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| US11329293B2 |
Gas diffusion electrode substrate and method for producing gas diffusion electrode substrate
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a method for producing a gas diffusion electrode base which enables the achievement of a gas diffusion electrode base that has a microporous layer with small surface roughness and is not susceptible to damaging an electrolyte membrane; and a gas diffusion electrode base that has a microporous layer with small surface roughness and is not susceptible to damaging an electrolyte membrane. For the purpose of achieving the above-described purpose, the present invention has the configuration described below. Namely, a specific gas diffusion electrode base which has a carbon sheet and a microporous layer, and wherein the carbon sheet is porous and the DBP oil absorption of a carbon powder contained in the microporous layer is 70-155 ml/100 g. |
| US11329291B2 |
Electric energy storage device
The present invention provides an electric energy storage device, in particular a battery, at least comprising: —an anode comprising an alkali metal selected from lithium and sodium or a combination thereof; —a cathode comprising a sulphur-containing organosilane compound or a mixture of sulphur-containing organosilane compounds; and—an electrolyte placed between the anode and the cathode; wherein the cathode comprises a current collector surface that has been at least partly modified by grafting the sulphur-containing organosilane compound or a mixture of sulphur-containing organosilane compounds thereon. |
| US11329290B2 |
Electrode assembly and secondary lithium battery including the same
Disclosed are an electrode assembly, and a secondary lithium battery including the same. The electrode assembly is configured by alternately stacking two or more positive electrodes and one or more negative electrodes using a separator as a boundary therebetween, outermost positive electrodes are positioned on outermost opposite surfaces of the electrode assembly, respectively, each of the outermost positive electrodes includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive active material layer formed on one surface of the positive electrode current collector, and a non-reversible material coating layer formed on the other surface of the positive electrode current collector and including lithium oxide, and the non-reversible material coating layer is positioned on an outermost surface of the electrode assembly. |
| US11329289B2 |
Thickener powder for lithium-ion battery, water-based electrode slurry, electrode for lithium-ion battery, lithium-ion battery, method for manufacturing water-based electrode slurry for lithium-ion battery, and method for manufacturing electrode for lithium-ion battery
Thickener powder for a lithium-ion battery of the present invention is thickener powder that is used to thicken a water-based electrode slurry for a lithium-ion battery, the thickener powder includes a cellulose-based water-soluble polymer, and a content of a water-insoluble component in the thickener powder, which is calculated from Condition 1, is equal to or less than 1.0% by mass.(Condition 1: The thickener powder is dissolved in water, thereby obtaining a thickener aqueous solution having a concentration of 1.3% by mass. Next, the thickener aqueous solution is filtered using a filter having an average pore diameter of 1 μm. Next, the water-insoluble component remaining on the filter is dried, and a mass of the water-insoluble component is measured. Next, the content of the water-insoluble component in the thickener powder is calculated.) |
| US11329286B2 |
Lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material, preparation method thereof, positive electrode and secondary battery including the same
A lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material is provide, which includes sodium and calcium, wherein the total amount of the sodium and calcium is 150 ppm to 500 ppm based on the total weight of the lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material. A method for preparing the lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material is also provided. |
| US11329284B2 |
Fine and ultrafine powders and nanopowders of lithium metal oxides for battery applications
A method of forming an improved calcined lithium metal oxide is provided wherein the metal comprises at least one of nickel, manganese and cobalt. The method comprises forming a first solution in a first reactor wherein the first solution comprises at least one first salt of at least one of lithium, nickel, manganese or cobalt in a first solvent. A second solution is formed wherein the second solution comprises a second salt of at least one of lithium, nickel, manganese or cobalt in a second solvent wherein the second salt is not present in the first solution. A gas in introduced into said first solution to form a gas saturated first solution. A second solution is added to the gas saturated first solution without bubbling to form a lithium metal salt. The lithium metal salt dried and calcined to form the calcined lithium metal oxide. |
| US11329279B2 |
Process to prepare an electrode for an electrochemical storage device
A process to prepare an electrode for an electrochemical storage device by spraying an aqueous slurry composition comprising water, xanthan gum, a source of conducting carbon particles and an active material on an electrode base. The slurry may be made by first mixing solid xanthan gum with the conducting carbon particles and the active material and secondly adding water to the resulting mixture. Alternatively the slurry is obtained by mixing solid xanthan gum with a carbon-based active material and adding water to the resulting mixture obtained. |
| US11329273B2 |
Method for manufacturing secondary battery
A method for manufacturing a secondary battery in which the preparation of at least one of a positive electrode and ta negative electrode includes forming an electrode material layer on a metal sheet material to serve as an electrode current collector, thereby providing an electrode precursor, and cutting out electrodes from the electrode precursor to form a plurality of electrodes. Each of the electrodes has a non-rectangular shape. |
| US11329270B2 |
Lithium complex oxide sintered body plate
Disclosed is a lithium complex oxide sintered plate for use in a positive electrode of a lithium secondary battery. The lithium complex oxide sintered plate has a structure in which a plurality of primary grains having a layered rock-salt structure are bonded, and has a porosity of 3 to 30%, a mean pore diameter of 15 μm or less, an open pore rate of 70% or more, a thickness of 40 to 200 μm, a primary grain diameter of 20 μm or less, the primary grain diameter being a mean diameter of the primary grains, and a pore diameter distribution in which the number of peaks is one and volume-based D10, D50 and D90 pore diameters satisfy expressions: D50/D10≥2.5, D90/D50≥2.5 and D90/D10≥8.0. |
| US11329265B2 |
Method for producing battery electrode
Provided is a means capable of improving the flatness of a surface of an electrode active material layer in which an electrode active material slurry without assuming addition of a binder.Upon producing a battery electrode which has a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on a surface of the current collector and containing an electrode active material, in a coating step of coating an electrode active material slurry in which the electrode active material is dispersed in a solvent on the surface of the current collector to form the electrode active material layer, an electrode active material slurry which has flow characteristics that a region A in which a shear stress is not increased according to an increase in shear rate is present and a region B in which a shear stress is increased and an increase rate thereof is decreased according to an increase in shear rate is present in a region having a shear rate larger than that of the region A, in a shear rate (horizontal axis)-shear stress (vertical axis) curve of the electrode active material slurry, is used as the electrode active material slurry, and, coating of the electrode active material slurry is performed at a coating rate at which the shear rate at the time of coating is a value in which a shear stress equal to or more than a yield stress of the electrode active material slurry is applied in the coating step. |
| US11329262B2 |
Manufacturing method of display panel, and electronic equipment
A manufacturing method of display panel, an electronic equipment, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes forming a buffer on at least one portion of a first base, wherein the first base is a substrate located in the bending area; forming a first flexible substrate on the buffer; forming display units on the first flexible substrate; and removing the buffer from the first flexible substrate, so that a groove is formed on the first flexible substrate at a position corresponding to the buffer. |
| US11329261B2 |
Organic light emitting diode substrate and manufacturing method thereof
An organic light emitting diode substrate and methods of operating the same are provided and include a flexible substrate, a heat dissipation layer, and an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer is configured to provide adhesion between the flexible substrate and the heat dissipation layer, the heat dissipation layer comprises a first sub heat dissipation layer and a second sub heat dissipation layer, and the first sub heat dissipation layer and the second sub heat dissipation layer are alternately stacked and the first sub heat dissipation layer is made of a metal material and the second sub heat dissipation layer is made of at least one of an organic material and an inorganic material. |
| US11329259B2 |
Display panel comprising capacitor structure between first plate and second plate, and method of fabricating thereof
A display panel and method of fabricating thereof. The display panel includes a capacitor structure, a first plate of the capacitor structure includes an active region and a light shielding metal layer which are electrically connected, and a second plate of the capacitor structure includes an anode and a capacitor metal layer which are electrically connected. The anode and the active region are disposed correspondingly, and at least two insulating layers are disposed between the anode and the active region, the light shielding metal layer and the capacitor metal layer are disposed correspondingly, and at least two insulating layers are disposed between the light shielding metal layer and the capacitor metal layer. |
| US11329256B2 |
Protective film, display module, display device, method of manufacturing display module, and method of manufacturing display device
A display module includes a display panel for displaying an image, and a protective film adhered to a back surface of the display panel. The protective film includes a compensation layer being in contact with the back surface of the display panel, a first release layer disposed under the compensation layer, a cushion layer disposed under the first release layer, and a second release layer disposed under the cushion layer. An adhesive strength of the first release layer is less than an adhesive strength of the second release layer. |
| US11329255B2 |
Display device
A display device is disclosed, wherein the display device comprises a hole area on a substrate, a buffer area configured to surround the hole area, and a display area configured to surround the buffer area, wherein the display area includes a thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on the substrate, the buffer area is provided with a damage preventing portion configured to control damages generated in a process of forming the hole area from extending to the display area, and the damage preventing portion is formed of a same material as a material of the source and drain electrodes. |
| US11329254B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are provided and have a base substrate, a blocking wall, an encapsulation layer, and a touch capacitor layer. By forming a second-layer blocking wall and a first-layer blocking wall to form a second blocking wall, a height of the second blocking wall is increased. Further, a blocking block is disposed between the second blocking wall and the first blocking wall, thereby increasing a thickness and a height of the blocking wall. When inkjet printing an organic layer, a slope at edges of a display area is relatively smooth, which can make an entire encapsulation layer relatively flat, thereby reducing a height difference of wirings at the edges and avoiding a problem of inaccurate exposure and focus. |
| US11329252B2 |
Display model, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device
A display module, a method of manufacturing the display module, and an electronic device include an array substrate, a light-emitting device layer, a thin film encapsulation layer, a touch layer, a polarizer layer, and a cover layer. The polarizer layer and the cover layer are formed on the light-emitting device layer through a deposition process. |
| US11329249B2 |
Display panel and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The display panel comprises a flexible substrate and a supporting element. The flexible substrate comprises a main portion, a bonding portion bent on a back surface of the main portion, and a bending portion connected to the main portion and the bonding portion. The supporting element comprises a first supporting portion disposed inside the bending portion and contacting the bending portion, and the first supporting portion is a polyhedron structure. |
| US11329247B2 |
Electronic device comprising flexible display
According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device can comprise: a housing; a flexible display of which at least a portion is accommodated in the housing, wherein the flexible display comprises a window forming at least a portion of the outer side surface of the electronic device, a light-emitting layer arranged below the window, and a protective layer arranged below the light-emitting layer, a transparent region for transmitting light incident from the outside of the electronic device is formed in a portion of a region of the light-emitting layer, and an opening of which at least a portion is aligned with the transparent region is formed in a portion of a region of the protective layer; and a sensor of which at least a portion is accommodated in the housing and at least a portion is aligned with the opening. The electronic device can vary according to embodiments. |
| US11329240B2 |
Infrared photodetector
An infrared photodetector including a stack of layers on a substrate having an active area made of organic semiconductor materials capable of converting an infrared radiation into an electric signal and including, in said stack and/or on the substrate, a single layer at least partially filtering visible light. |
| US11329239B2 |
Multi-mode photodetectors and methods of fabricating the same
The present invention relates to a bias-switchable spectral response high performance PD with multi-mode detection, e.g., dual-mode photoresponses in NIR and visible light ranges. The dual-mode PD has the absorber/spacer type components in its active layer, e.g., a tri-layer configuration of absorber-1 (absorber-1 absorbs the electromagnetic wave of the first wavelength comprising visible light)/optical spacer/absorber-2 (absorber-2 absorbs the electromagnetic wave of the second wavelength comprising IR light). In the presence of IR light, photocurrent generates in the IR light absorbing layer under a reverse bias. In the presence of visible light, photocurrent generates in the visible light absorbing layer under a forward bias. A bias-switchable spectral response PD offers an attractive option for applications in environmental pollution, bio, medical, agricultural, automotive, fishery, food, wellness and security monitoring, detection and imaging in two or different or multiple distinct bands. |
| US11329234B2 |
Organic electroluminescent element, display device, lighting device, π-conjugated compound, and light-emitting thin film
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element containing an organic layer interposed between an anode and a cathode, the organic layer containing at least one light emitting layer, wherein the at least one light emitting layer contains a π-conjugated compound having an electron donor portion and an electron acceptor portion in the molecule; the π-conjugated compound has a direction vector from an atom having a HOMO orbital in the electron donor portion to an electron cloud of the HOMO orbital, and a direction vector from an atom having a LUMO orbital in the electron acceptor portion to an electron cloud of the LUMO orbital, and the two direction vectors form an angle θ in the range of 90 to 180 degrees; and the π-conjugated compound has a plurality of the electron donor portions or a plurality of the electron acceptor portions. |
| US11329231B2 |
Organic light-emitting device
According to one or more embodiments, an organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer may include a first compound represented by one selected from Formulae 1-1 and 1-2, and a second compound represented by Formula 2: |
| US11329230B2 |
Organic light-emitting device
Provided is an organic light-emitting device including a first compound and a second compound that offers low driving voltage and high efficiency. The organic light-emitting device includes an emission layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, and an electron transport region between the second electrode and the emission layer. The electron transport region includes the first compound. A hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer includes the second compound. |
| US11329227B2 |
Paint circuits
Methods and devices for forming painted circuits using multiple layers of electrically conductive paint. In one aspect, a painted circuit includes a substrate (111) and one or more paint layer (106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 120, 122) applied to the substrate, where the one or more paint layers each form an electrical component of the painted circuit. A given paint layer of the one or more paint layers includes a conductive paint formulation having a resistance that is defined by a concentration of conductive material that is included in the conductive paint formulation and a thickness of the given paint layer, and lower concentrations of the conductive material included in the conductive paint formulation provide a higher resistance than higher concentrations of conductive material. |
| US11329226B2 |
Memory devices including step shape electrode and methods for forming the same
A method of forming a memory device includes forming a first electrode; forming a resistive switching layer over the first electrode; forming a dielectric layer over the resistive switching layer; forming a first opening in the dielectric layer, wherein the first opening passes through the dielectric layer and exposes the resistive switching layer; forming a first trench in the dielectric layer, wherein the first trench is directly above the first opening; and forming a second electrode having a step shape in the first opening and the first trench. |
| US11329223B2 |
Nonvolatile memory apparatus including resistive-change material layer
A nonvolatile memory apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode separated from the first electrode, a resistive-change material layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and configured to store information due to a resistance change caused by an electrical signal applied through the first electrode and the second electrode, and a diffusion prevention layer provided between the first electrode and the resistive-change material layer and/or between the second electrode and the resistive-change material layer and including a two-dimensional (2D) material having a monolayer thickness of about 0.35 nm or less. |
| US11329220B2 |
Non-volatile memory device and method of fabricating the same
The present invention relates to a non-volatile memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The non-volatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a first electrode; a second electrode; a first oxide layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and having a reversible filament formed therein; and an oxygen reservoir layer disposed between the first oxide layer and the second electrode, and absorbing oxygens of the first oxide layer to form oxygen vacancy constituting the reversible filament in the first oxide layer. The concentration of the oxygen vacancy may increase from the first oxide layer toward the oxygen reservoir layer. |
| US11329217B2 |
Method for manufacturing a magnetic random-access memory device using post pillar formation annealing
A method for manufacturing a magnetic memory array provides back end of line annealing for associated processing circuitry without causing thermal damage to magnetic memory elements of the magnetic memory array. An array of magnetic memory element pillars is formed on a wafer, and the magnetic memory elements are surrounded by a dielectric isolation material. After the pillars have been formed and surrounded by the dielectric isolation material an annealing process is performed to both anneal the memory element pillars to form a desired grain structure in the memory element pillars and also to perform back end of line thermal processing for circuitry associated with the memory element array. |
| US11329216B2 |
Magnetic tunnel junction devices
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ), a top electrode, and a residue. The bottom electrode is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The MTJ is disposed over the bottom electrode. The top electrode is disposed over the MTJ layer. Sidewalls of the bottom electrode, the MTJ, and the top electrode are vertically aligned with each other. The residue of the MTJ is located on the sidewall of the bottom electrode. |
| US11329214B2 |
Piezoelectric actuator, piezoelectric drive device, robot, electronic component transport apparatus, and printer
A piezoelectric actuator includes a vibration portion, a support portion that is integrally configured with the vibration portion and supports the vibration portion, and a piezoelectric element that is disposed on the vibration portion. The piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric film including columnar crystal grains extending in a thickness direction. When a thickness of the piezoelectric film is referred to as T [μm] and an average diameter of the crystal grains in the width direction is referred to as D [μm], T/D is within a range of 10 to 100. The thickness T of the piezoelectric film is larger than or equal to 2 μm. A standard deviation of diameters of the crystal grains in the width direction is less than or equal to 1.8 μm. |
| US11329213B2 |
Magnetoelectric composite material and method of manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing a magnetoelectric composite material having a 0-3 type connectivity is provided. The manufacturing method includes manufacturing a slurry including an alignment material including one material selected from among a magnetostrictive material and a piezoelectric material. The slurry further comprises a seed composition comprising the other material from the magnetostrictive material and the piezoelectric material. The method further comprises molding the manufactured slurry to manufacture a molding material, and plasticizing and firing the molding material. |
| US11329211B2 |
Current crowding in three-terminal superconducting devices and related methods
An active three-terminal superconducting device having an intersection region at which a hot spot may be controllably formed is described. The intersection region may exhibit current crowding in response to imbalances in current densities applied to channels connected to intersection region. The current crowding may form a hot spot, in which the superconducting device may exhibit a measurable resistance. In some cases, a three-terminal superconducting device may be configured to sense an amount of superconducting current flowing in a channel or loop without having to perturb the superconducting state or amount of current flowing in the channel. A three-terminal superconducting device may be used to read out a number of fluxons stored in a superconducting memory element. |
| US11329206B2 |
Lead frame and housing sub-assembly for use in a light emitting diode package and method for manufacturing the same
A lead frame and housing sub-assembly for use in a light emitting diode package, including: a lead frame, wherein the lead frame includes a substrate metal alloy having a top surface and a bottom surface, and wherein the top surface and the bottom surface of the substrate have been pre-plated with a layer of nickel; and a housing, wherein the housing includes a top surface and a bottom surface, and wherein at least a portion of the bottom surface of the housing contacts the top surface of the lead frame that has been pre-plated with the layer of nickel. |
| US11329199B2 |
Optoelectronic semiconductor chip, method of manufacturing an optoelectronic component and optoelectronic component
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip, a method for manufacturing an optoelectronic component and an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an emission side, the emission side comprising a plurality of emission fields, partition walls on the emission side in a region between two adjacent emission fields and a conversion element on one or more emission fields, wherein the conversion element includes a matrix material with first phosphor particles incorporated therein, wherein the first phosphor particles are sedimented in the matrix material such that a mass fraction of the first phosphor particles is greater in a lower region of the conversion element facing the semiconductor layer sequence than in a remaining region of the conversion element, and wherein the partition walls are attached to the emission side without any additional connectors. |
| US11329196B2 |
Optoelectronic device mounting structure with embedded heatsink element
A mounting structure for mounting a set of optoelectronic devices is provided. A mounting structure for a set of optoelectronic devices can include: a body formed of an insulating material; and a heatsink element embedded within the body. A heatsink can be located adjacent to the mounting structure. The set of optoelectronic devices can be mounted on a side of the mounting structure opposite of the heatsink. |
| US11329194B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are provided. When manufacturing a first electrode, by depositing a first transparent electrode layer, a first metal layer, and a second transparent electrode layer on a region of the display panel, and etching the first transparent electrode layer, the first metal layer, and the second transparent electrode layer on the thinned-down region; and afterwards, depositing a third transparent electrode layer, a second metal layer, and a fourth transparent electrode layer, a first electrode of the display panel is formed. |
| US11329193B2 |
Optoelectronic semiconductor component and method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component
An optoelectronic semiconductor component and a method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a semiconductor body including a first region, an active region configured to generate electromagnetic radiation, a starting region, a plurality of funnel-shaped openings and a second region, wherein the starting region is arranged between the first region and the active region, wherein the active region is arranged between the starting region and the second region, wherein the funnel-shaped openings extend from the starting region through the active region as far as the second region, wherein the semiconductor body is based on a nitride compound semiconductor material, wherein the first region comprises n-doping, wherein the second region comprises p-doping, wherein the funnel-shaped openings are filled with a material of the second region, and wherein the funnel-shaped openings have a pre-determinable density, the density of the funnel-shaped openings being decoupled from a density of dislocations inside the first region. |
| US11329189B2 |
Light emitting diode and light emitting device having the same
The present disclosure relates to a light emitting diode that includes a charge control layer disposed between a charge transfer layer and one electrode and including polysiloxane-based material chemically bonded to a surface of the charge transfer layer and a light emitting device having the same. The charge control layer is configured to remove a surface defect of the charge transfer layer, to transport charges stably, and to reflect a part of light passing through the charge transfer layer, and thereby enhancing out-coupling efficiency. In addition, the charge control layer regulates a charge flow from the electrode to the charge transfer layer, so that charges may be injected into an emitting material layer in a balanced manner. |
| US11329188B2 |
Optoelectronic device manufacturing method
A method of manufacturing electronic devices, including the successive steps of: a) growing, on a surface of a first substrate, a stack including at least one semiconductor layer; b) bonding a second substrate on a surface of the stack opposite to the first substrate, and then removing the first substrate; c) bonding a third substrate to a surface of the stack opposite to the second substrate, and then removing the second substrate; d) cutting the assembly including the third substrate and the stack into a plurality of first chips each including a portion of the stack; and e) bonding each first chip, by its surface opposite to the third substrate, to a surface of a fourth semiconductor substrate inside and on top of which a plurality of integrated control circuits have been previously formed. |
| US11329180B2 |
Entire solar spectrum multiplying converting platform unit for an optimal light to electricity conversion
The invention relates to a high yield multistage light-to-electricity multiplying platform unit which is provided on its front face with a protection antireflection coating or layer (1) and with an upper electrode layer (5) characterized in that it comprises: an opto-phonic platform composed of a UV radiation light-to-light down converter (2) to a particular sub-band in the visible radiation domain, a harvesting diffractive grading component (3) including an electronic passivation layer (4) and with light splitting means and one or more sub-band light into narrowed sub-band light concentration converter(s), a IR radiation up conversion dedicated light converter, a converting multiplying platform made of several optimal for each narrowed and concentrated sub-band light-to-electricity multiplying converters. A digital optical light management layer on the top, collects, filters, splits and concentrates sunlight into sub-bands and to project them onto dedicated light-to-electricity preferentially all-silicon converters with low-energy multiplication capacity. The UV wavelengths are absorbed and down-converted within the top nanolayer of the platform. The other spectral components of the solar light are transmitted by this top nanolayer, guided to the dedicated panel area and focused on adjusted converters. |
| US11329172B2 |
Solar cell
A bi-facial solar cell includes a silicon substrate, a first doped region formed on a front surface of the silicon substrate, an oxide layer formed on a back surface of the silicon substrate, a second doped region formed on the oxide layer and formed of a polycrystalline silicon layer, a first passivation layer formed on the first doped region, a first anti-reflection layer formed on the first passivation layer, a plurality of first finger electrodes connected to the first doped region through a first opening in the first passivation layer and the first anti-reflection layer, a second passivation layer formed on the second doped region, a second anti-reflection layer formed on the second passivation layer, and a plurality of second finger electrodes connected to the second doped region through a second opening in the second passivation layer and the second anti-reflection layer. |
| US11329169B2 |
Multi-negative differential transconductance device and method of producing the same
A multi-negative differential transconductance device includes a substrate conductive portion; a gate insulating layer formed by being laminated on the substrate conductive portion; a first semiconductor, a second semiconductor, and a third semiconductor which have different threshold voltages and are formed to be horizontally connected in series on the gate insulating layer; and an electrode formed at both ends of the first semiconductor and the third semiconductor. The multi-negative differential transconductance device forms a junction of three or more semiconductor materials in one device to have a plurality of peaks and valleys so that the multi-negative differential transconductance device is utilized to implement a multi-valued logic circuit which is capable of representing four or more logical states without significantly increasing an area of the negative differential transconductance device which occupies the chip. Therefore, effects of low power consumption, a reduced size, and high speed of a chip may be achieved. |
| US11329168B2 |
Semiconductor device with fish bone structure and methods of forming the same
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor stack and a second semiconductor stack over a substrate, wherein each of the first and second semiconductor stacks includes semiconductor layers stacked up and separated from each other; a dummy spacer between the first and second semiconductor stacks, wherein the dummy spacer contacts a first sidewall of each semiconductor layer of the first and second semiconductor stacks; and a gate structure wrapping a second sidewall, a top surface, and a bottom surface of each semiconductor layer of the first and second semiconductor stacks. |
| US11329156B2 |
Transistor with extended drain region
A transistor device having a channel region including a portion located in a sidewall of semiconductor material of a trench and an extended drain region including a portion located in a lower portion of the semiconductor material of the trench. In one embodiment, a control terminal of the transistor device is formed by patterning a layer of control terminal material to form a sidewall in the trench and a field plate for the transistor device is formed by forming a conductive sidewall spacer structure along the sidewall of the control terminal material. |
| US11329154B2 |
Semiconductor device including a superlattice and an asymmetric channel and related methods
A semiconductor device may include a substrate and spaced apart first and second doped regions in the substrate. The first doped region may be larger than the second doped region to define an asymmetric channel therebetween. The semiconductor device may further include a superlattice extending between the first and second doped regions to constrain dopant therein. The superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. A gate may overly the asymmetric channel. |
| US11329152B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device of one embodiment includes the steps of: forming a drift region in a first surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a body region having a first portion disposed in the first surface, and a second portion disposed in the first surface so as to surround the first portion and the drift region; forming a hard mask, having an opening over the drift region, in the first surface; forming a reverse conductivity region in the first surface by ion implantation using the hard mask; forming a trench in the first surface by anisotropic etching using the hard mask; and embedding an isolation film in the trench. The ion implantation is performed obliquely to the first surface such that ions are implanted below a first edge part, which is located on a first portion side of the opening, of the hard mask. |
| US11329138B2 |
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architecture having endcap plugs
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures having gate endcap plugs or contact endcap plugs, or both gate endcap plugs and contact endcap plugs, and methods of fabricating SAGE architectures having such endcap plugs, are described. In an example, a first gate structure is over a first of a plurality of semiconductor fins. A second gate structure is over a second of the plurality of semiconductor fins. A first gate endcap isolation structure is laterally between and in contact with the first gate structure and the second gate structure and has an uppermost surface co-planar with an uppermost surface of the first gate structure and the second gate structure. A second gate endcap isolation structure is laterally between and in contact with first and second lateral portions of the first gate structure and has an uppermost surface below an uppermost surface of the first gate structure. |
| US11329135B2 |
Semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first, second and third electrodes, first and second semiconductor layers, first and second insulating members, and a first member. The third electrode includes a first electrode portion. The first electrode portion is between the first and second electrodes. The first semiconductor layer includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth partial regions. The fourth partial region is between the first and third partial regions. The fifth partial region is between the third and second partial regions. The first insulating member includes first and second insulating regions. The second insulating member includes first and second insulating portions. The first insulating portion is between the fourth partial region and the first insulating region. The second insulating portion is between the fifth partial region and the second insulating region. The second semiconductor layer includes first, second, and third semiconductor portions. |
| US11329129B2 |
Transistor cell for integrated circuits and method to form same
The disclosure provides transistor cells for integrated circuits and methods to form the same. A transistor cell according to the disclosure may include a substrate region including width between a first end and a second end, and a length between a third end and a fourth end in a direction orthogonal to the width. A first doped well (FDW) within the substrate region may be oppositely doped and may extend from the first end to a first interior boundary between the first and second ends of the substrate region, and from the third end to a second interior boundary between the third and fourth ends. A second doped well (SDW) within the substrate region may extend from the second end to a third interior boundary between the first and second ends, and the fourth end to a fourth interior boundary between the third and fourth ends. |
| US11329124B2 |
Semiconductor device structure with magnetic element
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a magnetic element over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes an isolation element over the magnetic element. The isolation element partially covers a top surface of the magnetic element. The semiconductor device structure further includes a conductive line over the isolation element. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric layer over the conductive line and the magnetic element. |
| US11329120B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate, a pixel structure, a lower blocking member, an upper blocking member, and a metal member. The substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area. The pixel structure is in the display area on the substrate. The lower blocking member is in the peripheral area on the substrate and surrounds the pixel structure, and includes a first side surface adjacent to the pixel structure, a second side surface, and a top surface. The upper blocking member is on the top surface and the second side surface of the lower blocking member, and constitutes a first blocking structure with the lower blocking member. The metal member is between the first blocking structure and the substrate while making contact with a bottom surface of the upper blocking member on the second side surface of the lower blocking member. |
| US11329118B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor pattern, a first gate insulating film covering the first semiconductor pattern, a first conductive layer and a second semiconductor pattern are on the first gate insulating film, a second gate insulating film on the second semiconductor pattern, a third gate insulating film covering the first gate insulating film and the second gate insulating film, a second conductive layer on the third gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film covering the second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer on the interlayer insulating film, wherein the first and second semiconductor patterns respectively form semiconductor layers of the first and second transistors, wherein the first conductive layer includes a gate electrode of the first transistor and a first electrode of the capacitor, and wherein the second conductive layer includes a gate electrode of the second transistor and a second electrode of the capacitor. |
| US11329114B2 |
Display substrate and manufacture method thereof
A display substrate and a manufacture method thereof are provided. The display substrate includes a pixel definition layer and a controllable deformation layer; the pixel definition layer includes a plurality of openings for defining a plurality of pixel units; and the controllable deformation layer is on the pixel definition layer, and a horizontal extension of at least a portion of the controllable deformation layer in a direction parallel to the pixel definition layer is controllable. The organic functional layer of the display substrate has uniform morphology, so the display substrate has better display effect. |
| US11329112B2 |
Display panel and manufacturing method of display panel
A display panel and a manufacturing method of a display panel are provided. The display panel includes an, a plurality of pixel definition portions, and a plurality of light-emitting portions. The plurality of pixel definition portions are disposed on the array substrate and separated apart from each other. A quantum dot material is provided on a side of one of the pixel definition portions, and the side of the pixel definition portions faces an adjacent pixel definition portion. Each of the light-emitting portions is disposed between two adjacent pixel definition portions, the light-emitting portions are configured to emit light, and the quantum dot material on the side of the pixel definition portion is illuminated under excitation of the light. |
| US11329110B2 |
Display device having organic buffer layer between inorganic sealing films and method of manufacturing display device
A display device includes: a base substrate; light-emitting elements on the base substrate with a TFT layers intervening between the light-emitting elements and the base substrate, to form a display area; a sealing film including a sequentially formed stack of a first inorganic film and a second inorganic film and provided so as to cover the light-emitting elements; and an insular non-display area in the display area, wherein the non-display area includes a frame-shaped inner circular wall protruding in a thickness direction of the base substrate and extending along a boundary between the non-display area and the display area, and the inner circular wall includes on a surface thereof an organic buffer layer interposed between the first inorganic film and the second inorganic film. |
| US11329109B2 |
Display panel and display device
The present invention provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel has an array substrate, and the array substrate has a substrate, a first inorganic film layer, at least one auxiliary cathode, a second inorganic film layer, and at least one via hole. The via hole is arranged in at least two voltage drop regions that are arranged sequentially. The via hole in each of the voltage drop regions is distributed evenly. A first voltage drop region is disposed opposite to a center or a side edge of the substrate. |
| US11329107B2 |
Display device with integrated touch screen
Disclosed is a display device with integrated touch screen, which prevents external light from being reflected by touch electrodes without a polarizer. The display device includes an organic light emitting device layer disposed on a substrate, a plurality of color filters disposed on the organic light emitting device layer, a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes disposed on the plurality of color filters to overlap a boundary portion between the plurality of color filters, and a black matrix disposed on the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes to overlap the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes. |
| US11329105B2 |
Display device
A light absorbing member includes a first dichroic dye and a second dichroic dye. The first dichroic dye has an absorption peak wavelength between a first emission peak wavelength of the first light-emitting layer and a second emission peak wavelength of a second light-emitting layer. The second dichroic dye has an absorption peak wavelength between the second emission peak wavelength of the second light-emitting layer and a third emission peak wavelength of the third light-emitting layer. An angle of a molecule of the first dichroic dye in an absorption axis and an angle of a molecule of the second dichroic dye in an absorption axis with respect to a normal direction of the reflective layer are from 70 degrees to 90 degrees. |
| US11329101B2 |
Method and related apparatus for improving memory cell performance in semiconductor-on-insulator technology
In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first semiconductor material layer separated from a second semiconductor material layer by an insulating layer. A first access transistor is arranged on the first semiconductor material layer, where the first access transistor has a pair of first source/drain regions having a first doping type. A second access transistor is arranged on the first semiconductor material layer, where the second access transistor has a pair of second source/drain regions having a second doping type opposite the first doping type. A resistive memory cell having a bottom electrode and an upper electrode is disposed over the semiconductor substrate, where one of the first source/drain regions and one of the second source/drain regions are electrically coupled to the bottom electrode. |
| US11329093B2 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus, equipment including photoelectric conversion apparatus, and manufacturing method of photoelectric conversion apparatus
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion portion, a metal containing portion provided on the semiconductor substrate, an interlayer insulation film arranged on the semiconductor substrate to cover the metal containing portion, a first silicon nitride layer arranged on the photoelectric conversion portion to include a portion lying between the interlayer insulation film and the semiconductor substrate, a silicon oxide film including a portion arranged between the first silicon nitride layer and the photoelectric conversion portion, and a portion arranged between the interlayer insulation film and the metal containing portion, a second silicon nitride layer arranged between the silicon oxide film and the metal containing portion. |
| US11329092B2 |
Semiconductor device, manufacturing method of semiconductor device, and electronic equipment
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device, a manufacturing method of the semiconductor device, and electronic equipment that are directed to improving quality and reliability of a semiconductor device including a through electrode, or electronic equipment. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate including a through electrode, a first insulating film laminated on a first surface of the first semiconductor substrate, and a second insulating film laminated on the first insulating film, in which an inner wall and a bottom surface of the through electrode are covered with a conductor, the first insulating film and the second insulating film are laminated on the conductor, and the through electrode includes a groove which reaches the first insulating film on the bottom surface from the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate. The present technology may be applied to a packaged solid-state imaging device or the like, for example. |
| US11329090B2 |
Image sensor, manufacturing method, and electronic device
The present technology relates to an image sensor, a manufacturing method and an electronic device capable of preventing a ghost. In the image sensor, a plate-like transparent member larger than a sensor chip in size is affixed to a side of a pixel array unit of the sensor chip having the pixel array unit in which pixels that perform photoelectric conversion are arrayed. The present technology can be applied to a case of capturing an image by receiving light, regardless of whether the light is visible light or not. |
| US11329088B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus and equipment
A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor layer having first and second faces, a semiconductor element portion in which semiconductor elements are provided, and openings each penetrating the semiconductor layer from the second face side, an interconnection structure provided on the first face side, and an insulator portion provided to surround at least one of the openings within a virtual plane along the second face and extend to a depth between T/2 and T from the first face, where T is the thickness of the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a semiconductor region of one conductivity type provided on the opposite side to the one opening to the insulator portion within the virtual plane, and a semiconductor region of another conductivity type provided in the semiconductor layer from the insulator portion face on the second face side to the second face in a direction perpendicular to the second face. |
| US11329086B2 |
Method and structure to improve image sensor crosstalk
Image sensors include a substrate material having a plurality of small photodiodes (SPDs) and a plurality of large photodiodes (LPDs) disposed therein. A plurality of pixel isolators is formed in the substrate material, each pixel isolator being disposed between one of the SPDs and one of the LPDs. A passivation layer is disposed on the substrate material and a buffer layer is disposed on the passivation layer. A plurality of first metal elements is disposed in the buffer layer, each first metal element being disposed over one of the pixel isolators, and a plurality of second metal elements is disposed over the plurality of first metal elements. |
| US11329085B2 |
Pixel array with isolated pixels
A pixel array includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of isolation layer segments, and a plurality of photodiodes. Each of the plurality of isolation layer segments extends through the semiconductor substrate in a first direction. Each of the plurality of isolation layer segments encloses a portion of the semiconductor substrate in a plane perpendicular to the first direction. The plurality of isolation layer segments form a grid that defines a plurality of isolated sections of the semiconductor substrate. The plurality of isolated sections of the semiconductor substrate include the portions of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the photodiodes is formed in a respective one of the plurality of isolated sections of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US11329083B2 |
Wafer level image sensor package
An image sensor package is provided. The image sensor package comprises a package substrate, and an image sensor chip arranged over the package substrate. The integrated circuit device further comprises a protection layer overlying the image sensor chip having a planar top surface and a bottom surface lining and contacting structures under the protection layer, and an on-wafer shield structure spaced around a periphery of the image sensor chip. The height of the image sensor package can be reduced since a discrete cover glass or an infrared filter and corresponding intervening materials are no longer needed since being replaced by the build in protection layer. The size of the image sensor package can be reduced since a discrete light shield and corresponding intervening materials are no longer needed since being replaced by the build in on wafer light shield structure. |
| US11329081B2 |
Photo-detecting apparatus
A photo-detecting apparatus includes an absorption layer configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons, wherein the absorption layer includes germanium. A carrier guiding unit is electrically coupled to the absorption layer, wherein the carrier guiding unit includes a first switch including a first gate terminal. |
| US11329080B2 |
Solid state imaging element and electronic device
The present disclosure relates to a solid state imaging element and an electronic device that make it possible to improve sensitivity to light on a long wavelength side. A solid state imaging element according to a first aspect of the present disclosure has a solid state imaging element in which a large number of pixels are arranged vertically and horizontally, the solid state imaging element includes a periodic concave-convex pattern on a light receiving surface and an opposite surface to the light receiving surface of a light absorbing layer as a light detecting element. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS and the like installed in a sensor that needs a high sensitivity to light belonging to a region on the long wavelength side, such as light in the infrared region. |
| US11329077B2 |
Semiconductor device with a through electrode reception part wider than a through electrode, solid-state imaging device, and electronic equipment
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device, a solid-state imaging device, and electronic equipment, which are able to suppress increase of resistivity to a high level at a connection portion between an ESV and a wiring layer and to improve reliability of an electric connection using an ESV. The semiconductor device according to the present technology has a plurality of semiconductor substrates layered, and includes a through electrode penetrating a silicon layer of the semiconductor substrates, a wiring layer formed inside the semiconductor substrates, and a through electrode reception part. The through electrode reception part is connected to the wiring layer, in which the through electrode has a width smaller than the through electrode reception part, and the through electrode is electrically connected to the wiring layer via the through electrode reception part. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a CMOS image sensor. |
| US11329074B2 |
Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display panel
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel. The array substrate includes a light-emitting area and a non-light-emitting area. The array substrate comprises: a substrate; a gate insulating layer comprising a first gate insulating layer and a second gate insulating layer disposed on the substrate in sequence; and a storage capacitor disposed in the light-emitting area and comprising a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode. Wherein the first transparent electrode is disposed between the first gate insulating layer and the second gate insulating layer, and the second transparent electrode is disposed on the second gate insulating layer. |
| US11329065B2 |
Semiconductor device, semiconductor wafer, memory device, and electronic device
An object is to provide a semiconductor device with large memory capacity. The semiconductor device includes first to seventh insulators, a first conductor, and a first semiconductor. The first conductor is positioned on a first top surface of the first insulator and a first bottom surface of the second insulator. The third insulator is positioned in a region including a side surface and a second top surface of the first insulator, a side surface of the first conductor, and a second bottom surface and a side surface of the second insulator. The fourth insulator, the fifth insulator, and the first semiconductor are sequentially stacked on the third insulator. The sixth insulator is in contact with the fifth insulator in a region overlapping the first conductor. The seventh insulator is positioned in a region including the first semiconductor and the sixth insulator. |
| US11329059B1 |
3D memory devices and structures with thinned single crystal substrates
A semiconductor device, the device including: a first level overlaid by a first memory control level; a first memory level disposed on top of said first control level, where said first memory level includes a first thinned single crystal substrate; a second memory level, said second memory level disposed on top of said first memory level, where said second memory level includes a second thinned single crystal substrate, where said memory control level is bonded to said first memory level, and where said bonded includes oxide to oxide and conductor to conductor bonding. |
| US11329056B2 |
SRAM device and manufacturing method thereof
A SRAM device includes a substrate, at least one two-transistor static random access memory (2T-SRAM), an inner dielectric layer, a plurality of contacts, an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer, a plurality of vias, and a conductive line. The 2T-SRAM is disposed on the substrate, the inner dielectric layer covers the 2T-SRAM, and the contacts are disposed in the inner dielectric layer and coupled to the 2T-SRAM. The ILD layer covers the inner dielectric layer and the contacts, and the vias are disposed in the ILD layer and respectively coupled to the 2T-SRAM trough the corresponding contacts. The conductive line is disposed on the ILD layer and connects with the plurality of vias, wherein the thickness of the conductive line is less than or equal to one-tenth of the thickness of the via such that it can significantly reduce the coupling effect compared with the traditional bit line. |
| US11329051B2 |
Gate dielectric repair on three-node access device formation for vertical three-dimensional (3D) memory
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for a three-node access device in vertical three-dimensional (3D) memory. An example method includes a method for forming arrays of vertically stacked memory cells, having horizontally oriented access devices and vertically oriented access lines. The method includes depositing alternating layers of a dielectric material and a sacrificial material to form a vertical stack. Forming a plurality of first vertical openings to form elongated vertical, pillar columns with sidewalls in the vertical stack. Conformally depositing a gate dielectric in the plurality of first vertical openings. Forming a conductive material on the gate dielectric. Removing portions of the conductive material to form a plurality of separate, vertical access lines. Repairing a first side of the gate dielectric exposed where the conductive material was removed. Forming a second vertical opening to expose sidewalls adjacent a first region of the sacrificial material. Selectively removing the sacrificial material in the first region to form first horizontal openings. Repairing a second side of the gate dielectric exposed where the sacrificial material was removed in the first region. Depositing a first source/drain region, a channel region, and a second source/drain region in the first horizontal openings. |
| US11329050B2 |
Semiconductor memory devices having contact plugs
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a memory cell region where a plurality of active regions are defined; a word line having a stack structure of a lower word line layer and an upper word line layer and extending over the plurality of active regions in a first horizontal direction, and a buried insulation layer on the word line; a bit line structure arranged on the plurality of active regions, extending in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, and having a bit line; and a word line contact plug electrically connected to the lower word line layer by penetrating the buried insulation layer and the upper word line layer and having a plug extension in an upper portion of the word line contact plug, the plug extension having a greater horizontal width than a lower portion of the word line contact plug. |
| US11329046B2 |
Memory device and method for fabricating the same
A memory device includes a substrate, an active layer that is spaced apart from the substrate and laterally oriented, a word line that is laterally oriented in parallel to the active layer along one side of the active layer, an active body that is vertically oriented by penetrating through the active layer, a bit line that is vertically oriented by penetrating through the active layer to be spaced apart from one side of the active body, and a capacitor that is vertically oriented by penetrating through the active layer to be spaced apart from another side of the active body. |
| US11329045B2 |
Field effect transistor, method for making the same and layout in process of forming the same
A field effect transistor structure includes a connection hole leading out a gate structure arranged on the formation area of one of a plurality of fins, and connection holes leading out a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein the connection hole leading out the gate structure is located on formation areas of different fins; a gate cap layer formed at the top of the gate structure formed on the same fin body and adjacent to the connection holes leading out the source electrode and the drain electrode, wherein the gate cap layer protects the corresponding gate structure; buried holes formed on the source electrode and the drain electrode at both sides of the connection hole leading out the gate structure; a buried hole cap layer formed on the buried holes, and the buried hole cap layer protects the buried holes connecting the source and the drain electrode. |
| US11329044B2 |
Integrated circuit device
An integrated circuit device is provided. The integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active region that extends in a first direction on a substrate, a gate structure that intersects with the fin-type active region and extends in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, on the substrate, and a first contact structure that is disposed on the gate structure, and has a greater width at a top surface than a bottom surface thereof. |
| US11329041B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit, electronic device and vehicle
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first MOS transistor, a second MOS transistor, and a P+ region. The first MOS transistor is an NMOS transistor which has a first N-type region and a second N-type region and in which a first power supply voltage is supplied to the first N-type region. The second MOS transistor is an NMOS transistor which has a third N-type region and a fourth N-type region and in which a second power supply voltage higher than the first power supply voltage is supplied to the third N-type region. The P+ region is supplied with the first power supply voltage. In plan view of the semiconductor substrate, the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor are disposed to be adjacent to each other, and the P+ region is located between the first N-type region and the third N-type region. |
| US11329039B2 |
Integrated circuit including integrated standard cell structure
An integrated circuit includes first and second active regions, first and second standard cells on the first active region and the second active region, and a filler cell between the first and second standard cells and including first and second insulating isolations. The filler cell has a one-pitch dimension. The first and second insulating isolations are spaced the one-pitch dimension apart from each other. The first insulating isolation of the filler cell is disposed at a first boundary between the first standard cell and the filler cell. The second insulating isolation of the filler cell is disposed at a second boundary between the second standard cell and the filler cell. The first and second insulating isolations separate at least a part of the first active region, and at least a part of the second active region. |
| US11329038B2 |
Display device and electronic equipment
The present disclosure provides a display device, including: a display panel, a main circuit board, and a plurality of chip-on-films bonded between the display panel and the main circuit board. The wiring area is provided with a plurality of first binding regions; the plurality of first binding regions are distributed along the wiring area. The main circuit board is provided with a plurality of second binding regions which are corresponding to the first binding regions in a one-to-one manner. A shape of the main circuit board is the same as a shape of the wiring area. A first end of each chip-on-film is bonded to one corresponding first binding region; a second end of each chip-on-film is bonded to one corresponding second binding region. |
| US11329034B2 |
Direct-bonded LED structure contacts and substrate contacts
Direct-bonded LED arrays and applications are provided. An example process fabricates a LED structure that includes coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structure on a flat bonding interface surface of the LED structure. The coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface surface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of a driver circuit for the LED structure. In a wafer-level process, micro-LED structures are fabricated on a first wafer, including coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structures on the flat bonding interface surfaces of the wafer. At least the coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of CMOS driver circuits on a second wafer. The process provides a transparent and flexible micro-LED array display, with each micro-LED structure having an illumination area approximately the size of a pixel or a smallest controllable element of an image represented on a high-resolution video display. |
| US11329033B2 |
Semiconductor module, display device, and semiconductor module production method
A semiconductor module includes a base substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements; a plurality of color conversion layers being in contact with each upper portion of the plurality of light emitting elements adjacent to each other; and a light shielding layer disposed between the plurality of light emitting elements adjacent each other and between the color conversion layers adjacent to each other, and separating the plurality of light emitting elements and a plurality of color conversion layers. |
| US11329032B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first package, and a second package stacked on the first package. Each of the first and second packages includes a first redistribution substrate having a first redistribution pattern, a first semiconductor chip on the first redistribution substrate and connected to the first redistribution pattern, a first molding layer covering the first semiconductor chip on the first redistribution substrate, a first through-electrode penetrating the first molding layer so as to be connected to the first redistribution pattern, and a second through-electrode penetrating the first molding layer and not connected to the first redistribution pattern. The first redistribution pattern of the second package is electrically connected to the second through-electrode of the first package. |
| US11329028B2 |
Semiconductor device with recessed pad layer and method for fabricating the same
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with a recessed pad layer and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first die, a second die positioned on the first die, a pad layer positioned in the first die, a filler layer including an upper portion and a recessed portion, and a barrier layer positioned between the second die and the upper portion of the filler layer, between the first die and the upper portion of the filler layer, and between the pad layer and the recessed portion of the filler layer. The upper portion of the filler layer is positioned along the second die and the first die, and the recessed portion of the filler layer is extending from the upper portion and positioned in the pad layer. |
| US11329024B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package including a first device layer including first semiconductor devices, a first cover insulating layer, and first through-electrodes passing through at least a portion of the first device layer, a second device layer second semiconductor devices, a second cover insulating layer, and second through-electrodes passing through at least a portion of the second device layer, the second semiconductor devices vertically overlapping the first semiconductor devices, respectively, the second cover insulating layer in contact with the first cover insulating layer a third device layer including an upper semiconductor chip, the upper semiconductor chip vertically overlapping both at least two of first semiconductor devices and at least two of the second semiconductor devices, and device bonded pads passing through the first and second cover insulating layers, the device bonded pads electrically connecting the first and second through-electrodes to the upper semiconductor chip may be provided. |
| US11329022B2 |
Packages for semiconductor devices, packaged semiconductor devices, and methods of packaging semiconductor devices
Packages for semiconductor devices, packaged semiconductor devices, and methods of packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a package for a semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit die mounting region, a molding material around the integrated circuit die mounting region, and an interconnect structure over the molding material and the integrated circuit die mounting region. The interconnect structure has contact pads, and connectors are coupled to the contact pads. Two or more of the connectors have an alignment feature formed thereon. |
| US11329020B2 |
RF devices with enhanced performance and methods of forming the same
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer formed from a strained silicon epitaxial layer, in which a lattice constant is greater than 5.461 at a temperature of 300K. The first mold compound resides over the active layer. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist between the first mold compound and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the mold device die. |
| US11329018B2 |
Forming of bump structure
A technique for fabricating a bump structure is disclosed. A substrate that includes a set of pads formed on a surface thereof is prepared, in which the pads includes first conductive material. A metallic adhesion layer is coated on each pad. A bump base is formed on each pad by sintering conductive particles using a mold layer, in which the conductive particles includes second conductive material different from the first conductive material. |
| US11329015B2 |
Semiconductor device package and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device package includes an emitting device and a first building-up circuit. The emitting device defines a cavity in the emitting device. The first building-up circuit is disposed on the emitting device. |
| US11329012B2 |
Semiconductor device having a conductive film on an inner wall of a through hole
A technique for activating a fuse function in a semiconductor device in a relatively short time is provided. The semiconductor device includes a second bonding material provided on the upper surface of the insulating substrate, a third bonding material provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor element, a through hole extending from the first circuit pattern to the second circuit pattern via the core material, a conductive film provided on an inner wall of the through hole, and a heat insulating material provided inside the through hole and surrounded by the conductive film in plan view. The conductive film allows the first circuit pattern and the second circuit pattern to be conductive. |
| US11329006B2 |
Semiconductor device package with warpage control structure
Between an adhesive surface of a heat spreader lid and a top surface of a semiconductor package, in addition to a spreader adhesive layer, several warpage control adhesive layers are also provided. The warpage control adhesive layers are disposed on corner areas of the adhesive surface of the heat spreader lid to reduce high temperature warpage of the semiconductor device package. |
| US11329004B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a connection structure having including a plurality of insulating layers and redistribution layers on the plurality of insulating layers. A semiconductor chip has connection pads connected to the redistribution layers, and an encapsulant encapsulates the semiconductor chip. A passive component is embedded in the connection structure and has connection terminals connected to the redistribution layer. The redistribution layers include a plurality of redistribution patterns, each disposed on the plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of redistribution vias each penetrating through the plurality of insulating layers and connected to the plurality of redistribution patterns. The plurality of redistribution vias include a plurality of blocking vias arranged to surround the passive component, and the plurality of redistribution patterns include a blocking pattern connected to adjacent blocking vias. |
| US11329002B2 |
Semiconductor device and fabrication method for semiconductor device
Fabrication of an alignment mark in a semiconductor device is simplified. A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, an epitaxial layer, and an alignment mark is provided. The epitaxial layer included in the semiconductor device includes a single-crystalline semiconductor that is epitaxially grown on a surface of the semiconductor substrate included in the semiconductor device. The alignment mark included in the semiconductor device is disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the epitaxial layer. |
| US11329000B2 |
Package for a multi-chip power semiconductor device
A package includes: a package body having an outside housing including first and second package sides and package sidewalls that extend between the first and second package sides; first and second electrically conductive interface layers spaced apart from each other at the outside housing; and first and second power semiconductor chips arranged within the package body, both chips having a respective first load terminal and a respective second load terminal. The first load terminals are electrically connected to each other within the package body. The second load terminal of the first chip is electrically connected to the first electrically conductive interface layer. The second load terminal of the second chip is electrically connected to the second electrically conductive interface layer. The outside housing of the package body further includes a creepage structure having a minimum dimension between the first electrically conductive interface layer and the second electrically conductive interface layer. |
| US11328997B2 |
Through-core via
A package substrate for connecting together semiconductor devices with other semiconductor device packages. The package substrate includes an exposed core layer with at least one via exposing a conductive layer of the package substrate. A first portion of the package substrate may include a solder mask on top and bottom surfaces. A first semiconductor device may be connected to the first portion of the package substrate. Layers of a second portion of the package substrate are removed to expose a core layer and vias are created in the exposed core layer to expose the conductive layer. Conducive material at least partially filling the vias may be used to connect a semiconductor device package to the second portion of the package substrate. The semiconductor device packages may communicate through conductive layers in the package substrate. The package substrate may be used to connect the semiconductor packages to a motherboard. |
| US11328993B2 |
Cobalt based interconnects and methods of fabrication thereof
An embodiment includes a metal interconnect structure, comprising: a dielectric layer disposed on a substrate; an opening in the dielectric layer, wherein the opening has sidewalls and exposes a conductive region of at least one of the substrate and an interconnect line; an adhesive layer, comprising manganese, disposed over the conductive region and on the sidewalls; and a fill material, comprising cobalt, within the opening and on a surface of the adhesion layer. Other embodiments are described herein. |
| US11328992B2 |
Integrated circuit components with dummy structures
Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) components with dummy structures, as well as related methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, an IC component may include a dummy structure in a metallization stack. The dummy structure may include a dummy material having a higher Young's modulus than an interlayer dielectric of the metallization stack. |
| US11328984B2 |
Multi-die integrated circuit packages and methods of manufacturing the same
Multi-die integrated circuit packages and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. An example integrated circuit package includes a first leadframe, a first die on a first side of the first leadframe, and a second die on a second side of the first leadframe opposite the first side. The example integrated circuit package further includes external second leadframe separate from the first leadframe. |
| US11328983B2 |
RF devices with enhanced performance and methods of forming the same
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a transfer device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the transfer device die. The transfer device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion and a transfer substrate. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. A top surface of the device region is planarized. The transfer substrate resides over the top surface of the device region. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist within the transfer substrate or between the transfer substrate and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the transfer device die. |
| US11328981B2 |
Memory device and method of manufacturing the same
The present disclosure includes a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first area and a second area, a vertical insulating film passing through the substrate between the first area of the substrate and the second area of the substrate, an interlayer insulating structure disposed on the substrate, and a conductive pad formed on the interlayer insulating structure and overlapping the first area of the substrate. The semiconductor device &so includes a through electrode passing through the conductive pad, the interlayer insulating structure, and the substrate in the first area. |
| US11328979B2 |
Substrate integrated posts and heat spreader customization for enhanced package thermomechanics
A device package and a method of forming a device package are described. The device package includes a plurality of posts disposed on a substrate. Each post has a top surface and a bottom surface that is opposite from the top surface. The device package also has one or more dies disposed on the substrate. The dies are adjacent to the plurality of posts on the substrate. The device package further includes a lid disposed above the plurality of posts and the one or more dies on the substrate. The lid has a top surface and a bottom surface that is opposite from the top surface. Lastly, an adhesive layer attaches the top surfaces of the plurality of posts and the bottom surface of the lid. The device package may also include one or more thermal interface materials (TIMs) disposed on the dies. |
| US11328978B2 |
Package with a highly conductive layer deposited on die using throughput additive deposition prior to TIM1 dispense
A device package and a method of forming a device package are described. The device package has dies disposed on a substrate, and one or more layers with a high thermal conductivity, referred to as the highly-conductive (HC) intermediate layers, disposed on the dies on the substrate. The device package further includes a lid with legs on an outer periphery of the lid, a top surface, and a bottom surface. The legs of the lid are attached to the substrate with a sealant. The bottom surface of the lid is disposed over the one or more HC intermediate layers and the one or more dies on the substrate. The device package may also include thermal interface materials (TIMs) disposed on the HC intermediate layers. The TIMs may be disposed between the bottom surface of the lid and one or more top surfaces of the HC intermediate layers. |
| US11328975B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including a substrate, a semiconductor package, a plurality of pillars and a lid is provided. The semiconductor package is disposed on the substrate and includes at least one semiconductor die. The plurality of pillars are disposed on the semiconductor package. The lid is disposed on the substrate and covers the semiconductor package and the plurality of pillars. The lid includes an inflow channel and an outflow channel to allow a coolant to flow into and out of a space between the substrate, the semiconductor package, the plurality of pillars and the lid. An inner surface of the lid, which faces and overlaps the plurality of pillars along a stacking direction of the semiconductor package and the lid, is a flat surface. |
| US11328972B2 |
Temporary bonding scheme
A method includes filling a trench formed in a first integrated circuit carrier with temporary bonding material to form a temporary bonding layer. At least one chip is bonded over the temporary bonding layer. |
| US11328969B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor die, a first encapsulant surrounding the first semiconductor die, and a first redistribution structure formed on the first semiconductor die and the first encapsulant. The semiconductor device further includes a second semiconductor die, a second encapsulant surrounding the second semiconductor die, and a second redistribution structure formed on the second semiconductor die and the second encapsulant. The semiconductor device also include a conductive via electrically connecting the first redistribution structure to the second redistribution structure. |
| US11328968B2 |
Stacked die cavity package
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a plurality of dielectric layers forming a substrate, a plurality of first conductive contacts on a first surface of the substrate, a cavity in the first surface of the substrate defining a second surface parallel to the first surface, a plurality of second conductive contacts on the second surface of the substrate, one or more integrated circuit die(s) coupled with the second conductive contacts, and mold material at least partially covering the one or more integrated circuit die(s) and the first conductive contacts. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. |
| US11328966B2 |
Chip-stacked semiconductor package and method of manufacturing same
A chip-stacked semiconductor package includes a first chip including a first detection pad and a second detection pad; a second chip provided on the first chip, the second chip including a third detection pad facing the first detection pad and a fourth detection pad facing the second detection pad; and a first medium provided between the first detection pad and the third detection pad to connect the first detection pad to the third detection pad through the first medium, and a second medium, different from the first medium, provided between the second detection pad and the fourth detection pad to connect the second detection pad to the fourth detection pad through the second medium. |
| US11328965B2 |
Systems and methods for suction pad assemblies
In an embodiment, a system includes: a pad comprising a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first side is configured to receive a wafer during chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), and a platen adjacent the pad along the second side, wherein the platen comprises a suction opening that interfaces with the second side; a pump configured to produce suction at the suction opening to adhere the second side to the platen; and a sensor configured to collect sensor data characterizing a uniformity of adherence between the pad and the platen, wherein the pump is configured to produce the suction at the suction opening based on the sensor data. |
| US11328957B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a contact. The first transistor includes a first source/drain, a second source/drain, and a first gate between the first and second source/drains. The second transistor includes a third source/drain, a fourth source/drain, and a second gate between the third and fourth source/drains. The contact covers the first source/drain of the first transistor and the third source/drain of the second transistor. The contact is electrically connected to the first source/drain of the first transistor and electrically isolated from the third source/drain of the second transistor. |
| US11328955B2 |
Semiconductor chip including back-side conductive layer
A substrate wafer arrangement includes a substrate layer having a first main side and a second main side opposite the first main side, the first main side being a front-side and the second main side being a back-side, the substrate layer further having a plurality of semiconductor chips. A polymer structure arranged between the plurality of semiconductor chips extends at least from the front-side of the substrate layer to the back-side of the substrate layer and protrudes from a back-side surface of the substrate layer. The polymer structure separates a plurality of insular islands of conductive material, each insular island corresponding to a respective semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips. Semiconductor devices produced from the substrate wafer arrangement are also described. |
| US11328951B2 |
Transistor cells including a deep via lined wit h a dielectric material
A transistor cell including a deep via that is at least partially lined with a dielectric material. The deep via may extend down to a substrate over which the transistor is disposed. The deep via may be directly connected to a terminal of the transistor, such as the source or drain, to interconnect the transistor with an interconnect metallization level disposed in the substrate under the transistor, or on at opposite side of the substrate as the transistor. Parasitic capacitance associated with the close proximity of the deep via metallization to one or more terminals of the transistor may be reduced by lining at least a portion of the deep via sidewall with dielectric material, partially necking the deep via metallization in a region adjacent to the transistor. |
| US11328943B2 |
Dual gate and single actuator system
Disclosed is a wafer processing system, a dual gate system, and methods for operating these systems. The dual gate system may have a first gate, a second gate, a gate connector coupled to the first gate and to the second gate, and actuator coupled to the gate connector. The actuator is configured to seal the first gate against a first slot or open the first slot via vertical motion. The actuator is also configured to seal the second gate against a second slot or open the second slot via a combination of vertical motion and horizontal motion. |
| US11328936B2 |
Structure and formation method of package structure with underfill
A structure and a formation method of a package structure are provided. The method includes forming one or more solder elements over a substrate. The one or more solder elements surround a region of the substrate. The method also includes disposing a semiconductor die structure over the region of the substrate. The method further includes dispensing a polymer-containing liquid onto the region of the substrate. The one or more solder elements confine the polymer-containing liquid to being substantially inside the region. In addition, the method includes curing the polymer-containing liquid to form an underfill material. |
| US11328931B1 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a mask pattern is formed over a target layer to be etched, and the target layer is etched by using the mask pattern as an etching mask. The etching is performed by using an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma etching apparatus, the ECR plasma etching apparatus includes one or more coils, and a plasma condition of the ECR plasma etching is changed during the etching the target layer by changing an input current to the one or more coils. |
| US11328930B2 |
Multi-faced molded semiconductor package and related methods
Implementations of a method of forming a semiconductor package may include forming electrical contacts on a first side of a wafer, applying a photoresist layer to the first side of the wafer, patterning the photoresist layer, and etching notches into the first side of the wafer using the photoresist layer. The method may include applying a first mold compound into the notches and over the first side of the wafer, grinding a second side of the wafer opposite the first side of the wafer to the notches formed in the first side of the wafer, applying one of a second mold compound and a laminate resin to a second side of the wafer, and singulating the wafer into semiconductor packages. Six sides of a die included in each semiconductor package may be covered by one of the first mold compound, the second mold compound, and the laminate resin. |
| US11328929B2 |
Methods, apparatuses and systems for substrate processing for lowering contact resistance
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for substrate processing for lowering contact resistance in at least contact pads of a semiconductor device are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of substrate processing for lowering contact resistance of contact pads includes: circulating a cooling fluid in at least one channel of a pedestal; and exposing a backside of the substrate located on the pedestal to a cooling gas to cool a substrate located on the pedestal to a temperature of less than 70 degrees Celsius. In some embodiments in accordance with the present principles, the method can further include distributing a hydrogen gas or hydrogen gas combination over the substrate. |
| US11328924B2 |
Semiconductor wafer and method for manufacturing semiconductor wafer thereof
Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor wafer and a semiconductor wafer. The method includes: disposing a sacrificial layer on a first surface and a second surface of a patterned substrate, the patterned substrate comprising the first surface and the second surface having different normal directions; exposing the first surface by removing the first portion of the sacrificial layer disposed on the first surface; growing an original nitride buffer layer on the first surface and the second portion of the sacrificial layer; partially lifting off the second portion of the sacrificial layer disposed on the second surface such that at least one sub-portion of the second portion of the sacrificial layer remains on the second surface of the patterned substrate; and growing an epitaxial layer on the original nitride buffer layer, where a crystal surface of the epitaxial layer grows along a normal direction of the patterned substrate. |
| US11328922B2 |
Ion injection to an electrostatic trap
Ions are injected into an orbital electrostatic trap. An ejection potential is applied to an ion storage device, to cause ions stored in the ion storage device to be ejected towards the orbital electrostatic trap. Synchronous injection potentials are applied to a central electrode of the orbital electrostatic trap and a deflector electrode associated with the orbital electrostatic trap, to cause the ions ejected from the ion storage device to be captured by the electrostatic trap such that they orbit the central electrode. Application of the ejection potential and application of the synchronous injection potentials are each started at respective different times, the difference in times being selected based on desired values of mass-to-charge ratios of ions to be captured by the orbital electrostatic trap. |
| US11328921B2 |
Quadrupole mass filter and analytical device
A quadrupole mass filter includes: four electrodes arranged to surround a central axis and constituting a quadrupole; attachment portions to which a plurality of electrical conductors are attached, at least one of the electrical conductors being arranged at a position that lies in a direction toward an area between each of the adjacent electrodes among the four electrodes, as viewed from the central axis; and a holder having a hollow portion and holding the four electrodes and the plurality of electrical conductors, wherein the electrical conductors are attached to the respective attachment portions and held by the holder with elasticity of a material constituting the electrical conductors. |
| US11328919B2 |
Two-stage ion source comprising closed and open ion volumes
An ion source includes a base, a first chamber, a second chamber and an extractor. The first chamber is disposed downstream of the base and defines a first internal volume having a first pressure. The second chamber is disposed downstream of the first chamber and defines a second internal volume having a second pressure. The second pressure is less than the first pressure. The repeller electrode is disposed within the first chamber. The extractor is disposed downstream of the second chamber. |
| US11328916B2 |
User defined scaled mass defect plot with filtering and labeling
A method of determining mass defect plots with user-defined mass scaling, filtering, and labeling in a mass spectrometer is described. An implementation of the method comprises, (i) generating a mass defect plot from the data, (ii) filtering all ions in the mass defect plot that do not have an associated isotopologue ion, (iii) selecting an unidentified ion, (iv) determining an isotope pattern of the unidentified ion, (v) identifying one or more elements indicated by the isotope pattern for the unidentified ion; (vi) searching formulas containing one or more elements indicated by the isotope pattern for the unidentified ion, (vii) determining a chemical formula of the identified ion, and (viii) displaying the chemical formulas for the unidentified ion on a screen. |
| US11328914B1 |
Discharge reduction in sealed components
Systems and methods for partial discharge reduction are provided. The systems and methods can receive an input voltage at a high voltage sensor configured within a sealed sensor assembly. The input voltage can be received via a discharge reduction of the sealed sensor assembly. The discharge reduction circuit can reduce an incidence of discharge associated with an ionization breakdown of an air gap between an output circuit of the sealed sensor assembly and an insulator conveying the output circuit through a hermetic barrier of the sealed sensor assembly. |
| US11328912B2 |
Multi-block sputtering target and associated methods and articles
A sputtering target that includes at least two consolidated blocks, each block including an alloy including molybdenum in an amount greater than about 30 percent by weight and at least one additional alloying ingredient; and a joint between the at least two consolidated blocks, the joint being free of any microstructure due to an added bonding agent (e.g., powder, foil or otherwise), and being essentially free of any visible joint line the target that is greater than about 200 μm width (e.g., less than about 50 μm width). A process for making the target includes hot isostatically pressing, below a temperature of 1080° C., consolidated perform blocks that may be surface prepared (e.g., roughened to a predetermined roughness value) prior to pressing. |
| US11328911B2 |
Oxide sintered body and sputtering target
An oxide sintered body includes a bixbyite phase represented by In2O3, and a garnet phase represented by Y3In2Ga3O12. |
| US11328909B2 |
Chamber conditioning and removal processes
Exemplary methods for conditioning a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber may include forming conditioning plasma effluents of an oxygen-containing precursor in a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include contacting interior surfaces of the semiconductor processing chamber bordering a substrate processing region with the conditioning plasma effluents. The methods may also include treating the interior surfaces of the semiconductor processing chamber. |
| US11328908B2 |
Adjustment method for filter unit and plasma processing apparatus
An adjustment method for filter units in a plasma processing apparatus includes a first measurement process of measuring a frequency characteristic of a reference filter unit selected among the filter units, and an adjustment process of adjusting a frequency characteristic of each of remaining filter units selected among the filter units excluding the reference filter unit. Further, the adjustment process includes an attachment process of attaching a capacitive member for adjusting a capacitance between wirings in each of the remaining filter units, a second measurement process of measuring a frequency characteristic of each of the remaining filter units to which the capacitive member is attached, and an individual adjustment process of adjusting a capacitance of the capacitive member such that the frequency characteristic of each of the remaining filter unit to which the capacitive member is attached becomes close to the frequency characteristic of the reference filter unit. |
| US11328904B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus
A substrate processing apparatus, for generating a plasma from a gas by a high frequency energy and etching a substrate in a processing chamber by radicals in the plasma, includes a high frequency power supply configured to supply the high frequency energy into the processing chamber, a gas supply source configured to introduce the gas into the processing chamber, a mounting table configured to mount the substrate thereon, and a partition plate provided in the processing chamber and configured to divide an inner space of the processing chamber into a plasma generation space and a substrate processing space and suppress passage of ions therethrough. The partition plate and a portion of an inner wall surface of the processing chamber which is positioned at least above the mounting table are covered by a dielectric material having a recombination coefficient of 0.002 or less. |
| US11328902B1 |
Radio frequency generator providing complex RF pulse pattern
A radio frequency (RF) generator includes a pulse generator circuit configured to receive input signals indicative of a pulse pattern defining an envelope of a pulse RF signal. The pulse generator circuit stores data values defining power levels and durations of segments of the pulse pattern. The pulse generator generates a pulse modulation control signal responsive to the stored data values, the pulse modulation control signal being indicative of the power level and the duration of each segment of the pulse pattern, the pulse modulation control signal being provided to a control circuit to generate a control signal to adjust the amplitude and to modulate the duration or width of the RF signal to generate the pulse RF signal having the pulse pattern. |
| US11328900B2 |
Plasma ignition circuit
A plasma ignition circuit includes a transformer having a primary coil configured to couple an RF power supply. A first secondary coil is configured to couple a remote plasma source (RPS), and a second secondary coil. The plasma ignition circuit further includes a control switch having an input configured to couple the second secondary coil and an output configured to capacitively couple the RPS and a switch controller. The switch controller is configured to upon sensing a secondary RF voltage applied to the second secondary coil in response to an RF voltage applied by RF power supply to the primary coil, enable the control switch to capacitively apply the secondary RF voltage to the RPS to ignite a plasma within the RPS. Upon sensing a drop in plasma impedance when the plasma is ignited, disable the control switch to discontinue applying the secondary RF voltage to the RPS. |
| US11328896B2 |
Device and method for tracking microscopic samples
The disclosure relates to a sample carrier for accommodating a microscopic sample for examination or processing in a microscope system. The sample carrier is accommodatable in an accommodating device, such that the sample carrier in the accommodated state assumes a defined orientation relative to the accommodating device. The sample carrier has an individual sample carrier identifier and is designed to communicate with the microscope system and in the process to communicate the individual sample carrier identifier to the microscope system, such that a sample accommodated on the sample carrier is trackable. |
| US11328892B2 |
Coating on dielectric insert of a resonant RF cavity
Disclosed herein are radio frequency (RF) cavities and systems including such RF cavities. The RF cavities are characterized as having an insert with at least one sidewall coated with a material to prevent charge build up without affecting RF input power and that is heat and vacuum compatible. One example RF cavity includes a dielectric insert, the dielectric insert having an opening extending from one side of the dielectric insert to another to form a via, and a coating layer disposed on an inner surface of the dielectric insert, the inner surface facing the via, wherein the coating layer has a thickness and a resistivity, the thickness less than a thickness threshold, and the resistivity greater than a resistivity threshold, wherein the thickness and resistivity thresholds are based partly on operating parameters of the RF cavity. |
| US11328887B2 |
Electromagnetic relay
An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed contact; a movable contact movable between a first position at which the movable contact contacts the fixed contact to form a closed state, and a second position at which the movable contact does not contact the fixed contact to form a opened state; an electromagnet that includes a coil, a magnetic core, and a yoke coupled to the magnetic core, and generates magnetic field; and an actuator that includes a pair of armatures, and a permanent magnet sandwiched by the pair of armatures, and moves the movable contact by the magnetic field generated by the electromagnet, wherein a magnetic circuit formed by the magnetic core, the yoke and the pair of armatures is closed at the opened state, and is opened at the closed state. |
| US11328883B2 |
Switch device
In a switch device, a switch part is turned ON/OFF by operation of an operating knob housed in a recessed part of a panel so that a movable terminal and a fixed terminal are in contact or are separated. An outside face, opposing an inner peripheral face of the recessed part of the panel, of the operating knob is an inclined face that is inclined inward of the operating knob in going downward. A gap that widens in going downward is formed between the outside face of the operating knob and the inner peripheral face of the recessed part of the panel. Accordingly, the device can ensure stable operation of the operating knob by discharging, from the gap between the panel and the operating knob, liquid that has entered the gap, and that can improve the appearance. |
| US11328877B2 |
Redox-mediated poly(vinylphosphonic acid) useful in capacitors
A poly(vinylphosphonic acid) (PVPA)−(NH4)2MoO4), gel polymer electrolyte can be prepared by incorporating redox-mediated Mo, or similar metal, into a PVPA, or similar polymer, matrix. Gel polymer electrolytes including PVPA/MoX, x representing the percent fraction Mo in PVPA, can be used to make supercapacitors including active carbon electrodes. The electrolytes can be in gel form, bendable and stretchable in a device. Devices including this gel electrolyte can have a specific capacitance (Cs) of 1276 F/g, i.e., a more than 50-fold increase relative to a PVPA system without Mo. A PVPA/Mo10 supercapacitor can have an energy density of 180.2 Wh/kg at power density of 500 W/kg, and devices with this hydrogel structure may maintain 85+% of their initial capacitance performance after 2300 charge-discharge cycles. |
| US11328875B2 |
Transparent dye-sensitized solar cell and a method for manufacturing the solar cell
The present invention relates to a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) comprising a porous isolating substrate (30) having a first surface and a second surface, a first porous layer (14) comprising conducting particles printed on the first surface of the porous isolating substrate to form a conductive porous layer, a second porous layer (16) comprising conducting particles printed on the second surface of the porous isolating substrate to form a conductive porous layer, whereby the porous isolating substrate is disposed between the first and second porous layers, a third porous layer (18) comprising light absorbing dye molecules deposited on the first porous layer, and a charge transfer medium for transferring charges between the third and first porous layers. Each of the porous layers comprise a printed pattern including at least one non-transparent portion (24, 25, 26) and at least one transparent portion (20, 21, 22) and the porous isolating substrate comprises at least one transparent portion (32), whereby said transparent portions of the porous layers and said transparent portion of the porous isolating substrate are positioned relative to each other so they form at least one continuous transparent pathway through the solar cell. |
| US11328871B2 |
Composite electronic component
A composite electronic component includes a composite body including a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a ceramic chip coupled to each other. The multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a first ceramic body and first and second external electrodes, and the ceramic chip is disposed below the multilayer ceramic capacitor and includes a second ceramic body having first and second terminal electrodes. The multilayer ceramic capacitor and the ceramic chip are coupled by solder disposed between the first and second external electrodes and the first and second terminal electrodes, and each angle (θ) defined by inner side surfaces of the solder, respectively disposed on inner ends of bent portions of the first and second terminal electrodes disposed on an upper surface of the second ceramic body, and an upper plane of the second ceramic body of the ceramic chip satisfies 45 degrees or less. |
| US11328870B2 |
Electronic component
An electronic component includes a multilayer capacitor including a capacitor body having first to sixth surfaces, and first and second external electrodes; and an interposer including an interposer body and first and second external terminals; and the capacitor body includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes, the first and second internal electrodes are exposed through the third and fourth surfaces of the capacitor body, respectively, and the interposer further includes first and second solder fillet limiting layers disposed on upper sides of both surfaces of each of the first and second external terminals in the first direction, respectively. |
| US11328868B2 |
Dielectric ceramic composition and multi-layer ceramic electronic component using the same
A dielectric ceramic composition and a multilayer ceramic electronic component are provided, the dielectric ceramic composition includes a barium titanate base material main component and a subcomponent, a microstructure after sintering includes a first crystal grain including 3 or less domain boundaries and a second crystal grain including 4 or more domain boundaries, and an area ratio of the second crystal grain to the total crystal grains is 20% or less. |
| US11328864B2 |
Compound line filter
A compound line filter includes a bobbin, two coils and a magnetic core. The coils are wound on the bobbin in a state of being separated from each other in an axial direction. The magnetic core includes a closed magnetic path part and a secondary magnetic path part. The bobbin is attached to the closed magnetic path part. The secondary magnetic path part extends from the closed magnetic path part in a direction intersecting with the axial direction and is positioned between the coils in the axial direction. The bobbin includes at least one gear, and the gear is positioned between the coils in the axial direction. |
| US11328863B2 |
Combined instrument transformer for HV applications
A combined instrument transformer for HV applications which includes a current instrument transformer CT, having a current transformer core and a current transformer primary duct fitted into the current transformer core, and a voltage instrument transformer VT, having a voltage transformer core and voltage transformer windings fitted around at least a portion of the voltage transformer core. The current instrument transformer and the voltage instrument transformer are housed in a common internal volume of a single enclosure, the internal volume being delimited by a lateral wall, a base disk insulator and a substantially planar cover. |
| US11328861B2 |
LC resonance element and resonance element array
An LC resonance element (10) includes a dielectric film (12), a common electrode (11) formed of a thin-film conductor on a lower surface (12D) of the dielectric film, a first capacitor (C1) and a second capacitor (C2) that are connected in series via the common electrode (11) and constitute a thin-film capacitor (TC), first and second external connection terminals (14A, 14B) formed on an upper surface (12U) of the dielectric film, a thin-film conductive wire (16) constituting a thin-film inductor (TL), a first upper electrode (13A) of the first capacitor formed on the upper surface (12U), and a second upper electrode (13B) of the second capacitor formed on the upper surface (12U). The thin-film conductive wire (16) is formed in a region (R2) located on the upper surface (12U) of the dielectric film and outside the common electrode (11) in plan view. |
| US11328855B2 |
Coil component and manufacturing method thereof
Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a conductor plate; and a magnetic core comprising a magnetic material having conductivity, the magnetic core having a through hole into which the conductor plate is inserted. The conductor plate includes: a metal element body having a body part positioned inside the through hole and a terminal part positioned outside the through hole; a metal film formed on the terminal part, the metal film comprising a metal material having a lower melting point than the metal element body; and an insulating film formed on a surface of the body part without the metal film interposed. |
| US11328852B2 |
Coil device
A coil device is installed on an installation object. The coil device includes a housing accommodating at least a coil portion and a heat radiation member coming into thermal contact with the installation object. The heat radiation member includes a main body portion interposed in at least a part of a space between the housing and the installation object and a protrusion protruding from the main body portion toward the installation object. |
| US11328851B2 |
Ceramic electronic component and manufacturing method therefor
A method of manufacturing a ceramic electronic component such that Voids of the ceramic element and voids at the interfaces between the ceramic element and the external electrodes are filled with a resin composition by applying, to the ceramic electronic component, a resin-containing solution that has the function of etching the surface of the ceramic element to ionize constituent elements of the ceramic element. The resin composition includes a resin, and cationic elements among the constituent elements of the ceramic elements, which are ionized and deposited from the ceramic element. |
| US11328843B1 |
Method of manufacture of electrical wire and cable having a reduced coefficient of friction and required pulling force
A process for manufacturing finished wire and cable having reduced coefficient of friction and pulling force during installation, includes providing a payoff reel containing at least one internal conductor wire; supplying the at least one internal conductor wire from the reel to at least one extruder; providing the least one extruder, wherein the least one extruder applies an insulating material and a polymerized jacket composition over the at least one internal conductor wire, wherein the polymerized jacket composition comprises a predetermined amount by weight of nylon; a predetermined amount by weight of mineral oil in the range of 0.1% to 5% by weight; and a predetermined amount of silica in the range of 2% to 9% by weight; providing a cooling device for lowering the temperature of the extruded insulating material and the polymerized jacket composition and cooling the insulating material and the polymerized jacket composition in the cooling device; and, reeling onto a storage reel the finished, cooled, wire and cable for storage and distribution. |
| US11328838B2 |
Color-coded cable identification assembly and cable
The present disclosure relates to a color-coded cable identification assembly and a cable. The cable identification assembly comprises: a support element including a fixing element adapted to fix the support element to a cable; and a plurality of identification elements, which are detachably mounted on the support element with the cable being located between the support element and the plurality of identification elements. Each identification element has a predetermined color so that the plurality of identification elements are capable of forming a predetermined color code to identify the cable. The cable identification assembly according to the present disclosure can be very easily and rapidly mounted to the cable, thereby greatly saving the installation time of workers and thus reducing the labor cost and the chance of making a mistake. Compared with a conventional adhesive tape, the cable identification assembly according to the present disclosure can meet the requirements such as anti-ultraviolet, anti-aging and reuse, thereby further reducing the cost of the cable identification assembly. |
| US11328837B2 |
Fire rated multiconductor cable
A cable includes an inner conductor; a dielectric arranged around the inner conductor; an outer conductor annularly arranged around the dielectric; a plurality of tapes around the outer conductor, each tape providing a successive layer over and circumferentially surrounding an underlying tape or the outer conductor, wherein one of the tapes is a conductor; and a jacket encasing the plurality of tapes. |
| US11328828B2 |
Method for dismantling a steam generator or heat exchanger, in particular a steam generator or heat exchanger of a nuclear power plant
A method for dismantling a steam generator or heat exchanger, such as found in nuclear power plants, which steam generator or heat exchanger includes a plurality of primary circuit tubes with a contaminated inner surface and wherein one or more tubes are sealed with a plug at both end is provided, the method comprising a) opening one or both ends of each sealed tube by creating an opening in or removing, the plug (13); b) introducing a viscous polymer to cure inside the tube wherein the polymer fills the tube across the full tube cross-section at least at the tube ends, immobilizing contaminations in the filled portion inside the tube (11); c) curing the polymer, then detaching the tubes with cured polymer the detached tubes being sealed by the polymer d) sorting out the detached tubes with polymer. |
| US11328826B2 |
System architecture for improved storage of electronic health information, and related methods
The present embodiments relate generally to a system for improved storage of electronic health information, the system including: a computing device for receiving the electronic health information; and a server for communicating with the computing device, the server being accessible by the computing device at a first network location. The server can be configured to: receive a request from the computing device for a second network location, the second network location usable for storing the electronic health information, and the second network location being different from the first network location; determine the second network location; and provide the second network location to the computing device; and the computing device stores the electronic health information at the second network location. |
| US11328817B2 |
Systems and methods for contextual imaging workflow
A hierarchical workflow is configured to associate examination information captured using an imaging platform with contextual metadata. The examination information may include ultrasound image data, which may be associated with annotations, measurements, pathology, body markers, and/or the like. The hierarchical workflow may comprise templates associated with respective anatomical regions, locations, volumes, and/or surfaces. A template may define configuration data to automatically adapt the imaging platform to capture imaging data in the corresponding anatomical region. The template may further include guidance information for the operator, including processing steps for capturing relevant examination information. Additional examination information may be captured and included in the hierarchical workflow. |
| US11328815B2 |
Physical measurement of empirical indicators of patient-related outcome value using time and motion sensor results
A system, a method and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The method includes receiving a message from a gateway. The message includes an identification parameter associated with the gateway that received a ping from a beacon. The message also includes a beacon identifier of the beacon that transmitted the ping, the ping included the beacon identifier. The message further includes a derived signal strength parameter that indicates a proximity of the beacon to the gateway when the beacon transmitted the ping. The method also includes acquiring an outcome associated with medical-care that is provided by a medical provider to a patient. The method further includes identifying a cost associated with the medical-care provided by the medical provider based in part on the received message. The method additionally includes generating a value score that relates the identified cost of providing the medical-care to the patient, to the acquired outcome. |
| US11328809B1 |
Systems and methods for manufacturing an orthodontic appliance
A distributed computer system for manufacturing an orthodontic appliance for a subject is provided. The system comprises: a server communicatively couplable to electronic devices associated with sets of users, the sets of users comprising: a first set of users for providing preliminary orthodontic treatment plans for subjects, a second set of users for providing input to the preliminary orthodontic treatment plans, and a third set of users for manufacturing orthodontic appliances to implement at least a portion of finalized orthodontic treatment plans, the finalized orthodontic treatment plans being based on a given preliminary orthodontic treatment plan and a given input from a user of the second set of users to the given preliminary orthodontic treatment plan. |
| US11328807B2 |
System and method for using artificial intelligence in telemedicine-enabled hardware to optimize rehabilitative routines capable of enabling remote rehabilitative compliance
A computer-implemented system comprising a treatment apparatus, a patient interface, and a processing device is disclosed. The processing device is configured to receive treatment data pertaining to the user during the telemedicine session, wherein the treatment data comprises one or more characteristics of the user; determine, via one or more trained machine learning models, at least one respective measure of benefit one or more exercise regimens provide the user, wherein the determining the respective measure of benefit is based on the treatment data; determine, via the one or more trained machine learning models, one or more probabilities of the user complying with the one or more exercise regimens; and transmit the treatment plan to a computing device, wherein the treatment plan is generated based on the one or more probabilities and the respective measure of benefit the one or more exercise regimens provide the user. |
| US11328805B2 |
Reducing infusion pump network congestion by staggering updates
A system can include a plurality of infusion pumps and a connectivity adapter in a clinical environment. The connectivity adapter can receive update data, such as a drug library update or an operational software update, and can store the update data within the clinical environment. The connectivity adapter can send the update data to a predetermined number of infusion pumps that have requested the update. At least two subsets of the infusion pumps can receive different blocks of the update data at about the same time. Further, the same or different update data can be provided to the infusion pumps at about the same time. |
| US11328804B2 |
Health checks for infusion pump communications systems
A distributed system can include a server outside of a clinical environment and a connectivity adapter and a plurality of infusion pumps within the clinical environment. The connectivity adapter can monitor microservices that measure the quality of connectivity adapter's performance. If the performance is below a threshold level, a message indicating poor performance can be sent to the server. The message can be sent when a prior message relating to poor performance has not already been sent within a predetermined time period. |
| US11328803B2 |
Pill dispenser
A pill dispenser is disclosed that includes a pill-dispensing mechanism, a receptacle, an identifying camera positioned to capture an image of an area adjacent to the pill dispenser, and a processor in operative communication with the pill-dispensing mechanism and the identifying camera. |
| US11328800B2 |
System and method for patient care improvement
Described is a system comprising an input module receiving a first data set indicative of at least one patient condition for each of a plurality of patients obtained during a predetermined time period, a comparison module comparing each of the at least one patient condition to at least one filter criteria, a filter module selecting a patient to include in a second data set if the at least one patient condition of the patient satisfies the at least one filter criteria, a report module generating a report based on the second data set, wherein the report includes at least one patient identifier for each patient in the second data set and at least one descriptor of the at least one patient condition for each patient in the second data set, and a classification module storing at least one classification value for the at least one patient condition. |
| US11328798B2 |
Utilizing multiple sub-models via a multi-model medical scan analysis system
A multi-model medical scan analysis system is operable to generate a plurality of training sets from a plurality of medical scans. Each of a set of sub-models can be generated by performing a training step on a corresponding one of the plurality of training sets. A subset of the set of sub-models is selected for a new medical scan. A set of abnormality data is generated by applying a subset of a set of inference functions on the new medical scan, where the subset of the set of inference functions utilize the subset of the set of sub-models. Final abnormality data is generated by performing a final inference function on the set of abnormality data. The final abnormality data can be to a client device for display via a display device. |
| US11328796B1 |
Techniques for selecting cohorts for decentralized clinical trials for pharmaceutical research
In some implementations, one or more computing devices receive data indicating selection criteria for a cohort through an interface. The one or more computing devices determine a first set of candidates classified as having attributes that satisfy the selection criteria. The one or more computing devices also determine a second set of candidates that satisfy a subset of the selection criteria and are determined to not satisfy a same one or more criteria of the selection criteria. The one or more computing devices provide output data through the interface that includes (i) data indicating the first set of candidates, (ii) data indicating the second set of candidates, and (iii) data indicating the one or more selection criteria not satisfied by the members of the second set of candidates. |
| US11328794B2 |
Method for determining relatedness of genomic samples using partial sequence information
Disclosed are methods for testing biological samples containing genomic nucleic acids obtained from an organism having a genome, such as a human genome. It is often desirable to analyze a DNA sample or more than one, different DNA samples, to determine whether the sample comes from one individual or two individuals. The present method requires very low amounts of DNA and can use partial sequences of DNA fragments. Partial sequences are analyzed for the presence of polymorphisms (e.g. SNP's) that can be mapped to a reference SNP map. The distance between similar SNPS, which are genetically linked, can be used to statistically determine a likelihood of identity of individuality in a sample. |
| US11328793B2 |
Accelerating genomic data parsing on field programmable gate arrays
Methods and systems for accelerated input data conversion include partially parsing an input data set to convert the data set from a first format to a second format in an intermediate output having at least one unparsed portion to quickly perform a majority of the conversion. The partial parsing operates on portions of the input data set having a size less than a threshold size and leaves portions of the input data having a size greater than the threshold size unparsed. The intermediate output is parsed to convert at least one unparsed portion from the first format to the second format in a final output to complete the conversion such that a combined parsing time of the partial parse of the input data set and the parse of the intermediate output is accelerated relative to a single-stage parsing. |
| US11328792B2 |
Device for detecting a dynamical network biomarker, method for detecting same, and program for detecting same
The present invention provides a device, method, and program for detection of a biomarker candidate that may be used in a diagnosis of a pre-disease state indicating a transition from a healthy state to a disease state. Biological samples are collected from a subject to be measured at different times. Statistical data is obtained by aggregating measurement data obtained in measurement on collected biological samples. Thereafter, a process of obtaining high-throughput data (s1), a process of choosing differential biological molecules (s2), a process of clustering (s3), a process of choosing a DNB candidate (s4), and a process of identifying a DNB by significance analysis (s5) are carried out. |
| US11328790B2 |
Biomarkers of endogenous biological time
Provided herein are biomarkers of endogenous biological time (e.g. circadian time). In particular compositions and methods are provided for assessing the biological time of a subject, and diagnosis of diseases/conditions and/or providing treatments based thereon. |
| US11328783B2 |
Semiconductor device having a diode type electrical fuse (e-fuse) cell array
A semiconductor device includes a first word line configured to perform a writing operation or a programing operation, a second word line configured to perform a read operation, a first switching device including a first gate electrode and a first node, a second switching device comprising a second gate electrode and a second node, an electrical fuse (e-fuse) disposed between the first node and the second node, and a diode coupled to the first node and the first word line, wherein the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are coupled to the second word line. |
| US11328782B2 |
Memory architecture for access of multiple portions of a block of memory cells
Memory might have a controller configured to program a first portion of memory cells of a string of series-connected memory cells closer to a particular end of the string than a second portion of memory cells of the string in an order from a different end of the string to the particular end, and program the second portion of memory cells in an order from the particular end to the different end. Memory might further have a controller configured to increment first and second read counts in response to performing a read operation on a memory cell of a block of memory cells, reset the first read count in response to performing an erase operation on a first portion of the block of memory cells, and reset the second read count in response to performing an erase operation on the second portion of the block of memory cells. |
| US11328779B2 |
Capacitive voltage modifier for power management
A memory sub-system includes a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) compatible with operation at an uppermost PMIC supply voltage that is lower than a primary supply voltage of the memory sub-system. The PMIC is configured to output multiple voltages for operation of the memory sub-system based on a PMIC supply voltage. The memory sub-system further includes a capacitive voltage modifier (CVM) coupled to the PMIC. The CVM is configured to receive the primary supply voltage of the memory sub-system as an input and provide a first modified primary supply voltage (MPSV) to the PMIC as the PMIC supply voltage, where the first MPSV is not higher than the uppermost PMIC supply voltage. |
| US11328777B2 |
Responding to power loss
Methods of operating apparatus, as well as apparatus configured to perform such methods, include checking whether power loss to the apparatus during programming of user data to a grouping of memory cells of the apparatus is indicated, and, when power loss is indicated, checking feature settings of the apparatus to determine a location of the apparatus containing an address of the grouping of memory cells, and recovering the address of the grouping of memory cells from the determined location. |
| US11328772B2 |
Reducing current in crossbar array circuits with large output resistance
Methods of using large output resistance with adjusted conductance mapping value to reduce the current in crossbar array circuit are disclosed. An example method of simulating a crossbar array circuit having a crossbar array, includes steps of: S1. testing the crossbar array; S2. calibrating a simulation model; S3. simulating the crossbar array with the simulation model, wherein a simulation result is generated after the S3; S4. determining a fixed ratio of ideal current from the simulation result; S5. adjusting conductance mapping value to let the crossbar array pass the fixed ratio of ideal current and generating a conductance matrix; S6. programming the conductance matrix to the crossbar array; S7. passing an input signal to the crossbar array and generating a computing result; and S8. checking the quality of computing results. |
| US11328770B2 |
Semiconductor storage device
A memory includes first-lines, second-lines, and memory cells. Third-lines are provided to respectively correspond to groups each comprising m (m≥2) lines of the first-lines. A first selector selects a certain one of the first-lines from the groups and to connect the selected first-lines to the third-lines corresponding to the groups. Fourth-lines correspond to the third-lines. A second selector selects one of the third-lines and to connect the fourth-line to the selected third-line. A third selector selects a certain one of the second-lines. A first driver applied a voltage to the fourth-line. A second driver is connected to the third selector. The first driver charges the third-line corresponding to the first-line selected from the groups via the fourth-line. The first and second selectors bring the selected first-line and the third-line corresponding the first-line to an electrically floating state. The second driver applies a voltage to the selected second-line. |
| US11328769B2 |
Resistance change device, manufacturing method for the same, and storage apparatus
A resistance change device includes a first resistance change layer that occludes and discharges ions of at least one type, and resistance of the first resistance change layer, changes in accordance with an amount of the ions in such a manner that the resistance decreases when the ions are discharged and the resistance increases when the ions are occluded; a second resistance change layer that occludes and discharges the ions, and resistance of the second resistance change layer changes in accordance with the amount of the ions in such a manner that the resistance increases when the ions are discharged and the resistance decreases when the ions are occluded; and an ion conductive layer that carries the ions and is provided between the first resistance change layer and the second resistance change layer. |
| US11328768B2 |
Phase change memory device, system including the memory device, and method for operating the memory device
In an embodiment, the column decoder of a PCM device is divided into two portions that can be governed independently of one another, and the driving signals of the two portions are configured so as to guarantee comparable capacitive loads at the two inputs of a sense amplifier in both of the operations of single-ended reading and double-ended reading. In particular, during single-ended reading, the sense amplifier has a first input that receives a capacitive load corresponding to the direct memory cell selected, and a second input that receives a capacitive load associated to a non-selected complementary memory cell. |
| US11328760B2 |
Semiconductor device having interconnection in package and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a first die connected to a first channel, the first die comprising a first memory chip; and a second die connected to a second channel, the second die comprising a second memory chip, the first and second channels being independent of each other and a storage capacity and a physical size of the second die being the same as those of the first die. The first and second dies are disposed in one package, and the package includes an interconnection circuit disposed between the first die and the second die to transfer signals between the first memory chip and the second memory chip. |
| US11328755B2 |
Data transmission between clock domains for circuits such as microcontrollers
A data producer stores input data in a buffer in response to a slow clock signal and provides read data from the buffer in response to a read pointer signal. A data movement circuit reads the input data from the buffer using the read pointer signal and provides an update read pointer signal in response to reading the input data. The data movement circuit operates in response to a fast clock signal, and includes a metastable-free synchronizer circuit having inputs for receiving the update read pointer signal, the slow clock signal, and the read pointer signal, and an output for providing a synchronized read pointer signal equal to the read pointer signal except between a change in the read pointer signal while the slow clock signal is active until an inactivation of the slow clock signal. The buffer provides the read data in response to the synchronized read pointer signal. |
| US11328754B2 |
Pre-charge timing control for peak current based on data latch count
Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which allow for reduction of current during program operations using pre-charge timing control based on an inhibit bit line count acquired from data latches. When the inhibit bit line count is within a bit line count range, the controller pre-charges bit lines in memory during a first time period to a first target voltage, and when the inhibit bit line count is outside the bit line count range, the controller pre-charges the bit lines during a second, earlier time period to a second, smaller target voltage. The controller is thus configured to reduce current and minimize operation overlaps in the earlier time period during the middle of the program operation where current is highest. Thus, a balance in power consumption and performance may be achieved during program operations using timing control. |
| US11328751B2 |
Semiconductor device for stable control of power-down mode
A semiconductor device includes: a first buffer circuit configured to receive a chip select signal in a power-down mode in response to a first select signal, a second buffer circuit configured to receive the chip select signal in an active mode in response to the first select signal, a power supply circuit configured to supply external power to a plurality of logic elements in the active mode in response to a second select signal, and not supply the external power to the plurality of logic elements in the power-down mode, and a select control circuit configured to transition a logic level of the second select signal at a first edge of a first chip select signal in the power-down mode, and then transition a logic level of the first select signal at a following second edge of the first chip select signal to exit from the power-down mode and enter the active mode. |
| US11328747B1 |
Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head with heat sink material adjacent the waveguide
A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head has a gas-bearing slider that supports a near-field transducer (NFT) and a main magnetic pole. First heat-sink material is located on the cross-track sides of the main pole and second heat-sink material is located on the cross-track sides of the waveguide. The second heat-sink material may be in contact with the first heat-sink material, and a thermal shunt of high thermal conductivity may interconnect the NFT with the first and second heat-sink material. Heat from the NFT output tip flows to the second heat sink material through the NFT and the thermal shunt. Optically reflective material may be located between the waveguide and the second heat-sink material to improve the optical efficiency of the NFT. |
| US11328745B2 |
Waveguide with optical isolator for heat-assisted magnetic recording
An apparatus includes a substrate. A laser is formed on a non-self supporting structure and bonded to the substrate. A waveguide having a gap portion is deposited proximate the laser. The waveguide is configured to communicate light from the laser to a near-field transducer (NFT) that directs energy resulting from plasmonic excitation to a recording medium. An optical isolator is disposed over the gap portion. |
| US11328743B2 |
Current-perpendicular-to-plane giant magnetoresistive element, precursor thereof, and manufacturing method thereof
Provided is a precursor of a current-perpendicular-to-plane giant magnetoresistive element having a laminated structure of ferromagnetic metal layer/nonmagnetic metal layer/ferromagnetic metal layer, the precursor having a nonmagnetic intermediate layer containing a non-magnetic metal and an oxide in a predetermined ratio such that the distribution thereof is nearly uniform at the atomic level. Also provided is a current-perpendicular-to-plane giant magnetoresistive element having a current-confinement structure (CCP) which has: a current confinement structure region made of a conductive alloy and obtained by heat-treating a laminated structure of a ferromagnetic metal layer and a nonmagnetic intermediate layer at a predetermined temperature; and a high-resistance metal alloy region containing an oxide and surrounding the current confinement structure region. |
| US11328741B2 |
Method for outputting an audio signal reproducing a piece of music into an interior via an output device
Method for outputting an audio signal reproducing at least part of a piece of music containing part of at least one main voice, in particular a singing voice, into an interior forming part of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle via an audio output device having a left and a right audio output channel. The method includes providing an audio signal reproducing at least part of a piece of music containing at least one main voice, extracting an audio signal component, containing the at least one main voice, of the audio signal from the audio signal, attenuating the audio signal component containing the at least one main voice, and outputting the audio signal via the left and right audio output channels, of the audio output device, wherein the audio signal component containing the at least one main voice is output in attenuated fashion. |
| US11328739B2 |
Unvoiced voiced decision for speech processing cross reference to related applications
Method and apparatus for speech processing are disclosed. A first unvoicing parameter for a first frame of a speech signal is determined, and furthered smoothed based on a second unvoicing parameter for a second frame prior to the first frame. A difference between the first unvoicing parameter and the smoothed unvoicing parameter for the first subframe is computed and a unvoiced/voiced classification of the first frame is determined using the computed difference as a decision parameter. Further processing, such as Bandwidth extension (BWE) is performed on based on the classification of the first frame. |
| US11328737B2 |
Impact media sharing
An example operation includes one or more of associating a transport with an impact in proximity to one or more other transports, transmitting, by a device in proximity to the impact, media related to the impact, receiving, by a server, the media, determining, by the server, one or more sounds based on the media, and associating, by the server, the one or more sounds with one or more of the transport and the one or more other transports. |
| US11328736B2 |
Method and apparatus of denoising
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus of denoising, and the method includes: receiving a first voice signal picked up by a microphone; if it is detected, with the first voice signal, that a sensor is in an operation state, subtracting an interference noise signal from the first voice signal to obtain a first voice signal with the interference removed therefrom, where the interference noise signal is an interference noise signal generated with regard to the microphone during an operation of the sensor, and the sensor and the microphone are packaged in one module; and outputting the first voice signal with the interference removed therefrom. By implementing the solution provided in the present disclosure, interference in a signal collected by a microphone when the microphone and a sensor in a module operate together is reduced and the small size of the module, packaged with the microphone and sensor, is guaranteed. |
| US11328735B2 |
Determination of spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding
An apparatus for spatial audio signal encoding, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine, for two or more audio signals, at least one spatial audio parameter for providing spatial audio reproduction, the at least one spatial audio parameter comprising a direction parameter with an elevation and an azimuth component; define a spherical grid generated by covering a sphere with smaller spheres, wherein the centres of the smaller spheres define points of the spherical grid; and convert the elevation and azimuth component of the direction parameter to an index value based on the defined spherical grid. |
| US11328733B2 |
Generalized negative log-likelihood loss for speaker verification
Systems and methods for speaker verification comprise optimizing a neural network by minimizing a generalized negative log likelihood function, including receiving a training batch of audio samples comprising a plurality of utterances for each of a plurality of speakers, extracting features from the audio samples to generate a batch of features, processing the batch of features using a neural network to generate a plurality of embedding vectors configured to differentiate audio samples by speaker, computing a generalized negative log-likelihood loss (GNLL) value for the training batch based, at least in part, on the embedding vectors, and modifying weights of the neural network to reduce the GNLL value. Computing the GNLL may include generating a centroid vector for each of a plurality of speakers, based at least in part on the embedding vectors. |
| US11328732B2 |
Generating summary text compositions
A method for generating a summary text composition can include obtaining historical reading data of a user. The method can include generating, based on the historical reading data, a reading proficiency level of the user. The method can include selecting, based on the reading proficiency level, a summarization model from a set of summarization models. The method can include obtaining a target composition. The target composition can be selected from the group consisting of a literary work, a video recording, and an audio recording. The method can include generating, by the summarization model, the summary text composition. The summary text composition can correspond to the target composition and have a first reading level classification that matches the reading proficiency level. The method can include transmitting the summary text composition to a computing device. |
| US11328730B2 |
Automated audio-to-text transcription in multi-device teleconferences
A system and method are disclosed for generating a teleconference space for two or more communication devices using a computer coupled with a database and comprising a processor and memory. The computer generates a teleconference space and transmits requests to join the teleconference space to the two or more communication devices. The computer stores in memory identification information, and audiovisual data associated with one or more users, for each of the two or more communication devices. The computer stores audio transcription data, transmitted to the computer by each of the two or more communication devices and associated with one or more communication device users, in the computer memory. The computer merges the audio transcription data from each of the two or more communication devices into a master audio transcript, and transmits the master audio transcript to each of the two or more communication devices. |
| US11328726B2 |
Conversational systems and methods for robotic task identification using natural language
This disclosure relates generally to human-robot interaction (HRI) to enable a robot to execute tasks that are conveyed in a natural language. The state-of-the-art is unable to capture human intent, implicit assumptions and ambiguities present in the natural language to enable effective robotic task identification. The present disclosure provides accurate task identification using classifiers trained to understand linguistic and semantic variations. A mixed-initiative dialogue is employed to resolve ambiguities and address the dynamic nature of a typical conversation. In accordance with the present disclosure, the dialogues are minimal and directed to the goal to ensure human experience is not degraded. The method of the present disclosure is also implemented in a context sensitive manner to make the task identification effective. |
| US11328723B2 |
Talk group management using voice control
A portable radio (100) provides a voice control feature which advantageously enables radio users to perform talk group changes by using voice as an input medium to the radio device. Activation of a voice control button (110) and verbal entry of a valid talk group control command enables a change in talk group. The portable radio (100) comprises a controller (102) having a code plug (120) pre-programmed with a plurality of talk group alias names, and an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine (118) providing voice control entry detection to the portable radio. The controller (102) enables a change in talk group in response to the ASR engine (118) detecting that the voice control entry is a valid talk group control command. Shortened audible confirmations of talk group change are generated using the alias names. |
| US11328720B2 |
Inter-occupant conversation device and inter-occupant conversation method
A rear display displays a driver image of a driver to a rear occupant. An operational information acquisition unit acquires operational information for changing a size of the driver image displayed on the rear display. An image control unit changes the size of the driver image displayed on the rear display, on the basis of the operational information acquired by the operational information acquisition unit. A sound control unit controls, at a time of generating a synthetic sound by combining a spoken voice of the driver with a reproduced sound of an AV source, a sound-level ratio between the spoken voice of the driver and the reproduced sound of the AV source, on the basis of the size of the driver image displayed on the rear display. A rear speaker outputs the synthetic sound generated by the sound control unit toward the rear occupant. |
| US11328717B2 |
Electronic device, operating method thereof, system having plural artificial intelligence devices
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, an operating method thereof, and a system including a plurality of artificial intelligence devices. An electronic device according to the present invention includes a voice receiving unit configured to receive a voice, a communication unit configured to perform communication with an artificial intelligence (AI) server set to be activated by a preset wake-up word, and a control unit configured to acquire profile information through communication with at least one artificial intelligence device communicating with the artificial intelligence server, and register the at least one artificial intelligence device by storing the acquired profile information and a list of executable commands matched to the profile information. The control unit searches for an artificial intelligence device to perform an execution command based on the profile information and the list and transmits the execution command to the searched artificial intelligence device, in response to the voice including the preset wake-up word being received by the registered artificial intelligence device and the execution command corresponding to the voice being received from the registered artificial intelligence device. |
| US11328714B2 |
Processing audio data
Processing data for speech recognition by generating hypotheses from input data, assigning each hypothesis, a score according to a confidence level value and hypothesis ranking, executing a pass/fail grammar test against each hypothesis, generating replacement hypotheses according to grammar test failures, assigning each replacement hypothesis a score according to a number of hypothesis changes, and providing a set of hypotheses, wherein the set comprises at least one replacement hypotheses. |
| US11328712B2 |
Domain specific correction of output from automatic speech recognition
Provided are techniques for domain specific correction of output from automatic speech recognition. An output of an automatic speech recognition engine is received. An alphanumeric sequence is extracted from the output, where the alphanumeric sequence represents an erroneous translation by the automatic speech recognition engine. Candidates for the alphanumeric sequence are generated. The candidates are ranked based on scores associated with the candidates. A candidate of the candidates having a highest score of the scores is selected. The output is corrected by replacing the alphanumeric sequence with the selected candidate. The corrected output is returned. |
| US11328703B2 |
Loudspeaker device, acoustic control method, and non-transitory recording medium
A loudspeaker device includes at least one loudspeaker, a loudspeaker holder holding the at least one loudspeaker in a reference range away from the ear of a user by a reference distance, a first microphone collecting an environmental sound and outputting an electrical signal, a second microphone attached to a position where a sound output from the at least one loudspeaker is collected, the second microphone collecting a synthetic sound synthesized from the sound output from the at least one loudspeaker and the environmental sound and outputting an electrical signal, and a processor controlling the at least one loudspeaker so as to output a sound for reducing the environmental sound based on the electrical signals representing the sounds collected by the first microphone and the second microphone. |
| US11328701B2 |
Ultrasonic transducer with perforated baseplate
An ultrasonic transducer including a membrane film and a perforated baseplate. The baseplate can have a conductive surface with a plurality of perforations formed through the baseplate. The membrane film can have a conductive surface and be positioned under tension proximate to the perforations formed through the baseplate. The tension of the membrane film can be controlled to provide a restoring force to counteract the moving mass of the membrane film, and the moving mass of air in the perforations of the baseplate. By selecting the diameter(s) of the perforations of the baseplate, the thickness of the baseplate, the thickness of the membrane film, the tension of the membrane film, and/or the bending stiffness of the membrane film, a wide bandpass frequency response of the ultrasonic transducer centered at an ultrasonic frequency of interest can be obtained and tailored to a desired application. |
| US11328700B2 |
Dynamic music modification
A method for electronic music generation comprising electronically applying one or more functions that change one or more compositional elements of a musical input in a first tonality or other musical representation to generate a musical output in a second tonality or other musical representation and recording data corresponding to the musical output in a recording medium or rendering such musical Transformations to a reproductive medium such as an amplifier and speakers or headphones. |
| US11328697B1 |
Protective device minimizing dispersion of airborne pathogens from wind instruments
Apparatus attached to the flared open end of a wind instrument includes one or more layers of particle filtering materials for preventing the dispersion of pathogens from the wind instrument while enabling sound transmission with little muffling and distortion, and minimal resistance for the musician. |
| US11328693B2 |
Image display device, method, medium and electronic device based on mobile terminal
The present disclosure relates to an image display device, method based on a mobile terminal, medium, and electronic device. The device includes: a rotation angle acquisition processor configured to acquire a rotation angle value of the mobile terminal rotated around an axis in a second direction; a movement speed processor configured to determine a movement speed of an image displayed on a display screen of the mobile terminal in a display interface of the display screen according to the rotation angle value, and/or determine the movement speed of the image in the display interface of the display screen according to a relationship between a size of the image displayed on the display screen in a first direction and a size of the display interface of the display screen in the first direction; and an image movement controller configured to control the image to move in the first direction in the display interface of the display screen according to the movement speed. |
| US11328692B2 |
Head-mounted situational awareness system and method of operation
A head-mounted situational awareness system and method of operation provides a head gear with a retinal display, and multiple sensory-related electrical components. A microphone array and a motion sensor are integrated into head gear. The microphone array detects incoming audio signals to generate an audio signal. The motion sensor detects position and orientation of head gear relative to audio source to generate a position signal. A processor utilizes speech-to-text software to translate the sound to text for display on retinal display. The processor utilizes a position algorithm and triangulation functions to generate a position graphic of audio source. Noise cancelling software reduces background noise to sound. A remote subsystem, or command center, communicates audio signal and position signal with the head gear to receive an audio picture of the area, and also to generate actionable information that displays in real time on the retinal display of head gear. |
| US11328691B2 |
Method of displaying image on display panel, method of driving display panel including the same and display apparatus performing the same
A method of displaying an image on a display panel includes displaying an image of a grayscale value A, imaging the image of the grayscale value A with a camera, displaying an image of a grayscale value B, imaging the image of the grayscale value B with the camera, determining a compensation parameter P of the grayscale value A for each pixel in the display panel using the imaged data of the grayscale value A, determining a representative value Q of probability distribution of the compensation parameters of the grayscale value A from the image of the grayscale value A, determining a representative value R of probability distribution of compensation parameters of the grayscale value B from the image of the grayscale value B and compensating an input image data for each pixel using the value P, the value Q and the value R. |
| US11328690B2 |
Display screen brightness adjustment method and apparatus
A method for adjusting brightness of a display screen includes: in response to a brightness adjustment trigger operation, determining a target brightness level of the display screen based on a current brightness level of the display screen; obtaining a corresponding physical brightness and a corresponding display coefficient based on the target brightness level, wherein the display coefficient is smaller than 1, and the physical brightness is included in a physical brightness range in high brightness mode of the display screen; and controlling the display screen to display at a target display brightness based on the obtained physical brightness and the obtained display coefficient. |
| US11328686B2 |
System and method for control of an aircraft cabin display
Methods and systems for controlling an aircraft cabin display are described herein. The method comprises obtaining a reflected color on a surface adjacent to a cabin window of an aircraft, generating an image having an image color in accordance with the reflected color on the surface adjacent to the cabin window, and displaying the image having the image color on a display device covering the cabin window. |
| US11328685B2 |
Common voltage calibration circuit and driving method thereof, circuit board and display device
A common voltage calibration circuit and a driving method thereof, a circuit board and a display device are provided. The common voltage calibration circuit includes a difference circuit, a compensation circuit and a summing circuit; the difference circuit is configured to perform a difference processing on a common voltage provided by the common voltage input terminal and a feedback common voltage provided by the common voltage feedback terminal to output a difference value signal; the compensation circuit is configured to receive the difference value signal and compensate the common voltage based on the difference value signal; and the summing circuit is configured to superimpose at least two compensation signals output by the compensation circuit and output through the common voltage output terminal. |
| US11328682B2 |
Display device capable of high-speed charging/discharging and switching scanning order of gate bus lines
A gate driver is constituted of a first gate driver including a first shift register that is configured by bistable circuits corresponding to gate bus lines on odd-numbered lines arranged on one side of a display portion, and a second gate driver including a second shift register that is configured by bistable circuits corresponding to gate bus lines on even-numbered lines arranged on another side of the display portion. A first buffer circuit is provided on one end side of each gate bus line, and a second buffer circuit is provided on another end side of each gate bus line. A control signal for controlling the scanning order of the gate bus line is given to the bistable circuit and the second buffer circuit. |
| US11328678B2 |
Display panel, pixel driving circuit, and drving method thereof
A pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, an initial-voltage-signal terminal, a data-voltage-signal terminal, and a driving-voltage-signal terminal. The driving transistor includes a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. The first switch is disposed between the gate terminal and the drain terminal. The gate terminal is connected with the initial-voltage-signal terminal via the second switch. The source terminal is connected with the driving-voltage-signal terminal and the data-voltage-signal terminal via the third switch and the fourth switch, respectively. The first capacitor is connected between the gate terminal and a ground terminal. The second capacitor is connected between the gate terminal and the source terminal. A pixel driving method and a display panel are also provided. |
| US11328676B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area, a pixel area, a data driver, a data divider, and coupling lines that couple the data driver to the data divider. The pixel area includes first pixel lines in a first area of the display area and coupled to first area data lines, and second pixel lines disposed in a second area of the display area and coupled to second area data lines. The data driver outputs data signals corresponding to the first and second pixel lines. The data divider includes first selectors that transfer the data signals corresponding to the first pixel lines to the first area data lines, and second selectors that transfer the data signals corresponding to the second pixel lines to the second area data lines. A distance between adjacent second selectors is shorter than a distance between adjacent first selectors. |
| US11328674B2 |
Shift register unit, driving method thereof, and gate driving circuit
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, a driving method thereof, and a gate driving circuit. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit configured to receive an input signal from an input signal terminal and output the input signal to a voltage stabilizer node; a voltage-stabilizing circuit configured to input potential of the voltage stabilizer node to a pull-up node and control potential of the voltage stabilizer node under control of potential of the pull-up node; an output circuit configured to receive a clock signal from a clock signal terminal and provide an output signal to an output signal terminal based on the clock signal received under control of the potential of the pull-up node; and a control circuit configured to control potential of the output signal terminal under control of the potential of the pull-up node. |
| US11328668B2 |
Pixel circuit and driving method thereof, and display panel
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a driver circuit, a data writing circuit, a storage circuit, a light emitting element and a bias circuit. The driver circuit controls a drive current for driving the light emitting element to emit light. The data writing circuit writes a data signal to the control terminal of the driver circuit in response to a scan signal. The storage circuit stores the data signal written by the data writing circuit. The light emitting element emits light according to the drive current. The bias circuit applies a bias voltage to the second terminal of the light emitting element in response to a bias starting signal and according to a bias voltage amplitude signal, so as to reverse bias the light emitting element. |
| US11328662B2 |
Display panel repair device and display panel repair method
A display panel repair device and a display panel repair method are disclosed. The display panel repair device includes an ultrasonic generator and a beam control device. The ultrasonic generator is configured to generate ultrasonic; and the beam control device is configured to direct the ultrasonic to emit to a pre-determined position, so as to be able to repair a display panel to be repaired by the ultrasonic. |
| US11328660B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
Display devices and methods for driving display devices are provided. The method may include, in a first stage of the data writing phase, always turning on m1 first switch units of each multiplexer under a control of m1 corresponding clock signal lines, and sequentially turning on m2 second switch units for a preset time in a preset order; in a second stage of the data writing phase, keeping the m1 first switch units always on, turning off the m2 second switch units, and writing corresponding data voltage signals to the row of sub-pixels to cause the row of sub-pixels to display; and in the display maintaining phase, displaying same as in the second stage of the data writing phase. At least one first switch unit is always turned on under the control of a corresponding clock signal line when at least two continuously scanned rows of sub-pixels are displaying. |
| US11328655B2 |
Drive device and display apparatus
A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a drive device that outputs a driving signal to the display panel. The driving signal causes one of the pixels to emit light many times by an active PWM drive method in a 1-frame period. |
| US11328651B2 |
Shift register for compensation for sub-pixle row, driving method thereof, gate driving circuit and display device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register. The shift register includes a blank input circuit, N shift register circuits, and a compensation selection circuit. The blank input circuit is configured to store a blank input signal, and provide a blank pull-down signal to N pull-down nodes based on the blank input signal and a blank control signal. The N shift register circuits are respectively coupled to the blank input circuit via the N pull-down nodes, and are configured to output respective blank output signals based on the blank pull-down signal and respective clock signals during a blank period. The compensation selection circuit is configured to provide the blank input signal to the blank input circuit under the control of a compensation selection control signal. Herein N is a natural number greater than 1. |
| US11328650B2 |
Driver, display device and optical compensation method
A driver, a display device, and an optical compensation method thereof are provided. The display panel includes sub-pixels arranged in an array. The method includes: receiving an initial gray level of each sub-pixel of a picture to be displayed; determining whether each sub-pixel satisfies a preset determination condition based on the initial gray level of each sub-pixel; if an absolute value of a difference between the initial gray levels of two sub-pixels electrically connected to a same data line and located in two adjacent rows is greater than a preset threshold, it is determined that a sub-pixel in a next row satisfies the preset determination condition; and, in response to determining that a sub-pixel satisfies the preset determination condition, acquiring a first compensation parameter of the sub-pixel, and compensating the initial gray level of the sub-pixel based on the acquired first compensation parameter. |
| US11328647B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel and an optical module disposed under the display panel. The display panel includes a first display region under which the optical module is disposed to overlap the first display region in a plan view, the first display region including transparent regions through which light for an operation of the optical module passes and first pixels having a first pixel structure and disposed between the transparent regions, a second display region in which second pixels having a second pixel structure are disposed, and a third display region disposed between the first display region and the second display region, third pixels having a third pixel structure being disposed in the third display region, only part of the third pixels being driven during a display operation. |
| US11328646B2 |
Image processing apparatus and operation method thereof that adjusts image data according to pixel degradation
The image processing apparatus includes a sticking model circuit and a dynamic adjustment circuit. The sticking model circuit correspondingly provides degradation information according to pixel data of a current pixel. The dynamic adjustment circuit dynamically adjusts original image data of the current pixel according to the degradation information to generate output data. The dynamic adjustment circuit converts a first sub-pixel of the current pixel to at least one second sub-pixel of the current pixel when luminance is maintained. The dynamic adjustment circuit provides the output data to the sticking model circuit. |
| US11328643B2 |
Display unit
A display unit of the present disclosure includes one or more display devices that perform image display by making a difference in resolution for each of a plurality of image regions in an original image, and an optical device that corrects optically for distortion of a display image that is caused by performing the image display at the different resolution for each of the plurality of image regions, a position of the image display between the plurality of image regions, or both. |
| US11328632B2 |
Display control apparatus, control method of display control apparatus, moving object, and storage medium for controlling visible direction in display device
A display control apparatus comprises a display device that is a display device to be provided in a moving object that can travel, and outputs image information such that a visible direction from the outside of the moving object is restricted. The display control apparatus detects an image information presentation target that is present around the moving object, and controls the visible direction in the display device to a predetermined direction. The display control apparatus controls the predetermined direction such that an output of the display device is visible to the detected image information presentation target. |
| US11328628B2 |
Flexible display apparatus and hardness-enhancing layer for enhancing surface hardness and mechanical strength of flexible display panel
The present application provides a flexible display apparatus. The flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel; and a hardness-enhancing layer on the flexible display panel, the hardness-enhancing layer for enhancing surface hardness and mechanical strength of the flexible display panel. The hardness-enhancing layer includes an inorganic material sublayer and a composite material sublayer, the composite material sublayer including a polymer matrix and an inorganic material dispersed in the polymer matrix. |
| US11328627B2 |
Apparatus, method and system for management of electronic shelf label, and storage medium
Provided are apparatus and method for management of electronic shelf label. The apparatus for management of electronic shelf label, ESL, including an ESL mainboard and a plurality of ESL small boards, wherein the ESL mainboard sends task commands to the plurality of ESL small boards through a first logic signal; and each ESL small board of the plurality of ESL small boards includes a receiving portion and a display portion, the receiving portion receives, through the first logic signal, a command for a task corresponding to the ESL small board as sent by the ESL mainboard, and the display portion displays the task. |
| US11328626B2 |
Pharmaceutical container label and pharmaceutical container
A pharmaceutical container label 1 to be stuck to an outer circumferential surface 12r of a pharmaceutical container 100 having translucency, includes: a lower-layer label 2, having light-blocking property, to be adhered to the outer circumferential surface 12r of the pharmaceutical container 100 so as to form a non-adhesion portion 2B; and an upper-layer label 3 which is peelably stuck to a surface 2a of the lower-layer label 2 so as to adhere to the non-adhesion portion 2B. When the upper-layer label 3 is peeled off, the non-adhesion portion 2B is integrally peeled off, a region covered with the non-adhesion portion 2B is exposed, and the exposed region serves as a window 15 which allows visual checking of the contents. |
| US11328623B2 |
System and method for using wearable technology in manufacturing and maintenance
An assembly system includes: a tool including a sensor; a wearable device including a display, and a computing device. The computing device is programmed to: a. provide visual instructions on the display of the device; b. monitor an input from the sensor; and c. in response to the input from the sensor: i. provide feedback to the user through the display, indicating a status of an operation of the tool; and ii. store a record of a status of an operation of the tool. |
| US11328621B2 |
Dietary regime for treatment of acne and other inflammatory skin conditions
Disclosed herein is a method for preventing or controlling rosacea, psoriasis or eczema in a subject. The method comprises administering to the subject a diet that is low in fructose, oligosaccharides and/or polyol sugars. |
| US11328613B2 |
Waypoint directory in air traffic control systems for passenger drones and unmanned aerial vehicles
Systems and methods include communicating with a plurality of passenger drones via one or more wireless networks comprising at least one cellular network; receiving updates related to an obstruction status of each of a plurality of waypoints from a plurality of passenger drones, wherein the plurality of waypoints are defined over a geographic region under control of the ATC system; and managing flight paths, landing, and take-off of the plurality of passenger drones in the geographic region based on the obstruction status of each of the plurality of waypoints, wherein the plurality of waypoints each comprise a latitude and longitude coordinate defining a point about which an area is defined for covering a portion of the geographic region. |
| US11328610B2 |
Custom search queries for flight data
Systems and methods of searching stored flight plan information using a custom search query including at least one aircraft parameter condition or environmental parameter condition. The systems and method include receiving, using a user interface module, a custom search query comprising an aircraft parameter condition or an environmental condition; searching, using a processor module, stored flight plan information for instances in the stored flight plan information that satisfy the aircraft parameter condition or environmental condition; and displaying, using a display module, the instances in the stored flight plan information that satisfy the aircraft parameter condition or environmental condition. |
| US11328607B2 |
System and method of detecting vacant parking spots
A method of identifying vacant parking locations includes receiving sensor data captured with respect to a parking aisle and analyzing the received sensor data to detect shadows cast by parked vehicles within the parking aisle. Vacant parking spots are detected based on the detected shadows. An output is generated indicating whether a parking spot vacancy has been detected within the parking aisle. |
| US11328606B2 |
Hazardous vehicle prediction device, hazardous vehicle warning system, and hazardous vehicle prediction method
A hazardous behavior determining unit (3) determines a vehicle that is conducting or is likely to conduct hazardous driving from among one or more vehicles around a host vehicle and a type of the hazardous driving using information indicating states of the host vehicle and the vehicles and a surrounding situation and behavior information stored in an onboard database (2). A registered vehicle identifying unit (5) identifies a vehicle that corresponds to hazardous vehicle information stored in the onboard database (2) by collating numbers of a license plate detected by a number detecting unit (4) with numbers stored in the onboard database (2). A hazard predicting unit (6) predicts a risk to the host vehicle using the determination result from the hazardous behavior determining unit (3) and the identification result from the registered vehicle identifying unit (5). |
| US11328604B2 |
Individual alert system and method
A pedestrian alert system and method that acts in two alternative manners: (1) an individual device is configured to “listen” for an audible alert (over ambient noise) or “look” for a visual alert issued by the driver of a vehicle, or the vehicle itself, in advance of an impending impact event and, upon detecting such audible or visual alert, issue a local alert to a pedestrian, cyclist, scooter rider, skateboarder, or other vulnerable road user wearing the individual device; and (2) upon the automated detection of an impending impact event by a vehicle, the vehicle is configured to automatically emit an audible and/or non-audible signal that is detected by the individual device associated with the pedestrian, cyclist, scooter rider, skateboarder, or other vulnerable road user and acted upon to locally alert the pedestrian, cyclist, scooter rider, skateboarder, or other vulnerable road user of the impending impact event. |
| US11328603B1 |
Safety service by using edge computing
Presented herein are methods and systems for alerting users identified in a monitored location, by an edge node located at an edge of a network, to be preoccupied by interaction with client devices of potential risk events, comprising analyzing, at the edge node, images captured by one or more imaging sensors deployed to monitor a monitored location in order to estimate a motion pattern of one or more passerby users preoccupied by watching a screen of a client device, analyzing the images with respect to the estimated motion pattern(s) to identify a potential risk event involving one or more of the preoccupied passerby users and transmitting one or more warning messages alert one or more of the preoccupied passerby users of the potential risk event. |
| US11328600B2 |
Method and apparatus for identifying traffic accident, device and computer storage medium
A method and apparatus for identifying a traffic accident, a device and a computer storage medium are disclosed, which relates to the technical fields of intelligent traffic and big data. An implementation includes: acquiring road features, environmental features and road traffic stream features; inputting the road features, the environmental features and the road traffic stream features into a pre-trained traffic-accident identifying model to obtain an accident-information identifying result of a road which at least includes an accident identifying result. In the present application, the accident road may be automatically identified according to the road features, the environmental features and the road traffic stream features. Compared with a traditional manual reporting way, timeliness is stronger, and a coverage rate is higher. |
| US11328598B2 |
Parking lot guidance system and parking lot guidance method
A parking lot guidance system includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether the parking lot is in a congested state based on a result of detection from a detection unit; a selection unit configured to select a predetermined number of empty spaces in the parking lot based on a determination from the determination unit; and a display unit configured to display the predetermined number of empty spaces. The selection unit selects the empty spaces from further inside in an extending direction of the vehicle passage in a first parking block which is a parking block including an empty space and being closer to a facility entrance provided at a position different from that of a parking lot entrance of the parking lot out of a plurality of parking blocks along a plurality of vehicle passages when the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state. |
| US11328597B2 |
Defining and delivering parking zones to vehicles
Techniques are described for defining and delivering parking area information to a vehicle. The parking area information can be sent by a parking assistant device associated with a parking area and in response to receiving one or more messages from a vehicle system of the vehicle. Messages from the vehicle system indicate a location of the vehicle and are used by the parking assistant device to track a movement of the vehicle. The parking area information is sent in one or more responses messages from the parking assistant device and can include a rule for determining whether the vehicle is permitted to park in an unoccupied parking zone within the parking area or indicate a result of applying the rule. |
| US11328596B2 |
Parking prediction
In one example implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a host processing device, timestamps from a vehicle processing system of a target vehicle, the timestamps being determined based at least in part on parking area data for a target parking area and vehicle data for the target vehicle. The method further includes calculating, by the host processing device, an arrival rate and a service rate based on the timestamps. The method further includes calculating, by the host processing device, a probability of parking availability for the target parking area based at least in part on the arrival rate and the service rate. The method further includes controlling, by the host processing device, the vehicle based at least in part on the probability of parking availability for the target parking area. |
| US11328594B2 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
An information processing apparatus determines a pickup point and a drop-off point for a first user traveling to a destination in a vehicle carrying a plurality of unspecified users. The apparatus includes a controller that obtains information on the place of departure and the destination of the first user; determines a pickup point for the first user based on the place of departure of the first user; defines a predetermined field including the destination of the first user and determines a drop-off point for the first user from a plurality of points except the destination, the points being included in the predetermined field; and transmits the determined pickup point and drop-off point for the first user to a device associated with the vehicle. |
| US11328592B2 |
Systems and methods for roadway obstruction detection
Systems and methods for roadway obstruction detection are disclosed herein. One embodiment receives information pertaining to a potential roadway obstruction; determines that additional information regarding the potential roadway obstruction is needed to identify the potential roadway obstruction; selects one or more vehicles from a plurality of vehicles based, at least in part, on their proximity to the potential roadway obstruction and their sensor capabilities; and determines that the potential roadway obstruction is a specific type of roadway obstruction based, at least in part, on additional information regarding the potential roadway obstruction received from at least one of the selected one or more vehicles. |
| US11328590B2 |
System and method for internet radio automatic content management
A system and method for playing a sequence of items including certain selected items of content. A media player operating on a computing device plays the content that is received over a network from a content server. The user controls the media player using a user interface, and further controls the content that is desired. An auto-content selector allows the user to select content related to a particular subject matter like weather and traffic that is automatically added to the sequence of items to be played based on detected information about the user such as the user's location. |
| US11328589B2 |
Adaptive control of vehicular traffic
A traffic control system for controlling traffic at interconnected intersections is provided, where the system comprises a receiver that receives traffic data that indicates states of vehicles approaching an intersection of the interconnected intersections and directions of the vehicles exiting the intersection. Further, the system comprises a processor that determines intersection crossing times and velocities of vehicles approaching the intersection by minimizing at least one of a total travel time or a maximum travel time of the vehicles for crossing the intersection. The contribution of each vehicle of the vehicles approaching the intersection in the at least one of a total travel time or a maximum travel time is weighted based on directions of the vehicles and traffic at next intersection. Further, the system comprises a transmitter that transmits the intersection crossing times and velocities to the vehicles exiting the intersection for controlling the traffic at the interconnected intersections. |
| US11328588B2 |
Method for managing vehicle parking within a parking structure
One variation of a method for managing parking within a parking structure includes: after detecting a license plate number on a vehicle in an image captured by an entry camera unit arranged near an entry of the parking structure, labeling the license plate as unverified in a data log associated with the parking structure; in response to absence of validation of the license plate within a grace period after entry of the vehicle, relabeling the license plate as in-violation in the data log; in response to detecting the license plate in an image captured by a mobile enforcement unit moving through the parking structure, querying the data log for a status of the license plate; and, in response to the license plate labeled as in-violation in the data log, serving a prompt to an enforcement personnel to issue a citation to a vehicle carrying the license plate. |
| US11328585B1 |
Simultaneous multi-IR code protocol using phase modulation
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for simultaneously sending a single signal comprising distinct instructions for two separate devices. Example methods may include receiving, by a control device instructions to adjust the operation of a first device and a second device, generating a single signal corresponding to the received instructions for two separate devices, and simultaneously sending the single signal to the two separate devices causing the devices to perform the distinct instructions intended for each respective device. |
| US11328583B2 |
Dynamic gauges for displaying present and predicted machine status
A facility creates a dynamic gauge for indicating the status of equipment. The facility causes a gauge to be displayed with an initial satisfactory range and an initial unsatisfactory range. The facility accesses historical data describing the status of a sensor attached to equipment. The facility determines a new satisfactory range and a new unsatisfactory range, and alters the gauge to visually indicate the new satisfactory range and the new unsatisfactory range. |
| US11328580B2 |
Testing of a network of hazard warning devices
Disclosed is an alarm unit electrically connected to a loop circuit in a networked alarm system, the loop circuit being electrically connected to a first power source and a first controller, the alarm unit including: a current sink, a second controller for controlling the current sink, wherein the second controller performs an alarm unit status test including: receiving instructions from the first controller to actuate the current sink, and actuating the current sink. |
| US11328579B2 |
Remote-control security monitoring system and meihod
A remote-control security monitoring system, including an access permissions receiver operable for receiving, from a first entity having first access permissions to the premises automation system, second access permissions to the premises automation system, a premises monitoring selector operable for receiving, from the first entity, a selection of a second entity which provides remote monitoring services, a premises monitoring remote-control provider operable, responsive to the selection of the second entity, for subscribing the first entity to receive remote monitoring services of the premises from the second entity, and a premises monitoring activator operable, responsive to subscribing the first entity to receive the remote monitoring services from the second entity and responsive to receiving an instruction from the first entity, for instructing the second entity to monitor the premises on behalf of the first entity. |
| US11328576B1 |
Surveillance system for automatic sanitation verification
Example aspects include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for surveillance data processing for sanitation verification, comprising determining, by a processor based on area identification information received by a surveillance system of a premises, that an area of the premises requires periodic sanitation. The aspects further include determining, by the processor based on data captured by one or more sensors of the surveillance system, whether one or more persons associated with the cleaning staff profile have visited the area within a threshold period of time. Additionally, the aspects further include sending, by the processor, a first notification to a facilities management device in response to the one or more persons associated with the cleaning staff profile not having visited the area within the threshold period of time. |
| US11328572B2 |
AI-based video tagging for alarm management
Implementations described herein discloses, a method of AI based video tagging for alarm management includes receiving, using a processor, a video stream, the video stream comprising a sequence of images for at least a portion of a patient, determining, using the processor, a physiological parameter for the patient based on the sequence of images, detecting, using machine learning, presence of a noise object and setting a interaction-flag to a positive value in response to detecting the noise object, comparing a quality level of the sequence of images with a threshold quality level, and modifying an alarm level based on the value of the interaction-flag and comparison of the quality level of the sequence of depth images with the threshold quality level. |
| US11328564B2 |
Event indications of hazardous environment luminaires using visual sequences
A luminaire whose primary operation is to provide ambient or focused lighting in a hazardous environment is further configured to communicate, within the hazardous environment, alert and/or detected events or conditions via visual sequences. Different visual sequences uniquely identify respective alerts and/or detected conditions, which may include conditions occurring at the luminaire and/or conditions occurring within the hazardous environment. Different visual sequences are defined by respective blink sequences stored in a blink sequence library at the luminaire. Blink sequences are configurable, are distinguished by different amplitudes, frequencies, duty cycles, and other energization/de-energization waveform characteristics, and are applied to one or more illumination sources of the luminaire to thereby generate corresponding visual sequences in the hazardous environment. Visual sequences generated by hazardous environment luminaires allow personnel within the hazardous environment to be informed or alerted to critical conditions upon their occurrences, even without the use of a portable computing device. |
| US11328559B2 |
System and method for enabling wagering event between sports activity players with stored event metrics
Individual sports event activities are recorded along with metric results of individual or collective results of the activities. The data from these recordings and metrics are provided to a central gaming server. Individual players offer wagers of value to be used in competition against other individual or groups of players. The central gaming server compares the metrics of at least two individual players that have offered wagers of values and determines a winning individual player based on the comparison of metrics. |
| US11328557B2 |
Gaming machine, control method for machine, and program for gaming machine with animated character symbol across reels
A gaming machine that provides an operation unit, a display unit and a control unit. The operation unit is configured to receive an operation of the player. The display unit is operably coupled to the operation unit and is configured to display a first feature symbol display area, a second feature symbol display area and a third feature display area. Each display area includes a plurality of cells arranged in a grid. The control unit is operably coupled to the operation unit and the display unit and is configured to provide a primary game and a feature game. The three display areas are used in the feature game in turn. Any appearance of a predetermined symbol in one of the display areas is copied in to the next display area(s) in sequence. |
| US11328556B2 |
Wagering apparatus, methods and systems
A system, method, and non-transitory computer medium for processing a payment for a wager in connection with a wagering event. The system may receive, over a communications interface, a wager on a wagering event from a player via an input device. The system may monitor progress of the wagering event. The progress of the wagering event may include at least a current status. The system may determine that the wager is active and that the wagering event is in progress. The system may determine an amount of a cash out offer and that the player accepts the cash out offer at the determined amount. The system may transmit, over the communications interface, the amount of the cash out offer to the first input device. |
| US11328555B2 |
Unified digital wallet
A unified wallet manager (UWM) virtualized as a single virtual service in which all transactions relative to the UWM are treated as immutable facts permanently stored in append-only queues or ledgers from the time of their creation. A rules engine reads conversion requests in request calls to the service, and determines which rule or rules to apply to convert funds from one ledger to another, in the same or different vertically scaled gaming systems. The UWM is a peer of other vertical gaming systems, and the gaming systems access the UWM via an API server and data egresses from the UWM through an ETL process from a database cluster. The immutable queues allow for data reconstruction using any desired data model. The ledger stores funds of many different types, including real money, points, play money, and others. Third parties can integrate with the UWM through an integration hub connected to the UWM. |
| US11328554B2 |
Gaming machine and method for evaluating player reactions
An electronic gaming machine includes a display, a digital camera device, a credit input mechanism, and a processor programmed to perform operations comprising: (i) receiving, from the digital camera device, a digital image of the player; (ii) determining an emotional state of the player by performing facial expression analysis on the digital image; (iii) determining an emotion level of the player by categorizing the emotional state of the player based on the determined emotional state, the categorizing includes a first state representing a positive emotional level and a second state representing another emotional level; (iv) determining that the emotional level is the other emotional level; and (v) automatically initiating a game session action during the game play session, the game session action is configured to cause the player to transition to the positive emotional level. |
| US11328553B2 |
Concurrent display and interaction between game types on an electronic gaming device
A method may include determining a first base game outcome of a first instance of a base game; controlling a display system to present the first base game outcome in a first window of one or more display devices of the display system; and in response determining whether a first feature game trigger condition of a feature game exist. Then in response to this determining, controlling the display system to present a first feature game in a second window of the one or more display devices concurrently with presenting the base game in the first window of the one or more display devices; determining a second base game outcome of a second instance of the base game; determining a first feature game outcome of a first instance of the feature game; controlling the display system to present the second base game outcome in the first window; and controlling the display system to present the first feature game outcome in the second window. |
| US11328552B2 |
Systems and methods of electronic gaming
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for electronic gaming are disclosed. In a first aspect, a method of electronic gaming includes initiating, in response to an initial wager, a primary game, selecting, in response to the initiating the primary game, a plurality of primary game symbols, and displaying the plurality of primary game symbols in a plurality of symbol display positions associated with a plurality of reel strips. The method may further include initiating, in response to the initial wager, a jackpot game, selecting, in response to initiating the jackpot game, a jackpot game symbol from a plurality of jackpot game symbols, displaying the jackpot game symbol in a symbol display position associated with a single reel strip, and determining a jackpot award based upon the jackpot game symbol. |
| US11328550B2 |
Paper sheet processing device
A bill processing apparatus which is capable of reliably supplying information on a bill to the bill housing body side. The paper sheet processing apparatus has a bill housing part being capable of housing a bill inserted from a bill insertion slot, and also a reader/writer which wirelessly transmits information on the bill inserted from the bill insertion slot. The bill housing part has a coil antenna which wirelessly receives the information transmitted from the reader/writer, and a storage part which stores the information on the bill received from the coil antenna. |
| US11328549B1 |
Enablement of voting by controlled-environment facility residents
In embodiments of systems and methods for enabling voting by a controlled-environment (e.g., correctional) facility resident (e.g., incarcerated individual), a controlled-environment facility management system, or the like, may determine federal, state and/or local laws and/or rules concerning the resident's legal right to vote and determine whether the resident is registered to vote in a jurisdiction in which the resident is deemed to reside, with respect to the resident's right to vote in the jurisdiction. In response to a determination that the resident is not registered to vote in that jurisdiction, the facility management system, or the like, may provide documents required for the resident to register to vote, to the resident, for completion and/or execution. The facility management system, or the like, may file, in the jurisdiction in which the resident is deemed to reside, resident-executed documents required for the resident to register to vote. |
| US11328547B2 |
Method of driving a component of a vehicle, system, computer program product and computer-readable medium
Driving a component of a vehicle by using a portable user identification device for the vehicle and an user identification unit of the vehicle, whereat a controller evaluates an identifying signal sent by a transmitter of the portable user identification device to a receiver of the user identification unit and the controller drives the component of the vehicle according to the evaluation of the identifying signal. In order to provide a higher level of security by driving a component of a vehicle by using a portable user identification device for a vehicle, to a point of time tn a position of the portable user identification device relative to a position of the portable user identification device to a point of time tn=tl, to which the portable user identification device is departing from the vehicle, is determined and stored in a memory on a regular basis. |
| US11328537B2 |
Method of multi-finger enrollment for a user
The present disclosure relates to a method of authenticating a user by means of an electronic device comprising a user output interface. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding electronic device and to a computer program product. |
| US11328535B1 |
Motion identification method and system
The present invention provides an action recognition method and system thereof. The action recognition method comprises: capturing a 2D image and a depth image at the same time, extracting an 2D information of the human skeleton points from the 2D image and correcting it, mapping the 2D information of the human skeleton points to the depth image to obtain the corresponding depth information with respect to the 2D information of the human skeleton points and combining the corrected 2D information of the human skeleton points and the depth information to obtain the 3D information of the human skeleton points, and finally recognizing an action from a set of 3D information of the human skeleton points during a period of time by a matching model. |
| US11328534B2 |
Monitoring the performance of physical exercises
A method for monitoring a person performing a physical exercise based on a sequence of image frames showing an exercise activity of the person. The method includes extracting, based on the sequence of image frames, for each image frame a set of body key points using a neural network, the set of body key points being indicative of a posture of the person in the image frame; deriving, based on a subset of the body key points in each image frame, at least one characteristic parameter indicating a progression of a movement of the person; detecting a start loop condition by evaluating the time progression of the at least one characteristic parameter, said start loop condition indicating a transition from a start posture of the person to the movement of the person when performing the physical exercise, wherein a loop of exercising encompasses one single repetition of the physical exercise; detecting an end loop condition by evaluating the time progression of at least one of the characteristic parameters, said end loop condition indicating a transition from the movement of the person when performing the physical exercise to an intermediate posture, wherein, as a result, the start of the loop and the end of the loop are determined; and deriving the time period for a single loop of the physical exercise based on the start of the loop and the end of the loop and evaluating the time period. |
| US11328530B2 |
Fingerprint recognition device, manufacturing method thereof, and display panel
A fingerprint recognition device includes a first substrate and at least one photosensitive detector on the first substrate, each of the at least one photosensitive detector including a first electrode, a photosensitive layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the photosensitive layer. A side of the photosensitive layer facing away from the first electrode has a curved shape. |
| US11328528B2 |
Smart card with fingerprint sensing system and control method thereof
A smart card with a fingerprint sensing system, includes a controller and a fingerprint sensing device. When the fingerprint sensing device senses a fingerprint to generate a fingerprint frame data, the controller enters a sleep mode, and when the controller reads the fingerprint frame data, the fingerprint sensing device stops sensing the fingerprint. Since operations of sensing the fingerprint and reading the fingerprint frame data do not occur at the same time, the high current condition can be avoided so as to decrease power consumption. |
| US11328527B2 |
Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, display substrate and driving method thereof, and display device
The present disclosure provides an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, a display substrate, a driving method thereof and a display device. The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor includes: a base substrate; a driving structure provided on the base substrate and configured to transmit an ultrasonic signal; a receiving structure provided on the base substrate and configured to receive the ultrasonic signal reflected by a finger, and convert the ultrasonic signal into an electrical signal for determining fingerprint information, the driving structure and the receiving structure are provided in a same plane. Since the driving structure and the receiving structure of the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor of the present disclosure are in a same plane, the driving structure can be closer to the touch body (for example, a finger), which is advantageous for the ultrasonic waves generated by the driving structure to reach the finger to improve the touch accuracy. |
| US11328519B2 |
Detecting traffic signaling states with neural networks
Machine-learning models are described detecting the signaling state of a traffic signaling unit. A system can obtain an image of the traffic signaling unit, and select a model of the traffic signaling unit that identifies a position of each traffic lighting element on the unit. First and second neural network inputs are processed with a neural network to generate an estimated signaling state of the traffic signaling unit. The first neural network input can represent the image of the traffic signaling unit, and the second neural network input can represent the model of the traffic signaling unit. Using the estimated signaling state of the traffic signaling unit, the system can inform a driving decision of a vehicle. |
| US11328517B2 |
System and method for generating feature space data
A system and method generate feature space data that may be used for object detection. The system includes one or more processors and a memory. The memory may include one or more modules having instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain a two-dimension image of a scene, generate an output depth map based on the two-dimension image of the scene, generate a pseudo-LIDAR point cloud based on the output depth map, generate a bird's eye view (BEV) feature space based on the pseudo-LIDAR point cloud, and modify the BEV feature space to generate an improved BEV feature space using feature space neural network that was trained by using a training LIDAR feature space as a ground truth based on a LIDAR point cloud. |
| US11328510B2 |
Intelligent video analysis
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus receives a video feed and processes the video feed in real-time as the video feed is received. The apparatus performs object detection and recognition on the video feed to detect and classify objects therein, performs activity recognition to detect and classify activities of at least some of the objects, and outputs classified objects and classified activities in the video feed. The apparatus generates natural language text that describes the video feed, produces a semantic network, and stores the video feed, classified objects and classified activities, natural language text, and semantic network in a knowledge base. The apparatus generates a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to enable queries of the knowledge base, and presentation of selections of the video feed, classified objects and classified activities, natural language text, and semantic network. |
| US11328506B2 |
Crop identification method and computing device
In a crop identification method, multi-temporal sample remote sensing images labeled with first planting blocks of a specific crop are acquired. NDVI data of the sample remote sensing images are calculated. Noise of the NDVI data is reduced. A first multivariate Gaussian model is fitted based on de-noised NDVI data of the sample remote sensing image. Multi-temporal target remote sensing images are acquired. An NDVI time series of each pixel in the target remote sensing image is constructed. The NDVI time series is input to the first multivariate Gaussian model to obtain a likelihood value of each pixel displaying the specific crop in the remote sensing images. Second planting blocks of the specific crop in the target remote sensing images are determined accordingly. An accurate and robust identification result is thereby achieved. |
| US11328503B2 |
Wireless data communication of binary data as image data
Wireless data communication between two devices is described. In an example implementation, an image frame displayed on a display unit of a transmitting device is captured by a camera of a receiving device, where the image frame comprises text characters converted from binary data bits based on a text mapping table. The text characters in the captured image frame are converted to the binary data bits based on the text mapping table by the receiving device. |
| US11328499B2 |
Navigation device with consistent output and 2-stage moving average filter thereof
There is provided a 2-stage moving average filter for a navigation device including a delta regulator and an N-taps average circuit. The delta regulator is used as a first stage to receive motion delta at a varied frequency, and combine or split the received motion delta to output a regulated motion delta at a fixed frequency. The N-taps average circuit receives and averages N regulated motion delta and outputs the averaged motion delta at a fixed frequency. |
| US11328495B2 |
Systems and methods for generating vehicle wraps
This disclosure provides methods for generating a vehicle wrap design. The method includes: obtaining customer information corresponding to an entity; generating, using the computing device, a vehicle wrap design for covering a vehicle based on the obtained customer information; generating, using the computing device, a three-dimensional rendering of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle wrap design is applied to the three-dimensional rendering of the vehicle; and causing a client device to display the three-dimensional rendering with the applied vehicle wrap. |
| US11328493B2 |
Augmented reality screen system and augmented reality screen display method
An augmented reality screen system includes an augmented reality device and a host. The augmented reality device is configured to take a physical mark through a camera. The host is configured to receive the physical mark, determine position information and rotation information of the physical mark, and fetch a virtual image from a storage device through a processor of the host. The processor transmits an adjusted virtual image to the augmented reality device according to the position information and the rotation information, and the augmentation device projects the adjusted virtual image to a display of the augmented reality device. The adjusted virtual image becomes a virtual extended screen, and the virtual extended screen and the physical mark are simultaneously displayed on the display of the augmented reality device. |
| US11328491B2 |
Computerized system and method for an extended reality (XR) progressive visualization interface
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, displaying and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that displays an Extended Reality (XR) interface panel. The XR panel is configured to display and automatically and progressively adjust the panel and/or its displayed augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and/or mixed reality (MR) content based on dynamically determined and updated positioning of a viewing user. |
| US11328489B2 |
Augmented reality user interface including dual representation of physical location
There is disclosed an augmented reality user interface including dual representation of a physical location including generating two views for viewing the augmented reality objects, a first view includes the video data of the view including the augmented reality objects superimposed thereover in augmented reality locations and a second view that includes data derived from the physical location to generate a map with the augmented reality objects from the first view visible as objects on the map in the augmented reality locations, combining the location, the motion data, the video data, and the augmented reality objects into an augmented reality video such that when the computing device is in a first position, the first view is visible and when the computing device is in a second position, the second view is visible, and displaying the augmented reality video on a display. |
| US11328488B2 |
Content generation system and method
Methods and apparatus provide for generating content for display including one or more objects to be rendered, including: defining a plurality of virtual elements; setting one or more parameters associated with each of the plurality of virtual elements; and generating content for display using the plurality of virtual elements and corresponding parameter values, where setting the one or more parameters includes setting one or more parameters in accordance with the output of a machine learning algorithm adapted to determine appropriate parameters for the plurality of virtual elements so as to simulate an object to be rendered. |
| US11328483B2 |
System and method for structure inspection
A method for structure inspection includes the steps of: selecting a structure; providing a vehicle having an imaging device; moving the vehicle in proximity of the structure; capturing two-dimensional images of surfaces of the structure with the imaging device; storing the two-dimensional images, wherein each image includes associated position information related to the surface; producing a three-dimensional virtual model from the stored two-dimensional images; displaying the three-dimensional virtual model on a user device; selecting a location on the display of the three-dimensional model; using the selected location to identify a corresponding one of the stored position information associated with at least one of the two-dimensional images; and displaying the at least one two-dimensional image on the user device. |
| US11328482B1 |
Enclosure for virtual fitting
A system configured to facilitate virtual outfit fitting is described. The system includes a smart closet device having components including a display door and a plurality of image sensors. A first image sensor of the plurality of image sensors is configured to move across a horizontal axis and a vertical axis of enclosure of the smart closet device to capture a plurality of images of a first outfit hung on an outfit hanging column. The smart closet device also includes a computing unit to generate a three-dimensional (3D) model of the first outfit based on the plurality of images. The computing unit is further configured to update an outfit database by storing the generated 3D model of the first outfit in an outfit database. The computing unit generate an image of a user wearing the output in response to receiving a selection of the first output from the user. |
| US11328478B2 |
System and method for efficient 3D reconstruction of objects with telecentric line-scan cameras
In this invention, systems and methods are described that allow performing stereo reconstruction with line-scan cameras in general configurations. Consequently, the cumbersome exact alignment of the sensor lines becomes superfluous. The proposed method requires that telecentric lenses instead of perspective lenses are mounted on the line-scan cameras. In this case, the images can be accurately rectified with stereo rectification. The rectified images can be used to perform an efficient stereo matching. The method comprises a camera model and a calibration procedure that allow to precisely model the imaging process, also including the modelling of lens distortions even if the sensor lines are not exactly mounted behind the principal points. This ensures a high accuracy of the resulting 3D reconstruction. |
| US11328477B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium
The image processing apparatus includes: a shape generation unit configured to generate data indicating a schematic shape of an object; a shape decomposition unit configured to decompose the data indicating the schematic shape of the object into a plurality of pieces of partial data in accordance with a shape of a cross section of the schematic shape of the object; and a shape fitting unit configured to fit a corresponding basic shape for each piece of the partial data, and generates three-dimensional shape data on the object based on the fitted basic shape. |
| US11328474B2 |
System and method for dynamically adjusting level of details of point clouds
Some embodiments of an example method disclosed herein may include receiving point cloud data representing one or more three-dimensional objects; receiving a viewpoint of the point cloud data; selecting a selected object from the one or more three-dimensional objects using the viewpoint; retrieving a neural network model for the selected object; generating a level of detail data for the selected object using the neural network model; and replacing, within the point cloud data, points corresponding to the selected object with the level of detail data. |
| US11328466B2 |
Method and user interface for generating tangent vector fields usable for generating computer generated imagery
A representation of a surface of one or more objects is positioned in a virtual space is obtained in a computer animation system. Thereafter, a guide curve specification of a guide curve in the virtual space relative to the surface is received. Thereafter, the computer animation system computes a first set of tangent vector values for differentiable locations along the guide curve and computes a second set of tangent vector values for nondifferentiable locations along the guide curve. Using the first set and second set, the computer animation system computes a third set of tangent vector values for locations on the surface other than locations along the guide curve and computes a tangent vector field over the surface from at least the first set of tangent vector values, the second set of tangent vector values, and the third set of tangent vector values. |
| US11328462B1 |
Visualization tool for server management and method of use
A data visualization tool and a method of using the tool for managing resources in a set of server clusters is disclosed. The visualization tool displays the allotment of computational resources among various categories, including currently allocated resources, resources reserved for pending requests and available resources. The resources include CPUs, memory, and storage. The visualization tool is configured to visually indicate the difference between server clusters where new resources can be allocated and other clusters where one or more resources are capped and prevent any new allocations. The visualization tool is also configured to show current utilization of each resource for comparison with the amount allocated. |
| US11328459B2 |
Method and apparatus for realizing color tween animation
A start fill scheme in a first layer that is initially non-transparent is displayed on a display of a computing device. An end fill scheme in a different second layer that overlaps the first layer and is initially at least partially transparent is displayed on the display. A first transparency value of the first layer is gradually changed to a value corresponding to transparency. A second transparency of the second layer is gradually changed to a value corresponding to non-transparency. Both the first transparency value and the second transparency value are gradually changed during a particular time period. Gradually changing the first transparency value and the second transparency value includes changing the values by a plurality of increments over the particular time period. |
| US11328456B2 |
Method and device for presenting synthesized reality companion content
In one implementation, a method includes: while causing presentation of video content having a current plot setting, receiving a user input indicating a request to explore the current plot setting; obtaining synthesized reality (SR) content associated with the current plot setting in response to receiving the user input; causing presentation of the SR content associated with the current plot setting; receiving one or more user interactions with the SR content; and adjusting the presentation of the SR content in response to receiving the one or more user interactions with the SR content. |
| US11328453B2 |
Device and method for image processing
Proposed in various embodiments of the present disclosure are a device and a method for image processing, whereby image conversion by dilation is carried out in a multimedia system. To this end, an electronic device for image processing may identify between a first unused area in a first picture and a second unused area in a second picture, the first unused area and the second unused area having the same time information. The electronic device may acquire fill values for replacing the first unused area and the second unused area, on the basis of a value acquired from the first unused area and a value acquired from the second unused area. The electronic device may acquire a first converted picture and a second converted picture by replacing the first unused area and the second unused area by using the acquired fill values. |
| US11328447B2 |
Method of blockage determination and misalignment correction for vehicular vision system
A method for determining blockage of a vehicular camera includes providing a camera and mounting the camera at a vehicle so as to view exterior of the vehicle. The control determines at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) that the imaging sensor is totally blocked by determining that the count of bright photosensor pixels of the camera's imaging sensor remains below a threshold, and (ii) that the imaging sensor is partially blocked by determining continuity of intensity variations in different regions of the imaging sensor. The control, responsive to determination of either total blockage or partial blockage of the imaging sensor of the camera, adapts image processing by the image processor of frames of image data captured by the camera to accommodate (i) the determined total blockage of the imaging sensor of the camera or (ii) the determined partial blockage of the imaging sensor of the camera. |
| US11328444B2 |
Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, program, mobile object, and signal processing system
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus and system. In calibration, a sensor section is used to acquire a time of day when a stereo camera image capturing a target is acquired and a time of day when a radar image capturing the target is acquired. The target has a radar reflector and a marker. The image acquisition times of day are acquired while at the same time changing a distance between the sensor section and the target so as to find an amount of time-of-day discrepancy, a difference in time of day between the stereo camera image and the radar image at the same distance. At the time of object detection, the radar image acquired first is buffered and then output together with the stereo camera image acquired by the time-of-day discrepancy later, thus combining the stereo camera image and the radar image. |
| US11328443B2 |
Deep learning system for cuboid detection
Systems and methods for cuboid detection and keypoint localization in images are disclosed. In one aspect, a deep cuboid detector can be used for simultaneous cuboid detection and keypoint localization in monocular images. The deep cuboid detector can include a plurality of convolutional layers and non-convolutional layers of a trained convolution neural network for determining a convolutional feature map from an input image. A region proposal network of the deep cuboid detector can determine a bounding box surrounding a cuboid in the image using the convolutional feature map. The pooling layer and regressor layers of the deep cuboid detector can implement iterative feature pooling for determining a refined bounding box and a parameterized representation of the cuboid. |
| US11328441B2 |
Information processing device and information processing system
Generally, an information processing device according to one embodiment includes storage, a receiver, a detector, an extractor, and a position specifier. The storage stores therein, imaging positional information indicating, identification information on a landmark set, and registration landmark information, in association with one another. The receiver receives a captured image for position specification from an onboard device. The extractor extracts imaging landmark information serving as information on a detected landmark from the captured image for position specification. The position specifier specifies the position indicated by the imaging positional information associated with the identification information on the landmark set including the registration landmark information similar to the imaging landmark information as the position of a vehicle at time when the captured image for position specification is taken. |
| US11328439B2 |
Information processing device, object measurement system, object measurement method, and program storage medium
An information processing device includes a detection unit and a calculation unit. The detection unit detects, as a measurement use point, a portion that is used for prescribed length measurement of the object, in each of sectioned regions, in an object image included in the photographed image, set on both sides with respect to a reference line which is set for the object image and by which the object image is sectioned. The calculation unit calculates the length of a segment, in each of the sectioned regions, between the measurement use point and the intersection point between the reference line and a perpendicular line passing through the measurement use point and being perpendicular to the reference line. Further, the calculation unit calculates a length, in the object, to be measured, by adding together the calculated lengths of the segments. |
| US11328438B2 |
Image processing system and image processing method
An image processing system includes a camera interface and a processor. The camera interface acquires a captured image from at least one camera that images an article. The processor acquires a basic shape of the article and acquires an image captured with imaging parameters corresponding to the basic shape from the at least one camera through the camera interface. |
| US11328436B2 |
Using camera effect in the generation of custom synthetic data for use in training an artificial intelligence model to produce an image depth map
Embodiments allow camera effects, such as imaging noise, to be included in a generation of a synthetic data set for use in training an artificial intelligence model to produce an image depth map. The image depth map can then be employed to assist in compositing live action images from an image capture device with computer generated images in real-time or near real-time. The two types of images (live action and computer generated) are composited accurately by using a depth map. In an embodiment, the depth map includes a “depth value” for each pixel in the live action image. In an embodiment, steps of one or more of feature extraction, matching, filtering or refinement can be implemented, at least in part, with an artificial intelligence (AI) computing approach using a deep neural network with training. |
| US11328433B2 |
Composite field based single shot prediction
According to one aspect, composite field based single shot trajectory prediction may include receiving an image of an environment including a number of agents, extracting a set of features from the image, receiving the image of the environment, encoding a set of trajectories from the image, concatenating the set of features and the set of trajectories from the image to generate an interaction module input, receiving the interaction module input, encoding a set of interactions between the number of agents and between the number of agents and the environment, concatenating the set of interactions and a localization composite field map to generate a decoder input, receiving the decoder input, generating the localization composite field map and an association composite field map, and generating a set of trajectory predictions for the number of agents based on the localization composite field map and the association composite field map. |
| US11328431B2 |
Method for determining a foreground image and a background image
A method for determining a foreground image and a background image, the method includes the following steps, generating a characteristic data of each of N sub-region images of in an interested region of N parent images, classifying the N sub-region images to image groups of in M image groups according to the characteristic data of each of the N sub-region images, obtaining a motion level of each of the M image groups according to a motion area of in the N sub-region images, determining whether each the image group belongs to a background image group or a foreground image group according to each the motion level of each the image group and an image quantity of in each the image group. The method can correctly determine a foreground image and a background image, even a foreground object stops moving and stays in a viewable range of an image apparatus. |
| US11328430B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for segmenting images
Methods, systems, and media for segmenting images are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: generating an aggregate U-Net comprised of a plurality of U-Nets, wherein each U-Net in the plurality of U-Nets has a different depth, wherein each U-Net is comprised of a plurality of nodes Xi,j, wherein i indicates a down-sampling layer the U-Net, and wherein j indicates a convolution layer of the U-Net; training the aggregate U-Net by: for each training sample in a group of training samples, calculating, for each node in the plurality of nodes Xi,j, a feature map xi,j, wherein xi,j is based on a convolution operation performed on a down-sampling of an output from Xi−1,j when j=0, and wherein xi,j is based on a convolution operation performed on an up-sampling operation of an output from Xi+1,j−1 when j>0; and predicting a segmentation of a test image using the trained aggregate U-Net. |
| US11328429B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting ground point cloud points
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for detecting ground point cloud points. The method may include: determining a segmentation plane and a ground based on a point cloud collected by a lidar; segmenting the point cloud into a first sub point cloud and a second sub point cloud based on the segmentation plane; and determining the point cloud points whose distances from the ground are smaller than a first distance threshold in the first sub point cloud as ground point cloud points, and determining the point cloud points whose distances from the ground are smaller than a second distance threshold in the second sub point cloud as the ground point cloud points, where the first distance threshold is smaller than the second distance threshold. |
| US11328423B2 |
Characterization of plaque
A method is for the characterization of plaque in a region of interest inside an examination subject by way of a plurality of image data sets. The image data sets have been reconstructed from a plurality of projection data sets, which have been acquired via a CT device using different X-ray energy spectra. The method includes: acquiring the image data sets, which include a plurality of pixels. Spectral parameter values are acquired on a pixel by pixel basis using at least two image data sets. Character parameter values are then acquired on a pixel by pixel basis to characterize plaques on the basis of the spectral parameter values. An analysis unit and a computed tomography system are also disclosed. |
| US11328421B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a storage medium that can distinguish an anomaly while reducing influence of an individual difference of images. The image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit that uses a part of an inspection image including an inspection target to generate an estimation image including at least a predetermined region of the inspection target; a comparison unit that compares the estimation image generated by the generation unit with the inspection image; and an output unit that outputs a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit. |
| US11328417B2 |
Storage device storing a program capable of improving accuracy of detection of a target object
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores a program capable of improving the accuracy of detection of a target object. The program causes a computer to execute operations including, acquiring data in which a physical quantity is associated with each unit area acquired by dividing a given space; setting a detection region in a time space of three or more dimensions in the space or the time space; setting a control region at a position surrounding a gap with the gap surrounding the detection region disposed in a space having the same dimensions as those of the detection region; and determined whether or not one or more unit areas included in the detection region are predetermined areas on the basis of comparison between physical quantities of one or more unit areas included in the detection region and the control region that are set. |
| US11328415B2 |
Medical image processing device, endoscope system, and method of operating medical image processing device
As saturation enhancement processing, first saturation enhancement processing or second saturation enhancement processing different from the first saturation enhancement processing is executed. A high saturation range Ry(rc)Ry(r2) after the second saturation enhancement processing is greater than a high saturation range Rx(rc)Rx(r2) after the first saturation enhancement processing. A value Ry(r) included in the high saturation range Ry(rc)Ry(r2) after the second saturation enhancement processing is smaller than a value Rx(r) included in the high saturation range Rx(rc)Rx(r2) after the first saturation enhancement processing. |
| US11328412B2 |
Hierarchical learning of weights of a neural network for performing multiple analyses
Systems and methods are provided for performing medical imaging analysis. Input medical imaging data is received for performing a particular one of a plurality of medical imaging analyses. An output that provides a result of the particular medical imaging analysis on the input medical imaging data is generated using a neural network trained to perform the plurality of medical imaging analyses. The neural network is trained by learning one or more weights associated with the particular medical imaging analysis using one or more weights associated with a different one of the plurality of medical imaging analyses. The generated output is outputted for performing the particular medical imaging analysis. |
| US11328411B2 |
Print check repeater defect detection
Systems and methods for detecting defects on a reticle are provided. One system includes computer subsystem(s) configured for performing at least one repeater defect detection step in front-end processing during an inspection process performed on a wafer having features printed in a lithography process using a reticle. The at least one repeater defect detection step performed in the front-end processing includes identifying any defects detected at corresponding locations in two or more test images by double detection and any defects detected by stacked defect detection as first repeater defect candidates. One or more additional repeater defect detections may be performed on the first repeater defect candidates to generate final repeater defect candidates and identify defects on the reticle from the final repeater defect candidates. |
| US11328403B2 |
Apparatus and method for onboard stereoscopic inspection of vehicle tires
An autonomous and non-autonomous vehicle tire imaging and inspection system and methods thereof installed onboard a vehicle providing frequent status for inner and outer tire sidewalls, tire tread wear and tread depth, recorded in memory, transmitted to an onboard diagnostics unit, displayed on a dashboard and optionally transmitted to a network. Autonomous and non-autonomous vehicle vehicles may require passing a safety compliance inspection before driving and receive an insurance compliance approval to operate said vehicles. |
| US11328398B2 |
Method and system of reducing block boundary artifacts in digital image processing
In one aspect, in one aspect, a computerized method useful for reducing block boundary artifacts in a digital image processing that includes the step of obtaining an original digital image to scrambled. The method includes the step of generating a uniform grid of boxes in the digital image. At a boundary of each box in the uniform grid of boxes, a frame for each box is generated by replicating each of a set of boundary pixels a specified number of times to generate a thicker boundary. The method incudes the step of scrambling the uniform grid of boxes of the digital image. |
| US11328394B1 |
Apparatus and method for contrast amplification of contrast-enhanced CT images based on deep learning
Provided is a deep learning based contrast-enhanced (CE) CT image contrast amplifying method and the deep learning based CE CT image contrast amplifying method includes extracting at least one component CT image between a CE component and a non-CE component for an input CE CT image with the input CE CT image as an input to a previously trained deep learning model; and outputting a contrast-amplified CT image with respect to the CE CT image based on the input CE CT image and the at least one extracted component CT image. |
| US11328393B2 |
Method and device for displaying high-dynamic sonar or radar data
A method and a device for displaying a set of high dynamic range sonar or radar data are provided. The method makes it possible to visualize scalar data tables having a high dynamic range. The method consists in producing a first image in colors of essentially uniform shade hue and saturation for ranges of values exhibiting a low dynamic range, in creating a second image containing only the high-amplitude information that is invisible in the first image, in subjecting the second image to a non-linear low-pass filtering creating a halo that becomes all the greater as the information increases in amplitude, then in rendering this second image according to a color map that is of constant luminance but with strong variations of hue and of saturation. These two images are then combined by a weighted average and renormalized in terms of luminance. |
| US11328392B2 |
Inpainting via an encoding and decoding network
An image processing apparatus including: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to implement: an image acquisition module configured to acquire an input image including an object region; a mask image generation module configured to generate a mask image based on the input image; and an image inpainting module configured to extract a fusion feature map corresponding to the input image using an encoding network according to the input image and the mask image, and to inpaint the object region in the input image using a decoding network based on the fusion feature map, to obtain an inpainting result. |
| US11328380B2 |
Machine vision systems, illumination sources for use in machine vision systems, and components for use in the illumination sources
The present disclosure generally relates to machine vision systems, illumination sources for use in machine vision systems, and components for use in the illumination sources. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to machine vision systems incorporating multi-function illumination sources, multi-function illumination sources, and components for use in multi-function illumination sources. |
| US11328379B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that enable selection of viewpoints of depth images suitable for creation of a 3D model. A viewpoint determination unit determines that a candidate viewpoint be a viewpoint of a depth image of a 3D model on the basis of the 3D model projected on a screen from the candidate viewpoint. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an encoding device or the like that generates and encodes color images and depth images from predetermined viewpoints, from color images and depth images from a plurality of viewpoints of a 3D model of a subject. |
| US11328378B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
An information processing apparatus includes a reception section that receives an editing instruction with respect to an arrangement configuration of a still image including plural pages, and a generation section that generates a moving image which corresponds to the arrangement configuration of the still image edited due to the editing instruction and which is acquired through combination with a moving image including playback sections corresponding to the still image. |
| US11328375B2 |
Automated system and method for crowd source-based mediation/litigation management
A system and method for semi-automatic conflict resolution management and communication, achieved by hosting a mediation and management application on a cloud-networked server. The application presents via an app or web-link, an input screen to a complainant's device and uploads the complainant's conflict information to the server. The complainant can also e-file the law suit immediately, or after a pre-determined period of time has passed. The defendant is electronically notified of the impending law and offered an option for mediation through the application; and also an option to counter-claim, using the application's interfaces. If the defendant accepts the mediation option, then a certified mediator (likely crowd-sourced) engages the parties and begins negotiations through the application, to arrive hopefully at a settlement. All of these exchanges are managed by the application and performed through the digital devices by the parties and mediator, without requiring involvement of a traditional court process. |
| US11328374B1 |
System and process for converting an unbranded virtual tour of a real estate listing into a branded virtual tour of the real estate listing enhanced with branding, contact, and marketing information
A software-implemented process to convert an unbranded virtual tour for a real estate listing into a branded virtual tour that displays the branding and contact information of the marketing agent, a lead capture form to contact the agent and adds any other marketing content or information for display to the end consumer is disclosed. |
| US11328367B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for transferring of promotions
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for facilitating transfer of promotions. A promotion and marketing service may allow for assignment of one or more promotions to a first provider or consumer. A method for transferring promotions may include assigning a promotion to a first user account. The promotion may be redeemable by a first user account to obtain a good, service, or experience. The method may also include receiving a request to transfer the promotion to at least one second user account, receiving a promotion reassignment trigger, and in response to receiving the promotion reassignment trigger, assigning the promotion to the second user account using a processor, wherein assignment of the promotion to the second user account enables the second user account to redeem the promotion to obtain the good, service, or experience. |
| US11328363B1 |
Systems and methods for managing insurance premiums based upon peer-to-peer property sharing
A property sharing insurance management (“PSIM”) computing device for analyzing data from a property sharing platform to adjust insurance premiums for an offerer of a property may be provided. The PSIM computing device may include at least one processor programmed to (i) receive, from a data source, a plurality of property data, (ii) store the property data in a plurality of data records in a database, wherein each data record is associated with one property and stores the plurality of property data for that property, (iii) analyze the property data for the property, (iv) determine a percentage of time that the property is used for commercial purposes in an insurance billing cycle, and (v) process one or more adjusted insurance premiums for the offerer based upon the determined percentage of time that the property is used for commercial purposes in the insurance billing cycle. |
| US11328361B2 |
System and method for carbon emissions exposure determination
A system and method may determine the carbon emissions risk to an institution through its lending and investment activities to a plurality of counterparties by, for example, determining carbon emissions data for a number of counterparties and, for each counterparty, determining the carbon emissions risk to the institution. A system and method may determine the proportion of total capital of a counterparty that is being financed by a bank, and multiply this by a carbon emissions measure for the counterparty. Embodiments may be applied to determine optimal investment strategies for managing an institution's exposures to carbon risk over time. Such measures may be altered or projected using scenarios describing future emissions data. |
| US11328351B2 |
Apparatus and method to securely instruct an order by efficiently invoking a program application on a computing device
There is a provided an apparatus and method to securely communicate an order by efficiently invoking a program application on a computing device. The computing device may operate to receive and present a push notification, even while in a locked state, where the push notification requests input to initiate a performance of a task that is associated with an application defined by instructions stored on the computing device. The computing device receives input and initiates the performance of the task without fully loading the application into an operating memory. The input may initiate a communication of a message to a remote processing system to execute the order. |
| US11328348B2 |
Obfuscated service provider identity during client selection
A method for matching a client with a service provider is provided. The method includes receiving a request for a service from a client device, selecting one or more service providers based on the location indicated for the service, comparing the request to one or more profiles for the one or more service providers and to available services times, generating at least one bid for the service based on the one or more profiles, and sending the at least one bid to the client device. Sending the at least one bid includes obfuscating, to the client device, the identity of the one or more service providers corresponding to the at least one bid. The method also includes receiving from the client device a selection of one of the at least one bids and sending to the client device the specific identity of the one or more service providers. |
| US11328342B2 |
Ai based colluded shipping with 3D printing
An approach is provided in which an information handling system receives a request for a product from a first entity that includes multiple components. The information handling system determines that the components include a set of printable 3D components and a set of non-printable 3D components. Next, the information handling system sends a set of component instructions to a second entity to print the set of printable 3D components and, in turn, sends a set of assembly instructions to the second entity to assemble the product using the set of 3D printable components and the set of non-printable 3D components. |
| US11328341B2 |
System and method for individuals in a social network to gift or request to receive food and beverage items via mobile applications connected to point of sale systems
The present invention relates to a system and method for individuals of social network service to transmit or receive digital gift items via mobile applications connected to merchant point of sale systems. The social networking service stores data pertaining to a plurality of merchant and customers subscribing to services of a social networking service. The social networking service may receive a request from a first user to send a digital gift, which represents a good or service offered by a merchant, to a second user. The social networking service transmits a representation of the digital gift and an interactive element to a second user for enabling the second user to accept the digital gift. Upon receiving an indication that the second user has accepted the digital gift, the social networking service is configured to instantly generate a communication channel for the second user to contact the first user, and also facilitate processing of a payment associated for the digital gift. |
| US11328340B1 |
Image recognition product ordering system and method
A system for image recognition product ordering includes a communications link that receives a digital image of a printed advertisement of one or more products. An image recognition engine identifies one or more products depicted in the captured image and compares the identified products with depictions of products stored on a storage device. An order initiation unit correlates the one or more identified products with offers for sale of those products and initiates an order of the product. In alternative embodiments, a user of the system is presented with one or more offers for selections, if further embodiments the offer is a subscription-based order for recurring delivery of a product. A corresponding method is also disclosed. |
| US11328339B2 |
System and method for fashion recommendations
Novel system, methods, which include machine learning, and device for providing color and fashion recommendations, including for persons with visual impairment such as color blindness or complete blindness. Also, methods providing a data storage system for storing digital renditions of garments; providing a portable communication device to extract color and/or pattern from garments through use of a camera and at least one algorithm; providing a processor capable of accessing locally stored and/or remote information about or learning the preferred matching set of garments; assigning each garment in the set of garments a red-green-blue (RGB) value; providing a suitability ranking for matching compatibility of the garment or the set of garments; and providing recommendations for preferred matching garment or set of garments by organizing the garments in at least one queue selected from the group consisting of audial, tactile, visual or a combination thereof, wherein the individual imports garments or set of garments, through a series of photos or video, for bulk import into a virtual closet for the identification and assignment of type of garments or set of garments using human or computational methods. |
| US11328337B2 |
Method and system for level of difficulty determination using a sensor
An information processing method includes a step of obtaining article information including a category of an article which a user wishes to purchase, and a step of outputting a reminder concerning purchase of the article, when a reminding condition is satisfied in a reminding period that is set according to the category of the article obtained. |
| US11328335B2 |
Visual graphic aided location identification
A method of product location identification includes receiving an indication of a product to be located in a retail environment; identifying a product location using the product as a key; determining associated visual symbols from the product location; and communicating the associated visual symbols to a worker to guide the worker to the product location. |
| US11328328B2 |
Computer-implemented method for arranging hyperlinks on a grapical user-interface
Methods and systems for arranging hyperlinks on a graphical user-interface (GUI) of a computerized system include receiving, via the GUI, a user selection to display a plurality of hyperlinks, the hyperlinks corresponding to one or more nodes of a first set. The methods and systems further include determining, by a processor, a rank of each hyperlink in the plurality of hyperlinks. Determining a rank includes constructing a first bipartite graph between the one or more nodes of the first set and one or more nodes of a second set, the first set and the second set being mutually exclusive, wherein edges of the first bipartite graph are weighted according to a first criterium and constructing a second bipartite graph between the one or more nodes of the first set and the one or more nodes of the second set, wherein edges of the second bipartite graph are weighted according to a second criterium, different from the first criterium. The first bipartite graph and the second bipartite graph are aggregated to form an aggregated bipartite graph. The one or more hyperlinks are ranked ordinally according to an aggregate weight of the corresponding node in the aggregate bipartite graph. The first-ranked hyperlink is automatically moved to a first position on the GUI and the second and subsequently ranked hyperlinks are automatically moved to second and subsequent positions, respectively, on the GUI. |
| US11328326B2 |
Method and system for targeted advertising in an over-the-top (OTT) ecosystem
This disclosure relates generally to a system and method to recommend a targeted advertisement to a user. The system is configured to receive and pre-processes a plurality of data from various sources based on a set of predefined business rules. A set of training data is extracted from the pre-processed plurality of data to develop a machine learning model to identify a set of attributes of personality of the user. A neural network is trained to identify at least one classifier to define one or more needs of the user. It would be appreciated that the one or more needs of the user are mapped with the set of attributes of the personality. Finally, the recommendation module of the system recommends at least one advertisement to a media service provider to share the same over OTT to the user. |
| US11328324B1 |
Systems and methods for providing promotions based on search queries
Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing promotions to consumers based on search queries are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system including circuitry configured to receive a search query from a consumer device. The circuitry may be further configured to determine a related promotion to the search query based on having received the search query from consumers in connection with promotion purchase data indicating purchase of the related promotion, such as may be indicated by historical data. Furthermore, the circuitry may provide an impression of the related promotion to the consumer device based on the search query. Consumer interactions with the system may be tracked as historical data and leveraged to provide one or more related promotions that are relevant and/or related to the search query. |
| US11328323B2 |
Systems and methods for matching online users across devices
Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a plurality of Internet-enabled devices with a common user profile for targeting Internet content or advertising. One method includes: receiving, from a plurality of Internet-enabled devices, a plurality of requests for electronic content or advertising; extracting, from each of the plurality of requests, a source IP address and a unique identifier associated with the respective Internet-enabled device; for each source IP address for which requests were received over a predetermined time period from a number of Internet-enabled devices below a threshold number of devices, identifying each possible pair of devices from which requests were received; and for each possible pair of devices, calculating a probability that the pair of devices are owned or operated by a common user. |
| US11328318B2 |
Preventing internet bots from influencing user media feedback
Performance feedback related to media presented to a user is received at a processing system including an analytics module. The performance feedback includes metadata identifying the user. The analytics module determines, based on the metadata included in the performance feedback, whether the performance feedback is related to a valid user. In response to determining that the performance feedback is related to a valid user, the analytics module strips the metadata identifying the user from the performance feedback, and transmits the performance feedback from the processing system to a media proposal server. |
| US11328317B2 |
Systems and methods for incentivizing behavior
A computer-implemented method for incentivizing user behavior including identifying an action for a user to perform, providing the number of credits that can be earned by the user for performing the action, verifying that the user has carried out the action and awarding the credits to the user. |
| US11328309B1 |
Methods and systems for data analytics for payment facilitators
Systems and methods for providing analytics data to payment facilitators and sub-merchants via a dynamic dashboard. Methods comprise receiving a request for analytics data associated with transaction data received at a point of sale terminal operated by a sub-merchant of the payment facilitator; querying, a transaction database of the acquirer processor computing system for the analytics data responsive to the request; transmitting the analytics data from the acquirer processor computing system to the payment facilitator computing system if the request for analytics data originates from the payment facilitator; transmitting the analytics data from the acquirer processor computing system to a sub-merchant computing system if the request for analytics data originates from the sub-merchant of the payment facilitator; and generating an electronic dashboard presenting the queried analytics data responsive to the request, for display on a screen of the payment facilitator computing system or the sub-merchant computing system. |
| US11328308B1 |
Systems and methods for matching and delivering account-level data from multiple customer-facing platforms based on contact-level touchpoints
The disclosed method may include (1) deploying a virtual-tracking technology across a plurality of customer-facing platforms, (2) detecting, via one customer-facing platform, a first touchpoint between a browser of a contact related to a buyer-side business and a seller-side business, (3) generating, by way of the virtual-tracking technology, a cookie that is linked to the buyer-side business, (4) dropping the cookie into the browser of the contact during the first touchpoint, (5) detecting, via another customer-facing platform, a second touchpoint between the browser of the contact and the seller-side business based at least in part on the cookie, and then (6) tracing a customer journey that (A) represents the interactions between the buyer-side business and the seller-side business via the contact and (B) accounts for the first touchpoint and the second touchpoint. Various other systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11328306B1 |
Systems and methods for interactive tools for dynamic evaluation of online content
Systems, computer-readable media, methods, and apparatuses for interactive tools for dynamic evaluation of online content are described. One example method includes receiving, by a client device, a selection of first content from a first content provider, the first content obtained using a first uniform resource identifier (“URI”); in response to receiving, by the client device, a request to access evaluation information associated with the first URI, transmitting a request to access the evaluation information to a second content provider using a second URI; receiving, by the client device from the second content provider, second content associated with the first URI, the second content having the evaluation information; generating, by the client device, annotations for the first content using the evaluation information; and displaying the first content and the annotations, the annotations displayed within the first content. |
| US11328305B2 |
Method for at least one business operator to provide services to customers utilizing a network, and the network for the same
Provided is a method for one or more businesses to provide services to customers using a network. Also provided is a network that comprises a plurality of nodes. At least some of the plurality of nodes store data that is necessary for one or more businesses to provide services to customers. At least some of the plurality of nodes can process data. Terminal devices associated with customers can be connected to at least one of the plurality of nodes. The method involves terminal devices being connected to one of the plurality of nodes and services being provided to customers by one or more business via the terminal devices and the network without going through the businesses. |
| US11328302B2 |
Systems and methods using a data structure summarizing item information in authorization request messages for communication in transactions involving multiple items
A system and method includes an authorization request message configured with information about transaction amounts of items aggregated according to item categories and applicable rates for the items in the respective categories. Based on the information provided in the authorization request, a transaction handler is configured to compute a modified transaction amount for the transaction by reducing the transaction amount of items in one or more of the categories, without reducing the transaction amount(s) of items in one or more other categories, and computing a total transaction amount based on the reduction and the applicable rates. |
| US11328295B1 |
Secure messaging-based delayed payout mediation with protective countermeasures
An online system receives information about a first transaction including a destination account identifier and a payment amount from a source computing device. The online system sends the source computing device a deep link to a second application. The online system receives a confirmation including a transaction identifier from the second application. The payment was sent to an intermediate payment processor, which records the first transaction in a ledger in association with a source account identifier. The online system receives an instruction to reverse the first transaction. The online system sends an instruction to generate a second transaction to a source account of the source computing device including the transaction identifier and not the source account identifier to the intermediate payment processor. The online system receives a confirmation of the second transaction, where the intermediate payment processor queried the ledger using the transaction identifier to identify the source account. |
| US11328293B2 |
Systems and methods for multi-merchant tokenization
Systems and methods for multi-merchant tokenization may include receiving a transaction from a point of sale terminal of a merchant, validating the merchant ID against merchant logs, and generating a token for the transaction. The token includes a primary account number, expiration, and a group ID. Additionally, the system provides the primary account number to a payment system and receives a response back. The response is then output back to the merchant along with the token. In subsequent transactions, the system may receive the token from a one point of sale terminal of the merchant. The system validates the merchant ID against merchant logs and ensures the merchant is configured for tokenization. The token is decrypted and the group ID is compared to the merchant ID in the merchant logs. When they match, the primary account number is provided to the payment system for approval. |
| US11328290B2 |
Stable cryptocurrency coinage
A two-coin mechanism for maintaining a stable value of cryptographic coinage traded in a decentralized market exchange without requiring a reserve. A pegged cryptographic token and a variable-priced cryptographic token are both traded in the reserveless decentralized market exchange. The pegged cryptographic token and the variable-priced cryptographic token are value related based on a cryptographic exchange rate. Whenever a market transaction is processed (such as a buy or sell order), at least one of a destruction operation and a creation operation are performed. The destruction operation destroys at least one of the pegged cryptographic token and/or the variable-priced cryptographic token, while the creation operation creates new ones of the pegged cryptographic token and/or the variable-priced cryptographic token. The two-coin mechanism thus implements a decentralized and algorithmic monetary policy that removes and/or deposits cryptographic tokens to/from the reserveless decentralized market exchange to alter supply and to maintain stable coinage values. |
| US11328289B2 |
System and method for authenticating electronic money using a smart card and a communication terminal
The present invention relates to a system and a method for authenticating an electronic money using a smart card and a communication terminal. The present invention provides a system and a method for authenticating an electronic money, wherein the system comprises a smart card and a communication terminal. The smart card takes biometric signature from a user as an input, transmits recognition completion information to the communication terminal when the biometric signature inputted by the user matches the stored biometric signature, receives an update command from the communication terminal, updates the amount of stored balance data, and transmits an update completion message to the communication terminal. The communication terminal is connected to the smart card in a wired or wireless manner, and transmits the update command to the smart card upon receipt of the recognition completion information. |
| US11328288B2 |
System and method for authenticating electronic money using a smart card and a communication terminal
The present invention relates to a system and a method for authenticating an electronic money using a smart card and a communication terminal. The present invention provides a system and a method for authenticating an electronic money, wherein the system comprises a smart card and a communication terminal. The smart card takes biometric signature from a user as an input, transmits recognition completion information to the communication terminal when the biometric signature inputted by the user matches the stored biometric signature, receives an update command from the communication terminal, updates the amount of stored balance data, and transmits an update completion message to the communication terminal. The communication terminal is connected to the smart card in a wired or wireless manner, and transmits the update command to the smart card upon receipt of the recognition completion information. |
| US11328287B2 |
Systems and methods for coordinating virtual wallet defaults
Systems and methods are provided for use in permitting selection of a virtual wallet default at a communication device by a user associated with the communication device. One exemplary method includes receiving, by a wallet platform, a payload request from a virtual wallet at a communication device where the payload request related to a default virtual wallet for the communication device, and verifying, by the wallet platform, the payload request. The method then also includes, in response to the payload request, identifying, by the wallet platform, the virtual wallet as the default virtual wallet for the communication device, whereby the virtual wallet is identified as the default virtual wallet for subsequent transactions performed via the communication device. |
| US11328285B2 |
Techniques to generate and store characteristics of a signature on a transaction card circuit
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to perform transaction with transaction cards utilizing characteristics of customer's signature. Techniques may further include determining characteristics of a signature including a reduced set of data points for the signature and storing the characteristics in secure memory of transaction card. The transaction card including the characteristics are used to perform transactions, such as those performed at Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals. |
| US11328284B1 |
Connected car as a payment device
Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media are described for using a vehicle as a payment device. Various aspects may include receiving a selection of a stored financial card or financial account at a vehicle head unit. The selected financial card or financial account may be transmitted to a point-of-sale (POS) terminal for making a payment by transmitting a tokenized card number to the POS terminal. The tokenized card number may be transmitted over a very short-range communication link to ensure that the transmission is secure. For example, electronic circuitry may be attached to the exterior of the vehicle, where the electronic circuitry may be within a threshold distance (e.g. one inch, three inches, six inches, one foot, three feet, etc.) of the POS terminal. The tokenized card number may be transmitted from the vehicle head unit to the electronic circuitry and then to the POS terminal. |
| US11328283B2 |
Systems and methods for performing payment transactions
A wearable payment device, such as a finger ring worn by a user, communicates payment data to a payment reader that uses the payment data in order to request a payment transaction. Such wearable payment device may be conveniently carried by and accessible to the user such that utilization of the payment device for the payment transaction is less burdensome for the user, thereby encouraging use of the payment device for payments. Indeed, in some cases, such as when the payment device is implemented as a finger ring or other type of jewelry, the user may be encouraged to carry the payment device in an exposed manner such that it is readily available for the payment transaction without the user having to search in a wallet, pocket, or purse. |
| US11328282B2 |
Method and system for identifying goods of intelligent shopping cart
The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for identifying goods of intelligent shopping cart. The method comprises: reading bar code information of a to-be-purchased goods and obtaining corresponding prestored goods information; continuously detecting and obtaining a total goods weight mn+1 in the shopping cart, and comparing the total goods weight mn+1 with a total goods weight mn acquired after a previous purchasing action is completed, to obtain a variation mΔ of the total goods weight. According to the method of the present disclosure, when a customer puts a goods in the shopping cart in the shopping course, the correct goods is automatically identified and recorded in a shopping list, then the customer can directly settle the account after completing the shopping, accordingly a lot of time for the customers to wait for the settlement is saved. |
| US11328279B2 |
Multi-state merchant-facing device
Techniques associated with a dual state merchant-facing device are described herein. A point-of-sale system can comprise multiple devices, such as a customer-facing device and a merchant-facing device that is coupled to the customer-facing device and can operate in a first state or a second state. In at least one example, the merchant-facing device operating in the first state can present a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display. The merchant-facing device can transition from the first state to the second state, the second state enabling the merchant-facing device to perform at least one additional functionality that is not available to the merchant-facing device in the first state, and can update the GUI based at least in part on the at least one additional functionality. |
| US11328274B2 |
Data processing system and method for managing electronic split transactions using user profiles
A system configured for managing a split transaction is disclosed. The system receives a request from a first user device associated with a first user to initiate a split transaction session between the first, second, and third users. A first user device associated with the first user includes second contact information associated with the second user. A second user device associated with the second user includes third contact information associated with the third user. The system receives an API request from the first user device to retrieve a third user profile. The system sends a request to the second user device to retrieve the third user profile. The second user device retrieves the third user profile and sends it to the system. The system retrieves the second and third user profiles and adds them to the split transaction session. The system conducts the split transaction session. |
| US11328273B2 |
Methods and systems for a reliable payment transaction
Embodiments provide method and systems for determining connectivity information of payment network for a reliable payment transaction. The method includes receiving a connectivity information request before performing a payment transaction via payment network. The method includes generating a connectivity check message including a plurality of connectivity status flags associated with payment entities in payment network. The method includes sending the connectivity check message to the payment entities in a predefined sequence of a payment transaction flow in the payment network. The method further includes facilitating setting up the plurality of connectivity status flags based on a successful communication of the connectivity check message between the payment entities in the predefined sequence. The method includes determining if each of the plurality of connectivity status flags is set with the success state. Upon determining the success state, the method further includes generating a successful connectivity information for performing the payment transaction. |
| US11328270B2 |
Service processing method and apparatus
Implementations of the present specification provide a service processing method. The method is performed by a service platform, the service platform including multiple area sites corresponding to multiple service areas, and each area site including a corresponding buyer service site and seller service site. The method includes: splitting a whole-order service into a buyer service and a seller service; further, on one hand, routing the buyer service to a buyer service site in a service area that a corresponding buyer belongs to, for the buyer service site to process the buyer service through interconnection with the buyer based on an area user identifier, and to locally store processed data, where the area user identifier is determined based on multiple area identities associated with a domain-wide identity corresponding to the buyer; and on the other hand, routing the seller service to a seller service site in a service area that a corresponding seller belongs to, for the seller service site to process the seller service through interconnection with the seller, and to locally store processed data. |
| US11328265B1 |
System, method, and computer program product for allocating time to achieve objectives
A system, method, and computer program product are provided to allow a user to define a list of user-defined important senders; receive an e-mail; identify information associated with the sender of the e-mail, in response to the receipt of the e-mail; perform a comparison, utilizing one or more processors, involving the information associated with the sender of the e-mail, and the list of user-defined important senders, to determine whether the information associated with the sender of the e-mail is on the list of user-defined important senders; and organize the e-mail in a single user-defined important sender(s) folder, based on the comparison. |
| US11328261B2 |
System and methods for home automation system calendar coordination
A method for security and/or automation systems is described. In one example, the method may include receiving scheduling data associated with a schedule for each of two or more users at a home automation system. The method may further include comparing the received scheduling data for each of the two or more users, and deriving an alert based, at least in part, on the comparing. The method may further include communicating the alert to at least one of the two or more users. |
| US11328257B1 |
System and method for monitoring retirement conduct
A system includes at least one hardware processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations including identifying a component of tracked conduct, the component of tracked conduct including a first conduct trigger condition and a reward, the first conduct trigger condition is associated with conduct of a user related to retirement, receiving conduct data associated with the first conduct trigger condition from a first data source, determining, using the conduct data, that the first conduct trigger condition is satisfied, and causing the reward to be provided to the user. |
| US11328252B1 |
Automatically generating invoices from contracts in a procurement system
An improved procurement system and method are provided. The improved procurement system comprises: a memory having stored therein an account of a first entity, the account associated with a first computer and comprising contract data associated with a first entity and a contract terms included in a contract between the first entity and a second entity, wherein the second entity is not associated with the account; one or more processors; a non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform: generating a Contract Order Document from the contract data associated with the first computer, the Contract Order Document being an electronic document comprising a portion of the contract data and a selectable user interface element that, when selected by a second computer associated with the second entity, generates an instruction to generate a first document; sending, via a network, the Contract Order Document to the second computer; receiving, in response to the Contract Order Document, the instruction from the second computer to generate the first document; obtaining, in response to the instruction and from the account of the first computer, at least a portion of the contract terms included in the contract between the first entity and the second entity; generating the first document using the at least the portion of the contract terms obtained from the account of the first computer; sending, via a network, the first document to the second computer. |
| US11328249B2 |
Computerized systems and methods for address correction
A computer-implemented system for correcting address information. The system may include a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include requesting an address for normalization from at least one of a current address or a residential history of a user; receiving, from a user device, a user input including requested address information responsive to the request for normalization; searching, based on the user input, a cache to determine whether a refined version of the requested address is available; returning, based on a determination that a refined version of the requested address exists in the cache, a refined address as the normalized address to the user; and beginning to transport a package to the user at the normalized address, by providing instructions to a mobile device associated with a delivery worker, to transport the package to the normalized address. |
| US11328247B2 |
Package delivery with message management
A message platform configured to receive video message data and correlate the video message data with shipping data associated with one or more items, generate a packing slip with a unique identifier, receive a message retrieval request based on the unique identifier, and cause the video message data to be transmitted to a recipient user device. |
| US11328245B1 |
Systems for improved delivery of time-critical goods
Some embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method for transporting a good. The method may comprise receiving, on a first client device, an electronic user request for transporting the good from a pickup location to a destination location. The electronic user request may include a unique identifier corresponding to the good. The method may include assigning the electronic user request to a transport provider. The method may include authenticating the good, rejecting the good, and authorizing the good for transport when the good is authenticated. The transport provider may capture an image of the good. Authenticating the good may include scanning the captured image to identify features, comparing the unique identifiers to the identified features, and authenticating the good when the unique identifier matches the identified features. The good may be rejected if there is not a match between the unique identifier and the identified goods. |
| US11328240B2 |
Data processing systems for assessing readiness for responding to privacy-related incidents
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for mapping various questions regarding a data breach from a master questionnaire to a plurality of territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires. The answers to the questions in the master questionnaire are used to populate the territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires and determine whether disclosure is required in territory. The system can automatically notify the appropriate regulatory bodies for each territory where it is determined that data breach disclosure is required. |
| US11328239B2 |
System and method to predict, prevent, and mitigate workplace injuries
A prevention and safety management system utilizes a non-intrusive imaging sensor (e.g. surveillance cameras, smartphone cameras) and a computer vision system to record videos of workers not wearing sensors. The videos are analyzed using a deep machine learning algorithm to detect kinematic activities (set of predetermined body joint positions and angles) of the workers and recognizing various physical activities (walk/posture, lift, push, pull, reach, force, repetition, duration etc.). The measured kinematic variables are then parsed into metrics relevant to workplace ergonomics, such as number of repetitions, total distance travelled, range of motion, and the proportion of time in different posture categories. The information gathered by this system is fed into an ergonomic assessment system and is used to automatically populate exposure assessment tools and create risk assessments. |
| US11328238B2 |
Preemptively surfacing relevant content within email
A system and method for surfacing content relevant is described. The system computes a rank score for each item of a plurality of items that are accessible from a user of an enterprise application. The system identifies a set of relevant items from the plurality of items based on the rank score for each item of the plurality of items. The system surfaces the set of relevant items within a context of a communication application of the user without receiving, from the user, a query for any of the items in the set of relevant items. |
| US11328234B2 |
Interactive project progress tracking interface
Computer systems and methods are provided for updating a task component status. A first graphical user interface is displayed. The first graphical user interface includes a first task completion control with indicia of a first time range that corresponds to a first task, where the first task includes a first plurality of task components, indicia that correspond to at least one completed task component of the first plurality of task components, and indicia that correspond to at least one uncompleted task component of the first plurality of task components. A first input is detected, at a location that corresponds to the first task completion control. In response to detecting the first input, at least one operation is performed to change a status of a respective uncompleted task component. The first graphical user interface is updated using the changed status of the respective uncompleted task component. |
| US11328231B2 |
Method of matching employers with job seekers
A method of facilitating a match between an employer with at least one job opening and job seekers is provided. The employer has a set of position preferences related to the job opening. The job seekers have suitability data, resumes, etc., that are provided to the employer. The suitability data includes normalized assessment data. The method includes the steps of: determining a position quotient based on the position preferences; deriving a performance quotient for each job seeker, the performance quotient including normalized assessment data; comparing each the performance quotient to the position quotient; and ranking each the job seeker based on the comparison of the performance quotient to the position quotient. |
| US11328229B1 |
Time-based decomposition for supply chain optimization problem
A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments further include receiving a multi-period matrix formulation of a least a portion of an LP supply chain master planning problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network and having a planning horizon divided into time buckets separated by time-bucket boundaries, mapping constraints of the LP supply chain master planning problem and variables of the LP supply chain master planning problem to the time buckets, calculating a quantity of cross-over variables for the constraints and the time buckets, selecting one or more decomposition boundaries from the time-bucket boundaries, and formulating at least two time-based decomposed subproblems by decomposing the LP supply chain master planning problem at the one or more decomposition boundaries. |
| US11328227B2 |
System for dynamic location-aware patient care process controls and dynamic location-aware tracking
A system having a system backend having a backend processor configured to define a patient clinical team associated with a patient clinical process comprising of a series of patient clinical tasks effected within the healthcare facility, each patient clinical task with an associated patient clinical task location within the healthcare facility, a group of mobile devices communicably connected via a network to the system backend, each mobile device being associated with and configured for use by at least one care member of the patient clinical team, a low energy (LE) beacon array arranged in a predetermined relationship with and differentiating between different patient clinical task locations, and communicably connected to each of the mobile devices that is configured to resolve its proximity, from the beacon array, relative to the at least one patient clinical task location. The backend processor is configured to dynamically enhance the patient clinical team by dynamically changing in real-time a predetermined characteristic of the patient clinical team based on the resolved proximity of each mobile device associated with each care member of the patient clinical team. |
| US11328225B1 |
Automatic spatial regression system
A computing device selects a trained spatial regression model. A spatial weights matrix defined for observation vectors is selected, where each element of the spatial weights matrix indicates an amount of influence between respective pairs of observation vectors. Each observation vector is spatially referenced. A spatial regression model is selected from spatial regression models, initialized, and trained using the observation vectors and the spatial weights matrix to fit a response variable using regressor variables. Each observation vector includes a response value for the response variable and a regressor value for each regressor variable of the regressor variables. A fit criterion value is computed for the spatial regression model and the spatial regression model selection, initialization, and training are repeated until each spatial regression model is selected. A best spatial regression model is selected and output as the spatial regression model having an extremum value of the fit criterion value. |
| US11328223B2 |
Information processing method and information processing system
An information processing method includes the processes of: obtaining food and drink data and presenting the food and drink data via a presentation device; generating options for the food and drink data, and presenting the options via the presentation device; generating selection reasons according to an option selected from among the options, and presenting the selection reasons via the presentation device; and controlling training of a machine learning model, in which the food and drink data is used, according to a result of an input in response to the selection reasons. |
| US11328221B2 |
Hybrid model for short text classification with imbalanced data
A method of text classification includes generating a text embedding vector representing a text sample and applying weights of a regression layer to the text embedding vector to generate a first data model output vector. The method also includes generating a plurality of prototype embedding vectors associated with a respective classification labels and comparing the plurality of prototype embedding vectors to the text embedding vector to generate a second data model output vector. The method further includes assigning a particular classification label to the text sample based on the first data model output vector, the second data model output vector, and one or more weighting values. |
| US11328220B2 |
Prediction characterization for black box machine learning models
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, causes the computing system to: access a machine learning model m, an input data point P to m, P including one or more features, and a prediction m(P) of m for P; create a set of perturbed input data points Pk from P by selecting a new value for at least one feature of P for each perturbed input data point; obtain a prediction m(Pk) for each of the perturbed input data points; analyze the predictions m(Pk) for the perturbed input data points to determine which features are most influential to the prediction; and output the analysis results to a user. |
| US11328215B2 |
Computer implemented determination method and system
Methods for providing a computer implemented medical diagnosis are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an input from a user comprising at least one symptom of the user, and providing the at least one symptom as an input to a medical model. The method also includes deriving estimates of the probability of the user having a disease from the discriminative model, inputting the estimates to the inference engine, performing approximate inference on the probabilistic graphical model to obtain a prediction of the probability that the user has that disease, and outputting the probability of the user having the disease for display by a display device. |
| US11328210B2 |
Self-learning in distributed architecture for enhancing artificial neural network
A vehicle having the first ANN model initially installed therein to generate outputs from inputs generated by one or more sensors of the vehicle. The vehicle selects an input based on an output generated from the input using the first ANN model. The vehicle has a module to incrementally train the first ANN model through unsupervised machine learning from sensor data that includes the input selected by the vehicle. Optionally, the sensor data used for the unsupervised learning may further include inputs selected by other vehicles in a population. Sensor inputs selected by vehicles are transmitted to a centralized computer server, which trains the first ANN model through supervised machine learning from sensor received inputs from the vehicles in the population and generates a second ANN model as replacement of the first ANN model previously incrementally improved via unsupervised machine learning in the population. |
| US11328205B2 |
Generating featureless service provider matches
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize featureless supervised or unsupervised machine learning to generate service provider match predictions based on raw communication data. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a trained service provider match neural network to generate a service provider match prediction based on raw communication data associated with an incoming audio, text, or video communication. In response to the generated service provider match prediction, the disclosed systems can route the incoming communication to the matched service provider. |
| US11328203B2 |
Capturing organization specificities with embeddings in a model for a multi-tenant database system
For a multi-tenant database accessible by a plurality of separate organizations, a system is provided for capturing organization specificities in a model for the multi-tenant database. The system includes a neural network. The system is configured to: receive an organization encoding for one or more separate organizations making previous search queries into the multi-tenant database; generate a vector matrix from the organization encoding to embed organization specificities for training a model of the neural network; and using the vector matrix, train the model of the neural network for processing a present search query into the multi-tenant database. In some embodiments, the model of the neural network is global across the separate organizations accessing the database. |
| US11328202B2 |
Information processing system, information code generating system, information processing method, and information code generating method
To easily determine whether an information code has been replaced, an information processing device obtains, based on original information obtained by photographing an optically readable information code and decoding the same, first class information indicating a class into which an object visually represented by first visual information which should be displayed together with an information code is classified. The information processing device obtains second class information indicating a class into which an object visually represented by second visual information photographed together with the information code because of display together with the information code is classified. The information processing device compares the first class information with the second class information. The information processing device controls, based on a result of the comparison, execution of predetermined processing using the original information. |
| US11328201B2 |
Roll-to-roll method of fabricating a wireless multi-layer laminate
A low-cost, multi-function tracking system with a form factor that unobtrusively integrates the components needed to implement a combination of different localization techniques and also is able to perform a useful ancillary function that otherwise would have to be performed with the attendant need for additional materials, labor, and expense. An example tracking system is implemented as an adhesive product that integrates tracking components within a flexible adhesive structure in a way that not only provides a cost-effective platform for interconnecting, optimizing, and protecting the components of the tracking system but also maintains the flexibility needed to function as an adhesive product that can be deployed seamlessly and unobtrusively into various tracking applications and workflows, including person and object tracking applications, and asset management workflows such as manufacturing, storage, shipping, delivery, and other logistics associated with moving products and other physical objects. |
| US11328195B2 |
Transaction card assembly
Provided are approaches for providing multiple user accounts in a same transaction card assembly. The transaction card assembly may include a first card including a first card first side opposite a first card second side, the first card first side including a first pair of magnetic stripes and the first card second side including a first pair of identification chips. The transaction card assembly may further include a second card coupled to the first card, the second card including a second card first side opposite a second card second side, the second card first side including a second pair of magnetic stripes, and the second card second side including a second pair of identification chips. The first and second cards are slidable relative to one another between multiple positions to selectively expose and cover each identification chip of the first and second pairs of identification chips. |
| US11328194B2 |
Generation and recognition of barcode
A generation method for a barcode is disclosed. The generation method for a barcode includes: obtaining a dotted line segment based on a barcode generated in a reference encoding mode and an intersection between the barcode and a straight line perpendicular to a black stripe in the barcode; and rotating the dotted line segment by 180 degrees by using either one of two endpoints of the dotted line segment as a center of a circle, to generate a semicircular barcode. |
| US11328191B2 |
E-card encoder module
A card encoding system comprises a belt to receive an encodable card on a first surface of the belt; a contactless encoding module including an encoding antenna, wherein the encoding antenna is positioned opposite a second surface of the belt; and a belt drive controller configured to rotate a drive roller to move the belt to position the encodable card for encoding using the encoding antenna. |
| US11328189B2 |
Information processing apparatus to determine a type of a recording medium
An information processing apparatus performs acquiring measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium a plurality of times; inputting information corresponding to a type of the recording medium; acquiring an extraction range of the type indicated by the information, among extraction ranges set to respective types of recording media for determination of a type; setting, based on the measurement results and the type, a parameter for correcting the measurement results to reduce difference between the measurement results and the extraction range; correcting, by using the parameter, measurement results obtained by measuring a characteristic of a recording medium to be recorded; and extracting a candidate type of the recording media, the measurement results, based on the corrected measurement results and the extraction range. |
| US11328184B2 |
Image classification and conversion method and device, image processor and training method therefor, and medium
Disclosed are an image classification and conversion method, apparatus, image processor and training method thereof, and medium. The image classification method includes receiving a first input image and a second input image; performing image encoding on the first input image by utilizing n stages of encoding units connected in cascades to produce a first output image, wherein n is an integer greater than 1, and wherein as for 1≤i |
| US11328183B2 |
Imagination-based agent neural networks
A neural network system is proposed. The neural network can be trained by model-based reinforcement learning to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment, to perform a task in an attempt to achieve a specified result. The system may comprise at least one imagination core which receives a current observation characterizing a current state of the environment, and optionally historical observations, and which includes a model of the environment. The imagination core may be configured to output trajectory data in response to the current observation, and/or historical observations. The trajectory data comprising a sequence of future features of the environment imagined by the imagination core. The system may also include a rollout encoder to encode the features, and an output stage to receive data derived from the rollout embedding and to output action policy data for identifying an action based on the current observation. |
| US11328178B2 |
System and method for automated photo-ideophone matching and placement
A computer-implemented method of associating an annotation with an object in an image, comprising generating a dictionary including first vectors that associate terms of the annotation with concepts, classifying the image to generate a second vector based on classified objects and associated confidence scores for the classified objects, selecting a term of the terms associated with one of the first vectors having a shortest determined distance to the second vector, identifying a non-salient region of the image, and rendering the annotation associated with the selected term at the non-salient region. |
| US11328177B2 |
Computer-based systems, computing components and computing objects configured to implement dynamic outlier bias reduction in machine learning models
Systems and methods include processors for receiving training data for a user activity; receiving bias criteria; determining a set of model parameters for a machine learning model including: (1) applying the machine learning model to the training data; (2) generating model prediction errors; (3) generating a data selection vector to identify non-outlier target variables based on the model prediction errors; (4) utilizing the data selection vector to generate a non-outlier data set; (5) determining updated model parameters based on the non-outlier data set; and (6) repeating steps (1)-(5) until a censoring performance termination criterion is satisfied; training classifier model parameters for an outlier classifier machine learning model; applying the outlier classifier machine learning model to activity-related data to determine non-outlier activity-related data; and applying the machine learning model to the non-outlier activity-related data to predict future activity-related attributes for the user activity. |
| US11328173B2 |
Switchable propagation neural network
A temporal propagation network (TPN) system learns the affinity matrix for video image processing tasks. An affinity matrix is a generic matrix that defines the similarity of two points in space. The TPN system includes a guidance neural network model and a temporal propagation module and is trained for a particular computer vision task to propagate visual properties from a key-frame represented by dense data (color), to another frame that is represented by coarse data (grey-scale). The guidance neural network model generates an affinity matrix referred to as a global transformation matrix from task-specific data for the key-frame and the other frame. The temporal propagation module applies the global transformation matrix to the key-frame property data to produce propagated property data (color) for the other frame. For example, the TPN system may be used to colorize several frames of greyscale video using a single manually colorized key-frame. |
| US11328171B2 |
Image retrieval method and apparatus
The present disclosure relates to an image retrieval method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an image group including a query image and at least one candidate image; calculating an intermediate similarity between any two images in the image group; performing multi-scale feature fusion based on the intermediate similarity between the any two images to obtain a final similarity between the query image and each candidate image; and determining a target image corresponding to the query image from each candidate image based on the final similarity. The present disclosure can improve precision and robustness of image retrieval. |
| US11328170B2 |
Unknown object identification for robotic device
A method for identifying objects includes generating a feature vector of an unknown object from an image of an environment. The method also includes comparing the feature vector of the unknown object to feature vectors of known objects. The method further includes determining whether a similarity between the feature vector of the unknown object and the feature vector of one of the known objects satisfies a threshold. Furthermore, the method includes identifying the unknown object based on the determination. |
| US11328166B2 |
Authentication method for an electronic device
The present disclosure relates to a method of authenticating a user by means of an electronic device comprising a user output interface. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding electronic device and to a computer program product. |
| US11328165B2 |
Pressure-based activation of fingerprint spoof detection
In a method for performing operating a fingerprint sensor, an image of a fingerprint of a finger is captured at a fingerprint sensor. A force applied by the finger at the fingerprint sensor is determined, where the force is a measure of pressure applied by the finger on the fingerprint sensor during capture of the image. The force is compared to a pressure threshold. Provided the force satisfies a pressure threshold, a spoof detection operation is performed to determine whether the finger is a real finger. Provided the force does not satisfy the pressure threshold, fingerprint authentication using the image of the fingerprint is performed without performing the spoof detection operation. |
| US11328163B2 |
Methods and apparatus for automated surveillance systems
Systems and methods to automate both emergency identification and emergency response to minimize response time while optimizing the dispatching of different types of first responders are provided. The system may include an automation system. The automation system may receive a plurality of data elements from a plurality of sensors. The automation system may extract a set of features from the plurality of data elements. The automation system may identify an emergency situation based on the set of features and a set of rules. The automation system may assess the priority of the emergency situation based on a set of data elements associated with the emergency situation and a set of policies. The automation system may select a responder in response to the identified emergency situation. The automation system may dispatch the selected responder to an area related to the identified emergency situation. |
| US11328159B2 |
Automatically detecting contents expressing emotions from a video and enriching an image index
The present disclosure provides method, apparatus and system for detecting contents expressing emotions from a video. The method may comprise: dividing the video into a plurality of clips; extracting, from a first clip and at least one second clip of the plurality of clips, features associated with the first clip; determining whether the first clip expresses emotions based on the features associated with the first clip; and building an index containing the first clip based on the features associated with the first clip if the first clip expresses emotions. |
| US11328155B2 |
Augmented reality labels systems and methods
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods for labeling objects displayed by an augmented reality display system used to assist in the operation of mobile structures. Such an augmented reality display system includes a logic device configured to communicate with navigational sensors and imaging modules coupled to a mobile structure, where the navigational sensors are configured to provide navigational data associated with the mobile structure and the imaging module is configured to image a scene from a position on the mobile structure. The logic device is configured to detect an object in the scene, determine a heading reliability associated with the detected object based, at least in part, on the navigational data, and render an integrated model of the scene on a display, where the integrated model is configured to indicate the determined heading reliability associated with the detected object. |
| US11328154B2 |
Systems and methods of increasing pedestrian awareness during mobile device usage
A mobile electronic device includes a video camera, a display, a processor, and a hardware storage device. The video camera is positioned on a first side of the mobile electronic device, and the display is positioned on a second side of the mobile electronic device opposite the first side. The processor is in data communication with the video camera and the display. The hardware storage device is in data communication with the processor. The hardware storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to image a physical environment of the mobile electronic device using the video camera, display a video feed on the display in real time in a first portion of the display area, and display a second software application in a second portion of the display area while displaying the video feed in the first portion. |
| US11328150B2 |
Lens-array imager
A lens-array imager includes lenses Lm forming a lens array having a pitch dx, a pixel array including pixel-array regions Rm, and apertured baffle-layers therebetween; m={0, 1, 2, . . . }. Each pixel-array region has a width rx |
| US11328147B1 |
Identifying item barcodes
This disclosure describes using trained classifiers and additional data to identify items placed into a tote. The techniques may use a first classifier on image data representing an item to determine a region associated with a barcode of the item and may use one or more second classifiers to analyze the region for determining a candidate barcode. The techniques may then determine whether the candidate barcode corresponds to the actual barcode of the item. If so, the techniques may update a virtual cart associated with a user account to indicate the acquisition of the item. If not, then the techniques may use the additional data for identifying the item. For example, the techniques determine a current location of a tote for determining items that are within a threshold distance of the location and may use this information, along with the candidate barcode, to identify the item placed into the tote. |
| US11328144B2 |
Auxiliary data management system
A system may include a plurality of stations that implement a workflow process. The workflow process may include reading a barcode in connection with at least some of the plurality of stations. The barcode may be attached to an item that is moved between the plurality of stations during the workflow process. The system may additionally include a plurality of devices. Each of the plurality of devices may be located at one of the plurality of stations. At least some of the plurality of devices may include barcode reading capability. The system may additionally include process management code stored in memory on at least some of the plurality of devices. The process management code may be executable by one or more processors on the plurality of devices to determine auxiliary data corresponding to the workflow process and send the auxiliary data to a server. |
| US11328141B2 |
Handheld symbol reader with optical element to redirect central illumination axis
An apparatus and assembly for redirecting the central illumination axis of an illumination assembly towards the central field of view (FOV) axis of an imaging assembly using an optical element that provides an optical magnification of less than 1.5×, where the central illumination axis at the point of the illumination assembly is non-parallel to the central FOV axis. |
| US11328140B2 |
Method for accurate object tracking with color camera in multi planar scanners
Methods for accurate object tracking are disclosed herein. An example the method includes receiving, from a first optical imaging assembly having a first field of view (FOV), a first image captured over the first FOV and based on a decode of an indicia associated with an object of interest, identifying the object of interest within the first image. The method further includes determining a location of the object of interest within the first image and mapping the location of the object of interest within the first image to a predicted location of the object of interest within a second image, the second image being received from a second optical imaging assembly having a second FOV and the second image being captured over the second FOV. |
| US11328137B2 |
Autonomously identifying and locating electronic equipment modules in a rack
A system is provided that includes a rack including mount positions to accept electronic equipment modules that are rack mountable and equipped with respective RFID tags, and a RFID reader array including RFID readers each of which is associated with a respective mount position, and has a read field that among the mount positions extends into only the respective mount position. Processing circuitry causes an RFID reader to radiate an interrogation signal within its read field, and in response, receive module identifiable information from an RFID tag of an electronic equipment module mounted at the mount position. A signal including the module identifiable information and mount position identifiable information is transmitted to the processing circuitry, and a second signal to a computer configured to identify the electronic equipment module from the module identifiable information, and locate the electronic equipment module at the mount position from the mount position identifiable information. |
| US11328133B2 |
Translation processing method, translation processing device, and device
The present disclosure provides a translation processing method, a translation processing device, and a device. The first speech signal of the first language is obtained, and the speech feature vector of the first speech signal is extracted based on the preset algorithm. Further, the speech feature vector is input into the pre-trained end-to-end translation model for conversion from the first language speech to the second language text for processing, and the text information of the second language corresponding to the first speech signal is obtained. Moreover, speech synthesis is performed on the text information of the second language, and the corresponding second speech signal is obtained and played. |
| US11328126B2 |
Determining and discerning items with multiple meanings
A method, system, and non-transitory compute readable medium determining and discerning items with multiple meanings in a sequence of items including producing a distributed representation for each item of the sequence of items including a word vector and a context vector, partitioning the sequence of items into classes, for an item using a representative word vector of each class, calculating a cosine distance between the word vector of said item and the class representative vector, and producing a new sequence of items by modifying the distributed representation in the producing by replacing each occurrence of an item depending on the cosine distance calculated by the calculating. |
| US11328125B2 |
Method and server for text classification using multi-task learning
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for a text classification using multi-task learning executed by a server, the method includes: a step of generating text classification learning data by executing a pre-processing process on raw data collected through a network; a step of learning a category classification in a first classification system preset through a first text classification model using the text classification learning data as an input; a step of learning a category classification in a second classification system preset through a second text classification model using the text classification learning data as an input; and a step of classifying the category in the second classification system by inputting text data received from a user terminal into the second text classification model. |
| US11328118B1 |
Linking digital ink instances using connecting lines
Systems and methods for linking digital ink instances. One system includes a memory storing instructions and an electronic processor. The electronic processor, through execution of the instructions stored in the memory, is configured to receive detected interactions between a touchscreen and a digital pen representing one or more digital strokes within a canvas and determine whether the one or more digital strokes match a predetermined signifier including a predetermined mark and a line extending from the predetermined mark. The electronic processor is also configured to, in response to determining that the one or more digital strokes match the predetermined signifier, determine a first digital ink instance and a second digital ink instance included in the canvas based on a position of the one or more digital strokes within the canvas, and update metadata of the first digital ink instance to include an identifier of the second digital ink instance. |
| US11328117B2 |
Automated content modification based on a user-specified context
Dynamically changing a content based on a user-defined context includes receiving, by one or more processors, input data from a user, the input data includes at least one document with an annotated part identifying a first content element, the first content element is associated with a first content type. The one or more processors determine a context information associated with the annotated part and extract the annotated part. A first replacement for the first content element is retrieved from a first data source selected based on the content information. The one or more processors replace the first content element in the at least one document with the first replacement. |
| US11328115B2 |
Self-asserted claims provider
A business-to-consumer (B2C) cloud service hosts web applications of various businesses as an instance of a cloud service. The B2C cloud service provides an identity management engine that manages the sign-in of consumers of the businesses to a respective cloud service. The identity management engine dynamically creates a security token for the sign-in request that includes claims customized for the hosted cloud service. The claims are based on directives provided by the business and obtained from the consumer via a user interface dynamically created by the identity management engine at a sign-in request. |
| US11328114B2 |
Batch-optimized render and fetch architecture
Implementations include a batch-optimized render and fetch architecture. An example method performed by the architecture includes receiving a request from a batch process to render a web page and initializing a virtual clock and a task list for rendering the web page. The virtual clock stands still when a request for an embedded item is outstanding and when a task is ready to run. The method may also include generating a rendering result for the web page when the virtual clock matches a run time for a stop task in the task list, and providing the rendering result to the batch process. Another example method includes receiving a request from a batch process to render a web page, identifying an embedded item in the web page, and determining, based on a rewrite rule, that the embedded item has content that is duplicative of content for a previously fetched embedded item. |
| US11328111B2 |
Broadcast remote sealing for scalable trusted execution environment provisioning
An apparatus to facilitate broadcast remote sealing for scalable trusted execution environment provisioning is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: request a group status report to confirm a status of a group of trusted execution platforms from a cloud service provider (CSP) providing scalable runtime validation for on-device design rule checks; validate, by a tenant, a minimum trusted computing base (TCB) declared with the group status report; determine, based on validation of the minimum TCB, whether a set of group members of the group of trusted execution platforms satisfies security requirements of the tenant; responsive to the set of group members satisfying the security requirement, utilize a group public key to encrypt a workload of the tenant; and send the encrypted workload to the CSP for storage by the CSP and subsequent execution by an execution platform of the group using a private group key. |
| US11328109B2 |
Refining multi-bit flip flops mapping without explicit de-banking and re-banking
Refining multi-bit flip flops mapping without explicit de-banking and re-banking is provided by identifying a set of equivalent flops in a layout, that include a first flop having a first logic routing and a first location in the layout and a second flop having a second logic routing and a second location in the layout; and remapping the first logic of the first flop from the first location to the second location and the second logic of the second flop from the second location to the first location. |
| US11328106B2 |
Data set generation for performance evaluation
A computing system receives a request to generate computer-generated data for an experiment. The computer-generated data comprises generated inputs defining setting(s) for a plurality of factors for a design of the experiment. The generated inputs are generated to be representative of a respective design space of different design spaces for the design of the experiment. The system receives first characteristic(s) for specifying generation of the computer-generated data associated with a first design space. The system receives second characteristic(s) for specifying generation of the computer-generated data associated with a second design space. The system, responsive to the request, generates a design suite that comprises the computer-generated data that represents, in a first set of design cases of the design suite, settings constrained by the first design space, and represents, in a second set of design cases of the design suite, settings constrained by the second design space. |
| US11328102B2 |
Digital design tools for building construction
Systems and methods are disclosed for digital design tools. One example method comprises obtaining an electronic model of a structure, the electronic model including a objects, and the objects representing physical objects to be constructed. Dependencies between the objects are determined, with the determined dependencies indicating that a first object is to be constructed prior to a second object. Construction orderings are generated based on the determined dependencies, with each construction ordering indicating a unique order in which the objects are to be constructed. A user interface is presented via a user device describing the construction orderings, with a system being configured to trigger updates to the electronic model in response to received material changes associated with the electronic model. |
| US11328097B2 |
Encryption circuit for performing virtual encryption operations
An encryption circuit includes a pipelined encryption core having a plurality of round cores therein. The pipelined encryption core is configured to perform a real round operation on each of a plurality of pieces of input data received therein and generate encryption data from the input data using an encryption operation comprising the real round operation. An encryption controller is provided, which is coupled to the pipelined encryption core. The encryption controller is configured to control the pipelined encryption core so that at least one of the plurality of round cores performs a virtual round operation as part of the encryption operation. The pipelined encryption core is configured to perform a virtual encryption operation using at least one of: (i) dummy data, and (ii) a dummy encryption key. |
| US11328095B2 |
Peceptual video fingerprinting
Techniques for authenticating digital media asset, and particularly to verifying the authenticity of digital image or video files which may have been redacted or otherwise altered in some way. The approach, which we call perceptual video fingerprinting, compares media assets based on what humans perceive, rather than exactly which bits match, by using neural network algorithms. |
| US11328089B2 |
Built-in legal framework file management
An approach is disclosed that enforces a privacy legal framework filesystem along with an operating system (OS) to enforce the privacy legal framework. An access of a datum in a selected file in the filesystem includes accessing a metadata associated with the selected file where the metadata includes a privacy state and an owner consent-based access policy. The owner consent-based access policy is enforced by the OS via special-purpose support requiring usage of the metadata to access the selected file. |
| US11328083B2 |
Facilitating entity resolution via secure entity resolution database
In some aspects, an entity-resolution computing system for entity resolution is provided. The entity-resolution computing system includes an entity resolution computing device configured as an interface between a client computing device and an encrypted identity data repository that contain resolved entity dataset. The entity resolution computing device is configured for servicing a resolution request from the client computing device by matching encrypted indexes generated from identity data objects stored in a client identity database to encrypted data objects stored in the encrypted identity data repository. The resolution computing device retrieves and transmits a common entity identifier associated with the encrypted data objects so that the client computing device can link the identity data objects stored in a client identity database via the common entity identifier. |
| US11328082B2 |
Differential privacy for encrypted data
Methods, systems, and devices for data processing are described. Some database systems may support differential privacy for encrypted data. For example, a database may store user data as ciphertext. A system may receive a statistical query for the user data and may identify a relevant differential privacy mechanism. The system may transform the query to operate on encrypted data while including a noisification function based on the mechanism. The system may execute the transformed query at the database, involving adding noise to the query result according to the noisification function without decrypting the data. For example, the system may leverage homomorphic encryption techniques to inject the noise while the data remains encrypted. The database may return the noisified, encrypted query results, which the system may decrypt for statistical analysis. By applying differential privacy on the encrypted data, the system may avoid exposing any private user information throughout the process. |
| US11328079B2 |
System and method of encrypting folder in device
Provided are a system and method of encrypting a folder in a device. The device for controlling access to the folder includes a communication part configured to transmit, to a server, an encryption key generation request with respect to the folder, and receive, from the server, an encryption key associated with the folder that is generated in response to the encryption key generation request, wherein the encryption key generation request includes an identification of the folder and authentication data of a user who accesses the folder is an authorized user; and a controller configured to authenticate the user by using the encryption key. |
| US11328074B1 |
Server for verification, validation, and updating a data item database containing renderable data objects
Verification, validation, and updating (VVU) systems and methods for updating a data item database are described. The VVU system includes a user interface, a rendering module, and a verification module, which together present a data item to a user and update a data item database according to various factors described herein. |
| US11328073B1 |
Robust data tagging
Users are authorized to access tagged metadata in a provider network. A revision control and binding mechanism may be applied to tagged metadata that is added or modified by the user. A recommendation pertaining to security and compliance for the computing resource may be determined based on an analysis of the computing resource, scoring criteria, and data pertaining to customer and system data. |
| US11328065B1 |
Architectures, systems, and methods for building trusted and secure artifacts
Architectures, systems and methods for building trusted and secure artifacts are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving inputs including one or more instances of software code; verifying trustworthiness of the one or more inputs; creating software code using a forward immutable continuous integration (CI) pipeline having a plurality of stages with forward immutability between consecutive pipeline stages to receive the one or more inputs verified as trustworthy and to build and test one or more containers associated with the one or more inputs, wherein each subsequent stage after a first stage of the pipeline depends on an immutable output of an immediately preceding stage in the pipeline, and further wherein the pipeline includes an emission stage for outputting signed, trusted software code from the pipeline; and storing signed, trusted software code in a repository for deployment, the repository only accepting signed software code for deployment. |
| US11328064B2 |
Automatic ransomware detection with an on-demand file system lock down and automatic repair function
A method and system for detecting ransomware and repairing data following an attack. The method includes, collecting file statistics for files in a file system, identifying an affected file based on collected file statistics, locking down of access to the file system in response to identifying the affected file, undoing of reconcile processing, repairing the affected files, and unlocking access to the file system. The system includes a computer node, a file system, a plurality of disc storage components, a backup client, a backup client, and a hierarchical storage client. The hierarchical storage client is configured to collect file statistics for files in file system, identify affected files based on collected file statistics for the file, lock down of access to the file system in response to an identified affected file, undo reconcile processing, repair the affected file; and unlock access to the file system. |
| US11328062B2 |
Critical infrastructure forensics
A computer-implemented method for detecting cyber-attacks affecting a computing device includes retrieving a plurality of sensor datasets from a plurality of sensors, each sensor dataset corresponding to involuntary emissions from the computing device in a particular modality and extracting a plurality of features from the plurality of sensor datasets. One or more statistical models are applied to the plurality of features to identify one or more events related to the computing device. Additionally, a domain-specific ontology is applied to designate each of the one or more events as benign, failure, or a cyber-attack. |
| US11328056B2 |
Suspicious event analysis device and related computer program product for generating suspicious event sequence diagram
A suspicious event analysis device includes: a display device; a communication circuit, arranged to operably receive multiple suspicious activities records related to multiple computing devices in a target network and corresponding multiple time stamps and multiple attribute tags through internet; a storage circuit, arranged to operably store a suspicious event sequence diagram generating program; and a control circuit, arranged to operably execute the suspicious event sequence diagram generating program to conduct a suspicious event sequence diagram generating operation, so as to identify multiple suspicious events related to the target network as well as multiple time records corresponding to the multiple suspicious events, and to generate and display a suspicious event sequence diagram corresponding to the multiple suspicious events according to the multiple suspicious events and the multiple time records. |
| US11328049B2 |
Efficient and secure provisioning and updating of identity credentials
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for securely and seamlessly provisioning credentials for use by personal computing devices. Techniques include obtaining a session identifier; making available an encoded representation to a personal computing device, the encoded representation encoding the session identifier; wherein the personal computing device is configured to: decode the encoded representation, access an identity credential stored on the personal computing device, encrypt the identity credential using a first cryptographic key, and send, to a mediator resource, the session identifier and the encrypted identity credential; receiving, from the mediator resource, the session identifier and the encrypted identity credential; and storing the encrypted identity credential. |
| US11328047B2 |
Gamified challenge to detect a non-human user
A gamified challenge is presented to a user communicating with a website when the user is suspected of being a bot. The gamified challenge consists of a dynamic sequence of animated geometric objects displayed in an order that the user has to interact with within an allotted amount of time. The complexity of the gamified challenge increases when the challenge is failed and when features extracted from the user session indicate a high level of suspicion that the gamified challenge is performed by a non-human user. |
| US11328044B2 |
Dynamic recognition method and terminal device
A dynamic recognition method includes, when the terminal device detects that the user is in a first distance range, obtaining, by the terminal device, first feature information of the user. The method further includes performing first identity authentication on the first feature information of the user, where the first feature information includes facial feature information, voice feature information, or behavioral feature information. The method further includes increasing, by the terminal device, a level of a default threshold of second identity authentication when the first identity authentication succeeds. The method further includes, when the terminal device detects that the user is in a second distance range, obtaining, by the terminal device, second feature information of the user, and performing second identity authentication on the second feature information of the user based on the default threshold whose level is increased. |
| US11328042B2 |
Automated transparent login without saved credentials or passwords
A security platform architecture is described herein. The security platform architecture includes multiple layers and utilizes a combination of encryption and other security features to generate a secure environment. |
| US11328040B2 |
Monitoring access
A method for monitoring access to a user account comprises receiving a user account login status from a target service in response to a user login request, comparing the user account login status with an expected status value at a user apparatus, and on the basis of the comparison, performing at least one of: synchronising the status value at the user apparatus with the user account login status from the target service, and executing a user login update process at the user apparatus. |
| US11328039B2 |
Electronic apparatus, and method of controlling electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus includes: an input module configured to input an export instruction and an electronic apparatus identifier, the export instruction instructing to export an application, the electronic apparatus identifier corresponding to one different electronic apparatus; a controller module configured to generate an activation key on a basis of the electronic apparatus identifier where the export instruction is input, the activation key being for activating the application only in the one different electronic apparatus, control to output a package file including the application and the activation key, and inactivate the application after a certain replacement transition time period passes, the certain replacement transition time period starting from an output time point of the package file; and an output module configured to output the package file controlled by the controller module. |
| US11328038B2 |
Computational units for batch normalization
Herein are disclosed computation units for batch normalization. A computation unit may include a first circuit to traverse a batch of input elements xi having a first format, to produce a mean μ1 in the first format and a mean μ2 in a second format, the second format having more bits than the first format. The computation unit may further include a second circuit operatively coupled to the first circuit to traverse the batch of input elements xi to produce a standard deviation σ for the batch using the mean μ1 in the first format. The computation unit may also include a third circuit operatively coupled to the second circuit to traverse the batch of input elements xi to produce a normalized set of values yi using the mean μ2 in the second format and the standard deviation σ. |
| US11328035B2 |
Method for developing websites and providing tailored assistance for development
A method is provided for developing websites and providing tailored assistance for development. The method for developing a website is based on copying of the existing website, analysing, unifying and moving of the copied website into an operating environment. In the operating environment, the developer can change, modify and edit elements of the copied website, thus developing a new website. When a new website is developed, an equipment implementing the method adjusts parameters, settings of the website according to the server on which the website is planned to be hosted. After adjusting parameters of the new website, the website is moved onto the server for continuous operation, online displaying. When the equipment implementing the method has analysed the copied website and moved it into the operating environment, the developer can use tailored assistance for website development, which provides further steps of development according to a specific situation of the developer. |
| US11328033B2 |
Dynamic insertion of intermediate content page
A method, product, and system for inserting intermediate content page. An exemplary method comprises displaying to a user a first webpage followed by a second webpage; and in response to an instruction to return to a previous location from the second webpage, displaying an intermediate content webpage that comprises a feed element displaying sponsored or organic content. Another method comprises monitoring browsing activity of a user, in which the user reaches from a first webpage to a second webpage, and causing an intermediate content webpage to be displayed the user instead of the first webpage in response to a user instruction to implement the previous location functionality at the second webpage. |
| US11328031B2 |
Automatically generated timestamps based on comment
In an approach for automatically generating and adding a timestamp to a comment left by a user on a media post based on a specific part of the media post referenced in the comment, responsive to receiving a comment on a media post, a processor completes a visual analysis and linguistic analysis of the media post. A processor completes a linguistic analysis of the comment. A processor performs a linguistic intent correlation analysis to determine a part of the media post that correlates to the comment. A processor determines a timestamp for the part of the media post. A processor adds the timestamp to the comment. |
| US11328028B2 |
Selective online content removal based on activity history
A computer that selectively removes online content associated with an individual is described. During operation, the computer may perform an enrollment process associated with the individual, where the enrollment process involves receiving credentials for one or more accounts associated with the individual. Then, based at least in part on the credentials, the computer may monitor a subsequent activity history associated with the individual, where the activity history includes online transactions associated with the individual, and where the online transactions are associated with multiple locations and the one or more accounts. When the computer receives information specifying an occurrence of an event (such as death or illness of the individual), the computer may, based at least in part on the monitored activity history, selectively remove the online content associated with the individual and at least some of the locations. |
| US11328020B2 |
Discoverability in search
A method and system is disclosed that provides search with improved discoverability within an online gaming platform. |
| US11328015B2 |
Function approximation
A function approximation system is disclosed for determining output floating point values of functions calculated using floating point numbers. Complex functions have different shapes in different subsets of their input domain, making them difficult to predict for different values of the input variable. The function approximation system comprises an execution unit configured to determine corresponding values of a given function given a floating point input to the function; a plurality of look up tables for each function type; a correction table of values which determines if corrections to the output value are required; and a table selector for finding an appropriate table for a given function. |
| US11328014B2 |
Frame-accurate automated cutting of media content by using multiple airings
At least one aspect of the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of extracting media segments based on fingerprint matching. The method can include receiving a media stream comprising a plurality of frames and generating a plurality of fingerprints corresponding to each frames. The method can receive a target timestamp and determine a target fingerprint from the plurality that corresponds to the target timestamp. The method can retrieve candidate fingerprints, each of the candidate fingerprints corresponding to a frame in a candidate media stream. The method can compare the target fingerprint to the candidate fingerprints to determine a matching candidate fingerprint. The method can match fingerprints that correspond to media frames before and after the target fingerprint to determine the upper and lower bounds of a segment of interest. The method can extract the segment of interest based on the bounds and provide it to a respective party. |
| US11328010B2 |
Song similarity determination
Aspects of the technology described herein use acoustic features of a music track to capture information for a recommendation system. The recommendation can work without analyzing label data (e.g., genre, artist) or usage data for a track. For each audio track, a descriptor is generated that can be used to compare the track to other tracks. The comparisons between track descriptors result in a similarity measure that can be used to make a recommendation. In this process, the audio descriptors are used directly to form a track-to-track similarity measure between tracks. By measuring the similarity between a track that a user is known to like and an unknown track, a decision can be made whether to recommend the unknown track to the user. |
| US11328008B2 |
Query matching to media collections in a messaging system
Systems and methods are provided for generating training data from queries and user interactions associated with media collections related to the queries, and training a machine learning model using the generated training data to generate a trained machine learning model. The systems and methods further provide for receiving a prediction request comprising a query for relevant media collections, analyzing the query to determine query features, determining a plurality of media collections for the query, analyzing the plurality of media collections to determine media collection features for each media collection of the plurality of media collections, and generating, using the trained machine learning model, a semantic matching score for each media collection of the plurality of media collections based on matching the query features to the media collection features for each media collection of the plurality of media collections. |
| US11328007B2 |
Generating a domain-specific phrasal dictionary
Embodiments generally relate to the generation of a domain-specific phrasal dictionary. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving text from a user, wherein the text includes unstructured text of a natural language. The method further includes parsing the text into text chunks. The method further includes sending the text chunks to the user. The method further includes receiving one or more phrase categories and one or more predetermined phrases from the user, wherein each predetermined phrase of the one or more predetermined phrases corresponds to at least one phrase category of the one or more phrase categories. The method further includes comparing the predetermined phrases with the text chunks. The method further includes assigning at least one phrase category of the one or more phrase categories to at least one text chunk. The method further includes sending at least one text chunk and the at least one phrase category that is assigned to the at least one text chunk to the user. |
| US11328004B2 |
Method and system for intelligently suggesting tags for documents
A method and system for providing keyword suggestions to a user of a document during use of the document, the keyword suggestions being made to enable selection of the keywords as tags for the document. The method includes examining contents of a document, identifying a keyword related to the document based at least in part on the contents of the document, displaying the keyword on a user interface element relating to the document to enable a user to choose to add the keyword as a tag associated with the document, receiving an input indicating a user's approval of the keyword, and upon receiving the input, associating the keyword with the document as a tag. |
| US11328003B2 |
Data relationships storage platform
A data relationships storage platform for analysis of one or more data sources is described herein. A data processing system may be communicatively coupled to one or more data sources and one or more big-data databases. One or more collectors may collect data pieces from the one or more data sources. One or more analyzer may analyze the collected data pieces to determine whether one or more relationships exist between the collected data pieces. The analysis results in one or more data globs that include one or more of the data pieces and relationship information, such as tags. The tagged data globs may be communicated to and stored in one or more big-data databases. |
| US11327999B2 |
Reorganization of partition by growth space with LOB columns
Systems and methods are provided for reorganizing a partition-by-growth database with LOB columns. An example method includes creating a partition assignment table by performing a logical reorganization of the partition-by-growth database, wherein an assignment of at least one base table row and its corresponding LOB in the partition assignment table differs from a current assignment of the at least one base table row. The method also includes performing a base table reorganization based on the partition assignment table in parallel with a LOB auxiliary table reorganization based on the partition assignment table and a LOB dataset assignment table. The method may also include applying changes to the reorganized base tables and the reorganized LOB auxiliary tables using the partition assignment table. |
| US11327998B2 |
Replication between heterogeneous storage systems
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and processes to perform replication between heterogeneous storage systems. In one embodiment, a request to perform a replication operation is sent by a target server to a source server, where the target server and the source server use different protocols to store data. A plurality of instructions, which are associated with a replication stream, are received from the source server by the target server, where the plurality of instructions comprise an include instruction to include existing data and a write instruction to write new data. A replication stream, which is associated with a backup stream stored on the source server, is also received from the source server, where the replication stream and the backup stream share a common format. The target server synthesizes a new replicated backup image, where the synthesizing comprises performing the include instruction and the write instruction on the replication stream. |
| US11327995B2 |
Complex data type encoding within columnar database
A complex data type is encoded over columns of a table of a columnar database by mapping fields of the complex data type to the columns. An optimized query can be generated for a query specifying the complex data type. The optimized query specifies the columns to which the fields specified within the query are mapped, instead of specifying the fields. The optimized query can be processed against the database in a late materialization manner to fulfill the query. |
| US11327986B2 |
Retrieving and presenting data in a structured view from a non-relational database
In an approach for retrieving and presenting data in a structured view from a database, a processor receives a request from a user for accessing data in the database based on a business object. The business object may be a configuration file that defines the data and how the data is to be retrieved from the database. A processor retrieves the business object. A processor determines, based on the business object, a location in the database to get the data. A processor retrieves the data from the database based on the business object. A processor formats the data based on the business object. A processor performs a post process on the data based on the business object. A processor returns the data to the user. |
| US11327985B2 |
System and method for subset searching and associated search operators
Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problem of query construction for finding objects that include some number (N) of a set of terms (M). Moreover, embodiments as disclosed herein may efficiently implement the searches specified by such subset operators using a subset process that combines results from a set of term processes where only one term process may be needed for each search term (or search term variant). |
| US11327981B2 |
Guided sampling for improved quality testing
A guided sampling tool guides the sampling of datapoints in large datasets. Generally, the guided sampling tool applies a machine learning algorithm to a database of historical issues encountered by an organization to guide the sampling of a large dataset. The guided sampling tool can evaluate and change provided variables and weights for performing a sampling. After the datapoints are sampled, the guided sampling tool compares the historic transactions represented by those datapoints to baseline images to determine if the historic transactions encountered a problem or issue, which would affect the overall quality assessment. |
| US11327977B2 |
Method for distributing media
A method of distributing content to consumers may include providing a server loaded with a computer code having an administrator user interface, a franchisor user interface, a franchisee user interface; a library of content accessible by an administrator, a franchisor, and/or one or more franchisees; and a consumer data bank. The method may further include linking the server with social media platforms, populating the library with a plurality of pieces of content, linking the content with a franchise unit location, and publishing the content to a social media account. A further step may include collecting consumer data and storing the consumer data in the consumer data bank. The franchisor and each franchisee may have access to the library of content and to consumer data. |
| US11327975B2 |
Methods and systems for improved entity recognition and insights
Generating and providing match justifications in association with record matching results for improved record matching is provided. An entity resolution system generates a set of deterministic rules based on patterns of attribute comparison outcomes of known matched and unmatched records. Each rule includes matching conditions and an action instruction including a message of a justification for a match/non-match. The system receives a request to determine a match between two records. A matching engine compares various attributes of the records using probabilistic matching technologies to determine a match outcome. A justification engine compares attribute comparison outcomes to the stored rules. When the matching conditions of a rule are satisfied, the rule is activated and a human-readable justification is linked to the match output and provided in a match response. The justification provides insights into the match outcome, and improves the speed and accuracy of a verification process of the match output. |
| US11327966B1 |
Disaggregated query processing on data lakes based on pipelined, massively parallel, distributed native query execution on compute clusters utilizing precise, parallel, asynchronous shared storage repository access
Executing a query in a disaggregated cluster. A query is received at the disaggregated cluster. A query graph is created based on the query that identifies a hierarchy of vertices, where each vertex is associated with a set of data responsive to at least a portion of the query. The compute nodes process the query graph by first identifying all tables, files, and objects stored on the storage nodes whose access is required to retrieve data that satisfy the query. Next, the compute nodes selectively assign the identified tables, files, and objects to a leaf vertex of the query graph to optimize retrieving data from the storage nodes. Thereafter, the compute nodes process the retrieved data sets associated with each vertex using separate threads of execution for each vertex of the query graph such that leaf vertices are performed in parallel. The compute nodes then provide a result set. |
| US11327965B2 |
Selection query language methods and systems
Provided are methods and systems comprising receiving a plurality of data tables, wherein each data table comprises at least one row, generating a first handle for a first value in a table of the plurality of tables, wherein the first handle comprises an indication of whether a row in each of the plurality of tables is associated or not associated with the first value, and performing one or more operations on the first handle. |
| US11327964B2 |
Integration query builder framework
Techniques are described for constructing a query associated with different data sources. In one example, a method includes identifying a particular data source associated with at least one entity. Obtain a set of data source information defining each entities and a set of metadata associated with the particular data source. Then, provide at least a portion of the defined entities for selection associated with the query builder framework for presentation. In response to identifying a selection of a particular entity, the query builder UI provides for presentation a set of attributes associated with the particular selected entity for selection. In response to identifying a selection of a subset of the presented set of attributes, construct a query based on the particular selected entity and the selected subset of the presented set of attributes in a specified query format associated with the custom adapter associated with the particular data source. |
| US11327962B1 |
Real-time analytical database system for querying data of transactional systems
A real-time analytical database system allows queries on data obtained from a transactional system that is frequently updated by the transactional system. The real-time analytical database system receives change logs from the transactional system. The change logs describe operations performed by the transactional system. The real-time analytical database system stores a plurality of indexes in a key-value store, each index comprising key-value pairs. A key of a key-value pair is obtained by combining field data describing a field of a document. The real-time analytical database system determines modifications to the key-value pairs of the key-value store corresponding to the operations of the transactional system as represented by the received change logs. The real-time analytical database system receives and processes queries using the plurality of indexes. The real-time analytical database system builds key-expressions based on the criteria of queries and uses the indexes to find key-value pairs matching the key-expression. |
| US11327961B2 |
Action queue for hierarchy maintenance
A system includes reception of a first instruction at a first system to effect a first change to a hierarchy data model, storage of a first record including first values specifying the first change in a local memory of the first system, reception of a second instruction to effect a second change to the hierarchy data model, storage of a second record including second values specifying the second change in the local memory of the first computer system, reception of an instruction to save the changed hierarchy data model, and, in response to the instruction, transmit the first record and the second record to a second system. The first record and the second record are received and merged to generate a third record including third values specifying a third change to the hierarchy data model, and a query language statement is generated to effect the third change to the hierarchy data model based on the third record. |
| US11327956B2 |
Cloud-based renumbering of identifiers
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. In a deployed cloud-based enterprise resource planning system that includes a general ledger account, the method can receive a change request specifying a new account identifier for the general ledger account, wherein the general ledger account is associated with an old account identifier. For a plurality of tables in the deployed enterprise resource planning system, the method can change the old account identifier to the new account identifier. In addition, for a reference framework interfacing with the plurality of tables, the method can change the old account identifier to the new account identifier in the reference framework. |
| US11327955B1 |
Mixed-mode method for combining active/active and validation architectures utilizing remediation action
A method is provided for performing transaction processing in a system that includes a plurality of nodes. Each of the nodes include a processor, an application executing in the processor, and an instance of a database used by the application. Each node executes transactions. At least two of the nodes are selected to receive the same request to process a transaction, and the processor at each of the at least two nodes executes the same request to process a transaction. Each of the at least two nodes replicates the steps and operations of the transactions to one or more other nodes in the system. The processor at the one or more other nodes compares the replicated steps and operations of the transactions that were received from each of the at least two nodes and executes one or more remediation actions when the result of the comparison indicates that the replicated steps and operations of the replicated transactions do not match each other. |
| US11327954B2 |
Multitenant architecture for prior period adjustment processing
A data processing method comprises receiving a request to perform a prior period adjustment (PPA) for a tenant in which data values applicable to a time period earlier than a current time period will be modified, in response to the request, identifying a working subset of data from tenant data in the production database and copying the working subset to a calculation database separate from the production database, performing the PPA, using the working subset in the calculation database, to result in creating and storing a plurality of result data, receiving, while performing the PPA, an additional request using the tenant data in the production database, performing the additional request using the tenant data in the production database while performing the PPA and updating the replay log, after completing the PPA and using the replay log, transferring the plurality of results to the production database. |
| US11327953B2 |
Pattern-based detection using data injection
Pattern based detection of data usage is facilitated using data injection. Data values are injected in one or more storage locations accessible to a plurality of services or included in service requests. Service interactions among the services are compared to a set of patterns. The set of patterns are configured to match the data values. By comparing the service interactions to the patterns, one or more of the service interactions are determined to include individual ones of the data values. Data are generated indicating a presence of the data values in the services. |
| US11327949B2 |
Verification of database table partitions during backup
A system that implements a data storage service may store data for database tables in multiple replicated partitions on respective storage nodes. In response to a request to back up a table, the service may export individual partitions of the table from the database and package them to be independently uploaded (e.g., in parallel) to a remote storage system (e.g., a key-value durable storage system). Prior to uploading the exported and packaged partitions to the remote storage system, the service may verify that the exported and packaged partitions can be subsequently restored, which may include unpackaging and/or re-inflating the exported and packaged partitions to create additional unpackaged copies of the partitions, re-importing the additional unpackaged copies of the partitions into the database (e.g., as additional replicas), and/or comparing checksums generated for the exported partitions with checksums generated for the additional unpackaged copies of the partitions. |
| US11327948B1 |
Managing deduplication of data in storage systems
A method is used in managing deduplication of data in storage systems. A candidate data object is identified for deduplicating a data object by evaluating digests stored in a current digest segment to determine whether another digest matching a digest associated with the data block is stored in the current digest segment. The current digest segment includes a set of digests associated with a set of data blocks previously received for deduplication. Based on the evaluation, a deduplicating technique is applied to the data object. The current digest segment is stored in an index table. A previous digest segment associated with a digest stored in the index table matches the digest associated with the data block is replaced by the current digest segment. |
| US11327946B2 |
Hybrid centralized and decentralized enterprise system
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving, by the centralized sub-system, change data representing a change to an electronic document stored in the centralized sub-system, the change data identifying a user that submitted the change, transmitting, by the centralized sub-system, the change to the decentralized sub-system, recording, by the decentralized sub-system, the change in a change log recorded in a blockchain that is maintained within the decentralized sub-system, the blockchain being stored in multiple nodes of the decentralized sub-system, and editing, by the centralized sub-system, the electronic document based on the change to provide an edited electronic document that is stored in the centralized sub-system. |
| US11327943B2 |
Method for building cloud-based medical image database for protection of patient information and reading medical image therefrom
A method for building a cloud-based medical image database for the protection of patient information. A method for building a cloud-based medical image database and reading a medical image therefrom includes a acquiring a medical image of a patient by a medical device; separating patient information data from medical information data in the medical image; encrypting the patient information data using a block chain technique; separately transmitting the encrypted patient information data and the medical information data to a cloud database and storing the same in the cloud database; decrypting the encrypted patient information data stored in the cloud database, using the block chain technique; and reading the medical image to perform diagnosis and consulting for the patient. |
| US11327939B2 |
Method and device for indexing dirty data in storage system page
A method for indexing dirty data in a storage system page includes: obtaining a point quantity of storage points in the storage page and dirty data distribution information; creating a bitmap based on the point quantity and dirty data distribution information; creating an extended segment set based on the dirty data distribution information, and obtaining the number of current extended segments in the extended segment set; obtaining, according to the point quantity, a first storage cost for indexing dirty data using the bitmap in the target storage page; obtaining, according to the number of current extended segments and the segment capacity, a second storage cost for indexing dirty data using the extended segments in the target storage page; and determine, according to the first storage cost and the second storage cost, to index the dirty data in the target storage page by means of the bitmap or the extended segments. |
| US11327936B1 |
Facial based image organization and retrieval method
A system and method may be provided for compiling digital images of an individual in a database across a network with multiple user accounts. An image may be uploaded to a computer and stored at an image network storage location. A portrait may be detected in the image. The portrait may include a face. A facial recognition template containing facial recognition parameters related to the individual may be created based on the at least one portrait detected in the at least one image. The facial recognition template may be stored at an identification data network storage location, wherein the facial recognition template is associated with a user account associated with the individual. The facial recognition template may be accessed for comparison of the facial recognition parameters related to the individual with a set of unrecognized facial images. Images containing the set of unrecognized facial images may be accessed. |
| US11327935B2 |
Intelligent data quality
Examples of an intelligent data quality application are defined. In an example, the system receives a data quality requirement from a user. The system obtains target data from a plurality of data sources. The system implements an artificial intelligence component sort the target data into a data cascade. The data cascade may include a plurality of attributes associated with the data quality requirement. The system may evaluate the data cascade to identify a data pattern model for each of the attributes. The system may implement a first cognitive learning operation to determine a mapping context from the data cascade and a conversion rule from the data pattern model. The system may establish a data harmonization model corresponding to the data quality requirement by performing a second cognitive learning operation. The system may generate a data cleansing result corresponding to the data quality requirement. |
| US11327928B2 |
Dynamic display of file sections based on user identities
A system for dynamically displaying specific sections of a file depending on a user identity is provided. The system utilizes access control data to enable an author to generate and share a file with a number of consumers and have each recipient view a customized set of sections of the file depending on access permissions associated with each recipient. The file can be in any format, e.g., a word processing document, presentation document, a media file, or any other file having a number of sections. A section of a file can be any definitive unit of data, such as a page, slide, tab, worksheet, video segment, audio segment, etc. Permissions can be based on a user's permission level, work history, skill level, role in an organization, title, etc. The system can also prevent access to certain sections of a file depending on the permissions associated with a consumer. |
| US11327925B2 |
Method and system for data transfer between databases
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for modular fragmentation and messaging across different web applications. An example system may include at least one computer processor, a memory, and a first database, the first database comprising a first procedure specification of at least one first procedure, and a first data field configured to store a data item, the first data field comprising a first logical link within a first data structure of the first database, the first logical link comprising a respective first set of first link specifications, and the first procedure being configured to retrieve the data item stored in the first data field upon execution by the processor. Semantic links between procedure specifications may be determined from matches with logical links. A linked data item stored in one field may be transferred to another field that has a matching logical link. |
| US11327921B2 |
Control device and inter-module communication method
A programmable controller includes a plurality of modules arranged along a predetermined arrangement direction, and the plurality of modules includes a master station module and slave station modules. The programmable controller includes a main line configured to provide communication between the master station module and the slave station modules, and sub-lines configured to provide communication between two adjacent modules. The programmable controller sets station numbers of the slave station modules by communication via the sub-lines, and then performs communication via the main line using the set station numbers. |
| US11327918B2 |
CPU hot-swapping
There is disclosed in one example a multi-core computing system configured to provide a hot-swappable CPU0, including: a first CPU in a first CPU socket and a second CPU in a second CPU socket; a switch including a first media interface to the first CPU socket and a second media interface to the second CPU socket; and one or more mediums including non-transitory instructions to detect a hot swap event of the first CPU, designate the second CPU as CPU0, determine that a new CPU has replaced the first CPU, operate the switch to communicatively couple the new CPU to a backup initialization code store via the first media interface, initialize the new CPU, and designate the new CPU as CPUN, wherein N≠0. |
| US11327913B1 |
Configurable-aggregation retimer with media-dedicated controllers
Groups of signal conductors within a configurable communication system are managed by respective, dedicated media controllers implement a configurable number of independent communication channels through coordinated action so that signal conductors need not be multiplexed to/from multiple controllers and no media controllers or input/output driver circuits therein need be disabled in any configuration. |
| US11327912B2 |
Controlling the application time of radio frequency front end triggers based on execution of sequences
Systems, methods, and apparatus for improving bus latency are described. A data communication method includes receiving a trigger actuation command from a bus master coupled to the serial bus, determining that a sequence is being executed in the slave device, and providing a trigger actuation signal corresponding to the trigger actuation command when execution of the sequence has been completed. A sequence initiation command may be received before the trigger actuation command, and the sequence may be initiated in response to the sequence initiation command. The trigger actuation command may be queued in a first queue, the sequence initiation command in may be queued in a second queue. Trigger actuation commands in the first queue may be associated with sequence initiation commands in the second queue. The sequence may be initiated in response to a sequence initiation command associated with the trigger actuation command corresponding to the trigger actuation signal. |
| US11327910B2 |
Quality of service policy sets
Disclosed are systems, computer-readable mediums, and methods for managing input/output operations within a system including at least one client and a storage system. A processor receives information regarding allocated input-output operations (IOPS) associated with a client accessing a storage system storing client data. The information includes a number of allocated total IOPS, a number of allocated read IOPS, and a number of allocated write IOPS. The processor also receives a requested number of write IOPS associated with the at least one client's request to write to the storage system. The processor determines a target write IOPS based on the number of allocated total IOPS, the number of allocated write IOPS and the requested number of write IOPS, and executes the determined target write IOPS within the first time period. |
| US11327909B1 |
System for improving input / output performance
In one embodiment, data communication apparatus includes a network interface including one or more ports for connection to a packet data network and configured to receive content transfer requests from at least one remote device over the network, a storage sub-system to be connected to local peripheral storage devices, and including at least one peripheral interface, and a memory sub-system including a cache and RAM, and processing circuitry to manage transfer of content between the remote device(s) and the local peripheral storage devices via the peripheral interface(s) and the cache, responsively to the content transfer requests, while pacing commencement of serving of respective ones of the content transfer requests responsively to a metric of the storage sub-system so that while ones of the content transfer requests are being served, other ones of the content transfer requests pending serving are queued in at least one pending queue. |
| US11327900B2 |
Securing memory accesses in a virtualized environment
Multiprocessor clusters in a virtualized environment conventionally fail to provide memory access security, which is frequently a requirement for efficient utilization in multi-client settings. Without adequate access security, a malicious process may access what might be confidential data that belongs to a different client sharing the multiprocessor cluster. Furthermore, an inadvertent programming error in the code for one client process may accidentally corrupt data that belongs to the different client. Neither scenario is acceptable. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide access security by enabling each processing node within a multiprocessor cluster to virtualize and manage local memory access and only process access requests possessing proper access credentials. In this way, different applications executing on a multiprocessor cluster may be isolated from each other while advantageously sharing the hardware resources of the multiprocessor cluster. |
| US11327897B2 |
Memory controller for performing a dummy read operation and method of operating the same
The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory controller instructs to perform a dummy read operation on a shared block after an operation is performed on a target block. The memory controller that controls a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks may include a flash translation layer that translates a logical block address received from a host into a physical block address and generates translation information on the translated physical block address and a dummy read controller configured to output, to the memory device, a dummy read command to perform a dummy read operation on a sharing block selected together with a target block after an operation corresponding to a request received from the host is performed on the target block among the plurality of memory blocks, based on the received request and the translation information. |
| US11327895B1 |
Protocol for processing requests that assigns each request received by a node a sequence identifier, stores data written by the request in a cache page block, stores a descriptor for the request in a cache page descriptor, and returns a completion acknowledgement of the request
Processing requests may include: receiving a write request from a host at a first node of a system; and servicing the write comprising assigning, by the first node, a sequence identifier to the write request, wherein the sequence identifier is included in a subsequence of identifiers only assignable by the first node, performing in parallel a first operation that stores first data written by the write request in a cache, a second operation that stores a descriptor for the write request in the cache, and a third operation that sends the descriptor (including the sequence identifier) to a peer node of the system; determining by the first node that the first, second and third operations have successfully completed; and responsive to determining the first, second and third operations have successfully completed, sending an acknowledgement from the first node to a host indicating successful completion of the write request. |
| US11327891B2 |
Prefetching operations in storage devices
Provided is a method of adjusting prefetching operations, the method including setting a prefetching distance, accessing a prefetching-trigger key, determining a target key is outside of the prefetching distance from the prefetching-trigger key, increasing the prefetching distance, and successfully fetching a subsequent target key of a subsequent prefetching-trigger key from a prefetching read-ahead buffer. |
| US11327888B2 |
Using storage class memory as a persistent operating system file/block cache
A host server in a server cluster has a memory allocator that creates a dedicated host application data cache in storage class memory. A background routine destages host application data from the dedicated cache in accordance with a destaging plan. For example, a newly written extent may be destaged based on aging. All extents may be flushed from the dedicated cache following host server reboot. All extents associated with a particular production volume may be flushed from the dedicated cache in response to a sync message from a storage array. |
| US11327886B2 |
Capturing time-varying storage of data in memory device for data recovery purposes
A memory device (or memory sub-system) includes one or more memory components having multiple blocks, the multiple blocks containing pages of data. A processing device is coupled to the one or more memory components. The processing device to execute firmware to: track write timestamps of the pages of data that have been marked as invalid; retain a storage state stored for each page marked as invalid, wherein invalid data of the marked pages remains accessible via the storage states; in response to a write timestamp of a page being beyond a retention time window, mark the page as expired, indicating that the page is an expired page; and reclaim the expired page for storage of new data during a garbage collection operation. |
| US11327885B2 |
Controller managing namespace and memory system having the controller
There are provided a controller and a memory system having the controller. The controller includes: a first storage area configured to store mapping information between logical addresses of logical regions of a storage device coupled to the controller and physical addresses of memory blocks of the storage device, the logical regions being divided into logical units including a first logical unit; and a second storage area configured to store allocation information on logical addresses of logical regions allocated to the first logical unit, each of the logical regions allocated to the first logical unit having a corresponding index, wherein the second storage area is further configured to store a location table for the first logical unit that includes index information having a smallest index corresponding to a logical region allocated to the first logical unit without having other indices corresponding to remaining logical regions allocated to the first logical unit and number information on a total number of the logical regions allocated to the first logical unit. |
| US11327878B2 |
Method for rating a software component of an SiL environment
A method for rating a software component of a software-in-the-loop (SiL) environment, a target hardware including at least one target hardware component being simulated by an SiL environment including at least one corresponding software component, both the target hardware and the SiL environment being subjected to a test situation, while the target hardware and the SiL environment are being subjected to the test situation, output data being generated in each case by both the target hardware and the SiL environment and the output data of the target hardware being compared to the outputs of the SiL environment, the software component being rated on the basis of the comparison. |
| US11327875B2 |
Systems including network simulation for mobile application development
A system and methods to emulate an application executing in real time in a mobile device. The mobile device is emulated in real time using a model running on a processor extrinsic to the mobile device. The model is based on characteristics indicative of performance of the mobile device. The application is executed in real time within the model and the application executing in the model is monitored to determine resource utilization information by the application for the mobile device. The resource utilization information for the mobile device is displayed. |
| US11327872B2 |
Test instrument for software communications architecture device testing
A test instrument is operable to test Software Communications Architecture (SCA) devices. The test instrument can identify components of an SCA application loaded on an SCA device being tested, and create a test point in the SCA application that may be between components of the SCA application. The test instrument can receive and analyze signals generated at the test point to identify malfunctioning components within the SCA application. |
| US11327869B2 |
Distributed architecture for determining performance parameters
System performance of a first information handling system may be adjusted based on system usage. Performance parameters may be determined by a second information handling system based on the system usage and may be used, by the first information handling system, to adjust system performance. Configuration of the first information handling system may thus be distributed to two or more tiers. The second information handling system can be more efficient with determining operating parameters for the first information handling system when the second system is not power limited, as when the first information handling system is a mobile device. |
| US11327865B2 |
Memory system and method of controlling temperature thereof
A method for controlling temperature of a memory system which includes a memory device suitable for storing memory map data including a logical address of an external device and a physical address of a memory device, corresponding to the logical address; and a controller suitable for downloading at least a part of the memory map data and storing and managing the downloaded data as controller map data, and uploading at least a part of the controller map data to the external device, the method comprising: measuring temperature of the memory device; and performing a map downloading for the memory map data from the memory device in response to the measured temperature. |
| US11327864B2 |
Adjusting a playback device
Certain embodiments provide methods and systems for managing a sound profile. An example playback device includes a network interface and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions executable by the processor. When executed by the processor, the instructions are to configure the playback device to receive, via the network interface over a local area network (LAN) from a controller device, an instruction. The example playback device is to obtain, based on the instruction, via the network interface from a location outside of the LAN, data comprising a sound profile. The example playback device is to update one or more parameters at the playback device based on the sound profile. The example playback device is to play back an audio signal according to the sound profile. |
| US11327862B2 |
Multi-lane solutions for addressing vector elements using vector index registers
Disclosed herein are vector index registers for storing or loading indexes of true and/or false results of conditional operations using multiple lane processing in vector processors. Each of the vector index registers store multiple addresses for accessing multiple positions in operand vectors in various types of operations that can leverage multi-lane processing. |
| US11327861B2 |
Cross-talk generation in a multi-lane link during lane testing
A port of a computing device includes multiple receiver-transmitter pairs, each of the receiver-transmitter pairs including a respective receiver and a respective transmitter. The device further includes state machine logic that detects a training sequence received by a particular one of the receiver-transmitter pairs on a particular lane from a tester device. The training sequence includes a value to indicate a test of the particular receiver-transmitter pair by the tester device. The particular receiver-transmitter pair enters a first link state in association with the test and one or more other receiver-transmitter pairs of the port enter a second link state different from the first link state in association with the test to cause crosstalk to be generated on the particular lane during the test. |
| US11327859B1 |
Cell-based storage system with failure isolation
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a cell-based storage system with failure isolation are disclosed. A first subset of storage nodes is selected from a set of storage nodes of a data store and assigned to a first partition of data. Replicas of the first partition are stored using the first subset. A second subset of storage nodes is selected from the set of storage nodes and assigned to a second partition of data. The second subset is selected based (at least in part) on the membership of the first subset, and the second subset comprises at least one node not present in the first. Replicas of the second partition are stored using the second subset. Access requests associated with the first partition are routed to the first subset of storage nodes. Access requests associated with the second partition are routed to the second subset of storage nodes. |
| US11327855B2 |
Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus communicates with an external display apparatus including plural display modules, and includes first and second connection interfaces and a processor. The first communication interface is connected to a first display module from among the display modules connected together in a daisy chain configuration. The second communication interface is connected to a second display module from among the display modules. The processor transmits control data to the first display module through the first communication interface, and based on identifying that an error has occurred in a reception of the control data in any of the display modules, controls the second communication interface to transmit the control data to the second display module. |
| US11327853B2 |
Multicore system for determining processor state abnormality based on a comparison with a separate checker processor
A multicore system according to one or more embodiments is disclosed, which may include processors that execute processing different from each other, a selector that selects one of the processors, a checker processor, a comparator that compares an external state of the processor selected by the selector with an external state of the checker processor, or compares an internal state of the processor selected by the selector with an internal state of the checker processor, and a controller that determines that the selected processor or the checker processor is abnormal in response to the external states or the internal states not matching each other based on comparison results obtained by the comparator. |
| US11327852B1 |
Live migration/high availability system
A live migration/high availability system includes a first computing system having a first SCP subsystem coupled to first computing system components and a first hypervisor subsystem that provides a first virtual machine. Each time the first SCP subsystem receives snapshot commands from the hypervisor subsystem, it retrieves respective SCP component state information that was not retrieved in response to a previous snapshot command from each first SCP component included in the first SCP subsystem, and uses the respective SCP component state information to generate a respective SCP subsystem snapshot based on that snapshot command. The first SCP subsystem then transmits the SCP subsystem snapshots to a second SCP subsystem in a second computing system, and the second SCP subsystem uses the SCP subsystem snapshots to allow a second hypervisor subsystem on the second computing system to provide a second virtual machine that operates the same as the first virtual machine. |
| US11327851B2 |
Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing information processing program
An information processing system includes: a first storage device configured to store state data corresponding to processing executed on input data that is stored in a buffer; and a processing device configured to: calculate a first time point when the buffer overflows from an input rate of the input data to the buffer, and determine a second time point by using the input rate, an update amount of the state data per unit time, a first throughput of the backup processing on the state data from the first storage device to the second storage device, a second throughput of restoration processing on the state data from the second storage device to the first storage device, and a third throughput of the processing, the second time being a time point that is before the first time point and when backup processing on the state data is to be started. |
| US11327850B2 |
System and method for disaster recovery using application streaming
Disclosed herein are systems and method for disaster recovery using application streaming. In one aspect, a method includes generating a backup image of a computing system having at least one installed application and user data. The generating involves including the user data in the backup image and actively excluding program data files of the at least one installed application from the backup image. The method includes determining an application package specifying the installed application. The application package is stored at an application streaming service. Responsive to detecting a disaster recovery event, the method further includes copying the user data from the backup image to a recovery computing instance, and executing, on the recovery computing instance, a remote application from the application streaming service based on the determined application package. |
| US11327848B2 |
System and method for data remediation without data loss
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for data remediation without data loss. In one exemplary aspect, the method comprises performing, at a first time, a first backup of a plurality of files on a file system of a computer system; tracking changes to any of the plurality of files on the file system after the first time; performing, at a second time, a second backup of the plurality of files on the file system; detecting, based on a scan of the second backup, an infection of the computer system caused by a malicious application; identifying, by the processor, a most recent backup of the file system that does not comprise the infection; in response to determining that the first backup is the most recent backup: restoring the first backup to the file system, and restoring a subset of files on the file system for which authorized changes. |
| US11327844B1 |
Automated cloud recovery to provide a full usable application image
A storage array creates snapshots of each of a plurality of devices of a storage group associated with a production device on which active application data is logically stored. Metadata that indicates associations between the snapshots and the devices is stored on cloud storage with the snapshots as a snapset object. A program running on a management station used the snapset metadata to automatically create new devices on which to recover the snapshots on a selected storage array and uses the snapset metadata to cause the snapshots to be automatically written from the cloud storage system to the new devices on the selected storage array. |
| US11327843B2 |
Apparatus and method for managing data storage
Provided are an apparatus and method for managing data storage. A first log structured array stores data in a storage device. A second log structured array in the storage device stores metadata for the data in the first log structured array, wherein the second log structured array storing the metadata for the first log structured data storage system is nested within the first log structured array, and wherein the first and second log structured arrays comprise separate instances of log structured arrays. Address space is allocated in the second log structured array for metadata when the allocation of address space is required for metadata for data stored in the first log structured array. |
| US11327838B2 |
Memory device having error correction function and operating method thereof
A memory device includes: a first memory bank and a second memory bank; a control logic configured to receive a command and control an internal operation of the memory device; and an error correction code (ECC) circuit configured to retain in a latch circuit first read data read from the first memory bank in response to a first masked write (MWR) command for the first memory bank based on a latch control signal from the control logic, generate a first parity from data in which the first read data retained in the latch circuit is merged with first write data corresponding to the first MWR command in response to a first write control signal received from the control logic, and control an ECC operation to retain in the latch circuit second read data read from the second memory bank based on the latch control signal. |
| US11327837B2 |
Method and system for identifying erased memory areas
The subject technology provides for scanning blocks of a flash memory device for erased pages. A first codeword read from a page of a block in a flash memory device is received and provided to a first decoder for decoding. In response to receiving a first success indicator from the first decoder indicating that the first codeword was successfully decoded, first decoded data is provided from the first decoder to a second decoder for verification of the first decoded data. In response to receiving a first failure indicator from the second decoder indicating that the first decoded data was not verified, the page of the block is identified as being in an erased state based on the first success indicator received from the first decoder and the first failure indicator received from the second decoder. |
| US11327836B1 |
Protection of data on a data path in a memory system
Some examples herein provide for protection of data on a data path in a memory system in an integrated circuit. In an example, an integrated circuit includes a bit checker circuit, an Error Correcting Code (ECC) encoder circuit, an ECC decoder circuit, and a check bit generation circuit. The bit checker circuit is configured to check write data based on write-path check bit(s). The ECC encoder circuit is configured to generate a write encoded ECC value based on the write data. The write encoded ECC value is to be written to the memory with the write data. The ECC decoder circuit is configured to decode a read encoded ECC value and check read data based on the read encoded ECC value. The read encoded ECC value and read data are read from the memory. The check bit generation circuit is configured to generate read-path check bit(s) from the read data. |
| US11327834B2 |
Efficient computation of parity data in storage system implementing data striping
In an information processing system including a set of data storage devices for storing data blocks arranged in respective columns on each data storage device and rows across the set of data storage devices to form at least one data stripe, and a set of parity storage devices for storing parity blocks computed via one or more parity operations based on the data blocks of the at least one data stripe, at least one of the data storage devices includes a processing device configured to: receive from the information processing system an instruction to perform at least a portion of a parity operation; perform the portion of the parity operation; and send a result of the performed portion of the parity operation to the information processing system, wherein the result is useable by the information processing system for performing another portion of the parity operation. |
| US11327829B2 |
Semiconductor device which detects occurrence of an abnormality during operation based on a comparison of an input specifying a PWM signal and an estimated input obtained from an inverse operation
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a main circuit configured to perform a predetermined operation to an input signal to output an output signal, an inverse operation circuit configured to receive the output signal of the main circuit as an input, and perform an inverse operation of the predetermined operation by using the output signal to output an inverse operation result signal, and a comparison circuit configured to compare the input signal and the inverse operation result signal, and output a predetermined signal when the input signal and the inverse operation result signal do not coincide with each other. |
| US11327826B1 |
System, method, and computer program for automated resolution of free-text incidents, based on machine learning
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automated resolution of free-text incidents, based on machine learning. In operation, a system receives incident information from at least one IT service management (ITSM) system. The system reads the incident information including free text and classifies an incident associated with the incident information to at least one automation flow. The system generates robotic process automation (RPA) compatible information from the incident information by parsing parameters associated with the incident from text into required fields based on the at least one automation flow. Further, the system sends the generated RPA compatible information to the at least one ITSM system or at least one RPA system. |
| US11327825B2 |
Predictive analytics for failure detection
A computer-implemented method and computing system are provided for failure prediction of a batch of manufactured objects. The method includes classifying, by a processor using a simulation, a set of samples with uniformly distributed parameter values, to generate sample classifications for the batch of manufactured objects. The method further includes determining, by the processor, a centroid of failing ones of the samples in the set, based on the sample classifications. The method also includes generating, by the processor, a new set of samples with a distribution around the centroid of the failing ones of the sample in the set. The method additionally includes populating, by the processor, a nearest neighbor vector space using the new set of samples. The method further includes classifying, by the processor, the new set of samples by performing a nearest neighbor search on the nearest neighbor vector space using a distance metric. |
| US11327824B2 |
Using a web server to obtain service data for a failed software application
An apparatus and a computer program product include a non-volatile computer readable medium and non-transitory program instructions embodied therein, the program instructions being configured to be executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include running a web server on a virtual machine that is running software application and an operating system that supports the software application, causing the operating system to obtain and provide service data for the software application after failure of the software application, causing the web server to receive the service data from the operating system, and causing the web server to send the obtained service data to an entity that is outside the virtual machine. |
| US11327823B2 |
Error detection and rejection for a diagnostic testing system
A system for measuring a property of a sample is provided. The system comprises a diagnostic measuring device having a memory and a diagnostic test strip for collecting the sample. The strip has embedded thereon a pattern representative of at least first data and second data, the first data being data representing at least one of parameters related to measuring the property, codes usable for calibration of the diagnostic measuring device, or parameters indicating proper connection between the measuring device and the test strip and the second data usable for detecting and rejecting potential errors affecting the proper measurement of the property. |
| US11327820B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing network-based northbound application programming interface in a wireless communication system
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). Embodiments herein achieve a method and system for providing a network-based northbound application programming interface. The method includes receiving, by an API provider, a request for invoking one or more service APIs from one or more API invoker clients. The method includes utilizing, by the API provider, a CAPIF core function residing at a first domain to provide the one or more service APIs. The method includes providing, by the API provider, the one or more service APIs to the one or more API invoker clients through the CAPIF core function, wherein the API provider comprises one or more service APIs, an API exposing function, an API publishing function and an API management function. |