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| US11399450B2 |
System and method for managing electromagnetic interference
A system for providing electromagnetic interference (EMI) suppression for data processing devices includes a frame adapted to receive a data processing device of the data processing devices. The system further includes the data processing device that includes a payload module adapted to suppress EMI from an internal volume to an ambient environment by greater than 80 decibels. The data processing device further includes the internal volume adapted to house EMI emitting devices that generate EMI. |
| US11399446B2 |
Water cooling heat dissipation structure
A water cooling heat dissipation structure includes a first and a second plate, a water cooling heat dissipation body, which is composed of a plurality of stacked heat dissipation members. The first plate, the heat dissipation members, and the second plate are in sequence stacked up into one and another to integrally form the water cooling heat dissipation structure by heat treatment. The water cooling heat dissipation body has a top side attached to one side of the first plate and a bottom side thereof attached to the second plate, so as to secure two sides of a flow passage of the water cooling heat dissipation body. A first and a second connecting portion is respectively provided on two sides of the first plate or the water cooling heat dissipation body, and the first and the second connecting portion is communicable with the flow passage. |
| US11399441B2 |
Security enclosure
This invention concerns a security enclosure and in particular an outdoor, non-metallic security enclosure for electrical equipment. The enclosure has a body and a cover which is connected to the body using connecting means such that the cover is movable between a first, closed position wherein the security enclosure is closed and a second, open position wherein the security enclosure is open. The cover is lockable in its closed position. Complementary shaped engagement formations carried by the body and cover engage one another so as to create a mechanical seal between the body and cover when the cover is in its closed position. Retaining formations carried by the body and cover respectively are configured to prevent the cover from being removed from the body when the cover is in its closed position. The invention also concerns a security system including a number of security enclosures. |
| US11399440B2 |
Method for manufacturing coreless substrate
A temporary carrier according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a core layer, a first Cu foil layer and a second Cu foil layer on surfaces of both sides of the core layer. Each of the first Cu foil layer and the second Cu foil layer may include double Cu foils which are physically attached together. |
| US11399434B2 |
Electronic package and method of forming an electronic package
Embodiments disclosed herein include modular electronics packages and methods of forming such packages. In an embodiment, the electronics package comprises a first connector module having a notch on a first end and a plurality of surface mount technology (SMT) pads on a second end. In an embodiment, the electronics package further comprises a second connector module having a keyed connector on a first end and a plurality of SMT pads on a second end. In an embodiment, the electronics package further comprises a system in package (SIP) module between the first connector module and the second connector module, the component module electrically and mechanically coupled to the SMT pads of the first connector and the SMT pads of the second connector. |
| US11399431B2 |
Land for surface mounted component
Provided is a land for a surface mounted component that includes a plurality of land regions respectively having different width. Land regions included in the plurality of land regions are combined with one another with centers in a width direction aligned in order conforming to the widths and are jointed into one land. A cutout shape is provided in a center in the width direction on a side opposed to an adjacent or overlapping side of a land region having a larger width of adjacent or partially overlapping two land regions in the plurality of land regions joined into the one land. |
| US11399430B2 |
Method for manufacturing circuit board
A circuit board includes a substrate, a first inner circuit layer, a second inner circuit layer, a first insulating layer, a first optical fiber extending along a first direction, an optical component, an electrical component, a transparent insulating layer, a first inclined surface, a first reflective layer, a second inclined surface, a second reflective layer, and a second optical fiber extending along a second direction. |
| US11399426B2 |
Wiring board and method for manufacturing same
A wiring board and a method for manufacturing the wiring board in which an initial Cu plated layer is formed by plating so as to cover the surface of a metallized layer and then the initial Cu plated layer is heated to be softened or melted. Copper in the softened or melted initial Cu plated layer enters into open pore portions of the metallized layer. In addition, during the heating, components of the metallized layer and components of the initial Cu plated layer are mutually thermally diffused. Consequently, when solidified later (that is, when the initial Cu plated layer becomes a lower Cu plated layer), the adhesiveness between the metallized layer and the lower Cu plated layer is improved due to, for example, an anchoring effect and a mutual thermal diffusion effect. |
| US11399419B2 |
Electrical load set circuit, light strip and control apparatus therefor
An electrical load set circuit and apparatus having at least three control signal lines arranged in parallel, a pair of polarized electrical loads connected between two of the signal lines, and another electrical load connected between a different control signal line and one of the polarized loads. Individual ones of the electrical loads can be selectively activated without requiring an additional common (ground) line. At least two of the control signal lines can be kept in a floating state. A light strip includes plural light set circuits spaced along the control signal lines. In another variation, first and second light points are spaced along the three control signal lines, each including three different color LEDs respectively. |
| US11399415B2 |
Induction heating extension cables including control conductors
Induction heating extension cables including control conductors are disclosed. An example cable assembly includes: a first plurality of conductors in a Litz cable arrangement; an outer protective layer configured to protect the plurality of conductors from physical damage; and a second plurality of conductors that are electrically isolated from the first plurality of conductors and are protected by the outer protective layer from physical damage. |
| US11399412B2 |
Data capacity sharing server, method and system for sharing data capacity donated by terminal
The present invention relates to a server, a method and a system for allowing a user terminal to receive and use a data capacity shared by a donor terminal, and provide a reward that is as much as the data capacity shared by the donor terminal and provide, to the user terminal, charging information corresponding to the use of data, thereby enabling a fair and meaningful compensation system. |
| US11399404B2 |
Enabling concurrent use of multiple cellular network technologies
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including machine-readable media storing executable instructions, for enabling concurrent use of multiple cellular network technologies. In some implementations, a system includes a first wireless base station configured to support a first wireless connection providing uplink and downlink data transfer to a user device. The system includes a second wireless base station configured to support a second wireless connection providing at least downlink data transfer to the user device. The system includes a communication interface between the first wireless base station and the second wireless base station. The system includes a first scheduler, coupled to the first wireless base station, configured to schedule uplink timeslots such that the user device can use a single radio to concurrently communicate with the first wireless base station using the first wireless connection and with the second wireless base station using the second wireless connection. |
| US11399400B2 |
Establishing packet data convergence protocol entity for dual connectivity
A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus receives an RRC connection reconfiguration request message including a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) configuration from the base station apparatus. The DRB configuration includes a DRB identity and a PDCP entity configuration corresponding to the DRB identity. PDCP entity configuration information includes one of a PDCP entity configuration for E-UTRA and a PDCP entity configuration for NR. A PDCP entity is established in accordance with the PDCP entity configuration information. |
| US11399392B2 |
Uplink transmission method based on an autonomous transmission parameter, communication method based on maximum channel occupancy time, terminal, based station and storage medium
Provided are an uplink transmission and communication methods and devices, a base station, a terminal and a storage medium. In the provided uplink transmission method, a terminal determines at least one autonomous transmission parameter for uplink transmission, sends the at least one autonomous transmission parameter to a base station, and then send uplink data to the base station according to the at least one autonomous transmission parameter. After receiving the at least one autonomous transmission parameter sent by the terminal, the base station detects and receives, according to the at least one autonomous transmission parameter, data sent by the terminal. In this manner, the terminal can flexibly transmit data according to currently available transmission resources without having to passively and rigidly wait until the transmission resources satisfy the scheduling requirements of the base station before performing transmission. |
| US11399390B2 |
Floating frame-based channel occupancy time in fixed frame period in mobile communications
Examples pertaining to a floating frame-based channel occupancy time (COT) in a fixed frame period (FFP) in mobile communications are described. An apparatus implemented in FBE performs clear channel assessment (CCA) of a channel. The apparatus then transmits during a COT within a FFP in response to the CCA indicating the channel to be clear for transmission. |
| US11399389B2 |
Facilitation of frequency selective scheduling for 5G or other next generation network
Sub bands can be scheduled with optimal modulation and coding scheme (MCS) when the user equipment reports the sub band channel quality indicator (CQI) and sub band pre-coding matrix index (PMI). The network can use multiple downlink control channels to indicate the sub band resources and the corresponding MCS for that resource allocation. By using multiple downlink control channels to indicate the sub band MCS, the network can use resources more efficiently. |
| US11399384B2 |
Method and apparatus of indicating aggregation number in a wireless communication system
A User Equipment (UE) receives a message including a first parameter indicative of a list of entries associated with time resource allocation for multiple PUSCHs. The list does not include a third parameter for configuring a number of repetitions. The UE does not expect the message to include a second parameter that configures and/or indicates an aggregation factor. The UE receives a Downlink Control Information (DCI) indicative of a first entry in the list. The UE performs one or more transmissions on one or more time occasions. A number of time occasions of the one or more time occasions is based on a number of time resource allocations of the first entry. |
| US11399380B1 |
Adaptive interference cancellation in a wireless communication system
An adaptive interference cancellation method is disclosed. In an example, when a UE is served in a first cell by a first access node, the UE detects a second cell provided by a second access node that is not serving the UE. Further, responsive to the detecting, the UE determines that both (i) a broadcast CRS of the second cell occupies air-interface resource elements that the first access node uses as part of a PDSCH of the first cell and (ii) the UE has coverage strength of the second cell that is threshold similar to coverage strength that the UE has from the first access node. And, responsive to the determining, the UE cancels from scheduled PDSCH transmission from the first access node to the UE, potential interference attributable to the broadcast CRS of the detected second cell, such as by reconstructing and subtracting the CRS from the PDSCH transmission. |
| US11399378B2 |
Method and terminal for data transmission using unlicensed carrier
Disclosed in the present invention are data transmitting method, a terminal and a base station. Provided is as feasible method for transmitting feedback information under the scenario in which a unlicensed carrier works independently, and in which the feedback information corresponding to a plurality of time limits for downlink transmission are transmitted within a time unit for uplink transmission, thereby improving the efficiency of feedback. |
| US11399370B2 |
Virtual carrier configuration and operation for wireless systems with large carrier bandwidth
Apparatus and methods are provided for virtual carrier operation in wireless systems with large carrier bandwidth. In one novel aspect, virtual carrier (VC) with a block of physically contiguous radio resources within a component carrier is configured. In one embodiment, the UE configures a downlink (DL) common virtual carrier (CVC) and an uplink (UL) CVC, which carry control information for the UE, and one or more DL/UL dedicated VCs (DVCs), which carry data services. In one embodiment, the UE obtains the CVC configuration information including the channel bandwidth and the physical location through system information. In another embodiment, the UE obtains DVC configuration through a RRC-layer signaling. In another novel aspect, the UE obtains a VC configuration switch command through either a MAC signal or a PHY signal, and subsequently reconfigures one or more configured VCs based on the received switch command. |
| US11399368B2 |
Resource allocation for carrier aggregation
A method in a radio device of radio resource allocation for transmitting data on a plurality of communication carriers is provided. The method includes sensing on a first carrier and obtaining a first set of candidate radio resources for a first transmission on the first carrier, performing a first selection of one or a plurality of the candidate radio resources from the first set to be used for the first transmission, sensing on a second carrier and obtaining a second set of candidate radio resources for a second transmission on the second carrier, performing a second selection of one or a plurality of the candidate radio resources from the second set to be used for the second transmission, and performing the first selection and the second selection in dependency to each other. |
| US11399367B2 |
Enhanced control channel transmission
A wireless device receives at least one configuration parameter indicating that a first search space and a second search space are used together for reception of a downlink control information and repetition of the downlink control information. The wireless device may determine a first downlink control information. Based on the at least one configuration parameter indicating that the first search space and the second search space are used together, the determining may comprise monitoring the first search space and monitoring the second search space. The wireless device may transmit or may receive a transport block based on the first downlink control information. |
| US11399365B2 |
Communications management using down link control information
Downlink Control Information (DCI) may be expanded, or enhanced, to allow nodes such as UEs, eNBs, NR-nodes, gNBs, and TRPs in M2M, IoT, WoT networks to coordinate activities on PHY, MAC, and RRC layers. For example, DCI fields may be added or enhanced to include, for example, information regarding time resource allocation, frequency resource allocation, mini-slot allocation, and or Code Block Group (CBG) transmission. Such information, or similar information, may be used in operations such as mini-slot operations, Code Block Group (CBG) transmission, group common Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), grant-free and grant-less operations, response to Beam Failure Recovery Request (BFRR), UL Transmit (TX) beam change, Quasi-Co-Location (QCL) operations, aperiodic CSI-RS transmission and interference measurement, Band Width Part (BWP) operations, and Multi-Transmission and Reception Point (TRP)/Multi-Panel. |
| US11399362B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data channel
A method of transmitting and receiving a data channel by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving downlink control information (DCI) including information related to a resource region for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), acquiring a resource indication value (RIV) from the DCI, acquiring a first length of allocated resource blocks based on the RIV, scaling the first length of allocated resource blocks to a second length of allocated resource blocks, based on a scaling factor and receiving the PDSCH or transmitting the PUSCH based on the second length of allocated resource blocks, wherein the scaling factor may be 2n, and n may be non-negative integer. |
| US11399361B2 |
V2X sidelink communication
A communication method, includes: a terminal device receives a first-standard vehicle-to-everything V2X sidelink configuration and a second-standard V2X sidelink configuration from a network device, obtains based on the first-standard V2X sidelink configuration and the second-standard V2X sidelink configuration, a V2X sidelink resource used for data transmission; and communicates with another terminal device on the V2X sidelink resource. |
| US11399360B2 |
Reception apparatus, reception method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method
The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus, and a transmission method, by which channel selection information can be acquired more efficiently. Provided is a reception apparatus, including: a reception unit that receives a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting using an IP (Internet Protocol) transmission system; a communication unit that receives first signaling information for acquiring broadcast content transmitted by the broadcast wave through communication with a server via a network; an acquisition unit that acquires, on the basis of the first signaling information, a physical parameter used in a physical layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of the IP transmission system; and a control unit that controls, on the basis of the physical parameter, operations of respective units that perform channel selection processing. The present technology is applicable to a portable receiver that is movable, for example. |
| US11399357B2 |
Method and system of context-based personalized notification batching
In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing contextual-based batching of incoming notifications comprising includes the step of receiving an incoming notification. The method includes the step of determining a user context at a time of the incoming notification is received. The method includes the step of determining a time sensitivity of the incoming notification at a time the incoming notification is received. The time sensitivity of the incoming notification indicates that the incoming notification is not time sensitive. Based on the user context and the time sensitivity of the incoming notification, the method batches the incoming notification and delivers the notification to a notification inbox on a specified schedule. |
| US11399344B2 |
System and method for SoC idle power state control based on I/O operation characterization
A method and apparatus of a device that manages system performance by controlling power state based on information related to I/O operations is described. The device collects historical I/O information. The historical I/O information may include the number of I/O operations over a sample period of time and the inter-arrival time between I/O operations. The device further receives information related to a current I/O operation. The information of the current I/O operation may include direction, size, quality of service, and media type of the I/O operation. The device determines a power state based on the historical I/O information and the information relative to the current I/O operation to reduce power consumption while improving system efficiency and maintaining an acceptable level of system performance. The device further applies the determined power state. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US11399339B2 |
Packet data network gateway redirection
A core provider predicts that a device will enter an area of poor coverage by a wireless network provider. Based on the prediction, one or more rules are applied to prioritize data traffic to be received prior to entering the area of poor coverage. The prediction that the device will enter the area of poor coverage may be based on cell coverage data received from the wireless network provider, connection quality data received from other devices, a location of the device, a speed of the device, a direction of the device, or any suitable combination thereof. A route of the device may be changed to avoid or minimize an amount of time in the area of poor coverage. As another alternative, the device may be switched from the wireless network provider to another wireless network with better coverage. |
| US11399338B2 |
Method for determining priority of area, network device, and computer storage medium
Disclosed are a method for determining a priority of an area, a network device, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring information of a network slice, and setting a priority of an area on the basis of the information of the network slice; and configuring the priority of the area to a terminal device. |
| US11399332B2 |
Message transmission method and apparatus
Provided are a message transmission method and apparatus. One message transmission method includes: jointly carrying a system message through physical broadcast channels in multiple periods, and transmitting the system message to a terminal, where each of the physical broadcast channels in the multiple periods respectively carries a part of information of the system message. |
| US11399331B2 |
Network access method, related apparatus, and system
Embodiments of this application disclose a network access method. The method may include: receiving, by a data management network element, a request message from an access and mobility management function network element, where the request message includes identification information of user equipment and identification information of a residential gateway connected to the user equipment; determining, by the data management network element, subscription data of the residential gateway based on the identification information of the residential gateway; determining, by the data management network element, a subscription type of the user equipment based on the subscription data of the residential gateway and the identification information of the user equipment; and sending, by the data management network element, indication information of the subscription type to the access and mobility management function network element, where the subscription type indicates a subscriber or a non-subscriber of the residential gateway. |
| US11399326B2 |
Methods and systems for handling conditional handover (CHO) in a wireless communication network
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides methods and devices for handling conditional handover (CHO) in a wireless communication network. |
| US11399323B2 |
Method and apparatus for non-access stratum message processing during handover in evolved network
A method and an apparatus for non-access stratum (NAS) message processing during handover are provided. The method includes the steps of sending a first message to a radio access network node, wherein the first message including a non-access stratum (NAS) message, and receiving a second message from the radio access network node, wherein the second message comprising the NAS message and cause information indicating a handover is triggered. |
| US11399320B2 |
Methods of connecting to communications networks and switching network connectivity
Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide a method of connecting, via a communications interface of an autonomous mobile device, to both a first communication network and a second communication network. A third communication network may be connected to when the communications interface is disconnected. A map may be stored that includes a first one or more locations of the autonomous mobile device where the plurality of communications networks are accessible, and includes a second one or more locations of the autonomous mobile device where one or more of the plurality of communications networks have been disconnected. At a different time, when the autonomous mobile device is within a predetermined distance of one of the locations that the communications networks have been disconnected, the third communications network or another one of the plurality of communications networks may be switched to based on the map. |
| US11399319B1 |
Controlling secondary-node addition based on cooperative consideration of coverage comparison and predicted data split
A mechanism for controlling configuration of dual connectivity for a user equipment device (UE), where the dual connectivity includes the UE being served cooperatively by (i) a first access node over a first air-interface connection between the UE and the first access node and (ii) a second access node over a second air-interface connection between the UE and the second access node. An example method includes (a) predicting whether both (i) in the dual connectivity, a data split will put a threshold greater portion of data flow of the UE on the second air-interface connection than on the first air-interface connection and (ii) coverage strength of the UE from the second access node will be threshold lower than coverage strength of the UE from the first access node and (b) using the prediction as a basis to control whether or not to establish the dual connectivity for the UE. |
| US11399318B2 |
Connection failure information for packet duplication
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Devices may exchange information regarding a radio link failure and/or a handover. The information may comprise a radio link failure report which may comprise an indication of packet duplication. |
| US11399317B2 |
Cell reselection method and device, closed subscriber group verification method and device, and storage medium
Provided are a cell reselection method and device, a closed subscriber group (CSG) verification method and device, and a storage medium. The cell reselection method includes: a user equipment (UE) acquiring CSG information of a neighboring cell from a network side; and the UE determining a cell allowing access according to the acquired CSG information of the neighboring cell. The CSG verification method includes: after access of a UE having a CSG subscription attribute, a base station reporting CSG verification information of a serving cell and a neighboring cell of the UE to a mobility management entity (MME); and the base station acquiring CSG verification result information of the UE from the MME and storing the CSG verification result information, where the CSG verification result information is acquired by the MME through completing CSG verification of the UE in the serving cell and the neighboring cell according to the CSG verification information reported by the base station and subscription information of the UE acquired from a network side. The solution can reduce power consumption of a UE. |
| US11399315B2 |
Efficient EPS fallback in a 5GS architecture
A method of managing an Evolved Packet System (EPS) fallback procedure in a 5GS network. The method comprises making available to the Access Mobility Function (AMF), a configuration parameter per Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) indicating if early or late PCRF/PCF interaction with the IMS is used. Then, upon receipt by the network of a 5GS network registration request from a UE, the home PLMN of the UE is identified as is the configuration parameter for that PLMN. The identified parameter is then used to determine for the UE whether or not EPS fallback is available to the UE, and an indication of the determination is sent to the UE. |
| US11399312B2 |
Storage and retention intelligence in mobile networks
In an embodiment, a computer implemented method and architecture for managing data in mobile communication network which includes core and access components. This embodiment performs specialized data handling through processing nodes referred as Storage Retention and Intelligent Function (SRIF) nodes, an evaluation operation on control plane and user plane data received from the mobile communication network. This action determines whether any portion of the data needs intelligent processing and applies knowledge extraction algorithm for build-up retention or policy decision. As responsive to the evaluation operation, the SRIF nodes apply decisions on data or enable network nodes to apply data processing rules. The architecture of SRIF is hierarchical comprising end node as serving node, middle node as load balancing node providing flexibility, and central node as the brain. The central node performs data processing based on pre-defined rules or algorithms developed by analyzing data or by applying Machine learning. |
| US11399309B2 |
Transmission block size determination
There is provided mechanisms for operation in a communication network. A method in a wireless device adapted for operation in the communication network comprises obtaining a pre-defined rule for computing a default transmission data block size on the basis of one or more input parameters selected from: a number of allocated physical resource blocks, a number of allocated time-domain symbols, an effective number of resource elements per physical resource block and/or symbol, a number of spatial layers, a modulation order, and a code rate. |
| US11399308B2 |
Error handling on missing configuration for inter-system change in mobile communications
Various examples and schemes pertaining to error handling on missing configuration for inter-system change in mobile communications are described. An apparatus performs a protocol data unit (PDU)-related procedure with a wireless network. The apparatus detects whether there is an error in the PDU-related procedure and the apparatus handles the error in response to detecting the error in the PDU-related procedure. |
| US11399304B2 |
Packet duplication by core network
A session management function (SMF) sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), at least one first message comprising configuration parameters for a first session between a wireless device and a UPF and a second session, for a packet duplication of the first session, between the wireless device and the UPF. The SMF receives, from the UPF, traffic status information of the UPF. Based on the traffic status information, the SMF sends, to the AMF, a second message for activation of the packet duplication of the first session. |
| US11399301B2 |
Communications apparatus and methods
Communications apparatuses and methods are provided. The solution comprises receiving (200) from a server a request to perform sensing measurements; allocating (202) transmission resources to one or more wireless terminal devices, where the allocated resources are larger than needed for data transmission of the one or more wireless terminal; transmitting (204) information on resource to the one or more wireless terminal devices; receiving (206) transmission from one or more wireless terminal devices, the transmission comprising an amount of known symbols in addition to data; estimating (208) channel state information utilizing the known symbols; and transmitting (210) channel state information to the server. |
| US11399297B2 |
Resource controller for resource management in a telecommunication network
The present invention provides a resource controller for resource management in a telecommunication network, the telecommunication network providing a first set of resources for cellular communication and a second set of resources for direct device-to-device, D2D, communication between UEs, the resource controller comprising a measurement request unit being arranged to request a measurement be performed by at least one user equipment, the measurement indicating a capacity utilization of the second set of resources; and a resource pool adaption unit being arranged to adapt the first set of resources and the second set of resources as a function of the performed measurement. In particular, where no resources are available for D2D communication, a UE may request a bearer setup and in response suitable resources for D2D communication are provided. |
| US11399295B2 |
Proactive customer care in a communication system
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, automatically detecting a service issue of a telecommunication system that may impact a customer of a telecommunication service provider of the telecommunication system, predicting, by the processing system, a future customer care interaction by the customer as a result of the service issue, initiating a resolution action of the telecommunication system for the service issue before the customer contacts a customer care agent of the telecommunication service provider, wherein the initiating is responsive to the predicting the future customer care interaction and modifying a component of the telecommunication system to improve efficiency of operation of the telecommunication system by reducing a number of customer care contacts by customers of the telecommunication service provider. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11399294B2 |
Increasing number of connected user equipments on radio access network apparatus
In case a first set of N user equipments attached to a radio access network via an apparatus does not exceed a maximum number M, the apparatus performs (S41) real-time and non-real-time processing for the N user equipments. In case N exceeds M, the apparatus performs (S43) real-time and non-real-time processing for a second set of M user equipments contained within the first set and forwards non-real-time processing of a third set of N-M user equipments contained within the first set but not contained within the second set to a central unit which stores (S51) context information of the user equipments of the first set and performs (S53) non-real-time processing of the user equipments of the third set. |
| US11399292B2 |
User terminal and radio communication method
According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits a signal in a plurality of CGs, including a first cell group (CG) and a second CG corresponding to a longer slot length than the first CG, and a control section that controls transmission power in each CG, and the control section switches a transmission power control policy in a certain slot based on whether or not the certain slot of the first CG overlaps with a slot boundary of the second CG. According to one aspect of the present invention, even when multiple numerologies are supported in a given carrier, it is possible to reduce the decline in communication throughput and so forth. |
| US11399290B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and preemptively reconfiguring the network in a spectrum controlled network
A method and apparatus for predicting capacity utilization and preemptively reallocating channels in a spectrum-controlled network such as a Citizen's Band Radio Service (CBRS) network. The network includes a plurality of Base Stations/Access Points (BS/APs) which monitor RF resource usage of the channels at each BS/AP and provide time series data relating to capacity utilization over a period of time. The data is analyzed, and patterns are identified in the collected capacity utilization data using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Looking forward, capacity utilization is predicted using AI techniques. Responsive to the capacity utilization predictions, the channels pre-emptively reallocated among BS/APs. The enterprise network provides feedback regarding prediction accuracy, which is utilized in a machine learning process to modify the models and provide greater prediction accuracy. The prediction apparatus includes a capacity utilization module and a training/retraining module, which may be located remotely from the enterprise network. |
| US11399285B2 |
Secure device onboarding techniques
Various systems and methods for establishing network connectivity and onboarding for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and trusted platforms, including in Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) specification device deployments, are discussed. In an example, a zero touch owner transfer method includes operations of: receiving a first request from a new device for network access to begin an onboarding procedure with a network platform; transmitting credentials of a first network to the new device, the first network used to access a rendezvous server and obtain onboarding information associated with the network platform; receiving a second request from the new device for network access to continue the onboarding procedure; and transmitting credentials of a second network to the new device, as the new device uses the second network to access the onboarding server of the network platform and perform or complete the onboarding procedure with the network platform. |
| US11399284B1 |
Systems and methods for providing and using proof of coverage in a decentralized wireless network
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing and using a decentralized network using a blockchain. A provider (and/or miner) may provide network coverage to one or more devices in return for tokens on the blockchain. The blockchain may employ a proof-of-coverage scheme to verify (and even guarantee) that the miners are honestly representing the wireless network coverage they are providing. In some instances, the proof of coverage may require the providers to prove coverage periodically, upon demand, and/or at random intervals. |
| US11399283B2 |
Tenant service set identifiers (SSIDs)
Systems and methods provide for provisioning network access using a tenant service set identifier (SSID) or an SSID of a specified duration and distributed authorization. A network management system can provision a wireless local area network (WLAN) and the SSID in an access point to enable a primary guest device to access the WLAN for a specified time period (e.g., a start time and end time). The network management system can cause the SSID and authentication data (e.g., authentication token, Pre-Shared Key (PSK), etc.) to be transmitted for receipt by the first client device. After the start time and in response to successfully authenticating the first client device, the first client device can authorize a second client device to access the WLAN. The network management system or the AP can disable access to the network via the SSID at the end time. |
| US11399280B2 |
Communication of numbered sequence packets using old and new cipher keys
This application discloses a communications method. The method may include: receiving, by a receiving party, indication information sent by a first device, where the indication information is used to indicate at least one intermediate sequence number; receiving a data packet of the bearer sent by the first device; and skipping the at least one intermediate sequence number based on the indication information, deciphering, by using the old key, a data packet that is located on the bearer and whose sequence number is followed by the at least one intermediate sequence number, and deciphering, by using the new key, a data packet that is located on the bearer and whose sequence number follows the at least one intermediate sequence number. |
| US11399279B2 |
Security credentials recovery in Bluetooth mesh network
In accordance with embodiments, methods for the recovery of security credentials of a Bluetooth mesh network are disclosed. A computing device of the Bluetooth mesh network receives user login information, and generates a network key of the Bluetooth mesh network based on the user login information. The computing device generates an application key of a first node to be provisioned based on user login information. A device key is generated using the unicast address of the first node and part of user credentials. The current sequence number is recovered by one of the four techniques depending on the characteristics of the network. The unicast addresses of the nodes are assumed to be sequential and later validated by sending messages. IV index is recovered using processes defined in the Bluetooth mesh standard. After recovery of the above parameters, the mesh network can operate normally using the aforementioned computing device. |
| US11399278B2 |
Security verification when resuming an RRC connection
According to an aspect, a wireless device sends, while in an RRC inactive state, a message requesting resumption of an RRC connected state. Upon sending the message, the wireless device starts a timer according to a predetermined value. While the timer is running, the wireless device attempts decryption and integrity check handling for packets subsequently received from the wireless network. |
| US11399265B2 |
Systems and methods for configuring and testing an external device through a mobile device
Example implementations described herein are directed to connecting and configuring a device to be configured into an Internet of Things (IoT) system through utilizing a mobile device. The mobile device is provided with an application that will provision and commission a device to be configured into the IoT system. Through example implementations described herein, the mobile device allows for a device to be configured to be connected to an IoT system even if no network connectivity is available for the device to be configured. The mobile device also provides sensor data in real time to determine if the device to be configured is properly configured. |
| US11399260B2 |
System and method for using positioning information in an electronic communication network to affect when as asset obtains a location estimate
A computer-implemented system and method for efficient navigation, location, tracking, and collocation of assets in electronic communication networks, which includes mutual tracking of target assets and tracking assets, reducing frequency and duration of radio transmission and reception of data, reducing the need for and frequency of GNSS (e.g. GPS) fixes and other power-hungry radio-based location sensing, predicting future movements of assets, and actions based on adherence to predictions of future movements of assets. Specifically, the computer-implemented system and method relates to the general use of positioning information of a second asset at a first asset to affect when the first asset obtains a NSS (i.e. a GPS) location estimate (also called a fix). The first asset can be either a tracking or a target asset, or both assets simultaneously track each other. |
| US11399257B2 |
Methods to preemptively autoconfigure a mobile network to respond to external emergencies
Methods are provided to preemptively reconfigure a mobile network to respond to external emergencies. The method is performed at a network device of a service provider which provides access to a mobile network for wireless device. The method includes obtaining a message indicating an occurrence of a disaster. The message includes at least an emergency type and location information. The method further includes determining, based on the emergency type, a reconfiguration policy for reconfiguring the mobile network in an area indicated by the location information and reconfiguring the mobile network based on the reconfiguration policy. The method further includes authenticating a disaster application function and a notification message informing about an occurrence of a disaster. |
| US11399253B2 |
System and methods for vocal interaction preservation upon teleportation
Methods and systems for vocal interaction preservation for teleported audio. A method includes determining spatial parameters of a first space including at least one sound source and at least one audio source, wherein the at least one sound source emits sound within the first space, wherein the at least one audio source captures audio data based on sounds emitted within the first space, wherein the spatial parameters of the first space characterize sound characteristics of the first space; determining vocal spatial parameters of each of the at least one sound source, wherein the vocal spatial parameters of each sound source define characteristics of the sound source which affect sound waves emitted by the sound source; and generating, for each sound source, a respective clean version of the audio data based on the spatial parameters of the first space and the vocal spatial parameters of the sound source. |
| US11399239B2 |
Audio calibration system
An audio calibration system applied to a hearing detection device includes an audio generator, a cloud server, a mobile computing device, and an audio playback unit. The audio generator plays a first test sound. A sound pressure level of the first test sound at any frequency between 500 Hz and 4000 Hz is Z. A computing unit of the mobile computing device generates a first value X after receiving the first test sound through a microphone, and the computing unit generates a second value Y after receiving a second test sound through the microphone. The audio playback unit receives an audio command from an audio control interface, and plays the second test sound to the microphone. The computing unit obtains a calibration value through a relational expression of Z+(Y−X). |
| US11399236B2 |
Sensor device and microphone assembly
This disclosure provides methods, systems, and apparatuses, for a microphone circuit. In particular, the circuit includes transducer that can sense pressure changes and generate an electrical signal having frequency components in a first frequency range and in a second frequency range higher than the first frequency range. The circuit includes a feedback circuitry that can attenuate frequency components in the first frequency range in the electrical signal and, from it, generate an audio signal. A feedback path circuit includes a low pass filter having a cut-off frequency within the first frequency range, and filters the audio signal to generate a low pass filter signal that includes frequency components in the first frequency range. The low pass filter signal can be used to generate a low frequency pressure signal that corresponds to low frequency pressure changes sensed by the transducer. |
| US11399233B2 |
Signal processing device
A signal processing device includes a switching receptor, a storage, and a signal processor. The switching receptor receives switching of a speaker serving as a supply destination of a signal. The storage stores an optimal setting, which is obtained by measuring characteristics of the speaker selected by the switching, in association with the switching of the speaker. The signal processor reads out the optimal setting, which is associated with the switching received by the switching receptor, from the storage, and uses the optimal setting to process the signal to be supplied to the speaker. |
| US11399231B2 |
Extreme low frequency microphone/hydrophone for exploration of oceanic and atmospheric dynamics
An extremely low frequency hydrophone includes a housing forming an interior space comprising a backchamber. The housing includes an opening to the interior space, and a side of the housing comprises a diaphragm plate. A backplate is disposed inside the housing adjacent the diaphragm plate, and an electronics unit including a preamplifier is disposed in the interior space. The hydrophone further includes dielectric liquid substantially filling the interior space. A passageway permits inert gas to be introduced into the dielectric liquid in the interior space of the housing. |
| US11399230B2 |
Electroacoustic transducer
A electroacoustic transducer includes a housing, a piezoelectric element, a partition wall, a first tube, and a second tube. The piezoelectric element is disposed in the housing and includes a porous film and a pair of electrodes that sandwich the porous film therebetween. The partition wall divides an inner space of the housing into a first space closer to one of the pair of electrodes, and a second space closer to another of the pair of electrodes. The first tube establishes communication between a sound wave emission opening that is open to an outer space of the housing and the first space. The second tube establishes communication between the sound wave emission opening and the second space. |
| US11399229B2 |
Audio control for extended-reality shared space
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for audio signal processing are presented. Some configurations include determining that first audio activity in at least one microphone signal is voice activity; determining whether the voice activity is voice activity of a participant in an application session active on a device; based at least on a result of the determining whether the voice activity is voice activity of a participant in the application session, generating an antinoise signal to cancel the first audio activity; and by a loudspeaker, producing an acoustic signal that is based on the antinoise signal. Applications relating to shared virtual spaces are described. |
| US11399224B1 |
Audio assemblies for electronic devices
Voice-controlled devices that include one or more speakers for outputting audio. In some instances, the device includes at least one speaker within a cylindrical housing, with the speaker aimed or pointed away from a microphone coupled to the housing. For instance, if the microphone resides at or near the top of the cylindrical housing, then the speaker may point downwards along the longitudinal axis of the housing and away from the microphone. By pointing the speaker away from the microphone, the microphone will receive less sound from the speaker than if the speaker were pointed toward the microphone). Because the voice-controlled device may perform speech recognition on audio signals generated by the microphone, less sound from the speaker represented in the audio signal may result in more accurate speech recognition, and/or a lesser need to perform acoustic echo cancelation (AEC) on the generated audio signals. |
| US11399219B1 |
Cross platform application control in an interactive, multi-platform video network
In one aspect, the invention provides an interactive, multi-platform video network. In another aspect, the invention provides a dynamic scheduling method. |
| US11399218B2 |
Methods and systems for verification of asset availability
The present disclosure relates to verifying that a content asset is present at a user level. The present disclosure provides video hosting and service (VHS) management systems and methods that can both accurately and timely verify availability of VHS content from multiple content providers using multiple distribution systems. |
| US11399209B2 |
Display apparatus and video processing apparatus
While presenting on a display apparatus videos of high picture quality obtained from portable video processing apparatuses such as a camera and a cellular, it is possible to communicate with the Internet and/or a home network. A display apparatus includes a first radio communication unit capable of receiving video information by radio from an external video processing apparatus, a second radio communication unit capable of connecting by radio to a network, and a control unit for controlling assignment of connection by radio transmission for each of the first and second radio communication units. The control unit assigns connection of the first radio communication unit with higher priority and controls the assignment of the transmission rate such that the transmission rate between the first radio communication unit and the external video processing apparatus is more than that between the second radio communication unit and the network. |
| US11399207B2 |
Image selection using motion data
Disclosed are systems and methods for selecting images using motion data. Video data and motion metadata can be received from a camera. A frame in the video data can be selected using the motion metadata. An image can be generated using the selected frame. A user interface comprising an element based on the image can be generated. |
| US11399197B2 |
Encoding device and encoding method with setting and encoding of reference information
The present technology relates to an encoding device and an encoding method capable of reducing the amount of information relating to information that specifies a reference image.An encoding unit generates a predicted image using a reference image. A transmission unit transmits inter_ref_pic_set_prediction_flag representing whether reference image specifying information specifying the reference image of a prior image that is an image prior to a current coding image in coding order is used as the reference image specifying information of the current coding image in a case where the current coding image is an image other than a first image of a GOP (Group of Picture). The present technology, for example, can be applied to an encoding device of an HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) system. |
| US11399196B2 |
Decoder side motion vector derivation
A method for processing a video includes performing a conversion between a current block of visual media data and a corresponding coded representation of the visual media data, wherein the conversion of the current block includes determining whether a use of one or both of a bi-directional optical flow (BIO) technique or a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) technique to the current block is enabled or disabled, and wherein the determining the use of the BIO technique or the DMVR technique is based on a cost criterion associated with the current block. |
| US11399189B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method that make it possible to suppress reduction of the encoding efficiency. A patch, which is an image where 3D data representative of a three-dimensional structure is projected on a two-dimensional plane, is placed and packed in a frame image on the basis of an evaluation of a result of prediction performed in encoding of the 3D data, and the frame image in which the patch is placed and packed is encoded using the prediction. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, a program or the like. |
| US11399188B2 |
Method for mixed NAL unit type support in a coded picture
Methods and systems are provided for decoding at least one video stream. A method includes receiving a first network abstraction layer (NAL) unit of a first slice of a coded picture and a second VCL NAL unit of a second slice of the coded picture, the first VCL NAL unit having a first VCL NAL unit type and the second VCL NAL unit having a second VCL NAL unit type that is different from the first VCL NAL unit type, and decoding the coded picture, the decoding including determining a picture type of the coded picture based on the first VCL NAL unit type of the first VCL NAL unit and the second VCL NAL unit type of the second VCL NAL unit, or based on an indicator, received by the at least one processor, indicating that the coded picture includes mixed VCL NAL unit types. |
| US11399187B2 |
Screen content detection for adaptive encoding
Systems and methods for detecting screen contents and adaptive enablement of screen content coding modes. Encoding mode decision may be made adaptive to include or exclude screen content coding (SCC) modes. In some embodiments, a screen content decision is based on one or more statistics characterizing a distribution of meaningful colors (e.g., chroma) and/or intensities (e.g., luma) determined for a population of pixels of an input picture. In some embodiments, a screen content decision is based on one or more statistics characterizing the pure flat area of an input picture and the area with extreme sharp edges. Pictures may be encoded according to a mode selection that is adaptive to the screen content decision, for example selecting between encoding modes that include SCC modes, or selecting between encoding modes that exclude SCC modes. |
| US11399185B2 |
Method and device for encoding/decoding images
A method and a device for encoding/decoding images are disclosed. The method for encoding images comprises the steps of: deriving a scan type of a residual signal for a current block according to whether or not the current block is a transform skip block; and applying the scan type to the residual signal for the current block, wherein the transform skip block is a block to which transform for the current block is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether or not transform for the current block is to be applied. |
| US11399183B2 |
Method and device for encoding/decoding images
A method and a device for encoding/decoding images are disclosed. The method for encoding images comprises the steps of: deriving a scan type of a residual signal for a current block according to whether or not the current block is a transform skip block; and applying the scan type to the residual signal for the current block, wherein the transform skip block is a block to which transform for the current block is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether or not transform for the current block is to be applied. |
| US11399178B2 |
Method and device for transmitting block division information in image codec for security camera
The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting block division information for efficient image coding in a video compression technique for a high-definition security camera. To this end, the present invention obtains block division information from a bitstream, determines the division form of an image by computing and predicting omitted information if there is omitted information in the obtained information, and performs video decoding in the unit of a divided block. |
| US11399173B2 |
System and method for receiving user input in virtual/augmented reality
A computer system comprises a processor; a wearable virtual-reality device coupled to the processor, the virtual-reality device including a display device and a head tracker; and a memory coupled to the processor storing instructions that, when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to detect, based on movements tracked via the head tracker, that a gaze path through a virtual environment displayed on the display device corresponds to movement of a first target; when it is detected that the gaze path corresponds to movement of the first target, cause the first target to disappear from the virtual environment displayed on the display device, and detect that the gaze path through the virtual environment displayed on the display device corresponds to movement of a second target; and when it is detected that the gaze path corresponds to movement of the second target, perform an action. |
| US11399169B2 |
Systems and methods for providing punchouts of videos
Multiple punchouts of a video may be presented based on multiple viewing windows. The video may include visual content having a field of view. Multiple viewing windows may be determined for the video, with individual viewing window defining a set of extents of the visual content. Different punchouts of the visual content may be presented based on the different viewing windows. Individual punchout of the visual content may include the set of extents of the visual content defined by corresponding viewing window. |
| US11399156B2 |
System and method for improved content creation by means of combining content from multiple individual content capture devices
A system and method to create original content by means of merging different content from multiple individual devices into at least one combined content set. The system includes multiple content capture devices, a database that stores media content from the multiple individual devices, a processor that merges the data content, and a server that distributes the merged content. Moreover, the merging processor applies a set of rules as to how the content is to be merged into the combined content set and the distribution server has a set of distribution rules related to how the combined content is distributed and the user(s) that can consume the combined content. |
| US11399152B2 |
MoCA splitter device
A MoCA splitter device may include an input port, a first output port and a second output port, a first transmission line configured to connect the input port to the first output port, a second transmission line configured to connect the input port to the first output port, a first isolation element configured to connect the first transmission line to the second transmission line, a second isolation element configured to connecting the first transmission line to the second transmission line. The first isolation element and the second isolation element are configured to provide an isolation level between the first output port and the second output port that is less than a predetermined isolation level of about less than 16 dB in a MoCA frequency band. |
| US11399150B2 |
Auto-zero techniques for lateral overflow integrating capacitor (LOFIC) readout image sensor
Switching techniques for fast voltage settling in image sensors are described. In one embodiment, an image sensor includes a plurality of lateral overflow integrating capacitor (LOFIC) pixels arranged in rows and columns of a pixel array. The plurality of pixels includes an active pixel configured for exposure to light, and a dummy pixel at least partially protected from exposure to light. A common bitline (BL) is couplable to the active pixel and the dummy pixel. A comparator (OA1) is coupled to the bitline. The comparator is configured to receive a pixel voltage (Vx) from the active pixel on one input and a ramp voltage (Vy) on another input. Charge accumulated by the active pixel is determined at least in part by an intersection between the ramp voltage and the pixel voltage. |
| US11399148B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus including same
A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix on a semiconductor substrate, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes: a photoelectric converter that converts received light into a signal charge; a plurality of read gates that each read the signal charge from the photoelectric converter; a plurality of charge accumulators that each accumulate the signal charge read by any one of the plurality of read gates; and a charge holder that receives, from one of the plurality of charge accumulators, transfer of the signal charge accumulated in the charge accumulator, holds the signal charge, and transfers, to one of the plurality of charge accumulators, the signal charge held. |
| US11399138B2 |
Automated application of drift correction to sample studied under electron microscope
Control system configured for sample tracking in an electron microscope environment registers a movement associated with a region of interest located within an active area of a sample under observation with an electron microscope. The registered movement includes at least one directional constituent. The region of interest is positioned within a field of view of the electron microscope. The control system directs an adjustment of the electron microscope control component to one or more of dynamically center and dynamically focus the view through the electron microscope of the region of interest. The adjustment comprises one or more of a magnitude element and a direction element. |
| US11399136B2 |
Automated camera mode selection
A camera mode to use for capturing an image or video is selected by estimating high dynamic range (HDR), motion, and light intensity with respect to a scene of the image or video to capture. An image capture device includes a HDR estimation unit to detect whether HDR is present in a scene of an image to capture, a motion estimation unit to determine whether motion is detected within the scene, and a light intensity estimation unit to determine whether a scene luminance for the scene meets a threshold. A mode selection unit selects a camera mode to use for capturing the image based on output of the HDR estimation unit, the motion estimation unit, and the light intensity estimation unit. An image sensor captures the image according to the selected camera mode. |
| US11399134B2 |
Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and image processing method
A configuration is realized that can execute image processing reflecting data unique to camera, such as positional relation information between a mask and an image sensor of a lensless camera, to generate a highly accurate restored image. A signal processing unit that receives a photographed image as an output of the image sensor of the lensless camera to generate a restored image is included, and the signal processing unit executes image processing using data unique to camera generated based on at least the positional relation information of the mask and the image sensor of the lensless camera to generate the restored image. The data unique to camera is data generated in a comparison process of a photographed image, which is obtained by photographing one point light source in a forward direction of an optical axis of the lensless camera, and a reference image. The reference image is a simulation image estimated to be acquired in a case where a positional relation between the mask and the image sensor indicates reference positions. |
| US11399130B2 |
Focus adjustment device and focus adjustment method
A focus adjustment method comprising setting a first range including at least one AF area, or a second range including the first range, every time the defocus amount is detected, selecting the first range or the second range based on a focus target position of an AF area included in the second range, and a reference position, updating the reference position based on the plurality of focus target positions of AF areas included in the range that has been selected, and the reference position, and selecting an AF area used in the focus adjustment from the plurality of AF areas, based on the plurality of focus target positions of AF areas included in the range that has been selected, and the reference position that has been updated. |
| US11399127B2 |
Imaging apparatus and method for controlling the same
An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a storage unit configured to store track data indicating a positional relationship between a zoom lens and a focus lens when an imaging optical system focuses at a predetermined subject distance, an adjustment value acquisition unit configured to acquire adjustment values for adjusting the track data, and a focus control unit configured to control a drive of the focus lens based on the track data and the adjustment values acquired by an adjustment value acquisition unit at a time of a zoom operation. The adjustment value acquisition unit selects adjustment value acquisition processing to be performed from a plurality of pieces of adjustment value acquisition processing, based on the track data, a position of the zoom lens, and a position of the focus lens, and acquires the adjustment values based on the selected adjustment value acquisition processing. |
| US11399126B2 |
Imaging apparatus and monitoring system for performing a focus control and an angle control
An imaging apparatus includes a focus controller, an image sensor, an angle controller configured to change an angle of an imaging plane of the image sensor, an evaluation value acquirer configured to acquire a contrast evaluation value in a first evaluation area of the image sensor during a focus control, and to acquire a contrast evaluation value in a second evaluation area different from the first evaluation area during an angle control, and an exposure controller configured to control an exposure condition of the image sensor. The exposure controller determines a first exposure condition so as to provide a correct exposure value to the first evaluation area during the focus control, and determines a second exposure condition different from the first exposure so as to provide a correct exposure value to the second evaluation area during the angle control. |
| US11399125B2 |
Equipment system for cinematographic productions
The invention relates to an equipment system for cinematographic productions, having at least one film production device that is selected from a group comprising a motion picture camera, a lens ring drive unit, a motif lighting apparatus, and/or a remote control unit; and having at least two different radio modules. The film production device has an interface for a selective coupling to one of the two different radio modules, wherein each of the two different radio modules is configured for a wireless transmission of control signals and for a wired communication with the coupled film production device via the interface, and wherein the two different radio modules differ from one another with respect to their radio characteristics, namely with respect to a frequency range used and/or to a transmission protocol used. |
| US11399121B2 |
Systems and methods for synchronizing information for videos
An image capture device may capture video frames while experiencing motion. The video frames may be stored in a visual track, and rotational positions of the image capture device may be stored in a rotational position track. The visual track and the rotational position track may not be temporally aligned. A looping stabilized view of the view frames and a synchronization adjustment option may be presented on a display. The synchronization adjustment option may enable user modification of timing of the rotational positions stored within the rotational position track. Timing modification of the rotational positions may cause changes in the looping stabilized view, which may be used as feedback on whether the synchronization between the visual track and the rotational position track is being improved or not by the timing modification of the rotational positions. |
| US11399117B2 |
Supporting function of image forming apparatus according to common account login
An image forming apparatus including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor is provided. The processor is to execute the instructions to perform processing for a login operation using a common account of a group of users to login a user of the group, obtain mapping information indicating a mapping of information related to the group in correspondence with the logged-in common account, and support a function of the image forming apparatus requested by the user of the group logged-in using the common account, based on the mapping information. |
| US11399116B2 |
Image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server for transmitting generated image data
A technique reduces the possibility of a leak of authentication information for a chat service. An image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server configured to perform control to display received image data in a talk room of the chat server based on received information about the talk room includes a reception unit configured to receive predetermined information corresponding to a user by transmitting authentication information for the user logging in to a chat service to the chat server, a storage unit configured to store the predetermined information received by the reception unit, and a display unit configured to display the talk room that corresponds to the predetermined information and not to display the talk room that does not correspond to the predetermined information. |
| US11399112B2 |
Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program, and information processing system
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires information from a communication device, and a switching section that switches an apparatus to process the information acquired from the communication device, between the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus, in accordance with a state of the information processing apparatus and a state of the communication device. |
| US11399110B2 |
Electric apparatus and control method therefor
An apparatus detects movement of a target object, estimates a control quantity for first feedback control for the target object at a first period, based on a detection signal, and estimates a first state quantity of the target object and a second state quantity obtained by time differentiation of the first state quantity in order to perform second feedback control for the target object at a second period shorter than the first period, based on the detection signal. The apparatus generates a first operation quantity for the first feedback control, based on the estimated control quantity, generates a second operation quantity for the second feedback control, based on the estimated first and second state quantities, and determines an output value, based on a result of comparing the second operation quantity with a maximum value of the first operation quantity. |
| US11399107B2 |
Display system
A display system includes a step-image display unit, a delivery-date-image display unit, and a resource-information display unit. The step-image display unit displays, for each print order, a step image in which multiple steps that each execute a process using a resource assigned in advance are arranged on a time axis, the step image illustrating a printed material generating step. The delivery-date-image display unit displays an image illustrating a delivery date of each print order at a corresponding position on the time axis. The resource-information display unit displays information on another resource that is different from the resource assigned in advance to each of the steps and that is usable in each of the steps. |
| US11399104B2 |
Data transmission apparatus and data transmission method for transmitting document data
A transmission apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires document data; an analysis unit that analyzes the document data acquired by the acquisition unit; a storage unit that stores destination information in which a destination of the document data and information for transmission are associated with each other; a determination unit that determines, based on an analysis result of the analysis unit and the destination information stored in the storage unit, a candidate for the destination of the document data; a processing unit that executes processing based on the candidate; and a transmission unit that transmits, based on the processing, the document data. |
| US11399099B2 |
Mobile electronic communications using internet protocol
A database stores unique associations between account identifiers and mobile-network telephone numbers assigned by a mobile network to mobile communications devices. The account identifiers are also associated with voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone numbers. Voice calls between the mobile communications devices are made as voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls using respective VoIP telephone numbers. Tracking of the VoIP calls is performed through the mobile network using respective mobile-network telephone numbers, so that a prepaid balance can be enforced. |
| US11399097B2 |
Systems and methods for search based call routing
A computerized method of routing customer interactions (call and chats) includes the following steps performed by a server computing device: creating a database with a document for every agent with a set of attributes identifying the types of customer interactions they service, receiving a set of call attributes associated with an incoming call; formulating a query of the call attributes against all agent profiles and returning a matching score for all available agents using Elastic Search; and routing the incoming call to a target agent with the highest score in the set of available agents, if there is at least one available agent; or a customer waiting queue, if there is no suitable agent achieving at least a minimum score. |
| US11399091B1 |
Contextual mobile client application systems and methods
A provider computing system provides a mobile banking application to a user mobile device. The mobile banking application is configured to activate a contextual provider location mode when the user enters a provider location. The contextual provider location mode presents a plurality of modifications to both appearance and operation of the mobile banking application. Each modification is in response to an analysis performed by a context circuit of the mobile banking application. The modifications serve to facilitate the user's experience at the provider, enabling the user to perform their intended tasks in an easier more efficient manner. Additional data pertaining to the user's tasks and behavior are further categorized and transmitted back to the provider, enabling further accuracy and improvements during subsequent visits. |
| US11399086B2 |
Electronic device having expandable internal space
An electronic device is disclosed, including: a housing that is foldable, the housing including a front plate facing a first direction, a rear plate facing a second direction opposite the first direction, and a side member surrounding a space defined between the front plate and the rear plate, a display having one surface visible through the front plate, and foldable with the front plate, a speaker disposed between the front plate and the rear plate, the speaker movable with a folding of the front plate, and a resonance space defined between the speaker and the rear plate, a size of the resonance space changeable according to the folding of the front plate. |
| US11399085B2 |
Camera bracket including audio signal path and electronic device including the camera bracket
An electronic device is disclosed herein. The device includes a housing including a first opening formed in a surface thereof, a camera at least partially disposed in the housing, such that a lens of the camera is aligned with the first opening, a camera bracket including a flange structure disposed in the housing and spaced apart from the surface of the housing at a predetermined interval, a protruding structure extending from the flange structure into a space defined between the camera and an inner wall of the first opening to surround at least part of the camera, wherein the flange structure includes a first through-hole, and the protruding structure includes a recess, and wherein the protruding structure and the inner wall of the first opening form a microphone hole in communication with the recess and part of the first opening, an adhesive member disposed between the flange structure and an inner surface of the housing, the adhesive member including a passage, wherein one side of the passage is connected to the recess, and an opposite side of the passage is connected to the first through-hole, and a microphone element disposed in the housing and aligned with the first through-hole. |
| US11399082B1 |
Collaborative message broker scaling and migration
A client node may execute an application that communicates with a first messaging service component of a first broker node in a server segment and a second messaging service component of a second broker node in the server segment. A load balancing component is coupled to the client node, and a first virtual provider entity for the first messaging service component is coupled to the load balancing component. The first virtual provider entity may represent a first HA message broker pair, including: (i) a first leader message broker entity, and (ii) a first follower message broker entity to take control when there is a problem with the first leader message broker entity. A shared database is accessible by the first broker node, the first HA message broker pair, and the second broker node, and includes an administration registry data store. |
| US11399074B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for modifying features of applications based on predicted intentions of users
A disclosed system may include (1) a wearable dimensioned to be donned on a body of a user of a computing device (2) a set of sensors coupled to the wearable, wherein the set of sensors detect one or more neuromuscular signals via the body of the user, and (3) at least one processing device communicatively coupled to the set of sensors, wherein the processing device (A) determines, based at least in part on the neuromuscular signals detected by the set of sensors, an intention of the user in connection with an application running on the computing device and, in response to determining the intention of the user, (B) modifying a feature of the application running on the computing device to account for the intention of the user. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed. |
| US11399071B2 |
Program operation system and program operation method
There is provided a microservice management unit that, in a service provided by executing one or a plurality of microservices, executes a pre-update service flow including a microservice before update and a post-update service flow including a microservice after update, and outputs an execution result of the pre-update service flow and an execution result of the post-update service flow, and a service update analysis processing unit that evaluates the execution result of the pre-update service flow and the execution result of the post-update service flow, and as a service flow in which the evaluation result satisfies a predetermined relation, selects either the pre-update service flow or the post-update service flow. |
| US11399064B2 |
Peak cyclical workload-based storage management in a multi-tier storage environment
In one embodiment, a method for managing data includes collecting workload information for a data storage device in a data storage system over a period of time. A peak workload of the data storage device for the period of time is determined. A maximum workload threshold for the data storage device in the data storage system over the period of time is also determined. Movement of additional workload to the device in the data storage system is prevented during a subsequent period of time when the data storage device is predicted to be at about the peak workload for the data storage device in response to a determination that adding the additional workload would cause the workload of the device to exceed the maximum workload threshold. |
| US11399063B2 |
Network authentication for a storage system
A method of operating a storage system is provided. The method includes establishing a security context between a client and the storage system, the security context comprising a single ticket for multiple nodes within the storage system. The method includes distributing a first request to a first blade within the storage system and distributing a second request to a second blade within the storage system. The distributing the first request and the second request includes determining a node for handling the first request and the second request based on data within the single ticket. |
| US11399057B1 |
Enabling analytics for a virtualized application
Solutions for enabling analytics for a virtualized application leverage reproducibility of information as a substitute for persisting information. Disclosed solutions include: collecting, by a virtualized application, first analytics data on a user equipment (UE); performing, by the virtualized application, a one-way function (e.g., a hash function) on persistent information (e.g., an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) number) on the UE to generate a unique UE identification (ID); transmitting the first analytics data and the UE ID to a remote node across a network; collecting, by the virtualized application, second analytics data on the UE; and transmitting the second analytics data and the UE ID to the remote node across the network. Because the UE ID is deterministic, it may be generated repeatedly, as needed, (producing the same value each time) to compensate for the inability of the virtualized application to persist the UE ID on the UE. |
| US11399056B2 |
Mobile core client architecture
Methods and systems are disclosed for automatically managing multiple types of applications, electronic forms, electronic forms data instances, network services and, network services. The methods and systems allow organizations with a mobile workforce that relies on established business processes to execute timely and secure exchange of information while providing easy to use, fast, accurate and flexible information capture capability in the field. These organizations and/or third-party providers may optimize the design of mobile applications to better match existing corporate processes and forms in order to reflect existing business needs, preferred graphical user interfaces, processes and experiences on the mobile devices. Organizations and/or third-party providers may also build mobile applications that allow information to be automatically created and updated both online and offline and synchronized or routed to another mobile device, an application server, web service, software-as-a-service (SaaS), database or website. |
| US11399050B2 |
Communal social media system and method
A communal media system includes a content management system for storing multimedia content and a synchronization system configured to: retrieve the multimedia content for delivery to a plurality of user devices and receive social media content generated by the user devices; separate the multimedia content and the social media content into a set of prioritized layers; determine a timestamp offset for each of the user devices; and adjust simultaneous deliveries of the multimedia content and the social media content to the user devices, based on a priority associated each layer and the timestamp offset associated with each user device, The multimedia content is delivered to each user devices at the same time and the social media content is delivered to the user devices at the same time while the multimedia content is being viewed on the user devices. |
| US11399046B2 |
Session setup control for messaging interoperability
A device includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including receiving a service capability for a mobile originating (MO) device. The processor further effectuates operations including receiving a service capability for a mobile terminating (MT) device. The processor further effectuates operations including receiving session initiation protocol (SIP) messages from the MO device at a Breakout Gateway Control Function (BGCF). The processor further effectuates operations including determining whether the received SIP messages are associated with setting up an outgoing open group chat (OGC) or an outgoing Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) file transfer. The processor further effectuates operations including blocking the SIP messages in response to the determination that the SIP messages are associated with setting up a MSRP file transfer. |
| US11399035B1 |
Deep learning-based detection of phishing links
In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies include extracting, from a link contained in an electronic message received from an upstream device on a network, first unit-level input data of a first semantic type and second unit-level input data of a second semantic type; in response to inputting the first and second unit-level input data into first and second deep learning models, respectively, outputting, by the first and second deep learning models, first and second unit-level classification data that corresponds to the first and second unit-level input data, respectively, the first deep learning model having been trained to recognize, in unit-level data of the first semantic type, first patterns of syntactic features and semantic features that are predictive of phishing and the second deep learning model having been trained to recognize, in unit-level data of the second semantic type, second patterns of syntactic features and semantic features that are predictive of phishing; combining the first and second unit-level classification data with at least one numeric feature that has been extracted from context data to produce link-level input data; in response to inputting the link-level input data into a third deep learning model, outputting, by the third deep learning model, link-level classification data, the third deep learning model having been trained to recognize patterns of syntactic features and semantic features and numeric features that are predictive of phishing; in response to the link-level classification data matching a criterion, causing the network to modify, delay, or block transmission of the electronic message to a downstream device. |
| US11399034B2 |
System and method for detecting and preventing network intrusion of malicious data flows
The present disclosure provides a system for detecting and preventing the intrusion of malicious data flows in a software defined network (SDN). The system comprises at least one data storage or memory, configured to store flow states of data flows, and to share and update the flow states across the system, at least one shared-state forwarding element (FE) configured to block, forward, or replicate a received data flow based on a flow state of the data flow and/or a comparison of the data flow with predetermined patterns, and at least one inspection element (IE), configured to receive a replicated data flow, and to classify, whether the data flow is malicious or allowed. The IE is configured to alter the flow state of the data flow according to a classification result. The present disclosure provides a corresponding method for detecting and preventing intrusion of malicious data flows in a SDN. |
| US11399029B2 |
Database platform for realtime updating of user data from third party sources
A data processing system communicates with a secure third-party database to obtain information about a user that is usable to determine one or more items associated with the user. The system then coordinates gathering and identification of additional data relevant to the user from other third-party data sources, to potentially update the user's information stored with the secure third-party database. The updated information may then be accessed at the secure third-party database to determine items associated with the user, which may include additional items in view of the additional data. |
| US11399028B1 |
Merging accounts associated with computing devices
Systems and methods for accountless device control are disclosed. For example, a smart device may be acquired and plugged in for use. The smart device may gain network connectivity and a system associated with the smart device may request enablement of an application for use with the smart device from another system, such as a system associated with a voice-enabled device. The other system may generate and send user identifier data, and the system associated with the smart device may generate a shadow account in association with the user identifier data. The application may be enabled in association with the shadow account, and access credentials may be exchanged to securely send and receive information associated with operation of the access device. |
| US11399027B2 |
Network system for secure communication
In a network system for wireless communication an enrollee accesses the network via a configurator. The enrollee acquires a data pattern that represents a network public key via an out-of-band channel by a sensor. The enrollee derives a first shared key based on the network public key and the first enrollee private key, and encodes a second enrollee public key using the first shared key, and generates a network access request. The configurator also derives the first shared key, and verifies whether the encoded second enrollee public key was encoded by the first shared key, and, if so, generates security data and cryptographically protects data using a second shared key, and generates a network access message. The enrollee processor also derives the second shared key and verifies whether the data was cryptographically protected and, if so, engages the secure communication based on the second enrollee private key and the security data. |
| US11399024B2 |
Proximity-based unlocking of communal computing devices
A communal computing device, such as an interactive digital whiteboard, can become unlocked if a user is near the device. The communal computing device may use a sensor such as a camera to capture images of a person and obtain an identifier from a personal device such as a smartphone. A cloud-based provider that is trusted by both the communal computing device and the personal device may associate both the image and the identifier of the personal device with the same user identity. Obtaining the user identity from multiple, different sources provides a secure technique for the communal computing device to recognize a user without the user directly interacting with the communal computing device. If the sensor no longer detects the user or the personal device is no longer detected, then the communal computing device may log off the user. The personal device may be used to confirm log off. |
| US11399023B2 |
Revisiting device classification rules upon observation of new endpoint attributes
In various embodiments, a device classification service uses an initial device classification rule to label each of a set of endpoint devices in a network as being of a particular device type. The device classification service identifies a particular attribute exhibited by at least a portion of the set of endpoint devices and was not previously used to generate the initial device classification rule. The device classification service generates one or more new device classification rules based in part on the particular attribute. The device classification service switches from using the initial device classification rule to label endpoint devices in the network to using the one or more new device classification rules to label endpoint devices in the network. |
| US11399022B2 |
Method and system for multifactor mutual authentication
Method and systems described herein may provide multifactor mutual authentication. A first server may provide a first party and a second party with at least two authentication components in order for the first party to authenticate the identity of the second party, and vice versa. The first authentication component may include a color-based authentication component, while the second authentication component may include a code-based authentication component. Both factors need to be validated in order for the authentication to be successful. The color-based authentication component, in combination with the code-based authentication component, may improve the speed with which the mutual authentication is performed. |
| US11399021B2 |
Filtering passwords based on a plurality of criteria
Provided is a process, including: obtaining a first password to a private computer network; determining, with a credential-monitoring application within the private computer network, whether the first password satisfies one or more criteria by: comparing the first password to a set of compromised credentials within a database within the private computer network; and determining whether the first password matches one or more passwords within the database; and in response to the determination that the first password satisfies the one or more criteria from among the plurality of criteria, causing a use of the first password to access the private computer network to be rejected and causing a first user associated with the first password to be notified to change the first password. |
| US11399011B2 |
Method for transmitting data and server device for supporting same
According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a server device may include a memory, a communication interface, and a processor. The processor may be configured to transmit a service blocking request for a specified user, to an authentication server processing a request of a user terminal, to receive user data for the user from a first server, to transmit the user data to a second server, and to notify the authentication server that the transmission is completed, when the transmission of the user data is completed. |
| US11399009B2 |
Endpoint context agent traversal of network address table
A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for: (i) communicating, from a client device to a security device via a metadata connection, metadata regarding a data connection to be established by the client device, the metadata comprising a connection identifier uniquely identifying the data connection; and (ii) communicating, from the client device to the security device via the data connection, network traffic comprising a packet that includes the connection identifier, such that the security device may use the connection identifier to index an entry associated with the metadata that the security device has stored in a metadata cache. |
| US11399004B2 |
Method, server, and program for managing notification
A controller stores a new notification in a storage section when receiving a new notification to a user device. The controller checks, in the storage section, a use status of an application of the user device. The controller determines a notification method for outputting the notification stored in the storage section to an application display of the application when determining that the application is in use based on the use status. |
| US11399001B2 |
Controller for transmitting information on machine or controller via e-mail
A controller that controls a machine detects an event that has occurred in the controller or the machine to compose and store event information that contains the event. Upon receiving an e-mail acquisition request from a terminal, the controller retrieves the stored event information, composes an e-mail that contains the event information, and transmits the e-mail directly to the terminal. |
| US11398994B2 |
Method and terminal for displaying social information
The disclosure provides a method, a server, a terminal, and a storage medium for displaying information. The method includes: obtaining user behavior data of a current user account; determining social information and a display timing of the social information in response to the user behavior data conforming to a display condition, the social information at least comprising a social portal for establishing a social relationship with a target user account, or prompt information of the social portal; and displaying the social information in response to conforming to the display timing. |
| US11398993B2 |
Two-part messaging with specified delay
Examples for messaging with a specified delay by a system are described. In an example, the system comprises a server coupled to at least one user device. The server may receive a messaging information from a first user device. The messaging information may include a first and a second message and a timing information. The server generates a computing resource for the first message and the second message, and enables access to the first and the second message based on the timing information. For example, the first message is made accessible at a first access time that is previous to a second access time at which the second message is made accessible. |
| US11398992B1 |
Method and apparatus for parsing and differently processing different portions of a request
A method, apparatus and computer program product modify messaging behavior based upon parsing and different processing of different portions of a request. In a method, a request is received that includes a first and second differently formatted portions. The method parses the request to separately identify the first and second portions, analyzes the second portion of the request and causes a message based at least in part upon the first portion to be transmitted to a request processor. Based upon the message including the first portion, the method receives a response from the request processor. Based upon the response from the claims processor, the method causes a response to the request to be provided. The message to the request processor or the response to request is modified or an additional message to another entity is transmitted based upon an analysis of the second portion of the request. |
| US11398986B2 |
Controlling data rate based on domain and radio usage history
A domain and a mobile device may exchange data via a radio access node included in a mobile network. During a time of peak demand, a data load level of the radio access node may exceed a threshold. To accommodate the peak demand, historical types and volumes of data may be used to manage a data rate related to data associated with the domain. Based on the historical information, the data rate for a mobile device, a radio access node, a range of time, or a data type may be controlled. The data rate may be managed by a network gateway, such as a gateway included in the mobile network. |
| US11398981B2 |
Path creation method and device for network on chip and electronic apparatus
Provided are a path creation method and device for a network on chip and electronic apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a second network node, a first data packet sent by a first network node, the first data packet carrying first idle address identification information, a destination network node address and path creation identification information, the first idle address identification information indicating a first idle position in a first path routing table of the first network node, the path creation identification information indicating a creation of a path; storing, by the second network node, the first idle address identification information in a second idle position in its second path routing table, and determining second idle address identification information; determining, by the second network node, a second data packet according to the second idle address identification information; and sending, by the second network node, the second data packet. |
| US11398978B2 |
Server-assisted routing in network communications
A network node device and method of determining a communication route to one or more other network nodes through a network. The method includes sending current routing information to a network management server (NMS), and receiving new or supplemental routing information from the NMS, this supplemental routing information determined by the NMS based on the current routing information of the network node and the other network node(s). The supplemental routing information may include lateral route information identifying designated routing nodes that form lateral band(s) of nodes that span the network. Each lateral band may include gate node(s) as entrances/exits to the lateral band. The method further includes determining, based on the supplemental routing information, a route to one or more of the other network nodes, which may include an optimal path and/or alternate path(s) from the network node to one or more of the other network nodes. |
| US11398972B2 |
Transport endpoint segments for inter-domain segment routing
Techniques are described for inter-domain segment routing using transport endpoint segments. A transport endpoint segment provisioned on a router within a domain represents any intra-domain tunnel originated at the router and having reachability to an indicated endpoint within the same domain. The provisioning router advertises a transport endpoint segment identifier (TESID) for the transport endpoint segment to other routers or a controller for use in segment routing. The TESID for the transport endpoint segment remains constant regardless of which intra-domain tunnel is bound to the transport endpoint segment. The provisioning router dynamically binds the transport endpoint segment to at least one intra-domain tunnel, and any changes to the bound intra-domain tunnel are updated locally at the provisioning router. In this way, an inter-domain segment routing tunnel may be constructed as a list TESIDs that are not affected by intra-domain tunnel changes. |
| US11398971B1 |
System and method for dynamic tuning of neighbor aging
One embodiment provides a system and method for managing, at a network node, a data structure indicating neighbor node address information. During operation, the system can determine, based on a media access control (MAC) address or an Internet protocol (IP) address associated with an entry in the data structure, a type of the entry, and set a timeout value for the entry based on the determined type. In response to detecting that an entry corresponding to the MAC address expires in a MAC table maintained by the network node, the system can identify an interface on the network node to which a neighbor associated with the MAC address was previously coupled and transmit a unicast neighbor-probe packet on the identified interface to determine a connection status of the neighbor. |
| US11398968B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing virtualized network functions and related infrastructure
According to one method, the method occurs at a test system. The method includes receiving test configuration information for testing a NFV infrastructure; configuring, using the test configuration information, at least one virtual resource tester (VRT) for testing one or more virtual resources of the NFV infrastructure; configuring at least one VNF tester for testing at least one VNF associated with the NFV infrastructure, wherein the at least one VNF tester is deployed in a same environment as the at least one VNF and wherein the at least one VNF tester is instructed to perform behaviors that attempt to impact performance of the at least one VNF; testing the NFV infrastructure using the at least one VRT and the at least one VNF tester; and monitoring performance of the NFV infrastructure during testing using information obtained from at least one test related entity. |
| US11398964B2 |
Systems and methods for latency-aware social networking
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for latency-aware social networking. A media stream may be provided to a plurality of client devices, and transmission and processing latencies between each client device and one or more servers may be measured. Client devices may be organized into groups according to latency windows and, in some implementations, numbers of devices. A social networking system may provide real-time chat functionality to grouped client devices. Groups may be dynamically reorganized by latency and number as network and processing latencies change. |
| US11398961B2 |
Methods and systems for managing edge web services
In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing edge web services includes the step of providing an edge device. The edge device is provided for free to a customer. The method includes the step of monitoring a usage on the edge device by the customer. The method includes the step of charging an edge-device entity based on the usage of the edge device and an application in the edge device. An orchestrator communicates the edge device usage statistics to an enterprise system that provided the edge device to the customer. |
| US11398960B1 |
System and method for self-healing of upgrade issues on a customer environment
A method for managing applications in a production host environment includes obtaining, by an application upgrade management system, an upgrade issue report for the application, applying a self-healing classification model to the upgrade issue report to obtain a state of the upgrade issue report, making a determination that the state indicates a self-healable state, based on the determination, performing a self-healing process on the application based on the upgrade issue report, and storing a resolution report based on results of the self-healing process. |
| US11398956B2 |
Multi-Edge EtherChannel (MEEC) creation and management
Systems and methods of creating and managing a multi-edge EtherChannel (MEEC) include, with a control node communicatively coupled to a plurality of edge nodes within a network, receiving including data defining a bundle of a plurality of links communicatively coupling the plurality of edge nodes and a first server and data identifying the first server. A map-notify message is sent to an edge node defining a link state for at least the first edge node. A map-proxy register message defining a plurality of link states for the plurality of the edge nodes within the bundle is sent to at least a second edge node to synchronize the first edge node with respect to at least the second edge node of the plurality of edge nodes. A map-reply message indicating load balancing data of a plurality of the edge nodes may be sent to an ingress edge node and data packets may be load balanced based on the load balancing data. |
| US11398955B2 |
Topology and event monitoring system
A method for locating performance problems in a network comprising associating one or more metadata to a plurality of monitored objects, collecting performance data from the plurality monitored objects to create a correlation of the performance data across two or more monitored objects matching predetermined set of metadata. Displaying said correlation on a map representing a plurality of devices, wherein said correlation can be used to isolate one or more devices impacting said performance data. |
| US11398953B2 |
Standardization of network management across cloud computing environments and data control policies
Network management of cloud computing environments subject to different data control policies is standardized in a manner that ensures compliance with the data control policies. An execution service remote from a cloud computing environment being managed implements workflows to manage different aspects of the cloud computing environment, including monitoring, incident management, deployment, and/or buildout. The execution service issues requests to perform management actions for network devices in the cloud computing environment. A device access service in the cloud computing environments receives the requests, and, in response to the requests, the device access service obtains access control data to access the network devices and perform the requested management actions for the network devices. |
| US11398952B2 |
Automated configuration of machine-to-machine systems
A gateway is provided with configuration management logic to identify a set of configurations corresponding to a deployment of a particular application, and automatically send corresponding configuration data to a set of devices in range of the gateway. Service management logic of the gateway determines that assets on the set of devices correspond to one or more asset abstractions defined for the particular application, where the configuration data is sent to the set of devices based on the assets corresponding to the asset abstractions. Sensor data is received during the deployment as generated by a sensor asset of one of the devices, the sensor data is processed according to service logic of the particular application to generate a result, and actuating data is generated and sent during the deployment to an actuator asset on the set of devices based on the result. |
| US11398949B2 |
Systems and methods for continuous configuration deployment
Systems and methods are provided for providing continuous configuration deployment. A configuration definition object may be obtained from a remote datastore. The obtained configuration definition object may be stored in a local datastore. The configuration definition object may be obtained and stored in advance of a scheduled maintenance. The configuration definition object may be obtained in response to the configuration definition object being committed to the remote datastore. The configuration definition object may be used to generate different configuration objects. A configuration object may be generated from the configuration definition object and one or more system characteristics. A service request may be received, and the configuration object may be executed to perform a configuration of a computing system. |
| US11398944B2 |
Vehicle fault handling method, apparatus, device and storage medium
The present application provides a vehicle fault handling method, an apparatus and a storage medium, the method includes: acquiring in real-time, by a first vehicle fault handling device, status information of a second vehicle fault handling device, where the first vehicle fault handling device is further configured to monitor a main system of a vehicle in real-time, the second vehicle fault handling device is configured to monitor a first computing device, and the first vehicle fault handling device and the main system are provided in the first computing device; determining, by the first vehicle fault handling device, whether a fault has occurred in the second vehicle fault handling device according to the status information thereof; and performing, by the first vehicle fault handling device, fault handling if a fault has occurred in the second vehicle fault handling device. |
| US11398943B1 |
Negative caching for event notifications
Technology is described for receiving an event notification produced by a source service. A negative cache may be searched for a cache entry for the event notification. The negative cache may be determined to not include the cache entry for the event notification. The event notification may be determined to satisfy a filter rule included in a filter rules table, which may indicate that the event notification is useful information for a destination service. The event notification may be transmitted to the destination service. |
| US11398942B2 |
Systems and methods for subscribing topics and registering computer server event notifications
Systems and methods are disclosed for secure transmission of computer server event notifications, including receiving a topic subscription request from a partner, registering the partner topic subscription request, obtaining a new computer server event to report, determining a subscribed partner subscribed to computer server events of a same type as the new computer server event, transmitting an event notification to the subscribed partner, and registering the event notification. |
| US11398940B2 |
Indication of subcarrier spacing numerology
A host configured to operate in a communication system to provide an over-the-top (OTT) service is proposed. The host computer includes processing circuitry providing user data and a network interface initiating transmission of the user data to a network node in a cellular network for transmission to a user equipment (UE). The network node has a communication interface and processing circuitry, configured to perform operations including determining a signaling message that indicates a subcarrier spacing numerology for a synchronization signal transmission, transmitting the signaling message to the UE, and transmitting the user data to the UE. The signaling message includes a MeasObjectNR information element that indicates the subcarrier spacing numerology for the synchronization signal transmission. |
| US11398938B2 |
Physical layer protocol data unit transmission method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention provide a physical layer protocol data unit PPDU transmission method and a corresponding PPDU transmission apparatus. Application of the method and apparatus in the embodiments of the present invention enables a receive end to quickly determine the starting position of the feature signal sequence by means of blind detection, and ensures that the receive end quickly completes data processing and status switching. |
| US11398936B2 |
Wireless communications device and method of wireless communications
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of wireless communications involves at a receiver, receiving a first packet, subsequently, at the receiver, receiving a second packet, and determining whether the second packet is a repetition of the first packet based on wireless communications channel estimation information associated with the first and second packets. |
| US11398932B2 |
Methods and circuits for decision-feedback equalization using compensated decision regions
A decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) samples an input signal with respect to a gamut of p reference-voltage levels to place the symbol represented by the input signal within a voltage region. The DFE derives a set of tentative decisions for the voltage region, the set excluding at least one of the possible values for the symbol under consideration. A feedback stage then selects a final decision from among the tentative decisions. |
| US11398931B2 |
Interference mitigation in high speed ethernet communication networks
Data symbols in an input signal are detected with a slicer of a DFE of a transceiver device. An output of a feedback filter of the DFE is generated, during a particular clock cycle, based on a first set of one or more data symbols detected during first one or more previous clock cycles and a second set of one or more data symbols detected during second one or more previous clock cycles. The second set is separated from the first set by a third set of one or more data symbols detected during third one or more clock cycles that occur after the first one or more clock cycles and before the second one or more clock cycles, where the output is generated without use of the third set of symbols. The output is subtracted from the input signal to generate an equalized input to the slicer. |
| US11398929B2 |
Communication gateway for communicating data frames for a motor vehicle
A communication gateway for communicating data frames for a motor vehicle, the gateway being intended to be connected to a plurality of electronic control units via a communication bus, the gateway including: a memory region in which is stored a lookup table including an index list, with each of the indices of which is potentially associated a payload of a data frame received by the gateway and at least one indicator for determining at least one electronic control unit that is the recipient of the frame; as many management modules as there are electronic control units; the gateway being configured to record, in the lookup table, with a given index: the payload of the received data frame; at least one indicator of at least one recipient electronic control unit; each management module being configured to, when the communication bus is available, send the obtained payload via the communication bus. |
| US11398928B2 |
Direct interconnect gateway
A dedicated network gateway device that is capable of bridging, switching or routing network traffic between traditional network and direct interconnect networks, comprising: a first set of one or more traditional network ports with a single link per port generally comprising one or more of SFP+, QSFP, and QSFP+ connectors, such ports being connected to switches or devices that form a traditional network; and a second set of one or more direct interconnect ports with a high number of links per port (two or more) generally comprising one or more of MXC, MTP, and MTO connectors, such ports being connected to a direct interconnect network. |
| US11398927B1 |
Systems and methods for subscription based selective EVPN route distribution
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a route reflector, a subscription request from a first provider edge node in a network and generating a subscription policy for the first provider edge node. The method also includes receiving a first Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) Type 2 Route from a second provider edge node, assigning a sequence number to the first EVPN Type 2 Route, and communicating the first EVPN Type 2 Route with the sequence number to the first provider edge node. The method further includes receiving a second EVPN Type 2 Route from a third provider edge node, generating an updated sequence number in response to receiving the second EVPN Type 2 Route from the third provider edge node, and communicating the second EVPN Type 2 Route with the updated sequence number to the first provider edge node and the second provider node. |
| US11398923B2 |
Method for data communication with a domestic appliance by a mobile computer device, mobile computer device and domestic appliance
A method for data communication with a domestic appliance by a mobile computer device. The domestic appliance and the mobile computer device are interconnected or interconnectable via a wireless data connection. The wireless data connection is adapted for transferring signals between the domestic appliance and the mobile computer device. Further, the present invention relates to application software for the mobile computer device. Moreover, the present invention relates to a domestic appliance. Additionally, the present invention relates to a mobile computer device including a display or touch screen. |
| US11398921B2 |
SDN facilitated multicast in data center
A method implemented by a controller in a software defined network (SDN), the method comprising sending, to an overlay edge node, a query message comprising a client specific multicast address, receiving, from the overlay edge node, one or more report messages corresponding to the query message, wherein each of the one or more report messages comprises an address of each of one or more virtual machines (VMs) coupled to the overlay edge node, and updating membership of a multicast group, which is identified by the client specific multicast address, such that the one or more VMs are members in the updated membership of the multicast group. |
| US11398920B2 |
Outputting emotes based on audience segments in large-scale electronic presentation
A presentation service generates an audience interface for an electronic presentation. The audience interface may simulate an in-person presentation, including features such as a central presenter and seat locations for audience members. The audience members may select emotes which may be displayed in the audience interface. The emotes may indicate the audience members' opinion of the content being presented. The presentation service may enable chats between multiple audience members, grouping of audience members private rooms, and other virtual simulations of functions corresponding to in-person presentations. |
| US11398912B2 |
Secure enrolment of security device for communication with security server
Provided is novel technology for secure security data transmission and more particularly for registering network-enabled security devices such as IP cameras to a security server over a public network such as to a cloud-based security service. An enrollment server is provided that is logged into using a computing device to request and receive an activation code for the security device. The activation code is then provided to the security device, e.g. directly by the computing device. The Security device authenticates itself based on the activation code and in one example provides a public key that will be used to verify its registration. Data transmissions by the device are secured in part on the basis of its registration. |
| US11398911B1 |
System for interacting objects as tokens on a blockchain using a class-based language
In modern object-oriented programming, programs are written using typed objects like classes and instances that interact with one another via rules of composition, inheritance, encapsulation, message passing, and polymorphism. Some embodiments described herein can include a method for tokenizing such modern objects that maintains their interactive properties on a blockchain. It improves upon, and diverges from, the smart contract model used mainly on account-based blockchains today to create a generally-programmable token system that is native to UTXO-based blockchains, where individually-owned software objects interact with other software objects owned by other individuals. These tokenized objects are called jigs. Jigs, an abstraction like objects, enable applications to build their own digital assets that interact with other jigs from other applications. Jogs enable users to own their data as tokens and use their data independent of any one application's complete control. |
| US11398908B2 |
Methods and apparatus to deconflict malware or content remediation
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to deconflict malware or content remediation are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one processor and memory including instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to at least identify data to be encoded into a token, compute a hashed string based on the data to be encoded, determine a number of characters to be included in the token, select a subset of characters from the hashed string, and generate the token using the subset of characters from the hashed string. |
| US11398905B2 |
Cryptographic systems and methods for modification of pools of random numbers
Systems and methods include modifying a random number pool using one or more user-identified randomization processes to produce a modified RN pool with a user-specific modification that is unknown to or otherwise separated from a RN provider. Systems and methods also include sending and receiving encrypted messages that are encrypted and decrypted using the modified RN pool. |
| US11398902B2 |
Systems and methods for non-deterministic multi-party, multi-user sender-receiver authentication and non-repudiatable resilient authorized access to secret data
Systems and methods for non-deterministic multi-party, multi-user sender-receiver authentication and non-repudiated resilient authorized access to secret data are described herein. In one aspect, a method for data access includes receiving, at a server, a request for data access from a user; transmitting to users, a prompt for identity verification corresponding to the identity of each user, where at least one of user is different than the user requesting data access; receiving, in response to the identity verification prompt, a plurality of identification key fragments from storage locations or devices associated with the users, where each identification key fragment is user specific; generating an organization-specific data object from the plurality of identification key fragments; confirming the organization-specific data object by the users whose identities were validated; and authorizing the request for data access based on confirming the organization-specific data object. |
| US11398899B2 |
Data processing device and data processing method
A data processing method includes the following steps: a processor receives a symmetric wrapping key, and when an application needs to use a user private key, the processor executes an encryption and decryption instruction in a hardware-acceleration instruction-set. The encryption and decryption instruction is configured to apply the symmetric wrapping key to decrypt a wrapped private key that corresponds to the application to obtain the user private key. In addition, the symmetric wrapping key is stored in a model specific register of the processor. |
| US11398897B2 |
Generating hash values
A device is suggested for processing input data including a hardware accelerator generating a first hash value based on a first portion of the input data and a second hash value based on a second portion of the input data, wherein the first hash value is generated based on a first configuration of the hardware accelerator and wherein the second hash value is generated based on a second configuration of the hardware accelerator. Also, a method for operating such device is provided. |
| US11398889B2 |
Transmission, reception, and configuration of a CSIRS with a configurable bandwidth
Wireless communication that includes transmission, reception, and configuration of a CSIRS with a configurable bandwidth is discussed. A base station/gNB may determine a number of antenna ports to be used for wireless communication. The base station/gNB may allocate a first plurality of frequency resources for the transmission of the CSIRS based on the determined number of antenna ports, and may transmit the CSIRS over the first plurality of frequency resources. A mobile device may receive the CSIRS over the first plurality of frequency resources and estimate at least one of channel quality and interference associated with the first plurality of frequency resources based on the received CSIRS. |
| US11398884B2 |
Information decoding method and apparatus, codebook processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and processor
Provided are an information decoding method and apparatus, a codebook processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a processor. The information decoding method includes: determining a codebook used by HARQ-ACKs of multiple PDSCHs or TBs fed back by a terminal in at least one of following manners: manner one: determining based on a first reference carrier in multiple carriers configured for the terminal; or manner two: determining based on DAI information sent to the terminal; and decoding the codebook. |
| US11398883B2 |
Responding to a new data indicator for a hybrid automatic repeat request process
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for responding to a new data indicator for a hybrid automatic repeat request process. One method includes determining whether a current new data indicator in a current sidelink grant matches a last received new data indicator in a last received sidelink grant for a first hybrid automatic repeat request process. The method includes, in response to determining that the current new data indicator does not match the last received new data indicator, determining whether a negative acknowledgement has been transmitted in response to the last received sidelink grant. |
| US11398882B2 |
Early termination of repeated transmissions between terminal and base station in wireless communication system
Various embodiments provide methods whereby a terminal and a base station transmit and receive signals in a wireless communication system, and devices for supporting same. Comprised are the steps of: transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to a base station; receiving, from the base station, hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information on the PUSCH before transmitting the PUSCH a number of times, the number of times being the number of repeated transmissions corresponding to the PUSCH; and determining whether or not to end the transmission of the PUSCH on the basis of the received HARQ-ACK information. Accordingly, the terminal can effectively control unnecessarily repeated transmission of uplink data, and the power consumption of the terminal can be reduced. |
| US11398880B2 |
PHY error indication messaging
This disclosure introduces an advancement to the error indication message to provide detailed information about errors in configurations that are arriving from the Layer 2 to the Layer 1. A method is disclosed, comprising: performing physical layer control (PHY) of a wireless signal at a Layer 1 (L1) software module; performing medium access control (MAC) of the wireless signal at a Layer 2 (L2) software module; providing an application programming interface between the L1 software module and the L2 software module for receiving L1 configuration messages and providing error codes to the L2 software module; receiving a L1 configuration message at a Layer 1 software module; and providing an enhanced error code progressively from a L1 software module to the Layer 2 (L2) software module. |
| US11398874B2 |
Method and apparatus for measuring signal quality in wireless communication system
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for measuring signal quality in a wireless communication system. |
| US11398873B2 |
Signal supply device
The signal supply device includes a frequency adjuster, a modulator, an amplifier, a current measurer, a frequency setter, and a controller. While the controller executes a test signal supply process for changing a frequency of a carrier wave within a frequency range predetermined as a range of a resonance frequency of an antenna, modulating the carrier wave with a test signal as an input signal, amplifying the carrier wave that is modulated and supplying the carrier wave that is amplified as an output target signal to the antenna, the controller measures an antenna current corresponding to the frequency each time the frequency of the carrier wave is changed. The frequency setter sets, as a usage frequency used as the frequency of the carrier wave, the frequency corresponding to the antenna current on a larger side among the antenna currents measured during execution of the test signal supply process. |
| US11398869B2 |
Device for coherently detecting in a simplified way and without optical loss
A device for coherently detecting data in an optical signal, called a useful signal, received over a first single-mode optical fibre. The device includes: a second single-mode optical fibre that receives an oscillation optical signal; a polarization-managing device that receives as input either, in a first case, the oscillation optical signal, or, in a second case, the useful signal, and that delivers as output two separate signals, over two single-mode optical guides. The coherently detecting device is configured so that a set of the three signals, which consists of the two separate signals and of either, in the first case, the useful signal, or, in the second case, the oscillation signal, is presented to a single photodiode. |
| US11398864B2 |
Light communication between aircraft
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for providing light communication (LC) for an aircraft. An LC transmitter is mounted on an aircraft fuselage and is configured to broadcast light signals within a defined region outside the aircraft. An LC receiver mounted on the aircraft fuselage is configured to receive light signals broadcast by a remote LC device. A controller is configured to manage LC signals in the aircraft, and an interface is provided between the controller and an aircraft data network. The light signals may be in a visible light spectrum, an invisible light spectrum, or both. The remote LC device may be, for example, a ground station, an aircraft, a ground vehicle, a ship, a building, or a portable transmitter. |
| US11398861B2 |
Wi-Fi extender and associated antenna selection method
The present invention discloses an antenna selection method, where the antenna selection method includes the steps of: utilizing a first vertical polarized antenna and a second vertical polarized antenna to obtain a first signal; calculating a first signal quality parameter according to the first signal; utilizing the first vertical polarized antenna and a horizontal polarized antenna to obtain a second signal; calculating a second signal quality parameter according to the second signal; and selecting one of the second vertical polarized antenna and the horizontal polarized antenna according to the first signal quality parameter and the second signal quality parameter, to be matched with the first vertical polarized antenna for subsequent signal transmission and reception. |
| US11398856B2 |
Beamforming techniques to choose transceivers in a wireless mesh network
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing beamforming techniques to choose transceivers in a wireless mesh network are disclosed. Multiple transceivers are deployed in a wireless virtual reality (VR) environment to provide a high quality path to send an encoded video stream from a graphics source to a head-mounted display (HMD) receiver. When a master transceiver connected to the graphics source does not have a line of sight connection to the HMD, the master transmitter sends the encoded video stream on a path though one or more passive transceivers that have good line of sight connections on the path to the HMD. To determine the quality of the wireless links between the various transceivers and the HMD, beamforming training procedures are performed. These beamforming training procedures are implemented to determine how to route the encoded video stream from the master transceiver to the HMD. |
| US11398852B2 |
Envelope tracking power amplifier apparatus
An envelope tracking (ET) power amplifier apparatus is provided. The ET power amplifier apparatus includes a pair of power amplifiers configured to amplify a pair of radio frequency (RF) signals based on a pair of ET voltages. In one aspect, each of the RF signals is split before amplification and recombined after amplification. As such, the power amplifiers can operate based on half the peak power of the RF signals to help improve operating efficiency of the power amplifiers. In another aspect, the RF signals are pre-processed prior to amplification to form a pair of composite RF signals with similar average power such that the power amplifiers can operate based on substantially similar ET voltages. As a result, it may be possible to employ a single ET integrated circuit (ETIC) to provide the ET voltages, thus helping to reduce cost and footprint of the ET power amplifier apparatus. |
| US11398851B2 |
Operating a cellular MIMO system
Operating a cellular multiple-input and multiple-output system including a first device having an antenna array having a plurality of antennas, and a second device having at least two antennas includes a same uplink pilot signal broadcast from each antenna of the second device, and received at the antenna array of the first device. Depending on the received same uplink pilot signal, a first set of first device receiving parameters for the antenna array is determined. From each antenna of the at least two antennas of the second device, a corresponding uplink pilot signal is sent and received at the antenna array of the first device using the first set of first device receiving parameters. At the first device, for each received uplink pilot signal, a corresponding second set of first device receiving parameters is determined depending on the plurality of received orthogonal uplink pilot signals. |
| US11398850B2 |
Rapid doppler correction for mobile V2X communication in 5G/6G
Disclosed are systems and methods in 5G and 6G, for compensating frequency shifts caused by the relative motion of a transmitter and receiver. For communication between a mobile user device and a base station, protocols can provide that the messages received by the base station comply with a predetermined channel frequency. Further protocols can provide that a mobile user device may transmit and receive messages at the same frequency. For sidelink communication, protocols can provide that peer devices can either transmit or receive at a predetermined channel frequency, greatly assisting reception of the messages. |
| US11398849B2 |
Continuous communication method and apparatus of contactless communication device
An electronic device includes a communication interface operable to perform contactless communication with an external device; and a processor operable to control to determine a communication type to be performed with the external device; when the communication type is a first type of continuous communication, configure data in a long packet structure; when the communication type is a second type of discontinuous communication, configure data in a short packet structure; and perform data communication in the continuous communication or in the discontinuous communication with the external device on the basis of the determined communication type. |
| US11398846B2 |
Transceiver having antenna-connection port and FEM-connection port
A transceiver having an antenna-connection port and an FEM-connection port is disclosed.Exemplary embodiments provide a transceiver having an antenna-connection port and an FEM-connection port that may support a connection to an external FEM and also support a connection to an antenna without a separate RF switch when an antenna is used without an FEM. |
| US11398845B1 |
Adaptive combiner for radio transmitters
An n-number of input ports, a plurality of output ports equal to Σk=2n+1(k−1), and a plurality of switches selectively connecting the n input ports to the plurality of output ports. A combiner network comprising n−1 combiners is connected to the plurality of output ports and one input port is directly connected to an output port to provide n output ports of the combiner network. A second stage switching matrix comprising n input ports is connected to the n output ports of the combiner network for selectively connecting one of the n output ports of the combiner network to an output load. |
| US11398839B2 |
Bit interleaver for low-density parity check codeword having length of 64800 and code rate of 7/15 and quadrature phase shift keying, and bit interleaving method using same
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 7/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation. |
| US11398831B2 |
Temporal link encoding
Temporal link encoding, including: identifying a data type of a data value to be transmitted; determining that the data type is included in one or more data types for temporal encoding; and transmitting the data value using temporal encoding. |
| US11398824B2 |
Delay locked loop circuit
A delay locked loop circuit includes: a variable delay line configured to delay an initial clock signal to generate a delayed clock signal; and a control circuit connected to the variable delay line, configured to control the variable delay line to perform delay adjustment of a first mode and further configured to perform delay adjustment of a second mode on the variable delay line when the delayed clock signal satisfies a preset condition. A step value of each delay adjustment of the first mode is a first step value, a step value of each delay adjustment of the second mode is a second step value, and the second step value is greater than the first step value. |
| US11398822B2 |
Output driver with reverse current blocking capabilities
An output driver (1) comprises a driver transistor (MP0) having a gate node (GMP0) to apply a gate control voltage (GCV) and a gate control circuit (30) to control the gate node (GMP0) of the driver transistor (MP0). The output driver (1) is configured to be operable in a first operation mode and a second operation mode, the variable resistance of the current path of the driver transistor (MP0) being lower in the first operation mode than in the second operation mode. The gate control circuit (30) comprises a controllable resistor (RC), the controllable resistor (RC) being disposed between the gate node (GMP0) of the driver transistor (MP0) and an output node (QP) of the output driver (1), and a resistance of the controllable resistor (RC) being dependent on operating the output driver in the first or second operation mode. |
| US11398821B2 |
Power device and electrical appliance
A power device for an electrical applicant, such as, a household air conditioner, is provided. The power device has a control input terminal, a first driving circuit, and a second driving circuit. When the control input terminal inputs a low level, the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit output high and low level signals in a first voltage range. When the control input terminal inputs a high level, the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit output high and low level signals in a second voltage range. The first voltage range is different from the second voltage range. |
| US11398819B2 |
Switch network housing
A housing for a switch network is provided, comprising a plurality of switch blocks, each of the switch blocks being adapted to receive a radio frequency switch, and one or more interlink waveguides. At least one of the waveguides is arranged to connect a respective two or more of the switch blocks to each other and arranged externally with respect to the two switch blocks. At least one of the one or more waveguides is integrally formed with at least one of the switch blocks. A method of manufacturing the housing is also provided. |
| US11398816B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for adjusting a phase mixer circuit
Apparatuses and methods for adjusting a phase mixer circuit are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a shift register that includes a plurality of registers coupled in series to one another. The plurality of registers are grouped into a first group of registers and a second group of registers. The first group of registers includes first and second registers. The second group of registers includes a third register. The first and second registers of the first group of registers are configured to receive in common an output of the third register of the second group of registers so that both the first and second registers store the output of the third register responsive to a shift clock. |
| US11398810B2 |
Device for signal processing
A device for signal processing includes a signal input, a control input, and a CIC filter of an nth order for filtering the input signal. The CIC filter includes n integrators, which are disposed one behind the other and include a memory in each case, and n is greater than one. For each of n−1 first integrators, the device includes an associated correction calculator for correcting an integration error using at least one signal value stored in the memory of the respective first integrator. The device transmits these stored signal values in response to the control signal to the associated correction calculators and to delete the memory of the remaining last integrator. Either the memories of the n−1 first integrators are also deleted, or the device includes a further correction calculator and the signal values are transmitted in response to the control signal also to the further correction calculator. |
| US11398807B2 |
Signal transmission device and cable connecting circuit
A signal transmission device, including a RF processing circuit and a cable connecting circuit including a first choke inductor, a first and second bypass capacitors, and a first coupling capacitor, is provided. One end of the first choke inductor is coupled to a transceiver end of a RF transceiver and the other end is coupled to a first control end of a RF antenna controller. The transceiver end is coupled to a first conductor. The first bypass capacitor is coupled between the other end and a digital ground terminal. The first coupling capacitor is coupled between the digital ground terminal and a RF ground terminal. The second conductor is coupled to the RF ground terminal and a second control terminal of the RF antenna controller at a second connecting end of a RF cable. The second bypass capacitor is coupled between the second control terminal and the digital ground terminal. |
| US11398796B1 |
Temperature compensated oscillators and associated methods
Temperature compensated oscillators and associated methods are disclosed. The oscillator may include an inverter with a variable load configured to provide different conductance values based on an operating temperature of the oscillator. The variable load includes two or more branches in parallel, where each branch has a unique conductance value different from each other. Further, the variable load is coupled to a temperature sensor that generates signals based on determining the operating temperature. The signals of the temperature sensor can activate one or more branches of the variable load. As a result, the inverter may trigger at different voltage levels such that variations in the frequency of the clock signal that the oscillator generates can be reduced across different operating temperatures. |
| US11398794B2 |
Variable frequency drive thermal management
A system and method for thermal management in a variable frequency drive is provided. Aspects include receiving, by a processor, operational data associated with a variable frequency drive, the operational data including one or more operational parameters for the variable frequency drive, comparing the one or more operational parameters to a threshold, and operating the variable frequency drive to produce a first modulated output based at least in part on the one or more operational parameters being below the threshold. |
| US11398785B2 |
Position detection and monitoring
An apparatus includes a controller that controls a motor including multiple motor windings. To determine motor position, the controller is operative to supply current through the multiple windings of the motor. The multiple windings are coupled to a rotor of the motor. While supplying the current to the motor windings, the controller monitors a magnitude of the current supplied through the windings of the motor. Based on measured inductance associated with the motor as determined from the monitored current through the windings, the controller determines a (rotational) position of the rotor. |
| US11398782B2 |
Power converters including bias voltage supply circuit and method of supplying bias supply voltage
A power converter includes a first and a second transformers having different auxiliary winding voltage levels. A bias voltage supply circuit generates a bias supply voltage of an integrated circuit used to control the power converter, and includes a first and a second bias supply branches jointly coupled to a supply capacitor to provide the bias supply voltage. When the bias supply voltage is higher than a threshold voltage, the first bias supply branch to receive the one with lower level of the two auxiliary winding voltages is switched from a deactivation state to an activation state to provide the bias supply voltage, when the bias supply voltage is less than the threshold voltage, the second bias supply branch to receive the one with larger level of the two auxiliary winding voltages is switched from the deactivation state to the activation state to provide the bias supply voltage. |
| US11398779B2 |
Multi-path converter and control method therefor
A multi-path converter and a control method thereof are disclosed. The multi-path converter includes a current transfer path using a capacitor and a current transfer path using an inductor such that a current is output to an output end (load) through a plurality of parallel paths, thereby reducing a total RMS current flowing through the inductor, and a control method therefor. |
| US11398778B2 |
Charge pump structure with regulated output voltage
A charge pump structure is disclosed. In an embodiment a regulated charge pump structure includes an output terminal configured to provide a regulated output voltage, a first charge pump configured to generate the output voltage as a function of an input supply voltage and a control circuit configured to limit a level of the output voltage and to generate a control voltage, wherein the level of the output voltage is controlled by the control voltage such that the output voltage does not exceed a threshold value. |
| US11398776B2 |
Power conversion device
A power conversion device is provided. The power conversion device includes N power conversion circuits and M magnetic components, where N and M are positive integers greater than 1. Each of the N power conversion circuits includes M inductors. DC currents flowing through the M inductors respectively are unequal. Each one of the M inductors in different ones of the N power conversion circuits corresponds to each other to form a group of N corresponding inductors. In the N power conversion circuits, DC currents respectively flowing through the corresponding inductors are equal. Each of the M magnetic components includes a middle pillar, N side pillars and two substrates. The middle pillar has an air gap. In the N power conversion circuits, windings of N corresponding inductors are respectively wound around the N side pillars of one of the M magnetic components. |
| US11398771B2 |
Switching regulator control circuit enabling fault protection operation, current-mode-control switching power supply device, and vehicle
A switching regulator control circuit is used in a switching regulator that converts an input voltage into an output voltage by the switching of a switching device, and generates a switching signal for controlling the ON/OFF operation of the switching device. The switching regulator control circuit has a fault detector and a fault protector. The fault detector detects, based on the duty ratio of the switching signal or a variable correlated to it and included in a control signal used to generate the switching signal, a fault state where the duty ratio falls outside the normal modulation range. The fault protector stops the switching of the switching device when the fault detector detects a fault state. |
| US11398767B2 |
Power converter for delaying entering burst mode and method thereof
Various embodiments relate to a power converter including a resonant converter with an controller, the controller configured to control the converter to operate in a normal mode when output power is above a burst mode threshold level, start a timer when the output power falls below the burst mode threshold level, continue operating in the normal mode until the timer reaches a predetermined time and operate in burst mode when the timer reaches the predetermined time. |
| US11398761B2 |
Motor comprising coolant flow path
A motor includes: a housing that accommodates a stator that has a field coil and a rotor; an inverter that is provided in the housing; a voltage boosting circuit that has a reactor provided in the housing; and a coolant flow path that is provided at a position at which the coolant flow path overlaps with the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit in the housing in a diameter direction, and the inverter has a control board that controls a drive current or a drive voltage and a drive element that is provided on the side of the housing with respect to the control board and supplies power to the field coil in accordance with control from the control board. |
| US11398760B2 |
Stator, stator assembly, and transducer for converting between electrical energy and mechanical energy
A stator member includes a stator core, a coil, and an insulator. The stator core has a shape extending in an axial direction, and has a side surface parallel to the axial direction. The coil has a linear shape and is wound around the side surface of the stator core. The coil has a coil end portion 231 at one end of the coil having the linear shape, and a coil end portion 232 at another end of the coil having the linear shape. The insulator has insulation properties, and is provided with an outer member. The outer member has a first recess and a second recess extending in a thickness direction. The coil end portion 231 is inserted into the first recess. The coil end portion 232 is inserted into the second recess. |
| US11398756B2 |
Embedded magnet type rotor
An embedded magnet type rotor has a laminated core which is formed by laminating a plurality of steel plates, and a magnet provided in a magnet insertion hole of the laminated core, and an end plate provided at an end portion of the laminated core so as to close the magnet insertion hole. The pair of adjacent steel plates are fixed by pressing a steel plate fixing protrusion of one first steel plate into a steel plate fixing hole of the other first steel plate. The end plate and the laminated core are fixed by pressing a plate fixing protrusion of the end plate into a plate fixing hole of the laminated core. The steel plate fixing hole and the plate fixing hole are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. |
| US11398754B2 |
Stator assembly and motor
In a stator assembly, each stator core includes a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of recesses, which are provided periodically in a circumferential direction on an outer periphery. The protrusion abuts at least a part of an inner wall of a housing in the circumferential direction. The recess is smaller than the protrusion in a radial direction and has a gap relative to the inner wall of the housing. Adjacent stator cores are shifted in the circumferential direction by a predetermined shift angle such that a periodic unit formed of at least one protrusion and at least one recess appear alternately in the axial direction. The protrusion has a radius of curvature smaller than a radius of a circumscribed circle at a part abutting the inner wall of the housing. |
| US11398752B2 |
Zero-crossing slotted foreign object detection
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A method for operating a charging device includes providing a charging current to a resonant circuit when a receiving device is present on a surface of the wireless charging device, providing a zero-crossing signal that includes edges corresponding to transitions of a voltage measured across the resonant circuit through a zero volt level or to transitions of a current in the resonant circuit through a zero ampere level, providing a measurement slot by decreasing or terminating the charging current for a period of time, and determining whether an object other than the receiving device is present on a surface of the charging device based on measurements of samples of voltage or current captured based on timing provided by the zero-crossing signal, wherein the samples are captured during the measurement slot. |
| US11398748B2 |
In-vehicle backup power supply control device and in-vehicle backup power supply
Provided is an in-vehicle backup power supply control device or an in-vehicle backup power supply configured to generate a notification indicating the state of a power storage unit to an external device. When a main power supply fails, a control device applies a voltage to a backup target load from a power storage unit. The control device is provided with a charging/discharging unit for charging the power storage unit and discharging the power storage unit, a voltage detection unit for detecting a voltage of the power storage unit, a control unit for controlling the operation of the charging/discharging unit, and a signal interruption unit for interrupting the output of the predetermined signal to a device external to the control device in a case where the voltage value (Vout) of the power storage unit detected by the voltage detection unit is smaller than a predetermined first threshold. |
| US11398747B2 |
Inductive powering and/or charging with more than one power level and/or frequency
Systems for inductive charging and electronic devices for receiving inductive charge are disclosed. They include a coil, a plurality of resonant capacitors, and one or more capacitor switches that electrically couple a selection of the resonant capacitors to the coil. In a first mode of operation, the capacitor switches couple a first selection of the resonant capacitors to the coil to form a resonant circuit having a first resonant frequency to operate at a first power level. In a second mode of operation, the capacitor switches couple a second selection of the resonant capacitors to the coil to form a resonant circuit having a second resonant frequency to operate at a second power level. |
| US11398744B2 |
Charging method and device, electronic device and storage medium
A charging method includes: obtaining a first temperature at a preset position on an electronic device when constant-current charging is performed on a battery of the electronic device at a first constant current; in response to that the first temperature exceeds a preset first temperature threshold, obtaining a first voltage currently present at a designated position in the electronic device, and obtaining a second constant current preset in the electronic device; performing first constant-voltage charging on the battery at the first voltage until a charging current during the first constant-voltage charging is changed to the second constant current; and performing the constant-current charging on the battery at the second constant current. |
| US11398742B2 |
Charge state control system and device
A charge state control system and device for controlling charge sent to a consumer device is disclosed. A software application is provided on a consumer device. A separate hardware device comprises a microprocessor; a transistor relay circuit which is controlled by the microprocessor to open or close a relay; and a connector for connection with the consumer device. The software application is configured to receive an input from a user, determine a battery level of the consumer device and communicate with the hardware device to instruct the microprocessor to open or close the relay depending upon the battery level and the input. |
| US11398741B2 |
Charging device and a charging method thereof
The present disclosure provides a charging device and a charging method thereof. The charging device includes a control unit, at least two charging protocol chips electrically connected to the control unit, and at least two interfaces respectively connected to the at least two charging protocol chips; wherein each of the at least two charging protocol chips is configured to detect a power requirement of each charged device electrically connected to the each interface;wherein the control unit is configured to calculate a total power requirement of all charged devices according to each power requirement of the charged devices; and according to a magnitude between the total power requirement and a total available supplying power of the charging device, and according to a preset power allocation rule, the control unit configure to allocate a supplying charging power of to each interface electrically connected with a charged device. |
| US11398739B1 |
Modular wireless appliance charging system
A modular wireless appliance charging system includes a primary charging platform having a plurality of adapter slots disposed on its upper side. An adapter is configured to be removably secured within each adapter slot. Each adapter includes a receiver configured to removably secure an appliance to the adapter via a charging port of the appliance. A power supply is operably connected to a charging mechanism which is configured to charge the battery of the appliance that is secured to the receiver of an adapter that is secured within one of the adapter slots. An auxiliary platform having similar components can be connected to the primary platform to expand the system's charging capacity. The adapters can include many configurations for different types of appliances. In this way, the user can customize their charging system to include a specific type, number, and order of adapters for organizing and charging their battery-powered appliances. |
| US11398730B2 |
Method for optimizing the supply of energy from an electrical energy source in an electrical installation and device for implementing such a method
A method for optimizing the energy supply from a variable electrical energy source in an electrical facility, operating in a self-consumption mode, connected to an electrical energy distribution network. A control device is configured to control an electrical energy inverter in an electrical facility and to an electrical facility including a control device for controlling an electrical energy inverter. |
| US11398728B2 |
Methods and systems for an automated utility marketplace platform
A platform and components for an automated consumer retail utility marketplace are provided, including components for machine learning, components for gamification, and components for supporting a related consumer mobile application that enables improved visibility and control by a consumer over its interaction with energy markets. |
| US11398727B2 |
Method of controlling a microgrid, power management system, and energy management system
A method of controlling a microgrid includes retrieving, by an energy management system, EMS, a forecast variable value for a forecast variable. The EMS determines an operating point value for a controllable asset that depends on the retrieved forecast variable value. The EMS determines an operating point shift value for the controllable asset, the operating point shift value representing a shift in operating point value in response to a variation in forecast variable value. The operating point value and the operating point shift value are provided to a power management system, PMS, of the microgrid. |
| US11398723B2 |
Battery control apparatus
A battery control apparatus includes: an MCU including a first control terminal, a first sensing terminal connected to a first node, a second control terminal, a third control terminal, a second sensing terminal connected to a second node, and a fourth control terminal; a relay including a switch and a coil connected between the first node and the second node; and a first reduction circuit including a first transistor having a first gate connected to the first control terminal and a first end connected to the first node, and a second transistor having a second gate connected to the second control terminal and the MCU controls the first gate and the second gate to respectively allow the first transistor to be turned on and the second transistor to be turned off when there is no voltage change of the first node. |
| US11398721B2 |
Resilient aperture cover for electrical box
An electrical box assembly includes an electrical box structure including an interior defined by a plurality of walls with an aperture formed through one of the walls for providing access to the interior of the box structure. An aperture cover extends over the aperture. The aperture is formed from a resiliently flexible material and includes a slit forming feature for prescribing a location of a slit for selectively providing access to the interior of the electrical box structure. The resiliency of the aperture cover urges the aperture cover to a closed position of the slit to minimize air passage through the aperture cover. |
| US11398719B2 |
Press fit condulet devices, assemblies systems and methods for electrical raceway fabrication
A conduit outlet assembly for a rigid metal conduit raceway of an electrical system is provided. A conduit outlet assembly includes a gasket, a gripping ring, and a condulet assembly. The gasket is sized to circumscribe an outer surface of a rigid metal conduit of the rigid metal conduit raceway. The gripping ring is sized to circumscribe the outer surface of the rigid metal conduit. The condulet assembly is sized to receive the rigid metal conduit, and includes an adapter and a condulet. The adapter includes a compression section and a coupling section, wherein the compression section is sized to receive the rigid metal conduit with the gasket and the gripping ring disposed thereon. The condulet is sized to receive the coupling section of the adapter. |
| US11398718B2 |
Apparatus for electrically interconnecting two laminated multi-phase busbars and switchgear cabinet including such an apparatus
An apparatus for electrically connecting a first laminated multi-phase busbar to a second laminated multi-phase busbar, each of the first and second laminated multi-phase busbars including a plurality of conducting layers and insulating layers which are arranged between the conducting layers and the conducting layers of the first laminated multi-phase busbar projecting from the insulating layers thereof, forming a first lateral connecting portion with first contact surfaces, and the conducting layers of the second laminated multi-phase busbar projecting from the insulating layers thereof, forming a second lateral connecting portion with second contact surfaces, the apparatus including: a bridging element which includes a plurality of laminated insulating layers and conducting layers having contact surfaces for contacting associated contact surfaces of the first and second lateral connecting portions of the first and second busbar; a first clamping arrangement having clamping plates for mechanically contacting and urging associated opposing first outer clamping sections. |
| US11398717B2 |
Spark plug and method for manufacturing the same
A spark plug includes a terminal electrode extending in an axial direction of the spark plug. The terminal electrode has an end in the axial direction, and has a recess formed in the end of the terminal electrode. The recess has a bottom surface and an identifier on the bottom surface. The recess has a side surface parallel to the axial direction. |
| US11398715B2 |
Semiconductor light emitting device
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate, and an array including three or more light emitting elements which are aligned above and along a main surface of a substrate and each emit light. The light emitting elements each include a clad layer of a first conductivity type, an active layer containing In, and a clad layer of a second conductivity type disposed above the substrate sequentially from the substrate. Among the light emitting elements, the compositional ratio of In in the active layer is smaller in the light emitting element located in a central area in an alignment direction than that in the light emitting elements located in both end areas in the alignment direction. |
| US11398713B2 |
Electro-absorption modulator, optical semiconductor device and optical module
An electro-absorption modulator of the invention is an electro-absorption modulator which is formed on an InP substrate and modulate incident light according to a voltage applied to that modulator, and which comprises a light absorbing layer for absorbing a portion of the incident light by using an electric field generated by the applied voltage; wherein the light absorbing layer is comprised of a ternary or more complex III-V semiconductor mixed crystal that does not contain Al but contains Bi. |
| US11398712B2 |
Diamond-coated composite heat sinks for high-power laser systems
In various embodiments, laser systems feature beam emitters thermally coupled to heat sinks comprising, consisting essentially of, or consisting of a metal-matrix composite of a thermally conductive metal and a refractory metal. At least a portion of the surface of the heat sink is treated to form a depleted region, and a diamond coating is deposited within and/or over the depleted region. The depleted region is substantially free of the thermally conductive metal or contains the thermally conductive metal at a concentration less than that of the body of the heat sink. |
| US11398711B2 |
Multicore optical fiber amplifier and optical amplification method using multicore optical fiber amplification medium
A multicore optical fiber amplifier according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a multicore optical fiber amplification medium including, in a clad, a plurality of cores doped with a rare earth element; signal light introduction means for introducing, into each of the plurality of cores, signal light with a wavelength included in a gain band of the multicore optical fiber amplification medium; excitation light introduction means for introducing, into the clad, excitation light for exciting the multicore optical fiber amplification medium; and control light introduction means for introducing control light into each of the plurality of cores, wherein the control light introduction means introduces the control light into a non-signal core into which the signal light is not being introduced, among the plurality of cores, only when the excitation light is being introduced. |
| US11398706B2 |
Connector
A connector includes: an internal contact disposed at an inner position in a radial direction; an external contact disposed at an outer position in the radial direction; and an insulator disposed between the internal and external contacts. At least one of the internal and external contacts includes, on one side in the axial direction, a mating part to be mated with a corresponding counterpart contact at a predetermined radial contact pressure. The insulator includes a first insulator part exposed to the one side in the axial direction, and a second insulator part disposed on the other side in the axial direction relative to the first insulator part. The first insulator part is made of an elastic material capable of being easily deformed elastically in the radial direction as compared to the second insulator part. |
| US11398699B2 |
Power supply integrated vacuum pump
A power supply integrated vacuum pump comprises: a pump housing in which a pump rotor is arranged; a power supply housing fixed to an outer surface of the pump housing; a connector configured to connect a pump-housing-side line and a power-supply-housing-side line; and a spacer fixed to the outer surface of the pump housing and having a connector fixing surface to which the connector is fixed. |
| US11398698B2 |
Connector
A connector includes a female housing and a male housing. An arm portion of the female housing engages with an engagement projection of the male housing. In a state where the engagement projection is fitted to an opening of the arm portion, a gap for insertion of a jig exists in the opening at a lateral side of the engagement projection. A groove-shaped release operation portion is formed on the male housing at a lateral side of the engagement projection. An inclined surface is formed at a rear end of the release operation portion, and a wall portion is formed on a rear side of the inclined surface. The arm portion engaged with the engagement projection can be released with a simple operation including inserting the jig into the release operation portion from the gap in the opening and pushing the jig in the same direction as the insertion direction. |
| US11398696B2 |
Electrical connector assembly with internal spring component
An electrical connector assembly for electrically and mechanically connecting a component to a power source is disclosed. The connector assembly includes a male terminal with side walls defining a receiver. The side wall includes a contact arm that extends across an aperture in the side wall. The assembly also includes an internal spring member dimensioned to reside within the receiver of the male terminal. The spring member has at least one spring arm that extends from a base portion. The assembly further includes a female terminal with a receptacle dimensioned to receive both the male terminal and the spring member residing within the receiver of the male connector to define a connected position. In the connected position, the spring arm exerts an outwardly directed biasing force on the contact arm of the male terminal to outwardly displace it into engagement with an inner surface of the receptacle to ensure connectivity. |
| US11398694B2 |
Flex jumper assembly for a plug connector assembly
A plug connector assembly includes first and second plug connectors each including a plug housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall forming a cavity. The side walls include a housing securing feature. The plug connector assembly includes a flex jumper assembly coupled between the plug connectors having a flex circuit extending between first and second paddle cards. The paddle cards each include a rigid substrate having a mating end and side edges extending to a flex circuit end. The rigid substrate includes a plug connector securing feature at the side edge engaging the housing securing feature to retain the paddle card in the corresponding plug housing. The flex circuit is flexible between the first and second paddle cards. |
| US11398689B2 |
Connecting method, connecting structure, contact and connector
A first connection portion is formed at an end portion of a flexible conductor by folding the end portion of the flexible conductor in halves along a folding line extending in a given direction, and a contact-side connection portion of a contact presses the first connection portion from opposite sides in a thickness direction of the first connection portion to thereby electrically connect the contact to the flexible conductor. |
| US11398687B2 |
Cable assembly and structure
A cable assembly comprises a cable and a conductive member. The cable extends in a longitudinal direction. The cable has a first location and a second location in the longitudinal direction. The cable comprises a conductive portion and an outer cover. The outer cover covers the conductive portion. The conductive member is attached with the cable. The conductive member has a first portion, a second portion and a planar portion. The first portion is positioned at the first location in the longitudinal direction. The first portion is crimped to the outer cover. The second portion is positioned at the second location in the longitudinal direction. The second portion is crimped to the conductive portion. The planar portion extends from the first location to the second location in the longitudinal direction. |
| US11398679B2 |
Antenna structure
An antenna structure includes a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, a fourth radiation element, a fifth radiation element, and a nonconductive support element. The first radiation element has a feeding point. The second radiation element is coupled to the feeding point. The third radiation element has a grounding point. The fourth radiation element is coupled to the third radiation element. The fourth radiation element is adjacent to the first radiation element and the second radiation element. The fifth radiation element is coupled to the third radiation element and the fourth radiation element. The first radiation element, the second radiation element, the third radiation element, the fourth radiation element, and the fifth radiation element are disposed on the nonconductive support element. |
| US11398675B2 |
Antenna for receiving data from low earth orbit satellites
The present invention relates to a feed-motion antenna device. Provided is an antenna for receiving data from low Earth orbit satellites, the antenna comprising a fixedly mounted antenna reflector, a moveable feed, a feed positioner configured to move the feed in the focal plane of the antenna reflector, the feed positioned having a primary rotation axis and an auxiliary rotation axis, and a control device configured to send control signals to the feed positioner. The primary rotation axis of the feed positioner passes through the center of the antenna reflector and the primary rotation axis is perpendicular to the focal plane of the antenna reflector; the auxiliary rotation axis of the feed positioner is parallel to the primary rotation axis. The feed positioner comprises an equal-arm structure comprising a first arm and a second arm, and each arm is arranged in a plane perpendicular to the primary and auxiliary rotation axes. The first arm is connected at one its end to the primary rotation axis and adapted to be rotated around the primary rotation axis, the feed is connected to an end of the second arm, and the first arm and the second arm are connected to each other at the auxiliary rotation axis and are adapted to be rotated with respect to each other. The diameter of the antenna reflector is at least 1.5 m, and the focal length of the antenna reflector is at least 1.0 m.Further provided is a method for receiving satellite data by means of the offered antenna. |
| US11398672B2 |
Roof antenna
A roof antenna including an antenna base with a base plate, a spindle, a driver arranged on the spindle, and a locking element having a first limb and a second limb. The first limb has a first latching hook and the second limb has a second latching hook. The first limb and the second limb extend through an aperture in the base plate. A translatory movement of the driver on the spindle is transferred into a displacement of the locking element in a displacement direction perpendicular to the base plate. |
| US11398667B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a grounding element, and a feeding element. The first radiation element includes a first radiation portion and a feeding portion electrically connected to the first radiation portion. The second radiation element is coupled to the first radiation element and separate from the first radiation element. The grounding element is electrically connected to the second radiation element. The feeding element includes a feeding end and a grounding end. The feeding end is electrically connected to the feeding portion, and the grounding end is electrically connected to the grounding element. An operating frequency band generated by the first radiation element is greater than an operating frequency band generated by the second radiation element. |
| US11398664B2 |
Battery and battery system
A battery includes at least one cell, a case that houses the at least one cell, at least one first charge/discharge terminal that is electrically connected to the at least one cell, and at least one first monitor terminal that is electrically connected to the at least one cell. The at least one first charge/discharge terminal has a protrusion that partially protrudes from a surface of the case. The at least one first monitor terminal has a recess that is partially recessed from the surface of the case. |
| US11398663B2 |
Battery module having bus bar and battery pack
Provided are a battery module including a bus bar, whereby weldability may be increased by reducing current loss when welding the bus bar and an electrode terminal of a battery cell, and a battery pack including the battery module. The battery module includes: a plurality of cylindrical battery cells; a module housing; and a bus bar configured to contact the electrode terminals of the plurality of cylindrical battery cells to electrically connect between the plurality of cylindrical battery cells, wherein the bus bar includes: a main body portion that is positioned over or below the plurality of cylindrical battery cells and has a plate shape that is flat in a horizontal direction, wherein at least one coupling opening perforated vertically is formed in the plate shape; and a first connection extension portion and a second connection extension portion that protrude and extend from an internal boundary of the coupling opening in different horizontal directions from each other and have end portions that are electrically connected and fixed to an electrode terminal of one of the plurality of cylindrical battery cells. |
| US11398660B2 |
Flame retardant separator having asymmetric structure for secondary batteries
A flame retardant separator for secondary batteries having an asymmetric structure, and more particularly, a flame retardant separator for secondary batteries having an asymmetric structure in which a hydroxide-based inorganic flame retardant is coated on only a surface facing a positive electrode. The present invention provides a separator, which is capable of preventing the risk of lithium ions predominantly precipitated from a negative electrode in a lithium secondary battery, enhancing the flame retardant effect, and maintaining electrochemical properties in contrast with a conventional separator coated with inorganic matters, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. |
| US11398659B2 |
Battery block
A battery block includes a plurality of cylindrical batteries, a battery holder having a plurality of accommodating parts into which axial one end portions of the cylindrical batteries are inserted, and a pair of terminal plates, that connect the cylindrical batteries in parallel. Each of the accommodating parts includes the partition wall formed along an outer peripheral surface of cylindrical battery, an extending portion that extends on the first end surface so as to surround a part of the first end surface on which the safety valve is disposed and is formed integrally with the partition wall, and an opening that exposes the part of the first end surface on which the safety valve is disposed. |
| US11398658B2 |
Battery pack
A battery pack includes a terminal board electrically connecting terminals of a plurality of battery cells to each other. The terminal board is thinner than a bus bar and welded to the terminals of the battery cells. The terminal board includes an elongated portion extending in a direction in which the battery cells are arranged and a plurality of fixation portions arranged at intervals on a long side of the elongated portion. The bus bar includes a plurality of fixation portions respectively placed in face-to-face contact with the fixation portions of the terminal board. Fasteners fasten the fixation portions of the terminal board and the fixation portions of the bus bar to fastener-receiving portions. |
| US11398657B2 |
Method for managing the electric power passing through a metal-air battery cell and associated cell
A method for managing the electric power passing through a cell of a metal-air battery and the associated cell. The cell comprises a negative electrode connected to a positive terminal of the battery, two positive electrodes, and a switching means. The switching means is maintained in a configuration connecting the positive terminal to the first positive electrode when an electric power to pass through the battery corresponds to a first power range, and in a configuration connecting the positive terminal to the second positive electrode when an electric power to pass through the battery corresponds to a second power range, the second power range being associated with higher electric powers than the electric powers of the first range. |
| US11398652B2 |
Storage cell for an energy store of a motor vehicle, and energy store for a motor vehicle
A storage cell for an energy store includes a cell housing in which storage means for storing electric energy are received, at least one connection which is arranged outside of the cell housing and via which the electric energy stored by the storage means can be provided, and at least one electric heating element arranged within the cell housing for heating the storage cell. The cell housing has a connection region, in which the heating element within the cell housing is electrically connected to the cell housing. At least one connection device is provided, having at least one connection element that has a first connection part, which is electrically connected to the cell housing outside of the cell housing and is made of a first material, and a second connection part, which is electrically connected to the first connection part and is made of a second material that differs from the first material. |
| US11398649B2 |
Battery device
A battery device, which has a battery cell unit and at least one induction interface and, in at least one reception operating state, is configured to receive electrical energy by induction for charging the battery cell unit. The battery device includes at least one electrical load, which is activate-able above a defined state of charge of the battery cell unit. |
| US11398648B2 |
System for managing at least one sub-assembly of an electric battery
The system (4) is provided for managing at least one sub-assembly (2) of an electric battery. Each sub-assembly comprises a plurality of power storage cells (12). The system includes, for each power storage cell, a circuit (14) for managing the state of the cell and a communication circuit (16), which is configured such that it receives and transmits data relative to the cell. The communication circuit is configured such that it transposes, over a carrier frequency, the data to be received and transmitted, the value of said carrier frequency being greater than or equal to 1 GHz. The management system further includes, for each sub-assembly, a loss cable (18) connecting the power storage cells of said sub-assembly. The loss cable acts as a waveguide and is coupled by capacitive coupling to the communication circuit of each power storage cell. |
| US11398641B2 |
Silicon-based energy storage devices with silicon containing electrolyte additives
Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising a silicon compound are disclosed. The energy storage device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a Si-based electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electrolyte, and at least one electrolyte additive selected from a silicon compound. |
| US11398634B2 |
Solid oxide fuel cell system and method of operating the same using peak shaving gas
A fuel cell system and method for using a peak shaving gas, the system including: a fuel inlet configured to receive fuel from a fuel source; a catalytic partial oxidation (CPOx) reactor configured to at least partially oxidize the fuel during startup of the system; a blower configured to provide air to the CPOx reactor; a gas analyzer configured to determine a composition of fuel provided to the CPOx reactor from the fuel inlet; an oxidation catalyst configured to reduce an O2 content of fuel received from the CPOx reactor; a reforming catalyst configured to partially reform fuel received from the oxidation catalyst; and a stack of fuel cells configured to generate electricity using fuel received from the reforming catalyst. |
| US11398633B2 |
Coolant storage tank
A coolant storage tank (1) for storing coolant in a fuel cell system (2), the coolant storage tank comprising a plurality of individually controllable heater elements (7, 8a, 8b). A coolant storage tank comprising a first heater element (7) located at a base of the coolant storage tank and a second heater element (8a) is also disclosed. A coolant storage tank comprising a first coolant storage compartment (50) in fluid communication with a second coolant storage compartment (51), the first coolant storage compartment including at least a first heater element (54) and wherein the second coolant storage compartment is unheated is also disclosed. A method of melting frozen coolant in a coolant storage tank is also disclosed. |
| US11398632B2 |
Fuel-cell vehicle
A fuel-cell vehicle in which a fuel cell which is a driving power source is mounted includes a refrigerant flow passage that is connected to the fuel cell, a first pump that causes a refrigerant to flow in the refrigerant flow passage, a heater that heats the refrigerant, and a connection part that is electrically connected to the heater and the first pump and that is used for electrical connection to an external power source which is provided outside the fuel-cell vehicle. The heater and the first pump are driven with electric power supplied from the external power source which is connected thereto via the connection part. |
| US11398629B2 |
Carbon catalyst, electrode, and battery
Provided are a carbon catalyst, an electrode, and a battery that exhibit excellent activity. A carbon catalyst according to one embodiment of the present invention has a carbon structure in which area ratios of three peaks fbroad, fmiddle, and fnarrow obtained by separating a peak in the vicinity of a diffraction angle of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by powder X-ray diffraction satisfy the following conditions (a) to (c): (a) fbroad: 75% or more and 96% or less; (b) fmiddle: 3.2% or more and 15% or less; and (c) fnarrow: 0.4% or more and 15% or less. |
| US11398627B2 |
Cathode additives for lithium-ion batteries
In some implementations, a cathode is formed by (1) providing a cathode additive including (a) a matrix including a lithium compound, and (b) metal nanostructures embedded in the matrix; and (2) combining the cathode additive with a cathode active material to form a mixture. In other implementations, a cathode is formed by (1) providing a cathode additive including a compound of lithium and at least one non-metal or metalloid; and (2) combining the cathode additive with a cathode active material to form a mixture. |
| US11398625B2 |
Specific negative electrode based on lithium and lithium electrochemical generator comprising such a negative electrode
A negative electrode for a lithium electrochemical generator, wherein it comprises, as active material, a lithium and calcium alloy, wherein the calcium is present in the alloy to the extent of 2% to 34% of atomic. |
| US11398623B2 |
Method for preparing positive electrode additives of lithium secondary battery
The present disclosure provides a preparing method of a positive electrode additive for a lithium secondary battery capable of reducing the amount of Li-based byproduct and unreacted lithium oxide generated in a preparing process, thereby significantly reducing the amount of gas generated when the electrode is operated. |
| US11398622B2 |
Protective layer including tin fluoride disposed on a lithium anode in a lithium-sulfur battery
A battery is disclosed that includes an anode, a graded interface layer disposed on the anode, a cathode positioned opposite to the anode, an electrolyte, and a separator. The anode may output lithium ions during cycling of the battery. A graded interface layer may be disposed on the anode and include a tin fluoride layer. A tin-lithium alloy region may form between the tin fluoride layer and the anode. The tin-lithium alloy region may produce a lithium fluoride uniformly dispersed between the anode and the tin fluoride layer during operational cycling of the battery. The electrolyte may disperse throughout the cathode and the anode. The separator may be positioned between the anode and cathode. In some aspects, the battery may also include lithium electrodeposited on one or more exposed surfaces of the anode. |
| US11398618B2 |
Conductive pattern, display device including conductive pattern, and method of manufacturing conductive pattern
A conductive pattern includes a metal layer and a first low reflective layer disposed on a first surface of the metal layer, the first low reflective layer including niobium carbide (NbC) and zinc oxide (ZnO). |
| US11398617B2 |
Packaging cover plate and manufacturing method thereof, display panel, and display device each having packaging sheet with shaped plurality channels
A packaging cover plate and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The packaging cover plate includes: a packaging sheet including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The first surface of the packaging sheet is provided with at least one first channel, the second surface of the packaging sheet is provided with at least one second channel, and an extension direction of the first channel is parallel to an extension direction of the second channel. An orthographic projection of the at least one first channel on the packaging sheet and an orthographic projection of the at least one second channel on the packaging sheet are arranged alternately, and a sum of a depth of the first channel and a depth of the second channel is not less than a thickness of the packaging sheet. |
| US11398616B2 |
Organic light-emitting display panel and manufacturing method thereof
An organic light-emitting display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A thin-film encapsulation layer in the organic light-emitting panel extends to cover a wall surface of the functional structure layer facing to a light-transmitting hole, and comprehensively protects the functional structure layer and the light-emitting layer. |
| US11398604B2 |
Organic electronic material, organic layer, organic electronic element, organic electroluminescent element, display element, illumination device, and display device
An organic electronic material containing a charge transport compound having a structural region represented by formula (I) and having a weight average molecular weight greater than 40,000. —Ar—X—Y—Z (I) In the formula, Ar represents an arylene group or heteroarylene group of 2 to 30 carbon atoms, X represents a linking group, Y represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group of 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and Z represents a substituted or unsubstituted polymerizable functional group. |
| US11398597B2 |
Transistor, semiconductor device including the same, and manufacturing method thereof
A back-end-of-line transistor includes a channel strip, a source contact, a drain contact, a high-k dielectric strip, a gate pattern, and self-assembled monolayers. The channel strip includes a semiconductor oxide material. The source contact contacts a first end of the channel strip. The drain contact contacts a second end of the channel strip. The high-k dielectric strip extends on the channel strip in between the first end and the second end of the channel strip. The gate pattern extends on the high-k dielectric strip. The self-assembled monolayers are disposed in between the channel strip and the source and drain contacts. The self-assembled monolayers include a compound having a polar group. The polar group is bonded to at least one selected from the channel strip, the source contact, and the drain contact. |
| US11398594B1 |
Stepped piezoelectric actuator
A bender beam actuator includes a first layer of piezoelectric material and a second layer of piezoelectric material overlying a portion of the first layer of piezoelectric material, where a length of the first layer of piezoelectric material is at least 2% greater than a length of the second layer of piezoelectric material. |
| US11398592B2 |
Method for manufacturing light emitting module and light emitting module
A method for manufacturing a light emitting module includes: providing light emitting devices each including a light emitting element having an upper surface, a lateral surface, and an electrode positioned on the upper surface, a first light reflective member arranged on the lateral surface of the light emitting element, and a metal film formed on upper surfaces of the electrode and the first light reflective member; placing the light emitting devices on a light guide plate with gaps between the light emitting devices, with the metal films of the light emitting devices facing upward; forming masks respectively covering the metal films; forming a second light reflective member in the gaps between the light emitting devices on the light guide plate; removing the masks; and forming, on the light emitting devices and on the second light reflective member, wiring segments that connect to the metal films. |
| US11398591B2 |
Interconnects for light emitting diode chips
Solid-state lighting devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and more particularly LED chips with interconnect structures are disclosed. LED chips are provided that include first interconnects electrically coupled to an n-type layer and second interconnects electrically connected to a p-type layer. Configurations of the first and second interconnects are provided that may improve current spreading by reducing localized areas of current crowding within LED chips. Various configurations are disclosed that include collectively formed symmetric patterns of the first and second interconnects, diameters of certain ones of either the first or second interconnects that vary based on their relative positions in LED chips, and spacings of the second interconnects that vary based on their distances from the first interconnects. In this regard, LED chips are disclosed with improved current spreading as well as higher lumen outputs and efficiencies. |
| US11398586B2 |
Light-emitting semiconductor component
A light-emitting semiconductor device (100) comprising a semiconductor layer sequence (1) based on a phosphide and/or arsenide compound semiconductor material system is specified, wherein—the semiconductor layer sequence (1) comprises a light-emitting semiconductor layer (10), which is embodied to emit light during operation of the semiconductor device (100), between a first cladding layer (11) and a second cladding layer (12), and at least a first semiconductor protection layer (13), the first semiconductor protection layer (13) is arranged inside the first cladding layer (11), wherein the first cladding layer is formed as an outer layer, or the first semiconductor protection layer is arranged as an outer layer directly on the first cladding layer (11) on a side remote from the light-emitting semiconductor layer (10), and the first semiconductor protection layer (13) has a lower aluminum content than the first cladding layer. |
| US11398580B2 |
Light emitting diode and light emitting device including the same
The present disclosure relates to a light emitting diode in which a charge transfer layer, which disposed between two electrodes, including an inorganic material in which an amphiphilic ligand is connected to a surface of an inorganic nano particle and to a light emitting device having the diode. The amphiphilic ligand minimizes defects on the surface of the inorganic nano particle, thus charge transfer materials can be stably. Since charge transfer layers and an emitting material layer can be prepared by using an orthogonal solvent, interface morphology between the emissive layers can be improved. |
| US11398579B2 |
Method for producing optoelectronic devices comprising light-emitting diodes
A method for producing optoelectronic devices, including the following successive steps: providing a substrate having a first face; on the first face, forming sets of light-emitting diodes including wire-like, conical or frustoconical semiconductor elements; covering all of the first face with a layer encapsulating the light-emitting diodes; forming a conductive element that is insulated from the substrate and extends through the substrate from the second face to at least the first face; reducing the thickness of the substrate; and cutting the resulting structure in order to separate each set of light-emitting diodes. |
| US11398576B2 |
Solar cell having a plurality of sub-cells coupled by a metallization structure
Solar cells having a plurality of sub-cells coupled by metallization structures, and singulation approaches to forming solar cells having a plurality of sub-cells coupled by metallization structures, are described. In an example, a solar cell, includes a plurality of sub-cells, each of the sub-cells having a singulated and physically separated semiconductor substrate portion. Adjacent ones of the singulated and physically separated semiconductor substrate portions have a groove there between. The solar cell also includes a monolithic metallization structure. A portion of the monolithic metallization structure couples ones of the plurality of sub-cells. The groove between adjacent ones of the singulated and physically separated semiconductor substrate portions exposes a portion of the monolithic metallization structure. |
| US11398573B2 |
Thermoelectric cooler mount
An x-ray detector can be small and have efficient cooling. In one embodiment, the x-ray detector can comprise a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) with upper electrical connections, a support, a cap, and a silicon drift detector (SDD). A planar side of the support can be directly affixed to upper electrical connections of the TEC. The support can have a non-planar side, opposite of the planar side, with a raised structure. A bottom face of the cap can be affixed to the raised structure, forming a cavity between the cap and the non-planar side of the support. The SDD can be affixed to a top face of the cap. In another embodiment, the non-planar side of the support can face the TEC. In another embodiment, a PIN photodiode can be directly affixed to a plate and the plate directly affixed to upper electrical connections of the TEC. |
| US11398571B2 |
Devices and electronic systems including vertical transistors, and related methods
A device comprises vertically oriented transistors. The device comprises a pillar comprising at least one oxide semiconductor material, the pillar wider in a first lateral direction at an upper portion thereof than at a lower portion thereof, a gate dielectric material over sidewalls of the pillar and extending in the first lateral direction, and at least one gate electrode adjacent to at least a portion of the gate dielectric material. Related devices, electronic systems, and methods are also disclosed. |
| US11398567B2 |
Semiconductor device with negative capacitance comprising ferroelectric layer including amorphous and crystals
In a method of manufacturing a negative capacitance structure, a ferroelectric dielectric layer is formed over a first conductive layer disposed over a substrate, and a second conductive layer is formed over the ferroelectric dielectric layer. The ferroelectric dielectric layer includes an amorphous layer and crystals. |
| US11398565B2 |
Silicon controlled rectifier with a gate electrode for electrostatic discharge protection
A silicon controlled rectifier is provided. The silicon controlled rectifier comprises a substrate and a first n-well in the substrate. A p+ anode region may be arranged in the first n-well in the substrate. A first p-well may be arranged in the first n-well in the substrate. An n+ cathode region may be arranged in the first p-well in the substrate. A field oxide layer may be arranged over a first portion of the first p-well. A first gate electrode layer may extend over a second portion of the first p-well and over a portion of the field oxide layer. |
| US11398563B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
Examples of a semiconductor device includes a transistor region formed in a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type drift layer, and a diode region formed to be adjacent to the transistor region in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the diode region has a second conductivity type anode layer formed on the drift layer and a first conductivity type cathode layer formed on the lower side of the drift layer, and the cathode layer has an adjacent region contacting the transistor region, the adjacent region having a depth, from a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, which becomes shallower toward the transistor region and having first conductivity type impurity concentration which decreases toward the transistor region. |
| US11398561B2 |
Method for manufacturing trench MOSFET
A MOSFET is made by: forming a trench extending from an upper surface of a base layer to an internal portion of the base layer; forming a first insulating layer and a shield conductor occupying a lower portion of the trench; forming a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductor occupying an upper portion of the trench, where a top surface of the gate conductor is lower than the upper surface of the base layer; and before forming a body region, forming a blocking region on a region of the top surface of the gate conductor adjacent to sidewalls of the trench to prevent impurities from being implanted into the base layer from the sidewalls of the trench during subsequent ion implantation. |
| US11398560B2 |
Contact electrodes and dielectric structures for thin film transistors
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a transistor above the substrate. The transistor includes a first gate dielectric layer with a first gate dielectric material above a gate electrode, and a second dielectric layer with a second dielectric material above a portion of the first gate dielectric layer. A first portion of a channel layer overlaps with only the first gate dielectric layer, while a second portion of the channel layer overlaps with the first gate dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. A first portion of a contact electrode overlaps with the first portion of the channel layer, and overlaps with only the first gate dielectric layer, while a second portion of the contact electrode overlaps with the second portion of the channel layer, and overlaps with the first gate dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11398558B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device
A silicon carbide semiconductor device to be a vertical transistor includes: a silicon carbide semiconductor first layer 21 of a first conductivity type; a silicon carbide semiconductor second layer 22 of a second conductivity type that is different from the first conductivity type on the first layer 21; a silicon carbide semiconductor third layer 120 of the first conductivity type on the second layer 22; and a groove 30 having a sidewall 30a at portions of the third layer 120, the second layer 22, and the first layer 21, wherein the third layer 120 has a first area 121 facing the sidewall 30a of the groove 30 and a second area 122 further away from the sidewall 30a of the groove 30 than the first area 121, wherein the second area 122 and the first area 121 are continuous, and wherein the second area 122 is provided deeper than the first area 121 from a surface side of the third layer 130 toward the first layer 21. |
| US11398557B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first well, a second well, an isolation structure, a first field plate, a gate structure, a drain structure, and a source structure. The first well and the second well adjoin each other. The first well and the second well are disposed in the substrate. The isolation structure is disposed on the first well. The first field plate is disposed on the isolation structure. The gate structure crosses the first well and the second well, and an opening is defined between the first field plate and the gate structure to expose an edge of the isolation structure adjacent to the gate structure. The drain structure is disposed in the first well. The source structure is disposed in the second well. |
| US11398549B2 |
Thyristor semiconductor device and corresponding manufacturing method
Thyristor semiconductor device comprising an anode region, a first base region and a second base region having opposite types of conductivity, and a cathode region, all superimposed along a vertical axis. |
| US11398546B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a channel layer disposed over a substrate, a barrier layer disposed over the channel layer, a compound semiconductor layer disposed over the barrier layer, a gate electrode disposed over the compound semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on opposite sides of the gate electrode. The source electrode and the drain electrode penetrate through at least a portion of the barrier layer. The semiconductor device also includes a source field plate connected to the source electrode through a source contact. The semiconductor device further includes a first electric field redistribution pattern disposed on the barrier layer and directly under the edge of the source field plate. |
| US11398544B2 |
Light detector, light detection system, lidar device, and vehicle
According to one embodiment, a light detector includes an element and a quenching resistance. The element includes a photodiode. The quenching resistance is electrically connected to the element. The quenching resistance includes a semiconductor member and a plurality of first metal members. The plurality of first metal members is electrically connected to the semiconductor member and separated from each other. |
| US11398541B2 |
Display device having notch or through hole
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention has a first substrate, a display region provided with a plurality of pixels on the first substrate, each of the plurality of pixels including a light-emitting element, a driving circuit provided along a first direction of the display region on the first substrate, a sealing film covering the display region, and stacking a first inorganic insulating layer, an organic insulating layer, and a second inorganic insulating layer in order from the light-emitting element, a second substrate on the sealing film, a through hole provided in the first substrate, the display region, and the second substrate; and a first region surrounding the through hole. |
| US11398539B2 |
Array substrate, display panel and display device
Arrangements of the present disclosure relate to an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a circuit region and a boundary region. The circuit region includes a plurality of stacked conductive layers and an interlayer dielectric disposed between every two adjacent conductive layers. One or more first via holes are provided on the interlayer dielectric. The boundary region is disposed outside the circuit region. One or more second via holes for improving uniformity of the first via holes in the circuit region are disposed within a preset range of the boundary region close to one side of the circuit region. The second via holes and the first via holes are disposed on the same interlayer dielectric. |
| US11398538B2 |
Light emitting diode display device and multi-screen display device using the same
Disclosed are a light emitting diode display device and a multi-screen display device using the same, which include a reduced or minimized bezel area. The light emitting diode display device includes a substrate including a first display area and a second display area outside of the first display area, a plurality of first unit pixels in the first display area, the plurality of first unit pixels each including a plurality of subpixels each including a micro light emitting device, and a plurality of second unit pixels in the second display area adjacent an edge of the substrate. A distance between the second unit pixel and an outer surface of the substrate is equal to or less than half of a reference pixel pitch at which the plurality of first unit pixels are arranged. |
| US11398532B2 |
Light-emitting device, light wavelength conversion device, and display device
A light-emitting device includes: an anode electrode; a cathode electrode; a plurality of light-emitting layers sandwiched between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode; and a light absorption layer disposed between the plurality of light-emitting layers and a light extraction surface, wherein the plurality of light-emitting layers include InP based quantum dots and are configured to emit at least green color of light and red color of light, and the light absorption layer selectively absorbs light at 570 to 610 nm. |
| US11398529B2 |
Display panel and manufacturing method thereof
A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, the display panel includes a first sub-pixel strip, a second sub-pixel strip, and a third sub-pixel strip arranged in a row direction or a column direction. The sub-pixels on each sub-pixel strip of the present disclosure have the same color and are arranged in series. The first sub-pixels on the first sub-pixel strip and the second sub-pixels on the second sub-pixel strip are staggered to improve flatness of printing the luminous material and luminous uniformity of OLED devices. |
| US11398525B2 |
Resistive memory elements having conductive islands embedded within the switching layer
Structures for a resistive memory element and methods of forming a structure for a resistive memory element. The resistive memory element includes a first switching layer, a second switching layer, a conductive spacer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first switching layer includes a portion positioned between the first electrode and the conductive spacer, the second switching layer includes a portion positioned between the second electrode and the conductive spacer, and the conductive spacer is positioned between the portion of the first switching layer and the portion of the second switching layer. |
| US11398523B2 |
Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display panel and display device
At least one embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes: a pixel region including a first light emitting material layer; a hole region; a separating region including a separating structure, wherein the separating structure includes at least one first groove, and the separating structure is configured to separating the first light emitting material layer from the hole region through the first groove. |
| US11398519B2 |
Charge modulation element and solid-state imaging device
A charge-modulation element encompasses a p-type photoelectric-conversion layer, a n-type surface-buried region buried in an upper portion of the photoelectric-conversion layer configured to implement a photodiode with the photoelectric-conversion layer, a n-type modulation region buried in another part of the upper portion of the photoelectric-conversion layer configured to implement a part of the photodiode with the photoelectric-conversion layer, potential-control regions assigned in one of divided areas, n-type charge-accumulation regions configured to accumulate signal charges generated in the photodiode. Potentials in the modulation region and the surface-buried region are controlled by route-select signals applied to the potential-control regions so as to select one of the charge-transport routes, which transfers the signal charges toward one of the charge-accumulation regions. |
| US11398517B2 |
Optical device having a detector and an optical element mounted on an epoxy fence
A method of forming an image detector from an optical detector having a first side connected to a substrate and a second side opposite the first side. The method includes: receiving the detector; electrically coupling the second side of the detector to a read out integrated circuit (ROIC); securing the detector to the ROIC with an adhesive, wherein the adhesive surrounds the detector and at least a portion of the substrate. The method also includes chemically removing at least some of the substrate to expose an exposed portion of the first side of the detector. Such removal results in the formation of an adhesive fence from the adhesive that has a fence upper surface that is above the first side on which an optical element is mounted such that an air gap exists between the first side of the detector and the optical element. |
| US11398514B2 |
Solid-state image pickup device, manufacturing method therefor, and electronic apparatus
The present technology relates to a solid-state image pickup device that suppresses dark current while increasing the saturated charge amount, a manufacturing method therefor, and an electronic apparatus. The device includes a first photoelectric converter on a front surface side opposite to a light incident surface side of a substrate; a second photoelectric converter stacked on the first photoelectric converter; and a pixel isolation section, the pixel isolation section passing through the substrate. The first photoelectric converter includes a first plane-direction PN junction region joined in a plane direction parallel to a light incident surface of the substrate and a first perpendicular-direction PN junction region along a side wall of the pixel isolation section. The second photoelectric converter includes a second plane-direction PN junction region and a second perpendicular-direction PN junction region. The present technology can also be applied to a solid-state image pickup device or the like, for example. |
| US11398508B2 |
Thin-film device
A first oxide semiconductor thin-fil transistor includes a top gate electrode, a first metal oxide film, and a top gate insulating film between the top gate electrode and the first metal oxide film. A second oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor includes a bottom gate electrode, a second metal oxide film, and a bottom gate insulating film between the bottom gate electrode and the second metal oxide film. A storage capacitor stores a signal voltage to the bottom gate electrode. A first electrode of the storage capacitor includes a part of the bottom gate electrode. A source/drain region of the first oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor is in contact with the bottom gate electrode in a contact hole in the bottom gate insulating layer. Capacitance per unit area of the bottom gate insulating film is smaller than capacitance per unit area of the top gate insulating film. |
| US11398505B2 |
Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, display panel, and display device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display substrate, a display panel, a display device, and a manufacturing method of the display substrate. The display substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region located at an outer side of the display region, and the peripheral region includes a bonding region. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, and a first metal pattern and a second metal pattern which are provided on the base substrate and located in the bonding region, the second metal pattern covers at least a portion of at least one side surface of the first metal pattern, and an activity of a metal of the second metal pattern is weaker than an activity of a metal of the first metal pattern. |
| US11398504B2 |
Display panel and method for manufacturing same
A flexible display panel and a method for manufacturing same are provided. The flexible display panel includes a bending region, and data signal lines are disposed within the bending region. At least one of the data signal lines includes at least one metal layer, at least one of the data signal lines includes at least one stress buffer region, and a stress relieving feature is disposed within the stress buffer region. |
| US11398503B2 |
Display device
A display device, comprising: a first pixel row including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode that are arranged in a first direction; a second pixel row; a third pixel row; a first source line and a second source line that extend in a second direction between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode; a first gate line that extends in the first direction between the first pixel row and the second pixel row; a second gate line that extends in the first direction between the second pixel row and the third pixel row; a first end connection wiring that connects the first gate line to the second gate line at an end portion of the second pixel row; and one or more first cross connection wirings that transverse the second pixel row and connect the first gate line to the second gate line. |
| US11398494B2 |
Semiconductor storage device and method of manufacturing the same
In one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body in which a plurality of conducting layers are stacked through a plurality of insulating layers in a first direction, a semiconductor layer penetrating the stacked body, extending in the first direction and including metal atoms, and a memory film including a first insulator, a charge storage layer and a second insulator that are provided between the stacked body and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer surrounds a third insulator penetrating the stacked body and extending in the first direction, and at least one crystal grain in the semiconductor layer has a shape surrounding the third insulator. |
| US11398491B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor device
A three-dimensional semiconductor device comprises a stack structure on a lower structure, a vertical channel structure passing through the stack structure, and a first vertical support structure passing through the stack structure and spaced apart from the vertical channel structure. The stack structure includes interlayer insulation layers and gate horizontal patterns, alternately stacked in a vertical direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the lower structure. The vertical channel structure and the first vertical support structure have different cross-sectional shapes. The vertical channel structure further includes a channel semiconductor layer. The vertical channel structure includes first and second vertical regions, and a width variation portion between the first and second vertical regions. The interlayer insulation layers include an intermediate interlayer insulation layer adjacent to the width variation portion. The intermediate interlayer insulation layer has the same thickness as that of an interlayer insulation layer adjacent in the vertical direction. |
| US11398485B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a cell region and a contact region with a peripheral circuit region, first and second stacks on the cell region, and a first peripheral transistor on the peripheral circuit region. Each of the first and second stacks includes semiconductor patterns stacked, in a vertical direction, on the cell region, bit lines stacked in the vertical direction on the cell region and respectively connected to first ends of the semiconductor patterns, each of the bit lines extending, in a horizontal direction with respect to the upper surface of the substrate, from the cell region to the contact region, and a word line disposed adjacent to the semiconductor patterns and extending in the vertical direction from the cell region of the substrate. The first peripheral transistor is disposed between the bit lines of the first stack and the bit lines of the second stack. |
| US11398482B2 |
Semiconductor device and method
A semiconductor device including a cap layer and a method for forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes epitaxially growing a first semiconductor layer over an N-well; etching the first semiconductor layer to form a first recess; epitaxially growing a second semiconductor layer filling the first recess; etching the second semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer, and the N-well to form a first fin; forming a shallow trench isolation region adjacent the first fin; and forming a cap layer over the first fin, the cap layer contacting the second semiconductor layer, forming the cap layer including performing a pre-clean process to remove a native oxide from exposed surfaces of the second semiconductor layer; performing a sublimation process to produce a first precursor; and performing a deposition process wherein material from the first precursor is deposited on the second semiconductor layer to form the cap layer. |
| US11398480B2 |
Transistor having forked nanosheets with wraparound contacts
A fork-sheet semiconductor device includes a first-type source/drain region on a substrate and a second-type source/drain region on the substrate and separated from the first-type source/drain region by an insulator pillar. The fork-sheet semiconductor device further includes a first metal portion and a second metal portion. The first metal portion completely covers a first upper surface and a first exposed sidewall the first-type source/drain region and the second metal portion completely covers a second upper surface and a second exposed sidewall the second-type source/drain region. The first and second metal portions are separated from one another by the insulator pillar. A first-type contact portion extends vertically from the first metal portion and an opposing second-type contact portion extends vertically from the second metal portion. A first upper interconnect structure contacts the first-type contact portion and a second upper interconnect structure contacts the second-type contact portion. |
| US11398477B2 |
Semiconductor device and method
A method includes forming a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin in a substrate, the first semiconductor fin adjacent the second semiconductor fin, forming a dummy gate structure extending over the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin, depositing a first dielectric material surrounding the dummy gate structure, replacing the dummy gate structure with a first metal gate structure, performing an etching process on the first metal gate structure and on the first dielectric material to form a first recess in the first metal gate structure and a second recess in the first dielectric material, wherein the first recess extends into the substrate, and wherein the second recess is disposed between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin, and depositing a second dielectric material within the first recess. |
| US11398476B2 |
Structure and formation method of semiconductor device with hybrid fins
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and an isolation structure over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first fin structure over the semiconductor substrate and surrounded by the isolation structure and a stack of nanostructures over the first fin structure. The nanostructures are separated from each other. The semiconductor device structure further includes a second fin structure over the semiconductor substrate. The second fin structure has an embedded portion surrounded by the isolation structure and a protruding portion over the isolation structure. The embedded portion is separated from the protruding portion by a distance. |
| US11398472B2 |
RC IGBT with an IGBT section and a diode section
An RC IGBT with an n-barrier region in a transition section between a diode section and an IGBT section is presented. |
| US11398470B2 |
Electrostatic protection circuit and electronic device
The present disclosure provides an electrostatic protection circuit and an electronic device. The electrostatic protection circuit is connected to a first end point and a second end point of a power device. The electrostatic protection circuit is configured to allow bilateral electrostatic protection between the first end point and the second end point of the power device. The power device includes a transverse high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT). |
| US11398466B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device
A layout structure of a capacitance cell using vertical nanowire (VNW) FETs is provided. The capacitance cell includes a plurality of first-conductivity type VNW FETs lining up in the X direction, provided between a first power supply interconnect and a second power supply interconnect. The plurality of first-conductivity type VNW FETs include at least one first VNW FET having a top and a bottom connected with the first power supply interconnect and a gate connected with the second power supply interconnect. |
| US11398461B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device comprising: a first display panel having a first side facing an eye of a user; a second display panel having a first side disposed at a second side of the first display panel; a first optical element disposed at the first display panel to emit one of red (R), green (G), or blue (B) light; a second optical element disposed at the first display panel together with the first optical element and configured to emit another one of the R, G, or B light; and a third optical element disposed at the second display panel to emit the remaining one of the R, the G, and the B light. The electronic device according to the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, and a device related to 5G services and the like. |
| US11398458B2 |
Multi-color phosphor converted LED package with single cavity
A lighting device includes a first LED configured to emit a first light, a second LED configured to emit a third light, a first phosphor disposed over the first LED and second LED, and arranged to absorb a portion of the first light and in response emit a second light of a longer wavelength than the first light, and a second phosphor disposed over the second LED, the second phosphor arranged to absorb a portion of the third light and in response emit a fourth light of a longer wavelength than the third light, and the fourth light exits the second phosphor into the first phosphor, and both the second light and fourth light exit the lighting device though the first phosphor. |
| US11398455B2 |
Semiconductor devices and related methods
In one example, a semiconductor device can comprise a substrate, a device stack, first and second internal interconnects, and an encapsulant. The substrate can comprise a first and second substrate sides opposite each other, a substrate outer sidewall between the first substrate side and the second substrate side, and a substrate inner sidewall defining a cavity between the first substrate side and the second substrate side. The device stack can be in the cavity and can comprise a first electronic device, and a second electronic device stacked on the first electronic device. The first internal interconnect can be coupled to the substrate and the device stack. The second internal interconnect can be coupled to the second electronic device and the first electronic device. The encapsulant can cover the substrate inner sidewall and the device stack, and can fill the cavity. Other examples and related methods are disclosed herein. |
| US11398454B2 |
System-in-package module
A system-in-package module includes a substrate, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip on the substrate, first wafer level package (WLP) memories on the substrate spaced apart from the ASIC chip in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, and second WLP memories on the substrate spaced apart from the ASIC chip in a direction opposite to the first direction. |
| US11398451B2 |
Methods for reusing substrates during manufacture of a bonded assembly including a logic die and a memory die
A semiconductor structure includes a memory die bonded to a support die. The memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a first single crystalline semiconductor layer, and memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack and containing respective memory film and a respective vertical semiconductor channel including a single crystalline channel semiconductor material. The support die includes a peripheral circuitry. Substrates employed to provide the memory die and the support die can be reused by replacing one of the substrates with an alternative low-cost substrate that provides structural support to the bonded assembly. |
| US11398447B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for producing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate formed by integrating a ceramic base plate and a cooling fin; a multiple of plate interconnection members; and a plurality of semiconductor elements. The one faces of the semiconductor elements are bonded to the ceramic base plate of the insulating substrate with a chip-bottom solder, and the other faces thereof are bonded to the plate-interconnection members with a chip-top solder so that plate interconnection members correspond respectively to the semiconductor elements. The chip-bottom solder and the chip-top solder both contain mainly Sn and 0.3-3 wt. % Ag and 0.5-1 wt. % Cu. This allows the semiconductor device to be reduced in size without impairing heat dissipation. |
| US11398446B2 |
Method and material for attaching a chip to a submount
A die attachment material may include an ultra-violet (UV) curable resin and silver particles to attach a chip to a submount, where the silver particles are positioned within the UV curable resin. A method may include heating the die attachment material to obtain the UV curable resin on sintered silver particles, where at least a portion of the die attachment material is position between a chip and a submount. The method may further include irradiating, with UV light, the UV curable resin to obtain a polymer on the sintered silver particles. The polymer may form a layer on the sintered silver particles. |
| US11398437B2 |
Power device including metal layer
A power semiconductor device includes a substrate having an edge, an insulating layer disposed over the substrate, a metal layer disposed over the insulating layer and including a first portion and a second portion, a coating layer disposed over the metal layer, and a protective layer covering the substrate, the insulating layer, the metal layer, and the coating layer. The first portion has a first thickness and the second portion has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness, and the second portion is disposed farther apart from the edge of the substrate than the first portion. |
| US11398428B2 |
Multifunctional molecules for selective polymer formation on conductive surfaces and structures resulting therefrom
Multifunctional molecules for selective polymer formation on conductive surfaces, and the resulting structures, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a lower metallization layer including alternating metal lines and dielectric lines above the substrate. A molecular brush layer is on the metal lines of the lower metallization layer, the molecular brush layer including multifunctional molecules. A triblock copolymer layer is above the lower metallization layer. The triblock copolymer layer includes a first segregated block component over the dielectric lines of the lower metallization layer, and alternating second and third segregated block components on the molecular brush layer on the metal lines of the lower metallization layer, where the third segregated block component is photosensitive. |
| US11398427B2 |
Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies
Some embodiments include a method in which a first stack of alternating first and second levels is formed. At least some of the first and second levels are configured as steps. Each of the steps has one of the second levels and one of the first levels. An etch-stop material and a liner are formed over the stack. A first material is formed over the etch-stop material. Openings are formed to extend through the first material to the etch-stop material. Sacrificial material is formed within the openings. A second stack is formed over the first stack. A second material is formed over the first material. Conductive layers are formed within the first levels. Additional openings are formed to extend to the sacrificial material, and are then extended through the sacrificial material to the conductive layers within the steps. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies. |
| US11398419B2 |
Wiring structure and method for manufacturing the same
A wiring structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The wiring structure includes a conductive structure and at least one conductive through via. The conductive structure includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of circuit layers in contact with the dielectric layers. The conductive through via extends through the conductive structure. The conductive through via is a monolithic structure, and includes a main portion and an extending portion protruding from the main portion. |
| US11398412B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip with a normal connection electrode and a measurement connection electrode, formed on a first surface, and a substrate with a normal substrate pad, connected to the normal connection electrode, and a measurement substrate pad, connected to the measurement connection electrode. The normal substrate pad and the measurement substrate pad are formed on a surface that faces the first surface. The measurement connection electrode includes first and second edge measurement connection electrodes and first and second center measurement connection electrodes. The measurement substrate pad includes a center measurement substrate pad, a first edge measurement substrate pad, and a second edge measurement substrate pad. The first edge measurement connection electrode and the first center measurement connection electrode are electrically connected to each other, and the second edge measurement connection electrode and the second center measurement connection electrode are electrically connected to each other. |
| US11398410B2 |
Method for manufacturing a CMOS device
A method for manufacturing a CMOS device includes: forming a gate structure and gate sidewalls of the CMOS device, wherein the material of the gate sidewalls is silicon nitride; depositing a silicon nitride film directly on the gate structure and the gate sidewalls, wherein the depositing is performed via atomic layer deposition (ALD); and performing a photolithography process to define an ion implantation region. |
| US11398409B2 |
Method of forming a BEOL interconnect structure using a subtractive metal via first process
A method of forming a BEOL interconnect structure having improved resistance-capacitance is provided in which a via metal layer is created by a first metallization process and thereafter shrunk by a subtractive etch; these steps relax the critical dimension, ensure a via straight profile, avoid via chamfering and bowing, and maximize metal volume. Top trench metallization is then performed above the via metal layer; this step eliminates reactive ion etch lag and ensures no metallization void issues. |
| US11398403B2 |
Multiple thickness semiconductor-on-insulator field effect transistors and methods of forming the same
Semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) field effect transistors (FETs) including body regions having different thicknesses may be formed on an SOI substrate by selectively thinning a region of a top semiconductor layer while preventing thinning of an additional region of the top semiconductor layer. An oxidation process or an etch process may be used to thin the region of the top semiconductor layer, and a patterned oxidation barrier mask or an etch mask may be used to prevent oxidation or etching of the additional portion of the top semiconductor layer. Shallow trench isolation structures may be formed prior to, or after, the selective thinning processing steps. FETs having different depletion region configurations may be formed using the multiple thicknesses of the patterned portions of the top semiconductor layer. For example, partially depleted SOI FETs and fully depleted SOI FETs may be provided. |
| US11398401B2 |
Wafer mounting table and method of manufacturing the same
A wafer mounting table includes a first electrode and a second electrode buried inside of a ceramic substrate having a wafer mounting surface so as to be parallel to the wafer mounting surface with the first electrode closer to the wafer mounting surface than the second electrode. The wafer mounting table includes a conductive section that electrically conducts the first electrode and the second electrode. The conductive section is such that a plurality of circular members comprised of plate-shaped metal meshes parallel to the wafer mounting surface are stacked between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| US11398399B2 |
Components with backside adhesive layers
A component source wafer comprises printable components having adhesive disposed on a backside of the printable components. A wafer substrate comprises a sacrificial layer having recessed portions and anchors. A component is disposed entirely over each recessed portion. A tether physically connects each component to at least one of the anchors. A layer of adhesive is disposed on a side of the component adjacent to the recessed portion. Each component is suspended over the wafer substrate and the recessed portion defines a gap separating the component from the wafer substrate. |
| US11398391B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and method for processing substrate
A substrate processing apparatus is provided. The substrate processing apparatus includes a plurality of holding members and at least a first injector. The plurality of holding members are configured to hold a substrate. The substrate includes a front surface and a back surface opposite to the front surface. The first injector is below the holding members and is configured to face the back surface of the substrate. The first injector is displaced from a projection of a center of the substrate from a top view perspective. A method for processing a substrate is also provided. |
| US11398389B2 |
Method of producing electronic device
Provided is a method of producing an electronic device, including a step of preparing a structure which includes an electronic component having a circuit forming surface, and an adhesive laminated film which includes a base material layer and an adhesive resin layer and in which the adhesive resin layer is attached to the circuit forming surface of the electronic component; a step of back-grinding a surface of the electronic component opposite to the circuit forming surface in a state of being attached to the adhesive laminated film; a step of dicing the electronic component in a state of being attached to the adhesive laminated film; and a step of forming an electromagnetic wave-shielding layer on the separated electronic components in a state of being attached to the adhesive laminated film, in this order. |
| US11398383B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a gate electrode layer over a semiconductor substrate, forming a first spacer layer to cover a sidewall of the gate electrode layer, recessing the first spacer layer to expose an upper portion of the sidewall of the gate electrode layer, forming a metal material to cover an upper surface and the upper portion of the sidewall of the gate electrode layer; reacting a semiconductor material of the gate electrode layer with the metal material using an anneal process to form a silicide layer, and removing the metal material after the anneal process. |
| US11398382B2 |
Method of forming an electrode on a substrate and a semiconductor device structure including an electrode
A method of forming an electrode on a substrate is disclosed. The method may include: contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a titanium tetraiodide (TiI4) precursor; contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant comprising a nitrogen precursor; and depositing a titanium nitride layer over a surface of the substrate thereby forming the electrode; wherein the titanium nitride layer has an electrical resistivity of less than 400 μΩ-cm. Related semiconductor device structures including a titanium nitride electrode deposited by the methods of the disclosure are also provided. |
| US11398380B2 |
Method and structure of middle layer removal
A middle layer removal method is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a structure formed on the substrate, and forming a spacer layer on the structure. The method includes forming a mask layer over the spacer layer, the mask layer including a first layer, a second layer over the first layer, and a third layer over the second layer. The method also includes patterning the third layer of the mask layer, and etching the first layer and the second layer of the mask layer to form an opening to expose a bottom surface of the second layer. The method further includes removing the second layer using a wet etchant. |
| US11398379B2 |
Platform and method of operating for integrated end-to-end self-aligned multi-patterning process
A method is provided for self-aligned multi-patterning on a semiconductor workpiece using an integrated sequence of processing steps executed on a common manufacturing platform hosting one or more film-forming modules, one or more etching modules, and one or more transfer modules. A workpiece having a mandrel pattern formed thereon is received into the common manufacturing platform. A sidewall spacer pattern is formed based, at least in part, on the mandrel pattern, the sidewall spacer pattern having a plurality of second features separated by a second pitch distance with the first pitch distance being greater than the second pitch distance. The integrated sequence of processing steps is executed within the common manufacturing platform without leaving the controlled environment and the transfer modules are used to transfer the workpiece between the processing modules while maintaining the workpiece within the controlled environment. Broadly, forming a sidewall spacer pattern based on the mandrel pattern. |
| US11398376B2 |
Manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a support
A manufacturing method of an embodiment of a semiconductor device, the manufacturing method includes: heating a second layer of a first member including a first layer, the second layer, and a third layer, in which the first layer includes a support layer, the second layer includes a compound containing carbon and at least one element selected from the group consisting of silicon and metals, the third layer includes a semiconductor layer and/or a wiring layer, and the second layer is located between the first layer and the third layer, and obtaining a second member in which a carbonaceous material layer is formed on a surface of the second layer and/or a carbonaceous material region is formed inside the second layer; and cleaving the second member from the carbonaceous material layer or the carbonaceous material region, and obtaining a third member including the third layer. |
| US11398374B2 |
Sample holder for mass spectrometry analysis in MALDI mode, production and use of the sample holder
There are described a new type of sample holder for performing analyses of biological samples with mass spectrometry in MALDI mode, the process for its production and some protocols for the use of the sample holder in said technique. The sample holder, in its simplest embodiment (10), consists of a support (11) on a face (12) of which there is at least one porous deposit (13) consisting of nanoparticles of an oxide of a Group 4 metal. |
| US11398373B2 |
User interface for ion mobility separation device
A method of controlling the operation of an ion mobility separation device is disclosed. The method comprises displaying to a user via a user interface a pool of modes of operation of the ion mobility separation device, wherein each one of the modes is selectable by the user for inclusion in an experiment, and the modes are displayed in a first area 202 of the user interface. The method comprises receiving, via the user interface, an indication from the user of a selection of one or more instance of each one of a plurality of the modes from the pool to be included in an experiment, and an indication from the user of a set of one or more parameters for controlling the ion mobility separation device in respect of one or more selected instances of a mode. The selected instances of modes are displayed in a sequence in a second area 204 of the user interface. The operation of the ion mobility separation device is controlled in accordance with the received indications. |
| US11398371B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus
A plasma processing apparatus includes a sample stage on which a sample is placed an inside of the processing chamber; a dielectric membrane forming an upper surface portion of the sample stage; a plurality of film-shaped electrodes which is disposed in the dielectric membrane, to which a DC power from a DC power supply is supplied and in which an electrostatic force for attracting the sample is formed; and a bias electrode (ESC base metal) disposed below the dielectric membrane and supplied with radio frequency power for forming a radio frequency bias potential from a radio frequency power supply during the processing of the sample. The plurality of electrodes includes a first electrode to which a positive polarity is imparted and a second electrode to which a negative polarity is imparted, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected to a corresponding positive electrode terminal and a corresponding negative electrode terminal of the DC power supply through the corresponding low pass filter circuits (LPF). |
| US11398365B1 |
Positioning samples for microscopy, inspection, or analysis
An apparatus is provided for microscopy, inspection, or analysis of a sample. The apparatus has a vacuum chamber and a charged-particle beam column in the vacuum chamber to direct a charged-particle beam onto a sample. The charged-particle beam column includes a charged-particle beam source to generate a charged-particle beam and charged-particle beam optics to direct the charged-particle beam onto the sample. The apparatus has a detector to detect radiation emanating from the sample to generate an image. A cartridge is provided to support the sample in the path of the charged-particle beam in the vacuum chamber. The cartridge is mechanically decoupled from the environment external to the vacuum chamber. A controller is provided to analyze the detected radiation to generate an image of the sample. |
| US11398364B2 |
Electron gun, electron microscope, three-dimensional additive manufacturing apparatus, and method of adjusting current of electron gun
An electron gun includes a cathode that is heated to emit thermions; a cathode heating power supply that supplies a cathode heating current for heating the cathode; a grid that has a first aperture formed therein and that has a grid voltage applied thereto, the grid voltage having a potential lower than that of the cathode, wherein the grid converges the thermions passing through the first aperture by the grid voltage; an anode that has a second aperture formed therein and that has an anode voltage applied thereto, wherein the anode causes the thermions extracted from the cathode to pass through the second aperture as an electron beam by the anode voltage; an anode-voltage power supply that applies the anode voltage to the anode; and a controller that causes the anode voltage having a positive potential to be applied from the anode-voltage power supply to the anode. |
| US11398358B2 |
Electrolytic capacitor and manufacturing method therefor
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode including a dielectric layer thereon and a cathode member including a conductive polymer and in contact with the dielectric layer. The capacitor element is impregnated with a liquid containing at least one of polyalkylene glycol and derivatives of polyalkylene glycol. The liquid further contains an oxidation inhibitor. |
| US11398356B2 |
Primary cells for high discharge rate
Provided herein is an electrochemical cell designed for high current discharge, which includes a cathode strip, an anode strip, and at least two separator strips, being longitudinally stacked to form an electrodes set that is folded into at least four segments and designed to exhibit a ratio of its nominal capacity per its active area lower than 12 mAh/cm2, such that the cell is characterized by a discharge efficiency at room temperature of at least 30% to a cut-off voltage of ⅔ of its original voltage at a discharge current of 1,250 mA. Also provided are process of manufacturing, and uses of the cell, which is particularly useful in high drain-rate applications as charging a cellular phone. |
| US11398355B2 |
Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed is a tandem solar cell according to an aspect including: a silicon lower cell; a perovskite upper cell disposed on the silicon lower cell; and a bonding layer for bonding the silicon lower cell and the perovskite upper cell between the silicon lower cell and the perovskite upper cell, wherein the front surface portion of the silicon lower cell being in contact with the bonding layer includes a texture structure, the bonding layer includes a first transparent electrode layer formed on the sidewall of the texture structure, a buried layer filling concave portions of the texture structure on the first transparent electrode layer, and a second transparent electrode layer on top surfaces of the buried layer, the first transparent electrode layer and the texture structure. |
| US11398354B2 |
Thin film capacitor, manufacturing method therefor, and substrate with built-in electronic component
A thin film capacitor is provided with a lower electrode made of a metal foil containing many metal grains, a dielectric thin film formed on an upper surface of the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on an upper surface of the dielectric thin film. A lower surface of the lower electrode is an etched surface from which cross sections of the metal grains appear. The height difference between the cross sections of adjacent metal grains in the etched surface is 1 μm or more and 8 μm or less. |
| US11398351B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor, mount structure of multilayer ceramic capacitor, and series of electronic components
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body and first and second external electrodes. The first and second external electrodes include first and second underlying electrode layers, first and second main-surface-side resin layers, and first and second plated layers, respectively. The first and second main-surface-side resin layers cover respective ends of the first and second underlying electrode layers on a first main surface and cover respective portions of a first side surface and a second side surface continuously from the first main surface. |
| US11398345B2 |
Method for manufacturing a magnetic core of an electric machine
A method for manufacturing a magnetic core of an electric machine is presented. The method comprises defining at least one characteristic of magnetic flux for each of at least two portions of the magnetic core, determining types for each of the at least two portions of the magnetic core based on the defined at least one characteristic representing the corresponding portion of the magnetic core, and obtaining or producing the magnetic core comprising the at least two portions having the determined types. |
| US11398342B2 |
Electronic component and manufacturing method for the same
An electronic component includes an element body and outer electrodes on the element body. The element body includes top and bottom opposed surfaces, and side surfaces connecting the top and bottom surfaces. An outer electrode includes a lower layer electrode on the top surface and the bottom surface, and an upper layer electrode overlying the lower layer electrode and extending from an upper side of the lower electrode onto the side surface. When viewed from a direction orthogonal to the top and bottom surfaces, an edge of the lower layer electrode is disposed at a position farther from the side surface at which the upper layer electrode is provided than a position of an edge of the upper layer electrode, and a radius of curvature of the edge of the lower electrode is larger than a radius of curvature of the edge of the upper layer electrode. |
| US11398340B2 |
Inductor
An inductor may include a body and external electrodes on respective external surfaces of the body. The body may include a support member, an insulator on the support member and including a first opening, a coil in the first opening, and a thin film conductor layer between the coil and the support member. The thin film conductor layer may include a second opening, and one or both of its end portions may be between the support member and the insulator. |
| US11398338B2 |
Reactor
A reactor includes a coil including wound portions; and a magnetic core that includes a set of core pieces that engage with each other and is arranged inside and outside of the wound portions. One core piece includes, at an end portion thereof, a recessed portion having a ring-shaped opening edge that is open toward the other core piece. The other core piece includes, at an end portion thereof, a protruding portion that is configured to be fit into the recessed portion. Both of the core pieces include, in the wound portions, ring-shaped contact portions that are provided along the opening edges and at which the core pieces come into surface contact with each other, and gap portions formed by non-contact regions in which the inner peripheral surfaces forming the recessed portions and the outer peripheral surfaces of the protruding portions are not in contact with each other. |
| US11398337B2 |
Automotive variable voltage converter with inductor having diagonal air gap
An inductor includes a pair of core portions having tapered legs and windings wound around the tapered legs. Each of the core portions are arranged adjacent to each other such that the tapered legs define a gap between the core portions that extends diagonally from one end of the inductor towards another end of the inductor relative to outer surfaces of the inductor. |
| US11398334B2 |
Component carrier comprising embedded inductor with an inlay
A component carrier which includes a stack with at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure, and an inductor arranged at least partially in the stack is disclosed. The inductor includes an electrically conductive coil structure, wound around a coil opening, and a magnetic core. At least part of the magnetic core at least partially fills the coil opening. At least part of at least one of the coil structure and the magnetic core is configured as an inlay embedded in the stack. |
| US11398333B2 |
Inductors with multipart magnetic cores
An inductor has one or more wires and a multipart magnetic core. The multipart magnetic core has magnetic core parts that are adjacent and magnetically coupled. The inductor provides an inductance of at least 40 nH for currents greater than 1 A and less than 60 A, and at least 20 nH for currents of at least 60 A. |
| US11398331B2 |
Actuator capable of performing rational motion
An actuator includes a first magnet whose magnetic pole surface has an N pole and a second magnet whose magnetic pole surface has an S pole. When current flows from one end of a first wiring to the other end, the current circulates in one direction at least partially on the first magnet in a first area, while it circulates in a direction opposite to the one direction at least partially on the second magnet in the first area. When current flows from one end of a second wiring to the other end, the current circulates in the direction opposite to the one direction at least partially on another first magnet in the second area, while it circulates in the one direction at least partially on another second magnet in the second area. |
| US11398330B2 |
Therapeutic field directional magnetic array
An array of permanent magnets and magnetic materials create a large focused magnetic field capable of reducing the viscosity of blood in a human subject, and consequently reducing the blood pressure of the subject. The magnets can be arranged in highly tunable and customizable configurations suited to unique and individual applications. |
| US11398323B2 |
High temperature submersible power cable
A method can include extruding an electrically insulating elastomeric compound about a conductor where the electrically insulating elastomeric compound includes ethylene propylene diene monomer (M-class) rubber (EPDM) and an alkane-based peroxide that generates radicals that form decomposition products; cross-linking the EPDM via radical polymerization to form an electrically insulating layer about the conductor; heating the cross-linked EPDM to at least 55 degrees C. to reduce the concentration of the decomposition products in the electrically insulating layer; and disposing a gas barrier layer about the electrically insulating layer. |
| US11398318B2 |
Apparatus and method of evaluating response time of nuclear plant protection system
Provided is an apparatus for evaluating a response time of a plant protection system. The apparatus includes: a classification module classifying a design process related to a response time requirement of each channel performing a safety function into four operations of a safety analysis operation, a system design operation, a response time analysis operation, and a response time test operation; and an integrated evaluation module determining whether a response time evaluation is proper based on a time t1 derived in the safety analysis operation, a time t2 derived in the system design operation, a time t3 derived in the response time analysis operation, and a time t4 derived in the response time test operation. |
| US11398317B2 |
Apparatuses for steam separation, and nuclear boiling water reactors including the same
According to at least some example embodiments, a dome collector separation stage includes an inner side wall that defines an inner channel; and an outer side wall that, together with the inner side wall, defines an outer channel, the inner channel being configured to receive a two-phase flow stream (FS) of water and steam, and pass the two-phase FS to the outer channel via inlets included in the inner side wall, the outer channel being configured to separate at least some water from the two-phase FS, and pass moisture-reduced steam out of the steam separator stage via outlets included in the outer side wall. |
| US11398316B2 |
Sparger for reducing the concentration of radioactive materials and nuclear power plant having the same
A sparger includes a main pipe connecting inside and outside of a water tank having a storage space therein for storing cooling water, so as to define a flow path through which steam and air containing radioactive materials generated outside the water tank are discharged into the cooling water, a header part connected to one end portion of the main pipe located in the storage space, and having a storage chamber in which the steam and air transferred through the main pipe are collected, and a plurality of discharge nozzles disposed in a spacing manner, each having inlet and outlet formed on one end located in the storage chamber and another end located in the storage space, respectively, to discharge the steam and air from the storage chamber to the storage space, and at least some of the plurality of discharge nozzles protruding from the header part by different lengths. |
| US11398306B2 |
Ophthalmic drug delivery
The present invention includes and provides a method of delivering a medicament to an eye of a subject in need thereof a solution, the method comprising: (a) providing droplets containing the medicament with a specified average size and average initial ejecting velocity; and (b) delivering the medicament to the eye, where the droplets deliver a percentage of the ejected mass of the droplets to the eye. |
| US11398303B2 |
Co-expression signatures method for quantification of physiological and structural data
Described here are systems and methods for generating and analyzing co-expression signature data from scalar or multi-dimensional data fields contained in or otherwise derived from imaging data acquired with a medical imaging system. A similarity metric, such as an angular similarity metric, is computed between the data field components contained in pairs of voxels in the data field data. The data fields can be scalar fields, vector fields, tensor fields, or other higher-dimensional data fields. A probability distribution of these similarity metrics can be generated and used as co-expression signature data that indicate pairwise disparities in the data field data. |
| US11398301B2 |
Normalized standard deviation transition based dosimetry monitoring for laser treatment
Technologies are generally described for normalized standard deviation transition based dosimetry monitoring for laser treatment. In some examples, a response signal may be generated based on a physical response to a laser pulse detected through acoustic or optical means. Each response signal may be a time series of data with a number of points. Standard deviation may be determined for each response signal and normalized using a mean or comparable normalization factor. Thus, a robust distribution may be computed from the response to each laser pulse. A change in the normalized standard deviation from each single pulse's time domain response data may be used to determine how many laser pulses remain before completion of the treatment (similar to event onset response). Thus, laser treatment may be continued based on an estimation of remaining pulses for completion or ceased if completion is reached. |
| US11398297B2 |
Systems and methods for using machine learning and DNA sequencing to extract latent information for DNA, RNA and protein sequences
A method of characterizing biological sequences includes: preparing a library of sequences; subjecting the sequences in the library to at least one screening experiment to obtain an experiment outcome of each of the sequences; creating a first dataset comprising identities of the sequences and the experiment outcomes of the sequences; and training a first neural network using the first dataset to extract first sequence features from the sequences in the first dataset. A second neural network may be additionally be trained using a second dataset based on an external database to generate a pre-trained model, which is used extract additional features from the first dataset. |
| US11398295B2 |
System and method for classification of patients
A system (100) for classifying a biological test sample, including a database (112) populated with reference expression data. The reference expression data includes expression levels of a plurality of molecules (polynucleotides or polypeptides), including a set of marker molecules, in a plurality of reference samples. Each reference sample has a pre-assigned value for each of one or more clinically significant variables. The system includes at least one processor (110) and at least one storage medium containing program instructions for execution by said processor (110). The program instructions cause the processor to accept (122) input expression data including a test vector of expression levels of the marker molecules in the biological test sample; and pass the input expression data to one or more analysis programs (130a, 130b, 135). The analysis programs include at least one statistical classification program (135) for assigning a value of at least one of said clinically significant variables to the test sample. |
| US11398291B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining when actual wear of a flash memory device differs from reliability states for the flash memory device
A method and apparatus for determining when actual wear of a flash memory device differs from a reliability state. Configuration files of a reliability-state classification neural network model are stored. The operation of a flash memory device is monitored to identify current physical characteristic values. A read of the flash memory device is performed to determine a number of errors. A neural network operation is performed using as input a set of threshold voltage shift offset values currently being used to perform reads of the flash memory device and the calculated number of errors, to identify a predicted reliability state. The identified current physical characteristic values are compared to corresponding tags associated with the predicted reliability state and a flag or other indication is stored when the comparison indicates that the identified current physical characteristic values do not correspond to the respective tags associated with the predicted reliability state. |
| US11398288B1 |
Storage medium-assisted system interface training scheme
A data storage system includes a storage medium and a storage controller configured to perform interface training operations. The interface training operations include loading a test data pattern into a first controller buffer of the storage controller, loading the test data pattern into a first storage medium buffer of the storage medium, setting a first read voltage or timing parameter at the storage controller, transferring the test data pattern from the first storage medium buffer to a second controller buffer of the storage controller using the first read voltage or timing parameter, comparing the test data pattern in the first controller buffer with the test data pattern in the second controller buffer, and determining a first read transfer error rate based on the first comparison. |
| US11398279B2 |
Method for programming charge trap flash memory
The present disclosure provides a method for programming charge trap flash memory, including: enabling a channel of a charge trap storage component, to form a transverse electric field between a source and a drain, to generate primary electrons flowing from the source to the drain; colliding, by the primary electrons after a preset time, with the drain to generate electron holes; applying voltages to the drain and a substrate, where the electron holes are accelerated downward by the action of the electric field to collide with the substrate, to generate secondary electrons; and applying voltages to a gate and the substrate, to form a vertical electric field, wherein the secondary electrons generate tertiary electrons under the action of the vertical electric field and the tertiary electrons are injected into an insulating storage medium layer of the charge trap storage component, to complete a programming operation. |
| US11398278B2 |
Nor flash memory circuit and data writing method
The present disclosure relates to a NOR flash memory circuit, a data writing method, a data reading method, and a data erasing method. The NOR flash memory circuit includes: a NOR memory array, a source voltage selection unit, a well voltage selection unit, a word line gating unit, a bit line gating unit, a data reading unit, and an analog voltage generating unit. During data writing, a source is floated, and a well electrode is connected to ground; and a first forward voltage is applied to a bit line where a memory cell to be written data into is located, and a second forward voltage is applied to a word line where the memory cell to be written data into is located. During data reading, a source is grounded, and well electrodes are grounded; and a third forward voltage is applied to a word line. |
| US11398277B2 |
Semiconductor storage device
A semiconductor storage device of an embodiment includes a control circuit configured to execute a writing sequence in which a loop including a program operation that writes data to memory cells and a program verify operation that verifies the data written in the memory cells is repeated a plurality of times by increasing a program voltage by a predetermined step-up voltage each time, the control circuit being capable of executing reading verify that verifies the data written in the memory cells in the writing sequence, and the control circuit detects characteristic variation of a characteristic that causes disturbance, and determines whether to perform the reading verify based on a result of the detection. |
| US11398274B2 |
Pseudo-triple-port SRAM
A pseudo-triple-port memory is provided that includes a plurality of pseudo-triple-port bitcells, each pseudo-triple-port first bitcell having a first read port including a first word line coupled to a first bit line through a first access transistor, a second read port including a second word line coupled to a second bit line through a second access transistor, and a write port including both the word lines, both the bit lines, and the pair of access transistors. |
| US11398273B1 |
Reconfigurable compute memory
A memory includes an array with rows and columns of memory cells. The rows include a first row and a second row, which may be adjacent. The memory also includes a plurality of logic gates in the array. Each logic gate of the plurality of logic gates includes a first input coupled to a respective memory cell in the first row, a second input coupled to a respective memory cell in the second row, and an output. The first and second inputs may be connected to internal nodes within the respective memory cells without intervening transistors. The memory further includes a plurality of sense lines in the array. The output of each logic gate of the plurality of logic gates is coupled to a sense line of the plurality of sense lines. |
| US11398269B2 |
Semiconductor device verifying signal supplied from outside
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device that includes an access control circuit generating an internal command based on a verification result signal and an external command. The external command indicates at least one of a first command that enables the access control circuit to access a first circuit and a second command that enables the access control circuit not to access the first circuit or enables the access control circuit to maintain a current state of the first circuit. The access control circuit, when the verification result signal indicates a first logic level, generates the internal command based on the external command. The access control circuit, when the verification result signal indicates a second logic level, generates the internal command that corresponds to a second command even if the external command indicates a first command. |
| US11398262B1 |
Forced current access with voltage clamping in cross-point array
Technology for limiting a voltage difference between two selected conductive lines in a cross-point array when using a forced current approach is disclosed. In one aspect, the selected word line voltage is clamped to a voltage limit while driving an access current through a region of the selected word line and through a region of the selected bit line. The access current flows through the memory cell to allow a sufficient voltage to successfully read or write the memory cell, while not placing undue stress on the memory cell. In some aspects, the maximum voltage that is permitted on the selected word line depends on the location of the selected memory cell in the cross-point memory array. This allows memory cells for which there is a larger IR drop to receive an adequate voltage, while not over-stressing memory cells for which there is a smaller IR drop. |
| US11398261B2 |
Method and signal generator for controlling timing of signal in memory device
A device includes a memory array, bit line pairs, word lines, a modulation circuit and a control signal generator. The memory array has bit cells arranged in rows and columns. Each bit line pair is connected to a respective column of bit cells. Each word line is connected to a respective row of bit cells. The modulation circuit is coupled with at least one bit line pair. The control signal generator is coupled with the modulation circuit. The control signal generator includes a tracking wiring with a tracking length positively correlated with a depth distance of the word lines. The control signal generator is configured to produce a control signal, switching to a first voltage level for a first time duration in reference with the tracking length, for controlling the modulation circuit. A method of controlling aforesaid device is also disclosed. |
| US11398251B2 |
Magnetic tape cartridge, recording device, recording method, reproducing system, and reproducing method
A magnetic tape cartridge includes: a magnetic tape on which data is recorded; and a recording medium other than the magnetic tape, and on which a keyword for searching the data recorded on the magnetic tape is recorded. |
| US11398250B2 |
Recovery device, recovery system, and recovery method
In order to improve the probability of recovering tape remaining in a tape device without disassembling the tape device, this recovery device comprises: a connection unit that attaches one lengthwise end of a designated recovery tape member to near one lengthwise end, which is a free end, of a tape member having the other end bound to a designated binding member; a recovery unit to which the other end of the recovery tape member is fixed and that winds the recovery tape member and the attached tape member; and a release unit that separates the tape member from the binding member at the other end or near the other end after attachment. |
| US11398247B1 |
Magnetic recording media with oxidized pre-seed layer
Magnetic recording media including a soft magnetic underlayer (SUL) formed over an oxidized pre-seed layer. In some examples, the pre-seed layer is oxidized to reduce an amount of intermixing between the pre-seed layer and the SUL. The reduction in intermixing via oxidation can lead to improved recording performance of the recording media that are deposited on the SUL. In particular, media overwrite, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), linear recording density, and areal recording density or areal density capacity (ADC) can be improved. In one aspect, a deposition apparatus may be modified to inject oxygen during pre-seed layer deposition to oxidize the pre-seed layer. |
| US11398242B2 |
Electronic device for determining noise control parameter on basis of network connection information and operating method thereof
An electronic device and an operating method thereof for identifying a noise control parameter on the basis of network connection information are provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire network connection information of an external electronic device which is call connected, through the wireless communication circuit, identify at least one noise control parameter, on the basis of the acquired network connection information, receive an audio signal from the external electronic device, through the wireless communication circuit, and suppress a noise in the audio signal, on the basis of the identified at least one noise control parameter. |
| US11398240B2 |
Systems and methods for implementing cross-fading, interstitials and other effects downstream
Systems and methods are presented for cross-fading (or other multiple clip processing) of information streams on a user or client device, such as a telephone, tablet, computer or MP3 player, or any consumer device with audio playback. Multiple clip processing can be accomplished at a client end according to directions sent from a service provider that specify a combination of (i) the clips involved; (ii) the device on which the cross-fade or other processing is to occur and its parameters; and (iii) the service provider system. For example, a consumer device with only one decoder, can utilize that decoder (typically hardware) to decompress one or more elements that are involved in a cross-fade at faster than real time, thus pre-fetching the next element(s) to be played in the cross-fade at the end of the currently being played element. The next elements(s) can, for example, be stored in an input buffer, then decoded and stored in a decoded sample buffer, all prior to the required presentation time of the multiple element effect. At the requisite time, a client device component can access the respective samples of the decoded audio clips as it performs the cross-fade, mix or other effect. Such exemplary embodiments use a single decoder and thus do not require synchronized simultaneous decodes. |
| US11398238B2 |
Speech recognition method in edge computing device
Disclosed herein is a speech recognition method in a distributed network environment. A method of performing a speech recognition operation in an edge computing device includes receiving a natural language understanding (NLU) model from the cloud server, storing the received NLU model, receiving voice data spoken by a user from the client device, performing a natural language processing operation on the received voice data using the NLU model, performing speech recognition according to the natural language processing operation, and transmitting a result of the speech recognition to the client device.At least one of the edge computing device, a voice recognition device, and a server may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a drone (an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like. |
| US11398233B2 |
Smart service method, apparatus and device
The embodiments of the present disclosure provides a smart service method, apparatus and device, the method includes: a first device plays response information corresponding to an awaking word after receiving the awaking word; when the first device determines that a second device in an awake state exists in a device group that the first device is in, the first device transmits operation information of the first device to the second device, and receives operation information of the second device transmitted by the second device; the first device determines, according to the operation information of the first device and the operation information of the second device a target device from the first device and the second device, where the target device is a device in the device group to provide a smart service. The service resources are economized. |
| US11398231B2 |
Recommending automated assistant action for inclusion in automated assistant routine
Recommending an automated assistant action for inclusion in an existing automated assistant routine of a user, where the existing automated assistant routine includes a plurality of preexisting automated assistant actions. If the user confirms the recommendation through affirmative user interface input, the automated assistant action can be automatically added to the existing automated assistant routine. Thereafter, when the automated assistant routine is initialized, the preexisting automated assistant actions of the routine will be performed, as well as the automated assistant action that was automatically added to the routine in response to affirmative user interface input received in response to the recommendation. |
| US11398229B1 |
Apparatus, system and method for voice-controlled task network
Technologies and techniques for voice-controlled planning control. A system command manager processes voice commands, and a system planning manager generates a Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) plan and transmitting at least a portion of the HTN plan to a processing device via a communications interface. The system planning manager is configured to generate a task from the HTN plan and determine if a voice command confirmation was received from the processing device in response to the generated task. The system planning manager may then generate a subsequent task from the HTN plan if the voice command confirmation is received from the processing device, and execute a repair process on the HTN plan if the voice confirmation is not received. |
| US11398226B1 |
Complex natural language processing
Techniques for processing complex natural language inputs are described. A complex natural language input may be semantically tagged and parsed to identify individual clauses in the complex natural language input. An execution graph may be generated to represent the clauses and their dependencies. Nodes of the execution graph may be processed using NLU processing and/or a knowledge graph or other information storage and retrieval techniques, and results of such processing may be used to update clause variables with specific entities in the execution graph. |
| US11398223B2 |
Electronic device for modulating user voice using artificial intelligence model and control method thereof
The present disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system utilizing a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning, etc. and an application thereof. In particular, a controlling method of an electronic apparatus includes obtaining a user voice of a first user, converting the voice of the first user into a first spectrogram, obtaining a second spectrogram by inputting the first spectrogram to a trained model through an artificial intelligence algorithm, converting the second spectrogram into a voice of a second user, and outputting the converted second user voice. Here, the trained model is a model trained to obtain a spectrogram of a style of the second user voice by inputting a spectrogram of a style of the first user voice. In particular, at least part of the controlling method of the electronic apparatus uses an artificial intelligence model trained according to at least one of machine learning, a neural network or a deep learning algorithm. |
| US11398221B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
[Problem] There are proposed an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of learning a meaning corresponding to a speech recognition result of a first speech adaptively to a determination result as to whether or not a second speech is a restatement of the first speech.[Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a learning unit configured to learn, based on a determination result as to whether or not a second speech collected at second timing after first timing is a restatement of a first speech collected at the first timing, a meaning corresponding to a speech recognition result of the first speech. |
| US11398220B2 |
Speech processing device, teleconferencing device, speech processing system, and speech processing method
A speech processing method executes at least one of first speech processing and second speech processing. The first speech processing identifies a language based on speech, performs signal processing according to the identified language, and transmits the speech on which the signal processing has been performed, to a far-end-side. The second speech processing identifies a language based on speech, receives the speech from the far-end-side, and performs signal processing on the received speech, according to the identified language. |
| US11398219B2 |
Speech synthesizer using artificial intelligence and method of operating the same
Disclosed herein is a speech synthesizer using artificial intelligence including a memory, a communication processor configured to receive utterance information of words uttered by a user from a terminal, and a processor configured to acquire a plurality of utterance intonation phrase (IP) ratios respectively corresponding to a plurality of words uttered by the user based on the utterance information, compare a plurality of IP ratio tables respectively corresponding to a plurality of voice actors with the plurality of utterance IP ratios, acquire a plurality of non-utterance IP ratios respectively corresponding to a plurality of unuttered words based on a result of comparison, and generate a personalized synthesized speech model based on the plurality of utterance IP ratios and the plurality of non-utterance IP ratios. |
| US11398218B1 |
Dynamic speech output configuration
Techniques are described for providing dynamically configured speech output, through which text data from a message is presented as speech output through a text-to-speech (TTS) engine that employs a voice profile to provide a machine-generated voice that approximates that of the sender of the message. The sender can also indicate the type of voice they would prefer the TTS engine use to render their text to a recipient, and the voice to be used can be specified in a sender's user profile, as a preference or attribute of the sending user. In some examples, the voice profile to be used can be indicated as metadata included in the message. A voice profile can specify voice attributes such as the tone, pitch, register, timbre, pacing, gender, accent, and so forth. A voice profile can be generated through a machine learning (ML) process. |
| US11398214B2 |
Forming a structured panel with one or more structural reinforcements
A method is provided for forming a structured panel. During this method, a cellular core is formed that comprises a corrugated ribbon configured with a plurality of baffles and a plurality of septums. Each of the septums extends longitudinally between and connected to a respective adjacent pair of the baffles. At least one element of the corrugated ribbon includes a structural reinforcement. The forming includes: feeding a ribbon of material between a first roller and a second roller, corrugating the ribbon of material with the first roller and the second roller to provide the baffles and the septums, and stamping the structural reinforcement into the element with the first roller and the second roller. The cellular core is bonded to a first skin. The cellular core is bonded to a second skin. The cellular core is vertically between the first skin and the second skin, and the first skin is configured with a plurality of perforations. |
| US11398209B2 |
Clamping mechanism for guitar capo
The present application discloses a clamping mechanism for a guitar capo, including an upper clamp (1) and a lower clamp (9). A slider rail (2) is fixedly installed inside the upper clamp (1), a rebound torsion spring fixing pin (3) is fixedly installed inside the slider rail (2), and a rebound torsion spring (4) is fixedly installed inside the slider rail (2) by the rebound torsion spring fixing pin (3). A crank hinge (6) is fixedly installed inside the slider rail (2). The clamping mechanism of the guitar capo is provided with the lower clamp (9), and the cam structure on the right side of the lower clamp (9) is stuck and cannot move the self-locking slider (7) in the opposite direction, thus the lower clamp (9) cannot rotate in the opposite direction, thereby achieving locking effect and completing locking and clamping. By providing with the unlocking handle (5), the unlocking handle (5) drives the self-locking slider (7) to slide to unlock the locking of the cam mechanism of the lower clamp, thereby effectively achieving the effect of quickly installing the capo on the guitar strings and improving the self-locking effect of the capo. |
| US11398207B2 |
Multi-screen interactive network teaching method and apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a multi-screen interactive network teaching method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving signals of a plurality of network teaching video sources; analyzing the plurality of network teaching video sources according to a preset analysis algorithm; determining action frequencies of the plurality of network teaching video sources according to analysis results; performing importance level ranking on the network teaching video sources according to the action frequencies of the plurality of network teaching video sources; acquiring entries of correspondence relationships between preset priorities of a plurality of associated terminal display devices and importance level ranks of the video sources, and according to the entries of correspondence relationships, respectively displaying each of the network teaching video sources via a terminal display device with a priority corresponding to the importance level rank of the network teaching video source. |
| US11398206B2 |
Signal transmission device, dongle device and adaptor cable
A signal transmission device for transmitting at least a video signal between a player device and a display device includes a signal processing device. The signal processing device includes a receiver, a signal processor and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a first video signal. The signal processor is coupled to the receiver and configured to detect an image format or an image resolution of the first video signal and process the first video signal according to the image format or the image resolution to generate a second video signal. An image format of the second video signal is different from the image format of the first video signal or an image resolution of the second video signal is different from the image resolution of the first video signal. The transmitter is configured to output the second video signal. |
| US11398202B2 |
Display apparatus, data driver and display controller
Display apparatuses, data drivers and display controller are provided. The data drivers receive video signals, generate positive-polarity and negative-polarity gradation data signals with respect to a predetermined reference voltage based on the video signals, output the positive-polarity gradation data signals to one of a first and a second data line groups, and output the negative-polarity gradation data signals to the other data line group. The data drivers generate, as the positive-polarity gradation data signals, signals in which data pulses each having a positive-polarity analog voltage value corresponding to a luminance level of each pixel based on the video signal appear in predetermined cycles, and generate, as the negative-polarity gradation data signals, signals where data pulses each having a negative-polarity analog voltage value corresponding to a luminance level of each pixel appear in each predetermined cycle with phases different from the positive-polarity gradation data signals. |
| US11398198B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a first display panel disposed closer to an observer and a second display panel disposed farther from the observer than the first display panel. An image display region of the second display panel is larger than an image display region of the first display panel. |
| US11398196B2 |
Methods for driving electro-optic displays
A driving method is provided for an electric-optic display having a plurality of display pixels, the method including dividing the plurality of display pixels into multiple groups of pixels, applying at least one waveform structure to the multiple groups of pixels, the at least one waveform structure having a driving section for updating the multiple groups of pixels, and updating the multiple groups of pixels in a contiguous fashion such that only one group of display pixels completes the driving section at any given time. |
| US11398189B2 |
Display device
A display device includes first pixels configured to be positioned in a first pixel area and configured to be connected to first scan lines; first scan stage circuits configured to be positioned in a first peripheral area that is positioned outside the first pixel area and configured to supply first scan signals to the first scan lines; second pixels configured to be positioned in a second pixel area and configured to be connected to second scan lines; and second scan stage circuits configured to be positioned in a second peripheral area that is positioned outside the second pixel area and configured to supply second scan signals to the second scan lines. A gap between adjacent second scan stage circuits is larger than a gap between adjacent first scan stage circuits. |
| US11398188B2 |
Display panel compensation methods
What is disclosed are methods of non-uniformity compensation for active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. For each pixel, greyscale level offsets for a number of predetermined greyscale drive levels which produce a uniform flat field are determined and used to generate a correction function for the pixel. |
| US11398180B2 |
Display control system and display device
A display control system and a display device. The display control system (1) comprises a control unit for controlling a light source (2) to be in a bright field and a dark field alternately in the same frame of data, and controlling the status switching of a light valve of a spatial light modulator (3) to be within the time of the dark field of the light source. The display device comprises the display control system (1). The control unit controls the bright field and the dark field of the light source, so that the light valve of the spatial light modulator (3) has a relatively long switching time, thereby increasing the switching speed of the light valve, reducing the difficulty for manufacturing the spatial light modulator (3), and improving the accuracy for the spatial light modulator (3) to modulate the light source. |
| US11398179B2 |
Shift register unit, gate drive circuit and driving method thereof, and display device
A shift register unit, a gate drive circuit, a display device and a driving method are provided. The shift register unit includes a sub-shift register, a second sub-shift register and an output control circuit. The first sub-shift register includes a first output terminal and a first control node, and is configured to output a first clock signal under control of a level of the first control node. The second sub-shift register include a second output terminal and a second control node, and the second output terminal outputs a display output signal in a display phase and a random output signal in a blank phase under control of a level of the second control node. The output control circuit is connected to the first sub-shift register and the second control node, and is configured to control the level of the second control node under control of an output control signal. |
| US11398174B2 |
Electromagnetic interference suppression circuit, method for driving same, and electronic apparatus
An electromagnetic interference suppression circuit, a driving method thereof, and an electronic apparatus are provided. In the electromagnetic interference suppression circuit, a signal generating sub-circuit may generate a plurality of parallel target sequence signals, each with a period greater than a period threshold and a quantity of target sequence signals greater than a quantity threshold; and a frequency generating sub-circuit may output a frequency-jittered drive signal, for driving a switch mode power supply to operate, to the switch mode power supply under the control of the plurality of parallel target sequence signals. |
| US11398171B2 |
System for authoring and editing personalized message campaigns
A method and system for authoring templates for personalized video message campaigns in general, and personalized TV commercial campaigns in particular. The invention allows for campaign templates to be authored and edited in such a way that commercials can be automatically generated later on in the process, when the target audience and context are known, while at the same time adhering to the existing (post) production workflows and tools. The invention maintains assembly information for messages in a format that allows easy assembly of variations of commercials at any point in the creation, editing, post-production and delivery process. |
| US11398160B1 |
System, apparatus, and method for educating and reducing stress for patients with illness or trauma using an interactive location-aware toy and a distributed sensor network
A system, apparatus, and method for educating and reducing stress for patients with childhood illnesses or trauma is disclosed, which uses an interactive location-aware toy and a distributed sensor network in a healthcare facility. Patients are educated and calmed by providing location-specific education and stress reduction techniques. The system's implementation logic can be used to coordinate care for patients, track a patient's progress in completing a custom care treatment plan, and create reminders about appointments, medication adherence, or the like. Healthcare providers can better assist and track the progress of the patient's completion of the custom care treatment plan. |
| US11398157B2 |
Method for preparing an empty section of a parking facility for an operation of the parking facility and method for operating the parking facility
A method for preparing an empty section of a parking-facility for operation of the parking-facility, including: measuring the empty section of the parking-facility, using a time-of-flight measuring-sensor situated in a stationary manner within the parking-facility, by emitting a time-of-flight measuring-signal with the time-of-flight measuring-sensor in the direction of the section and checking whether a reflection signal associated with the emitted time-of-flight measuring-signal is received with the time-of-flight measuring-sensor; if no reflection signal associated with the emitted time-of-flight measuring-signal is received with the time-of-flight measuring-sensor, implementing one or multiple measure(s) intended to cause a reflection signal associated with a time-of-flight measuring-signal emitted with the time-of-flight measuring-sensor in the direction of the empty section to be receivable with the time-of-flight measuring-sensor. Also described are a method and a device for operating a parking facility, a parking facility and a computer program. |
| US11398150B2 |
Navigation analysis for a multi-lane roadway
A navigation platform may receive, from a roadside unit, traffic data associated with a section of a roadway, wherein the section includes a plurality of lanes. The navigation platform may identify, from the traffic data and using a first model, lane data associated with a lane of the plurality of lanes. The navigation platform may determine, based on the lane data, vehicle information associated with the lane, wherein the vehicle information indicates a quantity of vehicles in the lane. The navigation platform may determine a lane occupancy of the lane based on the quantity of vehicles and a capacity of the lane. The navigation platform may determine that a target vehicle is approaching the section. The navigation platform may select, using a second model, a target lane from the plurality of lanes. The navigation platform may perform an action associated with enabling the target vehicle to navigate to the target lane. |
| US11398149B1 |
Crosswalk detection using high-frequency transmitters
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting crosswalk using high-frequency transmitters. A mobile device may receive an ultrasonic signal indicating a location of the crosswalk from a signal transmitter. The mobile device may monitor a distance to the crosswalk based on the ultrasonic signal. The mobile device may generate an alert that the user is proximately located to the crosswalk after the user is in a predetermined vicinity of the crosswalk. The mobile device may update the alert to indicate a traffic pattern after the user has entered the crosswalk. |
| US11398147B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for automated reporting of account and sensor zone information to a central station
Systems and methods for reporting account and sensor configuration information to a central system are disclosed. A security, monitoring, and automation (SMA) system may operate one or more sensors according to sensor configuration information. The sensor configuration information may be used by a remote monitoring system to send notification messages based on sensor events from the SMA system. The sensor configuration information may be transmitted to the remote monitoring system via another remote computing system. The computing system may format the sensor configuration information to a format compatible with the remote monitoring system and transmit the formatted sensor configuration information to the remote monitoring system. |
| US11398142B2 |
System and method for indoor route navigation
A method, a system, and a computer program product may be provided for generating indoor emergency route plan for an infrastructure. The method includes obtaining indoor map data of the infrastructure, where the indoor map data comprises one or more first exit routes to one or more exits in the infrastructure. The method further includes obtaining first location data associated with an indoor emergency event. The method further includes generating one or more second exit routes to the one or more exits, based on the first location data and the one or more first exit routes. The method further includes providing the one or more second exit routes to one or more subjects. |
| US11398141B2 |
Hospitality light
Techniques for hospitality light are provided. A hospitality light can determine characteristics of the environment in which the hospitality light is installed, determine capabilities of hospitality light, determine one or more objectives of the installation of hospitality light related to providing a hospitality service to a guest in the environment, perform a self-configuration of hospitality light according to the determined one or more objectives, and determine and execute suitable actions for hospitality light to perform to achieve the determined one or more objectives. |
| US11398139B2 |
Systems and methods for gaming using historical data
Methods and systems are described herein for gaming using historical performance data. A listing of entities is provided to a user. A selection of entities is received from the user. Historical performance data for each of the selected entities during a given performance period is compared to a performance benchmark. A payout is provided based on the number of selected entities that met the performance benchmark during their respective performance period. |
| US11398135B2 |
Gaming system and method for determining awards based on adding symbols
In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing an award based on adding symbols to additional symbols display positions of a symbol display position matrix. |
| US11398133B2 |
Apparatus and method for facilitating gaming activity and/or gambling activity
An apparatus, including a computer which detects information regarding a gaming activity, gambling activity, or sporting event, generates a message containing information regarding same, and transmits the message to a first device. The computer receives an activity request or a bet message transmitted from the first device or a second device including a global positioning device which determines a position or location of the first device or second device. The activity request or bet message contains information regarding the position or location of the first device or second device. The computer determines if the activity request or the bet is allowed or disallowed using the information regarding the position or location of the first device or the second device. If, allowed, the computer processes information for allowing the activity or placing the bet. If disallowed, the computer processes information for disallowing the activity or the bet. |
| US11398132B2 |
Lineup specific odds manipulation
A method of AI adjusting odds based on the context of the lineup in baseball or cricket. Specific examples include a batter likely to be pitched around because of who is up next and when a reliever is approaching his third batter faced (the minimum before he can be replaced). |
| US11398131B2 |
Method and system for localized mobile gaming
In one embodiment, a system and method for facilitating intra-casino mobile gaming, the method includes forming an intra-casino mobile gaming zone internal to a casino establishment; pairing a player ID tag with a PGD; determining whether one of the player ID tag or the PGD is within the intra-casino mobile gaming zone using a zone specific local positioning system; and permitting the PGD to provide a wager gaming capability associated with the intra-casino mobile gaming zone while wirelessly interacting with a gaming server if the determining determines that at least one of the player ID tag or the PGD is within the intra-casino mobile gaming zone. |
| US11398129B2 |
Chip recognition system
According to one embodiment, provided is a chip recognition system that recognizes a chip on a gaming table in an amusement place having the gaming table, the chip recognition system including: a game recording apparatus that records, as an image, a state of chips stacked on the gaming table, using a camera; an image analysis apparatus that performs an image analysis on the recorded image of the state of chips; a plurality of chip determination apparatuses including at least a first artificial intelligence apparatus that determines a number of the chips stacked, using an image analysis result obtained by the image analysis apparatus; and a second artificial intelligence apparatus that decides a correct number of the chips stacked, when the plurality of chip determination apparatuses obtain different determination results for the number of the chips stacked. |
| US11398128B2 |
Illumination device comprising a moving mechanism and a gaming machine comprising the same
An illumination device according to one or more embodiments may include: a light guide plate unit comprising a front light guide plate and a rear light guide plate arranged in a depth direction at a predetermined interval, and a light projecting unit arranged at a side of the light guide plate unit. The light projecting unit may comprise an LED in an amount of one piece among the front light guide plate and the rear light guide plate; and a moving mechanism configured to cause the light guide plate unit to reciprocate in the depth direction to cause a light incident surface of either one of the front light guide plate and the rear light guide plate to be opposed to the light projecting unit. |
| US11398123B1 |
Methods and apparatus for facilitating operation of control access systems
A method for a security system includes receiving a first location and a first time period, retrieving an access control tree having nodes associated with locations and edges coupling nodes, wherein a first node represents the first location and a second node represents a building entry, traversing the access control tree from the second node to the first node to determine an ordered list of nodes and associated time periods, storing the ordered list of nodes and an identifier associated with a user, providing to a smart device a token associated with a requested access control point, when a requested node is within the first ordered list of nodes, and authorizing with the requested access control point a physical action visible to the user in response to the requested token. |
| US11398122B2 |
Passenger authentication system for a transportation service vehicle
Access systems in accordance with various embodiments include techniques for mutual authentication between a passenger that has requested a transportation service and a dispatched vehicle for providing the requested transportation service. Passengers will present a two-dimensional (2D) code to a transaction client associated with the vehicle. The dispatched vehicle uses the 2D code to authenticate the passenger and grant access to the transportation service vehicle. |
| US11398121B2 |
Method for provisioning a device with an information element allowing to identify unauthorized users in a restricted area
This invention relates to a method for provisioning a wireless control device with an information element allowing to identify visually at least one unauthorized user in a restricted area, the restricted area comprising a gateless control area being equipped with at least an image sensor and an electronic reader supporting a short range radio technology allowing to read data memorized into a wearable device carried by a user. The method comprises the steps of: providing by the image sensor a digital image of at least one user that is detected as passing through the gateless control area; extracting from the provided digital image of the detected user a first face detection dataset; providing by the electronic reader a second face detection dataset memorized in a wearable device carried by said detected user; applying facial recognition over the first and second face detection datasets in order to determine if the user associated to the first face detection dataset is the same as the one associated to the second face detection dataset, the detected user being identified as authorized in that case and identified as unauthorized otherwise; sending to a wireless control device a message comprising an information item adapted to ease the visual identification of an unauthorized user. |
| US11398120B2 |
Security surveillance and entry management system
An artificial intelligence (AI) entry management (EM) security system includes a camera, a microphone, a motion detector, a speaker, and a software platform. Geofences are utilized to create boundaries around physical areas, such as locations for package delivery or property boundaries. The EM device and other devices connected to the software platform are configured to monitor the geofences and detect a presence of an activity, an event, an object, or a device. At least one license plate reader is utilized to read license plate characters. Voice recognition and voice identification are used to grant or deny permissions for individuals on a property. |
| US11398119B2 |
Vehicle control system
A control unit (40A) includes an operation state determination unit (43) that determines an operating state of a driving source (21) and a communication state determination unit (46) that determines a communication state between an authentication unit (2) and a remote key (4), and the control unit (40A) disables a starting of the driving source (21) by a driving source starting unit (21a) when the control unit (40A) is in an ON state, the operation state determination unit (43) determines that the driving source (21) is in a non-operating state, and the communication state determination unit (46) determines that communication with the remote key (4) is lost. |
| US11398116B2 |
Anomaly detection electronic control unit, in-vehicle network system, and anomaly detection method
An anomaly detection electronic control unit connected to an in-vehicle network includes: a communicator that receives a first communication message indicating speed information of a vehicle including the in-vehicle network and a second communication message indicating peripheral information of the vehicle; a processor; and a memory including at least one set of instructions that, when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations including: (A) determining a first traveling state of the vehicle based on the speed information and a second traveling state of the vehicle based on the peripheral information; (B) determining, by comparing the first traveling state with the second traveling state, that the first communication message is anomalous when the first traveling state is different from the second traveling state; and (C) executing processing to handle an anomaly when the first communication message is determined to be anomalous. |
| US11398113B2 |
Toll control system, toll control apparatus, toll control method, and computer-readable recording medium
A toll control apparatus 100 includes a traffic volume prediction unit 10 that predicts a future overall traffic volume on a first road 401 and a second road 402, a toll control unit 20 that outputs, with the predicted overall traffic volume and a predetermined road toll as inputs, a future traffic volume and a predicted traveling speed on the second road for a case where a toll on the second road is set to the predetermined road toll, and a toll optimization unit 30. The toll optimization unit 30 sets one or more road toll candidates, selects a road toll candidate for which the predicted traveling speed obtained by inputting the road toll candidate to the toll control unit 20 is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and sets the road toll candidate that maximizes the toll revenue for the second road among the selected road toll candidates. |
| US11398110B2 |
Biometric imaging device
A biometric imaging device configured to be arranged under an at least partially transparent display panel and configured to capture an image of an object located on an opposite side of the transparent display panel. The biometric imaging device comprises an image sensor comprising a photodetector pixel array; a transparent substrate covering the photodetector pixel array; a first set of microlenses configured to redirect light through the transparent substrate and onto a subarray of pixels in the photodetector pixel array. The lenses in the first set have a first focal length. A second set of microlenses configured to redirect light through the transparent substrate and onto a subarray of pixels in the photodetector pixel array. The lenses in the second set of microlenses have a second focal length which is different from the first focal length. |
| US11398108B2 |
Fingerprint detecting device, fingerprint detecting circuit and driving method thereof, and display apparatus
The present disclosure provides a fingerprint detecting device, including: a photosensitive sensing component, a first electrode of which is coupled to a reference signal terminal, a second electrode of which is coupled to a pull-down node; a reset component, coupled to a reset terminal and the pull-down node, configured to reset the pull-down node in a first stage; a voltage output component, coupled to the pull-down node, a selection terminal and an output terminal of the fingerprint detecting device, configured to output a voltage signal to the output terminal of the fingerprint detecting device according to the potential of the pull-down node, the first stage to a second stage, an amount of change in a voltage signal output to the output terminal of the fingerprint detecting device is positively correlated with an amount of change in the potential of the pull-down node. |
| US11398102B1 |
Method for recognizing fingerprint
A method for recognizing a fingerprint of a subject includes the following steps: providing a display device, which includes: a plurality of fingerprint recognition units, a plurality of first sub-pixel regions with a first color, a plurality of second sub-pixel regions with a second color, and a plurality of third sub-pixel regions with a third color, wherein the first color, the second color, and the third color are different; defining a recognition area by disposing a finger of the subject on the display device when the display device is in a fingerprint recognition mode; and enabling at least one of the plurality of first sub-pixel regions disposed in the recognition area, and disabling at least one of the plurality of second sub-pixel regions and the plurality of third sub-pixel regions disposed in the recognition area when the display device is in the fingerprint recognition mode. |
| US11398097B2 |
Target detection method based on fusion of prior positioning of millimeter-wave radar and visual feature
A target detection method based on the fusion of prior positioning of a millimeter-wave radar and a visual feature includes: simultaneously obtaining, based on the millimeter-wave radar and a vehicle-mounted camera after being calibrated, point cloud data of the millimeter-wave radar and a camera image; performing spatial 3D coordinate transformation on the point cloud data to project transformed point cloud data onto a camera plane; generating a plurality of anchor samples based on projected point cloud data according to a preset anchor strategy, and obtaining a final anchor sample based on a velocity-distance weight of each candidate region; fusing RGB information of the camera image and intensity information of an RCS in the point cloud data to obtain a feature of the final sample; and inputting the feature of the final anchor sample into a detection network to generate category and position information of a target in a scenario. |
| US11398096B2 |
Visual-inertial positional awareness for autonomous and non-autonomous mapping
The described positional awareness techniques employing visual-inertial sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to provide positional awareness to machines with improved speed and accuracy. |
| US11398094B1 |
Locally and globally locating actors by digital cameras and machine learning
Motion of actors within a scene may be detected based on imaging data, using machine learning tools operating on cameras that captured the imaging data. The machine learning tools process images to perform a number of tasks, including detecting heads of actors, and sets of pixels corresponding to the actors, before constructing line segments from the heads of the actors to floor surfaces on which the actors stand or walk. The line segments are aligned along lines extending from locations of heads within an image to a vanishing point of a camera that captured the image. Trajectories of actors and visual data are transferred from the cameras to a central server, which links trajectories captured by multiple cameras and locates detected actors throughout the scene, even when the actors are not detected within a field of view of at least one camera. |
| US11398093B1 |
Systems and methods for creating video summaries
Video information defining video content may be accessed. Highlight moments within the video content may be identified. Flexible video segments may be determined based on the highlight moments. Individual flexible video segments may include one or more of the highlight moments and a flexible portion of the video content. The flexible portion of the video content may be characterized by a minimum segment duration, a target segment duration, and a maximum segment duration. A duration allocated to the video content may be determined. One or more of the flexible video segments may be selected based on the duration and one or more of the minimum segment duration, the target segment duration, and/or the maximum segment duration of the selected flexible video segments. A video summary including the selected flexible video segments may be generated. |
| US11398086B2 |
System and method for performing a convolution operation with functional safety mechanism
A Convolution Multiply and Accumulate-Xtended (CMAC-X) system (102) for performing a convolution operation with functional safety mechanism is disclosed. The CMAC-X system (102) receives image data pertaining to an image. The image data comprises a set of feature matrix, a kernel size and depth information. Further, the CMAC-X system (102) generates a convoluted data based on convolution operation for each feature matrix, The CMAC-X system (102) performs an accumulation of the convoluted data to generate accumulated data, when the convolution operation for each feature matrix is performed. The CMAC-X system (102) further performs an addition of a predefined value to the accumulated data to generate added data. Further, the CMAC-X system (102) filters the added data. Further, the CMAC-X system (102) comprises a functional safety unit to verify a functionality of the CMAC-X system (102), thereby performing the convolution operation of the image with functional safety mechanism. |
| US11398081B2 |
Method of occlusion rendering using raycast and live depth
An augmented reality/mixed reality system that provides a more immersive user experience. That experience is provided with increased speed of update for occlusion data by using depth sensor data augmented with lower-level reconstruction data. When operating in real-time dynamic environments, changes in the physical world can be reflected quickly in the occlusion data. Occlusion rendering using live depth data augmented with lower-level 3D reconstruction data, such as a raycast point cloud, can greatly reduce the latency for visual occlusion processing. Generating occlusion data in this way may provide faster operation of an XR system using less computing resources and enabling the system to be packaged in a battery operated wearable device. |
| US11398076B2 |
Three dimensional media streaming and broadcasting system and method
A three-dimensional media streaming and broadcasting system and method, which enables different media, such as concerts and sports events, to be transferred in a live and three-dimensional manner, and the transferred image to be broadcast and viewed with devices such as virtual reality goggles. |
| US11398074B1 |
Method and apparatus for identifying planes of objects in 3D scenes
Computer implemented methods and computerized apparatus for identifying planes of a 3D object in a 3D scene are provided. The method comprises receiving a point cloud and performs plane segmentation. In one embodiment, the point cloud is voxelized into a plurality of voxels of equal dimensions and the plurality of voxels are classified into three categories, wherein each first category voxel satisfies a planar requirement and a first neighborhood constraint, each second category voxel satisfies the planar requirement and a second neighborhood constraint, and each third category voxel does not satisfy the planar requirement. The method further comprises generating at least one reference plane from the first category voxels by first identifying a first category anchor voxel and recruiting its neighboring first category voxels to this at least one reference plane; and growing the at least one reference plane by absorbing second category voxels connecting to the at least one reference plane if they satisfy a voxel merging requirement and absorbing points in the third category voxels connecting to the at least one reference plane if they satisfy a point merging requirement. Then the set of at least one reference plane is used to represent the 3D object for further applications. |
| US11398068B2 |
Speculative execution of hit and intersection shaders on programmable ray tracing architectures
Apparatus and method for speculative execution of hit and intersection shaders on programmable ray tracing architectures. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) or single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) execution units (EUs) to execute shaders; and ray tracing circuitry to execute a ray traversal thread, the ray tracing engine comprising: traversal/intersection circuitry, responsive to the traversal thread, to traverse a ray through an acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes and to intersect the ray with a primitive contained within at least one of the nodes; and shader deferral circuitry to defer and aggregate multiple shader invocations resulting from the traversal thread until a particular triggering event is detected, wherein the multiple shaders are to be dispatched on the EUs in a single shader batch upon detection of the triggering event. |
| US11398067B2 |
Virtual reality presentation of body postures of avatars
A computing system and method to implement a three-dimensional virtual reality world with avatar posture animation without user posture tracking devices. A position and orientation of a respective avatar in the virtual reality world is tracked to generate a view of the virtual world for the avatar and to present the avatar to others. In response to input data tracking a position, orientation, and motions of a head of a user of the virtual reality world, the server system uses a posture model to predict, from the input data, a posture of an avatar of the user in the virtual reality world, and computes an animation of the avatar showing the posture of the avatar in the virtual reality world. |
| US11398065B2 |
Graphic object modifications
Transformation of graphic objects is described. A graphic object modification system receives an indication of a transformation to be performed on one or more graphic objects. For merger transformations, a stroke and a fill are identified for each graphic object being merged. Fill values are written to a buffer in a first pass, and stroke values are written to the buffer in a second pass without overwriting fill values. The merged graphic object is then output by rendering values stored in the buffer. For other non-merger transformations, z-order information is identified for each displayed graphic object. Graphic objects selected for transformation are allocated into clusters based on their z-order information. Clusters are rendered in separate GPU textures and transformations are applied to the separate textures, enabling the graphic object modification system to output transformation results in real-time without re-rendering the actual graphic objects being transformed. |
| US11398064B2 |
Real time reconstruction-native image element resampling for high definition image generation and processing
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions readable and executable by a workstation (14) operatively connected to a display device (20) and including at least one electronic processor (16) to perform an image acquisition and reconstruction method (101). The method includes: retrieving a non-voxel-based reconstructed image comprising non-voxel image elements from a picture and archiving communication system (PACS) database (24) to the workstation; at the workstation, generating at least one voxel-based resampled image from the non-voxel-based reconstructed image; and displaying the at least one voxel-based reconstructed image on the display device. |
| US11398063B2 |
Medical image diagnostic apparatus
According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes a storage memory, processing circuitry, and a display. The storage memory stores data of a plurality of FFR distribution maps constituting a time series regarding a coronary artery, and data of a plurality of morphological images corresponding to the time series. The processing circuitry converts the plurality of FFR distribution maps into a plurality of corresponding color maps, respectively. The display displays a plurality of superposed images obtained by superposing the plurality of color maps and the plurality of morphological images respectively corresponding in phase to the plurality of color maps. The display restricts display targets for the plurality of color maps based on the plurality of FFR distribution maps or the plurality of morphological images. |
| US11398060B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and program
An object is to provide, for synthetic information such as synthetic images, images with few errors. Thus, for an acquired image including information regarding a specific wavelength region, for example, an image of a specific region corresponding to a specific positional range in a captured image is extracted. A plurality of pieces of information regarding the specific region extracted from respective captured images captured at different points in time is synthesized to generate a synthetic information. By performing synthesis on the captured images captured at the different points in time during movement, synthetic information with few errors is obtained from an object spanning a wide range. |
| US11398059B2 |
Processing 3D video content
A mobile device comprises: a mesh loader manages configured to download compressed mesh sequences from a remote server into a local storage buffer; a mesh decoder that is configured to decode compressed mesh sequences into frames of meshes in real-time; a mesh decoder manager that is configured to request compressed mesh sequences from the mesh loader and to request the mesh decoder to decode the compressed mesh sequences; a player manager that is configured to decode texture video and to request corresponding decoded mesh from the mesh decoder manager and to maintain synchronizations between requesting the corresponding decoded mesh and decoding the texture video; and a renderer that is configured to render, using a rendering engine, the decoded mesh on a canvas; and a camera controller that is configured to detect one or more user actions and control a hardware camera in accordance with the one or more user actions. |
| US11398058B2 |
Prediction type signaling and temporal order signaling in point cloud coding (PCC)
An apparatus comprises an encoder configured to obtain point clouds, generate a first field that implements prediction type signaling of the point clouds, generate a second field that implements temporal order signaling of the point clouds, and encode the first field and the second field into an encoded bitstream; and an output interface coupled to the encoder and configured to transmit the encoded bitstream. An apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive an encoded bitstream; and a processor coupled to the encoded bitstream and configured to decode the encoded bitstream to obtain a first field and second field, wherein the first field implements prediction type signaling of point clouds, and wherein the second field implements temporal order signaling of the point clouds, and generate the point clouds based on the first field and the second field. |
| US11398052B2 |
Camera positioning method, device and medium
A camera positioning method, device and medium are provided. The method includes: determining positioning configuration information; determining, according to the positioning configuration information, positioning information of the camera by a preset algorithm, the positioning information including distance limitation data which defines a distance between a target and the camera; and determining a position of the camera according to the positioning information, wherein the positioning configuration information includes target data, ratio data of a target image in an image captured by the camera, and camera parameter data. |
| US11398049B2 |
Object tracking device, object tracking method, and object tracking program
To identify and track a plurality of objects. An object tracking device 1 includes a frame acquisition unit 31 for acquiring one set of frame data 11 included in moving image data that captures a space where a plurality of objects are present; a distance acquisition unit 32 for acquiring measurement data 12 from measurement of three-dimensional coordinates of points configuring the objects in the space where the objects are present; an object position detection unit 33 for detecting a two-dimensional position of each of the objects from the frame data 11 on the basis of comparison with template data of each of the objects; an object distance detection unit 34 for detecting a plurality of three-dimensional positions of the objects from the measurement data 12; and an associating unit 35 for associating each two-dimensional position from the object position detection unit 33 with the nearest three-dimensional position among the three-dimensional positions from the object distance detection unit 34. |
| US11398046B2 |
Object position determination circuit
The present invention provides an object position determination circuit including a receiving circuit and a detecting circuit. In operations of the object position determination circuit, the receiving circuit receives an image signal; and the detecting circuit detects a position of an object in an Nth frame of the image signal, determines a partial region within an (N+M)th frame of the image signal according to the position of the object in the Nth frame, and only detects the partial region within the (N+M)th frame to determine a position of the object in the (N+M)th frame, wherein N and M are positive integers. |
| US11398043B2 |
System and method for self-supervised monocular depth regularization from surface normals
Systems and methods for generating depth models and depth maps from images obtained from an imaging system are presented. A self-supervised neural network may be capable of regularizing depth information from surface normals. Rather than rely on separate depth and surface normal networks, surface normal information is extracted from the depth information and a smoothness function is applied to the surface normals instead of a depth gradient. Smoothing the surface normal may provide improved representation of environmental structures by both smoothing texture-less areas while preserving sharp boundaries between structures. |
| US11398042B2 |
Method for displaying a virtual image, a virtual image display system and device, a non-transient computer-readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides a method for displaying a virtual image, a virtual image display system and device, achieving 3D dynamic real-time navigation. The method includes capturing a plurality of first depth images by a first image capturing device comprising one or more first depth cameras from a plurality of positions at a same time; transmitting the first depth images to a central computing device in real time; integrating the plurality of first depth images as one frame, based on calibration parameters of the one or more first depth cameras; performing point cloud stitching of frames; obtaining point cloud data for the frames in an order one by one; rendering an image of each of the frames corresponding to a user's current location and azimuth angle in the order; and displaying the image being rendered. |
| US11398032B2 |
Image analysis system, culture management system, image analysis method, culture management method, cell group structure method, and program
[Problem] To evaluate objective cell groups by estimating a mixing ratio of objective cell group without affecting treatment itself and its production process when the objective cell groups include plural kinds of cell groups having different attributes, and to provide an image analysis system and a culture management system capable of accurately perform a quality control and a production control with low cost.[Solution] The cell quality evaluation system 1 detects a feature amount in each cell easily analyzable from images, and estimates a mixing ratio of each of plural kinds of cell groups included in the objective cell groups based on a distribution of the detected feature amount and pre-recorded information of the feature amount. As the feature amount, the embodiment uses a migration speed of each cell, easily distinguishable by analyzing tracking of each cell from plural images in time series. |
| US11398030B2 |
System and method for image reconstruction
A method and a system for image reconstruction are provided. The method may include acquiring raw image data, wherein the raw image data may include a plurality of frequency domain undersampled image data samples. The method may include generating a first reconstruction result based on the raw image data using a first reconstruction method, and generating a second reconstruction result based on the raw image data using a second reconstruction method. The method may further include fusing the first reconstruction result and the second reconstruction result, and generating a reconstructed image based on a result of the fusion. |
| US11398028B2 |
Generating and using synthetic training data for plant disease detection
Implementations are described herein for automatically generating synthetic training images that are usable, for instance, as training data for training machine learning models to detect and/or classify various types of plant diseases at various stages in digital images. In various implementations, one or more environmental features associated with an agricultural area may be retrieved. One or more synthetic plant models may be generated to visually simulate one or more stages of a progressive plant disease, taking into account the one or more environmental features associated with the agricultural area. The one or more synthetic plant models may be graphically incorporated into a synthetic training image that depicts the agricultural area. |
| US11398023B2 |
System and method for concurrent visualization and quantification of wall shear stress in blood vessels
A system according to the present disclosure may include a display unit, a processor communicatively coupled to the display unit and to an ultrasound imaging apparatus for generating an image from ultrasound data representative of a bodily structure and fluid flowing within the bodily structure. The processor may be configured to generate vector field data including axial and lateral (or transverse) velocity components of the fluid flowing within the bodily structure, calculate velocity profiles for a plurality of locations along a wall of the bodily structure based on the axial and lateral velocity components, generate wall shear stress (WSS) visualization data based, at least in part, on the velocity profiles, and cause the display unit to concurrently display the image including the bodily structure overlaid with the WSS visualization data. |
| US11398022B2 |
Apparatus for the analysis of samples taken by biopsy
An apparatus and a method for analysing samples taken by biopsy, which make it possible to perform the analysis of these samples whilst the patient is still positioned in the position for taking samples, in such a way as to make the overall procedure for taking and analysing the samples faster, reducing the inconvenience for the patient and the risk of a new examination, and also reducing in the majority of cases exposure of the patient to X-rays. |
| US11398021B2 |
Method for inspecting pillar-shaped honeycomb formed body before firing or after firing
A method for inspecting a pillar-shaped honeycomb formed body before firing includes a step a1 of capturing at least one of a first end surface and a second end surface of a pillar-shaped honeycomb formed body before firing with a camera to generate an image of the at least one of the first end surface and the second end surface; a step b1 of measuring a size of an opening of a plurality of cells in the image generated by step a1; and a step c1 of identifying abnormal cells with the opening having a size deviating from a predetermined allowable range from the cells based on a measurement result of step b1, and measuring a number of the abnormal cells. |
| US11398019B2 |
Light field system occlusion removal
A method of image processing for occlusion removal in images and videos captured by light field camera systems. The method comprises: capturing a plurality of camera views using a plurality of cameras; capturing a plurality of depth maps using a plurality of depth sensors; generating a depth map for each camera view; calculating a target view on a focal plane corresponding to a virtual camera; set a weighting function on the pixels on the camera views based on the depth map and a virtual distance; and blending the pixels in accordance with the weighting function to generate a refocused target view. |
| US11398010B2 |
Generating a digital collage using digital images
Techniques for generating a digital collage using digital images are described. An image editing system obtains a set of digital images and a collage template to be used for generating a digital collage. The image editing system calculates different arrangement permutations for placing the digital images into digital frames of the collage template, and identifies a region of interest in each of the digital images. The image editing system fits the digital images into the digital frames for each of the arrangement permutations, and calculates a permutation error value for each arrangement permutation based on proportions of the regions of interest for each of the digital images that fit into respective digital frames. The image editing system selects an arrangement permutation with an optimal permutation error value, and uses the selected arrangement permutation to arrange the set of digital images in the collage template to generate the digital collage. |
| US11398006B2 |
Pre-pass surface analysis to achieve adaptive anti-aliasing modes
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a position associated with one or more polygons in unresolved surface data and select an anti-aliasing sample rate based on a state of the one or more polygons with respect to the position. Additionally, the unresolved surface data may be resolved at the position in accordance with the selected anti-aliasing sample rate, wherein the selected anti-aliasing sample rate varies across a plurality of pixels. The position may be a bounding box, a display screen coordinate, and so forth. |
| US11398004B2 |
Allocating device buffer on GPGPU for an object with metadata using access boundary alignment
A method is provided for buffer allocation on a graphics processing unit. The method includes analyzing, by the graphics processing unit, a program to be executed on the graphics processing unit to determine, for an object in the program, a set of elements in the object that are designated to be accessed during an execution of the program. The method further includes allocating, by the graphics processing unit, a placement of the object in a device buffer on the graphics processing unit based on the set of elements to minimize a number of memory accesses during the execution of the program. |
| US11397997B2 |
Device for implementing body fluid analysis and social networking event planning
Event planning using social networking enables an efficient implementation of planning an event, as well as minimizing network traffic and optimizing other technological aspects of life. Additional information acquired by sensors and other technology is able to improve the quality of the event planning Social network information as well as the additional information is able to be used to select aspects of the event such as time, location, and/or many other aspects of the event. |
| US11397993B2 |
Electronic logging and track identification system for mobile telematics devices, and corresponding method thereof
An electronic logging and track detection system for mobile telematics devices and method are provided. In particular, an electronic logging and track detection system and system for mobile telematics devices, as smart phones and/or mobile cellular phones is proposed, which tend to change their sensing and measuring orientation and direction in respect to the main direction of movement/motion or moving sense, as for example given by a person with proper motion holding a mobile phone within a moving vehicle. Instantaneous movement telematics data are measured by and logged from sensors of the mobile telematics devices and trips and/or trip-segments based on the instantaneous movement sensory telematics data are automatically identified and detected at least by the telematics sensors comprising an accelerometer sensor and a gyroscope sensor and a Global Positioning System sensor. The telematics devices comprise one or more wireless connections acting as a wireless node within a corresponding data transmission network by means of antenna connections of the telematics device. |
| US11397992B1 |
Systems and methods for managing fleet services
Systems and methods are described for managing fleet services. In an example, a vehicle selected from a plurality of vehicles presented in the user interface is received. A selected vehicle insurance for the vehicle is then received. A total cost for a lease of the vehicle and vehicle insurance associated with the selected vehicle insurance is determined. A lease of the vehicle and corresponding vehicle insurance is provided by the lessor. Other systems and methods are described. |
| US11397991B1 |
System and method to replace personal items
A system for replacing a personal item is disclosed. The system can include a tag device attached or associated with a personal item, like a camera, portable computer, tablet or bicycle. Once the personal item loses connection with a home network, the system can designate the personal item as being missing, and in some cases issue a dynamic insurance policy. If the personal item is then lost or stolen, a service provider can determine the loss of the personal item and send a replacement item. |
| US11397988B2 |
Methods and systems to prevent adverse exchange limit effects
Methods and systems to prevent adverse exchange limit effects are disclosed. An example method of message management includes tracking, at a gateway, a transaction count of trade messages communicated to an exchange via an exchange link. The example method includes defining a first transaction limit based on the transaction count, and calculating a second transaction limit as a function of the first transaction limit, wherein the second transaction limit is to correspond to a reserve capacity associated with the exchange link. The example method includes assigning a message priority to each of a plurality of trade messages to communicate to the exchange. The example method includes communicating trade messages of the plurality of trade messages having a first message priority to the exchange when the transaction count is greater than the second transaction limit, and delaying or rejecting trade messages of the plurality of trade messages having a second message priority. |
| US11397981B2 |
System and method for universal menu integration interface
Systems and methods for universal menu integration. A digital key is issued to a vendor to access an interface. An uploaded menu is received from the vendor. The uploaded menu is in a universal format based on pre-determined criteria. The menu may be received from the vendor via HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The uploaded menu may be submitted in a format different from the universal format and then subsequently translated into the universal format. The uploaded menu is posted for receiving online delivery orders. An online delivery order is received from a user device. Last, the online delivery order is transmitted to the vendor. The interface may be an application programming interface (API) utilizing an API library including post, get, and patch functions, as well as out of stock and item availability fields. The system may be configured to receive menu updates after posting the uploaded menu. |
| US11397979B2 |
Order processing method and device, server, and storage medium
Disclosed in the present application is an order processing method and device, a server, and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring order information of a to-be-processed order, the order information including storage-bin region information and volume information of at least one item indicated by the order; base on the storage-bin region information and the volume information, determining whether the order satisfies following conditions: the at least one item indicated by the order being located within one storage-bin region and the a sum of the volumes of the at least one item being smaller than a volume threshold; and in response to the order satisfying the conditions, determining the order as a to-be-processed order, to generate a to-be-processed order set. |
| US11397977B1 |
Integration of image capturing mechanism into ecommerce application
Integrating an image capturing mechanism into an ecommerce application is described. Images of items offered for sale via ecommerce channels associated with an ecommerce service provider and performance metrics associated with the images and/or content items with which the images are presented via the ecommerce channels can be analyzed. Based partly on the analyzing, a characteristic associated with the images that are associated with a performance metric that satisfies a threshold or that are presented by the content items that are associated with the performance metric that satisfies the threshold can be determined. A new image of an item to be offered for sale by a merchant via an ecommerce channel can be received and, based at least partly on the characteristic, it can be determined whether to integrate the new image into a content item for the merchant, wherein the content item to be presented via the ecommerce channel. |
| US11397976B2 |
Durable memento method
Durable memento method that enables the storage of data associated with mementos, which are objects that serve to provide a reminder of a person, place, thing, or an event. Embodiments are configured to store and recall data including but not limited to pictures, movies, sounds, text, or other information such as performance data indirectly associated with a memento such as but not limited to a keepsake, souvenir, gift, gift card, medal or award, tool or any combination thereof. One or more embodiments may include a visual and/or machine-readable and/or human-readable code to associate the data with the memento. The durable data may be stored remote from the memento, which prevents obsolescence by securing data robustly. This enables the data to be accessed years later even if the file formats or display technology for the data has changed by that time and even if the original memento has been lost. |
| US11397972B2 |
Method for assessing damage to a motor vehicle
The invention relates to a method for assessing damage to a motor vehicle on the basis of at least one image file of the damaged motor vehicle, the method comprising ascertaining, on the basis of the at least one image file, whether there is damage to the vehicle zone, determining damage severity in the vehicle zones in which damage has been ascertained; establishing a degree of damage for each individual vehicle part within each damaged vehicle zone on the basis of the damage severity in the damaged vehicle zone and deciding, for each damaged vehicle part, whether a repair of the vehicle part may be performed or whether replacement of the vehicle part is required. |
| US11397971B2 |
Redirection service
A computing system can include an interface that receives a URL responsive to activation of an Internet link by a remote device; circuitry that determines a geolocation of the remote device; and circuitry that, based at least in part on the geolocation of the remote device, generates a redirection link. |
| US11397967B2 |
Methods and systems for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment. |
| US11397966B1 |
Slow network detection and response
A control system determines whether a browser is retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network using a tracking indicator. Based on determining that browser is retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network, the control system modifies responses to opportunities to provide supplemental content to the browser. The control system may modify responses by declining to bid, responding with a lower bid amount, or responding with alternate supplemental content. Based on determining that browser is no longer retrieving supplemental content over a slow or faulty network, the control system modifies responses to opportunities to provide supplemental content to the browser by responding with a higher bid amount or responding with the original supplemental content. Thus, the control system maximizes the use of control system and campaign manager resources by responding to opportunities according to the likelihood that they will result in an impression or a conversion. |
| US11397962B2 |
Loyalty point distributions using a decentralized loyalty ID
A blockchain-based loyalty point distribution system may be configured to provide decentralized loyalty IDs. The decentralized loyalty IDs may allow distribution of loyalty rewards in response to transaction-based events and non-transaction-based events, including behavioral interactions. The system may include a loyalty partner system that receives a rewards event from a customer. The loyalty partner system may determine a loyalty ID associated with the customer, and write the rewards event to the blockchain. A loyalty provider system may receive notification of the rewards event write and distribute the loyalty reward to the customer. The loyalty provider may instruct the loyalty partner to remit payment for the loyalty reward, and may update customer and loyalty partner balances on the blockchain. |
| US11397953B2 |
System and method for automatically authenticating a caller
Embodiments of the disclosed technology include systems and methods that can establish a communication link with a customer device, can receive call information from the customer device, can retrieve a customer profile based on a comparison of the call information to stored call information, and can save the customer profile as temporary profile data. Embodiments can receive identifying information from the customer device and, responsive to determining, based on a comparison of the identifying information to the temporary profile data, that the communication link is authenticated, connect the communication link to an authenticated call path. Responsive to determining that a predetermined amount of time has elapsed without determining that the communication link is authenticated, embodiments can determine that the communication link is unauthenticated and can connect the communication link to an unauthenticated call path and delete the temporary profile data. |
| US11397952B2 |
Semi-supervised, deep-learning approach for removing irrelevant sentences from text in a customer-support system
During operation, the system receives a customer request. Next, the system segments the customer request into customer request sentences. The system then encodes each sentence from the customer request with information sequentially collected from the previously observed sentences. Next, the system translates the encodings to sparse probabilities that measure the importance of sentences from the customer request. The system then extracts relevant sentences from the customer request based on the importance. Next, the system forms an extracted-sentence customer request embedding from embeddings for the extracted relevant customer request sentences. The system then uses the extracted-sentence customer request embedding to select an agent response from a set of possible agent responses based on comparisons between the extracted-sentence customer request embedding and embeddings for the set of possible agent responses. Finally, the system presents the selected agent response to the customer to facilitate resolving the customer request. |
| US11397951B1 |
System and method for making purchase payment after payment failures
When a loan payment failure occurs, a loan server can retry a payment from a client's financial institution sources rather than immediately charging the client for the payment failure. The payment retry is scheduled on a Friday that is at least three days after the payment failure. If a payment failure from the financial institution sources to the loan server occurs between a Friday and the following Monday the payment retry by the loan server to the financial institution sources will occur on the first following Friday and if the payment failure occurs on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, the payment retry will occur on the second following Friday which is the Friday of the following week from the failure date. |
| US11397943B2 |
System and method of multi-round token distribution using a blockchain network
A computer-implemented method to initiate a token transfer process for transferring respective first quantities of tokens between a plurality of pairs of sender nodes and respective recipient nodes using a blockchain. The method includes: determining a number of transaction rounds in the token transfer process; generating a set (TT) of indirect token transactions based on the respective first quantities of tokens and the number of transaction rounds, wherein execution of all of the indirect token transactions in the set results in net transfer of the respective quantities of tokens from the sender nodes to their respective recipient nodes and wherein the set of indirect token transactions includes randomized pairings of the sender nodes and recipient nodes in which each may be an input node or an output node for a particular indirect token transaction; and for each of the sender and recipient nodes, transmitting a subset of the set of indirect token transactions to that node, the subset including those transactions for which that node is either the input node or the output node. |
| US11397941B2 |
Devices and methods for selective contactless communication
A card having an antenna, one or processors, and memory having stored thereon a first application and a second application configured to receive an input of the card and determine a request associated with the input. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a contactless EuroPay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) data standard, the first application. The first application is configured to communicate, via near field communication (NFC), data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the EMV data standard for payment purposes. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a near field communication data exchange format (NDEF) standard, the second application. The second application is configured to communicate, via NFC, data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the NDEF standard for verification/identification purposes. |
| US11397931B2 |
Multi-directional wallet connector apparatuses, methods and systems
The W-CONNECTOR (“W-CONNECTOR”) facilitates the enrollment of payment accounts in a consumer's virtual wallet. The consumer may be logged into their payment account issuer's web site and designate one or more payment accounts for enrollment in a virtual wallet. The issuer may then share account, billing and/or other relevant information with the virtual wallet provider to facilitate the enrollment of the designated payment accounts in the virtual wallet. The W-CONNECTOR may also be configured to facilitate the creation and funding of pre-paid accounts in a consumer's virtual wallet. |
| US11397924B1 |
Debugging tool for recommendation systems
In an example embodiment, a debugging tool is provided that includes logging functionality to allow a machine learned model administrator to replay machine learned recommendation model executions in order to identify points of error, without the scaling difficulties that would be involved in logging all features used in every recommendation. |
| US11397919B1 |
Electronic agreement data management architecture with blockchain distributed ledger
A distributed ledger is maintained in accordance with an enterprise. The distributed ledger includes a plurality of nodes such that one or more entities internal to the enterprise and one or more entities external to the enterprise each have access to at least one of the plurality of nodes. Electronic agreements (for example, product/service licenses) between at least a portion of the one or more entities internal to the enterprise and at least a portion of the one or more entities external to the enterprise are managed in association with the distributed ledger. Management includes generating and recording transactions associated with the electronic agreements on the distributed ledger to enable the one or more entities internal to the enterprise and the one or more entities external to the enterprise permissioned access to one or more of the recorded transactions. |
| US11397917B1 |
Construction material digital chain of custody system
A digital chain of custody system resilient to wireless connectivity disruption includes an electronic database that stores electronic load tickets, a server, and one or more user communication devices wirelessly coupled to the server, examples of which include a sender communication device, a trucker communication device, and a receiver communication device. The receiver communication device and/or the server accepts a portion, less than all, of a load ticket identifier and uses a heuristic to identify a corresponding electronic load ticket in the database. In some embodiments, the receiver communication device stores information until wireless connectivity is restored, thereby enabling communication of the electronic load tickets, despite lack of wireless connectivity. |
| US11397916B2 |
RFID location system and associated methods for a product dispensing system
A machine and process for providing consumer products may include a set of positions configured to contain consumer products or containers in which ingredients are used to form consumer products. The consumer products or containers may include radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags. A set of antennas, where at least one antenna is disposed at each position, may be configured to output and receive RF signals. A transceiver may be in electrical communication with the antennas, and be configured to generate the RF signals. A processor may be in communication with the transceiver, and be programmed to (i) receive RFID signals from the RFID tags at the set of positions, and (ii) identify locations of the RFID tags to determine that corresponding consumer products or containers of ingredients are in correct positions. |
| US11397914B2 |
Continuous display shelf edge label device
A method and apparatus for providing information along a shelf edge of a retailer is described. On a display configured to be oriented along an edge of a shelf of a retailer, a first user interface including first information about a first product on the shelf is provided. At least one second user interface including at least one second information about at least one second product on the shelf is provided on the display. An individual is permitted to edit a parameter of the first user interface and/or the at least one second user interface. The parameter may include at least one of: a size of the user interface on the display, a shape of the user interface on the display, and a location of the user interface on the display. The first information and the at least one second information may be outputted concurrently to the display. |
| US11397912B2 |
System and method for collaborative and dynamic coordination of transportation of shipping containers
Systems and methods for coordinating the transportation of shipping containers through a terminal are provided. The systems and methods provide for efficient storage of shipping containers in flow stacks in a terminal, enable collaboration among users, and provide efficiencies in executing export street turns and the use of off dock container yards. |
| US11397908B2 |
Delivery assistance device, delivery assistance method, and non-transitory computer-readable computer medium storing delivery assistance program
A delivery assistance device assists in an operation of a delivery service in which an inside of a vehicle, a building, or a facility used by a user is designated as a delivery destination of luggage. The delivery assistance device includes a storage unit, a registration unit configured to register, in the storage unit, a plurality of candidates as delivery destinations of the luggage and priorities for the candidates, and a delivery destination decision unit configured to decide an alternative delivery destination from among the candidates based on the priorities when a deliverer is not able to deliver a delivery destination with the highest priority among the delivery destinations, the delivery destination with the highest priority being designated by the user. |
| US11397905B2 |
System for validated tracking and management of events associated with equipment during lifetime usage
Validated tracking and managing of events associated with equipment during a usage lifetime. Equipment is registered within a distributed register/ledger of a distributed trust network according to an equipment identifier and subsequently events related to the equipment are registered and managed within the distributed register/ledger during the usage lifetime. Such events include resource arrangement-related events and property-right-related events. In addition, logic may be included in the distributed register/leger that triggers various actions in response to the events. |
| US11397898B2 |
System for allowing a secure access to a microservice
Disclosed is a system for allowing secure access to a microservice. An Application Programming Interface (API) gateway receives a request comprising a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated to the microservice. A set of input parameters indicating information about the user device and the microservice is identified from the URL. The system performs validation of input parameters, extraction of request patterns, tracking of IP address, and detection of user credentials to provide output parameters. A decision tree comprising rules is generated by using a supervised machine learning technique on the output parameters. Further, the API gateway creates a stateless identity token to encrypt the request. The stateless identity token is created based on the user credentials and at least one rule applicable to the request. Once the stateless identity token is created, the stateless identity token is verified to allow the secure access to the microservice. |
| US11397894B2 |
Method and device for pruning a neural network
A method for pruning a neural network includes initializing a plurality of threshold values respectively corresponding to a plurality of layers included in the neural network; selecting one of the plurality of layers; adjusting the threshold value of the selected layer; and adjusting a plurality of weights respectively corresponding to a plurality of synapses included in the neural network. |
| US11397893B2 |
Neural network formation configuration feedback for wireless communications
Techniques and apparatuses are described for neural network formation configuration feedback for wireless communications. A network entity (base station 120, core network server 302) determines a set (sets 2002, 2104) of deep neural network reference signals to send on a physical channel for measuring performance of deep neural networks, and/or a set of neural network formation configurations (sets 2004, 2106). The network entity communicates indications (indications 2030, 2102) of the set of neural network formation configurations and the set of deep neural network reference signals to a user equipment (UE 110). The network entity initiates transmission of each deep neural network reference signal of the set, and directs the user equipment to measure (outputs 2032, 2034, 2036, 2124, 2128, 2132) performance of a set of deep neural networks formed using the set of neural network formation configurations, and select one of the set of neural network formation configurations. |
| US11397891B2 |
Interpretability-aware adversarial attack and defense method for deep learnings
Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method to support a convolutional neural network (CNN). A class-specific discriminative image region is localized to interpret a prediction of a CNN and to apply a class activation map (CAM) function to received input data. First and second attacks are generated on the CNN with respect to the received input data. The first attack generates first perturbed data and a corresponding first CAM, and the second attack generates second perturbed data and a corresponding second CAM. An interpretability discrepancy is measured to quantify one or more differences between the first CAM and the second CAM. The measured interpretability discrepancy is applied to the CNN. The application is a response to an inconsistency between the first CAM and the second CAM and functions to strengthen the CNN against an adversarial attack. |
| US11397890B2 |
Cross-media retrieval method based on deep semantic space
The present application discloses a cross-media retrieval method based on deep semantic space, which includes a feature generation stage and a semantic space learning stage. In the feature generation stage, a CNN visual feature vector and an LSTM language description vector of an image are generated by simulating a perception process of a person for the image; and topic information about a text is explored by using an LDA topic model, thus extracting an LDA text topic vector. In the semantic space learning phase, a training set image is trained to obtain a four-layer Multi-Sensory Fusion Deep Neural Network, and a training set text is trained to obtain a three-layer text semantic network, respectively. Finally, a test image and a text are respectively mapped to an isomorphic semantic space by using two networks, so as to realize cross-media retrieval. The disclosed method can significantly improve the performance of cross-media retrieval. |
| US11397886B2 |
Vertical mapping and computing for deep neural networks in non-volatile memory
A non-volatile memory structure capable of storing layers of a deep neural network (DNN) and perform an inferencing operation within the structure is presented. A stack of bonded die pairs is connected by through silicon vias. Each bonded die pair includes a memory die, having one or more memory arrays onto which layers of the neural network are mapped, and a peripheral circuitry die, including the control circuits for performing the convolution or multiplication for the bonded die pair. The multiplications can either be done in-array on the memory die or in-logic on the peripheral circuitry die. The arrays can be formed into columns along the vias, allowing an inferencing operation to be performed by propagating an input up and down the columns, with the output of one level being the input of the subsequent layer. |
| US11397882B2 |
Molecular label counting adjustment methods
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for determining the numbers of targets. In some embodiments, the method comprise: stochastically barcoding targets using stochastic barcodes; obtaining sequencing data; for one or more of the targets: counting the number of molecular labels with distinct sequences associated with the target in the sequencing data; identifying clusters of molecular labels of the target using directional adjacency; collapsing the sequencing data using the clusters of molecular labels of the target identified; and estimating the number of the target. |
| US11397877B2 |
Tape cassette including cassette memory having first area and second area, and printing device using the same
A tape cassette includes: a case; and a cassette memory. The case accommodates therein a tape as a printing medium. The cassette memory includes: a first area; and a second area. The first area stores therein unique information specific to the tape cassette. The second area stores therein arbitrary information in an entire area thereof. The second area is set to a non-rewritable state using a first password such that the arbitrary information written therein is not rewritable. The first password is generated using a unique value which is a value of at least a part of the unique information stored in the first area and a first selection value which is an arbitrary value stored in a part of the second area specified by a predetermined rule. |
| US11397872B2 |
Technique for machine visual learning
A method of expanding a visual learning database in a computer by teaching the computer includes providing a series of training images to the computer wherein each series includes three images with each image falling within a unique image domain and with each image domain representing a possible combination of a first attribute and a second attribute with a first image domain including the first attribute and the second attribute in a first state (X=0, Y=0), a second image domain including the first attribute in a second state and the second attribute in the first state (X=1, Y=0), and a third image domain including the first attribute in the first state and the second attribute in the second state (X=0, Y=1). The method also includes developing within the computer forward generators and reverse generators between the first image domain, the second image domain, the third image domain, and a fourth image domain for which no training image is provided, and applying with the computer the forward generators and reverse generators to single images that fall within one of the first image domain, the second image domain, the third image domain, and a fourth image domain to generate images for the remaining domains to populate a database. |
| US11397869B2 |
Methods and systems for detecting impersonating social media profiles
A method may include generating a first scaled variant pyramid associated with a first image and a second scaled variant pyramid associated with a second image; determining a pair of best-matching variants; detecting a first plurality of keypoints in the first variant and a second plurality of keypoints in the second variant; generating a descriptor for each keypoint of the first plurality of keypoints to create a first plurality of keypoint descriptors; generating a descriptor for each keypoint of the second plurality of keypoints to create a second plurality of keypoint descriptors; for each keypoint of the first plurality of keypoints, identifying a keypoint match from the second plurality of keypoints; determining that a number of keypoint matches is above a threshold number; and in response to determining that the number of keypoint matches is above the threshold number, determining that the first image matches the second image. |
| US11397864B2 |
Multi-positional switch using passive wireless tags and systems and methods for using a multi-positional switch that uses passive wireless tags
Provided is a system, method, and multi-positional switch using a passive wireless tag to communicate with a wireless tag reader. The wireless tag including: a first set of one or more half-antennas; a second set of one or more half-antennas; and a first set of two or more wireless chips and an electrical contact connected to an open end of each of the wireless chips, each of the wireless chips including data stored thereon, and when one of the electrical contacts completes an antenna circuit including one of the first set of half-antennas and one of the second set of half antennas, the wireless tag reader energizes the completed antenna circuit and the completed antenna circuit transmits the data stored on the wireless chip connected to the electrical contact that is completing the antenna circuit to the wireless tag reader. |
| US11397859B2 |
Progressive collocation for real-time discourse
In an approach to training a corpus link model and generating collocated terms for intra-channel and inter-channel activity, one or more computer processors train a corpus link model based on an analysis of a linguistic corpus and an analysis of one or more author metrics. The one or more computer processors generate one or more collocated terms based on one or more calculations by the trained corpus link model. The one or more computer processors generate a co-occurrence rating for each of the one or more generated collocated terms. The one or more computer processors display the one or more generated collocated terms according to the generated co-occurrence rating of each collocated term. |
| US11397858B2 |
Utilizing widget content by virtual agent to initiate conversation
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for initiating a conversation by a virtual agent. The boundary of a widget of a webpage the user is utilizing is determined. The user's interactions or lack of interactions with the widget within the determined boundary of the widget of the webpage is then determined, such as based on tracking the eye gaze or focus of the user. If it is determined that the user is experiencing difficulty in utilizing the widget, then the content associated with the widget is extracted. The extracted widget content is then mapped to the virtual agent content. The virtual agent is instructed to initiate a conversation based on the extracted widget content. In this manner, the virtual agent will now be able to dynamically initiate a conversation with the user to assist the user in addressing a problem the user is currently experiencing with the widget. |
| US11397853B2 |
Word extraction assistance system and word extraction assistance method
A word extraction assistance system includes: a storage device that stores a document archive that is a subject of following steps, and a dictionary that defines relations between words; and a calculation device that performs the step of comparing a document contained in the document archive with the dictionary, and thus generating candidate-for-structured-data related to relations between predetermined words, the step of performing determination of validity of the candidate-for-structured-data, based on certainty of the candidate-for-structured-data, and the step of adding the candidate-for-structured-data to the dictionary, based on a result of the determination of validity. |
| US11397851B2 |
Classifying text to determine a goal type used to select machine learning algorithm outcomes
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for classifying text to determine a goal type used to select machine learning algorithm outcomes. Natural language processing of text is performed to determine features in the text and their relationships. A classifier classifies the text based on the relationships and features to determine a goal type. The determined features and relationships from the text are inputted into a plurality of different machine learning algorithms to generate outcomes. For each of the machine learning algorithms, a determination is made of performance measurements resulting from the machine learning algorithms generating the outcomes. A determination is made of at least one machine learning algorithm having performance measurements that are highly correlated to the determined goal type. An outcome is determined from at least one of the outcomes. |
| US11397846B1 |
Intelligent identification and modification of references in content
A method and system for providing improper reference identification for a content segment may include receiving a request to identify an improper reference in the content segment, inputting the content segment into a machine-learning (ML) model to identify the improper reference in the content segment, obtaining the identified improper reference as a first output from the ML model, obtaining one or more suggested replacement references as a second output from the ML model, and providing at least one of the identified improper reference or the at least one of the one or more suggested replacements for display. |
| US11397845B2 |
Method of displaying text of electronic document on screen of information terminal
A method of displaying text of an electronic document on a screen of an information terminal is proposed. The method includes: selecting a specific electronic document by a user; assigning new tags to all text of a corresponding electronic document selected by the user in units of words or letters so as to objectify the text; designating one page of text displayed on a screen of the information terminal by calculating a last word or a last letter at the bottom of that screen that may be displayed on a screen of the information terminal to the extent of not infringing the copyright of the electronic document; and selecting and performing a sequential display mode, a sequential disappearance mode, and an emphasis part designation mode, thereby allowing rapid reading training and enabling quicker review/revision of the parts that have already been studied and understood by a learner. |
| US11397843B1 |
Systems for suggesting content components
In implementations of systems for suggesting content components, a computing device implements a design system to receive input data describing a feature of a content component to be included in a hypertext markup language (HTML) document. The design system represents that feature of the content component as a document object model (DOM) element and determines a hash value for the DOM element using locality-sensitive hashing. Manhattan distances are computed between the has value and has values described by a segment of content component data. The hash values were determined using the locality-sensitive hashing for DOM elements extracted from a corpus of HTML documents. The design system generates indications, for display in a user interface, of candidate content components for inclusion in the HTML document based on the Manhattan distances. |
| US11397841B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit, circuit designing apparatus, and circuit designing method
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a logic circuit including a first scan chain configured to operate based on a first clock signal and a second scan chain configured to operate based on a second clock signal in a built-in self-test; a pattern generator configured to generate a test pattern and transmit the test pattern to the first and second scan chains; a compression circuit configured to compress first data received from the first and second scan chains; a clock select circuit configured to select one of the first and second clock signals and transmit the one of the first and second clock signals to the corresponding one of the first and second scan chains in the test; and a test control circuit configured to control the test and detect a fault in the logic circuit based on a result of the test. |
| US11397837B2 |
Systems and methods for pest forecasting using historical pesticide usage information
Traditionally, forecasting models were developed using pest or disease instances collected through pest or disease surveillance. The present disclosure relates to pest forecasting using historical pesticide usage information thereby obviating need for voluminous and time consuming effort of collecting site specific data. Firstly forecasting models for different pests or diseases of different crops are generated based on historical data on pesticide usage and historical weather data collected for a geo-location under consideration. The model is validated and adapted with the current scenario of pests. Current scenario is captured using image samples sent from the field or farm through participatory sensing platform. The images are then analyzed to extract information like actual pest infestation in the field, severity, if there was infestation and the like. This analyses helps to derive the actual pest infestation instances in the field. |
| US11397834B2 |
Methods and systems for data backup and recovery on power failure
A method for storing encrypted data in a non-volatile memory device, that includes receiving, by a processor, an indication of a power interruption event; disabling, based on the indication, decryption of encrypted data read from a volatile memory module; copying the encrypted data from the volatile memory module to cache; and copying the encrypted data from the cache to the non-volatile memory device. |
| US11397828B2 |
System and method for facilitating access to a database
A system and method for facilitating access to requested information in building. The system includes a database, a server having a central processing unit, a wireless network, video displays disposed in rooms, and a sensing unit in communication with the server over the wireless network. The sensing unit has a microphone and disposed in each of the rooms. The sensing units are configured to detect the presence of a user and actuate an associated video display. The microphone is configured to receive requested information from the user. The central processing unit processes the requested information so as to retrieve the requested information from the database and display the requested information on the associated video display. In one embodiment, the sensing unit is a beacon and a portable electronic device. In another embodiment, the sensing unit is a wireless voice command device. |
| US11397827B2 |
EVM-based transaction processing method, device, program and medium
Provided are an Ethereum Virtual Machine-based transaction processing method and apparatus, a device, a program and a medium, which relate to the field of computer technologies and, in particular, to blockchain technologies. An implementation scheme includes: acquiring, by a virtual machine instance running in a blockchain node, a to-be-processed transaction request; generating, by the virtual machine instance, a data access request for target access data and transmitting the data access request to an interface module in a process of executing the to-be-processed transaction request; performing, by the interface module, instruction conversion according to the data access request to determine a blockchain access interface corresponding to a function of the data access request; and calling, by the interface module, the blockchain access interface for a data storage space of a blockchain to access the target access data and feeding back an access result to the virtual machine instance. |
| US11397826B2 |
Row-level security
Row-level security (RLS) may provide fine-grained access control based on flexible, user-defined access policies to databases, tables, objects, and other data structures. A RLS policy may be an entity or object that defines rules for row access. A RLS policy may be decoupled or independent from any specific table. This allows more robust and flexible control. A RLS policy may then be attached to one or more tables. The RLS policy may include a Boolean-valued expression. |
| US11397817B2 |
Binary patch reconciliation and instrumentation system
A binary patch system for a vehicle may include a memory and a controller in communication with the memory and programmed to receive original source code, identify vulnerabilities in original source code, generate binary patch based on the identified vulnerabilities, insert binary patch into original source code, receive feedback of the inserted binary patch, and update the binary patch based on the feedback. |
| US11397815B2 |
Secure data protection
A method for secure data protection includes storing secured data, associated with a computer application, using a security co-processor. The secured data is associated with a platform state policy that indicates an expected platform state. The secured data is associated with a version counter policy that indicates an expected version counter. A platform state of a computing platform is stored in the security co-processor. A version counter of the platform state is stored in the security co-processor. A request for the secured data is received from the requester. The platform state is determined to be in a known good state based on the platform state policy, the version counter policy, the platform state, the expected platform state, the version counter, and the expected version counter. The secured data is provided for the requester based on the determination. |
| US11397814B2 |
Local ledger block chain for secure electronic control unit updates
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for using a local ledger block chain for secure electronic control unit updates. An embodiment includes a memory, and circuitry configured to receive a global block to be added to a local ledger block chain for validating an electronic control unit update for electronic control unit data stored in the memory, where the global block to be added to the local ledger block chain includes a cryptographic hash of a current local block in the local ledger block chain, a cryptographic hash of the electronic control unit data stored in the memory to be updated, where the current local block in the local ledger block chain has a digital signature associated therewith that indicates the global block is from an authorized entity. |
| US11397812B2 |
System and method for categorization of .NET applications
Disclosed herein are systems and methods of categorizing a .NET application. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, by a hardware processor of a security module, launching a CLR profiler upon launching of the .NET application, forming an execution log of the .NET application and adding information about events occurring during the execution of the .NET application via the launched CLR profiler, assigning to the .NET application, a category of a predetermined list of categories based on an analysis of the execution log of the .NET application, and determining whether the .NET application is categorized as being a malicious application. |
| US11397811B2 |
System and method for application tamper discovery
A system and method for early detection of a compromised client device includes a tamper detection service configured to monitor modifications to resource access privileges over time to identify unusual variations in jailbreak status that indicate compromise of the client device. For example, the tamper detection service may monitor the jailbreak status of system files over time to expose attempts to hide the jailbreak status of a protected resource. To validate that malware is attempting to hide the jailbreak status of a protected resources, the tamper detection process may launch multiple different resource accesses, targeting the protected resource, to determine whether different accessibility results are returned, indicating a compromised device. |