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| US11515463B1 |
Transparent electrostrictive actuators
An optical element includes a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode, and an electrostrictive ceramic layer disposed between and abutting the primary electrode and the secondary electrode, where the electrostrictive ceramic may be characterized by a relative density of at least approximately 99%, an average grain size of at least approximately 300 nm, a transmissivity within the visible spectrum of at least approximately 70%, and bulk haze of less than approximately 10%. Optical properties of the electrostrictive ceramic may be substantially unchanged during the application of a voltage to the electrostrictive ceramic layer and the attendant actuation of the optical element. |
| US11515459B2 |
Micro light-emitting diode display panel and method for producing the same
The present invention relates to a micro light-emitting diode display panel and a method for producing the same. A backplane and a light-emitting diode display layer are subjected to a bonding process to form eutectic structures between the backplane and light-emitting diodes of the light-emitting diode display layer. Then, an adhesive bonding layer including a resin material and conducting materials is formed on a surface of the backplane, and a heating process is performed, thereby causing the conducting materials to form a plurality of metallic bridge connection structures. Therefore, a bonding between the light-emitting diode and the backplane is reinforced, and tensile strength of the micro light-emitting diode display panel is enhanced. |
| US11515458B2 |
Light emitting device, resin-attached lead frame, and methods of manufacturing the same
A light emitting device includes: a base body including two conductive members, a resin body, and a fiber member placed inside the resin body, and a light-emitting element. The resin body includes an isolation section located between the two conductive members, and includes a pair of sandwiching portions sandwiching the isolation section. The fiber member has a length which is greater than a distance between the two conductive members, and is located at least in an adjoining region of at least one of the pair of sandwiching portions, the adjoining region adjoining the isolation section. In the adjoining region, the fiber member extends in a direction which is non-orthogonal to a direction in which that the pair of sandwiching portions extend. |
| US11515454B2 |
Methods for producing a conversion element and an optoelectronic component
The invention relates to a method for producing a conversion element for an optoelectronic component comprising the steps of: A) Producing a first layer, for that purpose: A1) Providing a polysiloxane precursor material, which is liquid, A2) Mixing a phosphor to the polysiloxane precursor material, wherein the phosphor is suitable for conversion of radiation, A3) Curing the arrangement produced under step A2) to produce a first layer having a phosphor mixed in a cured polysiloxane material, which comprises a three-dimensional crosslinking network based primarily on T-units, where the ratio of T-units to all units is greater than 80%, B) Producing a phosphor-free second layer, for that purpose: B1) Providing the polysiloxane precursor material, which is liquid, B2) Mixing a filler to the polysiloxane precursor material, wherein the filler is in a cured and powdered form, wherein the filler has a refractive index, which is equal to the refractive index of the cured polysiloxane material, B3) Curing the arrangement produced under step B2) to produce a second layer having a filler mixed in the cured polysiloxane material, which comprises a three-dimensional crosslinking network based primarily on T-units, wherein the produced conversion element is formed as a plate having a thickness of at least 100 μm. |
| US11515448B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting element and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor light-emitting element capable of reducing multipeaks to thereby achieve a single peak in an emission spectrum is provided. A semiconductor light-emitting element according to the present disclosure includes, in this order, a substrate, a reflective layer, a first conductivity type cladding layer made of InGaAsP containing at least In and P, a semiconductor light-emitting layer having an emission central wavelength of 1000 nm to 2200 nm, and a second conductivity type cladding layer made of InGaAsP containing at least In and P, wherein the second conductivity type cladding layer is configured to be on a light extraction side. The surface of a light extraction face of the second conductivity type cladding layer is a roughened surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 0.03 μm or more and has a random irregularity pattern. |
| US11515446B2 |
Element, electronic device, and method for producing element
An element includes an electron transportation layer containing nanoparticles, a QD layer containing QD phosphor particles, and a mixed layer sandwiched between the electron transportation layer and the QD layer to be adjacent to these layers. The mixed layer contains QD phosphor particles and nanoparticles. |
| US11515444B2 |
Micro light emitting diode substrate, manufacturing method for same, and display device
Disclosed are a micro light emitting diode substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. At first step, providing a first growth substrate having a first growth surface which is provided with a first color micro light emitting diode unit; at second step, providing a receiving substrate having a receiving surface on which a plurality of receiving pads are arranged at intervals; at third step, fitting the first growth substrate to the receiving substrate such that each first color micro light emitting diode unit at a transfer position is fitted to one receiving pad; at fourth step, fixing the first color micro light emitting diode unit to the receiving surface through the receiving pad; at fifth step, peeling off the first color micro light emitting diode unit from the first growth substrate, to obtain the receiving substrate on which the first color micro light emitting diode unit is fixed. |
| US11515442B2 |
Optical semiconductor element
An optical semiconductor element having a mesa portion includes a substrate and semiconductor layers on the substrate. The optical semiconductor element further includes a first contact electrode, a second contact electrode on the semiconductor layer, first and second lead-out wires connected to the first and second contact electrodes, respectively, and an insulating film covering at least an upper surface of the semiconductor layer and the second contact electrode. The second lead-out wire is connected to the second contact electrode in an opening of the insulating film. An outer peripheral end of the second contact electrode in at least a portion where the second contact electrode and the second lead-out wire are connected is above and outside an outer peripheral end of a connection portion with the semiconductor layer, and an inner peripheral end is above and inside an inner peripheral end of the connection portion with the semiconductor layer. |
| US11515441B2 |
Solar cells having junctions retracted from cleaved edges
Methods of fabricating solar cells having junctions retracted from cleaved edges, and the resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a solar cell includes a substrate having a light-receiving surface, a back surface, and sidewalls. An emitter region is in the substrate at the light-receiving surface of the substrate. The emitter region has sidewalls laterally retracted from the sidewalls of the substrate. A passivation layer is on the sidewalls of the emitter region. |
| US11515439B2 |
Photovoltaic devices and photovoltaic modules
A photovoltaic device includes: a semiconductor substrate stretching in a first direction and a second direction that intersects the first direction; and a first amorphous semiconductor film and a second amorphous semiconductor film both provided on the semiconductor substrate. The second amorphous semiconductor film has a differ conductivity type from the first amorphous semiconductor film. The first amorphous semiconductor film and the second amorphous semiconductor film are divided into a plurality of sections in the first direction and the second direction. |
| US11515433B2 |
Semiconducting materials with surrounding radial p-n diodes
A flexible wire comprises a conductive core surrounded by one or more radial p-n diodes and alternating conductive and non-conductive bands along an outermost surface. Methods for producing the wire are also disclosed, as are textiles and other flexible materials comprising or consisting of such flexible wires. |
| US11515432B2 |
Cool electron erasing in thin-film storage transistors
A storage transistor has a tunnel dielectric layer and a charge-trapping layer between a channel region and a gate electrode, wherein the charge-tapping layer has a conduction band offset that is less than the lowering of the tunneling barrier in the tunnel dielectric layer when a programming voltage is applied, such that electrons direct tunnel into the charge-trapping layer. The conduction band of the charge-trapping layer is has a value between −1.0 eV and 2.3 eV. The storage transistor may further include a barrier layer between the tunnel dielectric layer and the charge-trapping layer, the barrier layer having a conduction band offset less than the conduction band offset of the charge-trapping layer. |
| US11515429B2 |
Thin film transistor including oxide semiconductor layer
A thin film transistor includes at least a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an oxide semiconductor layer, source/drain electrodes, and at least one layer of a passivation film on a substrate. Metal elements constituting the oxide semiconductor layer include In, Ga, Zn, and Sn. Respective ratios of the metal elements to a total (In+Ga+Zn+Sn) of the metal elements in the oxide semiconductor layer satisfy: In: 30 atom % or more and 45 atom % or less, Ga: 5 atom % or more and less than 20 atom %, Zn: 30 atom % or more and 60 atom % or less, and Sn: 4.0 atom % or more and less than 9.0 atom %. |
| US11515427B2 |
Precise bottom junction formation for vertical transport field effect transistor with highly doped epitaxial source/drain, sharp junction gradient, and/or reduced parasitic capacitance
Epitaxially grow first lower source-drain regions within a substrate. Portions of the substrate adjacent the lower regions are doped to form second lower source-drain regions. An undoped silicon layer is formed over the first and second lower regions. Etch completely through the undoped layer into the first and second lower regions to form fins and to define bottom junctions beneath the fins. The fins and bottom junctions define intermediate cavities. Form lower spacers, gates, and upper spacers in the cavities; form top junctions on outer surfaces of the fins; and form epitaxially grown first upper source-drain regions outward of the upper spacers and opposite the first lower regions. The first upper regions are doped the same as the first lower regions. Form second upper source-drain regions outward of the upper spacers and opposite the second lower regions; these are doped the same as the second lower regions. |
| US11515422B2 |
Semiconductor device with gate stack
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate. The gate stack has a conductive structure and a gate dielectric layer, and a top of the gate dielectric layer is higher than a top of the conductive structure. The semiconductor device also includes a protection element over the gate stack. The semiconductor device further includes a spacer extending along a side surface of the protection element and a sidewall of the gate stack. |
| US11515421B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including a substrate having a central region and a peripheral region; an integrated circuit structure on the central region; and a first structure on the peripheral region and surrounding the central region, wherein a portion of the first structure includes a first fin structure defined by a device isolation region in the substrate; a first dielectric layer covering an upper surface and side surfaces of the first fin structure and an upper surface of the device isolation region; a first gate structure on the first fin structure, the first gate structure including a first gate conductive layer, a first gate dielectric layer covering lower and side surfaces of the first gate conductive layer, and first gate spacer layers on side walls of the first gate conductive layer; and a first insulating structure covering the first dielectric layer and the first gate structure. |
| US11515417B2 |
Transistors including heterogeneous channels
A transistor comprises a first conductive contact, a heterogeneous channel comprising at least one oxide semiconductor material over the first conductive contact, a second conductive contact over the heterogeneous channel, and a gate electrode laterally neighboring the heterogeneous channel. A device, a method of forming a device, a memory device, and an electronic system are also described. |
| US11515415B2 |
Integrated circuit comprising an NLDMOS transistor
An integrated circuit includes an N-type laterally diffused metal-oxide semiconductor (NLDMOS) transistor including an active semiconductor substrate region having P-type conductivity. The integrated circuit further includes a buried semiconductor region having N+-type conductivity underneath the active substrate region. The buried semiconductor region is more heavily doped than the active semiconductor substrate region. |
| US11515410B2 |
Group III-V semiconductor structures having crystalline regrowth layers and methods for forming such structures
A Group III-V semiconductor structure having a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device has a source and drain recess regions extending through a barrier layer and into a channel layer. A regrown, doped Group III-V ohmic contact layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the source and drain recess regions. A gate electrode is disposed in a gap in the regrown, doped Group III-V ohmic contact layer and on the barrier layer A dielectric structure is disposed over the ohmic contact layer and over the barrier layer and extending continuously from a region over the source recess region to one side of the stem to portion and then extending continuously from an opposite side of the stem portion to a region over the drain recess region, a portion of the dielectric structure being in contact with the stem portion and the barrier layer. |
| US11515409B2 |
Semiconductor device with asymmetric gate structure
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device with an asymmetric gate structure. The device comprises a substrate; a channel layer, positioned above the substrate; a barrier layer, positioned above the channel layer, the barrier layer and the channel layer being configured to form two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), and the 2DEG being formed in the channel layer along an interface between the channel layer and the barrier layer; a source contact and a drain contact, positioned above the barrier layer; a doped group III-V layer, positioned above the barrier layer and between the drain contact and the source contact; and a gate electrode, positioned above the doped group III-V layer and configured to form a Schottky junction with the doped group III-V layer, wherein the doped group III-V layer and/or gate electrode has a non-central symmetrical geometry so as to achieve the effect of improving gate leakage current characteristics. |
| US11515408B2 |
Rough buffer layer for group III-V devices on silicon
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a group III-V device including a rough buffer layer. The rough buffer layer overlies a silicon substrate, a buffer structure overlies the rough buffer layer, and a heterojunction structure overlies the buffer structure. The buffer structure causes band bending and formation of a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) in the rough buffer layer. The rough buffer layer includes silicon or some other suitable semiconductor material and, in some embodiments, is doped. A top surface of the rough buffer layer and/or a bottom surface of the rough buffer layer is/are rough to promote carrier scattering along the top and bottom surfaces. The carrier scattering reduces carrier mobility and increases resistance at the 2DHG. The increased resistance increases an overall resistance of the silicon substrate, which reduces substrate loses and increases a power added efficiency (PAE). |
| US11515401B2 |
Vertical fin field effect transistor with a reduced gate-to-bottom source/drain parasitic capacitance
A method of forming a vertical fin field effect device is provided. The method includes, forming a vertical fin on a substrate, forming a masking block on the vertical fin, wherein the masking block extends a distance outward from the vertical fin sidewalls and endwalls, and a portion of the substrate surrounding the masking block is exposed. The method further includes removing at least a portion of the exposed portion of the substrate to form a recess and a fin mesa below the vertical fin, removing a portion of the fin mesa to form an undercut recess below an overhanging portion of the masking block, forming a spacer layer on the masking block and in the undercut recess, and removing a portion of the spacer layer to form an undercut spacer in the undercut recess. |
| US11515400B2 |
Semiconductor structure and fabrication method thereof
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the semiconductor structure are provided. The method includes: providing a substrate; forming a dummy gate structure including a dummy gate dielectric layer, an initial dummy gate electrode layer, and a first sidewall spacer; forming an isolation layer having a surface lower than or coplanar with the dummy gate structure; forming a dummy gate electrode layer having a surface lower than the isolation layer, and forming a first opening to expose a portion of the first sidewall spacer; forming a modified sidewall spacer from the exposed first sidewall spacer; forming a second opening by removing the dummy gate electrode layer; forming a third opening by removing the dummy gate dielectric layer and the modified sidewall spacer, where top of the third opening has a size larger than bottom of the third opening; and forming a gate structure in the third opening. |
| US11515393B2 |
Semiconductor device having nanosheet transistor and methods of fabrication thereof
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The device includes a plurality of semiconductor layers and a gate electrode layer surrounding each semiconductor layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers. The gate electrode layer comprises a first part and a second part below the first part. The second part comprises a first portion disposed adjacent a first semiconductor layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers, and an exterior surface of the first portion having a first radius of curvature, a second portion below the first portion and in contact with a second semiconductor layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers, and a third portion below the second portion and in contact with a third semiconductor layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers, and an exterior surface of the third portion having a second radius of curvature greater than the first radius of curvature. |
| US11515392B2 |
Semiconductor divice having a carbon containing insulation layer formed under the source/drain
An electronic device including at least first and second superimposed transistors comprises at least a substrate; a first transistor including a portion of a first nanowire forming a first channel, and first source and drain regions in contact with ends of the first nanowire portion; and a second transistor including a portion of a second nanowire forming a second channel and having a greater length than that of the first channel, and second source and drain regions in contact with ends of the second nanowire portion such that the second transistor is arranged between the substrate and the first transistor. A dielectric encapsulation layer covers at least the second source and drain regions and such that the first source and drain regions are arranged at least partly on the dielectric encapsulation layer, and forms vertical insulating portions extending between the first and second source and drain regions. |
| US11515389B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate including an active region; a plurality of conductive structures formed over the semiconductor substrate; an isolation layer filling a space between the conductive structures and having an opening that exposes the active region between the conductive structures; a pad formed in a bottom portion of the opening and in contact with the active region; a plug liner formed conformally over a sidewall of the opening and exposing the pad; and a contact plug formed over the pad inside the opening. |
| US11515387B2 |
Method of manufacturing silicon carbide semiconductor device, method of manufacturing silicon carbide substrate, and silicon carbide substrate
A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide substrate having a parallel pn layer. The method includes preparing a starting substrate containing silicon carbide, forming a first partial parallel pn layer on the starting substrate by a trench embedding epitaxial process, stacking a second partial parallel pn layer by a multi-stage epitaxial process on the first partial parallel pn layer, and stacking a third partial parallel pn layer on the second partial parallel pn layer by another trench embedding epitaxial process. Each of the first, second and third partial parallel pn layers is formed to include a plurality of first-conductivity-type regions and a plurality of second-conductivity-type regions alternately disposed in parallel to a main surface of the silicon carbide substrate. The first-conductivity-type regions of the first and third partial parallel pn layers face each other in a depth direction of the silicon carbide substrate, and the second-conductivity-type regions partial parallel pn layers face each other in the depth direction. |
| US11515386B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel, including a main display area and a light-transmitting display area; wherein the main display area surrounds the light-transmitting display area; the display panel includes: a substrate; an organic electroluminescent element array, including a plurality of organic electroluminescent elements disposed on the substrate; the driving circuit array is disposed on the substrate and is adapted to be matched with a high voltage source and a low voltage source for driving each of the organic light-emitting electroluminescent elements; wherein in the light-transmitting display area, the driving circuit array includes a passive driving circuit array; the passive driving circuit array is configured to drive the organic electroluminescent element of the light-transmitting display area to display. |
| US11515385B2 |
Display panel and electronic device including the same
A display panel includes a first panel region (FPR) including (n−1)-th and n-th pixel rows ((n−1)PR and nPR), and a second panel region (SPR) dividing the nPR to propagate an optical signal. The display panel includes a circuit element layer (CEL) and a display element layer (DEL). The CEL includes a signal line (SL), a pixel driving circuit (PDC), and first to third regions. The SL and the PDC are in the first region. The second region (SR) corresponds to the SPR. The SL and the PDC are not in the SR. The third region (TR) corresponds to the SPR and is along a periphery of the SR. The SL is in the TR, and includes an (n−1)-th scan line ((n−1)SL) connected to the (n−1)PR, an n-th reset line (nRL) connected to the nPR, and a first row connection line in the TR and connecting the (n−1)SL and the nRL. |
| US11515380B2 |
Display device with overlapping auxiliary lines in non-display area surrounding transmission area
A display device includes a first data line extending in a first direction, arranged in a display area, and connected to a first display element; a second data line extending in the first direction, arranged in the display area, and connected to a second display element; an auxiliary line arranged in a first non-display area and connecting the first data line to the second data line; and a plurality of patterns arranged apart from the auxiliary line in surroundings of the auxiliary line in the first non-display area. |
| US11515373B2 |
OLED substrate, photo mask, and method of manufacturing OLED substrate
The resent disclosure provides an OLED substrate, a photo mask, and a method of manufacturing the OLED substrate. In one embodiment, an OLED substrate includes: a base substrate; an anode layer on the base substrate; a pixel defining layer on the anode layer, the pixel defining layer having a pattern opening area, the pattern opening area including a plurality of pixel openings arranged in an array manner; and a light-emitting layer formed on the pixel defining layer by evaporation; wherein the pattern opening area has an inward contraction structure with respect to a regular pixel opening area structure in which a plurality of pixel openings are arranged in a manner of an regular array where rows in the regular array are equally spaced from each other and are parallel to each other and columns in the regular array are equally spaced from each other and are parallel to each other. |
| US11515370B2 |
Display device and method of fabricating the same
A display device may include a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate on the first substrate, and a light-emitting device between the first substrate and the second substrate, an input sensing portion including a sensing electrode on the second substrate and a first pad connected to the sensing electrode, a first circuit film near a side surface of the display panel adjacent to the first pad, the first circuit film including a first contact pad spaced from the first pad, a first conductive layer on the first pad, the first conductive layer being extended to the first contact pad to electrically connect the first pad to the first contact pad, and a protection layer on the first conductive layer. |
| US11515365B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes an array substrate, a photo spacer layer, and a light-emitting function layer. The photo spacer layer and the light-emitting function layer are sequentially disposed on the array substrate. The display panel includes a display area and a sensor light-receiving area, The light-emitting function layer is disposed in the display area and the sensor light-receiving area. The photo spacer layer includes a plurality of first photo spacers disposed in the display area and a plurality of second photo spacers disposed in the sensor light-receiving area. A distribution density of the second photo spacers is less than a distribution density of the first photo spacers. |
| US11515364B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes: a base substrate including an active region, which includes a sensing region, and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region; an input sensor including a sensing insulating layer, a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a plurality of second sensing electrodes, the second sensing electrodes being spaced apart from the first sensing electrodes; and a pressure sensor including a plurality of strain sensing patterns overlapping the sensing region, and strain connection patterns connecting the strain sensing patterns to each other, wherein each of the first sensing electrodes comprises a plurality of first sensing patterns overlapping the active region, each of the second sensing electrodes comprises a plurality of second sensing patterns overlapping the active region and on a same layer as the first sensing patterns, and a plurality of second connection patterns connecting the second sensing patterns. |
| US11515360B2 |
Imaging device, stacked imaging device, and solid-state imaging apparatus
An imaging device includes: a first electrode; a charge storage electrode disposed at a distance from the first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer in contact with the first electrode and above the charge storage electrode, with an insulating layer between the charge storage electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer; and a second electrode on the photoelectric conversion layer. The portion of the insulating layer between the charge storage electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer includes a first region and a second region, the first region is formed with a first insulating layer, the second region is formed with a second insulating layer, and the absolute value of the fixed charge of the material forming the second insulating layer is smaller than the absolute value of the fixed charge of the material forming the first insulating layer. |
| US11515359B2 |
Array substrate and display device
The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display panel. The driving circuit layer of the array substrate provided with a first thin-film transistor (TFT) and a second TFT. An exemplified active layer of a P-type TFT is formed by organic conductive polymer material. By using organic conductive polymer materials as the active layer material of the first TFT, the technical problems of the flexibility of the display substrate resulting by the characteristics of the low temperature polysilicon material are solved. The flexibility of the array substrate is enhanced. |
| US11515357B2 |
Magnetic junction memory device and reading method thereof
A magnetic junction memory device is provided. The magnetic junction memory device including a sensing circuit including a sensing node, the sensing node being connected to a first end of a transistor and configured to change a voltage of the sensing node in accordance with a resistance of a magnetic junction memory cell, a gating voltage generator circuit configured to generate a gating voltage of the transistor using a reference resistor and a reference voltage, and a read circuit configured to read data from the magnetic junction memory cell using the reference voltage and the voltage of the sensing node. |
| US11515356B2 |
Chip-scale optical interconnect using microLEDs
In package intra-chip and/or inter-chip optical communications are provided using microLEDs and photodetectors mounted to integrated circuit (IC) chips and/or to transceiver dies associated with the IC chips. Light from the LEDs may pass through waveguides on or in a substrate to which the IC chips are mounted or which couple the IC chips. |
| US11515355B2 |
Image sensor device and methods of forming the same
A method includes forming a plurality of openings extending into a substrate from a front surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a first semiconductor material. Each of the plurality of openings has a curve-based bottom surface. The method includes filling the plurality of openings with a second semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material is different from the first semiconductor material. The method includes forming a plurality of pixels that are configured to sense light in the plurality of openings, respectively, using the second semiconductor material. |
| US11515354B2 |
Thin film transistor array substrate for digital X-ray detector device and digital X-ray detector device including the same
A thin film transistor array substrate for a digital X-ray detector device includes a p+ type semiconductor layer and a p− type semiconductor layer having different impurity concentrations are disposed above an intrinsic semiconductor layer of the PIN diode and an n+ type semiconductor layer and an n− type semiconductor layer having different impurity concentrations are disposed below the intrinsic semiconductor layer of the PIN diode to minimize ejection of holes by the p− type semiconductor layer and minimize ejection of electros by the n− type semiconductor layer, thereby minimizing occurrence of leakage current of the PIN diode. |
| US11515353B2 |
Mechanically stacked multicolor focal plane arrays and detection devices
Multicolor, stacked detector devices, focal plane arrays including multicolor, stacked detector devices, and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a stacked multicolor detector device includes a first detector and a second detector. The first detector includes a first detector structure and a first ground plane adjacent the first detector structure. The second detector includes a second detector structure and a second ground plane adjacent the second detector structure. At least one of the first ground plane and the second ground plane is transmissive to radiation in a predetermined spectral band. The first detector and the second detector are in a stacked relationship. |
| US11515351B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
There is provided a semiconductor device in which the inter-wiring capacitance of wiring lines provided in any layout is further reduced. A semiconductor device (1) including: a first inter-wiring insulating layer (120) that is provided on a substrate (100) and includes a recess on a side opposite to the substrate; a first wiring layer (130) that is provided inside the recess in the first inter-wiring insulating layer; a sealing film (140) that is provided along an uneven shape of the first wiring layer and the first inter-wiring insulating layer; a second inter-wiring insulating layer (220) that is provided on the first inter-wiring insulating layer to cover the recess; and a gap (150) that is provided between the second inter-wiring insulating layer and the first wiring layer and the first inter-wiring insulating layer. The second inter-wiring insulating layer has a planarized surface that is opposed to the recess. |
| US11515349B2 |
Semiconductor unit
A semiconductor unit includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first groove provided in the semiconductor substrate, having a first width W1 and extending in a first direction; and a second groove provided in the semiconductor substrate in communication with the first groove, having a second width W2 different from the first width, and extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, in which one of the first groove and the second groove is used for alignment. |
| US11515339B2 |
Display device
A display device has a display area and a peripheral area and includes data lines, scan lines, gate transmission lines, and sub-pixels. The data lines and the gate transmission lines extend from the peripheral area into the display area. The data lines located in the display area extend along a first direction. The scan lines are located in the display area and extend along a second direction intersecting the first direction. The gate transmission lines are electrically connected to the scan lines. One of the gate transmission lines includes first, second, and third wires located in the display area. The first and third wires extend along the first direction. The second wire extends along the second direction. The first, second and third wires are electrically connected in sequence. The third wire is electrically connected to one of the scan lines. |
| US11515334B2 |
Stacked vertically isolated MOSFET structure and method of forming the same
A MOSFET structure including stacked vertically isolated MOSFETs and a method for forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include depositing a first buffer layer over a substrate; depositing a first channel layer over the first buffer layer; depositing a second buffer layer over the first channel layer; depositing a second channel layer over the second buffer layer; depositing a third buffer layer over the second channel layer; etching the first buffer layer, the first channel layer, the second buffer layer, the second channel layer, and the third buffer layer to form a fin structure; etching the first buffer layer, the second buffer layer, and the third buffer layer to form a first plurality of openings; forming a first gate stack in the first opening disposed in the first buffer layer, a second gate stack in the first opening disposed in the second buffer layer, and a third gate stack in the first opening disposed in the third buffer layer; and replacing the second buffer layer and a portion of the second gate stack with an isolation structure. |
| US11515331B2 |
Integrated assemblies comprising ferroelectric transistors and non-ferroelectric transistors
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a semiconductor structure extending from a first wiring to a second wiring. A ferroelectric transistor includes a first transistor gate adjacent a first region of the semiconductor structure. A first non-ferroelectric transistor includes a second transistor gate adjacent a second region of the semiconductor structure. The second region of the semiconductor structure is between the first region of the semiconductor structure and the first wiring. A second non-ferroelectric transistor includes a third transistor gate adjacent a third region of the semiconductor structure. The third region of the semiconductor structure is between the first region of the semiconductor structure and the second wiring. |
| US11515330B2 |
Three-dimensional ferroelectric random-access memory (FeRAM)
A 3-dimensional vertical memory string array includes high-speed ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FET) cells that are low-cost, low-power, or high-density and suitable for SCM applications. The memory circuits of the present invention provide random-access capabilities. The memory string may be formed above a planar surface of substrate and include a vertical gate electrode extending lengthwise along a vertical direction relative to the planar surface and may include (i) a ferroelectric layer over the gate electrode, (ii) a gate oxide layer; (iii) a channel layer provided over the gate oxide layer, and (iv) conductive semiconductor regions embedded in and isolated from each other by an oxide layer, wherein the gate electrode, the ferroelectric layer, the gate oxide layer, the channel layer and each adjacent pair of semiconductor regions from a storage transistor of the memory string, and wherein the adjacent pair of semiconductor regions serve as source and drain regions of the storage transistor. |
| US11515324B2 |
3D NAND structures with decreased pitch
Methods of forming 3D NAND devices are discussed. Some embodiments form 3D NAND devices with increased cell density. Some embodiments form 3D NAND devices with decreased vertical and/or later pitch between cells. Some embodiments form 3D NAND devices with smaller CD memory holes. Some embodiments form 3D NAND devices with silicon layer between alternating oxide and nitride materials. |
| US11515323B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked film alternately including a plurality of electrode layers and a plurality of insulating layers. The device further includes a first insulator, a charge storage layer, a second insulator and a first semiconductor layer that are disposed in order in the stacked film. The device further includes a plurality of first films disposed between the first insulator and the plurality of insulating layers. Furthermore, at least one of the first films includes a second semiconductor layer. |
| US11515320B2 |
Methods of forming microelectronic devices, and related microelectronic devices, memory devices, and electronic systems
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a sacrificial material over a base structure. Portions of the sacrificial material are replaced with an etch-resistant material. A stack structure is formed over the etch-resistant material and remaining portions of the sacrificial material. The stack structure comprises a vertically alternating sequence of insulative material and additional sacrificial material arranged in tiers, and at least one staircase structure horizontally overlapping the etch-resistant material and having steps comprising horizontal ends of the tiers. Slots are formed to vertically extend through the stack structure and the remaining portions of the sacrificial material. The sacrificial material and the additional sacrificial material are selectively replaced with conductive material after forming the slots to respectively form lateral contact structures and conductive structures. Microelectronic devices, memory devices, and electronic systems are also described. |
| US11515310B2 |
Cell array and method for fabricating the same
A cell array includes a substrate and a conductive line. The substrate has active areas in the substrate. The conductive line is disposed across the active areas and includes work function nodes and line sections which are horizontally and alternately arranged with work function nodes, in which each work function node is between two of the active areas. |
| US11515308B2 |
Integrated circuit structure with hybrid cell design
An IC structure includes first and second cell rows extending in a first direction. The first cell row includes first cells each including one or more first fins having first source/drain regions of a first conductivity type and one or more second fins having second source/drain regions of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type. The second cell row includes second cells each including one or more third fins having third source/drain regions of the first conductivity type and one or more fourth fins having fourth source/drain regions of the second conductivity type. The first cells have a same first number of the one or more first fins, and the second cells have a same second number of the one or more third fins less than the first number of the one or more first fins. |
| US11515306B2 |
Unified architectural design for enhanced 3D circuit options
A method of forming a semiconductor device is presented. A layer stack of alternating epitaxial materials including one or more layers is formed. The layer stack of alternating epitaxial materials into a first region of nano sheets and a second region of nano sheets is divided. A first field effect transistor on a working surface of a substrate using the nano sheets in the first region of nano sheets is formed. A stack of field effect transistors on the working surface of the substrate using the nano sheets in the second region of nano sheets is formed. |
| US11515305B2 |
Structure and formation method of hybrid semiconductor device
A structure and a formation method of hybrid semiconductor devices are provided. The structure includes a substrate and a fin structure over the substrate. The fin structure has a channel height. The structure also includes a stack of nanostructures over the substrate. The channel height is greater than a lateral distance between the fin structure and the stack of the nanostructures. The structure further includes a gate stack over the nanostructures. The nanostructures are separated from each other by portions of the gate stack. |
| US11515303B2 |
Shielded gate trench MOSFET with ESD diode manufactured using two poly-silicon layers process
A SGT MOSFET having ESD diode and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The SGT trench MOSFET according to the present invention, has n+ doped shielded electrode in an N channel device and requires only two poly-silicon layers, making the device can be shrunk with reducing shielded gate width for Rds reduction without increasing switching loss and having dynamic switching instability. |
| US11515301B2 |
ESD protection circuit
An ESD protection circuit includes a terminal connected to the cathode of a first diode and to the anode of a second diode, where the cathode of the second diode is not made of epitaxial silicon. |
| US11515296B2 |
Light-emitting device, integrated light-emitting device, and light-emitting module
A light-emitting device includes a base including a conductive wiring; a light-emitting element mounted on the base and configured to emit light; a light reflective film provided on an upper surface of the light-emitting element; and a encapsulant covering the light-emitting element and the light reflective film. A ratio (H/W) of a height (H) of the encapsulant to a width (W) of a bottom surface of the encapsulant is less than 0.5. |
| US11515295B2 |
Light-emitting device, manufacturing method thereof and display module using the same
The application discloses a light-emitting device including a carrier which includes an insulating layer, an upper conductive layer formed on the insulating layer, a plurality of conducting vias passing through the insulating layer, and a lower conductive layer formed under the insulating layer; four light-emitting elements arranged in rows and columns flipped on the carrier; and a light-passing unit formed on the carrier and covering the four light-emitting elements; wherein each of the light-emitting elements including a first light-emitting bare die emitting a first dominant wavelength, a second light-emitting bare die emitting a second dominant wavelength, and a third light-emitting bare die emitting a third dominant wavelength; and wherein two adjacent first light-emitting bare die in a row has a first distance W1, two adjacent first light-emitting bare die in a column has a second distance W2, and W1 is the same as W2. |
| US11515292B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device, having a first semiconductor chip including a first side portion at a front surface thereof and a first control electrode formed in the first side portion, a second semiconductor chip including a second side portion at a front surface thereof and a second control electrode formed in the second side portion, a first circuit pattern, on which the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are disposed, a second circuit pattern, and a first control wire electrically connecting the first control electrode, the second control electrode, and the second circuit pattern. The first side portion and the second side portion are aligned. The first control electrode and the second control electrode are aligned. The second circuit pattern are aligned with the first control electrode and the second control electrode. |
| US11515286B2 |
Methods of bonding of semiconductor elements to substrates, and related bonding systems
A bonding system for bonding a semiconductor element to a substrate is provided. The bonding system includes a substrate oxide reduction chamber configured to receive a substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of first electrically conductive structures. The substrate oxide reduction chamber is configured to receive a reducing gas to contact each of the plurality of first electrically conductive structures. The bonding system also includes a substrate oxide prevention chamber for receiving the substrate after the reducing gas contacts the plurality of first electrically conductive structures. The substrate oxide prevention chamber has an inert environment when receiving the substrate. The bonding system also includes a reducing gas delivery system for providing a reducing gas environment during bonding of a semiconductor element to the substrate. |
| US11515283B2 |
Flexible circuit film bonding apparatus and method of bonding flexible circuit film using the same
A flexible circuit film bonding apparatus includes: a stage configured to support a TFT substrate; a pressing head configured to press and heat a flexible circuit film attached on the TFT substrate with an anisotropic conductive film interposed therebetween; a backup plate configured to support and heat the TFT substrate positioned below the flexible circuit film; and a heating control unit configured to control a temperature of a lower surface of the pressing head and an upper surface of the backup plate, wherein the temperature of the upper surface of the backup plate is less than 170 degrees Celsius. |
| US11515275B2 |
Copper wire bond on gold bump on semiconductor die bond pad
A semiconductor package includes a conductive pad, a semiconductor die with an aluminum bond pad over a dielectric layer of the semiconductor die, a gold bump on the aluminum bond pad, a first intermetallic layer of gold and aluminum between the aluminum bond pad and the gold bump, a copper ball bond on the gold bump, a second intermetallic layer of copper and gold between the copper ball bond and the gold bump, a copper wire extending from the copper ball bond to the conductive pad, a stitch bond between the copper wire and the conductive pad. |
| US11515268B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor package has central region and peripheral region surrounding central region. The semiconductor package includes dies, encapsulant, and redistribution structure. The dies include functional die and first dummy dies. Functional die is disposed in central region. First dummy dies are disposed in peripheral region. Redistribution structure is disposed on encapsulant over the dies, and is electrically connected to functional die. Vacancy ratio of central region is in the range from 1.01 to 3.00. Vacancy ratio of the peripheral region is in the range from 1.01 to 3.00. Vacancy ratio of central region is a ratio of total area of central region to total area occupied by dies disposed in central region. Vacancy ratio of peripheral region is a ratio of total area of peripheral region to total area occupied by first dummy dies disposed in peripheral region. |
| US11515267B2 |
Dummy die placement without backside chipping
A method includes bonding a second package component to a first package component, bonding a third package component to the first package component, attaching a dummy die to the first package component, encapsulating the second package component, the third package component, and the dummy die in an encapsulant, and performing a planarization process to level a top surface of the second package component with a top surface of the encapsulant. After the planarization process, an upper portion of the encapsulant overlaps the dummy die. The dummy die is sawed-through to separate the dummy die into a first dummy die portion and a second dummy die portion. The upper portion of the encapsulant is also sawed through. |
| US11515266B2 |
Methods and apparatus for scribe street probe pads with reduced die chipping during wafer dicing
An example apparatus includes a semiconductor wafer with a plurality of probe pads each formed centered in scribe streets and intersected by saw kerf lanes. Each probe pad includes a plurality of lower level conductor layers arranged in lower level conductor frames, a plurality of lower level vias extending vertically through lower level insulator layers and electrically coupling the lower level conductor frames; a plurality of upper level conductor layers, each forming two portions on two outer edges of the probe pad, the two portions aligned with, spaced from, and on opposite sides of the saw kerf lane, the coverage of the upper level conductor layers being less than about twenty percent; and a plurality of upper level vias extending vertically through upper level insulator layers and coupling the upper level conductor layers electrically to one another and to the lower level conductor layers. Methods are disclosed. |
| US11515263B2 |
Method of producing laser-marked silicon wafer and laser-marked silicon wafer
A method of producing a silicon wafer includes: a laser mark printing step of printing a laser mark having a plurality of dots on a silicon wafer; an etching step of performing etching on at least a laser-mark printed region in a surface of the silicon wafer; and a polishing step of performing polishing on both surfaces of the silicon wafer having been subjected to the etching step. In the laser mark printing step, each of the plurality of dots is formed by a first step of irradiating a predetermined position on a periphery of the silicon wafer with laser light of a first beam diameter thereby forming a first portion of the dot and a second step of irradiating the predetermined position with laser light of a second beam diameter that is smaller than the first beam diameter thereby forming a second portion of the dot. |
| US11515262B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same
A semiconductor package includes a first substrate including a first recess formed in a top surface of the first substrate, a first semiconductor chip disposed in the first recess and mounted on the first substrate, an interposer substrate disposed on the first semiconductor chip and including a second recess formed in a bottom surface of the interposer substrate, an adhesive layer disposed in the second recess and in contact with a top surface of the first semiconductor chip, a plurality of connection terminals spaced apart from the first recess and connecting the first substrate to the interposer substrate, and a molding layer disposed between the first substrate and the interposer substrate. |
| US11515259B2 |
Method and device for the integration of semiconductor wafers
A method for the integration of semiconductor components in a confined space, in particular for 3D integration, in which, after positioning relative to a carrier substrate and/or a redistribution layer, the semiconductor components are protected and fixed in their relative position by introduction of a potting compound, characterized in that before the introduction of the potting compound, a glass substrate having a multiplicity of cutouts separated by partition walls and serving to receive a semiconductor component, is positioned in such a way that the semiconductor component is enclosed by the sidewall surfaces—facing it—of the respective partition walls of the glass substrate. |
| US11515258B2 |
Package substrate and manufacturing method thereof
A method for manufacturing a package substrate, includes: providing a glass frame having a through hole and a chip embedding cavity; fixing an electronic component in the chip embedding cavity; coating a dielectric layer to an upper surface of the glass frame, the through hole and the chip embedding cavity and curing the dielectric layer; photoetching the dielectric layer to form an opening window arranged above the through hole; depositing metal through the opening window and patterning the metal to form a metal pillar and a circuit layer, the metal pillar passing through the through hole, the circuit layer being arranged on the upper surface and/or a lower surface of the glass frame and being connected to the electronic component and the metal pillar; forming a solder mask on a surface of the circuit layer, patterning the solder mask to form a pad connected to the circuit layer. |
| US11515256B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor structure includes a multi-level interconnect structure, a passivation layer, a barrier layer, and a pad layer. The passivation layer is above the multi-level interconnect structure. The barrier layer lines an inner sidewall of the passivation layer, a top surface of the passivation layer and a top surface of a conductive line of the multi-level interconnect structure. The barrier layer includes a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and a fourth layer. The first layer is in a nano-crystalline phase. The second layer is above the first layer and in an amorphous phase. The third layer is above the second layer and in a polycrystalline phase. The fourth layer is above the third layer and in a nano-crystalline phase. The pad layer is above the barrier layer. |
| US11515255B2 |
Electro-migration barrier for interconnect
The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit having a conductive interconnect disposed on a dielectric over a substrate. A first liner is arranged along an upper surface of the conductive interconnect. A barrier layer is arranged along a lower surface of the conductive interconnect and contacts an upper surface of the dielectric. The barrier layer and the first liner surround the conductive interconnect. A second liner is located over the first liner and has a lower surface contacting the upper surface of the dielectric. |
| US11515250B2 |
Three dimensional semiconductor device containing composite contact via structures and methods of making the same
A semiconductor structure includes at least one first semiconductor device located on a substrate, lower-level dielectric material layers embedding lower-level metal interconnect structures, at least one second semiconductor device and a dielectric material portion that overlie the lower-level dielectric material layers, at least one upper-level dielectric material layer, and an interconnection via structure vertically extending from the at least one upper-level dielectric material layer to a conductive structure that can be a node of the at least one first semiconductor device or one of lower-level metal interconnect structures. The interconnection via structure includes a transition metal layer and a fluorine-doped filler material portion in contact with the transition metal layer, composed primarily of a filler material selected from a silicide of the transition metal element or aluminum oxide, and including fluorine atoms. |
| US11515249B2 |
Wiring package and method of manufacturing the same
At least some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a wiring structure and a method for manufacturing a wiring structure. The wiring structure includes a conductive structure, a first fan-out structure, and a second fan-out structure. The first fan-out structure is disposed on the conductive structure and includes a first circuit layer. The second fan-out structure is disposed on the conductive structure, and includes a second circuit layer. A thickness of the first circuit layer is different from a thickness of the second circuit layer. |
| US11515248B2 |
Localized high density substrate routing
Embodiments of a system and methods for localized high density substrate routing are generally described herein. In one or more embodiments an apparatus includes a medium, first and second circuitry elements, an interconnect element, and a dielectric layer. The medium can include low density routing therein. The interconnect element can be embedded in the medium, and can include a plurality of electrically conductive members therein, the electrically conductive member can be electrically coupled to the first circuitry element and the second circuitry element. The interconnect element can include high density routing therein. The dielectric layer can be over the interconnect die, the dielectric layer including the first and second circuitry elements passing therethrough. |
| US11515242B2 |
Wiring substrate, electronic device, and electronic module each having plate-shaped conductive portion in frame portion of insulation substrate
To provide a wiring substrate, an electronic device, and an electronic module the size of which can be easily reduced and the strength of which can be maintained. A wiring substrate includes an insulation substrate and an electrical wiring structure. The insulation substrate includes a recess section in one surface. A frame portion of the insulation substrate that forms a side surface which connects an opened surface and a bottom surface of the recess section to each other includes a first conductive portion having a plate shape in the frame portion. |
| US11515241B2 |
Semiconductor device package and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device package includes a first dielectric layer, a conductive pad and an electrical contact. The first dielectric layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The conductive pad is disposed within the first dielectric layer. The conductive pad includes a first conductive layer and a barrier. The first conductive layer is adjacent to the second surface of the first dielectric layer. The first conductive layer has a first surface facing the first surface of the first dielectric layer and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface of the first conductive layer is exposed from the first dielectric layer. The barrier layer is disposed on the first surface of the first conductive layer. The electrical contact is disposed on the second surface of the first conductive layer of the conductive pad. |
| US11515238B2 |
Power die package
A power die package includes a lead frame having a flag with power leads on one lateral side and signal leads on one or more other lateral sides. A power die is attached to a bottom surface of the flag and electrically connected to the power leads with a conductive epoxy. A control die is attached to a top surface of the flag and electrically connected to the signal leads with bond wires. A mold compound is provided that encapsulates the dies, the bond wires, and proximal parts of the leads, while distal ends of the leads are exposed, forming a PQFN package. |
| US11515237B2 |
Plurality of heat sinks for a semiconductor package
Various embodiments may provide a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package may include a first electrical component, a second electrical component, a first heat sink, and a second heat sink bonded to a first package interconnection component and a second package interconnection component. The first package interconnection component and the second package interconnection component may provide lateral and vertical interconnections in the package. |
| US11515225B2 |
Reconstituted wafer including mold material with recessed conductive feature
A system and method. The system may include an integrated circuit (IC) die having two faces and sides. The system may further include mold material surrounding at least the sides of the IC die. The system may further include a redistribution layer and signal pads. The redistribution layer may be positioned between (a) the signal pads and (b) the mold material and the IC die. The redistribution layer may have conductive paths at least connecting the IC die and at least some of the signal pads. A surface of the mold material may abut the redistribution layer. The surface of the mold material may include at least one recessed area having at least one conductive feature connected to at least one of the conductive paths or the IC die. |
| US11515222B2 |
Semiconductor assemblies with flow controller to mitigate ingression of mold material
Semiconductor devices having flow controllers configured to reduce mitigation of mold material between stacked layers, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the semiconductor device includes a package substrate that has first and second surfaces. First and second die stacks are formed on the first surface and are adjacent to each other. A portion of the first surface extends between the first and second die stacks. A layer of material is adhered to top surfaces of the first and second die stacks and extends at a distance above the package substrate to form a tunnel between the layer of material, opposing sidewalls of the die stacks, and the package substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a flow controller that is adhered to at least a portion of the first surface inside the tunnel that reduces a cross-sectional surface area of at least a portion of the tunnel. |
| US11515220B2 |
Semiconductor package structures and methods of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor package structure includes a carrier, an electronic device, a spacer, a transparent panel, and a conductive wire. The electronic device has a first surface and an optical structure on the first surface. The spacer is disposed on the first surface to enclose the optical structure of the electronic device. The transparent panel is disposed on the spacer. The conductive wire electrically connects the electronic device to the carrier and is exposed to air. |
| US11515219B2 |
Method for finding suspicious manufacturing machines and processing factors at processing workstations of causing defects, electronic device using method, and non-transitory storage medium
A method for finding manufactured or to-be-manufactured products for defects includes obtaining basic information on processing history of products passed by each manufacturing machine at each processing workstation, and obtaining processing factor information of same, where each product is passed by a defect detection workstation after the product is passed by at least one processing workstation. The method includes obtaining quality information detected by each defect detection workstation. The method determines one or more problem manufacturing machines at one or more problem processing workstations according to the basic information on processing history and the quality information of the products. The method further determines one or more processing factors which influence the problem manufacturing machines according to the processing factor information of each manufacturing machine and the quality information of the products. A related electronic device and non-transitory storage medium are also provided. |
| US11515216B2 |
Dual silicide structure and methods thereof
A semiconductor structure is received that has a first and second fins. A first epitaxial feature is formed on the first fin and has a first type dopant. A first capping layer is formed over the first epitaxial feature. A second epitaxial feature is formed on the second fin and has a second type dopant different from the first type dopant. A first metal is deposited on the second epitaxial feature and on the first capping layer. A first silicide layer is formed from the first metal and the second epitaxial feature, and a second capping layer is formed from the first metal and the first capping layer. The second capping layer is selectively removed. A second metal is deposited on the first epitaxial feature and over the second epitaxial feature. A second silicide layer is formed from the second metal and the first epitaxial feature. |
| US11515214B2 |
Threshold voltage adjustment by inner spacer material selection
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming first recesses in a first stack of alternating sacrificial layers and channel layers. A first inner spacer sub-layer is formed in the first recesses from a first dielectric material. A second inner spacer sub-layer is formed in the first recesses from a second dielectric material, different from the first dielectric material. The sacrificial layers and the first inner spacer sub-layer are replaced with a gate stack in contact with the second inner spacer sub-layer. |
| US11515209B2 |
Methods and apparatus for scribe seal structures
An example integrated circuit die includes: lower level conductor layers, lower level insulator layers between the lower level conductor layers, lower level vias extending vertically through the lower level insulator layers, upper level conductor layers overlying the lower level conductor layers, upper level insulator layers between and surrounding the upper level conductor layers, upper level vias; at least two scribe seals arranged to form a vertical barrier extending vertically from the semiconductor substrate to a passivation layer at an upper surface of the integrated circuit die; and at least one opening extending vertically through one of the at least two scribe seals and extending through: the upper level conductor layers, the upper level via layers, the lower level conductor layers, and the lower level via layers. |
| US11515208B2 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor apparatus
A semiconductor device that comprises a substrate with a primary surface and a secondary surface opposite to the primary surface. The primary surface provides a semiconductor active device. The semiconductor device includes a base metal layer deposited on the secondary surface and within the substrate via in which a vacancy is formed, and an additional metal layer on the base metal layer, the additional metal layer having different wettability against a solder as compared to the base metal layer whereby the solder is contactable by the base metal layer and repelled by the additional metal layer. The semiconductor device is die-bonded on the assembly substrate by interposing the solder between the secondary surface and the assembly substrate. The base metal layer in a portion that excepts the substrate via and a periphery of the substrate via by partly removing the additional metal layer is in contact with the solder. |
| US11515206B2 |
Semiconductor structure with doped via plug
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a gate structure over a fin structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a source/drain structure in the fin structure and adjacent to the gate structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a first contact plug over the source/drain structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a first via plug over the first contact plug. The semiconductor structure also includes a dielectric layer surrounding the first via plug. The first via plug includes a first group IV element and the dielectric layer includes the first group IV element and a second group IV element. |
| US11515205B2 |
Conductive structures for contacting a top electrode of an embedded memory device and methods of making such contact structures on an IC product
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming at least one first layer of insulating material above an upper surface of a top electrode of a memory cell, forming a patterned etch stop layer above the at least one first layer of insulating material, wherein the patterned etch stop layer has an opening that is positioned vertically above at least a portion of the upper surface of the top electrode and forming at least one second layer of insulating material above an upper surface of the etch stop layer. The method also includes forming a conductive contact opening that extends through the etch stop layer to expose at least a portion of the upper surface of the top electrode and forming a conductive contact structure in the conductive contact opening, wherein the conductive contact structure is conductively coupled to the upper surface of the top electrode. |
| US11515204B2 |
Methods for forming conductive vias, and associated devices and systems
Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices, and associated systems and devices, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an opening in an electrically insulative material at least partially over a first electrically conductive feature and a second electrically conductive feature. The method can further include forming a ring of electrically conductive material around a sidewall of the insulative material defining the opening, wherein the ring of electrically conductive material includes (a) a first via portion over the first electrically conductive feature, (b) a second via portion over the second electrically conductive feature, and (c) connecting portions extending between the first and second via portions. Finally, the method can include removing the connecting portions of the ring of electrically conductive material to electrically isolate the first via portion from the second via portion. |
| US11515202B2 |
3D IC method and device
A method of three-dimensionally integrating elements such as singulated die or wafers and an integrated structure having connected elements such as singulated dies or wafers. Either or both of the die and wafer may have semiconductor devices formed therein. A first element having a first contact structure is bonded to a second element having a second contact structure. First and second contact structures can be exposed at bonding and electrically interconnected as a result of the bonding. A via may be etched and filled after bonding to expose and form an electrical interconnect to interconnected first and second contact structures and provide electrical access to this interconnect from a surface. |
| US11515201B2 |
Integrated circuit device including air gaps and method of manufacturing the same
An integrated circuit device according to the inventive concepts includes lower wiring structures formed on a substrate, an air gap arranged between the lower wiring structures, a capping layer covering an upper surface of the air gap, an etch stop layer conformally covering an upper surfaces of the lower wiring structures and the capping layer and having a protrusion and recess structure, an insulating layer covering the etch stop layer, and an upper wiring structure penetrating the insulating layer and connected to the upper surface of the lower wiring structure not covered with the etch stop layer, wherein the upper wiring structure covers a portion of an upper surface of the capping layer, and a level of the upper surface of the capping layer is higher than a level of the upper surface of the lower wiring structures. |
| US11515200B2 |
Selective tungsten deposition within trench structures
Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods which reduce or eliminate lateral growth of a selective tungsten layer. Further embodiments provide an integrated clean and deposition method which improves the selectivity of selectively deposited tungsten on trench structures. Additional embodiments provide methods for forming a more uniform and selective bottom-up gap fill for trench structures with improved film properties. |
| US11515198B2 |
Semiconductor constructions comprising dielectric material, and methods of forming dielectric fill within openings extending into semiconductor constructions
Some embodiments include a semiconductor construction which has one or more openings extending into a substrate. The openings are at least partially filled with dielectric material comprising silicon, oxygen and carbon. The carbon is present to a concentration within a range of from about 3 atomic percent to about 20 atomic percent. Some embodiments include a method of providing dielectric fill across a semiconductor construction having an opening extending therein. The semiconductor construction has an upper surface proximate the opening. The method includes forming photopatternable dielectric material within the opening and across the upper surface, and exposing the photopatternable dielectric material to patterned actinic radiation. Subsequently, the photopatternable dielectric material is developed to pattern the photopatternable dielectric material into a first dielectric structure which at least partially fills the opening, and to remove the photopatternable dielectric material from over the upper surface. |
| US11515196B1 |
Methods for etching a semiconductor structure and for conditioning a processing reactor
Methods for etching a semiconductor structure and for conditioning a processing reactor in which a single semiconductor structure is treated are disclosed. An engineered polycrystalline silicon surface layer is deposited on a susceptor which supports the semiconductor structure. The polycrystalline silicon surface layer may be engineered by controlling the temperature at which the layer is deposited, by grooving the polycrystalline silicon surface layer or by controlling the thickness of the polycrystalline silicon surface layer. |
| US11515192B2 |
Sample holder
A sample holder includes: a base body including a ceramic material; a support body including a metal material; a first joining layer which joins a lower face of the base body and an upper face of the support body together; a first through hole extending from a lower face of the support body through the first joining layer to the upper face of the base body, a part of the first through hole located within the base body being at least partly narrower than a part of the first through hole located within the support body and a part of the first through hole located within the first joining layer; and a porous member located inside the first through hole and joined to the lower face of the base body via a second joining layer. |
| US11515190B2 |
Thermal diffuser for a semiconductor wafer holder
An electrostatic chuck is formed by depositing a diffuser layer onto an electrostatic puck and removing areas of the diffuser layer to form discrete diffuser segments separated by gaps. The discrete diffuser segments may define continuous concentric rings, discontinuous concentric rings, or a combination of continuous concentric rings and discontinuous concentric rings. The discrete diffuser segments are separated from each other by forming at least one trench in the diffuser layer. The trench may extend partially through the diffuser layer, completely through the diffuser layer to the electrostatic puck, or have a first portion that extends partially through the diffuser layer and a second portion that extends completely through the diffuser layer. Also, the trench can have a constant width or have a variable width. |
| US11515188B2 |
Wafer boat handling device, vertical batch furnace and method
Wafer boat handling device, configured to be positioned under a process chamber of a vertical batch furnace, and comprising a rotatable table comprising a first and a second wafer boat support surface. Each wafer boat support surface is configured for supporting a wafer boat. The rotatable table is rotatable by an actuator to rotate both the first and the second wafer support surfaces to a load/receive position in which the wafer boat handling device is configured to load a wafer boat vertically from the rotatable table into the process chamber and to receive the wafer boat from the process chamber onto the rotatable table, a cooldown position in which the wafer boat handling device is configured to cool down a wafer boat, and a transfer position for transferring wafers to and/or from the wafer boat. |
| US11515184B2 |
Method for determining a surface temperature
Siemens process rod growth is controlled by measuring rod diameter by a measuring system A and measuring rod temperature by a measuring system B, the two measuring systems located at different positions outside the reactor. |
| US11515183B2 |
Substrate processing system
A substrate processing system includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a cooling passage. The first chamber has therein a space for processing a substrate transferred from a first transfer chamber maintained in a vacuum atmosphere. The second chamber is disposed below the first chamber to be vertically aligned with the first chamber and configured to communicate with the first transfer chamber and a second transfer chamber maintained in an atmospheric atmosphere. The second chamber has substantially the same footprint as a footprint of the first chamber. Further, a cooling passage is disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber and configured to allow a coolant to flow therethrough. |
| US11515176B2 |
Thermally controlled lid stack components
Exemplary substrate processing systems may include chamber body defining a transfer region. The systems may include a lid plate seated on the chamber body. The lid plate may define a first plurality of apertures through the lid plate and a second plurality of apertures through the lid plate. The systems may include a plurality of lid stacks equal to a number of apertures of the first plurality of apertures defined through the lid plate. Each lid stack of the plurality of lid stacks may include a choke plate seated on the lid plate along a first surface of the choke plate. The choke plate may define a first aperture axially aligned with an associated aperture of the first plurality of apertures. The choke plate may define a second aperture axially aligned with an associated aperture of the second plurality of apertures. |
| US11515174B2 |
Semiconductor devices with package-level compartmental shielding and associated systems and methods
A mold chase for packaging a compartmentally shielded multifunctional semiconductor is provided. The mold chase generally includes a first cavity and a second cavity separated by a trench plate positioned between a first component and a second component of the multifunctional semiconductor between which a compartmental shield is required. The mold chase is lowered into a molding position over the multifunctional semiconductor and a molding material is injected through an inlet sprue into the first and second cavities to surround the first and second components, respectively. After the molding material is cured, the mold chase is removed and an open trench is formed in the cured molding material by the trench plate. The open trench is filled with a conductive material to form the compartmental shield. A conformal shield may be added to cover the package. |
| US11515173B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing
Interconnect devices, packaged semiconductor devices and methods are disclosed herein that are directed towards embedding a local silicon interconnect (LSI) device and through substrate vias (TSVs) into system on integrated substrate (SoIS) technology with a compact package structure. The LSI device may be embedded into SoIS technology with through substrate via integration to provide die-to-die FL connection arrangement for super large integrated Fan-Out (InFO) for SBT technology in a SoIS device. Furthermore, the TSV connection layer may be formed using lithographic or photoresist-defined vias to provide eLSI P/G out to a ball-grid-array (BGA) connection interface. |
| US11515171B2 |
Methods and apparatus for temperature modification and reduction of contamination in bonding stacked microelectronic devices
This patent application relates to methods and apparatus for temperature modification and reduction of contamination in bonding stacked microelectronic devices with heat applied from a bond head of a thermocompression bonding tool. The stack is substantially enclosed within a skirt carried by the bond head to reduce heat loss and contaminants from the stack, and heat may be added from the skirt. |
| US11515168B2 |
Capacitively coupled plasma etching apparatus
Disclosed is a capacitively coupled plasma etching apparatus, wherein an electrically conductive supporting rod where a lower electrode is fixed is connected to driving means, the driving means driving the electrically conductive support rod to move axially; besides, the lower electrode is fixed to the bottom of a chamber body via a retractable sealing part, causing the upper surface of the lower electrode to be hermetically sealed in an accommodation space in the chamber body; an electrical connection part is connected on the chamber body; the radio frequency current in the chamber body returns, via the electrical connection part, to the loop end of a radio frequency matcher. In this way, the lower electrode is fixed on the chamber body via the retractable sealing part, such that when the lower electrode is driven by the driving means to move up/down, the chamber body does not move along with it, and the radio frequency loop in the chamber body is in a steady state, thereby achieving stability of the radio frequency loop while implementing adjustability of the plate distance. |
| US11515164B2 |
Integrated photonic device manufacturing method
A photonic device manufacturing method, including a step of transfer, onto a same surface of a photonic circuit previously formed inside and on top of a first substrate, of at least a first die made up of a III-V semiconductor material and of at least a second die made up of silicon nitride, the method further including a step of forming of photonic components in said at least one first and at least one second dies. |
| US11515163B2 |
Low temperature graphene growth
Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include delivering a carbon-containing precursor and a hydrogen-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include generating a plasma of the carbon-containing precursor and the hydrogen-containing precursor within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include forming a layer of graphene on a substrate positioned within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The substrate may be maintained at a temperature below or about 600° C. The methods may include halting flow of the carbon-containing precursor while maintaining the plasma with the hydrogen-containing precursor. |
| US11515157B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A method for fabricating a capacitor includes forming a first electrode, forming a dielectric layer stack on the first electrode, the dielectric layer stack including an initial hafnium oxide layer and a seed layer having a doping layer embedded therein, forming a thermal source layer on the dielectric layer stack to crystallize the initial hafnium oxide into tetragonal hafnium oxide, and forming a second electrode on the thermal source layer. |
| US11515153B2 |
Film forming apparatus and film forming method
A method of forming a silicon nitride film on a substrate having a recess pattern formed in a surface thereof, includes: forming the silicon nitride film in conformity to the surface of the substrate by supplying each of a raw material gas containing silicon and a nitriding gas for nitriding the raw material gas into a processing container in which the substrate is accommodated; shrinking the silicon nitride film such that a thickness thereof is reduced from a bottom side toward an upper side of the recess pattern by supplying a plasmarized shaping gas for shaping the silicon nitride film to the substrate in a state where the supply of the raw material gas containing silicon into the processing container is stopped; and burying the silicon nitride film in the recess pattern by alternately and repeatedly performing the forming the silicon nitride film and the shrinking the silicon nitride film. |
| US11515152B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and method of processing substrate
There is provided a technique that includes forming a film on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: (a) supplying a precursor gas to the substrate in a process container of a substrate processing apparatus via a first pipe made of metal; (b) supplying an oxygen-containing gas to the substrate in the process container via a second pipe made of metal, wherein a fluorine-containing layer is continuously formed on an inner surface of the second pipe; and (c) supplying a nitrogen-and-hydrogen-containing gas to the substrate in the process container via the second pipe. |
| US11515144B2 |
In-situ film annealing with spatial atomic layer deposition
Methods for filling the gap of a semiconductor feature comprising exposure of a substrate surface to a precursor and reactant and an anneal environment to decrease the wet etch rate ratio of the deposited film and fill the gap. |
| US11515143B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, recording medium, and method of processing substrate
There is provided a technique that includes (a) forming a first film having a first thickness on an underlayer by supplying a first process gas not including oxidizing gas to a substrate, wherein the first film contains silicon, carbon, and nitrogen and does not contain oxygen, and the underlayer is exposed on a surface of the substrate and is at least one selected from the group of a conductive metal-element-containing film and a nitride film; and (b) forming a second film having a second thickness larger than the first thickness on the first film by supplying a second process gas including oxidizing gas to the substrate, wherein the second film contains silicon, oxygen, and nitrogen, and wherein in (b), oxygen atoms derived from the oxidizing gas and diffuse from a surface of the first film toward the underlayer are absorbed by the first film and the first film is modified. |
| US11515139B2 |
Method for determining a parameter to perform a mass analysis of sample ions with an ion trapping mass analyser
A method for determining a compensation factor parameter, c, for controlling an amount of ions ionised that are injected from an ion storage unit into mass analyser, where c is an adjustment factor that is applied to optimized injection times that are based on an optimized visible charge of a reference sample, the method comprising: detecting at least one mass spectrum for at least one amount of injected ions; determining from the at least one detected mass spectrum, a slope, s(sample), of a linear correlation of a relative m/z shift with visible total charge Qv of detected mass spectra; determining the compensation factor c as c=s(reference)/s(sample) where s(reference) is the slope of a linear correlation between reference-sample relative m/z shift values and reference-sample visible charge values determined from a plurality of mass spectra detected from a plurality of respective pre-selected amounts of a clean reference sample. |
| US11515131B2 |
System for focused deposition of atomic vapors
A thin-film system comprising a microplasma region where sputtered particles are formed, a power supply that supplies power to the microplasma region, gas flow hardware to regulate flow of gas to the microplasma region, a deposition nozzle that forms a thin film on a substrate and a supply line for supplying sputtered particles to the deposition nozzle, wherein the microplasma region is decoupled from the deposition nozzle. |
| US11515130B2 |
Fast response pedestal assembly for selective preclean
Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to an improved substrate support pedestal assembly. In one implementation, the substrate support pedestal assembly includes a shaft. The substrate support pedestal assembly further includes a substrate support pedestal, mechanically coupled to the shaft. The substrate support pedestal comprises substrate support plate coated on a top surface with a ceramic material. |
| US11515128B2 |
Confinement ring with extended life
A confinement ring for a substrate processing system includes a lower wall, an outer wall, and an upper wall defining a plasma region within the confinement ring. A first plurality of slots is formed within the lower wall. The first plurality of slots provides fluid communication between the plasma region within the confinement ring and an environment external to the confinement ring. A recess is defined in a lower surface of the lower wall. A lower ring is arranged within the recess of the lower surface. The lower ring includes a second plurality of slots that provides fluid communication between the plasma region within the confinement ring and an environment external to the confinement ring via the first plurality of slots. |
| US11515124B2 |
Showerhead faceplate having flow apertures configured for hollow cathode discharge suppression
A faceplate of a showerhead has a bottom side that faces a plasma generation region and a top side that faces a plenum into which a process gas is supplied during operation of a substrate processing system. The faceplate includes apertures formed through the bottom side and openings formed through the top side. Each of the apertures is formed to extend through a portion of an overall thickness of the faceplate to intersect with at least one of the openings to form a corresponding flow path for process gas through the faceplate. Each of the apertures has a cross-section that has a hollow cathode discharge suppression dimension in at least one direction. Each of the openings has a cross-section that has a smallest cross-sectional dimension that is greater than the hollow cathode discharge suppression dimension. |
| US11515119B2 |
Plasma processing device
The present invention provides a plasma processing device including a vacuum container that has controllable internal pressure, gas supply means, an electrode that is provided in the vacuum container and has an upper surface on which a substrate is placed, and an antenna that is arranged to face the electrode to form inductive coupling, in which the antenna that is configured to form the inductive coupling includes one end connected to a high-frequency power source via a matching circuit, and the other end that is an open end, a length of the antenna is less than ½λ of a wavelength (λ) of an RF frequency, an impedance adjustment circuit connected in parallel to the antenna is connected to an RF feeding side of the antenna, and a reactance component of a combined impedance by the impedance adjustment circuit is adjustable from a capacitive load to an inductive load with respect to the RF frequency supplied to the antenna. |
| US11515112B2 |
Electromagnetic relay
An electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnet unit, an armature supported so as to be pivotable relative to a yoke by a hinge spring, a contact including a first contact and a second contact, which can switch, in accordance with pivoting of the armature, between a closed contact state and an open contact state, an elastic member which elastically deforms in accordance with pivoting of the armature, and applies a contact force between the first contact and the second contact in the closed contact state, and a magnet which generates an attractive force for retaining the armature in an open contact position corresponding to the open contact state, wherein the armature is retained in the open contact position by a resultant force of a restoring force applied to the armature by the hinge springe, and the attractive force of the magnet. |
| US11515110B2 |
Nozzle for high or medium voltage circuit breaker
A gas-insulated high or medium voltage circuit breaker comprising: a first arcing contact and a second arcing contact, wherein at least one of the two arcing contact is axially movable along a switching axis, wherein during a breaking operation, an arc between the first arcing contact and the second arcing contact is formed in a arcing region; a buffer housing defining a pressurizing volume; a nozzle arranged at a nozzle side of the pressurizing volume, the nozzle defining a channel connected to the pressurizing volume and directed to the arcing region, for blowing an arc extinguishing gas towards the arcing region during the breaking operation, the nozzle comprising a nozzle front face facing towards the interior of the pressurizing volume. |
| US11515104B2 |
Microswitch and operating device
A microswitch includes a contact chamber that accommodates a contact mechanism that opens and closes an electrical circuit; an enclosure that accommodates the contact chamber; and a pressing component that accepts a pressure external to the enclosure. The pressing component may include an insertion part that is inserted into an insertion hole in the contact chamber and acts on the contact mechanism, the insertion part receiving a pressure external thereto and moving from a first side that is outward of the enclosure to a second side that is inward of the enclosure. The pressing component may include a shielding part that shields the insertion hole from the contact chamber side, the shielding part being larger than the insertion hole in a direction orthogonal to an insertion direction to block the insertion hole. |
| US11515102B2 |
Safety shutter of withdrawable air circuit breaker
A safety shutter of the present disclosure comprises: a base unit; a shutter unit; and a cam unit. The base unit is coupled to a cradle of an air circuit breaker, and a terminal connected to a main circuit passes through the base unit. The shutter unit is coupled to the base unit so as to be spaced apart at a predetermined interval, and accommodates the terminal in the space between the shutter unit and the base unit. The cam unit extends from the base unit and penetrates the shutter unit. The shutter unit deactivates insulation by exposing the terminal in the direction of the air circuit breaker when the air circuit breaker is inserted in the direction of the base unit. |
| US11515101B2 |
Shape memory alloy actuated switch
A shape-memory alloy actuated switch (SMAAS) is provided that enables the stable switching of two separate circuits. The presently disclosed SMAAS includes a substrate, one or more electrical contacts attached to the substrate for connecting to load circuits, and one or more electrically conductive elements for selectively connecting the one or more electrical contacts. The disclosed SMAAS also includes one or more shape-memory alloy actuators attached to the substrate. The one or more shape-memory alloy actuators are configured to move the one or more electrically conductive elements. The shape-memory alloy actuators are self-heated by passing current through the shape-memory alloy material. The disclosed SMAAS may also include electrical contacts to connect an external control current to the shape-memory alloy material. In some examples, the provided SMAAS includes one or more retention mechanisms to prevent movement of the electrically conductive elements after actuation. |
| US11515099B2 |
Graphene and glassy carbon meta-material, microfabrication method, and energy storage device
A meta-material is disclosed that includes a first layer composed of graphene, and one or more additional layers, each composed of glassy carbon or graphene. A method of producing an engineered material includes depositing a graphene precursor on a substrate, pyrolyzing the graphene precursor to allow the formation of graphene, depositing a glassy carbon precursor the graphene, pyrolyzing to allow the formation of glassy carbon from the glassy carbon precursor, depositing a graphene precursor on the glassy carbon, and pyrolyzing the graphene precursor to allow the formation of graphene. |
| US11515093B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor and mounting structure of the multilayer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including stacked dielectric layers and stacked internal electrode layers, and external electrodes respectively connected to the internal electrode layers. The external electrodes each include a lower plated layer and a Pd-plated layer on the lower plated layer. Recesses are provided on a surface of the Pd-plated layer and include first recesses each having a circle equivalent diameter of an opening of about 0.5 μm or more and about 4 μm or less and second recesses each having a circle equivalent diameter of an opening of about 10 μm or more and about 22 μm or less. The first recesses are greater in number than the second recesses. The second recesses and the first recesses are in a mixed state. |
| US11515092B2 |
Multilayer electronic component
A multilayer electronic component that includes a plurality of stacked dielectric layers, each of the plurality of stacked dielectric layers having a plurality of crystal grains, at least some of the plurality of crystal grains having a trap portion therein, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ni, Cu, Pt, Sn, Pd and Ag is present locally in the trap portion; and a plurality of internal electrode layers arranged between adjacent dielectric layers of the plurality of stacked dielectric layers. |
| US11515088B2 |
Onboard power source device
An onboard power supply device includes capacitors, a holder holding the capacitors, a mounting board having the capacitors mounted thereon and having the holder fixed thereto, and a heat-generating component mounted on the mounting board. Each of the capacitors includes a capacitor body and a lead terminal extending from the capacitor body. The holder includes a base part, first holding parts bundled by the base part and holding the capacitors, second holding parts each connected to a corresponding one of the first holding parts, and a fixing part extending from an outer edge of the base part toward the mounting board and fixed to the mounting board. The capacitor body of each of the capacitors is held by a corresponding one of the first holding parts. The lead terminal of each of the capacitors is held by a corresponding one of the second holding parts. The mounting board has a through-hole therein through which the lead terminal passes. The through-hole is connected to the lead terminal. The corresponding one of the second holding parts has a holding through-hole therein extending along a through-axis coinciding with the through-hole. An inner wall of the holding through-hole contacts the lead terminal. This onboard power supply device has a small size. |
| US11515087B2 |
Method of manufacturing winding-type electronic component
A method of manufacturing a winding-type electronic component using stranded wires which can suppress a disconnection of a winding when a plurality of windings is twisted. The method of manufacturing a winding-type electronic component includes: a preparation step of allowing a chuck to hold a core having a winding core portion (14) and flange portions; a first step of fixing a portion of each of windings supplied from nozzles (N1, N2) to the flange portion; and a second step of twisting the windings by rotating the chuck. |
| US11515080B2 |
Transformer, coil unit and electronic power apparatus
A transformer includes a primary coil unit including a primary winding, a first insulating portion and a shielding layer, wherein the first insulating portion wraps the primary winding, the shielding layer covers an outer surface of the first insulating portion, the shielding layer includes an opening, and a part of the first insulating portion is exposed at the opening; an outgoing wire terminal in the opening and having a first portion and a second portion connected with each other, the first portion coupled to the primary winding and wrapped by the first insulating portion, the second portion being exposed out of the first insulating portion; a connecting wire having a first end connected to the second portion of the outgoing wire terminal; and an insulating sleeve partially wrapping the connecting wire, and a second end of the connecting wire being exposed out of the insulating sleeve, (FIG. 17). |
| US11515078B2 |
Harmonics filters using semi non-magnetic bobbins
Disclosed are semi non-magnetic bobbins for use in core reactors, and core reactors that include the semi non-magnetic bobbins. The semi non-magnetic bobbins are made of a non-metallic material and provide core reactors that can withstand high temperatures and at the same time avoid eddy current effects. The disclosed semi non-metallically permeable bobbins also do not adversely affect electrical power quality and save power and can be used to capture harmonics currents. When properly designed and arranged can be used to provide electromagnetic induction heaters using harmonics currents imported from an electrical power system as the working source of heat and provide a zero-cost heating process. |
| US11515074B2 |
Magnetic base body, coil component, and electronic device
A magnetic base body comprises multiple metal magnetic grains and bonding parts for bonding the multiple metal magnetic grains, wherein the bonding parts are constituted by an amorphous mixture containing carbon and an oxide of at least one element selected from silicon, aluminum, chromium, magnesium, titanium, and zirconium. A coil component using the magnetic base body can improve mechanical strength while ensuring insulation reliability. |
| US11515072B2 |
Inductor device
An inductor device includes a first inductor unit and a second inductor unit. The first inductor unit includes a first side to a fourth side, a first wire, and a first input terminal. The first wire is winded to form a plurality of circles. The first wire is winded in an interlaced manner at one of the first to fourth sides of the first inductor unit. The first input terminal is disposed on one of the first to fourth sides. The second inductor unit includes a fifth side to an eighth side, a second wire, and a second input terminal. The second wire is winded to form a plurality of circles. The second wire is winded in an interlaced manner at one of the fifth to eighth sides of the second inductor unit. The second input terminal is disposed on one of the fifth to eighth sides. |
| US11515071B2 |
Drum core and wire coil component
A drum core includes a core portion that extends in an axial direction, first and second flange portions respectively disposed at first and second ends of the core portion in the axial direction, and first and second terminal electrodes respectively disposed at the first and second flange portions. The first flange portion includes a bottom surface that is substantially parallel to the axial direction and on which the first terminal electrode is disposed, an outer end surface that is substantially perpendicular to the axial direction and that faces outward away from the core portion, and a first ridge portion and a second ridge portion respectively disposed at a first end and a second end of the outer end surface in a width direction substantially parallel to the bottom surface and the outer end surface, and the first ridge portion and the second ridge portion have different shapes. |
| US11515068B2 |
Exciter
An exciter includes a first yoke having a first accommodation space with a first open end, a second yoke having a second accommodation space with a second open end which faces the first open end, the second open end being spaced from the first open end in a vibration direction. The exciter further includes a first magnetic member accommodated in the first accommodation space, a magnetic core and a coil accommodated in the second accommodation space, the coil wound around the magnetic core, a second magnetic member accommodated in the second accommodation space and located at outside of the coil, and a copper tube wound around the magnetic core and sandwiched between the magnetic core and the coil. The copper tube is capable of suppressing the high frequency impedance of the coil and therefore improves the high frequency performance and the reliability of the exciter. |
| US11515067B2 |
Two-terminal active inductor device
An active two-terminal inductor device with a controllable inducitance based on an inductance value input L_I. A processor system PRS executes an algorithm which controls a power converter PCV with controllable electric switches connected to the two external terminals A, B along with a fixed value inductor component L1. Based on sampling of at least a voltage or a current in connection with the inductor component L1, the algorithm controls the power converter PCV to provide a resulting inductance across the external terminals A, B which serves to match the inductance value input L_I. |
| US11515065B2 |
Electrical isolator
An isolator includes a first fluid-carrying member and a second fluid-carrying member; and a resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component located between the first and the second fluid-carrying member. The component conveys fluid flowing from the first fluid-carrying member to the second fluid-carrying member. The isolator further has a reinforcing composite encircling the first fluid-carrying member, the second fluid-carrying member and the component. The reinforcing composite having first fibers extending at an angle of between −30 degrees and +30 degrees to a longitudinal axis (A-A) of the resistive, semi-conductive or non-conductive component; second fibers interwoven with the first fibers and extending around the first fluid-carrying member, the second fluid-carrying member and the component at an angle of between +60 degrees and +90 degrees and/or between −60 degrees and −90 degrees to the longitudinal axis (A-A); and a resin. |
| US11515057B2 |
High optical transparent two-dimensional electronic conducting system and process for generating same
Hybrid transparent conducting materials are disclosed which combine a polycrystalline film and conductive nanostructures, in which the polycrystalline film is “percolation doped” with the conductive nanostructures. The polycrystalline film preferably is a single atomic layer thickness of polycrystalline graphene, and the conductive nanostructures preferably are silver nanowires. |
| US11515052B1 |
Reactor containment outer structural shell
A system of Structural Members that interconnect or attach to each other to create an Outer Structural Shell to strengthen and protect against failure of Reactor Containment/Shield Buildings and other concrete structures or supports such as pillars, columns and piers. When interconnected, the Structural Members are tensioned to create a protective Outer Structural Shell to contain and restrict degraded or cracked concrete from further cracking and eventual delamination, by applying a supportive compression force to outer concrete wall(s) and surfaces. |
| US11515051B2 |
Nuclear power plant
In view of above problems, an object of the invention is to provide a primary containment vessel venting system having a structure capable of continuously discharging vapor in a primary containment vessel out of the system and continuously reducing pressure of the primary containment vessel without discharging radioactive noble gases to the outside of the containment vessel and without using an enclosing vessel or a power source. In order to achieve the above object, an nuclear power plant of the invention includes a primary containment vessel which includes a reactor pressure vessel, a radioactive substance separation apparatus which is disposed inside the primary containment vessel and through which the radioactive noble gases do not permeate but vapor permeates, a vent pipe which is connected to the radioactive substance separation apparatus, and an exhaust tower which is connected to the vent pipe and discharges a gas, from which a radioactive substance is removed, to the outside. |
| US11515047B2 |
Computer implemented identification of modifiable attributes associated with phenotypic predispositions in a genetics platform
A method, software, database and system for attribute partner identification and social network based attribute analysis are presented in which attribute profiles associated with individuals can be compared and potential partners identified. Connections can be formed within social networks based on analysis of genetic and non-genetic data. Degrees of attribute separation (genetic and non-genetic) can be utilized to analyze relationships and to identify individuals who might benefit from being connected. |
| US11515044B1 |
System for administering a qualitative assessment using an automated verbal interface
Using artificial intelligence and data observed using sensors or imaging devices to prompt a patient to provide responses or perform actions and then observing the patient's responses to the prompts and performing an assessment resulting in a quantitative result. The quantitative result is then used to complete a clinical qualitative assessment of the patient. |
| US11515042B1 |
Method for generating a diagnosis model capable of diagnosing multi-cancer according to stratification information by using biomarker group-related value information, method for diagnosing multi-cancer by using the diagnosis model, and device using the same
A method for generating a diagnosis model capable of diagnosing multi-cancer is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) in response to acquiring training data including (i) stratification-related values, (ii) biomarker group-related value information and (iii) its corresponding Ground Truth cancer information, setting initial prediction values of a base classification model capable of classifying cancers for each of the stratification-related values; and (b) generating a first decision tree to a T-th decision tree by using its corresponding previous classification model, wherein the previous classification model has been updated by its corresponding previous iteration via a first iteration to a T-th iteration, and wherein the previous classification model represents the base classification model at the first iteration, to thereby generate the diagnosis model. |
| US11515040B2 |
Systems and methods for machine learning approaches to management of healthcare populations
A method for providing treatment recommendations for a patient to a physician is disclosed. The method includes receiving health information associated with the patient, determining a first risk score for the patient based on the health information using a trained predictor model, determining a second risk score for the patient based on the health information and at least one artificially closed care gap included in the health information using the predictor model, determining a predicted risk reduction score based on the first risk score and the second risk score, determining a patient classification based on the predicted risk reduction score, and outputting a report based on at least one of the first risk score, the second risk score, or the predicted risk reduction score. |
| US11515039B2 |
System and method for predicting survival time
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a method that predicts an individual survival survival time of a patient. The method includes obtaining clinical data associated with health factors of the patient. The method includes obtaining liquid biopsy data associated with one or more attributes of diseased cells within the patient. The method includes predicting or determining a survival time of the patient using a deep learning model based on the clinical data and the liquid biopsy data. The method includes providing or outputting the survival time. |
| US11515035B1 |
Automated device efficacy determination systems for health monitoring devices
A computer system includes memory configured to store a universal data curation platform including multiple device profiles each including multiple fields for storing received device attributes in a standardized format. A processor is configured to execute instructions that include registering a first monitor device of a first vendor with a first member, registering a second monitor device of the first vendor or a second vendor with the first member or a second member, and receiving streaming health data from the devices. The instructions include transforming and storing multiple data values sensed by the first and second monitor device into standardized format device attributes of device profiles corresponding to the first and second monitor devices, and supplying the stored standardized format device attributes to at least one data analysis engine to determine one or more health characteristics of at least one of the first member and the second member. |
| US11515034B2 |
Nurse call system
A nurse call system that enables a call for a nurse from anywhere in a hospital ward while a patient carries a mobile phone is provided. The nurse call system includes a plurality of patient mobile phones 10 are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to a controller 8 via a base station 12 as with nurse mobile phones 9, and each patient mobile phone 10 has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for recognizing a bed location of the patient carrying the patient mobile phone 10, thus enabling a nurse call operation for transmitting a call signal with the hospital room ID and the slave device ID added thereto, to the nurse call master device 7 and at least one of the nurse mobile phones 9, through a predetermined operation. |
| US11515031B2 |
Image processing apparatus, X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and image processing method
A medical image-processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to determine a position of a feature point of a device in a first X-ray image, and generate a superimposed image in which a 3D model expressing the device is superimposed on the first X-ray image or a second X-ray image that is acquired later than the first X-ray image. The processing circuitry is configured to superimpose the 3D model on the first X-ray image or the second X-ray image at a position based on the position of the feature point. |
| US11515027B2 |
Cloud-connected ambulatory pump integration
Ambulatory medical devices, which includes ambulatory medicament pumps, and blood glucose control systems that provide therapy to a subject, such as blood glucose control, are disclosed. Disclosed systems and devices can implement one or more features that improve the user experience, such as prompting and/or facilitating the user to order additional infusion sets, sensors, and/or other components to facilitate treatment. |
| US11515026B2 |
System and method for digitally translating natural language prescription medication label to programmatically operable structure for use with smart pill containers
A smart pill container and system integrating the same, combined with a method for digitally translating natural language prescription medication into a programmatically operable structure and form for use by the smart pill container system, where the digital translation includes the abstraction of a prescription frequency characteristic into a number of “slots” and the abstraction of a prescription temporary characteristic by creating an array of “as of” date and value pairs, allowing for the building of a patient's prescription schedule, where the smart pill container has a number of pill wells for storing different doses of medication, and where based on the prescription schedule, an opening in the pill container provides at least one user with access to the medication stored in a particular one of the pill wells at a given dosing time, and where a platform associated with the pill container provides instructions for dosing such medication and monitors use of the pill container for compliance with the prescribed medical regimen. |
| US11515021B2 |
Method and system to analytically optimize telehealth practice-based billing processes and revenue while enabling regulatory compliance
A method for generating, by an artificial intelligence engine, a treatment plan and a billing sequence associated with the treatment plan is disclosed. The method includes receiving information pertaining to a patient. The information includes a medical diagnosis code of the patient. The method includes generating, based on the information, the treatment plan for the patient. The treatment plan includes instructions for the patient to follow. The method includes receiving a set of billing procedures associated with the instructions. The set of billing procedures includes rules pertaining to billing codes, timing, constraints, or some combination thereof. The method includes generating, based on the set of billing procedures, the billing sequence for at least a portion of the instructions. The billing sequence is tailored according to a certain parameter. The method includes transmitting the treatment plan and the billing sequence to a computing device. |
| US11515019B2 |
System and method for manufacturing custom nails
A system and method for manufacturing custom fit artificial nails includes a 3D surface scanning module and a 3D printing module and use thereof. A central processing module is connected to the 3D surface scanning module and the 3D printing module and performs: operating the 3D surface scanning module to obtain an image of a user's hands/feet; processing the image to create an input 3D model of nails of the user; generating an output 3D model corresponding to artificial nails matching dimensions of the user's nails according to the 3D input model; operating the 3D printing module to manufacture artificial nails according to the output 3D model; and generating medical data by correlating the identified features of the user's nails with known medical conditions, in order to diagnose a medical condition of the user which is known to exhibit the identified features as a symptom. Alternatively, or additionally, medicinal ingredient may be included in the artificial nail to treat the medical condition of the user. Embedded devices, sensors or an RFID chip may be integrated into the artificial nail. |
| US11515013B2 |
Method and system for in-silico optimization and design of electrolytes
Owing to complexity of the algorithms and tools very few attempts have been seen for usage of simulation methods in the development of new electrolytes. Moreover, the existing simulation methods focus on only one aspect of the electrolyte at a time and this limits accuracy of simulation results, and affects performance of electrolyte in real world, where multiple factors come into play simultaneously. The method disclosed provides method and system for in-silico optimization and design of electrolytes, enabling prediction of various properties of an electrolytic mixture of salts, solvents and various additives and its suitability for a given battery technology. The in-silico method shapes itself into an overall battery electrolyte property or component composition analyzer based on the user input. |
| US11515012B1 |
Method and apparatus for a pipelined DNA memory hierarchy
one embodiment of a memory stores information, including address bits, on DNA strands and provides access using a pipeline of tubes, where each tube selectively transfers half of the strands to the next tube based on probing of associated address bits. Transfers are controlled by logic relating to the state of the tubes: The pipeline may be initialized to start at a high-order target address, providing random access without enzymes, synthesizing probe molecules or PCR at access time. Thereafter, a processing unit gets fast access to sequentially addressed strands each cycle, for applications like executing machine language instructions or reading blocks of data from a file. Another embodiment with a compare unit allows low-order random access. Provided that addresses are encoded using single-stranded regions of DNA where probe molecules may hybridize, other information may use any DNA encoding. Electronic/electrochemical (electrowetting, nanopore, etc.) embodiments as well as biochemical embodiments are possible. |
| US11515010B2 |
Deep convolutional neural networks to predict variant pathogenicity using three-dimensional (3D) protein structures
The technology disclosed relates to determining pathogenicity of variants. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to generating amino acid-wise distance channels for a plurality of amino acids in a protein. Each of the amino acid-wise distance channels has voxel-wise distance values for voxels in a plurality of voxels. A tensor includes the amino acid-wise distance channels and at least an alternative allele of the protein expressed by a variant. A deep convolutional neural network determines a pathogenicity of the variant based at least in part on processing the tensor. The technology disclosed further augments the tensor with supplemental information like a reference allele of the protein, evolutionary conservation data about the protein, annotation data about the protein, and structure confidence data about the protein. |
| US11515008B2 |
Methods and systems for determining personalized t'herapies
A method for generating an immune score, the method comprising the steps of: (i) determining a qualitative and/or quantitative assessment of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in a sample; (ii) determining a qualitative and/or quantitative assessment of T-cell receptor signaling in the sample; (iii) determining a qualitative and/or quantitative assessment of mutation burden in the sample; (iv) generating, using a predictive algorithm, an immune score based on the determined qualitative and/or quantitative assessment of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, the determined qualitative and/or quantitative assessment of T-cell receptor signaling, and the determined qualitative and/or quantitative assessment of mutation burden. |
| US11515007B2 |
In silico process for selecting protein formulation excipients
The invention relates to an in silico screening method to identify candidate excipients for reducing aggregation of a protein in a formulation. The method combines computational molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations to identify sites on a protein where non-specific self-interaction and interaction of different test excipients may occur, determine the relative binding energies of such interactions, and select one or more test excipients that meet specified interaction criteria for use as candidate excipients in empirical screening studies. |
| US11515005B2 |
Interactive-aware clustering of stable states
Analysis of genetic disease progression may be provided. Data about a set of molecular status may be received. A dynamic prediction model of molecular interactions may be provided over time. The molecular statuses of the set over time may be determined using the dynamic prediction model. The determined molecular statuses may be clustered by applying an interaction-aware metric for the analysis of the genetic disease progression. |
| US11515003B2 |
Copy number alteration and reference genome mapping
Technology provided herein relates in part to methods, processes, machines and apparatuses for non-invasive assessment of genomic nucleic acid instability and genomic nucleic acid stability. The method comprises providing a set of genomic portions each coupled to a copy number alteration quantification for a test sample, wherein the genomic portions comprises portions of a reference genome to which sequence reads obtained for nucleic acid from a test sample obtained from the subject have been mapped, and the copy number alteration quantification coupled to each genomic portion has been determined from a quantification of sequence reads mapped to the genomic portion; and determining, by a computing device, presence or absence of genomic instability for the subject according to the copy number alteration quantifications coupled to the genomic portions. |
| US11515001B2 |
Systems and methods for genealogical graphing
Computer-implemented methods and systems for automatically generating a genealogical graph for an initial member and a target member are provided. An example system includes a memory and a processor that can operate to: receive an initial member identifier identifying the initial member and a target member identifier identifying the target member; retrieve, from the memory, a set of genealogical data for the initial member and a set of genealogical data for the target member; and determine whether a genealogical connection exists between the initial member and the target member. In response to determining the genealogical connection exists between the initial member and the target member, the processor can generate the genealogical graph to illustrate the determined genealogical connection and a subset of genealogical data from the set of genealogical data for the target member. |
| US11514996B2 |
Memory-based processors
A memory chip may include: a plurality of memory banks; a data storage configured to store access information indicative of access operations for one or more segments of the plurality of memory banks; and a refresh controller configured to perform a refresh operation of the one or more segments based, at least in part, on the stored access information. |
| US11514991B1 |
Program tail plane comparator for non-volatile memory structures
A method for detecting and isolating defective memory plane(s) of a non-volatile memory structure during a program verify operation, comprising: initiating, for each plane, a word line verify voltage level scan with a bit scan pass fail criterion and at a starting voltage located within an intended program threshold voltage distribution curve, incrementally decreasing the word line verify voltage by a predetermined offset until a specific condition of the scan is obtained, and storing the voltage at which the specific condition of the scan is obtained, wherein the stored voltage represents a voltage of an upper tail portion of an actual programmed threshold voltage distribution curve of the plane. The stored voltages of all of the memory planes of the structure are compared to determine which plane corresponds to the lowest stored voltage. A “fail” status is applied to the plane corresponding to the lowest stored voltage. |
| US11514987B2 |
Erasing memory
Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, might include applying a positive first voltage level to a first node selectively connected to a string of series-connected memory cells while applying a negative second voltage level to a control gate of a transistor connected between the first node and the string of series-connected memory cells, and increasing the voltage level applied to the first node to a third voltage level while increasing the voltage level applied to the control gate of the transistor to a fourth voltage level lower than the third voltage level and higher than the first voltage level. |
| US11514985B2 |
Spike current suppression in a memory array
Systems, methods, and apparatus related to spike current suppression in a memory array. In one approach, a memory device includes a memory array having a cross-point memory architecture. The memory array has access lines (e.g., word lines and/or bit lines) configured to access memory cells of the memory array. Each access line is split into left and right portions. Each portion is electrically connected to a single via, which a driver uses to generate a voltage on the access line. To reduce electrical discharge associated with current spikes, a first resistor is located between the left portion and the via, and a second resistor is located between the right portion and the via. |
| US11514982B2 |
Computation unit including an asymmetric ferroelectric device pair and methods of forming the same
A ferroelectric computation unit includes a first ferroelectric switching device that includes a first ferroelectric material portion and generates a digital output signal, and a second ferroelectric switching device that includes a second ferroelectric material portion and generates an analog output signal. An output node of one of the first ferroelectric switching device and the second ferroelectric switching device is electrically connected to a gate electrode of another of the first ferroelectric switching device and the second ferroelectric switching device to provide hybrid response characteristics of stochastic digital switching and analog switching. |
| US11514974B2 |
Memory device
A memory device includes a word line driver. The word line driver is coupled through word lines to an array of bit cells. The word line driver includes a first driving circuit, a second driving circuit and a modulating circuit. The first driving circuit and the second driving circuit are configured to select a word line. The modulating circuit is coupled through the selected word line to the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit, and is configured to modulate at least one signal transmitted through the selected word line. The first driving circuit and the second driving circuit are further configured to charge the selected word line to generate a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal at two positions of the selected word line. The first voltage signal is substantially the same as the second voltage signal. A method is also disclosed herein. |
| US11514973B2 |
Memory array with multiple power supply nodes and switch controllers for controlling power supply nodes for reliable write operation and method of operation
A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a cell array having memory cells; n word lines sequentially arranged and including a first word line, an n-th word line, and word lines interposed between the first word line and the n-th word line; bit lines; a first power node located adjacent to the first word line; a second power node located adjacent to the n-th word line; a first switch connected between the first power node and the cell array; a write driver located adjacent to the n-th word line and connected to the bit lines; and a switch controller configured to control the first switch to isolate the first power node from the memory cells during a write operation on memory cells connected to the first word line. |
| US11514972B2 |
Memory system, data processing system and method of operating the same
A data processing system may include a plurality of memory modules, a controller, a power supply and a plurality of switches. Each of the memory modules may include a plurality of pages. The controller may control operations of the memory modules. The power supply may provide the memory modules with a power. The switches may be arranged corresponding to each of the memory modules. The switches may be selectively driven in response to a switch drive signal from the controller. |
| US11514968B2 |
Charge leakage detection for memory system reliability
Methods, systems, and devices for charge leakage detection for memory system reliability are described. In accordance with examples as disclosed herein, a memory system may employ memory management techniques configured to identify precursors of charge leakage in a memory device, and take preventative action based on such identified precursors. For example, a memory system may be configured to perform a leakage detection evaluation for a memory array, which may include various biasing and evaluation operations to identify whether a leakage condition of the memory array may affect operational reliability. Based on such an evaluation, the memory device, or a host device in communication with the memory device, may take various preventative measures to avoid operational failures of the memory device or host device that may result from ongoing operation of a memory array associated with charge leakage, thereby improving reliability of the memory system. |
| US11514966B1 |
Non-linear polar material based multi-memory element bit-cell with multi-level storage
A high-density low voltage ferroelectric (or paraelectric) memory bit-cell that includes a planar ferroelectric or paraelectric capacitor. The memory bit-cell comprises 1T1C configuration, where a plate-line is parallel to a word-line, or the plate-line is parallel to a bit-line. The memory bit-cell can be 1TnC, where ‘n’ is a number. In a 1TnC bit-cell, the capacitors are vertically stacked allowing for multiple values to be stored in a single bit-cell. The memory bit-cell can be multi-element FE gain bit-cell. In a multi-element FE gain bit-cell, data sensing is done with signal amplified by a gain transistor in the bit-cell. As such, higher storage density is realized using multi-element FE gain bit-cells. In some examples, the 1T1C, 1TnC, and multi-element FE gain bit-cells are multi-level bit-cells. To realize multi-level bit-cells, the capacitor is placed in a partially switched polarization state by applying different voltage levels or different time pulse widths at the same voltage level. |
| US11514965B2 |
Resistive memory device
A resistive memory device is provided. The resistive memory device includes a bitline, a source line, a memory cell electrically connected to the bitline and the source line by a first switch, a first transistor electrically connected to the bitline, a second transistor electrically connected to the source line, a gate voltage generator configured to generate a first gate voltage that is provided to a gate electrode of the first transistor, and configured to generate a second gate voltage that is provided to a gate electrode of the second transistor and a second switch that provides the first and second gate voltages to the gate electrodes of the first and second transistors. |
| US11514958B2 |
Apparatus and method for operating source synchronous devices
Circuitry and methods of operating the same to strobe a DQ signal with a gated DQS signal are described. Some aspects are directed to a gating scheme to selectively pass a received strobe signal such as a DQS strobe signal based on a state of a drive enable (DE) signal in a drive circuit in the ATE, such that edges generated by the drive circuit are prevented from mistakenly strobing a received data signal such as a DQ signal. |
| US11514956B2 |
Sense amplifier sleep state for leakage savings without bias mismatch
A sense amplifier is biased to reduce leakage current equalize matched transistor bias during an idle state. A first read select transistor couples a true bit line and a sense amplifier true (SAT) signal line and a second read select transistor couples a complement bit line and a sense amplifier complement (SAC) signal line. The SAT and SAC signal lines are precharged during a precharge state. An equalization circuit shorts the SAT and SAC signal lines during the precharge state. A differential sense amplifier circuit for latching the memory cell value is coupled to the SAT signal line and the SAC signal line. The precharge circuit and the differential sense amplifier circuit are turned off during a sleep state to cause the SAT and SAC signal lines to float. A sleep circuit shorts the SAT and SAC signal lines during the sleep state. |
| US11514954B2 |
Variable resistance memory devices
An integrated circuit memory device includes a plurality of row selection transistors and a dummy row selection transistor, on a substrate. A plurality of word lines and a plurality of dummy word lines are also provided on the substrate. A plurality of memory cells are provided, which are electrically connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of word lines. A plurality of dummy memory cells are provided, which are electrically connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of dummy word lines. A first wiring structure is provided, which electrically connects a first one of the plurality of word lines to a first one of the plurality of row selection transistors, and a second wiring structure is provided, which electrically connects the plurality of dummy word lines together and to the dummy row selection transistor. |
| US11514949B2 |
Method and system for long term stitching of video data using a data processing unit
A method for processing video data is performed by a data processing unit (DPU). The method includes obtaining, by the DPU of an edge device, video data; processing the video data to obtain video data chunks and indexing attributes; generating retention and staging metadata based on the video data chunks and the video processing engine outcomes, and the retention and staging metadata specifies retention and staging information associated with the video data chunks; associating the retention and staging metadata with the video data chunks; and storing the retention and staging metadata and the video data chunks in appropriate storages based on the retention and staging metadata. |
| US11514948B1 |
Model-based dubbing to translate spoken audio in a video
Model-based dubbing techniques are implemented to generate a translated version of a source video. Spoken audio portions of a source video may be extracted and semantic graphs generated that represent the spoken audio portions. The semantic graphs may be used to produce translations of the spoken portions. A machine learning model may be implemented to generate replacement audio for the spoken portions using the translation of the spoken portion. A machine learning model may be implemented to generate modifications to facial image data for a speaker of the replacement audio. |
| US11514940B2 |
Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing device
The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which a difference (S0.5−S13.5) between a spacing S0.5 measured by optical interferometry regarding a surface of the magnetic layer under a pressing force of 0.5 atm after n-hexane cleaning and a spacing S13.5 measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the magnetic layer under a pressing force of 13.5 atm after n-hexane cleaning is equal to or smaller than 3.0 nm, and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including this magnetic recording medium. |
| US11514939B2 |
Split-actuator drive that coordinates timing of aggressor and victim for effective victim disturbance-feedforward
A victim feedforward signal is added to a microactuator control signal of the victim actuator in response to a voice-coil motor (VCM) control signal that is applied to the aggressor actuator, where the victim feedforward signal is configured to compensate for disturbances to a victim head caused by assertion of the aggressor VCM control signal. Each aggressor VCM control signal is asserted at a specific time by the aggressor actuator, for example in response to the aggressor head passing over a first servo wedge. A feedforward signal that compensates for the effect of the aggressor VCM control signal is then determined based on the aggressor VCM control signal, stored, and asserted via the victim microactuator at a predetermined time relative to when the aggressor VCM control signal is asserted. |
| US11514932B1 |
Soft bias shape anisotropy stabilization read head design and method of making same
The present disclosure generally relates to magnetic storage devices, such as magnetic tape drives, comprising a read head. The read head comprises a plurality of read sensors disposed between a lower shield having a first width in a stripe height direction and an upper shield. The plurality of read sensors comprise an antiferromagnetic layer and a free layer comprising a first layer and a second layer. A plurality of soft bias side shields disposed adjacent to and outwardly of the plurality of read sensors in a cross-track direction, each of the plurality of soft bias side shields having a second width in the stripe height direction less than the first width. Each of the plurality of soft bias side shields are spaced a first distance from the lower shield and a second distance from the upper shield, the first distance being substantially equal to the second distance. |
| US11514931B1 |
Magnetic head including main pole having top surface including first inclined portion, second inclined portion, and third inclined portion, and spin torque oscillator
A magnetic head includes a main pole, a trailing shield, and a spin torque oscillator. A top surface of the main pole includes a first inclined portion, a second inclined portion, and a third inclined portion arranged in order of closeness to a medium facing surface. Each of the first to third inclined portions has a front end closest to the medium facing surface and a rear end farthest from the medium facing surface. Each of the first to third inclined portions is inclined relative to the medium facing surface and a direction orthogonal to the medium facing surface so that its rear end is located forward relative to its front end in a direction of travel of a recording medium. |
| US11514927B2 |
System and method for multichannel speech detection
Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for speech detection. The method may include receiving a multichannel audio input that includes a set of audio signals from a set of audio channels in an audio detection array. The method may further include processing the multichannel audio input using a neural network classifier to generate a series of classification results in a series of time windows for the multichannel audio input. The neural network classifier includes a causal temporal convolutional network (TCN) configured to determine a classification result for each time window based on portions of the multichannel audio input in the corresponding time window and one or more time windows before the corresponding time window. The method may additionally include determining whether the multichannel audio input includes one or more speech segments in the series of time windows based on the series of classification results. |
| US11514925B2 |
Using a predictive model to automatically enhance audio having various audio quality issues
Operations of a method include receiving a request to enhance a new source audio. Responsive to the request, the new source audio is input into a prediction model that was previously trained. Training the prediction model includes providing a generative adversarial network including the prediction model and a discriminator. Training data is obtained including tuples of source audios and target audios, each tuple including a source audio and a corresponding target audio. During training, the prediction model generates predicted audios based on the source audios. Training further includes applying a loss function to the predicted audios and the target audios, where the loss function incorporates a combination of a spectrogram loss and an adversarial loss. The prediction model is updated to optimize that loss function. After training, based on the new source audio, the prediction model generates a new predicted audio as an enhanced version of the new source audio. |
| US11514924B2 |
Dynamic creation and insertion of content
In an aspect, during a presentation of a presentation material, viewers of the presentation material can be monitored. Based on the monitoring, new content can be determined for insertion into the presentation material. The new content can be automatically inserted to the presentation material in real time. In another aspect, during the presentation, a presenter of the presentation material can be monitored. The presenter's speech can be intercepted and analyzed to detect a level of confidence. Based on the detected level of confidence, the presenter's speech can be adjusted and the adjusted speech can be played back automatically, for example, in lieu of the presenter's original speech that is intercepted. |
| US11514921B2 |
Audio return channel data loopback
A system and method to process audio data received over the ARC or eARC interface of HDMI from audio sources are provided. A media device may receive compressed audio data in a number of data formats. The media device may convert between the audio formats provided by the audio sources and the audio formats supported by audio playback devices. The media device may inspect frames of audio data to determine if the frames are to be decoded. The frame may be decoded and subsequently encoded into the data formats supported by the audio playback devices. To reduce latency, the media device may enable a pass-through mode to bypass the decoding of the frames to allow the frames to be decoded at the audio playback devices. A bi-directional loopback application may route audio data received over the ARC or eARC interface from the audio sources to the audio playback devices. |
| US11514920B2 |
Method and system for determining speaker-user of voice-controllable device
There are disclosed methods and systems for determining a speaker of a set of registered users associated with a voice-controllable device. The method is executable by an electronic device configured to execute a Machine Learning Algorithm (MLA). The method comprises executing the MLA to determine a first probability parameter indicative of the speaker of the user utterance being one of the set of registered users; executing a user frequency analysis to generate, for each given one of the set of registered users, a second probability parameter the being an apriori frequency based probability; generating, for the electronic device, for each given one of the set of registered users an amalgamated probability based on the first probability and the second probability associated therewith; selecting the given one of the set of registered users as the speaker of the user utterance based on the amalgamated probability value. |
| US11514919B1 |
Voice synthesis for virtual agents
Techniques are described for generating a custom voice for a virtual agent. In one implementations, a method includes receiving information identifying a customer contacting a call center. The method includes selecting a voice for a virtual agent based on information about the customer. The method also includes assigning the voice to the virtual agent during communications with the customer. |
| US11514912B2 |
Systems and methods for enabling topic-based verbal interaction with a virtual assistant
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling verbal interaction with an NLUI application without relying on express wake terms. The NLUI application receives an audio input comprising a plurality of terms. In response to determining that none of the terms is an express wake term pre-programmed into the NLUI application, the NLUI application determines a topic for the plurality of terms. The NLUI application then determines whether the topic is within a plurality of topics for which a response should be generated. If the determined topic of the audio input is within the plurality of topics, the NLUI application generates a response to the audio input. |
| US11514910B2 |
Interactive system
A server is an interactive system that performs the interaction by performing a reverse question with respect to an input by the user and providing response content. An input acquisition unit and an answer generation unit constitute an interaction execution unit that repeatedly performs the interaction until a question sentence and an answer, which are the response content, satisfy a prescribed condition. Further, the stoppage determination execution unit performs control for stopping the interaction performed by the input acquisition unit and the answer generation unit based on the interaction state by the user or the other user. In a case where the interaction is stopped, the output unit provides the question sentence and the answer thereof at the time of stoppage to the communication terminal. |
| US11514902B2 |
Speech recognition method and apparatus therefor
A speech recognition apparatus and an operating method thereof which execute a mounted artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or machine learning algorithm to perform speech recognition and communicate with different electronic apparatuses and external servers in a 5G communication environment are disclosed. A speech recognition method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes determining a temporary pause for reception of a first utterance sentence in the middle of the reception of the first utterance sentence, outputting a speech recognition processing result of a second utterance sentence which is received after the temporary pause, separately from the first utterance sentence, determining a third utterance sentence which is received after outputting the speech recognition processing result of the second utterance sentence as an extension of the first utterance sentence, and outputting a speech recognition processing result of a fourth utterance sentence obtained by combining the first utterance sentence and the third utterance sentence. According to the present disclosure, a delay occurring in the middle of reception of uttering speech is recognized as an uncompleted utterance to be temporarily stored and a speech recognition processing result for an additional uttering speech received after the delay is provided and then uttering speech which is input again and the uttering speech before the delay are recognized as completed utterance and a speech recognition processing result is provided to improve the speech recognition processing performance. |
| US11514901B2 |
Anchored speech detection and speech recognition
A system configured to process speech commands may classify incoming audio as desired speech, undesired speech, or non-speech. Desired speech is speech that is from a same speaker as reference speech. The reference speech may be obtained from a configuration session or from a first portion of input speech that includes a wakeword. The reference speech may be encoded using a recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder to create a reference feature vector. The reference feature vector and incoming audio data may be processed by a trained neural network classifier to label the incoming audio data (for example, frame-by-frame) as to whether each frame is spoken by the same speaker as the reference speech. The labels may be passed to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component which may allow the ASR component to focus its processing on the desired speech. |
| US11514899B2 |
Using multiple languages during speech to text input
A method and apparatus for correcting a wrongly-translated word in a device employing speech recognition is provided herein. During operation, a device will use a second language to correct a wrongly-translated word that was wrongly translated using a first language. More particularly, after speech recognition is performed using the first language, when a user selects text to be corrected, the user will utter the speech again using the second language that differs from the first language. Both the first and the second language can be used by the device to determine a best translation of the speech. |
| US11514896B2 |
Interfacing with applications via dynamically updating natural language processing
Dynamic interfacing with applications is provided. For example, a system receives a first input audio signal. The system processes, via a natural language processing technique, the first input audio signal to identify an application. The system activates the application for execution on the client computing device. The application declares a function the application is configured to perform. The system modifies the natural language processing technique responsive to the function declared by the application. The system receives a second input audio signal. The system processes, via the modified natural language processing technique, the second input audio signal to detect one or more parameters. The system determines that the one or more parameters are compatible for input into an input field of the application. The system generates an action data structure for the application. The system inputs the action data structure into the application, which executes the action data structure. |
| US11514892B2 |
Audio-spectral-masking-deep-neural-network crowd search
A system includes a memory having instructions therein and at least one processor in communication with the memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to communicate, into a user device, a deep neural network comprising a predictive audio spectral mask. The at least one processor is also configured to execute the instructions to: generate data corresponding to ambient sound via a multi-microphone device; separate amplitude data and/or phase data from the data via the deep neural network comprising the predictive audio spectral mask; and determine, via the user device and based on the amplitude data and/or phase data, a location of origin of target speech relative to the user device. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to display, via the user device, the location of origin of the target speech relative to the user device. |
| US11514891B2 |
Named entity recognition method, named entity recognition equipment and medium
A named entity recognition method, a named entity recognition equipment and a medium are disclosed, the method including: acquiring a voice signal; extracting a voice feature vector in the voice signal; extracting, based on a literalness result after voice recognition is performed on the voice signal, a literalness feature vector in the literalness result; splicing the voice feature vector and the literalness feature vector to obtain a composite feature vector of each word in the voice signal; processing the composite feature vector of each word in the voice signal through a deep learning model to obtain a named entity recognition result. |
| US11514883B2 |
Active noise reduction system and method, and storage medium
An active noise reduction system and method, and a storage medium are provided. In the system, a first signal acquisition circuitry acquires an external noise signal at a noise cancellation spot, and transmits the acquired external noise signal to a noise control system including a first frequency nonlinear transformation circuitry, a first filter circuitry and an inverter. The first frequency nonlinear transformation circuitry receives the external noise signal, and expands at least one target frequency band of the external noise signal based on a frequency nonlinear transformation mapping function to generate a first transformed external noise signal, the first filter circuitry filters the first transformed external noise signal to generate a filtered external noise signal, and the inverter performs inversion on the filtered external noise signal to generate a noise cancellation signal; and the signal output circuitry receives and outputs the noise cancellation signal to cancel an actual noise. |
| US11514880B2 |
Cushioning element with tuned absorber
A cushioning element for use in a vehicle, for example in an aircraft, includes at least one tuned absorber embedded within the cushioning element. The tuned absorber is tuned to absorb noise at a predetermined frequency of at least 20 Hz. A method of providing noise absorption within a cabin of a vehicle includes determining a predetermined frequency of at least 20 Hz of an undesirable noise within the cabin, and configuring an internal structure of a cushioning element to define a tuned absorber tuned to absorb noise at the predetermined frequency, the cushioning element in use being located in the cabin. |
| US11514879B2 |
Sound absorbing apparatus and sound absorption structure
A sound absorbing apparatus includes a first member including at least one first opening portion for enabling Helmholtz resonance, and a second member that is on the first member, has a plate shape or a sheet shape, and is formed of a porous material. The second member includes at least one second opening portion overlapping one-to-one with the at least one first opening portion in planar view. A periphery of each of the at least one second opening portion coincides with or is located outside a periphery of each corresponding one of the at least one first opening portion in planar view. |
| US11514878B2 |
Helmholtz resonators with broadband capability
A method of using an acoustic resonator including receiving at a first stage of a resonator an incoming acoustic wave. The method further includes resonating the incoming wave with a flexible membrane, a taper of the flexible membrane, and a cavity of a first stage, thereby producing synergistic effect on a resulting acoustic resonance. Additionally, the method includes transforming an acoustic energy associated with the incoming acoustic wave into an elastic energy, wherein the elastic energy is channeled through the flexible membrane, thereby reducing an intensity of the incoming acoustic wave and resulting in a first reduced incoming acoustic wave. Further the method includes transferring the first reduced incoming acoustic wave through a hole of a neck of the flexible membrane. The method also includes transferring a first pressure wave caused by a perturbation in the flexible membrane into a second stage, thereby producing a second acoustic wave. |
| US11514877B2 |
System and methods for automatically generating a musical composition having audibly correct form
A generative composition system reduces existing musical artefacts to constituent elements termed “Form Atoms”. These Form Atoms may each be of varying length and have musical properties and associations that link together through Markov chains. To provide myriad new composition, a set of heuristics ensures that musical textures between concatenated musical sections follow a supplied and defined briefing narrative for the new composition whilst contiguous concatenated Form Atoms are also automatically selected to see that similarities in respective and identified attributes of musical textures for those musical sections are maintained to maintain good musical form. Within the composition work, chord spacing and control are practiced to maintain musical sense in the new composition and a primitive heuristics structure maintains pitch and permits key transformation. The system provides signal analysis and music generation by allowing emotional connotations to be specified and reproduced from cross-referenced Form-Atoms. |
| US11514875B1 |
Method for mitigating dizziness, electronic device, and computer readable medium
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for mitigating dizziness, an electronic device, and a computer readable medium. The method includes: providing a first visual content of a first reality mode in a field of view; and adding a specific mask to the first visual content, wherein the specific mask shows a specific part of a second visual content of a second reality mode, and a location of the specific mask in the first visual content is fixed. |
| US11514868B1 |
Display panel with inactive region used in a head mounted display
An electronic display includes a display panel that operates in a single display mode to provide a single display, or a dual display mode to provide two displays separated by an inactive region. The electronic display includes the display panel and a panel driver. The display panel includes a left pixel region, a right pixel region, and a middle pixel region between the left and right pixel regions. In the single display mode of the electronic display, the panel driver provides first gate signals generated from first input data to the left, right, and middle pixel regions. In a dual display mode, the panel driver provides second gate signals generated from second input data to the left and right pixel regions. The first input data has a first resolution that is larger than a second resolution of the second input data. |
| US11514865B2 |
Driving circuit and driving method thereof, display panel, and display device
A driving circuit includes at least one pixel circuit and a control circuit. A pixel circuit is configured to write a first data signal in response to a scan signal, and generate a first driving signal according to a first signal and the first data signal. The control circuit is configured to monitor the first driving signal and provide another first data signal to the pixel circuit according to a second data signal and the first driving signal. The pixel circuit is further configured to provide another first driving signal to a light-emitting device according to the first signal and the another first data signal, and in response to an enable signal of the enable signal terminal, provide a second driving signal to the light-emitting device according to a second signal and the another first data signal. |
| US11514863B1 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels for displaying an image and a plurality of data lines electrically connected with the pixels, and a panel driving block that receives an image signal from an outside and transmits a data signal to the display panel through the data lines. The display panel includes a plurality of impedance control units that are electrically connected with the data lines, respectively, and adjusts an impedance of each of the data lines in response to an impedance control signal. |
| US11514862B2 |
Method for improving slew rate of amplifier circuit and display device using the same
A device for increasing a slew rate of a driving amplifier includes a driving amplifier, a slew rate improvement circuit, and a controller. The driving amplifier is configured to amplify an input voltage and output an output voltage. The slew rate improvement circuit is configured to provide or receive a current to increase the slew rate of the driving amplifier. The controller is configured to control an operation of the slew rate improvement circuit based on a difference between a first code corresponding to the input voltage of the driving amplifier during a current horizontal line time and a second code corresponding to the input voltage during a next horizontal line time. |
| US11514858B2 |
Display device having a driving transistor with two gate electrodes and driving method thereof
A display device and a driving method for a display device are provided. The display device uses a second storage capacitor and stably moves the threshold voltage of the driving transistor to a positive value in a diode-connected driving circuit. Accordingly, a compensation performance of a threshold voltage of a driving transistor may be improved. |
| US11514856B2 |
Pixel circuit and driving method therefor, display substrate, and display panel
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display substrate, and a display panel are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a data writing sub-circuit configured to write a data voltage into a storage sub-circuit; the storage sub-circuit configured to store the data voltage; a driving sub-circuit electrically connected to a first node and configured to drive a light-emitting component electrically connected to a second node to emit light according to the data voltage; a light-emitting control sub-circuit electrically connected to the first node and the second node, respectively, and configured to achieve to turn on or turn off connection between the driving sub-circuit and the light-emitting component; and a first compensation sub-circuit electrically connected to the first node and the second node, respectively, and configured to compensate a level of the second node according to a level of the first node. |
| US11514855B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a pixel, wherein the pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor connected to a first power line and the light emitting element and controlled by a voltage of a first node, a second transistor connected to a data line and the first transistor and controlled by an i-th scan signal, a third-first transistor connected to the first transistor and a second node and controlled by a first control signal, a third transistor connected to the second node and the first node and controlled by a second control signal, and a dummy transistor including a first electrode receiving a reference voltage, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a control electrode connected to an emission line. |
| US11514846B2 |
Display device and method of fabricating the same
A display device includes a light-emitting diode including a first conductivity-type semiconductor, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor; a first voltage line to which a first voltage is applied; a second voltage line to which a second voltage is applied; a first transistor including a source electrode electrically connected to the first voltage line and a drain electrode electrically connected to a first electrode of the light-emitting diode and to the first conductivity-type semiconductor; a second transistor including a drain electrode electrically connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor and a source electrode electrically connected to a data line to apply a data signal; a capacitor electrically connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor and the first electrode; and a third transistor including a source electrode electrically connected to the second voltage line and a drain electrode electrically connected to the first electrode. |
| US11514844B2 |
Pixel drive circuit, pixel unit, driving method, array substrate, and display apparatus
A pixel drive circuit includes a data write sub-circuit, an input and read sub-circuit, a drive sub-circuit, and a first output control sub-circuit. The data write sub-circuit is configured to transmit data signals input from a first data voltage terminal at different times to a first node. The input and read sub-circuit is configured to: transmit a signal of a signal transmission terminal to a second node in a write period, and transmit an electrical signal of the second node to the signal transmission terminal in a threshold voltage read period. The drive sub-circuit is configured to output a drive signal. The first output control sub-circuit is configured to: be coupled to an element to be driven, and transmit the drive signal output by the drive sub-circuit to the element to be driven. |
| US11514843B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A display device includes: pixels arranged in a display area; a timing controller which generates image data of each frame based on an input image signal of the each frame, the timing controller including a logo controller which detects a logo image and a logo area including the logo image from the input image signal of the each frame to control luminance of the logo image; and a data driver which generates a data signal based on the image data and supplies the data signal to the pixels. The logo controller generates a first logo map based on an input image signal of a previous frame, generates a second logo map based on an input image signal of a current frame, and determines a similarity between the first logo map and the second logo map to selectively change luminance of a logo image of a next frame. |
| US11514842B2 |
LED based display panel including common LED driving circuit and display apparatus including the same
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes constituting a plurality of sub-pixels of the display panel and configured to be divided into a plurality of groups; and a plurality of LED driving circuits configured to: receive a PWM data voltage in a scanning period; and based on the PWM data voltage, drive the plurality of light-emitting diodes by providing drive current to the plurality of light-emitting diodes for a time corresponding to the PWM data voltage in an emission period, wherein each of the plurality of LED driving circuits is configured to be connected to light-emitting diodes included in respective groups of the plurality of groups, and drive the light-emitting diodes of the respective groups. |
| US11514840B2 |
Light emission control driver and display device including the same
A light emission control driver includes stages, each including: an input circuit controlling voltages of first and second nodes (N1, N2) based on a first clock signal (CS) and one of a start signal and a carry signal; a first main circuit controlling a voltage of a third node (N3) based on the voltage of N1 and a second CS; a second main circuit controlling the voltage of N3 based on the voltage of N2; an output circuit controlling output of an emission control signal (ECS) based on the voltages of N2 and N3; a first auxiliary circuit controlling a low level output of the ECS from a first low level to a second low level based on the second CS; and a second auxiliary circuit controlling the low level output in a single step from a high level to the second low level based on the voltage of N2. |
| US11514839B2 |
Optimized display image rendering
In one example, a head mounted display system includes at least one memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to: detect a first position and a first view direction of a head of a user based on sensor data generated by at least one of an accelerometer, at least one camera, or a gyroscope at a first point in time; determine a latency associated with a time to cause an image to be presented on the display; determine a predicted position and a predicted view direction of the head of the user at a second point in time based on the latency; render, prior to the second point in time, the image for presentation on the display based on the predicted position and the predicted view direction of the head of the user; and cause the display to present the rendered image. |
| US11514834B2 |
Tiled display device
A tiled display device includes an array of a plurality of display panels. Each of the plurality of display panels includes a plurality of pixels constituting a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns, a data distributor disposed between a first pixel of a first pixel row among the plurality of pixel rows and a second pixel of the first pixel row adjacent to the first pixel in a first direction, and a scan driver disposed between the second pixel and a third pixel adjacent to the second pixel in the first direction. |
| US11514830B1 |
Adaptive waveform non-linearity compensation for laser beam scanning displays
The techniques disclosed herein provide apparatus, methods and systems that adaptively adjust the signal waveform (or waveshape) of the drive signal to a slow-scan mirror to compensate for non-linearities observed in the slow-scan feedback signal from a slow-scan mirror. Over large scan angles and high temperatures, the slow-scan mirror in a laser beam scanning device may exhibit a nonlinear response to the drive signal that results in poor image quality issues such as bright lines, bands in the display image, and image distortion. The presently disclosed technologies track the linearity performance of the overall system by detecting non-linearities in waveform of the slow-scan feedback signal real time, and consequently apply a pre-distortion to the drive waveform to compensate for these detected non-linearities. The parameters, logic and blocks of the control may be implemented in hardware, software or combinations thereof. |
| US11514828B1 |
AR headset with an improved display
Augmented reality headsets. A plurality of tilted pin-mirrors imbedded between an inner surface and an outer surface of a combiner, where the plurality of tilted pin-mirrors are configured to reflect the guided image light towards the eye box, and wherein the plurality of pin-mirrors include one or more gaps between them wherein the one or more gaps allow the passage of an ambient light through the combiner towards the eye box. |
| US11514823B2 |
Flexible display device
A flexible display device is disclosed. The flexible display device includes a first body, a second body, a flexible display, a first rack, a second rack, a first gear, and a second gear. The first gear and the second gear rotate in conjunction with each other. The flexible display is divided into a first region and a second region, and the second rack forms a continuous loop together with the second region of the flexible display. Accordingly, when the second body slides with respect to the first body, tension can be stably applied to the flexible display, and the flexible display is prevented from being loosened. |
| US11514822B2 |
Product display
A product display in accordance with the present disclosure includes a display header and a product-support structure. The display header is coupled to the product-support structure for showing product indicia related to products stored in the product-support structure to a customer at a retail location. |
| US11514821B2 |
Indicia and method for identifying telecommunications components
Indicia elements are added to telecommunications components to identify the source of the telecommunications component. Indicia elements can include at least one of a logo, a specific color (e.g. a color different from a non-indicative base color of the telecommunications component), text information, a barcode, a QR code, and a RFID tag. The indicia elements can aid in identifying or tracing network connections, identifying types of connectors and/or cables, labeling the network connections, and identifying a network operator in a multi-network environment. |
| US11514809B2 |
Educational and content recommendation management system
An educational system may include a contextualizer that accesses and processes content items and build a knowledge base including educational content and relationships between content items. The system may include a user assessor unit that determines user assessment variables based on user responses to previous educational content items and generate a user model based on the user assessment variables. The system may include a recommender that navigates the knowledge base and generates recommendations of new educational content based on the user model. The recommendation can assess the user's proficiency on a given concept based on the user model and maximize the user's probability of success around the concept of which the user shows proficiency, or improve the user's proficiency around the concept the user shows weakness. In some examples, the system may acquire an expert's knowledge about certain concepts to refine the user model, increasing the accuracy of the recommender. |
| US11514804B2 |
Combining taxi signage generated from airport surface routing network data
Combined taxi signage may be generated from taxi signage for a first origination node and taxi signage for a second origination node, the first origination node and the second origination node being of a select proximity and orientation relative to an aircraft. The taxi signage for the first origination node may be generated from the first origination node and at least a first termination node stored within an airport surface routing network data, and a first turning angle determined based on a comparison between the first origination node and the at least the first termination node. The taxi signage for the second origination node may be generated from the second origination node and at least a second termination node stored within the airport surface routing network data, and a second turning angle determined based on a comparison between the second origination node and the at least the second termination node. The combined taxi signage may be included in a combined billboard displayed on the display device of the aircraft. |
| US11514798B2 |
UAV risk-based route planning system
A system and method for conducting preflight planning for autonomous flight missions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The system includes use of a controller to conduct quantitative risk assessments of available digital data to predict low risk flight routes based on estimated flight risk profiles. The flight risk profiles may be based upon flight safety-critical information, including real time regulatory, airspace, obstacle, and infrastructure data sets. Among other data sets, the flight risk profiles may also account for current weather, current population and traffic data, and aircraft operational data specific to the UAV involved. Each risk assessment can generate a flight risk profile dependent on proposed times of travel, from which a low risk route may be predicted for any impending autonomous aircraft flight. Such risk assessments may enhance chances of expeditious regulatory acceptance of flight plans for such predetermined flight routes. |
| US11514796B2 |
System and method for determining and recommending vehicle pick-up location
Systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle pick-up location. An exemplary method may comprise obtaining a user's location and a request by the user for transportation to a destination, determining a vehicle to respond to the request, obtaining the determined vehicle's location, and determining a pick-up location for the vehicle to pick up the user based at least on the user's location, the destination's location, and the vehicle's location. |
| US11514793B2 |
Display control apparatus and vehicle control apparatus
A display control apparatus is installed in an own vehicle to display an image on a display device viewed by a passenger of the own vehicle. The display control apparatus includes a boundary acquisition section that acquires positions of boundary portions defining both width-wise ends of a traveling lane in which the own vehicle travels, and an object acquisition section that acquires a position of an object around the traveling lane. The apparatus generates a position image, which is an image representing the positions of the boundary portions and the position of the object, and displays the position image on the display device. |
| US11514790B2 |
Collaborative perception for autonomous vehicles
Collaborative perception is based on recognition that a fleet of AVs and stationary infrastructure objects equipped with sensors may be configured to communicate with one another in sharing their sensor data, thus benefiting from collaborative perception, rather than being limited to their individual perception. Three specific scenarios of collaborative perception are disclosed. The first scenario relates to two AVs in the vicinity of one another exchanging complexity scores indicative of their respective environments. The second scenario relates to an AV detecting that it has a blind spot and seeking other AVs or infrastructure objects to provide information indicative of the environment in the blind spot. The third scenario relates to providing infrastructure objects equipped with sensors in appropriate locations so that, when an AV is in the vicinity of such objects, the AV may receive information from their sensors. |
| US11514789B2 |
Illumination-based object tracking within a vehicle
Systems and methods for providing illumination-based object tracking information within a host vehicle. In some embodiments, the system may comprise a remote object detection module and an illumination display pattern within the vehicle comprising one or more light sources defining a pattern. The illumination display pattern may be configured to dynamically change in accordance with one or more objects being detected and/or tracked by the remote object detection module to convey visible information to vehicle occupants regarding such object(s). |
| US11514787B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium
In an information processing device, a first acquirer acquires, from a user, plan information including a scheduled time and a destination. A second acquirer acquires a spare time. A third acquirer acquires travelling schedule information for enabling arrival at the destination earlier than the scheduled time by the spare time or more. A display controller displays, on a display unit, information regarding the travelling schedule information and the spare time. |
| US11514786B2 |
Vehicle-mounted device, recording medium, and notification method
This vehicle-mounted device installed in a vehicle is provided with a communication unit that communicates with a mobile terminal; a vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires operation information of the vehicle; and a vehicle-mounted controller that, on the basis of an operating status of the vehicle-mounted device, transmits a first notification notifying the mobile terminal of the possibility that the vehicle has stopped to the mobile terminal via the communication unit and that, on the basis of the operation information of the vehicle, transmits a second notification notifying the mobile terminal that the vehicle has stopped to the mobile terminal via the communication unit. |
| US11514784B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting vehicle movements
Vehicular movement detection systems and methods are disclosed. A computing device is configured to monitor sensor data and location data associated with a first user device including one or more sensors, and monitor traffic data associated with a location of the first user device based on the sensor data and location data. In response to the data, the computing device determines whether to provide a user-selectable message to the first user device based on a vehicle speed, proximity to a destination, and vehicle speed relative to traffic speed. The user-selectable message comprises a prompt configured to transmit a search request for a listing location. In response to the determination, the user-selectable message is provided to the first user device. In response to receiving a search request, the computing device is configured to transmit instructions to the first user device to direct the first user device to a first listing location. |
| US11514782B2 |
Utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage
A method involves accelerating the electronic determination of high quality solutions to routing problems by utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage. The use of traffic windows defined based on changes in rates of change of speeds for traffic on road segments allows for more rapid determination of a set of one or more high quality solutions as compared to requiring on-demand, in-process determination of a shortest path for a particular time during comparison of paths or routes performed as part of a process for determining high quality solutions to the routing problem. |
| US11514781B2 |
Generating dynamic electrochromic visualizations
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can allocate a dedicated traffic channel to a plurality of connected devices. Embodiments of the present invention can dynamically determine an appropriate visualization for one or more connected devices of the plurality of connected devices based on received information. Embodiments of the present invention render the dynamically determined appropriate visualization for the one or more connected devices of the plurality of connected devices using the dedicated traffic channel. |
| US11514780B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for defining a strand upstream of a direction-based traffic link
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to define a strand upstream of a direction based traffic (DBT) link. In a method, a strand is defined upstream of a DBT link. The method includes extending the strand so as to include one or more links upstream of the DBT link. The strand is extended by determining whether a link is to be added to the strand based upon evaluation of a termination criteria. The termination criteria is at least partially based upon a relationship of a function class of the link to the function class of one or more other links. In an instance in which the termination criteria is satisfied, the method ceases further extension of the strand. |
| US11514776B1 |
Ceiling fan control system
A system for controlling operation of a ceiling fan is provided. The ceiling fan includes a fan device and a light device, and can be operated via a user operation module that is to be operated by direct operation, or a wireless receiver module that receives a wireless control signal. Within a predetermined control duration from the time of activation, the ceiling fan can, upon receipt of an operation signal from the user operation module or a wireless control signal from the wireless receiver module, switch to operate in a mode where the ceiling fan is controlled via one of the user operation module and the wireless receiver module that corresponds to the signal received thereby. |
| US11514775B2 |
Remote switch device
A remote switch device can be attached to a mounting interface for firearm accessories, such as a Picatinny rail interface, and used to operate power-consuming firearm accessories (e.g., an illumination device, a laser aiming module, etc.) connected thereto by a suitably configured flexible cable, or wireless transceiver. An example remote switch device comprises: a housing configured to engage with a mounting interface for firearm accessories; a first switch configured to operate at least one connected power-consuming firearm accessory, the first switch includes a force sensing resistor; and a cable or wireless transceiver configured to connect the first switch to at least one power-consuming firearm accessory. The first switch is positioned substantially parallel to the mounting interface for firearm accessories while the housing is secured thereto. |
| US11514771B2 |
Multimodal voltage test device and method of operation
A multimodal voltage test device and method of operating is provided. The device includes a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact. A circuit electrically is disposed between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact, the circuit being configured to measure a voltage between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact. A first light source is electrically coupled to the circuit. An audio device is electrically coupled to the circuit, wherein the circuit is configured to cause the first light source to illuminate and to emit a first sound from the audio device in response to the voltage measured by the circuit being equal to or greater than a first threshold. |
| US11514770B2 |
Alarm with enhanced radio performance by isolation of radio from alarm components
An alarm or detector is provided and includes an alarm board assembly configured to perform one or more of alarm and detection operations and a communication module including an antenna configured to communicate with one or more other alarms and detectors. At least one of the alarm board and an alarm ground are isolated from a communication ground and the communication module and the communication module is isolated from a power source. |
| US11514769B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring components of and detecting an intrusion into an automated teller machine
The disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for detecting an intrusion of a product (e.g., an ATM) via an electronic tattletale. The disclosed embodiments may provide an ATM comprising a housing comprising an interior surface and a substance adhered to the interior surface, the substance comprising a piezoelectric element. The ATM may further comprise a detection circuit coupled to the substance, which may be configured to receive a first response signal generated by the substance and generate an indication of an intrusion into the housing, based on a comparison of the received first response signal to a predefined second response signal. |
| US11514763B1 |
Emergency signaling system
An emergency signaling system is disclosed. The system includes a receptacle and a painting device. The painting device is covered in a paint material and stored in the receptacle. The receptacle can be used to launch the painting device onto a surface, such as a roof, in the event that a user needs to signal a search and rescue team or anyone near their present location. The painting device, upon contact with a surface, creates a painted signal. The painted signal can have different shapes according to the shape of the painting device. The painting device can include weight members or flexible frame members to facilitate opening the painting device from a closed or folded configuration to a fully open configuration once the painting device has been launched from the receptacle. |
| US11514761B2 |
Gaming system, method, and program product for selecting game symbols in a wagering game
Multiple different game symbol weighting sets are defined for selection in a given play of a reel-type game. Each game symbol weighting set defines a probability of each reel strip in the reel-type game landing at each particular stop position for that reel strip. By providing multiple different game symbol weighting sets, certain game symbols such as special themed game symbols may be favored for one or more plays of the game to increase the chance of hitting winning symbol combinations using that game symbol. |
| US11514756B2 |
Method and system for player group sharing and redistributing gaming awards
An electronic gaming system is capable of forming a multi-player group to play a game; receiving, from a first gaming device, first game play information for a first game played by a first player member of the multi-player group on the first gaming device; determining that the first game play information comprises a first winning outcome corresponding to a first winning outcome; in response, allocating the first winning outcome among the first and second player members; and notifying a second gaming device of the second player member that the second player member has received the second portion of the first winning outcome. |
| US11514750B1 |
Secure predetermined game generation
Systems and methods for enabling secure automated production and redemption of predetermined games of chance with multiple play venues or dimensions, wherein such systems and methods can provide, for example, lottery games (e.g., instant tickets), charitable gaming (e.g., raffles, pull-tabs), casino environments (e.g., “Class II” gaming), Internet gaming (e.g., poker, online instant tickets), etc. |
| US11514749B2 |
Using mobile devices to operate gaming machines
A mobile device with remote play application is used to operate a gaming machine with a separately releasable module (SRM). The gaming machine and the mobile device are connected to a gaming network. In response to a visual code displayed on the gaming machine being captured by the mobile device, both a web socket connection and Virtual Network Computing (VNC) session are established between the SRM and the software application. The VNC session reproduces a video button panel of the gaming machine in the remote play application. The gaming machine is operated via touch inputs to the reproduced video button panel. To limit a remote session to mobile devices in close proximity to the gaming machine, the SRM sends an audio code to the mobile device and only maintains the session in response to receiving an echo of the audio code over the web socket connection. |
| US11514747B2 |
Latching assembly for a pushbutton of an electronic gaming machine
An electronic gaming machine includes a cabinet, a main display coupled to the cabinet and configured to display a wagering game, and a button deck assembly slidably coupled to the cabinet. The button deck assembly includes a housing extending from a first end oriented to face the cabinet to an opposed second end, a pushbutton releasably coupled to the housing between the first end and the second end, a latch, and a lever. The latch is configured to pivot relative to the pushbutton between a first position, in which the latch engages the pushbutton to secure the pushbutton to the housing, and a second position, in which the latch is disengaged from the pushbutton. The lever is slidably coupled to the housing and configured to engage the latch, wherein movement of the lever relative to the housing pivots the latch between the first position and the second position. |
| US11514745B1 |
Remote purchase and automated delivery system for controlled access facilities
A delivery system applies rules for authorizing transactions to a recipient that are individualized for each recipient. These rules may limit the number of items available for the purchaser to purchase for a recipient, the types of items available for purchase for a recipient, and the price of the items for the recipient. The system automates the delivery of the item to the recipient via a kiosk, such as a vending machine. An identification device of the vending machine identifies the recipient. The vending machine dispenses the items to the identified recipient. |
| US11514738B2 |
Digital pass verification systems and methods
Digital pass verification systems and methods are disclosed herein. One or more servers are to distribute instructions on a network. The instructions, when executed, cause a first device carried by a person to at least: access a result of a diagnostic test performed on the person, the result provided by a second device; generate a machine-readable code in response to the result being negative; and display the machine-readable code on a display of the first device to enable the person to gain access to a location. |
| US11514737B2 |
Digital pass verification systems and methods
Digital pass verification systems and methods are disclosed herein. An apparatus disclosed herein includes memory including instructions that, when executed, cause processor circuitry to: access a result of a diagnostic test associated with a test kit identification; associate the result of the diagnostic test with a user identification; and transmit the result of the diagnostic test and the test kit identification to a first device to cause the first device to generate a machine-readable pass on a display of the first device. |
| US11514736B2 |
Authentication information control system, authentication information control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A control unit issues temporary authentication information for disabling a locking/unlocking process to a user terminal satisfying a first condition. The control unit determines whether first authentication information has been issued to another user terminal, issues second authentication information to the user terminal to which the temporary authentication information has been issued when the first authentication information has not been issued to another user terminal, and issues the second authentication information to the user terminal to which the temporary authentication information has been issued with detection of ending of use of the first authentication information in another user terminal as a trigger when the first authentication information has been issued to the other user terminal. |
| US11514733B1 |
Extended time scale event detection
A system for extended time scale event detection includes a data storage device and a processor. The data storage device is configured to store sensor data associated with a vehicle. The processor is configured to analyze an extended time period of the sensor data to identify minor events. The minor events are detected using a minor event threshold. The processor is further configured to determine whether there are more than a threshold number of the minor events and, in the event there are more than a threshold number of the minor events, flag the minor events. |
| US11514729B2 |
Transport behavior observation
An example operation includes one or more of receiving indications from a plurality of transports, by a server, of another transport in proximity to the plurality of transports, forming a consensus, by the server, from the indications from the plurality of transports, and transmitting, by the server, a notification to one or more of the other transport and a device associated with the other transport, in response to the consensus. Each indication includes an identifier of the other transport and an identification of one or more ways the other transport is being operated in a different manner than intended. |
| US11514724B2 |
Biometric device and biometric system including the same
Disclosed are a biometric device and a biometric system including the same. The device includes a biogenic-synthesized film, a reflective layer disposed on one side of the biogenic-synthesized film, a light source disposed on the reflective layer to generate light, a beam splitter disposed between the light source and the reflective layer to provide the light to the reflective layer and another side of the biogenic-synthesized film, and a light switching layer disposed between the beam splitter and the reflective layer to switch the light provided to the reflective layer. |
| US11514722B2 |
Real time kinematic analyses of body motion
Systems and methods are presented for generating statistics associated with a performance of a participant in an event, wherein pose data associated with the participant, performing in the event, are processed in real time. Pose data associated with the participant may comprise positional data of a skeletal representation of the participant. Actions performed by the participant may be determined based on a comparison of segments of the participant's pose data to motion patterns associated with actions of interests. |
| US11514718B2 |
Human face identification apparatus, distributed human face identification system and method thereof
A human face identification apparatus, a distributed human face identification system and a corresponding method are provided. The method includes obtaining a human face block from an image, identifying a data of a person corresponding to the human face block according to a client database by a client apparatus, controlling the client apparatus to transmit the human face block to a server apparatus and controlling the server apparatus to identify the human face block according to a server database when the data of the person corresponding to the human face block cannot be identified by the client apparatus, and copying the data of the person corresponding to the human face block from the server database to the client database when the data of the person is identified according to the server database by the server apparatus. |
| US11514715B2 |
Deepfake video detection system and method
A deepfake video detection system, including an input data detection module of a video recognition unit for setting a target video; a data pre-processing unit for detecting eye features from the face in the target video; a feature extraction module for extracting eye features and inputting the eye features to a long-term recurrent convolutional neural network (LRCN); and then using a sequence of long-term and short-term memory (LSTM) of a learning module; performing sequence learning; using a state prediction module to predict the output of each neuron, and then using a long and short-term memory model to output the quantized eye state, then connecting to a state quantification module, and comparing the original stored data from the normal video and the quantified eye state information of the target video, and outputting the recognition result by an output data recognition module. |
| US11514713B2 |
Face quality of captured images
The disclosure pertains to techniques for image processing. One such technique comprises a method for image selection, comprising: obtaining a sequence of images, detecting a first face in one or more images of the sequence of images, determining a first location for the detected first face in each of the images having the detected first face, generating a heat map based on the first location of the detected first face in each of the images of the sequences of images, determining a face quality score for the detected first face for each of the one or more images having the detected first face, determining a peak face quality score for the detected first face based in part on the face quality score and the generated heat map, and selecting a first image of the sequence of images, corresponding with the peak face quality score for the detected first face. |
| US11514710B2 |
Display panel and terminal device
Provided are a display panel and a terminal device. The display panel includes: a display array including a plurality of display portions, the display portion including at least one display subportion; and a plurality of image detectors configured to detect photo signals to obtain a target detection image, the plurality of image detectors being adjacent to the plurality of display portions and having first distribution positions and second distribution positions, the first distribution positions being different from the second distribution positions. The plurality of image detectors are distributed at different distribution positions at the adjacent positions of the plurality of display portions of the display array in different distribution manners. |
| US11514707B2 |
Optical sensor and methods of making the same
Optical sensors and their making methods are described herein. In some embodiments, a described sensing apparatus includes: an image sensor; a collimator above the image sensor, wherein the collimator includes an array of apertures; and an optical filtering layer above the collimator, wherein the optical filtering layer is configured to filter a portion of light to be transmitted into the array of apertures. |
| US11514699B2 |
Text block recognition based on discrete character recognition and text information connectivity
In an approach for a text block recognition in a document, a processor detects characters in the document using an object detection technique. A processor identifies positions of the detected characters in the document. A processor analyzes semantic connectivity among the detected characters based on the positions and semantic connectivity of the characters. A processor recognizes text blocks of related characters based on the semantic connectivity analysis. A processor outputs the text blocks associated with the related characters. |
| US11514696B2 |
Display device, display method, and computer-readable recording medium
A display device includes a circuitry configured to perform a search for a plurality of image candidates in an image transformation dictionary part, based on handwritten data, and a display configured to display the plurality of image candidates obtained by the search. At least a portion of the plurality of image candidates displayed on the display represents a different person or an object. |
| US11514693B2 |
Model-based image labeling and/or segmentation
In some embodiments, reduction of computational resource usage related to image labeling and/or segmentation may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a collection of images may be used to train one or more prediction models. Based on a presentation of an image on a user interface, an indication of a target quantity of superpixels for the image may be obtained. The image may be provided to a first prediction model to cause the prediction model to predict a quantity of superpixels for the image. The target quantity of superpixels may be provided to the first model to update the first model's configurations based on (i) the predicted quantity and (ii) the target quantity. A set of superpixels may be generated for the image based on the target quantity, and segmentation information related to the superpixels set may be provided to a second prediction model to update the second model's configurations. |
| US11514689B2 |
Gemological object recognition
Disclosed is a system, method, and devices as system elements to recognize an object by an object recognizing system including an imaging device and a moving assembly to move the imaging device around the object, to form a certified visual model of the object to be recognized. Especially the disclosure relates to gemstone imaging by an imaging method including photographing a target, in an illumination, by a camera, to obtain at least one image of the targeted object to be recognized. |
| US11514686B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling parking of vehicle
A method and apparatus for controlling parking are disclosed. The present disclosure in at least one embodiment provides an apparatus for controlling parking of a vehicle equipped with a radar sensor, including a processor for obtaining an input signal for parking control and determining whether to start a parking control operation, a radar controller configured, upon starting the parking control operation, to set a detection mode of the radar sensor to a normal detection mode or a heartbeat detection mode according to a target. The processor determines, when the candidate parking space is narrower than a space needed to park the vehicle, whether another parked vehicle is available to reposition, and if yes, detects whether or not the other parked vehicle carries a driver. The apparatus further includes a communication signal transmitter. |
| US11514684B2 |
Dual use of safety-capable vehicle scanner for collaborative vehicle assembly and driving surveillance
A vehicle assembly system includes a vehicle chassis of a vehicle; at least one object sensor mounted to the vehicle chassis, where the at least one object sensor generates sensor data based on at least one detected object; a vehicle controller mounted to the vehicle chassis and configured to receive the sensor data from the at least one object sensor, where, during assembly, the vehicle controller is configured with production control software that enables the vehicle controller to generate production object data from the sensor data, monitor for a safety event based on the production object data, and generate a safety event signal in response to detecting the safety event; and a safety controller configured to receive the safety event signal from the vehicle controller and alter a movement of a surveilled machine corresponding to the safety event. |
| US11514683B2 |
Outside recognition apparatus for vehicle
An on-board outside recognition apparatus extracts a feature point from an image including an environment around a user's own vehicle, measures a three-dimensional position of the feature point based on movement of the feature point tracked in time series on the image and calculates a foot position of the feature point on the image from the three-dimensional position of the feature point is performed. Then, the on-board outside recognition apparatus extracts a road surface area where the user's own vehicle can travel, from the image using a degree of similarity of a texture of the image, and judges a feature point the foot position of which is judged not to be included in the road surface area to be highly reliable. |
| US11514680B2 |
Methods and systems for traffic monitoring
A system and method for determining a dimension of a target. The method includes: determining a camera parameter, the camera parameter including at least one of a focal length, a yaw angle, a roll angle, a pitch angle, or a height of one or more cameras; acquiring a first image and a second image of an target captured by the one or more cameras; generating a first corrected image and a second corrected image by correcting the first image and the second image; determining a parallax between a pixel in the first corrected image and a corresponding pixel in the second corrected image; determining an outline of the target; and determining a dimension of the target based at least in part on the camera parameter, the parallax, and the outline of the target. |
| US11514679B1 |
Smart method for noise rejection in spatial human detection systems for a cloud connected occupancy sensing network
Systems and methods for detecting or following a person within an observed area. One example system includes a sensor and a processor configured to: receive, from the sensor, a series of readings indicative of the person in the observed area, wherein the observed area is divided into a plurality of zones; determine a sequential occurrence of each of a plurality of ordered events by applying a detection threshold value to the series of readings, wherein the detection threshold value is lower than a noise threshold of the sensor, and wherein each of the plurality of ordered events is associated with at least one of the plurality of zones; and determine a trigger condition based on the sequential occurrence of each of the plurality of ordered events; and provide an instruction to a fixture based on the trigger condition. |
| US11514676B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting region of interest in video, device and medium
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for detecting a region of interest in a video, a device and a storage medium. The method may include: acquiring a current to-be-processed frame from a picture frame sequence of a video; detecting a region of interest (ROI) in the current to-be-processed frame, in response to determining that the current to-be-processed frame is a detection picture frame, to determine at least one ROI in the current to-be-processed frame; and updating a to-be-tracked ROI, based on the ROI in the current to-be-processed frame and a tracking result determined by a pre-order tracking picture frame; and tracking the current to-be-processed frame based on the existing to-be-tracked ROI, in response to determining that the current to-be-processed frame is a tracking picture frame, to determine at least one tracking result as the ROI of the current to-be-processed frame. |
| US11514672B2 |
Sensor based semantic object generation
Provided are methods, systems, and devices for generating semantic objects and an output based on the detection or recognition of the state of an environment that includes objects. State data, based in part on sensor output, can be received from one or more sensors that detect a state of an environment including objects. Based in part on the state data, semantic objects are generated. The semantic objects can correspond to the objects and include a set of attributes. Based in part on the set of attributes of the semantic objects, one or more operating modes, associated with the semantic objects can be determined. Based in part on the one or more operating modes, object outputs associated with the semantic objects can be generated. The object outputs can include one or more visual indications or one or more audio indications. |
| US11514671B2 |
Semantic segmentation to identify and treat plants in a field and verify the plant treatments
A farming machine including a number of treatment mechanisms treats plants according to a treatment plan as the farming machine moves through the field. The control system of the farming machine executes a plant identification model configured to identify plants in the field for treatment. The control system generates a treatment map identifying which treatment mechanisms to actuate to treat the plants in the field. To generate a treatment map, the farming machine captures an image of plants, processes the image to identify plants, and generates a treatment map. The plant identification model can be a convolutional neural network having an input layer, an identification layer, and an output layer. The input layer has the dimensionality of the image, the identification layer has a greatly reduced dimensionality, and the output layer has the dimensionality of the treatment mechanisms. |
| US11514670B2 |
Quantitative geospatial analytics of device location data
A method comprises receiving an area of interest (AOI) selection. The method further comprises accessing an AOI device location data for the AOI, the AOI device location data indicating locations of devices over time received within the AOI. The AOI device location data is filtered to only include the device location data that match one or more characteristics. A proximity zone is determined for the for the AOI that includes the area of the AOI. A zone device location data for the proximity zone is determined, which indicates locations of devices over time reported within the proximity zone. The method further comprises normalizing the filtered AOI device location data by computing a ratio of the filtered AOI device location data and the zone device location data to generate an AOI user estimate, and transmitting the AOI user estimate to a client device of a requestor. |
| US11514668B2 |
Method and device for situation awareness
A method for situation awareness is provided. The method comprises: preparing a neural network trained by a learning set, wherein the learning set includes a plurality of maritime images and maritime information including object type information which includes a first type index for a vessel, a second type index for a water surface and a third type index for a ground surface, and distance level information which includes a first level index indicating that a distance is undefined, a second level index indicating a first distance range and a third level index indicating a second distance range greater than the first distance range; obtaining a target maritime image generated from a camera; and determining a distance of a target vessel based on the distance level index of the maritime information being outputted from the neural network which receives the target maritime image and having the first type index. |
| US11514667B1 |
Method and system for camera-free light field video processing with all-optical neural network
A method and an apparatus for camera-free light field video processing with all-optical neural network are disclosed. The method includes: mapping the light field video by a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) and an optical fiber coupler, a two-dimensional 2D spatial optical signal into a one-dimensional 1D input optical signal; realizing a multiply-accumulate computing model in a structure of all-optical recurrent neural network structure, and processing the 1D input signal to obtain the processed signal; and receiving the processed signal and outputting an electronic signal by a photodetector, or receiving the processed signal by a relay optical fiber for relay transmission of the processed signal. The method and system here realize light field video processing without the use of a camera and the whole system is all-optical, thus possessing the advantage in computing speed and energy-efficiency. |
| US11514662B2 |
Detection of skin reflectance in biometric image capture
In examples, a relative skin reflectance of a captured image of a subject is determined. The determination selects from the captured image pixels of the subject's face and pixels in the background and normalizes luminance values of the skin pixels using the background pixels. The relative skin reflectance value is determined for the captured image, based on the normalized luminance values of the skin pixels. Optionally the relative skin reflectance value is qualified, based on thresholds of skin reflectance values, as suitable for biometric use. Optionally, a non-qualifying captured image is flagged and, optionally, another image is acquired, or the non-conforming image is processed further to transform the image into a suitable image for biometric analysis. |
| US11514661B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for pattern recognition
A method for pattern recognition may be provided, comprising: receiving data; processing the data with a trained convolutional neural network so as to recognize a pattern in the data, wherein the convolutional neural network comprises at least: an input layer, at least one convolutional layer, at least one batch normalization layer, at least one activation function layer, and an output layer; and wherein processing the data with a trained convolutional neural network so as to recognize a pattern in the data comprises: processing values outputted by a batch normalization layer so that the histogram of the processed values is flatter than the histogram of the values, and outputting the processed values to an activation function layer. A corresponding apparatus and system for pattern recognition, as well as a computer readable medium, a method for implementing a convolutional neural network and a convolutional neural network are also provided. |
| US11514659B2 |
Hyperspectral optical patterns on retroreflective articles
In some examples, a retroreflective article may include a retroreflective substrate, and an optical pattern embodied on the retroreflective substrate. The optical pattern may include a first optical sub-pattern and a second optical sub-pattern, wherein the optical pattern represents a set of information that is interpretable based on a combination of the first optical sub-pattern that is visible in a first light spectrum and the second optical sub-pattern that is visible in a second light spectrum. The first and second light spectra may be different. |
| US11514657B2 |
Replica graphic causing reduced visibility of an image artifact in a direct-view of a real-world scene
Image compensation for an occluding direct-view augmented reality system is described. In one or more embodiments, an augmented reality apparatus includes an emissive display layer for presenting emissive graphics to an eye of a user and an attenuation display layer for presenting attenuation graphics between the emissive display layer and a real-world scene to block light of the real-world scene from the emissive graphics. A light region compensation module dilates an attenuation graphic based on an attribute of an eye of a viewer, such as size of a pupil, to produce an expanded attenuation graphic that blocks additional light to compensate for an unintended light region. A dark region compensation module camouflages an unintended dark region with a replica graphic in the emissive display layer that reproduces an appearance of the real-world scene in the unintended dark region. A camera provides the light data used to generate the replica graphic. |
| US11514656B2 |
Dual mode control of virtual objects in 3D space
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media containing instructions for selectively controlling display of virtual objects are provided. In one implementation, virtual objects may be virtually presented in an environment via a wearable extended reality appliance operable in a first and second display modes; in the first display mode, positions of the virtual objects are maintained in the environment regardless of detected movements of the wearable extended reality appliance, and in the second display mode, the virtual objects move in the environment in response to detected movements of the wearable extended reality appliance; movement of the wearable extended reality appliance may be detected; selection of the first or second display mode may be received; display signals configured to present the virtual objects in a manner consistent with the selected display mode may be outputted for presentation via the wearable extended reality appliance in response to the selected display mode. |
| US11514650B2 |
Electronic apparatus and method for controlling thereof
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a display, a camera configured to capture a rear of the electronic apparatus facing a front of the electronic apparatus in which the display displays an image, and a processor configured to render a virtual object based on the image captured by the camera, based on a user body being detected from the captured image, estimate a plurality of joint coordinates with respect to the detected user body using a pre-trained learning model, generate an augmented reality image using the estimated plurality of joint coordinates, the rendered virtual object, and the captured image, and control the display to display the generated augmented reality image, wherein the processor is configured to identify whether the user body touches the virtual object based on the plurality of estimated joint coordinates, and change a transmittance of the virtual object based on the touch being identified. |
| US11514649B2 |
Camera for augmented reality display
An augmented reality display device includes a near-eye display configured to present imagery to a user eye. A camera is configured to capture light from a real-world environment and produce output useable to contribute to the imagery presented to the user eye via the near-eye display. The camera includes an aperture configured to receive the light from the real-world environment and an image sensor configured to respond to the light received from the real-world environment by generating sensor output signals useable to produce images on the near-eye display depicting the real-world environment. One or more optical elements provide an optical path for light from the aperture to the image sensor, the optical path having a length that is within a threshold of a distance between the user eye and the aperture of the camera. |
| US11514642B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating two-dimensional image data describing a three-dimensional image
A method using a two-dimensional (2D) image representation of three-dimensional (3D) geometric objects in a machine learning framework has been developed. The method includes generating a single 2D geometry image corresponding to a 3D object model, and providing the single geometry image as input to a shape analysis task to enable shape analysis of the 3D object model based only on information encoded in the single 2D geometry image in the machine learning framework. |
| US11514640B2 |
Image occlusion processing method, device, apparatus and computer storage medium
This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for processing occlusion in an image, a device, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: determining a current viewpoint parameter used for drawing a current image frame; obtaining a predicted depth map matching the current viewpoint parameter as a target depth map of the current image frame; and determining an occlusion culling result of an object in the current image frame according to the target depth map. |
| US11514639B2 |
Augmented reality and virtual reality feedback enhancement system, apparatus and method
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality and virtual reality (VR/AR) environment information. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to selectively suppress and enhance VR/AR renderings of n-dimensional environments. The systems, apparatuses and methods may deepen a user's VR/AR experience by focusing on particular feedback information, while suppressing other feedback information from the environment. |
| US11514637B2 |
Automatic level-of-detail for physically-based materials
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for implementing automatic level-of-detail for physically-based materials. The method includes the steps of identifying a declarative representation of a material to be rendered, creating a reduced complexity declarative representation of the material by applying one or more term rewriting rules to the declarative representation of the material, and returning the reduced complexity declarative representation of the material. |
| US11514634B2 |
Personalized speech-to-video with three-dimensional (3D) skeleton regularization and expressive body poses
Presented herein are novel embodiments for converting a given speech audio or text into a photo-realistic speaking video of a person with synchronized, realistic, and expressive body dynamics. In one or more embodiments, 3D skeleton movements are generated from the audio sequence using a recurrent neural network, and an output video is synthesized via a conditional generative adversarial network. To make movements realistic and expressive, the knowledge of an articulated 3D human skeleton and a learned dictionary of personal speech iconic gestures may be embedded into the generation process in both learning and testing pipelines. The former prevents the generation of unreasonable body distortion, while the later helps the model quickly learn meaningful body movement with a few videos. To produce photo-realistic and high-resolution video with motion details, a part-attention mechanism is inserted in the conditional GAN, where each detailed part is automatically zoomed in to have their own discriminators. |
| US11514626B2 |
System and method for machine learning based image generation
An artificial intelligence and machine learning system and method for image generation. The method comprising receiving a word comprising language characters, processing each of the characters in the word into visual elements, generating an image using the visual elements of the characters. The AI system may receive a name of a person such as ‘Amy’ and may process the name into visual elements that when positioned and oriented relative to each other, form a face. The letter ‘a’ may be used as the outline of the face, the letter ‘m’ positioned within the ‘a’ may be used to depict closed eyes and the letter ‘y’ positioned within the ‘a’ and below the ‘m’ may be used to depict a nose and mouth. |
| US11514625B2 |
Motion trajectory drawing method and apparatus, and device and storage medium
Provided are a method for drawing a motion track, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: multiple video frames are acquired, where the multiple video frames includes a current video frame and at least one video frame before the current video frame (S110); a display position of a target motion element in each video frame and a display position of a background pixel point in each video frame are identified (S120); a display position of the target motion element of each video frame in the current video frame is calculated (S130); an actual motion track of the target motion element is drawn in the current video frame according to the display position of the target motion element of each video frame in the current video frame, and the current video frame in which the drawing is completed is displayed (S140). |
| US11514624B2 |
Methods and systems for biopsy needle reconstruction error assessment
Methods and systems are provided for reconstruction error assessment for an interventional tool utilized in an image guided interventional procedure. In one example, an error model based on a target lesion position within a tissue, one or more interventional tool parameters, and imaging system parameters may be utilized to estimate an expected reconstruction error for the interventional tool. In another example, when the interventional tool is within the tissue, the expected reconstruction error may be utilized along with observed tool shape and size to infer an actual tool position and shape within the tissue. |
| US11514621B2 |
Low-dose image reconstruction method and system based on prior anatomical structure difference
The disclosure provides a low-dose image reconstruction method and system based on prior anatomical structure difference. The method includes: determining the weights of different parts in the low-dose image based on prior information of anatomical structure differences; constructing a generative network being taking the low-dose image as input extract features, and integrating the weights of the different parts in the feature extraction process, outputting a predicted image; constructing a determining network being taking the predicted image and standard-dose image as input, to distinguish the authenticity of the predicted image and standard-dose image as the first optimization goal, and identifying different parts of the predicted image as the second optimization goal, collaboratively training the generative network and the determining network to obtain the mapping relationship between the low-dose image and the standard-dose image; and reconstructing the low-dose image by using the obtained mapping relationship. The disclosure can obtain more accurate high-definition images. |
| US11514619B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer program for generating or updating a texture atlas
A method, apparatus and computer program for generating or updating a texture atlas are provided. The texture atlas is generated or updated by obtaining a first texture to be stored in the texture atlas, dividing the first texture into a plurality of parts, storing the plurality of parts in a respective plurality of spaces in the texture atlas, such that the plurality of parts of the first texture may be separated by parts of other textures in the texture atlas, and storing texture reconstruction information defining how to combine the plurality of parts to render the first texture. By dividing the first texture into the plurality of parts, it is possible to store the texture in the texture atlas even in cases where the atlas does not have an available space of the same dimensions as the undivided texture. |
| US11514618B2 |
Generation of object hierarchies for logical selection of groups of objects in vector designs
This disclosure involves applying an edit to objects in a vector design corresponding to a selected level of an object hierarchy. A system accesses a vector design comprising first, second, and third objects, each of the objects having a respective axis coordinate. The system assigns the first object and the second object to or within a common level in an object hierarchy based on determining that a similarity score comparing the two objects exceeds a threshold and that a modification causing the axis coordinates of the two objects to be adjacent maintains an overlap between the third object and the two objects. The system receives a user input selecting the first object and expands the selection to the second object based on the second object being assigned to the common level. The system applies an edit to the first and second objects based on the expansion of the selection. |
| US11514616B2 |
Augmented reality using intra-ocular devices
In a system for providing augmented reality to a person disposed in a real-world, physical environment, a camera is configured to capture multiple real-world images of a physical environment. The system includes a processor configured to use the real-world images to generate multiple images of a virtual object that correspond to the multiple real-world images. The system further includes a display configured to display to the person in real time, a succession of the generated images that correspond to then-current multiple real-world images, such that the person perceives the virtual object to be positioned within the physical environment. |
| US11514612B2 |
Method and apparatus for point cloud coding
A method of point cloud geometry decoding in a point cloud decoder is provided. In the method, first signaling information is received from a coded bitstream for a point cloud that includes a set of points in a three-dimensional (3D) space. The first signaling information indicates partition information of the point cloud. Second signaling information is determined based on the first signaling information indicating a first value. The second signaling information is indicative of a partition mode of the set of points in the 3D space. Further, the partition mode of the set of points in the 3D space is determined based on the second signaling information. The point cloud is reconstructed subsequently based on the partition mode. |
| US11514611B2 |
Point cloud compression with closed-loop color conversion
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. A closed-loop color conversion process is used to improve compression while taking into consideration distortion introduced throughout the point cloud compression process. |
| US11514607B2 |
3-dimensional reconstruction method, 3-dimensional reconstruction device, and storage medium
The disclosure provides 3D reconstruction methods and devices. The method includes: obtaining data captured by the camera and data captured by the inertial measurement unit; obtaining a pose of the camera based on the data; obtaining an adjustment value of the pose of the camera and an adjustment value of bias of the inertial measurement unit; updating the pose of the camera based on the adjustment value of the pose of the camera; determining whether the adjustment value of bias of the inertial measurement unit is less than a preset value; in response to the adjustment value of bias of the inertial measurement unit being greater than or equal to the preset value, determining that a current loop for 3-dimensional reconstruction is an error loop; removing the error loop; and constructing a 3-dimensional model for surroundings of the camera based on the updated pose of the camera and remaining loops. |
| US11514606B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An information processing apparatus acquires a plurality of captured images captured by a plurality of image capturing devices, the plurality of captured images having imaging time codes that match each other, the plurality of captured images being used for generating a virtual viewpoint image, executes a detection process for detecting a predetermined image pattern on the plurality of captured images, and determines parameters on positions of the plurality of image capturing devices and orientations from the plurality of image capturing devices based on a result of the detection process for detecting the predetermined image pattern on the plurality of captured images having the imaging time codes that match each other. |
| US11514604B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
An information processing device, an information processing method, and a program are provided. The information processing device includes a virtual object control unit that generates a control parameter that controls display of a first virtual object corresponding to a first real object and a second virtual object corresponding to a second real object on the basis of first posture information indicating a posture of the first real object and second posture information indicating a posture of the second real object, and a determination unit that makes a determination related to contact between the first virtual object and the second virtual object. The virtual object control unit generates the control parameter on the further basis of a result of the determination. |
| US11514602B2 |
Method and apparatus for gaze estimation
A gaze estimation method includes receiving, by a processor, input data including a current image and a previous image each including a face of a user, determining, by the processor, a gaze mode indicating a relative movement between the user and a camera that captured the current image and the previous image based on the input data, and estimating, by the processor, a gaze of the user based on the determined gaze mode, wherein the determined gaze mode is one of a plurality of gaze modes comprising a stationary mode and a motion mode. |
| US11514601B2 |
Working vehicle and traveling management system for the working vehicle
A working vehicle includes a traveling body including a coupler to which a working device is connected, a marker provided to the working device, a marker detector provided to the traveling body to detect the marker, and a status calculator to calculate a status of the working device based on a detection data detected by the marker detector. |
| US11514597B1 |
Single-camera stereoaerophotogrammetry using UAV sensors
The disclosure presents novel methods to conduct aerial surveying, inspection and measurements with higher accuracy in a fast and easy way, comprising: (1) flying a drone with an accelerometer, gyro, and camera sensors over a target object; (2) capturing a first aerial image at a first position; (3) capturing a second aerial image at a second position, wherein the second position has a horizontal and vertical displacement from the first position; (4) calculating the displacements between the first and second location using a sensor fusion estimation algorithm from the position sensors' data; (5) solving for the pixel depth information of the aerial images by using a single-camera stereophotogrammetry algorithm with the relative altitude and horizontal distance; (6) deriving the ground sample distance (GSD) of each pixel from the calculated depth information; (7) using the image pixel GSD values to compute any geometric properties of the target objects. |
| US11514596B2 |
Shape identification device and delivery box
A shape identification device includes an accommodation chamber for accommodating an object to be measured such that the same can be removed from and inserted into the accommodation chamber, a first imaging unit for imaging the object accommodated in the accommodation chamber, and an image processing unit for carrying out image processing on the basis of the image information imaged by the first imaging unit and recognizing the external shape of the object. The image processing unit includes a storage unit having, stored therein beforehand, a plurality of types of sample external shapes corresponding to objects to be measured and a shape recognition unit for comparison and discrimination of the external shape information from the first imaging unit and the external shape information stored in the storage unit and recognition of an external shape matching or approximating the external shape information from the first imaging unit. |
| US11514595B2 |
Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method including estimating a depth of a dust region based on a visible light image
A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs; acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring an infrared light image stored in the memory, the infrared light image being generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring a visible light image stored in the memory, the visible light image being generated by imaging a substantially same scene as that of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint and at a substantially same imaging time of those of the infrared light image; detecting a dust region showing dust from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the dust region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the dust region. |
| US11514588B1 |
Object localization for mapping applications using geometric computer vision techniques
Systems and methods to localize objects for mapping applications may comprise a vehicle having an imaging device, a location sensor, and an edge processor. Using imaging data from the imaging device, location data from the location sensor, and bounding box data associated with objects, three-dimensional models of environments may be reconstructed using structure from motion algorithms and/or direct triangulation algorithms. After aligning the reconstructions to real-world environments based on the location data, objects may be accurately localized relative to real-world environments. |
| US11514585B2 |
Object tracking
An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising detecting a first object in a first image of a sequence of images using a neural network (22), wherein the means for detecting the first object provides an object area indicative of a first location of the first object; and tracking the first object (24), wherein the means for tracking the first object further comprises generating a predicted future location of the first object and generating an updated location of the first object using the neural network. The means for generating the predicted future location of the first object may, for example, receive said object area indicative of a first location of the first object and may receive said updated location information of the first object. |
| US11514583B1 |
Image acquisition, correlation and detailed visual inspection of component in periodic motion
Embodiments disclosed herein include, but are not limited to, methods for capturing video sampling data comprising a plurality of video images of a moving object, for example using one or more cameras positioned on a stationary frame of reference adjacent to the mechanical component under investigation, in which a change in motion of the moving object is correlated to an origin frame obtained from the sampling data and representing a point at which the change in motion first occurs. |
| US11514582B2 |
Method and device for image analysis
A method includes defining a background model of the video sequence by applying a first algorithm, the background model defining whether that spatial area belongs to a background or a foreground in the video sequence, wherein a detected significant change in image data in a spatial area in an image frame relative image data in said spatial area in a preceding image frame is indicative of said spatial area belonging to the foreground; indicating that an idle area of the defined foreground areas is to be transitioned from foreground to background; and determining whether the idle area is to be transitioned by applying a second algorithm to image data of an image frame of the video sequence, the image data at least partly corresponding to the idle area; wherein if the idle area is not to be transitioned, maintaining the idle area as a foreground area in the background model. |
| US11514577B2 |
Intrinsic contrast optical cross-correlated wavelet angiography
A time sequenced series of optical images of a patient is obtained at a rate faster than cardiac frequency, wherein the time sequenced series of images capture one or more physical properties of intrinsic contrast. A cross-correland signal from the patient is obtained. A cross-correlated wavelet transform analysis is applied to the time sequenced series of optical images to yield a spatiotemporal representation of cardiac frequency phenomena. The cross-correlated wavelet transform analysis comprises performing a wavelet transform on the time-sequenced series of optical images to obtain a wavelet transformed signal, cross-correlating the wavelet transformed signal with the cross-correland signal to obtain a cross-correlated signal, filtering the cross-correlated signal at cardiac frequency to obtain a filtered signal, and performing an inverse wavelet transform on the filtered signal to obtain a spatiotemporal representation of the time sequenced series of optical images. Images of the cardiac frequency phenomena are generated. |
| US11514576B2 |
Surgical system with combination of sensor-based navigation and endoscopy
A set of pre-operative images may be captured of an anatomical structure using an endoscopic camera. Each captured image is associated with a position and orientation of the camera at the moment of capture using image guided surgery (IGS) techniques. This image data and position data may be used to create a navigation map of captured images. During a surgical procedure on the anatomical structure, a real-time endoscopic view may be captured and displayed to a surgeon. The IGS navigation system may determine the position and orientation of the real-time image; and select an appropriate pre-operative image from the navigation map to display to the surgeon in addition to the real-time image. |
| US11514575B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying morphological patterns in tissue samples
A discrete attribute value dataset is obtained that is associated with a plurality of probe spots each assigned a different probe spot barcode. The dataset comprises spatial projections, each comprising images of a biological sample. Each image includes a corresponding plurality of discrete attribute values for the probe spots. Each such value is associated with a probe spot in the plurality of probes spots based on the probe spot barcodes. The dataset is clustered using the discrete attribute values, or dimension reduction components thereof, for a plurality of loci at each respective probe spot across the images of the projections thereby assigning each probe spot to a cluster in a plurality of clusters. Morphological patterns are identified from the spatial arrangement of the probe spots in the various clusters. |
| US11514574B2 |
Methods for detection and enhanced visualization of pathologies in a human eye
Various methods for the detection and enhanced visualization of a particular structure or pathology of interest in a human eye are discussed in the present disclosure. An example method to visualize a given pathology (e.g., CNV) in an eye includes collecting optical coherence tomography (OCT) image data of the eye from an OCT system. The OCT image data is segmented to identify two or more retinal layer boundaries located in the eye. The two or more retinal layer boundaries are located at different depth locations in the eye. One of the identified layer boundaries is moved and reshaped to optimize visualization of the pathology located between the identified layer boundaries. The optimized visualization is displayed or stored or for a further analysis thereof. |
| US11514572B2 |
Automatic image segmentation methods and analysis
The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image segmentation on data sets in two- and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that have the same or similar grey values (and that would otherwise render with the same or similar intensity values) and that, thereby, facilitate visualization and processing of those data sets. |
| US11514570B2 |
Tear fluid state evaluation method, computer program, and device
Provided are a method, a computer program and a device for noninvasively evaluating a state of a tear fluid and a tear fluid amount of a tear meniscus.Included are a binarization step of binarizing a tear meniscus image, obtained by capturing at least a part of a tear meniscus of a subject, using a predetermined threshold value; an extraction step of extracting a high luminance region indicating a tear meniscus part from the binarized image; and an evaluation step of evaluating a tear fluid state on the basis of the high luminance region. |
| US11514566B2 |
Cigarette filter inspection method, cigarette filter inspection apparatus, and cigarette filter inspection program
A cigarette filter inspection method of inspecting a solid flavor element to be disposed in a void between two filter plugs placed in outer filter wrapper, and the cigarette filter inspection method includes an illumination step of irradiating the void with illumination light, an imaging step of obtaining an inspection image of a region containing the void, a filler detection step of detecting the flavor element based on contrast between the void and the flavor element in the inspection image, and an inspection step of inspecting the flavor element detected in the inspection image. |
| US11514563B2 |
Infrared resolution and contrast enhancement with fusion
The present disclosure relates to combination of images. A method according to an embodiment comprises: receiving a visual image and an infrared (IR) image of a scene and for a portion of said IR image extracting high spatial frequency content from a corresponding portion of said visual image. The method according to the embodiment further comprises combining said extracted high spatial frequency content from said portion of the visual image with said portion of the IR image, to generate a combined image, wherein the contrast and/or resolution in the portion of the IR image is increased compared to the contrast and/or resolution of said received IR image. |
| US11514561B2 |
Storage medium, lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, processing apparatus, camera apparatus, method of manufacturing lens apparatus, and method of manufacturing processing apparatus
A storage medium stores correction data for obtaining a correction amount for correcting image data, obtained from an image formed by a lens apparatus, with respect to a distribution of a light amount in the image, wherein the correction data includes a coefficient of an n-th order polynomial (where n is a non-negative integer) with respect to an image height h, the coefficient corresponding to a state of the lens apparatus. The coefficient satisfies a first inequality −0.15≤dD′(h)−dDlens(h)≤1.98, where dDlens(h) represents a change amount of the light amount at the image height h per an increase amount dh of the image height h, and dD′(h) represents a change amount of an inverse of a value of the n-th order polynomial at the image height h per the increase amount dh. |
| US11514557B2 |
Method and apparatus of recovering image
The present disclosure relates to a method of recovering an image from which a motion blur is removed and an image recovering apparatus and the image recovering apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a signal generator which receives at least one of illuminance information and speed information from a sensor to determine a random flickering pattern and a triggering signal based on the received signal, output the determined random flickering pattern to a lighting unit, and output the triggering signal to a camera; and an image processor which receives an image including a motion blur from the camera to recover the received image based on the random flickering pattern determined by the signal generator. |
| US11514556B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image pickup apparatus for displaying image for use in focusing operation
An apparatus which is capable of displaying an image for a user to easily recognize the brightness and colors of an area of interest in the image and easily determine whether a subject is in focus. The amount of image shift between parallax image signals is calculated. The amount of blur in an area where an image shift occurs in the parallax image signals is determined based on the amount of image shift. A blurring process is performed on at least one of the parallax image signals based on the amount of blur. An image based on the display image signal generated based on the resulting parallax image signal is displayed on a display. The determined amount of blur is greater than the amount of blur shown by a subject image defocused by the amount of defocus converted from the amount of image shift. |
| US11514554B2 |
Method to generate additional level of detail when zooming in on an image
A viewer may zoom in on an image to see a portion of the image. The image may be analyzed to determine if zoom enhancement is necessary. The zoomed region may be matched to a replacement texture. The replacement texture may be used to enhance the image by replacing some or all of the image data. |
| US11514548B1 |
Machine-learning for enhanced machine reading of non-ideal capture conditions
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving a training image, providing a hash pattern that is representative of the training image, applying a plurality of filters to the training image to provide a respective plurality of filtered training images, identifying a filter to be associated with the hash pattern based on the plurality of filtered training images, and storing a mapping of the filter to the hash pattern within a set of mapping in a data store. |
| US11514546B2 |
Dynamically generating and updating multipliers for a transportation matching system using machine learning
This disclosure covers machine-learning methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that generate a multiplier that efficiently and effectively provides on-demand transportation services for a geographic area. The methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems dynamically adjust the multiplier with machine learners to maintain a target estimated time of arrival for a provider device to fulfill a request received from a requestor device. In some embodiments, the methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems generate a multiplier report comprising a representation of a geographic area and an indication of the multiplier to facilitate inflow and outflow of provider devices within and without the geographic area. |
| US11514531B2 |
Platform for autonomous risk assessment and quantification for cyber insurance policies
A system for autonomous risk assessment and quantification for insurance policies for computer and information technology related risks, including but not limited to losses due to system availability, cloud computing failures, current and past data breaches, and data integrity issues. The system will use a variety of current risk information to assess the likelihood of operational interruption or loss due to both accidental issues and malicious activity. Based on these assessments, the system will be able to autonomously issue policies, adjust premium pricing, process claims, and seek re-insurance opportunities with a minimum of human input. |
| US11514527B2 |
Computer systems and computer-implemented methods utilizing sensor-driven dynamically adjustable feedback loops to manage equipment based risk on an asset specific level of energy data usage
In some embodiments, the present invention provides for an exemplary inventive system that may include executable program code and a computer processor which, when executing the particular program code, is configured to perform operations of: receiving, for a population of energy consuming physical assets, asset-specific historical data and asset-specific current energy consumption data from utility meter(s), sensor(s), or both; determining, for each respective physical asset category, each respective frequency of breakdowns and each respective average severity of each breakdown; determining, an adjusted breakdown loss value per each physical asset for each respective physical asset category; determining a respective average current energy consumption value per each physical asset for each respective physical asset category; associating each respective energy consuming location to a particular physical asset category; generating, based on usage-based breakdown insurance premium value of the respective energy consuming location, an electronic alert configured to affect the location-specific level of energy usage of the at least one energy consuming physical asset. |
| US11514525B2 |
Method, system and computer program product for providing automated advice
Disclosed is a computer implemented method of providing automated advice including receiving factors for use in providing automated advice, each factor including a defined respective set of categories, and each factor and each category including a respective initial weighting; receiving a rule for generating a recommendation and using the respective weightings of the factors and categories, the rule including a set of possible recommendations such that a generated recommendation is one of the set of possible recommendations; receiving training cases, each training case including inputs relating to each factor, and to the categories, and including a respective validated recommendation; processing the training cases, to derive a respective optimized weighting for each factor and for each category, to satisfy or to match the respective validated recommendations optimally, using the rule, and storing the derived respective optimized weightings for the factors and for each category. |
| US11514524B2 |
Block placing tool for building a user-defined algorithm for electronic trading
Certain embodiments provide a block placing tool for building a user-defined algorithm for electronic trading. Certain embodiments provide for receiving by a block placing tool a selection of one or more blocks. Certain embodiments provide for receiving by a block placing tool a mapping definition including a mapping between block types and/or attributes. Certain embodiments provide for placing blocks based on a selection of blocks and a mapping definition. |
| US11514523B2 |
AI-based real-time prediction engine apparatuses, methods and systems
The AI-Based Real-Time Prediction Engine Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“AIRTPE”) transforms machine learning training input, order placement input inputs via AIRTPE components into machine learning training output, order placement output, information leakage alert outputs. An order placement datastructure associated with a security identifier is obtained. An order placement allocation for the security identifier is determined. An order placement request datastructure for a first order is sent to a server associated with a first venue. A set of trade tick data messages associated with the first venue is obtained. A set of inferred labels is determined for each obtained trade tick data message using a real-time prediction logic generated using a machine learning technique. The inferred labels of a selected inferred label type are grouped into buckets. When it is determined that the grouped inferred labels correspond to execution data generated by the first order, an information leakage alert is generated. |
| US11514519B1 |
System and methods for credit dispute processing, resolution, and reporting
Systems and methods are provided for credit dispute processing, resolution, and reporting. Credit dispute resolution requests may be received, processed, and sent to a credit bureau for submission to creditors. Status of credit dispute resolutions may be reported to consumers. If a creditor's response time is longer than its average response time or if a creditor does not respond to a credit dispute resolution request within a regulatory response period, alerts and reports may be sent to consumers to provide consumers with further options. |
| US11514514B2 |
Providing search-directed user interface for online banking applications
Systems and methods for providing a search-directed user interface for online banking applications. An example method may comprise: receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI) session associated with an authenticated user, a search argument comprising a character string; executing, by a processing device, a search query by matching the character string to account data of one or more accounts that the authenticated user is authorized to access, the account data comprising a plurality of data items representing at least one of: financial product types, financial product identifiers, financial transaction types, financial transaction descriptions, financial transaction amounts, portfolio types, accounts, and aggregated financial indicators; and causing a data set produced by executing the search query to be visually represented via the GUI session. |
| US11514512B2 |
Method for providing intuitively understandable visual representation of personal budgeting information
Apparatuses, methods, program products, and systems are disclosed for providing intuitively understandable visual representation of personal budgeting information. An apparatus includes a processor, a display device, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to generate a graphical representation of a total budget for a user as a function of a total budget amount and a size of a viewing area of the display device, generate one or more graphical representations of individual budget items of the total budget as a function of budget amounts for each of the individual budget items and the size of the viewing area of the display device, and present the graphical representation of the total budget and the one or more graphical representations of the individual budget items together on the display device sized according to the size of the viewing area of the display device. |
| US11514511B2 |
Autonomous bidder solicitation and selection system
Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for autonomous bidder solicitation and selection. A pro forma contract defined by a variables matrix of variables is created from a received procurement request. The web is scraped to identify potential bidders based on the variables. Suppliers are registered, including obtaining, through an on-line registration process, supplier registration information including commercial license information and bank account information for each supplier. Supplier registration information of the suppliers is authenticated. Bidders for the contract are selected, including creating a bidder list identifying suppliers who are to be invited to participate in bidding. Solicitations of interest are issued to bidders identified in the bidder list, the solicitations of interest including a statement of work. Bidding parties are evaluated to identify qualified bidders. A winning bidder is selected from the bidding parties. A final contract is created for the winning bidder. |
| US11514510B2 |
Auction price guidance
In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing price guidance for sellers and buyers are presented. The system receives a present item listing and accesses a set of historical item listings. The system generates a price guidance model for the present item listing and generates a set of prices for the present item based on the price guidance model. The system then causes presentation of the set of process on a client device. |
| US11514506B2 |
Listing conversion estimation and optimization
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for listing conversion estimation and optimization. A listing conversion estimation and optimization system receives a set of listing data for generating a listing of an item for sale on an online marketplace and determines, based on the set of listing data, a likelihood value indicating the likelihood that the listing will result in a sale within a given time period. The listing conversion estimation and optimization system causes presentation of a graphical indicator representing the likelihood value on the display of the listing user's client device. |
| US11514503B2 |
Method, medium and system for allocating a payment based on a free trial period
Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to the merchant, requesting an acceptance of a membership status from the merchant, and receiving an indication of the payment for the first order. |
| US11514502B2 |
Beacon triggered device to device content transfer system and method
Techniques and systems for beacon triggered device to device content transfer are disclosed. A described technique includes presenting, at an interactive beacon device, content including an interactive store catalog; receiving, at the interactive beacon device, user input responsive to the content; generating, at the interactive beacon device, a beacon message that can include transaction information based on the user input and the content, the transaction information including a service or product identifier corresponding to a product or service selected from the interactive store catalog; and transmitting, from the interactive beacon device, the beacon message over a short-range communication link to a mobile device. The beacon message can be configured to cause an application on the mobile device to advance a transaction associated with the transaction information. |
| US11514501B2 |
Navigation method, system, and computer program product based on user specification
A method, computer system, and a computer program product of providing digital navigation to a user on a user device is provided. The present invention may include communicating a plurality of navigation commands to the user for navigation within a store, wherein the plurality of navigation commands are generated in response to a user-scanned QR code at the store, and are based on a user-provided specification. |
| US11514499B2 |
Search result ranking according to inventory information
A method for returning a results page responsive to a user search query, such as a search query on a web site, may include receiving a search query from a user, determining, responsive to the query, a set of relevant products from a plurality of product listings based on a similarity of the user query to the respective product listings, retrieving inventory information respective of each of the relevant products, the inventory information comprising one or more available fulfillment channels respective of each of the relevant products, ranking the relevant products with respect to each other according to the inventory information, and returning, to the user, a search result comprising a list of the relevant products, ordered according to the ranking. |
| US11514498B2 |
System and method for intelligent guided shopping
A method and system for intelligent guided shopping. The system includes a computing device. The computing device has a processor and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code, when executed at the processor, is configured to provide inference models based on user search data. Each of the inference models includes nodes and edges between the nodes. Each of the edges pointing from a first node to a second node is characterized with a probability value. The probability value represents a probability of searching a second keyword corresponding to the second node after searching a first keyword corresponding to the first node. |
| US11514494B2 |
Telecommunications product defining and provisioning
A computer-implemented process for defining a telecommunications product in accordance with a predefined schema, the process including the steps of: receiving, via a user interface, a request from a user for a specification for the telecommunications product; receiving, via the user interface, characteristics data representing one or more characteristics for the specification from the user, including a plurality of properties for at least one of the characteristics; receiving, via the user interface, input rules data representing at least one rule for the specification, including: a selection of at least one of the received characteristics to provide a condition characteristic for the rule to operate, a selection of a rule type to define operation of the rule, and a selection of at least one of the received characteristics to provide a target characteristic on which the rule will operate; and processing the characteristics data and the input rules data, according to the predefined schema, to generate specification data representing the characteristics, and output rules data, representing the rules, such that the characteristics data and the output rules data are useable together to: generate order interface data, representing an order interface for a customer to request the product, including one or more of the properties, and generate product component data representing product components of the requested product, based on the predefined schema, for provisioning the product. |
| US11514493B1 |
System and method for conversational commerce online
This disclosure relates generally to a system and method for creating computer-generated conversational commerce. A conversational AI interacts with a human being and guides that human being through a virtual interaction while communicating and humanizing the interaction. A user makes a request, whether through voice or through typing at the computer, and the system interprets that request while making additional, natural communications with the user, such as suggesting additional items, asking additional questions to gain more information when needed, and learning from interactions. The AI simulates a human being on the website, responding to the user, and asks for additional information, as if a user were actually at a brick-and-mortar store interacting with a salesperson. |
| US11514486B2 |
Price range symbol indicator integration display system, method, and device
A method of displaying a symbol representative of changes in price during a time period, the method includes receiving, for each intra-time period of a plurality of intra-time periods in the time period, intra-time price data including an intra-time open price, an intra-time close price, and an intra-time volume corresponding to the intra-time period, determining, from the received intra-time price data, an open price, which is an intra-time open price of an initial intra-time period and a close price, which is an intra-time close price of a last intra-time period, determining, from the intra-time volume of each of the plurality of intra-time periods, a highest intra-time volume occurring within a first intra-time period and a lowest intra-time volume occurring within a second intra-time period, generating a volume normalization value for the intra-time volume of each of the plurality of intra-time periods using the lowest intra-time volume and the highest intra-time volume, generating, by a charting engine, a candle body from the open price and the close price, wherein a height of the candle body indicates a difference between the open price and the close price, and a width of the candle body indicates a difference between a start time of the time period and an end time of the time period, generating, by a charting engine, in accordance with a selected intra-time volume rendering method, a body fill area from each of the generated volume normalization values of each of the plurality of intra-time periods, and displaying, by the charting engine, the symbol, which includes the candle body and the body fill area within the candle body. |
| US11514485B2 |
Implementing and optimizing safety interventions
A network system provides interventions to providers to reduce the likelihood that its users will experience safety incidents. The providers provide service to the users such as transportation. Providers who are safe and have positive interpersonal behavior may be perceived by users as high quality providers. However, other providers may be more prone to cause safety incidents. A machine learning model is trained using features derived from service received by users of the network system. Randomized experiments and trained models predict the effectiveness of various interventions on a provider based on characteristics of the provider and the feedback received for the provider. As interventions are sent to providers, the change in feedback can indicate whether the intervention was effective. By providing messages proactively, the network system may prevent future safety incidents from occurring. |
| US11514481B2 |
Sales support marketing system
A marketing system that supports sales of goods by interlocking a customer terminal and an administrator terminal including a central server which provides an event page production tool to the administrator terminal, receives information about an event page, and transmits to the customer terminal; an administrator terminal for receiving the event page production tool from the central server to input corresponding variables to produce an event page; and a customer terminal for receiving the event page produced by the administrator terminal from the central server and inputting necessary information. |
| US11514477B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for digital advertising ecosystems implementing content delivery networks utilizing edge computing
Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for using a content delivery network to perform various functions within a digital advertising ecosystem, in ways that yield technological benefits such as improved security, efficiency, and speed (for example, reduction in publisher load times). As one specific example, a content delivery network can be used for the creation of electronic tokens for user identity protection between demand side platforms, supply side platforms, content creators (for example, advertisers), and publishers. |
| US11514476B2 |
Cross-browser, cross-machine recoverable user identifiers
Methods and systems to identify a user across multiple browsers and machines are described. In some embodiments, a web request is received at a retrieval service from a browser. The web request may include a request to access a retrieval service website of the retrieval service and may be initiated by a redirection of the browser from a requesting service to the retrieval service. A unique identifier associated with a user logged in to an account of the retrieval service may be determined. The user may be logged in to the account via the browser. A redirect request is sent from the retrieval service to the browser. The redirect may include the unique identifier and may redirect the browser from the retrieval service website to the requesting service. The unique identifier may be used by the requesting service to perform additional functionality specific to the user. |
| US11514475B2 |
Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing data use options
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for location-based distribution of data. One or more sets of data from one of a plurality of partner systems are received and stored, each set of data including at least one of a location data and a range. Application information associated with each application of a plurality of applications stored on respective mobile device is retrieved. The application information includes at least application location information. A pool of eligible applications are identified from the plurality of applications, based on the application location information of each of the plurality of applications and at least one of the location data and range of one of the one or more sets of data. A message is generated for each of the applications in the pool of eligible applications, the message including at least a portion of the one of the one or more sets of data. The respective messages are transmitted over a communications network to the applications in the pool of eligible applications. |
| US11514474B2 |
Online platform for out of home advertising
The present disclosure relates to an online platform for out of home advertising. The online platform may allow various advertisers to search for advertising panels (e.g., digital billboards), select available time periods for an advertising panel, upload an advertisement (“ad”), and have the ad displayed on the advertising panel. An advertiser can search for advertising panels using one or more search parameters (e.g., geographical location and demography of target audience). The online platform may also allow advertising panel owners to publish their advertising panels, manage availability, and approve or reject ads for display. The online platform may generate reports relating to the advertising panels. |
| US11514472B2 |
Advertising campaign to viewing device suitability matching
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) determining a first binary number assigned to a content-presentation device, with digits of the first binary number corresponding to respective segments of content-presentation devices; (ii) determining a second binary number assigned to an advertising campaign, with digits of the second binary number corresponding to the respective segments of content-presentative devices; (iii) comparing the first binary number and the second binary number; (iv) based on a result of the comparing, determining that the advertising campaign is valid for the content-presentation device; and (v) based on the determining that the advertising campaign is valid, causing supplemental content associated with the advertising campaign to be transmitted to the content-presentation device. |
| US11514466B1 |
Customized merchant price ratings
Aspects described herein may allow for generating a customized price rating using a machine learning algorithm. This may have the effect of improving the display of information about merchants by including customized, personalized price ratings that better reflect the tastes and preferences of a user or group of users. According to some aspects, these and other benefits may be achieved by using a machine learning model, trained to receive input corresponding to both user data and merchant data and output an indication of customized price rating(s) for the merchant that is specific to one or more users, and then to generate information about the merchant for display that includes the customized price rating(s). |
| US11514463B2 |
Instant personal electronic parking system and method
A personal electronic parking system and method adapted to identify, track, predict, alert, manage and collect payment, and enforce on-street and off-street parking, the system including a central cloud network adapted to generate and manage user data and parking data, a user interface adapted to show users parking information relevant to the user, a unique machine-readable code, wherein the code provides identification of a specific vehicle used by the user, one or more sensors, one or more meter devices adapted to connect with the central cloud network and the user interface, and a parking payment and enforcement portal. |
| US11514462B2 |
Computer system and computer-executed method for inventory valuation
Certain embodiments provide a computer-executed method for generating a future sales estimate for an item. The method includes programmatically accessing, from a dataset via a network device, an inventory residence time period of an item. The method also includes programmatically accessing, from the dataset via the network device, prior performance data associated with the item. The method also includes programmatically executing an inventory valuation engine to generate a future sales estimate for the item based on the inventory residence time period and the prior performance data. The method further includes executing a notification generation engine to adjust a notification policy defining a frequency or other characteristic of electronic marketing communications indicating the item transmitted to consumer devices based on the future sales estimate. |
| US11514459B2 |
Fraud reduction electronic transaction device
Tamper-proofing and secure identity validation techniques in a transaction processing system and secure electronic payment techniques are disclosed. A tamper-proof transaction processing device is provided and comprises at least two different strength adhesives to secure parts of the device together and a housing comprising at least a first and second protective layer. An electronic component comprising a secure element chip storing unique information relating to the chip is located between the first and second protective layer in the housing. In another aspect, a transaction processing system includes a payment instrument that is configured to approve only negative value and/or zero value transaction requests. Another aspect provides an identity card checking system and method where the identity card is brought into proximity of a data processing device and identity information is displayed on the screen of the data processing device for the period of time while the card is in proximity. |
| US11514454B2 |
Payment system using customer's fingerprints
Shoppers install a software app on a mobile device and create a user profile. The shopper scans a fingerprint using a fingerprint sensor. Scanned fingerprint data is wirelessly transmitted to the shopper's mobile device for re-transmission over the Internet for storage in a secured server. The shopper can add payment methods (credit cards, debit cards, etc.) to the user's profile. Participating merchants registered with the payment system provide a fingerprint sensor at the point of sale. A shopper transacts purchases at a merchant's location by placing a finger on the fingerprint sensor. Scanned fingerprint data is transmitted to a merchant point of sale device and re-transmitted over the Internet to confirm the identity of the shopper, and to complete the transaction. A shopper makes purchases online using the installed software app. Participating merchants integrate APIs with existing e-commerce platforms, allowing merchants to charge and/or request access to user payment accounts. |
| US11514451B2 |
Systems and methods for performing financial transactions using active authentication
A financial transaction method includes receiving a request to perform a financial transaction at a financial institution, generating a single-use transaction key for the financial transaction, and storing at least a first portion of the transaction key in a storage medium. The transaction key is transmitted to a user that requested the financial transaction, and an authorization request including at least a second portion of the transaction key is received from a merchant. The second portion of the transaction key received from the merchant is compared to the first portion of the transaction key to determine if the transaction should be authorized. An authorization message is transmitted to the merchant if the second portion of the transaction key received from the merchant matches the first portion of the transaction key. The financial transaction is funded from an account of the user if the financial transaction is authorized. |
| US11514450B2 |
System and method for mobile payments
A system and method for making payments using an application installed on a mobile device, which has access to at least one source of funds. Said application interacts with a Point of Sale (POS) terminal through an application server. The user “checks-in” from the mobile application into said application server and the POS terminal sends a verification request to said application server, where the user confirms payment for a purchase. An Electronic Funds Transfer processing and switching system requests authorization from an issuer for completing said payment and provides confirmation of the transaction being authorized to the application server. The application server then notifies the mobile application and the POS terminal that the transaction has been completed in order to update the transaction records. A receipt of the transaction details may be printed or sent by email to the user. |
| US11514448B1 |
Hierarchical consensus protocol framework for implementing electronic transaction processing systems
The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of an electronic framework, also referred to as a protocol or architecture, for electronically achieving, recording and implementing, via an electronic communications network, consensus among participants for the definition, implementation and operation of an electronic transaction processing system as a precursor to the operation of that transaction processing system in processing transactions according to the consensus among the participants. The disclosed consensus framework provides a system and protocol by which new electronic transaction processing systems may be developed and implemented among participants via an electronic negotiation and implementation of the operational rules therefore. The disclosed embodiments eliminate the need for out of band consensus negotiations and provide flexibility for participants to negotiate acceptable operational rules which can support complex transactional processes in an electronic environment. |
| US11514447B2 |
Duplicate concurrent transaction detection
Techniques are disclosed relating to transaction authorization. In some embodiments, a server computer system receives and caches browsing information for a device of a user, where the browsing information relates to a transaction service. The server computer system may then receive a request to authorize one or more transactions via the transaction service. The server computer system may evaluate the cached browsing information to determine whether the user is attempting to perform multiple concurrent transactions via the transaction service. Based on the evaluating, the server computer system may determine whether to authorize the one or more transactions. In some embodiments, the disclosed techniques may advantageously prevent or reduce authorization of duplicate transactions that are concurrently attempted by a user. |
| US11514446B2 |
Method and apparatus for starting smart contract, electronic device, and storage medium
One or more implementations of the present specification provide a method and apparatus for starting a smart contract, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method is applied in a blockchain node, and can include: running a timing start logic defined in a chain code, the timing start logic configured to determine a start moment of a target smart contract, and start the target smart contract when a current moment reaches the start moment. |
| US11514443B2 |
Operation management method, operation management system, and operation management program
Operation management with consistent policies and timings between nodes even in a situation where there are a plurality of administrators in the distributed ledger system is realized. In an operation management system 10 for a distributed ledger system 6 comprising a plurality of nodes, each of at least two or more predetermined nodes in the plurality of nodes manages an operation smart contract 372 for operation management of the distributed ledger system with a distributed ledger 37, when at least one node in the two or more predetermined nodes receives a transaction, the node which has received the transaction judges whether or not a type of the transaction is the operation smart contract 372, and, based on the judgment result, executes the operation smart contract 372. |
| US11514442B2 |
Secure input using tokens
A system and method for secure input using tokens is provided. A computer-implemented method conducted at a server computer includes receiving a transaction confirmation request associated with a transaction. The method includes providing, to an end-user via an online platform, a plurality of user input options associated with the transaction. The method includes receiving, from the end-user via the online platform, a unique token associated with a selected user input option, the unique token having been obtained by the end-user inputting a selection of a user input option into an end-user token generator which is configured to generate the unique token uniquely specifying the selected user input option. The method includes validating the unique token and identifying the selected user input option with which the unique token is associated. |
| US11514440B2 |
Method for issuing authentication information and blockchain-based server using the same
A method for issuing authentication information is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) a managing server, if identification information of a specific user is acquired from a user device in response to a request for issuing the authentication information and the identification information is determined to be registered, creating a transaction whose output includes: (i) the specific user's public key and (ii) a hash value of the identification information or its processed value to thereby record or support other device to record it on a blockchain; and (b) the managing server acquiring a transaction ID representing location information of the transaction recorded on the blockchain. |
| US11514437B1 |
Encapsulation of payment accounts with tokenization
A method for encapsulating transaction instrument information in a transaction includes storing, in association with a first transaction and by a processor of the primary transaction processor server, transaction data associated with a transaction instrument for a first transaction. The primary transaction processor server transmits the transaction data to a payment network processor, and receives an authorization package in response that includes a cryptograph and a first network token. The primary transaction processor server generates a second token that includes a changeable alpha-numeric string associated with the transaction instrument used in the first transaction, and transmits the second token to a merchant device. The second token indicates that a transaction associated with the second token is either i) a customer-initiated transaction or ii) a merchant-initiated transaction. The secondary transaction processor may approve or reject a transaction using the second token without a cryptogram. |
| US11514436B2 |
Biometric authentication smart card
A biometric authentication smart card may include a biometric authentication sensor configured to sense at least two types of biometric information of a user and to generate raw images therefrom; and processing circuitry configured to, generate a matching template including biometric features based on the raw images, select a user index from among a plurality of user indices based on the matching template, and output, to a payment terminal, payment class information and payment means information set adaptively for the user index. |
| US11514429B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing interaction information by using image on device display
A method for providing interaction information, such as, for example, settlement information, by which a device provides the settlement information to a counterpart device, includes displaying an image which relates to an item to be used for performing the interaction, such as, for example, a credit card image of a credit card of a user of the device, on a lock screen of the device, and receiving a touch input from the user with respect to the credit card image. In the method, settlement information which corresponds to the touched credit card image is used for performing a settlement via the device. |
| US11514425B2 |
Integrating mobile payment application with other mobile applications while preventing security exposures
A method, system and computer program product for integrating a mobile payment application with other mobile applications while preventing security exposures. A set of application programming interfaces of mobile applications that may possibly be utilized by a pass created by a mobile payment application is generated in response to receiving an indication that the pass was created. A “pass,” as used herein, refers to a form of mobile payment, such as a gift card. A selection of these application programming interfaces may then be received to interact with the created pass. In this manner, the existing mobile applications are seamlessly integrated with the features of passes. Furthermore, a virtual container is created for the created pass and the selected application programming interfaces to interface with the created pass. By creating such a container, the data to be exposed to the application layer can be controlled. |
| US11514421B2 |
Payment via messaging application
Technology is disclosed for a convenient money transfer without requiring any account login and/or creation activities. The disclosed technology enables a sender to transfer a specified amount of currency to one or more recipients through a payment application while executing an instant message application. The payment application can act as a background process associated with or incorporated in the instant message application, so as to provide the user with a “seamless” user experience. In response to detection of a specified identifier, the technology can provide a user interface to collect a numerical value corresponding to the specified amount of currency, access a list of contacts in a database of the sender's mobile device, and provide the list of contacts to the sender. The technology enables the sender to manually select recipients from the provided list of contacts and can accordingly initiate a payment process based on statuses of selected recipients. |
| US11514420B2 |
Reader
According to one embodiment, a code reader includes an interface, a scanner, and a processor. The interface transmits and receives data to and from an external device. The scanner reads a code from an item. The processor extracts a portion of code information obtained from the code read by the scanner and transmits the portion of the code information to the external device through the interface. |
| US11514419B2 |
Method of configuring or changing a configuration of a POS terminal and/or assignment of the POS terminal to an operator
A method of configuring or changing a configuration of a POS terminal by at least one operator, in which an authorization of the operator by the POS terminal is established, in which after successful authorization of the at least one operator, the at least one operator carries out the configuration or change of the configuration, in which an identification feature for identification of the at least one operator is introduced into the POS terminal, in which this identification feature is used for authorizing the at least one operator. A method of associating a POS terminal with an operator, in which the POS terminal checks the integrity of the identification feature of the operator for identification of the operator, with which the POS terminal is associated. |
| US11514413B2 |
Method and system for providing remittance function by recognizing content of a message in a messenger application with remittance function
A remittance processing method includes recognizing an amount of money in a message being input into a chatroom of a messenger run on an electronic device, calling a remittance function to the chatroom in response to the amount of money being recognized in the message, and processing a remittance transaction to another user in the chatroom as a remittance target with respect to the amount of money, in response to a remittance request from a user of the electronic device. |
| US11514410B1 |
Method and system for recording forward royalties using a distributed ledger
To manage property records using a multi-layered hybrid distributed ledger architecture, identification information for a particular property is obtained and transmitted to at least one participant in a public distributed ledger network for a public distributed ledger layer. Ownership information for the same particular property is obtained and transmitted to at least one participant in a federated distributed ledger network for a federated distributed ledger layer. Transaction-related documents for the same particular property are obtained and transmitted to at least one participant in a private distributed ledger network for a private distributed ledger. The distributed ledger layers are different layers of a property distributed ledger each having a separate set of consensus rules for appending distributed ledger data to the respective layer. This allows for the immutable preservation of royalty terms and conditions for a property or asset using the distributed ledger. |
| US11514409B2 |
Cryptographic currency for securities settlement
The present disclosure is directed to security settlement in financial markets and cryptographic currencies. Particular portions of the present disclosure are directed to a cryptographic currency protocol and to a cryptographic currency that includes a positional item. The cryptographic currency protocol supports a virtual wallet that, in various embodiments, is a security and cash account for storing and managing the cryptographic currency. Opening a transaction via the virtual wallet to transfer the cryptographic currency is a strong guarantee of the availability of funds in the virtual wallet because, e.g., funds are not transacted unless the commit phase is successful. |
| US11514406B2 |
Cascaded analysis logic for solution and process control
In some embodiments, environment solutions are received from local solution control centers for respective companies. The environment solutions generated from environmental data received from multiple environments being operated by a respective company. The environment solutions for the environment solutions are converted to anonymous environment solutions and the environmental data to anonymous environmental data. The method applies first machine learning logic to the anonymous environment solutions for the environment solutions to generate first set of solutions and applies second machine learning logic to the anonymous environmental data to generate second set of solutions. The first set of solutions and the second set of solutions are tested for comparable solutions. One of the first set of solutions and the second set of solutions is then selected based on the testing. |
| US11514402B2 |
Model selection using greedy search
Techniques for selecting models using greedy search on validation metrics are disclosed herein. A system generates corresponding predictions for a validation dataset using a plurality of prediction models. The system selects one of the prediction models for inclusion in an ensemble set based on the selected prediction model generating more correct predictions for the validation dataset than the other prediction models, and then removes the selected prediction model from the plurality of prediction models to form a reduced plurality of prediction models. The system identifies remaining data records of the validation dataset for which the selected prediction model generated an incorrect prediction, and then selects an additional prediction model from the reduced plurality of prediction models for inclusion in the ensemble set based on a determination that the additional prediction model generated more correct predictions for the remaining data records than the other prediction models in the reduced plurality of prediction models. |
| US11514401B2 |
Systems and methods for data-driven identification of talent
The present disclosure describes a talent-identification system that can be used by companies to assist in the recruitment process for new employees. Additionally, the system can be used by job seekers to determine ideal career fields and industries. The system employs an array of neuroscience-based tests to assess a user's career propensities, after which the system can provide career recommendations to the user or report on employment suitability of the user to a company. |
| US11514400B2 |
Applying for a job using a mobile computing device
Systems and methods for displaying a user interface object associated with a job candidate's social networking site proximate to a job listing presented by a website are described. When a job candidate selects the user interface object, the systems and methods identify and/or obtain information associated with the job candidate that is located or otherwise stored at the social networking site of which the job candidate is a member. Once the information is identified and/or obtained, the systems and methods provide the information to the website, such as to a job application submission system associated with the website. |
| US11514399B2 |
Authoring through suggestion
Technologies are generally provided for creating content by detecting user intent and providing suggestions associated with content actions. User intent may be determined from a number of different factors associated with the user, a document, and an environment of the user and/or content. Suggestions on content actions such as placement, style, formatting, or extent of content may be automatically made to the user. Suggestions may also be provided based on other factors such as crowd sourcing. In addition to automatic emphasis and connection, content transformation may be enabled prior to consumption after the author has created the content. |
| US11514396B2 |
System and method for determining a transit prediction model
A method for prediction model determination can include: determining a set of models, training each model, determining package transit data, evaluating the set of models, selecting a model from the set of models, predicting package transit data using the selected model, and/or any other suitable element. |
| US11514392B2 |
Energy-efficient delivery of shipments
In a method, historic delivery information is kept, which is associated with multiple deliveries of shipments, and the historic delivery information for each of the deliveries of shipments associated with the delivery information represents details pertaining to a delivery route, pertaining to an energy requirement, and pertaining to a vehicle configuration. In the method, shipment delivery information is obtained for multiple shipments to be delivered. The shipment delivery information represents a detail pertaining to the delivery position for the delivery of the respective shipment. A delivery route for delivering the shipments and a vehicle configuration is determined based on the shipment delivery information and the historical delivery information. In particular, the expected energy requirement for the delivery of the shipments is determined. Delivery control information is provided in order to cause delivery of the shipments along the determined delivery route by a vehicle having the determined vehicle configuration. |
| US11514391B2 |
Authenticating a user by delivery device using unique voice signatures
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for a user-to-machine interaction to authenticate a user to a delivery device prior to completion of delivery of goods or items. The method includes one or more processors identifying initiation of a delivery associated with a user. The method further includes generating an audio signature that corresponds to the delivery. The method further includes providing a digital file that includes the audio signature to a computing device associated with the user. The method further includes providing the digital file that includes the audio signature to a delivery vehicle. The method further includes authenticating the user with the delivery vehicle based at least in part on the digital file of the user and the digital file of the delivery vehicle. |
| US11514390B2 |
Delivery system and processing server
A delivery system including a vehicle in which a package addressed to a specific user is stored, and a moving body deployed at a delivery site of the package: the moving body including: a first memory, and a first processor that is connected to the first memory; and the first processor being configured to: transmit and receive predetermined information, and perform control, in a case in which the vehicle is proximate to the delivery site, to move the moving body from the delivery site toward the vehicle, to retrieve the package, and then to move the moving body back to the delivery site. |
| US11514389B2 |
System and method for iPS cell bank using internet technology
A system for an iPS cell bank includes a terminal and a server. The terminal receives and sends a production request including a desired collection date of a somatic cell and a customer ID to the server. The server stores a collectable date for collecting the somatic cell, a producible period for producing an iPS cell, and a location and a stockable period for stocking the iPS cell; and determines: a collection date based on the desired collection date and the collectable date; a production period based on the collection date and the producible period; an acceptance date of the somatic cell based on the collection date and the production period; a stock location and a stock period based on the production period, the stockable location, and the stockable period; and a shipment date of the iPS cell based on the production period, the stockable location, and the stockable period. |
| US11514386B1 |
System and method of displaying layout-based instructions using augmented reality
A system and method are disclosed for a supply chain entity having an inventory of one or more items and a warehouse management system receiving orders for one or more items, determining a container for the one or more items, and generating a packing plan for the items. Aspects of the embodiments may include one or more instruction rendering devices having a sensor and a displaying augmented reality instructions and feedback. |
| US11514380B2 |
Continuing interaction with ongoing transactions in ERP systems
An aspect of the present disclosure facilitates continuing interaction with ongoing transactions in ERP systems. In one embodiment, a system maintains a configuration data specifying transaction types of interest, and a respective set of actions and respective set of data fields associated with each transaction type. The system then monitors transactions performed in an ERP system to identify ongoing transactions of the transaction types. Upon receiving from a user, a request for ongoing transactions of interest, the system sends for display a list of ongoing transactions, a respective set of actions, a respective set of data fields and corresponding current values associated with each ongoing transaction. Upon receiving from the user, data indicating selection of an action associated with a specific ongoing transaction of the list, the system performs the selected action for the specific ongoing transaction in the ERP system. |
| US11514379B2 |
Work assignment queue elimination
Described is a method for work assignment queue elimination. The method includes maintaining at least one data structure including an ordered list of ticket assignment rules and assignment result metrics, receiving a ticket indicating a system problem, assigning the ticket based on the ordered list of ticket assignment rules, the system problem and the assignment result metrics, collecting metrics based on the ticket assignment, and revising the assignment result metrics based on the collected metrics. |
| US11514372B2 |
Automatically tuning parameters in a layered model framework
Techniques are provided for automatically tuning a parameter in a layered model framework. One or more machine learning techniques are used to train multiple versions of a first model that includes a first version and a second version. A second model is stored that includes a parameter and accepts, as input, output from the first model. Multiple parameter values of the parameter are tested when processing content requests using the first and second versions of the first model. A strict subset of the plurality of parameter values are selected for the parameter of the second model, such that processing a first subset of the content requests using the first version of the first model results in a first value of a particular metric that matches a second value of the particular metric resulting from processing a second subset of the content requests using the second version of the first model. |
| US11514367B2 |
Computer-based systems and methods configured to utilize automating deployment of predictive models for machine learning tasks
A method includes obtaining feature generation code from, which is configured to determine features relating to input data. The method further includes obtaining data grouping code, which is configured to generate training data by determining a plurality of data groupings for the features relating to the input data. The method further includes obtaining modeling code, which is derived at least in part by applying one or more machine learning algorithms to the training data. The method further includes applying a model wrapper code to the feature generation code, the data grouping code, and the modeling code to generate a model wrapper and deploying the model wrapper such that the model wrapper may receive a first application programming interface (API) call including an input data value, determine a score relating to the input data value, and send a second API call including the score in response to the first API call. |
| US11514360B2 |
Method and system for verifying state monitor reliability in hyper-converged infrastructure appliances
A method and system for verifying state monitor reliability in hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances. Specifically, the method and system disclosed herein entail using a supervised machine learning model—i.e., a classification decision tree—to accurately distinguish whether conflicting event notifications, logged across multiple state monitors tracking state on an HCI appliance, are directed to a real event or a non-real event. The classification decision tree, generated based at least on information gains calculated for the multiple state monitors, may reflect which state monitor(s) is/are more reliable in accurately classifying the conflicting event notifications. |
| US11514356B2 |
Machine learning model publishing systems and methods
A machine learning (ML) model publisher can, responsive to an indication that a ML model is ready for publication, generate a publication request form or page on a user device. The ML model publisher can be invoked from within a ML modeling application. Responsive to an instruction received through the publication request form or page, the ML model publisher can access a data structure in memory used in training the ML model and populate the publication request form or page with attributes required by the ML model to run. Responsive to activation of a single-click publication actuator, the ML model publisher can publish the ML model directly from the ML modeling application to a target computing system by providing, to the target computing system, a path to a repository location where the ML model is stored and information on the attributes required by the ML model to run. |
| US11514354B2 |
Artificial intelligence based performance prediction system
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based performance prediction system predicts the performance and behavior of an entity via a complex structure made of iterative and parallel machine learning (ML) model rebuilds with real time data collection. The engine selects a best model at every level and scores the entity to help in predicting the behavior of the entity. Model selection is based on various model selection criteria. The selected model determines a propensity score that indicates a likelihood of the entity migrating from a currently categorized segment to another segment of higher or lower value. Accordingly, messages or alerts with one or more of corrective actions or system enhancements can be transmitted based on the status of the entity via various targeting channels and a post treatment analysis is carried out to find the effect of the corrective actions on the entity. The feedback from the entity in response to the implemented corrective actions or system enhancements is collected for further training the AI based model. |
| US11514352B2 |
Universal quantum computer, communication, QKD security and quantum networks using OAM Qu-dits with digital light processing
A quantum computing system comprises an input port for receiving a modulated data stream comprising a plurality of bits. Orbital angular momentum processing circuitry receives the modulated data stream and applying at least one of at least three orbital angular momentum function modes to each of the plurality of bits of the modulated data stream to generate a qudit. The qudit comprises a quantum unit of information having any of d states where d has a value of at least 3. Each of the at least three orbital angular momentum function modes comprise separate orbital angular momentum states that are orthogonal to each other. A MicroElectroMechanical system (MEMS) circuitry associated with the orbital angular momentum processing circuitry generates a hologram for applying the at least one of the at least three orbital angular momentum function modes to each of the plurality of bits of the modulated data stream to generate the qudit. At least one quantum gate receives each of the qudits via at least one gate input and generates a quantum circuit output via at least one gate output responsive thereto. An output port for outputs the generated quantum circuit output. |
| US11514350B1 |
Machine learning driven experimental design for food technology
Techniques to generate experiment trials using artificial intelligence are disclosed. A training set for an experiment generator is continuously built up by using assessed experiment trials. The experiment generator is optimized using one of a plurality of optimization algorithms, depending on which mode experiment generator is to run in for an experiment. The mode is dependent on the experiment mode of the experiment. The experiment generator generates a batch of one or more experiment trials for the experiment. Any of the generated experiment trials may be tried or experimented by a user and may be updated with assessment data as an assessed experiment trial. |
| US11514348B2 |
Detecting deviations between event log and process model
A method for detecting deviations between an event log and a process model includes converting the process model into a probability process model, the probability process model comprising multiple nodes in multiple hierarchies and probability distribution associated with the multiple nodes, a leaf node among the multiple nodes corresponding to an activity in the process model; detecting differences between at least one event sequence contained in the event log and the probability process model according to a correspondence relationship; and identifying the differences as the deviations in response to the differences exceeding a predefined threshold; wherein the correspondence relationship describes a correspondence relationship between an event in one event sequence of the at least one event sequence and a leaf node in the probability process model. |
| US11514344B2 |
Systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line
Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data, extract feature data from the cell data, determine a plurality of cell configurations, determine an efficiency score by applying the feature data to a predictive model generated for predicting a production level of the manufacturing assembly line, determine at least one target cell configuration from the cell configurations based on the efficiency score, and apply the at least one target cell configuration to at least one cell by implementing each target cell configuration to a corresponding cell. |
| US11514343B2 |
Simulating degraded sensor data
Simulated degraded sensor data may be generated for use in training a model. For instance, first sensor data collected by a sensor of a perception system of an autonomous vehicle may be received and converted into the simulated degraded sensor data for a particular degrading condition, such as a weather-related degrading condition. Then, the simulated degraded sensor data may be used to train a model for evaluating performance of the perception system to detect objects external to the autonomous vehicle under one or more conditions. |
| US11514335B2 |
Root cause identification in audit data
Embodiments for cause identification in audit data by a processor. A probabilistic logical representation is extracted from text data representing a knowledge domain according to an ontology to identify one or more reoccurring problems of the knowledge domain. A root cause and one or more causal factors of the one or more reoccurring problems is automatically identified using the logical representation such that the identifying associates a confidence level for the root cause and the one or more causal factors. |
| US11514334B2 |
Maintaining a knowledge database based on user interactions with a user interface
Techniques for maintaining a knowledge database system based on user interactions with the database system are described herein. An aspect includes generating a user interface based on a knowledge database comprising a plurality of entities, wherein the user interface comprises a plurality of user interface elements, each user interface element of the plurality of user interface elements corresponding to one or more of the plurality of entities of the knowledge database. Another aspect includes receiving a user interaction corresponding to the user interface. Another aspect includes updating the knowledge database based on the received user interaction, wherein updating the knowledge database based on the received user interaction includes determining a user interface element associated with the received user interaction, mapping the determined user interface element to a first entity of the plurality of entities of the knowledge database, and performing a weight update corresponding to the first entity. |
| US11514333B2 |
Combining machine-learning and social data to generate personalized recommendations
A computing device receives a message including a request for a recommendation. A representation of a hypothetical ideal recommendation to provide in response to the message is determined based on the message content. Data regarding entities that are potential recommendations are retrieved from a data store, the data regarding each entity including a representation of the entity (e.g., a vector) derived from factual information about the entity and opinions of other users of the entity. Ranking scores are determined for at least a subset of the entities based on the difference between the entity representations and the representation of the hypothetical ideal recommendation. An entity to recommend is selected based on the ranking scores and a reply to the message is sent that identifies the selected entity. |
| US11514330B2 |
Systems and methods for continual updating of response generation by an artificial intelligence chatbot
Methods and systems are provided for a natural language processing system comprising a chatbot adapted for dialog generation. In one example, the system may include a combination of a variational autoencoder (VAE) and a generative adversarial network (GAN) for generating natural responses to input queries. The VAE may convert queries into vector embeddings that may then be used by the GAN to continuously update and improve responses provided by the chatbot. |
| US11514328B2 |
Systems and methods for parameter optimization
Methods and systems that provide one or more recommended configurations to planners using large data sets in an efficient manner. These methods and systems provide optimization of objectives using a genetic algorithm that can provide parameter recommendations that optimize one or more objectives in an efficient and timely manner. The methods and systems disclosed herein are flexible enough to satisfy diverse use cases. |
| US11514321B1 |
Artificial intelligence system using unsupervised transfer learning for intra-cluster analysis
Entity record pairs are extracted from a selected cluster of entity records. Attribute value pairs are obtained from the entity record pairs. Labels are assigned to the attribute value pairs based at least in part on entity-level similarity scores of the entity records from which the attribute value pairs were obtained. A machine learning model is trained, using a data set which includes at least some attribute value pairs to which the labels are assigned, to generate attribute similarity scores for pairs of attribute values. |
| US11514318B2 |
Multi-source transfer learning from pre-trained networks
Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes training, by one or more processing devices, a first neural network for classification based on training data in accordance with a first learning objective, the first neural network producing an intermediate feature function and a final feature function as outputs. The computer-implemented method further includes training, by the one or more processing devices, a second neural network for classification based on the intermediate feature function and the final feature function and further based at least in part on target task samples in accordance with a second learning objective. Training the second neural network includes computing maximal correlation functions of each of the intermediate feature function, the final feature function, and the target task samples. |
| US11514316B2 |
Method and apparatus for inspecting defects in washer based on deep learning
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for inspecting defects in a washer based on deep learning. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for inspecting defects in a washer based on deep learning gathers learning data while the washer operates and trains a first ANN model for diagnosing the condition of the washer and a second ANN model for securing the reliability of the result of inspection of the condition of the washer. Thereafter, the washer may make a diagnosis of whether the washer is defective based on the two pre-trained ANN models and are thereby able to continuously monitor whether the washer has an abnormal condition. According to an embodiment, the artificial intelligence (AI) module may be related to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, and 5G service-related devices. |
| US11514315B2 |
Deep neural network training method and apparatus, and computer device
A deep neural network training method and apparatus and a computer device are provided. The deep neural network training method includes: obtaining task attributes of nodes in a current network layer in a tree-like network topology (S101); performing cluster analysis on the nodes in the current network layer based on the task attributes of the nodes in the current network layer and extracting a common part of task attributes of multiple nodes in a same category as a task attribute for a parent node of the multiple nodes (S102); training a network parameter of each parent node based on a task attribute of this parent node (S103); and determining that training of a deep neural network corresponding to the tree-like network topology is completed, after completion of training of all nodes in all network layers (S104). The operation efficiency of deep learning can be improved through this solution. |
| US11514314B2 |
Modeling environment noise for training neural networks
An approach for altering alter training data and training process associated with a neural network to emulate environmental noise and operational instrument error by using the concepts of shots to sample within a squeezed space model, wherein shots are an uncertainty index that is the average of all shots from a sampling, is disclosed. The approach leverages a squeeze theorem to create a squeezed space model based on the regression of the upper and lower bound associated with the environmental noise and instrument error. The approach calculates an average noise index based on the squeezed space model, wherein the index is used to alter the training data and process. |
| US11514313B2 |
Sampling from a generator neural network using a discriminator neural network
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a data sample in response to a request for a data sample. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request for a new data sample; until a candidate new data sample is generated that satisfies an acceptance criterion, performing operations comprising: generating a candidate new data sample using a generator neural network; processing the candidate new data sample using a discriminator neural network to generate an imitation score; and determining, from the imitation score, whether the candidate new data sample satisfies the acceptance criterion; and providing the candidate new data sample that satisfies the acceptance criterion in response to the received request. |
| US11514304B2 |
Continuously provisioning large-scale machine learning models
An approach for continuously provisioning machine learning models, executed by one or more computer nodes to provide a future prediction in response to a request from one or more client devices, is provided. The approach generates, by the one or more computer nodes, a machine learning model. The approach determines, by the one or more computer nodes, whether the machine learning model is a new model. In response to determining the machine learning model is not the new model, the approach retrieves, by the one or more computer nodes, one or more model containers with an associated model to a new persistent model. The approach determines, by the one or more computer nodes, a difference between the associated model and the new persistent model. Further, in response to determining the machine learning model is the new model, the approach generates, by the one or more computer nodes, one or more model containers. |
| US11514298B2 |
High-frame-rate real-time multiscale spatiotemporal disparity on distributed low-power event-based neuromorphic hardware
High-framerate real-time spatiotemporal disparity mechanisms on neuromorphic hardware are provided. In various embodiments, a first and second spiking input sensor each output a time series of spikes corresponding to a plurality of frames. A neurosynaptic network is configured to receive the time series of spikes corresponding to the plurality of frames; accumulate the time series of spikes in a ring buffer, thereby creating a plurality of temporal scales; for each corresponding pair of frames from the first and second spiking input sensors, determining a mapping of pixels in one of the pair of frames to pixels in the other of the pair of frames based on similarity; based on the pixel mapping, determining a disparity map. |
| US11514296B2 |
Output method and apparatus for multiple neural network, server and computer readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides an output method for multiple neural networks. The method includes dividing an operator operation process for each of the neural networks or operator operation processes for part of the neural networks into multiple times of executions according to a preset ratio of output frame rates among the multiple neural networks; and executing the operator operation processes for the multiple neural networks sequentially by switching among the networks, such that the multiple neural networks output uniformly and satisfy the preset ratio of output frame rates. |
| US11514294B2 |
System and method for energy-efficient implementation of neural networks
A system and method for enhancing C*RAM, improving its performance for known applications such as video processing but also making it well suited to low-power implementation of neural nets. The required computing engine is decomposed into banks of enhanced C*RAM each having a SIMD controller, thus allowing operations at several scales simultaneously. Several configurations of suitable controllers are discussed, along with communication structures and enhanced processing elements. |
| US11514293B2 |
Future object trajectory predictions for autonomous machine applications
In various examples, historical trajectory information of objects in an environment may be tracked by an ego-vehicle and encoded into a state feature. The encoded state features for each of the objects observed by the ego-vehicle may be used—e.g., by a bi-directional long short-term memory (LSTM) network—to encode a spatial feature. The encoded spatial feature and the encoded state feature for an object may be used to predict lateral and/or longitudinal maneuvers for the object, and the combination of this information may be used to determine future locations of the object. The future locations may be used by the ego-vehicle to determine a path through the environment, or may be used by a simulation system to control virtual objects—according to trajectories determined from the future locations—through a simulation environment. |
| US11514292B2 |
Grad neural networks for unstructured data
An illustrative embodiment includes a method for analyzing unstructured multidimensional data with a neural network. The method includes designing the neural network at least in part by defining differential operators conforming with dimensions of the data. The method also includes performing forward propagation at a given convolution layer of the neural network at least in part by: obtaining one or more convolved values at least in part by performing convolution over an object within the data, processing respective convolved values to obtain output, and updating the object based at least in part on the output. |
| US11514291B2 |
Neural network processing element incorporating compute and local memory elements
A novel and useful neural network (NN) processing core adapted to implement artificial neural networks (ANNs) and incorporating processing circuits having compute and local memory elements. The NN processor is constructed from self-contained computational units organized in a hierarchical architecture. The homogeneity enables simpler management and control of similar computational units, aggregated in multiple levels of hierarchy. Computational units are designed with minimal overhead as possible, where additional features and capabilities are aggregated at higher levels in the hierarchy. On-chip memory provides storage for content inherently required for basic operation at a particular hierarchy and is coupled with the computational resources in an optimal ratio. Lean control provides just enough signaling to manage only the operations required at a particular hierarchical level. Dynamic resource assignment agility is provided which can be adjusted as required depending on resource availability and capacity of the device. |
| US11514290B2 |
Convolutional neural network (CNN) processing method and apparatus
Disclosed is a convolutional neural network (CNN) processing apparatus and method, the apparatus configured to determine a loading space unit for at least one loading space in an input based on a height or a width for an input feature map of the input and an extent of a dimension of a kernel feature map, load target input elements corresponding to a target loading space, among the at least one loading space, from a memory and store the target input elements in an allocated input buffer having a size corresponding to the loading space unit, and perform a convolution operation between the target input elements stored in the input buffer and at least one kernel element of a kernel. |
| US11514289B1 |
Generating machine learning models using genetic data
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for generating and using machine learning models using genetic data. A set of input features for training the machine learning model can be identified and used to train the model based on training samples, e.g., for which one or more labels are known. As examples, the input features can include aligned variables (e.g., derived from sequences aligned to a population level or individual references) and/or non-aligned variables (e.g., sequence content). The features can be classified into different groups based on the underlying genetic data or intermediate values resulting from a processing of the underlying genetic data. Features can be selected from a feature space for creating a feature vector for training a model. The selection and creation of feature vectors can be performed iteratively to train many models as part of a search for optimal features and an optimal model. |
| US11514286B2 |
Method for fast replacement of wireless IoT product and system thereof
A method and system for replacing a first wireless node in an IoT system includes determining, by the first wireless node, that the first wireless node needs imminent replacement. The determination may be made, for example, based on a battery of the first wireless node being below a threshold level. The first wireless node initiates a discovery protocol for a second wireless node installed in proximity to the first wireless node, the second wireless node installed to replace the first wireless node. Upon discovery of the second wireless node, the first wireless node transmits a configuration file to the second wireless node, which the second wireless node copies to a storage of the second wireless node. The second wireless node configures itself to operate as a replacement for the first wireless node in the IoT system, based at least in part on the copied configuration file. |
| US11514279B2 |
Printing apparatus for printing image on fabric formed with pattern and printing method for printing image on fabric formed with pattern
A printing apparatus includes a pattern extracting unit for, based on a comparison between first image data representing a pattern and second image data generated by imaging a fabric transported, extracting a pattern region from the second image data, a printing image generation unit for arranging third image data representing an image to be printed overlaid on the pattern so that the third image data matches the pattern region to generate printing image data, and a printing control unit for causing a printing unit to print the printing image data on the fabric transported. |
| US11514274B2 |
Geographic dataset preparation system
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media utilized to prepare datasets for geo experiments. One method includes receiving one or more input parameters. The method further includes extracting, from the data, training data. The method further includes calculating a difference in input data and a difference in response data of the training data. The method further includes determining a first plurality of geographic pairs. The method further includes extracting, from the data, evaluation data. The method further includes separating each geographic pair of the first plurality of geographic pairs into a treatment region or a control region for a plurality of simulations of a plurality of different simulation subsets for each of a plurality of different subsets of geographic pairs. The method further includes calculating a plurality of uncertainty estimates. The method further includes selecting a first subset of geographic pairs and providing the selected subset of geographic pairs. |
| US11514273B2 |
Vehicle debris strike mitigation
A vehicle computer comprises a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to detect debris flying above a roadway, to input vehicle sensor data to a first classifier that outputs a source of the debris, and based on the source of the debris, to compare sensor data representing the debris to stored reference data to determine a type of physical material included in the debris. The memory stores instruction to input the type of physical material and an environmental condition to a second classifier that outputs a risk assessment, and to actuate the vehicle based on the risk assessment. |
| US11514272B2 |
Apparatus and method for training classification model and apparatus for performing classification by using classification model
An apparatus for training a classification model includes: a feature extraction unit configured to set, with respect to each training set of a first predetermined number of training sets, feature extraction layers, and extract features of a sample image, where at least two of the training sets at least partially overlap; a feature fusion unit configured to set, with respect to training set, feature fusion layers, and perform a fusion on the extracted features of the sample image; and a loss determination unit configured to set, with respect to training set, a loss determination layer, calculate a loss function of the sample image based on the fused feature of the sample image, and train a classification model based on the loss function. The first predetermined number of training sets share at least one layer of feature fusion layers and feature extraction layers set with respect to each training set. |
| US11514268B2 |
Method for the safe training of a dynamic model
A computer-implemented method for the safe, active training of a computer-aided model for modeling time series of a physical system using Gaussian processes, including the steps of establishing a safety threshold value α; initializing by implementing safe initial curves as input values on the system, creating an initial regression model and an initial safety model; repeatedly carrying out the steps of updating the regression model; updating the safety model; determining a new curve section; implementing the determined new curve section on the physical system and measuring output variables; incorporating the new output values in the regression model and the safety model until N passes have been carried out; and outputting the regression model and the safety model. |
| US11514267B2 |
System and method for performing test data management
A system for performing test data management is disclosed. The system includes a data library having one or more databases, the one or more databases undergo a onetime data transfer to a data store, a performing test data management non-transitory storage media residing on the one or more databases, the performing test data management non-transitory storage media includes a means for performing artificial intelligence that resides on the performing test data management non-transitory storage media, a processor system, and a plurality of components and functions residing on the performing test data management non-transitory storage media, the components and functions include a first data transfer function, a data explorer component, a second data transfer function, a data modeler component, a third data transfer function, a data validation component, a fourth data transfer function, a main transfer function, and a data generator component. The system includes a corresponding method as well. |
| US11514266B1 |
System and method for training an artificial intelligence (AI) classifier of scanned items
Systems and methods are described, and an example method includes a training an artificial intelligence (AI) classifier of scanned items, including obtaining a training set of sample raw scans. The set includes a population of sample in-class raw scans, which include blocks of sensor data from scans of regions having in-class objects, and the set includes a population of sample not-in-class raw scans, which include blocks of sensor data from scan of regions without in-class objects. The example includes applying the AI classifier to sample raw scans in the training set, measuring errors in the results, and updating classifier parameters based on the errors, until detecting a training completion state. |
| US11514264B2 |
Method and apparatus for training classification model, and classification method
A method for training a classification model includes: performing training on the classification model using first and second sample sets, to calculate a classification loss; extracting a weight vector and a feature vector of each sample; calculating a mean weight vector and a mean feature vector of all samples in the first sample set; calculating a weight loss based on a difference of the weight vector of each sample in the second sample set from the mean weight vector, and calculating a feature loss based on a difference of a feature vector of each sample in the second sample set from the mean feature vector; calculating a total loss of the classification model based on the classification loss and at least one of the feature loss and the weight loss; and adjusting a parameter of the classification model until a predetermined condition is satisfied. |
| US11514262B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires information including information regarding multiple nodes and information regarding multiple links connecting the multiple nodes and acquires constraint information regarding node pairs included in the multiple nodes. The constraint information includes a positive constraint and a negative constraint. The calculation unit calculates, for each of multiple clusters, a classification proportion into which the multiple nodes are classified and calculates a degree of importance of each of the multiple clusters. The classification proportion represents a proportion in which each of the multiple nodes is classified as one of the multiple clusters. The generation unit generates a probability model for performing probabilistic clustering on the multiple nodes. The probability model is generated by using at least each of the information regarding the links, the constraint information, the classification proportion, and the degree of importance. |
| US11514260B2 |
Information recommendation method, computer device, and storage medium
Information recommendation methods are provided. Image information corresponding to an image is obtained by processing circuitry. The image is associated with a user identifier. A user tag set corresponding to the user identifier and the image information is generated. A feature vector corresponding to user tags in the user tag set and the image information is formed. The feature vector is processed according to a trained information recommendation model, to obtain a recommendation parameter of to-be-recommended information. A recommendation of the to-be-recommended information is provided to a terminal corresponding to the user identifier according to the recommendation parameter. |
| US11514259B2 |
Method for building personal style database and apparatus therefor
A personal style database building apparatus and method in which communicate a plurality of clothing processing appliances, and a server with each other in a 5G communication environment by executing a loaded artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm. The personal style database building method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes analyzing first and second clothing image information collected from a first and a second clothing processing appliance to be built the first and the second clothing image information as first and second clothing record information in a database, comparing the first and the second clothing record information, and building merged record information in which the first and the second clothing record information in the database when a similarity between the first and the second clothing record information is equal to or higher than a predetermined reference value as a comparison result. |
| US11514258B2 |
Table header detection using global machine learning features from orthogonal rows and columns
A method, system and computer-usable medium for detecting headers in various documents, such as PDF and HTML files. The files are converted to a two dimensional array or table, having orthogonal rows and columns. Either rows or columns are determined to include headers. For determining if rows include headers. For each row in the array or table, pair wise comparison is performed for each cell of each column that is orthogonal to that row. The pair wise comparison scores or values are summed up for each orthogonal column to that row and the sum across for all the orthogonal columns to row provide a score or value for that row. Row scores are evaluated relative to one another to determine likelihood of headers in the row. For determining if columns have headers, similar calculation is performed between columns and their orthogonal rows. |
| US11514255B1 |
Fast frequency switching for RFID applications
RFID readers may be configured to supply power to tags during frequency hops. When a reader is supplying power to a passive RFID tag via a first RF waveform having a first radio frequency and determines that it is to frequency-hop, the reader may determine whether the tag requires power during the hop. If so, the reader begins (or continues) to synthesize a second RF waveform with a second radio frequency while also synthesizing the first RF waveform, and frequency-hops by transitioning from transmitting the first RF waveform to transmitting the second RF waveform such that the power transmitted during the transition is sufficient for the tag to operate. |
| US11514253B2 |
Translation platform for executable instructions
A computer-implemented method and system may include identifying an embedded human language string within a programming code based on a configuration file that specifies boundaries of the human language string within the programming code, communicating the identified embedded human language string for language translation from a first human language of the embedded human language string to a second human language to create a translated human language string, receiving the translated human language string, and inserting the translated human language string in the programming code to create a translated programming source code. |
| US11514252B2 |
Discriminative caption generation
A discriminative captioning system generates captions for digital images that can be used to tell two digital images apart. The discriminative captioning system includes a machine learning system that is trained by a discriminative captioning training system that includes a retrieval machine learning system. For training, a digital image is input to the caption generation machine learning system, which generates a caption for the digital image. The digital image and the generated caption, as well as a set of additional images, are input to the retrieval machine learning system. The retrieval machine learning system generates a discriminability loss that indicates how well the retrieval machine learning system is able to use the caption to discriminate between the digital image and each image in the set of additional digital images. This discriminability loss is used to train the caption generation machine learning system. |
| US11514250B2 |
Computer-based interlocutor understanding using classifying conversation segments
Computer-based natural language understanding of input and output for a computer interlocutor is improved using a method of classifying conversation segments from transcribed conversations. The improvement includes one or more methods of splitting transcribed conversations into groups related to a conversation ontology using metadata; identifying dominant paths of conversational behavior by counting the frequency of occurrences of the behavior for a given path; creating a conversation model comprising conversation behaviors, metadata, and dominant paths; and using the conversation model to assign a probability score for a matched input to the computer interlocutor or a generated output from the computer interlocutor. |
| US11514248B2 |
Non-transitory computer readable recording medium, semantic vector generation method, and semantic vector generation device
A semantic vector generation device (100) obtains vectors of a plurality of words included in text data. The semantic vector generation device (100) extracts a word included in any group. The semantic vector generation device (100) generates a vector in accordance with the any group on the basis of a vector of the word extracted among the obtained vectors of the words. The semantic vector generation device (100) identifies a vector of a word included in an explanation of any semantics of the word extracted among the obtained vectors of the words. The semantic vector generation device (100) generates a vector in accordance with the any semantics on the basis of the vector identified and the vector generated. |
| US11514239B1 |
Creating rich communication services (RCS) message templates with graphical build and concurrent representative display
System and method for generating RCS message templates using a graphical user interface (GUI) with concurrent representative display. Templates are generated based on inputs via an input region of the GUI. Inputs can include a template name, a template type, and message content, which can include text, images, video, interactive buttons or icons, and so forth. Inputs can be static or parameterized. A representative message based on the template is concurrently displayed in a display region of the GUI. Based on the inputs, the system generates RCS message templates, such as by compiling JSON code corresponding to the user inputs and the representative display. The templates can be used to generate and send finalized RCS messages, such as text messages, rich cards, and so forth, by invoking a generated template and providing data for any parameterized fields in the template. |
| US11514237B2 |
Spreadsheet and method for updating same
A computer software program for improving electronic spreadsheets to manage and control scenarios. The program provides methods for the user to record specific changes made to selected value of cells in the spreadsheet. Each recorded item can be dragged and re-ordered via a graphical user interface (GUI) to build up a scenario script. The script can be executed whereby the spreadsheet is updated with the recorded items. The method allows complex scenarios to be played back in step by incremental step, modified, re-ordered, corrected, and re-played while generating user-defined output reports & charts detailing each step change. The method provides a detailed information trail of all value changes made to the spreadsheet suitable for an independent third-party review. Different scenario components can be recorded in parallel by multiple users and then merged to produce a complete solution. The method is scalable and suitable for scenarios requiring thousands of cell value updates (subject to available computer memory, operating system limitations, and calculation time constraints). |
| US11514236B1 |
Indexing in a spreadsheet based data store using hybrid datatypes
Aspects described relate to implementing indexing on spreadsheets and/or unstructured data stores. A first aspect comprises a system for implementing an indexing scheme to respond to a query on a spreadsheet of a workbook. The system comprises a data store, a user interface, and a processors configured to identify columns for tables in the spreadsheet, generate an index for at least one column of the identified columns, wherein the index has a hybrid datatype and equates datatypes that form the hybrid datatype, identify a formula in the query having at least one operand, at least one operator, and a key value, and identify a value in an identified column from the operand in response to the query based on the key and the corresponding index to the identified column. |
| US11514231B2 |
Web browser extension for linking images to webpages
A web browser extension identifies graphic objects from images or video being presented by a web browser. Webpages related to the graphic objects are identified. Web links that facilitate navigation to the webpages are embedded over an area of the image corresponding to the identified graphic image. Where the graphic objects are identified within video, the web links are progressively embedded within graphic object boundaries of the graphic object as the graphic objects move locations during progression of the video. In this way, a user is able to interact with graphic objects of images and video to navigate to webpages related to the graphic objects. Some implementations provide a webpage redirect command at a stop point of the video so that the user can interact with graphic objects while the video is playing and without interrupting the video. |
| US11514229B2 |
Document processor program having document-type dependent user interface
Systems and methods for document processing are discussed herein. In certain embodiments, novel document processor programs may allow for a knowledge worker to concentrate on the content of a document, rather than its formatting. Such programs may separately store layout and/or typesetting information from content, allowing for their combination after the content is created. Novel data structures and techniques are provided to permit the use of advanced version control, collaboration techniques and team/or workflows. User interfaces are also disclosed which dynamically adapt to a document type and/or a portion of a document being edited. Such features may significantly increase knowledge worker drafting efficiency. |
| US11514227B2 |
Method and apparatus for inbound message summarization
Method for displaying a message summary by analyzing the message to identify a sending institution and a message type. A message cluster is determined from the sending institution and repository of messages for multiple users. Extracted items can be identified in the message using the message type. Then the message summary can be generated using the extracted items, the message cluster, and the message structure. These summaries can be used to efficiently summarize a large volume of messages compactly. |
| US11514226B2 |
Systems and methods for the comparison of selected text
Systems and methods are disclosed for comparing selections of text to show differences between the two selections. The text may be selected from the same source or from two different sources. In one implementation, a system receives a first selection of text for comparison and places the selection in a first buffer. The system receives a second selection of text for comparison and places the second selection in a second buffer. The system compares the first buffer and the second buffer to determine differences and displays the differences. In some embodiments, the system may allow a user to choose two buffers from among a plurality of buffers for comparison. |
| US11514225B2 |
Verification platform for system on chip and verification method thereof
The present application discloses a verification platform for a system on chip and a verification method thereof, the method comprises: constructing a simulation verification environment for the system on chip; creating a bus function model unit, and binding the bus function model unit to the same interface at which a central processing unit being connected to the bus; creating an Universal Verification Methodology test instance, and performing the Universal Verification Methodology test instance by the bus function model unit to implement the system on chip test; creating a plurality of software test instances; and compiling the software test instances, and performing the compiled software test instances by the central processing unit to implement the system on chip test. |
| US11514224B2 |
Systems and methods for improving design performance through placement of functional and spare cells by leveraging LDE effect
Systems and methods for improving design performance of a layout design through placement of functional and spare cells by leveraging layout dependent effect (LDE) is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: importing a plurality of technology files associated with the layout design into an EDA system; importing a netlist associated with the layout design into the EDA system; importing a standard cell library containing pattern-S timing information of the functional cells and the spare cells; performing floorplan and spare cell insertion, wherein the spare cells are distributed uniformly across the floorplan; and conducting placement and optimization through re-placement of the at least one functional cells and the spare cells to form pattern-S with at least one timing critical cells to improve an overall timing performance of the layout design. According to some embodiments, conducting placement and optimization further includes: moving the at least one spare cells to locations to abut the at least one timing critical cells to form pattern-S for each of the at least one timing critical cells. |
| US11514218B1 |
System and method for performing static timing analysis of electronic circuit designs using a tag-based approach
Embodiments include herein are directed towards a method for static timing analysis. Embodiments included herein may include providing, using at least one processor, a database of predefined script tags and causing a display of a script at a graphical user interface. Embodiments may also include receiving an insertion of at least one tag from the database within the script and generating one or more timing reports based upon, at least in part, the script and the at least one tag. |
| US11514214B2 |
Forming a dataset for inference of solid CAD features
A computer-implemented method for forming a dataset configured for learning a neural network. The neural network is configured for inference, from a freehand drawing representing a 3D shape, of a solid CAD feature representing the 3D shape. The method includes generating one or more solid CAD feature includes each representing a respective 3D shape. The method also includes, for each solid CAD feature, determining one or more respective freehand drawings each representing the respective 3D shape, and inserting in the dataset, one or more training samples. Each training sample includes the solid CAD feature and a respective freehand drawing. The method forms an improved solution for inference, from a freehand drawing representing a 3D shape, of a 3D modeled object representing the 3D shape. |
| US11514210B2 |
Component-wise reduced-order model design optimization such as for lattice design optimization
Systems and methods for optimizing a lattice structure design are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for optimizing a lattice structure design can include (i) modeling the lattice structure with a component-wise reduced-order model (CWROM) and (ii) optimizing the CWROM based on a selected criterion using a topology optimization algorithm for lattice design. The selected criterion can include a boundary condition and a load applied to the lattice structure. By modeling the lattice structure as a CWROM, the optimization process can be very fast while still permitting the accurate computation of physical quantities of the lattice structure. |
| US11514205B2 |
Interpreter framework for a computer file
A method for an interpreter framework is described. The method includes an interpreter module of a computing system receiving a first data file that includes multiple data sections. The interpreter module identifies each of the data sections of the first data file. Each data section includes data representing a real-world entity. For each respective data section of the first data file, the interpreter module parses information about the real-world entity represented by the data included in the data section. The interpreter module generates a second data file based on the parsed information for each of the data sections. The second data file includes encoded data for rendering a digital geographic structure using information about the real-world entity. |
| US11514197B2 |
Secure device operating with a secure tamper resistant platform, corresponding system, method and computer program product
A secure device operating with a secure tamper-resistant platform including a tamper-resistant hardware platform and a virtual primary platform operating with a low level operating system performing an abstraction of resources of the hardware platform, and a secondary platform with a high level operating system providing a further abstraction of resources to applications in which respective internal hosts are embedded, the secure device including an internal host domain including the internal hosts, the secure device including a plurality of physical and/or logical input/output interfaces through which external hosts can access the internal hosts, the virtual primary platform being configured to set interactions between the external hosts and the internal hosts, wherein the internal host domain includes a further set of virtual hosts each configured to operate as a proxy between an input/output interface and an application, each input/output interface being configured to address only one among the virtual hosts. |
| US11514191B2 |
Weighted source data secured on blockchains
Technologies are shown for secure management of evaluation data that involves receiving an evaluation value signal from a source, the evaluation value signal relating to an evaluation entity having an evaluation score secured on an evaluation data blockchain and verifying whether the source is identified in trusted source data. If the source is trusted, then the technology involves obtaining a weight associated with the source, obtaining the evaluation score for the evaluation entity from a first evaluation data block in the evaluation data blockchain, where the first evaluation data block is a most recent evaluation data block in the evaluation data blockchain, calculating a new evaluation score based on the evaluation score obtained from the first evaluation data block and the received valuation signal weighted according to the weight associated with the source, and securely committing the new evaluation score to the evaluation data blockchain in another evaluation data block. |
| US11514183B2 |
Data storage system with decentralized policy alteration
A data storage system may track data access operations to a memory with a distribution module and translate the tracked data access operations into at least one activity with the distribution module. The distribution module generates a decentralization strategy and then creates a first visual representation of the at least one activity and a second visual representation of the at least one activity with the distribution module. The respective visual representations are distributed to a first user and a second user with the first user and second user respectively selected by the decentralization strategy for analysis for a purpose assigned by the decentralization strategy. The distribution module grants the first user a first temporary permission to alter at least one operational policy of the memory in response to a result of the first purpose. |
| US11514182B2 |
Method and system for generating a data-compliant workload in a composable infrastructure
A method for managing data includes obtaining a workload generation request, wherein the workload generation request specifies a security compliant rule, in response to the workload generation request: selecting a first set of resource devices using a resource allocation master list, initiating a security compliance test on the first set of resource devices to obtain a security compliance result, making a first determination, based on the security compliance result, that the first set of resource devices meet a security compliance criterion, and in response to the first determination: storing a virtual certificate in a security compliance database based on the security compliance result, and allocating the first set of resource devices to a workload based on the workload generation request. |
| US11514181B2 |
Bin syncing technique for multiple data protection schemes
A bin syncing technique ensures continuous data protection, such as replication and erasure coding, for content driven distribution of data served by storage nodes of a cluster in the event of failure to one or more block services configured to process the data. The cluster maintains information about the block services assigned to host a bin with a copy of the data in a bin assignment table associated with a state. The copies of the data are named, e.g., replica 0 (R0), replica 1 (R1) or replica 2 (R2). In response to failure of one or more block services assigned to host a bin with a replica of the data, an alternate or replacement block service may access the assignments maintained in the bin assignment table, which specify names of the replicas associated with the state. |
| US11514180B2 |
Computer-implemented method for removing access to data
A computer-implemented method is provided for removing access to data, comprising: receiving a request from the user to delete the user data; suspending control of the user data; generating a second database comprising the user data under full control of the user; deleting the user data from the database; and, on request re-integrating the user data into the same database or integrating into a further database. By providing a database under complete control of the user and outside the control of any database manager or service provider, users are given more freedom to decide what to do with their data. They can choose to protect it, or to monetize it themselves by selling it or licensing it. They can also create a plurality of copies, allowing sales to more than one database manager or service provider. |
| US11514179B2 |
Systems and methods for computing database interactions and evaluating interaction parameters
A method includes storing a test database of tests and corresponding test rules, storing a user information database, storing a profile database, and storing a threshold database including thresholds corresponding to test scores and similarity scores. The method includes, in response to receiving interaction parameters of an interaction performed by a user, identifying a set of tests based on the interaction parameters. The method includes, for each of the set of tests: calculating a score using user data of the user, corresponding test rules, and the interaction parameters; adjusting the score based on the user's profile; obtaining a threshold corresponding to the identified test; and, in response to the score exceeding the threshold, categorizing the interaction within a first category. The method also includes generating and transmitting an alert in response to the interaction being categorized within the first category. |
| US11514177B2 |
Method and system for self-sovereign information management
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation for secure data management by a service provider. A request is first received for carrying out a transaction with a user and one or more data items associated with the user are then determined that need to be validated prior to the transaction. A request is then sent to the user seeking to validate the one or more data items. When a cloaked identifier is received from the user with information related to a trusted party, the cloaked identifier is then sent to the trusted party with a request for a validation response. When the validation response is received with an indication that the one or more data items are validated, the transaction with the user is carried out. |
| US11514173B2 |
Predicting software security exploits by monitoring software events
In an approach to predicting software security exploits by monitoring software events, sets of design events are received from a compliance monitor, where the sets of design events are captured by the compliance monitor during execution of a software application. A pattern of the sets of design events performed by the software application is detected, where the pattern is a specific sequence of the sets of design events. The pattern of the sets of design events performed by the software application is compared to a database of learned patterns using a deep learning model. A security exploit is predicted based on the comparison of the pattern of the sets of design events performed by the software application to the learned patterns. |
| US11514167B2 |
Computer system having firmware verification mechanism and firmware verification method of the same
A computer system having a firmware verification mechanism includes a plurality of non-transitory storage circuits and a processing circuit. Each of the non-transitory storage circuits stores at least one of a plurality of strings not generated by using a random number. The processing circuit is configured to perform steps for firmware verification. The firmware verification includes the following steps. A to-be verified block of the device firmware is loaded. A plurality of public key composition strings of the strings are retrieved from the non-transitory storage circuits to combine the public key composition strings into a public key. The to-be verified block is compared with the public key to determine whether the to-be verified block is generated based on a private key calculated from the public key. When the to-be verified block is generated by the private key, it continues to perform a chain of trust verification. |
| US11514166B2 |
Systems and methods to protect unified extensible firmware interface protocol serviceability
A method may include, in an information handling system comprising a basic input/output system (BIOS) embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media and configured to be the first code executed by a processor when the information handling system is booted and configured to initialize components of the information handling system into a known state: receiving an indication of installation of a protocol by a producer driver of a plurality of protocol drivers integral to the BIOS, storing metadata regarding the protocol in a protocol database of the BIOS, receiving a request to consume the protocol by a consumer driver of the plurality of protocol drivers, and obfuscating the metadata stored in the protocol database from the consumer driver to prevent the consumer driver from uninstalling the protocol. |
| US11514159B2 |
Method and system for preventing and detecting security threats
A system and method is provided for implementing platform security on a consumer electronic device having an open development platform. The device is of the type which includes an abstraction layer operable between device hardware and application software. A secured software agent is provided for embedding within the abstraction layer forming the operating system. The secured software agent is configured to limit access to the abstraction layer by either blocking loadable kernel modules from loading, blocking writing to the system call table or blocking requests to attach debug utilities to certified applications or kernel components. |
| US11514158B2 |
IoT security service
The disclosed technology is generally directed to device security in an IoT environment. For example, such technology is usable in IoT security. In one example of the technology, a set of security rules that is associated with an expected condition of at least one IoT device is stored. IoT data associated with the at least one IoT device is received. The IoT data may be aggregated data that includes at least two different types of data. A determination is made, based on the IoT data, as to whether the set of security rules has been violated. An alert is selectively sent based on the determination. |
| US11514156B2 |
Method and system for executing applications using native code modules
Some embodiments provide a system that executes a web application. During operation, the system loads the web application in a web browser and loads a native code module associated with the web application into a secure runtime environment. Next, the system provides input data associated with the web application to the native code module and processes the input data using the native code module to obtain output data. Finally, the system provides the output data to the web application for use by the web application. |
| US11514155B1 |
Multifactor identity authentication via cumulative dynamic contextual identity
Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for generation and maintenance of a central identity databank for a user's digital life. The identity databank may include identity elements with payload values and metadata values corresponding immutable attributes of the user. A multifactor identity authentication protocol allows service provider devices to more reliably validate transactions with user devices via an identity system. The identity databank may include passwords, which may be generated by the identity system linked to user accounts and/or service providers. The passwords may be provided to service provider devices, eliminating the need for users to conceive of a multitude of varying passwords for the user's accounts. |
| US11514154B1 |
Automation of workloads involving applications employing multi-factor authentication
A robotic process automation (RPA) system provides bots that interact with and provide user credentials to applications that require multi-factor authentication (MFA). First user credentials associated with MFA are retrieved by the bots from credential storage. Second user credentials that correspond to questions posed to a user of an application are retrieved from credential storage. Second user credentials that correspond to a one-time password are generated by the RPA system. The second user credentials may also be generated by a third-party authentication service that provides the credentials via a secondary channel such as email or SMS, which are then retrieved for presentation to the application. |
| US11514152B2 |
Secure ciphered application login method
A computer-implemented method for allowing access to an application includes program code executing on a processor(s) receiving a username and a password as input from a user, in respective fields on a login screen. The program code generates a respective ciphered text corresponding to each of the received username and the received password. The program code displays the respective ciphered text as—a modified onscreen output on the login screen, alongside the respective entered username and password which are shown in an unreadable form on the login screen. The program code provides viewing controls to the user. The program code verifies the user based on the respective ciphered text displayed as the modified output on the login screen. |
| US11514149B2 |
Pattern matching for authentication with random noise symbols and pattern recognition
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine-readable mediums which allow for more secure authentication attempts by implementing authentication systems with credentials that include interspersed noise symbols in positions determined by the user. These systems secure against eavesdroppers such as shoulder-surfers or man-in-the middle attacks as it is difficult for an eavesdropper to separate the noise symbols from legitimate credential symbols. |
| US11514148B2 |
Password input system
A password input system equipped with a security setting function is disclosed. The system includes one input unit configured to receive an input from user; an output unit configured to output a current state and result; a dedicated communication port configured to transmit and receive data to and from a password adaptor; a memory configured to save a program for security setting function; and a processor configured to execute the program saved in memory. When the processor waits for an input of a password from user and simultaneously password adaptor is coupled to dedicated communication port, the processor receives a password through communication with password adaptor and compares received password with a pre-saved password, and when the received password matches the pre-saved password, the processor unlocks a secure state without further inputting a password. |
| US11514144B1 |
Universal identification device
A Universal identification system comprising: a Universal ID device, a Universal ID reader and a Universal ID computing system is described. |
| US11514142B2 |
System and method for multi-modal continuous biometric authentication for messengers and virtual assistants
A user authentication method in a messaging application of an electronic device. The method comprises, if at least one text message is typed by a user in the messaging application, collecting image data relating to said user and behavioral data relating to said user, and, if at least one voice message is pronounced by said user in the messaging application, collecting image data relating to said user and voice data relating to said user. The method also comprises, depending on the type of the message from text messages and voice messages, determining an image recognition score based upon comparison of the collected image data relating to said user and a stored image template data relating to said user obtained during typing or pronouncing a message by said user during a prior session, determining a voice recognition score based upon comparison of the collected voice data relating to said user and a stored voice template data relating to said user obtained during pronouncing a message by said user during a prior session, and determining a behavioral recognition score based upon comparison of the collected behavioral data relating to said user and a stored behavioral template data relating to said user obtained when said user typed the message during a prior session. The method also comprises creating a biometric score by using fusion of the image recognition score and one of the voice recognition score and the behavioral recognition score, and authenticating said user using the biometric score.Present invention allows to authenticate users in messaging applications or virtual assistants during typing and pronunciation of a message with high degree of accuracy. |
| US11514141B2 |
Dynamically varying identifiers for geocaching
A method for verifying a discovery of a geocache positioned at one or more physical locations is disclosed. The method comprises providing a first location information corresponding to a first geocache located at a first physical position; receiving from a user device a target credential corresponding to the geocache, wherein the target credential comprises a dynamically varying identifier associated with the geocache; determining a validation credential associated with the geocache; comparing the target credential with the validation credential; and determining whether the geocache was discovered. |
| US11514139B1 |
Automated registration and licensing tool
Methods and systems are disclosed for managing registrations of computers. The methods and systems provide a registration tool that may be used to automatically register the computers. For each computer to be registered, information uniquely identifying the computer is collected and sent to a remote registration server. The information is then used by the remote registration server to perform the registration on behalf of the computer. The registration may be with a software vendor, a third-party database, or with the remote registration server itself in some cases. The registration server thereafter returns a registration code or other information to the computer to complete the registration. Such an arrangement allows the registration process to be controlled from a central location. |
| US11514137B1 |
Alternative therapy identification system
An improved alternative therapy identification system increases the efficiency for obtaining information for alternative therapies. The alternative therapy identification system automates alternative therapy identification information from both a product level and a drug cost level. The improved alternative therapy identification system may also increase the efficiency by improving alternative therapy selection to occur at the prescriber level. |
| US11514136B2 |
Circuit for neural network convolutional calculation of variable feature and kernel sizes
A circuit for performing parallel convolutional computation for features and kernels of variable sizes may receive inputs of an m×n matrix of feature data, an m×n matrix of convolution data, and a (2m−1)×(2n−1) matrix of kernel data. A feature manager of the circuit may hold m rows of n data buffers storing the input feature data and rotating values between rows during one restricted convolution calculation. A kernel manager of the circuit may hold a (2m−1)×(2n−1) matrix of data buffers storing the input kernel data in the buffers and cyclically rotating values in upwards, downwards, leftwards and rightwards directions for different restricted convolution calculations. A row convolution engine of the circuit may hold m row convolution processors, each storing and updating input convolution data by multiplication-and-accumulation (MAC) operations on its input feature and kernel data rows. The circuit produces accumulated convolutional data. |
| US11514134B2 |
Method and system for solving the Lagrangian dual of a constrained binary quadratic programming problem using a quantum annealer
A method is disclosed for solving the Lagrangian dual of a constrained binary quadratic programming problem. The method comprises obtaining a constrained quadratic binary programming problem; until a convergence is detected, iteratively, performing a Lagrangian relaxation of the constrained quadratic binary programming problem to provide an unconstrained quadratic binary programming problem, providing the unconstrained quadratic binary programming problem to a quantum annealer, obtaining from the quantum annealer at least one corresponding solution, using the at least one corresponding solution to generate a new approximation for the Lagrangian dual bound; and providing a corresponding solution to the Lagrangian dual of the constrained binary quadratic programming problem after convergence. |
| US11514126B2 |
Systems and methods for saving and surfacing content
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for saving content. The method can include receiving, by one or more computing devices from a user at a first time, a first user input directed to a portion of a web page; receiving, by the one or more computing devices at a second time after the first time, a second user input describing a search query, and providing for display, by the one or more computing devices, data describing the portion of the web page in response to receiving the second user input. |
| US11514123B2 |
Information retrieval system, method and computer program product
An information retrieval system is provided. The system comprises: a client device, a server device connected to the client device, the server device being configured to retrieve information from a data storage, an artificial intelligence, AI, component, in communication with the client device, and the server device, and a feedback database accessible by the AI component, wherein the server device is configured to: receiving an input from a user of the client device, select at least one machine learning model, based at least in part on the input from the user, from among a plurality of machine learning models that are available for retrieving information from the data storage, retrieve information from the data storage using the at least one machine learning model, and provide at least a part of the retrieved information to the client device, and wherein the AI component is configured to: provide, for display at the client device, a graphical user interface, GUI, for the user to input user feedback on the retrieved information; receive the user feedback via the GUI, and store, in the feedback database, the received user feedback in association with the user and with the at least one machine learning model used for retrieving the information. |
| US11514122B1 |
Sourcing of recently created supplemental content for user interfaces
Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying and sourcing relevant and recently added or otherwise cold-sourced supplemental content (e.g., advertisements, sponsored item listings, etc.) for consideration to be presented to a user interacting with an electronic commerce system. Supplemental content that is identified as being recently added or cold-sourced is mapped to or otherwise associated with one or more search queries that are determined to correspond to a given item category. When a user interacting with a user interface enters a search query that matches a previously received search query, the supplemental content that has been mapped to the previously received search query is selected and/or otherwise sourced for consideration to be presented in a user interface including the search results. |
| US11514121B2 |
Webpage customization
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system, and computer program product for webpage customization. In some embodiments, a method is disclosed. According to the method, a webpage to be provided to a user is obtained. The webpage comprises at least a first element having a first set of style attributes. A second element matching the first element is determined from a set of elements customized for the user. The second element has a second set of style attributes. The webpage is customized for the user by applying at least part of the second set of style attributes to the first element. The customized webpage is provided to the user. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed. |
| US11514117B2 |
System and method for use of a media content bot in a social messaging environment
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for enabling use of a media content bot in a social messaging environment that supports group chat. A conversational agent, generally referred to as a “bot”, can leverage a user's interaction with the bot, to access a media server, which in turn can determine one or more items of media content appropriate for the user and/or their interaction. During a group chat, the bot can recognize music commands within the context of a particular discussion, and/or utilize music recommendation services provided by a digital media content environment, to determine items of media content appropriate for the group of users and/or their interaction. The system enables the use of media playback controls within the group chat, enabling the group of users to determine how and which media content is to be played. |
| US11514110B2 |
Method and system for flight scheduling
A computer-implemented method includes searching, by machine learning logic of a computer, a flight schedule database for one or more flight schedule records related to flight preference information specified by a user. The machine learning logic is trained with training data that includes flight schedules selected by passengers and flight preference information associated with the passengers. The method further includes responsive to locating the one or more flight schedule records, communicating, by the computer, flight schedules associated with the one or more flight schedule records to a terminal associated with the user. The method includes receiving, from the terminal, a booking indication associated with a particular flight schedule of the flight schedules and updating the training data to associate the particular flight schedule with the flight preference information specified by the user. |
| US11514108B2 |
Content search
A method comprising: enabling user definition of a search parameter; causing searching of content to find content having the search parameter and to provide the found content having the search parameter as search results; and causing rendering of the search results, using virtual reality, at different positions in a three dimensional space. |
| US11514103B1 |
Image search using intersected predicted queries
A method for receiving a first user query from a user for searching an item, forming a first filter based on the first user query, and forming a first filtered item collection is provided. The method includes predicting a new query based on the first user query and a historical query log, forming a second filter for the new query, and applying the second filter to the first filtered item collection to form a second filtered item collection. Further, associating an item score to each of a plurality of items in the first and second filtered item collections, sorting the plurality of items in the first and second filtered item collections according to the item score associated to each of the plurality of items, and providing, to a user display, an item in the plurality of items in the first or second filtered item collections according to a sorting order. |
| US11514101B2 |
System and method for annotating images
A method and system for electronically annotating an image, or preferably, specific portions of an image, with information. In one aspect, a user may generate an image, annotate the image, and upload or otherwise disseminate the annotated image to a web page or the like. Annotations are provided as labels that provide information about the image or items therein. Further users may access the labels to access the information. The labels further enable searching and contextual advertising. |
| US11514095B2 |
Tiered retrieval of secured documents
Approaches presented herein enable presenting, as an initial response to a search query from a user, a set of analytic summaries prior to initiating a document security protocol in a secured document environment. Each analytic summary represents a set or cluster of documents. A summary relevance value is calculated for each analytic summary and a document relevance value is calculated for each individual document. Analytic summaries are presented to the user while each document within each analytic summary are prioritized for a security review based on its related summary relevance value and document relevance value. Based on the priorities, a security review is initiated for the documents so that a highly relevant document within an analytic summary undergoes the security review before a less relevant document. Access to a particular document is granted to the user according to the security review of the document. |
| US11514085B2 |
Learning system for pangenetic-based recommendations
An embodiment may involve storing, by a computing device and in a database, a set of pangenetic attributes of a set of individuals, wherein the pangenetic attributes of the set are respectively and statistically associated with products; based on the statistical associations between the pangenetic attributes and the products, determining, by the computing device, product recommendations for a second set of individuals; receiving, by the computing device and from the second set of individuals, a plurality of measures of satisfaction with the product recommendations; based on the plurality of measures of satisfaction, learning, by the computing device, an association between a subset of the pangenetic attributes and a particular product; and storing, by the computing device and in the database, the learned association, wherein the learned association provides a basis for subsequent recommendations of the particular product when a subsequent individual exhibits the subset of the pangenetic attributes. |
| US11514084B2 |
Extraction of prototypical trajectories for automatic classification of network KPI predictions
In one embodiment, a service divides one or more time series for a network key performance (KPI) into a plurality of time series chunks. The service clusters the plurality of time series chunks into a plurality of clusters. The service identifies a sketch that represents a particular one of the clusters. The service associates a label with the identified sketch. The service applies the label to a new KPI time series by matching the sketch to the new KPI time series. |
| US11514083B2 |
Data processing system and data processing method
A data processing system according to one embodiment includes first and second data storage devices having a storage medium capable of permanently storing data; a data holding device having a storage medium capable of storing the data at a higher speed than the first and second data storage devices; and a controller that determines the type of data to be processed, and, in the case where the data to be processed is structured data, stores the data to be processed in the data holding device, then, collectively, in the first data storage device, and, in the case where the data to be processed is binary data, stores the data to be processed in the data holding device and in the second data storage device. |
| US11514081B2 |
Building profiles for clusters with smart union of individual profiles
A system for generating a cluster profile is provided. The system may include a server and a database. The server may be configured to receive event information from a plurality of consumer devices. The database may store a plurality of member profiles. The server may be configured to retrieve the member profiles from the database and may determine a subset of member profiles to associate with a cluster; the server may calculate an intersection of the facts from the subset of member profiles and may generate a cluster profile based on the intersection of the facts from the subset of member profiles. |
| US11514074B2 |
Method and system for optimizing data replication for large scale archives
A method and system for processing query requests, including receiving, at a secondary site, a query request from a client and executing the query request to obtain an archive replica package (ARP). The method further includes making a determination that a record associated with the ARP is not stored at the secondary site and based on the determination, transmitting a request to a primary site. The method further includes, in response to the request to the primary site, receiving an archive package and a record where the archive package is associated with the record, and providing the first record to the client. |
| US11514071B2 |
Integrated application server and data server processes with matching data formats
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising storing data in an application using an application custom data type and application custom data structure. The data is stored in a database using the application custom data type and the application custom data structure. In one embodiment, a request is sent to access the data from the application to the database. The data is retrieved from the database in response to the request in the application custom data type and the application custom data structure. In one embodiment, the data is sent from the database to a shared memory in the application custom data type and the application custom data structure and the data is retrieved by the application from the shared memory in the application custom data type and the application custom data structure. |
| US11514069B1 |
Aggregation of contextual data and internet of things (IoT) device data
Technology is described for processing Internet of Things (IoT) device data. IoT device data may be received from an IoT device. Contextual data that is related to the IoT device data from the IoT device may be identified. A first schema that defines the IoT device data and a second schema that defines the contextual data may be identified. A relational database that merges the IoT device data with the contextual data may be created. Knowledge of the first schema and the second schema may enable the IoT device data and the contextual data to be read and organized in the relational database. |
| US11514068B1 |
Data validation system
A validation system and method are provided that examine data for use in tracking and/or generating an action plan. Data is received and stored at an implementation data store from production data sources. Evaluation rules are applied to the data by a data storage system. The evaluation rules are applied by running previously created scripts of commands of the data storage system. Applying the evaluation rules to the one or more sets of the data outputs a deviation measure for at least one of the sets of the data. The deviation measure and a restricted list of defined validation decisions is presented to an analyst for the data. A selected validation decision is received, and the data is validated for use in the action plan, rejected for use in the action plan, or identified as requiring additional analysis before being validated for use in the action plan. |
| US11514061B2 |
Healthcare provider search based on experience
The embodiments of the present application relate to providing a distributed network-based system that allows users to search for potential healthcare providers that satisfy certain criteria and to dynamically identify healthcare providers that best meet a user's particular needs as defined by each specific search. In embodiments, the system creates experience score for each particular provider who matches the search criteria. The experience score is dynamically determined based on the type of search that is performed (e.g., search by specialty or search by condition or procedure), the query terms used in the search, and other factors including for example, the medical specialty/specialties the provider practices relative to the search performed, evidence the provider treats a condition and/or performs a procedure that matches the consumer's search, patient volume for the searched condition or procedure, total volume of patients, board certification(s) relevant to searched performed, disciplinary action information, malpractice claims history, and degree level attained by the healthcare provider. In other embodiments, the system dynamically ranks healthcare providers within a search results list from best choice to worst choice based on several factors including, for example, the type of search, the query terms used in the search, the quantity of providers who match the query, the locations of the providers who match the query, and the quality and other characteristics of providers who match the search query. |
| US11514059B2 |
Intelligent contact search using graph models
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for improved searching of contact information that includes receiving a request for a member's contact information. An initial list of candidates is returned. Based on organizational charts, distances between candidates and a point of reference are calculated, calculation is made as to a number of messages that are exchanged between candidates and the point of reference. Scores are determined based on the calculations. The scores are aggregated, and a refined list of candidates' contact information based on the aggregated scores is returned. |
| US11514058B2 |
Context rules for a graph
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to context rules in a graph or isolated collection. In an example, information in an isolated collection may be associated with one or more contexts. The information may be represented within the isolated collection based on one or more rules, and one or more of the rules may be associated with one or more contexts to which the information relates, thereby indicating a context association. A context association may indicate a positive, negative, or other relationship between one or more rules and one or more contexts. Based on the context association, information within the isolated collection may be adapted to generate different views of the isolated collection for different contexts. As such, relevant, useful, or actionable information may be included or emphasized, while information that is not as relevant, useful, or actionable may be omitted or deemphasized. |
| US11514055B2 |
Querying on hybrid formats and storages
Techniques are described for querying on hybrid formats and storages by a DBMS to leverage faster mirror format (MF) data and completeness of persistent format (PF) data. In an embodiment, the DBMS receives a query that specifies both in-memory and disk-only columns. The DBMS identifies that a scan-based operation is referencing an in-memory column stored within both MF and PF data. The DBMS may initiate performing the operation on the in-memory column on one of the formats of data. While doing so, the DBMS may determine that the actual improvement metric for the operation on the selected format data is not achieving the desired improvement. If so, the DBMS may dynamically switch the performing of the scan-based operation to the other format of the same data. |
| US11514051B1 |
Tags and permissions in a content management system
A method and a content management system (CMS) that enable storage and retrieval of structured content are disclosed. In one example, CMS includes means for configuring a content project. The content project includes a content model, and the content model defines a plurality of content types for the content project. The CMS includes a plurality of content entries defined according to the content types. Each content entry is structured in accordance with a given content type from which the content entry is defined. Multiple content entries are defined from a given content type. The CMS includes at least one tag configured to be set in association with any of the plurality of content entries. The method includes means for exposing a content delivery API (CDA) configured to enable, through a single API call to the CDA that references the tag, retrieval of the content entries across the plurality of content types that have the tag set in association therewith. |
| US11514050B2 |
Method and system for ascertaining a hue
The invention relates to a system and a method for ascertaining a color recipe, having the steps of: a) providing a database with a plurality of data sets, b) specifying a target application method, a target substrate, and a desired target hue by means of a user, c) searching the database using a computer program, and d) displaying stored information relating to the color recipe of at least one data set if found. The database for at least one hue comprises at least two different respective data sets, each of which comprises the same hue identification code but different substrates and/or application methods, and different color recipes, and the database for at least one color recipe comprises at least two different respective data sets, each of which comprises the same color recipe identification code but different substrates and/or application methods, and the resulting hue, wherein i) at least 90% of the data sets with different hues contain a respective different hue identification code than the other data sets, and/or ii) at least 90% of the data sets with different color recipes contain a respective different color recipe identification code than the other data sets. |
| US11514045B2 |
Structured cluster execution for data streams
A system for executing a streaming query includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a logical query plan. The processor is configured to determine a physical query plan based at least in part on the logical query plan. The physical query plan comprises an ordered set of operators. Each operator of the ordered set of operators comprises an operator input mode and an operator output mode. The processor is further configured to execute the physical query plan using the operator input mode and the operator output mode for each operator of the query. |
| US11514042B1 |
Managing multiple cache specifications within a database environment
Technologies are described for managing multiple cache specifications for a single view in a database environment. For example, a plurality of caches can be crated for the single view. Each of the plurality of caches can have a different cache specification. A query can then be received that operates on the single view. One of the plurality of caches can be selected for processing the query based at least in part on the cache specifications. The query can be processed using the selected cache. Results of processing the query can be output. |
| US11514036B2 |
Method and system for self-learning natural language predictive searching
Systems and methods are provided for self-learning natural language predictive searching including receiving a first input, the first input being related to the desired outcome; retrieving a first information related to the first input; determining a first output based on at least the first input and the first information; outputting the first output; receiving a second input based on the outputted first output in response to the first output being different from the desired outcome, the second input being related to the desired outcome; retrieving, by the processor, a second information related to the second input; determining a second output based on at least the second input, the second information, the first input and the first information; and outputting the second output. |
| US11514027B2 |
Paged hybrid LOBs
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for storing a large object (LOB) in a database. An embodiment operates by identifying the LOB to be stored in an on-disk store of the database and determining the size of the LOB. Thereafter, an index vector for the on-disk store to include an identifier corresponding to the LOB is created. Additionally, a dictionary for the on-disk store to include a copy of the identifier and corresponding LOB data is also created. The LOB data corresponds to the LOB itself or a LOB location inside of the on-disk store based on the LOB's size. |
| US11514021B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for scanning a legacy database
Embodiments herein relate to replacing a legacy Pick environment with a modern microservice architecture. A legacy database and a modern database may be operated in parallel for data validation. Part of the data validation may include scanning the legacy database for updates to items stored thereon. Embodiments herein may generate an update message by combining item keys from across the multiple files that correspond with a same business object. |
| US11514018B2 |
Method and data conversion unit for monitoring an automation system
The invention includes a method for monitoring an automated plant having at least one field device, wherein a first cloud-capable database, having a first data configuration and containing field device related data including measured values, parameter values, identification data, and diagnostic status of the field device, wherein a second cloud-capable database having a second data configuration incompatible with the first data configuration, and wherein the first and the second data configurations define file formats of the data, the method comprises: retrieving at least a part of the data contained in the first database by means of a data conversion unit, especially an edge device or a gateway; converting the retrieved data into a format conforming to the second data configuration; and storing the converted data in the second database. The invention further includes a data conversion unit, which is embodied for executing the method of the invention. |
| US11514014B2 |
Staggered merging in log-structured merge forests
At least one aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a systems and methods of maintaining key-value stores. The method can include establishing a first run of data records indexed by a key value. The method can include tracking, using an index, a merging of the data records of the first run onto a merge level on a database. The method can include establishing, concurrent to the merging of the first run, a second run of data records indexed by a key value. The method can include determining that the index tracking the merge of the data records of the first run onto the merge level satisfies a quantile condition. The method can include adding the subset of the second plurality of records of the second run to the merging of the first plurality of records of the first run onto the merge level maintained on the database. |
| US11514013B2 |
Data governance with custom attribute based asset association
A computer-implemented method includes: reading a vector of a first table in a database, the vector including counts of a plurality of keywords in the first table, the plurality of keywords including a first keyword and a second keyword; determining a first custom attribute describing the first table, the first custom attribute having a vector including counts of at least a first portion of the plurality of keywords in the first table; determining a multiplier of the first custom attribute, the multiplier being a number of other tables that reference the first custom attribute; and revising the vector of the first table based on the first custom attribute. |
| US11514010B2 |
Deduplication-adapted CaseDB for edge computing
Disclosed is a data deduplication method for an edge computer. The method is performed in a key-value store, and may include receiving a compaction request occurred from the key-value store to a metadata layer, checking whether deduplication for removing duplicated data is required when compaction of a metadata file is performed in response to the received compaction request, and removing the duplicated data by checking whether the deduplication is required. |
| US11514009B2 |
Method and systems for mapping object oriented/functional languages to database languages
In a pipeline of operations having a terminating operation and a source operation, a builder is built corresponding to the terminating operation. The builder may also correspond to one or more intermediate operations. A database query is generated corresponding to the builder and is sent to a database or a data source for efficient access to the database. |
| US11514007B1 |
Dynamic data processing for a semantic data storage architecture
Computer-readable media, methods, and systems are disclosed for storing and analyzing dynamic data within a semantic data store. The dynamic data comprises one or more types of data having a normalized data schema. A dynamic data manager interfaces with the semantic data store to instruct storage of the data. The data may be received through an event service from either of an external data source or an internal data source. |