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| US11206747B1 |
Heat release device
A heat release device includes a housing, a substrate located within the housing, a heat source disposed on the substrate, a first member provided between the housing and the substrate and between the housing and the heat source, and a plurality of second members that support the first member from the substrate. The first member is disposed to have a gap with the heat source and so as to have a gap with the housing. Among the plurality of second members, a second member far from the heat source is larger in area in contact with the substrate and the first member than a second member close to the heat source. |
| US11206740B2 |
High voltage power module
A power module includes a number of sub-modules connected via removable jumpers. The removable jumpers allow the connections between one or more power semiconductor die in the sub-modules to be reconfigured, such that when the removable jumpers are provided, the power module has a first function, and when the removable jumpers are removed, the power module has a second function. The removable jumpers may also allow for independent testing of the sub-modules. The power module may also include a multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB), which is used to connect one or more contacts of the power semiconductor die. The multi-layer PCB reduces stray inductance between the contacts and therefore improves the performance of the power module. |
| US11206733B2 |
Display device and bezel substrate thereof
A display panel and a bezel substrate thereof are disclosed. The bezel substrate includes a bending section and a plurality of wirings. Each of the wirings includes a first line section and a second line section, the first line section and the second line section are disposed on the bending section, a width of the first line section to each of the wirings is greater than a width of the second line section of the wirings, and the first line sections of the adjacent wirings are staggered with respect to each other. |
| US11206731B2 |
Communication module
A communication module includes: a substrate; a supplementary substrate disposed to surround an electronic element mounted on a lower surface of the substrate; a molding material configured to seal an electronic element mounted on an upper surface of the substrate; and a shielding layer disposed on a side surface and an upper surface of the molding material, a side surface of the supplementary substrate, and a side surface of the substrate. The supplementary substrate includes: a plurality of first pads disposed on an upper surface of the supplementary substrate; a plurality of second pads disposed on a lower surface of the supplementary substrate; a plurality of vias connecting the plurality first pads to the plurality of second pads; and a ground pad disposed on the side surface of the supplementary substrate. The ground pad includes an extender connected to a corresponding first pad and a corresponding second pad. |
| US11206730B2 |
Flexible hybrid interconnect circuits
Provided are flexible hybrid interconnect circuits and methods of forming thereof. A flexible hybrid interconnect circuit comprises multiple conductive layers, stacked and spaced apart along the thickness of the circuit. Each conductive layer comprises one or more conductive elements, one of which is operable as a high frequency (HF) signal line. Other conductive elements, in the same and other conductive layers, form an electromagnetic shield around the HF signal line. Some conductive elements in the same circuit are used for electrical power transmission. All conductive elements are supported by one or more inner dielectric layers and enclosed by outer dielectric layers. The overall stack is thin and flexible and may be conformally attached to a non-planar surface. Each conductive layer may be formed by patterning the same metallic sheet. Multiple pattern sheets are laminated together with inner and outer dielectric layers to form a flexible hybrid interconnect circuit. |
| US11206727B1 |
Pseudo-digital light emitting diode (LED) dimming with secondary-side controller
Pseudo-digital light-emitting diode (LED) with secondary-side flyback control is described. In one embodiment, a Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) compatible driver includes a secondary-side controller coupled to a secondary winding of a transformer and coupled to a light-emitting element. The secondary-side controller includes a DALI-compatible interface to receive information. The secondary-side controller communicates a control signal with a primary-side controller via a galvanically-isolated link. The primary-side controller is coupled to a primary winding of the transformer. The DALI-compatible driver modifies a light output of the light-emitting element in response to the information. |
| US11206713B2 |
Sub-band compression domain processing for uplink MIMO systems
A multi-antenna receiver within an uplink MIMO communication system is described. The antenna receiver includes an RRU and a BBU communicating between themselves through a fronthaul (FH) link. The multi-antenna receiver significantly decreases the fronthaul (FH) throughput requirements, while guaranteeing a low EVM between the time-domain signals transmitted from the users towards the RRU and the signals reconstructed and recovered at the BBU. The RRU processes the obtained frequency-domain signals in a space of dimensionality N by projecting them into a signal space of lower dimensionality (N′) and compressing them in the obtained projected signal subspace. At the BBU, the frequency-domain signals are decompressed and reconstructed on the projected signal subspace, before recovering the transmitted time-domain signals. |
| US11206709B2 |
Method for intercepting PDCCH and terminal device
A method for intercepting a PDCCH and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: starting or restarting, by a terminal device, a first timer when a physical downlink control channel PDCCH is intercepted; and determining, by the terminal device, that the terminal device enters a discontinuous reception DRX turnoff OFF state or continues intercepting the PDCCH according to a position of an end time of the first timer on a first time unit; where the first time unit is a time period used by the terminal device to intercept the PDCCH, the DRX OFF state refers to a state in which the terminal device does not intercept the PDCCH. The method of the embodiment of the present disclosure effectively improves a success rate of data transmission. |
| US11206705B2 |
Flexible carrier downlink and uplink pairing for advanced networks
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for flexible carrier uplink and downlink pairing for 4G, 5G and future networks. Downlink and uplink channels can be assigned to different bands that are not contiguous or bands that have different bandwidths. This enables base station devices to have the flexibility to assign uplink and downlink communications to bands that have lower load and thus improve the efficiency and throughput of the communication link for both uplink and downlink. The base station device can also assign uplink and downlink pairing in order to minimize passive intermodulation interference. Passive intermodulation interference from a transmission can cause interference in bands near the transmission band, and so the base station device can assign downlink and uplink bands that are separate from each other in order to reduce the passive intermodulation interference. |
| US11206704B2 |
Apparatus and method for configuring radio link control layer parameter for direct communication in a wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of operating a user equipment UE in a wireless communication system, including determining a data transmission rate requirement of a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) application and acquiring data rate information according to the required data transmission rate, transmitting the data rate information to a base station and acquiring a sidelink radio link control (RLC) function configuration parameter, and transmitting the acquired sidelink RLC function configuration parameter to another UE. |
| US11206701B2 |
Methods and apparatus to access services of multiple wireless networks by a single-radio, multi-SIM wireless device
Apparatus and methods to support access to services of multiple wireless networks by a single-radio, multiple subscriber identity module (SIM)/electronic SIM (eSIM) wireless device are disclosed. To send or receive voice communications for multiple SIMs/eSIMs, when an active voice connection for a first SIM/eSIM uses wireless circuitry to connect to a first cellular wireless network via a first radio access network, the single-radio, multi-SIM/eSIM wireless device uses alternative data transports, such as via a wireless local area network (WLAN) or by tunneling through the first radio access network of the first cellular wireless network to connect to services of additional cellular wireless networks associated with the multiple SIMs/eSIMs. |
| US11206700B2 |
Method and system, and terminal for locating a user plane function (UPF) entity when a session is an inactive state
A session management method and system, and a terminal, where the method includes: when a user equipment (UE) has a first protocol data unit (PDU) session, sending, by the UE, a service request message to an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity; receiving, by the UE, a first message sent by the AMF entity; and determining, by the UE based on the first message, to re-establish or modify the first PDU session. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the UE sends the service request message to the AMF entity, and then the AMF entity sends, to the UE, the first message used to determine to re-establish or modify the first PDU session. |
| US11206699B2 |
Registering network devices using known host devices
Network devices can be registered to access a network using known host devices to thereby simplify the device registration process. The host device can be an administrator's device that is already registered and authorized to vouch for another user desiring to register his or her device. Alternatively, the host device can be the user's previously registered device and can be used to register the user's additional devices. |
| US11206691B2 |
Technique for performing a random access procedure over a radio interface
The invention relates to a technique for performing a random access procedure over a radio interface, for example between a mobile terminal and a radio base station of a mobile network. A method aspect of the invention comprises the steps of transmitting a synchronization request for synchronization information; receiving synchronization information in response to the synchronization request; and transmitting, based on at least one transmission parameter adjusted in accordance with the synchronization information, a resource request for data transmission resources. |
| US11206690B2 |
One-way delay (OWD) measurements in next-generation multi-access networks
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for measuring one-way delay in multi-access networks (MAMS) are provided. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11206687B2 |
Channel access and medium reservation mechanism
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for coordinating access to a shared wireless medium among multiple master devices operating on the same frequency band. In some implementations, master devices may contend for access to the shared medium during a medium reservation window (MRW). During the MRW, master devices may advertise their intent to reserve at least a portion of the shared medium for one or more timeslots within a subsequent medium utilization period. The reservation messages may be broadcast to other master devices in the vicinity to prevent other master devices from accessing the wireless medium during a reserved timeslot. In some implementations, the owner of a timeslot may share at least a portion of its timeslot with other master devices. For example, the timeslot owner may enable other master devices to utilize an unused portion of the wireless medium, such as unused channels, spatial streams, or time. |
| US11206684B2 |
Method and device for sending and receiving preamble sequence of physical random access channel
A method and device for sending and receiving a preamble sequence of a physical random access channel, comprising: scrambling a preamble subsequence and then sending, the preamble subsequence being scrambled according to a cyclic shift value of a preamble subsequence sent in the previous stage; performing a descrambling operation according to a cyclic shift value of a preamble subsequence received in the previous stage during reception; and determining a preamble sub-sequence detected after descrambling as a preamble sub-sequence received in the current stage, where the received preamble sub-sequence in the current stage and the received preamble sub-sequence in the previous stage belong to the same preamble sequence. |
| US11206683B2 |
Geolocation database dependent (GDD) operations for 6GHz
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described to decode a geolocation database dependent (GDD) enabling signal sent on a lower band. A 6 GHz band element is decoded. The 6 GHz band element includes a list of 6 GHz channel numbers. Data is encoded for transmission at 6 GHz on a 6 GHz channel associated with a 6 GHz channel number. |
| US11206679B2 |
Resource processing method and apparatus
This application provides a resource processing method and apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a network device, at least two beams that need to be transmitted; determining, by the network device, a time-frequency resource corresponding to each of the at least two beams; and determining, by the network device, a part of the time-frequency resource corresponding to each beam to serve as a common search space, where the part that corresponds to the common search space and that is of the time-frequency resource is used to carry control information transmitted to a terminal device. The resource processing method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of this application can ensure that all terminal devices detect a complete common search space when the terminal devices are distributed in different directions. |
| US11206678B2 |
Method for transmitting information, terminal device, and network device
A method for transmitting information, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a target channel sent by a network device, wherein the target channel includes a broadcast channel or a multicast channel; determining, by the terminal device, to send target information to the network device when a reception result of the target channel meets a prescribed condition; determining, by the terminal device, a target transmission resource for transmitting the target information in at least one transmission resource; and sending, by the terminal device, the target information to the network device on the target transmission resource, wherein the target information sent on the target transmission resource is used for indicating the reception result of the target channel to the network device. |
| US11206677B2 |
Sharing vehicle map data over transmission media selected according to urgency of the map data
Vehicles, media, and methods are provided for sharing vehicle map data over transmission media selected according to urgency of the map data. One vehicle includes a hardware processor; and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the hardware processor to perform a method comprising: receiving information relating to a road; determining an urgency level of the information; selecting one of a plurality of transmission media according to the determined urgency level; and transmitting the information over the selected transmission medium. |
| US11206676B2 |
Method and device for transmitting or receiving scheduling information
A method and a device for transmitting or receiving scheduling information are described. In the method for transmitting scheduling information, information about a scheduling result of resources to be occupied by one or more User Equipment (UEs) is acquired; and scheduling information including a first type of scheduling information and a second type of scheduling information is transmitted to the one or more UEs according to the information about the scheduling result. The first type of scheduling information includes information for parsing the second type of scheduling information, and the scheduling information determines a resource scheduling condition of the user. |
| US11206675B2 |
Configuration of transmission order of uplink data
A method for configuring transmission order of uplink data, performed by an REC of an access node. The REC has an interface to an RE of the access node. The method comprises providing instructions to the RE how to prioritize transmission order of uplink data. The uplink data is received by the RE on a radio interface and is to be transmitted from the RE to the REC on the interface. The REC thereby configures the transmission order. |
| US11206668B2 |
Method and device in UE and base station for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication. The UE performs energy detection in a first time interval to obtain a first detection power, and performs energy detection in a second time interval to obtain a second detection power; a value of the first count is obtained according to the relationship between the first detection power and a first threshold, and a value of the second count is obtained according to the relationship between the second detection power and a second threshold. The present disclosure optimizes the selection of beamforming-based transmission parameter group by establishing a relationship between a spatial transmit parameter group adopted by the first radio signal, a length of a time window for energy detection and multiple thresholds, thereby improving overall system performance. |
| US11206666B2 |
Method and device in UE and base station for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a UE and a base station used for wireless communications. The UE receives a first signaling, a second signaling and a third signaling, and receives or transmits a first radio signal in a first frequency sub-band. The first signaling is used for determining M information sets, any of the information sets comprises a positive integer number of information element(s), any information element comprises a first-type index and a second-type index set, the second-type index set comprises one second-type index or more second-type indices. The second signaling is used for determining a first information set out of the M information sets. The third signaling is associated with the second signaling. The above method reduces the signaling overhead of beam management and indication in each bust on the Unlicensed Spectrum. |
| US11206664B2 |
Wireless network synchronization of cells and client devices on a network
A system and method for wireless synchronization on a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the wireless device includes a wireless transceiver and processing circuitry. The wireless transceiver wirelessly receives synchronization information including a superframe from a first wireless, reader device, and wirelessly transmits the synchronization information to a second wireless, reader device and a portable wireless device, and to wirelessly detect a presence of a portable wireless device. The processing circuitry communicates synchronization information to the second wireless, reader device and portable wireless device. The superframe is used to synchronize a wireless data exchange between the third wireless, reader device and the portable wireless device. |
| US11206662B2 |
Method and device in node for wireless communication
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communication. The communication node performs signaling monitoring in a first time window, X1 signaling(s) being detected in the signaling monitoring process, determines Y1 candidate resource set(s) from a first candidate resource pool, transmits a first signaling, and receives first feedback information in a target resource set, the target resource set being one of the Y1 candidate resource set(s); the X1 signaling(s) is(are) used for determining Y2 candidate resource set(s), any one of the Y2 candidate resource set(s) belongs to the first candidate resource pool, any one of the Y1 candidate resource set(s) is one candidate resource set in the first candidate resource pool other than the Y2 candidate resource set(s); and the first signaling is used for indicating the target resource set. The disclosure avoids or reduces feedback collision. |
| US11206658B2 |
CRS bandwidth signaling
A narrowband apparatus determines a set of monitored resource blocks (RBs) on a subframe for monitoring for CRS from a base station may monitor for the CRS from the base station on the subframe based on the set of monitored RBs. The base station determines a bandwidth for transmitting the CRS to a user equipment, the bandwidth being less than a system bandwidth and transmits the CRS to the UE using the determined bandwidth. The UE monitors for the CRS on a set of monitored RBs. The set of monitored RBs may include a center set of resource blocks and a number of resources blocks around a center frequency on a subset of subframes. The center set of resource blocks may have a size based on a bandwidth capability of the UE and a system bandwidth. |
| US11206656B2 |
Systems and methods for identification and selection of downlink control information (DCI) candidates
A device determines a scrambling sequence for a control channel, wherein the scrambling sequence includes a first set of bit string values for a set of downlink control information (DCI) candidates associated with the control channel, and wherein the scrambling sequence is determined based on an identifier that is exclusive to the device. The device determines, based on the scrambling sequence, a correlation sequence that includes a second set of bit string values. The device identifies, based on the correlation sequence, a subset of DCI candidates of the set of DCI candidates. The device selects at least a portion of the subset of DCI candidates. The device performs one or more actions based on one or more selected DCI candidates. |
| US11206652B2 |
Downlink channel transmitting method, downlink channel receiving method, devices thereof, base station and terminal
A downlink channel transmitting method, a downlink channel receiving method, devices thereof, a base station and a terminal are provided. The downlink channel transmitting method is applied to a base station and includes: indicating, explicitly or implicitly, a transmitting period of a group common physical downlink control channel. |
| US11206651B2 |
Method for detecting and receiving downlink control channel, user equipment and network side device
A method for detecting and receiving a downlink control channel, a User Equipment (UE), and a network side device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a UE, a first detection time parameter indicated by a network side device for detection and reception of the downlink control channel; and selecting, by the UE, a corresponding downlink control channel time domain resource according to the first detection time parameter to detect and receive the downlink control channel. |
| US11206644B2 |
Methods, apparatuses and system for transmission of a connection request message in a wireless communications system
A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications system includes: a transceiver configured to perform wireless communication with a base station; and a controller configured to: control the transceiver to detect a wireless paging signal from the base station; detect whether the paging signal includes information defining an allocation of a communications resource for use by the terminal device to send a connection request message to the base station; control the transceiver, in response to a detection that the paging signal does not include information defining the allocation of the communications resource, to perform a radio channel allocation procedure with the base station for the terminal device to be allocated the communications resource; and control the transceiver to establish wireless communication with the base station by sending the connection request message using the allocated communications resource. |
| US11206642B2 |
Methods and apparatus for communicating uplink control information
Methods and apparatus related to HARQ feedback, e.g. delayed HARQ ACK/NACK, and uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing, in unlicensed spectrum are described. A base station transmits an UCI request to a UE, including: a request for ACK/NACK feedback corresponding to a set of HARQ identified processes, a request for channel state information report, and/or a scheduling request. The UCI request includes information which is used, by the UE, in determining the time and air link resources on which to send the UCI. The HARQ processes are communicated in a first Channel Occupancy Time (COT), while the ACK/NACK feedback is communicated in a later COT. |
| US11206637B2 |
Method and apparatus of flexible data transmissions and receptions in next generation cellular networks
A communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) is provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method for obtaining numerology information by a user equipment (UE) includes detecting synchronization signals, obtaining first numerology information for the synchronization signals, decoding a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) based on the first numerology information, obtaining second numerology information for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to a result of the decoding, and receiving control information on the PDCCH based on the second numerology information. |
| US11206634B2 |
Paging configuration in beamformed wireless communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a paging configuration may be provided by a base station that indicates one or more occasions during which a user equipment (UE) is to monitor for pages. A location of the paging occasion may be based at least in part on at least one synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by the base station. A mapping between a paging occasion index and the location of the paging occasion is indicated in the paging configuration. Paging windows may be configured during downlink slots that contain an SSB transmission. Paging transmissions may use beamforming parameters that are the same as SSB transmission beamforming parameters. |
| US11206630B2 |
Information processing system
There is provided an information processing system including a relative-position estimation processing unit configured to estimate a relative position between an access point and a wireless client by using a cooperative position estimation method using distance information based on a signal strength between the access point and the wireless client; and an inside/outside determination processing unit configured to determine an inside/outside positional relationship between a polygonal target area formed by access points and the wireless client, in which the inside/outside determination processing unit determines whether the wireless client is present inside or outside the target area by determining a direction of vector product of the access points forming a side of the target area and a direction of vector product of the wireless client and the access point as a vertex of the polygonal area. |
| US11206627B2 |
System information transmission method and device
Provided are a system information transmission method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium, relating to the technical field of communications. The method comprises: sending a synchronization block and a system information block in a plurality of different directions by means of a beam, wherein the synchronization block comprises a synchronization signal, first system information, and position indication information about the system information block; the system information block refers to a system information block that is sent after the synchronization block, has the same direction as the synchronization block and is closest thereto in a time domain; the position indication information indicates a time-domain position or a time-domain position and a frequency-domain position where the system information block is located, and the system information block comprises an analytic parameter of a new radio physical downlink control channel (NR-PDCCH) where second system information is located, or the second system information. |
| US11206619B2 |
Method of terminal transmitting sounding reference signal on the basis of aperiodic sounding reference signal triggering and method for controlling uplink transmission power to transmit aperiodic sounding reference signal
The method of the terminal transmitting the SRS on the basis of the aperiodic SRS triggering according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information from the base station; receiving an aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator from the base station; selecting the specific aperiodic SRS configuration information among the plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information on the basis of at least one among a sub-frame index for receiving the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator, a time relation between the aperiodic SRS transmission sub-frames, and an uplink channel state; and transmitting an aperiodic SRS for the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator on the basis of the selected aperiodic SRS configuration information, the plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information including the information about a resource for transmitting the aperiodic SRS corresponding to the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator. In addition, according to the present invention, the terminal can be used for receiving a power offset value for transmitting the aperiodic SRS from the base station and determining a transmission power value for transmitting the aperiodic SRS. |
| US11206618B2 |
Uplink power control method, terminal and network device
An uplink power control method, a terminal, and a network device are provided, which relates to the field of communications, and is to solve a problem that the terminal cannot reach a maximum transmission power for codebook-based or non-codebook-based uplink multi-antenna transmission in related technologies. The method includes: obtaining an uplink precoding indication; and controlling a value of an uplink transmission power determined according to a power control procedure to remain unchanged, in a case that the uplink precoding indication corresponds to a target precoding indication. Based on the solution of the present disclosure, it is ensured that the maximum uplink transmission power can be reached under part of precoding indications, the coverage of uplink transmission can be improved, and it is not required that all antennas of the terminal can reach the maximum transmission power, thereby reducing the cost. |
| US11206612B2 |
Wireless communication method and terminal device
Embodiments of the present application provides a wireless communication and device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a network type and/or network identity of a target network, the network type and/or network identity of the target network indicating whether the target network is a local network or a public land network, or indicating a local network type or local network identity of the target network as the local network; and performing, by the terminal device, communication through the target network. |
| US11206603B2 |
Method and apparatus to limit wireless connectivity roaming of multi-function devices
A method for limiting wireless connectivity roaming of a multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the method is executed by a processor and includes failing to re-authenticate on a current access point of a wireless network, accessing a list of access points within a user defined boundary, selecting an access point in the list of access points based on a parameter of the access point, and establishing a wireless communication path with the access point. |
| US11206602B2 |
Enhancement for closed access groups
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and an apparatus for enhancement of closed access groups (CAGs). For example, the apparatus can include a non-volatile memory, receiving circuitry, transmitting circuitry and processing circuitry. The receiving circuitry can be configured to receive a configuration update command message and a registration accept message, each of which includes a CAG information list IE containing a CAG information list. The transmitting circuitry can be configured to transmit a configuration update complete message and a registration request message. The processing circuitry can be configured to store the CAG information list of the CAG information list IE in the non-volatile memory, and select a public land mobile network based on the CAG information list stored in the non-volatile memory. |
| US11206600B2 |
Wireless gateway supporting public and private networks
An interface device may provide a first wireless network and a second wireless network in a user's premise. The interface device may encourage some user devices to connect to the second wireless network without controlling the user devices. For example, the interface device may receive a request from a device to access its first wireless network. The interface device may then determine whether the device is a premise device by, for example, searching a database of device registration information. The interface device may determine that the device is a premise device and deny the request to access the first wireless network. The device may then be available to access the second wireless network. |
| US11206592B2 |
Method of transmitting low-latency data during handover in communication system, and apparatus therefor
An operation method of a terminal performing handover in a mobile communication system may comprise transmitting packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) downlink reception status information of the terminal and information on a target base station to a source base station; receiving downlink data from a user plane function (UPF) via the source base station based on a first tunnel configured between the source base station and the UPF; receiving downlink data from the UPF via the target base station based on a second tunnel configured by the UPF between the target base station and the UPF by using the PDCP downlink reception status information and the information on the target base station, which are transferred from the source base station; and discarding duplicated-received protocol data units (PDUs) from the source base station and the target base station, and reordering remaining PDUs. |
| US11206590B2 |
Method for realizing wireless network convergence
Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for realizing wireless network convergence. The method comprises: constructing a convergence link table in an AP of a wireless network cell; arranging a user management system in an external network; when cross-cell movement of a user station occurs, the user management system configuring convergence link tables in corresponding access points (APs) of two cells; and based on the configured convergence link tables, data transmitted by the user station in an original cell being transmitted in a new cell, thereby realizing wireless network convergence. |
| US11206585B2 |
Handover method and device involving multiple core networks
Provided are a handover method and device involving multiple core networks. The method includes: transmitting, by a first base station, a handover request message to a second base station directly transmitting or through a core network; receiving, by the first base station, a feedback message from the core network or the second base station, where the feedback message carries at least one of: information about a core network suggested to be handed over, a failure reason. |
| US11206579B1 |
Dynamic scheduling for network data transfers
Methods and apparatus for dynamic pricing and scheduling of network data transfers are disclosed. A system a plurality of network-accessible resources and a data transfer coordinator. In response to a client request for a network transfer of a data set, the coordinator determines, based at on a network-related metric of one or more resources, at least one time window during which a portion or all of the data set is transferable for a pricing rate below a threshold. The coordinator notifies the client of the time window and provides a duration-limited token authorizing data transfer during the window. The coordinator determines whether a network transmission of data on behalf of the client is valid based at least in part on a time at which the transmission is initiated and at least in part on a use of the token. |
| US11206575B2 |
System and method for Wi-Fi offload
A system and method to identify different access names for discovering and learning service provider's Wi-Fi access networks in user's premises where user may have defined a customized SSID on said Wi-Fi Access Points, for increasing the likelihood for automatic Wi-Fi offload on service provider network thus enhancing user experience to dynamically offload a user equipment [202] and prevent revenue loss for the service provider by keeping the user always on its Network (either cellular or Wi-Fi). Furthermore, the method encompasses identifying of a parent service provider's user-defined Wi-Fi Access Network SSID(s), learning one or more information of connection between said SSID(s) and the UE [202], categorizing said SSID(s) and allowing automated offload to a selected SSID whenever the UE [202] is within its coverage. |
| US11206574B2 |
Method and apparatus for data communication between MU and RU using multi-channel compression algorithm
Provided is a radio access network system in which a master unit compresses control management data to be allocated to a sub-channel of a public air interface (CPRI), and transmits the compressed control management data to a radio unit through a sub-channel of a public air interface, and the radio unit receives the compressed control management data through a sub-channel of a public air interface, and restores the compressed control management data. |
| US11206571B2 |
Base station
A base station is provided. The base station includes a first reception unit configured to receive, from a user apparatus included in a mobile communication system including the base station, another base station communicating with the base station, and the user apparatus communicating with the base station, first data including quality information used for scheduling controlling performed by the other base station, and second data different from the first data. The base station also includes a transmission unit configured to transmit the first data to the other base station by giving higher priority to the first data than to the second data. |
| US11206569B2 |
Modifying video call QoS based on a signal quality measurement
A wireless device determines a change in a signal quality measurement of a wireless network. In response to the determining, a first message for changing one or more media for a video call in the wireless network is transmitted from the wireless device to a video application function (AF). A policy and charging rules function (PCRF) receives from the video AF, a DIAMETER AA-request (AAR) command for modifying a quality of service (QoS) of the video call. The PCRF transmits to a policy and charging enforcement function (PCEF), a second message comprising an updated QoS, wherein the updated QoS comprises QoS data bearer modification information based on the change in the signal quality measurement of the wireless network. The PCEF implements the updated QoS for the video call. |
| US11206558B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing radio link monitoring to support V2X communication in next-generation mobile communication system
A communication method for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor is provided. The disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, and the like), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The method includes performing radio link monitoring to support V2X communication in a next-generation mobile communication system. |
| US11206550B2 |
Assisted network roaming with predictive network tool
A method for identifying a client device in a network, and a first radio in the network that is coupled with the client device is provided. The method includes determining one or more sequences of roaming events for multiple client devices in the network, evaluating a performance metric for a roaming event and evaluating an interaction between the client device and one or more radios involved in the roaming events for the plurality of client devices. The method also includes selecting a second radio in the network based at least in part on (1) the one or more sequences of roaming events, (2) the performance metric, and (3) the interaction between the client device and the one or more radios, and recommending switching the client device from the first radio to the second radio. A system and a predictive tool to perform the above method are also provided. |
| US11206544B2 |
Checkpoint identity verification on validation using mobile identification credential
An embodiment includes a method to increase the efficiency of security checkpoint operations. A security checkpoint kiosk serves as a Relying Party System (RPS). The RPS establishes a secure local connection between the RPS and a User Mobile-Identification-Credential Device (UMD). The RPS sends a user information request to the UMD, via the secure local connection, seeking release of user information associated with a Mobile Identification Credential (MIC). The RPS obtains authentication of the user information received in response to the user information request. The RPS retrieves user travel information based on the user information. The RPS determines that the user travel information matches the user information. When the user travel information matches the user information, the RPS approves the user to proceed past the security checkpoint kiosk. |
| US11206540B2 |
Asserting user, app, and device binding in an unmanaged mobile device
A request generated by an unmanaged app to access a resource is received from a mobile device. A notification is sent to the mobile device. A device level VPN connection to the mobile device is established. A unique identifier is associated with the device level VPN. App level traffic received via the device level VPN is tagged with the unique identifier. Access to the resource is allowed in response to the request based at least in part on a determination based on the tags that app level traffic from a trusted app and app level traffic from the unmanaged app are associated with the same mobile device. |
| US11206536B2 |
Communication apparatus and communication method
A communication apparatus executes authentication via wireless communication with a mobile device and, based on an authentication process, controls execution of a vehicle operation requested by a user. The communication apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect closure of a door of a vehicle, an authentication processing unit configured to determine, in response to detection of the closure of the door by the detection unit, whether a specific mobile device is inside the vehicle by executing a first authentication process corresponding to a vehicle operation for which a highest security is set, among a plurality of vehicle operations that can be requested by the user, and an execution unit configured to execute, when the authentication processing unit has determined that the specific mobile device is inside the vehicle, a requested vehicle operation requestable from an inside of the vehicle and included in the plurality of vehicle operations. |
| US11206527B2 |
Method for provisioning enhanced communication capabilities to user equipment
A communication method for a user equipment includes: receiving, by the user equipment, at least one software component or software module or configuration information via a configuration and/or control channel between the user equipment and a telecommunications network and/or via a first set of communication capabilities of the user equipment, wherein the at least one software component or software module or configuration information is related to a second set of communication capabilities corresponding to enhanced and/or modified communication relative to the first set of communication capabilities, the second set of communication capabilities being related to access-stratum capabilities of the user equipment and/or to non-access-stratum capabilities of the user equipment and/or to other communication services of the user equipment; and activating the second set of communication capabilities. |
| US11206526B2 |
Method and apparatus for flexibly supporting services in 5G wireless communication system
The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5th generation (5G) communication system or a pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) system such as long-term evolution (LTE), and to a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. Various embodiments may provide a method for managing context of a terminal in a mobile communication system. |
| US11206525B2 |
Method and apparatus for handling session in a wireless communication system
Accordingly, embodiments herein disclose a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, from an access and mobility management function (AMF), a non-access stratum (NAS) message, wherein the non-access stratum (NAS) message includes information indicating whether the UE is registered for emergency services and determining registering for the emergency services based on the NAS message. |
| US11206520B2 |
Method for line-replaceable unit identification, localization and status retrieval
Systems and methods are described for registering and monitoring a status of a plurality of units of an in-flight entertainment system disposed within a vehicle. Using a portable computing device, each of the units can be registered with the server by reading a unique machine-readable identifier disposed on or near each unit. The identifier could be a barcode or other indicia or a NFC tag, for example. Location information about each unit can also be obtained via manual input or by reading a second identifier. |
| US11206515B2 |
Method and system for enhancing charging for co-located SGW and PGW
The present disclosure relates to a method of charging packets in a mobile network using a combined packet gateway (PGW) and serving gateway (SGW) which includes receiving a data packet; determining at least one of a rating group and a service rule associated with the data packet; and determining a state of a user device associated with the data packet. When the determined state of the user device comprises a connected state, the method includes charging the data packet, including updating an amount of credit in an account associated with the user device based on the at least one of the rating group and the service rule, and sending the data packet to an enodeB. When the determined state of the user device comprises an idle state, the method includes preventing delivery of the data packet to the enodeB such that the data packet is not charged. |
| US11206513B1 |
Vehicle density over the air update scheduling
A geographical area of a mobile network is directed to perform an OTA test content drop of a predefined time, data, size, and duration. Statistical data is identified with respect to vehicle density in the geographical area, the statistical data being computed from reception reports received from vehicles responsive to the OTA test content drop. Responsive to at least a predefined minimum target of vehicles being located in the geographical area, and based on the statistical data, one or more time slots for an OTA delivery in the geographic area suitable for broadcast delivery are determined. The OTA update is delivered over broadcast instead of unicast during the one or more time slots. |
| US11206508B2 |
Electronic device and method for managing operation thereof while operating vehicle
An electronic device includes a communication interface configured to receive a call from another electronic device, a sensor to sense a motion speed of the electronic device, and a processor configured to provide, to a server, a status of the electronic device based on the motion speed for notifying the another electronic device of the status, determine a type of the call according to an input received from the another electronic device after providing the status, and control to provide a notification related to the call in the electronic device based on the type of the call. |
| US11206507B2 |
Localization determination for mixed reality systems
To enable shared user experiences using augmented reality systems, shared reference points must be provided to have consistent placement (position and orientation) of virtual objects. Furthermore, the position and orientation (pose) of the users must be determinable with respect to the same shared reference points. However, without highly sensitive and expensive global positioning system (GPS) devices, pose information can be difficult to determine to a reasonable level of accuracy. Therefore, what is provided is an alternative approach to determining pose information for augmented reality systems, which can be used to perform location based content acquisition and sharing. Further, what is provided is an alternative approach to determining pose information for augmented reality systems that uses information from already existing GPS devices. |
| US11206502B1 |
System and method for evaluating an ear seal using normalization
A system for evaluating an ear seal between an earphone of a hearing device and an ear canal includes a first transducer that plays sound in response to an electrical signal that includes a reference frequency component and a test frequency component lower than the reference frequency. A second transducer receives the sound in the ear canal. A controller is configured to: calculate at least one electrical signal level difference between the electrical signal reference and test frequency components, measure acoustical levels of the reference and test frequency components of the sound in the ear canal, calculate an acoustical signal level difference between the measured acoustical levels of the reference and test frequency components, calculate a normalized acoustical difference value by subtracting the electrical signal level difference from the acoustical signal level difference, and determine a measurement of the ear seal based on the normalized acoustical difference value. |
| US11206501B2 |
Method for operating a hearing instrument and a hearing system containing a hearing instrument
A method operates a hearing instrument that is worn in or at the ear of a user. The method includes capturing a sound signal from an environment of the hearing instrument; analyzing the captured sound signal to recognize own-voice intervals, in which the user speaks, and foreign-voice intervals, in which at least one different speaker speaks; and determining, from the recognized own-voice intervals and foreign-voice intervals, at least one turn-taking feature. From the at least one turn-taking feature a measure of the sound perception by the user is derived. Predefined action for improving the sound perception is taken if the measure or the at least one turn-taking feature fulfill a predefined criterion. |
| US11206496B2 |
Hearing device with service mode and related method
The present disclosure relates to a hearing device and in particular to hearing device and related method for configuration or operation of a hearing device. Disclosed is a hearing device comprising a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device, a memory, and an interface. The processing unit/hearing device may be configured to receive a mode request via the interface; authenticate the mode request; and place the hearing device into the requested mode if authentication of the mode request succeeds. |
| US11206493B2 |
Sensor device and manufacturing method thereof
A micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) microphone includes a first membrane, a second membrane, a third membrane disposed between the first membrane and the second membrane, a first cavity disposed between the first membrane and the third membrane and surrounded by a first wall, a second cavity disposed between the second membrane and the third membrane and surrounded by a second wall, and one or more first supports disposed in the first cavity and connecting the first membrane and the third membrane. |
| US11206487B2 |
Load detection
This application relates to audio driving circuitry (100), and in particular to audio driving circuitry for outputting first and second audio driving signals for driving a stereo audio load (106), which may be a stereo audio load of an accessory apparatus (102) removably coupled to the audio driving circuitry in use. A load monitor (111) is provided for monitoring to monitor, from a monitoring node (112), an indication of a common mode return current passing through a common return path, together with an indication of a common mode component of the first and second audio driving signals and to determine an impedance characteristic of the stereo audio load. The load monitor (111) can provide dynamic monitoring of any significant change in load impedance. In some embodiments the load monitor (111) comprises an adaptive filter (301) which adapts a parameter of the filter which is related to the load impedance so as to determine the indication of load impedance. |
| US11206485B2 |
Audio processing using distributed machine learning model
Various implementations include systems for processing audio signals. In particular implementations, a system for processing audio signals includes: a wearable audio device having a transducer and a communication system; and an accessory device configured to wirelessly communicate with the wearable audio device, the accessory device having a processor configured to process a source audio signal according to a method that includes: source separating the source audio signal; and providing a source separated audio signal to the wearable audio device for transduction. |
| US11206483B2 |
Audio signal processing method and device, terminal and storage medium
Provided are an audio signal processing method and device. The method can include acquiring audio signals from at least two sound sources through at least two microphones to obtain multiple frames of original noise signals of the at least two microphones in a time domain, and, for each frame in the time domain, acquiring respective frequency-domain estimated signals of the at least two sound sources according to the respective original noise signals. The method can further include, for each sound source, dividing the frequency-domain estimated signal into frequency-domain estimated components which each corresponds to a frequency-domain sub-band and includes multiple frequency point data in a frequency domain, determining a weighting coefficient of each frequency point in the frequency-domain sub-band, and updating a separation matrix of each frequency point according to the weighting coefficient and obtaining the audio signals based on the updated separation matrices and the original noise signals. |
| US11206480B2 |
Open-air type earphone with bracket forming bass pipe
An open-air type earphone with a bracket forming a bass pipe is provided. The open-air type earphone includes: a housing configured to be worn on an ear and having a sound-emitting hole and a back hole; an acoustic transducer mounted within the housing and configured to emit sound to the sound-emitting hole; and one or more brackets mounted between the acoustic transducer and the housing and capable of tuning acoustic characteristics. |
| US11206477B2 |
Sound transducer structure of electronic device
The present invention provides a sound transducer structure of electronic device relating to the technical field of acoustics. The sound transducer structure includes a housing having an accommodating cavity, a sound generator received in the accommodating cavity, and a sound outlet disposed in the housing. A sound guiding groove communicates between the sound generator and the sound outlet, so that a sound generated at the sound generator is conducted along the sound guiding groove and is transmitted out of the housing from the sound outlet. The sound outlet includes a first sound outlet for transmitting sound in a receiver mode and a second sound outlet for transmitting sound in a loudspeaker mode. The second sound outlet is covered with a sound pressure sensitive member. |
| US11206474B2 |
Bluetooth headset
The utility model relates to a Bluetooth earphone, comprising a main earphone unit and an auxiliary earphone unit, further comprising a pair of ear hooks. The front part of the inner side of each of the said earphone units is provided with a connecting canal for inserting the said vertical insertion segment at the bottom. The Bluetooth earphone provided in the utility model not only adapts to applications in different situations by setting a pluggable ear hook, but also uses memory alloy as the inner skeleton of the ear hook to facilitate a user make a fine adjustment by his/her shape of auricle. |
| US11206471B1 |
Earphone with pressure equilibrium means
The present invention relates to an earphone equipped with a pressure equalizing means, and more specifically to an earphone equipped with a pressure equalizing means, in which a speaker unit is disposed inside an earphone housing in a longitudinal direction and a first air path is formed to discharge sound waves, generated by the diaphragm of the speaker unit, to the external ear canal through one side of the speaker unit. When air inside the external ear canal is discharged out of the speaker unit, air is discharged into the vibration space of the speaker unit by using the first air path, and is then discharged out of the speaker unit through a second air path formed in the other side of the top surface of the speaker unit. |
| US11206468B2 |
Fibre channel forwarder failover and load balancing system
A Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF) routing system includes a target device coupled to a Fibre Channel (FC) networking device via a first link, and a Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF) device that is coupled to an initiator device via a second link, the FC networking device via a third link that is mapped to the second link, and the FC networking device via a fourth link that is mapped to the second link. The FCF device receives, via the second link, first traffic that originates from the initiator device and that is addressed to the target device. The FCF device determines, using an initiator device identifier included in the first traffic and a link mapping table, that the third link and the fourth link are mapped to the second link on which the first traffic was received and load balances the first traffic between the third link and the fourth link. |
| US11206463B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying whether to use a tailored playlist
Systems and methods are provided herein for identifying a playlist of highlights to use for refreshing a user on a plot related to a media asset the user has requested to access based on how long it has been since the user last saw related programming. The media guidance application may receive a request from a user to access a media asset and may determine whether the user previously consumed a related media asset to the media asset. The media guidance application may determine whether a period of time between receiving the request and a time when the user previously consumed the related media asset exceeds a threshold period of time. If the period of time does not exceed the threshold, the media guidance application may play back a predefined playlist of highlights, and if it exceeds the threshold, the media guidance application may play back a customized playlist of highlights. |
| US11206459B2 |
Method and apparatus for augmented reality presentation associated with a media program
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining that a display, upon which is being presented a media program, is within a field of view of a user who is using an augmented reality device; presenting, via the augmented reality device, a first augmented reality display region, wherein the first augmented reality display region shows information associated with the media program, and wherein the first augmented reality display region is positioned adjacent the display in the field of view of the user; determining, by the processing system, that the field of view of the user has been positioned such that the display is no longer in the field of view of the user; and presenting, via the augmented reality device, a second augmented reality display region, wherein the second augmented reality display region shows the media program that is being presented on the display. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11206457B2 |
Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method
A reception apparatus, including circuitry configured to receive a content including at least one of audio content or video content, extract fingerprint information from data of the content, and provide the fingerprint information to a first server via a communication network. The circuitry is further configured to receive control information in response to providing the fingerprint information to the first server. |
| US11206455B2 |
Device and method for capturing video
A device and method are presently disclosed. The computer implemented method, includes at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, displaying a still image on the touch-sensitive display, while displaying the still image, detecting user's finger contact with the touch-sensitive display, and in response to detecting the user's finger contact, video recording the still image. |
| US11206450B2 |
System, apparatus and method for providing services based on preferences
Disclosed is a preference-based service providing method for operating preference-based service providing system and device by executing an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm in a 5G environment connected for the Internet of things. A preference-based service providing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include acquiring user video information obtained by imaging a user who is using an electronic device, analyzing a preference of the user for a service provided by the electronic device on the basis of the user video information including a face image and a posture image of the user, setting a priority of the service provided by the electronic device on the basis of the preference of the user, and providing a recommendation list of services provided by the electronic device on the basis of priorities of the services. |
| US11206449B2 |
Adapting search query processing according to locally detected video content consumption
A process adapts user-initiated search queries. The process executes at a client device with a microphone. The process downloads audio fingerprints from a remote server for a plurality of video programs, and downloads information that correlates the audio fingerprint to the video programs. The audio fingerprints are preselected according to relevancy criteria, including stored user preferences and prior search queries by the user. The audio fingerprints and correlating information are stored locally. The process detects ambient sound using the microphone and computes one or more sample audio fingerprints from the detected ambient sound. The process matches a sample audio fingerprint to a locally stored audio fingerprint and uses the correlating information to identify a first video program corresponding to the matched sample audio fingerprint. The process then receives user input to initiate a search query. The process provides auto-complete suggestions for the search query based on the first video program. |
| US11206448B2 |
Method and apparatus for selecting background music for video shooting, terminal device and medium
A method and an apparatus for selecting a background music for video shooting, a terminal device and a medium are disclosed by embodiments of the present disclosure. The method has the steps of: acquiring a viewing instruction for a specified music; jumping to a details page of a complete music corresponding to the specified music according to the viewing instruction; and using the complete music as a background music for video shooting after a shooting-the-same instruction is acquired on the details page. |
| US11206447B2 |
Media channel identification with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on time of broadcast
Disclosed herein are methods and systems to help disambiguate channel identification in a scenario where fingerprint data of media content being rendered by a media presentation device matches multiple reference fingerprints corresponding respectively with multiple different channels. Upon detecting such a multi-match, a server or other entity will perform disambiguation based at least in part on a comparison of time of broadcast of the media content being rendered by the media presentation device with time of broadcast of the media content represented by the reference fingerprints. The server or other entity will thereby determine the channel on which the media content being rendered by the media presentation device is arriving, so as to facilitate taking channel-specific action. |
| US11206446B2 |
Frame replacement without overrun
A method for a frame certainty metric for automatic content recognition. The method includes determining a frame match between media device frames of a media device stream relative to broadcast frames of a broadcast media stream and determining whether to shift the frame match by determining the following: a first frame certainty metric based on a first media device fingerprint and a target broadcast fingerprint; a second frame certainty metric based on a second media device fingerprint sequentially adjacent the first media device fingerprint and the target broadcast fingerprint; a third frame certainty metric based on a third media device fingerprint sequentially adjacent the first media device fingerprint and the target broadcast fingerprint; and a greatest frame certainty metric. The method further includes identifying the media device fingerprint corresponding to the greatest frame certainty metric as a target media device fingerprint matching the target broadcast fingerprint. |
| US11206445B2 |
System and method for classifying recorded content for deletion
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for classifying, based on most recent information associated with recorded content, the recorded content to an appropriate deletion classifier. A media guidance application may receive information about an event that is associated with a recorded media asset. The media guidance application may determine, based on the event and a current deletion classifier associated with the recorded media asset, whether the current deletion classifier associated with the recorded media asset needs to be updated to a new deletion classifier. The media guidance application may make this determination by accessing a deletion classification database containing rules for classifying recorded media assets into a variety of deletion classifiers. Upon determining that the current deletion classifier associated with the recorded media asset needs to be updated to a new deletion classifier, the media guidance application may update the current deletion classifier to the new deletion classifier. |
| US11206441B2 |
Automated media production pipeline for generating personalized media content
A generative media pipeline automatically creates a personalized media program that is customized to reflect the specific viewing preferences of at least one individual user. The generative media pipeline obtains user data indicating the viewing preferences associated with the user and optionally the viewing context of the user. A recommendation service within the generative media pipeline provides a set of content options that includes various types of media content corresponding to the viewing preferences. A recipe service within the generative media pipeline obtains a recipe that defines the logical structure of the personalized media program. The recipe service populates the recipe by executing one or more video processing functions with some or all media content included in the content options. The recipe service thereby generates a logically structured and polished personalized media program that is individually tailored to reflect the specific preferences of the user. |
| US11206439B2 |
Method, and device for determining a video bitrate, and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a method and device for determining a video bitrate and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring, after a (k−1)th video block is stored in a buffer and before a kth video block is stored in the buffer, a first predicted throughput value and an error range thereof of the buffer corresponding to the kth video block, and acquiring a offset and a variation y(k); calculating a first bitrate variation based on the current state, the first predicted throughput value and a preset evolution model; calculating a second bitrate variation based on the current state, the first predicted throughput value and the error range; and determining a video bitrate of the kth video block based on a video bitrate of the (k−1)th video block, the first bitrate variation and the second bitrate variation. |
| US11206438B2 |
Video enhancement service
Techniques for video enhancement using a service are described. In some examples, a video enhancement service is to receive, from a requesting device, a request to provide a video, the request including an indication that at least a proper subset of the video is to be enhanced using at least one machine learning model; select at least one machine learning model to be used to enhance at least the proper subset of the video; enhance at least the proper subset of the video using the selected at least one machine learning model; and output the video including the at least proper subset of the video that had been enhanced. |
| US11206432B1 |
System and method for providing synchronized interactive multimedia content to mobile devices based on geolocation of a vehicle
A system has a plurality of machine readable tags, and includes a server system for synchronizing the display of interactive mobile content on a user device with a destination of a vehicle, the system. Each of the machine readable tags encodes an address, and is mounted within the vehicle for access by persons in the vehicle. The system receives a request from the user device, generated by scanning one of the machine readable tags, and determines the destination of the vehicle. A coupon is selected and provided that corresponds with the destination of the vehicle. The users on the vehicle that have selected the coupon for download are determined, each of the users who have downloaded the coupon are notified of the identities of the other users who downloaded the coupon, and transportation of all of the users is facilitated, to the location of the restaurant so they may utilize the coupon which each of them downloaded. |
| US11206425B2 |
Inter prediction methods for coding video data
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for inter prediction process in video data coding. One exemplary method comprises: selecting one of a DMVR process and a BDOF process, based on a video bitstream; and inter predicting an image block based on the selected process. The selection can be made either through explicit signaling, or implicit derivation at the decoder side. According to one exemplary method, selecting the one of the DMVR process and the BDOF process can be performed by selecting the one of the DMVR process and the BDOF process based on: a flag signaled at at least one of a coding unit (CU) level and a coding tree unit (CTU) level, or a merge candidate index associated with an extended merge candidate list. |
| US11206424B2 |
Method and apparatus for inter prediction using motion vector candidate based on temporal motion prediction
An inter prediction method according to the present invention comprises: a step for deriving reference motion information related to a unit to be decoded in a current picture; and a step for performing motion compensation for the unit to be decoded, using the reference motion information that has been derived. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be enhanced. |
| US11206423B2 |
Video encoding method, video encoding device, video decoding method and video decoding device
A moving picture coding method including: determining whether or not (a) a picture including a co-located block and (b) a current picture to be coded are included in a same view, the co-located block being a block that is included in a picture different from the current picture and is at a position corresponding to a position of a current block to be coded included in the current picture; adjusting the position of the co-located block when the picture including the co-located block and the current picture are included in different views; and adding to the list an entry including a motion vector derived from the co-located block, wherein the adjusting includes: obtaining a disparity vector between the view including the picture including the co-located block and the view including the current picture; and adjusting the position of the co-located block by the obtained disparity vector. |
| US11206417B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry decodes, from a coded video bitstream, a flag that is indicative of whether applying a lossless coding mode. In response the flag being indicative of applying the lossless coding mode, the processing circuitry partitions a block into multiple blocks based on the block having at least one side that is equal to or greater than a threshold size for zeroing out a portion of the block. Thus, video quality loss due to zero out can be avoided. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs the multiple blocks respectively from the coded video bitstream based on the lossless coding mode. |
| US11206416B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry decodes partition information from a coded video bitstream. The partition information is indicative of a minimum allowed quaternary tree (QT) leaf node size for an intra coded (I) slice. The minimum allowed QT leaf node size for the I slice is constrained by a threshold that is lower than a coding tree unit (CTU) size. Further, the processing circuitry partitions a coding tree block in the I slice into coding blocks based on the minimum allowed QT leaf node size, and reconstructs the coding blocks respectively from the coded video bitstream. |
| US11206414B2 |
Method for inter prediction and device therefor, and method for motion compensation and device therefor
Provided are an inter prediction method and a motion compensation method. The inter prediction method includes: performing inter prediction on a current image by using a long-term reference image stored in a decoded picture buffer; determining residual data and a motion vector of the current image generated via the inter prediction; and determining least significant bit (LSB) information as a long-term reference index indicating the long-term reference image by dividing picture order count (POC) information of the long-term reference image into most significant bit (MSB) information and the LSB information. |
| US11206409B2 |
Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, program, and integrated circuit
An image decoding method includes: restoring a selected prediction mode used in prediction at a time of coding; and decoding a current block included in coded image data to generate a decoded block, according to the prediction based on the selected prediction mode. The restoring includes: determining a first estimated prediction mode; determining a second estimated prediction mode different from the first estimated prediction mode; and restoring the selected prediction mode based on the mode information, the first estimated prediction mode, and the second estimated prediction mode. |
| US11206408B2 |
Motion vector prediction method and related apparatus
A method includes: parsing a bitstream to obtain an index value of a candidate motion vector list; constructing the candidate motion vector list, where the candidate motion vector list includes candidate motion vectors of K control points of a current block, the candidate motion vectors of the K control points are obtained based on a 2N-parameter affine transform model used for a neighboring block of the current block, N, K are integers greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 4, and N is not equal to K; determining, in the candidate motion vector list, target candidate motion vectors of the K control points based on the index value; and obtaining a predicted motion vector of each subblock of the current block based on the target candidate motion vectors of the K control points. It helps improve coding efficiency in an audio and video coding process. |
| US11206404B2 |
Adaptive resolution change in video streams
A video coding system in which video images of a video bitstream are rescaled prior to encoding, and again at the decoder upon reception. When encoding a given video frame, the video encoder deduces a level of resampling to apply to a reference frame in order to properly predict blocks in the given video frame or the full given video frame, and carries out one or more predictions by first applying a resampling process on the reference frame data at the deduced level. To decode the given video frame of the bitstream, a video decoder compares a size of the given video frame to sizes of a reference frame to determine a level of resampling for the reference frame data, and carries out predictions to generate predicted data by first applying the determined level of resampling to the reference frame data. |
| US11206401B2 |
Video encoding method and device and video decoding method and device
Provided is an image encoding or decoding method and device capable of increasing image compression efficiency by determining a differential quantization parameter of a current block based on statistical information of original samples of the current block or samples reconstructed previously to the current block. The image decoding method includes receiving a bitstream, obtaining a predicted quantization parameter value and a quantized transformation coefficient of a current block from the bitstream, obtaining a differential quantization parameter of the current block based on statistical information of samples reconstructed previously to the current block, obtaining a quantization parameter of the current block based on the differential quantization parameter of the current block and the predicted quantization parameter value, and inversely quantizing the quantized transformation coefficient of the current block based on the quantization parameter of the current block. |
| US11206399B2 |
Methods, systems, devices and computer-readable mediums for deblocking filter
The present application provides methods, systems, devices and computer-readable mediums for deblocking filter. A method of the present application comprises: determining a filtering boundary, and then determining a filter pixel group based on the filtering boundary; determining a filter strength of the filter pixel group, comprising: parsing separately a pixel value difference states of pixel points on both sides of the filtering boundary in the filter pixel group to obtain two one-sided flatness FL and FR; calculating a comprehensive flatness FS of the filter pixel group, wherein FS=FL+FR; calculating the filter strength according to FS; filtering calculation of pixel points included in the filter pixel group according to the filter strength. Compared with the prior art, the method of the embodiment of the present invention fully considers the pixel value change state of the pixel points on both sides of the filtering boundary, so that a more reasonable filter strength judgment condition is adopted when determining the filter strength of the filter pixel group, thereby finally obtaining a more realistic deblocking filter result. |
| US11206398B2 |
Device and method for intra-prediction of a prediction block of a video image
A device is configured to select a directional intra-prediction mode from a set of directional intra-prediction modes, wherein each directional intra-prediction mode corresponds to a different intra-prediction angle. Further, the device is configured to select a filter from a set of filters based on the selected directional intra-prediction mode. Further, the device is configured to determine, for a given prediction sample of the prediction block, a reference sample from a set of reference samples based on the selected directional intra-prediction mode, and apply the selected filter to the determined reference sample. |
| US11206395B2 |
Signaling quantization matrix
A method for signaling scaling matrices for transform coefficient quantization is provided. A decoder receives data from a bitstream to be decoded as a current picture of a video, the current picture to be decoded by using a plurality of scaling matrices. The decoder receives a reference index offset for a first scaling matrix of the plurality of scaling matrices. The decoder applies the reference index offset to a first index identifying the first scaling matrix to derive a second index identifying a second scaling matrix of the plurality of scaling matrices. The second scaling matrix is previously reconstructed. The decoder reconstructs the first scaling matrix by referencing the second scaling matrix. The decoder dequantizes transform coefficients of transform blocks of the current picture by using the plurality of scaling matrices and reconstructs the current picture by using the dequantized transform coefficients. |
| US11206389B2 |
Method for reducing moire patterns on an autostereoscopic display
The invention relates to a method for reducing moire patterns on an autostereoscopic display, which display comprises an array of pixels, each having at least one sub-pixel corresponding to a main color, lined with a view altering layer, such as a lenticular lens stack or parallax barrier, and wherein the display further comprises an eye tracking system for determining the position of the eyes of a viewer relative to the display, which method comprises the steps of: —moire pattern detection by repeating for each main color the steps of: +activating the sub-pixels of all pixels corresponding to the single main color; obtaining moire pattern data by observing the display from a plurality of viewing positions; determining from the obtained moire pattern data the frequency, phase, direction and amplitude of the moire pattern for each of the viewing positions and storing the determined values; —controlling the pixels of the autostereoscopic display to display images, wherein the controlling comprises at least the steps of: determining the viewing position of the eyes of a viewer using the eye tracking system; rendering 3D images from image data, while correcting the 3D images by superimposing a compensation pattern for each main color, which pattern is generated based on the stored values and the determined viewing position to reduce the moire pattern for said viewing position. |
| US11206387B2 |
Method for transmitting 360 video, method for receiving 360 video, apparatus for transmitting 360 video, and apparatus for receiving 360 video
According to one aspect of the present invention, the present invention may relate to a method for transmitting a 360 video. The method for transmitting a 360 video may include processing a plurality of circular images captured by a camera having at least one fisheye lens; encoding a picture to which the circular images are mapped; generating signaling information about the 360 video data; encapsulating the encoded picture and the signaling information into a file, and transmitting the file. |
| US11206385B2 |
Volumetric video-based augmentation with user-generated content
A processing system having at least one processor may obtain a two-dimensional source video, select a volumetric video associated with at least one feature of the source video from a library of volumetric videos, identify a first object in the source video, and determine a location of the first object within a space of the volumetric video. The processing system may further obtain a three-dimensional object model of the first object, texture map the first object to the three-dimensional object model of the first object to generate an enhanced three-dimensional object model of the first object, and modify the volumetric video to include the enhanced three-dimensional object model of the first object in the location of the first object within the space of the volumetric video. |
| US11206384B2 |
Depth-based image stabilization
Depth information can be used to assist with image processing functionality, such as image stabilization and blur reduction. In at least some embodiments, depth information obtained from stereo imaging or distance sensing, for example, can be used to determine a foreground object and background object(s) for an image or frame of video. The foreground object then can be located in later frames of video or subsequent images. Small offsets of the foreground object can be determined, and the offset accounted for by adjusting the subsequent frames or images. Such an approach provides image stabilization for at least a foreground object, while providing simplified processing and reduce power consumption. Similarly processes can be used to reduce blur for an identified foreground object in a series of images, where the blur of the identified object is analyzed. |
| US11206382B2 |
White balance synchronization method and apparatus, and terminal device
Disclosed are a white balance synchronization method and apparatus, and a terminal device. The method is applied to a terminal comprising at least two cameras, and comprised that: when it is determined that the terminal is about to switch a camera, obtaining a first gain value corresponding to a currently used first camera; and after a second camera is started, using the first gain value as an initial value, and performing white balance adjustment is performed on an image collected by the second camera. Therefore, after the camera is switched, the second camera performs convergence by using gain value of the first camera prior to the switching as an initial value so as to perform the white balance adjustment, thereby avoid the problem of image flickering, improving the white balance adjustment speed and improving the user experience. |
| US11206381B2 |
Video processing apparatus, video processing method, and program
There is provided a video processing apparatus, method, and program to enable electro optical transfer processing on video data to be suitably performed. The video processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire video data obtained by performing high dynamic range optical electro transfer on high dynamic range video data, a processing unit configured to perform processing including electro optical transfer on the acquired video data and obtains display video data, and a control unit. In the processing unit, the characteristic of the electro optical transfer is set to a characteristic corresponding to characteristic information of optical electro transfer associated with the acquired video data. The control unit is configured to switch the characteristic of the electro optical transfer in the processing unit in accordance with a selection operation of a user. |
| US11206377B2 |
Imaging apparatus, imaging system, and imaging method
An imaging apparatus includes: an imager configured to generate an imaging signal; a transmission channel configured to connect a controller and the images; a superimposed signal generator that is arranged on a proximal end side of the transmission channel, the superimposed signal generator being configured to generate a superimposed signal by superimposing a pulsed data signal and a pulsed reference clock signal, and output the generated superimposed signal to the transmission channel; a first extractor that is arranged on a distal end side of the transmission channel, the first extractor being configured to extract the data signal and the reference clock signal from the generated superimposed signal; and a second extractor that is arranged on the distal end side of the transmission channel, the second extractor being configured to extract the negative voltage from the generated superimposed signal. |
| US11206372B1 |
Projection-type video conference system
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a projection-type video conference system, which includes a video conference device and a cloud service system. The cloud service system is configured to provide services to the video conference device. The video conference device includes: a camera assembly configured to acquire image information of a conference scene and generate a conference video; an audio input assembly configured to collect voice signals of the conference scene, the voice signals including a recognizable voice instruction; a projection assembly configured to display the conference video. The video conference device can recognize the voice instruction, and perform, according to the voice instruction, an operation corresponding thereto. The video conference device may be controlled through voice, and it has high integration and is convenient to carry. |
| US11206371B2 |
Techniques to overcome communication lag between terminals performing video mirroring and annotation operations
Techniques are disclosed for overcoming communication lag between interactive operations among devices in a streaming session. According to the techniques, a first device streaming video content to a second device and an annotation is entered to a first frame being displayed at the second device, which is communicated back to the first device. Responsive to a communication that identifies the annotation, a first device may identify an element of video content from the first frame to which the annotation applies and determine whether the identified element is present in a second frame of video content currently displayed at the first terminal. If so, the first device may display the annotation with the second frame in a location where the identified element is present. If not, the first device may display the annotation via an alternate technique. |
| US11206370B2 |
Recording control apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
A recording control apparatus configured to control data recording to a recording medium in a first unit (AU) or in a second unit (RU) smaller than the first unit includes a position recording unit configured to control the recording medium to record a position of the second unit, the position being an intermediate position in the first unit, as position information when the data recording is completed, the position information being information about a position from which next data recording to the recording medium is to be started, and a control unit configured to control whether to cause the position recording unit to record the position information to the recording medium when the data recording is completed. |
| US11206367B1 |
Image sensors having pixels with dual-output circuits therein
An image sensor pixel includes a substrate, a photodiode and a pixel circuit in the substrate. The pixel circuit includes a transfer element, which is electrically connected between the photodiode and a floating diffusion node that accumulates electrical charges generated by the photodiode in response to light incident the substrate, and a driving element, which is electrically connected to the floating diffusion node. An output circuit is also provided, which is electrically connected between a column line and the pixel circuit. The output circuit includes a switching element electrically connected to an output terminal of the driving element, a primary capacitor electrically connected to the switching element, a secondary capacitor, which is selectively connected to or disconnected from the switching element based on an on/off switching state of a first enable element, and a first selection element electrically connected between the switching element and the column line. |
| US11206366B2 |
Radiographic image detection device and method for operating the same
In a case where power P_C supplied to CA during the image reading operation is normal power PN_C, in an AED operation of detecting irradiation start of X-rays, a control unit of an electronic cassette causes at least one of non-detection CAs other than a detection CA that is the charge amplifier connected to a detection channel of a detection pixel for irradiation start detection, among the plurality of CAs connected to a MUX to be in a power saving state in which the supply power P_C is lower than the normal power PN_C during the image reading operation. |
| US11206365B2 |
Method and apparatus for overlaying themed imagery onto real-world objects in a head-mounted display device
Method and apparatus for overlaying themed imagery onto real-world objects in a head-mounted display device (HMDD). A computing device receives, from an HMDD, depth data that identifies distances from the HMDD to surfaces of a plurality of objects in a user space. The computing device detects at least one object in the user space based at least in part on the depth data. The computing device determines a classification of video content being presented on a display system of the HMDD. The computing device selects, based on the classification, a particular image theme from a plurality of different image themes, the image theme comprising one or more image textures. The computing device sends, to the HMDD, at least one image texture for overlaying the at least one object during presentation of the at least one object on the display system of the HMDD in conjunction with the video content. |
| US11206360B2 |
Exposure control method for obtaining HDR image, related exposure control device and electronic device
Disclosed in the present disclosure are an exposure control method, an exposure control device and an electronic device. The exposure control method includes the following. Scene data is processed to obtain a foreground part of a cached main image. A reference exposure is determined according to brightness information of the foreground part. A first exposure for a first image and a second exposure for a second image are determined according to the reference exposure. An imaging device is controlled to expose according to the reference exposure, the first exposure and the second exposure. |
| US11206357B2 |
Shooting control apparatus, image capture apparatus, and shooting control method
A shooting control apparatus obtains image data from an imaging unit that obtains the image data based on light from an imaging optical system and then detects an object and an orientation of the detected object from the image data. The apparatus controls a shooting direction of the imaging unit by controlling rotational driving of the imaging unit so that a position of the object in a field of view of the imaging unit changes based on the orientation of the object. The apparatus controls the shooting direction, in a case where the object faces in a first direction, so that a distance between an edge of the field of view on a first direction side and the object to be greater than a distance therebetween in a case where the object faces forward. |
| US11206356B1 |
Apparatus, method of same, and storage medium that utilizes captured images having different angles of view
An apparatus includes a first capturing unit configured to obtain a first image; and a second capturing unit configured to obtain a second image having a wider angle of view than an angle of view of the first image. The apparatus controls each of a first display device corresponding to one eye of a user and a second display device corresponding to the other eye of the user to display an image based on the first image or the second image. In a case where no subject exists in the first image, the apparatus causes at least one of the first display device and the second display device to display the second image. |
| US11206355B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program
An image processing apparatus adjusts a band of a filter that extracts a high-frequency component from frequency characteristics of an image according to a change in imaging setting. |
| US11206354B2 |
Electronic device and method of controlling same
An electronic device comprises an adjustment unit for adjusting a focus distance of a lens unit and obtainment unit for obtaining, from the lens unit, first information relating to a first range and second information relating to a second range. The first range being a focus range of the lens unit, and the second range being a focus range, in the first range, in which adjustment by the adjustment unit is limited. The electronic device controls, on the basis of the first information and the second information, the display device so as to display the first range and the second range to be distinguishable from each other. |
| US11206352B2 |
Shooting method, apparatus, and device
The present disclosure discloses a method for image or video shooting. The method is applied to a terminal that includes a first camera, a second camera, and a third camera. The second camera is a black-and-white camera, and the first camera, the second camera, and the third camera are cameras using prime lenses. The third camera is a color camera using a tele-photo lens. The method includes determining at least one camera from the first camera, the second camera, and the third camera based on a target zoom ratio as a target camera. The method further includes capturing, by using the target camera, at least one image that includes a target scene. The method further includes obtaining an output image of the target scene based on the at least one image that includes the target scene. According to the present disclosure, an approximately 5× lossless zoom effect is achieved. |
| US11206351B2 |
Omnidirectional camera system with improved point of interest selection
An image capturing device includes an imaging device and circuitry. The imaging device captures an image. The circuitry defines a point of interest in the image, converts the defined point of interest in accordance with attitude information of the image capturing device, and cuts out a viewable area from the image. The viewable area includes the converted point of interest. |
| US11206349B2 |
Video processing method, apparatus and medium
A method for processing videos includes: N videos are collected, wherein N is a positive integer larger than or equal to 1; at least one image frame in the N videos is selected, an image display mode of the selected at least one image frame is changed and image display data is obtained, wherein the image display data is a part of data included in the image frame; and a new video is generated by using the image display data of selected at least one image frame of which image display mode is changed. As such, the video capturing effect is less affected by moving the camera during capturing, and dynamic effects of moving capturing can be realized. |
| US11206347B2 |
Object-tracking based slow-motion video capture
Triggering slow-motion video capture based on object tracking includes receiving user input defining a trigger area on the viewfinder of a digital camera and tracking the movement of an actor in the field of view of the camera. A determination is made that the actor's movement has positioned the actor within the boundaries of the defined trigger area. Slow-motion video capture is initiated based on the determination. Feature detection methods may be used to identify feature points, where some of the feature points correspond to the actor. Additionally, feature point tracking methods may be used to track the movement of the feature points corresponding to the actor. Statistical methods may be used to remove outlier feature points. The trigger area may be tracked and its position updated in order to anchor the trigger window to stationary objects in the field of view of the digital camera. |
| US11206343B2 |
Electric shaver with imaging capability
System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver. |
| US11206340B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for providing illumination in an endoscopic imaging environment
The disclosure relates to an endoscopic light source that includes a first emitter. The first emitter may emit light of a first wavelength at a dichroic mirror which reflects the light of the first wavelength to a plurality of optical fibers. The endoscopic light source further comprises a second emitter. The second emitter may emit light of a second wavelength at a second dichroic mirror which reflects the light of the second wavelength to the plurality of optical fibers. In one embodiment, the first dichroic mirror may be transparent to the light of the second wavelength, allowing the light of the second wavelength to pass through the first dichroic mirror. |
| US11206339B2 |
Spectator view into an interactive gaming world showcased in a live event held in a real-world venue
A method including establishing a multi-player gaming session of a gaming application that generates an interactive gaming world, the live event being a real-world venue where players playing the gaming application are present. A 3D live view of the venue is generated based on captured video streams, and generated for a physical POV anchored to a physical location in the venue. The 3D live view is streamed to an HMD of a remote user located outside the venue, and presents an augmented reality view of the live event. A request is received from the remote user to jump into the gaming session as a spectator of the interactive gaming world from a virtual POV defined by a virtual location in the gaming world. The spectator view is delivered to the HMD of the remote user for display, the spectator view presenting a virtual reality view of the interactive gaming world. |
| US11206338B2 |
File processing system
A file processing system includes an information processing apparatus, a terminal apparatus that has a process instructing function for directly transmitting a file to be processed to the information processing apparatus and executing a process, by a user, and a server that is connected to the terminal apparatus and the information processing apparatus through a network, in which the terminal apparatus includes a file transmitting unit that transmits a file to the server, in a case where the process instructing function is not capable of being used due to a failure of communication with the information processing apparatuses, and the file processing system further includes a transfer control unit that controls transfer of the file transmitted to the server, to the information processing apparatus, and the information processing apparatus includes a process control unit that controls a process of the file acquired from the terminal apparatus through the server, in a case where the process instructing function is not capable of being used due to the failure of communication with the information processing apparatuses. |
| US11206332B2 |
Pre-distortion system for cancellation of nonlinear distortion in mobile devices
A pre-distortion system for improved mobile device communications via cancellation of nonlinear distortion is disclosed. The pre-distortion system may transmit an acoustic signal from a network to a device, wherein the acoustic signal includes a linear signal and a nonlinear cancellation signal that cancels at least a portion of nonlinear distortions created once a loudspeaker in the device emits the linear signal. Thus, when a loudspeaker of a mobile device is operating and nonlinear distortions are generated by the loudspeaker or adjacent components of the mobile device in close proximity to the loudspeaker, the pre-distortion system may create one or more nonlinear cancellation signals in the network. The nonlinear cancellation signal may be combined with the linear signal sent to the loudspeaker to cancel the nonlinear distortion signal created by the loudspeaker emitting acoustic sounds from the linear signal. Thus, the nonlinear cancellation signal becomes a pre-distortion signal. |
| US11206331B2 |
Techniques for sharing control of assigning tasks between an external pairing system and a task assignment system with an internal pairing system
Techniques for sharing control of assigning tasks between an external pairing system and a task assignment system with an internal pairing system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for sharing control of assigning tasks between an external pairing system and a task assignment system with an internal pairing system comprising receiving, from the task assignment system, a plurality of task pairing requests and an agent pairing request, wherein each task request of the plurality of task pairing requests is assigned to one of a first pairing strategy and a second pairing strategy. The agent pairing request may indicate an agent that is available for pairing. The method may further comprise transmitting, to the task assignment system, a pairing recommendation being based in part on the plurality of task pairing requests, the first pairing strategy, the second pairing strategy, and the agent pairing request. |
| US11206326B2 |
User terminal, server device, and method of setting communication parameter
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention performs a first step of determining a communication parameter value used for wireless communication with the external device by selecting one communication parameter set from a plurality of communication parameter sets each defining a communication parameter value or by receiving designation of a communication parameter value by a user, a second step of making a wireless communication attempt with the external device based on the determined communication parameter value, and a third step of reporting a result of the wireless communication attempt and terminal information of an own device to an external server device. |
| US11206324B2 |
Mobile terminal, mobile phone, and electronic device
A mobile terminal includes a hand-held portion and a body portion. The hand-held portion includes a first wireless communication module, a display screen, and a first power module electrically connected to the first wireless communication module and the display screen. The body portion includes a camera module, a second wireless communication module, a third communication module, and a second power module. The second power module is electrically connected to the camera module, the second wireless communication module, and the third wireless communication module. The third wireless communication module is configured to communicatively connect to an external device. The body portion defines a receiving space. The hand-held portion is received into or taken out of the receiving space. After being taken out of the receiving space, the second wireless communication module is communicatively connected to the first wireless communication module. |
| US11206318B2 |
Cloud interoperability
Illustrative embodiments of systems and methods for providing interoperability between multiple data providers and/or customers are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving, by a first server, a second gateway associated with a second server, wherein the second gateway is configured to translate data into a second protocol associated with the second server; deploying, by the first server, the second gateway on the first server; receiving, by the first server, a first request for first data from the second server; transferring, by the first server in response to receiving the first request, the first data into the second gateway; and translating, by the second gateway, the first data into the second protocol. |
| US11206314B2 |
Method, device, and system for predicting and caching user activity for seamless user experience within vehicles
A method, device, and system for predicting and caching user activity for seamless user experience within vehicles is disclosed. The method includes identifying a contextual information based on current activity associated with a user within the vehicle. The method further includes retrieving predictive information from a remote server or a local cache within the vehicle, based on a type of the contextual information. The method includes rendering the predictive information to the user within the vehicle in response to retrieving. The method further includes capturing response of the user to the predictive information rendered to the user as a user feedback. |
| US11206313B1 |
Surrogate cache for optimized service access with compact user objects and offline database updates
When a request for accessing a service is received, a user object may be stored in a long-term data store, as well as in a short-term cache. The cache may be divided into a regular cache that stores full versions of the user objects, and a surrogate cache that stores compact versions of the user object. The compact version of the user object may include a field that is derived from the full user object indicating whether a subsequent request for access to a particular service should be granted. After access is granted/denied based on this value in the compact user object, the system can process an update to the full user object offline. This surrogate cache structure may be used to rapidly approve/deny requests, decoupling this procedure from the processing involved with a full user object. |
| US11206308B2 |
Facilitating support functionalities through a support appliance device in advanced networks
Facilitating support functionalities through a support appliance device in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. A method can comprise facilitating, by a support appliance device comprising a processor, a dedicated communication link with a remote support entity via a secure internet connection. The method also can comprise, based on a receipt of a request for an active session, establishing, by the support appliance device, the active session with the remote support entity via the dedicated communication link. Further, the method can comprise receiving, by the support appliance device, input data associated with an item. The method also can comprise outputting, by the support appliance device, an indication on the item based on the support appliance device being in proximity of the item. An instruction related to the indication can be controlled by the remote support entity and implemented by the support appliance device. |
| US11206306B2 |
Analytics based cloud brokering of data protection operations system and method
A system includes a memory and at least one processor to monitor for a condition associated with a first cloud computing resource performing a cloud computing operation, determine that the condition associated with the first cloud computing resource has occurred, analyze the condition associated with the first cloud computing resource and compare the first cloud computing resource with a second cloud computing resource that is capable of performing at least a subset of the cloud computing operation, automatically modify the cloud computing operation that uses the first cloud computing resource to use the second cloud computing resource, and send at least one notification to a computing device about the condition associated with the first cloud computing resource and information associated with a modification of the cloud computing operation from the first cloud computing resource to the second cloud computing resource. |
| US11206303B2 |
Image sharing assistance device, image sharing system, and image sharing assistance method
A first evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, using data on a captured image outputted by an image-capturing unit, a first evaluation value related to an image quality of the captured image. An environment acquisition unit acquires environmental information indicating an image-capturing environment at the time the captured image is taken by the image-capturing unit. A second evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, using the environmental information acquired by the environment acquisition unit, a second evaluation value related to the image-capturing environment at the time the captured image is taken by the image-capturing unit. A transmission determination unit determines, on the basis of at least one of the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value, whether or not the data on the captured image is to be transmitted to a server. |
| US11206300B2 |
Providing instructions during remote viewing of a user interface
Method and system are provided for providing instructions during remote viewing of a user interface. The method carried out at a host computer system includes: capturing an image of one or more application user interfaces as displayed at the host computer system; and serializing data of each application user interface to provide a map of each window class and containers and/or control elements of the window class, wherein a container has attributes and child control elements. The captured image and the map are transmitted to a remote computer system; and control element input instructions are received from a remote computer system for instructing an interaction with a control element. |
| US11206295B1 |
System and method for streaming content selection
A method for streaming content selection includes reading a media presentation description to identify a content model based on different representations and a plurality of media segments, chosing the media segments for content selection from different representations, adapting the bitrate based on the content model and the different representations, reading, from the one or more memory devices, one or more values associated with the one or more constraint functions, minimizing a third function and yielding a probability distribution of bitrate decisions, and selecting one or more media segments where the difference between the bit-rates and the expectations of the bit-rate decisions distributions is minimal. After requesting, receiving the one or more media segments, storing an achieved download throughput in the one or more memory devices, storing the media segment(s), decoding segment(s) to provide one or more decoded media segments and rendering the one or more decoded media segments. |
| US11206290B2 |
Session initiation protocol (SIP) notifications for internet of things (IoT)
Examples described relate to using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) notifications for Internet of Things (IoT). In an example, in response to an event on a first device in an Internet of Things (IoT) network, the first device may send an event request Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to a hub device. In response to the event request URI, the first device may receive an event response URI corresponding to a second device in the IoT network from the hub device. The first device may transmit an out-of-dialog Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) notification for the event to the second device. |
| US11206287B2 |
Evaluating cyber-risk in synchrophasor systems
Technology related to evaluating cyber-risk for synchrophasor systems is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method includes generating an event tree model of a timing-attack on a synchrophasor system architecture. The event tree model can be based on locations and types of timing-attacks, an attack likelihood, vulnerabilities and detectability along a scenario path, and consequences of the timing-attack. A cyber-risk score of the synchrophasor system architecture can be determined using the event tree model. The synchrophasor system architecture can be adapted in response to the cyber-risk score. |
| US11206285B2 |
Systems and methods for preventing remote attacks against transportation systems
Systems and methods are provided to implement moving target defense techniques for transportation systems. The moving target defense techniques can randomly change the IP addresses of the nodes associated with both the vehicles and the corresponding control centers. The nodes for the vehicles and the control centers can be “mobile” nodes that use a “care-of” IP address for communications. The care-of address used by the nodes can be updated through a binding update process. During the binding update process, the one node sends the binding update notice (with a new care-of address) to the care-of address of the other node while maintaining its prior care-of address. The node that receives the binding update notice can send a binding acknowledgement back to the node that sent the binding update. Once the binding acknowledgement is received, the prior care-of address can be removed by the node that sent the binding update. |
| US11206282B2 |
Selectively choosing between actual-attack and simulation/evaluation for validating a vulnerability of a network node during execution of a penetration testing campaign
Methods and systems for penetration testing of a networked system by a penetration testing system. In some embodiments, both active and passive validation methods are used during a single penetration testing campaign in a single networked system. In other embodiments, a first penetration testing campaign uses only active validation and a second penetration campaign uses only passive validation, where both campaigns are performed by a single penetration testing system in a single networked system. Node-by-node determination of whether to use active or passive validation can be based on expected extent and/or likelihood of damage from actually compromising a network node using active validation. |
| US11206280B2 |
Cyber security threat management
Embodiments of the present invention provides a system to create a decentralized, scalable, blockchain powered cyber security management solution to monitor, protect themselves against and eliminate cyber threats, thereby managing cyber security. The cyber security management solution places an emphasis upon the strength of the wider community to contribute to finding vulnerabilities through a blockchain based mechanism. The cyber security management platform (such as Uncloak platform) may harness knowledge and expertise, aggregate it into the platform, and transform it into a service for end users. If the end user clients can understand their security risk position in real-time, they can place themselves in a strong position to eliminate cyber threats before they occur. |
| US11206279B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting and validating cyber threats
Embodiments of the present invention provides systems and methods for detecting and validating cyber threats. The systems and methods provide blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies based analytical tool for the intuitive, automated and seamless performance of security checks, thereby giving users an ability to cut through the cyber jargon and understand, remediate, and resolve cyber security issues. The use of blockchain and smart contract voting rights system greatly reduces the level of manual administration, costs, and time required to advertise a new cyber threat via the Uncloak platform. All subscribers to the Uncloak platform may receive the latest list of cyber threat vulnerabilities against their existing computing infrastructure, allowing them to identify where the potential threats lie and can then take the necessary remediation steps. |
| US11206275B2 |
Method and system for domain maliciousness assessment via real-time graph inference
The presently disclosed method and system exploits information and traces contained in DNS data to determine the maliciousness of a domain based on the relationship it has with other domains. A method may comprise providing data to a machine learning module that was previously trained on domain and IP address attributes or classifiers. The method then may comprise classifying apex domains and IP addresses based on the IP address and domain attributes or classifiers. Additionally, the method may comprise associated each of the domains and IP addresses based on the corresponding classification. The method may further comprise building a weighted domain graph at real-time utilizing the DNS data based on the aforementioned associations among domains. The method may then comprise assessing the maliciousness of a domain based on the weighted domain graph that was built. |
| US11206274B2 |
Method and apparatus for calibrating a system for recognizing attempts to penetrate a computer network
An apparatus and a method for calibrating a system for recognizing attempts to penetrate into a computer network, in particular of a motor vehicle, at least one parameter being estimated on the basis of a data set, the data set encompassing values that characterize a detected occurrence of messages in the computer network; a distribution function being determined on the basis of the at least one parameter; an inverse of the distribution function being determined; and at least one limit for the values being calibrated, on the basis of the inverse, in a rule for rule-based recognition of attempts to penetrate into the computer network. |
| US11206267B2 |
Fine grained digital experience controls
An example method of fine grained digital experience controls is performed by an application server. The application server receives telemetry data that indicates a usage of a user device. The telemetry data is stored to one or more databases and analyzed to determine one or more usage patterns that are clustered by an identity of a user of the user device. The application server then monitors content accessed by the user and determines whether a rule violation has occurred by applying one or more rules to the accessed content. In response to determining that the rule violation has occurred, the application server sends a content blocking trigger to the user device to trigger the user device to block the content. |
| US11206264B2 |
Minimizing traffic leaks during replacement of an access control list for a network interface
Systems and methods are provided for minimizing traffic leaks during replacement of an access control list for a network interface. The method includes adding a blocking access control entry to an access control list for a network interface of a network switch, wherein the blocking entry causes the network interface to block traffic from passing through the network interface; removing one or more current access control entries from the access control list, except for the blocking entry, after adding the blocking entry to the access control list; adding one or more new access control entries to the access control list, without removing the blocking entry, after removing the one or more current access control entries from the access control list; and removing the blocking entry from the access control list after adding the one or more new access control entries to the access control list. |
| US11206263B1 |
Systems and methods to determine content to present based on interaction information of a given user
Systems and methods to determine content to present based on interaction information of a given user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, in electronic storage, psychological profiles; obtain, in an ongoing manner, interaction information of users from the online platforms; determine psychological profiles of the users based on the interaction information for the individual users; update, in an ongoing manner, the determined psychological profiles as the interaction information is ongoingly obtained such that the first psychological profile is ongoingly updated as the first interaction information is ongoingly obtained; and provide, based on the psychological profiles, the individual users with content. |
| US11206262B2 |
Policy-based triggering of revision of access control information
A method, computer program product and a computer system for facilitating a maintenance of access control information for controlling access to one or more resources of an information technology system by one or more subjects. One or more trigger policies are evaluated according to one or more policy parameters relating to the resources, the subjects and/or the access to the resources by the subjects. A revision of the access control information including a mining activity for mapping the subjects to the resources is triggered according to a result of the evaluation of the trigger policies. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. |
| US11206256B2 |
Table-connected tokenization
A tokenization system tokenizes sensitive data to prevent unauthorized entities from accessing the sensitive data. The tokenization system accesses sensitive data, and retrieves an initialization vector (IV) from an IV table using a first portion of the sensitive data. A second portion of the sensitive data is modified using the accessed initialization vector. A token table is selected from a set of token tables using a third portion of the sensitive data. The modified second portion of data is used to query the selected token table, and a token associated with the value of the modified second portion of data is accessed. The second portion of the sensitive data is replaced with the accessed token to form tokenized data. |
| US11206253B2 |
Domain pass-through authentication in a hybrid cloud environment
Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing systems using improved domain pass-through authentication techniques. A computing platform may send, to an external cloud computing platform, one or more registration requests that each may cause an RLS endpoint corresponding to each of a plurality of resource location connectors to be stored at the external cloud computing host platform. The computing platform may receive one or more requests for a resource location identifier. The computing platform may determine an accessible resource location connector and may send, to the user device, a corresponding resource location identifier. After receiving a pass-through authentication request, the computing platform may receive, from the ticketing service stored on the external cloud computing platform, a one-time ticket. The computing platform may send, to the user device, the one-time ticket, which may allow the user device to perform pass-through authentication with the external cloud computing platform. |
| US11206251B2 |
System and method for communicating information about a serviceable item
A first electronic device is associated with a serviceable item. The first electronic device includes a user input; an output device; and a control circuit. The first electronic device is configured to identify user interaction with the user input; generate a code unique to the user interaction with the user input; and output, via the output device and to a second electronic device associated with the user, a temporary session identifier comprising the code, the temporary session identifier useable by the second device to establish a communication session with a server. The user may communicate information about the serviceable item to the server over the communication session in an attempt to facilitate servicing of the serviceable item. |
| US11206250B2 |
Coordination support system, coordination support method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A coordination support system includes circuitry configured to: accept login information including user identification information and coordination identification information of a coordination process to be executed from a device; determine whether coordination setting for execution of the coordination process identified by the coordination identification information is configured; store an authentication ticket and a temporary token in association with each other based on a determination that the coordination setting is not configured, the authentication ticket indicating authentication of use of a function of the service providing apparatus executing the coordination process, and the temporary token indicating permission of use of the service providing apparatus; and transmit setting information including address information and the temporary token to a destination indicted by a communication address of a user identified by the user identification information, the address information indicating a storage location of a setting screen. |
| US11206249B2 |
Enterprise workspaces
Concepts for defining and processing an expression of an enterprise workspace application are presents. Such concepts may associate an expression of an enterprise workspace application with a modified version of the expression and a state flag which is configured to define whether processing of at least part of the expression is to be based on (i.e. employ) the modified version of the expression. In this way, there may be provided concepts for protecting against malicious users setting triggers or overriding function definitions that cause other users to perform unexpected activities. |
| US11206239B2 |
Address generation for networks
A network includes at least two nodes that employ a routing protocol to communicate across a network. One of the nodes is a parent node and another of the nodes is a child node of the parent node. An address generator assigns a unique network address to the child node by appending an address value of a number of bits to a parent address of the parent node to create the unique network address for the child node. |
| US11206237B1 |
Omnichannel communication system
A specification of a logic flow for automatically interacting with a message recipient is received. The logic flow specifies a dynamic interaction between a plurality of different communication channels for the message recipient. The logic flow is deployed including by automatically sending a first message to the message recipient via a first communication channel, receiving an indication provided in response to a plurality of response options provided in the first message, and in response to the indication, automatically sending a second message associated with the indication via a second communication channel that is different from the first communication channel. |
| US11206235B1 |
Systems and methods for surfacing content
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine that broadcasting of a live content stream has concluded. The concluded live content stream is converted to a post live media content item. The post live media content item corresponding to the concluded live content stream is published through the social networking system. The post live media content item remains accessible through the social networking system for a pre-determined period of time. |
| US11206234B2 |
Validating proposed message recipients based on number of message keywords
In an approach to validating proposed recipients based on message contents, a number of keywords in a message under construction that are not in a keyword database for each addressee in the message under construction are counted. Responsive to determining that the number of keywords that are not in the keyword database for each addressee in the message under construction is above a threshold, notifying the user of a possible incorrect addressee. |
| US11206233B2 |
Reminder service for email selected for follow-up actions
An apparatus and method of operating a computer system is disclosed herein for rendering a user interface of an email service that includes a triage menu. In a user interface to an email service, an option to triage an email is rendered. In response to a selection of the option to triage the email, a triage menu is rendered that comprises a plurality of triage actions. At least one triage action of the plurality of triage actions corresponds to a service other than the email service. In response to a selection of the one triage action, triage information is communicated which indicates the selection of the one triage action to trigger a reminder in an application associated with the service. |
| US11206232B2 |
Generating and maintaining group messaging threads for ephemeral content
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and maintaining group messaging threads associated with ephemeral content. For instance, the disclosed systems can facilitate the creation of ephemeral content including a customizable group messaging graphical element associated with the ephemeral content the enables users to join a group messaging thread associated with the ephemeral content. In addition, the disclosed systems can generate user requests to join the group messaging thread based on user interaction with a group messaging graphical element within ephemeral content and can present the requests to the creator of the ephemeral content. Accordingly, in various embodiments, the disclosed systems can facilitate group messaging threads between creators of ephemeral content and users that view the ephemeral content via associated group messaging graphical elements. |
| US11206229B2 |
Directed acyclic graph based framework for training models
Techniques for chatbots, and more particularly, to techniques for using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) based framework to build and train models. In one particular aspect, a computer implemented method is provided that includes generating, by a DAG based framework, a first model and a second model, executing the first model for a chatbot in run-time and second model for the chatbot in design-time, collecting attributes for intent classification associated with a set of utterances with the chatbot running the first model and the second model, evaluating, using one or more metrics, performance of the first model and the second model based on an analysis of the attributes for the intent classification, determining whether the performance of the second model is improved as compared to the performance of the first model, and executing the first model or the second model for the chatbot in run-time based on the performance determination. |
| US11206227B2 |
Customer care training using chatbots
A system, computer program product, and method are disclosed. In an approach to train customer service agent using chatbots. The method includes training a chatbot for a customer chat simulation based on a customer service conversation data, a task scenario, and a customer persona. The method also includes monitoring an interaction between a customer service agent and the chatbot. The method further includes determining an assessment of the performance of the customer service agent based on the interaction between the customer service agent and the chatbot. The method additionally includes generating feedback for the customer service agent based on the assessment of the performance of the customer service agent. |
| US11206226B1 |
Switched fabric network routing mode selection
Embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products for routing mode selection in a switched fabric network. A fabric login request including a fabric login payload is received at a network device to establish communication parameters with a switched fabric network. The network device can determine whether the fabric login payload includes an extension for routing policy support and whether a current routing policy of the network device is compatible with a routing mode defined in the fabric login payload based on the extension for routing policy support. The fabric login request can be rejected based on determining that the current routing policy of the network device is incompatible with the routing mode defined in the fabric login payload. The fabric login request is completed based on determining that the current routing policy of the network device is compatible with the routing mode defined in the fabric login payload. |
| US11206223B2 |
Signal upload optimization
Aspects of the technology described herein allocate limited computing resources, such as available bandwidth and battery power, to transferring the most urgent and important data from a client device to an online service. Client devices have enormous amounts of information about the user's activities that could be communicated to the service at any given time. However, the wireless transfer of information uses available battery power and can consume a user's data plan. The technology described herein uses a model to determine how often information should be sent to a service. The model can also determine what information to send. Different models can be implemented in different scenarios. The different models can include different weighting that will produce different decisions given the same inputs. |
| US11206221B1 |
Online task dispatching and scheduling system and method thereof
The present disclosure relates to an online task dispatching and scheduling system. The system includes an end device; an access point (AP) configured to receive a task from the end device; one or more edge servers configured to receive the task from the AP, the one or more edge servers including a task waiting queue, a processing pool, a task completion queue, and a scheduler, wherein the AP further includes a dispatcher utilizing Online Learning (OL) for determining a real-time state of network conditions and server loads; and the AP selects a target edge server from the one or more edge servers to which the task is to be dispatched; and wherein the scheduler utilizes Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in generating a task scheduling policy for the one or more edge servers. |
| US11206220B2 |
Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium
If a communication apparatus is to transmit data to another communication apparatus and communication via a communication unit included in the other communication apparatus is not performable, whether or not to transmit a frame for causing a transition to a state where the communication via the communication unit included in the other communication apparatus is performable is selected based on an amount of data accumulated in a transmission queue in which the data is stored. |
| US11206215B2 |
Method and apparatus for routing packet in segment routing network based on IPv6
A method for routing a packet in a segment routing network includes extracting a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address from an IP header of the packet received by a routing node wherein the destination IP address includes a network identifier, a node identifier, a function identifier, and an argument; determining whether the network identifier and the node identifier match a routing node identifier; when the network identifier and the node identifier match the routing node identifier, determining a function to be executed based on the function identifier and the argument; when the function to be executed is determined, updating the node identifier, the function identifier, and the argument according to a segment list included in a segment routing header of the packet; and routing the packet according to the updated node identifier, the updated function identifier, and the updated argument in the destination IP address. |
| US11206213B2 |
Forwarding element implementation for containers
A method of creating containers in a physical host that includes a managed forwarding element (MFE) configured to forward packets to and from a set of data compute nodes (DCNs) hosted by the physical host. The method creates a container DCN in the host. The container DCN includes a virtual network interface card (VNIC) configured to exchange packets with the MFE. The method creates a plurality of containers in the container DCN. The method, for each container in the container DCN, creates a corresponding port on the MFE. The method sends packets addressed to each of the plurality of containers from the corresponding MFE port to the VNIC of the container DCN. |
| US11206212B2 |
Disambiguating traffic in networking environments with multiple virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) logical routers
The disclosure provides an approach for routing traffic in a network. Embodiments include receiving, by a service router of an edge services gateway (ESG), a packet comprising a virtual network identifier (VNI) and a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier. Embodiments include sending, by the service router, the packet to a virtual switch of the ESG based on the VNI of the packet. Embodiments include determining, by the virtual switch, a virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) router of the ESG for the packet based on the VLAN identifier. Embodiments include forwarding, by the virtual switch, the packet to the VRF router. |
| US11206211B2 |
Stitching label-switched paths between autonomous systems with internet protocol routing
Systems and methods for routing traffic through a network along Label-Switched Paths (LSPs) that may extend across multiple autonomous systems include performing Internet Protocol (IP) routing lookups as a packet is transmitted along the LSP. In one implementation, a packet having a predetermined value (which may be inserted by an upstream network device) is received at a network device after travelling along a first segment of an LSP. In response to identifying the predetermined label value of the packet, the network device may perform an IP routing lookup using IP routing information included in the packet to identify a next hop for the packet. The network device may then update a label of the packet such that the packet is routed along a second segment of the LSP and transmit the communication packet to the next hop. |
| US11206210B2 |
Packet processing method and system, and device
Disclosed is a packet processing method and system, and a device. A status value used to identify a topology status of service nodes at a specified time is preconfigured for a packet in a packet flow, so that when a service node in a next hop is selected for the packet, selection is performed not based on a topology status of current actual service nodes in the next hop, but based on the topology status, which is identified by the status value, of the service nodes at the specified time. As long as status values carried in packets in a same packet flow are the same, even if a topology status of service nodes changes, a same service node can still be selected for the packets in the same packet flow, thereby avoiding a problem of diversion of the packets in the same packet flow. |
| US11206209B2 |
Method for link aggregation and related products
Provided are a method for link aggregation and related products. The method includes the following. Link tag information in a first data packet to be transmitted is acquired. A first wireless communication link, from multiple wireless communication links enabled, corresponding to the link tag information in the first data packet is determined. The first data packet is transmitted via a link interface of the first wireless communication link. |
| US11206207B1 |
Managed multicast communications across isolated networks
Managed multicast communications may be implemented across isolated networks. A virtual traffic hub may be implemented that connects different isolated networks. A control plane for the virtual traffic hub may accept requests to enable a multicast group between different isolated networks connected to the virtual traffic hub. The multicast group may then be enabled at the virtual traffic hub so that requests to add members to the multicast group and data packets directed to the multicast group can be handled according to multicast protocols by the virtual traffic hub. |
| US11206203B2 |
Bypass detection analysis of secondary network traffic
Embodiments generally disclosed herein include a computer-implemented method for monitoring and correlating network traffic data associated with a primary network that is in communication with a plurality of secondary networks. The method generates a network traffic data set by monitoring network traffic between the primary network and the plurality of secondary networks. The method also determines a mapping of network connectivity by monitoring inter-network routing information between the primary network and the plurality of secondary networks. In addition, the method generates a traffic measurement data set by monitoring network utilization statistics between the primary network and the plurality of secondary networks. With the collected data sets, the method then calculates a relational network mapping between the primary network and the plurality of secondary networks by correlating the network traffic data set, the mapping of network connectivity, and the traffic measurement data set. |
| US11206199B2 |
Highly scalable distributed connection interface for data capture from multiple network service sources
A highly scalable distributed connection interface for data capture from multiple network service sources, comprising a connector module wherein, the connector module retrieves a plurality of operational data from a plurality of network data sources; employs a plurality of application programming interface routines to communicate with the plurality of operational data sources; accepts a plurality of analysis parameters and control commands directly from human interface devices or from one or more command and control storage devices; and specifies the action or actions to be taken on the retrieved operational data. |
| US11206197B2 |
Scaling operations, administration, and maintenance sessions in packet networks
Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) scaling systems and methods are implemented by a network function performed by one of a physical network element and a virtual network element executed on one or more processors. The OAM scaling method includes providing N packet services, N is an integer; and, responsive to determined OAM session scaling limits, providing OAM sessions for the N packet services in an oversubscribed manner, wherein the determined OAM session scaling limits include M OAM sessions supported by the network function, M is an integer and less than N. |
| US11206196B2 |
Computer network troubleshooting
A system for troubleshooting network problems is disclosed. A model can use demographic information, network usage information, and network membership information to determine an importance of a problem. The importance of the problem for the user who reported the problem, a number of other users affected by the problem, and the importance of the problem to the other users can be used to determine a priority for resolving the problem. Before and after a work order is executed to resolve the problem, network metrics can be gathered, including aggregate network metrics, and automatically presented in various user interfaces. The analysis of the metrics can be used to update a database of which work orders are assigned in response to which problems. |
| US11206195B2 |
Cloud computing environment with split connectivity and application interfaces that enable support of separate cloud services
A cloud service provider network may receive, from a cloud subscriber device, a request to access an application, wherein the cloud service provider network includes a split interface associated with the cloud subscriber device. The cloud service provider network may provide, to the cloud operator device, the request to access the application, wherein the cloud operator device stores the application. The cloud service provider network may receive, from the cloud operator device, the application, based on the request to access the application. The cloud service provider network may provide the application to the cloud subscriber device via the application interface of the split interface, wherein the connectivity interface connects the cloud subscriber device and the cloud operator device so that the application is provided to the cloud subscriber device via the application interface. |
| US11206191B2 |
Method and system for providing seamless data transfer between communication devices
Disclosed herein is a method and a data transfer system for providing seamless data transfer between communication devices. Properties of data to be transferred, status of network parameters and power associated with the communication devices are monitored in real time. Further, communication protocols available at the communication devices and a need to switch between the communication protocols are determined. Splitting of the data into subsets of data and sequencing the subsets of data are performed using a neural network, which is trained based on properties of the data, data storage space of the communication devices, speed of data transfer and a communication channel available for the data transfer. The optimum communication protocols are identified based on order of priority value and contention value. The subsets of data are transferred using identified optimum communication protocols, until a change in the monitored status is detected to switch the optimum communication protocols. |
| US11206184B2 |
Electronic device for supporting access to wireless media using target wake time (TWT) defined in IEEE 802.11 standard
An electronic device is provided, which includes a housing, at least one wireless communication circuit located inside the housing and configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal in accordance with the IEEE 802.11 standard, a processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the processor and configured to store target wake time (TWT) configuration information based on a quality of service (QoS) individually related to at least one service type, wherein the memory, when executed, stores instructions to cause the processor to broadcast a signal including the TWT configuration information using the wireless communication circuit, receive, from an external electronic device, an authority request for a first TWT at least partly based on the broadcasted information, transmit an authority approval for the first TWT to the external electronic device based on the TWT configuration information and the authority request, and transmit and receive data with the external electronic device at a time selected by the TWT configuration information based on the first TWT. Other certain embodiments are possible. |
| US11206181B1 |
Safe oversubscription of connection tracking entries
Techniques for safe oversubscription of connection tracking entries are described. A method for safe oversubscription of connection tracking entries may include receiving a request for an allocation of a resource on a physical host in a provider network, the request received by a resource allocation monitor from an instance hosted by the physical host, determining a resource availability on the physical host, the resource availability based on a total amount of the resource on the physical host, a reserved amount of the resource to a plurality of instances hosted by the physical host, and a shared amount of the resource, and granting or denying the resource allocation based at least on the determined resource availability. |
| US11206180B2 |
Methods, systems and apparatuses for implementing time-triggered ethernet (TTE) feature set scheduling with configuration-division multiplexing (CDM) to support in situ re-configuration and complex system commissioning
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for orchestrating the re-configuration of a Time-Triggered Ethernet (TTE) network for a plurality of configuration definitions (CDs) within a network configuration superset (NCS) by a Network Scheduling Tool (NST), including coupling a plurality of FSs to at least one common control FS (CCFS) to enable control by the NST of each FS by a runtime procedure wherein each FS of the plurality of FSs is composed of Virtual Links (VLs); scheduling the plurality of features sets (FSs) based on a target configuration of a specified FSs coupled to the CCFS within the TTE network; collecting, in a first scheduling pass by the NST, multiple FSs related to a plurality of phase configurations wherein the FSs are used to derive a specified target FS configuration; and forming a common FS by using an application to determine features associated with each FS of the plurality of FSs. |
| US11206178B2 |
Systems and methods for network MTU management for clustered and federated storage systems
Embodiments included herein may be configured for managing one or more maximum transmission units (MTUs) for clustered and federated storage systems. Embodiments may include providing one or more heterogeneous storage clusters. A logical MTU may be configured on one or more leaf network interfaces of one or more networks. A physical network MTU may be configured on one or more intermediate network objects of the one or more networks. One or more physical network fabrics of the one or more networks may be managed. The physical network MTU may be managed via one of the one or more MTU domains. The physical network MTU may be reconfigured in response to determining the physical network MTU is outside of a pre-determined range. |
| US11206177B2 |
Scheme for configuring reference signal and communicating channel state information in a wireless communication system using multiple antenna ports
A method for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) by using multiple antenna ports and receiving CSI in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting at least one CSI-RS configuration information for configuring a resource for transmission of the CSI-RS, transmitting the CSI-RS in a resource determined based on the CSI-RS configuration information, and receiving CSI corresponding to the transmitted CSI-RS, in which the CSI-RS configuration information includes information indicating a frequency comb type in which the CSI-RS is transmitted. |
| US11206174B2 |
Method and system for diagnosis of failures in a communications network
Embodiments of a method and a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating a communications network is disclosed. The method involves setting, at a first network node in the communications network, a register value that is indicative of a fault status associated with the first network node, the register value being set in a physical layer device of the first network node, receiving fault status information at an element in the communications network, the fault status information corresponding to the register value that is set in the physical layer device of the first network node, and determining, at the element in the communications network, a fault status of the communications network in response to the fault status information received at the element in the communications network. |
| US11206173B2 |
High availability on a distributed networking platform
Providing high availability in a distributed networking platform includes detecting that an original primary service engine is unavailable, wherein: the original primary service engine and a plurality of secondary service engines are configured to provide one or more network applications associated with a virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address; the original primary service engine and the plurality of secondary service engines are in active-active configuration mode; and the original primary service engine is configured to respond to Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) requests designating the VIP address. Additionally, providing high availability in a distributed networking platform further includes determining that a controller is unavailable; and configuring a selected secondary service engine as the next primary service engine. |
| US11206168B2 |
Receiver and method for providing a phase coherency for frequency hopping multitone signals
The invention concerns a method and a receiver configured to receive a radio signal carrying information, the radio signal including an overall frequency band having at least three different sub carriers. The receiver is further configured to receive, during a first time period, a first multitone signal carrying a first portion of the radio signal, the first multitone signal including a first and a second sub carrier which are received simultaneously, and to determine a first phase difference between the first and the second sub carrier. The receiver is further configured to receive, during a second time period, a second multitone signal carrying a second portion of the radio signal, the second multitone signal including the second and a third sub carrier which are received simultaneously, and to determine a second phase difference between the second and the third sub carrier. According to the invention, the receiver is configured to determine a phase difference between the first and the third sub carrier using the first phase difference and the second phase difference. |
| US11206165B2 |
System and method for accommodating more number of users over resource blocks in an uplink transmission
A method for accommodating users in an uplink channel is provided. The method comprises a processor for selecting a region of sub carriers in a frequency domain, wherein a channel value of a plurality of users over the selected region varies gradually. The processor is further configured to select the sub carriers within the selected region of sub carriers by skipping the sub carriers by an integer value which is 0 or more than 0. A product of a known sequence and an exponential sequence is transmitting over the selected sub carriers, wherein the exponential sequence is characterized by a cyclic shift value. Further, a base station is configured to perform channel estimation of the users using the received selected sub carriers within the selected region and the processor is also configured to perform data detection for the users over the selected sub carriers using the estimated channel value. |
| US11206162B2 |
Method and apparatus for coordinating FDX and TDD communications in a communication system
The method includes transmitting by a first remote communication unit an upstream symbol with a first structure onto a first communication line at a reference time point trf, wherein the reference time point trf is determined based on a time of reception of a downstream symbol with the first structure tFDX_DS_RX and a first propagation delay over the first communication line tPD1, as trf=tFDX_DS_RX−tPD1; transmitting by a second remote communication unit an upstream symbol with a second structure onto the second communication line at tTDD_US_TX=trf−tPD2 during a time interval assigned for upstream transmission on the second communication line, wherein tPD2 is a second propagation delay over the second communication line, so that the upstream symbol with the second structure transmitted by the second remote communication unit arrives at the access node at the reference time point trf. |
| US11206160B2 |
High bandwidth continuous time linear equalization circuit
A high bandwidth continuous time linear equalization (HBCTLE) circuit is disclosed. The HBCTLE circuit includes a continuous time linear equalization (CTLE) circuit and a gain circuit coupled with an output of the CTLE circuit. A feedback circuit is coupled between the output of the CTLE circuit and an output of the gain circuit. |
| US11206159B2 |
Signal equalization apparatus and signal equalization method
The present disclosure discloses a signal equalization apparatus. A channel length estimation circuit determines a transmission channel length of the input signal such that a processing circuit retrieves predetermined feed-forward equalizer coefficients. A feed-forward equalizer equalizes the input signal according to operation feed-forward equalizer coefficients. An auto gain circuit amplifies the input signal according to an offset signal. A signal adding circuit adds the amplified input signal and a feedback adjusting signal to generate an added input signal. A data slicer generates a data-slicing result and the offset signal according to reference thresholds based on the added input signal. A feedback equalizer equalizes the data-slicing result to generate the feedback adjusting signal according to operation feedback equalizer coefficients. The feed-forward equalizer and the feedback equalizer keeps updating the equalizer coefficients such that a signal interference noise is eliminated rapidly to increase a signal and noise ratio of the system. |
| US11206158B2 |
Communication device and method
According to one embodiment, a communication device includes a control circuit. The control circuit determines an output waveform of the data to be received from an external device. The control circuit stores information relating to the output waveform into a nonvolatile memory in response to determining of the output waveform of the data from among N (N is a natural number of three or more) types of output waveforms. The control circuit determines an output waveform of the data from among M or less types of output waveforms in the N types of output waveforms (M |
| US11206156B2 |
Method and apparatus for storing data of transmission signal, and computer readable storage medium
The present application discloses a method for storing data of a transmission signal, which includes: upon the reception of the transmission signal, analyzing a clock signal corresponding to the transmission signal to obtain a signal frequency of the clock signal; according to the signal frequency, acquiring zero-volt time points of a clock signal after signal superposition with the transmission signal; acquiring a preset time length, and according to the zero-volt time points and the preset time length, generating data storage time periods with each of the zero-volt time points as a central time point; and storing data of the transmission signal within each of the data storage time periods. The present application further provides an apparatus for storing data of a transmission signal and a computer readable storage medium. |
| US11206153B2 |
Building management system with advanced search actions and bulk commands
A building management system includes a search and control system coupled to a building network. The building network includes a plurality of devices of building equipment that operate to affect a variable state or condition within a building. The search and control system is configured to provide a search interface, receive filter criteria, perform a search regarding the devices of building equipment based on the filter criteria, return a set of search results based on the filter criteria, receive a selection of one or more devices of building equipment of the set of search results, receive command criteria regarding a command to provide to the one or more selected devices of building equipment, and provide the command to the one or more selected devices of building equipment. The command causes the one or more selected devices of building equipment to affect the variable state or condition within the building. |
| US11206150B2 |
Controller with automatic field bus protocol detection
A controller for equipment includes a communications interface, a communications protocol manager, a protocol detection manager, and an equipment controller. The communications interface connects to at least one of a serial bus and a wireless communications device. The communications protocol manager communicates via at least one of the serial bus and the wireless communications device according to a communications protocol and a predetermined parameter. The protocol detection manager causes the communications protocol manager to test for multiple communications protocols and predetermined parameters to identify a communications protocol and parameter used by at least one of the serial bus and the wireless communications device. The equipment controller uses the identified communications protocol and parameter to generate protocol-specific control signals or communication signals for the equipment and use the protocol-specific control signals or communication signals to control the equipment or communicate with the equipment. |
| US11206149B1 |
Co-reading group ad hoc forum
Ad hoc forums may be created and updated to enable users to easily share information, collaborate, track reading progress, coordinate events, and/or exchange other information related to reading of a book or other written work. The ad hoc forum may be accessible via a uniform resource locator (URL), which may be provided to users without requiring user registration and without a need for a dedicated reader device. A service provider may receive information from contemporaneous readers to update the forum, such as to update reading progress information, add messages, add comments, add annotations, and/or other add or modify other collaborative information. The service provider may exchange information with user devices of users via communication channels other than the forum, such as via email and/or text messages, as well as dedicated reader devices, while using this information to update the forum. |
| US11206147B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating a cryptographic time stamp for a digital document on a majority basis
A method for producing a cryptographic timestamp for a digital document using multiple time servers is provided. In the method, a nonce value is produced and a current hash value is formed from the nonce value and the digital document. Then, a time server is repeatedly selected, the current hash value is transmitted to the selected time server, a response comprising a digital signature of the current hash value and a time indication is received by the selected time server, and an additional hash value is determined from the received response and used as the current hash value. The cryptographic timestamp for the digital document is formed from the nonce value and the multiple received responses. The method produces a tamperproof timestamp on a majority basis and is suitable for dating and protocolling in the field of automation and IoT. |
| US11206145B2 |
Integrated circuit personalisation
An integrated circuit and a method of configuring a plurality of integrated circuits are disclosed. Each integrated circuit comprises a cryptographic key specific to it. Each integrated circuit comprises a cryptographic key specific to it. Each cryptographic key can be generated on the respective integrated circuit using a physical unclonable function and data associated with the cryptographic key, e.g. a configuration message comprising instructions for generating the cryptographic key using the physical unclonable function. The cryptographic key specific to the integrated circuit is not stored on the integrated circuit. Each of the plurality of integrated circuits are configured using a data file that is encrypted with the respective cryptographic key specific to the integrated circuit, circuit. |
| US11206142B2 |
Systems and methods for automated certificate renewal management
A method is provided for automating management of automatic renewal of a public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate issued by a certificate authority (CA) for a subscriber. The method includes steps of causing the subscriber to (i) transmit a first alert to a management entity for initiating renewal of the PKI certificate, and (ii) transmit a certificate signing request (CSR) to a registration authority (RA) for issuance of a renewal certificate. The method further includes steps of (iii) transmitting, from the RA to the CA, the CSR signed by the RA, (iv) receiving, at the RA from the CA, an issued renewal certificate signed by the CA, (v) sending, from the RA to the subscriber, the issued renewal certificate signed by the CA, and (vi) causing the subscriber to transmit a second alert to a management entity indicating renewal of the PKI certificate. |
| US11206139B2 |
System and method for electronic signatures as a service
A computing system includes a server. The server is communicatively coupled to a data repository and is configured to store a data in the data repository. The server is further configured to create, via a visual information flow creation tool, at least one information flow object. The server is additionally configured to create, via the visual information flow creation tool, an electronic signature field in the at least one information flow object, and to provide the at least one information flow object to communicate an electronic signature request to an electronic signature system. |
| US11206135B2 |
Forward secrecy in Transport Layer Security (TLS) using ephemeral keys
Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection establishment between a client and a server for a new session is enabled using an ephemeral (temporary) key pair. In response to a request, the server generates a temporary certificate by signing an ephemeral public key using the server's private key. A certificate chain comprising at least the temporary certificate that includes the ephemeral public key, together with a server certificate, is output to the client by the server, which acts as a subordinate Certificate Authority. The client validates the certificates, generates a session key and outputs the session key wrapped by the ephemeral public key. To complete the connection establishment, the server applies the ephemeral private key to recover the session key derived at the client for the new session. The client and server thereafter use the session key to encrypt and decrypt data over the link. The ephemeral key pair is not reused. |
| US11206132B2 |
Multiparty secure computing method, device, and electronic device
Embodiments of a secure multi-party computation method applicable to any one computing node of a plurality of computing nodes deployed in a distributed network are provided. The plurality of computing nodes jointly participate in a secure multi-party computation based on private data held by each computing node. The computing node is connected to a trusted key source, and the method includes: obtaining a trusted key from the trusted key source; encrypting the private data held by the computing node based on the obtained trusted key to obtain ciphertext data; transmitting a computing parameter comprising at least the ciphertext data to other computing nodes participating in the secure multi-party computation, so that the other computing nodes perform the secure multi-party computation based on collected computing parameters transmitted by the computing nodes participating in the secure multi-party computation. |
| US11206120B2 |
Selection of waveform for uplink communications
A method, network node and wireless device for waveform selection are provided. A method includes selecting a waveform based on one of a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, a resource allocation, and transport block size, TBS, and transmitting using the selected waveform. |
| US11206119B2 |
Method and device for code block grouping
A method and device for code block grouping. It is determined that one or more code blocks of a transport block is/are mapped to one or more code block groups according to a service and/or an associated channel; therefore, resource efficiency may be improved, latency may be reduced and robustness may be increased for all kinds of services. |
| US11206116B2 |
Technique for assigning pilot signals to user equipments
A technique for assigning pilot signals to user equipments is described. The UEs access an RBS that provides radio access. As to a method aspect of the technique, an access burst including initial pilot signals is received from the UEs, wherein at least two of the UEs apply simultaneously the same initial pilot signal. A multicast channel to the at least two UEs is estimated based on the received access burst. A combined signal power received at the RBS is computed for the at least two UEs based on the estimated multicast channel. A message to the at least two UEs is sent using the multicast channel. The message is indicative of the combined signal power and assigns different pilot signals to the at least two UEs, wherein the assignment depends for each of the at least two UEs on the combined signal power and a signal power received at the respective UE. |
| US11206114B2 |
Sounding reference signals and channel state information reference signals enhancements for coordinated multipoint communications
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The apparatus may transmit a supported configuration of the UE for at least one of SRS transmission or CSI-RS reception for communication with a plurality of TRPs. The apparatus may receive, in response to transmitting the supported configuration, configuration information for at least one of the SRS transmission or the CSI-RS reception, wherein the configuration information is generated based on the supported configuration. The apparatus may communicate, with at least a subset of the plurality of TRPs, using at least one of the SRS transmission or the CSI-RS reception on resource elements assigned based on the configuration information. A base station connected to the TRPs may use the SRS/CSI-RS for cluster management and scheduling or to estimate downlink channels to determine precoding for downlink transmissions. |
| US11206111B2 |
Retransmission of failed transport blocks for 5G or other next generation network
Failed transport blocks can be retransmitted when the number of layers is different compared to the number of layers for re-transmission. Mapping tables can be used for retransmitting the failed packets when a user equipment reported rank is different from the transmitted rank. In addition, an indication can be sent to the user equipment to indicate the failed transport blocks when the network decides to use a different codeword for transmitting a failed packet. |
| US11206110B2 |
Wireless LAN communication device and wireless LAN communication method
[Problem to be Solved] It is possible to achieve more appropriate retransmission control in wireless LAN systems.[Solution] There is provided a wireless LAN communication device including: a generator that generates a data frame for which a data unit in which an encoding process is performed and a data unit in which a retransmission process is performed are different from each other; and a transmission section that transmits the data frame. The encoding process makes it possible to determine whether or not decoding is successful. |
| US11206107B2 |
Communication apparatus and communication method for sidelink communication using a feedback timing
There are provided a communication apparatus and a method. The communication apparatus comprising: a receiver, operative to receive, in a first time period, a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) transmitted by another communication apparatus; and circuitry, operative to generate a plurality of feedback bits respectively for the received TBs, and perform at least one of multiplexing and bundling on at least a part of the feedback bits according to the number of the feedback bits to generate feedback information. |
| US11206106B2 |
Data packet synchronization
Provided is a data packet transmission method and device. The method includes: generating, by a first network element, first indication information according to a delivery status fed back by a second network element to the first network element, where the first indication information is used for instructing the second network element which has not successfully sent a data packet to a terminal to discard the data packet indicated by the first indication information. The present disclosure may solve the problem in the related art of unsynchronized data transmission in sending of a data packet to a terminal by a plurality of second network elements. |
| US11206097B1 |
Dynamic switching of data rates
A wireless headphone that receives a device identifier of an electronic device communicatively coupled to the wireless headphone and determines that the electronic device supports dynamic rate switching between a first data rate and a second data rate. The wireless headphone receives data from the electronic device at the second data rate and determines a packet error rate (PER) value associated with receiving the data. The wireless headphone requests the electronic device to transmit data at the second data rate. |
| US11206093B2 |
Propagation path search method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a propagation path search method. In one embodiment, the method includes: defining a target three-dimensional object, where the target three-dimensional object is configured to describe full space; setting a signal transmission point in internal space of the target three-dimensional object to perform initial beam modeling of a signal point source, where the signal transmission point is used to transmit an initial beam; tracking the initial beam to determine a propagation manner generated by the initial beam in the three-dimensional object; and determining that a path corresponding to a target beam is an effective path when the target beam reaches a signal receiving point, where the target beam is included in the initial beam, or is obtained after the initial beam is split or changed. |
| US11206089B2 |
Mitigating interference between wirelessly controlled machines using RF shielding
Embodiments herein describe a system that includes a first Faraday cage defining a first aperture through which a first conveyor extends, a first wirelessly controlled machine disposed in the first Faraday cage, where the first wirelessly controlled machine is configured to transmit control signals using a first frequency range, a second Faraday cage defining a second aperture through which a second conveyor extends, and a second wirelessly controlled machine disposed in the second Faraday cage where the first wirelessly controlled machine is configured to transmit control signals using the first frequency range. Further, a portion of at least one of the first Faraday cage and the second Faraday cage is disposed between the first and second apertures. |
| US11206088B2 |
Power adjustment of a communication link based on state disturbance estimations
A communication device is provided that estimates one or more disturbance values associated with one or more components of the communication device, and adjusts the communication device to change a received power of the output signal. The communication device includes a transmitter having a seed laser configured to provide an amount of bandwidth for an output signal, an Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) configured to increase an amplitude of the output signal, and a single mode variable optical attenuator (SMVOA) configured to decrease the amplitude of the output signal. |
| US11206083B2 |
On-vehicle communication system
An on-vehicle communication system mounted on a vehicle is provided with a master function unit and a plurality of slave function units. The plurality of slave function units are able to transmit uplink communication signals to the master function unit via at least a common optical fiber. |
| US11206081B2 |
Optical space communication system, optical reception device, optical reception method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An optical reception terminal includes a plurality of matrix filters (40, 41) respectively provided for a plurality of modes and configured to perform polarization separation and equalization on a coherently received signal in a corresponding mode, and two combining filters (50, 51) respectively provided for two polarizations and configured to combine signals in corresponding polarization among signals output from the plurality of matrix filters (40, 41) after weighting the signals. Filter coefficients of the plurality of matrix filters (40, 41) and weighting coefficients of the two combining filters (50, 51) are controlled based on a deviation from a desired state of both signals in two polarizations after combining by the two combining filters (50, 51), so as to minimize a sum of deviations. |
| US11206080B2 |
Optical signal monitor, optical wavelength multiplexing transmitter, and method for monitoring optical signal
An optical signal monitor, including: a storage that holds a threshold value set for each of determination areas having a bandwidth set in accordance with an average grid of dummy light; a measurement section that sequentially measures an optical intensity of an inputted wavelength-multiplexed optical signal with respect to each of measurement areas obtained by dividing the determination area into areas with a bandwidth sufficiently smaller than a grid width of a monitoring-target optical signal composing the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal, and output measured values; and a section that determines that dummy light corresponding to the determination area needs introducing if each of measured values in the determination area is smaller than a threshold value, and, determines that dummy light corresponding to the determination area does not need introducing if at least one of the measured values in the determination area is equal to or larger than the threshold value. |
| US11206078B1 |
System for low-latency satellite subbeam handover
Satellites provide communication between devices such as user terminals and gateways to other networks, such as the Internet. Non-geosynchronous orbit satellites move relative to user terminals, passing in and out of communication over time. The user terminal itself may also move. Each satellite maintains a plurality of subbeams, each directed towards a different area on the Earth for a portion of an orbit. Based on a predicted location for the user terminal, a handover from a first subbeam to a second subbeam is determined. To minimize disruption due to the handover, communication resources associated with the second subbeam are allocated and provided to the user terminal and the satellite in advance. At the handover time, if the user terminal is within a threshold distance of the predicted location, the user terminal may transition to using the second subbeam. Otherwise, the user terminal may continue to use the first subbeam. |
| US11206077B2 |
Radio frequency transmission in work areas
A power and data housing assembly includes a housing body configured to retain and support an electrical device assembly in the form of a radio frequency (RF) transmitter. The RF transmitter is configured to emit a transmitted RF signal that contains one of data transmissions and power transmissions, and acts as a repeater and/or range-extender or signal redirector for directing wireless power and/or data signals into regions of work areas that otherwise would receive only marginal signals, or none at all. |
| US11206075B2 |
Beam refinement in a millimeter wave channel
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device may perform a first set of beam measurements for a first plurality of beams over a wireless channel, each beam in the first plurality of beams having a first beam-width. The communication device may transmit a first beam measurement report for the first plurality of beams, the first beam measurement report indicating a beam sweep order for a second set of beam measurements for a second plurality of beams. The communication device may perform the second set of beam measurements for the second plurality of beams over the wireless channel according to the indicated beam sweep order, each beam in the second plurality of beams having a second beam-width that is narrower than the first beam-width. |
| US11206072B2 |
Method and apparatus for validating stored system information
A system for converging fifth generation (5G) communication systems for supporting higher data rates beyond fourth generation (4G) systems with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) is provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A system is provided for determining system information validity by acquiring and storing a first system information block and other system information, including information on a public land mobile network (PLMN) identity and a value tag, and determining whether the stored system information is valid for the cell. As another example, a terminal and base station are provided for performing beam failure detection and a recovery procedure using first and second configuration information for beam failure recovery (BFR) and if failure is detected, initiating a first random access (RA) procedure and if second configuration information is received while the first RA procedure is ongoing, terminating the first RA procedure and initiating a second RA procedure based on the second configuration information. |
| US11206071B2 |
System and method for switching beamforming modes in millimeter wave systems
A UE may be configured to communicate using one of analog beamforming or hybrid beamforming. The UE may receive a set of beamformed signals from a base station. The UE may determine a set of angular spread values associated with a set of clusters in a channel between the base station and the UE based on the set of beamformed signals received from the base station. The UE may transmit the set of angular spread values to the base station. The UE may receive, from the base station based on the set of angular spread values, a set of transmission ranks associated with at least one cluster of the set of clusters. The UE may communicate at least one data stream with the base station across the at least one cluster using the set of transmission ranks associated with the at least one cluster of the set of clusters. |
| US11206068B2 |
Method for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system supporting unlicensed band, and apparatus for supporting same
Disclosed are a method for a terminal to report channel state information (CSI) to a base station, and an apparatus for supporting the same. More specifically, disclosed are a method for a terminal to report CSI in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band by transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) which only includes the CSI without an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), and apparatuses for supporting the same. |
| US11206067B2 |
Antenna system, control method of antenna system, storage medium, wireless communication apparatus and system
An object is to provide an antenna system, a control method of an antenna system, and program capable of maintaining communication quality even when communication state between wireless communication apparatuses is changed. Detection antennas are arranged in a Z-direction to respectively correspond to radiation antennas and receive radio waves. A combiner/divider circuit (13) distributes a transmission signal to the radiation antennas. A detection circuit detects reception sensitivity distribution of the detection antennas in the Z-direction. A control circuit controls the combiner/divider circuit based on the reception sensitivity distribution to cause the radiation antennas corresponding to the detection antenna having reception sensitivity higher than a predetermined value to radiate the radio wave. |
| US11206065B2 |
Dynamic adjustment of transmission properties with continuous precoding
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a transmitting device, which may explicitly or implicitly signal the use of continuous precoding for a resource block (RB) cluster. For example, the transmitting device may implicitly indicate that continuous precoding is applied to an RB cluster by dynamically controlling one or more parameters of a transmission over those RBs. Further, when continuous precoding is applied to an RB cluster, the transmitting device may explicitly or implicitly signal the dynamic control over one or more transmission properties, with an aim to maximize the benefits of such continuous precoding. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. |
| US11206064B2 |
Transmission precoding matrix indication method and device
This application provides a transmission precoding matrix indication method and a device. The method includes: determining a bit quantity of a transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to a subband scheduled for uplink based on downlink control information received from a network device, where the bit quantity of the transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to the subband is related to a quantity of subbands corresponding to the resource scheduled for uplink; and further, determining an uplink transmission precoding matrix corresponding to the subband based on the bit quantity of the transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to the subband and the uplink transmission layer quantity. A transmission precoding matrix indicator field can be effectively used, and control channel resource utilization is improved. |
| US11206063B2 |
Beamforming device for providing weight sets
[Object] To enable a cell appropriate for a terminal device to be selected when beamforming is performed.[Solution] Provided is a device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire multiple weight sets for beamforming; and a control unit configured to map a reference signal for measurement to radio resources associated with a weight set in advance for each weight set included in the multiple weight sets, and multiply the reference signal by the weight set. |
| US11206052B1 |
Smart speaker
A smart speaker for providing a sound service based on an artificial intelligence platform, while being communicatively connected to an external server is disclosed. The smart speaker includes a first transceiver for connection to a wireless local area network (WLAN), a second transceiver for connection to a mobile communication network, and a processor configured to control communication connection to the external server through the first transceiver in indoor mode, and control communication with the external server through the second transceiver in outdoor mode. |
| US11206051B2 |
Digital offset frequency generator based radio frequency transmitter
A device includes a frequency multiplier circuit to receive a base frequency signal, multiply the base frequency signal, and output the multiple of the base frequency signal, and includes an offset frequency generator, including at least one logic gate, to receive the multiple of the base frequency signal and output an offset frequency signal from the at least one logic gate combination. A mixing circuit receives the offset frequency signal and a digital data signal, converts the digital data signal into an analog representation of the digital data signal, and mixes the offset frequency signal and the analog representation of the digital data signal to produce a mixed signal. The device yet further includes a power amplifier to amplify the mixed signal and output the amplified mixed signal as an output frequency signal of the device. |
| US11206048B2 |
Polar encoding and decoding method, sending device, and receiving device
This application provides a polar encoding and decoding method, a sending device, and a receiving device, to help overcome disadvantages in transmission of medium and small packets, a code rate, reliability, and complexity in the prior art. The method includes: pre-storing, by a computing device, at least one mother code sequence, wherein each mother code sequence comprises at least one subsequence and at least one subset, the at least one subsequence and the at least one subset each comprises one or more sequence numbers corresponding to one or more polarized channels, and wherein the one or more sequence numbers in each subsequence are arranged in an ascending order according to reliability of the corresponding one or more polarized channels; determining, by the computing device, a set of information bit sequence numbers from the at least one mother code sequence based on a code length of a target polar code; and performing, by the computing device, polar encoding on information bits based on the set of information bit sequence numbers. |
| US11206045B1 |
Efficient determination of parity bit location for polar codes
An apparatus for determining a bit index for a parity bit of a polar codeword is disclosed. Each index of a polar codeword may have an associated weight and an associated reliability value. The apparatus may compare the weights and reliability values of a group of bit indices in parallel to determine a bit index of the group associated with the lowest weight and highest reliability value. Additional groups may be processed until all of the bit indices of the polar codeword have been examined and the bit index with the lowest weight and highest reliability value is identified. |
| US11206043B2 |
Bit-flipping decoder architecture for irregular quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check codes
Devices, systems and methods for reducing complexity of a bit-flipping decoder for quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are described. An example method includes receiving a noisy codeword that is based on a transmitted codeword generated from an irregular QC-LDPC code, the irregular QC-LDPC code having an associated parity matrix, storing, based on a weight of a plurality of columns of the parity matrix of the irregular QC-LDPC code, a portion of the noisy codeword corresponding to the plurality of columns in a first buffer of a plurality of buffers, and accessing and processing the portion of the noisy codeword that includes applying a vertically shuffled scheduling (VSS) scheme that uses a plurality of processing units to determine a candidate version of a portion of the transmitted codeword that corresponds to the portion of the noisy codeword. |
| US11206040B2 |
Serial interface for oversampled and non-oversampled ADCs
An apparatus comprises a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit including a serial data input, a serial data output, a serial clock input to receive a serial clock signal, and a master clock input to receive a master clock signal; a digital isolator circuit including outputs coupled to the serial clock input and serial data input of the sigma-delta ADC circuit, and an input coupled to the serial data output of the sigma-delta ADC circuit; an oscillator circuit unconnected to the digital isolator circuit and configured to generate the master clock signal asynchronous to the serial clock input signal; and wherein the sigma-delta ADC circuit generates an ADC sampling clock using the master clock. |
| US11206039B1 |
Comparator stage with DC cut device for single slope analog to digital converter
A comparator includes a second stage coupled between a first stage and a third stage. The second stage includes a first transistor coupled to be switched in response to a first output signal coupled to be received from the first stage. The first transistor is coupled generate a second output signal coupled to be received by the third stage. A second transistor is coupled to the first transistor. The first and second transistors are coupled between a first supply voltage and a reference voltage. A second stage current of the second stage is conducted through the first transistor and the second transistor. The second transistor is coupled to be switched in response to a third output signal coupled to be received from the third stage in response to the second output signal. |
| US11206033B2 |
Switch-mode power supplies with improved analog-to-digital current calibration
A switch-mode power supply includes a pair of input terminals, a pair of output terminals, and at least one switch coupled between the input terminals and the output terminals. The power supply further includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for converting a sensed analog current value at the output terminals to an output digital value, an interface for receiving a user configurable current setting, and a control circuit coupled with the interface, the ADC and the at least one switch. The control circuit is configured to determine a raw digital value of the ADC that corresponds to the received current setting by processing an iterative loop, and turn on and turn off the at least one switch according to the determined raw digital value and the output digital value of the ADC, to supply an output current at the pair of output terminals that corresponds to the received current setting. |
| US11206031B2 |
Phase rotator non-linearity reduction
A phase rotator receives control signals and thermometer coded signals that specifies the phase of an output signal. The phase rotator may be used, for example, by a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit to continually rotate the phase of a clock to compensate for phase/frequency mismatches between received data and the clock. The control signals determine the phase quadrant (i.e., 0°-90°, 90°-180°, etc.) of the output signal. The thermometer coded signals determine the phase of the output signal within a quadrant by steering a set of bias currents between two or more nodes. The set of bias currents are selected to reduce the non-linearity between the thermometer coded value and the phase of the output signal. |
| US11206030B2 |
Transmitter with reduced VCO pulling
A transmitter circuit includes a phase locked loop circuit, having one or more operational characteristics indicative of an operating state of the phase locked loop circuit. The phase locked loop circuit is configured to generate a frequency signal. The transmitter circuit also includes a power amplifier configured to selectively drive an antenna with a drive signal according to the frequency signal, and a programmable delay circuit configured to controllably extend a propagation delay between the frequency signal and the drive signal of the power amplifier. The programmable delay circuit is programmed such that a first value of a particular operational characteristic of the phase locked loop circuit is substantially equal to a second value of the operational characteristic of the phase locked loop circuit. The first value is measured with the power amplifier not driving the antenna. The second value is measured with the power amplifier driving the antenna. |
| US11206029B2 |
PLL circuit
A PLL circuit includes a phase comparator, a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator, a frequency divider, a frequency difference determination unit, and an FV characteristics adjustment unit. The frequency difference determination unit determines whether or not a frequency difference between a feedback oscillation signal and an input signal is equal to or smaller than a threshold value. The FV characteristics adjustment unit selects a frequency band in the voltage-controlled oscillator and adjusts FV characteristics. |
| US11206022B2 |
Skew compensation circuit and semiconductor apparatus including the same
A skew compensation circuit includes a skew detection circuit configured to generate skew detection signals by detecting a skew characteristic of a basic logic element constituting a semiconductor apparatus, a skew compensation signal generation circuit configured to generate a skew compensation signal by comparing the skew detection signals and a plurality of reference voltages, a variable delay circuit configured to generate a compensation signal by delaying an input signal by a delay time varied according to the skew compensation signal, and a reference voltage generation circuit configured to generate the plurality of reference voltages of which offset components are compensated for according to variations of a temperature and an external voltage. |
| US11206019B2 |
Capacitance detection circuit, capacitance detection method, touch chip, and electronic device
The present disclosure relates to the field of touch technologies, and in particular, to a capacitance detection circuit, a capacitance detection method, a touch chip, and an electronic device. The capacitance detection circuit includes: a control module, a charge transfer module, a processing module, a drive module, and a cancellation module. The control module is configured to control the drive module to charge a capacitor to be detected. The cancellation module is configured to perform M times of charge cancellations on the capacitor to be detected. The charge transfer module is configured to convert a charge of the capacitor to be detected, subject to the M times of charge cancellations, to generate an output voltage. The processing module is configured to determine, according to the output voltage, a capacitance variation of the capacitor to be detected. |
| US11206018B2 |
Floating switch for signal commutation
A solid state circuit includes a main and a floating circuit including: a first driver for generating a differential driver signal derived from a driver signal; a modulator configured for modulating a modulator signal with another signal to obtain a differential control signal; the floating circuit comprising: a floating power supply comprising at least one rectifier configured for generating a floating supply voltage (VDDF) and a floating ground voltage (VSSF) from the differential driver signal; a demodulator configured for demodulating the differential control signal and for passing the demodulated signal to an output switch; the output switch comprising a first output node and a second output node and at least one transistor configured for opening or closing an electrical path under control of the demodulated signal. |
| US11206017B2 |
Switch circuit and method of switching radio frequency signals
A novel RF switch circuit and method for switching RF signals is described. The RF switch circuit is fabricated in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The RF switch includes pairs of switching and shunting transistor groupings used to alternatively couple RF input signals to a common RF node. The switching and shunting transistor grouping pairs are controlled by a switching control voltage (SW) and its inverse (SW_). The switching and shunting transistor groupings comprise one or more MOSFET transistors connected together in a “stacked” or serial configuration. The stacking of transistor grouping devices, and associated gate resistors, increase the breakdown voltage across the series connected switch transistors and operate to improve RF switch compression. A fully integrated RF switch is described including digital control logic and a negative voltage generator integrated together with the RF switch elements. In one embodiment, the fully integrated RF switch includes a built-in oscillator, a charge pump circuit, CMOS logic circuitry, level-shifting and voltage divider circuits, and an RF buffer circuit. Several embodiments of the charge pump, level shifting, voltage divider, and RF buffer circuits are described. The inventive RF switch provides improvements in insertion loss, switch isolation, and switch compression. |
| US11206015B2 |
Switch control systems for light emitting diodes and methods thereof
System and method for controlling one or more light emitting diodes. For example, the system for controlling one or more light emitting diodes includes a current generator configured to generate a first current flowing through one or more light emitting diodes. The one or more light emitting diodes are configured to receive a rectified voltage generated by a rectifying bridge coupled to a TRIAC dimmer. Additionally, the system includes a bleeder configured to receive the rectified voltage, and a controller configured to receive a sensing voltage from the current generator and output a control signal to the bleeder. The sensing voltage indicates a magnitude of the first current. |
| US11206010B2 |
Radio frequency module, front end module, and communication device
A radio frequency module includes a switch circuit that includes selection terminals, a filter that allows the signal in the first frequency band to pass therethrough, a filter that allows the signal in the second frequency band to pass therethrough, a phase adjustment circuit that is connected to the selection terminal and the filter, and a phase adjustment circuit that is connected to the selection terminal and the filter. The filter includes an acoustic wave resonator that is formed on a substrate that has piezoelectricity. The filter includes an acoustic wave resonator that is formed on a substrate that has piezoelectricity. At least one of circuit elements that are included in the phase adjustment circuit is formed on the substrate. At least one of circuit elements that are included in the phase adjustment circuit is formed on the substrate. |
| US11206006B2 |
Trifilar transformer and notch filters
A trifilar transformer comprising: a first winding; a second winding; and a third winding, wherein one winding is mutually coupled to each of the other two windings, and wherein said other two windings are substantially not coupled to each other. At least one of the first winding, the second winding and the third winding may comprise a figure-of-eight winding, e.g. a clockwise loop and an anti-clockwise loop. In some embodiments, the trifilar transformer may comprise: a first winding; a second winding concentric or interwound with the first winding; and a third winding formed from a first winding part in series with a second winding part, the first winding part having a shape corresponding to the first winding and the second winding part having a shape corresponding to the second winding. |
| US11205994B2 |
Solar photovoltaic installation
The present invention provides a solar photovoltaic installation capable of storing power while supplying power during daytime when solar radiation conditions are excellent. The solar photovoltaic installation of the invention includes at least a first solar module string 11 and a second solar module string 12 as solar module strings 10, the solar photovoltaic installation further includes at least a first storage battery array 21 and a second storage battery array 22 as storage battery arrays 20, and while power storage capacity detection means 60 detects that the second storage battery array 22 is less than a predetermined capacity and voltage detection means 50 detects voltage of more than predetermined voltage, the control means 40 connects the first solar module string 11 to a power conditioner 30, and connects the second solar module string 12 to the second storage battery array 22. |
| US11205992B2 |
Solar plank snow fence
The disclosed solar plank snow fence performs two separate but unique functions in one structure. The structure is capable of harnessing solar power through the use of photovoltaics to produce electricity and acting as a snow fence to minimize the effects of blowing snow down-wind from the structure. In embodiments, based on weather conditions, detected at a site by sensors utilized by the solar snow fence, the disclosed fence is capable of autonomously transitioning between solar tracking mode and snow fence mode according to weather conditions. In snow fence mode, the disclosed solar plank snow fence performs the function of a snow fence with a tracking position fixed to a predetermined position or angle. In embodiments, the tracking position (angle) may be between 0° and 15° relative to the ground and may be positioned facing the prevailing wind direction. |
| US11205991B2 |
Photovoltaic module for roofs
A photovoltaic module generates electrical power when installed on a roof. The module is constructed as a laminated sandwich having a transparent protective upper layer adhered to a photovoltaic layer. The photovoltaic layer is adhered to a rigid layer formed from a fiber reinforced plastic. The laminated sandwich has a frame around the perimeter. The laminated panel has a layer of double stick tape on the bottom to adhere the panel to the surface of a roof. |
| US11205987B1 |
Hybrid electric variable speed drive
A specialized variable speed drive of the present invention is capable of controlling a motor and increasing the efficiency of both an ACIM or DCBL motor by biasing operation in favor of a class AB mode. The variable speed drive may be configured with two gate drivers where one gate driver is a class D gate driver and the second gate driver is either a class AB gate driver or a class C gate driver. The system also operates to reduce electro-magnetic interference in the operation of motors while increasing the reliability of the overall VSD system. |
| US11205986B2 |
Inverter device
An inverter device includes a motor, a power supply that supplies the motor with electric current, an inverter that, during regenerative operation of the motor, performs switching between a first state in which regenerative current generated in the motor is returned to the motor again and a second state in which the regenerative current is supplied to the power supply, a first detector that detects a first condition electrically acting on the inverter, a second detector that detects a second condition electrically acting on the power supply, and a determiner that performs a first determination to perform switching between the first state and the second state, based on a detection result by the first detector or the second detector. |
| US11205981B2 |
Motor control device and motor control method, and optical device
A stepping motor includes a slit rotating plate that rotates together with a rotor and two photo interrupters. A motor control device includes a rotation phase detection unit that acquires an output of the photo interrupter and detects a rotation phase of the rotor, and a drive waveform generation unit that generates a drive waveform of the stepping motor. An advance angle control unit performs speed control of the stepping motor by detecting an advance angle corresponding to a phase difference between the rotation phase of the rotor and the drive waveform and setting an advance angle at which a relationship between an amplitude and an advance angle of the drive waveform changes abruptly as a target advance angle to control an amplitude of the drive waveform. |
| US11205980B2 |
Motor driving control device
A motor driving control device has a motor driving unit configured to supply a current to coils of a motor, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the motor driving unit in a vector control mode. The control unit includes a state signal output unit configured to output a pulse signal indicating a predetermined value corresponding to a state of the motor or a control state of the control unit among values generated in a process of calculation processing in the vector control mode. |
| US11205979B2 |
Fault tolerant motor and zone controller apparatus
A motor and zone controller apparatus includes: a first motor drive; a second motor drive; and a switching apparatus. The switching apparatus includes: a first switching network having at least a first state and a second state, the first switching network connects the first motor drive to a first motor when in the first state, and the first switching network connects the first motor drive to a second motor when in the second state; and a second switching network having at least a first state and a second state, the second switching network connects the second motor drive to the first motor when in the first state, and the second switching network connects the second motor drive to the second motor when in the second state. |
| US11205977B2 |
Power generating element
A power generating element according to the present invention includes: a support frame formed in a frame shape in plan view; a vibrating body provided inside the support frame; a first bridge portion and a second bridge portion that supports the vibrating body on the support frame; and a charge generating element to generate a charge at the time of displacement of the vibrating body. The support frame includes a first frame portion arranged on a first side with respect to the vibrating body and includes a second frame portion arranged on a second side opposite to the first side with respect to the vibrating body. The first bridge portion couples the vibrating body with the first frame portion. The second bridge portion couples the vibrating body with the second frame portion. |
| US11205975B2 |
Piezoelectric drive device, robot and printer
A piezoelectric drive device for vibrating a vibrating body to make a tip of a protruding part make a rotational motion of drawing an elliptic orbit to thereby drive a driven member, wherein the vibrating body includes a substrate, a driving piezoelectric element configured to vibrate the substrate, and a detecting piezoelectric element configured to detect a vibration of the substrate, the driving piezoelectric element includes a first driving piezoelectric element for making the vibrating body perform a stretching vibration in a first direction, and a second driving piezoelectric element for making the vibrating body perform a flexural vibration in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the detecting piezoelectric element is arranged with the first driving piezoelectric element in the first direction, and there is provided a voltage control section for controlling a magnitude of a voltage to be applied to the first driving piezoelectric element. |
| US11205974B2 |
Piezoelectric driving device, piezoelectric motor, robot, electronic component conveyance apparatus, printer, and projector
A piezoelectric driving device includes a first substrate having cleavability, and a piezoelectric element placed above the first substrate, wherein a cleavage direction of the first substrate and a direction in which a shear force is applied do not coincide in a plan view of the first substrate. Further, an angle formed by the cleavage direction of the first substrate and the direction in which the shear force is applied is equal to or larger than 20° in the plan view of the first substrate. Furthermore, the first substrate contains silicon single crystal. |
| US11205973B2 |
Method of controlling piezoelectric drive device, method of controlling robot, and method of controlling printer
A method of controlling a piezoelectric motor as a piezoelectric drive device having a vibrator including piezoelectric elements, a rotor as a driven unit that moves at a target speed by vibration of the vibrator, and drive signal generation units that generate drive signals and output the drive signals to the piezoelectric elements, includes intermittently outputting the drive signals to the piezoelectric elements by the drive signal generation units, wherein a time when output of the drive signals is stopped is shorter than a time from when output of the drive signal is stopped to stoppage of the vibration. |
| US11205967B2 |
Voltage conversion apparatus with feedback circuit including resistor network and voltage conversion method thereof
A voltage conversion apparatus and a voltage conversion method thereof are provided. A conversion circuit converts outputs of a plurality of secondary windings to generate a conversion voltage or a conversion current to a resistor network of a feedback circuit to thereby change impedance characteristics of the resistor network. The feedback circuit adjusts a feedback voltage in response to the change in the impedance characteristics of the resistor network, so that a control circuit controls an output of a transformer circuit according to the feedback voltage. |
| US11205966B2 |
AC-DC power converter
An AC-DC power converter can include: a front-stage power circuit; a rear-stage power circuit configured to share one power switch as a main power switch with the front-stage power circuit, where the rear-stage power circuit is coupled to a load, and a first magnetic component of the front-stage power circuit and a second magnetic component of the rear-stage power circuit are not in one conductive loop from a positive terminal of a DC input voltage to a negative terminal of the DC input voltage; and an energy storage capacitor coupled to the front-stage power circuit and the rear-stage power circuit, where energy is transferred to the energy storage capacitor and the load when the first magnetic component is discharged. |
| US11205965B2 |
Methods and apparatus to calibrate a power converter
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calibrate a power converter. An example apparatus includes a comparator including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal, the first input terminal of the comparator configured to be coupled to a filter to receive a filtered feedback signal, the second input terminal of the comparator configured to receive a first voltage signal, and the output terminal of the comparator coupled to a node, an oscillator including an output terminal, and a voltage stepper including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal, the first input terminal of the voltage stepper configured to receive a second voltage signal, the second input terminal of the voltage stepper coupled to the output terminal of the oscillator, and the output terminal of the voltage stepper configured to be coupled to an error amplifier. |
| US11205961B2 |
Hysteretic boost converter with inductor peak current gear-shifting
An electronic device has a DC/DC boost converter that includes a power NFET. The power NFET is coupled between a first pin, which can be coupled to a battery through an inductor, and a second pin that can be coupled to a ground plane. A switch-node is coupled to a third pin, which can be coupled to a diode to provide a boosted output voltage. A gate driver can receive a FET-on signal and drive a gate of the power NFET. A digital logic circuit provides the FET-on signal and includes an Ipeak gear-shifting circuit that dynamically changes the value of a peak inductor current responsive to one or more determinations that are related to one of the boosted output voltage and a switching frequency of the DC/DC boost converter. |
| US11205958B2 |
Power conversion system
A power conversion system including a power conversion unit, a power circuit and a precharge circuit is provided. The power conversion circuit includes an input port, an output port, switching power conversion units and at least one storage device. The storage device is connected between the input and output ports in series. The power circuit is electrically connected to the power conversion circuit for receiving the input voltage and outputting a supply voltage to the power conversion circuit, and the power circuit includes a magnetic element. The precharge circuit precharges the storage device. The precharge circuit includes a winding and a rectifier filter circuit connected to each other. The winding is coupled to the magnetic element for receiving a conversion voltage. The rectifier filter circuit is electrically connected to the storage device so as to receive the conversion voltage and output a charge voltage to the corresponding storage device. |
| US11205956B2 |
Power converter with common DC power source and power supply apparatus having the same
A power converter with a common DC power source includes a DC power source and at least two power modules. Each of the power modules is coupled with each other and coupled to the DC power source. Each of the power module includes a coupled inductive component coupled to the DC power source, a DC output conversion unit coupled to the coupled inductive component, and a capacitor group having a coupling point. By using the coupled inductive component, it is to solve the problem of return current between the power modules caused by coupling multiple coupling points to each other. |
| US11205951B2 |
Power conversion device utilizing a relay unit with multiple relays
A power conversion device comprises: a DC link capacitor charged with a DC power supplied from a power supply part; a fuse part, for breaking a current which is output from or supplied to the power supply part and has a first breaking magnitude or greater; a relay part which comprises a first relay for connecting a positive terminal of the fuse part to a positive terminal of the DC link capacitor and a second relay for connecting a negative terminal of the fuse part to a negative terminal of the DC link capacitor; an initial charge part, for charging the DC link capacitor by using DC power supplied from the power supply part; and a power conversion part for converting the direct-current power supplied from the power supply part into AC power when the DC link capacitor has been charged and supplying the alternating-current power to a load terminal. |
| US11205945B2 |
Partial cryogenic shielding assembly in a superconducting generator and methods of assembling the same
An annular field of a superconducting generator includes a partial cryogenic shielding assembly and a superconducting field winding surrounded by a thermal shield. The thermal shield is surrounded by a housing defining an insulating vacuum enclosure. The annular field includes a torque tube assembly disposed within the housing and coupling the thermal shield to the housing. A blanket of multi-layer thermal insulation is disposed within the vacuum enclosure, extending generally between the housing and the thermal shield. The annular field further includes a partial cryogenic shielding assembly including a floating shield disposed within the vacuum enclosure, between the housing and the thermal shield. The floating shield extends only a portion of an overall length of the housing. The floating shield includes an insulative stack of multi-layer thermal insulation. A superconducting generator and a wind turbine utilizing the superconducting generator with improved partial shielding are disclosed. |
| US11205943B1 |
Two-stator and two-rotor combined energy-saving motor
The present invention discloses a new two-stator and two-rotor combined energy-saving motor, which relates to the technical field of motor. The motor comprises a motor shell, two rotors and two stators, wherein the stators and the rotors are arranged in the motor shell, each rotor comprises an outer rotor part, an inner rotor part and a flange, the outer rotor part is arranged outside the cylindrical inner rotor part, the outer rotor part and the inner rotor part are connected by flange; an inner stator zone is formed between the outer rotor part and the inner rotor part, and one of the stators is arranged in the inner stator zone of the rotor; an outer stator zone is formed between the outer rotor part and the motor shell, and the other of the stator is arranged in the outer stator zone. |
| US11205940B2 |
Switched reluctance motor having a hall sensor assembly
A switched reluctance motor includes an upper housing; a stator assembly including a stator core coupled to the upper housing; a rotor assembly located inside the stator assembly and comprising a rotor core rotating together with a shaft; a lower housing coupled to a lower part of the stator core; a sensor magnet assembly coupled to an upper part of the shaft and rotating together with the shaft; and a hall sensor assembly installed inside the upper housing and installed at one side of the sensor magnet assembly. |
| US11205939B2 |
Rotary electric machine
A rotary electric machine of the embodiment includes a stator having a cylindrical stator core and a coil attached to the stator core, and a rotor disposed on a radially inward side of the stator, in which the rotor includes a rotor core having a rotor internal flow path through which a refrigerant can flow by axial cooling, and an end surface plate disposed at an end portion in an axial direction of the rotor core, the end surface plate includes a refrigerant flow hole which communicates with the rotor internal flow path, and a refrigerant passage groove which connects together the refrigerant flow hole and an outer circumferential edge of the end surface plate, and a radially outer groove width is equal to or smaller than a radially inner groove width in the refrigerant passage groove when viewed from the axial direction. |
| US11205936B2 |
Bus bar unit and motor including the same
A phase bus bar unit includes a bus bar holder that is an insulator and supports of bus bars for phases of a motor rotating about a central axis, and a bus bar cover which is an insulator, covers at least one side of each of the bus bars in an axial direction, and is fixed to the bus bar holder. Each of the bus bars includes a base, extensions each extending outward in a radial direction from the base, and a terminal installed on an outer end of each of the extensions in the radial direction. The bus bar cover includes protrusions each protruding to another side in the axial direction, and the protrusions are in contact with each of the bus bars while at least one of the protrusions is in contact with the base at or adjacent to the extension. |
| US11205932B2 |
Electric rotary machine
An electric rotary machine includes a rotor and a stator disposed radially outward of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor shaft, a rotor core, a plurality of magnetic pole portions, a first end plate, and a second end plate. The first end plate includes a refrigerant discharge hole, a first groove portion communicating with a refrigerant flow path and communicating with a first refrigerant flow path hole, and a second groove portion communicating with the first groove portion and communicating with a refrigerant discharge hole of the first end plate. The second end plate includes a refrigerant discharge hole, and a third groove portion communicating with the first refrigerant flow path hole and communicating with a refrigerant discharge hole of the second end plate. |
| US11205930B2 |
Axial flux motor assemblies with variable thickness rotors and rotors having interiorly disposed magnets
The present disclosure relates generally to rotors for electric motor assemblies and methods of making the same, and more specifically, to variable thickness rotors for axial flux motors. More specifically, annular-shaped rotors having interiorly disposed magnets for axial flux motors are provided in certain aspects. The variable thickness rotors may each include an annular-shaped body having a first thickness at a first radial position and a second thickness at a second radial position. The first radial position may be spaced apart from the second radial position. The first thickness may be greater than or equal to about 200% of the second thickness. |
| US11205929B2 |
Wireless power transferring method and device therefor
A wireless power transfer method may include a selection phase of monitoring the placement and removal of an object for an interface surface of the power transmitter, a ping phase of receiving a response from a power receiver by performing digital ping using a first communication protocol, an identification/configuration phase of receiving a configuration packet including configuration information of the power receiver using the first communication protocol, wherein the configuration packet includes power class information of the power receiver and communication protocol information of the power receiver, a negotiation phase of selecting any one of the first communication protocol and a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol based on the power class information and/or the communication protocol information using the first communication protocol, a calibration phase of improving the ability to detect a foreign object by controlling a specific parameter, and a power transfer phase of performing communication with the power receiver using the selected communication protocol and transferring power to the power receiver. |
| US11205921B2 |
Supplemental power supply for a battery-powered device
A battery-powered device, such as a motorized window treatment, may provide power to an electrical load, such as a motor. The device may also include a control circuit and a communication circuit. In addition to the battery, the device may be configured to receive power from a supplemental power source, such as a solar cell or wireless RF power supply, through which to power the control and communication circuits. The device may include a voltage monitor and a switch to intelligently control whether the battery or the supplemental power source is powering the control and communication circuits. |
| US11205919B2 |
Uninterruptible power supply system
In this uninterruptible power supply system, a first converter (2) for generating a DC voltage and a second converter (5) for regenerating power are separately provided. DC buses (L1 to L3) are connected to the second converter (5) and to a bidirectional chopper (6) with bus bars (B1 to B3). The bus bars (B1 to B3) are formed into a laminated bus bar (24). First semiconductor modules (M1d, M2d) included in the second converter (5) and second semiconductor modules (M1a to M1c, M2a to M2c) included in the bidirectional chopper (6) are each mounted on the laminated bus bar (24) and connected to the bus bars (B1 to B3). The bus bars (B1 to B3) and the first and second semiconductor modules (M1a to M1d, M2a to M2d) are configured as an integrated converter unit (7). |
| US11205916B2 |
High-energy capacitive transform device using multifilar inductor
A system comprising a high voltage (HV) bank section using capacitors arranged into two banks, a multifilar inductor coupling the HV bank to a service voltage (SV) bank section and load through a charging circuit charging the SV bank from a more fully charged bank until the charging bank is depleted, and a switch switching, from the depleted bank to the other bank of bank to charge the SV bank. The charging circuit then charging the depleted bank by a power supply as the other HV bank charges the SV bank. A supervisory controller controls the switch to repeat switching and charging between the two banks for a defined period. The capacitors may be supercapacitors having a capacitance on the order of 1 to 10 MegaJoules. |
| US11205915B2 |
Autonomous adapter pass through mode for buck-boost battery charger
According to certain aspects, the present embodiments are related to systems and methods providing an autonomous adapter pass through mode in a battery charger. For example, when an adapter is connected to the battery charger, but the system is idling, embodiments allow for power from the adapter to be directly coupled to the battery charger output, and main switching to be stopped, thereby dramatically reducing battery charger current consumption. These and other embodiments provide various circuitry and techniques to ensure that the battery is protected in this mode. According to further aspects, the present embodiments provide for the charger itself to autonomously enter and exit the adapter pass through mode, thereby eliminating the need for excessive processing overhead in components external to the battery charger. |
| US11205908B2 |
Charging system, battery pack, and charger
In one aspect, the present disclosure discloses a charging system including a battery pack and a charger. The battery pack includes a first battery pack terminal, a second battery pack terminal, and a third battery pack terminal. The second battery pack terminal is spaced apart from the first battery pack terminal in an intersecting direction. The intersecting direction intersects a removal direction of the battery pack from the charger. The charger includes a first charger terminal, a second charger terminal, and a third charger terminal. The second battery pack terminal is arranged so as to pass through an area spaced apart from the third charger terminal in a process of removing the battery pack from the charger. |
| US11205905B2 |
Battery management apparatus, battery management method, and energy storage system including the battery management apparatus
Provided is a battery management apparatus, a battery management method and an energy storage system including the same. The battery management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first battery pack, a second battery pack, a first switch connected in series to the first battery pack between a first terminal and a second terminal, a second switch connected in series to the second battery pack between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to turn on both the first switch and the second switch when a voltage difference between the first battery pack and the second battery pack at a time point at which both the first switch and the second switch are turned off is less than a threshold voltage. |
| US11205902B2 |
Energy storage system
The present disclosure relates to an energy storage system for managing power of a system and a DC power distribution network linked with the system. In one embodiment, the system comprises a first converter connected between the system and the DC power distribution network so as to control voltage of the DC power distribution network; a second converter connected to the DC power distribution network; a battery which is connected to the second converter and in which a charging/discharging operation is controlled by the second converter; a third converter connected to the DC power distribution network; an emergency generator which is connected to the third converter and in which a power is controlled by the third converter; a fourth converter connected to the DC power distribution network; and a first load which is connected to the fourth converter and in which a voltage is controlled by the fourth converter. |
| US11205900B2 |
Device and method with power control
A microelectronic device includes: a photovoltaic module configured to convert a light energy into an electric energy; a converter configured to convert a voltage output from the photovoltaic module into a predetermined voltage; a capacitor configured to store an electric energy transferred from the converter; and a controller configured to predict an available current of a next time slot based on the electric energy stored in the capacitor, and determine a consumed current of a load system of the next time slot based on the predicted available current. |
| US11205899B2 |
Interrupted DC applications
Solar electricity is used more efficiently and at lower cost via the technique of interrupted DC power. Interrupted DC removed the spark problem from high voltage DC circuits, allowing their use with normal appliances. Wasteful and expensive inductor based voltage changes were avoided by adjusting solar panel output voltage via loading. This provided prioritization of use among appliances. Furthermore, the extreme decrease in sparking obtained by interrupted DC allows for the manufacture and use of lower cost direct current circuit breakers that are self powered and provide protected circuits of greater than 99% direct current purity. |
| US11205898B2 |
Methods and systems for a self-powered distributed network
A method and system creating a distributed network suitable for transferring information between devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to power generating server devices designed to act as nodes within a distributed network. Specifically, the present disclosure provides specialized devices designed to generate power using solar panels to power servers that are capable of operating as nodes within a distributed network. |
| US11205895B2 |
Power load forecasting method in multi-energy coupling mode
The present invention relates to a load forecasting method based on a multi-energy coupling scene, which comprises the following steps: step 1, establishing a multilevel indicator system of key influencing factors of load demand in a multi-energy mode; step 2, obtaining key influencing factors influencing the total load demand and the total supply of the multi-energy coupling load; step 3, normalizing the data of the key influencing factors extracted in step 2, and initializing population characteristic parameters of adaptive firework algorithm (AFWA); step 4, forecasting the regional total power demand and regional coupling power supply respectively by adopting LSSVM optimized by the AFWA algorithm; and step 5, forecasting the net power load demand on the regional coupling power supply. The present invention improves the calculation efficiency and model stability and also ensures the forecasting accuracy. |
| US11205894B1 |
Port controller power path short detection
A multi-port system and method implements fault detection using a resistor connected to each port controller where the resistors of at least two port controllers are connected together in parallel. Each port controller supplies a predetermined current to the associated resistor and senses the resistor voltage of the parallelly connected resistors to detect for a fault condition. A failure condition is indicated when the resistor voltage is outside of a given threshold window. In this manner, for a single point failure, such as a short along the power path of a port controller, the other port controller senses a change in the resistor voltage and can assert a fault signal. In one embodiment, the fault signal is an open drain output and operates to pull down on a fault bus, which disables all the port controllers in the system through a disable input. |
| US11205892B2 |
Method for locating phase faults in a microgrid
A method for locating phase faults in a microgrid in off-grid mode. The method includes obtaining a grid topology of the microgrid having at least two busbars and determining the position of all circuit breaker position of the grid topology. Further, acquiring measurement data which includes current magnitude and voltage magnitude. Monitoring the at least two busbars for a voltage dip in one of phase-to-phase or phase-to-neutral voltages. On detecting a voltage dip, determining a defect phase having a minimum phase-to-neutral voltage value. And for the defect phase performing busbar analysis and feeder analysis, using phase-directional information. |
| US11205890B2 |
Cable management system
A cable support apparatus includes first and second horizontal supports spaced-apart and substantially parallel to one another, a plurality of vertical supports spaced-apart horizontally along the first and second horizontal supports, and at least one junction box assembly configured to hang from the first horizontal support. Each horizontal support is formed from wire stock. Each vertical support is formed from wire stock and secured to each of the first and second horizontal supports. At least two of the vertical supports include cable-receiving segments that cooperate to define at least one cable-receiving channel extending horizontally. The at least one junction box assembly includes an input and an output for receiving cable ends of cables disposed within one of the at least one cable-receiving channels to enable joining of the cable ends within the junction box assembly. |
| US11205881B2 |
Connector-fitting structure of flexible printed circuit
A connector-fitting structure of flexible printed circuit includes: a flexible printed circuit on which a wiring pattern is formed; an electronic component connected to the wiring pattern of the flexible printed circuit; and a connector to which one end part of the flexible printed circuit is fitted. The one end part of the flexible printed circuit is fitted to the connector to cause the electronic component to be housed in the connector. |
| US11205877B2 |
Controlled-impedance compliant cable termination
A controlled-impedance cable assembly for removably attaching a controlled-impedance cable to a surface of a device. Signal contacts are attached to signal conductors of cables and ground members are coupled to shields of the cables. Ends of the signal conductors and of elongated appendages extending from the ground members are positioned to make a pressure contact to pads and ground lands on the surface. Pressure to make those contacts may come from deflection of the ends of the signal conductors and elongated ground appendages or from a spring. The signal contacts and elongated appendages may be positioned to provide an impedance matching an impedance with the cables. |
| US11205866B2 |
Joint structure for high-voltage cable
A joint structure of a high-voltage cable includes a cable core wrapped from interior to exterior sequentially by an inner insulating layer, a shielding layer and an outer insulating layer, a section of the inner and outer insulating layers is stripped at an end of the cable core, and a length of the stripped section of the outer insulating layer is greater than a length of the stripped section of the inner insulating layer. The end of the cable core is connected to an external terminal, a connection between the end and the external terminal and an adjacent section of the inner insulating layer are wrapped by a heat-shrinkable tube, a spacing is provided between an end of the heat-shrinkable tube and the outer insulating layer, the shielding layer within the spacing is wrapped by a copper foil and connected externally to a cable connector via the copper foil. |
| US11205863B1 |
Electrical connection assembly employing a compression fitting deformed by a compression sleeve
An electrical nut assembly for coupling an electrical lug to an electrical post is disclosed. The electrical nut assembly comprises a compression fitting and a compression sleeve. The compression fitting comprises a material comprising a first yield strength and comprises an internal thread operable to electrically couple to the electrical post and a base surface configured to electrically couple to the electrical lug. The compression sleeve comprises a material comprising a second yield strength greater than the first yield strength and is sized to at least partially cover the compression fitting. The compression sleeve is configured to compress the compression fitting in a radial direction when fitted at least partially over the compression fitting and pressed or advanced axially towards the base surface and as the compression fitting makes contact with the electrical lug. |
| US11205862B2 |
Insulation displacement contact with expanded wire range capacity
An insulation displacement arms. The insulation displacement arms define a conductor or wire receiving slot. The insulation displacement arms have insulation stripping sections, weakened sections and base sections. The weakened sections have weakened section widths which are less than insulation stripping section widths of the insulation stripping sections and less than base section widths of the base section. The weakened sections are resiliently deformed upon one or more insulated conductors engaging the insulation stripping sections of the insulation displacement arms as the one or more insulated conductors are inserted into the insulation stripping zone of the wire receiving slot, allowing the insulation displacement contact to accommodate the one or more insulated conductors of the same type and gauge chosen from a broad range of gauges. |
| US11205860B2 |
Electrical connection and method of establishing an electrical connection
The present invention relates to an electrical connection between a flat part and a connecting part, in which the flat part and the connecting part are arranged one above the other in an overlap region, in which the contact surface of the flat part facing the connecting part in the overlap region is structured in relief-like fashion and that the flat part is friction-welded, in particular ultrasonically welded, to the connecting part via the structured contact surface. |
| US11205858B1 |
Element-level self-calculation of phased array vectors using direct calculation
This patent application describes systems, devices, and methods for element-level self-calculation of phased array vectors by a beam forming ASIC using direct calculation such as for fast beam steering. |
| US11205857B2 |
System and method for launching guided electromagnetic waves with channel feedback
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a transceiver is configured to generate a first signal in response to receiving a first guided electromagnetic wave from a remote system via a launcher. A controller is configured to generate a channel quality indicator in response to the first signal. The transceiver is further configured to generate a second signal that conveys the channel quality indicator. The launcher, responsive to the second signal, is further configured to launch a second guided electromagnetic wave that conveys the channel quality indicator to the remote system, wherein the second guided electromagnetic wave is guided by the transmission medium and propagates along the transmission medium. |
| US11205847B2 |
5-6 GHz wideband dual-polarized massive MIMO antenna arrays
5-6 GHz wideband dual-polarized MIMO array antennas are disclosed. The antennas comprise a double layered PCB, a single layered PCB and a plurality of microstrip patch antennas. The microstrip patches are radiating elements which are coupled to apertures in the ground plane. The aperture coupling avoids the need for complex multi-layered boards with plated via holes. Standard SMA connectors can be used with the array antenna. |
| US11205846B2 |
Beamforming integrated circuit having RF signal ports using a ground-signal transition for high isolation in a phased antenna array system and related methods
A phased antenna array system is provided that includes a beamforming integrated circuit and beamforming elements in communication with the integrated circuit disposed on a substrate. The beamforming integrated circuit includes multiple radio frequency (RF) signal ports. One or more of the RF signal ports includes an RF signal pad disposed between an edge of the integrated circuit and an internal RF ground pad. The RF signal pad and the internal RF ground pad of the RF signal port are oriented perpendicular with respect to the edge of the integrated circuit. Specifically, the RF signal pad has a first side disposed on or adjacent to the edge of the integrated circuit and an opposing second side that is adjacent to the internal RF ground pad. A method of controlling the phased antenna array system is also provided. |
| US11205842B2 |
Pointing algorithm for endpoint nodes
A terrestrial high frequency data communication system and method for implementing a pointing algorithm for endpoint nodes are described. The system includes an aggregation node and one or more endpoint nodes. In one example, a pointing direction for an endpoint node is determined based on a number of packet error rate (PER) measurements associated with a high frequency data communication link between the endpoint node and an aggregation node. Preferably, the endpoint node includes a steerable antenna module that includes one or more antennas. The steerable antenna module is configured to receive an azimuth value and an elevation value determined based on PER measurements associated with the high frequency data communication link, and to steer its one or more antennas based on the azimuth value and the elevation value to point to the aggregation node. |
| US11205831B2 |
Antenna element and manufacturing method for same
The invention provides an antenna element and a manufacturing method of the antenna element. The antenna element includes a main body and a feeding board. The main body has an insulation bracket and a conductive layer by way of electroplating or lasering. The insulation bracket includes a base, first support legs and second support legs. The conductive layer includes a radiation layer covering the top surface, a coupling layer covering the bottom surface and coupled to the radiation layer, a feeding column layer covering the outer surface of each first support leg and a branch layer covering the outer surface of each second support leg. By virtue of the configuration, it is unnecessary to assemble the main body additionally, so that the consistency of the antenna element is improved. |
| US11205823B2 |
Ceramic separator
The invention provides a ceramic separator, which mainly includes a plurality of passive ceramic particles and an ion-conductive material located between the passive ceramic particles. The mass content of the passive ceramic particles is greater than 40% of the total mass of the ceramic separator. The ion-conductive material is mainly composed of a polymer base material which is capable of allowing metal ions to move inside the material, and an additive, which is capable of dissociating metal salts and is served as a plasticizer. The ceramic separator of the present invention has high-temperature stability and high-temperature electrical insulation. |
| US11205821B2 |
Method for preparing aromatic polyamide porous membrane and aromatic polyamide porous membrane prepared thereby
The present invention provides a method for preparing an aromatic polyamide porous membrane and an aromatic polyamide porous membrane prepared by the above method. The method for preparing an aromatic polyamide porous membrane includes the following steps: mixing an ionic liquid with an aromatic polyamide into a solvent to form a mixed solution; the mixed solution forming a membrane in a coagulation bath; and extracting with an extractant to remove the solvent and the ionic liquid from the membrane to yield a porous membrane. In the method of the present invention, the application of the ionic liquid would greatly reduce the application of additives; further, the ionic liquid has a high stability and is easy to be separated from other solvents and be recycled, which assures the safety during the usage and recycle thereof. |
| US11205817B2 |
Battery pack
Disclosed is a battery pack. The battery pack includes: a plurality of battery modules each having a plurality of battery cells therein; and a guide member coupled to each of the battery modules, the guide member being configured to guide movement of the battery modules when the plurality of battery modules are assembled adjacent to one another. |
| US11205814B2 |
Power storage device packaging material and power storage device using the packaging material
A power storage device packaging material having a structure including at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, a metal foil layer, a sealant adhesive layer, and a sealant layer laminated in this order. The substrate layer is formed of a polyester film exhibiting ΔA, as expressed by the following formula, of 10% or more and a 50% elongation stress of 75 MPa or more after heat treatment at 160° C.: “ΔA=(break elongation after 160° C. heat treatment)−(break elongation before 160° C. heat treatment)”. |
| US11205809B2 |
Early detection of thermal incident in battery pack
Devices, methods and systems used to detect thermal incidents are disclosed. In one embodiment, there may be a thermal incident detection apparatus for a battery pack including one or more battery modules, the one or more battery modules comprising a plurality of battery cells arranged in a plurality of rows, wherein each battery cell in the one or more battery modules comprises a vent, the apparatus comprising a thermally anisotropic material positioned in proximity to one or more battery cells of the one of more battery modules, wherein the thermally anisotropic material has an in-plane thermal conductivity greater than a through-plane thermal conductivity; and a sensor positioned in proximity to the thermally anisotropic material to sense thermal energy transferred by one of more of the battery cells to the thermally anisotropic material. |
| US11205807B2 |
Computationally screening the stability of battery electrode materials with mixtures of redox couple elements
A mixture stability criterion asserts that a mixture of at least two redox elements in a crystal lattice will be unstable during charge and discharge cycles unless a set of charged ground state configurations at a specified value of a mixing ratio for the redox elements and a set of discharged ground state configurations at the same value of mixing ratio both consist of the same derivative superstructures. All members of the charged ground state set and all members of the discharged ground state set are within a same energy threshold value of the lowest-energy member of each set. The value for the energy threshold may represent a value of thermal energy calculated with Boltzmann's constant. Examples of alternative embodiments include a method for implementing the mixture stability criterion, computer hardware adapted to perform a method embodiment, and computer-readable media including a method embodiment. |
| US11205806B2 |
Battery module equalization apparatus and battery pack and vehicle including the same
A battery module equalization apparatus includes a plurality of slave controllers each electrically connected to the plurality of battery modules to measure voltage values of the plurality of battery modules, and having a slave charging/discharging channel through which the current that charges and discharges each battery module flows, and a master controller that receives the voltage value of each battery module from the plurality of slave controllers, selects at least one of the plurality of slave controllers based on the received voltage value, and transmits a CHARGE or DISCHARGE command to the at least one selected slave controller, and having a master charging/discharging channel through which the charging current supplied to the at least one slave controller and the discharging current supplied from the at least one slave controller flow. |
| US11205801B2 |
Lithium secondary battery
Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery having an improved lifetime. The lithium secondary battery may include: a cathode including a cathode active material; an anode including an anode active material; a separator disposed between the cathode and the anode; and an electrolyte including bis(trimethylsilyl) 2,2-thiodiacetate. |
| US11205800B2 |
Polymer and molten ion conductive salt and silicon interface for decreased interfacial resistance
A device such as, for example, an energy storage device or a micro-resistor, is disclosed which includes a silicon based electrode in which decreased interfacial resistance/impedance throughout the charge-mobile region of the device is provided. The decreased interfacial resistance/impedance is provided by forming an interfacial additive composite layer composed of a molten lithium containing salt layer and a layer of a Li-salt containing conductive polymeric adhesive material between the silicon based electrode and a solid polymer electrolyte layer. The presence of such an interfacial additive composite layer increases the ion and electron mobile dependent performances at the silicon based electrode interface due to significant decrease in the resistance/impedance that is observed at the respective interface as well as the impedance observed in the bulk of the device. |
| US11205798B2 |
Capacitor-assisted solid-state battery
A capacitor-assisted, solid-state lithium-ion battery is formed by replacing at least one of the electrodes of the battery with a capacitor electrode of suitable particulate composition for the replaced battery particulate anode or cathode material. The solid-state electrodes typically contain solid-state electrode material and are separated with solid-state electrode material. In another embodiment the capacitor anode or cathode particles may be mixed with lithium-ion battery anode or cathode particles respectively. Preferably, the battery comprises at least two positively-charged electrodes and two negatively-charged electrodes, and the location and compositions of the capacitor material electrode(s) may be selected to provide a desired combination of energy and power. |
| US11205797B2 |
Method for manufacturing negative electrode for lithium secondary battery
A method for manufacturing a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery. A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery is manufactured while forming a composite of lithium metal and a negative electrode active material through a rolling process In the case of the lithium secondary battery to which the negative electrode containing such a composite is applied, when the battery starts to operate, the negative electrode active material is pre-lithiated, and thus charging/discharging process proceeds in the state where the lithium alloy is already formed on the negative electrode, thereby showing an effect of reducing initial irreversible phases. |
| US11205794B2 |
Fuel cell ventilation systems
A roof cap assembly for a fuel cell system includes a housing, and a cover assembly disposed on the housing and configured to move between a first position and a second position. The cover assembly includes a cover including a first opening and a second opening, and a door connected to the cover and configured to selectively open and close the second opening. When the cover assembly is in the first position, the door closes the second opening, such that the reaction exhaust and the cabinet exhaust are directed through the first opening. When the cover assembly is in the second position, the door opens the second opening, such that the cabinet exhaust is directed through first opening and the reaction exhaust is directed through the second opening. |
| US11205792B2 |
Fuel cell system and control method for same
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell; a catalyst combustor configured to receive raw fuel and oxidant and generate combustion gas of the raw fuel; and a control unit configured to control supplying of the raw fuel and the oxidant to the catalyst combustor. The control unit is configured to supply the raw fuel and the oxidant to the catalyst combustor at the time of startup of the fuel cell system, and when a reforming reaction of the raw fuel turns dominant over a combustion reaction of the raw fuel at the catalyst combustor, increase an air-fuel ratio that is a ratio of the oxidant to the raw fuel, compared to the air-fuel ratio before the reforming reaction turns dominant. |
| US11205786B2 |
Fuel cell having heating unit therefor
A fuel cell includes a cell stack including a plurality of stacked unit cells and a heating unit configured to apply heat to the cell stack. The heating unit includes a heat-generating part and a heat-generating-part support part disposed on an end side of the cell stack. The heat-generating-part support part allows the heat-generating part to be fitted thereinto or to be drawn out therefrom. |
| US11205785B2 |
Fuel cell system and method for warming up fuel cell system
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell configured to be supplied with fuel and air to generate electricity, a reformer configured to reform the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell, a heat source device configured to heat an off-gas discharged from the fuel cell to produce a heating gas and configured to heat the reformer, a fuel cell heating device configured to heat the air to be supplied to the fuel cell using the heating gas, a fuel cell temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of the fuel cell, and a reformer temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of the reformer. The fuel cell system includes a controller configured to, in a warm-up operation to perform a warm-up of the reformer and a warm-up of the fuel cell, control at least one of the heat source device and the fuel cell heating device based on the temperature of the reformer and the temperature of the fuel cell to adjust at least one of a heating amount of the off-gas and a heating amount of the air by the heating gas. |
| US11205784B2 |
Fuel cell and method for manufacturing separator for fuel cell including conductive particles and carbon fibers buried in projecting parts
A fuel cell according to the present disclosure includes separators 11 and 12 made of metal and having projection-depression shapes, and gas diffusion layers 13 and 14. Conductive particles 21 are buried in a projecting part on one surface of each of the separators 11 and 12, and carbon fibers 22 are buried in a projecting part on the other surface of each of the separators 11 and 12. The projecting parts on the one surfaces of the separators 11 and 12 abut against each other so that the conductive particles 21 buried in these projecting parts come into contact with each other. Further, the projecting parts on the other surfaces of the separators 11 and 12 abut against the gas diffusion layers 13 and 14, respectively, so that the carbon fibers 22 buried in these projecting parts come into contact with the gas diffusion layers 13 and 14, respectively. |
| US11205781B2 |
Filamentary positive electrode for solid battery, solid battery, manufacturing method of filamentary positive electrode for solid battery and manufacturing method of solid battery
The disclosure provides a filamentary positive electrode for solid battery, a solid battery having the filamentary positive electrode for solid battery, a manufacturing method of the filamentary positive electrode for solid battery, and a manufacturing method of the solid battery having the filamentary positive electrode for solid battery. The structure of a positive electrode that constitutes a solid battery is a filamentous structure. A positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material is provided on a surface of a conductive positive electrode filament, and a positive electrode electrolyte layer including an electrolyte is further provided on an outer side of the positive electrode active material layer to form a filamentary positive electrode for solid battery. The filamentary positive electrode for solid battery and a filamentary negative electrode for solid battery, which has a filamentous structure, are laminated to form a solid battery. |
| US11205776B2 |
Lithium metal oxide cathode materials and method to make them
A method for forming lithium metal oxides comprised of Ni, Mn and Co useful for making lithium ion batteries comprises providing precursor particulates of Ni and Co that are of a particular size that allows the formation of improved lithium metal oxides. The method allows the formation of lithium metal oxides having improved safety while retaining good capacity and rate capability. In particular, the method allows for the formation of lithium metal oxide where the primary particle surface Mn/Ni ratio is greater than the bulk Mn/Ni. Likewise the method allows the formation of lithium metal oxides with secondary particles having much higher densities allowing for higher cathode densities and battery capacities while retaining good capacity and rate performance. |
| US11205774B2 |
Nickel composite hydroxide and process for producing same, positive electrode active material and process for producing same, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery achieves high output characteristics and battery capacity, and allows a high electrode density to be achieved in the case of using the material for a positive electrode of a battery; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery uses the positive electrode active material, thereby achieving a high output with a high capacity. Prepared is a nickel composite hydroxide including plate-shaped secondary particles aggregated with overlaps between plate surfaces of multiple plate-shaped primary particles, where shapes projected from directions perpendicular to the plate surfaces of the plate-shaped primary particles are any plane projection shape of spherical, elliptical, oblong, and massive shapes, and the secondary particles have an aspect ratio of 3 to 20, and a volume average particle size (Mv) of 4 μm to 20 μm measured by a laser diffraction scattering method. |
| US11205768B2 |
Method for manufacturing of display device
A method for manufacturing a display device is provided. A process of forming an inspection pattern, in which a protective film unit is partially removed in a thickness direction, in a pad area portion of the protective film unit, which corresponds to a pad area of a display unit, may be performed, and then, a process of delaminating the pad area portion of the protective film unit may be performed. A process of checking whether the inspection pattern exists may be performed to check whether the delamination has succeeded, and, at the same time, a process of measuring distances from an alignment mark to each of a long side and a short side of the display unit may be performed. |
| US11205763B2 |
Organic electroluminescent device and an organic electroluminescent apparatus
An organic electroluminescent device and an organic electroluminescent apparatus are disclosed. The organic electroluminescent device includes a first electrode layer, a first carrier functional layer, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode layer stacked in sequence, wherein a P-doped layer is arranged between the first carrier functional layer and the light-emitting layer. Thus the energy level bending of an interface between the first carrier functional layer and the light-emitting layer is modified, and the hole injection potential barrier at the interface between the two is reduced, thereby effectively reducing the turn-on voltage of the organic electroluminescent device. |
| US11205759B2 |
Display apparatus including an anti-crack projection
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area, a peripheral area outside the display area, and a bending area bendable along a bending axis, and an anti-crack projection disposed in the peripheral area and extending along at least a part of an edge of the substrate. A portion of the anti-crack projection in the bending area is a bending portion. A preset area including the bending portion on the substrate is a first area. A preset area of the substrate disposed outside the first area, having substantially the same area as that of the first area, and including a part of the anti-crack projection is a second area. A portion of the anti-crack projection belonging to the second area is a flat portion. The area occupied by the bending portion in the first area is greater than the area occupied by the flat portion in the second area. |
| US11205750B2 |
1S1R memory integrated structure with larger selector surface area which can effectively suppress leakage current in the cross array without increasing the overall size of the integrated structure and method for fabricating the same
The present disclosure provides a 1S1R memory integrated structure and a method for fabricating the same, wherein the 1S1R memory integrated structure includes: a word line metal, a resistive material layer, a selector lower electrode, a selector material layer, a selector upper electrode, an interconnection wire, and a bit line metal; wherein the selector material layer is in a shape of a groove, and the selector upper electrode is formed in the groove. According to the 1S1R memory integrated structure and its fabricating method in the present disclosure, by the change of the integrated position of the selector, the device area of the selector is much larger than the device area of the memory, which significantly reduces the requirement for the on-state current density of the selector. |
| US11205748B2 |
3-contact vertical hall sensor elements connected in a ring and related devices, systems, and methods
A vertical Hall effect sensor having three Hall effect regions interconnected in a ring can be operated in a spinning scheme. Each Hall effect region has three contacts: the first Hall effect region includes first, second, and third contacts; the second Hall effect region has fourth, fifth, and sixth contacts, and the third Hall effect region has seventh, eighth, and ninth contacts. Interconnections between the Hall effect regions are provided such that a first terminal is connected to a third contact, a second interconnection is arranged between the second and fourth contacts, a third terminal is connected to the sixth contact, a fourth interconnection is arranged between the fifth and seventh contacts, a fifth terminal is connected to the ninth contact, and a sixth interconnection is arranged between the first and eighth contacts. |
| US11205746B2 |
Heat conversion apparatus
A heat conversion apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a pipe which includes a first flat surface and a second flat surface disposed parallel to the first surface, and through which air having a lower temperature than entered air is discharged; a plurality of thermoelectric elements that have heat-absorbing surfaces disposed in external sides of the respective first and second surfaces; a plurality of printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are electrically connected to the plurality of thermoelectric elements; and coolant passing members that are disposed on heat-radiating surfaces of the plurality of thermoelectric elements, wherein an external floor surface of the coolant passing member includes a plurality of first external floor surfaces having a first height and a plurality of second external floor surfaces having a second height that is different from the first height, the plurality of first external floor surfaces are in contact with the heat-radiating surfaces of the plurality of thermoelectric elements, and the plurality of PCBs are disposed in the plurality of second external floor surfaces. |
| US11205741B2 |
Method for forming a composite having semiconductor structures including a nanocrystalline core and shell embedded in a matrix
Semiconductor structures having a nanocrystalline core and corresponding nanocrystalline shell and insulator coating, wherein the semiconductor structure includes an anisotropic nanocrystalline core composed of a first semiconductor material, and an anisotropic nanocrystalline shell composed of a second, different, semiconductor material surrounding the anisotropic nanocrystalline core. The anisotropic nanocrystalline core and the anisotropic nanocrystalline shell form a quantum dot. An insulator layer encapsulates the nanocrystalline shell and anisotropic nanocrystalline core. |
| US11205737B1 |
Photomemcapacitor and method for the production thereof
A photomemcapacitor device comprising a metal oxide semiconductor material is provided. The photocapacitor device comprises a p-n junction and a Schottky junction. A photomemcapacitor is provided for responding to photons at specified wavelengths. |
| US11205728B2 |
Vertical field effect transistor with reduced parasitic capacitance
A vertical field effect transistor (VFET) has a top source/drain (S/D) with a first region having a first area and a first capacitance and a second region having a second area and a second capacitance. A first top spacer on a gate cross section area. A second top spacer with a varying thickness is disposed the first top spacer. Both the first and second top spacers are between the top S/D and the gate cross section area. Due to the varying thickness of the second spacer with the smaller thickness closer to the fin, the separation distance between the larger, first area and the gate cross section area is greater than the separation distance between the smaller, second area and the gate cross section area. Therefore, the first capacitance is reduced because of the larger separation distance and the second capacitance is reduced because of the smaller second area. The smaller thickness of the second top spacer being closer to the fin allows dopants to diffuse a shorter distance when forming a junction between the top S/D and the channel of the VFET. |
| US11205725B2 |
Buffer structure, display panel, and manufacturing method of buffer structure
The present disclosure provides a buffer structure, a display panel, and a manufacturing method of the buffer structure. The display panel comprises at least one of the buffer structures. The buffer structure comprises a first inorganic layer, a second inorganic layer, and an organic layer. Trapezoidal grooves are disposed at intervals on one side surface of the first inorganic layer; the second inorganic layer is disposed on one side surface having the trapezoidal grooves of the first inorganic layer, covers inside surfaces of the trapezoidal grooves, is connected at openings of the trapezoidal grooves, and forms capillary channels; and the organic layer is filled inside the capillary channels. |
| US11205723B2 |
Selective source/drain recess for improved performance, isolation, and scaling
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for increasing the available width of a shallow trench isolation region. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a semiconductor fin is formed over a substrate. A source or drain is formed on a surface of the substrate between the semiconductor fin and the substrate. A liner is formed over a surface of the semiconductor fin and a surface of the substrate is recessed to expose a sidewall of the source or drain. A mask is formed over the semiconductor fin and the liner. The mask is patterned to expose a top surface and a sidewall of the liner. A sidewall of the source or drain is recessed and a shallow trench isolation region is formed on the recessed top surface of the substrate. The shallow trench isolation region is adjacent to the recessed sidewall of the source or drain. |
| US11205722B2 |
Lateral DMOS having reduced lateral size
A lateral DMOS having a well region, a source region, a drain region, a first gate region and a second gate region. The first gate region may be positioned atop a portion of the well region near the source region side. The second gate region may be formed in a portion of the well region near the drain region side. The second gate region includes a shallow trench isolation structure formed in a shallow trench opened from a top surface of the well region and extended vertically into the well region, and having a first sidewall contacting with the drain region or abut the drain region, and further having a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall and laterally extended below the first gate region. |
| US11205720B2 |
Semiconductor device with contact plugs
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer that has a first main surface at one side and a second main surface at another side, a plurality of gate electrodes that are arranged at intervals on the first main surface of the semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulating film that is formed on the first main surface of the semiconductor layer such as to cover the gate electrodes, an electrode film that is formed on the interlayer insulating film, and a plurality of tungsten plugs that, between a pair of the gate electrodes that are mutually adjacent, are respectively embedded in a plurality of contact openings formed in the interlayer insulating film at intervals in a direction in which the pair of mutually adjacent gate electrodes face each other and each have a bottom portion contacting the semiconductor layer and a top portion contacting the electrode film. |
| US11205717B2 |
Epitaxially fabricated heterojunction bipolar transistors
Techniques are disclosed for forming a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) that includes a laterally grown epitaxial (LEO) base layer that is disposed between corresponding emitter and collector layers. Laterally growing the base layer of the HBT improves electrical and physical contact between electrical contacts to associated portions of the HBT device (e.g., a collector). By improving the quality of electrical and physical contact between a layer of an HBT device and corresponding electrical contacts, integrated circuits using HBTs are better able to operate at gigahertz frequency switching rates used for modern wireless communications. |
| US11205712B2 |
Methods of manufacturing low-temperature polysilicon thin film and transistor
A method of manufacturing a low temperature polysilicon thin film includes: forming a buffer layer on a substrate; forming a first silicon layer on the buffer layer; forming a second silicon layer on the first silicon layer, and forming a substrate impurity barrier interface between the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer, wherein the second silicon layer is thicker than the first silicon layer; and annealing the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer to form a polysilicon layer. |
| US11205711B2 |
Selective inner spacer implementations
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes first gate-all-around (GAA) devices in a first device area and second GAA devices in a second device area. Each of the first GAA devices includes a first vertical stack of channel members, a first gate structure over and around the first vertical stack of channel members, and a plurality of inner spacer features. Each of the second GAA devices includes a second vertical stack of channel members and a second gate structure over and around the second vertical stack of channel members. Two adjacent channel members of the first vertical stack of channel members are separated by a portion of the first gate structure and at least one of the plurality of inner spacer features. Two adjacent channel members of the second vertical stack of channel members are separated only by a portion of the second gate structure. |
| US11205709B2 |
Defect filling in patterned layer
Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to forming a structure, e.g., in high aspect ratio trenches. In an embodiment, a method for semiconductor processing is provided. The method includes forming fins on a substrate. Sidewalls of the fins and a bottom surface between the sidewalls of the fins define a trench therebetween. The method includes forming a gate structure over the fins. The gate structure has a sidewall with a defect region formed therein. The method includes forming a filling layer to fill the defect region in the sidewall of the gate structure. |
| US11205708B2 |
Dual self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures
Dual self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures, and methods of fabricating dual self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first semiconductor fin having a cut along a length of the first semiconductor fin. A second semiconductor fin is parallel with the first semiconductor fin. A first gate endcap isolation structure is between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin. A second gate endcap isolation structure is in a location of the cut along the length of the first semiconductor fin. |
| US11205704B2 |
Semiconductor device and production method therefor
Because of inclusion of: a source electrode that is formed on a front surface of a semiconductor substrate and that is joined to the semiconductor substrate both at a source electrode as a first contact region that is an ohmic contact region and at a source electrode as a second contact region that is a contact region with a non-ohmic contact or the like; a back-surface electrode formed on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a through hole in which an interconnection is provided that connects the source electrode as the second contact region in the source electrode with the back-surface electrode; it is possible not only to improve the corrosion resistance but also to reduce the leakage current, so that a highly-reliable semiconductor device suited for high frequency operation is provided. |
| US11205702B2 |
Method for manufacturing a structure for forming a tridimensional monolithic integrated circuit
A method for manufacturing a structure comprising a first substrate comprising at least one electronic component likely to be damaged by a temperature higher than 400° C. and a semiconductor layer extending on the first substrate comprises: (a) providing a first bonding metal layer on the first substrate, (b) providing a second substrate comprising successively: a semiconductor base substrate, a stack of a plurality of semiconductor epitaxial layers, a layer of SixGe1-x, with 0≤x≤1 being located at the surface of said stack opposite to the base substrate, and a second bonding metal layer, (c) bonding the first substrate and the second substrate through the first and second bonding metal layers at a temperature lower than or equal to 400° C., and (d) removing a part of the second substrate so as to transfer the layer of SixGe1-x on the first substrate using a selective etching process. |
| US11205699B2 |
Epitaxial semiconductor material regions for transistor devices and methods of forming same
One illustrative transistor device disclosed herein includes a gate structure positioned above a semiconductor substrate and first and second overall epitaxial cavities formed in the semiconductor substrate on opposite sides of the gate structure. In one embodiment, each of the first and second overall epitaxial cavities includes a substantially vertically oriented upper epitaxial cavity and a lower epitaxial cavity, wherein the substantially vertically oriented upper epitaxial cavity extends from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to the lower epitaxial cavity. A lateral width of the lower epitaxial cavity is greater than a lateral width of the upper epitaxial cavity. The device also includes epitaxial semiconductor material positioned in each of the first and second overall epitaxial cavities. |
| US11205698B2 |
Multiple work function nanosheet transistors with inner spacer modulation
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of first and second silicon germanium layers, and a plurality of silicon layers in a stacked configuration. The stacked configuration includes a repeating arrangement of a silicon layer stacked on an arrangement of at least one of the first and at least two of the second silicon germanium layers. The first and second silicon germanium layers are etched from exposed lateral sides, and plurality of first inner spacers are formed adjacent remaining portions of the first and second silicon germanium layers. Parts of the remaining portions of the second germanium layers are positioned between the first inner spacers and the silicon layers. The method also includes forming a plurality of second inner spacers, and removing the remaining portions of the first and second silicon germanium layers, leaving spaces between the first inner spacers and the silicon layers. |
| US11205696B2 |
High dielectric constant material at locations of high fields
An integrated circuit has an isolation capacitor structure that reduces the risk of breakdown from high electric fields at the edge of the top metal plate of the capacitor. The capacitor structure includes a bottom metal plate above a substrate. A first dielectric layer of a first dielectric material is formed between the bottom metal plate and the top metal plate. The capacitor structure also includes a thin narrow ring formed of a second dielectric material located under a portion of the top metal plate. The second dielectric material has a higher dielectric constant than the first dielectric material. The thin narrow ring follows the shape of the edge of the top metal plate with a portion of the ring underneath the top metal plate and a portion outside the edge of the top metal plate to thereby be located at a place of the maximum electric field. |
| US11205694B2 |
Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a lower substrate having a display area, and a sealing area outside of the display area, an upper substrate facing the lower substrate, a display unit at the display area, a sealing member at the sealing area, and adhering the upper substrate to the lower substrate, a metal pattern layer between the lower substrate and the sealing member, and defining a plurality of through-portions, a first metal layer along an edge of the display unit, and spaced from the metal pattern layer, and a plurality of metal patterns having island shapes between the metal pattern layer and the first metal layer. |
| US11205693B2 |
Fan-out wiring structure of display panel and display panel
A fan-out wiring structure of a display panel is configured to electrically connect a signal transmission interface of a driving circuit to a signal receiving interface of a display area of the display panel. The fan-out wiring structure includes a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer. The first and the second wiring layers both define an extending area, a connecting area, and a bent area disposed between the extending area and the connecting area. The extending area and the connecting area of the first wiring layer each have a plurality of metal wires, and the bent area of the first wiring layer has a plurality of flexible wires. Each of the flexible wires is made of an organic electrically conductive material, and opposite ends of each of the flexible wires are connected to corresponding metal wires in the extending area and the connecting area, respectively. |
| US11205685B2 |
Electro-luminescent display device and method of fabricating the same
An electro-luminescent display device includes an anode disposed on a substrate; a bank having an opening that exposes a portion of the anode and having an undercut structure adjacent to the opening; a dummy pattern disposed at the undercut structure of the bank; an organic light-emission layer disposed on the anode and electrically disconnected with at least one of adjacent pixels; and a cathode disposed on the organic light-emission layer. |
| US11205683B2 |
Image sensor
An image sensor includes a substrate having a photoelectric conversion element therein, a first insulating layer on the substrate, a contact penetrating through the first insulating layer, a color filter on at least one side of the contact, and a moisture absorption prevention layer in contact with a sidewall of the contact and extending on an upper surface of the color filter. |
| US11205682B2 |
Memory devices
A memory device includes first conductive lines extending in a first direction, second conductive lines extending in a second direction, and a plurality of memory cells each arranged between the first and second conductive lines and each including a variable resistance memory layer and a switch material pattern. The switch material pattern includes an element injection area arranged in an outer area of the switch material pattern, and an internal area covered by the element injection area. The internal area contains a first content of at least one element from arsenic (As), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and tellurium (Te), the element injection area contains a second content of the at least one element from As, S, Se, and Te, and the second content has a profile in which a content of the at least one element decreases away from the at least one surface of the switch material pattern. |
| US11205681B2 |
Memory for embedded applications
Memory devices for embedded applications are described. A memory device may include an array of memory cells having a first area and configured to operate at a first voltage, and circuitry having a second area that at least partially overlaps the first area. The circuitry may be configured to operate at a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The circuitry maybe be further configured to access the array of memory cells using decoder circuitry configured to operate at the first voltage. The array of memory cells and the circuitry may be on a single substrate. The circuitry may include microcontroller circuitry, cryptographic controller circuitry, and/or memory controller circuitry. The memory cells may be self-selecting memory cells that each include a storage and selector element having a chalcogenide material. The memory cells may not include separate cell selector circuitry. |
| US11205678B2 |
Embedded MRAM device with top via
Techniques for integrating an embedded MRAM device with a BEOL interconnect structure are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming an embedded MRAM device includes: depositing a cap layer onto a substrate; forming a metal line and metal pad on the cap layer; patterning the metal line to form first top vias, and the metal pad to form a second top via; depositing a dielectric material onto the substrate surrounding the first/second top vias; recessing the second top via to form a bottom contact via self-aligned to the metal pad which serves as a bottom contact; forming an MRAM cell over the bottom contact via; and forming first/second top contacts in contact with the first top vias/the MRAM cell. An embedded MRAM device is also provided. |
| US11205671B2 |
Solid-state image sensor and method of manufacturing the same
A solid-state image sensor including a semiconductor substrate having photoelectric conversion elements being two-dimensionally formed therein, and a color filter layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and having color filters of colors being two-dimensionally formed therein in a pattern such that the color filters correspond respectively to the photoelectric conversion elements. The color filter layer satisfies formulas (1) and (2): 200≤A≤700 (1) C≤A+200 (2) where A represents a thickness in nm of a first-color color filter of a first color among the colors, and C represents a thickness in nm of color filters of colors other than the first color. |
| US11205665B2 |
Transistor substrate
In a transistor substrate of a display device, a plurality of signal lines to which any one of drive signals of a gate signal and a video signal is supplied include a plurality of first signal lines to which the drive signal is supplied. The first signal line is connected to a driving driver, and is formed in an edge region positioned between an end portion of a substrate and a pixel region and in the pixel region. The first signal line is formed to pass through a first wiring formed in a first layer from a second wiring formed in a second layer in the edge region. |
| US11205661B2 |
Three-dimensional memory devices with enlarged joint critical dimension and methods for forming the same
Embodiments of three-dimensional (3D) memory devices with an enlarged joint critical dimension and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device is disclosed. The 3D memory device includes a substrate, a memory stack having a plurality of interleaved conductor layers and dielectric layers on the substrate, and a memory string extending vertically through the first memory stack and having a memory film along a sidewall of the memory string. The memory film includes a discontinuous blocking layer interposed by the dielectric layers. |
| US11205660B2 |
Memory arrays and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. The strings of memory cells in the stack comprise channel-material strings and storage-material strings extending through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. At least some of the storage material of the storage-material strings in individual of the insulative tiers are intrinsically less charge-transmissive than is the storage material in the storage-material strings in individual of the conductive tiers. Other aspects, including method, are disclosed. |
| US11205656B2 |
Trench structures for three-dimensional memory devices
The present disclosure describes method and structure of a three-dimensional memory device. The memory device includes a substrate and a plurality of wordlines extending along a first direction over the substrate. The first direction is along the x direction. The plurality of wordlines form a staircase structure in a first region. A plurality of channels are formed in a second region and through the plurality of wordlines. The second region abuts the first region at a region boundary. The memory device also includes an insulating slit formed in the first and second regions and along the first direction. A first width of the insulating slit in the first region measured in a second direction is greater than a second width of the insulating slit in the second region measured in the second direction. |
| US11205651B2 |
Memory structure and method for manufacturing the same
Provided are a memory structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The memory structure includes a capacitor and a transistor disposed thereon and electrically connected thereto. The transistor includes a first and a source/drain layers, a channel pillar, a gate, a gate dielectric layer, a doped layer, and a spacer layer. The first source/drain layer is electrically connected to the capacitor. The channel pillar is on the first source/drain layer. The gate is on a sidewall of the channel pillar. The gate dielectric layer is between the gate and the channel pillar. The doped layer is on the sidewall of the channel pillar and above the gate. The spacer layer is between the gate and the first source/drain layer and between the gate and the doped layer. The second source/drain layer is on or in the channel pillar. |
| US11205649B2 |
Integrated circuit devices and methods of manufacturing the same
Integrated circuit devices may include a fin-type active area, a semiconductor liner contacting a side wall of the fin-type active area and including a protrusion portion protruding outward from the fin-type active area in the vicinity of an edge of an upper surface of the fin-type active area, and an isolation layer spaced apart from the fin-type active area with the semiconductor liner therebetween. To manufacture the integrated circuit devices, a crystalline semiconductor layer covering the fin-type active area with a first thickness and an amorphous semiconductor layer covering the mask pattern with a second thickness may be formed, an extended crystalline semiconductor layer covering the mask pattern may be formed by crystalizing the amorphous semiconductor layer, and a semiconductor liner including a protrusion portion may be formed from the extended crystalline semiconductor layer and the crystalline semiconductor layer. |
| US11205641B2 |
Optoelectronic component
An optoelectronic component may include four semiconductor chips arranged on a substrate. A first semiconductor chip may be configured to emit electromagnetic radiation with a dominant wavelength ranging from about 610 to about 650 nm during operation. A second semiconductor chip may be configured to emit electromagnetic radiation with a dominant wavelength ranging from about 450 to about 475 nm during operation. A third semiconductor chip may be configured to emit electromagnetic radiation with color space coordinates of 0.3231±0.005 and 0.5408±0.005 in the CIE color space during operation. A fourth semiconductor chip may emit electromagnetic radiation having color space coordinates of 0.5638±0.005 and 0.4113±0.005 in the CIE color space during operation. The third and fourth semiconductor chips may have a conversion layer configured to convert a wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the active region. |
| US11205639B2 |
Integrated circuit device with stacked dies having mirrored circuitry
An integrated circuit device and techniques for manufacturing the same are described therein. The integrated circuit device leverages two or more pairs of stacked integrated circuit dies that are fabricated in mirror images to reduce the complexity of manufacturing, thus reducing cost. In one example, an integrated circuit device is provided that includes an integrated circuit (IC) die stack. The IC die stack includes first, second, third and fourth IC dies. The first and second IC dies are coupled by their active sides and include arrangements of integrated circuitry that are mirror images of each other. The third and fourth IC dies are also coupled by their active sides and include arrangements of integrated circuitry that are mirror images of each other. |
| US11205637B2 |
Semiconductor packages having improved thermal discharge and electromagnetic shielding characteristics
A semiconductor package may include a first semiconductor chip on and electrically connected to a wiring substrate, an intermediate layer on the first semiconductor chip and covering an entire surface of the first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip on the intermediate layer and electrically connected to the wiring substrate, a mold layer on the wiring substrate and covering the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, the mold layer including one or more inner surfaces defining a mold via hole that exposes a portion of a surface of the intermediate layer, an electromagnetic shielding layer on the one or more inner surfaces of the mold layer and further on one or more outer surfaces of the mold layer, and a thermal discharge layer on the electromagnetic shielding layer in the mold via hole, such that the thermal discharge layer fills the mold via hole. |
| US11205636B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution structure, at least one semiconductor device, a heat dissipation component, and an encapsulating material. The at least one semiconductor device is disposed on and electrically connected to the redistribution structure. The heat dissipation component is disposed on the redistribution structure and includes a concave portion for receiving the at least one semiconductor device and an extending portion connected to the concave portion and contacting the redistribution structure, wherein the concave portion contacts the at least one semiconductor device. The encapsulating material is disposed over the redistribution structure, wherein the encapsulating material fills the concave portion and encapsulates the at least one semiconductor device. |
| US11205635B2 |
Low temperature hybrid bonding structures and manufacturing method thereof
Devices and techniques including process steps make use of recesses in conductive interconnect structures to form reliable low temperature metallic bonds. A fill layer is deposited into the recesses prior to bonding. The fill layer is composed of noble metal (such as copper) and active metal (such as Zn). Then the fill metal layer is turned into a metal alloy after annealing. A dealloying is performed to the metal alloy to remove the active metal from the metal alloy while the noble metal remains to self-assemble into porous (nanoporous) structure metal. First conductive interconnect structures are bonded at ambient temperatures to second metallic interconnect structures using dielectric-to-dielectric direct bonding techniques, with the fill nanoporous metal layer in the recesses in one of the first and second interconnect structures. After the following batch annealing, the fill nanoporous metal layer turns into pure bulk metal same as conductive interconnect structures due to the heat expansion of conductive interconnect structures and nanoporous metal densification. |
| US11205628B2 |
Semiconductor device package and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device package and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device package includes a circuit structure. The circuit structure includes a dielectric layer and a bonding pad. The dielectric layer has a first dielectric surface and a second dielectric surface opposite to the first dielectric surface, where the dielectric layer defines a recess in the first dielectric surface, and the recess includes a sidewall. The bonding pad is disposed in the recess, where a first pad surface of the bonding pad is adjacent to the first dielectric surface, a second pad surface of the bonding pad is adjacent to the second dielectric surface, and an edge of the bonding pad is spaced from the sidewall of the recess by a first distance. |
| US11205625B2 |
Wafer-level bonding of obstructive elements
A bonded structure is disclosed. The bonded structure can include a semiconductor element comprising active circuitry. The bonded structure can include an obstructive element bonded to the semiconductor element along a bond interface, the obstructive element including an obstructive material disposed over the active circuitry, the obstructive material configured to obstruct external access to the active circuitry. The bonded element can include an artifact structure indicative of a wafer-level bond in which the semiconductor element and the obstructive element formed part of respective wafers directly bonded prior to singulation. |
| US11205623B2 |
Microwave device and antenna for improving heat dissipation
A microwave device includes: a multilayer resin substrate being a first multilayer resin substrate; an IC being a radio frequency circuit provided on the multilayer resin substrate and electrically connected to the multilayer resin substrate; a heat spreader provided on a side opposite to the multilayer resin substrate across the IC, and in contact with the IC; a mold resin covering the periphery of the IC and the heat spreader; and a conductive film covering the mold resin and the heat spreader, where an inner side of the conductive film is in contact with the heat spreader, and the conductive film is electrically connected to a ground via hole of the multilayer resin substrate. |
| US11205620B2 |
Method and apparatus for supplying power to VLSI silicon chips
An integrated circuit module, system and method of providing power and signals is disclosed that includes a silicon chip and a package substrate having voltage connections and signal connections. The silicon chip includes a silicon substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface and circuitry formed therein, one or more front-side metal layers formed on the top surface of the silicon substrate, one or more back-side metal layers formed on the bottom surface of the silicon substrate, and one or more through silicon vias (TSVs) formed through the silicon substrate for creating a conductive pathway from the back-side of the silicon substrate to the front-side of the silicon substrate, preferably closest to the silicon substrate. |
| US11205618B2 |
Graphene barrier layer
Interconnect structures and method of forming the same are disclosed herein. An exemplary interconnect structure includes a first contact feature in a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer, a second contact feature extending through the second dielectric layer and the third dielectric layer, and a graphene layer between the second contact feature and the third dielectric layer. |
| US11205615B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacture
An integrated fan out package on package architecture is utilized along with de-wetting structures in order to reduce or eliminated delamination from through vias. In embodiments the de-wetting structures are titanium rings formed by applying a first seed layer and a second seed layer in order to help manufacture the vias. The first seed layer is then patterned into a ring structure which also exposes at least a portion of the first seed layer. |
| US11205608B2 |
Semiconductor device, manufacturing method for semiconductor device, electronic component, circuit substrate, and electronic apparatus
A semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit that is disposed at a first face side of a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a first face and a second face, the second face opposing the first face, the semiconductor substrate having a through hole from the first face to the second face; an external connection terminal that is disposed at the first face side; a conductive portion that is disposed in the through hole, the conductive portion being electrically connected to the external connection terminal; and an electronic element that is disposed at a second face side. |
| US11205602B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a stackable semiconductor device with small size and fine pitch and a method of manufacturing thereof. |
| US11205600B2 |
Integrated circuits protected by substrates with cavities, and methods of manufacture
Dies (110) with integrated circuits are attached to a wiring substrate (120), possibly an interposer, and are protected by a protective substrate (410) attached to a wiring substrate. The dies are located in cavities in the protective substrate (the dies may protrude out of the cavities). In some embodiments, each cavity surface puts pressure on the die to strengthen the mechanical attachment of the die the wiring substrate, to provide good thermal conductivity between the dies and the ambient (or a heat sink), to counteract the die warpage, and possibly reduce the vertical size. The protective substrate may or may not have its own circuitry connected to the dies or to the wiring substrate. Other features are also provided. |
| US11205596B2 |
Method of FinFET contact formation
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure, which includes a substrate, one or more semiconductor fins on the substrate, a gate structure on each fin, an active region located in said fins, and an interlayer dielectric layer covering at the active region. The method includes forming a hard mask layer over the interlayer dielectric layer and the gate structure, and using an etch process with a patterned etch mask, forming a first contact hole extending through the hard mask layer and extending into a portion of the interlayer dielectric layer, using patterned a mask. The method further includes forming a sidewall dielectric layer on sidewalls of the first contact hole, and using an etch process with the sidewall dielectric layer as an etch mask, etching the interlayer dielectric layer at bottom of the first contact hole to form a second contact hole extending to the active region. |
| US11205595B2 |
Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes: (i) placing, on a first layout, first patterns that extend parallel to each other in a first direction and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, (ii) extracting a low-density region on the first layout, (iii) defining an enclosure region that surrounds the first patterns, (iv) placing dot patterns on a second layout, (v) extracting, from the dot patterns, first dot patterns that overlap the low-density region and do not overlap the enclosure region, (vi) placing the extracted first dot patterns on the first layout, (vii) allowing the first dot patterns to extend in the first direction to form second patterns, and (viii) using the first and second patterns to respectively form first and second active patterns on a substrate. |
| US11205594B2 |
Fin spacer protected source and drain regions in FinFETs
A method includes forming Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) regions in a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor strip between the STI regions. The method also include replacing a top portion of the semiconductor strip with a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer has a first germanium percentage higher than a second germanium percentage of the second semiconductor layer. The method also includes recessing the STI regions to form semiconductor fins, forming a gate stack over a middle portion of the semiconductor fin, and forming gate spacers on sidewalls of the gate stack. The method further includes forming fin spacers on sidewalls of an end portion of the semiconductor fin, recessing the end portion of the semiconductor fin, and growing an epitaxial region over the end portion of the semiconductor fin. |
| US11205589B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for forming interconnection structures
Methods and apparatus for lowering resistivity of a metal line, including: depositing a first metal layer atop a second metal layer to under conditions sufficient to increase a grain size of a metal of the first metal layer; etching the first metal layer to form a metal line with a first line edge roughness and to expose a portion of the second metal layer; removing impurities from the metal line by a hydrogen treatment process; and annealing the metal line at a pressure between 760 Torr and 76,000 Torr to reduce the first line edge roughness. |
| US11205588B2 |
Interconnect architecture with enhanced reliability
Interconnect structures having enhanced reliability is provided in which an electrically conductive structure having a line portion and a via portion is formed utilizing a subtractive process. In some embodiments, a non-conductive barrier liner is formed on physically exposed sidewalls of the via portion and physically exposed sidewalls and a topmost surface of the line portion of the electrically conductive structure. An electrically conductive metal cap is formed on a topmost surface of the via portion of the electrically conductive structure. In other embodiments, a conductive barrier spacer is formed on physically exposed sidewalls of the via portion and physically exposed sidewalls of the line portion of the electrically conductive structure. An electrically conductive metal cap is formed on a topmost surface of the via portion of the electrically conductive structure. |
| US11205587B2 |
Liner and cap structures for reducing local interconnect vertical resistance without compromising reliability
Embodiments of the invention are directed to an interconnect stack including a first dielectric layer, a first trench formed in the first dielectric layer, and a first liner deposited in the first trench, wherein the first liner defines a second trench. A first conductive material is in the second trench and deposited over the first dielectric layer and the first conductive material. A third trench extends through the second dielectric layer and is over the first conductive material. A bottom surface of the third trench includes at least a portion of the top surface of the first conductive material. A second liner is in the third trench, on sidewalls of the third trench, and also on the portion of the top surface of the first conductive material. The second liner functions as a cap region configured to counter electro-migration or surface migration of the first conductive material. |
| US11205586B2 |
Integrated circuits with line breaks and line bridges within a single interconnect level
Integrated circuit (IC) interconnect lines having line breaks and line bridges within one interconnect level that are based on a single lithographic mask pattern. Multi-patterning may be employed to define a grating structure of a desired pitch in a first mask layer. Breaks and bridges between the grating structures may be derived from a second mask layer through a process-based selective occlusion of openings defined in the second mask layer that are below a threshold minimum lateral width. Portions of the grating structure underlying openings defined in the second mask layer that exceed the threshold minimum lateral width are removed. Trenches in an underlayer may then be etched based on a union of the remainder of the grating structure and the occluded openings in the second mask layer. The trenches may then be backfilled to form the interconnect lines. |
| US11205580B2 |
Method of manufacturing molded chip
A method of manufacturing a molded chip includes a preparing step of sticking device faces of a plurality of device chips arrayed to a protective member that is thermally insulative, thereby forming a chip group; a molding step of, after the preparing step, supplying a molding resin to reverse sides of the device chips and gaps between the device chips, thereby forming a molded wafer in which the reverse sides and side faces of the device chips are covered with a resin molding; and a molded wafer dividing step of, after the molding step, dividing the molded wafer along centers of the gaps filled with the resin molding into molded chips on the basis of an image in which a face side of the molded wafer has been captured. |
| US11205577B2 |
Method of selectively etching silicon oxide film on substrate
An etching method including: (a) providing a workpiece including a first region made of a first material and a second region made of a second material defining a recess, the first region filling the recess of the second region while covering the second region; (b) generating plasma of a first fluorocarbon gas to etch the first region until before exposing the second region; (c) generating plasma of a second fluorocarbon gas to form fluorocarbon deposits on the first region; (d) generating plasma of an inert gas to etch the first region by fluorocarbon radicals contained in the fluorocarbon deposits; and (e) repeating step (c) and step (d) one or more times until after exposing the second region. An etching rate of the first material of the first region is higher than that of the second material of the second region with respect to the second fluorocarbon gas. |
| US11205574B2 |
Method for forming a semiconductor memory structure
A method for forming a semiconductor memory structure includes forming a hard mask layer over a semiconductor substrate, etching the hard mask layer to form first mask patterns and second mask patterns, transferring the first and second mask patterns to the substrate to form semiconductor blocks, and thinning down the second mask element. After thinning down the second mask element, the thickness of the second mask elements is less than the thickness of the first mask elements. The method also includes forming a first capping layer to laterally extend over the first mask patterns and the second mask patterns, and etching the first capping layer and the second mask pattern to form contact openings. |
| US11205570B2 |
Method for manufacturing single-grained nanowire and method for manufacturing semiconductor device employing same single-grained nanowire
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor nanowire semiconductor device is described. The method includes forming an amorphous channel material layer on a substrate, patterning the channel material layer to form semiconductor nanowires extending in a lateral direction on the substrate, and forming a cover layer covering an upper of the semiconductor nanowire. The cover layer and the nanowire are patterned to form a trench exposing a side surface of an one end of the semiconductor nanowire and a catalyst material layer is formed in contact with a side surface of the semiconductor nanowire, and metal induced crystallization (MIC) by heat treatment is performed to crystallize the semiconductor nanowire in a length direction of the nanowire from the one end of the semiconductor nanowire in contact with the catalyst material. |
| US11205566B2 |
Apparatus and method for contactless sampling of solutions and interface to mass spectrometry
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising focusing electromagnetic radiation into a region of a liquid sample 3 below a surface of the liquid sample so as to generate one or more bubbles 4. The one or more bubbles 4 rise to the surface of the liquid whereupon one or more droplets of liquid 6 are emitted from the surface of the liquid sample. The method further comprises directing the one or more emitted droplets 6 towards an inlet of a mass spectrometer 8. |
| US11205565B2 |
Non-intrusive laser-based technique for monitor and control of protein denaturation on surfaces
A method and apparatus for monitoring and/or controlling the extent of denaturation and/or bond cleavages of proteins on any surface (e.g., biological tissues, biofilms, etc.). In one embodiment, a low power laser (e.g., a 5 mW, 362 nm diode laser) is directed through a biological sample to a photodetector. The sample is heated by a set of radiant heaters to between about 220° C. and about 250° C. in a time period of between 10 seconds to 60 seconds. The baseline transmissivity of the sample is monitored continuously throughout treatment of the biological sample via continuous monitoring of the signal voltage detected at the photodetector. Upon detection of increase in relative transmissivity in the biological sample, the heating treatment is concluded and the biological sample is removed for in situ protein identification as part of an imaging MALDI-MS measurement. |
| US11205561B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus
In a plasma processing apparatus of an exemplary embodiment, a radio frequency power source generates radio frequency power for plasma generation. A bias power source periodically applies a pulsed negative direct-current voltage to a lower electrode to draw ions into a substrate support. The radio frequency power source supplies the radio frequency power as one or more pulses in a period in which the pulsed negative direct-current voltage is not applied to the lower electrode. The radio frequency power source stops supply of the radio frequency power in a period in which the pulsed negative direct-current voltage is applied to the lower electrode. Each of the one or more pulses has a power level that gradually increases from a point in time of start thereof to a point in time when a peak thereof appears. |
| US11205559B2 |
System and method for alignment of cathodoluminescence optics
Systems and methods for automated alignment of cathodoluminescence (CL) optics in an electron microscope relative to a sample under inspection are described. Accurate placement of the sample and the electron beam landing position on the sample with respect to the focal point of a collection mirror that reflects CL light emitted by the sample is critical to optimizing the amount of light collected and to preserving information about the angle at which light is emitted from the sample. Systems and methods are described for alignment of the CL mirror in the XY plane, which is orthogonal to the axis of the electron beam, and for alignment of the sample with respect to the focal point of the CL mirror along the Z axis, which is coincident with the electron beam. |
| US11205556B2 |
Small portable night vision system
Night vision systems that are compact in size due to one or more of the design of the optical system and light detector module. |
| US11205555B2 |
Electron emission element and method for manufacturing same
An electron emission element of the present invention includes a lower electrode, a surface electrode, and a silicone resin layer disposed between the lower electrode and the surface electrode, wherein the surface electrode includes a silver layer, and the silver layer is in contact with the silicone resin layer. |
| US11205554B1 |
Method for tuning work function using surface photovoltage and producing ultra-low-work-function surfaces, and devices operational therewith
The embodiments provide a thermionic emission device and a method for tuning a work function in a thermionic emission device is provided. The method includes illuminating an N type semiconductor material of a first member of a thermionic emission device, wherein a work function of the N type semiconductor material is lowered by the illuminating. The method includes collecting, on one of the first member or a second member of the thermionic emission device, electrons emitted from one of the first member or the second member. |
| US11205553B2 |
Electrical switching device with separable contacts and circuit breaker comprising such a device
Electrical switching device, including separable electrical contacts, a switching mechanism and a control lever. This switching mechanism is designed to move the separable contacts reversibly and selectively between a stable closed state and a stable open state. The control lever can be moved between a closing position and an opening position. The switching mechanism is configured to move the separable contacts from their closed state to their open state when the lever is moved from its closing position to its opening position, and to this end includes a spring which, between the closing position of the lever and a first intermediate position referred to as the “dead point”, exerts a force that opposes the movement of the lever and which, between the dead-point position and the opening position of the lever, exerts a force that drives the contacts towards the open position. The switching mechanism comprises a holding device which is configured to prevent the switching mechanism from moving the contacts towards their open position when the lever is moved from the closing position to the opening position and when the lever has not passed a second intermediate position located between the dead-point position and the opening position. |
| US11205552B2 |
Hybrid arc/ground fault circuit interrupter and methods of operation thereof
In one example, a hybrid circuit interrupter may include a three-coil architecture, first coil circuitry, leakage detection circuitry, and a main processing circuit including a processor. The three-coil architecture may include a coil housing, three coils, and a plurality of coil assembly conductors. The coils may be disposed within the coil housing. The coil assembly conductors may be at least partially disposed within the coil housing. The first coil circuitry may be connected to the first coil and may generate first coil signals. The leakage detection circuitry may be connected to the other two coils and may generate a leakage signal. The processor may receive the first coil signals, receive the leakage signal, determine whether an arc fault exists based on the first coil signals, determine whether a ground fault exists based on the leakage signal, and generate a first trigger signal if a fault is determined to exist. |
| US11205550B2 |
Linkage for fuse switch
A rotatable switching member includes a support bracket having a first arm, a second arm, and a middle portion, and a switch flange. The rotatable switching member further includes a switch bracket connected to the middle portion of the support bracket having an attachment portion and an engagement portion. A handle is fixed to the first arm of the support bracket to rotate the rotatable switching member. |
| US11205548B2 |
Waterproof button assembly
A waterproof button assembly. The waterproof button assembly may include a housing including an opening and a button. The button may be positioned at least partially within the housing via the opening. The assembly may also include a plurality of engagement components positioned on opposite-distal ends of the button. The plurality of engagement components may be configured to retain the button within the housing. The engagement components may extend distally from the button, such that a portion of the engagement components may be positioned within apertures formed in the sidewall of the housing. The assembly may also include a plurality of supports, a tactile dome in contact with the button and at least one of the plurality of supports. A sensing component of the assembly may be positioned adjacent the housing and in alignment with the button and/or tactile dome for sensing actuation of the button within the assembly. |
| US11205547B2 |
Intelligent switch for automotive application
An intelligent switch for automotive application. In particular, a resettable and/or programmable fuse comprising at least one inlet, at least one outlet, and a switch circuit electrically connecting the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet. In order to provide an intelligent switch for automotive applications that provides more than one switching function, the switch circuit comprises at least two switching submodules selected from an electromechanical switching submodule and an electric switching submodule. The intelligent switch further comprises a control unit for controlling an operating state of the at least two switching submodules. |
| US11205546B2 |
Switch
A switch includes a first fixed contact, a second fixed contact, a movable contact, a drive shaft, a first outside yoke, a second outside yoke, a first inside yoke, a second inside yoke, and a permanent magnet. The permanent magnet magnetically couples the first outside yoke, the second outside yoke, the first inside yoke, and the second inside yoke, and produces a magnetic field component in a direction in which the first fixed contact point and the second fixed contact point are aligned, between the first fixed contact point and the first movable contact point and between the second fixed contact point and the second movable contact point. |
| US11205544B2 |
Sensor
According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a base body, a first structure body, and a second structure body. The first structure body includes a first fixed portion, a first conductive portion, and first electrodes. The first fixed portion is fixed to the base body. The first conductive portion is held by the first fixed portion. The first conductive portion is separated from the base body in a first direction. The first electrodes are held by the first conductive portion. A distance between the base body and the first electrodes is changeable. The second structure body includes a second conductive portion and second electrodes. The second conductive portion is fixed to the base body. The second electrodes are held by the second conductive portion. One of the second electrodes is between the one of the first electrodes and the other one of the first electrodes. |
| US11205543B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including a dielectric layer, and first and second internal electrodes disposed to oppose each other with the dielectric layer therebetween; first and second external electrodes having first electrode layers electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, and second electrode layers disposed on the first electrode layers, respectively; and an auxiliary electrode disposed between an end portion of each of the first electrode layers and an inflection point of the ceramic body. A width of the auxiliary electrode is in a range of 20 to 70% of a width of a margin portion of the first or second internal electrode. |
| US11205538B2 |
Inductor and method of manufacturing the same
An inductor includes: a body including a support member including a through-hole and a via hole, an insulator disposed on the support member and including a first opening exposing portions of the support member, and a coil pattern disposed in the first opening, and including a plurality of layers including a seed layer in contact with the support member; and an external electrode disposed on an external surface of the body and electrically connected to the coil pattern. The support member may have a multilayer structure of at least first and second insulating layers, and the via hole may penetrate through both of the first and second insulating layers. |
| US11205537B2 |
Magnetic component, resonant electrical circuit, electrical converter and electrical system
The magnetic component comprises: a magnetic core comprising an E-shaped lower part, an E-shaped upper part and an I-shaped central part closing both the lower part and the upper part such that the lower part and the central part define two lower magnetic circuits and the upper part and the central part define two upper magnetic circuits; a first coil and a second coil wound around a central branch of the lower part to be coupled to one another; a third coil wound around a central branch of the upper part, the third coil being connected in series with the second coil. The central part has a reluctance lower than both that of the lower part along each lower magnetic circuit and that of the upper part along each upper magnetic circuit. |
| US11205530B1 |
Technique for constructing high gradient insulators
A process for constructing a high-tensile strength, high-gradient insulator (HGI) may include stacking alternating layers of conductors and insulators, and vacuum pressure potting the stacked layers onto an insulating rod. The process may also include post machining the stacked layers to form a complete assembly of the HGI. |
| US11205527B2 |
Wire harness and method for manufacturing thereof
A wire harness includes a functional exterior component, at least one electric wire, and at least one thread. The functional exterior component is shaped into a sheet. The electric wire is disposed on one main surface of the functional exterior component. With the thread the electric wire is sewn on the functional exterior component. |
| US11205526B2 |
Linear low-density polyethylene polymers suitable for use on cables
Linear low-density polyethylene polymers used to form covering layers for cables are disclosed. Such polymers exhibit certain molecular weight distributions suitable to form the covering layers for the cable. The polymer can be crosslinked to exhibit suitable properties including retained elongation at break values and hot set values. |
| US11205524B2 |
Integrated atomic beam collimator and methods thereof
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to atomic beam collimators and, more particularly, to miniaturized coplanar atomic beam collimators. In some examples, an atomic beam collimator may comprise an atomic channel disposed in a substrate. Additional atomic channels may be provided coplanar with the first atomic channel in the substrate. Some examples include a series of cascaded atomic channels, each cascaded atomic channel separated by a gap. The gaps may reduce the off-flux atoms in the output of the atomic collimator. In some examples, a system may comprise an atomic collimator, an atom source, and/or a microelectromechanical system device. These component can be separate devices or can be incorporated into a common substrate. |
| US11205523B2 |
Method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy
A method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear reactor generated energy including diverting a selected portion of energy from a portion of a nuclear reactor system to an auxiliary thermal reservoir and, responsive to a shutdown event, supplying a portion of the diverted selected portion of energy to an energy conversion system of the nuclear reactor system. |
| US11205522B2 |
Apparatus and method to remotely inspect piping and piping attachment welds
An apparatus and method to remotely perform automated piping and piping attachment weld inspections. The apparatus has two spaced positioning arms that rotate out from one side of a frame structure and a kicker arm that rotates out from an opposite side of the frame structure at a location between the two positioning arms. The positioning arms and the kicker arm wedge the frame structure between an object to be scanned and an opposing structure. A scanning subassembly supported on the frame structure is configured to pivot and move in an appropriate direction and to pilot a transducer around the surface of the object to be scanned. |
| US11205519B2 |
Methods, computer-accessible medium and systems to model disease progression using biomedical data from multiple patients
An exemplary embodiment of system, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided to reconstruct models based on the probabilistic notion of causation, which can differ fundamentally from that can be based on correlation. A general reconstruction setting can be complicated by the presence of noise in the data, owing to the intrinsic variability of biological processes as well as experimental or measurement errors. To gain immunity to noise in the reconstruction performance, it is possible to use a shrinkage estimator. On synthetic data, the exemplary procedure can outperform currently known procedures and, for some real cancer datasets, there are biologically significant differences revealed by the exemplary reconstructed progressions. The exemplary system, method and computer accessible medium can be efficient even with a relatively low number of samples and its performance quickly converges to its asymptote as the number of samples increases. |
| US11205513B2 |
Real-time monitoring systems and methods in a healthcare environment
An apparatus for real time monitoring of a patient is provided and includes a memory element for storing data, a processor that executes instructions associated with the data, an interface that receives sensor data from a sensor that takes measurements from the patient and sends the sensor data according to the sensor's measurement latency, a latency calculator that frequently calculates a latency threshold that varies according to at least a health status of the patient, a timer that continuously monitors the sensor's measurement latency, a comparator that frequently compares the sensor's measurement latency with the calculated latency threshold, and a feedback module that automatically changes the sensor's measurement latency to match with the calculated latency threshold. |
| US11205510B2 |
Systems and methods for visualizing and managing telepresence devices in healthcare networks
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of systems and methods for visualizing, analyzing, and managing telepresence devices operating in a telepresence network of healthcare facilities. The visualization and management system for telepresence devices may display a first viewing level that includes a geographical representation of the location of various telepresence devices. A user may selectively view a global view of all telepresence devices, telepresence devices within a particular region, and/or the details of a particular telepresence device. A user may also access a viewing level of a network of healthcare facilities. The user may view, analyze, and/or manage the healthcare network, telepresence device network, individual telepresence devices, connection rules, and/or other aspects of the healthcare network using the geographical visualization and management tool described herein. |
| US11205506B2 |
Verifying natural language processing in health care
A computer system visualizes medical information for a patient. Natural language processing techniques are applied to identify medical concepts within unstructured text of medical information. Values for the identified medical concepts are derived from combinations of values within the medical information. A visualization is generated for a selected derived value, wherein the visualization includes a plurality of interconnected nodes each associated with a corresponding information source utilized for determining the selected derived value, and wherein paths of the interconnected nodes in the visualization indicate the corresponding information sources utilized to produce the selected derived value. Information of a selected node of the visualization is updated based on user verification of the information of the selected node. The visualization is modified based on the updated information. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for visualizing medical information for a patient in substantially the same manner described above. |
| US11205505B2 |
Medical services tracking system and method
Some embodiments include a system and computer-implemented method for aggregating and tracking medical delivery to a patient including a non-transitory computer-readable medium in data communication with at least one processor, where the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes software instructions for a medical services tracking system and method. Upon execution of the software instructions, information from a patient database or server can be received and displayed a medical record dashboard. A user can view and edit access to the information, and a user selectable link can display medical record information. The system and method enable auto-population of medical data entry fields based at least one part on at least one claim made or billing signed off by a physician for at least one medical service or procedure previously provided to or performed on at least one patient. |
| US11205503B2 |
Drug substance interaction and generic substance information retrieval
A data processing system configured for computer visualization of drugs for drug interaction information retrieval is disclosed. For each of multiple different substances and using a camera within the mobile or other computing device, imagery of at least one external characteristic of a physical body of the substance is acquired. An identity of each of the multiple different substances is determined based upon the at least one external characteristic from the acquired imagery. Drug interaction data is retrieved for each of the multiple different substances using the determined identities. Drug interaction data for at least one of the multiple different substances is correlated with at least one other of the multiple different substances. At least one generic substance and/or cost information of at least one of the multiple different substances is identified. The correlated drug interaction data, the at least one generic substance, and/or the cost information are displayed. |
| US11205501B2 |
Determination of frequency distribution of nucleotide sequence variants
Determination of a frequency distribution of nucleotide sequence variants—differing from a nucleotide reference by at least one intermediate part—of a sample is disclosed. A reference set of sequence read data is generated by performing a plurality of reference sequence reads (each having a read start site, RSS) for each sequence reference variant of a reference variant list. It is determined (for each RSS and for the intermediate part of each sequence reference variant) whether the intermediate part is detectable by corresponding reference sequence read. A sample set of sequence read data is generated by performing sample sequence reads for the sample, and a total number of occurrences in the sample set is determined for each RSS and for the intermediate part of each sequence reference variant. The frequency distribution of the plurality of nucleotide sequence variants is determined based on the number of occurrences determined for an RSS where the intermediate part is detectable. |
| US11205495B1 |
Read disturb mitigation based on signal and noise characteristics of memory cells collected for read calibration
A memory device to perform a read disturb mitigation operation. For example, the memory device can measure signal and noise characteristics of a group of memory cells to determine an optimized read voltage of the group of memory cells and determine a margin of read disturb accumulated in the group of memory cells. Subsequently, the memory device can identify the group of memory cells for the read disturb mitigation operation based on the margin of read disturb and a predetermined threshold. |
| US11205489B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus and continuous read method
A semiconductor storage apparatus capable of realizing continuous read with high speed is provided. A continuous read method of a NAND flash memory includes: a step for holding setting information related to a read time of a memory cell array in continuous read in a register; a step for reading data from the memory cell array in the read time based on the setting information; a step for holding the read data in a latch (L1) and a latch (L2); and a step for outputting the data held synchronously with an external clock signal corresponding to the setting information. |
| US11205484B2 |
Non-volatile memory device and operation method of the same
A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a page buffer circuit, and a control logic circuit. The page buffer circuit includes a plurality of first page buffers and a plurality of second page buffers, each including a sense latch, a data latch, and a cache latch. The sense latch senses data stored in the memory cell array and dumps the sensed data to the data latch, the data latch dumps the data dumped by the sense latch to the cache latch, and the cache latch transmits the data dumped by the data latch to a data I/O circuit. While the cache latch included in at least one of the plurality of first page buffers is performing a data transmit operation, the data latch included in at least one of the plurality of second page buffers performs a data dumping operation. |
| US11205483B2 |
Memory system having dies and operating method of the memory system outputting a command in response to a status of a selected die
A memory system includes: a plurality of dies including a plurality of memory blocks; and a memory controller for outputting a normal program command when a die including a selected memory block is a normal die having an electrical characteristic higher than or equal to a reference value in a program operation, and outputting a partial program command and a partial erase command when the die including the selected memory block is a low status die having an electrical characteristic lower than the reference value. |
| US11205481B2 |
Memory devices for pattern matching
Memory devices might include control circuitry that, when checking for a match of a stored digit of data and a received digit of data, might be configured to cause the memory device to apply a first voltage level to a control gate of a first memory cell of a memory cell pair, apply a second voltage level different than the first voltage level to a control gate of a second memory cell of that memory cell pair, determine whether that memory cell pair is deemed to be activated or deactivated in response to applying the first and second voltage levels, and deem a match between the stored digit of data and a received digit of data in response, in part, to whether that memory cell pair is deemed to be deactivated. |
| US11205478B2 |
Memory device and a method for forming the memory device
A memory device may include a substrate having conductivity regions and a channel region. A first voltage line may be arranged over the channel region. Second, third, and fourth voltage lines may each be electrically coupled to a conductivity region. Resistive units may be arranged between the third voltage line and the conductivity region electrically coupled to the third voltage line, and between the fourth voltage line and the conductivity region electrically coupled to the fourth voltage line. A resistance adjusting element may have at least a portion arranged between one of the resistive units and one of the conductivity regions. An amount of the resistance adjusting element between the first resistive unit and the conductivity region electrically coupled to the third voltage line may be different from that between the second resistive unit and the conductivity region electrically coupled to the fourth voltage line. |
| US11205477B2 |
Memory with expandable row width
A method for operating a memory device includes initiating an access operation to a corresponding row of an array of bit cells of the memory device. Responsive to an expansion mode signal having a first state, the method further includes dynamically operating each column of a plurality of columns of the array to access each bit cell of a corresponding row within the plurality of columns during the access operation. Alternatively, responsive to the expansion mode state signal having a second state different than the first state, the method includes dynamically operating each column of a first subset of columns of the plurality of columns to access each bit cell of a corresponding row within the first subset of columns during the access operation, and maintaining each column of a second subset of columns of the plurality of columns in a static state during the access operation. |
| US11205476B1 |
Read data processing circuits and methods associated with computational memory cells
A read register is provided that captures and stores the read result on a read bit line connected to a set of computational memory cells. The read register may be implemented in the set of computational memory cell to enable the logical XOR, logical AND, and/or logical OR accumulation of read results in the read register. The set of computational memory cells with the read register provides a mechanism for performing complex logical functions across multiple computational memory cells connected to the same read bit line. |
| US11205472B2 |
Memory device and method of operating the same
Provided herein is a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device may include a string having a plurality of memory cells in which data is stored, and a page buffer coupled to the string through a bit line and configured to precharge the bit line, or sense voltage or current of the bit line. The page buffer may include a first switch configured to transfer the voltage of the bit line to a common sensing node in response to a page buffer sensing signal, a second switch configured to transfer a supply voltage to the common sensing node in response to a common sensing signal, and a third switch configured to couple the common sensing node to a latch in response to a sensing signal and adjust voltage of the common sensing node depending on a voltage level of the sensing signal. |
| US11205471B2 |
Memory device and operating method thereof
A memory device includes a memory cell array including cell strings, respectively connected between string select lines and ground select lines, and wordlines connected to memory cells, a control logic to generate a first voltage provided to the string select lines, and a second voltage provided to the ground select lines, and to adjust voltage levels of the first and second voltages to control a channel boosting level of the cell strings, and a row decoder to provide a read voltage, a read pass voltage, and the first and second voltages to the memory cell array under control of the control logic. The control logic generates one of the first and second voltage as a pre-pulse voltage. The row decoder provides a third voltage to at least one of the wordlines. |
| US11205467B2 |
Ferroelectric memory and logic cell and operation method
One example provides a memory cell including a node, and a layer stack including a first electrode, a second electrode connected to the node, and a polarizable material layer disposed between the first and second electrodes and having at least two polarization states. A first transistor includes a source, a drain, and a gate terminal, with the gate terminal connected to the node. A selector element includes at least a first terminal and a second terminal, with the second terminal connected to the node. |
| US11205466B2 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor logic device
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device based on the spin orbit torque (SOT) effect, according to an example of the present invention, comprises the first electrode; and the first cell and the second cell connected to the first electrode, wherein the first and the second cells are arranged on the first electrode separately; the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) having a free magnetic layer and a pinned magnetic layer with a dielectric layer in between them; the magnetization direction of the free magnetic layer is changed when the current applied on the first electrode exceeds critical current value of each cell; and the critical current value of the first cell is different from that of the second cell. |
| US11205463B2 |
Asynchronous FIFO circuit
An asynchronous FIFO circuit of the present invention generates a write clock and a read clock from the same input clock, and generates a write control signal in synchronization with the write clock and a read control signal in synchronization with the read clock. The asynchronous FIFO circuit includes a data read-write unit having a plurality of data holding units. The data read-write unit writes data into one of the data holding units for each write clock on the basis of the write control signal, and reads data from one of the data holding units for each read clock on the basis of the read control signal. |
| US11205462B2 |
Circuit for generating and trimming phases for memory cell read operations
A read signal generator generates read signals to control read operations of a memory array. The read signal generator can be selectively controlled to generate an oscillating signal having a period that corresponds to a feature one of the read signals. The oscillating signal is passed to a frequency divider that divides the oscillating signal and provides the divided oscillating signal to an output pad. The frequency of the oscillating signal can be measured at the output pad. The frequency of the oscillating signal, and the duration of the read signal feature can be calculated from the frequency of the oscillating signal. The read signal feature can then be adjusted if needed. |
| US11205458B1 |
System and method for the collaborative creation of a final, automatically assembled movie
A system and method for collaboratively creating an automatically assembled movie is presented herein. The system and method includes identifying a predefined movie script, wherein the predefined movie script defines or includes a plurality of character roles, and for each of the plurality of character roles, includes at least one clip request. Users of the system and method are invited to join a movie making group, and once joined, are assigned to one of the character roles. For each of the character roles, the system and method will receive a raw or pre-processed media clip recorded by the user's device and which corresponds with the clip request. The pre-processed media clips are then automatically processed by the system and method according to script rules by applying filters or visual effects. The processed media files are the automatically combined according to script rules to create the final movie. |
| US11205457B2 |
Automatic detection and remediation of video irregularities
An embodiment includes receiving, by one or more processors, a scene reference that corresponds to a reference state of the scene. The embodiment also includes comparing, by one or more processors, the candidate portion and the scene reference such that the comparing provides an indication of an irregularity in the candidate portion. The embodiment also includes responsive to the indication of the irregularity in the candidate portion, automatically evaluating the irregularity, using one or more processors, such that the evaluating generates a severity value associated with the irregularity. The embodiment also includes, responsive to the generating of the severity value, automatically initiating, by one or more processors, a selected remedial action from among a plurality of remedial action options based at least in part on the severity value, wherein the automatic initiation of the selected remedial action includes automatic actuation of an element of video production equipment. |
| US11205453B2 |
Hard disk substrate and hard disk device including the hard disk substrate
Provided are a thin hard disk substrate that is scratch-resistant on the disk surface and wobbles less during rotation and a hard disk device including such a hard disk substrate. The hard disk substrate 1 includes an aluminum alloy substrate 2 having NiP plating films 3 on the surfaces. The aluminum alloy substrate 2 has the Vickers hardness of 60 Hv or more, the ratio between the thickness of the NiP plating films 3 and the thickness of the Al alloy substrate 2 is 3.8% or more, the Young's modulus of the hard disk substrate 1 is 74.6 GPa or more, and the Vickers hardness of the hard disk substrate 1 is 293 Hv or more. |
| US11205449B2 |
Multi-layer PZT microacuator with active PZT constraining layers for a DSA suspension
A PZT microactuator such as for a hard disk drive has a restraining layer bonded on its side that is opposite the side on which the PZT is mounted. The restraining layer comprises a stiff and resilient material such as stainless steel. The restraining layer can cover most or all of the top of the PZT, with an electrical connection being made to the PZT where it is not covered by the restraining layer. The restraining layer reduces bending of the PZT as mounted and hence increases effective stroke length, or reverses the sign of the bending which increases the effective stroke length of the PZT even further. The restraining layer can be one or more active layers of PZT material that act in the opposite direction as the main PZT layer. The restraining layer(s) may be thinner than the main PZT layer. |
| US11205439B2 |
Regulating speech sound dissemination
A method includes obtaining first audio data corresponding to speech occurring within a communication area. The first audio data is obtained from one or more interior locations inside the communication area. The method includes obtaining second audio data corresponding to the speech. The second audio data is obtained from one or more exterior locations outside of the communication area. The method includes calculating a first intelligibility based on the first audio data and calculating a second intelligibility based on the second audio data. The method includes comparing the first intelligibility to the second intelligibility, and determining, based on the comparing, that the second intelligibility exceeds a threshold. The method includes generating a set of countermeasures in response to the determining. The set of countermeasures includes at least one modification to a parameter of the speech. The method includes providing at least one countermeasure of the set of countermeasures. |
| US11205434B2 |
Audio encoders, audio decoders, systems, methods and computer programs using an increased temporal resolution in temporal proximity of onsets or offsets of fricatives or affricates
An audio encoder for providing an encoded audio information on the basis of an input audio information has a bandwidth extension information provider configured to provide bandwidth extension information using a variable temporal resolution and a detector configured to detect an onset of a fricative or affricate. The audio encoder is configured to adjust a temporal resolution used by the bandwidth extension information provider such that bandwidth extension information is provided with an increased temporal resolution at least for a predetermined period of time before a time at which an onset of a fricative or affricate is detected and for a predetermined period of time following the time at which the onset of the fricative or affricate is detected. Alternatively or in addition, the bandwidth extension information is provided with an increased temporal resolution in response to a detection of an offset of a fricative or affricate. Audio encoders and methods use a corresponding concept. |
| US11205431B2 |
Method, apparatus and device for presenting state of voice interaction device, and storage medium
A method and apparatus for presenting a state of a voice interaction device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a current state of the voice interaction device; determining a current presentation mode corresponding to the current state, by searching a pre-stored correspondence relation between a state and a presentation mode according to the current state; and presenting the current state of the voice interaction device in the determined current presentation mode. In embodiments, a current state of a voice interaction device is presented to a user, and necessary usage recommendations and prompts are provided to a user, thereby improving user experience. |
| US11205426B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and program
An information processing device according to an aspect of the present technology includes a user information acquiring unit, an object information acquiring unit, and an output control unit. The user information acquiring unit acquires information related to a gaze position of a user while a substance of content is being automatically reproduced, in accordance with a first control amount, from an audio source located in a space in which the user is located. The object information acquiring unit acquires position information related to the audio source and position information related to a first object gazed at by the user. The output control unit performs first output control of providing the user with the substance of the content in accordance with a second control amount different from the first control amount in a case where the gaze position within the first object moves toward the audio source. |
| US11205418B2 |
Monotone speech detection
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for detecting monotone speech. In aspects, audio data provided by a user may be received a device. Pitch values may be calculated and/or extracted from the audio data. The non-zero pitch values may be divided into clusters. For each cluster, a Pitch Variation Quotient (PVQ) value may be calculated. The weighted average of PVQ values across the clusters may be calculated and compared to a threshold for determining monotone speech. Based on the comparison, the audio data may be classified as monotone or non-monotone and an indication of the classification may be provided to the user in real-time via a user interface. Upon the completion of the audio session in which the audio data is received, feedback for the audio data may be provided to the user via the user interface. |
| US11205412B1 |
Hybrid active noise cancellation filter adaptation
An apparatus includes a hybrid adaptive active noise control unit (HAANCU) configured to provide an anti-noise signal to an ear speaker from a reference noise signal of a reference microphone and an error signal of an error microphone, a decimator configured to decimate the reference noise signal and error signal, an adaptive hybrid ANC training unit (AHANCTU) including at least one noise cancellation filter and a filter configured to provide a feedback signal to the at least one noise cancellation, which trains parameters of the AHANCTU based on the decimated reference noise signal, the decimated error signal, and the feedback signal. The apparatus further includes a rate conversion unit configured to up-sample the parameters and update the HAANCU with the up-sampled parameters. |
| US11205411B2 |
Audio signal processing method and device, terminal and storage medium
A method for processing audio signal includes that: audio signals emitted respectively from at least two sound sources are acquired through at least two microphones to obtain respective original noisy signals of the at least two microphones; sound source separation is performed on the respective original noisy signals of the at least two microphones to obtain respective time-frequency estimated signals of the at least two sound sources; a mask value of the time-frequency estimated signal of each sound source in the original noisy signal of each microphone is determined based on the respective time-frequency estimated signals; the respective time-frequency estimated signals of the at least two sound sources are updated based on the respective original noisy signals of the at least two microphones and the mask values; and the audio signals emitted respectively from the at least two sound sources are determined. |
| US11205409B2 |
Programmable signal processing and musical instrument setup system for stringed musical instruments, and method for programming and operating the system
A programmable signal processing and musical instrument setup system for stringed musical instruments, comprising at least one analog signal processing circuit, a control circuit operably coupled to at least one analog signal processing circuit, and a storage unit operably coupled to the control circuit, being arranged on the musical instrument for storing setup parameters for the musical instrument. The system comprises: a communication module with an individual identification information connected to the control circuit for enabling communication with an external programming device that has a storage unit configured for storing an individual identification information of at least one musical instrument, in association with the musical instrument in at least one configuration file. The external programming device is further configured for receiving and sending data to and from a selected musical instrument, when connected, wherein the data transferred to the musical instrument can be stored in the musical instrument and can be used after the external programming device is disconnected. |
| US11205408B2 |
Method and system for musical communication
Novel tools and techniques are provided for generating music, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for generating music associated with a state contained within a communication, for a user interface for generating music associated with a state, for generated music to reflect movement between states, and for generating music to guide a user toward a desired state. In various embodiments, a computing system might analyze a communication of a user to determine at least one state contained within the communication. The communication may be a sensor communication, a biometric/health communication, a voice communication, a numerical communication, a textual communication, a picture/video communication, etc. Based on the determined at least one state, the computing system might generate music associated with the state or continuously control the generation of music to guide a user toward a desired state. A user interface for generating music may also be provided. |
| US11205398B2 |
Evaluating and reducing myopiagenic effects of electronic displays
A system includes a full-color electronic display, an eye-tracking module arranged to track an eye of a viewer of the display during operation of the system, at least one programmable processor, and a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one programmable processor to perform operations, including: (i) assessing uncorrected image data with one or more image frames, including determining an initial color of pixels in an image frame; (ii) assessing, based on data from the eye-tracking module, a location on the display where the viewer's eye is looking; (iii) modifying a color of red pixels from its initial color to a modified red color based on the location of the pixel relative to the location on the display where the viewer's eye is looking and the initial color of the pixel; and (iv) displaying, on the display, the image frames in which the one or more pixels have the modified color and other pixels have their initial color. |
| US11205397B2 |
Data transmission device and data transmission method
A data transmission device includes a TypeC interface, a wireless module, a first data transformation chip and a microprocessor, wherein the TypeC interface is connected with the first data transformation chip, the first data transformation chip is connected with the TypeC interface and the microprocessor, and the microprocessor is connected with the wireless module. When the TypeC interface of the data transmission device is inserted into a user's terminal device, the data transmission device automatically obtains media data presented on the screen of the terminal device, and transmits the media data being converted and compressed, using the wireless module, to a data receiving device for presentation of the media data. |
| US11205396B2 |
Display panel, method for driving display panel, and display device
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a method for driving the display panel, and a display device. In embodiments of the present disclosure, the display panel includes a display area, where pixels arranged in an array are arranged in the display area, each pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and at least some sub-pixels among the sub-pixels included in each pixel have different colors. The driving method includes: driving, polarities of display signals inputted to some sub-pixels among the sub-pixels having the same color in at least one row of sub-pixels to be different. |
| US11205391B2 |
Image and audio processing apparatus and operating method of the same
Provided are an apparatus capable of dynamically controlling an image signal and an audio signal of content in units of content and an operating method of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a processor configured to detect characteristic information of an image signal of content based on analyzing the image signal in units of the content, detect characteristic information of an audio signal of the content based on analyzing the audio signal in the units of the content, and control the image signal in the units of the content based on the characteristic information of the image signal and the characteristic information of the audio signal to output the image signal, and control the audio signal in the units of the content based on the characteristic information of the image signal and the characteristic information of the audio signal to output the audio signal. |
| US11205387B2 |
Display device and electronic device
A display device that can be easily and more flexibly designed is provided. The display device includes a pixel circuit and a driver circuit in a display portion. The driver circuit includes a plurality of pulse output circuits. Each of the plurality of pulse output circuits has a function of driving a gate line. The pixel circuit is electrically connected to the gate line. Each of the plurality of pulse output circuits includes a first transistor. The pixel circuit includes a second transistor. A layer including the second transistor is over a layer including the first transistor, and the first transistor and the second transistor overlap with each other. |
| US11205382B2 |
Sensing circuit for OLED driver and OLED driver using the same
A sensing circuit for an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) driver includes a sample and hold circuit and a clamping circuit. The sample and hold circuit includes a capacitor. The clamping circuit, coupled to the sample and hold circuit, is configured to clamp a sensing voltage received by the sample and hold circuit to conform to a withstand voltage of the capacitor. |
| US11205380B2 |
Pixel that compensates for a threshold voltage of a driving transistor using a power source voltage and display device having the same
A pixel including: a light-emitting element; a first transistor including a first electrode coupled to a power source and a second electrode coupled to the light-emitting element; a first capacitor between a second and a third node; a second transistor between the third node and a data line and turned on by a scan signal; a third transistor between a first node and the second node and turned on by a first control signal; a fourth transistor between the power source and the third node and turned on by a second control signal; a fifth transistor between the power source and the first electrode of the first transistor and turned on by an emission control signal; a sixth transistor between the second node and the light-emitting element and turned on by a previous emission control signal; and a second capacitor between the power source and the first node. |
| US11205378B1 |
Dynamic uniformity compensation for electronic display
A system may include an electronic display panel having pixels, where each pixel emits light based on a respective programming signal applied to the pixel. The system may also include processing circuitry to determine a respective control signal upon which the respective programing signal for each pixel is based. The processing circuitry may determine each respective control signal based at least in part on approximations of respective pixel brightness-to-data relationship as defined by a function having variables stored in memory accessible to the processing circuitry. |
| US11205375B2 |
Pixel circuit having a voltage control circuit for light emitting element and display device
The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, a first voltage control circuit, a light-emitting control circuit, a second voltage control circuit, a control capacitor circuit and a reference voltage write circuit. The reference voltage write circuit is configured to write a reference voltage to the first electrode of the light-emitting element. The second voltage control circuit is configured to, under control of the first gate drive signal, control the second electrode of the light-emitting element to be coupled with the control node, thereby controlling the light-emitting element to be turned on, so that the control capacitor circuit is charged by the reference voltage, a potential at the control node is changed accordingly, until the light-emitting element is turned off. |
| US11205372B2 |
Source driving circuit, driving method and display device
A source driving circuit includes a buffer amplifier configured to generate a driving signal from an original driving signal. The buffer amplifier includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier. A high-level terminal of the first amplifier is coupled to the first power signal terminal, a low-level terminal is coupled to the second power signal terminal, and an output terminal is configured to output a positive polarity driving signal. A high-level terminal of the second amplifier is coupled to the third power signal terminal, a low-level terminal is coupled to the fourth power signal terminal, and an output terminal is configured to output a negative polarity driving signal. The voltage of the second power signal terminal is less than the voltage of the third power signal terminal. |
| US11205368B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device and a method of driving the same are described. The display device includes: an over driver to overdrive current frame data included in input image data to output overdriving frame data; a data driver to generate a data signal for the current frame data based on the overdriving frame data; and a display panel including a plurality of pixels to receive the data signal, the over driver may calculate a temporal change rate or a spatial change rate of the input image data, and output the overdriving frame data utilizing a reference formula having a first main parameter determined according to the calculated result. Therefore, overdriving may be performed dynamically according to the spatial change rate or the temporal change rate of the input image data. |
| US11205367B2 |
Display panel with adaptive sub-pixel arrangement
A display panel including a plurality of sub-pixel repeating units is provided. The sub-pixel repeating units are repeatedly arranged on the display panel. Each of the sub-pixel repeating units includes at least one first color sub-pixel and at least one second color sub-pixel. On the display panel, the adjacent first color sub-pixels form a first polygon, and the adjacent second color sub-pixels form a second polygon. The area of the first polygon is at least twice the area of the second polygon. |
| US11205366B2 |
Drive circuit and display panel
This application discloses a drive circuit and a display panel. The drive circuit includes a plurality of pixels, where the pixel includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel; and a switching circuit, where the first subpixel and the second subpixel are respectively connected to ground through the switching circuit. |
| US11205364B2 |
Gate driving circuit and display substrate
A gate driving circuit and a display substrate are provided. The gate driving circuit may provide a driving signal to gate lines, and include output units cascaded to each other and having a same circuit structure. Each output unit includes at least one output transistor, outputs the driving signal to a corresponding gate line through the output transistor, and all the at least one output transistor is coupled to one gate line. The output units are classified as first and second output units. A number of sub-pixels coupled to the gate line corresponding to each first output unit is greater than a number of sub-pixels coupled to the gate line corresponding to each second output unit, and an output capability of at least one output transistor of the first output unit is greater than an output capability of a corresponding output transistor of the second output unit. |
| US11205363B2 |
Electronic display cross-talk compensation systems and methods
An electronic display may include pixel circuitry to display an image based on image data compensated for voltage variations within the pixel circuitry. Image processing circuitry may generate a compensation value to compensate the image data for cross-talk (e.g., electromagnetic coupling between an electrode of touch sensor circuitry and an electrode of the pixel circuitry) that may cause the voltage variations. Additionally or alternatively, the image processing circuitry may generate another compensation value to compensate the image data for another cross-talk (e.g., electromagnetic coupling between two electrodes of the pixel circuitry). The image processing circuitry may generate the compensated image data based on the first compensation value and/or the second compensation value. |
| US11205359B2 |
Electrical level shifting chip and display device
An electrical level shifting chip and a display device are provided. The electrical level shifting chip includes an electrical level shifting module, an overcurrent protecting module, and a controlling module. The control module is configured to detect whether the electrical level shifting chip is in an electrostatic discharge test mode and to disable the overcurrent protecting module when the electrical level shifting chip is in the electrostatic discharge test mode. Avoid the overcurrent protecting module from being disturbed and causing malfunction during an electrostatic discharge test. |
| US11205358B2 |
Test circuit for preventing an electrostatic discharge device from electricity leakage and display panel having same
A test circuit for preventing an electrostatic discharge (ESD) device from electricity leakage and a display panel having the same are provided. The test circuit includes a switch module between the ESD device and the display panel to control an electrical connection between the ESD device and the display panel, and prevent the display panel from electricity leakage, so as to reduce power consumption. |
| US11205357B2 |
Display panel test circuit and display panel
The display panel test circuit includes a first signal line, a first control line and a plurality of switching units, the first signal line comprises a first sub-signal line, a second sub-signal line and a plurality of third sub-signal lines, two ends of each of the third sub-signal lines are connected to the first sub-signal line and the second sub-signal line respectively. Each switching unit includes a first switching device, a control end thereof is connected to the first control line, an input end thereof is connected to the first sub-signal line, the output end of the first switching device is a test signal output end of the switching unit to which the first switching device belongs, and a portion of the first sub-signal line between any two adjacent switching units is connected to at least one third sub-signal line. |
| US11205354B2 |
Three dimensional shape made from a sheet
An apparatus comprised of flexible gores that are serially connected to each other at their lateral adjoining edges. These gores have a hole in their polar region and a drawstring runs through the gores' holes such that, when the drawstring is pulled, the drawstring pulls the gores' polar regions together and a radial three dimensional shape forms. |
| US11205352B2 |
Real time progressive examination preparation platform system and method
A computer implemented system and method for providing dynamic examination preparation course content to users wherein a progressive content module in real time assigns difficulty values to questions according to previous users' answer and selects future questions for an individual user according to previous answers received from the user and pass prediction values assigned to the user. |
| US11205351B2 |
Dynamically controlling program flow of a testing application
Improved techniques for dynamically controlling a program flow of a testing application. The testing application administers an exam on a user interface (UI). A state for each question is monitored, where the state includes a viewed, answered, or unviewed state. A question's state changes based on whether interaction is detected for that question. While the testing application is administering the exam, user input triggers a pause to the administration. A popup window is displayed to show a first list of instructions, a second list identifying exam questions having the “viewed” state, and a confirmation UI element. After the confirmation UI element is selected, the UI is modified by occluding the exam questions, by displaying a resume UI element, and by displaying a timing UI element. Later, the testing application continues the test's administration, but restricts access to certain questions. |
| US11205350B2 |
IoT-driven proprioceptive analytics with automated performer feedback
A computer-implemented system and method receives an optimal maneuver profile (OMP) that is based on a maneuver profile (MP) comprising spatial information to perform a maneuver (M), and MP conditions associated with the MP. The method includes determining student conditions present at a student performance location, and then creating a target maneuver profile (TMP) for the student to perform. The TMP is based on an optimal maneuver profile (OMP) and factors in the conditions, professional conditions under which the OMP was created, and the student conditions. The student performance is measured and recorded in a student maneuver profile (SMP) that includes measured spatial information of the student performance. The method then compares the SMP with the TMP. Automated feedback is provided based on the comparing. |
| US11205349B2 |
System for online automated exam proctoring
Certain embodiments may be directed to a system and method for proctoring an exam, and more particularly, for online automated exam proctoring. A method may include checking a test-taker's computing device for compatibility, and for content that provide unauthorized aid to the test-taker during a testing session. The method may also include taking a photo of the test-taker, recording the test-taker by performing a room pan while analyzing the surrounds of the test-taker for unauthorized objects, and validating the identity of the test-taker by way of at least one of presenting challenge questions, obtaining voice biometrics, or obtaining keystroke biometrics. The method may further include recording the test-taker's audio or video and desktop feed, determining if the test-taker is exhibiting questionable behavior, and suspending the testing session if it is determined that the test-taker is exhibiting questionable behavior. |
| US11205343B2 |
Methods and systems for interpretating traffic signals and negotiating signalized intersections
Systems and methods are provided for interpreting traffic information by a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor, sensor data from one or more sensing devices of the vehicle, where the sensor data depicts a traffic device in an environment of the vehicle; receiving, by the processor, map data associated with the environment of the vehicle, where the map data includes traffic devices; matching, by the processor, the traffic device of the sensor data with a traffic device of the map data; determining, by the processor, a probability distribution of a traffic signal associated with the matched traffic devices based on a Hidden Markov model (HMM); and planning, by the processor, control of the vehicle based on the probability distribution. |
| US11205341B2 |
Movable body monitoring apparatus, and vehicle control system and traffic system using the movable body monitoring apparatus
A movable body monitoring apparatus is configured to be mounted on a movable body and to receive movement data related to movements of other movable bodies. The apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a generator, and a monitoring unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire the movement data on the other movable bodies. The generator is configured to generate, for low-speed movable bodies that are determined based on an actual speed or a type of the other movable bodies, a monitoring curve that curves along positions of a plurality of low-speed movable bodies. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor movements of the plurality of low-speed movable bodies based on a movement of the generated monitoring curve. |
| US11205340B2 |
Networked vehicle control systems to facilitate situational awareness of vehicles
A system and method are provided for improving vehicle awareness and safety by generating and transmitting alerts in response to detecting a hazard in the environment omnidirectional to a vehicle awareness system. Omnidirectional environment data, representing kinematic information pertaining to one or more physically detectable elements omnidirectional to the primary vehicle, is acquired by one or more sensors communicatively coupled to ta vehicle. The system analyzes the omnidirectional environment data to detect if one or more hazards in the omnidirectional environment data, representing a change in the kinetic behavior of the one or more physically detectable elements omnidirectional to the vehicle awareness system, has occurred. When the system detects one or more hazards in the omnidirectional environment data, the system generates and transmits an alert to vehicles, vehicle operators, mobile devices, or pedestrians at risk from the hazard. |
| US11205336B2 |
Seat
The present disclosure relates to a seat, comprising: a seat base; a seat frame; and a sitting posture detection device configured to alert a user when a sitting posture of the user sitting on the seat deviates from a standard sitting posture, wherein the sitting posture detection device includes: one or more distance sensors configured to measure a distance from the seat frame to one or more body parts of the user; and a processor configured to determine, according to the distance detected by the distance sensor, whether the sitting posture of the user deviates from the standard sitting posture, and issue an alarm information if the sitting posture of the user deviates from the standard sitting posture. |
| US11205332B2 |
Vehicle-mountable child protective device
A vehicle-mountable child protective device including a housing which is mountable onto a door of a vehicle and including a first housing portion, which is at least partially located within the vehicle when the device is mounted onto the vehicle and during device operation, and a second housing portion, which is at least partially located outside the vehicle when the device is mounted onto the vehicle and during device operation, a flag which is rotatably mounted via a flagpole onto the first housing portion and a flag positioning assembly at least partially within the first housing portion for automatically rotating the flag to a raised position outside of and above the vehicle upon opening of the door of the vehicle. |
| US11205323B2 |
System and method for providing a feature game
A gaming machine includes a credit input mechanism, a credit payout mechanism, a display device, a player interface, and a game controller executing instructions stored in a memory. The game controller establishes a credit balance in response to the credit input mechanism receiving a physical item with an associated credit value and initiates play of a game in response to a first input received via the player interface. The game controller spins virtual reels to select and display a first symbols at display positions on the display device. The first symbols are selected from non-configurable symbols and configurable symbols. The game controller determines that a prize, associated with an icon that has been split into a plurality of portions, has been won if variable components of the configurable symbols in the first symbols include each portion of the plurality of portions for the icon associated with the prize. |
| US11205322B2 |
Ticket management system
A ticket management system including a gaming establishment management tool, a gaming device, and a virtual wallet stored on a mobile device. A printer is located in a back office of the gaming establishment to print, store, track, and easily locate tickets. The tickets include financial transactional data, such as a cashout transaction, including a cashout amount and a gaming machine associative identifier. The accounting management tool and the virtual wallet exchange financial transaction data to properly record and display gaming account balances, gaming credits, and identifiers. The gaming establishment management tool, the gaming device, and the printer each include scanners, configured as validators, to validate a ticket, a gaming machine transaction, or a virtual wallet transaction respectively. |
| US11205319B2 |
System and method for synthetic image training of a neural network associated with a casino table game monitoring system
Disclosed are a system and method for training a neural network associated with a casino table game monitoring system. Synthetic images of objects extracted from a virtual table game environment are used to create a ground truth set, which is then used to train and test a neural network. When the neural network's classification of the extracted images is deemed accurate enough, the neural network may then be deployed in a casino to track the use of corresponding physical objects in real casino table game play as part of the casino table game monitoring system. |
| US11205314B2 |
Systems and methods for personalized intent prediction
Systems for personalized intent prediction may perform a process including receiving image data depicting the behavior of a person on approach toward a secure location, generating intent data including data representing a current trajectory of the person on the current approach, comparing the intent data with a personal statistical model for the person that includes data representing trajectories associated with historical approaches by the person toward the secure location and respective result data indicating whether the historical approach resulted in the person entering the secure location, determining, dependent on the comparing, a personalized intent score representing a likelihood that the person intends to enter the secure location on the current approach, and pre-emptively enabling, or refraining from pre-emptively enabling, entry to the secure location prior to the person reaching the secure location based on whether the personalized intent score meets or exceeds a predetermined minimum confidence threshold for enabling entry. |
| US11205313B2 |
Physical lock electronic interface tool
A physical lock interface system facilitates secure and remote control of assignment and enablement of physical lock systems. The system receives a request to enable a user to disable a physical lock during a particular range of time. The lock is associated with a geofence boundary defined by a geofence. During the range of time, the system monitors for a presence of the user within the geofence. In response to determining that the user is within the geofence during the range of time, the system transmits a communication to an application of a client device of the user. The application is configured to interact electronically with the physical lock and to cause the client device to display information identifying the physical lock based on the communication. The system detects an electronic signal initiated by the application while the user is within the geofence and disables the physical lock. |
| US11205312B2 |
Applying image analytics and machine learning to lock systems in hotels
A method of using image analytics and machine learning in a lock system includes receiving data describing access actions that are performed at an access control device based at least in part on a credential. The data includes, for each access action, a description of the access action, a timestamp, and an image of a person presenting the credential. The data is analysed to identify patterns of access. Facial characteristics of the person presenting the credential are identified. The credential is associated with the facial characteristics. It is detected, based at least in part on facial recognition and the facial characteristics, that the person is proximate to the access control device. An access action is performed at the access control device based on the detecting and the patterns of access, where the facial recognition is used in place of the credential to provide authorization to perform the access action. |
| US11205309B2 |
Augmented reality system and anchor display method thereof
An augmented reality system and an anchor display method thereof are provided. An environmental image is captured by an image capturing device disposed on a head-mounted device. A reference image block in the environmental image that matches a display image on a display is detected by performing feature matching between the environmental image and the display image. Position information of the reference image block in the environmental image is obtained. Depth information of the display is obtained according to an actual screen size of the display and a block size of the reference image block in the environmental image. At least one virtual object is displayed by the head-mounted device according to the position information and the depth information. The at least one virtual object is displayed as being anchored to at least one screen bezel of the display. |
| US11205308B1 |
Method and electronic apparatus of modifying three-dimensional model
A method and an electronic apparatus of modifying a three-dimensional model are provided. In the method, multiple two-dimensional images are obtained by scanning a real environment Real objects of the real environment are identified in the two-dimensional images. A three-dimensional model is generated based on the two-dimensional images. The three-dimensional model is related to the depth information of the real objects. A modifying operation for modifying one or more virtual objects in the three-dimensional model is received. The virtual objects are corresponding to one or more real objects. The modifying operation is mapped into the two-dimensional images based on the identified result of the real objects in the two-dimensional image and the depth information of the real objects, to generate a modified image. A modified three-dimensional model is generated based on the modified image, to provide a proper modified result. |
| US11205305B2 |
Presentation of three-dimensional video
In one embodiment, a method includes presenting to a user, on a display of a head-worn client computing device, a three-dimensional video including images of a real-life scene that is remote from the user's physical environment. The method also includes presenting to the user, on the display of the head-worn client computing device, a graphical object including an image of the user's physical environment or a virtual graphical object. |
| US11205301B2 |
Systems and methods for optimizing a model file
Systems and methods for optimizing a model file include an occlusion reduction process. The occlusion reduction process includes acts of: (i) identifying points on a mesh section of a model, (ii) casting a set of rays toward the points, (iii) determining a number of rays that reach the points without being occluded by a portion of the model or a portion of another object, (iv) determining occlusion values for the points based on the number of rays that reach the points without being occluded; (v) determining whether the occlusion values for the points satisfy a predetermined occlusion threshold value; (vi) removing the mesh section from the model in response to determining that the occlusion values satisfy the predetermined occlusion threshold value, and (vii) refraining from removing the mesh section from the model in response to determining that the occlusion values fail to satisfy the predetermined occlusion threshold value. |
| US11205298B2 |
Method and system for creating a virtual 3D model
There is provided a method for creating a voxel occupancy model. The voxel occupancy model is representative of a region of space which can be described using a three-dimensional voxel array. The region of space contains at least part of an object. The method comprises receiving first image data, the first image data being representative of a first view of the at least part of an object and comprising first image location data, and receiving second image data, the second image data being representative of a second view of the at least part of an object and comprising second image location data. The method also comprises determining a first descriptor, the first descriptor describing a property of a projection of a first voxel of the voxel array in the first image data, and determining a second descriptor, the second descriptor describing a property of a projection of the first voxel in the second image data. The method also comprises assigning an occupancy value to the first voxel based on the first and second descriptors, the occupancy value being representative of whether the first voxel is occupied by the at least part of an object. |
| US11205297B1 |
Method and apparatus for recall volume rendering
This patent provides a method for performing enhanced viewing strategies available to a user wearing a head display unit with position and orientation tracking. Stereoscopic rendering is performed at a set of time points. A set of viewing parameters including position data and orientation data of said head display unit is stored in conjunction with time data. A process called recall rendering is performed and the stored parameters which will allow stereoscopic display of the volume along with the orientation data and position data of the head display unit. |
| US11205295B2 |
Ray tracing system architectures and methods
Aspects comprise systems implementing 3-D graphics processing functionality in a multiprocessing system. Control flow structures are used in scheduling instances of computation in the multiporcessing system, where different points in the control flow structure serve as points where deferral of some instances of computation can be performed in favor of scheduling other instances of computation. In some examples, the control flow structure identifies particular tasks, such as intersection testing of a particular portion of an acceleration structure, and a particular element of shading code. In some examples, the aspects are used in 3-D graphics processing systems that can perform ray tracing based rendering. |
| US11205291B2 |
Systems and methods for efficient management and modification of images
Methods and systems for efficient management and modification of images include receiving a first set of images from a seller system connected to the processor over the network interface; receiving an image sequence comprising references to the images in the first set of images and an order of appearance; storing the first set of images and the image sequence in the database; identifying one or more areas in the first set of images; removing the identified areas from the first set of images; and displaying the first set of images based on the image sequence. |
| US11205286B2 |
Techniques for optimizing creation of digital diagrams
A method and system for providing optimized digital drawings are provided. The method and system include receiving a request to perform a transformation operation on a digital drawing to optimize the digital drawing, providing a tool for selecting an area of the digital drawing to perform the transformation operation on, receiving a selection of the selected area of the digital drawing, transforming the selected area of the digital drawing to optimize the digital drawing, and displaying the transformed area of the digital drawing. The method may also include receiving an input for a digital drawing, identifying the input as related to coloring a portion of the digital drawing, identifying one or more boundary lines for the portion of the digital drawing, determining if the input includes a stroke that extends outside the one or more boundary lines, and removing a section of the stroke that extends outside the boundary lines. |
| US11205285B1 |
Method for splicing vector polygon regions with holes
The present invention discloses a method for splicing vector polygon regions with holes, comprising the steps of: acquiring any two vector polygon regions A1 and A2 to be spliced, the outer frame P1 of A1 and the outer frame P2 of A2; judging whether P1 and P2 have overlapping parts; storing the connection relationship of the non-overlapping edges and the non-overlapping edges of P1 and P2 in a data table T; performing intersection on the overlapping edges of P1 and P2 and storing the overlapping edges in the data table T; traversing the data table T, finding the connection relationship of edges, and constructing the splicing of vector polygon regions. According to the scheme, the present invention has the advantages of wide application range, high splicing efficiency and the like, and has high practical value and popularization value in the technical field of vector graphics splicing. |
| US11205284B2 |
Vehicle-mounted camera pose estimation method, apparatus, and system, and electronic device
Vehicle-mounted camera pose estimation methods, apparatuses, and systems, and electronic devices involve performing lane line detection of a road on which a vehicle drives on the basis of a video stream of the road acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera; obtaining horizon information of the road on which the vehicle drives according to a lane line detection result; and obtaining pose information of the vehicle-mounted camera according to the horizon information. |
| US11205282B2 |
Relocalization method and apparatus in camera pose tracking process and storage medium
This application discloses a repositioning method performed by an electronic device in a camera pose tracking process, belonging to the field of augmented reality (AR). The method includes: obtaining a current image acquired by the camera after an ith anchor image in a plurality of anchor images; obtaining an initial feature point and an initial pose parameter in a first anchor image in the plurality of anchor images in a case that the current image satisfies a repositioning condition; performing feature point tracking on the current image relative to the first anchor image, to obtain a target feature point; calculating a pose change amount of a camera from a first camera pose to a target camera pose according to the initial feature point and the target feature point; and performing repositioning according to the initial pose parameter and the pose change amount to obtain a target pose parameter. |
| US11205281B2 |
Method and device for image rectification
The present invention provides a method and a device for image rectification, which is applied to the field of image processing. The method includes: receiving two images, wherein the two images are images of a target object captured at different viewpoints, and an image capturing device configured to capture the two images, includes a first image capturing device and a second image capturing device; determining positions of corresponding feature point pairs in the two images; and aligning the two images according to the positions of the feature point pairs and parameters of the first image capturing device and the second image capturing device. The above-mentioned method can rectify the images captured at different viewpoints, thereby ensuring the alignment of pixels, and avoiding visual discomfort of the viewer. |
| US11205274B2 |
High-performance visual object tracking for embedded vision systems
Embodiments described herein provide examples of a real-time visual object tracking system. In one aspect, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of performing real-time visual tracking of a moving object includes: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; and a camera to capture a video of the moving object. This UAV additionally includes a visual tracking module to: receive a first video image and a first location of the object; receive a second video image following the first video image; place a first search window in the first video image and a second search window in the second video image centered on a second location in the second video image having the same coordinates as the first location; compute a correlation between an image patch within the first search window and an image patch within the second search window; and determine an updated location of the object in the second video image. |
| US11205271B2 |
Method and device for semantic segmentation of image
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for semantic segmentation of an image, capable of solving the problem in the related art associated with low speed and inefficiency in semantic segmentation of images. The method includes: receiving the image; performing semantic segmentation on the image to obtain an initial semantic segmentation result; and inputting image information containing the initial semantic segmentation result to a pre-trained convolutional neural network for semantic segmentation post-processing, so as to obtain a final semantic segmentation result. With the solutions of the present disclosure, the initial semantic segmentation result can be post-processed using the convolutional neural network, such that the speed and efficiency of the semantic segmentation of the image can be improved. |
| US11205270B1 |
Collecting user pattern descriptors for use in tracking a movement of a user within a materials handling facility
Described is a multiple-camera system and process for detecting a user within a materials handling facility and tracking a position of the user as the user moves through the materials handling facility. In one implementation, a plurality of depth sensing cameras are positioned above a surface of the materials handling facility and oriented to obtain a top-down view of the surface of the materials handling facility, along with any objects (e.g., users) on the surface of the materials handling facility. The depth information from the cameras may be utilized to detect objects on the surface of the materials handling facility, track a movement of those objects and determine if those objects are users. |
| US11205264B2 |
Systems and methods for multi-label segmentation of cardiac computed tomography and angiography images using deep neural networks
Methods and systems are provided for detecting coronary lesions in 3D cardiac computed tomography and angiography (CCTA) images using deep neural networks. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for detecting coronary lesions in 3D CCTA images comprises, acquiring a 3D CCTA image of a coronary tree, mapping the 3D CCTA image to a multi-label segmentation map with a trained deep neural network, generating a plurality of 1D parametric curves for a branch of the coronary tree using the multi-label segmentation map, determining a location of a lesion in the branch of the coronary tree using the plurality of 1D parametric curves, and determining a severity score for the lesion based on the plurality of 1D parametric curves. |
| US11205257B2 |
Method and apparatus for measuring video quality based on detection of change in perceptually sensitive region
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for measuring video quality based on a perceptually sensitive region. The quality of video may be measured based on a perceptually sensitive region and a change in the perceptually sensitive region. The perceptually sensitive region includes a spatial perceptually sensitive region, a temporal perceptually sensitive region, and a spatio-temporal perceptually sensitive region. Perceptual weights are applied to a detected perceptually sensitive region and a change in the detected perceptually sensitive region. Distortion is calculated based on the perceptually sensitive region and the change in the perceptually sensitive region, and a result of quality measurement for a video is generated based on the calculated distortion. |
| US11205256B2 |
Image transformation by fusion
The present disclosure provides a technical solution related to processing images in image transformation by fusion. More particularly, an image of an object of an original picture may be transferred onto an image of a corresponding object in a template picture by fusion. During the transformation by fusion, the processing of fusion may be done on each pixel by using a pixel weight graph, so that the image of the object in the original picture may be better integrated into the template picture with the features of the object in the original picture maintained well in the picture processed by fusion. |
| US11205250B2 |
Updating a fixed pattern noise matrix
A method for updating a fixed pattern noise matrix comprises: calculating a first difference between a target and first different images in a video stream to obtain a first differential matrix; calculating a second difference between the target and second different images in the video stream to obtain a second differential matrix; identifying a set of candidate positions for fixed pattern noise by: locating first and second sets of positions in the first differential matrix at which a difference deviates from predetermined values, finding a set of overlapping positions between the first and second sets of positions, and adjusting the set of overlapping positions. The adjusted set of overlapping positions is used for fixed pattern noise. Furthermore, each position in the set of candidate positions is updated, wherein the updated fixed pattern noise value at each position is based on a value at a corresponding non-adjusted position in the differential matrix. |
| US11205249B2 |
Table shifting and skewing
Generating a table with at least one skewed row, skewed column, shifted row, or shifted column is described. A table generation system generates a table that includes cells arranged in a grid comprising rows and columns, and defines each cell using a grid address, a grid span, a grid angle, a string skew value, a string shift value, and a shift indicator for the cell. The table generation system may receive input modifying a grid angle for at least one row or column and generate a modified table by skewing cells included in the at least one row or column by the grid angle. The table generation system may additionally or alternatively receive input shifting at least one row or column by a string shift value and modify the display of the table by shifting the at least one row or column according to the string shift value. |
| US11205248B2 |
Mobile terminal
A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes at least one processor configured to divide one image into a plurality of partial images, perform first resolution processing on a first partial image among the plurality of partial images, perform second resolution processing on a second partial image partially overlapping the first partial image among the plurality of partial images, perform overlapping processing on an overlapping region of the first partial image and the second partial image by using “first result data by the first resolution processing and second result data by the second resolution processing” in the overlapping region, and display an image obtained by connecting a non-overlapping region of the first partial image on which the first resolution processing is performed, the overlapping region on which the overlapping processing is performed, and a non-overlapping region of the second partial image on which the second resolution processing is performed. |
| US11205247B2 |
Method and apparatus for enhancing video frame resolution
A method for enhancing video frame resolution according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may include loading video data including a plurality of frames having low resolution; selecting, from the group of artificial neural networks for image processing, artificial neural networks for image processing having different complexity to apply to two different frames of a video; and generating a high resolution frame by processing each frame of the video according to the selected artificial neural networks for image processing. A neural network for image processing according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may be a deep neural network generated via machine learning, and an input and output of the video may take place in an Internet of Things environment using a 5G network. |
| US11205245B2 |
Method of improving visual recognition of an item and item display system
A method of improving visual recognition of an item amongst a plurality of items displayed by an electronic device having a display includes providing a number of sets of actual dimensions of a number of the plurality of items, respectively, the number of the plurality of items including the item. A scaling factor is determined using the number of sets of actual dimensions and a number of sets of image dimensions of a respective number of representations of the number of the plurality of items respectively contained in a number of images. The scaling factor is applied to a dimension of an image to be displayed containing a representation of the item, and the scaled image is displayed. |
| US11205240B2 |
Autonomous vehicle services
The technology relates to facilitating transportation services between a user and a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, one or more server computing devices having one or more processors may information identifying the current location of the vehicle. The one or more server computing devices may determine that the user is likely to want to take a trip to a particular destination based on prior location history for the user. The one or more server computing devices may dispatch the vehicle to cause the vehicle to travel in the autonomous driving mode towards a location of the user. In addition, after dispatching, the one or more server computing devices sending a notification to a client computing device associated with the user indicating that the vehicle is currently available to take the passenger to the particular destination. |
| US11205238B1 |
Private digitized, decentralized and distributed controlled-environment facility ledger systems and methods
A private digitized, decentralized, and distributed controlled-environment facility ledger is created using a genesis hash and wallet code assigned to a controlled-environment facility resident upon intake of the resident into the facility. In response to an occurrence of a first controlled-environment facility transaction with respect to the resident, a first new hash containing a cryptographic hash of the genesis hash is built, and the ledger is updated to reflect the first transaction, and to associate the first new hash with the first transaction, both with respect to the resident. Thereafter, subsequent new hashes, each containing a cryptographic hash from each prior hash, are each built in response to each subsequent controlled-environment facility transaction with respect to the resident, and the ledger is updated to reflect each subsequent transaction, and associate each subsequent new hash with the respective subsequent transaction, both with respect to the resident. |