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| US11070151B2 |
Systems and methods for calculating motor position, inertia and rest position in sensorless brushed DC motor control systems
A system according to the present disclosure includes a motor driver module and a motor position determination module. The motor driver module is configured to measure current supplied to a motor. The motor position determination module is configured to determine a first position of the motor at a first time when power supply to the motor is initially discontinued based on ripples in the current supplied to the motor during a first period before the first time. The motor position determination module is configured to determine a second position of the motor at a second time when the motor stops rotating after power supply to the motor is discontinued based on the first position of the motor and a rotational speed of the motor at the first time. |
| US11070148B2 |
Triboelectric nanogenerator structure, sensing system and disinfecting system
A triboelectric nanogenerator structure is provided. The triboelectric nanogenerator structure is composed of an upper electrode layer, a lower triboelectric layer, a lower electrode layer and an electric connecting member. The upper electrode layer is composed of a hybrid gel. The lower triboelectric layer corresponding to the upper electrode layer has a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface faces toward the upper electrode layer. The lower electrode layer is disposed at the second surface. The electric connecting member connects the upper electrode layer to the lower electrode layer. |
| US11070147B2 |
Resonant inverter apparatus
A resonant inverter apparatus supplies a high AC voltage to a discharge load. In this apparatus, an inverter circuit converts a DC voltage to an AC voltage using a plurality of switching elements. A transformer steps up the AC voltage and generates a high AC voltage. A DC voltage detecting unit detects a value of a DC voltage supplied to the inverter circuit. A control unit generates a driving pulse for performing on/off switching of the switching elements. The switching elements include first and second switching elements. The control unit performs phase angle control of the driving pulse. In response to the detected value of the DC voltage being greater than a reference value, the control unit sets a switching phase angle of the second switching element relative to the first switching element serving as reference, based on the magnitude of the valued of the DC voltage. |
| US11070145B2 |
Power conversion control method and power conversion control device
Provided is a power conversion control method including: calculating a pre-switching pulse time being a time from a first conductive state switching timing being a conductive state switching timing of a second bridge circuit immediately before a predetermined carrier wave switching timing, to the carrier wave switching timing; calculating a post-switching pulse time being a time from the carrier wave switching timing to a second conductive state switching timing being an initial conductive state switching timing after the carrier wave switching timing; when a conductive state of the second bridge circuit is not switched at the carrier wave switching timing, determining that switching of the carrier wave is disabled when the sum of the pre-switching pulse time and the post-switching pulse time is less than a predetermined pulse time sum threshold value; and when the conductive state of the second bridge circuit is switched at the carrier wave switching timing, determining that the switching of the carrier wave is disabled when the pre-switching pulse time or the post-switching pulse time is less than a predetermined pulse time threshold value. |
| US11070144B2 |
Converter provided with a circuit for managing alternating power in an alternating part
The invention relates to a multi-level modular converter provided with a control circuit comprising a computer to calculate an internal control setpoint of the converter and an energy management circuit allowing a power setpoint to be determined that is to be transmitted to the alternating electrical power supply network, the control circuit being configured to regulate the voltage at the point of connection of the converter to the direct electrical power supply network and to regulate the voltage at the terminals of each capacitor modelled as a function of the internal control setpoint and of the power setpoint to be transmitted to the alternating electrical power supply network. |
| US11070142B2 |
Power conversion device with control of switching element based on current detection
A power conversion device includes a single-phase full-wave rectifying unit, an electrolytic capacitor, a plurality of chopper circuits that are arranged between the single-phase full-wave rectifying unit and the electrolytic capacitor, each of the chopper circuits including a reactor, a first MOSFET connected in parallel with the single-phase full-wave rectifying unit, and a second MOSFET connected to a positive terminal of the electrolytic capacitor at one end and to the reactor and the first MOSFET at the other end, a first current detecting unit to bidirectionally detect a current flowing through the reactor, and a control unit to control an operation of the first MOSFET by using the detection result from the first current detecting unit. |
| US11070141B2 |
Hybrid multilevel inverter topology with reduced switch count and dc voltage sources
A single-phase hybrid multilevel inverter capable of producing a higher number of output voltage levels using fewer power switches and DC voltage sources compared to existing multilevel inverters. The levels are synthesized by switching the DC voltage sources in series/parallel combinations. An auxiliary circuit is introduced to double the number of levels by creating an intermediate step in between two levels. In addition, a zero level is introduced to overcome the inherent absence of this level in the original circuit. To improve the total harmonic distortion, a hybrid modulation technique is utilized. A 300 W, a thirteen level multilevel inverter (including the zero level) was designed and constructed. The circuit was tested with a no-load, resistive load and resistive-inductive load. The experimental results closely match simulated and mathematical analyses. |
| US11070140B2 |
Low inductance bus assembly and power converter apparatus including the same
An apparatus, such as a power converter, includes first, second and third core bus plates arranged in parallel. The apparatus also includes a first bus extension plate joined to the first core bus plate and extending therefrom at a first angle and a second bus extension plate joined to the second core bus plate and extending therefrom at a second angle. The apparatus further includes a third bus extension plated joined with the third core bus plate and disposed parallel to the first bus extension plate and a fourth bus extension plate joined with the third core bus plate and disposed parallel to the second bus extension plate. |
| US11070134B2 |
Control method for DC/DC converter and DC/DC converter
A control method for a DC/DC converter and a DC/DC converter are provided. The method includes: providing a primary side driving signal to drive one or more primary side switches of the primary side circuit; providing a sixth signal, a fifth signal, a seventh signal and an eighth signal, where a phase shift angle exists between the sixth signal and the primary side driving signal, and the sixth signal, the fifth signal, the seventh signal and the eighth signal in turn have a predetermined phase difference; driving a sixth switch, a fifth switch, a seventh switch and an eighth switch according to the sixth signal, the fifth signal, the seventh signal and the eighth signal, respectively; where the switching frequency of the sixth signal, the fifth signal, the seventh signal or the eighth signal is half of the switching frequency of the primary side driving signal. |
| US11070131B2 |
Methods, apparatus and circuits to control timing for hysteretic current-mode boost converters
Examples to control timing for current-mode boost converters are disclosed. An example device to control timing includes a first input terminal to receive an input voltage of a current-mode boost converter a second input terminal to receive an output voltage of the current-mode boost converter, a generator to generate a first timing signal from the input voltage and the output voltage, a third input terminal to receive a second timing signal from the current-mode boost converter, a selector to select between the first on_off time signal and the second on_off time signal to generate a third on_off time signal based on a comparison of a first off time duration of the first on_off time signal and a second off time duration of the second on_off time signal, and an output terminal to control off times of the current-mode boost converter based on the third on_off time signal. |
| US11070129B2 |
Ultra low-voltage circuits
An ultra-low voltage inverter includes a first inverter, a second inverter, and third inverter. The first inverter receives an input from a delay cell and generates an output for a subsequent delay cell. The second inverter is coupled to the first inverter. The third inverter is coupled to the first inverter, wherein outputs of the second and third inverters are coupled to source terminals of a p-type transistor and an n-type transistor of the first inverter, respectively. The ultra-low voltage inverter forms a delay cell, which is a building block of an ultra-low voltage ring-oscillator. A NAND gate is formed using three inverters such that outputs of two inverters are coupled to the p-type transistors of the NAND gate, while an output of the third inverter of the three inverters is coupled to an n-type transistor of the NAND gate. |
| US11070128B2 |
Charge pump regulation circuit to increase program and erase efficiency in nonvolatile memory
A charge pump circuit generates a charge pump output signal at a first node and is enabled by a charge pump control signal. A diode has first and second terminals coupled to first and second nodes. A comparator has an inverting input coupled to the second node and a non-inverting input coupled to a third node, and causes generation of the charge pump control signal. A first current mirror produces a first current at the second node, and a second current mirror produces a second current (equal in magnitude to the first current) at the third node. The first terminal and second terminals may be a cathode and an anode. The first current mirror may be a current sink sinking a first current from the second node. The second current mirror may be current source sourcing a second current (equal in magnitude to the first current) to the third node. |
| US11070124B2 |
Power conversion device
A power conversion device in one embodiment includes power conversion circuitry having a plurality of converter cells connected in series to each other. Each converter cell includes an energy storage device and is configured to be capable of discharging stored energy. A control device is configured to generate a control command for controlling operation of each converter cell. A protection device is configured to generate a protection command for instructing whether to cause each converter cell to operate based on the control command or to stop operation of each converter cell regardless of the control command. A repeating device is configured to generate a control-and-protection command that is a combination of control information based on the control command and protection information based on the protection command, and output the generated control-and-protection command to each converter cell. |
| US11070116B2 |
Rotor for a rotating electrical machine
A rotating electrical machine of the double stator configuration includes a rotor shaped as a hollow cylinder disposed concentrically between an outer stator and an inner stator. The rotor can include plurality of radially spaced magnet cavities configured to receive permanent magnetic bars. To provide sufficient stiffness and rigidity, the rotor may be made from fiber composite material. To simplify construction, the rotor can be assembled from a plurality of rotor segments radially arranged about an axis line in which the magnet cavities are disposed. |
| US11070114B2 |
Shaft-grounding ring
The invention relates to a shaft-grounding ring which is used to remove induced voltages or electric charges from a first machine element (68), preferably from a shaft, into a second machine element (69) and has an annular housing (1), which consists of electrically conductive material and is conductively connected to the one machine element (68, 69) and has an electrically conductive connection to at least one discharging element (8). The discharging element consists of an electrically conductive material and has an electrically conductive connection to the other machine element. The discharging element (8) is a disk-shaped discharging body that extends at least over part of the circumference thereof. |
| US11070108B2 |
Electromagnetic rotary drive and a rotational device
An electromagnetic rotary drive includes a ring-shaped magnetically effective core arranged around a stator and has a magnetic central plane. The stator is a bearing and a drive stator, with which, the rotor is contactlessly magnetically drivable about an axis of rotation, and with which the rotor is contactlessly magnetically levitatable with respect to the stator. The rotor actively magnetically levitated in a radial plane perpendicular to an axial direction, and passively magnetically stabilized in the axial direction and against tilting. The rotor includes a magnetically effective bearing ring arranged radially externally disposed and spaced from the magnetically effective core, and a bearing stator having a magnetically effective stator ring interacts with the bearing ring. The bearing stator is configured such that the stator ring passively magnetically stabilizes the rotor against tilting, and the bearing ring is connected to the magnetically effective core of the rotor via a connecting element. |
| US11070104B2 |
Stator of an electrical machine, an electrical machine, and method for producing same
The invention relates to a stator (16) of an electrical machine (10), to an electrical machine (10), and to a method for producing same, particularly for adjusting movable parts in a motor vehicle, comprising a pole casing (15) to the inner wall (115) of which winding holders (36) carrying electric coils (17) are applied, the winding holders (36) comprising a stator tooth (120) which is formed on a yoke element (118) which is radially applied to the inner wall (115), and an insulating mask (61) is arranged on the winding holder (36), which insulates the electric coil (17) from the winding holder (36), and the insulating mask (61) extends with an axial projection (102) axially over the yoke element (118), the axial projection (102) being radially applied to the inner wall (115) of the pole casing (15) with a shoulder (108) extending in the peripheral direction (2). |
| US11070102B2 |
Motor using printed circuit board and method for manufacturing the same
A motor using a printed circuit board may include: a first base part forming a first circuit board on which a coil pattern is printed; a second base part forming a second circuit board on which the coil pattern is printed, the second base part spaced apart from the first base part; and a plurality of side parts forming side circuit boards on which the coil pattern is printed, the plurality of side parts connected to the first base part and the second base part, respectively, such that the coil pattern successively connects the first base part, the second base part, and the plurality of side parts. |
| US11070094B2 |
Apparatus and method for wireless power transmission
A wireless power transmission method includes: receiving a communication signal from a wireless power receiver; determining, based on the communication signal, phases of polarization channels of a reference antenna array, at which the wireless power receiver receives maximum power; determining, by activating a first antenna array together with the reference antenna array, phases of polarization channels of the first antenna array such that the wireless power receiver receives maximum power; determining, by deactivating the first antenna array and activating a second antenna array together with the reference antenna array, phases of polarization channels of the second antenna array such that the wireless power receiver receives maximum power; and transmitting, to the wireless power receiver, a power signal generated by using the antenna arrays, the phases of which are determined. |
| US11070091B2 |
Wireless power transfer based on transmitter coil voltage sensing
In a wireless power transfer system for supplying power to a wireless device, e.g., charging a battery, wireless power transmitter coil voltage is used in place of coil current for communication and power control reference. The transmitter coil voltage waveforms provide phase information, with reference to the pulse width modulation (PWM) waveforms, that can be used to demodulate digital packet communication from a wireless power receiver used to provide a voltage to a device. The DC voltage amplitude of the wireless power transmitter coil is used for controlling the power injected to the wireless power receiver coil, while the phase of the transmitter coil voltage PWM signal is used for demodulation of signal packets from the wireless power receiver to control the transmitter coil voltage and thereby wireless power transfer to the power receiver. |
| US11070090B2 |
Resonance-type contactless power supply, integrated circuit and constant voltage controlling method therefor
The present disclosure relates to a resonance-type contactless power supply, an integrated circuit and a constant voltage control method. The resonance-type contactless power supply includes an inverter, a transmitter-side resonant circuit, a receiver-side resonant circuit, a rectifier circuit, and an output capacitance. In this resonance-type contactless power supply, the inverter receives electric energy, which is transferred to the rectifier circuit in a first state and is not transferred to the rectifier circuit in a second state. By switching between the first state and the second state, the resonance-type contactless power supply is controlled to provide a relatively constant voltage, and can be electrically coupled directly to a constant-voltage-type load. |
| US11070085B2 |
Methods and apparatus for regulating a magnetic flux in an inductive power supply
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, supplying an alternating voltage waveform to a winding coupled to a magnetic core of an inductive power supply to regulate an alternating magnetic flux in the magnetic core. The alternating voltage waveform can be generated by selectively enabling one or more switches coupled to a storage device. The subject disclosure may further include configuring the one or more switches according to a configuration during a portion of a period of the alternating voltage waveform, and measuring a characteristic of an alternating current flowing in a conductor coupled to the magnetic core during the portion of the period of the alternating voltage waveform. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11070083B2 |
Inductive power transfer unit, a system for inductive power transfer and a method of communicating
The invention relates to an inductive power transfer unit, wherein the inductive power transfer unit includes at least one winding structure and at least one flux guiding means, wherein the inductive power transfer unit further includes at least one antenna element, wherein at least one portion of the at least one flux guiding means is a part of the antenna element. The invention further relates to a system for inductive power transfer and a method of communicating. |
| US11070079B2 |
Integrated power supply system for auxiliary services for power converters
An integrated power supply system for auxiliary services for power converters comprises a sinusoidal filter connected between an auxiliary output of a DC-AC inverter module and an input of the auxiliary service transformer in such a way that a control module, by means of control commands, interrupts the main output of the DC-AC inverter module and enables the secondary output thereof to allow the auxiliary service transformer to generate the auxiliary AC power. The DC-AC inverter module is connectable to a DC source and supplies the power it generates to an AC network. |
| US11070077B2 |
Hibernate control circuits for battery power switching
In one embodiment, a vehicle telematics device is disclosed with a hibernate control circuit. The hibernate control circuit can selective switch battery power on and off to hibernatable circuits. The hibernate control circuit can be responsive to external main power availability, battery charge condition, and a periodic low frequency clock in the generation of a battery switch enable signal. A power supply switch can be selectively controlled by the battery switch enable signal to switch battery power on and off to the hibernatable circuits. |
| US11070075B2 |
Electronic device including non-contact charging module and battery
A mobile terminal is provided, which includes a wireless charging module, a battery pack, and a circuit board substrate. The wireless charging module includes a charging coil formed of a wound conducting wire and a communication coil placed adjacent to the charging coil. The wireless charging module has a substantially planar shape. The battery pack has a substantially planar shape and is configured to store power from the wireless charging module. The circuit board substrate is configured to control operation of the mobile terminal. The wireless charging module overlaps with each of the circuit board substrate and the battery pack. |
| US11070074B2 |
Apparatus and method for charging battery based on temperature
Disclosed is an electronic device including a battery; a temperature sensor; a charging circuit configured to charge the battery; a coil antenna; and at least one processor configured to measure a temperature corresponding to at least a part of the electronic device by using the temperature sensor; charge the battery depending on a first charging characteristic by using the charging circuit and supply a current to the coil antenna to allow the coil antenna to emit heat, when the temperature satisfies a first specified condition; and charge the battery depending on a second charging characteristic by using the charging circuit, when the temperature satisfies a second specified condition, after the current is supplied. |
| US11070073B2 |
Mobile power system with multiple DC-AC converters and related platforms and methods
A mobile power system may include AC-DC converter configured to convert a grid AC signal to a power limited DC charging signal, a DC-AC converter coupled to the AC-DC converter, and a battery module configured to provide a DC power signal. The mobile power system may include a switching circuit coupled between the battery module, and the AC-DC converter and the DC-AC converter. The switching circuit may have a switch, and first and second diodes coupled in parallel to the switch. The mobile power system may include a controller coupled to the battery module, the switching circuit, and the DC-AC converter. The controller may be configured to selectively switch the switching circuit between a first state, a second state, and a third state. |
| US11070071B2 |
Power supply apparatus
A battery charger for charging a portable electronic equipment, including a peripheral wall interconnecting a first base surface and a second base surface, an engagement portion protruding from the first base surface and extending in an axial direction to define an end surface a battery charging terminal protruding axially from the end surface, and a pair of self-engaging latches which is under a resilient bias to protrude laterally outwards and away from an engagement portion peripheral wall. The engagement portion has a lateral profile for insertion into a correspondingly battery charger receptacle along the axial direction. The latches are shaped dimensioned and positioned to retract inwardly towards the battery charging terminal upon encountering the battery charger receptacle until reaching a latching portion on the battery charger receptacle whereat the latches are to enter into releasable latched engagement with the latching portion. |
| US11070066B2 |
Passive battery cell discharge
A battery management component for passive battery cell discharge is disclosed. The battery management component may determine that a charging operation associated with a battery has ended. The battery management component may identify, based on the charging operation ending, that a first cell of the battery has a first state of charge. The battery management component may determine that a second cell of the battery has a second state of charge that is outside of a threshold range of the first state of charge. The battery management component may determine, based on the first and second states of charge, an amount of energy to be removed from the first cell to enable the first state of charge to be within the threshold range of the second state of charge. The battery management component may discharge energy from the first cell based on the determined amount of energy. |
| US11070065B2 |
Method and apparatus of a modular management system for energy storage cells
A modular management system for balancing, testing and protecting rechargeable energy storage cells connected in series. Different energy storage cell technologies can be connected in the same battery pack and they can be completely balanced by using one or both of two balancing modes. In addition, the modular management system includes bidirectional and unidirectional switches optionally connected to a single ohmic device such as a resistor to efficiently execute a Dual Function Process (DFP) (i.e., passive/active balancing, and testing mode for SoH/SoC estimation) preferably without using any extra or external components (i.e., capacitor or inductor or DC/DC converter or power supply). The systems and methods decrease the balancing time, energy loss, heat loss and complexity needed to monitor, protect and balance energy storage cell systems such as battery systems, and thus decreasing the overall cost. |
| US11070064B2 |
Power plants using incongruent load imbalance response
A method (110) of controlling an imbalance response in a power plant comprising first and second gas turbine engines and a steam turbine driven by steam generated by exhaust from the first and second gas turbine engines can comprise operating the first gas turbine engine at a first power output (116A), operating the second gas turbine engine at a second power output (116B), monitoring load demand from a power grid operating at a steady state condition (114), detecting a load imbalance on the power grid (120) that causes a deviation from the steady state condition, and adjusting the first power output and the second power output incongruently (128) during the imbalance response to change the first power output and the second power output to match the deviation from the steady state condition depending on contemporaneous efficiency states of the first and second gas turbine engines. |
| US11070061B2 |
Virtual reservoir storing energy for a hydroelectric power plant
A load management system for a hydroelectric power plant, includes a power generator configured to generate electrical energy from a flow of water for supplying a power grid, a virtual reservoir configured to store the generated electrical energy and dispatch the stored electrical energy to the power grid; a plurality of circuit breakers that connect an output of the power generator to the power grid and to the virtual reservoir; and a control unit configured to control operating states of the plurality of circuit breakers so that the generated electrical energy is stored at the virtual reservoir and at least one of the generated electrical energy or the stored electrical energy is provided to the power grid. |
| US11070058B2 |
Forecasting net load in a distributed utility grid
A method for generating a net load forecast for a utility grid, the grid including intermittent distributed energy resources and loads, comprising: defining two or more load forecast zones, each zone being associated with a load profile type and a climate zone type; assigning each of the loads to one of the zones based on the load profile and climate zone types associated with the load;assigning each of the energy resources to at least one of the zones based on the climate zone type associated with the energy resource; for each zone, generating an electrical energy consumption forecast for loads, an electric power generation forecast for energy resources, and a net load forecast from the electrical energy consumption and electric power generation forecasts; combining the net load forecast for each zone to generate the net load forecast for the grid; and, presenting the net load forecast on a display. The utility grid may be or may include a microgrid. |
| US11070057B2 |
Method for starting an energy generation network
A method for starting a farm grid of a wind farm is provided. The energy generation grid has at least one grid connection point connected to an electrical supply grid and the energy generation grid, in a normal operating mode, exchanges electrical power with the electrical supply grid via the grid connection point. The method includes selecting an establishment mode, different than the normal operating mode, if the electrical supply grid has a voltage drop or the energy generation grid is isolated from the electrical supply grid and operating the energy generation grid in the establishment mode. The establishment mode at least one voltage-influencing wind power installation for providing a wind farm grid voltage and at least one current-influencing wind power installation that synchronizes to the energy generation grid voltage. The wind power installations in total provide an electrical power at the level of an inherent need of the grid. |
| US11070056B1 |
Short-term interval prediction method for photovoltaic power output
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of information, provides a short-term interval prediction method for photovoltaic power output, and is a short-term interval prediction method for photovoltaic power output based on a combination of a multi-objective optimization algorithm and a least square support vector machine. The present disclosure firstly proposes a similar day classification method considering both numerical value and pattern similarity to enhance the regularity of samples, then constructs an adaptive proportional interval estimation model based on dual-LSSVM model, and optimizes model parameters by using NSGA-II algorithms to realize the interval prediction of photovoltaic power output. Results obtained by the method have high accuracy, and computation efficiency meets actual application requirements. The method can also be popularized and applied in the fields of grid connection and scheduling of renewable energy sources. |
| US11070050B2 |
Method and circuit for complying with maximum values for output parameters of a power supply unit
A method and a circuit for complying with specified maximum values for output parameters a power supply unit includes at least a non-floating switch converter, an output voltage control unit, a current limiter and a switch element, wherein actual values of the current and voltage outputs of the power supply unit are measured continuously, where an evaluation unit calculates actual output power values of the power supply unit from the actual measured values of the output current and voltages, and subsequently compares at least the respective actually measured values of the output current and the respective actually calculated output power values with specified maximum values such that if at least one of the specified maximum values is exceeded by an actually measured value of the output current and/or by an actually calculated output power value, a current flow in the power supply unit is then interrupted by the evaluation unit. |
| US11070048B2 |
Overcurrent protection circuit, overcurrent protection method, and display device
An overcurrent protection circuit, an overcurrent protection method, and a display device are disclosed. The overcurrent protection circuit includes: a voltage generation circuit, a current detection circuit, and a microcontroller. An input end of the voltage generation circuit is connected to a power supply, an output end of the voltage generation circuit is connected to an input end of the current detection circuit, and a first output end of the current detection circuit is connected to a first input end of the microcontroller. The voltage generation circuit generates a low-order voltage, and transmits the low-order voltage to the current detection circuit. The current detection circuit generates a first current value based on the low-order voltage and transmits the first current value to the microcontroller. The microcontroller outputs a set overcurrent protection value based on a total current value of the overcurrent protection circuit and the first current value. |
| US11070038B2 |
Cabinet system
A cabinet system may include a storage container mountable in a cabinet to be movable between being extended out of the cabinet, and being disposed inside the cabinet. The system may include a pair of slide members, and a power connection point. The slide members may slidably connect the storage container and the cabinet. The power connection point includes a cover and an electric outlet. The cover is moveable between a closed position where the electric outlet is inaccessible by a power plug, and an open position where the electric outlet is accessible by the power plug. Slidable movement of the storage container to move the power connection point from outside to inside the cabinet is denied due the cover, in the open position, extending away from the storage container. |
| US11070037B2 |
Multi-directional impact protection with magnitude and direction indicator
An apparatus for protecting against a multi-directional impact, includes a body with a first set of radial segments, where the body is coupled to an object such that the first set of radial segments extend beyond a planar surface of the object. The apparatus further includes a first radial segment of the first set of radial segments having a diameter greater than a second radial segment of the first set of radial segments. The apparatus further includes a first notch of the first set of radial segments separating the first radial segment and the second radial segment having a concave edge, wherein the first radial segment and the second radial segment each extend beyond the concave edge of the first notch of the first set of radial segments. |
| US11070036B2 |
Multl-phase layered busbar for conducting electric energy wherein the layers are glued together, method of manufactoring the same and switchboard cabinet including such a busbar
A multi-phase busbar for conducting electric energy includes: a base layer of an insulating material; a first conducting layer of a sheet metal; a first insulating layer of an insulating material arranged on the first conducting layer; a second conducting layer of a sheet metal arranged on the insulating layer; and a second layer of an electrically insulating material which is arranged on the second conducting layer. The first and/or second insulating layers include spacers, each spacer including a layer of a rigid insulating material. At least one of the spacers is glued to an electrically insulating coating of the first and/or second conducting layer, and/or at least one of the spacers is glued to an electrically conductive surface of an uncoated first and/or second conducting layer by an adhesive. |
| US11070033B2 |
Optical amplifier
Conventional integrated optical amplifiers, which combine different types of platforms, e.g. silicon photonic integrated circuit for the device layer, and a Group III-V material for the gain medium, typically include a curved waveguide extending through the gain medium coupled to waveguides in the main device layer. Unfortunately, the radius of curvature of the curved waveguide becomes a limiting factor for both size and amplification. Accordingly, an optical amplifier which eliminates the need for the curved waveguide by including a coupler for splitting an input optical signal into two sub-beams, for passage through the gain medium, and a reflector, such as a U-turn, for reflecting or redirecting the two sub-beams back through the gain medium to the coupler for recombination, would be a welcome improvement. A phase tuner may also be provided to ensure coherence cancellation between the two sub-beams to maximize output and minimize back reflection without requiring an isolator. |
| US11070027B2 |
Variable wavelength light source and method for controlling wavelength switching of variable wavelength light source
A wavelength tunable light source includes a wavelength tunable laser device and a control device. The wavelength tunable laser device includes: M laser diodes configured to generate laser oscillation to output beams; a multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to multiplex the beams output from the M laser diodes to bifurcate the beams for output; a first semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify one output beam of the bifurcated beams to output a first emitted beam; and a second semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify another output beam of the bifurcated beams to output a second emitted beam. The control device is configured to perform wavelength switching control on wavelengths of the first emitted beam and the second emitted beam by switching an electric power input to the second semiconductor optical amplifier. |
| US11070022B1 |
Sector-shaped closely-packed laser
The present disclosure discloses a sector-shaped closely-packed laser generator, comprising a module packaging unit and a closely-packed output unit; the module packaging unit is provided therein with a plurality of single-die modules, and each of the single-die modules has a coupling optical fiber; the closely-packed output unit is provided therein with a silicon wafer whose surface has a plurality of V-shaped grooves, and the plurality of V-shaped grooves are arranged into a sector shape; and the coupling optical fibers of the single-die modules protrude from the module packaging unit and enter the closely-packed output unit, and are arranged in the V-shaped grooves after coating layers being stripped, to emit laser lights in directions of the arrangement of the V-shaped grooves. In the present application, the plurality of single-die modules are collectively disposed in the module packaging unit, and the coupling optical fibers of the single-die modules are led out and arranged in the V-shaped grooves arranged in a sector shape, which realizes the close arrangement of the coupling optical fibers, obtains the effect of modularized and integrated packaging of single die, and effectively reduces the volume of the laser generator. Furthermore, by closely arranging the coupling optical fibers in the V-shaped grooves arranged in a sector shape, the present disclosure can control the light emitting direction of the coupling optical fibers. |
| US11070020B2 |
Sinusoidal phase modulation of mode-locked lasers
An ultrafast mode-locked laser comprising circuitry configured to drive an electro-optic modulator (EOM) in the mode-locked laser with a drive waveform, the drive waveform being a phase-coherent sinusoidal waveform at a frequency equal to a repetition rate of the mode-locked laser, a phase-coherent pulsed waveform at a frequency equal to the repetition rate of the mode-locked laser, or a phase-coherent sinusoidal waveform at a frequency equal to half of the repetition rate of the mode-locked laser. |
| US11070013B2 |
Over-molded coaxial connector assembly
A connector assembly having an outer ground contact and a one piece over-molded housing and a method of assembly. The outer ground contact has an outer contact socket portion and an outer contact termination portion. The outer contact termination portion has openings which extend through a wall of the outer contact termination portion. The one piece over-molded housing has a nose cone portion, an inner dielectric portion and transition portions which extend between the nose cone portion and the inner dielectric portion. The nose cone portion is positioned outside of the outer contact termination portion. The inner dielectric portion positioned inside of the outer contact termination portion. The transition portions extend from the nose cone portion, through the openings, to the inner dielectric portion. The positioning of the transition portions in the openings securely mounts the outer grounding contact to the housing. |
| US11070010B2 |
Overheating destructive disconnecting method for switch
An overheating destructive disconnecting method for switch, whereby an operating member applies a first elastic force under normal conditions to enable the movable conductive member contacts a first conductive member and a second conductive member to form a conductive circuit; and a second elastic force to enable the movable conductive member to separate from the first conductive member or the second conductive member. The installation position of the overheating destructive member is used to receive heat energy instead of allowing current to flow thereto. When the overheating destructive member is destructed or deformed under a fail temperature condition, lessening or loss of the force applied by the first elastic force towards the movable conductive member causes the movable conductive member to no longer allow electrical conduction to the first conductive member and the second conductive member, thereby breaking the current-carrying circuit. |
| US11070007B2 |
System configured to position a tip of a cable
A system configured to position a tip of a cable. The system includes: a cable delivery system; a cable tip positioning module situated at a workstation in proximity to the cable delivery system; a pair of wheels operable to push a cable into the cable tip positioning module when a cable is in a nip between the wheels; an apparatus configured to hold the wheels; a motor operatively coupled to drive rotation of the wheels; and a proximity sensor configured to issue a cable present signal indicating the proximity of a conductor in the cable. The cable tip positioning module comprises a computer system configured to activate the motor to drive rotation of the wheels in a cable pulling direction in response to issuance of the cable present signal. |
| US11070006B2 |
Connector for low loss interconnection system
A modular electrical connector facilitates low loss connections to components on a printed circuit board. A portion is of the connector is formed of one or more first type units with conductive elements designed to be attached to a printed circuit board. Signals passing through those units may be routed to components on the printed circuit board through traces in the board. One or more second type units may be integrated with the connector. Those units may be designed for attachment to a cable, which may provide signal paths to a location on the printed circuit board near relatively distant components. |
| US11069998B2 |
Electrical connector
An electrical connector includes an insulating body, and multiple terminals accommodated therein. Each terminal has a connecting portion, two side portions bending backward and extending from left and right sides of the connecting portion, two extending portions provided opposite to each other and extending downward from the two side portions, and two embracing arms connected to lower ends of the two extending portions. The two embracing arms jointly embrace a solder ball, which has a first vertical central plane in a front-rear direction. The two embracing arms are located on two sides of the first vertical central plane. A distance between the front ends of the two embracing arms is less than a distance between the rear ends of the two embracing arms of each terminal. The front ends of the two embracing arms are attached with solder liquid formed by melting of the solder ball during soldering. |
| US11069997B1 |
High-power electrical feeder connector
An electrical connector includes conductive male and female contacts and insulating inner and outer sleeves, and connects first and second electrical wires end-to-end. The contacts can be attached to corresponding conductors of the first and second wires. The male contact includes an elongated pin; the female contact includes a receptacle. Inserting the pin into the receptacle results in mechanical engagement of, and electrical continuity between, the assembled contacts. The assembled contacts can be positioned within the compressible inner sleeve, which extends beyond the ends of the assembled contacts. The inner sleeve, with the assembled contacts therein, can be positioned within the rigid outer sleeve, which extends at least as far as the inner sleeve. Compression of the inner sleeve by the ends of the outer sleeve frictionally engages the ends of the inner sleeve with the corresponding wires. |
| US11069995B1 |
Single self-insulating contact for wet electrical connector
An electrical connector includes an electrically insulating body and a self-passivating contact held at a higher voltage than a non-passivating contact. The self-passivating contact includes a first electrically conductive material that forms an electrically insulating passivation layer when exposed to water or other aggressive environment. The non-passivating contact includes a second electrically conductive material that is unreactive when exposed to water or other aggressive environment. The passivation layer on the self-passivating contact prevents electric current from flowing between the self-passivating contact and the non-passivating contact through the water or other aggressive environment. |
| US11069991B2 |
Joint between copper terminal and aluminum wire, and magnetic induction welding method therefor
A joint of a copper terminal and an aluminum wire, the copper terminal is divided into a connecting part and a functional part connected to the connecting part, and an aluminum wire core of the aluminum wire is connected to the connecting part of the copper terminal. Preferably, the aluminum wire core extends or does not extend to the functional part. The connecting part is a component of the copper terminal that is connected with the aluminum wire, and the functional part is a fixed area of the copper terminal that is configured to connect to a power consumption device. |
| US11069989B2 |
Method and apparatus for multi-mode multi-level transmitter
The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to a multi-level multi-mode transmitter, employing a first pre-driver configured to receive M-parallel data streams and to convert the M-parallel data streams into a serial data stream, a first voltage-driver configured to operate on the single data stream and to provide a voltage in accordance with the single data stream, a second pre-driver configured to receive and process the M-parallel data streams in accordance with at least one of the following modes: moderate impedance (Z) post-cursor mode, moderate Z pre-cursor mode, low Z high-swing mode, low Z post-cursor mode, and low Z pre-cursor mode, and convert the processed M-parallel data streams into a first serial stream and a second serial stream and a second voltage-driver configured to operate on the first serial stream and the second serial stream and to provide a voltage. |
| US11069988B1 |
Diverse integration module system of millimeter-wave and non-millimeter-wave antennas and electronic apparatus
The present invention relates to a diverse integration module system of millimeter-wave and non-millimeter-wave antennas and an electronic apparatus, the diverse integration module system of antennas comprising an integration module of millimeter-wave and non-millimeter-wave antennas and a non-millimeter-wave environment, the integration module of millimeter-wave and non-millimeter-wave antennas comprising a millimeter-wave antenna module provided with one or more first non-millimeter-wave antennas, the millimeter-wave antenna module being further provided thereon with a first communication part that is communicatively connected to the non-millimeter-wave environment, both the first non-millimeter-wave antenna(s) and the first communication part forming a communication connection with the non-millimeter-wave environment and a method for designing non-millimeter-wave antenna(s) on a millimeter-wave antenna module and simultaneously further directly reusing the millimeter-wave antenna module. |
| US11069987B2 |
Radar device
A radar device includes: reception array antennas each including virtual antennas constructed from plural transmission antennas and plural reception antennas; and a transmission control unit which controls transmission waves transmitted from the transmission antennas, the plural transmission antennas include: a first transmission antenna group having at least two of the transmission antennas that are spaced from each other by a prescribed first interval; and a second transmission antenna group having at least one of the transmission antenna that is spaced, by a prescribed second interval, from a synthesized antenna that is the first transmission antenna group as regarded as a single antenna; and the transmission control unit is capable of switching between: a first mode and a second mode as defined herein. |
| US11069985B1 |
Multiple layer printed circuit board that includes multiple antennas and supports satellite communications
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a printed circuit board that includes multiple antennas, and operates to support satellite communications, are disclosed. One apparatus includes a first flat panel element. The first flat panel element includes a multilayer PCB (printed circuit board). The multilayer PCB includes a first exterior layer comprising N antenna elements, and a second exterior layer comprising N RF (radio frequency) chains operative to process the RF signals, each of the N RF chains electrically connected to a one of the N antenna elements, wherein all of a plurality of plated through hole vias of the PCB extend through the multilayer PCB from the first exterior layer to the second exterior layer, wherein vias that operate to connect control signals include extended cleanouts on layers of the multilayer PCB that do not include terminations of the control signals. |
| US11069983B2 |
Modified Z-type hexagonal ferrite materials with enhanced resonant frequency
Disclosed herein are embodiments of modified z-type hexagonal ferrite materials having improved properties that are advantageous for radiofrequency applications, in particular high frequency ranges for antennas and other devices. Atomic substitution of strontium, aluminum, potassium, and trivalent ions can be used to replace certain atoms in the ferrite crystal structure to improve loss factor at high frequencies. |
| US11069981B2 |
Radiating cable and method of manufacturing a radiating cable with an inner and outer conductor, each having openings
Radiating cable (100; 100a; 100b; 100c; 100d; 100e) for radiating electromagnetic energy, comprising an inner conductor (110), an outer conductor (120) arranged radially outside of said inner conductor (110), and an isolation layer (130) arranged radially between said inner conductor (110) and said outer conductor (120), wherein said outer conductor (120) comprises one or more first openings (1202), and wherein said inner conductor (110) comprises a hollow waveguide (1100). |
| US11069980B2 |
Layered waveguide system and method of forming a waveguide
The disclosure relates to a waveguide system comprising a plurality of stacked layers. The system further comprises a waveguide in a direction across the layers by providing each layer with a predetermined metal pattern. The disclosure further relates to a method for forming a waveguide. |
| US11069979B2 |
Vertically polarized omnidirectional antenna and dual-polarization omnidirectional antenna thereof
The invention discloses a vertically polarized omnidirectional antenna that is fed by a coaxial line including an inner conductor and an outer conductor. The vertically polarized omnidirectional antenna includes a main vibrator, an insulating medium, and a reference ground which are sequentially stacked and sequentially connected in a top-down manner. The main vibrator includes two vibrator pieces arranged in a crisscross, a straight line where an intersecting line between the vibrator pieces is located perpendicularly passes through the center of the reference ground, a base angle of each vibrator piece is set to be a corner cut, the inner conductor passes through the center of the reference ground and the insulating medium and is connected with the bottom of the main vibrator, and the outer conductor is connected with the reference ground. The vertically polarized omnidirectional antenna stably receives vertically polarized television signals from various directions through cooperatively interaction between the main vibrator, the insulating medium and the reference ground. The insulating medium is a key element of adjusting antenna impedance and being effective in impedance matching, so that an effect of receiving vertically polarized television signals from various directions by the antenna is greatly improved, the impedance is stable, and signal receiving stability and signal quality are greatly improved. |
| US11069977B2 |
Liquid crystal alignment agent, liquid crystal panel, and scanning antenna
A liquid crystal alignment agent according to the present invention includes: an alignment film forming material; and an organic solvent. The organic solvent contains a compound which has at least two functional groups selected from the group consisting of a methylene group, a methyl group, an ether group, a ketone group, and a hydroxyl group, and does not contain a nitrogen atom. |
| US11069975B1 |
Aimable beam antenna system
A system that improves wireless communication between a wireless base station and a plurality of remote wireless computing user devices (UEs) based on aiming downlink wireless signals from a base station in a beam shaped waveform in a determined direction for each remote UE that is identified as allocated a time period for communication with the base station according to a schedule. The system includes different types of components may be employed to implement various functions, including an angle of arrival (AoA) detector component, a downlink protocol decoder component, and an antenna controller component. The AoA detector component may be employed to monitor one or more radio frequency (RF) wireless signals radiated by UEs that are communicating with the base station in accordance with an allocation schedule. |
| US11069969B2 |
Antenna assembly and electronic device
An antenna assembly includes: an antenna receiving terminal including a first conductive region; a charge releasing terminal including a second conductive region; a clearance area disposed between the antenna receiving terminal and the charge releasing terminal; a charge discharging member disposed at the first conductive region, where the charge discharging member extends toward the charge releasing terminal, and forms a first apex angle close to the charge releasing terminal; and a charge recovering member corresponding to the charge discharging member disposed at the second conductive region, where the charge recovering member extends toward the antenna receiving terminal, and forms a second apex angle close to the antenna receiving terminal, where a distance between the first and second apex angles is less than or equal to a preset distance, so as to initiate an arc discharge between the first and second apex angles. |
| US11069966B2 |
Wire embedding head for forming antenna cable comprising multiple wires
The present invention relates to a wire embedding head for forming an antenna cable comprising multiple wires and, more particularly, to a wire embedding head for forming an antenna cable comprising multiple wires, which: allows wires to be embedded in a substrate while being connected in a parallel pattern by means of an ultrasonic wave generating part and multiple wire embedding horns so as to form an antenna cable; and enables an arrangement of the antenna cable embedded in the substrate and connected in a parallel pattern to be formed very densely by using a distinguishing coupling relation between the substrate and the multiple wires embedded in the substrate. |
| US11069965B2 |
Low-profile broadband circularly-polarized array antenna using stacked traveling wave antenna elements
A low-profile broadband circularly-polarized array antenna based on stacked traveling wave antenna elements, includes: a circularly-polarized antenna element composed of three segments connected in an end-to-end manner of metal layers printed on two sides of a dielectric slab and a metallized via connecting two layers; a 2×2 antenna sub-array composed of a metallized via cavity and four antenna elements; a 16-way full-parallel feeding network composed of the metallized vias; slots for coupled feeding between feeding layers and metal cavities and the antenna; and a switching structure for testing between a grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW) and a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW). An antenna array designed can be manufactured by using a printed circuit board process. The antenna array can realize circularly polarized radiation in a very broad frequency band. |
| US11069964B2 |
Transparent film antenna
The present invention relates to a transparent film antenna. The present invention comprises: an insulator film; and a metal electrode for an antenna, which is formed on the insulator film, wherein the transmittance of the metal electrode for an antenna is 80% to 95% inclusive. The present invention employs a metal electrode having a high transmittance and a low resistance, so as to provide a transparent film antenna which can be implemented in the screen display area of a display device, can be applied to a high frequency band for 3G to 5G mobile communication, can be implemented as a transparent film antenna satisfying a high transmittance, and can prevent moiré effects due to components of an antenna and thus improve the optical characteristics of a display device to which the antenna is coupled. |
| US11069961B2 |
Antenna device having an antenna element coupled at a notch of a ground conductor thereof
An antenna device to be mounted on a vehicle, including a ground conductor having a planar shape; and an antenna element which is a resonant type, is provided at a position so as not to overlap with the ground conductor within a plane substantially parallel to the ground conductor, and is configured to transmit or receive a polarized wave parallel to the ground conductor. A rectangular notch is formed in the ground conductor to have both a right and left edge portions with a predetermined width being left, and the antenna element is provided at a position overlapping with the notch in a plane substantially parallel to the ground conductor. |
| US11069960B2 |
Multiband base station antennas having improved gain and/or interband isolation
Multiband base station antennas include first and second arrays. The first array has a plurality of radiating elements that are arranged in a plurality of columns and rows, where both an uppermost and a lowermost of the rows of the first array include a first number of radiating elements, and at least one of the other rows of the first array includes a second, larger number of radiating elements. The second array includes a plurality of radiating elements that are vertically offset from each other. At least one of the radiating elements in the uppermost of the rows of the first array is not vertically aligned with any of the radiating elements in the lowermost of the rows of the first array. |
| US11069956B2 |
Electronic device including 5G antenna module
An electronic device including an antenna module is provided. The electronic device includes a 5th generation (5G) antenna module that includes an antenna array, at least one conductive region operating as a ground with respect to the antenna array, and a first communication circuit feeding a power to the antenna array to communicate through a millimeter wave signal, and a printed circuit board (PCB) that includes a second communication circuit and a ground region. The second communication circuit feeds the power to an electrical path at least including the at least one conductive region and transmits or receives a signal in a frequency band different from a frequency band of the millimeter wave signal based on the electrical path supplied with the power and the ground region. |
| US11069953B2 |
Electrically small antenna
An electrically small low profile antenna is disclosed. The antenna comprises circuit board comprising a composite laminate, formed of a magnetic material and having at least one antenna element disposed on a top surface of the composite laminate, a conductive ground plane disposed on a bottom surface of the composite laminate, and a conductor, extending through the composite laminate between the top surface and the bottom surface of the composite laminate, the conductor forming a microstrip feed extending from an antenna input to the antenna element. |
| US11069950B1 |
Divider/combiner-based four-port transmission line networks
In a four-port transmission-line network, a first transmission line is connected to a first port, second and third transmission lines are connected to a first component port, fourth and fifth transmission lines are connected to a second component port, and a sixth transmission line is connected to a fourth port. The transmission lines are connected as baluns to the ports with the unbalanced signal on the port side and the balanced signals interconnecting with others of the transmission lines. In another example, two or more baluns are connected serially. Each balun includes two transmission lines having signal-return conductors connected together at the ends. One end of a signal conductor on the first balun forms a sum port. One end of the signal-return conductors of the second balun forms a difference port, and a capacitor connects the other end of the signal-return conductors to circuit ground. |
| US11069949B2 |
Hollow-waveguide-to-planar-waveguide transition circuit comprising a coupling conductor disposed over slots in a ground conductor
A hollow-waveguide-to-planar-waveguide transition circuit includes: strip conductors formed on a first main surface of a dielectric substrate; a ground conductor formed on the back side, facing the strip conductors; a slot formed in the ground conductor; and a coupling conductor formed at a position to be electrically coupled with the strip conductors. The coupling conductor has: a main body portion electrically coupled with the strip conductors; and protruding portions protruding from the main body portion. The protruding portions are formed so as to face an end portion of the slot. |
| US11069948B2 |
Surface integrated waveguide including top and bottom conductive layers having at least one slot with a specific contour
A waveguide for electromagnetic radiation, which is a substrate integrated waveguide which is basically a laminate of planar layers includes a substrate layer of dielectric material; a bottom layer and a top layer of an electrically conductive material provided on the respective bottom surface and top surface of the substrate layer; a multitude of pillars of electrically conductive material which extend through the substrate layer from its bottom to its top surface and which are electrically connected to the bottom and top layer; wherein at least one of the bottom and top layer contains at least one part that is void of electrically conductive material, which part is referred to as a slot. |
| US11069947B2 |
Electrode for solid-state batteries and solid-state battery
An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer which is disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode active material layer; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains a carbon-containing electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a fluorine-containing polymer. |
| US11069939B2 |
Underwater locator device (ULD) particle suppressor/trap
An avionics unit assembly for an aircraft includes an avionics unit such as an underwater locator device (ULD) having a transmitter configured to output a radio frequency pulse and a battery configured to power the device. The avionics unit assembly can further include a housing that encases the transmitter and the battery and includes a vent port for exhausting an emission from the housing during a failure of the avionics unit. The avionics unit assembly can further include one or more of a suppressor that filters the emission, a shield element that is resistant to chemical and/or thermal effects of the emission, and a bracket for mounting the avionics unit assembly to a surface. The suppressor can include a plurality of channels, where each channel includes at least one blind alley that can capture/filter a particulate component and/or a liquid component from the emission and/or break up the particulate component. |
| US11069938B2 |
Portable modular energy storage
In certain embodiments, a system includes a belt for mechanically linking multiple energy storage cells together, wherein the multiple energy storage cells are grouped into at least first and second energy storage packs, each energy storage pack including at least one energy storage cell, the at least one energy storage cell of the first energy storage pack having a different energy storage characteristic from the at least one energy storage cell of the second energy storage pack. The system further includes an operational zone for receiving an energy storage pack and establishing an electrical connection between the received energy storage pack and an electrical device, and an actuator operable to move the multiple energy storage cells together to thereby dispose the first energy storage pack in the operational zone to establish the electrical connection with the electrical device. |
| US11069937B2 |
Enclosing element, enclosing module, storage module and arrangement for providing electrical energy and a transport vehicle containing the storage module or the arrangement for providing electrical energy
The present disclosure provides an enclosing element for enclosing and electrically contacting a stacked arrangement of a plurality of electrical storage cells; an enclosing module comprising a first and a second enclosing element which is spatially separated from said first enclosing element; and a storage module comprising a stacked arrangement of a plurality of electrical storage cells. The present disclosure also provides a load disconnector as well as an arrangement for supplying electrical energy comprising the storage module and the load disconnector. The present disclosure further provides a trough for holding storage modules, and a transport vehicle containing said storage module, said arrangement for supplying electrical energy, said load disconnector or said trough. |
| US11069934B2 |
Electrochemical cell
An air-metal battery utilizes a magnesium anode, a carbon cathode, and a conductive fluid including glycol and water. The anode and cathode are provided in a fuel card assembly that is replaceable as a unit. |
| US11069933B2 |
Electrified vehicle battery packs with improved thermal interface material distribution
This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. An exemplary battery pack assembly process may include supporting one or more components, such as a heat exchanger plate, of the battery pack against deflection during the assembly process. Supporting the heat exchanger plate to keep the plate relatively flat during the battery pack assembly process improves the flow distribution of a thermal interface material (TIM), thereby achieving improved TIM coverage and improved heat transfer between battery cells and the heat exchanger plate of the battery pack. |
| US11069930B2 |
Energy storage apparatus
An energy storage apparatus including: an outer case having a bottom wall and a side wall; an energy storage device; an insulating member disposed at a position where the energy storage device is sandwiched between the bottom wall and the insulating member; a first adhesive layer which makes the insulating member and the energy storage device adhere to each other; and a second adhesive layer which makes the insulating member and the side wall adhere to each other. |
| US11069928B2 |
Vehicle battery device
Provided is a vehicle battery device in which number of battery cells can be easily increased, a large number of battery cells can be arranged at high density, and connection with the outside can also be easily performed. The vehicle battery device includes: a battery cell mounting part accommodating a battery cell group constituted by a plurality of laminated battery cells; and an interface box integrating connection functions between the battery cell mounting part and the outside, wherein the battery cell mounting part is connected to at least one of two opposing side surfaces in an outer surface of the interface box; and the interface box has, on any outer surface other than the side surface connected with the battery cell mounting part, a connection part capable of connecting the interface boxes to each other. |
| US11069925B2 |
Heterogeneous battery system and method
An electrical power management system for a vehicle and method of operation are described. The electrical power management system includes a control circuit configured to monitor and control power to a battery bus of the vehicle. The electrical power management system also includes a first coupler configured to be coupled to a first battery and to the battery bus, the first coupler responsive to the control circuit to selectively couple the first battery to the battery bus, the first battery having a first battery chemistry. The electrical power management system includes a second coupler configured to be coupled to a second battery and to the battery bus, the second coupler responsive to the control circuit to selectively couple the second battery to the battery bus, the second battery having a second battery chemistry distinct from the first battery chemistry. |
| US11069924B2 |
Battery pack and overdischarge control method thereof
A battery pack includes a battery and a battery management system to control and manage charging and discharging of the battery. The battery management system includes an external terminal connected to a charger or an external electronic device, a cell terminal connected to the battery, a charge field effect transistor (FET) and a discharge FET connected between the external terminal and the cell terminal, a voltage sensor to measure a battery voltage of the battery, a comparator comparing the battery voltage with a reference voltage to determine whether the battery pack is in an overdischarged state, and a controller controlling the charge FET to be cut off to prevent a charge operation of the battery, if the comparator determines that the battery pack is in an overdischarged state. |
| US11069920B2 |
Solid state battery design with mixed ionic and electronic conductor
A solid-state battery comprises an anode in electrical contact with an anode current collector, including a first ionically conductive solid electrolyte material having a susceptibility to reduction in a presence of lithium metal such that, upon contact with lithium, the ionically conductive material partially reduces to a mixed ionic and electronic conductor including a partially reduced species, a cathode, and a separator positioned between and in ionic contact with the anode and cathode. The separator is formed of a second ionically conductive solid electrolyte material which is in contact with the first ionically conductive material but not susceptible to reduction in a presence of lithium metal and not soluble for the partially reduced species such that the separator has a susceptibility for migration of lithium ions from the mixed ionic and electronic conductor and impedes propagation or exchange of the partially reduced species from the mixed ionic and electronic conductor. |
| US11069918B2 |
Carbonate electrolytes for lithium ion batteries
Electrolytes, lithium ion cells and corresponding methods are provided, for extending the cycle life of fast charging lithium ion batteries. The electrolytes are based on fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) and/or vinylene carbonate (VC) as the cyclic carbonate component, and possibly on ethyl acetate (EA) and/or ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) as the linear component. Proposed electrolytes extend the cycle life by factors of two or more, as indicated by several complementary measurements. |
| US11069917B2 |
Stacked film battery architecture
A method for fabricating a stacked battery structure. The method includes preparing a plurality of battery layers separately, wherein each battery layer includes a substrate, a film battery element fabricated on the substrate and an insulator formed over the film battery element. The insulator has a flat top surface and the film battery element includes a current collector. The method also includes stacking the plurality of battery layers, wherein the insulator of a first battery layer of the plurality of battery layers bonds to the substrate of a second battery layer of the plurality of battery layers by the flat top surface. The method further includes forming a conductive path within the plurality of battery layers, wherein the conductive path connects with at least one of the current collectors of the plurality of battery layers. |
| US11069916B2 |
Cylindrical battery
A cylindrical battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an electrode body, an electrolyte solution, a tubular exterior can that has a bottom and that accommodates the electrode body and the electrolyte solution, and a sealing body that seals the exterior can. The sealing body includes a valve member, an insulating plate that includes a hollow portion, and a metal plate that has a first through-hole. The insulating plate is disposed between the valve member and the metal plate. At least one of the valve member and the metal plate includes a projection that projects toward an inside of the hollow portion. The valve member and the metal plate are joined to each other at the projection. The insulating plate has a second through-hole that is formed around the hollow portion. |
| US11069909B2 |
Fuel cell vehicle and method for controlling the same
In a fuel cell vehicle, when temperature of a power storage device detected by a temperature sensor is a second temperature, which is lower than a predetermined first temperature, at least in a period when the power storage device is allowed to be charged with regenerative electric power, remaining charge is controlled by setting a lower limit to a value higher than a lower limit set at the first temperature. When a stop instruction for a fuel cell system is input, remaining charge raising processing for raising the remaining charge of the power storage device is performed. |
| US11069904B1 |
Method for preparing flexible membrane-free and wire-shaped fuel cell
A method for preparing a flexible membrane-free and wire-shaped fuel cell is provided. A carbon nanotube sheet is twisted and loaded with a catalyst to obtain a (CNT)@Fe3[Co(CN)6]2 cathode electrode; the carbon nanotube sheet is twisted and coated with a nickel powder to obtain a CNT@nickel particle anode electrode; and the (CNT)@Fe[Co(CN)6]2 cathode electrode, the CNT@nickel particle anode electrode, and a fuel electrolyte of H2O2 are integrated in a silicone tube to obtain a flexible membrane-free and wire-shaped fuel cell. The flexible membrane-free and wire-shaped fuel cell of the present invention can generate an open-circuit voltage of 0.88 V, while having very good flexibility, and can be woven into textiles such as clothes, thereby having great application prospects in the field of portable energy supply. |
| US11069903B2 |
Metal particle supported catalysts, methods for producing same, and fuel cells using same
A catalyst, includes: a carbon support that possesses functional groups including a carboxyl group; and a metal that is supported onto the carbon support, wherein the proportion of the carboxyl group to the functional groups is 10% or higher. A method for producing a catalyst includes: (i) supporting metal particles onto a carbon support; (ii) bringing the carbon support into contact with an acid solution; and (iii) calcining the carbon support after Step (ii), wherein the carbon support included in the produced catalyst possesses functional groups including a carboxyl group, and the proportion of said carboxyl group to the functional groups is 10% or higher. |
| US11069902B2 |
Catalyst electrode for oxygen evolution and method for preparing the same
The present invention provides a catalyst electrode for oxygen evolution comprising an electrode current collector comprising a carbon fiber fabric, a nanowire layer comprising a metal oxide-based porous nanowire grown radially from the surface of the carbon fiber, and a porous carbon coating layer disposed around the outer surface of the nanowire, thereby maximizing the specific surface area and increasing the electron transfer rate, and thus exhibiting an excellent catalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction, and a preparation method thereof. |
| US11069897B2 |
Volume-expansion accommodable anode-free solid-state battery
Various arrangements of an anode-free solid-state battery cell are presented herein. The battery cell can include a lithium ion buffer layer that is located between a solid-state electrolyte and an anode current collector. Lithium ions may be stored within the lithium ion buffer layer when the battery cell is charged, which can decrease an amount of swelling within the battery cell. |
| US11069890B2 |
Hollow particles formed from 2-dimensional materials
The present invention relates to methods of fabrication of hollow shells/spheres/particles, core-shell particles and composite materials made from these particles. |
| US11069888B2 |
Anode structure with binders for silicon and stabilized lithium metal powder
A simple solution processing method is developed to achieve uniform and scalable stabilized lithium metal powder coating on Li-ion negative electrode. A solvent and binder system for stabilized lithium metal powder coating is developed, including the selection of solvent, polymer binder and enhancement of polymer concentration. The enhanced binder solution is 1% concentration of polymer binder in xylene, and the polymer binder is chosen as the mixture of poly(styrene-co-butadiene) rubber (SBR) and polystyrene (PS). Long-sustained, uniformly dispersed stabilized lithium metal powder suspension can be achieved with the enhanced binder solution. A uniform stabilized lithium metal powder coating can be achieved with simple doctor blade coating method and the resulting stabilized lithium metal powder coating can firmly glued on the anode surface. With the prelithiation of negative electrode by stabilized lithium metal powder, improvements in electrochemical performances are demonstrated in both graphite/NMC and SiO/NMC full-cell. |
| US11069887B2 |
Negative electrode, battery, battery pack, electronic apparatus, electrically driven vehicle, electrical storage device, and electric power system
Provided is a battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material and a binding agent. The negative electrode active material includes a silicon-containing material. The binding agent includes a fluorine-containing resin and a polyacrylic acid metal salt. A total amount of the fluorine-containing resin and the polyacrylic acid metal salt is 10 parts by mass to 30 parts by mass on the basis of 100 parts by mass of the negative electrode active material. |
| US11069883B2 |
Galvanic metal-water cell with nickel-molybdenum cathode
Galvanic metal-water cells and methods of manufacturing positive electrodes to be used in said galvanic metal-water cells. The galvanic metal-water cells in accordance with various embodiments include a cathode that includes a layer comprising nickel-molybdenum deposited thereon. The nickel-molybdenum coated cathodes exhibit favorable hydrogen evolution reaction overpotential compared with existing devices. In these galvanic metal-water cells, the metal is oxidized and water is reduced. |
| US11069882B2 |
Optical unit and display device
Provided are an optical unit and a display device being able to inhibit unwanted light, which is generated when a dichroic mirror transmits part of color light to be reflected, from being emitted from an emission surface of a dichroic prism. In the optical unit, color filters (a first color filter, a second color filter, and a third color filter) are provided between a dichroic prism and a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel, the color filters selectively transmitting light of wavelengths incident on the dichroic prism from each of the panels. Further, an optical resonator, which has a resonance wavelength corresponding to a wavelength range of image light incident on the dichroic prism from each of the panels, is provided on the first panel, the second panel, and the third panel. |
| US11069880B2 |
Display device and fabrication method thereof
A display device may include a display configured to emit light for displaying an image, a microlens array on the display and configured to collimate the image incident from the display so as to be delivered to the eyes of a user, the microlens array including a refractive index conversion layer in which a refractive index varies from region to region, and an optical path adjustment layer configured to collect light, emitted from the display and transmitted by the microlens array, and to space the display and the microlens array a preset distance apart from each other. Here, the refractive index conversion layer may include a polymer and liquid crystal molecules that interact with the polymer. |
| US11069876B2 |
Organic electroluminescence display device and manufacturing method thereof
An organic electroluminescence display device has a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has an organic light emitting element and is configured to display images. The second portion is a transparent transmission area through which an external object is visible and includes a foreign substance collecting member. The foreign substance collecting member is made of a ferromagnetic substance and is configured to receive electric current from an external current source through a connecting line and an electric field application pad. When electric current is applied to the electric field application pad, a magnetic field is applied to the foreign substance collecting member, and foreign substance in the first portion is collected by the foreign substance collecting member in the second portion, preventing the foreign substance from being deposited in the first portion. |
| US11069873B2 |
Formation of a two-layer via structure to mitigate damage to a display device
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a display device that includes an isolation structure disposed over a reflector electrode, a transparent electrode disposed over the isolation structure, an optical emitter structure disposed over the transparent electrode, and a via structure. The via structure extends from the transparent electrode at a top surface of the isolation structure to a top surface of the reflector electrode. The via structure includes a center horizontal segment that contacts the top surface of the reflector electrode, a sidewall vertical segment that contacts an inner sidewall of the isolation structure, and an upper horizontal segment that is connected to the center horizontal segment by the sidewall vertical segment. The upper horizontal segment is thicker than the center horizontal segment. |
| US11069872B2 |
Delocalizer and light emitting device using the same
A delocalizer and a light emitting device using the same are provided. The light emitting device includes a substrate and a first electrode layer. The first electrode layer is disposed over the substrate, in which two sides of the first electrode layer have a first contact pad and a second contact pad, respectively. The delocalizer is disposed between the first contact pad and the second contact pad. The delocalizer may include a plurality of strip-shaped transparent conductive members adjacent to each other, and a plurality of transparent conductive blocks adjacent to each other may be disposed between adjacent two of the strip-shaped transparent conductive members. |
| US11069871B2 |
Organic white light emitting element
Provided is an organic white light emitting element (EL) including: a reflective electrode, a light extraction electrode, and an organic layer arranged therebetween, the organic layer including: a blue light emitting layer (BL); and a long-wavelength light emitting layer, the long-wavelength light emitting layer arranged between the BL and the reflective electrode, the BL provided at such a position as to satisfy Equation given below: z=φ×λ1/4π where z represents an optical distance between the reflective electrode and an interface of the BL on the reflective electrode side, φ represents a phase of light reflected by the reflective electrode in an emission wavelength region of the BL, and λ1 represents a wavelength in a visible light region, and the EL has a resonator structure defined between the reflective electrode and the light extraction electrode and has a maximum peak resonant wavelength in a blue light wavelength region. |
| US11069867B2 |
Electronically pure single chirality semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube for large scale electronic devices
An electronically pure carbon nanotube ink, includes a population of semiconducting carbon nanotubes suspended in a liquid, the ink being essentially free of metallic impurities and organic material, and characterized in that when incorporated as a carbon nanotube network in a metal/carbon nanotube network/metal double diode, a nonlinear current-bias curve is obtained on application of a potential from 0.01 V to 100 V. The ink can be used to prepare air-stable n-type thin film transistors having performances similar to current thin film transistors used in flat panel displays amorphous silicon devices and high performance p-type thin film transistors with high-κ dielectrics. |
| US11069864B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
The present invention includes novel six member aromatic or heteroaromatic rings fused to aza-DBX as ligands for making dopants for OLED applications. |
| US11069863B2 |
Organic thin film and organic thin film transistor and electronic device
Disclosed are an organic thin film includes a first compound represented by one of Chemical Formula 1A and 1B and a second compound different from the first compound and represented by one of Chemical Formulae 2A and 2B, an organic thin film transistor, and an electronic device. |
| US11069862B2 |
Material for organic electroluminescence device and organic electroluminescence device using the same
Provided are an organic electroluminescence device, which shows high luminous efficiency, is free of any pixel defect, and has a long lifetime, and a material for an organic electroluminescence device for realizing the device. The material for an organic electroluminescence device is a compound having a n-conjugated heteroacene skeleton crosslinked with a carbon atom, nitrogen atom, oxygen atom, or sulfur atom. The organic electroluminescence device has one or more organic thin film layers including a light emitting layer between a cathode and an anode, and at least one layer of the organic thin film layers contains the material for an organic electroluminescence device. |
| US11069861B2 |
Mixture, organic electroluminescence device and electronic equipment
A mixture contains a first compound and a second compound, in which the first compound has at least one of a first cyclic structure represented by a formula (11) below and a second cyclic structure represented by a formula (12) below, and the second compound is a compound represented by a formula (21) or a compound represented by a formula (22) below, and a total mass MT of the first and second compounds and a mass M2 of the second compound in the mixture satisfy a relationship of a numerical formula (Numerical Formula 1) below, |
| US11069860B2 |
Composition of matter for use in organic light-emitting diodes
The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I) as compounds capable of emitting delayed fluorescence, and uses of these compounds in organic light-emitting diodes. |
| US11069859B2 |
Fluorene-based compound, organic light-emitting device using same and method for preparing same
The present specification relates to a fluorene-based compound of Formula 1, a coating composition comprising the fluorene-based compound of Formula 1, an organic light emitting device using the same, and a manufacturing method thereof. |
| US11069858B2 |
Amine-based compound and organic light emitting device comprising same
The present specification provides a compound of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device including the same. The compound of Chemical Formula 1 used in one or more organic material layers of an organic light emitting device provides enhanced efficiency, lowered driving voltage, and increased lifetime of the device. |
| US11069856B2 |
Solution for organic EL, method of producing organic EL device and organic EL device
According to one embodiment, a solution for organic EL contains a mixed solvent of two or more kinds of organic solvents which contain at least a first organic solvent and a second organic solvent, and an organic EL contributing material dissolved into the mixed solvent. The coordinates (HSP coordinates) specified by Hansen solubility parameters of the first organic solvent are Hd in a range of 17.5 to 19.5 (J/cm3)1/2, Hp in a range of 3.5 to 5.5 (J/cm3)1/2 and Hh in a range of 3.5 to 5.5 (J/cm3)1/2. The HSP coordinates of the second organic solvent are Hd in a range of 17.5 to 19.5 (J/cm3)1/2, Hp in a range of 0 to 2.0 (J/cm3)1/2, and Hh in a range of 0.5 to 2.5 (J/cm3)1/2. |
| US11069855B2 |
Dielectric barrier at non-volatile memory tile edge
An oxidation barrier for non-volatile memory with materials sensitive to temperature and/or cross contamination (e.g., chalcogenide materials) are described The barrier can be formed, for example, around the boundaries of a non-volatile memory tile (also known as a block or sub-array). For example, a non-volatile memory device can include an oxidation barrier on a side wall of a trench between adjacent memory tiles. |
| US11069850B2 |
Magnetic memory device and manufacturing method of the same
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a stacked structure including a first magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a nonmagnetic layer provided on the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer provided on the nonmagnetic layer and having a variable magnetization direction, a first insulating layer provided along a side surface of the stacked structure and having an upper end located at a position lower than an upper end of the side surface of the stacked structure, and a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer and having an upper end located at a position higher than the upper end of the first insulating layer. |
| US11069849B2 |
Shadow mask sidewall tunnel junction for quantum computing
A technique relates to forming a sidewall tunnel junction. A first conducting layer is formed using a first shadow mask evaporation. A second conducting layer is formed on a portion of the first conducting layer, where the second conducting layer is formed using a second shadow mask evaporation. An oxide layer is formed on the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer. A third conducting layer is formed on part of the oxide layer, such that the sidewall tunnel junction is positioned between the first conducting layer and the third conducting layer. |
| US11069847B2 |
Thermoelectric module
A thermoelectric module mounted on an uneven surface (a curved surface or an irregular surface) to reduce thermal boundary resistance and significantly improve thermoelectric power generation efficiency is provided. The thermoelectric module includes one or more first thermoelectric elements, one or more second thermoelectric elements having opposite polarity to that of the first thermoelectric elements and alternating with the first thermoelectric element. An electrode unit in provided and includes upper and lower electrodes configured to electrically connect the first and second thermoelectric elements. A connection member is configured to connect the first and second thermoelectric elements to vary the relative positions of the first and second thermoelectric elements. |
| US11069846B2 |
Ultraviolet ray emitting device having maximized electrode area for improved heat dissipation
A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device comprises: a first body unit including a base part and at least three conductive patterns positioned on the base part while including a plurality of element loading areas; and a plurality of light-emitting elements positioned on the plurality of element loading areas of the first body unit, wherein at least one conductive pattern among the conductive patterns is electrically connected to at least two light-emitting elements, the at least two light-emitting elements are connected to each other in series, at least two conductive patterns among the conductive patterns include pad electrode areas, an area of the plurality of conductive patterns is 80% or more of an upper surface area of the base part, and a separation distance among the plurality of conductive patterns is 200 μm to 2,400 μm. |
| US11069841B2 |
Multilayer ceramic converter with stratified scattering
A multilayer ceramic converter with stratified scattering is disclosed. In an embodiment a ceramic wavelength converter assembly having a layered structure includes a phosphor layer, an upper barrier layer, and a lower barrier layer, wherein the phosphor layer is at least partially disposed between the upper barrier layer and the lower barrier layer. |
| US11069839B2 |
Optical component package and device using same
Disclosed is an optical component package. The optical component package according to the present invention includes: a main substrate including a plurality of metal bodies, and a vertical insulation part provided between the metal bodies; a sub-substrate provided in a cavity of the main substrate, and electrically connected to each of the metal bodies with the vertical insulation part interposed therebetween; an optical component mounted on the sub-substrate; and a light transmitting member provided above the optical component, wherein the sub-substrate includes: an insulating body; a via hole vertically passing through the insulating body, and filled with a metal material; and a metal pad connected to the optical component. |
| US11069838B2 |
Light-emitting device with light-emitting element mounted on supporting member and display apparatus
A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element having an element front surface and an element back surface spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a supporting member on which the light-emitting element is mounted, and a light-transmitting resin formed on the supporting member to cover the light-emitting element. The supporting member includes a base having a base front surface and a base back surface opposite to the base front surface, and first and second wirings each disposed on the base and electrically connected to the light-emitting element. The light-emitting element is mounted on the support member with the element back surface facing the base front surface. |
| US11069834B2 |
Optoelectronic device having a boron nitride alloy electron blocking layer and method of production
An optoelectronic device a substrate, a first doped contact layer arranged on the substrate, a multiple quantum well layer arranged on the first doped contact layer, a boron nitride alloy electron blocking layer arranged on the multiple quantum well layer, and a second doped contact layer arranged on the boron nitride alloy electron blocking layer. |
| US11069832B2 |
Resonant cavity strained III-V photodetector and LED on silicon substrate
An optoelectronic device that includes a germanium containing buffer layer atop a silicon containing substrate, and a first distributed Bragg reflector stack of III-V semiconductor material layers on the buffer layer. The optoelectronic device further includes an active layer of III-V semiconductor material present on the first distributed Bragg reflector stack, wherein a difference in lattice dimension between the active layer and the first distributed brag reflector stack induces a strain in the active layer. A second distributed Bragg reflector stack of III-V semiconductor material layers having a may be present on the active layer. |
| US11069831B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources, a partitioning member and a diffuser panel. The light sources are arranged on the substrate. Each of the light sources has a light emitting diode. The partitioning member includes a plurality of wall portions defining a plurality of sections respectively surrounding at least one of the light sources. The wall portions include top portions. The diffuser panel is arranged above the light sources. The diffuser panel defines a plurality of grooves respectively accommodating the top portions of the partitioning member. |
| US11069828B2 |
Method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion device
A method for manufacturing a crystalline silicon-based solar cell includes performing a plasma treatment on a plurality of conductive single-crystalline silicon substrates in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) chamber, each of the conductive single-crystalline silicon substrates having an intrinsic silicon-based layer on a first principal surface thereof. The first principal surface of the conductive single-crystalline silicon substrate may have a pyramidal texture that comprises a plurality of projections having a top portion, a middle portion, and a valley portion. The plasma treatment may include introducing a hydrogen gas and a silicon-containing gas into the CVD chamber and exposing a surface of the intrinsic silicon-based layer to hydrogen plasma. An amount of the hydrogen gas introduced into the CVD chamber during the plasma treatment may be 150 to 2500 times an amount of the silicon-containing gas introduced into the CVD chamber. |
| US11069824B2 |
Optical sensor device and method of manufacturing the same
An optical sensor device has an optical semiconductor element fixed into a recessed portion of a base portion, and a pad portion of the optical semiconductor element is electrically connected to a lead portion of the base portion. On an upper surface of a protruding portion provided in an outer region of the base portion, a metallization layer having notch portions, a metal bonding layer, a metallization layer having notch portions, and a lid portion are provided. Through use of the metallization layers and the metal bonding layer, the lid portion can be hermetically bonded to the base portion. |
| US11069823B2 |
Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, and movable object comprising a comparison unit to compare the count value of pulse with a predetermined threshold value
A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and a plurality of output lines to which signals from the plurality of pixels are output, and each of the plurality of pixels includes a light receiving unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon and a signal generation unit that, based on output from the light receiving unit, generates a pixel signal output to each of the output lines. The signal generation unit includes a count unit that generates a count signal indicating a count value of pulses output from the light receiving unit and a comparison unit that compares the count value indicated by the count signal with a predetermined threshold value, and the signal generation unit outputs a signal in accordance with a result of comparison performed by the comparison unit. |
| US11069821B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device and its manufacturing method are presented. The manufacturing method entails: providing a semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate comprises a first region and a second region that are mutually exclusive from one another, with a first oxide layer on the first and the second regions; conducting a nitriding process on the semiconductor substrate to form a nitride barrier layer on the first oxide layer on the first and the second regions; removing the first oxide layer on the second region; and conducting an oxidation process to form a second oxide layer on the second region. |
| US11069817B2 |
Display device and electronic device
A display device including a pixel having a memory. The pixel includes at least a display element, a capacitor, an inverter, and a switch. The switch is controlled with a signal held in the capacitor and a signal output from the inverter so that voltage is supplied to the display element. The inverter and the switch can be constituted by transistors with the same polarity. A semiconductor layer included in the pixel may be formed using a light-transmitting material. Moreover, a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a capacitor electrode may be formed using a light-transmitting conductive layer. The pixel is formed using a light-transmitting material in such a manner, whereby the display device can be a transmissive display device while including a pixel having a memory. |
| US11069816B2 |
Semiconductor device and display device
A semiconductor device that can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, a fourth insulating layer, a first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer. The second semiconductor layer is positioned over the first semiconductor layer, the second conductive layer is positioned on the second semiconductor layer, and the second insulating layer is provided so as to cover a top surface and a side surface of the second conductive layer. The second conductive layer and the second insulating layer include a first opening, and the third semiconductor layer is provided in contact with a top surface of the second insulating layer, a side surface of the first opening, and the second semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer is positioned between the first conductive layer and the third semiconductor layer, the third insulating layer is positioned between the first insulating layer and the first conductive layer, and the fourth insulating layer is provided so as to surround the first conductive layer. |
| US11069813B2 |
Localized heating in laser annealing process
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming source/drain contact openings extending through at least one dielectric layer to expose source/drain contact regions of source/drain structures. The method further includes forming conductive plugs in the source/drain contact openings. The method further includes depositing a light blocking layer over the conductive plugs and the at least one dielectric layer. The method further includes etching the light blocking layer to expose the conductive plugs. The method further includes directing a laser irradiation to the conductive plugs and the light blocking layer. The laser irradiation is configured to activate dopants in the source/drain contact regions. |
| US11069812B2 |
Fin field-effect transistor device and method of forming the same
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a fin protruding above a substrate; forming a liner over the fin; performing a surface treatment process to convert an upper layer of the liner distal to the fin into a conversion layer, the conversion layer comprising an oxide or a nitride of the liner; forming isolation regions on opposing sides of the fin after the surface treatment process; forming a gate dielectric over the conversion layer after forming the isolation regions; and forming a gate electrode over the fin and over the gate dielectric. |
| US11069810B2 |
Semiconductor device having a shaped epitaxial region
A source/drain region of a semiconductor device is formed using an epitaxial growth process. In an embodiment a first step comprises forming a bulk region of the source/drain region using a first precursor, a second precursor, and an etching precursor. A second step comprises cleaning the bulk region with the etchant along with introducing a shaping dopant to the bulk region in order to modify the crystalline structure of the exposed surfaces. A third step comprises forming a finishing region of the source/drain region using the first precursor, the second precursor, and the etching precursor. |
| US11069807B2 |
Ferroelectric structure for semiconductor devices
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device includes a substrate and first and second spacers on the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a gate stack between the first and second spacers. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer having a first portion formed on the substrate and a second portion formed on the first and second spacers. The first portion includes a crystalline material and the second portion comprises an amorphous material. The gate stack further includes a gate electrode on the first and second portions of the gate dielectric layer. |
| US11069804B2 |
Integration of HVLDMOS with shared isolation region
A power device, comprising, a semiconductor substrate composition having a substrate layer of a first conductivity type, one or more lateral double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) devices formed in the substrate layer. LDMOS structures are integrated in to the isolation region of a high voltage well. Each LDMOS is isolated from a power device substrate area by an isolator structure formed from the substrate layer. Each LDMOS comprises a continuous field plate formed at least partially on the thick insulation layer over each of the one or more LDMOS devices and in conductive contact with the power device substrate area. |
| US11069803B2 |
Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, inverter circuit, driving device, vehicle, and elevator
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a SiC layer having a first plane, a second plane, a first trench located on a first plane side, an n-type first SiC region, a p-type second SiC region between the first SiC region and the first plane, an n-type third SiC region between the second SiC region and the first plane, and a p-type fourth SiC region between the first SiC region and the first plane, at least a portion of the fourth SiC region located in the second SiC region, the fourth SiC region having a higher p-type impurity concentration than the second SiC region; a gate electrode in the first trench; a first electrode located on the first plane side; and a second electrode located on a second plane side. A depth of the fourth SiC region increases with distance from the first trench. |
| US11069798B2 |
Ballistic transport device and corresponding component
A device includes a particle propagation channel, a particle deflector, a particle source, and a particle sink. The particle deflector facilitates ballistic transport of particles from a particle inflow portion through a particle flow deflection portion to a particle outflow portion. The particle deflector is arranged at the particle flow deflection portion and is activatable to deflect particles in the flow deflection portion and is configured to selectively prevent the particles from reaching the particle outflow portion. The particle source and particle sink are configured to cause a current path of the particles through the device. |
| US11069793B2 |
Reducing parasitic capacitance for gate-all-around device by forming extra inner spacers
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of nanostructures. The nanostructures each contain a semiconductive material. A plurality of first spacers circumferentially wrap around the nanostructures. A plurality of second spacers circumferentially wrap around the first spacers. A plurality of third spacers is disposed between the second spacers vertically. A gate structure surrounds the second spacers and the third spacers. |
| US11069791B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices and semiconductor devices
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a plurality of fin structures are formed over a semiconductor substrate. The fin structures extend along a first direction and are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. A plurality of sacrificial gate structures extending in the second direction are formed over the fin structures. An interlayer dielectric layer is formed over the plurality of fin structures between adjacent sacrificial gate structures. The sacrificial gate structures are cut into a plurality of pieces of sacrificial gate structures by forming gate end spaces along the second direction. Gate separation plugs are formed by filling the gate end spaces with two or more dielectric materials. The two or more dielectric materials includes a first layer and a second layer formed on the first layer, and a dielectric constant of the second layer is smaller than a dielectric constant of the first layer. |
| US11069789B2 |
Varied silicon richness silicon nitride formation
A method to fabricate a non-planar memory device including forming a multi-layer silicon nitride structure substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. There may be multiple non-stoichiometric silicon nitride layers, each including a different or same silicon richness value from one another. |
| US11069787B2 |
GaN-based microwave power device with large gate width and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides a GaN-based microwave power device with a large gate width and manufacturing method thereof. The device includes an AlGaN/GaN heterojunction epitaxial layer, a first dielectric layer overlying the AlGaN/GaN heterojunction epitaxial layer, a strip-like source electrode, a drain electrode distributed in a shape of a fishbone, an annular gate electrode, a second dielectric layer separating upper and lower electrodes, and an interconnect metal electrode pad. The GaN-based microwave power device with the large gate width prepared according to the present invention, has a small phase shift of the signals, a small parasitic capacitance of the device, a high signal gain, high power added efficiency and a high output power. At the same time, the manufacturing process of the device is simple, the chip area is saved, and the device has a good repeatability. |
| US11069786B2 |
Controlling execution of software by combining secure boot and trusted boot features
Controlling execution of software is provided. In response to receiving an input to execute a software module on a data processing system, a set of measurements are performed on the software module performing a process to prepare the software module for execution on the data processing system. In response to determining that the set of measurements meets a predetermined criterion, an authorization to proceed with the process of preparing the software module for execution on the data processing system is requested from a trusted third party computer. In response to receiving the authorization to proceed with the process of preparing the software module for execution on the data processing system from the trusted third party computer, the software module is executed. |
| US11069783B2 |
Semiconductor device, semiconductor module, and packaged semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a first conductivity-type impurity, a low-concentration impurity layer including a first conductivity-type impurity having a concentration lower than a concentration of the first conductivity-type impurity in the semiconductor substrate, a backside electrode including a metal material, and first and second transistors in the low-concentration impurity layer. The first transistor includes a first source electrode and a first gate electrode on a surface of the low-concentration impurity layer, the second transistor includes a second source electrode and a second gate electrode on the surface of the low-concentration impurity layer. The semiconductor substrate serves as a common drain region of the transistors. The thickness of the backside electrode ranges from 25 to 35 μm, and the ratio of the thickness of the backside electrode to the thickness of a semiconductor layer including the semiconductor substrate and the low-concentration impurity layer is 0.32 or more. |
| US11069782B2 |
Semiconductor device comprising a gradually increasing field dielectric layer and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a transistor in a semiconductor body having a main surface. The transistor includes a source region; a drain region; a body region; a drift zone; a gate electrode at the body region, the body region and the drift zone being disposed along a first direction between the source region and the drain region, and the first direction being parallel to the main surface; a field plate disposed in each of a plurality of field plate trenches, each of the field plate trenches having a longitudinal axis extending along the first direction; and a field dielectric layer between the field plate and the drift zone, a thickness of the field dielectric layer at a bottom of each of the field plate trenches gradually increases along the first direction, the thickness being measured along a depth direction of the plurality of field plate trenches. |
| US11069781B2 |
Crystalline semiconductor film, plate-like body and semiconductor device
A semiconductor film, a sheet like object, and a semiconductor device are provided that have inhibited semiconductor properties, particularly leakage current, and excellent withstand voltage and heat dissipation. A crystalline semiconductor film or a sheet like object includes a corundum structured oxide semiconductor as a major component, wherein the film has a film thickness of 1 μm or more. Particularly, the semiconductor film or the object includes a semiconductor component of oxide of one or more selected from gallium, indium, and aluminum as a major component. A semiconductor device has a semiconductor structure including the semiconductor film or the object. |
| US11069779B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer of silicon carbide, a device structure provided on top of the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer of silicon carbide having a higher impurity concentration than the first semiconductor layer, provided under the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer implementing an ohmic-contact, and a metallic electrode film provided under the second semiconductor layer. A thickness of a carbon-containing region in which carbon-atoms are precipitated between the second semiconductor layer and the metallic electrode film is 10 nm or less. |
| US11069778B2 |
Silicon carbide components and methods for producing silicon carbide components
A method for producing a silicon carbide component includes forming a silicon carbide layer on an initial wafer, forming a doping region of the silicon carbide component to be produced in the silicon carbide layer, and forming an electrically conductive contact structure of the silicon carbide component to be produced on a surface of the silicon carbide layer. The electrically conductive contact structure electrically contacts the doping region. Furthermore, the method includes splitting the silicon carbide layer or the initial wafer after forming the electrically conductive contact structure, such that a silicon carbide substrate at least of the silicon carbide component to be produced is split off. |
| US11069777B1 |
Manufacturing method of self-aligned DMOS body pickup
A manufacturing process of a DMOS device in a drift region in a semiconductor substrate, having: forming a polysilicon layer above the drift region; forming a block layer above the polysilicon layer; etching both the block layer and the polysilicon layer, through a window of a first masking layer to expose a window to the drift region; implanting dopants through the window to the drift region to form a body region; forming blocking spacers to wrap side walls of the polysilicon layer; implanting dopants into the body region under a window shaped by the blocking spacers to form a body pickup region; etching away the blocking spacers; performing a masking step to form gates; forming ONO spacers to wrap side walls of the gates; and performing a masking step to form source regions and drain pickup regions. |
| US11069776B2 |
Semiconductor device
Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a first active pattern that extends in a first direction on an active region of a substrate, a first source/drain pattern in a recess on an upper portion of the first active pattern, a gate electrode that runs across a first channel pattern on the upper portion of the first active pattern and extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and an active contact electrically connected to the first source/drain pattern. |
| US11069774B2 |
Shallow trench isolation structure and semiconductor device with the same
A shallow trench isolation structure and a semiconductor device. The shallow trench isolation structure includes a substrate; at least one trench located at a top surface of the substrate; and a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer and a third dielectric layer that are sequentially stacked on an inner wall of each of the at least one trench. A topmost surface of the first dielectric layer is lower than a topmost surface of the second dielectric layer and the top surface of the substrate, to form a first groove between the second dielectric layer and the substrate. An edge corner between the top surface of the substrate and the inner wall of each of the at least one trench is in a shape of a fillet curve. The fillet structure is smooth and round without a sharp corner, reducing point discharge and improving reliability of the shallow trench isolation structure. |
| US11069772B2 |
Techniques for fabricating planar charge balanced (CB) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) devices
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward designs and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices, such as semiconductor charge balanced (CB) devices or semiconductor super-junction (SJ) devices. The disclosed designs and methods are useful in the manufacture of CB devices, such as planar CB metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) devices, as well as other devices. |
| US11069770B2 |
Carrier injection control fast recovery diode structures
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabrication are provided. The semiconductor device includes a Charge Injection Controlled (CIC) Fast Recovery Diode (FRD) to control charge injection by lowering carrier storage. The device can have a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate, and a drift region that includes a doped buffer region, a doped middle region and a doped field stop region or carrier storage region. The device can also include a second conductivity type shield region including a deep junction encircling (or substantially laterally beneath) the buffer region and a second conductivity type shallow junction anode region in electrical contact with a second conductivity type anode electrode. The deep junction can have a range of doping concentrations surrounding the buffer regions to deplete buffer charge laterally as well as vertically to prevent premature device breakdown. The first conductivity type may be N type and the second conductivity type may be P type. |
| US11069769B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes, on an upper surface side of an N−-type drift layer, a P-type well layer, an N-type emitter layer, a gate insulation film, and a gate electrode, and includes, on a lower surface side of the N−-type drift layer, an N-type buffer layer, a P-type collector layer, and an N++-type layer. The N++-type layer is partially formed in the N-type buffer layer. The N++-type layer has impurity concentration being higher than impurity concentration of the N-type buffer layer and being equal to or higher than impurity concentration of the P-type collector layer. |
| US11069762B2 |
Display device
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display panel including a display area and a bending region. The display panel in the bending region includes a plurality of connection wires, a pattern including a plurality of electrodes, and a protection layer positioned between the plurality of connection wires and the pattern. |
| US11069760B2 |
Display device with through hole defined in electronic element setup region corresponding to electronic elements
A display panel and a display device are provided. Through disposing the through hole in at least one of the driving circuit layer, the planarization layer, the pixel definition layer, and the common electrode layer of the display panel and in the electronic element setup region disposed corresponding to the electronic elements, external light may directly pass through a layer of film having the through hole when passing through the display panel. Light transparency is thus improved, and the technical problem that poor transparency exists in conventional flexible display screens is solved. |
| US11069753B2 |
Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A display apparatus includes a light-source substrate portion which generates light; and a color control portion to which the generated light from the light-source substrate portion is incident and at which color of the generated light is adjusted to define a color-converted light having a color different from that of the generated light. The color control portion includes: an exit surface through which the color-converted light exits the color control portion; a substrate including a plurality of concave portions defined therein, each of the concave portions extended along a direction from the light-source substrate portion to the exit surface of the color control portion; and a plurality of color conversion members respectively in the plurality of concave portions, the color conversion members each including a color-converting material which converts the color of the generated light to the color of the color-converted light. |
| US11069752B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method thereof
A display device and a manufacturing method which minimize a difference in touch sensitivity between regions of a display device are disclosed. The display includes a display area, a color filter area disposed over the display area, and a touch area disposed between the display area and the color filter area. The display area includes a substrate, an insulating layer disposed over the substrate, first and second electrodes, partition walls disposed between the insulating layer and the second electrode, an emission layer disposed in an opening formed by the first and second electrodes and adjacent partition walls, and a spacer disposed on at least one of the partition walls. The color filter area includes a first light blocking member disposed at a region overlapping the spacer and including at least two color filters stacked on each other. |
| US11069750B2 |
Flexible color filter, flexible organic light emitting display device comprising same, and manufacturing method therefor
There is provided a flexible color filter for a display device, a flexible organic light-emitting display device comprising the color filter, and a manufacturing method therefor and, more specifically, a flexible color filter having a structure in which a base film, an adhesive layer, a separation layer, a protective layer, a black matrix layer, a pixel layer formed between different portions of the black matrix layer, and a planarization layer are sequentially stacked. The flexible color filter having the structure can be manufactured on a glass substrate, and thus advantages of solving a problem of thermal deformation of a plastic substrate in a high temperature process for implementing a color filter, enabling a fine pitch of a pattern, which cannot be implemented on a plastic substrate, and enabling diversification without limitations for a material of a base film can be secured. |
| US11069743B1 |
Non-volatile memory elements with a multi-level cell configuration
Structures including non-volatile memory elements and methods of fabricating a structure including non-volatile memory elements. A first non-volatile memory element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a switching layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. A second non-volatile memory element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a switching layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. A first bit line is coupled to the first electrode of the first non-volatile memory element and to the first electrode of the second non-volatile memory element. A second bit line is coupled to the second electrode of the first non-volatile memory element. |
| US11069739B2 |
Imaging device and electronic apparatus
Provided is an imaging device including: a pixel region including a first photoelectric converter; an outside-pixel region including a second photoelectric converter coupled to a predetermined electric potential; and a circuit substrate having one surface on which the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter are provided, and including a peripheral circuit electrically coupled to the first photoelectric converter. |
| US11069734B2 |
Image sensor device
Methods of forming a back side image sensor device, as well as back side image sensor devices formed, are disclosed. In one such a method, an image sensor wafer having a first dielectric layer with a first surface is obtained. A reconstituted wafer having a processor die and a second dielectric layer with a second surface is obtained. The reconstituted wafer and the image sensor wafer are bonded to one another including coupling the first surface of the first dielectric layer and the second surface of the second dielectric layer. In another method, such formation is for a processor die bonded to an image sensor wafer. In yet another method, such formation is for a processor die bonded to an image sensor die. |
| US11069725B2 |
Display substrate and method of preparing the same, and display device
A display substrate and a method of preparing the same, and a display device are provided, the method including: providing a substrate; forming a switching thin film transistor precursor and a driving thin film transistor precursor on the substrate, each including a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating material layer and a gate metallic layer stacked sequentially above the substrate; forming a photoresist layer above the switching thin film transistor precursor and the driving thin film transistor precursor, and forming an etching mask from the photoresist layer, a first portion of the etching mask at the switching thin film transistor precursor and a second portion of the etching mask at the driving thin film transistor precursor having different shapes; and forming a switching thin film transistor and a driving thin film transistor, by etching processing the switching thin film transistor precursor and the driving thin film transistor precursor with the etching mask. |
| US11069724B2 |
Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof and display device using the same
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate, manufacturing method thereof and display device using the same. The method for manufacturing the array substrate includes: forming an amorphous silicon layer and an insulating layer covering the amorphous silicon layer in one deposition process; and processing the amorphous silicon layer to transform the amorphous silicon layer into a polysilicon layer. Through the above-mentioned method, the present disclosure can solve the problem of affecting the concentration of current carriers that caused by the oxidation of the surface of polysilicon, and improve the performance of the array substrate. |
| US11069719B2 |
Array substrate and method of manufacturing the same, display device
An array substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of signal lines disposed at a side of the base substrate, and an organic layer disposed at a side of the plurality of signal lines facing away from the base substrate. The organic layer includes at least one auxiliary portion and a reference portion surrounding the at least one auxiliary portion, and a thickness of each auxiliary portion is less than a thickness of the reference portion. |
| US11069718B2 |
Display device, display module, and electronic device
A novel display device or the like in which a transistor connected to a scan line has small gate capacitance is provided. A novel display device or the like in which a scan line has low resistance is provided. A novel display device or the like in which pixels can be arranged with high density is provided. A novel display device or the like that can be manufactured without an increase in cost is provided. In a transistor including a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode, the first gate electrode is formed using a metal material with low resistance and the second gate electrode is formed using a metal oxide material that can reduce oxygen vacancies in an oxide semiconductor layer. The first gate electrode is connected to the scan line, and the second gate electrode is connected to a wiring to which a constant potential is supplied. |
| US11069717B2 |
Metal oxide and field-effect transistor
To provide a novel material. In a field-effect transistor including a metal oxide, a channel formation region of the transistor includes a material having at least two different energy band widths. The material includes nano-size particles each with a size of greater than or equal to 0.5 nm and less than or equal to 10 nm. The nano-size particles are dispersed or distributed in a mosaic pattern. |
| US11069711B2 |
3-dimensional nor memory array with very fine pitch: device and method
A method to ease the fabrication of high aspect ratio three dimensional memory structures for memory cells with feature sizes of 20 nm or less, or with a high number of memory layers. The present invention also provides an improved isolation between adjacent memory cells along the same or opposite sides of an active strip. The improved isolation is provided by introducing a strong dielectric barrier film between adjacent memory cells along the same side of an active strip, and by staggering memory cells of opposite sides of the active strip. |
| US11069706B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices
In a 3D semiconductor memory device, a stack structure includes electrodes and first insulating layers disposed between the electrodes. The stack structure has a stair structure on a connection region. A vertical channel structure penetrates the stack structure on a cell array region. A vertical dummy structure penates the stair structure on the connection region. A second insulating layer is selectively disposed on the cell array region. A maximum thickness of the second insulating layer ranges from 1.5 times to 10 times a maximum thickness of the first insulating layer on the second insulating layer. The vertical channel structure includes an abrupt diameter change at a level of a top surface of the second insulating layer. The abrupt diameter change has a surface which is parallel to the top surface of the second insulating layer and is substantially coplanar with the top surface of the second insulating layer. |
| US11069701B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method therefor
A semiconductor memory device includes a first conductive layer, second conductive layers extending in a first direction and stacked above the first conductive layer in a second direction, a third conductive layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layers, a memory pillar extending inside the second conductive layers in the second direction, a first insulating layer that isolates the second conductive layers in a third direction, and second insulating layers spaced from an end of the first insulating layer and extending in the third direction. The second insulating layers are spaced from an extension line of the first insulating layer that extends in the first direction. The first conductive layer includes a region that overlaps in the second direction a region where extension lines of the first and second insulating layers intersect, and the third conductive layer does not overlap this intersection region in the second direction. |
| US11069698B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device
A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device may include a first stack block including first stacks arranged in a first direction on a substrate, a second stack block including second stacks arranged in the first direction on the substrate, and a separation structure provided on the substrate between the first stack block and the second stack block. The separation structure may include first mold layers and second mold layers, which are stacked in a vertical direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. |
| US11069697B1 |
3D memory semiconductor devices and structures
A 3D memory device, the device including: a plurality of memory cells, where each of the plurality of memory cells includes at least one memory transistor, where each of the at least one memory transistor includes a source, a drain and a channel; a plurality of bit-line pillars, where each of the plurality of bit-line pillars is directly connected to a plurality of the source or the drain, where the bit-line pillars are vertically oriented, where the channel is horizontally oriented, and where the channel includes a circular shape or an ellipsoidal shape. |
| US11069696B2 |
Device structure for a 3-dimensional NOR memory array and methods for improved erase operations applied thereto
A thin-film storage transistor includes (a) first and second polysilicon layers of a first conductivity serving, respectively, as a source terminal and a drain terminal of the thin-film storage transistor; (b) a third polysilicon layer of a second conductivity adjacent the first and second polysilicon layers, serving as a channel region of the thin-film storage transistor; (c) a conductor serving as a gate terminal of the thin-film storage transistor; and (d) a charge-trapping region between the conductor and third polysilicon layer, wherein a fourth body layer polysilicon of the second conductivity is included to provide an alternative source of free charge careers to accelerate device operation. |
| US11069693B2 |
Method for improving control gate uniformity during manufacture of processors with embedded flash memory
A method is provided for the manufacture of an integrated semiconductor device that includes an embedded flash memory array formed in a recessed region of a semiconductor substrate, the method includes, prior to formation of floating and control gate stacks of the memory array, depositing a protective layer over layers of gate material, and depositing a self-leveling sacrificial layer over the protective layer to produce a substantially planar upper surface. The sacrificial layer is then etched to a depth that removes the sacrificial layer and leaves a substantially planar face on the protective layer. A photo mask is then deposited on the protective layer and the gate stacks are etched from the layers of gate material. |
| US11069692B2 |
FinFET SRAM cells with dielectric fins
An SRAM cell includes: first, second, third, fourth, and fifth dielectric fins disposed in this order along a first direction and oriented lengthwise along a second direction, where the first and the fifth dielectric fins define two edges of the SRAM cell; a first N-type semiconductor fin disposed between the first and the second dielectric fins; a second N-type semiconductor fin disposed between the fourth and the fifth dielectric fins; a first P-type semiconductor fin disposed between the second and the third dielectric fins; a second P-type semiconductor fin disposed between the third and the fourth dielectric fins, where each of the first and the second N-type semiconductor fins and each of the first and the second P-type semiconductor fins is oriented lengthwise along the second direction; and gate structures oriented lengthwise along the first direction, where the gate structures engage one or more of the dielectric fin. |
| US11069691B2 |
Memory cell array with large gate widths
An integrated circuit is provided with a memory cell array comprising poly lines, semiconductor lines extending in a first direction and transistor devices, wherein gates of the transistor device are formed in portions of the poly lines and channels of the transistor devices are formed in the semiconductor lines and wherein at least one portion of at least one of the poly lines runs across at least one of the semiconductor lines in a second direction inclined to a direction perpendicular to the first direction at an inclination angle of more than, for example, 5° or 10°, as measured from the direction perpendicular to first direction. |
| US11069687B2 |
Integrated assemblies having shield lines between digit lines, and methods of forming integrated assemblies
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having digit lines which extend along a first direction, and which are spaced from one another by intervening regions. Each of the intervening regions has a first width along a cross-section. Pillars extend upwardly from the digit lines; and the pillars include transistor channel regions extending vertically between upper and lower source/drain regions. Storage elements are coupled with the upper source/drain regions. Wordlines extend along a second direction which crosses the first direction. The wordlines include gate regions adjacent the channel regions. Shield lines are within the intervening regions and extend along the first direction. The shield lines may be coupled with at least one reference voltage node. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies. |
| US11069686B2 |
Techniques for enhancing vertical gate-all-around FET performance
Techniques for enhancing VFET performance are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VFET device includes: patterning a fin(s) in a substrate; forming bottom source and drains at a base of the fin(s); forming bottom spacers on the bottom source and drains; forming a gate along sidewalls of the fin(s); recessing the gate to expose a top portion of the fin(s); forming an oxide layer along the sidewalls of the top portion of the fin(s); depositing a charged layer over the fin(s) in contact with the oxide layer, wherein the charged layer induces an opposite charge in the top portion of the fin(s) forming a dipole; forming top spacers above the gate; and forming top source and drains above the top spacers. A method of forming a VFET device having both NFETs and PFETs is also provided as are VFET devices formed by the present techniques. |
| US11069683B2 |
Self restoring logic structures
A SEU tolerant structure has two logic sections that generate two output signals that are complementary such that a fault which affects one section cannot affect the other section. Adjacent NMOS regions or adjacent PMOS regions contain no logic inversions in the combinational logic or if logic inversions in the combinational logic are present where all gates following the inversion are SEU hard by design. The circuits can be realized using one of a Complex CMOS gate, pass transistor logic, Multiplexor logic, AND-OR logic or OR-AND logic. A SRL latch is formed of three NMOS and PMOS structures having a first latch with a first NMOS structure adjacent a first PMOS structure, a second latch with a second NMOS structure adjacent a second PMOS structure wherein the first and second NMOS structures are adjacent one another, and a third latch with a third NMOS structure adjacent a third PMOS structure wherein the second and third PMOS structures are adjacent one another, wherein the latch is adapted to have alternating logic with a state assignment of 010 and 101. A Single Event Upset Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) tolerant circuit generates complementary output values 010 and 101 with layouts that are adjacent. |
| US11069682B2 |
Multi-fin FINFET device including epitaxial growth barrier on outside surfaces of outermost fins and related methods
A multi-fin FINFET device may include a substrate and a plurality of semiconductor fins extending upwardly from the substrate and being spaced apart along the substrate. Each semiconductor fin may have opposing first and second ends and a medial portion therebetween, and outermost fins of the plurality of semiconductor fins may comprise an epitaxial growth barrier on outside surfaces thereof. The FINFET may further include at least one gate overlying the medial portions of the semiconductor fins, a plurality of raised epitaxial semiconductor source regions between the semiconductor fins adjacent the first ends thereof, and a plurality of raised epitaxial semiconductor drain regions between the semiconductor fins adjacent the second ends thereof. |
| US11069676B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure comprising a gate bottom insulating layer inwardly positioned, a gate top insulating layer positioned on the gate bottom insulating layer, a gate top conductive layer positioned on the gate top insulating layer, and a gate filler layer positioned on the gate top conductive layer; and a capacitor structure comprising a capacitor bottom insulating layer inwardly positioned, a capacitor bottom conductive layer positioned on the capacitor bottom insulating layer, a capacitor top insulating layer positioned on the capacitor bottom conductive layer, a capacitor top conductive layer positioned on the capacitor top insulating layer, and a capacitor filler layer positioned on the capacitor top conductive layer. The gate bottom insulating layer is formed of a same material as the capacitor bottom insulating layer. |
| US11069674B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes “n” pairs of pn-junction structures, wherein the i-th pair includes two pn-junction structures of the i-th type, wherein the two pn-junction structures of the i-th type are anti-serially connected, wherein the pn-junction structure of the i-th type has an i-th junction grading coefficient mi. A first pair of the n pairs of pn-junction structures has a first junction grading coefficient m1 and a second pair of the n pairs of pn-junction structures has a second junction grading coefficient m2. The junction grading coefficients m1, m2 are adjusted to result in generation of a spurious third harmonic signal of the semiconductor device with a signal power level, which is at least 10 dB lower than a reference signal power level of the spurious third harmonic signal obtained for a reference case in which the first and second junction grading coefficients m1, m2 are 0.25. |
| US11069673B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method for the semiconductor package are provided. The semiconductor package has a redistribution layer, at least one die over the redistribution layer, through interlayer vias on the redistribution layer and aside the die and a molding compound encapsulating the die and the through interlayer vias disposed on the redistribution layer. The semiconductor package has connectors connected to the through interlayer vias and a protection film covering the molding compound and the die. The protection film is formed by a printing process. |
| US11069667B2 |
Wafer level proximity sensor
Wafer level proximity sensors are formed by processing a silicon substrate wafer and a silicon cap wafer separately, bonding the cap wafer to the substrate wafer, forming an interconnect structure of through-silicon vias within the substrate, and singulating the bonded wafers to yield individually packaged sensors. The wafer level proximity sensor is smaller than a conventional proximity sensor and can be manufactured using a shorter fabrication process at a lower cost. The proximity sensors are coupled to external components by a signal path that includes the through-silicon vias and a ball grid array formed on a lower surface of the silicon substrate. The design of the wafer level proximity sensor passes more light from the light emitter and more light to the light sensor. |
| US11069664B2 |
Micro-LED module and method for fabricating the same
A micro-LED module is disclosed. The micro-LED module includes: a micro-LED including a plurality of LED cells, each of which includes a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer; a submount substrate mounted with the micro-LED; a plurality of electrode pads formed on the micro-LED cells; a plurality of electrodes formed corresponding to the plurality of electrode pads on the submount substrate; a plurality of connection members through which the plurality of electrode pads are connected to the corresponding plurality of electrodes; and a gap fill layer formed in the gap between the micro-LED and the submount substrate and having a bonding strength to the micro-LED and the submount substrate. |
| US11069658B2 |
System on integrated chips and methods of forming same
An embodiment method for forming a semiconductor package includes attaching a first die to a first carrier, depositing a first isolation material around the first die, and after depositing the first isolation material, bonding a second die to the first die. Bonding the second die to the first die includes forming a dielectric-to-dielectric bond. The method further includes removing the first carrier and forming fan-out redistribution layers (RDLs) on an opposing side of the first die as the second die. The fan-out RDLs are electrically connected to the first die and the second die. |
| US11069657B2 |
Chip package having die structures of different heights and method of forming same
Structures and formation methods of a chip package are provided. The chip package includes a substrate, a first chip stack attached to the substrate, and a second chip stack attached to the substrate. The first chip stack and the second chip stack being attached to a same side of the substrate. The chip package further includes a molding compound layer surrounding the first chip stack and the second chip stack. The molding compound layer covers a topmost surface of the first chip stack. A topmost surface of the molding compound layer is substantially coplanar with a topmost surface of the second chip stack. |
| US11069656B2 |
Three-layer package-on-package structure and method forming same
A method includes forming a first plurality of redistribution lines, forming a first metal post over and electrically connected to the first plurality of redistribution lines, and bonding a first device die to the first plurality of redistribution lines. The first metal post and the first device die are encapsulated in a first encapsulating material. The first encapsulating material is then planarized. The method further includes forming a second metal post over and electrically connected to the first metal post, attaching a second device die to the first encapsulating material through an adhesive film, encapsulating the second metal post and the second device die in a second encapsulating material, planarizing the second encapsulating material, and forming a second plurality of redistributions over and electrically coupling to the second metal post and the second device die. |
| US11069653B2 |
Methods and structures for packaging semiconductor dies
A method of packaging a semiconductor device, comprising: attaching a plurality of dies to a carrier wafer, wherein each of the dies includes a top surface; forming a molding compound layer over the dies, wherein the top surface of the dies are covered by the molding compound layer; removing a first portion of the molding compound layer; removing a second portion of the molding compound layer such that the top surface of the dies is not covered by the molding compound layer; forming a redistribution layer (RDL) over the top surface of the dies; forming a plurality of solder balls over at least a portion of the RDL; and singulating the dies. |
| US11069649B2 |
Laser assisted solder bonding of direct conversion compound semiconductor detector
In an embodiment, a method comprises: configuring a direct conversion compound semiconductor sensor over a first surface of a readout integrated circuit, IC, comprising two surfaces, each surface comprising solder material on the surface; illuminating the solder material with an infra-red laser such that the solder material on the readout IC melts and forms solder joints between the readout IC and the direct conversion compound semiconductor sensor; configuring a substrate over a second surface of the readout IC comprising solder material; and illuminating the solder material of the second surface with the infra-red laser such that the solder material on the readout IC melts and electrically connects the readout IC with the substrate. In other embodiments, a high frequency radiation detector and an imaging apparatus are discussed. |
| US11069647B2 |
Semiconductor wafer, bonding structure and wafer bonding method
A semiconductor wafer, a bonding structure, and a wafer bonding method are provided. In the semiconductor wafer, a bonding pad which is electrically connected to the interconnection structure is formed in the top cover layer, and a bonding alignment mark formed by a point array is disposed in the top cover layer. In this way, the bonding alignment mark is disposed in the top cover layer, and the top cover layer is not covered by another material layer, thereby facilitating recognition of the alignment pattern by the bonding device and increasing the alignment window in bonding process. Moreover, the bonding alignment mark is formed by a point array, thereby facilitating integration of the process for forming the bonding alignment mark with the bonding hole process and avoiding defects such as the dishing phenomenon in the manufacturing process. |
| US11069646B2 |
Printed circuit board structure having pads and conductive wire
The disclosure provides a printed circuit board structure. The printed circuit board structure includes a printed circuit board, a semiconductor chip, a first pad, a second pad, a conductive wire, and a third pad. The semiconductor chip is disposed on the printed circuit board. The first pad is disposed on the semiconductor chip. The second pad is disposed on the printed circuit board. The conductive wire electrically connects the first pad and the second pad. The third pad is disposed between the first pad and the second pad. The conductive wire has a portion located on the third pad. |
| US11069640B2 |
Package for power electronics
A package for power electronics includes a power substrate, a number of power semiconductor die, and a Kelvin connection contact. Each one of the power semiconductor die are on the power substrate and include a first power switching pad, a second power switching pad, a control pad, a semiconductor structure, and a Kelvin connection pad. The semiconductor structure is between the first power switching pad, the second power switching pad, and the control pad, and is configured such that a resistance of a power switching path between the first power switching pad and the second power switching pad is based on a control signal provided at the control pad. The Kelvin connection pad is coupled to the power switching path. The Kelvin connection contact is coupled to the Kelvin connection pad of each one of the power semiconductor die via a Kelvin conductive trace on the power substrate. |
| US11069635B2 |
Radio frequency transistor amplifiers and other multi-cell transistors having isolation structures
A multi-cell transistor includes a semiconductor structure, a plurality of unit cell transistors that are electrically connected in parallel, each unit cell transistor extending in a first direction in the semiconductor structure, wherein the unit cell transistors are spaced apart from each other along a second direction, and an isolation structure that is positioned between a first group of the unit cell transistors and a second group of the unit cell transistors and that extends above the semiconductor structure. |
| US11069634B2 |
Amplifier and amplification apparatus
An amplifier includes an amplifier circuit configured to include a transistor that amplifies a signal, an insulating film provided over the amplifier circuit, an input pad provided over the insulating film and coupled to the transistor through a wiring in the insulating film, an output pad provided over the insulating film and coupled to the transistor through the wiring in the insulating film, and a metal layer provided over the insulating film to be grounded, and configured to include an opening that extends in a second direction intersecting with a first direction in a plane direction, the signal propagating from the input pad to the output pad in the first direction, and the opening being at a position overlapping the transistor. |
| US11069633B2 |
Electronic package
The disclosure provides an electronic package, including a carrier, an electronic component disposed on the carrier, a buffer, and an antenna structure, wherein the antenna structure includes a metal frame disposed on the carrier and a wire disposed on the carrier and electrically connected to the metal frame, and the buffer covers the wire so as to reduce the emission wave speed of the wire and thus the wavelength is shorten, thereby satisfying the length requirement of the antenna within the limited space of the carrier and achieving an operating frequency radiated as required. |
| US11069632B2 |
Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure provides an array substrate. The array substrate includes a plurality of shielding layers disposed on a glass substrate and arranged at intervals; a dielectric layer spread on the glass substrate and covering the shielding layers, wherein the dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric patterns, the dielectric patterns include main dielectric patterns and auxiliary dielectric patterns disposed on at least one side of the main dielectric patterns; and a gate insulating layer disposed on the dielectric layer. |
| US11069631B2 |
Three-dimensional memory die containing stress-compensating slit trench structures and methods for making the same
A semiconductor die includes a plurality of alternating stacks of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers that are located over a substrate and that laterally extend along a first horizontal direction and that are laterally spaced apart along a second horizontal direction which is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, a plurality of sets of memory stack structures extending through the plurality of alternating stacks, and a plurality of nested seal ring structures which include a first seal ring structure comprising having a first seal ring width between an inner sidewall and an outer sidewall thereof, and a second seal ring structure having a second seal ring width between an inner sidewall and an outer sidewall thereof, such that the first seal ring width is less than the second seal ring width. |
| US11069627B2 |
Scribe seals and methods of making
A semiconductor die includes a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers having a top surface. A scribe seal is located in the plurality of layers and includes a first metal stack having a first metal layer located proximate the top surface. A trench is located in at least one layer of the plurality of layers. The trench extends from the top surface of the plurality of layers and is located a distance from the first metal stack. An electrical insulating layer is located on the top surface. The electrical insulating layer covers at least a portion of the top surface adjacent the first metal layer and extends a distance from the top surface of the first metal layer. |
| US11069626B2 |
Molding compound and semiconductor package with a molding compound
A molding compound and a semiconductor arrangement with a molding compound are disclosed. The molding compound includes a matrix and a filler including filler particles. The filler particles each include a core with an electrically conducting or a semiconducting material and an electrically insulating cover. |
| US11069624B2 |
Electrical devices and methods of manufacture
A die can be applied to a front conductive layer. Openings can be formed in the conductive layer over contact points on the die. The openings can be filled with a conductive material to electrically couple the conductive layer to the contact points on the die. The front conductive layer can be etched to form a first conductive pattern. Conductive standoffs can be formed on portions of the front conductive layer. An additional front conductive layer can be laminated onto the front side. Openings can be formed in the additional front conductive layer over the standoffs. The openings can be filled with a conductive material to electrically couple the additional conductive layer to the underlying standoffs. The additional conductive layer can be etched to form a second conductive pattern. |
| US11069618B2 |
Line structure and a method for producing the same
A multi-layer line structure including a substrate, a lower layer Cu line located on the substrate, an upper layer Cu line located on an insulating layer including an inorganic film located on the lower layer Cu line and an organic resin film located on the inorganic film, and a via connection part located in a via connection hole running in an up-down direction through the insulating layer in an area where the lower layer Cu line and the upper layer Cu line overlap each other is provided. The via connection part includes a barrier conductive layer located on a part of the lower layer Cu line exposed to a bottom part of the via connection hole and on an inner wall of the via connection hole. |
| US11069617B2 |
Semiconductor device and nonvolatile memory
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a transistor having a diffusion layer extending along a surface of a substrate and a gate electrode arranged above the diffusion layer; and contacts having elongated bottom surfaces connected to the diffusion layer on both sides of the gate electrode, in which the contacts are arranged so that the bottom surfaces of the contacts are not aligned in a straight line with an extension direction of the diffusion layer. |
| US11069615B2 |
Inductor, filter, and multiplexer
An inductor includes: a substrate; a first wiring line located on the substrate; a second wiring line located above the first wiring line and spaced from the first wiring line through an air gap, at least a part of the second wiring line overlapping with at least a part of the first wiring line in plan view; a first supporting post connecting ends of the first and second wiring lines such that a direct current conducts between the first and second wiring lines through the first supporting post; and a second supporting post provided such that the second supporting post overlaps with the second wiring line in plan view, and overlaps with the first wiring line in plan view or is surrounded by the first wiring line in plan view, the second supporting post being insulated from the first wiring line, the second supporting post supporting the second wiring line. |
| US11069608B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor structure includes first and second semiconductor dies bonded together. The first semiconductor die includes a first semiconductor substrate, a first interconnect structure disposed below the first semiconductor substrate, and a first bonding conductor disposed below the first interconnect structure and electrically coupled to the first semiconductor substrate through the first interconnect structure. The second semiconductor die includes a second semiconductor substrate and a second interconnect structure disposed below and electrically coupled to the second semiconductor substrate, and a through semiconductor via penetrating through the second semiconductor substrate and extending into the second interconnect structure to be electrically coupled to the second interconnect structure. The first bonding conductor extends from the first interconnect structure towards the through semiconductor via to electrically connect the first semiconductor die to the second semiconductor die. The first bonding conductor corresponding to the through semiconductor via is smaller than the through semiconductor via. |
| US11069607B2 |
Metal option structure of semiconductor device
A metal option structure of a semiconductor device may include: a plurality of vias connecting first metal lines provided in a first metal layer to second metal lines provided in a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer, and configured to constitute a plurality of nodes of an option circuit; and an identification pattern disposed between the first and second metal layers and having a different layout structure from the vias. |
| US11069606B2 |
Fabrication process and structure of fine pitch traces for a solid state diffusion bond on flip chip interconnect
A method to produce a semiconductor package or system-on-flex package comprising bonding structures for connecting IC/chips to fine pitch circuitry using a solid state diffusion bonding is disclosed. A plurality of traces is formed on a substrate, each respective trace comprising at least four different conductive materials having different melting points and plastic deformation properties, which are optimized for both diffusion bonding of chips and soldering of passives components. |
| US11069605B2 |
Wiring structure having low and high density stacked structures
A wiring structure includes at least one upper conductive structure, a lower conductive structure and an intermediate layer. The upper conductive structure includes at least one upper dielectric layer, at least one upper circuit layer in contact with the upper dielectric layer, and at least one bonding portion electrically connected to the upper circuit layer. The lower conductive structure includes at least one lower dielectric layer and at least one lower circuit layer in contact with the lower dielectric layer. The intermediate layer is disposed between the upper conductive structure and the lower conductive structure and bonding the upper conductive structure and the lower conductive structure together. The upper conductive structure is electrically connected to the lower conductive structure. |
| US11069597B2 |
Semiconductor chips and methods of manufacturing the same
Semiconductor chips and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor chip includes a substrate, an interlayer insulation layer including a bottom interlayer insulation layer on an upper surface of the substrate and a top interlayer insulation layer on the bottom interlayer insulation layer, an etch stop layer between the bottom interlayer insulation layer and the top interlayer insulation layer, a landing pad on the interlayer insulation layer, and a through via connected to the landing pad through the substrate, the interlayer insulation layer, and the etch stop layer. The etch stop layer is isolated from direct contact with the landing pad. |
| US11069593B2 |
Semiconductor device
Provided is a technique for preventing warps of cooling plates due to a contraction of a joining material, thereby preventing a reduction in cooling performance of a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes the following: a first cooling plate; a second cooling plate facing the first cooling plate; a semiconductor chip joined between the circuit pattern of the first cooling plate and the circuit pattern of the second cooling plate with a joining material; and a case containing part of the first cooling plate, part of the second cooling plate, and the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip is mounted in a semiconductor-chip mounting part between the first cooling plate and the second cooling plate. The case is provided with a portion corresponding to the semiconductor-chip mounting part and to surroundings thereof. The portion has an up-and-down width greater than an up-and-down width of the remaining portions of the case. |
| US11069591B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a passivation film, a stress relieving layer provided on the passivation film, and a groove formed in a periphery of a surface of the semiconductor chip, the groove being provided inside of an edge of the semiconductor chip, wherein the stress relieving layer is partly disposed in the groove. |
| US11069587B2 |
Integrated semiconductor device and process for manufacturing an integrated semiconductor device
An integrated semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the integrated semiconductor device are disclosed. In an embodiment an integrated semiconductor device includes a supporting substrate having a first substrate face and a second substrate face opposite to the first substrate face, a semiconductor die having a first die face coupled to the first substrate face of the supporting substrate, the first die face including first die contact pads, wherein the supporting substrate has at least one through opening, wherein the first die contact pads are arranged facing the through opening, and wherein the supporting substrate comprises first substrate contact pads connected by first bonding wires to the respective first die contact pads through the through opening. |
| US11069586B2 |
Chip-on-film package
A chip-on-film package including a flexible substrate, first test pads, second test pads, first connecting wires, second connecting wires and a chip is provided. The flexible substrate includes at least one segment. Each segment has a central portion and a first side portion and a second side portion located at two opposite sides of the central portion. The chip disposed on the central portion includes first connecting pads and second connecting pads. The first test pads and the second test pads are disposed on the first side portion. Two ends of each of the first connecting wires are connected to the corresponding first connecting pad and the corresponding first test pad. Two ends of each of the second connecting wires are connected to the corresponding second connecting pad and the corresponding second test pad. Each of the second connecting wires includes a first section located at the second side portion. |
| US11069584B2 |
Inspection method for micro LED
The present invention relates to an inspection method for a micro LED, the method being configured to inspect whether the micro LED is defective. |
| US11069582B2 |
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment and semiconductor manufacturing method
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment includes a thickness calculation function, the thickness calculation function including a measurement value acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of measurement values at different measurement positions of the wafer from a thickness measurement function configured to measure a thickness of the wafer, a histogram data creation unit configured to create histogram data based on the plurality of measurement values, and a grade group extraction unit configured to extract a grade group from the histogram data, the grade group including sequential grades having frequencies equal to or greater than a predetermined frequency, the thickness calculation function further including a representative value calculation unit configured to calculate a representative value of a thickness of a measurement region based on the grades included in the extracted grade group. |
| US11069579B2 |
Semiconductor device and method
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first fin extending from a substrate; a gate stack disposed on the first fin; a source/drain region disposed in the first fin; a contact etch stop layer (CESL) disposed over the source/drain region; a gate spacer extending along a side of the gate stack; and a dielectric plug disposed between the CESL and the gate spacer, where the dielectric plug, the CESL, the gate spacer, and the source/drain region collectively define a void physically separating the gate stack from the source/drain region. |
| US11069576B2 |
Method of forming multi-threshold voltage devices using dipole-high dielectric constant combinations and devices so formed
A method provides a gate structure for a plurality of components of a semiconductor device. The method provides a first dipole combination on a first portion of the components. The first dipole combination includes a first dipole layer and a first high dielectric constant layer on the first dipole layer. A second dipole combination is provided on a second portion of the components. The second dipole combination includes a second dipole layer and a second high dielectric constant layer on the second dipole layer. The first dipole combination is different from the second dipole combination. At least one work function metal layer is provided on the first dipole combination and the second dipole combination. A low temperature anneal is performed after the step of providing the work function metal layer(s). A contact metal layer is formed on the work function metal layer. |
| US11069575B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacture thereof
A semiconductor device and its manufacturing method are presented, relating to semiconductor technology. The manufacturing method comprises: providing a substrate structure comprising a substrate, a source region on the substrate, and a gate structure on the source region; forming cavities on two opposing sides of the gate structure; epitaxially growing electrodes in the cavities, with each electrode comprising an electrode body and an amorphous layer on the electrode body; forming an dielectric layer on the substrate structure covering the electrodes and the gate structure; etching the dielectric layer to form a contact hole exposing the amorphous layer; forming a conductive adhesive layer on the bottom and on the side of the contact hole; and forming a contact component on the conductive adhesive layer filling the contact hole. In this semiconductor device, the adhesive layer may be directly formed on the amorphous layer, resulting in improved performance of the device. |
| US11069573B2 |
Wafer level package structure and method of forming same
An embodiment is a package including a first package component. The first package component including a first die attached to a first side of a first interconnect structure, a molding material surrounding the first die, and a second interconnect structure over the molding material and the first die, a first side of the second interconnect structure coupled to the first die with first electrical connectors. The first package component further includes a plurality of through molding vias (TMVs) extending through the molding material, the plurality of TMVs coupling the first interconnect structure to the second interconnect structure, and a second die attached to a second side of the second interconnect structure with second electrical connectors, the second side of the second interconnect structure being opposite the first side of the second interconnect structure. |
| US11069572B2 |
Semiconductor device and forming method thereof
Semiconductor device and formation method are provided. The method includes providing a substrate, a first fin and a second fin on the substrate, an isolation structure covering a portion of sidewalls of the first and second fins, a gate structure across the first fin or the second fin, a first doped source/drain region in the first fin, a second doped source/drain region in the second fin, and an interlayer dielectric layer on the isolation structure, the first and second fins, and the gate structure. A first through hole is formed in the interlayer dielectric layer, exposing the first doped source/drain region or the second doped source/drain region. A second through hole is formed in the interlayer dielectric layer on the isolation structure to connect to the first through hole. A first plug is formed in the first through hole and a second plug is formed in the second through hole. |
| US11069570B2 |
Method for forming an interconnect structure
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming an interconnect structure. The method can include providing a semiconductor substrate; depositing a photoresist and a BARC layer on the semiconductor substrate; forming an opening in the photoresist and the BARC layer and a portion of the semiconductor substrate; depositing a conductive material to fill the opening; and planarizing the conductive material and the semiconductor substrate. |
| US11069569B2 |
Semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of lower electrodes arranged on a substrate in a first direction, which is parallel to a main surface of the substrate, and a second direction parallel to the main surface of the substrate and perpendicular to the first direction; and a support structure pattern configured to connect the plurality of lower electrodes to each other to support the plurality of lower electrodes, on the substrate and including a plurality of open portions. The plurality of open portions have shapes extending longer in the second direction than in the first direction, and when viewed from inner sides of the plurality of open portions, the plurality of open portions are convex in the first direction and are concave in the second direction. |
| US11069568B2 |
Ultra-thin diffusion barriers
In one embodiment, a method of forming a barrier layer is provided. The method includes positioning a substrate in a processing chamber, forming a barrier layer over the substrate and in contact with the underlayer, and annealing the substrate. The substrate comprises at least one underlayer having cobalt, tungsten, or copper. The barrier layer has a thickness of less than 70 angstroms. |
| US11069566B2 |
Hybrid sidewall barrier facilitating low resistance interconnection
Devices and methods that can facilitate hybrid sidewall barrier and low resistance interconnect components are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a first interconnect material layer that can have a first opening that can comprise a first discontinuous barrier liner coupled to first sidewalls of the first opening and a first continuous barrier layer coupled to the first discontinuous barrier liner and the first sidewalls. The device can further comprise a second interconnect material layer coupled to the first interconnect material layer, the second interconnect material layer can have a second opening that can comprise a second discontinuous barrier liner coupled to second sidewalls of the second opening, a second continuous barrier layer coupled to the second discontinuous barrier liner and the second sidewalls. |
| US11069563B2 |
Method for processing substrate and substrate processing apparatus
Planarization is performed on heterogeneous films with high accuracy. According to one embodiment, a method for processing a substrate is provided. The substrate is formed of an insulating film layer where a groove is formed, a barrier metal layer, and a wiring metal layer in order from a bottom in at least a part of a region. The method includes (3) while the wiring metal layer, the barrier metal layer, and the insulating film layer are exposed to the surface of the substrate: a step of bringing the surface of the substrate into contact with a catalyst; a step of supplying a process liquid between the catalyst and the surface of the substrate; and a step of flowing a current between the catalyst and the surface of the substrate. |
| US11069561B2 |
Methods of forming electronic devices, and related electronic devices and electronic systems
An electronic device comprises a dielectric structure, interconnect structures extending into the dielectric structure and having uppermost vertical boundaries above uppermost vertical boundaries of the dielectric structure, an additional barrier material covering surfaces of the interconnect structures above the uppermost vertical boundaries of the dielectric structure, an isolation material overlying the additional barrier material, and at least one air gap laterally intervening between at least two of the interconnect structures laterally-neighboring one another. Each of the interconnect structures comprises a conductive material, and a barrier material intervening between the conductive material and the dielectric structure. The at least one air gap vertically extends from a lower portion of the isolation material, through the additional barrier material, and into the dielectric structure. Electronic systems and method of forming an electronic device are also described. |
| US11069555B2 |
Die attach systems, and methods of attaching a die to a substrate
A die attach system is provided. The die attach system includes: a support structure for supporting a substrate; a die supply source including a plurality of die for attaching to the substrate; a bond head for bonding a die from the die supply source to the substrate, the bond head including a bond tool for contacting the die during a transfer from the die supply source to the substrate; a first motion system for moving the bond head along a first axis; and a second motion system, independent of the first motion system, for moving the bond tool along the first axis. |
| US11069554B1 |
Carbon nanotube electrostatic chuck
A platen having improved thermal conductivity and reduced friction is disclosed. In one embodiment, vertically aligned carbon nanotubes are grown on the top surface of the platen. The carbon nanotubes have excellent thermal conductivity, thus improving the transfer of heat between the platen and the workpiece. Furthermore, the friction between the carbon nanotubes and the workpiece is much lower than that with conventional embossments, reducing particle generation. In another embodiment, a support plate is disposed on the platen, wherein the carbon nanotubes are disposed on the top surface of the support plate. |
| US11069540B2 |
Package on package and a method of fabricating the same
A method for fabricating an interposer substrate is provided, including forming a wiring layer on a carrier, forming an insulating layer on the carrier, forming on the wiring layer a wiring build-up layer structure that is electrically connected to the wiring layer, forming on the wiring build-up layer structure external connection pillars that are electrically connected to the wiring build-up layer structure, and removing the carrier, with the wiring layer is exposed from a surface of the insulating layer. The fabrication process of the via can be bypassed in the fabrication process by forming coreless interposer substrate on the carrier, such that the overall cost of the fabrication process can be decreased, and the fabrication process is simple. This invention further provides the interposer substrate. |
| US11069538B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
The one end portion of the connector of the semiconductor device includes: a horizontal portion; a first inclined portion that is connected to the horizontal portion and is located closer to the tip end side of the one end than the horizontal portion, and the first inclined portion having a shape inclined downward from the horizontal portion; and a control bending portion that is connected to the first inclined portion and positioned at the tip of the one end portion, and the control bending portion bent downwardly along the bending axis direction. The lower surface of the control bending portion is in contact with an upper surface of the second terminal. |
| US11069536B2 |
Device manufacturing method
There is provided a method of manufacturing a device, which comprises: a preparation step of preparing a workpiece having a recess formed therein; a burying step of burying a sacrificial material composed of a thermally decomposable organic material in the recess; a lamination step of laminating a preliminary sealing film on the sacrificial material buried in the recess; a first removal step of removing the sacrificial material in the recess through the preliminary sealing film, by annealing the workpiece at a first temperature and thermally decomposing the sacrificial material; a processing step of performing a predetermined process on a portion other than the recess in the workpiece, in a state in which the recess is covered with the preliminary sealing film; and a second removal step of removing the preliminary sealing film. |
| US11069534B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices and semiconductor devices
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a gate dielectric layer is formed over a channel region, a first conductive layer is formed over the gate dielectric layer, a protective layer is formed at a surface region of the first conductive layer, a metallic layer is formed by applying a metal containing gas on the protective layer, and the metallic layer is removed by a wet etching operation using a solution. The protective layer is resistant to the solution of the wet etching operation. |
| US11069528B2 |
Semiconductor device and method
A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit includes patterning a plurality of photomask layers over a substrate, partially backfilling the patterned plurality of photomask layers with a first material using atomic layer deposition, completely backfilling the patterned plurality of photomask layers with a second material using atomic layer deposition, removing the plurality of photomask layers to form a masking structure comprising at least one of the first and second materials, and transferring a pattern formed by the masking structure to the substrate and removing the masking structure. The first material includes a silicon dioxide, silicon carbide, or carbon material, and the second material includes a metal oxide or metal nitride material. |
| US11069525B2 |
Methods for using remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RP-CVD) and sputtering deposition to grow layers in light emitting devices
Described herein are methods for using remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RP-CVD) and sputtering deposition to grow layers for light emitting devices. A method includes growing a light emitting device structure on a growth substrate, and growing a tunnel junction on the light emitting device structure using at least one of RP-CVD and sputtering deposition. The tunnel junction includes a p++ layer in direct contact with a p-type region, where the p++ layer is grown by using at least one of RP-CVD and sputtering deposition. Another method for growing a device includes growing a p-type region over a growth substrate using at least one of RP-CVD and sputtering deposition, and growing further layers over the p-type region. Another method for growing a device includes growing a light emitting region and an n-type region using at least one of RP-CVD and sputtering deposition over a p-type region. |
| US11069522B2 |
Si precursors for deposition of SiN at low temperatures
Methods and precursors for depositing silicon nitride films by atomic layer deposition (ALD) are provided. In some embodiments the silicon precursors comprise an iodine ligand. The silicon nitride films may have a relatively uniform etch rate for both vertical and the horizontal portions when deposited onto three-dimensional structures such as FinFETS or other types of multiple gate FETs. In some embodiments, various silicon nitride films of the present disclosure have an etch rate of less than half the thermal oxide removal rate with diluted HF (0.5%). |
| US11069519B1 |
Amplifier amplitude control for a mass spectrometer
Control of an amplitude of a signal applied to rods of a quadrupole is described. In one aspect, a mass spectrometer includes a quadrupole mass analyzer and a resonant circuit to generate a radio frequency (RF) signal applied to rods of the quadrupole mass analyzer. An amplitude control circuit can be inductively coupled with inductors of the resonant circuit to selectively discharge energy from the resonant circuit and, therefore, adjust the amplitude of the signal in particular situations. |
| US11069518B2 |
Multilayer insulation for mass spectrometry applications
A mass spectrometer includes a vacuum manifold having an interior space, a vacuum pump configured to maintain the interior space at a pressure below 5×10-5 torr, a heated component, such as an ion source, located within the interior space, and a multilayer insulator located within the interior space. The multilayer insulator including an inner layer with a first surface oriented towards the heated component and a second surface oriented away from the heated component; and an outer layer with a third surface oriented towards away from the heated component and a fourth surface oriented towards the heated component. |
| US11069517B2 |
Physical isolation of adducts and other complicating factors in precursor ion selection for IDA
A system is disclosed for identifying precursor ions originating from an ion source device. A mass filter filters an ion beam by using a series of overlapping precursor ion mass selection windows across the precursor ion mass range. A mass analyzer analyzes the precursor ions of each precursor ion mass selection window of the series, producing a plurality of precursor ion spectra for the precursor ion mass range. A precursor ion is selected from the spectra. The intensities for the selected precursor ion are retrieved from the spectra and a trace is produced that describes how the intensity of the selected precursor ion varies with the location of the precursor ion mass selection window. The selected precursor ion is identified as a precursor ion originating from the ion source device if the trace includes a nonzero intensity for the m/z value of the selected precursor ion. |
| US11069512B2 |
Film forming apparatus and gas injection member used therefor
A film forming apparatus, for forming a film on a target substrate using a processing gas excited by plasma, includes: a processing chamber for accommodating the substrate; a mounting table for mounting thereon the substrate in the processing chamber; a gas injection member provided to face the substrate mounted on the mounting table and configured to inject the processing gas toward the target substrate on the mounting table; and a plasma generation unit for exciting the processing gas by generating plasma between the gas injection member and the mounting table. The gas injection member has a gas injection surface facing the mounting table. Gas injection holes are formed in the gas injection surface. A gas injection hole forming region, on the gas injection surface, where the gas injection holes are formed is smaller than a region on the gas injection surface which corresponds to the target substrate. |
| US11069505B2 |
Aberration corrector and electron microscope
In order to provide an aberration corrector with a wide aberration correction range, easy control, highly accurate aberration correction, and a low cost, an aberration corrector, passing an electron beam through a central axis 201, includes a first current line group (101 to 112) which is arranged parallel to an optical axis at a position separated by R1 from the central axis, and excites a first multipole field, and a second current line group (21 to 32) which is arranged parallel to the optical axis at a position separated by R2 from the central axis, and independently excites a second multipole field having an order and intensity different from those of the first multipole field. |
| US11069502B2 |
DC circuit breaker
A DC circuit breaker includes a fuse unit to interrupt a large current with a fuse, and the fuse unit includes a high-speed disconnector that is connected in parallel to the fuse and is opened when a fault current is detected. |
| US11069497B2 |
Temperature switch and insulating case for temperature switch
A temperature switch includes a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature so as to move a movable contact to a position that is in contact with a fixed contact and to a position that is separated from the fixed contact, a first lead wire that is connected to the fixed contact and that includes a covering member, a second lead wire that is connected to the movable contact and that includes a covering member, and a first-insulation-case member and a second-insulation-case member each of which includes a first-lead-wire concave portion and a second-lead-wire concave portion, and which are fit into each other so as to form accommodation space S that accommodates the temperature detection unit, the movable contact, and the fixed contact, where first-lead-wire concave portion accepts insertion of the covering member of the first lead wire and the second-lead-wire concave portion accepts insertion of the covering member of the second lead wire. |
| US11069489B2 |
Multifunctional switch manipulator
A multifunctional switch manipulator is provided. The manipulator includes a first switch unit, which is curved to be convex at the upper surface thereof, a second switch unit, which is disposed at a first side of the first switch unit and which extends radially in a first direction, and a third switch unit, which is disposed at a second side of the first switch unit and which extends radially in a second direction opposite the first direction. Each of the second and third switch units includes a housing that has an opening and a rotary knob disposed at the housing to be rotatable in a direction in which the opening extends, and at least one surface of the rotary knob is exposed to an outside through the opening. |
| US11069478B2 |
Laminate of ceramic layer and sintered body of copper powder paste
Provided is a laminate of a sintered body produced by sintering a copper powder paste and a ceramic substrate, which has improved adhesion between the sintered body and the ceramic substrate. A laminate with a copper powder paste sintered body laminated on a non-metal layer, wherein the copper powder paste sintered body has a crystal grain diameter of copper of 10 μm or less, as determined from an EBSD map image, based on Area Fraction method, and has an average reliability index (CI value) of 0.5 or more in an analysis area. |
| US11069477B2 |
Coil unit, wireless power transmission device, wireless power receiving device, and wireless power transmission system
A coil unit capable of inhibiting overheating in a magnetic body while the amount of the magnetic body used is reduced includes a magnetic body and a coil with an opening, the magnetic body overlaps the coil in a first direction and includes first, second, and third areas, the first area includes first and second faces, the second area includes third and fourth faces, the third area includes fifth and sixth faces, a first distance between the fifth face and the coil is shorter than a second distance between the second face and the coil and is longer than a third distance between the first face and the coil, a fourth distance between the third face and the coil is shorter than the first distance, and a fifth distance between the fourth face and the coil is longer than the third distance. |
| US11069476B2 |
Self-contained device with planar overlapping coils
A self-contained radio-frequency device featuring multiple overlapping coupled coil inductors in a planar configuration with overlaps selected for desired coupling between different pairs of coils, wherein the electromagnetic energy of the coils arises substantially only from the coils themselves and affects only the coils themselves. Overlapping configurations provide a compact space-saving form-factor for such a device a variety of applications, including filters, baluns, transformers, matching networks, amplifier stages, distributed amplifiers, and frequency multipliers. Space-saving is achieved by overlapping the coils while controlling the mutual inductance. The planar arrangements are applicable to a variety of technologies, such as integrated circuits (IC, ASIC, RFIC), ceramic multilayer technologies such as low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), and to printed circuit boards (PCB). Planar arrangements of overlapping coils is illustrated with respect to filters, tunable filters and Q-enhanced filters. |
| US11069474B2 |
Inductor
An inductor includes a coil including a winding portion and a lead-out portion, a body constituted by a magnetic member and enclosing the coil, a protection layer disposed on a surface of the body, and an outer electrode. The body has a bottom surface, a top surface, two end surfaces, two side surfaces, and first and second R-chamfered sections. The outer electrode includes first and second electrode regions. The first electrode region is located on the bottom surface and is electrically connected to the lead-out portion. The second electrode region is located on the protection layer on each end surface. The surface roughness of part of the bottom surface where the first electrode region is disposed is greater than that of the protection layer on each of the end surfaces where the second electrode region is disposed. |
| US11069473B2 |
Inductor
An inductor includes a coil including a winding portion and an lead-out portion, a body constituted by a magnetic member and enclosing the coil, a protection layer disposed on a surface of the body, and an outer electrode. The body has a bottom surface, a top surface, two end surfaces, two side surfaces, and first and second R-chamfered sections. The outer electrode includes first and second electrode regions. The first electrode region is located on the bottom surface and is electrically connected to the lead-out portion. The second electrode region is located on the protection layer on each end surface. The number of conductive particles in the first electrode region intersecting with a unit length of a straight line perpendicular to the bottom surface is greater than that in the second electrode region intersecting with a unit length of a straight line perpendicular to the end surface. |
| US11069472B2 |
Coil pattern, method for forming same, and chip device including same
Provided is a method of forming a coil pattern on at least one surface on a substrate, the method comprising forming a seed layer on at least one surface of a substrate, and forming at least two or more plating layers to cover the seed layer, wherein the two or more plating layers are formed through anisotropic plating. |
| US11069467B2 |
Solenoid device
A solenoid device includes a yoke, a core, a shaft, a bobbin, a coil, a plunger, a lid, and a housing. A housing body part of the housing has a first opening that opens on the rear side; and a first inner wall part expanding in a cylindrical shape on the outer side in the radial direction on an inner wall on the rear side. The first inner wall part has a first step part at the end on the other side in the axial direction. A first cylindrical part of the yoke has a first flange part on the rear side. The first flange part has a hole penetrating in the axial direction. A second space, which communicates a second through hole with the hole when the plunger has moved to a retreat position, is provided between an inner surface of the lid and the plunger and the yoke. |
| US11069465B1 |
Magnetic mounting apparatus for breakaway mounting of hardware to an object
In an example, an apparatus for mounting hardware to an object includes: a base member having an attachment surface to be attached to the object, base member magnets, and a base breakaway connection surface; a hardware support having a hardware support surface to receive the hardware, hardware support magnets, and a support breakaway connection surface to be magnetically coupled with the base breakaway connection surface, by magnetic attraction between the base member magnets and the hardware support magnets, to form a magnetic connection having a preset magnetic breakaway strength to maintain the magnetic connection and allow the hardware support and the base member to be separated by a force greater than the preset magnetic breakaway strength; and a fastener to fasten the hardware to the hardware support, the fastener keeping the hardware and the hardware support fastened together under a force sufficiently large to separate the magnetic connection. |
| US11069461B2 |
Automated assembly sensor cable
An automated assembly sensor cable has a generally wide and flat elongated body and a registration feature generally traversing the length of the body so as to identify the relative locations of conductors within the body. This cable configuration facilitates the automated attachment of the cable to an optical sensor circuit and corresponding connector. In various embodiments, the automated assembly sensor cable has a conductor set of insulated wires, a conductive inner jacket generally surrounding the conductor set, an outer jacket generally surrounding the inner jacket and a registration feature disposed along the surface of the outer jacket and a conductive drain line is embedded within the inner jacket. A strength member may be embedded within the inner jacket. |
| US11069459B2 |
Covered electrical wire and terminal-equipped electrical wire
A covered electrical wire including a conductor and an insulating coating layer covering an outer periphery of the conductor, in which the conductor is a twisted wire obtained by concentrically twisting together a plurality of elemental wires constituted by a copper alloy, the copper alloy contains one or more elements selected from Fe, Ti, Mg, Sn, Ag, Ni, In, Zn, Cr, Al, and P in a total amount of 0.01 mass % to 5.5 mass % inclusive, and the remaining portion includes Cu and inevitable impurities, and an amount of oil adhering to a surface of a central elemental wire disposed at a central portion of the twisted wire is 10 μg/g or less with respect to the mass of the central elemental wire. |
| US11069458B2 |
Electrical cable
An electrical cable includes a conductor assembly having a first conductor, a second conductor and an insulator surrounding the first conductor and the second conductor. The insulator has an outer surface and extends along a longitudinal axis for a length of the electrical cable. The conductor assembly has a coating layer on the outer surface of the insulator being conductive defining an inner electrical shield of the electrical cable. A cable shield is wrapped around the conductor assembly and has an inner edge and an outer edge. The outer edge is wrapped over the inner edge to form a flap covering the inner edge and extending along the longitudinal axis. The cable shield engages the inner electrical shield and forms an outer electrical shield exterior of the inner electrical shield. |
| US11069457B2 |
Wire harness that enables a wiring path to be easily changed
A wire harness including: a wire including a core wire and an insulating covering that covers the core wire; an electromagnetic shield that covers and electromagnetically shields at least the core wire; a path regulator that has higher flexural rigidity than the wire and that is formed in an elongated shape; and a cover that covers the wire, the electromagnetic shield, and the path regulator, wherein the wire is fixed along the path regulator. |
| US11069455B2 |
Composition for producing an electrically conductive layer, in particular for an electroluminescence device
A composition for producing an electrically conductive layer according to a slotted-nozzle method includes 2-30 wt. % of a protective colloid mixture which is soluble or dispersible in water, 1-15 wt. % of a conductive carbon modification, 5-50 wt. % of metal-coated particles, 50-90 wt. % of an aqueous solvent, the dynamic viscosity of the conductive composition being less than 400 mPa·s, wherein the composition comprises 0.1-10 wt. % of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. The electrically conductive layer being one or both of a pair of conductive layers having a luminous layer with electroluminescent pigments arranged therebetween in an electroluminescense device or related method for producing an electroluminescense device. |
| US11069452B2 |
Drive device for in-core neutron instrumentation system
A drive device for an in-core neutron instrumentation system includes a safety circuit between a power supply and a drive motor. The safety circuit is provided inside the cover member, and switches between a conductive state in which power can be supplied to the drive motor and a cut-off state in which power cannot be supplied thereto depending on a mounted state of the cover member. The safety circuit is controlled to be in the conductive state in response to a state in which the cover member is mounted on the base member, and is controlled to be in the cut-off state in response to a state in which the cover member is not mounted on the base member. |
| US11069451B2 |
Mobile equipment for measuring structural deformation of nuclear fuel assembly
Provided is mobile equipment for measuring structural deformation of a nuclear fuel assembly, the mobile equipment including: a container; a power means and a loading table disposed inside the container; a pedestal disposed on one side of the loading table of the container, the pedestal being provided with a hinge means and a fixing means configured to fix the nuclear fuel assembly upright; a column seated on the loading table and provided at one end part thereof with a rotating shaft detachably installed to the hinge means, and configured to be erected upright on the fixing means of the pedestal by power of the power means; and a scanner configured to move upward and downward in a longitudinal direction of the column and to measure the structural deformation of the nuclear fuel assembly. |
| US11069442B2 |
Method, system, and computer program product for physician efficiency measurement and patient health risk stratification
A method for measuring physician efficiency and patient health risk stratification is disclosed. Episodes of care are formed from medical claims data and an output process is performed. Physicians are assigned to report groups, and eligible physicians and episode assignments are determined. Condition-specific episode statistics and weighted episode statistics are calculated, from which physician efficiency scores are determined. |
| US11069439B2 |
Method for controlling an evaluation device for medical images of patient, evaluation device, computer program and electronically readable storage medium
A method for controlling an evaluation system for medical images of a patient is proposed. Medical images of the patient acquired at different time points are stored in an image database. Upon reception of a user command associated with a time-dependent evaluation command including at least one evaluation parameter describing an evaluation to be performed and identification information describing the patient, medical images of the patient fulfilling a relevancy criterion depending on the evaluation parameter and acquired at different time points are retrieved from the image database. The retrieved images are registered to each other in at least one registration process. Finally, a composite evaluation image data set including a time series of evaluation images is derived from the registered retrieved images and output to the user. |
| US11069437B1 |
Distributed computer system for coordinating messaging and funding for healthcare expenses including funding via networked crowdsourcing
A distributed computer system comprises one or more patient system, configured to be operated by patients seeking provider services, a front-end web server to interface to the one or more patient system, a back-end server system coupled to the front-end web server to receive patient information, a healthcare provider system that provides information about a procedure needed by a patient unable to pay for the procedure, providing the information to the back-end server system, and a donor computer system, for accepting and receiving messages from the back-end server system about funding patient procedures. |
| US11069435B2 |
Wellness management method and system by wellness mode based on context-awareness platform on smartphone
A device, method and system provide a wellness management process and/or an exercise management process for use with a smartphone or other mobile computing device. Various data about the user is obtained and used for determining and recommending an action or exercise to the user to improve the user's wellness/physique/health. The action determined can be based on: (1) current biometric and/or motion data about the user (from the sensors), and (2) current physical condition(s), such as health/medical information or condition about the user (from the user's personal information, e.g., health library or programmed into the smartphone). Specific information about the user is taken into consideration when recommending user action or exercise, such as the user's specific physical, health or medical conditions. |
| US11069433B2 |
Packaging systems and methods
Systems and methods are provided for delivering single-dose packages sequentially from a substantially continuous strip having a first dispensing end and a second end, e.g., contained within a cassette or other dispenser. The strip includes a cover layer attached to a base layer to define a plurality of blisters therebetween that have one or more medications therein. The blisters are aligned in single file generally along the longitudinal axis between the first and second ends and/or otherwise arranged in single-dose packages adjacent one another, e.g., at least some of the single-dose packages including a plurality of blisters having different types of medications therein. A first single-dose package at the first dispensing end may be separable from a second adjacent single-dose package such that individual single-dose packages may be removed successively from the first dispensing end. |
| US11069432B2 |
Automatic disease detection from unstructured textual reports
Automatic detection of disease presence from combining disease-specific measurements with textual descriptions of disease and its severity in unstructured textual reports is provided. In various embodiments, a knowledge graph of clinical concepts is read. Based on the knowledge graph, a plurality of associations are determined between disease names, symptoms, anatomical abnormalities, and qualifiers. A corpus of clinical reports is read. Based on the plurality of associations, a plurality of portions indicative of a disease condition are located within the corpus of clinical reports. Within each of the plurality of portions, name/value pairs are detected corresponding to measurements indicative of the disease condition. The measurements indicative of the disease condition are extracted. |
| US11069431B2 |
Integrated, molecular, omics, immunotherapy, metabolic, epigenetic, and clinical database
The disclosure describes a patient registry data system that can be used to aggregate clinical, molecular, and immune parameters involved in disease initiation, progression, and response to treatment. The disclosure can allow participants, researchers, and physicians to visualize data based on parameters, such as participant demographics and immune system data. |
| US11069429B2 |
Mobile data management system
A data management arrangement that comprises system(s) enabling monitoring and interconnectivity system resources and configuration parameters to be dynamically adapted to ensure re-defined data prioritisation and associated essential minimal data interconnectivity is maintained during high-dependence or critical data applications which arrangement includes the capability to combine and adapt/adjust online network application services connectivity parameters and configurations, mobile or remote monitoring and/or information and communication technology in accordance to required monitoring criteria, monitoring and interconnectivity conditions, status of monitored individual or object, and/or available resources and conditions associated with said NAS connectivity and/or mobile or remote monitoring and/or ICT systems, in accordance to the application and applicable risk mitigation and high-dependence connectivity monitoring aspect and associated requirements, and the capability to combine mobile monitoring or computing location details with current and/or forecast and/or normal conditions in order to determine travel, health, and other alerts, advice and recommendations. |
| US11069426B1 |
Memory device with a row repair mechanism and methods for operating the same
Methods, apparatuses and systems related to managing access to a memory device are described. A memory device includes a plurality of banks that each include (1) a plurality of memory cells and (2) a plurality of redundant cells configured to replace one or more target memory cells in the plurality of memory cells. A set of shared fuses and latches may be used to store a row address for each repair that may be implemented in one of the plurality of banks. A shared match circuit coupled to the set of shared latches and the plurality of memory banks may be configured to at least partially implement a row repair for the row address for a bank associated with a commanded operation. |
| US11069425B2 |
Multi-level memory repurposing technology to process a request to modify a configuration of a persistent storage media
An embodiment of a semiconductor apparatus may include technology to receive a request to modify a configuration of a persistent storage media, and repurpose a region of the persistent storage media from a first number of bits per cell to a second number of bits per cell in response to the request. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. |
| US11069422B1 |
Testing multi-port array in integrated circuits
A method for testing a circuit includes performing, by a test engine, a test of a memory element of the circuit, the test accesses a memory location in the memory element, the memory location is identified by an address, and the memory location is accessed via a first port associated with a first port select bit. The method further includes, in response to detecting a failure associated with the memory location, determining an existing entry for the address in a failed address register, and determining that the existing entry in the failed address register is associated with a second port select bit, distinct from the first port select bit. The method further includes, in response to the second port select bit being distinct from the first port select bit, setting a multi-port failure flag for the memory element that is being tested. |
| US11069421B1 |
Circuitry for checking operation of error correction code (ECC) circuitry
Error detection circuitry is configured to receive raw read data from a memory, perform error detection in accordance with a single-bit error correction and double-bit error detection (SECDEC) error-correction code (ECC) on the raw read data, and provide a single bit correction indicator in response to performing the SECDEC ECC on the raw read data. Error correction circuitry is configured to provide corrected read data corresponding to the raw read data based at least on the single bit correction indicator. ECC checking circuitry is configured to generate a wrong operation indicator based at least on a parity of the raw read data, a parity of the corrected read data, and the single bit correction indicator, wherein the ECC checking circuitry is configured to assert the wrong operation indicator when at least one of the error detection circuitry or the error correction circuitry is not operating correctly. |
| US11069420B2 |
In-system test of a memory device
An example system includes a processing resource and a switch board coupled to a system under test (SUT) and the processing resource. The SUT includes a memory device. The switch board can be configured to provide power to the SUT, communicate a first signal from the SUT to the processing resource, and provide a second signal to the SUT that simulates an input to the SUT during operation of the SUT. The processing resource can be configured to receive a function, selected from a library of functions, to execute during a test of the memory device and cause the switch board to provide the second signal during the test of the SUT. |
| US11069418B1 |
Method and system for offline program/erase count estimation
In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method for characterizing persistent storage. The method includes selecting a sample set of physical addresses in a solid state memory module, where the sample set of physical addresses is associated with a region in the solid state memory module (SSMM). The method further includes issuing a write request to the sample set of physical addresses, after issuing the write request, issuing a request read to the sample set of physical addresses to obtain a copy of the data stored in the sample set of physical addresses, obtaining an error parameter for the copy of the data, determining a calculated P/E cycle value for the SSMM using at least the error parameter; and storing the calculated P/E cycle value in the SSMM. |
| US11069414B2 |
Non-volatile semiconductor storage device
According to one embodiment, there is provided a non-volatile semiconductor storage device including a non-volatile memory, a monitoring section, a determining section, and a notification processing section. The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of memory cells driven by word lines and a voltage generating section that generates a read voltage to be applied to the word lines. The monitoring section monitors a change in a threshold distribution of the plurality of memory cells upon performing a read processing to read data from the plurality of memory cells by applying the read voltage to the word lines. The determining section determines a degree of deterioration of the non-volatile memory in accordance with a monitoring result by the monitoring section. The notification processing section notifies a life of the non-volatile memory in accordance with a determining result by the determining section. |
| US11069410B1 |
Three-dimensional NOR-NAND combination memory device and method of making the same
First alternating stacks of first insulating strips and first spacer material strips is formed in a first device region, second alternating stacks of second insulating strips and second spacer material strips are formed in a second device region. Each of the first line trenches is filled with a respective laterally alternating sequence of memory stack structures and first dielectric pillar structures to form a three-dimensional NAND memory. Each of the memory stack structures includes a vertical semiconductor channel and a vertical stack of memory elements. Each of the second line trenches with a respective laterally alternating sequence of active region assemblies of lateral field effect transistors and second dielectric pillar structures to form a three-dimensional NOR memory. Each of the active region assemblies includes a source pillar, a drain pillar, and a tubular channel region. The spacer material strips include, or are subsequently replaced with, electrically conductive strips. |
| US11069408B2 |
Apparatus for discharging control gates after performing an access operation on a memory cell
Apparatus configured to perform an access operation on a memory cell of an array of memory cells, discharge a control gate of a first field-effect transistor after performing the access operation, discharge a control gate of a second field-effect transistor connected in series between the first field-effect transistor and the memory cell after discharging the control gate of the first field-effect transistor, and discharge a control gate of the memory cell after discharging the control gate of the second field-effect transistor. |
| US11069406B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device including temperature compensation circuit
A nonvolatile memory device includes a differential current driver that receives a first differential signal and a second differential signal, which are based on a temperature, and generates a first compensation current and a second compensation current corresponding to a difference value between the first and second differential signals. A current mirror circuit copies a first current, which is a sum of a reference current and the first compensation current, to generate a second current having a same value as a value of the first current and regulates the reference current depending on a difference value of the second current and the second compensation current. A trimming circuit generates a program current or a read current based on the regulated reference current. |
| US11069405B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device of an embodiment has stacked semiconductor memories, each semiconductor memory including first lines intersecting with second lines, and resistive change elements each disposed between one of the first lines and one of the second lines. In two of the semiconductor memories adjacent to each other in the stacking direction, either two of the first lines or two of the second lines are disposed along and in contact with each other. A first contact electrically connected to the second line of the uppermost semiconductor memory passes through a region between the second lines of each of the semiconductor memories located below the uppermost semiconductor memory, and a second contact electrically connected to the second line of each of the semiconductor memories located at an intermediate level passes through a region between the second lines of each of the semiconductor memories located below the intermediate level. |
| US11069401B2 |
Memory with symmetric read current profile and read method thereof
Memories are provided. A memory includes a first memory array, a second memory array, and a read circuit. The first memory array is configured to store main data. The second memory array is configured to store complement data that is complementary to the main data. The read circuit includes a first sense amplifier, a second sense amplifier and an output buffer. The first sense amplifier is configured to provide a first sensing signal according to a reference signal and first data of the main data corresponding to a first address signal. The second sense amplifier is configured to provide a second sensing signal according to the reference signal and second data of the complement data corresponding to the first address signal. The output buffer is configured to provide one of the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal as an output according to a control signal. |
| US11069396B2 |
Memory device and method of operating the memory device for initializing sensing latch during evaluation operation
Provided herein may be a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device includes a memory cell, a page buffer coupled to the memory cell through a bit line and configured to perform a read operation of sensing data stored in the memory cell, wherein the page buffer includes a data storage configured to store data sensed from the memory cell, the read operation includes a precharge period during which a precharge voltage is applied to the bit line, an evaluation period during which a state of the memory cell is incorporated into a voltage of the bit line, and a data storage period during which the data sensed through the bit line is stored in the data storage, and the data storage is initialized during the evaluation period. |
| US11069381B1 |
Automated sensor data retention
This disclosure describes techniques for utilizing sensor data to automatically determine the results of events within a system. Upon receiving sensor data indicative of an event, the techniques may analyze the sensor data to determine a result of the event, such as that a particular user associated with a user identifier selected a particular item associated with an item identifier. The techniques described herein may determine when sensor data is to be stored for a default amount of time, and when sensor data is to be stored for a greater amount of time. By retaining data in an intelligent manner, the system is able to function accurately without unduly taxing storage constraints. |
| US11069380B2 |
Scene and activity identification in video summary generation
Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. The video summary can be generated using a video summary template with slots corresponding to video clips selected from among sets of candidate video clips. Best scenes can also be identified by receiving an indication of an event of interest within video from a user during the capture of the video. Metadata patterns representing activities identified within video clips can be identified within other videos, which can subsequently be associated with the identified activities. |
| US11069379B2 |
Intelligent print recognition system and method
A system and method for interactive printed media are disclosed in which a mobile or wearable computing device has an application that captures an image of a piece of printed media and associates a link to the piece of printed media using a backend component to make the piece of printed media interactive. The system and method may be used to generate a piece of printed media that is interactive that may be sent to third parties or to make an existing piece of printed media interactive. |
| US11069377B2 |
Magnetic tape having characterized magnetic layer and magnetic recording and reproducing device
Provided are a magnetic tape comprising a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on a non-magnetic support, in which the magnetic layer contains an oxide abrasive, an average particle diameter of the oxide abrasive obtained from a secondary ion image acquired by irradiating a surface of the magnetic layer with a focused ion beam is 0.04 μm to 0.08 μm, and an absolute value ΔN of a difference between a refractive index Nxy measured with respect to an in-plane direction of the magnetic layer and a refractive index Nz measured with respect to a thickness direction of the magnetic layer is 0.25 to 0.40, and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the magnetic tape. |
| US11069369B2 |
Method and electronic device
A method comprising determining feature values of an input audio window and determining model parameters for the input audio window based on processing of feature values using a neural network. |
| US11069367B2 |
Speaker association with a visual representation of spoken content
Speaker content generated in an audio conference is selectively and visually represented. A profile for each audience member who participates in the audio conference is obtained. Speaker content spoken during the audio conference is monitored. Different weights are applied to words included in the speaker content according to a parameter of the profile for each of the audience members. A relation between the speaker content to the profile for each of the audience members is determined. Visual representations of the speaker content are presented to selective members among the audience members based on the determined relation. |
| US11069365B2 |
Detection and reduction of wind noise in computing environments
A mechanism is described for facilitating wind detection and wind noise reduction in computing environments according to one embodiment. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes wind detection logic to detect wind associated with the apparatus including a wearable computing device, wherein the wind is detected based on samples from multiple microphones and extraction and use of multiple features including spectral sub-band centroid (SSC) features and coherence features; and decision and execution logic to reduce wind noise associated with the detected wind. |
| US11069356B2 |
Computer system and method for controlling user-machine dialogues
A computer system for controlling a dialogue between a user and the computer system, the computer system being communicatively coupled with an industrial control system controlling an industrial system, the computer system including: an interface for receiving intent inputs representing a respective desired interaction with the computer system; an intent determination module for determining the desired interactions of received intent inputs; a data storage for storing one or more directed graphs, each graph specifying an industrial control domain specific dialogue, a particular graph defining a dialogue state machine with a plurality of nodes representing states of the dialogue, and with edges representing transitions between the states, each state transition from a first state to a second state depending on at least one precondition, the desired interaction of a received intent input corresponding to a target node to be reached from a current node of the particular graph. |
| US11069352B1 |
Media presence detection
Described herein is a system for media presence detection in audio. The system analyzes audio data to recognize whether a given audio segment contains sounds from a media source as a way of differentiating recorded media source sounds from other live sounds. In exemplary embodiments, the system includes a hierarchical model architecture for processing audio data segments, where individual audio data segments are processed by a trained machine learning model operating locally, and another trained machine learning model provides historical and contextual information to determine a score indicating the likelihood that the audio data segment contains sounds from a media source. |
| US11069351B1 |
Vehicle voice user interface
Devices and techniques are generally described for implementing a vehicle voice user interface. In some examples, a first request may be received from a first computing system. In some further examples, natural language data comprising a semantic representation of the first request may be determined. In some further examples, first metadata corresponding to the first computing system may be determined. In some examples, a restriction on execution of the first action may be determined in accordance with the first metadata. In at least some further examples, output data indicative of the restriction on execution of the first action may be sent to the first computing system. |
| US11069349B2 |
Privacy-preserving voice control of devices
The speech command issued to a voice activated/controlled system is anonymized so that biometric voice data of the speaker may not be received by the voice activated/controlled system. A spoken audio command is converted to text, which is then converted to a synthesized voice signal. The synthesized voice signal is then provided to the voice-activated/controlled device. The synthesized voice signal may be provided to the voice-activated device within a sound shield or enclosure so that the original speech command issued by the speaker may not be received by the voice-activated/controlled system. In this way, the speaker's actual voice and related data may be kept private and secure. |
| US11069341B2 |
Speech correction system and speech correction method
The speech correction system includes a storage device, an audio receiver and a processing device. The processing device includes a speech recognition engine and a determination module. The storage device is configured to store a database. The audio receiver is configured to receive an audio signal. The speech recognition engine is configured to identify a key speech pattern in the audio signal and generate a candidate vocabulary list and a transcode corresponding to the key speech pattern; wherein the candidate vocabulary list includes a candidate vocabulary corresponding to the key speech pattern and a vocabulary score corresponding to the candidate vocabulary. The determination module is configured to determine whether the vocabulary score is greater than a score threshold. If the vocabulary score is greater than the score threshold, the determination module stores the candidate vocabulary corresponding to the vocabulary score in the database. |
| US11069335B2 |
Speech synthesis using one or more recurrent neural networks
Aspects of the disclosure are related to synthesizing speech or other audio based on input data. Additionally, aspects of the disclosure are related to using one or more recurrent neural networks. For example, a computing device may receive text input; may determine features based on the text input; may provide the features as input to an recurrent neural network; may determine embedded data from one or more activations of a hidden layer of the recurrent neural network; may determine speech data based on a speech unit search that attempts to select, from a database, speech units based on the embedded data; and may generate speech output based on the speech data. |
| US11069331B2 |
Noise reduction filter for signal processing
A noise reduction filter for data signals is implemented using two orthogonal coordinates comprising intensity and differential intensity values generated from sampling and sorting the data signals. A weighting function is used to amplify or reduce different portions of a data set distribution generated using the intensity and differential intensity values. The weighting function may also include scalar constants to further enhance the capability of the noise reduction filter. The noise reduction filter can be used to reduce the noise components or increase the useful signal components of a noisy data signal, thereby increasing the signal-to-noise ratio, and also increasing spectral resolution. The noise reduction filter can also be used in special cases where the intensity and frequency spectra of the noisy data signal are overlapping. The noise reduction filter may be used in various applications including spectroscopy and image processing, among others. |
| US11069326B2 |
Processing method for character stroke and related device
A processing method for character stroke and related device are provided. The method comprises: obtaining handwriting information of a first handwriting point and handwriting information of a second handwriting point in a character stroke, the handwriting information comprising coordinate information; determining a display effect related to the first handwriting point according to the handwriting information of the first handwriting point and the handwriting information of the second handwriting point; rendering the display effect related to the first handwriting point within a display range of the first handwriting point. The display manner of the character stroke can be enriched through above manner, thereby improving the user experience. |
| US11069319B2 |
Video playing method, device and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a video playing method, device and storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a target video which comprises a plurality of video frames arranged in sequence, and sending sequentially the plurality of video frames to a display module, by a graphics processing unit; for each video frame, receiving and playing the video frame for a target duration from a start moment of receiving the video frame, by the display module; wherein target durations for which the display module plays at least two video frames in the target video are not equal. The technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure can improve the refresh rate of a video. |
| US11069318B2 |
Driving circuit for display panel
The present invention relates to an area-saving driving circuit for a display panel, which includes a plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits convert input data, respectively, and produce a pixel signal. A plurality of driving units are coupled to the plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits, respectively. They produce a driving signal according to the pixel signal and transmit the driving signal to the display panel for displaying. A plurality of voltage booster units are coupled to the plurality of driving units, respectively, and produce a supply voltage according to a control signal. Then the supply voltage is provided to the plurality of driving units. Thereby, by providing the supply voltage to the plurality of driving units of the display panel through the use of the plurality of voltage booster units, the area of the external storage capacitor is reduced or eliminated. |
| US11069317B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a plurality of first pixel sections; a plurality of second pixel sections; first image lines disposed in a first pixel area; a plurality of second image lines disposed in a second pixel area; short-circuit lines connected to the second image lines, the short-circuit lines short-circuiting the second image lines; a first pixel drive unit driving the first pixel sections; a plurality of second pixel drive units driving the second pixel sections arranged side by side along a row direction by time division while the first pixel drive unit is driving the first pixel sections; and an image signal supply section supplying first image signals to the first image lines in synchronism with the first pixel drive unit driving the first pixel sections and supplying second image signals to the short-circuit lines by time division in synchronism with the second pixel drive units driving the second pixel sections arranged side by side along the row direction. |
| US11069316B2 |
Liquid crystal display, driving circuit and driving method for the liquid crystal display
A driving circuit, which includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix; at least one scan line, the pixel units in two adjacent rows share one scan line, the scan line inputs a first driving voltage to the pixel units in row i, and inputs a second driving voltage to the pixel units in row i+1, and the first driving voltage and the second driving voltage have reverse polarities; at least one data line, and each data line connects the pixel units in a corresponding column; a controller, connected to the scan line and the data line simultaneously and configured to control timing outputs of the scan line and the data line. |
| US11069314B2 |
Circuit board with inter-integrated circuit encryption and display including the same
The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a circuit board and a display, the circuit board includes a switch unit, the switch unit is preset with a switch-on signal, the switch unit is configured to respectively connect with the system board and the control board; when the control signal received from the system board is the same with the conduction signal, the switch unit is switched on, allowing the circuit board to receive the drive data and work normally; when the control signal received from the system board is not the same with the conduction signal, the switch unit is switched off, stopping the circuit board from receiving the drive data and resulting in stoppage of an operation. |
| US11069307B2 |
Spliced display device and backlight control method therefor
Disclosed is a spliced display device and a backlight control method therefor. The spliced display device includes a plurality of display modules that include respective backlight modules. Each of the backlight modules includes a plurality of backlight partitions, of which a first backlight partition is located at edge of a corresponding backlight module of the backlight modules. The backlight control method comprises the steps of obtaining an initial brightness value and a reference brightness value for the first backlight partition, adjusting the initial brightness value of the first backlight partition according to the reference brightness value to obtain an adjusted brightness value for the first backlight partition, and controlling the brightness of the first backlight partition according to the adjusted brightness value. |
| US11069306B2 |
Electronic device and control method thereof
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display device, a detector, a processing unit, and an adjustment device. The display device is configured to output emitted light of corresponding displayed content according to a display signal. The emitted light is configured to allow the displayed content to be perceivable to a viewer, and ambient light outside the electronic device is able to be incident on the display device along a direction opposite to the emitted light. The detector is configured to acquire detection data. The processing unit is configured to determine whether a first condition is met according to the detection data and generate a control instruction in response to the first condition being met; and the adjustment device is configured to reduce an influence of the ambient light on the display device under the control instruction. |
| US11069305B2 |
Display device and method for driving the same
A display device with a backlight includes a PWM signal generation circuit configured to generate a PWM signal, which alternates between an ON level at which the backlight is lit up and an OFF level at which the backlight is turned off, such that the luminance of the backlight is controlled by driving the backlight in accordance with the PWM signal. The PWM signal generation circuit divides a plurality of horizontal periods corresponding to a horizontal synchronization signal to be used for displaying an image for one frame, into a plurality of group periods each consisting of two or more horizontal periods, and generates the PWM signal such that the PWM signal is equal in frequency to the horizontal synchronization signal when the two or more horizontal periods included in each group period are regarded as one horizontal period, and such that the PWM signal is randomly modified every group period in terms of the time at which to change the PWM signal from the OFF level to the ON level. |
| US11069302B2 |
Display apparatus having extended connecting lines
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area at least partially surrounding the display area. A corner of an edge of the display area is curved. The peripheral area includes a pad area. A data line is disposed in the display area. A first connecting line is disposed in the display area and is connected to the data line to transmit a signal from the pad area to the data line. The first connecting line includes a first portion extending tram the edge in a direction away from the peripheral area and a second portion bent with respect to the first portion and extending towards the corner. |
| US11069298B2 |
Driving circuit, display panel, driving method and display device
A driving circuit, a display panel, a driving method and a display device. The driving circuit includes a pixel circuit and a plurality of light emitting devices; the pixel circuit includes: a data control circuit, a light emitting control circuit and a driving transistor, wherein at least two light emitting devices share the same pixel circuit, and thus, the light emitting devices is driven by the pixel circuit to emit light; and due to the effect of the light emitting control circuit, the light emitting devices can be controlled to emit light in a time-sharing manner. |
| US11069294B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a lower substrate including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, wherein a plurality of pixels are formed in the display area. The OLED display also includes an embedded circuit formed in the configured to apply a plurality of signals to the pixels, and an initialization wiring formed in the non-display area and configured to apply an initialization voltage to each of the pixels. The initialization circuit is formed in a layer so as to at least partially overlap with the area of the embedded circuit. |
| US11069288B2 |
Mitigating shorted pixels in an organic light emitting display panel
Disclosed are an organic light emitting display panel and an organic light emitting display device including the same, in which a pixel driving circuit of a subpixel, sharing an anode with a white subpixel, of subpixels configuring a unit pixel is disconnected from the outside of the subpixel. |
| US11069286B2 |
Color compensation method, compensation device, and display device
A color compensation method, a compensation device, and a display device. The color compensation method includes: a modeling phase including: obtaining color cast brightness of a first sub-pixel group (100) at a boundary of a display image in a display panel upon different gray levels being input; obtaining a first initial gray level of the first sub-pixel group (100); compensating the color cast brightness to obtain compensation brightness; obtaining a compensation gray level corresponding to the compensation brightness; and establishing a correspondence between the first initial gray level and the compensation gray level. |
| US11069282B2 |
Correlated double sampling pixel sensing front end
A system and method for operating a sensing circuit for sensing a pixel current of a pixel of a display panel using correlated double sampling. In some embodiments, the method includes: during a first interval of time, resetting a pixel sensing circuit; during a third interval of time following the first interval of time, operating the pixel sensing circuit in an integration mode; during a fourth interval of time following the third interval of time, operating the pixel sensing circuit in a hold mode; and during a fifth interval of time following the fourth interval of time, operating the pixel sensing circuit in the integration mode. |
| US11069278B2 |
Gamma reference voltage output circuit of display device
The present embodiment relates to a gamma reference voltage output circuit of a display device, and more particularly, to a gamma reference voltage output circuit having a structure for sharing an element required for outputting a gamma reference voltage in the gamma reference voltage output circuit included in each of a plurality of driving chips. |
| US11069275B2 |
Timing controller having detection circuit and control circuit, and driving method and display device thereof
Provided are a timing controller, and a driving method and a display device thereof. The timing controller may include a detection circuit and a control circuit. The detection circuit may detect a symbol error rate of a drive signal transmitted from a control circuit to a source drive circuit, and send the symbol error rate to the control circuit. The control circuit may automatically adjust a voltage swing of the drive signal according to the symbol error rate of the drive signal, and may enable a magnitude of the adjusted voltage swing to negatively correlate with a magnitude of the symbol error rate. Therefore, electromagnetic interference is effectively reduced, and flexibility in reducing electromagnetic interference is improved. |
| US11069266B1 |
Display panel with GOA circuit invalid detection
A display panel with GOA circuit invalid detection is provided. A plurality of cascading gate-driver-on-array (GOA) circuit units are disposed in the display panel. The GOA circuit units are divided into a plurality of groups of GOA circuit units. The last stage of the GOA circuit units in each group of GOA circuit units is connected to a test line. One group of GOA circuit units is treated as a unit to detect whether any GOA circuit unit in each group is invalid. This improves accuracy in GOA circuit invalid detection. |
| US11069263B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying articles of clothing
Systems and methods for allowing sight impaired or blind persons to identify articles of clothing utilizing “smart labels” which comprise identification information, wherein the identification information is contained in, represented by, or interpretable via raised indicia (e.g., raised lettering or Braille), smart codes, global positioning system (GPS) technology, magnetic stripes, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, near field communication (NFC) technology, microprocessors, Bluetooth technology, or combinations thereof. These smart labels are unaffected by normal usage such as washing, folding and crumpling to allow sight impaired or blind persons to tactually, or via an electronic interpretation device, e.g., personal computer, a smartphone, computer tablet, magnetic stripe reader, NFC communicator, RFID reader, or Bluetooth device, comprehend the identification information of the smart label. |
| US11069260B2 |
Rotatably unlocked resettable shield actuated autoinjector training device
A resettable injection training device embodiment including an outer housing having a proximal end and a distal end, the housing defining a chamber there within, a safety shield having a proximal end and a distal end, the safety shield having a retracted, locked position, a first extended unlocked position, a second extended unlocked position, and a second extended locked position is described herein. The device embodiment including a plunger having a proximal a distal end, the plunger having a retracted and an extended position. The device may include a rotating plunger locking collar, an unlocking member coupled to the plunger, wherein rotation of the unlocking member from a first position to a second position unlocks the device and releases the safety shield from the retracted, locked position. The device may further include a resetting cap for resetting the device for a subsequent use. |
| US11069258B2 |
System for behavioral conditioning through gamification
In an example, a system is disclosed for behavioral conditioning through games using a systematic process of cue deconstruction, reaction prompting, and the novel application of classical and operant conditioning techniques. The invention describes the design and production of specially configured clients with given conditioned and unconditioned stimuli for reinforcement and punishment, their provision through a server, and the collection of user metrics for behavioral profiling. |
| US11069253B2 |
Method and system for language skill assessment and development
This disclosure relates generally to language processing systems, and more particularly to a method and system for language development of a user. In one embodiment, the system generates customized exercise for a user, based on a language model relevant to a language being learnt by the user. The system further collects user response to the customized exercise, and in terms of the user response, determines a current skill level of the user. Further, based on the determined skill level of the user, a skill gap is identified. The system then determines recommendations to improve language skills of the user, and to reduce/eliminate the skill gap. |
| US11069251B1 |
System and method for automating therapeutic exercises based on discrete trial training
Remote administration of discrete trial training exercises to a patient and analyzing results. Instructions are executed by the processing circuitry of the patient-side device that interrupts the operation of the entertainment circuitry to administer the discrete trial training exercise to the patient. Sensor data from at least one input capture element is collected. The sensor data is analyzed and compared to a pre-determined result and if the sensor data substantially matches the pre-determined result, a reward command is sent to the patient-side device that causes a resumption of the operation of the entertainment circuitry on the patient-side device. |
| US11069250B2 |
Maze training platform
A method and system comprising an adaptive learning platform having a backend component for managing 3D lessons for display on an interface of a user device. A 3D lesson comprises a plurality of scenarios with choices which lead to a next scenario of the 3D lesson. A learner after completing the 3D lesson can analyze results of a completed 3D lesson using an analyzer unit of the adaptive learning platform. In addition, the platform also recommends other 3D lessons based on analytics performed on the learner user's results. |
| US11069245B2 |
Lane change timing indicator
The disclosure includes embodiments of a lane change timing indicator for a connected vehicle. In some embodiments, a method includes determining a time and a path for an ego vehicle to change lanes. In some embodiments, the method includes displaying, on an electronic display device of the ego vehicle, one or more graphics that depict the time and the path. |
| US11069244B2 |
Apparatus and method for implementing LCDAS
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle and a control method thereof, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for implementing a lane change decision aid system (LCDAS). The LCDAS apparatus includes: a sensing device for sensing whether a target vehicle is in adjacent zones of a subject vehicle, whether the target vehicle is in a rear zone of the subject vehicle, or whether the target vehicle is a large vehicle or a compact vehicle; a processor for determining an activation condition for determining whether an LCDAS function is active/inactive and a warning condition for determining whether a warning of the LCDAS function is issued/un-issued, based on a sensing result of the sensing device; a warning device for issuing the warning to a driver based on a determination result of the processor; and a controller for controlling the sensing device, the processor, and the warning device. |
| US11069242B2 |
Traveling assistance method of traveling assistance device and traveling assistance device
A traveling assistance method acquires driving characteristics of another vehicle around a host vehicle, determines whether the other vehicle is in an autonomous driving mode depending on the driving characteristics of the other vehicle, and detects an action of the other vehicle in accordance with the determination result of whether the other vehicle is in the autonomous driving mode. |
| US11069239B2 |
Event vehicle dispatch device, event vehicle dispatch method, program, and management system
An event vehicle dispatch device includes: an event notifier configured to notify a plurality of vehicles or owners of the vehicles of an event held in an area in which the plurality of vehicles are able to park; and an adjuster configured to adjust the number of vehicles corresponding to vehicle attributes of vehicles arriving at the area based on the vehicle attribute of each of the plurality of vehicles. |
| US11069233B1 |
Video-based main road cooperative signal machine control method
The present application discloses a video-based main road cooperative signal machine control method, which includes: installation of video detectors at each intersection of the main road; data acquisition and communication of a single intersection; data acquisition and storage of multiple intersections; data processing of the main road coordination signal control; signal command release service and signal light control. The application adopts active video detection technology, which can accurately detect the traffic state of multiple intersections of the main road, formulate an optimized signal control scheme, provide optimal decision and emergency plan for the control of traffic light of the main road, improve the traffic efficiency of intersections and effectively alleviate traffic congestion on trunk roads. |
| US11069232B1 |
Systems and methods for determining levels of congestion at establishments
Systems and methods for determining a level of congestion and notifying a user of increased wait times are provided. The system includes an electronic control unit configured to determine a number of vehicles at or within a threshold distance of an establishment, determine that the establishment is a destination of a vehicle, and provide a notification in response to determining the number of vehicles at or within the threshold distance of the establishment exceeds a predetermined threshold and determining the establishment is the destination of the vehicle. |
| US11069229B2 |
Probe based variable speed sign value
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for predicting or estimating the value of a variable speed sign (VSS). A variable speed sign is identified. Probe data is collected at one or more vehicles in proximity to the variable speed sign. The speeds of the vehicles are included in or derived from the probe data. A statistical analysis is performed on the probe data. A speed limit value for the variable speed sign is determined based on the statistical analysis. |
| US11069222B2 |
Processing sensor data
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing sensor data are presented. An example method comprises accessing, by a computing device at a premises, sensor information associated with a plurality of sensors located at the premises, receiving, by the computing device, first sensor data from a first security sensor of the plurality of sensors, receiving, by the computing device, second sensor data from a second security sensor of the plurality of sensors, and in response to determining, by the computing device and based on the sensor information, that the first sensor data is associated with a higher priority than the second sensor data processing, by the computing device, the first sensor data, and transmitting, by the computing device, the second sensor data to a remote computing device for processing, wherein the remote computing device is at a location different from the premises. |
| US11069221B1 |
Methods of facilitating emergency assistance
A method of responding to a vehicle accident includes receiving data indicating that vehicle is involved in an accident. The method further includes transmitting a communication to a mobile device of a user in response to receiving the data. Still further, the method includes displaying the communication via a mobile device application on the mobile device, the communication prompting the user to provide responses to one or more questions regarding the accident. The method further includes determining a likely severity of the accident based on the received data, receiving an indication of a response to the one or more questions from the user, and, based on the determination of the likely severity of the accident and the received indication of the response, prompting the user with an emergency assistance recommendation. In addition, the method further includes performing one or more assessments based on the determination of the likely severity of the accident, the one or more assessments including determining damage to the vehicle, repairs needed for the vehicle, or fault of the user for the accident. |
| US11069218B2 |
System for monitoring offender during correctional supervisory program
The present disclosure provides details of a system for monitoring an offender during a correctional supervisory program. The system includes an offender communication device that transmit and receive communications via a communication and monitoring center. The offender communication device include a smart phone or tablet that obtains identity information including biometric information from an offender before a communication is transmitted or received. The offender communication device also stores data including metadata, metrics, or content of a communication and transmits the stored data to the communication and monitoring center. The communication and monitoring center transmits and receives communications from the offender communication device and another communication device. Further, the communication and monitoring center provides monitoring functionality to record a communication and determine that a location of an offender is in an authorized location based on rules and requirements of the correctional supervisory program. |
| US11069217B2 |
Sensor configuration
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for detecting an object, such as a person. For example, a sensing system may comprise a sensor arrangement. The sensor arrangement may comprise a passive sensor and an active sensor. The active sensor may be placed into a sleep state (e.g., a relatively low powered state) until awakened by the passive sensor. For example, responsive to detecting a presence of an object (e.g., a nurse entering a patient's room), the passive sensor may awaken the active sensor from the sleep state to an active state for detecting motion and/or distance of the object within a detection zone to create object detection data (e.g., an indication of a hygiene opportunity for the nurse). The active sensor may transition from the active state to the sleep state responsive to a detection timeout and/or a determination that the object left the detection zone. |
| US11069214B2 |
Event entity monitoring network and method
A method of monitoring for the presence of an event entity in a monitored region comprising receiving, at a first level of detail, first event data from at least one data processing device of a plurality of data processing devices each configured to monitor at least a portion of a monitored region, the first event data indicative of an event entity occurring in the monitored region; processing the first event data to determine the presence of an event entity indicated by the event data; comparing the identified event entity with a data store defining notification events; and responsive to the identified event entity matching a notification event, outputting a notification relating to the identified event entity. |
| US11069212B2 |
Housing for a fire alarm and/or extinguishing control station
The present invention relates to a housing for a fire alarm and/or extinguishing control station having a housing body (20), which comprises an opening (22) on a front side (24), a housing door (30) for closing the opening (22) and a hinge arrangement (40), which is configured to allow opening and closing of the housing door (30). The housing door (30) has an outer face (32), which faces an observer when the housing body (20) is closed and an inner face (34) which is opposite the outer face (32), wherein the housing door (30) has an indicator and/or operating component (36) on the outer face (32). The hinge arrangement (40) has a first axis of rotation (41) and parallel thereto a second axis of rotation (42) and is designed such that the first and the second axes of rotation (42) can be rotated in opposing directions when the housing door (30) is opened such that the outer face (32) of the housing door (30) and an interior (12) of the housing (10) are simultaneously facing the observer when the housing (10) is in the open state. |
| US11069210B2 |
Selecting a video frame for notification using audio/video recording and communication devices
Some embodiments provide for obtaining image data representative of a field of view of a camera as captured by the camera of an A/V recording and communication device. The image data may be analyzed and, based at least in part on the analysis, it may be determined that the image data is representative of a first facial image of a person and a second facial image of the person. From the facial images, it may be determined that the first facial image is of higher quality than the second facial image and, based on this determination, a frame may be selected that is represented by the image data and corresponds to the first facial image. A notification may be generated that includes a portion of the image data that represents the frame, and the notification may be transmitted to a client device associated with the A/V recording and communication device. |
| US11069208B2 |
Smart sensor line alarm system
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for monitoring a status of a plurality of a merchandise display devices for displaying items of merchandise at respective display positions. For example, the method includes monitoring for a change in a preselected characteristic of a circuit defined by an electrical connection between the security devices and a plurality of nodes and between the nodes and an alarm unit. The method also includes determining whether an item of merchandise has been added to or removed from a respective display position based on a change in the preselected characteristic. |
| US11069207B2 |
Pneumatically controlled haptic mechanisms for haptic feedback
An apparatus for creating haptic stimulations is provided. The apparatus includes one or more pods coupled to a garment, each pod including: (i) an internal structure, and (ii) an airtight bladder surrounding the internal structure, where the bladder is pneumatically coupled to a pneumatic device that is configured to control a pressurized state of the bladder. Each pod is configured to: (i) have a first degree of flexibility when the bladder of the pod is in a first pressurized state; and (ii) have a second degree of flexibility, less than the first degree of flexibility, when the bladder of the pod is in a second pressurized state different from the first pressurized state. Each pod provides a haptic stimulation to a wearer of the garment when the corresponding bladder is in the second pressurized state. |
| US11069198B2 |
Skill-based gaming system incorporating over-hold storage and means for awarding the same to maintain a substantial equivalence between theoretical RTP and actual RTP
A system and method for operating a skilled-based casino-style video game with an over-hold pool formed of a chance pool and skill pool. Both the chance pool and skill pool being funded by prizes/awards not awarded based on less-than optimal skilled play. Awards from the chance pool and skill pool serve to ensure that actual RTP converges with theoretical RTP as well as ensuring the minimum percentage requirements are met under recognized standards related to gaming devices in casinos. |
| US11069195B2 |
Sports betting apparatus and method
A sports betting apparatus, including a processor which provides an electronic forum capable of providing a video or audio broadcast of a sporting event to users and capable of allowing the users to communicate with one another before, during, or after, the broadcast, to place a bet or bets on an outcome of, or on, an event occurring during the sporting event, to receive information regarding bets available, betting odds, changes in betting odds, or analytics information, and to report an instance of suspected game fixing or match fixing involving the sporting event; and a transmitter which transmits the electronic forum to a user communication device associated with a user. The apparatus provides a communication link which facilitates a communication or an interaction between one or more and a player, a coach, a team bench, a referee, a broadcaster, or an individual participating in the sporting event. |
| US11069192B2 |
System and method for a community game with hybrid jackpot funding
A system and method for play of a community game in a casino establishment or on a network with general purpose computing devices for offering at least two players an opportunity to work cooperatively to achieve a community jackpot. The community jackpot may be awarded based on the outcome of a base game, or an outcome on a sub-game or a bonus game that involves a sequence of movements among the players. A system and method for providing hybrid jackpot funding technique is also described in which alternating funding schemes are used to fund the community jackpot and at least one other game jackpot simultaneously. |
| US11069191B2 |
Crowd based bonus and promotional system and method
A bonus and/or promotion system, such as for a casino or other retail location, includes one or more sensors for detecting the presence of one or more persons at a location and a bonus or promotion generator configured to generate and output bonuses or promotions based upon detected levels of persons in an area. The bonus or promotion generator may provide an output to existing audio and/or visual display devices of the location for announcing bonuses or promotions. |
| US11069183B2 |
Electronic gaming machine with multiple card readers to enable multiple player account capabilities
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, systems, and methods. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes registering a first card read event at a first card reader; in response to registering the first card read event, extracting, with a processor, first card data that includes a first player identification number in a first player identification number format; registering a second card read event at a second card reader; in response to registering the second card read event at the second card reader, extracting, with the processor, second card data that includes a second player identification number in a second player identification number format; enabling, with the processor, a player to login to a first game management system; and providing, with the processor, the second card data to a second communication interface to enable the player to login to a second game management system. |
| US11069182B2 |
Gaming system and method in which base game play affects feature game outcome
A gaming system having a base game and a feature game. The feature game includes a rotatable circular poker wheel having a plurality of display areas. Each of the display areas of the wheel are populated with playing cards during the play of the base game. A special symbol in the base game outcome allows population and revision of the cards on the poker wheel. Upon a trigger condition occurring, the wheel is rotated and stopped at a position to select a card from which a poker hand of five playing cards is formed. |
| US11069181B2 |
Gaming machine, control method for a gaming machine, and program for gaming machine
A gaming machine provides a game feature. The gaming machine includes an operation unit, a display unit, a memory device and a game control unit. The operation unit receives an operation input of the player. The display unit is configured to display a game screen including computer generated graphics. The memory device stores a game execution program including computer instructions for generating the game feature. The game control unit executes the game execution program to provide the game feature and is coupled to the operation unit, the display unit and the memory device. The game control unit includes a processor programmed to display a game feature structure on the game screen on the display unit. The game feature structure includes a wheel having a plurality of wedges. Each wedge has an associated indicia. The indicia are from a set of indicia which includes a plurality of prize symbols. |
| US11069179B2 |
Gaming machine having enhanced emotive lighting
A gaming machine includes a cabinet, an emotive lighting system coupled to the cabinet the textured surface, and logic circuitry. The emotive lighting system includes a textured surface including a plurality of walls that define a plurality of channels, a first array of light-emitting devices oriented to emit light in a first direction, and an optical waveguide positioned over the first array of light-emitting devices. Each channel is aligned with at least one light-emitting device of the first array, and the optical waveguide guides light from the first array towards the channels in a second direction at an oblique or orthogonal angle relative from the first direction. The logic circuitry causes each light-emitting device of the first array to selectively emit light such that each channel is selectively illuminated with indirect light from the aligned light-emitting device and substantially isolated from indirect light emitted from unaligned light-emitting devices. |
| US11069176B2 |
Game machine pushbutton, illumination device
A game machine pushbutton configured for mounting to a game machine, the game machine pushbutton including: an input key configured to accept a depression thereof; a plurality of light sources arranged along a peripheral part of the input key; and a light guide including a lighting surface; the light guide provided to surround the peripheral part of the input key and configured to direct light radiating thereon from the plurality of light sources and emit the light from the lighting surface; and the plurality of light sources is arranged with light emitting surfaces thereof oriented in a direction that is different from the direction toward which the lighting surface is oriented. |
| US11069175B2 |
Device orientation based gaming experience
Disclosed are various embodiments for determining a wagering game to play on a client device. The client device can determine the orientation of a display using one or more sensors. The wagering game can be selected using the orientation. The selected wagering game can be rendered on the display. An outcome of the wagering game can be generated. |
| US11069174B2 |
Charging vehicles in a parking area
Methods and systems for charging vehicles in a parking area are described. In one embodiment, a charge request may be received for a vehicle located in a parking area. The vehicle may have a power connection with a power source. An electric charge is provided through the power connection from the power source to the vehicle based on receiving the charge request, the value of the electric charge being adjustable based at least in part on the power basis of the vehicle. Billing or Payment is recorded for providing the electric charge based upon departure of the vehicle from the parking area. |
| US11069173B2 |
Tap to copy data to clipboard via NFC
Various embodiments are generally directed to copying data to a clipboard of a mobile device from a contactless card using NFC. A mobile device may issue a request to read data from the contactless card. The contactless card may generate encrypted data in response to the request. The mobile device may receive the encrypted data via NFC and transmit the encrypted data to a server for verification. The server may verify the encrypted data and transmit an indication of an account number for the contactless card to the mobile device. The mobile device may then copy the account number to a clipboard of the mobile device. |
| US11069170B2 |
Method of verifiable and anonymous voter receipt for electronic voting system
A method of voting that provides an anonymous, verifiable, audit-able, secure, and anti-rigging voter receipt with secrecy and transparency. This voter receipt prints a voter's selection by filling a voter's Unique Voter Number with Signature Letter (UVNS) consisting of a Unique Voter Number and a voter Signature letter, into one of a group of the selections of a ballot. The voter receipt also prints one or more voter selections of other voters' UVNS in the remaining selections of the group of selections of a ballot; The voter receipt can print on paper, record in a memory device, mobile text or email; The voter receipt can verify with a published result of an election; A third party can audit all voter receipts in the election; The method of this application can utilize on an electronic voting (EV) system connected with a local network at a polling station, mobile network or internet. |
| US11069169B2 |
System and method for remotely controlling locks on depositories
The present invention relates to a system and method for remotely controlling locks on depositories, primarily locks used for the purpose of securing things using a scanning device and at least one identification token. Each lock (215) is provided with a token (112) that contains identification information related to its depository system (221). A scanning device (111) is needed to decode (211) the token (112) and communicate its information to an online database (212) for authorization to access the depository (221). If the scanner (111) is authorized to access the depository (221), the online database (212) will communicate a command (213) to the lock (215) to open. This operation will need to be repeated each time the depository needs to be opened. In some embodiments, the scanning device (111) may be operatively connected to a power source that can transfer power as a means of powering depository (221). |
| US11069168B2 |
Facial capture managing access to resources by a device
Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling access to resources by a client device. Methods may include receiving a user request to access a resource on the device and determining whether the resource requires a facial capture. If the resource requires a facial capture, a camera of the device may be automatically activated to capture an image and the resource may be rendered on the device. In some cases, access to the resource may be limited based on whether the image includes a face or not. A record associating the image and the requested resource may be stored, for example, on the device or on a remote server. |
| US11069153B1 |
Apparatus and method for creating bespoke eyewear
A computer implemented method includes receiving eyewear parameters to form received eyewear parameters. A current computer model of eyewear is modified in accordance with an eyewear parameter that necessitates alteration of the current computer model to form a new computer model of the eyewear. The new computer model of the eyewear includes an altered hierarchical set of interconnected elements defining a rig and an altered surface representation around the rig defining a mesh that is manifold. The modifying operation is repeated for each eyewear parameter of the received eyewear parameters that necessitates alteration of the new computer model to form an output manifold mesh. Bespoke eyewear is manufactured from the output manifold mesh. |
| US11069150B2 |
Image processing method, system and device for synthesizing human appearance
The present invention is directed to generating an image based on first image data of a first person having first pose, first body shape, and first clothing and second image data of a second person having second pose, a second body shape, and second clothing. The generated image represents a transfer of appearance (e.g., clothing) of the second person to the first person. This is achieved by modeling 3d human pose and body shape for each of the persons via triangle mesh, fitting the 3d human pose and body shape models to the images of the persons, transferring appearance using barycentric methods for commonly visible vertices, and learning to color the remaining ones using deep image synthesis techniques. |
| US11069145B1 |
Augmented reality application for interacting with building models
Systems and methods are disclosed for the generation and interactive display of three-dimensional (3D) building models, for the determination and simulation of risk associated with the underlying buildings, for the prediction of changes to the underlying buildings associated with the risk, for the generation and display of updated 3D building models factoring in the risk or predicted changes, and for the collection and display of relevant contextual information associated with the underlying building while presenting a 3D building model. The 3D building model can be displayed in an augmented reality (AR) view, and a user can interact with the 3D building model via controls present in the AR view and/or by moving within the real-world location in which the user is present. |
| US11069139B2 |
Device and method for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality
A method of operating an optical device is provided. The method includes selecting at least one of a first mode for recognizing virtual reality (VR) content, a second mode for recognizing augmented reality (AR) content, and a third mode for recognizing mixed reality (MR) content, and based on a result of the selecting, performing at least one of the first mode by controlling a display to allow a user to recognize the VR content via a lens, the second mode by controlling the display to allow the user to recognize the AR content via the lens and a first mirror, and the third mode for controlling the display and a camera to allow the user to recognize the MR content via the lens, the first mirror, and a second mirror. |
| US11069136B2 |
Pre-operative simulation of trans-catheter valve implantation
In a first aspect, the present invention relates to a method for patient-specific virtual percutaneous implantation, comprising estimating a patient-specific anatomical model of a patient-specific aorta based on cardiovascular 2D or 3D medical image data and virtually deploying an implant model representing an implant into said patient-specific anatomical model. In a second aspect, the present invention provides a method for patient-specific virtual percutaneous implantation. In a third aspect, the present invention provides an implant for virtual percutaneous implantation. In a fourth aspect, the present invention provides a system for virtual percutaneous implantation. |
| US11069133B2 |
Method and device for generating three-dimensional scene map
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for generating a 3D scene map, a related apparatus and a storage medium. The method includes the following. At least two frames of point cloud data collected by a collection device is obtained. Data registration is performed on the at least two frames of point cloud data. First type of point cloud data corresponding to a movable obstacle is deleted from each frame of point cloud data and each frame of point cloud data is merged to obtain an initial scene map. Second type of point cloud data corresponding to a regularly shaped object is replaced with model data of a geometry model matching with the regularly object for the initial scene map to obtain the 3D scene map. |
| US11069129B2 |
Shader binding management in ray tracing
In various examples, shader bindings may be recorded in a shader binding table that includes shader records. Geometry of a 3D scene may be instantiated using object instances, and each may be associated with a respective set of the shader records using a location identifier of the set of shader records in memory. The set of shader records may represent shader bindings for an object instance under various predefined conditions. One or more of these predefined conditions may be implicit in the way the shader records are arranged in memory (e.g., indexed by ray type, by sub-geometry, etc.). For example, a section selector value (e.g., a section index) may be computed to locate and select a shader record based at least in part on a result of a ray tracing query (e.g., what sub-geometry was hit, what ray type was traced, etc.). |
| US11069125B2 |
Geometry buffer slice tool
A method for visualizing a three-dimensional volume for use in a virtual reality environment is performed by uploading two-dimensional images for evaluation, creating planar depictions of the two-dimensional images, and using thresholds to determine if voxels should be drawn. A voxel volume is created from the planar depictions and voxels. A user defines a plane to be used for slicing the voxel volume, and sets values of the plane location and plane normal. The slice plane is placed within the voxel volume and defines a desired remaining portion of the volumetric plane to be displayed. All but the desired remaining portion of the voxel volume is discarded and the remaining portion is displayed. |
| US11069122B2 |
Photorealistic three dimensional texturing using canonical views and a two-stage approach
Images of various views of objects can be captured. An object mesh structure can be created based at least in part on the object images. The object mesh structure represents the three-dimensional shape of the object and includes a mesh with mesh elements. The mesh elements are assigned views first from a subset of views to texture large contiguous portions of the object from relatively few views. Portions that are not textured from the subset views are textured using the full set of views, such that all mesh elements are assigned views. The views first assigned from the subset of views and the views then assigned from the full plurality of views can be packaged into a texture atlas. These texture atlas views can be packaged with mapping data to map the texture atlas views to their corresponding mesh elements. The texture atlas and the object mesh structure can be sent to a client device to render a representation of the object. The representation can be manipulated on the client device in an augmented reality setting. |
| US11069120B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to generate an image using texture images and depth images of two viewpoints that represent a three-dimensional structure of a greater number of regions. A selection section selects a quantization method of a depth image of each viewpoint from among a first quantization method that quantizes a reciprocal 1/r of a distance r between a viewpoint corresponding to the depth image and the polygon for each pixel, a second quantization method that quantizes the distance r, and a third quantization method that quantizes a reciprocal 1/r′ of a distance r′ between the other viewpoint that configures the two viewpoints together with the viewpoint corresponding to the depth image and the polygon in each pixel. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a display apparatus and the like. |
| US11069119B1 |
Methods and systems for constructing a shader
An exemplary shader construction system receives a shader construction request that indicates a set of selected shader components and a platform indicator. The set of selected shader components is selected from a library of available shader components accessible to the shader construction system and includes first and second shader components configured to perform, respectively, first and second shader functions. The platform indicator is indicative of a selected platform for which a shader is to be constructed. Based on the shader construction request, the shader construction system accesses instructions associated with the first and second shader components. Based on these instructions, the shader construction system assembles a shader that implements the first and second shader functions. The shader is configured for use with the selected platform by a graphics rendering system to render an image. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. |
| US11069117B2 |
Optimal texture memory allocation
Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional models having regions of various resolutions are provided. In particular, imagery data can be captured and utilized to generate three-dimensional models. Regions of texture can be mapped to regions of a three-dimensional model when rendered. Resolutions of texture can be selectively altered and regions of texture can be selectively segmented to reduce texture memory cost. Texture can be algorithmically generated based on alternative texturing techniques. Models can be rendered having regions at various resolutions. |
| US11069115B2 |
Method of controlling display of avatar and electronic device therefor
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a camera, a display, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including capturing an image using a camera of the electronic device for animation of an avatar, the image including at least a part of a face of a user, analyzing, by a processor, a portion of the image including the at least the part of the face to determine whether an entirety of the face is captured within the image, and selecting a primary image or an alternative image for display of the avatar based on the determination, including: displaying the avatar on a display of the electronic device using the alternative image when less than the entirety of the face is captured within the image. |
| US11069112B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for creating a spline-based video animation sequence
A spline-based animation process creates an animation sequence. The process receives a plurality of frames that illustrate a figure based on a design template (e.g., which includes a skeleton having segments). The process further identifies a spine segment, generates hip, shoulder, and head segments at respective positions relative to the spine segment, identifies limb and facial feature segments, and converts the segments into respective splines bound between endpoints. The process further determines changes between frames for respective splines and animates movement of the figure over a sequence of frames based on the changes. |
| US11069107B2 |
Image display system, non-transitory storage medium having stored therein image display program, display control apparatus, and image display method for controlling a virtual camera based on movement of an apparatus
An example of an image display system includes a goggle apparatus having a display section. A virtual camera and a user interface are placed in a virtual space. The orientation of the virtual camera in the virtual space is controlled in accordance with the orientation of the goggle apparatus. When the goggle apparatus rotates by an angle greater than or equal to a predetermined angle in a pitch direction, the user interface is moved to the front of the virtual camera in a yaw direction. |
| US11069106B1 |
Dynamic mesh generation to minimize fillrate utilization
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a dynamic mesh for rendering with a graphical user interface. Graphical objects are rendered onto a layer having transparent pixels. The system infers what areas of the layer are drawn areas, and a mesh is generated based on the drawn areas. |
| US11069105B2 |
Virtual make-up apparatus and virtual make-up method
This virtual make-up apparatus extracts an object portion image of a virtual make-up from a facial image captured by a camera, applies, on the object portion image, a color corresponding to an item in accordance with designation of the item for the virtual make-up, and adds a texture component different for each item, to a part of the object portion image. The virtual make-up apparatus displays, on a display unit, a virtual make-up image in which a virtual make-up using an item is applied on the facial image, by using the object portion image to which color is applied, an image in which a texture component is added to the part of the object portion image, and the object portion image of the virtual make-up of the facial image. |
| US11069101B2 |
Data processing method and data processing device
A data processing method includes: outputting output information, the output information including coordinate system setting information to specify a correspondence between each of one or more coordinate axes of a coordinate system and each of attributes each of which is assigned to each of the one or more coordinate axes, thereby enabling an image generation device including a control unit to acquire the output information and to generate an image including a graph drawn in a coordinate system, which is set in accordance with the correspondence specified by the coordinate system setting information of the acquired output information, based on data on the attribute. |
| US11069099B2 |
Drawing curves in space guided by 3-D objects
Various embodiments enable curves to be drawn around 3-D objects by intelligently determining or inferring how the curve flows in the space around the outside of the 3-D object. The various embodiments enable such curves to be drawn without having to constantly rotate the 3-D object. In at least some embodiments, curve flow is inferred by employing a vertex position discovery process, a path discovery process, and a final curve construction process. |
| US11069097B1 |
Method and apparatus for using a parameterized cell based circular sorting algorithm
A method of grouping detection events in an imaging apparatus is described herein. The detection events can include primary detection events and secondary scattered events, which are frequently discarded due to the secondary scattered events, thus reducing sensitivity of the dataset for eventual image reconstruction. The method includes cell modules cascaded with identical parametrized cells, in a pipeline fashion, having the last cell in the chain circle back to the first cell. A rotating data pointer indicates the location of the first entry in the cell pipeline. The described method enables the grouping of multiple samples of detector data in real time with no loss of information, based on a time and location of the detected event. The method can be implemented in an FPGA as a hardware-based real time process. |
| US11069094B1 |
Generating realistic makeup in a digital video stream
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for rendering makeup products on a user's face within an augmented reality environment in real-time. For example, the disclosed system can use blend a base makeup color of a selected makeup product with extracted luminance frequencies of a video stream. The disclosed system can then convert the blended makeup color to LAB color space and apply one or more shader models to the lightness of the color based on a material of the selected makeup product. The disclosed system can also apply additional operations for smoothing the skin of the user and matching the makeup product to a skin tone of the user. The disclosed system can then display the makeup product and any additional changes in an augmented reality environment in the video stream. |
| US11069092B2 |
Apparatus for providing top view image of parking space and method thereof
An apparatus for providing a top view image of a parking space includes a top view image generating device that generates a top view image of a parking space, a display that displays the top view image generated by the top view image generating device, and a controller that captures the top view image displayed by the display and connects the top view image previously captured to a current top view image generated by the top view image generating device to generate a combined top view image of an entire parking space. |
| US11069087B2 |
Method for determining projecting edges of a target on an image
A method for locating a three-dimensional target with respect to a vehicle is disclosed including capturing an image of the target, and from a three-dimensional mesh of the target, and from an estimation of the pose of the target, determining a set of projecting edges of the mesh of the target in the pose. The step of determining the projecting edges of the mesh of the target includes positioning the mesh of the target according to the pose, projecting in two dimensions the mesh so positioned, scanning the projection of the mesh in a plurality of scanning rows and, for each scanning row: defining a set of segments, each segment corresponding to the intersection of a face of the mesh with the scanning row and being defined by its ends, analyzing the relative depths of the ends of the segments, the depth being the position along a third dimension orthogonal to the two dimensions of the projection, in order to select a set of end points of segments corresponding to projecting edges of the mesh. |
| US11069085B2 |
Locating a vehicle based on labeling point cloud data of a scene
A point cloud management system provides labels for each point within a point cloud map. The point cloud management system also provides a method to localize a vehicle using the labeled point cloud. The point cloud management system identifies objects within a scene using an obtained image. The point cloud management system labels the identified objects to register the identified objects against the point cloud. The registration of the objects is then used to localize the vehicle. |
| US11069084B2 |
Object identification method and device
An object identification method includes: establishing a training data base including a photographing distance of a training image and a training camera parameter; in photographing a target test object, obtaining a test image, a depth image, an RGB image and a test camera parameter; and based on the training database, the depth image and the test camera parameter, adjusting the RGB image wherein the adjusted RGB image having a size equivalent to the training image of the training database. |
| US11069083B2 |
Method and a system for counting objects in an image
A method and a system are described for counting objects in an image. The method includes receiving at least one image comprising one or more objects. The method includes determining contours of the one or more objects using one or more morphological operations on the at least one image. The method further includes identifying shapes of the one or more objects based on counting a number of contours associated with each of the one or more objects. The method includes comparing the shapes of the one or more objects with one or more predefined training images to identify one or more objects of interest. The method includes counting the one or more objects of interest based on the shapes of the one or more objects of interest. |
| US11069082B1 |
Remote distance estimation system and method
Provided is a method including emitting, with a laser light emitter disposed on a robot, a collimated laser beam projecting a light point on a surface opposite the laser light emitter; capturing, with each of at least two image sensors disposed on the robot, images of the projected light point; overlaying, with a processor of the robot, the images captured by the at least two image sensors to produce a superimposed image showing both captured images in a single image; determining, with the processor of the robot, a first distance between the projected light points in the superimposed image; and determining, with the processor, a second distance based on the first distance using a relationship that relates distance between light points with distance between the robot or a sensor thereof and the surface on which the collimated laser beam is projected. |
| US11069079B2 |
Interaction with physical objects as proxy objects representing virtual objects
Systems and techniques for enabling interaction with physical objects as proxy objects representing virtual objects are provided herein. Virtual reality application data associated with a virtual reality application executed on a virtual reality device, a first virtual reality object data associated with a first virtual reality object from the virtual reality application, and virtual reality event data associated with one or more events from the virtual reality application may be received. Robotic arms including a robotic hand may grasp a first physical object which corresponds to the first virtual reality object of the virtual reality application. Sensors may detect a user interaction with the first physical object. Force feedback instructions commanding the robotic arms to move while maintaining grasp of the first physical object may be generated and executed based on detecting the user interaction with the first physical object and based on the virtual reality event data. |
| US11069074B2 |
Systems and methods for improved 3-D data reconstruction from stereo-temporal image sequences
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to systems, methods, and computer readable media for data pre-processing for stereo-temporal image sequences to improve three-dimensional data reconstruction. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to systems, methods, and computer readable media for improved correspondence refinement for image areas affected by oversaturation. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to systems, methods, and computer readable media configured to fill missing correspondences to improve three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction. The techniques include identifying image points without correspondences, using existing correspondences and/or other information to generate approximated correspondences, and cross-checking the approximated correspondences to determine whether the approximated correspondences should be used for the image processing. |
| US11069073B2 |
On-shelf commodity detection method and system
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for on-shelf merchandise detection are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining a plurality of depth images associated with a shelf from a first camera; obtaining a plurality of images from one or more second cameras associated with each of a plurality of tiers of the shelf; detecting motions of a user's hand comprising reaching into and moving away from the shelf; determining one of the tiers of the shelf associated with the detected motions, a first point of time associated with reaching into the shelf, and a second point of time associated with moving away from the shelf; identifying a first image captured before the first point in time and a second image captured after the second point in time; and comparing the first image and the second image to determine one or more changes to merchandise. |
| US11069072B2 |
Dynamic multi-camera tracking of moving objects in motion streams
Vehicles are rigid/multi-dimensional objects capable of moving through space which do not undergo structural deformation. Existing systems/techniques analyse videos (e.g., traffic videos) for tracking moving objects either manually or through crowd sourcing and thus are less accurate due to different variations (e.g., non-linear scaling, visibility, occlusion, etc.) caused due to perspective. Present disclosure enable real-time video analytics wherein background from images in de-noised motion streams is filtered to obtain moving objects of interest. Motion map is generated to identify moving objects along-with depth information. Moving objects are then dynamically tracked by multiple cameras from scenes based on previous lost history using spatial, temporal and dynamic properties to obtain redetected moving objects trackers' which are compared with original tracker for detecting and correcting false positives based on a Peak Signal to Noise Ratio value and a detection confidence value associated with the identified moving objects in a particular frame. |
| US11069066B2 |
Dynamically change tracker speed, switch crop rectangles, and display invisible corners via zoom-loupes
Techniques described herein address the issue of inadequate view of areas of a crop rectangle for a user while cropping an image. The inadequate view may be due to the user zooming, panning, or rotating the image such that some or all of the crop rectangle may no longer be within view in the graphical user interface. The solution of zoom-loupes provide a view of the corners and user selected points on the edge of the crop rectangle that may be magnified to assist the user to set the crop rectangle area precisely. Additionally, a second crop rectangle can be generated when the entire first/original crop rectangle is unavailable because it is outside the view in the graphical user interface. Using the second crop rectangle, the user may use the second crop rectangle to complete pixel perfect cropping. |
| US11069055B2 |
Phase-decorrelation optical coherence tomography-based parameter measurement
One example includes a scanning system. The system includes a phase-decorrelation optical coherence tomography (PhD-OCT) scanner configured to implement a scanning sequence via an optical signal on a sample medium. The system also includes a scanning controller configured to provide control signals to the PhD-OCT scanner to implement the scanning sequence and to obtain phase and amplitude information associated with a reflected version of the optical signal. The phase and amplitude information can be indicative of microscale dynamics of the sample medium. The scanning controller can also implement an algorithm to calculate a quantitative parameter of the sample medium based on the phase and amplitude information associated with the sample medium. |
| US11069051B2 |
Transparent wafer center finder
A method and apparatus for locating the center of a substrate are provided. The substrate-positioning system uses an array of visible light sources to illuminate the substrate and its edges. The light sources are non-laser in nature and typically emit in the visible spectrum. The light sources are typically LEDs so that the individual elements may be switched-on or switched-off extremely rapidly, which allows for multiple images to be taken using different light sources at any given substrate rotation position. The substrate-positioning system further includes an image sensor array with the ability to process data rapidly, which allows for the digitization (quantization) of each pixel being viewed. Algorithms analyze the values for patterns and determine the true edge position at each rotational angle of the substrate. The systems and methods described herein are able to locate the center of various types of substrates composed of different materials and/or edge types. |
| US11069049B2 |
Division line detection device and division line detection method
A division line detection device includes: a processor configured to detect a division line candidate pixel from an image acquired by a camera mounted on a vehicle, set first reliability for a division line candidate pixel whose value representing likelihood that a lane division line is represented is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value; set second reliability lower than the first reliability for a division line candidate pixel whose value is less than the predetermined threshold value; correct to the first reliability, when a first predetermined number or more of the division line candidate pixels are located on a first scan line having one end at a vanishing point of the image, the second reliability of each division line candidate pixel on the first scan line; and detect a lane division line based on the division line candidate pixels having the first reliability. |
| US11069048B2 |
System and method for facilitating efficient damage assessments
Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating image sampling for training a target detector. During operation, the system obtains a first image depicting a first target. Here, the continuous part of the first target in the first image is labeled and enclosed in a target bounding box. The system then generates a set of positive image samples from an area of the first image enclosed by the target bounding box. A respective positive image sample includes at least a part of the first target. The system can train the target detector with the set of positive image samples to detect a second target from a second image. The target detector can be an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of detecting an object. |
| US11069047B2 |
Image processing method, image processing apparatus, computing device and computer-readable storage medium
An image processing method implemented by a computing device is described herein, which includes acquiring an image to be processed and a target style of image, the image to be processed being an image of a second resolution level, and inputting the image to be processed and the target style into a trained image processing neural network for image processing to obtain a target image of the target style, the target image being an image of a first resolution level. The resolution of the image of the first resolution level is higher than that of the image of the second resolution level. |
| US11069045B2 |
Food preparation assistance using image processing
A computer system monitors food preparation. Images of food preparation by a user are captured via one or more image capture devices disposed within an area containing food preparation items. A food preparation process being performed by the user is determined. Image processing is performed on the captured images to monitor the food preparation process and detect an event. The user is notified of the detected event, and provided information pertaining to the event. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for monitoring food preparation in substantially the same manner described above. |
| US11069040B2 |
Empirical exposure normalization
An automated process empirically normalizes a “dark” image by adjusting the apparent exposure to compensate for nonlinearity in the luminance response of the image sensor. The process includes receiving at least two digital images, one of the digital images having an exposure value that is greater than that of another of the digital images. A reduced-resolution pair of images is produced from the at least two digital images. At least one representative scale factor is calculated from tonal values in the two images and at least one empirical scale factor is determined by selective interpolation between the representative scale factor and a comparative scale factor. The empirical scale factor is used in a function applied pixelwise to the darker of the digital images to produce an empirically normalized digital image. |
| US11069039B2 |
Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image printing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, and image processing program
An image is processed appropriately even in a case that the image includes multiple correction areas. In a case of performing the correction processing for each of a first correction area and a second correction area, a controller (40) determines whether to perform suppression processing of suppressing the correction processing for at least one of the first correction area or the second correction area depending on a distance between the inner area of the first correction area and the inner area of the second correction area. |
| US11069037B2 |
Image fusion method and device for removing ghost artifacts
An image fusion method for removing ghost artifacts is provided. The method includes: determining a first fusion weight of a reference pixel in a reference frame, wherein the coordinates of the reference pixel are the same as the coordinates of one of input pixels included in an input frame; determining a reference brightness parameter according to values of all channels of the reference pixel; determining an input brightness parameter according to values of all channels of the input pixel; determining a ghost weight according to an amount that the brightness parameter ratio of the input brightness parameter and the reference brightness parameter deviates from a reasonable range; determining a fusion weight according to the first fusion weight and the ghost weight; and fusing the reference pixel with the input pixel according to the fusion weight to generate a fused pixel in a fused frame. |
| US11069036B1 |
Method and system for real-time and offline de-identification of facial regions from regular and occluded color video streams obtained during diagnostic medical procedures
Systems and techniques that facilitate real-time and/or offline de-identification of facial regions from regular and/or occluded color video streams obtained during diagnostic medical procedures are provided. A detection component can generate a bounding box substantially around a person in a frame of a video stream, can generate a heatmap showing key points or anatomical masks of the person based on the bounding box, and can localize a face or facial region of the person based on the key points or anatomical masks. An anonymization component can anonymize pixels in the frame that correspond to the face or facial region. A tracking component can track the face or facial region in a subsequent frame based on a structural similarity index between the frame and the subsequent frame being above a threshold. If the structural similarity index between the frame and the subsequent frame is above the threshold, the tracking component can track the face or facial region in the subsequent frame without having the detection component generate a bounding box or a heatmap in the subsequent frame, and the anonymization component can anonymize pixels in the subsequent frame corresponding to the tracked face or facial region. |
| US11069034B2 |
Method and system to enhance quality of digital images
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for generating an enhanced image from an original image, the method including segmenting the original image into a segmented image using an artificial neural network; curve fitting the segmented image to determine boundary artifacts; removing the determined boundary artifacts to generate a smoothed boundary image; and generating the enhanced image from the original image and the smoothed boundary image. The image maybe enhanced further by correcting for glare and adding artificial light. |
| US11069029B2 |
Information processing device, system, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing device has at least one memory that stores instructions, and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory, and configured to set, on a combined image in which a plurality of images captured through a plurality of imaging units are combined, an object region that is a region to be an object of a predetermined process, and to perform, when a boundary between images included in the plurality of images in the combined image is included in the set object region, a predetermined display process on a display unit. |
| US11069027B1 |
Glyph transformations as editable text
In implementations of precise glyph transformations as editable text, a computing device implements a transformation system to generate bounding boxes for a first glyph and a second glyph of multiple glyphs. The bounding boxes are concatenated as a multiple glyph bounding box for the multiple glyphs. The transformation system receives a user input defining a transformation of the multiple glyph bounding box relative to an object, and the system maps the transformation of the multiple glyph bounding box to the bounding boxes for the first glyph and the second glyph. The multiple glyphs are rendered in a user interface as the editable text having the transformation based on the mapping. |
| US11069024B2 |
Primitive processing in a graphics processing system with tag buffer storage of primitive identifiers
A graphics processing system has a rendering space which comprises one or more tiles. The system comprises a processing module configured to perform hidden surface removal for primitives of a tile to determine primitive identifiers identifying the primitives which are visible at each of a plurality of sample positions in the tile. A set of two or more tag buffers store the primitive identifiers determined for each of the sample positions in a tile, thereby representing overlapping layers of primitives. A tag control module controls: (i) selection of a tag buffer for the storage of each of the primitive identifiers according to the layering of the primitive identifiers stored in the tag buffers, and (ii) flushing of primitive identifiers from the tag buffers. A texturing engine applies texturing to the primitives identified by the flushed primitive identifiers. |
| US11069023B2 |
Techniques for efficiently accessing memory and avoiding unnecessary computations
A technique selectively avoids memory fetches for partially uniform textures in real time graphics shader programs and instead uses program paths specialized for one or more frequently occurring values. One aspect avoids memory lookups and dependent computations for partially uniform textures through use of pre-constructed coarse-grained representations called value locality maps or dirty tilemaps (DTMs). The decision to use a specialized fast path or not is made dynamically by consulting such coarse-grained dirty tilemap representations. Thread-sharing value reuse can be implemented with or instead of the DTM mechanism. |
| US11069022B1 |
Apparatus and method for multi-adapter encoding
An apparatus and method for multi-adapter and/or multi-pass encoding on dual graphics processors. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a central processor integrated on a first die, the central processor comprising a plurality of cores to execute instructions and process data; an first graphics processor integrated on the first die, the first graphics processor comprising media processing circuitry to perform one or more preliminary lookahead operations on video content to generate lookahead statistics; an interconnect to couple the first graphics processor to a lookahead buffer, the first graphics processor to transmit the lookahead statistics over the interconnect to the lookahead buffer; wherein the lookahead statistics are to be used by a second graphics processor to encode the video content to generate encoded video. |
| US11069021B2 |
Mechanism for providing multiple screen regions on a high resolution display
A display engine comprises a surface splitter to generate frame buffer coordinates to split frame buffer data into a plurality of regions, each corresponding to a frame buffer coordinate, a pipeline, including a plurality of pipes, to receive the frame buffer coordinates, wherein two or more of the plurality of pipes operate in parallel to process frame buffer data corresponding to a region of the frame buffer identified by the frame buffer coordinates, a first of a plurality of transcoders to merge the frame buffer data from each of the two or more pipes into an output signal whenever the display engine is operating in a multi-pipe collaboration mode and a multiplexer (Mux) and multi-stream arbiter to control an order of transmission of the frame buffer data from each of the two or more pipes to the first transcoder based on a fetch order received from the surface splitter. |
| US11069020B2 |
Graphics processing using multiple primitives
Techniques for graphics processing using multiple primitives are described. Generally, graphical elements displayed on a computing device can be constructed from multiple primitives. In at least some embodiments, techniques can combine multiple primitives for processing. For example, overlap of a primitive with another primitive can be detected. The primitives can be processed together for display in a pixel region, e.g., as a single primitive. The primitives can be processed by a graphics processor, such as by blending the primitives, applying visual effects to the primitives, and so on. The processed primitives can be written to memory such that the processed primitives can be accessed and displayed by a display device. |
| US11069019B2 |
Multi-threaded asynchronous frame processing
Parallel processing of frames by a first and second thread is disclosed. In particular, the systems and methods can process multiple frames in a pipelines manner by a JavaScript thread and a UI thread. The system first executes a first frame by a JavaScript thread during a first time interval. The system then executes the first frame by a UI thread during a second time interval. While the UI thread is executing the first frame, the JavaScript thread executes a second thread in parallel during the second time internal. As a result, latency is added to UI processing while maintaining the same throughput, to add parallelism. The JavaScript and UI threads can be handled by different processors (e.g., using a multi-core processor), thereby adding further parallelism and increasing the efficiency of processing an event. |
| US11069018B2 |
Systems, methods and machine readable programs for value chain analytics
In accordance with one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to of determining relative importance of a plurality of entities in a supply chain of a company. One way of doing this is identifying for the company, the plurality of entities in the supply chain, and determining the relative importance of each of the plurality of entities within the supply chain. The relative importance is determined via at least one processor circuit programmed to determine, for each respective entity in the supply chain, a relative buying power, a supplier revenue fraction, and an industry revenue exposure. The processor circuit is programmed to compute a relative importance score for each respective entity in the supply chain, as a function of the determined buying power, supplier fraction, and industry revenue exposure for the respective entity. |
| US11069016B2 |
National digital identity
Provided are an identity broker system and method for managing a national digital identification of a citizen. In one example, the method includes receiving, from a user device, an identity sharing request of a citizen including an identification of a service provider with which to share the identity, determining one or more digital identification credentials of the citizen that are to be shared with the service provider based on the identity sharing request, receiving an authorization from the citizen via the user device, the authorization including an approval for sharing the one or more digital identification credentials of the citizen with the service provider, and receiving the one or more digital identity components of the citizen from an identity record providing device, and transmitting the one or more digital identification credentials of the citizen to a service provider device based on the identification of the service provider. |
| US11069013B1 |
Securitizing and trading health quality credits
A computer-implemented trading platform, system, and method are provided for facilitating the trading and accounting for health quality offsets. So-called “health quality credits” related to emissions of ‘potentially avoidable complications’ (PACs) or ‘potentially avoidable mortality’ (PAMs). Emissions trading or “cap-and-trade” is an administrative approach used to control emissions that degrade public-goods assets by providing economic incentives for achieving and sustaining economically significant reductions in the emissions of pollutants that impair public goods such as clean air or health. In one embodiment, a method of accounting for health quality offsets established in one or more offset markets includes registering a health quality offset to an owner thereof; assigning a unique identifier to the health quality offset; crediting a client account with the health quality offset; receiving notification of a trade between a buyer and a seller; if the seller has an amount of health quality offsets sufficient for the trade, adjusting buyer and seller accounts with corresponding credits and debits; otherwise, providing a notification of insufficient health quality offsets to carry out the trade. |
| US11069009B2 |
System, method and apparatuses for identifying load volatility of a power customer and a tangible computer readable medium
The present disclosure relates to system, method and apparatuses for identifying load volatility of a power customary and a tangible computer readable medium therefor. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the system comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing computer executable instructions. The at least one memory and the computer executable instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system to determine boundary points for splitting a load curve of a power customer automatically, through performing density-based spatial clustering on data points of the load curve of the power customer; and detect tendency turning points of the load curve by means of the determined boundary points, so as to identify the load volatility of the power customer. With embodiments of the present disclosure, the boundary points for splitting the load curve may be determined automatically based on load data of each power customer instead of using a predetermined threshold and thus the load volatility of the load curve, which could provide a solution of self-adapted auto-identification for load volatility. |
| US11069008B2 |
Coordination of gas pump with tank level sensors for fraud detection
A system and method are described that can help gas stations detect attempted thefts of gas or when there is leakage from a fuel tank or pump. The fuel pump can comprise a payment processing system or is fuel sensor to detect the amount of fuel pumped. The large fuel tank that supplies the fuel pumps can comprise a fuel level sensor to detect how much fuel is being used. The fuel pumps and tanks can send their data to the kiosk or some other location for analysis. If more fuel is being lost from the fuel tank than is being paid for at the pumps, then a theft may be occurring, or there may be fault machinery or leaks. |
| US11069002B2 |
User interfaces for a tax return application
Media, method and system are described for creating and operating software capable of performing steps to provide a user with an estimated amount of time until a tax return application may be completed. Embodiments of the invention consider the availability of documents in physical or electronic form. Embodiments of the invention further display the time estimation to enable a user to reserve enough time for completion of the application. |
| US11069001B1 |
Method and system for providing personalized user experiences in compliance with service provider business rules
A method and system adaptively improves potential customer conversion rates, revenue metrics, and/or other target metrics by providing effective user experience options to some users while concurrently testing user responses to other user experience options, according to one embodiment. The method and system selects the user experience options by applying user characteristics data to an analytics model, according to one embodiment. The method and system analyzes user responses to the user experience options to update the analytics model, and to dynamically adapt the personalization of the user experience options, according to one embodiment. The method and system filters out user experience options from delivery to users, if the user experience options are non-compliant with one or more business rules, to maintain business relations for the service provider and to maintain user confidence in the services provided by the service provider (e.g., a tax return preparation system), according to one embodiment. |
| US11069000B1 |
Payment processing service utilizing a distributed ledger digital asset
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for a payment processing service utilizing a distributed ledger digital asset are provided. A payment processing service subsystem may provide payment processing services for merchants that wish to receive customer payments as a distributed ledger digital asset rather than as a fiat money asset. |
| US11068999B1 |
Social media data aggregation to optimize underwriting
A data aggregation and processing engine optimizes underwriting decisions in the life insurance industry by using social media data to reduce the level of underwriting required. Social media data enables underwriting thresholds based on risk assessments and credibility correlations within publicly available social media data sets with options for opting into more detailed analysis of private social data. Activity monitors further refine appropriate underwriting actions together with correlations with provided biographical data. |
| US11068998B1 |
Polynomial risk maps
A system including a computing device may receive base map information, including attribute information associated with a plurality of road segments, and trip request information. Based on this information, a route for the user to travel may be determined. The system might further calculate a risk score for each road segment forming the route, and generate a risk map based on the risk score and the route. The risk map may then be displayed to a user. The risk map may include markers or other objects depicting potential risks along the route the driver may face. Also, the risk map may be updated based on information collected from a sensor coupled to the vehicle or located at the road segment to reflect actual, real-time risk scores calculated using an equation for providing a risk score for a particular driver driving a particular vehicle on a particular road segment. |
| US11068994B2 |
Sensor based system and method for augmenting insurance claim filing
Techniques for detecting physical conditions at a physical premises from collection of sensor information from plural sensors execute one or more unsupervised learning models to continually analyze the collected sensor information to produce operational states of sensor information, produce sequences of state transitions, detect during the continual analysis of sensor data that one or more of the sequences of state transitions is a drift sequence, correlate determined drift state sequence to a stored determined condition at the premises, and generate an alert based on the determined condition. Various uses are described for these techniques. |
| US11068988B2 |
Investor knowledge web
A system includes a topic subsystem module, a portfolio subsystem module, a performance subsystem module, a server, and a client device. The topic subsystem module acquires and stores artifact data relative to a first predetermined period having user-defined start and end. The topic subsystem module extracts topics related to preselected data. The portfolio subsystem module stores data regarding asset positions in a financial portfolio and the performance of each position over a second predetermined period having user-defined start and end. The performance subsystem module is configured to generate performance metrics for aggregate categories over a third predetermined period having user-defined start and end. The server generates relevancy relationships between the respective artifact data, asset positions, and performance metrics. The client receives the relevancy data and displays, on a graphical user interface, a knowledge web relating individual components of the relevancy data. |
| US11068986B2 |
System and method for automated order entry on short queues
Orders are automatically sent to the market when certain user defined conditions are met. In particular, a trader can configure the trading application to automatically send orders for preset quantities at price levels with queues falling below a user defined threshold. The length of queues may be measured in several ways, for example, the queue length could be measured by quantity at a given price level or the queue length could be measured by the number of orders at a given price level, or the queue length could be measured by a combination of quantity and orders. The present embodiments can more quickly recognize opportunities and send an order to take advantage of it than a trader can do manually. Other advantages and features are described herein. |
| US11068983B2 |
Method and system for order management
A method and system for order management that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US11068981B2 |
System and method for displaying trade information for electronic trading exchange
An application is disclosed that receives from a host exchange a plurality of trade notifications, each trade notification corresponding to an executed trade, and for each executed trade of interest, may determine whether the executed trade belongs in an aggregated set with one or more other executed trades. The application provides an indicator for indicating whether the corresponding executed trade or aggregated trade traded on the bid side or on the offer side of the market, and which indicates whether additional volume is available at the associated trade price. |
| US11068977B2 |
System and method for providing a payment instrument
A system and method for processing an online application for a payment instrument is described, in which user details are received, a payment instrument is assigned based on the received user details, wherein the payment instrument is associated with unique identifying data, and the user is informed of the assigned payment instrument by transmitting a first portion of said unique identifying data via a first communication channel, and transmitting a second portion of said unique identifying data via a second communication channel different to the first communication channel. |
| US11068974B2 |
Systems and methods for providing financial service extensions
Systems and methods are provided for providing financial service extensions. In one implementation, a financial cloud system including a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions is provided. The instructions may be executed to perform a process associated with providing the financial service extensions. The process may include providing a platform application to a client device. The process may also include receiving data associated with a financial service extension to be used in connection with the platform application. The process may further include receiving configuration data associated with the financial service extension. The process may additionally include configuring, by the processor, the financial service extension for use with the platform application. The process may also include providing, by the processor, the financial service extension to the client device. |
| US11068973B2 |
Method and system for performing sale actions of an auction or a sale offer of a product or service through a communication network
The present invention relates to a system and a method for performing sale actions of a product or service through a communication network (300) which comprises: sending to one seller (100) the specifications of the product or service with a reference price, so that the seller (100) can present one or more offers (10) to be put up for sale; receiving, from the seller (100), the offer (10) for of product or service to be put up for sale; storing the offer (10) in a database (310) of the communication network (300); receiving, from a plurality of buyers (200), a plurality of purchase proposals (20) for the product or service, the plurality of purchase proposals (20) being determined for the offer (10) of the seller (100); storing the plurality of purchase proposals (20) in the database (310) of the communication network (300); processing the plurality of purchase proposals (20) and determining a product or service matrix, the matrix being constituted by the plurality of purchase proposals (20) received for the offer (10); monitoring when the seller (100) takes a new lot (30) at his opportune moment or at the time limit, in the course of the auction, at the price of his interest to sell the product or service to the plurality of buyers (200) who has given the plurality of units corresponding to the purchase proposals (20) of the respective lot (30). |
| US11068971B1 |
Method, medium, and system for virtual try-on coordination via communications sessions
A method includes obtaining, from a first computing device, a request to establish a communications session between the first computing device and a second computing device to initiate a virtual try-on session for a first user of the first computing device. The method proceeds with establishing the communications session between these computing devices, where the communications session is configured to enable the virtual try-on session to be simultaneously viewed on user interfaces of both devices. Further, the method includes receiving, from the first computing device, a selection of items for presentation on a first user graphical representation. In response to this selection, the user interfaces are simultaneously updated to present these items on the first user graphical representation. The method further includes obtaining, from the second computing device, feedback on these items from a second user and updating both user interfaces in accordance with this feedback. |
| US11068969B2 |
Method and system for configuring a virtual reality environment
A method for creating a customized virtual shopping experience may include receiving physical-world shopping data of a first user. The physical-world shopping data may be collected while the first user is physically present in a physical-world shopping environment. The method may also include configuring a virtual shopping environment based at least in part on the physical-world shopping data of the first user, and displaying to the first user the virtual shopping environment. |
| US11068966B2 |
System and method for lane merge sequencing in drive-thru restaurant applications
According to exemplary methods, automated image processing of images from order locations of a multi-lane drive-thru system is continually performed using an automated ordering system. It is automatically determined if a vehicle is present at any of the order locations based on the automated image processing. It is automatically determined if an order has been initiated into the automated ordering system. When the order has been initiated while the vehicle is present at any of the order locations, an automated sequencing processing is automatically begun. The automated sequencing processing determines an order pick-up sequence for picking up orders at pickup windows of the multi-lane drive-thru system. When the order has been initiated while the vehicle is not present at any of the order locations, a potential out-of-sequence warning is automatically associated with the order and output from the automated ordering system. |
| US11068961B2 |
Methods and systems for providing purchase recommendations based on responses to inquiries on product attributes
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing purchase recommendations. According to some examples, a method may include: determining respective frequency distributions of a plurality of vehicle attributes, the frequency distributions being determined based on occurrences of values of the plurality of vehicle attributes in a set of vehicles; selecting a vehicle attribute from the plurality of vehicle attributes based on the frequency distributions of the plurality of vehicle attributes; transmitting, to a user device, an inquiry for user preference regarding the selected vehicle attribute; receiving, from the user device, a response indicating the user preference; and presenting, to the user device, a recommendation of one or more vehicles determined based on the received response. |
| US11068960B2 |
Methods and apparatus for item substitution
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically identifying substitute items. A computing device can generate matrix data that identifies connection values between a plurality of items. The matrix data may be generated based on the application of one or more machine learning algorithms to historical data identifying accepted or denied item substitutions. The computing device may then receive item data identifying at least one second item and at least one attribute of that second item. The computing device may generate a graph based on the matrix data and the item data to determine connection values between the second item and the plurality of first items. The computing device may then determine a substitute item (e.g., a replacement item) for the second item based on the connection values between the second item and the plurality of first items. |
| US11068959B1 |
Systems and methods for generating recommendations based on online history information and geospatial data
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating recommendations based on online history information and geospatial data. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for automating the transmission of electronic recommendations to users by consistently monitoring electronic information regarding a user's interests correlating that data with inventory information and geospatial information. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available user data, user provided objectives, or various real-time data associated with a user, and using the aforementioned data as inputs for recommendation models, in order to generate and transmit the optimal recommendations to the user. |
| US11068952B1 |
System and computer-implemented method of identifying tattoo providers
A storage medium having software instructions configured to cause a processor to receive a series of user preferences, a user's requested dates of availability, transmit a request for tattoo service providers matching the series of user preferences, and receive a series of tattoo service providers matching the user preferences. The instructions are also configured to cause the processor to display an image of a map including the user's desired geographic location, and to display the series of tattoo service providers with a series of visual indicia. The series of visual indicia are overlaid on the image of the map based on geographic coordinates of the series of tattoo service providers. |
| US11068949B2 |
Distributed and automated transaction systems
Methods and apparatus are described that use machine vision and machine learning to eliminate many of the steps of a typical retail transaction. For example, implementations are contemplated in which a user simply removes an item from a retail location to effect the transaction. |
| US11068947B2 |
Machine learning-based dynamic outcome-based pricing framework
A service request is received at an intelligence service server from a user, where the service request includes a number of required inputs associated with the user. The number of required inputs are executed by the intelligence service server to generate an inference, an outcome probability distribution and a price quote, where the price quote corresponds to the outcome probability distribution. The outcome probability distribution and the price quote are returned by the intelligence service server to the user. It is determined by the intelligence service server that whether the user accepts the price quote based on a response from the user. If so, the inference is returned by the intelligence service server to the user. Otherwise, the response from the user is logged in a database associated with the intelligence service server by the intelligence service server. |
| US11068943B2 |
Generating collaborative orderings of information pertaining to products to present to target users
Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating collaborative orderings of information pertaining to products to present to target users are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating, for each of multiple target users, a personalized initial ordering of multiple statements pertaining to an entity by analyzing the statements and user-specific information; calculating, for each of the target users, a utility score that comprises (i) similarity between a consensus ordering of the statements and the given target user's personalized initial ordering of the statements, and (ii) similarity between the other target users' personalized initial orderings of the statements; generating a final ordering of the statements by enabling, based on the calculated utility scores, agents representing the target users to exchange revised orderings of the multiple statements via one or more automated communication iterations; and outputting the statements, in the final ordering, to the target users. |
| US11068933B2 |
Systems and methods for providing predictive affinity relationship information
In certain aspects, the disclosed implementations include methods and systems for dynamically generating and determining transaction affinity relationship information associated with a set of merchants involved in a set of transactions. In certain implementations, the transaction affinity relationship information may reflect affinity relationships between merchant chains in a merchant affinity network. The disclosed implementations may receive an adjustment to an affinity relationship associated with a merchant chain, and based on the adjustment, predicts one or more changes to affinity relationships associated with other merchant chains in the merchant affinity network. |
| US11068931B1 |
Systems, methods, and media for detecting content viewability
Systems, methods, and media are disclosed for tracking viewability of content, such as Internet content, by associating a color-changing animated image file with the content and determining, based on whether color of an image is changing, whether the content is in a viewable region of a browser. |
| US11068927B2 |
Methods and apparatus to correct audience measurement data
An example involves determining a missing-audience factor based on first impressions corresponding to first client devices that do not have database proprietor (DP) identifiers for use by a DP to identify subscribers registered with the DP, and based on second impressions corresponding to second client devices that do have the DP identifiers used by the DP to identify subscribers registered with the DP. The first impressions represent accesses to media via the first client devices. The second impressions represent access to the media via the second client devices. The example involves determining a coverage-corrected unique audience (CCUA) size based on the missing-audience factor and a UA size of DP subscribers exposed to the media. The UA size is determined based on impressions logged by the DP. The CCUA size corresponds to impressions logged by the DP and not logged by the DP. |
| US11068925B2 |
Real-time digital asset sampling apparatuses, methods and systems
The real-time digital asset sampling apparatuses, methods and systems (“RDA”) transform ad bidding requests via RDA components and/or the like into ad pricing indices, financial instruments and/or the like. In one implementation, the RDA may determine a digital asset market bid sampling distribution for a digital asset associated with a plurality of attribute parameters; submit a digital asset pricing bid to an exchange platform; determine a current digital asset price based on bidding result of the digital asset market bids sampling; and aggregate the determined current digital asset price to generate a digital asset price index for the digital asset associated with a plurality of attribute parameters. |
| US11068923B2 |
System for loyalty program
Systems, methods, devices and computer-readable media for generating incentives for a loyalty system are described. A method includes: receiving, at at least one processor, data reflective of transactions conducted by a plurality of customers; processing, at the at least one processor, the data to determine a set of attributes for each of the plurality of customers; classifying, at the at least one processor, each of the plurality of customers according to at least one of a plurality of customer groups based on the determined set of attributes; and generating, at the at least one processor, an incentive targeting customers in at least one of the plurality of customer groups. |
| US11068920B2 |
Methods, platforms and systems for paying persons for use of their personal intelligence profile data
Methods and systems for rewarding a personal intelligence profile (PIP) owner who owns associated PIP data used by a PIP data user. The methods are performed using a PIP platform that includes a dedicated server that mediates between the PIP data owner and the PIP data user. A method may comprise, through the dedicated PIP platform, obtaining PIP data associated with the PIP data owner according to criteria defined by the PIP data owner, determining a value of the obtained PIP data, providing the PIP data to the PIP data user, and paying the PIP data owner a reward based on the obtained PIP data value. |
| US11068917B2 |
Prediction of business outcomes by analyzing image interests of users
A method and a system for predicting business outcomes by analyzing image interests of users are provided. The method includes generation of predictor models based on sample data of tests users. The sample data includes historical data of the test users, images that are of interest to the test users, and answers provided by the test users to psychometric questions. The predictor models are then used to predict psychometric features and business outcomes for a target user based on target data of the target user. The target data includes images that are of interest to the target user, historical data of the target user, and answers provided by the target user to the psychometric questions. |
| US11068916B2 |
Using machine learning to predict retail business volume
Methods for estimating multiple types of retail business volume based on multiple types of data are described. Historical volume data, prior recorded business volume, characteristics of the store including departments, and geographical location are used. Historical data is transformed into multiple features that capture seasonality, trends, the effects of special events and other business characteristics. This data can be pooled based on business characteristics, and then machine learning regression models, e.g., multiple regression trees, are fitted to each pool of data. To estimate future volume, the same features are computed, and the regression model is applied. The estimates are presented back to the user, or transmitted electronically to other systems, including systems for creating worker schedules based on predicted volumes. Systems, apparatus and computer readable media are also described. |
| US11068913B2 |
Determining a user's event experience through user actions
There is provided systems and method for determining a user's event experience through user actions. A user may attend an event at a venue and take various actions with respect to the event. For example, the user may dance and cheer at the event, which may be captured by a biometric reading device on a user device that the user has in their possession. Additionally, the user may share media and generate social networking interactions while at, or after the event. The user may also make purchases at the event or after the event, such as purchasing media content corresponding to the event, Based on the actions taken by the user, an enjoyment level may be determined, which may be used to further determine a quality or how overall enjoyable was the event. Thus, users may be provided with sales of products or future events matching their interests. |
| US11068911B1 |
Automatically determining market rental rate index for properties
A facility for determining a market rental rate index for homes located in a distinguished geographic area is described. The facility accesses a current market rental rate attributed to substantially every home in the named geographic area based on automatically comparing the attributes of each home to attributes of homes recently listed for rental in the named geographic area. The facility then applies an aggregation function to the accessed current market rental rates to obtain an aggregation result. The facility causes to be displayed a characterization of the current market rental rate of homes in the named geographic area that is based on the aggregation result. |
| US11068909B1 |
Multi-level authentication
Apparatuses and methods associated with multi-level authentication are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a method includes authenticating a physical object of a plurality of physical objects that together form an aggregate physical object; storing in a database system relationship information reflecting a relationship between the aggregate physical object and the plurality of physical objects; attempting to authenticate a target physical object; responsive to matching the target physical object to the aggregate physical object based on the attempt to authenticate the physical target: identifying in the database system a database record corresponding to the aggregate physical object; storing in the database record authentication data reflecting the match between the target physical object and the aggregate physical object; and storing an indication of a re-authentication of the physical object in the database system based on the relationship information. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. |
| US11068908B1 |
Skill-based credential verification by a credential vault system (CVS)
Methods and systems are provided for skill-based/JHE credential verification using robotic contact and analysis, social media search, and/or peer affirmation within a blockchain-based database that holds verified trustor records. In one embodiment, a credential vault system (CVS) identifies a set of skill-based canonical JHEs for a trustor based on a description of job history and experience (JHE) of the trustor using a recurrent neural network (RNN) model with natural language process/natural language understanding (NLP/NLU), wherein a trustor record in the CVS is uniquely identified by a trustor identification in a blockchain-based database of the CVS, collects one or more corroborations for each canonical JHE by the CVS, evaluates each canonical JHE based on the collected one or more corroborations using a deep learning model to verify the corresponding canonical JHE, and appends each verified canonical JHE to the trustor record in a blockchain-based database of the CVS. |
| US11068899B2 |
Token aggregation for multi-party transactions
Described herein is a system for generating a master token to be associated with a set of tokens. In some embodiments, a number of tokens may be obtained by a communication device, which may be provided to a primary authorization computer. The primary authorization computer may generate a master token to be associated with each of those tokens. When the master token is used to complete a transaction, an authorization request may be received by the primary authorization computer that includes the master token. Upon receiving this, the primary authorization computer may obtain approval from a number of secondary authorization computers associated with the tokens, and may generate an authorization response based on those approvals. |
| US11068895B2 |
Token and cryptogram using transaction specific information
Systems and methods for token processing are disclosed. An access device can provide access device data to a mobile communication device. The communication device generates a token request including the access device data and communication device data and sends the token request to a server computer. The server computer returns a token and a token cryptogram to the mobile communication device. The token and the cryptogram may be used in a transaction. |
| US11068891B2 |
Methods and systems for leveraging transactions to dynamically authenticate a user
A system and method for authenticating a candidate user accessing a host computing device as an authentic user is provided. The host computing device is in communication with an authenticating computing device. The method includes receiving, by the authenticating computing device, a request to authenticate the candidate user as an authentic user. The authentication request includes a user identifier. The method also includes retrieving, by the authenticating computing device, transaction data including payment transactions performed by the authentic user based on the user identifier. The method also includes generating, by the authenticating computing device, a challenge question and a correct answer based on the transaction data associated with the authentic user, and transmitting the challenge question for display on a candidate user computing device used by the candidate user. |
| US11068888B1 |
Value-transfer payment system
A value-transfer payment system, having an electronic device, an operations center, a blockchain, a decentralized mesh networking, and an identification confidence-based system. The blockchain is associated to the decentralized mesh networking to define an immutable and decentralized platform that allows users to transfer funds. The electronic device is a computer device or a teller machine. The blockchain associated with the decentralized mesh networking is accessed via Internet with the computer device through a central website, mobile applications, or through third-party website/mobile applications or through the teller machine. The decentralized mesh networking has a plurality of nodes operatively associated to each other. The value-transfer payment system works in rural locations through the decentralized mesh networking, whereby the users are allowed for transfer the funds with or without the availability of traditional dial-up, broadband, or wireless Internet connectivity. |
| US11068887B2 |
Smart contract whitelists
Implementations of this specification include identifying, by a node of the blockchain network, a request to execute a smart contract stored in a blockchain maintained by the blockchain network, the request identifying a requesting account that is requesting to execute the smart contract; retrieving, by the node, a whitelist from the blockchain associated with the smart contract, the whitelist identifying one or more accounts that are authorized to execute the smart contract; determining, by the node, that the requesting account is authorized to execute the smart contract based on the requesting account being included in the whitelist; and in response to determining that the requesting account is authorized to execute the smart contract, executing, by the node, the smart contract. |
| US11068885B2 |
Method and system for deanomymizing cryptocurrency users by analyzing bank transfers to a cryptocurrency exchange
A computerized method for deanonymizing cryptocurrency users by analyzing bank transfers to a cryptocurrency exchange may include receiving data from a currency transfer made by a user at a bank to a cryptocurrency exchange. Candidate currency exchange transactions made by the user may be identified from the currency exchange transactions completed by the cryptocurrency exchange within a predefined time interval. A set of anonymous transactions in blockchain cryptocurrency ledger in the predefined time interval may be identified where the cryptocurrency value in transactions of anonymous users in a blockchain cryptocurrency ledger matches a currency transfer amount made by the user in the candidate currency exchange transactions. Anonymous transactions in the set may be identified as being made by the user based on the probability assigned to each anonymous transaction in the set. |
| US11068883B2 |
Apparatus and methods for secure element transactions and management of assets
Methods and apparatus for the deployment of financial instruments and other assets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a security software protocol is disclosed that guarantees that the asset is always securely encrypted, that one and only one copy of an asset exists, and the asset is delivered to an authenticated and/or authorized customer. Additionally, exemplary embodiments of provisioning systems are disclosed that are capable of, among other things, handling large bursts of traffic (such as can occur on a so-called “launch day” of a device). |
| US11068882B1 |
Systems and methods for providing power to a multi-purpose transaction card
A controller of a transaction card may cause the transaction card to be in a first state. The transaction card may include a battery and at least one other component. In the first state, the battery does not provide power to the at least one other component of the transaction card. The transaction card may receive a signal from a near-field communication (NFC) device and may cause the transaction card to be in a second state based on receiving the signal. In the second state, the battery provides power to the at least one other component of the transaction card. The transaction card may perform a transaction based on the transaction card being in the second state. |
| US11068881B2 |
System for resource distribution within an offline environment
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for resource distribution within an offline environment. A merchant device internally stores a repository of reference codes and managing entity public keys that are paired with managing entity private keys. The user requests an amount of resources for offline exchange from the managing entity system. The managing entity system transmits certain authorization and encryption information to a user device. When the user device receives an exchange prompt from the computing device of the merchant through near field communication, it generates a digital token incorporating layers of content encryption ending with a managing entity's private key. The encrypted token and reference code are transmitted via near field communication to the merchant device. The merchant device matches the reference code to the managing entity public key and decrypts portions of the token with the managing entity public key to acquire the usable exchange information. |
| US11068879B1 |
System and application to control a touch operated device using a mobile device
A system having a program running thereon, the system including a storage device to store data regarding a session connection, at least one first apparatus, including an input unit to scan a prompt code, a processing unit to generate a replica of a touch-based input unit in response to the input unit scanning the prompt code, a display unit to display the replica of the touch-based input unit, and a communication unit to transmit an input signal from the input unit, and at least one second apparatus, including another communication unit to communicate with and receive the input signal from the communication unit, another display unit to display the prompt code thereon in response to the communication unit being within at least one of a first predetermined distance and a second predetermined distance of the another communication unit, another input unit comprising the touch-based input unit, and another processing unit to register the input signal corresponding to a same input on the another input unit. |
| US11068878B2 |
System and method for data communication between computing devices using audio signals
The embodiments herein provide a method and system for establishing data communication through a secure channel using audio signals. The method comprises registering a plurality of users to an application, initiating the application by a registered user, emitting audio signals using the audio signal emitter to establish a secure channel with the other participating device, receiving audio signals from the other participating device, validating the other participating device using a validating module, detecting the proximity of the other participating device using a proximity detector, establishing a secure channel between the participating devices, wherein the secure channel is established using audio channels, and enabling financial transaction between the participating devices. |
| US11068876B2 |
Securing of internet of things devices based on monitoring of information concerning device purchases
Purchasing related activity that is executed on computing devices on a LAN is monitored. Information is identified concerning purchases of IoT devices on the LAN, based on the monitoring of the purchasing related activity. For example, a specific purchase of a specific device (or specific device type) can be identified, or identifying information concerning a purchased device can be inferred, based on monitored purchasing related activity. IoT devices are discovered on the LAN and identified. Identifying a discovered device can further comprise interrogating the discovered device, monitoring activities of the discovered device, and/or analyzing information concerning purchases of IoT devices on the LAN. Gleaned identifying information concerning a discovered device can be used to determine or disambiguate the device's identity. Identifying information concerning discovered devices can be transmitted to a backend component, which provides constraint profiles concerning discovered devices, which can be enforced on the LAN. |
| US11068873B1 |
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices for facilitating advertising of a product
Disclosed herein is a shelf system for facilitating advertising of a product, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the shelf system includes a panel assembly, a sensor, and a display unit. Further, the panel assembly includes a base and a panel. Further, the panel assembly includes a lock mechanism and a cord hole. Further, a first panel assembly of the panel assembly is couplable to a second panel assembly of the panel assembly using the lock mechanism and the cord hole forming a spatial arrangement. Further, the lock mechanism and the cord hole facilitates securing and the transmission of the electrical power between the first panel assembly and the second panel assembly. Further, the sensor is configured for generating sensor data based on a position of an individual in relation to the panel assembly. Further, the display unit is configured for displaying information based on the sensor data. |
| US11068872B2 |
Transaction system and commodity registration machine
A transaction system includes a commodity registration machine and a check-out machine. The commodity registration machine includes an input device and a processor. The processor determines whether or not whether or not a predetermined condition for permitting check-out processing at the commodity registration machine is satisfied. The processor enables the input device to accept selection of either one of the check-out processing at the commodity registration machine or the check-out processing at the check-out machine if it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied. |
| US11068867B1 |
Location-aware, bill-splitting payment system and location-aware, bill-splitting payment processes
A location-aware, bill-splitting payment system and process are disclosed which reduces wait time for service customers, reduces work for service and waitstaff, and increases table turnover rate for a restaurant. The location-aware, bill-splitting payment system and process allows party members to quickly select and pay for their portion of the bill with their mobile devices while still sitting at the table, without having to wait for busy waitstaff to present the bill, or to manually process payment. |
| US11068863B2 |
Systems and methods of pending transaction augmentation and automatic attachment to settled transactions
A method including: receiving an indication of a transaction authorization of a pending transaction, the transaction authorization being requested using a financial account associated with a user; outputting for transmission, to a user device associated with the user, a request for purchase information corresponding to the pending transaction; receiving, from the user device, receipt image data corresponding to a receipt related the pending transaction; storing data indicative of the receipt in correspondence with the pending transaction; determining, based on analyzing a plurality of posted transactions of the financial account, a first posted transaction corresponding to the pending transaction; and storing the data indicative of the receipt in correspondence with the first posted transaction. |
| US11068862B2 |
Intelligent authentication process
A method for authentication includes receiving consumer information associated with a consumer transmitted over a first data network in a processor operated by an account issuer; determining available account authentication options based on the received consumer information and a database of potential authentication options stored in a memory in the processor; selecting a set of available authentication options from the available account authentication options based on a database of attributes for the potential authentication options stored in the memory in the processor; transmitting consumer information to an authentication provider associated with a selected authentication option over a second data network; receiving an authentication confirmation over the second data network in the processor; and updating the database of attributes for the potential authentication options to include information regarding a successful authentication and the authentication provider associated with the selected authentication option. |
| US11068858B2 |
System for handling a fault of an aircraft and a method and computer equipment for achieving the same
The present application relates to a system and a method for handling a fault of an aircraft. The system for handing a fault of an aircraft comprises an interface module for receiving the fault message and a troubleshooting decision-making unit for making a troubleshooting decision against the aircraft faults, wherein the troubleshooting decision is made by the troubleshooting decision-making unit based on fault types/safety risks and cost estimation. The examples in the application allow a cost-effective troubleshooting decision. |
| US11068857B2 |
Systems and methods for managing populations of utility poles
In an example implementation, a method includes receiving, at a processor, historical pole data records representing utility poles and having one or more pole attributes. Likewise, a method includes generating one or more pole subpopulations of historical pole data records having at least one common pole attribute. Further, the method includes performing a predictive algorithm on each pole subpopulation. Finally, the method includes determining, based on a predictive algorithm, the number of poles in the particular subpopulation that are likely to meet a rejection condition within a specified time frame. In another example implementation, a method includes receiving a sample pole data record representing a particular sample data pole and determining the likelihood of the particular sample utility pole meeting a rejection condition within a specified time frame. |
| US11068854B2 |
Systems and methods for automatic awareness and management of corporate visitor scheduling and coordination
A system and method for automating scheduling and coordination activities associated with the organizational responsibilities of hosting visitors (whether from the same company or an external organization). System leverages location technologies and other services to track the location of visitors, hosts, and other key participants related to the agenda items. The system performs the matching tracking information of visitor(s), participant(s), and the location of agenda event(s). The design of the described system rests on the assumption that visitors are a special type of person in an organization whose movements are actively tracked and managed through organizational policies and/or practices. |
| US11068853B2 |
Providing calendar utility to capture calendar event
A calendar utility is provided to capture a calendar event. A communication application initiates operations to capture the calendar event by monitoring a communication or a document. A calendar utility is generated after a calendar information such as a date, a time, a location, a title, and/or a subject associated with an event is parsed from the communication or document. The calendar utility is generated with a title element and a calendar list to provide for a selection of a calendar. The calendar utility is displayed, in relation to the calendar information, to capture a calendar event associated with the communication or the document. The calendar event is captured based on entry(s) and/or selection(s) on the calendar utility. |
| US11068851B2 |
Exchanging messages during a chat session
Message display control means updates and displays messages sequentially on a message list screen each time message receiving means receives a message. When input detection means detects a response message, identification means identifies the latest message at the time of detection and the response message. Response message sending means sends the response message as a response to the identified message to other participants upon completion of input of the response message. Therefore, even in the case where the message list screen is updated due to receiving the subsequent message during the input of the response message, the completed response message is able to be sent back to the response object message. |
| US11068849B2 |
Systems and methods for repurposing paid time off
The present disclosure relates generally to utilizing paid time off. In one example, the systems and methods described herein may provide an infrastructure to repurpose paid time off into other uses, such as cash, travel, bill payments, and the like. |
| US11068847B2 |
Computerized tools to facilitate data project development via data access layering logic in a networked computing platform including collaborative datasets
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, network communications to interface among repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform configured to provide one or more computerized tools that facilitate data projects by providing an interactive, project-centric workspace interface that may include, for example, a unified view in which to identify data sources, generate transformative datasets, and/or disseminate insights to collaborative computing devices and user accounts. For example, a method may include generating data configured to generate a data project user interface to receive a user input to implement a computerized tool to resolve a project objective including a query applied against a collaborative dataset, and forming data configured to display a user input to access hierarchical levels of data, for example, related to an insight. |
| US11068844B2 |
Inventory management system with statistical learning
Response parameters for a population of RFID tags present in an inventory space are determined by (a) continuously scanning the inventory space to interrogate the population of RFID tags and receiving responses from RFID tags within the population; (b) after multiple responses have been received from a specific RFID tag, determining response times for the specific RFID tag corresponding to time periods between sequential ones of the multiple responses from the specific RFID tag, (c) calculating a maximum acceptable response time based at least in part on the response times determined in step (b); and (c) recording a response interval data set including one or more of the response times determined in step (b) and the maximum acceptable response time calculated in step (c). |
| US11068843B2 |
Augmented reality inventory management system
The inventory management system (“the system”) includes a series of bar codes and a bar code reader. The bar codes are placed around the inventory storage area on or near containers which store inventory items. The bar codes identify the contents of the container. The system includes a bar code reader and an augmented reality viewing device. The system includes a processor which stores instructions for identifying the bar codes associated with each of the inventory items in an order. When the bar code reader scans a bar code associated with an item in the order, the augmented reality viewing device emits a cue that indicates the item should be picked. The containers may be connected to sensors which detect when an item has been removed and which transmit the sensor data to a processor. The processor may include instructions for processing the sensor data to maintain a current inventory. |
| US11068839B2 |
Logistical management system
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for selecting a particular eligible transporter for transporting a first good for a first job. An embodiment operates by receiving a request for transporting the good from a pickup location to a delivery location. Thereafter, eligible transporters for transporting the good from the pickup location to a first intermediate location or the delivery location (option one), or from the first intermediate location to a second intermediate location or the delivery location (option two), are identifier. Subsequently, for each eligible transporter, an estimated completion time (ECT) for the transporting of the first good is derived. Based on the ECT for each eligible transporter, a request to transport the good is sent to one of the eligible transporters. |
| US11068838B1 |
System and method for delivering to a package receptacle using a drone
A system and method for delivering to a package receptacle using a drone provides a secure automated delivery service for packages amongst users. The system accomplishes this by providing a receptacle that is equipped to store items for selective removal. The system includes at least one remote server and at least one delivery drone, wherein the remote server and the delivery drone are communicably coupled to each other. The system further includes at least one package receptacle capable of storing and selectively dispensing contained packages. Delivery instructions, including a pickup location and a receptacle location, are then sent from the remote server to the delivery drone. The physical package is next collected at the pickup location with the delivery drone. Once the delivery drone arrives at the receptacle location, the delivery drone lands atop the package receptacle and deposits the physical package safely inside. |
| US11068836B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring the internal storage contents of a shipment storage using one or more internal monitor drones
A drone-based monitored storage system includes a shipment storage with an interior storage area and a drone storage area, an internal docking station, and an internal monitor drone disposed within the shipment storage that aerially monitors the items being shipped within the interior storage area. The monitor drone includes an airframe, battery, onboard controller, lifting engines and lifting rotors responsive to flight control input, communication interface, sensor array that gathers sensory information as the drone moves within the interior shipment storage area of the shipment storage, and a drone capture interface that can selectively mate to the internal docking station to hold the monitor drone in a secure position. The monitor drone can gather the sensory information (such as environment information, image information, multidimensional mapping information, and scanned symbol information) and autonomously detect conditions of items being shipped based upon the sensory information from the sensor array. |
| US11068834B2 |
Secure shipment receive apparatus with delegation-chain
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to coordinate and manage secure shipment of a package. An example shipment coordination apparatus includes an address generator and a verification engine. The example apparatus includes a shipping group coordinator to generate a group including a sender and a receiver based on a) a first digital address associated with the sender, b) a second digital address associated with the receiver, and c) at least one encryption key associated with at least one of the first digital address or the second digital address, the shipping group coordinator to initiate delivery instruction and manage receipt confirmation of a package at a second physical address corresponding to the second digital address based on verification of a token identifying the receiver and to provide messaging between the sender and the receiver in the group using a group encryption key to keep messages private in the group. |
| US11068832B1 |
System and method for identifying freight capacity
A system includes a memory and at least one processor to determine a location of each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles that have freight capacity, determine a distance of each vehicle to a location of each uncovered shipment of a plurality of uncovered shipments, determine an estimated time of arrival for each vehicle to arrive at the location of each uncovered shipment of the plurality of uncovered shipments, determine a particular vehicle of the plurality of vehicles having a highest score that is selected to service a particular uncovered shipment of the plurality of uncovered shipments, the highest score based on the distance, the estimated time of arrival, and a pick up time for the particular uncovered shipment, and transmit a notification to a computing device of an operator of the particular vehicle that indicates that the particular vehicle is selected to service the particular uncovered shipment. |
| US11068827B1 |
Master performance indicator
Provided is a manner of determining a performance indicator score for an entity. A method includes identifying a set of result indicators that contribute to a target result for a defined process. The set of result indicators include a first result indicator, a second result indicator, and a third result indicator. The method also includes determining a first score for the first result indicator, a second score for the second result indicator, and a third score for the third result indicator. Further, the method includes applying a first weight to the first score, a second weight to the second score, and a third weight to the third score. A master performance indicator score is determined based on a combination of the first score, the second score, and the third score as a function of the first weight, the second weight, and the third weight. |
| US11068824B1 |
Automatic analysis of process and/or operations data for channel optimization
A device may receive data associated with customers, a customer-related process, or customer-related operations of an organization. The device may process the data using a technique. The device may map the data to an organization operating model. The organization operating model may be used to perform an analysis to identify a deficiency related to the customers, the customer-related process, or the customer-related operations, or a first manner in which to improve a customer-channel combination, the customer-related process, or the customer-related operations. The device may perform the analysis of the data. The device may identify the customer-channel combination of the organization. The customer-channel combination may identify a channel via which the organization acquires, engages, or retains the customers. The device may perform an action to positively impact performance of the customer-related process, to positively impact the customer-related operations, or to modify the customer-channel combination of the organization. |
| US11068823B2 |
System and method for retailer risk profiling
The lottery administration entity typically maintains a retail network of terminals that can be used to purchase tickets as well as validate tickets. Each transaction at the retail locations, whether it is purchasing tickets or validating tickets, may be stored in a database or other data store. The data store may be used to search for ticket information, such as when or where a particular ticket was purchased. The stored data may processed in order to generate a risk profile of retailers. |
| US11068821B2 |
Building energy optimization system with capacity market program (CMP) participation
An energy optimization system for participating in a capacity market program (CMP) includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, that, when executed on one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a nominated capacity value, generate an objective function and one or more CMP constraints, wherein the one or more CMP constraints cause an optimization of the objective function with the CMP constraints to generate a resource allocation that reduces the load of the facility by the nominated capacity value in response to receiving the dispatch from the utility, receive the dispatch from the utility, optimize the objective function based on the nominated capacity value, the dispatch, and the one or more CMP constraints to determine the resource allocation, and control one or more pieces of building equipment based on the determined resource allocation. |
| US11068819B1 |
Automated capacity planning in mixed data storage environment
In one example, a method for data storage capacity planning includes receiving a data metrics stream that includes information concerning a client-generated data stream, receiving information concerning a data storage capacity of the client, and analyzing the received data metrics. Based on the analysis of the data metrics and based on the information concerning the data storage capacity of the client, a projected data storage capacity requirement for the client is generated. Finally, data storage assets that correspond to the projected data storage capacity need are identified. |
| US11068816B2 |
System and method for selecting research and development project through autonomous proposals of evaluation indicators
The present invention relates to a system and a method for selecting a research and development project through autonomous proposals of evaluation indicators, in which performance information generated according to a selection of performance evaluation items for research and development project bidding is classified by bidders, and the research and development project is selected for each classified bidder group. The present invention allows research and development project bidders to select evaluation indicators which serve as criteria for selecting a research and development project, thereby being capable of guaranteeing autonomy and providing fair bidding opportunities to all research and development project bidders. Also, since a research and development project is selected for each group classified according to the autonomously selected performance evaluation items, transparent selection and fair competition between the research and development project bidders can be ensured, and research and development projects can be equally divided. |
| US11068812B2 |
Work instruction system
A work instruction system for a facility including processing machines is configured to provide work instructions on the processing machines to workers. The work instruction system includes a process plan storage section configured to store a process plan that defines a performing sequence regarding processing performed by the processing machines and work on the processing machines performed by the workers; a next work candidate extraction section configured to extract next work candidates for the workers based on current states of the processing machines and the process plan; a capacity database configured to store work capacity of each worker with regard to each work type; and a next work determination section configured to determine next work for a specified worker from among the next work candidates, based on the work capacity stored in the capacity database. |
| US11068811B2 |
System and method for operating a service to arrange transport amongst parties through use of mobile devices
A system and method are described for enabling transportation to be arranged for individuals carrying handsets or mobile devices. In some embodiments, a customer can transmit a request for transport from a given customer geographic location. A service may handle the request by selecting a driver for the customer. |
| US11068810B2 |
Matching deployable resources with available tasks based on personal information obtained from wearable devices
Matching deployable resources with available tasks based on personal information obtained from wearable devices is disclosed. A processor-based controller receives permission from each of a plurality of deployable resources to receive personal information from the respective deployable resource. The controller next automatically receives personal information from each of the plurality of deployable resources via the wearable devices. The personal information is based on information determined by the respective wearable device while the wearable device is being worn by the respective deployable resource. The controller automatically compares the personal information received from one or more of the deployable resources to a selection criterion associated with a task. Based on the comparing, the controller selects one or more of the deployable resources, and notifies each of the selected deployable resources to request assistance with respect to the task. |
| US11068803B1 |
Systems and methods for predicting analyte concentrations via machine learning techniques
Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Concentration Prediction Platform. According to various embodiments, the Concentration Prediction Platform receives an electrochemical signal and generates data based on deconvolving a respective contribution of an analyte(s) influencing the electrochemical signal. The Concentration Prediction Platform sends the data into one or more machine learning networks. The Concentration Prediction Platform receives, from the one or more machine learning networks, a predicted concentration of an analyte(s) influencing the electrochemical signal. |
| US11068802B2 |
High-capacity machine learning system
The present disclosure is directed to a high-capacity training and prediction machine learning platform that can support high-capacity parameter models (e.g., with 10 billion parameters). The platform generates a model for a metric of interest based on a known training set. The model includes parameters indicating importances of different features of the model, taken both singly and in pairs. The model may be applied to predict a value for the metric for given sets of objects, such as for a pair consisting of a user object and a content item object. |
| US11068800B2 |
Nearline updates to personalized models and features
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains events reflecting responses by a user to job recommendations outputted to the user. Next, the system updates a set of features for the user from the events. The system then includes the updated set of features in a feature repository for use by a statistical model in generating a ranking of jobs for the user. Finally, the system retrains the statistical model using the events prior to using the statistical model to update the outputted job recommendations using the ranking. |
| US11068794B2 |
Leveraging an external ontology for graph expansion in inference systems
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for exploring knowledge. The mechanism receives a set of known facts. The mechanism traverses paths in an ontology for a domain of knowledge from known facts in the set of known facts to one or more hypotheses. The ontology includes a plurality of entity types and a plurality of relationships between the entity types. The mechanism presents one or more hypotheses to a user. |
| US11068791B2 |
Providing recommendations utilizing a user profile
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes creating a profile for a user, the profile including one or more default aspects created automatically by a system and one or more custom aspects created in response to textual input by the user, comparing event data to the profile, and providing a recommendation to the user, based on the comparing. |
| US11068789B2 |
Dynamic model data facility and automated operational model building and usage
A commercial process with a dependent variable can be associated with a set of independent variables. The commercial process can continuously provide data collection opportunities. An intervention is designed using a model to predict the dependent outcome. The actual outcome of the intervention can be determined within the window of utility for these data. One objective is to improve intervention outcomes with prediction. Purely random outcomes (no model prediction) and outcomes resulting from the intervention (model operations) are aggregated into separate files—a sequence of control model data files and a sequence of model data files of operational data. These model data files and control model data files are used to analyze model performance and to react automatically when identified conditions warrant. |
| US11068788B2 |
Automatic generation of human-understandable geospatial descriptors
A disclosed method may include receiving geographic coordinates of a location at which two parties are to rendezvous, generating a human-understandable geospatial descriptor for the request location, and sending the descriptor to respective devices of the two parties for presentation to the two parties. Generating the human-understandable geospatial descriptor may include identifying a human-visible feature in the vicinity of the request location that is labeled within available map data, selecting, based on a descriptor generation model, a reference expression relative to the identified feature, and applying a grammar-based constructor to the label and the selected reference expression to form the human-understandable geospatial descriptor. The model may be tuned using machine learning. The two parties may include a ride requestor and a ride provider in a ridesharing service. The identified feature may be a point of interest, landmark, street name, intersection, marker, or structure. |
| US11068787B2 |
Training neural networks using evolution based strategies and novelty search
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for selecting a parameter vector from a set of parameter vectors for a neural network and generating a plurality of copies of the parameter vector. The systems and methods generate a plurality of modified parameter vectors by perturbing each copy of the parameter vector with a different perturbation seed, and determine, for each respective modified parameter vector, a respective measure of novelty. The systems and methods determine an optimal new parameter vector based on each respective measure of novelty for each respective one of the plurality of modified parameter vectors, and determine behavior characteristics of the new parameter vector. The systems and methods store the behavior characteristics of the new parameter vector in an archive. |
| US11068784B2 |
Generic quantization of artificial neural networks
Systems and methods for performing a quantization of artificial neural networks (ANNs) are provided. An example method may include receiving a description of an ANN and input data associated with the ANN, wherein the input data are represented according to a first data type; selecting a first value interval of the first data type to be mapped to a second value interval of a second data type; performing, based on the input data and the description of the ANN, the computations of one or more neurons of the ANN, wherein the computations are performed for at least one value within the second value interval, the value being a result of mapping a value of the first value interval to a value of the second value interval; determining, a measure of saturations in neurons of the ANN, and adjusting, based on the measure of saturations, the value intervals. |
| US11068780B2 |
Technologies for scaling deep learning training
Technologies for artificial neural network training include a computing node with a host fabric interface that sends a message that includes one or more artificial neural network training algorithm values to another computing node in response to receipt of a request to send the message. Prior to sending the message, the host fabric interface may receive a request to quantize the message and quantize the message based on a quantization level included in the request to generate a quantized message. The quantization message includes one or more quantized values such that each quantized value has a lower precision than a corresponding artificial neural network training algorithm value. The host fabric interface then transmits the quantized message, which includes metadata indicative of the quantization level, to another computing node in response to quantization of the message for artificial neural network training. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11068773B2 |
Memory management in memory augmented deep neural networks
Memory augmented neural networks may use one or more neural encoders to transform input data into distributed representations and a memory module to store the representations with individual addresses. Memory augmented neural networks allow for few-shot learning capabilities because latent representations are persistent between training examples and gradient-based updates affect only certain memory locations via content-based lookups. When a query vector is not found in memory and the memory is full, existing memories that are positively associated with a particular representation may be identified, redundant memories may be aged, and updated memories may be generated. These updated memories retain relevant information acquired during training and reduce redundancy in the memories stored using the memory module, thereby improving the efficiency of data storage and reducing overfitting of data typically encountered with existing neural networks using memory modules. |
| US11068772B2 |
Systems and methods for automatic apparel wearability model training and prediction
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for executing neural network training for dynamically predicting apparel wearability. For example, a method may include generating a training data set comprising one or more historical data attributes of previously shipped apparel, training a neural network based on the training data set to configure one or more trained models to output a metric for any pair of a unique user identifier and a unique apparel identifier, storing one or more trained model objects, collecting prediction data comprising at least one prediction pair including a unique user identifier and a unique apparel identifier, predicting one or more predictive wearability metrics indicative of propensity to wear, dynamically generating one or more match pairs, and determining a match wearability metric for each of the one or more match pairs based on the predicted one or more predictive wearability metrics. |
| US11068771B2 |
Integrated neuro-processor comprising three-dimensional memory array
The present invention discloses an integrated neuro-processor comprising at least a three-dimensional memory (3D-M) array. The 3D-M array stores the synaptic weights, while the neuro-processing circuit performs neural processing. The 3-D integration between the 3D-M array and the neuro-processing circuit not only improves the computational power per die area, but also greatly increases the storage capacity per die area. |
| US11068768B1 |
Pre-staging technology for self-service kiosks
Wait times at self-service kiosks may undermine the utility of these self-service machines. Self-service kiosks are configured to provide faster self-service kiosks that allow users to quickly perform common financial transactions. However, it has been increasing common for users to have to wait on a line to access a kiosk. Apparatus and methods are provided for a smart card that stages transactions by capturing the amount, pin and other necessary information on the smart card itself, before the user begins interacting with the kiosk. Information captured by the smart card may be transferred to the kiosk when the smart card is inserted into the kiosk. The user does not provide the kiosk with any additional information after inserted the smart card into the kiosk, thereby improving the transaction processing efficiency of the kiosk and enhancing user satisfaction. |
| US11068767B2 |
Patterned smart card module, smart card including the patterned smart card module, method for manufacturing the patterned smart card module, and method of verifying authentication of the patterned smart card module
A patterned smart card module includes a chip module and a patterned ink layer coated on a conductive surface of the chip module. The IC chip of the chip module stores chip data therein, and the chip data includes holder-related data. The patterned ink layer has a pattern relating to the holder-related data. |
| US11068763B2 |
Power supply with wirelessly supported phase offset control for acousto-magnetic systems
Systems and methods for synchronizing operations of incompatible systems. The methods comprise: programming receiver operations of a Power Supply (“PS”) so that PS is interoperable with a first system of the incompatible systems; receiving by PS a wireless universal synchronization signal from a beacon of the first system; determining, by PS, a value for a phase offset setting of an internal signal conditioner circuit based on information contained in the wireless universal synchronization signal; generating a phase shifted Alternating Current (“AC”) signal by applying a phase offset to an input AC power signal in accordance with the determined value for the phase offset setting; buffering the phase shifted AC signal to generate an output AC power signal; and using a zero crossing of the output AC power signal to synchronize transmit and receive operations of a second system of the incompatible systems with the first system's transmit and receive operations. |
| US11068760B2 |
Terminal device having communication interface configured to communicate with printer, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium containing instructions therefor
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores computer-executable instructions, which constitute a particular program, for a terminal device. The instructions cause, when executed by the controller, the terminal device to perform obtaining printable area information indicating a printable area on a printing medium loaded to the printer, outputting a command instructing printing of a first image to the printer, determining whether a shortening condition is satisfied, a period for the short-time printing process is shorter than that for a normal printing process. When it is determined that the shortening condition is not satisfied, the controller outputs a first command causing the printer to print the first image within a normal printable area on the printing medium. When it is determined that the shortening condition is satisfied, the controller outputs a second command causing the printer to print the first image within a reduced area which is smaller than the printable area. |
| US11068759B2 |
Printing apparatus capable of using a plurality of types of printing paper for executing a first calibration and a second calibration, and a control system
A printing apparatus includes a control unit to execute either one of a first calibration and a different second calibration in a case where a predetermined execution condition corresponding to a type of printing paper that is set in the printing apparatus is satisfied. The first calibration is executed when the type of printing paper that is set is a first type that is included in a plurality of types and the second calibration is executed when the type of printing paper that is set is a second type. The control unit determines whether the predetermined execution condition is satisfied, based on a relationship as to which is greater and which is smaller between a predetermined threshold value and a count value corresponding to a number of elapsed days since calibration was previously executed for the type of printing paper that is set in the printing apparatus. |
| US11068758B1 |
Polarity semantics engine analytics platform
Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed herein provide a prescriptive analytics platform, a polarity analysis engine, and a semantic analysis engine in which a user can identify a target objective and use the system to find out whether the user's objectives are being met, what predictive factors are positively or negatively affecting the targeted objectives, as well as what recommended changes the user can make to better meet the objectives. The systems and methods may include a polarity analysis engine configured to determine the polarity of terms in free-text input in view of the target objective and the predictive factors and use the polarity to generate the recommended changes. The systems and methods may also include a semantic analysis engine to extend the results of the polarity analysis engine for improved determination of predictive factors and improved recommendations. |
| US11068755B2 |
Locating method and a locator system for locating a billet in a stack of billets
A locating system that performs a locating method for locating a flame-cut billet in a stack of flame-cut billets that includes an imager that obtains an image of an end surface of a billet, a classifier that classifies the image of the end surface, and a matcher that matches the classified image of the end surface with a classified image from among a plurality of classified images stored in a classified image storage. |
| US11068746B2 |
Image realism predictor
A method for predicting the realism of an object within an image includes generating a training image set for a predetermined object type. The training image set comprises one or more training images at least partially generated using a computer. A pixel level training spatial realism map is generated for each training image of the one or more training images. Each training spatial realism map configured to represent a perceptual realism of the corresponding training image. A predictor is trained using the training image set and the corresponding training spatial realism maps. An image of the predetermined object is received. A spatial realism map of the received image is produced using the trained predictor. |
| US11068742B2 |
Curation of custom workflows using multiple cameras
A multi-layer technology stack includes a sensor layer including image sensors, a device layer, and a cloud layer, with interfaces between the layers. A method to curate different custom workflows for multiple applications include the following. Requirements for custom sets of data packages for the applications is received. The custom set of data packages include sensor data packages (e.g., SceneData) and contextual metadata packages that contextualize the sensor data packages (e.g., SceneMarks). Based on the received requirements and capabilities of components in the technology stack, the custom workflow for that application is deployed. This includes a selection, configuration and linking of components from the technology stack. The custom workflow is implemented in the components of the technology stack by transmitting workflow control packages directly and/or indirectly via the interfaces to the different layers. |
| US11068737B2 |
Predicting land covers from satellite images using temporal and spatial contexts
A method of identifying land cover includes receiving multi-spectral values for a plurality of locations at a plurality of times. A location is selected and for each time in the plurality of times, a latent representation of the multi-spectral values is determined based on a latent representation of multi-spectral values determined for a previous time and multi-spectral values for the previous time of a plurality of other locations that are near the selected location. The determined latent representation is then used to predict a land cover for the selected location at the time. |