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| US11291518B2 |
Barrier dispenser and method of using the same
Apparatus and methods for applying a barrier to a medical scope are provided. An apparatus may comprise a source of film and a housing. The housing may comprise a chamber configured to support therein the source of film, and an opening provided through a wall of the housing to permit a portion of the film to extend out of the chamber when the film is dispensed. The housing may comprise a recess located such that the extended portion of the film is permitted to hang freely in proximity to the recess. The recess may be sized to receive a distal portion of the medical scope. The recess may be adapted to allow the extended portion of the film to be applied to the distal portion of the medical scope when the distal portion is placed into the recess with the portion of the film located therebetween. |
| US11291507B2 |
System and method for image based registration and calibration
Navigation systems and methods for tracking physical objects near a target site during a surgical procedure are provided, the navigation system comprises a robotic device and an instrument attached to the robotic device; a process of optical registration and calibration can improve operation results by increasing accuracy and speed and eliminate the need for additional reference trackers, such as a pointer. |
| US11291506B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling a haptic device
A method of compensating for motion of objects during a surgical procedure is provided. The method includes determining a pose of an anatomy of a patient; determining a pose of a surgical tool of a surgical device; defining a relationship between the pose of the anatomy and a position, an orientation, a velocity, and/or an acceleration of the surgical tool; associating the pose of the anatomy, the pose of the surgical tool, and the relationship; and updating the association in response to a motion of the anatomy and/or a motion of the surgical tool without interrupting operation of the surgical device during the surgical procedure. |
| US11291500B2 |
Multi-modal catheter for improved electrical mapping and ablation
Various catheters are provided herein for recording, mapping, and/or ablating target tissue to reduce or eliminate unwanted electrical impulses. In one embodiment, a catheter can have a handle, an elongate body, and an end effector. The end effector has expanded and contracted configurations and can rotate about the elongate body. A plurality of electrodes can also be disposed on the end effector for recording, mapping, and/or ablating target tissue surrounding the catheter. The handle can guide the end effector through transitioning between the configurations and rotating about the elongate body. |
| US11291494B2 |
Device and method for detecting faults in a shielded instrument
A device and method for detecting faults in a shield of an electrosurgical instrument is described. The device has a relay configured to selectively interrupt power to the electrosurgical instrument, monitoring circuitry configured to monitor a shield in the electrosurgical instrument, control circuitry to control the relay, and a battery power source. The monitoring circuitry has an envelope detector and a detected average shield current detector. The monitoring circuitry is configured to compare a shield current peak value to a shield current peak threshold value, and to compare a detected average shield current value to a detected average shield current threshold value. The device is further configured to operatively couple an active electrode of an electrosurgical instrument and a return electrode to an electrosurgical generator. |
| US11291493B2 |
Simplified methods for non-invasive vasectomy
Conventional vasectomy techniques suffer from a number of potential complications, including, for example, a substantial risk for the development of hematomas, and swelling, and post-surgical pain, a potential for spontaneous duct reconnection and undesired resumption of fertility, a need for a highly skilled surgical professional, as well as a long recovery period, accompanied by severe limitations on post-surgical activity. The vasectomy methods of the present invention reduce and/or minimize contact with sensory nerves located on the distal side of the vas deferens, particularly the distal region of the outer vas deferens sheath, so as to minimize nerve damage and the post-surgical pain associated therewith. In addition, the methods of the present invention overcome the disadvantages and deficiencies of the prior art, resulting in a rapid, reliable, minimally-invasive male sterilization procedure that may be readily, reliably and successfully performed by minimally skilled personnel around the world in a variety of medical settings. |
| US11291492B2 |
Pressure relief system for use with gas-assisted minimally invasive surgical devices
An electrosurgical device is adapted for use through a port and within a body cavity. The device includes a gas supply supplying gas to a distal tip and a valve to regular such supply, and an electric supply for supplying electricity to the distal tip. A pressure relief system is provided to regulate an outflow of gas from within the body cavity to prevent exceeding a predetermined pressure. The inflow of the gas through the valve and outflow of gas through the pressure relief system may occur simultaneously. |
| US11291491B2 |
Electrosurgery blade and electrosurgery blade assembly
Electrosurgery blades including electrosurgery blade assemblies having argon beam capability. The electrosurgery blade includes a non-conductive planar member having opposite planar sides and a sharp cutting tip and a conductive layer located on one or both of the opposing planar sides of the non-conductive layer. In embodiments of the electrosurgery blade assemblies having argon beam capability, the electrosurgery blade assembly includes a non-conductive tube member having a hollow tubular shaped opening and a slot where at least a portion of the conductive layer of the electrosurgery blade is positioned within the slot of the non-conductive tube member. |
| US11291490B2 |
Device for providing bone cement
One aspect relates to a method of producing a bone cement from at least two starting components in a device comprising a first hollow cylinder-shaped container and a second hollow cylinder-shaped container, a vessel arranged in the first container, whereby a monomer liquid is stored in the vessel. The aspect also relates to a device for providing a bone cement from two starting components, comprising a hollow cylinder-shaped first container, in which a vessel for a monomer liquid as first starting component can be stored, a hollow cylinder-shaped second container comprising a first internal space, in which a bone cement powder as second starting component can be stored, and a second internal space into which the monomer liquid can be conveyed, a fluid-conducting conveying means arranged between the first internal space and the second internal space, whereby the first container and the second container are axially connected to each other. |
| US11291487B2 |
Screw fixation device, fixation kit and fixation method
Disclosed is a bone screw fixation device including two screws and only two. The bone screw includes: a first screw provided at its proximal end with a head for compressing the bone by an end-abutment; and a second screw provided at its distal end with a bone threading having a first helix pitch and at its proximal end with a bone threading having a helix with a pitch smaller than the first helix pitch. |
| US11291484B2 |
Highly-versatile variable-angle bone plate system
A bone plate system for internal fixation of bone fractures includes a bone plate having a plurality of bone plate holes. The holes are constructed to receive either a non-locking, locking, or variable-angle locking bone screw. The holes have discrete columns of teeth or thread segments arranged around the inner surface of the hole for engaging threads on the heads of locking and variable-angle locking bone screws. Conventional locking bone screws engage the bone plate coaxially with the central axis of the bone plate hole. Variable-angle locking bone screws can engage the bone plate at a selectable angle within a range of selectable angles relative to the central axis of the bone plate hole. The head of the variable-angle locking screw is at least partially spherical, and the thread thereon has a profile that follows the arc-shaped radius of curvature of the spherical portion of the screwhead. |
| US11291482B2 |
Rod reducers and related methods
Kerrison-style rod reducers, inline-style rod reducers, and related methods of using the disclosed rod reducers for holding a spinal implant and seating a fixation rod in a rod-receiving portion of the spinal implant are provided for herein. The disclosed rod reducers can also be configured for applying a set screw or other closure mechanism to secure the rod within the rod-receiving portion of the spinal implant. The disclosed embodiments can be easy to use, not require significant force to operate, and be efficient, thereby reducing the time and expense necessary to perform spinal surgery. The disclosed rod reducers can be readily dissembled, thereby making these surgical instruments easy to clean and sterilize. |
| US11291476B2 |
External bone fixation system
An external bone fixation system may include a first semi-circular external fixation member, a second semi-circular external fixation member, four ball collet assemblies attached to the second external fixation member, and four shafts. Each shaft may include a first end attached to the first external fixation member and a second end with a stop member, and each of the four shafts extends slidably through an opening in a ball of one of the four ball collet assemblies. The stop member of each second end prevents each second end from passing through the opening in its respective ball. Each shaft also includes a hinge located closer to the first end than to the second end. |
| US11291474B2 |
Skin treatment tool applicator tip
The present invention is an applicator tip for a hand piece assembly used in dermal abrasion procedures, the applicator tip having a cap shape with a plurality of apertures that form ports communicating with a fluid supply line in the hand piece assembly and a vacuum source to remove the abrading fluid. The fluid is introduced onto the outer abrading surface of the applicator tip through a first central aperture and spreads out along the outer abrading surface when the applicator tip is placed against the patient's skin. Recesses in the outer abrading surface establish pathways for the abrading fluid to move along as the applicator tip is moved over the patient's skin. The fluid emitting from the central port is moved into one of four quadrants defined by recesses in the outer abrading surface, each quadrant serving as a fluid chamber that receives fluid from the central fluid supply port. Each sector shaped chamber includes within its border a C-shaped barrier with its opening facing a dividing sector wall. As the applicator tip forms a seal with the patient's skin, fluid is introduced through the supply port and through the entrance of the chamber, filling each chamber with working fluid as the working fluid flows to and around the C-shaped barrier. Disposed inside each C-shaped barrier is a respective vacuum port that removes the working fluid from each chamber. Fluid from each chamber is vacuumed through its vacuum port after having flowed around a maze-like path, navigating the C-shaped barrier and sector walls in a vortex flow pattern. |
| US11291469B2 |
Apparatus with saw-toothed blade for cutting tissue
A tissue splitting device for splitting a harvested soft tissue to provide a layer of tissue having a uniform thickness and methods for tissue transplantation using uniform layers of tissue. |
| US11291467B2 |
Medical device and treatment method for crushing object in body lumen
A medical device for crushing an object in a body lumen, the medical device including: an elongated shaft portion rotatably driven; a crushing unit provided with bendable wire rods and rotatable together with the shaft portion; and a sliding unit fixed to each of end portion of the wire rods on at least one of a distal side of and a proximal side of the wire rods and is interlocked with the shaft portion so as to be slidable in an axial direction of the shaft portion. The shaft portion is provided with contact portions that come into contact with the sliding unit during rotation and limit relative rotation of the shaft portion and the sliding unit. After the sliding unit is attached to the contact portions, the sliding unit rotates in the same direction as the shaft portion along with the rotation of the shaft portion. |
| US11291465B2 |
Surgical instruments comprising a lockable end effector socket
A surgical instrument comprising a shaft and an end effector is disclosed. The end effector is releasably attachable to the shaft by a lock biased into a locked condition to hold the end effector to the shaft. |
| US11291464B2 |
System and method for detecting and aligning acoustic beam in situ to a target using wide-beam, low frequency (<1 MHz) ultrasound
The present invention is directed to a novel target detecting device comprising an excitation transducer generating a low frequency pulses of weakly focused ultrasonic energy and a sensing transducer. The present invention also includes a method of aligning a treatment transducer to a target by mapping the target in situ by sending a low frequency ultrasound signal and receiving reflected signals from the target. These inventions provide a simpler way of determining the location of a target and aligning a treatment transducer without the need to generate and interpret an image and then translate the image back onto the target. |
| US11291461B2 |
Tourniquet device
The tourniquet device includes a pressure plate, a winding rod, a control rod, a dial, a locking rod, and a strap. The winding rod and has a ratchet at one end. A ratchet is provided around a bottom end of the control rod engaging the ratchet of the winding rod. The dial is fixedly joined to the control rod, and locking holes are provided on the bottom side of the dial. The locking rod is for locking the dial. The strap has a first end fixedly connected to a buckle and a second end threaded through the slits of the pressure plate and then through the buckle and back. A fastener patch is attached to the strap, and a tightening band has a first end fixedly joined to the strap between the buckle and the fastener patch and a second end is threaded through the slit of the winding rod. |
| US11291458B2 |
Vaso-occlusive device and delivery assembly
A vaso-occlusive treatment system includes a delivery assembly; and a vaso-occlusive device detachably coupled to the delivery assembly by a delivery assembly junction. The vaso-occlusive device includes a braided portion formed out of one or more composite wires, a coiled portion coupled to the braided portion, and an intra-device junction coupling the braided portion to the coiled portion. Each composite wire includes a core made from a core metallic material, and an external layer made from an external metallic material different from the core metallic material. One of the core and the external layer has a greater radiopacity and a lesser stiffness, respectively, than the other one of the core and the external layer. |
| US11291457B2 |
Lung volume-reducing elastic implant and instrument
A lung volume-reducing elastic implant (2) and a lung volume-reducing instrument; the lung volume-reducing elastic implant (2) is tubular and comprises a proximal implant end (201), an elastic deformation part (205) and a distal implant end (202); the elastic deformation part (205) is located between the proximal implant end (201) and the distal implant end (202), and the elastic deformation part (205) has a shape memory characteristic; the lung volume-reducing elastic implant (2) is opened at the proximal implant end (201); the elastic deformation part (205) is provided with a plurality of grooves (204) at intervals along the longitudinal direction thereof; each groove (204) communicates with the tube cavity of the elastic deformation part (205); the lung volume-reducing instrument comprises the lung volume-reducing elastic implant (2) and a delivery device (1) matching same; the delivery device (1) comprises a guidewire (101) and a hollow push piece (110); the lung volume-reducing elastic implant (2) is detachably connected to the distal end of the hollow push piece (110) via the proximal implant end (201); and the guidewire (101) passes through the tube cavity of the lung volume-reducing elastic implant (2) and the tube cavity of the hollow push piece (110). The lung volume-reducing instrument is more convenient for an operation and takes shorter time, and avoids damage to the inner wall of the bronchia, reducing the occurrence of pneumothorax. |
| US11291454B2 |
Left atrial appendage closure apparatus
A left atrial appendage closure apparatus for obstructing the left atrial appendage, comprises a sealing plate and an anchor plate. The sealing plate is a mesh structure and arranged with a choke membrane inside. In addition, the sealing plate adopts a tubular member for distal fixation and is connected with the anchor plate by the tubular member. The proximal end of the sealing plate is fixed with a fastener and is provided with a structure to connect to a convey device. The end of the tubular member at the other side away from the end connected to the sealing plate is arranged with a plurality of supporting rods, which intersect radially to form the anchor plate. |
| US11291452B2 |
Medical device deployment system
Deployment systems and methods are provided herein for percutaneous transcatheter deployment of medical devices. A medical device deployment system includes a body member and a body locking member that is configured to cooperatively engage along a portion of the body member such that the body member is releasably coupleable to a medical device. |
| US11291448B2 |
Mechanical tissue coupling system, applicator therefor and method of use thereof
A mechanical tissue coupling system that includes a first side tissue grasping assembly, a second side tissue grasping assembly and a joining assembly. The joining assembly is structurally configured to join the first side tissue grasping assembly to the second side tissue grasping assembly. An applicator is likewise disclosed as is a method of using the system and the applicator. |
| US11291440B2 |
Method for operating a powered articulatable surgical instrument
A method for operating a surgical instrument. The method includes linking a second drive member to a first drive member such that the second drive member moves with the first drive member. The method further includes applying first control motions to the first drive member to cause the second drive member to apply actuation motions to a surgical end effector. The method also includes discontinuing application of the first control motions to the first drive member and de-linking the second drive member from the first drive member such that the second drive member is locked in place by a locking system. The method also includes re-applying control motions to the first drive member. |
| US11291431B2 |
Examination assisting method, examination assisting apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein an examination assisting program that causes a computer to execute a process including: performing a site detecting process that uses an object detection technique on each of a plurality of ultrasound examination images taken of an examined subject by performing a scan on the examined subject; and displaying a site detection map in which a detection result of each of a plurality of sites included in the examined subject is kept in correspondence with the scan, on a basis of detection results from the site detecting process. |
| US11291430B2 |
Precedent-based ultrasound focusing
Various approaches for operating an ultrasound transducer having multiple transducer elements include acquiring one or more measurements of anatomical regions through which ultrasound waves emitted from the transducer elements travel; for each of the anatomical regions, determining values of characteristics based at least in part on the measurement(s); computationally predicting aberrations of the ultrasound waves traveling through the anatomical regions by using the first values as input to a predictor that has been computationally trained to predict ultrasound aberrations based on values of the characteristics; and driving the transducer elements to compensate for the predicted aberrations. |
| US11291429B2 |
Medical imaging apparatus and method of generating medical image
Provided are a medical imaging apparatus and a method of generating a medical image that are capable of generating a Doppler image by using a Doppler effect as well as an ultrasound image. The method of generating a medical image includes: acquiring received signals; acquiring an ultrasound image and displaying the acquired ultrasound image; acquiring a Doppler signal corresponding to a sample volume set on the ultrasound image; generating a Doppler image based on the Doppler signal and displaying the generated Doppler image; calculating at least one selected from an average magnitude, a maximum value, and a minimum value of the Doppler signal; and changing image displaying mode by suspending the displaying of the Doppler image and updating the ultrasound image, in response to the at least one selected from the average magnitude, the maximum value, and the minimum value is less than or equal to a threshold value thereof. |
| US11291426B2 |
Quantitative assessment of implant bone preparation
A system and method for quantitatively assessing, during bone preparation, an estimation of future a press fit value (and provide a mechanism to evaluate optimal quantitative values) of any implant/bone interface regardless the variables involved including bone site preparation, material properties of bone and implant, implant geometry and coefficient of friction of the implant-bone interface without requiring a visual positional assessment of a depth of insertion. The following description is presented to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention and is provided in the context of a patent application and its requirements. |
| US11291423B2 |
System and method of radiograph correction and visualization
Systems and methods of radiograph correction and visualization are disclosed. Certain embodiments provide a method for generating a 3D model of at least part of one anatomical object based on one or more radiographs. The method further includes positioning the 3D model based on information indicative of a normalized projection comprising information indicative of a desired position and orientation of the at least part of one anatomical object with respect to the projection plane. The method further includes generating a 2D projection of the 3D model onto the projection plane. The method further includes generating one or more modified radiographs of the at least part of one anatomical object based on the 2D projection. |
| US11291420B2 |
X-ray imaging system and method of X-ray image tracking
Disclosed herein is a method for image tracking using an X-ray imaging system during an interventional radiology procedure on a human or an animal. The method may comprise acquiring a first image of an object inside a human or an animal with a first X-ray detector of the X-ray imaging system; acquiring a second image of the object with the X-ray imaging system during the interventional radiology procedure, at a time later than acquiring the first image; determining a displacement of the first X-ray detector based on the first image and the second image; moving the first X-ray detector by the displacement, with an actuator of the X-ray imaging system. The X-ray imaging system comprises the first X-ray detector, the second X-ray detector and the actuator. A spatial resolution of the first X-ray detector is higher than a spatial resolution of the second X-ray detector. |
| US11291415B2 |
Noninvasive sensor system with visual infographic display
A sensor system for obtaining and displaying information relating to physiological parameters, such as Total Hemoglobin and Pulse rate for use by a user such as an athlete. The system can present the measured physiological parameters to the user in a useful way. For example the system can display a visual multi quadrant infographic display, which can present the total hemoglobin values measured by the system in a particular season. The system can also display a visual elevation infographic display, which can present a comparison of the total hemoglobin values measured by the system over a period of time and/or at various altitudes. The system can also display a visual yin-yang infographic display, which can present a comparison of one or more metrics calculated by the system or one or more parameters measured by the system. The system can provide useful information about the user's health and/or well-being and allow the user to quickly and easily view and interpret relevant information. |
| US11291412B2 |
Integrated circuit medical devices and method
A universal implantable integrated circuit medical device platform having integral and monolithic circuit traces. The platform allows for implanting into a mammalian body single and multi-functional interface devices for sensing, monitoring stimulating and/or modulating physiological conditions within the body. Microelectronic circuitry may be integrated onto the platform or may be joined as modular components to the platform. |
| US11291410B2 |
Wearable personal information system
A personal information system is provided. The system may include a portable information device having a housing including a top surface defined at least partially by a display, a bottom surface configured with a central region in which an optical sensor, electrical connector, and data connector are positioned, the housing enclosing an internal volume in which a processor is provided, the top surface and bottom surface being coupled by a perimeter side edge extending therebetween, and a mounting structure formed at least partially around the perimeter side edge of the housing. The system may further include a frame, which may be connected to a band, the frame surrounding a void and configured to receive the mounting structure, the frame and mounting structure being releasably securable via a tongue and groove connection. The system may further comprise a dock to which the information device may be connected. |
| US11291407B2 |
Detection of high risk drusen
In some aspects, methods of detecting complement activation in vivo, e.g., in an eye, are provided. In some embodiments, methods comprise detecting drusen containing or in close proximity to complement activation. In some embodiments methods comprise detecting one or more drusen having inflamed endothelium underlying or in close proximity thereto. In some embodiments methods comprise detecting eye-derived extracellular microvesicles, e.g., exosomes, in a body fluid. In some embodiments any of the methods further comprises treating a subject at risk of developing AMD, GA, or advanced AMD or at increased likelihood of rapid progression of AMD with a complement inhibitor. In some aspects, agents useful for performing one or more of the methods are described. |
| US11291406B2 |
System for determining a set of at least one cardio-respiratory descriptor of an individual during sleep
A system for determining a set of at least one cardio-respiratory descriptor of an individual during sleep comprises a memory device having a first accelerometer for a thoracic position, a second accelerometer synchronized with the first and for an abdominal position, and an optional sensor (e.g., a photoplethysmographic sensor). The system also includes memory for recording accelerometer and optional sensor data; memory with a reference model; and a device for filtering accelerometer data and configured to extract low-, medium-, and high- frequency ranges. A computer is configured for determining, within the extracted frequency ranges, at least one characteristic representative of a cardio-respiratory and physiological state and the time of the extraction thereof; comparing the determined characteristic(s) with similar characteristics from the reference model; and deducing therefrom a set of at least one probable corresponding event the individual experienced during a predetermined period of time. |
| US11291404B2 |
Method, system and computer readable storage media for the detection of errors in three-dimensional measurements
A method, system and computer readable storage media for defects in images during three-dimensional measurement of teeth. An operator may use a dental camera to scan teeth and a trained deep neural network may automatically detect portions of the input images having defects and generate output information regarding those defects for corrective measures to be taken. |
| US11291388B2 |
Exercise support device, exercise support method and storage medium
An exercise support device includes a motion sensor that is worn on a user's body and outputs data regarding the motion status of the user's body when the user is performing a moving exercise, and a control section which acquires exercise information regarding the user's exercise status. The control section selects a specific exercise index having relatively strong correlation with a moving speed from exercise indexes acquired from the data outputted when the user moves on a movement section plural times at moving speeds different from each other, acquires a coefficient that is used in an approximate expression which represents the specific exercise index and is a linear function including the moving speed as a variable and the coefficient, and acquires the exercise information based on the specific exercise index and the coefficient when the user moves by the moving exercise. |
| US11291385B2 |
System for controlling assistive technologies and related method
A system controls assistive technologies with an assistive tool for users with movement and/or communication disorders. The system includes an electronic communication interface, a biometric sensor, a calibration module and a processing unit. The interface presents users with stimuli associated with commands and/or information that the user might select. The sensor detects the user's biometric activity and generates a biometric electrical signal. During initial calibration, the calibration module records signal characteristics associated with a biometric electrical signal detected with voluntary biometric activity. The processing unit recognizes, based on the biometric electrical signal and the signal characteristics, the user's voluntary biometric activity and commands and/or information the user wants to select. The processing unit provides control signals to the interface and the assistive tool, based on the user's selection preferences. The interface presents stimuli based on the presentation control signal, if present, or presents a scan of stimuli. |
| US11291383B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging patient temperature monitoring system and related methods
A system for monitoring a patient during MRI imaging to prevent patient burns. The system includes a barrel to provide an MRI image of a patient and an infrared camera to image the patient separately from the MRI image. The infrared camera includes an adjustable field of view and is positionable at a plurality of viewing angles relative to the longitudinal axis of the barrel. The infrared camera is coupled to a processor adapted to monitor the surface temperature of the patient based on the output of the infrared camera. The processor is further adapted to control at least one of the field of view of the infrared camera and/or the viewing angle of the camera during MRI imaging of the patient. The system further includes a patient gown formed of an infrared transmissive material that provides visual concealment for the patient. |
| US11291376B2 |
Fiber bragg grating multi-point pressure sensing guidewire with birefringent component
A system and method are presented for detecting and measuring pressure within a region of a body lumen or vessel. The pressure sensing system includes a light source for transmitting light through a pathway containing polarization-maintaining fiber optic wires. A distal portion of the polarization-maintaining fiber optic wire, which is engaged to and extends along a guidewire, includes pressure sensing station(s) made up of fiber Bragg gratings (FBG). The light transmitted to and reflected from the FBGs on the two polarization modes of the polarization-maintaining fiber optic wire can be analyzed to provide one or more pressure values. |
| US11291373B2 |
Deep-body-temperature estimation system, heat stress warning system, and deep-body-temperature estimation method
A temperature sensor (210) measures a temperature inside clothes being a temperature inside the clothes worn by a user. The acceleration sensor (220) detects acceleration applied to the user. A processing device (100) estimates a deep body temperature that is a temperature inside the body of the user based on the temperature inside the clothes measured by the temperature sensor (210) and an acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor (220). |
| US11291370B2 |
Devices and methods to convert conventional imagers into lock-in cameras
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for modifying a conventional imager to have functional features similar to that of a lock-in camera. Optical mask devices are configured to be coupled to conventional imager sensors and the configuration of the mask devices can be adjusted to acquire image data in rapid succession. One variation of an optical mask device comprises a substrate comprising a pattern of light-blocking and light-transmitting regions and an attachment structure for coupling the optical mask device to the imager. The substrate is configured to adjust the position of the light-blocking regions and light-transmitting regions relative to the light-sensing region of the imager based on a set of one or more predetermined substrate configurations. In some variations, the mask device and/or the imager sensor may be mechanically moved relative to each other based on the set of one or more predetermined substrate configurations. |
| US11291366B1 |
Using eye tracking to label computer vision datasets
A system is configured to label computer vision datasets using eye tracking of users that track objects depicted in imagery to label the datasets. The imagery may include moving images (e.g., video) or still images. By using eye tracking, users may be able to label large amounts of imagery more efficiently than by manually labeling datasets using conventional input devices. A user may be instructed to watch a particular object during a playback of the video while an imaging device determines a direction of the user's gaze which correlates with a location in the imagery. An application may then associate the location in the imagery determined from the user's gaze as a location of the object on a frame-by-frame basis, or for certain frames. |
| US11291365B2 |
OCT system and reference attachment
An OCT system includes an OCT optical system and a reference attachment. The OCT optical system has a beam splitter for splitting light into a measurement optical path and a reference optical path, a photodetector, a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and first connectors provided at end portions of the first waveguide and the second waveguide respectively for indirectly or directly connecting the first waveguide and the second waveguide. The reference attachment has a third waveguide, and second connectors formed at both ends of the third wave guide and configured to be attachable to and detachable from the first connector, and is attached to and detached from the OCT optical system h attaching and detaching each of the second connectors to and from the first connector to change an optical path length of the reference optical path. |
| US11291363B2 |
Inspection instrument with automatic strabismus detection mechanism, and inspection method thereof
An automatic strabismus detection mechanism includes a housing and an eyepiece arranged on the housing. A lens mechanism located on a same axis as the eyepiece is arranged in the housing. The lens mechanism is provided with a rotating mechanism for adjusting an angle of refraction. The automatic strabismus detection mechanism includes technical effects of being composed of the lens mechanism and automatically controlled to generate 0 to 50 prism degrees; the volume is small and the weight is light, which is lighter than that of a triangular prism block made of ordinary glass; and the manufacturing cost is low, which is about one fifth of the price of a lens row. Therefore, with the automatic strabismus detection mechanism, a variety of equipment and instruments based on the principle of triangular prism spectroscopic detection or dispersion is greatly improved, and development of related instruments and equipment is facilitated. |
| US11291361B2 |
Image processing method and system for edge detection and laser eye surgery system incorporating the same
A method of imaging an object includes obtaining an image data set from a raster scan. The image data set has a plurality of data points, each data point having an associated location and intensity; generating a reduced data set by selectively removing one or more data points from the image data set based upon an assigned probability of retaining the one or more data points in the data set, the assigned probability being a function of the intensity of a data point; generating a triangulation graph as a planar subdivision having faces that are triangles, the vertices of which are the data points and the edges of which are adjacent vertices; and segmenting the triangulated data set by finding a path with lowest cost between that vertex and every other vertex, wherein the cost is a function of the respective intensity of the vertices. |
| US11291360B2 |
Visual field test assistance apparatus
A visual field test assistance apparatus infers a current visual field status at each test point. A predetermined mixture distribution is applied to a prior-distribution, and parameters regarding the predetermined mixture distribution are learned with reference to time-series information of visual field test results obtained in the past regarding a plurality of cases. The visual field test assistance apparatus calculates an inference test result vector representing an inference result of visual sensitivity to be obtained by the visual field test at each test point, by Bayesian inference, and performs an information output process on the basis of the inference test result vector obtained by the inference. |
| US11291359B2 |
Vaginal speculum apparatus
A vaginal speculum apparatus includes a portable illumination assembly that is releasably attached to one of the upper blade and lower blade of a disposable vaginal speculum. The portable illumination assembly is defined by a housing that retains at least one LED and a portable power supply. The portable illumination assembly can be energized by an externally accessible member after the illuminator has been attached to the speculum. |
| US11291352B2 |
Method for manufacturing a tip housing
A method for manufacturing a tip housing for the distal tip of a vision device such as an endoscope is disclosed. The method includes providing a molding tool, introducing in the molding tool a first housing material, introducing in the molding at least one further housing material different from the first housing material, allowing the at least one further housing material to set and form a combined housing component with the first molding material, and removing the combined housing component from the molding tool. |
| US11291345B2 |
Floor cleaner
A floor cleaner including a vacuum source and a base movable over a surface to be cleaned. The base includes a front side, a back side opposite the front side, a lower end configured to be adjacent the surface to be cleaned, a suction inlet adjacent the front side and adjacent the lower end of the base and in fluid communication with the vacuum source, a brushroll rotatable about a brushroll axis, a first squeegee that extends from the lower end between the suction inlet and the back side of the base, the first squeegee configured to contact the surface to be cleaned. The base further includes a second squeegee that contacts the brushroll and the brushroll axis is between the lower end of the base and the second squeegee. |
| US11291344B2 |
Surface treatment tool
A portable surface treatment tool is provided, which is configured for attachment to a suction controller. The portable surface treatment tool is configured for use with vertical, overhead, inclined and horizontal surfaces and includes a head and a handle coupled to the head. The head includes: a rotatable surface treatment unit configured to engage a surface to be treated; a motor configured to drive the rotatable surface treatment unit; and a shroud substantially encasing at least a portion of the rotatable surface treatment unit, the shroud defining a suction region proximal the rotatable surface treatment unit. The suction region is configured to suck fluid from a surface to be treated. The shroud defines a suction connection formation configured to be coupled to a source of suction supplied by a suction controller, the suction connection formation being in fluid communication with the suction region to remove fluid from a surface to be treated. |
| US11291340B2 |
Paint booth filter
A paint booth filter assembly has a housing defining an interior having a securable lid, a shop vacuum exhaust attachment point, and a device exhaust. The device exhaust is secured within the lid. Secured within the interior of the housing is a plurality of removable air filters, having different levels of filtration. |
| US11291339B2 |
Modular vacuum system
A modular vacuum system includes a first and second canister of different capacities that are configured to store debris. The modular vacuum system also includes first and second power heads that can be coupled to either the first or second canisters. The first and second power heads operate at different voltages that generate a first and second suction airflow. The first and second canisters store debris separated from the first and second suction airflow. The first and second canisters also store debris separated only from the first suction airflow. |
| US11291335B2 |
Grinding device
A grinding device includes a grinding mechanism, a driving mechanism capable of driving the grinding mechanism to operate, and a grinding seat located between the grinding mechanism and the driving mechanism. The grinding mechanism includes a rotating shaft unit inserted in and protruded from the grinding seat to be rotatably connected to the driving mechanism, an inner grinding unit sleeved on the rotating shaft unit, and an outer grinding unit surrounding and spaced from the inner grinding unit. The driving mechanism is able to drive the rotating shaft unit to bring the inner grinding unit to rotate and grind the substance to be ground in cooperation with the outer grinding unit. The grinding mechanism further includes a supporting unit sleeved on and abutted against the rotating shaft unit. |
| US11291334B2 |
Grill apparatus and firebox assembly for use in a grill
A grill apparatus includes a bottom portion, a lid portion, a firebox and an ash bucket. The lid portion is coupled to the bottom portion forming a cooking chamber. The bottom portion receives the firebox. A support structure of the firebox rests on an inner surface of the bottom portion. An inner surface of the bottom port, the support structure of the firebox and a firebox lower opening define a first air path from a lower portion of the cooking chamber to a heat chamber. The ash bucket includes an air vent extending from a base of the ash bucket base into an internal ash receptacle and has an upper vent aperture with a vent cover connected to the air vent. The cover is disposed over an upper vent aperture to further define the first air path. |
| US11291327B2 |
Multi-function cooking apparatus with synchronized food processing for a remote kitchen appliance
A control system is described for synchronizing food processing steps performed by a multi-function cooking apparatus with food processing steps performed by one or more remote kitchen appliances, includes a recipe program interface for accessing a recipe program on a data storage device wherein the recipe program is configured to be executed by the cooking apparatus and has internal instructions configured to control functions of the cooking apparatus for performing food processing steps thereon, and has at least one external instruction for a remote food processing step performed by a particular remote kitchen appliance. |
| US11291320B2 |
Bunting bag
A bunting bag, particularly well-suited for use with children and child carriers, has a top panel detachably coupled to a bottom panel so that the top panel may be completely removed from the bottom panel. The bottom panel is configured or shaped to nest or mate in the child carrier without folds or substantial overhangs. The bottom panel includes a harness insert interface. A harness insert interface is provided that secures with the bottom panel via the harness insert interface. |
| US11291317B2 |
Marking apparatus and kit for blind mount alignment
A marking apparatus facilitates blind mounting of an object to a mounting surface in a desired alignment using the object as an alignment template. One end of the apparatus is configured to be affixed to a mounting slot or edge of the object, then the other end used to mark the appropriate supporting fastener location on the mounting surface. The object's mounting slots or edges may be represented by mounting hardware components that are flush with, recessed in, or protruding from the local planar surface of the object. To accommodate a broad variety of mounting conditions and mounting hardware, certain embodiments of the apparatus may include selectively adjustable or interchangeable head adapters, distinct head and retention configurations and/or a hardware relief channel A channel adapter is disclosed for use with embodiments of the apparatus having a hardware relief channel. Embodiments of a slot-securable point marking tool are also disclosed. |
| US11291315B2 |
Greeting card displayer
A greeting card displayer having a vertical portion and a horizontal portion perpendicular to the vertical portion, a hook which is attached to the vertical portion of the display, and an insert panel which has a greeting card attached thereto and gets inserted onto the display. The displayer is operative to be inserted onto (over card retainer of) a greeting card display and to highlight specific cards, such as, for example, pop-up greeting cards. |
| US11291314B2 |
Display system having a connector for selective attachment with a support surface
A hook and associated support structure can collectively define a retail display system. The hook may include a first bar and a second bar that are connected together via a connecting bar. The first bar and the second bar define a slot that receives an edge of an aperture or slot in the support structure therein to selective attached the hook to the support structure. The orientation of the connecting portions of the hook preclude or reduce the likelihood of disconnection of the hook relative to the support structure when objects are attached to or removed from the hook. In one example, the selective disconnection of the hook from the support structure is only accomplished through a vertical or nearly vertical vector force. |
| US11291313B2 |
Lighting apparatus and system for cosmetic displays
Exemplary embodiments of a lighting apparatus and system for cosmetic displays is provided. For example, a display shelf is provided including a support structure having a bottom wall and a side wall, an elongated power track having a length approximately a same length as the side wall, the elongated power track configured to be slidably received within the side wall of the support structure, and a power conductor rail provided in the elongated power track extending along the length of the power track configured to provide power to a modular housing. The modular housing includes a plunge contact that connects to the elongated power track to provide power to lighting within the modular housing. |
| US11291310B2 |
Chair
A seat or back for a chair comprises a frame having a first edge strut and a second edge strut, the first and second edge struts being on opposite edges of the seat or back. The first edge strut has a groove along all or most of its length, an elongate insert, and a mesh, the mesh being attached to the insert along an edge of the mesh. The insert has a section shaped to correspond to the section of the groove, such that the insert can be urged into the groove, the compression of the groove holding the insert in place. |
| US11291308B1 |
Product includes a lip projecting from an outer perimeter of an underside of a mattress to define a recessed cavity and having gaps in the lip for passage of a power cord
A product upon which a person may lie down that includes a mattress whose underside has a peripheral flange or perimeter wall, i.e., a lip, that bounds a recessed cavity. The lip has gaps to accommodate passage of a power cord from within the recessed cavity to without. The lip and the mattress may have separate covers or both be within the same cover. |
| US11291307B2 |
Body support
An apparatus for use with a wall and by a person leaning against the wall and including: a receiver mounted in use to the wall; a support having an operative position whereat the support generally follows the curvature of the buttocks of the person; and a mechanism adapted to suspend the support from the receiver at the operative position. |
| US11291297B2 |
Portable and adjustable picnic table
A picnic table includes a table panel, one or more bench panels and a supporting frame to support the table and bench panels. The supporting frame includes first and second supporting assemblies, each including a table support and one or more bench supports. The supporting frame further includes a table frame and one or more bench frames. The table frame rotatably connects the table support of each of the first and second supporting assemblies with the table panel. Each bench frame rotatably connects a bench support of each of the first and second supporting assemblies with a bench panel. The table support of each of the first and second supporting assemblies is adjustable in length. Adjusting the length of the table support changes the height of the table panel with respect to the one or more bench panels. |
| US11291296B2 |
Brush fibers with crystal-infused coating
Example aspects of a mixture for coating a brush fiber, a cosmetic brush, and a method for manufacturing a coated brush fiber are disclosed. The method for manufacturing a coated brush fiber can comprise idling an uncoated brush fiber in a mixer containing crystal particles; introducing a resin into the mixer; heating and agitating the resin and crystal particles within the mixer to form a mixture; and coating the uncoated brush fiber with the mixture to form a coated brush fiber. |
| US11291295B2 |
Oral care system
The present disclosure generally relates to oral care systems and devices. An oral care system includes a container defining an interior portion. The container includes a repository provided within the interior portion and configured to hold a fluid, and a barrier configured to maintain the fluid separate from the interior portion. The barrier is configured to be breached to expose the interior portion to the fluid. The system further includes a tube configured to slide in the interior portion of the container. The tube includes a distal end configured to breach the barrier when the tube is moved in a direction of the fluid in the repository. |
| US11291293B2 |
Oral care implement
An oral care implement having tooth cleaning elements and an elastomeric soft tissue cleanser. In one aspect, the oral care implement has a handle and a head coupled to the handle, an elastomeric soft tissue cleanser having a plurality of protuberances extending from a rear surface of the head, and a plurality of tooth cleaning elements extending from a front surface of the head. The protuberances of the elastomeric soft tissue cleanser collectively define a convex longitudinal side profile and comprise at least one convex transverse top profile. The plurality of tooth cleaning elements collectively define a concave longitudinal side profile and comprise at least one concave transverse top profile. |
| US11291292B2 |
Elastically-pressed electric toothbrush head
An electric toothbrush head includes a brush body. The brush body includes an insertion cavity and a plug-in unit inserted into the insertion cavity. The plug-in unit includes a friction arm and an elastic arm cooperatively forming a pressing channel therebetween. The elastic arm has a bending section with a pressing surface facing the pressing channel. The friction arm has a convex section with a friction surface facing the pressing channel. The pressing surface and a concave-convex structure of the convex section press opposite sides of a vibration unit to fix the vibration unit in the pressing channel. The convex section has a concave surface facing an inner side wall of the insertion cavity, with a curved interval formed between the concave surface and the inner side wall. An elastic rubber block is filled in the curved interval and the elastic rubber block abuts against the inner side wall. |
| US11291289B2 |
Key assist devices
Key assist devices for enabling a user to conveniently and repeatedly attach a key to a key ring's split ring and detach it therefrom and, during its detachment, securely clamp the key to a clothing item for safely carrying the key. The key assist devices include a spring clip with the interchangeability functionality of freely and directly suspending a key from a key ring's split ring and clamping the key on a clothing item. The key assist devices are designed such that they are unable to merely slide off a split ring but rather requires a specific user manipulation. |
| US11291287B2 |
System for dispensing a cosmetic product
A system for dispensing a product, having a dispenser that receives at least two cartridges that each have a reservoir containing a base product, a first base product including at least 0.1% by mass of particles exhibiting a difference in density, with the medium which contains them, the particles having a density greater than or equal to 2 g/cm3, and a thickener, the dispenser making it possible to deliver at least two base products in adjustable proportions, the viscosity of the first base product being greater than 2 Pa·s is provided. |
| US11291285B2 |
Wireless hot shaving cream dispenser
A wireless hot shaving cream dispenser is provided. The dispenser includes a nozzle extending from a housing for dispensing a foam output. A flow path extends within the housing from a soap solution reservoir to the nozzle. A disrupter on the flow path downstream from the reservoir has a convoluted surface on the flow path to form a foam from soap solution flowing along the flow path. A heating assembly heats the dispenser to provide heat to the foam on the flow path, and a pump pumps soap solution from the reservoir through the disrupter to the nozzle along the flow path. A method of producing a hot shaving cream lather using the dispenser is provided. |
| US11291284B2 |
Formula delivery head
A formula delivery appliance generally includes a formula delivery head having features to mix, direct, and distribute formulation through nozzles to a desired location, such as the hair or scalp of a user. In this regard, the formula delivery head may include a plurality of nozzles configured to discharge the formulation at a desired flow rate. In some instances, the flow rate across the plurality of nozzles is controlled such that each nozzle has a flow rate within a specified percentage of the average flow rate across the plurality of nozzles. |
| US11291282B2 |
Jewelry box
A jewelry box comprising a lid, a drawer, a lift assembly and a jewelry holder; wherein the lid comprises a top, two parallel sides and an interior surface with opposing guide grooves on the interior surface of the sides; wherein the lid and drawer are sized to engage together and to slide to an opened position and a closed position; wherein the lift assembly is positioned in the drawer; the lift assembly having a down position when the lid and drawer are in the closed position and an up position when the lid and drawer are in the opened position; wherein the jewelry holder is positioned in the drawer attached to the lift assembly, and as the lift assembly moves from the down position to the up position, the jewelry holder pivots from the down position to the up position. |
| US11291281B1 |
Roll-aboard garment bag
A roller garment bag is disclosed that combines and integrates a carry-on and a garment bag into a single luggage case, which obtains the desirable conveniences of carry-on luggage while retaining all of the desirable aspects of a garment bag and a carry-on without introducing any significant detriments to the individual advantages of each style of luggage bag by itself. |
| US11291276B1 |
Closed end zipper with combined bottom stop
A closed end zipper includes a bottom stop at the end of one zipper tape, and a pin at the end of the other zipper tape. The bottom stop has a pin hole and a first detent portion in the pin hole. The pin has a second detent portion formed on the front surface and/or one lateral surface thereof corresponding to the first detent portion. When used to manufacture clothing, the two separate zipper tapes can be sewn on the fabric separately through the template, and then the pin of the other zipper tape is inserted into the pin hole of the bottom stop, so that the second detent portion and the first detent portion snap together. Using this structure, the closed end nylon zipper or resin zipper are suitable for the automated template sewing process to achieve a simple and stable assembly without separation. |
| US11291270B2 |
Article of footwear having cushioning system
An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole coupled to the upper. The sole includes an upper sole, a fluid filled bladder coupled to the upper sole, and a plurality of recesses disposed between the upper sole and the bladder. The bladder includes a plurality of chambers extending below the upper sole. The plurality of chambers hold a fluid. Ambient air is disposed within the plurality of recesses between the upper sole and the bladder. |
| US11291265B2 |
Surgical garment
A surgical garment for use with a helmet, wherein the garment comprises a shell, a transparent face shield, and an attachment element coupled to the transparent face shield. The garment may be configured to define a barrier between the wearer and the environment. The attachment element configured to removably couple with a coupling member of the helmet, wherein the attachment element and coupling member comprise complementary coupling surfaces. The attachment element comprises a head having a distal surface and a proximal surface, and defining a coupling recess, the coupling recess is defined in the proximal surface of the head. The garment may comprise a first and second attachment element, with the first attachment element being coupled to upper portion of the transparent face shield and the second attachment element being coupled to lower portion of the transparent face shield. |
| US11291264B2 |
Football helmet shell
A plastic football helmet has a shell with a left earflap in a left side region and a right earflap in a right side region, each ear flap having a non-circular ear hole, and an offset area defined on a top edge by a top banked portion and on a bottom edge by a bottom banked portion, the offset area extending continuously from the right ear flap, across the rear region, to the left ear flap. The non-circular ear holes are in the offset area. Both the top edge and the bottom edge of the offset area curve upward from the right ear flap to the rear region and curve upward from the left ear flap to the rear region. The top edge and bottom edge do not meet at any point such that offset area begins at an open right end in the right earflap and ends at an open left end in the left earflap. Cheek support are attached to the earflaps to improve retention of the helmet and provide protection to the cheek area against blows. |
| US11291262B2 |
Helmet with sliding facilitator arranged at energy absorbing layer
A helmet having an energy absorbing layer (2) and a sliding facilitator (5) is provided. The sliding facilitator is provided inside of the energy absorbing (2). A method of manufacturing a helmet having a sliding facilitator is farther provided. The method having the steps of: providing an energy absorbing layer in the mould, and providing a sliding facilitator for contacting the energy absorbing layer. |
| US11291261B2 |
Helmet lighting system
A helmet including a lighting system integrated into said helmet, the lighting system comprising a first layer; light emitting means mounted to said first layer; controller means mounted to said first layer for controlling said light emitting means; wiring means for linking said light emitting means to said controller means; a second layer fixably attached to said first layer thereby providing an area between said first and second layer for said light emitting means, controller means, and wiring means; power means fixably attached to said second layer for powering said controller and light emitting means; and operating means functionally linked to said controller means for operating said controller means. The application also discloses lighting system contained in a shell that that can be attached to an existing helmet. This application also discloses a lighting system contained in a flexible material that can be fitted onto an existing helmet. |
| US11291258B2 |
Apparel pocket system
Aspects herein provide for a pocket structure for an apparel item. The apparel item comprises an outer panel of material, an inner panel of material, a pocket panel, and a double-layer trim piece such as a waistband. A top edge of the outer panel is affixed to an outer layer of the waistband, and a top edge of the inner panel is affixed to an inner layer of the waistband. The pocket panel is positioned between the inner panel and the outer panel, and a top edge of the pocket panel is affixed to the outer layer of the waistband, and a bottom edge of the pocket panel is affixed to the inner panel of material. A pocket space is defined between the pocket panel and the inner panel of material. An opening to the space is formed through the outer layer of the waistband. |
| US11291254B2 |
Aerosol delivery device including a moveable cartridge and related assembly method
The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices may include a housing and a cartridge including an atomizer and a reservoir configured to contain an aerosol precursor composition. The cartridge may be configured to move relative to at least a portion of the housing between a retracted configuration and an extended configuration. Related assembly methods are also provided. |
| US11291252B2 |
Proximity sensing for an aerosol delivery device
A control body is coupled or coupleable with a cartridge that is equipped with a heating element and contains an aerosol precursor composition, the control body and cartridge forming an aerosol delivery device. The control body includes a control to control the heating element to activate and vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition. The proximity sensor detects a presence of an object nearby the control body without requiring any physical contact with the object. And the proximity sensor or control component controls operation of at least one functional element of the aerosol delivery device in response to the presence of the object so detected. In another aspect, a cartridge may include a proximity sensor to detect a level of the aerosol precursor composition, and operation of functional element(s) may be controlled in response to the level of the aerosol precursor composition so detected. |
| US11291250B2 |
Aerosol generating device and method for controlling same
An aerosol generating device includes: a case into which a cigarette is to be inserted; a cap detachably coupled to a top portion of the case; a cover configured to slide on a top surface of the cap so as to open or close a cigarette insertion hole; a first sensor configured to sense whether the cigarette insertion hole is open or closed; and a controller configured to determine whether the cigarette insertion hole is open or closed based on a signal sensed by the first sensor and set an operational mode of the aerosol generating device as an ON mode or an OFF mode based on a result of the determining. |
| US11291248B2 |
Aerosol-generating system including a cartridge containing a gel and a device for heating the cartridge
An aerosol-generating system may include a device body and a cartridge configured to be removably inserted into or connected to the device body. The device body may include a power supply and an electrical heater connected to the power supply. The cartridge contains an aerosol-forming substrate in the form of a thermoreversible gel that is a solid at room temperature. |
| US11291243B2 |
Aerosol generating article having water dispersible filter component
An aerosol generating article (10) comprises: an aerosol generating substrate (12); a filter (14) in axial alignment with the aerosol generating substrate, the filter (14) comprising at least one water dispersible filter component (16), wherein the filter component is water dispersible under the test conditions of EN 14987:2006; and a tipping wrapper (20) wrapped around the filter (14) and at least a portion of the aerosol generating substrate (12). The tipping wrapper (20) comprises: a first weakening line (22) extending around at least a portion of the tipping wrapper (20); a removable tipping wrapper portion (26) extending downstream from the at least one weakening line (22) and at least partially overlying the water dispersible filter component (16); and an upstream tipping wrapper portion (24) extending upstream from the first weakening line (22), wherein the upstream tipping wrapper portion (24) is attached to a downstream portion of the aerosol generating substrate (12) and an upstream portion of the filter (14). |
| US11291237B2 |
Container comprising a first chamber and a second chamber
A container is disclosed which has a first chamber and a second chamber separated by a wall. The separating wall is configured so that at least one substance emitted by a donor product received in the second chamber is conveyed from the second chamber into the first chamber through said separating wall. In this way, a characteristic of the donor product is imparted to a recipient product in said first chamber. |
| US11291235B2 |
Phloretin
Provided herein is a method of reducing the off-taste of a food or beverage wherein the off-taste is selected from the group consisting of licorice, astringency, bitterness and sweet lingering comprising adding about 10 to about 40 ppm, phloretin to the food or beverage wherein the phloretin is provided in the substantial absence of a bitterness-masking aroma substance selected from the groups consisting of homoeriodictylol, homoeriodictyol sodium salt, homoeriodictylol potassium salt or mixtures thereof and wherein the phloretin does not significantly enhance the sweetness of the article or composition. |
| US11291233B2 |
Compositions and methods for improving rebaudioside M solubility
Rebaudioside M compositions with improved aqueous solubility and methods for preparing the same are provided herein. The rebaudioside M compositions include (i) disordered crystalline compositions comprising rebaudioside M and rebaudioside D, (ii) spray-dried compositions comprising rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D and steviol glycoside mixtures and/or rebaudioside B and/or NSF-02, (iii) spray-dried compositions comprising rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D and at least one surfactant, polymer, saponin, carbohydrate, polyol, preservative or a combination thereof. Sweetened compositions, such a beverages, containing the rebaudioside M compositions with improved water solubility are also provided herein. |
| US11291232B2 |
Highly soluble Rebaudioside D
The invention relates to a process for producing highly soluble compositions containing purified steviol glycosides from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plant extract, more particularly Rebaudioside D. Obtained highly soluble compositions are useful as non-caloric sweeteners or in combination with sugar or high intensity sweeteners in edible and chewable compositions such as beverages, confectionaries, bakery products, chewing gums and the like. |
| US11291230B2 |
Perfume composition, food and beverage, and method for producing food and beverage
A flavor composition to be added to a food or drink, which composition contains at least one selected from the group consisting of (−)-mustakone, (+)-mustakone, and a mixture thereof, the drink may be a citrus drink including a citrus, and the citrus may be at least one selected from the group consisting of grapefruit, orange, and lemon. |
| US11291228B2 |
Device for flavoring lightweight food products
A food product flavoring apparatus is provided. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a removable container configured to contain a flavor target, a device for agitating the flavor target, and a housing. The housing is configured to receive the agitated flavor target when the removable container is adjacent the housing such that the container opening is aligned with the housing opening. The apparatus further includes a device for applying a flavoring agent to the agitated flavor target a device for removing substantially all residual flavoring agent from the housing after the flavor target has been flavored. A method of applying a flavoring agent to a flavor target is also provided. |
| US11291221B2 |
Methods for determination of bioactivity, quantity, removal, or inactivation of cereal amylase trypsin inhibitors in cereals, flours, plants, and complex foods
The present invention features methods of extracting amylase trypsin inhibitors (ATIs) from processed and unprocessed foodstuff, determining bioactivity of ATIs, quantifying the amount of ATIs in a foodstuff, and reducing the content of ATIs in a foodstuff. |
| US11291217B2 |
Edible caramel color composition
An edible caramel color composition and method of making the same are disclosed. The method of making an edible caramel color composition includes the step of heating a reaction mixture to form a caramel color composition, wherein the reaction mixture contains: a carbohydrate, and a sulfite compound, in the absence of a caustic compound and in the absence of an ammonium compound. |
| US11291215B2 |
Durable asymmetric composite membranes and modified substrates used in their preparation
Durable asymmetric composite membranes consisting essentially of a film of cross-linked sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) adhered to a sheet of hydrophilicitized microporous poly(ethylene) are disclosed. The membranes have application in the recovery of water from feed streams where the ability to clean in situ is desirable, for example in dairy processing. Methods of preparing cross-linked sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) suitable for use as the rejection layer and hydrophilicitized sheets of microporous poly(ethylene) suitable for use as the support layer of such membranes are also disclosed. |
| US11291214B2 |
Proteases for high protein fermented milk products
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, and uses concerning the enzymatic preparation of a fermented milk product. |
| US11291211B2 |
Dough kneading and feeding system of dough processing machine
A dough kneading and feeding system includes a dough barrel that defines a dough handling space in which a screw shaft is provided to extend through a shaft hole and a discharge opening of the dough barrel. An ejection nozzle is coupled with the discharge opening. The screw shaft includes a blade for driving a dough material toward the discharge opening located at the front side to be discharged through the ejection nozzle. At least one assisting screw is arranged, in combination with a bearing, to be parallel with the screw shaft in the dough handling space. The assisting screw includes at least one helical blade, which is rotatable to drive the dough material in a direction opposite to the direction of the dough material driven by the screw shaft and also to drive the dough material toward the screw shaft in a radial direction of the screw shaft. |
| US11291206B2 |
Herbicidal composition comprising cinmethylin and specific pigment synthesis inhibitors
The present invention relates to a herbicidal composition comprising specific pigment synthesis inhibitors selected from beflubutamide, flurtamone and clomazone. The invention also relates to methods and uses for controlling undesirable vegetation, in particular in crops. |
| US11291201B2 |
Solutions for increasing the stability and shelf life of an organ and tissue preservation solution
Organ and tissue preservation solutions having improved stability are disclosed. The solutions are comprised of two separate solutions. The first solution, Solution A, is comprised of a balanced salt solution that is stable in solution at a pH of 7.0 or above. A second solution, Solution B, is comprised of an aqueous solution containing L-glutathione and/or cysteinylglycine, a sugar such as D-glucose, L-Arginine, a reducing agent such as ascorbic acid and water at a pH of below 7.0, preferably from about 3.0 to 5.0. The two Solutions are then mixed together at the point of use and the pH adjusted to about 7.3 resulting in the organ and tissue preservation solution having improved stability. Preferably, solution A has a pH of about 7.6 and solution B has a pH of about 5.0. The present invention is also comprised of kits 20 that contain the two Solutions in two separate containers 22, 24. In an alternate embodiment, the sugar can be in Solution A. |
| US11291200B2 |
Application of viable cell monitor to cryopreservation of plant cells
The present disclosure relates to the application of a viable cell monitor to the cryopreservation of plant cells. The viable cell monitor is, for the first time, used in a method for rapidly evaluating the effect of cell freezing-preservation. The effect of a cryoprotectant on cell preservation is evaluated through the change in the capacitance of viable cells before and after cell freezing and resuscitation. Viable cell electrodes can provide a quick and accurate characterization of viable cell concentrations. Combining the viable cell capacitance with the detection result of 2,3,4-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride (TTC), a rapid and quantitative evaluation of the effect of a freezing method on cell preservation can be achieved, thus overcoming the low effectiveness and non-quantification of previous cell preservation methods. Compared with traditional methods, the method of the present disclosure can improve the comprehensive score of cell cryopreservation by 5 times or more. |
| US11291198B2 |
Methods and systems for bird deterrence and maintenance thereof
Systems and methods for effectively repelling pest animals (e.g., birds), including drones that adopt complex deterrent strategies (e.g., cooperative strategies), establishing a fuzzy boundary for a geofenced area and altering pest deterrent device flight patterns based on the characteristics of the fuzzy boundaries. Deterrence strategies can be selected based on the type of pest animals, and new deterrence strategies can be generated based on outcome feedback from previous strategies (e.g., combining aspects of preexisting deterrence strategies by utilizing an AI system). Drones can be automatically maintained by comparing current drone operational status with a predetermined threshold level. A maintenance robot (e.g., a drone) can autonomously rescues a working robot (e.g., another drone) that is in trouble. |
| US11291192B2 |
Modular beehive apparatus
An improved modular beehive apparatus includes a hive body, a hive top, a hive bottom, a plurality of frames, and at least one securing means for securing at least the top to the body. In one embodiment of the present invention, the body is modular, thereby allowing multiple bodies to be stacked on top of one another. To ensure modularity, not only should an uppermost portion of the body be configured to mate with the top, but it should also be configured to mate with a lowermost portion of another body. To enhance integrity, the portions that mate (e.g., the top and body) should be “interlockable.” The more interlocking the structures are, the more secure the beehive apparatus becomes. Especially if the structures are secured together (e.g., using screws, etc.). |
| US11291185B2 |
Animal feeding teats and a teat mounting system
Animal feeding teats are often removed from a feeding receptacle for cleaning or for re-use on a larger receptacle. A nipple end of the teats is typically designed for use in a specific orientation to aid the suckling of a young animal, and therefore the teats need to be fitted to the feeding receptacle correctly. The animal feeding teat has a rectangular connection feature in a base end of the teat that is designed to mate with a similarly shaped feature on a feeding receptacle. It is considered important that the connection feature has only one or two lines of symmetry, so that the teat can only be fitted in one or two orientations relative to the receptacle. |
| US11291184B2 |
Watering tank circulating assembly
A watering tank circulating assembly includes a frame submerged in a livestock watering tank. A fluid pump is coupled to the frame to circulate the water when the fluid pump is turned on. In this way the fluid pump inhibits the water from freezing. A heating coil is coupled to the frame to heat the water when the heating coil is turned on, thusly inhibiting the water from freezing. A thermostatic switch is coupled to the frame and each of the fluid pump and the heating coil is electrically coupled to the thermostatic switch. The thermostatic switch turns on each of the fluid pump and the heating coil when the temperature of the water drops below a trigger temperature. Additionally, the thermostatic switch turns off each of the fluid pump and the heating coil when the temperature of the water rises about the trigger temperature. |
| US11291181B2 |
Pepper cultivar RPP 46475 having resistance to bacterial leaf spot
The present invention provides pepper plant RPP 46475 and plant parts, seed, fruit, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a pepper plant by crossing the pepper plants of the invention with themselves or another pepper plant. The invention also provides plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, fruit, and tissue culture therefrom. |
| US11291180B1 |
Alfalfa variety AFX164041
A novel alfalfa variety designated AFX164041 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing an alfalfa plant comprise crossing alfalfa variety AFX164041 with another alfalfa plant. Methods for producing an alfalfa plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits transgenes or locus conversions introgressed into AFX164041 through backcross conversion and/or transformation are provided and the alfalfa seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Alfalfa seed, plants or plant parts produced by crossing alfalfa variety AFX164041 or a locus or trait conversion of AFX164041 with another alfalfa plant or population are disclosed. Alfalfa populations derived from alfalfa variety AFX164041, methods for producing other alfalfa populations derived from alfalfa variety AFX164041 and the alfalfa populations and their parts derived by the use of those methods. |
| US11291178B1 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH011125
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011125. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011125, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011125 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011125. |
| US11291177B1 |
Maize hybrid X18R022PWE
A novel maize variety designated X18R022PWE and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X18R022PWE with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X18R022PWE through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X18R022PWE, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X18R022PWE are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X18R022PWE and methods of using maize variety X18R022PWE are disclosed. |
| US11291172B2 |
Methods and systems for irrigation guidance
The present invention provides systems and methods in the field of precision agriculture, particularly to systems and methods for precision irrigation that is based, among other factors, upon actual and forecasted water needs of a crop. |
| US11291168B2 |
Tilting plant shade and selective fertilizer distribution device
A device having a fertilizer base that is configured to be operable for distributing fertilizer to a surrounding soil. A collapsible or retractable umbrella is into engagement with the fertilizer base, wherein the umbrella is configured to provide shade for the plant. A bottom portion of a shaft section engages the fertilizer base and a top portion of the collapsible or retractable umbrella. The shaft section includes a tilting shaft that is operable to be tilted to provide partial or full shade to the plant proximal to the fertilizer base according to a sun's orientation or the plant's required amount of sunlight. An adapter coupling is configured to facilitate the engagement or separation of the shaft section with the fertilizer base and allow a user to add fertilizer to the cartridge area without uninstalling the device. |
| US11291165B2 |
Dimming method for constant light intensity
The invention provides a horticulture arrangement (1000) for a plant (1), the horticulture arrangement (1000) comprising (i) a horticulture lighting system (100) configured to provide horticulture light (101) to plants (1), (ii) one or more reflective elements (310) configured to reflect part of the horticulture light (101) to the plant (1), and (iii) a control system (200), wherein the control system (200) is configured to control one or more of a light intensity and a spectral distribution of the horticulture light (101) in dependence of the reflection of the horticulture light (101) by the one or more reflective elements (310). |
| US11291157B2 |
Apparatus and method for powering a garment
A lawn mower has an electrical port that receives current from an alternator powered by the lawn mower engine. The current and voltage sent the electrical port depend on a flywheel and stator arrangement operatively connected to the alternator. The stator may be replaceable or interchangeable to selectively determine the alternator current and voltage output. The port receives a plug from a garment worn by the lawn mower operator. The garment includes one or more thermo-electric elements that are powered from current extending through the port. The thermo-electric elements may be resistive heaters to warm the operator or TEC coolers to cool the operator. Furthermore, the garment may include a rechargeable battery that powers the thermo-electric elements when the plug is disconnected from the port. |
| US11291156B2 |
Single particulate metering system with variable rate controls
A particulate metering system includes an air flow origin and a plurality of particulate accelerators. A single particulate source is in communication with the particulate accelerators. Each of a plurality of operated conveyances can be in operable communication with the single particulate source and one of the particulate accelerators. The system includes a confluence of the air flow and the particulate within the mixing area of each of the particulate accelerators. Each of a plurality of discharges can be associated with the particulate accelerators. The operated conveyances can operate at different rates. The system can include one or more gearboxes adapted to be inverted and controlled by a second drive system. The system and controls provide variable application rates of particulate across rows in a field. |
| US11291152B2 |
Agricultural machine and system for revisiting a planted plot, and related method
This machine includes a tool (30) actuated by an actuating module (32); a dual-frequency satellite positioning module (40) able to take into account corrections relative to the disruptions affecting the propagation of radio navigation signals emitted by each of the visible radio navigation satellites and that are caused by the ionosphere, so as to determine an absolute position of the machine, and consequently of the tool, which is precise to within a centimeter; and a computer (50) able to compare the instantaneous absolute position of the tool and an absolute position of a current revisiting point, selected from among the revisiting points of a revisiting plan, the computer then being able to command the actuation module. |
| US11297748B2 |
Electromagnetic shielding film
A film shielding against electromagnetic interference comprises an insulating layer, a silver layer, and a conductive adhesive layer. The insulating layer is made of polyimide. The metal layer is formed on the insulating layer. The conductive adhesive layer is coated on the metal layer and is very thin but renders the film less prone to bubbling and rupturing when in place. |
| US11297738B2 |
Data center cooling system
This disclosure describes systems for cooling one or more data halls of a data center that include one or more sections of a cooling spine. Each section of the cooling spine includes a riser module, a manifold module, and one or more arrays of cooling units. The riser module includes riser piping configured to fluidically couple to a liquid cooling system. The manifold module includes manifold piping fluidically coupled to the riser piping. Each array of cooling units is positioned toward a data hall of the one or more data halls of the data center and includes a heat exchanger assembly and a circulation assembly. The heat exchanger assembly is fluidically coupled to the manifold piping and configured to cool return air from a hot aisle adjacent a row of cabinets. The circulation assembly is configured to discharge supply air to a cold aisle adjacent the row of cabinets. |
| US11297736B2 |
Data center cooling system with stacked rows of server racks
A data center cooling system includes a server rack frame assembly that includes a plurality of bays defined along a lengthwise dimension of the frame assembly, each bay including a volume defined at least in part by a specified height that is orthogonal to the lengthwise dimension and a specified width that is parallel to the lengthwise dimension and sized to at least partially enclose at least one server rack configured to support a plurality of data center computing devices; and at least one cooling unit sized for a bay of the plurality of bays of the server rack frame assembly and configured to circulate a heated airflow from an open back side of the at least one server rack, cool the heated air, and circulate a cooling airflow through an open front side of the at least one server rack. |
| US11297730B1 |
Tool free removable chassis cover
A computer chassis can include a top cover that can be secured and removed without the need for tools. Sidewalls of a chassis base can include receiving slots that receive bosses of the top cover. A latch receiver mounted to a bottom surface of the chassis base can receive a sliding body of a latch assembly of the top cover. The computer chassis can be assembled by placing the top cover on the chassis base such that the bosses are placed into the receiving slots, and such that the sliding body fits within the latch receiver. In this position, rotation of a lever of the latch assembly can force the top cover to move with respect to the chassis base, pushing the bosses of the top cover towards distal ends of the receiving slots of the chassis base, thus securing the top cover to the chassis base. |
| US11297728B1 |
Carrier supporting nested, replaceable hardware components
A chassis housing one or more Information Handling Systems (IHSs) includes a bay for coupling hardware components to the chassis, such as rear-facing bay that extends from the chassis midplane to an externally accessible opening. A first hardware component is fastened to a removeable carrier and the carrier is inserted in the bay, with the first hardware component coupling to the midplane. The carrier includes arms that extend to the externally accessible opening. Each arm includes a retractable handle that is used, when in an extended position, to extract the carrier from the bay. A second, removeable hardware component is inserted in the bay, with the second hardware components nested between the arms of the carrier. The carrier handles rotate to a concealed position when the second hardware component is nested in the carrier and the handles rotate to the extended position when the second hardware component is removed. |
| US11297724B2 |
Electronic device including battery
An electronic device is provided, including a foldable housing including first and second housing structures; a hinge structure disposed between the first housing structure and the second housing structure and configured to fold or unfold the first housing structure and the second housing structure; a flexible display exposed through at least a portion of a first surface of the foldable housing; a battery disposed inside the second housing structure wherein a partial surface thereof is adjacent to the hinge structure; and a battery plate disposed between the battery and the flexible display, wherein the battery plate includes: a first surface parallel to the first surface of the foldable housing; a first fastening part aligned with the first surface of the battery plate and coupled to a first surface of the second housing structure; a second surface perpendicular to the first surface of the battery plate and adjacent to the hinge structure; and a second fastening part perpendicular to the second surface of the battery plate and coupled to a second surface of the second housing structure opposite to the first surface of the second housing structure. |
| US11297723B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display module, a support part arranged on a rear surface of the display module and including a support plate and a plurality of support bars, a first case configured to accommodate the display module and the support part, a second case coupled to the first case so as to be movable away from or closer to the first case in a first direction, a first rotating unit below some support bars, of the plurality of support bars, arranged horizontally together with the support plate, a second rotating unit below some other support bars of the plurality of support bars, and belt units each configured to couple a portion of the first rotating unit and a portion of the second rotating unit adjacent to each other, and the support part is movable according to a rotation of the first and second rotating units. |
| US11297718B2 |
Methods of manufacturing flex circuits with mechanically formed conductive traces
A method of manufacturing a flexible circuit comprises providing a laminated substrate that includes a conductive layer, an adhesive layer, and a support layer. The method comprises forming conductive traces by removing selected portions of the conductive layer and the adhesive layer by dry milling the laminated substrate. The method comprises applying a protective coating to the conductive traces. The method comprises dispensing a solder material on the protective coating at a first connection point and arranging a first component at the first connection point. The method comprises heating the solder material to remove the protective coating from the first connection point and to connect the first component to one of the conductive traces at the first connection point. The method comprises attaching a second component to the conductive layer at a second connection point that is free of the protective coating by a process other than soldering. |
| US11297717B2 |
Power decoupling attachment
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, and resulting structure, of forming a semiconductor structure. The method may include forming a component hole from a first surface to a second surface of a base layer. The method may include placing an electrical component in the component hole. The electrical component has a conductive structure on both ends of the electrical component. The electrical component is substantially parallel to the first surface. The method may include forming a laminate layer on the first surface of the base layer, the second surface of the base layer, and between the base layer and the electrical component. The method may include creating a pair of via holes, where the pair of holes align with the conductive structures on both ends of the electrical component. The method may include forming a conductive via in the pair of via holes. |
| US11297707B2 |
Lighting for root growth
A biological lighting system to provide temporally- and spatially-modulated photon flux output and spectral power distributions to plants on a circadian and circannual basis, or circadian and life cycle basis, to maximize effective and efficient growth in a horticultural setting. The photon flux or irradiance output and the spectral power distribution are modulated to match circadian and circannual rhythms, with individual or multiple luminaires controlled through one or more controllers. Different lighting spectra can be employed depending on the direction of illumination. The photon flux or irradiance output and the spectral power distribution may be set as best suited for any particular plant species, and the system is also useful for raising animals. |
| US11297704B2 |
Systems and methods for bleeder control related to TRIAC dimmers associated with LED lighting
System and method for controlling one or more light emitting diodes. For example, the system includes: a current regulator including a first regulator terminal and a second regulator terminal, the first regulator terminal being configured to receive a diode current flowing through the one or more light emitting diodes, the current regulator being configured to generate a sensing signal representing the diode current, the second regulator terminal being configured to output the sensing signal; a bleeder controller including a first controller terminal and a second controller terminal, the first controller terminal being configured to receive the sensing signal from the second regulator terminal, the bleeder controller being configured to generate a first bleeder control signal based at least in part on the sensing signal, the second controller terminal being configured to output the first bleeder control signal. |
| US11297701B2 |
Switch based lighting control
An LED driver includes a controller configured to detect toggles of a switch that controls whether electrical power is provided to the LED driver. The controller is further configured to determine whether a toggle sequence of the switch matches an operation mode sequence. The toggle sequence of the switch includes a sequence of one or more toggles of the toggles of the switch that the controller detects. The controller is also configured to change a setting of the LED driver based on whether the toggle sequence of the switch matches the operation mode sequence. |
| US11297699B2 |
LED module with sleep mode and LED light string having the same
An LED module with sleep mode includes a detection circuit, a driver circuit, and at least one LED. A control unit of the driver circuit receives and stores a lighting command according to a lighting drive signal, and controls lighting behaviors of the at least one LED according to the lighting command. When the driver circuit detects that the voltage of the lighting drive signal decreases below a first threshold value, the driver circuit performs signal identifications of the lighting drive signal. When the driver circuit detects that the voltage of the lighting drive signal decreases below a second threshold value through a second detection signal provided by the detection circuit, the driver circuit enters a sleep mode from a working mode, and minimizes the discharge speed of the lighting drive signal. |
| US11297697B1 |
Light modulating control method for dimming analog constant current LED driver
An LED driver for light modulation control includes a power converter circuit, a feedback circuit, a buffer circuit, an energy recovery circuit, and a controller. The power converter circuit is configured to provide an output current to an LED load coupled thereto. The feedback circuit is configured to generate an error signal which is fed back to the power converter circuit for maintaining the power converter circuit in a constant current output state. The buffer circuit is coupled to the LED load and configured for quick turn off of the LED load and for temporary storage of power. The energy recovery circuit is configured to reuse the power stored in the buffer circuit before relying on an external power source to power the controller and the feedback circuit. The controller is configured to control at least one aspect of each of the circuits of the LED driver. |
| US11297694B2 |
Range with suspended cooktop
A slide-in or drop-in cooking range includes an upper cooktop in the form of a module suspended above an oven cavity. For installation purposes, the upper cooktop can be vertically repositioned relative to the oven cavity to assure proper alignment with the countertop and avoid damage to the cooktop as a result of combined thermal and mechanical stresses over time. The disclosure is particularly applicable to ranges employing glass cooktops having a periphery designed to rest upon edge portions of a countertop and contemplates various mechanisms to perform the cooktop repositioning function, including select mechanisms for locking, ratcheting and biasing the cooktop to establish a desired vertical position for the cooktop. |
| US11297692B2 |
Multilayered panels
A panel includes a substrate and an electro-thermal layer disposed on the substrate. A thermally conductive and electrically insulating top layer is disposed on the electro-thermal layer. The top layer, electro-thermal layer, and substrate can all be printed layers. The electro-thermal layer can be a first electro-thermal layer and the top layer can be a first top layer, wherein at least one additional electro-thermal layer and at least one additional top layer are disposed on the first top layer, wherein the additional electro-thermal and top layers are disposed in an alternating order. |
| US11297690B2 |
Reconfigurable radio remote unit for distributed antenna systems
The reconfigurable radio remote unit for distributed antenna systems comprises a plurality of integrated radio frequency boards each dedicated to a respective frequency band, and configuration means for remotely selecting the frequency bands and/or for setting the power level of the frequency bands. |
| US11297682B2 |
Method for indirectly activating at least one connected object and associated system
Disclosed is a method for indirectly activating at least one connected object intended to be joined to a network of connected objects, the network of connected objects including at least one network organizing agent and a commissioning agent, each including a communication module, the communication module including a first radiofrequency interface suitable for communicating according to a first communication protocol, the method including a step of collecting information that is useful for connecting at least one connected object to the network of connected objects by a mobile terminal, a step of transmitting, by the mobile terminal, the collected information to the commissioning agent and a step of inputting at least one connected object into the network of connected objects using information useful for connecting the connected object. |
| US11297681B2 |
Method and apparatus for triggering transmission carrier selection in wireless communication system
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method including: selecting to create a configured sidelink grant corresponding to transmissions of at least one media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU); and triggering a transmission carrier selection procedure based on (i) data being available in a sidelink traffic channel (STCH) associated with one or more carriers, and (ii) there being no configured sidelink grant on any carrier, among the one or more carriers, that is allowed for the STCH. |
| US11297677B2 |
Discontinuous reception
A wireless device receives a first downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The first DCI comprises a feedback timing indicator field. In response to the feedback timing indicator field indicating not to transmit a feedback for the PDSCH before receiving a second DCI, a discontinuous reception (DRX) timer is started with a first value. A downlink control channel is monitored for the second DCI while the DRX timer is running. |
| US11297672B2 |
Methods and systems for enabling end-user equipment at an end-user premise to effect communications when an ability of the end-user equipment to communicate via a communication link connecting the end-user equipment to a communications network is disrupted
A method for effecting communications, such as telephone calls, accesses to data network sites, alarm system communications, and/or other communications, over a communications network. The method comprises: determining that an ability of first end-user equipment at a first end-user premise to communicate via a first communication link connecting the first end-user equipment to the communications network is disrupted; establishing a wireless communication link between the first end-user equipment and second end-user equipment at a second end-user premise; and causing information transmitted by or destined for the first end-user equipment to be exchanged over the communications network via the wireless communication link and a second communication link connecting the second end-user equipment to the communications network. Also provided are apparatus and computer-readable media containing a program element executable by a computing system to perform such a method. |
| US11297669B2 |
Method for transmitting control signaling in relay network, configuration method and device
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to the present application, a method for transmitting control signaling in a relay network comprises: a second relay node acquires a first control signaling and a second control signaling, wherein the first control signaling contains an F1AP message; the second relay node processes the first control signaling and the second control signaling in the same manner or different manners; and the second relay node transmits the first control signaling and the second control signaling to a first relay node. |
| US11297664B2 |
Mobility in enterprise networks
Embodiments of methods and systems for mobility in enterprise networks are presented. The methods and systems described herein provide a mobile wireless device with access to both an enterprise network and an external network by establishing a proxy connection between a gateway component of the enterprise network and a gateway component of the external network. Such embodiments may maintain the security of the enterprise network. Additionally, such embodiments may not require modification of the User Equipment (UE) or of components of the external network. Indeed, the methods and systems may operate transparently to both the UE and to components of the external network. |
| US11297663B2 |
Device and method of handling a radio network temporary identifier
A Distributed Unit (DU) transmitting a random access (RA) response including a cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) (C-RNTI) to the communication device, in response to a RA preamble from a communication device; receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message from the communication device; transmitting an INITIAL uplink (UL) RRC MESSAGE TRANSFER message including the RRC message to a Centralized Unit (CU), wherein the ITIAL UL RRC MESSAGE TRANSFER message includes the C-RNTI; receiving a UE CONTEXT SETUP REQUEST message from the CU; transmitting a UE CONTEXT SETUP RESPONSE message to the CU; receiving a downlink (DL) RRC MESSAGE TRANSFER message from the CU, wherein the DL RRC MESSAGE TRANSFER message includes a RRC response message; transmitting the RRC response message to the communication device according to the C-RNTI; communicating data with the communication device according to the C-RNTI. |
| US11297662B1 |
Systems and methods for connecting a device to a wireless telecommunications network
Methods and systems for connecting a device to a wireless telecommunications network. The methods can include receiving an inquiry from a device for connecting to an antenna array. The methods can also include determining if the inquiry satisfies one or more predetermined connection rules. |
| US11297661B2 |
Network and connected devices for emergency response and roadside operations
A self-assembling network is configured to automatically and dynamically connect devices used in operations carried out on or near roads bearing vehicle and pedestrian traffic. An automatic, ad hoc network connecting existing and new devices can be used to enhance safety by gathering and exchanging safety critical information. In some cases, existing equipment can be augmented with a network controller and radio frequency communications to permit the devices to join a wireless local network and exchange information over the network. New devices, including wearable devices, can be configured to act as nodes on the wireless local network. Establishing the relative position of vehicles, sensors, wearables, and other nodes on the disclosed ad hoc wireless network allows the coordination of functions based on position. |
| US11297657B2 |
Coded random access mechanism for communication networks
Coded access communication systems and methods are described. In one embodiment, the communication system includes a plurality of transmitters that transmit signals via a random access channel, where each transmitter includes: an encoder that encodes data bits using a two-layer code including an inner medium access control code and and an outer error correcting code; and a modulator that modulates each encoded bit for transmission via the random access channel. In addition, the communication system includes a receiver including: a demodulator configured to demodulate received signals and provide input signals to the decoder; and a decoder configured to iteratively decode data bits received from the plurality of transmitters using message passing between an inner medium access control layer and an outer coding layer to jointly perform contention resolution and decoding. |
| US11297655B2 |
Method and device for random access
A method and device for random access method and device are provided. The method includes: User Equipment (UE) receives a paging message from a network; the UE determines random access control information associated with the paging message; the UE determines a random access resource according to the random access control information; and the UE initiates a random access procedure based on the random access resource. |
| US11297652B2 |
Wireless device, network node and methods performed thereby for handling access to a cell
A method, performed by a wireless device (130), for handling access to a cell (120). The wireless device (130) operates in a wireless communications network (100). The wireless device (130) determines (302), given a first uplink carrier (141) in use during a random access procedure to the cell (120), whether or not a second uplink carrier (142) is to be used during the random access procedure to the cell (120), instead of the first uplink carrier (141). The cell (120) is served by a network node (110) operating in the wireless communications network (100). The wireless device (130) then uses (305), based on a result of the determination, one of the first uplink carrier (141) and the second uplink carrier (142), to continue the random access procedure to the cell (120). |
| US11297651B2 |
Multiple random access preamble transmission for a single random access procedure
Method and apparatus for a user equipment (UE) performing random access are disclosed. For this end, the UE transmits first multiple random access preambles for a random access procedure to the network, and monitors random access responses respectively corresponding to each of the first multiple random access preambles during each of multiple random access response reception windows. The UE transmits second multiple random access preambles for the random access procedure to the network, if a random access response reception of the first multiple random access preambles is determined as not successful. Here, the random access response reception is determined as not successful, when none of the random access responses is successfully received until a last random access response reception window among the multiple random access response reception windows ends. |
| US11297650B2 |
Systems and methods for signal detection using PHY layer processing
A method for detecting aggressive signal transmission signatures in a wireless communication network is provided. The network includes at least one cooperative device, an access point, and at least one non-cooperative device. The method includes steps of generating a matrix of at least 8 bits configured to register each instance of at least one of a clear-to-send frame and a request-to-send frame transmitted between the at least one cooperative device and the access point during a specified duration, calculating a cumulative distribution function based on the registered instances within the generated matrix for a probability of the presence of an aggressive transmission signal by the at least one non-cooperative device within a measurable vicinity of one or more of the cooperative device and the access point, and determining the presence of the aggressive transmission signal based on the calculated cumulative distribution function being greater than a predetermined threshold. |
| US11297648B2 |
Method and device for managing channel occupancy duration of unlicensed frequency band
The application discloses a wireless communication method that includes receiving, by a network device, uplink transmission of a first terminal in a first duration of channel occupancy duration of the first terminal. The channel occupancy duration of the first terminal further includes a second duration, and the second duration is later than the first duration. The network device performs downlink transmission in the second duration, where the sum of the first duration and the second duration is less than or equal to the channel occupancy duration of the first terminal. The method provides an efficient use of resources obtained through contention in an unlicensed frequency band. |
| US11297642B2 |
Method and apparatus for uplink transmission
A method for uplink transmission performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first configured grant configuration that allocates a first PUSCH duration; receiving a second configured grant configuration that allocates a second PUSCH duration, wherein the second PUSCH duration overlaps with the first PUSCH duration; obtaining a first HARQ process ID for the first PUSCH duration, then determining whether a first configured grant timer associated with the first HARQ process ID is running; obtaining a second HARQ process ID for the second PUSCH duration, then determining whether a second configured grant timer associated with the second HARQ process ID is running; and selecting one of the first PUSCH duration and the second PUSCH duration for an uplink transmission based on whether the first configured grant timer is running and whether the second configured grant timer is running. |
| US11297639B2 |
Pre-emption indication message
According to certain embodiments, a method is disclosed for use in a wireless device being affected by pre-emption. The method comprises receiving information from a network node and performing one or more operations based on the received information. The information indicates a portion of a buffer that is affected by pre-emption. Examples of operations that can be performed based on the received information include flushing the portion of the buffer affected by pre-emption or separately handling the portion of the buffer affected by pre-emption. |
| US11297638B2 |
Method for triggering a buffer status reporting in wireless communication system and a device therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for triggering a buffer status reporting in wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring with a first SR resource configuration and a second SR resource configuration; checking whether or not data is a first data on logical channels mapped to the first SR resource configuration, when the data becomes available for a first logical channel mapped to the first SR resource configuration, in a state that the first logical channel has a lower priority than a highest priority among priorities of logical channels having data, which are mapped to the second SR resource configuration; and triggering a first BSR if the data is the first data on logical channels mapped to the first SR resource configuration. |
| US11297636B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for channel access in unlicensed band
Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, and a system for performing channel access. In detail, provided are a method including: receiving uplink scheduling information; and when the user equipment has stopped an uplink transmission during the uplink transmission being performed according to the uplink scheduling information, to resume the uplink transmission, performing a second type channel access when a channel sensed by the user equipment is continuously idle after the uplink transmission has been stopped, and performing a first type channel access when the channel sensed by the user equipment is not continuously idle after the uplink transmission has been stopped, wherein the first type channel access comprises performing a random backoff after a channel sensing, and the second type channel access only comprises performing a channel sensing and an apparatus and a system therefor. |
| US11297634B2 |
Systems, methods, and media for scheduling traffic of a communication session between an application on a WiFi network and another device
Scheduling traffic of a communication session between an application on WiFi and another device, by: receiving traffic of a first session; determining that the traffic belongs to a first classification; determining that a time allocated to the first classification times a second classification airtime is less than or equal to a time allocated to the second classification times a first classification airtime; selecting a counter associated with the first session as being the largest of multiple counters each associated with a different communication session of multiple communication sessions (which include the first session); determining that the traffic of the first session is to be scheduled for transmission to the application over WiFi in response to the counter being determined to be the largest of the plurality of counters; and based on the traffic being determined to be scheduled, increasing the airtime associated with the first classification and decreases the counter. |
| US11297630B2 |
Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, transmission method, reception method, and recording medium
[Object]To provide a grant-free transmission mechanism that ensures improved transmission efficiency of a system as a whole.[Solving Means]A transmission apparatus includes a setting section and a communication processing section. The setting section performs settings regarding a resource capable of grant-free transmission and a plurality of transmission patterns corresponding to predetermined pieces of information different from each other. The communication processing section sends data in a grant-free manner in the resource capable of grant-free transmission by using a transmission pattern selected from among the plurality of transmission patterns. |
| US11297629B2 |
Method and apparatus for carrier aggregation in sidelink communication
A method and apparatus for carrier aggregation is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first wireless communication node, comprising: receiving a downlink signal containing first information from a second wireless communication node, and based on at least a portion of the first information, determining first resource information to perform sidelink communication between the first wireless communication node and at least one third wireless communication node. |
| US11297628B2 |
Dynamic channel selection and DFS re-entry
A wireless network device, for operation within a wireless network, the wireless network device comprising: a wireless interface operable on one or more wireless channels; a memory; and a processor configured to: scan at least one channel for a predetermined time duration; and make a channel quality assessment measurement during the predetermined time duration, wherein the processor is adapted to synchronize the predetermined time duration with other wireless network devices that are operable in the wireless network and that scan the at least one channel and make channel quality assessment measurements during substantially the same predetermined time duration, wherein the channel quality assessment measurement is compared with other channel quality assessment measurements from other network devices that are operable in the wireless network thereby to enable determination of an optimal channel for communication between the network devices and wherein the wireless network device is configured to operate on the optimal channel. |
| US11297627B2 |
Method and apparatus for low-latency transmission using shared SR-less resources
A method of operating a network node in a Radio Access Network includes configuring a first User Equipment with a first transmission pattern indicating time-frequency resources and configuring a second UE with a second transmission pattern indicating time-frequency resources. The method further includes receiving a first signal comprising a first message from the first UE, using a first time-frequency resource indicated by the first transmission pattern and receiving a second signal comprising a second message from the second UE, using a second time-frequency resource indicated by the second transmission pattern. The first and second time-frequency resources, at least partly, overlap. Further, the method includes decoding the first or the second message, based on a received third signal comprising the first message from the first UE, wherein the third signal is received using a third time-frequency resource indicated by the first transmission pattern. |
| US11297624B2 |
Network coding for bandwidth efficient reliability improvement for URLLC service
A bandwidth efficient way to improve reliability without introducing additional latency is provided for Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) service in 5G NR. In particular, using rateless fountain codes in conjunction with packet duplication for split bearers at the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer increases the reliability of transmission without the need for retransmissions, and with a lower bandwidth requirement compared to traditional packet duplication. |
| US11297623B2 |
System and method for air-to-ground communication involving an aircraft
The communication device is installed in an aircraft and is capable of radio communication with a base station on the ground. The communication device comprises a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller. The controller acquires location information of the aircraft at a predetermined time, and communicates with the base station using an allocation pattern of communication resources according to the location information of the aircraft. |
| US11297619B1 |
Controlling carrier load based on distribution of secondary UE connections
A method and system for controlling carrier load in a wireless communication system that supports multiple user equipment devices (UEs) each being primarily connected with a first access node on a first carrier and each having a respective secondary connection for dual-connectivity service. An example method includes (i) monitoring a distribution of the respective secondary connections of the UEs among being on a second carrier and being on a third carrier, the third carrier having wider bandwidth than the second carrier, (ii) based on the monitoring, determining that at least a predefined threshold portion of the UEs have their secondary connections on the third carrier rather than on the second carrier, and (iii) based at least on the determining, taking action to control load on the first carrier, such as limiting a maximum number of UEs allowed to be concurrently connected with the first access node on the first carrier. |
| US11297616B2 |
Multi-slot transmission method and device
A multi-slot transmission method and a multi-slot transmission device are provided. The multi-slot transmission method includes: determining a value of the quantity of slots in a set of the quantities of slots; and transmitting the value of the quantity of slots to a UE, the value of the quantity of slots being used by the UE to perform a PUCCH transmission and/or a PUSCH transmission within multiple slots. |
| US11297614B2 |
Collision avoidance for uplink radio resource allocation in reoccurring time intervals
A node (100) of a cellular network sends an uplink grant (803) to a communication device (10). The uplink grant indicates uplink radio resources allocated to the communication device (10) in reoccurring time intervals. In response to detecting a need for an uplink retransmission (814) by a further communication device (10′) on at least a part of the allocated uplink radio resources in a certain one of the time intervals, the node (100) sends control information (808) to the communication device (10). The control information (808) temporarily disables utilization of at least this part of the allocated uplink radio resources in at least this certain time interval by the communication device (10). |
| US11297613B2 |
Beam definition for directional communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently identifying a receive beam for performing a listen before talk (LBT) procedure in an attempt to gain access to a transmission opportunity (TxOP) in a shared radio frequency spectrum. In particular, a wireless device may select a receive beam that corresponds to one or more transmit beams to be used in a TxOP to perform an LBT procedure in an attempt to gain access to the TxOP. In one example, the wireless device may select a receive beam for performing an LBT procedure based on the energy of each of the transmit beams to be used in a TxOP. In another example, the wireless device may select a receive beam for performing an LBT procedure if the receive beam is quasi co-located with each of the transmit beams to be used in a TxOP. |
| US11297604B2 |
Methods and devices of assigning resource for sidelink communication system
A resource assignment method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The resource assignment method includes determining a target resource set for data transmission at a first time unit, selecting the earliest resource in time from the target resource set, wherein the selected resource is located at a second time unit, determining, at the second time unit and/or between the first time unit and the second time unit, whether the selected resource at the second time unit is available, and determining whether data is transmitted on the selected resource at the second time unit based on the result of the determination. |
| US11297602B2 |
Service data transmission method and apparatus
This application provides a service data transmission method and apparatus, and the method includes: obtaining first configuration information, where the first configuration information includes a first service feature parameter and a first resource parameter corresponding to the first service feature parameter; obtaining to-be-sent service data and a second service feature parameter corresponding to the to-be-sent service data; determining, based on the first service feature parameter, the second service feature parameter, and the first resource parameter, a second resource parameter for transmitting the to-be-sent service data; selecting, based on the second resource parameter, an available resource for transmitting the to-be-sent service data; and transmitting the to-be-sent service data by using the available resource. In this way, the service feature parameter of the service data is considered while the available resource is determined, to determine the resource parameter based on the service feature parameter, thereby better satisfying a delay requirement of a low-delay service. |
| US11297600B2 |
Resource selection method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource selection method, including: determining, by a first terminal, at least one of second parameter information of a second terminal and configuration information; and determining, by the first terminal, a target threshold based on at least one of the configuration information, the second parameter information, and first parameter information of the first terminal, where the target threshold is used by the first terminal to perform resource selection. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a resource selection apparatus. In the present invention, a resource is selected by changing a target threshold based on different parameters. In this way, a signal-to-interference ratio is increased, an error rate is reduced, and a demodulation performance is improved. |
| US11297596B2 |
Paging occasion start determination
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for monitoring occasions in a downlink, such as paging occasions. In some example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus that includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least receive information indicating a start of one or more paging occasions within at least a portion of a frame and monitor the one or more paging occasions in accordance with the received information. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described. |
| US11297593B2 |
Identifying fixed WLAN devices using mobility patterns
A method for classifying devices may include determining that a device is located at a location for more than a threshold amount of time and identifying that the device is a moving candidate based on a percentage of times a plurality of signal strength values for the device fall inside a baseline interval. The method may also include determining a most frequent pattern set of signal strength values for the device, classifying the device as fixed if the most frequent pattern set of signal strength values for the device includes at least one overlapping interval, and classifying the device as moving if the most frequent pattern set of signal strength values for the device includes at least one non-overlapping interval. |
| US11297591B1 |
Handling multiple fine timing measurement ranging requests
Examples of techniques for handling multiple fine time measurement ranging requests are described. In an example, an access point (AP) may receive a ranging request for initiating an FTM session from each client device in a set of client devices. Based on the ranging request, a plurality of burst durations, each for performing the FTM session for each client device is determined. A maximum burst duration may be determined form the plurality. If a service time for serving high priority traffic is less than the maximum burst duration, a subset of the client devices is selected for performing the FTM session, where a sum of burst durations for performing the FTM session for each client device in the subset is less than the maximum burst duration. The FTM session for each client device in the subset is initiated. |
| US11297588B2 |
Deregistration method, session handling method, and apparatus
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a deregistration method, a session handling method, and an apparatus. The deregistration method includes: determining, by a terminal device, that the terminal device enters a deregistration state of a first access network; and setting, by the terminal device, a status of the terminal device to deregistered from the first access network. According to the method, the terminal device is deregistered from the first access network. |
| US11297587B2 |
Network access method and related apparatus
Embodiments of this application disclose a network access method, used to restrict a network access range of a terminal device, to meet a requirement for restricting the terminal device within a specified range. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: receiving, by an access management network element, information about an area accessed by a terminal device; obtaining, by the access management network element, information about an area allowed to be accessed by the terminal device; and determining, by the access management network element based on the information about the area accessed by the terminal device and the information about the area allowed to be accessed by the terminal device, whether to allow access of the terminal device. |
| US11297585B2 |
Method and device in communication node used for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a communication node for wireless communications. The communication node in the present disclosure first receives first information, then receives second information, and then transmits a first radio signal; wherein the first information is used to determine a first transmission timing adjustment, the second information is used to determine a second transmission timing adjustment, and a start time for a transmission of the first radio signal is related to the first transmission timing adjustment and the second transmission timing adjustment; a minimum step-size size corresponding to the first transmission timing adjustment is not equal to a minimum step-size size corresponding to the second transmission timing adjustment; the first information, the second information and the first radio signal are all transmitted through an air interface. The disclosure can support large-delay-transmission and reduce overhead for configuring signaling of Time Advance (TA). |
| US11297581B2 |
Dynamic direct multinode (DDM) wireless network
There are disclosed herein implementations of a system providing a direct dynamic multinode (DDM) wireless network, and a method for use by the system. Such a system includes multiple nodes configured for wireless communication, at least one of the nodes being configured to receive external data from an external source. Each of the nodes is configured to discover other nodes of the DDM wireless network. Each of the nodes is also configured to run a time and phase tracking function to provide synchronization between the nodes, and to route control and data information directly to other nodes so as to synchronously output the external data. |
| US11297577B2 |
Power control method and device
Embodiments of this application describe a power control method and a device, and relate to the field of communications technologies. A network device operating in a full-duplex mode can correctly receive data during data sending. The method may include receiving, by user equipment (UE), power control parameter information of an uplink transmit power from a network device, where the power control parameter information includes first power control parameter information and second power control parameter information, the first power control parameter information is used to calculate an uplink transmit power for data transmission on a non-full-duplex resource, and the second power control parameter information includes a parameter for calculating an uplink transmit power for data transmission on a full-duplex resource. The method may also include determining, by the UE, an uplink transmit power based on the power control parameter information and a resource type used for uplink transmission, where the resource type includes a full-duplex resource and a non-full-duplex resource. |
| US11297576B2 |
Innovative signaling approaches to network for overheating indication in new radio (NR) and multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC)
One or more aspects of overheating signaling are disclosed. In some implementations, a method of wireless communication includes transmitting, by a user equipment (UE) while in a dual connectivity configuration, an overheat assistance indicator corresponding to an overheating condition at the UE. The method also includes, after sending the overheat assistance indicator and based on the overheating condition, performing, by the UE, an adjustment on a new radio (NR) configuration. |
| US11297575B2 |
System and method for low-power wireless beacon monitor
Selectively enabling an amplitude processing circuit and a phase processing circuit of a wireless station's polar receiver with respect to reception of a beacon signal. Such systems and methods may include sequentially demodulating symbols of the received beacon signal using at least the phase processing circuit to detect a traffic indication signal value in a data payload portion of the received beacon signal. Upon detecting a condition indicating no data traffic for the wireless station, the phase processing circuit may be turned off. The polar receiver may demodulate symbols of the received beacon signal and upon detecting a beacon preamble symbol sequence, shut off the amplitude processing circuit and set the amplitude to a fixed value. The phase processing circuit in conjunction with the fixed amplitude value may be used to demodulate symbols of the beacon signal. |
| US11297573B2 |
Open loop wake-up radio based on transmitter fingerprinting
A device (e.g., an IoT device) includes a first radio, and a memory device accessible to the first radio. The memory device is configured to store a fingerprinting feature for a specific transmitter device. A second radio and a processor are also included. The process is coupled to the first and second radios. The first radio is configured to extract a fingerprinting feature of a first received wireless signal, determine that the extracted feature matches the fingerprinting feature stored in the storage device, and responsive to the determination that the extracted feature matches the feature stored in the storage device, cause the second radio to transition from a lower power state to a higher power state of operation and continue to receive the incoming signal. |
| US11297569B2 |
Wakeup signaling resource occasions
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some systems support user equipment (UEs) achieving power savings by operating in a connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode. The systems may additionally utilize wakeup signals for further power savings at a UE. For example, a UE may be configured with a wakeup signal resource configuration (e.g., a first search space configuration) for monitoring for wakeup signals while operating in a low power mode. This first search space configuration may be different from a second search space configuration for the UE operating in an active mode. When in a low power mode, the UE may monitor for wakeup signals according to the wakeup signal resource configuration. If the UE receives a wakeup signal in a wakeup signal resource defined by the configuration, the UE may initiate a wakeup procedure and transition to the active mode for data communication. |
| US11297568B2 |
Location-based apparatus management
Techniques for location-based apparatus management can result in significant battery power savings for the apparatus and robust controls over the apparatus. This may be achieved by using discovered wireless network(s) to learn repeating patterns of the apparatus and, accordingly, set up soft geofences to trigger automatic operations of the apparatus. Information associated with the discovered wireless network(s) is used to determine the location of the apparatus, and the type of location can be identified. Based on the type of location, the apparatus is placed in a mode corresponding to the identified type of location. Alternatively, or additionally, specific features and/or applications on the apparatus may be activated or deactivated. |
| US11297563B2 |
Communication apparatus, communication system, communication control method, and program
Regarding communication paths between first and second systems and an instrumentation system, a communication path(s) usable by the second system is set from a communication path(s) other than a communication path(s) used by the first system. |
| US11297562B2 |
Method of receiving communications
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method in a terminal configured to receive transmissions from a telecommunications network. The method comprises receiving a transmission on an anchor carrier, the transmission including control information. The method comprises receiving, on the anchor carrier, an allocation of a non-anchor carrier for receiving data, wherein the non-anchor carrier has a frequency. The method comprises performing a cell search operation, comprising scanning a plurality of frequencies for a cell of the telecommunications network, and inhibiting the frequency of the non-anchor carrier in the scanning. |
| US11297561B2 |
Access method and device for radio network
An access method and an access device for a radio network are provided. The access method includes: receiving, by a distributed processing node, an Msg1 message from a UE, the Msg1 message including a dedicated access code or sequence; and transmitting, by the distributed processing node, an Msg2 message configured to respond to the Msg1 message to the UE, the Msg2 message including a temporary RNTI which is a currently-unused RNTI in a set of RNTIs available for the distributed processing node. |
| US11297560B2 |
Establishing LWA-WLAN communication
A communication technique for establishing communication among an access point, an electronic device, and a radio node in a cellular-telephone network is described. In this communication technique, the electronic device is pre-provisioned by the radio node with an identifier of the cellular-telephone network. Moreover, the access point may advertise support for one or more LWA protocols in beacons. In response to a query from the electronic device, the access point may provide identifiers of the one or more cellular-telephone networks supported by the access point. If one of these identifiers matches the identifier, the electronic device may associate with the access point. Then, the access point may receive LWA traffic from the radio node and may forward the LWA traffic to the electronic device. |
| US11297553B1 |
Serving access node selection to ensure uplink service
Methods, systems, and processing nodes for ensuring uplink service for wireless devices capable of uplink split mode in EN-DC using both 4G LTE and 5G NR RATs, by selecting serving access nodes that are also capable of uplink split mode and/or coupled to large quantities of antenna elements relative to other potential serving access nodes. In particular, such serving access nodes are selected for wireless devices that exhibit one or more of a low power headroom, a high uplink buffer, or a high mobility. |
| US11297552B2 |
Seamless relocation of a mobile terminal in a wireless network
A method for performing seamless relocation of a mobile terminal in a wireless network includes selecting a first serving gateway (SGW) among a plurality of SGWs and a first packet data network gateway (PGW) among a plurality of PGWs, wherein the first SGW connects to the first PGW to setup the first S5 session, establishing a first communication channel between the terminal and the first PGW and assigning an internet protocol (IP) address to the terminal, selecting a second SGW among the plurality of SGWs when the terminal is about to move out of an area being served by the first SGW, connecting the second SGW to the second PGW to setup a new S5 session when a second PGW among the plurality of PGWs is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW or connecting the second SGW to the first PGW to modify the first S5 session when no PGW is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW, establishing a second communication channel between the terminal and the second SGW using the IP address allocated to the terminal, reconfiguring routing for terminal IP destination, and terminating the first communication channel between the terminal and the first PGW. |
| US11297549B2 |
Enabling down link reception of system and control information from intra-frequency neighbors without gaps in the serving cell in evolved-utra systems
Simplified communication between user equipment and a neighboring cell not the primary cell is achieved by restricting the transmission parameters, such as bandwidth, of the neighboring cell transmission and provision of a simplified secondary baseband processor in the user equipment. |
| US11297548B1 |
Initiating handover of a wireless device based on power headroom and packet drops
A method for initiating handover of a wireless device includes identifying a wireless device exhibiting a low power headroom, the wireless device being attached to an access node on a first frequency band, determining a first incidence of packet drops associated with a data transmission from the wireless device on the first frequency band at a cell site router, and determining a second incidence of packet drops associated with another data transmission on a second frequency band of the access node at the cell site router. Based at least in part on the first incidence of packet drops being greater than the second incidence of packet drops, handover of the wireless device from the first frequency band to the second frequency band is initiated. Systems and devices relate to initiating handover of a wireless device. |
| US11297542B2 |
Base station handover method, system, and computer storage medium
Provided are a method for base station handover, a system, and a computer storage medium, the method comprising a first access and mobility management function (AMF) receives handover request information sent by a first base station, the handover request information serving to request handover of a UE from the first base station to a second base station; when the UE does not need to carry out cross-AMF handover, the first AMF sends a handover preparation request to the second base station requesting target resources for the UE; in a cross-AMF handover process, the AMF of the UE changes from a first AMF to a second AMF; when a UE needs to carry out a cross-AMF handover process, the first AMF sends handover request information to a second AMF, and the second AMF sends a handover preparation request to the second base station requesting target resources for the UE. |
| US11297541B2 |
Signaling timing information for a time sensitive network in a wireless communications system
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for timing synchronization among one or more time sensitive network (TSN) endpoints via a wireless communications network. A data flow may be established via the wireless communications network, in which one or more system messages associated with the data flow may provide timing information for the data flow. A first node within the wireless communications network may receive a request for establishing such a data flow with a user equipment (UE). The first node may receive timing information for the data flow via one or more system messages associated with the data flow, and establish the data flow based at least in part on the timing information. |
| US11297535B2 |
Methods and apparatus for integration of wireless wide area networks with wireless local area networks
Embodiments presented in this disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses (such as Access Points (AP's), evolved NodeB's (eNB's), etc.) for use in aggregation, or integration, between a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). In one embodiment, an eNB decides that an aggregation between the WWAN and the WLAN is to be performed for at least one bearer of one or more bearers associated with a specific UE. Next, the eNB identifies which one(s) of the at least one bearer of the specific UE that is/are to be aggregated between the WWAN and the WLAN. Also, the eNB schedules each one of the at least one bearer identified to be aggregated between the WWAN and the WLAN. |
| US11297533B2 |
Method and apparatus for audio decoding based on dequantization of quantized parameters
The present disclosure provides methods, devices and computer program products for non-uniform quantization of parameters. The disclosure further relates to a method and apparatus for reconstructing an audio object in an audio decoding system taking the non-uniformly quantized parameters into account. According to the disclosure, such an approach renders it possible to reduce bit consumption without substantially reducing the quality of the reconstructed audio object. |
| US11297530B2 |
Method and system for using policy to handle packets
An aspect of the disclosure provides a method for handling delayed packets in a mobile wireless network performed by a PCF. The method includes receiving information pertaining to packet handling policy (PHP) parameters for a PDU session; and sending the PHP to other network functions for instructing devices in the user plane of the mobile wireless network how to handle delayed packets. |
| US11297527B2 |
Method and system for application aware congestion management
A method for congestion management on a network including: determining whether a cell on the network is congested; identifying at least one heavy user on the cell; determine traffic flow criteria of the at least one heavy user; and shape network traffic of the at least one heavy user based on the traffic flow criteria of the heavy user. A system for congestion management on a network including: a QoE module configured to determine whether a cell on the network is congested; an analysis module configured to identify at least one heavy user on the cell and determine traffic flow criteria of the at least one heavy user; and at least one shaper configured to shape network traffic of the at least one heavy user based on the traffic flow criteria of the heavy user. |
| US11297523B2 |
Measurement method and measurement apparatus
Embodiments of this application disclose a measurement method and a measurement apparatus, to perform RMTC measurement and DMTC measurement on an inter-frequency frequency. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: determining an idle component carrier; determining a RMTC measurement periodicity and a DMTC measurement periodicity of a first inter-frequency frequency for LAA; when the RMTC measurement periodicity and the DMTC measurement periodicity of the first inter-frequency frequency have a same time point, separately performing RMTC measurement on the first inter-frequency frequency by using the idle component carrier to obtain a first measurement result, and performing DMTC measurement on the first inter-frequency frequency to obtain a second measurement result; and sending the first measurement result and the second measurement result to a network device, where the first measurement result and the second measurement result are used to indicate the network device to schedule a resource. |
| US11297522B2 |
Measurement gap indication method, measurement gap receiving method, user equipment and network device
A measurement gap indication method includes: obtaining indication information of whether a measurement gap is required when a user equipment operates with a target parameter; and transmitting the indication information to a network device. The target parameter includes at least one of carrier, carrier frequency band combination, bandwidth part, bandwidth part combination and reference signal. |
| US11297520B2 |
Channel state information reporting for short transmission time intervals
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communications. A first CSI reporting configuration may be used for communications using TTIs of a first duration and a second CSI reporting configuration may be used for communications using TTIs of a second duration. A determination of whether to report CSI based on the first and/or second configuration may be made, and a CSI report may be transmitted based on the determination. In some cases, CSI for the first CSI reporting configuration is determined differently than CSI for the second CSI reporting configuration. For instance, the CSI reporting configurations may use different reference resources and/or reference signal resources when calculating respective CSI. In some cases, the first and second CSI reporting configurations may be configured as a first CSI process and a second CSI process, which may be operated either independently or jointly. |
| US11297519B2 |
Cell measurement
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide procedures for new radio (NR) cell measurement. According to certain aspects, a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes receiving one or more downlink signals from a cell, wherein the cell is of a first cell type that supports a first set of functions or a second cell type that supports a second set of functions, wherein the second set of functions is different than the first set of functions; determining a cell type of the cell based on the one or more downlink signals; and communicating with the cell based on the determination. |
| US11297518B1 |
Orchestration of multiple wireless sensors for monitoring a wireless spectrum and protocols
Orchestrating wireless monitoring sensors, including registering each sensor with an orchestrator, generating, by the orchestrator for each sensor, a monitoring plan including a description of wireless channels and protocols for the sensor to monitor, and amounts of time that the sensor should spend monitoring each channel/protocol, attempting, by each of the sensors, to monitor the channels/protocols specified in the sensor's monitoring plan in accordance with the amounts of time specified in the monitoring plan, generating, by each sensor, an execution report including, for each channel/protocol monitored by the sensor, the actual time spent at the channel/protocol, the actual amount of data collected from the channel/protocol, and data captured from the channel/protocol, generating, by the orchestrator, a current coverage map indicating coverage of each channel over space and time, and further generating, by the orchestrator, one or more respective updated monitoring plans, based on the current coverage map. |
| US11297517B2 |
Measurement method, terminal device, and access network device
This disclosure provides a measurement method, a terminal device, and an access network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first message sent by an access network device, where the first message includes measurement type information, the measurement type information is used to indicate a first measurement granularity, and the first measurement granularity is one of a cell measurement granularity or a beam measurement granularity; and obtaining, by the terminal device, a measured value of a measurement object corresponding to the first measurement granularity. In the embodiments of this disclosure, by introducing different measurement type information, measurement of different granularities may be implemented, so that the measurement granularity is more refined and measurement results are more accurate. |
| US11297514B2 |
Repeater and method of operation thereof
A method of operating a repeater comprises detecting a synchronization signal from a received communication signal, identifying a time division duplex (TDD) switching pattern based on a power change of the communication signal over time and switching an uplink operation and a downlink operation of the repeater based on the detected synchronization signal and the TDD switching pattern. |
| US11297512B2 |
Dark fiber design tool for hardware, circuits, and paths
A dark fiber design tool for hardware, circuits, and paths is provided. A method can include generating, by a system comprising a processor, a data record that identifies respective equipment of a group of dark fiber equipment that have been assigned for a development of new dark fiber network infrastructure usable via a communication network; generating, by the system, a circuit plan representing optical connections between the respective ones of the group of dark fiber equipment as determined based on a first constraint defined by rules; and associating, by the system, respective optical wavelength paths with respective connections of the optical connections of the circuit plan based on a second constraint defined by the rules. |
| US11297510B2 |
Medium access for shared or unlicensed spectrum
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at a UE. A wireless devices may use a shared or unlicensed spectrum configuration based on a prioritization scheme for the shared frequency resources. The prioritization scheme may assign a priority to different operators and may enable devices associated with a prioritized operator to access the shared band over non-prioritized devices. For example, a non-prioritized device may win the channel and begin communicating over the shared or unlicensed spectrum. The non-prioritized device may then periodically cease transmission for a set interval (i.e., a preemption opportunity) and listen for an indication that a prioritized device wishes to use the channel. If a prioritized device begins transmitting (or, in some cases, if the prioritized device transmits a medium preemption indication) the non-prioritized device may relinquish control of the channel. |
| US11297507B2 |
Co-location security system
An interaction security system for user verification utilizes co-location in order to more accurately identify a user location. The system identifies a user computer system location based a location determination component for the user computer systems. Moreover, the system identifies a resource accessory location of a resource accessory. The resource accessory location may be determined in a number of different ways, including, but not limited to, a location determination component of the resource accessory. The system may utilize a time requirement and/or a geo-location requirement in order to maintain verification of the user for a period of time and/or within a specific location. Moreover, the system may require the user to take an action with respect to the resource accessory before verifying the user location for an interaction. |
| US11297506B2 |
Communication enabled circuit breakers and circuit breaker panels
Communication enabled circuit breakers and circuit breaker panels are described. Methods associated with such communication enabled circuit breakers and circuit breaker panels are also described. A circuit breaker panel may include a circuit breaker controller and one or more communication enabled circuit breakers. Two-way wireless communication is possible between the circuit breaker controller and the one or more communication enabled circuit breakers. |
| US11297505B2 |
System and method for aggregated machine learning on indicators of compromise on mobile devices
A system identifies whether a mobile device is compromised. The system includes mobile devices, a communication network, and a server. Each mobile device includes a processor, a power supply, and a network interface. The processor executes an operating system and applications including a monitor application. The power supply indicates the power consumed by the mobile device during executing the operating system and the applications. The network interface transfers information to and from the mobile device via a communication network. This transferred information includes logs securely collected by the monitor application. The logs can include a log of the system calls, a log of the power consumed, and a log of network activity. The server receives the logs from the mobile devices and generates a correlation among the logs, and the server identifies at least one mobile device that is an outlier in the correlation as a compromised mobile device. |
| US11297500B2 |
Authenticating digital evidence
A digital media authentication system comprises a media processing application executed by a mobile electronic device that computes a robust image hash for media data acquired by the mobile electronic device; a location attestation system that validates a location context of the media data, the location context determined in response to an object scene in a field of view of the mobile electronic device captured for conversion to the media data; and a blockchain network that maintains a ledger entry that includes the robust image hash, an immutable timestamp, and a location certificate validating the location context of the media data. |
| US11297499B2 |
Associating vehicle user equipment with customer mobile accounts
A server device can, in response to a mobile device request, facilitate presentation of a login page via a mobile device. The login page can prompt for access credentials to a user account associated with mobile communications services and associated with a user identity, wherein a displayed link by an in-vehicle user equipment enabled the mobile device to request the login page. Based on a receipt of the access credentials from the mobile device, the server device can facilitate displaying a prompt, via the mobile device, for entry of an activation code, wherein the activation code was displayed by the in-vehicle user equipment along with the displayed link. The server device can receive a submitted code from the mobile device, and in response to the submitted code being determined to match the activation code, pairing the in-vehicle user equipment with the user account. |
| US11297496B2 |
Encryption and decryption of management frames
In some examples, a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by the processing resource to store an encryption key on the AP, at the AP, decrypt a management frame with the stored encryption key to determine state information of a station, store the state information, and generate a management frame at the AP based on the stored state information. |
| US11297493B2 |
Data transmission method, related device, and communications system
A method includes sending, by an access network device, first indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information indicates a last packet in one or more first-type packets or a first packet in one or more second-type packets, where the first-type packet is enciphered using a first cipher key, and the second-type packet is enciphered using a second cipher key. |
| US11297491B2 |
Information sharing system and information sharing method
Appropriately sharing user information. An information sharing system includes: a specific information acquisition unit that acquires specific information of each terminal from a plurality of user terminals which are carried by users; a user information acquisition unit that acquires user information from the plurality of user terminals; an information management unit that encrypts the user information that is acquired by the user information acquisition unit on the basis of the specific information that is acquired by the specific information acquisition unit; a state acquisition unit that acquires the specific information of a user terminal that accesses a network including a sharing device from the sharing device that is a terminal other than the user terminals; and a sharing unit that shares the user information by decoding the user information that is encrypted by the information management unit with the specific information that is acquired by the state acquisition unit. |
| US11297489B2 |
Methods and systems for characterizing wireless devices
Methods and systems for characterizing wireless devices are described. Data associated with communications involving the wireless devices may be analyzed to characterize the wireless devices. |
| US11297488B2 |
Electronic device in which profile is installed and operating method for electronic device
Provided according to various embodiments are an electronic device in which a profile is installed and an operating method for the electronic device. The electronic device may comprise: a communication module for receiving a profile package from a profile server; an eUICC for installing a profile by using the profile package, the eUICC including a memory; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: perform control such that the eUICC installs the profile thereon by using the profile package and a one-time key generated by mutual authentication between the profile server and the electronic device; when installation of the profile is unsuccessful, check the cause of the unsuccessful installation of the profile; when it is determined that the unsuccessful installation of the profile is due to insufficient available space in the memory, perform control such that the eUICC cleans the memory while keeping the one-time key stored in the memory; and perform control such that the eUICC reinstalls the profile thereon by using the profile package. Various other embodiments are also possible. |
| US11297481B2 |
Multi-band millimeter wave discovery in WLAN distribution networks
A wireless communication apparatus/system/method utilizing directional transmission over a mmW band performing transmission of signals on a sub-6 GHz band that aids scanning for mmW mesh network discovery. A new node sends an assistance request on the sub-6 GHz band. The network node responds to the assistance request by sending an assistance response on the sub-6 GHz band. Upon exchanging the discovery assistance request and response with the network node on the sub-6 GHz band, the new node switches to the mmW band to discover neighbor(s). The network node upon exchanging the discovery assistance request and response on the sub-6 GHz band switches to mmW band to discover new nodes. Implementations can provide assistance directly or in response to cooperation between network stations. |
| US11297480B2 |
Method for performing emergency call and electronic device therefor
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store one or more instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to connect with a first cell of a master cell group (MCG) and a second cell of a secondary cell group (SCG) using the at least one wireless communication circuit, detect occurrence of a packet based mobile originated call, release the connection with the second cell when a type of the mobile originated call is an emergency call, and perform the mobile originated call through the first cell. |
| US11297479B2 |
Portable wireless device, communication method, and server
A portable wireless device includes a wireless communication unit, a position information acquisition unit, an operation unit, and a control unit, in which a rescue request and state information are generated by operation of the operation unit, and the generated information is transmitted from the wireless communication unit together with position information acquired by a position acquisition unit. |
| US11297477B2 |
Tethering distribution apparatus, control method thereof, and central mediator
Disclosed is a method for controlling an amount of data that is to be tethered during a tethering operation, including identifying electronic devices to which data is to be tethered, displaying a list of the identified electronic devices, displaying a setting screen for setting a maximum amount of data that is to be tethered during a tethering operation, in response to a user input through the setting screen, setting a maximum amount of data that may be tethered during the tethering operation, providing tethering usage of the data to the electronic devices, determining an amount of data tethered to the electronic devices, and automatically terminating the tethering operation with respect to the electronic devices in response to the amount of data tethered to the electronic devices corresponding to the set maximum amount of data to be tethered during the tethering operation. |
| US11297476B2 |
Communication device and method of controlling communication device
In a communication device mounted in a vehicle, a communication unit performs wireless communication using any one of a plurality of profiles for using a wireless communication network. A first acquisition unit acquires travel information of the vehicle. A second acquisition unit acquires position information of the vehicle. A controller controls whether or not to execute a profile determination process based on the acquired travel information and the acquired position information. |
| US11297474B2 |
Aircraft to ground data systems and computing methods
A computing method for transmitting data from a ground computing device to an aircraft computing device, comprises receiving, by an aircraft API executing on an aircraft interface computing device, an initial communication from an aircraft service executing on the aircraft computing device located onboard an aircraft; determining, by the aircraft API, that a data file is to be transmitted from the ground computing device to the aircraft computing device; transmitting, to the ground computing device, a data signal configured to cause the data file to be transmitted from the ground computing device to a transient storage location associated with the aircraft interface computing device; and causing the data file to be transmitted from the transient storage location to the aircraft computing device. |
| US11297473B2 |
Early boarding of passengers in autonomous vehicles
The technology relates to actively looking for an assigned passenger prior to a vehicle 100 reaching a pickup location. For instance, information identifying the pickup location and client device information for authenticating the assigned passenger is received. Sensor data is received from a perception system of the vehicle identifying objects in an environment of the vehicle. When the vehicle is within a predetermined distance from the pickup location, authenticating a client device using the client device information is attempted. When the client device has been authenticated, the sensor data is used to determine whether a pedestrian is within a first threshold distance of the vehicle. When a pedestrian is determined to be within the first threshold distance of the vehicle, the vehicle is stopped prior to reaching the pickup location, to wait for the pedestrian within the first threshold distance of the vehicle to enter the vehicle. |
| US11297469B2 |
Complex computing network for generating and handling a waitlist associated with a speaker in an audio conversation on a mobile application
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for generating and handling a waitlist during an audio conversation on a mobile application. For example, a method comprises: receiving a request from a first user, listening to a first audio conversation involving a second user and a third user, to join a waitlist associated with the second user or the first audio conversation; adding the first user to the waitlist associated with the second user or the first audio conversation; enabling the second user to view the waitlist; and initiating a second audio conversation between the second user and a user on the waitlist upon termination of the first audio conversation. |
| US11297464B2 |
Method for jiggling compensation during object recognition and electronic device thereof
An object recognition method and an electronic device thereof are provided. The method includes transmitting a signal to an external object, controlling a wireless communication module to receive a signal reflected from the external object, controlling the wireless communication module to obtain a channel impulse response based on the transmitted signal and the received signal, obtaining information of an orientation of the external object based on the received signal, detecting phase noise caused by a movement of the electronic device, extracting a component matching the orientation of the external object from the detected phase noise, and compensating for phase information in the channel impulse response based on the component matching the orientation of the external object. |
| US11297457B2 |
Spatialized audio relative to a peripheral device
An audio system, method, and computer program product which includes a wearable audio device and a mobile peripheral device. Each device is capable of determining its respective absolute or relative position and orientation. Once the relative positions and orientations between the devices are known, virtual sound sources are generated at fixed positions and orientations relative to the peripheral device such that any change in position and/or orientation of the peripheral device produces a proportional change in the position and/or orientation of the virtual sound sources. Additionally, first order and second order reflected audio paths may be simulated for each virtual sound source to increase the realism of the simulated sources. Each sound path can be produced by modifying the original audio signal using head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to simulate audio as though it were perceived by the user's left and right ears as coming from each virtual sound source. |
| US11297456B2 |
Moving an emoji to move a location of binaural sound
During an electronic communication between a first user and a second user, an electronic device of the second user displays a graphical representation at a located selected by the first user. The graphical representation provides an indication to the second user where binaural sound associated with the graphical representation will externally localize to the second user. Subsequent movement of the graphical representation changes a location where the binaural sound externally localizes to the second user. |
| US11297455B2 |
Methods and apparatus for decoding encoded HOA signals
There are two representations for Higher Order Ambisonics denoted HOA: spatial domain and coefficient domain. The invention generates from a coefficient domain representation a mixed spatial/coefficient domain representation, wherein the number of said HOA signals can be variable. An aspect of the invention further relates to methods and apparatus decoding multiplexed and perceptually encoded HOA signals, including transforming a vector of PCM encoded spatial domain signals of the HOA representation to a corresponding vector of coefficient domain signals by multiplying the vector of PCM encoded spatial domain signals with a transform matrix and de-normalizing the vector of PCM encoded and normalized coefficient domain signals, wherein said de-normalizing comprises. The methods may include combining a vector of coefficient domain signals and the vector of de-normalized coefficient domain signals to determine a combined vector of HOA coefficient domain signals that can have a variable number of HOA coefficients. |
| US11297454B2 |
Method for live public address, in a helmet, taking into account the auditory perception characteristics of the listener
A public address method for live broadcast, in a helmet, of an audio signal conditioned from a plurality of raw audio channels, includes a pre-processing phase including the operations that consist of taking into account characteristics of the auditory perception of the listener; correcting each channel as a function of the characteristics of the auditory perception of the listener; a mixing phase including the production, from the channels thus pre-processed, of a mixed audio signal; a post-processing phase including the operations that consist of: measuring the sound level of a background noise; correcting the mixed audio signal as a function of the sound level of the background noise; a phase of reproducing, in the helmet, the conditioned audio signal resulting from post-processing. |
| US11297451B2 |
Pairing information for wireless communication
The disclosed technology includes a system and method for providing pairing information to assist in pairing devices for wireless communication. For example, the disclosed technology includes a method for visually displaying time remaining in pairing time windows for hearing aid devices. A hearing aid professional can view the displayed information on a computer, fitting station, or mobile device and then use this information to determine which devices can be paired or how much time is remaining to pair the device. |
| US11297446B2 |
Systems and methods for suppressing sound leakage
A bone conduction speaker includes a housing, a vibration board and a transducer. The transducer is located in the housing, and the vibration board is configured to contact with skin and pass vibration. At least one sound guiding hole is set on at least one portion of the housing to guide sound wave inside the housing to the outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interfaces with the leaked sound wave, and the interfacing reduces a sound pressure level of at least a portion of the leaked sound wave. A frequency of the at least a portion of the leaked sound wave is lower than 4000 Hz. |
| US11297445B2 |
Methods and devices for treating primary headache
Non-invasive electrical nerve stimulation devices and magnetic stimulation devices are disclosed, along with methods of treating medical disorders using energy that is delivered noninvasively by such devices. The disorders comprise migraine and other primary headaches such as cluster headaches, including sinus symptoms that resemble an immune-mediated response (“sinus” headaches), irrespective of whether those symptoms arise from an allergy that is co-morbid with the headache. The disclosed methods may also be used to treat other disorders that may be co-morbid with migraine headaches, such as anxiety disorders. In preferred embodiments of the disclosed methods, one or both of the patient's vagus nerves are stimulated non-invasively. In other embodiments, parts of the sympathetic nervous system and/or the adrenal glands are stimulated. |
| US11297438B2 |
Electrodynamic acoustic transducer having a polygonal membrane with improved compliance
An electrodynamic acoustic transducer is disclosed, which comprises a frame and/or a housing, at least one coil and a magnet system, which is fixed to the frame and/or the housing and which is designed to generate a magnetic field through the coil. Furthermore, the electrodynamic acoustic transducer comprises a polygonal membrane, which in an inner portion is fixed to the at least one coil and which in an outer annular portion is fixed to the frame or the housing. A first distance between the outer annular portion and the inner portion at a longitudinal side of the polygonal membrane is smaller or greater than a second distance between the outer annular portion and the inner portion at a corner of the polygonal membrane. |
| US11297437B1 |
Ribbon microphone
An improved ribbon microphone preferably includes a housing tube and a microphone assembly. The microphone assembly includes a ribbon transducer, a reflector bar, a first magnet, a second magnet, a upper ribbon retainer and a lower ribbon retainer. The housing tube includes at least one audio aperture. The ribbon transducer includes a thin strip of metal with an embossed non-linear pattern formed therein. The lower ribbon retainer is the same as upper ribbon retainer, but turned upside down. The ribbon retainer includes a retainer base and a ribbon clamp. The retainer base includes a clamp slot to receive the ribbon clamp. Each end of the ribbon transducer is retained between the ribbon clamp and the retainer base. Opposing ends of magnets and reflector bar are retained in the upper and lower ribbon retainer. An upper end cap and a lower end cap capture the microphone assembly within the housing tube. |
| US11297434B1 |
Apparatus and method for sound production using terminal
An apparatus and method of producing sound using a terminal is proposed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide realistic sound when playing contents and easily produce contents with improved immersion by making uniform a sound received through the microphone of the lightweight terminal through distortion compensation and recording the uniform sound in a stereophonic manner. |
| US11297430B2 |
Terminal device, apparatus and method for simulating the characteristic of an audio processor, and computer-readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for simulating the sound characteristics of the audio processor, a terminal device and a storage medium. The method simulates the sound characteristic of a target audio processor by constructing a nonlinear model. The nonlinear model consists of a pre-filter, a saturation characteristic curve, and a post-filter. A high-level signal is sent to the target sound processor, and the target sound processor correspondingly sends out the first output signal, and then the first output signal is filtered and performed spectrum analysis to acquire the frequency response of the post-filter; And a low-level signal is sent to the target sound processor, and the target sound processor correspondingly sends out the second output signal, and then the second output signal is filtered and performed spectrum analysis to obtain a frequency response product of the pre-filter and the post-filter. |
| US11297428B2 |
Sound processing device, sound processing method, and program
A sound processing device program that enables a sound signal adapted to an intended use to be output is provided. The sound processing device includes a signal processing part that processes a sound signal picked up by a microphone, and generates a recording sound signal to be recorded in a recording device, and generates an amplification sound signal different from the recording sound signal to be output from a speaker. The sound processing device can be applied to, for example, a sound amplification system that performs off-microphone sound amplification. |
| US11297427B2 |
Processing device, processing method, and program for processing sound pickup signals
A processing device according to an embodiment includes a sound pickup signal acquisition unit that acquires sound pickup signals picked up by left and right microphones through a monophonic input terminal, a switch unit that switches a connection state so that a first sound pickup signal picked up only by the left microphone and a second sound pickup signal picked up only by the right microphone are input, an interaural distance acquisition unit that acquires an interaural distance of the listener, a front time difference acquisition unit that acquires a front time difference, an incident time difference calculation unit that calculates an incident time difference based on an angle θ, the front time difference, and the interaural distance, and a transfer characteristics generation unit that calculates transfer characteristics by applying a delay corresponding to the incident time difference to the first and second sound pickup signals. |
| US11297426B2 |
One-dimensional array microphone with improved directivity
Embodiments include an array microphone comprising a plurality of microphone sets arranged in a linear pattern relative to a first axis and configured to cover a plurality of frequency bands. Each microphone set comprises a first microphone arranged along the first axis and a second microphone arranged along a second axis orthogonal to the first microphone, wherein a distance between adjacent microphones along the first axis is selected from a first group consisting of whole number multiples of a first value, and within each element, a distance between the first and second microphones along the second axis is selected from a second group consisting of whole number multiples of a second value. |
| US11297425B2 |
Intercom signal mixer having channel tiles
An intercom signal mixer having a number of channel controls associated with a respective number of channel tiles rendered by a display. The assignment for the channel controls may be adjusted by a user using the channel tiles, by selecting a new assignment from a list of available assignments presented in a continuously-scrolling carousel arrangement. |
| US11297420B1 |
Ceiling tile microphone
This disclosure describes a ceiling tile microphone that includes: a plurality of microphones coupled together as a microphone array used for beamforming, the plurality of microphones are positioned at predetermined locations; a single ceiling tile with an outer surface on the front side of the ceiling tile where the outer surface is acoustically transparent, the microphone array combines with the ceiling tile as a single unit, the ceiling tile being mountable in a drop ceiling in place of a ceiling tile included in the drop ceiling; where the ceiling tile microphone further includes beamforming, acoustic echo cancellation, and auto voice tracking; where the ceiling tile microphone is used in a drop ceiling mounting configuration; where the microphone array couples to the back side of the ceiling tile and all or part of the ceiling tile microphone is in the drop space of the drop ceiling. |
| US11297418B2 |
Acoustic signal separation apparatus, learning apparatus, method, and program thereof
An acoustic signal is separated based on a difference in the distance from a sound source to a microphone. By using a filter obtained by associating a value corresponding to an estimated value of a short-distance acoustic signal which is obtained by using “a predetermined function” from a second acoustic signal derived from signals collected by “a plurality of microphones” and is emitted from a position close to “the plurality of microphones” with a value corresponding to an estimated value of a long-distance acoustic signal which is emitted from a position far from “the plurality of microphones”, a desired acoustic signal representing at least one of a sound emitted from a position close to “a specific microphone” and a sound emitted from a position far from “the specific microphone” is acquired from a first acoustic signal derived from a signal collected by “the specific microphone”. Note that “the predetermined function” is a function which uses such an approximation that a sound emitted from the position close to “the plurality of microphones” is collected as a spherical wave, and a sound emitted from the position far from “the plurality of microphones” is collected as a plane wave. |
| US11297405B1 |
Combined automobile and portable wireless speaker
A combined automobile speaker and portable blue tooth speaker including a disc shaped removable speaker located in a door of an automobile. The speaker further includes a clamp on a circular speaker holding bezel. The bezel is opened, and the speaker can be inserted or removed and is plugged into the automobile speaker sound system and can communicate with a portable audio player when removed. The rear end of the removable speaker includes a subwoofer component to enhance the listening experience of a user. The speaker may be removed and propped up via legs on the back end of the speaker device. This allows for a versatile and portable speaker that is integrated into the sound system of a vehicle or used independently. |
| US11297404B2 |
Optical network having combined circuit-packet switch architecture
An optical network includes top networking ports coupled to a packet switch, first media converters, second media converters, and bottom networking ports. The first media converters are coupled to top networking ports, each of the first media converters including a first ASIC transceiver that has a circuit switch function. The second media converters are coupled to the first media converter via optical cables to receive the optical signals. Each of the second media converters includes a second ASIC transceiver that has a circuit switch function. The bottom networking ports are coupled to the second media converters. The first ASIC transceiver and the second ASIC transceiver are configured to transmit a signal from one of the top networking ports to any one of the bottom networking ports, and transmit a signal from one of the bottom networking ports to any one of the top networking ports. |
| US11297403B2 |
Environmental sensor or semiconductor device
To provide an environmental sensor with reduced power consumption.A semiconductor device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a control circuit, a transmission amplifier, a modulation circuit, a memory device, an analog-to-digital converter circuit, and an antenna. The memory device and the analog-to-digital converter circuit each include a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor is formed in a channel region. The second sensor is an optical sensor, and has a function of transmitting a trigger signal to the control circuit when receiving laser light. The control circuit has a function of transmitting a control signal to the first sensor, the transmission amplifier, the modulation circuit, the memory device, and the analog-to-digital converter circuit when receiving the trigger signal. The first sensor is a sensor that senses a physical or chemical quantity, and the measured data is subjected to digital conversion by the analog-to-digital converter circuit and stored in the memory device. In addition, the data is transmitted as an electromagnetic wave signal from the antenna through the modulation circuit and the transmission amplifier. |
| US11297402B2 |
Activity monitoring
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide measures, including apparatuses, circuity, methods and computer programs, for use in monitoring user activity. Orientation data for a user is generated. The generated orientation data is inserted into advertising packets of a wireless communication protocol. The advertising packets comprising the generated orientation data are broadcast according to the wireless communication protocol. |
| US11297399B1 |
Generating a stitched data stream
Systems and methods provide for receiving a request for an alternate data stream of a plurality of individual data streams than an active data stream currently being displayed on a computing device, during display on the computing device of a stitched data steam comprising the plurality of individual data streams associated with a common audio timeline. The systems and methods further providing for determining a subset of the plurality of individual data streams of the stitched data stream associated with a time period of the active data stream in the common audio timeline, selecting the alternate data stream from the subset of the plurality of individual data streams, and providing the alternate data stream to the computing device, wherein the display of the active data stream on the computing device transitions to the alternate data stream on the computing device in the common audio timeline. |
| US11297395B2 |
Methods and systems for video streaming
An electronic system that executes video streaming includes a video sender. The video sender converts video data into plural layers of bitstream packets with varied priorities for transmission. A bitstream packet with a lower layer of the plural layers of bitstream packets has a higher priority when being transmitted to a video receiver. |
| US11297393B2 |
Selection interface with synchronized suggestion elements
A machine detects a set of first control operations and, in response, causes a display screen to present a graphical interface in which a central window suggests first content by presenting a first preview and a first identifier superimposed on the first preview. The machine then detects a second control operation that indicates dismissal of the first content. In response to the second control operation, the machine causes the display screen to present a transition to an interest-improved version of the graphical interface. The transition includes sliding the first preview, the first identifier, a second preview, and a second identifier together in a shared direction and at a shared speed within the central window. The second preview and the second identifier correspond to second content. In the interest-improved version of the graphical interface, the central window suggests the second content by presenting the second preview and the second identifier. |
| US11297390B2 |
Augmented display from conversational monitoring
Systems and methods are provided for generating for display an indication of a segment of media content relevant to a voice communication. This may be accomplished by a media guidance application that monitors a voice communication between users. The media guidance application determines that a first user is describing media content. In response to determining that the first user is describing the media content, the media guidance application retrieves media asset viewing history of the first user. The media guidance application determines, based on metadata of each media asset in the media asset viewing history of the first user and the voice communication, a media asset that the first user is describing. The media guidance application determines, based on metadata of the media asset, a segment of the media asset that the first user is describing. The media guidance application generates, for display, an indication of the segment. |
| US11297387B2 |
Systems and methods for digital video recording of internet protocol content
A media client device, including a memory and capable of processing Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) channels and IP channels, may receive a recording request to record content on an Internet Protocol (IP) channel. The media client device may provide, to a first device, a source Universal Resource Locator (URL) corresponding to the content, and receive, from the first device, encrypted content (e.g., an encrypted version of the content). The media client device may store, in the memory, the encrypted content, and provide, to a second device, information regarding the encrypted content to permit the second device to generate and store a license and a key. The media client device may receive a playback request to play the content, and obtain, from the second device, the license and the key. The media client device may decrypt, using the license and the key, the stored, encrypted content to obtain the content. |
| US11297386B2 |
Delivery of different services through different client devices
A system that handles delivery of a service through a client device or a secondary device paired with the client device, includes an interactive service provider and the client device. The interactive service provider inserts at least one of digital watermarks, fingerprints, and trigger identifiers at event opportunities in media content. The client device detects at least one of the inserted digital watermarks, the digital fingerprints, and the inserted trigger identifiers in the media content. The client device further renders overlay graphics on the media content and activates at least one of input devices in vicinity of the client device or the rendered overlay graphics. The client device receives trigger responses over an activated overlay graphic, via the activated input devices. The client device further displays an interactive view on the client device, to enable delivery of services in response to the received trigger responses. |
| US11297384B2 |
Method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for creating video based on user-feedbackable bots
Disclosed are methods, systems, and/or a non-transitory computer-readable record mediums for producing a video based on a bot enabling a user feedback. A video production method may include receiving a plurality of images uploaded to a chatroom in response to a bot for a video production being added to the chatroom and the chatroom including at least one user, creating at least one primary video clip using at least two images among the plurality of images, creating a single video using the at least one primary video clip, and providing the created single video to the chatroom. |
| US11297383B1 |
Gap filling using personalized injectable media
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for media consumption gap filling are provided. Notification that a first user has selected a first broadcast channel to view while the first broadcast channel is showing a first program may be received. A desired program scheduled to be presented via the first broadcast channel at a time after an end of the first program may be determined. A first duration may be calculated that starts at a current time and ends at a scheduled time of commencement of the desired program. First gap-filling content that has a duration sufficient to fill the first duration may be identified. The first gap-filling content may be from a first personalized media corpus associated with the first user. The first gap-filling content may be presented. |
| US11297381B2 |
Method and apparatus of transmitting media data related information in multimedia transmission system
A method for transmitting media data-related information at a transmitting entity in a multimedia transmission system including at least one intermediate node is provided. The method includes generating information of traffic, which corresponds to at least one media data configuring a multimedia service, for each valid time period, and transmitting the media data-related information comprising the information of traffic to a receiving entity through the at least one intermediate node. |
| US11297380B2 |
Audio only content
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for requesting audio only data for video content. One of the methods includes receiving, from a host server on a network, a plurality of content items, wherein a content item of the plurality of content items references video content. If device conditions, network conditions, or both, indicate that video data of the video content referenced by the content item should not be played on the user device, the user device requests only the audio data of the video content referenced by the content item and plays only the audio data on the user device. |
| US11297379B2 |
Program sequencer for multi-display environment
Programmable media interfaces, methods and systems for programming a plurality of displays in a multiple display environment are described herein. The media interfaces, methods and systems include processors configured to program a sequence of broadcast content to the plurality of display devices, control pre-set or pre-programmed sequencing of the broadcast of the future content at times, and select particular displays in the plurality of displays to display portions of the broadcast content at the pre-set or pre-programmed times for future playing. |
| US11297372B2 |
Configuration of user interface
There is disclosed a system comprising a first device and a second device, each being associated with a user, in which a user interface of the first device is configured in dependence on content associated with the second device. |
| US11297370B1 |
Media content controller
A system and method for controlling media devices are provided. A device controller includes a device control module. The device control module identifies media devices in a local network, such as a LAN. The device control module selects a media device from the identified media devices. Next the device control module selects content to be displayed on the selected media device. The device control module uses the local network to cause the selected media device to display the selected content. |
| US11297369B2 |
Remotely controlling playback devices
In some implementations, a system can be configured to allow remote control devices to quietly obtain status information related to various audio/video playback devices. For example, a streaming device (e.g., a user device, phone, etc.) can establish a streaming connection to a playback device. The playback device can be configured to only accept a single streaming connection (i.e., master connection). A remote control device (e.g., a user device, phone, etc.) can quietly connect (i.e., control connection) to the playback device without interrupting the master connection to obtain status information related to the playback device and or the media being streamed to the playback device. The remote control device can provide commands through the control connection to adjust the playback of the streamed media at the playback device. |
| US11297368B1 |
Methods, systems, and apparatuses and live audio capture
A live audio bite system may capture audio bites of a live event based on input from a spectator's device. The system may include an audience device, a server, and a recording device. The audience device may provide input of when an audio capture is desired. The recording device may record audio directly from an audio source on a circular buffer. The server may facilitate communication between audience devices and recording devices and store requested audio clips. |
| US11297365B2 |
Adaptive bitrate video testing from screen recording
A processing system may obtain a downscaled version of a reference copy of a video, comprising a plurality of downscaled versions of a plurality of frames of the reference copy of the video, obtain a first recorded frame of a first variant of a plurality of variants associated with the reference copy of the video, where the plurality of variants comprises a plurality of copies of the video encoded at different bitrates, generate a first downscaled version of the first recorded frame, calculate a first plurality of image distances between the first downscaled version of the first recorded frame and the plurality of downscaled versions of the plurality of frames of the reference copy of the video, and determine a first frame index of the first recorded frame in accordance with a first least image distance from among the first plurality of image distances that is calculated. |
| US11297362B2 |
Receiver of television signals, received by air, cable or internet, equipped with memory means within which said television signals are memorized, where it is possible to arrange and display the contents of said memory means
A receiver of television signals received via air, cable, internet, or by way of connection to an external device. The receiver includes a memory means wherein contents are stored, received through said receiver. The receiver also includes a data management means configured to organize and display the contents of the memory means. The data management means carries out an authentication procedure that allows for a determined user to be associated to his/her profile, that allows for storing and/or accessing private data of said memory means, that are associated uniquely to said determined user, and that do not appear to exist when exploring the contents of said memory means, if beforehand said authentication procedure has not been carried out by said determined user. |
| US11297360B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving broadcast signal
Disclosed is a method of transmitting a broadcast signal. The method includes encoding broadcast data based on a delivery protocol, line-layer processing the broadcast data, and physical-layer processing the broadcast data. Line-layer processing the broadcast data may include compressing the header of at least one IP packet when the broadcast data comprises the IP packet and encapsulating the IP packet into link layer packets. |
| US11297358B2 |
Video distribution systems and methods
A multimedia content selection system includes at least one processor executing instructions for performing operations. The operations include receiving a playback request from a playback unit, including a content identifier, providing, to the playback unit, a manifest with at least a set of content segment identifiers based on the content identifier, each content segment identifier identifying a content segment associated with a content stream, receiving a content stream request comprising one of the content segment identifiers, and selecting a segment for playback from the content segment associated with the received content segment identifier, determined using a set of content selection rules. |
| US11297354B2 |
Encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus and transmission control method
The present invention provides an encoding apparatus including a setting section that partitions each of images included in a video to be encoded into a plurality of tiles and sets a partial region including one or more of the plurality of tiles for the image, an encoding section that encodes each image on a per-tile basis to generate an encoded stream, and a transmission control section that controls transmission of the encoded stream to a decoding apparatus that decodes the video. The setting section sets out-of-tile reference for motion compensation for the tiles within the partial region to be prohibited, and the transmission control section restricts, upon detection of a loss or an absence of encoded information at the decoding apparatus, the transmission such that only an encoded stream corresponding to the tiles within the partial region is transmitted. |
| US11297353B2 |
No-reference banding artefact predictor
A method of measuring a banding artefact in an image includes generating a gradient profile from the image, where the gradient profile includes respective gradient magnitudes of pixels of the image; generating, using the gradient profile, a candidate banding pixel (CBP) map, where each location of the CBP map is such that a gradient magnitude of the gradient profile of a corresponding pixel of the image being greater than a first threshold and smaller than a second threshold; generating, using the CBP map, a banding edge map (BEM), where the BEM includes connected banding edges of the image; generating, using the BEM, a banding visibility map (BVM), where the BVM includes a respective banding metric for at least some pixels of the image; and generating a banding index of the image using the BVM. |
| US11297351B2 |
System and method for deblocking HDR content
A system and method for coding video in which deblocking artifacts are reduced by using modified filtering that is based, at least in part on pixel intensity associated with a coding unit, such that filtering levels are increased as pixel intensity increases. In some embodiments, an offset value or indicator of an offset value for parameters associated with deblocking filter parameters can be associated with a filtering level that is based at least in part on an intensity value. |
| US11297343B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video signal
A method of decoding a video signal according to the present invention may include: determining whether or not change in brightness is present between a current video including a current block and a reference video of the current video; when it is determined that change in brightness is present between the current video and the reference video, determining weight prediction parameter candidates of the current block; determining a weight prediction parameter of the current block on the basis of index information specifying any of the weight prediction parameter candidates; and performing prediction for the current block on the basis of the weight prediction parameter. |
| US11297339B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for hierarchically encoding and decoding a bytestream
There may be provided a method of decoding a received set of encoded data representing information that has been compressed, wherein the encoded data set is divided into a hierarchy of subsets, the method comprising: decoding at least one first subset to derive a respective set of attribute metadata elements; separately decoding a plurality of second subsets comprising data elements, wherein each second subset describes a region of the information that has been compressed; and, reconstructing the information that has been compressed from the data elements, wherein the region of the information that has been compressed is identified from the attribute metadata elements. |
| US11297338B2 |
Selective quantization parameter transmission
A video encoder encodes a video into a data stream, the video encoder being configured to vary a granularity at which a Quantization Parameter—QP—is applied depending on an association of frames of the video to temporally hierarchical layers at which the video is encoded into the data stream. The technology also concerns a respective decoder, a respective method for encoding and decoding, and a computer program for implementing the methods. |
| US11297337B2 |
Compression and decoding of single sensor color image data
A method is described to greatly improve the efficiency of and reduce the complexity of image compression when using single-sensor color imagers for video acquisition. The method in addition allows for this new image compression type to be compatible with existing video processing tools, improving the workflow for film and television production. |
| US11297332B1 |
Gaze-tracking-based image downscaling for multi-party video communication
In some embodiments, gaze-tracking-based image downscaling for multi-party video communication may be provided. In some embodiments, a set of gaze locations may be received from a set of receiving devices during concurrent video communication sessions between the receiving devices and a sending device. Different collections of positions may be determined based on the gaze locations, and, for each such collection, a spatial indicator (e.g., a bounded region) may be determined. A first downscaled encoding of the source image (from the sending device) may be generated based on the first spatial indicator, and a second downscaled encoding of the source image may be generated based on the second spatial indicator, etc. The downscaled encodings may then be sent to the respective receiving devices during the concurrent video communication sessions. |
| US11297326B2 |
Method and apparatus for predicting motion information of picture block, encoder, and decoder
A method for predicting motion information of a picture block and a related product is provided. The method includes: determining a candidate motion information list of a current picture block, where the candidate motion information list includes at least one combined candidate motion information, one combined candidate motion information is obtained by weighting P candidate motion information by using corresponding weighting factors; determining target motion information in the candidate motion information list; and predicting motion information of the current picture block based on the target motion information. |
| US11297323B2 |
Method and apparatus for combined adaptive resolution and internal bit-depth increase coding
Images to be used as reference images in an adaptive resolution coder or decoder undergo resizing to match the resolution of an image being processed. The resizing process is carried out using extended resolution bit lengths to more accurately represent the processed image. The internal bit depth is retained through the resizing process, and kept as a reference image is stored. When a reference image is used in motion compensation processing, the resized reference matches the resolution of a current image being processed and has an expanded bit depth precision to achieve better fidelity. |
| US11297319B2 |
Method for encoding images and corresponding terminals
The present invention provides a method for encoding an image and corresponding terminals. The method includes steps of: determine the related coding information of the raw image to be processed according to the feature information of the raw image to be processed; and encode the raw image to be processed according to the related coding information. In the present invention, the encoded raw image is transmitted to a cloud server via network, and the decoded and reconstructed raw image is optimized by the ISP module in the cloud server. Compared with the prior art where complex algorithms cannot be implemented by the ISP module in the terminal due to the limitation of its computing capacity, the present invention significantly improves the perceptual quality of the user viewing image by adopting more sophisticated image processing algorithms, while increasing the image compression ratio. |
| US11297317B2 |
Method for constructing tile structure and apparatus therefor
The present invention discloses a method for constructing a tile structure, wherein a current picture includes at least two or more tiles, the at least two or more tiles are split by a column splitting and a row splitting, at least one or more of the column splitting and the row splitting are performed by using a splitting length which is shorter than a width length or a height length of the current picture. |
| US11297314B2 |
Adaptive filter intra prediction modes in image/video compression
A processor decodes, from a compressed bitstream, an adaptive intra-prediction mode of a set of adaptive filter modes, the adaptive intra-prediction mode indicating a number of filter coefficients and relative locations with respect to a to-be-predicted pixel of a sub-set of neighboring pixels of the to-be-predicted pixel; determines filter coefficients for generating a prediction block of the block; and generates, by recursive extrapolations that use the filter coefficients and the relative locations, the prediction block. The set of adaptive filter modes includes a first adaptive mode and a second adaptive mode. The first adaptive mode and the second adaptive mode indicate a same number of coefficients. The first adaptive mode indicates a first set of first relative locations of a first sub-set of neighboring pixels that is different from a second set of second relative locations of a second sub-set of neighboring pixels indicated by the second adaptive mode. |
| US11297313B2 |
Prediction method for decoding and apparatus, and computer storage medium
A prediction method, apparatus, and a computer storage medium for decoding, the method includes: acquiring reference samples adjacent to at least one side of a decoding block; determining a reference point from the at least one side and determining reference sample positions to be selected corresponding to the at least one side according to a preset number of samples; selecting reference samples corresponding to the reference sample positions to be selected from the reference samples based on the reference sample positions to be selected; and performing prediction decoding on the decoding block based on the selected reference samples. |
| US11297305B2 |
Three-dimensional image production support apparatus
Information indicating a shape of a screen, a shape of a viewing area and a relative positional relationship between the viewing area and the screen is acquired. A shared area in which a three-dimensional image presented by a three-dimensional display is to be arranged in order to be observed from any position in the viewing area is created based on the acquired information. Based on the acquired information, a specific area in which a three-dimensional image presented by the three-dimensional display is to be arranged in order to be observed from a specific position in the viewing area is created. The data indicating the created shared area and the data indicating the specific area are generated. |
| US11297304B2 |
Virtual image display device and head mounted display using same
A virtual image display device has a function of projecting a prescribed virtual image video within a visual field of a user and detects an actual visual recognition distance from the user to an object relating to a visually recognized object at which the user is gazing. A virtual image light generating unit has a function of generating a plurality of virtual image lights independent of each other and a virtual-image-light transmitting and projecting unit that has a function of transmitting and projecting the virtual image light to left and right eyes of the user through substantially the same optical path to allow a prescribed virtual image video to be visually recognized at a prescribed position within the visual field of the user. Additionally, a virtual-image visual recognition distance control unit that has a function of performing variable control of a visual recognition distance of a virtual image. |
| US11297301B2 |
Image capturing system, arrangement determination apparatus, arrangement determination method, and storage medium
The image capturing system for generating a virtual viewpoint image has a plurality of cameras installed so as to capture a predetermined position from different directions. The plurality of cameras includes at least one pair of cameras including a first camera and a second camera installed at a position of two-fold symmetry of the first camera with an axis passing the predetermined position and vertical to an image capturing field being taken as a center, or a position closest to the position of two-fold symmetry. Further, between the first camera and the second camera, a parameter that affects at least one of a texture resolution of an object in a captured image and an image capturing range of a camera among parameters specifying characteristics of image capturing devices is different. |
| US11297298B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving 360-degree video including camera lens information, and device therefor
A method for processing 360-degree image data by a device for receiving a 360-degree video according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving 360-degree image data; obtaining information relating to an encoded picture and metadata from the 360-degree image data, wherein the metadata includes camera lens information; decoding a picture including a target circular area on the basis of the information relating to the encoded picture; and rendering the target circular area by processing same on the basis of the camera lens information. |
| US11297296B2 |
Display control apparatus, program, and display control method
Unnatural display is reduced by changing the appearance of a real space. A display control apparatus includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires reliability information indicating reliability of each of element data constituting three-dimensional data of a real space; a region specification unit that specifies a region corresponding to element data of which the reliability does not meet a criterion; and a display control unit that performs display control for changing the appearance of the region specified by the region specification unit. |
| US11297293B2 |
Electronic device and control method thereof
An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a storage; a display; a communication interface configured to communicate with an external device to receive, from the external device, a video signal including a plurality of frames at a second transmission speed that is faster than a first transmission speed; and a processor configured to: control the communication interface to receive the plurality of frames transmitted at the second transmission speed and store the plurality of frames in the storage, identify features of a second frame among the plurality of frames to be played back after a first frame among the plurality of frames, and control the display to display the first frame based on the identified features of the second frame. |
| US11297290B2 |
Projector and method for controlling projector
A projector is provided that includes a light source configured to radiate light, an electro-optical panel including a pixel circuit configured to receive light from the light source and emit the light, and an optical axis shifting element configured to shift an optical axis of the light emitted from the pixel circuit, with the projector being configured to display a pixel on a projection surface, based on the light emitted from the pixel circuit via the optical axis shifting element. When shifting a position of the pixel on the projection surface from a first position to a second position in a first direction, the optical axis shifting element shifts an optical axis of the light emitted from the pixel circuit using a path different from a shortest path from the first position to the second position. |
| US11297285B2 |
Dental and medical loupe system for lighting control, streaming, and augmented reality assisted procedures
In various examples, a dental and medical loupe system for lighting control, streaming, and augmented reality (AR) assisted procedures is provided. Facial recognition algorithms and/or inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors may be used to determine when a light disposed on eye-glasses of a wearer should be activated. As a result, instead of requiring a medical practitioner to manually turn on and off the light source, facial recognition may be used to determine when the dentist is looking toward a face of a patient, and to turn on the light when a face is present and off when a face is not present. In addition, some examples leverage augmented reality (AR) functionality to overlay patient and procedure information on one or more lenses of eye-glasses worn by a practitioner to allow for an un-occluded view of the actual location where the procedure is being performed. |
| US11297284B2 |
Monitoring camera and mount
A video monitoring system includes a camera head, including an infrared illumination source and an image sensor. A mount is configured to hold the camera head in a fixed location and orientation above a crib, so that the image sensor captures images of the crib and an intervention region adjacent to the crib from a fixed perspective. |
| US11297283B2 |
Video management apparatus, video management method and program
A video management apparatus includes a storage processing unit configured to store, in a storage unit, video data received through a network, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not video data groups stored in the storage unit are analyzed based on a first period of time indicating a period of time until a free capacity becomes insufficient in the storage unit and a second period of time indicating a maximum analysis time required for analysis of the video data groups, a first calculation unit configured to analyze the video data groups to calculate a predetermined statistic in a case where it is determined that the video data groups are analyzed, and a deletion unit configured to delete the analyzed video data groups. |
| US11297281B1 |
Manage a video conference session in a multi-tasking environment
In aspects of manage a video conference session in a multi-tasking environment, a computing device has a display screen to display a user interface of a foreground active application, such as a device application or a video conference session. The computing device implements a content control module that determines a user is designated as a participant of the video conference session, detects that a remote user connects to the video conference session from a remote device, and determines the device application is the foreground active application with the user interface of the device application displayed on the display screen. The content control module can then initiate to surface the user interface of the video conference session for display on the display screen responsive to the remote user connecting to the video conference session and the video conference session not being the foreground active application. |
| US11297279B2 |
Transmission device, reception device, and communication system
A transmission device includes an image processing unit that controls transmission of a first packet including region information regarding a region detected from an image and controls transmission of a second packet for each of lines in which at least the region has been detected in the image. The second packet comprises a header including information regarding the line, and a payload including region data concerning a partial region corresponding to the line, out of the region, in which the header includes: identification information of the data included in the payload; an error correction code of the information included in the header; and an extension region provided so as to be interposed between the identification information and the error correction code, and information indicating whether or not the region data is included in the payload corresponding to the header is set in at least a part of the extension region. |
| US11297276B1 |
Method and system for high speed signal processing
A method and system for acquiring data from a pixelated image sensor for detecting charged particles. The method includes reading a pixel voltage of one or more of the multiple pixels multiple times without resetting the image sensor and digitizing the pixel into a first number of bits. The camera outputs a digitized compressed pixel voltage in a second, less, number of bits. The maximum range of the digitized compressed pixel voltage is less than a maximum range of the pixel voltage. |
| US11297275B2 |
Electronic device
A sensing device may include a signal source, an active area and a plurality of driving units. The active area having a plurality of sensing units. The plurality of driving units sequentially disposed adjacent to the active area and coupled to the plurality of sensing units and the signal source. The signal source provides a first operating mode and a second operating mode. In the first operating mode, a scan signal exported from one of the plurality of driving units has a first voltage level and a second voltage level. In the second operating mode, the scan signal has the second voltage level. |
| US11297273B2 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus
A photoelectric conversion apparatus including a plurality of pixels each having: a photoelectric conversion unit; a first charge holding unit; a second charge holding unit; a first gate; and a second gate. In a period when the photoelectric conversion unit is storing charges to be transferred to the first charge holding unit, the potential of the first gate is set to a first potential, and the potential of the second gate is set to a second potential. Both the first potential and the second potential are higher than the potential of the first gate in a period when the charges of the photoelectric conversion unit are transferred to the first charge holding unit and the potential of the second gate in a period when the charges of the photoelectric conversion unit are transferred to the second charge holding unit. The first potential is lower than the second potential. |
| US11297270B2 |
Readout circuit and method for time-of-flight image sensor
A time-of-flight device comprises a pixel array including an array of pixel circuits, wherein a column of the array includes: a first pixel circuit including a first photodiode, a first capacitor and a second capacitor coupled to the first photodiode, and a second pixel circuit including a second photodiode, a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor coupled to the second photodiode, a first signal line coupled to the first capacitor, a second signal line coupled to the second capacitor, a third signal line coupled to the third capacitor, a fourth signal line coupled to the fourth capacitor, a first switch circuitry, a second switch circuitry, a first comparator coupled to the first signal line and the third signal line through the first switch circuitry, and a second comparator coupled to the second signal line and the fourth signal line through the second switch circuitry. |
| US11297255B1 |
On-board light source calibration
An example method includes recording dark images on an image sensor on-board an orbital vehicle during flight, which include a first image recorded before the orbital vehicle is over a predefined location on the Earth and a second image recorded after the orbital vehicle is over the predefined location; and recording third and fourth images on the image sensor during flight based on illumination from a light source that is on-board, with the third image being recorded before the orbital vehicle is over the predefined location and the fourth image being recorded after the orbital vehicle is over the predefined location. A fifth image is recorded on the image sensor during flight while the predefined location on the Earth is visible to the image sensor. The fifth image is based on light from a ground-based calibration system. The light source is calibrated during flight based on the five images. |
| US11297254B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and non-transitory recording medium
An image processing device includes a memory storing a program, and at least one processor that executes the program. The processor sets an exposure condition for video imaging, acquires an image of the video imaged under the exposure condition, and calculates a brightness distribution from the image. The exposure condition includes a first exposure condition for causing the imaging device to capture an image using a first exposure value, and a second exposure condition causing the imaging device to capture an image using an exposure value higher than the first exposure condition and/or causing the imaging device to capture an image using a lower exposure value than the first exposure condition. The processor sets the first exposure condition or sets the first and the second exposure condition, based on the brightness distribution of the image captured under the first exposure condition after the first exposure condition is set. |
| US11297248B2 |
Real-time glare detection inside a dynamic region of an image
A user device may capture a plurality of preview images that each include image data. The user device may process, in substantially real-time, a preview image to identify an object in the preview image, including determining an outline of the object. The user device may create a mask that hides a portion of the image data associated with an area outside of the outline of the object in one or more of the preview images. Based on determining that a parameter associated with glare of the object in the preview images does not satisfy a threshold, the user device may provide, in substantially real-time, feedback to a user, including an instruction to the user to perform an action with respect to the user device or to the object, and, based on determining that the parameter satisfies the threshold, the user device may automatically capture an image of the object. |
| US11297245B2 |
Active calibration device and method for obtaining parameters used to calibrate information contained in images captured by an infrared camera device
An active calibration device is provided for obtaining parameters that are used to calibrate information contained in images captured by an infrared camera device. The active calibration device includes a base having at least one mounting surface; and a plurality of infrared (IR) light emitting components disposed on the mounting surface of the base. The IR light emitting components are arranged to form a predetermined pattern, and are configured to emit infrared light for receipt by a lens of the infrared camera device. |
| US11297244B2 |
Click-and-lock zoom camera user interface
A method includes receiving a selection of a selected zoom area on an input image frame displayed on a user interface; determining one or more candidate zoom previews proximate to the selected zoom area using a saliency detecting algorithm; and displaying the one or more candidate zoom previews on the user interface adjacent to the selected zoom area. |
| US11297243B2 |
Electronic device and method for providing content associated with camera function from electronic device
An electronic device is disclosed that includes a display; a camera module; a communication module; and a processor. The processor can be set to use the communication module to obtain, from an external device, a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of contents and data relating to at least part of the plurality of contents, and display, through the display, an image obtained using the camera module; display at least part of the plurality of images on a designated area on the display while displaying the image obtained using the camera module; and when an input associated with a first image from among the at least part of the plurality of images, use the data to display a graphic image on an area corresponding to a selected object included in the image obtained using the camera module. |
| US11297242B2 |
Imaging apparatus which generates title images for classifying a plurality of captured images and inserts the title images as separate images within the plurality of captured images
An imaging apparatus includes imaging units that image a subject, a title generation executing unit that generates title images each including a display title for classifying a plurality of captured images acquired by the imaging unit and inserts the title image into the captured images, a storage unit that stores the captured images and the title images, a display unit that displays the captured images and the title images stored in the storage unit in the form of a list, and an image search executing unit that searches for a desired captured image from the plurality of captured images and the title images displayed on the display unit in the form of the list. The title generation executing unit hierarchically generates the title images in accordance with a priority set in each type of display title for classifying the captured images. |
| US11297241B2 |
Dynamic synchronization of frame rate to a detected cadence in a time lapse image sequence
A frame rate is synchronized to a detected cadence in order to generate an output image sequence that is substantially stabilized. In an in-camera process, a camera receives motion data of the camera while the camera captures the sequence of image frames. A dominant frequency of motion is determined and the capture frame rate is dynamically adjusted to match the frequency of detected motion so that each image frame is captured when the camera is at approximately the same position along the axis of motion. Alternatively, in a post-processing process, frames of a captured image sequence are selectively sampled at a sampling rate corresponding to the dominant frequency of motion so that each sampled frame corresponds to an image capture that occurred when the camera is at approximately the same position along the axis of motion. |
| US11297240B2 |
Imaging device and imaging control method capable of preventing camera shake
An imaging device including an imaging unit that includes an imaging element converting a received subject image into an image signal and an imaging lens, and at least one of the imaging lens or the imaging element being movable in a direction orthogonal to a direction of an optical axis of an incidence ray; a shake detector that detects a shake of the imaging unit; and a processor configured to correct a shake of the subject image by moving at least one of the imaging lens or the imaging element relative to one another according to the detected shake, wherein the processor is further configured to determine whether or not a movable range of the relative movement, in which the shake of the subject image is corrected, is limited to an inside of a rectangle according to at least one of an imaging mode, an imaging timing, or a relative position of the imaging lens and the imaging element. |
| US11297235B2 |
Optical apparatus having vibration device
An optical apparatus configured to correct an image blur by moving an image stabilization unit in a first direction different from an optical axis direction based on shake information obtained by a shake detector includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration in order to transmit to a user a tactual sense according to an operation of an operation unit by the user. During an imaging and recording period, the vibration device generates the vibration having a vibration intensity in a second direction different from the first direction higher than that in the first direction. |
| US11297234B2 |
Systems and methods for automatic exposure in high dynamic range video capture systems
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for implementing high dynamic range and automatic exposure functions in a video system. In one aspect, a method is performed at a video camera device and includes, while operating in a non-high dynamic range (HDR) mode: capturing first video data of a scene with the image sensor; determining whether a minimum number of pixels of the first video data meets one or more first color intensity criteria; and in accordance with the determination that the minimum number of pixels of the first video data meets the one or more first color intensity criteria, switching operation from the non-HDR mode to an HDR mode. |
| US11297233B1 |
Techniques to selectively capture visual media using a single interface element
Techniques to selectively capture media using a single user interface element are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a touch controller, a visual media capture component, and a storage component. The touch controller may be operative to receive a haptic engagement signal. The visual media capture component may be operative to be configured in a capture mode based on whether a haptic disengagement signal is received by the touch controller before expiration of a first timer, the capture mode one of a photo capture mode or video capture mode, the first timer started in response to receiving the haptic engagement signal, the first timer configured to expire after a first preset duration. The storage component may be operative to store visual media captured by the visual media capture component in the configured capture mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11297232B2 |
Apparatus and method for producing slow motion video
Various embodiments provide an electronic device including: a camera comprising an image signal processor configured to process a video output from an image sensor; a memory; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: obtain the processed video from the image signal processor; extract a portion of the obtained video to detect motion; synchronize the obtained video with the extracted video, based on the motion detection; produce a slow motion video by converting a frame rate of the synchronized video; and encode the produced slow motion video and store the same in the memory, and a method thereof. Various embodiments may be provided. |
| US11297230B2 |
Shooting method, device and computer-readable storage medium
Disclosed is a shooting method, which is applied to a terminal device defining at least one camera, and the at least one camera includes at least one lift-able camera. The method includes: displaying a shooting interface; receiving a shooting instruction; controlling a first camera to shoot at least two images at different heights to obtain a shot photo, where the first camera is one of the at least one lift-able camera. With adoption of the embodiments of this application, the software debugging time for the camera can be reduced, and the shooting efficiency can be improved. |
| US11297229B2 |
Method of acquiring images at a plurality of acquisition locations of an acquisition device
A method of acquiring images includes moving, into a plurality of acquisition locations, of an acquisition device including at least one camera, and acquisition at each acquisition location of at least one image of a scene by the camera. Each acquisition location being chosen in such a manner that scenes viewed by the camera at two consecutive acquisition locations and corresponding images overlap, at least partially, and areal density of pixels assigned to at least one element of the corresponding scene, which is represented in the corresponding image by a high-resolution portion, is greater than 50% or greater than 80% of a target areal density, the areal density of pixels being defined as a ratio of the area of the element projected in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the camera over a quantity of pixels of the high-resolution portion. |
| US11297226B1 |
Photo taking feedback system
An example photographic feedback method, comprising, inputting a query image, a camera setting, a location, a temporal indicia and an environmental condition, detecting an object within the query image, projecting the location of the object, classifying the environmental condition at the location of the object, querying features of the query image of the object at the environmental condition of the projected location of the object, determining a closest image to the query image for the object at the environmental condition of the projected location of the object having a highly rated value via a cloud database and sending an updated location and at least one updated camera setting for an updated image. |
| US11297225B2 |
Video producing method, apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device
A video producing method, an apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The video producing method comprises: acquiring keywords configured by a user, the keywords comprising a participant and a participation event; determining a plurality of photographing tasks according to the keywords, and a trigger condition of each of the photographing tasks; prompting, according to the trigger condition, the user to perform the corresponding photographing task, to obtain at least one photo; and generating a video file according to the at least one photo. |
| US11297224B2 |
Automated eyewear device sharing system
Systems, devices, media, and methods are described for capturing a series of raw images by portable electronic devices, such as wearable devices including eyewear, and automating the process of processing such raw images by a client mobile device, such as a smart phone, such automation including the process of uploading to a network and directing to a target audience. In some implementations, a user selects profile settings on the client device before capturing images on the companion device, so that when the companion device has captured the images, the system follows the profile settings upon automatically processing the images captured by the companion device. |
| US11297222B2 |
Image capture device, image capture method, and program
An image capture device includes: an image capture parameter determination unit configured to determine an exposure time when an image of a display device on which a display character is formed by a plurality of segment light emitters that flash on and off asynchronously at predetermined intervals is captured; a captured image acquisition unit configured to, in accordance with a number of captured images and image capture interval determined on the basis of the exposure time and a formation required period that is required for the display device to form the display character by sequentially turning on any one of the plurality of segment light emitters, acquire the determined number of captured images generated by capturing the image of the display device; and a composition unit configured to generate a composite image obtained by compositing the determined number of captured images. |
| US11297216B2 |
Electric shaver with imaging capabtility
System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver. |
| US11297214B2 |
Lens module and electronic device having same
A lens module includes a circuit board, a first support base, a second support base, a first lens assembly, and a second lens assembly. The first support base is mounted on a first surface of the circuit board. The first surface includes a first circuit interface. The first support base includes a third circuit interface. The first lens assembly is mounted on the first support base and electrically coupled to the circuit board through the third circuit interface and the first circuit interface. The second support base is mounted on a second surface of the circuit board. The second surface includes a second circuit interface. The second support base includes a fourth circuit interface. The second lens assembly is mounted on the second support base and electrically coupled to the circuit board through the fourth circuit interface and the second circuit interface. |
| US11297213B2 |
Display panel, fabricating method thereof, and display device
A display panel, a fabricating method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a camera assembly. A side of the first substrate adjacent to the second substrate is provided with a color filter layer. The color filter layer is provided with a light-transmitting portion, and a side of the second substrate adjacent to the first substrate is provided with a thin film transistor layer. A deflection of the liquid crystal is controlled by the thin film transistor layer, thereby realizing the condition that the camera assembly under the screen obtains external light and visual effect of full-screen display. |
| US11297209B2 |
Mounting base structure used for photographic lamp or monitor
A mounting base structure used for a photographic lamp or monitor comprises a first connecting rod having an end rotatably connected with one side of a photographic lamp or monitor and an end provided with a connecting part. A second connecting rod to be attached to the first connecting rod is hinged to the connecting part. A first threaded hole to be connected with a connecting bolt on a digital video camera is horizontally formed in the side face of the other end of the second connecting rod. The mounting base structure used for the photographic lamp or monitor is simple and compact and facilitates the connection of the photographic lamp or monitor with the digital video camera. |
| US11297208B2 |
Method of creating teacher data, color prediction model creation apparatus, and method of creating color prediction model
A method of creating teacher data used for creating a color prediction model that predicts a spectral reflectance of a printed matter printed using an ink amount set from the ink amount set that is a combination of ink amounts of inks used for printing, includes, in an ink amount space in which a plurality of lattice points are disposed, selecting an ink amount set from an ink amount set associated with each lattice point, according to a predetermined selection rule, acquiring a spectral reflectance of a color chart printed on a printing medium using the selected ink amount set, and setting the teacher data using the selected ink amount set as an input value and the acquired spectral reflectance as an output value. |
| US11297198B2 |
Image processing apparatus
In the image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure, a data processing unit derives a density variation component for at least one modulation period from a difference between a reference plate reading value when the illumination is turned off, a reference plate reading value when the illumination is turned on, and black reference data and white reference data in synchronization with modulation of the SS clock, and corrects the image data with the density variation component. The white reference data indicates the light distribution of the illumination in the main scanning direction, and the data processing unit corrects the density variation component on the basis of the difference between the white reference data and the black reference data, and corrects the image data with the corrected density variation component. |
| US11297197B2 |
System for digitizing and processing resource documents
Embodiments of the invention include systems, methods, and computer-program products for digitizing and processing transmission of a physical resource document from an issuer to a user and from a user to a processing institution for real-time posting of physical resource documents. In this way, the invention processes a physical resource document into an image format at the issuer and transmits a secure digital image file to the user. The image format is processed and digitized for resource processing. Upon user receipt, the system validates the resource distribution. Upon validation the system allows for processing the resource document and the resource distribution from that document as a digital real-time payment. |
| US11297195B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: acquire information on a folding manner in which a folding device folds a medium; and when the folding manner does not allow reading of a folding position of the medium with the medium folded, cause a display to display information so as to prompt a user to unfold and read the medium. |
| US11297192B2 |
Image processing system for computerizing document, control method thereof, and storage medium
In an image processing system in which when a paper document is computerized, a file name or the like is set by using a recognized character string obtained by performing OCR processing, so that time and effort of a user when a plurality of documents is computerized en bloc is reduced. Learning data is generated by registering positional information relating to a recognized character string used for setting of a property relating to a scanned image in association with a document form of the scanned image. Then, in a case where the learning data is generated in response to setting of the property being performed for a first scanned image that is selected from a plurality of scanned images included in a list, a scanned image having a document form similar to a document form of the first scanned image is determined among other scanned images included in the list. |
| US11297191B2 |
System for selective event-based document scanning and captured image storage
A system for selective document scanning and storage is provided. The system comprises: a memory device with computer-readable program code stored thereon; a communication device connected to a network; and a processing device, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the computer-readable program code to: receive a document via a user device comprising an image capturing device configured to capture an image of the document; determine an error with the document; in response to determining the error with the document, trigger transmission of a signal to the image capture device; and modify a document image capture based on receiving the signal at the image capture device. |
| US11297190B2 |
Image forming apparatus and control method for the same
An image forming apparatus has a controller with a first input terminal configured to receive a first signal indicating a state of a first opening/closing portion, a second input terminal configured to receive a second signal indicating a state of a second opening/closing portion, and a third input terminal configured to receive a third signal indicating a state of the first opening/closing portion and the second opening/closing portion. The controller is configured to delay a first notification of an open state of the first opening/closing portion and a second notification of an open state of the second opening/closing portion for a predetermined period after any one of the first signal, second signal, or third signal initially indicates an open state. |
| US11297187B2 |
Providing E911 service to landline phones using a VoIP adapter
Systems and methods for providing E911 services to a publicly-switched telephone network (PSTN) phone are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods determine that the PSTN phone is connected to a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) adapter, identify an internet protocol (IP) address for an access point via which the adapter accesses an IP Multimedia System (IMS) network, determine a geographical location associated with the IP address, and enable E911 communications for the PSTN phone over the IMS network via the adapter based on the geographical location. |
| US11297178B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media utilizing residual echo estimate information to derive secondary echo reduction parameters
Method, apparatus, and program code embodied in computer-readable media, for providing enhanced echo suppression in a conferencing system having at least one microphone and at least one speaker. At least one microphone input signal is received, and at least one speaker input signal is provided. At least one processor has at least one primary echo-suppressor and at least one secondary echo-suppressor. The at least one primary echo-suppressor receives (i) the microphone input signal(s) and (ii) the speaker input signal(s). The at least one primary echo-suppressor provides at least one echo-suppressed microphone signal. The at least one secondary echo-suppressor receives the at least one echo-suppressed microphone signal and provides an output signal. The at least one processor provides the at least one echo-suppressed microphone signal to the at least one secondary echo-suppressor without providing the at least one speaker input signal directly to the at least one secondary echo-suppressor. |
| US11297177B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting airbag deployment resulting from a vehicle crash
A method for detecting airbag deployment includes operating a plurality of sensors of the mobile device disposed in a vehicle during a drive to obtain a plurality of measurement signals, determining a change in at least one measurement signal of the plurality of measurement signals and that the change exceeds a first threshold. In response to determining that the change exceeds the first threshold, obtaining a pressure measurement signal from a pressure sensor of the plurality of sensors, determining a derivative of the pressure measurement signal, and determining that the derivative of the pressure measurement signal exceeds a second threshold. In response to determining that the derivative of the pressure measurement signal exceeds the second threshold, detecting a deployment of a vehicle airbag based on the change in the at least one measurement signal exceeding the first threshold and the derivative of the pressure measurement signal exceeding the second threshold. |
| US11297172B2 |
Mounting structures for portable electronic devices
A portable electronic device such as a handheld electronic device is provided. The device may have upper and lower portions. The upper portion may have clips that attach to springs on the lower portion. The device may have a housing with a bezel. A prong on the springs may ground the bezel. A vibrator mounting bracket may hold a vibrator in place within the housing. The vibrator mounting bracket may have an end that engages the housing. A threaded insert may be welded to the spring. A screw that passes through a hole in the vibrator mounting bracket may be screwed into the threaded insert to attach the vibrator to the housing. An elastomeric member may bias the vibrator towards the bracket. An acoustic module may serve as a subassembly for the device. Components such as an antenna, dock connector, microphone, and speaker may be attached to the acoustic module. |
| US11297168B2 |
Lighting automation network
A lighting network control server and method for translating non-light related data packets into a protocol that is compatible with a third party automation server are disclosed. For example, the lighting network control server includes a communication interface to receive data packets from a lighting network and to communicate with a third party automation server, a non-transitory computer readable medium to store sub-routines and instructions to execute a protocol adapter, and a processor communicatively coupled to the communication interface and the non-transitory computer readable medium to execute the protocol adapter to translate the data packets into a protocol that is compatible with the third party automation server and transmit the data packets that are translated to the third party automation server via the communication interface. |
| US11297164B2 |
Device and content agnostic, interactive, collaborative, synchronized mixed reality system and method
A method and system provides a device and content agnostic, interactive, collaborative and synchronized virtual world comprising of three dimensional and two dimensional virtual objects defined by data, which can be viewed, customized, built on and interacted with simultaneously by geographically disparate users with different device types, including VR, AR, Tablet, and Computer devices, whereby the content may be ingested from or controlled by data and models from external sources or the system's internal storage. A machine learning component is implemented as a set of software containers. The containerized solution can be deployed as an enterprise service, in a cloud architecture, or as a part of a monolithic deployment that runs natively in any one of the components as part of the larger architecture. Exemplary use cases include: Real Estate property demonstration, property design, landscape design; health care medical image presentation, clinical decision support, training; Military training, planning, observation, and combat decision support. |
| US11297159B2 |
Extensible, asynchronous, centralized analysis and optimization of server responses to client requests
A method and system for generating an optimization instruction set based on communication between at least one server and at least one client are provided. The method includes aggregating a plurality of messages communicated from the at least one server to the at least one client; analyzing the plurality of messages to determine a plurality of resources to be consolidated; and generating an optimization instruction set for consolidating the determined plurality of resources, wherein the generated optimization instruction set comprises instructions for replacing the plurality of resources with the consolidated resources. |
| US11297150B2 |
Method and system for measuring user engagement using click/skip in content stream
Method, system, and programs for measuring user engagement. In one example, a model generated based on user activities with respect to a plurality pieces of content is obtained. One or more actual occurrences of the user activities with respect to one piece of the plurality pieces of content are identified. One or more future occurrences of the user activities with respect to the piece of content are estimated based on the model. A user engagement score with respect to the piece of content is calculated based on the one or more actual occurrences of the user activities and the one or more future occurrences of the user activities. |
| US11297149B2 |
Application programming interface (API) to provide network metrics and network resource control to users
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network application programming interface (“API”), and, more particularly, API to provide network metrics and network resource control to users. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive customer network telemetry data from a first network via a gateway API, might receive service provider network telemetry data from a second network(s) via a network API, might compile the customer network telemetry data and the service provider network telemetry data, might receive a request from a user to access information regarding network services associated with the user, might filter the compiled customer network telemetry data and the compiled service provider network telemetry data to isolate first telemetry data and second telemetry data, respectively, might provide the user with access to at least one of the first telemetry data or the second telemetry data, and might provide the user with options to control network resources. |
| US11297146B2 |
Method for data transmission in a transportation vehicle communication network, transportation vehicle communication network, subscriber and transportation vehicle
A method for data transmission between subscribers in a transportation vehicle communication network of a transportation vehicle, wherein at least one subscriber of the transportation vehicle communication network is a transportation vehicle subscriber arranged in the transportation vehicle, wherein a subscriber of the transportation vehicle communication network forms or provides a notification manager of the transportation vehicle communication network, wherein a notifying subscriber of the transportation vehicle communication network transmits notification data to the notification manager, wherein the notification manager transmits at least one part of the notification data to at least one subscriber to be notified in the transportation vehicle communication network. |
| US11297141B2 |
Filesystem I/O scheduler
A method includes creating an application instance that corresponds to a client, creating a partition on the cloud storage device, the partition corresponding to the client, and associating attributes with the partition. The attributes include a client identifier corresponding to the client, a service-level objective corresponding to the client, and an application identifier corresponding to the application instance. The method further includes receiving a request from the application instance to access the partition and accessing, in response to the request, the attributes corresponding to the partition. The method further includes ordering the request in a data structure relative to one or more other requests, the ordering based on at least one attribute of the attributes, an order in which the request was submitted, and a latency sensitivity of the application instance. The method further includes dispatching the request from the data structure in an order corresponding to the ordering. |
| US11297140B2 |
Point of presence based data uploading
A system, method and computer-readable medium for data uploading based on points of presence (POPs) are provided. In response to a client's request for data uploading, the system provides routing information for POPs that may facilitate data communications between the client and a data storage service provider. The client may fragment the upload data and transmit the data fragments via data connections to POPs, which in turn may relay the received fragments to the data storage service provider. Upon receipt of necessary data fragments, the data storage service provider may merge the data fragments to reconstruct a copy of the upload data for storage. |
| US11297138B2 |
Techniques for dynamically benchmarking cloud data store systems
In various embodiments, a benchmarking engine automatically tests a data store to assess functionality and/or performance of the data store. The benchmarking engine generates data store operations based on dynamically adjustable configuration data. As the benchmarking engine generates the data store operations, the data store operations execute on the data store. In a complementary fashion, as the data store operations execute on the data store, the benchmarking engine generates statistics based on the results of the executed data store operations. Advantageously, because the benchmarking engine adjusts the number and/or type of data store operations that the benchmarking engine generates based on any changes to the configuration data, the workload that executes on the data store may be fine-tuned as the benchmarking engine executes. |
| US11297137B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing simple storage service seamless migration using index objects
A method for performing Simple Storage Service (S3) seamless migration using index objects and associated apparatus are provided. The method includes: in response to a request of migrating user data of a user of the storage server from a remote S3-compatible server into the storage server, during an index stage, utilizing an index-object-based S3 migration management module among multiple program modules running on a host device within the storage server to create and store multiple index objects into a storage device layer of the storage server to be respective representatives of multiple normal objects of the user data at the storage server, and migrate respective Access Control Lists (ACLs) of the multiple normal objects to the storage server to be respective ACLs of the multiple index objects; and during a data stage, utilizing the index-object-based S3 migration management module to trigger one or more migration agents to migrate object data. |
| US11297136B2 |
Mobility-oriented data replication in a vehicular micro cloud
A vehicular micro cloud includes a set of connected vehicles that are operable to provide computational services to the set of connected vehicles. The disclosure includes embodiments for mobility-oriented data replication in the vehicular micro cloud. In some embodiments, a method includes, for each data set stored by the set of connected vehicles, determining a number of replicas to generate based on one or more mobility-based criteria. The method includes generating instances of replica data that describe the replicas. The method includes, for individual instances of replica data, determining which of the connected vehicles included in the set to use as storage locations for the individual instances of replica data based on the one or more mobility-based criteria. The method includes causing the individual instances of replica data to be stored in the storage locations. For example, the individual instances of replica data are transmitted to the storage locations. |
| US11297134B2 |
Live proximity-based media transfer
Systems and methods for live proximity-based media transfer are disclosed. For example, a secure network between a sharer device and a viewer device may be established when the devices are within a given geographic area of one another. An instance of an application running on each device may be utilized to authenticate a sharing session and then the sharer device may share media with the viewer device. The viewer device may have its functionality limited when in the viewer mode such that the viewer device may only view the shared media, zoom the view of the media, and/or exit the sharing session and/or application. The shared media is not saved to the viewer device and cannot be permanently manipulated by the viewer device. |
| US11297132B2 |
Methods and devices for orchestrating selection of a multi-access edge computing server for a multi-client application
An exemplary multi-access edge computing (MEC) orchestration system obtains an operation parameter of a multi-client application that is to execute on a MEC server to be selected from a set of MEC servers located at a first set of locations within a coverage area of a provider network. When executing, the multi-client application serves respective client applications of a set of client devices located at a second set of locations within the coverage area. Based on the operation parameter, the MEC orchestration system identifies a candidate subset of MEC servers from the set of MEC servers and directs the set of client devices to test and report performance capabilities of the MEC servers in the candidate subset. Based on the reported performance capabilities, the MEC orchestration system selects, from the candidate subset of MEC servers, a particular MEC server on which the multi-client application is to execute. |
| US11297131B2 |
Method and apparatus for multi-vendor GTM fabric
An example method facilitates Global Traffic Management (GTM) and associated selective distribution of computing loads and/or network traffic among different geographically distributed data centers of a particular domain by allocating the servicing of request messages from Local Domain Name Servers (LDNSs) to data centers that are estimated to provide the quickest response times to the LDNSs. Estimates of path latencies or Round Trip Times (RTTs) between the LDNSs and the different distributed data centers are estimated using DNS reflection methodologies and are maintained in a database that may be accessed and collectively managed via the data centers, e.g., via use of a web service that fronts the database. Locations of the LDNSs approximate locations of client devices seeking access to the domain. |
| US11297127B2 |
Information processing system and control method of information processing system
An information processing system includes: a first information processing device that transmits first data to be retained via a communication path; a second information processing device that calculates first calculation result data that is a calculation result of the first data received via the communication path and second data to be retained and transmits the calculated first calculation result data via the communication path; a third information processing device that transmits third data to be retained via the communication path; and a fourth information processing device that calculates second calculation result data that is a calculation result of the third data received via the communication path and fourth data to be retained and calculates third calculation result data that is a calculation result of the first calculation result data received via the communication path and the calculated second calculation result data. |
| US11297124B1 |
Managing transcoding resources in content delivery systems by comparing signatures of transcoding requests with signatures of test channel configurations
A content delivery service that facilitates the selection of virtual machine instances utilized to implement the transcoding function. A management service first implements a test channel configuration routine that selects worst case scenario configurations for implementing the transcoding function and measures performance metrics for different virtual machine instances implementing the transcoding function. The management system can then match incoming requests for video channel transcoding with signature data from the test channel configurations to identify which virtual machine instances can implement the requested transcoding functionality. |
| US11297123B1 |
Fault-tolerant data stream processing
A method includes generating key assignment data indicating assignment of keys to a plurality of feed receiver modules, and processing a plurality of incoming messages via the plurality of feed receiver modules based on the key assignment data. Each of the plurality of feed receiver modules receives a proper subset of the plurality of incoming messages based on the key assignment data, and maintains a queue that includes messages of the proper subset that compare favorably to a time window. Each of the plurality of feed receiver modules identifies owned ones of the proper subset of messages having keys included in an owned subset of keys based on the key assignment data, and emits only the owned ones of the proper subset of messages. |
| US11297121B2 |
Split rendering using network based media processing workflow
Systems and methods for split rendering of Network Based Media Processing (NBMP) are provided. A method includes deriving a network based media processing (NBMP) workflow, and assigning a plurality of workflow tasks of the NBMP workflow among a media sink, a media source, and at least one cloud element, network element, or edge element. A first subset of the plurality of the workflow tasks are assigned to the media source, a second subset of the plurality of the workflow tasks are assigned to the media sink, and a third subset of the plurality of the workflow tasks are assigned to the at least one cloud element, network element, or edge element. The first subset, the second subset, and the third subset do not overlap with each other. |
| US11297117B2 |
Unicast media replication fabric using bit indexed explicit replication
Methods, network devices and computer readable media are disclosed for replication and switching of Internet Protocol (IP) packets in professional media networks. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first node in a network configured for bit indexed explicit replication (BIER), and via a replication fabric within the network, a packet comprising a packet bit array. Each receiver of a plurality of non-BIER-enabled receivers reachable via the replication fabric is represented by a relative bit position in the packet bit array, and a respective IP address is assigned to each receiver. The method further includes determining that an intended non-BIER-enabled receiver of the packet is a local receiver of the first node, obtaining the IP address assigned to the local receiver, removing the packet bit array from the packet and forwarding the packet, without the packet bit array, to the local receiver via unicast IP forwarding. |
| US11297116B2 |
Hybrid streaming
A method and system are provided for hybrid streaming of media content such as video for a computer-based game. In some implementations, a background media content stream includes a background video rendered on a server. The background media content stream is received at a client device. The client device renders one or more three-dimensional objects and forms a composite media stream by combining the background media content stream and the one or more three-dimensional objects. The composite media stream can be output to a display or other external system. |
| US11297107B2 |
Message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) data transmission method, apparatus, and system
The present application relates to the field of Internet of Things technologies, and in particular, to a message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) data transmission method, apparatus, and system, so as to provide a solution for simply implementing a security function of the MQTT protocol. A data obtaining relationship between an MQTT publishing device and an MQTT subscribing device is verified before MQTT data publishing, and data sending is controlled by using an SDP gateway. Therefore, security of the MQTT data publishing can be effectively ensured. Moreover, protocol modification is relatively little, and implementation is simple. |
| US11297104B2 |
Method and apparatus for resilient decoy routing without conspiring autonomous systems (AS) via distributed hash table (DHT) routing
A Method and apparatus for resilient Decoy Routing without conspiring Autonomous Systems by instead using a DHT routing table is described. In one embodiment of the present invention, there would exist a set of Decoy Routing Nodes which would be connected via a DHT's routing table. This would enable decoy routing nodes to not depend on a predefined list. Traditionally, Decoy Routing depends upon either a pre-configured list of computer systems to connect to or is wholly dependent upon BGP to happen to route to friendly Autonomous Systems that understand the true intent of the packet being routed. This method and apparatus solves these problems by providing a means to use a dynamic routing table, provided by a DHT to ensure that a packet can be delivered to computer systems that understand how to do decoy routing. This approach further ensures that the routing table being used is one that is kept up to date automatically as a function of the DHT providing the routing table. Further, the methodology described ensures that evading censorship, defending against TCP replay attacks, latency analysis, website fingerprinting, and denial of service (DoS) attacks are successfully executed. |
| US11297103B2 |
High-fidelity model-driven deception platform for cyber-physical systems
A system is described for protecting a cyber-physical system against a potential attacker of the cyber-physical system. The system includes at least one processor configured to: collect historical information about the cyber-physical system, and train, based on the historical information, a machine-learned model to predict future conditions of at least a portion of the cyber-physical system. Responsive to detecting an input signal to the cyber-physical system, the system is configured to output an alert to the cyber-physical system indicative of a potential attacker, and respond to the input signal by simulating, based on the future conditions predicted by the machine-learned model, functionality and communications of the at least a portion of the cyber-physical system. |
| US11297101B1 |
Phishing website detection by checking form differences followed by false credentials submission
There is provided a method to detect phishing websites so as to protect users from sending their sensitive information to criminal servers. When browsing a web site having an input form asking sensitive information, the input fields are recorded (i.e. username field and password field). Then false credentials are generated and submitted in background. The new control layer then checks the response page content whether it includes an input form and if there is an input, it checks whether the form has the same fields as the first form. If the responded page does not have a form, or it has a form but includes different fields than the initial page's form, then the original site is identified as phishing. |
| US11297098B2 |
DDoS defence in a packet-switched network
A method, network system and computer storage medium for DDoS defence in a packet-switched network are provided. The method is performed by a network system and includes: measuring a plurality of network parameters in incoming network traffic; ranking the plurality of measured network parameters based on machine learning; measuring a subset of the plurality of network parameters in incoming network traffic; determining an incoming network packet to be part of a DDoS attack or not by machine learning of the subset of the plurality of network parameters; and blocking an incoming network packet when the incoming network packet is determined to be part of a DDoS attack. |
| US11297095B1 |
Systems and methods for determination of level of security to apply to a group before display of user data
Systems and methods are described for using secured groups for simulated phishing campaigns to obfuscate data for levels of privacy based on protected criteria classes. Initially, a group to resolve members of the group based on multiple users matching one or more group criteria is established. It is then determined that at least one criteria of the one or more criteria has been configured as one of multiple protected criteria classes. Responsive to the determination, the group is identified as a secured group. A query of the group is then executed to identify one or more users of the multiple users as members of the group based on the users matching the criteria of the secured group at the time of execution of the group and information of the one or more users resulting from the execution of the secured group is obfuscated in accordance with the protected criteria class. |
| US11297093B2 |
Systems and methods for determining a job score from a job title
Embodiments disclosed herein describe a server, for example a security awareness server or an artificial intelligence machine learning system that establishes a job score for a user based on the user's job title. In embodiments, the vulnerability of a user to malicious cybersecurity attacks, the propensity for the user to engage with a malicious attack, and the severity of a malicious attack likely to be sent to the user and the severity of the harm to the user's organization is the user engages with the malicious attack is represented in a user risk score. The risk score for a user of a security awareness system, or for a group of users of a security awareness system, may be calculated based on one or more of a frequency score for the user, a propensity score for the user, a severity score for the user, and a job score for the user. |
| US11297090B2 |
Security evaluation for computing workload relocation
A security incident is detected at a first location; a risk of the security incident is evaluated. A first security scores is generated for the first location. A set of security scores are generated for a set of alternative locations; the set of security scores excludes the first security score. A second security score within the set of security scores is determined to be the best security score among a plurality of security scores; the plurality of security scores comprises the set of security scores and the first security score. A workload associated with the first location is migrated to a second location, where the second location is associated with the second security score. |
| US11297089B2 |
Providing secure sensor data to automated machines
Systems, methods, and software can be used to provide secure sensor data. In some aspects, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a sensor security evaluation application executing on a device, sensor data from a sensor on the device; determining, by the sensor security evaluation application, a security confidence score associated with the sensor data; and transmitting, from the sensor security evaluation application, the security confidence score and the sensor data to a smart machine processor on the device. |
| US11297086B2 |
Correlation-based network security
A correlation-based network security for network devices is disclosed. Correlations between a plurality of network devices are mapped based on telemetry from the network devices to determine correlated devices. The behaviors of the correlated devices are monitored based on telemetry received from the correlated devices to determine a deviant device of the plurality of devices. A prioritized alert for the plurality of network devices is generated from a security alert received for the deviant device. |
| US11297085B2 |
Real-time validation of data transmissions based on security profiles
Aspects of the disclosure relate to real-time validation of data transmissions based on security profiles. A computing platform may collect, in real-time, information associated with a plurality of data transmissions between applications, where the information may include, for each data transmission, an indication of a source application and a destination application. Then, the computing platform may retrieve, from a repository and for each data transmission, a first security profile associated with the source application, and a second security profile associated with the destination application. The computing platform may then compare, for each data transmission, the first security profile to the second security profile. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect, based on a determination that the first security profile does not match the second security profile, a potentially unauthorized data transmission. Then, the computing platform may trigger one or more security actions to prevent the potentially unauthorized data transmission. |
| US11297084B2 |
Methods and apparatus to perform malware detection using a generative adversarial network
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to perform malware detection using a generative adversarial network. An example apparatus includes a first encoder network to encode an input sample into a first encoded sample, the first encoder network implemented using a multilayer perception (MLP) network, a generator network to reconstruct the first encoded sample to generate a reconstructed sample, a discriminator network to, in response to obtaining the first encoded sample and the reconstructed sample, generate a loss function based on the reconstructed sample and the input sample, and an optimization processor to, when the loss function satisfies a threshold loss value, classify the input sample as malicious. |
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Protocol-independent anomaly detection
A computer-implemented method for implementing protocol-independent anomaly detection within an industrial control system (ICS) includes implementing a detection stage, including performing byte filtering using a byte filtering model based on at least one new network packet associated with the ICS, performing horizontal detection to determine whether a horizontal constraint anomaly exists in the at least one network packet based on the byte filtering and a horizontal model, including analyzing constraints across different bytes of the at least one new network packet, performing message clustering based on the horizontal detection to generate first cluster information, and performing vertical detection to determine whether a vertical anomaly exists based on the first cluster information and a vertical model, including analyzing a temporal pattern of each byte of the at least one new network packet. |
| US11297080B2 |
Threat mitigation system and method
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: establishing connectivity with a plurality of security-relevant subsystems within a computing platform; obtaining at least one security-relevant information set from each of the plurality of security-relevant subsystems, thus defining a plurality of security-relevant information sets; and combining the plurality of security-relevant information sets to form an aggregated security-relevant information set for the computing platform. |
| US11297079B2 |
Continuous validation of active labeling for device type classification
In one embodiment, a device classification service forms a device cluster by applying clustering to telemetry data associated with a plurality of devices. The service obtains device type labels for the device cluster. The service generates a device type classification rule using the device type labels and the telemetry data. The service determines whether the device type classification rule should be revalidated by applying a revalidation policy to the device type classification rule. The service revalidates the device type classification rule, based on a determination that the device type classification rule should be revalidated. |
| US11297077B2 |
Gain customer trust with early engagement through visualization and data driven configuration
A system may select a list of servers in a computer network to perform behavioural profiling, wherein each server is associated with a domain name, the list of servers includes domain name entries, and the list of servers is prioritized according to a popularity value for each server. The system may update the list of servers based on a popularity threshold, partition the computer network into one of: subnetworks or subdomains, and establish a hierarchy along one of: the subnetworks or the subdomains based on the domain name entries in the list of servers. The system may update the popularity value for a server associated with a resolved network address, and may update the hierarchy along one of: the subnetworks or the subdomains based on the popularity value. |
| US11297076B2 |
Apparatus for detecting in-vehicle external data intrusion by comparing multiple information entropy and operating method thereof
Disclosed are an apparatus for detecting in-vehicle external data intrusion by comparing multiple information entropy and a method of operating the same. The present invention may prevent a danger due to in-vehicle external data intrusion by providing a technology that may determine whether in-vehicle external data intrusion occurs by checking information entropy representing the amount of information for a package ID generable through an in-vehicle Controller Area Network (CAN) communication network. |
| US11297073B2 |
Forensic query of local event streams in an enterprise network
Activity on an endpoint is monitored in two stages with a local agent. In a first stage, particular computing objects on the endpoint are selected for tracking. In a second stage, particular types of changes to those objects are selected. By selecting objects and object changes in this manner, a compact data stream of information highly relevant to threat detection can be provided from an endpoint to a central threat management facility. At the same time, a local data recorder creates a local record of a wider range of objects and changes. The system may support forensic activity by facilitating queries to the local data recorder on the endpoint to retrieve more complete records of local activity when the compact data stream does not adequately characterize a particular context. |
| US11297071B2 |
Time-stamping for industrial unidirectional communication device with data integrity management
In an industrial system, a data capture apparatus can be configured to operate as a unidirectional communication connection between a private network and a public network. The data capture apparatus can be further configured to time stamp data, for instance digitally sign data with a time stamp, so as ensure data integrity over the unidirectional communication connection, while maintaining physical isolation between the private network and public network. |
| US11297068B2 |
Anchoring client devices for network service access control
Concepts and technologies of network service control for anchoring client devices for network service access control are provided herein. In one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system is provided and can include a processor and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that, upon execution of the processor, configure the processor to perform operations. The operations can include receiving an anchor instantiation command to anchor one or more client devices to an authorized service location. The anchor instantiation command can initiate an anchor instantiation time period. The operations can include determining, during the anchor instantiation time period, a plurality of anchor attributes associated with the one or more client devices at the authorized location. The operations can include creating an anchor location token that represents the authorized service location based on the plurality of anchor attributes that were determined during the anchor instantiation time period. |
| US11297067B2 |
Resource appropriation in a multi-tenant environment using risk and value modeling systems and methods
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for resource appropriation in a multi-tenant environment using risk and value modeling. A resource server can provide a plurality of applications access to a plurality of resources in response to requests from clients based in part on risk scores and value scores. The resource server can generate and execute a risk model and a value model to determine a risk score and a value score for each of the applications. The resource server can use the risk and value scores to determine access to a particular resource for a requested application. The resource server can assign a first allocation of resource tokens to an application. The resource tokens can correspond to access privileges to plurality of resources. The resource server can dynamically modify the resource allocation for applications responsive to changes to a risk score or value score of a respective application. |
| US11297064B2 |
Blockchain authentication via hard/soft token verification
An example operation may include one or more of storing a public key and one or more corresponding addresses associated with a user profile in a blockchain, creating a credential for the user profile based on the public key, forwarding the credential to the one or more addresses, receiving a request for access to a site from a user device associated with the user profile, and retrieving the credential based on the one or more addresses from the blockchain. |
| US11297059B2 |
Facilitating user-centric identity management
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for facilitating user-centric identity management. In this regard, various aspects of identity management are designed to be more transparent to users to bolster user assurance with respect to “behind-the-scenes” procedures of identity management. Generally, indications of data flow between service providers, identity providers, and/or user devices can be provided to the user device for presentation to the user. As a result, visual representations of data flow, notifications of data flow, or the like, can be presented to the user to expose various aspects of identity management. In some embodiments, users may be able to control aspects of identity management, for example, by confirming or preventing data flow between providers. |
| US11297058B2 |
Systems and methods using a cloud proxy for mobile device management and policy
Systems and methods include, in a cloud node, receiving Mobile Device Management (MDM) data from a central authority, wherein the MDM data includes policy metadata specifying MDM functions for mobile devices associated with users of an enterprise; communicating to an application on a mobile device associated with a user, via a tunnel, wherein the application is configured for service discovery and connectivity; and providing the MDM data to the mobile device associated with the user via the tunnel. |
| US11297057B2 |
Methods and devices for authentication
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for an authentication of an identity of a user. In example embodiments, the client device reads a digital tag associated with a service to be accessed, the digital tag being encoded with an identifier associated with a service provider that provides the service. The client device then decodes the digital tag to obtain the identifier. Further, the client device determines an authentication proxy associated with the service provider, and sends, to the associated authentication proxy, the identifier and a first request for an authentication of an identity of a user associated with the client device. In this way, the security of the authentication of the identity of the user may be significantly improved. |
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Information recording apparatus with shadow boot program for authentication with a server
An information recording apparatus has a drive unit to record digital information including digital contents; and a host unit to control reading and writing of the digital information for the drive unit. The host unit has a network processing unit to communicate with a server, a shadow determination unit to determine whether a shadow boot program to be executed prior to a boot program is executable, a shadow reading unit to read the shadow program from the drive unit when the shadow determination unit determines to be executable, a shadow execution unit to execute the shadow program, a server authentication unit to perform authentication with the server in accordance with a processing of the shadow program, and a password transmitter to transmit to the drive unit a password used for unlock of the drive unit when the authentication with the server is successful. |
| US11297041B2 |
Security-enhanced origination of blockchain transactions
A blockchain-implemented transaction from an originator node is to be broadcast. The originator node is communicatively coupled to proxy nodes. The method, implemented by a proxy node, includes: receiving a transaction including an input taking x+r units of computing resources, an output providing x units to the output address and another output providing d+r units to a 1-of-n multi-signature address unlockable by any one of a set of private keys associated the proxy nodes. The proxy node selects a quantity of computing resources, t units, to be allocated to the proxy node for broadcasting the transaction and having it included in the blockchain and generates a further transaction taking d+r units sourced from the multi-signature address and an output providing t units to the proxy node. The proxy node broadcasts both transactions timed to permit their inclusion in the same block of the blockchain. |
| US11297038B1 |
Rotating internet protocol addresses in a virtual private network
A method for rotating internet protocol (IP) addresses in a virtual private network (VPN), the method comprising receiving, at a first VPN server during an established VPN connection, a first data request and a second data request from a user device, retrieving first data associated with the first data request using a first exit IP address, and retrieving second data associated with the second data request using a second exit IP address, different from the first exit IP address. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11297037B2 |
Method and network device for overlay tunnel termination and mirroring spanning datacenters
A method and network device for overlay tunnel termination and mirroring spanning datacenters. Specifically, the method and network device disclosed herein entail the traversal of mirrored network traffic from datacenters lacking traffic analysis tools to other datacenters including the sought after traffic analysis tools. Further, the aforementioned traversal of mirrored network traffic may utilize virtual network layer overlay domain tunnels. |
| US11297033B2 |
System and method for generating current live and test versions of DNS data for HSM changes
A system for concurrently publishing a current version of a plurality of Domain Name System (DNS) records for a zone of domain name and for storing a next version of the plurality of DNS records for the zone, the system comprising: a record selection module for obtaining registry data associated with the domain name stored in a registry database; a DNS Security (DNSSEC) signing system having a first High Security Module (HSM) of a first vendor for facilitating digital signing of the registry data to generate a first signed DNS record using a first signing key (SK1) and a second HSM of a second vendor for facilitating digital signing of the registry data to generate a second signed DNS record using a second signing key SK2, the SK1 different from the SK2; and a distribution system for coordinating concurrent generation and transmission of the current version and the next version; the distribution system and signing system cooperating to: generate the concurrent version using SK1 to include the first signed DNS record according to a first set of generation instructions and transmit in a first transmission path that bypasses storing of the current version in the registry database; and while the current version is operational in the DNS, generate the next version using SK2 to include the second signed DNS record according to a second set of generation instructions and transmit to a publication storage for at least one of testing or validation by a processing facility in a second transmission path that bypasses storing of the next version in the registry database. |
| US11297025B2 |
Method for controlling notification and electronic device therefor
An operation method of an electronic device, according to various embodiments, comprises the steps of: displaying a notification list; determining a first notification among a plurality of notifications, which are included in the notification list, according to the detection of a first input; and displaying the notification list based on the determination. The first notification is maintained in the notification list even if a second input for initializing the notification list is detected. A second notification among the plurality of notifications is deleted from the notification list according to the detection of the second input. |
| US11297024B1 |
Chat-based systems and methods for data loss prevention
Chat-based systems and methods for data loss prevention are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an enable command from a chat service by a data loss prevention service, scanning data from a data source with the data loss prevention service in response to the enable command to detect private information in the data, generating an alert for the private information by the data loss prevention service, and sending the alert to the chat service to cause the chat service to broadcast a chat alert to a group of users. |
| US11297021B2 |
Predictive privacy screening and editing of online content
A filtering system for received content, uses a computer, which receives content to be posted, the computer receiving content from a plurality of different users; the computer including a content filtering system, receiving the content from the plurality of different users, and operating to carry out a first autonomous screening of the content to use rules to determine whether the content meets a posting criteria, and categorizing the content as to whether the autonomous screening indicates that the content has met the posting criteria, the computer further receiving input from a human screening process which carries out humans to screen the criteria; and a machine learning system, that uses differences between the autonomous rules and the results of the human screening to learn from the human screening more about which autonomous rules are properly written, which rules are suspect, and also to create new autonomous rules. |
| US11297019B2 |
Message notification device, content management system, and non-transitory computer readable medium
A message notification device includes an update information acquisition unit and a notification unit. The update information acquisition unit is configured to, when information that uniquely specifies content is contained in a message, acquire update information as to whether or not the uniquely specified content is updated. The notification unit is configured to notify a poster who has posted the message when the update information is acquired by the update information acquisition unit. |
| US11297016B1 |
Intelligent conversational systems
A system and method simulates conversation with a human user. The system and method receive media, convert the media into a system-specific format, and compare the converted media to a vocabulary. The system and method generate a plurality of intents and a plurality of sub-entities and transform them into a pre-defined format. The system and method route intents and the sub-entities to a first selected knowledge engine and a second knowledge engine. The first selected knowledge engine selects the second knowledge engine and each active grammar in the vocabulary uniquely identifies each of the knowledge engines. |
| US11297013B2 |
Scalable and secure electronic communication mechanism
Techniques are provided for secure and scalable electronic messaging. In one technique, a decision tree data and targeting criteria for a content delivery campaign are received and stored. Multiple entities that satisfy the targeting criteria are identified. First content from the decision tree data is retrieved and sent to a messaging account of each of the entities. The first content is presented in a message interface of a first entity. In response to detecting that the first entity has provided particular input, second content from the decision tree data is identified based on the particular input. First data associated with the particular input and the second content are presented in the messaging interface along with the first content. |
| US11297006B1 |
Use of virtual lanes to solve credit stall on target ports in FC SAN
A method is performed at a switch fabric that communicates with a storage array target port. The method includes sending frames to the target port responsive to receiving buffer-to-buffer (B2B) credits that indicate a receive buffer at the target port is available for the frames. The method further includes, in response to detecting a credit stall at the target port, operating in a virtual lane mode. The operating in the virtual lane mode includes: determining whether a frame destined for the target port is a command frame or a data frame; based on the determining, marking the frame to indicate that the frame is destined for a particular virtual lane among virtual lanes of the receive buffer; and receiving from the target port a per-virtual lane B2B credit that indicates the particular virtual lane is available and, in responsive, sending the frame to that virtual lane on the target port. |
| US11297003B1 |
Multi-tiered data processing service
A technology is described for operating a multi-tiered data processing service. An example method may include receiving a data rule set used to process data generated by a network addressable device included in a multi-tiered data processing service having computing nodes that are connected using one or more networks, where the computing nodes may have computing capacities to execute a portion of the data rule set using a rules engine. A computing node included in the multi-tiered processing service may be selected to host a portion of the data rule set on the computing node and a portion of the data rule set may be deployed to the computing node, where the data rule set may be registered with the rules engine that executes on the computing node and data generated by the network addressable device may be processed using the rules engine and the data rule set. |
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User directed bandwidth optimization
Systems and methods are provided to optimize bandwidth usage associated with a local network. As part of the bandwidth optimization techniques, an authentication entity may receive an indication of an access profile selected by a user of an electronic device. The authentication entity may assign the access profile to the electronic device. Accordingly, when the electronic device transmits data, a network regulation entity may process the traffic in accordance with the access profile. To this end, the network regulation entity may correspond communication sessions within the traffic to an application. The network regulation entity may then query the access profile to determine a priority for each application. When the traffic exceeds a threshold byte volume, the network regulation entity may queue lower priority communication sessions. By processing the traffic based upon a user-indicated access profile, compliance with network neutrality principles may be maintained. |
| US11296994B2 |
Ordered sets for high-speed interconnects
A system and apparatus can include a port for transmitting data; and a link coupled to the port. The port can include a physical layer device (PHY) to decode a physical layer packet, the physical layer packet received across the link. The physical layer packet can include a first bit sequence corresponding to a first ordered set, and a second bit sequence corresponding to a second ordered set, the first bit sequence immediately adjacent to the second bit sequence. The first ordered set is received at a predetermined ordered set interval, which can occur following a flow control unit (flit). The first ordered set comprises eight bytes and the second ordered set comprises eight bytes. In embodiments, bit errors in the ordered sets can be determined by checking bits received against expected bits for the ordered set interval. |
| US11296988B2 |
Programmable congestion control communication scheme
A network adapter includes a receive (Rx) pipeline, a transmit (Tx) pipeline and congestion management circuitry. The Rx pipeline is configured to receive packets sent over a network by a peer network adapter, and to process the received packets. The Tx pipeline is configured to transmit packets to the peer network adapter over the network. The congestion management circuitry is configured to receive, from the Tx pipeline and from the Rx pipeline, Congestion-Control (CC) events derived from at least some of the packets exchanged with the peer network adapter, to exchange user-programmable congestion control packets with the peer network adapter, and to mitigate a congestion affecting one or more of the packets responsively to the CC events and the user-programmable congestion control packets. |
| US11296987B2 |
Congestion management mechanism
A system to facilitate resolving traffic congestion in a network switching fabric is described. The system includes a processor and a machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a notification from a virtual connect switch indicating that a congestion condition has been detected in remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) data traffic flowing from a first end point to a second end point via a first of a plurality of paths between the first end point and the second end point, identify a second of the plurality of paths between the first end point and the second end point and modify the RoCE data traffic to flow from the first end point to the second end point via the second path. |
| US11296984B2 |
Use of hypervisor for active-active stateful network service cluster
For a managed network, some embodiments provide a method for a set of service nodes in an active-active service node cluster in conjunction with a host computer hosting a destination data compute node (DCN) to improve the efficiency of directing a return data message to a service node storing state information for the flow to which the data message belongs. A primary service node in some embodiments receives a data message in a particular data message flow addressed to a destination DCN, performs a service on the data message and forwards the data message, along with information identifying the primary service node, to a host computer on which the destination DCN executes. The host computer generates an entry in a reverse forwarding table including identifying information for the particular data message flow and the primary service node to use to forward data messages in the particular data message flow to the primary service node. |
| US11296982B2 |
Initiator-based data-plane validation for segment routed, multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) networks
Techniques for initiator-based data-plane validation of segment routed, multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) networks are described herein. In examples, an initiating node may determine to validate data-plane connectivity associated with a network path of the MPLS network. The initiating node may store validation data in a local memory of the initiating node. In examples, the initiating node may send a probe message that includes a request for identification data associated with a terminating node. The terminating node may send a probe reply message that includes the identification data, as well as, in some examples, a code that instructs the initiating node to perform validation. In examples, the initiating node may use the validation data stored in memory to compare to the identification data received from the terminating node to validate data-plane connectivity. In some examples, the initiating node may indicate a positive or negative response after performing the validation. |
| US11296978B2 |
Enablement of multi-path routing in virtual edge systems
The technology disclosed herein enables multi-path routing in virtual edge systems of a virtual network environment. In a particular embodiment, a method provides establishing a connection for a communication with a client outside of the virtual network environment through a first virtual edge system of a plurality of virtual edge systems. The method further provides generating state information about the connection that indicates properties of the connection with respect to the first virtual edge system and updating a state information base of the first virtual edge system with the state information. Also, the method provides transferring the state information to one or more other virtual edge systems of the plurality of virtual edge systems and updating respective state information bases of the one or more other virtual edge systems with the state information. |
| US11296977B2 |
Analytics enabled radio access network (RAN)-aware content optimization using mobile edge computing
A central analytics server can be utilized to analyze health data associated with one or more radio access networks (RANs) that has been aggregated from one or more mobile edge computing (MEC) servers, to determine throughput available at a radio link interface associated with a user equipment (UE). Further, the central analytics server can determine, based on the available throughput, a recommendation for an action that can be performed by a content server to optimize content delivery to the UE. In an example, the central analytics server can convey the recommendation to the content server(s) via a “window size” field within a header segment of a transmission control protocol (TCP) via in-band and/or out-of-band signaling. In one aspect, the recommendation can comprise instructions to adapt a bit stream and/or comprise instructions indicative of an optimal data transmission route. |
| US11296975B2 |
Systems and methods for implementing multi-part virtual network functions
Examples of the present disclosure can include a method. The method may include (1) obtaining, by an network function virtualization orchestrator (“NFVO”), path computation information from the integrated network, the integrated network including a virtual source and a virtual destination, (2) generating, using the path computation information, segments identifying portions of a virtual network path originating at the virtual source and terminating at the virtual destination, (3) generating, by a virtual infrastructure manager (“VIM”), a plurality of labels associated with physical links on the physical network corresponding to the identified portions of the virtual network path, and (4) determining, by the NFVO and using the plurality of labels, a network path for data transfer over the integrated network, the network path identifying virtual and physical network elements. |
| US11296974B2 |
Information processing method, electronic device and computer storage medium
In illustrative embodiments, an information processing method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: if it is determined that a predetermined indicator is detected in a header of a received packet, acquiring information for indicating a source port, a destination port, a forwarding indicator, a process identifier, and a maximum number of processes of the packet from the header; updating a port forwarding table based on the source port, the destination port, and the forwarding indicator; performing a user-defined action on the packet to obtain a result packet; and if it is determined that a quantity of process identifiers reaches the maximum number of processes, determining one or more forwarding ports for the result packet based on the maximum number of processes, the forwarding indicator, and the updated port forwarding table, to forward the result packet to the one or more forwarding ports. |
| US11296973B2 |
Path information transmission device, path information transmission method and path information transmission program
[Problem] A route information transfer device that transfers packets advertising route information between routers of different service types is provided.[Solution] The route reflector (route information transfer device) 1 includes: a packet reception unit 11 that receives packets from a PE (router) 2; an information update unit 120 that updates a parameter related to the service type included in the received packet according to the PE 2 and the virtual private network, and stores the updated parameter in the service-type information storage unit 13; an information conversion unit 14 that refers to the service-type information storage unit 13 and converts the parameter related to the service type of the source PE2 of the packet into a parameter related to a service-type of the destination PE 2 in an identical virtual private network; and a packet transmission unit 16 that transmits a packet including the converted parameter to the destination PE 2. |
| US11296971B1 |
Managing and adapting monitoring programs
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer-readable media for managing and adapting monitoring programs. In some implementations, a system accesses data describing a monitoring program that involves collecting data over a period of time from a monitoring group comprising geographically distributed devices. The system classifies the devices in the monitoring group into different groups for the categories based on the attributes associated with the devices. The system monitoring performance of the devices in the different groups and determines a performance score for each group. The system adjusts administration of the monitoring program based on the performance scores, including performing one or more actions to improve diversity in the monitoring group. |
| US11296969B2 |
Methods and devices for energy saving in communication network
A method for energy saving in a communication network is provided. The method is implemented by a first network device in a communication network. The first network device may be communicatively connected to a second network device by a FlexE group. The method may comprise measuring a traffic rate of one or more FlexE clients carried over the FlexE group, and determining whether one or more PHYs of the FlexE group is to be shut down or activated based on the measured traffic rate and a first shutdown threshold or a first activation threshold. |
| US11296960B2 |
Monitoring distributed applications
Some embodiments provide a method for monitoring a distributed application. The method receives a request to perform data collection for the distributed application. The method identifies data compute nodes (DCNs) that implement the distributed application. The method sends commands to host machines on which the identified DCNs operate to detect events related to the DCNs and provide data regarding the detected events. The method uses the data regarding the detected events to generate a user interface (UI) display of the topology of the distributed application. |
| US11296951B2 |
Interval-based generation of event streams by remote capture agents
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system obtains a set of event streams from one or more remote capture agents over one or more networks, wherein the set of event streams comprises time-series event data generated from network packets captured by the one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, within a graphical user interface (GUI), a first set of user interface elements, wherein the first set of user interface elements includes event stream information for an event stream in the set of event streams and a first graph of a metric associated with the time-series event data in the event stream. The system then updates the first graph in real-time with the time-series event data from the one or more remote capture agents. |
| US11296949B2 |
Proactive link load balancing to maintain quality of link
Disclosed embodiments describe systems and methods for predicting health of a link. A device in communication with a link can identify profile information of a stream of network traffic traversing the link. The device can determine a first prediction of health of the link by applying one or more rules to the plurality of parameters of the profile information. The device can determine a second prediction of health of the link by applying a classifier to one or more timed sequences of the plurality of parameters of the profile information. The device can establishes a respective weight for each of the first prediction of health and the second prediction of heath. The device can select, using the respective weight, between the first prediction of health and the second prediction of health to provide a predictor of the health of the link. |
| US11296946B2 |
Methods and servers for managing traffic steering policies
Methods, a policy server (110) and a traffic steering server (120) for managing traffic steering policies for steering of traffic of a user equipment are disclosed. The policy server (110) generates (A020) a policy request, wherein the policy request comprises the traffic steering policies, wherein the traffic steering policies include a first traffic steering policy and a second traffic steering policy, both the first and second traffic steering policies being applicable to the traffic in one direction with respect to the user equipment. The policy server (110) sends (A030) the policy request to the traffic steering server (120). The traffic steering server (120) applies (A070) at least one of the first and second traffic steering policies to manage the traffic. Corresponding computer programs and computer program carriers are also disclosed. |
| US11296944B2 |
Updating path selection as paths between a computing device and a storage system change
Policy based path management, including: identifying a plurality of data communications paths between a storage system and an entity that issues input/output (‘I/O’) operations to the storage system; selecting, in dependence upon a path selection policy, a subset of data communications paths from the plurality of data communications paths between the entity and the storage system; and issuing, from the entity to the storage system, I/O operations using only the subset of data communications paths. |
| US11296941B2 |
Standby instances for auto-scaling groups
A computing resource service provider may provide computing instances organized into logical groups, such as auto-scaling groups. Computing instances assigned to an auto-scaling group may be place into standby. Standby instances may still be managed by the auto-scaling group but may not contribute to the capacity of the auto-scaling group for auto-scaling purposes. |
| US11296936B2 |
Network element association using network data
Methods for configuring a self-organizing network (SON) of a cellular telecommunication network are disclosed. A first set of data comprised of substantially real-time data for one or more key performance indicators (KPIs) is collected. A characteristic profile of the KPIs is determined. An instruction is sent to an identifier associated with the selected adjustable antenna, indicative of a command to change an electromagnetic characteristic of the selected adjustable antenna. A second set of data for the KPIs is received, and an updated profile of the KPIs is determined. A statistical probability of a causal relationship between the updated profile and the change to the electromagnetic is determined based on a predetermined threshold. Identifiers for the adjustable antennas are updated or confirmed. |
| US11296933B1 |
Secure low-latency and low-throughput support of rest API in IoT devices
A system may be configured to perform enhanced detection of occluded objects in a multiple object detection system. In some aspects, the system may transmit, by an application to an internet of things (IoT) device, an actual representational state transfer (REST) request including a parameter and an application authentication credential for authenticating to the IoT device, determine, based on an expected REST response to the actual REST request, one or more conditional parameters for configuring the IoT device, transmit, without waiting for the expected REST response, a predictive REST request including the one or more conditional parameters, and receive an actual response indicating success of the configuring the IoT device. |
| US11296932B2 |
Terminal apparatus, server, system, method for terminal apparatus, and program for terminal apparatus
A terminal apparatus, a server, a system, a method for a terminal apparatus, and a program for a terminal apparatus, capable of easily making a setting of kitting data necessary for the operation of a gateway are provided. A terminal apparatus 11 according to the present disclosure includes an application unit 111 configured to transmit predetermined user information of the terminal apparatus 11 and predetermined identification information of the terminal apparatus 11 to a server 12, and receive, when the predetermined user information and the predetermined identification information are included in management data managed by the server 12, predetermined kitting data associated with the predetermined user information and the predetermined identification information from the server 12, and a radio communication unit 112 configured to transmit the predetermined kitting data to a gateway 13, the kitting data being data for making a setting necessary for an operation of the gateway 13. |
| US11296931B2 |
Method of deploying a network configuration in a datacenter having a point of presence
A method is devised of deploying a network configuration in a datacenter. The network configuration includes one of more points of interconnection, a point of presence of the datacenter being one of the one or more points of interconnection. Each of the one or more points of interconnection in the network configuration is modeled through objects comprising, for each given point of interconnection, a node object representing the point of interconnection, an interface object hierarchically inferior to the node object and representing a connection to the point of interconnection, an evpnEdge object representing the transport to/from of the point of interconnection in the network, and a layer object hierarchically inferior to the evpnEdge object, and representing the characteristics of the protocol of transport to/from the point of interconnection. The network configuration is set up by a succession of commands on the objects and then pushed to the datacenter. |
| US11296930B2 |
Tunnel-enabled elastic service model
Some embodiments provide novel inline switches that distribute data messages from source compute nodes (SCNs) to different groups of destination service compute nodes (DSCNs). In some embodiments, the inline switches are deployed in the source compute nodes datapaths (e.g., egress datapath). The inline switches in some embodiments are service switches that (1) receive data messages from the SCNs, (2) identify service nodes in a service-node cluster for processing the data messages based on service policies that the switches implement, and (3) use tunnels to send the received data messages to their identified service nodes. Alternatively, or conjunctively, the inline service switches of some embodiments (1) identify service-nodes cluster for processing the data messages based on service policies that the switches implement, and (2) use tunnels to send the received data messages to the identified service-node clusters. The service-node clusters can perform the same service or can perform different services in some embodiments. This tunnel-based approach for distributing data messages to service nodes/clusters is advantageous for seamlessly implementing in a datacenter a cloud-based XaaS model (where XaaS stands for X as a service, and X stands for anything), in which any number of services are provided by service providers in the cloud. |
| US11296927B2 |
Apparatus for integrating log, system for integrating log, and method for integrating log
Provided is an apparatus for integrating log that integrates logs in a series including a plurality of instruments each generating a log. The series includes: a log acquisition section that collects a plurality of logs from the plurality of instruments; a message ID time stamp processing section; a time stamp adjustment processing section; and a time stamp orders-of-sending-and-receiving confirmation processing section that confirms whether time reversal is present in the time stamps of the sending/receiving pair of the broadcast messages having the identical message ID in the plurality of time-base-adjusted logs. The time stamp adjustment processing section adjusts the time bases of the plurality of logs in such a manner as to resolve the time reversal in a case of presence of the time reversal in the time stamps of the sending/receiving pair of the broadcast messages. |
| US11296925B2 |
Network analyzer that provides answer to inquiry about network failure and network analyzing method
A network analyzer includes a storage and a processor to provide an answer to inquiry including an inquiry statement and device log. The storage stores first information indicating relation between a previously received inquiry statement and an answer for the inquiry statement and second information indicating relation between previously received device log and an answer for the device log. The processor selects a first answer candidate for a new inquiry statement and calculates a first degree of certainty of the first answer candidate based on the first information. The processor selects a second answer candidate for new device log corresponding to the new inquiry statement and calculates a second degree of certainty of the second answer candidate based on the second information. The processor determines an answer based on the first answer candidate, the first degree of certainty, the second answer candidate, and the second degree of certainty. |
| US11296918B2 |
Method for transmitting or receiving signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
A method for receiving, by a terminal, downlink control information in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving information on a reference subcarrier spacing (SCS) from among a plurality of SCS numerologies; receiving downlink control information through a terminal group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and obtaining information on a slot format from the downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information indicates the slot format on the basis of the reference SCS, and when the SCS of the terminal is different from the reference SCS, the terminal may convert the slot format of the reference SCS according to the SCS of the terminal. |
| US11296915B2 |
Reference signal transmission method and user equipment
Embodiments of the present invention provide a reference signal transmission method and user equipment. The method includes: determining, by a first user equipment, a first identifier related to the first user equipment; determining, by the first user equipment, a first cyclic shift indication from to-be-selected cyclic shift indications according to the first identifier; determining, by the first user equipment, first reference signal according to the first cyclic shift indication and a preset base sequence; and sending, by the first user equipment, the first reference signal to second user equipment, thereby implementing reference signal transmission in D2D communication. |
| US11296905B2 |
Management component transport protocol (MCTP) support for multiple bus segment groups
A Management Component Transport Protocol platform management subsystem includes an internal bridge, a first segment group, and a second segment group. The first segment group is coupled to the internal bridge. The second segment group is coupled to the internal bridge and the first segment group. The first segment group has a first plurality of Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)-based buses. The second segment group has a second plurality of PCIe-based buses, wherein based on an identification (ID)-routed packet from the first segment group to the second segment group, the internal bridge routes the ID-routed packet to the second segment group. |
| US11296904B1 |
Asymmetric energy efficient ethernet
An Ethernet transceiver is disclosed. The Ethernet transceiver includes transceiver circuitry to couple to one end of an Ethernet link. The transceiver circuitry includes transmit circuitry to transmit high-speed Ethernet data along the Ethernet link at a first data rate and receiver circuitry. The receiver circuitry includes adaptive filter circuitry and correlator circuitry. The receiver circuitry is responsive to an inline signal to operate in a low-power alert mode with the adaptive filter circuitry disabled and to receive alert signals from the Ethernet link simultaneous with transmission of the Ethernet data by the transmit circuitry. The alert signals are detected by the correlator circuitry and include a sequence of alert intervals exhibiting encoded data at a second data rate less than the first data rate. |
| US11296892B2 |
Secure inter-service communications in a cloud computing system
Secure communications between services or components of a cloud computing system, are facilitated by generating at a first service provided by a first computing entity of a cloud computing system, a request for computing resources, generating at the first computing entity a digital data signature based at least on the request, using a private key associated with the first service; and inserting the digital data signature within an HTTP header associated with the request. A computer data network is used to communicate the request to a second service. The second service extracts the digital data signature and uses a public key to validate the digital data signature. |
| US11296891B2 |
Microcode signature security management system based on trustzone technology and method
A microcode signature security management system based on a Trustzone technology comprises the steps of: starting a normal operating system; acquiring the signature-encrypted microcode file and outputting the signature-encrypted microcode file and a switching signal by the normal operating system; receiving the switching signal and starting the monitor mode by the microprocessor to start a secure operating system; receiving the signature-encrypted microcode file, performing signature verification on the signature-encrypted microcode file, loading the file when the signature verification passes, otherwise outputting microcode error information when the signature verification fails by the secure operating system. The security of microcode is ensured on the basis of a secure operating system safety environment to which a system layer is inaccessible. A cryptography tool measure is adopted, so that the security, integrity and correctness of loaded microcode are ensured, and the risk of breaking, modifying and replacing an existing microcode management mechanism is lowered. |
| US11296890B2 |
Integrity protection
A message authentication code, for a message transmitted and received over a communications network, is formed by applying inputs to an integrity algorithm acting on the message. The inputs comprise: an integrity key; a value indicating a transfer direction; and a frame-dependent integrity input, wherein the frame-dependent integrity input is a frame-dependent modulo count value that also depends on a random value and on a frame-specific sequence number. |
| US11296889B2 |
Secret sharing via blockchains
Confidential, secret data may be shared via one or more blockchains. Mortgage applications, medical records, financial records, and other electronic documents often contain social security numbers, names, addresses, account information, and other personal data. A secret sharing algorithm is applied to any secret data to generate shares. The shares may then be integrated or written to one or more blockchains for distribution. |
| US11296885B2 |
System and method for implementing channel dynamic multifactor authentication
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a Channel Dynamic Multifactor Authentication. This solution provides the capability to select a multifactor authentication channel (e.g., email, SMS, etc.) dynamically based on multiple sources of risk scoring input data. The risk decision engine may determine an optimal lowest risk delivery channel for delivery of a one-time passcode and/or implement an additional or alternative mechanism for user authentication or verification. |
| US11296884B2 |
Secure digital information infrastructure
An authentication and encryption computer system is disclosed including processing devices, a network interface, and a data store. The authentication and encryption system is configured to maintain in the data store content common to a plurality of entities and content independently specified by each of the plurality of entities. The system is configured to receive a content request from an application executing on a mobile device, the content request comprising a secure access code corresponding to an entity, and the content request encrypted by the mobile device. An interface, comprising the content common to the plurality of entities, is customized to include content independently specified by the entity, wherein the content independently specified by the entity comprises a token value. A user request for an item presented via the interface is received and the token value is transferred to the entity. |
| US11296881B2 |
Using IP heuristics to protect access tokens from theft and replay
An embodiment disclosed herein is related to computing systems and method for a computing system to generate an access token that includes an IP address from a request. In the embodiment, a request is received for access to one secured data items. The request may include user credentials that specify that a user making the request is permitted to access the secured data items. The user credentials are validated and an Internet Protocol (IP) address that the request was sent from is determined. An access token is generated that includes the IP address that the request was sent from. |
| US11296879B2 |
Encrypted search
A method comprises: tokenizing, at a first device, a search query; creating search requests and send to delegate devices, each search request including a public key encrypted message containing the tokenized search query and index identifiers of indices to be searched; computing search responses to the search requests, each search response comprising a partial trapdoor computed per token per identifier; transmitting the search responses to the first device; recombining, at the first device, the search responses per identifier per token; performing a ranked set of queries against the indices; and returning the search results in order of relevancy. |
| US11296877B2 |
Discovery method and apparatus based on service-based architecture
A discovery method and apparatus based on a service-based architecture, where the method includes a control network element sending a discovery response to a first functional network element, where the discovery response includes a determined security parameter and an access address or an identifier of a second functional network element. The first functional network element receives the discovery response from the control network element, and sends an access request to the second functional network element based on the address or the identifier of the second functional network element, where the access request includes the received security parameter. The second functional network element receives the access request from the first functional network element, verifies correctness of the security parameter, and determines, based on the correctness of the security parameter, whether the access request is authorized by the first functional network element. |
| US11296875B2 |
Password-authenticated public key establishment
A method for cryptographic key provisioning includes, via a main authentication server (MAS), generating a first secret key and registering a client by performing a first portion of a first instance of a distributed threshold oblivious pseudo-random function. The first instance of the function results in the client obtaining a root secret key and the MAS obtaining a corresponding root public key. The method includes authenticating the client to the MAS by performing a first portion of a second instance of the distributed threshold oblivious pseudo-random function. The second instance of the function results in the client obtaining the root secret key. Information stored by the client, the first secret key, and a second secret key generated by a support authentication server are inputs to at least one of the first and second instances of the distributed threshold oblivious pseudo-random function. |
| US11296874B2 |
Smartwatch one-time password (“OTP”) generation
One-time password (“OTP”) generation on a smartwatch is provided. OTP generation may include communication between an application on a smartwatch and an application on a smartphone. The request for an OTP may be received at the smartwatch. The smartwatch application may communicate with the smartphone application. An OTP may be generated within a third-party library within the smartphone application. The generated OTP may be transmitted from the smartphone application to the smartwatch application. The OTP may be displayed on the smartwatch. |
| US11296873B2 |
Methods and systems to establish trusted peer-to-peer communications between nodes in a blockchain network
Methods and devices for two nodes to authenticate each other as credentialed by a group of autonomous specialized nodes, without involving the group or involving a centralized certificate manager or authenticator. The method may involve a first node and a second node using bilinear pairing operations involving their respective identifiers and secret points to derive the same session key. Provided the secret points and identifiers were obtained from the group using the group private key, the bilinear pairing operation leads to generation of the same session key at each of the two nodes, thereby authenticating their respective credentials and enabling trusted communications between the two nodes. |
| US11296870B2 |
Key management configurations
A method, a system, and a computer program product for performing key management configurations. One or more encryption keys for encrypting one or more data payloads for accessing one or more databases are received. The received encryption keys are compared to a plurality of encryption keys associated with the databases. Based on the comparison, a configuration of at least one database is changed using the received encryption keys. The changed configuration is stored. |
| US11296868B1 |
Methods and system for combating cyber threats using a related object sequence hash
A cyber threat intelligence of a cyber threat includes a threat chain that describes objects involved in the cyber threat and relationships between the objects. A related object hash of an object is calculated by calculating a hash of one or more objects that are linked to the object as indicated in the cyber threat intelligence. A related object sequence hash of the threat chain is generated by calculating a total of the related object hashes. The related object sequence hash of the threat chain is compared to a related object sequence hash of another threat chain to detect cyber threats. |
| US11296866B2 |
Dynamic transform in blockchain header validation
Integrated circuits, methods, and computer programs are directed to performing proof-of-work (POW) operations. One integrated circuit includes a nonce register for storing a nonce value, a first one-way function (OWF) circuit configured to generate a hash of a header, a dynamic transform circuit configured to transform the hash of the header to generate a transform value, and a second OWF circuit configured to generate a hash of the transform value to obtain a validation parameter. The header includes the nonce value for POW validation of the header. Further, the transformation by the dynamic transform circuit is based on the nonce value. The validation parameter determines whether the POW meets a predetermined target for validation of the header with the nonce value. |
| US11296864B2 |
Identifying faults in a blockchain ordering service
An example operation may include one or more of signing a blockchain transaction by an endorsement peer member of a blockchain, transmitting the blockchain transaction to an ordering service, identifying a blockchain transaction queue length, and receiving a signed promise from the ordering service that the blockchain transaction will be included in an identified block number based on the blockchain transaction queue length. |
| US11296860B2 |
Phase-aligning multiple synthesizers
Embodiments of the present invention synchronize multiple synthesizers, such as phase-locked loops (PLLs), in a manner that does not require communication or coordination between the synthesizers. Specifically, each synthesizer is part of a synthesizer circuit that includes a synthesizer (e.g., a PLL), a phase measurement circuit, and a synchronization circuit. A common reference signal (e.g., an alternating clock signal) is provided to the synthesizer circuits. In one exemplary embodiment, in each synthesizer circuit, the phase measurement circuit measures a phase difference between the reference signal and a corresponding output of the synthesizer, and the synchronization circuit adjusts the synthesizer operation based on the measured phase difference in such a way that all of the synthesizers operate in-phase with one another relative to the common reference signal, without having any communication or coordination between the two synthesizer circuits other than provision of the common reference signal. |
| US11296855B2 |
Communication method, terminal device, and network device
A communication method, including receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information sent by the network device, where the first indication information indicates a first time-frequency resource used to receive a reference signal of the terminal device, receiving, by the terminal device, second indication information sent by the network device, where the second indication information indicates a second time-frequency resource, and determining, by the terminal device according to the second indication information, whether a third time-frequency resource is included in the first time-frequency resource, where the third time-frequency resource is at least one of a time-frequency resource included in both of the first time-frequency resource and the second time-frequency resource, a time-frequency resource adjacent to the second time-frequency resource, a time-frequency resource whose interval from the second time-frequency resource is less than a preset first interval, or a time-frequency resource related to the second time-frequency resource. |
| US11296849B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting HARQ-ACK information
A first PUCCH resource assigned for HARQ-ACK information in a slot where one or more PUCCHs are scheduled to be transmitted can be determined. A time instance in the slot can be determined. A group of PUCCH resources can be determined among the one or more PUCCH resources that end no later than the time instance. A second PUCCH resource for transmitting the HARQ-ACK information can be determined from the group of PUCCH resources. The HARQ-ACK information can be transmitted based on the second PUCCH resource. |
| US11296845B2 |
Reference signal designs for beam management in non-terrestrial networks in 5G systems
Various designs for reference signals for beam management (BM) in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) in 5G systems are discussed. NTN platforms determine to transmit a BM reference signal associated with a beam in an NTN. The BM reference signal is configured to facilitate beam switching at a wireless communication entity, and the beam having a beam bandwidth. The NTN platforms determines a frequency resource for transmitting the BM reference signal, and transmits, to a wireless communication entity, the BM reference signal in the determined frequency resource. The wireless communication entity monitors the frequency resource, receives the BM reference signal associated with the beam in the frequency resource, and manages beam selection based on the received BM reference signal. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described. |
| US11296840B1 |
Media access control for frequency division full duplex in WLAN
A first communication device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) determines one or more frequency division, full duplex (FDFD) parameters for an FDFD operation that includes FDFD communications via a first frequency segment and a second frequency segment. The first frequency segment and the second frequency segment are separated by a gap in frequency. The one or more FDFD parameters include a parameter indicating a duration of the FDFD operation. The first communication device generates a communication frame that includes one or more indications of the one or more FDFD parameters. The one or more indications in the communication frame include an indication of the duration of the FDFD operation. The first communication device transmits the communication frame to prompt a plurality of second communication devices to participate in the FDFD operation. |
| US11296839B2 |
Data transmission method and apparatus
A data transmission method is disclosed. The method includes: processing, by a network device, first data to obtain at least one first modulation symbol that is in a first antenna port set, where the first antenna port set includes at least one first antenna port; and sending, by the network device, the at least one first modulation symbol to a terminal device in a first subframe by using a first carrier, where the at least one first modulation symbol is different from at least one second modulation symbol that a network device sends to the terminal device in the first subframe by using the first carrier and that is in a second antenna port set, and the second antenna port set includes at least one second antenna port. |
| US11296837B2 |
Physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission and reception on a shared communication medium
Techniques for broadcast channel management on a shared communication medium are disclosed. An access terminal may be configured to identify a subframe number associated with a given subframe based not only on a subframe number indicator but also a reference boundary. Conversely, an access point may be configured to set a subframe number indicator for a given subframe based not only on its subframe number but also a reference boundary. |
| US11296836B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving signal based on LTE and NR in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
The present invention relates to a method for an NR (New Radio Access Technology) user equipment to transmit and receive a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises the steps of checking a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) order and, if the PDCCH order is checked, initiating a random access procedure. In this case, if a first uplink carrier and a second uplink carrier are configured, the random access procedure is configured to transmit a random access preamble via a specific uplink carrier corresponding to an indicator associated with the PDCCH order among the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier. |
| US11296834B2 |
Redundant transmission system for PRP and multiple data packets
A method of operating a transmission system (1) having a first network (2) and at least one second network (3) where data is exchanged in that data of the first network (2) is inputted between these at least two networks (2, 3) into duplication means (4), and the inputted data is transmitted wirelessly via at least two transmission paths (6, 7) using PRP to separator means (5) and forwarded from the separating means (5) to the connected second network (3), characterized in that the data is transmitted as data packets and each data packet is transmitted several times via the same transmission path (6, 7). |
| US11296832B2 |
Wireless LAN communication apparatus and wireless LAN communication method
[Object] To make it possible to reduce wasteful retransmission processing and improve use efficiency of communication channels with regard to wireless LAN systems. [Solving Means] There is provided a wireless LAN communication apparatus including: a transmitter that transmits a data frame storing a plurality of fixed-length pieces of coded data for which it is possible to determine whether or not decoding is successfully performed; and a controller that controls retransmission processing in units of the pieces of coded data. |
| US11296830B2 |
Enhanced hybrid automatic repeat request for wireless communications
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to an enhanced hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). A device may determine two or more HARQ medium access control (MAC) frames. The device may determine a difference between a first number of bits of a physical layer (PHY) codeword and a second number of bits of a first HARQ MAC frame of the two or more HARQ MAC frames. The device may generate, based on the difference, a third number of bits, wherein the first number of bits is equal to a sum of the second number of bits and the third number of bits. The device may generate an aggregated MAC frame comprising the first HARQ MAC frame, the third number of bits, and a second HARQ MAC frame of the two or more HARQ MAC frames. The device may send the aggregated MAC frame. |
| US11296826B2 |
Frame acknowledgement method
Method enabling an application server to acknowledge, with a single acknowledgement frame, a set of frames sent by endpoints in a group of endpoints to said application server. Each endpoint in said group communicates with the application server via a gateway and a centralising server. The application server is connected to the centralising server via a first communication network. The centralising server is connected to each gateway by a second communication network. The group of endpoints and each gateway form a LoRa network, each communication between an endpoint in said group and a gateway using the LoRaWAN protocol. |
| US11296824B2 |
Device and method for supporting different services in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). An operation method of a base station in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: reallocating a resource, which has been allocated to a first service, to a second service in order to provide the second service; transmitting control information related to at least one reference signal punctured for reallocation of the resource; and transmitting the at least one punctured reference signal via a resource different from the resource having been allocated to the second service. |
| US11296817B2 |
Method and network node, for handling link adaption of a channel
A method performed by a network node, for handling link adaption (LA) of a channel. The network node obtains a channel quality value for each Transmission Time Interval (TTI) in a set of TTIs. The network node estimates a probability that a specific channel quality will occur from the obtained channel quality values for the set of TTIs based on a distribution of channel quality values. The network node further determines a set of transmission parameters which optimizes a target function of LA, based on the estimated probability for the channel quality, wherein each set of transmission parameters is mapped to a channel quality which is required for a successful reception. |
| US11296815B2 |
Terminal device and method for facilitating communication between terminal devices
A method in a first terminal device for facilitating direct communication with a second terminal device. The method comprises transmitting to the second terminal device a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) index, based on which the second terminal device can obtain a modulation order and a Transport Block Size (TBS) in accordance with a first mapping or a second mapping between MCS indices on one hand and modulation orders and TBSs on the other. The MCS index is determined by the first terminal device by selectively applying the first or second mapping. |
| US11296814B2 |
Systems and methods for covert communications
A communications system and methods for covert communications are provided. A first transmitter that transmits an information carrying signal to a target receiver, a second transmitter and a third transmitter transmit jamming signals to the target receiver, such that the information carrying signals and the jamming signals are interleaved when received by the target receiver The information carrying signals and the jamming signals can be at least partially overlapping by an eavesdropper. |
| US11296813B2 |
Packet processing method and device
Example packet processing methods and devices are described. One example method includes that a first device identifies a received first packet through a first FlexE shim layer disposed in the first device. When identifying that the first packet is a flexible Ethernet (FlexE) packet, the first device performs timeslot mapping on the first packet, then encapsulates the first packet into a first gigabit passive optical network encapsulation mode (GEM) frame. One first identifier is selected by the first device from at least one identifier reserved for a FlexE service, and is allocated to the first GEM frame, where the first identifier is used to indicate that the first GEM frame is a GEM frame corresponding to the FlexE packet. The first device sends the first GEM frame that carries the first identifier. |
| US11296811B2 |
Optical multicast switch with broadcast capability
An apparatus includes a first input port, a first switch, and a second switch. The first switch and the second input port are in optical communication with the first input port. The apparatus also includes a second input port, a third switch, and a fourth switch. The third switch and the fourth switch are in optical communication with the second input port. Each switch is switchable between a first state to pass optical signals and a second state to block optical signals. The apparatus also includes a first combiner in optical communication with the first input port via the first switch and the second input port via the third switch. The apparatus also includes a second combiner in optical communication with the first input port via the second switch and the second input port via the fourth switch. |
| US11296805B2 |
Wireless radio device alignment tools and methods
Wireless radio device alignment tools and methods. Described herein are methods for point-to-point alignment of wireless radio devices and alignment tools to assist in aligning wireless radio devices. These alignment tools may automatically or manually receive location information and may use a local compass function to determine a rough or initial alignment and additional tools to provide further (fine) alignment based on calculated and actual signal strength between the two devices being aligned. |
| US11296804B2 |
Radio-based channel sounding using phased array antennas
An example device may include at least three phased array antennas controllable to provide respective receive beams steerable in azimuth and elevation, where faces of the phased array antennas are arranged to provide a receive beam coverage 360 degrees in azimuth, and at least three radio frequency front ends to receive channel sounding waveforms from a fifth generation base station of a cellular network via the respective receive beams and to generate baseband signals from the channel sounding waveforms. The device may include a processing system including at least one processor in communication with the radio frequency front ends to steer the respective receive beams via instructions to the radio frequency front ends, receive the baseband signals from the radio frequency front ends, determine a plurality of measurements of at least one wireless channel parameter based upon the baseband signals, and record locations and spatial orientation information for the measurements. |
| US11296801B2 |
Method for calibrating crystal frequency offset through radio frequency signal
A method for calibrating crystal frequency offset through a radio frequency signal includes, in Step S1, a radio frequency port of a device is connected to one end of a radio frequency cable through a copper pipe connector and the other end of the radio frequency cable is connected to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) tester which is connected with a control terminal. In Step S2, a user controls the WLAN tester to test the radio frequency signal of the device through the control terminal to obtain a test result, and determines whether a deviation of the radio frequency signal is qualified. If it is qualified, the user exits the test, otherwise the user regulates the crystal circuit of the device under test, and returns to Step S2. The method may not be affected by a probe, thus the measurement may be more accurate. |
| US11296798B2 |
Optical wireless communications system
There is a photovoltaic (PV) panel 10 including an array of photovoltaic (PV) elements (12). Each PV element (12) is stand alone and can be electronically addressed individually. The PV panel (10) also includes a number of spectral filters (14), in this example, a red filter (14r), a green filter (14g) and a blue filter (14b) arranged over some of the PV elements (12) to filter out the red, green and blue spectral components from white (combined red, green and blue) light emitted from a red-green-blue (RGB) transmitter. Data can be transmitted by modulating the spectral components of the RGB transmitter such that the data in each of the spectral components can be recovered from the electrical signal generated by the PV elements (12). |
| US11296795B1 |
Encoding a first modulation type with a first spectral efficiency into a second modulation type capable of having a second spectral efficiency
In a first embodiment, a method and apparatus for encoding a first spectral efficiency into a second spectral efficiency; wherein the second spectral efficiency has a higher order than the first spectral efficiency. In a second embodiment, a method and apparatus for achieving at least two spectral efficiencies using a single type of modulation. |
| US11296791B1 |
Auto-tuneable optical transceiver modules
Techniques for tuning an optical communication system are disclosed. The system includes a first signal path for transmitting data, including an optical source, a first one or more variable optical attenuators (VOAs), a modulator, and a transmission fiber. The system further includes a second signal path for receiving data, including a receiver fiber and a second one more VOAs. The first one or more VOAs are tuned using the optical source in the first signal path for transmitting data, based on comparing a plurality of optical signal power values in the first path while a first tuning mode is enabled. The second one or more VOAs are tuned, using the optical source in the first signal path for transmitting data, based on comparing a plurality of optical signal power values in the second path while a second tuning mode is enabled. |
| US11296790B2 |
Transmission system and wavelength resource management method
A transmission system formed by connecting sites through an optical fiber stores at least unique information of the transmission functional devices for each site, connection information, and information of wavelength resources that can be accommodated in the optical fiber in a facility DB as DB information D2. When the number of wavelengths of order information for requesting the number of wavelengths required for transmission of optical signals between sites is larger than the number of wavelengths that can be accommodated in the optical fiber of the DB information D2, the number of wavelengths for each of the transmission functional devices required for enabling the number of wavelengths of the order information D1 to be accommodated in the optical fiber is designed using the design unit. Designed numbers of wavelengths are configured in the corresponding transmission functional devices using the configuration unit. |
| US11296788B2 |
Reception device and reception method
A reception device includes: an image sensor that captures an image, and a reception unit configured to sample a plurality of pixels included in each of N (N being an integer greater than or equal to two) regions included in an imaging surface of the image sensor to receive, in parallel, N mutually different optical signals transmitted from a plurality of light sources. |
| US11296782B2 |
Systems and methods for assisting radio cell acquisition by a mobile device for mobile satellite wireless access
Access, mobility management and regulatory services are supported for satellite access to a 5G core network. Radio cells supported by a satellite may be moving as the satellite moves and may undergo changes, e.g. when a satellite is transferred from one earth station to another. A base station may broadcast a remaining lifetime for a radio cell (e.g. in a system information block) which indicates to UEs how much longer the radio cell can be accessed before a change occurs. A radio cell may also indicate support for one or more fixed tracking areas (TAs) in coverage of the radio cell. A base station may broadcast a remaining lifetime for each TA to indicate to UEs how much longer a TA will be supported by the radio cell. UEs can use the indications to perform cell change or handover to other radio cells and/or other satellites. |
| US11296776B2 |
Multi-spectrum access node
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. In an aspect, a method can comprise receiving first information by an access node of a premises network via a first radio frequency band. At least a portion of the first information can be transmitted via a second radio frequency band to a gateway node of the premises network. Second information can be received from the gateway node via the second radio frequency band. At least a portion of the second information can be transmitted via the first radio frequency band to a source of the first information. |
| US11296775B2 |
Motion awareness-based wireless access
A Motion Aware Scheduler (MAS) is configured to obtain, from a controller through an interface, Motion State Information (MSI) for a motion of at least one movable apparatus, also configured to obtain, from a physical layer of a radio node comprising the MAS, Channel State Information (CSI), also configured to associate the CSI and the MSI in order to obtain a mapping information, and also configured to store the mapping information in order to obtain a stored mapping information. |
| US11296772B2 |
Methods and devices for transmit beamsweeping with payload data
A wireless device includes a radio frequency transceiver, an antenna array, and one or more processors configured to transmit and receive signals with the radio frequency transceiver and the antenna array, and further configured to transmit, with a first antenna beam, a first plurality of blocks of payload data, transmit, with a second antenna beam, a second plurality of blocks of payload data, receive from a receiver device, feedback on the first plurality of blocks and the second plurality of blocks that requests retransmission or transmit power adjustments, select, based on the feedback, an antenna beam as a transmit antenna beam, and transmit payload data to the receiver device with the transmit antenna beam. |
| US11296765B2 |
First network node methods therein for handling directions of transmission of beamformed beams
A method by a first network node for handling directions of transmission of beamformed beams by a first radio network node. Both nodes operate in a wireless communications network. The first network node determines, out of a set of directions in which the first radio network node is capable of transmitting the beams, a subset of directions of transmission of the beams having a probability of detection above a threshold, by a first wireless device. The determining is based on data obtained from previous attempts of positioning one or more second wireless devices using at least some of the directions. The first network node also initiates providing, to at least one of the first radio network node and a second network node operating in the wireless communications network, an indication of the determined subset. |
| US11296762B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing user equipment access to millimeter wave stations through a microwave station
A method for providing user equipment access to millimeter wave stations through a microwave station includes receiving an indication of millimeter wave stations operating within a microwave coverage area of a microwave station. In a microwave band, information associated with the millimeter wave stations is broadcasted to user equipment in the microwave coverage area. A request is sent to the millimeter wave stations to transmit configuration signals over a microwave band. An instruction is transmitted over the microwave band to the user equipment to perform proximity measurements of the configuration signals. According to the proximity measurements, a request is sent to a particular millimeter wave station to transmit beamforming signals over a millimeter wave band. An instruction is transmitted over the microwave band to the user equipment to perform beamforming measurements of the beamforming signals. According to the beamforming measurements, the user equipment is switched to millimeter wave operation. |
| US11296761B2 |
Wireless communication for vehicle based node
A communication system supports communication between an end node (101) of a vehicle (103) and a remote correspondent node (105) via a fixed network (107) which comprises a plurality of wireless access points (109) with a directional antenna arrangement for mm wave radio communication using directional beams. A vehicle (103) comprises wireless modems (111, 113, 701, 703) employing electronically steerable beamforming directional antennas for establishing mm wave radio communication links to the access points (109). The wireless modems (111, 701) forms links to two different access points (109). A ink manager (1101) is arranged to terminate a second mm wave radio communication link in response to a link failure a first mm wave radio communication link, and to initialize setup of a third mm wave radio communication link in response to the termination of the second mm wave radio communication link. |
| US11296759B2 |
Precoding matrix index reporting method, communications apparatus, and medium
This application discloses a precoding matrix index (PMI) reporting method, and related communications apparatus and medium. The method includes: determining an rank indicator (RI) and a PMI, where the PMI is used to determine R precoding matrices W1, . . . , WR. An rth precoding matrix Wr in the R precoding matrices satisfies Wr=W1×W2,r, where an lth row of W2,r is obtained by performing DFT transform on an lth row of a matrix V2,r, and R is indicated by the RI. The PMI includes first indication information and second indication information. The first indication information includes location index information. The location index information is used to indicate Km,r element locations tr,m,1, . . . , ∈{1, . . . , T} on an mth row of V2,r. The second indication information is used to indicate Km,r complex coefficients at the element locations tr,m,1, . . . , on the mth row of V2,r. V2,r is determined based on the Km,r element locations and the Km,r complex coefficients. |
| US11296755B2 |
Communication method and communications apparatus
This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a precoding matrix, the precoding matrix is applied to at least one antenna panel and includes at least one precoding vector, each precoding vector includes a plurality of subvectors, each subvector corresponds to an antenna port on the antenna panel and includes two polarization vectors, and each polarization vector is generated by performing weighted combination on a plurality of basis vectors; and sending the first indication information. In embodiments of this application, accuracy of a codebook can be improved. |
| US11296753B2 |
Method for transmitting information, device and computer storage medium
Provided in the embodiments of the disclosure are a method for transmitting information, a device and a computer storage medium. The method may be applied to a network side device and include: sending first information to a terminal device, the first information including a resource indicator for performing a quasi-periodic Channel State Information (CSI) feedback and duration candidate values of the quasi-periodic CSI feedback; and sending second information to the terminal device, the second information including an activation indicator for activating the quasi-periodic CSI feedback and determination information for determining a duration of the quasi-periodic CSI feedback from the candidate values. |
| US11296752B2 |
Remote unit supporting radio frequency (RF) spectrum-based coverage area optimization in a wireless distribution system (WDS)
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a remote unit supporting radio frequency (RF) spectrum-based coverage area optimization in a wireless distribution system (WDS). A remote unit in a WDS includes a plurality of sector RF paths configured to support sectored coverage areas around the remote unit. Each of the sector RF paths includes an antenna configured to communicate an RF communications signal(s) in an RF spectrum(s). A processing circuit determines a selected downlink sector communications signal(s) to be distributed at a selected power from a selected sector RF path(s) in a selected RF spectrum(s) and provides the selected downlink sector communications signal(s) to the selected sector RF path(s). In this manner, the processing circuit can independently configure a sector RF path(s) to distribute a downlink RF communications signal(s) in an RF spectrum(s) at a desired power(s), thus enabling directional capacity optimization and/or RF interference mitigation around the remote unit. |
| US11296750B2 |
Near-field wireless device including a first near-field antenna and a second near-field antenna
One example discloses a near-field wireless device, including: a stack of layers distributed along a first axis; a first near-field antenna having a conductive surface and embedded in a first layer within the stack of layers; wherein the conductive surface is configured to carry non-propagating quasi-static near-field electric-induction signals for on-body near-field communications; a second near-field antenna having an inductive loop and embedded in a second layer within the stack of layers; wherein the inductive loop is configured to carry non-propagating quasi-static near-field magnetic-induction signals for off-body near-field communications; wherein the first and second layers are different layers; and wherein the first and second antennas are not in galvanic contact. |
| US11296744B2 |
Foldable phone case method and devices
The embodiments disclose a method including fabricating a one section foldable phone case for coupling with a foldable phone configured to fold from top to bottom, fabricating a one section foldable phone case for coupling with a foldable phone configured to fold from side to side, fabricating a two-section foldable phone case for coupling with a foldable phone configured to fold from top to bottom, fabricating a two-section foldable phone case for coupling with a foldable phone configured to fold from side to side, wherein phone cases are configured to view front and back foldable phone folded and unfolded screens, and embedding a RFID chip with a unique ID number into a foldable phone cases configured for locating and identifying a user's foldable phone case. |
| US11296739B2 |
Noise suppression device, noise suppression method, and reception device and reception method using same
A noise suppression device includes: a DFT executor that expands a baseband signal into a discrete Fourier series X0(n), the baseband signal being generated by mixing an AM broadcast wave signal including a carrier wave of the angular frequency ωC with a complex sine wave of the same frequency; and an amplitude spectrum calculator that calculates an amplitude spectrum |X0(n)| from X0(n). The noise suppression device also includes: an asymmetric component detector that detects an asymmetric component in |X0(n)|; a suppressor that calculates a discrete Fourier series X1(n) by multiplying the value corresponding to the asymmetric frequency bin by a first factor and multiplying the other values by a second factor in X0(n); and an IDFT executor that performs inverse discrete Fourier transform on X1(n) to obtain a discrete-time signal. |
| US11296737B1 |
Gain control circuit for linear equalizer with programmable equal step peaking gain
Embodiments of a gain control circuit and a wideband communication circuit that uses the gain control circuit are disclosed. In an embodiment, gain control circuit includes first and second output terminals to output gain control signals and first and second diode-connected transistors connected between a supply voltage and the first and second output terminals, which are connected to input terminals of a communication component circuit with a plurality of input transistors. The gain control circuit further includes a current digital-to-analog converter connected to the diode-connected transistors to generate first and second currents for the diode-connected transistors based on an N-bit input code, wherein a ratio of the first and second currents sets voltages of the gain control signals that are output from the gain control circuit to the communication component circuit to control signal gain provided by the communication component circuit. |
| US11296736B2 |
Time-sharing detection control circuit, wireless transceiver system and time-sharing detection and control method
A time-sharing detection control circuit connected to a plurality of amplification links, includes: a control module to sequentially output a number of switching control signals at preset intervals; a detection module electrically connected to the control module, and a change-over switch. The detection module converts output signals from the amplification links into detection signals and output the detection signals to the control module. The change-over switch is connected to the control module, the detection module and each of the amplification links, and sequentially selects one of the amplification links to be connected to the detection module at preset intervals under control of the switching control signals so as to enable the output signals from the one of the amplification links to be inputted into the detection module. |
| US11296734B2 |
Methods of detecting power of individual carrier of aggregated carrier
Aspects of this disclosure relate to detecting power associated with an individual carrier of a carrier aggregated signal. In an embodiment, an aggregated carrier including at least a first carrier and a second carrier is provided. An indication of power of the first carrier of the aggregated carrier is detected. Separately from detecting the indication of power of the first carrier, an indication of power of the second carrier of the aggregated carrier is detected. The power associated with a radio frequency (RF) signal provided to an RF source associated with the first carrier can be adjusted based on the indication of power of the first carrier. |
| US11296728B2 |
Interleaving and mapping method and deinterleaving and demapping method for LDPC codeword
An interleaving and mapping method and a deinterleaving and demapping method for an LDPC codeword are provided. The interleaving and mapping method comprises: performing first bit interleaving on a parity bits part of the LDPC codeword to obtain interleaved parity bits; splicing an information bit part of the codeword and the interleaved parity bits into a codeword after the first bit interleaving; dividing the codeword after the first bit interleaving into multiple consecutive bit subblocks in a predetermined length, and changing the order of the bit subblocks according to a corresponding permutation order (bit-swapping pattern) to form a codeword after second bit interleaving; dividing the codeword after the second bit interleaving into two parts, and writing the two parts into storage space in a column order respectively and reading the two parts from the storage space in a row order respectively to obtain a codeword after third bit interleaving. |
| US11296724B2 |
Encoding method and apparatus
This application provides an encoding method and apparatus in a wireless communications system. The method includes: performing cyclic redundancy check (CRC) encoding on A to-be-encoded information bits based on a CRC polynomial, to obtain a first bit sequence, where the first bit sequence includes L CRC bits and the A information bits; and performing polar encoding on the first bit sequence, where L has a value of one of 3, 4, 5, 8, and 16. Based on an improved CRC polynomial, coding satisfying a false alarm rate (FAR) requirement is implemented. |
| US11296719B2 |
Front-end circuit performing analog-to-digital conversion and touch processing circuit including the same
A touch processing circuit includes: a front-end circuit including an amplifier, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, and a plurality of switches each having two ends that are selectively connected each other, the front-end circuit being configured to process an input signal varying according to a touch; and a controller controlling the plurality of switches so that the front-end circuit is configured as a first circuit that accumulates deviation of the input signal between a first phase and a second phase during an integration period and a second circuit that converts the accumulated deviation into a digital signal during a conversion period. |
| US11296714B2 |
Residue transfer loop, successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter, and gain calibration method
A residue transfer loop, a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter and a gain calibration method are disclosed. In particular, the residue transfer loop includes a sampling switch module, a logic controlling circuit, a residue holding capacitor module, a DAC capacitor array, a residue transfer module, a current rudder, a reset switch module and a charge sharing switch module. The logic controlling circuit sequentially outputs control signals according to preset time intervals in a preset period to control the reset switch module, the residue transfer module, the sampling switch module and the charge sharing switch module to work sequentially, thereby realizing a residue transfer. |
| US11296710B2 |
Digital subsampling PLL with DTC-based SAR phase estimation
The present disclosure relates to a digital subsampling phase-locked-loop (PLL) with a digital-to-time converter (DTC) based successive-approximation-register (SAR) phase estimation. This disclosed PLL utilizes a DTC and a one-bit sampler to generate one phase word by calculating multiple one-bit phase measurements with a SAR algorithm. The one phase word, which indicates the phase estimation of a radio frequency (RF) output signal compared to a reference signal, enables the PLL to lock the RF output signal with the reference signal in a short settling time. In addition, utilizing the one-bit sampler instead of a conventional frequency divider is good for linearity and low power consumption of the PLL without introducing significant noise in the RF output signal. |
| US11296708B2 |
Low power ferroelectric based majority logic gate adder
An adder with first and second majority gates. For a 1-bit adder, output from a 3-input majority gate is inverted and input two times to a 5-input majority gate. Other inputs to the 5-input majority gate are same as those of the 3-input majority gate. The output of the 5-input majority gate is a sum while the output of the 3-input majority gate is the carry. Multiple 1-bit adders are concatenated to form an N-bit adder. The input signals are driven to first terminals of non-ferroelectric capacitors while the second terminals are coupled to form a majority node. Majority function of the input signals occurs on this node. The majority node is then coupled to a first terminal of a non-linear polar capacitor. The second terminal of the capacitor provides the output of the logic gate. A reset mechanism initializes the non-linear polar capacitor before addition function is performed. |
| US11296702B1 |
Signal transmission circuit of a semiconductor device
A signal transmission circuit of a semiconductor device includes a first emphasis circuit and a second emphasis circuit. The first emphasis circuit feeds a signal of an output node back to an input node. The first emphasis circuit may perform a first emphasis operation on a signal of the input node and the signal of the output node by adjusting a feedback time of the first emphasis circuit. The second emphasis circuit may be connected in parallel with the first emphasis circuit to perform a feedback of the signal of the output node to the input node. The second emphasis circuit may perform a second emphasis operation on the signal of the input node and the signal of the output node by adjusting a feedback time of the second emphasis circuit. |
| US11296700B1 |
Triple modular redundancy flip-flop with improved power performance area and design for testability
A triple modular redundancy (TMR) flip-flop includes a set of master-gate-latch circuits including a first set of inputs to receive a first digital signal, and a second set of inputs to receive a clock; and a voting logic circuit including a set of inputs coupled to a set of outputs of the set of master-gate-latch circuits, and an output to generate a second digital signal based on the first digital signal. Another TMR flip-flop includes a set of master-gate-latch circuits to receive a set of digital signals in response to a first edge of a clock, respectively; and latch the set of digital signals in response to a second edge of the clock, respectively; and a voting logic circuit to receive the latched set of digital signals; and generate a second digital signal based on a majority of logic levels of the latched first set of digital signals, respectively. |
| US11296698B2 |
Impedance calibration circuit
An impedance calibration circuit is provided. The impedance calibration circuit includes a first calibration circuit, a second calibration circuit and a control circuit. The first calibration circuit is adapted to be coupled to an external resistor through a calibration pad, and generate a first voltage according to a first control signal and a resistance value of the external resistor. The second calibration circuit generates a second voltage according to the first control signal and a second control signal. The control circuit is configured to compare the first voltage and a reference voltage to obtain a first comparison result, and compare the first voltage and the second voltage to obtain a second comparison result, and generate the first control signal according to the first comparison result, and generate the second control signal according to the second comparison result. |
| US11296692B1 |
Power-on reset circuit
A power-on reset circuit includes a complementary-to-absolute-temperature circuit that outputs one control voltage, and a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) circuit that outputs a PTAT current. The power-on reset circuit further includes various resistors that are coupled in series, and generate another control voltage based on the PTAT current that is outputted by the PTAT circuit. Further, the power-on reset circuit includes a comparator that compares the two control voltages to generate a power-on reset signal. The power-on reset signal is activated when a supply voltage is greater than or equal to a trip voltage, and deactivated when the supply voltage is less than the trip voltage. A functional circuit is configured to execute a reset operation associated therewith when the power-on reset signal transitions from a deactivated state to an activated state. |
| US11296689B2 |
Output circuit having voltage-withstanding mechanism
The present disclosure discloses an output circuit having a voltage-withstanding mechanism that includes a PMOS, a NMOS, a voltage-withstanding auxiliary NMOS and a voltage-withstanding auxiliary circuit. The PMOS includes a first source terminal and a first drain terminal coupled to a voltage source and an output terminal and a first gate receiving a first input signal. The NMOS includes a second source terminal and a second drain terminal coupled to a ground terminal and a connection terminal and a second gate receiving a second input signal. The auxiliary NMOS includes a third drain terminal and a third source terminal coupled to the output terminal and the connection terminal. The auxiliary circuit is coupled to the voltage source and a third gate of the auxiliary NMOS and provides a current conducting mechanism and a resistive mechanism respectively when the output terminal is operated at a logic high level and a logic low level. |
| US11296678B1 |
Complementary current-mode biquad with high linearity
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for processing signals using a current-mode biquad filter, which may have a tunable bias current and/or tunable capacitance. One example apparatus is a current-mode biquad filter circuit that includes a first input current node, a first capacitive element coupled to the first input current node, a first output current node, a first active filter circuit coupled between the first input current node and the first output current node, and a second active filter circuit coupled between the first input current node and the first output current node. The second active filter circuit is complementary to the first active filter circuit. |
| US11296677B2 |
Fast, highly accurate, full-FEM surface acoustic wave simulation
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for scalable and parallel computation of hierarchical cascading in finite element method (FEM) simulations of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. Different computing units of a cluster or cloud service may be assigned to independently model different core blocks or combinations of core blocks for iterative cascading to generate a model of the SAW devices. Similarly, frequency ranges may independently be assigned to computing units for modeling and analysis of devices, drastically speeding up computation. |
| US11296673B2 |
Component with a thin-layer covering and method for its production
A component (B) comprising a carrier (TR), on which a functional structure (FS) is covered by a thin-layer covering (DSA) spanning across and resting on the carrier. On a planarization layer arranged above the thin-layer covering (DSA), a wiring level (M1, M2) is realized, which comprises structured conductor paths and which is connected via through-connections to the functional structure (FS). |
| US11296670B2 |
Impedance matching transceiver
Impedance matching transceivers may include a tuning circuit to match the transceiver module impedance to the housing conditions. In some examples, the impedance matching is controlled by tuning-circuits that may be integrated into a transceiver module by using a fan-out package (FO PKG). One example of a tuning circuit may include a switch to isolate the parallel capacitors, such that when the switch is on or closed the parallel capacitors are active. |
| US11296665B2 |
Amplifier arrangement
For converting analog audio signals captured by a microphone into digital audio data, the analog audio signals are first amplified in a pre-amplifier and then fed to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). For better utilizing the dynamic range of the ADC, a DC coupled dual amplifier circuit may be used herein that automatically switches between two amplifier branches with different gain factors. To avoid switching noise, both signals must have the same DC component before the analog-to-digital conversion. To achieve this, the amplifier arrangement comprises a first amplifier branch having a higher first gain factor (G1) and providing a first output voltage (VOUT1) and a second amplifier branch having a lower second gain factor (G2) and providing a second output voltage (VOUT2). Both amplifier branches are DC coupled and receive as a common input signal an audio signal with a predetermined DC component (Vk). The amplifier arrangement further comprises a differentiating member (D) for generating a voltage difference between the two output voltages (VOUT1,VOUT2). From the voltage difference, a control voltage (Vbias) is generated for controlling the DC component (Vk) of the input signal such that the DC components of the output voltages (VOUT1, VOUT2) are aligned to each other. |
| US11296663B2 |
Common-mode insensitive current-sensing topology in full-bridge driver with high-side and low-side energy matching calibration
A system may include a Class-D stage comprising a first high-side switch coupled between a supply voltage and a first output terminal of the Class-D stage, a second high-side switch coupled between the supply voltage and a second output terminal of the Class-D stage, a first low-side switch coupled between a ground voltage and the first output terminal, and a second low-side switch coupled between the ground voltage and the second output terminal. The system may also include current sensing circuitry comprising a first sense resistor coupled between the first low-side switch and the ground voltage, such that an output current through a load coupled between the first output terminal and the second output terminal causes a first sense voltage proportional to the output current across the first sense resistor when the first low-side switch is activated. The current sensing circuitry may also include a second sense resistor coupled between the second low-side switch and the ground voltage, such that an output current through the load causes a second sense voltage proportional to the output current across the second sense resistor when the second low-side switch is activated. The system may also include measurement circuitry configured to measure the first sense voltage and the second sense voltage to determine the output current. |
| US11296662B2 |
High-frequency power amplifier
The present invention relates to a high-frequency power amplifier in which mainly an amplification GaN chip and a GaAs chip which has a pre-match circuit for the former formed thereon are connected by wires on an identical metal plate. The high-frequency power amplifier according to the present invention is provided with a coupler exhibiting a mutual inductance of a subtractive polarity on the GaAs chip, thereby making it possible to: cancel a mutual inductance between adjacent wires; reduce the spread of a second harmonic impedance with respect to a frequency when a signal source is viewed from a gate terminal of the GaN chip; and maintain a high efficiency of the power amplifier in a desired fundamental wave band. |
| US11296659B2 |
Switchless bi-directional amplifier using neutralized differential pair
A bi-directional amplifier (BDA) comprises a first pair of amplifier transistors and a second pair of amplifier transistors, wherein the first pair of amplifier transistors are cross-coupled with the second pair of amplifier transistors, and wherein the first pair of amplifier transistors and the second pair of amplifier transistors each comprise a differential common-emitter (CE) pair (or common-source (CS) pair) with equal transistor size or different transistor size. The BDA further comprises a plurality of blocking capacitors to decouple the collector and the base biases of the first pair of amplifier transistors and the second pair of amplifier transistors. Alternatively or additionally, the BDA further comprises two input/output baluns, through which a common voltage bias is applied to the collectors of each of the differential CE pairs (or drains of CS pairs in some implementations). The baluns enable single-ended measurement and characterization. |
| US11296655B2 |
Power amplifier biasing network providing gain expansion
An apparatus includes an amplifier and a bias network. The amplifier generally has a predefined linear range. The bias network is generally connected to an input of the amplifier. The bias network generally comprises a linearizer configured to provide gain expansion and extend linearity of the amplifier beyond the predefined linear range. |
| US11296654B2 |
Electronic envelope detection circuit and corresponding demodulator
An electronic envelope detection circuit includes an input signal detecting circuit having at least one MOS transistor configured to receive a radiofrequency input signal and to deliver an internal signal on the basis of the input signal. The biasing point of the at least one transistor is controlled by the input signal and a control signal. A processing circuit that is coupled to the input signal detecting circuit is configured to deliver a low-frequency output signal on the basis of the internal signal and further deliver the control signal on the basis of the output signal. In operation, the value of the control signal decreases when the average power of the input signal increases, and vice versa. |
| US11296651B2 |
Semiconductor package structure
A semiconductor package structure includes an organic substrate having a first surface, a first recess depressed from the first surface, a first chip over the first surface and covering the first recess, thereby defining a first cavity enclosed by a back surface of the first chip and the first recess, and a second chip over the first chip. The first cavity is an air cavity or a vacuum cavity. |
| US11296648B1 |
Solar panel racking system and devices for the same
A solar panel racking system that can include end clamps, mid clamps, bottom clamps, L-foot adapter assemblies, rails, and L-foot assemblies. The solar panel racking system minimizes the use of tools by snapping many of the mounting components in place. The end clamps, mid clamps, and bottom clamps can snap over the rail sides and lock into upper detented portions of the rail sides. The upper detented portions are structured to prevent upward movement of the end clamps, mid clamps, and bottom clamps. The L-foot adapter body of the L-foot adapter assembly snaps over lower detented portions of rail sides and secures the rail to an L-foot assembly. The end clamps, mid clamps, bottom clamps, rails, and L-foot adapter assemblies are independent of the L-foot assembly, allowing a selection of L-foot assemblies to be used as appropriate with the solar panel racking system. |
| US11296647B2 |
Solar array with reference solar power plant for improved management
Solar array (1) comprising solar modules (3) distributed in rows (10), each solar module comprising solar collector (5) carried by a single-axis solar tracker (4), a reference solar power plant (2) comprising a central reference solar module and at least one secondary reference solar module, and a piloting unit (7) adapted for: piloting the angular orientation of the central reference module according to a central reference orientation setpoint corresponding to an initial orientation setpoint, piloting the orientation of each secondary reference module according to a secondary reference orientation setpoint corresponding to the initial orientation setpoint shifted by a predefined offset angle; receiving an energy production value from each reference module; piloting the orientation of the modules, except for the reference modules, by applying the reference orientation setpoint associated to the reference module having the highest production value. |
| US11296644B2 |
Alternating passive rectification and 3-phase-short control for motor fault protection
A vehicle includes a traction battery, an inverter, and a controller. The inverter includes a plurality of pairs of switches. Each of the pairs includes an upper switch that is directly electrically connected with a positive terminal of the traction battery and a lower switch that is directly electrically connected with a negative terminal of the traction battery. The controller, responsive to presence of a fault condition and during each of consecutive switching periods, deactivates all of the switches for a predetermined portion of the switching period, activates only the upper switches for another predetermined portion of the switching period, deactivates all of the switches for yet another predetermined portion of the switching period, and activates only the lower switches for still yet another predetermined portion of the switching period. |
| US11296643B2 |
Motor driving apparatus and home appliance including the same
A motor driving apparatus for a home appliance includes: a power supply part configured to supply DC power, a DC-Link capacitor connected to the power supply part, an inverter connected to the DC-Link capacitor and comprising a plurality of switching elements, the inverter being configured to convert, by operating the plurality of switching elements, the DC power into AC power and output the converted AC power to a motor, a DC-Link resistor element disposed between the DC-Link capacitor and the inverter, a signal generator connected to the DC-Link resistor element and configured to generate and output a plurality of signals based on an output current flowing through the DC-Link resistor element, and a controller configured to control the inverter based on the plurality of signals received from the signal generator. |
| US11296636B2 |
Method for operating an electrically commutated machine
A method for operating an electrically commutated machine. In at least one method step, in particular in at least one method step of overmodulation operation of the electrically commutated machine, a precommutation angle of the electrically commutated machine is set depending on an efficiency of the electrically commutated machine. |
| US11296635B2 |
Control system for motor
A control system for motor configured to control currents supplied to an armature coil and a field coil properly to achieve a required torque. The control system controls torque of a rotor by controlling a base torque generated by energizing an armature coil, and a field torque generated by energizing a field coil. When a target torque is equal to or greater than a predetermined torque, the controller controls the base torque and the field torque such that a ratio of the field torque to the target torque is increased greater than that of a case in which the target torque is less than the predetermined torque. |