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US11456016B1	Magnetic disk device According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a plurality of magnetic disks, a plurality of magnetic heads provided correspondingly to the plurality of magnetic disks and configured to carry out read/write of data from/to the magnetic disks, and a control section configured to, when the magnetic head is in a second status before the magnetic head enters the first status, change setting in such a manner as to change a first memory area of a magnetic disk corresponding to the magnetic head in the second status among memory areas constituted of the plurality of magnetic disks to a second memory area in which a write count is limited.
US11456011B2	Heat-assisted magnetic recording device incorporating laser heater for improved laser stability An apparatus comprises a slider configured to facilitate heat assisted magnetic recording and a submount affixed to the slider. A laser unit is affixed to the submount and comprises a laser operable in a non-lasing state and a lasing state. A heater is embedded in the laser unit or the submount. The heater is configured to generate preheat for heating the laser during the non-lasing state and to generate steering heat for heating the laser during the lasing state.
US11456009B1	Shared disk configuration in a multiple actuator hard disk drive A multiple-actuator hard disk drive includes multiple head-stack assemblies (HSA) and a disk stack including a shared disk operated upon by both of the HSAs. Generally to provide more space between the HSAs such as for routing electrical traces, the distance between the shared disk and each of the upper and lower adjacent disks is greater than the distance between each of the upper and lower adjacent disks and the next adjacent disk. Each arm tip of the arms operating upon the shared disk may be thicker than other arm(s) operating upon other disks in the stack, so that the z-height between each head slider and corresponding disk surface is maintained in view of the differing disk spacing. Suspension tails for the arms that operate on the shared disk may be biased to offset away from the shared disk to provide for more clearance between the HSAs.
US11456008B2	Recessed hardmask used to form heat-assisted magnetic recording near-field transducer with heat sink A method involves depositing a near-field transducer on a substrate of a slider. The near-field transducer comprises a plate-like enlarged portion and a peg portion. A first hard stop extending from the near field transducer and an air bearing surface is formed. A heat sink is formed on the enlarged portion and the first hard stop. A dielectric material is deposited over the near-field transducer and the heat sink. A second hard stop is deposited on the dielectric material away from the air bearing surface. The second hard stop comprises a recess corresponding in size and location to the heat sink. The method involves milling at an oblique angle to the substrate between the first hard stop and second hard stop to cut through the heat sink at the angle. The recess of the second hard stop increases a milling rate over the heat sink compared to a second milling rate of the dielectric away from the heat sink.
US11456005B2	Audio-visual speech separation Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for audio-visual speech separation. A method includes: obtaining, for each frame in a stream of frames from a video in which faces of one or more speakers have been detected, a respective per-frame face embedding of the face of each speaker; processing, for each speaker, the per-frame face embeddings of the face of the speaker to generate visual features for the face of the speaker; obtaining a spectrogram of an audio soundtrack for the video; processing the spectrogram to generate an audio embedding for the audio soundtrack; combining the visual features for the one or more speakers and the audio embedding for the audio soundtrack to generate an audio-visual embedding for the video; determining a respective spectrogram mask for each of the one or more speakers; and determining a respective isolated speech spectrogram for each speaker.
US11456004B2	Methods and systems for augmenting audio content The audio content (e.g., an audio track, an audio file, an audio signal, etc.) of a content item (e.g., multimedia content, a movie, streaming content, etc.) may be modified to augment and/or include one or more auditory events, such as a sound, a plurality of sounds, a sound effect(s), a voice(s), and/or music.
US11456003B2	Estimation device, learning device, estimation method, learning method, and recording medium An estimation device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to receive an input of an input audio signal that is an audio signal in which sounds from a plurality of sound sources are mixed, and an input of supplemental information, and output an estimation result of mask information that identifies a mask for extracting a sound of any one of the sound sources included in an entire or a part of a signal included in the input audio signal, the signal being identified by the supplemental information, cause a neural network to iterate a process of outputting the estimation result of the mask information, and cause the neural network to output an estimation result of the mask information for a different sound source, by inputting a different piece of the supplemental information to the neural network at each iteration.
US11456002B2	Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding of integrated speech and audio utilizing a band expander with a spectral band replication (SBR) to output the SBR to either time or transform domain encoding according to the input signal Provided are an apparatus and a method for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal. The encoding apparatus may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a first conversion encoder to convert the input signal to a frequency domain signal, and to encode the input signal when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; a Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) encoder to perform LPC encoding of the input signal when the input signal is a speech characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream using an output.
US11455997B2	Device for processing user voice input Disclosed is a server device. At least one server according to an embodiment comprises a network interface, a storage, and at least one processor for providing a voice recognition service. The at least one processor may be configured to: receive, through the network interface, a first utterance of a first user from a first terminal of the first user registered in the voice recognition service; store the received first utterance in the storage; after storing the first utterance in the storage, receive, through the network interface, a second utterance of a second user from a second terminal of the second user registered in the voice recognition service; in response to the reception of the second utterance of the second user, generate a response message corresponding to the second utterance on the basis of the first utterance of the first user that is associated with the second user; and provide the response message to the second terminal through the network interface. Additional various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
US11455996B2	Automated assistant adaptation of a response to an utterance and/or of processing of the utterance, based on determined interaction measure Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that provides a response for certain user queries based on a level of interaction of the user with respect to the automated assistant. Interaction can be characterized by sensor data, which can be processed using one or more trained machine learning models in order to identify parameters for generating a response. In this way, the response can be limited to preserve computational resources and/or ensure that the response is more readily understood given the amount of interaction exhibited by the user. In some instances, a response that embodies information that is supplemental, to an otherwise suitable response, can be provided when a user is exhibiting a particular level of interaction. In other instances, such supplemental information can be withheld when the user is not exhibiting that particular level of interaction, at least in order to preserve computational resources.
US11455995B2	User recognition for speech processing systems Systems, methods, and devices for recognizing a user are disclosed. A speech-controlled device captures a spoken utterance, and sends audio data corresponding thereto to a server. The server determines content sources storing or having access to content responsive to the spoken utterance. The server also determines multiple users associated with a profile of the speech-controlled device. Using the audio data, the server may determine user recognition data with respect to each user indicated in the speech-controlled device's profile. The server may also receive user recognition confidence threshold data from each of the content sources. The server may determine user recognition data associated that satisfies (i.e., meets or exceeds) a most stringent (i.e., highest) of the user recognition confidence threshold data. Thereafter, the server may send data indicating a user associated with the user recognition data to all of the content sources.
US11455991B2	Voice-assistant activated virtual card replacement A device may receive a command associated with identifying a merchant for a virtual card swap procedure wherein the virtual card swap procedure is to replace a credit card of a user with a virtual card corresponding to the credit card. The device may identify the merchant for the virtual card swap procedure based on the command. The device may obtain the virtual card for the user. The device may determine a virtual card swap procedure template for the merchant. The device may perform the virtual card swap procedure based on the virtual card swap procedure template.
US11455989B2	Electronic apparatus for processing user utterance and controlling method thereof A method for processing a voice input and a system therefor are provided. The system includes a microphone, a speaker, a processor, and a memory. The processor, in a first operation, receives a first voice input including a first wake-up keyword, selects a first response model based on the first voice input, receives a second voice input after the first voice input, processes the second voice input, using an NLU module, generates a first response based on the processed second voice input, in a second operation, receives a third voice input including a second wake-up keyword different from the first wake-up keyword, selects a second response model based on the third voice input, receives a fourth voice input after the third voice input, processes the fourth voice input, using the NLU module, and generates a second response based on the processed fourth voice input.
US11455987B1	Multiple skills processing Described herein is a system for enabling a user to perform complex goals using multiple skills/applications of an intelligent assistant device. Skills may register as consumers of an action or providers of an action, and the consumer skills may be configured to invoke provider skills to perform actions. The system receives a request to perform an action from a skill along with some action data. The system validates the action data, selects another skill to perform the action, and forwards the request to the selected skill to perform the action.
US11455985B2	Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus determines, on the basis of a speech of a user to be evaluated, a reference feature quantity representing a feature of the user's speech at normal times, acquires audio feature quantity data of a target speech to be evaluated made by the user, and evaluates the feature of the target speech on the basis of a comparison result between the audio feature quantity of the target speech and the reference feature quantity.
US11455983B2	Output provision using query syntax One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an audio input device associated with an information handling device, an audible user query; identifying, using a processor, syntactic aspects of the audible user query; determining, based at least in part on the syntactic aspects and regardless of whether a trained answer to the audible user query is available, an answer responsive to the audible user query; and providing, using an output device associated with the information handling device, the answer. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11455982B2	Contextual utterance resolution in multimodal systems A system and method of responding to a vocal utterance may include capturing and converting the utterance to word(s) using a language processing method, such as natural language processing. The context of the utterance and of the system, which may include multimodal inputs, may be used to determine the meaning and intent of the words.
US11455981B2	Method, apparatus, and system for conflict detection and resolution for competing intent classifiers in modular conversation system A method, apparatus, and system are provided for resolving conflicts between training data conflicts by retrieving independent training data sets, each comprising a plurality of intents and end-user utterances for use in training one or more classifiers to recognize a corresponding intent from one or more of the end-user utterances, providing a first test end-user utterance associated with a first intent from the first independent training data set to the one or more classifiers to select an output intent generated by the one or more classifiers; identifying a first conflict when the first intent does not match the output intent, and automatically generating, by the system, one or more conflict resolution recommendations for display and selection by an end user to resolve the first conflict.
US11455979B2	Structural single degree of freedom face sheet acoustic liner A co-curable thermoset acoustic liner and method of forming the same includes a sound attenuating core having a plurality of core cells. An inner face sheet having a plurality of face sheet apertures is coupled to the core by an inner thermoset adhesive sheet, which has a plurality of adhesive sheet apertures. Each of the plurality of adhesive sheet apertures is aligned within a corresponding one of the plurality of face sheet apertures so that the plurality of core cells are placed in fluid communication with airflow over the inner face sheet to create a Single Degree of Freedom (SDOF) acoustic liner.
US11455978B2	Sound-absorbing construction component having extinguishing profiles and sound protection wall The invention relates to a sound-absorbing construction component, which is suitable inter alia for use outdoors. The construction element comprises a sound-absorbing absorber layer having a sound entry surface and a plurality of extinguishing profiles fully enclosed in the absorber layer and arranged at a distance from one another. The extinguishing profile consists of a sound-reflecting material and has a profile inner space, which has one open side facing away from the sound entry surface. The extinguishing profile preferably comprises at least one inlet surface having numerous sound inlet openings and at least one closed reflection surface connecting to the inlet surface, wherein the reflection surface and the open side of the extinguishing profile are at a greater distance from the sound entry surface than the inlet surface. The profile inner space is hollow or completely or partially filled with the material of the absorber layer. The invention also relates to a sound protection wall having a backing layer on which numerous sound-absorbing construction components are arranged.
US11455977B2	Acoustical musical devices A drum includes a low volume drum head, a pellet chamber, and a magnetic choke. The pellet chamber is located beneath the low volume drum head. The pellet chamber is configured to hold a plurality of pellets, and the pellet chamber defines a plurality of apertures in a wall of the pellet chamber. The magnetic choke carries at least one magnet. The magnetic choke is configured to move relative to the pellet chamber so as to adjust a magnetic force imparted on the pellet chamber.
US11455967B2	Overhaul method and driving method for display device and display device The present application discloses an overhaul method and a driving method for a display device and the display device. A display panel is provided with a first screen gate driving circuit and a second screen gate driving circuit which are respectively controlled by a first frame start signal L_STV and a second frame start signal R_STV which are independent of each other.
US11455966B2	Correction method for display panel and display device The present application relates to a correction method for a display panel and a display device, including: after dividing a common electrode layer of a display panel into at least one region, applying corresponding initial voltage to each region and measuring the initial voltages; and then according to a preset voltage, firstly coarsely adjusting the initial voltage of a color shift region, and then finely adjusting a data voltage of a sub-pixel corresponding to each sub-pixel in the color shift region.
US11455962B2	Driving method and system of display assembly, and display device The present application discloses a driving method and driving system of a driving module, and a display device. A driving process of the display panel includes: receiving a first color signal and converting it into a first HSV (hue, saturation, value) spatial signal; adjusting a first saturation signal to obtain a second saturation signal; using a second color signal converted from the second saturation signal to drive the display panel. A driving process of the backlight module includes: receiving the first color signal to obtain a light source adjustment coefficient; determining the minimum color light source and using the light source adjustment coefficient to adjust the minimum color light source to obtain a fourth brightness value; driving the minimum color light source using the fourth brightness value.
US11455961B2	Display device A driver is configured to maintain a threshold compensation transistor to be ON to write a threshold compensation voltage to a storage capacitor in a threshold compensation period, and write a data signal to the storage capacitor in a data write period after the threshold compensation period. A pulse width of control signal is twice or more as long as the data write period. The driver circuit is configured to turn ON a first transistor with a start edge of a first control signal pulse before the data write period starts, maintain the first transistor to be ON and turn ON a second transistor with a start edge of a second control signal pulse to start the data write period, and turn OFF the first transistor with an end edge of the first control signal pulse to end the data write period.
US11455959B2	Display device A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes: a substrate; an active pattern including a semiconductor material disposed on the substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on the active pattern, the first conductive layer including a plurality of scan lines and a driving gate electrode; a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer including an initialization voltage line to transmit an initialization voltage; a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer, the third conductive layer including a driving voltage line to transmit a driving voltage; a fourth conductive layer disposed on the third conductive layer, the first conductive layer including a first data line that transmits a data signal; and a pixel electrode layer disposed on the fourth conductive layer, the pixel electrode layer including a plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the third conductive layer includes a connection member that is electrically connected with the initialization voltage line, and the first data line includes a projecting portion that extends in a direction away from the connection member.
US11455958B2	Display device and driving method of the same A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a driving controller configured to: generate a data signal corresponding to an input image data; generate a data voltage based on the data signal; and output the data voltage to the pixels, wherein the driving controller is configured to output the data signal in at least one driving frequency higher than a predetermined low frequency during an image transition period in a low frequency driving mode during which the data signal outputs in the low frequency.
US11455957B2	Shift register circuit with latch potential and its driving method, display panel, and display device A shift register circuit and its driving method, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The shift register circuit includes an input module, a first inverter, a second inverter, and an output module. The input module is connected to a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, and a first electrical-level terminal, to respond to signals from the second and third input terminal and control a voltage of a first node. In the first inverter, an input terminal is connected to the first node, and an output terminal is connected to a second node. In the second inverter, an input terminal is connected to the second node, and an output terminal is connected to the first node. The output module provides a signal of the fourth input terminal to an output terminal of the output module, and also provides a voltage of a first power terminal to the output terminal of the output module.
US11455955B2	Display device A display device may include a substrate, an organic light emitting element on the substrate, a pixel circuit between the substrate and the organic light emitting element, electrically connected to the organic light emitting element, and including a first transistor and a second transistor, a first metal layer between the substrate and the pixel circuit, overlapping the first transistor, and configured to receive a first voltage, and a second metal layer between the substrate and the pixel circuit, overlapping the second transistor, and configured to receive a second voltage different from the first voltage.
US11455941B2	Control device, display device and operation method thereof A control device includes a signal-output device, a signal modulation device, a storage device, and a processing device. The signal-output device outputs a plurality of data signals. The signal modulation device outputs a plurality of modulation signals. The storage device is coupled to the signal-output device and stores a large amount of display data. The processing device is coupled to the signal-output device and the signal modulation device. The processing device controls the signal-output device so that the signal-output device divides the display data and transforms the display data into the data signals according to the repeat performing number and the moving position region, so as to sequentially output the data signals. The processing device controls the signal modulation device, so that the signal modulation device sequentially outputs the modulation signals according to the pulse wave counting number and the pixel unit number.
US11455939B2	Interface circuit, source driver, and display device An interface circuit generates a timing signal indicating the timing at which to switch between a data input period and a non-input period, and outputs a second start pulse signal obtained by delaying a first start pulse signal. Anomaly detection circuits detect an anomaly that has occurred in source drivers, and a detection result selection circuit selects one of the anomaly detection circuits during the non-input period and outputs a detection result signal indicating detection results. A selector selectively outputs the second start pulse signal or the detection result signal on the basis of the timing signal.
US11455930B2	Driving system for driving a scan-type display A driving system includes a scan driving device. The scan driving device includes a configuration register, a counter, multiple comparators and a driver. The configuration register generates a counting parameter and multiple scan order parameters based on a serial input signal and a clock signal. The counter generates a counting value based on the clock signal, an enable signal and the counting parameter. Each comparator compares the counting value with a respective one of the scan order parameters to generate a comparison result. The driver generates multiple scan driving signals for driving a scan-type display based on the clock signal, on the enable signal and on the comparison results respectively generated by the comparators.
US11455928B2	Pixel structure, driving method and display device A pixel structure, a driving method and a display device are provided. The pixel structure includes a plurality of gate lines arranged in rows, a plurality of data lines arranged in columns, and a plurality of subpixel circuits arranged in an array form. Each subpixel circuit includes a subpixel and a switching element, the subpixel is electrically connected to one of the data lines via the switching element, a control electrode of the switching element is electrically connected to one of the gate lines, and the subpixels electrically connected to the same data line are in a same color.
US11455927B2	Data processing device, data driving device and system for driving display device The present disclosure relates to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for driving a display device, and more particularly, to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for speeding up data communication in a display device.
US11455926B2	Drive control method and assembly, as well as display device A drive control method, assembly, and a display device. The method is applied to a timer controller. The method comprises: generating a point-to-point configuration instruction that comprises n configuration data where n≥2; sending the point-to-point configuration instruction to a first source driver chip through a first signal line, the first source driver chip being any one of a plurality of source driver chips; and receiving a configuration response instruction sent by the first source driver chip according to the point-to-point configuration instruction through the first signal line, the configuration response instruction comprising configuration response data for each of the n configuration data.
US11455924B1	System and method for LCD display panel failure diagnostics A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a LCD panel and a source driver. The LCD panel includes pixel data inputs and a failure sensing circuit. The pixel data inputs are coupled to columns of pixel elements. The failure sensing circuit provides a failure indication on an output of the LCD panel. In a test mode, the source driver drives a first voltage onto all of the first pixel data inputs. The failure indication includes the first voltage when the LCD panel has no failures on any of the first pixel elements, and the failure indication includes any other second voltage when the LCD panel has at least one failing pixel element.
US11455923B2	Array substrate, display module, testing method for display module, display panel The present disclosure generally relates to display technologies. An array substrate includes a plurality of repeating units arranged in a first direction, each repeating unit including a plurality of connection areas and a plurality of shared testing areas arranged in an alternating manner in a row along the first direction. Each of the plurality of shared testing areas is between two adjacent connection areas and coupled to each of the two adjacent connection areas, and each of the plurality of shared testing areas includes a plurality of testing pads, a first portion of the plurality of testing pads being coupled to one of the two adjacent connection areas, a second portion of the plurality of testing pads being coupled to the other one of the two adjacent connection areas.
US11455922B2	Protective motor cover assembly A protective motor cover assembly includes a cylinder that is positionable over an outboard boat motor. The cylinder is comprised of a resiliently stretchable material to conform to contours of the outboard boat motor. The cylinder is comprised of an opaque material to protect the outboard boat motor from sunlight. Indicia are printed thereon on the cylinder to enhance the ornamental appearance of the outboard boat motor. A drawstring is slidably integrated into the cylinder. The drawstring closes the cylinder around the outboard boat motor when the drawstring is tightened for retaining the cylinder around the outboard boat motor.
US11455920B2	Floor tile screen The application provides a floor tile screen, comprising a box body (1), a rear body (2), a PCB board (3) and a front body (4), wherein the rear body (2) is fixed on the box body (1); the PCB (3) is arranged between the rear body (2) and the front body (4), and provided with lamp beads; a plurality of transparent fixing columns (41) are fixedly arranged on the front body (4), pass through the PCB board (3), fixedly connected with the rear body (2), and avoid the lamp beads. The fixing column (41) has the function of limiting the front body (4), the front body (4) and the rear body (2) are connected together by fixing columns (41), to avoid separation; the fixing columns (41) are transparent, so that the light emitted by the lamp beads is not blocked, the display effect of the floor tile screen is improved.
US11455914B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel including a folding area at which the display device is foldable or unfoldable about a folding axis and a non-folding area adjacent to the folding area, a supporter which faces the folding area and the non-folding area, and in the folding area, a pad between the display panel and the supporter, the pad protruding from the supporter to the display panel and extending parallel to the folding axis.
US11455911B2	Braille reading using fingerprint scanner and varying vibration frequencies Systems and methods for braille reading using a fingerprint scanner and varying vibration frequencies are disclosed. A method includes: obtaining, by a computer device, data defining a braille cell; identifying, by the computer device, one of six predefined areas of a fingerprint based on the one of the six predefined areas being centered on a fingerprint sensor; determining, by the computer device, a state of a braille dot of the braille cell that corresponds to the one of the six predefined areas of the fingerprint; and generating, by the computer device, one of a first type of vibration and a second type of vibration based on the determined state of the braille dot.
US11455910B2	Braille cell and associated pin support and pin actuation assemblies A braille cell and associated braille pin support and pin actuation assemblies are disclosed. The braille cell can include a frame, braille pins movable up and down between raised and lowered positions, and a pin actuation assembly to individually move the pins. The braille cell can include support arms, each of which having a base end connected to the frame and a pin end connected to and following a motion of a respective pin between its raised and lowered positions. The pin actuation assembly can include pin actuation units, each having a motor with a rotatable motor shaft and multiple cams mounted on the shaft, each for selectively actuating a respective pin. Each pin actuation unit can also include an angular position sensing system for monitoring, for example magnetically, a passage of the shaft through a reference angular position, and deriving information about a current angular position of the shaft.
US11455907B2	Adaptive vocabulary improvement A computer-implemented method includes recognizing, by a computer device, a word as a new learned word for a user; registering, by the computer device, the new leaned word in a user's new learned word list as a registered new learned word; associating, by the computer device, the registered new learned word with related known words in a user's known word library, the known word library including words known to the user; tracking, by the computer device, uses of the related known words by the user; identifying, by the computer device, a used sentence used by the user that contains one of the related known words; and suggesting, by the computer device, to the user a new sentence that replaces the one of the related known words in the used sentence with the new learned word.
US11455904B2	Vehicle rollover simulator stabilizer and method of use A vehicle rollover simulator is provided. The rollover simulator includes a cage assembly that is rotationally suspended in a frame assembly. A transmission motor assembly is removably connected to the frame assembly and to the cage assembly to rotate the cage assembly to an inverted position for training. A brake assembly is provided that prevents rotation of the cage assembly and significantly enhances stability. The assemblies of the simulator can be disassembled and are sized to be readily carried by hand through typically dimensioned doorways, hallways and stairwells such that manually moving the rollover simulator is readily accomplished.
US11455903B2	Performing a remediation based on a Bayesian multilevel model prediction A website may track online activities, such as assignments and/or assessment, of students taking online digital courses (courses). Courseware-level data and student-level data may be extracted from the tracked online activities and as well as student registration data. Institutional-level data may be generated from data regarding the institutions that teach the courses. Teacher-level data may be generated for the teachers teaching the courses. A teacher or student may request on a website an analysis of a course. Data for the course may be weighted in the courseware-level data. Data for the student(s), institution and/or teacher may also be weighted, depending on the desired analysis. A Bayesian multi-level model may generate a plurality of posterior distributions using the collected data. A prediction of a difficult subject matter may be determined from the plurality of posterior distributions and used to select a targeted remediation that may be performed on a website.
US11455902B2	System and method for displaying a large number of participants in a videoconference Systems and methods for displaying a large number of participants in videoconference are described. The participant's video feeds are presented in a continuous scrolling manner, such that each participant's video feed is visible for a part of the time. The participants may select the number of videos displayed at one time on a grid. The system and method monitor which video feeds are being, or about to be displayed, and streams the feeds accordingly. The system and method also provide for classroom-like settings by allowing students to “raise their hand” and be “called on” by an instructor. By scrolling though all of the videos in a meeting, people that are running a session can monitor the other participants, permitting them to select someone to focus on, and allows the other participants to see each other, producing a “sense of belonging.”
US11455895B2	Roof scan using unmanned aerial vehicle Described herein are systems for roof scan using an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some methods include capturing, using an unmanned aerial vehicle, an overview image of a roof of a building from above the roof; presenting a suggested bounding polygon overlaid on the overview image to a user; determining a bounding polygon based on the suggested bounding polygon and user edits; based on the bounding polygon, determining a flight path including a sequence of poses of the unmanned aerial vehicle with respective fields of view at a fixed height that collectively cover the bounding polygon; fly the unmanned aerial vehicle to a sequence of scan poses with horizontal positions matching respective poses of the flight path and vertical positions determined to maintain a consistent distance above the roof; and scanning the roof from the sequence of scan poses to generate a three-dimensional map of the roof.
US11455894B2	Structure scan using unmanned aerial vehicle Described herein are systems and methods for structure scan using an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some methods include accessing a three-dimensional map of a structure; generating facets based on the three-dimensional map, wherein the facets are respectively a polygon on a plane in three-dimensional space that is fit to a subset of the points in the three-dimensional map; generating a scan plan based on the facets, wherein the scan plan includes a sequence of poses for an unmanned aerial vehicle to assume to enable capture, using image sensors of the unmanned aerial vehicle, of images of the structure; causing the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly to assume a pose corresponding to one of the sequence of poses of the scan plan; and capturing one or more images of the structure from the pose.
US11455893B2	Trajectory classification and response A method includes obtaining multiple sets of trajectory data, each descriptive of trajectories of two or more objects (e.g., first and second objects). The method also includes generating transformed trajectory data based on the trajectory data. Each set of transformed trajectory data is descriptive of the trajectories of the two or more objects in a normalized reference frame in which a movement path of the first object is constrained. The method further includes generating feature data, performing a clustering operation based on the feature data to generate a set of trajectory clusters, and generating training data based on the set of trajectory clusters. The method further includes using the training data to train a machine learning classifier to classify particular trajectory patterns.
US11455891B2	Reducing autonomous vehicle downtime and idle data usage Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle to reduce idle data usage and vehicle downtime are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain data associated with autonomous vehicle(s) that are online with a service entity. The computing system can obtain data indicative of the geographic area with an imbalance in a number of vehicles associated with the geographic area. The computing system can determine a first autonomous vehicle for re-positioning with respect to the geographic area based at least in part on the data associated with the one or more autonomous vehicles and the data indicative of the geographic. The computing system can communicating data indicative of a first re-positioning assignment associated with the first autonomous vehicle. In some implementations, the computing system can generate vehicle service incentive to entice a vehicle provider to re-position its autonomous vehicles with respect to the geographic area.
US11455889B2	Apparatus and method for controlling remote parking in vehicle An apparatus for controlling remote parking in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic sensor that measures a distance from the vehicle to an obstruction and a receiver that receives a surround view monitoring (SVM) image. A controller executes remote parking of the vehicle by selectively using the distance from the obstruction, the distance being measured by the ultrasonic sensor, and the SVM image received by the receiver.
US11455886B2	Dynamic vehicular passageway information using ad-hoc network and templatized connection A method includes receiving over a first dedicated traffic channel, DTCH parameters for a second DTCH from a first information providing device; broadcasting a connect command to a second information providing device to establish the second DTCH between the computing device and the second information providing device in a single communication handshake, the connect command comprising the DTCH parameters; receiving over the second DTCH, an electronic traffic signal associated with an area of a vehicular passageway associated with the second information providing device; determining from the electronic traffic signal, a predetermined value of a vehicular passageway parameter associated with the area; comparing the predetermined value with a current vehicle value of the vehicular passageway parameter; generating a command to display an indication in a vehicle as a result of the comparing; and transmitting the command to a display in the vehicle.
US11455883B2	Method and apparatus for providing radio-frequency shielding information An article of clothing can include a clothing body adapted to be worn by a user. The article of clothing can include a pocket assembly formed as part of the clothing body. The pocket assembly can include an inner panel disposed as a part of the pocket assembly. The inner panel can include an electrically conductive material. The pocket assembly can also include an outer panel disposed as a part of the pocket assembly that is farther than the inner panel from a user wearing the article of clothing. The article of clothing can include an RFID tag coupled to the clothing body. The RFID tag can store radio-frequency shielding information regarding the electrically conductive material of the article of clothing.
US11455879B2	Vehicle safety alert system A system for indicating occupant presence within a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a driver's seat that has a plurality of sensors, a passenger's seat that has a plurality of sensors, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is operatively associated with and in communication with the sensors. The electronic control unit initiates an alert in the form of, for example, a car alarm and/or message and is capable of performing other safety actions based upon predetermined conditions being met that are based on information received from the sensors in the driver's seat and the passenger's seat.
US11455877B2	System and method of reducing energy consumption of datalogger devices while maintaining high sampling rate and real time alarm function A system for reducing energy consumption of datalogger devices while maintaining high sampling rate and real time alarm function is provided. The system comprises a datalogger device, an algorithm stored in the datalogger device, and an application stored in the datalogger device that when executed implements a regular high sampling interval and extended server update interval for non-emergency situations and based on detection of an alarm, implements an emergency state. Based on the implementation, the application sends an immediate alert to the server, maintains the high sampling rate, shortens update interval in accordance with at least algorithm processing of inputs, continues updating on the shortened interval based at least on continued algorithm processing, determines, based on at least one change in alarm activity, to exit the emergency state, and returns to the extended update interval.
US11455876B2	Methods for monitoring security Methods are disclosed that, in some aspects, provide detecting an alarm event, determining whether the alarm event is a deviation from predefined criteria, and transmitting an alert notification to users of the security system if the alarm event is a deviation from the predefined criteria. The predefined criteria may relate to the location or type of one or more sensors of the security system, the location of users of the security system, the time of day, activities within the premises, and/or behavioral patterns of the users learned by the security system. Information transmitted in the alert notification may relate to the location of one or more users of the security system, the data recorded by one or more sensors of the security system, the state of alert of the security system, and/or confidential information required to terminate the alarm event.
US11455875B2	Adaptive fire detection A fire detection system (10) includes a plurality of smoke detectors (14) positioned for detection of smoke within one or more smoke detection volumes (12a, 12b). The fire detection system (10) is configured to monitor occupancy of the smoke detection volumes (12a, 12b) or to receive data indicative of occupancy of the smoke detection volumes (12a, 12b), for example from an intrusion detection system (20). The fire detection system (10) is configured to adjust a smoke sensitivity associated with each of the smoke detectors (14) based on the occupancy of the respective smoke detection volume (12a, 12b), with the smoke sensitivity being decreased when the respective smoke detection volume (12a, 12b) is occupied.
US11455874B2	Electrical alarm and methods of making and using the alarm A security tag including: a housing and circuitry which detects a locked state, the circuitry configured to execute a signal transfer function responsive to interchanging a pin and a lanyard in the circuitry, and/or the housing including a replaceable battery compartment locked by inserting either the pin or the lanyard into a lock mechanism which differently secures the pin and the lanyard; and an alarm, in communication with the circuitry, triggered by an undisarmed breach of the locked state.
US11455869B2	Updating shopping list based on analysis of images A method for automatically updating electronic shopping lists of customers of retail stores may include accessing an electronic shopping list of a customer of a retail store, the electronic shopping list including at least one product associated with a shopping order; receiving image data from a plurality of image sensors mounted in the retail store; analyzing the image data to predict an inventory shortage of the at least one product included on the electronic shopping list, wherein the predicted inventory shortage is expected to occur prior to fulfillment of the shopping order; and automatically updating the electronic shopping list based on the predicted inventory shortage of the at least one product.
US11455867B2	Method of operating a gaming system, a gaming system and a game controller An electronic method of operating a gaming system. The method includes selecting a plurality of symbols, displaying the selected symbols, and upon the displayed symbols including one or more designated symbols, retaining each displayed designated symbol for a subsequent game round at a respective symbol display position at which the designated symbol is displayed. The method also includes, in the subsequent game round, selecting, a plurality of symbols from the symbol data, upon a further designated symbol being selected for display at a symbol display position at which the retained designated symbol is displayed, modifying the retained designated symbol to indicate that a win containing the retained designated symbol will be increased, and upon the selected symbols in the subsequent game round corresponding to a winning outcome incorporating the modified retained designated symbol, making an award of an award value corresponding to the winning outcome modifier by the increase.
US11455862B2	Devices for gaming A computing device for gaming by patrons. An identification acceptor may scan an identification document into digital form. A biological sensor such as a camera may obtain biological data describing a human patron. A currency acceptor and dispenser may accept money. The computing device may obtain biological data describing the patron. The computing device may verify the identity of the patron and acceptability of the patron for gaming based at least in part on the digital form of the patron's identification and the biological data. The computing device may accept currency for deposit into a wagering account. Once the patron is verified and the account is funded, the computing device may offer gaming activities to the verified patron out of the wagering account, and pay out gaming winnings at the currency dispenser.
US11455860B2	Method and system for linking casino games and on-line social network games Social media activities associated with an on-line social media system are linked to casino game activities and casino gaming machines. A player of a casino gaming machine may access a social media website via the casino gaming machine, such as to play a social media game at the casino gaming machine. A player may also access the social media system from a presentation computing device and, via that system, link to a casino gaming machine to play one or more casino wagering games. Social media currency and casino monetary credits may be exchanged or converted and other aspects of casino game play and social media activities may be integrated.
US11455856B2	Paper sheet handling device The present invention is provided with: a heat source unit; a heat detection unit that detects the intensity of light of a prescribed wavelength obtained from paper sheets in which heat provided from the heat source unit is stored; and a control unit that detects, on the basis of the intensity of the light of the prescribed wavelength obtained from the paper sheets, a repaired paper sheet which has been repaired with a repair member.
US11455851B2	Hazardous energy control system A hazardous energy control system has a web-based application adapted to be associated with a personal electronic device. The application has a worksite manager that is created from project documents that are uploaded to the application and selectively displays locations for equipment and hazardous energy barriers.
US11455850B2	Power converter for transferring power It is presented a power converter for transferring electric power provided on an input terminal to an energy storage element. The power converter comprises: an inductor; a switch connected to selectively control a connection between the inductor and the input terminal; and a comparator, wherein an output of the comparator controls the switch, a first input of the comparator is supplied with a voltage being proportional to a voltage of the input terminal, and a second input of the comparator is supplied with a voltage being proportional to a current from the input terminal; wherein the energy storage element is connected to a point between the inductor and the switch.
US11455845B2	Fuel property diagnostic device A fuel property diagnostic device configured to diagnose properties of fuel for a vehicle includes a computer configured to diagnose the properties of the fuel for each region based on the number of vehicles with clogging. The number of vehicles with clogging is the number of vehicles in which an internal combustion engine provided with an exhaust gas control device in an exhaust passage is mounted, the exhaust gas control device includes a filter for capturing particulate matter contained in an exhaust gas, and the filter is clogged.
US11455840B2	Method, device and computer-readable storage medium with instructions for processing data in a motor vehicle for forwarding to a back end A method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium with instructions for processing data in a motor vehicle for forwarding to a back end. In a first step, sensor data are detected along a route of the motor vehicle. On the basis of the sensor data, features and context information on the features are then identified within segments of the route. Finally, the features and the context information on the features are combined into a message for the route.
US11455839B2	Network connection outage prediction due to antenna failure using machine learning A system for predicting an outage for a commercial passenger vehicle is described. The system includes a storage configured to store flight information of the commercial passenger vehicle that includes an antenna configured to assist a network connectivity for devices in the commercial passenger vehicle to remote devices, the flight information including travel information of the commercial passenger vehicle and antenna-related information of the antenna; and a server configured to apply a machine learning algorithm that (1) processes the flight information and (2) generate an output indicative of a probability of an antenna-related outage of the network connectivity that is caused due to a failure of the antenna based on processed flight information.
US11455836B2	Dynamic motion detection method and apparatus, and storage medium The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for dynamic action detection and dynamic action control. A dynamic action detection method includes: adding an image frame in a video stream into a first queue, to obtain the first queue with a partially updated image frame; detecting a dynamic action in the partially updated image frame; and in response to the dynamic action not matching with the action detection result, updating an action detection result according to the dynamic action, the action detection result including an action reference result or a previously detected action detection result. A dynamic action detection in the present disclosure is executed according to the partially updated image frame in the first queue, so that the dynamic action can be detected more timely; and the dynamic action can also be rapidly determined, so that the action detection result is more accurate and the detection efficiency is higher.
US11455829B2	System, method, and computer program for capturing an image with correct skin tone exposure A system and method are provided for capturing an image with correct skin tone exposure. In use, one or more faces are detected having threshold skin tone within a scene. Next, based on the detected one or more faces, the scene is segmented into one or more face regions and one or more non-face regions. A model of the one or more faces is constructed based on a depth map and a texture map, the depth map including spatial data of the one or more faces, and the texture map includes surface characteristics of the one or more faces. The one or more images of the scene are captured based on the model. Further, in response to the capture, the one or more face regions are processed to generate a final image.
US11455827B2	High confidence predicted profiles for online dating matching using continuously learning machine learning models trained for each user with physical and facial attributes Machine learning models can be trained to vend profiles with a high likelihood of matching with a user comprises: training machine learning models with feature vectors representing potential profile matches identified as input to a user match selection process, updating the trained models with feature vectors identified as further input to the selection process, in response to the updating, swapping the trained model out of and a further trained machine learning model into a foreground execution space, resulting in the untrained model being in the foreground and the trained model being in a processing background, after satisfying a defined criterion, injecting an outlier potential match entity as supplemental input to the further training with a supplemental feature vector as further input to the selection process, determining respective confidence values corresponding to candidate profiles accessible to the selection process, and rendering profile images of candidate profiles for the selection process.
US11455825B2	Method and device for selecting a fingerprint image in a sequence of images for authentication or identification A method for selecting an image of a fingerprint for identifying an individual is described. The method includes: acquiring a current image comprising a fingerprint and segmenting said fingerprint; determining a value representing a stability of said current image; determining a value representing the sharpness of said current image; determining a score, said score being a combination of said value representing a stability, of said value representing a sharpness and of a number of segmented fingerprints; and selecting said current image for identifying said individual in the case where said score is higher than a first threshold value, and otherwise storing said current image in memory as best image in the case where the score thereof is higher than a best score value, and repeating this method.
US11455818B2	Electronic device comprising adhesive member An electronic device includes: a display module; a first adhesive member having a multi-layered structure and having a first adhesive surface attached on a back surface of the display module; and a sensing module including a sensing area, the sensing area being attached on a second adhesive surface facing the first adhesive surface of the first adhesive member.
US11455811B2	System and method for verifying authenticity of an anti-counterfeiting element, and method for building a machine learning model used to verify authenticity of an anti-counterfeiting element A system for verifying authenticity of an anti-counterfeiting element includes a model building module and a verifying module. The model building module has a pre-processing sub-module for receiving original images of a same reference element and for making adjustments to the original images to form a plurality of true-element images. A training sub-module trains a deep neural network based on the true-element images to build a machine learning model. The verifying module obtains images of the anti-counterfeiting element, and inputs the images into the machine learning model to determine whether the anti-counterfeiting element is authentic or unauthentic.
US11455810B2	Driver attention state estimation A disclosed system is configured to estimate an attention state of a subject within a scene. An imaging camera captures digital images of the subject and one or more light sources illuminate the subject during a period in which the digital images are captured. The system also includes a processor that processes the captured images to generate subject attention data of the subject. The processor further generates a primary visual attention ray of the subject from current subject attention data; generates a distribution of visual attention rays having an origin common to the primary visual attention ray; projects the visual attention rays onto a digital representation of the scene having a plurality of predefined regions of interest; determines an intersection of the projected visual attention rays with one or more of the regions of interest; and based on the intersection, estimates an attention state of the subject's attention.
US11455809B2	Method and apparatus for determining lane centerline A method and apparatus for determining lane center line are provided. The method may include obtaining a target lane in a first road segment from a database, the first road segment being a road segment having a changed lane quantity, the target lane being an added or subtracted lane, two side lane lines of the target lane being respectively connected to two side lane lines of a first lane at two endpoints of a first end of the target lane, the two side lane lines of the target lane intersecting at an intersection point at a second end of the target lane and the intersection point being connected to a side lane line of a second lane.
US11455802B2	Video feature extraction method and device A video feature extraction method and device are provided. The method includes extracting one or more frames from a video object to obtain one or more frames of images; stage-by-stage processing each of the one or more frames of images by multi-typed pooling processes to obtain an image feature of the one or more frames of images; and determining a video feature according to the image feature of the one or more frames of images. The multi-typed pooling processes include a maximum pooling process, a minimum pooling process and an average pooling process.
US11455799B2	Image networks for mobile communication A mobile communication system based on images, enabling communication between a plurality of mobile devices and servers, wherein the images have associated additional properties in the nature of voice, audio, data and other information. The system further enabling the formation of one or more image networks wherein the images are stored, organized, connected and linked to each other by one or more methods inclusive of one to one connection between images, a hierarchical connection between images and or other methods of connection between images to facilitate efficient image based communication between mobile devices, stationary devices and servers based on the mobile device identification, mobile device specific profiles and user specific profiles. The imaged base network system further having the ability to learn and form intelligent association between objects, people and other entities; between images and the associated data relating to both animate and inanimate entities for intelligent image based communication in a network.
US11455797B2	Bioprocess system and method providing automated configuration detection The present invention relates to a method of automated configuration in a bioprocess system (10) and to verify a process defined by a flow path representation. The method comprises the steps of: —capturing one image of the bioprocess system (10) comprising tubing (50) for the fluid communication between units of the bioprocess system (10); —analyzing the captured image to identify the tubing (50) connecting units of the bioprocess system (10); —producing a processed representation from the captured image wherein at least a part of the tubing (50) is identified; and —comparing the processed representation with the flow path representation to verify their functional concordance.
US11455793B2	Robust object detection and classification using static-based cameras and events-based cameras Techniques are disclosed to facilitate, in autonomous vehicles, the robust detection and classification of objects in a scene using a static sensors in conjunction with event-based sensors. A trained system architecture may be implemented, and the fusion of both sensors thus allows for the consideration of scenes with overexposure, scenes with underexposure, as well as scenes in which there is no movement. In doing so, the autonomous vehicle may detect and classify objects in conditions in which each sensor, if operating separately, would not otherwise be able to classify (or classify with high uncertainty) due to the sensing environment.
US11455791B2	Method, device, computer program, and machine-readable storage medium for the detection of an object A method for the detection of an object in an environment of a vehicle as a function of sensor signals of a sensor for acquiring the environment of the vehicle. The method includes: processing the sensor signals using a region proposal network to obtain at least one object hypothesis per anchor, the object hypothesis including an object probability and a bounding box; selecting the best object hypothesis on the basis of a quality model, the quality model being a function of the anchor and the bounding box of the object hypothesis; identifying redundant object hypotheses relative to the selected object hypothesis, the redundant object hypotheses being identified as a function of the anchors of the redundant object hypotheses, using a target function assigned to the region proposal network; and fusing the selected object hypothesis with the identified redundant object hypotheses for the object detection.
US11455790B2	Style-based architecture for generative neural networks A style-based generative network architecture enables scale-specific control of synthesized output data, such as images. During training, the style-based generative neural network (generator neural network) includes a mapping network and a synthesis network. During prediction, the mapping network may be omitted, replicated, or evaluated several times. The synthesis network may be used to generate highly varied, high-quality output data with a wide variety of attributes. For example, when used to generate images of people's faces, the attributes that may vary are age, ethnicity, camera viewpoint, pose, face shape, eyeglasses, colors (eyes, hair, etc.), hair style, lighting, background, etc. Depending on the task, generated output data may include images, audio, video, three-dimensional (3D) objects, text, etc.
US11455780B2	Graphical user interface for creating data structures used for computing simulated surfaces for animation generation and other purpose A graphical user interface (GUI) is configured for displaying surfaces of simulated objects within a scene. The GUI comprises a selector to choose between displaying the scene as: a plurality of particles, wherein each particle comprises a plurality of attributes; a plurality of ellipsoids formed from the plurality of particles, wherein dimensions and orientation of each ellipsoid depend on the number and direction of neighboring ellipsoids within a search radius of the ellipsoid; or one or more splatted or rasterized surfaces formed from the plurality of ellipsoids. The GUI further includes a display window within which the GUI displays the scene.
US11455765B2	Method and apparatus for generating virtual avatar A method and apparatus for generating a virtual avatar are provided. The method may include: acquiring a first avatar, and determining an expression parameter of the first avatar, where the expression parameter of the first avatar including an expression parameter of at least one of five sense organs; and determining, based on the expression parameter of at least one of the five sense organs, a target virtual avatar that is associated with an attribute of the first avatar and has an expression of the first avatar.
US11455753B1	Systems and methods to process electronic images to adjust attributes of the electronic images Systems and methods are disclosed for adjusting attributes of whole slide images, including stains therein. A portion of a whole slide image comprised of a plurality of pixels in a first color space and including one or more stains may be received as input. Based on an identified stain type of the stain(s), a machine-learned transformation associated with the stain type may be retrieved and applied to convert an identified subset of the pixels from the first to a second color space specific to the identified stain type. One or more attributes of the stain(s) may be adjusted in the second color space to generate a stain-adjusted subset of pixels, which are then converted back to the first color space using an inverse of the machine-learned transformation. A stain-adjusted portion of the whole slide image including at least the stain-adjusted subset of pixels may be provided as output.
US11455748B2	Method and device for up-sampling a point cloud This method for up-sampling a point cloud representing a 3D object, comprises: —detecting (2) points belonging to at least one under-sampled region of the point cloud on the basis of at least one desirable sampling rate (K); —obtaining (12), for each detected point, an associated tangent plane; —inserting (14) in the point cloud at least one neighboring point of each detected point if a distance between the neighboring point and the tangent plane associated with the detected point is less than a first threshold.
US11455742B2	Imaging systems including real-time target-acquisition and triangulation features and human-machine interfaces therefor Imaging systems that automatically calculate, in real time, relative locations of acquired targets relative to datum targets. In some embodiments, an imaging system of this disclosure can be instantiated as a handheld imaging device having a live-view imaging system or a thermal imaging system, or both. Some embodiments include a ranging system that fires upon the release of a hard button to minimize movement of the imaging system during target acquisition. Some embodiments include speed estimating and/or time of arrival estimating features. Some embodiments can communicate with an external device, such as a central controller device. A central controller device of this disclosure may include triangulation, speed estimating, and/or time of arrival estimating features. Some embodiments of a central control device may allow users to set up and make mission assignments. Some embodiments allow sharing of data among devices, in some cases only on a mission-by-mission basis.
US11455740B2	System and method of operation for remotely operated vehicles for simultaneous localization and mapping The present invention provides systems and methods for simultaneous localization and mapping from video with adversarial shape prior learning in real-time. For example, an unsupervised direct and dense SLAM may learn a geometry prior from data. Given a video sequence, a depth map of a target frame, as well as the target frame and the camera motions between the target frame and all the remaining frames may be output. Further, by fusing a camera motion estimate with a positional sensor's output, positional drift and the need for loop closure can be avoided.
US11455737B2	Multiple-scale digital image correlation pattern and measurement A method and apparatus for digital image correlation. A camera system is used to obtain larger scale images of a larger scale dot pattern on a surface of a workpiece and smaller scale images of a smaller scale dot pattern on the surface of the same workpiece. The smaller scale dot pattern forms a larger dot in the larger scale dot pattern in the larger scale images. The larger scale images and the smaller scale images may be used to determine a measurement of the workpiece.
US11455730B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a first extraction unit configured to extract a first target region from an image using a trained classifier, a setting unit configured to set region information to be used in a graph cut segmentation method based on a first extraction result including the first target region, a second extraction unit configured to extract a second target region using the graph cut segmentation method based on the set region information, and a generation unit configured to generate a ground truth image corresponding to the image based on a second extraction result including the second target region.
US11455727B2	Method and apparatus for excessive materials removal from intraoral scans A method includes determining the following for each point in a second intraoral scan based on a comparison of a first intraoral scan to the second intraoral scan: whether a surface normal at the point is co-directional with a viewing direction associated with the first intraoral scan, wherein points in the second intraoral scan that have a surface normal that is co-directional with the first viewing direction are back-face points; and whether the point is behind a corresponding point in the first intraoral scan, wherein points in the second intraoral scan that are not behind corresponding points in the first intraoral scan are uncovered points. The method further includes determining a region comprising a plurality of points in the second intraoral scan that are uncovered back-face points, determining that the region satisfies one or more removal criteria, and removing the region from the second intraoral.
US11455725B2	Embryo viability evaluation using AI/ML analysis of real-time video A computer-implemented method for predicting an embryo outcome by processing video image data of the embryo. The method includes receiving image data derived from video of a target embryo taken at substantially real-time frame speed during an embryo observation period of time. The video contains recorded morphokinetic movement of the target embryo occurring during the embryo observation period of time. The movement is represented in the received image data and the received image data is processed using a model generated utilizing machine learning and correlated embryo outcome data.
US11455720B2	Apparatus for ultrasound diagnosis of liver steatosis using feature points of ultrasound image and remote medical-diagnosis method using the same Disclosed herein are an apparatus for automatic ultrasound diagnosis of liver steatosis using feature points in an ultrasound image, which can automatically determine a grade of liver steatosis, which is difficult to determine visually, through extraction from an image acquired by medical imaging, and a remote medical diagnosis method using the same.
US11455719B2	Image based analysis of samples A method of image-based analysis of multiple samples includes using a sample holder having multiple locations of interest and multiple focal structures that are each associated, one or more, with the multiple locations of interest, wherein the multiple samples are dispersed across the multiple locations of interest and obtaining image areas of the multiple locations of interest. Multiple digital image areas are thus obtained for use in an analysis of the multiple samples with each of the image areas including at least one of the locations of interest and at least one of the focal structures. An image processing algorithm is used to analyse each of the digital image areas and check if the focal structure indicates that the image area is in clear focus. An indication is provided and/or remedial action is taken if the image processing algorithm indicates that any digital image areas are out of focus.
US11455718B2	Predicting overall survival in early stage lung cancer with feature driven local cell graphs (FEDEG) Embodiments include accessing an image of a region of tissue demonstrating cancerous pathology; detecting a plurality of cells represented in the image; segmenting a cellular nucleus of a first member of the plurality of cells and a cellular nucleus of at least one second, different member of the plurality of cells; extracting a set of nuclear morphology features from the plurality of cells; constructing a feature driven local cell graph (FeDeG) based on the set of nuclear morphology features and a spatial relationship between the cellular nuclei using a mean-shift clustering approach; computing a set of FeDeG features based on the FeDeG; providing the FeDeG features to a machine learning classifier; receiving, from the machine learning classifier, a classification of the region of tissue as a long-term or a short-term survivor, based, at least in part, on the set of FeDeG features; and displaying the classification.
US11455716B2	Image analysis of applied adhesive with fluorescence enhancement Systems and methods are described herein for analyzing the application of adhesives. An adhesive comprising a fluorescent property is applied to a component. The component is illuminated using one or more of wavelengths of light from a light source, wherein the adhesive is configured to absorb the one or more wavelengths of light and fluoresce in response. An image of the component is captured using a camera while the component is illuminated using the light source. One or more fluorescence characteristics from the image are determined and a state of the applied adhesive is determined based on the one or more fluorescence characteristics.
US11455715B2	Epitaxy metrology in fin field effect transistors There is provided a system and method of performing a measurement with respect to an epitaxy formed in a finFET, the epitaxy being separated with at least one adjacent epitaxy by at least one HK fin. The method comprises obtaining an image of the epitaxy and the at least one HK fin, and a gray level (GL) profile indicative of GL distribution of the image; detecting edges of the at least one HK fin; determining two inflection points of the GL profile within an area of interest in the image; performing a critical dimension (CD) measurement between the two inflection points; determining whether to apply correction to the CD measurement based on a GL ratio indicative of a relative position between the epitaxy and the at least one HK fin; and applying correction to the CD measurement upon the GL ratio meeting a predetermined criterion.
US11455714B2	Multi-access edge computing methods and systems for computer-vision-based product compliance verification An exemplary computer vision system implemented by a multi-access edge computing (“MEC”) server integrated within a provider network accesses an image captured by an image capture device coupled with the MEC server via the provider network. The image depicts a product that is to comply with a predefined product standard. The computer vision system identifies a criterion that is associated with the predefined product standard, and a region of the image that is associated with a product condition that is to be verified for compliance with the criterion. The computer vision system determines whether the product condition complies with the identified criterion for the identified region of the image, and, based on this determination, generates compliance verification data indicative of whether the product complies with the predefined product standard. The computer vision system also provides the compliance verification data to a monitoring system separate from the MEC server.
US11455713B2	Automatic document processing Techniques are disclosed relating to determining whether document objects included in an image correspond to known document types. In some embodiments, a computing system maintains information specifying a set of known document types. In some embodiments, the computing system receives an image that includes objects. In some embodiments, the computing system analyzes, using a first neural network, the image to identify a document object and location information specifying a location of the document object within the image. In some embodiments, the computing system determines, using a second neural network, whether the document object within the image corresponds to a document type specified in the set of known document types, where the determining is performed based on the location information of the document object. In some embodiments, disclosed techniques may assist in automatically extracting information from documents, which in turn may advantageously decrease processing time for onboarding new customers.
US11455712B2	Method and apparatus for enhancing stereo vision A method and apparatus for segmenting an image are provided. The method may include the steps of clustering pixels from one of a plurality of images into one or more segments, determining one or more unstable segments changing by more than a predetermined threshold from a prior of the plurality of images, determining one or more segments transitioning from an unstable to a stable segment, determining depth for one or more of the one or more segments that have changed by more than the predetermined threshold, determining depth for one or more of the one or more transitioning segments, and combining the determined depth for the one or more unstable segments and the one or more transitioning segments with a predetermined depth of all segments changing less than the predetermined threshold from the prior of the plurality of images.
US11455708B2	Display apparatus and operating method thereof A tone mapping apparatus includes a dynamic tone mapping module configured to generate a first tone mapping curve based on a luminance distribution histogram of input image data and generate first image data from the input image data using the first tone mapping curve, and a processor configured to generate an RGB distribution histogram, a detail region histogram and a high-luminance region histogram based on pixel information of the first image data, generate a second tone mapping curve using the RGB distribution histogram, the detail region histogram and the high-luminance region histogram and generate output image data from the first image data using the second tone mapping curve.
US11455706B2	Electronic apparatus, control method thereof and electronic system An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes: a memory configured to store a downscaling network of a first artificial intelligence model, a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, and a processor connected to the memory and the communication interface and configured to control the electronic apparatus, wherein the processor is configured to: obtain an output image in which an input image is downscaled by inputting the input image the downscaling network, control the communication interface to transmit the output image to another electronic apparatus, and wherein the first artificial intelligence model is configured to be learned based on: a sample image, a first intermediate image obtained by inputting the sample image to the downscaling network, a first final image obtained by inputting the first intermediate image to an upscaling network of the first artificial intelligence model, a second intermediate image in which the sample image is downscaled by a legacy scaler, and a second final image in which the first intermediate image is upscaled by the legacy scaler.
US11455704B2	Apparatus and method A data processing apparatus includes rendering circuitry to render an image frame by plural successive rendering stages, each rendering stage having a respective initial rendering stage time allocation, prediction circuitry to predict, in dependence upon rendering of at least one rendering stage of the plural successive rendering stages of a given image frame by the rendering circuitry, whether a total time period for rendering the given image frame by the rendering circuitry will exceed an associated image frame rendering time allocation for the given image frame, and allocation circuitry to vary the respective initial rendering stage time allocation for one or more rendering stages which are not yet completed in respect of the given image frame responsive to the prediction circuitry, so as to shorten the total time period for rendering the given image frame by the rendering circuitry.
US11455703B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor system including the same In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a semiconductor system includes a first semiconductor device coupled to a first transmission line, and configured to transmit a first packet to a second transmission line on the basis of first destination information of the first packet received through the first transmission line; a second semiconductor device coupled to the first semiconductor device through the second transmission line, and configured to transmit a second packet to a third transmission line on the basis of second destination information of the second packet received through the second transmission line; and a third semiconductor device coupled to the second semiconductor device through the third transmission line, coupled to the first semiconductor device through the first transmission line, and configured to transmit a third packet to the first transmission line on the basis of third destination information of the third packet received through the third transmission line.
US11455702B2	Weights embedded to minimize visibility change The present disclosure relates generally improving visibility artifacts associated with encoded signals. A visibility change for local image areas associated with an encoded signal can be determined through use of a plurality of channel-specific contrast sensitivity functions. Of course, other features, and related claims and combinations are provided as well.
US11455701B2	Presenting context-based guidance using electronic signs Computer-implemented functionality is described herein for assisting a user in interacting with an environment. In one implementation, the functionality operates by: determining that a particular user is within a prescribed proximity to an electronic sign, or will be in prescribed proximity to the electronic sign, based on sensor information provided by one or more sensors within the environment; determining an identity of the user; determining at least one destination of the user based at least on calendar information; providing directions to the destination(s), to provide unfiltered direction information; optionally filtering the unfiltered direction information with respect to restriction information (e.g., privacy information, security information, etc.), to produce filtered direction information; composing sign information based on the filtered direction information; and sending the sign information to the electronic sign for presentation by the sign.
US11455697B2	Method of converting senior rental real property into private title ownership for senior person A rental real property converting method for seniors includes the steps of (a) executing a preliminary sale agreement between the seniors as conditional purchasers and a seller of the rental real property; (b) converting apartments of the rental real property into a plurality of condominium properties that a sole ownership of the rental real property is converted into multiple ownerships for sale units, wherein a market value of each of the condominium properties must be higher than a sale price of the corresponding to apartment of the rental real property; and (c) selling the condominium property to the respective conditional purchaser, wherein an amount of the “reverse mortgage” loan, in responsive to the market value of the respective condominium property, is pre-arranged for paying off the corresponding apartment of the rental real property at the sale price thereof and a conversion cost of the corresponding apartment.
US11455694B2	System and methods for building a digital asset based social media application and reward platform The present disclosure relates to blockchain and social media, and more specifically, to a unified engagement platform that incentivizes blockchain use and provides avenues for companies to foster brand loyalty amongst consumers. In accordance with aspects and embodiments, a method of facilitating blockchain use is provided. The method comprises providing a social media platform in communication with a blockchain and providing each user of the platform with a blockchain account. Social media influencers and creators, brands, and retailer users of the platform, referred to as partners, are provisioned with a set of digital collectibles having value and are provided with tools to create additional digital collectibles. A partner's digital collectibles are distributed to non-partner users on the platform that support the partner, users referred to as supporters. Supporters may obtain digital collectibles by purchasing them, by engaging in social media activity that benefits the partner, offering the digital collectible, or digital collectibles may be offered by partners as contest and sweepstakes prizes. The platform uses the blockchain for the construction, management, and distribution of all digital collectibles, and each time a digital collectible is created or distributed, a transaction must be posted to the blockchain to complete the distribution.
US11455692B2	Social security benefits estimator for married couples A system for calculating estimated Social Security benefits for married couples. The system includes a benefits estimator server configured to automatically update to reflect a change in rules regarding a calculation of Social Security benefits; a rules database separate from but coupled to the benefits estimate server via a network; and a calculator configured to receive input data and to receive social security calculation rules from the rules database and further configured to transmit output data, via the benefits estimator server, based on the input data and the social security calculation rules, wherein the input data includes data regarding a primary earner and a secondary earner in the married couple, including an assumed age of death for the primary earner and an assumed age of death for the secondary earner, and wherein the output data includes benefits for a plurality of Social Security benefits categories for the married couple.
US11455689B1	System and method for enabling real-time iterative collaborative decision support A system for enabling real-time iterative collaborative decision support. The system includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions for receiving a connection request from a client device; establishing a first connection with the client device, including populating a first user interface of the client device, wherein the first user interface corresponds to the first workspace; broadcasting availability of the client device to two or more coach devices; in response to the broadcast, receiving a connection request from a first coach device; and in response to receiving the connection request from the first coach device, establishing a second connection with the first coach device, including populating a second user interface of the first coach device, wherein the second user interface corresponds to the first workspace and includes an element not included in the first user interface of the client device.
US11455688B2	Tracking liquidity order A tracking liquidity order and related market center and process are disclosed which allow posting market centers (e.g. exchanges) to fill routable, smaller orders that would have otherwise routed off the posting market center. Such tracking liquidity orders increase the liquidity of that posting market center and allow it to execute more orders internally, without having to route them to an away market center.
US11455685B2	Settlement of securities trades using append only ledgers Various of the disclosed embodiments concern systems and methods for expediting the settlement of securities traded on an exchange. A settlement system can generate electronic records of financial transactions by bundling a trade report, clearing instructions, etc., into a cryptographic ledger. Current cryptographic ledgers do not handle transactions at the rate which securities are traded. In order to improve rate processing for cryptographic ledgers sharded transaction trees are used.
US11455684B2	Method and system for collecting and using market data from various sources A system and a method for collecting and using market data. The system includes a workstation, where at least one message is entered, a transmitter, where the at least one message is transmitted, a parser for parsing the at least one message, a data recognizer for identifying relevant information in the at least one message, a processor for extracting the relevant information and a communicator for communicating the relevant information.
US11455680B2	Methods and systems to process a selection of a browser back button A method and system to process a selection of a browser back button at a client machine. The system receives a browser back button selection, associates the browser back button selection to a first user interface identifier, retrieves the first user interface based on the first user interface identifier, associates the first user interface identifier to a second user interface, and displays the second user interface responsive to selection of the browser back button.
US11455679B2	Methods and systems to browse data items Methods and Systems to browse data items are described. The system receives selections, over the network at a computer based system, from a client machine and uses the selections to identify a level of interest of a first user for a first browsing set. The first browsing set includes a first browsing concept. The system receives a query from, over the network at a computer based system including a keyword. The system automatically selects the first browsing set based on the query and the elevated level of interest of the first user for the first browsing set. The system generates a first user interface including the browsing concept. Finally, the system communicates the first user interface including the browsing concept to the client machine.
US11455676B2	Data-driven hardware configuration recommendation system based on user satisfaction rating Techniques are provided for recommending hardware configuration changes using a user satisfaction rating. One method comprises obtaining usage data indicating user activity for users on computing devices; generating a user profile for each user; clustering the users into user clusters based on the user profiles; determining, for a given user cluster, a satisfaction score for each user in the given user cluster based on the obtained usage data for each user on the computing device; providing suggested hardware upgrades for the computing device of a given user in the given user cluster, wherein the given user is selected based on a lower corresponding satisfaction score relative to the satisfaction scores of other users in the given cluster, and wherein the one or more suggested hardware upgrades are based on hardware configurations of other users in the given cluster having a higher corresponding satisfaction score.
US11455673B2	Methods, systems, and products for ordering items Electronic commerce is enhanced for customer convenience. When a selection is received for non-approved items offered by a vendor, authorization for the purchase of the item may be obtained from an administrative user. A message may be sent to an address of the administrative user to obtain the authorization.
US11455671B2	Marketplace listing generation using message metadata Systems and methods are disclosed to receive a message from a user device. The message may include metadata that includes data related to one or more specifications of the user device. The method may also determine a sales price for the user device based on the one or more specifications of the user device and create a listing for the user device that includes at least the sales price and at least one of the one or more specifications of the user device.
US11455670B2	Computer-implemented method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for a digital personal care platform A computer system receives user-specified settings for a custom formulation of a personal care product, obtains manufacturing parameters for the custom formulation based at least on part on the user-specified settings for the custom formulation; and transmits the manufacturing parameters to a manufacturing computer system. The manufacturing parameters are configured to initiate or guide a manufacturing process to produce the custom formulation of the personal care product. The computer system also receives user-specified settings for a personal care device having at least one computer-controlled component, obtains operational parameters for the personal care device based at least in part on the user-specified settings for the personal care device; and transmits the operational parameters to a remote computing device in communication with the personal care device. The operational parameters are configured to modify at least one operational characteristic of the at least one computer-controlled component of the personal care device.
US11455663B2	System and method for rendering advertisements using lookalike model A system for targeting advertising comprises a processor configured to compute a similarity score between a plurality of customers in a seed set and each of a pool of in-store purchasers having no history of online purchases from the online store of an entity. Each user in the seed set has a history of online purchases from the online store of the entity and a history of in-store purchases from stores of the entity. The processor is configured for selecting a subset of the pool of in-store purchasers having similarity scores above a predetermined threshold. The processor is configured for initiating rendering of advertisements for the online store to the subset of the pool of in-store purchasers.
US11455659B2	Display panels of point of sale systems In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include determining a transactional state of a point of sale (POS) system and, upon determining the transactional state, when the POS system is not in transactional use, automatically switching a display panel of the POS system from a first position to a second position. As an example, while in the second position, the POS system displays an advertisement on the display panel.
US11455654B2	Methods and systems for determining provenance and identity of digital advertising requests solicited by publishers and intermediaries representing publishers Described is a computer implemented method for determining provenance and identity of a digital advertising request for an advertisement solicited by at least one of a publisher and an intermediary representing the publisher. The method includes receiving, with a transceiver of a first computing device, a first message having first message metrics associated with a candidate entity for identification. The first message is processed, with a processor of the first computing device, to identify a first portion of a candidate entity identity based on the first message metrics. An output related to confidence of the candidate entity identity is produced, with the processor, based on the first portion of the candidate entity identity.
US11455649B2	Dynamically changing a tag's displayed content responsive to an individual's proximity thereto Systems and methods for dynamically changing displayed content of a tag coupled to an item. The methods comprising: detecting when an individual is in proximity to the tag; triggering operations, by a computing device remote from the tag, to obtain customer related information associated with the individual, when a detection is made that the individual is in proximity to the tag; determining, by the computing device, a price discount for the item based on the customer related information which was previously obtained; and dynamically changing the displayed content of the tag to include the price discount while the individual is still in proximity to the tag.
US11455643B2	Blockchain with transaction cancellation Some embodiments are directed to a blockchain management no device (100) configured to apply a symmetric hash function over multiple transactions received over the communication interface thus obtaining a hash value, and to generate a consensus proof over at least the hash value, and to assemble a new block (240) for inclusion in the blockchain.
US11455642B1	Distributed ledger based interchange Techniques are described for a distributed ledger based interchange system for transferring value between entities. A decentralized and distributed ledger system, such as a blockchain network, may include treasury accounts each associated with an institution that participates in the system. A particular transaction may be submitted for approval based on the votes of the peers in the distributed ledger based interchange system. If at least a threshold number of votes indicate approval, the transaction is approved. A signal may be sent to the institutional systems indicating that accounts of the sending and receiving entities may respectively be debited and credited the value of the transaction. Settlement may occur between the treasury accounts of the sending and receiving institutions on the distributed ledger system, and settlement may be performed in real time with respect to the transaction.
US11455635B2	Autonomous enrollment system and method for holder of biometric device A method for enrolling a holder of a biometric transaction device includes the following step: storing at least one biometric pattern in the device. The method further includes the following steps: a) providing the holder with a portable, mobile power connector, configured to trigger the storing; b) and/or activating the biometric pattern, the activation being carried out in response to or in association with a successful authentication of the holder. A corresponding system is also enclosed.
US11455633B2	Mobile device payments Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for conducting cardless payment transactions. One of the methods includes receiving from a first device of a first user a first message requesting a payment transaction with a second user. Using an identifier of the second user provided by the first device, sending a second message to a second device of the second user requesting approval of the transaction, wherein the second message includes an approval code. A third message is received from the second device. If the third message includes the provided approval code and is received within a threshold amount of time, the payment transaction is processed using account information received in the first message.
US11455631B2	Managing transaction requests in ledger systems Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing transaction requests in ledger systems. One of the methods includes: receiving a plurality of transaction requests by a computing system, each of the plurality of transaction requests including content information of a corresponding transaction and authentication information of the corresponding transaction, storing each of the plurality of transaction requests in a request stream by the computing system, obtaining storage information of a transaction request of the plurality of transaction requests in the request stream by the computing system, and storing the storage information of the transaction request in an index of an index stream and authentication information of a transaction corresponding to the transaction request in a storage element of a storage stream by the computing system, the storage element corresponding to the index, the index stream being associated with the storage stream.
US11455630B2	Method for secure peer-to-peer communication on a blockchain The invention comprises a computer-implemented method and system for controlling an exchange process, such as a loan, conducted between at least two parties via a blockchain such as the Bitcoin blockchain. A method according to the invention may comprise the step of generating a first blockchain transaction which includes a redeem script. The redeem script comprises a cryptographic public key associated with an initiating party and metadata which includes a hash of an exchange-related document; a redeem address; and an amount of digital currency. A second blockchain transaction is generated and published to the blockchain so as to spend the digital currency to the redeem address. This provides the advantage that the further transaction will be publically available and thus detectable by other parties once it has been published. The further transaction can provide the information necessary to trigger a response e.g. an offer from another (responding) party who publishes their response on the blockchain. Thus, the exchange process can be implemented via a multi-transaction mechanism on the blockchain rather than an alternative medium. The exchange related document may be an invitation (offer/request) which is stored off-block in a repository such as a Distributed Hash Table (DHT). The invitation may be an invitation to engage in a contract. A smart contract (and associated blockchain transaction) may be formed upon condition that a plurality of participants (e.g. lenders/borrowers) are matched with each other via one or more responses effected via transactions on the blockchain.
US11455616B2	Method, device and system for the transfer of data A method and system for transferring encrypted data from a first electronic device to a second electronic device. The method includes the steps of displaying a first encrypted two-dimensional code at the output interface of the first electronic device, reading the first encrypted two-dimensional code with the input interface of the second electronic device, and decrypting the first two-dimensional code with the second electronic device, generating a second encrypted two-dimensional code with the second electronic device, and displaying the second encrypted two-dimensional code on the output interface of the second electronic device, reading the second two-dimensional code encrypted with the input interface of the first electronic device and decrypting the second two-dimensional code with the first electronic device and generating an action on the first electronic device based on the second decrypted two-dimensional code. The second two-dimensional code is a plurality of two-dimensional codes.
US11455612B2	Payment systems and methods for managing payment card use A method, at a mobile device, of assigning a preferred payment application stored on the mobile device to a merchant, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a selection of a merchant at the mobile device; receiving a selection of a preferred payment application; and mapping the payment application to the merchant by creating a record containing an application identifier and a merchant identifier.
US11455611B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, electronic receipt system, and terminal device An information processing system includes hardware, including a processor and a memory, an information processing apparatus and a terminal device. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a storing unit and a controlling unit. The receiving unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that receives, from a store terminal, information on merchandise purchased by a customer. The storing unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that stores at least one of a weight and a volume of the merchandise associated with the customer. The controlling unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that causes information including at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise purchased by the customer to be output as output information in response to a request from the external device. The terminal device requests the output information.
US11455610B2	Shopping support system A shopping support system includes a management server, a reservation device such as a shooter, an automatic sorter, and a register.The management server specifies a reserved product to be purchased in response to an operation input to the reservation device, controls the automatic sorter to pick up the reserved product to be purchased, transmits a price thereof to the register, and cause a moving object loaded with the settled product to move to a product receiving place by autonomous driving.
US11455609B2	Point-of-sale terminal for synchronization employing ad hoc network A POS terminal for fulfilling orders includes a state processor and an order processor. The state processor queues state changes in durable order queues that correspond to orders in a restaurant. The order processor, coupled to the state processor, generates the state changes and accesses and transmits the state changes in each of the durable order queues to a synchronization server, from oldest to youngest, when operably connected to a network, where the order processor includes current order state fields corresponding to all of the orders, and where the order processor utilizes domain specific rules disposed therein to resolve conflicts in the orders occurring from state change updates received from the synchronization server which result from other state changes to the one or more orders generated by one or more other POS terminals, where one or more of the orders are received from a third-party terminal that is not on-premise with the POS terminal.
US11455607B2	Systems and methods for remotely interacting with performers and influencing live events A computer-implemented method of remotely influencing a performer at a live event via a customer mobile device is disclosed herein. The method includes: displaying a graphical user interface configured to receive user inputs; receiving a first user input including a user request for the performer at the live event; presenting predetermined terms and conditions associated with the user request; receiving a second user input including a user acceptance of the terms and conditions associated with the user request; transmitting the user request to a host server upon receiving the user acceptance of the terms and conditions associated with the user request; receiving a confirmation of the terms and conditions associated with the user request from the host server; and transmitting the user request for receipt by a performer mobile device of the performer during the live event.
US11455606B2	Tap to pay a credit bill via a computing device Various embodiments are directed to enhancing a card payment experience by a single tap of a contactless card to a user computing device. In examples, the single tap of the card may be preconfigured to cause automatic payment of a predefined amount toward a card balance. If the single tap is not preconfigured to mean automatic card payment, the user may be presented with a notification and various payment amount options, which the user can select to pay toward the card balance.
US11455603B2	Payment via financial service provider using network-based device A system includes an interface to receive a request associated with a third party at a financial service provider from a network-based device associated with a user. The request includes an identifier that identifies an offer. The system further includes a revenue share application configured to determine whether the transaction involves a plurality of third parties and to determine a payment share for each party of the plurality of third parties based on the transaction involving the plurality of third parties. A payment transfer module transfers the payment share from an account of the user to each account associated with each party of the plurality of third parties.
US11455602B2	System and method for screening and processing applicants Disclosed are systems and methods for performing efficient job applicant screening In particular, a network-based system is established for gathering applicant information from an applicant remotely. Analysis of the received information is performed and evaluated pursuant to a first level of screening that can be done without excessive use of resources. Upon passing the first level screening, background checks and/or interviews, which require substantial resources, are further conducted. Applicants who pass the first level of screening are scheduled for interviews, including the optional initiation of personal interviews via video chat.
US11455601B1	Systems and methods to measure and visualize workload for completing individual units of work Systems and methods for measuring and visualizing user workload for completing individual units of work are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment, the environment state information specifying values of work unit parameters that describe units of work assigned to individual users within the collaboration environment, individual units of work having individual start dates and individual end dates; determine values of a workload parameter for the individual units of work that describe individual quantities of units of time associated with completion of the individual units of work; effectuate presentation of a user interface based on the values of the workload parameter for the individual units of work, the user interface displaying relationships between the individual quantities of units of time and the individual start dates and the individual end dates; and/or perform other operations.
US11455600B1	Mobile device interface One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for intelligent data presentation are provided herein. Data can be presented on similar devices having different characteristics in different manners. For example, data may be rendered in a first manner on a first device having one monitor, the same data may be rendered in a second manner on a second device having two displays or a different display size. Financial information, sales data, banking information, etc. may be presented in a variety of ways based on capabilities or properties of a device accessing the information or data. Similarly, renderings may be selected based on interaction capabilities or interaction options a user may have with different renderings or presentations. In other embodiments, user interaction with an automated teller machine (ATM), call center, vehicle, or other interface can be based on device properties or device capabilities.
US11455597B2	Remotely diagnosing conditions and providing prescriptions using a multi-access health care provider portal Embodiments are directed to providing remote healthcare services including remote diagnostics, and facilitating third-party healthcare payments. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an input including authentication credentials from a healthcare entity, and also requests assistance from another healthcare entity. The computer system authenticates the first healthcare entity using the authentication credentials, receives an input including authentication credentials from the other healthcare entity, and authenticates the other healthcare entity using these authentication credentials. The computer system further receives real-time information related to a health condition of a patient, where the real-time health condition information is provided to the second healthcare entity. The computer system also receives, from the other healthcare entity, diagnostic information related to the patient's health condition, and provides the received diagnostic information to the first healthcare entity, the patient and/or a payment entity.
US11455596B1	Systems and methods for warehouse storage rack safety A warehouse storage rack safety system includes a sensor configured to couple to a shelf and generate a signal indicative of a deformation of the shelf, a processor, and a memory, including instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor cause the warehouse storage rack safety system to receive the sensed signal and determine an amount of deformation of the shelf based on the signal.
US11455595B2	Multi-entity inventory management using storage bin and inventory reassignment A multi-entity inventory management system including reassignable storage bins and a method for managing product inventory of different entities, for example, vendors, at one or more facilities including one or more storage structures served by robotic handlers, are provided. Each storage bin stores one or more caches of the products. A computerized inventory management system (CIMS) stores digital records including entity identifiers, product catalogues containing product identifiers of the products offered by each entity to customers, and unique bin identifiers assigned to the storage bins. The CIMS executes a digital transfer of ownership of inventory from a stocked entity to a needful entity, for example, based on an inventory shortfall, a complete absence of inventory of the needful entity, orders for the product inventory being received, etc. Along with an inventory swap through the storage bins, the CIMS executes commerce between the entities and implements inventory reservation.
US11455593B2	Delivering items to unattended vehicles The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering items to unattended vehicles. In general, aspects of the invention facilitate controlled access to one or more portions of a vehicle for item deliver. A vehicle is configured with partitions. The partitions can be deployed to close off portions of the vehicle from an area used to accept a delivered item. Partitions may be automatically deployed when a delivery arrives (from a delivery person or robot) to section off a compartment of the vehicle to limit access to the sectioned compartment. Partitions can be re-configured to prevent external access to the sectioned off compartment after a delivery is completed.
US11455592B2	Systems and methods for facilitating interactive scenarios based on user parameters Systems and methods are provided for facilitating interactive delivery of a product to a recipient, through compiled delivery scenarios. One exemplary method includes soliciting a parameter (or parameters) associated with a product subject to purchase by a consumer, and transmitting an invitation to an interactive delivery of the product to a recipient. The method also includes compiling a scenario for the interactive delivery of the product based on the parameter(s) and, in response to acceptance of the invitation, transmitting the scenario to a communication device associated with the recipient. The method further includes appending a product insignia to the scenario in response to the communication device traveling to at least one intermediate location of the scenario, and transmitting a confirmation for the product when the communication device travels to a delivery location associated with the product insignia, whereby the recipient is permitted to receive the product based on the confirmation.
US11455591B2	Service management Method and system are provided for customer table service management. The method includes receiving sensor load data over time from a customer table. The method analyzes the sensor load data during a waiting time between a time of one or more customers arriving at the table and a time of consumables being served to the table to learn background noise data of the one or more customers. The method further analyzes the sensor load data during a dining time after the time of consumables being served to the table to detect one or more events that require a service action, wherein analyzing the sensor load data during the dining time removes the learnt background noise data to distinguish sensor load data changes relating to consumption of the consumables on the table. The method outputs event detection notifications to prompt the required service action.
US11455590B2	Service monitoring adaptation for maintenance downtime An automatic service monitor in an information technology environment has its operation controlled by information that, in part, defines entities that perform services and defines key performance indicators (KPIs) that indicate measures of performance of the services. Additional information controls the operation of the service monitor with respect to identifying and adapting for KPIs based on the non-normal data caused by maintenance work or other causes. Such adaptation may include changes in how reported information appears to the user.
US11455589B2	Techniques for obtaining solutions to black-box optimization problems A data processing system for providing a black-box optimization exchange implements receiving a black-box optimization problem, presenting the problem on a user interface, receiving a candidate solution, inserting the candidate solution into a candidate solution queue, providing the candidate solution to a simulator service cause the simulator service to execute an objective function associated with the black-box optimization problem on the candidate solution, determining an improvement value provided by the candidate solution by analyzing one or more previously determined solutions to the first black-box optimization problem and the first objective value to determine an amount of improvement provided by the candidate solution, determining a reward by analyzing the improvement value using a reward function associated with the black-box optimization problem, and notifying the user that provided the candidate solution that the candidate solution has earned the user the reward.
US11455588B2	Data validation and master network techniques Disclosed herein are techniques and tools for verifying data for semantic correctness and/or verifying data for network correctness. In one respect, a method includes receiving input defining a validation point, the validation point comprising at least two or more validation functions applicable to (i) raw data and (ii) other data stored within a semantic network comprising nodes and links, importing source data; applying one or more transformations to the source data, populating the source data into one or more of the nodes and links comprising the semantic network, executing the validation point with respect the source data, based on the executing, determining one or more rules associated with the validation point are not satisfied, and based on the determining, revising either the source data or the other data stored within the semantic network.
US11455582B2	Systems and methods for optimizing an online on-demand service Systems and methods for optimizing an online on-demand service are provided. A method may include: obtaining driver information associated with a plurality of historical drivers corresponding to the plurality of historical orders; for each historical driver during a predetermined period of time, determining a plurality of records based on the order information and the driver information according to a decision-making processes, each record includes a driver's space-time status, a driver's action, a driver's revenue, and a driver's subsequent space-time status; and determining a value function based on the plurality of records of each historical driver according to a reinforcement learning algorithm.
US11455578B2	System and method for ride order dispatching and vehicle repositioning Systems and methods are provided for ride order dispatching and vehicle repositioning. A method for ride order dispatching and vehicle repositioning, comprises: obtaining information comprising a location of a vehicle, current orders, and a current time; inputting the obtained information to a trained model; and determining action information for the vehicle based on an output of the trained model, the action information comprising: re-positioning the vehicle or accepting a ride order. The model is configured with: receiving information of drivers and information of orders as inputs; obtaining a global state based on the information of drivers, the information of orders, and a global time; and querying a plurality of driver-order pairs and driver-reposition pairs based at least on the obtained global state to determine the action information as the output.
US11455574B2	Dynamically predict optimal parallel apply algorithms A method, system, and computer program product to analyze data patterns in source workloads and predict the optimal parallel apply algorithms, where the method may include receiving source workload data and replication environment data, where the source workload data includes at least a stream of changes to a target DBMS. The method may also include analyzing characteristics of the source workload data and the replication environment data. The method may also include inputting, as input variables, the characteristics of the source workload data and the replication environment data into a machine learning algorithm. The method may also include obtaining, from the machine learning algorithm, an optimal parallel apply algorithm from a plurality of parallel apply algorithms. The method may also include applying the optimal parallel apply algorithm to the target database management system.
US11455572B2	Machine learning model hardware configuration based optimization Systems and methods relating to machine learning. A machine learning model is trained on a data processing system with the most amount of resources available to it. The resulting trained model is the basis for various stripped down versions that are suitable for execution on systems with less resources available. Specific system/version combinations are tested to determine which combination works best with specific systems and versions. To update installed trained models, a differential compression method can be used so that only an update difference needs to be uploaded to the system being updated.
US11455569B2	Device discovery and classification from encrypted network traffic Handshake protocol layer features are extracted from training data associated with encrypted network traffic of a plurality of classified devices. Record protocol layer features are extracted from the training data. One or more models are trained based on the extracted handshake protocol layer features and the extracted record protocol layer features. The one or more models are applied to an observed encrypted network traffic stream associated with a device to determine a predicted device classification of the device.
US11455562B2	Quantum walk for community clique detection A method of detecting cliques in a graph includes determining, based on a number of nodes in the graph, a number of qubits to be included in a quantum processor. The method includes assigning to each node in the graph, a qubit of the quantum processor. The method includes operating on the qubits with a preparation circuit to create a quantum state in the qubits that corresponds to the graph. The method includes operating on the quantum state with a random walk circuit, and measuring the qubits of the quantum processor to detect cliques in the graph. The preparation circuit comprises a plurality of single- and two-qubit operators, wherein, for each pair of adjacent nodes in the graph, an operator of the plurality of two-qubit operators acts on a pair of qubits corresponding to the pair of adjacent nodes to create the quantum state.
US11455553B2	Quality-based scoring and inhibiting of user-generated content Methods and devices for assessing the quality of user-generated content are described. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for measuring the quality of a user-generated answer to a question by combining various factors, including question-answer surface word vector similarity, question-answer explicit semantic analysis vector similarity, answer-answer explicit sematic analysis vector similarity, query performance predictor, sentiment analysis, textual analysis of the answer, and reputation of the answerer. The method uses a learning procedure to determine the best algorithm for measuring the overall quality of the answer based on these factors.
US11455552B2	Intelligent design platform using industrialized experience in product designs Implementations for include providing one or more product designs using an intelligent design platform receiving a product indicator that indicates a product that is to be designed, transmitting a request to a contextual requirements system, the request including the product identifier and requesting one or more contextual requirements, determining a set of context models based on the product identifier, each context model in the set of context models being generated based on one or more scenes represented in a digital video, each scene depicting a contextual use of the product, providing a set of contextual requirements to the design generation system based on one or more context models, and inputting a set of aggregate requirements to a generative design tool that generates the one or more product designs based on the set of aggregate requirements, the set of aggregate requirements including at least one contextual requirement.
US11455543B2	Textual entailment Examples of a textual entailment generation system are provided. The system obtains a query from a user and implements an artificial intelligence component to identify a premise, a word index, and a premise index associated with the query. The system may implement a first cognitive learning operation to determine a plurality of hypothesis and a hypothesis index corresponding to the premise. The system may generate a confidence index for each of the plurality of hypothesis based on a comparison of the hypothesis index with the premise index. The system may determine an entailment value, a contradiction value, and a neutral entailment value based on the confidence index for each of the plurality of hypothesis. The system may generate an entailment result relevant for resolving the query comprising the plurality of hypothesis along with the corresponding entailed output index.
US11455542B2	Text processing method and device based on ambiguous entity words The present disclosure provides a text processing method and device based on ambiguous entity words. The method includes: obtaining a context of a text to be disambiguated and at least two candidate entities represented by the text to be disambiguated; generating a semantic vector of the context based on a trained word vector model; generating a first entity vector of each of the at least two candidate entities based on a trained unsupervised neural network model; determining a similarity between the context and each candidate entity; and determining a target entity represented by the text to be disambiguated in the context.
US11455532B2	Single point facility utility sensing for monitoring welfare of a facility occupant The utility usage of a particular individual occupying a residence may give insight into the individual's current cognitive health and/or to enable provision of various services within the facility for the individual, particularly when monitoring patterns in utility usage over time. To enable accurate and non-invasive utility monitoring, a single-point utility sensor may be secured relative to a utility supply line, and generated signals may be utilized to monitor utility usage and to distinguish between utility fixtures. A centralized computing entity may identify frequency characteristics within the generated data, and may automatically generate one or more machine-learning algorithms to distinguish between utility usage events, without requiring substantial user input.
US11455530B2	Controlling agents using scene memory data Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling an agent. One of the methods includes receiving a current observation characterizing a current state of the environment as of the time step; generating an embedding of the current observation; processing scene memory data comprising embeddings of prior observations received at prior time steps using an encoder neural network, wherein the encoder neural network is configured to apply an encoder self-attention mechanism to the scene memory data to generate an encoded representation of the scene memory data; processing the encoded representation of the scene memory data and the embedding of the current observation using a decoder neural network to generate an action selection output; and causing the agent to perform the selected action.
US11455523B2	Risk evaluation method, computer-readable recording medium, and information processing apparatus A risk evaluation method is disclosed. A machine learning is conducted by using a neural network by inputting training data. A data distance corresponding to a permission level is calculated based on restoration data and the training data, the permission level being among a plurality of layers of the neural network, the restoration data being generated by using at least one weight of a plurality of permission level weights at the permission level, the plurality of permission level weights being among a plurality of weights of synapses at the plurality of layers, the plurality of weights being generated by the machine learning.
US11455517B2	Population anomaly detection through deep gaussianization Anomalies in a data set may be difficult to detect when individual items are not gross outliers from a population average. Disclosed is an anomaly detector that includes neural networks such as an auto-encoder and a discriminator. The auto-encoder and the discriminator may be trained on a training set that does not include anomalies. During training, an auto-encoder generates an internal representation from the training set, and reconstructs the training set from the internal representation. The training continues until data loss in the reconstructed training set is below a configurable threshold. The discriminator may be trained until the internal representation is constrained to a multivariable unit normal. Once trained, the auto-encoder and discriminator identify anomalies in the evaluation set. The identified anomalies in an evaluation set may be linked to transaction, security breach or population trends, but broadly, disclosed techniques can be used to identify anomalies in any suitable population.
US11455514B2	Hierarchical device placement with reinforcement learning A method for determining a placement for machine learning model operations across multiple hardware devices includes receiving data specifying machine learning operations, and determining a placement that assigns each of the operations specified by the data to a respective device from the multiple hardware devices. Determining the placement includes: generating, from the data, a respective operation embedding for each of the operations; grouping the operations into multiple operation groups, comprising processing each of the respective operation embeddings using a grouper neural network having multiple grouper parameters, in which the grouper neural network is configured to, for each of the operations, process the operation embedding for the operation in accordance with first values of the grouper parameters to generate a grouper output that assigns the operation to an operation group from the multiple operation groups; and assigning each of the operation groups to a respective device from the multiple hardware devices.
US11455505B2	Injection vial management system An injection vial and injection vial management system is disclosed, wherein the injection vial is filled with a liquid medicine and signally connected with a blockchain network. The injection vial includes a bottle body and a chipset disposed within the bottle body. The chipset includes an identification label and a blockchain module. The identification label records a manufacturing process, a logistic process and a use process. The blockchain module signal connects to the blockchain network in order to record the manufacturing process, logistic process and use process in the blockchain network.
US11455504B2	Memristor based storage of asset events An example device comprising contactless circuitry to receive data about a plurality of events corresponding to an asset, and a memristor coupled to the contactless circuitry to store the data about the plurality of events. The contactless circuitry may determine that the asset has experienced an event, receive a transaction corresponding to the event from a decentralized entity, generate a hash of the transaction including a device identifier of the contactless circuitry and the transaction received from the decentralized entity, verify the hashed transaction with the decentralized entity, and store the verified hashed transaction on the memristor of the contactless circuitry, wherein the stored verified hash includes information about the event.
US11455500B2	Automatic classifier profiles from training set metadata A method of identifying one or more objects in an image file that includes receiving an image file at a first classifier, wherein the image file comprises image metadata that identifies characteristics of the image file. The method includes determining whether the first classifier is trained to identify at least one object in the image file based on a first set of training metadata associated with the first classifier, wherein the first set of training metadata defines a set of characteristics for which the first classifier is trained to identify the at least one object. The method includes identifying the one or more objects in the image file using the first classifier responsive to determining that the first classifier is trained to identify the at least one object.
US11455496B2	System and method for domain adaptation using synthetic data A system and method are disclosed for training a system or a model using any combination of synthetic data and real data. The various aspects of the invention include generation of data that is used to supplement or augment real data, wherein the subject of the data can be segmented. Labels or attributes are automatically added to generated data. The generated data is synthetic data that is created using the seed or real data as well as from other synthetic data. Using the synthetic data, various domain adaptation models can be used and trained for unsupervised domain adaptation.
US11455495B2	System and method for visual recognition using synthetic training data A system and method are disclosed for training a model using a training dataset. The training dataset can include only real data, only synthetic data, or any combination of synthetic data and real data. The various aspects of the invention include generation of data that is used to supplement or augment real data. Labels or attributes can be automatically added to the data as it is generated. The data can be generated using seed data. The data can be generated using synthetic data. The data can be generated from any source, including the user's thoughts or memory. Using the training dataset, various domain adaptation models can be trained.
US11455494B2	Automated building of expanded datasets for training of autonomous agents Improved systems and methods for generating training data for classification models are disclosed. In an example, a training application accesses two fragments of text. The application represents each fragment of text as a parse thicket. The parse thickets jointly represent syntactic and discourse information. From the parse thickets, the application generalizes the text by identifying common entities or common rhetorical relations between parse thickets. The generalized text is added to a training data set, thereby increasing the coverage of the training set.
US11455493B2	Explanations for artificial intelligence based recommendations Techniques regarding explanations for artificial intelligence recommendations are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can include: a combination component that receives a first training dataset comprising first feature vectors, first classes and first explanations, and combines the first classes and the first explanations to produce first augmented labels and a second training dataset that comprises the first feature vectors and the first augmented labels; a classifier, trained on the second training dataset, that analyses second feature vectors and generates second augmented labels; and a decomposing component that decomposes the second augmented labels, using the classifier, to generate second classes and second explanations.
US11455490B2	Image-recognition apparatus, image-recognition method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium thereof An image-recognition method is provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving a plurality of check-point images, and classifying the check-point images into a plurality of groups; classifying the check-point images in each group into a plurality of types to generate first structured data; balancing a number of the check-point images in each type of each group in the first structured data to generate second structured data, wherein the second structured data includes training-set data and testing-set data; training an artificial-intelligence (AI) model using the training-set data; and inputting the testing-set data into the AI model to obtain a model evaluation of the AI model.
US11455488B1	Platform for automated scoring of scientific visual models Systems and methods are provided for processing a drawing in a modeling prototype. A data structure associated with a visual model is accessed. The visual model is analyzed to extract construct-relevant features, where the construct-relevant features are extracted using a drawing object by identifying visual attributes of the visual model and populating a data structure for each object drawn. The visual model is analyzed to generate a statistical model, where the statistical model is generated using a multidimensional scoring rubric by targeting different constructs which compositely estimate learning progression levels, wherein the statistical model is based on features that are principally aligned with one or more of the constructs. An automated scoring is determined based on the construct-relevant features and the statistical model, where the automated scoring is stored in a computer readable medium. and is outputted for display, transmitted across a computer network, or printed.
US11455487B1	Intensity extraction and crosstalk attenuation using interpolation and adaptation for base calling The technology disclosed attenuates spatial crosstalk from sequencing images for base calling. The technology disclosed accesses a section of an image output by a biosensor, where the section of the image includes a plurality of pixels depicting intensity emission values from a plurality of clusters within the biosensor and from locations within the biosensor that are adjacent to the plurality of clusters. The plurality of clusters includes a target cluster. The section of the image is convolved with a convolution kernel, to generate a feature map comprising a plurality of features having a corresponding plurality of feature values. A weighted feature value is assigned to the target cluster, where the weighted feature value is based on one or more features values of the plurality of feature values of the feature map. The weighted feature value assigned to the target cluster is processed, to base call the target cluster.
US11455486B2	Cohort experience orchestrator An embodiment includes determining an experiential state of a first user participating in a mixed-reality experience. The embodiment also includes creating a first driver model that maps a relationship between the experiential state of the first user and a parameter of the mixed-reality experience. The embodiment also includes aggregating the first driver model with a plurality of driver models associated with experiential states and parameters of respective other users. The embodiment also includes creating a first cohort experience model using the aggregated driver models. The embodiment also includes deriving a first cohort experience parameter for the first cohort experience model. The embodiment also includes initiating an automated remedial action for participants in the mixed-reality system being associated with the first cohort experience model and the first cohort experience parameter.
US11455485B2	Content prediction based on pixel-based vectors Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for predicting content based on vector data structures generated from image pixels. A content-prediction application accesses a color palette having two or more color-palette categories and selects a first color of the color palette. The content-prediction application generates a first vector based on a set of pixel values that represent the first color of the color palette. The content-prediction application determines a distance metric between the first vector and a second vector, in which the second vector is identified by applying a convolutional neural network model on an image depicting an item that includes a second color. In response to determining that the distance metric is less than a predetermined threshold, the content-prediction application selects the content item corresponding to the second vector.
US11455481B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium storing program An image processing apparatus is configured to scan code from a first image captured by a first camera, to acquire a second image captured by a second camera different from the first camera in a case where not all of the code is successfully scanned from the first image, and to scan code from the second image. The image processing apparatus is further configured to compare the code scanned from the first image with the code scanned from the second image, and to acquire a piece of the code scanned from the second image instead of a piece of code scanned from the first image that has not been successfully scanned from the first image in a case where the code scanned from the first image and the code scanned from the second image are at least partially same as a result of comparison.
US11455470B2	Distributed reactive streaming microservices architecture with self-management and autonomous routing A method for building a distributed reactive streaming microservices architecture having a decentralized, self-managed, and autonomous data message routing mechanism. The method comprises processing of data message by multiple microservices and generating routing patterns in the form of a fingerprint in response to the message-processing by the microservices. As the message is input into the microservices architecture, a fingerprint of the message is generated, wherein the fingerprint may comprise a payload flag in which payload information is embedded. A first microservice is triggered by recognizing the payload flag. As the message is processed by the first microservice, the fingerprint is updated by appending a first flag to the payload flag. The message with the updated fingerprint is subsequently recognized by a second microservice. As such, the routing of the message is accomplished by the changing fingerprint being recognized by the desired microservices to be triggered.
US11455464B2	Document content classification and alteration A device may receive a document including text, images, and one or more embedded documents. The device may parse the document to identify a content segment in the document. The device may determine a context for the content segment, wherein the context includes at least one of an entity identified by the content segment, a semantic meaning of the content segment, or an object identified by the content segment. The device may classify the content segment using a content classification model and based on the context for the content segment. The device may selectively alter the content segment based at least in part on a set of alteration rules, to generate a modified document. The device may provide the modified document based on selectively altering the content segment.
US11455463B2	Facilitating user interaction in online spreadsheets The present disclosure provides an interactive information notification method and apparatus, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes receiving an interactive information viewing instruction sent by a first user, the viewing instruction including position information of the interactive information in an online spreadsheet; acquiring the interactive information from the online spreadsheet according to the position information; and displaying the interactive information in a highlighted manner in the online spreadsheet so that the interactive information is distinguished from other information in the online spreadsheet. Therefore, the user can quickly and intuitively determine the position of the interactive information and correspondingly process the interactive information, so that the user's editing efficiency for the online spreadsheet is improved.
US11455462B2	Table item information extraction with continuous machine learning through local and global models A bipartite application implements a table auto-completion (TAC) algorithm on the client side and the server side. A client module runs a local model of the TAC algorithm on a user device and a server module runs a global model of the TAC algorithm on a server machine. The local model is continuously adapted through on-the-fly training, with as few as a negative example, to perform TAC on the client side, one document at a time. Knowledge thus learned by the local model is used to improve the global model on the server side. The global model can be utilized to automatically and intelligently extract table information from a large number of documents with significantly improved accuracy, requiring minimal human intervention even on complex tables.
US11455455B1	3D coupling control rules for auto-routing A method for controlling crosstalk between multiple noise generating wiring tracks and a quiet wiring track by determining a parallel common run length and determining the number of threshold lengths into which the maximum parallel common run length is divided. The space between the quiet wiring track and each wiring track of the noise generating wiring tracks is determined. Multiple metal wiring track structures on one metal wiring level of and multiple metal wiring track structures on another metal wiring level of an integrated circuit that are formed as segments that have various distances between the metal wiring track structures of one wiring level and multiple metal wiring track structures of the other wiring level to form a stair-step or ladder structure that controls individually the spacing applied between multiple active noise wiring track structures and one quiet wiring track structure.
US11455452B2	Variable implant and wafer-level feed-forward for dopant dose optimization The present disclosure provides a method for adjusting implant parameter conditions in semiconductor processing by wafer and by wafer zone using in-line measurements from previous operations and a feed-forward computer model. The feed-forward model is based on a sensitivity map of in-line measured data and its effect of electrical performance. Feed-forward computer models that adjust implant parameters by wafer and by zone improve both wafer-to-wafer and within wafer electrical uniformity in semiconductor devices.
US11455441B1	Computer-based computational tools for use in electrophysiology Computer-based computational tools for use in determining spatial charge distributions for biological systems that include one or more biological membranes are provided. At least one of the biological membrane includes at least two regions having different electrical properties, e.g., the biological membrane can include a pore having a higher conductivity than the surrounding bulk membrane. In other cases, the membrane can include non-active and active regions, with conservative fields acting at the non-active regions and a combination of conservative and non-conservative fields acting at the active regions. The non-conservative fields can, for example, originate from differences in ionic concentrations of the type which generate Nernst potential differences across membranes. Using the computer-based computational tools, charge distributions not previously known to exist have been discovered, e.g., ring-shaped charge distributions in the vicinity of an active pore.
US11455438B2	Methods for topology optimization using a membership variable Methods for multi-component topology optimization for composite structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of designing a structure by computer-implemented topology optimization includes establishing a plurality of design points within a design domain and establishing at least a first orientation field and a second orientation field. The method further includes assigning values for the one or more membership fields, the one or more density fields, the first orientation field and the second orientation field, and projecting the values onto a simulation model. The method includes achieving convergence of an objective function for a design variable by iteratively executing a topology optimization of the simulation model using the values. Each design point of the plurality of design points is a member of no component or a member of one of the first component and the second component.
US11455436B2	Predicting across wafer spin-on planarization over a patterned topography Methods used to more accurately predict spin on layer planarization over a patterned topography are provided. Methods are provided for generating a layer critical dimension model. In one embodiment, the critical dimension model is a layer thickness model that more accurately simulates patterned topography trends, as a function of feature dimensions, surrounding pattern density and radial position across the patterned topography. Additional methods are provided for calibrating the layer thickness model over one or more spatial areas to account for radial variations in the patterned topography. Further methods are provided for using one or more calibrated layer thickness models to predict a thickness of a layer (e.g., a spin on coating) as it is being deposited onto a patterned substrate. The methods disclosed herein may facilitate the planarization (i.e., flatness) of spin-on coatings during the device fabrication to form a uniformly planar layer or layer on the substrate.
US11455429B2	Container-based cryptography hardware security module management Techniques for container-based cryptography hardware security module (HSM) management in a computer system are described herein. An aspect includes providing a cryptography work daemon container in a computer system, wherein the cryptography work daemon container in the computer system has privileged access to a cryptography HSM of the computer system. Another aspect includes receiving, by the cryptography work daemon container, a request for a cryptography function of the cryptography HSM from an application container in the computer system. Another aspect includes causing, by the cryptography work daemon container, the cryptography HSM to perform the cryptography function based on receiving the request.
US11455427B2	Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing a privacy-preserving social media data outsourcing model In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods and systems for implementing a privacy-preserving social media data outsourcing model. For example, there is disclosed a Data Services Provider (DSP) Framework system, which includes a receive interface to receive an unperturbed social media data set having social media data corresponding to each of a plurality of users represented therein; a data privacy engine to map the received unperturbed social media data set into a high-dimensional user-keyword matrix connecting each of the plurality of users represented with multi-variable keywords corresponding to each user's social media data within the unperturbed social media data set; the data privacy engine further to inject controlled noise generate as output, a perturbed user-keyword matrix which protects each of the plurality of users' privacy during a statistical query against the perturbed user-keyword matrix having the social media data of the plurality of users embodied therein by preventing an attacker from (i) inferring whether a targeted user by the attacker is one of the plurality of users or (ii) inferring whether any record is associated with the targeted user. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US11455422B2	Periodic generation of random function in the cloud Systems and methods for processing tokenization requests to facilitate safe storage of tokens. An epoch is identified as a current epoch based on a current system time of a node. A seed value is computed by the node based on a start time of the epoch and a secret. A plurality of ephemeral tokens is generated by a randomization service of the node for a set of sensitive data based on the seed value. Each ephemeral token of the plurality of ephemeral tokens has a usable life defined by the epoch. Each sensitive data instance in the set of sensitive data is associated with a particular ephemeral token of the plurality of ephemeral tokens to create a mapping structure in a main memory of the node. A tokenization service of the node is configured to process tokenization requests using the mapping structure.
US11455421B1	Systems and methods for secure information storage and sharing Systems and methods for providing for a personal data storage, retrieval, and sharing system are described. One method includes importing known user content during an initial content upload phase. The method further includes storing at least a portion of the known user content in a user information database. The method further includes identifying the first document and the second document as including duplicate data or being duplicate copies of one another. The method further includes identifying the second document as a master copy. The method further includes extracting data from the second document. The method further includes extracting additional data associated with the user from the account holder database. The method further includes aggregating the extracted data and the extracted additional data. The method further includes updating user information associated with a user account of the user based on the aggregated data.
US11455420B2	Providing transparency and user control over use of browsing data Disclosed herein is a system configured to provide a user with transparency and user control over how browsing data is shared. The system can determine that a user has initiated use of a browser. The system displays, as part of the management of browser settings in accordance with a user account, a graphical UI that presents functionality to receive input indicating whether the user allows or prevents sharing of the browsing data. The graphical UI can list the identities of data aggregators and corresponding incentives offered by each of the data aggregators in exchange for the user sharing his or her browsing data. The browser can collect the browsing data based on interactions with web sites and share the browsing data with individual ones of the data aggregators based on the input. Upon sharing the user browsing data, the system can enable the incentive to be provided to the user.
US11455419B2	Annotations for privacy-sensitive user content in user applications Systems, methods, and software for data privacy annotation frameworks for user applications are provided herein. An exemplary method includes identifying content elements among user content in a user data file that contain sensitive data corresponding to one or more predetermined data schemes. During a content edit process for the user content in a user application, the method includes controlling presentation of annotation indicators for one or more of the content elements based at least in part on a quantity of the content elements that contain the sensitive data.
US11455417B2	Data processing methods, apparatuses, and devices Embodiments of the present specification disclose data processing methods, apparatuses, and devices. One method comprises: obtaining an acquisition request for target data of a data owner; determining a trusted application (TAPP) for generating the target data based on decentralized identifier document (DID Doc) information of the data owner in response to the acquisition request; sending, to the TAPP, a target data generation request to use the TAPP to process data of the data owner obtained from a trusted institution; and receiving a processing result from the TAPP in response to the target data generation request.
US11455415B2	Method, system, and device for managing database permissions, and computer-readable storage medium Disclosed is a method for managing database permissions, the method including: obtaining a login account that successfully logs in to a first database, where the first database is a relational database built in with permission management and is pre-configured with an external table that has a mapping relationship with a second database; ascertaining management permissions of the login account based on pre-configured management permission information; determining whether a management operation on the external table by the login account exceeds the management permissions of the login account; and if the management operation by the login account does not exceed its management permissions, permitting the management operation, and synchronizing the management operation to the second database based on the mapping relationship between the external table and the second database. Further disclosed are a system and a device for managing database permissions, as well as a computer-readable storage medium.
US11455414B2	Method and system for anonymous user data storage and controlled data access Methods and systems are configured to store user data and control access to the user data, wherein the data is stored remotely from the user (such as external to a user's computing device) and the user's data is maintained anonymously. Content is stored in association with a user identifier and access by third parties is controlled by linked third party identifiers.
US11455411B2	Controlling content visibility on a computing device based on computing device location Content visibility on a computing device is controlled based at least in part on the current location of the computing device. When the current location is a safe location for making user-selectable content visible on a display screen of the computing device and the computing device is unlocked, the computing device operates in a full content visibility mode. In the full content visibility mode all user-selectable content on the computing device is accessible to a user of the computing device. When the current location is not a safe location for making user-selectable content visible on the display screen, the computing device operates in a reduced content visibility mode. In the reduced content visibility mode content visibility on the display screen is reduced, such as by limiting which applications (e.g., application icons or widgets) are displayed or otherwise accessible to the user.
US11455407B2	Data loss prevention expression building for a DLP engine Systems and methods include obtaining an expression for a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) engine, wherein the expression includes one or more DLP dictionaries that evaluate to a score for comparison with a corresponding threshold and one or more logical operators used to combine an evaluation of the one or more DLP dictionaries; storing the expression in a database associated with a DLP service; monitoring traffic from one or more users; evaluating the traffic using the DLP engine and the expression; and determining a DLP trigger based on a result of the expression that is a logical TRUE.
US11455395B2	Perform verification check in response to change in page table base register Examples disclosed herein relate to performing a verification check in response to receiving notification. A computing system includes a host processor, memory coupled to the host processor, and a device separate from the host processor capable of accessing the memory. The host processor has a page table base register. The host processor is configured to send a notification to the device when the page table base register changes. The device performs a verification check in response to receiving the notification.
US11455393B2	Device for securing diagnostic commands to a control unit, and corresponding motor vehicle A device for monitoring diagnostic commands to a control unit. The device includes an execution platform, and a security device connected to the execution platform, with a command filter and state machines. The execution platform is configured to generate the diagnostic commands based on predefined scripts. The command filter is configured to select valid commands from among the diagnostic commands, based on conditions following from states of the state machines. The security device is configured to relay the commands to the control unit.
US11455391B2	Data leakage and misuse detection A computer-implemented system and method for a data leakage and misuse detection system comprises receiving an evaluation dataset A, and building a signature of the evaluation dataset A (sig(A)), where A signature of a dataset is a multi-level evaluation data abstraction representation of the dataset. The method further comprises building a signature for each of existing datasets B (B1, B2, . . . , Bn) (sig(Bx)) that are stored in a memory. The method then compares the sig(A) with each of the sig(Bx)s. A similarity score is derived based on the comparing, and responsive to determining the similarity score exceeds a predefined threshold, the method comprises generating an activity related to the determination.
US11455390B2	Psychographic device fingerprinting A system for generating a psychographic device fingerprint includes a server in communication with a network and memory storing a program which, when executed by the server, performs steps for (a) detecting reception at a computing device of media content delivered via the network, (b) reading device elements stored on the computing device, (c) reading a geographic indicator from the computing device, (d) reading a content indicator identifying the media content, (e) determining a timing parameter associated with reception of the content at the computing device, and (f) deriving from the device type, the geographic indicator, the content indicator, and the timing parameter, the psychographic device fingerprint as computer readable code uniquely identifying a user of the computing device. The steps may further include recording media content received by multiple computing devices, and generating a viewership report relating computing devices and psychographic device fingerprints to the media content received.
US11455389B2	Evaluation method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that cause a processor included in an information processing apparatus to execute a process, the process includes collecting a plurality of types of cyberattack information; evaluating a number of types of cyberattacks in which feature information of the cyberattack appears based on the collected cyberattack information; and when receiving specification of the feature information of a cyberattack, responding evaluation results of the number of types of cyberattacks in which the specified feature information of the cyberattack appears.
US11455383B2	Supervised and unsupervised techniques for motion classification A system and method are disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user movement data. An identity verification system receives a sequence of motion data characterizing movements performed by a target user. The sequence of motion data is received as a point cloud of the motion data. The point cloud is input a machine-learned model trained based on manually labeled point clusters of a training set of motion data that each represent a movement. The machine-learned model identifies a movement represented by the point cloud of the motion data and assigns a label describing the movement the point cloud. The system generates a labeled representation of the sequence of motion data comprising the label identifying a portion of the sequence of motion data corresponding to the identified movement.
US11455379B2	Control system and method thereof for secure manufacturing A control system and method thereof for secure manufacturing, comprising a source end, a verification end, and a production end. Providing a source file, the source end encrypting and signing the source file to generate a transfer file and to generate an authorization information simultaneously, the transfer file being transferred to the production end, and the authorization information being transferred to the verification end. After the production end is authorized by the verification end, the transfer file is verified and decrypted, and can be re-encrypted or not re-encrypted to be written into a product or to generate a product.
US11455378B2	Method and system for securing computer software using a distributed hash table and a blockchain A computer-implemented method (100) and system (1) for determining a metadata M for securing a controlled digital resource such as computer software using a distributed hash table (13) and a peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14). This is a blockchain such as the Bitcoin blockchain. The method includes determining (110) a data associated with the computer software and determining (120) a first hash value based on the computer software. A second hash value based on the data and the computer software may be determined (130). The method further includes sending 140, over a communications network (5), the data, the first hash value and the second hash value to an entry for storage in a distributed hash table (13). The second hash value may be a key of a key-value pair. The data and the first hash value may be a value in the key-value pair. A metadata (M) that is based on the second hash value may be determined (150) for storage on the peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14).
US11455377B2	Methods and systems for the reservation and registration of internet of things device licenses Novel tools and techniques for an IoT shell are provided. A system includes an internet of things (IoT) device, a database, and a license manager. The database may include one or more sets of authorized licenses, each set of authorized licenses associated with a respective vendor software. The license manager may be in communication with the IoT device and the database, and further include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions executable by the processor. The license manager may be configured to receive a request to reserve a license for a first vendor software, determine an availability of the license associated with the first vendor software, register a unique identifier of the IoT device in association with the license, and grant the license to the IoT device.
US11455373B2	Real-time and computationally efficient prediction of values for a quote variable in a pricing application The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for real-time and computationally efficient calculation of a recommended value range for a quote variable, such as price, discount, volume, or closing time. The system uses the highest-density interval (HDI) of probability density function (PDF) as a recommended or suggested value range for a quote variable. PDFs for the quote variable are precomputed for groups of related inputs, and each PDF is summarized as an array of discrete points. A dimension reduction technique is applied to the PDF inputs in both the training and real-time (non-training) phases to reduce the number of possible combinations of PDFs. During a quote-creation process, a PDF look-up table enables the system to efficiently identify an applicable PDF from the group of precomputed PDFs based on reduced input values.
US11455372B2	Parameter estimation apparatus, parameter estimation method, and computer-readable recording medium A parameter estimation apparatus 10 is an apparatus for calculating a threshold for separating a plurality of data points into outliers and inliers and estimating a parameter fitting the inliers. The parameter estimation apparatus 10 includes: a parameter estimation unit 13 configured to estimate the parameter by using the plurality of data points as input; a threshold setting unit 14 configured to calculate the threshold based on statistical information of residuals of the data points; and a convergence determination unit 15 configured to determine whether or not convergence of the estimation of the parameter is reached based on the estimated parameter and the calculated threshold, and to cause the parameter estimation unit 13 and the threshold setting unit 14 to each execute processing again if the convergence determination unit 15 determines that convergence is not reached.
US11455370B2	Flattened input stream generation for convolution with expanded kernel A method comprises receiving an input tensor for convolution with a kernel, dividing the input tensor into one or more tiles with each tile having a size equal to the kernel, flattening the values in the one or more tiles into vectors to generate the flattened input stream.
US11455368B2	MAC processing pipeline having conversion circuitry, and methods of operating same An integrated circuit including a multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline including a plurality of multiplier-accumulator circuits to process the data, using filter weights, via a plurality of multiply and accumulate operations. The integrated circuit includes first conversion circuitry, coupled the pipeline, having inputs to receive a plurality of sets of data, wherein each set of data includes a plurality of data, Winograd conversion circuitry to convert each set of data to a corresponding Winograd set of data, floating point format conversion circuitry, coupled to the Winograd conversion circuitry, to convert the data of each Winograd set of data to a floating point data format. In operation, the multiplier-accumulator circuits are configured to: perform the plurality of multiply and accumulate operations using the data of the plurality of Winograd sets of data from the first conversion circuitry and the filter weights, and generate output data based on the multiply and accumulate operations.
US11455367B1	Systems for executing an editor application for composing content of a content management system A process for rendering a user interface for editing content of a content management system (CMS), includes: providing, over a network through a browser of a client device the user interface, the user interface is configured for editing a content page in the CMS; presenting a graphical tree view in the user interface that presents content components, wherein the graphical tree view of the content page provides a parallel structure to content presentation of a website page that implements API calls to the CMS for accessing content edited for the content page; and presenting an editing view in the user interface responsive to selection of one of said plurality of content components from the graphical tree view; wherein the editing view presented maintains a correlation to a relationship position of the selected content component in the logical hierarchy defined for the content page.
US11455362B2	System and method for sharing information using a machine-readable code on a mobile device A system and method for sharing information includes displaying on a screen of a mobile device data fields that include a machine-readable code (e.g., QR code) and visual indicia corresponding to information that is to be shared by a user of the mobile device. The user selects which information is to be shared by selecting or unselecting the corresponding visual indicia and the machine-readable code updates in real-time to include the information corresponding to the selected visual indicia. The information is stored as a URI-encoded serialized data object in a parameter portion of the URI of the machine-readable code.
US11455360B2	Inline editing field for nested website settings There are provided systems and methods for an inline editing field for nested website settings. A computing device may be used to process a search query with a search engine and receive results. The search query may include a search for a particular website setting, such as a user profile, account, security, or preference setting that may allow a user to provide input and affect particular user or website data with the website. Determination of the requested website may be performed through a machine learning engine. The machine learning engine may identify the security setting nested in the website through multiple navigations, website flows, and navigations, and may extract processes and flows for use of the setting. An inline editing field may then allow for user input in a search interface that allows for editing the setting without navigation to the website and nested setting.
US11455356B2	System and method for modification, personalization and customizable filtering of search results and search result ranking in an internet-based search engine A computer server system and method are disclosed for personalization and customizable filtering of network search results and search result rankings, such as for Internet searching. A representative server system comprises: a network interface to receive a query from a respondent or co-respondent; at least one data storage device storing a plurality of return queries; and one or more processors adapted to access the data storage device and using the query, to select the return queries for transmission; to search the data storage device for corresponding pluralities of responses to the return queries from other co-respondents or respondents; to pair-wise score the responses and generate pair-wise alignment scores for respondent and co-respondent combinations; to sort and rank the combinations according to the alignment scores; to time duration filter the plurality of respondent and co-respondent combinations; and to output a listing of the sorted and ranked respondents or co-respondents to form the personalized network search results and search result rankings.
US11455349B2	Security information management for content delivery Described herein are methods, systems, and software to handle verification information in a content node. In one example, a method of operating a content node includes receiving a secure content request from an end user device and determining the availability of verification information stored on the content node to service the secure content request. The method further provides, if the verification information is available, verifying the end user device based on the verification information. The method also includes, if the verification information is unavailable, querying an origin server to verify the end user device.
US11455345B2	Collaboration environments that support offline edits of shared documents Document collaboration methods and systems that allow multiple users to create and edit a document are described. Such methods and systems can support devices that receive and process edits to one or more documents while the devices are off-line relative to a document collaboration service. These methods and systems can use a network based storage system (e.g., a “cloud storage platform”) to store a document (e.g., “cloud storage document”) that represents a recent collaboration state of the document based upon edits received from users who are (or have been) using the document collaboration service while one or more other users are off-line.
US11455344B2	Computer implemented system and method for geographic subject extraction for short text A computer implemented method for estimating a geographic location (geotag) from one or more short texts is described. Geo-tagging a short text post involves first determining location candidates from parsing text and then determining location resolutions (eg city, state) for each location candidate. Typically there are multiple resolutions for each candidate and then location resolution disambiguation is performed to identify the correct resolution from the set of potential resolutions This may be achieved by using context provided by other candidates within the post, as well as additional geographic context derived from the post author and their network. In particular, anchor locations may be obtained from metadata associated with the post to assist in resolution disambiguation.
US11455343B2	Systems and methods for enhanced information visualization In accordance with the present invention, an information management application that provides users with the ability to create and customize matrix displays of information relating to a particular product or service for navigation by other users is provided.
US11455340B2	Predictive prompt generation by an automated prompt system Systems and methods are configured for predictive prompt generation for an interaction between a party and an automated prompt system. In various embodiments, metadata is received on the interaction and provided as input to a multi-label predictive model to generate interaction probabilities for a plurality of prompt information data objects. Each probability generated by the predictive model provides a likelihood a particular information data object needs to be provided to the first party during the interaction. Accordingly, one or more of the prompt information data objects are identified based on the probability of each piece found in the one or more prompt information data objects that satisfy a set threshold and one or more notifications are provided so that the automated prompt system provides at least one of the prompt information data objects to the first party during the interaction.
US11455335B2	Image retrieval using interactive natural language dialog A search engine is modified to perform increasingly precise image searching using iterative Natural Language (NL) interactions. From an NL search input, the modification extracts a set of input features, which includes a set of response features corresponding to an NL statement in the NL search input and a set of image features from a seed image in the NL search input. The modification performs image analysis on an image result in a result set of a query including at least some of the input features. In a next iteration of NL interactions, at least some of the result set is provided. An NL response in the iteration is added to a cumulative NL basis, and a revised result set is provided, which includes a new image result corresponding to a new response feature extracted from the cumulative NL basis.
US11455334B2	Method and system for collecting, and globally communicating and evaluating, digital still and video images of sports and event spectators, including augmented reality images from entertainment and venues A contest method and system include a sponsor displaying an advertisement accompanied by a contest invitation in association with a spectator event. An electronically geofenced perimeter of the spectator event to electronically submit affection-demonstrating digital images for contest participation, the affection-demonstrating digital images comprising at least one still image selected from a personal photograph, a family photograph, and a pet photograph portraying demonstrations of kissing, hugging, or otherwise conveying personal affection between at least two individuals or pets. Selecting a subset of the affection-demonstrating digital images, including augmented reality (AR) images, from spectators located within the electronically geofenced perimeter of the spectator event as candidates for entry into a voting stage of the contest.
US11455329B2	Web-sourced device control A method, computer program product and computer system are provided to promote device usage compliance. A processor retrieves a current position for a device. A processor determines at least one nearby location based on the current position of the device. A processor retrieves search data regarding the at least one nearby location. A processor determines compliance information regarding the at least one location based, at least in part, on the search data. A processor configures the device based on the compliance information regarding the at least one location.
US11455328B2	Media fingerprinting and identification system The overall architecture and details of a scalable video fingerprinting and identification system that is robust with respect to many classes of video distortions is described. In this system, a fingerprint for a piece of multimedia content is composed of a number of compact signatures, along with traversal hash signatures and associated metadata. Numerical descriptors are generated for features found in a multimedia clip, signatures are generated from these descriptors, and a reference signature database is constructed from these signatures. Query signatures are also generated for a query multimedia clip. These query signatures are searched against the reference database using a fast similarity search procedure, to produce a candidate list of matching signatures. This candidate list is further analyzed to find the most likely reference matches. Signature correlation is performed between the likely reference matches and the query clip to improve detection accuracy.
US11455325B2	System and method for dialogue based file index An intelligent assistant device for conversation-based indexing and searching of a file. The intelligent assistant device having a processor configured to detect a conversation having at least one user. The processor, responsive to detecting the conversation having at least one user configured to mine the conversation for a file associated with the conversation. The processor, responsive to identifying the file further configured to mine the conversation for contextual keywords associated with the file. The processor also configured to index the contextual keywords to the file.
US11455321B2	Deep data classification using governance and machine learning A method of data classification includes: identifying a cluster of data classes; classifying columns of a current data set; identifying the cluster in the current data set; determining, based on the cluster, an expected column is missing from the current data set; determining a neighboring data set; identifying the expected column in the neighboring data set; classifying the expected column in the neighboring data set; creating a new data class in the current data set; and classifying an unclassified column in the current data set or the neighboring data set with the new data class.
US11455319B2	Merkle tree forest for synchronizing data buckets of unlimited size in object storage systems Embodiments extend using sparse Merkle trees for smart synchronization of S3 buckets by overcoming fixed size limitations through creating another Merkle tree when the fixed size limit of the first tree is exceeded, and creating yet another tree when the second tree is filled up, and so on as needed. The method maintains a list of trees, in which each tree can be synchronized separately by keeping a strict division to trees according to generation number. The generation is passed from a source site to a target site during replication operations. The tagging of the generation number also makes it easy and efficient to remove an older version of an element or deal with deleted elements. This allows efficient syncing between two data object buckets without a size limitation on number of elements in a bucket.
US11455317B2	Application programming interface and hypergraph transfer protocol supporting a global hypergraph approach to reducing complexity for accelerated multi-disciplinary scientific discovery A system and method for connecting one or more client applications with one or more knowledge representation servers and communicating there between includes an application programming interface (API) and a hypergraph transfer protocol (HGTP), for facilitating communication between the one or more client applications and one or more knowledge representation servers responsive to a client application request. The client application request includes an API call for a specific entity that is received by a first knowledge representation server. If the first knowledge representation server does not manage the specific entity, the first knowledge representation server forwards the specific entity call to a second knowledge representation server via the HGTP using a universal unique identifier (UUID) associated with the specific entity having encoded therein a network address for the second knowledge representation server.
US11455309B2	Partition key adjustment based on query workload Disclosed is a computer-implemented method to adjust partition keys. The method includes identifying a target table that is a target of a query, the target table including a set of initial partitions. The method also includes determining a set of common queries, wherein each of the common queries are configured to retrieve data from the target table. The method further includes identifying a plurality of core ranges. The method includes merging the core ranges into a new set of partitions. The method further includes setting, in response to the merging, updated partition keys. Further aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and computer program products containing functionality consistent with the method described above.
US11455308B2	Partition aware partial query processing Described herein includes a calculation scenario of a calculation engine that efficiently partitions data for processing at separate hosts, including in parallel, and unions intermediate results from such separate processing when required for further processing. Such parallel processing of partitions can allow for faster processing times, and such unioning of data only when required for further processing can limit the transferring of data that results in slower processing.
US11455304B2	Graph-based predictive cache A predictive cache system learns data access patterns to build a graph of related data items. A main cache hosted by a cache server is accessed by a cache client having a local cache. A request to the cache server for one of the related data items generates a response including some or all of the related data items, which are stored in the local cache and can be served locally for subsequent requests. Predictive cache behavior coexists with legacy non-predictive cache operation. Load on the cache server and aggregate latency are considerably reduced. Graphs can be specific to a particular context. Locally cached content can be distributed and reused by other cache clients. The predictive cache system is suitable for large-scale web applications. Variations are described.
US11455301B1	Method and system for identifying entities Some embodiments provide a program that identifies an entity having an entity attribute. The program receives, from each method of several methods, a set of candidate identity attributes that are each for identifying a particular entity having the entity attribute specified in the document. Each method of the several methods generates the corresponding set of candidate identity attributes based on the entity attribute specified in a document. The program calculates a score for each candidate identity attribute in the sets of candidate identity attributes. The program identifies, based on the sets of scores, an identity attribute from the sets of candidate identity attributes that identifies the entity having the entity attribute specified in the document.
US11455300B2	Interactive industrial automation remote assistance system for components A method may include receiving a query input indicative of an identity of an industrial automation device and searching a database based on the query input to identify one or more workflow datasets corresponding to the identity of the industrial automation device. Each of the one or more workflow datasets may include one or more instructions associated with one or more operations of the industrial automation device and one or more virtual objects associated with the one or more instructions. The method may also include displaying one or more visualizations representative of the one or more workflow datasets via an electronic display of a computing device. Each of the one or more visualizations may receive an input that causes the computing device to receive at least a portion of a respective workflow dataset.
US11455297B2	Managing transaction requests in ledger systems Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing transaction requests in ledger systems. One of the methods includes: receiving a plurality of transaction requests by a computing system, each of the plurality of transaction requests including content information of a corresponding transaction and authentication information of the corresponding transaction, storing each of the plurality of transaction requests in a request stream by the computing system, obtaining storage information of a transaction request of the plurality of transaction requests in the request stream by the computing system, and storing the storage information of the transaction request in an index of an index stream and authentication information of a transaction corresponding to the transaction request in a storage element of a storage stream by the computing system, the storage element corresponding to the index, the index stream being associated with the storage stream.
US11455296B1	Offline structured data entry and data access on a mobile device A digital data processing system includes a server digital data processor that maintains (i) one or more tables, each comprising records or other structured data (collectively, “records”), (ii) a schema for each of the remote app and of one or more of the tables dedicated to or associated with the app, where each schema comprises a collection of metadata for the respective app or table. A client digital data processor is at least intermittently connected for communications with the server, and a remote app executes on that client digital data processor. The app includes instructions to cause that digital data processor request a record from one of the tables, to update data in that record and to request storage of the update back to that table. The remote app utilizes the schemas to prefetch data from the one or more tables dedicated to or associated with the app.
US11455295B2	Electronic document workflow Provided are embodiments of electronic document processing that include a workflow engine executing a workflow that includes verifying material data of an electronic document, providing a verified copy of the electronic document to a reviewer for review and, in response to receiving approval of the electronic document from the reviewer, obtaining a digital signature of material data of the electronic document from the reviewer. The workflow may include a similar process for multiple reviewers, and providing the electronic document to a processor for processing.
US11455293B2	Counting method, counter and storage medium A counting method, a counter and a storage medium, wherein the method includes: detecting whether a count application source exists; obtaining a quantity of counts caused by a current count application source in unit time and server-related parameters, if a count application source exists; determining a mode in which the current count application source updates the database according to the quantity of counts or the server-related parameters, the mode including a real-time mode and a high-performance mode; accumulating the counts caused by the current count application source running in the server to obtain an accumulated value, if the current count application source updates the database in the high-performance mode; and updating the accumulated value of the current count application source to the database according to a preset frequency.
US11455291B2	Processing mutations for a remote database Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for processing mutations for a remote database. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a log of database mutations from a client device, the log of database mutations indicating changes previously made to a client version of a database stored on the client device, and each database mutation specifying: an entity included in the database; an operation for the entity; and a client version number for the entity; identifying, in the log of database mutations, two or more database mutations that each specify a same client version number for a same entity; determining, based on a conflict resolution policy, that the two or more database mutations are eligible for collapsing; and collapsing the two or more database mutations into a single database mutation.
US11455290B1	Streaming database change data from distributed storage Techniques for distributed database storage utilizing split volume types for redo log records and change log records are described. A database engine sends redo log data to a first set of page storage nodes and change log data to a second set of tuple storage nodes, where the change log data is stored in an indexed manner Client access to change log data may be provided through a separate set of streaming storage servers instead of through the database engine.
US11455283B2	Candidate element selection using significance metric values Techniques and solutions are described for determining a set of elements of a second set that may correspond to a given element of a first set of elements. The elements can be, in specific examples, components of a database system, such as tables (or entities), attributes, or records. Significance metric values are calculated for elements in the first and second sets. The significance metric values can be a number of records in an entity or a number of read or write access operations for an entity or for a record of an entity. A significance metric value for the given element can be used at least in part to select elements of the second set as potential match candidates, based at least in part on significance metric values for elements of the second set. Selecting elements can include selecting elements based on a window of elements of the second set or a range of significance metric values.
US11455281B2	Generating and morphing a collection of files in a folder/sub-folder structure that collectively has desired dedupability, compression, clustering and commonality One example method includes receiving a set of filesystem parameters, creating a simulated filesystem based on the filesystem parameters, receiving a set of target characteristics for a file collection, based on the target characteristics, slicing a datastream into a grouping of data slices, populating the simulated files with the data slices to create the file collection and forward or reverse morphing the file collection from one generation to another without rewriting the entire file collection.
US11455280B2	Synchronization of metadata in a distributed storage system A client machine writes to and reads from a virtual disk on a remote storage platform. Metadata is generated and stored in replicas on different metadata nodes of the storage platform. A modified log-structured merge tree is used to store and compact string-sorted tables of metadata. During file storage and compaction, a consistent file identification scheme is used across all metadata nodes. A fingerprint file is calculated for each SST (metadata) file on disk that includes hash values corresponding to regions of the SST file. To synchronize, the fingerprint files of two SST files are compared, and if any hash values are missing from a fingerprint file then the key-value-timestamp triples corresponding to these missing hash values are sent to the SST file that is missing them. The SST file is compacted with the missing triples to create a new version of the SST file. The synchronization is bi-directional.
US11455276B2	Method for processing snapshots and distributed block storage system A method for processing snapshots and a distributed block storage system, the method including: acquiring the number of read operations and the number of read/write operations for a data block in a distributed block storage system; on the basis of the number of read operations and the number of read/write operations, determining a target snapshot manner, wherein the target snapshot manner includes copying while writing or re-orienting while writing; on the basis of the target snapshot manner, performing a snapshot operation on the data block in the distributed block storage system.
US11455275B2	Storing a point in time coherently for a distributed storage system A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. The computing devices may take snapshots to store points in time coherently for a distributed storage system.
US11455274B2	Method and system for analyzing data in a database A method and system analyze data in a database. The method and system include defining a plurality of set of rules, wherein each set of rules corresponds to a predictive model, storing the each set of rules corresponding to the predictive model in a library as a user-defined function and calling the user-defined function via a standard sequel language.
US11455272B2	Energy efficient microprocessor with index selected hardware architecture An SoC maintains the full flexibility of a general-purpose microprocessor while providing energy efficiency similar to an ASIC by implementing software-controlled virtual hardware architectures that enable the SoC to function as a virtual ASIC. The SoC comprises a plurality of “Stella” Reconfigurable Multiprocessors (SRMs) supported by a Network-on-a-Chip that provides efficient data transfer during program execution. A hierarchy of programmable switches interconnects the programmable elements of each of the SRMs at different levels to form their virtual architectures. Arithmetic, data flow, and interconnect operations are also rendered programmable. An architecture index” points to a storage location where pre-determined hardware architectures are stored and extracted during program execution. The programmed architectures are able to mimic ASIC properties such as variable computation types, bit-resolutions, data flows, and amount and proportions of compute and data flow operations and sizes. Once established, each architecture remains in place as long as needed.
US11455267B1	Calibration method for current detection and protection mechanism and calibration device using same A calibration device includes a main control unit, an interface conversion unit and an electronic load generation unit. The electronic load generation unit provides an electronic load, so that a USB control chip generates a constant load current. The USB control chip uses at least one preset conversion parameter to generate an analog-to-digital conversion value according to the constant load current. The main control unit generates a to-be-calibrated output current according to the analog-to-digital conversion value. The main control unit generates at least one calibrated conversion parameter according to the constant load current and the to-be-calibrated output current. The USB control chip uses the at least one calibrated conversion parameter to generate a calibrated analog-to-digital conversion value, so that an over current protection mechanism is accurately enabled.
US11455265B2	Data bus driver with electrical energy dump A group of transistors is configured to drive a bus at time slots, to express data on the bus. The group of transistors dissipates an amount of electrical energy when driving the bus to a logic level opposite to a logic level present on the bus in an immediate preceding time slot. The group of transistors is arranged to dump another amount of electrical energy. Dumping of the other amount of electrical energy is responsive to driving the bus to a logic level that is the same as present on the bus in an immediate preceding time slot. The dumped amount of electrical energy is equivalent to the amount of energy dissipated by the transistors when transitioning the bus to a different logic level. Other aspects are also described.
US11455264B2	Minimizing delay while migrating direct memory access (DMA) mapped pages During a memory reallocation process, it is determined that a set of memory pages being reallocated are each enabled for a Direct Memory Access (DMA) operation. Prior to writing initial data to the set of memory pages, a pre-access delay is performed concurrently for each memory page in the set of memory pages.
US11455262B2	Reducing latency for memory operations in a memory controller Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, memory controllers, devices, and machine-readable mediums which minimize this stall time by returning a memory write acknowledgement once a write command has been selected by the memory controller input multiplexor rather than when the memory write command has been performed. Because the memory controller enforces an ordering to memory once the packet has been selected at an input multiplexor, ordering of prior and subsequent requests to the same address location are preserved and providing the response early allows the processor to continue its operations earlier without any harmful effects.
US11455261B2	First boot with one memory channel An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to identify a partial set of populated memory channels from a full set of populated memory channels of a multi-channel memory system, and complete a first boot of an operating system with only the identified partial set of memory channels of the multi-channel memory system. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11455256B2	Memory system with first cache for storing uncompressed look-up table segments and second cache for storing compressed look-up table segments A memory system is connectable to the host. The memory system includes a nonvolatile first memory, a second memory in which a plurality of pieces of first information each correlating a logical address indicating a location in a logical address space of the memory system with a physical address indicating a location in the first memory are stored, a volatile third memory including a first cache and a second cache, a compressor configured to perform compression on the plurality of pieces of first information, and a memory controller. The memory controller stores the first information not compressed by the compressor in the first cache, stores the first information compressed by the compressor in the second cache, and controls a ratio between a first capacity, which is a capacity of the first cache, and a second capacity, which is a capacity of the second cache.
US11455255B1	Read performance of log-structured file system (LFS)-based storage systems that support copy-on-write (COW) snapshotting Techniques for improving the read performance of an LFS-based storage system that supports COW snapshotting are provided. In one set of embodiments, the storage system can implement an intermediate map for each storage object in the system that is keyed by a composite key consisting of snapshot identifier (major key) and LBA (minor key). With this approach, contiguous logical block addresses (LBAs) of a storage object or its snapshots will map to contiguous -to-PBA mappings in the storage object's intermediate map, resulting in good spatial locality for those LBAs and robust read performance.
US11455249B2	Storage device for performing dump operation, method of operating storage device, computing system including storage device and host device for controlling storage device, and method of operating computing system Provided herein may be a storage device, a method of operating the storage device, a computing system including the storage device and a host device for controlling the storage device, and a method of operating the computing system. A memory controller may include a host interface configured to receive bad block information on one or more bad blocks of a second memory device from a host device; and a bad block processor configured to store data of one or more source bad blocks of the first memory device in one or more available memory blocks of the first memory device by controlling the first memory device, the source bad blocks of the first memory device corresponding to the bad block information, the available memory blocks being different from the source bad blocks.
US11455248B2	Semiconductor device capable of performing software lock-step A semiconductor device performs a software lock-step. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit group including a first Intellectual Property (IP) to be operated in a first address space, a first bus, and a first memory, a second circuit group including a second IP to be operated in a second address space, a second bus, and a second memory, a third bus connectable to a third memory, and a transfer control circuit coupled to the first to third buses. when the software lock-step is performed, the second circuit group converts an access address from the second IP to the second memory such that an address assigned to the second memory in the second address space is a same as an address assigned to the first memory in the first address space.
US11455245B2	Scheme to improve efficiency of garbage collection in cached flash translation layer A variety of applications can include apparatus and/or methods of operating the apparatus in which storage in the memory device is managed. An allocation can include conducting a garbage collection procedure to free up one or more blocks. In various embodiments, execution of a garbage collection procedure can be based on operation of two tables with respect to a logical to physical mapping table split into logical to physical mapping table regions saved in the memory device. The first table can maintain counts of valid pages in blocks for a logical to physical mapping table region. The second table can include bits to identify logical to physical mapping table regions involved in the garbage collection procedure based on the entries in the first table. Search of the second table can determine logical to physical mapping table regions involved in the garbage collection. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11455243B2	Data merge method performing data merge operations with identifying valid data of source nodes for next data merge operation, memory storage device, and memory control circuit unit A data merge method for a rewritable non-volatile memory module including multiple physical units is provided. The method includes: starting a first data merge operation, and selecting at least one first physical unit for executing the first data merge operation and at least one second physical unit for executing a second data merge operation from the physical units; reading first mapping information from the rewritable non-volatile memory module, and copying first valid data collected from the at least one first physical unit to at least one third physical unit in the physical units; identifying second valid data in the at least one second physical unit according to the first mapping information in the first data merge operation; and starting the second data merge operation, and copying the second valid data collected from the at least one second physical unit to at least one fourth physical unit in the physical units.
US11455242B2	Scrubber driven wear leveling in out of place media translation A process for wear-leveling in a memory subsystem where references to invalidated chunks and a write count for each of the invalidated chunks of a memory subsystem are received by a wear-leveling manager. The wear-leveling manager orders the received references to the invalidated chunks of the memory subsystem in a tracking structure based on the write count of each of the invalidated chunks, and provides a reference to at least one of the invalidated chunks based on the ordering from the tracking structure to a write scheduler to service a write request, wherein the memory subsystem is wear-leveled by biasing the order of the invalidated chunks to prioritize low write count chunks.
US11455241B2	Data management method applicable to data storage device A memory management method applicable to a data storage device is provided. The memory management method includes steps of: requesting a private memory space from a host; recording a reserved memory space given by the host; dividing a mapping table into a plurality of sub-mapping tables; determining whether a capacity of the reserved memory space is sufficient to store the sub-mapping tables; and if yes, uploading the sub-mapping tables to the reserved memory space via an interface logic.
US11455239B1	Memory reduction in a system by oversubscribing physical memory shared by compute entities supported by the system Methods and systems related to memory reduction in a system by oversubscribing physical memory shared among compute entities are provided. A portion of the memory includes a combination of a portion of a first physical memory of a first type and a logical pooled memory associated with the system. A logical pooled memory controller is configured to: (1) track both a status of whether a page of the logical pooled memory allocated to any of the plurality of compute entities is a known-pattern page and a relationship between logical memory addresses and physical memory addresses associated with any allocated logical pooled memory, and (2) allow the write operation to write data to any available space in the second physical memory of the first type only up to an extent of physical memory that corresponds to the portion of the logical pooled memory previously allocated to the compute entity.
US11455237B2	Highly scalable system and method for automated SDK testing A highly scalable automated SDK testing system includes an automated testing controller, an automated testing message server and an automated testing message terminal running on a set of target devices. The controller and the terminals register themselves with the message server. A testing case is programmed for testing an SDK on a number of target devices concurrently and transformed into a set of command messages in JSON message format. The controller sends the set of messages to the message server. The message server then distributes the set of command messages to the terminals. In response, the terminal calls corresponding APIs of the SDK. The APIs called can be the same or different between the devices within the set of target devices. The SDK returns a result that is forwarded to the server. The server sends the results from the target devices to the controller. The controller verifies the results.
US11455233B2	Performance utilities for mobile applications Techniques for evaluating software systems are provided, including measurement of performance ratings of features of an app-under-test are described. The evaluation may include analysis of a video recording of the user interface of the app-under-test, where the video analysis may include comparing the changes over time of co-located pixel in the video to produce a performance rating, for example a speed index. The results of multiple such tests can be compared by comparing the performance rating produced during execution of different tests.
US11455232B2	Debug operations on artificial intelligence operations The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing a debug operation on an artificial intelligence operation. An example apparatus can include a number of memory arrays and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to perform an artificial intelligence (AI) operation on data stored in the number of memory arrays and perform a debug operation on the AI operation.
US11455227B2	Systems and methods for expedited access to applications Methods and systems for determining information of applications are described herein. A computing device may receive, from one or more client devices, data indicating application usage events. The computing device may determine, based on the data, popular applications that a target user regularly uses. The computing device may determine, based on the data, recommended applications that users similar to the target user regularly use. The computing device may determine, based on the popular applications and/or the recommended applications, a collection of applications for the target user. The collection of applications may be displayed on a user interface of a client device associated with the target user for expedited access of interested applications.
US11455225B2	Electronic device having infrared light-emitting diode for data transmission An electronic device may be provisioned with an infrared (IR) light-emitting diode (LED) configured to externally transmit identifying information that particularly identifies the device, such as the device serial number, to outside of the device. A companion portable IR LED reader may be used to systematically scan a row or shelf or rack of electronic devices to read the respective communication signals transmitted from each of the respective devices, thereby enabling quick and accurate physical identification of the devices in a system/datacenter and inhibiting the unnecessary removal of an incorrect or misidentified device for replacement.
US11455217B2	Transaction consistency query support for replicated data from recovery log to external data stores Transaction consistency query support is available for replicated data from recovery log to external data stores. An external data store is populated with records using entries of a change data table. The change data table has entries for each transaction that has committed and is to be replicated, and each of the entries stores information for each log entry in a recovery log from a database management system. Each log entry identifies a transactional change of data and a transaction completion indicator of one of commit and abort. In response to receiving a query about a transaction of the transactions, a set of records are retrieved from the external data store for the transaction. From the set of records, records whose sequence identifier values are larger than a maximum transaction commit sequence identifier are removed. From the set of records, remaining records having transaction consistency are returned.
US11455216B2	Method and system for generating synthetic backups using pseudo-asset backups A method that is performed for backing up data. The method includes obtaining an incremental backup request; and in response to the incremental backup request: obtaining an asset and an asset entry associated with the incremental backup request; dividing the asset into pseudo-assets based on the asset entry; storing the pseudo-assets across backup storages to generate incremental pseudo-asset backups; initiating the merging of the incremental pseudo-asset backups to generate an incremental asset backup; and initiating the merging of the incremental asset backup with a previously generated full asset backup associated with the incremental backup request to generate a first synthetic full asset backup.
US11455214B2	Client data driven smart backup scheduler First, second, and third threshold limits are configured. The first threshold limit corresponds to a data change at which a backup of a client should be triggered. The second threshold limit corresponds to a maximum time interval at which the backup should be triggered. The third threshold limit corresponds to a utilization of resources at the client above which the backup should not be triggered. An amount of data change since a last backup, an elapsed time, and level of resource utilization at the client is monitored. A determination is made that at least one of the amount of data change has reached the first threshold limit or the elapsed time has reached the second threshold limit. The backup of the client is prevented from occurring because the level of resource utilization at the client is above the third threshold limit.
US11455212B2	Block-level single instancing Described in detail herein are systems and methods for single instancing blocks of data in a data storage system. For example, the data storage system may include multiple computing devices (e.g., client computing devices) that store primary data. The data storage system may also include a secondary storage computing device, a single instance database, and one or more storage devices that store copies of the primary data (e.g., secondary copies, tertiary copies, etc.). The secondary storage computing device receives blocks of data from the computing devices and accesses the single instance database to determine whether the blocks of data are unique (meaning that no instances of the blocks of data are stored on the storage devices). If a block of data is unique, the single instance database stores it on a storage device. If not, the secondary storage computing device can avoid storing the block of data on the storage devices.
US11455209B2	Memory system A memory system includes a non-volatile memory configured to store an N-dimensional error correction code and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to calculate an ath soft-input value for an ath component code based on correction information of the ath component code (1≤a≤ni) of an ith dimension (1≤i≤N), ath reliability information, and a syndrome value of the ath component code, to calculate a decoded word of the ath component code, the ath correction information, and the ath reliability information by inputting the ath soft-input value and executing a decoding process of the ath component code, to store the ath correction information and bth correction information indicating a corrected position of a bth component code (1≤b≤nj) of a jth dimension (j≠i, 1≤j≤N) in a correction information memory, to store the ath reliability information in a reliability information memory, and to output an output decoded word calculated from the read information and the reliability information of each component code.
US11455208B2	Soft information for punctured bit estimation in a data storage device A memory controller including, in one implementation, a memory interface and a control circuit. The memory interface is configured to receive a punctured codeword read from a non-volatile memory. The control circuit is configured to determine error probability values for a plurality of check nodes associated with a punctured bit included in the punctured codeword. The control circuit is also configured to determine an error probability value for the punctured bit based on the error probability values for the plurality of check nodes associated with the punctured bit and a variable degree associated with the punctured bit. The control circuit is further configured to determine a log likelihood ratio (LLR) value for the punctured bit based on the error probability value for the punctured bit. The control circuit is also configured to decode the punctured codeword using the LLR value for the punctured bit.
US11455206B2	Usage-banded anomaly detection and remediation utilizing analysis of system metrics A method comprises collecting a set of data from an information processing system, wherein the set of data represents one or more system metrics associated with the information processing system. The method tags data values in the collected set of data with usage bands selected from a plurality of predefined usage bands, wherein each usage band represents a unique range of values within which data values in the set of data can be categorized. Further, the tagged data values are segregated into at least a first set and a second set based on the usage bands. A first anomaly detection algorithm is applied to the first set and a second anomaly detection algorithm is applied to the second set to generate anomaly data sets. The anomaly data sets are mapped back to the collected set of data to identify one or more specific anomalies.
US11455205B2	Systems and methods for pause-correct-replay workflow customization This disclosure pertains to systems and methods that allow users to specifically detect and correct errors within workflows quickly, efficiently, and with minimal repercussions. Once the error is corrected, users have the option to continue the workflow from the point of failure or from a point prior to the point of failure, while also having the option to bypass completed actions and/or other actions in a workflow. The improved communication technology comprises functionality that pauses relevant workflows or processes as soon as the error is detected and while it is corrected. The disclosure also improves communication technology between the networks and servers of separate parties relevant and/or dependent on successful execution of other workflows or processes; allowing for effective understanding, implementation, and engagement of business processes across organizational boundaries.
US11455203B2	Abnormality detection support device, abnormality detection support method, and program A system analysis support device includes a data acquisition part that obtains time series data (items) measured in a system that is to be analyzed, an overall abnormality degree calculation part that calculates transition of abnormality degree representing overall abnormality degree of the system that is to be analyzed, using a predictive model generated so that, with 2 or more time series data (items) as input, values representing a relationship between the 2 or more time series data (items) are outputted, and the time series data (items), and a representative index selection part that selects and presents time series data (items) indicating change similar to transition of the overall abnormality degree of the system that is to be analyzed, from among the time series data (items).
US11455199B2	Determinations of whether events are anomalous According to examples, an apparatus may include a memory on which is stored instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to cluster a set of data points into a hierarchy of a plurality of clusters, in which each level of the hierarchy includes a different number of the plurality of clusters. The processor may also select a number of the plurality of clusters to be used in modeling behaviors of the plurality of clusters and for each cluster of the selected number of the plurality of clusters, determine a distribution type of the cluster. The processor may further merge the distribution types of the clusters to generate a mixture model, identify an event, evaluate the event based on the generated mixture model to determine whether the event is likely anomalous, and based on a determination that the event is likely anomalous, execute a response action.
US11455197B2	Optimizing tail latency via workload and resource redundancy in cloud A plurality of requests are received for computing processing. At least some of the plurality of requests are replicated. The requests are replicated based on a fractional replication factor. Each received request and each replicated request are transmitted to a computer resource for processing. At least some embodiments provide the capability for meeting tail latency targets with improved performance and reduced cost.
US11455196B2	Adaptive prioritization of USB traffic Traffic for USB devices that are connected to a USB-C dock can be adaptively prioritized. When the consumption of the bandwidth of a connection between a computing device and a USB-C dock exceeds a threshold, a filter driver can notify a service. The service can update device priority values for the devices that are connected to the USB-C dock based on applications that are accessing the devices. The service can relay the updated device priority values to the filter driver. The filter driver can then attempt to reduce bandwidth consumption by changing device settings of any device with a lower priority value, and then, if changing device settings is insufficient, may attempt to reduce bandwidth consumption by lowering the priority of the device's traffic.
US11455195B2	Workload-based cognitive dynamic computing system optimization A technique for dynamically adjusting a configuration of a computing system includes determining, during execution of a workload on the computing system, one or more characteristics of the workload. A system configuration from a plurality of system configurations available for the computing system is selected based on the one or more characteristics of the workload. A current configuration of the computing system is adjusted according to the selected system configuration, during the execution of the workload.
US11455190B2	Implicit status in many task computing An apparatus includes a processor to: within a performance container, execute a performance routine to derive an order of performance of tasks of a job flow based on dependencies, begin performing the tasks, and store, within a job queue, a job performance status indication including task performance statuses; identify a set of sub flows within the job flow based on branches in the job flow; correlate each of the task performance statuses to a corresponding sub flow performance status; reduce the job performance status indication size by, for each sub flow in which all tasks have been completed, replace the corresponding task performance statuses with the corresponding sub flow performance status of completed, and for each sub flow with no task performed, replace the corresponding task performance statuses with the corresponding sub flow performance status of not executed; and transmit the job performance status indication to the requesting device.
US11455171B2	Multiported parity scoreboard circuit A fast and frugal item-state tracking scoreboard circuit is disclosed. The scoreboard maintains per-item partial states across multiple memory circuits, enabling multiple lookups per clock cycle and multiple state updates per clock cycle. In an embodiment a scoreboard is used to schedule instructions in an out-of-order processor. Each clock cycle the scoreboard indicates the busy state of an instruction's registers and may update the busy state of the destination registers of issuing instructions and completing instructions. Applications include register tracking, function-unit tracking, and cache-line state tracking, in embodiments including processor cores (including superscalar, superpipelined, and multithreaded processors), accelerators, memory systems, and networks. In an embodiment, a register-busy scoreboard circuit is implemented using FPGA LUT RAM memory. In an embodiment, a three-read/two-write per cycle register file scoreboard of 64 registers uses 16 LUTs and indicates whether an instruction is issuable in two LUT delays.
US11455165B2	Hot updates to controller software using tool chain Disclosed embodiments relate to performing updates to Electronic Control Unit (ECU) software while an ECU of a vehicle is operating. Operations may include receiving, at the vehicle while the ECU of the vehicle is operating, a software update file for the ECU software; writing, while the ECU is operating, the software update file into a first memory location in a memory of the ECU while simultaneously executing a code segment of existing code in a second memory location in the memory of the ECU; and updating a plurality of memory addresses associated with the memory of the ECU based on the software update file and without interrupting the execution of the code segment currently being executed in the second memory location in the memory of the ECU.
US11455162B2	Software rewriting device A software rewriting device, configured to rewrite software of a moving body, includes: a required time acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a required time for rewriting the software; a scheduled stop time acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a scheduled stop time at a predetermined position of the moving body; and a rewriting processing unit configured to execute a rewriting process of rewriting the software. When the required time is shorter than the scheduled stop time based on the information regarding the required time and the information regarding the scheduled stop time, the rewriting processing unit executes the rewriting process at the predetermined position, and when the required time is longer than the scheduled stop time based on the information regarding the required time and the information regarding the scheduled stop time, the rewriting processing unit does not execute the rewriting process at the predetermined position.
US11455161B2	Utilizing machine learning models for automated software code modification A device may receive requirement data identifying a requirement for modification of software code, and may process the requirement data, with a machine learning model, to identify entities and intents in the software code and to generate a query. The device may process the query, with a code locator model, to encode text of the query into high-dimensional vectors and to identify a semantic similarity between the high-dimensional vectors and code text. The device may process the query, the semantic similarity, and the code text, with a code developer model, to generate metadata, and may utilize the metadata to identify an identifier associated with the software code. The device may determine, utilizing the identifier, a portion of the software code, and may modify the portion of the software code based on the query to generate modified software code. The device may perform actions based on the modified software code.
US11455151B2	Computer system and method for facilitating an interactive conversational session with a digital conversational character Disclosed herein is a software technology for facilitating an interactive conversational session between a user and a digital conversational character. For instance, in one aspect, the disclosed process may involve two primary phases: (1) an authoring phase that involves a first user accessing a content authoring tool to create a given type of visual conversation application that facilitates interactions between a second user and a digital conversational character in an interactive conversational session, and (2) a rendering phase that involves the second user accessing the created visual conversation application to interact with the digital conversational character in an interactive conversational session. In one implementation, accessing the created visual conversation application may involve detecting an object and identifying information associated with the detected object.
US11455148B2	Software programming assistant A natural language command from an operator is received. The command regards a task that a software system is to execute. A programming language in which to program the task is determined by analyzing a plurality of factors regarding the task and the software system. Code is output in the programming language that executes the task.
US11455145B2	Applications of and techniques for quickly computing a modulo operation by a Mersenne or a Fermat number Various embodiments include a modulo operation generator associated with a cache memory in a computer-based system. The modulo operation generator generates a first sum by performing an addition and/or a subtraction function on an input address. A first portion of the first sum is applied to a lookup table that generates a correction value. The correction value is then added to a second portion of the first sum to generate a second sum. The second sum is adjusted, as needed, to be less than the divisor. The adjusted second sum forms a residue value that identifies a cache memory slice in which the input data value corresponding to the input address is stored. By generating the residue value in this manner, the cache memory distributes input data values among the slices in a cache memory even when the number of slices is not a power of two.
US11455143B2	Using a low-bit-width dot product engine to sum high-bit-width numbers A device (e.g., an integrated circuit chip) includes a dot product processing component, a data alignment component, and an accumulator. The dot product processing component is configured to calculate a dot product of a first group of elements stored in a first storage unit with a second group of elements, wherein: each element of the first group of elements is represented using a first number of bits, each value of a group of values stored in the first storage unit is represented using a second number of bits greater than the first number of bits, and each value of the group of values is stored as split segments across more than one element of the elements of the first group of elements. The data alignment component is configured to receive results of the dot product processing component and modify one or more of the results of the dot product processing component. The accumulator is configured to sum outputs of the data alignment component to at least in part determine a sum of the group of values.
US11455141B2	Location-enabled portable audio system Audio systems and methods for obtaining location information are disclosed. A portable, wireless speaker that may include a beacon that a user may activate to remotely trigger a request for shot information, which may include location information of the user or speaker. The beacon may be wirelessly coupled to the speaker. The speaker may receive location information from a remote device, such as a GPS-enabled mobile phone. The shot information may be converted into an audio format for playback by the speaker. The speaker may pause the playback of the speaker to play out the shot information.
US11455140B2	Electronic device and method for same controlling external device Provided are an electronic device and a method of controlling an external device by the electronic device. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of controlling an external device by an electronic device includes displaying, on a screen, a first user interface (UI) corresponding to first UI data received from an external server, transmitting, to the external device, second UI data corresponding to the first UI, receiving, from the external device, coordinates selected by a user using the external device, obtaining additional information related to the first UI when the coordinates correspond to a position of the first UI displayed on the screen, and transmitting, to the external device, the additional information and an execution command of an application using the additional information.
US11455138B2	System and method for providing access to co-located operations data for an electronic display Systems and methods for providing client-specific access to operations data for an electronic display assembly utilized by a number of different clients are provided. Operations data is received from sensors at the electronic display assembly and assigned various client identifiers. Login information is received from a client device and verified. A particular client identifier is received from the client device and the databases are queried to identify all portions of the operations data assigned the particular client identifier for transmission to the client device.
US11455135B2	Image forming system, image forming apparatus, mobile terminal device, and computer-readable non-transitory recording medium The image forming apparatus includes a display device, (a) generates a preview image corresponding to a target image to be printed, (b) generates an encoded image by encoding the preview image, and (c) displays the encoded image on the display device without displaying the preview image. The mobile terminal device (a) optically captures an encoded image displayed on the image forming device, (b) acquires a preview image by decoding the captured encoded image, and (c) displays the acquired preview image.
US11455134B2	Communication between an image forming device and a replaceable supply item A toner container installable in an image forming device having a controller according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for storing toner. A chip is positioned on the housing and configured to, after sending a first busy response to the controller of the image forming device, receive a second write command from the controller of the image forming device that is abbreviated relative to a first write command received from the controller of the image forming device and that requests the chip to send a response to the first write command. The chip is further configured to send a response to the first write command to the controller of the image forming device if upon receiving a read command corresponding to the second write command the chip has completed processing the first write command.
US11455133B2	Information processing apparatus including setting screen, control method therefor, and storage medium An information processing apparatus capable of providing an appropriate IP address to a mobile terminal in which a network service discovery protocol does not function. The information processing apparatus has a plurality of lines assigned with different pieces of address information, and is configured to transmit short-range wireless-communication information, in which address information regarding one line out of the plurality of lines is set, to a communication destination via short-range wireless communication. The information processing apparatus comprises a setting unit configured to preferentially set, into the short-range wireless-communication information, address information regarding a line, out of the plurality of lines, in which a relay device for performing intercommunication between different protocols is provided between the information processing apparatus and the communication destination.
US11455132B2	Printer and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for printer A printer may accept a print instruction; start printing of a code image on a print medium; control an operation state of the printer, wherein in a case where the printing of the code image is completed after the printing of the code image has been started, the operation state of the printer is controlled to be a respondent state, and in a case where the printing of the code image is not completed due to an error occurring after the printing of the code image has been started, the operation state of the printer is controlled to be a non-respondent state; receive an authentication request from a first external device; send the authentication response to the first external device; receive connection information from the first external device; and establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the printer and a second external device.
US11455130B2	Method of color mapping of oligochromatic patterns A method of color mapping color values of an oligochromatic pattern comprising the following steps: determining an image-gamut, in a N-dimensional device independent color system (ND-DICS), of said oligochromatic pattern; wherein said image-gamut comprises said color values of said oligochromatic pattern; and determining a skeleton (500) of said image-gamut; and performing an adaption on said skeleton (500) in said ND-DICS by a set of N-dimensional-transforming steps (30) and determining for points of said skeleton (500), a path in said ND-DICS that corresponds to said adaption; and color mapping said color values, of said oligochromatic pattern, based on said determined paths (35) of said points of said skeleton (500).
US11455128B2	Communication method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program, and communication system A communication method for a personal computer configured to transmit document data constituted by a plurality of pages includes generating a first divided data element and a second divided data element by dividing the document data into predetermined units, generating a first thumbnail image data element in accordance with the generated first divided data element, transmitting the generated first thumbnail image data element, generating a second thumbnail image data element in accordance with the generated second divided data element, transmitting the generated second thumbnail image data element, and after transmitting the first thumbnail image data element, starting transmitting the document data.
US11455127B2	Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium In a case where a print job not performed according to designation of a first object for performing at least one print job without an authenticated user selecting the at least one print job is included in print jobs stored in association with identification information of the authenticated user, an image processing apparatus displays a second object for displaying a list of the print jobs stored in association with the identification information of the authenticated user in preference to the first object on a screen displayed on an operation device after the authentication.
US11455123B2	Data storage apparatus for thermal throttling and operation method thereof A data storage apparatus may include a storage and a controller configured to operate in a throttling mode including a first performance mode and a second performance mode based on measured temperature of the storage. The controller comprises a performance adjusting component configured to determine target performance of the first performance mode based on at least one of temperature of the storage and the number of entries into the second performance mode when the temperature of the storage is greater than or equal to a first threshold value.
US11455121B2	Selecting data nodes for WAN caching in a hybrid cloud environment A computer-implemented method for storing blocks of a file in a heterogeneous environment. The method may comprise receiving a command header for an operation associated with a file from a first data node, matching the enhanced metadata with capabilities of a second data node, and generating a block layout map for the file based at least in part on the enhanced metadata and the capabilities of the second data node. The command header may include enhanced metadata associated with a file, and the enhanced metadata may comprise a type of workload that generated the file and a data access pattern.
US11455118B1	Method for redundant array of independent disks striping against programming failures and apparatus thereof Implementations of the present disclosure provide a memory apparatus that includes a plurality of memory cells stored with memory data in N dies. Each of the N dies includes M planes. Each of the M planes includes a memory block. The apparatus also includes a controller configured to determine J layers in the memory block in each of the M planes and in each of the N dies, each of the J layers comprising a pair of adjacent gate conductive layers. The controller is also configured to determine M sets of stripes. Each of the M sets of stripes comprising a plurality of data portions stored in a respective one of the M planes. The controller is further configured to determine M sets of parity data portions. The controller is further configured to control a temporary storage unit to store the M sets of parity data portions.
US11455117B2	Data reading method, apparatus, and system, avoiding version rollback issues in distributed system A data reading method, apparatus, and system, and a distributed system, related to the field of storage technologies and can be applied to data reading. The method includes: receiving a data read request sent by a terminal, where the data read request includes a logical address of target data; locally searching, based on the logical address, a first slave node for a latest version of the target data; and, when it is determined that the latest version of the target data has been stored in each of a plurality of slave nodes, sending the latest version of the target data to the terminal. This data reading method, apparatus, system, and distributed system can avoid a rollback of a version of read data.
US11455115B2	Storage device According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to control data write to the nonvolatile memory and data read from the nonvolatile memory based on a command from a host. The controller includes at least one processor. The nonvolatile memory stores first firmware for normal operation and second firmware for recovery. The first firmware is firmware to cause the at least one processor to control the data write and the data read based on the command. The second firmware is firmware to cause the at least one processor to recover the first firmware. The second firmware is stored in the nonvolatile memory with higher reliability than the first firmware.
US11455114B1	Consolidation and migration of cloud data A method of migrating or consolidating cloud data includes generating a container on a cloud platform and receiving, at the container, source metadata identifying a set of data to be migrated from a source cloud bucket associated with a source data domain to a destination cloud bucket associated with a destination data domain. The method further includes copying, by the container, set of data from the source cloud bucket to the destination cloud bucket based on the source metadata and generating, by the container, destination metadata for the set of data as stored at the destination cloud bucket.
US11455111B2	Adaptive storage management policies for computing devices The techniques disclosed herein provide adaptive storage techniques for maximizing the available storage space of a file storage system. An adaptable multi-phase storage management process may involve a background process and a user process. The background process can autonomously offload files that comply with a confidence level defined in a storage policy. The user process can selectively offload files based on a user response to a prompt identifying specific files that do not comply with the confidence level. Continual adjustments can be made to the storage based on user activity that allows a system to make more accurate determinations on the selection of operations for increasing the available storage space of a system.
US11455110B1	Data deduplication Embodiments of the present invention provide concepts for handling a handover of ownership of data from a source to a referrer in a data deduplication environment. By performing a handover of the ownership of the data from the source to the referrer, the number of processes required to access the data may be reduced and so the performance of the system may be improved. The identification of a source for performing the handover on may be performed by way of a volatile cache.
US11455109B2	Automatic wordline status bypass management A processing device access a command to program data to a page in a block of a memory device. The processing device determines whether the page is a last remaining open page in the block. The processing device accesses a list that indicates enablement of a function to apply read level offsets to one or more open blocks in the memory device. The processing device determines the list includes an entry that matches to the block. The entry indicates enablement of the function to apply read level offsets to the block. The processing device disables the function based on determining the page is a last remaining open page in the block. The processing device adds the command to a prioritized queue of commands. The memory device executes commands from the prioritized queue in an order based on a priority level assigned to each command.
US11455108B2	Method and device for controlling storage format of on-chip storage resource The present application provides a method and a device for controlling a storage format of an on-chip storage resource, the method for controlling the storage format of the on-chip storage resource includes: while mapping a neural network model to a many-core system, generating an on-chip storage resource of each processing core in the many-core system, and storing the on-chip storage resource into a specified file; and parsing out a storage format of the on-chip storage resource based on the specified file, obtaining occupied storage space of each processing core, and adjusting the storage format of the on-chip storage resource of each processing core based on the occupied storage space of each processing core.
US11455105B2	Storage system and data management method of switching access authority Each controller moves authority for access processing to data in a logical area allocated to the controller between the controllers, for a first storage area in which there is data related to the logical areas of the plurality of controllers by moving the authority for the access processing from a first controller to a second controller. Each of the first controller and the second controller writes data after update related to a write request to the storage area allocated to the own controller and deletes data before update in the first storage area, and moves data for which the own controller has the authority for the access processing in the first storage area to another storage area allocated to the own controller while taking over the allocation of the first storage area in relocation processing of relocating data.
US11455104B2	Determination of a resultant data word when accessing a memory Method for determining a resultant data word when accessing memory cells of a memory, comprising the steps: (a) reading a set of memory cells, (b) wherein a first data word and a second data word are determined from the read set of memory cells, wherein each memory cell is assigned a component of the first data word and the corresponding component of the second data word, (c) wherein the first data word and the second data word for the respective memory cell assume a first value if a first comparison with a first reference value and a second comparison with a second reference value show that the two reference values are greater and assume a second value if the first comparison with the first reference value and the second comparison with the second reference value show that the two reference values are smaller, (d) wherein the first data word and the second data word for the respective memory cell assume at least one third value if the conditions according to feature (c) are not satisfied, and (e) determining the resultant data word on the basis of the first data word or on the basis of the second data word. A corresponding device is also proposed.
US11455102B2	Computing system and operating method thereof An electronic device is provided. A storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a write protection area. The memory controller controls the memory device to perform a read operation on the write protection area, in response to a series of requests regarding security read that are received from a host, provides read data received from the memory device to the host, and generates a device authentication code based on the read data. The memory controller performs generation of the device authentication code in parallel with provision of the read data to the host.
US11455101B2	Managing I/O connectivity issues Information pertinent to a connectivity issue reported by a switch may be determined, compiled and reported; and action may be taken autonomously to address the connectivity issue based on the information. The additional information may be determined by the storage system, including querying a switch in response to the switch notifying the storage system of the I/O error, and the storage system accessing one or more data structures to determine additional information. The storage system may cause I/O communications on the I/O path to be at least temporarily diverted. For example, in response to receiving an I/O request on the I/O path corresponding to the connectivity issue, the storage system may send a communication to the host system that causes the host system not to send additional I/O requests on the I/O path, at least temporarily, as described in more detail elsewhere herein.
US11455096B2	Method for displaying graphical user interface based on gesture and electronic device A method for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) based on a gesture is implemented by an electronic device. The method includes displaying a first GUI on a touchscreen of the electronic device, where the first GUI includes two or more entries, and the entry includes at least two interface elements. The method further includes receiving a first gesture of a user on the touchscreen. The method further includes displaying a second GUI on the touchscreen in response to the first gesture, where the second GUI includes two or more entries, and the entry includes at least one interface element. A quantity of entries in the second GUI is greater than a quantity of entries in the first GUI, and a quantity of interface elements in the second GUI is less than a quantity of interface elements in the first GUI.
US11455095B2	Method and a lighting control device for controlling a plurality of lighting devices A method of controlling a plurality of lighting devices (120, 122) is disclosed. The method comprises: grouping the plurality of lighting devices (120, 122) into a group of lighting devices (120, 122), rendering a virtual representation of the group of lighting devices (120, 122) at a first location in an image on a display (102), determining a first color associated with one or more pixels at the first location in the image, obtaining light rendering information from the plurality of lighting devices (120, 122), wherein the light rendering information relates to light rendering capabilities of the respective lighting devices (120, 122), receiving a user input indicative of a repositioning of the virtual representation from the first location to a second location in the image, determining, based on the light rendering information, if the lighting devices (120, 122) of the group are able to render a second color associated with one or more pixels at the second location in the image, dividing the group of lighting devices (120, 122) into a first subgroup comprising at least one lighting device that is unable to render the second color and a second subgroup comprising at least one lighting device that is able to render the second color, rendering a first virtual representation of the first subgroup, and a second virtual representation of the second subgroup in the image on the display (102), controlling the at least one lighting device of the first subgroup according to the first color, and controlling the at least one lighting device of the second subgroup according to the second color.
US11455092B2	Method and system for monitoring and controlling operational settings in a bathing system A method, device and system for displaying, via a user interface, an ambiance setting for a bathing system. The user interface is configured to display at least one display page on a display screen. The method comprises displaying on the display screen, a plurality of ambiance settings selectable by a user of the user interface, receiving, at a processor, an indication of a selected ambiance setting from the plurality of ambiance settings displayed on the display screen and in response to the selected ambiance setting, displaying on the display screen a first operational setting for at least one first type of bathing unit component and a second operational setting for at least one second type of bathing unit component. The first operational setting and the second operational setting are pre-programmed in association with the selected ambiance setting.
US11455091B2	Display device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing display control program A display device includes a display section, a folding support part, and a display controller. The display section includes first and second display areas. The folding support part is configured to cause the display section to switch between a folded position and an unfolded position. The display controller controls the display section so that when the display section is in the unfolded position, the display section displays a first object in the first display area and displays a second object in the second display area, when the display section is in the folded position, the display section displays the first object and the second object in the first display area, and a position of the second object with respect to the first object in the folded position is different from a position of the second object with respect to the first object in the unfolded position.
US11455090B2	System and method for detecting and resizing a window for improved content delivery A system and method for ensuring application content is displayed in a proper sized display is provided. An illustrative web-based application detects the display characteristics, e.g., size and/or aspect ratio, of its display window. If the display characteristics do not match a predefined requirement, the application ceases updating content and displays resizing notifications to alert the user to adjust the window. Once the window's display characteristics match the predefined criteria, the application resumes updating content in the window.
US11455088B2	Contextual notes for online meetings In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a computing device, receiving an input from a user during an online meeting and generating a note comprising the input and a timestamp recording a point in time within the online meeting at which the note is generated. The method also includes, by the computing device, providing a user interface in which to display content of the online meeting and the note, the user interface including an annotation marker indicative of an availability of the note and, in response to a selection of the note in the user interface, adjusting a display of the content to a point in the content corresponding to the timestamp.
US11455086B2	System and method for content selection Methods, systems, and software are described herein for providing a user interface that, in one example, indicates the current point in progress for various items that are available for selection. Upon selection of one of the items of content and/or services that present the items of content, the item of content may be accessed (e.g., for display, recording, or other type of consumption) at the point in progress or at another location within the item of content that may correspond to or otherwise depend upon the point in progress.
US11455084B2	System for building simultaneous interactive experiences A system and method for receiving, using one or more processors, a set of sequences including a first sequence; receiving, using the one or more processors, a set of content associated with the first sequence, the set of content including first content associated with a first panel and second content associated with a second panel; receiving, using the one or more processors, a set of interactions associated with the first sequence, the set of interactions including a first trigger; and generating, using the one or more processors, a simulation based on the received set of sequences, the set of content, and the set of interactions.
US11455083B2	Electronic apparatus and control method thereof A control method of an electronic apparatus is provided. The control method includes: displaying, on a display of the electronic apparatus, a first user interface (UI) for setting a display mode, from among a horizontal mode and a vertical mode, for each of one or more sources providing images to the electronic apparatus; storing information on a display mode corresponding to a first source, based on receiving, through the first UI, a first user input for setting the display mode corresponding to the first source of the one or more sources; and controlling at least one of the display or a motor of the electronic apparatus so that the display is operated in one of the horizontal mode or the vertical mode according to the stored information on the display mode corresponding to the first source, based on receiving a second user input for providing an image through the first source.
US11455081B2	Message thread prioritization interface A message prioritization interface, to perform operations that include: accessing a message repository associated with a user account, where the message repository comprises a plurality of message threads; generating a graphical user interface (GUI) that comprises an allocable region at a first position in the GUI, and a presentation of the plurality of message threads at a second position within the GUI; receiving an input that selects or otherwise identifies a specific message thread from among the plurality of message threads via the GUI; and allocating the selected message thread to the allocable region at the first position in the GUI in response to the input that selects or identifies the specific message thread.
US11455080B2	Data analytics system using insight providers Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing insight providers, each including a logic component and a configuration component, each logic component including a respective domain-specific model, and each configuration component including parameter values for processing data using the respective domain-specific model, receiving a set of assets including data indicative of one or more assets, retrieving asset data associated with the set of assets, the asset data including OT data and IT data, the OT data being provided from networked devices, the IT data being provided from one or more enterprise systems, processing the OT data and the IT data using respective domain-specific models of the logic components of the insight providers to provide a result set, the result set including one or more of a second set of assets and enriched data, and transmitting graphical representations for display in GUI that are respectively specific to an insight provider.
US11455074B2	System and user interface for viewing and interacting with three-dimensional scenes A system configured to generate a three-dimensional scene of a physical environment. In some cases, the system may present the three-dimensional scene such that the user is able to view the model in various different types. The system may also allow the user to capture various measurements associated with the scanned physical environment by selecting different portions of the scene.
US11455067B2	Touch display device Discussed is a touch display device for preventing deterioration in touch performance. The touch display device includes touch electrodes formed so that surfaces thereof that face the vertices of an emission area of a light-emitting element are formed in a rounded shape, thereby making the spacing distances between the touch electrodes and the emission area constant regardless of the positions thereof. The touch display device includes a light-emitting element disposed in an emission area having a plurality of vertices, an encapsulation unit disposed on the light-emitting element, and touch electrodes disposed on the encapsulation unit so as to surround the emission area. Accordingly, it is possible to eliminate the difference between viewpoints at which color shift occurs depending on the viewing direction.
US11455062B2	Non-contact type touch panel system, method of controlling same, and non-contact type input device mountable on existing touch screen Provided are a non-contact type touch panel system that enables a user to input information even without touching a display panel with a finger, and a method of controlling the system. Further, a non-contact type touch panel display structure is also proposed. The non-contact type touch panel display structure can maximally prevent direct contact by a user when the user inputs information to a touch panel because a touch screen is spaced apart from the outer edges of a display. Further, the non-contact type touch panel display structure has a function of enabling a user to visually or aurally recognize information when the information is input in a non-contact type.
US11455059B1	Display line aware noise mitigation for touch screens Noise introduced into touch sensor panel measurements, for example, from display data lines of a display device proximate to the touch sensor panel, can be reduced. In some examples, touch sensing operations and display operations can be synchronized. For example, touch sensing scans (or scan steps) can begin with the rising edge of a display line synchronization signal. Additionally, the display noise can be characterized for the system. Display noise characterization and timing synchronization can be used to discard touch sensing samples including display noise injected into the touch sensor panel that may be synchronized to the display data line synchronization signal. In some examples, a window can be generated based on the characterized display noise, and the window can be applied to annihilate display noise. The application of the window can be time-dependent to account for offsets between the occurrence of the display noise and the touch sensing operation.
US11455058B2	Organic light emitting display with touch sensor Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device with a touch sensor. The display device has a touch sensor that is directly disposed on a sealing part, thus removing the necessity of an additional adhesion process, simplifying a manufacturing process and reducing manufacture cost. In addition, the display device with the touch sensor includes a display cover electrode of a display pad that is made of a same material as a conductive layer included in the touch sensor, thus preventing damage to the display pad electrode.
US11455055B2	Display device which minimizes dead space A display device including a substrate including a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed to overlap with the display area, a plurality of display pads disposed along a first direction in the non-display area, a plurality of sensing pads disposed between the display pads, and a multiplexer electrically connecting the sensing electrodes and the sensing pads. The multiplexer is adjacent to at least one of the sensing pads in the first direction.
US11455053B2	Display device with input sensor having alignment member connected to ground A display device includes a display panel and an input sensor disposed on the display panel and having an active area and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area. The input sensor includes a sensing electrode disposed in the active area; a sensing line disposed in the peripheral area and electrically connected to the sensing electrode; a sensing pad disposed in the peripheral area and electrically connected to the sensing line; a ground pad disposed in the peripheral area and to receive a ground voltage; and a first alignment member disposed in the peripheral area and electrically connected to the ground pad.
US11455050B2	Display device, display module, and electronic device A display device with improved display quality and reduced power consumption is provided. The display device includes a gate driver, a display portion, and a selection signal output circuit. The display portion includes pixel circuits and scan lines. Each of the pixel circuits includes a display element. The gate driver is electrically connected to the scan lines. The first scan lines are electrically connected to the pixel circuits. The scan lines are each configured to receive a first scan signal. The selection signal output circuit is configured to output a first selection signal. The first selection signal is configured to supply the first scan signal to a selected scan line. The display element is configured to update display by the first scan signal. In the pixel circuits, one display element displays an image updated with a different update frequency from another display element.
US11455047B1	Computer mouse with integrated joystick and a plurality of interface circuits The computer mouse with integrated joy stick is an extension of the prior disclosure. The computer mouse with integrated joy stick is configured for use with a microcontroller. The computer mouse with integrated joy stick forms a communication link with the microcontroller. The computer mouse with integrated joy stick is an interface device commonly known as a mouse. The computer mouse with integrated joy stick sends input in the form of operating instructions to the microcontroller over the communication link to the microcontroller. The microcontroller uses the received operating instructions to control the operation of a plurality of output display devices associated with the microcontroller.
US11455046B2	Electronic device An electronic device suitable for a stylus is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, a touch module, and a processor. The display panel includes a display area. The touch module includes a touchable area. The processor is electrically connected to the display panel and the touch module. The processor defines an effective input area in the touchable area in response to the operation of the stylus, defines a mapping display area in the display area corresponding to the effective input area, and adjusts the display ratio of the mapping display area according to the input ratio of the effective input area.
US11455034B2	Method for setting display mode of device according to facial features and electronic device for the same A method for setting a display mode of a device according to facial features and an electronic device for the same are provided. The electronic device uses a camera unit to capture a facial image of a user for identifying facial organs. Then, a relative angle of the user's eyes viewing the image can be determined. After that, a turning signal can be provided according to an angle of the user's eyes viewing the image, and the state of the device. A display unit is driven to display a landscape mode image or a portrait mode image in response to the turning signal. Alternatively, a driving mechanism of the electronic device can be controlled and the electronic device is turned to a specific angle.
US11455029B2	Apparatus, method and computer program for adjusting output signals The application relates to an apparatus, method and computer program for adjusting output signals. The apparatus comprising means for receiving at least a first measurement signal from a first movement sensor and receiving at least a second measurement signal from a second movement sensor wherein the first movement sensor and the second movement sensor are provided on the same structure. The means are also for identifying one or more correlations between the measurement signals and using the identified one or more correlations to adjust at least one output signal provided by at least one detector.
US11455026B2	Power mode transition management for cascaded power supply A cascaded power system including master power management circuitry and slave power management circuitry. The master circuitry includes a master power regulator, comparator circuitry, and control circuitry. The power regulator provides a supply voltage during a normal mode and discharges the supply voltage during a low power mode. The slave circuitry provides a core voltage when enabled and otherwise discharges the core voltage. The comparator circuitry monitors the voltage levels of the supply and core voltages and the control circuitry performs handshaking with the slave circuitry based partly on the voltages to ensure smooth transitioning between the normal and low power modes. The control circuitry asserts a low power good signal when the supply and core voltages are discharged, and de-asserts the low power good signal when the supply and core voltages are fully charged. A processor may rely on the low power mode signal for transitioning between power modes.
US11455020B2	Computing device, apparatus for holding power supply device, and methods of installing power supply device in computing device The present invention provides a computing device, apparatus for holding a power supply device, and methods of installing a power supply device in the computing device. The apparatus comprises a container and at least one electrical contact disposed on the container. The container is configured to hold the power supply device and to be received in a receiving space defined by the computing device. The container, when received in the receiving space, is operable to be removed from the receiving space without necessity of opening a cover of the computing device. The apparatus, computing device, and methods are advantageous in various aspects such as being favorable to the lifetime of the power supply device, convenient for uses to manage the power supply device, such as monitoring the status and make replacement when necessary, etc.
US11455018B2	Optical proximity sensor component comprising light guide This application provides an optical proximity sensor component that includes an optical proximity sensor and a light guide body. The light guide body includes a first end face. The light guide body is disposed on the optical proximity sensor, and the light guide body is configured to transfer, to the optical proximity sensor, light that enters from the first end face, and send out, through the first end face, light that is emitted by the optical proximity sensor. No additional connector or supporting component is required in the optical proximity sensor, which has a simple structure and is easy to assemble.
US11455017B2	Hinge for mobile terminal having an inwardly bendable flexible screen and mobile terminal having an inwardly bendable flexible screen A hinge for a mobile terminal having an inwardly bendable flexible screen comprises: a three-member mechanism consisting of a left supporting plate, a middle supporting plate and a right supporting plate which are rotatably and sequentially connected; a left supporting frame; a right supporting frame; and a middle U-shaped outer cover. Both ends of the three-member mechanism are free ends, such that the left supporting plate, the middle supporting plate and the right supporting plate are flexible screen supporting members capable of moving up and down. After moving up, the left supporting plate, the middle supporting plate and the right supporting plate form a flexible screen supporting face, and after moving down, the components are in a bent state, thereby providing a space for bending of the flexible screen. After moving down, the middle supporting plate reaches a bottom portion of the middle U-shaped outer cover. The present invention can provide a larger space for bending of the flexible screen such that the middle mechanism of the hinge is not exposed after folded, and it can be used in mobile terminals such as mobile phones, e-books, and computers, enabling the mobile terminal to achieve large-screen display in a small volume.
US11455015B2	Computing system A system can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a first display housing that includes a first display, a first display surface and a recess; a second display housing that includes a second display, a second display surface, where the second display housing is translatable at least partially out of the recess to expose at least a portion of the second display surface adjacent to the first display surface; a sensor that generates a position signal for position of the second display; and circuitry that controls rendering of information to the second display based at least in part on the position signal.
US11455014B2	Foldable display device Provided is a foldable display device. The foldable display device includes a housing comprising a folding area, a first unfolding area adjacent to the folding area, and a second unfolding area adjacent to the folding area and under the first unfolding area; a display panel located at the first unfolding area and the second unfolding area that is capable of providing light through a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a shutter layer on the display panel in the first unfolding area that controls whether light is transmitted; a window on the shutter layer; and a shielding layer located at the second unfolding area that is capable of blocking the light.
US11455012B2	USB docking station with output power adjustment and method thereof A power-governing method is for a USB docking station. The USB docking station includes a connector, ports, output-monitoring circuits, and a control circuit. The connector connects to a master device and has a power supply channel. The ports connect to power-receiving devices. The output-monitoring circuits correspond to the ports. The output-monitoring circuits selectively connect the power supply channel to the corresponding ports. Each the output-monitoring circuit has an upper limit power value. Each the output-monitoring circuit obtains a current output power of the corresponding port. The output-monitoring circuit disconnects the connection between the corresponding port and the power supply channel when the current output power is greater than its upper limit power value. The control circuit has rated power values corresponding to the ports. The control circuit sets upper limit power values according to the rated power values, current output powers, and a power supply option of the master device.
US11455009B2	Protective case for a laptop computer A protective case for a laptop computer includes a first portion and a second portion, hinged to each other at the level of a junction area, and intended to protect the upper surface (screen) and the lower surface (base) of the laptop computer. One of the portions is provided with a receptacle capable of receiving the base of the computer. The receptacle is hinged at the level of the free edge of the portion, opposite to the edge of the portion taking part in the junction area between the two portions. The portion is formed of a frame defining a through opening or window, and of a foldable flap, capable of reversibly closing said opening or window.
US11455003B2	Validation of clock to provide security for time locked data A computational device receives an input/output (I/O) operation directed to a data set. In response to determining that there is a time lock on the data set, a determination is made as to whether a clock of the computational device is providing a correct time. In response to determining that the clock of the computational device is not providing the correct time, the I/O operation is restricted from accessing the data set. In response to determining that the clock of the computational device is providing the correct time, a determination is made from one or more time entries of the time lock whether to provide the I/O operation with access to the data set.
US11454997B2	Dynamic voltage compensation circuit and method thereof A dynamic voltage compensation circuit suitable for performing voltage compensation between an electronic device and a multimedia device, and includes a current detection unit, a calculation module and a voltage output unit. The current detection unit is configured to obtain the output current of the electronic device outputting the multimedia device from the bus power terminal. The calculation module is configured to receive the output current and an ideal reference voltage, execute a voltage compensation algorithm to calculate a predetermined output voltage based on the output current, the ideal reference voltage, and a compensation coefficient, and generate a control signal according to the predetermined output voltage. The voltage output unit is configured to receive a control signal, and is controlled by the control signal to generate a compensated output voltage and output it to a bus power terminal.
US11454996B2	Electronic cigarette temperature control system and method, and electronic cigarette with the same An electronic cigarette includes a processor, a heating element, and a power supply. The heating element is electrically coupled to the processor. The power supply is electrically coupled to the processor and the heating element. The processor is configured to calculate a resistance value RL of the heating element before the heating element is powered on, determine whether the resistance value RL of the heating element is within a predetermined range, and determine whether a temperature control mode is selected when the resistance value RL of the heating element is within the predetermined range. The processor is configured to determine whether the heating element is adapted to the temperature control mode when the temperature control mode is selected, and control the heating element to work in the temperature control mode when the heating element is adapted to the temperature control mode. A related temperature control method is also provided.
US11454992B1	Flexure guidance system A flexure based guidance system for precision motion control includes a base that is fixed in position, a carriage that can move relative to the base, an actuator provides the force to move the carriage relative to the base, and one or more flexures arrays that each comprise two or more leaf flexure elements. The actuator causes the carriage to move relative to the base, which causes the flexure elements in the flexure array to flex. The leaf flexure elements are thin, compliant and deform, bend, or deflect in a deterministic manner when mechanically stressed. In some embodiments, stiffeners can be added to the flexures. The guidance system can be integrated into a varifocal head mounted display (HMD) to adjust a location of one or moveable elements in an optical system of the HMD to control a location of an image plane.
US11454990B1	Systems and methods for scaling lag based on flight phase of an electric aircraft A system for scaling lag based on flight phase of an electric aircraft is presented. The system include a sensor connected to an electric aircraft configured to detect measured aircraft data, identify a flight phase of the electric aircraft, and generate a flight datum. The system further comprises a computing device communicatively connected to the sensor, wherein the computing device is configured to receive the flight datum and the flight phase, identify an input latency as a function of the flight datum, select a lag frame as a function of the input latency, wherein the lag frame further comprises a lag threshold, and transmit the flight datum to a user device as a function of the lag frame. The system further includes a remotely located user device configured to receive the flight datum.
US11454986B2	Vehicle, operation management device, operation management method, and computer-readable recording medium A vehicle is configured to be capable of traveling on a road, and includes: a control unit that controls each unit constituting the vehicle; and a projection unit that is capable of projecting an image on the road by control from the control unit, and the projection unit projects a road marking on the road. The road marking is a crosswalk or a marking for traveling of a particular vehicle. The vehicle further includes a traffic signal unit that selectively outputs a color of at least two different colors by control from the control unit.
US11454985B1	Modular vehicles with detachable pods The subject matter of this specification generally relates to modular vehicles including separable pod and base units. In some implementations, a computing system installed in a vehicle base identifies a vehicle pod that is detachably connected to a chassis on the vehicle base. In response to identifying that the vehicle pod is detachably connected to the chassis on the vehicle base, a communications link can be established between the computing system installed in the vehicle base and a computing system installed in the vehicle pod. Based on information obtained through the communications link, the computing system installed in the vehicle base can determine a particular configuration of the vehicle pod that is detachably connected to the chassis. The computing system can then verify that the vehicle base can safely transport the vehicle pod while the vehicle pod is detachably connected.
US11454981B1	Versatile mobile robotic device Provided is a robotic device, including: a chassis; a set of wheels; one or more motors to drive the set of wheels; a suspension system; a controller in communication with the one or more motors; at least one sensor; a camera; one or more processors; a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors effectuate operations including: capturing, with the camera, spatial data of surroundings; generating, with the one or more processors, a spatial model of the surroundings based on the spatial data; generating, with the one or more processors, a movement path based on the spatial model of the surroundings; inferring, with the one or more processors, a location of the robotic device; and updating, with the one or more processors, the movement path to exclude locations of the movement path that the robotic device has previously been located.
US11454978B2	Systems and methods for improving generalization in visual navigation A training system for training a trained model for use by a navigating robot to perform visual navigation includes memory including N base virtual training environments, each of the N base virtual training environments including a field of view at a location within an indoor space, where N is an integer greater than 1. A randomization module is configured to generate N varied virtual training environments based on the N base virtual training environments, respectively, by varying at least one characteristic of the respective N base virtual training environments. A training module is configured to train the trained model for use by the navigating robot to perform visual navigation based on a training set including: the N base virtual training environments; and the N varied virtual training environments.
US11454977B2	Information processing method and information processing device An information processing method includes: obtaining, from a mobile object, (i) at least one of operation information of the mobile object and traveling information indicating a traveling route taken by the mobile object, and (ii) sensor data obtained by sensing of the traveling route using a sensor included in the mobile object; causing a learning model to learn, using (i) the at least one of the operation information and the traveling information, and (ii) the sensor data as input, at least one of operation performed on and movement made by the mobile object using the sensor data obtained by sensing of the traveling route; generating, according to a number of times the learning model is trained, presentation information indicating the input required before the learning model completes learning about the traveling route; and causing a presentation device to present the presentation information.
US11454975B2	Providing actionable uncertainties in autonomous vehicles Systems and methods are provided for detecting objects of interest. A computing system can input sensor data to one or more first machine-learned models associated with detecting objects external to an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can obtain as an output of the first machine-learned models, data indicative of one or more detected objects. The computing system can determine data indicative of at least one uncertainty associated with the one or more detected objects and input the data indicative of the one or more detected objects and the data indicative of the at least one uncertainty to one or more second machine-learned models. The computing system can obtain as an output of the second machine-learned models, data indicative of at least one prediction associated with the one or more detected objects. The at least one prediction can be based at least in part on the detected objects and the uncertainty.
US11454974B2	Method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for controlling guide robot Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for controlling a guide robot, and relate to the field of artificial intelligence, robots, and multi-sensor fusion technologies. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring a state of the guide robot, a state of a user, and a position of an obstacle; generating a state update equation for a combined system of the guide robot and the user based on the state of the guide robot and the state of the user; generating a collision-free global path based on the position of the obstacle; generating a control command based on the state update equation for the combined system and the collision-free global path; and driving the guide robot to move based on the control command.
US11454972B2	Method and system for providing an equipped autonomous vehicle to a destination A method and system for providing a companion autonomous vehicle are described. In one embodiment, a method includes linking a companion autonomous vehicle to at least one vehicle, device, or user. The companion autonomous vehicle is tethered to the at least one vehicle, device, or user such that the companion autonomous vehicle is configured to stay within a predetermined range of the at least one vehicle, device, or user. The method further includes operating the companion autonomous vehicle to travel along with the tethered at least one vehicle, device, or user within the predetermined range.
US11454970B2	Adjustment of autonomous vehicle control authority Apparatuses, methods, and systems adjust the level of control authority of one or more autonomous vehicles in order to respond to changes in one or more operating conditions associated with the vehicle, operator, environment, route, and other conditions.
US11454969B2	Method to investigate human activities with artificial intelligence analysis in combination with logic and contextual analysis using advanced mathematic The method solves several problems to assist the investigation of human activities, by creating a human activities set of objects, by using an advanced mathematic computation algorithm and a time-based n-dimensional space-curves formula Fi algorithm, by using matrices calculus and tensors calculus, by incorporating artificial intelligence analysis in combination with logic and contextual analysis to create a time-based human activities universal processor. The method extracts time-based escalating risk and priority concepts, anomalous understanding and time-based ranking information, generating action to take, identifying present and predicting future object position, motion and behavior. When, this method is loaded as an application on an automotive and a machine, the method will be at home replacing a human.
US11454967B2	Systems and methods for collecting vehicle data to train a machine learning model to identify a driving behavior or a vehicle issue A device receives network constraints associated with a network connected to a vehicle device, data collection constraints, and vehicle device constraints. The device determines a first sampling rate, a first time period, a second sampling rate, and a second time period for collecting vehicle data based on the network constraints, the data collection constraints, and the vehicle device constraints, wherein the first sampling rate is different than the second sampling rate. The device receives first vehicle data, provided at the first sampling rate and for the first time period, and second vehicle data, provided at the second sampling rate and for the second time period, and processes the first and second vehicle data, with a machine learning model, to identify a driving behavior or a vehicle issue. The device performs one or more actions based on the driving behavior or the vehicle issue.
US11454966B2	Programmatic application of router flags for vehicle limitations Systems and methods provide for routing an autonomous vehicles based on an assessment of its limitations. The autonomous vehicle can avoid problematic routes by applying a set of rules to a map, where the set of rules are associated with a feature that causes a failure of the autonomous vehicle due to an autonomous vehicle limitation. Based on the application of the set of rules, a portion of a route on the map that is associated with the feature can be identified, and an identifier can be applied to the identified portion of the route associated with the feature on a routing map. The portion of the route can be omitted from a routable graph applied to the routing map, such that the route for the autonomous vehicle is generated in accordance with the routable graph.
US11454963B2	Self-propelled device with center of mass drive system A self-propelled device is disclosed that includes a center of mass drive system. The self-propelled device includes a substantially cylindrical body and wheels, with each wheel having a diameter substantially equivalent to the body. The self-propelled device may further include an internal drive system with a center of mass below a rotational axis of the wheels. Operation and maneuvering of the self-propelled device may be performed via active displacement of the center of mass.
US11454962B2	Flow control assembly having localized non-volatile memory An apparatus for controlling fluid flow, and in particular fluid flow through a microfluidic multi-port control valve assembly of a High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) unit includes a localized data repository for storing cumulative wear indications of components of the apparatus. The stored information may travel with the apparatus to enable predictive failure of components of the apparatus.
US11454960B2	Method and control system for a technical installation with trend curve diagram A computer-implemented method for representing operator control information in the context of a technical installation which includes at least one operator station server and one operator station client, wherein the method includes receiving measurement values of at least one technical object of the technical installation via the operator station server, continuously generating an actual trend progression of the measurement value, in the event that no measurement value can be received from the at least one technical object, an interpolation of the measurement value being undertaken to generate an interpolated trend progression, until a measurement value can be received once again, transferring the actual and the interpolated trend progression from the operator station server to the operator station client, and visually presenting the actual and the interpolated trend progression to an operator of the technical installation, preferably in a common trend progression diagram.
US11454959B2	Product manufacturing with a manufacturing product and process structure A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a product. An engineering product structure for the product is identified. The engineering product structure comprises parts for the product. A manufacturing product and process structure is created using the engineering product structure, wherein the manufacturing product and process structure comprises the parts and manufacturing information for connecting the parts to each other to form the product.
US11454946B2	Waveform display device and waveform display method A waveform display device includes a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a controller for controlling a machine tool, position information indicating a position of a driving axis of the machine tool during machining of a workpiece, a machine information acquisition unit configured to acquire machine information indicating axis configuration of the machine tool, a machining point coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate a coordinate of a machining point of a tool installed to the machine tool, on the basis of the position information and the machine information, a reference surface setting unit configured to set a targeted machining surface of the workpiece as a reference surface, a distance calculation unit configured to calculate distance from each of a plurality of the machining to the reference surface, and a waveform display unit configured to display the calculated distances of the plurality of machining points in a wave form.
US11454944B2	Automated certificate management A method for initially allocating and/or renewing certificates for devices and/or applications in a control system for a technical installation on the basis of certificates, wherein the devices and/or applications, within a framework of the initial allocation and/or renewal of the certificates, use a certificate management protocol to post a certificate request at at least one certification authority of the technical installation, where the devices and/or applications, in addition to the certificate management protocol, implement a certification service that generates a stateless alarm message and provides this generated stateless alarm message in the control system, when a certificate request previously posted by the device and/or the application is unanswered by the certification authority after expiration of a previously determined period of time.
US11454943B2	Serial isolation communication method, device and system A serial isolated communication method, applied to a transmitter of a serial isolated communication system, includes: obtaining isolated communication data to be transferred; encoding isolated communication data with more than two bits into corresponding data pulse signals according to a preset encoding rule, wherein a group of data pulse signals include a positive pulse, a negative pulse, and a delay of 0 or N pulse widths between the positive pulse and the negative pulse, and N≥1; and transferring the data pulse signals to a receiver. A serial isolated communication method, applied to a receiver of a serial isolated communication system, includes: receiving data pulse signals transferred from a transmitter; decoding the data pulse signals into the isolated communication data according to a preset decoding rule; and obtaining the isolated communication data. Serial isolated communication device and system are further provided.
US11454941B2	Peak power management of dice in a power network Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a first die in a power network receiving, from each die of a plurality of dice in the power network, a first signal indicating that the respective die of the plurality of dice is in a high current state or a second signal indicating that the respective die of the plurality of dice is an active current state. The received signals include at least one second signal. The first die determines, based upon the received signals, a number of dice of the plurality of dice that are currently active and selects an activity threshold based upon that number. The first die further determines an activity level for the power network and transmits, to the plurality of dice, the first signal indicating that the first die is in the high current state in response to determining that the activity level is less than the activity threshold.
US11454940B2	Building control system with heat load estimation using deterministic and stochastic models An environmental control system for a building including building equipment operable to affect a variable state or condition of the building. The system includes a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit can obtain training data relating to operation of the building equipment and can perform a system identification process to identify parameters of a system model using the training data. The processing circuit can augment the system model with a disturbance model and estimate values of a historical heat disturbance in the training data based on the augmented system model. The processing circuit can train one or more heat disturbance models based on the training data and the estimated values. The processing circuit can predict a heat disturbance using the augmented system model along with the one or more heat disturbance models and can control the building equipment based on the predicted heat disturbance.
US11454937B2	Automatic electrical shut-off device An electrical shut-off device (10) is provided and includes a housing (11), first and second inputs (12, 13) and an output disposed on the housing, a transmission/reception (T/R) module (14) coupled to the first input, an input device (15) coupled to the second input, an electrical device coupled to the output and a processor (20). The processor is in signal communication with the T/R module, the input device and the electrical device via the first and second inputs and the output, respectively. The processor is configured to issue an instruction via the T/R module and to take an action relative to the electrical device responsive to a signal being received by the T/R module and to take an additional action in accordance with an actuation state of the input device.
US11454934B2	Shock protection for a strip resonator with RCC pivots A timepiece resonator mechanism including a structure and an inertia element oscillating about an axis, subjected to return forces exerted by a RCC flexure pivot with elastic resonator strips, which are each fixed to the structure and to the inertia element and essentially deformable in a plane perpendicular to the axis, straight and extending in parallel or coincident planes, the crossing, in projection onto a plane perpendicular to the axis, of their directions defining this axis, these strips are fixed on the inertia element side to a stiff element, comprised in an anti-shock element and on which are fixed the strips and which is integral with anti-shock flexible elements arranged to keep suspended the inertia element, the anti-shock element providing shock protection for the strips of the flexure pivot.
US11454933B2	Timepiece regulating mechanism with articulated resonators A timepiece regulating mechanism including primary resonators each with an inertial weight suspended by flexible strips to a fixed structure with respect to which this weight pivots, and mechanical device of synchronizing the primary resonators which include, between the inertial weights, an articulated connection which, under normal conditions, allows pivoting of the inertial weights in opposite directions of rotation and with close rotation angles, and during a shock, prevents pivoting thereof in the same direction of rotation, the mechanism including an oscillator with a frictional rest escapement mechanism arranged to cooperate alternately with the primary resonators, on pallet stones of the inertial weights.
US11454931B2	Chronograph mechanism A chronograph mechanism includes an energy accumulator, a regulating system, and a gear train connecting the energy accumulator to the regulating system. The energy accumulator is formed by a strip-spring and includes a device for driving the gear train arranged to regulate the torque delivered by the strip-spring.
US11454926B2	Image forming apparatus A controller is configured to execute a larger gamut technology mode in which the controller performs image formation by controlling a ratio of a rotation speed of a development roller to a rotation speed of a photosensitive drum such that the ratio becomes a second speed ratio higher than a first speed ratio in a normal mode. The controller is configured to, when the controller executes the larger gamut technology mode, control transfer voltage based on a humidity around an image forming apparatus.
US11454924B2	Process cartridge A developing unit, which is attachable to and detachable from a photosensitive member unit, includes: a developing roller; a housing in which a holding space that holds toner is formed; and a pressing receiving portion that receives pressing force from a pressing member. The housing includes a first bottom portion that projects toward an outer side of the holding space, and a second bottom portion that projects toward the outer side of the holding space, in a state in use. When viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the developing roller, at least part of the pressing receiving portion is located in a space surrounded by the first bottom portion, the second bottom portion, and a tangent line tangent to both an outer wall of the first bottom portion and an outer wall of the second bottom portion.
US11454919B2	Image forming apparatus including process cartridge having a toner cartridge detachably attached to a drum cartridge An image forming apparatus, including a process cartridge and a main body with an opening and a cover, is provided. The process cartridge includes a drum cartridge, a toner cartridge, and a switching member. The switching member switches states in the process cartridge between a first state, wherein the toner cartridge is restricted from being detached, and a second state, wherein the toner cartridge is released from the restriction. The process cartridge is movable between an attached position to be placed entirely inside the main body and a detached position to be entirely outside the main body. The main body includes a restrictor to restrict the process cartridge from moving from an intermediate position toward the detached position. While the process cartridge is restricted by the restrictor, a supportive part in the cover supports the process cartridge with the switching member being at least partly placed outside the main body.
US11454916B2	Lubricant application device for non-contact applying of lubricant A lubricant application device for an image forming apparatus includes a grinding roller that is rotatable to scrape off a lubricant from a solid lubricant source, and a scattering member to scatter the lubricant from the grinding roller toward a separate rotating member.
US11454912B2	Image forming apparatus including a display unit for displaying information about a procedure for replenishing developer An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developer bearing member, a discharge unit, a stacking tray including a stacking surface on which the recording material is stacked, a replenishment port, a cover capable of moving between a closed position where the cover covers the replenishment port and constitutes at least part of the stacking surface and an open position where the cover exposes the replenishment port, and an information display unit for displaying information about a procedure for replenishing the developing container with the developer from the replenishment container.
US11454910B2	NIP formation member having a base, a thermal conductor, and a stabilizer, and fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same A nip formation member includes a base, a high thermal conduction member, and a securing member. The high thermal conduction member has a thermal conductivity greater than a thermal conductivity of the base. The securing member is independent from the base and the high thermal conduction member. The securing member is configured to restrict movement of the base relative to the high thermal conduction member.
US11454904B2	Image forming apparatus having detachable image bearing and transfer belt mechanisms An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing mechanism and a transfer belt mechanism. The image bearing mechanism is attachable to and detachable from an apparatus body in a first direction and supports multiple image bearing members. Each image bearing member has a surface onto which an image is formed while the image bearing member rotates. The transfer belt mechanism includes a transfer belt onto which the images on the multiple image bearing members are transferred while the image bearing members rotate. The transfer belt mechanism is attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body in a second direction different from the first direction.
US11454900B2	Developing cartridge An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a developing cartridge, including: a developing cartridge frame having an internal space for accommodating a developing agent; a developing roller rotatably mounted on the developing cartridge frame and configured to supply the developing agent to a photosensitive drum; a drive end cover mounted on a drive end of the developing cartridge frame; and a drive force receiving member rotatably mounted on a drive end of the developing cartridge frame; where the drive force receiving member includes a drive force receiving part that extends out of the drive end cover and receives a rotational drive force. A driving end separation force receiving member is provided on an outer circumference of the drive force receiving part. The driving end separation force receiving member is configured to receive a separating force that separates the developing roller from the photosensitive drum.
US11454897B2	Developing device and image forming apparatus containing regulated bearing A developing device configured to develop a latent image formed on a surface of an image bearer includes a rotator, a bearing, a holder, a first regulator, and a second regulator. The rotator includes a rotation shaft. The bearing supports the rotation shaft. The holder holds the bearing. The first regulator, disposed on any one of the bearing and the holder, regulates movement of the bearing such that the bearing does not fall toward one end side in an axial direction of the rotation shaft relative to the holder. The second regulator regulates movement of the bearing such that the bearing does not fall toward another end side in the axial direction relative to the holder after the bearing is attached to the holder.
US11454892B2	Fluid handling structure for lithographic apparatus A fluid handling structure for a lithographic apparatus, the structure having: an aperture for the passage therethrough of a beam; a first part; and a second part, wherein the first and/or second part define a surface for the extraction of immersion fluid, relative movement between the first and second parts is effective to change a position of fluid flow into or out of the surface relative to the aperture, and the first or second part has at least one through-hole for the fluid flow and the other of the first or second part has at least one opening for the fluid flow, the at least one through-hole and at least one opening being in fluid communication when aligned, the relative movement allowing alignment of the at least one opening with different ones of the through-hole to change the position of the fluid flow into or out of the surface.
US11454891B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device and semiconductor processing system A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor processing system are provided. The method includes the following steps. A photoresist layer is formed on a substrate in a lithography tool. The photoresist layer is exposed in the lithography tool to form an exposed photoresist layer. The exposed photoresist layer is developed to form a patterned photoresist layer in the lithography tool by using a developer. An ammonia gas by-product of the developer is removed from the lithography tool.
US11454889B2	Crosslinkable compound-containing photocurable stepped substrate-coating composition A stepped substrate-coating composition for forming a coating film having filling property of a pattern and flattening property including a compound (E) having a partial structure (I) and a partial structure (II) having a hydroxy group formed by a reaction of an epoxy group with a proton-generating compound, a solvent (F), and a crosslinkable compound (H), wherein the partial structure (I) is from Formulae (1-1) to (1-5) or including a partial structure of Formula (1-6) combined with a partial structure of Formula (1-7) or (1-8), and the partial structure (II) is of the following Formula (2-1) or (2-2), wherein the compound (E) contains the epoxy and hydroxy group at a molar ratio (epoxy group)/(hydroxy group) of 0 or more and 0.5 or less, and contains the partial structure (II) so the molar ratio (partial structure (II))/(partial structure (I)+partial structure (II)) is 0.01 or more and 0.8 or less.
US11454887B2	Metrology apparatus and method for determining a characteristic of one or more structures on a substrate Disclosed is a method and associated inspection apparatus for measuring a characteristic of interest relating to a structure on a substrate. The inspection apparatus uses measurement radiation comprising a plurality of wavelengths. The method comprises performing a plurality of measurement acquisitions of said structure, each measurement acquisition being performed using measurement radiation comprising a different subset of the plurality of wavelengths, to obtain a plurality of multiplexed measurement signals. The plurality of multiplexed measurement signals are subsequently de-multiplexed into signal components according to each of said plurality of wavelengths, to obtain a plurality of de-multiplexed measurement signals which are separated according to wavelength.
US11454886B2	Method for manufacturing a horological component and component obtained according to this method A method for manufacturing metallic horological components includes the steps of forming a LIGA-UV type method a multi-level photosensitive resin mould and of galvanically depositing a layer of at least one metal using at least two conductive layers to form a block substantially reaching the top surface of the photosensitive resin.
US11454883B2	Template replication Methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying dimensional attributes of a first active area of a template; based at least in part on the dimensional attributes of the first active area, determining a desired magnification correction of a second active area of a substrate; determining an out-of-plane distortion of the template, the substrate, or both; applying a back pressure to the template, the substrate, or both, to compensate for the out-of-plane distortion of the template, the substrate, or both; after compensating for the out-of-plane distortion of the template, the substrate, or both: i) contacting an imprint resist positioned on the substrate with the template such that pattern features in the first active area are filled by the imprint resist, and ii) applying an additional back pressure to the template, the substrate, or both, wherein the additional back pressure is selected such that the second active area exhibits the desired magnification correction.
US11454881B2	Pellicle design for mask application The present disclosure provides an apparatus for a semiconductor lithography process. The apparatus includes a mask defining a circuit pattern to be transferred. The apparatus further includes a pellicle including a pattern formed in a first surface, wherein the pellicle is attached to the mask at the first surface. The apparatus also includes an adhesive material layer disposed between the mask and the first surface. The pattern may include a plurality of capillaries. Each capillary of the plurality of capillaries may have a dimension in a plane of the first surface between about 1 μm and about 500 μm. Each capillary of the plurality of capillaries may have a ratio of depth to width greater than or equal to about 100. The adhesive material layer may include an adhesive having a glass transition temperature (Tg) greater than room temperature.
US11454878B2	Substrate with multilayer reflective film, reflective mask blank, reflective mask and method of manufacturing semiconductor device Provided is a substrate with multilayer reflective film used to manufacture a reflective mask having a multilayer reflective film having high reflectance with respect to exposure light and little film stress. The substrate with multilayer reflective film is provided with a multilayer reflective film for reflecting exposure light, the substrate with multilayer reflective film comprising a multilayer film obtained by building up an alternating stack of low refractive index layers and high refractive index layers on a substrate, and the multilayer reflective film contains krypton (Kr).
US11454874B2	Light source device and projector A light source device includes a light source, an optical element for transmitting light from the light source which is polarized in a first polarization direction and reflecting the light polarized in a second polarization direction, a polarization split element for transmitting the light from the optical element which is polarized in first polarization direction and reflecting the light polarized in the second polarization direction, a wavelength conversion element for performing wavelength conversion on the light to emit second light in a second wavelength band, a diffusion element for diffusing the light, a first color separation element for separating light from the polarization split element into third light in a first wavelength band and fourth light in the second wavelength band, and a second color separation element for separating light from the optical element into fifth light in a third wavelength band and sixth light in a fourth wavelength band.
US11454873B2	Polarized projection system and method A projection system for use with a polarized projection screen having a screen polarization direction. The projection system includes a projector operable to generate a polarized light output and project the polarized light output along a beam path towards the polarized projection screen. The polarized light output includes at least a first light component having a first polarization direction and a second light component having a second polarization direction orthogonal to the first polarization direction. The projection system also includes a waveplate received in the beam path. The waveplate is structured to rotate at least one of the first light component and the second light component such that the first light component and the second light component have a common polarization direction to be aligned with the screen polarization direction to minimize absorption loss of the polarized light output.
US11454870B2	Projection device A projection device is adapted to be placed on a surface and includes a projection lens and a projection device housing. The projection lens is connected to the projection device housing, and the projection device housing includes a main casing and a supporting assembly disposed on the main casing in a flipping manner. When the projection device housing is located in a folded position, the supporting assembly leans against the main casing and the projection lens faces a first direction. When the projection device housing is located in an unfolded position, the supporting assembly is flipped with respect to the main casing and is adapted to stand on the surface, and the projection lens faces a second direction and is adapted to project onto the surface. The projection device may project onto the standing surface without a tall casing or a bracket to be included or additionally assembled.
US11454866B2	Electronic rangefinder Systems and methods directed to a digital rangefinder camera are described. The digital rangefinder camera may include a viewfinder assembly configured to receive a first optical image from a first optical path and a focus ring movement detection assembly configured to detect an amount of movement associated with a focus ring of a lens attached to the digital rangefinder camera. A processing device may be configured to provide a movement signal indicative of the amount of movement associated with the focus ring to an actuator coupled to an optical element, where the actuator moves the optical element and displaces a second optical image from a second optical path directed toward an optical component in the viewfinder assembly. The optical component in the viewfinder assembly is configured to project the first optical image and the second optical image toward a single common viewing position when the first optical image and the second optical image coincide.
US11454863B2	Camera module A camera module includes a support structure having an internal space, a movable body disposed in the internal space of the support structure, and a plurality of driving wires supporting the movable body in the internal space of the support structure and configured to move the movable body relative to the support structure, each of the driving wires being made of a shape-memory alloy and having one end connected to the support structure, and another end connected to the movable body. An angle between the movable body and each of the driving wire is maintained at 15.5° or less at all positions to which the movable body is movable by the driving wires.
US11454858B2	Optical deflector An optical deflector includes: a light transmitting portion through which a light passes; and a pair of electrodes arranged to oppose to each other with the light transmitting portion interposed therebetween. The light transmitting portion is a transparent ion conductor made of a single crystal or polycrystal. The pair of electrodes apply a predetermined voltage to the light transmitting portion to move ions inside the transparent ion conductor so as to change a traveling direction of the light passing through the light transmitting portion.
US11454856B2	Optical driver with active boost The present disclosure provide for active boost in an electrical driver via a frequency comparator, configured to determine operational characteristics of an electrical circuit connected to an optical modulator based on a frequency difference between a ring oscillator and the clock signal; an electrical driver configured to drive a phase shift of a first optical signal carried on a first arm relative to a second optical signal carried on a second arm of an optical modulator, the electrical driver comprising: a first signal pathway, connected to the first arm of the optical modulator, wherein the first signal pathway includes: an adjustable gain inverter, electrically connected to first and second nodes; a fixed gain inverter, electrically connected to the first and second nodes; an inductor electrically connected between the second node and a third node; and a non-inverting amplifier connected between the third node and the first node.
US11454854B2	Displays for tintable windows A tintable window is described having a tintable coating, e.g., an electrochromic device coating, for regulating light transmitted through the window. In some embodiments, the window has a transparent display in the window's viewable region. Transparent displays may be substantially transparent when not in use, or when the window is viewed in a direction facing away from the transparent display. Windows may have sensors for receiving user commands and/or for monitoring environmental conditions. Transparent displays can display graphical user interfaces to, e.g., control window functions. Windows, as described herein, offer an alternative display to conventional projectors, TVs, and monitors. Windows may also be configured to receive, transmit, or block wireless communications from passing through the window. A window control system may share computational resources between controllers (e.g., at different windows). In some cases, the computational resources of the window control system are utilized by other building systems and devices.
US11454853B2	Optical stack for privacy display A switchable privacy display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator, a light control film, and a polar control retarder that comprises plural retarders arranged between a display polariser of the spatial light modulator and an additional polariser. The display achieves high image visibility to an off-axis user in a public mode of operation and high image security to an off-axis snooper in privacy mode of operation.
US11454849B2	Liquid crystal display device According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first area, second area, liquid crystal layer, and a plurality of pixels. Each subpixel includes an opening area including a first opening area and a second opening area. The pixels include a first pixel positioned in the first area and a second pixel positioned over a boundary of the first area and the second area. The opening area of the second pixel is smaller than the opening area of the first pixel when opening areas of subpixels of same color are compared. An each imaginary line showing the boundary of the first opening area and the second opening area is a same straight line.
US11454844B2	Light source member, display device including the same, and manufacturing method for the same A light source member includes a circuit board, a plurality of light emitting elements on the circuit board, and a reflection plate facing the circuit board. The reflection plate includes a base layer defining a plurality of grooves of the reflection plate, each of the plurality of grooves recessed in a direction towards the circuit board, and a light control pattern which wavelength-converts, absorbs or reflects light from the plurality of light emitting elements, on the base layer.
US11454843B2	Polarization conversion using polarization volume grating One example provides an optical device, comprising a light source configured to output unpolarized light, a polarizing beam splitter configured to split the unpolarized light into light of a first polarization state and light of a second polarization state and a polarization volume grating configured to receive the light of the first polarization state and the light of the second polarization state, and transmit the light of the first polarization state without changing the light of the first polarization state to a different polarization state, and convert the light of the second polarization state to the first polarization state, thereby forming polarized output light.
US11454842B2	Display device A display device includes a display module that includes a plurality of light emitting areas and a non-light emitting area that surrounds the light emitting areas, a first polarizer disposed on the display module, a second polarizer disposed on the first polarizer, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. A plurality of openings are defined in the first polarizer or the second polarizer, and the openings overlap the light emitting areas. The display device is switchable between public and private viewing modes via an external input, in which a viewing angle of the display device in the private viewing mode is narrower than in the public viewing mode.
US11454841B1	Illumination device for a screen with at least two operating modes An illuminating apparatus designed for a display screen and operable in at least two operating modes B1 and B2 and/or at least one operating mode B3 for illuminating separately two or simultaneously both, at least partially disjoint angular ranges W1 and W2, comprising a planar backlight unit, which in a first alternative radiates light into the said restricted angular range W2, and in a second alternative radiates light into a restricted angular range W2a, a plate-shaped light guide that is arranged in front of the backlight unit and features, on at least one of the large surfaces and/or within its volume, outcoupling elements, wherein the light guide is transparent to at least 70% of the light originating from the backlight unit, and light sources are arranged laterally on at least one of the narrow edges of the light guide.
US11454840B2	Display panel and preparation method thereof, and display apparatus Provided are a display panel, a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate aligned and combined into a cell. The color filter substrate includes a first base substrate and a plurality of color resist blocks arranged at intervals on the first base substrate. The array substrate includes a second base substrate and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged at intervals on the second base substrate. The pixel electrodes are in one-to-one correspondence with the color resist blocks. The display panel includes a bending area and a non-bending area located at least on one side of the bending area. A density of the pixel electrodes in the bending area is less than that in the non-bending area, and a density of the color resist blocks in the bending area is less than that in the non-bending area.
US11454838B2	Liquid crystal display device Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a liquid crystal panel; and a control circuit, the liquid crystal panel sequentially including an active matrix substrate, a first alignment film, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment film, and a counter substrate, the active matrix substrate sequentially including a first substrate, a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and a second electrode including a linear electrode portion, the counter substrate including a second substrate and a third electrode, the third electrode extending in a longitudinal direction of the sub-pixel at a right or left end of the sub-pixel, a ratio of a width of the third electrode to a width of the first electrode in a widthwise direction being 0.14 or greater and 0.25 or smaller, the control circuit being configured to switch between application of an alternating voltage and application of a constant voltage to the third electrode.
US11454837B2	AOM system with interface board and signal vias and related methods A system may include a laser source, and an AOM coupled to the laser source. The AOM may include an acousto-optic medium, and transducer electrodes carried by the acousto-optic medium. The system may also include an interface board having a dielectric layer, and vertically extending signal vias within the dielectric layer. Each vertically extending signal via may have a lower end in contact with a respective transducer electrode. The interface board may have laterally extending signal traces carried by the dielectric layer. Each laterally extending signal trace may be in contact with an upper end of a respective vertically extending signal via.
US11454836B2	Laser processing apparatus and laser processing method A laser processing apparatus disclosed in the present application includes: an optical deflection unit capable of changing a deflection direction of and outgoing energy of an incoming laser pulse by changes of a frequency of and an amplitude of a driving signal to be supplied; and a control unit configured to supply driving signals with amplitudes corresponding to respective frequencies. In a laser processing apparatus configured to process a workpiece by leading outgoing laser pulse of the optical deflection unit to the workpiece and irradiating the workpiece with the laser pulse, as the amplitude corresponding to each of the frequencies, the control unit supplies an amplitude having the ratio that is close to the lowest ratio among ratios of the outgoing energy with respect to the incoming energy of the laser pulse at an amplitude having the largest outgoing energy of the optical deflection unit.
US11454834B2	Finfet quantum structures utilizing quantum particle tunneling through local depleted well Novel and useful quantum structures having a continuous well with control gates that control a local depletion region to form quantum dots. Local depleted well tunneling is used to control quantum operations to implement quantum computing circuits. Qubits are realized by modulating gate potential to control tunneling through local depleted region between two or more sections of the well. Complex structures with a higher number of qdots per continuous well and a larger number of wells are fabricated. Both planar and 3D FinFET semiconductor processes are used to build well to gate and well to well tunneling quantum structures. Combining a number of elementary quantum structure, a quantum computing machine is realized. An interface device provides an interface between classic circuitry and quantum circuitry by permitting tunneling of a single quantum particle from the classic side to the quantum side of the device. Detection interface devices detect the presence or absence of a particle destructively or nondestructively.
US11454829B2	Method and device for measuring data for fitting an ophthalmic lens in a frame for a given individual Disclosed is a method for measuring data for fitting an ophthalmic lens in a frame for a individual, including the following steps: a) placing the individual in a natural posture; b) displaying a visual target with adjustable position in the field of view of the individual; c) having the individual equipped with the frame adjust the position of the visual target in order to place it straight ahead from him; d) determining the intersection, with a surface representative of the lens once placed in the frame, of the line of sight of the individual looking at the visual target with its adjusted position and determining the data based on the intersection determined.
US11454827B2	Optical filters affecting color vision in a desired manner and design method thereof by non-linear optimization The invention generally relates to optical filters that provide regulation and/or enhancement of chromatic and luminous aspects of the color appearance of light to human vision, generally to applications of such optical filters, to therapeutic applications of such optical filters, to industrial and safety applications of such optical filters when incorporated, for example, in radiation-protective eyewear, to methods of designing such optical filters, to methods of manufacturing such optical filters, and to designs and methods of incorporating such optical filters into apparatus including, for example, eyewear and illuminants.
US11454826B2	Contact lens-based eye tracking using magnetic fields An augmented reality system determines the position and orientation of an eye. The system includes an electronic contact lens that projects images onto a user's retina. The contact lens includes magnetic sensors. The magnetic sensors detect magnetic fields along one axis, or more than one axis, depending on their configuration. The sensors may be a conductive coil, a solenoid, or a tunneling magnetoresistance device. The sensors detect magnetic fields generated by magnetic sources. The magnetic sources may be collocated, or non-collocated, on a wearable device, a device in the environment, or a secondary electronic device. The sources may have different orientations such that they produce magnetic fields along different axes, and the sensors are configured to independently detect the magnetic fields. The system determines the pose of the eye using a combination of the measurements, and the position and orientation of the sensors and sources.
US11454825B2	Orthokeratology contact lens for treating myopia An orthokeratology contact lens for controlling myopia includes a curved front side and a back side intended to be applied to the eye. the back side defines a central area designed to align with the optical area of the eye, and a peripheral area, concentric to the central area, which includes an annular portion defining a tear accumulation area. The annular portion includes a first segment, which extends concentrically in relation to the central area, up to an annular limit line, and a second segment which extends from the annular limit line concentrically in relation to the central area, configured to extend up to the cornea. The first segment and the second segment form a broken line such that the annular limit line defines a peak with the height of a tear.
US11454823B2	Soft contact lens with reduced volume variation Ophthalmic lenses are described herein. An example ophthalmic lens may comprise a first surface. The example ophthalmic lens may comprise a second surface disposed opposite the first surface and defining a volume of lens material therebetween. The ophthalmic lens may exhibit a first cylinder power. A difference of the volume of lens material of the ophthalmic lens and a volume of lens material of a comparative lens may be minimized. The comparative lens may consist essentially of the same lens material as the ophthalmic lens and exhibit a second cylinder power different from the first cylinder power.
US11454822B2	Speckle-reduction in virtual and augmented reality systems and methods An imaging system includes a diffusing element configured to couple portions of a light beam back into a laser diode. The system includes a diode laser driven into a chaotic regime by a combination of a diffuser and a modulated drive current such that it emits light across a frequency spectrum having an envelope between 3 and 10 nanometers wide. The system further includes a diffusing element at least 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm away from the diode laser to couple portions of the light beam back into the laser diode. Another embodiment is directed to using the diffusing element to illuminate a flat panel display or a spatial light modulator.
US11454817B2	Free space multiple laser diode modules Systems, devices, and methods for optical engines and laser projectors that are well-suited for use in wearable heads-up displays (WHUDs) are described. Generally, the optical engines of the present disclosure integrate a plurality of laser diodes (e.g., 3 laser diodes, 4 laser diodes) within a single, hermetically sealed, encapsulated package. Such optical engines may have various advantages over existing designs including, for example, smaller volumes, better manufacturability, faster modulation speed, etc. WHUDs that employ such optical engines and laser projectors are also described.
US11454816B1	Segmented illumination display A device having a see-through display including a segmented light source configured to provide additional control of an illumination level of an image display. The individual light segments of the light source are individually controlled to together produce a light beam that illuminates the image display to provide an additional range of control of the illumination level. An N number of light segments allow the minimum light level of the light beam to be 1/N of the minimum light the light source can generate. The maximum light level of the beam is N time brighter than a light source with only one light segment. The dynamic level of the image generated is matched to the ambient light about the device such that the image is visually acceptable to a user. The device can be eyewear in one example.
US11454812B2	Virtual image display device A virtual image display device includes: an image projection unit that selectively projects a first projection light linearly polarized in a first direction and a second projection light linearly polarized in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to a windshield; a reflected light measurement unit that measures an intensity of light incident from the windshield into the image projection unit along a light path in which the first projection light and the second projection light are projected; and a determination unit that determine whether a user is wearing polarized sunglasses that shield a component linearly polarized in the first direction, based on a first light intensity measured by the reflected light measurement unit when the first projection light is projected and a second light intensity measured by the reflected light measurement unit when the second projection light is projected.
US11454811B2	Method and apparatus for unlocking head-mounted display device The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for unlocking a head-mounted display device based on gaze point information. The method includes: acquiring gaze point information of a user who wears a locked head-mounted display device; generating unlocking information according to the gaze point information; performing a matching operation on the unlocking information and a pre-stored unlocking key; and unlocking the head-mounted display device when the unlocking information matches the unlocking key. With this method, convenience and safety of the unlocking operation may be improved, and user's experience may be enhanced.
US11454810B2	Reducing interference between Electromagnetic Tracking systems A method of reducing a chance of interference between operations of two electromagnetic systems (e.g., AR/VR systems) is provided. The method includes determining one or more first frequencies at which a first electromagnetic system is operating, identifying one or more second frequencies that do not interfere with the determined one or more first frequencies, and setting a second electromagnetic system to operate at the identified one or more second frequencies. Each of the first and the second electromagnetic systems includes a respective magnetic transmitter configured to generate magnetic fields, and a respective magnetic sensor configured to generate signals based on characteristics of the magnetic fields received at the magnetic sensor (e.g., from the respective magnetic transmitter).
US11454807B2	Vibrating device, method for driving same, and camera A vibrating device includes a tubular vibrating body and a lens cover coupled to a first surface of the tubular vibrating body. The tubular vibrating body includes a tubular member and piezoelectric vibrators. The lens cover includes a mode changing coupler and a light transmitting body unit disposed in front of a lens of a camera. The mode changing coupler includes a thin portion having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the tubular member.
US11454799B2	Microscopes with objective assembly crash detection and methods of utiliizing the same Microscopes with objective assembly crash detection and methods of utilizing the same are disclosed herein. For example, a microscope comprises a microscope body, an objective assembly comprising an objective lens, an objective assembly mount configured to separably attach the objective assembly to the microscope body, and an orientation detection circuit configured to indicate when a relative orientation between the microscope body and the objective assembly differs from a predetermined relative orientation.
US11454798B2	3D microscopy A microscopy method for three-dimensionally imaging an object, including imaging the object along a beam path into a first image on a first image plane. A first microlens array is arranged on the first image plane, and a second microlens array with the same pitch is arranged downstream of the first array. The two arrays laterally segment the first image and image same into a second image in which the segments are spaced apart and separated by gaps. On a pupil plane downstream of the microlens array, a provided phase mask generates a spot for each segment of the second image according to a pixel diffusion function. A detector detects the shape and structure of the spot, and a controller ascertains a lateral intensity distribution and depth specification from the shape and/or structure of the spot for each segment and generates a depth-resolved image of the object therefrom.
US11454796B2	Immersion microscope objective An immersion microscope objective includes a first lens group that consists of a first cemented lens consisting of a planoconvex lens and a first meniscus lens, the first meniscus lens having a thickness that is greater than a radius of curvature of a lens surface on an image side of the first meniscus lens, a second lens group that includes a plurality of second cemented lenses, a third lens group that consists of a third cemented lens, and a fourth lens group that includes a fourth cemented lens consisting of a plurality of meniscus lenses. The objective satisfies the relationship 2≤h1/h2≤4, where h1 indicates an axial marginal ray height at a lens surface of the third cemented lens that is closest to an object, and h2 indicates an axial marginal ray height at a lens surface of the third cemented lens that is closest to an image.
US11454795B2	Surface sensing in optical microscopy and automated sample scanning systems The disclosure features methods and systems that include positioning a surface of a coverslip overlying a sample relative to an object plane of a microscope system, projecting a two-dimensional pattern of light onto the surface, where a focal plane of the two-dimensional pattern at a position of the surface is rotated by an angle β relative to the object plane, obtaining a two-dimensional image of the pattern of light reflected from the surface using a detector that includes an imaging sensor oriented perpendicular to a direction of propagation of the reflected pattern of light at the sensor, analyzing the image to determine a line of best focus of the pattern within the image, determining an offset of the line of best focus from an expected position of the line of best focus within the image, and determining a position adjustment of the surface based on the offset.
US11454794B2	Systems and methods for conducting contact-free thickness and refractive-index measurements of intraocular lenses using a self-calibrating dual confocal microscopy Systems and methods for conducting contact-free thickness and refractive-index measurements of transparent objects, such as intraocular lenses using a dual confocal microscopy system are disclosed.
US11454791B2	Optical component for generating a periodic light pattern An optical component for illuminating a sample region with a periodic light pattern comprises: a first waveguide, a further waveguide and an optical splitter. The optical splitter has an input for receiving light, a first output and a second output. The first waveguide is optically coupled to the first output, to direct the first input light into the sample region in a first direction. The second output is optically coupled to the sample region to direct second input light into the sample region in a second direction. The further waveguide is arranged to receive third input light which is directed into the sample region in a third direction. The first direction, second direction and third direction are different from one another. The first and second input light interferes to form a periodic pattern in the sample region. The optical component may be used for structured illumination microscopy.
US11454788B2	Optical apparatus, control method, and storage medium An optical apparatus configured to control driving of a diaphragm unit includes a setting unit configured to set a target position of an aperture blade in a diaphragm unit according to a zoom state, and a control unit configured to control a driving velocity of the diaphragm unit according to a residual driving amount by which a position of the aperture blade becomes the target position.
US11454782B2	Imaging lens system An imaging lens system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, sequentially disposed at intervals from an object side of the imaging lens system. A refractive index of each of the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens is 1.6 or greater, and TTL/2IH<0.730, where TTL is a distance from an object side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane, and 2IH is a diagonal length of the imaging plane.
US11454775B1	Methods for forming cables with shapeable strength members A method for forming a cable may include providing a strength member that includes a plurality of strength fibers positioned within a shapeable resin material. A shape of the strength member may be modified along its longitudinal length while twisting the strength member with one or more fiber optic components. The modified shape of the strength member may then be fixed within a desired operating temperature range of the cable, and a jacket may be formed around the strength member and the one or more optical fiber components.
US11454757B2	Multi-core fiber connector A planar waveguide having M×N number of cores and to which M number of fibers having N number of cores are connected. In the planar waveguide, in a connecting end surface of the planar waveguide to which the fibers are connected, P number of fibers having Q number of cores are connected, M×N is equal to P×Q, the planar waveguide includes a plurality of the cores arranged in a horizontal direction at the same height position in the planar waveguide, and a laminated structure having the cores at different positions in a height direction, so as to be aligned with the cores of the fibers connected to the connecting end surface, and the positions of the M×N number of cores are constant in the height direction, and change only in the horizontal direction.
US11454754B2	Switch device and operation device A device includes a housing; a substrate provided inside the housing; a light emitting object mounted on one side of the substrate; and an elastic sheet covering the one side of the substrate and the light emitting object, to guide light from the light emitting object. A through hole is formed in the housing corresponding to the one side of the substrate. The elastic sheet has a mirror part at a portion on the surface corresponding to the through hole, for totally reflecting light transmitting through an inside of the elastic sheet.
US11454752B2	Optical element, method for forming photo-alignment pattern, and method for manufacturing optical element Provided are an optical element including a first optically-anisotropic layer consisting of a cured layer of a composition including a first liquid crystal compound, in which the first optically-anisotropic layer has 0.24 or more of a refractive index anisotropy Δn550 which is measured with light having a wavelength of 550 nm, the first optically-anisotropic layer has a first liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the first liquid crystal compound continuously changes rotationally in at least one in-plane direction, and in the first liquid crystal alignment pattern, in a case where a length Λ over which the direction of the optical axis rotates 180° in a plane is defined as a single period, the length Λ of the single period is 1.6 μm or less; a method for forming a photo-alignment pattern; and a method for manufacturing an optical element.
US11454747B1	Shadow-matched Fresnel lens doublet for reduced optical artifacts A lens assembly includes a first lens and a second lens. The first lens has a first lens surface and a second lens surface opposite to the first lens surface. The second lens surface includes a first plurality of Fresnel structures. The second lens, coupled to the first lens, has a third lens surface and a fourth lens surface opposite to the third lens surface. The third lens surface includes a second plurality of Fresnel structures. The third lens surface faces the first lens and the second lens surface faces the second lens. A headset that includes a display and the lens assembly is also disclosed. A method of transmitting, with the lens assembly, light from the display toward an image plane is also disclosed.
US11454743B2	Ophthalmic lens having increased resistance to hot and humid environment The invention concerns an ophthalmic lens having an increased resistance to thermal and hygroscopic stresses, said ophthalmic lens comprising a substrate, at least one main face of which is coated with a siloxane-based anti-abrasion hardcoat, characterized in that said ophthalmic lens further comprises at least one protective layer of an organic-inorganic material directly in contact with said hardcoat, said protective layer of organic-inorganic material having a Young's modulus higher than 20 GPa, preferably of at least 25 GPa.
US11454742B2	Decorative sheet, electronic apparatus cover plate and electronic apparatus The present invention discloses a decorative sheet, an electronic apparatus cover plate and an electronic apparatus. The decorative sheet is used for forming a three-dimensional image to represent a three-dimensional material object. The decorative sheet comprises a transparent protective layer, a graph-text structure layer and a reflective layer; the graph-text structure layer and the reflective layer are located on a same side of the transparent protective layer; the graph-text structure layer comprises a number of graph-text sub-blocks which form the three-dimensional image and each of which comprises a micro-structure that represents corresponding lightness of the three-dimensional material object. The lightness of light rays emitted by each graph-text sub-block comprising the micro-structure is different, and thus a change of lightness is produced among the graph-text sub-blocks. By using the lightness change among the graph-text sub-blocks to represent the lightness change of the three-dimensional material object in a natural state, the graphs and text displayed on the graph-text structure layer are enabled to have a three-dimensional effect.
US11454739B2	Method of fabricating all-dielectric flat lens with low refractive index A method is disclosed of fabricating all-dielectric flat lens with low refractive index comprising: selecting dielectric substrate material and lens structure material; determining incident wavelength; calculating phase modulation corresponding to each pillar unit; periodically sampling circular area of dielectric substrate with radius to obtain plurality of sampling points; calculating phase modulation required at position of each sampling point; obtaining pillar corresponding to each sampling point; arranging different dielectric pillars with low refractive index and same thickness are arranged on dielectric substrate, thereby obtaining all dielectric flat lens with low refractive index. Also disclosed is method of fabricating all-dielectric flat lens with low refractive index that fabricates plane divergent lens with high transmission in wavelength range of visible light, and providing all-dielectric flat lens with low refractive index to improve transmission in visible light region through using dielectric with low refractive index to replace metal and dielectric with high refractive index.
US11454734B2	Automated extraction of horizon patches from seismic data Systems and methods are provided for a horizon patch extraction process and in particular, to receiving seismic trace data of a plurality of seismic events of a subterranean volume, selecting a first seismic trace based on the seismic trace data of the plurality of seismic events, the first seismic trace including a plurality of seismic onsets, determining a depth, an amplitude, and a first thickness of a first seismic onset of the first seismic trace, determining a second thickness between the first seismic onset and a second seismic onset, determining a third thickness between the first seismic onset and a third seismic onset, and generating a horizon patch based on the depth, the amplitude, and the first thickness of the first seismic onset, the second thickness between the first seismic onset and the second seismic onset, and the third thickness between the first seismic onset and the third seismic onset.
US11454732B1	3-axis seismic sensor stake, system and method A seismic sensor stake, system and method configured to orientate three seismic 1C sensors orthogonally in the X, Y, and Z directions. The present technology stake is configured to efficiently and effectively convert three independent seismic sensors into a single three seismic sensor unit. Multiple stakes can be inserted into the ground of a geographical area to provide highly accurate seismic survey of subterranean hydrocarbon formations. Each seismic sensor can include a slot that slidable receives a threaded member of a mounting sides of the stake. A retaining nut can secure the seismic sensor in place upon rotation of the sensor. A stake bit can be utilized with an impact hammer to form holes in hard or frozen ground for quick insertion of the stake into the ground.
US11454729B2	Driving evaluation apparatus Driving-evaluation-apparatus evaluating driving-status of driver driving mobile-body, includes: microprocessor and memory. The microprocessor functions as: information-acquisition-unit acquiring location/travel-speed-information of mobile-body based on GPS-signals received by driver's mobile-terminal; entry-direction-calculation-unit calculating entry-direction in which mobile-body enters determination-area based on location/travel-speed-information; entry-direction-determination-unit determining whether angle formed by entry-direction and predetermined-reference-entry-direction is predetermined-angle or smaller; state-determination-unit determining whether there is stop/deceleration-state in which travel-speed is predetermined-travel-speed or lower within time-period from time-point when mobile-body enters determination-area to time-point when mobile-body exits determination-area based on location/travel-speed-information when angle is predetermined-angle or smaller; and driving-evaluation-unit evaluating driver's driving-status in determination-area based on determination-result. The determination-area is area inside determination-circle centered on reference-point predetermined-distance before the predetermined-location and having predetermined-radius. The angle is angle formed by: straight-line along the reference-entry-direction and passing through the reference-point; and straight-line connecting plot representing location of the mobile-body before entering inside the determination-circle based on location/travel-speed-information and the reference-point.
US11454728B2	Real-time kinematics for a vehicle system A communication system includes communication units onboard a vehicle system. A first unit receives satellite positioning data and correction data based on phase measurements of satellite signals. A second unit receives the satellite positioning data. One or more processors determine a first geographical position of the first unit based on the position correction data and the satellite positioning data. The processors communicate the position correction data or a copy thereof to the second unit. The processors determine second geographical position data of the second unit based on the position correction data and the satellite positioning data. The one or more processors communicate the second geographical position data that is determined to the first communication unit.
US11454727B2	Perception data based GNSS multipath identification and correction Perception data based multipath identification and correction is based on recognition that sensors such as radar, LIDAR, and cameras can generate perception data indicative of locations and properties of terrestrial objects in an environment surrounding a satellite navigation device (e.g., a GNSS receiver), which data may then be used in training, or updating, a model for determining or correcting distances to satellites to account for multipath. Multipath identification includes identifying multipaths to train the model, e.g., by using perception data to perform ray tracing. Multipath correction includes using the model to correct distance errors due to the multipaths or, equivalently, using the model to determine distances to satellites in a manner that accounts for the multipaths.
US11454725B2	Method of determining the vertical profile of the wind speed upstream from a wind turbine equipped with a lidar sensor The invention relates to a method of determining the vertical profile of the wind speed upstream from a wind turbine (1), wherein wind speed measurements are performed by a LiDAR sensor (2), then the exponent α of the power law is determined by an unscented Kalman filter and measurements, and the exponent α is applied to the power law in order to determine the vertical wind speed profile.
US11454723B2	Distance measuring device and distance measuring device control method Upsampling is performed accurately in a device that measures a distance on the basis of a phase difference of light. A predetermined number of pixel blocks in which a plurality of continuous light pixels that generate continuous light reception data indicating amounts of received continuous light is arranged in a continuous light reception unit. An intermittent light pixel that generates intermittent light reception data indicating an amount of received intermittent light is provided in correlation with each of the predetermined number of pixel blocks in an intermittent light reception unit. A distance measuring unit generates distance data for each of the plurality of continuous light pixels using an average value of the continuous light reception data for each of the pixel blocks, the continuous light reception data, and the intermittent light reception data as high-resolution distance data.
US11454722B2	IR-reflective structural support for virtual experiences A structure for facilitating virtual experiences comprises: a structural support having a first side facing toward an interior of the structure, a second side opposite the first side, and an intra-support hollow disposed between the first and second sides. An IR reflective surface is adjacent to at least a portion of the second side of the structural support. An IR emitter within the hollow between the first and second sides is configured to emit IR light toward the IR reflective surface, such that the IR light is reflected toward the interior of the structure.
US11454721B2	Object monitoring system including distance measuring device An object monitoring system includes means for calculating an arrangement of an external object in a target space based on a distance measurement value of the external object, and estimating a shift amount of the distance measurement value caused by the external object in accordance with the calculated arrangement, and means for correcting, based on the estimated shift amount, determination of whether or not a monitored object is present in a monitoring area set in the target space.
US11454720B2	Vehicle radar system with enhanced wave guide antenna system A vehicular radar sensing system includes a radar sensor disposed at a vehicle so as to sense exterior of the vehicle and having at least one transmitter that transmits radio signals and at least one receiver that receive radio signals. The radar sensor includes at least one wave guide antenna, a PCB, and a processor disposed on an inboard side of the PCB and operable to process radio signals received by the at least one receiver. The wave guide antenna includes a first wave guide slot disposed at the inboard side of the PCB that guides the radio signals to the at least one receiver or from the at least one transmitter, a second wave guide slot that guides the radio signals to and from the environment, and an air wave guide that guides the radio signals between the first wave guide slot and the second wave guide slot.
US11454715B2	Radar signal modulator with bandwidth compensation and frequency offset sequence Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for generating a frequency hopping radar signal. In one example, a radar signal modulator include a frequency offset generator, a phase locked loop, and a bandwidth compensation circuitry. The frequency offset generator is configured to generate a sequence of frequency offsets. The bandwidth compensation circuitry is configured to combine a modulation signal and the sequence of frequency offsets to generate a bandwidth compensated signal. The PLL is configured to receive the bandwidth compensated signal and generate a frequency hopping radar signal based on the bandwidth compensated signal.
US11454713B2	Configuration of a LIDAR sensor scan area according to a cycle segment of an operation of a machine A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) controller is disclosed. The LIDAR controller may receive cycle segment information identifying a cycle segment of an operation of a machine. The LIDAR controller may determine, based on the cycle segment information, a scan area within a field of view of the LIDAR sensor. The LIDAR controller may cause the LIDAR sensor to capture, with an increased point density relative to a non-scan area within the field of view, LIDAR data associated with the scan area. The LIDAR controller may process the LIDAR data to determine, using the increased point density, a status associated with the operation. The LIDAR controller may perform an action associated with indicating the status associated with the operation.
US11454709B2	Optical coupler for LIDAR sensor A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device includes a waveguide, cladding, and a scattering array. The waveguide is configured to route an infrared optical field. The cladding is disposed around the waveguide. The scattering array is formed in the cladding. The scattering array is configured to perturb the infrared optical field routed by the waveguide to direct the infrared optical field into an infrared beam propagating toward a surface of the cladding.
US11454706B2	Optical emission device for laser pulses with selective optical system The invention relates to an optical emission device (1) for laser pulses (28), in particular for use in a Lidar for use in a vehicle, having a laser unit (10) designed to emit laser pulses (28), and a deflection unit (11), which is arranged in the beam path of the laser pulses (28) emitted by the laser unit (10) and deflects the laser pulses (28) emitted by the laser unit (10) in a deflection region (12), wherein the optical emission device (1) has an optical system (14) arranged in the beam path of the laser pulses (28) emitted by the laser unit (10) downstream of the deflection unit (11) in the deflection region (12) thereof; the optical system (14) has at least one first region (16) and at least one second region (18); and the at least one second region (18) has a lens shape for refracting the laser pulses (28). Laser scanner having an optical emission device (1) according to any one of the preceding claims and a sensor unit for receiving a reflection of the emitted laser pulse (28). The invention also relates to a laser scanner having such an optical emission device (1) and a sensor unit for receiving a reflection of emitted laser pulses (28).
US11454700B1	Apparatus, system, and method for mitigating systematic distance errors in radar-based triangulation calculations A radar system may include (1) a wearable device, (2) a set of radar devices secured to the wearable device, wherein the set of radar devices (A) transmit radar signals to at least one transponder and (B) receive the radar signals, (3) an error-mitigation device secured to the wearable device, wherein the error-mitigation device provides data for mitigating position errors in triangulation calculations involving the radar signals, and (4) at least one processing device communicatively coupled to the set of radar devices and the error-mitigation device, wherein the processing device (A) calculates, based at least in part on roundtrip flight times of the radar signals and the data, distances between the set of radar devices and the transponder and (B) triangulates, based at least in part on the distances, a three-dimensional location of the transponder relative to the wearable device. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US11454696B2	FMCW radar integration with communication system In an embodiment, a millimeter-wave system includes a first circuit having M channels, one or more antennas coupled to the first circuit, and a controller that includes a resource scheduler module. The controller is configured to operate the millimeter-wave system as a radar device and as a communication device based on an output of the resource scheduler module.
US11454692B2	Method of performing magnetic resonance imaging and a magnetic resonance apparatus In a method of performing magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, an MR apparatus, and a computer-readable medium during a first cardiac cycle of a subject, a first imaging sequence is generated for application to a subject. The first imaging sequence has a preparatory pulse and an inversion recovery pulse following the preparatory pulse. First signals emitted from the subject in response to the first imaging sequence are detected, and first image data are generated based on the first signals. During a second cardiac cycle following the first cardiac cycle, a second imaging sequence is generated for application to the subject. The second imaging sequence has a preparatory pulse. Second signals emitted from the subject in response to the second imaging sequence are detected, and second image data are generated based on the second signals.
US11454691B1	Synthetic bright-blood and dark-blood PSIR LGE images Systems and methods to determine a first map of a first parameter based on first signals acquired by a magnetic resonance imaging system, the first map associating each of a plurality of voxels with a respective value of the first parameter, the first parameter quantifying a first physical characteristic of an object represented by the plurality of voxels, determine a second map of a second parameter based on the first signals, the second map associating each of the plurality of voxels with a respective value of the second parameter, the second parameter quantifying a second physical characteristic of the object, and determine a dark-blood phase-sensitive inversion recovery late gadolinium enhancement image based on the first map of the first parameter and on the second map of the second parameter.
US11454690B2	Synergized pulsing-imaging network (SPIN) A synergized pulsing-imaging network is described. A method of optimizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes optimizing, by a synergized pulsing-imaging network (SPIN) circuitry a pulse sequence based, at least in part, on a loss function associated with a reconstruction network. The method further includes optimizing, by the SPIN circuitry, the reconstruction network based, at least in part, on intermediate raw MRI data and based, at least in part, on a ground truth MRI image data. The intermediate raw MRI data is determined based, at least in part on the pulse sequence.
US11454689B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence controlling circuitry and processing circuitry. The sequence controlling circuitry is configured to execute a first pulse sequence including application of a Magnetization Transfer (MT) pulse and to subsequently execute a second pulse sequence including application of an MT pulse after an action that causes a change in a physiological state of a patient. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a first Z-spectrum based on data obtained by executing the first pulse sequence, to generate a second Z-spectrum based on data obtained by executing the second pulse sequence, and to generate data by performing an analysis based on the first Z-spectrum and the second Z-spectrum.
US11454688B2	System and method for providing at least one parameter for a magnetic resonance scan A method and a system for providing parameters of a resonance frequency spectrum of a magnetic resonance scan. The system includes: an input interface for receiving a resonance frequency spectrum of a magnetic resonance scan and a computing device configured to implement a trained machine learning algorithm. The trained machine learning algorithm is trained to receive the resonance frequency spectrum received by the input interface as its input and to generate as its output a set of parameters of the resonance frequency spectrum. The system further includes an output interface configured to output the generated set of parameters.
US11454686B2	Gradient system for a magnetic resonance imaging system A gradient system for a magnetic resonance imaging system can include at least two examination areas using a common basic magnetic field and a number of gradient coils in the at least two examination areas, and a gradient controller configured such that it controls the electric current flowing through at least two gradient coils for similar gradient axes in different examination areas in a temporal synchronous manner.
US11454683B2	Anomaly detection and correlation system An anomaly detection system comprising a diagnostic interface and a data acquisition system capable of recording data indicating variation of voltages at tapping points in a superconducting magnet. Data representing those variations in voltages may be stored as a data log and a processor may analyze the data in order to identify a mechanical impact.
US11454682B2	Optically pumped magnetometers for communication reception Various embodiments of the present technology use low-frequency magnetic signals for communication and location applications. Compared to the case of traditionally used radio-frequency electromagnetic signals, their advantage in the presence of strong signal attenuation is in the extended spatial range. Some embodiments use an optically pumped atomic magnetometer operated as a sensor to achieve high detection sensitivity. The spatial range can be extended to hundreds of meters when noise is suppressed by the use of the available sensor sensitivity. In some embodiments, a one-channel spread-spectrum signal processing technique can be used to eliminate the systematic fluctuations coming from power grid (or another source) harmonics and reduce the ambient noise by averaging uncorrelated fluctuations from the environment.
US11454679B2	Magnetic field measuring apparatus, magnetic field measuring method and recording medium with magnetic field measuring program recorded thereon Provided is a magnetic field measuring apparatus for: acquiring the measurement data measured by a magnetic sensor array that is configured by arraying the plurality of magnetic sensor cells to form a surface covering at least a part of a target object to be measured; performing signal separation on a magnetic field spatial distribution indicated by the measurement data based on a position and magnetic sensitivity of each magnetic sensor; generating a calibration magnetic field at a position on a straight line that can be drawn without crossing the plurality of magnetic sensor cells from the measurement space outside the measurement space; and calibrating a sensor error for the magnetic sensor based on a separation error in a case where signal separation has been performed on a spatial distribution of the calibration magnetic field.
US11454675B2	Method for determining the capacity of an electrical energy storage unit A method is described for determining the capacity of an electrical energy storage unit, which method comprises the steps: a) determining a first capacity value of the electrical energy storage unit using a first mathematical model based at least on an operating time and/or on a charging throughput of the electrical energy storage unit; b) determining a second capacity value of the electrical energy storage unit using a second mathematical model based at least on a second charging throughput value of the electrical energy storage unit and on a state-of-charge difference, which is obtained from the states of charge at two different time instants; c) obtaining a correction factor for determining a capacity value using the first mathematical model on the basis of the determined first capacity value and the determined second capacity value; d) determining a third capacity value of the electrical energy storage unit using the first mathematical model based at least on the obtained correction factor and on the operating time of the electrical energy storage unit and/or on a third charging throughput value of the electrical energy storage unit.
US11454674B2	Secondary battery system and method for estimating SOC of secondary battery If a charging quantity charged to a battery pack since switching from discharging to charging is more than or equal to a reference charging quantity, an ECU estimates the SOC from the OCV by referring to a charging OCV. If a discharging quantity discharged from the battery pack since switching from charging to discharging is more than or equal to a reference discharging quantity, the ECU estimates the SOC from the OCV by referring to a discharging OCV. If the electric quantity is less than the reference charging quantity or if the electric quantity is more than the reference discharging quantity, the ECU estimates the SOC from the OCV using a straight line for supplementing SOC-OCV characteristics in a region enclosed by the charging OCV and the discharging OCV.
US11454671B1	Data gating using scan enable pin An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes a storage element and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to select, responsively to a scan-enable control, between a functional-data input and a scan-data input to serve as an input to the storage element, to selectively disable toggling of an output of the storage element, responsively to a clock-enable control, by gating a clock signal provided to the storage element, and, while the clock-enable control indicates that the output of the storage element is to be disabled from toggling, to select the input of the storage element to be the scan-data input.
US11454668B2	Voltage tracking circuit and method of operating the same A voltage tracking circuit includes a first, second, third and fourth transistor. The first transistor is in a first well, and includes a first gate, a first drain and a first source coupled to a first voltage supply. The second transistor includes a second gate, a second drain and a second source. The second source is coupled to the first drain. The second gate is coupled to the first gate and the pad voltage terminal. The third transistor includes a third gate, a third drain and a third source. The fourth transistor includes a fourth gate, a fourth drain and a fourth source. The fourth drain is coupled to the third source. The fourth source is coupled to the pad voltage terminal. At least the third transistor is in a second well different from the first well, and is separated from the first well in a first direction.
US11454667B2	Inspection apparatus and method of adjusting position of chuck top An inspection apparatus includes: a plurality of inspection devices configured to respectively inspect electronic devices of inspection objects on a plurality of chuck tops; a measurement device configured to measure height positions of a plurality of points on a surface of each of the plurality of chuck tops, which are respectively disposed to correspond to the plurality of inspection devices, or to measure distances in a height direction from a measurement reference point to the plurality of points; a calculation device configured to calculate adjustment amounts in the height direction at the plurality of points of each chuck top, based on the height positions of the plurality of points or the distances in the height direction from the measurement reference point to the plurality of points; and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust, for each chuck top, an angle of the respective chuck top based on the adjustment amounts.
US11454664B2	Testing system A testing system includes: an inspection module including a plurality of levels of inspection chambers in each of which a tester part having a tester configured to perform an electrical inspection of an inspection object and a probe card is accommodated; an aligner module configured to align the inspection object with the tester part; an alignment area in which the aligner module is accommodated; and a loader part configured to load the inspection object into the alignment area and unload the inspection object out of the aligner module, wherein the inspection module is located adjacent to the alignment area.
US11454660B2	Measurement device for measuring an electrical characteristic of a component A measurement device to automatically measure an electrical characteristic of a component is mounted on a mounter for mounting a component on a circuit board. The measurement device includes a main body, a loading stand on which a component is placed, a pair of measuring elements provided in such a manner as to move towards and away from each other, and a loading stand moving device for moving the loading stand. The loading stand moving device includes a guide rail provided on the main body, and the loading stand is held movably onto the guide rail. This configuration enables an electrical charge stored in a component held onto the loading stand and an electrical charge stored in the loading stand to be removed well by way of the guide rail and the main body. As a result, an electrical characteristic held by the component can be measured stably.
US11454655B2	Current detection apparatus A current detection apparatus includes a voltage detector, a candidate voltage generator, a temperature detector and a correction voltage selector. The voltage detector includes an output terminal for outputting a detected voltage according to a load current. The candidate voltage generator includes correction resistors connected in series and connecting the output terminal and a ground. The candidate voltage generator generates candidate voltages at respective sections across the corresponding correction resistors. The temperature detector detects a temperature of a semiconductor switch. The correction voltage selector selects one of the candidate voltages as a corrected voltage. The one of the candidate voltages is weighted with corresponding one of the corrected magnification scales corresponding to an on-resistance of the semiconductor switch at the measured temperature. The corrected voltage indicates a corrected current value with correction of the load current according to the measured temperature.
US11454646B2	Initiation of calibration of multiple sensor modules related to an orientation of a user of the sensor modules A method including receiving, in a computing device, periodic measurements of accelerations from a plurality of sensor modules. The computing device determines whether each respective sensor module of the sensor modules is attached to a respective part of a user from the periodic measurements of accelerations from the plurality of sensor modules as received. In response to the determination that each respective sensor module of the sensor modules is attached to the respective part of the user, the method includes initiating, by the computing device, a calibration operation to calibrate orientation measurements of the sensor modules relative to a common reference system defined based on an orientation of the user.
US11454644B2	Directional differential pressure detector Methods and apparatuses for indicating the presence of a directional differential pressure between separated adjacent spaces are provided. A differential pressure set point indicator may be configured to correlate multiple potential angles of inclination of an elongated conduit to respective threshold differential pressures between two spaces which generate net flow of fluid sufficient to cause a lightweight ball to move from one region of the conduit to an opposing region. The elongated conduit may be adjustable in length so as to accommodate installation of the device into walls of varying thickness. The device may include a sound attenuator that reduces noise upon impact of the ball with either end of the conduit. The device may also include a sealing material that is flexible yet firm enough to provide both a seal with the exterior surface of the conduit and support for the conduit when oriented in a tilted configuration.
US11454638B2	Sample rack transport apparatus, sample analysis device, and sample analysis system A sample rack transport apparatus for transporting a sample rack to a sample analyser, comprising: a bidirectional transmission track for bidirectionally transmitting a sample rack without passing through the sample analyser; a feed channel in parallel with the bidirectional transmission track, wherein the sample rack may be delivered from the bidirectional transmission track to the feed channel and to the sample analyser; an unloading cache region located between the bidirectional transmission track and the feed channel, the unloading cache region being used for storing the sample tack; and an unloading mechanism for delivering the sample rack in the feed channel to the unloading cache region for storage, or delivering the sample rack stored in the unloading cache region to the bidirectional transmission track. Also provided are a sample analysis device and a sample analysis system using the sample rack transport apparatus.
US11454632B2	Assay method and assay kit for hepatitis B virus S antigen Disclosed is a highly sensitive assay method and assay kit for HBsAg, which do not require treatment with a strong acid or alkali in the sample pretreatment, and which is less susceptible to influences by the autoantibodies. The assay method for hepatitis B virus s antigen in a sample separated from a living body includes: a pretreatment step of mixing a sample with a pretreatment reagent containing a reducing agent, to reduce hepatitis B virus s antigen; and an immunoassay step of subjecting the pretreated sample to an immunoassay of hepatitis B virus s antigen using at least one antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof capable of antigen-antibody reaction with a reduced peptide composed of the amino acids at positions 98 to 179 of hepatitis B virus s antigen.
US11454631B2	Cancer detection using biopsy digital images A cancer prediction engine receives a digital image of a tissue biopsy stained for a presence of a biomarker associated with a presence of cancer in the tissue, determines a set of color attribute values of a color space for each pixel of the digital image, classifies, in view of the color attribute values, each pixel of the digital image between a first subset of pixels depicting tissue and a second subset of pixels not depicting tissue, determines whether the digital image depicts cancerous tissue in view of a number of pixels in the second subset of pixels, and responsive to determining that the digital image depicts cancerous tissue, determines a predicted cancer stage for the digital image of the tissue biopsy based at least in part on a color intensity category associated with the color attribute values for each pixel of the first subset of pixels.
US11454630B2	Materials and methods for assessing cancer risk and treating cancer This document relates to materials and methods for assessing and/or treating subjects (e.g., subjects having autoimmune diseases). For example, materials and methods for determining if a subject (e.g., a human having an autoimmune disease) has one or more antibodies that can be used to identify the subject as having a lower risk of cancer or as having a higher risk of cancer are provided. Materials and methods for treating a subject (e.g., a human) identified as having a higher cancer risk for cancer are also provided.
US11454628B2	On-surface mass tagging The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting a compound, comprising the steps of: contacting a compound with a solid analytical surface (SAS), thereby forming an SAS with an absorbed compound; contacting the SAS with the absorbed compound with a mass tag, wherein the mass tag reacts with the absorbed compound, thereby forming an SAS with a covalently mass-tagged absorbed compound; and detecting the covalently mass-tagged absorbed compound by mass spectrometry. Also disclosed is a device for collecting breath aerosol, comprising a card or an envelope, wherein the card or the envelope comprise a tab, wherein the tab is a SAS.
US11454626B2	Single-cell imaging mass spectrometry The present invention relates to a method for single-cell imaging mass spectrometry (MS) by correlating an optical image of a cell sample with an MS image. The method of the invention is in particular useful in research to test concomitantly optical and molecular phenotypes at a single-cell resolution.
US11454623B2	Method for quantitatively assessing stability additive performance at field dosages The impact of a stabilizing additive for treating oil-based fluids having destabilized solids, such as asphaltenes and polynuclear aromatics, may be quantitatively assessed, by determining the settling rate of flocculated destabilized solids in samples of untreated oil-based fluids and oil-based fluids treated with the stabilizing additive through the use of a turbidity meter or nephelometer while the field and quantifying the difference between the two settling rates to determine if a change in the amount of stabilizing additive applied to the oil-based fluid is necessary.
US11454622B2	Gas sensor, and method for operating the gas sensor Gas sensor, including a membrane and a heating element arranged on the membrane between a first discontinuation area of the membrane and a second discontinuation area of the membrane. The first discontinuation area of the membrane includes at least one discontinuation of the membrane and the second discontinuation area of the membrane includes at least one discontinuation of the membrane. The gas sensor further includes a first temperature sensor structure arranged at least partially on the membrane on a side of the first discontinuation area of the membrane opposite to the heating element, and a second temperature sensor structure arranged at least partially on the membrane on a side of the second discontinuation area of the membrane opposite to the heating element.
US11454619B2	Methods for colorimetric endpoint detection and multiple analyte titration systems Systems for quantifying one or more target analyte concentrations in a process solution are provided and can be used, for example, in methods for quantifying a target analyte concentration. These systems and methods include continuous and batchwise automated titration methods that use titration chemistries to measure the target analyte concentration in the process solution using a multiwavelength detector. The methods provide for efficient and robust automated titration methods for a variety of target analytes and can include methods that analyze more than one analyte and that provide for a dynamic range for measurement of more than one target analyte concentration.
US11454618B2	Coupled analytical instruments for dual mode FTIR/GC-FTIR A system and method are disclosed for analyzing samples, which includes a spectrometry system for detecting components of a sample; a gas chromatography column for separating the components of a sample; a first sample unit for receiving a first sample from a sample source; and a second sample unit for receiving a second sample from a sample source. Each sample loop unit allows independent processing of samples in preparation for analysis.
US11454616B2	Determining enrichments of tracers of glucose by mass spectrometry Provided is a method for determining, in a sample, enrichments of a first and a second stable-labeled tracer of a target substance including glucose, the first tracer and the second tracer having the same or similar chemical structure as the target substance, the method including: ionizing the first tracer, the second tracer and the target substance of the sample; measuring intensities of ions deriving from the target substance, the first tracer and the second tracer using a mass analyzer; calculating an enrichment of the first tracer from a first ratio of intensity of the ions deriving from the first tracer to the intensity of the ions deriving from the target substance employing a first calibration curve independent of enrichments of each of the second tracer; wherein the mass analyzer is operated so as to resolve an ion peak deriving from a tracer and having a width Δ(m/z) at half maximum peak height equal to or smaller than 1×10−2.
US11454614B2	Escape system for a sunken car and ultrasonic component The present disclosure illustrates an escape system for a sunken car and an ultrasonic component. The ultrasonic component has a case and an ultrasonic module, and the escape system for a sunken car has at least the ultrasonic component and a main board. The escape system for the sunken car and the ultrasonic component in present disclosure utilize the property of the ultrasonic to recognize the type and thickness of the obstacle which is accumulated in the ultrasonic component, and to determine whether the warning message for sweeping the obstacle should be sent, so as to maintain the sensitivity of the ultrasonic component and further to prevent the ultrasonic component from mistakenly judging the car is sunk.
US11454613B2	Dead zone inspection with ultrasonic testing using signal integration An ultrasonic inspection system, method, and software. In one embodiment, the ultrasonic inspection system includes an ultrasonic probe that directs ultrasound waves into a structure from a front wall, and receives reflected waves to generate a response signal. The system further includes a processor that rectifies the response signal to generate a rectified signal, integrates a portion of the rectified signal within a detection time window to determine an energy sum, and generates output based on the energy sum. The detection time window is restricted to a front wall reflection and at least a portion of a near-surface dead zone following the front wall reflection.
US11454611B2	Spectrometric analysis of plants A method of analysis using mass spectrometry and/or ion mobility spectrometry is disclosed comprising: (a) using a first device to generate smoke, aerosol or vapour from a target plant material; (b) mass analysing and/or ion mobility analysing said smoke, aerosol or vapour, or ions derived therefrom, in order to obtain spectrometric data; and (c) analysing said spectrometric data in order to identify and/or characterise said plant material.
US11454608B2	Particulate matter detection system and method A method of operating a particulate matter sensor having a pair of spaced apart electrodes and a heater includes accumulating particulate matter on the sensor, thereby changing resistance between the pair of spaced apart electrodes. The particulate matter sensor includes a sensing cycle that includes a deadband zone, followed by an active zone, which is followed by a regeneration zone in which the heater is operated to elevate the temperature of the particulate matter sensor to a first predetermined temperature for a first predetermined time in order to oxidize the particulate matter accumulated on the particulate matter sensor. The method also includes interrupting the sensing cycle with a modified regeneration zone which is either higher in temperature or length than the regeneration zone.
US11454606B2	Method and systems relating to construction material assessment Hundreds of thousands of concrete bridges, buildings etc. and hundreds of billions of tons of concrete require characterization throughout the process from manufacture to pouring and curing and on throughout service life. The characterization may relate to initial concrete properties, projected concrete properties, framework removal, corrosion, failure etc. Accordingly, a variety of measurements such as water content, electrical resistivity, and half-cell corrosion potential for example would be beneficially implemented as easy to use field test equipment or embedded sensors allowing lifetime monitoring to be performed rather than discrete assessments when issues become evident.
US11454599B2	Thermal conductivity measuring device, heating device, thermal conductivity measuring method, and quality assurance method A thermal conductivity measuring device includes a sample container that has a plurality of storage sections; a drive unit that is configured to move the plurality of storage sections of the sample container; and a radiation thermometer that is configured to measure the temperature of a predetermined position of the sample container.
US11454596B2	Orientation determination and mapping by stage rocking electron channeling and imaging reconstruction A system to generate orientation maps includes a measurement system configured to capture a plurality images of a sample and a computing device in operable communication with the measurement system. The computing device is configured to align the plurality of images of the sample and process the aligned plurality of images to detect one or more regions of interest. The computing device is also configured to generate one or more electron channeling patterns (ECPs) corresponding to the sample based on the one or more regions of interest. The computing device is further configured to generate an orientation map of the sample based on the one or more ECPs.
US11454594B2	Method for identifying frostbite condition of grain seeds using spectral feature wavebands of seed embryo hyperspectral images The invention discloses a method for identifying frostbite condition of grain seeds using the spectral feature wavebands of the grain seed embryo hyperspectral images. At first, hyperspectral image of the grain seed in the embryo side is collected, and the hyperspectral image in the embryo region of the grain seed is obtained. Then the average spectra is calculated and the wavebands containing noise are eliminated, the spectral feature wavebands are extracted by using related algorithm and the spectra value corresponding with the waveband is obtained. Next, the feature waveband spectral value and the category label of the known frostbite category grain seed are input into the classification model for obtaining the optimal training classification model. Finally, the feature waveband spectral value of each unknown frostbite category grain seed is input into the established model, the frostbite condition of seed is identified.
US11454591B2	Biosensor Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising: a probe carrier, an optical system and a sensor; wherein the probe carrier comprises a substrate, a first layer and a second layer; wherein the substrate comprises a first surface, a second surface, one or more locations on the first surface configured to be deposit sites for one or more probes; wherein the second surface is at an opposite side of the substrate from the first surface; wherein the first layer is on the first surface of the substrate or is embedded in the substrate under the first surface; wherein the second layer is on the second surface of the substrate or is embedded in the substrate under the second surface; the first and second layers are configured to reduce crosstalk between probes at different locations.
US11454590B2	Measurement technique for refractive index inhomogeneity between plates of a lightguide optical element (LOE) A system and method for measuring refractive index inhomogeneity between plates of a Lightguide Optical Element (LOE) uses an innovative measuring technique based on a shearing interferometric technique conventionally used to observe interference and test the collimation of light beams. Another feature of the current implementation is an innovative method for analyzing the characteristics of the generated interferogram to characterize discrepancies between adjacent plates in an LOE.
US11454586B2	Real-time breakover detection during pickup weight step for friction test using machine learning techniques Detecting a breakover event during a friction test includes obtaining a hookload measurement for each of a series of time windows and generating a linear model and a nonlinear model from the plurality of hookload measurements. During run time, from the nonlinear model, an inflection point is identified from the nonlinear model, where the inflection point is determined to have occurred at a particular time window. A hookload value associated with the linear model, and a hookload value associated with the nonlinear model is determined for the particular time window. A breakover event is determined to have occurred at the particular time when the hookload value associated with the linear model at the particular time window exceeds the hookload value associated with the nonlinear model at the particular time window.
US11454584B2	Motion modulation fluidic analyzer system A fluid analyzer includes an optical source and detector defining a beam path of an optical beam, and a fluid flow cell on the beam path defining an interrogation region in a fluid channel in which the optical beam interacts with fluids. One or more flow-control devices conduct a particle in a fluid through the fluid channel. A motion system moves the interrogation region relative to the fluid channel in response to a motion signal, and a controller (1) generates the motion signal having a time-varying characteristic, (2) samples an output signal from the optical detector at respective intervals of the motion signal during which the interrogation region contains and does not contain the particle, and (3) determines from output signal samples a measurement value indicative of an optically measured characteristic of the particle.
US11454583B2	Field-array free flow fractionation An example includes a field-flow fractionation device for the continuous separation of sample components including a channel comprising a sample inlet and a plurality of sample outlets, the channel being for coupling to a flow generator for translocating the sample components along the channel in a first direction from the sample inlet to the plurality of sample outlets, an actuator, which is not the flow generator, coupled to the channel, for translocating the sample components in a second direction, at a first angle with the first direction, an array of electrodes for connection to an AC power source, being in a path taken by the sample components in the channel, arranged in a plurality of rows, and in such a way that adjacent rows can be set at different potentials and every other row can be set at the same potential.
US11454582B2	Sensor Provided is a detector 100 attached to an installation surface 900 of a ceiling, the detector 100 having an attachment surface 11 facing the installation surface 900, in which the detector 100 includes a light shielding space 3 into which smoke flows, a light emitting unit 61 and a light receiving unit 62 that detects smoke flowing into the light shielding space 3, an outer cover 2 that accommodates the light emitting unit 61, the light receiving unit 62, and the light shielding space 3, an outer cover-side inner side inflow/outflow opening 212 and an outer cover-side outer side inflow/outflow opening 213 that allow gas containing smoke to flow into and flow out of the light shielding space 3, the outer cover-side inner side inflow/outflow opening 212 and the outer cover-side outer side inflow/outflow opening 213 being provided toward an opposite side from the attachment surface 11 in the outer cover 2 with reference to a direction substantially orthogonal to the attachment surface 11, and a main body-side inclination portion 211 and a guide portion-side inclination portion 221 that guide gas so that gas flows into the light shielding space 3 through the outer cover-side inner side inflow/outflow opening 212 and the outer cover-side outer side inflow/outflow opening 213.
US11454576B2	Assay apparatus and handheld specimen collection tools therefor Assay apparatus for use with a handheld specimen collection tool having an elongated specimen collection tip for bearing bodily specimen therealong. The assay apparatus includes a drum having a transparent, generally cylindrical, hollow drum body with a horizontal longitudinal drum body centerline, an internal drum body surface and an external drum body surface and a backlight illuminator for backlighting the drum body. The assay apparatus includes an elongated specimen collection tube for snug sliding insertion of the elongated specimen collection tip thereinto for depositing bodily specimen on the drum body and an elongated scanner for scanning the backlighted drum body for acquiring a bodily specimen scan.
US11454575B2	Methods and machines for drying blood smears and an automatic smearing device A method and a machine for drying blood smears and an automatic smearing device are provided. In the method, a dry gas is used as a drying medium to dry a blood film on a blood smear in drying the blood smear, thus reducing drying time and the number of blood smears which are dried together. The dry gas is obtained by: first, removing a liquid from a pressurized gas, second, filtering a vapor, and finally, decompressing the dried pressurized gas to be a non-pressurized gas having lower humidity. In addition, the dry gas is further heated for further reducing the humidity of the dry gas. In order to prevent cell distortion from occurring, the heated dry gas is caused to gently flow over the blood smear in a direction which the blood film is spread.
US11454570B2	Sample probe for dissolution testing and the like In one embodiment, a sample probe has a cap and a base, wherein the cap includes a grip portion and a projection portion. The projection portion fits within a hollow portion of a filter such that the filter is disposed on the outside of the projection portion and the filter and the cap form a cap assemblage. The base comprises a base recess that receives a portion of the cap assemblage including the filter. The cap and base include corresponding media transfer regions adjacent and connected to the filter that reduces flow resistance and chances of blockage and/or contamination during dissolution-testing sampling using the sample probe.
US11454563B2	Micro pressure sensor A micro pressure sensor includes a body having a compartmentalized chamber provided by membranes anchored between opposing walls of the body and carrying electrodes disposed on surfaces of the membranes. The body has a first pair of opposing walls and a second pair of opposing walls orthogonal to the first pair that define a chamber, a plurality of membranes having a correspond electrode layer over a surface, the plurality of membranes disposed in the chamber, anchored between the first pair of opposing walls of the body to provide plural compartments, a first set of ports coupled to a first set of the plural compartments, the first set of ports disposed in corresponding portions of a first one of the first pair of opposing walls of the body, with a second one of the first pair of opposing walls of the body being a solid portion of the body; and a second set of ports coupled to a second different set of the plural compartments, the second set of ports disposed in corresponding portions of the second one of the first pair of opposing walls of the body, with the first one of the first pair of walls of the body being a solid portion of the body.
US11454558B2	Fabry-Perot sensor and method for manufacturing same Disclosed are a Fabry-Perot sensor and a method for manufacturing the same. A Fabry-Perot sensor including: a base part; a cavity formed between the base part and a pressure-sensitive film, and enclosed by the base part and the pressure-sensitive film; the pressure-sensitive film, fixed to the base part, wherein the pressure-sensitive film has one or more localised areas, each localised area has a doping substance doped into a base material of the pressure-sensitive film to produce stress, no localised area penetrates the entire thickness of the pressure-sensitive film, and under the effect of stress, the pressure-sensitive film has a corrugated structure; an optic fibre used for conducting a light signal, one end part of the optic fibre being fixed to an optic fibre mounting part of the base part, and the optic fibre mounting part being located at an end part of the base part opposite the cavity.

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