery display device for work machine
There is provided a periphery display device for a work machine, which displays a bird's-eye view image around the work machine. A display magnification of a region between a peripheral line having a turning radius of the work machine and an offset peripheral line surrounding the peripheral line is different from a display magnification of a region inside the peripheral line. |
| US11735143B2 |
Electronic device and method of controlling the same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one display, at least one processor, and at least one memory. The at least one memory may store instructions to, when executed, enable the at least one processor to obtain, through a first display area of the at least one display activated while the at least one display is folded, an input to select a plurality of applications to be executed and displayed when the at least one display is unfolded, detect an unfolding of the at least one display, based on the detection of the unfolding, split a second display area of the at least one display activated while the at least one display is unfolded to correspond to a number of the plurality of applications, and execute the plurality of applications and display the plurality of applications on the split second display area. |
| US11735142B2 |
Synchronization techniques in split rendering
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., client device or a server. The apparatus may transmit, to a server at a beginning of a first time period, at least one first head pose associated with a position of the client device, the first time period being synchronized with the server. The apparatus may also receive, from the server during a second time period, at least one first frame including first content based on the at least one first head pose, the second time period being synchronized with the server. Further, the apparatus may display, upon receiving the at least one frame during the second time period, the at least one first frame including the first content. |
| US11735141B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
Provided herein may be a display device. The display device may include a display panel including a plurality of unit blocks disposed in a display area, the plurality of unit blocks including a first area displaying a logo or a banner, a second area having largest load value and a third area disposed between the first area and the second area, a display panel driver configured to generate data voltages based on input image data, and a zonal compensator configured to receive the input image data, to calculate load values of the input image data for the plurality of unit blocks, respectively, and to control luminance of each of the first area and the third area based on a location difference between the first area and the second area and a load value difference between the first area and the second area. |
| US11735138B2 |
Dual image plane HUD with automated illuminance setting for AR graphics displayed in far virtual image plane
A projection system includes a projection device and a control module. The projection device is configured to project (i) a first image in a first virtual image plane, and (ii) a second image in a second virtual image plane, wherein the second virtual image plane is further from an eyebox than the first virtual image plane. The control module is configured to: determine an ambient light luminance level; determine a first luminance level for the first virtual image plane based on the ambient light luminance level; determine a second luminance level of the second virtual image plane based on the first luminance level of the first virtual image plane; and control the at least one projection device to display (i) the first image in the first virtual image plane having the first luminance level, and (ii) the second image in the second virtual image plane having the second luminance level. |
| US11735132B2 |
Display device writes a same image to a predetermined number of lines
A display device includes: a display panel to display a frame image by arranging line images; and a light source. One frame period includes sub-frame periods each including a writing period and a display period. The line images are written in units of a predetermined number of lines during the writing period. The line images that are written at a time in units of the predetermined number of lines are the same image. In two continuous sub-frame periods in the one frame period, when a line image to be written during the writing period in a preceding sub-frame period differs from a line image to be written during the writing period in a subsequent sub-frame period, a start position of the writing period in the preceding sub-frame period and a start position of the writing period in the subsequent sub-frame period are shifted by one line from each other. |
| US11735130B2 |
White balance adjusting method and electronic equipment
The disclosure provides a white balance adjusting method, device, and electronic equipment. The method includes obtaining a first image parameter of a panel under test; obtaining a white balance compensation factor of the panel under test; using a gamma value of the panel under test as a first threshold value to obtain a first target luminance of the panel under test; obtaining a second target luminance of the panel under test; and obtaining grayscale voltages corresponding to sub-pixels of the panel under test based on the second target luminance of the panel under test. |
| US11735127B2 |
Electro-optic displays and driving methods
A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display comprising four types of particles, the first type of particles and the third type of particles are positively charged, and the second type of particles and the fourth type of particles are negatively charged, the method comprises the steps of: (i). applying a first driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a first period of time at a first amplitude to drive the pixel to a color state of the fourth type of particle at the viewing side; and (ii). applying a second driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a second period of time, opposite to that of the first driving voltage and a second amplitude smaller than that of the first amplitude, to drive the second type particle towards the non-viewing side. |
| US11735120B2 |
Scanning-line driving circuit and display device provided with same
Provided is a scanning-line driving circuit configured with a plurality of unit circuits cascaded in stages and integrally formed with a display panel. The unit circuit includes a first transistor, a resistor, a second transistor, and an output transistor. The first transistor has a first conductive electrode supplied with a first-level voltage and a second conductive electrode connected to a first node. The resistor is connected to the first node at a first terminal. The second transistor has a first conductive electrode supplied with a second-level voltage and a second conductive electrode connected to a second terminal of the resistor. The output transistor has a control electrode connected to the first node and a first conductive electrode connected to an output terminal. The resistor is formed in a semiconductor layer. The unit circuit further includes an upper electrode formed above the resistor. This configuration allows the scanning-line driving circuit to prevent an operation failure due to a change in characteristics of the resistor in the unit circuit. |
| US11735117B2 |
Stage and scan driver using the same
A circuit stage including a first transistor including a first electrode and a gate electrode, the first electrode being coupled to a first input terminal and the gate electrode being coupled to a second input terminal configured to receive a first clock signal, an output circuit coupled to the second input terminal and a second power input terminal, an input circuit coupled to a second electrode of the first transistor and to a third input terminal, the third input terminal being configured to receive a first control clock signal, the input circuit being configured to control voltages of the second node and a third node, a first driving circuit coupled to a first power input terminal and to a fourth input terminal configured to receive a second control clock signal, and a second driving circuit coupled to the fourth input terminal and the third node. |
| US11735111B1 |
Driving circuit, driving method and display panel
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a driving circuit, a driving method, and a display panel. The driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a writing module, a compensation module, a light-emitting control module and a light-emitting device. The driving transistor has a first gate connected to a first node, a second gate connected to a second node, a source connected to a first power supply terminal, and a drain connected to the third node. The writing module is connected to the first node and the third node. The compensation module is connected to the first node, the second node and the third node. The light-emitting control module is connected to the third node and the fourth node. An anode of the light-emitting device is connected to the fourth node, and a cathode of the light-emitting device is connected to the second power supply terminal. |
| US11735109B2 |
Display panel and display device using the same
The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device using the same, and includes a first region where pixels are disposed, and a second region where pixels having a lower pixel density (pixels per inch: PPI) compared to the first region are disposed. Each of the pixels of the first region includes a first pixel circuit. Each of the pixels of the second region includes a second pixel circuit. The second pixel circuit includes fewer transistors compared to the first pixel circuit. |
| US11735108B2 |
Display substrate and preparation method thereof, display panel, and display device
A display substrate, a preparation method thereof, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a repeating unit, the repeating unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, a color of light emitted by a light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel is identical to a color of light emitted by a light-emitting element of the second sub-pixel, a shape of a first light-emitting voltage application electrode of the light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel is different from a shape of a first light-emitting voltage application electrode of the light-emitting element of the second sub-pixel. |
| US11735107B2 |
Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display device
A display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and a shift register unit and a first clock signal line that are on the base substrate, the first clock signal line extends along a first direction on the base substrate, the shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit, and an output control circuit; and an orthographic projection of the intermediate transfer electrode on the base substrate is between a whole of an orthographic projection of the active layer of the first control transistor on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the second control transistor on the base substrate and orthographic projections of the active layers of the first noise reduction transistor and the second noise reduction transistor on the base substrate. |
| US11735105B2 |
Driving circuit for controlling power of light-emitting elements and driving method thereof
A driving circuit, a driving method and a display apparatus are provided. The driving method is provided for driving a light-emitting unit including a first light-emitting element series and a second light-emitting element series connected in parallel and connected to a processing unit and a driving unit of a driving circuit. The processing unit detects a first voltage value and a second voltage value. The driving unit detects and transmits a first current value and a second current value to the processing unit. The processing unit determines and compares a first power value and a second power value. When the first and second power values are different, the processing unit controls the driving unit to adjust a driving current setting of the light-emitting element series until the first and second power values are equal. The invention ensures luminance consistency of different light-emitting element series and the luminance uniformity of display apparatus. |
| US11735103B2 |
Input sensing device having an analog front-end
An analog front-end includes a (1-1)-th charge amplifier configured to differentially amplify a first and second sensing signals provided to a (1-1)-th input terminal and a (1-2)-th input terminal, respectively, and output a (1-1)-th differential signal. A (1-2)-th charge amplifier is configured to differentially amplify the second sensing signal and a third sensing signal provided to a (1-3)-th input terminal and a (1-4)-th input terminal, respectively, and output a (1-2)-th differential signal. A second charge amplifier is configured to differentially amplify the (1-1)-th differential signal and the (1-2)-th differential signal provided to a (2-1)-th input terminal and a (2-2)-th input terminal, respectively, and output a (2-1)-th differential signal and a (2-2)-th differential signal. A demodulation circuit is configured to filter the (2-1)-th differential signal and the (2-2)-th differential signal and output demodulated differential signals. An analog-to-digital converter is configured to output a sensing value based on the demodulated differential signals. |
| US11735101B2 |
Electronic substrate and driving method thereof, and display device
An electronic substrate and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The electronic substrate includes a pixel drive chip which includes at least one signal terminal, a signal generation circuit, a data storage circuit, and an output circuit; at least one signal terminal is configured to be electrically connected to the light-emitting element; the signal generation circuit is connected to at least one signal terminal and configured to receive an input signal through the at least one signal terminal and generate a clock signal according to the input signal; the data storage circuit is configured to receive the clock signal and store the input signal according to the clock signal; and the output circuit is configured to output a current, which is generated according to the stored input signal and used for driving the light-emitting element, though at least one signal terminal. |
| US11735099B1 |
LED array display for use in creating high fidelity simulations of clutter environment
A display that can play dynamic video imagery using purely infrared light. Such dynamic video imagery is useful in testing infrared detection equipment. The display contains thousands of solid state infrared LEDs. Different infrared LED types are used. Each type of LED in use emits infrared light in some selected band of the infrared spectrum. The overall display can be designed to simulate infrared signal sources for a particular type of infrared detection system. If a particular infrared detection system detects infrared energy only in a specific range, the infrared LED display can be made to have a high resolution of LEDs within that specific range and a lower resolution of LEDs outside that specific range that would be useful for calibration purposes. |
| US11735097B2 |
Light-emitting diode display device and method of operating the same
Provided are a light-emitting diode (LED) display device and a method of operating the LED display device determining whether a line flicker will occur based on a level of an input image signal, obtaining an LED line scan order corresponding to the level of the input image signal and brightness according to the input image signal based on the determining, and driving at least one LED line based on the LED line scan order. An LED line scan order may be adjusted according to a level of an input/output image signal in an LED display device so as to reduce occurrence of a line flicker phenomenon in all levels of the input/output image signal. |
| US11735094B2 |
Display device
The objective of the present invention is to provides a display device for automatically recognizing an external device connected to external input terminals, the display device receiving pieces of control information about external devices connected to the same Internet, and then sensing whether a change in the output images occurs during the transmission of a control signal by using the pieces of received control information, while sequentially outputting images received from the external input terminals, thereby recognizing the external device connected to the input terminals. |
| US11735085B1 |
Output buffer capable of reducing power consumption of a display driver
An output buffer for a source driver of a panel includes an output stage, configured to output an output voltage; an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA), configured to control the output stage to charge or discharge a capacitor of a pixel of the panel; and a detector, coupled between the OTA and the output stage, configured to output an enabling signal to turn on/off the output buffer after the output buffer finishes charging or discharging the capacitor of the pixel of the panel, wherein the enabling signal is determined according to a current value of the output stage. |
| US11735084B2 |
Display device preventing a common voltage drop and minimizing a bezel
A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; an external common voltage line disposed in the non-display area; a plurality of pixels and a common voltage line disposed in the display area; and a driving voltage line connected to each of the plurality of pixels, wherein a subset of the plurality of pixels overlaps the common voltage line in the display area in a plan view, and the external common voltage line and the common voltage line are connected to each other. |
| US11735083B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided. The display device comprises a display panel including a plurality of signal pads and one or more dummy pads, and at least one flexible wiring board providing signals to the signal pads, wherein a maximum bias period of signals provided to a pair of adjacent signal pads with at least one dummy pad interposed therebetween is longer than a maximum bias period of signals provided to a pair of adjacent signal pads with no dummy pad disposed therebetween. |
| US11735079B2 |
Display driving circuit including crack detector and display device including the display driving circuit
A display driving circuit includes a central area and a boundary area surrounding the central area. The display driving circuit includes a first crack detector circuit in the central area; and a first crack sensing line in the boundary area, wherein the first crack detector circuit is configured to detect a crack in the first crack sensing line in response to a first test command, and output a test result signal including information about a presence or an absence of a crack in the first crack sensing line. |
| US11735078B2 |
Control device, control method, control program, and control system
There is provided a control device, a control method, a control program, and a control system that are capable of presenting a VR experience with a high sense of immersion using a tiling display. The control device acquires arrangement of displays in a tiling display in which a plurality of displays is tiled, acquires a light-emitting characteristic of each of the displays, tracks a position and a line-of-sight direction of a user with respect to the tiling display, and adjusts a luminance value of each of the displays on the basis of the light-emitting characteristic and a tracking result by the tracking such that brightness of the displays viewed from the user becomes continuous through a boundary of the displays. |
| US11735077B2 |
Transport container and method for displaying data on a transport container
The invention relates to a transport container having: a frame structure which encloses a transport chamber, a lateral wall which is connected to the frame structure, an opening device for converting the lateral wall between a closed position, which lies against the frame structure and in which a lateral loading opening of the frame structure is closed by the lateral wall, and an open position, which releases the lateral loading opening, a display device for displaying data on the exterior of the lateral wall, a measuring device for detecting the open position of the lateral wall, and a release device for releasing the display device for displaying data upon detecting the open position of the lateral wall. The invention additionally relates to a method for displaying data on a lateral wall of a transport container. |
| US11735076B2 |
Electronic display and a display module, especially for shopping carts
The electronic display, especially for carts, provided with a display housing being a cart handle or being mounted on a cart handle, comprising a screen with an electronic circuit board and a power supply unit located in the display housing, according to the invention stands out in that the screen with the electronic circuit board and the power supply unit are further placed in a removable inner housing, thereby forming a separate display module. The display module is provided with a screen with an electronic circuit board and a power supply unit located in an inner housing adapted to be placed in the display housing. |
| US11735071B1 |
Digital billboard for vehicle
Provided is a digital billboard for vehicle. The technical gist of the present disclosure is that it can be installed in various vehicles such as buses and trucks, and can deliver advertisement contents to more citizens while driving, so that advertisers can quickly deliver advertisement contents or achieve advertising purpose, thereby maximizing the effect expected by advertisers. As a vehicle provided with a digital billboard travels, advertising contents can be imprinted in the minds of people due to dynamic visibility. In doing so, it is possible to easily achieve purposes intended by advertisers. In the event of a malfunction of the billboard, it is possible to easily replace the digital billboard firmly fixed in a sliding manner in an advertisement frame. |
| US11735069B1 |
System for storing trading cards, memorbilia case, method for obtaining an autograph(s) on a trading card(s) stored in a protective case, and/or method of making same
A case, system, and/or method relating to trading cards, sports memorabilia, coins, printed matter, or the like (herein referred to as “collectibles”). The case and/or method may allow for better protection while obtaining signatures thereon. The case may be used with one or more collectibles to facilitate the pleasure of hobbyists in growing and maintain one or more collectibles and to simplify the maintenance, storage, and transportation of collections. |
| US11735065B1 |
Method for building vehicle crash dummy skull model
A method for building a vehicle crash dummy skull model, includes: building an original skull model according to computed tomography scan data of a human skull; inserting a new first node according to a distance between adjacent first nodes on a hole boundary contour line, to obtain a target contour line; inserting a plurality of second nodes into holes according to the target contour line to obtain an intermediate boundary contour line; forming triangular nets according to the nodes on the target contour line and the intermediate boundary contour line; and with the intermediate boundary contour line as a new target contour line, returning to the operation of inserting a plurality of second nodes until the number of nodes of a final target contour line is less than or equal to a preset value. This embodiment is conducive to building of a skull model with a smooth cranial surface. |
| US11735059B2 |
Aircraft ground travel monitoring system with integrated cockpit head-up display system
A system and method are provided that direct a real time global view with images of an aircraft's entire exterior environment from an external monitoring system located on an aircraft equipped with landing gear wheel-mounted electric taxi drive systems powering ground travel to an integrated head-up display worn by a pilot driving the aircraft with the electric taxi drive systems within an airport ramp area. The real time global view and images produced by the monitoring system are communicated to the integrated head-up display in the form of an actual picture of the ramp area environment exterior to the aircraft viewable by the pilot with the head-up display in real time as the pilot maneuvers the aircraft within the ramp area with the electric taxi systems. The pilot can change the images viewed in the head-up display by changing head position. |
| US11735058B1 |
System and method for an automated sense and avoid system for an electric aircraft
A system and method for an automated sense and avoid system for an electric aircraft is illustrated. The system comprises a flight controller communicatively connected to an electric aircraft, wherein the flight controller is configured to receive a plurality of flight inputs from a sensor, determine an impact element as a function of the plurality of flight inputs, produce a flight modification as a function of the impact element, and initiate the flight modification as a function of an automated process. |
| US11735057B2 |
Transport system for passenger transportation and method for operating a transport system for passenger transportation
A method for operating a transport system for passenger transportation, including the following steps: providing a plurality of vertically taking-off and vertically landing aircraft for passengers; providing a plurality of handing facilities for the take-off and landing of aircraft, wherein each handling facility has parking spaces for a plurality of aircraft; setting-up air routes between the handing facilities so that each handing facility is connected to at least one further handling facility via an air route, wherein there is continuous air traffic of aircraft on the air routes, at least in one flight direction, with automated take-off, automated flight along the air routes, and automated landing. |
| US11735055B2 |
Method and system for controlling interval management of an aircraft
A machine-readable media including executable instructions, when executed by one or more processors of a flight management system in a following aircraft. The machine-readable media configured to provide instructions to a flight management system of a following aircraft operating according to a following aircraft planned path, in reference to a target aircraft operating according to a target aircraft planned path, receive information regarding the target aircraft, set a required time of arrival at an achieve-by-point, and engage a required time of arrival function to enable the following aircraft to reach the achieve-by-point by the required time of arrival. |
| US11735051B2 |
Detection of bicyclists near ego vehicles
A method for alerting a driver when a cyclist is detected near an ego vehicle is described. The method includes detecting a presence of an object proximate the ego vehicle. The method also includes identifying the object as the cyclist according to geometric characteristics and/or speed data of the detected object. The method further includes displaying a graphical indication of the cyclist on a passenger side/driver side mirror of the ego vehicle while the cyclist is in a blind spot of the ego vehicle. |
| US11735050B2 |
Accident reporter
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing an accident reporter are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving data that reflects characteristics of a vehicle. The actions further include, based on the data, determining that the vehicle has been in an accident. The actions further include, based on determining that the vehicle has been in an accident and based on the data that reflects the characteristics of the vehicle, determining a classification of the accident. The actions further include determining additional data to collect and a recipient of a description of the accident. The actions further include receiving the additional data. The actions further include generating the description of the accident based on the data that reflects the characteristics of a vehicle and the additional data. The actions further include providing, for output, the description of the accident. |
| US11735044B2 |
Information transmission system
An information transmission system including a first vehicle and a second vehicle, the first vehicle being subjected to a traffic control by a traffic light, the second vehicle being subjected to the traffic control by the traffic light after the first vehicle, each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle including a communication unit capable of communicating with each other, and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. Each of the microprocessor of the first vehicle and the microprocessor of the second vehicle is configured to perform acquiring a change information of the traffic light, and updating the change information acquired, and the microprocessor of the second vehicle is configured to perform the acquiring including acquiring the change information updated by the microprocessor of the first vehicle through the communication unit. |
| US11735041B2 |
Route-specific services for connected automated vehicle highway systems
The technology provides systems and methods for a system providing customized and route-specific operations, control, and services for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) according to user origin and destination requests, based on connected automated vehicle highway (CAVH) systems which includes an intelligent road infrastructure system providing transportation management and operations and individual vehicle control for CAV. |
| US11735037B2 |
Method and system for determining traffic-related characteristics
A method for traffic characterization associated with a vehicle including collecting a movement dataset sampled at least at one of a location sensor and a motion sensor associated with the vehicle, during a driving session associated with movement of the vehicle; extracting a set of features from the movement dataset associated with movement of the vehicle during the driving session; and determining one or more traffic-related characteristics associated with the vehicle based on the set of features. |
| US11735033B2 |
Control devices for controlling output devices in a user environment
A system may enable control of one or more output devices in response to input received from one or more activators. An activator may transmit a unique identifier that corresponds to the output device to be controlled. A control unit may receive the unique identifier and enable control of the output device in response to one or more additional inputs. The inputs may be provided by a flex sensor or capacitive touch sensor of a wearable device. In response to the additional inputs, control may be permitted for the output device identified by the unique identifier of the activator. |
| US11735030B2 |
Security system automatic bypass reset
Methods and apparatus are described to automatically re-enable monitoring of a bypassed security sensor by a security system control device. |
| US11735025B2 |
Storing events of a sensor device
It is provided a sensor device comprising: a proximity sensor; a processor; a wireless communication module; and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the sensor device to: receive a user input signal; determine when the received user input signal matches a signal template being associated with an event; store in the memory a record indicating an occurrence of the event associated with the user input signal; and transmit, once the wireless communication module is active, any stored records. |
| US11735022B2 |
Patient risk notification system
The present invention includes a healthcare system for capturing and maintaining patient healthcare records and employing information in the records to proactively alert hospital workers to a condition that places patient health at risk. |
| US11735018B2 |
Security system with face recognition
An intelligent face recognition system for an installed security system can include a camera and a local or remote video processor including a face recognition engine. The video processor can be configured to receive the image information from the one or more cameras, and generate an alert for communication to a user device based on a recognition event in the environment. In an example, the face recognition engine is configured to apply machine learning to analyze images from the camera and determine whether the images include or correspond to an enrolled face, and the face recognition engine is configured to provide the recognition event based on the determination. |
| US11735015B2 |
Measurement devices with visual indication of detected electrical conditions
Systems, devices, and operating methods thereof provide for operation of a display based on detection of defined electrical conditions. Measurement devices may include a housing sized and shaped to be held in a hand, a set of sensor devices for sensing a set of electrical characteristics, processing circuitry, and a display supported by the housing. The measurement devices receive measurements obtained from the sensor devices and determine whether the measurements satisfy criteria for detecting defined electrical conditions in an element under test. Operating modes of the display having different corresponding illumination characteristics are controlled as a result of determining the presence of defined electrical conditions in the element under test. |
| US11735014B2 |
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing haptic feedback
An electronic device displays a first user interface that includes a plurality of icons of a first type and at least one icon of a second type. While a focus selector is on a first icon of the first type, the device detects movement of a contact in a drag gesture, and, in response, moves the first icon across the display. In accordance with a determination that the first icon moves over one or more other icons of the first type during the drag gesture, the device outputs one or more tactile outputs of a first type. In accordance with a determination that the drag gesture moves the first icon over an icon of the second type at the end of the drag gesture, the device displays a second user interface that corresponds to the icon of the second type and outputs a tactile output of a second type. |
| US11735010B2 |
Gaming system and apparatus for consecutive ascending awards
A gaming machine determines a base outcome and initiates a bonus display sequence including a plurality of bonus outcomes. Prior to displaying any of the bonus outcomes, the machine determines a quantity of free spins and an outcome for each free spin, including an outcome amount, and at least one additional free play outcome including a corresponding outcome amount. The machine identifies i) a plurality of winning outcomes and ii) a plurality of non-winning outcomes and sorts, in ascending order based on the outcome amount, the plurality of winning outcomes in a table stored in memory. The machine displays the winning outcomes in order retrieved from the table, and displays the at least one additional free play outcome when the corresponding outcome amount is equal to or greater than the respective free play outcome of the plurality of winning outcomes. |
| US11735007B2 |
Electronic gaming system with multiple awardable marker mechanics
An electronic gaming system comprising a display, and a game controller that includes a processor and a memory device storing instructions to select and display a plurality of symbols in a respective plurality of display positions in a display area for each implemented game. The processor also adds a wild marker to each display position that includes a special symbol, each wild marker remaining persistent for subsequent games until a random trigger condition occurs. When a random trigger condition occurs, the processor adds a wild symbol to each display position that includes a wild marker, evaluates a game outcome based on the selected and displayed symbols inclusive of all added wild symbols, and awards a win amount if the outcome corresponds to a winning outcome. |
| US11735005B2 |
Gaming system and method for providing randomly determined progressive award reset values
A gaming system including one or more progressive awards. Each progressive award is associated with a plurality of different progressive award reset values. Upon a progressive award triggering event occurring and the progressive award being provided to one or more players, the gaming system resets the progressive award to a randomly selected one of the plurality of different progressive award reset values associated with the provided progressive award. Thus, upon a determination to provide a progressive award to a player, that progressive award is reset to a randomly selected value which may be above the reset value historically associated with such a progressive award. |
| US11735003B2 |
System and method for redeeming cashless gaming tickets to bank accounts via multi-function ATM
A system and method are provided for redeeming cashless gaming tickets having associated monetary value, such as issued at a cash-out from a gaming machine in a casino. When the customer wishes to redeem the ticket, the ticket is introduced to a multi-function ATM. The ATM then electronically communicates with a ticket redemption system to validate the ticket. The customer may transfer the monetary value associated with the ticket to an account associated with a presented bank card, wherein the ATM transmits a request for transfer to a financial server which transmits a request to a financial network for crediting of the monetary value (such as less a transaction fee) to the customer's bank card account. |
| US11735000B2 |
Electronic gaming machine with digital button deck device incorporating player tracking capabilities
System and methods for providing a digital touch screen button display device incorporating player tracking and player rewards capabilities for an electronic gaming machine including game play functionality via a touch screen LCD thereby eliminating the need for a separate player tracking module. The digital button display device is located on the button deck of an electronic gaming machine and cooperates and communicates with the slot accounting system of a casino and may contain one or more interoperability modules to cooperate and communicate with differing slot accounting systems. |
| US11734993B2 |
Games with dynamically modifiable prizes based on game winning symbol positions
An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller, a player interface, and a display. The game controller causes the display to display a bonus array having visual elements. Each of the visual elements is uniquely associated with one of a plurality of symbol display positions, at least one visual element indicating a bonus award. The game controller selects a symbol for display at each of the symbol display positions, determines whether at least one of the symbol display positions contains a trigger symbol, and upon determining that the at least one of the symbol display positions contains a trigger symbol, determines a modification to a base prize based at least in part on a visual element associated with the symbol display position containing the trigger symbol. |
| US11734988B1 |
Medical supplies distribution system
A mobile medical supplies distribution system may include a transportable chassis forming part of a motorized vehicle; a service compartment configured to house a person serving as a medical supplies distribution service agent; a supply of select medical supplies; and one or more delivery drones configured to deliver medical supplies from the service compartment to a location remote from the service compartment. |
| US11734985B2 |
Contextual tapping engine
Various embodiments for contextual tapping engines. For example, an application executing on a computing device may authenticate credentials associated with an account and detect a tap of a contactless card to the computing device. The application may receive, from a communications interface of the contactless card, action data used to determine an action associated with the tap of the contactless card to the computing device. The application may determine a context of the application based on a current output of the application. The application may determine, based on the action data, the determined context, and data associated with the account, a first action associated with the tap of the contactless card to the computing device, the first action associated with at least one of the application and an operating system (OS). The application may initiate performance of the first action based on the tap of the contactless card. |
| US11734981B2 |
Enhanced entry authorization
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for granting entry through a checkpoint. The implementations include receiving a request for entry of a person through a checkpoint. The implementations include estimating, via a thermal sensor, a body surface temperature of the person, and generating, via a user interface, a notification that prompts the person to answer at least one verification question. The implementations include receiving, via the user interface, at least one user response to the at least one verification question. The implementations include determining whether the at least one user response and the body surface temperature match criteria for gaining entry through the checkpoint. Additionally, the implementations include granting the request for entry in response to determining that the at least one user response and the body surface temperature match the criteria. |
| US11734978B2 |
Frictionless access control system with ranging camera
An access control and user tracking system includes ranging cameras installed in thresholds of access points for generating three dimensional models of users passing through the access points in order to detect unauthorized individuals or hand gestures of the users, which can indicate unsafe conditions or that lights and/or equipment should be turned on. The ranging cameras can be point range finding measurement sensor scanning cameras, structured light cameras, or time of flight cameras and can be installed along the top or in the corners of the thresholds. |
| US11734976B2 |
Authorization management and authorization request of elevator service request
An authorization management and authorization request for an elevator service request, and belongs to the technical field of elevator management. An authorization management system for an elevator service request includes a wireless signal device and an authorization management device; wherein the authorization management system performs the following by a personal mobile terminal entering the coverage of the wireless signal: acquiring an elevator identifier in the wireless signal if the wireless signal is scanned, determining whether to have a corresponding elevator service request authority based on the elevator identifier and the stored authorization configuration information, and if not, providing an input component for the passenger to input an instruction of confirming to make authorization request on the personal mobile terminal, and generating authorization request information based on the instruction input by the passenger; wherein the authorization management device is used for receiving the authorization request information. |
| US11734974B2 |
Safe with biometric lock mechanism
A safe for the storage of a valuable, such as a firearm. The safe has an imaging system that is used to scan a portion of a human in the near infrared spectrum to image blood vessels and determine if the image matches a stored image and thereafter effect unlocking of the safe. A manual override lock system is provided to manually effect unlocking of the safe. |
| US11734973B2 |
Electronic sliding bolt shutter lock apparatus and system
An electronic straight shackle lock apparatus and system. Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a keyless, electronic straight shackle lock that provides a high level of security at a relatively low cost and without any opening for a physical mechanical key. Certain embodiments provide for an easy-to-use and compact adapter for a keyless, electronic straight shackle lock and the ability to manually override the electronic lock. Certain benefits and advantages of the present disclosure include a compact and flexible locking system that can be installed on many different enclosures and doors that can be locked and unlocked using an electronic device via a wireless signal. |
| US11734972B2 |
Systems and methods for securely managing vehicle information
Systems and methods are provided for securely managing vehicle information. A first digital signature associated with the vehicle may be generated based on a first public-private key pair, and a second digital signature associated with a mobile application may be generated based on a second public-private key pair. The mobile application may be associated with a mobile device operated by a user. The first digital signature and the public key of the first public-private key pair may be transmitted to, and stored by, the vehicle, and the second digital signature and the public key of the second public-private key pair may be transmitted to, and stored on the mobile device via the mobile application. The systems and methods may determine that a request to access the vehicle information has been received, and permit access to the vehicle information based on the first digital signature and the second digital signature. |
| US11734971B1 |
Fuel protection system and method
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for controlling access to fuel repositories such as an underground gasoline storage tank located at a retail gas station. A method of the present disclosure may include sensing when a fuel access cover is removed from a pipe that leads to an underground fuel storage tank. Alternatively, or additionally, the method may include sensing when a fuel regulation device or an access panel of a fuel pump has been accessed. Systems consistent with the present disclosure may monitor both a set of fuel storage tanks access points and a set of fuel pump access points that control the flow of pumped fuel. Unauthorized access to fuel may result in an alarm being initiated. Such systems may also allow authorized individuals to access fuel storage tanks or metering devices of specific fuel pumps after providing authorization information to a computer. |
| US11734965B2 |
Method and system of calculating distance to empty of each vehicle drive mode
A system and method of calculating a vehicle DTE are provided to calculate a fuel efficiency of each vehicle drive mode, and display a more accurate DTE of each drive mode. The method includes when a driver selects a drive mode and a drive distance of the selected drive mode is accumulated while a vehicle is being driven in the selected mode, collecting drive data including an accumulated drive distance of each drive mode, and fuel efficiency information of each drive mode. A final fuel efficiency of each drive mode is calculated using a drive distance of each drive mode, a consumption energy of each drive mode or a fuel efficiency of each drive mode, and a learning fuel efficiency. A DTE of each drive mode is then calculated based on the calculated final fuel efficiency of each drive mode. |
| US11734964B2 |
System and method to detect execution of driving maneuvers
This disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting execution of driving maneuvers based on pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. Some or all of the system may be installed in a vehicle and/or be otherwise coupled with a vehicle. In some implementations, the system may detect execution of driving maneuvers by the vehicle based on pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. The system may include one or more sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicle. In some implementations, the system may detect execution of the driving maneuvers by the vehicle based on a comparison of the information conveyed by the output signals from the sensors to criteria included in the pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. |
| US11734962B2 |
Vehicle messaging system and method of operation thereof
A vehicle messaging system and method of operation thereof. The method of operating the vehicle messaging system includes first providing a vehicle messaging system. Once provided, a message to be displayed will be inputted into the vehicle messaging system by a vehicle operator and/or one or more users of the vehicle messaging system. After the message to be displayed has been inputted the vehicle operator and/or the one or more users will instruct the vehicle messaging system to display the message. |
| US11734957B2 |
Image processing apparatus, method, system, and computer readable medium
A controller controls the readout of an image from iris image pick-up devices for performing image pick-up of an iris of a subject. In the control of the readout of an image from the iris image pick-up devices, the controller sets a region of interest to be treated as a target of the image readout. The controller stores past information, and in the case of performing image processing on the same subject, the controller determines whether or not an eye region of the subject was successfully covered by the region of interest used in the past. In the case of determining that the eye region of the subject was not successfully covered, the controller corrects the readout of an image from the iris image pick-up devices. |
| US11734950B2 |
Fingerprint matching apparatus, fingerprint matching method, and recording medium
A fingerprint image display means displays an input fingerprint image being a fingerprint image which is input and a registered fingerprint image being a fingerprint image which has been registered. A marker acquisition means acquires a position of an input marker which is input by a user with respect to the input fingerprint image being displayed. A marker applying means applies a correspondence marker at a position corresponding to an input marker in the registered fingerprint image. A matching means matches the input fingerprint image to which the input marker is input with the registered fingerprint image to which the correspondence marker has been applied. |
| US11734949B1 |
System for biometric identification
Images of a hand are obtained by a camera. These images may depict the fingers and palm of the user. A pose of the hand relative to the camera may vary due to rotation, translation, articulation of joints in the hand, and so forth. One or more canonical images are generated by mapping the images to a canonical model. A first embedding model is used to determine a first embedding vector representative of the palm as depicted in the canonical images. A second embedding model is used to determine a set of second embedding vectors, each representative of individual fingers as depicted in the canonical images. Embedding distances in the embedding space from the embedding vectors to a closest match of previously stored embedding vectors are multiplied together to determine an overall distance. If the overall distance is less than a threshold value, an identity of a user is asserted. |
| US11734945B2 |
Display module and display device
A display module includes: a liquid crystal module, a cover plate, and a texture recognition unit. The texture recognition unit includes a first light source and a texture sensing module. The first light source is located at a side of the cover plate proximate to the liquid crystal module, and is configured to emit invisible light. The texture sensing module is located at a side of the liquid crystal module facing away from the cover plate. A light wavelength range of light allowed to pass through the cover plate and the liquid crystal module includes a light wavelength range of the invisible light. The texture sensing module is configured to collect reflected light after the invisible light is irradiated to a target object, so as to identify a texture of the target object. |
| US11734928B2 |
Vehicle controls and cabin interior devices augmented reality usage guide
Provided is an information providing method in which a terminal apparatus including an imaging unit and a display unit displays, on the display unit, an image of a vehicle interior captured by the imaging unit. A plurality of devices are installed in the vehicle interior and classified into a plurality of types. The information providing method includes an image acquisition step of acquiring the image of the vehicle interior captured by the imaging unit, and a display step of displaying the image on the display unit, and in a case where at least one of the plurality of devices is included in the image, displaying a graphic corresponding to the device in a superimposed manner on the device and also displaying information indicating a type to which the device belongs. |
| US11734921B2 |
Methods for digital imaging of living tissue
Methods of providing digital images of living tissue that may include: obtaining data of a propagating wavefield through living tissue; obtaining a reference digital image of the living tissue; selecting a holographic computational method of wavefield imaging; selecting a wavefield based on one or more parameters; calculating a sampling ratio by dividing a number of data samples in the data subset by a number of image samples in the data subset; decimating the data subset; generating a new digital image based on the selected holographic computational method of imaging, the decimated data subset, and parameters corresponding to the data subset; and determining a quantitative difference measure between the reference digital image and the new digital image based on the changing of one or more parameters selected from the group consisting of field sampling, imaging sampling, and image quality. |
| US11734920B2 |
Object detection device, object detection method, and recording medium
Provided is an object detection device for efficiently and simply selecting an image for creating instructor data on the basis of the number of detected objects. The object detection device is provided with: a detection unit for detecting an object from each of a plurality of input images using a dictionary; an acceptance unit for displaying, on a display device, a graph indicating the relationship between the input images and the number of subregions in which the objects are detected, and displaying, on the display device, in order to create instructor data, one input image among the plurality of input images in accordance with a position on the graph accepted by operation of an input device; a generation unit for generating the instructor data from the input image; and a learning unit for learning a dictionary from the instructor data. |
| US11734916B1 |
Methods and systems for determining the authenticity of an identity document
A method for determining the authenticity of an identity document is provided that includes capturing, by an electronic device, image data of an identity document. The identity document has a first side and a second side. The image data includes an image of the first side and an image of the second side. The first side includes data about a person associated with the identity document and second side includes a PDF417 barcode which has features. The method also includes determining a class of the identity document. The features of the PDF417 barcode adhere to criteria established for the determined class of the identity document. Moreover, the method includes analyzing the features of the PDF417 barcode for anomalies. In response to determining the features of the PDF417 barcode are free of anomalies, the identity document is determined to be authentic. Otherwise, the identity document is determined to be fraudulent. |
| US11734910B2 |
Real-time object detection using depth sensors
A depth-based object-detection convolutional neural network is disclosed. The depth-based object-detection convolutional neural network described herein incorporates a base network and additional structure. The base network is configured to receive a depth image formatted as RGB image data as input, and compute output data indicative of at least one feature of an object in the RGB image data. The additional structure is configured to receive the output data of the base network as input, and compute predictions of the location of a region in the received depth image that includes the object and of a class of the object as output. An object detection device incorporating the depth-based object-detection convolutional neural network is operable in real time using an embedded GPU. |
| US11734908B2 |
Randomly generated blobs to improve object-detection training for framed video content
Generating a training image for use in training a region-of-interest detector that is trained to detect regions-of-interest within images includes generating a closed geometric shape; filling the closed geometric shape with a filler to obtain a blob; overlaying the blob on an edge of an image to obtain the training image, where the image includes a region-of-interest and a background region, and where the edge separates the region-of-interest from the background region; and using the training image to train the region-of-interest detector to detect a boundary of the region-of-interest. An input to the region-of-interest detector in a training phase includes the training image and a first indication of coordinates of the region-of-interest in the training image. An output of the region-of-interest detector includes a second indication of an area of the training image and a probability of the area of the training image being the region-of-interest. |
| US11734907B2 |
Tracking vulnerable road users across image frames using fingerprints obtained from image analysis
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for tracking a vulnerable road user (VRU) regardless of occlusion. In an embodiment, the system captures a series of images including the VRU, and inputs each of the images into a detection model. The system receives a bounding box for each of the series of images of the VRU as output from the detection model. The system inputs each bounding box into a multi-task model, and receives as output from the multi-task model an embedding for each bounding box. The system determines, using the embeddings for each bounding box across the series of images, an indication of which of the embeddings correspond to the VRU. |
| US11734902B2 |
Contextual control of digital files built on the blockchain and projected in augmented reality
Provided is a process including: identifying, with a computing system, a blockchain-based token mapped to an asset configured to be presented in an augmented reality application; obtaining, with the computing system, contextual information indicative of a physical context of a physical geolocation of a display upon which the augmented reality application is to present the asset; causing, with the computing system, visual attributes or audio attributes of the asset to be determined based on the contextual information; and causing, with the computing system, the asset to be presented with the display according to the visual attributes or the audio attributes. |
| US11734901B2 |
Surgeon head-mounted display apparatuses
An augmented reality surgical system includes a head mounted display (HMD) with a see-through display screen, a motion sensor, a camera, and computer equipment. The motion sensor outputs a head motion signal indicating measured movement of the HMD. The computer equipment computes the relative location and orientation of reference markers connected to the HMD and to the patient based on processing a video signal from the camera. The computer equipment generates a three dimensional anatomical model using patient data created by medical imaging equipment, and rotates and scales at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the relative location and orientation of the reference markers, and further rotate at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the head motion signal to track measured movement of the HMD. The rotated and scaled three dimensional anatomical model is displayed on the display screen. |
| US11734893B2 |
Curating virtual tours
Systems and methods for creating a customizable curated tour of three-dimensional virtual environments. Curation inputs may include selecting a virtual environment and selecting an ordered set of various locations within the virtual environment. A curated tour may be launched such that designated avatars may be placed to a first selected location of the ordered set and receive a subset of information about the first selected location. The subset of information may include user-generated content regarding the first selected location. The selected three-dimensional virtual environment may correspond to an in-game environment of an interactive content title, and specifically about one or more in-game activities in which one or more other users participated in at the first selected location. |
| US11734884B2 |
Point cloud filtering
This specification describes systems and methods for refining point cloud data. Methods can include receiving point cloud data for a physical space, iteratively selecting points along an x, y, and z dimension, clustering the selected points into 2D histograms, determining a slope value for each 2D histogram, and removing, based on the slope value exceeding a predetermined value, points from the point cloud data. Methods can also include iteratively voxelizing each 2D histogram into predetermined mesh sizes, summating points in each voxelized 2D histogram, removing, based on determining the summation is below a predetermined sum value, points from the point cloud data, keeping, based on determining that a number of points in each voxelized 2D histogram exceeds a threshold value, a center point, selecting, for each histogram, a point, identifying, nearest neighbors in the point cloud data, removing the identified nearest neighbors from the data, and returning remaining points. |
| US11734882B2 |
Machine learning based object identification using scaled diagram and three-dimensional model
A system automatically identifies objects in an environment based on a walkthrough video and an annotated floorplan of the environment. The annotated floorplan indicates locations and types of objects that are expected to be in the environment. The system receives the walkthrough video and generates a 3D model of the environment. The system applies a machine learning model to the walkthrough video to identify regions within frames where objects are captured. After identifying the regions within frames of the walkthrough video that include objects, the system modifies corresponding regions of the 3D model to include the identified objects. For each of the identified objects, the system determines a likelihood of the identified object being present at a location in the environment based on a comparison of the modified 3D model and the annotated floorplan. |
| US11734881B2 |
Method and system for accessibility and control of parameters in scenegraphs
A method and system for providing access to and control of parameters within a scenegraph includes redefining components or nodes' semantic within a scenegraph. The set of components or nodes (depending on the scenegraph structure) are required to enable access from the Application User Interface to selected scenegraph information. In one embodiment, a user interface is generated for controlling the scenegraph parameters. In addition, constraints can be implemented that allow or disallow access to certain scenegraph parameters and restrict their range of values. |
| US11734878B1 |
Polygon clipping based on traversing lists of points
A system that displays a set of polygons is described. This system obtains a set of line segments that defines the set of polygons. The system forms a horizontal index that keeps track of where line segments vertically project onto a horizontal reference line and similarly forms a vertical index for horizontal projections onto a vertical reference line. The system obtains a clip rectangle that defines a view into the set of polygons and uses the horizontal and vertical indexes to determine intersections between borders of the clip rectangle and line segments in the set of line segments. Next, the system uses the determined intersections to clip polygons in the set of polygons that intersect the clip rectangle. Finally, the system transfers the clipped polygons, and also unclipped polygons that fit completely within the clip rectangle, to a display device that displays the view into the set of polygons. |
| US11734876B2 |
Synthesizing an image from a virtual perspective using pixels from a physical imager array weighted based on depth error sensitivity
A method assigns weights to physical imager pixels in order to generate photorealistic images for virtual perspectives in real-time. The imagers are arranged in three-dimensional space such that they sparsely sample the light field within a scene of interest. This scene is defined by the overlapping fields of view of all the imagers or for subsets of imagers. The weights assigned to imager pixels are calculated based on the relative poses of the virtual perspective and physical imagers, properties of the scene geometry, and error associated with the measurement of geometry. This method is particularly useful for accurately rendering numerous synthesized perspectives within a digitized scene in real-time in order to create immersive, three-dimensional experiences for applications such as performing surgery, infrastructure inspection, or remote collaboration. |
| US11734872B2 |
Generating scenes containing shadows using pixel noise reduction techniques
The disclosure presents a technique for utilizing ray tracing to produce high quality visual scenes with shadows while minimizing computing costs. The disclosed technique can lower the number of rays needed for shadow region rendering and still maintain a targeted visual quality for the scene. In one example, a method for denoising a ray traced scene is disclosed that includes: (1) applying a pixel mask to a data structure of data from the scene, wherein the applying uses the scene at full resolution and pixels at the edge of a depth boundary change are identified using the pixel mask, (2) generating a penumbra mask using the data structure, (3) adjusting HitT values in the packed data buffer utilizing the penumbra mask, and (4) denoising the scene by reducing scene noise in the data of the data structure with adjusted HitT values. |
| US11734871B2 |
Ray intersection testing with quantization and interval representations
Techniques are disclosed relating to primitive intersection testing for ray tracing in graphics processors. In some embodiments, a graphics processor includes ray intersection circuitry configured to perform an intersection test, which includes to: quantize a first representation of the primitive to generate a reduced-precision interval representation of the primitive, quantize a first representation of the ray to generate a reduced-precision interval representation of the ray, and determine, using interval arithmetic, an initial intersection result based on coordinates of the interval representation of the primitive and coordinates of the interval representation of the ray. The initial intersection result may be a conservative result such that a miss indicated by the initial intersection result is guaranteed not to be a hit for the first representation of the primitive and first representation of the ray. Disclosed techniques may improve performance, reduce power consumption, or both, relative to traditional techniques. |
| US11734869B2 |
Graphics processing
A method of operating a graphics processor that executes a graphics processing pipeline comprising a vertex shading stage is disclosed. A set of blocks of memory space that may be represented by a linked list is provided and memory space for storing vertex shaded attribute data generated by the vertex shading stage is allocated from one of the blocks of memory space in the set of blocks of memory space. When data stored in a block of memory space is no longer needed by the graphics processing pipeline, the block can be “recycled” for use by the pipeline. |
| US11734866B2 |
Controlling interactive fashion based on voice
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving an image that includes a depiction of a person wearing a fashion item; generating a segmentation of the fashion item by the person depicted in the image; receiving voice input associated with the person depicted in the image; in response to receiving the voice input, generating one or more augmented reality elements representing the voice input; and applying the one or more augmented reality elements to the fashion item worn by the person based on the segmentation of the fashion item worn by the person. |
| US11734862B2 |
Systems and methods for image reconstruction
A method for image reconstruction may include obtaining projection data D0 generated by an imaging device by scanning an object at first angles, wherein the first angles may be a subset of second angles. The second angles may include at least short-scan angles for a system to conduct image reconstruction. The method may also include generating an image F1 based on the projection data D0. The method may also include determining, based on the image F1, projection data D1 corresponding to third angles that are a subset of the second angles and different from the first angles. The method may also include generating a final image associated with the object by performing an iteration process including one or more iterations using initial data including the image F1, the projection data D0, and the projection data D1. |
| US11734860B2 |
Method and system for generating an augmented reality image
A system for generating an augmented reality image using an initial image comprising a reference element, the system comprising: an image analyzer for identifying the reference element within the initial image; an image generating unit for: generating a simulation image of a scene of a virtual environment based on the identified reference element, an outline of the simulation image corresponding to the reference outline; overlaying the initial image with the simulation image to obtain the augmented reality image; and providing the augmented reality image for display. |
| US11734858B2 |
Joint pixel and texture data compression
In an embodiment, a method involves accessing a first pixel block of an image, the first pixel block comprising pixels, each associated with multiple pixel components, determining whether to separately or jointly encode the multiple pixel components of each of the pixels of the first pixel block, determining that the multiple pixel components of each of the pixels in the first pixel block are to be jointly encoded based on (1) determining, based on the multiple pixel components of each of the pixels, a line defined within a three-dimensional coordinate system in which each of the pixels is represented as a three-dimensional point and (2) determining that the line satisfies a predetermined criteria, and encoding the multiple pixel components of each of the pixels in the first pixel block as a single quantized value based on a projection of the three-dimensional point associated with that pixel onto the line. |
| US11734855B2 |
Rotation equivariant orientation estimation for omnidirectional localization
A computer implemented method for pose estimation of an image sensor includes receiving an omnidirectional image of a scene captured by an image sensor; using a trained neural network to generate a rotation equivariant feature map from the omnidirectional image of the scene; and determining information relating to the pose of said camera when capturing the scene from the rotation equivariant feature map. The rotation equivariant feature map is a SO(3) indexed feature map. |
| US11734852B2 |
Slope estimating apparatus and operating method thereof
An operating method of a slope estimating apparatus is provided. The operating method of the slope estimating apparatus including at least one camera includes obtaining a forward image through the at least one camera, detecting a lane included in the forward image, dividing the forward image into a plurality of smaller regions in a horizontal direction, identifying a plurality of lane segments included in each of the plurality of smaller regions, obtaining a plurality of coordinate values forming each of the plurality of lane segments, and obtaining a pitch angle of each of the plurality of smaller regions based on the obtained plurality of coordinate values. |
| US11734850B2 |
On-floor obstacle detection method and mobile machine using the same
On-floor obstacle detection using an RGB-D camera is disclosed. An obstacle on a floor is detected by receiving an image including depth channel data and RGB channel data through the RGB-D camera, estimating a ground plane corresponding to the floor based on the depth channel data, obtaining a foreground of the image corresponding to the ground plane based on the depth channel data, performing a distribution modeling on the foreground of the image based on the RGB channel data to obtain a 2D location of the obstacle, and transforming the 2D location of the obstacle into a 3D location of the obstacle based on the depth channel data. |
| US11734847B2 |
Image depth prediction neural networks
A system includes an image depth prediction neural network implemented by one or more computers. The image depth prediction neural network is a recurrent neural network that is configured to receive a sequence of images and, for each image in the sequence: process the image in accordance with a current internal state of the recurrent neural network to (i) update the current internal state and (ii) generate a depth output that characterizes a predicted depth of a future image in the sequence. |
| US11734845B2 |
System and method for self-supervised monocular ground-plane extraction
Systems and methods for extracting ground plane information directly from monocular images using self-supervised depth networks are disclosed. Self-supervised depth networks are used to generate a three-dimensional reconstruction of observed structures. From this reconstruction the system may generate surface normals. The surface normals can be calculated directly from depth maps in a way that is much less computationally expensive and accurate than surface normals extraction from standard LiDAR data. Surface normals facing substantially the same direction and facing upwards may be determined to reflect a ground plane. |
| US11734844B2 |
3D hand shape and pose estimation
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for receiving a monocular image that includes a depiction of a hand and extracting features of the monocular image using a plurality of machine learning techniques. The program and method further include modeling, based on the extracted features, a pose of the hand depicted in the monocular image by adjusting skeletal joint positions of a three-dimensional (3D) hand mesh using a trained graph convolutional neural network (CNN); modeling, based on the extracted features, a shape of the hand in the monocular image by adjusting blend shape values of the 3D hand mesh representing surface features of the hand depicted in the monocular image using the trained graph CNN; and generating, for display, the 3D hand mesh adjusted to model the pose and shape of the hand depicted in the monocular image. |
| US11734843B2 |
Object texture measurement device
An object texture measurement device includes a visual detection unit that detects a visual texture of an object, a tactile detection unit that detects a tactile texture of the object, and an acquisition unit that acquires a detection result of each of the visual detection unit and the tactile detection unit while relatively moving each of the visual detection unit and the tactile detection unit with respect to the object. |
| US11734841B2 |
Eye method for tracking eye gaze, system, processing device and computer readable storage medium
A method for tracking eye gaze, a system, a processing device and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring original images acquired by multiple image acquisition devices, splicing the multiple original images into a spliced image, and determining a responsible region of each image acquisition device in the spliced image; performing preliminary face locating on the spliced image, and determining one or more original images corresponding to a preliminarily located face position according to the preliminarily located face position and the responsible region; and performing secondary face locating on the one or more determined original images to obtain face pose information and a positional relation of pupils with respect to human eyes, and calculating coordinates of gaze points of the human eyes according to the obtained face pose information and the positional relation of the pupils with respect to the human eyes. |
| US11734840B2 |
Target tracking method, device, medium and apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a target tracking method, device, medium and apparatus, belongs to the technical field of computers, and can ensure the completeness of tracking. The target tracking method comprises performing object detection on all telephoto image frames captured by telephoto cameras in a multi-camera system, and constructing a detection point set based on object detection result for each frame of the telephoto image; selecting a target tracking point from each detection point set based on the starting tracking point; and connecting the selected target tracking points as a tracking sequence for the starting tracking point. |
| US11734839B2 |
Apparatus and method for removing breathing motion artifacts in CT scans
A method and apparatus for removing breathing motion artifacts in imaging CT scans is disclosed. The method acquires raw imaging data from a CT scanner, and processes the raw CT imaging data by removing motion-induced artifacts via a motion model. Processing the imaging data may be achieved by initially estimating a 3D image to provide an estimate of raw sinogram image data, comparing the estimate to an actual CT sinogram, determining a difference between the sinograms, and iteratively reconstructing the 3D image by using the difference to alter the 3D image until the sinograms agree, wherein the 3D image moves according to the motion model. |
| US11734835B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program
An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a phase change having a predetermined amount of change from phase changes in a subregion of an edge image having a predetermined resolution, a change amount adjustment unit configured to adjust the amount of change of the detected phase change, an adjusted image generation unit configured to generate an edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of a motion change is adjusted based on the phase change in which the amount of change of the phase change is adjusted, and a region decision unit configured to decide a new subregion of an edge image having a new predetermined resolution based on the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is not adjusted and the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is adjusted. |
| US11734834B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting movement of at least one non-line-of-sight object
A system and method for detecting movement of a non-light-of-sight (NLOS) object in a space outside a line-of-sight (LOS) of a camera is disclosed. The camera acquires a sequence of successive images that each include a set of pixels, at least a subset thereof representing a target, being at least part of a visible object located within the LOS of the camera and impacted by light scattered from the NLOS object. The set of pixels of two images of the sequence, acquired from different positions of the camera, are registered into a common coordinate system, giving rise to two registered images. A target light intensity value is calculated for both registered images based on at least part of the set of pixels representing the target in the respective registered image. Movement of the NLOS object is detected based on a variation in the target light intensity value between registered images. |
| US11734831B2 |
Method for supporting X-RAY image reading using image transform model and system performing the same
Embodiments relate to a method for supporting X-ray image reading including receiving information associated with a reading target positioned in a reading space where X-rays pass through or are reflected off, acquiring a non X-RAY image of an item object based on the information associated with the reading target, and generating a fake X-RAY image of the item object by applying the non X-RAY image of the item object to the image transform model, and a system for performing the same. |
| US11734826B2 |
Image segmentation method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium
An image segmentation method, apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: selecting a current image frame in a video according to a time sequence of the video; determining a reference image frame before the current image frame in the time sequence; obtaining first location information of a target object key point in the reference image frame; performing an affine transformation on the current image frame with reference to an affine transformation relationship between the first location information and a target object key point template to obtain a target object diagram; performing a key point detection on the target object diagram to obtain second location information of the target object key point; segmenting a target object from the target object diagram to obtain segmentation information; and obtaining the target object from the current image frame according to the segmentation information and the second location information. |
| US11734824B2 |
Image processing method, drug sensitivity test method and image processing apparatus
An image processing method is configured to input a test image to a first learning model, input an output image to a second learning model and output an output image as a result image in which the position of the detected part is indicated by a representative point. The first learning model is constructed by deep learning using teacher data associating a first image in which a marker is expressed and a second image in which the marker is not expressed. The first and the second images are captured to include a same cell. The second learning model is constructed by deep learning using teacher data associating a third image, which is captured to include a cell and in which the marker is expressed, and information representing a position of the representative point included in the third image. |
| US11734822B2 |
System and method for automated gamete selection
In variants, a method for automated gamete selection can include: sampling a video of a scene having a plurality of gametes, tracking each gamete across successive images, and determining attribute values for a gamete, and selecting the gamete. The attribute values can be determined using a model trained to predict the attribute values for the gamete based on a video. |
| US11734820B2 |
Medical image processing device, medical image processing method, and medical image processing program
A medical image processing device having a processor configured to: acquire a medical image including an image of a subject; perform a first recognition of the medical image using a first recognizer; determine a confidence level for a recognition result of a first recognition by the first recognition; and perform a second recognition of the medical image using a second recognizer according to the confidence level for the recognition result of the first recognition, the second recognition having higher recognition accuracy than the first recognition. |
| US11734819B2 |
Deep learning modeling using health screening images
An AI system may receive an image. The AI system may include a first AI model trained using labeled training images including images from prior mammograms to predict cancer and a second AI model trained using labeled training images including images from current mammograms to classify mammogram images. The second AI model may be initialized using the weights of the first AI model using transfer learning. The AI system may receive a classification output indicating a likely current breast cancer diagnosis or a likelihood of the user to develop breast cancer in the future. |
| US11734816B2 |
Tray inserts and image quality, systems, methods and algorithms for quantifying tray's impact using the same
Various tray inserts, methods and algorithm for certifying candidate trays for use in an X-ray scanner system are discussed. The tray insert includes at least a body having multiple parts positioned for generation of image quality metrics for tray impact evaluation in; a first cover and a second cover disposed at opposite ends to fix and secure the body. The method including running an algorithm to control an X-ray system to collect baseline image data from certified trays, collecting candidate tray image data, extracting image quality metrics for both the baseline image data and the candidate tray image data, and performing statistical analysis using and comparing image quality metrics from the baseline image data and the candidate tray image data to certify the candidate tray based on the statistical and comparison results. |
| US11734812B2 |
Fused imaging device and method
A fused imaging device and method are disclosed. The device comprises a light source component, an image capture component, and a control component. The control component may be configured to control the light source component to illuminate a target object based on a preset plurality of first optimal lighting configurations. The control component may further control the image capture component to capture images of the target object to obtain multiple first images, under the illumination of the light source component and generate a target image of the target object, based on the first images. The control component may further adjust the incidence angle, pattern, and wavelength of the light source in the light source component, as well as the exposure, lens focus, and polarization of the image capture component, to detect target object defects in captured images of the target object. |
| US11734811B2 |
Inspection system and inspection method
According to one embodiment, an inspection system includes an illuminator, an imager, and a processor. The illuminator irradiates light into an interior of a hole. The imager acquires a first image by imaging the interior of the hole where the light is irradiated. The processor detecting a blockage of at least a portion of the hole based on a luminance of the hole inside the first image. |
| US11734810B2 |
Laser system, learning device, and inference device
A laser system for amplifying laser light generated from a laser light source and emitting the laser light includes an optical element in an optical path of the laser light and transmits the laser light, a control device to control power to be supplied to the laser system, an imager to capture an image of the optical element, and an image processing circuitry to process the image of the optical element captured by the imager. The image processing circuitry in which reference images of the optical element corresponding to power information relating to the power are prepared in advance includes a comparison unit to compare a captured image of the optical element captured by the imager with a reference image selected by a reference image selection unit, the reference image corresponding to the power information at a time of image capturing by the imager. |
| US11734806B2 |
Dynamic tone mapping
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for dynamic tone mapping of video content. An example embodiment operates by identifying, by a dynamic tone mapping system executing on a media device, characteristics of a first video signal having a first dynamic range based on a frame-by-frame analysis of the first video signal. The example embodiment further operates by modifying, by the dynamic tone mapping system, a tone mapping curve based on the characteristics of the first video signal to generate a modified tone mapping curve. Subsequently, the example embodiment operates by converting, by the dynamic tone mapping system, the first video signal based on the modified tone mapping curve to generate a second video signal having a second dynamic range that is less than the first dynamic range. |
| US11734804B2 |
Face image processing method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium
A face image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining face key points and a face deflection angle in a face image; determining a submalar triangle center in the face image according to the face key points and the face deflection angle; determining a submalar triangle region in the face image according to the face key points and the submalar triangle center; and performing color filling on the submalar triangle region. By means of the present disclosure, a submalar triangle region can be accurately positioned, and submalar triangle filling is performed based on the accurately positioned submalar triangle region, thereby obtaining a more natural filling effect. |
| US11734802B2 |
Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for patch-based noise reduction
An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit, a small region setting unit, a determination unit, a search unit, a noise reduction unit, and a synthesis unit. The setting unit sets a target patch in an input image. The small region setting unit sets a small region near the target patch. The determination unit determines a number of similar patches to be detected as a patch similar to the target patch based on a noise amount in the small region. The search unit searches the input image for the similar patch based on the number of similar patches. The noise reduction unit configured to perform noise reduction processing with respect to the target patch using the target patch and the similar patch. The synthesis unit generates an image by synthesizing a plurality of patch groups subjected to the noise reduction processing. |
| US11734799B2 |
Point cloud feature enhancement and apparatus, computer device and storage medium
The present disclosure relates to a point cloud feature enhancement and apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a three-dimensional point cloud, the three-dimensional point cloud including a plurality of input points; performing feature aggregation on neighborhood point features of the input point to obtain a first feature of the input point; mapping the first feature to an attention point corresponding to the corresponding input point; performing feature aggregation on neighborhood point features of the attention point to obtain a second feature of the corresponding input point; and performing feature fusion on the first feature and the second feature of the input point to obtain a corresponding enhanced feature. An enhancement effect of point cloud features can be improved with the method. |
| US11734797B2 |
Iterative multiscale image generation using neural networks
A method of generating an output image having an output resolution of N pixels×N pixels, each pixel in the output image having a respective color value for each of a plurality of color channels, the method comprising: obtaining a low-resolution version of the output image; and upscaling the low-resolution version of the output image to generate the output image having the output resolution by repeatedly performing the following operations: obtaining a current version of the output image having a current K×K resolution; and processing the current version of the output image using a set of convolutional neural networks that are specific to the current resolution to generate an updated version of the output image having a 2K×2K resolution. |
| US11734794B2 |
ASTC interpolation
A binary logic circuit for performing an interpolation calculation between two endpoint values E0 and E1 using a weighting index i for generating an interpolated result P, the values E0 and E1 being formed from Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) colour endpoint values C0 and C1 respectively, the colour endpoint values C0 and C1 being low-dynamic range (LDR) or high dynamic range (HDR) values, the circuit comprising: an interpolation unit configured to perform an interpolation between the colour endpoint values C0 and C1 using the weighting index i to generate a first intermediate interpolated result C2; combinational logic circuitry configured to receive the interpolated result C2 and to perform one or more logical processing operations to calculate the interpolated result P according to the equation: (1) P=└(C2<<8)+C2+32)/64┘ when the interpolated result is not to be compatible with an sRGB colour space and the colour endpoint values are LDR values; (2) P=└(C2<<8)+128.64+32)/64┘ when the interpolated result is to be compatible with an sRGB colour space and the colour endpoint values are LDR values; and (3) P=(C2+2)>>2 when the colour endpoint values are HDR values. |
| US11734792B2 |
Method and apparatus for virtual viewpoint image synthesis by mixing warped image
A video decoding method comprises warping different viewpoint images into a virtual viewpoint by using depth information of an input viewpoint; determining a first weight for the pixels based on quality and depth of pixels of the warped viewpoint images; determining a second weight for the pixels based on a location relation between the pixels of the warped viewpoint images and the virtual viewpoint; determining a blending weight for the pixels based on the first weight and the second weight; blending the warped viewpoint images according to the blending weight; and synthesizing an image of the virtual viewpoint based on the blended viewpoint images. |
| US11734791B2 |
System and method for rendering perspective adjusted views
A system and method for rendering perspective adjusted views is provided. A registration code is generated for a mobile computing device and includes static and dynamic information about the mobile computing device. A representation of the registration code changes based on a change in the dynamic information of the mobile computing device. The registration code is provided to at least one other mobile computing device and registration of the other mobile computing device with the mobile computing device is performed upon receipt of the registration code by the other mobile computing device. A view of the mobile computing device and other mobile computing device is synchronized based on respective positions of the mobile computing device with respect to the other mobile computing device. |
| US11734790B2 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing landmark in panoramic image and non-transitory computer-readable medium
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for recognizing a landmark in a panoramic image. The method includes steps of performing projection transformation on the panoramic image so as to generate a projection image; conducting semantic segmentation on the projection image so as to determine a landmark region and a road surface region; correcting distortion in the landmark region so as to produce a corrected landmark region; and recognizing the landmark in the corrected landmark region. |
| US11734788B2 |
Task execution in a SIMD processing unit with parallel groups of processing lanes
A SIMD processing unit processes a plurality of tasks which each include up to a predetermined maximum number of work items. The work items of a task are arranged for executing a common sequence of instructions on respective data items. The data items are arranged into blocks, with some of the blocks including at least one invalid data item. Work items which relate to invalid data items are invalid work items. The SIMD processing unit comprises a group of processing lanes configured to execute instructions of work items of a particular task over a plurality of processing cycles. A control module assembles work items into the tasks based on the validity of the work items, so that invalid work items of the particular task are temporally aligned across the processing lanes. In this way the number of wasted processing slots due to invalid work items may be reduced. |
| US11734787B2 |
Foveated binned rendering associated with sample spaces
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may receive a plurality of primitives associated with one or more frames in a scene, a portion of the scene being associated with an upscaled sample space and/or a downscaled sample space. The apparatus may also perform a binning pass for the plurality of primitives, the binning pass being associated with an unscaled sample space, where the binning pass sorts each of the primitives into one or more bins associated with each of the one or more frames. Further, the apparatus may perform one of one or more rendering passes for each of the one or more bins. The apparatus may also rasterize each of the plurality of primitives based on at least one of the upscaled sample space or the downscaled sample space. |
| US11734782B2 |
Automated document analysis for varying natural languages
Manual human processing of documents often generates results that are subjective and include human-error. The cost and relatively slow speed of manual, human analysis makes it effectively impossible or impracticable to perform document analysis at the scale, speed, and cost desired in many industries. Accordingly, it may be advantageous to employ objective, accurate rule-based techniques to evaluate and process documents. This application discloses data processing equipment and methods specially adapted for a specific application: analysis of the breadth of documents. The processing may include context-dependent pre-processing of documents and sub-portions of the documents. The sub-portions may be analyzed based on word count and commonality of words in the respective sub-portions. The equipment and methods disclosed herein improve upon other automated techniques to provide document processing by achieving a result that quantitatively improves upon manual, human processing. |
| US11734774B2 |
Systems and methods for crowdsourcing data collection for condition classification of bond entities
Systems and methods for crowdsourcing data collection for condition classification of bond entities are disclosed. An example system may include a crowdsourcing data collection circuit to collect information about entities involved in a set of bond transactions and a training data set of outcomes related to the entities. The example system may include a condition classifying circuit to classify a condition of a set of issuers using the information from the crowdsourcing data collection circuit and a model, where the model is trained using the training data set of outcomes related to the set of issuers. The example system may also include an automated agent circuit to perform an action related to a debt transaction in response to the classified condition of at least one issuer of the set of issuers. |
| US11734773B2 |
System and method for telematics for tracking equipment usage
Systems and methods are described for tracking information of an equipment including a telematics device configured to receive data from the equipment to determine a telematics information. The telematics information includes at least two of an equipment type, a location, a duration in the location, and miles travelled. A transmission device is configured to transmit the vehicle telematics information to at least one of a third party entity device, a government device and a mobile device. |
| US11734767B1 |
Systems and methods for light detection and ranging (lidar) based generation of a homeowners insurance quote
The following relates generally to light detection and ranging (LIDAR). In some embodiments, a homeowners insurance quote is produced based upon data received from a LIDAR camera. For instance, in some embodiments, a system: receives light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data generated from one or more LIDAR cameras; analyzes the LIDAR data to determine or identify one or more features or characteristics of a home; and generates an electronic homeowners insurance quote based upon, at least in part, the one or more features or characteristics of the home determined or identified from the LIDAR data. |
| US11734765B2 |
System and method for managing data for delivering a pre-calculated defined investment outcome in an exchange-traded fund
A computer-based apparatus for managing data based on performance of an underlying securities index including a memory element of a computer configured to store computer executable instructions and a processor for the computer, configured to execute the computer readable instructions to receive information on a lower buffer threshold against losses for an investment, and determine a total return on the investment during an outcome period o, wherein the total return is adjusted to fall above the buffer threshold. |
| US11734764B1 |
User interface for planning tool
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for interfacing between a user and a computing device. The computing device may receive data describing a projected periodic savings amount andfirst expense data describing a first expense of the user. The first expense data may indicate an amount of the first expense and a first expense time when the first expense will be incurred. The computing device may display a graphical user interface at a display. The graphical user interface may comprise a savings shape having a size based at least in part on the projected periodic savings amount and a first expense shape having a size based at least in part on the first amount. The computing device may receive an instruction to place the first expense shape in the savings shape and may determine that the projected periodic savings amount is sufficient to fund the first expense at the first time. The computing device may display, at the graphical user interface, the first expense shape positioned within the savings shape. |
| US11734762B2 |
Method and system for managing derivatives portfolios
A method and a computing apparatus for managing a portfolio of securities and derivatives are provided. The method includes: identifying a plurality of potential trades based on the portfolio of securities and derivatives; obtaining historical market data that relates to the identified plurality of potential trades; assessing a respective optimal value of each of the at least one security that relates to a corresponding one of the potential trades; and determining trades to be executed from among the identified plurality of potential trades. The assessments of the respective optimal values are based on the obtained historical market data, and also on additional information that relates to each security, using statistical methods. The determination of trades to be executed is based on the corresponding optimal values. |
| US11734756B1 |
Blockchain based loan securitization
Examples described herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for generating a securitized loan blockchain, including providing at least one security criterion, identifying at least one loan block of a loan blockchain that satisfies the security criterion, where the loan blockchain corresponds to at least one loan, and the security criterion is associated with the at least one loan block and a dynamic financial profile of a borrower of the at least one loan, and generating a security blockchain including at least a first security block, where the first security block is associated with a loan link identifier object that identifies the loan block of the loan blockchain. |
| US11734753B2 |
Real property information management, retention and transferal system and methods for using same
The present invention is in the field of computer systems and processes for managing real and personal property. One aspect of the invention is directed to capturing history of a (real) property, which may include a description of the property, the personal property located on the real property, the projects and maintenance performed or to be performed on the property and their impact on the owner's tax basis in the property. Another aspect of invention allows for sharing of this history with an online community and for transferring the history (or portions thereof) on sale to a buyer. |
| US11734751B2 |
Social network launches and user queueing
A social networking system that allows a user to host a page for a pre-launch product that transitions to a post launch page. In some cases, the pre-launch page may be accessible to the users of the social networking system to provide information and data associated with the pre-launch product. In some cases, the pre-launch page may be configurable such that when the product launches, the page converts to a post launch page at which the product may be purchased. |
| US11734748B2 |
Manufacture, system, and method for collaborative and improved processing of commercial transactions in a vendor service area
Embodiments are in the field of mobile applications and wireless processing, especially of commercial transactions, and more specifically for enhancing the user experience in restaurants even while enhancing the service delivery model efficiency of restaurants. Embodiments include a computer accessible medium for processing commercial transactions, to perform operations that comprise identifying wireless devices and determining their respective locations in a vendor service area, sending an interactive order menu to the identified wireless devices, receiving and displaying order data from the wireless devices, processing the received order data, and accepting a payment for a completed order. |
| US11734745B2 |
System and method for generating geographic zone information for consumers
Embodiments provide computer apparatuses, computer systems and computer-executable methods for generating geographic zone information associated with a consumer. A method includes receiving a first geographic location associated with the consumer, and programmatically identifying a first geographic zone associated with the first geographic location. The method also includes programmatically generating a first importance score associated with the first geographic zone and associated with the consumer. The method also includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the first geographic zone and the first importance score associated with the consumer. |
| US11734744B2 |
XR system and method for controlling the same
The present invention relates to an XR system and its control method, and more specifically, may be applied to 5G communication technology field, robot technology field, autonomous driving technology field and AI technology field. The XR system includes an XR device and a storage case that stores the XR device. The control method of the XR system includes recording and learning user experiences and providing a mate service to the user based on an image captured by a camera unit of the storage case and user information including the learned user experience. |
| US11734741B2 |
Techniques for configurable part generation
Certain example embodiments relate to techniques generating a database of virtual families for real-time generation of part numbers for configurable products. For instance, certain example embodiments may include receiving a search request for part numbers and determining virtual families including entities matching the search request. The number of matching products matching the search request and the part numbers may be determined based on the virtual families and the independent groups stored in the virtual families that match the search request. The part numbers may be determined based on allowed characters, number and/or symbols for the part number positions defined in the independent groups of the virtual families including the entities matching the one or more configurable properties of the user input search request. Facet counts for the configurable product may also be determined based on the results of the user input search request. |
| US11734739B2 |
Methods for sample presentation using autonomous vehicles
A method and a system to present samples of products to customers by transporting the samples to the customer's location with an autonomous vehicle. The sample can be a product, a component of a product, a material or a device to gather information in defining the product. The autonomous vehicle is adapted for off road travel and may enter buildings, it can be carried to a nearby location by a street adapted vehicle. Information may be transmitted electronically but physical presence is essential. The customer or the customer's agent receives a presentation of the product definer and a selection of a final product is made. In other cases the autonomous vehicle delivery separate or installed technical equipment to examine the presentation location and assist in the final product selection. For example, photographs from multiple locations can measure a room for installation of carpets or draperies, etc. |
| US11734732B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining closing metrics
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for calculating closing metrics regarding a contract between a promotion service and provider. A promotional system may calculate a probability of closing, and an estimated time to close. The promotion service may offer a promotion to consumers for a discounted product or service, to be honored by the provider. A category, lead source, historical data, stage in sales, and/or size of the provider may be used in calculating a probability of close and/or time to close. An example method may comprise supplying a classifying model with a dataset, wherein the dataset comprises an identification of a provider and attributes corresponding to the provider and identifying a class of the provider in accordance with the plurality of corresponding attributes, wherein the identification is determined based on one or more patterns determinative of a return rate by the classifying model. |
| US11734727B2 |
Digital launch platform methods and devices
The embodiments disclose a method, including gathering marketing data using a digital launch platform with artificial intelligence for automatically analyzing marketing data gathered and automatically creating a marketing program for launching a new product, using application programming interface systems on the digital launch platform for interfacing across multiple social media platforms for reaching consumers regardless of their user digital device type and operating system, using at least one digital launch platform user interface for consumer/end user ordering and purchasing the new product, and delivering the new product order to the end user customer using secure delivery methods and devices electronically coupled to the digital launch platform including launch platform delivery lockers with delivery package label barcode scanning activated pass code key pads, drone captured video of home and office deliveries or mobile dispensary customer GPS location deliveries or mobile dispensary customer GPS location deliveries. |
| US11734725B2 |
Information sending method, apparatus and system, and computer-readable storage medium
The present disclosure relates to an information sending method, apparatus, system and a computer readable storage medium, and pertains to the technical field of computers. The method in the present disclosure includes: analyzing video data of an offline user to determine an attribute of the offline user; searching for historical access information of at least one online user matching the attribute of the offline user; and determining at least one object recommended to the offline user according to the historical access information of each of the at least one online user, and sending information of the at least one object to the offline user. |
| US11734722B2 |
Visual trigger in packaging
A contact lens package includes a first package layer and a second package layer joined to the first package layer at an edge of the first package layer. The first package layer and the second package layer collectively define, at least in part, a cavity and a contact lens is disposed within the cavity. A visual trigger is depicted on either the first package layer or the second package layer, and the visual trigger is identifiable by a mobile device to be associated with an executable file. |
| US11734720B2 |
Information processing system, recording medium, and information processing method
The present technology relates to an information processing system, a recording medium, and an information processing method which are capable of transmitting information to persons who are considered to be worthy of the transmission. An information processing system according to an aspect of the present technology stores position information indicating a position of a device of a user and date information at which position measurement is performed in correlation with each other, forms a community including users who leave a movement trajectory satisfying a predetermined condition at the periphery of a specific location on the basis of a user's movement history indicated by the stored information, and distributes a message input through a specific interface to users who pertain to the community. The present technology is applicable to a device such as an electronic signboard that is installed at a specific location. |
| US11734719B2 |
Pull-type searching system
The pull-type searching system provides an effective and efficient way to navigate deals and assist the user in identifying a deal for selection. The pull-type searching system further enables identification of one or more alternative deals to present to the user when no deals are identified for the selected search criteria. The pull-type searching system includes a method and apparatus. The method includes communicating ordered selectable search criteria, the search criteria including one or more categories, subcategories and deal types based on a user profile or available deals, or redemption goals. The method further includes receiving a selection from the search criteria and searching a deals database for results associated with the selection. Further, the method includes communicating the results associated with the selection, one or more alternative categories, or one or more alternative deals. A similar apparatus is provided. |
| US11734718B2 |
Match engine marketing
Enabling advertisers using a computer network such as the Internet and a match engine to submit their offerings to product, service, benefit seeking entities. In some embodiments, a database having accounts for the providers is made available. Accounts contain contact and billing information for an advertiser; and at least one offering having at least a description, a criteria set comprising one or more criterion factors, and a bid amount. An advertiser influences a position of an offering in the advertiser's account by first selecting offering relevant criteria. The advertiser enters the criteria and the description into a listing; influencing at least in part the position for the listing within a results page through an online bidding process. This results page is generated in response to a seeking entity query of the match engine. Pay for performance demographic, geographic, psychographic criteria/characteristics targeted directly advertising (frictionless advertising) is enabled. |
| US11734717B2 |
Dynamic predictive similarity grouping based on vectorization of merchant data
Provided are various mechanisms and processes for generating dynamic merchant similarity predictions. In one aspect, a system is configured for receiving historical datasets that include a series of merchants from historical browsing sessions generated by one or more users. The merchants are converted into corresponding vector representations for training a predictive model to output associated merchants based on a generated weighted vector space. Once sufficiently trained, data from a new browsing session may be received, which may include a target merchant. The target merchant is input into the predictive model as a vector to output one or more context merchants having vectors with the highest cosine similarity value to the target merchant vector. Selected context merchants may then be transmitted to the user device as targeted merchant suggestions in the new browsing session. The predictive models may be continuously trained using data received from subsequent browsing sessions. |
| US11734715B2 |
Pre-feature promotion system
A promotion offering system and method is disclosed. The promotion offering system and method selects consumers for a test promotion that has one or more attributes, and is configured to generate test data for multiple consumer groupings. The promotion offering system and method may use the test data in analyzing whether to send a promotion to a consumer. For example, the promotion offering system and method may use one algorithm to generate a list of ranked promotions, and may use the test data in order to adjust the list of ranked promotions (such as replacing a highest ranked promotion with another promotion). |
| US11734714B2 |
Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging
A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions within the plurality of simply connected regions which have the predetermined relative locational relationship to the predetermined simply connected region. Namely, if the number is zero, a merge indicator for the predetermined simply connected region may be absent within the data stream. In other embodiments, spatial sub-division is performed depending on a first subset of syntax elements, followed by combining spatially neighboring simply connected regions depending on a second subset of syntax elements, to obtain an intermediate sub-division. |
| US11734713B2 |
Methods and systems for determining provenance and identity of digital advertising requests solicited by publishers and intermediaries representing publishers
Described is a computer implemented method for determining provenance and identity of a digital advertising request for an advertisement solicited by at least one of a publisher and an intermediary representing the publisher. The method includes receiving, with a transceiver of a first computing device, a first message having first message metrics associated with a candidate entity for identification. The first message is processed, with a processor of the first computing device, to identify a first portion of a candidate entity identity based on the first message metrics. An output related to confidence of the candidate entity identity is produced, with the processor, based on the first portion of the candidate entity identity. |
| US11734712B2 |
Attributing in-store visits to media consumption based on data collected from user devices
A system and method for attributing in-store visits to exposure to advertisement (“ad”) impressions associated with an ad campaign are disclosed. The system gathers impression data and uses that data to identify users who were exposed to the ad impressions. The system then uses location data, activity information and in some instances beacon data points reported by mobile devices of the impression users to determine if the impression users visited a target place during a conversion window. Based on the impression users who were exposed to the ad impressions, the system establishes a control group of users who were not exposed to the ad impressions to perform quasi-experimental analyses to assess whether the ad impressions had any impact on changing the impression users' physical in-store visitation behavior. |
| US11734711B2 |
Systems and methods for intelligent promotion design with promotion scoring
Systems and methods for scoring promotions are provided. A set of training offers are received, which include combinations of variable values. These combinations of variable values are converted into a vector value. The offers are paired and the vectors subtracted from one another, resulting in a pair vector. Metrics for the success of offers is collected, and are subtracted from one another for the paired offers to generate a raw score. This raw score is then normalized using the pair vector. The normalized scores are utilized to generate a model for the impact any variable value has on offer success, which may then be applied, using linear regression, to new offers to generate an expected level of success. The new scored offers are ranked and the top-ranked offers are selected for inclusion in a promotional campaign. |
| US11734709B2 |
Booking availability engine
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed. The method includes calculating hidden demand for one or more time slots, the one or more time slots defining a time duration during which a performance of a service offered by a promotion and marketing system can be performed. The method further includes determining a booking limit for each time slot of the one or more time slots based on the calculated hidden demand for the time slot and a determined capacity for the time slot, determining that one or more of the time slots comprise available time slots based on a comparison of the booking limits for the one or more time slots to a number of bookings for each of the time slots, and displaying the one or more available time slots in conjunction with the particular promotion A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. |
| US11734708B2 |
User interface for loyalty accounts and private label accounts
The present disclosure generally relates to the use of loyalty accounts, private label payment accounts, and general payment accounts using an electronic device with an electronic wallet. Various accounts are linked to the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device is NFC-enabled. The electronic device may be used to provide loyalty account information and payment account information to a payment terminal, such as an NFC-enabled payment terminal. |
| US11734706B2 |
Systems and methods for providing user offers based on efficient iterative recommendation structures
Systems and methods are described for providing user offers based on efficient iterative recommendation structures. In various aspects, a server invokes a bi-directional look-up interface via a lookup request, where the bi-directional look-up interface is exposed via an electronic recommendation structure. The lookup request causes the bi-directional look-up interface to return a bi-directional recommendation value. The bi-directional recommendation value indicates a likelihood of a first user selecting a first offer or a second offer. The bi-directional recommendation value is transmitted via a computer network to a client device associated with the first user upon a determination that the likelihood meets or exceeds a recommendation threshold. The client device is operative to display at least one of the first offer or the second offer. |
| US11734704B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for the collection of meter data in a common, globally accessible, group of servers, to provide simpler configuration, collection, viewing, and analysis of the meter data
The present disclosure is directed to a machine learning system for use with a power distribution system. The machine learning system includes a data library, a machine learning module, and an action module. The data library stores a plurality of data samples, where at least a portion of the data samples are associated with one or more intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). The machine learning module processes data samples from the data library using at least one machine learning algorithm and outputs at least one recommendation and/or prediction based on the data samples received. The action module receives the at least one recommendation and/or prediction and performs at least one action based on the recommendation and/or prediction. The at least one action includes outputting at least one communication signal and/or at least one control signal to at least one client or at least one of the one or more IEDs. |
| US11734700B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining data linkage confidence levels
This application relates to apparatus and methods for determining confidence levels in associated data using machine learning algorithms. In some examples, a computing device may generate training graph data where each training graph connects at least two nodes by an edge, and each node represents data. The computing device may train a machine learning algorithm based on the generated training data. The computing device may then receive linked data, which associates at least two nodes, each representing data, with each other. The computing device may generate graph data based on the linking data, to provide to the machine learning algorithm as input. The computing device may then execute the machine learning algorithm on the generated graph data to generate values for each of its edges. The values may identify, for each edge, a confidence level in the connection between the two nodes for that edge. |
| US11734698B2 |
System and method for tiered pricing for scarce commodities
A system and method for tiered pricing for any scarce commodity, such as petroleum products or food stuffs, may be used to ration the scarce commodity. The system and method may use a dual currency transaction system to manage the rationing. In the use case for gas or oil as the scarce commodity, the dual currency system and method and the tiered pricing may also reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere by charging both a monetary price and a carbon price for a product or service wherein the carbon price for each purchasable item (good or service) may correspond to a number of Kg of Co2 emitted by the manufacture/sale/use of the purchasable item. |
| US11734695B2 |
Accessing and utilizing multiple loyalty point accounts
Various embodiments are generally directed to utilizing an offline and/or online verification or authentication protocol to access, redeem, or otherwise utilize multiple loyalty points and loyalty accounts A method for utilizing various loyalty points includes: receiving, by an application executing on a processor, a request to redeem at least one loyalty point of a plurality of loyalty points of a loyalty points account, receiving, by the application, a cryptogram from a contactless card associated with an account, transmitting, by the application to a server, the cryptogram, determining, by the application based on a decryption result received from the server, that the server decrypted the cryptogram, and authorizing, by the application based on the determination that the server decrypted the cryptogram, the request to redeem the at least one loyalty point. |
| US11734690B1 |
Heuristic money laundering detection engine
A heuristic money laundering detection engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set, such as a transaction record, and detect indications of money laundering activity. By detecting money laundering activity and feeding back indications of money laundering transactions, the heuristic algorithm may continue to learn and improve detection accuracy. Such indications may include correlations to sets of transaction activity among a number of financial accounts and past indications of money laundering activity. Indications of money laundering may allow generation of audit reports for reporting to regulatory authorities. |
| US11734688B2 |
System to determine group association between users
A facility may allow an authorized user to sponsor other users to enter. Actions taken by those users may be associated with the account of the authorized user. Sensor data obtained at a portal may be indicative of whether a user attempted to provide credentials to a sensor at the portal, time between entry of users, attributes about the user, and so forth. Information about when the users have exited may also be obtained. For example, if three people entered one after another and then left at the same time, they may be deemed to form a group. Based on this information, the actions taken by the users in the group may be associated with the account of the authorized user. |
| US11734686B2 |
Automated event processing computing platform for handling and enriching blockchain data
Methods and systems for using block chain technology to verify transaction data are described herein. A computing platform may receive data about events related to transactions, personal or corporate information, supply chains, and other relevant information about a person or corporate entity. The event information may be received, aggregated, and processed to determine metadata about the person or corporate entity. The metadata may indicate, for example, a trustworthiness of the person or corporate entity for various purposes. Such event information and/or metadata may be stored as transactions in a block chain that may be accessible by counterparties to a potential transaction involving the person or corporate entity. The automated event processing computing platform may further use automated techniques to implement smart transactions between the person/entity and counterparty based on the trust metadata. |
| US11734683B2 |
Authentication for secure transactions in a multi-server environment
Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method for providing authentication for secure transactions in a multi-server system, the method comprising; receiving, at an authentication server from a requestor server, a request for a cryptogram, the request being associated with a transaction and including a requestor identifier; in response to receiving the request, generating a cryptogram; sending, from the authentication server, the cryptogram to the requestor server; receiving, at the authentication server from a merchant server, the cryptogram, a payment token, and a unique merchant identifier, and a merchant secret; validating, at the authentication server, the cryptogram; comparing, at the authentication server, the unique merchant identifier and the merchant secret with a unique merchant identifier and a merchant secret pair stored in a database; and authorizing, at the authentication server, the transaction when there is a match. |
| US11734679B2 |
Transaction risk based token
Embodiments of the invention provision multiple payment tokens on a communication device. The communication device may be provisioned with multiple limited use keys (LUK), each LUK being associated with a specific type of transaction. When the communication device is used for a transaction, the communication device automatically determines a type of the transaction and selects an appropriate LUK based on the determined transaction type. The selected LUK may be used to create a cryptogram, which can be used to verify the transaction. |
| US11734676B2 |
Using a contactless card to securely share personal data stored in a blockchain
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to securely share data stored in a blockchain. A contactless card may receive a request to provide a data element from a device. An applet of the contactless card may encrypt the data element and a wallet address. The applet may generate a signature for the request, and transmit, to a mobile device, the signature and the encrypted data. The mobile device may transmit, to a verification service, the signature and encrypted data. The verification service may verify the signature based on a public key. A node in a blockchain may generate a block in the blockchain, the block comprising indications of the verification of the signature, the requested data element, and the wallet address. An encrypted data element corresponding to the data element may be decrypted using a public key. The device may receive the decrypted data element from the wallet address. |
| US11734673B2 |
Physical card enabling utilization based on location
There are provided systems and methods for a physical card having one or more location detection modules A physical payment card may include one or more components to limit card reading of card data stored to the card using a location detection chip. The location detection chip may receive power from a source when inserted to a card reader, and may then determine a location of the card, such as a coordinate location of the card or nearby detected device. The location detection chip may determine if this location or device matches authorized locations stored in a memory of the card. If it does, power may be provided to a card chip of the card. The card chip of the card reads card data from a memory of the card and may then output the card data to the card reader. |
| US11734671B2 |
Dynamically displaying contextual information on a smart card
The present disclosure describes a smart card that determines a context associated with the smart card and displays information based on the determined context. The smart card may determine a location of the smart card. Based on the determined location, the smart card may retrieve a list of establishments. The list of establishments may be used to determine a context, for example, based on information related to the establishments, historical information, user information, etc. Once the context is determined, the smart card may select information to display on the smart card. By limiting the information displayed on the smart card, the smart card may limit what can be captured by bad actors, thereby improving the security of the smart cards. |
| US11734669B2 |
Access control bypass on mobile for mass transit
A method of operating a payment-enabled mobile device to gain access to a location or a service. In an embodiment, a contactless front-end (CLF) component of a payment-enabled mobile device sequentially detects short-distance radio signals comprising at least two different polling signals, determines based on the sequence of the at least two different polling signals, that the payment-enabled mobile device is in proximity to a non-retail contactless transaction terminal, and then a payment application running on the payment-enabled mobile device bypasses a customary user verification feature. The process also includes the payment-enabled mobile device running the payment application performing a transaction with the non-retail contactless transaction terminal without invoking the customary user verification feature and then gaining access to at least one of a location or service. In some embodiments, the location or service includes one of a transit system, a hotel, a motor vehicle, a workplace, a room, a home, a bank branch, a vehicle charging station and a government facility. |
| US11734668B2 |
System and method for a digital financial system
A system and method of operating a digital financial system to extend access to digital banking to those individuals that never had a financial or digital currency account. Users are able to share their internet with other users of the digital banking app of this invention, who are nearby and have no internet connection, to conduct financial transactions by sharing the internet between them. This increases social and financial inclusion to allow unbanked that have a smartphone to have access to the internet and to affordable digital banking. It also improves on the prior art with legal compliance of country of residence verification aided by technology rather than relying solely on information provided by the users. Thereby requesting stricter verification documents to such very small minority of users who are flagged as potentially non-compliant and leave the vast majority alone enjoying their digital banking experience without exhaustive or annoying processes. |
| US11734667B2 |
Resource allocation method and device, and electronic payment method
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for allocating resources are provided. One of the methods includes receiving a first request from a first client for accessing a server, wherein the first request includes token information corresponding to resource information of a second client; determining, according to the token information included in the first request, the resource information of the second client corresponding to the token information; receiving resource allocation information from the first client; and allocating resource according to the resource allocation information from the first client and the resource information of the second client. |
| US11734666B2 |
Physical shopping chart-to-mobile device associations
In some implementations, a system for providing and managing associations between mobile computing device and physical shopping carts used in retail stores includes a physical shopping cart configured to transport physical goods around a store. The physical shopping cart includes a product detection system that is programmed to detect products that are placed in the physical shopping cart, a wireless transceiver to wirelessly communicate with other devices, and a cart identifier that uniquely identifies the physical shopping cart. The system further includes a mobile computing device that is programmed (i) to obtain the cart identifier for the shopping cart, (ii) to establish an association with the physical shopping cart using the cart identifier, and (iii) once the association between the physical shopping cart and the mobile computing device has been established, to output a user interface that provides a real-time summary of the products in the physical shopping cart. |
| US11734665B2 |
Card-to-smartglasses payment systems
Methods and apparatus for card-to-smartglasses payment systems are provided. A smartglasses device may scan a payment card using a camera. The smartglasses device may identify card data elements from the payment card. The smartglasses device may initiate a transaction. The transaction may include the following components: a payer, a payee and a transaction amount. The payment card may be associated with the payer component of the transaction. As such, the card data elements may be included as the payer component of the transaction. The smartglasses may receive data from a third-party relating to the payee component of the transaction. The transaction amount may be inputted into the smartglasses as user input. The generated transaction may be transmitted to an entity for processing. Upon processing completion, the entity may transmit a notification to the smartglasses, to a device associated with the payment card and to a device associated with the payee. |
| US11734662B2 |
Method and system for remote transaction processing using a transaction server
A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization. |
| US11734660B2 |
Application recommendation engine
A computed-implemented method and system for recommending business applications on a network-based marketplace are described. A user's listings, representing items for sale on the marketplace, are harvested to calculate segmentation data and metrics that form a user profile. The user profile is compared with other similar users who have subscribed to various applications, and the impact those applications have had on the metrics of the similar users is calculated in order to determine what impact the applications will have on the user in question. The impact, combined with user preferences, is used to suggest appropriate applications, which are displayed to the user within the marketplace. If the user selects one of the applications, the application is added to the user's profile and relevant listings are updated with the new application. |
| US11734659B2 |
Message-based bill payment
Provided herein are methods and systems for a bill payment platform that enables consumers to make bill payments using simplified methods of communication, such as by using text messages or short messaging service (SMS) messages and the like, through message interfaces provided by the bill payment platform, which may include components for context-based notification, intelligent message interpretation, and regulatory compliance. |
| US11734657B1 |
Systems and methods for establishing a pull payment relationship
A method includes generating a transaction code associated with a payee; generating and providing a payee device token to a payee user device; receiving an indication of a contact or a near-contact event between the payee user device and a payor user device; receiving from the payor user device, the transaction code associated with the payee and a transaction code associated with the payor, the transaction codes exchanged during the contact or near-contact event; establishing a payment relationship between the payee and the payor responsive to receiving the indication and the transaction codes from the payor user device; receiving a payment request; determining that the payment request originated from the user device identified by the payee device token, and that the received transaction codes contained in the payment request match stored transaction codes of the payee and the payor contained in a database; and processing the received payment request. |
| US11734656B1 |
Distributed device rating system
A distributed device rating system includes a device that is configured to send, to a central authority system, a query to identify at least one other device with which to perform a transaction, where the query specifies one or more criteria associated with the transaction, receive, from the central authority system, an identification of one or more candidate devices with which to perform the transaction, receive rating information associated with the one or more candidate devices, where the rating information identifies at least one characteristic of services previously performed by the one or more candidate devices, determine whether the rating information associated with at least one candidate device of the one or more candidate devices satisfies a rating threshold, and, responsive to determining that the rating information satisfies the rating threshold, initiate, with the at least one candidate device, performance of the transaction. |
| US11734653B2 |
Systems and methods for automobile maintenance scheduling
An automobile maintenance application may link automobile owners with service providers and provide service reminders based on manufacturers' recommended scheduled maintenance. The automobile maintenance application may maintain maintenance records for automobiles. The automobile maintenance application may provide a system for service providers to send targeted advertisements to automobile owners in need of a service. The maintenance application may allow automobile owners to compare the prices and services of local service providers and benefit from the value associated with competition between service providers that is realized during a live or proxy auction. |
| US11734645B2 |
Automated systems and methods for processing retail product returns and exchanges
Systems and methods that automatically process returns or exchanges. Upon receipt of product return requests, the system obtains information about the products and customers to facilitate the returns, aggregates multiple return requests and carries out optimization processing to generate optimized routes for product pickups. Logistic partners evaluate the routes for acceptance. Once accepted, a driver proceeds to a product pickup location and conducts an inspection of the products, which includes photographing the products and placing the products in special uniquely identified containers. The picked-up products are transported to a designated drop-off location, and a second inspection of the products is carried out. Upon successful inspection, retailers are informed of the inspection results and proceed to initiate a refund or product exchange. Refunds or exchanges may be initiated after the first inspection. Other features and functions are employed in various embodiments. |
| US11734643B2 |
Systems and methods for rule-driven management of sensor data across geographic areas and derived actions
The present disclosure relates to an information gathering method. The information gathering method includes identifying a location of a package, the location associated with one or more location-based restrictions on collecting data. The information gathering method also includes restricting access to sensor-collectable data associated with the package in accordance with the one or more location-based restrictions. |
| US11734631B2 |
Filtering records on a unified display
An activity thread is displayed with display elements that represent different activities that correspond to a common identifier. The display includes filter user input mechanisms that are actuated to filter the display elements based on filter criteria. |
| US11734630B2 |
Methods and systems for electronic checklist data references
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for electronic checklist data references. For instance, the method may include: displaying, in a GUI, a checklist GUI corresponding to a checklist of an electronic checklist system; determining whether the checklist includes one or more dynamic data references and/or one or more static data references; in response to determining the checklist includes the one or more dynamic data references, performing a dynamic data reference process to display specific data in the checklist GUI for the one more dynamic data references; and in response to determining the checklist includes the one or more static data references, displaying one or more static data fields in the checklist GUI for the one or more static data references to initiate performing a static data reference process for the one or more static data fields. |
| US11734629B2 |
Medical scan labeling quality assurance system and methods for use therewith
A medical scan system is operable to receive a set of labeling data corresponding to a set of medical scans from each of a set of client devices corresponding to a set of users. The set of medical scans and each set of labeling data is transmitted to an expert client device associated with an expert user, and a set of golden labeling data and a plurality of sets of correction data are received from the expert client device. A set of performance score data is generated based on the plurality of sets of correction data, and each performance score data of the set of performance score data is assigned to a corresponding one of the set of users. An updated training set that includes the set of golden labeling data is generated, and a medical scan analysis function is retrained based on the updated training set. |
| US11734628B2 |
Optimizing resource allocation for an organization
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems, methods, and user interfaces for optimizing resource allocation for an organization. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure utilize multiple data sets to enable organizations to make intuitive business decisions and plan resources accordingly. To do so, various data is collected at a resource engine that utilizes the data to determine resource utilization, occupancy density, and a recommendation. In various embodiments, the resource utilization, occupancy density, and a recommendation may be provided to a user as an alert, a report, or a user interface. The user interface may additionally enable the user to apply the recommendation. In some embodiments, the recommendation may be automatically applied or the user may be directed to perform the recommendation. The alert, report, or user interface may additionally inform the user of the impact of performing or not performing the recommendation. |
| US11734623B2 |
Fleet scheduler
In an embodiment, a fleet scheduler includes a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions for: gathering data representing real-world conditions; generating and maintaining predictive models based on the gathered data; and generating a master schedule for a plurality of vehicles based on the gathered data and the predictive models. |
| US11734621B2 |
Methods and systems for building custom appliances in a cloud-based network
A cloud management system can track the usage of the virtual machines in order to determine the fees associated with the user's subscription to the cloud computing environment. The usage can include the resources consumed to support the virtual machines and can include the utilization of the virtual machines by the user or third parties. The cloud management system can determine the fees charged to the user for utilizing the cloud computing environment based on the tracked usage. |
| US11734620B2 |
Transaction-enabled systems and methods for identifying and acquiring machine resources on a forward resource market
Transaction-enabled systems and methods for identifying and acquiring machine resources on a forward resource market are disclosed. An example system may include a controller having a resource requirement circuit to determine an amount of a resource required for a machine to service a task requirement, a forward resource market circuit to access a forward resource market, a resource market circuit to access a resource market, and a resource distribution circuit to execute a transaction of the resource on at least one of the resource market or the forward resource market in response to the determined amount of the resource required. |
| US11734617B2 |
Online seamen travel ticket booking
Disclosed herein are a method and a system for facilitating seamen ticket booking. The system provides means for the user to specify requirements and book tickets. The system, by contacting associated service providers, identifies suitable flight schedule from an airport which is nearest to the location mentioned by the user. Upon identifying at least one suitable schedule, details of the same are sent to the user, and any other authorized person who may be monitoring the user's actions. Upon getting approval, the system books ticket and send confirmation and other details to the user. The system also provides visa requirement related information to the user, and allows filing of visa request online. |
| US11734615B2 |
Systems and methods of database optimization and distributed computing
Systems and methods of database optimization and distributed computing are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes distributing remote agents to a plurality of remote computing systems, receiving incoming inventory from a database of available inventory via the remote agents, generating standardized inventory records, generating the database of available inventory that retains complete standardized inventory records, generating thin locator style records for the complete standardized inventory records, wherein the thin locator style records include key record identifiers, receiving a query, generating a standardized query, selecting the thin locator style records in response to the standardized query, obtaining the complete standardized inventory records corresponding to the thin locator style records of the selected key record identifiers, and providing the complete standardized inventory records to a requestor. |
| US11734613B2 |
Machine-learned database recommendation model
A central database system trains a machine-learned model based on training data identifying characteristics of account holder entities, characteristics of account provider entities, and relationships between the account holder entities and account provider entities. For a target entity, the central database system then identifies a target set of account provider entities, and applies the trained machine-learned model to identify a subset of the target set of account provider entities. The identified subset of account provider entities are entities that, if recommended to the target entity, are most likely to result in an established relationship with the target entity. A recommendation is then generated for display to the target entity, the recommendation identifying the subset of account provider entities and including interface elements that, if selected by the target entity, cause a notification identifying the target entity to be sent to a corresponding account provider entity. |
| US11734611B2 |
Artificial intelligence delivery edge network
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for accessing AI services from one region to another region. An artificial intelligence (AI) service director is configured with mappings from domain names of AI cloud engines to IP addresses of edge nodes of an AI delivery edge network. The AI cloud engines are located in an AI source region. The AI delivery edge network is deployed in a non-AI-source region. An AI application, which accesses AI services using a domain name of an AI cloud engine in the AI cloud engines located in the AI source region, is redirected to an edge node in the edge nodes of the AI delivery edge network located in the non-AI-source region. The AI application is hosted in the non-AI-source region. The AI services is then provided, by way of the edge node located in the non-AI-source region, to the AI application. |
| US11734610B2 |
Computer based system for detecting electronic activity patterns and methods of use thereof
At least some embodiments are directed to an exemplary computer-based electronic activity tracking system that detects activity patterns receiving data values that represent at least one electronic activity. The exemplary electronic activity tracking system includes a detector of unsecure electronic activities that identifies electronic activity patterns performed by a user or non-person entity. The detector of unsecure electronic activities utilizes unsupervised machine learning techniques to detect the electronic activity patterns. The detected electronic activity patterns correspond to unsecure or malicious electronic activities. The electronic activity tracking system outputs notifications indicative of identified unsecure or malicious activity patterns and identifies entities associated with such unsecure or malicious activity patterns. The exemplary electronic activity tracking system implements a graphical user interface operated from a client computing device. The graphical user interface enables a user of the client computing device to perform actions upon the detection of the unsecure or malicious activity patterns. |
| US11734606B2 |
Method for predicting operational effectiveness
Various embodiments are described that relate to an adaptive learning system. The adaptive learning system can be trained by correlation between a first set of raw technical performance data and a set of actual operational effectiveness assessment data. Once trained, the adaptive learning system can be deployed. Once deployed, the adaptive learning system can produce a set of predicted operational effectiveness assessment data from a second set of raw technical performance data that is different from the first set of raw technical performance data. |
| US11734605B2 |
Allocating computations of a machine learning network in a machine learning accelerator
A compiler receives a description of a machine learning network and generates a computer program that implements the machine learning network. The compiler allocates instructions of the computer program to different groups of processing elements (Tiles) for execution such that different groups of Tiles implement different layers of the machine learning network. The compiler may determine the size of the different groups based on a partial computation metric associated with the computations performed to implement the corresponding layer. Furthermore, the compiler may assign specific Tiles to each group based on a set of predefined layout constraints. The compiler may statically schedule at least a portion of the instructions into one or more deterministic phases for execution by the groups of Tiles. |
| US11734602B2 |
Methods and systems for automated feature generation utilizing formula semantification
Embodiments for automated feature engineering are provided. Data associated with a machine learning model is received. The received data is mapped to at least one description associated with the data. A feature for the machine learning model is generated based on a formula within a corpus. The formula is associated with the at least one description. |
| US11734601B2 |
Systems and methods for model-assisted cohort selection
Systems and methods are disclosed for selecting cohorts. In one implementation, a model-assisted selection system for identifying candidates for placement into a cohort includes a data interface and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device is programmed to access, via the data interface, a database from which feature vectors associated with an individual from among a population of individuals can be derived; derive, for the individual, one or more feature vectors from the database; provide the one or more feature vectors to a model; receive an output from the model; and determine whether the individual from among the population of individuals is a candidate for the cohort based on the output received from the model. |
| US11734599B2 |
Flexible use of a clinical decision support system
A method is for adapting method steps for finding a result in a CT-based decision support method to the evaluation of LDCT image datasets. In an embodiment of the method, a plurality of reference image datasets are acquired from a plurality of patients. A reference image dataset features at least one CT image dataset from one of the plurality of patients and an LDCT dataset from the patient. Furthermore, method steps for establishing result data are applied to the different image datasets of the reference image datasets. The result data is compared with one another and the method steps for establishing result data are adapted based upon a result of the comparison to the establishing of result data with reference to an LDCT image dataset. An LDCT-based decision support method is also described. Moreover an adaptation device is described. A system for LDCT-based decision support is further described. |
| US11734596B2 |
Edge-disjoint paths for long-range multi-qubit operations in quantum circuit
A method for performing long-range multi-qubit measurements in a quantum circuit utilizes a graph that maps qubits of the quantum circuit to nodes that are connected to one another by edges. The method provides for identifying sets of the nodes on the graph corresponding to sets of qubits targeted by multi-qubit operations in a quantum algorithm and for defining a group of edge-disjoint paths connecting the nodes of each set. The group of edge-disjoint paths is defined such that no two of the paths in the group share an edge. The method further provides for performing a set of operations to entangle the qubits corresponding to the to the identified set of nodes that are included in each path in the group and for performing the set of multi-qubit operations on the entangled sets of the qubits. |
| US11734595B2 |
Apparatus and method for synthesizing quantum controls
An example method for facilitating the generation of a control field for a quantum system is provided. The example method may include receiving quantum system experiment input parameters and generating a set of coefficients defining a plurality of controls. The plurality of controls may be provided as a weighted sum of basis functions that include discrete prolate spheroidal sequences. The example method may further include applying a gradient based optimization, synthesizing the plurality of controls, and configuring a waveform generator with the plurality of controls to enable the waveform generator to generate the control field. |
| US11734593B2 |
Bayesian causal relationship network models for healthcare diagnosis and treatment based on patient data
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for healthcare analysis. Data corresponding to a plurality of patients is received. The data is parsed to generate normalized data for a plurality of variables, with normalized data generated for more than one variable for each patient. A causal relationship network model is generated relating the plurality of variables based on the generated normalized data using a Bayesian network algorithm. The causal relationship network model includes variables related to a plurality of medical conditions or medical drugs. In another aspect, a selection of a medical condition or drug is received. A sub-network is determined from a causal relationship network model. The sub-network includes one or more variables associated with the selected medical condition or drug. One or more predictors for the selected medical condition or drug are identified. |
| US11734587B2 |
Question answering with time-based weighting
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for question answering using time weighted evidence. The mechanism receives an input question. The mechanism determines a time focus for the input question and defines a weighting function. The weighting function is a bell curve having a peak at the time focus on a time axis. The mechanism decomposes the input question into one or more queries and applies the one or more queries to a corpus of information to obtain a set of hypothesis evidence. Each item of information within the hypothesis evidence has an associated time value. The mechanism weights the set of hypothesis evidence based on the associated time values according to the weighting function to form time weighted evidence and generates hypotheses for answering the input question based on the time weighted evidence. |
| US11734583B2 |
Automated creation of semantically-enriched diagnosis models
A system, method and a computer program product may be provided for automatically creating and parameterizing a semantically-enriched diagnosis model for an entity. The system receives a list of data points, from sensors or a database, to be used to create a diagnosis model. The system automatically creates the diagnosis model based on the received list of data points and data stored in a database and parameterizes the diagnosis model. The parameterized diagnosis model reflects rules that determine one or more potential causes of one or more abnormalities of one or more physical conditions in the entity. |
| US11734580B2 |
Building analytical platform to enable device fabrication
This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for building an intelligent analytical platform to enable a device fabrication in material science. Material engineers and design engineers may face various challenges with existing knowledge, as more time and efforts are required in finding a relevant knowledge from the existing knowledge, mainly due to the unstructured form, for fabricating new devices. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of finding the relevant knowledge out of the existing knowledge, in a structured form by building an analytical platform. The unstructured format of the existing knowledge of the fabrication process is transformed into a structured format in terms of operation sequence knowledge graphs, using a set of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models, and a knowledge representation model of the fabrication process. The structured format of the existing knowledge is hierarchically arranged to build the analytical platform. |
| US11734578B2 |
Internet of things (IoT) big data artificial intelligence expert system information management and control systems and methods
IoT Big Data information management and control systems and methods for distributed performance monitoring and critical network fault detection comprising a combination of capabilities including: IoT data collection sensor stations receiving sensor input signals and also connected to monitor units providing communication with other monitor units and/or cloud computing resources via IoT telecommunication links, and wherein a first data collection sensor station has expert predesignated other network elements comprising other data collection sensor stations, monitor units, and/or telecommunications equipment for performance and/or fault monitoring based on criticality to said first data collection sensor station operations, thereby extending monitoring and control operations to include distributed interdependent or critical operations being monitored and analyzed throughout the IoT network, and wherein performance and/or fault monitoring signals received by said first data collection sensor station are analyzed with artificial intelligence, hierarchical expert system algorithms for generation of warning and control signals. |
| US11734576B2 |
Cooperative neural networks with spatial containment constraints
Methods, systems, and computer program products for cooperative neural networks with spatial containment constraints are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes dividing a processing task into multiple sub-tasks; training multiple independent neural networks, such that at least some of the multiple sub-tasks correspond to different ones of the multiple independent neural networks; defining, via implementing constraint-based domain knowledge related to the processing task in connection with the multiple independent neural networks, a constraint loss for a given one of the multiple sub-tasks, the constraint loss being dependent on output from at least one of the other multiple sub-tasks; and effecting re-training of at least a portion of the multiple independent neural networks by incorporating the constraint loss into at least one of the multiple independent neural networks. |
| US11734575B2 |
Sequential learning of constraints for hierarchical reinforcement learning
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer processing system are provided for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) with a target task. The method includes obtaining, by a processor device, a sequence of tasks based on hierarchical relations between the tasks, the tasks constituting the target task. The method further includes learning, by a processor device, a sequence of constraints corresponding to the sequence of tasks by repeating, for each of the tasks in the sequence, reinforcement learning and supervised learning with a set of good samples and a set of bad samples and by applying an obtained constraint for a current task to a next task. |
| US11734571B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining a base model for transfer learning
Methods and apparatuses for accurately determining a model, which is to be the basis of transfer learning, among a plurality of source models, are provided. According to an embodiment, an apparatus for determining a base model to be used for transfer learning to a target domain is provided. The apparatus comprises a memory which comprises one or more instructions and a processor which executes the instructions to construct a neural network model for measuring suitability of a plurality of pre-trained source models, measure the suitability of each of the source models by inputting data of the target domain to the neural network model, and determine the base model to be used for the transfer learning among the source models based on the suitability. |
| US11734570B1 |
Training a network to inhibit performance of a secondary task
The present disclosure describes techniques for training a neural network such that the trained network can be implemented to perform a utility task (e.g., a classification task) while inhibiting performance of a secondary task (e.g., a privacy-violating task). In some embodiments, the techniques include training a neural network using a first loss associated with a first task and a second loss associated with a second task different from the first task. In some embodiments, this includes performing a first training operation associated with the first loss, and performing a second training operation associated with the second loss, wherein the second training operation includes providing, to the neural network, a plurality of input items associated with the second task. |
| US11734567B2 |
Method and system for reducing deep neural network architectures
A method includes deploying a neural network (NN) model on an electronic device. The NN model is generated by training a first NN architecture on a first dataset. A first function defines a first layer of the first NN architecture. The first function is constructed based on approximating a second function applied by a second layer of a second NN architecture. Retraining of the NN model is enabled on the electronic device using a second data set. |
| US11734560B2 |
Systems and methods for automatic estimation of object characteristics from digital images
Methods and systems for automatic estimation of object characteristics from a digital image are disclosed, including a method comprising sub-dividing into two or more segments a digital image comprising pixels and depicting an object of interest, wherein each segment comprises two or more pixels; assessing content depicted in one or more of the segments for a predetermined object characteristic using machine learning techniques comprising General Image Classification of the one or more segments using a convolutional neural network, wherein the General Image Classification comprises analyzing the segment as a whole and outputting a general classification for the segment as a whole as related to the one or more predetermined object characteristic; and determining a level of confidence of one or more of the segments having the one or more predetermined object characteristic based on the General Image Classification assessment. |
| US11734557B2 |
Neural network with frozen nodes
A first image can be processed through a neural network. The first image can cause each first hidden node to assume a first state. A second image can be accessed along with a region-of-interest (ROI) for the second image. At least some of the first hidden nodes can be frozen based on the ROI. At least some of the first hidden nodes can be kept fluid based on the ROI. The second image can be processed through the neural network. The fluid first hidden nodes can assume second states. The frozen first hidden nodes can remain in the first state. |
| US11734554B2 |
Pooling processing method and system applied to convolutional neural network
This application discloses a pooling processing method, applied to a pooling processing system of a convolutional neural network. The method includes receiving a feature map comprising a width dimension and a height dimension; establishing a data region comprising k+m columns and n rows, k, m, and n being integers; transferring data blocks each of size k in width and size n in height from the feature map in a width-height sequential scanning order into columns m+1 to k+m and rows 1 to n of the data region in pooling cycles; and in each pooling cycle corresponding to a data block transferred from the feature map to the data region: retaining columns k+1 to k+m of the data region of a previous pooling cycle to columns 1 to m of the data region; performing a first level pooling within each column of the data region to obtain k+m first level pooling values; and performing P second level pooling values by pooling P sets of first level pooling values selected according to a position of the data block relative to a width boundary in the feature map, P being an integer. |
| US11734553B2 |
Error allocation format selection for hardware implementation of deep neural network
Methods for determining a fixed point format for one or more layers of a DNN based on the portion of the output error of the DNN attributed to the fixed point formats of the different layers. Specifically, in the methods described herein the output error of a DNN attributable to the quantisation of the weights or input data values of each layer is determined using a Taylor approximation and the fixed point number format of one or more layers is adjusted based on the attribution. For example, where the fixed point number formats used by a DNN comprises an exponent and a mantissa bit length, the mantissa bit length of the layer allocated the lowest portion of the output error may be reduced, or the mantissa bit length of the layer allocated the highest portion of the output error may be increased. Such a method may be iteratively repeated to determine an optimum set of fixed point number formats for the layers of a DNN. |
| US11734541B2 |
Tamper detection device
The present disclosure relates to the field of security systems and discloses a tamper detection device. The device (100) comprises at least one transducer (106,110), a power supply unit (114), a logical gate (112), a processing unit (104), and, a tamper tag 102). The transducer (106,110) generates a trigger signal upon detection of a tamper event. The logical gate (112) is operable in an open state or a closed state. The processing unit (104) generates a tamper detection signal for changing the state of the logical gate (112) upon receiving the trigger signal or upon detecting loss of power supply from the power supply unit (114). The change in state of logical gate (112) causes a tamper flag value stored in the tamper tag (102) to change, thereby indicating a tampered status to a reader scanning the tamper tag (102). The device (100) detects a tamper event even if the device (100) is not damaged/broken during tampering. |
| US11734540B1 |
Rectifier backflow reduction via biasing
Backflow in rectifiers may be reduced via biasing. Upon determining that backflow within a rectifier is likely, one or more rectifying elements in the rectifier may be debiased, via analog or digital means. The debiased rectifying elements become less conductive or nonconductive, thereby reducing or preventing backflow. The determination of backflow likelihood may be performed based on a signal to be backscattered or the amplitude-modulated envelope of an incident RF wave, and may be digital or analog in nature. |
| US11734535B2 |
Method of correcting a geometrically distorted QR code
A method for correcting a geometrically distorted QR code includes oversampling modules of the QR code by dividing each module to F*F sample elements for forming an oversampling matrix, determining intensity for each sample element in the oversampling matrix, calculating an average intensity of the oversampling matrix, subtracting the average intensity from intensity of each sample element in the oversampling matrix, filtering intensity values for determining an average value for each sample element, tracking a sample element corresponding a center of each module and determining color of each module based on intensities of sample elements corresponding the center of each module by using recursion. The disclosure further relates to a computer program product and device performing the method. |
| US11734531B2 |
Methods and systems of harvesting data for training machine learning (ML) model
Various embodiments disclosed herein describe a method comprising receiving indicia data from an indicia scanner. The indicia data comprises at least decoded data obtained based on decoding an indicium in an image, an image tile comprising a portion of the indicium, and/or location of one or more corners of the portion of the indicium in the image. Further, the method includes generating an image of an ideal indicium based on at least the decoded data. Thereafter, the image of the ideal indicium is modified to generate a modified image of the ideal indicium. Further, the portion of the indicium is retrieved from modified image. A clean image tile comprises a portion of the ideal indicium. Furthermore, the method includes generating training data, wherein the training data includes the portion of the indicium and the portion of the ideal indicium. |
| US11734530B1 |
Systems and methods for scanner configuration based on focus of one or more host application screens
Systems and methods are described for implementing scanner configuration based on focus of one or more host application screens. Example systems and methods comprise detecting a focus event of an application (app) as executing on one or more processors. An active focus module (AFM) detects the focus event. The AFM or a scanner device is configured to receive data in a first data app format. Scan data is scanned by the scanner device and is formatted, at the AFM or at the scanner device, into app data having the data app format. The app data is then provided to the app. |
| US11734525B1 |
Voice programmable automatic identification and data capture system with reduced physical tags
The proposed invention significantly reduces, simplifies, or removes the need for physical tags by generating virtual identification tags for full or partial identification of the individual storage item that can be tracked and managed in voice-enabled Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) systems. Specifically, it utilizes multiple sensors to observe different characteristics of storage items and intelligently guides the user to selectively modify or add characteristics to the storage item for improving identification without the need for AIDC tags on every item. |
| US11734524B2 |
Protection of personal data contained on an RFID-enabled device
A system for protecting personal data contained on an RFID-enabled device, suitable for use with an RFID system including an RFID reader configured to extract information from an RFID chip associated with the RFID-enabled device, includes a personal data protection system including a personal data protection device configured to prevent reading of the RFID chip associated with an RFID-enabled personal item. |
| US11734522B2 |
Machine learning enabled text analysis with support for unstructured data
A method for analyzing an electronic document including structured data and unstructured data may include applying a machine learning model to determine whether one or more rows of the electronic document correspond to a header row. The machine learning model may be trained to determine whether one or more cells of a row corresponds to a header field by determining whether a text value included in the cells corresponds to an entity. A row may be identified as a header row based on an output of the machine learning model indicating more than a threshold quantity of cells included in the row correspond to a header field. At least a portion of the structured data included in the electronic document may be extracted based on the entity included in the cells of the row identified as the header row. Related systems and computer program products are also provided. |
| US11734521B2 |
Method, device and storage medium for training bidirectional machine translation model using sum of forward and reverse translation similarities
A method includes: a bidirectional translation model to be trained and training data are acquired, the training data including a source corpus and a target corpus corresponding to the source corpus; the bidirectional translation model is trained for N cycles, each cycle of training including a forward translation process of translating the source corpus into a pseudo target corpus and a reverse translation process of translating the pseudo target corpus into a pseudo source corpus and N being a positive integer greater than 1; a forward translation similarity and a reverse translation similarity are acquired; and when a sum of the forward translation similarity and the reverse translation similarity converges, it is determined that training of the bidirectional translation model is completed, where the training completed bidirectional translation model is used to perform translating. |
| US11734520B2 |
Dialog apparatus, method and program for the same
A dialog apparatus and the like are provided which achieve a natural dialog in which topics minutely connect, starting from a user utterance, by making, after a robot's response to the user utterance, robots exchange additional questions and answers, which reflect the contents of the response, between them. A plurality of sets of four utterances, each set being made up of four sentences: an assumed user utterance sentence, a response sentence for user utterance, a subsequent utterance sentence for these sentences, and a subsequent response sentence as a unit, are stored, and, in response to input of text data corresponding to a user utterance, the dialog apparatus performs control such that any one of a plurality of agents utters, of a set of four utterances that begins with an assumed user utterance sentence which is similar to the text data corresponding to the user utterance, each of a response sentence for user utterance, a subsequent utterance sentence for these sentences, and a subsequent response sentence, different agents utter the response sentence for user utterance and the subsequent utterance sentence, and different agents utter the subsequent utterance sentence and the subsequent response sentence. |
| US11734516B2 |
Systems and methods to generate messages using machine learning on digital assets
Systems and methods of machine learning for digital assets and message creation are provided herein. The present disclosure includes mechanisms for receiving one or more assets that include textual content, performing machine learning on the one or more assets in order to determine relevant words, phrases, and statistics included in the textual content, and displaying segments of data on a graphical user interface that also includes an interface that is used to create a message using content of the segments of the textual content that have been extracted from the one or more assets. |
| US11734513B2 |
Data association and linking system and apparatus
A method of linking data is disclosed. The method comprises receiving and analyzing an anchor word and determining one or more related words to the anchor word using one or more data sources. Further, the method comprises displaying the anchor word and the one or more related words in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a display, wherein the one or more related words are clustered around the anchor word. |
| US11734512B1 |
Information uniqueness determination for natural language data
Devices and techniques are generally described for determining an information content score for a natural language input. In various examples, data representing a natural language input may be received. A first probability of the natural language input may be determined by comparing words of the natural language input to a first data structure representing a plurality of natural language phrases. A score for the natural language input may be determined based at least in part on the first probability. In some examples, the score may represent an amount of information content included in the natural language input. In various examples, the natural language input may be sent to a remote computing device based at least in part on the score. |
| US11734505B2 |
System and method for document branching
Disclosed are systems and methods for document branching. In some embodiments, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a branch model associated with a set of related documents, the branch model comprising one or more branches, each branch of the one or more branches comprising a branch type and one or more nodes, the one or more branches comprising a primary branch associated with a primary document, the set of related documents comprising the primary document having a first document identifier; generating a secondary branch based upon a revision of the primary document, the secondary branch associated with a secondary document of the set of related documents, the secondary document having a second document identifier; and adding the secondary branch to the branch model. |
| US11734503B2 |
Generating conversation models from documents
Methods and systems for generating conversation models from documents are described herein. A system may receive a document and generate a conversation model that may be deployed by a chatbot or other automated agent (e.g., voice assistant, messenger bot, etc.). The chatbot may use the conversation model to engage in a conversation with a user and obtain information from the user to complete the document. The system may generate questions to ask the user based on text in the document that indicates a request for information. Additionally, the system may provide instructions to a user via a chatbot. The instructions may be generated based on text in the document that explains how to fill out the document. |
| US11734502B1 |
Systems and methods to maintain amends to an annotation as discrete chronological events
Systems and methods to maintain amends to an annotation as discrete chronological events are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a selection of a first annotation template for a first annotation via a client computing platform; generate a root node based on the selection of the first annotation template; obtain a first command to update to the first annotation; append a first update node to the root node responsive to the first command; obtain a second command to update to the first annotation; append a second update node to the first node responsive to the second command; receive an indication to present the first annotation; generate, responsive to the indication, the first annotation by populating the first annotation template included in the root node based on the first node set and in sequential order indicated by the edges; and effectuate presentation of the first annotation. |
| US11734501B1 |
Electronic document management system with a content status designation interface
The disclosure is directed to system that is configured to manage electronic content and, more specifically, provide a user interface for designating content status with respect to electronic content. The electronic content may be managed by a content collaboration system that manages and stores user-generated content in a series of related pages or documents. Content status may be designated using controls provided via a web-browser user interface and used for tracking and management of electronic content by individual users, which may allow for improved data preservation and more uniform content management. |
| US11734499B2 |
Smart content indicator based on relevance to user
The present disclosure provides, among other things, methods and systems of managing communications, the method including: receiving a first communication; obtaining a user profile; comparing a user property from the user profile with a first content and a second content in the first communication; determining a first relevancy of the first content and a second relevancy of the second content; configuring a first content layout of the first communication based on the first relevancy and the second relevancy; and displaying the first content layout. |
| US11734493B2 |
Enhanced data orchestration with pre-trained machine learning models
A method of enhanced data orchestration (EDO). The method comprises receiving a first message by a mediation application executing on a computer system and analyzing the first message by the mediation application based at least in part on invoking a machine learning (ML) model by the mediation application, wherein the analyzing determines that a feature of the first message is a probable first component of an item of personally identifiable information (PII). The method further comprises receiving a second message by the mediation application, determining by the mediation application that a feature of the second message when combined with the feature of the first message constitutes an item of PII, and treating the first message and the second message in accordance with predefined PII handling protocols by the mediation application. |
| US11734492B2 |
Manipulating diacritic marks
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating a plurality of letter glyphs of a language that includes diacritic marks; generating a plurality of diacritic glyphs of the diacritic marks; anchoring the plurality of diacritic glyphs to the plurality of character glyphs to create a set of character glyphs; creating, using the set of character glyphs, a duplicate set of character glyphs comprising a plurality of duplicate letter glyphs and a plurality of duplicate diacritic glyphs; editing the plurality of duplicate diacritic glyphs to change a visual property of the plurality of duplicate diacritic glyphs; designating the set of character glyphs as a first variable font and the duplicate set of character glyphs as a second variable font; compiling the first and second variable fonts into a master font; and providing the master font for output on a graphical user interface (GUI). |
| US11734490B2 |
Method for determining curvilinear patterns for patterning device
A method to determine a curvilinear pattern of a patterning device that includes obtaining (i) an initial image of the patterning device corresponding to a target pattern to be printed on a substrate subjected to a patterning process, and (ii) a process model configured to predict a pattern on the substrate from the initial image, generating, by a hardware computer system, an enhanced image from the initial image, generating, by the hardware computer system, a level set image using the enhanced image, and iteratively determining, by the hardware computer system, a curvilinear pattern for the patterning device based on the level set image, the process model, and a cost function, where the cost function (e.g., EPE) determines a difference between a predicted pattern and the target pattern, where the difference is iteratively reduced. |
| US11734487B2 |
Obscured metal stack definition tuning for electronic design automation (EDA) applications
A computing system may include a metal stack tuning engine and a tuned metal stack application engine. The metal stack tuning engine may be configured to access an obscured metal stack definition specified for an integrated circuit (IC) manufacture process and tune selected metal stack parameters of the obscured metal stack definition to obtain a tuned metal stack definition. The metal stack tuning engine may do so by generating sampled metal stack definitions, constructing sampled layout geometries from the sampled metal stack definitions, computing parasitic capacitance value sets for the sampled layout geometries, and determining tuned values for the selected metal stack parameters through a curve fitting process. The tuned metal stack application engine may be configured to use the tuned metal stack definition to perform a parasitic capacitance extraction process for an input IC design. |
| US11734485B1 |
Routing congestion based on fractional via cost and via density
Various embodiments provide for routing a circuit design using routing congestion based on fractional via cost, via density, or both in view of one or more design rules. For instance, some embodiments model via cost based on one or more design rules to determine routing congestion, where routing demand (e.g., routing capacity occupied by) of a via is fractional to the amount of the track blocked by the via. Additionally, some embodiments apply via density modeling based on one or more design rules to determine a routing demand of a via for routing congestion. |
| US11734483B2 |
Method of driving design on gate electrodes, and device and electronic device thereof
A method of driving design on gate electrodes includes steps of: determining position information of a gate-on-array (GOA) device in an available drawing space according to a size design information and a resolution design information of a display panel, based on user configuration; determining target GOA design strategy information used for a current gate electrode driving design among a plurality of preset GOA design strategies; and drawing a GOA device pattern in the available drawing space of the GOA device, based on the target GOA design strategy information. |
| US11734481B2 |
Metal cut optimization for standard cells
The present disclosure describes a method for optimizing metal cuts in standard cells. The method includes placing a standard cell in a layout area and inserting a metal cut along a metal interconnect of the standard cell at a location away from a boundary of the standard cell. The method further includes disconnecting, at the location, a metal portion of the metal interconnect from a remaining portion of the metal interconnect based on the metal cut. |
| US11734477B2 |
Location-based VR topological extrusion apparatus
A modular and scalable system configured to generate a topology platform for training, entertainment, gaming, living, working, acting, viewing, etc. The platform can have a plurality of movable columns that are extendable and retractable. In some embodiments, some of the columns can be retracted to allow users to walk on the columns while other columns can be extended to form a barrier (e.g., wall) or form an inanimate object (e.g., table). The system may be used in furniture to provide topologies for highly customized support structure designs to accommodate varying body shapes, sizes, and individual comfort levels. The system may be used to generate topologies for greenscreen film stages to provide post-production editing, compositing with actors, stuntmen, and video, etc. The platform can be configurable and re-configurable to change the objects and features of the topology and represent different or dynamic environments at any time. |
| US11734476B2 |
System and method for facilitating individual energy consumption reduction with the aid of a digital computer
Improved energy conservation, including realization of a ZNET (Zero Net Energy including Transportation) paradigm, can be encouraged by providing energy consumers with a holistic view of their overall energy consumption. Current energy consumption in terms of space heating, water heating, other electricity, and personal transportation can be modeled by normalizing the respective energy consumption into the same units of energy. Options for reducing energy that can include traditional energy efficiencies, such as cutting down on and avoiding wasteful energy use and switching to energy efficient fixtures, and improving the thermal efficiency and performance of a building, can be modeled. Additional options can also include non-traditional energy efficiencies, such as replacing a gasoline-powered vehicle with an electric vehicle, fuel switching from a water heater fueled by natural gas to a heat pump water heater, and fuel switching from space heating fueled by natural gas to a heat pump space heater. |
| US11734475B2 |
Performance measurement methodology for co-simulation
Example implementations involve systems and methods which can involve storing interface (I/F) communication activity records of a plurality of simulation engines during execution of a co-simulation, and for a subsequent execution of the co-simulation, replacing one or more of the plurality of simulation engines with a simulation engine repeater configured to reproduce I/F communication activity from the stored I/F communication activity records corresponding to the replaced one or more of the plurality of simulation engines during the subsequent execution of the co-simulation and to log a real time consumed for execution of the reproduced I/F communication activity in the subsequent execution and a simulation time consumed for execution of the reproduced I/F communication activity for each simulation step, the real time determined based on a real time difference between a start of each simulation step and completion of synchronization with a co-simulator bus at an end of each simulation step. |
| US11734462B2 |
Preventing sensitive information from being screen shared with untrusted users
An example method comprises determining, by a computing system, that a message-sending computing device has received an indication of user input indicating an intent to send a message to a user of a message-recipient computing device; prior to the message being delivered to the message-recipient computing device, calculating, by the computing system, a screen sharing risk score (SSRS) that indicates a risk that the message-recipient computing device is currently sharing screen content of a screen of the message-recipient computing device with a screen-recipient computing device associated with an untrusted screen-recipient user; and based on the SSRS indicating that the risk is above a risk threshold, causing the message-sending computing device to output an alert indicating that the message-recipient computing device is possibly sharing the screen content of the message-recipient computing device with the screen-recipient computing device associated with the untrusted screen-recipient user. |
| US11734449B2 |
Data using device and data using method
A data using device includes: a data storage part storing pieces of data used for the predetermined process; a user storage part storing a first user identification information; an authentication data acquisition part; a user acquisition part acquiring a second user identification information from the external apparatus; a user determination part; an authentication storage processing part storing the authentication data such that the authentication data is available for the predetermined process when the user determination part determines that the first and second user identification information match each other or when the first user identification information is not stored; a user deletion part deleting or instructing a user to delete the first user identification information when the first and second user identification information do not match each other; and a data use prohibition part prohibiting use of the authentication data when the first user identification information is deleted. |
| US11734448B2 |
Method for encrypting database supporting composable SQL query
Disclosed is a database encryption method supporting composable SQL query, which mainly comprises the following steps: (1) a user encrypting and preprocessing data based on the encryption scheme provided by the present disclosure and uploading an encryption result and preprocessed data to a service provider; (2) setting and uploading a SQL query instructions: the user uploads the query instruction to the service provider according to actual needs, and uploads auxiliary parameters for the query instruction at the same time; (3) data query: the service provider performs SQL query according to the query instruction and auxiliary parameters received from the user, saves a calculation result, updates the data and returns a query result to the user. |
| US11734445B2 |
Document access control based on document component layouts
In an approach for providing a document access control based on document component layouts, a processor detects a layout of a document, the layout including one or more components of the document. A processor defines an access policy to access the one or more components based on the layout. A processor authorizes a request to access the one or more components based on the access policy and the layout. A processor retrieves the one or more components based on the access policy and the authorized request. |
| US11734442B2 |
System and method for using unique device identifiers to enhance security
A method for detection and use of device identifiers to enhance the security of data transfers between electronic devices. A first electronic device can transmit access data to a second electronic device. The access data can be associated with a first access code that can be generated based at least in part on data representing a device identifier of the first electronic device. A device identifier can uniquely identify the first electronic device from a plurality of electronic devices. Transferring the access data can involve transforming the first access code into a second access code that can include data representing a device identifier associated with the second electronic device. Transforming the first access code into the second access code can facilitate access to a resource associated with the access data for a second user, but not for a first user. |
| US11734441B2 |
Systems and methods for tracing data across file-related operations
Provided herein are systems and methods of tracing data. A tracing engine may receive, via the user interface, a selection of a target file or an event involving the target file. The tracing engine may generate, responsive to receiving the selection, a trace of first data in the target file to a plurality of file instances in a network each having at least one version of the first data. Each of the plurality of file instances may be related to at least the target file or another of the plurality of file instances via at least one file operation or data operation. The tracing engine may render, via a user interface, the generated trace. |
| US11734440B2 |
Memory access transaction with security check indication
A memory system component comprises transaction handling circuitry to receive memory access transactions. Each memory access transaction specifies at least: an issuing domain identifier which indicates an issuing security domain specified by an issuing master device for the memory access transaction, where the issuing security domain is one of a plurality of security domains; a target address; and a security check indication which indicates whether it is already known that the memory access transaction would pass a security checking procedure. The security checking procedure determines whether the memory access transaction indicating said issuing security domain is authorised to access the target address, based on control data indicative of which of the plurality of security domains are allowed to access the target address. The memory system component comprises control circuitry to determine, on the basis of the security check indication, whether the security checking procedure still needs to be performed. |
| US11734439B2 |
Secure data analysis
Methods and systems for secure data analysis include determining that analysis provider access rules and data provider access rules are compatible. Analysis software is received from an analysis provider and a dataset is received from a data provider. The analysis software is executed on the dataset to generate an analysis output, with access to data in the dataset being constrained by the analysis provider access rules and the data provider access rules. An output of the analysis is sent to the analysis provider. |
| US11734437B2 |
Secure data parser method and system
A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or both may be employed for additional security. The secure data parser may be used to protect data in motion by splitting original data into portions of data, that may be communicated using multiple communications paths. |
| US11734435B2 |
Image encryption and decryption communication algorithm based on two-dimensional lag complex logistic map
In the field of image encryption and decryption, in order to solve the problem of small key space in the encryption process caused by low dimension of one-dimensional chaotic map and few initial values and control parameters, the present disclosure provides an image encryption and decryption communication algorithm based on two-dimensional lag complex Logistic map, which expands the variables of one-dimensional Logistic map from the real number domain to the complex number domain, improves the dimension of the mapping system, increases the number of keys, and expands the mapping range, wherein the new mapping system is more sensitive to small disturbances of initial values and parameters, which can break the strong correlation between pixels in the original image, so that the pixels of the encrypted image are uniformly distributed in the whole plane, and the features of the original image are hidden. |
| US11734432B2 |
Detecting second-order security vulnerabilities via modelling information flow through persistent storage
A method may include determining that a source variable receives a source value from a source function, determining that a source statement writes, using the source variable, the source value to a column in a table, and obtaining, for a first sink statement, a first set of influenced variables influenced by the source variable. The method may further include obtaining, for a second sink statement, a second set of influenced variables influenced by the first set of influenced variables, and adding nodes to a trace graph. The method may further include determining that the first sink statement reads the source value into a sink variable including an identifier of the column, generating a modified set of influenced variables by adding the sink variable to the set of influenced variables, and reporting a defect at the first sink statement, and a defect trace using the trace graph. |
| US11734431B2 |
Method and system for assessing effectiveness of cybersecurity controls in an OT environment
A cybersecurity solution for monitoring and assessing an overall cybersecurity posture level of an operation technology environment to increase the level when it is determined to be below a setpoint value for the operation technology environment. The solution includes, among other things, receiving metrics data for a corresponding one of each of a plurality of cybersecurity posture indices for the operation technology environment, determining a cybersecurity posture index value for each of the plurality of cybersecurity posture indices based on the metrics data, applying a weight to each of the plurality cybersecurity posture index values to calculate a respective weighted cybersecurity posture index value, and determining an overall cybersecurity posture level of the operation technology environment based on a sum of each weighted cybersecurity posture index value. |
| US11734430B2 |
Configuration of a memory controller for copy-on-write with a resource controller
Examples include configuration of a memory controller for copy-on-write with a resource controller. Some examples include, in response to a determination to take a snapshot of memory accessible to a first component, a resource controller configuring a memory controller to treat location IDs, mapped to initial memory locations of the accessible memory, as copy-on-write for the first component and not for a second component independent of the resource controller after the configuring. |
| US11734429B1 |
Secure bios-enabled passthrough system
A secure Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)-enabled passthrough system includes a computing device having a computing device component, and a BIOS subsystem in the computing device that is coupled to the computing device component. The BIOS subsystem enables primary access to the computing device component to BIOS drivers. The BIOS subsystem may receive a secondary access session start request from a first BIOS driver to start a secondary access session to use secondary access to the computing device component, it retrieves a first BIOS driver identifier for the first BIOS driver based on the secondary access session start request, determines that the first BIOS driver identifier is a secondary-access-authorized BIOS driver identifier and, in response, begins the first secondary access session and may performs secondary access operation(s) on the computing device component in response to receiving secondary access command(s) from the first BIOS driver during the secondary access session. |
| US11734427B2 |
Systems, methods and devices for memory analysis and visualization
Systems, methods, and processing devices for aiding with cyber intrusion investigations that includes capabilities for extracting data from a specified range of a volatile memory of a target processing device, reconstructing data structures and artifacts from the extracted data; and generating and presenting a visualization of the reconstructed data structures and the reconstructed artifacts. |
| US11734426B2 |
Processor that mitigates side channel attacks by prevents cache line data implicated by a missing load address from being filled into a data cache memory when the load address specifies a location with no valid address translation or no permission to read from the location
A microprocessor for mitigating side channel attacks includes a memory subsystem having at least a data cache memory and configured to receive a load operation that specifies a load address. The processor performs speculative execution of instructions and executes instructions out of program order. The memory subsystem, in response to detecting that the load address misses in the data cache memory: detects a condition in which the load address specifies a location for which a valid address translation does not currently exist or permission to read from the location is not allowed, and prevents cache line data implicated by the missing load address from being filled into the data cache memory in response to detection of the condition. |
| US11734424B2 |
SAS solution to automatically control data footprint
Systems and methods of automatically controlling a user's data footprint are provided. Data associated with a user may be analyzed to determine an action the user is preparing to take. Based on the analysis, a potential risk associated with the action the user is preparing to take may be identified. The potential risk associated with the action the user is preparing to take may be, for example, a data security risk, a data privacy risk, a physical risk, a risk of damage to property, and/or a financial risk. A notification indicating the potential risk associated with the action the user is preparing to take may be provided to the user. The notification may include one or more suggestions for mitigating the potential risk associated with the action the user is preparing to take. |
| US11734423B1 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring of data for attack detection and prevention
A stream of cybersecurity alerts is received. Each cybersecurity alert from the stream of cybersecurity alerts is associated with a set of attributes. Each cybersecurity alert from the stream of cybersecurity alerts is associated, based on the set of attributes and as that cybersecurity alert is received, to a bucket from a set of buckets. Each bucket from the set of buckets is associated with (1) an attribute from the set of attributes different than remaining buckets from the set of buckets and (2) a set cybersecurity alerts from the stream of cybersecurity alerts having the attribute. For each bucket from the set of buckets, a set of correlations between cybersecurity alerts included in the set of cybersecurity alerts for that bucket are determined, based on the set of cybersecurity alerts for that bucket, to generate an attack graph associated with that bucket. |
| US11734419B1 |
Directed graph interface for detecting and mitigating anomalies in entity interactions
A computer system can automatically generate a directed graph interface for use in detecting and mitigating anomalies in entity interactions. For example, the system can receive interaction data describing a set of interactions at two entities. The system can then generate a directed network graph based on the interaction data. To do so, the system can identify pairs of interactions associated with the two entities in the set of interactions. The system can classify the pairs of interactions as outbound and/or inbound interaction pairs. The system can then generate one or more directed links in the directed network graph to represent the outbound and/or inbound interaction pairs. The system can further determine a characteristic of the outbound and/or inbound interaction pairs, automatically detect an anomaly that may be suggestive of malicious activity by one or both entities based on the characteristic, and output an indicator of the detected anomaly. |
| US11734416B2 |
Construct general trusted application for a plurality of applications
A security application on the terminal uses a client application in a rich execution environment (REE), a general trusted application in a trusted execution environment (TEE), and a secure element (SE) application in a SE. The general trusted application is shared by a plurality of security applications. A method includes receiving, by the general trusted application, a first request from a first client application, determining a corresponding first SE application, sending the first request to the first SE application, sending, by the first SE application, a first command to the general trusted application, executing, by the general trusted application, the first command, returning a first execution result to the first SE application, sending, by the first SE application, a first response to the general trusted application based on the first execution result, and sending, by the general trusted application, the first response to the first client application. |
| US11734414B2 |
Method and system for generating and accessing guard services for secure services and operations thereof
Example implementations include generating a guard service for a secure service at a secure region of a processing system by detecting a call to a secure service at a secure region of a processing device, obtaining a secure interface associated with the secure service, generating a guard interface based at least partially on the secure interface, generating a guard service based at least partially on the guard interface, locating the guard service at a secure region, and locating the guard interface at a secure address at the secure region. Example implementations also include accessing a secure service at a secure region of a processing system, from an application at a system region of the processing system, by obtaining a service request associated with a secure service, validating a service parameter associated with service request, generating a secure service parameter based at least partially on the service parameter, generating a guard request based at least partially on the secure service parameter, generating a secure request based at least partially on the guard request, and processing the secure request at the secure service. |
| US11734411B2 |
Multi-transfer resource allocation using modified instances of corresponding records in memory
In certain embodiments, resource allocation related to records may be facilitated by generating and using modified instances of such records. In some embodiments, a set of records associated with a user may be stored in a memory area, where each such record includes a record identifier. In response to obtaining one or more commands related to a resource transfer from a user device associated with the user, a new set of records associated with the user may be generated such that each record of the new set is (i) a modified instance of a corresponding record of the record set and (ii) includes a record identifier different from the record identifier of the corresponding record. In one use case, the new records and its data may then be utilized to perform operations related to the user commands. In another use case, the new records may replace its older corresponding records. |
| US11734410B2 |
Automatic workstation functionality management based on login credentials
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically controlling access and limiting functionality of a computer workstation based on which user is currently logged in. In some implementations, an overwatch application is installed on the workstations to be controlled and monitored. If an authorized, but limited, user logs in, the overwatch application can initiate a lockdown process on the workstation. In some instances, the lockdown process is managed by a dedicated lockdown application, which is initiated or notified from the overwatch application, and which can initiate a lockdown of particular applications, functionality, and allowed interactions on the workstation until the limited user has completed their task and a new user logs in. |
| US11734408B2 |
Remapping of uniform resource locators for accessing network applications
Described embodiments provide systems, methods, non-transitory computer-readable medium for using a single sign-on (SSO) to access an application. A client application on a client device in communication with an identity provider and an application on a remote computing device. The client application can authenticate a user via an identity provider to establish an authentication session. The client application can identify a request to access a uniform resource locator (URL) of the application hosted on the remote computing device. The client application can determine that a configuration of the client application identifies a remapped URL for the URL is available. The client application can access the remapped URL instead of the URL to cause the user to use the authentication session of the identity provider and be redirected from the identity provider to a link of the application on the remote computing device. |
| US11734405B2 |
Biometric data capturing and analysis
A health condition of a person may be assessed from a thermal sensor signal. By increasing performance indices of a thermal camera (for example, resolution, frame rate, sensitivity), operation may be extended to identification verification, biometric data extraction and health condition analysis, and so forth. Prediction may be carried out by monitoring a time sequence of thermal images, and consequently early warning of the health condition may be provided. The apparatus may be used for, but not limited to, personalization of smart home devices through supervised and reinforcement learnings. The application of the apparatus may be, but not limited to, smart homes, smart buildings and smart vehicles, and so forth. |
| US11734404B2 |
Robot gatekeeper for authentication prior to meeting attendance
Systems and methods relate generally to attendee authentication. In a method, a robot gatekeeper has a multi-function printer with program code configured for character recognition and handwriting analysis. The program code is executed by a processor coupled to the memory to initiate operations including: instructing for placement of a hand for a palm vein scanner and a badge for a badge reader; reading a badge to obtain first identification information; reading a palm to obtain first biometric data; accessing a database to obtain second identification information responsive to the first identification information; comparing the first biometric data and second biometric data obtained from the second identification information; printing an anti-tampering feature on a card; scanning a hand written sample on the card; and analyzing the hand written sample scanned with respect to at least one handwriting exemplar in or associated with the second identification information. |
| US11734403B2 |
Method and apparatus for biometric authentication based on vibration signal
An electronic device and an operating method thereof are intended to perform biometric authentication based on a vibration signal, and may be configured to output at least one vibration signal to at least one touched object, receive at least one response signal for the vibration signal from the object, and perform biometric authentication on the object based on at least one of the vibration signal or the response signal. According to various embodiments, biometric authentication can be performed on the object based on a frequency response function calculated based on the vibration signal and the response signal or time-series data of the detected response signal in a time region. |
| US11734400B2 |
Electronic device and control method therefor
The present invention includes: a voice sensor for detecting voice information; a camera for capturing an image of a subject related to the voice information; and a control unit for controlling the camera such that the image of the subject related to the voice information is captured when the voice sensor detects the voice information, and determining, by using the captured image of the subject and the voice information, whether the subject related to the voice information is a counterfeit face, thereby determining whether to execute a control command corresponding to the voice information. |
| US11734397B2 |
Hallmark-based image capture prevention
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for image protection are provided. A first device includes a computer and a first camera. The first device identifies a picture that has a hallmark. The first device transmits a message requesting authorization to have a copy of the picture. The message contains data representative of the hallmark. The first device receives a response message. The first device determines whether the response message authorizes capture of a copy of the picture. |
| US11734388B2 |
Method and apparatus for predicting time-series data
A time-series data prediction method is provided. The method includes storing a time-series model, inputting time-series data to the time-series model, and outputting a plurality of pieces of prediction data which is a preset number of pieces of prediction data or more based on the time-series model. The inputting of the time-series data to the time-series model includes substituting invalid data included in the time-series data with preset valid data, and inputting the time-series data including the valid data to the time-series model. |
| US11734387B2 |
Iterative energy-scaled variational quantum eigensolver
Techniques regarding an iterative energy-scaled variational quantum eigensolver process are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a read-out component that determines a ground state energy value of a quantum Hamiltonian by employing a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm, wherein VQE algorithm utilizes a symmetry that emerges at an energy scale of the quantum Hamiltonian. |
| US11734384B2 |
Determination and use of spectral embeddings of large-scale systems by substructuring
A device solves for eigenvalues of a matrix system. The device performs a domain decomposition of a matrix system into non-overlapping subdomains and a reordering of matrices of the matrix system. An interface variable projection subspace associated with interface variables of an adjacency graph of the matrix system is created. The interface variables are related to nodes of the adjacency graph which are connected with nodes located in neighboring partitions. An internal variable projection subspace is created that is associated with internal variables of the adjacency graph of the matrix system, wherein the internal variables are related to nodes of the adjacency graph which are connected only to nodes located in the same partition. A projection matrix is built based on the interface variable projection subspace and the internal variable projection subspace. The device determines eigenvalues that solve a Raleigh-Ritz eigenvalue problem utilizing the projection matrix. |
| US11734377B2 |
Universal visitor identification system
A tag management system can include features to assist in developing a cross-vendor profile for individual visitors to content pages of a content site. The visitors to the content site can obtain universal identifiers usable by the content site to identify the visitors. The universal identifiers can be included in the content pages by the visitor end user systems so that browser tags that may not have native access to the universal identifier can access the universal identifiers. The universal identifiers may then be provided to tag vendor systems with associated visitor data, thereby enabling the tag vendor systems to provide processed or raw data that can be compared by individual universal identifiers. Using this processed data, the content site can prepare the cross-vendor profile of individual visitors and realize insights that may be unavailable using conventional systems and methods. |
| US11734376B2 |
Method and server for ranking digital documents in response to a query
A method of and server for ranking documents in response to a query are provided. The method includes determining a target resource hosting a document, and generating a first and a second randomly-selected value for the document. During a first time interval, the method includes acquiring a query and generating a first ranked list of documents to the query based on the first randomly-selected value. The first ranked list includes the document at a promoted-rank position. During the second time interval, the method includes acquiring a query and generating a second ranked list of documents to the query based on the second randomly-selected value. The second ranked list includes the document at a demoted-rank position. The promoted-rank position in the first ranked list is above the demoted-rank position in the second ranked list for increasing a gap in user traffic to the document between the first and second time intervals. |