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| US11581313B2 |
Integration of III-N transistors and non-III-N transistors by semiconductor regrowth
Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistors integrated on the same support structure as non-III-N transistors (e.g., Si-based transistors), using semiconductor regrowth. In one aspect, a non-III-N transistor may be integrated with an III-N transistor by depositing a III-N material, forming an opening in the III-N material, and epitaxially growing within the opening a semiconductor material other than the III-N material. Since the III-N material may serve as a foundation for forming III-N transistors, while the non-III-N material may serve as a foundation for forming non-III-N transistors, such an approach advantageously enables implementation of both types of transistors on a single support structure. Proposed integration may reduce costs and improve performance by enabling integrated digital logic solutions for III-N transistors and by reducing losses incurred when power is routed off chip in a multi-chip package. |
| US11581312B2 |
Semiconductor devices having different numbers of stacked channels in different regions and methods of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device may include first channels on a first region of a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, second channels on a second region of the substrate and spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction, a first gate structure on the first region of the substrate and covering at least a portion of a surface of each of the first channels, and a second gate structure on the second region of the substrate and covering at least a portion of a surface of each of the second channels. The second channels may be disposed at heights substantially the same as those of corresponding ones of the first channels, and a height of a lowermost one of the second channels may be greater than a height of a lowermost one of the first channels. |
| US11581309B2 |
Tracking temperature compensation of an x/y stress independent resistor
An integrated circuit comprises a semiconductor substrate having a surface. A lateral resistor is arranged in a first plane parallel to the surface of the substrate. A vertical reference resistor comprises a layer arranged in a second plane parallel to the surface of the substrate and deeper than the first plane. This layer is doped to promote current flow in the second plane. The vertical reference resistor further comprises a first trench and a second trench coupled between the layer and the surface of the substrate. The first and second trenches are arranged in a vertical direction orthogonal to the first and the second planes and are doped to impede current flow in the vertical direction. A cross-section of the first and second trenches is two-fold rotationally symmetric around the vertical direction, and the lateral resistor and the first and second trenches have the same temperature coefficient. |
| US11581305B2 |
High voltage protection for high-speed data interface
Various apparatuses, systems, methods, and media are disclosed to provide over-voltage protection to a data interface of a multi-protocol memory card that includes a first communication interface and a second communication interface that enable communication using different protocols. An interface voltage protection circuit includes a control circuit configured to receive a first supply voltage for operating the first communication interface. The interface voltage protection circuit further includes a pull-down circuit operatively connected with the control circuit, configured to pull down a voltage at a supply voltage rail of the second communication interface such that a voltage at a plurality of connector terminals of the second communication interface is lower than the first supply voltage. |
| US11581304B2 |
Protection device
The present disclosure provides an electronic device that includes a substrate. The substrate includes a well and a peripheral insulating wall laterally surrounding the well. At least one lateral bipolar transistor is formed in the well, and the at least one transistor has a base region extending under parallel collector and emitter regions. The peripheral insulating wall is widened in a first direction, parallel to the collector and emitter regions, so that the base region penetrates into the peripheral insulating wall. |
| US11581300B2 |
Semiconductor device including source/drain contact having height below gate stack
A method is disclosed, including the following operations: arranging a first gate structure extending continuously above a first active region and a second active region of a substrate; arranging a first separation spacer disposed on the first gate structure to isolate an electronic signal transmitted through a first gate via and a second gate via that are disposed on the first gate structure, in which the first gate via and the second gate via are arranged above the first active region and the second active region respectively; and arranging a first local interconnect between the first active region and the second active region, in which the first local interconnect is electrically coupled to a first contact disposed on the first active region and a second contact disposed on the second active region. |
| US11581299B2 |
Flexible impedance network system
Techniques and architecture are disclosed for a method for making a custom circuit comprising forming a common wafer template, selecting at least two elements of the common wafer template to be chosen elements, and adding at least one metal layer to interconnect the chosen elements to form a circuit. The common wafer template includes a plurality of transistors, a plurality of resistors, a plurality of capacitors, and a plurality of bond pads. Final circuit customization of the common wafer template is accomplished by adding at least one metal layer that forms interconnects to passive and active elements in the template in order to complete the circuit. |
| US11581298B2 |
Zero mask high density capacitor
Methods and semiconductor devices are described herein which eliminate the use of additional masks. A first interconnect layer is formed. A first resistive layer is formed on top of the first interconnect layer. A dielectric layer is formed on top of the first resistive layer. A second resistive layer is formed on top of the dielectric layer. |
| US11581297B2 |
Memory devices having cell over periphery structure, memory packages including the same, and methods of manufacturing the same
A memory device includes first and second semiconductor layers. The first semiconductor layer includes wordlines and bitlines, an upper substrate, and a memory cell array. The memory cell array includes a memory blocks. The second semiconductor layer includes a lower substrate, and an address decoder. Each memory block includes a core region including a memory cells, a first extension region adjacent to a first side of the core region and including a plurality of wordline contacts, and a second extension region adjacent to a second side of the core region and including an insulating mold structure. The second extension region includes step zones and at least one flat zone. Through-hole vias penetrating the insulating mold structure are in the flat zone. The wordlines and the address decoder are electrically connected with each other by at least the through-hole vias. |
| US11581294B2 |
Optoelectronic device with light-emitting diodes
An optoelectronic device including: a first circuit including a substrate having first and second opposite faces, the first circuit having display pixels, each display pixel having, on the side of the first face, a first light-emitting diode having a first active region adapted to emit a first radiation and, extending from the second face, a second light-emitting diode having a second active region adapted to emit a second radiation, the surface area, viewed from a direction orthogonal to the first face, of the first active region being at least twice as big as the surface area, viewed from the direction, of the second active region; and a second circuit bonded to the first circuit on the side of the first light-emitting diode and electrically linked to the first and second light-emitting diodes. |
| US11581292B2 |
IC package with top-side memory module
A printed circuit board (PCB) system includes a first printed circuit board (PCB), an integrated circuit (IC) package, and a memory module. The IC package includes i) a package substrate, ii) a main IC chip that is electrically coupled to a top surface of the package substrate, iii) first contact structures that are disposed on a bottom surface of the package substrate and that are electrically coupled to the first PCB, and iv) second contact structures that are disposed on a top surface of the package substrate. The memory module includes i) a second PCB, ii) one or more memory IC chips that are disposed on the second PCB, and iii) third contact structures that are disposed on a bottom surface of the second PCB. An interposer electrically couples the second contact structures of the IC package with the third contact structures of the memory module. |
| US11581282B2 |
Serializer-deserializer die for high speed signal interconnect
In embodiments, a semiconductor package may include a first die and a second die. The package may additionally include a serializer/deserializer (SerDes) die coupled with the first and the second dies. The SerDes die may be configured to serialize signals transmitted from the first die to the second die, and deserialize signals received from the second die. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11581279B2 |
Semiconductor device
Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a conductive pattern on a substrate, a passivation layer on the substrate and including an opening that partially exposes the conductive pattern, and a pad structure in the opening of the passivation layer and connected to the conductive pattern. The pad structure includes a first metal layer that fills the opening of the passivation layer and has a width greater than that of the opening, and a second metal layer on the first metal layer. The first metal layer has a first thickness at an outer wall of the first metal layer, a second thickness on a top surface of the passivation layer, and a third thickness on a top surface of the conductive pattern. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness, and the third thickness is greater than the second thickness. |
| US11581277B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a bonding substrate which includes a first chip forming portion having first metal pads provided at a semiconductor substrate and a first circuit connected to the first metal pads, and a second chip forming portion having second metal pads joined to the first metal pads and a second circuit connected to the second metal pads and being bonded to the first chip forming portion; and an insulating film which is filled into a non-bonded region between the first chip forming portion and the second chip forming portion at an outer peripheral portion of the bonding substrate. At least a part of the insulating film contains at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon nitride and nitrogen-containing silicon carbide. |
| US11581274B2 |
Semiconductor device package and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate and a shielding layer. The substrate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a first lateral surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The substrate has an antenna pattern disposed closer to the second surface than the first surface. The shielding layer extends from the first surface toward the second surface of the substrate. The shielding layer covers a first portion of the first lateral surface adjacent to the first surface of the substrate. The shielding layer exposes a second portion of the first lateral surface adjacent to the second surface of the substrate. |
| US11581273B2 |
Semiconductor device package and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device package includes a first circuit layer and an emitting device. The first circuit layer has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a lateral surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The emitting device is disposed on the second surface of the first circuit layer. The emitting device has a first surface facing the second surface of the first circuit layer, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a lateral surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The emitting device has a conductive pattern disposed on the second surface of the emitting device. The lateral surface of the emitting device and the lateral surface of the first circuit layer are discontinuous. |
| US11581270B2 |
Integrated circuit containing a decoy structure
An integrated circuit includes a substrate, an interconnection part, and an isolating region located between the substrate and the interconnection part. A decoy structure is located within the isolating region and includes a silicided sector which is electrically isolated from the substrate. |
| US11581269B2 |
Semiconductor thin film structures and electronic devices including the same
A semiconductor thin film structure may include a substrate, a buffer layer on the substrate, and a semiconductor layer on the buffer layer, such that the buffer layer is between the semiconductor layer and the substrate. The buffer layer may include a plurality of unit layers. Each unit layer of the plurality of unit layers may include a first layer having first bandgap energy and a first thickness, a second layer having second bandgap energy and a second thickness, and a third layer having third bandgap energy and a third thickness. One layer having a lowest bandgap energy of the first, second, and third layers of the unit layer may be between another two layers of the first, second, and third layers of the unit layer. |
| US11581267B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device with protection structure and air gaps
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device with a protection structure for suppressing electromagnetic interference and air gaps for reducing parasitic capacitance. The method includes providing a first semiconductor die, forming a connecting dielectric layer above the first semiconductor die, forming a first trench in the connecting dielectric layer, forming a plurality of sacrificial spacers on sides of the first trench, forming a first protection structure in the first trench, and performing an energy treatment to turn the plurality of sacrificial spacers into a plurality of air gaps. The plurality of sacrificial spacers are formed of an energy-removable material and the first protection structure is formed of copper, aluminum, titanium, tungsten, or cobalt. |
| US11581263B2 |
Semiconductor package, and package on package having the same
A semiconductor package includes: a redistribution layer including a plurality of redistribution insulating layers, a plurality of redistribution line patterns that constitute lower wiring layers, and a plurality of redistribution vias that are connected to some of the plurality of redistribution line patterns while penetrating at least one of the plurality of redistribution insulating layers; at least one semiconductor chip arranged on the redistribution layer; an expanded layer surrounding the at least one semiconductor chip on the redistribution layer; and a cover wiring layer including at least one base insulating layer, a plurality of wiring patterns that constitute upper wiring layers, and a plurality of conductive vias that are connected to some of the plurality of wiring patterns while penetrating the at least one base insulating layer. |
| US11581259B2 |
Hybrid conductive structures
The present disclosure describes a method for the fabrication of ruthenium conductive structures over cobalt conductive structures. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a first opening in a dielectric layer to expose a first cobalt contact and filling the first opening with ruthenium metal to form a ruthenium contact on the first cobalt contact. The method also includes forming a second opening in the dielectric layer to expose a second cobalt contact and a gate structure and filling the second opening with tungsten to form a tungsten contact on the second cobalt contact and the gate structure. Further, the method includes forming a copper conductive structure on the ruthenium contact and the tungsten contact, where the copper from the copper conductive structure is in contact with the ruthenium metal from the ruthenium contact. |
| US11581258B2 |
Semiconductor device structure with manganese-containing interconnect structure and method for forming the same
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device structure with a manganese-containing interconnect structure and a method for forming the semiconductor device structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a first interconnect structure disposed in a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate, and a second interconnect structure disposed in the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first interconnect structure. The first interconnect structure includes a first conductive line, and a first manganese-containing layer disposed over the first conductive line. The second interconnect structure includes a second conductive line, and a second manganese-containing layer disposed between the second conductive line and the dielectric layer. |
| US11581253B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including an interlayer insulating layer on a substrate; a conductive line on the interlayer insulating layer; and a contact plug penetrating the interlayer insulating layer, the contact plug being connected to the conductive line, wherein the contact plug includes an upper pattern penetrating an upper region of the interlayer insulating layer, the upper pattern protruding upwardly from a top surface of the interlayer insulating layer, the upper pattern includes a first portion penetrating the upper region of the interlayer insulating layer; and a second portion protruding upwardly from the top surface of the interlayer insulating layer, and a width of a lower region of the second portion in a direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate is greater than a width of an upper region of the second portion in the direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate. |
| US11581250B2 |
Package with metal-insulator-metal capacitor and method of manufacturing the same
A package includes a chip formed in a first area of the package and a molding compound formed in a second area of the package adjacent to the first area. A first polymer layer is formed on the chip and the molding compound, a second polymer layer is formed on the first polymer layer, and a plurality of interconnect structures is formed between the first polymer layer and the second polymer layer. A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is formed on the second polymer layer and electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of interconnect structures. A metal bump is formed over and electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of interconnect structures. |
| US11581241B2 |
Circuit modules with front-side interposer terminals and through-module thermal dissipation structures
A circuit module (e.g., an amplifier module) includes a module substrate, a thermal dissipation structure, a semiconductor die, encapsulant material, and an interposer. The module substrate has a mounting surface and a plurality of conductive pads at the mounting surface. The thermal dissipation structure extends through the module substrate, and a surface of the thermal dissipation structure is exposed at the mounting surface of the module substrate. The semiconductor die is coupled to the surface of the thermal dissipation structure. The encapsulant material covers the mounting surface of the module substrate and the semiconductor die, and a surface of the encapsulant material defines a contact surface of the circuit module. The interposer is embedded within the encapsulant material. The interposer includes a conductive terminal with a proximal end coupled to a conductive pad of the module substrate, and a distal end exposed at the contact surface of the circuit module. |
| US11581237B2 |
Cooling apparatuses for microelectronic assemblies
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate having a surface; a die having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein the first surface of the die is coupled to the surface of the package substrate; and a cooling apparatus that may include a conductive base having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein the first surface of the conductive base is in thermal contact with the second surface of the die, and a plurality of conductive structures on the second surface of the conductive base, wherein an individual conductive structure of the plurality of conductive structures has a width between 10 microns and 100 microns. |
| US11581236B2 |
Self-cleaning heatsink for electronic components
Systems for cooling semiconductor devices that can comprise a heatsink and a cleaning element for the heatsink. The heatsink can have fins spaced apart from each other by channels. The cleaning element can have a base and one or more arms extending from the base. The cleaning element can be positioned with respect to the heatsink such that each arm is aligned with a corresponding channel between the fins, and the arms are moveable between a flow configuration in which the arms are in the channels and a cleaning configuration in which the arms are outside of the channels. |
| US11581235B2 |
IC package including multi-chip unit with bonded integrated heat spreader
A multi-chip unit suitable for chip-level packaging may include multiple IC chips that are interconnected through a metal redistribution structure, and that are directly bonded to an integrated heat spreader. Bonding of the integrated heat spreader to the multiple IC chips may be direct so that no thermal interface material (TIM) is needed, resulting in a reduced bond line thickness (BLT) and lower thermal resistance. The integrated heat spreader may further serve as a structural member of the multi-chip unit, allowing a second side of the redistribution structure to be further interconnected to a host by solder interconnects. The redistribution structure may be fabricated on a sacrificial interposer that may facilitate planarizing IC chips of differing thickness prior to bonding the heat spreader. The sacrificial interposer may be removed to expose the RDL for further interconnection to a substrate without the use of through-substrate vias. |
| US11581231B2 |
Stress tuned stiffeners for micro electronics package warpage control
A semiconductor device assembly including a substrate, a semiconductor device, a stiffener member, and mold compound. The stiffener member is tuned, or configured, to reduce and/or control the shape of warpage of the semiconductor device assembly at an elevated temperature. The stiffener member may be placed on the substrate, on the semiconductor device, and/or on the mold compound. A plurality of stiffener members may be used. The stiffener members may be positioned in a predetermined pattern on a component of the semiconductor device assembly. A stiffener member may be used so that the warpage of a first semiconductor device substantially corresponds to the warpage of a second semiconductor device at an elevated temperature. The stiffener member may be tuned by providing the member with a desired coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The desired CTE may be based on the individual CTEs of the components of a semiconductor device assembly. |
| US11581227B2 |
Integrated circuit structure
An IC structure includes a semiconductor fin, first and second gate structures, and an isolation structure. The semiconductor fin extends from a substrate. The first gate structure extends above a top surface of the semiconductor fin by a first gate height. The second gate structure is over the semiconductor fin. The isolation structure is between the first and second gate structures, and has a lower dielectric portion embedded in the semiconductor fin and an upper dielectric portion extending above the top surface of the semiconductor fin by a height that is the same as the first gate height. When viewed in a cross section taken along a longitudinal direction of the semiconductor fin, the upper dielectric portion of the isolation structure has a rectangular profile with a width greater than a bottom width of the lower dielectric portion of the isolation structure. |
| US11581226B2 |
Semiconductor device with tunable epitaxy structures and method of forming the same
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary method comprises forming first and second semiconductor fins in first and second regions of a substrate, respectively; forming first and second dummy gate stacks over the first and second semiconductor fins, respectively, and forming a spacer layer over the first and the second dummy gate stacks; forming a first pattern layer with a thickness along the spacer layer in the first region; form a first source/drain (S/D) trench along the first pattern layer and epitaxially growing a first epitaxial feature therein; removing the first pattern layer to expose the spacer layer; forming a second pattern layer with a different thickness along the spacer layer in the second region; form a second S/D trench along the second pattern layer and epitaxially growing a second epitaxial feature therein; and removing the second pattern layer to expose the spacer layer. |
| US11581225B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising: providing a substrate, wherein a first gate structure corresponding to a dense area transistor and a second gate structure corresponding to an isolated area transistor are formed on the substrate, and the first gate structure is higher than the second gate structure; forming a buffer layer over the second gate structure, wherein the upper surface of the buffer layer is flush with the upper surface of the first gate structure; and removing the top of the first gate structure, and forming a hard mask filling layer on a top area of the first gate structure. |
| US11581217B2 |
Method for forming vias and method for forming contacts in vias
A method for forming openings in an underlayer includes: forming a photoresist layer on an underlayer formed on a substrate; exposing the photoresist layer; forming photoresist patterns by developing the exposed photoresist layer, the photoresist patterns covering regions of the underlayer in which the openings are to be formed; forming a liquid layer over the photoresist patterns; after forming the liquid layer, performing a baking process so as to convert the liquid layer to an organic layer in a solid form; performing an etching back process to remove a portion of the organic layer on a level above the photoresist patterns; removing the photoresist patterns, so as to expose portions of the underlayer by the remaining portion of the organic layer; forming the openings in the underlayer by using the remaining portion of the organic layer as an etching mask; and removing the remaining portion of the organic layer. |
| US11581215B2 |
Body-source-tied semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) transistor
A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) transistor includes a semiconductor layer situated over a buried oxide layer, the buried oxide layer being situated over a substrate. The SOI transistor is situated in the semiconductor layer and includes a transistor body, gate fingers, source regions, and drain regions. The transistor body has a first conductivity type. The source regions and the drain regions have a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. A heavily-doped body-implant region has the first conductivity type and overlaps at least one source region. A common silicided region electrically ties the heavily-doped body-implant region to the at least one source region. The common silicided region can include a source silicided region, and a body tie silicided region situated over the heavily-doped body-implant region. The source silicided region can be separated from a drain silicided region by the gate fingers. |
| US11581212B2 |
Prepreg for coreless substrate, coreless substrate and semiconductor package
The present invention provides a prepreg for a coreless substrate and a coreless substrate and a semiconductor package using the prepreg, which can satisfy heat resistance, low thermal expansion, and bonding strength with a metal circuit at a level required for the coreless substrate. Specifically, the prepreg for a coreless substrate contains a thermosetting resin composition containing (a) dicyandiamide, (b) an adduct of a tertiary phosphine and quinones, (c) an amine compound having at least two primary amino groups, and (d) a maleimide compound having at least two primary amino groups having at least two N-substituted maleimide groups. Instead of (c) the amine compound having at least two primary amino groups and (d) the maleimide compound, having at least two N-substituted maleimide groups, (X) an amino-modified polyimide resin obtained by reacting them may be used. |
| US11581210B2 |
Micro LED transfer system
The present invention relates to provide a hot air supplying head for transferring a micro LED and a micro LED transfer system using the same, the hot air supplying head effectively transferring micro LEDs. |
| US11581199B2 |
Wafer drying system
A wafer drying method that detects molecular contaminants in a drying gas as a feedback parameter for a multiple wafer drying process is disclosed. For example, the method includes dispensing, in a wafer drying module, a drying gas over a batch of wafers. Further, the method includes collecting the drying gas from an exhaust of the wafer drying module and determining the concentration of contaminants in the drying gas. The method also includes re-dispensing the drying gas over the batch of wafers if the concentration of contaminants is greater than a baseline value and transferring the batch of wafers out of the wafer drying module if the concentration is equal to or less than the baseline value. |
| US11581198B2 |
Processing apparatus
There is provided a processing apparatus including: a processing part including a plurality of process modules connected to each other in a first room, and a loader module provided in the first room and accommodating a carrier which receives a substrate processed by each of the plurality of process modules; and a plurality of pump units corresponding to the plurality of process modules, respectively, and arranged in a second room adjacent to the first room, wherein an installation area of the plurality of pump units is equal to or smaller than that of the processing part. |
| US11581188B2 |
Substrate bonding apparatus
A substrate bonding apparatus for bonding a first substrate to a second substrate includes a first bonding chuck supporting the first substrate, a second bonding chuck disposed above the first bonding chuck and supporting the second substrate, a resonant frequency detector detecting a resonant frequency of a bonded structure with the first substrate and the second substrate which are at least partially bonded to each other, and a controller controlling a distance between the first bonding chuck and the second bonding chuck according to the detected resonant frequency of the bonded structure. |
| US11581187B2 |
Method of heating SOC film on wafer by electromagnetic wave generator and heating apparatus using the same
The present disclosure provides a method of heating a spin on coating (SOC) film on a wafer. The method includes actions S401 to S405. In action S401, a heating apparatus is provided. The heating apparatus includes a bake plate and an electromagnetic wave generator. In action S402, the bake plate is heated by a heating unit disposed in the bake plate. In action S403, the wafer is placed on the bake plate of the heating apparatus. In action S404, the electromagnetic wave generator generates an electromagnetic wave to heat the SOC film. The electromagnetic wave generated by the electromagnetic wave generator has a frequency within a range of 1 THz to 100 THz. In action S405, the wafer is removed from the bake plate of the heating apparatus. |
| US11581186B2 |
Sequential infiltration synthesis apparatus
The disclosure relates to a sequential infiltration synthesis apparatus comprising: a reaction chamber constructed and arranged to accommodate at least one substrate; a first precursor flow path to provide the first precursor to the reaction chamber when a first flow controller is activated; a second precursor flow path to provide a second precursor to the reaction chamber when a second flow controller is activated; a removal flow path to allow removal of gas from the reaction chamber; a removal flow controller to create a gas flow in the reaction chamber to the removal flow path when the removal flow controller is activated; and, a sequence controller operably connected to the first, second and removal flow controllers and the sequence controller being programmed to enable infiltration of an infiltrateable material provided on the substrate in the reaction chamber. The apparatus may be provided with a heating system. |
| US11581184B2 |
Method of etching a layer based on a III-V material
A method for etching at least one layer of a gallium nitride (GaN)-based material is provided, the method including: providing the GaN-based layer having a front face; and at least one cycle including the following successive steps: modifying, by implanting hydrogen (H)- and/or helium (He)-based ions, at least some of a thickness of the GaN-based layer to form in the layer at least one modified portion extending from the front face, the implanting being carried out from a plasma, the modifying by implanting being carried out such that the modified portion extends from the front face and over a depth greater than 3 nm; oxidizing at least some of the modified portion by exposing the layer to an oxygen-based plasma, to define in the layer, at least one oxidized portion and at least one non-oxidized portion; and etching the oxidized portion selectively at the non-oxidized portion. |
| US11581179B2 |
Ion funnels and systems incorporating ion funnels
A method of reducing fragmentation of ions generated from a sample during transport of the ions through an ion transport apparatus that comprises an ion funnel portion, comprises: applying a selected DC potential difference between an outlet end of the ion transport apparatus and an exit ion lens that is disposed adjacent to the outlet end, wherein a sign of the selected DC potential difference is chosen so as to accelerate the ions from the outlet end of the ion transport apparatus towards and through the exit ion lens. |
| US11581175B2 |
Cartridges, systems, and methods for mass spectrometry
Mass spectrometry cartridge including a base in mechanical communication with a spray substrate holder, an absorbent pad between the base and the spray substrate holder, a translatable sample well holder interposed between the spray substrate holder and a top cover, the top cover configured to house a conductive element, wherein when the translatable sample well holder is in a first position, the translatable well holder is vertically above the absorbent pad, when the translatable sample well holder is in a second position, the translatable well holder is vertically above a spray substrate are disclosed. Methods of analyzing a sample are also disclosed. |
| US11581168B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and method
A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber; a substrate support having a lower electrode, an electrostatic chuck, and a heater; a radio frequency power supply; a DC power supply; a first controller; and a second controller. The first controller controls the radio frequency power supply to supply a pulsed radio frequency power to the lower electrode periodically with a cycle defined by a first frequency, and controls the DC power supply to apply a pulsed negative voltage to the edge ring periodically with the cycle. The second controller includes a heater controller that controls the power by obtaining a resistance value of the heater from sample values of a current and a voltage supplied to the heater. The first frequency is different from a second frequency that is a sampling frequency of the sample value of the current and the sample value of the voltage in the second controller. |
| US11581165B2 |
Multi-zone gas distribution systems and methods
The present technology includes improved gas distribution designs for forming uniform plasmas during semiconductor processing operations or for treating the interior of semiconductor processing chambers. While conventional gas distribution assemblies may receive a specific reactant or reactant ratio which is then distributed into the plasma region, the presently described technology allows for improved control of the reactant input distribution. The technology allows for separate flows of reactants to different regions of the plasma to offset any irregularities observed in process uniformity. A first precursor may be delivered to the center of the plasma above the center of the substrate/pedestal while a second precursor may be delivered to an outer portion of the plasma above an outer portion of the substrate/pedestal. In so doing, a substrate residing on the pedestal may experience a more uniform etch or deposition profile across the entire surface. |
| US11581158B2 |
Coil support structure and method of retaining PCBA of a relay
Provided herein are coil support structures and methods of retaining a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) of a relay. In some embodiments, a bi-stable relay assembly may include a coil support structure, having a central section extending between a first end section and a second end section, and set of biasable fasteners extending from the first end section and the second end section, wherein each of the set of biasable fasteners includes a sloped engagement surface and a retention slot. The coil support structure may further include a PCBA coupled to the first and second end sections of the coil support structure, wherein the coil support structure extends within the retention slot of each of the set of biasable fasteners. |
| US11581157B2 |
Smart switch device with manual control and intelligent control functions
A switch device includes: a receiving conversion component, configured to receive a wireless signal and convert the received wireless signal into a power supply signal; a first power component, connected to the receiving conversion component, and configured to store electrical energy based on the power supply signal; a control component, connected to the first power component, and configured to enter a working state based on the electrical energy supplied by the first power component, and generate a control signal in the working state; and a first switch component, connected to the control component, and configured to change to be in an on or off state according to the control signal, wherein the first switch component is arranged on a power supply loop of a controlled device to which a second power component is configured to supply electrical energy in the on state. |
| US11581156B2 |
Dual coil electric heating element
An embodiment of an electric heating element is disclosed, including an electrically resistive inner heating element, an electrically resistive outer heating element, and a thermostat positioned underneath a centrally-positioned medallion and along a cold leg of the inner heating element. The thermostat is configured to selectively allow electrical current to be delivered to the inner heating element while maximum electrical current, for example, continues to be provided to the outer heating element. The thermostat cycles the electrical current on and off when detecting maximum and minimum desired temperatures radiated from the electric heating element. The inner heating element has a pair of cold legs that extend parallel to a pair of cold legs of the outer heating element, some or all of which may be supported by a terminal bracket. |
| US11581153B2 |
Keyboard
The disclosure provides a keyboard including a bottom plate, a key unit and a shielding layer. The bottom plate includes a through hole. The key unit is disposed on the bottom plate. The shielding layer covering a portion of the bottom plate includes a main part and an extension part extending from the main part toward the through hole. The shielding layer is provided with a black surface, and an orthographic projection of the key unit on the shielding layer overlaps the black surface. |
| US11581151B2 |
Power contact health assessor apparatus and method
A system includes a dry contact with a first pair of switchable electrodes, a wet contact with a second pair of switchable electrodes, an arc suppressor, and a controller circuit operatively coupled to the arc suppressor and the first and second pairs of switchable electrodes. The controller circuit is configured to detect a failure of the wet contact and determine a stick duration associated with the first pair of switchable electrodes. The stick duration is based on a duration between an instance when a coil of the dry contact is deactivated and an instance of separation of the first pair of switchable electrodes during deactivation of the coil. The controller circuit generates, in-situ and in real-time, health assessment for the first pair of switchable electrodes based on a comparison of the determined stick duration with an average stick duration associated with a window of observation. |
| US11581148B2 |
Thin film capacitor, circuit board incorporating the same, and thin film capacitor manufacturing method
Disclosed herein a thin film capacitor that includes a lower electrode layer, an upper electrode layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between the lower electrode layer and the upper electrode layer. The lower electrode layer includes a first metal layer positioned on a side facing the dielectric layer and a second metal layer positioned on a side facing away from the dielectric layer. The first metal layer has a first surface positioned on a side facing the second metal layer and a second surface positioned on a side facing the dielectric layer. The first surface has a surface roughness higher than that of the second surface. The second metal layer reflects a surface property of the first surface. |
| US11581146B2 |
Ceramic electronic component comprising dielectric grains having a core-dual shell structure and method of manufacturing the same
A ceramic electronic component includes a body, including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains, and at least one of the plurality of dielectric grains has a core-dual shell structure having a core and a dual shell. The dual shell includes a first shell, surrounding at least a portion of the core, and a second shell, surrounding at least a portion of the first shell. The dual shell includes different types of rare earth elements R1 and R2, and R2S1/R1S1 is 0.01 or less and R2S2/R1S1 is 0.5 to 3.0, where R1S1 and R1S2 denote concentrations of R1 included in the first shell and the second shell, respectively, and R2S1 and R2S2 denote concentrations of R2 included in the first shell and the second shell, respectively. |
| US11581144B2 |
Multilayer capacitor and board having the same mounted thereon
A multilayer capacitor includes a body having a plurality of dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with the dielectric layers interposed therebetween, and further including an active region in which the first and second internal electrodes overlap each other, and upper and lower covers disposed above and below the active region, respectively; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the body to be connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, wherein the upper and lower covers include barium titanate (BT, BaTiO3) and Yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ). |
| US11581142B2 |
Multilayer electronic component and method for manufacturing multilayer electronic component
A multilayer electronic component includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and inner electrode layers, the multilayer body including an electrode facing portion in which the inner electrode layers are laminated to face each other with the dielectric layers interposed therebetween. The multilayer body has a thickness of at least about 1.5 mm in a lamination direction, a length of at least about 3.0 mm, and a width of at least about 1.5 mm. Each of the dielectric layers includes Ba, Ti, and Cl. A Cl concentration C1 in the entire electrode facing portion satisfies about 10 wtppm |
| US11581139B2 |
Integrated energy storage component
An integrated energy storage component that includes a substrate supporting a contoured layer having a region with a contoured surface such as elongated pores. A stack structure is provided conformally over the contoured surface of this region. The stack is a single or repeated instance of MOIM layers, or MIOM layers, the M layers being metal layers, or a quasi-metal such as TiN, the O layers being oxide layers containing ions, and the I layer being an ionic dielectric. The regions having a contoured surface may be formed of porous anodized alumina. |
| US11581138B2 |
Multilayer electronic component
A multilayer electronic component includes a body comprising dielectric layers, and first and second internal electrode layers alternately stacked in a stacking direction with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween. The first internal electrode layer includes first and second internal electrodes arranged with a first spacer interposed therebetween, and the second internal electrode layer includes third and fourth internal electrodes arranged with a second spacer interposed therebetween. |
| US11581135B2 |
Electronic component and board having the same mounted thereon
An electronic component and a board having the same mounted thereon are provided. The electronic component includes a capacitor body, a pair of external electrodes, respectively disposed on end portions of the capacitor body, a pair of metal frames, respectively disposed to be connected the pair of external electrodes, and a conductive bonding layer disposed between the external electrode and the metal frame and having a discontinuous region. |
| US11581129B2 |
Reactor and power supply circuit
A reactor includes a plurality of windings, a coupling core, and an inductor core. A coupling core configured to form a coupling closed magnetic circuit that magnetically couples the plurality of windings, the plurality of windings being wound around the coupling core; and. An inductor core, which includes a main part, a first projection part projecting from one end of the main part, and a second projection part projecting from another end of the main part, and each of the first projection part and the second projection part is magnetically connected to the coupling core. The inductor core forms an inductor closed magnetic circuit together with a part of the coupling core around which one winding of the plurality of windings is wound. |
| US11581125B2 |
Coil component
A coil component includes a body having a molded portion and a cover portion disposed on one surface of the molded portion, and including magnetic metal powder; a winding coil disposed between one surface of the molded portion and the cover portion and embedded in the body, and including a coating layer surrounding a surface of each of a plurality of turns; and a first protective film disposed between the one surface of the molded portion and the cover portion and between at least a portion of the surface of the winding coil and the cover portion. |
| US11581124B2 |
Multiple coil flux pad
The present invention provides a multi-coil inductive power transfer primary comprising a plurality of coil. A power transfer regime is selected based on a determined load on each of the plurality of coils. |
| US11581123B2 |
Inductor and circuit structure and method of manufacturing the same
An inductor unit includes a conductive structure, a first magnetic element and an insulating layer. The conductive structure has a bottom conductive layer, a top conductive layer, and a first side conductive layer extending from the bottom conductive layer to the top conductive layer. The first magnetic element is disposed on the bottom conductive layer of the conductive structure. The insulating layer is disposed on the bottom conductive layer of the conductive structure, wherein the insulating layer covers and surrounds the first magnetic element. The circuit structure including the inductor unit and the methods for manufacturing the same are also provided. |
| US11581122B2 |
Magnetic part and electronic apparatus
A magnetic part including: a coil that generates a magnetic flux when a current flows through the coil; a core that is formed of a magnetic substance that forms a magnetic path of the magnetic flux; a support member that supports the core; and a fixing member that fixes the core to the support member. The core includes a column portion that is vertically provided with respect to a surface where the core is in contact with the support member. The fixing member presses the column portion of the core against the support member. The support member has a recess in a portion of a facing surface that faces the core, where the portion of a facing surface does not face the column portion. |
| US11581119B2 |
Magnetic device and method of manufacturing the same
A magnetic device comprises two base portions and magnetic pillars, wherein each of the two base portions has a first surface and the two first surfaces are faced to each other, and the magnetic pillars are disposed between the two first surfaces along a first direction, wherein, in the first direction, two of the magnetic pillars located at the outermost side of the base portion are a first corner pillar and a second corner pillar respectively, n of the magnetic pillars having the same cross-sectional area and located at the center position of the base portion are n center pillars, and cross-sectional area of the magnetic pillars are gradually increased from the first corner pillar to the center pillar closest to the first corner pillar, and from the second corner pillar to the center pillar closest to the second corner pillar. |
| US11581116B2 |
Method for transferring data from an actuating element to a control unit, corresponding actuating element and corresponding control unit
A method for transferring data from an actuating element to a control unit activating the actuating element. The control unit activates an inductance contained in the actuating element, for the transfer of the data in the actuating element in parallel to the inductance, a load being connected in parallel, or not. |
| US11581113B2 |
Preservation of strain in iron nitride magnet
A permanent magnet may include a Fe16N2 phase in a strained state. In some examples, strain may be preserved within the permanent magnet by a technique that includes etching an iron nitride-containing workpiece including Fe16N2 to introduce texture, straining the workpiece, and annealing the workpiece. In some examples, strain may be preserved within the permanent magnet by a technique that includes applying at a first temperature a layer of material to an iron nitride-containing workpiece including Fe16N2, and bringing the layer of material and the iron nitride-containing workpiece to a second temperature, where the material has a different coefficient of thermal expansion than the iron nitride-containing workpiece. A permanent magnet including an Fe16N2 phase with preserved strain also is disclosed. |
| US11581110B2 |
Cable assembly and manufacturing method thereof
A cable having a transmission wire, a first metal covering layer, an inner insulating layer, a second metal covering layer, an outer insulating layer, an insulating protective layer, and an outer metal layer and method of making such. The transmission wire, a first metal covering layer , and inner insulating layer extend along a first direction, wherein the first metal covering layer and inner insulating layer cover the transmission wire. The first metal covering layer comprises a first axial end part. The inner insulating layer comprises a second axial end part. The second metal covering layer extends along the first direction and covers the inner insulating layer. The second metal covering layer comprises a third axial end part. The outer insulating layer extends along the first direction and covers the second metal covering layer. The outer insulating layer comprises a fourth axial end part. |
| US11581108B2 |
Waterproof cable and waterproof cable manufacturing method
To provide a waterproof cable that is easily manufactured and improves waterproofness.The waterproof cable includes: a first cable; a second cable, an end of which is connected with an end of the first cable; a first resin member that coats a connecting part and is formed by insert-molding; a second resin member that coats the first resin member and is formed by insert-molding; and a third resin member that coats the second resin member and is formed by insert-molding. |
| US11581105B2 |
Rotary charge stripping film in charge stripping device of ion beam and charge stripping method of ion beam
An object of the present invention is to provide a charge stripping film in a charge stripping device of an ion beam, which has high heat resistance and no toxicity, with which there is no risk of activation, with which an ion beam can be made multivalent even if the charge stripping film is thin, and which is resistant to high-energy beam radiation over an extended period of time. The present invention comprises a charge stripping film used in a device which strips a charge of an ion beam, wherein the charge stripping film is a rotary charge stripping film comprising a carbon film having a thermal conductivity of 20 W/mK or more in a film surface direction at 25° C., and a film thickness of the carbon film is more than 3 μm and less than 10 μm. The present invention also comprises a charge stripping film used in a device which strips a charge of an ion beam, wherein the charge stripping film is a rotary charge stripping film comprising a carbon film produced by a polymer annealing method, and a film thickness of the carbon film is more than 3 μm and less than 10 μm. |
| US11581098B2 |
Computer implemented predisposition prediction 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. |
| US11581097B2 |
Systems and methods for patient retention in network through referral analytics
A medical information navigation engine (“MINE”) is capable of inferring referral activity not reported into a referral workflow system by utilizing intent-based clustering of medical information. The intent based clustering reconciles received medical data, from a variety of sources, and then clusters the data by applying one or more clustering rules. After the referrals not otherwise reported are inferred, they may be utilized to generate metrics that can be utilized to enhance patient care, and reduce costs. Metrics may be generated for both in-network and out-of-network referrals in order to distinguish differences in reporting activity. |
| US11581096B2 |
Attribute identification based on seeded learning
A system and method are presented in which known genetic attributes associated with a condition are used to seed the determination of additional attributes which are associated with the condition. Based on the learning, the additional attributes (genetic, behavioral, or both) provide for an increased correlation between the combined attributes and the condition. For behavioral attributes, a measure of the impact of the behavioral attribute on the risk of the condition can be transmitted to another device or system. |
| US11581095B2 |
Medical query answering apparatus
The application relates to providing medical information in response to a query, in particular, although not exclusively, to a method of querying a medical database using voice recognition. According to an embodiment, there is provided a medical query answering apparatus that is configured to convert detected audio signals into a natural language data stream; determine from the natural language data stream whether a voice command for information relating to a medical device or a medicament has been issued by a user; in response to a positive determination, convert at least part of the natural language data stream into a query for querying a medical database; supply the query to the medical database and receive a response therefrom; and provide an audio output based at least in part on the response from the medical database. |
| US11581088B2 |
Method and data processing system for providing respiratory information
A method is for providing respiratory information. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving imaging data relating to a lung; calculating a perfusion fraction for each respective region of a set of regions of the lung, based on the imaging data; calculating a respective ventilation value for each respective region of the set of regions of the lung based on the imaging data; calculating a weighted average of respective ventilation values across all respective regions of the set of regions of the lung, wherein for each respective region of the set of regions of the lung, the respective ventilation value of the respective region is weighted with the perfusion fraction of the respective region; generating the respiratory information based on the weighted average of the respective ventilation values; and providing the respiratory information. |
| US11581086B2 |
System and method for delivering a digital therapeutic specific to a users EMS and profile
Disclosed is a system for delivering a digital therapeutic, specific to both a user-selected emotional or mental state (EMS) and at least one user profile attribute comprising of: an EMS store; a message prescriber; a processor coupled to a memory element with instructions, the processor when executing the memory-stored instructions, configure the system to cause: the EMS store comprising a plurality of EMS to allow a user to select at least one EMS, said selected EMS indicating at least one of an emotion, mental, and/or physical state of the user. The message prescriber then pushing to a user device at least one stored digital therapeutic coupled to the selected EMS from the EMS store, wherein the digital therapeutic is at least one of a message or content with a behavioral and/or physical (b/p) recommendation of varying severity and/or varying design cues specific to both the user-selected EMS and at least one user profile attribute. In other words, two users may independently input identical EMS's and receive completely different digital therapeutics—both in terms of messaging and/or design—based on at least one varying profile attribute (age, gender, race, etc.) between user 1 and user 2. |
| US11581081B2 |
Sessions and groups
Athletic activity may be tracked while providing encouragement to perform athletic activity. For example, energy expenditure values and energy expenditure intensity values may be calculated and associated with a duration and type of activity performed by an individual. These values and other movement data may be displayed on an interface in a manner to motivate the individual and maintain the individual's interest. The interface may track one or more discrete “sessions”. The sessions may be associated with energy expenditure values during a duration that is within a second duration, such as a day, that is also tracked with respect to variables, such as energy expenditure. Other individuals (e.g., friends) may also be displayed on an interface through which a user's progress is tracked. This may allow the user to also view the other individuals' progress toward completing an activity goal and/or challenge. |
| US11581080B2 |
Ambulatory medicament pump voice operation
Ambulatory medical devices that provide therapy to a subject, such as blood glucose control, are disclosed. Disclosed systems and devices can transmit a request to modify blood glucose control therapy delivered to a subject. The request can be transmitted via a voice-activated control system, the ambulatory medicament pump can include a medicament reservoir, a pump controller, a wireless data interface, and/or other elements. The device can receive an indication that the request to modify therapy is approved and, in response to the indication that the request to modify the blood glucose control therapy is approved, instruct the pump controller to modify the blood glucose control therapy delivered to the subject. |
| US11581076B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for providing alternatives for preexisting prescribed medications
Methods and apparatuses for automatically identifying therapeutically equivalent alternative medications for reducing patient costs. These methods and apparatuses may interface with a patient's electronic health records and Payer databases and identify alternative medications that offer cost savings to the patient and Payer. The methods and apparatuses described herein may also incentivize patients to select cost-saving medication alternatives. |
| US11581072B2 |
Gateway conformance validation
A patient record gateway of an electronic health record system can be validated using a conformance statement that defines capabilities and characteristics of patient record servers associated with the gateway. Part of validating the patient record gateway includes performing a configuration test of the patient record gateway using the conformance statement. |
| US11581066B2 |
Method of simultaneous modeling and complexity reduction of bio-crudes for process simulation
The present invention relates to a method for reducing the complexity of bio-crudes. The method includes (a) obtaining experimental data of quantitative and qualitative analyses for the bio-crudes, (b) grouping compounds contained in the bio-crudes according to a predetermined basis based on the experimental data, (c) selecting representative compounds from among the compounds belonging to the same group, and (d) reconstituting the bio-crudes as a mixture of the representative compounds. |
| US11581065B2 |
Automated nucleic acid library preparation and sequencing device
Provided herein are automated apparatus for the identification of microorganisms in various samples. The disclosure solves existing challenges encountered in identifying and distinguishing various types of microorganisms, including viruses and bacteria in a timely, efficient, and automated manner by sequencing. |
| US11581064B2 |
Device-agnostic system for planning and executing high-throughput genomic manufacturing operations
High-throughput production of modified microbes is achieved through optimization of directed build graph data structures representing biological workflows. Portions of otherwise unrelated workflows may be combined where they share common biological reaction steps, and processed by a genetic manufacturing facility to take advantage of operational efficiencies. Workflows may be mapped to physical laboratory equipment in a manner that optimizes material transfers. Different automated platforms running different machines in different languages are coordinated in a device-agnostic and language-agnostic manner. |
| US11581062B2 |
Systems and methods for classifying patients with respect to multiple cancer classes
Technical solutions for classifying patients with respect to multiple cancer classes are provided. The classification can be done using cell-free whole genome sequencing information from subjects. A reference set of subjects is used to train classifiers to recognize genomic markers that distinguish such cancer classes. The classifier training includes dividing the reference genome into a set of non-overlapping bins, applying a dimensionality reduction method to obtain a feature set, and using the feature set to train classifiers. For subjects with unknown cancer class, the trained classifiers provide probabilities or likelihoods that the subject has a respective cancer class for each cancer in a set of cancer classes. The present disclosure thus describes methods to improve the screening and detection of cancer class from among several cancer classes. This serves to facilitate early and appropriate treatment for subjects afflicted with cancer. |
| US11581060B2 |
Protein structures from amino-acid sequences using neural networks
The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for generating and displaying a three dimensional map of a protein sequence. An exemplary method can provide for using deep learning models to predict protein folding and model protein folding using three dimensional representations. The method more effectively exploits the potential of deep learning approaches. The method approach overall involves three stages—computation, geometry, and assessment. |
| US11581056B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for direct access hybrid testing
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, and methods for direct access hybrid testing. A memory device, such as a high bandwidth memory (HBM) may include direct access terminals. During a testing procedure, test instructions may be provided to the memory through the direct access terminals. The test instructions include a data pointer which is associated with one of a plurality of test patterns pre-loaded in the memory and an address. The selected test pattern may be written to, and subsequently read from, the memory cells associated with the address. The read test pattern may be compared to the selected test pattern to generate result information. The test patterns may be loaded to the memory, and the result information may be read out from the memory, in an operational mode different than the operational mode in which the test instructions are provided. |
| US11581051B2 |
Shift register and driving method thereof, gate drive circuit, and display device
A shift register and a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register includes: an input circuit, configured to input an input voltage provided by the input voltage terminal to an intermediate circuit under control of a first clock signal provided by the first clock signal terminal; the intermediate circuit, configured to write a second clock signal output by the second clock signal terminal or a first power signal output by the first power terminal to the intermediate output terminal as an intermediate output signal under control of the input voltage and the control circuit; and an output circuit, configured to output an output signal, a phase of which is opposite to a phase of the intermediate output signal. |
| US11581048B2 |
Method and system for validating erasure status of data blocks
A method and solid-state storage device are disclosed for validating erasure status of data blocks on a solid-state drive. The method includes assigning each data block of a plurality of data blocks on the solid-state drive, a block identifier and an erasure status, the block identifier being system data, user data, or unmapped data, and the erasure status being erased or not erased. |
| US11581036B2 |
Searchable array circuits with load-matched signals for reduced hit signal timing margins and related methods
A CAM array of compare memory cell circuits includes a decode column corresponding to each set, and each set includes at least one row of the compare memory cell circuits. Each decode column receives a set clock signal addressing the corresponding set and generates a set match signal in each row of the corresponding set. A column compare circuit generates compare data indicating a bit of a compare tag. A row match circuit generates, for each row, in response to the set match signal, a row match signal indicating the compare tag matches the binary tag stored in the row. Circuits and loads in a decode column employed to generate the set clock signal correspond to circuits generating the row match signal in each column of the CAM array to reduce a timing margin of the match indication and decrease the access time for the CAM array. |
| US11581032B2 |
Apparatuses and methods of power supply control for temperature compensated sense amplifiers
An apparatus including a temperature dependent circuit is configured to receive a temperature dependent power supply voltage, and further is configured to receive a first input signal and provide a temperature dependent output signal responsive to the input signal. A power control circuit including the temperature dependent circuit is configured to receive a second input signal, and further configured provide a first control voltage based on the first temperature dependent output signal and provide a second control voltage based on the second input signal. The second control voltage has a temperature dependency based on the temperature dependent power supply voltage. A sense amplifier coupled to a pair of digit lines is configured to receive the first and second control voltages and amplify a voltage difference between the digit lines of the pair. |
| US11581030B2 |
Resistive memory with adjustable write parameter
A memory includes an array of resistive memory cells and circuitry for setting a write parameter for improving write effectiveness to the cells of the memory array. The circuitry performs a write parameter setting routine that determines a midpoint resistance of a memory state of cells of the array and determines a write efficiency of a weak write operation to cells of the array. Based on the determined midpoint resistance and the determined write efficiency, the circuit sets a write parameter level for subsequent writes to cells of the array. |
| US11581028B2 |
Memory device for counting fail bits included in sensed data
The present technology includes a memory device. The memory device includes memory cells, page buffers configured to store sensed data obtained from the memory cells, a current sensing circuit configured to compare a sensed voltage generated according to the sensed data and a reference voltage generated according to an allowable fail bit code, and output a pass signal or a fail signal according to a comparison result, and a fail bit manager configured to increase an allowable number of fail bits included in the allowable fail bit code until the pass signal is output from the current sensing circuit, change the allowable fail bit code according to the allowable number of fail bits, and provide the allowable fail bit code to the current sensing circuit. |
| US11581009B2 |
System and a method for sound recognition
A method for automatic for sound recognition, comprising a) raw spectrogram generation from a sound signal spectrum; b) wide-band spectrum determination; c) wide-band continuous spectrum determination; d) tonal and time-transient spectrum determination; wide-band continuous spectrogram and tonal and time-transient spectrogram determination; and) spectrogram image generation. |
| US11581008B2 |
Systems and methods for improving functional hearing
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for improving functional hearing. In one aspect, the system may include a housing configured to fit within an ear of a user. The housing may include a speaker, an amplifier, a transmitter, and a power supply. Additionally, the housing may include a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute instructions. The instructions may include receiving an audio input and amplifying the audio input. The instructions may include outputting the amplified audio input from a speaker. The instructions may include converting the audio input into a visual representation of the audio input and transmitting the visual representation to at least one display. |
| US11581004B2 |
Dynamic voice accentuation and reinforcement
Systems and methods for dynamic voice accentuation and reinforcement are presented herein. One embodiment comprises one or more audio input sources; one or more audio output sources; one or more band pass filters; and a processing control unit that includes an audio processing unit, and which executes a method: differentiating between audio input sources as vocal sound audio input sources and ambient noise audio input sources; increasing the gain of the vocal sound audio input sources; inverting a polarity of an ambient noise signal received by each of the ambient noise audio input sources; and adding the inverted polarity to either an output signal of at least one of the one or more audio output sources, or to an input signal of at least one of the vocal sound audio input sources, to reduce ambient noise. |
| US11581000B2 |
Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding audio signal using information of previous frame
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding an audio signal using information of a previous frame. An audio signal encoding method includes: generating a current latent vector by reducing dimension of a current frame of an audio signal; generating a concatenation vector by concatenating a previous latent vector generated by reducing dimension of a previous frame of the audio signal with the current latent vector; and encoding and quantizing the concatenation vector. |
| US11580990B2 |
User-specific acoustic models
Systems and processes for providing user-specific acoustic models are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, receiving a plurality of speech inputs, each of the speech inputs associated with a same user of the electronic device; providing each of the plurality of speech inputs to a user-independent acoustic model, the user-independent acoustic model providing a plurality of speech results based on the plurality of speech inputs; initiating a user-specific acoustic model on the electronic device; and adjusting the user-specific acoustic model based on the plurality of speech inputs and the plurality of speech results. |
| US11580988B2 |
Electronic apparatus and control method thereof
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a first communicator, a second communicator; and a processor configured to determine whether or not an external electronic apparatus outputting input speech is connectable to a network connectable through the first communicator, based on the input speech, and to transmit a signal for controlling the external electronic apparatus to the external electronic apparatus through the first communicator or the second communicator depending on whether or not the external electronic apparatus is connectable to the network. |
| US11580987B2 |
Electronic device configured to perform action using speech recognition function and method for providing notification related to action using same
A method includes receiving a designated event related to a second application while an execution screen of a first application is displayed on a display. The method also includes executing an artificial intelligent application in response to the designated event. The method further includes transmitting data related to the designated event to an external server, based on the executed artificial intelligent application. Additionally, the method includes sensing a user utterance related to the designated event for a designated period of time. The method also includes transmitting the user utterance to the external server. The method further includes receiving an action order for performing a function related to the user utterance from the external server. The method also includes executing the second application at least based on the received action order. The method further includes outputting a result of performing the function by using the second application. |
| US11580986B2 |
Systems and methods for voice identification and analysis
Obtaining configuration audio data including voice information for a plurality of meeting participants. Generating localization information indicating a respective location for each meeting participant. Generating a respective voiceprint for each meeting participant. Obtaining meeting audio data. Identifying a first meeting participant and a second meeting participant. Linking a first meeting participant identifier of the first meeting participant with a first segment of the meeting audio data. Linking a second meeting participant identifier of the second meeting participant with a second segment of the meeting audio data. Generating a GUI indicating the respective locations of the first and second meeting participants, and the GUI indicating a first transcription of the first segment and a second transcription of the second segment. The first transcription is associated with the first meeting participant in the GUI, and the second transcription is associated with the second meeting participant in the GUI. |
| US11580984B2 |
Virtual assistant-initiated conversations
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system generates a list of communications desired by a user, and determines an attentiveness level of the user with respect to equipment of the user currently in use, to determine whether the user is available to participate in a desired communication. The method also includes accessing equipment of a target party of the communication to determine an attentiveness level of the target party with respect to equipment of the target party, to determine whether the target party is available to participate in the communication. The method also includes generating a notice at the equipment of the user that the target party is available; and initiating the communication between the equipment of the user and the equipment of the target party. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11580982B1 |
Receiving voice samples from listeners of media programs
Listeners to media programs provide feedback to creators or other entities associated with the media programs in the form of one or more spoken utterances. When a listener to a media program speaks one or more words to a microphone or other system, the words are captured and processed to determine an emotion of the listener, or to determine whether the words include any objectionable content. Data including the spoken words is captured and stored, and presented to the creator of the media program. Notifications of the utterances are provided to the creator, who may identify one of the utterances, and include the utterance in the media program, or invite the listener who provided the utterances to participate in the media program. |
| US11580980B2 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating user intention understanding satisfaction, electronic device and storage medium
A method and apparatus for generating a user intention understanding satisfaction evaluation model, a method and apparatus for evaluating a user intention understanding satisfaction, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, relating to intelligent voice recognition and knowledge graphs. The method for generating a user intention understanding satisfaction evaluation model is: acquiring a plurality of sets of intention understanding data, at least one set of which comprises a plurality of sequences corresponding to multi-round behaviors of an intelligent device in multi-round man-machine interactions; and learning the plurality of sets of intention understanding data through a first machine learning model, to obtain the user intention understanding satisfaction evaluation model after the learning, wherein the user intention understanding satisfaction evaluation model is configured to evaluate user intention understanding satisfactions of the intelligent device in the multi-round man-machine interactions according to the plurality of sequences corresponding to the multi-round man-machine interactions. |
| US11580979B2 |
Methods and systems for pushing audiovisual playlist based on text-attentional convolutional neural network
In some embodiments, methods and systems for pushing audiovisual playlists based on a text-attentional convolutional neural network include a local voice interactive terminal, a dialog system server and a playlist recommendation engine, where the dialog system server and the playlist recommendation engine are respectively connected to the local voice interactive terminal. In some embodiments, the local voice interactive terminal includes a microphone array, a host computer connected to the microphone array, and a voice synthesis chip board connected to the microphone array. In some embodiments, the playlist recommendation engine obtains rating data based on a rating predictor constructed by the neural network; the host computer parses the data into recommended playlist information; and the voice terminal synthesizes the results and pushes them to a user in the form of voice. |
| US11580978B2 |
Machine learning for interpretation of subvocalizations
Provided is an in-ear device and associated computational support system that leverages machine learning to interpret sensor data descriptive of one or more in-ear phenomena during subvocalization by the user. An electronic device can receive sensor data generated by at least one sensor at least partially positioned within an ear of a user, wherein the sensor data was generated by the at least one sensor concurrently with the user subvocalizing a subvocalized utterance. The electronic device can then process the sensor data with a machine-learned subvocalization interpretation model to generate an interpretation of the subvocalized utterance as an output of the machine-learned subvocalization interpretation model. |
| US11580972B2 |
Robot teaching device
A robot teaching device includes: a display device; an operation key formed of a hard key or a soft key and including an input changeover switch; a microphone; a voice recognition section; a correspondence storage section storing each of a plurality of types of commands and a recognition target word in association with each other; a recognition target word determination section configured to determine whether a phrase represented by character information includes the recognition target word; and a command execution signal output section configured to switch, in response to the input changeover switch being operated, between a first operation in which a signal for executing the command corresponding to an operation to the operation key is outputted and a second operation in which a signal for executing the command associated with the recognition target word represented by the character information is outputted. |
| US11580971B2 |
Photo album management method, storage medium and electronic device
The present disclosure provides a photo album management method. The method includes obtaining voice search information from a user, performing intent recognition on the voice search information to obtain an intent recognition result which indicates an intent of the user for a photo album, obtaining a voiceprint feature from the voice search information to determine identity information of the user, sending the intent recognition result and the identity information of the user, and opening the photo album according to the intent recognition result and the identity information. |
| US11580967B2 |
Speech feature extraction apparatus, speech feature extraction method, and computer-readable storage medium
A speech feature extraction apparatus 100 includes a voice activity detection unit 103 that drops non-voice frames from frames corresponding to an input speech utterance, and calculates a posterior of being voiced for each frame, a voice activity detection process unit 106 calculates a function value as weights in pooling frames to produce an utterance-level feature, from a given a voice activity detection posterior, and an utterance-level feature extraction unit 112 that extracts an utterance-level feature, from the frame on a basis of multiple frame-level features, using the function values. |
| US11580966B2 |
Pre-processing for automatic speech recognition
A method is provided that includes obtaining two or more microphone audio signals; analysing the two or more microphone audio signals for a defined noise type; and processing the two or more microphone audio signals based on the analysis to generate at least one audio signal suitable for automatic speech recognition. A corresponding apparatus is also provided. |
| US11580964B2 |
Electronic apparatus and control method thereof
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a microphone, a memory configured to store a plurality of keyword recognition models, and a processor, which is coupled with the microphone and the memory, configured to control the electronic apparatus, wherein the processor is configured to selectively execute at least one keyword recognition model among the plurality of keyword recognition models based on operating state information of the electronic apparatus, based on a first user voice being input through the microphone, identify whether at least one keyword corresponding to the executed keyword recognition model is included in the first user voice by using the executed keyword recognition model, and based on at least one keyword identified as being included in the first user voice, perform an operation of the electronic apparatus corresponding to the at least one keyword. |
| US11580963B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating speech
A speech generation method and apparatus are disclosed. The speech generation method includes obtaining, by a processor, a linguistic feature and a prosodic feature from an input text, determining, by the processor, a first candidate speech element through a cost calculation and a Viterbi search based on the linguistic feature and the prosodic feature, generating, at a speech element generator implemented at the processor, a second candidate speech element based on the linguistic feature or the prosodic feature and the first candidate speech element, and outputting, by the processor, an output speech by concatenating the second candidate speech element and a speech sequence determined through the Viterbi search. |
| US11580961B1 |
Tracking specialized concepts, topics, and activities in conversations
Embodiments are directed to organizing conversation information. A tracker vocabulary may be provided to a universal model to predict a generalized vocabulary associated with the tracker vocabulary. A tracker model may be generated based on the portions of the universal model activated by the tracker vocabulary such that a remainder of the universal model may be excluded from the tracker model. Portions of a conversation stream may be provided to the tracker model. A match score may be generated based on the track model and the portions of the conversation stream such that the match score predicts if the portions of the conversation stream may be in the generalized vocabulary predicted for the tracker vocabulary. Tracker metrics may be collected based on the portions of the conversation and the match scores such that the tracker metrics may be included in reports or notifications. |
| US11580960B2 |
Generating input alternatives
Exemplary embodiments relate to a system for recovering a conversation between a user and the system when the system is unable to properly respond to a user's input. The system may process the user input and determine an error condition exists. The system may query one or more storage systems to identify candidate text data based on their semantic similarity to the user input. The storage systems may store data related to past frequently entered inputs and/or user-generated inputs. Alternative text data is selected from the candidate text data, and presented to the user for confirmation. |
| US11580957B1 |
Method for training speech recognition model, method and system for speech recognition
Disclosed are a method for training speech recognition model, a method and a system for speech recognition. The disclosure relates to field of speech recognition and includes: inputting an audio training sample into the acoustic encoder to represent acoustic features of the audio training sample in an encoded way and determine an acoustic encoded state vector; inputting a preset vocabulary into the language predictor to determine text prediction vector; inputting the text prediction vector into the text mapping layer to obtain a text output probability distribution; calculating a first loss function according to a target text sequence corresponding to the audio training sample and the text output probability distribution; inputting the text prediction vector and the acoustic encoded state vector into the joint network to calculate a second loss function, and performing iterative optimization according to the first loss function and the second loss function. |
| US11580953B2 |
Method for providing speech and intelligent computing device controlling speech providing apparatus
A method for providing a speech and an intelligent computing device controlling a speech providing apparatus are disclosed. A method for providing a speech according to an embodiment of the present invention includes obtaining a message, converting the message into a speech, and determining output pattern based on a generation situation of the message, so that it is possible to more realistically convey a situation at a time of message generation to a receiver of TTS. One or more of the voice providing method, devices, intelligent computing devices controlling the voice providing device, and servers of the present invention may include artificial intelligence modules, drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAVs), robots, Augmented Reality (AR) devices, and virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G services, and the like. |
| US11580946B1 |
Supercoupling waveguides, and methods for making and using same
Supercoupling waveguides are provided in which acoustic impedance at an acoustic input port matches the acoustic impedance at an acoustic output port, where the acoustic path extending from the acoustic input port to the acoustic output port has a variable length. The supercoupling waveguides may be used in methods of sensing and measuring, and may be incorporated into sensors. |
| US11580940B1 |
Multi-position guitar holder and methods of using same
An instrument holder includes an elongated crossbar including a back surface and a front surface and extending between a first end and a second end, the first end having a perpendicular portion, and the second end including an angled portion and an offset portion, a slot bar coupleable to the first end of the elongated crossbar at the perpendicular portion, and a cradle coupleable to the second end of the elongated crossbar at the offset portion, the cradle being configured and arranged to couple to the back surface of the offset portion. |
| US11580937B2 |
Display device and image display system having the same
An image display system includes a graphic processor which generates an image signal, a control signal, and a variable frequency signal; and a display device which displays an image at a frame frequency corresponding to the variable frequency signal from the graphic processor. The display device includes pixels connected to emission control lines, data lines, and scan lines; a controller which provides reference data including information on reference cycles, which are cycles in which an emission control start signal is output, to the graphic processor, outputs the emission control start signal based on the control signal, and adjusting an output timing of a scan start signal based on the variable frequency signal; an emission driver which supplies emission control signals to the emission control lines based on the emission control start signal; and a scan driver which supplies scan signals to the scan lines based on the scan start signal. |
| US11580935B2 |
Systems, methods, and media for displaying interactive augmented reality presentations
Systems, methods, and media for displaying interactive augmented reality presentations are provided. In some embodiments, a system comprises: a plurality of head mounted displays, a first head mounted display comprising a transparent display; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is programmed to: determine that a first physical location of a plurality of physical locations in a physical environment of the head mounted display is located closest to the head mounted display; receive first content comprising a first three dimensional model; receive second content comprising a second three dimensional model; present, using the transparent display, a first view of the first three dimensional model at a first time; and present, using the transparent display, a first view of the second three dimensional model at a second time subsequent to the first time based one or more instructions received from a server. |
| US11580926B2 |
Display panel having a gate driver integrated therein
A display panel includes an amorphous silicon gate driver in which a lower voltage than the gate-off voltage output from the gate driver is applied to an adjacent stage as a low voltage transmission signal. |
| US11580923B1 |
Dynamic shading system
A dynamic shading system is disclosed. The system comprises a screen and a control system. The screen comprises a plurality of light valves. Each light valve has an adjustable translucency so that the screen can present an image on one side of the screen. The control system is configured to determine what image is to be presented on the one side of the screen in dependence of light intensity incident on another side of the screen. the control system is further configured to control each light valve of the screen to have a translucency so that the plurality of the light valves forms the determined image on the one side of the screen. |
| US11580920B2 |
Synchronized driving waveforms for four-particle electrophoretic displays
The present invention provides improved driving methods for four particle electrophoretic displays. The driving methods improve the color state performance when a first pixel is displaying a mixed state of a first highly-charged particle and a second lower-charged particle of the opposite polarity, while a neighboring pixel is displaying a state of a second highly-charged particle having the opposite polarity to the first highly-charged particle. The particles can be, for example, all reflective or one type of particle can be partially light transmissive. |
| US11580908B2 |
Driving circuit and display device
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a driving circuit and a display device, by applying an initialization voltage to a sensing node between a driving transistor and a light-emitting element and sensing a voltage change of the sensing node according to driving the light-emitting element, a threshold voltage of the light-emitting element can be detected without turning-on the driving transistor. Furthermore, by turning on the driving transistor and falling a voltage of the sensing node before sensing the voltage of the sensing node, a voltage lower than the threshold voltage of the light-emitting element can be sensed and a variation of a characteristic value of the light-emitting element is detected, thus a circuit for sensing the characteristic value of the light-emitting element can be implemented easily. |
| US11580906B2 |
Display device
A display device includes pixels, and each pixel is connected between a first electrode or a second electrode of a driving transistor and a bias line, includes a bias transistor configured to transfer a bias voltage applied from the bias line to the first electrode or the second electrode of the driving transistor during a bias period. Bias voltages applied to the pixels emitting light of different colors are different from each other. |
| US11580897B2 |
Pixel and display device including the same
A display device includes: a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels; a timing controller supplying respective scan start signals to a plurality of scan drivers and an emission start signal to an emission driver, in response to synchronization signals supplied from the outside; the emission driver supplying an emission signal to emission control lines connected to the pixels based on the emission start signal; the scan drivers supplying scan signals to the scan lines connected to the pixels based on the scan start signal; and a data driver supplying a data signal to data lines connected to the pixels, and at least one of a frequency of the emission start signal and frequencies of the scan start signals may be a first frequency that is determined independently of a driving frequency when the driving frequency is less than or equal to a threshold value. |
| US11580894B2 |
Driving method for display panel, driving device thereof and display device
The present application discloses a driving method for a display panel, a driving device thereof and a display device. The driving method includes: performing square wave conversion on drive data received by each channel to obtain data line signals, where square wave signals generated by the conversion of different gray scales in the corresponding drive data have an identical high level, and the time of low level output is different. |
| US11580884B2 |
Anatomical teaching model
An anatomical teaching model includes a replica of male anatomy having a replicated penis integrated with a replicated scrotum. A first cavity is formed in the replicated penis, where the first cavity is adapted to receive an inflatable body of a penile prosthesis. A second cavity is formed in the replicated scrotum, where the second cavity is adapted to receive a pump of a pump of the penile prosthesis. An access port is formed in a distal surface of the replica of male anatomy for access to the first cavity. |
| US11580881B2 |
Shape-matrix geometric instrument
Shape-matrix geometric instruments having numerous applications including, but not limited to, anti-counterfeiting, graphical passwording, games, and geometry education. A shape-matrix geometric instrument is a manufacture and/or a method whose design is based on a shape-matrix that, in turn comprises a set of building blocks that are N-dimensional polytopes. Corner shapes are positioned in or near the interior corner spaces of at least ones of the shape-matrix building blocks. At least ones of the corner shapes differ from others in at least one property or aspect including, for example, geometric shape, orientation within the building block, and one or more surface “finishes,” such as color, shading, cross-hatching or real or apparent texture. |
| US11580879B2 |
Systems and methods for generating personalized nutritional recommendations
An algorithm and method to provide personal recommendations for nutrition based on preferences, habits, medical and activity profiles for users, and constraints. The algorithm can also be fed and takes into account real-time feedback from the user. The method allows creating a personal nutritional schedule based on a set of constraints, which are solved using an optimization algorithm to find the diet best fitting each user. The method also includes analyzing a single user by applying various statistical techniques, enabling the algorithm to infer the user's preferences and updating of the constraints, analyzing and clustering of the general user population based on statistical principles, giving the algorithm insightful information and allowing improved performance by means of “machine-learning,” and creating a list of recommended food items/recipes to help users live a balanced, healthier lifestyle. |
| US11580877B2 |
Movement reconstruction control system
The present invention relates to a control system for a movement reconstruction and/or restoration system for a patient, comprising a movement model generation module to generate movement model data information, an analysis module receiving and processing data provided at least by the movement model generation module, wherein the control system is configured and arranged to prepare and provide on the basis of data received by the movement model generation module and the analysis module a movement model describing the movement of a patient and providing, on the basis of the movement model, stimulation data for movement reconstruction and/or restoration. |
| US11580872B2 |
Embedded training for commercial aviation
A learning management system may be configured to retrieve roster data from a roster database and determine from the roster data whether a pilot has a scheduled downtime during a flight or a layover time before the flight. The system may further retrieve flight data associated with the flight from the learning management system and determine a training concept associated with the flight. The system may also select a training exercise from multiple training exercises, where the training exercise is associated with the training concept. A notification may be sent to an electronic device associated with the pilot, where the notification includes an offer to perform the training exercise. |
| US11580865B2 |
Aircraft flight envelope protection and recovery autopilot
Systems and vehicle are provided. A vehicle system for a vehicle includes: a trajectory selection module configured to select a potential vehicle path relative to a current vehicle movement condition; a trajectory movement condition module configured to estimate a modeled movement condition of the vehicle along the potential vehicle path; a limit comparison module configured to determine whether the modeled movement condition violates vehicle limits; and a violation indicator module configured to generate an indication of impending violation. |
| US11580863B2 |
Communications method, apparatus, and system
A communications method includes determining, by a first platoon member, at least one second platoon member, where the first platoon member and the at least one second platoon member belong to a same platoon, and signal quality of a communication link from the first platoon member to each second platoon member is less than a first preset quality threshold, determining, by the first platoon member, a target communications node, where signal quality of a communication link from the target communications node to each second platoon member is greater than or equal to the first preset quality threshold, and sending, by the first platoon member, to-be-sent data to each second platoon member through the target communications node. |
| US11580861B2 |
Platooning controller, system including the same, and method thereof
A platooning controller, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The platooning controller includes a processor that identifies information about outside vehicles around a platooning line based on sensing information of platooning vehicles, determines whether views of the outside vehicles are obstructed by the platooning line based on the information about the outside vehicles, controls the platooning vehicles such that the views of the outside vehicles are obtained, and performs collision avoidance control and a storage storing the sensing information or a result of determination of whether a view is obstructed. |
| US11580853B2 |
Method for acquiring the surrounding environment and system for acquiring the surrounding environment for a motor vehicle
A method for acquiring the surrounding environment of a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has at least one ultrasound sensor. The ultrasound sensor includes an ultrasound transducer for sending, the ultrasound sensor receiving acoustic environmental signals, in particular audible environmental signals, in that the ultrasound sensor is controlled in its evaluation in such a way that sound waves having frequencies below a resonant frequency of the ultrasound transducer, in particular audible sound waves, of an environmental signal are acquired and evaluated. Environmental signals are understood as acoustic signals that are not produced by the ultrasound transducer itself, but rather by an external sound source that in particular differs from the motor vehicle. This can be for example the siren of a rescue vehicle or emergency vehicle, or the horn of some other motor vehicle. |
| US11580851B2 |
Systems and methods for simulating traffic scenes
Example aspects of the present disclosure describe a scene generator for simulating scenes in an environment. For example, snapshots of simulated traffic scenes can be generated by sampling a joint probability distribution trained on real-world traffic scenes. In some implementations, samples of the joint probability distribution can be obtained by sampling a plurality of factorized probability distributions for a plurality of objects for sequential insertion into the scene. |
| US11580844B2 |
System for managing personal safety
A personal safety management system (100) comprising at least one portable communication device (200) communicatively connected to a wireless communication network (400); and a central computing device (500) communicatively connected to the wireless communication network (400). The at least one portable communication device (200) is configured to enable the activation of an alarm condition by a user (700) and transmitting data on the activation of the alarm condition to the central computing device (500). The central computing device (500) is configured to receive the data on the activation of the alarm condition from the at least one portable communication device (200). Furthermore, the central computing device (500) is configured to activate the alarm condition at the end of a predetermined time delay after the activation of a first operating element (210) on the communication device (200). In one embodiment, the portable communication device comprises a second operating element (220) and is configured to input, from the second operating element (220), extension data indicating the extension of the predetermined delay, and to transmit the extension data to the central computing device (500); and the central computing device (500) is configured to extend the predetermined delay based on the extension data. |
| US11580843B2 |
Intelligent emergency response for multi-tenant dwelling units
Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, for a multi-tenant dwelling unit (MDU), a map of the MDU, where the map includes locations corresponding to multiple sensors at the MDU and defines multiple sub-areas of the MDU, receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the plurality of sensors, where the sensor data is indicative of a fire event at the MDU, determining, from the sensor data, one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas included in the fire event, generating, based on the sensor data, a targeted fire event response for the one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas of the MDU, and providing, to the one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas, the targeted fire event response. |
| US11580836B2 |
Smoke detector with integrated sensing
A smoke detector and method for testing a smoke detector are provided. The smoke detector includes a housing defining a chamber, an emitter, and a receiver. The housing includes an inlet port and an outlet port configured to allow an airflow to pass through the chamber. The emitter is configured to emit light into the chamber. The receiver is configured to receive light reflected by ambient materials in the airflow passing through the chamber. The smoke detector includes an entry point and an exit point, defining a channel therebetween. At least a portion of the airflow passes through the channel. The channel is in fluid communication with a sensor. The sensor is configured to detect at least one of a pressure differential and a mass flow of the airflow. The smoke detector and method for testing the smoke detector enable in situ testing of the smoke detector. |
| US11580835B2 |
Method, device and system for the simulation of the presence of humans
A method, device and system for simulating the presence of humans includes the method steps of defining activity attributes as input data and defining user preferences as input data. As an output, a time sequence for simulated activities is generated, while the method, device and system should provide an exceedingly realistic simulation of the presence of humans for any application where occupancy simulation is advantageous. This is reached in that user preferences are matched with attributes of activity respectively in that a control unit of a device or within a system is configured to match user preferences with attributes of activity for the generation of the sequence list for simulated activities. |
| US11580833B2 |
Camera detection of human activity with co-occurrence
Methods, systems, and apparatus for camera detection of human activity with co-occurrence are disclosed. A method includes detecting a person in an image captured by a camera; in response to detecting the person in the image, determining optical flow in portions of a first set of images; determining that particular portions of the first set of images satisfy optical flow criteria; in response to determining that the particular portions of the first set of images satisfy optical flow criteria, classifying the particular portions of the first set of images as indicative of human activity; receiving a second set of images captured by the camera after the first set of images; and determining that the second set of images likely shows human activity based on analyzing portions of the second set of images that correspond to the particular portions of the first set of images classified as indicative of human activity. |
| US11580826B2 |
Line-powered wireless communications systems
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to line-powered wireless communications systems, and more specifically to methods and apparatus for providing persistent and ubiquitous wireless communications and sensor networks in physical premises to enable a wide variety of different applications and use cases. |
| US11580824B2 |
Multi-sport challenge systems and methods
A multi-sport challenge system may include a multi-sport facility, a sport challenge menu including a plurality of selectable sport challenges, and a fee/prize subsystem. The multi-sport facility may include a plurality of sport grounds, wherein each of the sport grounds includes a full, partial, or simulated sport grounds. The sport challenge menu may include an entry fee and financial prize corresponding to each selectable sport challenge of the menu, wherein the entry fee is to be paid by a participant that selects the corresponding sport challenge for an opportunity to attempt the sport challenge. The financial prize may be awarded to the participant if the attempt successfully completes the sport challenge. The fee/prize subsystem may be configured to receive sport challenge selections made by participants and to collect the corresponding entry fees from the participants and output corresponding financial prizes upon successful completion of the selected sport challenges. |
| US11580822B2 |
System and method for sports wagering using dynamic real-time pricing and trading
A system for operating a sports gaming event using a graphical interface of a computing device application, the system including: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive sports data about a sporting event via a network; access a database of historical statistics relating to the sporting event and to players playing in the sporting event; select at least one betting scenario from a betting scenario database based on the sports data and the historical statistics; calculate an initial probability of the betting scenario occurring based on the sports data and the historical statistics; generate an initial price of the betting scenario based on the initial probability; display the betting scenario and the initial price on the graphical interface; and receive a response to the betting scenario from at least one user. |
| US11580821B2 |
Controlling an electronic gaming machine to provide a prize on symbol trigger
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) or another type of gaming device may be configured to provide games that involve “WYSIWYG” (what you see is what you get) symbols or “prize on” symbols. The gaming device may be configured to provide the value of all “prize on” symbols that land during a single instance of a game if a prize on trigger symbol, which also may be referred to herein as a blast symbol, lands during the same instance of the game. In some examples, the game may be a base game. According to some examples, a feature does not need to be triggered during the instance of the base game for the value of all prize on symbols that land during the instance of the base game to be awarded. In other examples, the game may be a feature game, such as a “hold and spin” game. |
| US11580820B2 |
Game with chance element and tax indicator
In various embodiments a player of a gaming device or mobile gaming device is presented with an indication of a payout amount less any taxes that would be owed for the payout. |
| US11580817B2 |
Live action craps table with mirrored remote player station
A craps gaming system is described including a craps table and a plurality of consoles. The craps table includes a dealer console configured to control play at the craps table and a shooter console configured to enable a shooter to place bets while also being a shooter. A plurality of player consoles located in close proximity to the craps table and connected over a network to the dealer console and the shooter console each include a display having a graphical user interface and a mechanism for receiving money or credits from a player. The dealer console communicates with each player console and generates a list of players eligible to be the shooter. When a player accepts of an invitation to be the shooter, the dealer console causes the network to mirror the graphical user interface and associated content from an accepting player's player console among the plurality of player consoles to the shooter console. |
| US11580810B2 |
Modular mobile point of sale device having separable units for configurable data processing
There are provided systems and methods for a modular mobile point of sale device having separable units for configurable data processing. A modular device may include a main unit that includes data processing features to allow for a mobile point of sale, including a data entry unit for payment data, a communication component to secure communicate that data to a centralized transaction processor, and a processing unit to receive the data and instruct the centralized to process the data with an online service provider. The module device may also be physically and communicatively coupled to additional modules that may increase the on-device functionality of the main unit, include a module to allow user input and additional modules to accept other types of transaction input. On detection of a connected unit, the main unit may secure connect to and authenticate each attached module. |
| US11580805B1 |
System and methods for access control
A system for controlling access to a secure room containing a plurality of safety deposit boxes, comprises a motion detector, a biometric sensor, and a plurality of contact sensors, wherein each of the safety deposit boxes is associated with at least two contact sensors. The system includes a processor that is configured to unlock the gate when a plurality of access conditions are satisfied, which may include: collecting via the biometric sensor a biometric sensor a biometric credential that matches a reference biometric credential in a user database; and determining the secure room is unoccupied based on at least a predetermined period of no motion detected by the at least one motion sensor. The processor may also be configured to generate a box-accessed event identifying one of the safety deposit boxes when all of the contact sensors associated with that safety deposit box are simultaneously opened. |
| US11580804B2 |
Job site security system and method of use therefor
A job site security system contains a wireless communications node and a device such as a tool, a battery, a charger, etc., which contains a controller. Each tool has a locked state and an unlocked state as determined by the controller. Each tool is (initially) in the locked state. When the wireless communications node transmits a signal to the device the controller changes the locked state to the unlocked state allowing the device to be used. A method for securing a job site is also provided. |
| US11580798B2 |
Vehicle lighting system
A vehicle lighting system includes a light assembly and an electronic controller. The light assembly includes one or more lights configured to illuminate an external area that is in a vicinity of the vehicle. The electronic controller is programmed to receive a battery status signal from a battery of the vehicle. The electronic controller is further programmed to control the light assembly to illuminate the one or more lights to display a status of the battery when the vehicle is in a predetermined condition. The predetermined condition is at least one of a condition in which a remote electronic device is within a vicinity of the vehicle, a condition in which the vehicle has transitioned from a locked state to an unlocked state, and a condition in which the vehicle is about to be transitioned from the locked state to the unlocked state. |
| US11580797B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring specifications over simulation and test data
Systems and methods are provided for requirements engineering, and may include: receiving as input, time series data from at least one of a simulation of a vehicle run on a simulation system, or from the vehicle in operation; a requirements monitoring system checking to determine whether a plurality of requirements for operation of the vehicle are met, wherein the requirements are expressed in signal temporal logic form and a requirement includes at least an associated minimal sampling rate and a filtering policy applicable to the requirement; determining a quantitative conformance for each of selected requirements of the plurality of requirements; and add requirements to a verified requirements set based on the qualitative conformance of the requirements. |
| US11580794B2 |
Anomaly prediction and detection for aircraft equipment
A method includes obtaining sensor data captured by a sensor of an aircraft during a power up event. The sensor data includes multiple parameter values, each corresponding to a sample period. The method further includes determining a set of delta values, each indicating a difference between parameter values for consecutive sample periods of the sensor data. The method further includes determining a set of quantized delta values by assigning the delta values to quantization bins based on magnitudes of the delta values. The method further includes determining a normalized count of delta values for each quantization bin. The method further includes comparing the normalized counts of delta values to anomaly detection thresholds. The method further includes generating, based on the comparisons, output indicating whether the sensor data is indicative of an operational anomaly. |
| US11580791B2 |
Automobile damage detection using thermal conductivity
In one aspect, an example method includes (a) determining, via a thermal conductivity sensor of an automobile damage detection device, one or more thermal conductivities at one or more locations on an automobile; (b) transmitting, via a network interface of the automobile damage detection device, a request for anticipated thermal conductivity data from an automobile claims system, wherein the anticipated thermal conductivity data corresponds to anticipated thermal conductivities at the one or more locations on the automobile; (c) in response to transmitting the request, receiving, via the network interface from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data; and (d) in response to receiving, from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data, displaying, via a graphical user interface, a graphical representation of the determined one or more thermal conductivities and the anticipated thermal conductivity data. |
| US11580790B2 |
System and method for smart contract management using DTCs
A vehicle system may include a memory of a vehicle configured to maintain at least one smart contract between a manufacturer of the vehicle and a supplier of components to the manufacturer, and a processor of the vehicle configured to receive at least one diagnostic code from the vehicle, the diagnostic code being associated with at least one vehicle component, in response to the code being identified by the processor as being associated with the at least one smart contract, update the at least one smart contract within the memory with the code, and transmit the smart contract, as updated, to a third party associated with the vehicle component. |
| US11580789B2 |
System load based safety operator warning system
According to one embodiment, a method of generating warning messages based on system load of an autonomous driving vehicle can relieve a safety operator of the burden of constantly monitoring the vehicle and outside driving environments. The method uses a threshold for each of a number of system load parameters to determine whether the vehicle has a heavy system load that needs the attention of the safety operator. In one example, the vehicle can use a CPU usage threshold and an end-to-end latency threshold to determine whether the vehicle has a heavy system load while travelling on a road segment. If any of the thresholds is exceeded, the vehicle can send a warning message to the safety driver. The system load thresholds may be determined from data collected from the autonomous driving vehicle when it previously travelled on the road segment. |
| US11580788B2 |
Apparatus for determining a passing time of a passive RFID sports timing transponder
An apparatus for determining a passing time of a passive RFID sports timing transponder includes a housing for protecting the apparatus; an RFID reader unit connected to an RFID antenna for remotely determining an identity and a passing time of the transponder; a location unit for determining a location of the apparatus; a mobile communication unit connected to a mobile communication antenna for transmitting the identity and the passing time of the transponder and the location of the apparatus to a processing unit; and a communication unit for communicating with another similar apparatus in an immediate spatial vicinity to synchronize operation of the RFID reader unit and an RFID reader unit of the similar apparatus to avoid interference. The RFID reader unit, the RFID antenna, the location unit, the mobile communication unit and the neighbor communication unit are integrated in a common printed circuit board that is mounted within the housing. |
| US11580786B2 |
Updating method for configuration parameters of electronic device, device and computer-readable medium
The present disclosure relates to an updating method for configuration parameters of an electronic device, a device and a computer-readable medium, wherein the updating method includes: acquiring fingerprint information collected by a fingerprint sensor at the electronic device; determining whether the fingerprint information is collected in a trusted mode; acquiring, in response to determining that the fingerprint information is collected in the trusted mode, a target configuration parameter of the electronic device for anti-spoofing detection according to the fingerprint information; and updating, in response to that the target configuration parameter of the electronic device and/or a current configuration parameter of the electronic device satisfies a preset condition, the current configuration parameter of the electronic device based on the target configuration parameter of the electronic device, wherein the current configuration parameter is used by the electronic device for anti-spoofing detection of a fingerprint in fingerprint information to be recognized. The solution of the present disclosure can update configuration parameters of the electronic device under certain conditions, thereby realizing high precision of anti-spoofing detection. |
| US11580784B2 |
Model learning device, model learning method, and recording medium
A model learning device provided with: an error-added movement locus generation unit for adding an error to movement locus data for action learning that represents the movement locus of a subject and to which is assigned an action label that is information representing the action of the subject, and thereby generating error-added movement locus data; and an action recognition model learning unit for learning a model, using at least the error-added movement locus data and learning data created on the basis of the action label, by which model the action of some subject can be recognized from the movement locus of the subject. Thus, it is possible to provide a model by which the action of a subject can be recognized with high accuracy on the basis of the movement locus of the subject estimated using a camera image. |
| US11580782B2 |
Display panel and display device
Embodiments of the present invention provide a display panel, including a display region, wherein the display region includes an iris recognition region; the display panel further includes a light conversion layer disposed in the iris recognition region, the light conversion layer is configured to convert visible light incident on the light conversion layer into infrared light, and the infrared light is emitted from a display side of the display panel. |
| US11580780B2 |
Universal feature representation learning for face recognition
A computer-implemented method for implementing face recognition includes receiving training data including a plurality of augmented images each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of input images augmented by one of a plurality of variations, splitting a feature embedding generated from the training data into a plurality of sub-embeddings each associated with one of the plurality of variations, associating each of the plurality of sub-embeddings with respective ones of a plurality of confidence values, and applying a plurality of losses including a confidence-aware identification loss and a variation-decorrelation loss to the plurality of sub-embeddings and the plurality of confidence values to improve face recognition performance by learning the plurality of sub-embeddings. |
| US11580779B2 |
Verification system, electronic device, and verification method
The present disclosure provides a verification system. The verification system is formed with a trusted execution environment, the verification system includes a processor set, and the processor set is configured to: obtain an infrared image to be verified of a target object; determine, in the trusted execution environment, whether the infrared image to be verified matches a pre-stored infrared template; in response to determining that the infrared image to be verified matches the pre-stored infrared template, obtain a depth image to be verified of the target object; and determine, in the trusted execution environment, whether the depth image to be verified matches a pre-stored depth template. |
| US11580777B2 |
Control apparatus and computer-readable storage medium
A control apparatus is provided, including: an other-vehicle emotion acquiring unit configured to acquire an other-vehicle emotion indicating an emotion of an occupant of a second vehicle different from a first vehicle; a determination unit configured to determine whether to perform notification to an occupant of the first vehicle based on the other-vehicle emotion; and a notification control unit configured to perform control to notify the occupant of the first vehicle of notification information based on the other-vehicle emotion when the determination unit determines to perform the notification. |
| US11580775B2 |
Differentiating between live and spoof fingers in fingerprint analysis by machine learning
The present disclosure relates to a method performed in a fingerprint analysis system for facilitating differentiating between a live finger and a spoof finger. The method comprises acquiring a plurality of time-sequences of images, each of the time-sequences showing a respective finger as it engages a detection surface of a fingerprint sensor. Each of the time-sequences comprises at least a first image and a last image showing a fingerprint topography of the finger, wherein the respective fingers of some of the time-sequences are known to be live fingers and the respective fingers of some other of the time-sequences are known to be spoof fingers. The method also comprises training a machine learning algorithm on the plurality of time-sequences to produce a model of the machine learning algorithm for differentiating between a live finger and a spoof finger. |
| US11580773B2 |
Semiconductor package having self-aligned structure
Semiconductor package having self-aligned structure disclosed. Semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip having an active area and at least one marginal area that is located around the active area, wherein at least one alignment bar is arranged on the marginal area and a top structure being arranged on the semiconductor chip and having a groove being formed on a bottom surface, wherein the groove is configured for accommodating the alignment bar. |
| US11580772B2 |
Method and device for monitoring a mobile input device
A method for monitoring a mobile input device with a screen on which information can be displayed in a first pixel raster of image elements and which comprises a flat optical fingerprint reader and a second pixel raster of light-sensitive sensor elements. A fingerprint and fingerprint characteristics, comprising position of the finger on the screen are detected. The sensor elements detect the light intensity incident on them. The intensity levels are assembled into a static pattern of the fingerprint. The combination of the static pattern and the fingerprint characteristics are compared with a database. If the combination is in the database, a check is carried out whether an action is associated with this combination, which is then carried out, or whether no action is associated with this combination, whereupon a first standard action is carried out. If the combination is not stored, a second standard action is carried out. |
| US11580770B1 |
Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor technologies and methods for bi-directional fingerprint sensing
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for ultrasonic fingerprint sensors that are able to be used to detect fingerprints from opposing sides of an apparatus, e.g., a smartphone with screens on both sides of the housing. Some implementations of such sensors may include, for example, two piezoelectric and sensor pixel layer assemblies coupled to a common controller. Other implementations of such sensors may include, for example, a single piezoelectric and sensor pixel assembly coupled with a controller configured to apply a range-gate delay to obtain fingerprint scans from either opposing side of an apparatus. Yet further implementations of such sensors may include acoustic masking layers to spatially filter ultrasonic waves propagating to either side of an apparatus. |
| US11580764B2 |
Self-supervised document-to-document similarity system
Examples provide a self-supervised language model for document-to-document similarity scoring and ranking long documents of arbitrary length in an absence of similarity labels. In a first stage of a two-staged hierarchical scoring, a sentence similarity matrix is created for each paragraph in the candidate document. A sentence similarity score is calculated based on the sentence similarity matrix. In the second stage, a paragraph similarity matrix is constructed based on aggregated sentence similarity scores associated with the first candidate document. A total similarity score for the document is calculated based on the normalize the paragraph similarity matrix for each candidate document in a collection of documents. The model is trained using a masked language model and intra-and-inter document sampling. The documents are ranked based on the similarity scores for the documents. |
| US11580763B2 |
Representative document hierarchy generation
In some aspects, a method includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) based on data corresponding to a document to generate text data, detecting one or more bounded regions from the data based on a predetermined boundary rule set, and matching one or more portions of the text data to the one or more bounded regions to generate matched text data. Each bounded region of the one or more bounded regions encloses a corresponding block of text. The method also includes extracting features from the matched text data to generate a plurality of feature vectors and providing the plurality of feature vectors to a trained machine-learning classifier to generate one or more labels associated with the one or more bounded regions. The method further includes outputting metadata indicating a hierarchical layout associated with the document based on the one or more labels and the matched text data. |
| US11580762B2 |
Training a card type classifier with simulated card images
A computer model to identify a type of physical card is trained using simulated card images. The physical card may exist with various subtypes, some of which may not exist or be unavailable when the model is trained. To more robustly identify these subtypes, the training data set for the computer model includes simulated card images that are generated for the card type. The simulated card images are generated based on a semi-randomized background that varies in appearance, onto which an identifying marking of the card type is superimposed, such that the training data for the computer model includes additional randomized sample card images and ensure the model is robust to further variations in subtypes. |
| US11580761B2 |
Ink file searching method, apparatus, and program
An ink file output method is provided, which includes: generating M (M is an integer of 1 or more) pieces of stroke data SD on the basis of event data generated as M input devices move, respectively; generating N (N is an integer of 1 or more and M or less) kinds of logical names LN (metadata) identifying the M number of input devices; generating a metadata block associating the M pieces of stroke data SD with the N kinds of logical names LN; and writing the M pieces of stroke data SD and the metadata block to an ink file. |
| US11580760B2 |
Visual domain detection systems and methods
Disclosed is an effective domain name defense solution in which a domain name string may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a visual domain analyzer. The domain name string may be rendered or otherwise converted to an image. An optical character recognition function may be applied to the image to read out a text string which can then be compared with a protected domain name to determine whether the text string generated by the optical character recognition function from the image converted from the domain name string is similar to or matches the protected domain name. This visual domain analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process to hundreds of millions of domain names. |
| US11580753B2 |
License plate detection and recognition system
A license plate detection and recognition system receives training data comprising images of license plates. The system prepares ground truth data from the training data based predefined parameters. The system trains a first machine learning algorithm based on the ground truth data to generate a license plate detection model. The license plate detection model is configured to detect one or more regions in the images. The one or more regions contains a candidate for a license plate. The LPDR system generates a bounding box for each region. The LPDR system trains a second machine learning algorithm based on the ground truth data and the license plate detection model to generate a license plate recognition model. The license plate recognition model generates a sequence of alphanumeric characters with a level of recognition confidence for the sequence. |
| US11580751B2 |
Imaging device, video retrieving method, video retrieving program, and information collecting device
A drive recorder according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an imaging unit that is mounted on a vehicle and captures a video of the surroundings of the vehicle; a video recording unit that has, recorded therein, video data captured; a network connecting unit that receives accident information including a time and date when an accident occurred and a place where the accident occurred; and a video retrieving unit that determines whether any video data captured in a predetermined time period and in a predetermined region are available in the video data recorded in the video recording unit, the predetermined time period including the time and date when the accident occurred, the predetermined region including the place where the accident occurred. |
| US11580748B2 |
Tracking positions using a scalable position tracking system
A scalable tracking system processes video of a space to track the positions of objects within a space. The tracking system determines local coordinates for the objects within frames of the video and then assigns these coordinates to time windows based on when the frames were received. The tracking system then combines or clusters certain local coordinates that have been assigned to the same time window to determine a combined coordinate for an object during that time window. |
| US11580747B2 |
Multi-spatial scale analytics
Systems, methods, and computer-readable for multi-spatial scale object detection include generating one or more object trackers for tracking at least one object detected from on one or more images. One or more blobs are generated for the at least one object based on tracking motion associated with the at least one object. One or more tracklets are generated for the at least one object based on associating the one or more object trackers and the one or more blobs, the one or more tracklets including one or more scales of object tracking data for the at least one object. One or more uncertainty metrics are generated using the one or more object trackers and an embedding of the one or more tracklets. A training module for detecting and tracking the at least one object using the embedding and the one or more uncertainty metrics is generated using deep learning techniques. |
| US11580745B2 |
Video visual relation detection methods and systems
Methods and systems for detecting visual relations in a video are disclosed. A method comprises: decomposing the video sequence into a plurality of segments; for each segment, detecting objects in frames of the segment; tracking the detected objects over the segment to form a set of object tracklets for the segment; for the detected objects, extracting object features; for pairs of object tracklets of the set of object tracklets, extracting relativity features indicative of a relation between the objects corresponding to the pair of object tracklets; forming relation feature vectors for pairs of object tracklets using the object features of objects corresponding to respective pairs of object tracklets and the relativity features of the respective pairs of object tracklets; and generating a set of segment relation prediction results from the relation features vectors; generating a set of visual relation instances for the video sequence by merging the segment prediction results from different segments; and generating a set of visual relation detection results from the set of visual relation instances. |
| US11580739B2 |
Detection apparatus, detection method, and computer program product
A detection apparatus includes one or more processors. The processors set at least one time-period candidate. The processors input, to a first model that inputs a feature acquired from a plurality of time-series images and the time-period candidate and outputs at least one first likelihood indicating a likelihood of occurrence of at least one action previously determined as a detection target and correction information for acquisition of at least one correction time period resulting from correction of the at least one time-period candidate, the feature and the time-period candidate, and acquire the first likelihood and the correction information output from the first model. The processors detect, based on the at least one correction time period acquired based on the correction information and the first likelihood, the action included in the time-series images and a start time and a finish time of a time period of occurrence of the action. |
| US11580737B1 |
Search results within segmented communication session content
Methods and systems provide for search results within segmented communication session content. In one embodiment, the system receives a transcript and video content of a communication session between participants, the transcript including timestamps for a number of utterances associated with speaking participants; processes the video content to extract textual content visible within the frames of the video content; segments frames of the video content into a number of contiguous topic segments; determines a title for each topic segment; assigns a category label for each topic segment; receives a request from a user to search for specified text within the video content; determines one or more titles or category labels for which a prediction of relatedness with the specified text is present; and presents content from at least one topic segment associated with the one or more titles or category labels for which a prediction of relatedness is present. |
| US11580736B2 |
Parallel video processing neural networks
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for parallel processing of video frames using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving a video sequence comprising a respective video frame at each of a plurality of time steps; and processing the video sequence using a video processing neural network to generate a video processing output for the video sequence, wherein the video processing neural network includes a sequence of network components, wherein the network components comprise a plurality of layer blocks each comprising one or more neural network layers, wherein each component is active for a respective subset of the plurality of time steps, and wherein each layer block is configured to, at each time step at which the layer block is active, receive an input generated at a previous time step and to process the input to generate a block output. |
| US11580731B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for in-field diagnosis of growth stage and crop yield estimation in a plant area
Methods, devices, and systems may be utilized for detecting one or more properties of a plant area and generating a map of the plant area indicating at least one property of the plant area. The system comprises an inspection system associated with a transport device, the inspection system including one or more sensors configured to generate data for a plant area including to: capture at least 3D image data and 2D image data; and generate geolocational data. The datacenter is configured to: receive the 3D image data, 2D image data, and geolocational data from the inspection system; correlate the 3D image data, 2D image data, and geolocational data; and analyze the data for the plant area. A dashboard is configured to display a map with icons corresponding to the proper geolocation and image data with the analysis. |
| US11580730B2 |
Apparatus and method for image-guided agriculture
A method for image-guided agriculture includes receiving images; processing the images to generate reflectance maps respectively corresponding to spectral bands; synthesizing the reflectance maps to generate a multispectral image including vegetation index information of a target area; receiving crop information in regions of the target area; and assessing crop conditions for the regions based on the identified crop information and the vegetation index information. |
| US11580724B2 |
Virtual teach and repeat mobile manipulation system
A method for controlling a robotic device is presented. The method includes positioning the robotic device within a task environment. The method also includes mapping descriptors of a task image of a scene in the task environment to a teaching image of a teaching environment. The method further includes defining a relative transform between the task image and the teaching image based on the mapping. Furthermore, the method includes updating parameters of a set of parameterized behaviors based on the relative transform to perform a task corresponding to the teaching image. |
| US11580717B2 |
Method and device for determining placement region of item
A method and a device for determining a placement region of an item are disclosed. The method according to the present disclosure comprises: acquiring position information of an electronic identification at a bar display screen; and determining the placement region of the item according to the position information and a preset mapping relationship. |
| US11580713B2 |
Motion compensation for a SPAD array camera
Examples are disclosed that relate to motion compensation on a single photon avalanche detector (SPAD) array camera. One example provides a method enacted on an imaging device comprising a SPAD array camera and a motion sensor, the SPAD array camera comprising a plurality of pixels. The method comprises acquiring a plurality of subframes of image data. Each subframe of image data comprises a binary value for each pixel. Based upon motion data from the motion sensor, the method further comprises determining a change in pose of the imaging device between adjacent subframes, applying a positional offset to a current subframe based upon the motion data to align a location of a stationary imaged feature in the current subframe with a location of the stationary imaged feature in a prior subframe to create aligned subframes, summing the aligned subframes to form an image, and outputting the image. |
| US11580712B2 |
Information processing apparatus, system, and method for detecting collision between a physical and virtual object
An information processing apparatus creates a first virtual object expressing a physical object that is detected from physical object information obtained from a physical object information acquisition unit. The information processing apparatus determines a display state of the first virtual object in accordance with a result of detecting collision between the first virtual object and a second virtual object. The information processing apparatus creates, on the basis of a virtual space including the first virtual object and the second virtual object, position-orientation of an HMD, the determined display state, and a physical space image obtained from the HMD, a mixed reality image in combination of an image of the virtual space and the physical space image, and displays the created mixed reality image on the HMD. |
| US11580706B2 |
Device and method for generating dynamic virtual contents in mixed reality
Dynamic virtual content(s) to be superimposed to a representation of a real 3D scene complies with a scenario defined before run-time and involving real-world constraints (23). Real-world information (22) is captured in there al 3D scene and the scenario is executed at runtime (14) in presence of there al-world constraints. When there al-world constraints are not identified (12) from there al-world information, a transformation of the representation of the real 3D scene to a virtually adapted 3D scene is carried out (13) before executing the scenario, so that the virtually adapted 3D scene fulfills those constraints, and the scenario is executed in the virtually adapted 3D scene replacing the real 3D scene instead of there al 3D scene. Application to mixed reality. |
| US11580700B2 |
Augmented reality object manipulation
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of computer imaging software and systems by facilitating the manipulation of virtual content displayed in conjunction with images of real-world objects and environments. Embodiments of the present disclosure allow different virtual objects to be moved onto different physical surfaces, as well as manipulated in other ways. |
| US11580695B2 |
Method for a sensor-based and memory-based representation of a surroundings, display device and vehicle having the display device
A method for a sensor-based and memory-based representation of a surroundings of a vehicle. The vehicle includes an imaging sensor for detecting the surroundings. The method includes: detecting a sequence of images; determining distance data on the basis of the detected images and/or of a distance sensor of the vehicle, the distance data comprising distances between the vehicle and objects in the surroundings of the vehicle; generating a three-dimensional structure of a surroundings model on the basis of the distance data; recognizing at least one object in the surroundings of the vehicle on the basis of the detected images, in particular by a neural network; loading a synthetic object model on the basis of the recognized object; adapting the generated three-dimensional structure of the surroundings model on the basis of the synthetic object model and on the basis of the distance data; and displaying the adapted surroundings model. |
| US11580692B2 |
Single-pass object scanning
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generates a three-dimensional (3D) model based on a selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the subset. For example, an example process may include acquiring sensor data during movement of the device in a physical environment including an object, the sensor data including images of a physical environment captured via a camera on the device, selecting a subset of the images based on assessing the images with respect to motion-based defects based on device motion and depth data, and generating a 3D model of the object based on the selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the selected subset. |
| US11580691B2 |
System and method for three-dimensional scanning and for capturing a bidirectional reflectance distribution function
A method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object includes: capturing images of the object from a plurality of viewpoints, the images including color images; generating a 3D model of the object from the images, the 3D model including a plurality of planar patches; for each patch of the planar patches: mapping image regions of the images to the patch, each image region including at least one color vector; and computing, for each patch, at least one minimal color vector among the color vectors of the image regions mapped to the patch; generating a diffuse component of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) for each patch of planar patches of the 3D model in accordance with the at least one minimal color vector computed for each patch; and outputting the 3D model with the BRDF for each patch. |
| US11580689B2 |
Information display control device, method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
An information display control device displays, in a display region, an image of a virtual object for indicating a position of an object. The device includes: a determiner to determine a size of the virtual object based on the position of the object; a drawer to generate an image of the virtual object by placing the virtual object at the position of the object and performing a perspective projection of the virtual object onto a virtual region with a viewpoint of a user as a reference; a generator to generate a table representing a relationship between grid points in the virtual region and points corresponding to the grid points in a plane including the display region; a transformer to generate a display image of the virtual object by transforming the image of the virtual object using the table; and a controller to display the display image in the display region. |
| US11580688B2 |
High-definition city mapping
A vehicle generates a city-scale map. The vehicle includes one or more Lidar sensors configured to obtain point clouds at different positions, orientations, and times,one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform registering, in pairs, a subset of the point clouds based on respective surface normals of each of the point clouds; determining loop closures based on the registered subset of point clouds; determining a position and an orientation of each of the subset of the point clouds based on constraints associated with the determined loop closures; and generating a map based on the determined position and the orientation of each of the subset of the point clouds. |
| US11580687B2 |
Transferring data from autonomous vehicles
A system includes at least one imaging sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire, using the imaging sensor, detected data describing an environment of an autonomous vehicle. The processor is further configured to derive reference data, which describe the environment, from a predefined map, to compute difference data representing a difference between the detected data and the reference data, and to transfer the difference data. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US11580686B2 |
Apparatus and method for data-parallel ray tracing using volume proxies
An apparatus and method are described for utilizing volume proxies. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a volume subdivision module to subdivide a volume into a plurality of partitions, the apparatus to process a first of the partitions and to distribute data associated with each of the other partitions to each of a plurality of nodes; a proxy generation module to compute a first proxy for the first partition, the first proxy to be transmitted to the plurality of nodes; and a ray tracing engine to perform one or more traversal/intersection operations for a current ray or group of rays using the first proxy; if the ray or group of rays interacts with the first proxy, then the ray tracing engine to send the ray(s) to a second node associated with the first proxy or retrieves data related to the interaction from the second node. |
| US11580681B2 |
Image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a photographed image; an editing unit configured to edit the photographed image by executing an action including an application and image processing that is a function of the application; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire photographing information on photographing of the photographed image; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first history information indicating a history of actions for the photographed image; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire second history information based on at least a history of actions for an image different from the photographed image; and a control unit configured to determine a candidate for an action that is to be executed next on a basis of the first history information and the second history information and perform control to notify the determined candidate. |
| US11580677B2 |
Systems and methods for deep learning-based image reconstruction
Methods and systems for deep learning based image reconstruction are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving a set of imaging projections data, identifying a voxel to reconstruct, receiving a trained regression model, and reconstructing the voxel. The voxel is reconstructed by: projecting the voxel on each imaging projection in the set of imaging projections according to an acquisition geometry, extracting adjacent pixels around each projected voxel, feeding the regression model with the extracted adjacent pixel data to produce a reconstructed value of the voxel, and repeating the reconstruction for each voxel to be reconstructed to produce a reconstructed image. |
| US11580676B1 |
Method for embedding user information in webpages and electronic device implementing method
In a method for embedding user information in webpages, user information of a user who logs into a target website is obtained. The user information is converted into color values. The color values are embedded in a target webpage of the target website. If a webpage is leaked, a user who leaks the webpage can be traced. |
| US11580675B2 |
Generation of a sequence of textures for video delivery
Techniques and systems are provided for generating a video from texture images, and for reconstructing the texture images from the video. For example, a texture image can be divided into a number of tiles, and the number of tiles can be sorted into a sequence of ordered tiles. The sequence of ordered tiles can be provided to a video coder for generating a coded video. The number of tiles can be encoded based on the sequence of ordered tiles. The encoded video including the encoded sequence of ordered tiles can be decoded. At least a portion of the decoded video can include the number of tiles sorted into a sequence of ordered tiles. A data file associated with at least the portion of the decoded video can be used to reconstruct the texture image using the tiles. |
| US11580667B2 |
Systems and methods for characterizing object pose detection and measurement systems
A method for characterizing a pose estimation system includes: receiving, from a pose estimation system, first poses of an arrangement of objects in a first scene; receiving, from the pose estimation system, second poses of the arrangement of objects in a second scene, the second scene being a rigid transformation of the arrangement of objects of the first scene with respect to the pose estimation system; computing a coarse scene transformation between the first scene and the second scene; matching corresponding poses between the first poses and the second poses; computing a refined scene transformation between the first scene and the second scene based on coarse scene transformation, the first poses, and the second poses; transforming the first poses based on the refined scene transformation to compute transformed first poses; and computing an average rotation error and an average translation error of the pose estimation system based on differences between the transformed first poses and the second poses. |
| US11580662B2 |
Associating three-dimensional coordinates with two-dimensional feature points
An example method includes causing a light projecting system of a distance sensor to project a three-dimensional pattern of light onto an object, wherein the three-dimensional pattern of light comprises a plurality of points of light that collectively forms the pattern, causing a light receiving system of the distance sensor to acquire an image of the three-dimensional pattern of light projected onto the object, causing the light receiving system to acquire a two-dimensional image of the object, detecting a feature point in the two-dimensional image of the object, identifying an interpolation area for the feature point, and computing three-dimensional coordinates for the feature point by interpolating using three-dimensional coordinates of two points of the plurality of points that are within the interpolation area. |
| US11580661B2 |
Device, method and system for estimating elevation in images from camera devices
A device, method and system for estimating elevation in images from camera devices is provided. The device detects humans at respective positions in images from a camera device, the camera device having a fixed orientation and fixed focal length. The device estimates, for the humans in the images, respective elevations of the humans, relative to the camera device, at the respective positions based at least on camera device parameters defining the fixed orientation and the fixed focal length. The device associates the respective elevations with the respective positions in the images. The device determines, using the respective elevations associated with the respective positions, a function that estimates elevation in an image from the camera device, using a respective image position coordinate as an input. The device provides the function to a video analytics engine to determine relative real-world positions in subsequent images from the camera device. |
| US11580659B2 |
Method for size estimation by image recognition of specific target using given scale
The present invention relates to a method for size estimation by image recognition of a specific target using a given scale. First, a reference objected is recognized in an image and the corresponding scale is established. Then the specific target is searched and the size of the specific target is estimated according to the acquired scale. |
| US11580657B2 |
Depth estimation using biometric data
Method of generating depth estimate based on biometric data starts with server receiving positioning data from first device associated with first user. First device generates positioning data based on analysis of a data stream comprising images of second user that is associated with second device. Server then receives a biometric data of second user from second device. Biometric data is based on output from a sensor or a camera included in second device. Server then determines a distance of second user from first device using positioning data and biometric data of the second user. Other embodiments are described herein. |
| US11580654B2 |
Alternating light distributions for active depth sensing
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for active depth sensing. An example apparatus configured to perform active depth sensing includes a projector. The projector is configured to emit a first distribution of light during a first time and emit a second distribution of light different from the first distribution of light during a second time. A set of final depth values of one or more objects in a scene is based on one or more reflections of the first distribution of light and one or more reflections of the second distribution of light. The projector may include a laser array, and the apparatus may be configured to switch between a first plurality of lasers of the laser array to emit light during the first time and a second plurality of laser to emit light during the second time. |
| US11580648B2 |
System and method for visually tracking persons and imputing demographic and sentiment data
A visual tracking system for tracking and identifying persons within a monitored location, comprising a plurality of cameras and a visual processing unit, each camera produces a sequence of video frames depicting one or more of the persons, the visual processing unit is adapted to maintain a coherent track identity for each person across the plurality of cameras using a combination of motion data and visual featurization data, and further determine demographic data and sentiment data using the visual featurization data, the visual tracking system further having a recommendation module adapted to identify a customer need for each person using the sentiment data of the person in addition to context data, and generate an action recommendation for addressing the customer need, the visual tracking system is operably connected to a customer-oriented device configured to perform a customer-oriented action in accordance with the action recommendation. |
| US11580642B2 |
Disease region extraction apparatus, disease region extraction method, and disease region extraction program
Provided are a disease region extraction apparatus, a disease region extraction method, and a disease region extraction program that can extract an infarction region even in an image in which it is difficult to prepare a large amount of data indicating a correct infarction region.A disease region extraction apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a first image obtained by capturing an image of a subject that has developed a disease; an estimated image derivation unit that estimates a second image, whose type is different from the type of the first image, from the first image to derive an estimated image; and a disease region extraction unit that extracts a disease region from the estimated image. |
| US11580641B1 |
Deep learning based methods and systems for nucleic acid sequencing
Methods and systems for determining a plurality of sequences of nucleic acid (e.g., DNA) molecules in a sequencing-by-synthesis process are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining images of fluorescent signals obtained in a plurality of synthesis cycles. The images of fluorescent signals are associated with a plurality of different fluorescence channels. The method further comprises preprocessing the images of fluorescent signals to obtain processed images. Based on a set of the processed images, the method further comprises detecting center positions of clusters of the fluorescent signals using a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) and extracting, based on the center positions of the clusters of fluorescent signals, features from the set of the processed images to generate feature embedding vectors. The method further comprises determining, in parallel, the plurality of sequences of DNA molecules using the extracted features based on a trained attention-based neural network. |
| US11580636B2 |
Automatic graph scoring for neuropsychological assessments
Systems and methods of the present invention provide for: receiving a digital image data; modifying the digital image data to reduce a width of a feature within the digital image data; executing a dimension reduction process on the feature; storing a feature vector comprising: at least one feature for each of the received digital image data, and a correct or incorrect label associated with each feature vector; selecting the feature vector from a data store; training a classification software engine to classify each feature vector according to the label; classifying the image data as correct or incorrect according to a classification software engine; and generating an output labeling a second digital image data as correct or incorrect. |
| US11580635B2 |
Fluid analysis apparatus, method for operating fluid analysis apparatus, and fluid analysis program
The invention provides a fluid analysis apparatus, a method for operating a fluid analysis apparatus, and a fluid analysis program that perform display such that the tendency of a fluid flow in a blood vessel is easily checked. Route position information that is capable of identifying an order along a route of the anatomical structure is assigned to each position in the anatomical structure, using three-dimensional volume data in which each voxel has the information of a three-dimensional flow velocity vector indicating a flow velocity of a fluid in an anatomical structure. The three-dimensional flow velocity vector is selected such that the route position information of a position where the three-dimensional flow velocity vector is present is sequentially arranged from one point in the anatomical structure and a trajectory indicating the flow of the fluid is drawn so as to be visibly recognized. |
| US11580634B2 |
System and method for automated surface assessment
Embodiments described herein provide a system for assessing the surface of an object for detecting contamination or other defects. During operation, the system obtains an input image indicating the contamination on the object and generates a synthetic image using an artificial intelligence (AI) model based on the input image. The synthetic image can indicate the object without the contamination. The system then determines a difference between the input image and the synthetic image to identify an image area corresponding to the contamination. Subsequently, the system generates a contamination map of the contamination by highlighting the image area based on one or more image enhancement operations. |
| US11580627B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically grading pre-owned electronic devices
Systems and methods for automatically grading a user device are provided. Such systems and methods can include (1) a lighting element positioned at an angle relative to a platform, (2) an imaging device positioned at the angle relative to the platform such that light emitted from the lighting element and a field of view of the imaging device form a right angle where the light emitted from the lighting element and the field of view meet at a user device when the user device is positioned at a predetermined location on the platform, and (3) control circuitry that can activate the lighting element, instruct the imaging device to capture an image of a screen of the user device while the user device is at the predetermined location and is being illuminated by the first lighting element, and parse the image to determine whether the screen is damaged. |
| US11580612B2 |
Systems and methods for transportation staffing
Exemplary embodiments provide a transportation staffing management system. An amount of transportations miles are forecasted for delivering inventory from a distribution enter to a store based on a sales forecast for a store. Non-driving time for drivers engaged in delivering inventory to a store is tracked based on data collected in real-time from mobile computing devices associated with delivery vehicles. An amount of time needed to deliver the inventory based on the forecasted amount of transportation miles and non-driving is calculated. An optimal transportation workload is generated for the distribution center based on the amount of time, data from a first database storing data from a central office, and data from a second database storing data from a distribution center. |
| US11580611B2 |
Systems and methods for contract negotiation and drafting
The systems and methods herein provide a user-friendly, automated and transparent, contract drafting and negotiation tool. Through the contract drafting and negotiation tool two parties can negotiate agreement using template agreements including one or more sections in which each user is able to select one of a plurality of input options that affect the terms of the contract. In each instance, each party can see the option selected by the other party, as well as the options not selected by the other party. The systems and methods facilitate efficient and transparent contract negotiation and drafting. |
| US11580610B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling electrical power consumption
A power management system obtains first data regarding several groups of electrical devices, including a budget and a respective priority metric associated with each of the groups. The system allots a respective amount of electrical power for use by each of the groups based on the first data. Further, the system obtains second data regarding the groups, including a respective amount of electrical power consumed by each of the groups. The system determines that a first group has consumed a first amount of electrical power that is greater than or equal to a second amount of electrical power that had been allotted for use by the first group. In response, the system re-allots at least a portion of a third amount of electrical power that had been allotted for use by a second group for use by the first group instead. |
| US11580609B2 |
Crop monitoring to determine and control crop yield
A method of predicting crop yield includes generating, via a processor, a plurality of vectors representative of growing conditions for a current time period and a plurality of vectors representative of growing conditions for a previous time period. The processor compares the plurality of vectors for the current time to the vectors of the previous time periods for corresponding growing conditions and determines which previous vectors are closest to the current vectors. The plurality of previous time periods are each associated with crop yields. Thus, the processor can determine a crop yield for the current time period for a selected crop producing field and crop type based on crop yields for the closest previous time periods. |
| US11580606B2 |
Using a distributed ledger to determine fault in subrogation
Systems and methods are disclosed with respect to using a blockchain for managing the subrogation claim process related to a vehicle accident, in particular, determining fault as part of the subrogation process. An exemplary embodiment may include receiving an electronic notification of a vehicle collision; receiving sensor data (such as telematics, image, audio, vehicle operational, or other sensor data) related to the vehicle collision; determining a percentage of fault of the vehicle collision for one or more vehicles, vehicle systems, and/or drivers based upon, at least in part, analysis of the sensor data collected; and creating a blockchain for the vehicle collision with one or more links to the sensor image data and an indication of the percentage of fault(s) determined to facilitate blockchain-based claim handling. |
| US11580603B2 |
System and method for providing real-time bi-directional charge capture-centralized conversation between Billing and Provider entities
A system for providing real-time bi-directional charge capture-centralized conversation between Billing and Provider entities, comprising a first computer apparatus with a computer apparatus charge capture module installed and a second computer apparatus with a computer apparatus billing module installed that are used to transmit and/or receive real-time charge capture centralized conversation data. Real-time charge capture-centralized conversation data is comprised of real-time charge capture data. The real-time charge capture data and the real-time charge capture-centralized conversation data can be combined to create real-time claim data. The system further comprises first computer apparatus and second computer apparatus receipt and transmission via secured communication links. The real-time charge capture data, real-time charge capture-centralized conversation data and real-time claim data is presented in a social media conversation style format. The first computer apparatus and second computer apparatus make it possible for both a Billing and a Provider entity to initiate, transmit or modify any of the sets of real-time charge capture data or real-time charge capture-centralized conversation data. |
| US11580600B2 |
Distributed crypto-currency smart order router with cost calculator
A distributed cryptocurrency smart order router (DCCSOR) is disclosed, which allows clients to keep control of their own private and exchange keys to their wallets and accounts, but can execute orders across multiple exchanges simultaneously. |
| US11580598B1 |
Methods and apparatuses for customized credit card recommendations
A credit card recommendation system for recommending credit cards to a user can be based on the consumer's estimated monthly spend, estimated spend across a plurality of categories, and user credit data. The credit card recommendation system can filter credit cards based on a likelihood of approval for the user. The credit card recommendation can determine a reward valuation and an adjustment valuation by assessing user spend and the characteristics corresponding to the credit card. The credit card recommendation can train a model to score credit cards for users, and apply specific user data to the model to determine a credit card score particular to the user. |
| US11580594B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system
A management server is configured to perform a process including: a step of obtaining a utilization history of each user in the previous month when a condition for performing a dividing ratio setting process is satisfied; a step of updating a utilization record evaluation; a step of calculating a first dividing ratio; a step of updating a driving record evaluation; a step of calculating a second dividing ratio; and a step of setting a dividing ratio. |
| US11580593B2 |
Fee setting device, method and system
When a process of returning a vehicle is performed, a fee setting device identifies a zone where the vehicle is returned, and calculates the identified zone's zone SOC. The fee setting device determines whether a discount for leveling is applicable. The fee setting device compares a zone SOC of a zone where a user rented a vehicle and a zone SOC of a zone where the user returned the vehicle. When the zone SOC of the zone where the user rented the vehicle is larger than the zone SOC of the zone where the user returned the vehicle, the discount for leveling is applied. |
| US11580587B2 |
System and method for presenting tire-related information to customers
A cloud-based system for use by retail store employees or customers at any location to facilitate the sale of automotive tires to consumers is provided. The system accesses multiple independent tire inventory systems from different distributors/manufacturers and provides a personalized set of recommendation tire options and accompanying TPMS service packs. |
| US11580585B1 |
User-preferred item attributes
Disclosed are one or more embodiments for a unique and personalized experience for a user interacting with an electronic commerce site by identifying user-preferred item attributes using supervised machine learning and presenting items to the user in an arrangement that is based on the identified item attributes. A shopping mission is determined according to user interactions with an electronic commerce site. The shopping mission is applied to an attribute prediction model that is trained to detect user-preferred item attributes for items included the item category and estimate a likelihood that an item containing a particular attribute will be purchased or interacted with during the interactions with the electronic commerce site. |
| US11580579B2 |
System and method for the utilization of pricing models in the aggregation, analysis, presentation and monetization of pricing data for vehicles and other commodities
Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. In certain embodiments, one or more models may be applied over a set of historical transaction data associated with a vehicle configuration to determine pricing data. Some models may leverage incremental data in various conditions, including cases where fewer than a desired number of historical transactions are present in the bin of a specified vehicle, where fewer than, equal to, or more than a certain number of list prices for the specified vehicle available, and where no historical transaction data for new models is available. |
| US11580578B2 |
Generation of electronic advertising messages based on model web pages
Methods and systems for facilitating generation of electronic advertising messages based on model web pages. A visual content request is received that identifies a model web page. Source code is retrieved that includes patterns that can be matched to identify visual features of the model web page. Visual content information is provided to an advertising message generation service to construct advertising messages that include at least a portion of the identified visual features. Constructed advertising messages are received, including at least one modified advertising message that incorporates a user-selected image extracted from the model web page. The identified visual features of the model web page can include text format, text color, background color, images, and video sequences. |
| US11580577B2 |
Product exploration-based promotion
An example operation may include one or more of acquiring, by a promotion processor node, consumer exploration of a product data from a blockchain, determining, by the promotion processor node, features of the product, receiving, by the promotion processor node, a promotion plan from at least one product retailer node, and executing a smart contract to generate a plurality of promotion tokens based on the features of the product and the promotion plan. |
| US11580573B2 |
Fan experience recommendation system and method
Method, system, and media for improving a fan experience for an event at a venue with a live audience. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the invention provide techniques for systematizing fan interactions based on automatically detected fan groupings and criteria triggering activation events. Fans are classified into audience groupings based on collected data associated with each fan. Fan interactions map activation criteria (such as activities performed by the fan or purchases made by the fan, information about the event, or the ambient conditions) to activation events that can collect additional data about the fan, incentivize the fan to make a purchase, or improve the fan experience in some other way. |
| US11580569B2 |
System and method for transactional data acquisition and establishment of customer lifetime value using acquired transactional data
A method for determining customer lifetime value using an incentive system to provide for geographically limited rewards earned for transactions includes tracking payment card transactions between enrolled payment cardholders and enrolled merchants, creating a database of rewards eligible transactions, instructing a virtual payment card issuer to apply the rewards amount for each rewards eligible transaction to an account, receiving transaction authorization requests from the virtual payment card issuer corresponding to enrolled cardholders requesting to spend rewards within their corresponding account, if the transaction is occurring within a prescribed geographic area in which rewards can be spent, transmitting an authorization for the virtual card issuer to complete the transaction using the rewards, establishing a cohort of enrolled payment cardholders and associated transaction data, and calculating a custom lifetime value for the enrolled payment cardholders within the cohort, the calculation based on the transaction data acquired by the incentive management system. |
| US11580565B1 |
Programmatic merchandising system and method for increasing in-store transaction conversions via heuristic advertising
An automated advertising scheduling and distribution process reacts to the effectiveness of sales data. A hosted platform creates location-specific playlists based on key consumer variables that impact buying behavior, and dynamically performs data analytics. Utilizing a programmatic system and machine learning algorithmic methodology, the platform gathers data from the retailer's data warehouse and automatically pulls location-by-location sales data while simultaneously collecting playback data. If sales are not being affected on the particular item that is being promoted, then the platform may be configured to replace that message with a promotional message for another product with a higher likelihood of engagement and conversion. This virtual feedback loop ensures that the platform is optimizing the most effective series of promotional messages for any given location. The content management administrator accordingly delivers relevant advertising/messages to various display screens integrated into fuel pumps, through the store, and to retailer loyalty program applications. |
| US11580563B2 |
System and method for sending data to end user data delivery vehicles
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, dividing a reward token in a reward token data base into a plurality of reward token pieces based on a selection of plurality of end user data delivery vehicles, sensing end user activity on a communication network on one of the plurality of end user data delivery vehicles at one of a plurality of data delivery vehicle servers, sending from a first one of the plurality of data delivery vehicle servers, a first one of the plurality of reward token pieces to the end user on a first one of the plurality of end user data delivery vehicles, and sending from a second one of the plurality of data delivery vehicle servers, a second one of the plurality of reward token pieces to the end user on a second one of the plurality of end user data delivery vehicles. |
| US11580560B2 |
Identity resolution for fraud ring detection
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for identifying fraudulent accounts associated with an electronic payment service. In some implementations, a computing device may retrieve a data set including a number of attributes for each of a multitude of accounts, and may construct a plurality of different graphs each based on a unique set of the attributes. Each graph may include a plurality of nodes linked together by a multitude of edges, where each node identifies a corresponding account and each edge indicates one or more of the corresponding attributes that are common to a pair of accounts. The computing device may determine a likelihood of each graph correctly identifying fraudulent accounts by analyzing groups of nodes connected to each other by corresponding groups of edges using historical account data, and may select the graph having the greatest determined likelihood to predict whether any of the accounts is fraudulent. |
| US11580556B1 |
System and method for predicting behavior and outcomes
A system and method for predicting behavior and/or outcomes related to a consumer's experience with an organization are implemented. Household data for households that are associated with a customer service interaction as of a certain date is collected, the household data having been created over a first pre-determined period of time preceding the certain date. The household data is analyzed to identify positive household data sets and negative household data sets. The positive household data sets relate to customer service interactions which preceded a high level customer service interaction within a subsequent period of time and the negative household data sets relate to customer service transactions which did not precede a high level customer service interaction with the subsequent period of time. The positive household data sets and the negative household data sets are processed in the aggregate, using a trained support vector machine model, to determine cumulative differences between data contained within the positive household data sets and the negative household data sets. Each day, daily household data is collected. The daily household data describes individual customer service transactions occurring during a previous calendar day. The daily household data is processed using the model to determine whether each individual customer service transaction occurring during the previous calendar day is more similar to the positive household data sets or to the negative household data sets. The individual customer service transactions that are more similar to the positive household data sets are flagged for proactive intervention. |
| US11580554B2 |
Multi-layered credit card with transaction-dependent source selection
Techniques are described herein for selecting an optimal financial account for a financial transaction. In an embodiment, a multi-account payment card is used to initiate a financial transaction. Transaction information of the financial transaction including a multi-account payment card ID is transmitted to a server for processing. The server determines that the multi-account payment card ID is associated with a plurality of financial accounts, wherein each of the plurality of financial accounts is associated with any one of a credit card, a debit card, an automatic teller machine (ATM) card, a gift card, or a credit line. A financial account of the plurality of financial accounts is selected by the server based on financial account information, such as reward information, associated with the plurality of financial accounts and the transaction information of the financial transaction. The financial transaction is then charged to the selected financial account. |
| US11580552B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for determining an event in a distributed data system
A method for preventing duplicate processing of a payment transaction includes: generating a first data structure with a first predetermined time interval and generating a second data structure with a second predetermined time interval. A first overlap region and second overlap region of the first and second predetermined time interval are defined by a same time interval. The method includes receiving first transaction data associated with a first payment transaction, receiving second transaction data associated with a second payment transaction, and determining based on a first transaction ID and a second transaction ID, that the second payment transaction is a duplicate of the first payment transaction. A computer program product and system for preventing duplicate processing of a payment transaction are also disclosed. |
| US11580550B2 |
Printer for selectively printing symbolic information on a medium
In some implementations, a printing system may include a card printer that includes a printing controller and a marking device. The card printer may be configured to receive a first printing instruction or a second printing instruction associated with printing an account identifier on a card. The card printer may receive one of the first printing instruction or the second printing instruction based on whether a risk score, associated with the account identifier, satisfies a threshold. The card printer may print a full account identifier, associated with the card, on a surface of the card based on receiving the first printing instruction. The card printer may print the card without the full account identifier on the surface of the card based on receiving the second printing instruction. |
| US11580549B2 |
Transaction tracking and fraud detection using voice and/or video data
A device receives recording data, for a recording of a user associated with an account, that captures the user describing a transaction. The device processes the recording data to identify one or more characteristics of an individual that described the transaction in the recording. The device determines, based on the one or more characteristics of the individual, whether the individual that described the transaction in the recording is the user associated with the account. The device causes the recording data to be stored in association with transaction data that identifies a list of transactions that are associated with the account of the user, wherein causing the recording data to be stored in association with the transaction data allows the recording to be made accessible to the user via an interface of an application used to manage the account. |
| US11580546B2 |
Systems and methods for interactive electronic transactions based on GPS=based device proximity data
Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure allow a customer or payor to select from a plurality of nearby vendors or payees when a computing device of the payor is physically close to electronic devices of the payees. Payee devices and locations of those payee devices may be identified and displayed on a display of a payor device. Once displayed, a specific payee device may be selected by the customer and an order for a product or service may be sent to the selected payee device from the payor device. After the product or service has been provided to the customer, information that confirms that purchase may be sent to any of the selected payee device, the payor device, or a payment processing computer and funds to pay for the product or service may be deposited into an account of the payee based on the confirmation. |
| US11580541B2 |
Transaction authentication platform
A method and system are disclosed in an electronic payment network, for associating a payment card of a cardholder with a personal computing device of the cardholder, then authenticating the payment card in electronic transactions processed in the network. The card and a device activation code are input to the cardholder device by the cardholder, then communicated sent to a remote server for obtaining a card token. The server generates a device token and an authorisation token, stores the generated tokens together with the card token, and sends the card and device tokens to the cardholder device for storage. Whenever a transaction is processed in the network, the payment card is authenticated by inputting authenticating data to the cardholder device for generating an authorisation token, which is sent to the server with the stored card and device tokens, for a matching operation against the card, device and authorisation tokens at the server. |
| US11580540B2 |
Methods and systems for smart contracts for security and filtering
A blockchain value transfer method including receiving a transfer request, executing a first smart contract function to perform data analytics on the transfer request and a second smart contract function to implement a security response responsive to compliance with a security criterion, and recording a result of execution of the second smart contract function to at least one of a relational database, a non-relational database, and an analytics service. |
| US11580538B2 |
Transparent crowd sourcing for projects
Methods and systems are provided for crowdsourced funding via a blockchain system. A token contract, associated with a token issuer, is generated on a blockchain system. Tokens are issued to a plurality of token holders. Each of the plurality of token holders is allowed access to a feedback mechanism associated with the token issuer. A performance of the token issuer in an associated field is monitored to provide at least one performance metric. A dividend is paid to each token holder proportional to a number of tokens held by the token holder after a predetermined amount of time based on the at least one performance metric. |
| US11580537B2 |
Payment integrated loyalty system
A payment integrated loyalty system including a point of sale terminal comprising a card reader, a communication subsystem configured to wirelessly communicate with a payment instrument, and configured to communicate over a network with at least a first and second server. The payment integrated loyalty system includes a processor in communication with the communication subsystem and card reader, configured to receive, through the communication subsystem, a payment instrument identifier associated with the payment instrument, and obtain a fingerprint based on one-way encrypting the payment instrument identifier. The processor is further configured to receive, from the first server via the communication subsystem, a loyalty balance associated with the fingerprint and to complete the financial transaction based on an updated amount based on the loyalty balance. |
| US11580534B2 |
Auditing of electronic documents
Auditing of mortgage documents is faster and simpler. An electronic mortgage application often contains or references a collection of many separate electronic mortgage documents. Electronic data representing an original version of an electronic mortgage document and its current version may be hashed to generate digital signatures. Any auditor may then quickly compare the digital signatures. If the digital signatures match, then the audit reveals that the electronic mortgage document has not changed since its creation. However, if the digital signatures do not match, then the electronic mortgage document has changed since its creation. The auditor may thus flag the electronic mortgage document for additional auditing processes. |
| US11580529B1 |
System and method for a mobile wallet
A computer-implemented system and method includes determining, by a mobile device associated with a user, a location of the user, generating, by the mobile device, a code comprising a tokenized value for sending funds and the location of the user, transmitting, by the mobile device, the code to a point of sale (POS) terminal associated with a merchant as part of a mobile wallet transaction, and receiving, by the mobile device, an indication that the mobile wallet transaction has been completed. |
| US11580527B2 |
Battery life estimation
Digital transaction apparatus including a Data Assistance Device (DAD), including a user interface that is operable to at least select data, and a DAD transmitter, a Digital Transaction Card (DTC), including a Digital Transaction Processing Unit (DTPU), and a DTC receiver, wherein the DAD and DTC are operable to transfer data from the DAD to the DTC and when subsequently using the DTC to effect a digital transaction, the DTC operates in accordance with the data selected and transferred from the DAD to the DTC, wherein the digital transaction apparatus further includes a remaining battery life estimation system operable to detect an occurrence of at least one electrical event and to measure the duration of the at least one electrical event, each electrical event having an associated power usage amount, and, subsequent to detection of an occurrence of an at least one electrical event, the remaining battery life estimation system calculates the total energy usage using the associated power usage amount in respect of the at least one electrical event and the duration of the at least one electrical event. |
| US11580525B2 |
Device for transmitting and receiving a wireless radio signal, corresponding method and program
A device for transmitting/receiving a wireless radio signal. Such a device includes: a first interface for transmitting/receiving a radio signal according to a first transmission technology; a second interface for transmitting/receiving a radio signal according to a second transmission technology; and an adaptation stage (such as a chip), which extracts data from signals coming from the first interface and/or the second interface. |
| US11580524B2 |
Automated digital method and system of providing or sharing access
Advantageously, the invention is a competitor to money transfer systems. Conventional digital transactions facilitate electronic payment, such as money transfers, payment card charges, e-commerce transactions and other types of transactions. However, payees may be unbanked people (e.g., children) or people with no payment card (e.g., may have lost card), and payment card fund transfers may be expensive, time consuming, and cumbersome for financial institutions. Thus, there is need for an improved approach. The invention discloses an automated digital method of providing or sharing access to a payment card and/or similar financial account or non-card product, transactions between individuals or legal entities without physical transmission of a payment card, non-card product or its credentials, even without a recipient of an access having a payment card and/or financial account or non-card product, particularly by providing or sharing access to a payment card and/or similar financial account or non-card product of a sender. |
| US11580521B2 |
Curbside management system for connected and autonomous vehicles
A curbside management system and method for managing curbside use by connected and/or autonomous vehicles that includes one or more computing devices that execute instructions. One or more processors integrate at least a navigation component, an asset verification component, and a curbside management component, configured to generate recommended curbside access destinations for a vehicle associated with the customer and one of which is selected as the final curbside destination for the vehicle. |
| US11580520B2 |
System, method, and apparatus to interactively broadcast value
A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product for interactively broadcasting value via a sound, a Wi-Fi, a Bluetooth, an email, a messaging, an RFID, or an NFC to incentivize direct consumer engagement. The system produces verifiable data on customer preferences, habits, and purchasing while using secure digital cryptographic technology to convey an item of value. The system is configured to transact a digital token normally carried on a blockchain leger in an off-ledger condition. The digital token is embedded with a media content. A mobile computing device having a representation of a digital wallet is configured to detect the digital token, decode the digital token and is transfer the digital token back to the blockchain ledger. When validated by the blockchain ledger, the digital token is transacted to a digital wallet on the blockchain ledger. |
| US11580505B2 |
Methods for facilitating funds disbursements and devices thereof
Systems and methods for facilitating a disbursement of funds to a payee are provided. The methods include receiving a payment request from a payor; generating a code, such as barcode, a Quick Response (QR) code, a Near Field Communication (NFC) code, or a textual string, that corresponds to the received payment request; transmitting the generated code to the payee; validating the code when the code is entered into a payment disbursement machine, such as an automated teller machine; and disbursing at least one of the funds and a payment voucher via the payment disbursement machine. |
| US11580498B2 |
Ranking notifications based on rules
System and methods for enhancing user productivity by integrating multiple services and providing a centralized output to a user is disclosed. A message notification server may receive store a set of notification rules and, as various notifications are received, the server may dynamically monitor them for processing to users. The system may automatically re-rank the notifications based on changed conditions or to present messages of greatest urgency or importance. The system may also store sender-specific sets of rules, governing how notifications are to be handled for different application servers or services. |
| US11580490B2 |
Supply chain replenishment simulation
Event-based replenishment simulation for an enterprise supply chain is described. On a per item, per node, per epoch basis, the simulation may generate a stream of action events based on forecasted demand, supply chain logic, and policy inputs that are applied to a current-run state of the supply chain in order to yield a stream of observation events. Requested metrics may be received, and the observation events may then be transformed to predict values for the metrics as output of the simulation. The simulation may be repeated for a given epoch using discrete demand values from a demand distribution, for a plurality of epochs, and/or across a plurality of items at a plurality of nodes. Resultantly, the simulation output can be used for predicting a future run-state of the supply chain across items and nodes. |
| US11580489B2 |
Systems and methods for initiating returns over a network
The present invention provides systems and methods for processing return transactions over a network. An embodiment of the invention discloses an online return application that generates an electronic return shipping label that can be delivered to a browser of a customer that wishes to make a return. Also, disclosed is the creation and transmission of label delivery links, which provide for dynamic generation and delivery of shipping labels. |
| US11580484B2 |
Cargo inspection, monitoring and securement in self-driving trucks
The technology relates to cargo vehicles. National, regional and/or local regulations set requirements for operating cargo vehicles, including how to distribute and secure cargo, and how often the cargo should be inspected during a trip. However, such regulations have been focused on traditional human-driven vehicles. Aspects of the technology address various issues involved with securement and inspection of cargo before a trip, as well as monitoring during the trip so that corrective action may be taken as warranted. For instance, imagery and other sensor information may be used to enable proper securement of cargo before starting a trip. Onboard sensors along the vehicle monitor the cargo and securement devices/systems during the trip to identify issues as they arise. Such information is used by the onboard autonomous driving system (or a human driver) to take corrective action depending on the nature of the issue. |
| US11580482B1 |
Content relevance in a social networking system using population-representative human rater pool
A social networking system builds a quality controlled and desired population-representative pool of human raters to provide ratings on content items to improve a feed ranking model used for providing its users with more relevant content. The system identifies a pool of candidate human raters for providing ratings on a feed of content items. For each candidate human rater of the pool of candidate human raters, the system presents a feed of content items based on a feed ranking model, obtains ratings on the feed of content items, and determines a score representing the consistency of the obtained ratings, the representativeness of the pool of human raters, or the relevance of the content provided by the ranking model. The system uses the computed scores to modify the ranking model used to present content to its users for improving the relevance of the presented content. |
| US11580462B2 |
Device, system and method for mode-based synchronization of data records
A device, system and method for mode-based synchronization of data records is provided. Booking data is received, at one or more computing devices, from one of a first and second client device. When received from the first client device, in a first order mode for the booking data, the device(s): cause an order management system (OMS) to generate: order data at a first database; and cause a legacy system to generate a corresponding passenger name record (PNR) at a second database, the corresponding PNR being slaved to the order data. When received from the second client device, in a legacy mode for the booking data, the device(s): cause the legacy system to generate, a PNR and/or ticket data at the second database; and cause the OMS to generate corresponding order data at the first database, the corresponding order data being slaved to the PNR and/or the ticket data. |
| US11580458B2 |
Method and system for performance tuning and performance tuning device
A method for performance tuning in Automated Machine Learning (Auto ML) includes obtaining preset application program interface and system resources of the automatic machine learning system. Performance index measurement values are obtained according to the preset application program interface when the system pre-trains deep learning training model candidates. A distribution strategy and a resource allocation strategy are determined according to the performance index measurement values and the system resources and computing resources of the system are allocated according to the distribution strategy and the resource allocation strategy. The disclosure also provides an electronic device and a non-transitory storage medium. |
| US11580456B2 |
System to correct model drift in machine learning application
A model correction tool automatically detects and corrects model drift in a model for a machine learning application. To detect drift, the tool continuously monitors input data, outputs, and/or technical resources (e.g., processor, memory, network, and input/output resources) used to generate outputs. The tool analyzes changes to input data, outputs, and/or resource usage to determine when drift has occurred. When drift is determined to be occurring, the tool retrains a model for a machine learning application. |
| US11580454B2 |
Dynamic learning method and system for robot, robot and cloud server
A dynamic learning method for a robot includes a training and learning mode. The training and learning mode includes the following steps: dynamically annotating a belonging and use relationship between an object and a person in a three-dimensional environment to generate an annotation library; acquiring a rule library, and establishing a new rule and a new annotation by means of an interactive demonstration behavior based on the rule library and the annotation library; and updating the new rule to the rule library and updating the new annotation to the annotation library when it is determined that the established new rule is not in conflict with rules in the rule library and the new annotation is not in conflict with annotations in the annotation library. |
| US11580452B2 |
Selecting learning model
According to a first aspect, it is presented a method for dynamically selecting a learning model for a sensor device. The learning model is configured for determining output data based on sensor. The method comprises the steps of: detecting a need for a new learning model for the sensor device based on performance of a currently loaded learning model in the sensor device; determining at least one feature candidate based on sensor data from the at least one sensor, wherein each one of the at least one feature candidate is associated with a different source of sensor data; selecting a new learning model, from a set of candidate learning models, based on the at least one feature candidate and input features of each one of the candidate learning models; and triggering the new learning model to be loaded on the sensor device, replacing the currently loaded learning model. |
| US11580445B2 |
Efficient off-policy credit assignment
Systems and methods are provided for efficient off-policy credit assignment (ECA) in reinforcement learning. ECA allows principled credit assignment for off-policy samples, and therefore improves sample efficiency and asymptotic performance. One aspect of ECA is to formulate the optimization of expected return as approximate inference, where policy is approximating a learned prior distribution, which leads to a principled way of utilizing off-policy samples. Other features are also provided. |
| US11580443B2 |
Facilitating client ergonomic support via machine learning
Techniques are described with respect to facilitating client ergonomic support. An associated method includes receiving a plurality of posture datapoints associated with multiple clients and constructing a machine learning knowledge model based upon the plurality of posture datapoints in order to identify a plurality of predefined ergonomic support design elements. The method further includes receiving client-specific posture datapoints associated with a first client and analyzing, via the machine learning knowledge model, the client-specific posture datapoints in view of the plurality of posture datapoints in order to select an initial ergonomic support design element among the plurality of predefined ergonomic support design elements. The method further includes facilitate printing of the initial ergonomic support design element for a seat component associated with the first client. In an embodiment, the method further includes providing at least one ergonomic refinement to the first client based upon ergonomic sensor data. |
| US11580439B1 |
Fall identification system
A method of determining whether a user has fallen comprises detecting a potential fall using a motion sensing device, updating a probability of the potential fall being an actual fall based on an additional sensor, and updating the probability of the potential fall being an actual fall based on user context, the user context including an identified activity prior to the potential fall. |
| US11580436B2 |
Stabilizer measurement decoding using additional edges to identify errors caused by cross-talk
Extra edges are added to a group of edges for use in decoding syndrome measurements of a surface code implemented using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits. The extra edges include two-dimensional cross-edges and three-dimensional space-time correlated edges that identify correlated errors arising from spurious photon dissipation processes of a multiplexed control circuit that leads to cross-talk between storage modes of a set of the mechanical resonators controlled by the given multiplexed control circuit. Additionally, error probabilities used for edge weighting incorporate error probabilities due to the spurious photon dissipation processes. |
| US11580430B2 |
System and methods for determining a quality score for a part manufactured by an additive manufacturing machine
Determining a quality score for a part manufactured by an additive manufacturing machine based on build parameters and sensor data without the need for extensive physical testing of the part. Sensor data is received from the additive manufacturing machine during manufacture of the part using a first set of build parameters. The first set of build parameters is received. A first algorithm is applied to the first set of build parameters and the received sensor data to generate a quality score. The first algorithm is trained by receiving a reference derived from physical measurements performed on at least one reference part built using a reference set of build parameters. The quality score is output via the communication interface of the device. |
| US11580429B2 |
Reinforcement learning using a relational network for generating data encoding relationships between entities in an environment
A neural network system is proposed, including an input network for extracting, from state data, respective entity data for each a plurality of entities which are present, or at least potentially present, in the environment. The entity data describes the entity. The neural network contains a relational network for parsing this data, which includes one or more attention blocks which may be stacked to perform successive actions on the entity data. The attention blocks each include a respective transform network for each of the entities. The transform network for each entity is able to transform data which the transform network receives for the entity into modified entity data for the entity, based on data for a plurality of the other entities. An output network is arranged to receive data output by the relational network, and use the received data to select a respective action. |
| US11580426B2 |
Systems and methods for determining relative importance of one or more variables in a nonparametric machine learning model
Systems and methods for determining relative importance of one or more variables in a non-parametric model include: receiving, raw values of the variables corresponding to one or more entities; processing the raw values using a statistical model to obtain probability values for the variables and an overall prediction value for each entity; determining a plurality of cumulative distributions for the variables based on the raw values and the number of entities having a specific raw value; grouping the variables into a plurality of equally sized buckets based on the cumulative distributions; determining a mean probability value for each bucket; assigning a rank number for each bucket based on the mean probability values; compiling a table for the entities based on the raw values and the buckets corresponding to the raw values; and determining the relative importance of the variables for the entities based on the rank numbers. |
| US11580425B2 |
Managing defects in a model training pipeline using synthetic data sets associated with defect types
The disclosure herein describes managing defects in a model training pipeline. A synthetic data set is generated that is associated with a defect type and a lifecycle stage of the model training pipeline, and baseline performance metrics associated with the defect type are generated. Based on a code change to the pipeline, a test model is trained using the pipeline and the synthetic data set, and test performance metrics are collected based on the test model and associated with the defect type. Based on comparing the baseline performance metrics and the test performance metrics, a defect of a particular defect type is identified in the pipeline. An indicator of the defect is provided that includes the defect type and the lifecycle stage with which the synthetic data set is associated, whereby a defect correction process is enabled to remedy the defect based on the associated defect type and the lifecycle stage. |
| US11580424B2 |
Automatically refining application of a hierarchical coding system to optimize conversation system dialog-based responses to a user
A service identifies a level of specificity of one or more identified entities in a user input comprising a query, within one of multiple levels of a hierarchy of a hierarchical coding system. Responsive to determining that additional levels of specificity beyond the identified level of specificity are recommended to return a minimum answer set to the query, the service returns one or more answers requesting one or more additional inputs refining the query based on one or more values identified in a next level. Responsive to determining that no additional levels of specificity beyond the identified level of specificity are recommended to return the minimum answer set to the query, the service returns an answer set comprising a selection of information for the current level of specificity from an ingested corpus of knowledge mapped to the hierarchical coding system. |
| US11580414B2 |
Factor analysis device, factor analysis method, and storage medium on which program is stored
Provided is a factor analysis device capable of obtaining more useful knowledge relating to the degree of influence of pieces of data. A factor analysis device according to one embodiment of the present invention is provided with: a classification unit for classifying a type of data into a first group or a second group; and an influence degree calculation unit for calculating, as the degree of influence on target data, the degree of influence of the data of the type classified into the second group on the data of the first group type. |
| US11580410B2 |
3-D convolutional autoencoder for low-dose CT via transfer learning from a 2-D trained network
A 3-D convolutional autoencoder for low-dose CT via transfer learning from a 2-D trained network is described, A machine learning method for low dose computed tomography (LDCT) image correction is provided. The method includes training, by a training circuitry, a neural network (NN) based, at least in part, on two-dimensional (2-D) training data. The 2-D training data includes a plurality of 2-D training image pairs. Each 2-D image pair includes one training input image and one corresponding target output image. The training includes adjusting at least one of a plurality of 2-D weights based, at least in part, on an objective function. The method further includes refining, by the training circuitry, the NN based, at least in part, on three-dimensional (3-D) training data. The 3-D training data includes a plurality of 3-D training image pairs. Each 3-D training image pair includes a plurality of adjacent 2-D training input images and at least one corresponding target output image. The refining includes adjusting at least one of a plurality of 3-D weights based, at least in part, on the plurality of 2-D weights and based, at least in part, on the objective function. The plurality of 2-D weights includes the at least one adjusted 2-D weight. |
| US11580407B2 |
Learning device, signal processing device, and learning method
A learning data processing unit accepts, as input, a plurality of pieces of learning data for a respective plurality of tasks, and calculates, for each of the tasks, a batch size which meets a condition that a value obtained by dividing a data size of corresponding one of the pieces of learning data by the corresponding batch size is the same between the tasks. A batch sampling unit samples, for each of the tasks, samples from corresponding one of the pieces of learning data with the corresponding batch size calculated by the learning data processing unit. A learning unit updates a weight of a discriminator for each of the tasks, using the samples sampled by the batch sampling unit. |
| US11580405B2 |
Domain adaptation of deep neural networks
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for adapting machine learning models for use in additional applications. For example, feature extraction models are readily available for use in applications such as image detection. These feature extraction models can be used to label inputs (such as images) in conjunction with other deep neural network models. However, in adapting the feature extraction models to these uses, it becomes problematic to improve the quality of their results on target data sets, as these feature extraction models are large and resistant to retraining. Approaches disclosed herein include a transfer layer for providing fast retraining of machine learning models. |
| US11580403B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for perforated backpropagation in an artificial neural network
Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for perforated backpropagation. The method includes segmenting a plurality of nodes into at least two sets including a set of first nodes and a set of second nodes, determining an error term for each node of the set of first nodes, the first set of nodes comprising a first and second subset of nodes, backpropagating the error terms for each node throughout the set of first nodes, determining an error term for each node of the first subset of nodes of the set of first nodes based on direct connections between the first subset of nodes and the second subset of nodes independent of error terms of the set of second nodes, determining an error term for each node of the set of second nodes, and updating weights of each node of the plurality of nodes based on the error term. |
| US11580401B2 |
Distance metrics and clustering in recurrent neural networks
Distance metrics and clustering in recurrent neural networks. For example, a method includes determining whether topological patterns of activity in a collection of topological patterns occur in a recurrent artificial neural network in response to input of first data into the recurrent artificial neural network, and determining a distance between the first data and either second data or a reference based on the topological patterns of activity that are determined to occur in response to the input of the first data. |
| US11580395B2 |
Generative adversarial neural network assisted video reconstruction
A latent code defined in an input space is processed by the mapping neural network to produce an intermediate latent code defined in an intermediate latent space. The intermediate latent code may be used as appearance vector that is processed by the synthesis neural network to generate an image. The appearance vector is a compressed encoding of data, such as video frames including a person's face, audio, and other data. Captured images may be converted into appearance vectors at a local device and transmitted to a remote device using much less bandwidth compared with transmitting the captured images. A synthesis neural network at the remote device reconstructs the images for display. |
| US11580389B2 |
System and method for predicting fall armyworm using weather and spatial dynamics
A dynamic graph includes a plurality of nodes and edges at a plurality of time steps; each node corresponds to a geographic location in a first area where pest infestation information is available for a subset of locations. Each edge connects two of the nodes which are geographically proximate, has a direction based on wind direction, and has a weight based on relative wind speed. Assign node features based on weather data as well as labels corresponding to pest infestation severity. Train a graph convolutional network on the dynamic graph. Based on predicted future weather conditions for a second area different than the first area, use the trained graph convolutional network to predict, via inductive learning, pest infestation severity for future times for a new set of nodes corresponding to new geographic locations in the second area for which no pest infestation information is available. |
| US11580386B2 |
Convolutional layer acceleration unit, embedded system having the same, and method for operating the embedded system
Disclosed herein are a convolutional layer acceleration unit, an embedded system having the convolutional layer acceleration unit, and a method for operating the embedded system. The method for operating an embedded system, the embedded system performing an accelerated processing capability programmed using a Lightweight Intelligent Software Framework (LISF), includes initializing and configuring, by a parallelization managing function entity (FE), entities present in resources for performing mathematical operations in parallel, and processing in parallel, by an acceleration managing FE, the mathematical operations using the configured entities. |
| US11580384B2 |
System and method for using a deep learning network over time
The present approach relates to a system capable of life-long learning in a deep learning context. The system includes a deep learning network configured to process an input dataset and perform one or more tasks from among a first set of tasks. As an example, the deep learning network may be part of an imaging system, such as a medical imaging system, or may be used in industrial applications. The system further includes a learning unit communicatively coupled to the deep learning network 102 and configured to modify the deep learning network so as to enable it to perform one or more tasks in a second task list without losing the ability to perform the tasks from the first list. |
| US11580379B1 |
Phased deployment of deep-learning models to customer facing APIs
Techniques for phased deployment of machine learning models are described. Customers can call a training API to initiate model training, but then must wait while the training completes before the model can be used to perform inference. Depending on the type of model, machine learning algorithm being used for training, size of the training dataset, etc. this training process may take hours or days to complete. This leads to significant downtime where inference requests cannot be served. Embodiments improve upon existing systems by providing phased deployment of custom models. For example, a simple, less accurate model, can be provided synchronously in response to a request for a custom model. At the same time, one or more machine learning models can be trained asynchronously in the background. When the machine learning model is ready for use, the customers' traffic and jobs can be transferred over to the better model. |
| US11580378B2 |
Reinforcement learning for concurrent actions
A computer-implemented method comprises instantiating a policy function approximator. The policy function approximator is configured to calculate a plurality of estimated action probabilities in dependence on a given state of the environment. Each of the plurality of estimated action probabilities corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of discrete actions performable by the reinforcement learning agent within the environment. An initial plurality of estimated action probabilities in dependence on a first state of the environment are calculated. Two or more of the plurality of discrete actions are concurrently performed within the environment when the environment is in the first state. In response to the concurrent performance, a reward value is received. In response to the received reward value being greater than a baseline reward value, the policy function approximator is updated, such that it is configured to calculate an updated plurality of estimated action probabilities. |
| US11580377B2 |
Method and device for optimizing neural network
The embodiments of this application provide a method and device for optimizing neural network. The method includes: binarizing and bit-packing input data of a convolution layer along a channel direction, and obtaining compressed input data; binarizing and bit-packing respectively each convolution kernel of the convolution layer along the channel direction, and obtaining each corresponding compressed convolution kernel; dividing the compressed input data sequentially in a convolutional computation order into blocks of the compressed input data with the same size of each compressed convolution kernel, wherein the data input to one time convolutional computation form a data block; and, taking a convolutional computation on each block of the compressed input data and each compressed convolution kernel sequentially, obtaining each convolutional result data, and obtaining multiple output data of the convolution layer according to each convolutional result data. |
| US11580375B2 |
Accelerated training of a machine learning based model for semiconductor applications
Methods and systems for accelerated training of a machine learning based model for semiconductor applications are provided. One method for training a machine learning based model includes acquiring information for non-nominal instances of specimen(s) on which a process is performed. The machine learning based model is configured for performing simulation(s) for the specimens. The machine learning based model is trained with only information for nominal instances of additional specimen(s). The method also includes re-training the machine learning based model with the information for the non-nominal instances of the specimen(s) thereby performing transfer learning of the information for the non-nominal instances of the specimen(s) to the machine learning based model. |
| US11580372B2 |
Efficient convolutional engine
A hardware architecture for implementing a convolutional neural network. |
| US11580371B2 |
Method and apparatus to efficiently process and execute Artificial Intelligence operations
A method, apparatus, and system are discussed to efficiently process and execute Artificial Intelligence operations. An integrated circuit has a tailored architecture to process and execute Artificial Intelligence operations, including computations for a neural network having weights with a sparse value. The integrated circuit contains at least a scheduler, one or more arithmetic logic units, and one or more random access memories configured to cooperate with each other to process and execute these computations for the neural network having weights with the sparse value. |
| US11580368B2 |
Artificial neural network circuit
Provided is an artificial neural network circuit including unit weight memory cells including weight memory devices configured to store weight data and weight pass transistors, unit threshold memory cells including a threshold memory device programmed to store a threshold and a threshold pass transistor, a weight-threshold column in which the plurality of unit weight memory cells and the plurality of unit threshold memory cells are connected, and a sense amplifier configured to receive an output signal of the weight-threshold column as an input and receive a reference voltage as another input. |
| US11580364B2 |
Unsupervised learning of metric representations from slow features
A method of unsupervised learning of a metric representation and a corresponding system for a mobile device determines a metric position information for a mobile device from an environmental representation. The mobile device comprises at least one sensor for acquiring sensor data and an odometer system configured to acquire displacement data of the mobile device. An environmental representation is generated based on the acquired sensor data by applying an unsupervised learning algorithm. The mobile device moves along a trajectory and the displacement data and the sensor data are acquired while the mobile device is moving along the trajectory. A set of mapping parameters is calculated based on the environmental representation and the displacement data. A metric position estimation is determined based on a further environmental representation and the calculated set of mapping parameters. |
| US11580361B2 |
Neural network training mechanism
An apparatus to facilitate neural network (NN) training is disclosed. The apparatus includes training logic to receive one or more network constraints and train the NN by automatically determining a best network layout and parameters based on the network constraints. |
| US11580359B2 |
Pointer sentinel mixture architecture
The technology disclosed provides a so-called “pointer sentinel mixture architecture” for neural network sequence models that has the ability to either reproduce a token from a recent context or produce a token from a predefined vocabulary. In one implementation, a pointer sentinel-LSTM architecture achieves state of the art language modeling performance of 70.9 perplexity on the Penn Treebank dataset, while using far fewer parameters than a standard softmax LSTM. |
| US11580356B2 |
Efficient inferencing with piecewise pointwise convolution
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing piecewise pointwise convolution, comprising: performing a first piecewise pointwise convolution on a first subset of data received via a first branch input at a piecewise pointwise convolution layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN) model; performing a second piecewise pointwise convolution on a second subset of data received via a second branch input at the piecewise pointwise convolution layer; determining a piecewise pointwise convolution output by summing a result of the first piecewise pointwise convolution and a result of the second piecewise pointwise convolution; and providing the piecewise pointwise convolution output to a second layer of the CNN model. |
| US11580354B2 |
Computing apparatus using convolutional neural network and method of operating the same
An apparatus and a method use a convolutional neural network (CNN) including a plurality of convolution layers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and applications thereof. A computing apparatus using a CNN including a plurality of convolution layers includes a memory storing one or more instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to obtain input data; identify a filter for performing a convolution operation with respect to the input data, on one of the plurality of convolution layers; identify a plurality of sub-filters corresponding to different filtering regions within the filter; provide a plurality of feature maps based on the plurality of sub-filters; and obtain output data, based on the plurality of feature maps. |
| US11580349B1 |
Stackable integrated circuit cards
Systems and methods allow for the integrated circuit cards (ICCs) to removably couple to each other and transmit information to an access device as a single device. One among the two or more ICCs coupled together may read data from the remaining ICCs and provide the data to an access device via contactless communication. The ICC may include a substrate; an integrated circuit embedded in the substrate; input ports exposed on a first surface of the substrate, and output ports exposed on a second surface of the substrate. The input ports and the output ports are electrically coupled to the integrated circuit. The output ports are configured to be removably coupled to the input ports of a second ICC. |
| US11580348B2 |
Transient infrastructure for ubiquitous network communications applications
The disclosure generally relates to networking infrastructure and, more particularly, to installing transient infrastructure for ubiquitous networking applications. A wireless gateway device is sent to physical premises with a parcel. After the wireless gateway device is delivered to the physical premises, a processor of the wireless gateway device draws power from the energy source to perform operations comprising executing program code stored in non-transitory processor-readable medium to establish a wireless communications connection with a network service through a first type of wireless communications interface. The wireless gateway device performs operations comprising establishing wireless communications with one or more wireless peripheral devices in the physical premises through the second type of wireless communications interface. |
| US11580347B2 |
Chipless RFID for liquid lens
A liquid lens includes a substrate, an anti-reflection (AR) coating, and a chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The substrate includes central and peripheral portions. The AR coating is disposed on the substrate. The chipless RFID tag is disposed in the peripheral portion to uniquely identify the liquid lens. |
| US11580341B2 |
Printing device reading information from and writing information to storage element provided on tape
In a printing device, a supply portion is configured to convey a tape in its longitudinal direction. The tape includes: a plurality of labels arranged continuously in the longitudinal direction; and a plurality of storage elements provided on respective ones of the plurality of labels. A first storage element is provided on a first label and configured to store first authentication data. The second storage element is provided on a second label and configured to store second authentication data. A printing portion is configured to print on the plurality of labels. A controller is configured to perform: reading the first authentication data from the first storage element and the second authentication data from the second storage element by a reading portion; and determining whether the first authentication data is correlated to the second authentication data to meet an authentication condition. |
| US11580340B2 |
Computer-readable medium, electronic device, and method for causing image processing device to perform preliminary operation
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by a processor of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to display on a screen of a display an object for receiving an instruction to cause the electronic device to perform a specific operation including controlling an image processing device, obtain a position of the object in the screen, obtain a position of the indicator based on output signals from a millimeter wave radar, determine whether the position of the indicator is within a particular range relative to the position of the object, and when determining that the position of the indicator is within the particular range, transmit to the image processing device a preliminary operation command instructing the image processing device to start a preliminary operation to shorten a time required to complete the specific operation. |
| US11580334B2 |
Construction zone segmentation
Systems and methods for construction zone segmentation are provided. The system aligns image level features between a source domain and a target domain based on an adversarial learning process while training a domain discriminator. The target domain includes construction zones scenes having various objects. The system selects, using the domain discriminator, unlabeled samples from the target domain that are far away from existing annotated samples from the target domain. The system selects, based on a prediction score of each of the unlabeled samples, samples with lower prediction scores. The system annotates the samples with the lower prediction scores. |
| US11580331B2 |
Classification using cascaded spatial voting grids
A method can include identifying a first key value of a first cell of a first grid of grids of cells to which a first feature maps, embedding the first grid into each cell of a second grid, identifying a second key value of a second cell of the second grid to which a second feature maps, the second key value representative of the first and second key values, comparing the identified key value to the key values of a memory, in response to determining the identified key value is in the memory, and providing data indicating a class associated with the identified key value in the memory. |
| US11580327B2 |
Image denoising model training method, imaging denoising method, devices and storage medium
A training method for an image denoising model that can include collecting multiple sample image groups through a shooting device, each sample image group including multiple frames of sample images with a same photographic sensitivity and sample images in different sample image groups having different photographic sensitivities. The method can further include acquiring a photographic sensitivity of each sample image group, determining a noise characterization image corresponding to each sample image group based on the photographic sensitivity, determining a training input image group and a target image associated with each sample image group, each training input image group including all or part of sample images in a corresponding sample image group and a corresponding noise characterization image, constructing multiple training pairs each including a training input image group and a target image, and training the image denoising model based on the multiple training pairs until the image denoising model converges. |
| US11580326B2 |
Ontology matching based on weak supervision
A method is for matching a set of first classes assigned to a first data set with a set of second classes assigned to a second data set. The method includes constructing, via a set of pre-processing functions, a plurality of alignment profiles such that at least one alignment profile is assigned to each of the first classes and each of the second classes. The method includes generating a comparison matrix for each group of the alignment profiles, such that each group includes at least one of the first classes and at least one of the second classes. The method includes training a first machine learning model, through supervised training, based on the generated comparison matrices and based on probabilistic labels generated by a second machine learning model. |
| US11580323B2 |
Data ingestion platform
Embodiments are directed to data ingestion over a network. Raw data and integrated data associated with a plurality of separate data sources may be provided such that the raw data includes content associated with a plurality of subjects. Categorization models may be employed to categorize the raw data based on various features, such as, format, structure, data source, variability, volume, or associated entities. Matching models may be determined based on the categorization of the of the raw data, the integrated data and the content associated with the plurality of subjects. Matching models may generate a plurality of unified facts based on the raw data and the integrated data such that each unified fact is associated with a score associated with a quality of its match with a unified schema. |
| US11580320B2 |
Algorithm for scoring partial matches between words
Techniques are disclosed relating to scoring partial matches between words. In certain embodiments, a method may include receiving a request to determine a similarity between an input text data and a stored text data. The method also includes determining, based on comparing one or more words included in the input text data with one or more words included in the stored text data, a set of word pairs and a set of unpaired words. Further, in response to determining that the set of unpaired words passes elimination criteria, the method includes calculating a base similarity score between the input text data and the stored text data based on the set of word pairs. The method also includes determining a scoring penalty based on the set of unpaired words and generating a final similarity score between the input text data and the stored text data by modifying the base similarity score based on the scoring penalty. |
| US11580319B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a sensor layer including sensors; a pixel layer disposed on the sensor layer and including pixel areas and pixels in the pixel areas; and an opaque layer disposed between the sensor layer and the pixel layer and having holes corresponding to light-transmitting areas of pixel areas in which pixels that emit light of a specific color are disposed. |
| US11580317B2 |
Tracking RFID groups with spatio-temporal proximity
Systems and methods for determining radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag proximity groups are provided. The method includes receiving RFID tag readings from multiple RFID tags. The method includes determining signal strengths of the RFID tag readings. The method includes determining pairs of RFID tags based on the RFID tag readings. The method also includes implementing a twin recurrent neural network (RNN) to determine proximity groups of RFID tags based on distance similarity over time between each of the pairs of the RFID tags. |
| US11580315B2 |
Agile time-continuous memory operation for a radio frequency identification transponder
A radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder includes a current control module for controlling a current consumption of a memory based on an amount of available power, and a control logic for controlling a memory operation in response to the control of the current consumption by the current control module. The RFID transponder further includes a power detector that is configured to continuously monitor and detect the amount of available power and output a power-dependent control signal. The power-dependent control signal is used by the RFID transponder to control the current consumption of the memory in dependence on the available power. |
| US11580314B2 |
Document translation method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device
A document translation method includes: displaying a source text display region, a translated text region, and an editing region, wherein textual content in a document to be translated is displayed in the source text display region, and reference translated text for the textual content is displayed in the translated text region; and providing a translated text recommendation from the reference translated text according to input from a user within the editing region. The method further includes: displaying the translation recommendation in the editing area as a translation result, if a confirmation operation for the translation recommendation is detected; and receiving a translation inputted by the user that is different from the translation recommendation and displaying the translation inputted by the user in the editing area as the translation result, if a non-confirmation operation for the translation recommendation is detected. |
| US11580308B2 |
Method and apparatus for expressing time in an output text
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are configured to express a time in an output text. In some example embodiments, a method is provided that comprises identifying a time period to be described linguistically in an output text. The method of this embodiment may also include identifying a communicative context for the output text. The method of this embodiment may also include determining one or more temporal reference frames that are applicable to the time period and a domain defined by the communicative context. The method of this embodiment may also include generating a phrase specification that linguistically describes the time period based on the descriptor that is defined by a temporal reference frame of the one or more temporal reference frames. In some examples, the descriptor specifies a time window that is inclusive of at least a portion of the time period to be described linguistically. |
| US11580307B2 |
Word attribution prediction from subject data
A digital attribution system is described to generate predictions of word attributions from subject data, e.g., titles, subject lines of emails, and so on. To do so, an attribution score is first generated by the digital attribution system that describe an amount to which respective words in the subject data cause performance of a corresponding outcome. The attribution scores are then used by the digital attribution system to generate representations for display in a user interface for respective words in the subject data and may also be used to generate attribution recommendations of changes to be made to the subject data. |
| US11580305B2 |
Automatically assisting conversations using graph database
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for automatically assisting conversations using a graph database. In order to minimize misunderstanding of words and phrases used by participants during a conversation, phrases from the conversation may be received by conversation assistance application as the conversation takes place. Entities may be extracted from the phrase based on natural language recognition according to a domain context of the participant being assisted. One or more tags may be looked up from a graph database, and may be provided to the participant as a list of hashtags related to the conversation. Links to documents may be extracted based on the tags for the participant for viewing during the conversation. |
| US11580299B2 |
Corpus cleaning method and corpus entry system
The present disclosure provides a corpus cleaning method and a corpus entry system. The method includes: obtaining an input utterance; generating a predicted value of an information amount of each word in the input utterance according to the context of the input utterance using a pre-trained general model; and determining redundant words according to the predicted value of the information amount of each word, and determining whether to remove the redundant words from the input utterance. In such a manner, the objectivity and accuracy of corpus cleaning can be improved. |
| US11580298B2 |
Detecting hypocrisy in text
Techniques are disclosed for identifying hypocrisy in text. A computer system creates, from fragments of text, a syntactic tree that represents syntactic relationships between words in the fragments. The system identifies, in the syntactic tree, a first entity and a second entity. The system further determines that the first entity is opposite to the second entity. The system further determines a first sentiment score for a first fragment comprising the first entity and a second sentiment score for a second fragment comprising the second entity. The system, responsive to determining that the first sentiment score and the second sentiment score indicate opposite emotions, identifies the text as comprising hypocrisy and providing the text to an external device. |
| US11580295B2 |
Systems for generating layouts of text objects
In implementations of systems for generating layouts of text objects, a computing device implements a layout system to receive input data describing a sequence of text and the layout system represents the sequence of the text as a number of text objects. A candidate layout for the text objects is identified from layout data describing a plurality of layouts, the candidate layout identified at least partially based on the number of the text objects. The layout system generates a binary tree having leaf nodes and at least one parent node representing the candidate layout. An arrangement of the text objects in the candidate layout is generated for display in a user interface based on the binary tree. |
| US11580291B2 |
Ambiguous date resolution for electronic communication documents
A computer-implemented method for resolving date ambiguities in electronic communication documents includes identifying, within the documents, date field values each associated with a different instance of a communication segment. The method also includes resolving a candidate date for each different communication segment instance, with each candidate date being associated with a respective priority level indicative of a level of certainty with which the candidate date was resolved, and determining a final date from among the candidate dates at least by comparing the respective priority levels. The method further includes determining, based on the final date, an ordered relationship between the electronic communication documents, and storing metadata indicating the ordered relationship between the electronic communication documents. |
| US11580288B2 |
Integrated circuit including standard cells, method of manufacturing the integrated circuit, and computing system for performing the method
An integrated circuit includes a standard cell including a first output pin and a second output pin configured to each output the same output signal, a first routing path connected to the first output pin, and a second routing path connected to the second output pin. The first routing path includes a first cell group including at least one load cell, the second routing path includes a second cell group including at least one load cell, and the first routing path and the second routing path are electrically disconnected from each other outside the standard cell. |
| US11580284B1 |
System, method, and computer program product for finding and analyzing deadlock conditions associated with the formal verification of an electronic circuit design
The present disclosure relates to a method for electronic circuit design. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, an electronic circuit design and performing a deadlock check on the electronic circuit design using a using a linear temporal logic property and a proof engine. Embodiments may further include analyzing a counterexample associated with the electronic circuit design for a loop escape condition, wherein analyzing includes proving a cover trace of a liveness obligation. If the loop escape condition is reachable from the counterexample, embodiments may include extracting one or more events associated with the loop escape condition and adding a waiver constraint to the deadlock check to force a no deadlock outcome. |
| US11580282B2 |
Multilayer fluid analysis program, and multilayer fluid analysis system
A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium stores a multilayer fluid analysis program for analyzing a multilayer fluid as 2.5 dimensions in which each layer is divided into elements and each of the elements has information about a layer thickness in a finite element model for the multilayer fluid. The multilayer fluid analysis program allowing a computer to function as: a layer thickness calculation process for calculating the layer thickness of the elements from a simultaneous equation indicating a relationship between stress in a normal direction and a fluid viscosity in the elements without considering a fluid flow in a thickness direction of the layer thickness under a condition that stresses in the normal direction and a tangential direction are balanced at an interface of respective layers and a flow velocity at the interface is continuous; and a display process for displaying a calculation result. |
| US11580280B2 |
Computational framework for modeling of physical process
Techniques, systems, and devices are described for providing a computational frame for estimating high-dimensional stochastic behaviors. In one exemplary aspect, a method for performing numerical estimation includes receiving a set of measurements of a stochastic behavior. The set of correlated measurements follows a non-standard probability distribution and is non-linearly correlated. Also, a non-linear relationship exists between a set of system variables that describes the stochastic behavior and a corresponding set of measurements. The method includes determining, based on the set of measurements, a numerical model of the stochastic behavior. The numerical model comprises a feature space comprising non-correlated features corresponding to the stochastic behavior. The non-correlated features have a dimensionality of M and the set of measurements has a dimensionality of N, M being smaller than N. The method includes generating a set of approximated system variables corresponding to the set of measurements based on the numerical model. |
| US11580276B2 |
Dynamic asset management system and methods for generating interactive simulations representing assets based on automatically generated asset records
Methods and systems are provided for generating an interactive simulation representing one or more assets based on one or more asset records. Based on information from asset records stored at a database system of a cloud-based computing system, an asset simulator module, executed at a cloud-based computing system, can generate one or more simulated representations of the assets. A simulator application executed at the cloud-based computing system can augment the simulated representations of the assets with (at least) additional information from the asset records stored in the database system, and generate a user interface that presents an interactive simulation of the assets. The user interface can include the simulated representations of the assets with the additional information from the asset records stored in the database system. |
| US11580265B2 |
Delay-based side-channel analysis for trojan detection
The present disclosure describes various embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting a Trojan inserted integrated circuit design using delay-based side channel analysis. In one such embodiment, an automated test generation algorithm produces test patterns that are likely to activate trigger conditions and change critical paths of an integrated circuit design. |
| US11580263B2 |
Data content chain of custody and integrity validation
A device obtains previously created data content. The device unmasks and extracts one or more chain of custody blocks stored in association with the data content. The one or more chain of custody blocks includes chain of custody data identifying who, when, where, and, with what hardware and/or software, created or edited the data content. The device analyzes the one or more chain of custody blocks and validates an origination of the data content based on the analysis of the one or more chain of custody blocks. |
| US11580262B2 |
Data masking in a microservice architecture
A method includes retrieving an object from storage and copying the object, generating a list that identifies one or more byte ranges, of the copy of the object, to be masked, providing the list to a masker controller microservice that examines a recipe corresponding to the copy of the object, where the recipe references a slice of the copy of the object, and the slice includes one or more data segments, masking, by the masker controller microservice, a segment of the slice that is in one of the byte ranges, to create a masked segment, and replacing, in the slice, the segment with the masked segment, to create a masked slice and creating a masked object recipe that contains a reference to the masked slice, creating a masked object that includes the masked slice, and that references any unmasked segments of the slice, and deduplicating the masked object. |
| US11580260B2 |
Data protection as a service
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, and computing entities for predictive data protection using a data protection policy determination machine learning model. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: processing a historical data corpus using the data protection policy determination machine learning model to generate a dynamic data protection policy update describing inferred data protection instructions; determining an attestation subset of the inferred data protection instructions by comparing the instructions and prior data protection instructions described by an existing data protection policy; for each inferred data protection instruction in the attestation subset, determining a per-instruction attestation determination based on end-user feedback; generating an updated data protection policy by updating the existing policy in accordance with each inferred instruction in the attestation subset whose per-instruction attestation determination describes an affirmative attestation determination; and performing the predictive data protection using the updated data protection policy. |
| US11580258B2 |
Anti-cyberbullying systems and methods
Some embodiments use text and/or image processing methods to determine whether a user of an electronic messaging platform is subject to an online threat such as cyberbullying, sexual grooming, and identity theft, among others. In some embodiments, a text content of electronic messages is automatically harvested and aggregated into conversations. Conversation data are then analyzed to extract various threat indicators. A result of a text analysis may be combined with a result of an analysis of an image transmitted as part of the respective conversation. When a threat is detected, some embodiments automatically send a notification to a third party (e.g., parent, teacher, etc.) |
| US11580257B2 |
System for context-based data storage scrutinization and capture
A system for context-based data scrutinization and capture is provided. The system comprises: a memory device with computer-readable program code stored thereon; a communication device connected to a network; a processing device, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the computer-readable program code to: monitor a data storage location using a crawler bot configured for scanning an artifact stored in the data storage location; scan the artifact, using the crawler bot, for one or more data fields, wherein at least one of the one or more data fields comprises unobscured private data; identify an artifact type for the artifact based on the one or more data fields; and capture the artifact from the data storage location based on the artifact and the unobscured private data, wherein capturing the artifact comprises temporarily removing the artifact from the data storage location. |
| US11580255B2 |
Security tool for n-tier platforms
An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor. The memory stores a plurality of logging rules. Each logging rule assigned to a tier of a multi-tier platform. The processor receives source code for an application configured to execute on a plurality of tiers of the multi-tier platform and detects, within the source code, an entry point and an exit point for a tier of the plurality of tiers. The processor determines, based on the plurality of logging rules, a first attribute that is to be logged during execution in the tier and a second attribute that is not to be logged during execution in the tier and inserts, between the entry point and the exit point in the source code, logging code that, when executed, logs the first attribute and hides the second attribute. |
| US11580247B2 |
Systems and methods for quantum file permissions
Providing quantum file permissions is disclosed herein. In one example, a quantum computing device includes a permissions database that stores permissions information for a plurality of quantum files. A quantum file permissions service, executing on a processor device of the quantum computing device, receives from a requestor a permissions query for a permissions status (i.e., a read permission indicator, a write permission indicator, and/or an execute permission indicator, as non-limiting examples) of a quantum file including a plurality of qubits. In response, the quantum file permissions service accesses permissions information for the quantum file from the permissions database. The quantum file permissions service uses the permissions information from the permissions database to determine a permissions status of the quantum file. The quantum file permissions service then sends a response to the requestor indicating the permissions status of the quantum file. |
| US11580244B2 |
File sharing system and method
A file sharing system and methods therefor share one or more files without requiring the files be sent to or stored on a server. The file sharing system enables files to be shared from a user device allowing users to maintain control of the files by storing and sharing files off the cloud. Sharing and file access is typically effectuated via a server and one or more links provided by the server. File access is limited to selected file access types. |
| US11580243B2 |
System for authorizing rendering of objects in three-dimensional spaces
Systems and methods for authorizing rendering of objects in three-dimensional spaces are described. The system may include a first system defining a virtual three-dimensional space including the placement of a plurality of objects in the three-dimensional space, and a second system including a plurality of rules associated with portions of the three-dimensional space and a device coupled to the first system and the second system. The device may receive a request to render a volume of three-dimensional space, retrieve objects for the volume of three-dimensional, retrieve rules associated with the three-dimensional, and apply the rules for the three-dimensional space to the objects. |
| US11580238B2 |
Proof-of-approval distributed ledger
A method and system for determining whether a consensus has been achieved for adding a block to a distributed ledger. The system receives a candidate block to add to the distributed ledger and receives block approvals of approving participants for the candidate block. The system calculates a total block approval stake that the approving participants have in the distributed ledger. The system identifies a total stake that participants have in the distributed ledger. When the total block approval stake is at least a threshold fraction of the total skate, the system indicates that the consensus has been achieved for adding the candidate block to the distributed ledger. |
| US11580237B2 |
Methods and systems for creating, verifying, and entering security information
A system for securely producing and using high-entropy security information, such as a password. The system includes a printer, a display device, and a generator computer that is connected to the printer and the display device. The generator computer generates the high-entropy set of characters, (e.g., password), and also generates a machine-readable representation of the high-entropy set of characters, (e.g., a barcode). The generator computer causes the printer to print the high-entropy set of characters and the machine-readable representation on paper, and then deletes the high-entropy set of characters and the machine-readable representation from the system. The high-entropy set of characters, (e.g., password), may be entered into a target computer by scanning the barcode on the paper using a barcode scanner connected to the target computer, which is significantly faster than, and eliminates the human error associated with, typing in a high-entropy set of characters. |
| US11580233B1 |
Baseboard-management-controller storage module
A system including a baseboard management controller (BMC) and a socket is described. The BMC is configured to provide a management interface to a network device. The socket is configured to accept an edge connector of a removable storage card. The BMC is configured to access via the socket at least a portion of the firmware of the BMC stored on the removable storage card. |
| US11580232B2 |
Building a package dependencies data structure
A system, product and process for building a package dependencies data structure. The method comprises determining a package instance identifier of the package to be processed. The package instance identifier is determined based on a unique identifier of the package to be processed and based on a unique identifier of a dependency sub-tree of the package to be processed in the package instance identifier. The package instance identifier is utilized to determine if a node representing the package to be processed exists or not. In case the node does not exist already in the data structure, the node is created and added. |
| US11580231B2 |
Methods and devices for secure secret key generation
There is provided a cryptographic key determination device for determining one or more cryptographic keys in a cryptographic device, the cryptographic device being configured to execute one or more test programs, the cryptographic device comprising one or more components (11-i), each component (11-i) being configured to generate static and dynamic data, the dynamic data being generated in response to the execution of the one or more test programs, wherein the cryptographic key determination device comprises: a data extraction unit configured to extract at least one part of the static data and at least one part of the dynamic data generated by the one or more components (11-i), and a key generator configured to combine the at least one part of static data and the at least one part of dynamic data, and to determine the one or more cryptographic keys by applying a cryptographic function to the combined data. |
| US11580230B2 |
System and method for assessing software containers for vulnerabilities
An example method includes determining, based on a static scan, that a software container image or an intended execution environment of the software container image meets one or more first criteria required to exploit a software vulnerability. Based on the determining, runtime behavior of a software container instantiated from the software container image is monitored. The monitoring including determining whether the software container meets one or more second criteria required to exploit the software vulnerability, wherein the one or more first second criteria differs from the one or more second criteria. Based on the runtime monitoring, a risk score that indicates a magnitude of a risk the software vulnerability poses for the software container is determined, and a notification of the risk score is provided. A system for assessing software containers for vulnerabilities is also disclosed. |
| US11580229B2 |
Computer-implemented method of security-related control or configuration of a digital system
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving system information data representing configurations of digital systems; receiving attack information data associated one or more of the digital systems; analyzing the received system information data and attack information data, to associated attack types; identifying, for each identified attack type, correlations and/or causalities between individual system constituents or combinations thereof in the digital systems associated with attacks; determining and assigning, based on the identified correlations and/or causalities, an attack vulnerability value, for each attack, respectively, to each of the systems and/or systems' constituents and/or combinations thereof; and retrievably storing attack vulnerability values associated with the systems, system constituents and/or combinations thereof. |
| US11580226B2 |
Hybrid firmware code protection
A firmware protection module implements a hybrid firmware protection scheme on a computing device. The firmware protection module intercepts a message from a processor to a memory of the computing device. The message includes a command and an address in the memory corresponding to a firmware module stored in the module. The firmware protection module determines whether the command in the message is prohibited and whether the address in the message is protected. Responsive to a determination that the command is prohibited and the address is protected, the firmware protection module prevents at least a portion of the message from reaching the memory. |
| US11580214B2 |
Authentication logging using circuitry degradation
Apparatuses and methods related to logging failed authentication attempts. Failed authentication attempts can be logged in the circuitry by degrading the circuitry. The degradation can signal a fail authentication attempt while an amount of the degradation can represent a timing of the error. |
| US11580211B2 |
Indication for multi-factor authentication
An input device configured for multi-factor authentication. The input device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes, one or more light sources, and an authentication component. The plurality of sensor electrodes is configured for capacitive sensing in a sensing region of the input device. The one or more light sources are configured to illuminate at least a portion of the sensing region of the input device. The authentication component is configured to receive a first authentication input via a first authentication device, determine whether the first authentication input matches a first credential of an authorized user, and selectively activate the one or more light sources based at least in part on whether the first authentication input matches the first credential of an authorized user. |
| US11580210B2 |
Password authentication
Embodiments of the present invention relate to password authentication. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a password associated with a user identification is received from a user device. The password is authenticated based on a preset relationship between a seed password and a graphical password associated with the user identification. The seed password consists of a string of characters. The graphical password is a directed path traversing all keys of a keypad in an order. Each of the keys represents one of the characters and is associated with an order number according to the order of the keys being traversed. The preset relationship is that the password consists of respective order numbers associated with respective keys representing corresponding characters of the seed password. |
| US11580205B2 |
Wearable device having high security and stable blood pressure detection
A wearable device including a skin sensor and a processor is provided. The processor is configured to receive an authentication data for authenticating a user when a wearing state of the wearable device is adjacent to a skin surface of the user, execute a predetermined function in response to a request when the authentication data matches a pre-stored data and the skin sensor determines that the wearable device does not leave the skin surface after the authentication data is received, and reject or ignore the request when the skin sensor determines that the wearable device leaves the skin surface before the predetermined function is executed. The processor further calculates blood pressures according to PPG signals detected by a PPG sensor of the skin sensor. |
| US11580199B2 |
Correspondence of external operations to containers and mutation events
A method is provided for determining command-to-process correspondence. The method includes identifying, by the hardware processor, initial processes resulting from executions of container immutability change events for each of multiple containers in a cluster, based on an execution time, a process identifier and a process group identifier for each of the container immutability change events. The method further includes checking, by the hardware processor, if an initial process from among the identified initial processes matches an entry in a database that stores external container commands and at least one respective process resulting from executing each of the external container commands. The method also includes designating, by the hardware processor, a particular external command, from among the external container commands stored in the database, as having a correspondence to the initial process, responsive to the initial process matching the at least one respective process resulting from executing the particular external command. |
| US11580195B1 |
Quantum modulation-based data compression
Data compression includes: inputting data comprising a vector that requires a first amount of memory; compressing the vector into a compressed representation while preserving information content of the vector, including: encoding, using one or more non-quantum processors, at least a portion of the vector to implement a quantum gate matrix; and modulating a reference vector using the quantum gate matrix to generate the compressed representation, wherein the compressed representation requires a second amount of memory that is less than the first amount of memory; and outputting the compressed representation to be displayed, stored, and/or further processed. |
| US11580193B2 |
Computation device, computation method, and program
A computation device includes: a list generation unit that generates a list indicating element values of first elements comprised in a plurality of computational matrices having equal numbers of rows and columns, the element values being indicated for the respective positions of the first elements in the computational matrices; and a computation execution unit that carries out computation based on the element values of the first elements indicated in the list and the element values of second elements comprised in a partial matrix belonging to a computation target matrix and having the same number of rows and columns as the computational matrices. |
| US11580190B2 |
Automation system and method
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for receiving a complex task; processing the complex task to define a plurality of discrete tasks each having a discrete goal; executing the plurality of discrete tasks on a plurality of machine-accessible public computing platforms; determining if any of the plurality of discrete tasks failed to achieve its discrete goal; and if a specific discrete task failed to achieve its discrete goal, defining a substitute discrete task having a substitute discrete goal. |
| US11580182B2 |
Content generation framework
Techniques for performing outputting additional content associated with but nonresponsive to an input command are described. A system receives input data from a device. The system determines an intent representing the input data and receives first output data responsive to the input data. The system determines, based on context data, that additional content associated with the first output data but nonresponsive to the input data should be output. The system receives second output data associated with but nonresponsive to the input data thereafter. The system then presents first content corresponding to the first output data and second content corresponding to the second output data. |
| US11580180B2 |
Job prospect and applicant information processing
A system and improved method for managing an individual's job applications and networking processes in a digital, visual manner. In one aspect of the present invention, the platform is realized in the form of a web application with different sections, including one for tracking job applications, one for tracking networking outreach and engagement, and another for seeing tasks from both of those other sections. Data relevant to individual job applications and networking opportunities is stored in each section and displayed in an interactive kanban board-manner to enable them to manipulate their status and stay organized. Additional integrations and features include permitting importing and exporting data to third party servicers, such as job boards, applicant tracking systems, and calendars, and automated movement and prioritization using artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques applied to specific and aggregated data from other users. Machine learning further augments the application by providing additional guidance and data. |
| US11580178B2 |
Methods for three-dimensional searching to precisely target retrieval within diverse types of content and devices thereof
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and computing devices for three-dimensional searching that precisely targets retrieval within diverse types of content includes retrieving web content in response to a received request from a client device. A destination page, an address within the page, and an offset distance from a starting point at the address to a correlated responsive portion of the web content to the received request is identified. The responsive web content with the identified destination page, the address, and the offset distance is provided to the requesting client device. |
| US11580177B2 |
Identifying information using referenced text
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining summary content for resources in a domain. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a first resource belonging to a particular domain, selecting an anchor in the first resource linking to a second resource belonging to the particular domain, identifying particular text content in the first resource that is subordinate to the anchor that the second resource includes the particular text content that is subordinate to the anchor, based on determining that the second resource includes the particular text content that is subordinate to the anchor, generating a domain template for the particular domain, the domain template specifying a location of the particular text content in the second resource, and determining, for each respective resource belonging to the particular domain having a structure matching the domain template, respective text content for the respective resource. |
| US11580171B2 |
System, method and interface for compiled literary work
A system, method and interface for compiling literary works from specialized databases and/or from unique interfaces is provided, including a custom database compiled from plural existing literary indexes, wherein a master index is harmonized from said existing indexes according to common terms (e.g., book, chapter and verse for biblical indexes) with deleted duplicates. In exemplary embodiments, the master index is also augmented by ingestion of additional literary works in digital form that are chopped up based on said common terms (e.g., book, chapter, verse) extracted from the literary work. |
| US11580170B2 |
Machine learning based automatic audience segment in ad targeting
Generating granular clusters for real-time processing is provided. The systems can identify tokens based on aggregating input from computing devices over a time interval. The systems can identify, based on metrics, a subset of tokens for cluster generation. The systems can generate, via a clustering technique, token clusters from the subset of the tokens, each of the token clusters comprising two or more tokens from the subset of the tokens. The systems can apply a de-duplication technique to each of the token clusters. The systems can apply a filtering technique to the token clusters to remove tokens erroneously grouped in a token cluster. The systems can assign, based on a selection process, a label for each of the token clusters. The systems can activate, based on a number of remaining tokens in each of the token clusters, a subset of the token clusters for real-time content selection. |
| US11580169B2 |
Unbiased drug selection for audit using distributed ledger technology
A computer-implemented method of auditing drug supply chain data gathered from a distributed ledger is disclosed. The method includes receiving a population of drug product records from the distributed ledger. The method includes receiving a first set of drug product criteria. The method includes determining a weighted probability for one or more drug product records of the population of drug product records. The method includes generating a randomized first subset of drug product records from the population of drug product records based on the weighted probability of the one or more drug product records. Other methods, systems, and the like for unbiased drug selection for audit are also disclosed. |
| US11580165B2 |
Event producer system of a messaging platform for delivering real-time messages
This disclosure relates to streaming real-time messages over time to client applications according to query subscriptions that match content from a large stream of messages exchanged on a messaging platform in a manner that increases the speed of message delivery, effectively controls the management of computer resources to handle the fluctuation of the number of active query subscriptions, and/or increases the security of matching the query subscriptions against messages generated from the perspective of the authors while delivering those messages in real-time from the perspective of the users that initiated the query subscriptions. |
| US11580162B2 |
Key value append
Software that may be implemented using a circuit is disclosed. The software may include an Application Programming Interface (API) to receive a request from an application relating to a key-value pair for a Key-Value Solid State Drive (KV-SSD). The key-value pair may include a key and a value; the application may be executed by a processor. The software may also include combiner software to combine the key with an index to produce an indexed key, and execution software to execute an operation on the KV-SSD using the indexed key and the value. |
| US11580160B2 |
Management of tasks
A method, computer program and apparatus is disclosed. The method, performed by one or more processors, may comprise receiving, from one or more predetermined organizations, datasets representing entities and datasets representing one or more tasks for those entities and storing in a database, in accordance with an ontology which is common to the organizations, the received one or more datasets as data objects, the ontology defining properties of data objects and relationships between the data objects. The method may also comprise mapping the data objects stored in the database to the organization from which the one or more datasets were received and receiving, through a querying application, a query from a user of one of the predetermined organizations to view one or more data objects relating to a task. The method may also comprise identifying the organization to which the user is associated, generating, based on the mapping, a view including at least the one or more task data objects associated with the identified organization and not data objects associated with other organizations and displaying the view on a user interface. |
| US11580159B2 |
Systems and methods for video archive and data extraction
Systems and methods for full motion video search are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving one or more search terms. The search terms include one or more of a characterization of the amount of man-made features in a video image and a characterization of the amount of natural features in the video image. The method further includes searching a full motion video database based on the one or more search terms. |
| US11580153B1 |
Lookalike expansion of source-based custom audience by an online system
An online system generates a cluster group and uses membership in the cluster group as an eligibility criteria for presenting a content item. The online system receives a request from a third party system to present the content item. The online system also receives identification information about users who have visited webpages associated with the third party system and descriptive information associated with the webpages. Based on the descriptive information, the online system extracts tags for the webpages and classifies the webpages into one or more categories that include a category associated with the content item. The online system generates a seed group that includes users who visited webpages in the category associated with the content item. The online system further expands the seed group to a cluster group by applying a cluster model to one or more characteristics of each candidate user not included in the seed group. |
| US11580150B1 |
Database generation from natural language text documents
Some embodiments may perform operations of a process that includes obtaining a natural language text document and use a machine learning model to generate a set of attributes based on a set of machine-learning-model-generated classifications in the document. The process may include performing hierarchical data extraction operations to populate the attributes, where different machine learning models may be used in sequence. The process may include using a pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model augmented with a pooling operation to determine a BERT output via a multi-channel transformer model to generate vectors on a per-sentence level or other per-text-section level. The process may include using a finer-grain model to extract quantitative or categorical values of interest, where the context of the per-sentence level may be retained for the finer-grain model. |
| US11580148B2 |
Document storage and management
Techniques are disclosed for content storage in a way that facilitates consistent and concurrent read/write processing of stored documents. An example methodology implementing the techniques includes segmenting the contents of a document into a plurality of content segments and storing the plurality of content segments within a data structure, the data structure including storage blocks having storage portions and buffer portions. The storage of the plurality of content segments includes storage of content segments within a storage portions of the storage blocks of the data structure. The method also includes receiving at least one change to the content and utilizing a buffer portion of at least one storage block to store the at least one change to the content. |
| US11580147B2 |
Conversational database analysis
Systems and methods for conversational user experiences and conversational database analysis disclosed herein improve the efficiency and accessibility of low-latency database analytics. The method may include obtaining data expressing a usage intent with respect to the low-latency database analysis system, wherein the data expressing the usage intent includes a current request string expressed in a natural language, a current context associated with the current request string, and a previously generated context associated with a previously generated resolved-request, identifying, from the current request string, a conversational phrase corresponding to a conversational phrase pattern from a defined set of conversational phrase patterns, generating a resolved-request based on the identified conversational phrase, including the resolved-request in the current context, obtaining results data responsive to the resolved-request from a distributed in-memory database, generating a response including the results data and the current context, and outputting the response. |
| US11580130B2 |
Self-adjusting connection pool in a distributed system
A method includes calculating first connection usage information based on a first number of connections being used in a connection pool over a first time interval and adding a first number of database connections to the connection pool based on determining that the first connection usage information satisfies a first usage threshold. Additionally, the method includes calculating second connection usage information based on a second number of connections being used in the connection pool over a second interval. The second interval has been previously reset responsive to adding the first number of database connections to the connection pool. The method also includes determining whether to adjust the number of database connections in the connection pool based on the second connection usage information. |
| US11580129B2 |
Quality-aware data interfaces
A set of unstructured data is analyzed to infer structural elements from the unstructured data, and quantized data quality levels, indicative of data quality in the structural elements, are assigned to the structural elements. A set of structured data is generated to include the structural elements inferred from the unstructured data and associations between respective ones of the structural elements in the set of structured data and the corresponding quantized quality levels assigned to the structural elements. The set of structured data, including the associations between respective ones of the structural elements and the corresponding quantized quality levels assigned to the structural elements, is provided to a user interface application to enable the user interface application to visually display varying data qualities in the set of structured data. |
| US11580116B2 |
Viewport location based method and apparatus for generation and promotion of type ahead results in a multi-source agricultural parcel search
An automated method for search includes: receiving search characters and a viewport location on a displayed geographic area corresponding to an area of interest; simultaneously searching a first entry source and a second entry source to obtain corresponding first suggested entries and second suggested entries, where the first suggested entries correspond to geographic locations that are closer to the viewport location; ranking the first suggested entries according to first rules of relevancy, and generating first ranked suggested entries; ranking the second suggested entries according to second rules of relevancy, and generating second ranked suggested entries; combining the first and second ranked suggested entries into a combined set of suggested entries, and ranking the combined set of suggested entries according to combined rules of relevancy, and generating combined ranked suggested entries; and transmitting the combined ranked suggested entries to a user for selection of a desired type ahead entry. |
| US11580115B2 |
Identification of intent and non-intent query portions
Methods and systems for improved categorization of queries are disclosed. In one aspect, first queries having query results limited to a particular category are identified. Second queries including a first query are also identified. For identified second queries, a pattern is generated based on the second query and the included first query, and a rank of the first query's particular category in results for the second query and a percentage of the second query's results having a category equivalent to the included first query's particular category are determined. The ranks and percentages are aggregated for matching patterns, and second patterns with aggregated ranks and percentages meeting a criterion are determined. Results for a third query are limited to a category equivalent to a particular category for a first query included in the third query, and then transmitted over a computer network to a client device. |
| US11580108B2 |
Cache conscious techniques for generation of quasi-dense grouping codes of compressed columnar data in relational database systems
Herein are techniques for dynamic aggregation of results of a database request, including concurrent grouping of result items in memory based on quasi-dense keys. Each of many computational threads concurrently performs as follows. A hash code is calculated that represents a particular natural grouping key (NGK) for an aggregate result of a database request. Based on the hash code, the thread detects that a set of distinct NGKs that are already stored in the aggregate result does not contain the particular NGK. A distinct dense grouping key for the particular NGK is statefully generated. The dense grouping key is bound to the particular NGK. Based on said binding, the particular NGK is added to the set of distinct NGKs in the aggregate result. |
| US11580106B2 |
Robustness metrics for optimization of query execution plans
A method may include responding to a query to retrieve data from a database by identifying a plurality of query execution plans. An overall robustness value may be determined for each query execution plan. The overall robustness value of a query execution plan may correspond to a sum of individual robustness values for each operator included in the query execution plan. Each operator may have an individual robustness value that corresponds to a first change in a total cost of a query execution plan including the operator relative to a second change in an output cardinality of the operator. One of the plurality of query execution plans may be selected based on the overall robustness value of each of the plurality of query execution plans. The query may be executed by performing a sequence of operators included in the selected one of the plurality of query execution plan. |
| US11580104B2 |
Method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for intention recommendation
The present application discloses a method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for intention recommendation, which relates to the field of big data, artificial intelligence, intelligent search, information flow and deep learning technologies in the field of computer technologies. A specific implementation scheme includes: receiving an intention query request carrying an intention keyword and a user identification, determining a first recommendation list according to the intention keyword and a pre-configured intention repository, where the intention repository includes at least one tree-shaped intention set, and each tree-shaped intention set includes at least one graded intention, processing intentions in the first recommendation list by using intention strategy information corresponding to the user identification to obtain a target recommendation list and output it. |
| US11580100B2 |
Systems and methods for advanced query generation
Systems and methods for determining a query for a data store are described. A natural language text may be analyzed using heuristic processing and one or more machine learning models. Query parameters may be determined from the heuristic processing and machine learning and combined to form a query in a query language. In the heuristic processing, parsing rules may be used to remove conditional terms to generate a base question. The base question may be input to the one or more machine learning model to generate a base query which may be combined with query parameters related to the conditional terms. |
| US11580097B2 |
Blockchain-based systems and methods for communicating, storing and processing data over a blockchain network
A computer-implemented method for transmitting and/or submitting digital content such as feedback for an entity to a blockchain is disclosed. This may be, for example, the Bitcoin blockchain. The method, which is implemented at a first node, includes: submitting, to the blockchain, a first transaction for committing a first quantity of tokens to transfer to a second node associated with the entity, the first transaction having a first output; generating a first content for submission to the blockchain; and submitting, to the blockchain, a second transaction that returns a second quantity of the committed first quantity of tokens to an address associated with the first node, the second transaction having the first output of the first transaction as an input, wherein the first content is used to unlock the first output of the first transaction. |
| US11580096B2 |
System for uploading information into a metadata repository
A back-end application computer server may access a potential metadata entries data store containing a set of potential metadata entries, each entry including at least a data element name and a data element definition. A metadata collection system may be executed to automatically populate a metadata template based on the set of potential metadata entries. The system may update entries in the metadata template using a translation tool and validate the updated entries in the metadata template to ensure that required data elements are present. The system may also certify the validated entries load the set of certified metadata entries, including the certified data element names and certified data element definitions, into an enterprise metadata repository data store. Electronic messages may be exchanged to support at least one interactive user interface display associated with certification of the metadata template. |
| US11580089B2 |
Data management system
The method includes receiving historical data from a first data source; analyzing the historical data for a desired characteristic; determining a representative value for the desired characteristic of the historical data; determining a first data expectation for the historical data based on the representative value; transmitting the first data expectation to a first data recipient; receiving first incoming data from the first data source; analyzing the desired characteristic of the first incoming data; determining a first incoming data value for the desired characteristic for the first incoming data; comparing the first incoming data value and the representative value; determining a first difference between the first incoming data value and the representative value; and/or comparing the first difference to a difference threshold which indicates whether a difference between an incoming data value and the representative value is significant. |
| US11580087B2 |
Blockchain generation system and method for operating the same
A blockchain generation system included in each of servers forming a blockchain network includes a blockchain condition setting device that sets a blockchain configuration condition statement based on an operator's input to a screen of a user interface. A data detector detects result data stored in a memory of a programmable logic controller according to an operation of a process equipment based on the blockchain configuration condition statement. A blockchain generator generates blockchain data based on the result data detected from the memory of the programmable logic controller and transmits the blockchain data to a plurality of client servers connected via the blockchain network. A storage device stores the blockchain data and store blockchain data received from the client servers. |
| US11580086B2 |
Tactic tracking, evaluation and identification engine apparatuses, methods and systems
The Tactic Tracking, Evaluation and Identification Engine Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“TTEIE”) transforms subscription request, tick notification request inputs via TTEIE components into subscription response, identified tactic store request, user interface update notification outputs. A subscription request datastructure from a client is obtained. A set of tactic definition datastructures is retrieved. A tick notification comprising tick data for a tick associated with a target is obtained. A contact datastructure corresponding to each retrieved tactic definition datastructure is added to a tracking list of contact datastructures for the target. The tick data for the tick is appended for each contact datastructure in the tracking list. A contact datastructure's time series of ticks is evaluated with regard to the respective contact datastructure's corresponding time series of rules to classify the respective contact datastructure, for each contact datastructure in the tracking list. The client is notified regarding identified tactic contact datastructures. |
| US11580083B2 |
Scoring members of a set dependent on eliciting preference data amongst subsets selected according to a height-balanced tree
A software voting or prediction system iteratively solicits participant preferences between members of a set, with a binary tree built used to minimize the number of iterations required. As each member of the set is considered, it is pairwise-compared with select members represented by nodes already in the binary tree, with iterations beginning at a root node of the tree and continuing to a leaf node. The newly considered member is placed as a new leaf node, and the tree is height-rebalanced as appropriate. Red-black tree coloring and tree rotation rules are optionally used for this purpose. Yes/no preference tallies are kept for each member of the set throughout the tree-building process and are ultimately used for scoring. Height-rebalancing of the tree helps minimize the number of iterations needed to precisely score each member of the set relative to its alternatives. |
| US11580082B2 |
Object storage system with control entity quota usage mapping
Example object storage systems, bookkeeping engines, and methods provide quota usage monitoring for control entities, such as accounts, users, and buckets. An object data store is configured to enable control entities to access data objects associated with each control entity. Data objects are mapped to the control entities and the data objects are processed to identify object usage values corresponding to each combination of data object and control entity. Total usage values are calculated for each control entity and used to determine a data object access response for a target data object and associated control entities. |
| US11580079B2 |
Providing access to usage reports on a cloud-based data warehouse
Providing access to usage reports on a cloud-based data warehouse including maintaining, by a management module, a metadata table on the cloud-based data warehouse, wherein the metadata table comprises usage reports for a plurality of organizations; receiving, by the management module, a request for the metadata table from an administrator account for a first organization of the plurality of organizations; granting, by the management module, the administrator account permission to access a filtered portion of the metadata table, wherein the filtered portion of the metadata table is generated by filtering the metadata table by an organization identifier of the first organization; and providing, by the management module, the filtered portion of the metadata table to the administrator account. |
| US11580069B2 |
Data subscription management system
A method includes a digital subscription management system (DSMS) receiving from a source system a request to perform an edit of at least one data object, the DSMS sending a request for response (RFR) to subscribing systems having a copy of the at least one data object, the DSMS receiving a response from the subscribing systems, and the DSMS performing the edit. |
| US11580067B1 |
Storage volume regulation for multi-modal machine data
A network storage volume stores first entries in a first-mode storage bucket and a second entries in a second-mode storage bucket. The first-mode storage bucket has first bucket metadata, and the second-mode storage bucket has second bucket metadata. A computer-implemented method includes comparing a utilized capacity of the network storage volume to a target capacity information of the network storage volume to obtain a comparison result. Based on the comparison result, at least one bucket is selected to be purged from the buckets of the network storage volume based at least in part on bucket metadata of the buckets. The method further includes causing a purge of the at least one selected bucket from the network storage volume. |
| US11580059B2 |
Multi-port memory architecture for a systolic array
A memory architecture and a processing unit that incorporates the memory architecture and a systolic array. The memory architecture includes: memory array(s) with multi-port (MP) memory cells; first wordlines connected to the cells in each row; and, depending upon the embodiment, second wordlines connected to diagonals of cells or diagonals of sets of cells. Data from a data input matrix is written to the memory cells during first port write operations using the first wordlines and read out from the memory cells during second port read operations using the second wordlines. Due to the diagonal orientation of the second wordlines and due to additional features (e.g., additional rows of memory cells that store static zero data values or read data mask generators that generate read data masks), data read from the memory architecture and input directly into a systolic array is in the proper order, as specified by a data setup matrix. |
| US11580056B2 |
Control barrier network for reconfigurable data processors
A processing system comprises a control bus and a plurality of logic units. The control bus is configurable by configuration data to form signal routes in a control barrier network coupled to processing units in an array of processing units. The plurality of logic units has inputs and outputs connected to the control bus and to the array of processing units. A logic unit in the plurality of logic units is operatively coupled to a processing unit in the array of processing units and is configurable by the configuration data to consume source tokens and a status signal from the processing unit on the inputs and to produce barrier tokens and an enable signal on the outputs based on the source tokens and the status signal on the inputs. |
| US11580049B2 |
Frame protocol of memory device
Techniques are described herein for a training procedure that identifies a frame boundary and generates a frame clock to identify the beginning and the end of a frame. After the frame training procedure is complete, a memory device may be configured to execute a frame synchronization procedure to identify the beginning of a frame based on the frame clock without the use of headers or other information within the frame during an active session of the memory device. During an activation time period after a power-up event, the memory device may initiate the frame training procedure. Once the frames are synchronized, the memory device may be configured to use that frame clock during an entire active session (e.g., until a power-down event) to identify the beginning of a frame as part of a frame synchronization procedure. |
| US11580045B2 |
Multiple communication channel allocation for low voltage drive circuits
A method includes determining, by one or more processing entities associated with at least one of: one or more low voltage drive circuits (LVDCs) and one or more other LVDCs, an initial data conveyance scheme and an initial communication scheme for each communication of a plurality of communications on one or more lines of a bus. The method further includes determining a desired number of channels for each communication of the plurality of communications based on the initial data conveyance scheme and the initial communication scheme, a desired total number of channels for the plurality of communications based on the desired number of channels, determining whether the desired total number of channels for the plurality of communications exceeds a total number of available channels. If not, allocating the desired number of channels to each communication of the plurality of communications in accordance with the channel allocation mapping. |
| US11580041B2 |
Enabling use of non-volatile media—express (NVME) over a network
Enabling a protocol for efficiently and reliably using the NVME protocol over a network, referred to as NVME over Network, or NVMEoN, may include an NVMEoN exchange layer for handling exchanges between initiating and target nodes on a network, a burst transmission protocol that provides guaranteed delivery without duplicate retransmission, and an exchange status block approach to manage state information about exchanges. |
| US11580037B2 |
Privilege level assignments to groups
According to examples, an apparatus may include a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that may cause a processor to determine, for each of a plurality of members in a group, a respective least privilege level for a resource and determine, based on the determined respective least privilege levels, a privilege level to be assigned to the group for the resource. The instructions may also cause the processor to assign the determined privilege level to the group for the resource and apply the assigned privilege level to the members of the group for the resource. |
| US11580036B1 |
Processor with conditional-fence commands excluding designated memory regions
An apparatus includes a processor, configured to designate a memory region in a memory, and to issue (i) memory-access commands for accessing the memory and (ii) a conditional-fence command associated with the designated memory region. Memory-Access Control Circuitry (MACC) is configured, in response to identifying the conditional-fence command, to allow execution of the memory-access commands that access addresses within the designated memory region, and to defer the execution of the memory-access commands that access addresses outside the designated memory region, until completion of all the memory-access commands that were issued before the conditional-fence command. |
| US11580035B2 |
Fine-grained stack protection using cryptographic computing
A processor includes a register to store an encoded pointer to a variable in stack memory. The encoded pointer includes an encrypted portion and a fixed plaintext portion of a memory address corresponding to the variable. The processor further includes circuitry to, in response to a memory access request for associated with the variable, decrypt the encrypted portion of the encoded pointer to obtain first upper address bits of the memory address and a memory allocation size for a variable, decode the encoded pointer to obtain the memory address, verify the memory address is valid based, at least in part on the memory allocation size, and in response to determining that the memory address is valid, allow the memory access request. |
| US11580030B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods of logical-to-physical address mapping
Devices, systems, and methods are provided that cause a controller to receive a first command to read or write first data from or to a first logical address; and determine a first mapped logical address that the first logical address is mapped to. A first plurality of logical addresses is mapped to the first mapped logical address and includes the first logical address. The controller reads a first data structure at the first mapped logical address. The first data structure includes a pointer to a first intermediate physical address. The controller reads a second data structure at the first intermediate physical address. The second data structure includes a plurality of pointers to target physical addresses. The plurality of pointers includes a pointer to a first target physical address for the first logical address. The controller reads or writes the first data from or to the first target physical address. |
| US11580028B2 |
Storage device and method of operating the same
The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory device having improved memory block management performance according to the present technology includes a memory block, a peripheral circuit, and a control logic. The peripheral circuit performs a read operation and a program operation on a selected physical page among a plurality of physical pages. The control logic controls the peripheral circuit to read first logical page data stored in a first physical page and second logical page data stored in a second physical page among the plurality of physical pages, and additionally program the second logical page data into the first physical page using the read first and second logical page data. |
| US11580024B2 |
Memory pipeline control in a hierarchical memory system
In described examples, a processor system includes a processor core generating memory transactions, a lower level cache memory with a lower memory controller, and a higher level cache memory with a higher memory controller having a memory pipeline. The higher memory controller is connected to the lower memory controller by a bypass path that skips the memory pipeline. The higher memory controller: determines whether a memory transaction is a bypass write, which is a memory write request indicated not to result in a corresponding write being directed to the higher level cache memory; if the memory transaction is determined a bypass write, determines whether a memory transaction that prevents passing is in the memory pipeline; and if no transaction that prevents passing is determined to be in the memory pipeline, sends the memory transaction to the lower memory controller using the bypass path. |
| US11580017B2 |
Method and apparatus and computer program product for preparing logical-to-physical mapping information for host side
The invention relates to a method, a non-transitory computer program product, and an apparatus for managing data storage. The method performed by a flash controller includes: obtaining information indicating a subregion to be activated, where the subregion is associated with a logical block address (LBA) range; triggering a garbage collection (GC) process being performed in background to migrate user data of all the or a portion of the LBA range associated with the subregion to continuous physical addresses in a flash device; and updating content of a plurality of entries associated with the subregion according to migration results, where each entry includes information indicating which physical address that user data of a corresponding logical address is physically stored in the flash device. |
| US11580014B2 |
Heuristics for selecting subsegments for entry in and entry out operations in an error cache system with coarse and fine grain segments
A memory device comprises a memory bank comprising a plurality of addressable memory cells, wherein the memory bank is divided into a plurality of segments. Further, the device comprises a cache memory operable for storing a second plurality of data words, wherein each data word of the second plurality of data words is either awaiting write verification associated with the memory bank or is to be re-written into the memory bank. The cache memory is divided into a plurality of primary segments, wherein each primary segment of the cache memory is direct mapped to a corresponding segment of the plurality of segments, wherein each primary segment is sub-divided into a plurality of secondary segments, and wherein each of the plurality of secondary segments comprises at least one counter for tracking a number of entries stored therein. |
| US11580007B2 |
Self-debugging
In overview, methods, computer programs products and devices for securing software are provided. In accordance with the disclosure, a method may comprise attaching a debugger process to a software process. During execution of the software process, operations relevant to the functionality of the code process are carried out within the debugger process. As a result, the debugger process cannot be replaced or subverted without impinging on the functionality of the software process. The software process can therefore be protected from inspection by modified or malicious debugging techniques. |
| US11580001B2 |
Dynamic generation of instrumentation locators from a document object model
Systems for web page or web application instrumentation. Embodiments commence upon identification of a computer-readable user interface description comprising at least some markup language conforming to a respective document object model that is codified in a computer-readable language. An injector process modifies the user interface description by inserting markup text and code into the user interface description, where the inserted code includes instrumentation code to invoke dynamic generation of instrumentation locator IDs using the hierarchical elements found in the document object model. The modified computer-readable interface description is transmitted to a user device. Log messages are emitted upon user actions taken while using the user device. The log messages comprise the instrumentation locator IDs that are formed using hierarchical elements found in the document object model. |
| US11579995B2 |
Electronic element, system comprising such an electronic element and method for monitoring and cutting off a processor on occurrence of a failure event
An electronic element includes: a module for storing reference data; a module for receiving data from a processor; a module for verifying the received data by comparison by way of reference data; and a module for transmitting an instruction to cut off supply of the processor, the supply cutoff instruction being transmitted after occurrence of a failure event, the failure event being an absence of reception of data or a failure in verifying the data. A system including such an electronic element and a method for monitoring a processor by the electronic element are also described. |
| US11579994B2 |
Fast and scalable methodology for analog defect detectability analysis
A system and method of detecting defects in an analog circuit is provided. A method includes identifying a channel connected block (CCB) from a netlist, creating defect for the CCB to be injected during a simulation, obtaining a first measurement of an output node of the CCB by performing a first analog circuit simulation for the CCB based on providing excitations as inputs to the CCB and obtaining a second measurement of the output node of the CCB by performing a second analog circuit simulation for the CCB based on providing the excitations as the inputs to the CCB and injecting the defect. The method can further include determining a defect type based on the first measurement and the second measurement. |
| US11579993B2 |
Regression testing of computer systems using recorded prior computer system communications
A technique includes accessing, by at least one hardware processor, a recorded request and a recorded response associated with an integration test involving a first computer system and a second computer system. The recorded request was previously issued by the first computer system to the second computer system to cause the second computer system to provide the recorded response. The technique includes, in a virtualized integration test involving the second computer system and initiated using the recorded request, comparing, by the hardware processor(s), the recorded response to a request produced by the second computer system in the virtualized integration test. The technique includes identifying, by the hardware processor(s), an action taken by the second computer system as being likely to be associated with a regression based on the comparison. |
| US11579990B2 |
Intelligent post-packaging repair
Techniques are provided for storing a row address of a defective row of memory cells to a bank of non-volatile storage elements (e.g., fuses or anti-fuses). After a memory device has been packaged, one or more rows of memory cells may become defective. In order to repair (e.g., replace) the rows, a post-package repair (PPR) operation may occur to replace the defective row with a redundant row of the memory array. To replace the defective row with a redundant row, an address of the defective row may be stored (e.g., mapped) to an available bank of non-volatile storage elements that is associated with a redundant row. Based on the bank of non-volatile storage elements the address of the defective row, subsequent access operations may utilize the redundant row and not the defective row. |
| US11579984B2 |
Automatic storage target recommendations using a storage classifier
Embodiments for a storage classifier that provides recommendations to a backup server for storage targets among a plurality of disparate target storage types. The storage classifier receives metadata (name, type, size), and the Service Level Agreement with information such as: retention time, Recovery Point Objective, and Recovery Time Objective) from the backup software. The backup software itself receives policy recommendations from a data label rules engine based on certain file attributes. The storage classifier receives an initial recommendation for the storage type and location (e.g., on-premises deduplication storage or public-cloud object storage, etc.) from a data classifier. Based on these inputs, the storage classifier provides recommended specific storage targets to the backup software on a file-by-file basis for data stored in a backup operation. |
| US11579981B2 |
Past-state backup generator and interface for database systems
An interface for requesting, and technique for generation of, a backup of a past state of a database table are provided. Changes made to a database table are accumulated, in durable storage, and snapshots of partitions of the table are obtained. The accumulated changes and the successive partition snapshots are used to generate a past state of the database at any point in time across a continuum between successive snapshots. Although each partition of the table may have a snapshot that was generated at a time different from when other partition snapshots were generated, changes from respective change logs may be selectively log-applied to distinct partitions of a table to generate backup in the past of the entire table at common point-in-time across partitions. |
| US11579979B2 |
Storage backed memory package save trigger
Devices and techniques for a storage backed memory package save trigger are disclosed herein. Data can be received via a first interface. The data is stored in a volatile portion of the memory package. Here, the memory package includes a second interface arranged to connect a host to a controller in the memory package. A reset signal can be received at the memory package via the first interface. The data stored in the volatile portion of the memory package can be saved to a non-volatile portion of the memory package in response to the reset signal. |
| US11579976B2 |
Methods and systems parallel raid rebuild in a distributed storage system
A method for rebuilding data, comprising: obtaining, from a metadata node, a source file data layout for a source file and a target file data layout for a target file, wherein the source file is associated with a degraded mapped RAID group and the target file is associated with a new mapped RAID group; generating, by the client application node, a plurality of input/output (I/O) requests to read a portion of the data associated with the source file using the source file data layout; obtaining, in response to the plurality of I/O requests, the portion of the data associated with the source file; rebuilding a second portion of the data associated with source file using the portion of the data; and initiating, storage of at least the second portion of the data associated with the source file in the storage pool using the target file data layout. |
| US11579974B1 |
Data protection using intra-device parity and intra-device parity
A system and method for offset protection data in a RAID array. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller within a data storage array is configured to store user data in a first page of a first storage device of the plurality of storage devices; generate intra-device protection data corresponding to the user data, and store the intra-device protection data at a first offset within the first page. The controller is further configured to generate inter-device protection data corresponding to the first page, and store the inter-device protection data at a second offset within a second page in a second storage device of the plurality of storage devices, wherein the first offset is different from the second offset. |
| US11579973B2 |
Methods and systems for implementing redundancy in memory controllers
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for implementing redundancy in memory controllers. The disclosed systems and methods utilize a row of memory blocks, such that each memory block in the row is associated with an independent media unit. Failures of the media units are not correlated, and therefore, a failure in one unit does not affect the data stored in the other units. Parity information associated with the data stored in the memory blocks is stored in a separate memory block. If the data in a single memory block has been corrupted, the data stored in the remaining memory blocks and the parity information is used to retrieve the corrupted data. |
| US11579969B2 |
Verifying method for ECC circuit of SRAM
A verifying method for an error checking and correcting (ECC) circuit of a static random-access memory (SRAM) is provided. The SRAM comprises a storage unit, an ECC circuit and a checking circuit. The ECC circuit receives an original data and an output first data. The checking circuit obtains a second data according to an error-injecting mask. The checking circuit performs a bit operation on the first data and the second data to obtain a third data. The checking circuit writes the third data into a test target area of the storage unit and the written data as a fourth data. The checking circuit reads the fourth data from the test target area. The ECC circuit obtains a fifth data and an error message according to the fourth data. The checking circuit obtains the bit error detection result according to the error message and the second data. |
| US11579966B1 |
Semiconductor system related to performing a training operation
A semiconductor system includes a process control circuit configured to determine whether to perform a patrol training operation, generate a voltage code signal for adjusting a level of a reference voltage which determines a logic level of data in a target memory circuit, and adjust the voltage code signal on the basis of a fail information signal corresponding to the target memory circuit, an operation control circuit configured to receive a command and an address from a host, generate, from the command, a write signal and a read signal for performing a normal operation, and generate, from the address, an internal address for performing the normal operation and an error detection circuit configured to detect an error in the data by receiving the data from the target memory circuit, and generate the fail information signal depending on whether the error has occurred in the data. |
| US11579961B2 |
Bit error rate based dynamic program step characteristic adjustment
A BER corresponding to a group of memory cells programmed via a programing signal having one or more program step characteristics is determined. The determined BER and a target BER is compared. In response to the determined BER being different than the target BER, one or more program step characteristics are adjusted to adjust the determined BER to the target BER. |
| US11579959B2 |
Systems and methods for margin based diagnostic tools for priority preemptive schedulers
In one embodiment, a method for margin determination for a computing system with a real time operating system and priority preemptive scheduling comprises: scheduling a set of tasks to be executed in one or more partitions, wherein each is assigned a priority, wherein the tasks comprise periodic and/or aperiodic tasks; executing the set of tasks on the computing system within the scheduled periodic time window; introducing an overhead task executed for an execution duration controlled either by the real time operating system or by the overhead task; controlling the overhead task to converge on a point of failure at which a length of the execution duration of the overhead task causes either: 1) a periodic task to fail to execute within a deadline, or 2) time available for the aperiodic tasks to execute to fall below a threshold; and defining a partition margin corresponding to the point of failure. |
| US11579949B2 |
Device application support
Various example embodiments for providing device application support are presented. In at least some example embodiments, device application support may be configured to support device programmability. In at least some example embodiments, device application support may be configured to support device programmability for enabling a customer that operates a device to develop a customer application for the device and to run the customer application on the device. In at least some example embodiments, device application support may be provided in a manner for enabling a customer to develop and run a customer application for a device without a need for the customer to use a software development kit (SDK) to develop the customer application. |
| US11579946B2 |
Method for managing multiple operating systems in a terminal
The disclosure provides a method for managing multiple operating systems in a terminal. The terminal includes multiple operating systems and a management system. The management system is configured to manage the multiple operating systems. The management system includes a cross-system application database. The method includes: when a first operating system in the multiple operating systems runs in a foreground, and a second operating system in the multiple operating systems runs in a background, if the second operating system receives a first message of a first application in the second operating system, sending, by the second operating system, a notification message to the management system; storing, by the management system, the notification message into the cross-system application database; and listening, by the first operating system, on the cross-system application database, and outputting a prompt of the first message when listening and obtaining the notification message. |
| US11579941B2 |
Control cluster for multi-cluster container environments
The disclosure herein describes managing multiple clusters within a container environment using a control cluster. The control cluster includes a single deployment model that manages deployment of cluster components to a plurality of clusters at the cluster level. Changes or updates made to one cluster are automatically propagated to other clusters in the same environment, reducing system update time across clusters. The control cluster aggregates and/or stores monitoring data for the plurality of clusters creating a centralized data store for metrics data, log data and other systems data. The monitoring data and/or alerts are displayed on a unified dashboard via a user interface. The unified dashboard creates a single representation of clusters and monitor data in a single location providing system health data and unified alerts notifying a user as to issues detected across multiple clusters. |
| US11579940B2 |
Techniques and architectures for managing global installations and configurations
A publish and subscribe architecture can be utilized to manage records, which can be used to accomplish the various functional goals. At least one template having definitions for managing production and consumption of data within an unconfigured group of computing resources is maintained. Records organized by topic collected from multiple disparate previously configured producers are utilized to initiate configuration of the unconfigured group of computing resources. Records within a topic are organized by a corresponding topic sequence. A first portion of the computing resources are configured as consumers based on the at least one template. The consumers to consume records at a pace independent of record production. A second portion of the computing resources are configured as producers based on the at least one template. The producers to produce records at a pace independent of record consumption. |
| US11579938B2 |
Function as a service (FaaS) execution distributor
The disclosure provides an approach for distribution of functions among data centers of a cloud system that provides function-as-a-service (FaaS). For example, the disclosure provides one or more function distributors configured to receive a request for loading or executing a function, automatically determine an appropriate data center to load or execute the function, and automatically load or execute the function on the determined data center. In certain embodiments, the function distributors are further configured to determine an appropriate data center to provide storage resources for the function and configure the function to utilize the storage resources of the determined data center. |
| US11579936B2 |
System and method for cloud workload provisioning
Disclosed is a system and method for cloud workload provisioning. In one implementation, the present invention provides a system enabling an automated guidance to the user for the workload to be provisioned. The present invention matches the user's workload profile based on a wide variety of historical data set and makes easy for users to choose the cloud provisioning for various kinds of workloads. The system can automatically readjust a workload profile for cloud provisioning. The system can provide a manual selection option for cloud provisioning. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a system and method that derives a workload provision scaling factor mechanism using historic data set. Furthermore, the system and method can automatically or manually readjust the provision scaling factor based on a workload profile for cloud provisioning. |
| US11579934B2 |
Scheduler for amp architecture with closed loop performance and thermal controller
Systems and methods are disclosed for scheduling threads on a processor that has at least two different core types, such as an asymmetric multiprocessing system. Each core type can run at a plurality of selectable voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) states. Threads from a plurality of processes can be grouped into thread groups. Execution metrics are accumulated for threads of a thread group and fed into a plurality of tunable controllers for the thread group. A closed loop performance control (CLPC) system determines a control effort for the thread group and maps the control effort to a recommended core type and DVFS state. A closed loop thermal and power management system can limit the control effort determined by the CLPC for a thread group, and limit the power, core type, and DVFS states for the system. Deferred interrupts can be used to increase performance. |
| US11579932B2 |
Tiered backup archival in multi-tenant cloud computing system
A system and method for backing up workloads for multiple tenants of a cloud computing system are disclosed. A method of backing up workloads for multiple tenants of a computing system includes triggering an archival process according to an archival policy set by a tenant, and executing the archival process by reading backup data of the tenant stored in a backup storage device of the computer system and transmitting the backup data to an archival store designated in the archival policy, and then deleting or invalidating the backup data stored in the backup storage device. |
| US11579931B2 |
Resource determination based on resource definition data
In one example, a computer implemented method may include retrieving resource definition data corresponding to an endpoint. The resource definition data includes adapter information and resource type information. Further, an adapter instance may be generated using the adapter information to establish communication with the endpoint. Furthermore, an API response may be obtained, via the adapter instance, from the endpoint by querying the endpoint using an API call. Further, the API response may be parsed. Further, a resource model corresponding to the resource definition data may be populated using the parsed API response. The resource model may include resource information and associated metric information corresponding to a resource type in the resource type information. Furthermore, a resource and/or metric data associated with the resource may be determined using the populated resource model. The resource may be associated with an application being executed in the endpoint. |
| US11579929B2 |
Cross platform application flow orchestration by transmitting the application flow including a transition rule to a plurality of computation layers
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for configuring a dynamic reassignment of an application flow across different computation layers based on various conditions. An embodiment operates by assigning a first rule of an application flow to a first computation layer of a plurality of computation layers. The embodiment assigns a second rule of the application flow to a second computation layer of the plurality of computation layers. The embodiment assigns a transition rule of the application flow to the first computation layer. The transition rule includes an action that causes the first rule of the application flow to be executed in the second computation layer of the plurality of computation layers based on a condition. The embodiment then transmits the application flow to the plurality of computation layers thereby causing the application flow to be configured for execution. |
| US11579925B2 |
Techniques for reconfiguring partitions in a parallel processing system
A parallel processing unit (PPU) can be divided into partitions. Each partition is configured to operate similarly to how the entire PPU operates. A given partition includes a subset of the computational and memory resources associated with the entire PPU. Software that executes on a CPU partitions the PPU for an admin user. A guest user is assigned to a partition and can perform processing tasks within that partition in isolation from any other guest users assigned to any other partitions. Because the PPU can be divided into isolated partitions, multiple CPU processes can efficiently utilize PPU resources. |
| US11579924B2 |
Scheduling artificial intelligence model partitions based on reversed computation graph
Techniques are disclosed for scheduling artificial intelligence model partitions for execution in an information processing system. For example, a method comprises the following steps. An intermediate representation of an artificial intelligence model is obtained. A reversed computation graph corresponding to a computation graph generated based on the intermediate representation is obtained. Nodes in the reversed computation graph represent functions related to the artificial intelligence model, and one or more directed edges in the reversed computation graph represent one or more dependencies between the functions. The reversed computation graph is partitioned into sequential partitions, such that the partitions are executed sequentially and functions corresponding to nodes in each partition are executed in parallel. |
| US11579918B2 |
Optimizing host CPU usage based on virtual machine guest OS power and performance management
Techniques for optimizing CPU usage in a host system based on VM guest OS power and performance management are provided. In one embodiment, a hypervisor of the host system can capture information from a VM guest OS that pertains to a target power or performance state set by the guest OS for a vCPU of the VM. The hypervisor can then perform, based on the captured information, one or more actions that align usage of host CPU resources by the vCPU with the target power or performance state. |
| US11579917B2 |
Creating virtual machine groups based on request
A method for creating a virtual machine includes: receiving a virtual machine creation request to create a plurality of virtual machines; dividing the plurality of virtual machines into a plurality of virtual machine groups; determining a home physical rack for each virtual machine group, where one virtual machine group corresponds to one home physical rack; and creating each virtual machine group on the home physical rack of each virtual machine group. Because each virtual machine group is created on a home physical rack to which each virtual machine group belongs, each virtual machine group is equivalent to one physical rack. |
| US11579913B2 |
System and method for optimizing network topology in a virtual computing environment
A computer network optimization methodology is disclosed. In a computer-implemented method, components of a computing environment are automatically monitored, and have a feature selection analysis performed thereon. Provided the feature selection analysis determines that features of the components are in frequent communication and generating network latency. Provided the feature selection analysis determines that features of the components are not well defined, a similarity analysis of the features is performed. Results of the feature selection methodology are generated, and the components involved in the network traffic latency are reassigned to migrate the latency. |
| US11579910B2 |
Policy enforcement and performance monitoring at sub-LUN granularity
Techniques are provided for enforcing policies at a sub-logical unit number (LUN) granularity, such as at a virtual disk or virtual machine granularity. A block range of a virtual disk of a virtual machine stored within a LUN is identified. A quality of service policy object is assigned to the block range to create a quality of service workload object. A target block range targeted by an operation is identified. A quality of service policy of the quality of service policy object is enforced upon the operation using the quality of service workload object based upon the target block range being within the block range of the virtual disk. |
| US11579908B2 |
Containerized workload scheduling
A method for containerized workload scheduling can include determining a network state for a first hypervisor in a virtual computing cluster (VCC). The method can further include determining a network state for a second hypervisor. Containerized workload scheduling can further include deploying a container to run a containerized workload on a virtual computing instance (VCI) deployed on the first hypervisor or the second hypervisor based, at least in part, on the determined network state for the first hypervisor and the second hypervisor. |
| US11579902B2 |
User interface rendering performance
Disclosed are various embodiments for improving user interface rendering performance. A network page is received from one or more servers, where the network page includes code that renders a graphical placeholder for a user interface component. The code that renders the graphical placeholder for the user interface component is executed. Code that renders an updated view of the user interface component is received from the server(s) in response to a scrolling action or a viewport manipulation bringing the graphical placeholder for the user interface component into view. The code that renders the updated view of the user interface component is executed. |
| US11579895B2 |
Controlling operational state of an electronic apparatus based on user proximity and user input
An electronic apparatus includes processing unit configured to execute system processing, an object detection unit configured to detect an object present within a predetermined detection range, and an operation control unit configured to control the system processing according to a detection state detected by the object detection unit to make a transition to one of a first operating state and a second operating state in which at least part of the system processing is more limited than that in the first operating state. When a transition from the first operating state to the second operating state is made regardless of the detection state detected by the object detection unit, where the operation control unit prohibits the transition to the first operating state according to the detection state detected by the object detection unit. |
| US11579894B2 |
Deterministic dynamic reconfiguration of interconnects within programmable network-based devices
A device includes a plurality of reconfigurable resources, a bus, and a configurator. The bus interconnects the plurality of reconfigurable resources. The configurator is configured to deterministically compute a segmented interconnect configuration for the bus based on operational parameters associated with the device and operational constraints associated with program modules to be executed by the plurality of reconfigurable resources. |
| US11579891B2 |
Mobile service applications
Techniques for improved mobile application architectures and service communication protocols are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a mobile device configured for providing a mobile application including multiple service applications. The service applications may execute asynchronously and in separate containers, providing service orientated architecture (SOA)-like services with respect to other portions of the mobile application, or even external applications. The separation of a monolithic mobile application into separate service applications provide advantages in terms of application performance, development, and maintenance. For example, a subset of all service applications may be started up, and executed on demand to improve device resource utilization efficiency. |
| US11579881B2 |
Instructions for vector operations with constant values
Disclosed embodiments relate to instructions for vector operations with immediate values. In one example, a system includes a memory and a processor that includes fetch circuitry to fetch the instruction from a code storage, the instruction including an opcode, a destination identifier to specify a destination vector register, a first immediate, and a write mask identifier to specify a write mask register, the write mask register including at least one bit corresponding to each destination vector register element, the at least one bit to specify whether the destination vector register element is masked or unmasked, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction, to, use the write mask register to determine unmasked elements of the destination vector register, and, when the opcode specifies to broadcast, broadcast the first immediate to one or more unmasked vector elements of the destination vector register. |
| US11579878B2 |
Register sharing mechanism to equally allocate disabled thread registers to active threads
An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors comprising register sharing circuitry to receive meta-information indicating a number of threads that are to be disabled and provide an indication that an associated thread is disabled, a plurality of General Purpose Register Files (GRFs), wherein one or more of the plurality of GRFs is associated with one of the plurality of threads and a plurality of multiplexers coupled to the one or more GRFs to receive the indication from the register sharing circuitry and disable thread access to an associated GRF based on an indication that a thread is to be disabled. |
| US11579876B2 |
Reducing save restore latency for power control based on write signals
A method of save-restore operations includes monitoring, by a power controller of a parallel processor (such as a graphics processing unit), of a register bus for one or more register write signals. The power controller determines that a register write signal is addressed to a state register that is designated to be saved prior to changing a power state of the parallel processor from a first state to a second state having a lower level of energy usage. The power controller instructs a copy of data corresponding to the state register to be written to a local memory module of the parallel processor. Subsequently, the parallel processor receives a power state change signal and writes state register data saved at the local memory module to an off-chip memory prior to changing the power state of the parallel processor. |
| US11579871B2 |
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for controllable sine and/or cosine operations
Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing vector-packed controllable sine and/or cosine operations in a processor are described. For example, execution circuitry executes a decoded instruction to compute at least a real output value and an imaginary output value based on at least a cosine calculation and a sine calculation, the cosine and sine calculations each based on an index value from a packed data source operand, add the index value with an index increment value from the packed data source operand to create an updated index value, and store the real output value, the imaginary output value, and the updated index value to a packed data destination operand. |
| US11579865B2 |
Vehicle information communication system
A vehicle information communication system includes a center apparatus and a vehicle apparatus that includes a group of electronic control units (ECUs) and that sends vehicle configuration information including configuration information on the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle to the center apparatus via wireless communications. The center apparatus performs a first determination of whether the vehicle configuration information received from the vehicle apparatus matches approved-configuration information registered in an approved-configuration database, and performs a second determination of whether software update data for at least one ECU of the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle exists in an update database. When both the first and second determinations are true, the center apparatus sends the software update data for at least one ECU of the group of ECUs mounted in the vehicle to the vehicle apparatus via the wireless communications. |
| US11579863B2 |
Method for updating firmware of optical transceiver
Provided is an optical transceiver including: a controller configured to output firmware update data for updating firmware of another optical transceiver connected to the optical transceiver through an optical cable; and a transmitter configured to generate an optical signal by superposing input payload data and the firmware update data, and to transmit the optical signal to the other optical transceiver. According to embodiments, the firmware of a remote optical transceiver at a remote location is automatically updated without affecting payload data, which is information to be transmitted. |
| US11579860B2 |
Model driven state machine transitions to configure an installation of a software program
Disclosed are embodiments of a installed software program that receive a model from a product management system. The model is trained to select one of a plurality of predefined states based on operational parameter values of the installation of the software program. Each of the plurality of predefined states define configuration values of the installation of the software program. The defined configuration values indicate, in some embodiments, updates to operational parameter values of the installation of the software program. |
| US11579857B2 |
Systems, methods and devices for device fingerprinting and automatic deployment of software in a computing network using a peer-to-peer approach
Disclosed herein are embodiments of methods, devices and systems for device fingerprinting and automatic and dynamic software deployment to one or more endpoints on a computer network. The device fingerprinting systems and devices herein are configured to operate with limited data without sitting between network devices and the internet, without monitoring all network traffic, and without limited or no active scanning. The embodiments herein may passively collect information as distributed peers and may perform very limited active scans. In some embodiments, the information is used as an input to a custom hierarchical learning model to fingerprint devices on a network by identifying attributes of the devices such as the operating system family, operating system version, and device role. In some embodiments, a dynamic deployer selection process may be utilized to simply and efficiently deploy software. Some embodiments herein involve end-to-end encryption of credentials in a deployment process. |
| US11579851B2 |
Method and system for identification of redundant function-level slicing calls
This disclosure relates generally to the field of source code processing, and, more particularly to a method and system for identification of redundant function-level slicing calls. The method disclosed generates program dependence graphs (PDGs) based on a slicing criteria and a function corresponding to the function-level slicing call. Further the method classifies the function-level slicing call into redundant or non-redundant by traversing the PDGs and checking if a predefined condition is satisfied or not. The function-level slicing calls are classified as redundant if the check is not satisfied and are classified as non-redundant if the check is satisfied. The disclosed method can be used in identifying redundant function-level slicing calls in applications such as automated false positive elimination (AFPE), automated test case generation and so on. |
| US11579840B2 |
Method for adjusting sound playback and portable device thereof
A method for adjusting sound playback of a portable device for constancy notwithstanding different environments outputs from the portable device detectable audio signals inaudible to user and the device receives reflected audio before the portable device is actually commanded to play an audio file. A list of volume weightings for reflected audio is calculated. Before commencing playback of the audio file, the portable device obtains reference volume weightings from a list according to the current volume setting, and calculates adjustment coefficients for different frequency bands based on weightings of the reference volume list and of the reflected audio list. The audio signals of the audio file are output after adjustment. A portable device is also disclosed. |
| US11579836B2 |
Electronic device and method for controlling audio output thereof
In various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a wireless communication module; a memory storing a priority of a plurality of external electronic devices; an output module; and a processor operatively connected to the wireless communication module, the memory, and the output module, wherein the processor is configured to: control the wireless communication module to establish a first wireless communication channel with a first external electronic device; control the wireless communication module to establish a second wireless communication channel with a second external electronic device; control the output module to output first audio data received through the first wireless communication channel; identify a priority of the first external electronic device and a priority of the second external electronic device when receiving second audio data through the second wireless communication channel while outputting the first audio data; identify a type of the first audio data and a type of the second audio data; adjust an output parameter of the first audio data and an output parameter of the second audio data based on the priority of the first external electronic device, the priority of the second external electronic device, the type of the first audio data, and the type of the second audio data; and output the first audio data using the adjusted output parameter of the first audio data and the second audio data using the adjusted output parameter of the second audio data through the output module. Various other embodiments are possible. |
| US11579835B2 |
Multimedia data playing method and terminal device
The present disclosure relates to multimedia data playing methods and terminal devices. One example method includes obtaining, by a terminal device, a first sound effect plug-in, where the first sound effect plug-in corresponds to a first sound effect, and the terminal device includes a first application and a second application that are used to play multimedia data, receiving, by the terminal device, a first instruction used to indicate that a user of the terminal device selects the first sound effect option, wherein where the first sound effect option is an option corresponding to the first sound effect, when first multimedia data is to be played by the first application or the second application, processing, by the terminal device, the first multimedia data by using the first sound effect plug-in according to the first instruction to play the first multimedia data with the first sound effect. |
| US11579834B2 |
Digital audio workstation interface for streaming audiovisual data
A portable device and accompanying software provides users with a digital audio workstation with integrated tools take in raw audio data from physical inputs and map the raw data to various virtual outputs. Raw audio data for recording (recording data) is cast in real-time to a remote server. Monitoring data is simultaneously sent to collaborating devices via P2P protocols. The bitrate of the data for P2P transmissions can be adjusted to allow remote multiple users recording simultaneously to hear monitoring data in synchronicity, regardless of the speed of their respective internet connections. Face-to-face collaboration may be facilitated through the streaming of video data as the monitoring data. The low-latency of the P2P monitoring transmissions frees up bandwidth for the real-time streaming of the recording data. Audio recordings are uploaded to a central server, where they may be available to authorized collaborators for editing. |
| US11579833B2 |
Display apparatus and signal generation apparatus
A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a thin plate-like display cell that displays an image; M exciters that are disposed on a back surface side of the display cell, and vibrate the display cell; and a driving section that drives the display cell and the M exciters. |
| US11579828B2 |
Image processing apparatus, method of providing cloud print service, and program storage medium
A printing apparatus registers the printing apparatus in a cloud print service, and generates a printer queue storing a print job to be transmitted to the printing apparatus on the cloud print service. If the printing apparatus is associated with a virtual printer on the cloud print service, the printing apparatus acquires information of print jobs managed by the virtual printer from the cloud print service. If an operation for printing the print jobs managed by the virtual printer is received, the printing apparatus gives an instruction for moving a print job that is specified on the basis of at least the acquired information of the print jobs to the printer queue for the printing apparatus provided on the cloud print service, and acquires the moved print job. |
| US11579823B2 |
Server system for generating information related to a consumable item for business-use printing
A server system connectable to a print system including a transmission unit configured to transmit received print data to a printer includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an amount of a consumable which is used for printing of transmitted print data to the printer, and a placement unit configured to place an order for the consumable to be used by the printer, based on the acquired information. |
| US11579822B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method of the same, and storage medium
A control method of an information processing apparatus including a predetermined application program that cannot acquire predetermined information regarding a communication apparatus using a predetermined method, includes acquiring, in a case where the predetermined information is stored by a different application program that is different from the predetermined application program and can acquire the predetermined information using the predetermined method, the predetermined information stored by the different application program, using the predetermined application program, executing, in a case where the predetermined information stored by the different application program is acquired, processing that is based on the predetermined information stored by the different application program, using the predetermined application program, and displaying a predetermined region for prompting a user to install the different application program, using the predetermined application program. |
| US11579820B2 |
Image forming apparatus updating status information to indicate that consumable can be temporarily used in another image forming apparatus
In an image forming apparatus, a consumable accommodates printing material and is mounted in a main casing. The consumable includes a consumable memory. A controller performs a restriction process to rewrite the first status information to indicate the used product to prohibit the consumable from being used in other image forming apparatuses in a case where first status information stored in the one of the consumable memory and a main memory indicates the new product. The controller performs an updating process to update the second status information so that the second status information indicates that the consumable can be temporarily used in the another image forming apparatus in a case where the controller receives a contract cancellation instruction. The contract cancellation instruction instructs to cancel an agreement concluded for the image forming apparatus. |
| US11579818B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to present, to a user, a second sheet on the basis of a visible property of a first sheet and an invisible property of the first sheet, the second sheet being different from the first sheet. |
| US11579817B2 |
Printing system, terminal device, plural printing apparatuses, comprising a second printing apparatus that transmits a data format of print job to the terminal device via a first printing apparatus, and the terminal device further generates print job for each determined data formats for the first printer
In a printing system, a terminal device generates a plurality of pieces of print job data based on a data format list and transmit the generated print job data to a first multifunction machine, the first multifunction machine stores a plurality of pieces of received print job data, and performs printing based on print job data having the data format supported by the first multifunction machine itself when the first multifunction machine itself receives a print instruction from a user, and the second multifunction machine receives print job data having the data format supported by the second multifunction machine itself from the first multifunction machine when the second multifunction machine itself receives a print instruction from a user and performs printing based on the received print job data. |
| US11579814B2 |
Information processing apparatus that reduces labor and time for instruction in reservation printing, and control method for information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus capable of reducing the labor and time expended by a user for an instruction in reservation printing is provided. The information processing apparatus performs communication with a server for storing files and an image forming apparatus for printing files. The information processing apparatus includes a file obtaining unit configured to obtain files shown in a print candidate file list generated based on a priority setting indicating priorities of files stored in the server among a plurality of files stored in the server, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the obtained files to the image forming apparatus. |
| US11579811B2 |
Method and apparatus for storage device latency/bandwidth self monitoring
A storage device is described. The storage device may store data in a storage memory, and may have a host interface to manage communications between the storage device and a host machine. The storage device may also include a translation layer to translate addresses between the host machine and the storage memory, and a storage interface to access data from the storage memory. An in-storage monitoring engine may determine characteristics of the storage device, such as latency, bandwidth, and retention. |
| US11579810B2 |
Semiconductor memory training method and related device
The present application relates to a semiconductor memory training method and related devices, belonging to the technical field of semiconductors. The method comprises: obtaining a stored historical training result of a semiconductor memory, the historical training result comprising a historical expected delay value and a historical expected voltage; setting a delay threshold and a current training voltage range, the delay threshold being less than or equal to the historical expected delay value, the current training voltage range comprising the historical expected voltage; obtaining a current minimum delay value for the semiconductor memory under the historical expected voltage; and using the stored historical training result as a current training result of the semiconductor memory, if the current minimum delay value for the semiconductor memory under the historical expected voltage is no less than the delay threshold. |
| US11579806B2 |
Portions of configuration state registers in-memory
Portions of configuration state registers in-memory. An instruction is obtained, and a determination is made that the instruction accesses a configuration state register. A portion of the configuration state register is in-memory and another portion of the configuration state register is in-processor. Processing associated with the configuration state register is performed. The performing processing is based on a type of access and whether the portion or the other portion is being accessed. |
| US11579805B2 |
Method and system for processing commands in storage devices to improve quality of service
Operation of a non-volatile memory (NVM) storage module may comprise receiving a plurality of commands as associated with a plurality of priority-based queues from a host-memory. A received command is evaluated in accordance with a priority associated with the queue storing the command and a size of the command. The evaluated command is split into a plurality of sub-commands, each of the sub-commands having a size determined in accordance with the evaluation. A predetermined number of hardware resources are allocated for each of the evaluated command based on at least the size of each of the sub-commands to thereby enable a processing of the evaluated command based on the allocated resources. Quality of service (QoS) for the evaluated-command may thus be augmented. |
| US11579804B2 |
Device interrupt coalescing with various host behaviors
The present disclosure generally relates to optimizing device interrupt coalescing based upon host device behavior. The data storage device maintains three functional states: a training state, a holding state, and a retraining state. The data storage device switches between states based upon host device behavior as well as the behavior of the data storage device. Once the data storage device finds the optimum conditions for coalescing, the data storage device will periodically test the conditions to adapt to changing host device behavior as well as data storage device behavior. In so doing, the data storage device can dynamically adjust interrupt coalescing to ensure optimum operation of the storage device. |
| US11579801B2 |
Write ordering in SSDs
Disclosed are systems and methods by which a storage device may process and return I/O commands to a host in the order in which the host provided the commands, thereby reducing host overhead, including but not limited to the following: receiving a first I/O command and a second I/O command, the first I/O command and the second I/O command being assigned a sequence tag, issuing the first I/O command and the second I/O command to one or more storage channels based on their respective sequence tags, collecting a command completion notice of the first I/O command or the second I/O command when the first I/O command or the second I/O command has been respectively completed; and issuing a command completion notification to a host based on the sequence tag of the associated completed first I/O command or the second I/O command. |
| US11579799B2 |
Dynamic selection of cores for processing responses
Methods, systems, and devices for the dynamic selection of cores for processing responses are described. A memory sub-system can receive, from a host system, a read command to retrieve data. The memory sub-system can include a first core and a second core. The first core can process the read command based on receiving the read command. The first core can identify the second core for processing a read response associated with the read command. The first core can issue an internal command to retrieve the data from a memory device of the memory sub-system. The internal command can include an indication of the second core selected to process the read response. |
| US11579797B2 |
Memory sub-system refresh
A method includes determining a first memory access count threshold for a first word line of a block of memory cells and determining a second memory access count threshold for a second word line of the block of memory cells. The second memory access count threshold can be greater than the first memory access count threshold. The method can further include incrementing a memory block access count corresponding to the block of memory cells that includes the first word line and the second word line in response to receiving a memory access command and refreshing the first word line when the memory block access count corresponding to the block of memory cells is equal to the first memory access count threshold. |
| US11579794B2 |
Garbage collection based on cloud storage capacity
A storage capacity of a cloud storage system is determined. A recipe contains instructions for reclaiming storage of the cloud storage system. The storage capacity is insufficient to perform the entire recipe. In response, one or more data objects are deleted. A portion of the recipe is executed after the deletion. In some cases, local storage can be used for garbage collection when cloud storage is insufficient to perform even the portion of the recipe. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11579793B2 |
Storage system and data processing method
The functions of a mainframe environment are expanded by leveraging the functions of an open environment. A second storage of an open system externally connected to a first storage of a mainframe system comprises a second main volume of an open environment generated in association with a main logical device of the second storage, and a second sub volume of an open environment generated in association with a sub logical device of the second storage; the first storage comprises a first main volume of a mainframe environment generated in association with the main logical device of the second storage, and a first sub volume of a mainframe environment generated in association with the sub logical device of the second storage; when the first storage receives a data processing request from a host, the first storage reflects the processing request in the second storage and completes the processing; and when the first storage receives an execution request of a prescribed function, the first storage causes the second storage to execute the function. |
| US11579792B2 |
Data movement between different cell regions in non-volatile memory
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory array with a plurality of memory cells. Each memory cell is a multilevel cell to which multibit data can be written. The non-volatile memory array includes a first storage region in which the multibit data of a first bit level is written and a second storage region in which data of a second bit level less than the first bit level is written. A memory controller is configured to move pieces of data from the first storage region to the second storage region based on the number of data read requests for the pieces of data received over a period of time or on external information received from a host device that sends read requests. |
| US11579791B2 |
Partial save of memory
A variety of applications can include systems and/or methods of partial save of memory in an apparatus such as a non-volatile dual in-line memory module. In various embodiments, a set of control registers of a non-volatile dual in-line memory module can be configured to contain an identification of a portion of dynamic random-access memory of the non-volatile dual in-line memory module from which to back up content to non-volatile memory of the non-volatile dual in-line memory module. Registers of the set of control registers may also be allotted to contain an amount of content to transfer from the dynamic random-access memory content to the non-volatile memory. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| US11579790B1 |
Servicing input/output (‘I/O’) operations during data migration
Volume migration among a set of storage systems synchronously replicating a dataset for a volume, where volume migration includes: initiating a transfer of the volume in dependence upon determining that a performance metric for accessing the volume stored on a first storage system would improve if transferred to a second storage system; and during the transfer of the volume: determining status information for the transfer; intercepting an I/O operation directed to the volume; and directing, in dependence upon the status information, the I/O operation to either the first storage system or the second storage system. |
| US11579789B2 |
Techniques for managing context information for a storage device
Disclosed herein are techniques for managing context information for data stored within a non-volatile memory of a computing device. According to some embodiments, the method can include (1) loading, into a volatile memory of the computing device, the context information from the non-volatile memory, where the context information is separated into a plurality of silos, (2) writing transactions into a log stored within the non-volatile memory, and (3) each time a condition is satisfied: (i) identifying a next silo of the plurality of silos to be written into the non-volatile memory, (ii) updating the next silo to reflect the transactions that apply to the next silo, and (iii) writing the next silo into the non-volatile memory. In turn, when an inadvertent shutdown of the computing device occurs, the silos of which the context information is comprised can be sequentially accessed and restored in an efficient manner. |
| US11579784B2 |
Refresh counters in a memory system
Methods, systems, and devices for refresh counters in a memory system are described. In some examples, a memory device may include two or more counters configured to increment a respective count based on refresh operations performed on a memory array. A comparison may be made between two or more of the respective counts, which may include determining a difference between the respective counts or a difference in rate of incrementing. A memory device may transmit an indication to a host device based on determining a difference between counters, and the memory device, the host device, or both, may perform various operations or enter various operational modes based on the determined difference. |
| US11579783B1 |
Multi-tenant storage
A system, apparatus and product comprising: a multi-tenant layer that comprises shared resources, wherein the shared resources are accessible to multiple tenants of the storage system, wherein the shared resources comprise shared logic resources and shared data resources; and multiple single-tenant layers, wherein each single-tenant layer is associated with a respective tenant of the multiple tenants, wherein each single-tenant layer comprises a database and business logic of the respective tenant, wherein a multi-tenant encryption scheme is configured to enable secure communications with the multiple tenants without divulging sensitive information to the multi-tenant layer. |
| US11579782B2 |
Storage controller and an operation method of the storage controller
A storage controller including: a host interface circuit receiving first, second, third and fourth requests corresponding to first, second, third and fourth logical addresses; a memory interface circuit communicating with first nonvolatile memories through a first channel and second nonvolatile memories through a second channel; a first flash translation layer configured to manage the first nonvolatile memories; and a second flash translation layer configured to manage the second nonvolatile memories, the first flash translation layer outputs commands corresponding to the first and fourth requests through the first channel, and the second flash translation layer outputs commands respectively corresponding to the second and third requests through the second channel, and a value of the first logical address is smaller than a value of the second logical address, and a value of the third logical address is smaller than a value of the fourth logical address. |
| US11579778B2 |
Synchronous replication of high throughput streaming data
A method for synchronous replication of stream data includes receiving a stream of data blocks for storage at a first storage location associated with a first geographical region and at a second storage location associated with a second geographical region. The method also includes synchronously writing the stream of data blocks to the first storage location and to the second storage location. While synchronously writing the stream of data blocks, the method includes determining an unrecoverable failure at the second storage location. The method also includes determining a failure point in the writing of the stream of data blocks that demarcates data blocks that were successfully written and not successfully written to the second storage location. The method also includes synchronously writing, starting at the failure point, the stream of data blocks to the first storage location and to a third storage location associated with a third geographical region. |
| US11579776B2 |
Optimizing power consumption of memory repair of a device
In one aspect, an apparatus includes a memory repair controller coupled to a memory. The memory repair controller may be configured to provide repair information to cause the memory to disable one or more faulty locations in the memory, and the memory repair controller can be disabled after providing the repair information. |
| US11579769B1 |
Graphic device for controlling displayed object movement and/or screen scrolling
A graphic device for computer displays (for example, touchscreen style computer displays) with multiple independently operable active areas, each of which can be operated to change a different dimensions. In some embodiments, the dimensions correspond to spatial dimensions in which a selected object in the display can be moved. In some embodiments, the dimensions correspond to spatial dimensions in which the display can be scrolled. In some embodiments, the dimensions correspond to actions performed on real world devices and/or objects (for example, motions of a remote control aerial vehicle, operations of an Internet of Things type video monitor). |
| US11579768B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for facilitating the playback of interface events
Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating capture and play back of interface event data. One exemplary method may comprise providing, as a function of at least profile data, environmental data, transaction data, relevance data, and implicit data derived therefrom, a dynamic application environment, displaying the dynamic application environment on an dynamic application interface, capturing interface event data, the interface event data being based on user interaction with the dynamic application interface, and comprising of one or more interface events and a particular time at which each of the one or more interface events occurred, providing data to the play back device configured for initializing a play back environment, such that the play back environment receives the interface event data and performs play back, and outputting the one or more interface events in a relative time to the particular time. |
| US11579767B2 |
Content deleting method, terminal, and computer readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides a content deleting method, a terminal, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method deleting method includes: acquiring a selected target content in a terminal interface when a content on the terminal interface is in a deletable state; and performing deletion operation on the target content if detecting a preset sliding track aiming at the target content. |
| US11579757B2 |
Analyzing augmented reality content item usage data
Usage metrics for augmented reality content may be identified and analyzed to determine measures of fitness for respective usage metrics. The measures of fitness may indicate a level of correlation with an outcome specified by an augmented reality content creator and an amount of interaction with an augmented reality content item by users of a client application. Recommendations may be provided to augmented reality content creators indicating modifications to augmented reality content items that have at least a threshold probability of increasing the level of interaction between users of the client application and the augmented reality content item. |
| US11579756B2 |
User-specific applications for shared devices
Examples described herein include systems and methods for providing user-specific applications on a shared user device. The user device can receive a first instance of an application having a Package ID that includes an identification of a first user. When the first user is logged in, the user device can display an icon associated with the first instance of the application, based on the Package ID including an identification of the first user. When the first user is not logged in, the user device can hide the first instance of the application. When a second user is logged in, the device can display a second instance of the application based on the Package ID of the second instance including an identification of the second user. The user device can also display the same instance of a shared application to both the first and second user. |
| US11579754B2 |
Method and system for presenting and operating a skill-based activity
A system for presenting a skill-based game, the system includes at least one server to serve a set of matchups of participants of an event, to a plurality of presentation devices, the plurality of presentation devices displaying the set of matchups on a display; to receive over the wide area network data from the presentation devices characterizing a set of user selected winners of the matchups made by the users; update the event data pertinent to participants in the actual events; using the updated data to calculate and assign payoffs to the users based on fixed payoff odds. A related computer-implemented method provides participant matchups to an operator organizing such a skill-based game. |
| US11579753B2 |
Electronic device, method, and computer-readable medium for providing split screen
An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises at least one memory for storing instructions and a foldable display, and is operably coupled with the foldable display and the at least one memory, wherein the electronic device, when executing instructions, may display a first screen in a first region of the foldable display, including a first sub-region and a second sub-region adjacent to the first sub-region while the foldable display is in an unfolded state, receive a first drag input from an edge region in the first region away from an edge in the first region that corresponds to the edge region while displaying the first screen in the first region, and in response to receiving the first drag input, display a list partially superimposed on the first screen, and including at least one executable object for indicating some of applications that have been executed in the second sub-region. |
| US11579752B1 |
Augmented reality placement for user feedback
Methods and systems are provided for generating augmented reality (AR) scenes where the AR scenes include one or more artificial intelligence elements (AIEs) that are rendered as visual objects in the AR scenes. The method includes generating an AR scene for rendering on a display; the AR scene includes a real-world space and virtual objects projected in the real-world space. The method includes analyzing a field of view into the AR scene; the analyzing is configured to detect an action by a hand of the user when reaching into the AR scene. The method includes generating one or more AIEs rendered as virtual objects in the AR scene, each AIE is configured to provide a dynamic interface that is selectable by a gesture of the hand of the user. In one embodiment, each of the AIEs is rendered proximate to a real-world object present in the real-world space; the real-world object is located in a direction of where the hand of the user is detected to be reaching when the user makes the action by the hand. |
| US11579749B2 |
Providing composite graphical assistant interfaces for controlling various connected devices
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for tailoring composite graphical assistant interfaces for interacting with multiple different connected devices. The composite graphical assistant interfaces can be generated proactively and/or in response to a user providing a request for an automated assistant to cause a connected device to perform a particular function. In response to the automated assistant receiving the request, the automated assistant can identify other connected devices, and other functions capable of being performed by the other connected devices. The other functions can then be mapped to various graphical control elements in order to provide a composite graphical assistant interface from which the user can interact with different connected devices. Each graphical control element can be arranged to reflect how each connected device is operating simultaneous to the presentation of the composite graphical assistant interface. |
| US11579748B1 |
Systems and methods for interacting with three-dimensional graphical user interface elements to control computer operation
Disclosed are three-dimensional (“3D”) graphical user interface (“GUI”) elements for improving user interactions with a digital environment or a device by simplifying access to different data, functionality, and operations of the digital environment or the device. A 3D GUI element may include first visual information at a first position and second visual information at a second position within the 3D space represented by the 3D GUI element. In response to first input directed to the first visual information, the 3D GUI or system may perform a first action that is mapped to the first input and the first visual information within the 3D GUI element. In response to second input directed to the second visual information, the 3D GUI or system may perform a second action that is mapped to the second input and the second visual information within the 3D GUI element. |
| US11579742B2 |
Infrared touch frame, display device and display apparatus
The present disclosure provides a frame, a display device and a display apparatus. The frame includes at least two frame assemblies. The frame assemblies in different directions are spliced through an adapter, an infrared lamp strip is installed on the frame assembly, the adapter is provided with a bunching member, and a connection line for the infrared lamp strip is bunched around the bunching member when the frame assemblies in different directions are spliced. |
| US11579739B1 |
Touch sensing unit and display device including the same
A touch sensing device includes first sensor electrodes disposed in a first area, second sensor electrodes disposed in a second area, first sensor lines each connected to the first sensor electrodes in the first area, and second sensor lines each connected to the second sensor electrodes in the second area. Each of the second sensor lines includes a first sub-sensor line disposed in the second area, and a second sub-sensor line disposed in the first area and the second area and connected to the first sub-sensor line. |
| US11579735B2 |
Touch electrode layer and touch display device
The invention provides a touch electrode layer and a touch display device, including a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode has a first electrode stem and a plurality of first electrode branches arranged obliquely along the first electrode stem. The second electrode has a second electrode stem and a plurality of second electrode branches arranged obliquely along the second electrode stem. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged in a symmetrical structure, and inclination angles of the first electrode branches and the second electrode branches are same. In a touch electrode unit, shape and size of the first electrode and the second electrode are almost same, and shape and size of the first electrode branches and the second electrode branches that are staggered are also almost the same. |
| US11579734B2 |
Touch sensor and display device having the same
A touch sensor including a base layer including a sensing area and a non-sensing area, first and second sensor patterns disposed in the sensing area and arranged along first and second directions, respectively, first bridge patterns arranged along the first direction, second bridge patterns arranged along the second direction, and sensing lines disposed in the non-sensing area and connected to each of the first and second sensor patterns, in which each of the sensing lines includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, each of the sensing lines has a first portion and a second portion, the second portion corresponding to at least one of the first bridge patterns disposed at a corner portion of the sensing area, and the second portion of at least one of the sensing lines has a single layer structure including only the second metal layer. |
| US11579732B2 |
Touch sensing apparatus and method for assembly
A touch sensing apparatus is disclosed comprising a panel that defines a touch surface, a plurality of light emitters and detectors arranged along a perimeter of the panel. The light emitters are arranged to emit a respective beam of emitted light that travels above the touch surface, wherein the light detectors are arranged to receive detection light from the emitted light. The plurality of light emitters and detectors are arranged above the touch surface and are connected to a substrate extending in a direction parallel with a normal axis of a plane in which the panel extends. A method of assembling a touch sensing apparatus is also disclosed. |
| US11579728B2 |
Touch display device, touch driving circuit and display panel
A touch display device of the present disclosure may include a display panel on which a plurality of touch electrodes are electrically connected to a plurality of touch lines; a gate driving circuit for supplying scan signals to the display panel through a plurality of gate lines; a touch driving circuit for sensing a touch by detecting a touch signal from the plurality of touch electrodes and supplying a common voltage to the touch electrodes through the touch lines; a common voltage feedback line electrically connected to the plurality of touch lines or disposed to overlap with the plurality of gate lines in a non-display area of the display panel; and a common voltage compensation circuit for supplying a compensated common voltage based on a distortion in the common voltage. |
| US11579726B2 |
Touch device, electronic device and driving method
A touch device, an electronic device and a driving method are provided. The touch device includes: a plurality of touch sensors arranged in an array; a plurality of touch lines connected to the plurality of touch sensors; and a controller connected to the plurality of touch lines, wherein the controller is configured to simultaneously send a plurality of first touch signals respectively to the plurality of touch sensors via the plurality of touch lines, and simultaneously receive via the plurality of touch lines a plurality of second touch signals generated by the plurality of touch sensors. |
| US11579722B2 |
Electronic devices with display and touch sensor structures
Display layers and touch sensor layers may be overlapped by enclosure walls in an electronic device. The electronic device may have a front wall and opposing rear wall and curved sidewalls. The front wall and the curved sidewalls may be formed from a glass layer or other transparent member. A touch sensor layer and display layer may extend under the glass layer with curved sidewalls. A touch sensor layer may also extend under the opposing rear wall. A foldable electronic device may have a flexible transparent wall portion that joins planar transparent walls. Components may be interposed between the transparent planar walls and opaque walls. Display and touch layers may be overlapped by the transparent walls and the transparent flexible wall portion. Touch sensor structures may also be overlapped by the opaque walls. |
| US11579721B2 |
Displaying a representation of a user touch input detected by an external device
A device includes a touch-sensitive display, one or more processors, and memory storing one or more programs including instructions for receiving data from an external device representing user input received over a duration of time at the external device. The programs may include instructions for determining whether the electronic device is actively executing an application for playback. The programs may further include instructions for in accordance with a determination that the electronic device is not actively executing an application for playback: displaying an indication of the receiving of the data; and displaying an affordance, wherein the affordance when selected launches the application for playback and causes the electronic device to playback the received data according to the duration of time of the user input. |
| US11579720B2 |
Touch panel and organic light-emitting display device
A touch panel is configured to be disposed on a display panel. The touch panel includes a substrate layer, a first metal layer, an insulating layer covering the first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a protection layer disposed on the second metal layer. The first metal layer includes a plurality of pressure sensors and metal bridges. Each of the pressure sensors includes a pressure sensing electrode. The second metal layer is disposed on the insulating layer and includes a plurality of touch sensors. Each of the touch sensors includes a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes spaced apart and electrically connected to each other through the metal bridges. The pressure sensing electrode is disposed below the first electrodes and the second electrodes and is electrically connected to a processing chip. |
| US11579718B2 |
Touch electronic device
A touch electronic device is provided, which includes: a display unit; a conductive film disposed on the display unit, wherein the conductive film has a surface impedance ranging from 105Ω/□ to 109Ω/□; and a first polarizer disposed on the conductive film, wherein the conductive film is disposed between the display unit and the first polarizer, wherein a surface impedance of the first polarizer divided by the surface impedance of the conductive film is greater than or equal to 103 and less than or equal to 108. |
| US11579717B2 |
Touch display device and method for driving the same
A touch display device and a method for driving the same is disclosed. The present disclosure provides a touch display device including a display panel including sub-pixels, a touch sensor including a touch electrode formed electrically in common with an electrode of a light-emitting diode included in the sub-pixels, and a touch driver configured to sense the touch sensor, wherein the electrode of the light-emitting diode serves as the touch electrode for a turn-off period of an emission control transistor for controlling emission of the light-emitting diode. |
| US11579714B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing memo function
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, an electronic pen, a slot in which the electronic pen can be inserted in or detached from, a pen sensing module configured to sense an insertion/detachment of the electronic pen, a pen input module configured to receive an input using the electronic pen, and a processor configured to activate the pen input module while the display maintains an OFF-state when the detachment of the electronic pen is sensed within the OFF-state of the display. |
| US11579708B2 |
Keyboard emulation
Examples associated with keyboard emulation are described. One example system includes an input/output controller. The system also includes a remote signal receiver. A control module receives a first signal via the remote signal receiver. Based on the first signal, the control module communicates with the input/output controller to emulate a keyboard input. |
| US11579704B2 |
Systems and methods for adaptive input thresholding
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include detecting, by a computing system, a gesture that appears to be intended to trigger a response by the computing system, identifying, by the computing system, a context in which the gesture was performed, and adjusting, based at least on the context in which the gesture was performed, a threshold for determining whether to trigger the response to the gesture in a manner that causes the computing system to perform an action that is based on the detected gesture. |
| US11579695B2 |
System and method for generating sound effects on fingertips with piezoelectric actuators of a haptic keyboard
A haptic keyboard of an information handling system may comprise a coversheet to identify a key location, a support layer, a contact foil placed between the coversheet and support layer, and a controller operatively coupled to the contact foil. The controller may receive a haptic actuation indicator signal via a processor or via the contact foil, send a first haptic feedback control signal to a first piezoelectric element to cause the first piezoelectric element to generate haptic tactile movement feedback at the key location, and send a second haptic feedback control signal to the first or a second piezoelectric element to cause the second piezoelectric element to generate haptic sound feedback in response to the haptic actuation indicator signal. |
| US11579692B2 |
Whole-body human-computer interface
A human-computer interface system having an exoskeleton including a plurality of structural members coupled to one another by at least one articulation configured to apply a force to a body segment of a user, the exoskeleton comprising a body-borne portion and a point-of-use portion; the body-borne portion configured to be operatively coupled to the point-of-use portion; and at least one locomotor module including at least one actuator configured to actuate the at least one articulation, the at least one actuator being in operative communication with the exoskeleton. |
| US11579691B2 |
Mid-air volumetric visualization movement compensation
A wearable computing device generates a volumetric visualization at a first position that is located in a three-dimensional space. The wearable computing device includes a volumetric source configured to create the volumetric visualization. The wearable computing device includes one or more sensors configured to determine movement of the wearable computing device. A movement of the wearable computing device is identified by the wearable computing device. Based on the movement the wearable computing device adjusts the volumetric source. |
| US11579686B2 |
Method and device for carrying out eye gaze mapping
The invention relates to a device and a method for performing an eye gaze mapping (M), in which at least one point of vision (B) and/or a viewing direction of at least one person (10) in relation to at least one scene recording (S) of a scene (12) viewed by the at least one person (10) is mapped onto a reference (R). At least a part of an algorithm (A1, A2, A3) for performing the eye gaze mapping (M) is thereby selected from multiple predetermined algorithms (A1, A2, A3) as a function of at least one parameter (P), and the eye gaze mapping (M) is performed on the basis of the at least one part of the algorithm (A1, A2, A3). |
| US11579685B2 |
Wireless devices with flexible monitors and keyboards
A portable device (e.g., a wireless device such as a cell phone) is provided with a flexible keyboard and a flexible display screen. Such flexible components may be stored in the housing of the portable device when not in use. The flexible display screen and flexible keyboard may be expanded from the housing when the flexible components are utilized by a user.Non-flexible display and input components may be provided on the exterior of the portable device such that the device may be used, in some form, while the flexible components are stored. In one embodiment, a portion of the flexible display (or flexible keyboard) may be utilized when the flexible display (or flexible keyboard) is stored in said first housing. |
| US11579684B1 |
System and method for an augmented reality goal assistant
A method for an augmented reality goal assistant is described. The method includes detecting an object associated with a behavioral goal of a user. The method also includes altering an appearance of the object based on the behavioral goal of the user. The method further includes displaying the altered appearance of a detected object on an augmented reality headset, such that the altered appearance of the detected object is modified based on the behavioral goal of the user. |
| US11579683B2 |
Wearable device and control method therefor
A wearable device is disclosed. The wearable device comprises: a camera; a sensor; a display; a laser projector; and a processor for identifying a user's sight line on the basis of sensing data obtained by the sensor, identifying location information of at least one object included in an image obtained by the camera, and controlling the laser projector to provide, on the display, augmented reality (AR) information related to the object on the basis of the identified user's sight line and location information of the object, wherein the laser projector comprises: a light emitting element for emitting a laser light; a focus adjusting element for adjusting a focus of the emitted laser light; and a scanning mirror for controlling a scan direction of the light having the adjusted focus, and the processor controls a driving state of the focus adjusting element on the basis of the identified user's sight line and location information of the object. |
| US11579679B2 |
Determining opening/closing of computing device
Computing devices and methods for determining opening and closing of touch sensitive interfaces are disclosed. In one example, a computing device comprises a touch screen display on a first substrate that is rotatably coupled to a second substrate that includes a trackpad. A trackpad identification signal transmitted by the trackpad is received at the touch screen display, and a touch screen identification signal transmitted by the touch screen is received at the trackpad. If the trackpad identification signal matches a trackpad identification key and the touch screen identification signal matches a touch screen identification key, then an energy level of one or both signals is compared to an energy level threshold. Based at least in part on the comparison of the energy level to the threshold, a power state transition is initiated. |
| US11579678B2 |
Software switch and method therein
A software switch and a method performed by the software switch are disclosed. The software switch receives, from a node deploying a virtual machine, a request for a virtual port to be polled by the virtual machine. The request includes a Central Processing Unit “CPU” identity identifying a CPU on which the virtual machine executes. The request includes an indication of a clock frequency at which the CPU is set to operate. The software switch determines a number of packets in a queue associated with the virtual port. The software switch adjusts the clock frequency of the CPU based on the number of packets in the queue. A corresponding computer program and a computer program carrier are also disclosed. |