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| US11239485B2 |
Process
A process for the recovery of a perfluorosulphonic acid ionomer from a component comprising a perfluorosulphonic acid ionomer is disclosed, the process comprising immersing the component comprising the perfluorosulphonic acid ionomer in a solvent comprising an aliphatic diol and heating. Also disclosed is the use of the recovered perfluorosulphonic acid ionomer, for example in to prepared a proton conducting membrane or a catalyst ink. |
| US11239482B2 |
Flow battery
The flow battery in an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first liquid containing a lithium ion and a first redox material, a first electrode in contact with the first liquid, a second electrode functioning as a counter electrode of the first electrode, an isolation unit that isolates the first electrode and the second electrode from each other, a first chamber, and a first circulation mechanism for circulating the first liquid between the first electrode and the first chamber, and in the flow battery, the first liquid is non-aqueous and the first circulation mechanism includes a magnetically driven pump. |
| US11239479B2 |
Ignition method of fuel reformer using partial oxidation reaction of the fuel for SOFC fuel cell start-up
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of starting a fuel reformer including a heating element and a subsequent autothermal reformer includes contacting a first fluid comprising oxygen with the heating element, passing the first fluid into the autothermal reformer to preheat a reformer catalyst within the autothermal reformer to a first temperature, reducing flow of the first fluid into the autothermal reformer, introducing a fuel into the autothermal reformer subsequent to preheating the reformer catalyst to initiate a partial oxidation reaction and generating additional heat, increasing flow of the fuel and first fluid to initiate autothermal reforming, and controlling the temperature of the reformer catalyst by supplying a cooling fluid, the first fluid, and the fuel and adjusting flow of each. |
| US11239478B2 |
Fuel cell system and purge method therefor
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell including an inlet and an outlet; first and second injection devices injecting purge gas; a gas-liquid separator separating liquid water from the purge gas discharged from the outlet and causing the liquid water to flow out; a discharge valve discharging the liquid water flowing out to an outside; an ejector including: an inflow port and an outflow port for the purge gas; a first connection path between the outflow port and the inlet; an introduction path introducing the purge gas injected from the second injection device into the first connection path without flowing through the ejector; a second connection path between the gas-liquid separator and the outlet; a third connection path connected between the gas-liquid separator and the inflow port, and extending vertically upward from the gas-liquid separator; and a controller. |
| US11239474B2 |
Method for producing catalyst for fuel cells, and fuel cell containing catalyst for fuel cells produced by the production method
The present invention is to provide a method for producing a catalyst for fuel cells with excellent durability, and a fuel cell comprising a catalyst for fuel cells produced by the production method. Disclosed is a method for producing a catalyst for fuel cells, the catalyst comprising fine catalyst particles, each of which comprises a palladium-containing core particle and a platinum-containing outermost layer covering the core particle, and carbon supports on which the fine catalyst particles are supported, wherein the method comprises the steps of: preparing carbon supports on which palladium-containing particles are supported; fining the carbon supports; and covering the palladium-containing particles with a platinum-containing outermost layer after the fining step. |
| US11239473B2 |
Catalyst for solid polymer fuel cells and method for manufacturing the same
The present invention relates to a catalyst for solid polymer fuel cells in which catalyst particles including platinum or platinum alloy are supported on a carbon powder carrier. The catalyst of the present invention is a catalyst for solid polymer fuel cells in which the bond energy (Ec) at a gravity center position is 2.90 eV or more and 3.85 eV or less as calculated from a spectrum area of a Pt5d orbit-derived spectrum which is obtained by measuring a valence band spectrum in a range of 0 eV or more and 20 eV or less in the result of subjecting the catalyst particles to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis. |
| US11239467B2 |
Composition for secondary battery electrode
The present invention aims to provide a composition for a secondary battery electrode which is excellent in dispersibility of an active material and adhesiveness, capable of preventing battery deterioration and failure due to moisture absorption, and capable of providing a high-capacity secondary battery. Provided is a composition for a secondary battery electrode, containing: an active material; a binder; and an organic solvent, the binder containing a polyvinyl acetal resin, the polyvinyl acetal resin having an electron-donating group that has an acid dissociation constant in water of less than 16 and an electron-withdrawing group, the polyvinyl acetal resin having a degree of polymerization of 250 to 800 and a hydroxy group content of 35 to 70 mol %. |
| US11239466B2 |
Nanocomposite cathode materials for use in batteries
Presented in the present disclosure are nanocomposites and batteries which are resistant to thermal runaway and may be used as cathode materials in batteries that tolerate operation at high temperatures. The nanocomposites include a nonconducting polymer and a carbon filler which includes a plurality of ultrathin sheets of a porous carbon material. The nonconducting polymer and carbon filler act in synergy to provide improved thermal stability, increased surface area, and enhanced electrochemical properties to the nanocomposite. For example, a battery that includes the nanocomposite as a cathode material was shown to have an enhanced performance and stability over a broad temperature range from room temperature to high temperatures (for example, of 100° C. or more). These batteries fill an important need by providing a safe and reliable power source for devices that are operated at high temperatures such as the downhole equipment used in the oil industry. |
| US11239461B2 |
Electrically conductive porous particle
There is provided a method of forming a porous particle comprising an electrically conductive continuous shell encapsulating a core, said core comprising an elemental compound that reversibly reduces in the presence of a cation and oxidizes in the absence of said cation, said method comprising the steps of: a) encapsulating an elemental compound precursor with said electrically conductive shell; b) reacting said elemental compound precursor with an oxidation agent to oxidise said elemental compound precursor to form said elemental compound, thereby forming said electrically conductive shell encapsulating said core comprising said elemental compound. |
| US11239460B2 |
Method of producing electrochemically stable elastomer-encapsulated particles of cathode active materials for lithium batteries
A method of producing a powder mass for a lithium battery, comprising: (a) mixing an inorganic filler and an elastomer or its precursor in a liquid medium or solvent to form a suspension; (b) dispersing a plurality of particles of a cathode active material in the suspension to form a slurry; and (c) dispensing the slurry and removing the solvent and/or polymerizing or curing the precursor to form the powder mass, wherein at least a particulate comprises one or a plurality of cathode active material particles being encapsulated by a layer of inorganic filler-reinforced elastomer having a thickness from 1 nm to 10 μm, a fully recoverable tensile strain from 2% to 500%, and a lithium ion conductivity from 10−7 S/cm to 5×10−2 S/cm and the inorganic filler has a lithium intercalation potential from 1.1 V to 4.5 V versus Li/Li+. |
| US11239458B2 |
Energy storage device and method for manufacturing energy storage device
An energy storage device is provided that has improved power performance at low temperature. In the present embodiment, an energy storage device is provided that includes an electrode having an active material layer, the active material layer contains at least active material particles, the particles contained in the active material layer gives a volume-based particle size frequency distribution that has a first peak and a second peak appearing in a particle size larger than a particle size of the first peak, and particles having particle sizes equal to or smaller than a particle size Dx have a volume proportion of 49% or more and 62% or less in a volume of whole particles contained in the active material layer, with the particle size Dx defined as a particle size at a local minimum frequency between the first peak and the second peak in the particle size frequency distribution. |
| US11239456B2 |
Composite cathode active material, and cathode and lithium battery comprising composite cathode active material
A composite cathode active material, a cathode including the composite cathode active material, and a lithium battery including the cathode are provided. The composite cathode active material includes a core including a lithium metal oxide and a coating layer on the core, wherein the lithium metal oxide includes two or more transition metals including nickel (Ni), an amount of Ni within one mole of the two or more transition metals included in the lithium metal oxide is about 0.65 mol or greater, the coating layer includes LiF, and a resistance of the composite cathode active material is lower than that of the core. |
| US11239452B2 |
Display apparatus having treatment areas and method of manufacturing the same
A display apparatus includes: a substrate and a display portion on the substrate; a first treatment area including a first treatment surface on at least one side surface of the substrate; and a second treatment area adjacent the first treatment area and including a second treatment surface having a different shape from the first treatment surface of the first treatment surface. |
| US11239451B2 |
Condensing plate, vacuum drying device and vacuum drying method
The present disclosure provides a condensing plate. The condensing plate comprises a body. The body comprises a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. The first face is provided with a condensing part and a solvent storage structure. The solvent storage structure is configured to store a solvent and release, along a direction away from the second face, gas formed by the solvent after evaporation. |
| US11239446B2 |
Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A display apparatus including a substrate including a display area and a sensor area, the sensor area including a transmission portion that transmits light, a plurality of first display devices arranged in the display area, a display device group including a plurality of second display devices, the display device group being arranged in the sensor area, and a passivation layer covering the display device group and having a first hole corresponding to the transmission portion. |
| US11239439B2 |
Material for organic electroluminescent device, light-emitting material, and organic electroluminescent device
To provide a light-emitting material of a light emitting layer, particularly a dopant material or a host material of a light emitting layer emitting delayed fluorescence, or a material suitable for a hole blocking layer, as a material for an organic electroluminescent device having a high efficiency, and also to provide an organic photoluminescent device or an organic electroluminescent device having a high efficiency and a high luminance, particularly an organic EL device suppressed in the roll-off phenomenon, by using the material. A material for an organic electroluminescent device, containing a benzonitrile derivative of the following general formula (1), and an organic electroluminescent device containing a pair of electrodes and one layer or plural layers including at least a light emitting layer intervening between the electrodes, the organic electroluminescent device using the material. |
| US11239435B2 |
Iridium complex and organic electroluminescence device using the same
The present invention discloses an iridium complex represented by the following formula (1) and an organic electroluminescence device using the iridium complex as a phosphorescent dopant material. The phosphorescent dopant material may be for lowering a driving voltage or power consumption or increasing a current efficiency of half-life of the organic electroluminescence device. The same definition as described in the present invention. |
| US11239432B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
A new series of iptycene derivatives as ligands for metal complexes that are useful as phosphorescent emitters for incorporation into OLEDs are disclosed. Provided are compositions that include a compound including a chemical group of Formula I wherein (1) the chemical group of Formula I is included as at least one of the substituents in a bidentate ligand forming the metal complex, or (2) when the substituents in a bidentate ligand forming the metal complex are attached to a six-membered ring, at least one of the such substituents join adjacent substituents and fuse into the six-membered ring attached thereto to form a chemical group having Formula I. |
| US11239430B2 |
Boron and nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds
Boron and nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds are disclosed, which can be used as emitters, hosts, charge blocking materials, charge transporting materials, etc. in an electroluminescent device. These novel compounds can offer very narrow emissive spectrum, and obtain high saturated deep blue emission. Also disclosed are an organic light-emitting device and a formulation. |
| US11239426B2 |
Electroactive compounds
There is provided a compound having Formula (I), Formula (II), or Formula (III). The variables are described in detail herein. |
| US11239425B2 |
Organic light emitting device
The present invention relates to an organic light emitting device including a light emitting layer comprising a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and an electron transport region comprising a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, and having improved driving voltage, efficiency and lifetime. |
| US11239418B2 |
Memory device having a ring heater
A semiconductor device includes a base structure of a memory device including a first electrode, first dielectric material having a non-uniform etch rate disposed on the base structure, a via within the first dielectric material, and a ring heater within the via on the first electrode. The ring heater has a geometry based on a shape of the via that produces a resistance gradient. |
| US11239410B2 |
Piezoelectric composition and piezoelectric element
A piezoelectric composition including copper and a complex oxide having a perovskite structure represented by a general formula ABO3, in which an A site element in the ABO3 is potassium or potassium and sodium, a B site element in the ABO3 is niobium or niobium and tantalum, the copper is included in n mol % in terms of a copper element with respect to 1 mol of the complex oxide, and n satisfies 0.100≤n≤1.000. |
| US11239406B2 |
Component for producing active haptic feedback
The present invention relates to a component (1) for generating active haptic feedback, comprising a main body (2) having first and second internal electrodes (3, 4) stacked one above another in a stacking direction (S), wherein a respective piezoelectric layer (9) is arranged between the internal electrodes (3, 4), wherein the component (1) is configured to identify a force exerted on the component (1), wherein the component (1) is configured to generate active haptic feedback if a force exerted on the component (1) is identified, and wherein the haptic feedback is generated by virtue of an electrical voltage being applied between the first and second internal electrodes (3, 4), said electrical voltage resulting in a change in length of the main body (2). |
| US11239405B2 |
Method of producing a composite substrate
Described herein is a method of bonding a piezoelectric substrate to a support substrate to form a composite substrate. The piezoelectric substrate has one surface which is positively polarized, and a second surface which is negatively polarized. The method described herein includes the steps of bonding the positively polarized surface of the piezoelectric substrate to one surface of the support substrate by a direct bonding method. |
| US11239401B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting device
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate having a base, a conductive layer and an insulating layer, a semiconductor light-emitting element and a resin member. The base has a pair of base first side surfaces and a pair of base third side surfaces. The conductive layer includes a front-surface segment and a side-surface segment. The front surface segment includes a front-surface first part. The insulating layer includes an insulating-layer first part and an insulating-layer second part. The resin member covers the insulating-layer first part and the insulating-layer second part of the insulating layer. A first thickness of the insulating-layer first part is greater than a second thickness of the insulating-layer second part. |
| US11239393B1 |
Surface mounted LED device
A surface mounted Light Emitting Diode (LED) device includes a printed circuit board (PCB), at least one color LED chip mounted on the PCB, and a driving chip. The driving chip is mounted on the PCB and electrically connected to the at least one color LED chip to drive the at least one color LED chip. The driving chip has a signal input port and a signal output port. The signal input port is electrically connected to a signal input conductive pad, and the signal output port is electrically connected to a signal output conductive pad. The surface mounted LED device further includes a gap located between the signal input conductive pad and the signal output conductive pad for creating a space for a cutting apparatus to sever any conductive line through the gap, and making a manufacturing procedure of the surface mounted LED device easier. |
| US11239379B2 |
Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same
A solar cell can include a silicon substrate; a tunnel layer disposed on a first surface of the silicon substrate, the tunnel layer including a dielectric material; a polycrystalline silicon layer disposed on the tunnel layer; a dielectric layer disposed on the polycrystalline silicon layer; and an electrode penetrating through the dielectric layer and directly contacting with the polycrystalline silicon layer, wherein the polycrystalline silicon layer includes a metal crystal region positioned at a region where the polycrystalline silicon layer contacts the electrode, and wherein the metal crystal region includes a plurality of metal crystals, the plurality of metal crystals including a metal material same as a metal material included in the electrode. |
| US11239376B2 |
Diode structure
The present disclosure relates to a structure comprising, in a trench of a substrate, a first conductive region separated from the substrate by a first distance shorter than approximately 10 nm; and a second conductive region extending deeper than the first region. |
| US11239375B2 |
Method for manufacturing a pressure sensitive field effect transistor including a membrane structure
A method for manufacturing a pressure sensitive transistor includes forming a channel region between first and second contact regions in a semiconductor substrate, forming a first isolation layer on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a sacrificial structure on the first isolation layer and above the channel region, forming a semiconductor layer on the sacrificial structure and on the first isolation layer, wherein the semiconductor layer covers the sacrificial structure, removing the sacrificial structure for providing a cavity between the substrate and the semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor layer forms a membrane structure and forms a control electrode of the pressure sensitive transistor, forming a second isolation layer on the membrane structure and on the exposed portion of the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and forming contacting structures for the first contact region, the second contact region and the membrane structure of the pressure sensitive transistor. |
| US11239373B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a dielectric structure, a first source/drain electrode, a second source/drain electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate dielectric layer, and a first gate electrode. The first source/drain electrode is disposed in the dielectric structure. The oxide semiconductor layer is disposed on the first source/drain electrode in a vertical direction. The second source/drain electrode disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer in the vertical direction. The gate dielectric layer is disposed on the dielectric structure and surrounds the oxide semiconductor layer in a horizontal direction. The gate dielectric layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is elongated in the horizontal direction. The second portion is disposed on the first portion and elongated in the vertical direction. The first gate electrode is disposed on the first portion of the gate dielectric layer. |
| US11239371B2 |
Thin-film transistor including source-drain electrodes connected to a semiconducting film and extending through a semiconductor auxiliary film
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor film, an interlayer insulating film, a source-drain electrode, and a semiconductor auxiliary film. The semiconductor film includes an oxide semiconductor material and has a channel region and a low-resistance region. The low-resistance region has an electric resistance lower than an electric resistance of the channel region. The interlayer insulating film covers the semiconductor film and has a through-hole opposed to the low-resistance region. The source-drain electrode includes a source electrode and a drain electrode and is electrically coupled to the semiconductor film through the through-hole. The semiconductor auxiliary film is in contact with the low-resistance region of the semiconductor film, reduces an electric resistance of the semiconductor film, and has a first opening at least on a part of a portion opposed to the through-hole. |
| US11239369B2 |
Vertical thin film transistor
A semiconductor device includes a stack of layers stacked vertically and including a source layer, a drain layer and a channel layer between the source layer and the drain layer. A gate electrode is formed in a common plane with the channel layer and a gate dielectric is formed vertically between the gate electrode and the channel layer. A first contact contacts the stack of layers on a first side of the stack of layers, and a second contact formed on an opposite side vertically from the first contact. |
| US11239362B2 |
Semiconductor devices having stressed active regions therein and methods of forming same
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate including a semiconductor material having a first lattice constant and then patterning the substrate to form a first semiconductor pattern extending in a first direction. A second semiconductor pattern is also formed on and in contact with the first semiconductor pattern. The second semiconductor pattern extends in the first direction and has a second lattice constant that is sufficiently greater than the first lattice constant so that lattice stress is present at an interface between the first semiconductor pattern and the second semiconductor pattern. The second semiconductor pattern is further patterned to define a sidewall of the second semiconductor pattern that extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A gate electrode is formed, which extends in the first direction on the second semiconductor pattern. |
| US11239361B2 |
Multilayer insulator stack for ferroelectric transistor and capacitor
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first layer comprising a semiconductor; a second layer comprising an insulating material, the second layer adjacent to the first layer; a third layer comprising a high-k insulating material, the third layer adjacent to the second layer; a fourth layer comprising a ferroelectric material, the fourth layer adjacent to the third layer; and a fifth layer comprising a high-k insulating material, the fifth layer adjacent to the fourth layer. |
| US11239360B2 |
Vertical transport field effect transistor structure with self-aligned top junction through early top source/drain epitaxy
A method of forming a vertical transport field effect transistor is provided. The method includes forming a vertical fin on a substrate, and a top source/drain on the vertical fin. The method further includes thinning the vertical fin to form a thinned portion, a tapered upper portion, and a tapered lower portion from the vertical fin. The method further includes depositing a gate dielectric layer on the thinned portion, tapered upper portion, and tapered lower portion of the vertical fin, wherein the gate dielectric layer has an angled portion on each of the tapered upper portion and tapered lower portion. The method further includes depositing a work function metal layer on the gate dielectric layer. |
| US11239359B2 |
Fabricating a gate-all-around (GAA) field effect transistor having threshold voltage asymmetry by thinning source side lateral end portion of the nanosheet layer
Channel engineering is employed to obtain a gate-all-around field-effect transistor having an asymmetric threshold voltage. A dual channel profile enables a steep potential distribution near the source side that enhances the lateral channel electric field and thus increases the carrier mobility. |
| US11239355B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is provided, including: a semiconductor substrate; an active section in which current flows between upper and lower surfaces of the semiconductor substrate; a transistor section provided in the active section; a gate metal layer to supply a gate voltage to the transistor section; a gate pad electrically connected to the gate metal layer; a temperature-sensing unit provided above the active section; a temperature-measurement pad arranged in a peripheral region between the active section and an outermost perimeter of the semiconductor substrate; and a temperature-sensing wire having a longitudinal portion and connecting the temperature-sensing unit and the temperature-measurement pad, wherein on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, the gate pad is arranged in a region other than an extending region that is an extension of the longitudinal portion of the temperature-sensing wire to the outermost perimeter of the semiconductor substrate in the longitudinal direction. |
| US11239354B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same
A transistor device having fin structures, source and drain terminals, channel layers and a gate structure is provided. The fin structures are disposed on a material layer. The fin structures are arranged in parallel and extending in a first direction. The source and drain terminals are disposed on the fin structures and the material layer and cover opposite ends of the fin structures. The channel layers are disposed respectively on the fin structures, and each channel layer extends between the source and drain terminals on the same fin structure. The gate structure is disposed on the channel layers and across the fin structures. The gate structure extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The materials of the channel layers include a transition metal and a chalcogenide, the source and drain terminals include a metallic material, and the channel layers are covalently bonded with the source and drain terminals. |
| US11239351B2 |
Semiconductor device with a LOCOS trench
A gate controlled semiconductor device comprising a collector region of a first conductivity type; a drift region of a second conductivity type located over the collector region; a body region of a first conductivity type located over the drift region; at least one first contact region of a second conductivity type located above the body region and having a higher doping concentration compared to the body region. The device further comprises at least one second contact region of a first conductivity type located laterally adjacent to the at least one first contact region, the at least one second contact region having a higher doping concentration than the body region. The device further comprises at least one active trench extending from a surface into the drift region, in which the at least one first contact region adjoins the at least one active trench so that, in use, a channel region is formed along said at least one active trench and within the body region. The at least one active trench comprises: two vertical sidewalls and a bottom surface between the two vertical sidewalls; and an insulation layer along the vertical side walls and the bottom surface, wherein the insulation layer along at least one vertical side wall comprises different thicknesses; at least one auxiliary trench extending from the surface into the drift region. The at least one auxiliary trench comprises: two vertical sidewalls and a bottom surface between the two vertical sidewalls; and an insulation layer along the vertical side walls and the bottom surface, wherein the insulation layer along at least one vertical side wall comprises a constant thickness. |
| US11239349B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and semiconductor device
A first region is formed by injecting a first condition type first dopant into a surface layer portion of an IGBT section of a semiconductor substrate. A second region is formed by injecting a second condition type second dopant into a region of the IGBT section shallower than the first region. An amorphous third region is formed by injecting the first conduction type third dopant into a surface layer portion of a diode section at a concentration higher than that of the second dopant. Thereafter, the IGBT section and the diode section are laser-annealed under conditions in which the third region is partially melted and the first dopant is activated. Subsequently, a surface layer portion which is shallower than the second injection region in the entire region of the IGBT section and the diode section is melted and crystallized by annealing the IGBT section and the diode section. |
| US11239343B2 |
Vertical transistor including symmetrical source/drain extension junctions
A semiconductor device includes a first source/drain region on an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate that extends along a first direction to define a length and a second direction opposite the first direction to define a width. A channel region extends vertically in a direction perpendicular to the first and second directions from a first end contacting the first source/drain region to an opposing second end contacting a second source/drain region. A gate surrounds a channel portion of the channel region, and a first doped source/drain extension region is located between the first source/drain region and the channel portion. The first doped source/drain extension region has a thickness extending along the vertical direction. A second doped source/drain extension region is located between the second source/drain region and the channel portion. The second doped source/drain extension region has a thickness extending along the vertical direction that matches the first thickness. |
| US11239341B2 |
Horizontal gate all-around device having wrapped-around source and drain
Various transistors, such as horizontal gate-all-around transistors, and methods of fabricating such are disclosed herein. An exemplary transistor includes a first nanowire and a second nanowire that include a first semiconductor material, a gate that wraps a channel region of the first nanowire and the second nanowire, and source/drain feature that wraps source/drain regions of the first nanowire and the second nanowire. The source/drain feature includes a second semiconductor material that is configured differently than the first semiconductor material. In some implementations, the transistor further includes a fin-like semiconductor layer disposed over a substrate. The first nanowire and the second nanowire are disposed over the fin-like semiconductor layer, such that the first nanowire, the second nanowire, and the fin-like semiconductor layer extend substantially parallel to one another along the same length-wise direction. The fin-like semiconductor layer includes a third semiconductor material that is configured differently than the first semiconductor material. |
| US11239340B2 |
Semiconductor arrangement and formation thereof
A semiconductor arrangement and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor arrangement comprises a conductive contact in contact with a substantially planar first top surface of a first active area, the contact between and in contact with a first alignment spacer and a second alignment spacer both having substantially vertical outer surfaces. The contact formed between the first alignment spacer and the second alignment spacer has a more desired contact shape then a contact formed between alignment spacers that do not have substantially vertical outer surfaces. The substantially planar surface of the first active area is indicative of a substantially undamaged structure of the first active area as compared to an active area that is not substantially planar. The substantially undamaged first active area has a greater contact area for the contact and a lower contact resistance as compared to a damaged first active area. |
| US11239328B2 |
Semiconductor device having interfacial layer and high κ dielectric layer
A transistor includes a silicon germanium layer, a gate stack, and source and drain features. The silicon germanium layer has a channel region. The silicon germanium layer has a first silicon-to-germanium ratio. The gate stack is disposed over the channel region of the silicon germanium layer and includes a silicon germanium oxide layer over and in contact with the channel region of the silicon germanium layer, a high-κ dielectric layer over the silicon germanium oxide layer, and a gate electrode over the high-κ dielectric layer. The silicon germanium oxide layer has a second silicon-to-germanium ratio, and the second silicon-to-germanium ratio is substantially the same as the first silicon-to-germanium ratio. |
| US11239318B2 |
High-voltage drain expended MOS transistor
A semiconductor device includes a MOS transistor located within a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. The transistor includes a body well located between a drain well and a substrate contact well. A buried voltage blocking region of a second conductivity type is located within the substrate and is connected to the body well. The buried voltage blocking region extends toward the substrate contact well, with an unmodified portion of the substrate remaining between the voltage blocking region and the substrate contact well. |
| US11239316B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of forming the semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a fin structure including a cylindrical shape, an inner gate formed inside the fin structure, and an outer gate formed outside the fin structure and connected to the inner gate. |
| US11239310B2 |
Seamless gap fill
A method includes depositing a first dielectric layer in an opening, the first dielectric layer comprising a semiconductor element and a non-semiconductor element. The method further includes depositing a semiconductor layer on the first dielectric layer, the semiconductor layer comprising a first element that is the same as the semiconductor element. The method further includes introducing a second element to the semiconductor layer wherein the second element is the same as the non-semiconductor element. The method further includes applying a thermal annealing process to the semiconductor layer to change the semiconductor layer into a second dielectric layer. |
| US11239308B2 |
Capacitor and method for producing capacitor
Embodiments of the present application disclose a capacitor and a method for producing a capacitor. The capacitor includes: an electrode layer including a first electrode and a second electrode separated from each other; a laminated structure including n dielectric layer(s) and n+1 conductive layers, where the n dielectric layer(s) and the n+1 conductive layers form a structure that a conductive layer and a dielectric layer are adjacent to each other, and the laminated structure forms at least two columnar structures, and n is a positive integer; and an interconnection structure configured to electrically connect an odd-numbered conductive layer in the n+1 conductive layers to the first electrode and electrically connect an even-numbered conductive layer in the n+1 conductive layers to the second electrode. According to the technical solution of the embodiments of the present application, capacitance density of the capacitor could be improved. |
| US11239307B2 |
Metal-oxide-metal capacitor from subtractive back-end-of-line scheme
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a metal-oxide-metal (MOM) capacitor formed from a subtractive back-end-of-line (BEOL) scheme. One example method of fabricating a semiconductor device generally includes forming an active layer and forming a capacitive element above the active layer with a back-end-of-line subtractive process for conductive materials. |
| US11239301B2 |
Display assembly, display device and manufacturing process having a support portion in the non-display region of the substrate
The present disclosure provides a display assembly, a display device, and a manufacturing process. The display assembly includes: a substrate; a display element arranged in a display region of the substrate; a package film covering the display element; a driving circuit arranged in a non-display region of the substrate; a chip-on-film bonded with the driving circuit; and a support portion arranged in the non-display region of the substrate and outside the package film. |
| US11239297B2 |
Array substrate with capacitor including conductive part of active layer and method of fabricating thereof
The present application discloses an array substrate having a plurality of subpixel areas. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of first thin film transistors on the base substrate, each of which being in one of the plurality of subpixel areas; and a plurality of capacitor electrodes, each of which being in one of the plurality of subpixel areas. Each of the plurality of first thin film transistors includes a first active layer, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode. The first active layer includes a first semi-conductive channel part, a first conductive part electrically connected to the first drain electrode, and a second conductive part electrically connected to the first source electrode. Each of the plurality of capacitor electrodes, the insulating layer, and the first conductive part constitute a first storage capacitor in one of the plurality of subpixel areas. |
| US11239295B2 |
Organic light-emitting display devices, methods for manufacturing the same, and masks for making supporting members
The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting device including a substrate, a pixel defining layer disposed on the substrate, a plurality of supporting members disposed on the pixel defining layer, and at least one organic light-emitting diode disposed on the substrate. The pixel defining layer defines a plurality of pixel regions. The plurality of pixel regions includes a plurality of first pixel regions, a plurality of second pixel regions, and a plurality of third pixel regions. The supporting members are located at first junction regions between the first pixel regions, the second pixel regions, and third pixel regions. 25 to 350 supporting members are provided on every square millimeter of the substrate. The organic light-emitting diode includes an anode, an organic light-emitting layer, and a cathode. The present disclosure further provides a method for manufacturing the organic light-emitting device and a mask for making the supporting member. |
| US11239293B2 |
Array substrate, display panel, display device and method for preparing array substrate
An array substrate includes a base substrate, a pixel definition layer, a light-emitting layer, and a plurality of auxiliary electrodes. A pixel definition layer is formed on the base substrate, and includes patterned retaining walls and a plurality of openings defined by the retaining walls. A surface of each of the retaining walls facing away from the base substrate is provided with a first groove. A light-emitting layer is formed on the retaining wall and in the plurality of openings. The light-emitting layer conformally covers respective first grooves of the retaining walls to form respective second grooves. Each of the plurality of auxiliary electrodes is formed in a respective one of the second grooves. |
| US11239292B2 |
Array substrate, display panel, display apparatus and preparation method therefor
Provided are an array substrate, a display panel, a display apparatus and a preparation method therefor. The array substrate comprises: a base substrate; and multiple pixel units arranged on one side of the base substrate, each of the pixel units comprising: a thin-film transistor and an electroluminescent structure, and a shading structure located between the thin-film transistor and the base substrate, wherein the thin-film transistor comprises: an active layer located on one side, away from the base substrate, of the shading structure; the electroluminescent structure comprises: first electrodes for driving the pixel units; and one of the shading structure and the active layer is a same-layer structure fabricated by the same mask plate as the first electrodes so as to reduce the number of mask procedures required in preparation of an array substrate. |
| US11239284B2 |
Display device having a color filter
A display device including a color filter is provided. The display device may include at least one color conversion pattern realizing a color same as the color filter. The color conversion pattern may be surrounded by the color filter. Thus, in the display device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, the color gamut may be improved without increasing the overall thickness of the display device. |
| US11239282B2 |
Pixel structure and fabrication method thereof, display substrate and display apparatus
The present disclosure provides a pixel structure and a fabrication method thereof, a display substrate and a display apparatus. The pixel structure includes a plurality of first pixel portions arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and a second pixel portion that spaces the plurality of first pixel portions from each other. Each first pixel portion includes a plurality of first sub-pixels having a same color and arranged around a center of the first pixel portion. The second pixel portion includes a plurality of second sub-pixels. For four first pixel portions in two adjacent rows and two adjacent columns, each of four regions that are centrosymmetric and obtained by connecting centers of the four first pixel portions to each other corresponds to one pixel unit, and each pixel unit includes two first sub-pixels respectively in two first pixel portions and at least one second sub-pixel. |
| US11239279B2 |
Resistive switching random access memory with asymmetric source and drain
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure includes a resistive memory element formed on a semiconductor substrate. The resistive element includes a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and a resistive material layer positioned between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The RRAM structure further includes a field effect transistor (FET) formed on the semiconductor substrate, the FET having a source and a drain. The drain has a zero-tilt doping profile and the source has a tilted doping profile. The resistive memory element is coupled with the drain via a portion of an interconnect structure. |
| US11239278B2 |
Bottom conductive structure with a limited top contact area
A dielectric spacer is formed laterally adjacent to a bottom conductive structure. The dielectric spacer is configured to limit the area in which a subsequently formed top contact structure can contact the bottom conductive structure. In some embodiments, only a topmost surface of the bottom conductive structure is contacted by the top contact structure. In other embodiments, a topmost surface and an upper sidewall surface of the bottom conductive structure is contacted by the top contact structure. |
| US11239277B2 |
Display panel, manufacturing method of same, and tiled display panel
A display panel comprises: an array substrate comprising a display area and a trace area located around the display area; a light-emitting layer located in the display area and electrically connected to a first side of the array substrate; a fanout circuit located in the trace area; a fanout circuit base layer disposed between the fanout circuit and the array substrate; and a driver chip located at a second side of the array substrate; wherein the fanout circuit and the fanout circuit base layer are bent from the first side to the second side along a sidewall of the array substrate, the fanout circuit is electrically connected to the array substrate at the first side, and the fanout circuit is electrically connected to the driver chip at the second side. |
| US11239276B2 |
CMOS color image sensors with metamaterial color splitting
Methods to build multi-functional scattering structures while respecting tight requirements imposed by manufacturing processes are described. The described methods and devices are based on etching away wire networks embedded in 3D structures to form voids in order to perform a target function. Optimization algorithms for designing binarized devices that meet manufacturing requirements are also disclosed. |
| US11239274B2 |
Image sensor for high photoelectric conversion efficiency and low dark current
Example embodiments relate to an image sensor configured to achieve a high photoelectric conversion efficiency and a low dark current. The image sensor includes first and second electrodes, a plurality of photodetection layers provided between the first and second electrodes, and an interlayer provided between the photodetection layers. The photodetection layers convert incident light into an electrical signal and include a semiconductor material. The interlayer includes a metallic or semi metallic material having anisotropy in electrical conductivity. |
| US11239272B2 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus having metal portion, imaging system, movable body, and semiconductor chip for stacking
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a floating diffusion, an amplifying transistor, first and second contact plugs, a wire, and a metal portion. The semiconductor substrate has a first plane and a second plane to be entered by light, and includes a photoelectric conversion element. The amplifying transistor includes a first gate electrode. The first contact plug is connected to the floating diffusion. The second contact plug is connected to the first gate electrode. The wire is configured to electrically connect the first gate electrode and the floating diffusion to each other. The metal portion, which is arranged between the first plane and a third plane, covers at least a part of the photoelectric conversion element in a planar view, and has an opening over which at least a part of the wire is superimposed in a planar view. |
| US11239271B2 |
Imaging device and method for manufacturing the same
An imaging device includes a plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in a two-dimensional matrix shape. Each of the light-receiving elements includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode. The photoelectric conversion layer has a laminated structure in which a first compound semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type and a second compound semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type that is a reverse conductivity type to the first conductivity type are laminated from a side of the first electrode. The second compound semiconductor layer has been removed in a region between the light-receiving elements. The first electrode and the first compound semiconductor layer are shared by the light-receiving elements. An impurity concentration of a first compound semiconductor layer near the first electrode is lower than that of a first compound semiconductor layer near the second compound semiconductor layer. |
| US11239268B2 |
Electronic device
An object is to provide a pixel structure of a display device including a photosensor which prevents changes in an output of the photosensor and a decrease in imaging quality. The display device has a pixel layout structure in which a shielding wire is disposed between an FD and an imaging signal line (a PR line, a TX line, or an SE line) or between the FD and an image-display signal line in order to reduce or eliminate parasitic capacitance between the FD and a signal line for the purpose of suppressing changes in the potential of the FD. An imaging power supply line, image-display power supply line, a GND line, a common line, or the like whose potential is fixed, such as a common potential line, is used as a shielding wire. |
| US11239266B2 |
Back-illuminated semiconductor photodetection element
A semiconductor substrate includes a first main surface and a second main surface opposing each other. The semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of second semiconductor regions in a side of the second main surface. Each of the second semiconductor regions includes a first region including a textured surface, and a second region where a bump electrode is disposed. An insulating film includes a first insulating film covering surfaces of the second semiconductor regions, and a second insulating film covering peripheries of pad electrodes. The pad electrodes include a first electrode region in contact with the second region, and a second electrode region continuous with the first electrode region. The second electrode region is disposed on at least a part of a region included in the first insulating film and corresponding to the first region. The first main surface is a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US11239263B2 |
Thin film transistor, method for manufacturing thereof and display device
A thin film transistor, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device are disclosed. The thin film transistor includes source-drain electrodes and a passivation layer; an isolation layer is disposed between the source-drain electrodes and the passivation layer, and the isolation layer overlays the source-drain electrodes. |
| US11239261B2 |
Display device
A display device having a gate driver which may reduce generation of ripple at the output of the gate drive includes: a substrate; and a driver circuit including a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, the thin film transistor including: a first gate electrode disposed on the substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the first gate electrode to overlap a part of the first gate electrode, the semiconductor layer including channel, source, and drain regions; a second gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer; and a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer and respectively connected to the source region and the drain region, wherein a first area formed by the overlapping portion of the first gate electrode and the drain region has a different size than a second area formed by the overlapping portion of the first gate electrode and the source region. |
| US11239259B2 |
Substrate, manufacturing method thereof and transparent display device
The present disclosure provides a substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a transparent display device. The substrate comprising: a plurality of pixel units, at least a part of which includes a light-emitting area and a transparent area, and the light-emitting area includes a thin-film transistor; a light blocking member disposed in the light-emitting area and configured to block light that is directed to the thin-film transistor through the transparent area. |
| US11239258B2 |
High-k dielectric materials comprising zirconium oxide utilized in display devices
Embodiments of the disclosure generally provide methods of forming a capacitor layer or a gate insulating layer with high dielectric constant as well as low film current leakage and desired film qualities for display applications. In one embodiment, a thin film transistor structure includes a dielectric layer formed on a substrate, wherein the dielectric layer is a zirconium containing material comprising aluminum, and gate, source and drain electrodes formed on the substrate, wherein the gate, source and drain electrodes formed above or below the dielectric layer. |
| US11239256B2 |
Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, display panel, and display device
A display substrate includes a first substrate, a first sub-pixel layer and a second sub-pixel layer positioned on the first substrate; the first sub-pixel layer includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixel layer includes a plurality of second sub-pixels, and a first orthographic projection of the first sub-pixel on the first substrate does not overlap with a second orthographic projection of the second sub-pixel on the first substrate. A display panel, a display device and a method for manufacturing the display substrate are also disclosed. |
| US11239251B2 |
Method of forming thin layers and method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory device using the same
A method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory device includes forming a gate insulation layer on a semiconductor substrate having a source layer. The method also includes forming a silicon nitride layer having a buffer-treated upper surface on the gate insulation layer, wherein the buffer-treated upper surface of the silicon nitride layer has a hardness higher than a hardness of the silicon nitride layer. The method further includes forming a silicon oxide layer on the buffer-treated upper surface of the silicon nitride layer. The method additionally includes alternately forming additional silicon nitride layers and additional silicon oxide layers on the silicon oxide layer to form a stack structure. |
| US11239248B2 |
Microelectronic devices including stair step structures, and related electronic devices and methods
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming isolated nitride structures on steps of stair step structures comprising stacked tiers comprising alternating levels of a first insulative material and a second insulative material, forming a photoresist material over some of the stair step structures, and replacing the isolated nitride structures and the second insulative material with an electrically conductive material to respectively form conductive pad structures and electrically conductive lines. Related microelectronic devices and electronic devices are also disclosed. |
| US11239247B2 |
Memory device and method for forming the same
Memory device includes a bottom-select-gate (BSG) structure including cut slits vertically through the BSG structure, on a substrate. A cell-layers structure is formed on the BSG structure. Gate-line slits are formed vertically through the cell-layers structure and the BSG structure, into the substrate and arranged along a first lateral direction to distinguish finger regions. A first gate-line slit is between first and second finger regions and includes gate-line sub-slits. The first finger region is divided into a first string region and a second string region by a first cut-slit, formed in the first finger region along a second lateral direction and further extended into at least the second finger region along the first lateral direction. At least one BSG defined by the first cut-slit is located in at least the second finger region to connect to cell strings in the first string region through an inter-portion between adjacent gate-line sub-slits. |
| US11239246B2 |
Cell boundary structure for embedded memory
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to a method of forming an integrated circuit (IC). An isolation structure is formed between a logic region and a memory region of a substrate. A dummy structure is formed on the isolation structure and defines a dummy sidewall of the dummy structure facing the logic region. A boundary sidewall spacer is formed covering the dummy structure and at least partially defines a boundary sidewall of the boundary sidewall spacer facing the logic region. A protecting dielectric layer is formed on a top surface of the boundary sidewall spacer by converting an uppermost portion of the boundary sidewall spacer to the protecting dielectric layer. The protecting dielectric layer is removed, and a logic device structure is formed on the logic region. |
| US11239245B2 |
Etch method for opening a source line in flash memory
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for opening a source line in a memory device. An erase gate line (EGL) and the source line are formed elongated in parallel. The source line underlies the EGL and is separated from the EGL by a dielectric layer. A first etch is performed to form a first opening through the EGL and stops on the dielectric layer. A second etch is performed to thin the dielectric layer at the first opening, wherein the first and second etches are performed with a common mask in place. A silicide process is performed to form a silicide layer on the source line at the first opening, wherein the silicide process comprises a third etch with a second mask in place and extends the first opening through the dielectric layer. A via is formed extending through the EGL to the silicide layer. |
| US11239243B2 |
Semiconductor structure for preventing row hammering issue in DRAM cell and method for manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device for preventing row hammering issue in DRAM cell, including the steps of providing a substrate, forming a trench in the substrate, forming a gate dielectric conformally on the trench, forming an n-type work function metal layer conformally on the substrate and the gate dielectric, forming a titanium nitride layer conformally on the n-type work function metal layer, and filling a buried word line in the trench. |
| US11239234B2 |
Semiconductor device
Provided is a semiconductor device having transistor and diode sections. The semiconductor device comprises: a gate metal layer provided above the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate; an emitter electrode provided above the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate; a first conductivity-type emitter region provided on the semiconductor substrate upper surface side in the transistor section; a gate trench section, which is provided on the semiconductor substrate upper surface side in the transistor section, is electrically connected to the gate metal layer, and is in contact with the emitter region; an emitter trench section, which is provided on the semiconductor substrate upper surface side in the diode section, and is electrically connected to the emitter electrode; and a dummy trench section, which is provided on the semiconductor substrate upper surface side, is electrically connected to the gate metal layer, and is not in contact with the emitter region. |
| US11239233B2 |
Integrated circuit packages and methods of forming same
An integrated circuit package and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes attaching a first side of an integrated circuit die to a carrier. An encapsulant is formed over and around the integrated circuit die. The encapsulant is patterned to form a first opening laterally spaced apart from the integrated circuit die and a second opening over the integrated circuit die. The first opening extends through the encapsulant. The second opening exposes a second side of the integrated circuit die. The first side of the integrated circuit die is opposite the second side of the integrated circuit die. A conductive material is simultaneously deposited in the first opening and the second opening. |
| US11239232B2 |
Isolation walls for vertically stacked transistor structures
Embodiments herein describe techniques for an integrated circuit (IC). The IC may include a lower device layer that includes a first transistor structure, an upper device layer above the lower device layer including a second transistor structure, and an isolation wall that extends between the upper device layer and the lower device layer. The isolation wall may be in contact with an edge of a first gate structure of the first transistor structure and an edge of a second gate structure of the second transistor structure, and may have a first width to the edge of the first gate structure at the lower device layer, and a second width to the edge of the second gate structure at the upper device layer. The first width may be different from the second width. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11239230B2 |
IC with larger and smaller width contacts
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a second metal level located between first and third metal levels, a dielectric layer located over the metal levels, and first, second and third vias within the dielectric layer. The first via traverses the first dielectric layer from a surface of the dielectric layer to the first metal level and has a first diameter. The second via traverses the dielectric layer from the surface to the second metal level and has the first diameter. The third via traverses the dielectric layer from the surface to the third metal level and has a second diameter greater than the first diameter. In some implementations the first, second and third metal levels implement a capacitor. |
| US11239227B2 |
Semiconductor devices, methods of designing layouts of semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first hard macro; a second hard macro spaced apart from the first hard macro in a first direction by a first distance; a head cell disposed in a standard cell area between the first hard macro and the second hard macro, the head cell being configured to perform power gating of a power supply voltage provided to one from among the first hard macro and the second hard macro; a plurality of first ending cells disposed in the standard cell area adjacent to the first hard macro; and a plurality of second ending cells disposed in the standard cell area adjacent to the second hard macro, the head cell not overlapping the plurality of first ending cells and the plurality of second ending cells. |
| US11239221B2 |
Array substrate and fabrication method thereof, and electronic apparatus
An array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a thin film transistor, a first connection electrode and a first insulation layer. The thin film transistor is on the base substrate and including a first electrode and a second electrode; the first connection electrode in a layer different from the first electrode and electrically connected with the first electrode; and the first insulation layer covering at least a portion of the first connection electrode; an area of an orthographic projection of the first connection electrode on the base substrate is larger than an area of an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the base substrate, and the first insulation layer is made from an organic insulation material. |
| US11239219B2 |
Passive device module and semiconductor package including the same
A semiconductor package including a lower redistribution layer including wiring patterns; a lower substrate on the lower redistribution layer, the lower substrate including a cavity; an application processor on the lower redistribution layer in the cavity; a cache memory chip on the application processor; a passive device module on the application processor; a plurality of first through-silicon vias penetrating the application processor to connect the lower redistribution layer to the passive device module; and lower bumps on a bottom surface of the lower redistribution layer, wherein the passive device module is adjacent to a side of the cache memory chip. |
| US11239213B2 |
In-situ curing of color conversion layer in recess
A method of fabricating a multi-color display includes dispensing a photo-curable fluid over a display having an array of LEDs disposed below a cover layer. The cover has an outer surface with a plurality of recesses, and the photo-curable fluid fills the recesses. The photo-curable fluid includes a color conversion agent. A plurality of LEDs in the array are activated to illuminate and cure the photo-curable fluid to form a color conversion layer in the recesses over the activated LEDs. This layer will convert light from these LEDs to light of a first color. An uncured remainder of the photo-curable fluid is removed. Then the process is repeated with a different photo-curable fluid having a different color conversion agent and a different plurality of LEDs. This forms a second color conversion layer in different plurality of recesses to convert light from these LEDs to light of a second color. |
| US11239212B2 |
Light emitting diode array containing a black matrix and an optical bonding layer and method of making the same
A light emitting device includes a backplane, an array of light emitting diodes attached to a front side of the backplane, a transparent conductive layer contacting front side surfaces of the light emitting diodes, an optical bonding layer located over a front side surface of the transparent conductive layer, a transparent cover plate located over a front side surface of the optical bonding layer, and a black matrix layer including an array of openings therethrough, and located between the optical bonding layer and the transparent cover plate. |
| US11239211B2 |
Electronic device having a curved portion between a plurality of conductive portions on a substrate
An electronic device package structure including a substrate, a first circuit layer, a second circuit layer, an electronic device and an input/output device is provided. The first circuit layer includes a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion and a first curve portion located between the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion. At least a partial thickness of the first curve portion is greater than a thickness of the first conductive portion. The electronic device disposed on the second circuit layer is electrically connected to the second conductive portion of the first circuit layer. The input/output device disposed corresponding to the first conductive portion is electrically connected to the first conductive portion of the first circuit layer. |
| US11239210B2 |
Semiconductor die for determining load of through silicon via and semiconductor device including the same
A semiconductor die may include a first delay circuit formed on a substrate and configured to delay a test signal, the first delay circuit including first delay stages connected in series, a second delay circuit formed on the substrate and configured to delay the test signal, the second delay circuit including second delay stages connected in series, at least one through silicon via connected to at least one output terminal of output terminals of the first delay stages, the at least one through silicon via penetrating through the substrate, and a load determinator configured to compare a first delay signal output from one of the first delay stages with a second delay signal output from one of the second delay stages and determine a load of the at least one through silicon via. |
| US11239208B2 |
Packaged semiconductor devices including backside power rails and methods of forming the same
Methods for forming packaged semiconductor devices including backside power rails and packaged semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes a first integrated circuit device including a first transistor structure in a first device layer; a front-side interconnect structure on a front-side of the first device layer; and a backside interconnect structure on a backside of the first device layer, the backside interconnect structure including a first dielectric layer on the backside of the first device layer; and a first contact extending through the first dielectric layer to a source/drain region of the first transistor structure; and a second integrated circuit device including a second transistor structure in a second device layer; and a first interconnect structure on the second device layer, the first interconnect structure being bonded to the front-side interconnect structure by dielectric-to-dielectric and metal-to-metal bonds. |
| US11239206B2 |
Dual sided fan-out package having low warpage across all temperatures
Semiconductor devices including a dual-sided redistribution structure and having low-warpage across all temperatures and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor die electrically coupled to a first side of a redistribution structure and a second semiconductor die electrically coupled to a second side of the redistribution structure opposite the first side. The semiconductor device also includes a first molded material on the first side, a second molded material on the second side, and conductive columns electrically coupled to the first side and extending through the first molded material. The first and second molded materials can have the same volume and/or coefficients of thermal expansion to inhibit warpage of the semiconductor device. |
| US11239203B2 |
Multi-chip stacked devices
Examples described herein generally related to multi-chip devices having vertically stacked chips. In an example, a multi-chip device includes a chip stack. The chip stack includes a base chip and a plurality of interchangeable chips. The base chip is directly bonded to a first one of the plurality of interchangeable chips. Each neighboring pair of the plurality of interchangeable chips is directly bonded together in an orientation with a front side of one chip of the respective neighboring pair directly bonded to a backside of the other chip of the respective neighboring pair. Each of the interchangeable chips has a same processing integrated circuit and a same hardware layout. The chip stack can include a distal chip, which can be directly bonded to a second one of the plurality of interchangeable chips. |
| US11239196B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a metal chip mounting member and a semiconductor chip bonded to the chip mounting member through a metal sintered material, wherein the metal sintered material includes a first portion overlapping the semiconductor chip in a plan view, and includes a second portion surrounding the semiconductor chip in the plan view, and wherein a porosity ratio of the first portion is greater than or equal to 1% and less than 15%, and a porosity ratio of the second portion is greater than or equal to 15% and less than or equal to 50%. |
| US11239194B2 |
Chip package structure
A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a first redistribution structure including a dielectric structure and wiring layers in the dielectric structure. The chip package structure includes a first chip over the first surface. The chip package structure includes a first conductive pillar over the first surface and electrically connected to the wiring layers. The chip package structure includes a second chip over the second surface. The second chip includes a second substrate and a second conductive pad over the second substrate, and the second conductive pad is between the second substrate and the first redistribution structure. The chip package structure includes a second conductive pillar over the second surface and electrically connected to the wiring layers. |
| US11239190B2 |
Solder-metal-solder stack for electronic interconnect
An electronic device includes a substrate having top side contact pads including metal pillars thereon or a laminate substrate having land pads with the pillars thereon. A solder including layer stack is on the pillars, the solder including layer stack having a bottom solder material layer including in physical contact with a top surface of the pillars, a metal material layer, and a capping solder material layer on the metal material layer. The metal material layer is primarily a copper layer or an intermetallic compound (IMC) layer including copper. |
| US11239186B2 |
Die with embedded communication cavity
Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods that include a communication cavity. According to an example a device can include a substrate with a first cavity formed therein, first and second antennas exposed in and enclosed by the cavity, and an interconnect structure formed on the substrate, the interconnect structure including alternating conductive material layers and inter-layer dielectric layers. |
| US11239183B2 |
Mitigating thermal-mechanical strain and warpage of an organic laminate substrate
A multi-chip module (MCM) package includes an organic laminate substrate; first and second semiconductor device chips that are mounted to a top side of the substrate and that define a chip gap region between opposing edges of the chips; and a stiffener that is embedded in the bottom side of the substrate. The stiffener extends across a stiffening region, which underlies the chip gap region, and does not protrude beyond a bottom side metallization of the substrate. |
| US11239173B2 |
Structure and formation method of chip package with fan-out feature
A package structure and a formation method of a package structure are provided. The method includes forming a redistribution structure over a carrier substrate and disposing a semiconductor die over the redistribution structure. The method also includes stacking an interposer substrate over the redistribution structure. The interposer substrate extends across edges of the semiconductor die. The method further includes disposing one or more device elements over the interposer substrate. In addition, the method includes forming a protective layer to surround the semiconductor die. |
| US11239172B2 |
Flexible circuit board and chip package including same
A flexible circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a substrate; a first wiring pattern layer disposed on a first surface of the substrate; a second wiring pattern layer disposed on a second surface opposite the first surface of the substrate; a first dummy pattern part disposed on the second surface of the substrate on which the second wiring pattern layer is not disposed; a first protection layer disposed on the first wiring pattern layer; and a second protection layer disposed on the second wiring pattern layer and the first dummy pattern part, wherein at least a part of the first dummy pattern part overlaps with the first wiring pattern layer in a vertical direction. |
| US11239170B2 |
Stacked modules
The present invention relates to a module that has a lower component of a module (1) having a material (3) in which at least one first structural element (4) is embedded, and an upper component of a module (2) having a material (3) in which at least a second component (16) is embedded. The upper component of the module (2) and the lower component of the module (1) are stacked, with the lower and the upper component of the module (2) being electrically connected and mechanically linked to each other. In addition, the present invention relates to a simple and cost-effective process for the production of a variety of modules. The invention makes it possible for the modules to be miniaturized with respect to surface and height and/or makes it possible to achieve greater integration by 3D packaging. |
| US11239168B2 |
Chip package structure
A chip package structure including first and second insulating layers, first and second circuit structures, a chip on the first circuit structure, an encapsulant, a conductive through via, and first and second heat dissipation layers is provided. The first circuit structure is disposed at the first surface of the first insulating layer. The bottom electrode of the chip is electrically connected to the first circuit structure. The second circuit structure is disposed on the chip and electrically connected to the top electrode of the chip. The encapsulant encapsulates the first and second circuit structures and the chip. The conductive through via is disposed in the encapsulant and connects the first and second circuit structures. The second insulating layer is disposed on the second circuit structure. The first heat dissipation layer is disposed on the first insulating layer. The second heat dissipation layer is disposed on the second insulating layer. |
| US11239163B2 |
Tapering discrete interconnection for an integrated circuit (IC)
A discrete tapering interconnection is disclosed that forms an interconnection between a first electronic circuit and a second electronic circuit within an integrated circuit. The discrete tapering interconnection includes a first set of multiple parallel conductors situated in a first metal layer of the metal layers of a semiconductor layer stack and a second set of multiple parallel conductors situated in a second metal layer of the metal layers of the semiconductor layer stack. The first set of multiple parallel conductors effectively taper the discrete tapering interconnection as the discrete tapering interconnection traverse between the first electronic circuit and/or the second electronic circuit. This tapering of the discrete tapering interconnection can be an asymmetric tapering or a symmetric tapering. The second set of multiple parallel conductors is arranged to form various interconnections between various parallel conductors from among the first set of multiple parallel conductors. |
| US11239160B2 |
E-fuse with dielectric zipping
E-fuses and techniques for fabrication thereof using dielectric zipping are provided. An e-fuse device includes: a first dielectric layer disposed on a substrate; at least one first electrode of the e-fuse device present in the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer; vias present in the second dielectric layer, wherein at least one of the vias is present over the at least one first electrode and has a critical dimension CDA″, wherein the vias adjacent to the at least one via having the critical dimension CDA″ each have a critical dimension of CDB″, and wherein CDB″>CDA″; a liner disposed in each of the vias; and a metal that serves as a second electrode of the e-fuse device disposed in each of the vias over the liner. A method of operating an e-fuse device is also provided. |
| US11239159B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, a first electrode opposing the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer between the semiconductor substrate and the first electrode, a first resistance control layer on the first electrode, a wiring part on the first resistance control layer, and a second electrode opposing the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first resistance control layer includes a first region that has a first electrical resistivity and that electrically connects the first electrode and the wiring part, and a second region that is aligned with the first region and has a second electrical resistivity higher than the first electrical resistivity of the first region. |
| US11239157B2 |
Package structure and package-on-package structure
A semiconductor chip including a die substrate, a plurality of first bonding structures, a plurality of conductive elements, at least one integrated device, a plurality of conductive posts and a protection layer is provided. The first bonding structures are disposed on the die substrate. The conductive elements are disposed on the die substrate adjacent to the first bonding structures. The integrated device is disposed on the die substrate over the first bonding structures, wherein the integrated device includes a plurality of second bonding structures and a plurality of conductive pillars, and the second bonding structures are hybrid bonded to the first bonding structures. The conductive posts are disposed on the conductive elements and surrounding the integrated device. The protection layer is encapsulating the integrated device and the conductive posts. |
| US11239150B2 |
Battery-free and substrate-free IoT and AI system package
A tetherless system-in-package includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip having interconnects and energy harvesting elements. A super-capacitor is configured to store a charge output by the energy harvesting elements. At least a second IC chipset including a smart chip and an optical I/O or an RF I/O is aligned and bonded to at least one of the interconnects of the first IC chip. The first IC chip and the second IC chip are configured to receive a portion of the charge stored by the super-capacitor. |
| US11239144B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of producing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a mounting substrate; a first wiring electrode and a second wiring electrode disposed on a main surface of a mounting substrate; an interposing member disposed between the first wiring electrode and the second wiring electrode; a semiconductor element flip-chip connected with the first wiring electrode and the second wiring electrode via a first electrical connection member and a second electrical connection member so as to at least partially overlap the interposing member in a top surface view; and a resin disposed in contact with the semiconductor element and the mounting substrate. The wettability of the interposing member to the resin is higher than that of the mounting substrate to the resin. The resin is disposed in contact with the semiconductor element and the interposing member. |
| US11239143B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor structure includes a first substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a first conductive via extended through the first substrate; a second conductive via extended through the first substrate; and a third conductive via extended through the first substrate, wherein the second conductive via is disposed between the first conductive via and the third conductive via, the second conductive via is configured to connect to a signal source, and the first conductive via and the third conductive via are configured to connect to an electrical ground. |
| US11239142B2 |
Package structure and method for forming the same
A package structure and method for forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a conductive layer formed over a first substrate, and a dielectric layer formed over the conductive layer. The package structure includes a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor embedded in the dielectric layer, and a shielding layer formed over the MIM capacitor. The shielding layer is insulated from the MIM capacitor by the dielectric layer. The package structure also includes a first through via formed through the MIM capacitor, and the first through via is connected to the conductive layer, and the first through via is insulated from the shielding layer. |
| US11239140B2 |
Chip packaging structure with heat dissipation layer, flange and sealing pin
Disclosed a chip packaging structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The chip packaging structure comprises: a metal heat dissipation layer; a chip structure comprising a plurality of first electrical contacts on an upper surface of the chip structure; a pin layer comprising a plurality of second electrical contacts and a plurality of separate metal bumps; an encapsulant encapsulating at least one portion of the chip structure, the metal heat dissipation layer and the pin layer, wherein at least one portion of the pin layer is exposed to an upper surface of the encapsulant, and an lower surface of the metal heat dissipation layer is exposed outside the encapsulant. The metal heat dissipation layer includes a flange on the side surface for tightly combining the metal heat dissipation layer and the encapsulant. |
| US11239138B2 |
Methods of packaging semiconductor devices and packaged semiconductor devices
Methods of packaging semiconductor devices and packaged semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of packaging a semiconductor device includes coupling through-vias to an insulating material, each of the through-vias having a first width. Dies are also coupled to the insulating material. A portion of the insulating material is removed proximate each of the through-vias. The portion of the insulating material proximate each of the through-vias removed has a second width, the second width being less than the first width. |
| US11239134B2 |
Package structure and method of fabricating the same
A structure includes a circuit substrate, a device, a metal layer, a lid and a thermal interface material layer. The device is disposed on and electrically connected to the circuit substrate. The device includes at least one semiconductor die laterally encapsulated by an insulating encapsulation. The metal layer is covering a back surface of the at least one semiconductor die and the insulating encapsulation. The lid is disposed on the circuit substrate, and the lid is adhered to the metal layer through the thermal interface material layer. |
| US11239132B2 |
Semiconductor power device with corresponding package and related manufacturing process
A semiconductor power device has: a die, with a front surface and a rear surface, and with an arrangement of projecting regions on the front surface, which define between them windows arranged within which are contact regions; and a package, which houses the die inside it. A metal frame has a top surface and a bottom surface; the die is carried by the frame on the top surface; an encapsulation coating coats the frame and the die. A first insulation multilayer is arranged above the die and is formed by an upper metal layer, a lower metal layer, and an intermediate insulating layer; the lower metal layer is shaped according to an arrangement of the projecting regions and has contact projections, which extend so as to electrically contact the contact regions, and insulation regions, interposed between the contact projections, in positions corresponding to the projecting regions. |
| US11239129B2 |
Package cooling by coil cavity
A semiconductor device assembly can include a first die package comprising a bottom side; a top side; and lateral sides extending between the top and bottom sides. The assembly can include an encapsulant material encapsulating the first die package. In some embodiments, the assembly includes a cooling cavity in the encapsulant material. The cooling cavity can have a first opening; a second opening; and an elongate channel extending from the first opening to the second opening. In some embodiments, the elongate channel surrounds at least two of the lateral sides of the first die package. In some embodiments, the elongate channel is configured to accommodate a cooling fluid. |
| US11239128B2 |
Microelectronic devices, stacked microelectronic devices, and methods for manufacturing microelectronic devices
Microelectronic devices, stacked microelectronic devices, and methods for manufacturing microelectronic devices are described herein. In one embodiment, a set of stacked microelectronic devices includes (a) a first microelectronic die having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, (b) a first substrate attached to the first side of the first microelectronic die and electrically coupled to the first microelectronic die, (c) a second substrate attached to the second side of the first microelectronic die, (d) a plurality of electrical couplers attached to the second substrate, (e) a third substrate coupled to the electrical couplers, and (f) a second microelectronic die attached to the third substrate. The electrical couplers are positioned such that at least some of the electrical couplers are inboard the first microelectronic die. |
| US11239127B2 |
Topside-cooled semiconductor package with molded standoff
A molded semiconductor package arrangement may comprise a die pad configured to support a semiconductor; a set of leads; and a mold structure that is formed to enclose the semiconductor and the die pad within the mold structure. The set of leads and the die pad may be formed from a same piece of conductive material. An electrical contact plane of the set of leads may be offset from a bottom surface of the die pad. The mold structure may include a molded standoff that is beneath the die pad. A bottom surface of the molded standoff may extend below the electrical contact plane of the set of leads by a threshold distance that corresponds to a thickness of the molded standoff. |
| US11239124B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device, power conversion device, and moving body
An object is to provide a technique capable of fixing a cover to a container body without using a dedicated fixation mechanism and fixation member. A semiconductor device includes: a container body having a space with an opening; a semiconductor element disposed in the space in the container body; a sealing member disposed in the space in the container body to cover the semiconductor element; and a cover covering the opening of the container body, wherein a convex portion protruding into the space is provided on the cover, and the cover is fixed to the container body only by embedding at least a tip portion of the convex portion in the sealing member which has been cured. |
| US11239123B2 |
Semiconductor module, semiconductor device, and vehicle
A base plate (1) includes a fixed surface and a radiating surface which is a surface opposite to the fixed surface. An insulating substrate (3) is bonded to the fixed surface of the base plate (1). Conductive patterns (4,5) are provided on the insulating substrate (3). Semiconductor chips (7,8) are bonded to the conductive pattern (4). An Al wire (12) connects top surfaces of the semiconductor chip (8) to the conductive pattern (5). The insulating substrate (3), the conductive patterns (4 ,5), the semiconductor chips (7 to 10) and the Al wires (11 to 13) are sealed with resin (16). The base plate (1) includes a metal part (19) and a reinforcing member (20) provided in the metal part (19). A Young's modulus of the reinforcing member (20) is higher than a Youngs modulus of the metal part (19). |
| US11239120B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes first active patterns and second active patterns on a substrate, a first source/drain region on the first active patterns, a second source/drain region on the second active patterns and a device isolation layer filling a first trench between adjacent ones of the first active patterns and a second trench between adjacent ones of the second active patterns. A liner layer is disposed on the device isolation layer between the adjacent ones of the second active patterns. The device isolation layer between the adjacent ones of the first active patterns has a recess therein under the first source/drain region and a bottom surface of the liner layer between the adjacent ones of the second active patterns is higher than the recess. |
| US11239118B2 |
Semiconductor device having buried gate structure and method for fabricating the same
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in a substrate, forming a gate dielectric layer on a surface of the trench, forming a lower gate, which partially fills the trench, over the gate dielectric layer, forming a low work function layer over the lower gate, forming a spacer over the low work function layer, etching the low work function layer to be self-aligned with the spacer in order to form vertical gate on both upper edges of the lower gate, and forming an upper gate over the lower gate between inner sidewalls of the vertical gate. |
| US11239117B1 |
Replacement gate dielectric in three-node access device formation for vertical three dimensional (3D) memory
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for storage node after horizontally oriented, three-node access device formation in vertical three dimensional (3D) memory. An example method includes a method for forming arrays of vertically stacked memory cells, having horizontally oriented access devices and vertically oriented access lines. The method includes depositing alternating layers of a dielectric material and a sacrificial semiconductor material to form a vertical stack. A first vertical opening is formed through the vertical stack to expose a first region of the sacrificial semiconductor material. The first region is selectively removed to form a first horizontal opening in which to replace a sacrificial gate dielectric material, form a source/drain conductive contact material, a channel conductive material, and a digit line conductive contact material of the three-node access device. |
| US11239114B2 |
Semiconductor device with reduced contact resistance and methods of forming the same
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a substrate; a gate structure disposed over the substrate and over a channel region of the semiconductor device, wherein the gate structure includes a gate stack and spacers disposed along sidewalls of the gate stack, the gate stack including a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode; a first metal layer disposed over the gate stack, wherein the first metal layer laterally contacts the spacers over the gate dielectric layer and the gate electrode; and a gate via disposed over the first metal layer. |
| US11239111B1 |
Method of fabricating semiconductor device
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first conductive structure over a substrate, successively forming a first spacer layer, a sacrificial layer, and a second spacer layer on the first conductive structure, forming a second conductive structure adjacent the first conductive structure and in contact with a lower portion of the second spacer layer, partially removing an upper portion of the second spacer layer to expose the sacrificial layer, removing the sacrificial layer through a vapor etch process to form an air gap between the lower portion of the second spacer layer and the first spacer layer, and forming a capping layer to cap the air gap. |
| US11239107B2 |
High resistivity silicon-on-insulator substrate having enhanced charge trapping efficiency
A multilayer semiconductor on insulator structure is provided in which the handle substrate and an epitaxial layer in interfacial contact with the handle substrate comprise electrically active dopants of opposite type. The epitaxial layer is depleted by the handle substrate free carriers, thereby resulting in a high apparent resistivity, which improves the function of the structure in RF devices. |
| US11239105B2 |
Multiple-stage processing devices
A multiple stage processing device having a plurality of radial stages, each individual radial stage is positioned between adjacent dividing walls and indexable though a plurality of processing stations. A plurality of fixture mount assemblies are positioned on an actuation surface of the rotatable indexing assembly, each individual fixture mount assembly is associated with and mechanically coupled to an individual radial stage. One or more slotted drive hubs communicatively coupled to independently operable drive motors are positioned adjacent to the actuation surface of the rotatable indexing assembly and are engageable with the plurality of fixture mount assemblies. When an individual fixture mount assembly is engaged with an individual slotted drive hub, an individual independently operable drive motor can independently control the individual fixture mount assembly such that the individual radial stage mechanically coupled to the individual fixture mount assembly is moveably coupled to the independently operable drive motor. |
| US11239101B2 |
Wafer supply device
A wafer supply device configured to supply a wafer divided into multiple dies to a supply position, the wafer supply device includes a die information storage section configured to store the number of dies for each rank allocated to each of the dies, a block information acquisition section configured to acquire a condition of dies to be mounted on a block provided on a board to be conveyed, a required block number acquisition section configured to acquire a required number of dies to be mounted on the block, and a producible number calculation section configured to calculate a number of blocks that can be produced based on a content stored in the die information storage section and a content acquired by the block information acquisition section and the required block number acquisition section. |
| US11239095B2 |
Stacked semiconductor die assemblies with high efficiency thermal paths and molded underfill
Semiconductor die assemblies having high efficiency thermal paths and molded underfill material. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly comprises a first die and a plurality of second dies. The first die has a first functionality, a lateral region, and a stacking site. The second dies have a different functionality than the first die, and the second dies are in a die stack including a bottom second die mounted to the stacking site of the first die and a top second die defining a top surface of the die stack. A thermal transfer structure is attached to at least the lateral region of the first die and has a cavity in which the second dies are positioned. An underfill material is in the cavity between the second dies and the thermal transfer structure, and the underfill material covers the top surface of the die stack. |
| US11239094B2 |
Designer atomic layer etching
Methods for evaluating synergy of modification and removal operations for a wide variety of materials to determine process conditions for self-limiting etching by atomic layer etching are provided herein. Methods include determining the surface binding energy of the material, selecting a modification gas for the material where process conditions for modifying a surface of the material generate energy less than the modification energy and greater than the desorption energy, selecting a removal gas where process conditions for removing the modified surface generate energy greater than the desorption energy to remove the modified surface but less than the surface binding energy of the material to prevent sputtering, and calculating synergy to maximize the process window for atomic layer etching. |
| US11239092B2 |
Method for forming semiconductor device structure
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a first layer over a substrate. The first layer is made of a semiconductor material. The method includes forming a stop layer over the first layer. The method includes forming a second layer over the stop layer. The second layer is in direct contact with the stop layer. The method includes removing the second layer. The method includes performing an etching process to remove the stop layer and an upper portion of the first layer. The method includes performing a first planarization process over the first layer. |
| US11239088B2 |
Semiconductor device and formation method thereof
Semiconductor device and fabrication method are provided. A plurality of first-type fin groups and second-type fins, each between the first-type fin groups, are formed on a substrate. A first-type fin group includes first-type fins. The first-type fins and the second-type fins are arranged in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the first-type fins and the second-type fins. The second-type fins are removed to form first trenches between corresponding first-type fin groups. A protective layer is formed on sidewalls of the first trenches after removing the second-type fins. The protective layer covers sidewalls of the first-type fins that are perpendicular to a width direction of the first-type fins. Second trenches are formed in the substrate under the first trenches by etching the substrate at bottoms of the first trenches using the protective layer as an etch mask. |
| US11239082B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of first forming a gate dielectric layer on a substrate; forming a gate material layer on the gate dielectric layer, and removing part of the gate material layer and part of the gate dielectric layer to form a gate electrode, in which a top surface of the gate dielectric layer adjacent to two sides of the gate electrode is lower than a top surface of the gate dielectric layer between the gate electrode and the substrate. Next, a first mask layer is formed on the gate dielectric layer and the gate electrode, part of the first mask layer and part of the gate dielectric layer are removed to form a first spacer, a second mask layer is formed on the substrate and the gate electrode, and part of the second mask layer is removed to forma second spacer. |
| US11239079B2 |
Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, inverter circuit, drive device, vehicle, and elevator
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a silicon carbide layer; a silicon oxide layer; and a region disposed between the silicon carbide layer and the silicon oxide layer and having a nitrogen concentration equal to or more than 1×1021 cm−3. A nitrogen concentration distribution in the silicon carbide layer, the silicon oxide layer, and the region have a peak in the region, a nitrogen concentration at a first position 1 nm away from the peak to the side of the silicon oxide layer is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3 and a carbon concentration at the first position is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm3, and a nitrogen concentration at a second position 1 nm away from the peak to the side of the silicon carbide layer is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3. |
| US11239078B2 |
Fine line patterning methods
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including operations of forming a first hard mask over an underlying layer on a substrate by a photolithographic and etching method, forming a sidewall spacer pattern having a first sidewall portion and a second sidewall portion on opposing sides of the first hard mask, etching the first sidewall portion, etching the first hard mask and leaving the second sidewall portion bridging a gap of the etched first hard mask, and processing the underlying layer using the second hard mask. |
| US11239077B2 |
Litho-etch-litho-etch with self-aligned blocks
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of mandrel cuts from a first set of mandrels of a base structure using lithography, surrounding the first set of mandrels and a second set of mandrels of the base structure with spacer material to form mandrel-spacer structures, forming a flowable material layer on exposed surfaces of the mandrel-spacer structures, and performing additional processing, including forming a plurality of dielectric trenches within the base structure based on patterns formed in the flowable material layer. |
| US11239074B2 |
Germanium nanosheets and methods of forming the same
Devices comprising germanium nanosheets are described herein. Methods of forming such germanium nanosheets and devices including such germanium nanosheets are also described. |
| US11239070B2 |
Optimal exposure of a bottom surface of a substrate material and/or edges thereof for cleaning in a spin coating device
A method includes rendering a cleaning nozzle of a spin coating device below a base plate and out of optimal exposure to a bottom surface and edges of a substrate material placed on a spin chuck in a state of engagement of the base plate with the spin chuck, and rendering the base plate completely under the spin chuck even in the aforementioned state of engagement. In response to disengagement of a lid from the base plate, the method also includes disengaging the base plate from the spin chuck to lower the base plate to a locking point whereupon a portion of the cleaning nozzle below the base plate passes through a hole in the base plate and emerges completely out of and above the base plate, and cleaning the bottom surface and/or the edges of the substrate material utilizing the cleaning nozzle based on an optimal exposure thereof. |
| US11239069B2 |
Mass spectrometer
When a Q-TOF type mass spectrometer is operated in an MS1 mode, a controller (40), at the time of measurement, controls voltage generators (31 to 33) such that only a V voltage (radio-frequency voltage for mass separation) and a direct-current bias voltage are applied to main rod electrodes of a quadrupole mass filter (12) without application of a U voltage (direct-current voltage for mass separation). During a measurement preparation period between a plurality of measurements to obtain one mass spectrum, the controller (40) controls a U voltage generator (31) so as to apply the U voltage to the main rod electrodes of the quadrupole mass filter (12). Accordingly, a direct-current electric field is formed between adjacent main rod electrodes around an ion optical axis (C) due to a potential difference, and electric charges accumulated in rod holders (122) holding the main rod electrodes are rapidly removed by an effect of this electric field. As a result, it is possible to eliminate a charge-up that has not been eliminated by a conventional method in which a polarity of a direct-current bias voltage applied to the rod electrodes is merely reversed. |
| US11239068B2 |
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer with mass correction
Systems and methods for controlling mass filtering of polyatomic ions in an ion beam passing through an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). Polyatomic ion mass data representative of the exact mass of a polyatomic ion having a target isotope is determined. A control signal is generated based on the determined polyatomic ion mass data and output to an ICP-MS to filter based on mass the polyatomic ions in the ion beam traveling through the ICP-MS to an ion detector. |
| US11239066B2 |
Cell population analysis
A method of analysis using mass spectrometry and/or ion mobility spectrometry is disclosed comprising: (a) using a first device to generate smoke, aerosol or vapour from a target in vitro or ex vivo cell population; (b) mass analysing and/or ion mobility analysing said smoke, aerosol or vapour, or ions derived therefrom, in order to obtain spectrometric data; and (c) analysing said spectrometric data in order to identify and/or characterise said target cell population or one or more cells and/or compounds present in said target cell population. |
| US11239065B2 |
Collection probe and methods for the use thereof
Method and devices are provided for assessing tissue samples from a plurality of tissue sites in a subject using molecular analysis. In certain aspects, devices of the embodiments allow for the collection of liquid tissue samples and delivery of the samples for mass spectrometry analysis. |
| US11239062B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus with heater and power frequency control
A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber; a substrate support having a lower electrode, an electrostatic chuck, and a heater; a radio frequency power supply; a DC power supply; a first controller; and a second controller. The first controller controls the radio frequency power supply to supply a pulsed radio frequency power to the lower electrode periodically with a cycle defined by a first frequency, and controls the DC power supply to apply a pulsed negative voltage to the edge ring periodically with the cycle. The second controller includes a heater controller that controls the power by obtaining a resistance value of the heater from sample values of a current and a voltage supplied to the heater. The first frequency is different from a second frequency that is a sampling frequency of the sample value of the current and the sample value of the voltage in the second controller. |
| US11239058B2 |
Protective layers for processing chamber components
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide protective coatings, i.e., diffusion and thermal barrier coatings, for aluminum alloy substrates. In particular, embodiments described herein provide a protective layer stack comprising a tantalum nitride layer disposed on an aluminum alloy substrate and a ceramic layer disposed on the tantalum nitride layer. In some embodiments, the aluminum alloy substrates comprise processing chambers and processing chamber components used in the field of electronic device manufacturing, e.g., semiconductor device manufacturing. In one embodiment, an article includes a substrate, a tantalum nitride layer disposed on the substrate, and a ceramic layer disposed on the tantalum nitride layer. |
| US11239056B2 |
Multiplexed power generator output with channel offsets for pulsed driving of multiple loads
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for a pulsed power supply assembly that distributes pulsed power to two or more loads using a single pulsed power supply. A pulsed power supply of the assembly can phase shift pulses to the different loads to ensure that there is no overlap between pulses at the outputs even where target frequencies and/or duty cycles for the different loads would otherwise call for such pulse overlaps. Variances applied by the pulsed power supply can be limited by attempts to keep average parameters of the pulse trains provided to the different loads to within predetermined variances. |
| US11239050B2 |
Imaging device
An object of the invention is to easily acquire an image of a position corresponding between each section in an imaging device that acquires an image of a plurality of sample sections. The imaging device according to the invention calculates, according to a correspondence relationship between a characteristic point and a first observation region in a first sample section, coordinates of a second observation region of a second sample section, and generates an observation image at the calculated coordinates (see FIG. 7B). |
| US11239049B2 |
Transmission electron microscope provided with at least one ballistic material jet source
A transmission electron microscope is provided, including a column defining an object chamber, at least one ballistic material jet source outside the object chamber, and tightly attached to the column, facing an opening, referred to as a port, provided on the column; having at least one jet source arranged outside the column and including a collimator of the material jet towards a predetermined direction, passing through the port and leading into the object chamber so that a portion of the material jet exits the source in the object chamber. |
| US11239048B2 |
Arrayed column detector
An electron beam inspection system is disclosed, in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. The inspection system may include an electron beam source configured to generate one or more primary electron beams. The inspection system may also include an electron-optical column including a set of electron-optical elements configured to direct the one or more primary electron beams to a sample. The inspection system may further include a detection assembly comprising: a scintillator substrate configured to collect electrons emanating from the sample, the scintillator substrate configured to generate optical radiation in response to the collected electrons; one or more light guides; one or more reflective surfaces configured to receive the optical radiation and direct the optical radiation along the one or more light guides; and one or more detectors configured to receive the optical radiation from the light guide. |
| US11239044B2 |
Wien filter and charged particle beam imaging apparatus
A Wien filter and a charged particle beam imaging apparatus are provided. The Wien filter Wien filter, including a Wien filter body which includes: an electrostatic deflector, including at least one pair of electrodes, respective two electrodes in each pair of which are opposite to each other, each electrode including an electrode body constructed in an arc-shaped form, and respective electrode bodies of respective two electrodes in each pair of the at least one pair of electrodes being arranged concentrically with and opposite to each other in a diameter direction, and the at least one pair of electrodes being configured to generate respective electric fields by cooperation of the respective two electrodes in each pair of the at least one pair of electrodes, in the condition of respective bias voltages applied individually thereon; and a magnetic deflector, including at least one pair of magnetic poles, respective two magnetic poles in each pair of which are opposite to each other, each magnetic pole including a magnetic pole body constructed in an arc-shaped form, and respective magnetic pole bodies of respective two magnetic poles in each pair of the at least one pair of magnetic poles being arranged concentrically with and opposite to each other in the diameter direction, and the magnetic pole bodies of the at least one pair of magnetic poles in the magnetic deflector and the electrode bodies of the at least one pair of electrodes in the electrostatic deflector being arranged concentrically and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, and the at least one pair of magnetic poles being configured to generate respective magnetic fields by cooperation of respective two magnetic poles in each pair of the at least one pair of magnetic poles; a resultant electric field formed collectively by all of the respective electric fields is perpendicular to a resultant magnetic field formed collectively by all of the respective magnetic fields; and each electrode is also provided with a respective first protrusion extending radially inwards from a radial inner side of the respective electrode body thereof, and each magnetic pole is also provided with a second protrusion extending radially inwards from a radial inner side of the respective magnetic pole body thereof. |
| US11239041B2 |
Multi-stage vacuum equipment with stages separation controlled by SMA actuator
The present invention relates to a multi-stage vacuum equipment, preferably a two-stage equipment, whose normal operation requires different pressures to be set, wherein the pressure variation may be achieved by a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wire movement of a suitable element. The invention further discloses a method for operating said multi-stage vacuum equipment controlled by a SMA actuator. |
| US11239037B2 |
Breaker and safety circuit equipped with the same
A breaker has a fixed contact, a movable piece which has an elastic portion formed in a plate shape and being elastically deformable, and a movable contact in one end portion of the elastic portion so as to press the movable contact against the fixed contact, a thermally-actuated element which is deformed in accordance with a temperature change and shifts from a conduction state in which the movable contact contacts with the fixed contact to a shut-off state in which the movable contact separates from the fixed contact, and a case which accommodates the fixed contact, the movable piece, and the thermally-actuated element. The case has a side wall extending in a long direction of the movable piece, and the side wall is provided, in an adjacent portion to the thermally-actuated element, with a convex portion protruding toward the outside of the case. |
| US11239035B2 |
Button structure and display device having button structure
The present disclosure relates to a button structure and a display device having the button structure. The button structure includes a housing, a function control substrate, a mechanical button and a remote control module. The housing has a reception space and a connection structure, is detachably connected to an electronic device through the connection structure, and has an installation surface to be docked to the electronic device, the installation surface is provided with a cable hole which communicates with the reception space, the electronic device is provided with a hole corresponding to the cable hole. The function control substrate is provided within the reception space and is connected with a cable, which extends into the electronic device via the cable hole and the hole and is connected to an electronic element inside the electronic device. |
| US11239033B2 |
Monitoring device for switching systems
A monitoring device for switching systems including a contact assembly having at least a movable contact and a kinematic chain for actuating said movable contact and opening/closing the contact assembly. The monitoring device includes: an accelerometer adapted to be positioned on a moving part of the switching system and capable of determining acceleration data of the moving part; a control unit including: a first processing unit adapted to receive acceleration data measured by the accelerometer and calculate timing instants of predetermined events and motion parameters related to the switching system; a second processing unit adapted to receive the timing instants of predetermined events and the motion parameters and to use at least one timing instant and at least one motion parameter to calculate electro/mechanical parameters of the switching system. |
| US11239025B2 |
Inductive device having electromagnetic radiation shielding mechanism and manufacturing method of the same
The present disclosure discloses an inductive device having electromagnetic radiation shielding mechanism. The inductive device includes an inductive unit and a shielding structure. The shielding structure forms at least one closed shape that encloses the inductive unit. The shielding structure has a width thereof and a distance separated from the inductive unit such that a decreasing amount of a quality factor of the inductive unit is not larger than a first predetermined value and a shielded amount of electromagnetic radiation is not lower than a second predetermined value. |
| US11239021B2 |
Isolated converter
An isolated converter reduced in size compared with a conventional isolated converter and having a high heat dissipation characteristic is provided. The isolated converter includes a multilayer substrate having a first through hole and a magnetic core partially passing through the first through hole. The multilayer substrate includes a first conductor pattern formed at a position overlapping the magnetic core on a second surface when viewed from a direction orthogonal to a first surface, a second conductor pattern formed between the first surface and the second surface at a position overlapping the magnetic core and the first conductor pattern when viewed from the direction orthogonal to the first surface, at least one thermal conductive member formed on the first conductor pattern and having a portion disposed between the multilayer substrate and the magnetic core, and an electric insulating layer electrically insulating the first conductor pattern from the second conductor pattern. |
| US11239011B2 |
Sintered R-T-B based magnet
A sintered R-T-B based magnet has remanence (Br) of 1.47 T or greater and coercivity (HcJ) of 1900 kA/m or greater and contains Tb at a content of 0.35 mass % or lower. |
| US11239009B2 |
Power resistor
A power resistor is disclosed, having at least one electrical connection, having a carrier substrate, which has at least one resistor element composed of a thick-film material and at least one contact electrode to which the resistor element electrically connects, having at least one electrical conductor, which is soldered to the contact electrode and produces an electrical connection between the contact electrode and the electrical terminal, and having a housing, which is at least partially filled with at least one casting compound and in which the resistor element and contact electrode are encapsulated, with the electrical conductor protruding out through the casting compound. In order to achieve a simply designed and easy-to-use power resistor, it is proposed for a pin, in particular a soldering pin or press-fitting pin, to constitute the electrical conductor, which pin is placed onto the contact electrode and soldered to it and constitutes the electrical terminal of the power resistor. |
| US11239008B2 |
Resistors for dynamic braking
A resistor includes an elongated cylindrical body having nodes and elongated members. The elongated members interconnect the nodes to form openings between the nodes and the elongated members for the flow therethrough of a cooling fluid. The body is configured to receive electric current from a powered system and to conduct and provide electric resistance to the electric current to dissipate at least part of the electric current as heat from the body. The body also is configured to be coupled with at least one other resistor of the powered system in one or more of a parallel or series arrangement in an electric circuit. |
| US11239007B2 |
Electrical isolator
An electrical isolator includes a first fluid-carrying member and a second fluid-carrying member spaced apart from the first fluid-carrying member in an axial direction and a resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component located between the first and second fluid-carrying members. The component is adapted to convey fluid flowing from the first fluid-carrying member to the second fluid-carrying member. The isolator also include a first fluid sealing member provided between the first fluid-carrying member and the component, a second fluid sealing member provided between the second fluid-carrying member and the component, and a reinforcing composite encircling the first fluid-carrying member, the second fluid-carrying member and the resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component. A a radially inner portion of the component separates the first fluid-carrying member and the second fluid-carrying member by an axial distance. The first and second sealing members are located within the axial distance between the first and second fluid-carrying members. |
| US11239003B2 |
Support substrate for radioisotope production, target plate for radioisotope production, and production method for support substrate
Provided is a target plate for radioisotope production that has sufficient durability and sufficient heat resistance for use in radioisotope production and that is capable of reducing the extent of radioactivation. In a target plate for radioisotope production, a support substrate, which supports a target, includes a graphite film(s). The thermal conductivity in a surface direction of the graphite film(s) is 1200 W/(m·K) or greater, and the thickness of the graphite film(s) is 0.05 μm or greater and 100 μm or less. |
| US11239001B2 |
Method for generating extreme ultraviolet radiation and an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation source
A method for generating extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation includes introducing a fuel droplet; applying a first laser beam to strike the fuel droplet at a location to generate EUV radiation and form a movable debris of the fuel droplet; and forming an energy field proximal to the location of the first laser beam strike to trap the movable debris. An EUV radiation source includes a fuel droplet generator, a first laser, a collector and an energy field. The fuel droplet generator is configured to provide a fuel droplet. The first laser is configured to generate a first laser beam to strike the fuel droplet at a location to generate EUV radiation and form a movable debris. The collector is configured to reflect the EUV radiation. The energy field is configured to trap the movable debris, wherein the energy field is proximal to the location of the first laser beam strike. |
| US11238997B2 |
Nuclear reactor system transmitter device structured to wirelessly emit a signal based on detected neutron flux
Disclosed is a transmitter device comprising a neutron detector structured to generate electrical current from neutron flux, and an oscillator circuit comprising an electrostatic switch electrically connected to the neutron detector, wherein the electrostatic switch is moveable based on the neutron detector. The transmitter device further comprises an antenna electrically connected with the electrostatic switch. The oscillator circuit is structured to pulse the antenna based on the neutron detector, wherein a period between pulses is related to the neutron flux. The antenna is structured to emit a signal corresponding to a number of characteristic values of the oscillator circuit. |
| US11238996B2 |
Real-time reactor coolant system boron concentration monitor utilizing an ultrasonic spectroscpopy system
A method and a system for performing real-time, continuous, measurements of the boron concentration in the water entering a nuclear reactor coolant system. The invention utilizes knowledge of the impact that boron contained in liquid water has on the attenuation of acoustic or ultrasonic waves. This information, coupled with radiation damage resistant and high temperature operability capable transmitter and receiver equipment, provides the means to place the measurement system sensors and signal processing electronics on the reactor coolant system charging flow piping or the hot leg or cold leg of the reactor coolant loop. This will allow the reactor operator to directly monitor both the reactor coolant system boron concentration value and detect changes in the reactor coolant system boron concentration relative to a reference value as they occur. |
| US11238993B2 |
Intelligent touch care corresponding to an unscheduled clinician visit
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems, methods, and user interfaces for providing intelligent touch care. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure utilizes contributing data elements in a community early warning score (CEWS) to predict touchpoint discipline and to recommend frequency, modality, and upstream transitions of care and outside service referrals for a patient in a community care setting. In response to a touch point (e.g., a change in condition or medication, a scheduled or unscheduled appointment, or a patient question), the CEWS can be utilized along with data in an EHR of a patient, data from a patient device, or data from a patient portal to initiate a follow-up (e.g., personal health question or encounter). Notification tools and scheduling functionality are provided via a user interface of the patient device to improve clinical workforce capacity, increase the number of patient touches, and encourage heightened patient engagement. |
| US11238991B2 |
Method for prediction of cortical spiking trains
The present invention is related to a method for prediction of cortical spiking neural signal, comprising the following steps: 1) pretreatment of spiking neural signal, 2) modeling of posterior cortical spiking neural signal generation probability, 3) model accuracy measurement, 4) model optimization with the help of numerical gradient descent and 5) prediction of posterior cortical spiking neural signal with iterative calculation. The prediction method aims to incorporate natural features of point process of spiking neural signal into the target for optimization of prediction model to improve model's capability in predicting neural spike trains. |
| US11238990B2 |
System, method and computer simulation environment for in silico trials in pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes
An electronic system is provided that simulates a glucose-insulin metabolic system of a T2DM or prediabetic subject, wherein the system includes a subsystem that models dynamic glucose concentration in a T2DM or prediabetic subject, including an electronic module that models endogenous glucose production (EGP(t)), or meal glucose rate of appearance (Ra(t>>, or glucose utilization (U(t)), or renal excretion of glucose (B(t)), a subsystem that models dynamic insulin concentration in said T2DM or prediabetic subject, including an electronic module that models insulin secretion (S(t)), an electronic database containing a population of virtual T2DM or prediabetic subjects, each virtual subject having a plurality of metabolic parameters, and a processing module that calculates an effect of variation of at least one metabolic parameter value on the glucose insulin metabolic system of a virtual subject by inputting the plurality of metabolic parameter values. |
| US11238989B2 |
Personalized risk prediction based on intrinsic and extrinsic factors
Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products that facilitate predicting personalized risks based on intrinsic factors and extrinsic factors are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises: collecting, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, intrinsic factors and extrinsic factors associated with infectious diseases; generating, by the system, a probabilistic model based on the intrinsic factors and extrinsic factors, wherein the model incorporates node characteristics into infection probability; and refining, by the system, the model through concurrently learning respective node thresholds and hidden infection network structure of the model. |
| US11238984B2 |
Systems and methods for ensuring quality of care services
The present invention relates to systems and methods for ensuring quality of care services. After care is provided a confirmation is received. This may include a message regarding the care delivery from the provider. The confirmation and message may be conveyed to friends and family of the recipient. Location data from the provider, and feeds from the recipient's location are collected. Any lapses of care and emergencies based upon the location data and feeds are likewise identified. Identifying lapses of care and emergencies includes cross referencing length of time the provider spent at the recipient's location against tasks that were supposed to be performed at the location to determine if there is a discrepancy. Likewise, the time and location of the provider can be cross referenced against the confirmation to determine if there is a discrepancy. In some embodiments the feeds are also analyzed for trigger events. |
| US11238976B2 |
Interpretation support apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
A support program is a program for supporting creation of an interpretation report including a medical image obtained by examining a patient and a region of interest to focus on in the medical image. The support program causes a computer to function as: a reading unit that reads a plurality of interpretation reports created by a plurality of examinations on the same part of the same patient; a difference detection unit that sets one of the plurality of interpretation reports as a detection target interpretation report and sets the others as comparison target interpretation reports, compares regions of interest of the detection target interpretation report and the comparison target interpretation reports, and detects a region of interest, which is present in the comparison target interpretation reports but is not present in the detection target interpretation report, as a difference region; and a notification screen distribution unit that, in a case where the difference region is detected, notifies that the difference region has been detected. |
| US11238973B2 |
Hand-held spherical antenna system to detect transponder tagged objects, for example during surgery
A hand-held antenna system allows medical personnel to ascertain the presence or absence of objects (e.g., medical supplies) tagged with transponders in an environment in which medical procedures are performed. In use, the hand-held antenna system may be positioned proximate a patient at a time after a medical procedure, such as after child birth, so the system can scan the patient's body to determine the presence of objects tagged with transponders. The antenna system includes three antenna elements arranged mutually orthogonal to each other to transmit and receive signals in three coordinate directions. A controller is coupled to the antenna elements to transmit signals to the transponders and to receive response signals. The antenna system may operate in a static scan mode wherein the antenna system is held in a fixed position by a user and a dynamic scan mode wherein the antenna system is moved by a user. |
| US11238969B2 |
Gamification systems and methods for improved healthcare outcomes
A gamified pharmaceutical packaging, dispensing system, and methodology is disclosed. The innovative gamified smart packaging system and methodology provides a variety of incentives to patients and relevant teams to take their medications, on time, and at the correct dosage. The system comprises monitored pharmaceutical dispensing devices that communicate with a plurality of compute devices, or smartphones. Each time the patient dispenses the medicine from the dispensing device, a signal is transmitted to the compute device. Upon receiving the signal, the compute device records the dispensing event, calculates a specific “score” for that event, and reports the patient's cumulative “score” of successfully dispensing the medicine. If a dispensing event signal is not received in a timely fashion, the system sends a prompt to the patient to take their medication. Accumulating points by properly taking the prescribed medication allows the patient and/or team to be eligible to receive various benefits. |
| US11238968B1 |
Auditable asset tracking model
A system can provide efficiency in monitoring prescription medication can include a client computer system configured to service a user interface (UI) for facilitating a pill counting procedure. The client receives a notification from a server computer system to initiate a pill count. The instructions can also cause the system to display a UI on the client computer system to facilitate the pill counting procedure. The displayed layout includes: (i) a timestamp field; (ii) a pill count field; (iii) an image field displaying an image of the pills the user has; (iv) a certification field; and (v) a submit field. On submission, the system can generate an encrypted data file comprising a secret key that de-identifies the user, the image of the pills, and metadata describing conditions associated with the pill count. The system can then transmit the encrypted data file to the server computer system. |
| US11238967B1 |
Systems and methods for generating dynamic graphical user interfaces for dose recalculations and adjustments
A system for generating dynamic multi-layered graphical user interfaces may include at least one processing device configured to retrieve treatment regimen data for a patient from at least one networked database, retrieve patient attribute data for the patient, generate a graphical user interface reflecting a medication identified in the treatment regimen data and one or more associated patient attributes, compare the extracted patient attributes to one or more thresholds in a rule set, the rule set correlating a dose of the medication to one or more expected values of the extracted patient attributes, evaluating at least one condition of at least rule in the rule set, generate, based on the evaluation an interactive icon for display in the graphical user interface, and generate an overlay window displayed adjacent the interactive icon, the overlay window providing details associated with the interactive icon. |
| US11238966B2 |
Method and system for assessing drug efficacy using multiple graph kernel fusion
Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques to predict the success or failure of a drug used for disease treatment. For example, a method of determining drug efficacy may include, for a plurality of patients, generating a directed acyclic graph from health related information of each patient comprising nodes representing a medical event of the patient, at least one first edge connecting the first node to an additional node, each additional edge connecting nodes representing two consecutive medical events, the edge having a weight based on a time difference between the two consecutive medical events, capturing a plurality of features from each directed acyclic graph, generating a binary graph classification model on captured features of each directed acyclic graph, determining a probability that a drug or treatment will be effective using the binary graph classification model, and determining a drug to be prescribed to a patient based on the determined probability. |
| US11238965B2 |
System and method for filling a prescription
Described herein are methods and systems for filling a medical prescription. One implementation comprises a central prescription handling engine comprising a server and a database, which is in communication with a computing device of a given user via a wide-area network and configured to receive prescription data corresponding to the medical prescription. The central prescription handling engine selectively routes the received prescription data to a given pharmacy interface among a plurality of pharmacy interfaces and selectively routes scheduling data received at the given pharmacy interface for communication to the given user. The given pharmacy interface is in communication with the central prescription handling engine and is configured to receive the prescription data from the central prescription handling engine and to communicate to the central prescription handling engine the scheduling data corresponding to the prescription data. |
| US11238957B2 |
Community assignments in identity by descent networks and genetic variant origination
Disclosed are techniques for characterizing variants of interest and predicting assignments of individuals to communities based on obtained genetic information. To characterize a variant, DNA datasets of reference individuals are accessed and used to generate a cluster with additional individuals. Reference individuals carry a variant at a genetic locus and the additional individuals share IBD with reference individuals. Statistics of genealogical data of the cluster are generated. A result summarizing the characterization of the variant is generated based on the statistics. To determine if an individual belongs to a community, a subset of the individual's haplotypes are inputted into a community-specific model. The model is trained using the training samples that each include haplotypes of reference individuals and a label identifying whether the reference individual belongs to the community. Based on the output of the model, it is determined whether the individual is a member of the community. |
| US11238956B2 |
Methods of identifying cellular replication timing signatures and methods of use thereof
Methods for identifying and classifying differences between biological samples are based on replication timing (RT) data. By comparing RT data for a test sample(s) to RT data for already characterized samples, one can identify differences and profile any new cell type or disease. These new methods allow for the detection of all the changes between distinct samples, many of which would escape detection by previous methods that discard any features showing any intra-sample variation. |
| US11238953B2 |
Determine bit error count based on signal and noise characteristics centered at an optimized read voltage
A memory device to estimate a bit error count of data retrievable from a group of memory cells. For example, the memory device has a group of memory cells programmed to store a predetermined number of bits per memory cells to be read at a plurality of first voltages. The memory device determines a plurality of calibrated read voltages corresponding to the plurality of first voltages respectively, based on first signal and noise characteristics of the group of memory cells. The first signal and noise characteristics are used to compute second signal and noise characteristics of the group of memory cells for the calibrated read voltages. The second signal and noise characteristics are used in an empirical formula to compute an estimate of the bit error count of data retrievable from the group of memory cells using the calibrated read voltages. |
| US11238948B2 |
Testing memory cells by allocating an access value to a memory access and granting an access credit
A method for testing memory cells under test of an integrated circuit includes allocating an access value to a memory access and granting an access credit. If the access value of the memory access does not exceed the access credit, the memory access is performed and the access credit is reduced by the access value. The memory access is performed to one memory cell or at bit level to a plurality of memory cells. A processor is connectable to a memory having a plurality of memory cells. The processor is configured to test memory cells of a protected memory area of the memory by performing memory accesses at bit level, control a counting register in such a way that a value stored in the counting register is modified according to a number of performed memory accesses, and test memory cells of the protected memory area of the memory only if the value stored in the counting register lies within a permissible value range. |
| US11238945B1 |
Techniques for programming self-selecting memory
Methods, systems, and devices that support techniques for programming self-selecting memory are described. Received data may include a first group of bits that each have a first logic value and a second group of bits that each have a second logic value. The first and second group of bits may be stored in a first set of memory cells and a second set of memory cells, respectively. A first programming operation for writing the second logic value to both the first and second set of memory cells and verifying whether the second logic value is written to each of the first set of memory cells, the second set of memory cells, or both may be performed. A second programming operation may write the first logic value to either the first set of memory cells or the second set of memory cells based on a result of the verification. |
| US11238942B2 |
Nonvolatile memory devices
Nonvolatile memory device includes memory cell region including a first metal pad and a second metal pad, peripheral circuit region including a third metal pad and a fourth metal pad, vertically connected to the memory cell region. The nonvolatile memory device includes a page buffer circuit including page buffers to sense data from selected memory cells, each including two sequential sensing operations to determine one data state, and each of the page buffers including a latch to sequentially store results of the two sequential sensing operations. The nonvolatile memory device includes control circuit in the peripheral circuit region, to control the page buffers to store result of the first read operation, reset the latches after completion of the first read operation, and control the page buffers to perform the second read operation based on a valley determined based on the result of the first read operation. |
| US11238940B1 |
Initialization techniques for memory devices
Methods, systems, and devices for initialization techniques for memory devices are described. A memory system may include a memory array on a first die and a controller on a second die, where the second die is coupled with the first die. The controller may perform an initialization procedure based on operating instructions stored within the memory system. For example, the controller may read a first set of operating instructions from read-only memory on the second die. The controller may obtain a second set of operating instructions stored at a memory block of the memory array on the first die, with the memory block indicated by the first set of operating instructions. The controller may complete or at least further the initialization procedure based on the second set of operating instructions. |
| US11238938B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first memory cell; a second memory cell; a first word line; a second word line; and a first bit line. The device is configured to execute a first operation, a second operation, and a third operation to write data into the first memory cell. In the first operation, a first voltage is applied to the second word line. In the second operation, after the first operation, a second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the second word line. In the third operation, after the second operation, a third voltage higher than the second voltage is applied to the first word line, and a fourth voltage lower than both the second voltage and the third voltage is applied to the second word line. |
| US11238937B2 |
Apparatus for programming memory cells using multi-step programming pulses
Memories having a controller configured to apply a particular multi-step programming pulse to a selected access line of a programming operation, enable for programming memory cells that have a particular desired data state for the programming operation and are deemed to have a threshold voltage lower than a first threshold voltage level while applying a first step of a multi-step programming pulse to the selected access line, and enable for programming memory cells that have the particular desired data state for the programming operation and are deemed to have a threshold voltage lower than a second threshold voltage level and higher than the first threshold voltage level while applying a second step of the multi-step programming pulse, lower than the first step of the multi-step programming pulse, to the selected access line. |
| US11238926B2 |
Memory controller and operating method thereof
A memory controller having an improved operation speed controls a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks. The memory controller includes: a remaining count determiner configured to determine a remaining count that is a number of program and erase operations to be additionally performed in the memory device based on a program/erase count received from the memory device, a retention period calculator configured to determine a retention period based on a power-off time and a power-on time of the memory device and a read voltage determiner configured to generate a changed read voltage table based on a default read voltage table and a coefficient determined according to the remaining count, and determine a read voltage to be used in the memory device according to the retention period among read voltages included in the changed read voltage table. |
| US11238921B2 |
Packaged integrated circuit memory devices having enhanced on-die-termination circuits therein and methods of operating same
A memory device includes a pad region having a flag pad separated from an external host, and a signal pad connected to the external host. A bank region is provided having a plurality of memory cells therein. An on-die-termination (ODT) setting circuit is provided, which is configured to receive a control command including first data corresponding to termination resistance requested by the host, and a ODT enable signal. The setting circuit is configured to generate second data corresponding to the ODT resistance. An ODT enable circuit is provided, which is configured to output an ODT flag signal to the flag pad, in response to the control command and the ODT enable signal. A resistor circuit is provided, which is configured to connect the ODT resistance to the signal pad using the second data. |
| US11238914B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for compute components formed over an array of memory cells
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to compute components formed over an array of storage elements. An example apparatus comprises a base substrate material and an array of memory cells formed over the base substrate material. The array can include a plurality of access transistors comprising a first semiconductor material. A compute component can be formed over and coupled to the array. The compute component can include a plurality of compute transistors comprising a second semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material can have a higher concentration of doping ions than the first semiconductor material. |
| US11238913B2 |
Cell-based reference voltage generation
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A first ferroelectric memory cell may be initialized to a first state and a second ferroelectric memory cell may be initialized to a different state. Each state may have a corresponding digit line voltage. The digit lines of the first and second ferroelectric memory cells may be connected so that charge-sharing occurs between the two digit lines. The voltage resulting from the charge-sharing between the two digit lines may be used by other components as a reference voltage. |
| US11238912B1 |
Magnetoresistive random-access memory
In an MRAM, each unit cell includes two non-volatile storage units, three N-type transistors and three P-type transistors. Each N-type transistor is coupled in parallel with a corresponding P-type transistor for forming a transmission gate which provides bi-directional current, thereby preventing source degeneration. |
| US11238909B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for setting operational parameters of a memory included in a memory module based on location information
Apparatuses and methods for setting operational parameters of a memory based on location are disclosed. The operational parameters may include operational parameters for an input/output circuit. For example, operational parameters may be for output driver circuit impedance, equalization for input receiver circuits, termination impedance, as well as others. Location information is provided to a memory device and used for setting the operational parameter. A nominal operational parameter setting may be offset based on the location information, thereby tailoring the operational parameter of the memory device according to location in some examples. The location information may be memory slot address for location based on memory module location. The location information may be related to a location of a memory device within a sub-system. The location information may be provided to unused terminals of a memory device, for example, unused data terminals in some examples. |
| US11238906B2 |
Series of parallel sensing operations for multi-level cells
Disclosed herein are related to a circuit and a method of reading or sensing multiple bits of data stored by a multi-level cell. In one aspect, a first reference circuit is selected from a first set of reference circuits, and a second reference circuit is selected from a second set of reference circuits. Based at least in part on the first reference circuit and the second reference circuit, one or more bits of multiple bits of data stored by a multi-level cell can be determined. According to the determined one or more bits, a third reference circuit from the first set of reference circuits and a fourth reference circuit from the second set of reference circuits can be selected. Based at least in part on the third reference circuit and the fourth reference circuit, additional one or more bits of the multiple bits of data stored by the multi-level cell can be determined. |
| US11238905B2 |
Sense amplifier layout for FinFET technology
A sense amplifier (SA) includes a semiconductor substrate having a source/drain (S/D) diffusion region; a pair of SA sensing devices both disposed in the S/D diffusion region; an SA enabling device disposed in the same S/D diffusion region as where the pair of SA sensing devices are disposed in; and a sense amplifier enabling signal (SAE) line for carrying an SAE signal, for turning on the SA enabling device to discharge one of the pair of SA sensing devices during a data read from the sense amplifier, wherein the SA enabling device is arranged to provide buffer protection for source/drain terminals of the pair of SA sensing devices. |
| US11238904B1 |
Using embedded switches for reducing capacitive loading on a memory system
Systems and methods disclosed herein are related to a memory system. In one aspect, the memory system includes a first set of memory cells and a second set of memory cells; a first group of switches, each including: a first electrode connected to first electrodes of the first subset of memory cells, and a second electrode; a second group of switches, each including: a first electrode connected to first electrodes of the second subset of memory cells, and a second electrode; and a third group of switches, each including: a first electrode connected to a first global bit line, and a second electrode connected to the second electrodes of the first group of switches and the second electrodes of the second group of switches. |
| US11238900B2 |
Event reel generator for video content
Methods and systems are provided for generating an event reel based on spectator reaction data, the event reel is temporally synchronized to a music track. A method includes receiving a video file for video content and receiving spectator reaction data related to reactions generated by spectators while viewing the video content. The method includes processing the spectator reaction data to identify video time slices from the video content that correspond to segments of interest of the video content. The method includes processing a music track to identify markers for the music track that correspond to beats of the music track and generating an event reel having a video component defined by a sequence of the video time slices that is temporally synchronized to the markers of the music track. |
| US11238898B2 |
System and method for recording a video scene within a predetermined video framework
A computer-implemented video method includes receiving a first digital video file and a second digital video file; recognizing the first digital video file as a beginning scene and the second digital video file as an ending scene; receiving a user input to record a middle scene, wherein the beginning scene, the middle scene, and the ending scene being configured to form a full video; and responsive to a user input to record, providing a real-time queue for the recording by sequentially, in real-time: 1) first, playing the beginning scene within a first preview window on the video display; 2) second, recording the middle scene and simultaneously displaying the middle scene within a video capture window on the video display; and 3) third, playing the ending scene within a second preview window on the video display. |
| US11238894B2 |
Storage system with actuated media player
A data storage library includes a number of storage cartridges arranged in a rack accessed by a actuated media player. The actuated media player is adapted to move the along a plane relative to a fixed subset of the storage cartridges in the rack to and to selectively couple to each storage cartridge of the fixed subset to facilitate selective read/write access. |
| US11238889B2 |
Systems and methods for remote multi-directional bark deterrence
An apparatus is described that comprises a microphone array and a plurality of transducers. The microphone array and the plurality of transducers are communicatively coupled with at least one processor. The apparatus includes the microphone array for receiving at least one signal. Each transducer of the plurality of transducers is configured to deliver a correction signal along a transducer beam spread axis, wherein the plurality of transducers is positioned on the apparatus for providing a combined transducer beam spread coverage in the horizontal plane. One or more applications running on the at least one processor use information of the at least one signal to detect a sound event. The detecting the sound event includes selecting transducers from the plurality of transducers and instructing the selected transducers to deliver a correction signal. |
| US11238887B2 |
Interface to leaky spiking neurons
A processor, that may include at least one neural network that comprises at least one leaky spiking neuron; wherein the at least one leaky spiking neuron is configured to directly receive an input pulse density modulation (PDM) signal from a sensor; wherein the input PDM signal represents a detected signal that was detected by the sensor; and wherein the at least one neural network is configured to process the input PDM signal to provide an indication about the detected input signal. |
| US11238876B2 |
Methods for improving high frequency reconstruction
The present invention proposes a new method and a new apparatus for enhancement of audio source coding systems utilising high frequency reconstruction (HFR). It utilises a detection mechanism on the encoder side to assess what parts of the spectrum will not be correctly reproduced by the HFR method in the decoder. Information on this is efficiently coded and sent to the decoder, where it is combined with the output of the HFR input. |
| US11238868B2 |
Initializing non-assistant background actions, via an automated assistant, while accessing a non-assistant application
Implementations set forth herein relate to a system that employs an automated assistant to further interactions between a user and another application, which can provide the automated assistant with permission to initialize relevant application actions simultaneous to the user interacting with the other application. Furthermore, the system can allow the automated assistant to initialize actions of different applications, despite being actively operating a particular application. Available actions can be gleaned by the automated assistant using various application-specific schemas, which can be compared with incoming requests from a user to the automated assistant. Additional data, such as context and historical interactions, can also be used to rank and identify a suitable application action to be initialized via the automated assistant. |
| US11238865B2 |
Function performance based on input intonation
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, audible user input; determining, subsequent to the receiving, an intonation with which the audible user input was provided; assigning, based on the determined intonation, an expressive meaning to the audible user input; and performing, based on the expressive meaning, a corresponding function. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US11238864B2 |
Selectively generating expanded responses that guide continuance of a human-to-computer dialog
Generating expanded responses that guide continuance of a human-to computer dialog that is facilitated by a client device and that is between at least one user and an automated assistant. The expanded responses are generated by the automated assistant in response to user interface input provided by the user via the client device, and are caused to be rendered to the user via the client device, as a response, by the automated assistant, to the user interface input of the user. An expanded response is generated based on at least one entity of interest determined based on the user interface input, and is generated to incorporate content related to one or more additional entities that are related to the entity of interest, but that are not explicitly referenced by the user interface input. |
| US11238861B2 |
Food processing system
A food processing system includes a food work device that performs predetermined work on a food, controller circuitry that controls the food work device, a sound input device that receives a sound made by a worker, and sound recognition circuitry that obtains and recognizes the input sound and, based on the recognized input sound, instructs the controller circuitry to control the food work device to perform predetermined processing. |
| US11238860B2 |
Method and terminal for implementing speech control
A terminal for implementing speech control records a correspondence between a first keyword text and a second keyword text. When a user inputs a speech, the terminal sends, to a first server for semantic parsing and logical parsing, the speech input by the user. Then, when the first server returns a parsing failure, the terminal obtains a parsed text returned by the first server, replaces the second keyword in the parsed text with the first keyword based on the correspondence, and then sends, to the first server, the text obtained after the replacement. |
| US11238858B2 |
Speech interactive method and device
The present disclosure provides a speech interactive method and device. The method includes: during a process of displaying an interface of an application, detecting a first user operation; in response to the first user operation, querying a speech instruction associated with the application based on the application containing the interface and querying a system general speech instruction; setting the speech instruction and the system general speech instruction as applicable speech instructions for the application; and providing a prompt based on the applicable speech instructions to perform a speech interaction. |
| US11238851B2 |
Providing suggested voice-based action queries
Technology of the disclosure may facilitate user discovery of various voice-based action queries that can be spoken to initiate computer-based actions, such as voice-based action queries that can be provided as spoken input to a computing device to initiate computer-based actions that are particularized to content being viewed or otherwise consumed by the user on the computing device. Some implementations are generally directed to determining, in view of content recently viewed by a user on a computing device, at least one suggested voice-based action query for presentation via the computing device. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively generally directed to receiving at least one suggested voice-based action query at a computing device and providing the suggested voice-based action query as a suggestion in response to input to initiate providing of a voice-based query via the computing device. |
| US11238847B2 |
Speaker awareness using speaker dependent speech model(s)
Techniques disclosed herein enable training and/or utilizing speaker dependent (SD) speech models which are personalizable to any user of a client device. Various implementations include personalizing a SD speech model for a target user by processing, using the SD speech model, a speaker embedding corresponding to the target user along with an instance of audio data. The SD speech model can be personalized for an additional target user by processing, using the SD speech model, an additional speaker embedding, corresponding to the additional target user, along with another instance of audio data. Additional or alternative implementations include training the SD speech model based on a speaker independent speech model using teacher student learning. |
| US11238845B2 |
Multi-dialect and multilingual speech recognition
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable media, for speech recognition using multi-dialect and multilingual models. In some implementations, audio data indicating audio characteristics of an utterance is received. Input features determined based on the audio data are provided to a speech recognition model that has been trained to output score indicating the likelihood of linguistic units for each of multiple different language or dialects. The speech recognition model can be one that has been trained using cluster adaptive training. Output that the speech recognition model generated in response to receiving the input features determined based on the audio data is received. A transcription of the utterance generated based on the output of the speech recognition model is provided. |
| US11238841B2 |
Active noise control device
An active noise control device includes an updated value table operating unit that writes initial values of an initial value table into an updated value table as updated values and writes updated coefficients of a secondary path filter C{circumflex over ( )} updated in a secondary path filter coefficient updating unit during active noise control, into the updated value table as updated values. The secondary path filter coefficient updating unit reads the updated value corresponding to a frequency from the updated value table before updating the coefficients of the secondary path filter C{circumflex over ( )}, and updates the coefficients of the secondary path filter C{circumflex over ( )}, using the read updated values as the pervious values. |
| US11238838B2 |
Brass instrument
A brass instrument includes a mouthpiece configured to convert vibrations of player's lips into sound and take the sound inside; a bell configured to magnify a volume of the sound taken by the mouthpiece and release the sound to the outside; and a main tube intervening between the mouthpiece and the bell, and is characterized in that the main tube includes a main tube body formed to spread out in a spiral manner in a state in which side surfaces of the main tube body are closely attached to each other, and a part of the closely attached side surfaces of one of the tubes constitutes a part of the side surface of the closely attached other tube. |
| US11238836B2 |
Depth based foveated rendering for display systems
Methods and systems for depth-based foveated rendering in the display system are disclosed. The display system may be an augmented reality display system configured to provide virtual content on a plurality of depth planes using different wavefront divergence. Some embodiments include determining a fixation point of a user's eyes. Location information associated with a first virtual object to be presented to the user via a display device is obtained. A resolution-modifying parameter of the first virtual object is obtained. A particular resolution at which to render the first virtual object is identified based on the location information and the resolution-modifying parameter of the first virtual object. The particular resolution is based on a resolution distribution specifying resolutions for corresponding distances from the fixation point. The first virtual object rendered at the identified resolution is presented to the user via the display system. |
| US11238829B2 |
Luminnance-versus-drive signal curve based method for driving display panel, and display device
A driving method of a display panel and a display device using the same. The driving method includes: obtaining a drive signal of each of sub-pixels on the display panel; determining a first adaptive threshold and a second adaptive threshold according to properties of the sub-pixels; and adjusting the drive signal higher than the first adaptive threshold and lower than the second adaptive threshold, to approach an interval lower than the first adaptive threshold or an interval higher than the second adaptive threshold. |
| US11238828B2 |
Method of controlling display device and display device
A method of controlling a display device according to the present disclosure includes the steps of executing input determination on whether or not the image information is input to the input interface, making the display section display an input state image including one of an input image representing that the image information is input and a non-input image representing that the image information is not input in accordance with a result of the input determination, making the display section display a display image based on the image information when receiving an operation of designating the input image, and making the display section display a procedure image representing a procedure of inputting the image information to the input interface when receiving an operation of designating the non-input image. |
| US11238826B2 |
Dual gate line drive circuit, array substrate, and display device
The present disclosure provides a gate drive circuit, an array substrate, and a display device. The gate drive circuit includes cascaded shift registers, control circuits, level shifters, voltage stabilization circuits, and first exchanging circuits. The shift registers at respective stages output respective first signals. Each control circuit is configured to process the respective first signal to generate a respective second signal. Each level shifter is configured to convert the voltage level of the respective second signal to generate a respective third signal. Each voltage stabilization circuit is configured to stabilize the respective third signal. The stabilized third signal is outputted as a fourth signal. The first exchanging circuit is configured to enable any of the following: exchanging the first signals at two adjacent stages, exchanging the second signals at two adjacent stages, exchanging the third signals at two adjacent stages, and exchanging the fourth signals at two adjacent stages. |
| US11238822B2 |
Drive circuit and drive system
The present disclosure is related to a driver circuit, a preset protection value and a first voltage are input via a first circuit. A first switching circuit is electrically connected to the first circuit and a trigger circuit. A second switching circuit is electrically connected to a first voltage, and the trigger circuit is electrically connected to a printed circuit board. |
| US11238817B2 |
Method and apparatus for pixel signal conversion
A method and an apparatus for pixel signal conversion are provided. The method includes: based on an initial first subpixel signal, an initial second subpixel signal, and an initial third subpixel signal of a pixel signal, obtaining a corresponding first stimulus value signal, second stimulus value signal, and third stimulus value signal. When converted pixel signals are applied to a hybrid-color display consisting of subpixels of four colors of W, R, G, and B, a display effect is closer to actual representation of original hybrid colors of R, G, and B, to alleviate a color shift defect of a large view angle. |
| US11238814B2 |
Driving method for display apparatus for adjusting grayscale value of display image and display device thereof
The present disclosure illustrates a method of driving a display device, including steps of dividing an original display image into first and second display image; acquiring first, second and third mean values of the original display image; setting the mean values of the first components, the second components, and the third components of the first display image to be equal to the second mean value, and setting the mean values of the first components and the third components of the second display image to be equal to a third mean value; regulating brightness value of a backlight circuit; acquiring drive components corresponding to the pixels of the second display image; and driving the pixel units of the display device for display, according to the drive components corresponding to the pixels of the first display image and the drive components of the pixels of the second display image. |
| US11238813B2 |
Luminance compensation method
A luminance compensation method is provided. The luminance compensation method includes: establishing a time-varying luminance sequence according to an average luminance value of a plurality of sampled display devices in each unit time during an initial start-up period; establishing an operating luminance sequence according to an average operating luminance value of the sampled display devices under a plurality of different driving condition values after the initial start-up period; generating a driving condition value look-up table according to the time-varying luminance sequence and the operating luminance sequence; and obtaining compensation driving condition values in each unit time according to the driving condition value look-up table and the time-varying luminance sequence and accordingly establishing a time-varying compensation sequence, such that a display device drives a backlight module according to the time-varying compensation sequence in each time unit during the initial start-up period. |
| US11238812B2 |
Image motion management
A method for managing motion includes dividing a time allocated to display of an image into a first interval and a second interval. The second interval is immediately subsequent to the first interval. An amount of light energy to be emitted at a pixel during the time is determined based on the image. A first portion of the light energy is generated at the pixel in the first interval. The first portion comprises as much of the light energy as is generatable in the first interval. A second portion of the light energy is generated at the pixel in the second interval based on the light energy generatable in the first interval being less than the amount of light energy to be emitted at the pixel during the time. |
| US11238811B2 |
Stage with multiple output buffers and scan driver having the same
A stage and a scan driver having the same. The stage outputs a scan signal and a sensing signal to a scan line and a sensing line, respectively. The stage includes a first controller configured to control a voltage of a sensing node and a driving node based on first to third control signals and a carry signal of the stage and another stage connected to the stage, a second controller configured to control a voltage of an inversion driving node based on a first carry clock signal, the voltage of the driving node, and the third control signal, and a first output buffer configured to output a second carry clock signal or a second low potential power as the carry signal in correspondence with the voltage of the driving node and the inversion driving node. |
| US11238810B2 |
Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and a driving controller. The display panel displays an image based on input image data. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to a gate line of the display panel. The data driver outputs a data voltage to a data line of the display panel. The driving controller controls operations of the gate driver and the data driver and drive a still image display area and a video image display area of a display area of the display panel in different driving frequencies. The driving controller includes a still image determiner which divides the input image data into a plurality of still image determining blocks, respectively determines whether the still image determining blocks represent a still image or a video image and determines a boundary between the still image display area and the video image display area. |
| US11238809B2 |
Scan signal driver and a display device including the same
A scan signal driver including: a plurality of stages for outputting scan signals and sensing signals, wherein a kth stage among the stages is connected to a kth scan signal line and a kth sensing signal line, and wherein the kth stage includes: a first output unit configured to output a scan clock signal input to a fit scan clock terminal to the kth scan signal line as a kth scan signal and to output a sensing clock signal input to a first sensing clock terminal to the kth sensing signal line as a k sensing signal when a pull-up node has a gate-on voltage; and a second output unit configured to output a carry clock signal input to a first carry clock terminal as a kth carry signal to a carry output terminal when the pull-up node has the gate-on voltage. |
| US11238807B2 |
Array substrate and driving method thereof, display panel and display device
The present disclosure discloses an array substrate and a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate comprises: a plurality of gate scanning lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction and detection signal lines, where the data lines and the gate scanning lines are crossed to define a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in an array. The pixel circuits comprise: first transistors, second transistors, driving transistors, capacitors, and light emitting devices, and in the same pixel circuit, the first transistor and the second transistor are electrically connected to different gate scanning lines. |
| US11238803B2 |
Pixel circuit and method for driving the same, and display panel
The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a method for driving the same, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a driving sub-circuit and a light-emitting control sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit is configured to transmit a first power voltage at a first power signal terminal to a second node. The light-emitting control sub-circuit is configured to: transmit a voltage at the second node and a second power voltage at the second power signal terminal to the first electrode of the first light-emitting element and the second electrode of the first light-emitting element respectively in a first period, to the first electrode of the second light-emitting element and the second electrode of the second light-emitting element respectively in a second period, and to the first electrode of the third light-emitting element and the second electrode of the third light-emitting element respectively in a third period. |
| US11238802B2 |
Pixel circuit and driving method therefor, display panel, and display apparatus
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a driving circuit, a first switching circuit, a second switching circuit, and a first reset circuit. The driving circuit is configured to drive a light-emitting element to emit light, the first switching circuit is configured to be turned on in response to a first scanning signal to transmit a data signal to a control terminal of the driving circuit, the second switching circuit is configured to be turned on in response to a light-emitting control signal to transmit a first power signal to a first terminal of the driving circuit, and the first reset circuit is configured to be turned on in response to a first reset control signal to transmit a reset signal to the first terminal of the driving circuit. |
| US11238801B2 |
Method and device for obtaining compensation parameter for pixel data and AMOLED display panel
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for obtaining a compensation parameter for pixel data, and an AMOLED display panel. The method for obtaining a compensation parameter for pixel data includes: obtaining a sensing voltage value of a driving transistor in each of pixel units in an AMOLED display screen in a first state; obtaining a sensing voltage value of a driving transistor in each of the pixel units in a second state; determining a compensation parameter of pixel data for each of the pixel units based on the sensing voltage values in the first state and the second state; the sensing voltage value refers to a potential value at a terminal of the driving transistor coupled with a display diode after the pixel data is written; the compensation parameter is used for compensating the pixel data in the subsequent display process. |
| US11238800B2 |
Set-voltage generation unit, set-voltage generation method and display device
The present disclosure provides a set-voltage generation unit, a set-voltage generation method and a display device. The set-voltage generation unit includes a voltage generation circuit. The set-voltage generation unit is configured to generate a set voltage according to a gamma main voltage such that a ratio between a variation of the set voltage and a variation of the gamma main voltage is a voltage coefficient K, and K is a positive number less than or equal to 1. |
| US11238799B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel includes a first display region and a second display region; the first display region includes first sub-pixels provided with first pixel density; and the second display region includes second sub-pixels provided with second pixel density, where the first pixel density is lower than the second pixel density. During one frame of picture display, a light-emitting phase of the first sub-pixel includes a first light-emitting period, and a light-emitting phase of the second sub-pixel includes a second light-emitting period; for same target brightness, the first sub-pixel emits light with first light-emitting brightness in the first light-emitting period, and the second sub-pixel emits light with second light-emitting brightness in the second light-emitting period, where the first light-emitting brightness is higher than the second light-emitting brightness; and the first light-emitting period is shorter than the second light-emitting period. |
| US11238796B2 |
Pixel circuit and control method therefor, display substrate and display device
This disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and a control method therefor, a display substrate and a display device. The pixel circuit comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a storage capacitor and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit further comprises a first sensing circuit and a second sensing circuit, wherein the first sensing circuit is connected in parallel with the first transistor, and the second sensing circuit is connected in parallel with the second transistor; a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal are respectively input to the first sensing circuit and the second sensing circuit for completing acquisition of electrical parameters of the pixel circuit according to the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal. |
| US11238793B2 |
Pixel compensation method and system, display device
A pixel compensation method includes: detecting driving transistors of pixels to obtain present characteristic values of the driving transistors of the pixels; extracting historical compensation characteristic values of the driving transistors of the pixels obtained in a previous display cycle of a screen; calculating a present compensation characteristic value of at least one driving transistor of the pixels according to a present characteristic value and a historical compensation characteristic value corresponding to the driving transistor of the pixels; and compensating a corresponding pixel according to the present compensation characteristic value of the driving transistor of the pixels. |
| US11238791B2 |
Display data correction method, display driving method and display device
The present application provides a display data correction method, a display driving method and a display device. The display data correction method includes: receiving display data corresponding to pixel units of an irregularly-shaped display screen; determining whether the pixel units are in an area to be corrected; and if the pixel units are in the area to be corrected, correcting the display data corresponding to the pixel units to generate corrected display data. |
| US11238789B2 |
Pixel circuit having a data line for sensing threshold and mobility characteristics of the circuit
The present disclosure discloses a pixel driving circuit and a method of driving the same, a display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel driving circuit includes: a driving circuit, an energy storage circuit, a data and sensing line, a first initialization circuit, a second initialization circuit and a data writing circuit. The data and sensing line is configured to input a data signal or output a sensing signal; the first initialization circuit is configured to provide a potential at a voltage supply terminal to a control terminal of the driving circuit under control of a potential at a first control line; the second initialization circuit is configured to provide a potential at a second terminal of the driving circuit as the sensing signal to the data and sensing line under control of a potential at a second control line; and the data writing circuit is configured to provide the data signal input at the data and sensing line to the control terminal of the driving circuit under control of a potential at a third control line. |
| US11238782B2 |
Backplane for an array of emissive elements
A backplane operative to drive an array of emissive pixel elements is disclosed. Each pixel element comprises a memory cell operative to modulate a plurality of current mirror drive elements configured to drive one emissive element, wherein one current mirror pixel drive element is always operative to provide current if the memory cell is on and all other current mirror pixel drive elements may enabled subject to external control signals and the memory cell data state. The W/L ratio of each reference current FET is equal to the W/L ratio of all other reference current FETs. The W/L ratio of the current source FETs in each of the current mirror pixel drive elements is equal to the others. The present invention allows adjustment of the current density within the current source FET as well as the sensitivity of the current source FET to threshold voltage variation. |
| US11238781B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device may include: a first pixel coupled to a first scan line, a first data line, and a first sensing line; a second pixel coupled to the first scan line, a second data line, and a second sensing line; a first sensing channel corresponding to the first pixel and including a first sampling capacitor; and a second sensing channel corresponding to the second pixel and including a second sampling capacitor. During a first period, the first sensing channel may store a first sampling signal in the first sampling capacitor while the first sensing line is coupled to the first sensing channel, and the second sensing channel may store a second sampling signal in the second sampling capacitor while the second sensing line is disconnected from the second sensing channel. |
| US11238779B1 |
Device and method for controlling a display panel
A display driver includes internal oscillator circuitry, timing controller circuitry, and panel interface circuitry. The internal oscillator circuitry is disposed internal to the display driver and configured to generate an internal oscillation signal. The timing controller circuitry is configured to generate a resultant sync signal using an external sync input received from an entity external to the display driver during a first period of a frame period. The timing controller circuitry is further configured to generate the resultant sync signal using the internal oscillation signal during a second period of the frame period, the second period following the first period. The panel interface circuitry is configured to generate, based on the resultant sync signal, an emission control signal that controls emission scan driver circuitry configured to drive a plurality of emission scan lines of a display panel. |
| US11238778B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device includes: a memory configured to store an over-driving lookup table and previous frame block data generated by block averaging previous frame data; an over-driver configured to obtain current frame data from input image data and to generate over-driving frame data for the current frame data by comparing the previous frame block data and the current frame data with reference to the over-driving lookup table; a data driver configured to generate an over-driven data signal based on the over-driving frame data; and a plurality of pixels configured to display an image based on the over-driven data signal, wherein the over-driver is configured to perform an over-driving based on a size of a block divided for the block averaging. |
| US11238776B2 |
Pixel circuit and driving method thereof, display device and driving method thereof
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a drive circuit, a reset circuit, and a sensing circuit. A control terminal of the drive circuit is configured to receive a data voltage, a first terminal of the drive circuit is configured to receive a first voltage, and a second terminal of the drive circuit is configured to be electrically connected to a light-emitting element. The reset circuit is electrically connected to the second terminal of the drive circuit, and is configured to reset the second terminal of the drive circuit in response to a first scanning signal. The sensing circuit is electrically connected to the second terminal of the drive circuit, and is configured to connect the second terminal of the drive circuit to a sensing signal line in response to a second scanning signal. |
| US11238764B2 |
Light emitting control circuit, driving method thereof, array substrate and display device
The present disclosure provides a light emitting control circuit, an array substrate and a display device, and a driving method of the light emitting control circuit. The light emitting control circuit includes: a light emitting device; a driving circuit including a driving switch device configured to drive the light emitting device to emit light when the driving switch device is turned on; a detection circuit, configured to detect whether the light emitting device is short-circuited in the detection stage of the light emitting control circuit; if the light emitting device is short-circuited, the driving switch device is turned off in the light emitting stage of the light emitting control circuit; if the light emitting device is not short-circuited, the driving switch device is turned on in the light emitting stage of the light emitting control circuit. |
| US11238760B2 |
Apparatus for selectively displaying associative vehicle operation safety related indicia repeatedly visually perceptible to a vehicle operator
Vehicle operation safety related indicia (VSRI) displaying apparatus(es) disclosed display, adjacent or proximate a vehicle surface at least generally vehicle operator facing, VSRI on a vehicle operator facing surface of a VSRI display member, slidably positionable between a VSRI non-revealed and a VSRI revealed state displaying VSRI extended outwardly from a side of the apparatus. VSRI subject-matter, optionally-illuminated and/or electro-mechanically positioned, depicts one or more objects extending outwardly from at least one side of a vehicle having an in-use VSRI display apparatus, or from a vehicle rack or towed device. VSRI display apparatus variants include a housing or body appearing and/or shaped like the vehicle, or side(s) thereof, having an in-use apparatus. Secondary indicia displaying surface-areas also provided, concurrently display additional VSRI and/or advertising, promotional or cross-promotional content associated with a maker, proprietor or service-provider of VSRI depicted subject matter, wherein all VSRI is repeatedly visually perceptible and viewable at-a-glance. |
| US11238759B1 |
Single ply wristband with printable coating
A combination wristband and label form. The form includes a polyester section having a single-ply wristband defined by die cuts therein. The wristband includes a foldable portion having a first panel and a second panel. An outer surface of one of the first panel and the second panel is coated with a coating configured for receiving printed indicia. An outer surface of at least the other of the first panel and the second panel has adhesive to allow for the first panel to be adhesively secured to the second panel after the coating has received the printed indicia. The void exposes the coating on the outer surface of one of the first panel and the second panel to allow the printed indicia to be printed on the coating through the void. Upon folding the foldable portion, the printed indicia is sandwiched between the first panel and the second panel. |
| US11238758B2 |
Removably securing a sliceform to a foldable article
A foldable article having a sliceform removably secured to one or more panels of the foldable article. A tab having a retaining portion may extend from at least one of the one or more panels of the foldable article. The tab may pass through an opening in the sliceform and the retaining portion may be wider than the width of the opening. The retaining member may be manipulated to pass through the opening to removably secure the sliceform to, and/or detach the sliceform from, the foldable article. |
| US11238756B2 |
Anatomical training and demonstration model for negative pressure and instillation therapy
A modular wound therapy training device, system, and method of use for the device are provided. The device may include a support tray, an elastic insert, a base within the elastic insert, a recess within the base, a conformable polymer, a dressing and a negative pressure source. The recess may be circumferentially smaller than the base and the conformable polymer may be sized to fit within the recess. The device is preferably sized and shaped to form a system when aligned and assembled with duplicates of the device. A method is provided to apply negative pressure and installation therapy when a negative pressure source is activated through a protective dressing. |
| US11238755B2 |
Test bench assembly for the simulation of cardiac surgery and/or interventional cardiology operations and/or procedures
A test bench assembly for simulating cardiac surgery includes a passive heart having at least one pair of cardiac chambers with an atrial chamber and a ventricular chamber. A reservoir is adapted to house working fluid. A pressure generator fluidically connects both to the ventricular chamber of the passive heart and to the reservoir. A pressure regulation device provides working fluid in input to the atrial chamber with preload pressure, and working fluid in output from the ventricular chamber with afterload pressure. The pressure regulation device fluidically connects both to the atrial chamber of the passive heart and to the ventricular chamber of the passive heart. The pressure regulation device has a single compliant element for each pair of cardiac chambers, which provides working fluid with both preload, and afterload pressures. |
| US11238753B2 |
Food description processing methods and apparatuses
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with modifying a food record database. The method comprises receiving a plurality of food records from a plurality of sources, each of the plurality of food records comprising at least a food record description, the plurality of sources including (i) at least one government agency and (ii) users of the food record database. The method further comprises receiving search requests from users, and returning one or more top search results from the food record database in response. The method also comprises determining a score for a particular food record identified by the top search results, wherein the score is calculated based at least in part on one of: a number of times the particular food record has been included in the top search results of the search requests or a number of times the particular food record has been logged. |
| US11238751B1 |
Systems and methods of testing administration by mobile device application
A testing administration system and method including a primary device associated with a test administrator, the primary device configured to permit, via a primary device application executable thereon, creation of one or more composed test question sets and associated and correct test question answers and review of one or more completed test taker question answer sets; one or more secondary devices individually associated with one or more test takers, each of the one or more secondary devices configured to permit, via a secondary device application executable thereon, access to a test question set of the one or more composed test question sets and wireless submission of a test taker's individual test question answer set; and a server connected with the primary device and the one or more secondary devices, the server configured to store and evaluate the one or more composed test question sets, the one or more test taker's completed test question answer sets in a hosted database and to provide grades based thereon and/or other testing analysis. |
| US11238750B2 |
Evaluation of tutoring content for conversational tutor
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in an environment for developing a conversational tutor, domain content corresponding to a domain of the conversational tutor, wherein the conversational tutor comprises a conversational agent designed to assist students in learning a domain; receiving, at the environment, tutoring content developed by a user, wherein the tutoring content comprises a tutoring script comprising questions to be presented to the student during a tutoring session with the conversational tutor to assist the student in learning the domain; evaluating, within the environment, the tutoring content against the domain content, wherein the evaluating comprises (i) identifying missing tutoring content, (ii) identifying the difficulty of the tutoring content, and (iii) identifying question dependencies; and providing, at the environment, at least one recommendation, identified from results of the evaluation, for adjusting the tutoring content. |
| US11238749B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program for providing personalized educational content
The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a customized educational content by an electronic device, the method including: a step a of generating a set of tags of sub-learning elements by listing a learning element of a particular subject in a tree structure, and designating analysis groups of the tags; a step b of generating structural information of a question by indexing an incorrect-answer tag to each of distractors of the question; a step c of inquiring about a result of a user test so as to calculate a user conquest rate for each of the analysis groups; and a step d of providing a user-customized question by using at least one of the structural information of the question and the user conquest rate. |
| US11238748B2 |
Customization of help information based on EEG data
A method is implemented by a computing device for helping a particular user use a user interface (UI). Electroencephalography (EEG) data is obtained that indicates brain activity of a particular user during a period in which that user views the UI and/or interprets help information that describes how to use the UI. Based on the EEG data, the computing device selects, from among multiple predefined cognitive states, the one or more cognitive states that characterize the particular user during the period. The computing device assists the particular user to use the UI by customizing the help information for the particular user based on the one or more selected cognitive states. A complementary computing device and computer program product are also disclosed. |
| US11238743B2 |
Traffic information processing method and apparatus
A traffic information processing method includes obtaining, by a first traffic control unit, a traffic application type and first traffic information of a traffic target object, determining an interaction coverage area based on the traffic application type and the first traffic information of the traffic target object, determining, by the first traffic control unit, a second traffic control unit based on the interaction coverage area and a management area of a traffic control unit known to the first traffic control unit, and sending the first traffic information of the traffic target object to the second traffic control unit, where there is an overlapping area between a management area of the second traffic control unit and the interaction coverage area. |
| US11238741B2 |
Driving evaluation apparatus
A driving evaluation apparatus configured to evaluate level of safety driving by drivers belonging to any one of groups organized hierarchically, includes: microprocessor and memory. The microprocessor is configured to function as: a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire location information of the drivers from mobile terminals; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate driving evaluation value based on the location information of the drivers; a driving evaluation unit configured to rank the plurality of drivers within a belonging group or rank the belonging group by comparing the belonging group with other groups regarding the level of safety driving based on the driving evaluation value; and an output unit configured to output a ranking result. The management information includes location information of speed management area for managing travel speeds of the mobile bodies and information of threshold for determining overspeed, settable by user. |
| US11238740B2 |
Apparatus for vehicle driving assistance
An apparatus for assisting driving of a host vehicle provides stable control of the host vehicle by using road conditions including intersections, crosswalks and the like, forward lane markings, and a preceding vehicle. The apparatus includes an image sensor to capture images of an area in front of the host vehicle, and a controller configured to recognize a road section having no lane markings on a drive path, or recognize forward lane markings. The controller performs lateral control of the host vehicle selectively based on the forward lane markings and the recognized preceding vehicle according to whether the road section having no lane markings is recognized. |
| US11238735B2 |
Parking lot information management system, parking lot guidance system, parking lot information management program, and parking lot guidance program
To provide a technique for recognizing a tendency of a parking lot that was actually used by users visiting a target facility, a parking lot information management system includes: a parking information collecting unit that collects parking information indicating a parking point at which a vehicle is parked from the vehicle; and a history information accumulating unit that accumulates history information for every target facility that is set as a destination, the history information configured so that a tendency of a parking lot that the vehicle was actually parked in when the target facility was set as the destination is derived, based on the parking information. |
| US11238730B2 |
System and method for detecting and recording traffic law violation events
A system mountable in a host vehicle, configured to operate while the host vehicle is moving in a road environment. The system includes a backward-looking camera with field-of-view behind the host vehicle, a side-looking camera with field-of-view to a side of the host vehicle, a forward-looking camera with field-of-view in front of the host vehicle. A processor is configured to control the cameras, to acquire and store in memory images acquired from the cameras. The processor is configured to detect a target vehicle in the images of a one camera and track a feature of the target vehicle in the images of the other cameras. A traffic violation is declared when a feature of the target vehicle is identified in images of the other cameras. |
| US11238727B2 |
Aerial vehicle-ground vehicle coordination
An aerial vehicle can proceed to a target location upon receiving a message based on a ground vehicle being at an aerial vehicle deploy location. A user can be identified from an image captured at the target location. The aerial vehicle can be navigated to lead the user to a rendezvous with the vehicle. |
| US11238724B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically activating self-test devices of sensors of a security system
Systems and methods for automatically activating self-test devices of sensors of a security system are provided. Such systems and methods can include a self-test monitoring device that can identify a test triggering event and, responsive thereto, activate the self-test devices of the sensors and determine whether each of the sensors passes or fails a respective self-test associated with its self-test devices. In some embodiments, when any of the sensors fails its respective self-test, the self-test monitoring device can identify one or more notification devices based on a type of the test triggering event and transmit a self-test failure report to the one or more notification devices. |
| US11238722B2 |
Methods and systems for providing online monitoring of released criminals by law enforcement
The methods and systems are designed to utilize an integrated combination of just in time, just in place, and just on device actions connected to an image recognition process for monitoring criminals who are probation, offenders who are on parole, sex offenders, and witnesses under protection by law enforcement. |
| US11238718B2 |
Vibration control device
A vibration control device is provided which enables an awakening effect for a user to be increased while making it difficult to give discomfort to the user. A harmonic signal generating section of a vibration control device is configured to successively output a plurality of alternating signals for driving a vibration unit. By way of the plurality of alternating signals which is successively output and has a frequency ratio represented with a predetermined integer ratio, vibration generated with the plurality of alternating signals can more easily awaken a user while making it difficult to give discomfort to the user. |
| US11238717B2 |
Proximity-based personnel safety system and method
A method includes receiving first position data from at least one of a TOF sensor or a LIDAR. The first position data is representative of a position of a human within a hazardous environment. The method further includes receiving second position data associated with a plurality of wearable sensors associated with a plurality of personnel. The method further includes comparing the first position data to the second position data to identify a match between the first position data and the second position data. The method further includes sensing a signal to an alert device associated with the hazardous environment such that the alert device issues an alert in response to the first position data failings to match the second position data. |
| US11238716B2 |
Photoelectric smoke fire detection and alarming method, apparatus and system
The present invention relates to a new photoelectric smoke fire detection and alarming method, comprising: acquiring scattered light intensity data of at least two scattering angles of fire samples and interference source samples, and calculating sample parameters thereof to form a sample category table; and calculating sample parameters of detection data for comparison, and outputting a fire alarming signal when the comparison result is that the sample parameters are in line with the sample category table. According to the fire alarming method in the present invention, data collection, calculation and judgment are performed based on at least two modulated optical signals, so that the early-warning precision is improved. |
| US11238705B2 |
System for enhanced interactive game play in lottery and gaming environments
A system provides for electronic interaction in a multi-player system, the system being adapted to interface with first and second electronic communications devices through a communication system, the first and second electronic communications devices including displays for presentation of game information to the players and with input devices for receiving live game play information. The first and second electronic communications devices having storage to store a game application program from a remote server, the first and second electronic communications devices having graphical display capability. The system utilizes real world sports event data corresponding to a real world sports events. Preferably a game analysis system is utilized. |
| US11238690B2 |
Gaming machine, control method for machine, and program for gaming machine
A gaming machine that provides an operation unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The operation unit is configured to receive an operation of the player. The display unit is operably coupled to the operation unit and is configured to display a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells is arranged in a plurality of rows and columns. The control unit is operably coupled to the operation unit and the display unit and, for each instance of the game, randomly establishes a symbol to be displayed within each of the plurality of cells. The control unit is further configured to provide a first instance of the game and to display the symbols established for the first instance of the game in the respective cells, and to automatically add a new row of cells to the display unit prior to each subsequent instance of the game. |
| US11238689B2 |
Smoothie vending machine
A tubeless smoothie vending machine including a tubeless electro-mechanically actuated dispensing nozzle attached to each smoothie dispensing tank, a cup retrieval system to retrieve an empty cup and move the cup to each selected dispensing nozzle, a portal in the cup retrieval system to transfer the cup through the cup retrieval system, a receiving shelf to receive the filled cup, a dispenser system to drop dry food product into the beverage filled cup, and an access door to open when the beverage filled cup is ready to vend to the customer. Tubes for delivering beverage to the cup are eliminated. A consolidated smoothie vending machine having a plurality of integrated smoothie blenders, a dry food supplement delivery assembly, a straw delivery assembly, and a lid delivery assembly. In one example, the smoothie blenders are stacked. In one example, the smoothie blenders are attached to sliding shelving. |
| US11238688B2 |
Intelligent cash drawer unit or cash register and methods of operation therefor
An intelligent cash drawer unit or cash register is operable to process signals from load cells beneath note/coin cups when the drawer is open. It then determines the weight/value of cash in the cups, in order to either (a) detect an accurate weight in a cup comprising a poorly placed note, or (b) allow a float to be added, or a lift to be made, stepwise, whilst the drawer remains open. An intelligent cash drawer unit or cash register is also described which can detect a poorly placed note, by either (a) comparing signals from the load cells when the drawer is open, and when the drawer is closed or (b) monitoring stable readings, over a predetermined period when the drawer is closed and comparing the monitored values and where the apparent weight determined by the transducer appears to reduce by more than a predetermined amount, determining that a note is poorly placed. |
| US11238683B1 |
Methods and apparatus for enabling digital identity support on legacy access control systems
An identity reader is coupled to a card reader that is coupled to a peripheral device, and includes a transceiver for scanning ephemeral ID signals including a first ephemeral ID signal from a user smart-device, wherein the first ephemeral ID signal is not permanently associated with the user, for outputting a reader identifier and a second ephemeral ID signal not permanently associated with a reader device to the smart device, and for receiving an authorization server token from the smart device, a processor coupled to the transceiver for determining whether the authorization server token is valid, and for determining card emulation data from a payload portion of the authorization server token, a radio frequency (rf) transmitter coupled to the processor for transmitting the card emulation data to the card reader device via rf signals, and wherein the reader device is for directing the peripheral device to perform a user-perceptible action. |
| US11238682B2 |
Locking medication containers and methods of use thereof
Methods and systems are described for a medication container that may be locked using a locking mechanism. In one exemplary method, a request from a user may be received by a medication provider for a medication. The medication may be placed in a medication container with a locking mechanism that is operable to lock and unlock the medication container. The medication container may be locked using the locking mechanism. The locked medication container with the medication within may be provided to the user. Subsequent to providing the locked medication container to the user, a request may be received from the user to access the medication in the medication container. A credential may be sent to the user that is usable, via the locking mechanism, to unlock the medication container. The user may then input the credential into the locking mechanism to unlock the medication container and access the medication therein. |
| US11238678B2 |
System and method for generating data regarding a vehicle crash
A method for generating data regarding a vehicle crash includes receiving initial sensor data, determining that the initial sensor data includes sensor data indicating a crash has occurred, receiving additional sensor data; and generating combined sensor data. A computing device for generating data regarding a vehicle crash includes a processor and a memory including instructions that when executed cause the processor to receive initial sensor data, determine that the initial sensor data includes sensor data indicating that a crash has occurred, receive additional sensor data; and generate combined sensor data. A computer readable storage medium includes non-transitory computer readable instructions stored thereon for generating data regarding a crash, wherein the instructions when executed cause a processor to receive initial sensor data; receive additional sensor data, determine that the initial sensor data includes sensor data indicating that a crash has occurred; and generate combined sensor data. |
| US11238675B2 |
Mobile visual-inspection system
A ground-based visual-inspection system includes a ground-based visual-inspection apparatus and a control system. The ground-based visual-inspection apparatus includes a mobile base, an actuatable arm coupled to the mobile base, and an effector coupled to the actuatable arm. The actuatable arm is locatable in a three dimensional space. The end effector includes a camera configured to capture images of a structure, such as an aircraft. The control system is configured to determine location information of the camera relative to a reference location and associate the location information with the images. |
| US11238671B2 |
System and method for providing haptic alerts within a vehicle
A system and method for providing haptic alerts within a vehicle that include receiving vehicle data associated with at least one vehicle warning. The system and method also include determining a severity associated with the at least one vehicle warning and determining a duration associated with the at least one vehicle warning. The system and method further include determining at least one haptic alert that corresponds to the severity and duration of the at least one vehicle warning and controlling at least one vibrational actuator to provide the at least one haptic alert based on the determined severity and duration of the at least one vehicle warning. |
| US11238669B2 |
System and method for toll transactions utilizing a distributed ledger
An electronic toll data collection management system comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein at least one of the plurality of nodes is a toll collection point, wherein the toll collection point comprises: a computing system; and a camera; wherein each of the plurality of nodes has access to a copy of a distributed ledger, wherein the processor of each of the plurality of nodes is configured to: utilize blockchain protocols to verify and record a transaction occurring within the distributed ledger; parse through the blockchain; perform automated vehicle identification protocols on the extracted data to determine a license plate number of the vehicle in the one of the one or more images flagged by the computing system; and encrypt a new block indicating a debit to an account of an operator of a vehicle, wherein the account is identifiable by the license plate number. |
| US11238666B2 |
Display of an occluded object in a hybrid-reality system
A first position of a hybrid reality system (DHR) relative to a first real-world object is determined and data associated with an occluded object is received. A viewport is established anchored to a first location on the first real-world object and a first image showing a first virtual view of the hidden portion of the occluded object as it would be seen from the first position of the DHR through the viewport is presented on the DHR overlaid on a first view of the first real-world object. At a second time, a second position of the DHR is determined and a second image showing a second virtual view of the hidden portion of the occluded object as it would be seen from the second position of the DHR through the viewport is presenting on the DHR overlaid on a second view of the first real-world object. |
| US11238656B1 |
System and method for an augmented reality experience via an artificial intelligence bot
The present disclosure describes systems and methods that apply artificial intelligence to augmented reality for enhanced user experience. A sensor, such as a camera, on a mobile phone can capture output data of a laptop computer or other computing device, such as a user interface. The captured image can be assessed by the mobile phone to determine an intent of a user and to display a three dimensional rendering, such as an avatar, on the mobile phone overlaid on top of the user interface of the laptop. The avatar can help navigate the user, such as pointing to areas of a webpage of interest, or inviting the user to scroll down on a webpage to a portion of the webpage that may not be in current view. |
| US11238652B2 |
Presenting integrated building information using building models
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations related to providing visual information of multiple types in an integrated manner about a building or other defined area. The techniques may include generating and presenting a GUI (graphical user interface) on a client device that includes a computer model of the building's interior with one or more first types of information (e.g., in a first pane of the GUI), and simultaneously presenting other types of related information about the building interior (e.g., in additional separate GUI pane(s)) that is coordinated with the first type(s) of information being currently displayed. The computer model may be a 3D (three-dimensional) or 2.5D representation generated after the house is built and showing the actual house's interior (e.g., walls, furniture, etc.), and may be displayed to a user of a client computing device in a displayed GUI with various user-selectable controls. |
| US11238651B2 |
Fast hand meshing for dynamic occlusion
An augmented reality/mixed reality system that provides an immersive user experience. That experience is provided with increased speed of update with low computational resources for occlusion data representing a user's hand that can be used to occlude virtual objects. The hand occlusion data are generated by computing a hand mesh from live depth sensor data. A small amount of data is processed by masking live depth data with a model in which a hand is simply represented by multiple segments identified from key-points. The hand occlusion data may be generated by predicting changes in a hand pose between a time of capture of the depth data and the time when the hand mesh will be used for occlusion processing. The hand mesh may be distorted to represent the hand in the predicted pose. |
| US11238648B2 |
Display method and display device for providing surrounding information based on driving condition
A display method is a display method performed by a display device that operates in conjunction with a mobile object, and includes: determining which one of first surrounding information, which is video showing a surrounding condition of the mobile object and is generated using two-dimensional information, and second surrounding information, which is video showing the surrounding condition of the mobile object and is generated using three-dimensional data, is to be displayed, based on a driving condition of the mobile object; and displaying the one of the first surrounding information and the second surrounding information that is determined to be displayed. |
| US11238647B2 |
Apparatus for building map using machine learning and image processing
An apparatus for building a map is disclosed. The apparatus for building a map according to the present invention includes a data collection unit configured to separately collect vector data and raster data, a vector data processing unit configured to generate ground-truth images of a previously set size by processing the vector data, a raster data processing unit configured to generate divided raster images of the set size by processing the raster data, and a polygon generation unit configured to generate predicted polygons through machine learning of the ground-truth images and the divided raster images and generate polygons which can be applied to map building based on the raster data on the basis of the predicted polygons and the ground-truth images. |
| US11238644B2 |
Image processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and computer device
This application relates to an image processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a computer device. The method can include obtaining image frames acquired from a real scene, and playing the obtained image frames one by one according to an acquisition time sequence. The method can further include determining a position corresponding to a target object in the real scene when a trajectory formed by a movement of the target object in a plurality of the obtained image frames meets a trigger condition, rendering a virtual entry in a currently played image frame according to the position, and displaying virtual content in the virtual entry. The solutions provided in this application improve image processing efficiency. |
| US11238636B2 |
Method and apparatus for sport-specific training with captured body motions
Techniques for sport-specific training with captured body motions are described. A computing device is provided to receive sensing data wirelessly from a plurality of sensor modules respectively attached to different body parts of a user in accordance with a particular sport. The motion of the user per the received sensing data is derived. A corresponding 3D graphic environment pertaining to the sport is provided on a display to show reference motion performed by a reference chosen by the user with the derived motion performed by the user. Differences between the reference motion and the derived motion are highlighted or animated in the 3D graphic environment. |
| US11238635B2 |
Digital media editing
Implementations are directed to providing an edit profile including one or more suggested edits to a digital video, actions including receiving metadata associated with the digital video, the metadata including data representative of one or more of movement and an environment associated with recording of the digital video, processing the metadata to provide a suggested edit profile including at least one set of effects, the at least one set of effects including one or more effects configured to be applied to at least a portion of the digital video, providing a respective graphical representation of individual effect of the one or more effects within an effect interface, and receiving, through the effect interface, a user selection of a set of effects of the suggested edit profile, and in response, storing, in computer-readable memory, an edit profile comprising the set of effects for application to the digital video. |
| US11238634B2 |
Motion model refinement based on contact analysis and optimization
In some embodiments, a motion model refinement system receives an input video depicting a human character and an initial motion model describing motions of individual joint points of the human character in a three-dimensional space. The motion model refinement system identifies foot joint points of the human character that are in contact with a ground plane using a trained contact estimation model. The motion model refinement system determines the ground plane based on the foot joint points and the initial motion model and constructs an optimization problem for refining the initial motion model. The optimization problem minimizes the difference between the refined motion model and the initial motion model under a set of plausibility constraints including constraints on the contact foot joint points and a time-dependent inertia tensor-based constraint. The motion model refinement system obtains the refined motion model by solving the optimization problem. |
| US11238629B2 |
Notification device, notification method, and recording medium having notification program stored therein
A notification device that gives notification of predetermined information can be used more conveniently. A notification device includes a state detecting section, a guidance notifying section, a determining section, and a notification control section. The state detecting section sequentially detects a face state of a subject on the basis of images which are sequentially input. The guidance notifying section gives notification of face guidance information. The determining section determines whether or not the face state sequentially detected by the guidance notifying section satisfies a state corresponding to the notified face guidance information. In a case in which the determining section determines that the state corresponding to the notified face guidance information is satisfied, the notification control section controls the guidance notifying section such that another face guidance information different from the notified face guidance information is notified. |
| US11238627B2 |
Method for the reconstruction of an image data set of computed tomography, computed tomography apparatus, computer program and electronically readable data carrier
A method is for the reconstruction of an image data set from projection images of an examination object recorded at different projection directions with a computed tomography apparatus. In an embodiment, the method includes establishing an item of contour information describing a contour of at least one of the examination object and the additional object; enhancing projection data of the projection images via forward projection in regions in which at least one of the examination object and the additional object was not acquired; and reconstructing the image data set based upon the projection data enhanced. The examination object and the additional object are acquired from sensor data of at least one camera. Finally, an item of sensor information at least partially describing at least one of the is of the examination object and of the additional object being established and used for establishing the contour information. |
| US11238626B2 |
Method for generating a series of sections, method for three-dimensional reconstruction of a microscopic sample, and microtome system
A method is proposed for generating a series of sections of a microscopic sample (10), in which the sections are detached from the sample (10) by means of a blade (21), collected, and placed onto a transfer device. A sequence in which the sections are detached from the sample is detected; detachment of the sections from the sample (10) and/or collection of the sections and/or placement of the sections onto the transfer device is monitored by means of one or several observation cameras, accompanied by the acquisition of moving-image data; the sections are tracked in the moving-image data; and positions of the sections on the transfer device are correlated, on the basis of the tracking in the moving-image data, with the sequence in which they were detached from the sample. Also subjects of the present invention are a method for three-dimensional reconstruction of a microscope sample (10), in which sections of the sample (10) are microscopically investigated accompanied by acquisition of section image data and in which the section image data are assembled into a volume image; and a corresponding microtome system (100) having a microtome (110) and a data acquisition and evaluation unit (120), and having one or several observation cameras (30). |
| US11238623B2 |
Automatic line drawing coloring program, automatic line drawing coloring apparatus, and graphical user interface program
A computer is caused to realize: a line drawing data acquisition function to acquire line drawing data to be colored; a size-reducing process function to perform a size-reducing process on the line drawing data acquired to a predetermined reduced size so as to obtain size-reduced line drawing data; a first coloring process function to perform a coloring process on the size-reduced line drawing data based on a first learned model that has previously learned the coloring process on the size-reduced line drawing data by using sample data; and a second coloring process function to perform a coloring process on original line drawing data by receiving an input of the original line drawing data and colored, size-reduced line drawing data as the size-reduced line drawing data on which the first coloring process function has performed the coloring, based on a second learned model that has previously learned the coloring process on the sample data by receiving an input of the sample data and colored, size-reduced sample data as the sample data on which the first coloring process function has performed the coloring. |
| US11238620B2 |
Implicit structured light decoding method, computer equipment and readable storage medium
A implicit structured light decoding method, a computer equipment and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: traversing an image captured by a camera to acquire a grayscale value of each pixel point and an ideal neighborhood grayscale distribution; extracting and outputting an updated output image according to the grayscale value of each pixel point and the ideal neighborhood grayscale distribution and in combination with a preset output image; classifying stripe central points in the updated output image into different stripes; determining a correspondence between stripes in the updated output image and stripes in a structured light image according to the different stripes; and decoding all stripe central points by using triangulation method in combination with the correspondence between the extracted stripes and the projected stripe pattern. This solution can efficiently and robustly decode the implicit stripe-based structured light on a basis of ensuring precision. |
| US11238618B2 |
Image recognition
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for image processing. The method includes one or more processors generating a first set of binary images from a first image based on a first color attribute value range associated with a textual object presented in the first image. The method further includes one or more processors recognizing a first set of candidates for the textual object from the first set of binary images. The method further includes one or more processors determining a first appearance frequency of a first candidate in the first set of candidates. In response to determining that the first appearance frequency exceeds a first frequency, threshold he method further includes one or more processors determining that the first candidate is a first recognition result for the textual object in the first image. |
| US11238616B1 |
Estimation of spatial relationships between sensors of a multi-sensor device
In one implementation, a device has a processor, a projector, a first infrared (IR) sensor, a second IR sensor, and instructions stored on a computer-readable medium that are executed by the processor to estimate the sensor-to-sensor extrinsic parameters. The projector projects IR pattern elements onto an environment surface. The first sensor captures a first image including first IR pattern elements corresponding to the projected IR pattern elements and the device estimates 3D positions for first IR pattern elements. The second IR sensor captures a second image including second IR pattern elements corresponding to the projected IR pattern elements and the device matches the first IR pattern elements and the second IR pattern elements. Based on this matching, the device estimates a second extrinsic parameter corresponding to a spatial relationship between the first IR sensor and the second IR sensor. |
| US11238612B2 |
Device and method of tracking poses of multiple objects based on single-object pose estimator
A method, a device and a non-transitory computer readable medium for tracking poses of multiple objects. The method includes detecting, by a processor, objects from each of a plurality of consecutive frames in a video sequence; estimating, by the processor, a pose of each of the objects within each of the plurality of consecutive frames; and tracking, by the processor, the poses of each of the objects across the plurality of consecutive frames. |
| US11238607B2 |
System and method for measuring the accuracy of an electronic map or a localization of a vehicle
A system for measuring accuracy of an electronic map or a localization of a vehicle may include one or more processors and a memory in communication with the one or more processors having an image capture module, a ground truth generating module, a curve function generating module, and an accuracy determining module. These modules contain instructions that when executed by the one or more processors causes the processors to obtain sensor data that includes images of one or more road lane markings of a road or trajectory data regarding the trajectory of the vehicle, determine ground truth curvature values, perform a curve fitting of map lane marking points or map trajectory points, and compare curvature values of a curve function generated by the curve fitting to the ground truth curvature values to determine the accuracy the electronic map or the localization of the vehicle. |
| US11238605B2 |
Simultaneous localization and mapping method, computer device, and storage medium
Embodiments of this application disclose a method, a computer device, and a storage medium for simultaneous localization and mapping, applied to the field of information processing technologies. In the simultaneous localization and mapping method in the embodiments, edge information of a current frame image captured by an image capturing apparatus is obtained, and the edge information is divided into structural features of a plurality of first components, where each first component may correspond to a partial structure of one object in the current frame image, or correspond to at least one object. Then, a correspondence between first components in the current frame image and second components in a reference frame image may be obtained by matching the structural features of the first components with structural features of the second components in the reference frame image. Finally, the image capturing apparatus may be simultaneously localized according to the correspondence. |
| US11238601B2 |
Multi-scale recurrent decoder for monocular depth estimation
A method for estimating depth is presented. The method includes generating, at each decoding layer of a neural network, decoded features of an input image. The method also includes upsampling, at each decoding layer, the decoded features to a resolution of a final output of the neural network. The method still further includes concatenating, at each decoding layer, the upsampled decoded features with features generated at a convolution layer of the neural network. The method additionally includes sequentially receiving the concatenated upsampled decoded features at a long-short term memory (LSTM) module of the neural network from each decoding layer. The method still further includes generating, at the LSTM module, a depth estimate of the input image after receiving the concatenated upsampled inverse depth estimate from a final layer of a decoder of the neural network. The method also includes controlling an action of an agent based on the depth estimate. |
| US11238598B1 |
Estimation of absolute depth from polarization measurements
A head mounted display comprises an eye tracking system configured to enable eye tracking using polarization. The eye tracking system includes one or more illumination sources and an optical detector comprising polarization sensitive pixels. The one or more illumination sources are configured to illuminate a user's eye and generate reflections directed towards the optical detector. The eye tracking system determines, for each polarization sensitive pixel in a subset of the polarization sensitive pixels, one or more estimation parameters. The eye tracking system determines, for the subset of the polarization sensitive pixels, depth information for one or more glints associated with one or more surfaces of the eye, based in part on the polarization of the reflections and the one or more estimation parameters. The determined depth information is used to update a model of the eye. The eye tracking system determines eye tracking information based on the updated model. |
| US11238596B1 |
Object co-segmentation in image data using semantic filter
Devices and techniques are generally described for object co-segmentation in image data using a semantic filter. In various examples, first image data and second image data may be received. First semantic feature data may be determined for the first image data and second semantic feature data may be determined for the second image data. Filtered semantic feature data corresponding to the first semantic feature data may be generated by filtering the first semantic feature data and the second semantic feature data in a semantic feature space. A determination may be made that a first pixel corresponds to a first class of an object, where at least one object of the first class is represented in the first image data and the second image data. |
| US11238594B2 |
Sidewalk edge finder system and method
A method includes acquiring at least one image with at least one camera associated with at least one mobile robot; and extracting a plurality of straight lines from the at least one image; creating at least one dataset comprising data related to the plurality of straight lines extracted from the at least one image; forming a plurality of hypotheses for a walkway boundary based on the at least one dataset and determining at least one hypothesis with the highest likelihood of representing a walkway boundary; and using the at least one hypothesis to adjust a direction and/or speed of motion of the at least one mobile robot. |
| US11238593B2 |
Multi-object image parsing using neural network pipeline
Techniques are disclosed for parsing a source image, to identify segments of one or more objects within the source image. The parsing is carried out by an image parsing pipeline that includes three distinct stages comprising three respectively neural network models. The source image can include one or more objects. A first neural network model of the pipeline identifies a section of the source image that includes the object comprising a plurality of segments. A second neural network model of the pipeline generates, from the section of the source image, a mask image, where the mask image identifies one or more segments of the object. A third neural network model of the pipeline further refines the identification of the segments in the mask image, to generate a parsed image. The parsed image identifies the segments of the object, by assigning corresponding unique labels to pixels of different segments of the object. |
| US11238591B1 |
Medical image processing system and method thereof
A medical image processing system includes a memory and a processor coupled to each other. The processor accesses and executes instructions which memory stores to perform the following: obtaining a plurality of brain MR images corresponding to a subject, wherein the brain MR images corresponds to a subject brain space; accessing a DBS targets atlas corresponding to a specific stimulation area; transforming the DBS targets atlas from a MNI brain space to the subject brain space based on a DARTEL algorithm; marking at least one coordinate having a largest Voxel value in the brain MR images based on the transformed DBS targets atlas; and storing the brain MR images being targeted with the at least one coordinate into a predetermined format corresponding to a guiding device so that the guiding device displays the brain MR images being targeted with the at least one coordinate for guidance in DBS procedure. |
| US11238589B2 |
Medical imaging with invalid data removal
The following provides an exemplary method. An image is generated. Scan data generated by the sensing of a subject brain is received and a sequence of volumetric-images are accessed. For at least some of the voxels in at least some of the volumetric images, a change value is determined for the voxel by comparing the current-intensity value of the voxel to the adjacent-intensity value of the comparison voxel. For at least some of the plurality volumetric images, a first-aggregate is determined using at least a mean value of change values of the volumetric image and a second-aggregate is determined using at least a median value of change values of the volumetric image. At least one, but not all, of the volumetric images is determined as invalid as a result of the aggregates. |
| US11238588B2 |
Medical diagnosis support apparatus, information processing method, medical diagnosis support system, and program
The present invention is to provide an apparatus presenting information serving as a reason for inference as information on findings so as to be easily recognized by a doctor. A medical diagnosis support apparatus infers a diagnostic name derived from a medical image based on image feature values indicating features of a region included in the medical image, acquires information on findings representing the features of the region included in the medical image based on the image feature values, and presents the information on the findings as a reason for the inference. |
| US11238585B2 |
Method and apparatus for spectral computed tomography (CT) with multi-material decomposition into three or more material components
A method and apparatus uses multi-material decomposition of three or more material components to generate material-component images from spectral images reconstructed from spectral computed tomography data. In three-component material decomposition e.g., the Mendonça method is used for multi-material decomposition when the attenuation values satisfy an assumed volume fraction condition (i.e., for a given voxel, the attenuation values are within a triangle having vertices given by unit volume fractions of three respective material components). However, when the volume fraction condition fails (e.g., the attenuation values are outside the triangle), either a shortest-Hausdorff-distance method or a closest-edge method is used for multi-material decomposition. For example, the attenuation values of the voxel are projected onto a lower-dimensional space (e.g., the space of a closest edge) and decomposed into a pair/single material component(s) of the lower-dimensional space. |
| US11238584B2 |
Device, method, and program for visualizing network of blood vessels of skin
A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism that guides light from a light source to skin tissue to scan the skin tissue; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires tomographic images of the skin by processing optical interference signals from the optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic images; and a display device that displays the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit computes autocorrelation values at coordinates in epidermis corresponding regions of the tomographic images, excludes combinations of tomographic images with the computed autocorrelation values corresponding to predetermined low autocorrelation, computes autocorrelation values at coordinates in dermis corresponding regions, determines coordinates at which the autocorrelation values in the dermis corresponding regions are within a predetermined low correlation range to be blood vessels or blood vessel candidates, and calculates a network of blood vessels. |
| US11238581B2 |
Method, system and computer program for computer-assisted evaluation of biomarkers in a tissue sample
Disclosed are a method for computer-assisted evaluation of biomarkers in a tissue sample as well as a corresponding system and computer program. The method includes the following steps: providing an image of the tissue sample in which cell nuclei of the tissue as well as biomarkers are represented, automatically determining for a plurality of locations or regions within the image a blood vessel probability that represents a probability that the image at the corresponding location or region represents a blood vessel, automatically determining an assumed blood vessel location within the image based on a distribution of blood vessel probability with respect to the locations or regions within the image, automatically selecting biomarkers represented in the image at locations outside the assumed blood vessel location but within a threshold distance from the assumed blood vessel location, and automatically evaluating the selected biomarkers. |
| US11238580B2 |
Systems and methods for image cropping and anatomical structure segmentation in medical imaging
One or more medical images of a patient are processed by a first neural network model to determine a region-of-interest (ROI) or a cut-off plane. Information from the first neural network model is used to crop the medical images, which serves as input to a second neural network model. The second neural network model processes the cropped medical images to determine contours of anatomical structures in the medical images of the patient. Each of the first and second neural network models are deep neural network models. By use of cropped images in the training and inference phases of the second neural network model, contours are produced with sharp edges or flat surfaces. |
| US11238578B2 |
Foil-stamped print inspection apparatus, foil-stamped print inspection system, method of inspecting foil-stamped print, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
A foil-stamped print inspection apparatus includes: a region selecting unit that selects a foil-stamped region based on data for inspection for a printed material; and an inspection unit that inspects a foil-stamped state of the printed material and determines that foil is unsatisfactory if the foil-stamped region in an image acquired by reading the printed material has a gray level that falls outside a predetermined range. A method of inspecting foil-stamped print includes: a region selecting step of selecting a foil-stamped region based on data for inspection for a printed material; and an inspecting step of inspecting a foil-stamped state of the printed material and determining that foil is unsatisfactory if the foil-stamped region in an image acquired by reading the printed material has a gray level that falls outside a predetermined range. |
| US11238574B2 |
Low-latency augmented contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization
The present disclosure relates to imaging processing devices, aerial refueling aircraft, and methods relating to the processing of images. An example imaging processing device includes a programmable circuit, such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), that is reprogrammed based on selected circuit data so as to construct a circuit configured to provide image processing on at least one image. The image processing includes receiving the at least one image. The image processing also includes adjusting the at least one image, to provide at least one adjusted image. Adjusting the at least one image includes applying: a local adaptive histogram equalization filter, a global gamma correction filter, and a local contrast filter. |
| US11238573B2 |
Regularized derivative operators for image processing system and method
Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed herein to provide improved image processing, the techniques comprising: obtaining an input image and target image data, and then calculating derivatives for the target image data using a regularized derivative kernel operator. In some embodiments, the regularized operator may comprise the following operator: [−1 (1+ε)], wherein ε may be a controllable system parameter and preferably is independent of the particular type of image processing being applied to the image. In some embodiments, the techniques may find look-up table (LUT) mappings or analytical functions to approximate the derivative structure of the target image data. Finally, the techniques disclosed herein may generate an output image from the input image based on attempting to closely approximate the calculated derivatives for the target image data. In preferred embodiments, by controlling the mapping, e.g., using regularization techniques, halos and other image artifacts may be ameliorated. |
| US11238570B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program
An image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of appropriately correcting contrast even for an image in which the amplitude of the reflection rate differs for each local area of the image. An image processing device, including a signal intensity extraction unit configured to extract signal intensity of an input image; a peripheral region reference value calculator configured to calculate a peripheral region reference value based on the signal intensity of a peripheral region located around a small region of interest; and an emphasis degree determination unit configured to determine an emphasis degree of the signal intensity so as to increase the signal intensity of the small region, wherein the signal intensity is defined as a reflection rate in the input image input to the image processing device, the small region is defined as a region which is a part of the input image. |
| US11238569B2 |
Image processing method and apparatus, image device, and storage medium
An image processing method and apparatus, an image device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: detecting key points of a first face image; determining a target region for malar fat pad region adjustment based on the key points; determining an adjustment parameter for a malar fat pad region based on the key points; and adjusting the target region based on the adjustment parameter to form a second face image. |
| US11238564B2 |
Temporal de-noising
Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable generating reduced-noise image frames based on image frames received from a digital, camera pipeline; and enable efficient stereo image search between corresponding images generated by at least two cameras. |
| US11238563B2 |
Noise processing method and apparatus
The present invention discloses a noise processing method and apparatus. The method includes: selecting a pixel in an area array, which is formed by arranging a plurality of pixels in a matrix; obtaining pre-stored depth information corresponding to the pixel; performing pixel dispersion calculation according to the depth information corresponding to the pixel, to obtain at least one dispersion of the pixel, the dispersion being used to indicate a degree of dispersion between the pixel and another pixel in the area array; and identifying the pixel as a noise and removing the pixel from the area array when the at least one dispersion of the pixel is greater than a preset threshold. According to the above method, the dispersion between the pixel and the another pixel in the area array is calculated according to the depth information corresponding to the pixel, and the pixel is identified as a noise and is removed from the area array when the at least one dispersion of the pixel is greater than the preset threshold. Therefore, noises in the area array may be identified and removed, which resolves a technical problem that generated noises may affect accuracy of the depth information. |
| US11238558B2 |
Method for generating and modifying images of a 3D scene
A method of generating and modifying a 2D image of a 3D scene the method including the steps: processing an image of a 3D scene to generate a set of data points representative of the 3D scene and 3D objects within the scene; retrieving one or more data points from the set of data; transforming the one or more data points according to one or more mathematical conversion functions, including; a function defining a projection trajectory for each data point; a function defining a geometry of a projection surface for each data point; a function defining a projection volume for each data point; a function defining an angle of projection of each data point with respect to a convergence point on a projection surface; a function defining the size to distance ratio of each data point from a projection surface; generating a transformed set of data points; projecting the transformed set of data points representative of a modified 2D image of the 3D scene; and, rendering the projected transformed set of data points into a 2D image on a display. |
| US11238555B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamically selecting transportation options based on transportation network conditions
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include dynamically selecting transportation options to present to a transportation requestor device based on current transportation network conditions and transportation requestor device history. In some embodiments, transportation network may have many different ways of arranging a transportation requestor's trip, such as private rides, shared rides, immediate rides, and delayed rides. In some examples, the requestor's choice of transportation option may have an impact on the transportation network. In anticipation of or in response to a transportation request, the method may determine which transportation options will better benefit the transportation network and determine which transportation options to display to the requestor and/or the prominence with which the transportation products are displayed. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11238548B2 |
Combined label for food preparers and food servers in table service restaurants and method of using same
A method is provided of processing a food order in a table service restaurant. The method comprises receiving a food order including a table identifier, and electronically by a computer terminal, printing a food order label including the table identifier and providing the printed food order label. The method also comprises by a food preparer, preparing a food dish based upon the printed food order label, and by the food preparer, placing the prepared food dish in a position in vicinity of the printed food order label. The method further comprises by the food preparer or a food server, picking up the prepared food dish and attaching the printed food order label to the food dish with the table identifier being visible, and by a food server, delivering the prepared food dish to the table indicated by the visible table identifier on the printed food order label and thereby delivering the prepared food dish to a customer in the table service restaurant. |
| US11238547B2 |
Building energy cost optimization system with asset sizing
A controller is configured to obtain a cost function defining a cost of operating building equipment over a time period. The cost function includes a revenue term defining revenue to be obtained by operating the equipment to participate in an incentive program over the time period. The controller is configured to modify the cost function to account for an initial purchase cost of a new asset to be added to the equipment and an effect of the new asset on the cost of operating the equipment. The initial purchase cost of the new asset and the effect of the new asset on the cost of operating the equipment are functions of asset size variables. The controller is also configured to perform an optimization of the modified cost function to determine values for energy load setpoints, the asset size variables, and participation in the incentive program over the time period. |
| US11238541B1 |
Tax communication system and method of use
A tax communication system facilitates the interaction between a person and professional. The professional is located in a database access by a portal. The person uploads documents pertinent to the service provided by the professional and grants the access to view the documents. The professional performs their service and generates forms to document the service. The forms are shared to the person via the portal. |
| US11238539B1 |
Intelligent routing control
A system and method classify insurance documents. The system and method receive a request to access documents from an assessment queue stored in a memory of a device where each of the documents contain insurance data and have an associated destination and associated metadata. The system and method convert the set of documents encoded in a first file format to a second file format to remove the metadata. The system and method partition each document of the set of documents into separate stand-alone documents and converts each of the partitioned documents into separate recognition vectors. The system and method classifies the partitioned documents through an additive learning algorithm in which routing data is embedded in second metadata and merge the classified partitioned documents. The merged documents are routed to a remote destination independent of the originally intended destination and the associated metadata. |
| US11238533B2 |
Optimized electronic match engine with external generation of market data using a minimum data set
Systems and methods are provided for an optimized electronic match engine of an exchange is disclosed that distributes a minimum data set to an external market data generation (MDG) processor. The optimized electronic match engine derives a minimum data set from data already known to the optimized electronic match engine. The MDG processor may extract the minimum data set and uses it to generate market data outside of the optimized electronic match engine. In some examples, an order entry (OE) message transmitted from the optimized electronic match engine may be appended with the minimum data set in a simple binary encoding (SBE) format. |
| US11238532B2 |
Intelligent loan qualification based on future servicing capability
A weight is generated for one or more loan tier metrics for each of a plurality of loan tiers, each loan tier associated with a respective loan tier qualifying score. A plurality of transaction records in the depository account of the user are received, the received transaction records including a chronological listing of debits and credits. A plurality of loan tier metrics are determined based on the chronological listing of debits and credits. A respective metric value is generated for one or more of the loan tier metrics, each respective metric value based on the transaction records in the depository account of the user. A machine learning model determines that based on prior activity of the user recorded in the transaction records, a first loan tier metric of a first loan tier has greater importance in determining a loan servicing capability of the user than a second loan tier metric of the first loan tier, and adjusts a selected weight chosen from a first weight of the first loan tier metric and a second weight of the second loan tier metric, so that the first weight is greater than the second weight. A user score is computer based on applying the adjusted weight to the respective metric value associated with the transaction records that corresponds to the first loan tier metric of the first loan tier, wherein the user score represents a prediction of the user's future loan servicing capability. A determination is made that the user score meets or exceeds a loan qualifying score for the first loan tier. |
| US11238530B1 |
Systems and methods for real time credit extension and bill pay configuration
A method of completing a purchase transaction that includes a loan includes receiving, by a transaction processing logic, a loan application from a network. The method also includes generating, by the transaction processing logic, a plurality of loan terms for the loan application. The method also includes receiving, by the transaction processing logic, a transaction package from the network, where the transaction package includes at least one of the plurality of loan terms and a purchase price. The method also includes tendering, by the transaction processing logic, the purchase price according to the transaction package. The method also includes setting up, by the transaction processing logic, a loan in an account database according to the transaction package. |
| US11238529B2 |
Computer-implemented mortgage processing system and method for facilitating a mortgage fulfillment process
A system for facilitating a mortgage fulfillment process between a mortgage processor computing device and a borrower computing device is provided. The system comprises a mortgage operations module and a borrower interface module that are configured to allow for the communication and display of an identification of a plurality of required mortgage application documents, the association of a data file with one or more of the plurality of required mortgage application documents, the communication of the associated data file, and displaying an indicia that such data file was communicated. A method for implementing the processes described herein is also provided. |
| US11238525B2 |
User-enabled mobile scheduling direct time application
A system and process within a mobile device and/or social media application of coordinating, scheduling and booking people to connect and have live face to face streaming meet-and-greets through the application. A network connected server maintains a database and information to Facilitate the buying and selling of direct air time between specific users within the application. Wherein Users can go on and offer time available for a live meet-and-greet and other users can then go on and book and schedule time from the said time available. The application can also be used to schedule and pay for the meet-and-greet time, facilitating live “meet-and-greets” via the application. |
| US11238520B2 |
Systems and methods for generating recommendations of post-capture users to edit digital media content
Contextual parameters of digital media content may be obtained. The digital media content may be associated with a content capture user and/or an end user. Editing parameters defining one or more editing attributes of an edited version of the digital media content may be received. Post-capture user profiles may be obtained. A set of post-capture users may be identified as potential matches for creating the edited version of the digital media content. The set of post-capture users may be presented to the content capture user and/or the end user for selection of one of the post-capture users to create the edited version of the digital media content. In response to the selection, a shipping label may be generated for shipment of the digital media content from an origin address associated with the content capture user and/or the end user to a destination address associated with the selected post-capture user. |
| US11238519B1 |
Search results based on user-submitted content
Disclosed are various embodiments for generating search results to search queries based on user-submitted content. A query containing a first search term for an item and a second search term for an intended use of the item is obtained. Then, an item catalog is search for a browse node that includes the item and is related to the intended use of the item. A plurality of items classified within the browse node are selected. A network page that includes the plurality of items classified within the browse node is then generated. |
| US11238518B2 |
Customized predictive financial advisory for a customer
A system, method and computer program product provide for intervening in a financial transaction to discourage a bad decision by a customer. An execution decision by a customer is analyzed. A cautionary rule that is violated by the execution decision is identified. A suggestion in a personally persuasive persona presented on at least one user interface device to the customer. |
| US11238510B2 |
Reverse showrooming and merchant-customer engagement system
Systems and methods for providing a merchant-customer engagement system include a physical merchant location in which a customer may be tracked to determine products within the physical merchant location that the customer is interested in. A merchant may use a wearable merchant device that is configured to identify the customer via a camera that captures an image of the customer, and that image may be used to retrieve customer account information for that customer. Using the customer account information and the products that the customer is showing interest in, the wearable merchant device may be used to display merchant-customer engagement information next to a view of the customer to allow the merchant to help the customer while utilizing a variety of displayed information about the customer including, for example, past purchases, products browsed in-store and previously browsed online, time spent in an area of the physical merchant location, etc. |
| US11238508B2 |
Conversational assistant using extracted guidance knowledge
Systems and methods for improving an information provisioning system using a natural language conversational assistant is provided. A machine agent initiates an interactive natural language conversation with a user to provide the user with guidance on one or more products. The machine agent receives a request for information from the user, and accesses, from a product knowledge database, textual statements about features of the one or more products, whereby the textual statements are obtained by a machine-based offline knowledge extraction process that extracts the textual statements from reviews or product guides. Based on the accessed textual statements and an overall empirical utility of each of the accessed textual statements, the machine agent determines one or more statements of the accessed textual statements to convey to the user. The machine agent causes presentation of the one or more statements to the user. |
| US11238506B1 |
Methods and systems for automatic processing of images of a damaged vehicle and estimating a repair cost
A system and computer-implemented method for processing images of a damaged vehicle and estimating a repair cost of the damaged vehicle includes receiving image data of a vehicle from a user mobile device. The image data is processed to determine whether one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are damaged. In addition, one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are identified for repair and one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are identified for replacement. A cost associated for the repair of each of the one or more parts of the damaged vehicle for repair is estimated based on estimated repair cost data contained in a parts repair database. Moreover, a cost associated with the replacement of each of the one or more parts of the damaged vehicle for replacement is determined based on replacement cost data contained in a parts replacement database. |
| US11238504B2 |
Systems and methods for restrictively exchanging and controlling product data between communication devices of a private network
A novel and non-trivial system and method for restrictively exchanging and controlling vehicular data between communication devices of a private network is disclosed. A processor in communication with a plurality of user communication devices is used for controlling and restricting the exchange of vehicular data. In such network, the processor may establish a communication connection with an initiating communication device of an initiating user, receive initiating vehicular data from the initiating communication device and corresponding first users (e.g., defined trusted users) data, provide the initiating vehicular data to at least one available first user communication device, receive responding vehicular data responsive to the initiating vehicular data, and provide the responding vehicular data to the initiating communication device. Additionally, the processor may provide interested users who have not been defined as trusted users with the initiating product data and receive responding vehicular data from such interested users. |
| US11238500B2 |
Providing offers and associated location information
Provided is a process, including: obtaining a coupon issued by a merchant, the coupon being redeemable in-store, at a physical location of the merchant; obtaining one or more merchant location identifiers, the coupon only being redeemable at one or more merchant locations identified by the one or more merchant location identifiers; sending the coupon and the merchant location identifiers to publishers for presentation to consumers by the publishers on user devices of the consumers; and receiving indications from the user devices of the consumers that the consumers interacted with the coupon, the indications indicating a consumer selection of an in-store redemption option. |
| US11238495B2 |
Method and system for data driven personalization
A system and method for providing a customized user experience is presented. A system can include one or more processing modules and one more non-transitory storage modules. The usage history of a user can be tracked at an eCommerce retailer. Static information about the user can also be tracked. Thereafter, using the usage history, the static information, and the available promotions of the retailer, a probability of conversion can be calculated for each promotion. Thereafter, the promotion being displayed to the user can be based on the probability of conversion. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein. |
| US11238493B1 |
Automatic data integration for performance measurement of multiple separate digital transmissions with continuous optimization
In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining, from a demand-side platform (DSP), impression data specifying service providers and consumer tokens representing consumers who have received digital impressions of a set of advertising campaigns. A set of tokenized claims data records related to a prescription of a product is then received from a database server. A result set of integrated measurement records specifying measured campaigns linking the tokenized claims data records with impression data associated with consumer tokens and/or service provider identifiers is further received from the database server. Aggregated analytics reports based on the integrated measurement records are generated and presented. A machine learning model may be trained using a training dataset comprising features selected from the impression data and tokenized claims data records, to predict bid values or other parameters for use in updating, optimizing or modifying operation of the DSP for the original campaign or for other campaigns. |
| US11238490B2 |
Determining performance metrics for delivery of electronic media content items by online publishers
Information describing deliveries of content items and user actions associated with the content items is stored. Each delivery is performed by an online publisher to a user. A user action associated with a content item performed by a target user is detected. Information describing a set of online publishers that delivered the content item to the target user is retrieved. For each online publisher of the set, a likelihood that the user action would have occurred without the online publisher's delivery of the content item to the target user is determined. An estimated increase in the likelihood that the user action occurred due to the online publisher's delivery of the content item to the target user is determined. A performance metric is determined for the online publisher, wherein ratios of performance metrics for the set of online publishers are related based on corresponding ratios of the estimated increases in likelihoods. |
| US11238479B1 |
Digital promotion processing system including messenger bot based trivia question and related methods
A digital promotion processing system may include mobile wireless communications devices, each associated with a respective user and a digital promotion server. The digital promotion server may be configured to operate a messenger bot to prompt each of the users to answer a trivia question from the respective mobile wireless communications device and operate the messenger bot to obtain answers to the trivia question from the mobile wireless communications devices. The digital promotion server may be configured to determine a first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly based upon the obtained answers, and generate a digital promotion for a given product and communicate the digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications device associated with the first user to answer the trivia question correctly. |
| US11238477B1 |
Systems and methods for providing utilities based on blockchain-specific populations of unique digital articles
Systems and methods to provide utilities based on blockchain-specific populations of unique digital articles in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage user accounts, including a first user account having a first account inventory that includes a first unique digital article; receive a first recordation request to record ownership of the first unique digital article on a first decentralized ledger; determine a size of a set or population of unique digital articles that include the first unique digital article; determine a fraction of the set or population of unique digital articles recorded on the first decentralized ledger; receive a first reward request for a first reward; compare the determined fraction with a threshold value; based on the comparison, provide either the first reward or else provide no award or a smaller award. |
| US11238473B2 |
Inferring consumer affinities based on shopping behaviors with unsupervised machine learning models
Provided is a process of discovering psychographic segments of consumers with unsupervised machine learning, the process including: obtaining a first set of consumer-behavior records; converting the first set of consumer-behavior records into respective consumer-behavior vectors; determining psychographic segments of consumers by training an unsupervised machine learning model with the first set of consumer-behavior vectors; obtaining a second set of consumer-behavior records after determining the psychographic segments of consumers; converting the second set of consumer-behavior records into respective consumer-behavior vectors; classifying the second set of consumer-behavior vectors as each belonging to at least a respective one of psychographic segments with the trained machine learning model; and predicting based on the classification a likelihood of the respective consumer engaging in behavior associated with a corresponding one of the psychographic segments. |
| US11238468B1 |
Semantic graph database capture of industrial organization and market structure
Systems and techniques for semantic graph database capture of industrial organization and market structure are described herein. Electronic market data may be obtained from an electronic data source. A set of entities and corresponding relationships may be extracted from the electronic market data. A property may be determined for each of the relationships. A market graph data structure may be generated using the set of entities. A search query may be received including an identifier of a member of the set of entities. A market graphic may be generated based on a node corresponding to the identifier and a set of edges corresponding to the node. The market graphic may be output in a computer-readable format. |
| US11238466B2 |
Method and system for using bluetooth and other nearby-communications technologies to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of novel corona viruses and other highly-contagious diseases, with user privacy and security central to the design
A communications method is established enabling exposure notification, contact tracing and movement tracking by using Bluetooth or other nearby communications technology for communicating with nearby smartphones and mobile devices, and for data exchange both to alert participants of possible exposure to someone who they have recently been in contact with, and who has subsequently been positively diagnosed, or potentially diagnosed as having, a novel coronavirus or other highly contagious disease, and to trace and identify containers, packages, envelopes and other objects that may have been in contact with a person or object carrying or potentially carrying the virus or disease. |
| US11238465B2 |
System and method for remote acquisition and delivery of goods
A system and method for remote acquisition and delivery of goods includes a server in communication with customer computers, such as through a user interface via the internet. The server can store customer information including billing information, and may include an image processor. A mobile delivery system in communication with the server includes an energy efficient vehicle, an image capture device, a global positioning system, a communication device and a printer. In use, a customer communicates with a mobile delivery agent via the image capture device and the communication device to remotely acquire a product. Once acquired, the delivery agent delivers the product to a designated delivery location. The image capture device can be utilized during the entire transaction. The system preferably includes a processor for optimizing system efficiencies, including selecting a delivery agent based on the product, pick-up location and delivery site. |
| US11238462B2 |
Success rate of an online transaction
A payment request is transmitted by a computing device to a merchant server. A message is received by the computing device and from a payment server different from the merchant server. The message includes a payment client application associated with the payment sever and the payment request. A notification, associated with the message, is displayed by the computing device. The payment client application is launched, by the computing device, based on a user selection in response to the notification. |
| US11238460B2 |
Method and system for implementing chargebacks on a distributed ledger system
A method for recording chargebacks in blockchain transactions includes: storing a blockchain comprised of a plurality of blocks, each block being comprised of a block header and data values, where each data value includes a unique transaction identifier and data corresponding to a processed payment transaction; receiving a chargeback request including a specific transaction identifier corresponding to a unique transaction identifier included in a data value in the blockchain; generating a first transaction data value comprising the specific transaction identifier, a first new unique transaction identifier, and data indicating that a chargeback is requested for the corresponding payment transaction; transmitting the first transaction data value to a blockchain node; generating a second transaction data value comprising the specific transaction identifier, a second new unique transaction identifier, and data indicating a resolution for the chargeback for the corresponding payment transaction; and transmitting the second transaction data value to a blockchain node. |
| US11238459B2 |
Intelligent systems for identifying transactions associated with an institution impacted by an event
A transaction processing system capable of processing transactions and implementing a flexible circuit breaker process during an event. A circuit breaker module initiates a circuit breaker event (CBE), an account identification module identifies one or more affected account IDs, and a rule generation module generates conditional rules for evaluating each transaction presented to a transaction processing module. If a transaction presented to the transaction processing module satisfies the conditional rule, the transaction is not processed. Transactions not processed are stored in memory and groups of impacted transactions are assigned to resource modules based on common characteristics. The resource module determines if impacted transactions should be allowed to process. |
| US11238458B2 |
Support combination cards for ecommerce
The claimed system and method allows for an electronic payment system to accept a single card that is both a debit card and a credit card. Further, a user may indicate a default value for the card regarding whether the card should be used as a debit card or a credit card. |
| US11238454B2 |
Biometric data verification method and system using mobile devices
The present invention relates to a financial payment method using biometric information, in which biometric information of an individual collected in a mobile device of an affiliated member is transmitted to a mobile device of the individual to allow the biometric information to be authenticated in the mobile device of the individual, and after the authentication of the biometric information, a substitute key that corresponds to a card password preset by the individual is inputted, and a financial payment is requested based on the payment content. |
| US11238451B1 |
Authorization of cardless payment transactions
A method of processing a transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving from a mobile device of the customer or from another device of the customer an indication of consent to perform a cardless payment transaction with the merchant, receiving from the mobile device an indication that the customer is within a predetermined distance of the merchant, after receiving both the indication of consent and the indication that the customer is within the predetermined distance, sending to a computer system of the merchant an indication of the presence of the customer and personal identifying information for the customer, receiving data indicating a transaction between the customer and the merchant, and submitting the transaction to a financial service for authorization. |
| US11238448B1 |
Efficient network service provisioning
This disclosure describes techniques that include use of a distributed ledger to arrange for and/or initiate provisioning of network services, and also to validate payment for such network services. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes modifying, by a computing system, a distributed ledger maintained by a consensus network to implement a smart contract that is configured to generate, in response to receiving a request for network services, a provisioning request; receiving the provisioning request, by the computing system and from a computing device on the consensus network that is executing the smart contract, wherein the provisioning request includes information describing requested network services; and provisioning, by the computing system and based on the information describing the requested network services, network services. |
| US11238444B2 |
Secure and trusted cryptocurrency acceptance system
A method includes initiating, by a payor computing device, a financial transaction to send payment of a particular amount to a payee computing device using a first cryptocurrency. The payee computing device accepts a desired currency. The method further includes placing a hold on an amount of collateral cryptocurrency based on a request to process the financial transaction. The method further includes sending, by the payor computing device, a first amount of the first cryptocurrency equal to the particular amount to the cryptocurrency acceptance network computing device, converting, by a cryptocurrency exchange device, the first amount of the first cryptocurrency to an amount of the desired currency equal to the particular amount, and sending the amount of the desired currency to a payee banking computing device. The method further includes seeking a desired number of confirmations of the first amount of the first cryptocurrency from a consensus network. When the desired number of confirmations is completed, the method further includes releasing the hold on the amount of the collateral cryptocurrency. |
| US11238442B1 |
Cloud based mobile wallet profile
A method for separately registering a user and a mobile device for use of a mobile wallet account includes registering, by a registration terminal of a mobile wallet provider, a user for use of the mobile wallet account, including assigning one or more user-provided settings to the mobile wallet account. The method also includes receiving, by a computing system of the mobile wallet provider, a request from a mobile device to register the mobile device for use as a mobile wallet, identifying, by the computing system, the mobile wallet account of the registered user based on the request, and registering, by the computing system, the mobile device for use of the identified mobile wallet account, including associating the one or more user-provided settings with use of the mobile device. |
| US11238440B2 |
System and method enabling mobile near-field communication to update display on a payment card
Disclosed are a system and methods enabling updating of a card number of a payment card and thereby reissuing the payment card utilizing a reissue application associated with the payment card. The reissue application, when executed communicates with a service provider that manages the payment card. The payment card includes processing circuitry and a rewriteable visual display. Using cryptographic techniques, the reissue application and payment card are authenticated to the service provider. Upon verification, an updated card number is obtained and provided via near-field communication to the payment card. In response to the update payment card number received from the reissue application, the rewriteable visual display on the payment card is updated with the updated card number. Other information may also be presented on the rewriteable visual display of the payment card based on user preferences. |
| US11238438B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for topping up prepaid payment cards for offline use
A card holder carries out an initial top-up of a balance of a pre-paid payment card. The prepaid payment card is configured for use in an infrastructure in accordance with a payment specification requiring different behavior for normal transactions in the infrastructure versus that required for topping-up of the balance. Contemporaneously with the initial top-up, the card holder registers risk mitigation information in association with the pre-paid payment card. Subsequent to the initial top-up, an indicator is written to the pre-paid payment card during a transaction with the pre-paid payment card outside the infrastructure. The indicator identifies the pre-paid payment card as having the risk mitigation information associated therewith. During subsequent presentation of the pre-paid payment card to the infrastructure, the pre-paid payment card is treated as a token backed up by the risk mitigation information, based on presence of the indicator on the pre-paid payment card. |
| US11238437B2 |
Prepaid chip card exception processing
A portable consumer device may have money stored therein, which can be calculated using an accumulator record and an exception record. The accumulator record can be incremented by the amount of any initiated transaction using the portable consumer device. The exception record can be incremented by the amount of any completed transaction using the portable consumer device. The portable consumer device may also have a limit amount, to record the amount of money added. The records allow for a later reconstruction of the device history, and can account for any errors or problems during transactions. |
| US11238433B2 |
Secure matrix barcode based data transfers
According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include receiving a quick response (QR) code from a computing device, the QR code including a first entity identifier, and analyzing the QR code to determine a request to initiate a data transfer between a first entity associated with the first entity identifier and a second entity, and to determine one or more characteristics associated with the data transfer. The method may also include, based on the one or more characteristics, identifying a first QR code processing flow from multiple QR code processing flows to follow to process the data transfer, and verifying the first entity in the transaction based on the first entity identifier of the QR code and based on the first QR code processing flow. The method may also include processing the data transfer between the second entity and the first entity based on the first QR code processing flow. |
| US11238430B1 |
Systems and devices controlled responsive to data bearing records
A device (12, 312, 494) operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The device includes a reader (20, 314) that is usable to read check data from financial checks. The reader is also usable to read record document data such as an invoice or other remittance advice. At least one circuit (54, 332) of the device is operative to cause a determination to be made that check data and/or record document data corresponds to stored data. Responsive to the determination, check data and record data are made available to a payee terminal (346). The device may be operable responsive to receipt of embedded instructions from a check payment website to capture image data corresponding to an image of a financial check and to send the image data to a remote computer as indicated by the embedded instructions. |
| US11238426B1 |
Associating an account with a card
A method and apparatus for associating an account with a proxy card are disclosed. The proxy card can be associated with account data from multiple other cards, such as account data from a driver's license and from various payment cards, such as a credit card, a debit card, and a pre-paid gift card. In some embodiments, a card-holder can associate an additional card with the proxy card using a mobile device. The mobile device associates the additional card with the proxy card by causing updating of stored association information, that represents an association between the card and the account data of the multiple cards, with the account information. |
| US11238422B1 |
Automatic teller machine game-based transaction functionality
In an example, a method for implementing gamification in user interface transactions of a customer financial transaction device such as an automatic teller machine (ATM) or kiosk may be provided to improve security and enable enhanced electronic display and user interface features. In one example, the electronic operations for implementing gamification may include associated actions in a user interface transaction screen with defined gamification functions, receiving and evaluating input in the user interface transaction screen, and enabling or performing certain transaction actions based on an expected gamification action. In further examples, the gamification may be implemented based on themes for the user interface that match entertainment themes, individual games, or customizations to graphical and text content established by the user. |
| US11238421B1 |
Payment services via application programming interface
The described financial institution computing system provides services to customers through an application programming interface (“API”). The services include user identification services to customers and payment services that allow users to pay the customers via the financial institution. The user identification services allow the customers to verify the identity of users as non-fraudulent users. Further the user identification services allow the financial institution to provide known user information to the customers for purposes of prepopulating registration forms, completing transactions, and the like. Further services, such as user account validation services, payment services, and the like are also possible through the financial institution APIs. In some situations, users are registered with the financial institution. For example, a user may also be an account holder with the financial institution. In other situations, the users are not registered with the financial institution. |
| US11238419B2 |
Blockchain system and method with secure cryptoassets
A system and method for providing secure cryptoassets in a blockchain platform. |
| US11238416B1 |
Availability based resource scheduling
Embodiments are directed to managing resources over a network. One or more resources that are unassigned. Selection models may be generated based on a one or more open appointments or one or more characteristics of one or more clients. The selection models may be employed to determine each client that is qualified to accept one or more invitations to the one or more open appointments. The one or more invitations to accept the one or more open appointments may be provided to the one or more qualified clients based on one or more notification models that define one or more communication modes to communicate the one or more invitations with the one or more candidate clients over a period of time. An open appointment may be reserved based on a qualified client accepting an invitation to the open appointment. |
| US11238410B1 |
Methods and systems for merging outputs of candidate and job-matching artificial intelligence engines executing machine learning-based models
The instant disclosure discloses methods and systems for merging outputs of matching artificial intelligence (AI) engines that are configured to match jobs to candidates, candidates to candidates and jobs to jobs. The methods and systems illustrate how multiple artificial intelligence engines or algorithms executing machine learning-based models can be used to identify candidates or jobs that match other candidates or jobs. |
| US11238409B2 |
Techniques for extraction and valuation of proficiencies for gap detection and remediation
Gaps in proficiencies may be identified within an enterprise. Understanding gaps in the existing workforce may help inform training, hiring, and firing decisions to ensure successful completion of the upcoming projects and deadlines. Using a multi-level model for each proficiency that accounts for enterprise needs as well as hiring, retraining, and the like, a relationship between proficiencies, projects, and employees over time may be generated as a multi-dimensional temporal model. The temporal model may be simulated to forecast gaps in proficiencies of the employed workforce. Recommendations regarding retraining, hiring, and termination can be made to help users remedy the deficiencies. Additionally, the proficiencies most valuable to the enterprise may be determined using a catalog of proficiencies to cluster the proficiencies into proficiency clusters for each job or job category and the proficiencies scored. Employees and candidates may be scored using the clusters to inform hiring, firing, and retraining decisions. |
| US11238404B2 |
Electronic apparatus and operation method thereof
Provided is a method and apparatus for recognizing a disposal type of an item based on attribute information of the item, and updating information regarding stock based on processing information for the item, which is involved when the item is processed according to the disposal type. |
| US11238400B2 |
Methods and systems for optimizing the pooling and shipping of freight
A method for pooling a plurality of shipments of less than full truckloads of freight to create a full truckload while providing a full truckload service level guarantee includes receiving a request for a first shipment of less than a full truckload of freight between an origin and a destination by a specified delivery date in accordance with a level of service guaranteed for a full truckload of freight. The method includes providing a commitment to ship the shipment as requested. The method includes receiving, after providing the commitment to ship the shipment for the first shipper, a request from a second shipper for delivery of a second shipment of less than a full truckload of freight. The method includes determining to combine the first shipment and the second shipment into a full truckload of freight. |
| US11238398B2 |
Tracking movement of objects and notifications therefor
Improved approaches for monitoring status of articles being shipped are disclosed. The monitoring can produce notifications to interested parties. The notifications typically contain status information pertaining to the articles being shipped. Alternatively, interested parties can gain access to status information pertaining to the articles being shipped via a website. According to one embodiment, the status information includes at least position (location) information and shipping conditions information. |
| US11238395B2 |
Apparatus and method for evaluating reliability of nuclear power plant operator
In an apparatus for evaluating reliability of a nuclear power plant operator, an expected task finishing time for each task of the operator is calculated based on input data for reliability evaluation of the operator to determine a task completion time for each task of the operator based on the calculated expected task finishing time and the input data. An initial time for the tasks is determined based on the input data and the task completion time for a current task. A total execution time of the operator is calculated based on the determined task completion time and initial time. An available time allowed for the operator to complete the tasks is calculated based on a predetermined allowed time and the determined initial time. A task failure probability is obtained from the difference between the calculated total execution time and the calculated available time based on probability distribution information. |
| US11238392B2 |
Estimating compensation
A salesperson may estimate his compensation in different hypothetical scenarios by inputting hypothetical sales data into a compensation estimation system. The compensation estimation system may compute the sales person's hypothetical compensation based on both actual sales data and the hypothetical sales data, thereby producing a “what if” outlook for the sales person. Significantly, the hypothetical sales data can be entered into and modified within the compensation estimation system without modifying or corrupting the actual sales data. |
| US11238391B2 |
Prediction of business outcomes by analyzing resumes of users
Predicting business outcomes for a target user includes generation of predictor models based on test data of tests users. The test data includes historical data of the test users, resumes of the test users, and answers provided by the test users to psychometric questions. The predictor models are then used to predict psychometric features and business outcomes based on target data of the target user. The target data includes a resume of the target user, historical data of the target user, and answers provided by the target user to the psychometric questions. |
| US11238390B2 |
Privacy management systems and methods
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for mapping various questions regarding a data breach from a master questionnaire to a plurality of territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires. The answers to the questions in the master questionnaire are used to populate the territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires and determine whether disclosure is required in territory. The system can automatically notify the appropriate regulatory bodies for each territory where it is determined that data breach disclosure is required. |
| US11238387B2 |
Management apparatus and management system
A management system includes a storage unit that stores schedule information that indicates schedules of a plurality of tasks to be performed by the same flight vehicle. The schedule information includes types of the plurality of tasks, date/times of the plurality of tasks, and locations at which the plurality of tasks are to be performed. When the types, the date/times, and the locations that are included in the schedule information stored in the storage unit satisfy an integration condition, an integration unit integrates the schedules of the plurality of tasks. An output unit outputs integrated schedule information indicating the schedules of the integrated tasks. |
| US11238384B2 |
Intelligent routing code for improved product distribution
A system is disclosed that comprises a processor, and logic executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the processor to perform a method comprising receiving at least one attribute of a condition of a good, and using the at least one attribute to calculate an actual Intelligent Routing (IR) code for the good. Further, the method comprises calculating and storing a target IR code for each of at least two receivers, and comparing the actual IR code for the good to the target IR codes for each of the at least two receivers. Finally, the method comprises determining, based on the comparison of the actual IR code for the good to the target IR codes for each of the at least two receivers, which receiver of the at least two receivers will receive the good. |
| US11238383B2 |
Systems and methods for creating and managing user teams of user accounts
Methods and systems for suggesting electronic collaborative user groups to a user account based on user account activity. The method includes identifying one or more event records corresponding to a user account. Each of the one or more event records identifying an interaction between a client device of the user account and a server computing system and corresponding to one or more themes associated with a given team. The method further includes calculating a theme score for the user account based on the retrieved one or more event records. The theme score based at least in part on the number of identified event records. The method also includes determining whether the calculated theme score exceeds a predetermined threshold score, and in response to determining that the calculated theme score exceeds the predetermined threshold score, facilitating connection of the user account and the team associated with the theme. |
| US11238379B2 |
Systems and methods for optimizing oil production
A method for optimizing oil production includes receiving historical production data for one or more wells. A first model is generated based at least partially upon the historical production data. The production in the one or more wells is predicted based at least partially upon the first model. A second model is generated based at least partially on the predicted production. A production allocation is determined in the one or more wells to maximize production based at least partially upon the second model. The production allocation is then implemented. |
| US11238375B2 |
Data-enabled success and progression system
Systems and method for remote intervention are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory including: a user profile database; and a model database. The system can include a user device and a supervisor device, each of which including: a network interface; and an I/O subsystem. The system can include a content management server that can: receive data identifying a user of the user device; retrieve user data for the user from the user profile database; retrieve a risk model from the model database; generate a risk value based on the risk model; generate an action recommendation identifying an action for completion; and generate and send an alert to the supervisor device, which alert includes the action recommendation and includes computer code to trigger activation of the I/O subsystem of the supervisor device to provide the action recommendation. |
| US11238373B2 |
Data-driven and intelligent characterization of spatial distributions of transport properties in heterogeneous materials
A method comprises obtaining temporal measurements associated with a heterogeneous material; building a numerical model of a material by assigning initial approximations to the temporal measurements; modifying the numerical model to create a modified numerical model; generating simulated temporal measurements associated with the temporal measurements using the modified numerical model; determining a reward, a penalty, or a modification based on a quality of a fit between the temporal measurements and the simulated temporal measurements; and updating the numerical model based on the reward, the penalty, or the modification. |
| US11238372B2 |
Simulator-training for automated reinforcement-learning-based application-managers
The current document is directed to methods and systems for simulation-based training of automated reinforcement-learning-based application managers. Simulators are generated from data collected from controlled computing environments controlled and may employ any of a variety of different machine-learning models to learn state-transition and reward models. The current disclosed methods and systems provide facilities for visualizing aspects of the models learned by a simulator and for initializing simulator models using domain information. In addition, the currently disclosed simulators employ weighted differences computed from simulator-generated and training-data state transitions for feedback to the machine-learning models to address various biases and deficiencies of commonly employed difference metrics in the context of training automated reinforcement-learning-based application managers. |
| US11238367B1 |
Distribution of content based on machine learning based model by an online system
An online system performs distributes content items received from content provider systems. The online system selects content items for sending to users based on values associated with user actions performed by users responsive to accessing the content items. The online system uses machine learning based models for predicting expected values of user actions associated with content items. The machine learning model may be a neural network model with a shared component and a plurality of dedicated components, each dedicated component trained to predict a term used for determining the expected value. The neural network is trained using labeled data where the labels are normalized expected values. The online system performs calibration of the predicted values to determine a denormalized value for use in selecting content items for delivery to users. |
| US11238362B2 |
Modeling semantic concepts in an embedding space as distributions
Modeling semantic concepts in an embedding space as distributions is described. In the embedding space, both images and text labels are represented. The text labels describe semantic concepts that are exhibited in image content. In the embedding space, the semantic concepts described by the text labels are modeled as distributions. By using distributions, each semantic concept is modeled as a continuous cluster which can overlap other clusters that model other semantic concepts. For example, a distribution for the semantic concept “apple” can overlap distributions for the semantic concepts “fruit” and “tree” since can refer to both a fruit and a tree. In contrast to using distributions, conventionally configured visual-semantic embedding spaces represent a semantic concept as a single point. Thus, unlike these conventionally configured embedding spaces, the embedding spaces described herein are generated to model semantic concepts as distributions, such as Gaussian distributions, Gaussian mixtures, and so on. |
| US11238360B2 |
Fast quantum feedback using analog integration and control pulse gating
The technology is generally directed towards a pulse generation component that outputs a control pulse with a timing delay. A qubit state decision component uses an analog kernel to perform a linear filtering operation on (e.g., multiplies and integrates) a qubit signal to obtain a result corresponding to a qubit state, and compares the result to a threshold value to determine a measurement outcome result corresponding to the qubit state. A conditional gate component conditionally gates the control pulse based on the measurement outcome result. |
| US11238359B2 |
Simplified quantum programming
Techniques facilitating simplified quantum programming are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises reducing, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, a first computing problem of a problem type to a second computing problem of the problem type, wherein the second computing problem is associated with a quantum circuit; facilitating, by the device, execution of the quantum circuit at a quantum computer, resulting in a first output corresponding to the second computing problem; and mapping, by the device, the first output to a second output corresponding to the first computing problem. |
| US11238357B2 |
Generating computationally-efficient representations of large datasets
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing large datasets using a computationally-efficient representation are disclosed. A request to apply a coverage algorithm to a large input dataset is received. The large dataset includes sets of elements. A computationally-efficient representation of the large dataset is generated by generating a reduced set of elements that contains fewer elements based on a defined probability. For each element in the reduced set, a determination is made regarding whether the element appears in more than a threshold number of sets. When the element appears in more than the threshold number, the element is removed from sets until the element appears in only the threshold number. The coverage algorithm is then applied to the computationally-efficient representation to identify a subset of the sets. The system provides data identifying the subset of the sets in response to the received request. |
| US11238351B2 |
Grading sources and managing evidence for intelligence analysis
Mechanisms for evaluating an evidential statement in a corpus of evidence are provided. An evidential statement is received for determining a level of confidence in a hypothetical ontological link of an ontology. A source of the evidential statement is identified and a grading of the source of the evidential statement is determined based on a source grading measurement value indicative of a degree of reliability and credibility of the source. An indication of trustworthiness of the evidential statement is generated based on the source grading measurement value. A representation of the indication of trustworthiness of the evidential statement is output in association with the evidential statement. |
| US11238349B2 |
Conditional behavioural biometrics
The present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved method of providing identification of a user or authentication of a user's identity using conditional behavioural biometrics.The present invention seeks to provide an enhanced method of authenticating and/or identifying a user identity using conditional behavioural biometrics.According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of generating a user profile for use in identifying and/or authenticating a user on a device, the device equipped with one or more sensors, the method comprising: generating a set of data points from sensory data collected by the one or more sensors; clustering the set of data points to produce a set of data clusters; developing a first classifier for the data clusters, the first classifier being operable to assign a further data point derived from a further user interaction with the computing device to one of the data clusters; and developing one or more further classifiers for at least one of the data clusters, the further classifier operable to identify and/or authenticate a user identity based on the further data point. |
| US11238346B2 |
Learning a truncation rank of singular value decomposed matrices representing weight tensors in neural networks
An apparatus for learning a rank of an artificial neural network is configured to decompose a weight tensor into a first weight tensor and a second weight tensor. A set of rank selection parameters are applied to the first weight tensor and the second weight tensor to truncate the rank of the first weight tensor and the second weight tensor. The set of rank selection parameters are updated simultaneously with the weight tensors by averaging updates calculated for each rank selection parameter of the set of rank selection parameters. |
| US11238343B2 |
Scalable neural hardware for the noisy-OR model of Bayesian networks
Embodiments of the invention relate to a scalable neural hardware for the noisy-OR model of Bayesian networks. One embodiment comprises a neural core circuit including a pseudo-random number generator for generating random numbers. The neural core circuit further comprises a plurality of incoming electronic axons, a plurality of neural modules, and a plurality of electronic synapses interconnecting the axons to the neural modules. Each synapse interconnects an axon with a neural module. Each neural module receives incoming spikes from interconnected axons. Each neural module represents a noisy-OR gate. Each neural module spikes probabilistically based on at least one random number generated by the pseudo-random number generator unit. |
| US11238338B2 |
Real time context dependent deep learning
In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive a plurality of data inputs for training a neural network, wherein the data inputs comprise training data and weights inputs; represent the data inputs in a first form; and represent the weight inputs in a second form. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. |
| US11238335B2 |
Active memristor based spiking neuromorphic circuit for motion detection
A motion-sensing circuit for determining a direction of motion and a velocity of an object includes a first photo-receptor for sensing the object, an excitatory active memristor neuron circuit coupled to the first photo-receptor, a second photo-receptor for sensing the object, an inhibitory active memristor neuron circuit coupled to the second photo-receptor, and a self-excitatory active memristor output-counter neuron circuit coupled to the excitatory active memristor neuron circuit and coupled to the inhibitory active memristor neuron circuit. |
| US11238334B2 |
System and method of input alignment for efficient vector operations in an artificial neural network
A novel and useful system and method of input alignment for streamlining vector operations that reduce the required memory read bandwidth. The input aligner as deployed in the NN processor, functions to facilitate the reuse of data read from memory and to avoid having to re-read that data in the context of neural network calculations. The input aligner functions to distribute input data (or weights) to the appropriate compute elements while consuming input data in a single cycle. Thus, the input aligner is operative to lower the required read bandwidth of layer input in an ANN. This reflects the fact that normally in practice, a vector multiplication is performed every time instance. This considers the fact that in many native calculations that take place in an ANN, the same data point is involved in multiple calculations. |
| US11238333B2 |
STDP with synaptic fatigue for learning of spike-time-coded patterns in the presence of parallel rate-coding
A circuit implementing a spiking neural network that includes a learning component that can learn from temporal correlations in the spikes regardless of correlations in the rates. In some embodiments, the learning component comprises a rate-discounting component. In some embodiments, the learning rule computes a rate-normalized covariance (normcov) matrix, detects clusters in this matrix, and sets the synaptic weights according to these clusters. In some embodiments, a synapse with a long-term plasticity rule has an efficacy that is composed by a weight and a fatiguing component. In some embodiments, A Hebbian plasticity component modifies the weight component and a short-term fatigue plasticity component modifies the fatiguing component. The fatigue component increases with increases in the presynaptic spike rate. In some embodiments, the fatigue component increases are implemented in a spike-based manner. In some embodiments, the Hebbian plasticity is a spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), resulting in a fatiguing STDP (FSTDP) synapse. |
| US11238331B2 |
System and method for augmenting an existing artificial neural network
A novel and useful augmented artificial neural network (ANN) incorporating an existing artificial neural network (ANN) coupled to a supplemental ANN and a first-in first-out (FIFO) stack for storing historical output values of the network. The augmented ANN exploits the redundant nature of information present in an input data stream. The addition of the supplemental ANN along with a FIFO enables the augmented network to look back into the past in making a decision for the current frame. It provides context aware object presence as well as lowers the rate of false detections and misdetections. The output of the existing ANN is stored in a FIFO to create a lookahead system in which both past output values of the supplemental ANN and ‘future’ values of the output of the existing ANN are used in making a decision for the current frame. In addition, the mechanism does not require retraining the entire neural network nor does it require data set labeling. |
| US11238327B2 |
Leveraging channel diversity in wireless power and communication
A radio frequency identification (RFID) system. An RFID tag may include multiple antennas connected with associated circuitry. An RFID tag's multiple antennas and associated circuitry are connected in parallel, and output power of the multiple associated circuitry can be combined. Each of the multiple antennas can be tuned for a different operating property or region. An RFID reader can include multiple antennas connected with associated circuitry. RFID reader's multiple antenna interfaces connect with a baseband processor, which can integrate resources of the reader's multiple antennas and associated circuitry. RFID tag and/or reader can be configured to support wireless channel diversity in enhancing at least one of power delivery and communication link budget. |
| US11238326B2 |
Information card object counter
The apparatus may include a microprocessor. In electronic communication with the microprocessor there may be a memory cell. In electronic communication with the microprocessor there may be a light source circuit. In electronic communication with the microprocessor there may be a camera circuit. In electronic communication with the microprocessor there may be a nano light-emitting diode display circuit. Stored in the memory cell there may be image-processing instructions. Stored in the memory cell there may be light-source control instructions. The memory cell; the light source circuit; the camera circuit; and the nano light-emitting diode display circuit may be embedded in an information card. The instructions may be configured to cause the microprocessor to count objects set in motion by a user. The motion may be a motion of manually flicked objects. |
| US11238325B2 |
Synthetic standardized wave identifiers for representing and classifying entities
A method of identifying data items by wave blocks, each wave block comprising a set of unique features distinguishable from the unique features of other wave blocks. The unique features of the wave blocks are extracted and stored. A plurality of wave tags are defined, each comprising a set wave blocks. A mapping of the set of wave blocks to each wave tag is stored. A request for a wave tag to identify a data item is received and a wave tag is assigned to the data item. The wave tag is broadcasted and is captured by a capturing device, which extracts the unique features of the wave blocks. The wave tag is identified by comparing the extracted features of the wave blocks with the stored features of the plurality of wave blocks. The data item is identified from the mapping of the data item to the wave tag. |
| US11238324B1 |
RFID device with two-stage power harvesting
Disclosed is a method of gathering data from a hybrid RFID chip to determine usage of an item or article of clothing using a mobile device like a phone, laptop, or tablet. The hybrid RFID chip consists of a processor, a memory, a radio transceiver, a power harvesting antenna, and an impedance circuit that converts ambient radio frequency (RF) energy to electrical energy. The RFID chip receives a first power level from ambient RF energy and periodically broadcasts an identity. The mobile device can receive the broadcast identity, store the identity, transmit the identity and location to a remote server, and receive a notification message from the remote server. The remote serve can determine usage of the item or article of clothing by comparing current records to previous records of RFID chip identity, location, and mobile device application identity. |
| US11238319B2 |
Method and control unit for detecting a region of interest
A method for a vehicle includes determining a region of interest based on environment sensor data corresponding an environment of the vehicle and a machine-learned predictor configured to identify, within the environment sensor data, a region as the region of interest that at least statistically coincides with a line of sight of an occupant of the vehicle. The method also includes classifying a detected object within the determined region of interest using an object detection algorithm. The method also includes operating the vehicle in based on at least one of the detected object and the determined region of interest. |
| US11238308B2 |
Entropic clustering of objects
An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to map a collection of data into two or more mathematical graph representations of the data based on a configurable set of rules that one of preserves or enhances relationships or properties of the data, and organize the two or more graph representations into two or more clusters of data based on graph information entropy and one or more parameters. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. |
| US11238306B2 |
Generating vector representations of code capturing semantic similarity
A method, system and computer program product for obtaining vector representations of code snippets capturing semantic similarity. A first and second training set of code snippets are collected, where the first training set of code snippets implements the same function representing semantic similarity and the second training set of code snippets implements a different function representing semantic dissimilarity. A vector representation of a first and second code snippet from either the first or second training set of code snippets is generated using a machine learning model. A loss value is generated utilizing a loss function that is proportional or inverse to the distance between the first and second vectors in response to receiving the first and second code snippets from the first or second training set of code snippets, respectively. The machine learning model is trained to capture the semantic similarity in the code snippets by minimizing the loss value. |
| US11238298B2 |
Item tracking using a dynamic region of interest
Systems, devices, and methods for monitoring items in a defined physical area can include a primary camera configured to detect a region of interest within a defined physical area and the coordinates of the region of interest in the defined physical area. A plurality of secondary cameras can positioned throughout a defined physical area. One of the secondary cameras can be selected to capture an image of a region of interest based on the coordinates of the region of interest. |
| US11238297B1 |
Increasing robustness of computer vision systems to rotational variation in images
In one implementation, a method includes: obtaining an input image, wherein the input image is captured by an image sensor having a rotational orientation with respect to a direction of gravity; obtaining a gravity direction estimation associated with the rotational orientation of the sensor; generating, from the input image, a rotationally preprocessed input image by applying one or more transformations to the input image based on the gravity direction estimation; providing the rotationally preprocessed input image to the machine learning sub-system; and identifying, using the machine learning sub-system, a visual feature within the rotationally preprocessed input image. |
| US11238295B2 |
Distributed processing of a digital image
Processing a digital image in a distributed computing environment comprising a communications network interconnecting two or more computing nodes. A segmentation of the digital image into two or more image segments is determined. For each of the image segments, a number of non-background pixels comprised by the image segment is determined. An assignment of each of the image segments to one of the computing nodes is determined. The determination of the assignment may include balancing, based on the number of non-background pixels determined for each of the image segments, the workload of the assigned computing nodes responsive to processing the image segments. Each of the assigned computing nodes may be caused to process the image segments assigned to the computing node. |
| US11238294B2 |
Enrollment with an automated assistant
Techniques are described herein for dialog-based enrollment of individual users for single- and/or multi-modal recognition by an automated assistant, as well as determining how to respond to a particular user's request based on the particular user being enrolled and/or recognized. Rather than requiring operation of a graphical user interface for individual enrollment, dialog-based enrollment enables users to enroll themselves (or others) by way of a human-to-computer dialog with the automated assistant. |
| US11238292B2 |
Systems and methods for determining the direction of an object in an image
In one embodiment, a system for determining the direction of objects in an image is provided. An image is received from a camera associated with a vehicle. The image is processed to identify an object, such as another vehicle. To determine the direction the object is traveling, the image is provided as input to a machine learning algorithm that outputs a direction of the detected object based at least in part on a training dataset including a plurality of images annotated to include respective direction information determined based at least in part on a plurality of 3D models set to aligned orientations that are significantly aligned with orientations of objects captured in the plurality of images. The objects and their associated directions can be provided to one or more autonomous vehicle functions, such as hazard detection or navigation. |
| US11238289B1 |
Automatic lie detection method and apparatus for interactive scenarios, device and medium
An automatic lie detection method and apparatus for interactive scenarios, a device and a medium to improve the accuracy of automatic lie detection are provided. The method includes: segmenting three modalities, namely a video, an audio and a text, of a to-be-detected sample; extracting short-term features of the three modalities; integrating the short-term features of the three modalities in the to-be-detected sample to obtain long-term features of the three modalities corresponding to each dialogue; integrating the long-term features of the three modalities by a self-attention mechanism to obtain a multi-modal feature of the each dialogue; integrating the multi-modal feature of the each dialogue with interactive information by a graph neutral network to obtain a multi-modal feature integrated with the interactive information; and predicting a lie level of the each dialogue according to the multi-modal feature integrated with the interactive information. |
| US11238287B2 |
Systems and methods for automated content curation using signature analysis
Systems and methods are described herein for curating content that follows a narrative structure. A narrative structure comprises narrative portions that have a defined order. Signature analysis of known content that follows the narrative structure is used to train machine learning models for the narrative structure and the narrative portions that make up the narrative structure. Signature analysis of candidate content segments, along with machine learning models for the narrative portions, are used to identify candidate content segments that match the respective narrative portions. A candidate playlist is generated of the identified candidate content segments in the defined order. In one embodiment, the machine learning model for the narrative structure is used to validate the generated playlist. |
| US11238286B2 |
Automatically detecting contents expressing emotions from a video and enriching an image index
The present disclosure provides method, apparatus and system for detecting contents expressing emotions from a video. The method may comprise: dividing the video into a plurality of clips; extracting, from a first clip and at least one second clip of the plurality of clips, features associated with the first clip; determining whether the first clip expresses emotions based on the features associated with the first clip; and building an index containing the first clip based on the features associated with the first clip if the first clip expresses emotions. |
| US11238283B2 |
Hybrid vision system for crop land navigation
In an embodiment, autonomous vehicles with global positioning systems (GPS) are used for field inspection to reduce fuel and labor costs and improve reliability with increased consistency in field crop inspection. A vehicle may be programmed to traverse a field while using sensors to detect objects and operating in a first image capture mode, for example, capturing low-resolution images of objects in the field, typically crops. Under program control, machine vision techniques are used with the low-resolution images to recognize crops, non-crop plant material or undefined objects. Under program control, location data is used to correlate recognized objects with digitally stored field maps to resolve whether a particular object is in a location at which crop planting is expected or not expected. Under program control, depending on whether an object in a low-resolution digital image is recognized as a crop, and whether the object is in an expected geo-location for crops, the vehicle may cease traversing temporarily and switch to a second image capture mode, for example, capturing a high-resolution image of the object, for use in disease analysis or classification, weed analysis or classification, alert notifications or other messages, or other processing. In this manner, a field may be rapidly traversed and imaged using coarse-level, rapid techniques that require lower processing resources, storage or memory, while automatically switching to execute special processing only when necessary to resolve unexpected objects or to perform operations such as disease classification that benefit from high-resolution images and more intensive use of processing resources, storage or memory. |
| US11238279B2 |
Method for generating plural information using camera to sense plural wave bandwidth and apparatus thereof
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a first light emitter comprising first light emitting circuitry configured to output light of a first wave bandwidth, a second light emitter comprising second light emitting circuitry configured to output light of a second wave bandwidth, a camera including an image sensor configured to arrange one or more first pixels for sensing the light corresponding to the first wave bandwidth and the second wave bandwidth and one or more second pixels for sensing the light corresponding to the second wave bandwidth, and a processor. The processor may be configured to control the electronic device to output the first wave bandwidth light using a first light source and the second wave bandwidth light using a second light source, and a control circuit electrically coupled to the image sensor and connected to an application processor through a designated interface. The control circuit may be configured to obtain image data of an external object using the camera from the first wave bandwidth light and the second wave bandwidth light reflected from the external object, to generate first image data of the external object using a difference between first pixel data corresponding to the one or more first pixels and second pixel data corresponding to the one or more second pixels of the image data, to generate second image data of the external object by binning the second pixel data corresponding to the one or more second pixels of the image data, and to transmit the first image data and the second image data to the processor through the designated interface, wherein the processor is configured to generate authentication information based on the first image data and to generate depth information using the second image data. |
| US11238277B2 |
Systems and methods for document image analysis with cardinal graph convolutional networks
Systems and methods for processing documents based on a cardinal graph convolution network by generating cardinal graph representations representing words as single nodes with edges connected between neighbouring nodes in four cardinal directions. Features tensors are generated for nodes of the cardinal graph representation and the cardinal directions are encoded to generate an adjacency tensor having node neighbour indices. Entries of the adjacency tensor are transformed into a one-hot encoding of the node neighbour indices. Neighbourhood feature tensors are created over node indices and the features in each block may be scaled, convolved and reduced into new feature tensors. |
| US11238274B2 |
Image feature extraction method for person re-identification
An image feature extraction method for person re-identification includes performing person re-identification by means of aligned local descriptor extraction and graded global feature extraction; performing the aligned local descriptor extraction by processing an original image by affine transformation and performing a summation pooling operation on image block features of same regions to obtain an aligned local descriptor; reserving spatial information between inner blocks of the image for the aligned local descriptor; and performing the graded global feature extraction by grading a positioned pedestrian region block and solving a corresponding feature mean value to obtain a global feature. The method can resolve the problem of feature misalignment caused by posture changes of pedestrian, etc., and eliminate the effect of unrelated backgrounds on re-recognition, thus improving the precision and robustness of person re-identification. |
| US11238272B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting face image
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for detecting a face image, electronic device, and computer readable medium. The method may include: performing facial keypoint detection on an image frame containing a face object; segmenting a center face area image and an entire face area image of a target face object from the image frame based on a facial keypoint detection result; performing head pose estimation respectively based on the center face area image and the entire face area image; and generating a detection result on whether the target face object contained in the image frame is a fake face object based on a difference between a piece of first head pose information estimated based on the center face area image and a piece of second head pose information estimated based on the entire face area image. |
| US11238271B2 |
Detecting artificial facial images using facial landmarks
A method and a device for classifying facial images includes retrieving a first plurality of facial landmarks of a provided facial image associated with a subject, determining a corresponding second plurality of facial landmarks of a captured facial image of the subject, and extracting at least one feature vector based on differences between at least some of the first plurality of facial landmarks and corresponding facial landmarks of the second plurality of facial landmarks, wherein at least some values of the at least one feature vector represent angular values of facial landmarks, and supplying the at least one feature vector to a classifier to classify the provided facial image as a real facial image of the subject or as an artificial facial image. |
| US11238263B2 |
Display device and electronic device including fingerprint sensor units
The present disclosure provides a display device and an electronic device. The display device includes a substrate, a pixel circuitry, a first light emitting unit, a fingerprint sensor circuitry, and a fingerprint sensor unit. The pixel circuitry and the first light emitting unit are disposed on the substrate, and the first light emitting unit is driven by the pixel circuitry. The fingerprint sensor circuitry and the fingerprint sensor unit are disposed on the substrate, and the fingerprint sensor unit is driven by the fingerprint sensor circuitry. The first light emitting unit overlaps with at least a portion of the fingerprint sensor circuitry in a top view direction of the display device. |
| US11238262B2 |
Fingerprint identification module and display device
The present application relates to a fingerprint identification module and a display device. The fingerprint identification module includes: a first lens assembly; a second lens assembly with a primary optical axis not parallel to a primary optical axis of the first lens assembly; a reflecting mirror assembly, including a reflecting mirror and a rotating shaft coupled to the reflecting mirror, wherein the rotating shaft can drive the reflecting mirror to rotate, and the reflecting mirror includes a reflecting surface; and a light-sensitive element located at a light exiting side of the second lens assembly. The first lens assembly converges fingerprint-reflected light and projects the fingerprint-reflected light onto the reflecting surface, the reflecting surface reflects the fingerprint-reflected light to the second lens assembly, the second lens assembly converges the fingerprint-reflected light to the light-sensitive element, the light-sensitive element converts the fingerprint-reflected light into an electrical signal to identify fingerprint information. |
| US11238256B2 |
Display device including photosensor units
A display deice is provided including a substrate. The substrate includes a display region that includes a plurality of pixels and a sensing region provided in at least one region of the display region. A circuit element layer is disposed on the substrate, the circuit element layer includes a plurality of conductive layers. A light emitting element layer is provided on the circuit element layer. The light emitting element layer includes a plurality of light emitting elements. A sensor layer is disposed on the substrate. The sensor layer includes a plurality of photo sensor units each including sensor pixels. The photo sensor units are arranged in an irregular pattern in the sensing region. |
| US11238255B2 |
Method, device, and system for generating, repairing, and identifying an incomplete QR code
The security of a QR code is substantially increased by removing an alignment pattern and/or a position detection pattern from a complete QR code to form an incomplete QR code. A complete QR code can be regenerated from the incomplete QR code with the proper imaging angle to the incomplete QR code. A malicious operator is unlikely to be able to obtain the proper imaging angle and is thereby unable to reconstruct a complete QR code from the incomplete QR code. |
| US11238254B2 |
Apparatus and methods for electronic content presentation based on barcode scans
A code scanning system is disclosed. The system may include a computing device, a web server, and a scanning device. The scanning device may scan a code, such as a quick response (QR) code, and in response, the scanning device executes a scanning action, such as directing a web browser to a website hosted by the web server. The website may include various user actions. The computing device provides a software platform that allows for the configuration of scanning actions and user actions. For example, each code may be associated with a client of the software platform, where the software platform allows the client to select and/or configure scanning actions that are executed by the scanning device when a code is scanned, such as being directed to the website. The software platform may also allow for the configuration of user actions that are provided on the website. |
| US11238253B2 |
Scanning device with ergonomic features
Examples disclosed herein provide a scanning device with ergonomic features. As an example, the scanning device includes a rear housing section, a grip housing section, and a lower housing section, all coupled to each other. The rear housing section includes a trigger disposed on an end of the rear housing section, for activating the scanning device. A perimeter of the grip housing section includes the ergonomic features, and an end of the lower housing section opposite from the end of the rear housing section includes an optical scanner. |
| US11238250B1 |
System controlled by data bearing records
A system controlled responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records is operative to cause vehicle parts usable to repair or upgrade vehicles to be determined and furnished. Data from the vehicle such as data read by a reader from a tag associated with a vehicle is used to determine vehicle identifying data. A repair estimate calculation circuit (RECC) operates responsive to the read data to produce a needed parts record (NPR). The records produced by the RECC are operative to cause a vehicle repair entity (VRE) to be furnished the vehicle repair or upgrade parts. |
| US11238247B2 |
RFID tag and reader
A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and reader system including an array of circular resonators with interdigitated capacitor fingers wherein the fingers of each pair are radially aligned and bars disposed between the resonators to reduce coupling between adjacent resonators, wherein subsets of the resonators resonate at respective different resonant frequencies, and the resonators of each of the subsets have the same resonant frequency; and the radio frequency response produced by the tag at a resonant frequency varies depending on the activation of resonators of the subset corresponding to the resonant frequency. |
| US11238244B2 |
Translating transaction descriptions using machine learning
A method may include generating a source transaction description, encoding, by an encoder model of a machine translation model executing on a computer processor, the source transaction description to create a context vector, decoding, by a decoder model of the machine translation model, the context vector to predict a target entity description, generating a transaction including the target entity description, detecting an acceptance, by a user, of an action performed on the transaction, in response to detecting the acceptance, updating a translation accuracy metric for the target entity description, determining that the updated translation accuracy metric satisfies a translation accuracy criterion, and in response to determining that the updated translation accuracy metric satisfies the translation accuracy criterion, adding the target entity description to golden entity descriptions. |
| US11238242B2 |
Generating output for presentation in response to user interface input, where the input and/or the output include chatspeak
Some implementations are directed to translating chatspeak to a normalized form, where the chatspeak is included in natural language input formulated by a user via a user interface input device of a computing device—such as input provided by the user to an automated assistant. The normalized form of the chatspeak may be utilized by the automated assistant in determining reply content that is responsive to the natural language input, and that reply content may be presented to the user via one or more user interface output devices of the computing device of the user. Some implementations are additionally and/or alternatively directed to providing, for presentation to a user, natural language output that includes chatspeak in lieu of a normalized form of the chatspeak, based at least in part on a “chatspeak measure” that is determined based on past usage of chatspeak by the user and/or by additional users. |
| US11238240B2 |
Semantic map generation from natural-language-text documents
A computer-implemented process includes obtaining a natural-language-text document comprising a first and second clause and determining first and second embedding sequences based on n-grams of the first and second clauses. The process includes generating data model objects based on the embedding sequences and determining an association between the first data model object and the second data model object based on a shared parameter of the first and second clauses. The process includes receiving a query including the first category and the first n-gram and causing a presentation of a visualization of data model objects that includes shapes based on the data model objects and a third shape based on the association between the first data model object and the second data model object. |
| US11238239B2 |
In-call experience enhancement for assistant systems
In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a video call between multiple client systems while persistently maintaining access to an assistant system during the video call. A request to be performed by the assistant system during the video call may then be received from a first client system; this request may reference one or more second users in the video call. An intent of the request and one or more user identifiers of these one or more second users referenced by the request may be determined, and the assistant system may be instructed to execute the request based on the determined intent and user identifiers. Finally, a response to the request may be sent to one more of the multiple client systems while maintaining the video call between these client systems. |
| US11238237B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting data associated with an environment and for generating a description of the environment
Systems and methods for detecting data associated with an environment and for generating a description of the environment are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system includes multiple electronic devices each being configured to detect data associated with an environment. The system also includes a computing device configured to receive the detected data from the electronic devices. Further, the computing device is configured to determine one or more characteristics of the environment based on the detected data. The computing device is also configured to generate a description of the environment based on the determined one or more characteristics. |
| US11238235B2 |
Automated novel concept extraction in natural language processing
From a natural language document using a natural language concept analyzer, a set of natural language input concepts is extracted. Using a query generation model, a query corresponding to the set of natural language input concepts is generated. From a set of natural language results using the natural language concept analyzer, a set of natural language output concepts is extracted, a result in the set of natural language results comprising a portion of narrative text within a natural language corpus, the result identified by searching the natural language corpus using the query. Using the set of natural language input concepts and the set of natural language output concepts, a novelty concept is scored, the scored novelty concept comprising a degree to which a natural language input concept in the set of natural language input concepts is external to a boundary defined by the set of natural language output concepts. |
| US11238234B2 |
Adjusting a verbosity of a conversation turn
In one general aspect, a computer-implemented method includes identifying current choices with different verbosity levels for a current turn in a conversation; normalizing multi-dimensional verbosity vectors for each of the current choices to obtain a normalized value for each of the current choices; determining a state definition for the current turn in the conversation, utilizing the normalized values for each of the current choices; providing the state definition for the current turn in the conversation and the normalized values for each of the current choices to a trained reinforcement learning module; receiving, from the trained reinforcement learning module, a score associated with each of the current choices for the current turn in the conversation; and selecting one of the current choices to be entered for the current turn in the conversation, based on the score associated with each of the current choices for the current turn in the conversation. |
| US11238229B2 |
System and method for use of semantic understanding in storage, searching and providing of data or other content information
A system and method for using semantic understanding in storing and searching data and other information. A linearized tuple-based version of a conceptual graph can be created from a user input. A plurality of conceptual graphs, or portions thereof, can be compared to determine matches. An associative database can be created and/or searched using a hierarchy of conceptual graphs in tuple format, so that the data storage and searching of such database is optimized. The associative database can be used to integrate data from multiple different sources; form part of an Internet or other search engine; or used in other implementations. Also disclosed herein is a system and method for use of semantic understanding in searching and providing of content is described herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a Syntactic Parser (SP) or statistical word tokenizer for data retrieval and parsing; a Syntax To Semantics (STS) transformational algebra-based semantic rule set, and an Associative Database (ADB) of linearized tuple conceptual graphs (TCG), utilizing a conceptual graph formalism. Data can be represented within the ADB, enabling both fast data retrieval in the form of semantic objects and a broad ranging taxonomy of content. |
| US11238227B2 |
Word lattice augmentation for automatic speech recognition
Speech processing techniques are disclosed that enable determining a text representation of named entities in captured audio data. Various implementations include determining the location of a carrier phrase in a word lattice representation of the captured audio data, where the carrier phrase provides an indication of a named entity. Additional or alternative implementations include matching a candidate named entity with the portion of the word lattice, and augmenting the word lattice with the matched candidate named entity. |
| US11238225B2 |
Reading difficulty level based resource recommendation
Examples associated with reading difficulty level based resource recommendation are disclosed. One example may involve instructions stored on a computer readable medium. The instructions, when executed on a computer, may cause the computer to obtain a set of candidate resources related to a source document. The candidate resources may be obtained based on content extracted from the source document. The instructions may also cause the computer to identify reading difficulty levels of members of the set of candidate resources. The instructions may also cause the computer to recommend a selected candidate resource to a user. The selected candidate resource may be recommended based on subject matter similarity between the selected candidate resource and the source document. The selected candidate resource may also be recommended based on reading difficulty level similarity between the selected candidate resource and the source document. |
| US11238223B2 |
Systems and methods for intelligently predicting accurate combinations of values presentable in data fields
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing an interface that displays a prediction of remaining code segments of a code comprised of a sequence of code segments. The remaining code segments may be automatically predicted in response to the interface receiving a user's input of at least a portion of a code segment (or a user input of other data elements that are not code segments). Predicting the remaining code segments may be performed using a trained machine-learning model that can generate output(s) predictive of remaining code segments in response to a user inputting at least one code segment of a code into an input element of the interface. |
| US11238222B2 |
Dual monolingual cross-entropy-delta filtering of noisy parallel data
Sentence pairs can be filtered using dual monolingual cross-entropy-delta filtering. The filtered sentence pairs can be used to train a model for performing a language processing task, such as machine translation. |
| US11238220B1 |
Dynamic user interface framework
In one example, a method for generating a dynamic user interface may include the use of a user interface design framework including metadata templates, user interface interpreters, and viewing technology to enable a dynamic user interface generation and output. In some examples, the user interface design framework may include electronic operations implemented at servers and clients for parsing a definition for a user interface in a first markup language (such as XML), implementing features of a selected view technology (such as JSF or HTML5) for generation of the user interface output, and generating the user interface output in the second markup language (such as HTML and associated JavaScript scripting) according to the selected view technology. |
| US11238218B2 |
Platform interpretation of user input converted into standardized input
Disclosed herein is a platform for translating various user input into a standardized input used to cause a database to sort data in a specified manner and present the data in a graphic user interface according to user instruction. User input is a text string that includes a first set of characters and a second set of characters split by a dividing symbol. Based on the choice of dividing symbol and the arrangement of the first set of character and second set of characters the system converts the input into a standardized form. |
| US11238217B2 |
Task based self exploration of cognitive systems
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product are provided. A computing system receives natural language first textual input from a second computing system and performs natural language processing. The natural language processing identifies vagueness and missing information in the first textual input. Additional information is obtained from at least one source responsive to identifying at least one of the vagueness and the missing information. The identified vagueness and the missing information are resolved based on the obtained additional information and a meaning of the first textual input is determined. Output is provided to the second computing system for presentation to a user. |
| US11238211B2 |
Automatic hyperlinking of documents
A system may use a machine-learned model to determine whether to classify a sequence of one or more words within a first document that is being edited as a candidate hyperlink based at least in part on context associated with the first document. In response to classifying the sequence of one or more words as the candidate hyperlink, the system may use the machine-learned model and based at least in part on the sequence of one or more words and the context to determine one or more candidate document to be hyperlinked from the sequence of one or more words. In response to receiving an indication of a second document being selected out of the one or more candidate documents, the system may modify the first document to associate the sequence of one or more words with a hyperlink to the second document. |
| US11238210B2 |
Generating and presenting customized information cards
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for generating and presenting customized information cards. In some implementations, an indication of a data set is received. Data indicating a selection of an element of the data set is received. An indication of items in the data set that are associated with the selected element is received. Data is received indicating a selection of one or more of the items that are associated with the selected element of the data set. Card data defining an information card for the selected element of the data set is stored. The card definition data can indicate the selected one or more items and a reference to the data set. |
| US11238208B2 |
Methods for optical proximity correction and methods of fabricating semiconductor device using the same
A semiconductor device fabrication method includes providing a layout; performing an optical proximity correction on the layout to generate a corrected layout; and forming a photoresist pattern on a substrate by using a photomask fabricated with the corrected layout. The OPC may include: extracting edges of a pattern, the edges including a first edge and a second edge that converge to define a corner; generating a thin mask image by applying a thin mask approximation to the pattern; changing the first edge and the second edge into a first stepped edge and a second stepped edge; and applying a three-dimensional filter to the first and second stepped edges to generate an optical image including the corrected layout of the pattern to which the 3D filter is applied from the thin mask image. |
| US11238207B2 |
Method and system for fabricating integrated circuit with aid of programmable circuit synthesis
A method for fabricating an integrated circuit is provided. The method includes: receiving a cell schematic of a unit cell of the integrated circuit; when an intrinsic gain of a transistor of the unit cell falls outside a predetermined range of gain values, revising a set of parameter values for a set of size parameters of the unit cell in the cell schematic, wherein the intrinsic gain of the transistor of the unit cell characterized by the revised set of parameter values falls within the predetermined range of gain values; generating a cell layout of the unit cell according to the cell schematic indicating the revised set of parameter values for the set of size parameters; and fabricating the integrated circuit according to the cell layout of the unit cell. |
| US11238205B1 |
Circuit grouping systems and methods
Installation of electrical systems can require a large amount of branch circuits that can lead to a labeling degeneracy that can require a customized on-site tagging step to identify each conductor to be installed, or cause technicians to install additional circuit housing runs to circumvent the degeneracy. Circuit grouping systems and methods, and circuit installation methods, are disclosed herein that prevent such inefficiencies. |
| US11238203B2 |
Systems and methods for accessing storage-as-memory
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to systems, devices, and methods for accessing storage-as-memory. Embodiments include a microprocessor including a microprocessor system agent and a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The FPGA including an FPGA system agent to process memory access requests received from the microprocessor system agent across a communications link; a memory controller communicatively coupled to the system agent; and a high speed serial interface to link the system agent with a storage system. Embodiments can also include a storage device connected to the FPGA by the high speed serial interface. |
| US11238196B2 |
Method and system for predicting surface contact fatigue life
A system and method for determining surface contact fatigue life may use a finite element method to determine when components, such as a power transmission component, may fail in operation. The method may generate a finite element model based on the material parameters related to a power transmission component, generate a surface pressure time history for a loading event based on one or more loading parameters, determine, based on the surface pressure time history for a loading event, a finite element solution that describes stress in the grain structure, calculate damage in the finite element solution using a damage model, and determine whether a damage threshold is exceeded. |
| US11238195B2 |
Configuring resistance spot welding setup based on numerical simulation results
FEA model representing a RSW setup is defined and received in a computer system. The FEA model contains multiple solid elements representing a pair of electrodes and two workpieces. Numerically-calculated heat-power distributions and structural behaviors of the workpieces are obtained by conducting a time-marching simulation using FEA model with a set of time-dependent electrode forces and corresponding set of time-dependent electrical current. An overlapped contact area and corresponding contact center between first and second element contact faces of each of the solid element pairs in contact are determined. Respective elemental coordinates of the contact center in the first and second element contact faces are calculated. Augmented terms for Joule heating effects are added to the overall stiffness matrix for obtaining Joule heat rate power at each contact center, which is then distributed to respective corner nodes of the first and second element contact faces according to respective elemental coordinates. |
| US11238193B2 |
System and method for photovoltaic system configuration specification inferrence with the aid of a digital computer
A photovoltaic system's configuration specification can be inferred by an evaluative process that searches through a space of candidate values for the variables in the specification. Each variable is selected in a specific ordering that narrows the field of candidate values. A constant horizon is assumed to account for diffuse irradiance insensitive to specific obstruction locations relative to the photovoltaic system's geographic location. Initial values for the azimuth angle, constant horizon obstruction elevation angle, and tilt angle are determined, followed by final values for these variables. The effects of direct obstructions that block direct irradiance in the areas where the actual horizon and the range of sun path values overlap relative to the geographic location are evaluated to find the exact obstruction elevation angle over a range of azimuth bins or directions. The photovoltaic temperature response coefficient and the inverter rating or power curve of the photovoltaic system are determined. |
| US11238191B2 |
Simulation program, simulation method, and simulation apparatus
A simulation method is performed by a computer by using an agent disposed in a virtual space. The method includes: controlling the agent so that the agent behaves in the virtual space under influence of each of a plurality of signs disposed in the virtual space; and determining the influence of each of the plurality of signs on the agent in accordance with an attribute relating to a display mode of the sign and an attribute of the agent. |
| US11238176B1 |
System and methods for privacy management
Exemplary privacy management platforms are described herein. Such platforms may be embodied in systems, computer-implemented methods, apparatuses and/or software applications. The described privacy management platform may be configured to scan identity, primary and/or secondary data sources in order to provide users with visibility into stored personal information, risk associated with storing such information and usage activity relating to such information. The platform may correlate personal information to specific data subjects to provide an indexed inventory across multiple data sources. |
| US11238173B2 |
Automated intelligent provisioning of data storage resources in response to user requests in a data storage management system
A data storage management system comprises enhanced capabilities for automatically discovering operational characteristics of data storage devices installed in the system. A user interface enables end-users to submit requests for storage resources ranging from a simple request for a certain amount of storage space to more complex requests that specify the type of storage technology, the manufacturer, the I/O speed of the storage device, etc. The end-user also may include an expiration timeframe for the requested storage space. The system identifies storage devices that are suitable to the end-user's request, automatically provisions the storage space (e.g., LUN), and assigns it to the requestor. The assigned storage space may automatically expire, based on user-requested or system-provided expiration timeframes. Expired storage space is returned to a logical pool of available resources so that it may be assigned in response to other requests. The system comprises special-purpose policies that govern which data storage devices may be used for users submitting requests and further specify other administrative constraints. |
| US11238172B2 |
Managing user access to data of a social media account
Managing user access to data of a social media account, by providing a first user with access to data of a social media account of a second user based on determining that a first data access request by the first user conforms to an expected data access pattern. |
| US11238166B2 |
Data processing device and operating method therefor
Data processing device, in particular, for a control unit, the data processing device including at least one computing device, a memory device, a hardware security module and at least one cryptography module. |
| US11238162B1 |
Method for systematically and objectively assessing system security risk
A method for developing an information system specification includes: performing, from a design specification for an information system having a functional and structural component, an information assurance component and an anti-tamper component, a trust analysis identifying which components of the information system the information system must trust to enforce a security policy and providing a trust score; performing for each system element in the information system a trustworthiness assessment and providing a trustworthiness score; performing mitigation to reduce a trust gap as determined from the trust score and the trustworthiness score; performing a vulnerability assessment to identify residual vulnerabilities determined from the vulnerability assessment; mitigating the residual vulnerabilities by designing preventive and reactive countermeasures to reduce the number of residual vulnerabilities; designing and applying anti-tamper techniques to cyber RCPI to ensure countermeasure effectiveness; assessing the countermeasures applied to the information system; assessing the security risk associated with the remaining residual vulnerabilities to determine if such residual vulnerabilities are acceptable to protect critical data and technology in the information system; and changing and updating system requirements for the information system as required by the designing preventive and reactive countermeasures step and the designing and applying anti-tamper techniques step. |
| US11238147B2 |
Methods and systems for verifying applications
An application installed on a user device (e.g., a mobile device, a smart device, a communication device, a computing device, etc.) may be used to validate, authenticate, and/or authorize another application installed on and/or associated with the user device. |
| US11238143B2 |
Method and system for authenticating a user on a wearable heads-up display
A method of operating a wearable heads-up display that in use is worn on a head of a user includes generating an infrared light, scanning the infrared light over an eye of the user, detecting reflections of infrared light from the eye of the user, and extracting test biometric identification data from at least a portion of the detected reflections and corresponding scan orientations. A similarity measure between the test biometric identification data and reference biometric identification data associated with the wearable heads-up display is determined. The user is authenticated based on the similarity measure. |
| US11238139B2 |
Methods for securely storing sensitive data on mobile device
Methods and systems for protecting sensitive data and applications on a mobile device. In an embodiment, a mobile device processor of a mobile device downloads, from a digital wallet server computer, a mobile wallet application including a white box software development kit (SDK) which includes code protection processes, then obfuscates, by running the code protection processes of the white box SDK, consumer financial data and consumer authentication data and stores the obfuscated consumer financial data and consumer authentication data in a regular memory of the mobile device. The process also includes protecting, by the mobile device processor running the white box SDK, sensitive applications stored in the regular memory which execute during a transaction from attack, and re-obfuscating, by the mobile device processor, at least one of the consumer financial data and the consumer authentication data according to a predetermined time interval. |
| US11238138B1 |
Systems and methods to facilitate authorization key obfuscation validation
A device for validating authorization key obfuscation in a continuous integration (CI) pipeline codebase is presented. The device comprises a transceiver, one or more memories, and one or more processors interfacing with the transceiver and the one or more memories. The one or more processors are configured to receive an update to the CI pipeline codebase. The update may include an authorization key, which the one or more processors store in the one or more memories. The one or more processors may perform a build process to integrate the update into the CI pipeline codebase. The build process may include an obfuscation, which creates an obfuscated CI pipeline codebase. The one or more processors may also scan the obfuscated CI pipeline codebase to determine a presence or an absence of the authorization key. |
| US11238135B2 |
License authentication method in wireless access point, wireless access point apparatus performing said license authentication, license activation method in client apparatus, and client apparatus interworking with wireless access point
One aspect of the present invention discloses a license authentication method in a wireless access point (AP). The method comprises receiving a license authentication request including license information from a client; calculating a distance of the client from the wireless access point in response to the received license authentication request; based on the calculated distance, determining whether the client exists within a range of allowed positions for license authentication related to license location information for allowing authentication of a license included in the license information; and determining whether to authenticate in response to the license authentication request based on the determination result. |
| US11238133B1 |
Systems and methods for monitoring use of and ensuring continuity of functionality of insulin infusion pumps, glucose monitors, and other diabetes treatment equipment
A personal diabetes equipment management system can include at least one diabetes treatment device adapted for use with one or more disposable diabetes devices; a remote server system including an inventory database identifying operational diabetes treatment devices and operational disposable diabetes devices in the possession of a user; and a controller in communication with (i) the at least one diabetes treatment device over a first network connection and (ii) the remote server system over a second network connection, the controller adapted to automatically detect use of the at least one diabetes treatment device and determine an operational condition for the diabetes treatment device or the one or more disposable diabetes treatment devices based on information received from the at least one diabetes treatment device over the first network connection, the controller transmitting update information to the remote server system over the second network connection to update the inventory database. |
| US11238129B2 |
Root cause analysis using Granger causality
Techniques regarding root cause analyses based on time series data are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise maintenance component that can detect a cause of failure for a mechanical system by employing a greedy hill climbing process to perform a polynomial number of conditional independence tests to determine a Granger causality between variables from time series data of the mechanical system given a conditioning set. |
| US11238127B2 |
Electronic device and method for using captured image in electronic device
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display configured to display an application execution screen and a controller configured to, when a screen image of the application execution screen is captured, obtain execution path information for executing a state of the captured screen image, and to store the captured screen image and the execution path information. |
| US11238123B1 |
Influencer scoring model
A method for operating an influencer scoring model includes receiving, for a plurality of professionals, professional information and publication information. For each professional, the method also includes generating a professional profile that includes a plurality of attributes. The plurality of attributes are based on (i) professional information and (ii) publication information. The method also includes determining one or more attribute connections among the plurality of attributes of the professional profile. Each attribute connection is based on a common attribute shared between the respective professional and another professional. The method also includes generating a score that includes an authority component and an influence component. A scoring model is configured to receive the plurality of attributes and the attribute connections for the respective professional. The authority component represents at least one attribute corresponding to the received professional information. The influence component represents one or more attribute connections of the professional profile. |
| US11238121B1 |
Micro-services architecture to integrate heterogeneous nodes for digital feed generation
Example implementations include a system to present opportunities from third-party applications, with a data processing system comprising memory and one or more processors to identify, via an interface of the data processing system, a third-party application of a plurality of third-party applications configured with application programming interfaces (“APIs”) compatible with the interface of the data processing system, transmit, to the third-party application, a query constructed based on a template that is compatible with an API of the third-party application, receive, responsive to the query, a response from the third-party application comprising an opportunity event, select a participant object that satisfies one or more parameters associated with the opportunity event, and provide, to a computing device linked with the participant object, an indication of the opportunity event. |
| US11238120B1 |
Selecting, ranking, and/or presenting microsite content
A server device is configured to receive criteria that indicate when a microsite is to be provided to a user device. The user device is configured to obtain sensor data and user profile data and send the sensor data and the user profile data to the server device. The server device is configured to receive the sensor data and the user profile data, identify a relevant microsite, and provide information regarding the relevant microsite to the user device. In some cases, the service device is configured to identify that a particular microsite has been purchased by a user of the user device and provide information, to the user device, identifying that the particular microsite has been purchased. |
| US11238117B2 |
Customizable ordering of search results and predictive query generation
In a computerized search system, a document corpus is searched according to a query and results of the search are presentable as an ordered search result set comprising one or more search hits, a search hit being a document of the document corpus or reference thereto. Based on content of the search result set, a number of suggested queries and/or parameter options are presented to a querier, thereby allowing the querier to select a suggested query and/or provide values for the parameters and those selections can be used to reorder the hits of the search result set. The particular suggested queries and/or parameters presented depend on the page elements of the search result set's documents and their categorization. The categorization might be done using concept networks. |
| US11238115B1 |
Semantic and context search using knowledge graphs
A method may include receiving a search query, from a requesting computing device, including a set of text elements; matching a first portion of the set of text elements in the search query to a set of objects in a semantic ontology; determining a requested output type for the search query based in part on the matching; querying a data store formatted in accordance with the semantic ontology for a set of data corresponding to the requested output type; and transmitting the set of data corresponding to the requested output type to the requesting computing device. |
| US11238109B2 |
Computerized tools configured to determine subsets of graph data arrangements for linking relevant data to enrich datasets associated with a data-driven collaborative dataset platform
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to interface among repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities configured to access datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform to implement computerized tools to identify data classifications and similar subsets of graph-based data arrangements with which to join, according to at least some examples. For example, a method may include determining a classification type for a subset of data based on a graph data arrangement, generating presentation data as a first user input to detect selection of the first user input. The method may include predicting a classification type for data. The method may also include generating other presentation data configured to join datasets, such as a column of tabular-formatted data with one or more portions of a graph data arrangement. |
| US11238108B1 |
Custom data filtering systems and methods
Described herein is a custom filtering computer system for enabling custom filtering and management of tabular data does not require any computer language or similar training for the user. The custom filtering computer system includes a processor configured to: receive filter criteria from a user computer device; retrieve filtered data by querying one or more databases based on the filter criteria, the filtered data including tabular data that matches the filter criteria; receive operations criteria from the user computer device; generate processed data, the processed data comprising the filtered data and operation outputs, by performing the operations defined in the operations criteria and storing the operation outputs with the filtered data; receive display criteria from a user computer device; generate a data display by applying the display criteria to the processed data, wherein the data display includes the processed data and the at least one display element; and display the data display on an output module of the user computer device. |
| US11238104B2 |
Matching strings in a large relational database
A computer-implemented method identifies strings of data from a database. One or more processors receive data as an input string. The processor(s) generate a first binary code using a binary locality sensitive hashing of k-grams in the input string, where the binary locality sensitive hashing on the k-grams in the input string is derived from a first set of bi-grams in the input string, a second set of bi-grams in the input string, and a quantity of intersecting bi-grams from the first set of bi-grams and the second set of bi-grams. In response to receiving a search request for a particular string, the processor(s) generate a second binary code using a binary locality sensitive hashing on the particular string, and search a database in a query process. The processor(s) then rank and return a set of similar strings found in the database. |
| US11238102B1 |
Providing an object-based response to a natural language query
A data analysis system receives a data string comprising a natural language query pertaining to a dataset, wherein the dataset is associated with a data object model comprising a plurality of objects, and parses the data string to identify a plurality of individual words within the data string. The data analysis system identifies, based on the plurality of individual words, one or more objects of the plurality of objects, wherein the one or more objects are associated with the natural language query in the data string. The data analysis system further determines one or more artifacts that are based on the dataset, wherein each of the one or more artifacts is associated with one of the one or more objects and provides a response to the natural language query. |
| US11238100B2 |
Adapting conversational agent communications to different stylistic models
A computer system includes a processor configured to execute a conversational agent generator function. The conversational agent generator function is configured to receive a plurality of model input queries. Each model input query includes an intent and a corresponding answer to the intent. A database stores a corpus including sets of textual responses indicative of a common meaning. Each textual response in a given set of textual responses indicates a common meaning constructed in a different style indicative of a corresponding tone of communication. The processor is further configured to execute a rephrasing function configured determine the answer of one of the plurality of model input queries, and convert the answer of one of the plurality of model input queries into a plurality of different rephrased answers from the corpus stored in the database. The processor further outputs the plurality of different rephrased answers to the conversational agent generator function. |
| US11238099B2 |
Method and device for obtaining answer, and computer device
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for obtaining an answer, and a computer device. The method includes: receiving a question entered by a user; obtaining one or more first key information points in the question entered by the user according one or more preset word slots; asking the user about core question points through dialogue according to the one or more first key information points; obtaining answers entered by the user for the core question points; obtaining one or more second key information points in the answers entered by the user according to the one or more preset word slots; performing a retrieving in a question and answer library according to the one or more first key information points and the one or more second key information points to obtain an answer to the question entered by the user; and presenting the answer obtained to the user. |
| US11238097B2 |
Method and apparatus for recalling news based on artificial intelligence, device and storage medium
A method and apparatus for recalling news based on artificial intelligence, a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: building an index repository according to candidate news, the index repository including M search trees, each search tree being a complete binary tree including at least two layers, each non-leaf node in each search tree corresponding to a semantic index vector, each piece of candidate news corresponding to a leaf node in each search tree; when news needs to be recommended to the user, generating a user's semantic index vector according to the user's interest tag; with respect to each search tree, respectively according to semantic index vectors corresponding to non-leaf nodes therein and the user's semantic index vector, determining a path from a first layer of non-leaf nodes to a leaf node, and regarding candidate news corresponding to the leaf node on the path as a recall result. |
| US11238093B2 |
Video retrieval based on encoding temporal relationships among video frames
Systems and methods for content-based video retrieval are described. The systems and methods may break a video into multiple frames, generate a feature vector from the frames based on the temporal relationship between them, and then embed the feature vector into a vector space along with a vector representing a search query. In some embodiments, the video feature vector is converted into a text caption prior to the embedding. In other embodiments, the video feature vector and a sentence vector are each embedded into a common space using a join video sentence embedding model. Once the video and the search query are embedded into a common vector space, a distance between them may be calculated. After calculating the distance between the search query and set of videos, the distances may be used to select a subset of the videos to present as the result of the search. |
| US11238092B2 |
Image processing device, image processing system, and vehicle
There is provided an image processing device including: a first memory; a first processor that is connected to the first memory; and a storage section that stores image data related to a position information-appended image that is appended with position information relating to an imaging location. The first processor searches for one or more items of the image data including the position information within a predetermined range of a current position of a vehicle, and selects a position information-appended image related to image data found by the searching as an image to be displayed in the vehicle. |
| US11238091B2 |
Art image characterization and system training in the loupe art platform
The Loupe system defines Loupe Visual Art DNA for art images to be presented to a user so as to maximize and customize the user experience in viewing art images delivered onto digital displays, TVs and other screens facilitating the artwork transition with and without human interaction. The Loupe system recommendations engine utilizes both human and machine curated data to determine factors of art images that will appeal to a user viewing the images. The Loupe system gathers data about visual perception, historical and academic provenance, and emotion or intention represented in an image. The gathered data is analyzed through deep learning and Al algorithms to inform recommendations and select art images to be presented to a user. The user may purchase fine art prints or select originals of the artwork image displayed, if the artist elects to make it available for sale, presented from the Loupe integrated electronic marketplace. |
| US11238090B1 |
Applied artificial intelligence technology for using narrative analytics to automatically generate narratives from visualization data
Disclosed herein are example embodiments that describe how a narrative generation techniques can be used in connection with data visualization tools to automatically generate narratives that explain the information conveyed by a visualization of a data set. In example embodiments, new data structures and artificial intelligence (AI) logic can be used by narrative generation software to map different types of visualizations to different types of story configurations that will drive how narrative text is generated by the narrative generation software. |
| US11238088B2 |
Video management system
A method, system, and computer program product for creating step-based answers from multimedia content are provided. The method receives a search query including a set of search terms. A set of question characteristics is determined for the search query. The set of question characteristics are based in part on the set of search terms. The method generates a set of steps for an answer to the search query. The set of steps are generated based in part on the set of question characteristics. The method identifies media content relevant to the set of steps and segments the media content to generate a set of media segments. Each media segment of the set of media segments represent a portion of the media content. The method combines the set of media segments based on the set of steps to generate a media answer to the search query. |
| US11238085B2 |
System and method for automatically generating concepts related to a target concept
A method for generating a set of concepts related to a target concept includes accessing a set of candidate concepts, embedding the target concept and the set of candidate concepts in a semantic vector space, selecting one or more intermediate concepts from the set of candidate concepts in response to determining whether each embedded candidate concept in the set of embedded candidate concepts satisfies a predetermined relationship with the embedded target concept, and filtering the one or more intermediate concepts to yield the set of concepts related to the target concept. The method may further include generating a multiple-choice question in which the target concept corresponds to a correct answer choice and the set of concepts related to the target concept correspond to distractors. |
| US11238084B1 |
Semantic translation of data sets
A method may include accessing a semantic map between a schema of a relational database (RDB) and a resource description framework (RDF) data model, the semantic map defined according to a first semantic ontology; applying the semantic map to data loaded from the RDB to generate a first set of semantic objects; storing the first set of semantic objects in a staging RDF triplestore; executing a script to transform the first set of semantic objects into a second set of semantic objects according to a second semantic ontology; and storing the second set of semantic objects into a production RDF triplestore. |
| US11238083B2 |
Intelligently driven visual interface on mobile devices and tablets based on implicit and explicit user actions
A method for identifying a desired document is provided to include forming K clusters of documents and, for each cluster: for each respective document of the cluster determining a sum of distances between (i) the respective document and (ii) each of the other documents of the cluster; and identifying a medoid document of the cluster as the document of the cluster having the smallest sum of determined distances of all of the documents of the cluster. The method also includes selecting M representative documents for each cluster, identifying for dynamic display toward the user K groupings of documents, wherein each of the K groupings of documents identifies the selected M representative documents of a corresponding cluster, and, in response to user selection of one of the K groupings of documents, identifying for dynamic display toward the user P documents of the cluster that corresponds to the selected grouping. |
| US11238079B2 |
Auto-classification system and method with dynamic user feedback
In an auto-classification system, example documents whose content exemplifies a content category or classification can be imported into a classification model. The classification model is tested to assess accuracy. Based on the testing, metrics or other information can be provided as feedback to a user. The user can iteratively refine the classification model and keep re-running the classifications to view how each change to the classification model improves accuracy. If no user refinement is desired, the auto-classification system classifies documents utilizing the classification model. This technology enhances the overall transparency and defensibility of the auto-classification process. |
| US11238076B2 |
Document enrichment with conversation texts, for enhanced information retrieval
A method including: Obtaining multiple conversation texts, one text per conversation, wherein each of the multiple conversation texts comprises: multiple messages authored by multiple parties, and a reference to an electronic document that provides resolution of a problem that is common to all the conversations. Calculating an importance score for each of the multiple messages of all the conversation texts. Clustering the multiple messages of all the conversation texts into multiple bins. Calculating an aggregated importance score for each of the multiple bins, based on the importance scores of the messages contained in the respective bin. Enriching (a) the electronic document, or (b) a record of the electronic document in an index of electronic documents, with at least some of the multiple bins and their aggregated importance scores, wherein the at least some of the multiple bins are added as fields to the electronic document or to the record. |
| US11238071B1 |
Transformation of telecommunication records
A method for automatically parsing non-uniform telecommunication data includes receiving a telecommunication record including a listing of communications between a first telecommunication device and second telecommunication devices, and, for each communication, one or more of: communication duration data, communication direction data, communication type data, communication date and time data, cell site references, and first or second telecommunication device identifiers. A telecommunication provider associated with the first telecommunication record is identified based on a format of the first telecommunication record. A telecommunication provider rule set is selected that defines how to transform the first telecommunication record into a normalized telecommunication record. The first telecommunication record is transformed according to the selected rule set to generate the normalized telecommunication record. Transforming the first telecommunication record includes mapping the cell site references to corresponding geographic locations according to a first cell site key and appending the geographic locations to the first telecommunication record. An interactive report can be generated to display a relationship between the first telecommunication device and the second telecommunication devices. |
| US11238069B2 |
Transforming a data stream into structured data
A method for processing a data stream to identify a structure of the data stream includes receiving the data stream a sequence of characters, retrieving a set of rules for encoding characters into at least one token, and parsing the data stream. Parsing includes generating a plurality of tokens according to the set of rules. Each token represents a corresponding portion of the sequence of characters. Parsing includes forming a sequence of tokens from the plurality of tokens and assigning at least one attribute value describing the corresponding portion of the sequence of characters of the corresponding token to which the attribute value is assigned. The sequence of tokens are assigned to a cluster by determining that the sequence of tokens matches a pattern by which the cluster is characterized. The sequence of tokens is merged with the cluster. A representation of the cluster is output. |
| US11238067B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatus to cluster and classify individuals in groups
The disclosure generally relates to autonomous or semi-autonomous driving vehicles. Specifically, an embodiment of the disclosure relates to occupancy detection algorithm to classify groups of individuals having a relationship to each other in certain environments, for example, inside a vehicle. In an exemplary embodiment, the disclosure provides an apparatus to associate one or more vehicles with one or more occupants, the apparatus including: a processing system to categorize data received from a plurality of external communication devices; a detector module configured to identify a first vehicle data and a first device data from categorized data; a proximity detector configured to communicate with the vehicle detector and the device detector; and a correlation engine to receive proximity estimate and to correlate the first device with a first occupant of the first vehicle. |
| US11238059B2 |
Facilitating construction of a user interface
A method of facilitating construction of a user interface for policing input of user-defined data to a database. An ontology expressed in a first-order logic language is obtained, the ontology describing one or more predefined classes, a plurality of predefined properties and at least one predefined restriction. Data useable to identify a first class is received, and in response, an intermediate data structure is generated for the first class, the intermediate data structure configured to facilitate construction of a user interface for policing input of user-defined data to the database. Generating the intermediate data structure comprises identifying a property from the ontology that is applicable to the first class, determining a property restriction function indicating whether the at least one restriction is applicable to the property, and associating the at least one restriction with the property in the intermediate data structure. |
| US11238055B2 |
Building management system with eventseries processing
A building management system (BMS) includes building equipment, an eventseries generator, and a storage interface. The building equipment are configured to generate a plurality of data samples. Each of the data samples includes a data value and a timestamp. The eventseries generator is configured to assign a sample state to each data sample based on the data value of the data sample and generate one or more events based on the timestamp of each data sample and the sample state assigned to each data sample. Each of the events includes a start time, an end time, and an event state. The eventseries generator is configured to generate an eventseries including the one or more generated events. The storage interface is configured to store the eventseries in an eventseries database. |
| US11238054B2 |
Searching multiple data sources
A computer implemented method for searching data in a plurality of data sources is described. At a host system, a request to search a local data source is received. The request is associated with a user account of the local data source. The request is processed to determine one or more third party data sources associated with the user account. Local search parameters associated with the local data source and third party search parameters associated with the one or more third party data sources are dynamically assembled. The local search parameters and the third party search parameters are transmitted to a client device for display. A host system comprising a processor and memory storing instructions for implementing the method is also described. |
| US11238053B2 |
Two step algorithm for non-exact matching of large datasets
A two-step algorithm for conducting near real-time fuzzy searches of a target on one or more large data sets is described. This algorithm includes the simplification of the data by removing grammatical constructs to bring the target search term (and the stored database) to their base elements and then perform a Levenstein comparison to create a subset of the data set that may be a match. Then performing a scoring algorithm while comparing the target to the subset of the data set to identify any matches. |
| US11238046B2 |
Information management device, information management method, and information management program
An information management device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to convert said spatio-temporal information in storage object information into a one-dimensional bit string, split the converted one-dimensional bit string into an upper bit string and a lower bit string, and cause a storage target node to store at least the split upper bit string in a key and to store the split lower bit string and said associated data in a value of that key, and convert a range condition of spatio-temporal information of an object to be retrieved into one-dimensional bit string, split the converted one-dimensional bit string into an upper bit string and a lower bit string, retrieve a key from a search target node using at least the split upper bit string, and retrieve a value corresponding to the split lower bit string from values of the retrieved key. |
| US11238044B2 |
Candidate data record prioritization for match processing
Candidate data record prioritization for match processing includes identifying candidate records for use in match processing to determine records that match to an incoming record. The candidates are grouped into buckets according to bucket roles, with each bucket correlating to a bucket role, and with each bucket role being defined by a unique record attribute set. The method obtains an effectiveness score for each of the bucket roles. The scores are measures of effectiveness of the bucket roles in identifying candidates that match to incoming data records. The method establishes an order of priority in which to process the candidates by prioritizing the buckets into an order based on the effectiveness scores for the bucket roles. The process then commences match processing to process the candidates in the established order of priority where the match processing processes candidates of a higher priority bucket before processing candidates of lower priority buckets. |
| US11238036B2 |
System performance logging of complex remote query processor query operations
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for performance logging of complex query operations. |
| US11238033B1 |
Interactive location queries for raw machine data
A data intake and query system may store raw machine data that includes location information. A client system may include a user interface for searching the data intake and query system. The user interface allows a user to define a field search query and to define one or more ad-hoc boundary regions on a map. A combined query is transmitted to the data intake and query system, the combined query including both the field search query and location search information that is based on the ad-hoc boundary regions. The data intake and query system runs the combined query and returns responsive results, which are displayed at the client user interface. |
| US11238032B1 |
Systems and methods for cryptographically-secure queries using filters generated by multiple parties
Systems and methods are disclosed that receive data at an electronic computing device. The data can include phrases that can be transformed according to an algorithm to generate a masked version of the phrases. The masked version can be transmitted to a third party system for securing. The secured version can be received from the third party system. A secured filter representative of the received data can be generated based on the received secured version. |
| US11238030B2 |
Issue tracking systems and methods for a configurable project hierarchy
Described herein is a computer implemented method for maintaining a configurable project hierarchy. The method comprises creating a new hierarchy level data record and storing the new hierarchy level data record in a data store. The method further comprises receiving a request to associate a particular issue type with the new hierarchy level and, in response, creating a new hierarchy/issue type association data record including an identifier of the particular issue type and an identifier of the new hierarchy level identifier. |
| US11238029B2 |
Runtime endorsement policy determination
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a blockchain storage request from a client, where the blockchain storage request is signed by an endorser node dynamically selected at runtime, identifying performance information included in the blockchain storage request, determining whether the dynamic selection of the endorser node is valid based on the identified performance information, and in response to a determination that the dynamic selection is valid, storing the blockchain storage request in a data block. |
| US11238021B2 |
Creating a search index within a data storage library
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes initiating a creation of a search index for a data storage cartridge, transparently loading the data storage cartridge into a data storage drive of a data storage library, creating the search index, utilizing the data storage cartridge and the data storage drive, and storing the search index. |
| US11238019B2 |
Distributed database systems partition merge
Partitions are enabled to be merged in storage device of distributed database systems. A request to merge a plurality of source partitions into a merged partition is received. Each source partition stores a plurality of data items having corresponding source global identifiers and corresponding source local identifiers. The data items, with corresponding metadata, are appended from the source partitions to an intermediate storage structure in an order defined by the source local identifiers. Target global identifiers and target local identifiers are generated for each of the data items in the intermediate storage structure. The copied data items are flushed from the intermediate storage structure to the merged partition in an order defined by the target global identifiers. The source partitions and intermediate storage structure may then be purged of data, removed, and/or reused for further storage needs. |
| US11238018B2 |
Systems and methods for integrating data
Systems and methods for integrating data are described. In an example embodiment, a plurality of data attributes of comparison data and the plurality of data attributes of a master record are respectively compared to determine that there is a difference, the comparison data originating from a data source. A relative level of source priority of the data source of the comparison data is determined relative to the data source of a current state version of the master record in accordance with source evaluation criteria. The current state version of the master record is stored in reference data based on a determination that there is a difference and that the source priority of the data source of the comparison data is equal to or greater than the data source of the current state version of the master record. Mapped comparison data is used to update the current state version of the master record based on the determination that there is a difference and that the source significance of the data source of the comparison data is equal to or greater than the data source of the current state version of the master record to create an updated state version of the master record, the mapped comparison data being based on the comparison data. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. |
| US11238017B2 |
Runtime detector for data corruptions
In a multitenant data platform architecture, one or more supporting data tables are used to efficiently retrieve data responsive to data retrieval requests. Programmatic code markers associated with contextual data about a data transaction thread are identified. The contextual data is examined using the one or more programmatic code markers invoked by the database in the data transaction thread at runtime. Based on the contextual data returning an indication of a data corruption in one or more supporting data structures, an action associated with the data transaction thread is performed. A log of data corruptions and corresponding call stack trace data may be generated. The data transaction thread may be allowed to continue to execute statements that modify data tables, or the data transaction thread may be terminated. |
| US11238015B2 |
Instant hyper-v streaming
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for streaming a virtual disk. A first virtual hard disk (VHDX) file can be converted into a read-only VHDX file on a hypervisor. A second VHDX file can be created as a snapshot of the read-only VHDX file on the hypervisor. Partition globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) of the second VHDX file can be updated to be different from those of the read-only VHDX file. A provisioning services server executing on the hypervisor can stream the second VHDX file as a virtual disk over a virtual network established by the hypervisor, by booting the second VHDX file over the virtual network. |
| US11238013B2 |
Scalable access to shared files in a distributed system
Logic may pre-populate cache of compute nodes allocated to a user's session. Logic may access an image file of a global filesystem, the image file to comprise a first set of one or more files associated with a user session and a second set of one or more files upon which execution of the first set will depend. Logic may store the image file in local data storage of each compute node of a spanning tree of compute nodes allocated for the user session. Logic may unpack the image file based on the data. Logic may configure the local environment of each compute node in the spanning tree to identify a location in local memory of each of the files. And logic may initiate execution of a local filesystem service in each of the compute nodes of the spanning tree. |
| US11238011B2 |
Intelligent method to index storage system files accounting for snapshots
Indexing files to account for snapshots can include generating, based on a scan of the storage system, one or more file records. Each file record of the one or more file records can correspond to a file stored on the storage system at the time of the scan. The file records can be maintained based on one or more notifications received from the storage system. A snapshot list of the storage system can be maintained, the snapshot list having snapshot data corresponding to one or more snapshots stored on the storage system. A search result can be generated that satisfies a search parameter based at least on a) the one or more file records and/or b) the snapshot list. |
| US11238009B1 |
Techniques for automated policy analysis
Techniques for automated policy analysis are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for automated policy analysis comprising processing system configuration information for a system, processing policy configuration information for the system, analyzing at least one policy configuration change to the policy configuration information, recommending the at least one policy configuration change based on the analysis of the at least one policy configuration change, and updating the policy configuration information for the system based on the recommendation of the at least one policy configuration change. |
| US11238007B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a selector and a display controller. The selector selects a first display form or a second display form as a display form of a display image including a reduced image of a document. When the first display form is selected, the display controller controls display to make a distance between the reduced image of the document and document information of the document larger than the distance in a case where the second display form is selected. |
| US11238001B2 |
System and method to selectively reduce USB-3 interference with wireless communication devices
An information handling system includes a processor that provides a USB-2 channel and a USB-3 channel to a device. The device provides the USB-2 and -3 channels to selected ports. Each port includes a USB-3 enable setting. When the USB-3 enable setting for each particular USB port is in a first state, the associated device USB-3 channel is active, and when the USB-3 enable setting for each particular USB port is in a second state, the associated device USB-3 channel is inactive. The USB-3 enable setting for at least one of the USB ports is placed into the second state to reduce electromagnetic interference between the associated USB-3 channel and an antenna. |
| US11238000B2 |
Chips including classical and quantum computing processors
An apparatus includes a substrate, a classical computing processor formed on the substrate, a quantum computing processor formed on the substrate, and one or more coupling components between the classical computing processor and the quantum computing processor, the one or more coupling components being formed on the substrate and being configured to allow data exchange between the classical computing processor and the quantum computing processor. |
| US11237990B2 |
Fixed ethernet frame descriptor
System and techniques for enhanced electronic navigation maps for a vehicle are described herein. A descriptor set-up message may be received at a network controller interface (NIC). Here, the descriptor set-up message includes an ethernet frame descriptor. The NIC may then use the ethernet frame descriptor to transmit, across a physical interface of the NIC, multiple ethernet frames, each of which use the same ethernet frame descriptor from the set-up message. |
| US11237985B2 |
Controlling allocation of entries in a partitioned cache
An apparatus and method are described, the apparatus comprising: a cache comprising a plurality of entries, each associated with a partition identifier; storage circuitry to store counters, each indicative of a number of entries in the cache associated with respective partition identifiers; and cache control circuitry responsive to a request identifying a given partition identifier to control allocation of an entry dependent on the counter associated with the given partition identifier. The cache control circuitry increments the counter associated with the given partition identifier in response to an entry associated with the given partition identifier being allocated, and decrements the counter associated with the given partition identifier in response to an entry associated with the given partition identifier being evicted or replaced. When a request to increment the counters is pending, the cache control circuitry prioritises the pending increment request in preference over a request to decrement the counters. |
| US11237982B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for managing page cache in virtualization service
Provided are a method and an apparatus for managing a page cache in a virtualization service and a method for managing a page cache in a virtualization service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: comparing a weight value of a container and a weight variable of a page possessed by a process operated by the container in the virtualization service with each other, changing the weight variable of the page based on a comparison result, and managing pages of the page cache using the changed weight variable of the page. |
| US11237980B2 |
File page table management technology
A file page table management method. The file page table management method is applied to a storage system in which a file system is created in a memory. According to the file page table management method, a mapping manner of a file page table can be dynamically adjusted based on an access type of an access request for accessing the memory, thereby improving memory access efficiency and saving memory space. |