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US11817461B2 |
Light-emitting panel, method manufacturing the same, and display device having the same with connection portion
A light-emitting panel, a method making same, and a display panel are disclosed in the present disclosure. The light-emitting panel includes a light-emitting board which includes a substrate; a first metal layer disposed on the substrate; a gate insulating layer covering the first metal layer; and a second metal layer on a side of the gate insulating layer away from the first metal layer. The second metal layer includes a connection portion located in the bonding area of the light-emitting board, and a conductive protection layer formed by chemical plating is disposed on a surface of the connection portion. |
US11817459B2 |
Active matrix substrate and manufacturing method thereof
Each thin film transistor of an active matrix substrate includes an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate electrode disposed closer to the substrate side of the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer includes a layered structure including a first layer and a second layer disposed on a part of the first layer and extending across the first layer in a channel width direction when viewed in a normal direction of the substrate, the first layer includes an overlapping portion overlapping with the second layer, and a first portion and a second portion each located on a corresponding one of both sides of the second layer, when viewed in a normal direction of the substrate, the second layer covers an upper surface and a side surface of the overlapping portion of the first layer, the source electrode is electrically connected to at least a part of an upper surface of the first portion, and the drain electrode is electrically connected to at least a part of an upper surface of the second portion. |
US11817458B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a substrate; a polycrystalline silicon film on the substrate; and a first buffer film between the substrate and the polycrystalline silicon film and having one surface contacting the polycrystalline silicon film and another surface opposite to the one surface, wherein the one surface of the first buffer film has a first root mean square (RMS) roughness range, and the first RMS roughness range is 1.5 nm or less. |
US11817456B2 |
Devices and methods for layout-dependent voltage handling improvement in switch stacks
Devices and methods for layout-dependent voltage handling improvement in switch stacks. In some embodiments, a switching device can include a first terminal and a second terminal, a radio-frequency signal path implemented between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a plurality of switching elements connected in series to form a stack between the second terminal and ground. The stack can have an orientation relative to the radio-frequency signal path, and the switching elements can have a non-uniform distribution of a first parameter based in part on the orientation of the stack. |
US11817454B2 |
Polysilicon resistor using reduced grain size polysilicon
Described examples include a resistor having a substrate having a non-conductive surface and a patterned polysilicon layer on the non-conductive surface, the patterned polysilicon layer including polycrystalline silicon wherein at least 90% of the grains in the polycrystalline silicon are 30 nm or smaller. The resistor also has a first terminal in conductive contact with the patterned polysilicon layer and a second terminal in conductive contact with the polysilicon layer and spaced from the first contact. |
US11817445B2 |
Semiconductor device packages, packaging methods, and packaged semiconductor devices
Semiconductor device packages, packaging methods, and packaged semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a package for a semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit die mounting region and a molding material disposed around the integrated circuit die mounting region. An interconnect structure is disposed over the molding material and the integrated circuit die mounting region. A protection pattern is disposed in a perimeter region of the package. The protection pattern includes a conductive feature. |
US11817442B2 |
Hybrid manufacturing for integrated circuit devices and assemblies
Microelectronic assemblies fabricated using hybrid manufacturing, as well as related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. As used herein, “hybrid manufacturing” refers to fabricating a microelectronic assembly by arranging together at least two IC structures fabricated by different manufacturers, using different materials, or different manufacturing techniques. For example, a microelectronic assembly may include a first IC structure that includes first interconnects and a second IC structure that includes second interconnects, where at least some of the first and second interconnects may include a liner and an electrically conductive fill material, and where a material composition of the liner/electrically conductive fill material of the first interconnects may be different from a material composition of the liner/electrically conductive fill material of the second interconnects. |
US11817441B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. A pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a light-emitting layer, and the plurality of pixels include at least one first pixel and at least one second pixel. A first pixel is electrically connected to a first pixel circuit, and a second pixel is electrically connected to a second pixel circuit. An orthographic projection of the first pixel circuit on a plane of the display panel has an area smaller than an orthographic projection of the second pixel circuit on the plane of the display panel. In a direction perpendicular to the plane of the display panel, a light-emitting layer of the first pixel at least partially overlaps the second pixel circuit, and a light-emitting layer of the second pixel at least partially overlaps the second pixel circuit. |
US11817435B2 |
Light emitting device for display and LED display apparatus having the same
A light emitting device including first, second, and third light emitting stacks each including first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers, a first lower contact electrode in ohmic contact with the first light emitting stack, and second and third lower contact electrodes respectively in ohmic contact with the second conductivity type semiconductor layers of the second and third light emitting stacks, in which the first lower contact electrode is disposed between the first and second light emitting stacks, the second and third lower contact electrodes are disposed between the second and third light emitting stacks, the first, second, and third lower contact electrodes include transparent conductive oxide layers, and a thickness of the second lower contact electrode or the third lower contact electrode is greater than a thickness of the first lower contact electrode. |
US11817430B2 |
Semiconductor module
A semiconductor module includes a laminate structure having an electrically insulating core layer with opposing first and second sides, a first redistribution layer arranged on the first side and a second redistribution layer arranged on the second side. First and second transistor devices are coupled to form a half-bridge circuit. Both transistor devices have a first side at which a cell field is arranged and an opposing second side. A control chip has a first side with contact pads. The transistor devices and control chip are arranged laterally adjacent one another and embedded in the core layer. The first side of the control chip and one transistor device and the second side of the other transistor device face towards the first redistribution layer on the first side of the core layer. |
US11817429B2 |
Plurality of chips between two heat sinks
A semiconductor device includes: multiple semiconductor elements each having a one surface and a rear surface in a plate thickness direction; a first member that sandwiches the multiple semiconductor elements and is electrically connected to an electrode on the one surface; a second member electrically connected to an electrode on the rear surface; and multiple terminals that are continuous from the first or second member. An area of the second member is smaller than that of the first member. Semiconductor elements are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the second member. The semiconductor device further includes a first joint portion that electrically connects each semiconductor element and the second member and a second joint portion that electrically connects a terminal and the second member. The multiple solder joint portions are symmetrically placed. |
US11817428B2 |
Memory device
A memory device includes a first memory cell array, a second memory cell array disposed in a first direction with respect to the first memory cell array, a first contact plug extending in the first direction through the first memory cell array, and a second contact plug extending in the first direction through the second memory cell array. The first memory cell array includes first electrode layers stacked in a first direction, and a first semiconductor pillar extending through the first electrode layers in the first direction. The second memory cell array including second electrode layers stacked in the first direction, and a second semiconductor pillar extending in the first direction through the second electrode layers. The first contact plug is electrically connected to the first semiconductor pillar, and the second contact plug is electrically connected to the second semiconductor pillar and the first contact plug. |
US11817417B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die with a metallization layer including a first metal with a comparatively high melting point, a die carrier including a second metal with a comparatively high melting point, a first intermetallic compound arranged between the semiconductor die and the die carrier and including the first metal and a third metal with a comparatively low melting point, a second intermetallic compound arranged between the first intermetallic compound and the die carrier and including the second metal and the third metal, and precipitates of a third intermetallic compound arranged between the first intermetallic compound and the second intermetallic compound and including the third metal and a fourth metal with a comparatively high melting point. |
US11817411B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same
A semiconductor package including a first die, through electrodes penetrating the first die, a first pad on a top surface of the first die and coupled to a through electrode, a second die on the first die, a second pad on a bottom surface of the second die, a first connection terminal connecting the first pad to the second pad, and an insulating layer that fills a region between the first die and the second die and encloses the first connection terminal. The first connection terminal includes an intermetallic compound made of solder material and metallic material of the first and second pads. A concentration of the metallic material in the first connection terminal is substantially constant regardless of a distance from the first pad or the second pad. |
US11817403B2 |
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) array with circuit controlled switches
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection apparatus and method for fabricating the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the ESD protection apparatus comprises: an internal circuit formed in a first wafer; an array of electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuits formed in a second wafer, wherein the ESD circuits include a plurality of ESD protection devices each coupled to a corresponding switch and configured to protect the internal circuit from a transient ESD event; and a switch controller in the second wafer, wherein the switch controller is configured to control, based on a control signal from the first wafer, each of the plurality of ESD protection devices to be activated or deactivated by the corresponding switch, and wherein the first wafer is bonded to the second wafer. |
US11817402B2 |
Integrated circuit layout, integrated circuit, and method for fabricating the same
An integrated circuit layout is provided. The integrated circuit layout includes: a first active region having a first plurality of field effect transistors (FETs); and an interconnect contacting sources and drains of the first plurality of FETs in the first active region through a first set of contact structures. At least one of the first set of contact structures is electrically non-conductive. |
US11817399B2 |
Semiconductor device
A device includes a semiconductor chip, a molding compound, an insulating structure, an under-bump-metallurgy (UBM), a conductive ball, and a protection layer. The molding compound laterally surrounds the semiconductor chip. The insulating structure is over the semiconductor chip and the molding compound. The UBM is over the insulating structure and is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip. The conductive ball is in contact with the UBM. The protection layer extends from the UBM to the molding compound. |
US11817398B2 |
Conductive paste
A conductive paste contains (A) copper fine particles having an average particle diameter of 50 nm to 400 nm and a crystallite diameter of 20 nm to 50 nm, (B) copper particles having an average particle diameter of 0.8 μm to 5 μm and a ratio of a crystallite diameter to the crystallite diameter of the copper fine particles (A) of 1.0 to 2.0, and (C) a solvent. |
US11817395B2 |
Depositive shielding for fiducial protection from redeposition
Redeposition of substrate material on a fiducial resulting from charged particle beam (CPB) or laser beam milling of a substrate can be reduced with a shield formed on the substrate surface. The shield typically has a suitable height that can be selected based on proximity of an area to be milled to the fiducial. The shield can be formed with the milling beam using beam-assisted chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The same or different beams can be used for milling and beam-assisted CVD. |
US11817394B2 |
Semiconductor circuit power delivery
The present invention discloses embodiments of a semiconductor chip with one or more bottom external (power or ground) connections, a front side power network layer, a device layer, and a grind side power network layer. The device layer has a plurality of devices. One or more of the devices has one or more device power connections and one or more device ground connections and the device layer has a front side and a back grind side. The front side power network layer has power, ground, signal, and other connections that connect to respective device power and device ground connections from/through the top front side layer. In like manner, power, ground, signal, and other connections connect to respective device power and device ground connections from/through the bottom of grind side power network layer. (Alternative, e.g., external conduit connections are disclosed.) Accordingly, one or more first device power connections is connected to one or more of the front side power network layer connections, one or more second device power connections is connected to one or more of grind side power network connections so the front side power network layer and the grind side power network layer provide the device layer with a dual power/ground feed/distribution from both the top/back and bottom/front of the device layer of the chip. |
US11817388B2 |
Electronic apparatus
The disclosure provides an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a substrate, a first metal layer, an insulating layer, a first conductor, an electronic assembly and a transistor circuit die. The first metal layer is disposed on the substrate. The insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. The first conductor is formed in a first via of the insulating layer. The electronic assembly is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the first metal layer through the first conductor. The transistor circuit die is electrically connected to the first metal layer. |
US11817384B2 |
Interconnect structure and manufacturing method for the same
The present disclosure provides an interconnect structure and a method for forming an interconnect structure. The method for forming an interconnect structure includes forming a bottom metal line in a first interlayer dielectric layer, forming a second interlayer dielectric layer over the bottom metal line, exposing a top surface of the bottom metal line, increasing a total surface area of the exposed top surface of the bottom metal line, forming a conductive via over the bottom metal line, and forming a top metal line over the conductive via. |
US11817383B2 |
Packaging technologies for temperature sensing in health care products
Temperature sensor packages and methods of fabrication are described. The temperature sensor packages in accordance with embodiments may be rigid or flexible. In some embodiments the temperature sensor packages are configured for touch sensing, and include an electrically conductive sensor pattern such as a thermocouple or resistance temperature detector (RTD) pattern. In some embodiments, the temperature sensor packages are configured for non-contact sensing an include an embedded transducer. |
US11817381B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a lower substrate, a semiconductor element mounted on an upper surface of the lower substrate, an upper substrate disposed on an upper surface of the semiconductor element, an encapsulation resin disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate and encapsulating the semiconductor element, a wiring layer disposed on an upper surface of the upper substrate, and a covering resin formed from a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to a coefficient of thermal expansion of the encapsulation resin. The covering resin is disposed on the upper surface of the upper substrate and covers a side surface of the wiring layer. |
US11817380B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of forming same
In an embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a redistribution structure on a carrier substrate, connecting a plurality of core substrates physically and electrically to the redistribution structure with a first anisotropic conductive film, the first anisotropic conductive film including a dielectric material and conductive particles, and pressing the plurality of core substrates and the redistribution structure together to form conductive paths between the plurality of core substrates and the redistribution structure with the conductive particles in the first anisotropic conductive film. The method also includes encapsulating the plurality of core substrates with an encapsulant. The method also includes and attaching an integrated circuit package to the redistribution structure, the redistribution structure being between the integrated circuit package and the plurality of core substrates, the integrated circuit package laterally overlapping a first core substrate and a second core substrate of the plurality of core substrates. |
US11817379B2 |
Substrate comprising an inductor and a capacitor located in an encapsulation layer
A package that includes a power amplifier and a substrate coupled to the power amplifier. The substrate includes an encapsulation layer, a capacitor device located in the encapsulation layer, an inductor located in the encapsulation layer, at least one first dielectric layer coupled to a first surface of the encapsulation layer, and a plurality of first interconnects coupled to the first surface of the encapsulation layer. The plurality of first interconnects is located at least in the at least one first dielectric layer. The plurality of first interconnects is coupled to the capacitor device and the inductor. The inductor and the capacitor device are configured to be electrically coupled together to operate as elements of a matching network for the power amplifier. The capacitor device is configured to be coupled to ground. |
US11817377B2 |
Electronics unit with integrated metallic pattern
A non-conductive encapsulation cover is mounted on a support face of a support substrate to delimit, with the support substrate, an internal housing. An integrated circuit chip is mounted to the support substrate within the internal housing. A metal pattern is mounted to an internal wall of the non-conductive encapsulation cover in a position facing the support face. At least two U-shaped metal wires are provided within the internal housing, located to a side of the integrated circuit chip, and fixed at one end to the metallic pattern and at another end to the support face. |
US11817376B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a first transistor provided with an electron transit layer made of a nitride semiconductor, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; and a second transistor that includes a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode. The first gate electrode and the second drain electrode are electrically connected to each other, while the first source electrode and the second source electrode are not electrically connected to each other. |
US11817375B2 |
High I/O density flip-chip QFN
A method of making a semiconductor device includes separating a conductive structure of a leadframe into interior conductive leads using an etching process. The method includes forming a first molded structure by applying a first molding compound to a leadframe having a conductive structure, separating the conductive structure into at least two interior contact portions, attaching a semiconductor die to at least one of the interior contact portions, the at least two interior contact portions being supported by the first molding compound, and forming a second molded structure by applying a second molding compound to at least part of the semiconductor die and at least two interior contact portions. |
US11817370B2 |
Power conversion apparatus
To improve cooling capability, power conversion apparatus 1 that converts a direct current voltage into an alternating current voltage includes: first substrate 100 on which power conversion circuit 2 is mounted; second substrate 200 on which driving circuit 3 that drives power conversion circuit 2 is mounted; and shield plate 300 that is disposed between first substrate 100 and second substrate 200, and first substrate 100 is a metal substrate. |
US11817365B2 |
Thermal mitigation die using back side etch
A semiconductor device includes a die having one or more trenches on a back side of the die. The semiconductor device also includes a layer of thermally conductive material deposited on the back side of the die to fill the one or more trenches to form one or more plated trenches. The size (e.g., surface area or thickness (Z-height)) or location of the plated trenches may be determined based on one or more heat generating elements such as logic devices (CPU or GPU, for example) on an active side of the die. The thermally conductive material, which may be a metal such as copper (Cu) or silver (Ag), has a heat dissipation coefficient that is greater than a heat dissipation coefficient of a substrate of the die. |
US11817357B2 |
Region-of-interest positioning for laser-assisted bonding
A semiconductor device is formed by providing a semiconductor die. A laser-assisted bonding (LAB) assembly is disposed over the semiconductor die. The LAB assembly includes an infrared (IR) camera. The IR camera is used to capture an image of the semiconductor die. Image processing is performed on the image to identify corners of the semiconductor die. Regions of interest (ROI) are identified in the image relative to the corners of the semiconductor die. Parameters can be used to control the size and location of the ROI relative to the respective corners. The ROI are monitored for temperature using the IR camera while LAB is performed. |
US11817348B2 |
Methods for forming hole structure in semiconductor device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for forming a hole structure in a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a first etch mask over a stack structure, and removing a portion of the stack structure exposed by the first etch mask. The first etch mask may have a first mask opening with a first lateral dimension. The method may also include forming a second etch mask from the first etch mask. The second etch mask may have a second mask opening with a second lateral dimension that is greater than the first lateral dimension. The method may further include removing another portion of the stack structure exposed by the second etch mask to form the hole structure having a first hole portion and a second hole portion connected to and over the first hole portion. |
US11817345B2 |
Multiple thickness semiconductor-on-insulator field effect transistors and methods of forming the same
Semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) field effect transistors (FETs) including body regions having different thicknesses may be formed on an SOI substrate by selectively thinning a region of a top semiconductor layer while preventing thinning of an additional region of the top semiconductor layer. An oxidation process or an etch process may be used to thin the region of the top semiconductor layer, and a patterned oxidation barrier mask or an etch mask may be used to prevent oxidation or etching of the additional portion of the top semiconductor layer. Shallow trench isolation structures may be formed prior to, or after, the selective thinning processing steps. FETs having different depletion region configurations may be formed using the multiple thicknesses of the patterned portions of the top semiconductor layer. For example, partially depleted SOT FETs and fully depleted SOI FETs may be provided. |
US11817344B2 |
Method for manufacturing shallow trench isolations
The disclosure provides a method for manufacturing shallow trench isolations, providing a substrate comprising a storage cell area and a peripheral area of a storage device; etching the upper part of the substrate of the storage cell area using a first etching process to form a first shallow trench, and filling the first shallow trench with silicon oxide using a first deposition process; and etching the upper part of the substrate of the peripheral area using a second etching process to form a second shallow trench, and filling the second shallow trench with silicon oxide using a second deposition process; wherein the depth and characteristic dimension of the first shallow trench are smaller than the depth and characteristic dimension of the second shallow trench. The disclosure can avoid the silicon dislocation defect of the peripheral area and ensure the device shape and characteristic dimension of the storage cell area. |
US11817342B2 |
Wafer carrier, wafer access device and wafer carrier and access assembly having the same
A wafer access assembly, a wafer access device and a wafer carrier are provided. The wafer access device includes a base, a shaft, a plurality of couple plates, a plurality of arms, and a stretchable component. The base includes a groove. The shaft extends into the groove and is capable of sliding into the groove. The plurality of couple plates mounting on the shaft. Each of the plurality of couple plates includes a plate body and a through hole on the plate body for the shaft passing through. Each of the plurality of arms is extended from an end of each of the plurality of couple plates. The stretchable component includes a plurality of connecting side walls connecting adjacent couple plates together. The plurality of stretchable component are capable of changing a distance between adjacent couple plates. |
US11817336B2 |
Wafer process monitoring system and method
The present disclosure provides a system and method for determining condition of wafers during processing of the wafers. The system and method include detecting vibrations of a wafer transfer robot, generating signals based upon the vibrations, and processing the signals for determining a condition of the wafers held by the wafer transfer robot. |
US11817334B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
A system of processing a substrate includes substrate-processing chambers; target components of temperature control disposed in the respective substrate-processing chambers; a chiller to supply a first temperature-controlling medium with a first flow rate and a second temperature-controlling medium with a second flow rate into the target components; flow controllers connected to the respective target components, each flow controller being configured to independently control a ratio of the first flow rate to the second flow rate to be fed into the corresponding target component from the chiller. |
US11817330B2 |
Method for processing substrate
A method for processing a substrate is provided. The method includes the following operations: placing a substrate over a first injector in a substrate processing apparatus, the substrate having a front surface and a back surface opposite to the front surface, and the front surface having a plurality of concentric regions; adjusting a temperature of each of the plurality of concentric regions by controlling at least one of a flow rate and a temperature associated with a fluid dispensing from the first injector; and rotating the substrate by a spin base disposed below the substrate, the substrate is rotated with respect to a center axis perpendicular to the front surface thereof when adjusting the temperature. The spin base includes a ring opening for rotating relative to the first injector, and the first injector is displaced from a projection of a center of the substrate from a top view perspective. |
US11817329B2 |
Chemical dispensing system
A chemical dispensing system is capable of simultaneously supplying a semiconductor processing chemical for production and testing through the use of independent chemical supply lines, which reduces production downtime of an associated semiconductor process, increases throughput and capability of the semiconductor process, and/or the like. Moreover, the capability to simultaneously supply the semiconductor processing chemical for production and testing allows for an increased quantity of semiconductor processing chemical batches to be tested with minimal impact to production, which increases quality control over the semiconductor processing chemical. In addition, the independent chemical supply lines may be used to supply the semiconductor processing chemical to production while independently filtering semiconductor processing chemical directly from a storage drum through a filtration loop. |
US11817325B2 |
Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor package
A system substrate package, a system package, and methods of forming the same are described herein. The system substrate package includes an integrated substrate with multiple discrete interconnect structures. In embodiments the multiple discrete interconnect structures are placed and encapsulated and have a gap formed between the multiple discrete interconnect structures. The system substrate package reduces package warpage and mitigates board level reliability issues. |
US11817322B2 |
Method of manufacturing vias with pulsing plasma
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor, comprising: providing a stacked structure comprising a first oxide layer, a second oxide layer, and a metal layer stacked between the first oxide layer and the second oxide layer; forming a mask layer on the second oxide layer; introducing a gas mixture to the stacked structure, wherein the gas mixture comprises at least two hydrocarbon compounds and oxygen; and performing a pulsing plasma process to the stacked structure through the mask layer to pattern the second oxide layer and expose the metal layer through the patterned second oxide layer. |
US11817321B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method
A plasma processing apparatus includes a plurality of plasma processing chambers, a process gas supply line that supplies a plasma processing gas to the plasma processing chambers, a first additive gas supply line that supplies an additive gas to the plasma processing chambers, an exhaust space shared by the plurality of plasma processing chambers, and a controller. The controller determines a first plasma processing chamber group and a second plasma processing chamber group. The first plasma processing chamber group includes one or more plasma processing chambers, each of which performs the plasma processing and the second plasma processing chamber group includes one or more plasma processing chambers, each of which does not perform the plasma processing. The controller causes the additive gas to be supplied to the one or more plasma processing chambers of the second plasma processing chamber group from the first additive gas supply line. |
US11817315B2 |
Zincblende structure group III-nitride
A method is disclosed of manufacturing a semiconductor structure comprising an (001) oriented zincblende structure group III-nitride layer, such as GaN. The layer is formed on a 3C-SiC layer on a silicon substrate. A nucleation layer is formed, recrystallized and then the zincblende structure group III-nitride layer is formed by MOVPE at temperature T3 in the range 750-1000° C., to a thickness of at least 0.5μ. There is also disclosed a corresponding semiconductor structure comprising a zincblende structure group III-nitride layer which, when characterized by XRD, shows that the substantial majority, or all, of the layer is formed of zincblende structure group III-nitride in preference to wurtzite structure group III-nitride. |
US11817314B2 |
Method of processing substrate, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium
There is provided a technique that includes: forming a film containing Si, O and N or a film containing Si and O on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times under a condition where SiCl4 is not gas-phase decomposed, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing: (a) forming NH termination on a surface of the substrate by supplying a first reactant containing N and H to the substrate; (b) forming a SiN layer having SiCl termination formed on its surface by supplying the SiCl4 as a precursor to the substrate to react the NH termination formed on the surface of the substrate with the SiCl4; and (c) reacting the SiN layer having the SiCl termination with a second reactant containing O by supplying the second reactant to the substrate. |
US11817313B2 |
Methods for pressure ramped plasma purge
Exemplary deposition methods may include forming a plasma of a silicon-containing precursor and at least one additional precursor within a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The processing region may house a semiconductor substrate on a substrate support. The methods may include depositing material on the semiconductor substrate to a target thickness. The methods may include halting delivery of the silicon-containing precursor while maintaining the plasma with the one or more precursors. The methods may include purging the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. |
US11817311B2 |
Substrate cleaning method and substrate cleaning apparatus
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a substrate cleaning method that performs an operation, in a state where a cleaning member is in contact with a rotating substrate, the cleaning member is moved between a first position on the substrate and a second position close to an edge of the substrate, n times (n is an integer of 2 or more), wherein a controller, which controls a driver that moves the cleaning member, controls the driver to perform an edge cleaning step to perform cleaning of the substrate in a state where the cleaning member is in contact with the second position on the substrate for a predetermined period of time after the cleaning member reaches the second position at least in one operation of the first to the (n-1)th operations. |
US11817310B2 |
Bevel portion treatment agent composition and method of manufacturing wafer
A bevel portion treatment agent composition of the present invention is a bevel portion treatment agent composition containing a silylating agent, which is used for treating a bevel portion of a wafer, in which a surface modification index Y and a surface modification index Z measured by a predetermined procedure have a characteristic of satisfying 0.5≤Y/Z≤1.0. |
US11817308B2 |
Display panel and manufacturing method thereof
A display panel and a manufacturing method of the display panel are provided. The display panel includes: a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a driving circuit disposed opposite to the first substrate and adjacent to a side of the second substrate, and a color resist layer disposed opposite to the driving circuit and adjacent to a side of the first substrate; wherein the color resist layer includes colorized color resist layers and a colorized quantum dot layer, and the driving circuit is a bottom-emission type light-emitting-diode (LED) driving circuit. |
US11817305B2 |
Front end of line interconnect structures and associated systems and methods
Systems and methods for a semiconductor device having a front-end-of-line structure are provided. The semiconductor device may include a dielectric material having a backside formed on a front side of a semiconductor substrate material and a front side, and an interconnect structure extending through the dielectric material. The interconnect structure may be electrically connected to a semiconductor memory array proximate the front side of the dielectric material. The semiconductor device may further have an insulating material encasing at least a portion of the semiconductor memory array and an opening created during back-end-of-line processing through which the active contact surface at the backside of the interconnect structure is exposed for electrical connection. |
US11817304B2 |
Method of manufacturing microelectronic devices, related devices, systems, and apparatus
A system and method for stealth dicing a semiconductor wafer. The method may include implanting dopant ions to a first depth in the semiconductor wafer through a back side of the semiconductor wafer. The method may further include focusing a laser beam at an inside portion of the wafer through the back surface of the wafer to form a modified layer in material of the semiconductor wafer proximate the first depth. The method may also include fracturing the semiconductor wafer along boundaries defined by the modified layer. |
US11817298B2 |
Focus ring, chuck assembly for securing a substrate and plasma treatment apparatus having the same
A focus ring includes a first conductive layer having a first thickness and a first specific resistance, a second conductive layer stacked on the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer having a second thickness greater than the first thickness and a second specific resistance greater than the first specific resistance, and a dielectric layer on one of a lower surface of the first conductive layer and an upper surface of the second conductive layer. |
US11817297B2 |
System and method for managing substrate outgassing
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to apparatus, systems and methods for managing organic compounds in thermal processing chambers. A gas line can be in fluid communication with the thermal processing chamber and an exhaust pump can be coupled to the thermal processing chamber by an exhaust conduit and controlled by an effluent flow control valve. The apparatus includes a sampling line with an organic compound sensor coupled to the exhaust conduit. The organic compound sensor can be in communication with a control module which can control operating parameters for processing a substrate. |
US11817291B2 |
Faraday shield and apparatus for treating substrate
The inventive concept relates to an apparatus for processing a substrate. In an embodiment, the apparatus for processing the substrate includes a plasma chamber, a coil electrode installed around the plasma chamber, and a Faraday shield provided between the coil electrode and the plasma chamber. The Faraday shield includes a cutout having a plurality of slots formed in a vertical direction along a periphery of the plasma chamber, an upper rim provided at the top of the cutout, and a lower rim provided at the bottom of the cutout. The upper rim and the lower rim have a thermal expansion reduction means configured to reduce a difference in thermal deformation between the upper and the lower rim and the cutout. |
US11817284B1 |
Unsealed single fuse holder
A fuse holder includes a movable tab, a base, and a cover. A stud is affixed to the movable tab and secures a terminal of a bolt-down fuse. A second stud is affixed to the base and secures a second terminal of the bolt-down fuse. The base has a channel into which the movable tab is slidably inserted. The cover connects to the base and is located over the stud and the second stud. |
US11817282B2 |
Circuit breakers with shaped neutral busbars and/or load terminals and related methods
Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter (AFCI), Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) or AF/GF circuit breakers which may optionally have relatively small or compact bodies that have shaped neutral busbars and/or load terminals with an arm that extends through a window of a current transformer in a circuit breaker housing. The neutral busbar and/or load terminal can have a rigid or semi-rigid shaped body with a first segment that extends through the window of the current transformer and a second segment that extends behind the first segment about a printed circuit board. A plug-on, pigtail or bolt-on neutral can engage an electrical pad of the neutral busbar. |
US11817280B2 |
Circuit breaker with integral fuse mounting stud
A circuit breaker device includes a bimetallic overcurrent protection element which is configured to be placed in series with an integrated replaceable fuse. The replaceable fuse may be faster-acting than the bimetallic overcurrent protection element, and may be higher-rated than the bimetallic overcurrent protection element. The circuit breaker device may include an electrically isolated terminal stud having a height sufficient to retain the replaceable fuse thereon, the electrically isolated terminal stud not directly connected to the bimetallic overcurrent protection element, so that current can only flow through the bimetallic overcurrent protection element when a replaceable fuse comprising an intact fuse element is supported on the electrically isolated terminal stud. |
US11817270B2 |
Multilayer capacitor
A multilayer capacitor includes an element body, and a pair of side surfaces and a pair of main surfaces; and a pair of external electrodes. The element body includes an inner layer portion in which a plurality of internal electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers are alternately stacked in a second direction where the pair of main surfaces face each other, and a pair of outer layer portions disposed outside the inner layer portion in the second direction. On at least one of the pair of end surfaces, the internal electrode of the inner layer portion protrudes outward in the first direction from the outer layer portion by a predetermined protrusion amount. A ratio of the protrusion amount to a dimension of the element body in the second direction ranges from 11,000 ppm to 16,000 ppm. |
US11817268B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes; first electrode layers disposed on the ceramic body and connected to the internal electrodes, respectively; and second electrode layers disposed on the first electrode layers, respectively, and respectively including a conductive metal including silver and palladium, carbon materials, and glass particles, wherein an area ratio of the carbon materials in a cross section of at least a portion of each of the second electrode layers is 1 to 5%. |
US11817267B2 |
Multilayer capacitor
A multilayer capacitor, includes: a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrode, and a first external electrode and a second external electrode, each disposed an exterior of the body, the first external electrode being connected to the first internal electrode and the second external electrode being connected to the second internal electrode, wherein the first external electrode and the second external electrode include an electrode layer disposed on the body, and including a first intermetallic compound and glass; and a conductive resin layer disposed on the electrode layer, and including a plurality of metal particles and a resin. |
US11817263B2 |
Electronic component, circuit board, and method of mounting electronic component on circuit board
An electronic component includes a laminate in which first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes are alternately laminated in a lamination direction with dielectric layers interposed therebetween, the laminate including a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to each other in the lamination direction, a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to each other in a width direction, and a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other in a length direction, a first external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate and electrically connected to the first internal electrodes, a second external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate and electrically connected to the second internal electrodes, and side margin portions each including a dielectric including Ca, Zr, and Ti. |
US11817256B2 |
Noise reduction device for transformer
A noise reduction device for a transformer is proposed. In this device, a blocking means or a connection support means is installed in a winding installed in an inner space of an enclosure in order to remove vibration and noise generated in the enclosure of the transformer. In a low voltage winding and a high voltage winding constituting the winding, when a current is applied, a magnetic flux flow is generated, thereby generating electromagnetic force. The electromagnetic force is transmitted to surfaces of the enclosure through insulating oil or the like inside the enclosure, causing vibration and noise. In order to cancel and eliminate the electromagnetic force, the blocking means or the connection support means is used. According to the disclosure, the electromagnetic force is canceled, thereby reducing the noise and vibration. |
US11817255B2 |
Inductor element
An inductor element includes a core including a first core portion and a second core portion that are disposed to face each other in a first direction; and a conductor including a first mounting portion and a second mounting portion that are exposed from the core at a predetermined interval therebetween on one side of a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a connecting portion which connects the first mounting portion and the second mounting portion and of which at least a part is interposed between the first core portion and the second core portion. The first mounting portion and the second mounting portion are disposed to overlap both of the first core portion and the second core portion as seen from the second direction. |
US11817249B2 |
Inductor component
An inductor component includes an element body including insulating layers laminated on one another, and a coil conductor layer winding on a main surface of one of the insulating layers. The coil conductor layer contains sulfur. |
US11817245B2 |
Soft magnetic powder
A soft magnetic powder according to the present disclosure comprises a particle having no hollow part as a main component, wherein a number of hollow particle present in a region of 2.5 mm square is 40 or less in a cross section of a molded body obtained by powder-compacting and molding the soft magnetic powder so as to have a volume filling rate of 75% or more and 77% or less (i.e., from 75% to 77%). |
US11817242B2 |
Magnonic electromagnetic radiation sources with high output power at high frequencies
Acoustically mediated pulsed radiation sources, phased arrays incorporating the radiation sources, and methods of using the radiation sources and phased arrays to generate electromagnetic radiation via magnetic dipole emission are provided. The radiation sources are based on a superlattice heterostructure that supports in-phase magnetic dipole emission from a series of magnetic insulator layers disposed along the length of the heterostructure. |
US11817241B2 |
Magnet structure
A magnet structure includes a first sintered magnet, a second sintered magnet, and an intermediate layer disposed between the first sintered magnet and the second sintered magnet. Each of the first sintered magnet and the second sintered magnet independently includes crystal grains containing a rare earth element, a transition metal element, and boron. The intermediate layer contains rare earth element oxide phases and crystal grains containing a rare earth element, transition metal element, and boron. Each of the transition metal elements independently includes Fe or a combination of Fe and Co. An average coverage factor of the rare earth element oxide phases measured on the basis of a cross section perpendicular to the intermediate layer of the magnet structure is within a range of 10% to 69%. |
US11817240B2 |
Two-dimensional materials integrated with multiferroic layers
The invention relates to heterostructures including a layer of a two-dimensional material placed on a multiferroic layer. An ordered array of differing polarization domains in the multiferroic layer produces corresponding domains having differing properties in the two-dimensional material. When the multiferroic layer is ferroelectric, the ferroelectric polarization domains in the layer produce local electric fields that penetrate the two-dimensional material. The local electric fields can influence properties of the two-dimensional material, including carrier density, transport properties, optical properties, surface chemistry, piezoelectric-induced strain, magnetic properties, and interlayer spacing. Methods for producing the heterostructures are provided. Devices incorporating the heterostructures are also provided, including tunable sensors, optical emitters, and programmable logic gates. |
US11817238B2 |
Magnetic flux path control device
The present invention provides a magnetic movement path control device including: a magnetic force moving unit including a permanent magnet generating a permanent magnetic force, a first pole piece attached to a first surface of the permanent magnet, and a second pole piece attached to a second surface of the permanent magnet; a first outer pole piece in contact with the magnetic force moving unit to form a magnetic path; a second outer pole piece in contact with the magnetic force moving unit to form a magnetic path different from the magnetic path formed by the first outer pole piece; and a magnetic path control member releasing or generating the magnetic path by allowing the magnetic force moving unit to come into contact with the first outer pole piece and be spaced apart from or come in contact with the second outer pole piece, wherein the magnetic force moving unit moves between a first position where at least one of the first pole piece and the second pole piece is in contact with the first outer pole piece and the second pole piece is spaced apart from the second outer pole piece to drop a target object and a second position where at least one of the first pole piece and the second pole piece is in contact with the first outer pole piece and the second pole piece is in contact with the second outer pole piece to lift the target object. |
US11817232B2 |
Highly conductive strain resilient electronics interconnects and traces
An electrically conductive, flexible, strain resilient product is produced by mixing metal coated carbon nanotube networks with a liquid polymeric resin to produce a liquid mixture, and the mixture is cured to produce the product. The networks may include welded junctions between nanotubes formed by depositing and melting metal nanoparticles on the nanotubes to form the metal coating. After the mixing step the liquid mixture may be deposited on a flexible substrate in the form of an electrical circuit. The mixing step may further include mixing the composite with a volatile solvent to produce a selected viscosity. Then, a three-dimensional printer may be used to print the product, such as an electrical circuit, on a substrate. The product is cured in an atmosphere that absorbs the solvent. The conductivity of the mixture may be adjusted by adjusting the weight percentage of the metal coated carbon nanotube networks from 50% to 90%, but a preferred range is between 75% and 85%. |
US11817229B2 |
Method and system to contain or encapsulate radioactive materials and toxic substances for transportation or containment
A composite panel for a toxic material encapsulation system, comprising a reinforcing structure extending within and integrally formed with a non-biodegradable thermoplastic polymer. |
US11817218B2 |
Physiologic severity of illness score for acute care patients
Systems, methods, and computer storage media are provided for determining a patient's severity of illness score (pSIS) for a patient admitted to an acute care facility. Data corresponding to physiologic components is received from an electronic medical record associated with a patient admitted to an acute care healthcare facility. The physiologic components include vital sign measurements and laboratory tests. Weights are assigned to a minimum, median, and maximum measured values for each vital sign. Weights are assigned to minimum and maximum values for each laboratory test. The weights are derived based on a deviation from normal within a time period. A pSIS is determined by summing the weights. Additional data corresponding to physiologic components may be received from the electronic medical record. The additional data may be utilized to update the weights and determine a patient's updated pSIS that may be utilized to track a progress of the patient. |
US11817212B2 |
Maintenance method for a laboratory system
A maintenance method for a laboratory system comprising a first and second group of laboratory instruments for processing biological samples, data collection components connected to the groups of instruments, and a remote maintenance system connected to the data collection components is presented. The method comprises collecting operational data from the laboratory instruments by the data collection components, detecting an anomaly related to the laboratory instruments by a first data collection component, transmitting context data to the remote maintenance system upon detection of an anomaly, determining correlation(s) between the operational data and the anomaly(s), validating the correlation(s), determining at the remote maintenance system predictive rules corresponding to validated correlations, transmitting the predictive rule(s) to the data collection components, and predicting occurrence of an anomaly of laboratory instruments based on the one or more predictive rule(s) by the data collection components. |
US11817211B2 |
Patient request method
A patient request system includes a tablet computer that configured for entry of patient requests. The tablet computer is configured to display a first menu corresponding to basic request categories for a patient. The tablet computer is configured to display a second menu that corresponds to specific patient requests falling under the basic request category selected by the patient using the first menu. A server is configured to receive a specific patient request made by the patient. A notification device is configured to display the specific patient request to a caregiver. A patient request method is also disclosed. |
US11817210B2 |
Radiotherapy methods, systems, and workflow-oriented graphical user interfaces
Disclosed herein are radiotherapy methods and systems that can display a workflow-oriented graphical user interface(s). In an embodiment, a method comprises retrieving, by a server, information from a radiotherapy file associated with a patient, the information comprising an alignment data of at least a treatment region of the patient; presenting, by the server, for display on a graphical user interface, an image corresponding to the patient positioned on a couch of a radiotherapy machine, the image comprising an overlay on a surface of the patient in the treatment region; and presenting, by the server, for display, a visually distinct revised overlay for at least a portion of the surface of the patient in the treatment region that matches, within a predetermined margin of error, the alignment data. |
US11817209B2 |
Neuromodulation therapy development environment
Methods and systems are provided for generating specific software implementations of neuromodulation-therapy algorithms. A dataset may be received that includes operational specifications that correspond to a plurality of types of neuromodulation-therapy implant devices. A neuromodulation-therapy design interface may provide a representation of the neuromodulation-therapy implant device. A selection if a particular representation of a particular neuromodulation-therapy implant device may be received. Hardware characteristics of the particular neuromodulation-therapy implant device may be used to determine constraints of the implant device. A listing of neuromodulation-therapy parameters that is constraining according to the constraints may be presented. In response to a selection of a parameter, executable software code corresponding to a specific implementation of a neuromodulation-therapy algorithm may be generated. The executable software code may be transmitted to a computing device compatible with the specific implementation. |
US11817208B2 |
Method and system to facilitate patient care
An embodiment includes displaying to a physician at least one of: (a)(i) a map of a hospital floor, (a)(ii) a first patient identifier, and (a)(iii) a second patient identifier, wherein (b)(i) the map displays first and second rooms of the hospital floor, (b)(ii) a first patient is assigned to the first room and the first patient identifier, (b)(iii) a second patient is assigned to the second room and a second patient identifier, and (b)(iv) a first nurse is assigned to the first room and the first patient identifier, (b)(v) and a second nurse is assigned to the second room and the second patient identifier; receiving a selection from the physician, the selection comprising at least one of the displayed first room and the displayed first patient identifier; and sending a communication from the physician to the first nurse, and not the second nurse, in response to receiving the selection. |
US11817204B2 |
Specialized computer-aided diagnosis and disease characterization with a multi-focal ensemble of convolutional neural networks
Embodiments discussed herein facilitate determination of whether lesions are benign or malignant. One example embodiment is a method, comprising: accessing medical imaging scan(s) that are each associated with distinct angle(s) and each comprise a segmented region of interest (ROI) of that medical imaging scan comprising a lesion associated with a first region and a second region; providing the first region(s) of the medical imaging scan(s) to trained first deep learning (DL) model(s) of an ensemble and the second region(s) of the medical imaging scan(s) to trained second DL model(s) of the ensemble; and receiving, from the ensemble of DL models, an indication of whether the lesion is a benign architectural distortion (AD) or a malignant AD. |
US11817200B2 |
Generating personalized food guidance using predicted food responses
Techniques are disclosed herein for generating personalized food guidance using predicted food responses. Using the technologies described herein, instead of providing food guidance that is generalized for a group of individuals, personalized food guidance is provided that takes into account an individual's personalized responses to foods, such as the individual's glucose and fat responses, the individual's micro biome, the individual's overall health, potential health risks for the individual, and/or other data associated with the individual. Providing an individual with personalized food guidance can make choosing food easier and healthier. |
US11817199B2 |
Brachytherapy applicator formation method and apparatus
A brachytherapy applicator is formed to use when administering therapeutic radiation to a particular patient's targeted area via brachytherapy. This process accesses image information for a patient that includes the targeted area and at least some adjacent non-targeted area. A control circuit uses that image information with prescribed dosing information for that patient to automatically generate a brachytherapy applicator design specifically to treat the particular patient's targeted area via brachytherapy. A corresponding brachytherapy applicator is then manufactured as a function, at least in part, of the brachytherapy applicator design to provide a manufactured brachytherapy applicator. |
US11817195B2 |
Methods for lowering blood sugar with a gliflozin sodium-glucose cotransport 2 inhibitor pharmaceutical composition
A method is provided for lowering blood sugar in a subject in need thereof by administering a gliflozin Sodium-Glucose Cotransport 2 inhibitor pharmaceutical composition to a subject qualified for over-the-counter access to the gliflozin Sodium-Glucose Cotransport 2 inhibitor pharmaceutical composition. In some embodiments, the gliflozin Sodium-Glucose Cotransport 2 inhibitor pharmaceutical composition includes empagliflozin, canagliflozin, and ertugliflozin. In some embodiments, the gliflozin Sodium-Glucose Cotransport 2 inhibitor pharmaceutical composition includes (2S,3R,4R,5S,6R)-2-[4-chloro-3-[(4-ethoxyphenyl)methyl]phenyl]-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
US11817190B2 |
Gathering information from a healthcare consumer using context-based questions, and progressively presenting information associated with a ranked list of suggested healthcare providers
A computer-implemented method includes displaying a number of questions on a stack of overlapping graphical objects that dynamically indicates a status of the number of remaining questions, determining an output based on answers input by a user, and displaying an indication of the output. |
US11817187B2 |
Handling and tracking of biological specimens for cryogenic storage
A biological specimen of a subject is handled and tracked for a procedure involving that specimen. Prior to initiation of the procedure, a first procedure data structure (PDS) is generated. The first PDS binds an identifier corresponding to the subject with an indicator of a procedure to be performed on the specimen and identifiers of a specimen container and a specimen holder that physically contacts the biological specimen, as well as a scheduled time for the procedure. A schedule of a plurality of PDSs including the first PDS, is displayed on a display device of a graphical user interface. Following initiation of the procedure, the first PDS is updated based on user input, and after the procedure, at least a portion of the first PDS, as updated, is stored in a database in conjunction with other PDSs respectively associated with other completed procedures. |
US11817183B2 |
Phenotype analysis system and method
Phenotype analysis systems and methods. The methods described herein may involve receiving a phenotype query related to at least one phenotype of a patient. A processor executing instructions stored on memory may then select at least one of a first phenotype engine provided by a first entity and a second phenotype engine provided by a second entity to execute the received query on medical data associated with the patient. An interface may then output a result in response to the received phenotype query from at least one of the first and second phenotype engines. |
US11817182B2 |
Base calling using three-dimentional (3D) convolution
We propose a neural network-implemented method for base calling analytes. The method includes accessing a sequence of per-cycle image patches for a series of sequencing cycles, where pixels in the image patches contain intensity data for associated analytes, and applying three-dimensional (3D) convolutions on the image patches on a sliding convolution window basis such that, in a convolution window, a 3D convolution filter convolves over a plurality of the image patches and produces at least one output feature. The method further includes beginning with output features produced by the 3D convolutions as starting input, applying further convolutions and producing final output features and processing the final output features through an output layer and producing base calls for one or more of the associated analytes to be base called at each of the sequencing cycles. |
US11817177B2 |
Methods for multi-resolution analysis of cell-free nucleic acids
The present disclosure provides a method for enriching for multiple genomic regions using a first bait set that selectively hybridizes to a first set of genomic regions of a nucleic acid sample and a second bait set that selectively hybridizes to a second set of genomic regions of the nucleic acid sample. These bait set panels can selectively enrich for one or more nucleosome-associated regions of a genome, said nucleosome-associated regions comprising genomic regions having one or more genomic base positions with differential nucleosomal occupancy, wherein the differential nucleosomal occupancy is characteristic of a cell or tissue type of origin or disease state. |
US11817174B2 |
Memory system for access concentration decrease management and access concentration decrease method
A spatial disturbance that occurs when an access is concentrated in a specific memory area in a volatile semiconductor memory like DRAM is properly solved by a memory controller. The memory controller includes a concentration access detection part generating a concentration access detection signal when an address for accessing a specific memory area among memory areas of volatile semiconductor memory is concentratedly received. In the case that the concentration access detection signal is generated, the memory controller includes a controller for easing or preventing corruption of data which memory cells of the specific memory area and/or memory cells of memory areas adjacent to the specific memory area hold. |
US11817171B2 |
Devices for providing neutral voltage conditions for resistive change elements in resistive change element arrays
The present disclosure generally relates to circuit architectures for programming and accessing resistive change elements. The circuit architectures can program and access resistive change elements using neutral voltage conditions. The present disclosure also relates to methods for programming and accessing resistive change elements using neutral voltage conditions. The present disclosure additionally relates to sense amplifiers configurable into initializing configurations for initializing the sense amplifiers and comparing configurations for comparing voltages received by the sense amplifiers. The sense amplifiers can be included in the circuit architectures of the present disclosure. |
US11817167B2 |
Variable word length access
A memory chip may include: a plurality of memory banks; a data storage configured to store access information indicative of access operations for one or more segments of the plurality of memory banks; and a refresh controller configured to perform a refresh operation of the one or more segments based, at least in part, on the stored access information. |
US11817165B2 |
Signal generation circuit and method, and semiconductor memory
A signal generation circuit includes: a clock circuit configured to receive a flag signal and generate a clock signal; a control circuit configured to generate a control circuit; and a generation circuit connected to both the clock circuit and control circuit and configured to receive the clock signal, the control signal, and the flag signal and generate a target signal, wherein when the flag signal changes from a first level to a second level, the target signal changes from a third level to a fourth level, and after the target signal is maintained at the fourth level for a target duration, the target signal changes from the fourth level to the third level; and the generation circuit is further configured to determine the target duration according to the clock signal and control signal. |
US11817164B2 |
Trim setting determination for a memory device
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to a memory system including a controller and an array of memory cells. An example apparatus can include a controller configured to receive operational characteristics of an array of memory cells based on prior operations performed by the array of memory cells, determine a set of trim settings for the array of memory cells based on the operational characteristics of the array of memory cells, wherein the set of trim settings are associated with desired operational characteristics for the array of memory cells, and send the set of trim settings to the array of memory cells. |
US11817162B2 |
One direction-shift register aliasing table circuit suitable for use in microprocessors
Disclosed are hardware configurations of the Register Aliasing Table (RAT) which are suitable for use in structures such as modern microprocessor, microcontroller, CPU etc. that use pipe line technique, perform multi-command operations, prevents Write After Read (WAR), Write After Write (WAW), Read After Write (RAW) dependencies. The Register Aliasing Table provides a circuit which consumes less energy, uses less space and has low latency compared to the applications in the state of the art. |
US11817161B2 |
Shift register, drive method, drive circuit, display substrate, and device
A shift register, a drive method, a drive circuit, a display substrate, and a display device are provided. The shift register includes an input unit, a first control unit, a second control unit, an output unit, and a voltage stabilizing unit. The input unit is configured to provide a signal of a signal input end to a first node and a signal of a first power supply end to a second node. The first control unit is configured to control a signal of a fourth node. The second control unit is configured to provide a signal of a second power supply end to the first node. The output unit is configured to provide the signal of the first or the second power supply end to the output end. The voltage stabilizing unit is connected to the first node, fifth node, the output end, and the first power supply end. |
US11817160B2 |
One-time programmable memory bit cell
A memory bit cell includes a first memory cell including a first antifuse transistor and a first selection transistor, the first antifuse transistor being selectable between a first state or a second state in response to a word line program signal, the first selection transistor being configured to provide access to the first antifuse transistor in response to a word line read signal; a second memory cell including a second antifuse transistor and a second selection transistor, the second antifuse transistor being selectable between the first state or the second state in response to the word line program signal, the second selection transistor being configured to provide access to the second antifuse transistor in response to the word line read signal; a first word line to selectively provide the word line program signal; a second word line to selectively provide the word line read signal; and a bit line. |
US11817158B2 |
Operation method of nonvolatile memory device
An operation method of a nonvolatile memory device which includes a memory block having wordlines includes performing an erase on the memory block, performing a block verification on the memory block by using a 0-th erase verification voltage, performing a delta verification on the memory block by using a first erase verification voltage different from the 0-th erase verification voltage when a result of the block verification indicates a pass, and outputting information about an erase result of the memory block based on the result of the block verification or a result of the delta verification. The delta verification includes generating delta counting values respectively corresponding to wordline groups by using the first erase verification voltage, generating a delta value based on the delta counting values, and comparing the delta value and a first reference value. |
US11817156B2 |
Multi-gate nor flash thin-film transistor strings arranged in stacked horizontal active strips with vertical control gates
Multi-gate NOR flash thin-film transistor (TFT) string arrays (“multi-gate NOR string arrays”) are organized as stacks of horizontal active strips running parallel to the surface of a silicon substrate, with the TFTs in each stack being controlled by vertical local word-lines provided along one or both sidewalls of the stack of active strips. Each active strip includes at least a channel layer formed between two shared source or drain layers. Data storage in the TFTs of an active strip is provided by charge-storage elements provided between the active strip and the control gates provided by the adjacent local word-lines. Each active strip may provide TFTs that belong to one or two NOR strings, depending on whether one or both sides of the active strip are used. |
US11817152B2 |
Generating embedded data in memory cells in a memory sub-system
A processing device determines a target bit error rate corresponding to a point of a first programming voltage distribution level corresponding to memory cells of a memory sub-system and a second programming voltage distribution corresponding to the memory cells of the memory sub-system. An offset voltage level corresponding to the point at the target bit error rate is selected. A first portion of a first group of the memory cells in the first programming voltage distribution level is programmed at a threshold voltage level to set a first embedded data value. A second portion of a second group of the memory cells in the second programming voltage distribution level is programmed at the threshold voltage level offset by the offset voltage level to set a second embedded data value. |
US11817147B2 |
Memory systems and memory programming methods
Memory systems and memory programming methods are described. According to one arrangement, a memory system includes a plurality of memory cells individually configured to have a plurality of different memory states, a plurality of bitlines coupled with the memory cells, access circuitry coupled with the bitlines and configured to apply a plurality of program signals to the bitlines to program the memory cells between the different memory states, a controller configured to control the access circuitry to provide a first program signal and a second program signal to one of the bitlines coupled with one of the memory cells to program the one memory cell from a first of the memory states to a second of the memory states, wherein the second program signal has an increased electrical characteristic compared with the first program signal, and selection circuitry configure to couple another of the bitlines which is immediately adjacent to the one bitline to a node having a first voltage which is different than a second voltage of the one bitline during the provision of the first and second program signals to the one bitline. |
US11817145B2 |
Programming multi-level memory cells
Methods, systems, and devices for programming multi-level memory cells are described. After a first pass, an offset in the form of one or more offset pulses, may be applied to MLCs that are in a state of a higher level. The offset may be applied before or during a first part of a second pass. The offset may move the signals of the cells before the cells are finally programmed so as to avoid potential overlaps between the unprogrammed cells and cells that are programmed to the lower half of the final levels during the second pass. The offset cells may then be further moved to the other levels in the higher half of the final levels. |
US11817142B2 |
Refresh circuit and memory
Embodiments of the present application provide a refresh circuit and a memory. The refresh circuit includes: a refresh control module configured to receive and execute a refresh command to output a row address refresh signal; and further configured to receive a process corner signal to adjust an execution proportion of the refresh command, the faster a process corner represented by the process corner signal, the higher the adjusted execution proportion; a row addresser configured to receive the row address refresh signal and output a to-be-refreshed single-row address; and an array refresh device configured to perform a single-row refresh operation according to the single-row address and output a single-row refresh end signal after the end of single-row refresh. The embodiments of the present application help reduce the consumption of refresh currents. |
US11817141B2 |
Refresh control circuit and memory
The present disclosure provides a refresh control circuit and a memory. The refresh control circuit includes: a random capture module, configured to sequentially receive n single row addresses and randomly output m single row addresses among the n single row addresses, wherein the n>the m>1; a row hammer address generation module, connected to an output terminal of the random capture module, configured to analyze a single row address with highest frequency of occurrence among the m single row addresses, and configured to output a row hammer address corresponding to the single row address with highest frequency of occurrence; and a signal selector, configured to receive a conventional refresh address and the row hammer address and output address information, the address information being the row hammer address and the conventional refresh address, or the address information being the row hammer address. |
US11817139B2 |
Memory device having bitline segmented into bitline segments and related method for operating memory device
A memory device includes a plurality of circuit layers, a plurality of first conductive through via structures and a plurality of bitlines. The circuit layers are disposed one above another, and each circuit layer includes one or more memory cell arrays. The first conductive through via structures penetrates though the circuit layers. Each of the bitlines includes a plurality of bitline segments disposed on the circuit layers respectively. The bitline segments are electrically connected through one of the first conductive through via structures. Each bitline segment is coupled to a plurality of memory cells of a memory cell array of a circuit layer where the bitline segment is disposed. |
US11817130B2 |
Forensic video recording with presence detection
At a high level, embodiments of the invention relate to augmenting video data with presence data derived from one or more proximity tags. More specifically, embodiments of the invention generate forensically authenticated recordings linking video imagery to the presence of specific objects in or near the recording. One embodiment of the invention includes video recording system comprising a camera, a wireless proximity tag reader, a storage memory and control circuitry operable to receive image data from the camera receive a proximity tag identifier identifying a proximity tag from the proximity tag reader, and store an encoded frame containing the image data and the proximity tag identity in the storage memory. |
US11817127B2 |
Video dubbing method, apparatus, device, and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a video dubbing method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: when receiving an audio recording start trigger operation for a first time point of a target video and starting from a video picture corresponding to the first time point, playing the target video based on a timeline and receiving audio data based on the timeline; and when receiving an audio recording end trigger operation for a second time point, generating an audio recording file. The audio recording file has a linkage relationship with a timeline of a video clip taking the video picture corresponding to the first time point as a starting frame and taking a video picture corresponding to the second time point as an ending frame. |
US11817124B2 |
Composite data recovery procedure
A method of recovering data from one or more failed data sectors includes estimating a reader offset position from a first or a second read attempt of the one or more failed data sectors at a current set of channel parameters and basing the estimated reader offset position on, at least in part, a position error signal generated during the first or second read attempt. At least one read is performed on the one or more failed data sectors at the estimated reader offset position to obtain one or more samples. The one or more samples are processed to obtain a processed sample. Iterative outer code recovery is performed on the processed sample. |
US11817112B2 |
Method, device, computer readable storage medium and electronic apparatus for speech signal processing
A method, a device, a computer readable medium and an electronic apparatus for speech signal processing are disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring sound source position information and at least two channels of sound signals from a microphone array; suppressing, according to the sound source position information, a sound signal from the sound source direction in the at least two channels of sound signals, to obtain a noise reference signal of the microphone array; acquiring, according to the sound source position information, a sound signal from the sound source direction in the at least two channels of sound signals, to obtain a speech reference signal; removing, based on the noise reference signal, a residual noise signal in the speech reference signal to obtain a desired speech signal. |
US11817109B2 |
Comfort noise generation
Apparatuses, arrangements and methods therein for generation of comfort noise are disclosed. In short, the solution relates to exploiting the spatial coherence of multiple input audio channels in order to generate high quality multi channel comfort noise. |
US11817106B2 |
Selectively storing, with multiple user accounts and/or to a shared assistant device: speech recognition biasing, NLU biasing, and/or other data
Some implementations relate to performing speech biasing, NLU biasing, and/or other biasing based on historical assistant interaction(s). It can be determined, for one or more given historical interactions of a given user, whether to affect future biasing for (1) the given user account, (2) additional user account(s), and/or (3) the shared assistant device as a whole. Some implementations disclosed herein additionally and/or alternatively relate to: determining, based on utterance(s) of a given user to a shared assistant device, an association of first data and second data; storing the association as accessible to a given user account of the given user; and determining whether to store the association as also accessible by additional user account(s) and/or the shared assistant device. |
US11817091B1 |
Fault-tolerance techniques for dialog-driven applications
A checkpoint containing identifiers of input blocks of an utterance directed to a dialog-driven application from a client-side component is generated at a dialog-driven application management service. After a connectivity failure and subsequent connectivity re-establishment between the client-side component and the service, a plurality if input blocks including at least some re-transmitted blocks is received at the service. The checkpoint is used to identify at least one input block for which further processing is not performed. |
US11817089B2 |
Generating aspects from attributes identified in digital video audio tracks
A collection of digital video files may contain a large amount of unstructured information in the form of spoken words encoded within audio tracks. The audio tracks are transcribed into digital text. Attributes are extracted from the digital text and mapped to a particular subject matter aspect. Attribute to aspect mappings provide a useful organization for the unstructured information. Furthermore, sentiment scores and trends for one or more aspects may be determined and displayed. |
US11817088B1 |
Ensemble of machine learning models for real-time predictions in expert electronic chats
An ensemble of machine learning models used for real-time prediction of text for an electronic chat with an expert user. A global machine learning model, e.g., a transformer model, trained with domain specific knowledge makes a domain specific generalized prediction. Another machine learning model, e.g., an n-gram model, learns the specific style of the expert user as the expert user types to generate more natural, more expert user specific text. If specific words cannot be predicted with a desired probability level, another word level machine learning model, e.g., a word completion model, completes the words as the characters are being typed. The ensemble therefore produces real-time, natural, and accurate text that is provided to the expert user. Continuous feedback of the acceptance/rejection of predictions by the expert is used to fine tune one or more machine learning models of the ensemble in real time. |
US11817086B2 |
Machine learning used to detect alignment and misalignment in conversation
Digitized media is received that records a conversation between individuals. Cues are extracted from the digitized media that indicate properties of the conversation. The cues are entered as training data into a machine learning module to create a trained machine learning model. The trained machine learning model is used in a processor to detect other misalignments in subsequent digitized conversations. |
US11817085B2 |
Automatically determining language for speech recognition of spoken utterance received via an automated assistant interface
Implementations relate to determining a language for speech recognition of a spoken utterance, received via an automated assistant interface, for interacting with an automated assistant. Implementations can enable multilingual interaction with the automated assistant, without necessitating a user explicitly designate a language to be utilized for each interaction. Selection of a speech recognition model for a particular language can based on one or more interaction characteristics exhibited during a dialog session between a user and an automated assistant. Such interaction characteristics can include anticipated user input types, anticipated user input durations, a duration for monitoring for a user response, and/or an actual duration of a provided user response. |
US11817084B2 |
Adaptive interface in a voice-based networked system
The present disclosure relates generally to determining a language for speech recognition of a spoken utterance, received via an automated assistant interface, for interacting with an automated assistant. The system can enable multilingual interaction with the automated assistant, without necessitating a user explicitly designate a language to be utilized for each interaction. Selection of a speech recognition model for a particular language can based on one or more interaction characteristics exhibited during a dialog session between a user and an automated assistant. Such interaction characteristics can include anticipated user input types, anticipated user input durations, a duration for monitoring for a user response, and/or an actual duration of a provided user response. |
US11817080B2 |
Using corrections, of predicted textual segments of spoken utterances, for training of on-device speech recognition model
Processor(s) of a client device can: receive audio data that captures a spoken utterance of a user of the client device; process, using an on-device speech recognition model, the audio data to generate a predicted textual segment that is a prediction of the spoken utterance; cause at least part of the predicted textual segment to be rendered (e.g., visually and/or audibly); receive further user interface input that is a correction of the predicted textual segment to an alternate textual segment; and generate a gradient based on comparing at least part of the predicted output to ground truth output that corresponds to the alternate textual segment. The gradient is used, by processor(s) of the client device, to update weights of the on-device speech recognition model and/or is transmitted to a remote system for use in remote updating of global weights of a global speech recognition model. |
US11817068B1 |
Pentatonic harmonica
Harmonicas with the blow reeds forming a repeating pentatonic scale and the draw reeds forming a repeating pentatonic scale to facilitate ease of playability and musicality when playing pentatonic scales. |
US11817067B2 |
Display driving circuit
A display driving circuit for driving a display panel, including a first memory configured to store main image data received from outside of the display driving circuit; a second memory configured to store first additional image data in a normal mode, and to store second additional image data in an Always On Display (AOD) mode having lower power consumption than the normal mode; a normal mode controller configured to operate in the normal mode according to the first additional image data stored in the second memory; and an AOD mode controller configured to operate in the AOD mode according to the main image data stored in the first memory and the second additional image data stored in the second memory. |
US11817062B2 |
System and method for overdrive setting control on a liquid crystal display
A monitor includes a timing controller coupled to a liquid crystal display panel. A scaler unit receives a change event notification associated with a change to a new overdrive setting of the liquid crystal display panel, and determines a set of lookup table values associated with the change to the new overdrive setting of the liquid crystal display panel. The scaler unit determines a size of data to be transmitted based on the set of lookup table values, and divides the data to be transmitted into data portions based on factors that include the size of the data to be transmitted, speed of an inter-integrated circuit bus, or length of a vertical blank period. The scaler unit then transmits one of the data portions during the vertical blank period via the inter-integrated circuit bus. |
US11817059B2 |
Electroluminescent display device and method for sensing electrical characteristics thereof
The present disclosure relates to an electroluminescent display device and a method for sensing electrical characteristics thereof, and the electroluminescent display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels including a sensing pixel and a non-sensing pixel connected to each data line, the plurality of pixels sharing one sensing line, a sensing circuit configured to sense an electrical characteristic value of the sensing pixel based on a sensing voltage applied to the shared sensing line, and a feedback unit configured to apply a feedback voltage according to the sensing voltage applied to the shared sensing line to the data line of the non-sensing pixel. |
US11817058B2 |
Light emitting display device and method of driving the same
A light emitting display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to data lines of the display panel, and a sensing circuit configured to obtain a sensing voltage through sensing lines of the display panel after reflecting a negative impedance value canceling impedance differences of the sensing lines. |
US11817056B2 |
Display device and pixel of a display device
A display device comprises a display panel including a pixel, and a panel driver configured to receive input image data in a variable frame frequency in order to drive the display panel based on the input image data. A frame period for the display panel is divided into at least one scan period and at least one or more hold periods, and a time during which the pixel performs an anode initialization operation in each of the hold periods is longer than a time during which the pixel performs the anode initialization operation in the scan period. |
US11817050B2 |
Display system and display control method for low frequency driving and low power driving
A display system including a host processor and a display driver integrated circuit may be provided. The host processor may generate a clock signal that swings swinging between a high level and a low level, generate and output a first synchronization signal based on the clock signal, generate a wakeup interrupt by measuring a frame update period of a display panel, generates frame data based on the first synchronization signal by enabling an image providing path based on the wakeup interrupt, and output the frame data for every frame update period. The display driver integrated circuit may receive the first synchronization signal and the frame data from the host processor, and control the display panel such that a frame image corresponding to the frame data is displayed on the display panel based on the first synchronization signal without storing the frame data. |
US11817047B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel includes a pixel circuit that includes a light emitting module, a driving module, a first dual control module, and a second dual control module. A control end of the driving module is connected to a first node. The first dual control module has a control end connected to a first scanning line and has a first end connected to the first node. A first capacitor is formed between an intermediate node of the first dual control module and a first potential line. The second dual control module has a first end connected to the first node and has a second end connected to the driving module. A second capacitor is formed between an intermediate node of the second dual control module and a second potential line. Capacitance of one of the first capacitor and the second capacitor is greater than another. |
US11817044B1 |
Pixel driving circuit and display panel
The present application provides a pixel driving circuit and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes an amplitude regulating module and a pulse width modulation module, where the amplitude regulating module and the pulse width modulation module are both electrically connected to a first node, so that the pulse width modulation module and the amplitude modulation module are configured to cooperate with a first data signal and a second data signal, respectively, to realize regulation of both the pulse width and the amplitude of the valid pulse of the driving current signal for driving the light emitting device to emit light. As such, the valid pulse of the driving current signal has different pulse widths and different amplitudes under correspondingly different gray scale states, so that the light emitting brightness and the light emitting duration of the light emitting device under correspondingly different gray scale states are different. |
US11817043B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a light emitting element; a first driving transistor between a first node and the light emitting element; a second driving transistor between the first node and the light emitting element; a switching transistor between a data line and the first node; a first compensation transistor between a first control electrode of the first driving transistor and a second node, and configured to receive a first compensation scan signal; a second compensation transistor between a second control electrode of the second driving transistor and the second node, and configured to receive a second compensation scan signal; a first initialization transistor between the first control electrode of the first driving transistor and a first initialization voltage line; and a second initialization transistor between the second control electrode of the second driving transistor and a second initialization voltage line. |
US11817036B2 |
Display apparatus and control method thereof
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a memory configured to store an input image, a display panel comprising a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, and a processor configured to control the display panel to output an entire area of a first frame of a plurality of frames included in the input image by controlling the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, and control the display panel to output a partial area of a second frame subsequent to the first frame by controlling some of the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines. |
US11817029B2 |
Screen saver controller, display device including the same, and method of driving the display device
A screen saver controller including a load calculator configured to generate load data of an image represented by input image data, a maximum gray level calculator configured to generate maximum gray level data of the image represented by the input image data, and a screen saver data generator configured to determine a gain of a screen saver mode based on the load data and the maximum gray level data when the screen saver mode is operated and to generate screen saver data based on the input image data and the gain. |
US11817028B2 |
Gate driving structure having overlapped signal wiring and capacitor, array substrate and display device
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and in particular, to a gate driving structure, an array substrate and a display device. The gate driving structure may include: a base substrate; a shift register, formed on the base substrate, and including a plurality of thin film transistors and at least one capacitor, the capacitor being coupled to the thin film transistor; and a signal wiring group, formed on the base substrate, and including a plurality of signal wirings spaced apart from each other, the signal wiring being coupled to the thin film transistor. An orthographic projection of the capacitor on the base substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the signal wiring group on the base substrate. |
US11817027B2 |
Data processing device, data driving device and system for driving display device
The present disclosure relates to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for driving a display device, and more particularly, to a data processing device, a data driving device, and a system for speeding up data communication in a display device. |
US11817026B2 |
Screen control apparatus of a vehicle and a method thereof
A screen control apparatus of a vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The screen control apparatus includes: a sensing device that measures illumination; a brightness determining device that determines a brightness degree corresponding to the illumination from one or more illumination measurement data; and a controller that controls a screen brightness of a display depending on the determined brightness degree. The controller controls the screen brightness of the display, whenever the brightness degree is changed. |
US11817023B2 |
Display substrate, detection method and preparation method thereof, and display apparatus
A display substrate includes a base substrate including a display region and a peripheral region located on at least one side of the display region. The display region is provided with a plurality of sub-pixels, and at least one of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a light-emitting element and a pixel circuit for driving the light-emitting element. The peripheral region includes a detection region, and the detection region is provided with at least one detection electrode which is electrically connected with a first electrode of the light-emitting element and the pixel circuit through a detection lead wire, to detect electrical performance of the light-emitting element through the detection electrode in a detection stage. |
US11817021B2 |
Display device
A display device includes display panels; a frame supporting the display panels; a first magnetic body disposed on the frame; and a second magnetic body disposed on at least a part of the display panels, wherein the first magnetic body and the second magnetic body overlap each other in a direction parallel to a surface of the display panels and a direction perpendicular to the surface of the display panels. |
US11817020B2 |
Stretchable display and the manufacturing method thereof
A method of manufacturing a stretchable display according to an embodiment of the present invention includes preparing a process carrier substrate, forming a flexible substrate on the process carrier substrate, forming a light emitting layer and a driving element controlling the light emitting layer on the flexible substrate, and attaching a stretchable film divided into a low stretchable area and a high stretchable area such that at least a part of the low stretchable area covers at least a part of the driving element in a state in which the high stretchable area is stretched. |
US11817019B2 |
Display device
A display device including a substrate including first and second flat regions spaced apart from each other, and a bendable region between the first and second flat regions, a display layer on a first surface of the substrate in the first flat region, a first passivation layer on the first surface of the substrate in the bendable region, a second passivation layer on a second surface of the substrate, the second passivation layer defining cavities spaced apart from each other in the bendable region, and support members on the second surface of the substrate in the first flat region and the second flat region, wherein a first density of the cavities corresponding to a first area in the bendable region is less than an average density of the cavities, and wherein a first bending stress of the substrate at the first area is greater than an average bending stress of the substrate in the bendable region. |
US11817017B2 |
Traffic safety sign assembly
A traffic safety sign assembly for guiding traffic around a vehicle parked on a shoulder of a roadway includes a sign that is positionable on a vehicle that is parked on a shoulder of a roadway. In this way the sign is visible to oncoming traffic on the roadway. Arrow indicia are printed on the sign to direct oncoming traffic away from the vehicle. A plurality of sign light emitters is each integrated into the sign to emit light outwardly from the sign. In this way the sign light emitters enhance visibility of the sign for the oncoming traffic. The plurality of sign light emitters is strategically arranged on the sign to indicate a preferred direction of travel. In this way the sign light emitters visually communicate the preferred direction of travel to the oncoming traffic. |
US11817016B2 |
Smart door sign with integrated IOT devices and wireless signal repeaters
Old address signs are retrofitted, incorporated and integrated with new electronic devices for navigation aid, Internet and IOT (Internet Of Things) related applications. New smart address sign with Internet connections has the capabilities of remote sensing and detecting useful information for residential homes and business offices. Useful information is gathered, stored, processed and relayed for applications of improving home and office efficiency, security and safety related solutions. New hardware and software built into the smart address signs also serve as wireless signal repeating/relaying base stations. |
US11817015B2 |
Communications system for prompting student engaged conversation
A system for student engaged conversation receives, at a first user interface, a limited descriptive entry from the first user at a first remote terminal to provide a memory prompt to the second user for use with the first user, wherein the first user interface displays a subject matter topic component indicating a topic and an entry component for receiving, from the first user, a limited entry of text associated with the topic. The system limits entry, by the first user, of the text of the limited descriptive entry at the entry component of the first user interface to at least one of: no more than 50 characters, or no more than 10 words. The system provides a notification of the limited descriptive entry including a combination of the topic and the limited entry of the text to the second user at a second remote terminal. |
US11817014B2 |
Systems and methods for interface-based automated custom authored prompt evaluation
Systems and methods for automated custom training of a scoring model are disclosed herein. The method include: receiving a plurality of responses received from a plurality of students in response to providing of a prompt; identifying an evaluation model relevant to the provided prompt, which evaluation model can be a machine learning model trained to output a score relevant to at least portions of a response; generating a training indicator that provides a graphical depiction of the degree to which the identified evaluation model is trained; determining a training status of the model; receiving at least one evaluation input when the model is identified as insufficiently trained; updating training of the evaluation model based on the at least one received evaluation input; and controlling the training indicator to reflect the degree to which the evaluation model is trained subsequent to the updating of the training of the evaluation model. |
US11817008B2 |
CPR training system and method for communication during CPR training
A CPR training system comprises a plurality of CPR training manikins and at least one receiver unit, where each manikin comprises at least one sensor and a microcontroller connected to each sensor. The microcontroller is connected to a Bluetooth transmitter which is adapted to transmit the data from the sensors within a BLE advertising package to the at least one receiver unit. For the CPR training system there may also be provided a multi CPR monitoring device which comprises the receiver unit, a user interface, and a processor, where the receiver unit is adapted to receive CPR data from the transmitters as BLE advertising packages, the processor analyzes the received data, and the user interface shows the result of the analysis in a grid, where each grid cell represents the data from a respective transmitter. |
US11817007B2 |
Interactive education system for teaching patient care
Simulator systems for teaching patient care are provided. In some instances, the simulator system includes a master computer module positioned within a patient body and configured to communicate simulation commands to a pneumatic module also positioned within the patient body and spaced from the master computer module. A compressor module is configured to control a compressor to supply compressed air from the compressor to the pneumatic module. The pneumatic module includes a processor configured to execute the simulation commands received from the master computer module to control a physically simulated body part of the patient body with the supplied compressed air. |
US11817006B2 |
Weld modules for weld training systems
Systems are disclosed relating to a weld module for weld training systems. In some examples, a weld module is configured for attachment to (and/or detachment from) a plug of a welding tool (e.g., welding torch, gun, stinger, foot pedal, etc.). The weld module may be configured to detect tool events based one or more signals received from the plug of the welding tool. The weld module may communicate the tool events to the weld training system for use during a weld simulation, for example. |
US11817001B2 |
Broadcasting geolocation information in a radio frame transmitted from an unmanned aerial vehicle
Broadcasting geolocation information of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from the UAV by determining current geolocation of the UAV by communicating with a geolocation service and utilizing the geolocation service to geolocate the UAV. Then the UAV prepares a radio frame that includes geolocation information identifying the current geolocation of the UAV and other information associated with the UAV using a radio protocol of one of a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) radio protocol, a WiFi radio protocol, a wireless personal area network protocol and a low-power wide-area network protocol and transmits the radio frame to broadcast the current geolocation of the UAV. |
US11816996B1 |
Pilot decision space for sonic boom impact resolution
A system for predicting pressure waves in a sonic boom footprint calculates alternative footprints and pressure waves along a flight path based on speed and altitude modifiers. The available, adjustable parameters are bounded within a flight envelope and along an approved flight corridor. The system receives and incorporates data from external sources, such as weather data, that impacts sonic boom pressure wave predictions and aircraft performance characteristics. |
US11816991B2 |
Vehicle environment modeling with a camera
System and techniques for vehicle environment modeling with a camera are described herein. A time-ordered sequence of images representative of a road surface may be obtained. An image from this sequence is a current image. A data set may then be provided to an artificial neural network (ANN) to produce a three-dimensional structure of a scene. Here, the data set includes a portion of the sequence of images that includes the current image, motion of the sensor from which the images were obtained, and an epipole. The road surface is then modeled using the three-dimensional structure of the scene. |
US11816985B2 |
Electrical cabinets
There is described an electrical cabinet for a traffic signaling system. The electrical cabinet generally has a housing; an input encoder, the input encoder having input ports receiving input signals carrying states associated with input devices of the traffic signaling system, a serial encoding circuit serially encoding the states of the input signals into a headerless signal, the headerless signal beginning with a first time slot and ending with a last time slot temporally spaced apart from the first time slot, the time slots carrying the states of the input signals, and an output port; and a traffic light controller having a serial decoding circuit receiving the headerless signal and serially decoding the headerless signal to retrieve the states of the input signals carried by the time slots of the headerless signal, the traffic light controller controlling the traffic signaling system based on the retrieved states. |
US11816979B2 |
Battery-powered control device including a rotation portion
Provided herein are examples of a remote control device that provides a retrofit solution for an existing switched control system. The remote control device may comprise a control circuit, a rotatable portion, a magnetic ring coupled to the rotatable portion, and first and second Hall-effect sensor circuits configured to generate respective first and second sensor control signals in response to magnetic fields generated by the magnetic elements. The control circuit may operate in a normal mode when the rotatable portion is being rotated, and in a reduced-power mode when the rotatable portion is not being rotated. The control circuit may disable the second Hall-effect sensor circuit in the reduced-power mode. The control circuit may detect movement of the rotatable portion in response to the first sensor control signal in the reduced-power mode and enable the second Hall-effect sensor circuit in response to detecting movement of the rotatable portion. |
US11816977B1 |
Somatosensory generation system featuring thermal effects
A somatosensory generation system featuring with thermal effects, includes a somatosensory effect controller used to access and process audio signals or control signals of actions or events of games, movies, AR/VR or application software from media players, game consoles, personal computers, AR/VR devices, and transmit them to at least a somatosensory effect conversion device and a plurality of somatosensory transducers are staggered distribution on the carrier to react the simulated waveform and heating information in corresponding to the portions of torso and limbs of the human body. This somatosensory generation system enhances immersive presence of entertainment dramatically and make users like to enter live action scenes through both haptic feedback and thermal effect applied on user's body. |
US11816976B2 |
Handheld personal care device with a light indicator for indicating an operational condition
A hand held personal care device 1 has a main housing 2 arranged to be held by hand, and an operative unit 3 connected to the main FIG. 1 housing 2 and adapted for carrying out a personal care operation to a body part of a user. The main housing 2 has a main axis of extension 36 and accommodates a light indicator 4 for indicating an operational condition of the personal care device 1. The light indicator 4 has a light emitting surface 6, that extends circumferentially around the main housing 2 as a closed-loop surface about the main axis of extension 36, and a light guiding wall 31 of which at least a portion, including the closed-loop surface, extends as a closed-loop wall portion 40 about the main axis of extension. |
US11816971B2 |
System and method for risk classification and warning of flashover events
A system, wearable device and management device provided for predicting a flashover event. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a wearable device for predicting a flashover event is provided. The wearable device includes at least one thermal sensor configured to generate thermal data associated with an environment, and processing circuitry configured to: determine a risk of ignition of at least one combustible gas in the environment based on the thermal data, and trigger at least one action based on the determined risk of ignition. |
US11816968B2 |
Automatic presence simulator for security systems
Methods, systems and computing devices are described herein for monitoring a premises when residents or other users are present in order to detect patterns of activity at the premises. Such patterns may comprise, for example, a typical schedule indicating usage of one or more devices by one or more users of the premises. When a user is away or otherwise inactive, commands may be sent to various user devices to make it appear (e.g., to those outside the premises) as if the user is present by simulating and/or recreating the patterns that were previously detected. |
US11816963B2 |
Event wagering with group and/or in run options
Some embodiments may relate to wagering one or more events. Such events may include sporting events. For example, one or more races may be wagered upon. In some embodiments, one or more wager may include an in running or in game wager. In some embodiments, one or more wagers may include a wager on a group of participants. Various apparatus and methods are described. |
US11816958B2 |
Activating features based on a value of a progressive award
Gaming systems and methods for determining which features, if any, to activate in association with one or more plays of a game based on a current value of a progressive award. |
US11816951B2 |
System and method for transferring funds to and from a gaming table
A system that facilitates the transfer of an amount funds between one or more gaming establishment accounts associated with a player and one or more gaming table components associated with a gaming establishment gaming table currently associated with the player. |
US11816949B2 |
Systems and methods of electronic gaming
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for electronic gaming are disclosed. In a first aspect, a method of electronic gaming includes initiating, in response to an initial wager, a primary game, selecting, in response to the initiating the primary game, a plurality of primary game symbols, and displaying the plurality of primary game symbols in a plurality of symbol display positions associated with a plurality of reel strips. The method may further include initiating, in response to the initial wager, a jackpot game, selecting, in response to initiating the jackpot game, a jackpot game symbol from a plurality of jackpot game symbols, displaying the jackpot game symbol in a symbol display position associated with a single reel strip, and determining a jackpot award based upon the jackpot game symbol. |
US11816948B2 |
Medical product dispensing systems and methods
Methods and systems for transferring restricted distribution medical products to an over-the-counter general sales environment are provided. Methods and systems of dispensing non-prescription, behind-the-counter medical products from a vending machine in a general sales location are also provided. In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for dispensing a medical product from a vending machine in a general sales location based, at least in part, on biometric data collected from the purchaser and, in some instances, based on self-selection and/or de-selection criteria, is provided. Further, methods and systems of switching prescription medical products to non-prescription, over-the-counter medical products are provided. |
US11816945B2 |
Sheet handling device
A sheet handling device includes: a first storage; a second storage using a storage method different form that of the first storage; a transporter that transports a sheet; and a controller that controls the transporter to transport the sheet. When the second storage is neither a transport source of the sheet nor a transport destination of the sheet, the controller controls the transporter to transport the sheet at a first speed. When the second storage is at least the transport source of the sheet or the transport destination of the sheet, the controller controls the transporter to transport the sheet at a second speed lower than the first speed. |
US11816944B1 |
Systems and methods for remote cash deposit system
Secure cash deposit containers, such as secure cash bags or secure cash boxes equipped with an integrated bill scanner and a transmitter. The integrated bill scanner may receive and count the bills, and then store them in the secure cash deposit container. A transmitter in communication with the scanner may then transmit a report to the bank servicing the commercial establishment's cash deposit account. The bank may then automatically credit the amount reported by the scanner to the commercial establishment cash deposit account. The amount credited may be subject to further verification, for example, by a bank teller or by a bank's automated cash counting and sorting machines. |
US11816942B2 |
Detecting intent of a user requesting access to a secured asset
An intention detection mechanism detects a target user accessing an operational context and accesses sensor data collected by a plurality of sensors encoding signals describing one or more characteristics of the target user and surroundings of the target user. The intention detection mechanism converts the accessed sensor data into a multi-channel sensor data time series, where each channel represents a characteristic of the target user. The intention detection mechanism compares the sensor data time series to a multi-channel intentionality template to determine whether the sensor data time series contains the multi-channel intentionality template. The multi-channel intentionality template describes characteristics indicative of an intent of a target user accessing the operational context. If the sensor data time series contains the multi-channel intentionality template, the intention detection mechanism communicates a signal confirming that the target user intended to access to the operational context. |
US11816941B2 |
Secure storage container, system for secure storage, and method for using a secure storage container
Improved methods, systems, apparatuses, and components for secure storage of products, including an improved secure storage container and system. The secure storage container may provide a user with secure, organized, and substantially airtight storage of products. The secure storage system may allow for the authentication of the user to lock/unlock the secure storage container. The secure storage system may further collect data obtained from sensors. The data may include, but is not limited to, lock/unlocking event information, weight changes of the stored substances, movement of the substances within the box, temperature sensor data, humidity sensor data. The secure storage system may provide for actively maintaining a particular humidity or temperature point using a control system. |
US11816940B2 |
Refuse container identification using parcel data
Techniques are described for correlating entity identification information with refuse containers being serviced by a refuse collection vehicle (RCV). Location data can be collected by location sensor(s) on the RCV at a time when a triggering condition is present, such as a time when a lift arm is operating to empty a refuse container into the hopper of the RCV. The location data can be provided as input to an algorithm that estimates a container location through a vector offset to account for the distance and direction of the RCV lift arm relative to the location sensor in the RCV. The container location can be correlated with parcel data to determine the parcel that the container was on or near to when it was serviced, and the customer or other entity associated with the parcel can be correlated to the particular container based on the analysis. |
US11816939B2 |
Rollover alarming system, rollover risk prediction method, and rollover alarming method
A rollover alarming system, a rollover risk prediction method, and a rollover alarming method. An axle housing strain measurement unit measures strain values on both sides of an axle housing of a vehicle body. A roll angle measurement unit measures a roll angle of the vehicle body. A collection control unit is configured to collect the strain values on both sides of the axle housing of the vehicle body and the roll angle of the vehicle body, calculate a strain difference between the strain values according to the strain values on both sides of the axle housing of the vehicle body, and output a corresponding alarm control signal according to the strain difference between both sides of the axle housing of the vehicle body and the roll angle of the vehicle body. An alarm unit is configured to output a corresponding alarm signal according to the received alarm control signal. |
US11816938B2 |
Information presentation system, server, information presentation method, and information presentation device
An information presentation system includes an electric vehicle, the electric vehicle including an electrical storage device and being configured to perform either or both of external charging in which the electrical storage device is charged with electric power supplied from an outside of the electric vehicle and external power feeding in which electric power is supplied from the electrical storage device to the outside, wherein: a user of the electric vehicle is evaluated using information acquired from the electric vehicle; an evaluation result is sent to the user that has been evaluated; and the evaluation result includes either or both of first evaluation information indicating how high a score of the user for the external charging is and second evaluation information indicating how high a score of the user for the external power feeding is. |
US11816931B2 |
Casino system with camera-based human full body sensing and player action prediction
A gaming system, computer-implemented method and gaming device are operable enhance player experience using image data. A system includes a processor circuit and a memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to perform operations. Such operations include receiving, from a camera, image data that includes visual signals corresponding to a player and determining player action components from the image data. The player action components include multiple different player attributes that correspond to an emotional state of the player. Operations further include, based on the different player attributes, determining a predicted action of the player and causing a casino related action that corresponds to the predicted action. |
US11816925B2 |
Face detection method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium
A face detection method for a computer device includes: obtaining a to-be-detected image; obtaining an initial shape of a current regression tree in a pre-constructed probability regression model; extracting image features from the to-be-detected image and respectively calculating a probability of each of leaf nodes of the current regression tree according to the image features; extracting an error of each of the leaf nodes; determining a shape error of the current regression tree according to the probability and the error of each of the leaf nodes; calculating an estimated shape of the current regression tree according to the initial shape and the shape error; and performing iterative calculation by using the estimated shape as an initial shape of a neighboring next regression tree until a last regression tree in the probability regression model, to obtain an estimated shape of the last regression tree as a detected face shape. |
US11816923B2 |
Face image candidate determination apparatus for authentication, face image candidate determination method for authentication, program, and recording medium
An apparatus for face image candidate determination for authentication, including a storage and at least one processor wherein the storage stores a reference face image in association with an attribute of the image for each registered person and a score threshold value for each combination of attributes of face images to be collated. The processor configured to: acquire a face image of a person to be determined as a face image for determination, determine an attribute of the face image, collate the reference face image with the face image and calculates a score indicating a degree of matching, and select a reference face image satisfying the score threshold value as a face image candidate for authentication and selects the face image candidate and the score thereof as authentication information of the face image for determination. |
US11816922B2 |
Fingerprint extraction apparatus and method
A fingerprint extraction apparatus includes a fingerprint generation module configured to generate first and second virtual fingerprint images, perform primary image processing on the first virtual fingerprint image and primary and secondary image processing on the second virtual fingerprint images, and generate virtual overlapped fingerprint images by combining the first and second virtual fingerprint images on which image processing is performed; a machine learning module configured to generate a learning model by performing machine learning using the virtual overlapped fingerprint images as input data; and a fingerprint extraction module configured to extract a fingerprint located vertically on a center of a real image by inputting the real image to a target fingerprint extraction learning model, and the primary image processing comprises image processing on a curve forming a fingerprint, and the secondary image processing comprises image processing on a location of the fingerprint in the image. |
US11816918B2 |
Electronic apparatus
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a first substrate that includes a sensor element, a first light-shielding layer, and a first pinhole that is provided between the first light-shielding layers adjacent to each other, and a second substrate that includes a second light-shielding layer that is provided in contact with a base, a second pinhole that is provided between the second light-shielding layers adjacent to each other, a third light-shielding layer that is in contact with an insulating layer, a third pinhole that is provided between the third light-shielding layers adjacent to each other, wherein a transparent resin layer is provided inside the third pinhole. |
US11816917B2 |
Multi-sensor structure and image display device including the same
A multi-sensor structure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base layer, a first touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer disposed on a top surface of the base layer, a second touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer disposed at an upper level of the first touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer, and an antenna electrode layer spaced apart from the first touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer and the second touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer in a planar direction. The antenna electrode layer is disposed at the same level as that of the first touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer or the second touch-fingerprint sensor electrode layer. A sensor in which a touch-fingerprint sensing and an antenna signal sensing are integrated is provided. |
US11816915B2 |
Human body three-dimensional key point detection method, model training method and related devices
The human body 3D key point detection method includes: acquiring a to-be-detected image, the to-be-detected image including first human body image data; inputting the to-be-detected image into a key point extraction model to acquire N first 3D heatmaps of N human body 3D key points in the first human body image data, each first 3D heatmap representing a Gaussian distribution of one human body 3D key point in first human body image data in a predetermined space, where N is a positive integer; and determining coordinate information about the N human body 3D key points in the first human body image data based on the N first 3D heatmaps. |
US11816911B2 |
Automated communication design construction system
An automated communication design analysis and construction system that includes one or more intelligent communication design servers, comprising: a normalization module that converts communication content files for different recipients to normalized intermediate format files; an objects identification and quantification module that identifies text objects and image objects in the normalized intermediate format files; a cross-recipient group analysis module configured to identify static global objects that are invariant between recipients, data variables, and variable global objects that vary between recipients in the normalized intermediate format files; and an intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine that can construct standard communication design files based on the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects. A data storage stores the communication content files and the standard communication design files. A communication resource allocation server sends the standard communication design files to one or more product fulfillment centers. |
US11816910B2 |
Approximate modeling of next combined result for stopping text-field recognition in a video stream
Approximate modeling of next combined result for stopping text-field recognition in a video stream. In an embodiment, text-recognition results are generated from frames in a video stream and combined into an accumulated text-recognition result. A distance between the accumulated text-recognition result and a next accumulated text-recognition result is estimated based on an approximate model of the next accumulated text-recognition result, and a determination is made of whether or not to stop processing based on this estimated distance. After processing is stopped, the final accumulated text-recognition result may be output. |
US11816909B2 |
Document clusterization using neural networks
An example method of document classification comprises: detecting a set of keypoints in an input image; generating a set of keypoint vectors, wherein each keypoint vector of the set of keypoint vectors is associated with a corresponding keypoint of the set of keypoints; extracting a feature map from the input image; producing a combination of the set of keypoint vectors with the feature map; transforming the combination into a set of keypoint mapping vectors according to a predefined mapping scheme; estimating, based on the set of keypoint mapping vectors, a plurality of importance factors associated with the set of keypoints; and classifying the input image based on the set of keypoints and the plurality of importance factors. |
US11816908B2 |
Method of generating font database, and method of training neural network model
A method of generating a font database, and a method of training a neural network model are provided, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence, in particular to a computer vision and deep learning technology. The method of generating the font database includes: determining, by using a trained similarity comparison model, a basic font database most similar to handwriting font data of a target user in a plurality of basic font databases as a candidate font database; and adjusting, by using a trained basic font database model for generating the candidate font database, the handwriting font data of the target user, so as to obtain a target font database for the target user. |
US11816906B2 |
Messaging system for engagement analysis based on labels
A messaging system performs engagement analysis based on labels associated with content items produced by users of the messaging system. The messaging system is configured to process content items comprising images to identify elements in the images and determine labels for the images based on conditions indicating when to associate a label of the labels with an image of the images based on the elements in the image. The messaging system is further configured to associate the label with the content item, in response to determining to associate the label with the image, associating the label with the content item. The messaging system is further configured to determine engagement scores for the label based on interactions of users with the content items associated with label and adjust the engagement scores to determine trends in the labels to generate adjusted engagement scores. |
US11816903B2 |
Method for determining a type of parking space
A method for determining a type of parking space for a motor vehicle includes detecting a target, evaluating an orientation of the target relative to a road, and determining a type of parking space on the basis of the evaluated orientation. The detecting the target is implemented by a frontal camera of the vehicle. |
US11816901B2 |
Multi-agent trajectory prediction
Methods and systems for training a trajectory prediction model and performing a vehicle maneuver include encoding a set of training data to generate encoded training vectors, where the training data includes trajectory information for agents over time. Trajectory scenarios are simulated based on the encoded training vectors, with each simulated trajectory scenario representing one or more agents with respective agent trajectories, to generate simulated training data. A predictive neural network model is trained using the simulated training data to generate predicted trajectory scenarios based on a detected scene. |
US11816898B2 |
Method and system for acquiring item placing state
The present disclosure provides a method for acquiring an item placing state, including: sending an acquisition request, wherein the acquisition request includes one or more association relationships, each of the association relationships includes an association relationship between a hot zone and a camera equipment, and one hot zone corresponds to one kind of item; and receiving a placing state of an item corresponding to at least one hot zone, wherein the placing state of the item corresponding to the at least one hot zone is determined according to a current image and a standard image of the at least one hot zone in response to the acquisition request. The present disclosure further provides a processing method, a system for acquiring an item placing state and a processing system. |
US11816892B2 |
System, device and method for object detection in video feeds
Embodiments are directed to a smart camera device that analyzes independent video streams. |
US11816891B2 |
Video recognition method and apparatus, electronic device and storage medium
Provided are a video recognition method and apparatus, an electronic device, a medium and a computer program product. The video recognition method is described below. A to-be-recognized video is divided into at least two video segments; video frames are extracted from the at least two video segments, and feature recognition is performed on the video frames to obtain initial semantic feature blocks of the at least two video segments; each of the initial semantic feature blocks is fused, and a fused target semantic feature block is obtained; and a type of the to-be-recognized video is determined according to the fused target semantic feature block. |
US11816890B2 |
Automatic content recognition and information in live streaming suitable for video games
In various examples, one or more Machine Learning Models (MLMs) are used to identify content items in a video stream and present information associated with the content items to viewers of the video stream. Video streamed to a user(s) may be applied to an MLM(s) trained to detect an object(s) therein. The MLM may directly detect particular content items or detect object types, where a detection may be narrowed to a particular content item using a twin neural network, and/or an algorithm. Metadata of an identified content item may be used to display a graphical element selectable to acquire the content item in the game or otherwise. In some examples, object detection coordinates from an object detector used to identify the content item may be used to determine properties of an interactive element overlaid on the video and presented on or in association with a frame of the video. |
US11816888B2 |
Accurate tag relevance prediction for image search
Embodiments of the present invention provide an automated image tagging system that can predict a set of tags, along with relevance scores, that can be used for keyword-based image retrieval, image tag proposal, and image tag auto-completion based on user input. Initially, during training, a clustering technique is utilized to reduce cluster imbalance in the data that is input into a convolutional neural network (CNN) for training feature data. In embodiments, the clustering technique can also be utilized to compute data point similarity that can be utilized for tag propagation (to tag untagged images). During testing, a diversity based voting framework is utilized to overcome user tagging biases. In some embodiments, bigram re-weighting can down-weight a keyword that is likely to be part of a bigram based on a predicted tag set. |
US11816887B2 |
Quick activation techniques for industrial augmented reality applications
An augmented reality (AR) node location and activation technique for use in an AR system in a process plant or other field environment quickly and easily detects an AR node in a real-world environment and is then able to activate an AR scene within the AR system, which improves the usability and user experience of the AR system. The AR node location and activation system generally enables users to connect to and view an AR scene within an AR system or platform even when the user is not directly at an existing AR node, when the user is experiencing poor lighting conditions in the real-world environment and in situations in which the user is unfamiliar with the AR nodes that are in the AR system database. As a result, the user can quickly and easily activate the AR system and connect to an AR scene for an AR node close to the user in the field environment under varying weather and lighting conditions in the field and without requiring a large amount of image processing to locate the correct AR scene based on photographic images provided by the user. |
US11816883B2 |
Region proposal networks for automated bounding box detection and text segmentation
A processor may generate a plurality of intermediate feature layers of an image using convolutional neural network (CNN) processing. For each intermediate feature layer, the processor may generate a plurality of text proposals using a region proposal network (RPN). Each text proposal may comprise a portion of the intermediate feature layer that is predicted to contain text. The processor may perform OCR processing on image data within a plurality of regions of the image to generate a text result for each region. Each region may comprise at least one of the text proposals. The processor may assemble the text results into a text string comprising the text results ordered according to a spatial order in which the plurality of regions appear within the image. |
US11816881B2 |
Multiple object detection method and apparatus
Disclosed are multiple object detection method and apparatus. The multiple object detection apparatus includes a feature map extraction unit for extracting a plurality of multi-scale feature maps based on an input image, and a feature map fusion unit for generating a multi-scale fusion feature map including context information by fusing adjacent multi-scale feature maps among the plurality of multi-scale feature maps generated by the feature map extraction unit. |
US11816879B2 |
Bias evaluation of a biometric identification function
An evaluation method of a biometric identification function implemented from a candidate biometric data set and a reference biometric data set, the biometric identification function, applied to a candidate biometric data item and a reference biometric data item, returning a match, the method comprising steps of: obtaining pairs of false matches, each pair comprising a candidate biometric data item and a reference biometric data item not associated with a same known individual; determining, for each candidate biometric data item in a pair, a first number associated with said item and equal to the number of pairs of false matches obtained comprising said item, and/or a second number associated with said reference biometric data item and equal to the number of pairs of false matches obtained comprising said item; calculating a bias score based on a maximum of the first numbers and/or based on a maximum of the second numbers. |
US11816874B2 |
Plant identification using heterogenous multi-spectral stereo imaging
A farming machine identifies and treats a plant as the farming machine travels through a field. The farming machine includes a pair of image sensors for capturing images of a plant. The image sensors are different, and their output images are used to generate a depth map to improve the plant identification process. A control system identifies a plant using the depth map. The control system captures images, identifies a plant, and actuates a treatment mechanism in real time. |
US11816873B2 |
Image analysis device, image analysis method, and program
An image analysis device according to the present invention includes: an image capturing unit that captures a subject; a light emitting unit that emits light to the subject; a sensor unit that senses an inclination of the image capturing unit relative to the subject; a control unit that causes the image capturing unit to capture an image of the subject while controlling light emission of the light emitting unit; and a determination unit that, based on a positional relationship of the image capturing unit and the light emitting unit and the inclination, determines a measurement region spaced apart by a predetermined distance from a reflection region corresponding to a position in the image where a light from the light emitting unit regularly reflects at the subject. |
US11816868B2 |
Coding of multiple-component attributes for point cloud coding
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for point cloud coding. The method includes receiving, from a bitstream, data corresponding to a point cloud; obtaining from the data a first prediction residual of a first component from among a plurality of components of an attribute associated with the point cloud; reconstructing the first prediction residual; determining a predicted second prediction residual based on the reconstructed first prediction residual and at least one model parameter; obtaining a second prediction residual of a second component from among the plurality of components based on the predicted second prediction residual; reconstructing the second prediction residual; and decoding the data corresponding to the point cloud based on the reconstructed first prediction residual and the reconstructed second prediction residual. |
US11816862B2 |
Vehicle display device
A head-up display device as a vehicle display device projects display light onto a front windshield of a vehicle, displays a virtual image by reflected display light, on the front windshield, so as to be superimposed on a real scene transparent through the front windshield, captures an image of a driver of the vehicle by projecting infrared light onto the driver, and detects the positions of the eyes of the driver based on the captured image. A control unit detects the position of a feature point of the face of the driver in the captured image and stores a positional relationship with the detected positions of the eyes, and, when it is difficult to detect the positions of the eyes in die captured image, estimates a viewpoint position of the driver based on the position of the feature point detected at this time and the positional relationship stored beforehand. |
US11816861B2 |
Position information acquisition device, position information acquisition method, recording medium, and position information acquisition system
A position information acquisition device for acquiring position information of a position acquisition target arranged in a space includes a processor configured to detect light that is based on identification information included in-common in captured images that are images of the space captured from a plurality of shooting directions that are different from each other, acquire a three-dimensional position in the space of the position information acquisition target identified by the identification information, based on detection positions of the detected light in the captured images, and position information of image capturing devices during capturing performed by the image capturing devices, acquire reliability degree information of the acquired three-dimensional position of the position information acquisition target, based on information relating to an imaging state of each image capturing device during capturing of the captured images, and store the acquired the reliability degree information in a storage. |
US11816859B2 |
Systems and methods for determining a vehicle location in a manufacturing environment
A method for determining a location of a vehicle including one or more image sensors in a manufacturing environment includes determining, when a key cycle transition condition of the vehicle and a vehicle gear transition condition of the vehicle are satisfied, a location parameter of the vehicle based on an image including a location tag and a previous image obtained from the one or more image sensors. The method includes determining a vehicle time period based on the image and the previous image. The method includes validating a manufacturing routine of the vehicle when the location parameter satisfies a location condition and the vehicle time period satisfies a time condition. |
US11816857B2 |
Methods and apparatus for generating point cloud histograms
The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to generate point cloud histograms. A one-dimensional histogram can be generated by determining a distance to a reference for each 3D point of a 3D point cloud. A one-dimensional histogram is generated by adding, for each histogram entry, distances that are within the entry's range of distances. A two-dimensional histogram can be determined by generating a set of orientations by determining, for each 3D point, an orientation with at least a first value for a first component and a second value for a second component. A two-dimensional histogram can be generated based on the set of orientations. Each bin can be associated with ranges of values for the first and second components. Orientations can be added for each bin that have first and second values within the first and second ranges of values, respectively, of the bin. |
US11816851B2 |
Methods and apparatus for orientation keypoints for complete 3D human pose computerized estimation
Embodiments of the present invention describe a system that receives an image depicting at least one subject, predicts at least one orientation keypoint associated with a section of the body part of the at least one subject via a neural network detector and determines a three-axis joint rotation associated with the section of the body part of the at least one subject based on at least one orientation keypoint associated with the body part of the at least one subject and at least one joint keypoint associated with the body part of the at least one subject. Orientation keypoints can improve the estimation of an associated joint keypoints, dense pose correspondence and landmark. |
US11816850B2 |
Three-dimensional object reconstruction
This disclosure relates to reconstructing three-dimensional models of objects from two-dimensional images. According to a first aspect, this specification describes a computer implemented method for creating a three-dimensional reconstruction from a two-dimensional image, the method comprising: receiving a two-dimensional image; identifying an object in the image to be reconstructed and identifying a type of said object; spatially anchoring a pre-determined set of object landmarks within the image; extracting a two-dimensional image representation from each object landmark; estimating a respective three-dimensional representation for the respective two-dimensional image representations; and combining the respective three-dimensional representations resulting in a fused three-dimensional representation of the object. |
US11816845B1 |
Measuring the speed of rotation or reciprocation of a mechanical component using one or more cameras
Present embodiments pertain to systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing and reporting rotational or reciprocating movements and speed of rotation or reciprocation in mechanical structures, machines, and machine components, through the use of an acquired video recording representing a plurality of cycles of motion, by measuring intensity values of a subset of pixels contained in a region of interest within the video recording in a plurality of frames of the video recording, thereby calculating a speed of rotation or reciprocation of the structure, machine or machine component. |
US11816842B2 |
Image processing method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium
Image processing methods, devices, and storage media are provided. One of the image processing methods includes: obtaining an image comprising a target object; inputting the image into a mask prediction model to obtain a first mask image corresponding to the target object in the image; inputting the first mask image and the image comprising the target object into a mask quality unification model to obtain a second mask image, wherein the mask quality unification model is configured to adjust a fineness associated with the first mask image to a target fineness to obtain the second mask image, and wherein the second mask image has image semantic information consistent with image semantic information of the image comprising the target object; and inputting the image comprising the target object and the second mask image into a target image obtaining model to obtain a target image corresponding to the target object. |
US11816837B2 |
Vascular characteristic determination with correspondence modeling of a vascular tree
Automated image analysis used in vascular state modeling. Coronary vasculature in particular is modeled in some embodiments. Methods of “virtual revascularization” of a presently stenotic vasculature are described; useful, for example, as a reference in disease state determinations. Structure and uses of a model which relates records comprising acquired images or other structured data to a vascular tree representation are described. |
US11816835B2 |
Method of designing and fabricating patient-specific restorations from intra-oral scanning of a digital impression coping
Taking a digital implant or abutment level digital impression by means of intra-oral, computed tomography or other imaging method provides the restorative doctor and laboratory accurate and effective data for determining the implant position, angulation and locking feature orientation without a physical impression. Such data is correlated with a digital library to produce an output which enables design and fabrication of an accurate restorative device such as a prosthetic tooth or crown. In this way the time-consuming, costly and error prone mechanical replication of the relevant dental anatomy is obviated. |
US11816819B2 |
System and method for displaying super saturated color
Systems and methods for displaying super saturated color. Image data for display on a display or viewing device with a potential white luminance in a standard system with a maximum luminance is processed such that colors near the white point are reduced to a limited luminance. As the chroma of the displayed color is increased, a luminance attenuation is decreased. The scaling of the reduction is operable to be a linear function, a non-linear function, or any other function. |
US11816818B2 |
Systems and methods for emulating far-range lighting for an operational scene illuminated by close-range light
A system may access an image that is captured by an imaging device and that depicts an operational scene illuminated by close-range light. The system may also access a depth map of the operational scene that includes depth data corresponding to each pixel in the image. Based on the depth map, the system may determine a far-range lighting coefficient for each pixel in the image based on a relationship between the corresponding depth data included in the depth map for that respective pixel and a target distance to a virtual light source that is to be simulated to be illuminating the operational scene. Based on the image and these far-range lighting coefficients, the system may generate a processed image depicting the operational scene as being illuminated by the virtual light source and may provide the processed image for presentation on a display screen. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. |
US11816817B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing an image
A method includes: obtaining a plurality of view images; identifying a representative value from among difference values between values of a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to a first position in the plurality of view images and an intermediate value of a bit range of a display; determining filtering strength corresponding to the representative value, based on a correspondence map indicating a correspondence relationship between filtering strength and a difference value between a value of a sub-pixel and the intermediate value; and applying a filter having the determined filtering strength to the plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to the first position, wherein a value resulting from applying the filter having the determined filtering strength to the plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to the first position is included in a range of sub-pixel values according to the bit range of the display. |
US11816816B2 |
Optical distortion correction for imaged samples
Techniques are described for dynamically correcting image distortion during imaging of a patterned sample having repeating spots. Different sets of image distortion correction coefficients may be calculated for different regions of a sample during a first imaging cycle of a multicycle imaging run and subsequently applied in real time to image data generated during subsequent cycles. In one implementation, image distortion correction coefficients may be calculated for an image of a patterned sample having repeated spots by: estimating an affine transform of the image; sharpening the image; and iteratively searching for an optimal set of distortion correction coefficients for the sharpened image, where iteratively searching for the optimal set of distortion correction coefficients for the sharpened image includes calculating a mean chastity for spot locations in the image, and where the estimated affine transform is applied during each iteration of the search. |
US11816810B2 |
3-D reconstruction using augmented reality frameworks
System and method are provided for scaling a 3-D representation of a building structure. The method includes obtaining images of the building structure, including non-camera anchors. The method also includes identifying reference poses for images based on the non-camera anchors. The method also includes obtaining world map data including real-world poses for the images. The method also includes selecting candidate poses from the real-world poses based on corresponding reference poses. The method also includes calculating a scaling factor for a 3-D representation of the building structure based on correlating the reference poses with the selected candidate poses. Some implementations use structure from motion techniques or LiDAR, in addition to augmented reality frameworks, for scaling the 3-D representations of the building structure. In some implementations, the world map data includes environmental data, such as illumination data, and the method includes generating or displaying the 3-D representation. |
US11816809B2 |
Alignment- and orientation-based task assistance in an AR environment
Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating dynamic assistance to a user in an augmented reality (AR) environment of an AR device. During operation, the system detects a first element of an object using an object detector, wherein the object is associated with a task and the first element is associated with a step of the task. The system then determines an orientation and an alignment of the first element in the physical world of the user, and an overlay for the first element. The overlay can distinctly highlight one or more regions of the first element and indicate how the first element fits in the object. The system then applies the overlay to the one or more regions of the first element at the determined orientation in the AR environment. |
US11816804B2 |
Method and system of recommending accommodation for tourists using multi-criteria decision making and augmented reality
Disclosed are a method and a system of recommending an accommodation for tourists using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and augmented reality. A method of recommending an accommodation for tourists using multi-criteria decision making and augmented reality, which is performed by a server device includes: selecting a recommendation target accommodation based on a current location of a user; selecting a plurality of recommended accommodations by MCDM based on user information including pre-registered preference information among the recommendation target accommodations; and providing an augmented reality interface displaying information on a recommended accommodation to a user terminal. |
US11816800B2 |
Guided consumer experience
In an exemplary process for providing a guided consumer experience, product information comprising an image of a product is displayed. A communication session with a remote user is provided. While providing the communication session, the display of product information is adjusted using information received from the communication session. A representation of the product is displayed in computer-generated reality by capturing an image using a camera, generating a view of an environment by compositing a virtual object representing the product and the captured image, and displaying the view of the environment. |
US11816798B1 |
3D surface representation refinement
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that refine a first 3D surface representation (e.g., a 3D point cloud or a 3D mesh) using a second 3D surface representation that includes a 3D geometric primitive. In some implementations, a first 3D surface representation of a physical environment is obtained including points at 3D locations determined based on data generated by a first sensor. In some implementations, a second 3D surface representation corresponding to at least a portion of the physical environment is obtained that includes at least one 3D geometric primitive. In some implementations, a determination whether to adjust the 3D locations of at least one point of the points of the first 3D surface representation is made based on the 3D geometric primitive, and the 3D locations of the at least one point is adjusted to align with the geometric primitive based on the determination. |
US11816794B2 |
3D building modeling system
Described herein is a process and system for constructing three-dimensional (3D) representations of roof structures. The system can create representations of roof structures of arbitrary complexity and can create representations of dependent roof structures such as dormers. The system can create representations of roof structures that conventional methods cannot create, such as roofs with edges that are not coplanar, roofs with faces that do not connect to exterior edges, roofs composed of sub-structures, or roofs with dependent structures such as dormers. |
US11816792B2 |
Overlay trees for ray tracing
Devices and methods for using ray tracing to render similar but different objects in a scene are described which include rendering a second object using an overlay hierarchy tree. The overlay hierarchy tree comprises shared data from a base hierarchy tree comprising data representing a first object in the scene, a second hierarchy tree representing the second object in the scene, difference data representing a difference between the first object and the second object and indication information which indicates nodes of the overlay hierarchy tree comprising difference data. |
US11816791B2 |
Image processing method and apparatus using the same
An image processing method may include steps of obtaining a plurality of image data from an object, generating, from the image data, a three-dimensional (3-D) model having at least two different representation modes, and displaying the generated 3-D model. There is an advantage in that a user can check various information of a 3-D model without changing a representation mode by displaying a 3-D model having at least two different representation modes. |
US11816790B2 |
Unsupervised learning of scene structure for synthetic data generation
A rule set or scene grammar can be used to generate a scene graph that represents the structure and visual parameters of objects in a scene. A renderer can take this scene graph as input and, with a library of content for assets identified in the scene graph, can generate a synthetic image of a scene that has the desired scene structure without the need for manual placement of any of the objects in the scene. Images or environments synthesized in this way can be used to, for example, generate training data for real world navigational applications, as well as to generate virtual worlds for games or virtual reality experiences. |
US11816787B2 |
Method for representing an environmental region of a motor vehicle with virtual, elongated distance markers in an image, computer program product as well as display system
The invention relates to a method for representing an environmental region of a motor vehicle in an image, in which real images of the environmental region are captured by a plurality of real cameras of the motor vehicle and the image is generated from these real images, which at least partially represents the environmental region, wherein the image is represented from a perspective of a virtual camera arranged in the environmental region, and the image is generated as a bowl shape, wherein at least one virtual elongated distance marker is represented in the image, by which a distance to the motor vehicle is symbolized in the virtual bowl shape. The invention also relates to a computer program product and a display system for a motor vehicle. |
US11816786B2 |
System and method for dynamically adjusting level of details of point clouds
Some embodiments of an example method disclosed herein may include receiving point cloud data representing one or more three-dimensional objects; receiving a viewpoint of the point cloud data; selecting a selected object from the one or more three-dimensional objects using the viewpoint; retrieving a neural network model for the selected object; generating a level of detail data for the selected object using the neural network model; and replacing, within the point cloud data, points corresponding to the selected object with the level of detail data. |
US11816780B2 |
Compressed ray direction data in a ray tracing system
Ray tracing systems process rays through a 3D scene to determine intersections between rays and geometry in the scene, for rendering an image of the scene. Ray direction data for a ray can be compressed, e.g. into an octahedral vector format. The compressed ray direction data for a ray may be represented by two parameters (u,v) which indicate a point on the surface of an octahedron. In order to perform intersection testing on the ray, the ray direction data for the ray is unpacked to determine x, y and z components of a vector to a point on the surface of the octahedron. The unpacked ray direction vector is an unnormalised ray direction vector. Rather than normalising the ray direction vector, the intersection testing is performed on the unnormalised ray direction vector. This avoids the processing steps involved in normalising the ray direction vector. |
US11816779B2 |
Rendering textured surface using surface-rendering neural networks
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to surface-rendering neural networks to represent and render a variety of material appearances (e.g., textured surfaces) at different scales. The system includes receiving image metadata for a texel that includes position, incoming and outgoing radiance direction, and a kernel size. The system applies a offset-prediction neural network to the query to identify an offset coordinate for the texel. The system inputs the offset coordinate to a data structure to determine a feature vector for the texel of the textured surface. The reflectance feature vector is then processed using a decoder neural network to estimate a light-reflectance value of the texel, at which the light-reflectance value is used to render the texel of the textured surface. |
US11816777B2 |
Data processing systems
There is provided a data processing system comprising a host processor and a processing resource operable to perform processing operations for applications executing on the host processor by executing commands within an appropriate command stream. The host processor is configured to generate a command stream layout indicating a sequence of commands for the command stream that is then provided to the processing resource. Some commands require sensor data. The processing resource is configured to process the sensor data into command stream data for inclusion into the command stream in order to populate the command stream for execution. |
US11816776B2 |
Distributed processing in computer generated reality system
Techniques are disclosed relating to display devices. In some embodiments, a display device includes a display system configured to display three-dimensional content to a user. The display device is configured to discover, via a network interface, one or more compute nodes operable to facilitate rendering the three-dimensional content and receive information identifying abilities of the one or more compute nodes to facilitate the rendering. Based on the received information, the display device evaluates a set of tasks to identify one or more of the tasks to offload to the one or more compute nodes for facilitating the rendering and distributes, via the network interface, the identified one or more tasks to the one or more compute nodes for processing by the one or more compute nodes. |
US11816773B2 |
Music reactive animation of human characters
Example methods for generating an animated character in dance poses to music may include generating, by at least one processor, a music input signal based on an acoustic signal associated with the music, and receiving, by the at least one processor, a model output signal from an encoding neural network. A current generated pose data is generated using a decoding neural network, the current generated pose data being based on previous generated pose data of a previous generated pose, the music input signal, and the model output signal. An animated character is generated based on a current generated pose data; and the animated character caused to be displayed by a display device. |
US11816772B2 |
System for customizing in-game character animations by players
System and methods for using a deep learning framework to customize animation of an in-game character of a video game. The system can be preconfigured with animation rule sets corresponding to various animations. Each animation can be comprised of a series of distinct poses that collectively form the particular animation. The system can provide an animation-editing interface that enables a user of the video game to make modifications to at least one pose or frame of the animation. The system can realistically extrapolate these modifications across some or all portions of the animation. In addition or alternatively, the system can realistically extrapolate the modifications across other types of animations. |
US11816770B2 |
System for ontological graph creation via a user interface
Ontological graph creation via a user interface is disclosed, including: receiving a selection to import an imported ontological subgraph into a current ontological graph; presenting at least a portion of the imported ontological subgraph in a user interface associated with editing the current ontological graph; receiving, via the user interface, a user input to associate a newly defined node associated with the current ontological graph with a previously defined node or edge associated with the presented at least portion of the imported ontological subgraph; and updating a graph database associated with the current ontological graph based at least in part on the user input and the imported ontological subgraph. |
US11816769B2 |
Multi-dimensional data insight interaction
A computing apparatus of an insight interfacing system receives from a user a request for a dataset comprising a plurality of subspaces of a multi-dimensional data structure. Insights are received based on the received request then presented on a display device. Also, a chart may be presented based on the received request. The computing apparatus receives a selection of at least a portion of the presented one or more insights or a portion of the chart, then receives contextual insights based on the selected portion and presents the contextual insights on the display device. |
US11816767B1 |
Method and system for reconstructing magnetic particle distribution model based on time-frequency spectrum enhancement
A method and system for reconstructing a magnetic particle distribution model based on time-frequency spectrum enhancement are provided. The method includes: scanning, by a magnetic particle imaging (MPI) device, a scan target to acquire a one-dimensional time-domain signal of the scan target; performing short-time Fourier transform to acquire a time-frequency spectrum; acquiring, by a deep neural network (DNN) fused with a self-attention mechanism, a denoised time-frequency spectrum; acquiring a high-quality magnetic particle time-domain signal; and reconstructing a magnetic particle distribution model. The method learns global and local information in the time-frequency spectrum through the DNN fused with the self-attention mechanism, thereby learning a relationship between different harmonics to distinguish between a particle signal and a noise signal. The method combines the global and local information to complete denoising of the time-frequency spectrum, thereby acquiring the high-quality magnetic particle time-domain signal. |
US11816760B2 |
Adding augmented reality to a sub-view of a high resolution central video feed
Techniques are disclosed to add augmented reality to a sub-view of a high resolution central video feed. In various embodiments, a central video feed is received from a first camera on a first recurring basis and time-stamped position information is received from a tracking system on a second recurring basis. The central video feed is calibrated against a spatial region encompassed by the central video feed. The received time-stamped position information and a determined plurality of tiles associated with at least one frame of the central video feed are used to define a first sub-view of the central video feed. The first sub-view and a homography defining placement of augmented reality elements on the at least one frame of the central video feed are provided as output to a device configured to use the first sub-view and the homography display the first sub-view. |
US11816755B2 |
Part manufacture machine having vision inspection system
A vision inspection system includes an imaging device that is configured to image parts being inspected. The vision inspection system includes a vision inspection controller that is configured to be communicatively coupled to a machine controller of the part manufacture machine by a communication network. The vision inspection controller communicates with the communication network using a first communication protocol. The vision inspection controller creates an absolute path directory at the machine controller. The vision inspection controller receives an image from the imaging device. The vision inspection controller communicates a first trigger to the absolute path directory upon receipt of the image from the imaging device. The vision inspection controller processes the image from the imaging device to determine inspection results for a first part of the parts. The vision inspection controller sends at least one of the image or the inspection results to the machine controller. |
US11816753B2 |
Automated evaluation of human embryos
Systems and methods are provided for provided for automatic evaluation of a human embryo. An image of the embryo is obtained and provided to a neural network to generate a plurality of values representing the morphology of the embryo. The plurality of values representing the morphology of the embryo are evaluated at an expert system to provide an output class representing one of a current quality of the embryo, a future quality of the embryo, a likelihood that implantation of the embryo will be successful, and a likelihood that implantation of the embryo will result in a live birth. |
US11816752B2 |
Image-based analytics of supply chain optimization problems
A system and method are disclosed for image analysis of supply chain planning problems modeled as a linear programming (LP) problems. Embodiments include receiving an LP matrix representing constraints and variables of at least a portion of a supply chain planning problem, generating a sorted variable index for the variables of the LP matrix, generating a sorted constraint index for the constraints of the LP matrix, identifying functions of the variables and the constraints, selecting one or more colors of pixels of a supply chain problem image based, at least in part, on the identified functions of the variables and constraints, selecting locations of the pixels, and displaying a visualization of the supply chain problem image. |
US11816749B1 |
Estate planning and beneficiary management system including digital assets
A estate planning and beneficiary management system according to an embodiment includes a system controller which may prompt and receive from a user information which may be necessary to create and estate planning model. The system may provide for traditional assets and digital assets, such as cryptocurrency and NFTs. The system may provide for distribution of the digital assets using smart contracts and blockchain wallets. The system may provide access by beneficiaries and trusted contacts to the user selected documents at different user defined permission levels. Upon the user's death, the system may automatically notify the beneficiaries and trusted contacts, execute block transactions between the user's wallets and beneficiaries' wallets according to the smart contracts, and notify outside world platforms of the user's death and the user's directives for the particular platforms as laid out in the user's will. |
US11816748B2 |
Contextual comparison of semantics in conditions of different policies
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate contextual comparison of semantics in conditions of different policies are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a comparison component that contextually compares semantics of conditions in policy data of different policies based on a feature of at least one entity. The computer executable components further comprise a contextualization component that employs a model to provide a contextual explanation of how a first condition in first policy data of a first policy is semantically different from a second condition in second policy data of a second policy based on the feature of the at least one entity. |
US11816744B2 |
System, method, and apparatus for settlement for participation in an electric power grid
Systems and methods for market-based financial settlement of transactions within an electric power grid are disclosed. At least one active grid element is constructed and configured in Internet Protocol (IP)-based network communication with a settlement processor via at least one coordinator in real-time or in a predetermined timeframe. The at least one active grid element generates revenue grade metrology data based on measurement and verification for a participation of the at least one active grid element in the electric power grid. The at least one active grid element provides automated messaging to the settlement processor. The settlement processor provides a market-based financial settlement message based upon the revenue grade metrology data and a kilowatt packet (KWP) unit. The KWP unit provides a quantifying market rate for monetization for any unit of kilowatts with respect to time. |
US11816743B1 |
Information enhancing method using software agents in a social networking system
An information enhancing method for use with a social networking system using a plurality of machine systems comprising: causing a software agent that is structured to be able to search for new content data to add to the social networking system which is organized by topics; measuring current focus and implicit vote values of the users to detect type of user interaction; in response to the current focus and implicit vote value measurements, automatically repeating updates to content data and trending data corresponding to the topics; and determine what to present to the users. |
US11816742B2 |
Intelligent data gathering
An electronic tax assistant for assisting a user in preparing for a tax return preparation process, wherein the electronic tax assistant performs the following steps: determine a trigger based upon a data input, wherein the trigger is indicative of a potential tax implication; determine a data request based at least in part on the data input, wherein at least one of the data input and the data request is associated with an external device; receive a response based upon the data request, wherein the response is indicative as to whether the trigger is indicative of an actual tax implication; and provide, upon determining the actual tax implication, information in indicative of the data input and the response to an external repository associated with a tax preparation system. |
US11816741B2 |
Automatically labeling data using natural language processing
In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems for automatically labeling unstructured data include accessing unstructured data representing data entry and analyzing the unstructured data by applying natural language processing to a text component of the unstructured data to obtain a set of term counts of words and/or phrases identified in the text component. Analyzing may include applying at least one clustering algorithm to the set of term counts to determine a term cluster, identifying a preexisting term cluster most closely matching the term cluster, and applying, to the unstructured data, a predefined label corresponding to the preexisting term cluster. The unstructured data may be analyzed to obtain formatting counts of formatting elements, and a formatting cluster may be determined and applied to match to a preexisting formatting cluster, thus deriving a predefined label corresponding to the preexisting formatting cluster. |
US11816738B2 |
Roof risk data analytics system to accurately estimate roof risk information
According to some embodiments, a risk relationship data store may contain electronic records, each electronic record representing a risk relationship between an enterprise and a risk relationship provider (e.g., an insurer), and including, for each risk relationship, an electronic record identifier and a set of roof attribute values. A back-end application computer server may receive, from a third-party data source, roof information for a roof of a building associated with a risk relationship. The computer server may then correlate the received roof information with a particular electronic record in the risk relationship data store. A roof attribute value of the particular electronic record may be updated in accordance with the roof information received from the third-party data source, and a predictive analytics engine of the computer server may then calculate a roof risk score associated with the particular electronic record. |
US11816737B1 |
Driver identity detection and alerts
Disclosed herein are systems and/or methods for determining an insurance status for one or more drivers and/or vehicles. The system may identify a driver of a vehicle, such as by facial recognition or a retinal scan. Based on the identification, the system may determine the insurance status of the driver. If there is an issue with the insurance status, the system may prompt the driver to take some action. The system may also institute limitations upon the vehicle if there is an issue with the insurance status. In some instances, the system may determine the insurance status for multiple drivers in the area, and may warn a driver if he or she is in the vicinity of one or more underinsured drivers and/or vehicles. |
US11816728B2 |
Digital identity
Disclosed herein is an identity network that can provide a universal, digital identity for users that can be used to authenticate the user by an identity provider for relying parties. The identity network receives a request from a relying party that includes deep linking to an identity provider selected by the user. The request specifies the user as well as any other information about the user the relying party is requesting. A service of the identity network launches the application for the identity provider on the user's device using a software development kit. The user can log into the identity provider's application, which validates the user and provides the user authentication/validation and information about the user to the identity network. The identity network can then provide the indication of the user's authentication and the user information to the relying party. |
US11816725B2 |
Method and device for managing the rental of vehicles
The method for managing the rental of vehicles (1), comprising at least one step of collecting at least one point of data relating to the vehicle (1), one step of transferring said data to a rental vehicle management center (4), and one step of sending at least one instruction from the management center (4) to the vehicle, characterized in that it also comprises at least one step of collecting and sending at least one point of data relating to the user of the vehicle (1) to the management center (4) and one step of sending the user a final updated rate according to the data received by the management center (4). The invention also relates to a device for implementing the invention. |
US11816719B2 |
Hose assembly builder tool
A system for replacing an original hose assembly of a work machine with a replacement hose assembly includes at least a computing device, a database, and a server. The server is associated with the database and includes a processor configured via computer-executable instructions to perform a method of identifying the replacement hose assembly. The method includes prompting a user to select hose attributes associated with a hose of the original hose assembly. Based on the selected hose attributes, a replacement hose may be identified. The method further includes prompting the user to select coupling attributes associated with a coupling of the original hose assembly. Based on compatibility with the identified replacement hose and the selected coupling attributes, a replacement coupling may be identified. The method further includes generating a bill of materials for the replacement hose assembly and displaying the bill of materials. |
US11816712B1 |
Systems and methods for generation, execution and evaluation of synthetic shopping sessions
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining a synthetic audible utterance regarding a product, processing the audible utterance via a catalog service to determine a result and determining the relevance of the result and/or success of the catalog service for benchmarking, marketing, and catalog service improvement purposes. The audible utterance may be based on the product and/or product information as well as an intended action to be performed by the catalog service corresponding to the synthetic utterance. A relevance score may be generated using an embedding algorithm to determine the accuracy and/or appropriateness of the action performed by the catalog service. |
US11816708B2 |
Electronic data review session
An electronic data review session is conducted between a host and a user needing to review specific accurate performance data that assists in mitigating the risks in hiring a musical act or artist for a performance in their venue. An established agreement between the host and client that supports the sharing the artist's performance data, bi-directionally, through an electronic communication interface using protocols of the World Wide Web is established between the host and the client and provides the client with access to web pages which are displayed on the client's computer using a standard web browser. In response to client applied filters, a subset of relevant, accurate performance data is displayed on web pages and served by the host to the client that may include data that was provided by the client or other clients. |
US11816707B2 |
Augmented reality systems for facilitating real-time charity donations
Disclosed systems and methods provide an augmented environment that facilitates a donation to a charity. A system may receive organization data including data associated with a plurality of charitable organizations. The system may also receive (i) environmental data including an image of an object, and (ii) location data indicating the image location. Further, the system may identify the object and determine one or more qualifying charities associated with the object. The system may augment the environmental data by adding enhanced content such as an identification of the qualifying charity, transmit the enhanced content to a mobile device for display, and initiate a transfer of funds from a user account to a charity financial account associated with the qualifying charity. |
US11816706B2 |
Intelligent interface displays based on past data correlations
There are provided systems and methods for intelligent interface displays based on past data correlations. A service provider and/or entity may implement a machine learning engine to dynamically adjust data displayed in interface elements of an interface provided by the service provider or entity. The data may correspond to an amount for a voluntary payment to the entity by a user and may be based on correlating and processing past user transactions and received entity payments. Weights may be applied to the data to determine median, average, and/or quartile amounts based on goals set by the user, events occurring at the time of the voluntary payment, and/or time of year. Once the machine learning engine determines one or more amounts specific to the user's payment to the entity, the engine may adjust or output the interface having the user specific data for processing. |
US11816700B2 |
Mobile media projector
A mobile media projector system is provided with a chassis, configured for attachment to a mobile platform, having a screen deployment mechanism. A viewing screen is selectively deployable when the mobile platform is parked in a stationary geographic location. An imaging projector subsystem projects an image onto the deployed viewing screen. Typically, the chassis is configured for attachment to an automotive vehicle with a roof, and the viewing screen is deployed over an exterior surface of the automotive vehicle. The system may include a WLAN and/or WPAN access point. A targeting application may select the geographic location from a group of stationary geographic locations, each having a weighted value. A second mobile media projector system includes a chassis configured for attachment to a roof of an automobile having a side mirror. An image projected onto the side mirror is reflected onto a surface such as the automobile door. |
US11816699B1 |
Targeted advertising using temporal analysis of user specific data
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products are described for providing temporally relevant targeted content items. A set of user data is used to determine current user interests as indicated by one or more recent events. Content items relevant to those events are identified and ranked based on a time that the corresponding event occurred. One or more of the top ranked content items can be delivered to a user. |
US11816691B2 |
Distribution of fractional equity rewards based on purchase behavior
Herein disclosed are systems and methods for distributing fractional equity rewards to users of a loyalty platform based on tracked user loyalty purchases. The disclosed systems and methods may reduce time between a user loyalty purchase and distribution of a fractional equity reward determined based on the user loyalty purchase. In one example, by maintaining a pre-purchased supply of shares within an inventory account of the loyalty platform, and by distributing fractional equity rewards to user accounts on the loyalty platform from the pre-purchased supply, a reduction in reward distribution time may be enabled. Further, by maintaining the pre-purchased supply of shares of stock within the inventory based on a running average rate of fractional equity reward distribution, and predicted events, the amount of stock in the inventory may be intelligently controlled to reduce excess inventory, while reducing a probability of reward distribution delay. |
US11816689B2 |
Business wish creation and collaboration website
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an economic development system, which enables individuals within a community to efficiently identify and express their interests in one or more economic propositions. The economic development system comprises an application which allows users to uniquely interface with the one or more economic propositions. Users of the economic development system are able to efficiently identify and express support or disapprove for one or more economic propositions. A plurality of engagement mechanisms is provided by the economic development system to assist users in democratizing their interests. The economic development system also allows for crowdfunding of economic propositions and further provides valuable statistical data which can be utilized by developers, business owners, and local municipalities to implement one or more economic propositions. |
US11816684B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for determining customer adoption based on monitored data
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for determining customer adoption based on monitored data, including receiving product usage parameters from a product data store on the computer network, each product usage parameter being determined based on tracking usage of the product by the customer over a predetermined time period, storing a customer profile for the customer comprising customer parameters, the customer parameters being determined based on customer information stored in a customer database on the computer network, receiving service parameters from a customer support data store on the computer network, each service parameter being determined based on tracking support services provided to the customer for the product over the predetermined time period, and generating a product adoption score by applying a machine learning model to the product usage parameters and the customer profile to generate a usage-based adoption score and adjusting the usage-based adoption score based on the service parameters. |
US11816683B2 |
Refreshing content items in offline or virally distributed content
A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards providing advertisement insertions at a point of consumption into digital content, such as broadcast television content. A content provider may initially mark the content for advertisement insertion, and create a metadata file indicating constraints, targets, expirations, or the like. A downstream user employs a plug-in component and provides an initial user profile, in part, to access the content with advertisements. As the content is played, and an advertising marker is encountered, fast forwarding or other skipping features are disabled, and an advertisement stream is spliced into the content stream. The advertisement stream is determined based on the user profile and/or other metadata. Moreover, the advertisement stream may be obtained over a network such that advertisements may be refreshed even years after the content has been acquired by the user. In one embodiment, the advertisement consumption may be tracked and reported. |
US11816679B2 |
Communication method and device
Disclosed is a real-time communication method between two persons, one referred to as client located in a client space and the other referred to as advisor located in an advisor space, the method making available to the advisor, the images and the sound of the client requesting advice, instructions and indications regarding design, production, use, utilization, repair, maintenance, consultation, localization, destruction, disposal, localization and elimination and guidance for one or more products located in or moving through a real physical space referred to as product space, and making available to the client the images and the sound of the advisor interacting with the images of the client space and/or the product space. Also disclosed is a device for implementing the above method. |
US11816674B2 |
Methods, mediums, and systems for document authorization
Exemplary embodiments relate to secure documents that are capable of being in an activated or deactivated state. When in the activated state, the document may be redeemable; when in the deactivated state, the document may not be redeemable. The document may be issued in the deactivated state and may require activation before being used. In order to activate the document, a user may log into an account associated with the document and scan a code printed on or embedded in the document. Using their account, the user may issue an activation command. This activation process ensures that, at the time the document is transferred, it is either in the presence of the user or the user is aware of the location of the document, and that the user wishes to authorize the transfer. Thus, even if the document is stolen or misplaced, it cannot be used without the requisite authorization. |
US11816673B2 |
Methods and systems for allowing an electronic purchase upon completion of an exercise and/or activity goal
Methods and systems are disclosed for allowing an electronic purchase upon completion of an exercise goal and/or a physical activity goal. Exercise and/or physical activity goal criteria can be retrieved for a user. Electronic charge approval criteria can be retrieved for the user, the electronic charge approval criteria based on the exercise and/or physical activity goal criteria. It can be determined whether the exercise and/or physical activity goal criteria has been fulfilled using an electronic measurement system, the electronic measurement system measuring motion data and/or heart rate data for the user. A requested electronic charge can be authorized upon a determination that the electronic charge approval criteria for the user has been fulfilled. |
US11816669B2 |
Index of usability for a replacement payment card
A method for establishing an index of usability associated with a replacement payment card is provided. The method may include receiving a payment card replacement request in a vending facility. The method may further include identifying at least one possible risk factor associated with a user utilizing the replacement payment card. The method may also include creating a risk assessment based on the at least one identified possible risk factor. The method may further include establishing an index of usability for the replacement payment card based on the created assessment, whereby a value of the index of usability correlates to a plurality of restrictions placed on using the replacement payment card. The method may also include storing the established index of usability in a database. |
US11816668B2 |
Dynamic contactless payment based on facial recognition
Arrangements for facial recognition and processing are provided. In some aspects, a request to process a transaction may be received. In response to the request, image data of the user may be captured. The image data may be analyzed using one or more facial recognition techniques. If the user cannot be identified, payment information may be requested from the user. If the user can be identified, the user may be identified and user profile data associated with the user may be retrieved. In some examples, the user profile data may include user contact information, user device identifying information, and the like. User device data may be extracted from the user profile data and a notification including an instruction to initiate payment processing may be generated. The notification may then be transmitted to the user device identified from the extracted data and the instruction may be executed to initiate payment processing. |
US11816667B2 |
Generation of web pages for verification of data
Provided herein is a method for delivering web content to a computer user where the computer user must provide data for verification. A control presented by a first web page provided by a requesting server of a requesting party may be selected to request a further web page where data may be entered that requires verification. The requesting server may redirect the computer user to a verifying server that may provide a second web page to fulfil the request for the further web page. The second web page may be presented as a foreground window positioned over a backdrop frame. The foreground window may be provided with fields for entering the data and the backdrop frame may be provided by the requesting party. The verifying server may verify data entered in the foreground window and may send the requesting server a notification as to whether the verification was successful. |
US11816666B2 |
Secure payment processing
Systems and methods for secure payment processing are disclosed. An issuer vault generates payment items, which correspond to consumer account information and which replicate the structure of the account information but do not include consumers' actual account number. The payment items, rather than the actual account information, are communicated to on-line and mobile payment services for use by consumers in payment transactions. When a consumer uses a payment item in a payment transaction and the transaction undergoes authorization processing, the payment authorization network uses the payment item to request and receive the actual account information from the issuer vault. The authorization network uses the actual account information for the limited use of authorizing the transaction. Once the transaction has been authorized using the actual account information, the processing of the transaction continues using the payment item information rather than the actual account information. |
US11816664B2 |
Computer network systems administering cryptographically-secured, token-based substitution management and methods of use thereof
A present disclosure provides an exemplary system that includes at least: a distributed blockchain environment, including: a plurality of externally owned presence (EOP) member nodes associated with a plurality of distinct entities, a cryptographically-secured distributed ledger; a plurality of electronic wallets (e-Wallets), configured to hold records of distributed leger collateral (DLC) tokens; a plurality of self-contained self-executing software containers (SESCs), including: first-type SESCs, second-type SESCs, and third-type SESCs; where the DLC tokens are used by the distributed blockchain environment; where the first-type SESCs, the second-type SESCs, and the third-type SESCs are distinct SESCs; where each DLC token include at least one unique entity-identifying cryptographic hash; where, for each respective transaction associated with a respective EOP member node, a respective computer invokes the first-type SESCs and the third-type SESCs to cryptographically administer each respective transaction within the distributed blockchain environment. |
US11816662B2 |
Method and system for enabling communication between blockchains on heterogeneous blockchain networks
A system for enabling communication between blockchains on heterogeneous blockchain networks. The system can include a sending blockchain network comprised of a sending blockchain that includes a plurality of blocks, each block including a block header and one or more transaction values associated with an identification request transmitted by the sending blockchain. The system can include a directory service node configured to receive the identification request from the sending blockchain, and identify a receiving blockchain, which forms part of a receiving blockchain network. The system can include an identity service node configured to receive a trust request from the directory service node to determine whether a valid trust certificate is available for the receiving blockchain and enable communication between the sending blockchain and the receiving blockchain, when the valid trust certificate is determined to be available. |
US11816661B2 |
Centralized digital currency transactions utilizing a digital wallet
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for managing digital currency is provided. The present invention may include initializing a digital wallet. The present invention may include receiving one or more digital currencies. The present invention may include performing one or more transactions using the one or more digital currencies, wherein each of the one or more transactions has a hash value recorded on a local ledger maintained on the digital wallet. The present invention may include broadcasting the local ledger to a shared ledger maintained by a fund source. The present invention may include synchronizing the digital wallet with the found source by releasing a value held in suspense based on a total value of the one or more digital currencies remaining on the digital wallet. |
US11816658B2 |
Systems and methods for real-time virtual gift card purchasing
A computer-implemented method for allowing purchase of virtual gift cards includes receiving a communication indicating a gift card type and specifying a value amount. Responsive to the communication, a purchase of a virtual gift card of that type and storing that value amount is processed. This processing includes processing a payment for the specified value amount. Further, a gift card merchant application programming interface (API) capable of processing a purchase of a virtual gift card of the indicated gift card type is identified from amongst a set of such APIs. That API is used to initiate purchase of the virtual gift card. After the purchase is processed, an indication of the purchased virtual gift card is sent to a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device uses the indication to configure itself to allow transactions using the purchased virtual gift card to be initiated. Fraud detection may also be performed. |
US11816657B2 |
Method and system for providing financial transaction using empty card
A method and a system for providing a financial transaction using an empty card are provided. The method for providing a financial transaction using an empty card includes receiving, by a server, a virtual card number generated by a program included in a user terminal, searching, by the server, for an empty card storage location at which the empty card is registered, in a storage location search algorithm based on the virtual card number, searching, by the server, for a real card number storage space linked to a user identification (UID) assigned to the found empty card storage location, extracting, by the server, a real card number stored in the real card number storage space, and performing, by the server, a financial transaction progress or a financial transaction progress request with the extracted real card number. |
US11816656B2 |
Server device configurations based on machine learning
A system, a medium, and a method are provided to exchange data packets over a communications network and perform machine learning operations. A network server device receives account data from client devices that correspond to account profiles. An account engine of the network server device segments the account profiles into profile groups based on a respective balance associated with each account profile. The account engine determines target accounts from profile groups based on behavioral data. Further, data processing components of the network server device determine a method of contact for each target account. The data processing components determine a respective time to communicate with a respective device for each target account. Further, communication components of the network server device initiate communications to the respective devices at the respective times for each target account. |
US11816655B1 |
Method and system for communicating location of a mobile device for hands-free payment
Certain aspects of a method and system for communicating location of a mobile device for hands-free payment may include a peer-to-peer ad-hoc network that comprises a plurality of mobile devices, a plurality of access points, and a plurality of point of sale (POS) devices. A first mobile device may determine its location coordinates and communicate them to a selected POS device via the peer to peer ad-hoc network. At least one of the plurality of mobile devices and/or the plurality of access points may be within a defined proximity of the selected POS device. In some instances, the first POS device may receive via one or more intermediate mobile devices in the peer-to-peer ad-hoc network, location coordinates and payment transaction information of a selected mobile device. At least one of the intermediate mobile devices maybe within a defined proximity of the first POS device. |
US11816645B2 |
Interactive account management system and method
An interaction account management method includes defining a financial network for an account holder, the financial network including at least the account holder and a financial advisor, wherein the financial advisor is associated with the financial institution. The method also includes storing financial account information associated with the account holder in a database, the account holder information including information input by the account holder relating to at least one financing plan. The method further includes accessing the stored account holder information, generating two or more payment options associated with the at least one financing plan based at least in part on the account holder information, receiving a recommendation over the network from the financial advisor, the recommendation relating to the at least one payment option, and displaying, on a user interface associated with a user device, the two or more payment options and recommendation. |
US11816644B2 |
Systems and methods for real time data rich cross border payment transactions
A cross border payment (CBP) computing device for transmitting cross border data rich payments in real-time is provided. The CBP computing device receives, from an originating bank associated with a payor, a payment request message to transfer funds in real-time. The payment request message includes payment instructions and transaction information associated with a transfer amount. The CBP computing device determines that the payment request message is a cross border payment transfer from a first payment network for processing real-time payments within a first country to a second payment network for processing real-time payments within a second country, and retrieves, from a database, a set of rules based on a payment messaging standard and protocol associated with the second payment network. The CBP computing device reformats the payment request messaged based on the retrieved set of rules, and transmits the reformatted payment message to a receiving bank associated with a payee. |
US11816638B2 |
Electronic mail verification
Aspects of the disclosure relate to email verification. A computing platform may receive an electronic message and identify one or more portions of content in the message. Then, the computing platform may generate and embed one or more message-specific identifiers into the electronic message and store electronic message information associating the one or more portions of content with the one or more embedded message-specific identifiers. Thereafter, the computing platform may receive an electronic message verification request to verify authenticity of an identified electronic message received by a computing device. The computing platform may prompt a user of the computing device to provide authentication information associated with one or more portions of content of the identified electronic message. Based on comparing the authentication information provided by the user to the stored electronic message information, the computing platform may determine whether the identified electronic message is valid and send a notification accordingly. |
US11816634B2 |
Secure smart container assembly, systems, and methods
A mobile smart container system comprises a housing, an access component configured to secure access to a compartment within the housing when in a closed position, a communication interface configured to wirelessly receive a request to access the compartment, a perceivable output device, an electromechanical latch configured to engage with the access component to releasably lock the access component in the closed position, and a processor. The processor receives and authenticates the request to access the compartment and, in response to receiving and authenticating the request, activates the electromechanical latch to unlock the access component to make the compartment accessible, and outputs, upon actuation of the electromechanical latch, an alert via the perceivable output device to identify the smart container system. |
US11816627B2 |
Transport system, control device, and method
Provided is a transport system, a control device, and a method whereby package transport efficiency can be improved. A transport system 1 includes at least one memory configured to store a program code, and at least one processor configured to access the program code and operate as instructed by the program code. The program code includes a detection code configured to cause the at least one processor to detect a first package to be collected at a specified collection location, and an identification code configured to cause the at least one processor to identify a second package to be delivered to the collection location. Furthermore, the program code includes a generation code configured to, when a first date and time that is a collection deadline of the first package and a second date and time that is a scheduled delivery date and time of the second package satisfy a predetermined condition, cause the at least one processor to generate a movement plan for a vehicle in which the vehicle transports the second package to the collection location and, then, the vehicle collects the first package from the collection location. Additionally, the program code includes a control code configured to cause the at least one processor to carry out control for causing the vehicle to move in accordance with the generated movement plan. |
US11816623B2 |
Performance evaluation systems and methods
Described are systems and methods for tracking performance by monitoring and evaluating performance metrics on a repetitive basis to assign performance scores and incentivizing high performance by assigning awards to high performers. Multiple users may compete with one another for performance rankings and wager all or portions of award amount on their performance for future performance cycles to potentially increase future awards. |
US11816620B2 |
Plan modeling visualization
A plan model system provides interactive graphical user interfaces allowing users to view and navigate to multiple alternative views of measures modeled in one or more planning models. A modeled event is provided by a user relating to a measure of a particular plan model modeling outcomes of a particular business domain of a business organization. An effect of the event on values of one or more measures of the plan model is determined. A graphical representation is presented in the graphical user interface illustrating the effect. |
US11816614B2 |
Probabilistic fresh in-store production management
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for in-store production management. A method comprises training a probabilistic demand model using the training dataset based on a machine learning algorithm, determining a probabilistic forecast of a demand for a perishable product at a store location on a date based on the probabilistic demand model, applying an objective function to each of the plurality of demand values in the probabilistic forecast to determine an objective value for each of the plurality of demand values, determining a target supply value based on a select demand value with a highest objective value, determining a production plan based on the target supply value and a carryover value retrieved from the store data database, and providing a production management user interface that comprises a display of an identifier of the perishable product and the production plan associated the perishable product. |
US11816612B1 |
Predicting true demand of network services with usage constraints
Various embodiments are disclosed for predicting true demand of network services that impose usage constraints. A computing environment may be configured to provide a network service for a user account, where a usage constraint for the network service is imposed on the user account. A truncated usage distribution of the network service may be generated based on usage history data. A demand curve of the network service may be generated for the user account, where the demand curve comprises at least a portion of the truncated usage distribution and a predicted usage of the at least one network service beyond the usage constraint. One or more actions may be performed based on the demand curve, such as increasing the usage constraint. |
US11816608B2 |
Systems and methods for service allocation based on real-time service provider and requestor attributes
A system described herein may provide a technique for identifying states associated with service providers based on biometric, sensor, and/or other information associated with a set of service providers. A request for service may be received, and a particular service provider may be selected based on a particular state associated with the particular service provider, as determined based on the biometric, sensor, and/or other information associated with the particular service provider. State information associated with a requestor of the service may be identified and used as a factor in selecting the particular service provider to respond to the service request. |
US11816607B2 |
Apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for managing a feature emphasis interface element in association with a card-based collaborative workflow management system
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for managing a feature emphasis interface element in association with a card-based collaborative workflow management system. In an example embodiment, an apparatus receives a feature status request, retrieves feature release data and user data, and determines a feature emphasis value based at least in part on the retrieved feature release data and user data. For each circumstance wherein the feature emphasis value satisfies a display feature threshold, the apparatus causes rendering of a feature emphasis interface element to a card-based collaborative workflow management user interface in association with a feature interface representation and for each circumstance wherein the feature emphasis value fails to satisfy the display feature threshold, cause rendering of the feature interface representation to the card-based collaborative workflow management user interface. |
US11816604B2 |
Systems and methods for forward market price prediction and sale of energy storage capacity
Systems and methods for forward market price prediction and sale of energy storage capacity are disclosed. An example transaction-enabling system may include a fleet of machines having an aggregate energy storage capacity; and a controller, comprising: an external data circuit structured to monitor an external data source and collect data from the external data source; an expert system circuit structured to predict a forward market price for energy storage capacity based on the collected data and the aggregate energy storage capacity; and a smart contract circuit structured to automatically sell at least a subset of the aggregate energy storage capacity on a forward market for energy storage capacity in response to the predicted forward market price. |
US11816603B2 |
Active notification using transportation service prediction
Systems and methods of generating active notifications for users of a networked computer system using transportation service prediction are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system uses a prediction model to generate a transportation service prediction for a user based on an identification of the user, location data for the user, prediction time data, and historical user data for instances of the user using the transportation, and then causes a notification to be displayed on a computing device of the user based on the transportation service prediction, with the notification indicating a recommended use of the transportation service in association with the place for the time of day and the day of the week, and the notification comprising a selectable user interface element configured to enable the user to submit an electronic request for the recommended use of the transportation service. |
US11816601B2 |
Vehicle rental system and method
A computerized operation of a vehicle rental system is provided, wherein a number of vehicles is made available to a defined user group for a temporary use period. The vehicles are placed at one or more locations accessible only to the user group, with one or multiple parking spaces reserved for the vehicles in each case. Based on a user input which includes at least one item of data regarding a rental period start and a rental period end of a vehicle, as well as a user ID, a reservation of the vehicle is carried out in a computerized reservation system. A sensor device, which monitors the parking spaces, verifies the presence of the vehicle. The reservation system shows a vehicle, the same being detected by the sensor device as parked in one of the reserved parking spaces prior to the expiration of the rental period end and saved in the reservation system, as available for rental in the reservation system. |
US11816597B2 |
Interactive and dynamic digital event program
A method for distributing an interactive digital event program to a plurality of user devices comprising: receiving a request for an interactive digital event program from a first user device, the request received in response to scanning a first tag having a machine-readable code with the first user device; determining that the first tag belongs to a first group of tags to which a first version of the interactive digital event program is to be distributed; providing the first user device with the first version of the interactive digital event program, the first version of the interactive digital event program to include at least one dynamic content element that is capable of being updated while an event is in progress; and updating the at least one dynamic content element in the first version of the interactive digital event program in response to a predefined trigger. |
US11816594B2 |
Stochastic control with a quantum computer
Techniques for facilitating utilizing a quantum computing circuit in conjunction with a stochastic control problem are provided. In one embodiment, a system is provided that comprises a quantum computing circuit that prepares a quantum state that represents a stochastic control problem. The system can further comprise a classical computing device that determines parameters for the quantum computing circuit. |
US11816588B2 |
Forecasting demand using hierarchical temporal memory
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media to forecast demand by implementing an online demand prediction framework that includes a hierarchical temporal memory network (HTM) configured to learn temporal patterns representing sequences of states of time-series data collected from a set of one or more data sources representing demand and input to the HTM. In some embodiments, the HTM learns the temporal patterns using a Cortical Learning Algorithm. |
US11816585B2 |
Machine learning models operating at different frequencies for autonomous vehicles
Systems and methods include machine learning models operating at different frequencies. An example method includes obtaining images at a threshold frequency from one or more image sensors positioned about a vehicle. Location information associated with objects classified in the images is determined based on the images. The images are analyzed via a first machine learning model at the threshold frequency. For a subset of the images, the first machine learning model uses output information from a second machine learning model, the second machine learning model being performed at less than the threshold frequency. |
US11816583B2 |
Knowledge engine module collections
Certain aspects of the present disclose provide techniques for generating a knowledge engine module collection. Techniques for generating the module collection include receiving input data comprising a first identifier, a second identifier, and a third set of fields. Based on the input data, a UI builder tool can retrieve a first set of artifact files and a second set of artifact files corresponding to a first module and a second module. The UI builder tool can generate a third set of artifact files based on the first set of artifact files, the second set of artifact files, and the input data. |
US11816581B2 |
Computation reduction using a decision tree classifier for faster neural transition-based parsing
A fast neural transition-based parser. The fast neural transition-based parser includes a decision tree-based classifier and a state vector control loss function. The decision tree-based classifier is dynamically used to replace a multilayer perceptron in the fast neural transition-based parser, and the decision tree-based classifier increases speed of neural transition-based parsing. The state vector control loss function trains the fast neural transition-based parser, the state vector control loss function builds a vector space favorable for building a decision tree that is used for the decision tree-based classifier in the neural transition-based parser, and the state vector control loss function maintains accuracy of neural transition-based parsing while the decision tree-based classifier is used to increase the speed of the neural transition-based parsing while using the decision tree-based classifier to increase the speed of the neural transition-based parsing. |
US11816579B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting defect pattern on wafer based on unsupervised learning
A method for clustering based on unsupervised learning according to an embodiment of the invention enables clustering for newly generated patterns and is robust against noise, and does not require tagging for training data. According to one or more embodiments, noise is accurately removed using three-dimensional stacked spatial auto-correlation, and multivariate spatial probability distribution values and polar coordinate system spatial probability distribution values are used as learning features for clustering model generation, making them robust to noise, rotation, and fine unusual shapes. In addition, clusters resulting from clustering are classified into multi-level clusters, and stochastic automatic evaluation of normal/defect clusters is possible only with measurement data without a label. |
US11816576B2 |
Image quality assessment using similar scenes as reference
A system for image quality assessment of non-aligned images includes a first deep path portion of a convolutional neural network having a set of parameters and a second deep path portion of the convolutional neural network sharing a set of parameters with the first deep path convolutional neural network. Weights are shared between the first and second deep path convolutional neural networks to support extraction of a same set of features in each neural network pathway. Non-aligned reference and distorted images are respectively provided to the first and second deep paths of the convolutional neural network for processing. A concatenation layer is connected to both the first and second deep paths convolutional neural network, and a fully connected layer is connected to the concatenation layer to receive input from both the first and second deep paths of the convolutional neural network, generating an image quality assessment as a linear regressor and outputting an image quality score. |
US11816572B2 |
Hardware accelerated machine learning
A machine learning hardware accelerator architecture and associated techniques are disclosed. The architecture features multiple memory banks of very wide SRAM that may be concurrently accessed by a large number of parallel operational units. Each operational unit supports an instruction set specific to machine learning, including optimizations for performing tensor operations and convolutions. Optimized addressing, an optimized shift reader and variations on a multicast network that permutes and copies data and associates with an operational unit that support those operations are also disclosed. |
US11816569B2 |
Processing method and processing device using same
A first processing unit detects each of a plurality of patterns included in the image as one of families by subjecting the image to a neural network process. An extraction unit extracts a plurality of parts that include families from the image, based on a position of the families detected. A second processing unit acquires intermediate data for an intermediate layer unique to each family, by subjecting the plurality of parts extracted to a neural network process. A clustering unit subjects the intermediate data acquired to clustering in accordance with the number of types of pattern. A calculation unit calculates a number of patterns included in each cluster that results from clustering. |
US11816567B2 |
System for identifying objects by means of distributed neural networks
In a system for identifying objects by means of distributed neural networks a resource-intensive proportion of the neural network is provided at a base station (on the ground), whereas a less resource-intensive proportion of the neural network, in particular the remaining proportion of the neural network, is provided at a front end (for example remote-controlled vehicle). The technical complexity for the front-end side and for the transmission of data between the base station and front end can thus be reduced. |
US11816566B2 |
Joint learning from explicit and inferred labels
This document relates to training of machine learning models. One example method involves providing a machine learning model having a first classification layer, a second classification layer, and an encoder that feeds into the first classification layer and the second classification layer. The example method also involves obtaining first training examples having explicit labels and second training examples having inferred labels. The inferred labels are based at least on actions associated with the second training examples. The example method also involves training the machine learning model using the first training examples and the second training examples using a training objective that considers first training loss of the first classification layer for the explicit labels and second training loss of the second classification layer for the inferred labels. The method also involves outputting a trained machine learning model having the encoder and the first classification layer. |
US11816565B2 |
Semantic coherence analysis of deep neural networks
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for interpreting a deep neural network (DNN) using a Semantic Coherence Analysis (SCA)-based interpretation technique. In embodiments, a multi-layered DNN that was trained for one task is analyzed using the SCA technique to select one layer in the DNN that produces salient features for another task. In embodiments, the DNN layers are tested with test samples labeled with a set of concept labels. The output features of a DNN layer are gathered and analyzed according to the concepts. In embodiments, the output is scored with a semantic coherence score, which indicates how well the layer separates the concepts, and one layer is selected from the DNN based on its semantic coherence score. In some embodiments, a support vector machine (SVM) or additional neural network may be added to the selected layer and trained to generate classification results based on the outputs of the selected layer. |
US11816562B2 |
Digital experience enhancement using an ensemble deep learning model
A digital experience enhancement system includes an ensemble deep learning model that includes an estimator ensemble and a neural network. The ensemble deep learning model is trained to generate a digital experience enhancement recommendation from an enhancement request. The ensemble deep learning model receives the enhancement request, which is input to the estimator ensemble. The estimator ensemble uses various different machine learning systems to generate estimator output values. The neural network uses the estimator output values from the estimator ensemble to generate a digital experience enhancement recommendation. The digital experience generation system then uses this digital experience enhancement recommendation to enhance the digital experience. |
US11816561B2 |
Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to map workloads
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to map workloads. An example apparatus includes a constraint definer to define performance characteristic targets of the neural network, an action determiner to apply a first resource configuration to candidate resources corresponding to the neural network, a reward determiner to calculate a results metric based on (a) resource performance metrics and (b) the performance characteristic targets, and a layer map generator to generate a resource mapping file, the mapping file including respective resource assignments for respective corresponding layers of the neural network, the resource assignments selected based on the results metric. |
US11816559B2 |
Dilated convolution using systolic array
In one example, a non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more hardware processors to: load a first weight data element of an array of weight data elements from a memory into a systolic array; select a subset of input data elements from the memory into the systolic array to perform first computations of a dilated convolution operation, the subset being selected based on a rate of the dilated convolution operation and coordinates of the weight data element within the array of weight data elements; and control the systolic array to perform the first computations based on the first weight data element and the subset to generate first output data elements of an output data array. An example of a compiler that generates the instructions is also provided. |
US11816558B2 |
Integrated circuit designs for reservoir computing and machine learning
An integrated circuit device for reservoir computing can include a weighted input layer, an unweighted, asynchronous, internal recurrent neural network made up of nodes having binary weighting, and a weighted output layer. Weighting of output signals can be performed using predetermined weighted sums stored in memory. Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) embodiments may include programmable nodes. Characteristics of the reservoir of the device can be tunable to perform rapid processing and pattern recognition of signals at relatively large rates. |
US11816557B2 |
Method and apparatus with neural network parameter quantization
A processor-implemented neural network method includes: determining a respective probability density function (PDF) of normalizing a statistical distribution of parameter values, for each channel of each of a plurality of feature maps of a pre-trained neural network; determining, for each channel, a corresponding first quantization range for performing quantization of corresponding parameter values, based on a quantization error and a quantization noise of the respective determined PDF; determining, for each channel, a corresponding second quantization range, based on a signal-to-quantization noise ratio (SQNR) of the respective determined PDF; correcting, for each channel, the corresponding first quantization range based on the corresponding second quantization range; and generating a quantized neural network, based on the corrected first quantization range corresponding for each channel. |
US11816556B1 |
Method for predicting air quality index (AQI) based on a fusion model
A method for predicting an air quality index (AQI) based on a fusion model proposes a differential fusion seasonal prediction model (DF-SPM) based on a random forest (RF) model and a convolutional neural network (CNN)-long short-term memory (LSTM)-attention (CLA) model. This method uses the optimal threshold interval (OTI) search algorithm to search and learn the OTI of four seasons during the prediction process, and obtains the final prediction results according to the predicted values of RF model and CLA model. The fusion model combines the prediction advantages of two independent models, and fully considers the seasonal and periodic characteristics of AQI, so as to accurately search OTI in different time periods with the seasonal scale, so as to achieve higher prediction accuracy. The OTI strategy of fusion model is superior to the single threshold strategy, which can extract the historical fluctuation characteristics of AQI and achieve higher prediction accuracy. |
US11816555B2 |
System and method for chaining discrete models
Systems, computer program products, and computer-implemented methods for determining relationships between one or more outputs of a first model and one or more inputs of a second model that collectively represent a real world system, and chaining the models together. For example, the system described herein may determine how to chain a plurality of models by training an artificial intelligence system using the nodes of the models such that the trained artificial intelligence system predicts related output and input node connections. The system may then link related nodes to chain the models together. The systems, computer program products, and computer-implemented methods may thus, according to various embodiments, enable a plurality of discrete models to be optimally chained. |
US11816554B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating weather data based on machine learning
Disclosed is a computing device for generating weather observation data for solving the problem. The computing device includes: a memory including computer executable components; and a processor executing following computer executable components stored in the memory, and the computer executable components may include an initial ground weather observation data recognition component recognizing observed initial ground weather observation data, and a weather data generation component trained to generate weather data of a gap region on the initial ground weather observation data by using a machine learning module. |
US11816552B2 |
Dynamically reconfigurable networked virtual neurons for neural network processing
Methods and systems for neural network processing include configuring a physical network topology for a network that includes hardware nodes in accordance with a neural network topology, one of which is designated as a master node with any other nodes in the network being designated as slave nodes. One or more virtual neurons are configured at each of the hardware nodes by the master node to create a neural network having the neural network topology. Each virtual neuron has a neuron function and logical network connection information that establishes weighted connections between different virtual neurons. A neural network processing function is executed using the neural network. |
US11816548B2 |
Distributed learning using ensemble-based fusion
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method of distributed learning using a fusion-based approach. The method includes determining data statistics at each system node of a plurality of system nodes, wherein each system node respectively comprises an artificial intelligence model. The method further includes determining a set of control and coordination instructions for training each artificial intelligence model at each system node of the plurality of system nodes. The method further includes directing an exchange of data between the plurality of system nodes based on the data statistics of each system node of the plurality of system nodes. The method further includes fusing trained artificial intelligence models from the plurality of system nodes into a fused artificial intelligence model, wherein the trained artificial intelligence models are trained using the set of control and coordination instructions. |
US11816547B2 |
Calibration method and apparatus, terminal device, and storage medium
A calibration method, a calibration apparatus, a terminal device and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises the following steps: determining layer attribute information of each to-be-calibrated layer in a model (S110); and determining the group in which each of the to-be-calibrated layers is located according to the total available resources and the layer attribute information of each of the to-be-calibrated layers (S120). The layer attribute information of any of the to-be-calibrated layers comprises layer required resources, the layer required resources are resources needing to be occupied when the to-be-calibrated layer is calibrated; and the total available resources are the total resources used for calibration. By means of the method, all of to-be-calibrated layers can be reasonably grouped on the premise that the total available resources can provide support, so that the layer required resources in each calibration operation are balanced and large as much as possible, thereby making full use of resources. Moreover, the number of calibration operations is reduced, and the calculation speed during the calibration of a model is increased. |
US11816544B2 |
Composite machine learning system for label prediction and training data collection
The present disclosure provides a composite machine learning system for a transaction labeling service. A transaction labeling service receives at least one descriptive string describing a transaction associated with a user. The service identifies a preliminary grouping from a generalized scheme. The service extracts a set of N-grams from the descriptive string and converts the N-grams and the preliminary grouping into a set of features. A machine learning model determines a label from a labeling scheme for the transaction based on the features. User input related to the label includes an accuracy indicator and a reliability indicator. If the reliability indicator satisfies a reliability condition, a set of training data for the machine learning model is updated based on the descriptive string and the label. The machine learning model is then trained against the updated set of training data. |
US11816543B2 |
System and method for using knowledge gathered by a vehicle
Methods, systems and computer program products for generating content for training a classifier, including: receiving two or more parts of a description, for each part, retrieving from an extracted feature collection library one or more extracted feature collections derived from one or more video frames, the extracted feature collections or the video frames labeled with a label associated with the part, thus obtaining a multiplicity of extracted feature collections, and combining the multiplicity of extracted feature collections to obtain a combined feature collection associated with the description, the combined feature collection to be used for training a classifier. |
US11816542B2 |
Finding root cause for low key performance indicators
Identifying a change of an indicator value for a system of interdependent entities includes determining the indicator value, logging input data for the system of interdependent entities, logging scoring payload data and related results of a machine-learning model used as part of the system of interdependent entities, wherein the scoring payload data are derived from the input data, clustering the input data into a number of clusters resulting in defined clusters, determining metric values of the machine-learning model by mapping each of the defined clusters onto the scoring payload data resulting in a vector of metric values, re-determining the indicator value for each defined cluster, resulting in a vector of re-calculated indicator values, and determining correlation matrix values for a matrix between the vector of re-determined indicator values and the vector of the metric values for each of the defined clusters. |
US11816540B2 |
Artificial intelligence microgrid and distributed energy resources planning platform
The embodiments disclosed in this document are directed to an AI-enabled microgrid and DER planning platform that uses AI methods and takes into account cost calculations, emission calculations, technology investments and operation. In an embodiment, the computing platform is deployed on a network (cloud computing platform) that can be accessed by a variety of stakeholders (e.g., investors, technology vendors, energy providers, regulatory authorities). In an embodiment, the planning platform implements machine learning (e.g., neural networks) to estimate various planning parameters, where the neural networks are trained on observed data from real-world microgrid/minigrid and DER projects. |
US11816533B2 |
Learning latent structural relations with segmentation variational autoencoders
Learning disentangled representations is an important topic in machine learning for a wide range of applications. Disentangled latent variables represent interpretable semantic information and reflect separate factors of variation in data. Although generative models may learn latent representations and generate data samples as well, existing models may ignore the structural information among latent representations. Described in the present disclosure are embodiments to learn disentangled latent structural representations from data using decomposable variational auto-encoders, which simultaneously learn component representations and encode component relationships. Embodiments of a novel structural prior for latent representations are disclosed to capture interactions among different data components. Embodiments are applied to data segmentation and latent relation discovery among different data components. Experiments on several datasets demonstrate the utility of the present model embodiments. |
US11816530B2 |
Computer configured to display multimedia content
A computer can comprise a housing, a microprocessor disposed within the housing, a display, and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the microprocessor. The computer can be configured, responsive to locating decodable indicia within content viewable on the display, to decode the decodable indicia to produce at least one decoded message. The computer can be further configured to display the content with decoded message data being embedded into the content. The decoded message data can be provided by at least one decoded message, data derived from the decoded message. |
US11816521B2 |
Dual transponder radio frequency identification
An example disclosed method for authenticating a radio frequency identification (“RFID”) tag includes receiving a first signal including a first transponder identifier associated with the RFID tag; receiving a second signal including a second transponder identifier, wherein the second transponder identifier is associated with a different transponder than the first transponder identifier; and determining, with circuitry, whether the second transponder identifier is associated with the RFID tag. |
US11816520B2 |
IoT-based cable used in cable management system
A cable comprises: a cable core; and a cable sheath layer formed on the outside of the cable core, wherein the cable sheath layer has, on the outer surface thereof, a pattern corresponding to a binary code. A recognition rate is improved, and a problem of the productivity of the cable being reduced may be prevented by adjusting the widths of the pattern, corresponding to the binary code printed on the cable, in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and a plurality of patterns corresponding to the binary code printed on the cable are provided to prevent, even when the cable is buried in the ground or contacts a facility and a pattern corresponding to some binary patterns is not exposed, a pattern corresponding to the other binary patterns from being exposed and unrecognizable. |
US11816519B2 |
Code display medium, information processing apparatus, method, and medium
A code display medium includes a code image display portion which arranges a plurality of code images side by side in a circumferential direction around an axis of screw fastening and which displays the plurality of code images so as to be optically readable, each of the plurality of code images including identification information for identifying at least one of a fastening material for the screw fastening and/or an object to be fastened by the screw fastening and a fixing portion which fixes the code image display portion to a position that is on the object to be fastened and that can be simultaneously captured with the fastening material in a state where the screw fastening is performed. |
US11816518B2 |
Metallic transaction cards
A transaction card includes an anodized card body having a front and rear face. Various information and security features may be provided on the front face and on the rear face. A magnetic stripe may be provided on the rear face of the anodized card body. The magnetic stripe may be adhered within a slot formed within the rear face of the anodized body. Alternatively, the magnetic stripe may be provided via an overlay that is adhered to the rear face of the anodized body, and the magnetic stripe may be integral with the overlay or adhered to the overlay after the overlay is applied to the anodized card body. The transaction card may also include a hologram. The hologram may be integral with the overlay or may be applied to the overlay that has been arranged on the anodized card body. |
US11816509B2 |
Workload placement for virtual GPU enabled systems
Disclosed are aspects of workload selection and placement in systems that include graphics processing units (GPUs) that are virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled. In some aspects, workloads are assigned to virtual graphics processing unit (vGPU)-enabled graphics processing units (GPUs) based on a variety of vGPU placement models. A number of vGPU placement neural networks are trained to maximize a composite efficiency metric based on workload data and GPU data for the plurality of vGPU placement models. A combined neural network selector is generated using the vGPU placement neural networks, and utilized to assign a workload to a vGPU-enabled GPU. |
US11816504B2 |
Serverless computing architecture
A computing device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to initialize a Fifth Generation wireless system (5G) function node of a particular type; identify one or more always-on processes associated with the particular type of 5G function node; and activate the identified one or more always-on processes. The processor may be further configured to monitor one or more trigger conditions associated with the 5G function node; detect a trigger condition, of the one or more trigger conditions; identify an on-demand process associated with the 5G function node based on the detected trigger condition; and activate the identified on-demand process in a serverless computing system using a serverless computing interface, in response to detecting the trigger condition. |
US11816503B2 |
Data storage resource management
A resource management system in a data center one or more data storage resource providers and a transaction server. The transaction server is configured to receive, from a client, a request for read and/or write access for a data storage resource, the request comprising one or more specifications, to provide, to the one or more data storage resource providers, at least a portion of the request, and to receive, from the one or more data storage resource providers, respective responses to the request, the responses respectively comprising one or more allocation options. The transaction server is further configured to select one of the one or more allocation options for registration, and register the selected allocation option with a data manager. At least one of the one or more data storage providers is configured to provide the data storage resource in accordance with the registered allocation option. |
US11816500B2 |
Systems and methods for synchronization of multi-thread lanes
Apparatuses to synchronize lanes that diverge or threads that drift are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics multiprocessor includes a queue having an initial state of groups with a first group having threads of first and second instruction types and a second group having threads of the first and second instruction types. A regroup engine (or regroup circuitry) regroups threads into a third group having threads of the first instruction type and a fourth group having threads of the second instruction type. |
US11816499B2 |
Transition manager system
Systems, software, and methods for evaluating the scope of computer system changes related to automatic migration from one set of computing hardware to another provide methods and techniques that include evaluations for compliance with one or more policies prior to implementation, and then sequence and automate the migration tasks. A domain-specific language describes activity specifications and asset metadata, which is then used to generate interdependent activities in a project workstream on the basis of stored expert knowledge embedded in knowledge templates. Disaster recovery and “what-if” migration scenarios are tested in order to test and compare options of one or more proposed infrastructure changes. |
US11816498B2 |
Early event-based notification for VM swapping
Various embodiments disclosed herein are related to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, from a user-space application, a request to detect swapping activity satisfying a threshold condition, detect the swapping activity satisfying the threshold condition, and, in response to occurrence of the threshold condition, send a response that indicates that the swapping activity satisfies the threshold condition. |
US11816491B2 |
Runtime configuration of chipset to support multiple I/O subsystem versions with one BIOS image
A method for configuring a peripheral bus of an information handling system performs, as part of a boot sequence, an initial configuration of a chipset setting pertaining to the bus based on a descriptor stored in a nonvolatile storage resource. After an operating system is loaded, a controller detects a peripheral device connecting to the bus and responds by performing a runtime configuration of the chipset setting based on capability information obtained from the peripheral device. The peripheral bus may comprise a USB pipe and a USB-C type connector, wherein the peripheral device is detected by a USB power delivery (PD) controller based on configuration channel (CC) pins of the USB-C connector. The PD controller may signal the chipset and send the device’s capability information to the chipset. The PD controller may assert a PMCALERT# signal of the chipset’s and send the capability information via a system management link (SMLink1). |
US11816490B2 |
VLIW power management
VLIW directed Power Management is described. In accordance with described techniques, a program is compiled to generate instructions for execution by a very long instruction word machine. During the compiling, power configurations for the very long instruction word machine to execute the instructions are determined, and fields of the instructions are populated with the power configurations. In one or more implementations, an instruction that includes a power configuration for the very long instruction word machine and operations for execution by the very long instruction word machine is obtained. A power setting of the very long instruction word machine is adjusted based on the power configuration of the instruction, and the operations of the instruction are executed by the very long instruction word machine. |
US11816483B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for matrix operations
Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix (tile) operations. For example, decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode and a memory address, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to store configuration information about usage of storage for two-dimensional data structures at the memory address. |
US11816482B2 |
Generalized acceleration of matrix multiply accumulate operations
A method, computer readable medium, and processor are disclosed for performing matrix multiply and accumulate (MMA) operations. The processor includes a datapath configured to execute the MMA operation to generate a plurality of elements of a result matrix at an output of the datapath. Each element of the result matrix is generated by calculating at least one dot product of corresponding pairs of vectors associated with matrix operands specified in an instruction for the MMA operation. A dot product operation includes the steps of: generating a plurality of partial products by multiplying each element of a first vector with a corresponding element of a second vector; aligning the plurality of partial products based on the exponents associated with each element of the first vector and each element of the second vector; and accumulating the plurality of aligned partial products into a result queue utilizing at least one adder. |
US11816474B1 |
Systems and methods for generating dynamically updated metadata using real-time artificial intelligence models
Systems and methods for generating dynamically updated metadata using real-time artificial intelligence models. For example, the system may receive a first metadata tag requirement for first metadata of a first media asset. The system may determine a first metadata field for the first metadata based on the first metadata tag requirement. The system may determine a first content population function for the first metadata field. The system may generate the first metadata with the first content population function. The system may generate the first media asset with the first metadata. |
US11816473B2 |
Updating method for in-vehicle software and in-vehicle system
There are provided an updating method for in-vehicle software and an in-vehicle system for updating a software, the updating method including: securing one area in a memory on a zone control unit included in the in-vehicle system, the one area being capable of storing one update data for updating the zone control unit and lower control units which are an update object; repeatedly checking whether the update data exists in a predetermined software supply source; downloading the update data from the software supply source to store the update data in the one area, when the update data satisfying one download condition exists in the software supply source; and preferentially selecting the one update data with the highest priority from a plurality of update data to execute the downloading, when the plurality of update data satisfying the one download condition exist concurrently in the software supply source. |
US11816469B2 |
Resolving the version mismatch problem when implementing a rolling update in an open-source platform for container orchestration
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for container lifecycle management is provided. The embodiment may include registering a topology for a plurality of deployments in a container orchestration platform. The embodiment may include detecting a rolling update to a deployment of the plurality of deployments. The embodiment may include assuming ownership of at least one previous version pod of the deployment. The embodiment may include creating network routing rules for the at least one previous version pod. The embodiment may include routing network packets to the at least one previous version pod based on the created network routing rules. |
US11816465B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for tracking and upgrading firmware in intelligent electronic devices
Devices, systems and methods for tracking and upgrading firmware in intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) are provided. The devices, systems and methods provide for tracking firmware versions of at least one or a fleet of IEDs, e.g., electronic power or revenue meters, notifying a user that an update to an existing firmware is available and providing the ability to automatically upload the current or latest version of the firmware to all IEDs. |
US11816460B1 |
Generating a platform-agnostic data pipeline via a low code transformation layer systems and methods
Systems and methods for generating a platform-agnostic data pipeline via a low code transformation layer are disclosed. The system receives one or more user selections of (i) nodes and (ii) links linking the nodes, indicating a data pipeline architecture of transfer/management/flow of data via a GUI. In response to receiving a user selection to implement the data pipeline, the system automatically identifies/generates a set of code portions, based on one or more software objects (e.g., JSON objects) associated with the user selections indicating the data pipeline architecture. The system then identifies a platform identifier associated with a remote server and generates a set of executable instructions (e.g., a script, executable program, or other file) associated with the data pipeline architecture by using a transformation component. The system then provides the executable instructions to the remote server to host the data pipeline. |
US11816457B2 |
Program predictor
A computer program predictor is described which has a processor configured to access a program attribute predictor; and a memory storing a search component configured to search a space of possible programs, to find a program which, given an input data instance and an output data instance, will compute the output data instance from the input data instance, the search being guided by attributes predicted by the attribute predictor given the input data instance and the output data instance. |
US11816455B2 |
System and method for generating actionable intelligence based on platform and community originated data
The present disclosure relates to digital experience development platforms and, more particularly, one or more components, systems and methods thereof of an intelligent digital experience development platform (IDXDP) configured to assist different users in the development, design and deployment of digital applications. A computer-implemented method comprises: determining, by a computing device, that each of a plurality of users of an integrated development environment (IDE) has a common question about performing a task in the IDE; determining, by the computing device, that a community-accepted answer exists to the common question about performing the task in the IDE; and updating support documentation for the IDE based on the community-accepted answer to the common question about performing the task in the IDE. |
US11816452B2 |
Natively-integrated application content customization for enterprises
Systems and methods for providing enterprise-level application content customization are described herein. A method includes executing an enterprise application (from a suite of enterprise applications that are utilized by the enterprise) on a remote computing system operated by an enterprise administrator. The method includes surfacing a content customization UI on a display device of the remote computing system during execution of the enterprise application. The content customization UI includes UI elements that enable the specification of parameters for providing enterprise-specific customized content during execution of enterprise application(s) from the suite of enterprise applications on remote computing system(s) operated by enterprise user(s). The method also includes receiving, via the content customization UI, user input including the specification of parameters and generating the customized content based on the specified parameters. The method further includes surfacing the customized content on display device(s) of the remote computing system(s) during execution of the enterprise application(s). |
US11816450B2 |
System and method for real-time automated project specifications analysis
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for real-time automated analysis of project specifications are disclosed. A processor calls an API to invoke an OCR micro-service with the project specifications data as input data received from a plurality of applications each including a file corresponding to real-time project specifications data; determines whether the file corresponding to the project specification data is an image file; implements, based on determining, a neural network based image processing algorithm to extract data corresponding to the project specifications data from the input data; compares the extracted data corresponding to the project specifications data with predefined expected business results data; generates a similarity score, based on comparing, that identifies how similar the project specifications data is compared to the predefined expected business results data; and automatically generates a real-time analysis report on the project specifications in connection with the plurality of applications based on the similarity score. |
US11816445B2 |
Translating language characters in media content
Some implementations disclosed herein provide techniques and arrangements to enable translating language characters in media content. For example, some implementations receive a user selection of a first portion of media content. Some implementations disclosed herein may, based on the first portion, identify a second portion of the media content. The second portion of the media content may include one or more first characters of a first language. Some implementations disclosed herein may create an image that includes the second portion of the media content and may send the image to a server. Some implementations disclosed herein may receive one or more second characters of a second language corresponding to a translation of the one or more first characters of the first language from the server. |
US11816444B2 |
Pseudo parallel translation data generation apparatus, machine translation processing apparatus, and pseudo parallel translation data generation method
Provided are a model training method for neural machine translation that enhances an encoder using a monolingual corpus of a target language and improves the accuracy of the entire translator, and a machine translation system for performing the model training method. The machine translation system 1000 uses a monolingual corpus of the target language to obtain multiple pieces of pseudo source language data, thus allowing for obtaining a large amount of pseudo parallel corpus data having diversity. Further, the machine translation system 1000 uses both the pseudo parallel corpus data having diversity, which has been obtained in large quantities, and the base parallel corpus data in a small quantity but with high accuracy, with the applied learning rates changed accordingly, to perform the learning process (training process) for the machine translation model. This allows the machine translation system 1000 to obtain a learned model (machine translation model) with very high accuracy. |
US11816443B2 |
Method, device, and storage medium for generating response
The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for generating a response, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a current user request in a current conversation and historical coreference information in the current conversation; extracting content matching the current user request from the historical coreference information; updating the current user request based on the content to obtain an updated current user request; and generating a response of the current user request based on the updated current user request. |
US11816438B2 |
Context saliency-based deictic parser for natural language processing
NLP techniques are disclosed that apply computer technology to sentence data for performing entity referencing. For example, a processor can parse sentence data in a defined window of sentence data into a list of entity terms and a plurality of classifications associated with the listed entity terms. A processor can also a plurality of context saliency scores for a plurality of the listed entity terms based on the classifications associated with the listed entity terms as well as maintain a list of referring terms corresponding to the listed entity terms. For new sentence data that includes a referring term from the referring term list, a processor can (i) select a corresponding entity term on the entity term list based on the context saliency scores for the entity terms, and (ii) infer that the referring term in the new sentence data refers to the selected corresponding entity term. |
US11816437B2 |
Automatical process application generation
A computer-implemented method gathers a set of previously filed applications, performs intent identification on the set, clusters applications in the set based on identified common intents, receives input from user and identifying intent of the input, matches the input to a cluster based on a common intent, and generates a new application based on the input using filed applications in a cluster having a common intent between the cluster and the input. |
US11816436B2 |
Automated summarization of extracted insight data
Techniques are described for automated summarization of extracted insight data. Insight data, for instance, is summarized via headlines that include content describing insight data, such as text, images, animations, and so forth. In at least some implementations, headlines are generated in response to trigger events, such as time-based and/or user behavioral events that indicate that headlines are to be generated. Further, headlines are selected to cause insight data represented by the headlines to be presented. Implementations include headline ranking to rank and present headlines based on their relevance to different metrics, and headline deduplication to identify and/or remove duplicate headlines. |
US11816431B2 |
Autocomplete of user entered text
Computer implemented method and a system for auto completion of text based on the context associated with the text. The computer implemented method includes steps of receiving input text, identifying a certain context associated with the input text from multiple predefined contexts, by feeding the input text into a context-prediction component of a machine learning model that predicts the certain context, selecting a certain context-specific component of the machine learning model from multiple context-specific components according to the identified certain context, feeding the input text into the selected context-specific component that outputs autocomplete text associated with the identified certain context. The context-specific components are each trained to generate autocompleted text associated with a respective context pre-defined for the respective context-specific component. |
US11816430B2 |
Metamodeling for confidence prediction in machine learning based document extraction
A document extraction system executed by a processor, may process documents using manual and automated systems. The document extraction system may efficiently route tasks to the manual and automated systems based on a predicted probability that the results generated by the automated system meet some baseline level of accuracy. To increase document processing speed, documents having a high likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to an automated system. To ensure a baseline level of accuracy, documents having a smaller likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to a manual system. |
US11816429B2 |
Document template recommendation system for collaborative document management system
A method includes, receiving, from a client application operating on a client device, a document creation request associated with an active workspace of a plurality of workspaces of a collaborative document system. The method further includes, responsive to receiving the document creation request, obtaining, for the active workspace, a respective document-creation history for each of a plurality of document templates associated with the active workspace, computing, based at least in part on the respective document-creation histories, a respective relevance weight for each of the plurality of document templates associated with the active workspace, causing identifiers of at least a subset of the plurality of document templates to be displayed to the user in accordance with a rank order, the rank order based at least in part on the computed relevance weights for the plurality of document templates, and causing a document template associated with a selected identifier to be displayed. |
US11816424B2 |
Conditional save of draft enabled business objects
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments selectively saving draft attributes. In some embodiments, a server generates a form comprising data fields. The server defines associated with the form. The server detects an event associated with the form. Each of the of data fields includes a respective attribute. The server identifies one or more of data fields that are to be draft-enabled in response to the event based on a definition of the event. The server further identifies at least one data field of the plurality of data fields for which draft-enablement is to be removed. The server generates metadata for the at least one data field removing the draft-enablement and stores a draft of each respective attribute for each of the plurality of data fields, excluding an attribute for the at least one data field in a data storage device. |
US11816419B2 |
Method for saving documents in blocks
It is provided a computer-implemented method for recording one or more documents. Each document comprises at least one word. The method comprises providing one or more documents forming a first set of documents. The method comprises dividing each document of the first set into one or more blocks. The method comprises creating a directed graph representing relationships established between the blocks of documents of the first set. The method comprises providing at least one block from a previous division of each document of a second set of documents. The method comprises merging the directed graph created for the first set with another directed graph previously created for the second set and taking account of at least one established relationship. The method improves the recording of the sets of documents. |
US11816418B2 |
Compact design method for inductive filtering transformer
The disclosure relates to a compact design method for inductive filtering transformer. According to the disclosure, the inductive filtering transformer adopts an approximative zero-impedance design under the premise of satisfying the filtering performance. The direct optimization objective is to minimize the distance from the transformer core center to the outermost winding. This disclosure balances the constraint of winding impedance matching and transformer size optimization and satisfies the application of limited installation space. |
US11816417B2 |
Rule check violation prediction systems and methods
Systems and methods are provided for predicting systematic design rule check (DRC) violations in a placement layout before routing is performed on the placement layout. A systematic DRC violation prediction system includes DRC violation prediction circuitry. The DRC violation prediction circuitry receives placement data associated with a placement layout. The DRC violation prediction circuitry inspects the placement data associated with the placement layout, and the placement data may include data associated with a plurality of regions of the placement layout, which may be inspected on a region-by-region basis. The DRC violation prediction circuitry predicts whether one or more systematic DRC violations would be present in the placement layout due to a subsequent routing of the placement layout. |
US11816413B2 |
Systems and methods for context aware circuit design
Systems and methods for context aware circuit design are described herein. A method includes: identifying at least one cell to be designed into a circuit; identifying at least one context parameter having an impact to layout dependent effect of the circuit; generating, for each cell and for each context parameter, a plurality of abutment environments associated with the cell; estimating, for each cell and each context parameter, a sensitivity of at least one electrical property of the cell to the context parameter by generating a plurality of electrical property values of the cell under the plurality of abutment environments; and determining whether each context parameter is a key context parameter for a static analysis of the circuit, based on the sensitivity of the at least one electrical property of each cell and based on at least one predetermined threshold. |
US11816412B2 |
Logic cell structures and related methods
A method of forming an integrated circuit structure is provided. The method includes: providing a logic cell structure including a first input node, a second input node, and a pulling network connected to a reference voltage and an output node, wherein the pulling network includes a plurality of transistor segments; determining a delay associated with at least one of the first input node and the second input node; and connecting the plurality of transistor segments to the first input node, the second input node and the output node based at least in part on the determined delay. |
US11816411B2 |
Method and system for semiconductor wafer defect review
A semiconductor wafer defect detection system captures test images of a semiconductor wafer. The system analyzes the test images with an analysis model trained with a machine learning process. The analysis model generates simulated integrated circuit layouts based on the test images. The system detects defects in the semiconductor wafer by comparing the simulated integrated circuit layouts to reference integrated circuit layouts. |
US11816409B1 |
Strongly connected component (SCC) graph representation for interactive analysis of overlapping loops in emulation and prototyping
Embodiments relate to a system and method for analyzing strongly connected components (SCCs) in a design of an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, a design of an integrated circuit is received, and a set of loops are identified in the received design. Based on the identified loops, one or more SCCs are determined. Each SCC includes multiple loops having shared paths. For instance, an SCC includes a first loop having a first set of nodes connected via a first set of paths and a second loop having a second set of nodes connected via a second set of paths, such that the first loop and the second loop have at least one path in common. The identified SCCs are then analyzed and presented to the user for consideration when reviewing the design of the integrated circuit. |
US11816407B1 |
Automatic channel identification of high-bandwidth memory channels for auto-routing
Methods and systems are described herein relate to automatic channel identification of high-bandwidth memory channels and subchannel generation. An HBM channel identification system may perform a sequence of operations to identify HBM channels within a netlist of an interposer: channel dimension prediction, channel bounding box prediction, channel orientation derivation, subchannel partition, and subchannel routing region creation. In one example, an HBM channel identification method includes identifying candidate nets within a netlist. A bounding box that includes one or more nets of the candidate nets is determined. Once the bounding box is determined, the orientation of the box is determined and used to determine a pattern of bumps within the bounding box. Finally, a subchannel is generated based on the pattern of bumps. |
US11816404B2 |
Neural network control variates
Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo integration are simple numerical recipes for solving complicated integration problems, such as valuating financial derivatives or synthesizing photorealistic images by light transport simulation. A drawback of a straightforward application of (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration is the relatively slow convergence rate that manifests as high error of Monte Carlo estimators. Neural control variates may be used to reduce error in parametric (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration—providing more accurate solutions in less time. A neural network system has sufficient approximation power for estimating integrals and is efficient to evaluate. The efficiency results from the use of a first neural network that infers the integral of the control variate and using normalizing flows to model a shape of the control variate. |
US11816402B2 |
Simulation systems and methods
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for performing, providing, managing, executing, and/or running a spatially-optimized simulation are presented. In one or more embodiments, the spatially-optimized simulation may comprise a plurality of worker modules performing the simulation, a plurality of entities being simulated among the plurality of worker modules, a plurality of bridge modules facilitating communication between workers and an administrative layer including a plurality of chunk modules, at least one receptionist module, and at least one oracle module. The spatially-optimized simulation may be configured to provide a distributed, persistent, fault-tolerate and spatially-optimized simulation environment. In some embodiments, load balancing and fault tolerance may be performed using transfer scores and/or tensile energies determined among the candidates for transferring simulation entities among workers. In some embodiments, the plurality of bridge modules may expose an application programming interface (API) for communicating with the plurality of worker modules. |
US11816401B2 |
Providing for uncertainty in non-linear inversions of geophysical data
A method of obtaining a model of a sub-surface region, the model comprising a three dimensional matrix of sub-surface material property values. The method comprises providing a first approximation of said model, and performing simulations using the model to generate (i) a reference upgoing energy wave data set d0, where the acquisition parameters used in the simulation are a set of known acquisition parameters, and (ii) a plurality of perturbed upgoing energy wave data sets d0 where the acquisition parameters are obtained by randomly perturbing said set of known acquisition parameters. The method further comprises forming a matrix D, the columns of which are the differences di−d0 between the ith perturbed data set and the reference data set, applying an analysis to the matrix D to describe the matrix using a set of vectors, and selecting the most important vectors from said set of vectors to obtain a subset of vectors that describe said matrix D to an approximation. An iterative procedure is performed to improve said first approximation of said model, or a further approximation model, wherein, at each step of the procedure, a model update Δm is determined, the model update being that model update that minimises a measure of the data misfit between said upgoing energy wave data set drec and a data set simulated using the updated model, said measure using said subset of vectors to account for uncertainty in the upgoing energy wave data set drec. |
US11816393B2 |
Dynamic computation of system response volume
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, determining that a requirement exists to output a system response. In response to determining that a requirement exists to output a system response, (i) setting a system response volume for a first speaker associated with a first networked device and (ii) outputting a system response at the set system response volume via the first speaker associated with the first networked device. |
US11816392B2 |
Extending audio tracks while avoiding audio discontinuities
Embodiments disclosed herein extending an audio track by joining similar portions. Audio features (e.g., spectral features, modulation features) may be extracted from the audio track. The audio track may be segmented, e.g., based on the audio features, and each segment may be slid through the audio track using a timestep. In each timestep, the sliding segment may be compared to the underlying portion of the audio track and a similarity score (e.g., a cross-correlation) may be generated. A self-similarity matrix may be generated based on the comparisons involving all the segments. The self-similarity matrix may be analyzed for peak values and segments corresponding to the peak values may be joined to extend the audio track. The embodiments may be applied to any kind of audio including music, ambient noise, speech, etc. |
US11816388B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for interactive visual displays
Systems, devices, and methods for visual displays are described. Such visual displays may be used in a retail environment to provide interactive presentations to customers. The visual displays may include a display panel, a visual source, and a controller. The display panel may present images and/or video to a user, in which the images and/or video are generated by the visual source. The controller may determine the types of images and/or video to be presented based upon communications received from a user via a communication device or a user kiosk. The display panel may be a variable height and may be offset from the floor or a shelf by a variable distance. A plurality of display panels may be arranged on a display floor to provide retail experiences to customers and/or may be received by one or more docks placed in the display floor. |
US11816386B2 |
System and method for virtual and augmented reality employing workgroup pods
A virtual and augmented reality system, method and computer program product employing workgroup pods, including work pods configured as three-dimensional closed polygon physical structures having n sides including respective walls having respective computer displays linked to each other via a communications network for enabling augmented and/or virtual reality content to be displayed thereon. Inside wall displays are a private work stage for private augmented and/or virtual reality content, outside wall displays are public private work stage for shared content. One of the work pods is a workgroup pod that receives and merges shared augmented and/or virtual reality content from the other work pods on a private stage thereof, and shares and displays the merged augmented and/or virtual reality content on a public stage thereof. |
US11816383B2 |
Multi-display based device
An electronic device is provided that includes a first display and a second display. The electronic device also includes a processor configured to allocate a first set of resources to the first display and a second set of resources to the second display. The first set of resources is different from the second set of resources. Each of the first set of resources and the second set of resources includes one or more of at least one available hardware resource and at least one available software resource. |
US11816382B2 |
Collaboration systems with managed screen sharing
Systems and methods for allowing an orchestrator to manage screen sharing in a meeting between multiple user devices are described. The orchestrator can use a master device to start a sharing session and select user devices to join as participant devices. The orchestrator can also select at least one receiver for receiving shared media. Participant devices are displayed on the master device. The orchestrator can then select a participant device to act as a source, and a receiver to receive the shared media from the source. The master device can contact a management server to cause the selected participant device to being sharing its screen on the receiver. |
US11816377B1 |
Industrial printing system, print server, and process management method for peer-to-peer distributed processing according to paper settings and imposition settings for production printing
Provided is an industrial printing system that performs peer-to-peer distributed processing according to paper settings and imposition settings for production printing. A plurality of print servers performs distributed processing of a job. Each print server includes a storage unit, a job changing unit, and a processing management unit. The storage unit stores resource information related to paper setting and imposition setting of the plurality of print servers. The job changing unit changes the job suitable to other print server selected from the plurality of print servers based on the resource information stored in the storage unit. The processing management unit transmits the job changed by the job changing unit to the other print server and requests processing. |
US11816374B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and medium
A print system determines whether a setting of a print job meets a condition under which an inspection can be executed, sets information indicating the inspection instruction in a detail of the print job when it is determined that the setting of the print job meets the condition, and executes inspection processing on the basis of a scanned image and a reference image registered in advance according to the inspection instruction. In addition, notification information is output. The inspection processing is not executed when it has been determined that the setting of the print job does not meet the condition, and notification information is outputted indicating that the inspection processing has not been executed. |
US11816369B2 |
Chip, chipset, electrical parameter detection method,consumable, and image forming apparatus
A chip, a chip set, an electrical parameter detection method, a consumable, and an image forming apparatus are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The chip is capable of being installed on the consumable; and the consumable is capable of being detachably installed on the image forming apparatus. The chip includes an installation detecting terminal; a chip controller configured to control the installation detecting terminal to output a low level after the chip is powered on; and a storage unit configured to store a time control parameter, where the time control parameter is configured to control a time point for the installation detecting terminal to output the low level. The above configuration can realize that the signal conflict between a plurality of chips is not generated when detecting whether the plurality of chips is in a desired contact with the image forming apparatus. |
US11816368B2 |
Cloud printing method and cloud printing system
A cloud printing method includes in response to a click on a file in an application program of a client terminal to execute printing, receiving, by a cloud server, a print request sent by the client terminal, generating, by the cloud server, a print job and a uniform resource locator (URL) of the print job based on the print request, and starting, by the cloud server, a print microservice and publishing a print task to a message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) microservice according to the print job. After a printer is connected to the cloud server, the printer is configured to send a print subscription request to the cloud server. The MQTT microservice is configured to send the print task with the URL of the print job to the printer. The printer is further configured to download the print job from the cloud server based on the URL of the print job and print the print job. |
US11816367B2 |
Method for setting image processing apparatus, storage medium, and image processing system
A method for setting a printer performs initial setup of the printer by using a setting image displayed on a terminal device. The method includes displaying, in a chat style in the setting image, a plurality of information logs regarding the initial setup of the printer, an instruction information log regarding instruction information including an instruction for a user who operates the printer, and a response log regarding a user response input by the user in response to the instruction information. |
US11816366B2 |
Method for specifying image forming apparatus in which newly shipped cartridge is to be mounted
The method includes determining, by using a first information processing device, whether a cartridge mounted in the specified image forming apparatus needs replacing. The method further includes attaching a label to the newly shipped cartridge capable of using in each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses or to a packing box packing the newly shipped cartridge. The label indicates specific information associated with identification information of the specified image forming apparatus in which the determining determines that the cartridge needs replacing. The specific information is retrieved from a database in which the identification information is associated with the specific information. The identification information identifies the each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The specific information specifies the each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. |
US11816362B2 |
Processing-in-memory (PIM) system and operating methods of the PIM system
A processing-in-memory (PIM) system includes a PIM device and a PIM controller. The PIM device includes a first storage region, a second storage region, and a multiplication/accumulation (MAC) operator configured to receive first data and second data from the first and second storage regions, respectively, to perform a MAC arithmetic operation. The PIM controller controls a memory mode and a MAC mode of the PIM device. The PIM controller is configured to generate and transmit a memory command to the PIM device in the memory mode. In addition, the PIM controller is configured to generate and transmit first to fifth MAC commands to the PIM device in the MAC mode. |
US11816354B2 |
Persistent memory adaptation
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to establishing persistent cache memory as a write tier. An input/output (IO) workload of a storage array can be analyzed. One or more write data portions of the IO workload can be stored in a persistent memory region of one or more disks of the storage array. |
US11816353B2 |
Parity data for non-volatile storage
Technology is disclosed herein for managing parity data in non-volatile memory. As user data is programming into respective groups of non-volatile memory cells, the system accumulates parity data. The system may accumulate XOR parity based on successive bitwise XOR operations of user data. After programming is complete, the system performs a post-program read test of the data stored into each respective group of memory cells. The system re-calculates the parity data such that the parity data is no longer based on the user data that was stored in any group of memory cells for which the post-program read test failed. For example, the system will perform an additional bitwise XOR between the accumulated XOR parity data with the user data that was stored in the group of memory cells for which the post-program read test failed. The parity data is programmed to a group of memory cells. |
US11816352B2 |
Electronic device, data strobe gate signal generator circuit and data strobe gate signal generating method
A processor circuit sends a read request. A clock signal of the processor circuit corresponds to a first counting value. A memory circuit stores data and sends a data strobe signal in response to the read request. The data strobe signal corresponds to a second counting value. The processor circuit includes a selector circuit and a feedback circuit. The selector circuit selects and outputs a flag signal from a plurality of flag control signals according to the second counting value. The feedback circuit generates an enable signal according to a set signal associated with the first counting value, the flag signal associated with the second counting value, and a data strobe gate signal, and generates the data strobe gate signal according to the enable signal and the data strobe signal. The processor circuit reads the data according to the data strobe gate signal. |
US11816350B2 |
Managing overwrite data within solid state drives
Storage devices can be configured to desirably reduce the number of times a zone reset or erasure occur via the use of one or more paired overwrite memory blocks. These storage devices can include a plurality of memory devices with some of these memory devices designated as overwrite memory devices. A controller within the storage device can be configured to direct the storage device to generate one or more subsets within the memory devices such as zones, pair each of subsets with at least one or more overwrite memory devices, store data sequentially within the subset of memory devices, and store any received overwrite data in the overwrite memory devices in chronological order. Data stored within the subsets of memory devices are not erased and instead of being overwritten directly, are instead pointed via a control table to a location in the overwrite memory devices storing the corresponding overwrite data. |
US11816348B2 |
Persistent hole reservation
Techniques are provided for persistent hole reservation. For example, hole reservation flags of operations targeting a first storage object of a first node are replicated into replication operations targeting a second storage object of a second node during a transition operation to transition the first storage object and the second storage object from an asynchronous replication state to a synchronous replication state. In another example, the second storage object is grown to a size of a replication punch hole operation that failed due to targeting a file block number greater than an end of size of the second storage object. |
US11816347B1 |
Creating virtual machine snapshots without interfering with active user sessions
Systems and methods for creating virtual machine snapshots. An example method comprises: receiving a request to create a snapshot of a virtual machine running on a host computer system; protecting from modification a plurality of virtual memory pages of the virtual machine; responsive to detecting an attempt to modify a virtual memory page of the plurality of memory pages, copying the virtual memory page to a queue residing in a random access memory (RAM) of the host computer system; making the virtual memory page writable; retrieving the virtual memory page from the queue; writing the virtual memory page to a disk of the host computer system; and responsive to exhausting the queue, completing creation of the snapshot of the virtual machine. |
US11816345B2 |
Zone block staging component for a memory subsystem with zoned namespace
A memory sub-system can determine a block granularity for an input/output (I/O) data stream received from a host system. The memory sub-system can determine that the block granularity is different than a memory block granularity of a first memory region in a first namespace of the one or more memory devices, where the first memory region is to store the I/O data stream. The memory sub-system can accumulate blocks from the I/O data stream in a second memory region in a second namespace of the one or more memory devices. Responsive to a capacity of the accumulated blocks in the second memory region satisfying a threshold criterion, the memory sub-system can migrate the accumulated plurality of blocks from the second memory region to the first memory region. |
US11816341B2 |
Orchestrating distribution of function as a service (FaaS) workloads to autonomous storage systems
A Function as a Service (FaaS) distribution system is configured to implement FaaS as a Service (FaaSaaS), enabling autonomous storage systems to be used as FaaS providers during periods where the storage systems are not being used at full capacity to process primary workloads. The FaaS distribution system receives functions from FaaS consumers, and selects a FaaS provider from a set of autonomous storage systems currently able to process FaaS workloads. The FaaS distribution system selects FaaS providers based on an expected execution time of the function and expected execution times of other functions executing on particular FaaS providers, to preferentially select a FaaS provider that is currently running an instance of the function, and to preferentially select a FaaS provider that has other functions that are current executing that are not expected to finish execution at the same time the current function is expected to complete execution. |
US11816336B2 |
Storage system and control method thereof
The present disclosure is to optimize processes in a storage system. A storage system includes: a first controller including a first computing device and a first memory; a second controller including a second computing device and a second memory; and an interface circuit that transfers data between the first controller and the second controller. The interface circuit reads first compressed data from the second memory. The interface circuit decompresses the first compressed data to generate first uncompressed data, and writes the first uncompressed data into the first memory. |
US11816334B2 |
Solid-state drive control device and learning-based solid-state drive data access method
The invention discloses a solid-state drive control device and a learning-based solid-state drive data access method, wherein the method comprises the steps of: presetting a hash table, the hash table comprising more than one hash value, the hash value is used to record and represent data characteristics of data pages in the solid-state drive. Obtaining an I/O data stream of the solid-state drive, and obtaining a hash value corresponding to the I/O data stream in the hash table. Predicting a sequence of data pages and/or data pages that are about to be accessed by a preset first learning model. Prefetching data is performed in the solid-state drive based on an output result of the first learning model. Through the embodiment of the present invention, when predicting prefetched data, learning can be performed in real time to adapt to different application categories and access modes through adaptive adjustment parameters, so that better data prefetching performance can be obtained. |
US11816327B2 |
Display apparatus, method for displaying, and non-transitory recording medium
A display apparatus includes circuitry that displays, on a screen, a table including one or more table elements; receives handwritten data input on the screen by a user operation; and selects, based on the handwritten data, at least one table element of the table. The table element is a row or a column of the table. |
US11816323B2 |
Automation system user interface
Systems and methods include an automation network comprising a gateway at a premises. The gateway is coupled to a remote network and is configured to control components at the premises including at least one of a thermostat and a lock. A sensor user interface (SUI) is coupled to the gateway and presented to a user via remote client devices. The SUI includes display elements for managing and receiving data of the components agnostically across the remote client devices. The display elements include an interactive icon comprising control regions. Each control region is configured to control a state change of a corresponding component. |
US11816318B2 |
Application compatibility on a computing device
According to an aspect, a method includes installing an application on a computing device, determining whether to activate a compatibility mode for the application, in response to activating the compatibility mode, determining a restriction to a change to an application window size or shape of a user interface of the application, and rendering a user interface object defining a plurality of predefined sizing options for the user interface of the application. |
US11816317B2 |
Systems and methods for rendering user interface elements
A computer system stores information for a plurality of layouts of one or more user interface elements locally. Each layout corresponds to at least one type of display device, and includes one or more objects associated with the one or more user interface elements. Upon receiving a request for rendering a first user interface element on a display device, the computer system identifies a type of the display device and determines a first one of the at least one type of display device accordingly. The computer system then extracts information for a first layout corresponding to the first one of the at least one type of display device (e.g., information for a subset of objects that is stored with the first layout and corresponds to the first user interface element), and renders the subset of objects corresponding to the first user interface element on the display device accordingly. |
US11816310B1 |
Multi-view audio and video interactive playback
An interactive multi-view module identifies a plurality of media items associated with one or more real-world events. Each of the plurality of media items is created by capturing the real-world events from a particular geographic location. The interactive multi-view module determines a geographic position associated with each of the media items and presents the media items in an interactive multi-view player interface based at least on the geographic positions. The interactive multi-view player interface allows a user to switch between of media items, and indicates at least one of a video density indicating a number of media items available at a given point in time or an event highlight indicating a popularity of the media items at a given point in time. The popularity of the respective media items is determined using one or more factors comprising a number of views of the media items at a given point in time. |
US11816309B2 |
User interface logical and execution view navigation and shifting
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) comprises a development interface that affords a user a great deal of control over the editing tools, workspace canvases, and project information rendered at a given time. The industrial IDE system automatically filters the tools, panels, and information available for selection based on a current project development task, such that a focused subset of editing tools relevant to a current development task or context are made available for selection while other tools are hidden. The development interface also allows the user to selectively render or hide selected tools or information from among the relevant, filtered set of tools. This can reduce or eliminate unnecessary clutter and aid in quickly and easily locating and selecting a desired editing function. The IDE's development interface can also conform to a structured organization of workspace canvases and panels that facilitates intuitive workflow. |
US11816306B2 |
Media content detection and management
A method and a system include receiving indication of a user interaction within a pre-determined time period, determining that the user interaction is a contextual triggering event based on a plurality of triggering conditions, identifying a media content item associated with the contextual triggering event, generating a first user interface including a user-selectable element representing a content transmission proposal, in response to detecting a user selection of the user-selectable element, generating a second user interface, the second user interface including the media content item and a plurality of user-selectable entity icons. |
US11816304B2 |
Presenting content received from third-party resources
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application, a first content item generated by a first client device using a third-party resource; generating the first content item for display on a second client device together with an indication of the third-party resource used to generate the first content item; receiving, from the second client device, selection of the indication of the third-party resource; generating, for display on the second client device, a first user interface that includes a plurality of content items associated with the third-party resource and a first option to access the third-party resource, the plurality of content items including the first content item; and enabling the second client device to use the third-party resource in response to receiving selection of the first option to access the third-party resource. |
US11816296B2 |
External user interface for head worn computing
Aspects of the present invention relate to user interfere control of a head-worn computer. |
US11816295B2 |
Electronic devices having moisture-insensitive optical touch sensors
An electronic device may have a touch sensitive display that is insensitive to the presence of moisture. An array of pixels in the display may be used to display images. A display cover layer may overlap the array of pixels. A light source may illuminate an external object such as a finger of a user when the object contacts a surface of the display cover layer. This creates scattered light that may be detected by an array of light sensors. The light source may supply light to an edge of the display cover layer at an angle that ensures total internal reflection within the display cover layer is sustained across the display cover layer even when the display cover layer is immersed in water or otherwise exposed to moisture. |
US11816294B2 |
Image processing device, imaging device, method of controlling image processing device, and recording medium, with outputting image if accepting first action and with outputting distribution information of evaluation values if accepting second action
Provided are an output unit configured to output an image or distribution information of evaluation values corresponding to a plurality of regions of the image, an operation unit configured to accept a first action and a second action different from the first action; and a control unit configured to execute, when the output unit outputs a first image, output control such that the output unit outputs a second image if the operation unit accepts the first action, and that the output unit outputs distribution information of the evaluation values corresponding to the first image if the operation unit accepts the second action. |
US11816287B2 |
Low electromagnetic interference (EMI) solution for touch products
Apparatuses and methods of differential driving of adjacent electrodes for low electromagnetic interference (EMI) for scanning a touch panel are described. One apparatus generates an in-phase drive signal and an opposite-phase drive signal and applies, at a substantially same time, the in-phase drive signal to a first transmitter electrode and the opposite-phase drive signal to a second transmitter electrode adjacent to the first transmitter electrode. The apparatus receives a first sense signal from a first receiver electrode and a second sense signal from a second receiver electrode adjacent to the first receiver electrode. The apparatus combines the first sense signal and the second sense signal to obtain a third sense signal. The third sense signal represents a first self capacitance associated with the first receiver electrode. The apparatus detects a presence of an object on a touch panel using at least the first self capacitance. |
US11816285B2 |
Devices and methods for enhancing proximity sensing performance in input-display devices
An input-display device includes a display panel, sensor electrodes, and a display driver. The display panel includes source lines. The sensor electrodes are capacitively coupled to the source lines. The display driver is configured to receive image data. The display driver is further configured to process the image data in response to a detection of a horizontal stripe pattern in an image corresponding to the image data. The display driver is further configured to drive the source lines based at least in part on the processed image data. |
US11816278B1 |
Display panel and electronic device
A display panel and an electronic device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, first touch coils, pad groups, light-emitting units, and connection lines. The first touch coils are disposed on the substrate. The pad groups are disposed on the substrate. The pad groups are disposed on a side of the first touch coils facing away the substrate. The light-emitting units are disposed on the corresponding pad groups. The connection lines are disposed insulated from the first touch coils. The connection lines are connected to two pad groups. The connection lines and the first touch coils are disposed in different layers. The connection lines intersect with the first touch coils. Intersection positions of the connection lines and the first touch coils form overlapping regions. Concave portions are defined at a surface of the connection lines close to the first touch coils. |
US11816275B1 |
In-air control regions
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to in-air control regions. Communication between an electronic pen and a device can be established. Two or more in-air control regions above the device can be defined, each in-air control region specifying a set of functions that can be performed by the electronic pen. A determination can be made that the electronic pen is within a first in-air control region of the two or more in-air control regions, the first in-air control region specifying a first set of functions that can be performed by the electronic pen. In response to input received from the electronic pen within the first in-air control region, at least one function of the first set of functions can be executed. |
US11816270B2 |
Electronic device that operates according to user's hand gesture, and image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a camera that shoots a user's hand raised up in the air, a HDD containing a plurality of hand gestures including actions of the specific finger making contact with another finger, and commands respectively associated with the plurality of hand gestures, a hand gesture recognizer that recognizes the hand gesture, from a plurality of shot images sequentially acquired from the camera, a command acquirer that acquires the command associated with the hand gesture recognized by the hand gesture recognizer, from the HDD, and a controller that performs an operation according to the command acquired by the command acquirer, on the position of a cursor on a screen of a display device. |
US11816268B2 |
Actuator and retraction mechanism for force feedback exoskeleton
Improved actuator and retraction mechanisms for force feedback exoskeletons are described. An actuator assembly for a force-feedback exoskeleton comprising: a rotating body coupled to a tendon and to a spring, said spring configured to produce a torque on the rotating body; and a second body having a surface configured to apply a variable force to a surface of the rotating body by means of a membrane enclosing a volume fluidically coupled to at least one control valve and to a pressurized fluid source, wherein the volume enclosed by the membrane comprises: a first pressure state in which the rotating body contacts the second body; and a second pressure state in which the rotating body does not contact the second body. |
US11816265B1 |
Providing scenes in a virtual environment based on health data using extended reality
In some implementations, an extended reality (XR) device may generate a first event in a virtual environment, wherein the first event is associated with a first difficulty level. The XR device may detect vital information of a user associated with the XR device, wherein the vital information is associated with the first event. The XR device may determine whether the vital information satisfies a threshold. The XR device may transmit, to a server, an indication that indicates whether the vital information satisfies the threshold. The XR device may receive, from the server, virtual environment information, wherein the virtual environment information is based on whether the vital information satisfies the threshold. The XR device may generate, based on the virtual environment information, a second event in the virtual environment, wherein the second event is associated with a second difficulty level. |
US11816258B1 |
Head-mounted display system
A head-mounted display system is disclosed herein. The head-mounted display system includes an input device, the input device configured to output an input signal based upon an input response by a user; a head-mounted visual display device having an output screen, the head-mounted visual display device configured to display one or more screen images on the output screen; and at least one data processing device operatively coupled to the input device and the head-mounted visual display device. The at least one data processing device is programmed to generate and display at least one displaceable visual object and visual target on the output screen of the head-mounted visual display device; receive an input signal from the input device based upon an input response by the user; and control the movement of the displaceable visual object towards the visual target based upon the input signal received from the input device. |
US11816256B2 |
Interpreting commands in extended reality environments based on distances from physical input devices
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media including instructions for selectively operating a wearable extended reality appliance are disclosed. Selectively operating the wearable extended reality appliance includes establishing a link between a wearable extended reality appliance and a keyboard device; receiving sensor data from at least one sensor associated with the wearable extended reality appliance, the sensor data being reflective of a relative orientation of the wearable extended reality appliance with respect to the keyboard device; based on the relative orientation, selecting from a plurality of operation modes a specific operation mode for the wearable extended reality appliance; identifying a user command based on at least one signal detected by the wearable extended reality appliance; and executing an action responding to the identified user command in a manner consistent with the selected operation mode. |
US11816254B2 |
Method and system for dynamic selection of application dialog layout design
This disclosure provides a system and method for selecting an application dialog layout design based on a response pattern for a task-based application. A plurality of user interface layouts may be generated based on a first user interface layout, where the first user interface layout is associated with a task included in a process of a computer-implemented software application. One or more performance metrics associated with each user interface layout of the plurality of user interface layouts may be monitored, where the one or more performance metrics characterize a performance of the task by one or more task users. A second user interface layout may be selected based on an analysis of the one or more performance metrics. The second user interface layout may be provided to a plurality of users of a computer-implemented software application. |
US11816253B2 |
Enabling secure communication via attestation of multi-tenant configuration on accelerator devices
An apparatus to facilitate enabling secure communication via attestation of multi-tenant configuration on accelerator devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to: verify a base bitstream of an accelerator device, the base bitstream published by a cloud service provider (CSP); verify partial reconfiguration (PR) boundary setups and PR isolation of an accelerator device, the PR boundary setups and PR isolation published by the CSP; generate PR bitstream to fit within at least one PR region of the PR boundary setups of the accelerator device; inspect accelerator device attestation received from a secure device manager (SDM) of the accelerator device; and responsive to successful inspection of the accelerator device attestation, provide the PR bitstream to the CSP for PR reconfiguration of the accelerator device. |
US11816252B2 |
Managing control of a security processor in a supply chain
Embodiments of systems and methods for managing control of a security processor in a supply chain are described. In some embodiments, a security processor may include: a core; and a memory coupled to the core, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the core, cause the security processor to: store a first public key usable to initiate a first secure boot process and unusable to initiate a second secure boot process; store a second public key usable to initiate the second secure boot process and unusable to initiate the first secure boot process; and in response to a first change of control or ownership of the security processor, render the first public key unusable to initiate the first secure boot process. |
US11816249B2 |
System and method for dynamic management of private data
Systems and methods of dynamic management of private data during communication between a remote server and a user's device, including receipt of a request for retrieval of at least one data packet from the user's device, wherein the user's device is configured to provide a response corresponding to the received request, determination of at least one communication data type of the at least one data packet corresponding to the received request, receipt of a privacy preference for the user's device, wherein the privacy preference comprises a list of allowed data packet communication types for sharing during communication, modification of data packets corresponding to requests for sharing of responses that are not compatible with the received privacy preference and maintenance of communication between the remote server and the user's device, with sharing of the modified data packet. |
US11816247B2 |
Method for a multi-country data pipeline to protect personally identifying information
A multi-country data pipeline keeps all of the PII received from a user that is in a first country in the first country. The data pipeline allows the non-personal data received from the user to be transmitted and analyzed in a second country. The method further allows the results of the analysis in the second country to be transmitted back to the first country where the PII is added to the results of the analysis. The data pipeline allows the results of the analysis in the second country to be used to take a desired action for the user in the first country, all while the PII of the user never leaves the first country. |
US11816246B2 |
Modeling techniques to classify data sets containing personal identifiable information comprising numerical identifiers
Modeling techniques to classify data sets containing personal identifiable information (PII) comprising identifiers are provided. In one technique, multiple data sets are identified, each data set containing identifiers that were generated by a computer system and that qualify as PII of a known identifier (ID) type. For each of the multiple data sets, a model is generated based on that data set and added to a set of models. A target data set that contains identifiers that were generated by the computer system and that qualify as PII of an unknown ID type is identified. A target model is generated based on the target data set. For at least one model in the set of models, a similarity operation of that model and the target model is performed. Based on the similarity operation, it is determined whether to associate the ID type of that model with the target data set. |
US11816243B2 |
Preserving user-entity differential privacy in natural language modeling
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can generate a natural language model that provides user-entity differential privacy. For example, in one or more embodiments, a system samples sensitive data points from a natural language dataset. Using the sampled sensitive data points, the system determines gradient values corresponding to the natural language model. Further, the system generates noise for the natural language model. The system generates parameters for the natural language model using the gradient values and the noise, facilitating simultaneous protection of the users and sensitive entities associated with the natural language dataset. In some implementations, the system generates the natural language model through an iterative process (e.g., by iteratively modifying the parameters). |
US11816240B1 |
Self-modifying data containers for improved data security
A self-modifying data container for improved data security and methods of use are disclosed. The self-modifying data container includes a data storage structure for storing financial transaction information. The self-modifying data container also includes a data manager stored as code within the container. The data manager can run on a system hosting the self-modifying data container. The data manager can access transaction information in the data storage structure and modify the data in response to modification triggers. The data manager can delete data in the data storage structure. The data manager can also encrypt data in the data storage structure. The self-modifying data container improves both data security and data privacy. |
US11816237B2 |
Methods and systems for encrypting data using object-based screens
A system and method is provided for encrypting data for secure storage or transport. The method includes generating object-based wave screen(s) and optionally stumbling block(s) and/or XOR block(s) associated with a block map layout. For each data segment to be encrypted, the method includes positioning the bits of the data segment within the block map layout to generate a data map, and encrypting the data map by applying the object-based wave screen(s) and optionally the stumbling block(s) and/or XOR block(s) to remap the positions of the bits within the block map layout. The encrypted data map is then stored or transported as a representation of the data segment. |
US11816232B2 |
Privacy score
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may calculate and inform a consumer of company privacy scores corresponding to companies with which the consumer has a corresponding account, or for a company associated with a website that a consumer may visit. A consumer privacy score may also be determined, based on the company privacy scores. The company privacy scores may be based on a calculation including elements of a privacy practice of the corresponding company and elements of a privacy policy of the corresponding company. |
US11816231B2 |
Using machine-learning models to determine graduated levels of access to secured data for remote devices
Aspects of the disclosure relate to using machine-learning models to determine graduated levels of access to secured data for remote devices. In some embodiments, a computing platform may establish a connection with a mobile device. Subsequently, based on establishing the connection, the platform may identify initial device information, device features, and user information. The platform may input the identified information into an authentication model to compute a baseline authentication score and then may identify an initial level of access to secured resources for the mobile device. Thereafter, the platform may receive from the mobile device, AR/VR device information captured by the mobile device. The platform may input the AR/VR device information into the authentication model to compute an augmented authentication score. Based on the augmented score, the platform may identify an augmented level of access to secured resources for the mobile device. |
US11816228B2 |
Metadata tweak for channel encryption differentiation
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a metadata tweak for channel encryption differentiation are disclosed. A memory controller retrieves a device-unique identifier (ID) from a memory device coupled to a given memory channel slot. The memory controller uses the device-unique ID to generate a tweak value used for encrypting data stored in the device. In one scenario, the device-unique ID is embedded in the address bits of the tweak process. In this way, the memory device can be migrated to a different memory channel since the data can be decrypted independently of the channel. This is possible since the device-unique ID used for the tweak operation is retrieved from the metadata stored locally on the memory device. In one implementation, the memory device is a persistent dual in-line memory module (DIMM). In some implementations, the link between memory controller and memory device is a compute express link (CXL) compliant link. |
US11816221B2 |
Source code vulnerability scanning and detection smart glasses
Systems and methods for leveraging smart glasses for identifying vulnerabilities in application source code is provided. The smart glasses may be configured to scan the code from a user interface (“UI”) linked to an internal development platform and project the scanned code on a display of the smart glasses. Using deep learning, the smart glasses may be enabled to identify one or more vulnerabilities within the scanned application source code. The smart glasses may link a vulnerability classification code for each identified vulnerability. The smart glasses may generate a vulnerability report file including the scanned application source code, each identified vulnerability and its linked vulnerability classification code and transfer the vulnerability report file to a source code repository within the internal development platform. The scanned application source code may be matched to the original application source code and further separate the marched original application source code for assessment. |
US11816212B2 |
Large scale zero trust malware detection
A malware detection facility is described. In a first computer system, the facility receives from a second computer system ciphertext obtained by subjecting plaintext file contents to homomorphic encryption. In the first computer system, the facility performs a malware detection operation directly on the received ciphertext. |
US11816209B1 |
Systems and methods for protecting data on devices
A computer-implemented method for protecting data on devices may include (i) identifying a device that is operated by a user and that comprises private data pertaining to the user, (ii) determining that stalkerware on the device is sending the private data to an unauthorized device not operated by the user, (iii) requesting, in response to determining that the stalkerware is sending the private data to the unauthorized device, that the user select at least one safety plan step from a set of safety plan options, and (iv) modifying, at least in part based on the safety plan step selected by the user, outgoing data sent by the stalkerware to the unauthorized device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
US11816206B2 |
Function pointer protection
A system includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor is configured to supply a library with a list of safe callback values, protect the list of safe callback values, invoke a callback, and validate the callback against the list of safe callback values to determine a status of the callback. The status of the callback is one of safe and unsafe. Additionally, the processor is configured to execute the callback responsive to determining the status of the callback is safe. The processor is also configured to abort the callback responsive to determining the status of the callback is unsafe. |
US11816205B2 |
Detecting and handling attacks on processes executing within a trusted execution environment
Systems and methods for detecting and handling attacks on processes executing within a trusted execution environment (TEE) are disclosed. In one implementation, a processing device may detect by a first process an event indicating that a first process executing in a TEE of a host computer system is under attack from a second process executing on the host computer system. the processing device may set a flag within a memory region of the TEE indicating that the first process is under attack. The processing device may further perform, in view of an attack response policy associated with the first process, an action responsive to detecting the event. |
US11816201B2 |
Data link layer authenticity and security for automotive communication system
The present disclosure relates to authenticity and data security for bus-based communication networks in a vehicle. The present disclosure teaches a protocol frame, a sender on data link layer, and a receiver on data link layer providing such authenticity and data security as well as a communication network in a vehicle employing the protocol frame, the sender and the receiver according to the present disclosure. |
US11816198B2 |
Systems and methods for geolocation security using biometric analysis
The present invention is generally related to systems and methods for providing an improved authentication and verification system through the use of compiled user data and user location or traffic data from multiple channels of input. Multiple devices may be utilized by the system in order to receive and process data to authenticate user identities and verify the validity of account activity. |
US11816197B2 |
Method of authenticating user and apparatus thereof
Disclosed is user authentication. A user authentication method includes receiving a plurality of images including at least one object, extracting biological information from the plurality of images, performing user authentication based on a difference between the extracted biological information and biological information of a user stored in a memory, and updating a parameter of a learning model for the user authentication when a result of the execution of the user authentication satisfies a preset condition. The mobile terminal and the AI system of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a drone (or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to 5G service, etc. |
US11816195B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus in the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first history information indicating that a procedure related to boarding of a passenger in an airport was performed with biometric authentication and second history information indicating that the procedure was performed with reading of a medium; and an output unit that outputs usage status of the biometric authentication in the procedure based on the first history information and the second history information. |
US11816192B2 |
Computer system providing virtual computing session license distribution features and related methods
A system may include a license publishing server, a plurality of licensing servers arranged in a cluster and configured to communicate with the license publishing server to obtain a given number of authorized licenses for virtual computing sessions associated with the cluster, and a plurality of geographically distributed virtualization servers configured to obtain authorized licenses from the plurality of licensing servers and run virtual computing sessions for client computing devices based upon the authorized licenses. The licensing servers may be configured to, based upon a consensus protocol, distribute the authorized licenses to the virtualization servers, reach an agreement among the licensing servers regarding whether a number of authorized licenses in use across the virtualization servers has exceeded the given number of authorized licenses, and cease to distribute authorized licenses to the virtualization servers based upon agreement that the number of authorized licenses in use has exceeded the given number. |
US11816190B2 |
Systems and methods to analyze open source components in software products
Considering the number of OSS components and the number of OSS license types available today, the number of license attributes to be considered for analyzing a product at a granular level is a challenge to perform manually, prudently considering legal implications of non-compliance and contamination and also within the limited time available today before go to market in the software industry. Systems and methods of the present disclosure intelligently facilitates a matrix which is able to identify OSS components in a deliverable and also facilitates the product owner to identify proprietary IP that can be suitably protected and licensed without contamination by the accompanying OSS components in the product under consideration. License attributes of the OSS components are mapped suitably and a final attribute is derived for each OSS component embedded in the product under consideration. |
US11816188B2 |
Weakly supervised one-shot image segmentation
A machine learning model may be trained based on a training set including training images depicting various base objects. Each training images may be associated with a ground-truth segmentation corresponding to one or more pixel-wise labels. The machine learning model may be trained to learn base class prototypes corresponding to segmentations of classes of similar base objects. The machine learning model may be further trained based on a support image depicting a novel object. The support image may be associated with an image-level label corresponding to the novel object. The machine learning model may be trained to learn, based on a base class prototype identified as being similar to the support image, a novel class prototype corresponding to the novel object. The trained machine learning model to may be applied to segment a query image. Related systems and computer program products are also provided. |
US11816187B2 |
Anomaly detection in event-based systems using image processing
At least one processor may capture a plurality of image snapshots containing information about a monitored system at a plurality of sequential times, each snapshot having the same vertical and horizontal dimensions. The processor may label the plurality of image snapshots as indicative of an event that took place in the monitored system, may receive additional data describing the event, may cluster the labeled plurality of image snapshots and the additional data using at least one machine learning clustering algorithm, and may merge the clustered plurality of image snapshots and the clustered additional data into merged data. The processors may create a model by processing the merged data using at least one neural network, the model being configured to detect future events of a same type as the event in the monitored system. The processor may store the model in a memory in communication with the processor. |
US11816180B2 |
Method and apparatus for classifying mixed signals, and electronic device
Disclosed is a method for classifying mixed signals, comprising: receiving mixed signals; performing calculation on a matrix corresponding to the mixed signals by means of a preset Principal Component Analysis method to obtain to-be-classified mixed signals and to determine the number of types of signals contained in the to-be-classified mixed signals; determining a separation matrix based on the number of types of signals contained in the to-be-classified mixed signals; separating individual signals in the to-be-classified mixed signals by means of the separation matrix to obtain to-be-identified signals; calculating a preset number of high-order cumulants corresponding to each to-be-identified signal in the to-be-identified signals respectively; taking the calculated high-order cumulants as characteristics of the to-be-identified signal corresponding to the high-order cumulants respectively; inputting the characteristics of the to-be-identified signal into a preset classification model; and obtaining a modulation mode of the to-be-identified signal. The method according to the embodiment of the present application imposes no requirements on the classification environment, which is different from the prior arts in which the mixed signals can be classified only when certain conditions are met. Therefore, the method has universal applicability. |
US11816179B2 |
Mobility and transportation need generator using neural networks
A method, software tool, and system for generating realistic synthetic ride-requests associated with a mobility or transportation service, including: utilizing a generative adversarial network, learning the spatial-temporal distribution of a plurality of real ride-requests; and, utilizing the generative adversarial network and based on the learning step, generating one or more synthetic source and destination ride-request geolocations that retain a statistical distribution of the plurality of real ride-requests. The generative adversarial network is a Wasserstein generative adversarial network. |
US11816175B2 |
Webpage element visibility evaluation based on position and scrolling actions
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for analyzing multiple states of a webpage. One method includes operations for tracking user activity for a set of users while interacting with a webpage to obtain session replay data. Further, the method includes analyzing the session replay data to obtain states for the webpage and causing presentation of a first user interface (UI) for selecting one state. The method further includes receiving a selection of a first state and causing presentation of a second UI for configuring tracking options to track the first state while users viewing the webpage are in the first state. The method further includes receiving, in the second UI, tracking options values for the first state, analyzing views of the first state of the webpage based on the tracking options values, and causing presentation of performance metrics associated with the first state based on the analyzed views. |
US11816174B2 |
Enhanced search with morphed images
A search system performs item searches using morphed images. Given two or more input images of objects, the search system uses a generative model to generate one or more morphed images. Each morphed image shows an object of the object type of the input images. Additionally, the object in each morphed image combines visual characteristics of the objects in the input images. The morphed images may be presented to a user, who may select a particular morphed image for searching. A search is performed using a morphed image to identify items that are visually similar to the object in the morphed image. Search results for the items identified from the search are returned for presentation. |
US11816172B2 |
Data processing method, server, and computer storage medium
This application describes a data processing method, a server, and a computer storage medium. In a method, a real-time data stream is collected. The real-time data stream includes a plurality of usage data for a plurality of content. Each of the plurality of usage data is associated with (i) content identification information of a respective one of the plurality of content and (ii) a time stamp of the respective usage data and indicating one of a plurality of user actions that is performed on the respective one of the plurality of content. Further, each of the plurality of user actions is associated with an action weight. A user status queue is generated according to the plurality of usage data and the associated content identification information. A user status feature is determined. Recommended information is determined according to the user status feature and is sent to a user terminal. |
US11816171B2 |
Online outreach-based reward model generation for user information search
Online outreach based reward model generation is described. A set of features that are indicative of an online outreach for a user are determined, the online outreach originating from a particular online network. Based on this set of features, an online outreach for the user originating from the particular online network is determined. A reward model is derived from the online outreach for the user. The reward model indicates locations within the particular online network that are to be searched for user information. |
US11816169B2 |
Efficient uniques querying
Efficient uniques querying is disclosed, including: receiving a search query for a number of unique audience members across a plurality of groups of audience members; obtaining a plurality of sets of representations corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of groups of audience members; selecting at least a subset from each of the plurality of sets of representations; merging the selected at least subsets of the plurality of sets of representations into a merged set of representations; determining the number of unique audience members across the plurality of groups of audience members based at least in part on the merged set of representations; and outputting the number of unique audience members across the plurality of groups of audience members. |
US11816165B2 |
Identification of fields in documents with neural networks without templates
Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for identification of fields in documents using neural networks. A method of the disclosure includes obtaining a layout of a document, the document having a plurality of fields, identifying the document, based on the layout, as belonging to a first type of documents of a plurality of identified types of documents, identifying a plurality of symbol sequences of the document, and processing, by a processing device, the plurality of symbol sequences of the document using a first neural network associated with the first type of documents to determine an association of a first field of the plurality of fields with a first symbol sequence of the plurality of symbol sequences of the document. |
US11816163B2 |
Systems and methods for improved transactional mainframes
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a system for improved transactional mainframes, the system comprising a processor, a database, an application programming interface (API) module, and a transaction import module. The API module can be configured to: receive transaction data comprising a transaction type, a user identifier, one or more transaction card identifiers, and one or more fields associated with the transaction card identifiers; validate the transaction data using one or more of the stored validation rules associated with the one or more transaction card identifiers; generate one or more transaction cards; and store the transaction data and transaction cards to the database. The transaction import module can be configured to submit the transaction cards to the mainframe, view the status of submitted records, and enable retrying of transaction cards that failed to process. |
US11816157B2 |
Efficient storage and query of schemaless data
A method of storing semi-structured data includes receiving user data from a user of a query system where the user data includes semi-structured user data. The method also includes receiving an indication that the semi-structured user data fails to include a fixed schema. In response to the indication that the semi-structured user data fails to include the fixed schema, the method further includes parsing the semi-structured user data into a plurality of data paths and extracting a data type associated with each respective data path of the plurality of data paths. The method additionally includes storing the semi-structured user data as a row entry in a table of a database in communication with the query system wherein each column value associated with the row entry corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of data paths and the data type associated with the respective data path. |
US11816155B2 |
Automated field placement for uploaded documents
Users of a database management engine may generate fillable digital documents by mapping interface elements onto form documents. When a user maps interface elements onto a form document, the user may accidentally overlap two or more interface elements. To rectify this, the database management engine may modify the position of one of interface elements based on a set of positioning rules. In addition, the database management engine may identify and suggest mappings to users based on similar documents that have been previously mapped. The database management engine identifies similar documents using information about the document, the user, and the mapping itself. The mapping associated with the most similar document may be provided to the user as a suggested mapping. The database management engine converts the form document and finalized mapping into a fillable digital document. The fillable digital document is sent to recipients, who complete the fillable digital document. |
US11816151B2 |
Music cover identification with lyrics for search, compliance, and licensing
Embodiments cover identifying an unidentified media content item as a cover of a known media content item using lyrical contents. In an example, a processing device receives an unidentified media content item and determines lyrical content associated with the unidentified media content item. The processing device then determines a lyrical similarity between the lyrical content associated with the unidentified media content item and additional lyrical content associated with a known media content item of a plurality of known media content items. The processing device then identifies the unidentified media content item as a cover of the known media content item based at least in part on the lyrical similarity, resulting in an identified cover-media content item. |
US11816149B2 |
Electronic device and control method thereof
An electronic device and a method for controlling thereof are provided. A method for controlling an electronic device according to the disclosure includes obtaining a plurality of images for performing clustering, obtaining a plurality of target areas corresponding to each of the plurality of images, obtaining a plurality of feature vectors corresponding to the plurality of target areas, obtaining a plurality of central nodes corresponding to the plurality of feature vectors, obtaining neighbor nodes associated with each of the plurality of central nodes, obtaining a subgraph based on the plurality of central nodes and the neighbor nodes, identifying the connection probabilities between the plurality of central nodes of the subgraph and the neighbor nodes of each of the plurality of central nodes based on a graph convolutional network, and clustering the plurality of target areas based on the identified connection probabilities. |
US11816147B2 |
Enhanced image-search using contextual tags
Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards providing contextual tags for an image based on a contextual analysis of associated images captured in the same environment as the image. To determine contextual tags, content tags can be determined for images. The determined content tags can be associated with categories based on a contextual classification of the content tags. These associated content tags can then be designated as contextual tags for a respective category. To associate these contextual tags with the images, the images can be iterated through based on how the images relate to the contextual tags. For instance, when an image is associated with a category, the contextual tags classified into that category can be assigned to that image. |
US11816145B2 |
Method, system and computer program for coloring based on deep learning
A deep learning-based coloring system includes a memory network configured to provide a color feature in response to a specific query and a coloring network configured to perform coloring, based on the color feature generated by the memory network. The memory network includes: a query generation unit configured to generate a query; a neighbor calculation unit configured to calculate k-nearest neighbors, based on similarities between the query and key memory values; a color feature determination unit configured to generate color features for indicating color information stored in the key memory; a threshold triplet loss calculation unit configured to calculate a threshold triplet loss, based on a comparison between a threshold and a distance between the color features; and a memory update unit configured to update a memory, based on whether a distance between a top value and a value of a newly input query is within the threshold. |
US11816144B2 |
Hair pattern determination and filtering
Described are systems and methods to determine hair patterns presented in content items. The determined hair patterns may be associated with the content items to facilitate indexing, filtering, etc. of the content items based on the determined hair patterns. In exemplary implementations, a corpus of content items may be associated with an embedding vector that includes a binary representation of the content item. The embedding vectors associated with each content item can be provided as inputs to a trained machine learning model, which can process the embedding vectors to determine one or more hair patterns presented in each content item while eliminating the need for performing image pre-processing prior to determination of the hair pattern(s) presented in the content item. |
US11816142B2 |
Secure matching and identification of patterns
A framework is provided in which a querying agency can request (via a query entity) encrypted data through a service provider from a data owning agency that stores encrypted data. The framework uses homomorphic encryption. The data may be gallery entities, and each of the elements in the framework operate on doubly-encrypted information. The service provider compares a representation of an encrypted query entity from the querying agency and representations of encrypted gallery entities from the data owning agency, resulting in doubly-encrypted values of a metric between corresponding compared representations. The querying agency gets result(s), based on the metric, which indicate whether it is probable the service provider has data similar to or the same as query data in the query entity. The elements have to perform communication in order for the querying agency or the data owning agency to get cleartext information corresponding to the query entity. |
US11816141B2 |
Media consumption history
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a request that includes a user identifier of a user that submitted a search query and an entity identifier of an entity that is referenced by the search query, identifying a plurality of knowledge elements that are related to the entity, identifying, in a consumption database, one or more items that have been indicated as consumed by the user and that are associated with the entity that is referenced by the search query, assigning rank scores to the plurality of knowledge elements, based at least on identifying the one or more items, selecting one or more of the knowledge elements from among the knowledge elements based at least on the rank scores assigned to the knowledge elements, and providing, in response to the request, information associated with the entity and the one or more selected knowledge elements. |
US11816139B2 |
Block-level classification of unstructured data
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for block-level classification of unstructured data are provided herein. An example apparatus includes a host device comprising a processor coupled to memory, the host device being configured to communicate over a network with a storage system, and further being configured to: obtain a pointer to a page cache associated with an input-output operation for at least one page of unstructured data of a file; obtain an index node object of the file based at least in part on the pointer to the page cache; derive at least one characteristic of the file based at least in part on the obtained index node object; and provide an indication of the at least one characteristic to the storage system. The storage system determines whether to apply one or more functions to the unstructured data based on the indication. |
US11816138B2 |
Systems and methods for parsing log files using classification and a plurality of neural networks
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for parsing unstructured data with neural networks. In one implementation, a system for parsing unstructured data may include at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to: receive unstructured data; apply a classifier to the unstructured data to identify a type of the unstructured data; based on the identification, select a corresponding neural network; apply the selected neural network to the unstructured data to obtain structured data; and output the structured data. |
US11816134B1 |
System and method for reduction of data transmission in dynamic systems using causal graphs
Methods and systems for managing data collection in a distributed system are disclosed. The system may include a data aggregator and a data collector. The data aggregator may aggregate data collected by the data collector. To reduce the computing resources used to aggregate data, the data aggregator and data collector may implement a multi-stage data reduction processes to reduce the quantity of data transmitted for data aggregation purposes. The multi-stage data reduction process may include implementing twin inference models at the aggregator and collector, identifying relationships in the data collected by the data collector, transmitting a portion of the collected data to the data aggregator based on acceptable level of error for use of the collected data, and reconstructing the un-transmitted portion of the collected data at the aggregator. The reconstructed portion of the collected data may include the acceptable level of error. |
US11816133B2 |
Crowdsourced problem-solution directory
The present disclosure is directed to a crowdsourced problem-solution directory and a computer implemented, node-based system to inventory problems, needs, and solutions. Within this framework, individuals & teams can use their cognition and reasoning to identify and describe problems, goals, and solutions as well as their respective causal connections, and then use a computer interface to add this information to a shared database. This crowdsourced database will then represent a universal problem-solution object. This tree-like, multidimensional node network serves the purpose to inventory every problem, every goal, and every solution, as well as their casualties, represented as nodal connections. |
US11816132B2 |
Method and system for optimizing data storage of query statistics of graph database
Disclosed are a method and a system for optimizing data storage of query statistics of a graph database. The method includes: periodically scanning, on storage servers in which partitions are located, all edges in the partitions; determining, according to all the edges in the partitions, partitions to which start points and end points belong, and calculating outgoing-edge correlation and incoming-edge correlation between partitions; calculating relevancies between partitions through a preset correlation matrix weight according to the outgoing-edge correlation and the incoming-edge correlation between partitions; and storing partitions with high relevancies on a same storage server. The present disclosure solves the problems of difficult optimization of storage distribution, as well as high resource consumption and low efficiency of query statistics of a graph database, and implements partition distribution of a graph database with an optimized distribution architecture, thereby reducing resource consumption of data calling and improving performance of the graph database. |
US11816131B2 |
Cross-domain clusterability evaluation for cross-guided data clustering based on alignment between data domains
A method and system. Target clusterability is calculated as an average of a respective clusterability of at least one target data item comprised by a target domain. Target-side matchability is calculated as an average of a respective matchability of each target centroid of the target domain to source centroids of a source domain, wherein the source domain comprises at least one source data item. Source-side matchability is calculated as an average of a respective matchability of each source centroid of said source centroids to the target centroids. Source-target pair matchability is calculated as an average of the target-side matchability and the source-side matchability. Cross-domain clusterability between the target domain and the source domain is calculated as a linear combination of the calculated target clusterability and the calculated source-target pair matchability. The cross-domain clusterability is transferred to a device. |
US11816130B2 |
Generating and controlling an elastically scalable stamp data structure for storing data
In a computing system, data is ingested into a primary row of shards in a stamp data structure. The stamp data structure includes a primary row of data shards and a set of replica rows of data shards so the data shards are arranged in rows and columns in the stamp structure. The ingested data is replicated from the primary row into the replica rows of data shards. Each of the data shards, in each row, is evaluated to identify a particular data shard in each column of shards to generate a logical row of data shards. Queries against the data shards are serviced from the logical row of data shards. The system dynamically controls expansion and contraction of the number of data shards in a row and of the number of replica rows. |
US11816127B2 |
Quality assessment of extracted features from high-dimensional machine learning datasets
A quality determination method, system, and computer program product that includes performing a dimensionality reduction on a high-dimensional dataset to form a dimensional-reduced dataset and determining, using a machine learning tool executed on a computing device, a quality of the dimensional-reduced dataset via a review of an extracted feature extracted from the dimensional-reduced dataset. |
US11816123B2 |
Data transfer with a bit vector operation device
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for direct data transfer. An example method comprises transferring data between a first device and a second device, wherein the first device is a bit vector operation device, and transforming the data using a data transform engine (DTE) by rearranging the data to enable the data to be stored on the first device when transferring the data between the second device and first memory device. |
US11816121B2 |
System and method for matching of database records based on similarities to search queries
A system and method for the matching of database records based on the similarity between fields in the database records and fields in the search queries is provided. A set of database records may be received from a search engine for further refinement of the search results. The database records may be assigned matching strength points, based on comparisons of fields in the search query and fields in the database records. The records that do not meet predetermined qualifying criteria, based on the matching strength points, may be rejected. The remaining records may be merged together, based on the similarity between fields of the remaining records. |
US11816118B2 |
Collaborative dataset consolidation via distributed computer networks
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby a collaborative data layer and associated logic facilitate, for example, efficient access to, and implementation of, collaborative datasets. In some examples, a method may include receiving data representing a query into a collaborative dataset consolidation system, identifying datasets relevant to the query, generating one or more queries to access disparate data repositories, and retrieving data representing query results. In some cases, one or more queries are applied (e.g., as a federated query) to atomized datasets stored in one or more atomized data stores, at least two of which may be different. |
US11816115B2 |
Search query modification database
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for assembling a database for query generation. The database is assembled by receiving a query history log, the query history log including target queries and a mapping between each of the target queries and associated subqueries for each of the target queries, selecting one or more of the associated subqueries for a first target query based on a conditional probability exceeding a threshold for the associated subqueries of the first target query compared to the matching associated subqueries of the other target queries, and including the first target query and the selected one or more associated subqueries for the first target query in the in-memory data structure store for query generation. |
US11816113B2 |
Intelligent analytics for cloud computing applications
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives, from a client device, a request for information associated with a category. In response to the request, the program further accesses a storage to retrieve a first value associated with the category. The program also determines a set of values associated with the category based on a plurality of transactions. The program further determines an optimization level value associated with the category. The program also determines a second value associated with the category based on the first value, the set of values, and the optimization level value. The program further provides, by an application operating on the device, a graphical user interface (GUI) to the client device, the GUI comprising the second value. |
US11816102B2 |
Natural language query translation based on query graphs
Techniques described herein allow for accurate translation of natural language (NL) queries to declarative language. A syntactic dependency parsing tree is generated for an NL query, which is used to map tokens in the query to logical data model concepts. Relationship-type mappings are completed based on relationship constraints. Final mappings are identified for any relationship tokens that are associated with multiple candidate mappings by identifying which candidate mappings have the lowest cost metrics. An NL query-specific query graph is generated based on the mapping data for the NL query and the logical data model. The query graph represents an NL query-specific version of the logical data model where grammatical dependencies between NL query words are translated to the query graph. A query graph is annotated with information, from the mapping data, that is not represented paths in the query graph. The query graph is used generate a computer-executable translation of the NL query. |
US11816098B2 |
Database system public trust ledger contract linkage
A request may be received to access a digital asset uniquely identified by an identifier within an on-demand database system configured to provide computing services to a plurality of entities via the internet. Ownership of the digital asset may be determined based on ownership of a designated smart contract recorded in a public trust ledger. A plurality of related smart contracts recorded in the public trust ledger may be identified. Each of the related smart contracts may be linked with the designated smart contract. Two or more of the smart contracts may each include a respective one or more non-fungible tokens related to the digital asset. A respective state for two or more of a plurality of modifiable values may be determined. Each of the modifiable values may be being stored within a respective one of the plurality of related smart contracts within the public trust ledger. |
US11816097B2 |
Geographical location determination system
Systems and methods for determining accurate addresses for assets are described herein. According to some aspects, a plurality of addresses associated with an asset are compiled from sources such as database systems. For the plurality of address records, scores that correspond to attributes of the address records can be determined. Attributes associated with the address records may include a recency, a source, a date, license plate data, or address type, to name several non-limiting examples. Additionally, a zone of interest for the asset can be determined based on the plurality of address records. The plurality of address records is prioritized based on their distance from the zone of interest and the scores associated with them and, based on the priority, a subset of the plurality of address records is sent to, for example, a service provider. |
US11816096B2 |
Systems and methods for managing designated content in collaboration systems
Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method comprises receiving a content item record in respect of a content item generated at a collaboration system and processing the received content item record to determine if the content item record includes any designated content. In response to determining that the received content item record includes designated content the method further comprises generating a designated content record in respect of the identified designated content and saving the designated content record to a data store. |
US11816094B2 |
Metastable byzantine agreement
An apparatus comprises a first processing node configured to participate in a consensus protocol with a plurality of additional processing nodes. The first processing node is further configured in conjunction with its participation in the consensus protocol to implement repeated polling of respective selected subsets of the additional processing nodes, to resolve a state for a given transaction to a particular one of a plurality of possible states for the given transaction responsive to results of the repeated polling; and to initiate at least one automated action based at least in part on the resolved state for the given transaction. In some embodiments, the first processing node utilizes the results of the repeated polling to maintain a directed acyclic graph or other data structure of transactions that characterizes relationships between the given transaction and a plurality of other transactions. |
US11816091B2 |
Method and apparatus for tracking digital content transfer
A digital content delivery tracking method performed by a central server includes generating a transfer chain for first digital content in a database of the central server, wherein the generating is performed by a transfer chain manager; authenticating a first user, wherein the authenticating is performed by a user authenticator; and generating a first ownership transfer node in the transfer chain, generating a first ownership indicator indicating the first digital content, recording the first ownership indicator in the first ownership transfer node, and recording an identifier of the first user in the first ownership transfer node, which are performed by the transfer chain manager. |
US11816090B2 |
Selectively processing an event published responsive to an operation on a database record that relates to consent
Implementations retrieve a first event that published to a first source of events responsive to updating, deleting, or inserting a first record in a database object that stores records relating to consent. The first event is processed. Processing the first event includes storing in an attribute of a second event an identifier for a second record that relates to the first record and that is in a second database object that stores records relating to consent. If the first record was inserted or updated, processing the first event includes storing in an attribute of the second event one or more identifiers and respective values of fields of the first record based on attributes of the first event. |
US11816089B2 |
Supporting reportability of Internet of Things (IoT) data in the cloud for enterprise contexts
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for selective use of Internet-of-Things (IoT) data in data analytics systems. Implementations include receiving IoT data from an IoT device, determining that hardening is to be applied to the IoT data, comparing a timestamp of the IoT data to a hardening value, and in response to comparing, selectively using the IoT data in one or more uses by the data analytics system. |
US11816082B2 |
Searchable investigation history for event data store
A processing device receives a first query comprising a first field value and a first time period. The processing device performs a first search of a data store to identify a first plurality of events having the first time period and at least one field that comprises the first field value. The processing device generates a first search object comprising the first field value. The processing device generates a search event comprising the first field value and a reference to the first search object. An event entry for the first search event is then written to the data store. Future searches may return both the first search event and other events. |
US11816081B1 |
Efficient query optimization on distributed data sets
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for efficient query execution on distributed data sets, such as in the context of data lakes. In at least one embodiment, indexing information is used to identify candidate and non-candidate portions of a data set. Non-candidate portions may be irrelevant to the query. Indexing information can be encoded using Bloom filters. |
US11816080B2 |
Severity computation of anomalies in information technology operations
Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system, a computer program product, and a method that comprises identifying a plurality of data logs; generating a data model using analyzed time series data from the identified data logs; detecting anomalies within the generated data model; constructing a causal graph using the detected anomalies and retrieved domain knowledge; computing a severity value for the detected anomalies with the constructed causal graph; assigning the detected anomaly to a classification based on a function vector, wherein the computed severity value is a function vector; and automatically modifying a function of a computing device based on the function vector of the assigned, detected anomaly, wherein a modification addresses the detected anomaly located at a center of the constructed casual graph. |
US11816079B2 |
Decision implementation with integrated data quality monitoring
Computer-implemented methods and systems include downstream execution for individual rule-based flagging of upstream data quality errors by receiving upstream data from a plurality of sources, identifying a downstream task to be executed, applying a plurality of rules to the upstream data, generating a plurality of outputs including at least one output for each of the plurality of rules applied to the upstream data, each of the plurality of outputs being associated with a corresponding rule of the plurality of rules, identifying a tagged population based on the plurality of outputs, determining that at least one of the plurality of outputs does not meet a corresponding rule threshold, and activating the downstream execution for the tagged population after at least one of (i) updating the corresponding rule threshold or (ii) overriding an error. |
US11816078B2 |
Automatic entity resolution with rules detection and generation system
Entity resolution (i.e., record linkage) involves the analysis/discovering of datasets that refer to the same real world entity. Analysis typically involves transformation and comparison of different fields of the dataset followed by the application of often domain/data specific logic for determining datasets that refer to the same real world entity (e.g., person). Consider, a bulk mailing of product catalogs to potential customers. Some individuals may have numerous public records that identify the individual differently. Illustratively, several records associated with Jane Doe at her current home address may exist: one record with her name listed as J. Doe, a second record as Jane H. Doe, a third record as Doe, Jane, and a fourth record as Jan Doe (a misspelling). Conceivably, the bulk mailing could unwittingly send multiple catalogs to Jane Doe at her current address, one for each name variation. The entity resolution process described herein can overcome such problems. |
US11816076B2 |
Declarative data evacuation for distributed systems
A request may be received to evacuate data from a database system associated with a designated computing pod that provides on-demand computing services to a plurality of entities via the internet. The data may include portions that each correspond with a respective one or more of the on-demand computing services. Data succession policies associated with the data may be identified, where each data succession policy corresponds with one of the data portions and identifies one or more constraints associated with evacuating the data portion. The data portions may be transmitted to recipient computing pods in accordance with the data succession policies, and removed from the database system. |
US11816074B2 |
Sharing of web application in development via instant messaging application
Systems and methods for virtual image testing. An example method may comprise receiving, by a messaging application, an identifier of a file residing a file system. Configuring a file serving process to respond to content requests specifying the file. Transmitting, by the messaging application, a notification comprising a uniform resource locator derived from the file identifier. |
US11816073B1 |
Asynchronously forwarding database commands
Database commands may be asynchronously forwarded between nodes of a database system. A read-only node may receive a request, such as a read request or write request, and determine that the request should be forwarded to a read-only node for performance. A thread that handles the request may forward the request to the read-only node and register a call-back event for a response to the request and be made available to perform other work. When the response from the read-write node is received, the call-back event may be triggered and return a response to the request using the same or different thread. |
US11816071B2 |
Operations and maintenance file protection processes
Operations and Maintenance Design drawing maintenance, As-Built drawing conformance, and Record drawing conformance processes for protecting the integrity of dynamically modified files through all phases of a drawing's lifecycle. |
US11816063B2 |
Automatic archiving of data store log data
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automatic archiving of data store log data are disclosed. One or more operation records in a log are selected for archival. The one or more operation records comprise data indicative of operations performed on one or more data objects of a data store. The one or more operation records are selected for archival prior to deletion from the log. The one or more operation records are replicated from the log to an archive. Based at least in part on the replicating, the one or more operation records in the log are marked as archived. Based at least in part on the marking as archived, the deletion of the one or more operation records from the log is permitted. |
US11816061B2 |
Dynamic allocation of arithmetic logic units for vectorized operations
A system includes a processing device that includes a vector arithmetic logic unit comprising a plurality of arithmetic logic units (ALUs), and a first processor core operatively coupled to the vector arithmetic logic unit, the processing device to receive a first vector instruction from the first processor core, wherein the first vector instruction specifies at least one first input vector having a first vector length, identify a first subset of the ALUs in view of the first vector length and one or more allocation criteria, execute, using the first subset of the set of ALUs, one or more first ALU operations specified by the first vector instruction, wherein the vector arithmetic logic unit executes the first ALU operations in parallel with one or more second ALU operations specified by a second vector instruction received from a second processor core. |
US11816060B2 |
UART interface circuit and UART data capturing method
An UART interface circuit is provided in the invention. The UART interface circuit is configured in an electronic device. The UART interface circuit includes a baud-rate generating circuit, a control circuit, and a receiving circuit. The baud-rate generating circuit is configured to generate a baud rate and a start-bit cycle. The control circuit obtains the wakeup stable time from the wakeup time circuit of the electronic device and obtains the start-bit cycle from the baud-rate generating circuit. The receiving circuit is configured to capture data from the start bit or the first data bit of UART data. When the electronic device is woken up by the UART data, the control circuit compares the start-bit cycle with the wakeup stable time to direct the receiving circuit to start capturing data from the start bit or the first data bit of the UART data. |
US11816055B2 |
Storage device performing peer-to-peer communication with external device without intervention of host
A storage device is provided. The storage device includes a field programmable gate array board connected to a first port of the storage device; and a storage controller including a first interface circuit and a second interface circuit. The first interface circuit is connected to the FPGA board, the second interface circuit is connected to a second port of the storage device, at least one port from among the first port and the second port being configured to connect to an external storage device, and the FPGA board is configured to provide a path for transferring data in a peer-to-peer manner between the storage controller and the external storage device without intervention of a host. |
US11816053B2 |
High-bandwidth reconfigurable data acquisition card
A reconfigurable data acquisition card including at least one field programmable gate array (FPGA) and a configurable bus switch coupled with the FPGA. The bus switch forms at least first and second ports used by the FPGA, the bus switch being adaptable for insertion into a connection having a number of lanes at least equal to a combined number of lanes in the first and second ports. The data acquisition card further includes multiple optical transmitters and optical receivers. Each optical transmitter and optical receiver is coupled with a corresponding transceiver in the FPGA via at least one optical fiber having multiple communication links. Timing circuitry in the data acquisition card is coupled with clock generation and distribution circuitry in the FPGA and is configured to distribute clock and timing signals to detector front-ends with fixed latency and to synchronize input/output links with a system clock generated by the FPGA. |
US11816052B2 |
System, apparatus and method for communicating telemetry information via virtual bus encodings
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises: an endpoint circuit to perform an endpoint operation on behalf of a host processor; and an input/output circuit coupled to the endpoint circuit to receive telemetry information from the endpoint circuit, encode the telemetry information into a virtual bus encoding, place the virtual bus encoding into a payload field of a control message, and communicate the control message having the payload field including the virtual bus encoding to an upstream device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
US11816050B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is configured so that two or more master devices access a slave device via a bus. The semiconductor device includes: a priority generation circuit that generates a priority based on a transfer amount between a specific master device and a specific slave device; and an arbitration circuit that performs an arbitration based on the priority when competition of the accesses occurs. |
US11816044B2 |
Sorting memory address requests for parallel memory access using input address match masks
Apparatus identifies a set of M output memory addresses from a larger set of N input memory addresses containing at least one non-unique memory address. A comparator block performs comparisons of memory addresses from a set of N input memory addresses to generate a binary classification dataset that identifies a subset of addresses from the set of input addresses, where each address in the subset identified by the binary classification dataset is unique within that subset. Combination logic units receive a predetermined selection of bits of the binary classification dataset and sort its received predetermined selection of bits into an intermediary binary string in which the bits are ordered into a first group identifying addresses belonging to the identified subset, and a second group identifying addresses not belonging to the identified subset. Output generating logic selects between bits belonging to different intermediary binary strings to generate a binary output identifying a set of output memory addresses containing at least one address in the identified subset. |
US11816042B2 |
Platform framework telemetry
Embodiments of systems and methods for platform framework telemetry are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive telemetry data at a telemetry service from at least one producer registered with a platform framework via an Application Programming Interface (API); receive a request for at least a subset of the telemetry data from a consumer registered with the platform framework via the API; and transmit the subset of the telemetry data to the consumer. |
US11816041B2 |
Secure memory system programming
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for programming memory. A programming appliance may receive a command file comprising a first pre-generated digital signature. The first pre-generated digital signature may be associated with a memory system, with a first command and with a first memory system counter value. The programming appliance may send to a memory system a first command message. The first command system may comprise the first command and the first pre-generated digital signature. |
US11816038B2 |
Method and apparatus of mapping table reconstruction based on SSD, and computer device
A method and an apparatus of mapping table reconstruction based on a SSD, and a computer device are disclosed by the present application, and the method includes: acquiring the mapping table reconstruction request based on the SSD; scanning starting from the last physical page of the corresponding physical block according to the mapping table reconstruction request based on the SSD; reading the corresponding logical address and N logical address offsets from a data area of the current physical page, where N is the positive integer greater than 1; acquiring logical addresses corresponding to N adjacent pages in sequence according to the logical address corresponding to the current physical page and the N logical address offsets; reconstructing a mapping relationship between logical addresses and physical addresses according to the logical address corresponding to the current physical page and the logical addresses corresponding to the N adjacent pages. |
US11816037B2 |
Enhanced page information co-processor
A processing system includes a primary processor and a co-processor. The primary processor is couplable to a memory subsystem having at least one memory and operating to execute system software employing memory address translations based on one or more page tables stored in the memory subsystem. The co-processor is likewise couplable to the memory subsystem and operates to perform iterations of a page table walk through one or more page tables maintained for the memory subsystem and to perform one or more page management operations on behalf of the system software based the iterations of the page table walk. The page management operations performed by the co-processor include analytic data aggregation, free list management and page allocation, page migration management, page table error detection, and the like. |
US11816032B2 |
Cache size change
A method includes determining, by a level one (L1) controller, to change a size of a L1 main cache; servicing, by the L1 controller, pending read requests and pending write requests from a central processing unit (CPU) core; stalling, by the L1 controller, new read requests and new write requests from the CPU core; writing back and invalidating, by the L1 controller, the L1 main cache. The method also includes receiving, by a level two (L2) controller, an indication that the L1 main cache has been invalidated and, in response, flushing a pipeline of the L2 controller; in response to the pipeline being flushed, stalling, by the L2 controller, requests received from any master; reinitializing, by the L2 controller, a shadow L1 main cache. Reinitializing includes clearing previous contents of the shadow L1 main cache and changing the size of the shadow L1 main cache. |
US11816027B2 |
Translation lookup and garbage collection optimizations on storage system with paged translation table
A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive a request for garbage collection, identify a range of physical blocks in a storage device, query a bitmap, the bitmap having a bit for each physical block in the range of physical blocks, determine a status associated with a first bit from the bitmap, in response to determining the status associated with the first bit is a first state, add a first physical block associated with the first bit to a list of physical blocks for relocation, and relocate the list of physical blocks. |
US11816026B2 |
Digital signal processing device and control method of digital signal processing device
A digital signal processing device includes: a delay means that delays audio data in units of sampling periods; and a control means that writes audio data to a first buffer memory one word at a time in sequence at a sampling period, performs control to burst transfer burst length audio data to a DRAM from the first buffer memory, performs control to burst transfer the burst length audio data to a second buffer memory from the DRAM, and outputs audio data to the delay means from the second buffer memory one word at a time in sequence at the sampling period, in which a delay time of audio data output by the delay means is determined by a combination of a delay time of multiple sampling period units depending on a burst length of the DRAM and a delay time of a sampling period unit of the delay means. |
US11816025B2 |
Hardware acceleration
A hardware accelerator may be used for assisting a separate processor in performing sparse embedding vector lookup operations, each non-zero index of a sparse embedding vector referencing a respective dense embedding vector. The hardware accelerator comprises: a plurality of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) modules, each DRAM module comprising a distinct packaged device or chiplet; one or more memory controllers, each memory controller being configured to address a subset of the plurality of DRAM modules, each memory controller and associated subset of the DRAM modules defining a memory channel; and processing logic, arranged to control the one or more memory controllers. More than one dense embedding vector may be read from multiple memory channels in parallel and/or multiple copies of a dense embedding vector are stored in a memory channel. |
US11816023B1 |
Test conflict guard for parallel software testing
In association with unit and integration testing of a software application, a test conflict guard can detect whether test cases are independent and use distinct database data, or are related or dependent test cases that use the same database data. The test conflict guard can detect any related or dependent test cases in a group of test cases, which may cause testing errors if executed in different parallel threads. The test conflict guard can accordingly block test execution until the group of test cases are verified as independent test cases. |
US11816022B2 |
Snapshot simulation of service module responses
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided to identify a set of functions within a first service module that calls a second service module. Both the first service module and the second service module are associated with an application that is structure with a plurality of interworking service modules. The first service module is executed to send requests to the second service module when the set of functions is called. The responses to the requests are captured, and stored in a snapshot data structure. A modified first service module is created, in which the set of functions are modified to return a response from the snapshot data structure in place of the second service module. A unit test is performed on the modified first service module. |
US11816018B2 |
Systems and methods of formal verification
Systems and methods for formal verification of programs. The systems and methods provide a new game-theoretical, strategy-based compositional semantic model for concurrency, a set of formal linking theorems for composing multithreaded and multicore concurrent layers, and a compiler that supports certified thread-safe compilation and linking. Verification of an overlay interface can include determining an intermediate strategy for a primitive operation running on an underlay interface and refining that intermediate strategy to a strategy running on the overlay interface by applying a vertical and a horizontal composition rule. The refined strategy can then be composed with compatible strategies running on the overlay interface according to a parallel composition rule. Strategies may be compatible when rely conditions imposed by each strategy satisfy guarantees provided by the other strategies. The system and method of formal verification can be applied to formal verification of smart contracts. |
US11816014B2 |
Optimized recompilation using hardware tracing
A tracing controller may utilize a binary execution trace mechanism to trace execution of compiled application machine code. The tracing controller may initiate hardware tracing to gather control-flow hardware traces of a method executing on a processor configured to generate hardware tracing information. The controller may generate a profile based on the hardware tracing information and initiate re-compiling or re-optimizing of the method in response to determining that the new profile differs from the previous profile. The controller may repeatedly profile and re-optimize a method until profiles for the method stabilize. Profiling and hardware tracing of an application may be selectively enabled or disabled allowing the controller to respond to later phase changes in application execution by re-optimizing, thereby potentially improving overall application performance. |
US11816011B2 |
Computerized method and system for validating a computing infrastructure by mining
A quality control method of a hardware and software computing infrastructure by a quality control computing system. The quality control method including connecting the hardware and software computing infrastructure to a blockchain database by a management and automation software, mining by the computing resources of a blockchain from the blockchain database using the management and automation software, and monitoring performances of the mining operations and recording values of performances in a database of the quality control computing system. The quality control computing system for the hardware and software computing infrastructure is also disclosed to implement the quality control method. |
US11816007B1 |
On-demand serverless disaster recovery
Techniques are provided for on-demand serverless disaster recovery. A primary node may host a primary volume. Snapshots of the primary volume may be backed up to an object store. In response to failure, a secondary node and/or an on-demand volume may be created on-demand. The secondary node may provide clients with failover access to the on-demand volume while a restore process restores a snapshot of the primary volume to the on-demand volume. In some embodiments, there was no secondary node and/or on-demand volume while the primary node was operational. This conserves computing resources that would be wasted by otherwise hosting the secondary node and/or on-demand volume while clients were able to access the primary volume through the primary node. Modifications directed to the on-demand volume are incrementally backed up to the object store for subsequently restoring the primary volume after recovery. |
US11816001B2 |
Managing structured data in a data storage system
According to certain aspects, a secondary computing system can be configured to perform a full backup on database data, generate incremental backups comprising log files associated with modifications to the database data, and create a differential full backup copy of the database data using the full backup copy and changed blocks identified using the log files from the incremental backups. |
US11815999B2 |
Optimized alarm state restoration through categorization
The disclosure provides an approach for alarm state restoration. Embodiments include determining a plurality of alarm definitions applicable to an inventory of a plurality of entities in a computing environment. Embodiments include assigning each given alarm definition of the plurality of alarm definitions to a given alarm category of a plurality of alarm categories. Embodiments include restoring declared states of the plurality of alarms definition on the inventory based on the assigning, wherein the restoring comprises, for each given alarm category of the plurality of alarm categories, performing a single traversal of the inventory to identify all respective entities of the plurality of entities that correspond to one or more alarm definitions assigned to the given alarm category. |
US11815998B2 |
Selecting routing paths for sending encoded data slices
A method includes dispersed storage error encoding a data object to produce a set of encoded data slices. The method further includes obtaining routing path performance information for a plurality of routing paths from the computing device to a set of storage units. The method further includes selecting a first routing path for sending a first subset of the set of encoded data slices, where the first routing path has a performance level greater than a first performance threshold. The method further includes selecting a second routing path for sending a second subset of the set of encoded data slices, where the second routing path has a performance level less than or equal to the first performance threshold. The method further includes sending the first and second subsets of encoded data slices to the set of storage units via the first and second routing paths for storage therein. |
US11815993B2 |
Remedial action based on maintaining process awareness in data storage management
An illustrative data storage management system comprises “awareness logic” that executes on computing devices hosting storage management components such as storage manager, data agent, media agent, and/or other storage management applications. The illustrative awareness logic operates within each of these illustrative components, e.g., as a thread within processes of the storage management component, such as storage management core process, file identifier process, log monitoring process, etc. The awareness logic monitors the targeted process over time and triggers remedial action when criteria are met. Certain vital statistics of each process are collected periodically and analyzed by the illustrative awareness logic, such as CPU usage, memory usage, and handle counts. Criteria for corrective action include rising trends based on local minima data points for one or more vital statistics of the process. Other criteria include exceeding a threshold based on a logarithm function of the collected data points. |
US11815992B2 |
Profiling and diagnostics for internet of things
A computing device and method for profiling and diagnostics in an Internet of Things (IoT) system, including matching an observed solution characteristic of the IoT system to an anomaly in an anomaly database. |
US11815987B2 |
Log analysis in vector space
The disclosed embodiments provide for identification of a remedial action based on analysis of a system log file. In some example embodiments, messages from the system log file are used as input to generate vectors within a vector space. Portions of the log messages may generate vectors that cluster into a region in the vector space. The region of vector space is associated with one or more remedial actions. The disclosed embodiments are configured, in some example embodiments, to perform the one or more remedial actions when activity in the log file maps to the region of vector space associated with the one or more remedial actions. In some example embodiments, a remedial action can include submitting a problem report to a problem tracking database. |
US11815981B2 |
Flexible and optimized power management unit (PMU) for multiple power supply scenarios
Apparatuses and methods of operating a flexible and optimized power management unit (PMU) for multiple power supply scenarios are described. One integrated circuit includes a first terminal to couple to an unregulated power supply, a second terminal to couple to a regulated power supply, a first regulator, and a second regulator. The first regulator outputs a first supply voltage in a first configuration, and the second regulator outputs a second supply voltage in a second configuration. The first and second regulators do not operate concurrently. |
US11815970B2 |
Enabling system boot-up in low temperature environments
System boot-up can be enabled in low temperature environments. A laptop or other battery-powered computing device can include multiple batteries and a battery architecture that allows the multiple batteries to simultaneously discharge to thereby provide adequate power to boot the system in low temperature environments. The battery architecture may also allow a battery with a higher relative state of charge to charge another battery with a lower relative state of charge to thereby equalize the batteries' relative states of charge. |
US11815969B2 |
Integrated security system with parallel processing architecture
An integrated security system that includes a security coprocessor coupled to a conventional security system panel and an interactive security system. The integrated security system enables conventional security system features as well as the consumer-oriented interactive features and functions of an interactive security system without sacrificing reliability or the significant burden and cost associated with frequent software updates associated with conventional security systems. The integrated security system also minimizes or eliminates the need for new battery backup circuitry or larger batteries. |
US11815967B2 |
Power throttling of high performance computing (HPC) platform components
Embodiments of systems and methods for power throttling of High Performance Computing (HPC) components are described. In some embodiments, an HPC platform may include: a system Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), and an accelerator tray comprising a tray BMC coupled to a plurality of managed subsystems and to the system BMC, where the system BMC is configured to: in response to a power excursion event, instruct the tray BMC to throttle a first managed subsystem by a first amount and to throttle a second managed subsystem by a second amount. |
US11815966B2 |
Head mounted temperature controlled units
In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include receiving a temperature reading from a sensor coupled to the head mounted unit. A delta may be calculated based on the temperature reading and a predetermined temperature. A thermo-electric cooling device may be activated based on the delta surpassing a threshold. The thermo-electric cooling device utilizes thermally conductive plates, padding and fabric to transfer thermal energy. |
US11815964B2 |
Antenna structure and display device comprising same
An antenna structure of an embodiment of the present invention includes a film antenna including a dielectric layer and an antenna electrode layer formed on an upper surface of the dielectric layer, and a flexible circuit board including a power supply wiring electrically connected to the antenna electrode layer. A bonding region is defined by a region in which the antenna electrode layer and the power supply wiring are overlapped with each other in a planar direction, and the bonding region has a length of 1.5 mm or less. Signal efficiency and radiation reliability may be improved by adjusting a length of the bonding region. |
US11815963B2 |
Electronic device comprising wiring member fixing structure
An electronic device comprises: a hinge structure which is arranged in an internal space of a hinge cover and includes a first hinge plate having a first opening and a second hinge plate having a second opening; a first housing connected to the first hinge plate; a second housing connected to the second hinge plate; a flexible display arranged to be supported by the first housing and the second housing; and a wiring member which electrically connects a first electrical structure of the first housing to a second electrical structure of the second housing through the internal space of the hinge cover, wherein the wiring member comprises: a bendable portion; a first fixing portion which is disposed on the first opening of the first hinge plate from the bendable portion so as to be exposable; a second fixing portion which is disposed on the second opening of the second hinge plate from the bendable portion so as to be exposable; at least one first reinforcing member which is fixed on the first fixing portion and is arranged to be supported by the first hinge plate between the first hinge plate and the first housing; and at least one second reinforcing member which is fixed on the second fixing portion and is arranged to be supported by the second hinge plate between the second hinge plate and the second housing. |