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| US11769536B2 |
Signal generating circuit and method, and semiconductor memory
A signal generating circuit includes the following: a clock circuit, configured to receive an external clock signal to generate an internal clock signal; a controlling circuit, configured to generate a control signal according to the frequency of the external clock signal; and a generating circuit, connected with the clock circuit and the controlling circuit respectively, and configured to receive the internal clock signal, the control signal and a flag signal to generate a target signal. When the flag signal changes from a first level to a second level, the target signal is changed from a third level to a fourth level, and after the target signal maintains the fourth level for a target time length, the target signal is changed from the fourth level to the third level. The generating circuit is further configured to determine the target time length according to the internal clock signal and the control signal. |
| US11769534B2 |
Flexible memory system with a controller and a stack of memory
Embodiments of a system and method for providing a flexible memory system are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a substrate is provided, wherein a stack of memory is coupled to the substrate. The stack of memory includes a number of vaults. A controller is also coupled to the substrate and includes a number of vault interface blocks coupled to the number of vaults of the stack of memory, wherein the number of vault interface blocks is less than the number of vaults. |
| US11769530B2 |
Digital video production systems and methods
Described herein is a computer implemented method, including accessing production data which defines first and second audio elements and displaying, on a display, a collapsed audio timeline including a first audio timing indicator corresponding to the first audio element and a second audio timing indicator corresponding to the second audio element. The first and second audio timing indicators have first and second indicator starts displayed at horizontal positions that correspond to first and second element start times, first and second indicator ends displayed at horizontal positions that correspond to first and second element end times, and first and second indicator display heights. The first and second audio timing indicators are both displayed on a first rank such that they vertically overlap, the second audio timing indicator is displayed in front of the first audio timing indicator, and the second indicator display height is less than the first indicator display height. |
| US11769524B2 |
Multi-layer PZT microactuator having oppositely poled PZT constraining layer
A multi-layer piezoelectric microactuator assembly has at least one poled and active piezoelectric layer and one poled but inactive piezoelectric layer. The poled but inactive layer acts as a constraining layer in resisting expansion or contract of the first piezoelectric layer thereby reducing or eliminating bending of the assembly as installed in an environment, thereby increasing the effective stroke length of the assembly. Poling only a single layer would induce stresses into the device; hence, polling both piezoelectric layers even though only one layer will be active in use reduces stresses in the device and therefore increases reliability. |
| US11769519B2 |
Device impairment detection
Examples described herein involve detecting known environmental conditions of using a neural network. An example implementation involves a playback device receiving data indicating a response of a listening environment to audio output of one or more playback devices as captured by a microphone and determining an input vector for a neural network. The playback device provides the determined input vector to the neural network, which includes an output layer comprising neurons that correspond to respective environmental conditions. The playback device detects that the input vector caused one or more neurons of the neural network to fire such that the neural network indicates that one or more particular environmental conditions are present in the listening environment. The playback device adjusts audio output of the one or more playback devices to at least partially offset the one or more particular environmental conditions. |
| US11769516B2 |
Parametric reconstruction of audio signals
An encoding system encodes an N-channel audio signal (X), wherein N≥3, as a single-channel downmix signal (Y) together with dry and wet upmix parameters ({tilde over (C)}, {tilde over (P)}). In a decoding system, a decorrelating section outputs, based on the downmix signal, an (N−1)-channel decorrelated signal (Z); a dry upmix section maps the downmix signal linearly in accordance with dry upmix coefficients (C) determined based on the dry upmix parameters; a wet upmix section populates an intermediate matrix based on the wet upmix parameters and knowing that the intermediate matrix belongs to a predefined matrix class, obtains wet upmix coefficients (P) by multiplying the intermediate matrix by a predefined matrix, and maps the decorrelated signal linearly in accordance with the wet upmix coefficients; and a combining section combines outputs from the upmix sections to obtain a reconstructed signal ({circumflex over (X)}) corresponding to the signal to be reconstructed. |
| US11769513B2 |
Apparatus and method for decoding or encoding an audio signal using energy information values for a reconstruction band
An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal having an encoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions and an encoded representation of parametric data indicating spectral energies for a second set of second spectral portions, has: an audio decoder for decoding the encoded representation of the first set of the first spectral portions to obtain a first set of first spectral portions and for decoding the encoded representation of the parametric data to obtain a decoded parametric data for the second set of second spectral portions indicating, for individual reconstruction bands, individual energies; a frequency regenerator for reconstructing spectral values in a reconstruction band having a second spectral portion using a first spectral portion of the first set of the first spectral portions and an individual energy for the reconstruction band, the reconstruction band having a first spectral portion and the second spectral portion. |
| US11769505B2 |
Echo of tone interferance cancellation using two acoustic echo cancellers
Example techniques involve systems with multiple acoustic echo cancellers. An example implementation captures first audio within an acoustic environment and detecting, within the captured first audio content, a wake-word. In response to the wake-word and before playing an acknowledgement tone, the implementation activates (a) a first sound canceller when one or more speakers are playing back audio content or (b) a second sound canceller when the one or more speakers are idle. In response to the wake-word and after activating either (a) the first sound canceller or (b) the second sound canceller, the implementation outputs the acknowledgement tone via the one or more speakers. The implementation captures second audio within the acoustic environment and cancelling the acoustic echo of the acknowledgement tone from the captured second audio using the activated sound canceller. |
| US11769503B2 |
Electronic device and method for processing user utterance in the electronic device
According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises: a communication module comprising communication circuitry, a memory, and at least one processor. The memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to control the electronic device to: transmit, to a first electronic device through the communication module, first response data obtained by processing a first speech input corresponding to a first utterance received from the first electronic device, identify a second electronic device including circuitry configured to detect a second utterance associated with the first response data within a designated time after the first utterance, transmit a wake-up signal to the second electronic device, receive, from the second electronic device, a speech input corresponding to an utterance obtained by a microphone turned on based on the wake-up signal, identify whether the received speech input corresponding to the utterance is a second speech input corresponding to the second utterance, obtain second response data obtained by processing the second speech input based on the first speech input and the first response data in response to identifying that the received speech input corresponding to the utterance is the second speech input corresponding to the second utterance, and transmit the second response data to at least one of the first electronic device or the second electronic device through the communication module. |
| US11769499B2 |
Driving interaction object
Methods, electronic devices, and storage media for driving an interaction object are provided. The methods include: obtaining an audio signal at a periphery of a display device; obtaining, based on the audio signal, first driving data for driving the interaction object to respond; monitoring, in response to outputting the first driving data, the audio signal for detecting a sound of a target object; and driving, based on a presence state of the sound of the target object in the audio signal, the interaction object to respond. |
| US11769497B2 |
Digital assistant interaction in a video communication session environment
Embodiments provide a context-aware digital assistant at multiple user devices participating in a video communication session by using context information from a first user device to determine a digital assistant response at a second user device. In this manner, users participating in the video communication session may interact with the digital assistant during the video communication session as if the digital assistant is another participant in the video communication session. Embodiments further describe automatically determining candidate digital assistant tasks based on a shared transcription of user voice inputs received at user devices participating in a video communication session. In this manner, a digital assistant of a user device participating in a video communication session may proactively determine one or more tasks that a user of the user device may want the digital assistant to perform based on conversations held during the video communication session. |
| US11769495B2 |
Conversational AI platforms with closed domain and open domain dialog integration
In various examples, systems and methods of the present disclosure combine open and closed dialog systems into an intelligent dialog management system. A text query may be processed by a natural language understanding model trained to associate the text query with a domain tag, intent classification, and/or input slots. Using the domain tag, the natural language understanding model may identify information in the text query corresponding to input slots needed for answering the text query. The text query and related information may then be passed to a dialog manager to direct the text query to the proper domain dialog system. Responses retrieved from the domain dialog system may be provided to the user via text output and/or via a text to speech component of the dialog management system. |
| US11769493B2 |
Training acoustic models using connectionist temporal classification
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training acoustic models and using the trained acoustic models. A connectionist temporal classification (CTC) acoustic model is accessed, the CTC acoustic model having been trained using a context-dependent state inventory generated from approximate phonetic alignments determined by another CTC acoustic model trained without fixed alignment targets. Audio data for a portion of an utterance is received. Input data corresponding to the received audio data is provided to the accessed CTC acoustic model. Data indicating a transcription for the utterance is generated based on output that the accessed CTC acoustic model produced in response to the input data. The data indicating the transcription is provided as output of an automated speech recognition service. |
| US11769489B2 |
Electronic device and method for performing shortcut command in electronic device
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory for storing at least one dynamic shortcut command, a display, and a processor operatively connected with the memory and the display, the processor configured to store a first dynamic shortcut command including first type information for at least one first dynamic variable word in the memory, when acquiring a user utterance, detect the first dynamic shortcut command in the memory based on the first dynamic variable word included the user utterance, change the first type information included in the detected first dynamic shortcut command into the first dynamic variable word included in the user utterance, and execute a task corresponding to the changed first dynamic shortcut command including the first dynamic variable word included in the user utterance. Various other embodiments may be provided. The method performing shortcut command in the electronic device may be performed using an artificial intelligence model. |
| US11769487B2 |
Systems and methods for voice topic spotting
A voice topic spotting system includes a learning module and a voice topic classifier module. The learning module receives training audio segments with topic labels and generates a fast keyword filter model based on a set of topic-indicative words and generates a topic identification model based on a training set of topic keyword-containing lattices. The voice topic classifier module includes an automatic speech recognition engine arranged to identify one or more keywords included in a received audio segment and output the one or more keywords. A fast keyword filter, implements the fast keyword model to output the received audio segment if a topic-indicative word is detected in the audio segment. A decoder generates a topic keyword-containing lattice associated with the audio segment. A voice topic classifier implements the voice topic identification model to determine a topic associated with received audio segment. |
| US11769485B2 |
Job record specifying device, image processing apparatus, server, job record specifying method, and recording medium
A user inputs a speech including a keyword via a speech input device; a first processor searches a job history by the keyword, the job history being stored on a storage, the job history including a job record, the job record including a set of values having ever been used for a job executed by an image processing apparatus. A job record specifying device includes a second processor that conducts an analysis on different values in multiple job records; selects a speech with reference to the different values; transfers the speech to a speech generator; and finds a specific job record from the multiple job records using a keyword extracted from a speech inputted via the speech input device in response to the speech outputted by the speech generator. The image processing apparatus reflects a target set of values in the specific job record, to the setting of a job. |
| US11769484B2 |
Chaos testing for voice enabled devices
Computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems for testing a voice assistant device may include one or more processors configured for receiving test data from a database, wherein the test data may include a first set of coding parameters and a first user utterance having an expected device response. Further, the one or more processors may be configured for generating a first modified user utterance by applying the first set of coding parameters to the first user utterance, wherein the first modified user utterance is acoustically different than the first user utterance. The one or more processors may be configured for audibly presenting the first modified user utterance to a voice assistant device, receiving a first device response from the voice assistant device, and determining whether the first voice assistant response is substantially similar to the expected device response. |
| US11769482B2 |
Method and apparatus of synthesizing speech, method and apparatus of training speech synthesis model, electronic device, and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of synthesizing a speech, a method and apparatus of training a speech synthesis model, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method of synthesizing a speech includes acquiring a style information of a speech to be synthesized, a tone information of the speech to be synthesized, and a content information of a text to be processed; generating an acoustic feature information of the text to be processed, by using a pre-trained speech synthesis model, based on the style information, the tone information, and the content information of the text to be processed; and synthesizing the speech for the text to be processed, based on the acoustic feature information of the text to be processed. |
| US11769479B2 |
System and method for producing sound signals
A system and method for producing sound signals that comprises an image capturing device to capture an auric color representation of a body part of a person. The auric color representation represents a blocked energy area of the body part. A processing device divides the auric color representation into a plurality of arcs. A display device communicating with the processing device displays the plurality of arcs. A transcranial sound stimulation device determines a block-breaking frequency corresponding to the blocked energy area. A tone generator generates a set of wave-patterns corresponding to the block-breaking frequency. An audio device produces sound signals based on the set of wave-patterns, to be heard by the person thereby healing the blocked energy area of the body part. |
| US11769477B2 |
Basalt fiber acoustic panel
A sound absorbing panel assembly comprising the woven basalt material. The sound absorbing panel assembly comprises a height, a width, a length, a cover and an absorbent panel. The cover comprises a woven basalt material. The absorbent panel comprises a sound absorbent acoustic panel. The absorbent panel is covered by the cover. |
| US11769476B2 |
Wall hanger for musical instrument
The invention relates to a bracket and, in particular, a wall bracket for a musical instrument (1), particularly for a stringed instrument. To this end, the bracket has an adjustable base (4) for receiving an instrument body (1a) and at least two retaining arms (5), which are able to pivot relative to an anchor element (3), for detachably securing an instrument neck (1b) received between the retaining arms (5). The base (4) and the two retaining arms (5) are coupled to each other by at least one connecting member (6). Furthermore, at least one spring (7) is provided which prestresses the base (4) into a rest position and the two retaining arms (5) into an open position. According to the invention, the connecting member (6) is designed as a connecting rod (6) rigidly coupling the base (4) to the two retaining arms (5) and prestressed by the spring (7). |
| US11769474B2 |
Flute head joint, method of producing a flute head joint and flute
In an embodiment a flute head joint includes a beak-shaped mouthpiece and a curved neck, wherein the mouthpiece comprises a curved labium, and wherein a chamber of the mouthpiece has a larger diameter than an inner cavity of the neck. |
| US11769467B2 |
Timing controller, display device, and signal adjustment method
A timing controller includes a receiving circuit, a timing control circuit, and a plurality of insertion loss circuits. The receiving circuit is configured to receive N frames of signals. The timing control circuit is configured to: detect a bit error rate of an (M-1)th-frame signal in a blanking interval of an Mth-frame signal; adjust a swing of the (M-1)th-frame signal according to a target swing value corresponding to the bit error rate of the (M-1)th-frame signal; and select the corresponding insertion loss circuit according to the target swing value corresponding to the bit error rate of the (M-1)th-frame signal, wherein M and N are both positive integers, and M is greater than 1 and less than or equal to N. The present disclosure is applied to signal adjustment of the timing controller. |
| US11769463B1 |
Video streaming transmission system and transmitter device
A video streaming transmission system and a transmitter device are provided. The video streaming transmission system includes a receiver device and a transmitter device. The receiver device is coupled to a display module. The transmitter device is coupled to an image providing device through a transmission line. The transmitter device includes a processing unit, a storage unit, and a wireless communication module. The storage unit is coupled to the processing unit. The wireless communication module is coupled to the processing unit, and is coupled to the receiver device in a wireless communication manner. The processing unit generates virtual extended display identification data and stores them in the storage unit, and provides the virtual extended display identification data to the image providing device through the transmission line, so that the image providing device recognizes multiple virtual displays coupled thereto, and outputs multiple video streams through the transmission line. |
| US11769462B2 |
Display device and electronic device
A transistor whose channel region includes an oxide semiconductor is used as a pull down transistor. The band gap of the oxide semiconductor is 2.0 eV or more, preferably 2.5 eV or more, more preferably 3.0 eV or more. Thus, hot carrier degradation in the transistor can be suppressed. Accordingly, the circuit size of the semiconductor device including the pull down transistor can be made small. Further, a gate of a pull up transistor is made to be in a floating state by switching of on/off of the transistor whose channel region includes an oxide semiconductor. Note that when the oxide semiconductor is highly purified, the off-state current of the transistor can be 1 aA/μm (1×10−18 A/μm) or less. Therefore, the drive capability of the semiconductor device can be improved. |
| US11769460B2 |
Local dimming control with 2-line addressing
An image displaying apparatus with local dimming control with 2-line addressing is disclosed. The apparatus includes a display panel, a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight divided into a plurality of zones, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to couple a dimming data to the LED backlight. The zones of the LED backlight are driven by row enable signals and column driving signals based on the dimming data. Each individual column driving signal transmits a common brightness data, a first residual brightness data, and a second residual brightness data. A first row enable signal has a first enable pulse in a frame period, and a second row enable signal has a second enable pulse in the frame period. The first and second enable pulses are at least partially overlapped for reducing a pulse current of the LED backlight for enhancing a lifetime of the LED backlight. |
| US11769458B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device includes a display unit including a first pixel, a second pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel in a first direction, a third pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth pixel disposed adjacent to the third pixel in the first direction. Each of the first to fourth pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The display device further includes a data driver that outputs a plurality of data voltages, a selective output unit that outputs the data voltages to the first to fourth pixels in a different order for each of a plurality of frames, and a scan driver that outputs a first scan signal to the first and second pixels and outputs a second scan signal, which is delayed from the first scan signal, to the third and fourth pixels. |
| US11769451B2 |
Pixel and organic light emitting display device having the pixel
A pixel includes a plurality of transistors, a storage capacitor, and an organic light emitting diode. A first transistor controls the amount of current from a first driving power source to the organic light emitting diode based on a data voltage. A second transistor is connected to a data line and is turned on based on a scan signal. A third transistor coupled to the first transistor and is turned on based on the scan signal. A first stabilizing transistor is coupled to the third transistor or between the first and third transistors and is turned off when the third transistor is turned off. |
| US11769450B2 |
Pixel circuit including optical fingerprint sensing circuit, method for driving pixel circuit, and organic light emitting display device
The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit including an optical fingerprint sensing circuit, a method for driving a pixel circuit including the optical fingerprint sensing circuit, and a display device including the pixel circuit including the optical fingerprint sensing circuit. The pixel circuit includes: a self-light emitting element which displays images by a driving current controlled by a driving transistor; and a light-receiving element which receives light emitted from the self-light emitting element and reflected through a fingerprint of a user and converts it into a photocurrent. The driving transistor functions as a buffer which transmits an output voltage of the light-receiving element to an output line of the pixel circuit. |
| US11769445B2 |
Multiplexer circuit, multiplexer, driving method, display panel, and display apparatus
A multiplexer circuit includes a first selection sub-circuit and a second selection sub-circuit. The first selection sub-circuit configured to transmit an input signal received at a input signal terminal to a first output terminal in response to a first control signal received at a first control terminal, and transmit a voltage of a power supply voltage terminal to the first output terminal in response to a second control signal received at a second control terminal. The second selection sub-circuit configured to transmit the input signal received at the input signal terminal to a second output terminal in response to a third control signal received at a third control terminal, and transmit the voltage of the power supply voltage terminal to the second output terminal in response to a fourth control signal received at a fourth control terminal. |
| US11769441B2 |
Display module and display device
A display module includes a display element, a light-guiding optical device, and a control unit configured to perform distortion correction including correction of a chromatic aberration of magnification. The light-guiding optical device is constituted of an optical system having non-axisymmetry in an up-and-down direction with respect to the imaging light entering the light-guiding optical device, and includes a first optical member having positive refractivity, a second optical member having positive refractivity, and a first reflection surface configured to reflect the imaging light toward a pupil position. The refractivity of the first optical member is greater than the refractivity of the second optical member. An abbe number of a constituent material of the first optical member is greater than an abbe number of a constituent material of the second optical member. The control unit performs distortion correction by a different distortion correction amount for each color light. |
| US11769436B2 |
Display apparatus including display driving circuit and display panel
A display apparatus including a display driving circuit and a display panel is provided. The display driving circuit, connected to a display panel including a plurality of pixel groups, includes a controller configured to determine a driving order of each of the plurality of pixel groups in a first horizontal period and to generate image data and a selection signal in a first voltage range, a data driver configured to generate an image signal on the basis of the image data and to transfer the image signal to the plurality of data lines in the first horizontal period, a plurality of output pads respectively connected to the plurality of pixel groups through the plurality of data lines, and a data switching circuit configured to provide the image signal to the display panel through at least one of the plurality of output pads based on the selection signal. |
| US11769435B2 |
Deformed display device
A deformed display device includes a display area including a plurality of pixel array areas in which a plurality of pixel array groups are arranged and a plurality of circuit areas in which a plurality of driving circuits are arranged, wherein the pixel array groups and the driving circuits form a pixel block; and a dummy area disposed at one side of the display area and including a plurality of dummy pixel array areas in which a plurality of dummy pixel array groups are arranged and a plurality of dummy circuit areas in which a plurality of dummy circuits are arranged, wherein the dummy pixel array groups and the dummy circuits do not form the pixel block. |
| US11769428B2 |
Separable composite articles in sheet or roll form
A series of a plurality of articles includes a panel strip and a plurality of elastic fastening loops. The panel strip includes a plurality of ruptureably-connected panel portions of the plurality of articles. Each of the plurality of elastic fastening loops is secured to a respective panel portion at a bond zone. |
| US11769427B2 |
Ultrasound trainer with internal optical tracking
A training system to teach use of an ultrasound probe, the training system having a chamber defining an orifice, a shaft insertable into the orifice of the chamber, a marker positioned on the shaft at a distal end, a camera positioned to view the marker when inserted inside the chamber, and a processor operatively connected to the camera for processing a position and an orientation of the shaft based on the marker. The system provides a method for visualizing movement of the shaft from inside the chamber. |
| US11769423B2 |
Incorporating real world physical activity into a virtual world environment
A method and system to convert user activities performed in a real world into virtual world activity. The system includes a virtual world environment with a virtual activity tracker to obtain virtual activity performance data for an activity performed by a user in the virtual world environment; and a virtual world database to store the virtual activity performance data in a virtual profile of the user. The system also includes a real world activity tracker to obtain real world activity performance data for a real world activity performed by the user; and an activity convertor to convert the real world activity performance data into an amount of converted virtual activity performance data and add the converted virtual activity performance data to the virtual profile of the user. |
| US11769417B2 |
Methods and systems for representing flight mode annunciation information on a cockpit display
A method is provided for displaying information on a display device of an aircraft. The method comprises determining, by the processor, a first point along a flight path when a flight mode associated with a flight plan will be armed; determining, by the processor, a second point along the flight path when the flight mode associated with the flight plan will be engaged; determining, by the processor, a third point along the flight path when the flight mode associated with the flight plan will be disengaged; generating, by the processor, graphics data that represents the first point, the second point and the third point; incorporating, by the processor, the graphics data into a user interface that displays the flight path; and generating, by the processor, the user interface for display on the display device of the aircraft. |
| US11769416B2 |
Method for collaborative and optimal allocation of route time slot and flight level
A method for collaborative and optimal allocation of a route time slot and a flight level comprises: acquiring planned route information and alternative route information in a traffic limited airspace, available time slot information of a downstream airspace unit of the planned route, and flight operation information first, then formulating an algorithm for the collaborative and optimal allocation of the route time slot and the flight level, establishing an objective function and a constraint condition which meet effectiveness by taking a minimum total ground delay loss of all flights, a minimum change number of flight levels of all flights and a minimum total fuel consumption of all flights as objectives, further establishing a multi-objective optimization model for the collaborative allocation of the route time slot and the flight level, and forming a strategy for the collaborative and optimal allocation of the route time slot and the flight level. |
| US11769414B2 |
Autonomous driving device
An autonomous driving device 100 is configured to set a target route to merge into a first main line L11 from a branch line L20 based on waypoints P set in a lane. If it is determined by the merge determination unit 14 that the merge is not easy, the target route setting unit 15 is configured to select the waypoint P on the branch line L20 set at the position on an end edge E side of the branch line L20 as the end edge waypoint Pa closest to the end edge E side on the branch line L20 to be selected for setting the target route, compared to a case where it is determined that the merge is easy. |
| US11769384B2 |
Sensing device for access point
A method of operating a sensing component for sensing a magnetic field to determine a state of an access point having a first component and a second component that are separable from each other to create an opening and wherein a magnet is mounted on one of the first or second components of the access point, wherein the method comprises: operating the sensing component to sense a magnetic field in multiple dimensions to produce a sample representation of the sensed magnetic field, wherein the sample representation is a multi-dimensional representation and determining whether the sample representation is in a pre-determined region about a reference representation that is representative of a state of an access point to determine that the sensed magnetic field corresponds to said state of the access point, wherein the pre-determined region comprises a circular cross-section. |
| US11769383B2 |
Remote video triggering and tagging
A video collection system collects and sends metadata related to video data such that recording may be triggered and tagged. The video collection system utilizes a mobile broadband network (such as a cellular network) to send metadata, receive triggers, and perform other functions while the video collection system is in the field. The video collection system broadly comprises a plurality of video cameras and a video collection manager. The video cameras each include a mobile broadband modem or other wireless communication element for sending metadata messages. In some embodiments the mobile broadband modem may also send still images, audio data, and video data. |
| US11769378B2 |
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. |
| US11769376B1 |
Systems and methods for repurposing Class III electronic gaming device components for use in Class II electronic gaming device systems
The present invention relates to systems and methods for repurposing existing Class III electronic gaming device components for use in Class II electronic gaming device systems, as the terms “Class II” and “Class III” are defined in the regulations relating to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of the United States of America. |
| US11769371B2 |
Retrofit devices for providing virtual ticket-in and ticket-out on a gaming machine
A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. The gaming system can include electronic gaming machines that are compatible to receive both virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that are redeemable for credits on the electronic gaming machines. Information associated with a virtual ticket voucher can be stored on a patron-controlled portable electronic device and then can be wireless transmitted to the electronic gaming machines. The electronic gaming machines can be configured to issue virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that can be redeemed for cash or additional game play on another electronic gaming machine. In one embodiment, the electronic gaming machine can be configured to issue a virtual ticket voucher to a patron-controlled portable electronic device. |
| US11769370B2 |
Example virtual wallet for fund management of account based wagering accounts
Apparatus and method provide for wagering across multiple gaming operators operating at respective locations, using respective accounts accessible according to a location of a player. |
| US11769366B2 |
Systems and methods for simulating player behavior using one or more bots during a wagering game
An electronic gaming machine includes a display device and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory, which when executed, cause the processor to at least initiate a multiplayer game, select at least one bot of a plurality of bots from a bot selection table associated with each bot of the plurality of bots, each bot simulating a player behavior, determine an entry time for at least one bot of the plurality of bots in the simulated multiplayer game, and control the display device to simulate a selection, by the at least one bot, of at least one selectable item at the determined entry time. |
| US11769364B2 |
Apparatus, methods and systems for storing and conveying items within a food delivery apparatus
A cartridge having a housing, an outer looped element affixed at least partially in a cavity that spans substantially all of a length of the housing. A movable inner looped element is mounted a roller and positioned inside the outer looped element. Panels are radially attached to the movable inner looped element such that each of the plurality of panels extends toward the outer looped element. Movable chambers defined by a space between the panels. A first opening that spans substantially all of a first side of the outer looped element. A second opening is disposed on the outer looped element proximate to a bottom end of the outer looped element providing access to outside the cartridge. A second movable door covers substantially all of the second opening and partially defining the outer looped element when the second movable door is in a second movable door closed position. |
| US11769361B2 |
Wearable data transmission device and method
The present disclosure relates to a wearable radio device for access control. The radio device has an inside portion and an outside portion. The inside portion includes a first transponder and a second transponder. A first barrier is located between the first transponder and the second transponder. A second barrier is located between the first transponder and the second transponder in an outside portion of the wearable device. |
| US11769359B2 |
Systems, structures, and methods for accessing power locked panels
Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative systems, structures, and methods for performing authenticated access to a structure. An illustrative system includes a connector configured to be operably connected to a personal electronics device and to receive an electric charge from the personal electronics device, a controller couplable to an electromechanical locking device and the connector, and a memory. The memory is configured to store computer-executable instructions configured to cause the controller to receive first authentication information, receive second authentication information from the personal electronics device, authenticate the personal electronics device responsive to the first authentication information and the received second authentication information, and activate an electromechanical locking device to unlock responsive to the electric charge and a successful authentication. |
| US11769358B2 |
Vehicle recording control device, vehicle recording device, vehicle recording control method, and computer program
Provided are a video data acquisition unit that acquires video data; an event detection unit that detects an event; a recording function control unit that operates a parking recording function for storing video data, based on detection of the event, while the vehicle is parked; a surrounding information acquisition unit that acquires surrounding information; and a determination unit that determines whether the vehicle is in an environment where there is a high risk of an object colliding with the vehicle, based on the surrounding information. |
| US11769356B2 |
Collision evaluation
A collision is analysed by receiving telematics data relating to a collision and determining a feature of the collision. An entity may be notified of said collision based on the determined features. |
| US11769353B2 |
Driving monitoring and detection system
A system for handling a driving while disconnected event. One example includes an electronic logging device configured to be connected to a vehicle and a mobile device. The mobile device includes an electronic processor configured to determine a connection status between the mobile device and the electronic logging device; determine movement of the mobile device; and determine whether the mobile device is connected to the electronic logging device based on the connection status. In response to determining the mobile device is not connected to the electronic logging device, the electronic processor generates driving information associated with a user of the mobile device and movement of the mobile device; transmits the driving information to an external device; and generates a user-perceivable notification to connect the mobile device to the electronic logging device. |
| US11769349B2 |
Information processing system, data accumulation apparatus, data generation apparatus, information processing method, data accumulation method, data generation method, recording medium and database
A data accumulation apparatus has: a detecting device that detects, based on a face image in which a face of a human is included, a first landmark of the face; an obtaining device that obtains a state information indicating a state including at least one of an action unit, an emotion and a physical condition of the human included in the face image; and a database generating device that generates a landmark database that includes first landmarks with each of which the state information is associated and which are categorized by a unit of the facial part. A data generation apparatus has: a selecting device that selects at least one first landmark with which the state information indicating that the state is a desired state is associated for each facial part as a second landmark from the landmark database; and a face data generating device that generates a face data that represents a characteristic of a face of a virtual human by using second landmarks by combining the second landmarks that correspond to the facial parts, respectively. |
| US11769346B2 |
Video reenactment with hair shape and motion transfer
Methods and apparati for inserting face and hair information from a source video (401) into a destination (driver) video (402) while mimicking pose, illumination, and hair motion of the destination video (402). An apparatus embodiment comprises an identity encoder (404) configured to encode face and hair information of the source video (401) and to produce as an output an identity vector; a pose encoder (405) configured to encode pose information of the destination video (402) and to produce as an output a pose vector; an illumination encoder (406) configured to encode head and hair illumination of the destination video (402) and to produce as an output an illumination vector; and a hair motion encoder (414) configured to encode hair motion of the destination video (402) and to produce as an output a hair motion vector. The identity vector, pose vector, illumination vector, and hair motion vector are fed as inputs to a neural network generator (410). The neural network generator (410) is configured to generate, in response to the four inputs, a composite video (403) comprising face and hair information from the source video (401) inserted into the destination video (402). |
| US11769345B2 |
Presentation attack detection
An apparatus for capturing an image of an object on a platen and including a platen having a surface for receiving the object, wherein the platen is transmissive to an optical wavelength of light, an illumination module configured to illuminate at least a portion of the object with light from an illumination source, and an optical sensing module configured to receive the light from the illumination source after the light interacts with the at least a portion of the object. The light from the illumination source is spatially patterned prior to reaching the object. The illumination module can be configured to create the spatially patterned illumination and/or the platen may include a patterned optical coating creating the spatially patterned illumination. The spatially patterned illumination can include a plurality of discrete areas (e.g., a stepped pattern) of different illumination intensity and/or a gradient of different illumination intensity. |
| US11769344B2 |
Pattern identification device and display apparatus
A device for identifying a pattern over a first surface includes a photosensitive layer, and a light-guiding layer disposed between the photosensitive layer and the first surface. The photosensitive layer includes a plurality of photosensitive elements, each configured to convert incident light into an electrical signal. The light-guiding layer includes a plurality of light-guiding units, each positionally corresponding to one of the plurality of photosensitive elements. Each light-guiding unit include a plurality of light-transmitting portions, each configured to guide a light beam reflected from a feature of the pattern positionally corresponding thereto to transmit therethrough and reach one of the plurality of photosensitive elements corresponding to the each of the plurality of light-guiding units. The device can be used for identification of fingerprint, as well as other biometric or non-biometric features, and has a reduced thickness and an improved accuracy for pattern identification. |
| US11769338B2 |
Image processor and image processing method
An image processor includes an edge detection portion for scanning an image and detecting, as edges, an arrangement of pixels in which brightness value difference or color parameter difference between the pixels is equal to or greater than a threshold; a grouping portion for grouping the detected edge based on edge length, a distance between endpoints of the edges, and an angle between the edges; a determination portion for determining the grouped edges as a dashed line edge group when a pattern, in which the brightness value difference or the color parameter difference between the pixels is detected, matches a predetermined pattern; a correction portion for performing a linear approximation process on the dashed line edge group to correct a coordinate value of an endpoint of the dashed line edge; and a parking frame setting portion for setting a parking frame using the corrected dashed line edge. |
| US11769337B2 |
Traffic signal recognition method and traffic signal recognition device
A traffic signal recognition method and a traffic signal recognition device estimate whether or not a vehicle can be decelerated at a predetermined deceleration acceleration and can stop before a stop line based on a position of the stop line corresponding to a traffic signal located in a traveling direction of the vehicle, select the traffic signal corresponding to the stop line as a target traffic signal in a case where it is estimated that the vehicle cannot stop before the stop line, set detection area corresponding to the target traffic signal on an image obtained by capturing the traveling direction of the vehicle, and determine a display state of the target traffic signal by executing image processing on the detection area. |
| US11769335B2 |
Vehicular rear backup system
A vehicular rear backup system includes a rear backup camera and an electronic control unit (ECU). The camera connects with the ECU via a cable. Image data captured by the camera is converted at a serializer of the camera to serialized image data. The serialized image data is carried to the ECU via the cable and is de-serialized at a de-serializer of the ECU to form de-serialized image data. Responsive at least in part to processing at the ECU of de-serialized image data, the vehicular rear backup system is operable to detect an object present rearward of the vehicle during a rear backup maneuver. Video images derived at least in part from an output generated at the ECU via processing at the ECU of de-serialized image data are displayed at a video display device of the vehicle during the rear backup maneuver of the equipped vehicle. |
| US11769328B2 |
Automated video segmentation
Methods and systems for automated video segmentation are disclosed. A sequence of video frames having video segments of contextually-related sub-sequences may be received. Each frame may be labeled according to segment and segment class. A video graph may be constructed in which each node corresponds to a different frame, and each edge connects a different pair of nodes, and is associated with a time between video frames and a similarity metric of the connected frames. An artificial neural network (ANN) may be trained to predict both labels for the nodes and clusters of the nodes corresponding to predicted membership among the segments, using the video graph as input to the ANN, and ground-truth clusters of ground-truth labeled nodes. The ANN may be further trained to predict segment classes of the predicted clusters, using the segment classes as ground truths. The trained ANN may be configured for application runtime video sequences. |
| US11769325B2 |
Dazzle resilient video camera or video camera module
Video camera or video camera module, comprising an RGB image sensor, a computer processor adapted to perform pre-processing followed by video compression, and a dazzle detector, characterised in responding to dazzle in one colour channel by reducing values in that colour channel prior to compressing the video data. This has the advantage that in the event of laser dazzle that is specific to a colour channel, the compressed video data generated will retain more detail from the other colour channels compared to a conventional camera. |
| US11769323B2 |
Generating assistive indications based on detected characters
Methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for generating assistive indications are provided. The disclosed technology can include accessing image data that includes at least one image. Character data can be generated based at least in part on the image data and one or more optical character recognition operations. Further, the character data can include one or more characters associated with the at least one image. One or more characters that are associated with one or more recognized words and the one or more characters that are associated with one or more unrecognized words can be determined based on the character data. One or more auditory indications including a synthetic voice reciting the one or more recognized words and the one or more unrecognized words can be generated. Furthermore, the synthetic voice can recite each of the one or more unrecognized words one character at a time. |
| US11769321B2 |
Risk prediction method
A risk prediction method is executed by a computer of a risk predictor using a convolutional neural network. The method includes making the convolutional neural network acquire an input image taken by an in-vehicle camera installed on a vehicle. The method also includes making the convolutional neural network estimate a risk area and a feature of the risk area, the risk area being in the acquired input image. The risk area has a possibility that a moving object may appear from the risk area into a travelling path of the vehicle, and the moving object may collide with the vehicle in a case where the vehicle simply continues running. The method further includes making the convolutional neural network output the estimated risk area and the estimated feature of the risk area as a risk predicted for the input image. |
| US11769317B2 |
Fully automated SEM sampling system for e-beam image enhancement
Disclosed herein is a method of automatically obtaining training images to train a machine learning model that improves image quality. The method may comprise analyzing a plurality of patterns of data relating to a layout of a product to identify a plurality of training locations on a sample of the product to use in relation to training the machine learning model. The method may comprise obtaining a first image having a first quality for each of the plurality of training locations, and obtaining a second image having a second quality for each of the plurality of training locations, the second quality being higher than the first quality. The method may comprise using the first image and the second image to train the machine learning model. |
| US11769316B2 |
Facial image recognition using pseudo-images
This disclosure relates to the use of “pseudo-images” to perform image recognition, e.g., to perform facial image recognition. In an embodiment, the pseudo-image is obtained by starting with a real world image and, after optional preprocessing, subjecting the image to a non-linear transformation that converts the image into a pseudo-image. While real world objects (or, more generally, real world patterns) may be perceivable in the starting image, they cannot be perceived in the pseudo-image. Image recognition takes place by comparing the pseudo-image with a library of known pseudo-images, i.e., image recognition takes place in pseudo-image space without a return to real world space. In this way, robust image recognition is achieved even for imperfect real world images, such as, real world images that have been degraded by noise, poor illumination, uneven lighting, and/or occlusion, e.g., the presence of glasses, scarves, or the like in the case of facial images. |
| US11769315B2 |
Diagnostic tool for deep learning similarity models
A diagnostic tool for deep learning similarity models and image classifiers provides valuable insight into neural network decision-making. A disclosed solution generates a saliency map by: receiving a baseline image and a test image; determining, with a convolutional neural network (CNN), a first similarity between the baseline image and the test image; based on at least determining the first similarity, determining, for the test image, a first activation map for at least one CNN layer; based on at least determining the first similarity, determining, for the test image, a first gradient map for the at least one CNN layer; and generating a first saliency map as an element-wise function of the first activation map and the first gradient map. Some examples further determine a region of interest (ROI) in the first saliency map, cropping the test image to an area corresponding to the ROI, and determine a refined similarity score. |
| US11769313B2 |
Counterfeit image detection
A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to acquire a first image from a first camera by illuminating a first object with a first light and determine an object status as one of a real object or a counterfeit object by comparing a first measure of pixel values corresponding to the first object to a threshold. |
| US11769310B2 |
Combining three-dimensional morphable models
A computer implemented method of generating a new three-dimensional morphable model (3DMM) by combining a first 3DMM with a second 3DMM includes generating, using the first 3DMM, a plurality of first shapes, calculating a mapping from a plurality of second parameters of the second 3DMM to a plurality of first parameters of the first 3DMM, generating, for each of a plurality of second shapes generated using the second 3DMM, a corresponding first shape, forming a plurality of merged shapes by merging each second shape with the corresponding first shape, and performing principal component analysis on the plurality of merged shapes to generate the new 3DMM. |
| US11769308B2 |
Systems and methods of augmented reality guided image capture
Some embodiments provide a mobile device configured to guide a user, via an augmented reality (AR) interface generated by the mobile device, to capture images of the physical object using a camera of the mobile device. The mobile device may be configured to obtain boundary information indicative of a boundary enclosing the physical object (e.g., a box enclosing the physical object). The mobile device may be configured to use the boundary information to determine positions from which the user is to capture images of the physical object. The mobile device may be configured to guide the user to capture the images using the AR interface by guiding the user to each of the positions in the AR interface (e.g., by generating on or more GUI elements in the AR interface that indicate a position from which the user is to capture an image). |
| US11769307B2 |
Image based tracking in augmented reality systems
Systems and methods for image based location estimation are described. In one example embodiment, a first positioning system is used to generate a first position estimate. A set of structure façade data describing one or more structure façades associated with the first position estimate is then accessed. A first image of an environment is captured, and a portion of the image is matched to part of the structure façade data. A second position is then estimated based on a comparison of the structure façade data with the portion of the image matched to the structure façade data. |
| US11769306B2 |
User-exhibit distance based collaborative interaction method and system for augmented reality museum
The present invention discloses a user-exhibit distance based collaborative interaction method and system for an augmented reality museum. The method includes: detecting and acquiring dynamic position information of a user, and calculating a sensing distance of the user in real time according to the dynamic position information of the user; establishing a distance model with an exhibit as a center according to the sensing distance, and setting interaction authority of the user according to the distance model and a real-time sensing distance of the user; dynamically matching a single-user interaction mode and a multi-user collaborative interaction mode within the interaction authority of the user to the user according to the interaction authority of the user corresponding to the sensing distance of the user; executing, by the user, a single-user interaction behavior and a multi-user collaborative interaction behavior in real time according to the single-user interaction mode and the multi-user collaborative interaction mode; and realizing recommendation of the exhibit between users according to a real-time single-user interaction behavior result and a real-time multi-user collaborative interaction behavior result. The method and system promote the user to have a real-time and interesting interaction with other surrounding users while learning about museum exhibits progressively. |
| US11769303B2 |
Augmented reality automotive accessory customer collaborative design and display
A system that allows customers to collaborate with vehicle accessory manufacturers to design accessories in an augmented reality environment. A customer decision making and purchasing experience is greatly improved when viewing a physical showroom model (or other real-world model) of a vehicle they intend to purchase and/or customize. The system allows the user to select and customize virtual accessories for the physical vehicle, then overlay those virtual accessories atop the physical vehicle in an augmented reality environment. |
| US11769297B2 |
Simulation of rigid bodies
Implementations relate to a computer-implemented method to display a rigid body object within a virtual environment. Some implementations include receiving a model representation of the rigid body object, wherein the model representation includes a plurality of constraints for the rigid body object; splitting the rigid body object into two or more splinters based on the model representation, obtaining a modified representation of the rigid body object based on a modified rigid body object formed by connecting each of the two or more splinters to one or more other splinters by one or more rigid joints, determining an input state of the rigid body object in the virtual environment, solving a set of equations based on the input state and the modified representation of the rigid body object to determine an updated state of the rigid body object. |
| US11769291B2 |
Method and device for rendering point cloud-based data
A method and apparatus for rendering point cloud-based volumetric data are provided. The method includes receiving, at a computing device, a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) frames associated with a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud, and projection metadata comprising details of projection of the 3D point cloud into a 2D image plane; reconstructing, by the computing device, a plurality of 3D points associated with the 3D point cloud, based on the received 2D frames and the projection metadata; and generating texture images based on the plurality of 3D points; and rendering at least one quad image based on the texture images. |
| US11769290B2 |
Apparatus and method for implementing bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) operations on tesselation hardware
An apparatus and method are described for using tessellation hardware to generate bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs) and perform other ray tracing operations. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a shader to output a plurality of tessellation factors and one or more input surfaces; and a tessellation circuit comprising first circuitry and/or logic to tessellate each input surface to generate a new set of primitives and second circuitry and/or logic to concurrently generate a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) 1521 based on the new set of primitives. |
| US11769289B2 |
Rendering virtual articles of clothing based on audio characteristics
Systems and methods for generating a virtual article of clothing at a display are described. Some examples may include: obtaining video data and audio data, analyzing the video data to determine one or more body joints of a target object appearing in the video data. A mesh based on the determined one or more body joints may be generated. The audio data may be analyzed to determine audio characteristics associated with the audio data. Texture rendering information associated with a virtual article of clothing may be determined based on the audio characteristics. A rendered video may be generated by rendering the virtual article of clothing to the generated mesh using the texture rendering information. |
| US11769286B2 |
Beauty processing method, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium
Provided are a beauty processing method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an original face image, and extracting original parameter information corresponding to a site feature of a to-be-beautified site; determining, based on the original parameter information, a site beauty parameter corresponding to the to-be-beautified site; and processing the to-be-beautified site based on the site beauty parameter to generate a target face image. Thus, the personalized beauty parameters can be generated to meet the user's personalized beauty needs, improving the accuracy of the beauty parameter and enhancing the beauty effect. |
| US11769273B2 |
Parameter obtaining method and terminal device
This disclosure provides a parameter obtaining method and a terminal device, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that calibration of a distance sensor is relatively complex. The method includes: obtaining a preview image of a target object in a shooting preview screen; obtaining a first measurement value of a distance sensor when a degree of coincidence between the preview image and a calibration area in the shooting preview screen exceeds a threshold; and obtaining a calibration offset corresponding to the target object based on the first measurement value and the calibration distance. |
| US11769266B2 |
Depth image engine and depth image calculation method
A depth image engine and a depth image calculation method are provided. The depth image engine comprises: a buffer, configured to receive a data flow of a first image; an image rotator, configured to perform, after the buffer receives the entire data flow of the first image, a rotation operation on the first image to generate a second image; and a depth value calculator, configured to receive the second image and a reference image to perform a matching calculation on the second image and the reference image to generate a depth image. |
| US11769262B2 |
Techniques for accurate pose estimation
The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display, including receiving and selectively filtering a plurality of measurement vectors from a rate-gyroscope. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display. |
| US11769258B2 |
Feature processing in extended reality systems
Systems and techniques are described herein for processing images. The systems and techniques can be implemented by various types of systems, such as by an extended reality (XR) system or device. In some cases, a first processor receives an image of an environment captured by an image sensor, identifies features depicted in the image, and generates descriptors for the features. The first processor sends the descriptors to a second processor, which may be more powerful than the first processor. The second processor receives the descriptors. The second processor associates the plurality of features with a map of the environment based on at least a subset of the plurality of descriptors. For example, the second processor can track at least a subset of the features based on at least a subset of the descriptors and based on feature information from one or more additional images of the environment. |
| US11769257B2 |
Systems and methods for image aided navigation
In one embodiment, a vision aided navigation system comprises: at least one image sensor configured to produce image frames of a surrounding environment; a feature extractor configured to extract at least one image feature from a first image frame; a navigation filter configured to output a navigation solution based navigation data from a navigation device and changes in position of the image feature in the images; a feature tracker to receive the image frames and predict a location of the image feature in a subsequent image frame; a dynamic localized parameter adjuster to adjust at least one image parameter of the subsequent image frame; and wherein the feature tracker is configured so that when the image feature cannot be identified in the subsequent image frame within a bounded region around the predicted location, the dynamic localized parameter adjuster adjusts the at least one image parameter within the bounded region. |
| US11769251B2 |
Systems and methods for medical image analysis
Systems, instruments, and methods for medical treatment are disclosed. The methods comprise, by a computing device: receiving information identifying at least one first point on a body part shown in a medical image; overlaying a first mark on the medical image for the at least one first point; generating a spline based at least on the first mark; overlaying a second mark for the spline on the medical image; identifying a location of at least one second point on the body part shown in the medical image based on the first and second marks; overlaying a third mark for the at least one second point on the medical image; and using at least the third mark to facilitate the medical treatment of an individual whose body part is shown in the medical image. |
| US11769246B2 |
Pistachio sorting device
A pistachio sorting device capable of accurately detecting BGY fluorescence emitted from a fluorescent material adhered to a shell of an in-shell pistachio to perform pass/fail determination and sort out defective products at high speed is provided. The pistachio sorting device comprises a lighting device 11 for irradiating in-shell pistachios which are objects to be sorted in an inspection region with ultraviolet light having a maximum peak wavelength within a range of 345 nm to 390 nm, an optical filter 12 for selectively transmitting light within a wavelength range of 500 nm to 600 nm, a sensor 13 for detecting a two-dimensional intensity distribution of the fluorescence transmitted through the optical filter 12 to generate two-dimensional image data indicating a two-dimensional intensity distribution of fluorescence in the inspection region, and a determining device for determining a pass/fail of for each object to be sorted 10 based on the two-dimensional image data. |
| US11769245B2 |
Systems and methods of monitoring cargo load systems for damage detection
A component inspection system for monitoring and detecting damage to components of a cargo handling system may comprise a first camera configured to monitor a first detection zone, and an inspection controller configured to analyze image data output by the first camera. The inspection system controller may be configured to identify a component of the cargo handling system in the image data received from the first camera and determine a state of the component. The state of the component may be at least one of a normal state or a damaged state. |
| US11769243B2 |
Image inspection device and saving processing method for captured image for inspection based on recoding resolution
An image inspection device is provided with: an imaging unit configured to capture a printed image; an inspection unit configured to inspect a captured image obtained by capturing the printed image by the imaging unit; an image storage unit configured to hold the captured image; and a saving processing unit configured to record the captured image into the image storage unit. The saving processing unit determines a recording resolution at a time of recording the captured image into the image storage unit, in accordance with a result of an inspection by the inspection unit. |
| US11769241B1 |
Information-client server built on a rapid material identification platform
Items are identified in a waste stream for purposes of recycling, using deterministic and/or probabilistic techniques. Imagery of the waste stream from multiple viewpoints permit creation of a 3D depth draped image representation, from which one or more 2D planes can be synthesized. Phase-coherent patches of recoverable encoded data can be identified from among soiled and crumpled object surfaces, and used in combination to recover object identification information. Recognition of certain items can trigger further image processing that is specific to such items. (Detection of a catsup bottle, for example, can trigger image analysis to discern the presence of catsup residue.) Information about recognized objects can be provided to external data customers, e.g., to track grey market diversion of particular products into unlicensed territories. These and other features and advantages, which can be used alone or in combination, are detailed herein. |
| US11769240B2 |
Collaborative cognitive analysis of digital media streams
A neural network system for generating a value estimation is provided. A computing device analyzes one or more digital media streams. A computing device identifies one or more parameters of the object in one or more digital media streams. A computing device collects information of an object in one or more digital media streams. A computing device generates a precited value estimation of the object via invocation of additional multi-level input collection in a distributed cognitive system. A computing device communicates a report associated with the predicted value estimation of the object to a user of a computing device. |
| US11769236B2 |
Microscopy system and method for generating an HDR image
A microscopy system for generating an HDR image comprises a microscope for capturing a plurality of raw images that show a scene with different image brightnesses and a computing device configured to generate the HDR image by combining at least two of the raw images. The computing device is also configured to set coefficients for different regions in the raw images depending on objects depicted in those regions, wherein it is defined via the coefficients whether and to what extent pixels of the raw images are incorporated in the HDR image. The computing device is further configured to generate the HDR image by combining the raw images based on the set coefficients. A method generates an HDR image by combining raw images based on coefficients that are set depending on objects depicted in the raw images. |
| US11769230B2 |
Systems and methods for noise reduction in imaging
Systems and methods are provided for the denoising of images in the presence of broadband noise based on the detection and/or estimation of in-band noise. According to various example embodiments, an estimate of broadband noise that lies within the imaging band is made by detecting or characterizing the out-of-band noise that lies outside of the imaging band. This estimated in-band noise may be employed for denoise the detected imaging waveform. According to other example embodiments, a reference receive circuit that is sensitive to noise within the imaging band, but is isolated from the imaging energy, may be employed to detect and/or characterize the noise within the imaging band. The estimated reference noise may be employed to denoise the detected in-band imaging waveform. |
| US11769225B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program
The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that can easily execute a stitching process.Provided are: an image generation unit that generates a first reference image regarding a first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of first images regarding the first imaging region and that generates a second reference image regarding a second imaging region at least partially overlapping with the first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of second images regarding the second imaging region; and a processing unit that generates positioning information indicating a correspondence between the first imaging region and the second imaging region on the basis of the first reference image and the second reference image. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that executes a stitching process of a plurality of images. |
| US11769223B2 |
Local tile-based registration and global placement for stitching
Techniques are provided for stitching tile images. A local registration can be performed to determine spatial relationships between pairs of adjacent tile images, in which the spatial relationships may be determined using normalized cross correlation (NCC) scores computed within a multi-resolution framework. A global placement can be performed to position all scanned tile images relative to one another. The global placement is determined with weighted least squares utilizing the determined spatial relationships between all adjacent greyscale tile images and the NCC scores as weights. |
| US11769219B2 |
Computer-implemented and interactive real estate contract generation and editing process
A computer-implemented and interactive real estate contract generation and editing process that allows a user to select “easy” or “do-it-yourself” contract formation sessions, comprising the steps of communicatively coupling a first electronic computing device to a computer server over a wireless communication network and generating a digital graphical user interface (GUI) on an electronic display of the first computing device with a plurality of digital data input fields operably configured to receive alpha-numeric text; initiating a network-based remote “easy” contract formation session that includes selecting a plurality of GUI icons and inputting contract formation data into each of the plurality of digital data input fields; and generating a digital document with a plurality of independent preformed paragraphs each having at least one fillable contract data field disposed therein and filled in with one of the plurality of digital data input fields to create a finalized digital document. |
| US11769216B2 |
Collection of transaction receipts using an online content management service
An online content management service can collect and store receipts for a user from a variety of sources, including images captured by the user, messages received for the user at a messaging service or message management service, and/or receipts directly uploaded to the online content management service by a merchant. In the case of receipts provided as messages, a user can interact with a message management service to identify messages as receipts, and the message management service can upload such messages to the online content management service. |
| US11769213B2 |
Method of controlling for undesired factors in machine learning models
A method of training and using a machine learning model that controls for consideration of undesired factors which might otherwise be considered by the trained model during its subsequent analyses of new data. For example, the model may be a neural network trained on a set of training images to evaluate an insurance applicant based upon an image or audio data of the insurance applicant as part of an underwriting process to determine an appropriate life or health insurance premium. The model is trained to probabilistically correlate an aspect of the applicant's appearance with a personal and/or health-related characteristic. Any undesired factors, such as age, sex, ethnicity, and/or race, are identified for exclusion. The trained model receives the image (e.g., a “selfie”) of the insurance applicant, analyzes the image without considering the identified undesired factors, and suggests the appropriate insurance premium based only on the remaining desired factors. |
| US11769210B1 |
Computer-based management methods and systems
A DI recovery management system generates a plurality of ranked claimant records and recovery scores. A predictive machine learning model inputs disability income claim data and disability income claimant data into an event history model utilizing discrete-time survival analysis in conjunction with a gradient boosting machine learning model. The claim termination event is one of a plurality of preselected recovery events that indicate that a claimant has achieved return-to-work capacity. Claimant data used in modeling includes diagnosis data representative of workplace disability duration guidelines. The predictive machine learning model is continually trained using updated disability income claims data. The training procedure transforms claimant records extracted from a DI claims database into a longitudinal format that includes multiple person-year records corresponding to each claimant record. A DI recovery dashboard displays a hazard plot representing a conditional probability over time that a claimant will realize a claim termination event. |
| US11769205B2 |
System and method for controlled market data delivery in an electronic trading environment
A system and methods for controlled market data delivery are described. According to one example embodiment, upon detecting a preset threshold of updates in a queue at a gateway, a predetermined number of market updates may be processed before any data is sent to a client terminal. According to one method, update types may be used to control how many updates are processed before any data is sent. Also, once the number of updates to be processed is set, a market update having a higher priority update type may be used to trigger a change in the number of market updates that was set for processing. |
| US11769203B2 |
System and method for dynamically managing message flow
System and method for dynamically managing message flow. According to the example embodiments, an intermediary network device or a client device dynamically manages the flow of messages received from an electronic exchange by analyzing the client device's capabilities, such as CPU utilization. Based on a percentage of total CPU utilization, the level of throttling is dynamically adjusted, such that if the percentage of CPU utilization, or load, increases, then throttling is increased from a lower level to a higher level. Similarly, if the percentage of CPU utilization decreases significantly enough, then throttling is decreased to a lower level. |
| US11769200B1 |
Account vulnerability alerts
Systems and methods are provided for assessing an account takeover risk for one or more accounts of an individual. The account security procedures for each of a number of services with which the user has an account may be analyzed. Publicly accessible information regarding the user may also be collected and analyzed. The collected information and security procedures may be compared in order to determine one or more vulnerabilities to hostile account takeover of one or more of the analyzed accounts. An alert may be generated regarding a determined takeover risk, which may include suggested actions for remedying the risk. |
| US11769197B2 |
Interest gauge based auction
Information about participants in an auction are received and analyzed along with information about products to be auctioned and other information to generate an interest gauge. The interest gauge may reflect the interest of a buyer, a seller, an auction house or any other entity in the auctioning event. Based on the interest gauge, the operations of the auction can be augmented and/or modified to be optimal in view of revenue generation, products moved, and a balance between the two. For instance, the buyer interest gauge could be used to create packages of items to be auctioned in a combinatorial auction. |
| US11769196B2 |
System and method for a fast rental application
The method, system, and computer-readable medium facilitate a fast rental application. The fast rental application includes a set of data corresponding to a user profile that is pertinent to a rental application. The data corresponding to the user profile can be retrieved from one or more databases and also received via a client device in a computer network. The data can be analyzed and stored as part of the profile in a profile repository and then transmitted to an property manager recipient. |
| US11769195B2 |
Systems and methods for visualizing wall coverings in an image of a scene
Methods and apparatus for visualizing a surface covering on at least a portion of a surface in an image of a scene. The method comprises identifying, using at least one computer processor, a surface plane from the image of the scene, determining, for each pixel of a plurality of pixels corresponding to the surface plane, whether the pixel corresponds to at least a portion of the surface in the scene, and generating an updated image of the scene by overlaying on the surface plane, a visualization of a plurality of surface covering tiles on pixels along the surface plane determined to correspond to at least a portion of the surface in the scene. |
| US11769192B2 |
Dynamically adjusted results for search interface
Several systems, apparatuses, and methods are described. A data transmission that includes data indicating a first search query for an item of a publication system is received from a client machine. A first plurality of search results is determined from listed items based, at least in part, on the first search query, and the first plurality of search results are each associated with a price. A range of prices associated with a first subset of the search results is determined based on a price distribution range including a median price associated with the first search results, or a utility cost function using a plurality of price quantiles and a plurality of price values included in different price quantiles. The determined first search results and the range of prices associated with the first subset of the first search results are transmitted to the client machine for display. |
| US11769191B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information providing system, machine learning device, and inference device
An equipment introduction effect analyzer as an information processing apparatus includes: an equipment-related information storage unit that holds equipment data including information on equipment and information on a function and performance included in equipment, and equipment buyer data including information on an effect obtained when an equipment buyer introduces equipment, information on a use environment of the equipment, and information on the purchased equipment; and an evaluation engine unit that generates information on an effect to be provided to a potential equipment buyer based on the information on the effect and the information on the use environment of equipment that are included in the equipment buyer data, and on the basis of information on an environment in which the potential equipment buyer uses the equipment, the equipment buyer data being acquired from the equipment buyer already purchased equipment with a function and performance desired by the potential equipment buyer. |
| US11769190B2 |
Image search apparatus, image search method, non-transitory recording medium
An image search apparatus includes a search processing unit and a display processing unit. The search processing unit extracts one or more images that meet a search condition, from a plurality of images associated with user accounts. The display processing unit displays the one or more images extracted by the search processing unit in such a manner that types of user accounts corresponding to the images can be discriminated. |
| US11769189B2 |
Computer-implemented method for preparing offer and/or order data of an object to be individualized
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for preparing offer and/or order data of an object to be individualized, wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing a purchasing system having a user interface, an inventory management system and a data interface between the purchasing system and the inventory management system in a computer system; providing individualization data for individualizing the object in a storage unit of the computer system; receiving a first user input comprising object selection data of the object to be individualized via the user interface, receiving a further user input comprising at least one selected selection position for individualization data on the object to be individualized; transmitting data via the data interface after at least one of the above-mentioned steps between the purchasing system and the inventory management system, wherein the data comprise the object selection data, the at least one selected selection position. |
| US11769184B2 |
Enhancing functionalities of virtual assistants and dialog systems via plugin marketplace
A method for enhancing dialog systems is disclosed herein. The method may include maintaining an online marketplace that may have a plurality of dialog system extension elements. The plurality of dialog system extension elements may include at least one of a dialog system plugin, a dialog system add-on, a dialog system update, and a dialog system upgrade. The method may further include receiving a selection of one of the plurality of dialog system extension elements from an end user. The end user may be associated with a dialog system. The method may continue with associating the one of the plurality of dialog system extension elements with the dialog system of the end user. |
| US11769181B2 |
Automatically determining a current value for a home
A facility for valuing a distinguished home located in a distinguished geographic area is described. The facility receives home attributes for the distinguished home. The facility obtains valuation for the distinguished home by applying to the received home attributes evaluation model for homes in the distinguished geographic area that has been trained using selling price and home attribute data from homes recently sold in the distinguished geographic area. The facility reports the obtained valuation for the distinguished home. |
| US11769179B2 |
Replacement advertisement selection after channel changes
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving, by a computing system, from a content-presentation device a request for supplemental content for a content-replacement operation, with the request including an identifier of a stored replacement advertisement segment; (ii) selecting, by the computing system, a replacement advertisement segment for output by the content-presentation device in place of a modifiable advertisement segment; (iii) determining, by the computing system, that the selected replacement advertisement segment is different from the stored replacement advertisement segment; (iv) determining, by the computing system, whether the stored replacement advertisement segment is a valid replacement for the content-replacement operation; (v) determining, by the computing system, that the content-presentation device should output the selected replacement advertisement segment instead of outputting the stored replacement advertisement segment; and (vi) causing, by the computing system, the selected replacement advertisement segment to be transmitted to the content-presentation device. |
| US11769166B1 |
Systems and methods of generating new online user accounts and rewarding online account users for generation of new online user accounts
Systems and methods display machine-readable codes and assembled machine-readable codes that drive or push new online users to generate new online user accounts and reward new and/or existing online account users for generating new online user accounts. |
| US11769160B2 |
Consumer goods procurement assisting system
A consumer item procurement support system capable of performing a more appropriate commodity proposal and the like is provided. The consumer item procurement support system includes an information processing server that communicates with a terminal of a customer, and manages a taken image of a commodity (consumer item) captured by the terminal of the customer, wherein the information processing server: executes a recognition process of the commodity (consumer item), based on the taken image of the commodity (consumer item) captured by the terminal of the customer; displays, on the terminal of the customer, one or more commodity candidates extracted as a result of execution of the recognition process; and determines an unpurchased commodity, by allowing the customer to select an actually purchased commodity from among the commodity candidates. |
| US11769152B2 |
Verifying user identities during transactions using identification tokens that include user face data
The disclosure herein describes enabling authentication of a user's identity based on a user identification (ID) token. An enrollment request is received by an identity platform from a computing device of the user. The enrollment request includes face data and payment account data associated with a payment account of the user. A face identification template of the user is generated based on the face data. Based on verifying the user's identity using data in the enrollment request, an ID token is generated including the face identification template and the payment account data. The ID token is then provided to the computing device of the user, wherein the computing device is enabled to verify the user's identity based on comparison of the captured image data of the face of the user to the face identification template of the ID token during transactions associated with the computing device. |
| US11769149B1 |
Configurable management of ghost accounts
Techniques are described for managing ghost account(s) for user(s). A ghost account may be created with a ghost account number that is a digitally provisioned payment card number linked to a backend account of a user. The ghost account number may be used to conduct transactions in situations where the user may otherwise use their backend account number. One more constraints governing the use of the ghost account may be specified by the user and/or the backend account management service. For example, the user may request a ghost account to be used only to make payments to a particular merchant or service. As another example, the user may request a ghost account to be useable for a particular period of time and/or a particular number of uses. Transactions initiated through the ghost account may be completed using the backend account that is linked to the ghost account. |
| US11769147B2 |
Secure smart note
An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a smart note, to a blockchain configured to store an asset of a user on a ledger, acquiring, by a smart note, a value of the asset from the ledger, displaying, by a smart note, the value on a display screen located on the smart note in response to a detection of a smart note button press event, generating, by a smart note, an asset address key pair, checking, by a smart note, a status of a private key associated with the smart note, and displaying, by a smart note, a trusted symbol next to the value on the display screen, if the status of the private key indicates that the private key has never been used. |
| US11769143B1 |
System and method for high performance providing fresh NFT metadata
Systems and methods for providing high performance access to NFT metadata including ownership information. An example method requests NFT metadata from a server that has cached NFT metadata extracted from a mirror NFT blockchain. Periodically, new blocks that have been added to an NFT blockchain are added to the mirror blockchain and processed to update a cache with metadata modifications. Additionally, the method includes requests for NFT ownership information. An ownership transaction table is generated and updated from the mirror blockchain. Ownership request can include requests for all the NFTs owned by a crypto-wallet address. |
| US11769139B2 |
Mobile payments integrated with a booking system
Techniques for mobile payments integrated with a booking system are described. In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving a request from a computing device of a user to pay a ticket open at a merchant point-of-sale computer, obtaining a current total ticket amount for the ticket from the merchant point-of-sale computer, determining an estimated total ticket amount based at least in part on the current total ticket amount, authorizing but not capturing payment of the estimated total ticket amount with a payment network gateway computer, after the ticket is closed at the merchant point-of-sale computer, obtaining a final total ticket amount for the ticket from the merchant point-of-sale computer, and capturing payment of the final total ticket amount with the payment network gateway computer. |
| US11769137B2 |
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for transmitting payment proxy information
A payment object reader can comprise a near-field communication (NFC) system, a Bluetooth system, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The payment object reader can receive a command, from a point-of-sale (POS) application and via the Bluetooth system, to read a transaction instrument using the NFC system, wherein the POS application is executing on a POS device of a merchant The payment object reader can read payment information from the transaction instrument using the NFC system and send the payment information to the POS application via the Bluetooth system. Then the payment object reader can receive, from the POS application via the Bluetooth system, a transaction proxy corresponding to a merchant financial account of the merchant. The payment object reader then can send, via the NFC system, the transaction proxy to the transaction instrument. |
| US11769136B1 |
Transient mobile wallets
A system includes a secondary computing device not owned by a user, a hardware processor, a memory and instructions that cause the processor to generate a transient wallet identifier (ID) for a transient mobile wallet, the transient mobile wallet being of limited duration, and provide a configuration user interface the user, presenting configuration information for the transient mobile wallet. The processor also identifies a usage specification for the transient mobile wallet defining allowed uses for the transient mobile wallet. The processor also activates the transient mobile wallet on the secondary computing device, receives a payment transaction approval request, compares the payment transaction data to the usage specification, determines that the payment transaction data is non-conforming, and transmits a rejection message for the first payment transaction. |
| US11769135B1 |
Global cache tool systems and methods for adding new payees
Systems and methods for preparing payment requests via cached payee information databases are described. The cached payee database system allows customers to search locally stored payee databases on their mobile devices for payee information. The cached version of the payee database is updated with updated payee information. The cached database system can perform payee searches on a character-by-character basis in real time with minimal delays between searches. |
| US11769134B2 |
Multi-user interactive ad shopping using wearable device gestures
In an approach for enabling multiple users to make e-commerce purchases from interactive advertisements using wearable device gestures, a processor identifies a wearable device attempting to pair with a smart display. A processor verifies a user wearing the wearable device is an authenticated user. A processor detects a gesture made by the user based on a sensor of the wearable device. A processor identifies an action the gesture is mapped to. A processor determines whether the user is authorized to complete the action mapped to the gesture detected. Responsive to determining that the user is authorized to complete the action mapped to the gesture, a processor completes the action the gesture is mapped to. |
| US11769126B1 |
Systems and methods for account-linked piggy bank
Systems and methods for an account-linked piggy bank are described. The system includes a piggy bank comprising a compartment, a lid, a sensor, a lock, a network interface, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to associate the piggy bank with a first account of a user. The processing circuit is further configured to receive, decoded coin data from an encodable physical coin, wherein the decoded coin data includes a transaction request indicating a currency amount to be transferred to the first account from a second account. The processing circuit is configured to transmit the transaction request to a provider computing system. The processing circuit is further configured to receive a transaction request confirmation from the provider computing system and transmit a notification to a user device of the user indicating the currency amount has been deposited into the first account of the user. |
| US11769122B1 |
Systems and methods for check masking and interdiction
A method comprises receiving a request to display a first digital image on a user device associated with a user. The first digital image is representative of a first side of a physical check, and the physical check has sensitive information in a field. Sensitive information is deleted from the first digital image so that the sensitive information is unrecoverable and unretrievable from the first digital image. After deleting the sensitive information from the first digital image, the first digital image is displayed on the user device. In response to determining that the user has failed to pass interdiction, an interdiction factor is received. In response to the interdiction factor matching a stored interdiction factor, the user is passed from interdiction. After passing the user from interdiction, a second digital image is displayed on the user device and the field is then unmasked. |
| US11769118B2 |
Systems and methods for automated diagnostics of HVAC systems
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a controller associated with a residence. The controller is configured to determine an expected value range for an operating parameter of a component of the HVAC system. Additionally, the controller is configured to receive a signal from a sensor indicative of a current value of the operating parameter of the component and determine if the current value of the operating parameter is outside the expected value range. Based on the determination that the current value is outside the expected value range, the controller is additionally configured to initiate a diagnostic mode of the controller. In the diagnostic mode, the controller is configured to collect diagnostic data associated with the HVAC system. |
| US11769115B1 |
Systems and methods to provide measures of user workload when generating units of work based on chat sessions between users of a collaboration environment
Systems and methods provide measures of user workload when generating units of work based on chat sessions between users of a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, obtain content information characterizing content of chat sessions between users, identify potential units of work, identify potential assignees of the potential units of work, obtain the user records of the potential assignees, generate views of a workload display pane, and/or perform other operations. |
| US11769110B1 |
Systems and methods for operator motion management
Systems and methods are provided herein for performing one or more actions based on kinematic data. An operator management module may obtain video input data depicting a two-dimensional representation of a subject during performance of an activity. A set of points of the subject may be identified based at least in part on a machine-learning model. A 3D representation of the subject may be generated based at least in part on the points identified. Kinematic data related to the subject may be generated utilizing the 3D representation of the subject. Any suitable number of suggested actions may be performed based at least in part on the kinematic data. |
| US11769107B1 |
Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for generating logistics zones
An apparatus is provided for generating logistics zones. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to generate logistics zones responsive to receipt of a selection of a geographic area. The logistics zones are generated based on street segment attribute data. The logistics zones include a geo-fenced right zone on a right side of corresponding street segments and a geo-fenced left zone on a left side of the street segments. The processor is also configured to determine addresses in the logistics zones based on analyzing the street segment attribute data. The processor is further configured to generate a route for delivery or pickup of packages within the logistics zones based on a trace order of the logistics zones specifying a sequential order to travel within the logistics zones responsive to determining a shortest travel path. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided. |
| US11769105B2 |
System and methods for network-implemented cannabis delivery and driver release of funds
A system and methods for network-enabled cannabis product delivery and driver release of funds, comprising at least a plurality of network-enabled portals for data entry, legality and identification checks, and more, allowing a user to order delivery of cannabis products from local retailers using third-party drivers that register with the system, for compensation, and allowing for feedback and automated communication between a retailer, driver, and customer using the system, with a driver being able to release funds to a retail outlet after pickup of the order. |
| US11769098B2 |
Anomaly detection of physical assets by auto-creating anomaly detection or prediction models based on data from a knowledge graph of an enterprise
Data from a knowledge graph associated with an enterprise may be obtained. The knowledge graph may include a plurality of node descriptors that indicate locations, assets, and sensor data feeds of the enterprise, and a plurality of relationship descriptors that indicate relationships amongst the locations, the assets, and the sensor data feeds of the enterprise. An anomaly detection or prediction model associated with a selected one of the plurality of node descriptors may be auto-created based on the data from the knowledge graph. In the auto-creation, one of a plurality of model types for the anomaly detection or prediction model may be selected based on an identified node type of the selected node descriptor. |
| US11769095B2 |
Cognitive evaluation of acquisition candidates
An embodiment includes initiating a search engine to conduct a first search of a data resource for information associated with an acquisition candidate using search criteria provided via a user interface. The embodiment receives a first search result from the search engine comprising an information dataset associated with the acquisition candidate. The embodiment generates a candidate rating for the acquisition candidate indicative of a performance metric for the acquisition candidate relative to another acquisition candidate. The embodiment initiates the search engine to conduct a second search of the data resource using search criteria extracted from the information dataset. The embodiment receives a second search result from the search engine comprising due-diligence data. The embodiment calculates an updated candidate rating for the acquisition candidate based on the cognitive analysis of the due-diligence data and uses the updated rating to provide a recommendation regarding the acquisition candidate. |
| US11769092B1 |
System and method of segmented modelling for campaign planning in a very large-scale supply chain network
A system and method are disclosed including a planner having a processor and memory. The planner models a supply chain network over a planning horizon having one or more time buckets and a production line to produce one or more products using one or more campaign operations and one or more campaignable resources. The planner further formulates a supply chain master planning problem comprising a hierarchy of objective functions and one or more constraints and segments a campaign planning problem into three stages. The planner solves a first stage to determine prioritized production demands on campaignable buffers, solves a second stage to determine a timing and a sequence for allocating campaignable resources to campaignable buffers, and solves a third stage to determine a quantity of products to produce on campaignable resources. |
| US11769087B2 |
Multilabel learning with label relationships
Machine learning based method for multilabel learning with label relationships is provided. This methodology addresses the technical problem of alleviating computational complexity of training a machine learning model that generates multilabel output with constraints, especially in contexts characterized by a large volume of data, by providing a new formulation that encodes probabilistic relationships among the labels as a regularization parameter in the training objective of the underlying model. For example, the training process of the model may be configured to have two objectives. Namely, in addition to the objective of minimizing conventional multilabel loss, there is another training objective, which is to minimize penalty associated with the prediction generated by the model breaking probabilistic relationships among the labels. |
| US11769084B2 |
Method for identifying slow transient variations and/or local spatial variations of a physical property in a set of data points
Method for identifying slow transient variations and/or local spatial variations in vehicle related fluid dynamic conditions of a physical property in a set of data points. The method includes obtaining a first set of data points, calculating a temporal filtered value of the representation of the physical property for at least a portion of the first set of data points distributed over the total time period, combining at least a portion of the calculated temporal filtered values to obtain a second set of data points, and analysing in time sequence the second set of data points over at least a portion of the total time period. |
| US11769082B2 |
Systems and methods for live event management and remote integration
Provided are systems and methods for an event management platform that include integrated services that are conventionally provided as add-on features or even provided by third party servicers in conventional approaches. The system delivers functionality not available in any conventional approach. The system and method deliver event management for both online and in-person event execution. Ticketing operation is integral in the platform and can be provided without notorious ticket service fees. Further embodiments automatically integrate an ambassador platform configured to deliver promotion, tracking, marketing, and attribution functions with little or no input required from an event organizer. Pre-registration services can be implemented with little or no input, and ambassador teams can be linked by the system to an event and used to drive participation. Information captured and made available by the ambassador platform and ticketing platform enables audience insights and targeting that are unavailable in conventional systems. |
| US11769077B2 |
Methods and systems to characterize the user of a personal care device
A method (300) for identifying a characteristic of a user of a personal care device (10) comprising a sensor (28), a controller (30), and a database (34), comprising the steps of: training (320) the device with training data, comprising the steps of: (i) obtaining (322) sensor data for at least one personal care session for each of at least two different users; (ii) extracting (324), via an extraction module, a plurality of features from each of the personal care sessions; and (iii) training (328), using the extracted features, a classifier to identify a characteristic of each of the at least two different users of the device; obtaining (330) sensor data for at least part of a new personal care session; extracting (340) a plurality of features from the sensor data for the new personal care session; and identifying (360), using the trained classifier, a characteristic of the user of the device. |
| US11769070B2 |
Quantum computing based hybrid solution strategies for large-scale discrete-continuous optimization problems
Technologies for a quantum/classical hybrid approach to solving optimization problems is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, an optimization problem is decomposed into two sub-problems. The first sub-problem is solved on a classical computer, and a result from the first sub-problem is provided to a quantum computer. The quantum computer then solves the second sub-problem based on the result of the first sub-problem from the classical computer. The quantum computer can then provide a result to the classical computer to re-solve the first problem. The iterative calculation is continued until an end condition is met. |
| US11769067B2 |
Topology-based migration assessment
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may generate a migration assessment for resources of a computer system. In particular, the apparatus may logically divide topological information to facilitate identification of a resource, components used by the resource, and dependencies. The system further enables users to specify user-defined migration parameters that specify the migration. For instance, the parameters may specify a cost associated with the migration of the component, a license model of the component, a security requirement of the component, a performance of the component, a customization of the component, or requirement of the component. Migration assessments and decisions may be stored to train machine-learned models. For instance, the model may assess whether a parameter will be satisfied by using a certain cloud service and whether substitutes have sufficiently satisfied dependencies based on observed migration assessments and actual migrations. |
| US11769066B2 |
Building data platform with digital twin triggers and actions
A building system including one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to store a data structure of a digital twin of an entity of a building, the data structure storing information associated with at least one of the entity or entities of the building and determine that a trigger rule of the digital twin is triggered by comparing at least some of the information of the data structure against one or more conditions of the trigger rule. The instructions cause the one or more processors to determine an action of an action rule of the digital twin responsive to determining that the trigger rule is triggered by executing the action rule and cause one or more devices to operate based on the action determined by the action rule. |
| US11769060B2 |
Method for determining optimal anomaly detection model for processing input data
Disclosed is a computer program stored in a computer readable storage medium according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. When the computer program is executed by one or more processors of a computing device, the computer program may perform operations for managing a model, and the operations may include: generating an anomaly detection model including a plurality of anomaly detection sub models having a pre-learned network function through using a plurality of training data subsets included in a training data set; determining one or more anomaly detection sub models for calculating an input data among the generated anomaly detection sub models; and judging whether or not the anomaly is existed in the input data through using the one or more determined anomaly detection sub models. |
| US11769055B2 |
Systems and methods for a supra-graph based attention model for multi-layered embeddings and deep learning applications
Various embodiments of systems and methods for attention models with random features for multi-layered graph embeddings are disclosed. |
| US11769053B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for operating neural networks
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for operating neural networks. An example apparatus includes a plurality of neural networks, wherein the plurality of neural networks are configured to receive a particular portion of data and wherein each of the plurality of neural networks are configured to operate on the particular portion of data during a particular time period to make a determination regarding a characteristic of the particular portion of data. |
| US11769052B2 |
Distance estimation to objects and free-space boundaries in autonomous machine applications
In various examples, a deep neural network (DNN) is trained—using image data alone—to accurately predict distances to objects, obstacles, and/or a detected free-space boundary. The DNN may be trained with ground truth data that is generated using sensor data representative of motion of an ego-vehicle and/or sensor data from any number of depth predicting sensors—such as, without limitation, RADAR sensors, LIDAR sensors, and/or SONAR sensors. The DNN may be trained using two or more loss functions each corresponding to a particular portion of the environment that depth is predicted for, such that—in deployment—more accurate depth estimates for objects, obstacles, and/or the detected free-space boundary are computed by the DNN. In some embodiments, a sampling algorithm may be used to sample depth values corresponding to an input resolution of the DNN from a predicted depth map of the DNN at an output resolution of the DNN. |
| US11769051B2 |
Training neural networks using normalized target outputs
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network using normalized target outputs. One of the methods includes updating current values of the normalization parameters to account for the target output for the training item; determining a normalized target output for the training item by normalizing the target output for the training item in accordance with the updated normalization parameter values; processing the training item using the neural network to generate a normalized output for the training item in accordance with current values of main parameters of the neural network; determining an error for the training item using the normalized target output and the normalized output; and using the error to adjust the current values of the main parameters of the neural network. |
| US11769048B2 |
Recommending edges via importance aware machine learned model
In an example embodiment, a single machine learned model that allows for ranking of entities across all of the different combinations of node types and edge types is provided. The solution calibrates the scores from Edge-FPR models to a single scale. Additionally, the solution may utilize a per-edge type multiplicative factor dictated by the true importance of an edge type, which is learned through a counterfactual experimentation process. The solution may additionally optimize on a single, common downstream metric, specifically downstream interactions that can be compared against each other across all combinations of node types and edge types. |
| US11769045B2 |
Method to identify acoustic sources for anti-submarine warfare
A method to detect the presence and location of submarines in a complex marine environment by wavelet denoising, wavelet signal enhancement, by autocorrelation and signal source identification a convolutional neural network. |
| US11769043B2 |
Batch size pipelined PIM accelerator for vision inference on multiple images
A method of pipelining inference of a neural network, which includes an i-th layer (i being an integer greater than zero) and an (i+1)-th layer, includes processing, for a first input image, first i-th values of the i-th layer to generate first (i+1)-th values for the (i+1)-th layer, processing, for the first input image, the first (i+1)-th values of the (i+1)-th layer to generate output values, and concurrently with processing, for the first image, the (i+1)-th values, processing, for a second input image, second i-th values of the i-th layer to generate second (i+1)-th values. |
| US11769041B2 |
Low latency long short-term memory inference with sequence interleaving
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a low latency long short-term memory (LSTM) machine learning engine using sequence interleaving techniques are disclosed. A computing system includes at least a host processing unit, a machine learning engine, and a memory. The host processing unit detects a plurality of sequences which will be processed by the machine learning engine. The host processing unit interleaves the sequences into data blocks and stores the data blocks in the memory. When the machine learning engine receives a given data block, the machine learning engine performs, in parallel, a plurality of matrix multiplication operations on the plurality of sequences in the given data block and a plurality of coefficients. Then, the outputs of the matrix multiplication operations are coupled to one or more LSTM layers. |
| US11769040B2 |
Scalable multi-die deep learning system
A distributed deep neural net (DNN) utilizing a distributed, tile-based architecture implemented on a semiconductor package. The package includes multiple chips, each with a central processing element, a global memory buffer, and processing elements. Each processing element includes a weight buffer, an activation buffer, and multiply-accumulate units to combine, in parallel, the weight values and the activation values. |
| US11769037B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing convolution operation in neural network
Provided are a method of performing a convolution operation between a kernel and an input feature map based on reuse of the input feature map, and a neural network apparatus using the method. The neural network apparatus generates output values of an operation between each of weights of a kernel and an input feature map, and generates an output feature map by accumulating the output values at positions in the output feature map that are set based on positions of the weights in the kernel. |
| US11769036B2 |
Optimizing performance of recurrent neural networks
An apparatus for optimizing a computational network is configure to receive an input at a first processing component. The first processing component may include at least a first programmable processing component and a second programmable processing component. The first programmable processing component is configured to compute a first nonlinear function and the second programmable processing component is configured to compute a second nonlinear function which is different than the second nonlinear function. The computational network which may be a recurrent neural network such as a long short-term memory may be operated to generate an inference based at least in part on outputs of the first programmable processing component and the second programmable processing component. |
| US11769031B2 |
RFID device
The present invention disclosed a radio-frequency identification (RFID) device. The RFID device comprises a protective body and a RFID circuit unit located inside the protective body. The RFID circuit unit comprises a printed circuit board (PCB), a RFID chip and an antenna disposed thereon. A front surface of the PCB faces a top surface of the protective body; a rear surface of the PCB faces a bottom surface of the protective body. |
| US11769029B2 |
Card with fingerprint biometrics
An inlay for a card includes a first transparent overlay sheet, an antenna carrier sheet, a thickness compensation sheet, a second transparent overlay sheet. The inlay also includes a microcontroller, a module lead frame, a finger sensor lead frame, an antenna, and electrical wires. The module lead frame is adapted for being milled and includes a plurality of first contact pads for contacting a contact module. The finger sensor lead frame is adapted for being milled and includes a plurality of second contact pads for contacting a fingerprint sensor. The electrical wires are connected to the microcontroller, to the first contact pads, to the second contact pads, and to the antenna. |
| US11769022B2 |
Methods and systems for processing an image
A system performs a method for processing an image of a machine-readable code. The method includes receiving an image of a machine-readable code comprising coded information, where the machine-readable code is at least partially obscured by a substance that has a predominant color; generating an adjusted image by adjusting a color space of the image based on the predominant color; binarizing at least a machine-readable code region of the image, wherein the machine-readable code region of the image depicts the machine-readable code; and decoding the binarized machine-readable code region to determine the coded information. Other apparatus and methods are also described. |
| US11769017B1 |
Generative summaries for search results
At least selectively utilizing a large language model (LLM) in generating a natural language (NL) based summary to be rendered in response to a query. In some implementations, in generating the NL based summary additional content is processed using the LLM. The additional content is in addition to query content of the query itself and, in generating the NL based summary, can be processed using the LLM and along with the query content—or even independent of the query content. Processing the additional content can, for example, mitigate occurrences of the NL based summary including inaccuracies and/or can mitigate occurrences of the NL based summary being over-specified and/or under-specified. |
| US11769014B2 |
Classifying digital documents in multi-document transactions based on signatory role analysis
A classifier receives a digital scan of a document and converts the content of the document in the digital scan from an image into text. The classifier analyzes the text to determine one or more predicted roles of one or more signatories, each predicted role determined based on one or more signature elements in the content of the document executed by the one or more signatories. The classifier evaluates each of the one or more predicted roles in view of a plurality of expected signatory role characteristics of a plurality of categories of documents of a transaction to select a particular category associated with the document from among the plurality of categories. The classifier classifies the document within the transaction as a particular logical type identified by the particular category from among a plurality of logical types for the transaction. |
| US11769012B2 |
Automated system and method to prioritize language model and ontology expansion and pruning
A system and method for updating computerized language models is provided that automatically adds or deletes terms from the language model to capture trending events or products, while maximizing computer efficiencies by deleting terms that are no longer trending and use of knowledge bases, machine learning model training and evaluation corpora, analysis tools and databases. |
| US11769011B2 |
Universal language segment representations learning with conditional masked language model
The present disclosure provides a novel sentence-level representation learning method Conditional Masked Language Modeling (CMLM) for training on large scale unlabeled corpora. CMLM outperforms the previous state-of-the-art English sentence embedding models, including those trained with (semi-)supervised signals. For multilingual representations learning, it is shown that co-training CMLM with bitext retrieval and cross-lingual natural language inference (NL) fine-tuning achieves state-of-the-art performance. It is also shown that multilingual representations have the same language bias and principal component removal (PCR) can eliminate the bias by separating language identity information from semantics. |
| US11769010B2 |
Document management workflow for redacted documents
A method including accessing an electronic document from a source of electronic documents; determining if the electronic document is redaction protected; and when the electronic document is redaction protected, allowing the electronic document to be opened only if a redaction application is available to allow opening of the electronic document with a redaction. |
| US11769003B2 |
Web element rediscovery system and method
A computer readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computer processor to perform steps to identify a changed element within a target web page is disclosed. A pre-region longest matching segment that matches a pre-region segment of a pre-region of a source web page is identified within a pre-region of the target page. A post-region longest matching segment that matches a post-region segment of a post-region of a source web page is identified within a post-region of the target page. The changed element in the target web page is identified that is between the pre-region longest matching segment and the post-region longest matching segment in response to the pre-region longest matching segment being determined to be within a pre-defined distance of the post-region longest matching segment. |
| US11768998B2 |
Input box information processing method and electronic device
An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes receiving first information inputted by a user in a first input box, and displaying a second input box in a case that the first information does not match the first input box, where the second input box includes a part or all of the first information. |
| US11768988B2 |
Standard unit for system on chip design, and data processing unit, operation chip and computing apparatus using same
A standard unit (100) for a system on chip design includes a plurality of semiconductor devices and is configured to implement a basic logic function. The standard unit (100) includes a first transistor (110) of a first threshold type and a second transistor (120) of a second threshold type, the second threshold type is different from the first threshold type, wherein a threshold range of the first threshold type is different from that of the second threshold type. |
| US11768987B2 |
System for facilitating secure communication in system-on-chips
A system to facilitate communication of a critical signal between functional circuitries of a system-on-chip utilizes a dynamic pattern to securely communicate the critical signal. The system includes selection and comparison circuits. The selection circuit is configured to select and output a set of dynamic pattern bits or a set of fixed reference bits, based on a logic state of the critical signal that is received from one functional circuitry. The comparison circuit is configured to output an output signal based on the set of dynamic pattern bits, and a set of intermediate bits that is derived from the set of dynamic pattern bits or the set of fixed reference bits. The output signal is provided to the other functional circuitry when a logic state of the output signal matches the logic state of the critical signal, thereby securely communicating the critical signal to the other functional circuitry. |
| US11768986B2 |
High-dimensional multi-distributed importance sampling for circuit yield analysis
A computer-implemented method for simulation of an integrated circuit for yield analysis includes: a) for plurality of variables, generating initial sampling sets by sampling from provided distributions related to physical properties of circuits; b) selecting at least one sample from each initial set randomly and combining into initial simulation set; c) running initial simulation of operation of circuit, applying initial simulation set, the operation having passing/failing criterion; d) if fails: storing samples of initial set into initial sampling distributions for each variable; e) repeating steps b)-d) until sufficient failures obtained; f) building importance sampling distribution based on each initial sampling distribution, the importance distribution having lower, center, upper portions; g) generating secondary simulation set by drawing samples from importance sampling distribution for each variable; h) simulating circuit by applying the secondary set; i) repeating steps g)-h); j) mapping resulting yields to provided distributions, to obtain a yield. |
| US11768981B2 |
System architecture and methods of determining device behavior
A method of determining a device behavior, wherein the method includes using a first procedure. The first procedure includes discretizing a user specified nano-device structure for at least one quantum method. Additionally, the first procedure includes solving the at least one quantum method, thereby having a solution of the at least one quantum method. Moreover, the first procedure includes extracting a parameter out of the solution of the at least one quantum method. Next, the first procedure includes applying at least one approximate method to the user-specified nano-device structure using the parameter. The first procedure additionally includes solving the at least one approximate method to the user-specified nano-device structure using the parameter. The first procedure also includes extracting the device behavior of the user-specified nano-device structure. Next, the method of determining the device behavior includes iterating the first procedure until a condition is satisfied. |
| US11768979B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
[Problem] To provide design support useful for hardware implementation of a neural network.[Solution] Provided is an information processing device including a control unit that controls presentation of information related to an optimization structure when at least a part of a network structure of a designed neural network has been optimized for hardware processing. Provided is an information processing method including a step of controlling, by a processor, presentation of information related to an optimization structure when at least a part of a network structure of a designed neural network has been optimized for hardware processing. |
| US11768977B2 |
Systems and methods for installing and wiring building equipment
Systems and methods for guided installation of building equipment are provided. A request for a wiring diagram for wiring a first piece of building equipment to a second piece of building equipment is received from a user device. One or more first wiring configurations associated with the first piece of building equipment and one or more second wiring configurations associated with the second piece of building equipment are identified. Based on the one or more first wiring configurations and the one or more second wiring configurations, an equipment-specific wiring configuration for wiring the first piece of building equipment to the second piece of building equipment is automatically selected. A graphical user interface including a wiring diagram illustrating the equipment-specific wiring configuration is provided to the user device. |
| US11768976B2 |
Subsea Christmas tree re-prediction method integrating Kalman filter and Bayesian network
The present disclosure belongs to the field of petroleum engineering, and specifically relates to a subsea Christmas tree re-prediction method integrating Kalman filter and Bayesian network. The subsea Christmas tree re-prediction method integrating Kalman filter and Bayesian network includes three steps: digital twin model establishment, degradation process re-prediction model establishment, and remaining useful life calculation model establishment. The subsea Christmas tree re-prediction system integrating Kalman filter and Bayesian network includes a subsea distribution unit information acquisition subsystem mounted on an subsea distribution unit, a subsea control module information acquisition subsystem mounted on a subsea control module, a subsea valve bank information acquisition subsystem mounted on a subsea valve bank, a wellhead mechanical module information acquisition subsystem mounted on a wellhead mechanical module, a subsea environmental information acquisition module mounted on a subsea control module, and a subsea Christmas tree digital twin subsystem mounted in an overwater control station. |
| US11768975B1 |
Automatic modeling method for user-defined vehicle controller
An automatic modeling method for a user-defined vehicle controller includes: configuring a component model; generating a description file; summarizing component input and output signals/parameters; and creating the user-defined vehicle controller. A template and data required by the user is provided to automatically build a vehicle controller port model, and a vehicle controller policy model framework to assist the user to quickly and flexibly build the vehicle controller model is provided. The problem of low efficiency in building various user-defined vehicle controller models for different vehicle types is solved. The user develops a vehicle controller policy model under the given model framework, and the model can run directly without additional configuration of port signals. The user can modify the vehicle controller policy model online in real time, which solves the problem that the application configuration of the vehicle controller is complex and cannot be updated online in real time. |
| US11768973B2 |
Methods and systems for an automated design, fulfillment, deployment and operation platform for lighting installations
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects. |
| US11768970B2 |
Secure computing device
A secure computing device having a storage arrangement configured to store a secret. The secure computing device includes a first interface configured to control a display, and a second interface configured to receive an input signal having information which reproduces a prompt to display the secret. The secure computing device is designed to read the secret from the storage arrangement on the basis of the input signal, and to control the display via the first interface in such a way that a display of the secret is effected. |
| US11768968B2 |
Secure starting of an electronic circuit
A method of checking the authenticity of at least a first portion of the content of a non-volatile memory of an electronic device including a microcontroller and an embedded secure element is disclosed. The method includes starting the microcontroller with instructions stored in a first secure memory area associated with the microcontroller and starting the secure element. The secure element has a plurality of decipher keys, each associated with a portion of the content of a second reprogrammable non-volatile memory area associated with the microcontroller. The secure element performs a signature check on a first portion of the content of the second area. If the signature is verified, the secure element sends the decipher key associated with the first portion to the microcontroller. If the signature is not verified, the secure element executes a signature check on another portion of the content of the second memory area. |
| US11768963B2 |
System and method for validating trust provisioning operation on system-on-chip
A system-on-chip (SoC) includes a memory, a trust provisioning system, a one-time programmable (OTP) element, and a comparator. The memory is configured to store a first secret key before an execution of a trust provisioning operation. The trust provisioning system is configured to receive an encrypted version of a first set of secure assets and one of a second secret key and an encrypted version of the second secret key, and execute the trust provisioning operation on the SoC to store the first set of secure assets and the second secret key in the OTP element. The comparator is configured to compare the first and second secret keys to generate a valid signal that is indicative of a validation of the trust provisioning operation. The first set of secure assets and a second set of secure assets associated with the SoC are accessible based on the valid signal. |
| US11768962B2 |
Cloud service delivery techniques and systems
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for providing software services to one or more consumer systems. A cloud service provider system accesses a software service build comprising a first feature and a first feature toggle for selectively enabling or disabling the first feature. The cloud service provider system configures the first feature toggle of the software service build to disable the first feature and deploys the software service build to a first environment accessible by a first consumer system. A toggle routine determines that a first toggle condition for the first feature has occurred and modifies the software service build deployed at the first environment to configure the first feature toggle to enable the first feature. |
| US11768961B2 |
System and method for speaker role determination and scrubbing identifying information
Methods for speaker role determination and scrubbing identifying information are performed by systems and devices. In speaker role determination, data from an audio or text file is divided into respective portions related to speaking parties. Characteristics classifying the portions of the data for speaking party roles are identified in the portions to generate data sets from the portions corresponding to the speaking party roles and to assign speaking party roles for the data sets. For scrubbing identifying information in data, audio data for speaking parties is processed using speech recognition to generate a text-based representation. Text associated with identifying information is determined based on a set of key words/phrases, and a portion of the text-based representation that includes a part of the text is identified. A segment of audio data that corresponds to the identified portion is replaced with different audio data, and the portion is replaced with different text. |
| US11768959B2 |
Anonymizing navigation information for use in autonomous vehicle navigation
Systems and methods are provided for processing vehicle navigation information. A processing device may be configured to receive navigation information from a plurality of vehicles associated with a common road section; store the navigation information; generate at least a portion of an autonomous vehicle road navigation model for the common road section; and distribute the autonomous vehicle road navigation model to one or more autonomous vehicles. The navigation information from each of the vehicles may include first road segment information relative to a first portion of the common road section, and second road segment information relative to a second portion of the common road section. The second road segment information may include a motion representation for the vehicle and a road characteristic relative to the second portion of the common road section. The second portion may be different from and spatially separated from the first portion of the road section. |
| US11768955B2 |
Mitigating insecure digital storage of sensitive information
Examples described herein attempt to mitigate risk associated with digitally storing sensitive information (e.g., passwords) in insecure applications and transferring the stored sensitive information to a sensitive information field (e.g., a password field in a login page). A computing device may detect a transfer to a sensitive field. The computing device may determine if a source application for the transfer is an insecure application. If the source application is an insecure application, the computing device may provide a risk mitigation action. The computing device may also transmit to an analytic server telemetry data comprising the identification of the source application, identification of a target application containing the sensitive information field, and a username associated with the computing device. The analytic server may calculate risk score based on the received telemetry data and provide further risk mitigation actions to the computing device. |
| US11768953B2 |
Data sharing using secure views
Systems, methods, and devices for implementing secure views for zero-copy data sharing in a multi-tenant database system are disclosed. A method includes generating a share object in a first account comprising a share role. The method includes associating view privileges for the share object such that an underlying detail of the share object comprises a secure view definition. The method includes granting, to a second account, cross-account access rights to the share role or share object in the first account. The method includes receiving a request from the second account to access data or services of the first account and providing a response to the second account based on the data or services of the first account. The method is such that the underlying detail of the share object that comprises the secure view definition is hidden from the second account and visible to the first account. |
| US11768951B2 |
Systems and methods of gesture triggered automatic erasure on a private network
The systems and methods of gesture triggered automatic erasure on a private network, comprising: securely connecting, embedding, sending information within one or more secure objects on the first computing device; detecting, by the first computing device, a signal as a zeroization trigger responsive to a user gesture; and sending, by the first computing device via the private network, a message informing the second computing device of the zeroization trigger, the message causing the second computing device to execute automatic erasure of the one or more secure objects stored on the second computing device; wherein: the second computing device belongs to a zeroization group; the message causing each member computing device belonging to the zeroization group to execute the automatic erasure of the one or more secure objects. |
| US11768946B2 |
Low memory overhead heap management for memory tagging
A method comprising responsive to a first instruction requesting a memory heap operation, identifying a data block of a memory heap; accessing a tag history for the data block, the tag history comprising a plurality of tags previously assigned to the data block; assigning a tag to the data block, wherein assigning the tag comprises verification that the tag does not match any of the plurality of tags of the tag history; and providing the assigned tag and a reference to a location of the data block. |
| US11768945B2 |
Machine learning system for determining a security vulnerability in computer software
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may retrieve, from an industry standard setting scoring system and for a vulnerability, a temporal score based on a pre-revision version of a scoring system, and predict, based on a machine learning model and based on the temporal score for the vulnerability, an updated temporal score based on a post-revision version of the scoring system. A mitigating factor score, indicative of a mitigation applied to the vulnerability by an enterprise organization, may be determined. A risk score may be generated for each vulnerability, as a composite of the updated temporal score and the mitigating factor score. The risk scores for vulnerabilities in a collection of vulnerabilities may be aggregated to determine an enterprise risk score for the enterprise organization. In some instances, the enterprise risk score may be displayed via a graphical user interface. |
| US11768942B2 |
License-protected boot device
The disclosed embodiments relate to secure booting of memory device. The disclosed embodiments generate measurement data associated with a memory device. Next, the disclosed embodiments read a golden measurement from a secure location in the memory device, the golden measurement generated based on a version of the data associated with the memory device, and therefore it is unique to the device. The disclosed embodiments validate the golden measurement value using a public key and determine whether the golden measurement is equal to the measurement data. The golden measurement value can also be saved in a write protected area which can only be changed by a secure write command, therefore, it is imutable by others. Finally, the disclosed embodiments continue a boot process when the golden measurement is equal to the measurement data. |
| US11768941B2 |
Non-ROM based IP firmware verification downloaded by host software
An apparatus to implement an IP independent secure firmware load into an IP agent without a ROM to establish hardware root of trust is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of agents, at least one agent including an isolated memory region accessible only to a trusted entity of the at least one agent and a main memory, and a processor to allocate a section of the isolated memory region of the at least one agent, verify a first stage firmware module, the first stage firmware module comprising instructions to enable the at least one agent to load and verify a second stage firmware module, place the first stage firmware module into memory of the at least one agent without a ROM to establish the hardware root of trust. |
| US11768939B2 |
Authentication in an update mode of a mobile device
An embodiment includes activating, responsive to receiving an update notification, an update mode of a mobile device, wherein the activating of the update mode includes disabling a primary communication interface and enabling a secondary communication interface, and wherein the update notification includes notification of a software update available for the mobile device. The embodiment also includes initiating execution of the software update on the mobile device while the mobile device remains in the update mode. The embodiment also includes deactivating, responsive to completing the software update, the update mode of the mobile device, wherein the deactivating of the update mode includes enabling the primary communication interface and disabling the secondary communication interface. |
| US11768937B1 |
Hash based flexible threat scanning engine
Techniques for hash based flexible scanning are described. A method of hash based flexible scanning may include obtaining a sample from a sample source, determining a size of the sample, generating one or more hashes of one or more blocks of the sample based on the size of the sample, and determining whether the sample is associated with a known threat by comparing the one hashes of the one or more blocks to hashes in a threat database. |
| US11768936B2 |
Anomaly-based ransomware detection for encrypted files
Techniques are provided for anomaly-based ransomware detection of encrypted files. One exemplary method comprises obtaining metadata for an encrypted file; applying an anomaly detection technique to the metadata to compare at least one attribute in the metadata to one or more corresponding historical baseline values for the at least one attribute; and determining whether the encrypted file comprises a ransomware encryption based on the comparison. In some embodiments, one or more of file extension attributes, file size attributes and file name attributes in the metadata are compared to the one or more corresponding historical baseline values to identify a ransomware attack. |
| US11768932B2 |
Systems and methods for fast training of more robust models against adversarial attacks
Described herein are embodiments for fast training of adversarially robust models against adversarial attacks. Embodiments for model training by perturbing both the image and the label, which may be referred to as Bilateral Adversarial Training (BAT), are disclosed. To generate the adversarial label, one or more closed-form heuristic solutions are derived. One-step targeted attack is used with the target label being the most confusing class. It is shown in various experiments that random start and the most confusing target attack effectively prevent the label leaking and gradient masking problem. Coupled with the adversarial label part, embodiments of presented models significantly improve the state-of-the-art results. Experiments on one or more computationally challenging dataset also demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented BAT method embodiments. |
| US11768930B2 |
Application authenticity verification in digital distribution systems
Techniques are provided for client application authentication and include receiving a request to authenticate an application and, based on the received request to authenticate the application, sending a request to perform a push communication, including a short-term shared key, to a digital distribution system, wherein the digital distribution system is a distribution source of the application. The digital distribution system attempts to send the push communication including the short-term shared key to the application. The techniques may proceed by receiving a request for resources from the provider client application and determining whether the application has the short-term shared key. When it is determined that the application has provided the short-term shared key, the requested resources to the application may be provided, otherwise, the requested resources may be denied. |
| US11768928B2 |
Automated device access
A method of unlocking a locked device includes receiving a device identifier over a wireless communication protocol, determining if the device identifier is associated with a list of trusted devices, transmitting a request to generate an acoustic signal over the wireless communication protocol based on the determination, receiving the acoustic signal as an audio sound generated external to the locked device, estimating a distance between a source of the audio sound and the locked device, and unlocking the locked device based on the estimation. |
| US11768925B2 |
Smart device management resource picker
A method for a smart device management resource picker includes receiving an authorization request from a third party. The authorization request requests access to a user resource managed by the device manager. The device manager manages access controls associated with a plurality of user devises, the access controls are configured by a user. The method also includes determining whether the third party is authorized to access the user resource managed by the device manager. When the third party is authorized to access the user resource managed by the device manager, the method includes determining whether the user has configured access controls at the device manager that governs the user resource subject to the authorization request. When the user has configured a respective access control that governs the user resource subject to the authorization request, the method includes communicating a response to the authorization request based on the respective access control. |
| US11768921B2 |
Monitoring license constraints in a container orchestration system
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to a cloud-native approach to software license enforcement in a container orchestration system. According to an example, information indicative of a number of sets of containers that are making use of one or more components of an application is received. The application is licensed by the tenant and the sets of containers are running within a namespace of the tenant within a cluster of a container orchestration system. Overuse of the application by the tenant is determined based on whether the number exceeds a licensing constraint for the application specified within an Application Programming Interface (API) object of the container orchestration system corresponding to the application. Responsive to a determination that the application is being overused by the tenant, the tenant is caused to be notified regarding the overuse. |
| US11768920B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing heterogeneous sensor fusion
A heterogeneous sensor fusion apparatus includes a point processor configured to detect a first object by processing a detection point input from a first sensor, an image processor configured to detect a second object by processing an image input from a second sensor, a point-matching unit configured to calculate a matching rate by matching the detection point with the image, and to determine whether the first object and the second object are identical based on the calculated matching rate, an association unit configured to generate track information by fusing information from the first sensor and the second sensor when the first object and the second object are identical, and an output unit configured to output the generated track information. |
| US11768917B2 |
Systems and methods for alerting to model degradation based on distribution analysis
A detection modeling system performs a distribution analysis to alert to model degradation. The detection modeling system may have a distribution analysis module configured to perform an alerting process in conjunction with a processing device. The distribution analysis module may select, by the processing device, model metrics for analysis, the model metrics being a measure of a parameter associated with the analytical model and determine normal distributions for model metric results for each of the selected model metrics. The detection modeling system may further receive model metric values for each of the selected model metric, compare, by the processing device, the model metric values to the normal distributions for model metric results for each of the received model metric value, and alert, by the processing device, to model degradation of the analytical model based on the comparison of the model metric values to the normal distributions for model metric results. |
| US11768915B1 |
System, method, and computer program for anomaly detection in time-series data with mixed seasonality
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for anomaly detection in time-series data with mixed seasonality. In use, time-series data of a mixed seasonality type is received. Additionally, the time-series data is segmented, by a defined unit of time, to form a plurality of time-series data segments. Further, the plurality of time-series data segments are processed to determine one or more patterns across the plurality of time-series data segments. Still yet, the one or more patterns are stored and used to perform pattern matching for an input time-series. |
| US11768912B2 |
Performing multivariate time series prediction with three-dimensional transformations
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving historical two-dimensional (2D) multivariate time series data; transforming the historical 2D multivariate time series data into a three-dimensional (3D) temporal tensor; training one or more deep volumetric 3D convolutional neural networks (CNNs), utilizing the 3D temporal tensor; and predicting future values for additional multivariate time series data, utilizing the one or more trained deep volumetric 3D CNNs. |
| US11768911B2 |
Method and apparatus for execution of neural network
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for execution of a neural network. An exemplary method can be implemented by a processing unit. The processing unit can include a command parser configured to dispatch commands and computing tasks and at least one core communicatively coupled with the command parser and configured to process the dispatched computing task. Each core can include a convolution unit, a pooling unit, at least one operation unit and a sequencer communicatively coupled with the convolution unit, the pooling unit, and the at least one operation unit and configured to distribute instructions of the dispatched computing task to the convolution unit, the pooling unit, and the at least one operation unit for execution. The method can include: reading, by the convolution unit, data from a local memory of the at least one operation unit; performing, by the convolution unit, a convolution operation on the data to generate a feature map; and performing, by the pooling unit, a pooling operation on the feature map. |
| US11768910B2 |
Enhanced metadata collection and output
Enhanced metadata with optimized output. In an embodiment, a content object is received. First metadata to be associated with the content object is determined. At least one metadata field to be acquired is determined based on an association, within a stored knowledge structure, of the at least one metadata field with the first metadata. Second metadata to be associated with the content object is acquired based on the at least one metadata field. A metadata structure and markup format for the content object are determined. The metadata structure incorporates both the first metadata and the second metadata. The content object is output with the metadata structure and in the markup format. |
| US11768908B2 |
System and method for collection of a website in a past state and retroactive analysis thereof
A system and method for collection of a website in a past state and retroactive analysis thereof are provided. The method includes collecting, from a repository, at least one session replay; identifying, in the at least one collected session replay, at least one main state, wherein a main state is a portion of a session replay; selecting at least one webpage snapshot corresponding to a respective main state of the at least one identified main state, wherein each snapshot is a single-instant webpage state at a specific point in time; identifying, in the at least selected one snapshot, at least one webpage zone; and returning the at least one identified zone. |
| US11768907B2 |
Search method, search device, electronic device and storage medium
A search method, a search device, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to the field of intelligent search technologies. The method includes: receiving a first keyword inputted by a user; receiving a target resource sent by a server if a degree of association between the first keyword and a target keyword or a target page meets a preset condition, where the target resource is a resource of a search result page corresponding to the target keyword or a resource of the target page; pre-rendering a received target resource in a target container when receiving the target resource returned by the server; outputting, if a first search instruction inputted by the user is detected, the resource in the target container in response to the first search instruction; where the first search instruction is an instruction to search for the target keyword or the target page. |
| US11768905B2 |
System and computer program product for creating and processing URLs
The present invention is directed to a method and computer readable medium for automatically generating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from schema and semantics of an organizational structure. The semantically intelligent URL conveys knowledge about content it accompanies by defining patterns of possible URL parameters within an organizational structure of related content stored in a database, each pattern being represented by entities and semantic information formed of attributes and relationships. The patterns of the URL organize categories of information and form relationships among the entities. The patterns are used for automatically generating a URL along with semantic information about the content in a resource or web page, wherein said semantic information explains the content, such as with attributes of entities, such as in a name value pair that correlates to the content of a page. |
| US11768903B2 |
Auto seed: an automatic crawler seeds adaptation mechanism
A computer-implemented method for automatically adjusting a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) seed list. The method includes crawling for documents based on a seed URL list. The method generates relations data from the documents using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model. The method analyzes the relations data using an auto-seed model. The method modifies the seed URL list. |
| US11768899B2 |
Systems and methods to curate notifications from unsubscribed social media accounts
Methods and systems for curating notifications from unfollowed accounts are described herein. The system tracks that a first account previously followed a second account and subsequently unfollowed the second account. The system identifies an interest of the first account and monitors the activities of the second account for activity that matches the interest. If there is a match between the interest and an activity of the second account, the system notifies the first account of the activity. These methods and systems provide the user with relevant information from unfollowed accounts. |
| US11768894B2 |
Systems and methods for profiling an entity
A system for performing recursive online searches is configured to: (a) determine that a summary profile of a target entity includes at least one unpopulated field; (b) search at least one of a set of data sources to obtain one or more attributes for populating the at least one unpopulated field, the one or more attributes being information extracted from one or more peripheral entities associated with the target entity; (c) calculate, for each of the one or more attributes, a respective confidence score based at least in part on a set of factors, the set of factors including an activity level of the target entity; and (d) based on a respective confidence score being above a threshold, populate a respective unpopulated field with a respective one of the one or more attributes. |
| US11768887B2 |
Electronic evidence transfer
A method for transferring electronic evidence is provided. The law enforcement agencies can make efficient use of social media and other forms of public communications to make a public appeal for information on crimes and other investigations wherein the public appeals allow members of the public to easily submit information and/or media files from smartphones and other computers in a way that allows the submission to be linked to the public appeal (e.g. the specific case file or the attributes of the case file) so that the submission data can be found and accessed by law enforcement investigators. |
| US11768882B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing digital files
A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label. |
| US11768880B1 |
Community-driven, context-aware intelligent research assistant systems
Community-driven, context-aware (e.g., geospatially and space-time aware) intelligent research assistant systems are provided. A virtual assistant application of a user computing system may receive a query from a user and provide the query to a server. The server may determine a category and topic of the query and determine whether an application exists for the category and topic. When the application exists, the server may call an application programming interface (API) associated with the application that executes finite state machine (FSM) logic to determine a context-aware answer to the query and provide the determined context-aware answer to the virtual assistant application. |
| US11768875B2 |
Monitoring system control interface for asset tree determination
A method to provide an interface for asset tee determination includes performing a search of data, the search including user-supplied criteria information, causing display of results of the search, receiving user input providing classifications for the results of the search, the classifications indicating asset identifier and asset parent identifier fields in the results of the search, identifying, based on the user input and the results of the search, a plurality of unique assets identifiers and corresponding asset parent identifiers, and automatically generating a computer representation of an asset hierarchy comprising an asset node for each asset identifier, an asset parent node for each asset parent identifier, and a representation of hierarchical relationships between asset nodes and asset parent nodes. |
| US11768874B2 |
Compact entity identifier embeddings
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system applies a first set of hash functions to a first entity identifier (ID) for a first entity to generate a first set of hash values. Next, the system produces a first set of intermediate vectors from the first set of hash values and a first set of lookup tables by matching each hash value in the first set of hash values to an entry in a corresponding lookup table in the first set of lookup tables. The system then performs an element-wise aggregation of the first set of intermediate vectors to produce a first embedding. Finally, the system outputs the first embedding for use by a machine learning model. |
| US11768873B2 |
Method, apparatus, electronic device and readable storage medium for classifying video
A method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium for classifying a video are provided. The method may include: acquiring a to-be-classified video and an image complexity of the to-be-classified video; extracting a feature map with a resolution corresponding to the image complexity from the to-be-classified video; and determining a target video class to which the to-be-classified video belongs based on the feature map. |
| US11768869B2 |
Knowledge-derived search suggestion
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for information retrieval. Embodiments of the disclosure provide a retrieval network that leverages external knowledge to provide reformulated search query suggestions, enabling more efficient network searching and information retrieval. For example, a search query from a user (e.g., a query mention of a knowledge graph entity that is included in a search query from a user) may be added to a knowledge graph as a surrogate entity via entity linking. Embedding techniques are then invoked on the updated knowledge graph (e.g., the knowledge graph that includes additional edges between surrogate entities and other entities of the original knowledge graph), and entities neighboring the surrogate entity are retrieved based on the embedding (e.g., based on a computed distance between the surrogate entity and candidate entities in the embedding space). Search results can then be ranked and displayed based on relevance to the neighboring entity. |
| US11768866B2 |
Dark web content analysis and identification
In some examples, dark web content analysis and identification may include ascertaining data that includes text and images, and analyzing the data by performing deep learning based text and image processing to extract text embedded in the images, and deep embedded clustering to generate clusters. Clusters that are to be monitored may be ascertained from the generated clusters. A determination may be made as to whether the ascertained data is sufficient for classification. If so, a deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGAN) based detector may be utilized to analyze further data with respect to the ascertained clusters, and alternatively, a convolutional neural network (CNN) based detector may be utilized to analyze the further data with respect to the ascertained clusters. Based on the analysis of the further data, an operation associated with a website related to the further data may be controlled. |
| US11768865B2 |
Tag weighting engine using past context and active context
The present invention provides a method and system for storing and retrieving tags. Each tag is associated with a resource, upon a user's request. A tagging GUI is displayed which presents the available tags for one particular resource and/or a tag cloud GUI is displayed which presents tags for more than one resource. The tagging GUI allows to assign new tags to single resources. The tag cloud GUI enables users to search for resources which have been assigned certain tags. In the tag cloud GUI the relevancy of each single tag is visually reflected by its weighting factor which is determined by the frequency of occurrence. The method is characterized by the further steps: determining a quantitative weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a quantitative-engine, and/or determining a reputation weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a reputation-engine, and/or determining a context weighing factor for each single tag by invoking of a context-engine, determining a expiry weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a expiry-engine, and/or determining a overall weighting factor for each of said single tag by calculating the average of all the weighting factors, and visually reflecting the relevance of each single tag in the tag cloud based on said determined overall weighting factor. |
| US11768860B2 |
Bucketing records using temporal point processes
An embodiment establishes a designated attribute value as a semantic criterion for grouping records in a bucket, identifies a first set of records having attribute values that satisfy the semantic criterion, and adds the first set of records to the bucket. The embodiment detects that the first set of records represent a first series of events that occurred in succession at respective times. The embodiment derives a temporal attribute value representative of a time pattern formed by the times of the first series of events and designates the temporal attribute value as a temporal criterion for grouping records in the bucket. The embodiment identifies a second set of records that represent a second series of events and satisfy the temporal criterion and adds the second set of records to the bucket based at least in part on the second set of records satisfying the temporal criterion. |
| US11768859B2 |
Outlier detection in textual data
Systems and methods are disclosed to implement an outlier detection system for text records. In embodiments, the detection system generates a fingerprint for each incoming record so that similar records map to similar fingerprints. Each record is assigned to a closest cluster in a set of clusters based computed distances between on the record's fingerprint and respective cluster fingerprints of the clusters. The cluster fingerprint is dynamically updated to maintain respective a representative fingerprint of its member records. When a new record is received that is not sufficiently close to any cluster, a new cluster is added to the set for the new record. In embodiments, the creation of the new cluster triggers an alert that the new record is a potential outlier. Advantageously, the disclosed detection system can be used to detect outliers in records in near real time, without the need to pre-specify outlier characteristics. |
| US11768858B2 |
Method of power user classification based on distributed K-means, storage medium and classification device
A method of a power user classification based on distributed K-means, a storage medium and a classification device are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by N load aggregators, power consumption data of power users managed by respective load aggregators; performing, by each load aggregator, a normalization operation on time series load data of the power users managed by the load aggregator; forming a N×N dimensional adjacency matrix A; performing K-means clustering on normalized time series load data, to obtain the respective centroids and user groups characterized by the respective centroids; sharing, by the respective load aggregators, the centroids and the number of users under the respective centroids based on the adjacency matrix A, and obtaining consistent centroids by multiple load aggregators; after an overall iteration ends, obtaining, by the respective load aggregators, the consistent centroids consistent with the K-means centroid based on global data, to realize user classification. |
| US11768856B2 |
Method, apparatus, and management node for managing data in partition table, and storage medium
In a method for managing data in a partition table, a server, and a storage medium, a management node obtains a creation duration range of data of a target partition in the partition table, further obtains a geographical area to which the target partition belongs, historical access information of the target partition, or a service type of the target partition; and then, when the creation duration range of the data of the target partition meets a predetermined time range of a first storage stage and a preset condition is met, the management node alters the data that is of the target partition and that has been stored based on a storage policy corresponding to a second storage stage to be stored based on a storage policy corresponding to the first storage stage. |
| US11768855B1 |
Replicating data across databases by utilizing validation functions for data completeness and sequencing
This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that utilize a plurality of data validation processes to merge or replicate data across databases for downstream operations. For example, in response to a request to merge data from one or more source servers to one or more destination servers, a disclosed system determines database events to merge based on a plurality of database tables accessed in connection with a card account transaction. The disclosed system validates subsets of database events for the accessed database tables based on the quantities and event identifier sequencing of the database events. Additionally, the disclosed system replicates the database events from the source servers to the destination servers in response to validating the completeness and ordering of the database events for the card account transaction. |
| US11768853B2 |
System to copy database client data
Systems and methods to copy a plurality of source data records of a source client to a target client include deletion of a first set of target data records of a plurality of target data records associated with the target client, each of the first set associated with a key which is not identical to any key of a plurality of source data records, insertion of a second set of source data records into the plurality of target data records, each of the second set of source data records associated with a key which is not identical to any key of the plurality of target data records, and update of a third set of target data records associated with a key which matches a key of one of the fourth set of source data records and which is different from one of the fourth set of source data records. |
| US11768852B2 |
System and method for data analysis and presentation of data
A system and method for data analysis and presentation of data are provided. The system for data analysis and presentation of data includes a memory configured to receive a plurality of data sets. The system also includes a processing subsystem operatively coupled to the memory and configured to determine a plurality of properties of the plurality of data sets, to analyse a categorical variable of the plurality of data sets based on the plurality of properties of the plurality of the plurality of data sets, to identify one or more custom rules based on an analysed categorical variable, to interpret the identified one or more custom rules, to identify a graph based on one or more custom rules, to identify one or more textual insights based on one or more custom rules and the identified graph, to present the identified graph and one or more textual insights. |
| US11768850B2 |
Method for automated query language expansion and indexing
In an embodiment, a query system sends compact code to a database service for expansion of the compact code to partially-expanded code and expanded code. In an embodiment, a hash value is generated based on the partially-expanded code and indexed in memory with the expanded code. In an embodiment, a hash value is received as part of a command and expanded code is identified based on the hash value and sent to a database service. |
| US11768848B1 |
Retrieving, modifying, and depositing shared search configuration into a shared data store
Various embodiments describe multi-site cluster-based data intake and query systems, including cloud-based data intake and query systems. Using a hybrid search system that includes cloud-based data intake and query systems working in concert with so-called “on-premises” data intake and query systems can promote the scalability of search functionality. In addition, the hybrid search system can enable data isolation in a manner in which sensitive data is maintained “on premises” and information or data that is not sensitive can be moved to the cloud-based system. Further, the cloud-based system can enable efficient leveraging of data that may already exist in the cloud. |
| US11768845B2 |
Systems and methods automatically adjusting minimum support for routing mining
A method and system for dynamically determining a minimum support for automation mining is provided. The method and system include modifying the minimum support pattern such that the minimum support can result pattern mining algorithms finding a sufficient number of patterns in a practical duration. |
| US11768840B2 |
Method and apparatus for rapid search for agricultural parcels and generation of relevant search results
An automated method for search and generation of relevant search results includes: receiving both discrete parameters and freeform search characters input by a user; simultaneously searching a first freeform entry source and a second freeform entry source to obtain corresponding first and second suggested freeform entries; ranking the first suggested freeform entries according to first rules of relevancy to the user, and generating first ranked suggested freeform entries; ranking the second suggested freeform entries according to second rules of relevancy to the user, and generating second ranked suggested freeform entries; combining the first and second ranked freeform entries into a combined set of suggested freeform entries, and ranking the combined set of suggested freeform entries according to combined rules of relevancy to the user, and generating combined ranked suggested freeform entries; and transmitting the combined ranked suggested freeform entries to the user for selection of a desired type ahead entry. |
| US11768832B1 |
Table data storage in non-SQL document store to enable efficient data access by SQL query engine
A SQL database system is disclosed for reading and writing a non-SQL document store using SQL. The database system includes a SQL query engine configured to use different types of dynamically loadable connectors adapted to communicate with the non-SQL document store via its data access interface. The connectors may include a first connector that treats data within an individual document in the document store as multiple table rows, and a second connector that treats individual documents as individual table rows. In some embodiments, both types of document access modes may be implemented by a single multi-modal connector. In some embodiments, the connector may enable a table to be stored across multiple documents and provide the document identifier of the documents as an attribute of the table. Advantageously, by allowing multiple rows to be stored in individual documents, a table can be stored using less storage space and accessed more efficiently. |
| US11768830B1 |
Multi-wire protocol and multi-dialect database engine for database compatability
Techniques for implementing a multi-wire protocol and multi-dialect database engine are described. A database engine exposes multiple interfaces in the form of ports that support different database wire protocols. The database engine supports multiple query dialects that can be passed over any one of the supported wire protocols. The database engine can support multiple different query dialects within a single database session. |
| US11768822B1 |
Method for validating transactions in a system that includes indeterministic ordering of change log events by using deterministic indicia
A method is provided for validating transactions in a system that includes indeterministic ordering of change log events by using deterministic indicia. The system includes a plurality of nodes. Each node in the system includes an instance of a database used by an application, and a change log associated with the instance of the database used by the application. Each node executes transactions. Each transaction includes one or more data manipulation language (DML) or data definition language (DDL) operations. Results of the DML or DDL, operations are stored in the change log as change log events, wherein the order of the change log events stored in the change log on one node is in a different order than the order of change log events stored in the change log of at least one of the other nodes. For each transaction executing at each node, deterministic subunits of the change log events are defined. Indicia are then computed for each subunit of the change log events. The subunits are ordered by the computed indicia. Deterministic indicia are then computed for the transaction from the ordered subunits. The transaction is then validated with at least one of the other nodes using the deterministic indicia. The validation indicates either a match or a mismatch of the deterministic indicia computed at the plurality of nodes. |
| US11768821B1 |
Blockchain based multi vendor change monitoring system
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for managing a multi-vendor environment is provided. The present invention may include receiving a request to make a change to an aggregate computer system from a participant of the aggregate computer system. The present invention may include creating, in response to the request, a change block. The present invention may include receiving approval for the change block in accordance with an endorsement policy. The present invention may include adding the change block to a distributed ledger. The present invention may include monitoring a performance of the aggregate computer system. |
| US11768820B2 |
Elimination of log file synchronization delay at transaction commit time
A method and apparatus for elimination of log file synchronization delay at transaction commit time is provided. One or more change records corresponding to a database transaction are generated. One or more buffer entries comprising the one or more change records are entered into a persistent change log buffer. A commit operation is performed by generating a commit change record corresponding to the database transaction and entering a commit buffer entry comprising the commit change record into the persistent change log buffer. The commit operation returns without waiting for the commit change record to be recorded in a change record log file. |
| US11768818B1 |
Usage driven indexing in a spreadsheet based data store
Aspects described herein implement a usage-driven indexing scheme on a spreadsheet-based workbook. One aspect describes a system for implementing an indexing scheme in a spreadsheet workbook. The system comprises a processor configured to identify a plurality of cells stored in the plurality of tables, identify one or more table columns of the plurality of tables to index based on a usage parameter identified from a previously received query, generate an index for individual table columns of the identified table columns, receive the query including an operator and an identifier for at least one of the table columns, determine that the at least one of the table columns identified in the query has an index associated therewith, identify the index associated with the at least one of the table columns identified in the query, and identify a result to the query based on the identified index and the operator. |
| US11768814B2 |
Data transmissions between two databases
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for database management coordinators operated by a source server and a target server, respectively. The database management coordinator can be in a state selected from an initial state, a ready state, a transmission state, or a pause state. The database management coordinator operated by the source server can extract data in a first format stored in a first storage device and convert the data in the first format into a second format to be transmitted to the target serer. The database management coordinator operated by the target server can convert the data in the second format into a third format to be stored in a third storage device associated with the target server. |
| US11768808B2 |
Systems and methods for distributed ledger token verification for distributed ledger event permissioning
The disclosed systems and methods provide non-native functionality to a distributed network for distributed ledger token verification and event permissioning. The disclosed technology receives a transfer event request from a first node associated with a first token storage, where the transfer event request corresponds to movement of a requested token amount that is associated with at least one token. In response, the transfer event request is inserted into a pending transfer log that is configured to queue pending transfer event requests. A determination is made regarding a first permission based on the currently queued pending transfer event requests, and as a result, the transfer event request is transmitted to the distributed network based on the first permission, where such transfer causes the requested movement of the requested token amount. |
| US11768807B2 |
Destination namespace and file copying
Destination namespace and file copying: a namespace service receives communication of namespace update for file from file's source. and communicates namespace update for file to an access object service identified for file. The access object service receives communication of fingerprints stream, corresponding to file's segments, from file's source, and identifies sequential fingerprints in fingerprints stream as fingerprints group. The access object service identifies group identifier for fingerprints group, and communicates fingerprints group to a deduplication service associated with group identifier range including group identifier. The deduplication service identifies fingerprints in fingerprints group which are missing from fingerprint storage, and communicates identified fingerprints to the access object service, which communicates request for file's segments, corresponding to identified fingerprints, to file's source. The deduplication service receives communication of requested segments from file's source, and stores requested segments. The access object service stores namespace update for file in distributed namespace data structure. |
| US11768805B2 |
Mass file retrieval method and apparatus based on AI training platform, and device
A mass file retrieval method and apparatus based on an AI training platform, and a device. The method includes: an AI training platform acquiring a retrieval task issued by a user, the AI training platform generating a retrieval thread flow according to the retrieval task, and controlling a service logic of a retrieval process according to the retrieval thread flow; and the AI training platform, performing sequential encoding on files in a database in units of folders, generating ordered queue folders, extracting retrieval key words from the retrieval task, and performing keyword retrieval on each ordered queue folder by combining a binary search and depth-first traversal. |
| US11768804B2 |
Deep search embedding of inferred document characteristics
A method for generating a searchable file from a document. The method includes identifying an object within the document and a formatting attribute of the object, determining an inferred semantic characteristic of the object by comparing the formatting attribute with a plurality of inference rules, wherein the inferred semantic characteristic comprises an estimation of author-defined semantic characteristic of the object, generating metadata based at least on the inferred semantic characteristic and the formatting attribute of the object, wherein the metadata comprises text data that is searchable by a search application for the searchable file to identify the object within the searchable file, and generating, based on the document, the searchable file comprising the metadata. |
| US11768803B2 |
Snapshot metadata arrangement for efficient cloud integrated data management
A storage appliance arranges snapshot data and snapshot metadata into different structures, and arranges the snapshot metadata to facilitate efficient snapshot manipulation, which may be for snapshot management or snapshot restore. The storage appliance receives snapshots according to a forever incremental configuration and arranges snapshot metadata into different types of records. The storage appliance stores these records in key-value stores maintained for each defined data collection (e.g., volume). The storage appliance arranges the snapshot metadata into records for inode information, records for directory information, and records that map source descriptors of data blocks to snapshot file descriptors. The storage appliance uses a locally generated snapshot identifier as a key prefix for the records to conform to a sort constrain of the key-value store, which allows the efficiency of the key-value store to be leveraged. The snapshot metadata arrangement facilitates efficient snapshot restore, file restore, and snapshot reclamation. |
| US11768799B2 |
Adaptive document curation
An adaptive document curation method. A machine learning model is trained on a first library of documents to assign staleness scores to documents, each indicating a confidence that the document to which it is assigned should be archived. If a document has a staleness score at least equal to a threshold, the document is identified as a candidate to be archived or deleted. |
| US11768796B2 |
Techniques for bus interval timing management in a USB extension system
Techniques for generating bus interval messages by a downstream USB extension device in a USB extension environment are disclosed. The downstream USB extension device transmits a first outgoing bus interval message in response to receiving a first incoming bus interval message at a first time. An expected time of receipt of a second incoming bus interval message is determined based on the first time. The downstream USB extension device transmits a second outgoing bus interval message at a second time based on a difference between the reception time and the expected time of receipt if the second incoming bus interval message has been received at a reception time before the expected time of receipt. The downstream USB extension device transmits the second outgoing bus interval message at the expected time of receipt if the second incoming bus interval message has not been received before the expected time of receipt. |
| US11768791B2 |
Flattening portal bridge
A flattening portal bridge (FPB) is provided to support addressing according to a first addressing scheme and a second, alternative addressing scheme. The FPB comprises a primary side and a secondary side, the primary side connects to a first set of devices addressed according to a first addressing scheme, and the secondary side connects to a second set of devices addressed according to a second addressing scheme. The first addressing scheme uses a unique bus number within a Bus/Device/Function (BDF) address space for each device in the first set of devices, and the second bus addressing scheme uses a unique bus-device number for each device in the second set of devices. |
| US11768790B2 |
MAC processing pipelines, circuitry to control and configure same, and methods of operating same
An integrated circuit including control/configure circuitry which interfaces with a plurality of interconnected MACs and/or one or more rows of interconnected connected MACs. The control/configure circuitry may include a plurality of control/configure circuits, each control/configure circuit interfaces with at least one MAC pipeline, wherein each pipeline includes a plurality of linearly connected multiplier-accumulator circuits. Each control/configure circuit may include one or more of (i) a configurable input data signal path to provide data to the MACs of the pipeline during the execution sequence(s) and (ii) a configurable output data path for the output data generated by execution sequence (i.e., input data that was processed via the multiplier-accumulator circuits of the pipeline). In one embodiment, the sum data, generated by the accumulator during an execution cycle is stored in the associated MAC for use in the subsequent execution cycle as the second data by the same accumulator of the associated MAC. |
| US11768788B2 |
Bus endpoint isolation
An example of a controller for bus endpoint isolation can include an interface to couple to a bus that has respective communication channels and respective switches corresponding to endpoints of the bus, a processing resource, and a memory resource storing non-transitory instructions executable by the processing resource to select a first endpoint of the endpoints to receive a message from the interface via a first switch on a first communication channel associated with the first endpoint, cause, via a switch control mechanism, a second switch associated with a second endpoint of the bus to open to isolate the second switch; and responsive to causing the second switch to open, send the message via the first communication channel and the first switch to the first endpoint. |
| US11768787B2 |
Connectors for audio data transfer
This application relates to methods and apparatus for transfer of data between a host device (400) and a peripheral device (300) via a USB Type-C connector (100; 304) of the host device. A data controller is described that has a path controller (309, 310; 706) for establishing signal paths between circuitry of the host device and contacts (101) of said USB Type-C connector. The path controller is operable in at least first and second modes. In the first mode the path controller establishes separate signal paths to each of at least first, second, third and fourth contacts (A6, A7, B6, B7) of the USB Type-C connector and a plurality of the established signal paths are for transfer of analogue audio data. In the second mode the path controller establishes a pair of signal paths to only a subset of said first to fourth contacts to provide a differential digital data path. |
| US11768786B2 |
Connection interface conversion chip, connection interface conversion device and operation method
A connection interface conversion chip, a connection interface conversion device and an operation method are provided. The connection interface conversion chip includes a USB interface circuit, a DP interface circuit, a USB core circuit and a switching circuit. The USB interface circuit is suitable for coupling to a USB connector. The DP interface circuit is coupled to a DP sink device through a DP connector. The USB core circuit is coupled to both the USB interface circuit and the DP interface circuit. The switching circuit is coupled to both the USB interface circuit and the DP interface circuit. The switching circuit supports only one specific conduction mode that only allows transmitting DP signals between the USB interface circuit and the DP interface circuit. |
| US11768785B2 |
Serial peripheral interface circuit and calibration method of serial peripheral interface system
A serial peripheral interface circuit includes a serial peripheral interface device with a master-in-slave-out (MISO) line, a master-out-slave-in (MOSI) line, a serial clock (SCLK) line and a slave select (SS) line, a first conducting line, a second conducting line, a first resistor connecting the MISO line and the first conducting line, and a second resistor connecting the MOSI line and the second conducting line. |
| US11768784B2 |
Latency and jitter for traffic over PCIe
A method includes transmitting first data with a first priority through a first dedicated interface on a transmit side of a PCIe system. The method also includes transmitting second data with a second priority through a second dedicated interface on the transmit side of the PCIe system. The method includes transmitting the first data and the second data to a receive side of the PCIe system using two or more virtual channels over a PCIe link, where the first data uses a first virtual channel and the second data uses a second virtual channel. |
| US11768782B2 |
Data bus duty cycle distortion compensation
An electrical circuit device includes a signal bus comprising a plurality of parallel signal paths and a calibration circuit, operatively coupled with the signal bus. The calibration circuit can perform operations including determining a representative duty cycle for a plurality of signals transferred via the plurality of parallel signal paths, the plurality of signals comprising a plurality of duty cycles and comparing the representative duty cycle for the plurality of signals transferred via the plurality of parallel signal paths to a reference value to determine a comparison result. The calibration circuit can perform further operations including adjusting, based on the comparison result, a trim value associated with the plurality of duty cycles of the plurality of signals to compensate for distortion in the plurality of duty cycles and calibrating the plurality of duty cycles of the plurality of signals using the adjusted trim value. |
| US11768781B2 |
Apparatus and method for memory management in a graphics processing environment
An apparatus and method are described for implementing memory management in a graphics processing system. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first plurality of graphics processing resources to execute graphics commands and process graphics data; a first memory management unit (MMU) to communicatively couple the first plurality of graphics processing resources to a system-level MMU to access a system memory; a second plurality of graphics processing resources to execute graphics commands and process graphics data; a second MMU to communicatively couple the second plurality of graphics processing resources to the first MMU; wherein the first MMU is configured as a master MMU having a direct connection to the system-level MMU and the second MMU comprises a slave MMU configured to send memory transactions to the first MMU, the first MMU either servicing a memory transaction or sending the memory transaction to the system-level MMU on behalf of the second MMU. |
| US11768777B2 |
Application aware cache management
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for application aware cache management are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes maintaining a data structure comprising at least one entry indicative of an importance of at least one of a plurality of applications associated with a storage system; and controlling whether or not a particular data item requested by one of the plurality of applications is cached in a cache memory of the storage system based at least in part on the at least one entry of the data structure. |
| US11768770B2 |
Cache memory addressing
Described apparatuses and methods order memory address portions advantageously for cache-memory addressing. An address bus can have a smaller width than a memory address. The multiple bits of the memory address can be separated into most-significant bits (MSB) and least-significant bits (LSB) portions. The LSB portion is provided to a cache first. The cache can process the LSB portion before the MSB portion is received. The cache can use index bits of the LSB portion to index into an array of memory cells and identify multiple corresponding tags. The cache can also check the corresponding tags against lower tag bits of the LSB portion. A partial match may be labeled as a predicted hit, and a partial miss may be labeled as an actual miss, which can initiate a data fetch. With the remaining tag bits from the MSB portion, the cache can confirm or refute the predicted hit. |
| US11768765B2 |
Host device physical address encoding
Systems and methods are disclosed comprising receiving L2P table information from a storage system over a communication interface, maintaining a host L2P table at a physical address using the received L2P table information, and providing a read command to the storage system for first data associated with a first LBA and a host L2P entry associated with the first data. The host L2P entry can include a physical address of the first LBA on the storage system according to the host L2P table and a physical address of a portion of the L2P table on the storage system associated with the first LBA. Control circuitry of the storage system can validate the physical address of the first LBA from the host L2P entry using the physical address of the portion of the host L2P table associated with the first LBA. |
| US11768763B2 |
Flash secure erase
A system with storage memory and a processing device has a logical deletion to physical erasure time bound. The system dereferences data, responsive to a direction to delete the data. The system monitors physical blocks in storage memory for live data and the dereferenced data. The system cooperates garbage collection with monitoring the physical blocks, so that at least a physical block having the dereferenced data is garbage collected and erased within a logical deletion to physical erasure time bound. |
| US11768758B2 |
Path-coverage directed black box API testing
Methods, systems, and computer program products for path-coverage directed black box application programming interface (API) testing are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining constraints based on inputs and corresponding outputs of an API in a production environment; generating initial test inputs based at least in part on the constraints; creating a program dependency graph based on trace sequences and request-response data obtained in response to providing the initial test inputs to an endpoint of the API; enhancing the program dependency graph by generating additional test inputs directed to one or more paths of the dependency graph; identifying, based on the enhanced program dependency graph, at least a portion of the API that is not covered by an existing test suite; and using the enhanced program dependency graph to generate new test cases for the test suite based on the identifying. |
| US11768753B2 |
System and method for evaluating and deploying data models having improved performance measures
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for a concurrent comparative tool for assessing multiple versions of a data model in a pre-deployment environment to ensure that any subsequently deployed version will perform than a current version of the data model. In aspects, the tool extracts observed and predictive data for various versions and comparatively evaluates the performance measures of each version. The performance measures can be validated across the versions to determine and select a leading version that has demonstrated improve technological performance and predictive accuracy. The leading version can be deployed. |
| US11768752B2 |
Optimizing large scale data analysis
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that facilitate resource and space efficient analysis of large scale datasets. Methods include obtaining activity data for objects in a dataset. For each data item in the dataset, a hashed parameter having a binary representation is generated using an identifier for the object. A register is identified from among a set of registers based on the hashed parameter. A determination is made that the hashed parameter for the object contributes to an aggregation amount that specifies a number of occurrences of the object in the dataset. Based on this determination, an aggregation amount stored in the register is updated. Based on aggregation amounts stored in the set of registers, a reporting output is generated that provides an aggregate distribution of the objects in the dataset based on the activity data for the objects. |
| US11768747B2 |
Detecting spikes in memory usage in a computer system
The system determines data which indicate memory usage by a process and information related to a number of instances of the process. The system determines for the process: a first average amount of memory; a first standard deviation; a first value indicating a difference between a current amount of memory used by the process and the first average amount; a second average number of process instances; a second standard deviation; and a second value indicating a difference between a current number of process instances and the second average number. The system performs a corrective action to address a memory spike associated with the process responsive to comparing at least one of: the current amount of memory used by the process with a watermark; the first value with the first standard deviation scaled; the current number of instances with a watermark; and the second value with the second standard deviation scaled. |
| US11768745B2 |
Automatically implementing a specification of a data protection intent
A specification of a data protection intent is received. Configurations for a plurality of different data management services are automatically determined in an attempt to achieve the specified data protection intent. The determined configurations in the plurality of different data management services are automatically implemented. |
| US11768743B2 |
System and method for dynamically adjusting recovery time objective in a virtual computing system
A system and method include migrating, by a migration controller, a first entity of a first subset of entities from a source site to a target site in a virtual computing system based on an asynchronous mode of replication. The system and method also include replicating, by the migration controller, data of a second entity of a second subset of entities from the source site to the target site based on a synchronous mode of replication in parallel with the migration of the first entity for dynamically adjusting a recovery time objective parameter. |
| US11768742B2 |
Data storage device and method for maintaining normal boot operation of data storage device
A data storage device is disclosed. The data storage device comprises a controller and a data storage unit. The controller comprises a firmware. The data storage unit comprises a first system storage sector and a second system storage sector. A state of the first system storage sector is preset as a display state by the firmware, and a state of the second system storage sector is preset as a hidden state by the firmware. The first system storage sector stores an original operating system, and the second system storage sector stores a backup operating system. When the original operating system damages, the firmware will recover the original operating system in the first system storage sector via the backup operating system in the second system storage sector; afterwards, a boot operation can be executed via the original operating system recovered, again. |
| US11768739B2 |
Manifest-based snapshots in distributed computing environments
Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for creating manifest-based snapshots in distributed computing environments. In some embodiments, responsive to receiving a request to create a snapshot of a data object, a master node identifies multiple slave nodes on which a data object is stored in the cloud-computing platform and creates a snapshot manifest representing the snapshot of the data object. The snapshot manifest comprises a file including a listing of multiple file names in the snapshot manifest and reference information for locating the multiple files in the distributed database system. The snapshot can be created without disrupting I/O operations, e.g., in an online mode by various region servers as directed by the master node. Additionally, a log roll approach to creating the snapshot is also disclosed in which log files are marked. The replaying of log entries can reduce the probability of causal consistency in the snapshot. |
| US11768738B2 |
Intelligent failsafe engine
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an intelligent failsafe engine. A computing platform may determine that a backup should be initiated that corresponds to a determined time window. The computing platform may select either a full backup method or a differential backup method. The computing platform may initiate the selected backup method, which may include backing up only blocks that have been modified since a previous backup. The computing platform may identify that the backup has paused at a particular data block. The computing platform may identify that the backup may be resumed, and may resume the backup at the particular data block. The computing platform may send data health information and commands directing a user device to display the data health information, which may cause the user device to display the data health information. |
| US11768732B2 |
Soft decoding method using LLR conversion table
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a memory interface that reads data recorded in the non-volatile memory as a received value, a converting unit that converts the received value to first likelihood information by using a first conversion table, a decoder that decodes the first likelihood information, a control unit that outputs an estimated value with respect to the received value, which is a decoding result obtained by the decoding, when decoding by the decoder has succeeded, and a generating unit that generates a second conversion table based on a decoding result obtained by the decoding, when decoding of the first likelihood information by the decoder has failed. When the generating unit generates the second conversion table, the converting unit converts the received value to the second likelihood information by using the second conversion table, and the decoder decodes the second likelihood information. |
| US11768730B2 |
Analyzing device, analyzing method, and analyzing program
A storage unit (14) stores a service procedure constituting business, a service support system used in the service procedure, and a service function constituting the service support system in association with each other, and stores a status determination checklist in which a plurality of conditions for determining whether the service procedure, the service support system, and the service function are normal are represented by a logical combination. A service function determination section (15d) determines whether a service function corresponding to the service support system is functioning normally, by using failure information of a service support system and the status determination checklist. When it is determined that the service function is not functioning normally, a service activity determination section (15e) determines whether a service procedure corresponding to the service function is normally executed, by using the status determination checklist. |
| US11768727B2 |
Reducing over-reporting of serviceable events
Described are techniques including a computer-implemented method of determining, by a service processor, that a first set of callouts of a first error log matches a previous set of callouts of a previous error log. The method further comprises combining the first error log with the previous error log in a first group in a service processor log of the service processor. The method further comprises transmitting information related to the first group to a management console communicatively coupled to the service processor. |
| US11768723B2 |
Method and system for predicting failures in interconnected systems based on quantum computing
Method and system for predicting failures in interconnected systems based on quantum computing is disclosed. The method may include identifying a set of unique patterns from input data received from a plurality of input data sources, determining a correlation between at least two input data sources, creating a plurality of sets of clusters corresponding to the plurality of input data sources based on the correlation, extracting data associated with each of the set of unique patterns based on the plurality of sets of clusters, predicting, based on the extracted data, a failure of at least one interconnected system using a trained ML model, processing the extracted data associated with each of the set of unique patterns and information associated with the predicted failure through a quantum computing layer, and generating, through the quantum computing layer, at least one corrective action for the at least one interconnected system. |
| US11768721B2 |
Processing device
The invention provides a technology for suppressing a delay in communication between a plurality of cores that perform parallel processing. In the invention, an ECU 302 of a vehicle control system 2 includes a plurality of cores 401 and a shared memory 405. When transmitting data in the inter-core communication, a transmission side core 401-1 writes a counter value updated according to the data and a writing order to a buffer unit 901 which is determined by a counter value managed for each communication system, which is stored in each of the plurality of buffer units 901 provided in the shared memory 405. When receiving data in the inter-core communication, a reception side core 401-2 reads data from the buffer unit 901 in which the latest data for each communication system is stored, which is determined by the counter value stored in each of the plurality of buffer units 901. |
| US11768720B2 |
Auto pause incident notification
Pausing alert notifications includes triggering an alert responsive to an event in a managed environment. A normalized title is obtained from a title of the alert. Using the normalized title, it is determined whether the alert is of a likely transient type, where the alert is of the likely transient type when it is predicted to resolve without human intervention. A transmission of notifications for the alert during a pause period is withheld responsive to determining that the alert is the likely transient type. A notification for the alert is transmitted to a responder responsive to determining that the alert is unresolved after the pause period. |
| US11768718B1 |
Systems and methods for processing digital experience information
In one implementation, systems and methods are provided for processing digital experience information. A computer-implemented system for processing digital experience information may comprise a central data location. The central data location may comprise a connector that may be configured to receive information belonging to a category from an information source; an event backbone that may be configured to route the information received by the connector based on the category; a translator that may be configured to transform the received information into a common data model; and a database that may be configured to store the received information. The event backbone may be further configured to send information to the connector from the event backbone and the database based on one or more criteria. |
| US11768716B2 |
Request of an MCS lock by guests
In example implementations, a method include receiving a request for a lock in a Mellor-Crummey Scott (MCS) lock protocol from a guest user that is context free (e.g., a process that does not bring a queue node). The lock determines that it contains a null value. The lock is granted to the guest user. A pi value is received from the guest user to store in the lock. The pi value notifies subsequent users that the guest user has the lock. |
| US11768712B2 |
Method and system for optimizing parameter configuration of distributed computing job
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for optimizing a parameter configuration of a distributed computing job. The method includes: obtaining job programs of different distributed computing jobs, and determining a key parameter configuration set; obtaining a cluster status during execution of the distributed computing job, randomly generating a sample data set based on the key parameter configuration set and the cluster status, and establishing a performance prediction model; correcting the performance prediction model by using a multi-objective genetic algorithm and an optimization module configured with an optimal configuration selection strategy; obtaining a job program of a to-be-optimized distributed computing job and a cluster status during execution of the to-be-optimized distributed computing job, and determining a to-be-optimized key parameter configuration item combination; and inputting, to the performance prediction model, the to-be-optimized key parameter configuration item combination and the cluster status during execution of the to-be-optimized distributed computing job, and outputting a key parameter configuration item combination with a shortest execution time. The present disclosure can rapidly and effectively optimize the key parameter configuration. |
| US11768705B2 |
Automatic localization of acceleration in edge computing environments
Methods, apparatus, systems and machine-readable storage media of an edge computing device which is enabled to access and select the use of local or remote acceleration resources for edge computing processing is disclosed. In an example, an edge computing device obtains first telemetry information that indicates availability of local acceleration circuitry to execute a function, and obtains second telemetry that indicates availability of a remote acceleration function to execute the function. An estimated time (and cost or other identifiable or estimateable considerations) to execute the function at the respective location is identified. The use of the local acceleration circuitry or the remote acceleration resource is selected based on the estimated time and other appropriate factors in relation to a service level agreement. |
| US11768702B2 |
Electronic device for scheduling based on heterogeneous multi-processor and operating method thereof
An apparatus and a method for scheduling a task in an electronic device including a heterogeneous multi-processor are provided. The electronic device includes a memory and a processor operatively connected to the memory and including a plurality of heterogeneous cores. The processor may be configured to identify, when a task to be scheduled occurs, a scheduling group having the task among a plurality of predefined scheduling groups, and to perform scheduling for the task, based on the identified scheduling group having the task and a priority of the task. |
| US11768699B2 |
Enforce changes in session behavior based on updated machine learning model with detected risk behavior during session
Systems and methods are provided for managing dynamic controls over access to computer resources and, even more particularly, for evaluating and re-evaluating dynamic conditions and changes associated with user sessions. The systems and methods are configured to automatically make a determination as to whether new or additional authentication credentials are required for a user that is already authorized for accessing resources in a user session, in response to triggering events such as the identification of a new or changed condition associated with the user session. |
| US11768696B2 |
Security for microengine access
A technique for managing access to a micro engine, the method comprising: determining that a virtual function “VF”) is to be given access to direct communication with a micro engine; in response to the determining, configuring the micro engine to accept direct communication from the VF; monitoring for unpermitted communication; and after a time period has expired, configuring the micro engine to no longer accept direct communication from the VF. |
| US11768692B2 |
Systems and methods for automated application launching
Methods and systems for automated application launching are described herein. A computing device may receive a message, the message indicative of an application for a given event and a time in which to launch the application for the given event, from a client device. Based on the content of the message, the computing device may generate a plurality of text strings based on content of the message. The computing device may identify the application based on a comparison of the plurality of text strings with one or more entries of a database of applications and may launch the application in response to the identification of the application and at the time indicated in the received message, so as to make ready the application for use for the given event. |
| US11768690B2 |
Coprocessor context priority
A system may include a plurality of processors and a coprocessor. A plurality of coprocessor context priority registers corresponding to a plurality of contexts supported by the coprocessor may be included. The plurality of processors may use the plurality of contexts, and may program the coprocessor context priority register corresponding to a context with a value specifying a priority of the context relative to other contexts. An arbiter may arbitrate among instructions issued by the plurality of processors based on the priorities in the plurality of coprocessor context priority registers. In one embodiment, real-time threads may be assigned higher priorities than bulk processing tasks, improving bandwidth allocated to the real-time threads as compared to the bulk tasks. |
| US11768686B2 |
Out of order memory request tracking structure and technique
In a streaming cache, multiple, dynamically sized tracking queues are employed. Request tracking information is distributed among the plural tracking queues to selectively enable out-of-order memory request returns. A dynamically controlled policy assigns pending requests to tracking queues, providing for example in-order memory returns in some contexts and/or for some traffic and out of order memory returns in other contexts and/or for other traffic. |
| US11768681B2 |
Apparatus and method for vector multiply and accumulate of packed bytes
An apparatus and method for performing multiply-accumulate operations. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder to decode instructions; a first source register to store a first plurality of packed bytes; a second source register to store a second plurality of packed bytes; a third source register to store a plurality of packed doublewords; execution circuitry to execute a first instruction, the execution circuitry comprising: extension circuitry to sign-extend or zero-extend the first and second plurality of packed bytes to generate a first and second plurality of words corresponding to the first and second plurality of packed bytes; multiplier circuitry to multiply each of the first plurality of words with a corresponding one of the second plurality of words to generate a plurality of temporary products; adder circuitry to add at least a first set of the temporary products to generate a first temporary sum; accumulation circuitry to combine the first temporary sum with a first packed doubleword value from a first doubleword location in the third source register to generate a first accumulated doubleword result; a destination register to store the first accumulated doubleword result in the first doubleword location. |
| US11768672B1 |
Systems and methods for user-controlled deployment of software updates
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for updating software object instances on a plurality of nodes. An exemplary method may comprise monitoring a software repository for an update to the software object instance installed on the plurality of nodes. In response to detecting the update, the method may comprise initiating installation of the update to the software object instance on a first subset of the plurality of nodes in accordance with an installation schedule. The method may comprise determining whether a functionality or performance issue in the software object instance or a respective node of the first subset was detected subsequent to updating the software object instance. In response to determining that the functionality or performance issue was not detected, the method may comprise updating the software object instance on a second subset of the plurality of nodes in accordance with the installation schedule. |
| US11768670B2 |
Generating customized wellbore software application installer for deployment in a wellbore computing network
A container stack configurator can build customized software applications and deploy the applications to a wellbore computing network or through offline installer devices. The stack configurator can receive a selection from a user of a configuration repository. The stack configurator can determine available branches of the configuration repository including images, tags, and container names. The stack configurator can present a list of services associated with the container names to the user using a user interface. The stack configurator can receive a selection of an installer type and generate a customized build of the installer type. The customized build of the installer can be an offline installer that is deployable on an offline target machine using a first communication media or an online installer that is deployable to an online target machine using a second communication media. |
| US11768666B1 |
Executing playbooks including custom code function blocks
Techniques are described for enabling users to add custom code function blocks and multi-prompt blocks to customizable playbooks that can be executed by an orchestration, automation, and response (OAR) platform. At a high level, a playbook comprises computer program code and possibly other data that can be executed by an OAR platform to carry out an automated set of actions. A playbook is comprised of one or more functions or codeblocks, where each codeblock contains program code that performs defined functionality when the codeblock is encountered during execution of the playbook of which it is a part. For example, a first codeblock may implement an action that is performed relative to one or more IT assets, another codeblock might filter data generated by the first codeblock in some manner, and so forth. |
| US11768664B2 |
Processing unit with mixed precision operations
A graphics processing unit (GPU) implements operations, with associated op codes, to perform mixed precision mathematical operations. The GPU includes an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) with different execution paths, wherein each execution path executes a different mixed precision operation. By implementing mixed precision operations at the ALU in response to designate op codes that delineate the operations, the GPU efficiently increases the precision of specified mathematical operations while reducing execution overhead. |
| US11768661B2 |
Efficient logic blocks architectures for dense mapping of multipliers
An integrated circuit includes a logic block configured to perform multiplication operations. The logic block includes a plurality of lookup tables configured to receive a plurality of inputs and generate a first plurality of outputs. Additionally, the logic block includes adding circuitry configured to receive the first plurality of outputs and generate a second plurality of outputs. Furthermore, the logic block includes circuitry configured to receive a portion of the plurality of inputs, determine one or more partial products, and generate a third plurality of outputs. |
| US11768660B2 |
Processing with compact arithmetic processing element
A processor or other device, such as a programmable and/or massively parallel processor or other device, includes processing elements designed to perform arithmetic operations (possibly but not necessarily including, for example, one or more of addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division) on numerical values of low precision but high dynamic range (“LPHDR arithmetic”). Such a processor or other device may, for example, be implemented on a single chip. Whether or not implemented on a single chip, the number of LPHDR arithmetic elements in the processor or other device in certain embodiments of the present invention significantly exceeds (e.g., by at least 20 more than three times) the number of arithmetic elements, if any, in the processor or other device which are designed to perform high dynamic range arithmetic of traditional precision (such as 32 bit or 64 bit floating point arithmetic). |
| US11768656B2 |
Electronic device and method for recognizing audio output device connected to USB type-C connector
Embodiments of an electronic device are disclosed. The electronic device may include a USB Type-C connector including at least one configuration channel (CC) pin and a processor operatively connected to the USB Type-C connector. The processor may be configured to: obtain first information of a connected audio output device by using a USB driver; transmit the first information and/or audio card information of the audio output device to an audio framework through a USB framework; control the audio framework to access an interface corresponding to the audio card information; and activate, when at least a portion of second information of the audio output device is obtained through the USB driver while accessing the interface, the interface by transmitting the at least a portion of the second information to the audio framework through the USB framework. Various additional embodiments in addition to the disclosed embodiments are possible. |
| US11768651B2 |
Information processing device and control method
An information processing device includes: a foldable one display; a memory which stores at least a program; and a processor which executes the program stored in the memory. By executing the program stored in the memory, the processor performs: display mode switching processing to switch between a first display mode in which display of a screen area of the display is controlled as one display area, and a second display mode in which the screen area of the display is split into two display areas of a first display area and a second display area to control the display; information holding processing to hold window information about position and size, in the screen area, of a window of each application running in the first display mode; and display control processing to display the window of the running application in the screen area. |
| US11768650B2 |
Display control device, display system, and display control method for controlling display of information
An input unit receives a signal relating to an object. A generation unit generates first information and second information relating to the object based on the signal received by the input unit. A control unit displays the first information that has been generated on a first display device and displays the second information that has been generated on a second display device. The control unit changes the display mode of the first information with the passage of time according to the first regularity and the display mode of the second information with the passage of time according to the second regularity corresponding to the first regularity. |
| US11768649B2 |
Method and electronic device for projecting event information on reflector device connected to electronic device
A method for operating an electronic device includes: based on detection of an event, activating at least one reflector device connected to the electronic device; controlling the at least one reflector device to have an angle with respect to the electronic device such that a view position of a user is placed on the at least one reflector device; and controlling to display, on a display of the electronic device, event information associated with the detected event to be reflected to the at least one reflector device. |
| US11768644B2 |
Display control device and image forming apparatus
A display control device includes a display section and a display controller. The display controller controls the display section so as to cause the display section to display a first image (703a to 703f) and a second image. The first image (703a to 703f) is displayed in an upper layer for the second image. The first image (703a to 703f) represents a category item. The second image represents a setting item belonging to the category item. The display controller controls the display section so as to cause the display section to display a predetermined image (705) in the first image (703a to 703f) according to the setting item that has been entered. |
| US11768641B2 |
Outsourcing print jobs with print job recipes
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes an outsourcing engine to select a contracting print device to which a print job is to be outsourced. A recipe generating engine of the system generates a recipe for a print job. The recipe includes 1) settings for the print job and 2) settings for the contracting print device that is to generate the print job. The system also includes an encoder to encrypt the recipe and an exception processor to respond to requests from the contracting print device to deviate from the recipe. |
| US11768639B2 |
Printer and component replacement recommendation method
A printer, capable of appropriately extending an existing replacement recommendation time of a component determined based on a life prescribed for the component, includes: a time determination unit (timer), a comparison examination unit (comparator), and a notification unit (notifier). The timer determines a time at which replacement of a component is recommended based on tendency information indicating a deterioration tendency of the component with respect to an operation status. The tendency information is generated from collection and storage of information on the operation status collected from a plurality of printers and information on a degree of deterioration at a disposal time of the component. The comparator compares a time output by the time determination unit with a predetermined life of the component, and examines whether to perform recommendation for component replacement. The notifier notifies of information on recommendation for component replacement based on an examination result of the comparator. |
| US11768638B2 |
Information processing apparatus configured to perform printing using a general-use printing program, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and printing method therefor
The supporting program, which is executable by a CPU of a PC, corresponds to a printer connected to the PC. The supporting program causes the CPU to obtain a capability value concerning a capability of the printer and provide, for a general-use printing program, information for determining a capability of the printer based on the obtained capability value. The general-use printing program provides information based on the information provided from the supporting program to an application program implemented to the PC. |
| US11768637B2 |
Interface circuit and system including same
An interface circuit includes; a transmitter interface circuit including an output pad and configured to receive a first input data signal and generate a second input data signal from the first input data signal, and a receiver interface circuit including an input pad and configured to receive the second input data signal via the output pad and an internal channel. The transmitter interface circuit also includes an equalization signal generation circuit configured to receive the first input data signal, generate a pulse signal by delaying the first input data signal by applying a target delay time or a target width adjustment to the first input data signal, generate an equalization signal based on the pulse signal, and provide the equalization signal to the output pad to suppress a reflected wave on the internal channel. |
| US11768633B2 |
Inversion refresh of physical memory location
Various embodiments described herein provide for performing inversion refresh of a physical memory location of a memory device (e.g., memory cell on a negative-and (NAND)-type memory device) based on a state of the physical memory location. For some embodiments, the inversion refresh is performed as part of performing garbage collection or reclamation of physical memory locations of a memory device. |
| US11768632B2 |
Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory
According to one embodiment, a controller of a memory system executes a first write operation of writing write data into a first storage region, in response to reception of one or more write requests for specifying a first zone from a host, during a period from execution of an erase operation of the first storage region until a first time elapses. When the first time has elapsed after execution of the erase operation, in a state in which an unwritten region having a size larger than or equal to a first size remains in the first storage region, the controller does not execute the first write operation, allocates the first storage region as a nonvolatile buffer capable of temporarily storing write data to be written to each of a plurality of zones. |
| US11768629B2 |
Techniques for memory system configuration using queue refill time
Methods, systems, and devices supporting techniques for memory system configuration using a queue refill time are described. A memory system may receive a command from a host system and may add the command to a command queue including a set of commands to be executed by the memory system. The memory system may determine a queue refill time of the command queue using measurements for at least one queue tag of the command queue and may adjust at least one resource of the command queue in response to the determined queue refill time. In some examples, the memory system may reallocate processing or memory resources previously allocated to the command queue, deactivate processing or memory resources previously allocated to the command queue, adjust a threshold queue depth for the command queue, or any combination thereof, among other options, based on the queue refill time. |
| US11768628B2 |
Information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus receives an access request to a plurality of storage devices and executes access to one of the plurality of storage devices in response to the received access request. The information processing apparatus changes a mode of the access according to a performance required for readout of target data that is a target of the access request. |
| US11768627B2 |
Techniques for page line filler data
Methods, systems, and devices for using page line filler data are described. In some examples, a memory system may store data within a write buffer of the memory system. The memory system may initiate an operation to transfer the write buffer data to a memory device, for example, due to a command to perform a memory management operation (e.g., cache synchronization, context switching, or the like) from a host system. In some examples, a quantity of write buffer data may fail to satisfy a data size threshold. Thus, the memory system may aggregate the data in the write buffer with valid data from a block of the memory device associated with garbage collection. The memory system may aggregate the write buffer data with the garbage collection data until the aggregated data satisfies the data size threshold. The memory system may then write the aggregated data to the memory device. |
| US11768625B2 |
Storage device managing a multi-tier cache memory and operating method thereof
A storage device may include: a memory device; a cache memory device including a first cache memory which caches first data among data stored in the plurality of pages and a second cache memory which caches second data among the data stored in the plurality of pages; and a memory controller for counting a number of times that each of the plurality of pages is read and a number of times that each of the plurality of pages is written, based on a read request or a write request which are received from a host, and, moving the first data from the first cache memory to the second cache memory when the first data is stored in a first page and a number of times that the first page is read and a number of times that the first page is written satisfy a predetermined condition. |
| US11768618B2 |
Distributed processing data storage device and system
A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes: a first function block of a device controller configured to receive user data and perform a first data processing; a first buffer memory connected to the first function block and configured to store user data subjected to the first data processing as first process data; a second function block of the device controller configured to receive a data write command determined based on the first process data; and a non-volatile memory connected to the second function block, and configured to receive and store data stored in the first buffer memory. The user data is provided to the first function block before the data write command is provided to the second function block. |
| US11768616B2 |
Resource allocation control device, computing system, and resource allocation control method
A management node that controls a hardware resource amount of a node to be allocated to a distributed data store includes: a disk device that stores an application performance model indicating a correspondence relationship between an application performance and a distributed data store performance, and stores a data store performance model indicating a correspondence relationship between the hardware resource amount and data store performance of the distributed data store; and a CPU. The CPU is configured to: receive target performance information by the application; determine a required performance which is a distributed data store performance required for achieving a performance to be specified by the target performance information based on the application performance model; determine a hardware resource amount required for achieving the required performance based on the data store performance model; and set the determined resource amount to be allocated to the distributed data store. |
| US11768608B2 |
Computer system, compute node, and data management method
A computer system includes a NoSQL/SQL cluster and a distributed storage. In order to make storage target data redundant, a compute node in the NoSQL/SQL cluster instructs other compute nodes in the NoSQL/SQL cluster to write the storage target data into the distributed storage. As regards a file containing the storage target data, the compute node in the NoSQL/SQL cluster deduplicates data in storage apparatuses of a plurality of storage nodes in the distributed storage. The distributed storage performs erasure coding to store a file of the storage target data newly found to be duplicate in deduplication and to store a file of the storage target data not deduplicated in deduplication. |
| US11768606B2 |
Maximizing performance through traffic balancing
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a plurality of fetch requests, determine a first number of requests, second number of requests, and a third number of requests of the plurality of fetch requests, and balance an execution of the first number of requests, the second number of requests, and the third number of requests so that a first ratio of the data requests to the PRP requests and a second ratio of the data requests to the HMB requests is about 1. The plurality of fetch requests includes PRP requests, HMB requests, and data requests. The first number of requests corresponds to a number of the PRP requests. The second number of requests corresponds to a number of the HMB requests. The third number of requests corresponds to a number of the data requests. |
| US11768604B2 |
Reducing time to locate and read files within a tape medium
File number segments to be used within simulations can be defined. Tape division regions to be used within simulations can be defined. Times to locate each file number segment for each tape division region according to a first locate method can be simulated. Times to locate each file number segment for each tape division region according to a second locate method can be simulated. The simulated times for each locate method can be applied to a set of defined total file numbers to determine the time to locate each defined total file number for each locate method, file number segment, and tape division region combination. |
| US11768602B2 |
Object memory data flow instruction execution
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to an instruction set of an object memory fabric. This object memory fabric instruction set can be used to provide a unique instruction model based on triggers defined in metadata of the memory objects. This model represents a dynamic dataflow method of execution in which processes are performed based on actual dependencies of the memory objects. This provides a high degree of memory and execution parallelism which in turn provides tolerance of variations in access delays between memory objects. In this model, sequences of instructions are executed and managed based on data access. These sequences can be of arbitrary length but short sequences are more efficient and provide greater parallelism. |
| US11768601B2 |
System and method for accelerated data processing in SSDS
A system includes a plurality of storage processing accelerators (SPAs), at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs including a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs including n SPEs (n is a natural number greater than zero), where 1st to (n−1) SPEs of the n SPEs are configured to provide an output of the SPE to a next SPE of the n SPEs in a pipeline to be used as an input of the next SPE; and an acceleration platform manager (APM) connected to the plurality of the SPAs and the plurality of SPEs, and configured to control data processing in the plurality of SPAs and the plurality of SPEs. |
| US11768600B2 |
Computing reduction and prefix sum operations in memory
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for computing reduction and prefix sum operations in memory. A number of embodiments include processing circuitry configured to compute a reduction operation on data stored in a group of memory cells by splitting the data into a plurality of elements, copying each of the plurality of elements into elements that are wider than before being copied, and performing a logical operation associated with the reduction operation on each of the copied elements. |
| US11768598B2 |
Device having a display and control method for obtaining output layout of information on the display
A device is disclosed. The device includes a display, a memory configured to store an artificial intelligence model trained to obtain an output layout information of an additional information provided in the device, and a processor connected to the display and the memory. The processor is configured to control the device, and obtain, based on an output layout of the main information provided in the device being selected, an output layout information of the additional information by inputting information related to an output layout of a main information to the artificial intelligence model. The processor is also configured to control the display to output a user interface (UI) screen including time information and additional information based on an output layout of the main information and an output layout information of the additional information. |
| US11768597B2 |
Method and system for editing video on basis of context obtained using artificial intelligence
A method and system for editing a video on the basis of a context obtained using artificial intelligence. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for editing a video may comprise the steps of: establishing a plurality of contexts for an input video by analyzing the video through an artificial intelligence model, and taking, from the video, a plurality of clips corresponding to the established plurality of contexts; generating a user interface through which to receive a certain context selected from the plurality of contexts; providing, through the generated user interface, a plurality of clips that has been taken from the video for the context selected from the plurality of contexts through the generated user interface; and generating a highlight image for the selected context for the video by merging clips together that have been selected from the plurality of clips provided through the user interface. |
| US11768595B2 |
System architecture for cohorting sensor data
A method of cohorting data sets can include accessing a plurality of data sets each associated with a different target item and a plurality of test items and receiving from a user a selection of a plurality of the data sets. For each of the selected data sets, the method may include determining one or more of the test items interacting with the respective target within a threshold parameter and identifying one or more matching test items of the plurality of test items associated with interactions with each of the targets of the selected data sets. The method can include generating a graphical user interface to display a representation of the matching test items, the selected data sets, or both and receiving a filter selection for reducing a number of the matching test items to a filtered one or more test items smaller than the number of matching test items. |
| US11768593B2 |
Intravascular data visualization and interface systems and methods
In part, the disclosure relates to intravascular data collection systems and the software-based visualization and display of intravascular data relating to detected side branches and side branch obstruction. An estimate of side branch diameter can be made based on a vessel profile or a maximum diameter of a vessel at a distal and proximal location relative to the side branch. A amount of side branch obstruction may be determined by comparing an observed side branch diameter with in the image data with the estimated side branch diameter. In addition, an amount of blood flow obstruction may also be determined. |
| US11768592B1 |
Method and apparatus for resizing window, electronic device, and readable storage medium
The present disclosure relates to a method for resizing a window, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining, in response to an operation triggered for rotating a roll-up shaft being detected, a stretching rate and duration of the roll-up screen; and resizing the window of a current application displayed by the roll-up screen based on the stretching rate and duration of the roll-up screen. |
| US11768591B2 |
Dynamic graphical containers
In an example, a method to organize graphical objects includes displaying a graphical matrix in a graphical drawing canvas. The graphical matrix includes multiple rows and columns that intersect the rows. The method includes determining a value of a first attribute of each of multiple graphical objects. The method includes determining a value of a second attribute of each of the graphical objects. The method includes displaying the graphical objects arranged within the rows and the columns according to respective values of the first attribute and the second attribute of each of the graphical objects. |
| US11768586B2 |
Navigation system for viewing reconstructed images in a video stream with a set of indexed images
Systems are provided for viewing reconstructed images in a video stream with a set of indexed images. The systems include a navigation engine for a parsing of image data for reconstructing discrete images into independently viewable subsets of discrete images that are custom-designed for the video stream, the parsing using criteria that includes body part; and, case details that include age, sex, ethnicity, disease, genomic markers, and other correlating diagnostics. The systems also include an indexing module for locating and retrieving a set of indexed images by the body part and the case details for a point-and-click-free viewing, wherein, the indexing of each image by the body part and the case details provides a linking mechanism for the point-and-click-free viewing of the set of indexed images. |
| US11768583B2 |
Integration of third party application as quick actions
A computer readable media, a method, and a system registering a third party application providing an available communication system between a local user and a remote user identity, storing information related to the available communication system in a first database, obtaining contact information for the remote user identity from the third party application, determining a communication type for the third party application, pairing the remote user identity with a contact, and updating a graphical representation of contact information. |
| US11768575B2 |
Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on unlock inputs
An electronic device with a display and a fingerprint sensor displays a fingerprint enrollment interface and detects, on the fingerprint sensor, a plurality of finger gestures performed with a finger. The device collects fingerprint information from the plurality of finger gestures performed with the finger. After collecting the fingerprint information, the device determines whether the collected fingerprint information is sufficient to enroll a fingerprint of the finger. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device enrolls the fingerprint of the finger with the device. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is not sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device displays a message in the fingerprint enrollment interface prompting a user to perform one or more additional finger gestures on the fingerprint sensor with the finger. |
| US11768570B2 |
Input sensing unit and display device having the same
An input sensing unit including: a first sensing electrode, a second sensing electrode insulated from the first sensing electrode, a first sensing line connected to one end of the first sensing electrode, a second sensing line connected to the other end of the first sensing electrode, a third sensing line connected to one end of the second sensing electrode, a first bridge pattern connecting the first sensing line and the second sensing line, a second bridge pattern substantially parallel to the first bridge pattern, and a pad connected to the second bridge pattern. The first bridge pattern extends in a first direction and overlaps the first sensing electrode in the first direction, and the pad is disposed closer to the second bridge pattern than the first bridge pattern. Thus, the input sensing unit has improved reliability. |
| US11768569B2 |
Touch substrate and method of forming the same, and touch display device
A touch substrate and a method of forming the same, and a touch display device are provided. The touch substrate includes: electrode connecting bridges, a signal wiring layer, an insulating layer and a touch electrode layer which are sequentially formed along a direction away from a base, where the touch electrode layer includes a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes, and the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are arranged in a crossed manner. |
| US11768565B2 |
Cover film for pen sensor and pen sensor
A cover film used together with a pen sensor including a plurality of sensor electrodes, and a sensor controller which detects a position of an active pen in reference to a distribution of signal levels each corresponding to an amount of electric charge induced in an individual one of the plurality of sensor electrodes by a pen signal transmitted from a pen tip electrode disposed at a tip of the active pen. The cover film includes a conductive resin that covers an effective area formed by the sensor electrodes for detection of the position of the active pen and that includes a substantially uniform resistance component at least within a range of the effective area. The cover film is arranged, without via a cover glass, on an upper surface of a sensor electrode group including the plurality of sensor electrodes. |
| US11768564B2 |
Low-noise, high-resolution ratiometric capacitive baseliner
An apparatus includes a global baseliner circuit coupled with sensing channels of a sensing device. The global baseliner circuit has a signal generator to generate a rectified sinusoidal signal and a square wave having a frequency matching that of an excitation sinusoidal signal, and is to use the square wave to modulate the excitation sinusoidal signal provided at an output of the global baseliner circuit. A channel baseliner circuit is coupled between the global baseliner circuit and a sensing channel and that includes a switched capacitor coupled between the output of the global baseliner circuit and the sensing channel; a sigma-delta modulator coupled with the signal generator and to generate, from the rectified sinusoidal signal, a density-modulated bit stream; and a pair of AND gates to use the density-modulated bit stream and non-overlapping clock signals to generate outputs including density-modulated clock signals sent to switches of the switched capacitor. |
| US11768560B2 |
System and method for reducing display interference
A system and method for mitigating interference within a sensing device. The sensing device may be part of an input device that also includes a display device. The display device may include a display panel having a plurality of display electrodes, and a display driver configured to drive the plurality of display electrodes. The sensing device may include a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed over the display panel, and a sensor driver communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensor electrodes and the display driver. The sensor driver may be configured to acquire sensor data from the plurality of sensor electrodes, receive a display signal from the display driver, and reduce interference within the sensor data at least partially based on the display signal. |
| US11768555B2 |
Touch control screen and electronic device
A touch control screen and an electronic device are disclosed. The touch control screen includes: a plurality of touch control units disposed at intervals, wherein, a material of the touch control units is a transparent conductive material; and a plurality of touch control lead wires corresponding to and connected to the touch control units, wherein, at least one of the touch control units covers at least a part of a multiplexed functional area. |
| US11768553B2 |
Input device for vehicle
An input device has an operative member on which switches are arranged to receive a pushing force. The input device has a control unit which is configured to store both a first correction coefficient and a second correction coefficient. The first correction coefficient may correct variations in displacement caused by differences in pushing positions on the operative member. The second correction coefficient may correct differences in sensitivity among a plurality of sensors. The control unit is configured to perform: correcting a plurality of displacements by the first correction coefficient and the second correction coefficient; and determining whether presence or absence of a push operation by comparing a summation of corrected values with a predetermined threshold value. |
| US11768549B2 |
Vehicle interior systems having a curved cover glass and display or touch panel and methods for forming the same
Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed. |
| US11768548B2 |
Touch pad device and portable computer comprising same
The present disclosure relates to a touch pad device and a portable computer including the same, and more particularly, to a touch pad device capable of sensing an inputted push of an object, and a portable computer including the same. A touch pad device according to one embodiment includes: a touch pad cover; a substrate disposed under the touch pad cover and including a pressure sensor; and a frame configured to support the substrate, in which a magnitude of a pressure inputted to the touch pad cover is detected on the basis of a change in electrical characteristics outputted from the pressure sensor in response to bending of the substrate. |
| US11768546B1 |
Method and device for positional/rotational information of a finger-wearable device
In one implementation, a method for visually indicating positional/rotational information of a finger-wearable device. The method includes: determining a set of translational values and a set of rotational values for the finger-wearable device, wherein the finger-wearable device is worn on a finger of a user; displaying, via a display, a visual representation of a location of the finger-wearable device based on the set of translational values; generating a visual representation of a grasp region of the user based on the set of translational values and the set of rotational values; and concurrently displaying, via the display, the visual representation of the grasp region with the visual representation of the location of the finger-wearable device. |
| US11768541B2 |
Audio-haptic signal generator
An audio-haptic signal generator for a haptic system including an amplifier coupled to a haptic actuator is described. The audio-haptic signal generator includes an audio input configured to receive an audio signal; a haptic input configured to receive a haptic signal and a controller configured to receive to at least one of the haptic signal, an amplifier state and a haptic actuator state. A mixer is coupled to the audio input and the haptic input. The mixer has an output configured to be coupled to a haptic actuator. The controller controls the mixer to process the audio signal dependent on at least one of a characteristic of the haptic signal, an amplifier state, and a haptic actuator state. The mixer is configured to mix the haptic signal and processed audio signal on to output the mixed haptic signal and processed audio signal. |
| US11768540B2 |
Method and apparatus for modulating haptic feedback
The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for the modulation of an acoustic field for providing tactile sensations. A method of creating haptic feedback using ultrasound is provided. The method comprises the steps of generating a plurality of ultrasound waves with a common focal point using a phased array of ultrasound transducers, the common focal point being a haptic feedback point, and modulating the generation of the ultrasound waves using a waveform selected to produce little or no audible sound at the haptic feedback point. |
| US11768539B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing system includes a measurement unit, an output unit, and a reception unit. The measurement unit measures brain waves of a user. The output unit outputs a sound to the user. The reception unit receives a command to correct the sound in a case where the sound is output while the brain waves are being measured. |
| US11768536B2 |
Systems and methods for user interaction based vehicle feature control
A method for controlling vehicle operations based on user orientation and user interaction data is provided. The method includes detecting, using a sensor operating in conjunction with the computing device of the vehicle, an orientation of a part of a user relative to a location on a display that is positioned in an interior of the vehicle, detecting, using an additional sensor, an interaction between the user and a portion of the display positioned in the interior of the vehicle, determining, using the computing device, whether a distance between the location and the portion of the display satisfies a threshold, and controlling, by the computing device, an operation associated with the vehicle responsive to determining that the distance between the location and the portion of the display satisfies the threshold. |
| US11768535B1 |
Presenting computer-generated content based on extremity tracking
A method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a first input device. The method includes detecting, via the first input device, an input directed to a first location within a physical environment. The first location is identified by an extremity tracking function based on the input. The method includes determining an interaction event based on a function of a semantic identifier that is associated with a portion of the first location. The method includes presenting computer-generated content that is a function of the interaction event. |
| US11768534B2 |
Method and power distribution circuit for providing electric power from a plurality of power supplies to a plurality of loads
A power distribution circuit for providing electric power from a plurality of power supplies to a plurality of loads comprises a combiner of power outputs of the power supplies to provide power at a given voltage to a plurality of hot swap modules that are each electrically connected to the combiner and to a power input of a corresponding load. Each hot swap module verifies one or more conditions selected from the given voltage being at least equal to a minimum voltage threshold, the given voltage not exceeding a maximum voltage threshold, and a current consumed by the load not exceeding a maximum current threshold. Each hot swap module delivers power to the power input of the corresponding load when all selected conditions are met and isolates the power input of the corresponding load from the power supplies when any one of the selected conditions is not met. |
| US11768527B2 |
Data center component replacement
Described is a system including a server rack comprising a plurality of components, a plurality of touch sensors respectively coupled with the plurality of components of the server rack, and a management system communicatively coupled to the server rack. The management system comprises one or more processors and one or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions, which, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the management system to perform a method. The method comprises receiving, from the server rack, an indication of a failed component of the plurality of components. The method further comprises receiving, from a first touch sensor of the plurality of touch sensors, a touch indication. The method further comprises transmitting, to the server rack, an indication of whether the first touch sensor is coupled to the failed component. |
| US11768526B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided in the present disclosure. The electronic device includes a first main body having a first metal shell and a second main body having a second metal shell, where the first metal shell has a first slot; and the second metal shell has a second slot; and further includes an antenna circuit disposed in the first metal shell, where the antenna circuit has a radiator; and the radiator and the first slot satisfy a coupling condition. In response to being in a first state, the radiator and the second slot satisfy the coupling condition, and the radiator radiates a signal through the first slot and the second slot, simultaneously; and in response to being in a second state, the first slot and the second slot do not satisfy the coupling condition, and the radiator radiates the signal through the first slot. |
| US11768524B2 |
Electronic device hinge with movable rigid display support
A hinge for a foldable electronic device includes a spine, a first hinge guide, a second hinge guide, and a display support. The first hinge guide is rotatably connected to the spine around a first axis. The second hinge guide rotatably connected to the spine around a second axis. The display support is connected to the first hinge guide in a first track and connected to the second hinge guide by a second track. A translational position of the display support relative to the spine is related to a first rotational position of the first hinge guide relative to the spine and a second rotational position of the second hinge guide relative to the spine. |
| US11768522B2 |
Method and system for detecting the presence or absence of a protective case on an electronic device
Various embodiments for the automatic detection of the presence of a protective case on an electronic device are provided herein. Generally, the electronic device includes one or more sensors; a device memory storing an application; a device processor, which upon execution of the application, is configured to: monitor, via at least one first sensor, a trigger condition for detecting the presence of the protective case; detect the trigger condition; in response to detecting the trigger condition, cause the electronic device to vibrate for a pre-determined period of time; collect, via at least one second sensor, sensor data during the pre-determined time; extract at least one feature from the sensor data; based on the extracted at least one feature, determine whether the protective case is applied to the electronic device; and generate an output indicating whether the protective case is applied to the electronic device. |
| US11768520B2 |
Foldable window, display device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the window
A window includes: a substrate including a folding area, a non-folding area, an upper surface, and a lower surface, wherein the folding area is configured to fold about a folding axis; and a plurality of groove patterns arranged in the folding area along a first direction crossing the folding axis, wherein each of the plurality of groove patterns includes: a bottom surface recessed from the upper surface of the substrate and substantially parallel to the upper surface of the substrate; and a side surface, wherein each side surface of the plurality of groove patterns connects each bottom surface of the plurality of groove patterns to the upper surface of the substrate, and wherein the side surface includes at least one curved surface. |
| US11768518B1 |
Head securement for head-mountable device
Systems of the present disclosure can provide a head-mountable device with a head securement element that is integrated with a light seal module, which provides effective and comfortable engagement with a face of the user. By providing the head securement element with a light seal module, both head securement and face engagement can be customized or otherwise selected for achieving the desired fit for a given user. Accordingly, the head securement element (e.g., band, arms, and the like) can be primarily or exclusively secured to an HMD module via a light seal module. |
| US11768516B2 |
Systems and methods for multi-phase clock generation
Systems and methods are provided for a clock generator is configured to generate N clock signals evenly spaced by phase. A clock generator includes a poly phase filter configured to utilize a differential clock signal to generate N intermediate signals, the intermediate signals being spaced approximately 360/N degrees apart in phase. A phase error corrector is configured to receive the intermediate signals and to generate N clock output signals, where a phase error is a measure of a difference in phase between consecutive ones of the clock output signals from 360/N degrees, the phase error corrector being configured to reduce phase error among the clock output signals based on a feedback signal. A phase error detection circuit is configured to receive the clock output signals and to generate the feedback signal based on detected phase errors among the clock output signals. |
| US11768515B2 |
Optimal timer array
Methods and apparatuses for an optimal timer array using a single reference counter are presented. According to one aspect, timers of the timer array use the single reference counter to process different timed trigger requests. A count translation logic block translates counts corresponding to the requested timed triggers to target values of the reference counter. Register arrays that include the target values and active/inactive status flags of the timers are used to implement specific timers. Comparators are used to compare values of the reference counter to the target values to establish expiration of the requested timed triggers. A target translation logic block translates a current value of the reference counter to an offset value from the target values for monitoring by an external circuit. |
| US11768514B2 |
Pedal system for road and flight operational use vehicle
A pedal system for a vehicle, where the vehicle is configured for operating in a first vehicle mode for flight operational use and a second vehicle mode for road operational use. The pedal system includes a first pedal arrangement having a first lower pedal part and a first upper pedal part arranged in connection to each other. In the first vehicle mode the first lower pedal part is configured for activating a rudder function of the vehicle, and in the first vehicle mode the first upper pedal part is configured for activating a braking function of the vehicle. In the second vehicle mode the first lower pedal part and the first upper pedal part are configured for cooperating with each other to activate a throttle function of the vehicle. |
| US11768513B2 |
Signal generating device, bandgap reference device and method of generating temperature-dependent signal
A signal generating device including a first circuit coupled between a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage and arranged to generate a first current to a first BJT; a first control circuit connected to the first BJT and arranged to adjust the first current. The first circuit outputs a part of a temperature-dependent signal on an output terminal, and includes: a first active device having a first and a second connecting terminal coupled to the first BJT; a second active device having a first connecting terminal coupled to the first BJT, and a second connecting terminal coupled to a second reference voltage; a first amplifier having an input terminal coupled to the first BJT, and an output terminal coupled to the control terminal of the first active device; and a second control circuit coupled to the first circuit for controlling the temperature-dependent signal according to the first current. |
| US11768508B2 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle sensor activation and correlation system
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a sensor activation and correlation system. One of the methods includes obtaining information describing a flight plan for implementation. A trigger associated with activating a camera included in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is determined to be satisfied. Information indicating that the camera is to capture an image is provided to the camera. A first timestamp associated with the image is obtained and stored. Information indicating that the image was captured is received and associated with the obtained first timestamp. Information indicating that the camera captured the image is provided to a user device in communication with the UAV. |
| US11768507B2 |
Driving control management system, driving control management method, and computer readable medium
A method for efficiently manage traveling planning in automated driving is provided. The method includes large-area planning of planning driving control of a vehicle in a predetermined management area including a vehicle traffic environment having a certain size, and small-area planning of planning driving control of the vehicle in a limited area or for a range of a limited period in the management area in a more detailed manner than the planning by the large-area planning, in which in at least one of the large-area planning and the small-area planning, information for determining planning is received from a plurality of traffic participants, and management of a combination of the received information and mediation thereof are performed, and the vehicle travels according to planning determined in each of the large-area planning and the small-area planning. |
| US11768506B1 |
Controlling vehicle systems based on verified signals
A system may include a first vehicle and a first control system that may control one or more vehicle operations of the first vehicle. The first control system may perform operations including receiving a first vehicle operation signal from a second control system associated with a second vehicle, sending one or more requests to one or more computing systems for a confirmation of the first vehicle operation signal, and determining a set of vehicle instructions to control the one or more vehicle operations based on whether one or more responses from the one or more computing systems provide the confirmation. The first control system may then control the first vehicle based on the set of vehicle instructions. |
| US11768505B2 |
Ride system with dynamic ride vehicle configurations
A ride system includes a first ride vehicle having a first magnet exposed along a first exterior side of the first ride vehicle and a first additional magnet exposed along a first additional exterior side of the first ride vehicle. The ride system includes a second ride vehicle having a second magnet exposed along a second exterior side of the second ride vehicle and a second additional magnet exposed along a second additional exterior side of the second ride vehicle. The ride system includes a control system configured to control maneuvering of one or both of the first and second ride vehicles to: establish a coupling between the first magnet and the second magnet in a first configuration, establish a coupling between the first magnet and the second additional magnet in a second configuration, establish a coupling between the first additional magnet and the second magnet in a third configuration, establish a coupling between the first additional magnet and the second additional magnet in a fourth configuration. |
| US11768500B2 |
Autonomous driving system
An autonomous driving system includes an electronic control unit configured to generate, based on a target route, a target path in a predetermined coordinate system and a speed plan specifying a passage time at a control point on the target path, and rebuild, based on an actual speed of a vehicle, the speed plan when an operation intervention is performed during autonomous driving performed by autonomous driving control for causing the vehicle to travel along the target path according to the speed plan, the operation intervention changing a braking force acting on the vehicle, and perform the autonomous driving control by using an actuator mounted on the vehicle. |
| US11768495B2 |
Path planning in mobile robots
The invention provides a computer-implemented method of planning a path for a mobile robot such as an autonomous vehicle in the presence of K obstacles. The method uses, for each of the K obstacles, a shape Bk and a density function pk(x) representing the probabilistic position of the obstacle. The method repeats the following steps for at least two different paths A: —choosing a path A, where A is the swept area of the robot within a given time interval; and—calculating based on the density function of each obstacle and the swept path an upper bound on the total probability of at least one collision FD between the robot and the K obstacles. This allows a number of candidate paths to be ranked for safety. By precomputing factors of the computational steps over K obstacles, the computation per path is O(N), and not O(NK). A safety threshold can be used to filter out paths below that threshold. An operating path to control the robot can be selected from the remaining paths, optionally based on other factors such as comfort or efficiency. |
| US11768490B2 |
System and methods for controlling state transitions using a vehicle controller
The present disclosure is directed to controlling state transitions in an autonomous vehicle. In particular, a computing system can initiate the autonomous vehicle into a no-authorization state upon startup. The computing system can receive an authorization request. The computing system determines whether the authorization request includes a request to enter the first or second mode of operations, wherein the first mode of operations is associated with the autonomous vehicle being operated without a human operator and the second mode of operations is associated with the autonomous vehicle being operable by a human operator. The computing system can transition the autonomous vehicle from the no-authorization state into a standby state in response to determining the authorization request includes a request to enter the first mode of operations or into a manual-controlled state in response to determining the authorization request is a request to enter the second mode of operations. |
| US11768489B2 |
Controller and method for correcting the operation and travel path of an autonomously travelling vehicle
A method of using a fractalization protocol to control the operation or travel path of a vehicle during travel or flight, includes a plurality of sensors that detect the occurrence of an event or travel path deviation. A master fractal controller initiates a space-variant fractalization protocol in order to collect the input data related to the detected event. In response to the input data, if the master space-variant fractalization protocol detects a deficiency in data resolution of the collected input data it identifies the slave controllers that are relevant to compensate for such deficiency. The master space-variant fractalization protocol then initiates slave fractals that correspond to the identified slave controllers for collecting additional input data and that define adjustable slave fractalization protocols. The space-variant fractalization protocol then causes the slave fractalization protocols to collect the additional input data. |
| US11768488B2 |
Augmented reality rider interface responsive to location or orientation of the vehicle
A rider interface for a vehicle includes a data processor configured to facilitate communication between a rider using the rider interface and the vehicle, the vehicle and the rider interface communicating location and orientation of the vehicle. An augmented reality system with a display is disposed to facilitate presenting an augmentation of content in an environment of the rider using the rider interface, the augmentation responsive to a registration of the communicated location and orientation of the vehicle, wherein at least one parameter of the augmentation is determined by machine learning on at least one input relating to at least one of the rider and the rider interface. |
| US11768485B2 |
System and method for controlling quality of vehicle
A system for controlling a quality of a vehicle includes: a communication device that communicates with a plurality of terminals respectively located on vehicle product lines; and a controller that monitors the part assembly state of the worker, and displays an official assembly video of a defectively assembled part through a terminal on a product line where the worker is located when detecting the defective assembly of the worker. |
| US11768479B2 |
System and method for secure connections in a high availability industrial controller
Secure data transmission between an input device and both industrial controllers in a high-availability system utilizes a secure connection established between the primary industrial controller and the input device. Data required to establish the secure connection is stored on the primary controller as part of the connection data corresponding to the secure connection. The input device transmits data to the primary controller over the secure connection according to the desired level of security. The primary controller transmits the connection data defining the secure connection to the secondary controller. If a failure occurs in the primary controller, the secondary controller establishes a connection to the input device using the connection data for the secure connection, such that the secondary controller may assume responsibility for the controller end of the secure connection. The primary controller transmits the input signals to the secondary controller via the dedicated connection between controllers. |
| US11768475B2 |
Machine for working glass slabs with a computerized numeric control assembly and related production process
A machine for working glass slabs includes a supporting structure, a slab grinding section having grinding heads, a conveyor assembly adapted to move the glass slab, and a slab drilling section having a conveyor adjacent to the conveyor assembly. The slab grinding section has suckers for keeping the glass slab next to a working plane spaced and/or offset with respect to the advancement plane, and a computerized numeric control assembly to perform workings on the glass slab. |
| US11768472B2 |
Methods and systems for irrigation and climate control
Methods and systems are provided for monitoring and controlling irrigation and climate conditions in landscapes (such as, e.g., municipal parks, gardens, and sports fields) and agricultural environments (such as, e.g., open agricultural fields, greenhouses, and other sites growing crops). |
| US11768471B1 |
Systems and methods for creating a customized watch face and retrieving the watch face to be displayed
Systems and methods to create a customized watch face and retrieve the watch face to be displayed are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may effectuate presentation of a selection interface; receive a mint request to mint the watch face in accordance with a watch face design; effectuate a transfer of consideration from a user wallet to an administrative wallet; mint the watch face; transfer a non-fungible token to the user wallet; receive a display request to display the watch face on a watch screen; determine whether the user wallet holds a non-fungible token associated with the watch face; responsive to the user wallet holding the non-fungible token, facilitate display of the watch face on the watch screen; responsive to the user wallet not holding the non-fungible token, take no action to facilitate display of the watch face on the watch screen; and/or perform other operations. |
| US11768470B2 |
Dial and method for manufacturing a watch dial
A dial for a watch includes a semi-transparent photovoltaic layer having a lower face. The dial also includes an ink-based decorative layer printed on the lower face of the photovoltaic layer. The decorative layer includes a pattern including one or more time markers. |
| US11768468B2 |
Striking mechanism, watch and regulator
A regulator for a striking mechanism of a mechanical watch including a base, which can be assembled in a fixed manner with regard to the housing and which rotatably mounts a rotary wheel. At least two mass elements are arranged on the rotary wheel and by way of a rotation of the rotary wheel are deflectable radially outwards counter to a spring force on account of the centrifugal force, in order to regulate the rotation speed of the rotary wheel. At least three bearing elements are attached to the base, the bearing elements engaging peripherally on the rotary wheel, in order to mount this relative to the base. |
| US11768461B2 |
Manufacturing method of holographic optical element and display device including holographic optical device manufactured thereby
A method of manufacturing a holographic optical element, including: irradiating a first surface of a photosensitive substrate with a first layer, and irradiating a second surface of the photosensitive substrate with a second laser. The light emitted by the first laser is spread in an irradiation direction and the light emitted by the second laser is collected in the irradiation direction to form a plurality of groups and a plurality of overlapping angles formed by a progress direction of the light emitted by the first laser and the progress direction of the light emitted by the second laser at a predetermined location of a photosensitive area, and each of the plurality of the overlapping angles are different from each other. A display device including the holographic optical element measured using this method. |
| US11768460B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a first frame member, a second frame member opposing the first frame member, a cartridge, a cartridge holding member, an air blowing portion, a first opening, a second opening opposing the first opening, an air discharge passage member, and an outer casing member provided so as to cover an outside of the second frame member and permitting discharge of the air to an outside of the image forming apparatus through the air discharge passage member. |
| US11768459B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes: a toner image former that forms a toner image on an outer peripheral surface of a photosensitive rotating body and that transfers the toner image having been formed onto a transfer receiving object; a detector that detects a grayscale abnormality of the toner image on the photosensitive rotating body or the transfer receiving object; a cleaner that cleans the outer peripheral surface of the photosensitive rotating body; and a hardware processor that causes the cleaner to clean when the detector detects the grayscale abnormality at a same position in a main scanning direction per circumferential length of the photosensitive rotating body in a sub-scanning direction. |
| US11768457B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a conveying unit, an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a first driving unit, a second driving unit, a transmission unit to transmit an ultrasonic wave, and a reception unit. Where a determination is made that a timing at which excitation of the first driving unit is switched or a timing at which excitation of the second driving unit is switched overlaps with a timing to obtain a value of the ultrasonic wave received by the reception unit, the transmission unit does not transmit an ultrasonic wave. Where a determination is made that the timing at which the excitation of the first driving unit is switched or the timing at which the excitation of the second driving unit is switched does not overlap with the timing to obtain the value of the received ultrasonic wave, the transmission unit transmits an ultrasonic wave. |
| US11768454B2 |
Image forming apparatus having a first circuit for supplying power to a heater, a second circuit electrically insulated with reinforced insulation from the first circuit, and a third circuit electrically insulated from the first and second circuits
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a circuit including both a circuit within a fixing unit and a power control circuit, provided with a first circuit which supplies power to a heater from an AC power supply, a second circuit electrically insulated from the first circuit, and a third circuit electrically insulated from both the first circuit and the second circuit, all of the first to third circuits are provided on at least one surface of a circuit board, and the first to third circuits are disposed on at least one straight line on which all of the first to third circuits are present on the one surface of the circuit board in the order of the first circuit, the third circuit and the second circuit. |
| US11768452B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, an image forming unit, an intermediate transfer belt, a power supply, a transfer member to transfer toner image on the intermediate transfer belt to a recording medium, and a sensor to detect, as density information, a density of the recording medium toner image. In an adjustment mode, (i) a test recording medium is output as a test chart by applying multiple levels of test voltages to the transfer member to transfer test toner images to the test recording medium, (ii) the transferred test toner images are detected via the sensor, and (iii) a transfer voltage is adjusted based on the sensor detection. In the adjustment mode, test toner image groups are set, one test toner image group is extracted based on an index value, and the transfer voltage is adjusted based on the density information of the extracted test toner image group. |
| US11768451B1 |
Belt drive device
A belt drive device includes a drive unit, a detection unit, a blade, and a control unit. The drive unit rotates an endless belt. The detection unit detects a position of a connection portion in which both ends of a reinforcing tape, which is provided on an outer surface of an edge of the belt in a width direction orthogonal to a rotation direction of the belt, in a longitudinal direction along the edge of the belt are overlapped and connected. The blade comes into contact with an outer surface of the belt and an outer surface of the reinforcing tape and is provided to extend in the width direction. The control unit controls driving of the drive unit based on a detection result obtained by the detection unit such that when the drive unit rotates the belt by a constant length in a reverse direction from one end of the reinforcing tape overlapped inside toward the other end of the reinforcing tape overlapped outside at the connection portion from a state in which the belt is stopped, the drive unit rotates the belt in a forward direction to a rotation position where the other end of the reinforcing tape does not come into contact with the blade by a reverse rotation and stops the belt before the belt is reversely rotated. |
| US11768448B2 |
Information storage system including a plurality of terminals
A toner container includes a container body, an opening, a cover, a toner discharge port, a shutter, a cylindrical structure, protrusions, and an identifier. The shutter is attached to the cover and includes a main shutter covering the toner discharge port. The main shutter moves between a closed position to close the toner discharge port and an open position to open the toner discharge port. The protrusions are on both sides of the cover and protrude in a direction orthogonal to a toner container mounting direction. The identifier is on the cover to indicate a toner color. The cylindrical structure's leading end is downstream of leading ends of the protrusions in the mounting direction. The main shutter's leading end is downstream of the protrusions' leading ends in the mounting direction when the main shutter is in the closed position. The protrusions are downstream of the identifier in the mounting direction. |
| US11768446B2 |
Toner production method
A method for producing a toner, including aggregating and coalescing resin particles and colorant particles. The resin particles contain a composite resin containing a polyester resin segment, an addition polymer resin segment which is an addition polymerized product of a raw material monomer containing a styrenic compound, and a structural unit derived from a bireactive monomer bonding to the polyester resin segment and the addition polymer resin segment via a covalent bond. The colorant particles contain a colorant and an addition polymer of a raw material monomer containing a styrenic compound. The addition polymer contains a structural unit derived from the styrenic compound in the main chain. A ratio by mass of the colorant to the addition polymer in the colorant particles is 50/50 or more and 95/5 or less. |
| US11768442B2 |
Method of determining control parameters of a device manufacturing process
A method including: obtaining an image of at least part of a substrate, wherein the image includes at least one feature of a device being manufactured in a layer on the substrate; obtaining a layout of features associated with a previous layer adjacent to the layer on the substrate; calculating one or more image-related metrics in dependence on: 1) a contour determined from the image including the at least one feature and 2) the layout; and determining one or more control parameters of a lithographic apparatus and/or one or more further processes in a manufacturing process of the device in dependence on the one or more image-related metrics, wherein at least one of the control parameters is determined to modify the geometry of the contour in order to improve the one or more image-related metrics. |
| US11768440B2 |
Training methods for machine learning assisted optical proximity error correction
A method including: obtaining data based an optical proximity correction for a spatially shifted version of a training design pattern; and training a machine learning model configured to predict optical proximity corrections for design patterns using data regarding the training design pattern and the data based on the optical proximity correction for the spatially shifted version of the training design pattern. |
| US11768439B2 |
Systems and methods for a narrow band high transmittance interference filter
The present disclosure provides an interference filter, a lithography system incorporating an interference filter, and a method of fabricating an interference filter. The interference filter includes a transparent substrate having a front surface and a back surface, a plurality of alternating material layers formed over the front surface of the transparent substrate that form a bandpass filter, and an anti-reflective structure formed over the back surface of the transparent substrate. The alternating material layers alternate between a relatively high refractive index material and a relatively low refractive index material. |
| US11768424B2 |
Fixing device for accurate positioning of optical assembly, optical module, and electronic device
A fixing device for accurately fixing an optical assembly to a rear housing of an electronic device fixes the optical assembly in a predetermined position and includes a cover plate. The cover plate defines a hole and a limiting portion. The hole corresponds to a photosensitive portion of the optical assembly and the photosensitive portion is configured to protrude out of the cover plate. The limiting portion is configured to limit a movement of the optical assembly away from the rear housing before being fixed in position. The fixing device fixes the optical assembly in the predetermined position so that the assembly accuracy and efficiency are improved. An optical module including the fixing device, and an electronic device including the optical module are also provided. |
| US11768418B2 |
Optical device
An optical phase shifter may include a waveguide core that has a top surface, and a semiconductor contact that is laterally displaced relative to the waveguide core and is electrically connected to the waveguide core. A top surface of the semiconductor contact is above the top surface of the waveguide core. The waveguide core may include a p-type core region and an n-type core region. A p-type semiconductor region may be in physical contact with the n-type core region of the waveguide core, and an n-type semiconductor region may be in physical contact with the p-type core region of the waveguide core. A phase shifter region and a light-emitting region may be disposed at different depth levels, and the light-emitting region may emit light from a phase shifter region that is in a position adjacent to the light-emitting region. |
| US11768416B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes an insulating substrate having a main surface, a switching element, a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element, a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode, a wiring line provided between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, a convex portion provided between the wiring line and a liquid crystal layer, overlapping the wiring line and extending along the wiring line, and a black film formed into a belt-like shape overlapping the convex portion and having an inclined surface which inclines with respect to the main surface. |
| US11768410B2 |
Display, display system, image projection system, and movable object
Provided is a head-up display including a display system that has a liquid-crystal panel including a display screen, a Fresnel lens which is on an opposite side of the liquid-crystal panel from the display screen, and a backlight that emits light toward the Fresnel lens. The head-up display also includes a first mirror that reflects light from the display system, a second mirror that reflects light from the first mirror, and a control circuit that controls the liquid-crystal panel, where a center of the second mirror is closer to a center of the control circuit than a center of the display system in a direction connecting a center of the first mirror and the center of the second mirror. |
| US11768405B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region adjacent to the first pixel region. The display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; and a plurality of spacers disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Herein, a first portion of the plurality of spacers are disposed in the first pixel region, a second portion of the plurality of spacers are disposed in the second pixel region, a disposition density of the second portion of the plurality of spacers in the second pixel region is different from a disposition density of the first portion of the plurality of spacers in the first pixel region. |
| US11768404B1 |
Driving substrate, backlight, and display device
Provided are a driving substrate, a backlight, and a display device. The driving substrate includes a plurality of backlight partitions arranged in an array. Each of the plurality of backlight partitions is provided with a first pad set column and a second pad set column, where the first pad set column and the second pad set column comprise arranged along a first direction and each include a plurality of pad sets arranged along a second direction, where the first direction intersects with the second direction. A boundary on one side of the first pad set column facing away from the second pad set column is denoted as a first boundary, and a boundary on one side of the second pad set column facing away from the first pad set column is denoted as a second boundary. |
| US11768403B2 |
Backlight assembly, manufacturing method thereof, and display device
A backlight assembly, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The backlight assembly includes: a substrate, an anode trace and a cathode trace of an LED on the substrate, a planarization layer on a layer where the anode trace and the cathode trace of the LED are located, and an anode connection pad and a cathode connection pad on the planarization layer. The anode trace of the LED is coupled to the anode connection pad through a first via hole penetrating through the planarization layer, and the cathode trace of the LED is coupled to the cathode connection pad through a second via hole penetrating through the planarization layer. An exhaust channel is further arranged on the planarization layer to discharge gas accumulated in the planarization layer. |
| US11768402B2 |
Display device
Disclosed is a display device. The display device of the present disclosure may include: a display panel; a frame which is located in a rear of the display panel and to which the display panel is coupled; a substrate which is located between the display panel and the frame and coupled to the frame; and a plurality of light sources which are mounted on the substrate and spaced apart from each other, wherein the substrate may include: an elongated first plate; and a plurality of second plates which extend from the first plate in a direction intersecting with a length direction of the first plate, and are spaced apart from each other in the length direction of the first plate. |
| US11768400B2 |
Display apparatus including reflective layer, method of manufacturing display apparatus and backlight unit
Provided is a backlight unit, a display apparatus, and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus capable of securing a uniform and wide illumination area with a small number of light sources through reflection of a reflective layer. The backlight unit includes a plurality of light sources configured to emit light; a first reflective layer configured to reflect the light emitted from the plurality of light sources; and a second reflective layer configured to reflect the light reflected from the first reflective layer, wherein an amount of reflection from the first reflective layer and an amount of transmission through the first reflective layer are different from each other according to an angle of incidence of light incident on the first reflective layer. |
| US11768399B2 |
Display panel, manufacturing method thereof, and display device
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes: a backlight module configured to provide a light source; a cover plate on a light-emitting side of the backlight module; a display module between the cover plate and the backlight module; and a photosensitive device configured to sense ambient light. The photosensitive device is between the cover plate and the backlight module, and at an edge of the cover plate. |
| US11768398B2 |
Liquid crystal displays with polarized infrared illumination
Systems and methods for IR readable transmissive and reflective displays are disclosed that do not suffer from a mirror-like appearance or undesirable dimming of the display due to sequential stacks of polarizers. The disclosed systems and methods use available IR LEDs in addition to, or in place of, visible light LEDs. An illuminator or integrator, which is a lightguide, is designed to maintain the polarization state of the light. The display can use a regular visible light, front polarizer and hence does not suffer from brightness reduction caused by an IR capable polarizer. |
| US11768396B1 |
Human-machine interface module structure
A human-machine interface module structure includes a circuit module, a retaining seat, and a liquid crystal panel. The circuit module is fixedly connected to a frame. The circuit module includes a first circuit board and a second circuit board that are stacked in parallel. The first circuit board is fixedly connected to an inner side of the frame. The second circuit board is located behind the first circuit board. The first circuit board is electrically connected to the second circuit board. The retaining seat is parallel with and connected to the first circuit board. A front of the retaining seat has an accommodating space. The liquid crystal panel is accommodated in the accommodating space. The liquid crystal panel is electrically connected to the first circuit board through a flat flexible cable. The human-machine interface module structure is small in size and is easy to assemble and durable. |
| US11768390B2 |
Blocker having light transmission and reflection device
The blocker described comprises: a lens illumination light source; a light transmission and reflection device to reflect/transmit the light; an image sensor to detect light reflected by the light transmission and reflection device and thereby obtain an lens image; a lens meter to detect the light that has passed through the light transmission and reflection device to thereby measure lens characteristics; and a blocking member to attach a leap block to the lens. The light transmission and reflection device comprises: a first reflection plate having a central hole; a first rotating cylinder to be coupled to and to rotate the first reflection plate; a second rotating cylinder located inside and to rotate the first rotating cylinder; a second reflection plate, adjusted by the second rotating cylinder and configured to open or block the central hole in the first reflection plate; and driving means configured to drive the second rotating cylinder. |
| US11768388B2 |
Systems, apparatus, and methods for regulating refractive error development through the modulation of peripheral distortion
In general, one aspect disclosed features a flexible lens element for application to a spectacle lens, the flexible lens element comprising: a central zone having an optical center corresponding to the visual axis of an eye of a patient; and a peripheral zone peripheral to the central zone and comprising: a first zone having a first thickness, and a second zone having a second thickness, wherein: the second thickness varies from the first thickness, and a distance from the second zone to the optical center of the central zone is selected to generate pincushion distortion or barrel distortion in the eye of the patient. |
| US11768387B2 |
Tuneable ophthalmic lens
The present disclosure concerns a tuneable ophthalmic lens 200. The tuneable ophthalmic lens comprises an activated state and a deactivated state. The ophthalmic lens further comprises a central chamber 206b. The ophthalmic lens also comprises a fluid reservoir, the fluid reservoir being in fluid communication with the central chamber. The fluid reservoir comprises a pump for pumping fluid between the fluid reservoir and the central chamber. In the deactivated state the central chamber is substantially empty of fluid 208a. In the activated state the central chamber is not substantially empty of fluid. |
| US11768386B2 |
Ophthalmic lens with an optically non-coaxial zone for myopia control
The present disclosure relates to ophthalmic devices such as ophthalmic lenses. An ophthalmic device may comprise an ophthalmic lens for at least one of slowing, retarding or preventing myopia progression. The ophthalmic lens may comprise a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile comprising an ADD power, the at least one treatment zone having a surface shape comprising a portion of a generally toroidal shape, wherein the at least one treatment zone is arranged as to form a continuous surface with the center zone. |
| US11768385B2 |
3D display device and display method
The present disclosure relates to a 3D display device, includes: a display panel; a lens layer arranged on a light exit side of the display panel, and including a plurality of convergent lenses arranged in an array; a human eye tracker provided on a side of the lens layer away from the display panel, the human eye tracker being used to determine spatial positions of one or more viewers' eyes relative to the display panel when facing the display panel; and a controller electrically connected to the display panel and the human eye tracker, the controller being used to receive the spatial positions and control subpixels of the display panel corresponding to the spatial positions to display image slices corresponding to the spatial positions. |
| US11768384B2 |
Polarization grating based star simulator
A cycloidal diffractive waveplate based star simulator generates a star field with very high precision star locations and accurate brightness. The present disclosure provides a star simulator that allows for a large FOV, modular, multi-star simulator capable of very high precision dynamic star locations for testing of high accuracy, large FOV star trackers. The system is composed of a light source, a polarization grating-based image [1], and an opto-mechanical system for steering the light. The light is projected onto a diffuse screen where the light is scattered, creating a functional point source at the screen. A star tracker or other device under test views the screen which has a multitude of projected spots (each with its own light source and beam steering device) positioned in a star field distribution appropriate for the simulated viewing direction. |
| US11768380B2 |
3-dimensional image display apparatus and method of providing expanded viewing window
A three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of light sources; a spatial light modulator configured to modulate light from the plurality of light sources according to 3D image information; and a focusing optical system configured to focus an image formed by the spatial light modulator onto a focal plane. The plurality of light sources may be arranged such that multiple focal points, respectively corresponding to the plurality of light sources, are formed on the focal plane near a pupil of a user. |
| US11768371B2 |
Projection device and head-up display
A projection device includes: a plurality of light sources arranged in a first direction; a spatial modulation element that modulates incident light into image information and emits the image information; a lens that changes an optical path of light emitted from each of the plurality of light sources such that the light emitted from each light source reaches substantially the same region of an incident surface of the spatial modulation element; and a first reflective optical member that deflects the light emitted from the lens toward the spatial modulation element, the first reflective optical member having a shape that reflects light emitted from the lens so as to be incident on an arbitrary point on the incident surface of the spatial modulation element at a predetermined reference incident angle. |
| US11768370B2 |
Projector, display system, and mobile object
A projector includes an image forming unit configured to emit image light that forms an image and an imaging optical system configured to form an image by reflecting the image light. S magnification power at a point of the imaging optical system where the image light is incident and optical-path length between the image forming unit and the imaging optical system is short is made higher than a magnification power at a point of the imaging optical system where the image light is incident and the optical-path length between the image forming unit and the imaging optical system is long. |
| US11768366B1 |
Quick adjustment apparatus
The apparatus features a rotating collar and a static collar, in which one collar has an adjustment lever. The rotating collar is attached to a rotating portion of a focus knob for a device, which in one example is a night vision device. The static collar is attached to a non-rotating portion of the device immediately adjacent to the focus knob. The movement of the rotating collar and the focus knob that the rotating collar is attached to is constrained by mechanical interference between a static stop, the adjustment lever, and an adjustable stop. |
| US11768363B2 |
Method and apparatus for microscopy imaging with resolution correction
A method and apparatus for microscopic imaging is provided. The method includes: illuminating the sample with illumination radiation to stimulate the detection radiation; capturing the detection radiation from the sample; with the intensity data of the detection radiation from the sample; applying the calibration algorithm to the captured image(s) to acquire the processed second image; the resolution of the processed second image is higher than the acquired first image. |
| US11768361B2 |
Zoom lens and image capturing apparatus
A zoom lens ZL includes: a first lens unit L1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit L2 having a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit L3 having a positive refractive power, an N−1th lens unit, and an Nth lens unit, the lens units being arranged in order from an object side to an image side. The N−1th lens unit and the Nth lens unit are located on the image side with respect to an aperture stop SP. |
| US11768350B2 |
Optical imaging system and portable electronic device
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens disposed in order from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies 4.0 |
| US11768349B2 |
Optical image capturing system
A four-piece optical image capturing system is disclosed. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lenses are aspheric. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras. |
| US11768345B2 |
Lens barrel and imaging module applying the same
A lens barrel, including a barrel wall and a sleeve, is provided. The barrel wall extends from an object side to an image side around an optical axis, and has a lens barrel inner surface facing the optical axis and a lens barrel outer surface facing away from the lens barrel inner surface. The lens barrel outer surface includes a lens barrel object-side surface facing the object side. The sleeve is fixed on the lens barrel outer surface and partially embedded in the barrel wall. The sleeve has an object-side end closest to the object side and an image-side end closest to the image side. The object-side end does not extend beyond the lens barrel object-side surface not covered by the sleeve and closest to the object-side end in a direction parallel to the optical axis. |
| US11768340B2 |
System and method for scalable optical interconnect for quantum computing
The present disclosure relates to an interconnect system for interfacing an electronic subsystem to a qubit package, wherein the qubit package has a plurality of independent qubits. The system makes use of an optical fiber cable having a plurality of optical fibers, which is interfaced to the electronic subsystem. A 3D optical structure is used which has a plurality of internal waveguides, and which is configured to interface the optical fiber cable to the qubit package. The 3D optical structure further has at least one subsystem for using the plurality of waveguides to receive signals of a first type from at least one of the qubits package or the optical fiber cable, to convert the signals from the first type to a second type, and to transmit the signals in the second type to the other one of the fiber optic cable or the qubit package. |
| US11768333B2 |
Small form factor connector and adapter
A two-piece fiber optic connector and a corresponding two-piece adapter allow for the tripling of the optical fibers that can be used with a standard fiber-optic cassette. The two-piece fiber optic connector has a fold-over latch to engage the adapter. The two-piece adapter has at least one latch to engage the standard fiber-optic cassette to retain the two-piece adapter and the fiber optic connectors in the adapter within the cassette. This allows for the retrofitting and/or continued use of the standard fiber-optic cassette. |
| US11768325B2 |
Display device, illumination device, and light guiding member
Display device is provided and includes display panel; and illumination device provided on rear surface side of display panel, wherein illumination device includes light sources, and light guiding member arranged at rear surface side of display panel, light guiding member has holes which penetrates the light guiding member, light sources are housed in corresponding hole, rear surface of light guiding member has first inclined surface inclined upwardly from light source housed in one of holes, front surface side of light guiding member has second inclined surface inclined upwardly from light source housed in one of the holes, and angle of first inclined surface to center line of one of holes is greater than angle of second inclined surface to center line. |
| US11768323B2 |
Polarizer and image display device
A polarizer with a high degree of alignment and an image display device including the polarizer. The polarizer is formed of a polarizer-forming composition containing a liquid crystal compound, a first dichroic material, and a second dichroic material, in which the polarizer has an array structure formed of the first dichroic material and an array structure formed of the second dichroic material. |
| US11768322B2 |
Grating part and manufacturing method thereof
A grating part includes a first transparent substrate having an optical grating on a first principal surface and a second transparent substrate having an optical grating on a first principal surface; a second principal surface of the first substrate on an opposite side from the first principal surface and a second principal surface of the second substrate on an opposite side from the first principal surface are bonded. |
| US11768321B2 |
Optically variable security devices
An optical device is formed by hot stamping a demetallized hologram to an optically variable foil or to a coating of optically variable ink. In another embodiment a hologram is hot stamped to a banknote or document printed with a color-shifting ink. |
| US11768319B2 |
Glycyrrhetinic acid derivatives for treating hyperkalemia
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a salt thereof: (I) wherein X, L, V, R1, R2, R3 and R4, are as defined herein. These compounds are inhibitors of 11-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11-HSD-2) and are used to treat hyperkalemia. |
| US11768318B2 |
Light-distribution adjustment sheet and display unit
A display unit of the disclosure includes a display panel and a light-distribution adjustment sheet. The light-distribution adjustment sheet is provided on the display panel, and includes a protrusion that protrudes toward the display panel. The protrusion includes a first region including a curved surface, and a second region including a flat surface. |
| US11768313B2 |
Multi-scanner networked systems for performing material discrimination processes on scanned objects
The present application is directed toward cargo scanning systems having scanners, each arranged to scan a respective object and generate a set of scan data, processors arranged to process each set of scan data to determine whether it meets a predetermined threat condition, workstations, and data management system arranged to direct data that meets the threat condition to one of the workstations for analysis. |
| US11768310B2 |
Double-field security body scanner
The present invention relates to a detection system comprising detection means (140) of the inductive field type and detection means (10) using microwave field-based imaging, analysis means (50) which are suitable for analysing the signals from the inductive detection means (140) and for deducing therefrom the potential presence of the metal targets, and means which are suitable for correspondingly modifying, at least in a zone of interest, the sensitivity of the detection means (10) using microwave-based imaging. |
| US11768309B2 |
Magnetism detection apparatus for underwater unexploded ordnance and method for controlling the same
A magnetism detection apparatus includes a detection device, at least one first locating device, and a central control device. The detection device includes an array of detection assemblies arranged in a same plane. The array of detection assemblies is configured to detect magnetic fields and output magnetic field signals corresponding to locations of the detection assemblies. The at least one first locating device is disposed on one of the detection assemblies to locate this detection assembly and output a first coordinate signal corresponding to this detection assembly. The central control device is communicatively and respectively connected to each of the detection assemblies and the at least one first locating device, and configured to process the magnetic field signals and the first coordinate signal. |
| US11768305B2 |
Spectral analysis, machine learning, and frac score assignment to acoustic signatures of fracking events
System, method, and apparatus for classifying fracture quantity and quality of fracturing operation activities during hydraulic fracturing operations, the system comprising: a sensor coupled to a fracking wellhead, circulating fluid line, or standpipe of a well and configured to convert acoustic vibrations in fracking fluid in the fracking wellhead into an electrical signal; a memory configured to store the electrical signal; a converter configured to access the electrical signal from the memory and convert the electrical signal in a window of time into a current frequency domain spectrum; a machine-learning system configured to classify the current frequency domain spectrum, the machine-learning system having been trained on previous frequency domain spectra measured during previous hydraulic fracturing operations and previously classified by the machine-learning system; and a user interface configured to return a classification of the current frequency domain spectrum to an operator of the fracking wellhead. |
| US11768302B2 |
Technologies for multifunction sensor devices and microcontroller-based interface module
Technologies for multifunction sensor devices include a multifunction sensor having a pair of electrodes separated by a thin film polymer. The multifunction sensor is coupled to a nano-amplifier that receives a sensor signal and amplifies the sensor signal to generate an amplified sensor signal. A controller coupled to the nano-amplifier processes the amplified sensor signal based on the type of the multifunction sensor device to generate sensor data. The type of the multifunction sensor device may be a static charge sensor, a high-energy particle sensor, a microwave sensor, or an ultraviolet/X-ray sensor. The sensor data may be output, for example, to an external computing device via a serial link. |
| US11768300B2 |
Transmission imaging in a pet scanner based on forward-scattered gamma rays with coincidence detection
Disclosed is a novel method of obtaining transmission scan data in a PET scanner by incorporating one or more stationary gamma-ray sources that provide forward scattered gamma-photons that can be used as transmission imaging radiation. |
| US11768294B2 |
Compact lidar systems for vehicle contour fitting
An apparatus of a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) scanning system for at least partial integration with a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an optical core assembly including an oscillating reflective element, an optical polygon element, and transmitting and collection optics. The apparatus includes a first exterior surface at least partially bounded by at least a first portion of a vehicle roof or at least a portion of a vehicle windshield. A surface profile of the first exterior surface aligns with a surface profile associated with at least one of the first portion of the vehicle roof or the portion of the vehicle windshield. A combination of the first exterior surface and the one or more additional exterior surfaces form a housing enclosing the optical core assembly including the oscillating reflective element, the optical polygon element, and the transmitting and collection optics. |
| US11768293B2 |
Method and device for adjusting parameters of LiDAR, and LiDAR
An embodiment of the present application relates to the field of radar technology, and discloses a method and a device for adjusting parameters of LiDAR, and a LiDAR. The method includes: acquiring 3D environment information around the LiDAR; identifying a scenario type where the LiDAR is positioned and a drivable area based on the 3D environment information; determining a parameter adjusting strategy of the LiDAR based on the scenario type and the drivable area; and adjusting current operating parameters of the LiDAR based on the parameter adjusting strategy. |
| US11768292B2 |
Three-dimensional object detection
Generally, the disclosed systems and methods implement improved detection of objects in three-dimensional (3D) space. More particularly, an improved 3D object detection system can exploit continuous fusion of multiple sensors and/or integrated geographic prior map data to enhance effectiveness and robustness of object detection in applications such as autonomous driving. In some implementations, geographic prior data (e.g., geometric ground and/or semantic road features) can be exploited to enhance three-dimensional object detection for autonomous vehicle applications. In some implementations, object detection systems and methods can be improved based on dynamic utilization of multiple sensor modalities. More particularly, an improved 3D object detection system can exploit both LIDAR systems and cameras to perform very accurate localization of objects within three-dimensional space relative to an autonomous vehicle. For example, multi-sensor fusion can be implemented via continuous convolutions to fuse image data samples and LIDAR feature maps at different levels of resolution. |
| US11768289B2 |
Work machine with LiDAR having reduced false object detection
A work machine, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system, and method of reducing false object detections are disclosed. The work machine may include a frame, a power unit, a locomotive device, and the LiDAR system. The LiDAR system may include at least one laser, at least one sensor, a bracket, and a control unit configured to execute an object detection program. The LiDAR system is configured to exclude from its object detection program a plurality of beams emitted toward the work machine through a design of the bracket and/or software methods of the control unit. The method may include storing a database of exclude coordinates and using the database to filter out undesirable data samples from the object detection program. |
| US11768284B2 |
Detection system and method
A detection system includes a radar-unit and a controller-circuit. The radar-unit is configured to detect objects proximate a host-vehicle. The controller-circuit is in communication with the radar-unit and is configured to determine a detection-distribution based on the radar-unit. The detection-distribution is characterized by a longitudinal-distribution of zero-range-rate detections associated with a trailer towed by the host-vehicle. The controller-circuit is further configured to determine a trailer-classification based on a comparison of the detection-distribution and longitudinal-distribution-models stored in the controller-circuit. The trailer-classification is indicative of a dimension of the trailer. The controller-circuit determines a trailer-length of the trailer based on the detection-distribution and the trailer-classification. |
| US11768278B2 |
Lidar receiving apparatus, lidar system and laser ranging method
A lidar receiving apparatus, a lidar system, a laser ranging method, a laser ranging controller and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The lidar receiving apparatus includes a photodetector (11), which is configured to receive a reflected laser signal and to convert the reflected laser signal into a current signal when a bias voltage of the photodetector (11) is greater than a breakdown voltage of the same; a ranging circuit (12), which is connected with the photodetector (11) and configured to calculate distance data according to the current signal; and a power control circuit (13), which is connected with the photodetector (11) and configured to control the bias voltage applied to the photodetector (11) according to a predefined rule, wherein the predefined rule includes: at a receiving time of a stray reflected signal, the bias voltage of the photodetector (11) is smaller than the breakdown voltage; and the receiving time of the stray reflected signal is a time at which a transmitted laser signal reaches the photodetector (11) through a stray light path other than a ranging light path. The lidar receiving apparatus may be employed to decrease a short-range blind area. |
| US11768276B2 |
Laser emitting circuit and lidar
The present application discloses a laser emitting circuit and a LiDAR. In a one-driving-multiple emitting circuit, in an energy storage stage, a power supply stores energy for an energy storage element of the energy storage circuit, and a laser diode does not emit light. In an energy transfer stage, by setting a floating-ground diode D0, an energy charging current passes through an energy storage capacitor C2, the floating-ground diode D0 and the ground to form a loop. In an energy release stage, when the energy release switch element is in an off state, the energy release circuit where the energy release switch element is located is not the lowest impedance loop. A laser diode in the energy release circuit where the energy release switch element is located does not emit light. |
| US11768275B2 |
Strobe window dependent illumination for flash LIDAR
A Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) system includes one or more emitter elements configured to emit optical signals responsive to respective emitter control signals, one or more detector elements configured to detect incident photons for respective strobe windows of operation between pulses of the optical signals and at respective delays that differ with respect to the pulses, and at least one control circuit. The at least one control circuit is configured to generate the respective emitter control signals to differently operate the one or more emitter elements based on the respective strobe windows of operation of the one or more detector elements. |
| US11768269B2 |
Positioning based on signal propagation time difference
A positioning method, as well as the system of base stations (T1,T2,T3) and detector (I) is based on measuring the propagation time difference of externally controlled electromagnetic pulses (F1,F2,F3) and the arrival signals of the controlled base station during a measurement cycle (t1+t2). In one embodiment, a reference clock is not required for measuring propagation time differences, but instead, accurate fixed distances between base stations can be used as a reference. System calibration is rarely performed. It checks the mutual locations of base stations. This may be partially automated. The positioning system does not require any sensors. |
| US11768267B2 |
Sensor network system and deployment for object detection, tracking and mitigation
Described herein are different distributed sensor network models, use cases, and details of the components of each model to achieve the goal of monitoring, detecting, tracking, and mitigating a target(s) such as a signal, an object, a phenomenon, etc. An independent sensor or a local sensor network may supply data to one or more fusion center(s) that collect(s) data and perform(s) higher logic to enhance system performance. A local sensor network allows independent sensors or other local sensor networks to merge into the local sensor network. A sensor cloud can be formed by multiple local sensor networks and independent sensors. By using different distribution models, the local sensor network can provide protection for various targets like Very Important Personnel (VIP) vehicles, lands, facilities, and cities. |
| US11768266B2 |
System and method for estimating the angle of arrival using antenna arrays
Approaches are described for antenna configuration in an antenna array of limited array size and channel state information (CSI) collection and analysis, to improve accuracy of angle of arrival (AoA) estimations for localizing a client device's position. Signals can be received from groups of antennas and CSI data can be generated from the signals. The CSI data can be combined, where the combined CSI data represents CSI data measurements of multiple signals received from a plurality of antenna subsets, without requiring physical installation of additional antennas to the limited antenna array to make the CSI data measurements. The angle of arrival (AoA) of the signals is estimated based on the combined CSI, and the AoA estimation can be used to determine the client device's location, and for other location services, such as identifying a person's location, tracking and managing inventory of objects, commute prediction, and the like. |
| US11768265B2 |
Harmonizing diffusion tensor images using machine learning
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for harmonizing diffusion tensor images. One of the methods includes obtaining a diffusion tensor image; determining a set of RISH features for the diffusion tensor image; processing a model input generated from the set of RISH features using a machine learning model to generate a model output identifying an image transformation from a set of image transformations, wherein each image transformation in the set of image transformations corresponds to a respective different first MRI scanner and represents a transformation that, when applied to first diffusion tensor images captured by the first MRI scanner, harmonizes the first diffusion tensor images with second diffusion tensor images captured by a reference MRI scanner; and processing the diffusion tensor image using the identified image transformation to generate a harmonized diffusion tensor image. |
| US11768263B2 |
Magnet system for a magnetic resonance imaging system
The disclosure describes a magnet system for a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising a basic field magnet and a gradient system, wherein coils of the gradient system are positioned outside the area of a predefined basic magnetic field (B0) of the basic field magnet. The disclosure further describes a gradient system and a magnetic resonance imaging system with such a magnet system. |
| US11768254B1 |
Apparatus for detection of packet energy transfer in cables and related methods
An apparatus for detecting Packet Energy Transfer (PET) in a cable is disclosed herein. The PET detecting apparatus includes an input adapted to generate a current by operative communication of the input with the cable, wherein the cable communicates PET as a pulse train. A spectral analyzer compares frequencies of maxima of the power spectrum of a signal derived from the current with a fundamental frequency of the pulse train and a harmonic frequency of the pulse train to detect PET in the cable. A power maximum of the power spectrum at the fundamental frequency and a second power maximum of the power spectrum at the harmonic frequency indicates PET in the cable. No power maximum of the power spectrum at the fundamental frequency or no second power maximum of the power spectrum at the harmonic frequency indicates no PET in the cable. |
| US11768247B2 |
Method and apparatus for improper power supply detection
Systems and processes are provided to detect an improper external power supply including a battery having a battery current output, a power supply for receiving an external voltage and an external current from an external power supply and for generating a control signal in response to receiving the external voltage, a processor operative to determine a first polarity of the battery current output at a first time in response to the control signal, to generate an error indicator in response to the first polarity being indicative of a discharging battery, and a display operative to display a user warning indicative of an improper external power supply in response to the error indicator. |
| US11768237B2 |
Leakage screening based on use-case power prediction
This document describes techniques and systems for leakage screening based on power prediction. In particular, the described systems and techniques estimate, during a silicon manufacturing process, use-case power (e.g., low power, ambient power, high power, gaming power) to apply leakage screening for apart (e.g., a chip package). In some aspects, measurable silicon parameters (e.g., leakage values, bin values, processor sensor values) may be used for use-case power prediction. Using the described techniques, a maximum allowable predicted use-case power can be determined and used for leakage screening regardless of an individual rail leakage or voltage bin assignment. |
| US11768235B2 |
Test circuit and method
An IC includes a plurality of pads at a top surface of a semiconductor wafer, an amplifier configured to receive a first AC signal at an input terminal, and output a second AC signal at an output terminal, a first detection circuit coupled to the input terminal and configured to output a first DC voltage to a first pad of the plurality of pads responsive to the first AC signal, and a second detection circuit coupled to the output terminal and configured to output a second DC voltage to a second pad of the plurality of pads responsive to the second AC signal. |
| US11768232B2 |
Equalizer overload management
Provided is a method of operating an electrical system including a first battery, a second battery coupled in series with the first battery, and a battery equalizer coupled to the first battery and the second battery and configured to supply an equalizing current to the first battery. The method includes monitoring a level of the equalizing current, determining, based on monitoring of the level of the equalizing current, that the equalizing current is saturated, and reducing a level of current supplied at a positive terminal of the first battery in response to determining that the equalizing current is saturated. The methods may take an action to reduce the demand for current that is supplied by the first battery. |
| US11768226B2 |
Inspection jig and inspection apparatus
Provided are an inspection jig and an inspection apparatus in which a configuration for bending a plurality of contacts in the same direction can be simplified. The inspection jig includes a plurality of contacts each of which has a rod shape, a first support portion that supports the first end portion side of the plurality of contacts, and a second support portion that supports the second end portion side of the plurality of contacts. The first support portion includes a facing support plate that is disposed to face the second support portion in a manner separated from the second support portion and has a plurality of through holes through which the plurality of contacts are inserted, and a cross section of each of the through holes has an elliptical shape whose major axis extends in a predetermined specific direction along a plane direction of the facing support plate. |
| US11768225B2 |
Removable contactless probe
A system may include a printed circuit board with a microstrip and a conductive structure surrounding the microstrip. The system may include a probe lead in communication with the conductive structure. The system may include a first contact pad electrically connected to the conductive structure and a second contact pad electrically connected to the conductive structure. |
| US11768219B2 |
Angle of attack sensor with thermal enhancement
An angle of attack sensor includes a vane assembly and a multi-piece faceplate adjacent the vane assembly. The faceplate includes a heated chassis defining a pocket and a mounting plate positioned adjacent the heated chassis and having an opening. The vane assembly has a portion that is positioned in the pocket of the heated chassis and extends through the opening of the mounting plate. |
| US11768218B2 |
Gel and polymer based flow meters
A sensor includes a heater, a thermal insulator between two thermometer layers, the heater generating a thermal gradient within the thermal insulator. The thermometers give an indirect measurement of fluid flow around the sensor, based on their temperature readings. The thermometers are flexible layers including gels. |
| US11768215B2 |
Digital dispense system cartridge
An open fluid droplet ejection cartridge containing one or more fluids to be dispensed by digital fluid dispense system and a method for digitally dispensing fluids. The open fluid droplet ejection cartridge includes a cover having one or more openings therein, fluid funnels pending from each of the one or more openings in the cover, a chamber separator attached to the fluid funnels for directing fluid to one or more fluid chambers, a fluid overflow chamber for fluid overflow from the one or more fluid chambers, fluid vias associated with each of the one or more fluid chambers, and a plurality of fluid ejection devices adjacent to the fluid vias on a single semiconductor substrate in fluid flow communication with the fluid vias. |
| US11768213B2 |
Reagent container
A reagent container is disclosed that is installed in an analyzer for use and stores a reagent supplied to the analyzer via an aspiration tube. The reagent container includes a container body. The container body includes a tubular member with an opening into which the aspiration tube is inserted from above, and a bag-shaped member joined to the tubular member and storing the reagent. The container body comprises a penetration prevention member that prevents a tip of the aspiration tube 90 inserted through the opening from penetrating the container body. |
| US11768211B2 |
Cartridge device for a measuring system for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid, a corresponding measuring system, and a corresponding method
The present invention is directed to a cartridge device for a measuring system for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid, in particular a blood sample, comprising a cartridge body having at least one measurement cavity formed therein and having at least one probe element arranged in said at least one measurement cavity for performing a test on said sample liquid; and a cover being attachable on said cartridge body; wherein said cover covers at least partially said at least one measurement cavity and forms a retaining element for retaining said probe element in a predetermined position within said at least one measurement cavity. The invention is directed to a measurement system and a method for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid. |
| US11768210B2 |
Portable coagulation monitoring devices, systems, and methods
Portable coagulation monitoring devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. Namely, a test cartridge is provided for use in a portable coagulation monitor (PCM) device. Further, the test cartridge comprises two glass-filled thermoplastic polymer plates and a disposable blood introduction device. The two glass-filled thermoplastic polymer plates are arranged substantially in parallel with a small gap therebetween for receiving a sample of blood to be tested. Using the PCM device, the two glass-filled thermoplastic polymer plates can be moved linearly relative to each other. Methods of measuring coagulation response in a blood sample using the test cartridge and the PCM device are provided. A method of introducing blood into the test cartridge using the disposable blood introduction device is provided. |
| US11768209B2 |
Method and reagent for measuring thyroglobulin
A measurement method and a measurement reagent for thyroglobulin, which enable measurement of a more accurate amount of thyroglobulin by a single test without being influenced by interference of anti-thyroglobulin antibody, are disclosed. The measurement method for thyroglobulin, wherein thyroglobulin in a sample separated from a body is measured by an immunoassay, includes a pretreatment step of mixing the sample separated from a body with a pretreatment liquid containing one or both of a surfactant and an acidifier. The reagent for immunoassay of thyroglobulin includes a pretreatment liquid containing one or both of a surfactant and an acidifier. |
| US11768208B2 |
Protein and gene biomarkers for rejection of organ transplants
Aspects of the present invention include methods for determining a transplant category of a subject having a transplant. Common mechanisms of rejection injury are uncovered across different tissue transplants, and provide a means to understand rational drug design. Various sources of tissues are examined form the patient for understanding AR mechanism (graft biopsy), as well as monitoring by minimal invasive means (blood) or non-invasive means (urine for the kidney allograft). For biomarker discovery different categories of markers are examined such as genes, proteins, peptides and antibodies. These biomarkers can help determine the subject's transplant category (e.g., acute allograft rejection (AR), stable allograft (STA), BK viremia, BK nephritis, drug toxicity or chronic allograft injury (CAI), and the like). Also provided are compositions, systems, kits and computer program products that find use in practicing the subject methods. The methods and compositions find use in a variety of applications. |
| US11768202B2 |
Method of detecting anti-Ri in a subject with a previous streptococcal infection
Provided are methods for diagnosing a disease in a subject with a previous streptococcal infection by determining the presence or absence of one or more autoantibodies in a biological sample from the subject, wherein the one or more autoantibodies recognize an antigen from a protein selected from the group consisting of ELAVL2, ELAVL3, ELAVL4, Nova-1, Nova-2, Cdr1, Cdr2; and Cdr3. The presence of such autoantibodies is indicative of a positive diagosis for a post-streptococcal disease such as PANDAS, post-GABHS glomerulonephritis, rheumatic fever, autism and Syndenham's chorea. |
| US11768198B2 |
Compositions and methods for molecular labeling
The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each compartment contains one or more copies of a unique construct. The invention further provides methods for digital PCR and for use of barcode libraries in digital PCR. |
| US11768196B2 |
Current-based stimulators for electrogenic cells and related methods
Methods and systems for stimulating and monitoring electrogenic cells are described. Some systems for stimulating electrogenic cells are based on the injection of electric currents into the cells via electrodes connected to the cells. Such stimulators may comprise an impedance element having an input terminal and an output terminal coupled to an electrode, and a voltage follower coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the impedance element, the voltage follower being configured to maintain a substantially constant voltage between the input terminal and the output terminal of the impedance element. The impedance element may comprise one or more switched capacitors at least in some embodiments. In some embodiments, the voltage follower may be implemented using a source follower. |
| US11768194B2 |
System and method for imaging and illumination for cell confluence measurement
A cell monitoring plate comprises a flat surface on which multiple cell culturing vessels may be stacked. The flats surface has multiple optical imaging systems embedded therein to fully image a cell culture vessels stacked on the plate. Each one of the multiple optical imaging systems provides both illumination and imaging through a single aperture in the surface of the monitoring plate. |
| US11768192B2 |
Conductive particle detecting device and mechanical device
A conductive particle detecting device includes a plurality of electrodes, a permanent magnet, and a detecting circuit. The plurality of electrodes are arranged at intervals in a lubricant. The permanent magnet accumulates conductive particles in the lubricant between adjacent electrodes by a magnetic force. The detecting circuit detects target conductive particles based on electrical resistance between the adjacent electrodes. An attractive force of the permanent magnet acting on the conductive particles between the adjacent electrodes is set such that the lubricant remains as a non-conductive layer around fine-sized conductive particles having a smaller particle size than the target conductive particles. |
| US11768191B2 |
Methods and systems for estimation of oil formation volume factor
Embodiments of the disclosure can include systems, methods, and devices for determining saturation pressure of an uncontaminated fluid. A technique facilitates fluid analysis in situ at a downhole location. Downhole saturation pressure measurements and downhole OBM filtrate contamination of a contaminated fluid may be obtained and a relationship may be determined between the saturation pressure measurements and OBM filtrate contamination. The relationship may be extrapolated to zero OBM filtrate contamination to determine the saturation pressure of the uncontaminated fluid. According to an embodiment, a sample of oil is obtained at the downhole location from oil in a reservoir. A downhole sampling system is used to determine whether a sample has contamination and other selected characteristics of the sample. The data obtained may be processed to provide a formation volume factor of the oil. |
| US11768186B2 |
Hydrogen concentration sensor
An illustrative example hydrogen concentration sensor includes a first end plate. A hydrogen evolving electrode assembly that generates hydrogen is situated adjacent the first end plate and at least partially exposed through an opening through the end plate. A separator plate is between the hydrogen evolving electrode assembly and a detection electrode assembly. The separator plate includes a passage to allow a flow of hydrogen generated by the hydrogen evolving electrode assembly to the detection electrode assembly. A second end plate is situated adjacent the detection electrode assembly and includes a second opening where a portion of the detection electrode assembly is exposed to a fluid of interest to provide an indication of a concentration of hydrogen in the fluid of interest. |
| US11768185B2 |
Analyzing data collected by analytical instruments
The present disclosure describes a method, a system, and a computer program product of analyzing data collected by analytical instruments. In an embodiment, the method, the system, and the computer program product include receiving set-up information, running at least one incomplete analytical method on at least one known sample on at least one analytical instrument with respect to the set-up information, resulting in known sample data, processing the at least one incomplete analytical method with respect to the known sample data, resulting in at least one validated analytical method, and running the at least one validated analytical method on at least one unknown sample on the at least one analytical instrument with respect to the set-up information, resulting in analyzed sample data. |
| US11768181B2 |
Method and system for ultrasonic characterization of a medium
Method for ultrasonic characterization of a medium, comprising generating a series of incident ultrasonic waves, generating an experimental reflection matrix Rui(t) defined between the emission basis (i) as input and a reception basis (u) as output, and determining a focused reflection matrix RFoc(rin, rout, δt) of the medium between an input virtual transducer (TVin) calculated based on a focusing as input to the experimental reflection matrix and an output virtual transducer (TVout) calculated based on a focusing as output from the experimental reflection matrix, the responses of the output virtual transducer (TVout) being obtained at a time instant that is shifted by an additional delay δt relative to a time instant of the responses of the input virtual transducer (TVin). |
| US11768180B1 |
Method for ultrasonic guided wave quantitative imaging in form of variable array
The present disclosure relates to a method for ultrasonic guided wave quantitative imaging in a form of variable array and belongs to the technical field of ultrasonic non-destructive testing. The method includes: converting a non-linear lippmann-Schwinger equation into a form of linear summation by a method of moments; and selecting acquisition arrays with different numbers of probes to measure a scattered field signal, and modifying Green's functions by variable born approximation for continuous iterations to approximate a true solution, so as to obtain a final objective function Ok to be solved. According to the present disclosure, by adjusting the arrays, the number of probes and appropriate solution algorithm can be selected based on the testing accuracy; and the method can achieve quantitative evaluation of non-destructive testing, and can be widely used in practical guided wave testing applications of industrial non-destructive testing. |
| US11768175B1 |
Electrophoretic methods for spatial analysis
The present disclosure provides electrophoretic systems, methods and compositions for spatial analysis, which can serve to magnify or demagnify spatial resolution of analytes of interest that are captured using electrophoresis. Some implementations can use a diverging or converging electric field in an electrophoretic capture system. Such a divergent or convergent electric field, as opposed to a parallel electric field, can be generated by, for example, utilizing different sizes of electrodes associated with or imbedded in substrates. Also provided herein are electrophoretic systems, methods and compositions for spatial analysis, which can serve to selectively migrate one or more analytes from a region of interest in the biological sample for capture using electrophoresis. |
| US11768174B2 |
Method for nanopore sensing with local electrical potential measurement
To sense the translocation of a molecule through a nanopore, there is directed to an inlet of the nanopore, having a nanopore fluidic resistance, RP, a molecule disposed in a cis fluidic ionic solution having a cis fluidic access resistance, RC. The molecule is caused to translocate through the nanopore from the inlet of the nanopore to an outlet of the nanopore and to a trans fluidic ionic solution having a trans fluidic access resistance, RT. The trans fluidic access resistance, RT, is of the same order of magnitude as the nanopore fluidic resistance, RP, and both RT and RP are at least an order of magnitude greater than the cis fluidic access resistance, RC. An indication of local electrical potential is produced at a site within the nanopore sensor that is on the trans fluidic ionic solution-side of the nanopore, to sense translocation of the molecule through the nanopore. |
| US11768170B2 |
Biochip having a channel
A biochip including a fluidic substrate having an opening extending completely through the fluidic substrate. The biochip further includes a silicon oxide coating on the fluidic substrate. The biochip further includes a plurality of sidewalls on the fluidic substrate, wherein the plurality of sidewalls defines a channel in fluid communication with the opening, the silicon oxide coating is between adjacent sidewalls of the plurality of sidewalls, and each of the plurality of sidewalls comprises polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The biochip further includes a detection substrate spaced from the fluidic substrate. |
| US11768169B2 |
Ceramic heater, sensor element, and gas sensor
A heater section includes a plate-like ceramic body (a first substrate layer 1, a second substrate layer 2, and a third substrate layer 3) having a longitudinal direction (front-rear direction) and a short-length direction (left-right direction), and a heater 72 disposed within the plate-like ceramic body and including a lead section 79 and a heating section 76 connected to the lead section 79. The heating section 76 includes a straight portion 78 extending along the longitudinal direction, and a lead side curved portion 77b connected to one of the ends of the straight portion 78 closer to the lead section 79. The lead side curved portion 77b has a lower resistance per unit length than the straight portion 78 at one or more temperatures in the range of 700° C. to 900° C. |
| US11768166B2 |
System and method for measuring void fraction of inside of heat conduction member
A system and a method for measuring a void fraction of an inside of a heat conduction member are provided. The system is used to measure the heat conduction member and includes: a heating device configured as a heat source to heat an evaporation end of the heat conduction member; a cooling device configured for cooling a condensation end of the heat conduction member; at least one pair of electrode pads respectively attached to two opposite surfaces of the heat conduction member; and an LCR meter electrically connected to the at least one pair of the electrode pads for measuring impedances of the heat conduction member. Each of the impedances is converted into the void fraction that corresponds to a measured position of the heat conduction member. |
| US11768165B2 |
Method for characterising and monitoring the homogeneity of metal parts manufactured by laser sintering
A non-destructive method for characterizing and monitoring the homogeneity of metal parts which are being manufactured by sintering and comprise several distinct zones. Laser radiation is applied successively to each zone and each sintered zone is analyzed simultaneously in real time by lock-in laser-active radiometry. |
| US11768160B2 |
Multiparameter standard solution for water-quality analysis
A multiparameter standard solution for verifying and calibrating water quality sensors containing an aqueous pH buffer, a xanthene dye, and distyryl biphenyl (DSBP) is provided. The standard solution provides a safe, quick, easy, and stable field standard to simultaneously conduct calibration analysis for several sensors at once. The standard solution is stable when stored and can be safely disposed of in the field. Methods of calibrating sensors used in water quality analysis using the multiparameter standard solution are also provided. |
| US11768151B2 |
Systems and methods for locating sources of fugitive gas emissions
A fugitive gas detection system includes an inertial measurement assembly that measures a change in position of the inlet of a gas analyzer and applies a time slip to concentration data detected by an analyzer to generate a time series of the concentration of the gas in three-dimensional space. Applying statistical methods, the relative location of the source of the fugitive gas can be established from the time series. Additionally, in some embodiments, the data may be interpolated to establish a map of a plume of the fugitive gas. |
| US11768150B2 |
Nanosecond-scale photothermal dynamic imaging
Systems and methods are provided for performing photothermal dynamic imaging. An exemplary method includes: scanning a sample to produce a plurality of raw photothermal dynamic signals; receiving the raw photothermal dynamic signals of the sample; generating a plurality of second signals by matched filtering the raw photothermal dynamic signals to reject non-modulated noise; and performing an inverse operation on the second signals to retrieve at least one thermodynamic signal in a temporal domain. |
| US11768147B2 |
Quantum flow cytometer
A quantum flow cytometer for detecting an analyte with photon-number statistics includes: a flow cytometer that: receives a pump light in a first direction; receives an analyte flow comprising the analyte in a second direction; and produces scattered light from scattering the pump light by the analyte; a single photon detector in optical communication with the flow cytometer and that: receives, in a third direction, the scattered light from the flow cytometer; provides a correlative time-of-arrival waveform comprising photon-number statistics as an amplitude and an integrated area, the integrated area being proportional to a number of photons received by the single photon detector, wherein the first direction, the second direction, and the third direction are arranged at oblique angles. |
| US11768145B2 |
Porous fluid sensor
An optical element includes a porous layer with a network of a plurality of interconnected voids. The porous layer is optically diffusive to at least one wavelength of light when the network of interconnected voids is substantially free of fluid. The porous layer of the optical element undergoes a detectable optical change upon fluid ingress into the network or egress from the network of interconnected voids. |
| US11768143B2 |
Devices and methods for cell analysis
The disclosure provides devices, device systems, and methods for analyzing cells (e.g., blood cells) or particles in a sample. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides various devices and device systems including: a light source; a collecting lens; and one, two, or more detectors. In other embodiments, the devices and device systems include a flow cell or a cartridge device with a flow cell. In further embodiments, the disclosure provides various methods including the steps of: using a light source to emit an irradiation light; using the irradiation light to illuminate a sample flow; using a collecting lens to collect both scattered light and fluorescent light from the sample flow; and using one, two, or more detectors to detect the collected scattered light and fluorescent light. Optionally, these methods include using a flow cell to form a sample flow. |
| US11768142B1 |
Bubble detection system and method within a liquid flow of a pipe by sensing changes in local liquid pressure
A system for detecting bubbles within a liquid flowing in an interior of a pipe. The system includes a system for detecting bubbles within a liquid flowing in an interior of a pipe. The system includes a pressure sensor affixed to the interior of the pipe and a microcontroller communicating with the pressure sensor. The pressure sensor gathers pressure readings of the liquid flowing in the pipe at the location of the pressure sensor and sends the gathered pressure readings to the microprocessor. A pressure differential range over a specific period of time is selected which when exceeded, indicates the presence of bubbles in the liquid flowing in the pipe. The pressure differential range is utilized by the microcontroller to determine the presence of bubbles in the fluid flowing through the pipe. The microcontroller determines a presence of bubbles in the liquid based on an exceedance of the pressure differential range from pressure readings gathered by the pressure sensor over the selected period of time. |
| US11768140B2 |
Vehicle windshield testing assembly
A vehicle windshield testing assembly includes a test table, a plurality of supports, a vehicle windshield, and a testing fixture. The test table is configured to be adjustable about a first axis and a second axis. The plurality of supports is movably connected to the test table. The vehicle windshield is supported by the plurality of supports. The testing fixture supported by the plurality of supports. The testing fixture includes a plurality of hollow sleeves configured to receive a testing object. Each of the hollow sleeves has an opening facing the vehicle windshield. |
| US11768137B2 |
Size-based separation of dissociated fixed tissues
The present disclosure provides a method of separating cellular particles from a tissue sample and then sorting the cellular particles into two or more cellular particle populations. |
| US11768136B2 |
Systems and methods for meso-dissection
The subject disclosure provides systems, computer-implemented methods, and clinical workflows for meso-dissection of biological specimens and tissue slides by incorporating annotation and inter-marker registration modules within digital pathology imaging and meso-dissection (or milling) systems. Images of a reference slide a milling slide may be acquired using the same imaging system, with the annotations on the image associated with the milling slide being based on the inter-marker registration. Each image along with its respective annotations and meta-data may be associated with a project or a case, and stored in an image management system. A same-marker registration may be used to map annotations from the annotated image of the milling slide to a live image of the milling slide. The milling slide may be milled based on the annotations, with milled tissue output into a contained that is labeled in association with the labeled input slides. |
| US11768133B2 |
Chemical testing
A testing device for testing the level of a selected chemical in central heating system water in a central heating system circuit comprises: a sample chamber for holding a sample of central heating system water, the sample chamber being connected to the central heating system circuit; means for controlling filling of the sample chamber with central heating system water from the central heating system circuit, and emptying of the sample chamber; at least one valve for isolating the sample of central heating system water from the heating circuit during testing; and optical testing apparatus including a light source and a detector, for measuring an optical property of the sample of central heating system water isolated within the sample chamber and thereby making a determination as to whether or not the level of the selected chemical in the water is greater than a predetermined threshold level. |
| US11768132B2 |
Method and apparatus for sampling liquid
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for wastewater sampling in all climates. The wastewater sampling apparatus pulls a sample from a stream or other body of water based on flow or time maintaining a consistent, repeatable, and accurate sample size. The present invention includes an all-weather housing. An integrated touchscreen control provides the ability to specify the volumes of water and program times and/or flow intervals to collect samples. Controls also allow control of the temperature within the sample compartment, both from the unit directly or from an external device. The present invention includes arcuate sample chamber and pivoting sample tube for accurate wastewater volume samples. The present invention may pull samples with vertical lifts of up to 29 feet or more and provide consistent accurate sampling exceeding current EPA transport velocity. |
| US11768130B2 |
Microtome and method for controlling and manufacturing the same
A microtome comprises a support assembly; an actuator, mounted to the support assembly; a pair of oscillating flexure assemblies, held by the support assembly and each of which being located on one side of the actuator and oscillated by the actuator; and a blade assembly, mounted to each of the oscillating flexure assemblies so as to move in a direction same as the oscillating flexure assemblies. |
| US11768124B2 |
Automatic torque calibration
An apparatus for calibrating a rotational tool includes a communications interface configured to establish a wireless communications link between a rotational tool and a calibrator to communicate one of a tool torque measurement or a calibrator torque measurement via the communications link. The apparatus may further include calibration processing circuitry configured to receive the tool torque measurement measured by a tool torque sensor, and receive the calibrator torque measurement measured by a calibrator torque sensor. The calibration processing circuitry may also be configured to compare the tool torque measurement to the calibrator torque measurement to determine a difference value, aggregate the difference value with previously determined difference values to determine an updated torque calibration factor, and cause a torque calibration factor associated with a torque sensor of the rotational tool to be automatically replaced with the updated torque calibration factor in the memory of the rotational tool. |
| US11768114B2 |
Temperature sensor, power distribution component having the same, and motor having power distribution component
A temperature sensor detects temperatures of at least two distribution lines and includes a temperature detection unit and a protection member that covers the temperature detection unit. The protection member is provided with a first abutting surface that has a concave shape corresponding to an outer shape of a first distribution line and is in contact with the first distribution line and a second abutting surface that has a concave shape corresponding to an outer shape of a second distribution line and is in contact with the second distribution line. |
| US11768105B2 |
Electronic device
The disclosure relates to an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a shell, a display panel, the display panel or the shell including a light-transmitting area, an ambient light sensor, an infrared transmitter and a light guiding piece. The light guiding piece includes a light incident end and a light emitting end, the light incident end being configured to face the light-transmitting area, and the light emitting end being configured to face the ambient light sensor and the infrared transmitter. |
| US11768102B2 |
Vibration measurement system, vibration measurement apparatus, vibration measurement method, and computer-readable recording medium
A vibration measurement apparatus 30 includes a detection unit 31 that acquires, as a pattern image from an image capturing apparatus 20 that shoots a measurement target surface of a structure 40, an image of the measurement target surface onto which pattern light is projected by an optical apparatus 10, and detects the pattern light from the pattern image, an estimation unit 32 that estimates an angle between the normal of the image capturing surface and the normal of the measurement target surface, based on the pattern light, an image conversion unit 33 that converts the shot image into an image that would be obtained were the normal of the measurement target surface coincident with the normal of the image capturing surface of the image capturing apparatus 20, using the estimated angle, and a vibration measurement unit 34 that measures the vibration of the structure 40 using the converted image. |
| US11768101B2 |
Suitcase weighing luggage rack
Described is a weighing luggage rack having a rack portion with a top section and a bottom section, and a platform portion connected with the top section of the rack portion. In use, the platform portion is stacked on top of the rack portion. The weighing luggage rack further includes a weighing mechanism, and an electronic display configured to display a weight of an object placed thereon. Further embodiments include a weighing luggage rack with only a rack portion and a weighing luggage rack with only a platform portion. |
| US11768100B2 |
Medication dispensing device and methods
A medication dispensing device may include a plurality of trays, each tray optionally including a load cell configured to measure a mass/weight of a medication contained in the respective tray. Each tray is placeable in a medication accessible position and a medication inaccessible position. The medication dispensing device includes a user interface configured to provide instructions and/or other information with regard to access for each medication. A processor provides instructions to selectively place each tray in the medication accessible position, and to determine, based on any change in the mass of the medication placed in the medication accessible position, whether the appropriate amount of the medication is removed from the tray. |
| US11768099B2 |
Calibration method for liquid flowmeter
A calibration method for a liquid flowmeter comprising: providing a first tank (12) for receiving said liquid to be measured and a liquid storage tank (14) connected to said first tank (12); providing a liquid delivering line (9) for conveying the liquid from said liquid storage tank (14) to an external device; providing a weighing sensor (22) for weighing the liquid contained in either the first tank (12) or the liquid storage tank (14), wherein during performing the calibration for the flowmeter (20): disconnecting the liquid delivering line (9) in a conveyance direction downstream of the liquid flowmeter (20) from the external device; connecting said liquid delivering line (9) in the conveyance direction downstream of said liquid flowmeter (20) to a calibrating line (7) connected to said first tank (12); and determining a flow rate of the conveyed liquid within a predetermined time interval based on the change in the liquid weight measured by said weighing sensor (22) in said predetermined time interval, wherein the liquid from said liquid storage tank (14) is delivered through the liquid delivering line back to said first tank (12), and the flow rate of the liquid from the liquid storage tank (14) to said first tank (12) is controlled so as to be substantially constant during calibration. |
| US11768097B2 |
Liquid extraction control method and device
A liquid extraction control method includes: acquiring a current temperature value of liquid to be extracted; determining whether the current temperature value is within a predetermined temperature value range; opening a liquid flow channel when the current temperature value is within the predetermined temperature range, and closing the liquid flow channel when the current temperature value is outside the predetermined temperature range. The temperature range of the liquid to be extracted can therefore be controlled, reducing probability of injuries caused by overly hot or cold liquid through a straw, and facilitating control of the temperature and extraction amount suitable for users, so as to achieve smart and quantitative fluid extraction. |
| US11768092B2 |
Flow sensor devices and systems
A flow rate assembly can include a housing having a measurement channel extending along the housing axis and through a portion of the housing between the first and second ends of the housing, an outer cup portion positioned at least partly within the housing, and a transducer positioned within the outer cup portion and sealed from fluid flow past the outer cup portion, the transducer having a width perpendicular to the housing axis and greater than the width of the measurement channel, the transducer configured to generate an ultrasonic signal and to direct the ultrasonic signal through the measurement channel. |
| US11768090B2 |
Fan
A fan, in particular axial fan and preferably backward-curved radial fan, having an impeller equipped with blades, an electric motor for rotating the impeller and a device for determining the airflow when the impeller is rotating. The device for determining the airflow includes a volume flow measuring wheel arranged in the air flow, which is arranged upstream of the impeller on the inflow side. The air volume flow is calculated or derived from the rotational speed of the volume flow measuring wheel. |
| US11768083B2 |
User interfaces for providing navigation directions
In some embodiments, an electronic device displays indications of safety characteristics of one or more navigational segments of a navigation route. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays navigation options. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents indications of navigation directions while navigation along a route. |
| US11768082B2 |
Facilitation of predictive simulation of planned environment
A simulation of a planned future environment can be presented, including social aspects, along with a simulation of other aspects of the environment, such as sounds and other environment conditions. For example, a user can plan a travel route from point A to point B and view a preview of the journey prior to beginning the journey to envision what to expect and possibly alter their plans as a result. In order for a simulated preview of the journey to be created, a set of data can be collected that can represent the location of connected or non-connected objects at a point in time and predict their location at later points in time. The prediction can be validated or confirmed by other connected devices long the route. |
| US11768079B2 |
Intelligent route selection for autonomous vehicle delivery system
The present disclosure provides a method comprising identifying at least one of a characteristic and an identity of an item for delivery from an origin to a destination; identifying a plurality of possible routes between the origin and the destination using mapping information, the mapping information including for each of the plurality of possible routes, a characterization of each of a plurality of route segments comprising the possible route; evaluating the plurality of possible routes in view of the identified at least one of the item characteristic and the item identity to select one of the plurality of possible routes; and providing the selected one of the plurality of possible routes to a vehicle, wherein the vehicle delivers the item from the origin to the destination via the identified route. |
| US11768071B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for inspecting a surface
An apparatus for inspecting a surface comprises a light source and a camera. When a light beam is generated by the light source, a centerline of the light beam is coincident with a line of sight of the camera when viewed in a direction, perpendicular to a first plane that contains one of the centerline of the light beam or the line of sight of the camera. The centerline of the light beam is parallel to the line of sight of the camera when viewed in a direction, perpendicular to a second plane that is perpendicular to the first plane and that contains the centerline of the light beam and the line of sight of the camera. |
| US11768070B2 |
Sheet-like structure, shape estimation method, and spacecraft
[Object] To provide a sheet-like structure capable of highly accurately estimating a sheet-like shape.[Solving Means] A sheet-like structure includes a sheet-like member and a plurality of detection sensors. The sheet-like member extends along an in-plane direction orthogonal to a thickness direction and receives light incident on the sheet-like member. The plurality of detection sensors are dispersedly arranged on the sheet-like member along the in-plane direction and are for detecting an incident angle of the light with respect to the sheet-like member at each arrangement position of the plurality of detection sensors. |
| US11768067B2 |
Coordinate positioning arm
A coordinate positioning arm includes: a base end and a head end; a drive frame for moving the head end relative to the base end; and a metrology frame for measuring a position and orientation of the head end relative to the base end. The drive frame includes a plurality of drive axes arranged in series between the base end and the head end. The metrology frame includes a plurality of metrology axes arranged in series between the base end and the head end. The metrology frame is adapted and arranged to be substantially separate and/or independent from the drive frame, for example by supporting the metrology frame substantially only at the base end and head end and by providing the metrology frame with sufficient degrees of freedom (via the metrology axes) to avoid creating an additional constraint between the metrology frame and the drive frame. |
| US11768065B2 |
Weapon control
The present invention relates to the control of weapons, particularly weapons which are controlled via a communications link, possibly at some distance from the weapon's location. The invention is to an apparatus comprising safety-critical and non-safety-critical functional parts wherein at least one of a plurality of safety-critical functional parts is only connected to at least one other of the plurality of safety-critical functional parts. |
| US11768061B2 |
Fletching device
A fletching device (6) which is removably mountable on an arrow shaft, the fletching device comprising a body (60) which is engageable with an arrow shaft, and at least two vanes (66) attached to the body. The body is reversibly deformable such that a friction fit is provided between the body and an arrow shaft when the body is engaged with an arrow shaft. This allows the device to be easily and quickly removed and replaced on an arrow shaft. |
| US11768055B2 |
Ballistic drop and ranging system for a weapon
An optical sight configured to be mounted to a weapon includes a lens assembly, a display, and a controller. The display is configured to display a target animal through the lens assembly. The controller is configured to determine a range from the optical sight to the target animal and display the range on the display. The controller is configured to determine an animal type, a known animal dimension, and a display area for the target animal, where the display area for the target animal is a percentage of the display occupied by the target image. The controller is configured to determine the range from the known animal dimension and the display area for the animal. |
| US11768051B2 |
Trigger assembly for a crossbow
A multiple-shot crossbow includes a mainframe, a riser, upper and lower bow limbs and bowstrings, and a trigger mechanism. The mainframe includes upper and lower rails, each for supporting and guiding a corresponding bolt. The riser includes a passage for accommodating loading and launching a bolt. The bow limbs are attached to the riser and the bowstrings are attached to the bow limbs. Each bowstring is arranged independently to be drawn from a brace position to a drawn position and then return to the brace position while launching a bolt positioned on the corresponding rail. The lower bowstring is movable within a longitudinal slot between the upper and lower rails. The trigger mechanism is attached to a rear end of the mainframe and includes upper and lower trigger portions, each retaining a corresponding drawn bowstring and then releasing it upon actuation by a user. |
| US11768050B2 |
Muzzle brake
A muzzle brake (20) for a gun tube (12) defining a bore (40) centred on a longitudinal axis (32). The muzzle brake (20) comprises a top plate (24) and a bottom plate (26). A first wall section (100), a second wall section (200) and a third wall section (300) extend from the top plate (24) to the bottom plate (26).The second wall section (200) extends from the first wall section (100) to a first baffle (220). The third wall section (300) extends from the second wall section (200) to a second baffle (320). The second wall section (200), top plate (24) and bottom plate (26) converge towards the longitudinal axis (32) and the first baffle (220), such that the second wall section (200), top plate (24), bottom plate (26) and first baffle (220) define a first compression cone (224). The third wall section (300), top plate (24) and bottom plate (26) converge towards the longitudinal axis (32) and the second baffle (320) such that the third wall section (300), top plate (24), bottom plate (26) and second baffle (320) defines a second compression cone (324). |
| US11768044B2 |
Charging handle assemblies
A charging handle assembly for a firearm includes a main body with a head and a shaft extending forward from the head, a left handle disposed at the head, a right handle disposed at the head, at least one latch disposed at the head, and a plunger disposed at the head. The left handle and the right handle are identical. |
| US11768043B2 |
Takedown pin for a rifle
Takedown pins for rifles have a pin movable in a direction along its length between an operating condition and a released condition. The pin has a first end portion that prevents relative movement of the upper receiver with respect to the lower receiver when the pin is in the operating condition. The first end portion has a lower end portion surface adapted to resist upward movement of the upper receiver's lug. The pin has an intermediate portion adjacent to the lower end portion surface defining a lower channel having a lower channel surface above the level of the lower end portion surface. When the pin is in the released condition, the lower channel is registered with the lug, and the lug is enabled to move upward with respect to the lower receiver by a limited distance to a disengaged position. |
| US11768042B2 |
Cam race for firearm
A cam race comprising a hardened material (harder than a material of an upper receiver) is provided to increase durability of a firearm. The cam race is fit within a groove within an interior sidewall of an upper receiver of the firearm. The cam race comprises a body that is fit within the groove, and a plurality of fastener pins extending away from a rear face of the body that fit within corresponding through-holes of the upper receiver. Distal ends of each of the fastener pins are deformed to form a riveted connection between the cam race and the upper receiver. The cam race defines a slide face along which a cam pin of the firearm slides during a firing process, thereby increasing the durability of the firearm against undesired formation of defects within the interior sidewall of the upper receiver. |
| US11768035B2 |
Cooling arrangement having a closed loop, a semi-open loop and at least one fan
Cooling arrangement and method for cooling of a heat source. The cooling arrangement includes a closed loop, a semi-open loop and at least one fan. The closed loop includes a primary side of a liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger receiving a first cooling fluid heated by the heat source, a first air-to-liquid heat exchanger downstream the primary side, and a first pump returning the first cooling fluid to the heat source. The semi-open loop includes a tank storing a second cooling fluid, a second pump drawing the second cooling fluid from the tank, a secondary side of the liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger receiving the second cooling fluid from the second pump, an evaporating pad downstream said secondary side, and an inlet fluidly connected to a source of the second cooling fluid. The at least one fan causes an air flow through the evaporating pad and through the first air-to-liquid heat exchanger. |
| US11768032B2 |
Method of manufacturing ceramic tape
A method of manufacturing ceramic tape includes a step of directing a tape of partially-sintered ceramic into a furnace. The tape is partially-sintered such that grains of the ceramic are fused to one another yet the tape still includes at least 10% porosity by volume, where the porosity refers to volume of the tape unoccupied by the ceramic. The method further includes steps of conveying the tape through the furnace and further sintering the tape as the tape is conveyed through the furnace. The porosity of the tape decreases during the further sintering step. |
| US11768027B2 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator including: a main body forming a storage compartment and a door provided to open and close the storage compartment, wherein the door includes a door frame, a cover arranged in front of the door frame and including a cover fixer, and a door panel arranged in front of the cover, the door panel including a first fixer and a second fixer on a rear surface of the door panel. When the door panel is coupled to a front side of the cover, the first fixer is coupled to the door frame and the second fixer is coupled to the cover. |
| US11768023B1 |
Ice crushing device
Disclosed is an ice crushing device, and relates to the field of ice crushing technology. The ice crushing device includes a conveying mechanism, a guide mechanism and an ice crushing mechanism. An upper end of the conveying mechanism is open and used for placing ice blocks, and a lower end of the conveying mechanism communicates with an upper end of the guide mechanism; a lower end of the guide mechanism communicates with an upper end of the ice crushing mechanism; the conveying mechanism is used for guiding the ice blocks into the guide mechanism, and the ice blocks in the guide mechanism fall into the ice crushing mechanism through the upper end of the ice crushing mechanism; and the ice crushing mechanism is used for crushing ice. The ice crushing device can improve the ice crushing efficiency and the ice crushing safety. |
| US11768022B2 |
Liquid transfer pump cycle
A method of initiating a low-energy cooling mode using a controller of an HVAC system includes measuring a temperature of ambient air proximal to a condenser coil and determining whether the temperature of the ambient air proximal the condenser coil is less than a temperature threshold. If the temperature of the ambient air is less than the temperature threshold, the HVAC system is configured to operate in a low-energy cooling mode. In the low-energy cooling mode, the controller opens a first bypass valve to allow a refrigerant to bypass a compressor and the compressor is powered off. The HVAC system is operated until a cooling demand has been met. |
| US11768021B2 |
Refrigerator based on molecular sieve
A refrigerator based on a molecular sieve, including a first molecular sieve device, a second molecular sieve device, a reversing valve, and a balancing valve, wherein an air flow alternately passes through the first molecular sieve device and the second molecular sieve device through the reversing valve, and then flows back through the balancing valve, so that the first molecular sieve device and the second molecular sieve device are regenerated. The first molecular sieve device and the second molecular sieve device are capable of separating a refrigerant from a depressurized gas, and the refrigerant is condensed after reaching a certain concentration to become a liquid refrigerant, and then enters an evaporator again for refrigeration. |
| US11768012B2 |
Hydraulically opened cone vertical tube diffuser with slanted anti-siphon hole
A diffuser for a water heater fill tubes having a tube wall with an outside diameter. The diffuser includes an elongated flexible diffuser body for positioning at the outlet end of the fill tube. The diffuser body has a sealing end for sealing with an outside surface of the fill tube wall closest to the inlet end of the fill tube, and an open end for positioning at an end closest to the outlet end of the fill tube. The open end has a diameter larger than an outside diameter of the tube wall, thereby creating an diffuser water outlet opening between the diffuser body and the tube wall for redirecting radial water flow emanating from the fill tube water outlet opening(s) toward the diffuser outlet opening. A fill tube assembly for a water heater, a water heater, and a method for heating water are also disclosed. |
| US11768008B2 |
Air conditioner
An air conditioner may include a heat exchanger having a first cooling coil and a second cooling coil inclined toward each other, an inlet formed between a lower end of the first cooling coil and a lower end of the second cooling coil to allow air to pass through, an inside air duct through which air introduced to the inlet flows, an air supply duct through which the air passing through the heat exchanger flows, a fan causing air passing through the heat exchanger to flow, and a temperature sensor sensing a temperature of the air introduced into the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a plate positioned between the first cooling coil and the second cooling coil. The plate may have a sensor insertion hole into which the temperature sensing device is inserted. By measuring the temperature of the air introduced into the heat exchanger, more accurate control information may be provided. |
| US11768007B2 |
Sound attenuator integral with a housing of a terminal unit
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes a terminal unit. The terminal unit includes a housing having a first panel bordering a return airflow path, a second panel bordering an additional airflow path, and a separating wall disposed between and bordering the return airflow path and the additional airflow path. The terminal unit also includes a sound attenuator formed by the first panel and the separating wall. |
| US11768003B2 |
Variable refrigerant flow system with zone grouping
A controller for a building control system includes processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including identifying zones within a building, analyzing data associated with the zones, and generating zone groupings based on the data associated with the zones. Each of the zone groupings define zone groups and specify which of the zones are grouped together to form each of the zone groups. The operations also include identifying a particular zone grouping from zone groupings based on the data associated with zones and using the particular zone grouping to generate control signals to operate equipment of the building control system to provide heating or cooling to the zones. |
| US11768001B2 |
Ventilator with a sensor device to avoid a collision between an object with the rotor
A ventilator having a rotor is mounted in a rotatable manner around an axis of rotation. The rotor includes a plurality of blade-like rotor blades arranged around the axis of rotation. The ventilator includes a sensor device for detecting an object approaching one of the plurality of rotor blades, and a control device that receives signals from the sensor device. The control device extrapolates a trajectory of the object from a position x and a speed v of the object, and adjusts an angular position or rotational speed n of the rotor to allow the object to continue moving along its trajectory without colliding with one of the plurality of rotor blades. |
| US11767997B2 |
System and method for access control using differential air pressure
An access control system receives a trigger command for controlling a ventilation system; determines that the trigger command includes a lock trigger to hold an entrance door in a closed position; and induces a locking differential air pressure between opposite sides of the entrance door in response to the lock trigger, where the locking differential air pressure is sufficient to bias the entrance door to contact or to increase contact with a door frame in the closed position. The access control system may also determine that the trigger command includes an open assist trigger to ease an opening of the entrance door; and may induce an opening differential air pressure between the opposite sides of the entrance door in response to the open assist trigger, where the opening differential air pressure is sufficient to bias the entrance door to reduce contact with the door frame in the closed position. |