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| US11894618B2 |
Antenna device and phased array antenna device
An antenna device includes a strip conductor layer, a radiation conductor layer continuous from the strip conductor layer, a ground conductor layer facing the strip conductor layer and the radiation conductor layer, a liquid crystal layer between the strip conductor layer and the ground conductor layer, and the radiation conductor layer and the ground conductor layer, and an alignment film between the strip conductor layer and the liquid crystal layer, and the radiation conductor layer and the liquid crystal layer. The alignment film includes a first region overlapping the strip conductor layer and a second region overlapping the radiation conductor layer, and the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in the first region is different from the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in the second region. |
| US11894610B2 |
System and method for providing a compact, flat, microwave lens with wide angular field of regard and wideband operation
A system designs a thin and relatively flat microwave focusing lens that can produce multiple simultaneous beams, using readily-available isotropic dielectric materials, and having a gradient-index (GRIN) profile. The design optimizes the lens to achieve beam scanning and/or multiple beams over a wide field of regard (FOR) with broad bandwidth and a very short focal length compared with conventional lenses. The lens can be used individually or as an element in a more complex antenna having multiple lenses in various orientations that are independently switched, selected and/or excited simultaneously as elements in a phased array. The antenna terminal incorporates such lens into an array of lenses along with one or more feeds to produce single or multiple beams covering a broad field of regard for such applications as satellite communications on-the-move, cellular, broadband point-point or point-multipoint and other terrestrial or satellite communications systems. The lens and array design support multiple simultaneous independently steerable beams as well as null placement for interference cancellation. |
| US11894607B2 |
Integrated antenna structure
An integrated antenna structure includes a frame, a circuit board, at least one antenna radiator, a support plate, a battery, and at least one metal sheet. The frame surrounds and defines an accommodation space. The circuit board is disposed in the accommodation space. The antenna radiator includes a body and a plurality of platforms. The body is disposed on the frame by using nano molding technology (NMT) and at least partially surrounds the accommodation space. The platforms are connected to the body and protrude toward the accommodation space. The platforms are configured to electrically connect to the circuit board respectively. The support plate is disposed in the accommodation space. The metal sheet is at least partially disposed on a surface of the support plate and extends along an edge of the support plate. One end of the metal sheet is electrically connected to the circuit board. |
| US11894606B1 |
Broadband radome structure
A radome structure for a multilayered broadband radome structure is described. The radome structure may include a central core layer comprising a first dielectric constant, an interior intermediate core layer adjacent to an interior side of the central core layer, comprising a second dielectric constant less than the first dielectric constant, an exterior intermediate core layer adjacent to an exterior side of the central core layer, comprising a third dielectric constant less than the first dielectric constant, and an interior outside core layer adjacent to an interior side of the interior intermediate core layer, comprising a fourth dielectric constant less than the second dielectric constant. In some examples of the radome structure described above may further include an exterior outside core layer adjacent to an exterior side of the exterior intermediate core layer, comprising a low dielectric constant. |
| US11894604B2 |
Communication apparatus
To realize polarization MIMO in a more suitable form in a mobile communication apparatus.A communication apparatus includes a plurality of antenna parts configured to receive or transmit a wireless signal, a communication control part configured to control transmitting or receiving the wireless signal via at least any of the plurality of antenna parts, and a casing housing the communication control part, in which each of the plurality of antenna parts is held near each of a plurality of partial regions normal directions of which cross each other or the normal directions of which are mutually twisted in outer faces of the casing, and transmit or receive a first wireless signal and a second wireless signal propagating in directions substantially orthogonal to the partial regions and having mutually different polarization directions. |
| US11894602B2 |
Antenna structure formed in bracket and electronic device including same
An electronic device includes a bracket including a first structure at least partially having non-conductivity, a second structure disposed on a first surface of the first structure and at least partially having conductivity, and an antenna pattern electrically connected with the second structure and disposed on a second surface of the first structure, and a printed circuit board including a grounding part and a feeding part. The grounding part is electrically connected with the second structure, and the feeding part is electrically connected with a portion of the antenna pattern. |
| US11894597B2 |
Directional coupler and electronic component module
A directional coupler includes a substrate, a main line 121, a main line 122, and a sub-line. The main line 121 and the main line 122 each include a conductor pattern formed in the substrate, and are connected in parallel to each other. The sub-line includes a conductor pattern formed in the substrate. The sub-line is disposed at a position at least partially overlapping with the main line 121 in a plan view of the substrate. |
| US11894592B2 |
High frequency filter
A high frequency filter A1 has frequency characteristics such that the amount of attenuation for an input electrical signal is smaller in a first frequency band f1 than in a second frequency band f2. The high frequency filter A1 is provided with a dielectric elastomer transducer 1 that includes a dielectric elastomer layer 13 and a pair of electrode layers 14 sandwiching the dielectric elastomer layer 13. The frequency characteristics are variable by the dielectric elastomer transducer 1. This configuration provides a high frequency filter having frequency characteristics that are variable and suitable for a lightweight and compact configuration. |
| US11894591B2 |
Electrochemical cells
Electrochemical cells and batteries that can operate with a single electrolyte solution, such as those comprising an anode, a cathode current collector, and a porous, non-conductive spacer between the cathode current collector and anode. Membraneless electrochemical cells and batteries are also disclosed. The electrochemical cells and batteries disclosed herein may be used, for example, to produce electricity or to generate hydrogen or both, and to deliver electricity or hydrogen or both to process applications. |
| US11894590B2 |
Electrode-decoupled redox flow battery
Described herein is a novel electrode-decoupled redox flow battery, a novel reinforced electrode-decoupled redox flow battery, and methods of using same to store energy. Advantages of these novel electrode-decoupled redox flow batteries include long life, excellent rate capability, and stability. |
| US11894588B2 |
Fuel cell propulsion system with a fuel cell stack for a motor vehicle and process for controlling a temperature of the fuel cell stack
A computer is provided for a fuel cell propulsion system of a motor vehicle. The computer includes one or more processors receiving a temperature signal from one or more temperature sensors and a pressure signal from one or more pressure sensors. The computer further includes a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions, such that the processor is programmed to determine a feedback correction based on the temperature of the coolant and the pressure drop of the coolant across the fuel cell stack. The processor is further programmed to generate a pump command signal based on the feedback correction and a nominal pump command, with the pump command signal actuating a pump to pump coolant at a target pump speed. |
| US11894585B2 |
Delivery unit for an anode circuit of a fuel cell system for delivering a gaseous medium, and fuel cell system
Disclosed is a delivery unit (3) for an anode circuit (9) of a fuel cell system (1) for delivering a gaseous medium, in particular hydrogen, from an anode region (38) of a fuel cell (2), said delivery unit (3) comprising at least one jet pump (4) and being at least indirectly fluidically connected to the outlet of the anode region (38) by means of at least one connection line (23, 25) and being fluidically connected to the inlet of the anode region (38) by means of an additional connection line (27). According to the invention, in addition to the jet pump (4), the delivery unit (3) comprises a recirculation fan (8) and a metering valve (6) as other components, and the flow contours of the components (4, 6, 8) for the gaseous medium and/or the components (4, 6, 8) are at least almost entirely arranged in a common housing (7). |
| US11894583B2 |
Box body applied to battery, battery assembly, electric apparatus, and method and device for preparing battery assembly
A box body includes a carrying plate configured to carry a battery and a one-way gravity valve disposed at the carrying plate. The one-way gravity valve is configured to be closed in response to a gravity of liquid in the box body being less than a threshold, and to be open in response to the gravity of the liquid in the box body reaching the threshold. |
| US11894580B2 |
Battery interconnects
Provided are interconnects for interconnecting a set of battery cells, assemblies comprising these interconnects, methods of forming such interconnects, and methods of forming such assemblies. An interconnect includes a conductor comprising two portions electrically isolated from each other. At least one portion may include two contacts for connecting to battery cells and a fuse forming an electrical connection between these two contacts. The interconnect may also include an insulator adhered to the conductor and mechanically supporting the two portions of the conductor. The insulator may include an opening such that the fuse overlaps with this opening, and the opening does not interfere with the operation of the fuse. In some embodiments, the fuse may not directly interface with any other structures. Furthermore, the interconnect may include a temporary substrate adhered to the insulator such that the insulator is disposed between the temporary substrate and the conductor. |
| US11894579B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery includes an electrode, a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector, a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, and an insulating plate. The positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal each have a main side surface and a sub side surface having an area smaller than that of the main side surface. The positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are arranged so that the main side surface of the positive electrode terminal and the main side surface of the negative electrode terminal face each other. The insulating plate is arranged between the main side surface of the positive electrode terminal and the main side surface of the negative electrode terminal. |
| US11894576B2 |
Battery module including connector having bidirectional coupling structure
A battery module includes: a cell assembly including at least one battery cell; a module case accommodating the cell assembly; and a module connector mounted outside the module case, electrically connected to the cell assembly, and configured to connect to an external connector outside the module case. A coupling surface of the module connecter may have a first fastening part opened in at least one direction, and a corresponding coupling surface outside the module case may have a second fastening part opened bidirectionally so as to be inserted into the first fastening part in a first direction or in a second direction opposite thereto. |
| US11894571B1 |
Adapter assembly, energy storage device, and power consuming apparatus
An adapter assembly, an energy storage device and a power consuming apparatus are provided. The adapter assembly includes an adapter and a limiting member. The adapter includes a first connecting portion, a second connecting portion, and a bendable connecting portion connected between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion. The limiting member is located between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion foldable with respect to each other, and is insulated from the adapter. The limiting member has a limiting face configured to abut against the bendable connecting portion, and the bendable connecting portion is configured to rotate and bend around the limiting face. |
| US11894569B2 |
Fixing assembly for battery module and battery pack
A fixing assembly for a battery module and a battery pack are provided. The fixing assembly for the battery module includes an end plate, a fixing member, and a first band. The end plate is provided with a limiting member protruding from a surface of the end plate. The fixing member is configured to connect multiple battery modules and abut against the surface of the end plate provided with the limiting member, such that the fixing member, the limiting member, and the end plate can cooperatively define a positioning region. The first band is configured to abut against the surface of the end plate provided with the limiting member to bind the battery module. The first band abuts against the positioning region, such that the fixing member and the limiting member can cooperatively abut against the first band. |
| US11894568B2 |
Secondary battery, battery column, and apparatus
This application relates to a secondary battery, a battery column, and an apparatus. The secondary battery includes a top cover plate, having an outer surface and an inner surface disposed opposite each other in a thickness direction of the top cover plate and an electrode lead-out hole extending along the thickness direction; a pole, disposed in the electrode lead-out hole, where the pole includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer, and the first metal layer and the second metal layer are stacked along a direction from the inner surface to the outer surface; an insulation member, disposed between the top cover plate and the pole; and a first bonding layer, disposed between the insulation member and the first metal layer, where the insulation member is hermetically connected to the first metal layer through the first bonding layer. |
| US11894566B2 |
Catalyst materials for a fuel cell stack
A fuel cell stack includes a first end region, a second end region, and a middle region. At least one of a first number of fuel cell units in the first end region is a first fuel cell unit including a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) with a first catalyst material on either or both an anode and a cathode of the first fuel cell unit. At least one of a second number of fuel cell units in the second end region is a second fuel cell unit including an MEA with a second catalyst material on either or both an anode and a cathode of the first fuel cell unit. The middle region is situated between the first and the second end region. At least one of a third number of fuel cell units in the middle region is a third fuel cell unit including an MEA with a third catalyst material on either or both an anode and a cathode of the first fuel cell unit. At least one of the first, the second, and the third catalyst material are different. |
| US11894565B2 |
Powder for solid oxide fuel cell air electrode and method of manufacturing same
A powder material for an air electrode in a solid oxide fuel cell, the powder material being a powder of a metal composite oxide having a perovskite crystal structure represented by: A11-xA2xBO3-δ, where the element A1 is at least one selected from the group consisting of La and Sm, the element A2 is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, and Ba, the element B is at least one selected from the group consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni, x satisfies 0 |
| US11894562B2 |
Three-dimensional ion transport networks and current collectors for electrochemical cells
Provided herein are three-dimensional ion transport networks and current collectors for electrodes of electrochemical cells. Exemplary electrodes include interconnected layers and channels including an electrolyte to facilitate ion transport. Exemplary electrodes also include three dimensional current collectors, such as current collectors having electronically conducting rods, electronically conducting layers or a combination thereof. |
| US11894559B2 |
Dispersant composition for carbon nanotube
The present invention relates to a dispersant composition for carbon nanotubes, containing: a copolymer that includes a structural unit A represented by the following general formula (1) and a structural unit B represented by the following general formula (2); and a solvent, wherein the content of the structural unit B in all structural units of the copolymer is 20 mass % or more. In the following formulae, R1, R2, R3, R5, R6, and R7 are the same or different from each other and are each a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group, R4 is a hydrocarbon group having 16 to 30 carbon atoms, R8 is a linear or branched alkylene group having 2 to 3 carbon atoms, X1 is on oxygen atom or NH, X2 is an oxygen atom, p is the number of 1 to 8, and R9 is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group. |
| US11894556B2 |
Anode material for secondary battery, anode for secondary battery and secondary battery
An anode material for a secondary battery is provided. The anode material for the secondary battery includes a metal oxide containing four or more than four elements, or an oxide mixture containing four or more than four elements. The metal oxide includes cobalt-copper-tin oxide, silicon-tin-iron oxide, copper-manganese-silicon oxide, tin-manganese-nickel oxide, manganese-copper-nickel oxide, or nickel-copper-tin oxide. The oxide mixture includes the oxide mixture containing cobalt, copper and tin, the oxide mixture containing silicon, tin and iron, the oxide mixture containing copper, manganese and silicon, the oxide mixture containing tin, manganese and nickel, the oxide mixture containing manganese, copper and nickel, or the oxide mixture containing nickel, copper and tin. |
| US11894554B2 |
Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery, method for preparing same, and lithium secondary battery comprising same
Provided are a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method for preparing the same, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery comprises: a lithium metal compound; and a lithium compound disposed on the surface of the lithium metal compound, wherein the content of lithium contained in the lithium compound is 0.25 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of the lithium metal compound, wherein the specific surface area of the lithium compound is between 0.5 m2/g and 2.0 m2/g, and the pH of the lithium compound is between 11.5 and 12.3. |
| US11894551B2 |
Active material, battery, and methods for producing these
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising at least Si and Al, including a silicon clathrate type crystal phase, and a proportion of the Al to a total of the Si and the Al is 0.1 atm % or more and 1 atm % or less. |
| US11894549B2 |
Three-dimensional porous silicon/carbon composite material, method for preparing same, and use thereof
A three-dimensional porous silicon/carbon composite material includes a three-dimensional porous skeleton, a filler layer, and a coating layer. The three-dimensional porous skeleton is a three-dimensional porous carbon skeleton; the filler layer includes silicon particles and conductive carbon; the filler layer is formed by scattering the silicon particles evenly and dispersively in the conductive carbon; and the coating layer is a carbon coating layer. The present invention provides the three-dimensional porous silicon/carbon composite material with long cycle and low expansion, a method for preparing the same, and a use thereof. |
| US11894546B2 |
Atomic layer deposition of stable lithium ion conductive interfacial layer for stable cathode cycling
A coated cathode material includes a cathode active material and an interfacial layer coating the cathode active material. The interfacial layer includes a lithium-containing fluoride which includes at least one additional metal different from lithium. |
| US11894540B2 |
Curved two-dimensional nanocomposites for battery electrodes
A battery electrode composition is provided that comprises a composite material comprising one or more nanocomposites. The nanocomposites may each comprise a planar substrate backbone having a curved geometrical structure, and an active material forming a continuous or substantially continuous film at least partially encasing the substrate backbone. To form an electrode from the electrode composition, a plurality of electrically-interconnected nanocomposites of this type may be aggregated into one or more three-dimensional agglomerations, such as substantially spherical or ellipsoidal granules. |
| US11894538B2 |
Fuel cell-battery system and control method thereof
A fuel cell-battery system includes: a battery module including a battery that stores electric power and a coolant line through which coolant circulates to cool the battery; a fuel cell module including a hydrogen tank that stores hydrogen, a fuel cell that produces the electric power using the hydrogen, and a hydrogen line that connects the hydrogen tank and the fuel cell to deliver the hydrogen from the hydrogen tank to the fuel cell; and a heat exchange module through which the coolant line and the hydrogen line pass such that the coolant is cooled by heat exchange with the hydrogen and the hydrogen is heated by heat exchange with the coolant. |
| US11894536B2 |
Battery module, battery pack comprising battery module and vehicle comprising battery pack
A battery module includes a battery cell assembly having a plurality of battery cells, a sensing assembly which covers a front and rear of the battery cell assembly when mounted thereto, a module case which receives the battery cell assembly and the mounted sensing assembly, and a thermally conductive adhesive interposed between an upper inner surface of the module case and an upper side of the battery cell assembly. The sensing assembly includes a first busbar frame assembly positioned at the front of the battery cell assembly, a second busbar frame assembly positioned at the rear of the battery cell assembly, and a sensing wire which connects the first and second busbar frame assemblies and runs across the upper side of the battery cell assembly in a diagonal direction. The thermally conductive adhesive is disposed on two sides of the sensing wire. |
| US11894532B2 |
Battery module and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides a battery module including: a battery group including a plurality of battery cells stacked with each other; a cooling plate which is located in contact with one side of the battery group to cool the plurality of battery cells; and a case which is located on the other side of the battery group so as to surround the battery group, wherein the case comprises an upper cover located on the other side of the battery group; and side covers which vertically extend from the upper cover so as to surround side portions of the plurality of battery cells from which electrode tabs protrude. |
| US11894531B2 |
Method for recovering lithium battery slurry and device for recovery of same
A method for recovering lithium battery slurry, the method comprising: pretreating lithium battery slurry, and then subjecting the pretreated lithium battery slurry to centrifugal spray drying to separate a solid phase and a solvent. A device for the recovery of lithium battery slurry is a centrifugal spray drying system, and comprises a spray chamber (100), a cyclone separator (200), a condenser (400), a condensate storage tank (500), and a rectification tower (600); the system improves upon original centrifugal spray drying devices, and is designed to combine the processes of centrifugal spray drying and NMP condensation recovery, such that NMP can be directly recovered after separation of positive electrode material and the NMP. |
| US11894527B2 |
Battery cell self-discharge current detection method, apparatus, and device, and computer storage medium
Disclosed are a battery cell self-discharge current detection method, apparatus, and device, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: controlling a constant voltage source to start charging a battery cell at a first moment, and acquiring a first rate of change of a target current over time in a first preset duration after the first moment; controlling, in the case where the first rate of change is greater than a first threshold value, a constant current source and the constant voltage source to charge the battery cell; acquiring, in the case of reaching a second moment, a second rate of change of the target current over time in a second preset duration after the second moment, wherein the second moment is a moment when the time for charging the battery cell using the constant current source and the constant voltage source reaches a third preset duration; and determining. |
| US11894522B2 |
Inspection method of laminated power storage device
A manufacturing method of a laminated power storage device disclosed herein includes a step A of preparing an electrode body to which an electrode terminal is connected, a step B of preparing a laminated film, a step C of building a power storage device assembly in which the electrode body is covered with the laminated film and is sealed, and a step D of placing the power storage device assembly in a predetermined reduced-pressure atmosphere. The power storage device assembly has a welding portion in which the laminated films are stacked and welded together in a state in which part of the electrode terminal is protruded to the outside from between the laminated films around the electrode body. A pressure of the reduced-pressure atmosphere in the step D is set so as to guarantee that a weld strength of the welding portion is not less than a predetermined strength. |
| US11894516B2 |
Thermosetting electrolyte composition for lithium secondary battery, gel polymer electrolyte prepared therefrom, and lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte
The present invention relates to a thermosetting electrolyte composition for a lithium secondary battery, a gel polymer electrolyte prepared therefrom, and a lithium secondary battery including the gel polymer electrolyte, and particularly, to a thermosetting electrolyte composition for a lithium secondary battery, which includes LiPF6 as a first lithium salt, a second lithium salt excluding the LiPF6, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and a polymer or oligomer containing a unit represented by Formula 1, a gel polymer electrolyte prepared therefrom, and a lithium secondary battery including the gel polymer electrolyte. |
| US11894514B2 |
Electronic connection in an all-solid state battery at the anode/electrolyte interface
The present invention relates to a solid-state battery that is based on a phthalocyanine solid-state electrolyte/anode connection that is chemically obtained. Such chemical connection process yields a solid electrolyte interphase that connects the solid-state battery's phthalocyanine solid-state electrolyte and anode. Unlike other processes for forming solid-state electrolyte/anode connections, the present chemical process does not require that solid-state electrolyte be ductile and flow under high pressure. |
| US11894513B2 |
Solid ion conductor, solid electrolyte and electrochemical cell comprising the same, and method of preparing the solid ion conductor
A solid ion conductor, a solid electrolyte and electrochemical device including the same, and a method of preparing the solid ion conductor are disclosed. The solid ion conductor includes a compound represented by Formula 1: LiaMbM′cXdOe Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, M is one or more metals selected from Lu, Ho, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Er, Tm, Yb, Ga, In, Ce, Pr, Ti, Zr, or Hf, each having an oxidation number of +3 or +4, M′ is one or more metals selected from Na, K, Cs, Cu, or Ag, each having an oxidation number of +1, X is one or more halogens, 0 |
| US11894512B2 |
Longitudinal constraints for energy storage devices
A energy storage device for cycling between a charged state and a discharged state, the energy storage device including an enclosure, an electrode assembly and a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte within the enclosure, and a constraint that maintains a pressure on the electrode assembly as the energy storage device is cycled between the charged and the discharged states. |
| US11894511B2 |
Cylindrical battery
A cylindrical battery includes a metal can, an electrode assembly mounted in the metal can, a top cap closing an upper end of the metal can, the top cap having an exhaust hole, a safety vent located at an upper end of the electrode assembly, and a gas discharge member provided in the safety vent, in which the gas discharge member includes a thin film part having at least two thin films. |
| US11894510B2 |
Battery pack and vehicle
A battery pack and a vehicle, wherein the battery pack includes a box assembly, a battery unit, a constraint component and an outer cover, the box assembly includes a box body and a fixed beam, the fixed beam is fixed in the box body; the battery unit is arranged in the box body; the constraint component covers the battery unit and is fixed with the fixed beam; and the outer cover is arranged on one side of the constraint component away from the box body to seal an open end of the box body. |
| US11894509B2 |
Winding device and winding apparatus
Provided are a winding device and a winding apparatus. An inner shaft of the winding device is configured to clamp an electrode assembly; and an outer shaft of the winding device is configured to wind the electrode assembly. The winding device includes: a first slider and a first pusher, where the first slider may reciprocate in a first sliding slot in the first pusher in a first direction, and an extension direction of the first sliding slot is inclined from the first direction such that the first pusher drives a first inner shaft to reciprocate in a second direction, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction; and a second slider and a second pusher, where the second slider may reciprocate in a second sliding slot in the second pusher in a third direction, and an extension direction of the second sliding slot is inclined from the third direction. |
| US11894508B2 |
Second-generation HTS strip and preparation method thereof
A second-generation high temperature superconducting (HTS) strip and a preparation method thereof are provided. The second-generation HTS strip includes a superconducting strip body and a stabilizing layer arranged thereon. The stabilizing layer is a copper-graphene composite film with a total thickness of 2-30 microns on one side. The superconducting strip may be obtained by the preparation method of: (1) putting a superconducting strip body into a magnetron sputtering reaction chamber, followed by pumping to a high-level vacuum and filling with a working gas; (2) using copper and graphene as targets, and performing a sputter coating by controlling a magnetron sputtering power, to deposit the targets onto at least one surface of the superconducting strip body. The prepared HTS strips containing copper-graphene stabilizing layer with high strength and high conductivity may have 30%-70% higher tensile strength than conventional copper plated superconducting strips, with less than 10% IACS attenuation in conductivity. |
| US11894496B2 |
Solid-state light emitting device with improved color emission
A light emitting device includes a LED having a light emitting first surface and a light emitting second surface that define a corner. A support layer is disposed to receive light emitted by the light emitting second surface and is disposed adjacent the corner. A luminophoric medium layer at least partially covers the light emitting first surface and the light emitting second surface where the luminophoric medium layer is at least partially supported by the support layer to prevent a narrowing of the luminophoric medium layer. |
| US11894490B2 |
Spherical flip-chip micro-LED, method for manufacturing the same, and display panel
A spherical flip-chip micro-LED, a method for manufacturing the spherical flip-chip micro-LED, and a display panel are provided. The spherical flip-chip micro-LED includes a light-emitting body, a supporting body, a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulating protective layer. The supporting body is transparent. The first electrode and the second electrode are electrically coupled with the light-emitting body. The insulating protective layer covers the light-emitting body. The light-emitting body, the supporting body, and the insulating protective layer form a spherical structure. |
| US11894489B2 |
Semiconductor device, semiconductor component and display panel including the same
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer, an active region, a p-type or n-type layer, and a first metal element-containing structure. The first semiconductor layer has a surface including a first portion and a second portion. The active region is located on the first portion and includes AlGaInAs, InGaAsP, AlGaAsP or AlGaInP. The p-type or n-type layer includes an oxygen element (O) and a metal element, and is located on the second portion. The first metal element-containing structure is located on the p-type or n-type layer. The p-type or n-type layer physically contacts the first metal element-containing structure and the first semiconductor layer. |
| US11894487B2 |
Light emitting device
A light-emitting device comprises a substrate; a first semiconductor layer formed on the substrate; a first patterned layer formed on the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, wherein the second semiconductor layer comprises a core layer comprising a group III or transition metal material formed along the first patterned layer. |
| US11894479B2 |
Photosensitive element, and preparation method and display device thereof
The present invention provides a photosensitive element, and a preparation method and a display device thereof. The photosensitive element includes a substrate; a first electrode arranged on the substrate; an N-type doped silicon layer arranged on the first electrode; an undoped silicon layer arranged on the N-type doped silicon layer; a molybdenum oxide layer arranged on the undoped silicon layer; an insulating layer arranged on the molybdenum oxide layer and the substrate, wherein a first opening is arranged on the insulating layer to expose the molybdenum oxide layer; and a second electrode arranged on the insulating layer and the molybdenum oxide layer, wherein the second electrode contacts the molybdenum oxide layer through the first opening. |
| US11894476B2 |
Colorless transparent semiconductor substrate and method for manufacturing same
There is provided a transparent semiconductor substrate and a method for manufacturing same includes a semiconductor substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a through-hole penetrating the semiconductor substrate, wherein the through-hole includes an inclined portion inclined with respect to the first surface and second surface. |
| US11894473B2 |
Sensing module and manufacturing method thereof
The invention relates to a sensing module and a manufacturing method thereof, which firstly provides a transparent substrate, and then a sensor, a colloid, and an optical cover body disposed on a first surface of the transparent substrate. The colloid is surrounded the encrypted chip and is connected with the transparent substrate and the optical cover. Finally, a light source irradiates the colloid through a second surface of the transparent substrate to cure the colloid for obtaining the sensing module. |
| US11894472B2 |
Leave-in etch mask for foil-based metallization of solar cells
Approaches for fabricating foil-based metallization of solar cells based on a leave-in etch mask, and the resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a solar cell includes a substrate having a back surface and an opposing light-receiving surface. A plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions is disposed in or above the back surface of the substrate. A conductive contact structure is disposed on the plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The conductive contact structure includes metal foil portions in alignment with corresponding ones of the alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. A patterned wet etchant-resistant polymer layer is disposed on the conductive contact structure. Portions of the patterned wet etchant-resistant polymer layer are disposed on and in alignment with the metal foil portions. |
| US11894471B2 |
Photoelectric chip, manufacturing method and installation method
Provided are a photoelectric chip, a manufacturing method and an installation method, which relate to the field of optical communication and transmission technologies. The chip is provided with a light-splitting groove (3), and the light-splitting groove (3) runs through an absorption layer (2) of the chip; the back of the chip is a light-entering side; the light-splitting groove (3) is configured to transmit and split out part (151) of incident light (15), and the other part (152) of the incident light (15) enters the absorption layer (2) for photovoltaic conversion. The photoelectric chip can split light and monitor optical power of the incident light. |
| US11894470B2 |
Optical sensor and display device including the optical sensor
An optical sensor includes a substrate, a photoelectric element disposed on the substrate and that includes a first electrode, an intermediate layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the intermediate layer, a barrier layer disposed on the second electrode, an insulating layer that covers the photoelectric element and the barrier layer, and a bias electrode disposed on the insulating layer and electrically connected to the second electrode. The barrier layer is spaced apart from the first electrode. |
| US11894468B2 |
High voltage gallium oxide (Ga2O3) trench MOS barrier schottky and methods of fabricating same
Described herein are the design and fabrication of Group III trioxides, such as β-Ga2O3, trench-MOS barrier Schottky (TMBS) structures with high voltage (>1 kV), low leakage capabilities, while addressing on the necessary methods to meet the requirements unique to Group III trioxides, such as β-Ga2O3. |
| US11894466B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a metal oxide layer, and a conductive layer; the first insulating layer, the metal oxide layer, and the conductive layer are stacked in this order over the semiconductor layer; an end portion of the first insulating layer is located inward from an end portion of the semiconductor layer; an end portion of the metal oxide layer is located inward from the end portion of the first insulating layer; and an end portion of the conductive layer is located inward from the end portion of the metal oxide layer. The second insulating layer is preferably provided to cover the semiconductor layer, the first insulating layer, the metal oxide layer, and the conductive layer. It is preferable that the semiconductor layer include a first region, a pair of second regions, and a pair of third regions; the first region overlap with the first insulating layer and the metal oxide layer; the second regions between which the first region is sandwiched overlap with the first insulating layer and not overlap with the metal oxide layer; the third regions between which the first region and the pair of second regions are sandwiched not overlap with the first insulating layer; and the third regions be in contact with the second insulating layer. |
| US11894464B2 |
Fin field-effect transistor device with composite liner for the Fin
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a fin protruding above a substrate; forming a liner over the fin; performing a surface treatment process to convert an upper layer of the liner distal to the fin into a conversion layer, the conversion layer comprising an oxide or a nitride of the liner; forming isolation regions on opposing sides of the fin after the surface treatment process; forming a gate dielectric over the conversion layer after forming the isolation regions; and forming a gate electrode over the fin and over the gate dielectric. |
| US11894463B2 |
Integrated circuits and methods of manufacturing the same
An integrated circuit includes a fin active region protruding from a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor patterns on an upper surface of the fin active region, a gate electrode that surrounds the plurality of semiconductor patterns and includes a main gate part on an uppermost one of the plurality of semiconductor patterns and sub gate parts between the plurality of semiconductor patterns, a spacer structure on a sidewall of the main gate part, and a source/drain region at a side of the gate electrode. The source/drain region is connected to the plurality of semiconductor patterns and contacts a bottom surface of the spacer structure. A top portion of the uppermost semiconductor pattern has a first width. A bottom portion of the uppermost semiconductor pattern has a second width smaller than the first width. |
| US11894460B2 |
Semiconductor device having nanosheet transistor and methods of fabrication thereof
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The device includes one or more first semiconductor layers, and a dipole layer surrounding each first semiconductor layer of the one or more first semiconductor layers, wherein the dipole layer comprises germanium. The structure also includes a capping layer surrounding and in contact with the dipole layer, wherein the capping layer comprises silicon, one or more second semiconductor layers disposed adjacent the one or more first semiconductor layers. The structure further includes a gate electrode layer surrounding each first semiconductor layer of the one or more first semiconductor layers and each second semiconductor layer of the one or more second semiconductor layers. |
| US11894459B2 |
Dual gate structures for semiconductor devices
The present disclosure describes a semiconductor structure that includes a channel region, a source region adjacent to the channel region, a drain region, a drift region adjacent to the drain region, and a dual gate structure. The dual gate structure includes a first gate structure over portions of the channel region and portions of the drift region. The dual gate structure also includes a second gate structure over the drift region. |
| US11894456B2 |
Semiconductor device, battery protection circuit, and power management circuit
A face-down mountable chip-size package semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer and N (N is an integer greater than or equal to three) vertical MOS transistors in the semiconductor layer. Each of the N vertical MOS transistors includes, on an upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a gate pad electrically connected to a gate electrode of the vertical MOS transistor and one or more source pads electrically connected to a source electrode of the vertical MOS transistor. The semiconductor layer includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate functions as a common drain region for the N vertical MOS transistors. For each of the N vertical MOS transistors, a surface area of the vertical MOS transistor in a plan view of the semiconductor layer increases with an increase in a maximum specified current of the vertical MOS transistor. |
| US11894455B2 |
Vertical power devices fabricated using implanted methods
A precursor for a vertical semiconductor device is provided with a substrate, a drift region over the substrate, and an upper precursor region over the drift region. The top surface of the precursor is substantially planar, and the substrate and the drift region are doped with a first dopant of a first polarity. In a first embodiment, a series of implants with a second dopant is provided in the upper precursor region via the top surface to form each of at least two gate regions such that each implant of the series of implants is provided at a different depth below the top surface. In a second embodiment, a series of implants with the first dopant is provided in the upper precursor region via the top surface to form a channel region that has at least a portion between two gate regions. |
| US11894452B2 |
Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing the same, power circuit, and computer
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a nitride semiconductor layer; an insulating layer; a first region disposed between the nitride semiconductor layer and the insulating layer and containing at least one element of hydrogen and deuterium; and a second region disposed in the nitride semiconductor layer, adjacent to the first region, and containing fluorine. |
| US11894449B2 |
Methods for forming lateral heterojunctions in two-dimensional materials integrated with multiferroic layers
Heterostructures include 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 modulate the charge carriers and carrier density on a nanometer length scale, resulting in the formation of lateral p-n or p-i-n junctions, and variations thereof appropriate for device functions. |
| US11894448B2 |
Structure and method for vertical tunneling field effect transistor with leveled source and drain
The present disclosure provides one embodiment of a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region; a first semiconductor mesa formed on the semiconductor substrate within the first region; a second semiconductor mesa formed on the semiconductor substrate within the second region; and a field effect transistor (FET) formed on the semiconductor substrate. The FET includes a first doped feature of a first conductivity type formed in a top portion of the first semiconductor mesa; a second doped feature of a second conductivity type formed in a bottom portion of the first semiconductor mesa, the second semiconductor mesa, and a portion of the semiconductor substrate between the first and second semiconductor mesas; a channel in a middle portion of the first semiconductor mesa and interposed between the source and drain; and a gate formed on sidewall of the first semiconductor mesa. |
| US11894446B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure is formed over a substrate. The fin structure is sculpted to have a plurality of non-etched portions and a plurality of etched portions having a narrower width than the plurality of non-etched portions. The sculpted fin structure is oxidized so that a plurality of nanowires are formed in the plurality of non-etched portions, respectively, and the plurality of etched portions are oxidized to form oxides. The plurality of nanowires are released by removing the oxides. |
| US11894445B2 |
Method for producing a superjunction device
Disclosed is a method for producing a semiconductor device, the method including forming a plurality of semiconductor arrangements one above the other, wherein forming each of the plurality of semiconductor arrangements includes forming a semiconductor layer, forming a plurality of trenches in a first surface of the semiconductor layer, and implanting dopant atoms of at least one of a first type and a second type into at least one of a first sidewall and a second sidewall of each of the plurality of trenches. Forming of at least one of the plurality of semiconductor arrangements further includes forming a protective layer covering mesa regions between the plurality of trenches of the respective semiconductor layer, and covering a bottom, the first sidewall and the second sidewall of each of the plurality of trenches that are formed in the respective semiconductor layer. |
| US11894438B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor (FET). The FET includes a first channel, a first source and a first drain; a second channel, a second source and a second drain; and a gate structure disposed over the first and second channels. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer. The first source includes a first crystal semiconductor layer and the second source includes a second crystal semiconductor layer. The first source and the second source are connected by an alloy layer made of one or more Group IV element and one or more transition metal elements. The first crystal semiconductor layer is not in direct contact with the second crystal semiconductor layer. |
| US11894437B2 |
Hybrid conductive structures
The present disclosure describes a method for forming metallization layers that include a ruthenium metal liner and a cobalt metal fill. The method includes depositing a first dielectric on a substrate having a gate structure and source/drain (S/D) structures, forming an opening in the first dielectric to expose the S/D structures, and depositing a ruthenium metal on bottom and sidewall surfaces of the opening. The method further includes depositing a cobalt metal on the ruthenium metal to fill the opening, reflowing the cobalt metal, and planarizing the cobalt and ruthenium metals to form S/D conductive structures with a top surface coplanar with a top surface of the first dielectric. |
| US11894433B2 |
Method and structure to improve stacked FET bottom EPI contact
A stacked semiconductor device comprising a lower source/drain epi located on top of a bottom dielectric layer. An isolation layer located on top of the lower source/drain epi and an upper source/drain epi located on top of the isolation layer. A lower electrical contact that is connected to the lower source/drain epi, wherein the lower electrical contact is in direct contact with multiple side surfaces of the lower source/drain epi. |
| US11894432B2 |
Back side contact structure for a semiconductor device and corresponding manufacturing process
Various embodiments provide a vertical-conduction semiconductor device that includes: a silicon substrate having a front face and a rear face; a front-side structure arranged on the front face of the substrate, having at least one current-conduction region at the front face; and a back side metal structure, arranged on the rear face of the substrate, in electrical contact with the substrate and constituted by a stack of metal layers. The back side metal structure is formed by: a first metal layer; a silicide region, interposed between the rear face of the substrate and the first metal layer and in electrical contact with the aforesaid rear face; and a second metal layer arranged on the first metal layer. |
| US11894430B2 |
Semiconductor structure
A semiconductor structure, including a substrate, a first well, a second well, a first doped region, a second doped region, a first gate structure, a first insulating layer, and a first field plate structure. The first and second wells are disposed in the substrate. The first doped region is disposed in the first well. The second doped region is disposed in the second well. The first gate structure is disposed between the first and second doped regions. The first insulating layer covers a portion of the first well and a portion of the first gate structure. The first field plate structure is disposed on the first insulating layer, and it partially overlaps the first gate structure. Wherein the first field plate structure is segmented into a first partial field plate and a second partial field plate separated from each other along a first direction. |
| US11894429B2 |
Amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer and semiconductor device
Methods for producing the amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer where amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer is formed by use of a precursor composition containing a metal salt, a primary amide, and a water-based solution. The methodology for producing the amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer includes applying the precursor composition onto a substrate to form a precursor film, and firing the film at a temperature of 150° C. or higher and lower than 300° C. |
| US11894425B2 |
Semiconductor arrangement and method of manufacture
A method of forming a semiconductor arrangement includes forming a gate dielectric layer over a semiconductor layer. A gate electrode layer is formed over the gate dielectric layer. A first gate mask is formed over the gate electrode layer. The gate electrode layer is etched using the first gate mask as an etch template to form a first gate electrode. A first dopant is implanted into the semiconductor layer using the first gate mask and the first gate electrode as an implantation template to form a first doped region in the semiconductor layer. |
| US11894424B2 |
Method for fabricating a field-effect transistor with size-reduced source/drain epitaxy
Disclosed is a fin field-effect transistor having size-reduced source/drain regions so that a merging phenomenon of epitaxial structures between transistors in a layout is prevented, thus increasing the number of transistors per unit area, and so that an additional mask process is not required, thus maintain processing costs without change, and a method of manufacturing the same. |
| US11894420B2 |
Memory and formation method thereof
A memory formation method includes: providing a substrate; forming a first mask layer on the substrate, in the first mask layer there being formed a plurality of parallel-arranged strip-shaped patterns positioned above the array area, and an end of each of the strip-shaped patterns being connected to the first mask layer on the peripheral area of the substrate; forming a second mask layer on the first mask layer, in the second mask layer there being formed a plurality of first patterns; and etching layer by layer by using the second mask layer and the first mask layer as masks to transfer the strip-shaped patterns and the first patterns into the substrate to form the discrete active areas arranged in an array. |
| US11894417B2 |
Method of fabricating a perovskite-material based trench capacitor using rapid thermal annealing (RTA) methodologies
A memory device includes a first electrode comprising a first conductive nonlinear polar material, where the first conductive nonlinear polar material comprises a first average grain length. The memory device further includes a dielectric layer comprising a perovskite material on the first electrode, where the perovskite material includes a second average grain length. A second electrode comprising a second conductive nonlinear polar material is on the dielectric layer, where the second conductive nonlinear polar material includes a third grain average length that is less than or equal to the first average grain length or the second average grain length. |
| US11894416B2 |
Display devices with multiple emitters
A display device includes a substrate includes a first emitter and a second emitter thereon. The first emitter includes a first lower active quantum well (QW) region that has a first emission spectrum spanning a first spectral range. The second emitter includes (i) an upper active QW region that has a second emission spectrum spanning a second spectral range that is distinct from the first spectral range, (ii) a second lower active QW region having the first emission spectrum and being located between the upper active QW region and the substrate, and (iii) a barrier layer between the second lower active QW region and the upper active QW region for suppressing emission of the second lower active QW region. |
| US11894414B2 |
Display device
A display device may include a substrate including pixels; a first bank that defines an emission area of the pixels; a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other in the emission area; a first insulating layer disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode; light emitting elements disposed on the first insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a second insulating layer disposed on the first bank; a first opening passing through the first insulating layer; and a second opening passing through the second insulating layer. The first opening and the second opening may overlap the first bank. |
| US11894413B2 |
Method for producing an optoelectronic device comprising light-emitting diodes which are homogeneous in dimensions
A method for manufacturing an optoelectronic device including the steps of forming a substrate having a support face; forming a first series of first areas adapted to the formation of all or part of light-emitting diodes, forming a second series of second areas on the support face, adapted to the formation of light confinement wall elements capable of forming a light confinement wall, the second areas defining therebetween sub-pixel areas; forming, from the first areas, light-emitting diodes; forming, by the same technique as in the previous step, from the second areas, light confinement wall elements, concomitantly with all or part of the light-emitting diodes which are formed in the previous step. |
| US11894405B2 |
Image sensor package
An image sensor package includes a package substrate; an image sensor chip disposed on the package substrate; a dam structure disposed on the image sensor chip and including a dam main body having an opening and a first light absorption layer disposed on an inner wall of the dam main body; a transparent substrate on the dam structure; and an encapsulant contacting the image sensor chip and an outer wall of the dam main body. |
| US11894403B2 |
Semiconductor package and method for fabricating same
A semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip on a package substrate, a transparent substrate on the semiconductor chip, an attachment dam between the semiconductor chip and the transparent substrate, the attachment dam extending along an edge of the semiconductor chip, a first molding layer on the package substrate and surrounding a side surface of the semiconductor chip and including a first epoxy resin, and a second molding layer on the package substrate and filling a space between the semiconductor chip and the first molding layer and including a second epoxy resin. The first epoxy resin includes a first filler containing at least one of silica or alumina. The second epoxy resin includes a second filler containing at least one of silica or alumina. The content of the second filler in the second epoxy resin is greater than a content of the first filler in the first epoxy resin. |
| US11894402B2 |
Imaging device and electric device
An imaging device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure has a display including a wiring layer; a camera located at a back side of the display, the camera including an optical lens and an imaging sensor to sense the light through the display to create an image; an optical element between the display and the camera, wherein the optical element filters the light through the display and passes the filtered light to the camera, and the optical element reduces a diffraction due to the wiring layer. |
| US11894399B2 |
Compact hyperspectral spectrometers based on semiconductor nanomembranes
Hyperspectral resonant cavity imaging spectrometers and imaging systems incorporating the resonant cavity spectrometers are provided. The spectrometers include an array of photodetectors based on photosensitive semiconductor nanomembranes disposed between two dielectric spacers, each of the dielectric spacers having a thickness gradient along a lateral direction, such that the resonant cavity height differs for different photodetectors in the array. |
| US11894395B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area driving circuits disposed in the non-display area; first voltage wirings and second voltage wirings extending from the display area to the non-display area; and a first auxiliary wiring electrically connected to the first voltage wirings and a second auxiliary wiring electrically connected to the second voltage wirings, the first auxiliary wiring and the second auxiliary wiring being electrically connected to the driving circuit, wherein the first voltage wirings electrically connected to an odd-numbered driving circuit among the driving circuits are electrically connected to the first auxiliary wiring through a first connection wiring, and the second voltage wirings electrically connected to an even-numbered driving circuit among the driving circuits are electrically connected to the second auxiliary wiring through a second connection wiring. |
| US11894391B2 |
Contact resistance monitoring device, manufacturing method thereof, and display panel
A contact resistance monitoring device, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The contact resistance monitoring device includes a substrate, a gate metal layer disposed on the substrate, an interlayer dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, a source and drain metal layers disposed in the recessed hole of the interlayer dielectric layer, and a pixel electrode layer disposed on the interlayer dielectric layer and the source and drain metal layer. |
| US11894388B2 |
Method adapted to manufacture array substrate and display panel
The application discloses a method adapted to manufacture an array substrate and a display panel. The method includes: forming a photoresist layer, a source and a drain; post-baking the photoresist layer, so that the photoresist layer flows to the position of a channel; etching a semiconductor layer to obtain a preset pattern; and peeling off the photoresist layer. |
| US11894387B2 |
Semiconductor device
There is provided a technique that enables a reduction in the display failure of a display device and the improvement of the yields of the display device in a display device that adopts a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor. The oxide semiconductor has a drain region, a source region, and a channel region provided between the drain region and the source region. The thin film transistor includes a gate insulating film provided on the channel region, an aluminum oxide film provided on the gate insulating film, an insulating film provided on the aluminum oxide film, and a gate electrode provided on the insulating film. |
| US11894386B2 |
Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display panel
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes an active layer, a metal contact layer, a gate insulating layer, a gate layer, a source/drain layer, and a pixel electrode, which are sequentially disposed on a substrate. An insulating area of the metal contact layer corresponds to a channel area of the active layer, and a conductive area of the metal contact layer is disposed at two sides of the insulating area. A source and a drain of the source/drain layer are individually connected to the conductive area. Therefore, a problem of relatively high electrical resistance of a conductorized IGZO area in conventional TFT devices can be solved. |
| US11894385B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a flexible substrate and a driving component. In the flexible substrate, a first side region, a second side region and a first cutting structure are disposed in a peripheral region, wherein a display region and the first side region are separated by a first edge of the display region, the display region and the second side region are separated by a second edge of the display region, the first edge and the second edge are respectively parallel to a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the first cutting structure has a first endpoint and two edges separated by the first endpoint and respectively belonging to the first side region and the second side region. The driving component overlaps the flexible substrate in a top view direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. |
| US11894381B2 |
Structures and methods for trench isolation
Structures and methods for trench isolation are disclosed. In one example, a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure is disclosed. The SOI structure includes: a substrate, a dielectric layer and a polysilicon region. The substrate includes: a handle layer, an insulation layer arranged over the handle layer, a buried layer arranged over the insulation layer, and a trench extending downward from an upper surface of the buried layer and terminating in the handle layer. The dielectric layer is located on a bottom surface of the trench and contacting the handle layer. The polysilicon region is located in the trench and contacting the dielectric layer. |
| US11894379B2 |
Semiconductor devices and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor in a first region of a substrate and a second transistor in a second region of the substrate. The first transistor includes multiple first semiconductor patterns; a first gate electrode; a first gate dielectric layer; a first source/drain region; and an inner-insulating spacer. The second transistor includes multiple second semiconductor patterns; a second gate electrode; a second gate dielectric layer; and a second source/drain region. The second gate dielectric layer extends between the second gate electrode and the second source/drain region and is in contact with the second source/drain region. The first source/drain region is not in contact with the first gate dielectric layer. |
| US11894373B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first transistor and a second transistor disposed on the substrate, and a first contact structure. The first transistor includes first semiconductor channel layers stacked and separated from one another, and a first source/drain structure and a second source/drain structure disposed at two opposite sides of and connected with each first semiconductor channel layer. The second transistor includes second semiconductor channel layers disposed above the first semiconductor channel layers, stacked, and separated from one another, and a third source/drain structure and a fourth source/drain structure disposed at two opposite sides of and connected with each second semiconductor channel layer. The first contact structure penetrates through the third source/drain structure. The first source/drain structure is electrically connected with the third source/drain structure via the first contact structure, and a part of the first source/drain structure is disposed between the substrate and the first contact structure. |
| US11894371B2 |
Integrated circuit devices
Provided is an integrated circuit device including: a plurality of fin-type active regions protruding from a top surface of a substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction; at least one semiconductor layer, each including a lower semiconductor layer and an upper semiconductor layer sequentially stacked on at least one of the plurality of fin-type active regions; and a plurality of gate electrodes extending in a second horizontal direction crossing the first horizontal direction on the plurality of fin-type active regions, wherein the lower semiconductor layer includes a same material as a material of the upper semiconductor layer, and wherein a semiconductor interface is provided between the lower semiconductor layer and the upper semiconductor layer. |
| US11894368B2 |
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures fabricated using alternate etch selective material
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures fabricated using alternate etch selective material, and the resulting structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A gate stack is over the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A pair of dielectric spacers is along sides of the gate stack and over the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires. A metal oxide material is between adjacent ones of the vertical arrangement of horizontal nanowires at a location between the pair of dielectric spacers and the sides of the gate stack. |
| US11894367B2 |
Integrated circuit including dipole incorporation for threshold voltage tuning in transistors
A method for processing an integrated circuit includes forming first and second gate all around transistors. The method forms a dipole oxide in the first gate all around transistor without forming the dipole oxide in the second gate all around transistor. This is accomplished by entirely removing an interfacial dielectric layer and a dipole-inducing layer from semiconductor nanosheets of the second gate all around transistor before redepositing the interfacial dielectric layer on the semiconductor nanosheets of the second gate all around transistor. |
| US11894359B2 |
Distributed semiconductor die and package architecture
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of conductively coupling a plurality of relatively physically small core dies to a relatively physically larger base die using an electrical mesh network that is formed in whole or in part in, on, across, or about all or a portion of the base die. Electrical mesh networks beneficially permit the positioning of the cores in close proximity to support circuitry carried by the base die. The minimal separation between the core circuitry and the support circuitry advantageously improves communication bandwidth while reducing power consumption. Each of the cores may include functionally dedicated circuitry such as processor core circuitry, field programmable logic, memory, or graphics processing circuitry. The use of core dies beneficially and advantageously permits the use of a wide variety of cores, each having a common or similar interface to the electrical mesh network. |
| US11894358B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
In a semiconductor device, a substrate has a main surface. A first semiconductor chip has a first front surface and a first back surface, and is mounted on the main surface via a plurality of bump electrodes. A first spacer has a second front surface and a second back surface that is mounted on the main surface. A height of the second front surface from the main surface is within a range between a highest height and a lowest height of the first back surface from the main surface. A second spacer has a third front surface and a third back surface that is mounted on the main surface. A height of the third front surface from the main surface is within the range between the highest height and the lowest height of the first back surface from the main surface. |
| US11894356B2 |
Chip having multiple functional units and semiconductor structure using the same
A chip includes a substrate and a plurality of functional units on the substrate, in which each of the functional units has its own set of pads. The functional units are physically connected and there is no scribe line passes through the chip. A semiconductor structure having the chip is also disclosed. |
| US11894355B2 |
Display device and method of fabricating the same
A display device includes a first conductive layer disposed on a substrate, a passivation layer disposed on the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the passivation layer, a via layer disposed on the second conductive layer, a third conductive layer disposed on the via layer, the third conductive layer including a first electrode, a second electrode, a connection pattern, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the connection pattern being spaced apart from each other, and a light emitting element, a first end and a second end of the light emitting element being disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively, wherein the connection pattern electrically connects the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer through a first contact hole penetrating the via layer and the passivation layer. |
| US11894353B2 |
Driving substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and micro LED bonding method
The present disclosure provides a driving substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a micro LED bonding method. The driving substrate includes: a base substrate; a driving function layer provided on the base substrate, and including a plurality of driving thin film transistors and a plurality of common electrode lines; a pad layer including a plurality of pads provided on a side of the driving function layer away from the base substrate, each pad including a pad body and a microstructure of hard conductive material provided on a side of the pad body away from the base substrate; and a plurality of buffer structures provided on the side of the driving function layer away from the base substrate, each buffer structure surrounding a portion of a corresponding microstructure close to the base substrate, and a height of the buffer structure being lower than a height of the microstructure. |
| US11894343B2 |
Vertical semiconductor device with side grooves
A semiconductor device is vertically mounted on a medium such as a printed circuit board (PCB). The semiconductor device comprises a block of semiconductor dies, mounted in a vertical stack without offset. Once formed and encapsulated, side grooves may be formed in the device exposing electrical conductors of each die within the device. The electrical conductors exposed in the grooves mount to electrical contacts on the medium to electrically couple the semiconductor device to the medium. |
| US11894340B2 |
Package structure and method for manufacturing the same
A package structure includes a wiring structure and a first electronic device. The wiring structure includes at least one dielectric layer and at least one circuit layer in contact with the dielectric layer. The first electronic device is electrically connected to the wiring structure, and has a first surface, a second surface and at least one lateral side surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The first electronic device includes a first active circuit region and a first protrusion portion. The first protrusion portion protrudes from the at least one lateral side surface of the first electronic device. A portion of the first active circuit region is disposed in the first protrusion portion. |
| US11894338B2 |
Wafer level package
Provided are a wafer level package and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein an underfill sufficiently fills a space between a redistribution substrate and a semiconductor chip, thereby reducing warpage. The wafer level package includes a redistribution substrate including at least one redistribution layer (RDL), a semiconductor chip on the redistribution substrate, and an underfill filling a space between the redistribution substrate and the semiconductor chip. The underfill covers side surfaces of the semiconductor chip. The redistribution substrate includes a trench having a line shape and extending in a first direction along a first side surface of the semiconductor chip. |
| US11894337B2 |
Manufacturing method of power semiconductor device, power semiconductor device, and power converter
A power semiconductor element and a support member are stacked with an intermediate structure being interposed between the power semiconductor element and the support member. The intermediate structure includes a first metal paste layer and at least one first penetrating member. The first metal paste layer contains a plurality of first metal particles. The at least one first penetrating member penetrates the first metal paste layer. At least one first vibrator attached to the at least one first penetrating member penetrating the first metal paste layer is vibrated. The first metal paste layer is heated so that the plurality of first metal particles are sintered or fused. |
| US11894331B2 |
Chip package structure, chip structure and method for forming chip structure
A chip structure is provided. The chip structure includes a substrate. The chip structure includes an interconnect layer over the substrate. The chip structure includes a conductive pad over the interconnect layer. The chip structure includes a conductive bump over the conductive pad. The conductive bump has a first portion, a second portion, and a neck portion between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion is between the neck portion and the conductive pad. The neck portion is narrower than the first portion and narrower than the second portion. |
| US11894325B2 |
Semiconductor device having a resin that seals a rewiring
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer that has a main surface, an electrode pad that is formed on the main surface, a rewiring that has a first wiring surface connected to the electrode pad and a second wiring surface positioned on a side opposite to the first wiring surface and being roughened, the rewiring being formed on the main surface such as to be drawn out to a region outside the electrode pad, and a resin that covers the second wiring surface on the main surface and that seals the rewiring. |
| US11894324B2 |
In-package RF waveguides as high bandwidth chip-to-chip interconnects and methods for using the same
In-package radio frequency (RF) waveguides as high bandwidth chip-to-chip interconnects and methods for using the same are disclosed. In one example, an electronic package includes a package substrate, first and second silicon dies or tiles, and an RF waveguide. The first and second silicon dies or tiles are attached to the package substrate. The RF waveguide is formed in the package substrate and interconnects the first silicon die or tile with the second silicon die or tile. |
| US11894321B2 |
Semiconductor device with a transmitting insulating element
A semiconductor device includes a conductive support member, a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, an insulating element, and a sealing resin. The conductive support member includes a first die pad and a second die pad, which are separated from each other in a first direction. The first die pad and the second die pad overlap each other when viewed along the first direction. When viewed along a thickness direction, a peripheral edge of the first die pad has a first near-angle portion including a first end portion in a second direction orthogonal to both the thickness direction and the first direction. The first near-angle portion is separated from the second die pad in the first direction toward the first end portion in the second direction. |
| US11894319B2 |
Extended seal ring structure on wafer-stacking
Embodiments include a wafer-on-wafer bonding where each wafer includes a seal ring structure around die areas defined in the wafer. Embodiments provide a further seal ring spanning the interface between the wafers. Embodiments may extend the existing seal rings of the wafers, provide an extended seal ring structure separate from the existing seal rings of the wafers, or combinations thereof. |
| US11894311B2 |
Microelectronic device with embedded die substrate on interposer
A microelectronic device is formed to include an embedded die substrate on an interposer; where the embedded die substrate is formed with no more than a single layer of transverse routing traces. In the device, all additional routing may be allocated to the interposer to which the embedded die substrate is attached. The embedded die substrate may be formed with a planarized dielectric formed over an initial metallization layer supporting the embedded die. |
| US11894309B2 |
System on integrated chips (SoIC) and semiconductor structures with integrated SoIC
A method of forming semiconductor structure includes attaching backsides of top dies to a front side of a bottom wafer, the bottom wafer comprising a plurality of bottom dies; forming first conductive pillars on the front side of the bottom wafer adjacent to the top dies; forming a first dielectric material on the front side of the bottom wafer around the top dies and around the first conductive pillars; and dicing the bottom wafer to form a plurality of structures, each of the plurality of structures comprising at least one of the top dies and at least one of the bottom dies. |
| US11894301B2 |
Vertical memory devices
A vertical memory device includes a cell stacked structure, a wiring connection structure, and a first insulating interlayer. The cell stacked structure may include insulation layers and gate patterns repeatedly and alternately stacked on a first region of a substrate. The wiring connection structure may contact side walls of the cell stacked structure. The wiring connection structure may include a first staircase structure having one side of a stepped shape, a second staircase structure having one side of a stepped shape and disposed below the first staircase structure, and a first dummy staircase structure between the first and second staircase structures. The first and second staircase structures may be spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and both sides in the first direction of the first dummy staircase structure may have stepped shapes. The first insulating interlayer may be on the substrate to cover the wiring connection structure. |
| US11894300B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device
Provided herein may be a semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a source structure, a stacked conductive layer that overlaps with the source structure, a first select conductive layer and a second select conductive layer disposed between the source structure and the stacked conductive layer, a stacked insulating layer disposed between the first and second select conductive layers and the stacked conductive layer, and a separation insulating structure provided between the first select conductive layer and the second select conductive layer. |
| US11894299B2 |
Conductive traces in semiconductor devices and methods of forming same
A method includes forming a dielectric layer over a contact pad of a device, forming a first polymer layer over the dielectric layer, forming a first conductive line and a first portion of a second conductive line over the first polymer layer, patterning a photoresist to form an opening over the first portion of the second conductive feature, wherein after patterning the photoresist the first conductive line remains covered by photoresist, forming a second portion of the second conductive line in the opening, wherein the second portion of the second conductive line physically contacts the first portion of the second conductive line, and forming a second polymer layer extending completely over the first conductive line and the second portion of the second conductive line. |
| US11894296B2 |
Integrated circuit package with heatsink
An apparatus includes an integrated circuit package and a heatsink. The integrated circuit package includes a substrate, an integrated circuit, a first plurality of signal conductors, and a second plurality of signal conductors. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The integrated circuit is coupled to the first surface of the substrate. The first plurality of signal conductors are arranged along a periphery of the first surface of the substrate. The second plurality of signal conductors are arranged along a periphery of the second surface of the substrate. The heatsink includes a first portion positioned along the first surface of the substrate and a second portion positioned along the second surface of the substrate. |
| US11894295B2 |
Process for manufacturing a chip-card module with soldered electronic component
Process for manufacturing a chip-card module. It includes one or more operations in which a meltable solder is deposited on connection pads formed in a layer of electrically conductive material located on the back side of a dielectric substrate, and at least one electronic component is connected to these connection pads by reflowing the solder. Chip-card module obtained using this process. Chip card including such a module. |
| US11894287B2 |
Adhesive and thermal interface material on a plurality of dies covered by a lid
Provided are a package structure and a method of forming the same. The package structure includes a first die, a second die group, an interposer, an underfill layer, a thermal interface material (TIM), and an adhesive pattern. The first die and the second die group are disposed side by side on the interposer. The underfill layer is disposed between the first die and the second die group. The adhesive pattern at least overlay the underfill layer between the first die and the second die group. The TIM has a bottom surface being in direct contact with the first die, the second die group, and the adhesive pattern. The adhesive pattern separates the underfill layer from the TIM. |
| US11894286B2 |
Hermetically sealed electronics module with enhanced cooling of core integrated circuit
A hermetically sealed electronics module includes a core IC installed on a substrate. A collar surrounds the core IC and is sealed to the substrate and to a lid, forming a sealed chamber. A heat spreader bonded to an internal surface of the lid extends downward into proximal thermal contact with the core IC. A thin layer of TIM can be applied between the heat spreader and core IC. The heat spreader does not overlap any tall components that extend above the core IC, and can extend over regions adjacent to the core IC. Tall components can be limited to a periphery of the chamber, and/or the heat spreader can include openings that surround central tall components. The heat spreader can be soldered or welded to the lid over an entire upper surface of the heat spreader. X-ray and/or CSAM scanning can detect heat spreader bonding flaws. |
| US11894284B2 |
Semiconductor structure having silver-indium transient liquid phase bonding joint
A semiconductor structure having a silver-indium transient liquid phase bonding joint is provided. With the ultra-thin silver-indium transient liquid phase bonding joint formed between the semiconductor device and the heat-spreading mount, its thermal resistance can be minimized to achieve a high thermal conductivity. Therefore, the heat spreading capability of the heat-spreading mount can be fully realized, leading to an optimal performance of the high power electronics and photonics devices. |
| US11894281B2 |
Semiconductor device including lead with varying thickness
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a first lead electrically connected to the semiconductor element, a sealing resin that covers the semiconductor element and a part of the first lead, and a recess formed in a surface flush with a back surface of the sealing resin. The sealing resin also has a front surface opposite to the back surface in a thickness direction, and a side surface connecting the front surface and the back surface to each other. The recess is formed, in part, by a part of the first lead that is exposed from the back surface of the sealing resin. The recess has an outer edge that forms a closed shape, as viewed in the thickness direction, within a region that includes the back surface of the sealing resin and the first lead. |
| US11894271B2 |
Method of processing wafer
A method of processing a wafer includes a wafer preparing step of preparing a measurement wafer and a product wafer, a measurement etching step of supplying a gas in a plasma state to first areas of the measurement wafer that correspond to streets thereon to form grooves in the measurement wafer, a measuring step of demarcating a plurality of concentric areas in an array from a center to an outer circumference of the measurement wafer, and measuring depths of the grooves in the respective concentric areas, a thickness adjusting step of adjusting a thickness of the product wafer such that the product wafer is progressively thinner in areas thereof that correspond to the areas of the measurement wafer where the grooves are shallower, and an etching step of supplying a gas in a plasma state to second areas of the product wafer that correspond to streets thereon. |
| US11894270B2 |
Grating replication using helmets and topographically-selective deposition
Embodiments include an interconnect structure and methods of forming such an interconnect structure. In an embodiment, the interconnect structure comprises a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) and a first interconnect layer with a plurality of first conductive traces partially embedded in the first ILD. In an embodiment, an etch stop layer is formed over surfaces of the first ILD and sidewall surfaces of the first conductive traces. In an embodiment, the interconnect structure further comprises a second interconnect layer that includes a plurality of second conductive traces. In an embodiment, a via between the first interconnect layer and the second interconnect layer may be self-aligned with the first interconnect layer. |
| US11894269B2 |
Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a stack of alternating first and second levels. The first levels contain conductive material and the second levels contain insulative material. At least some of the first and second levels are configured as steps. Each of the steps has one of the second levels over an associated one of the first levels. A layer is over the steps and is spaced from the stack by an intervening insulative region. Insulative material is over the layer. Conductive interconnects extend through the insulative material, through the layer, through the intervening insulative region and to the conductive material within the first levels of the steps. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies. |
| US11894267B2 |
Method for fabricating integrated circuit device
A method for fabricating an integrated circuit device is provided. The method includes forming an interconnect layer over a substrate, wherein the interconnect layer has a first interlayer dielectric layer, a first conductive feature in a first portion of the first interlayer dielectric layer, and a second conductive feature in a second portion of the first interlayer dielectric layer; depositing a dielectric layer over the interconnect layer; removing a first portion of the dielectric layer over the first conductive feature and the first portion of the first interlayer dielectric layer, and remaining a second portion of the dielectric layer over the second conductive feature and the second portion of the first interlayer dielectric layer; and forming a memory structure over the first conductive feature. |
| US11894265B2 |
Top via with damascene line and via
A method of forming a top via is provided. The method includes forming a sacrificial trench layer and conductive trench plug in an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on a conductive line. The method further includes forming a cover layer on the ILD layer, sacrificial trench layer, and conductive trench plug, and forming a sacrificial channel layer and a conductive channel plug on the conductive trench plug. The method further includes removing the cover layer and the ILD layer to expose the sacrificial trench layer and the sacrificial channel layer. The method further includes removing the sacrificial trench layer and the sacrificial channel layer, and forming a barrier layer on the conductive channel plug and conductive trench plug. |
| US11894263B2 |
Local interconnect
Semiconductor structures and methods are provided. A semiconductor structure according to the present disclosure includes a first metal line extending along a first direction, a second metal line lengthwise aligned with and spaced apart from the first metal line, and a third metal line extending along the first direction. The third metal line includes a branch extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and the branch partially extends between the first metal line and the second metal line. |
| US11894262B2 |
Back side processing of integrated circuit structures to form insulation structure between adjacent transistor structures
Techniques are disclosed for forming integrated circuit structures having a plurality of non-planar transistors. An insulation structure is provided between channel, source, and drain regions of neighboring fins. The insulation structure is formed during back side processing, wherein at least a first portion of the isolation material between adjacent fins is recessed to expose a sub-channel portion of the semiconductor fins. A spacer material is then deposited at least on the exposed opposing sidewalls of the exposed sub-channel portion of each fin. The isolation material is then further recessed to form an air gap between gate, source, and drain regions of neighboring fins. The air gap electrically isolates the source/drain regions of one fin from the source/drain regions of an adjacent fin, and likewise isolates the gate region of the one fin from the gate region of the adjacent fin. The air gap can be filled with a dielectric material. |
| US11894261B2 |
Silicon-on-insulator substrate including trap-rich layer and methods for making thereof
A silicon-on-insulator substrate includes: (1) a high-resistivity base layer including silicon and a trap-rich region including arsenic diffused within a first side of the high-resistivity base layer, wherein the trap-rich region has a thickness that is in a range of 1 to 10 microns and a trap density that is in a range of 0.8*1010 cm2 eV−1 to 1.2*1010 cm2 eV−1, wherein the high-resistivity base layer has resistivity in a range of 50 to 100 ohm-meters and a thickness in a range of 500 to 700 microns; (2) a silicon dioxide layer positioned on the first side of the high-resistivity base layer and having a thickness that is in a range of 1000 to 5000 angstroms; and (3) a transfer layer positioned on the silicon dioxide layer, wherein the transfer layer comprises a silicon wafer having a thickness that is a range of 500 to 5000 angstroms. |
| US11894260B2 |
Replacement material for backside gate cut feature
A semiconductor structure includes a gate structure surrounding a plurality of channels and a cut feature that electrically isolates two separate portions of the gate structure. The cut feature comprises an outer layer having a work-function metal, and an inner layer comprising a dielectric material. The cut feature extends above a top surface of the gate structure. |
| US11894259B2 |
Method for manufacturing the same having a profile modifier
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device structure includes forming a first metallization line and a second metallization line extending along a first direction; forming a first isolation feature and a second isolation feature between the first metallization line and the second metallization line, wherein the first metallization line, the second metallization line, the first isolation feature and the second isolation feature define an aperture; forming a profile modifier within the aperture, wherein the profile modifier comprises a plurality of segments spaced apart from each other, wherein each of the segments are located at corners of the aperture; and forming a contact feature surrounded by the plurality of segments. |
| US11894255B2 |
Sheath and temperature control of process kit
Embodiments of a process kit are provided herein. In some embodiments, a process kit for use in a substrate processing chamber includes: a ceramic ring having an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the ceramic ring includes a chucking electrode disposed in the ceramic ring and a heating element disposed in the ceramic ring; and an edge ring disposed on the ceramic ring. |
| US11894253B2 |
Method and apparatus for substrate alignment
A semiconductor wafer transport apparatus having a transport arm and at least one end effector. An optical edge detection sensor is coupled to the transport arm and is configured so as to register and effect edge detection of a wafer supported by the end effector. An illumination source illuminates a surface of the wafer and is disposed with respect to the optical edge detection sensor so that the surface directs reflected surface illumination, from the illumination source, toward the optical edge detection sensor, and optically blanks, at the peripheral edge of the wafer, background reflection light of a background, viewed by the optical edge detection sensor coincident with linear traverse of the wafer supported by the at least one end effector. The peripheral edge of the wafer is defined in relief in image contrast to effect edge detection coincident with traverse of the wafer supported by the end effector. |
| US11894248B2 |
Protective member attaching apparatus and protective member attaching method
A protective member attaching apparatus includes a pressure reduction chamber having an upper housing and a lower housing, a support table that is provided inside the lower housing and on which a substrate is mounted, a sheet fixing section for fixing the sheet in such a manner as to partition the inside space of the pressure reduction chamber into a first space and a second space, a heating unit that heats the sheet to soften the sheet, and a control unit. The sheet fixing section has an outer periphery fixing section that fixes an outer periphery of the sheet, and a temporary fixing section that temporarily fixes a central portion of the sheet to the substrate mounted on a support table through a gap between the sheet and the substrate. |
| US11894246B2 |
Bonding apparatus and bonding method
A bonding apparatus includes a first holder, a second holder, an attracting pressure generator and a lift pin. The first holder is configured to hold a first substrate. The second holder, disposed at a position facing the first holder, has an attraction surface configured to attract a second substrate to be bonded to the first substrate. The attracting pressure generator is configured to generate an attracting pressure in the attraction surface. The lift pin is configured to space the second substrate on the attraction surface apart from the second holder. The second holder is provided with a space including an opening through which the lift pin passes, and the space is controlled to have a pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure. |
| US11894244B2 |
Cleaning member mounting mechanism and substrate cleaning apparatus
A cleaning member mounting mechanism has: a cleaning member holding part, to which a cleaning member assembly having a cleaning member for cleaning a substrate W can be mounted; a member rotation part for rotating the cleaning member assembly held by the cleaning member holding part; and a moving part which moves the cleaning member holding part along an axial direction when the cleaning member assembly is removed, thereby to bring the cleaning member holding part into a rotation fixed position to restrict a rotation of the cleaning member holding part. |
| US11894242B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of manufacturing semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, at least one semiconductor chip mounted on the package substrate, a molding member on the package substrate to cover at least a portion of the semiconductor chip, and a mechanical reinforcing member provided around the semiconductor chip within the molding member and extending in at least one direction. |
| US11894240B2 |
Semiconductor processing systems with in-situ electrical bias
A system for processing semiconductor wafers, the system including: a processing chamber; a heat source; a substrate holder configured to expose a semiconductor wafer to the heat source; a first electrode configured to be detachably coupled to a first major surface of a semiconductor wafer; and a second electrode coupled to the substrate holder, the first electrode and the second electrode together configured to apply an electric field in the semiconductor wafer. |
| US11894237B2 |
Ultra narrow trench patterning with dry plasma etching
A method includes forming a polymer layer on a patterned photo resist. The polymer layer extends into an opening in the patterned photo resist. The polymer layer is etched to expose the patterned photo resist. The polymer layer and a top Bottom Anti-Reflective Coating (BARC) are etched to pattern the top BARC, in which the patterned photo resist is used as an etching mask. The top BARC is used as an etching mask to etching an underlying layer. |
| US11894234B2 |
Semiconductor packages with die support structure for thin die
Implementations of a semiconductor device may include a semiconductor die including a first largest planar surface, a second largest planar surface and a thickness between the first largest planar surface and the second largest planar surface; and one of a permanent die support structure, a temporary die support structure, or any combination thereof coupled to one of the first largest planar surface, the second largest planar surface, the thickness, or any combination thereof where the semiconductor die may be coupled with one of a substrate, a leadframe, an interposer, a package, a bonding surface, or a mounting surface. The thickness may be between 0.1 microns and 125 microns. |
| US11894231B2 |
Semiconductor fabrication method and structure using multiple sacrificial layers to form sidewall spacers
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The method may include providing a to-be-etched layer; forming a plurality of core layers on the to-be-etched layer, wherein a first opening and a second opening are formed between different adjacent core layers and a width of the first opening is smaller than a width of the second opening; forming a first sacrificial material layer on the to-be-etched layer and the plurality of core layers; forming a second sacrificial layer on a portion of the first sacrificial material layer in the first opening to form a sacrificial structure in the first opening; removing the plurality of core layers after forming the sacrificial structure; forming sidewall spacers on sidewall surfaces of the sacrificial structure after removing the plurality of core layers; and removing the sacrificial structure after forming the sidewall spacers. |
| US11894229B2 |
Laser annealing apparatus, laser annealing method, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A laser annealing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a laser light source, an annealing optical system, a linear irradiation region along a Y-direction, a moving mechanism configured to change a relative position of the irradiation region with respect to the substrate along an X-direction, an illumination light source configured to generate illumination light for illuminating the substrate along a third direction, and a detector configured to detect detection light reflected, in a fourth direction, on the substrate illuminated by the illumination light so as to photograph an annealed part of the substrate in a linear field of view along the Y-direction. In a YZ-plane view, the third direction is inclined from the vertical direction and the fourth direction is inclined from the vertical direction. |
| US11894226B2 |
Semiconductor device and method making the same
A fabrication method of a semiconductor device comprises the steps of: providing a substrate, which is divided into several chip areas; forming a protective layer on the substrate, the protective layer covers the scribe lines and the chip areas; exposing and developing the protective layer to form a plurality of grooves in the protective layer over the chip areas, and the depth of the grooves is smaller than the initial thickness of the protective layer. |
| US11894225B2 |
Indium phosphide substrate, semiconductor epitaxial wafer, and method for producing indium phosphide substrate
Provided is an indium phosphide substrate, a semiconductor epitaxial wafer, and a method for producing an indium phosphide substrate, which can satisfactorily suppress warpage of the back surface of the substrate. The indium phosphide substrate includes a main surface for forming an epitaxial crystal layer and a back surface opposite to the main surface, wherein the back surface has a BOW value of −2.0 to 2.0 μm, as measured with the back surface of the indium phosphide substrate facing upward. |
| US11894224B2 |
High voltage driving device
Provided is a high voltage driving device including a housing and a cathode, an anode, and an insulation structure, which are disposed in the housing. Here, the cathode and the anode are spaced apart from each other with the insulation structure therebetween. Also, the insulation structure includes a first solid insulator disposed adjacent to the cathode and a second solid insulator disposed adjacent to the anode. Also, the first solid insulator has first volumetric resistivity less than second volumetric resistivity of the second solid insulator, and the first solid insulator contacts the cathode. |
| US11894222B2 |
Film forming apparatus and film forming method
A film forming apparatus for forming a film on a substrate by using a magnetron sputtering method. The film forming apparatus includes: a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate; a target holder configured to hold a target made of a ferromagnetic material to face the substrate holder; a magnet provided on a surface of the target holder opposite to the substrate holder, and configured to leak a magnetic field to a front surface of the target held by the target holder that is a surface close to the substrate holder; and a magnetic field strength measurement device configured to measure a strength of the magnetic field. |
| US11894220B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling a processing reactor
Methods and systems for processing substrates are provided. The system can include: a processing chamber configured to process a substrate based on a recipe; a plurality of sub-systems in operable communication with the processing chamber for controlling corresponding parameters associated with processing the substrate; and a controller in operable communication with the processing chamber and each of the plurality of sub-systems and configured to control each of the plurality of sub-systems and the processing chamber using information included in the recipe and feedback provided by at least one of the plurality of sub-systems. The controller is configured to compare information included in the recipe and feedback provided by at least one of the plurality of sub-systems with stored empirical information relating to the recipe and each of the plurality of sub-systems, and adjust at least one of the corresponding parameters associated with processing the substrate based on a determined comparison. |
| US11894219B2 |
Method for processing substrate
The inventive concept relates to an apparatus and a method for processing a substrate. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes a process chamber having a processing space inside, a support unit that supports the substrate in the processing space, a gas supply unit that supplies a process gas into the processing space, and a plasma source that generates plasma from the process gas. The support unit includes a support on which the substrate is placed, an edge ring around the substrate placed on the support, an impedance adjustment member provided below the edge ring, and a temperature adjustment member that variably adjusts temperature of the impedance adjustment member. |
| US11894216B2 |
Method of preparing and analyzing thin films
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of preparing a focused ion beam (FIB) sample and analyzing the sample in an electron microscope system. The method can include forming, over a substrate, a target film having a thickness of less than a threshold corresponding to a limit for FIB requirements, and forming a supporting film over the target film. The method can also include obtaining a FIB sample that includes a portion of the target film and a portion of the supporting film and. The method can further include analyzing the obtained portion of the target film in an electron microscope system. |
| US11894213B2 |
Ion milling device
An ion milling device capable of high-speed milling is realized even for a specimen containing a material having an imide bond. Therefore, the ion milling device includes: a vacuum chamber 6 configured to hold a specimen 3 in a vacuum atmosphere; an ion gun 1 configured to irradiate the specimen with a non-focused ion beam 2; a vaporization container 17 configured to store a mixed solution 13 of a water-soluble ionic liquid and water; and nozzles 11, 12 configured to supply water vapor obtained by vaporizing the mixed solution to a vicinity of a surface of the specimen processed by the ion beam. |
| US11894209B2 |
Component or electron capture sleeve for an X-ray tube and X-ray tube having such a device
A component part in a vacuum area of an X-ray tube with an opening through which an electron beam is guided. The component part includes a base body made of a first material, wherein the first material is a metal. Arranged on a surface forming the opening is a second material having an atomic number which is smaller than an atomic number of the first material. A target support is attached to an end of the component part. The target support supports a target which is aligned with a lens diaphragm formed at the end of the component part. The target support has a base body made of a first material which is a metal, and a second material formed on a surface of the base body that is selectively exposed to the electron beam and which extends between the target and the lens diaphragm. |
| US11894207B2 |
Smart bus plug remote actuation, monitoring, and control
A power distribution system includes a bus plug having an electrical switch configured to selectively control energization of the bus plug. The bus plug includes an electrical switch having a control knob operable to selectively control energization of the bus plug, and an actuator having an actuator adaptor coupling that couples movement of the actuator to the control knob. The bus plug includes a partition wall separating the internal volume into a line side and a load side. The bus plug includes an external handle coupled to mechanical linkages, and an adaptor bracket fixed to at least one of the mechanical linkages and oriented to interact with the control knob. The bus plug includes an actuator operable to move the mechanical linkages. Methods of controlling energization of a bus plug with a remote application and communication module configured to operate an actuator are also provided. |
| US11894205B2 |
System for controlling a vacuum interrupter for a power diverter switch, a power diverter switch and an on-load tap changer
A system for controlling a vacuum interrupter for a power diverter switch comprises a main driving shaft which is configured to drive the control cam. The system further comprises the vacuum interrupter which is configured to separate electrical contacts in a vacuum by use of a contact rod, and a transmission unit which is configured to transmit the force generated by the main driving shaft to the contact rod. The transmission unit comprises a plurality of rollable guiding elements and a lever mechanism which is coupled to both the control cam and the contact rod of the vacuum interrupter such that a rotation of the control cam generated by the main driving shaft causes a movement of the contact. |
| US11894203B2 |
Remote-controlled switch cover assembly
A remote-controlled switch cover assembly is described for converting an existing rocker switch into a remote-controlled switch. The remote-controlled switch cover assembly receives a wireless signal to actuate the existing rocker switch and, in response, activates an electric motor that causes a gear train to turn in a first direction. This causes a wiper to engage an under-surface of a tilt plate located above the existing rocker switch and, in response, an opposing end of the tit plate depresses the existing rocker switch. |
| US11894196B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes stacked in a first direction and having first and second surfaces opposing each other in the first direction, third and fourth surfaces opposing each other in a second direction, and fifth and sixth surfaces opposing each other in a third direction, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the third and fourth surfaces of the body, respectively, and connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The first and second external electrodes each include a central portion disposed in a center of each of the third and fourth surfaces and an outer portion disposed outside the central portion. T1>T2>T3, in which T1 and T3 are maximum value and minimum value of a thickness of the central portion, respectively, and T2 is a maximum value of a thickness of the outer portion. |
| US11894194B2 |
Dielectric composition and multilayer ceramic electronic device
A dielectric composition includes a dielectric grain including a perovskite compound and a first segregation phase including at least Ca, Al, Si, and O. |
| US11894183B2 |
Winding
A winding is provided, which comprises a form element having a longitudinal axis defining a longitudinal direction and a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The form element comprises a core with a lateral surface, and adjustable elements arranged on the lateral surface of the core. The adjustable elements are elongated and extend along the longitudinal direction. A thickness of the adjustable elements in a radial direction is altered along the longitudinal direction. A conductor is wound around the form element along the longitudinal direction forming turns of the winding. |
| US11894182B2 |
Coil component and wireless power transmission device having the same
Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a first coil, and a second coil disposed so as to surround the first coil. The first coil includes a first section extending in a first direction, a second section extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a third section positioned between the first and second sections. Gaps between the first, second, and third sections of the first coil and the second coil as viewed in a coil axis direction have a first width, a second width, and a third width, respectively. The second width is larger than the first width and smaller than the third width. |
| US11894181B2 |
Method for determining the overload capacity of a high-voltage device
A method determines the overload capacity of a high-voltage device. The method includes creating a load forecast request for a predefined time period, determining an operational state of the high-voltage device by obtaining state parameters, transmitting the load forecast request and the state parameters at a request time to a load-forecasting model, and determining the maximum utilization in the predefined time period by the load-forecasting model, with which the overload capacity of a high-voltage device can be fully exploited. A lifetime consumption of the high-voltage device before the request time is derived from measured values by obtaining an actually consumed lifetime and the actually consumed lifetime is fed to the load-forecasting model as a state parameter. The load-forecasting model then determines the maximum overload capacity depending on the actually consumed lifetime. |
| US11894176B2 |
Method of manufacturing an embedded magnetic component device
An embedded magnetic component device includes a magnetic core located in a cavity extending into an insulating substrate. The cavity and magnetic core are covered with a cover layer. Through holes extend through the cover layer and the insulating substrate, and are plated to define conductive vias. Metallic traces are provided at exterior surfaces of the cover layer and the insulating substrate to define upper and lower winding layers. The metallic traces and conductive vias define the respective primary and secondary side windings for an embedded transformer. At least a first isolation barrier is provided on the cover layer, and at least a third insulating layer is provided on the substrate. The second and third insulating layers provide additional insulation for the device, and define and function as a circuit board for surface mounted power electronics. |
| US11894174B2 |
Coil component
In a coil component, a height h1 of a pedestal portion of a resin wall corresponds to the height position of a step portion. In addition, a height of a seed portion corresponds to the plating start position at a time when a winding portion of a coil is plated and grown. The plating start position and the step portion are designed to be close to each other by the height h1 of the pedestal portion and the height h2 of the seed portion satisfying 0.3≤h1/h2≤10. Accordingly, although the coil component has a configuration in which the resin wall has the step portion, the inside of the step portion is sufficiently filled with a coil conductor, and thus deterioration of characteristics is suppressed. |
| US11894173B2 |
Common-mode choke coil
A common-mode choke coil includes a multilayer body, and first and second coils incorporated in the multilayer body. The multilayer body is a cuboid shape including plural stacked non-conductor layers. The first coil includes a first coil conductor. The second coil includes a second coil conductor. With the common-mode choke coil, in a frequency region greater than or equal to 0.1 GHz and less than or equal to 100 GHz (i.e., from 0.1 GHz to 100 GHz), the Sdd21 transmission characteristic is less than or equal to −3 dB at or above 30 GHz, and in a frequency region greater than or equal to 10 GHz and less than or equal to 60 GHz (i.e., from 10 GHz to 60 GHz), the Scc21 transmission characteristic is minimum at or above 20 GHz, and the Scc21 transmission characteristic has a minimum value of less than or equal to −20 dB. |
| US11894169B2 |
Soft magnetic powder, pressed powder body, and magnetic component
Disclosed is a soft magnetic powder including a main component represented by composition formula: (Fe(1−(α+β))X1αX2β)(1−(a+b+c+d+e+f))MaBbPcSidCeSf. X1 represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Co and Ni; X2 represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Al, Mn, Ag, Zn, Sn, As, Sb, Cu, Cr, Bi, N, and rare earth elements; and M represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Nb, Hf, Zr, Ta, Mo, W, Ti, and V. The following relations are satisfied: 0≤a≤0.140; 0.020 |
| US11894160B2 |
Light field X-ray optics
Devices, systems and methods for performing X-ray scans with a single line of sight using a lens array for capturing the light field of the X-rays are described. In one example aspect, an X-ray optical system includes a primary optics subsection positioned to receive incoming X-rays after traversal through an object and to redirect the received incoming X-rays onto an intermediate image plane. The system also includes a microlens array positioned at or close to the intermediate image plane to receive at least some of the received incoming X-rays after redirection by the primary optics subsection to diffract the X-rays that are incident thereupon. |
| US11894158B2 |
Diffusion window for radioactive heat source
Sealed containers for radioactive material are presented herein. A sealed container forms an interior envelope for housing a radioactive material and prevents escape of the radioactive material into a surrounding environment. The sealed container provides a diffusion window for gaseous decay products to escape at a particular diffusion rate. In one example, an apparatus, comprises a container forming a sealed interior envelope for a radioactive material. The container has an aperture covered by a window material, and properties of the window material are selected to provide for diffusion of at least one gas produced by radioactive decay of the radioactive material. |
| US11894157B2 |
Segmented reaction chamber for radioisotope production
A reactor that is operable to produce an isotope includes a region for containing a controlled nuclear fission reaction, the region segmented into a plurality of independent compartments, each of the compartments for containing a parent material in an aqueous solution that interacts with neutrons to produce the isotope via a fission reaction. Also provided are methods of producing an isotope using the same. |
| US11894154B2 |
Modular, integrated, automated, compact, and proliferation-hardened method to chemically recycle used nuclear fuel (UNF) originating from nuclear reactors to recover a mixture of transuranic (TRU) elements for advanced reactor fuel to recycle uranium and zirconium
A single integrated system for recycling used nuclear fuel (UNF) emerging from a reactor has a decladding vessel separating fuel pellets from nuclear fuel rods via oxidation to produce U3O8. A fluorination vessel is coupled to the decladding vessel to remove hexafluorides from the U3O8 produced by the decladding vessel. An electrowinning vessel is coupled to the fluorination vessel removing plutonium and actinides via electrowinning. |
| US11894150B2 |
Systems and methods for improved sustainment of a high performance FRC with multi-scaled capture type vacuum pumping
Systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing multi-scaled capture type vacuum pumping. |
| US11894149B2 |
Code for patient care device configuration
Configuration output for use in configuring a patient care device for administration of a therapy to a patient. The configuration output may include at least one code. The code may be used in the verification and/or indication of at least one configuration data component used in the configuration of the patient care device to be used to administer a therapy to a patient. Additionally, a check code for validation of the entry of the code and/or check code may be provided. |
| US11894148B2 |
Systems and methods for treating patients with diseases associated with viruses
Systems and methods are provided for treating an inflammatory or allergic response associated with a replicating pathogen, such as a virus in the coronaviridae family. The methods include emitting an electrical impulse near a vagus nerve within the patient sufficient to inhibit or reduce an inflammatory or allergic response in the patient, provide relief for bronchoconstriction that results in the tightening of airways and the inability to breath without ventilator support and/or lessen the abnormal blot clotting that develops in some patients. The systems and methods are particularly useful for treating post-COVID conditions or post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 that develop in “long-haul” or COVID patients. |
| US11894143B2 |
System and methods for integrating animal health records
The invention relates generally to a system and method for integrating pet health records, and more specifically to an integrated pet health record that is configured to collect, store, maintain, analyze, and provide recommendations about a pet's health from a variety of sources. The system may analyze health conditions for a pet on both an individual basis and in regards to a global population. This analysis provides an assessment of the pet based on pet type, breed, age, weight, geographic location, living conditions, diet, exercise, and more. The system may also generate global statistics, providing various metrics that can be applied to sub-populations of pets. Advantageously, the system is configured to categorize causes and symptoms based on the pet's health conditions and how treatments can be refined to improve outcomes, and transmit that information to a client device. |
| US11894142B2 |
Database management and graphical user interfaces for measurements collected by analyzing blood
Methods and devices include database management and graphical user interfaces for measurements collected by analyzing blood. |
| US11894141B2 |
Network for medical image analysis, decision support system, and related graphical user interface (GUI) applications
Described herein is a platform and supported graphical user interface (GUI) decision-making tools for use by medical practitioners and/or their patients, e.g., to aide in the process of making decisions about a course of cancer treatment and/or to track treatment and/or the progress of a disease. |
| US11894139B1 |
Disease spectrum classification
Described herein are systems, media, and methods for assessing an individual by generating a classification or regression based on input data comprising metabolite information, protein information, nucleic acid information, non-molecular information, or any combination thereof. |
| US11894135B2 |
Cloud computing environment for biological data
The present invention provides a novel approach for storing, analyzing, and/or accessing biological data in a cloud computing environment. Sequence data generated by a particular sequencing device may be uploaded to the cloud computing environment during a sequencing run, which reduces the on-site storage needs for the sequence data. Analysis of the data may also be performed in the cloud computing environment, and the instructions for such analysis may be set at the originating sequencing device. The sequence data in the cloud computing environment may be shared according to permissions. Further, the sequence data may be modified or annotated by authorized secondary users. |
| US11894132B2 |
Systems and methods for device inventory management and tracking
An inventory management system includes a wearable cardiac device comprising an associated plurality of separate wearable cardiac device components stored as inventory at a first inventory location; a plurality of communication interface circuits associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of separate wearable cardiac device components and configured to facilitate transmission of inventory information through a network; at least one server device disposed at a central location and comprising a processor; and a memory comprising instructions that cause the processor to receive the inventory information from the plurality of communication interface circuits; receive a prescription for a patient; retrieve one or more prescription parameters based on the prescription; locate, in the inventory information, the wearable cardiac device based on the prescription parameters; determine a deployment status of the wearable cardiac device; and select the wearable cardiac device for the patient. |
| US11894128B2 |
Revenue cycle workforce management
Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing system diagnostics focused in areas of disruption to improve inventory and workforce management in a revenue cycle management system. Inventory input is received from a revenue cycle management system. The inventory input includes inventory in the revenue cycle management system, types of claims in the inventory, pair agreements of the claims, and a length of time the claims have been in the inventory. Workforce input is also received from the revenue cycle management system. The workforce input includes experience, type of education or technical training, specialty, and outcomes corresponding to a workforce of the client. A portion of the inventory is automatically assigned to an associate of the workforce. The portion of the inventory tailored to the associate based on the inventory input and the workforce input. |
| US11894123B2 |
Radiotherapy mobile and wireless device workflow management system
Systems and methods for treating a patient. The methods comprise: producing, by a radiotherapy system, a fused model for a superficial portion of the patient's skin by combining structural imaging data acquired using high frequency ultrasound and functional imaging data acquired using optical imaging; generating a treatment plan for the patient based on the fused model; storing the treatment plan; detecting, by a processor, an arrival of the patient at a medical facility using first information acquired from a first mobile device coupled to the patient; obtaining the treatment plan using the first information; and causing a state of medical equipment to be transitioned from a first configurable operational state in which a radiotherapy treatment head has a first position to a second configurable operational state in which the radiotherapy treatment head has a second different position, in accordance with the treatment plan. |
| US11894119B2 |
Location-independent ingestion control
The invention relates to a method for monitoring compliance with therapy prescribed by an aP, characterized by the following steps: registering the pC in the blockchain (100); identifying the exterior packaging by means of a first code (110); scanning of the first code by the dispensing point (120); linking the patient data to the data of the aP (130); starting of an application software by the patient (140); scanning the first digital code (150); starting the video recording (160); ending the video recording (170); transmitting the video recording to the aP (180); validating the documented ingestion (190). |
| US11894114B2 |
Complex image data analysis using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for providing a platform for complex image data analysis using artificial intelligence and/or machine learning algorithms. One or more subsystems allow for the capturing of user input such as eye gaze and dictation for automated generation of findings. Additional features include quality metric tracking and feedback, and worklist management system and communications queueing. |
| US11894113B2 |
Ontological standards based approach to charting utilizing a generic concept content based framework across multiple localized proprietary domains
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a cloud-based integrated charting system that utilizes a universal mapping service across services and clients to provide insights for the provider into customizations made by clients. Additionally, the system provides content building tools that enable clients to customize content to update models provided by the provider. A mapping service maps model codes corresponding to model concepts to a plurality of standard based concept codes corresponding to client domain specific customized concepts for an ontology of the one or more ontologies. A workflow recommendation is provided that enables a user to chart data and includes the model concepts comprising charting elements. Accordingly, the data is stored in a client database in accordance with the client domain specific customized concepts. Since the model concepts are mapped to the client domain specific customized concepts, the workflow recommendation can be prepopulated with data from the client database. |
| US11894110B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method for clinical laboratory management
To facilitate management of the entirety of one or a plurality of clinical laboratories. This information processing apparatus is used in management of a clinical laboratory in which an analyzer configured to analyze specimens is installed. The information processing apparatus includes: a communication section configured to communicate with a terminal operable by a user; and a controller configured to control display of the terminal via the communication section. On the basis of information collected from a plurality of analyzers installed in one or a plurality of clinical laboratories and from apparatuses relevant to the analyzers, the controller causes the terminal to display a screen including an index that indicates a status of the entirety of the one or the plurality of clinical laboratories. In response to the user selecting the index displayed in the screen, the controller causes the terminal to display the selected index so as to be divided in a plurality of categories. |
| US11894109B1 |
Production and delivery tracking and sample verification of patient-specific therapeutics
Systems and methods for tracking biological samples are presented. In some embodiments, intrinsic and extrinsic biological sample data and/or intrinsic and extrinsic patient data are used to label a biological sample obtained at a point-of-care facility. The labeled biological sample may be sent to a processing facility, wherein the labeled biological sample undergoes analysis and/or processing into a labeled therapeutic. The labeled therapeutic is delivered back to the point-of-care facility, wherein the labeled therapeutic is tested for the presence of the additives prior to administration to a patient. Multi-factor validation is performed, including validating the identity of the patient to a container, validating the identity of the labeled biological sample/therapeutic to the container, and thus, validating the identity of the labeled therapeutic to the patient. The entire life cycle of a biological sample used to generate a personalized therapeutic is validated, and ensures that mix-ups or errors in administration are reduced or eliminated. |
| US11894107B2 |
Precision-preserving qubit reduction based on spatial symmetries in fermionic systems
Systems and techniques that facilitate precision-preserving qubit reduction based on spatial symmetries in fermionic systems are provided. In one or more embodiments, a symmetry component can generate a diagonalized second quantization representation of a spatial point group symmetry operation. The spatial point group symmetry operation can be associated with a molecule (e.g., a geometrical rotation, reflection, and/or inversion of a physical molecule that results in a new molecular orientation that is substantially the same as the original molecular orientation). In one or more embodiments, a transformation component can convert the diagonalized second quantization representation into a single Pauli string. In one or more embodiments, a tapering component can taper off qubits in a computational quantum algorithm that models properties of the molecule, based on the single Pauli string. Various embodiments can thus leverage geometrical spatial symmetries of a molecule to reduce a number of qubits needed to simulate the molecule. |
| US11894100B2 |
Data serializer, latch data device using the same and controlling method thereof
A data serializer, a latch data device using the same and a controlling method thereof are provided. The data serializer includes at least one data buffer and a de-skew buffer. The data buffer at least receives an inputting data and a controlling signal. An outputting signal and a complementary outputting signal, which is complementary to the outputting signal, are formed when the controlling signal is at a predetermined level. The de-skew buffer receives the complementary outputting signal to accelerate or slow down forming the outputting signal. |
| US11894099B2 |
Programmable memory timing
Described apparatuses and methods enable communication between a host device and a memory device to establish relative delays between different data lines. If data signals propagate along a bus with the same timing, simultaneous switching output (SSO) and crosstalk can adversely impact channel timing budget parameters. An example system includes an interconnect having multiple data lines that couple the host device to the memory device. In example operations, the host device can transmit to the memory device a command indicative of a phase offset between two or more data lines of the multiple data lines. The memory device can implement the command by transmitting or receiving signals via the interconnect with different relative phase offsets between data lines. The host device (e.g., a memory controller) can determine appropriate offsets for a given apparatus. Lengths of the offsets can vary. Further, a system can activate the phase offsets based on frequency. |
| US11894096B2 |
Memory systems for high speed scheduling
A memory system includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a memory area configured to store data and an input/output (I/O) buffering part configured to store data outputted from the memory area. The memory controller is configured to control read operations of the memory device. The memory device is configured to store data of all columns in a selected row designated by a row address among a plurality of rows in the memory area into the I/O buffering part in response to an external command outputted from the memory controller and is configured to output data of a selected column designated by a column address among the data stored in the I/O buffering part, and the memory controller is configured to perform a scheduling operation for successively executing read request commands having the same row address among a plurality of read request commands for performing read operations of the memory device. |
| US11894092B2 |
Memory system including a nonvolatile memory device, and an erasing method thereof
A fail detecting method of a memory system including a nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller, the fail detecting method including: counting, by the memory controller, the number of erases of a word line connected to a pass transistor; issuing a first erase command, by the memory controller, when the number of erases reaches a reference value; applying a first voltage, by the nonvolatile memory device, in response to the first erase command, that causes a gate-source potential difference of the pass transistor to have a first value; detecting, by the memory controller, a leakage current in a word line, after the applying of the first voltage; and determining, by the memory controller, the word line as a fail when a leakage voltage caused by the leakage current is greater than a first threshold value. |
| US11894086B2 |
Method, device, and circuit for high-speed memories
In some aspects of the present disclosure, a memory device is disclosed. In some aspects, the memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in an array, an input/output (I/O) interface connected to the plurality of memory cells to output data signal from each memory cell, and a control circuit. In some embodiments, the control circuit includes a first clock generator to generate a first clock signal and a second clock signal according to an input clock signal and a chip enable (CE) signal and provide the first clock signal to the plurality of memory cells. In some embodiments, the control circuit includes a second clock generator to generate a third clock signal according to the input clock signal and a DFT (design for testability) enable signal. In some embodiments, the control circuit generates an output clock signal according to the second clock signal or the third clock signal. |
| US11894083B2 |
Signal width repair circuit and method, and electronic device
A signal width repair circuit and method, and an electronic device are provided. The signal width repair circuit includes: a delay unit, configured to receive an input signal, and delay the input signal for a preset duration to obtain a delayed signal, the input signal being a low-level signal; a signal reconstruction unit, configured to receive the input signal and the delayed signal, and repair the input signal and the delayed signal to obtain a repaired signal; and a signal selection unit, configured to receive the input signal and the repaired signal and select one of the input signal and the repaired signal for output, to obtain a target signal that has a width satisfying a preset width, the preset duration being equal to or greater than a duration with the preset width. |
| US11894082B2 |
Anti-fuse memory and control method thereof
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of semiconductor technology, and provide an anti-fuse memory and a control method thereof. The anti-fuse memory is configured to generate a programming pulse signal based on a row strobe signal, a word line of the anti-fuse memory array is configured to receive the row strobe signal, and the anti-fuse memory array is programmed in response to the programming pulse signal. The embodiments of the present disclosure are at least advantageous to improving accuracy of reading data from the anti-fuse memory array and improving yield of the anti-fuse memory. |
| US11894078B2 |
Accessing a multi-level memory cell
Methods, systems, and devices for accessing a multi-level memory cell are described. The memory device may perform a read operation that includes pre-read portion and a read portion to access the multi-level memory cell. During the pre-read portion, the memory device may apply a plurality of voltages to a plurality of memory cells to identify a likely distribution of memory cells storing a first logic state. During the read portion, the memory device may apply a first read voltage to a memory cell based on performing the pre-read portion. The memory device may apply a second read voltage to the memory cell during the read portion that is based on the first read voltage. The memory device may determine the logic state stored by the memory cell based on applying the first read voltage and the second read voltage. |
| US11894076B2 |
Apparatus and method for programming and verifying data in non-volatile memory device
An operating method of a non-volatile memory device comprises: performing a foggy operation applying a first application voltage to a word line and applying a first verification voltage having a same level as or a higher level than a target threshold voltage to the word line, determining whether the foggy operation is completely performed according to whether a number of memory cells each having a threshold voltage higher than the first verification voltage is equal to or greater than a first number, performing a fine operation applying a second application voltage to the word line and applying a second verification voltage having the same level as the target threshold voltage, and determining whether the fine operation is completely performed, according to whether a number of memory cells each having a threshold voltage lower than the second verification voltage is less than or equal to a second number. |
| US11894074B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes memory cell transistors, a word line, and a controller. A memory cell transistor whose threshold voltage is included in first and second states store first and second data, respectively. In a verify operation of the first data, during application of a verify high voltage of the first data to the word line, the controller is configured to determine whether or not a threshold voltage of a memory cell transistor to which the first data is to be written exceeds the verify high voltage of the first data, and also determine whether or not a threshold voltage of a memory cell transistor to which the second data is to be written exceeds a verify low voltage of the second data. |
| US11894072B2 |
Two-side staircase pre-charge in sub-block mode of three-tier non-volatile memory architecture
A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and disposed in strings. A control means is coupled to the word lines and the strings and is configured to ramp a voltage applied to a selected one of the word lines from a verify voltage to a reduced voltage during a program-verify portion of a program operation. The control means successively ramps voltages applied to each of a plurality of neighboring ones of the word lines from a read pass voltage to the reduced voltage beginning with ones of the plurality of neighboring ones of the word lines immediately adjacent the selected one of the word lines and progressing to ones of the plurality of neighboring others of the word lines disposed increasingly remotely from the selected one of the word lines during the program-verify portion of the program operation. |
| US11894067B2 |
Method to fix cumulative read induced drain side select gate downshift in memory apparatus with on-pitch drain side select gate
A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The memory apparatus includes memory cells configured to retain a threshold voltage. The memory cells are connected to one of a plurality of word lines and are arranged in strings comprising a plurality of blocks. A control means is coupled to the plurality of word lines and the strings and is configured to periodically determine a read frequency metric associated with a plurality of read operations of one of the plurality of blocks of the memory cells. The control means is also configured to relocate data of the one of the plurality of blocks and cause the one of the plurality of blocks to remain unused for a predetermined relaxation time based on the read frequency metric. |
| US11894066B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the semiconductor memory device
The present technology provides a method of operating a semiconductor memory device detecting a threshold voltage distribution for memory cells included in a page selected from among a plurality of memory cells. The method of operating the semiconductor memory device includes selecting a target state in which the threshold voltage distribution is to be detected, determining a plurality of read voltages for dividing a voltage range in which a threshold voltage of the selected target state is distributed, and performing a plurality of sensing operations using the plurality of read voltages on the selected page. Masking to the target state is applied in each of the plurality of sensing operations. |
| US11894060B2 |
Dual performance trim for optimization of non-volatile memory performance, endurance, and reliability
A non-volatile memory operates in a high perform mode when writing host data by using a first programming algorithm. When performing background operations, the non-volatile memory writes data using a lower performance, but higher endurance programming algorithm. In both cases the data is written in the same multi-level format, but the higher endurance programming algorithm uses, for example, a staircase waveform with a smaller step size. A count is kept for the number of program/erase cycles for memory blocks for both types of programming trim, but where a high performance write is weighted more heavily than a high endurance write. |
| US11894048B2 |
Control amplifying circuit, sense amplifier and semiconductor memory
A control amplifying circuit includes a power supply output circuit, an isolation control circuit and an amplifying circuit. The power supply output circuit is configured to receive a power supply switching signal, and select one preset voltage value from at least two preset voltage values according to the power supply switching signal to output as a preset power supply signal. The isolation control circuit is configured to receive a control command signal and the preset power supply signal, and generate an isolation control signal according to the control command signal. The amplifying circuit is configured to receive the isolation control signal and a signal to be processed, and amplify the signal to be processed based on the isolation control signal to obtain a target amplified signal. |
| US11894041B2 |
Electronic devices executing refresh operation based on adjusted internal voltage
An electronic device includes an internal mode control circuit suitable for generating a burst control signal, a blocking control signal and an internal voltage control signal based on a refresh cycle when an internal mode is performed in a self-refresh operation, a refresh control circuit suitable for generating a refresh signal for performing a refresh operation every refresh cycle when the self-refresh operation is performed, generating the refresh signal every set cycle based on the burst control signal when the internal mode is performed, and blocking the generation of the refresh signal based on the blocking control signal, and an internal voltage generation circuit suitable for adjusting a level of an internal voltage for the refresh operation based on the internal voltage control signal. |
| US11894038B2 |
Memory device which generates improved write voltage according to size of memory cell
Disclosed is a memory device including a magnetic memory element. The memory device includes a memory cell array including a first region and a second region, the second region configured to store a value of a write voltage, the write voltage based on a value of a reference resistor for determining whether a programmed memory cell is in a parallel state or anti-parallel state, a voltage generator configured to generate a code value based on the value of the write voltage, and a write driver configured to drive a write current based on the code value, the write current being a current for storing data in the first region. |
| US11894035B2 |
Holographic storage
A holographic data storage system comprises an emitter system, a holographic recording medium, and an input waveguide network formed of one or more multimode optical waveguides. The holographic recording medium has multiple recording regions, each optically coupled to a corresponding one of multiple out-coupling regions of the input waveguide network, the holographic data storage system arranged to persistently write data of an input beam, received at any one of the out-coupling regions, to the corresponding recording region. A controller is coupled to at least one of the emitter system and at least one controllable guiding element of the input waveguide network and controls at least one optical characteristic of the input beam or the at least one guiding element, so as to guide the input beam from an in-coupling region to any selected one of the multiple out-coupling regions. Similar waveguide networks are provided for carrying reference and output beams. |
| US11894034B2 |
Magnetic tape having characterized magnetic layer surface, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic tape device
A magnetic tape in which an edge weave amount of a tape edge on at least one side of the magnetic tape is 1.5 μm or less, and in an environment with a temperature of 32° C. and a relative humidity of 80%, a frictional force F45° on the surface of the magnetic layer with respect to an LTO8 head measured at a head tilt angle of 45° is 4 gf to 15 gf, and a standard deviation of a frictional force F on the surface of the magnetic layer with respect to the LTO8 head measured at each of head tilt angles of 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45° is 10 gf or less. |
| US11894031B1 |
Self-aligned hybrid near field transducer with single peg grain
A near field transducer (NFT) having improved reliability is disclosed. In some embodiments, a NFT includes a resonator body layer having a front side at a first plane that is recessed a first distance from an air bearing surface (ABS), and a peg layer that is a single layer made of a noble metal or alloy thereof. The peg layer includes a peg portion or peg with a front side at the ABS, a back side at the first plane, and two sides aligned orthogonal to the ABS and separated by the first cross-track width. The peg portion or the peg having a single peg grain with or without a desired (111) orientation through laser self-annealing process. |
| US11894030B2 |
High concurrent channels magnetic recording head having same-gap-verify and high density interconnect
The present disclosure generally relates to a tape drive including a tape head. The tape head comprises two modules, where each module comprises 64 writers, 64 readers, and three pairs of servo readers aligned with the 64 readers in a first row. The three pairs of servo readers comprise a first pair disposed at a first end of the first row, a second pair disposed between two groups of 32 readers, and a third pair disposed at a second end of the first row. The writers are disposed in a second row parallel to the first row, and are each aligned with an adjacent reader. The spacing between each reader and each writer is about 150 μm to about 200 μm. Each module is configured to write data to a tape using the 64 writers and to read verify the newly written data using the 64 readers. |
| US11894027B2 |
Servo pattern recording device, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape system, detection device, servo pattern recording method, and manufacturing method of magnetic tape
A plurality of gap patterns are formed on a front surface of a substrate along a direction corresponding to a width direction of a magnetic tape. The first straight line region has a steeper inclined angle with respect to the first imaginary straight line than the second straight line region. Positions of both ends of the first straight line region and positions of both ends of the second straight line region are aligned in a direction corresponding to a width direction of a magnetic tape. Positions of the plurality of gap patterns are aligned in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape. A pulse signal is supplied to each of the plurality of gap patterns with a delay of a predetermined time from one side to the other side in a direction in which the plurality of gap patterns are arranged. |
| US11894026B1 |
Magnetic recording head having leads over the trailing shield for assisting electric currents
The present disclosure is generally related to a magnetic recording device comprising a magnetic recording head having a first current flow in a cross-track direction through a trailing shield. In one or more embodiments, a second current flows in a cross-track direction around the main pole. The magnetic recording device comprises a main pole disposed between a trailing shield, a leading shield, and side shields. A trailing gap is disposed between the side shields and the trailing shield. A high moment seed layer is disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield. A first insulation layer is disposed within the trailing shield and directs the first current through the trailing shield, guided to the proximity of the main pole. A second insulation layer, disposed below the trailing shield, directs the second current through the trailing shield, or alternatively through the side shields and around the main pole. |
| US11894021B2 |
Data processing method and system, storage medium, and computing device
A method includes: obtaining video data; receiving a target object; processing the video data to obtain one or more first images of the video data that contain an image of the target object and one or more second images of the video data that do not contain the image of the target object; discarding the one or more second images from the video data; generating a background image based on the one or more second images; synthesizing the one or more first images of the video data with the background image to generate one or more synthesized images; obtaining a target image sequence with the one or more synthesized images based on a time order of the one or more first images in the video data; and displaying each of the one or more synthesized images in the target image sequence in a fade-in and fade-out manner. |
| US11894020B2 |
Interface for setting speed and direction of video playback
A graphical user interface for setting speed and direction of video playback may include a timeline representation of video duration. Playback speed and playback direction from a selected point of the video may be determined based on user interaction with the graphical user interface. A portion of the video to which the selected playback speed and selected playback direction is applied may be determined based on user movement of the timeline representation. |
| US11894019B2 |
Time-lapse
A method and apparatus for generating a time-lapse video are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises: storing each instruction that is executed by a vector graphics application to create artwork on a display of a computer system during one or more editing sessions as part of an undo history; and generating a time-lapse video using the undo history. |
| US11894013B2 |
Sound collection loudspeaker apparatus, method and program for the same
Provided is a sound pickup loudspeaker apparatus that has a mechanism for detecting situations in which sound amplification should not be performed and stopping sound amplification from a speaker. The sound pickup loudspeaker apparatus is installed in a vehicle. At least a sound pickup position and a sound amplification position are assumed to be present in the vehicle. The sound pickup loudspeaker apparatus includes a noise level estimation unit that determines a noise level that is an estimated value of the magnitude of a noise component included in a sound pickup signal obtained from a microphone that collects sound emitted from the sound pickup position, and a control unit that performs control such that (i) when the noise level is not greater than a predetermined threshold value or is less than the threshold value, an acoustic signal based on the sound pickup signal is played back from a speaker at the sound amplification position, and (ii) when the noise level is greater than the threshold value or is at least the threshold value, the acoustic signal is not played back from the speaker. |
| US11894012B2 |
Neural-network-based approach for speech denoising
Disclosed are methods, systems, device, and other implementations, including a method that includes receiving an audio signal representation, detecting in the received audio signal representation, using a first learning model, one or more silent intervals with reduced foreground sound levels, determining based on the detected one or more silent intervals an estimated full noise profile corresponding to the audio signal representation, and generating with a second learning model, based on the received audio signal representation and on the determined estimated full noise profile, a resultant audio signal representation with a reduced noise level. |
| US11894011B2 |
Methods and apparatus to reduce noise from harmonic noise sources
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to reduce noise from harmonic noise sources. An example apparatus includes at least one memory; at least one processor to execute the computer readable instructions to at least: determine a first amplitude value of a frequency component in a frequency spectrum of an audio sample; determine a set of points in the frequency spectrum having at least one of (a) amplitude values within an amplitude threshold of the first amplitude value, (b) frequency values within a frequency threshold of the first amplitude value, or (c) phase values within a phase threshold of the first amplitude value; increment a counter when a distance between (1) a second amplitude value in the set of points and (2) the first amplitude value satisfies a distance threshold; and when the counter satisfies a counter threshold, generate a contour trace based on the set of points. |
| US11894008B2 |
Signal processing apparatus, training apparatus, and method
Provided is a signal processing apparatus that includes a voice quality conversion unit that converts acoustic data of any sound of an input sound source to acoustic data of voice quality of a target sound source different from the input sound source on the basis of a voice quality converter parameter obtained by training using acoustic data for each of one or more sound sources as training data, the acoustic data being different from parallel data or clean data. |
| US11894007B2 |
Very short pitch detection and coding
A method includes detecting whether there is a very short pitch lag in a speech or audio signal that is shorter than a conventional minimum pitch limitation using a combination of time domain and frequency domain pitch detection techniques. The pitch detection techniques include using pitch correlations in a time domain and detecting a lack of low frequency energy in the speech or audio signal in a frequency domain. The detected very short pitch lag is coded using a pitch range from a predetermined minimum very short pitch limitation that is smaller than the conventional minimum pitch limitation. |
| US11894004B2 |
Audio coder window and transform implementations
An audio signal encoding method is provided comprising: receiving first and second audio signal frames; processing a second portion of the first audio signal frame and a first portion of the second audio signal frame using an orthogonal transformation to determine in part a first intermediate encoding result; and processing the first intermediate encoding result using an orthogonal transformation to determine a set of spectral coefficients that corresponds to at least a portion of the first audio signal frame. |
| US11894003B2 |
Reconstruction of audio scenes from a downmix
Audio objects are associated with positional metadata. A received downmix signal comprises downmix channels that are linear combinations of one or more audio objects and are associated with respective positional locators. In a first aspect, the downmix signal, the positional metadata and frequency-dependent object gains are received. An audio object is reconstructed by applying the object gain to an upmix of the downmix signal in accordance with coefficients based on the positional metadata and the positional locators. In a second aspect, audio objects have been encoded together with at least one bed channel positioned at a positional locator of a corresponding downmix channel. The decoding system receives the downmix signal and the positional metadata of the audio objects. A bed channel is reconstructed by suppressing the content representing audio objects from the corresponding downmix channel on the basis of the positional locator of the corresponding downmix channel. |
| US11894000B2 |
Authenticating received speech
A speech signal is received by a device comprising first and second transducers, and the first transducer comprises a microphone. A method comprises performing a first voice biometric process on speech contained in a first part of a signal received by the microphone, in order to determine whether the speech is the speech of an enrolled user. A first correlation is determined, between said first part of the signal received by the microphone and a corresponding part of the signal received by the second transducer. A second correlation is determined, between said second part of the signal received by the microphone and the corresponding part of the signal received by the second transducer. It is then determined whether the first correlation and the second correlation satisfy a predetermined condition. If it is determined that the speech contained in the first part of the received signal is the speech of an enrolled user and that the first correlation and the second correlation satisfy the predetermined condition, the received speech signal is authenticated. |
| US11893999B1 |
Speech based user recognition
Techniques for enrolling a user in a system's user recognition functionality without requiring the user speak particular speech are described. The system may determine characteristics unique to a user input. The system may generate an implicit voice profile from user inputs having similar characteristics. After an implicit voice profile is generated, the system may receive a user input having speech characteristics similar to that of the implicit voice profile. The system may ask the user if the user wants the system to associate the implicit voice profile with a particular user identifier. If the user responds affirmatively, the system may request an identifier of a user profile (e.g., a user name). In response to receiving the user's name, the system may identify a user profile associated with the name and associate the implicit voice profile with the user profile, thereby converting the implicit voice profile into an explicit voice profile. |
| US11893996B1 |
Supplemental content output
Techniques for generating a personalization identifier that is usable by a skill to customize output of supplemental content to a user, without the skill being able to determine an identity of the user based on the personalization identifier, are described. A personalization identifier may be generated to be specific to a skill, such that different skills receive different personalization identifiers with respect to the same user. The personalization identifier may be generated by performing a one-way hash of a skill identifier, and a user profile identifier and/or a device identifier. User-perceived latency may be reduced by generating the personalization identifier at least partially in parallel to performing ASR processing and/or NLU processing. |
| US11893995B2 |
Generating additional synthesized voice output based on prior utterance and synthesized voice output provided in response to the prior utterance
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collaboration between multiple voice controlled devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of identifying, by a first computing device, a second computing device that is configured to respond to a particular, predefined hotword; receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance; receiving a transcription of additional audio data outputted by the second computing device in response to the utterance; based on the transcription of the additional audio data and based on the utterance, generating a transcription that corresponds to a response to the additional audio data; and providing, for output, the transcription that corresponds to the response. |
| US11893994B1 |
Processing optimization using machine learning
Devices and techniques are generally described for process optimization using reinforcement learning. In various examples, first input data is received and a first process for processing the first input data is determined. In some examples, a second process for processing the first input data is determined. A first machine learning model is used to generate a first prediction for processing the first input data by the first process. The first process and/or the second process are controlled based at least in part on the first prediction. |
| US11893993B2 |
Interfacing with applications via dynamically updating natural language processing
Dynamic interfacing with applications is provided. For example, a system receives a first input audio signal. The system processes, via a natural language processing technique, the first input audio signal to identify an application. The system activates the application for execution on the client computing device. The application declares a function the application is configured to perform. The system modifies the natural language processing technique responsive to the function declared by the application. The system receives a second input audio signal. The system processes, via the modified natural language processing technique, the second input audio signal to detect one or more parameters. The system determines that the one or more parameters are compatible for input into an input field of the application. The system generates an action data structure for the application. The system inputs the action data structure into the application, which executes the action data structure. |
| US11893992B2 |
Multi-modal inputs for voice commands
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, a first input including activation of an affordance is received. A domain associated with the affordance is determined. A second input including user speech is received, where a user intent is determined based on the domain and the user speech. A determination is made whether the user intent includes a command associated with the affordance. In accordance with a determination that the user intent includes a command associated with the affordance, a task in furtherance of the command is performed. |
| US11893987B2 |
Server and system including the same
The present disclosure relates to a server and a system including the same. The server according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a communicator configured to perform communication through a network; a storage configured to store data on at least one predetermined word; and a controller configured to: upon receiving an input signal, including data on speech, from a first electronic device through the communicator, determine whether a last part of the speech corresponds to any one of the at least one predetermined word; in response to there being a word corresponding to the last part of the speech among the at least one predetermined word, transmit a first response signal, including data on a response to the speech and data on at least one additional query, to the first electronic device through the communicator; and in response to there being no word corresponding to the last part of the speech among the at least one predetermined word, transmit a second response signal, including data on a response to the speech, to the first electronic device through the communicator. Various other embodiments are also possible. |
| US11893984B1 |
Speech processing system
This disclosure proposes systems and methods for speech processing and sharing permitted entity information across speech processing systems. A first system can receive first audio data representing a first utterance. The first system can receive a first dialog identifier associated with a previous utterance. The first system can determine that the first audio data references a first entity. In some cases, the first system may not be able to resolve the first entity based on information in the first audio data. The first system can send, to a second system different from the first system, a first request for information about the first entity. The first request includes the first dialog identifier. The first system can receive first data responsive to the first request from the second system. The first system can process the first data and the first audio data to determine second data responsive to the first utterance, and output a first response representing the second data. |
| US11893978B2 |
Speech recognition in a vehicle
An audio sample including speech and ambient sounds is transmitted to a vehicle computer. Recorded audio is received from the vehicle computer, the recorded audio including the audio sample broadcast by the vehicle computer and recorded by the vehicle computer and recognized speech from the recorded audio. The recognized speech and text of the speech are input to a machine learning program that outputs whether the recognized speech matches the text. When the output from the machine learning program indicates that the recognized speech does not match the text, the recognized speech and the text are included in a training dataset for the machine learning program. |
| US11893976B2 |
Electronic device and operation method thereof
According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include: a display, a communication module comprising communication circuitry, a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the display, the communication module, and the memory. According to an embodiment, the memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the electronic device to: obtain unique information of an external electronic device and information associated with a user of the external electronic device through the communication module, generate a candidate group including at least one candidate based on the unique information and the information associated with the user of the external electronic device, provide an external server with at least part of the information associated with the user of the external electronic device and information associated with the candidate group, receive a reliability value indicating a degree of similarity between the information associated with the user of the external electronic device and the information associated with the candidate group, from the external server, and to display a user interface (UI) indicating authentication for the user of the external electronic device based on the reliability value on the display. |
| US11893974B2 |
Flow controlled sound generation apparatus
A flow controlled sound generation system is disclosed that includes one or more fluid pumps to control air flow through a sound channel. The air flow is modulated through one or more valves to produce audible frequency pressure waves. |
| US11893973B2 |
Device and method for generating sound for vehicle
Disclosed is a sound design method for overcoming sense of difference when there is no virtual sound while an auto cruise control is activated. The method includes determining whether an accelerator pedal is actuated; upon determining that the accelerator pedal is not actuated, determining whether an auto cruise control system is operating; upon determining whether the auto cruise control system is operating, classifying a vehicle speed-based order component from a driving sound; and reproducing a speed sensitive virtual sound based on the classified vehicle speed-based order component. |
| US11893971B2 |
Sound insulation plate and sound insulation structure using the same
A sound insulation plate includes a patterned frame and an elastic membrane, wherein the patterned frame includes a central pattern region and multiple peripheral pattern regions arranged around the central pattern region, the multiple peripheral pattern regions being separated from the central pattern region by a separation bar, and wherein the elastic membrane is mounted on the patterned frame to block passage of air and converts airborne sound waves into elastic waves. |
| US11893967B2 |
Apparatus and method for displaying images unto LED panels
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for LED display. A first signal is received that signals a timing for a next data transfer. In response to the first signal, a bit-based image block stored in a memory is transferred, via a bus connected thereto, to one of a pair of alternate buffers pointed to by a write buffer pointer, which is subsequently toggled to point to another of the pair of alternate buffers. A second signal is received that signals a timing for refreshing the LED display. In response to the second signal, the bit-based image block is retrieved from the one of the pair of alternate buffers pointed to by a read buffer pointer, which is then toggled to point to the other of the pair of alternate buffers. The lights of the LED display are then refreshed in accordance with control signals generated based on the bit-based image block. |
| US11893960B1 |
Information handling system collaborative touchpad display brightness management
An information handling system touchpad includes an application area with a display to present control icons of an application executing on the information handling system, such as camera and microphone icons to control camera and microphone functions of a videoconference application. The touchpad dynamically adjusts touchpad display brightness and color based upon ambient light conditions detected by an ambient light sensor. Touchpad display brightness control is set independent of main display and keyboard backlight illumination brightness. |
| US11893959B2 |
Electronic device including proximity sensor having a plurality of light receiving elements and method of controlling the same
An electronic device may include: a display having at least one hole disposed in at least a part thereof such that light from the outside can be transmitted therethrough; a light-emitting element disposed under the display and configured to output a first infrared ray to the outside; a first light-receiving element disposed under the display at a position corresponding to the at least one hole, and configured to receive a second infrared ray transmitted from the outside; a second light-receiving element disposed under the display at a position where light from the outside is shielded; and at least one processor configured to, based on that a first sensing value according to the second infrared ray, output from the first light-receiving element, satisfies a first specified condition, while the first infrared ray is output: based on that a second sensing value output from the second light-receiving element does not satisfy a second specified condition, identify that a proximate object exists, and based on that the second sensing value satisfies the second specified condition, identify that the proximate object does not exist. |
| US11893958B2 |
Information processing device and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing device includes a processor configured to receive a brightness setting for each region of a deformable continuous display surface through a user instruction. |
| US11893957B2 |
Systems and methods for driving a display
An image system dynamically updates drive sequences in an image system. Drive sequences are image display settings or display driving characteristics with which a display is operated. The image system may determine the drive sequence at least partially based on input from one or more sensors. For example, the image system may include sensors such as an inertial measurement unit, a light sensor, a camera, a temperature sensor, or other sensors from which sensor data may be collected. The image system may analyze the sensor data to calculate drive sequence settings or to select a drive sequence from a number of predetermined drive sequences. Displaying image content on a display includes providing the display with image data and includes operating the display with various drive sequences. |
| US11893954B2 |
Display device and method for controlling same
A display device may include: a thin film transistor operatively associated with a gate line and a data line; a common electrode line for providing a common voltage to a liquid crystal capacitor and a holding capacitor; and a controller for supplying a data voltage corresponding to a data signal to the liquid crystal capacitor and the holding capacitor through the thin film transistor during an active period, wherein the controller identifies whether a blank period begins and a next data signal is received after a threshold time, and controls the common electrode line to adjust the common voltage on the basis of the identification result. |
| US11893950B2 |
Display device and electronic device
It is an object to provide a display device which can favorably display a image without delayed or distorted signals. The display device includes a first gate driver and a second gate driver. The first gate driver and the second gate driver each include a plurality of flip flop circuits and a plurality of transfer signal generation circuits. Both the flip flop circuit and the transfer signal generation circuit are circuits which output a signal inputted to a first input terminal with a half clock cycle delay. In addition, an output terminal of the transfer signal generation circuit is directly connected to a first input terminal of the flip flop circuit in the next stage. Therefore, delay and distortion of the signal which is inputted from the transfer signal generation circuit to the flip flop circuit can be reduced. |
| US11893944B2 |
Display device with reduced discontinuity of image at boundary between sensor region and display region and method of driving the same
A display device includes a substrate, a display panel including a first display region having first pixels, a second display region having second pixels, and a third display region located between the first and second display regions and having third pixels, and a component disposed between the substrate and the display panel and which overlaps the second display region in a plan view. The first and third pixels are disposed at a first density in the first display region and the third display region, respectively, and the second pixels are disposed at a second density smaller than the first density in the second display region, and less than all of the third pixels are controlled to emit light during a predetermined display period. |
| US11893941B2 |
Display device having static electricity discharge element
A display device is provided. The display device may include a substrate, a plurality of pixels, a first data line, a second data line, a defect sensing line, a first input pad, and a static electricity discharge element. The substrate may include a display area and a peripheral area neighboring each other. The plurality of pixels may be positioned on the display area and may include a first pixel and a second pixel. The first data line may be electrically connected to the first pixel. The second data line may be electrically connected to the second pixel and may be electrically isolated from the first data line. The defect sensing line may be positioned on the peripheral area. The first input pad may be electrically connected to the defect sensing line. The static electricity discharge element may be electrically connected through the defect sensing line to the first input pad. |
| US11893940B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a light-emitting panel including a first light-emitting diode, a second light-emitting diode, a third light-emitting diode, and transistors. The display device includes a color panel disposed on the light-emitting panel and including a first color area, a second color area, a third color area, and a light-shielding area. The light-emitting panel includes a scan line extending in a first direction; data lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and storage capacitors disposed adjacent to one another in the second direction. |
| US11893937B2 |
Pixel circuit, driving method thereof, array substrate, display panel, and display device
Provided are a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a drive module, a first initialization module, and a data write module. A control terminal of the drive module is electrically connected to a first node, a first terminal of the drive module is electrically connected to a first power supply voltage terminal, and a second terminal of the drive module is electrically connected to a first electrode of a light-emitting element. The first initialization module includes a first N-type transistor and a second N-type transistor, where a control terminal of the first N-type transistor is electrically connected to a scan signal terminal, a first terminal of the first N-type transistor is electrically connected to a first reference signal terminal, a second terminal is electrically connected to a first terminal of the second N-type transistor. |
| US11893934B2 |
Pixel driving circuit, pixel driving method, display apparatus and method for controlling the same
A pixel driving circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit configured to supply a driving signal to an element to be driven; a detection sub-circuit electrically connected to a detection control signal terminal and a detection node and configured to detect a voltage value of the detection node in response to a detection control signal received at the detection control signal terminal. The detection node is equivalent to a point on a connection line between the driving sub-circuit and the element to be driven. |
| US11893933B2 |
Display burn-in compensation
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for compensating an image to be shown on a display including an array of light-emitting pixels and a sensor arranged to receive light transmitted by adjacent light-emitting pixels. A method includes collecting, from the sensor, a luminance of light received by the sensor during an emission-on period, and a luminance of light received by the sensor during an emission-off period. The method includes calculating, by comparing the luminance during the emission-on period to the luminance during the emission-off period, a luminance of light internally reflected from the adjacent pixels and received by the sensor during the emission-on period. The method includes determining that an error between the luminance of light internally reflected and a reference luminance equals or exceeds a threshold error, and adjusting a driving voltage for driving the pixels to reduce the error. |
| US11893932B2 |
Display apparatus and current limiting method
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a current limiting circuit that limits current consumption in the plurality of pixels, the current limiting circuit includes a gain computation circuit that computes a screen power value in reference to a pixel value included in a video signal and that determines a gain in reference to the screen power value, and a gain multiplication circuit that multiplies the pixel value by the gain and that outputs a limit signal including the pixel value multiplied by the gain, the display panel includes a display unit, and a lighting control circuit that controls a lighting state of the plurality of pixels in reference to a predicted power value computed according to the limit signal, to reduce a power consumption value in the plurality of pixels to a value equal to or smaller than a control target power value, the gain is 1 when the screen power value is equal to or smaller than the control target power value, and the gain is a value equal to or smaller than a value obtained by dividing the control target power value by the screen power value, in other cases. |
| US11893928B2 |
Array substrate, and display panel and display device thereof
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate and a related display panel and a related display device. An array substrate includes a plurality of pairs of scan signal lines. A first scan signal line of the m-th pair of scan signal lines is configured to provide a first scan signal to a sub-pixel in a (2n−1)-th column from sub-pixels in the m-th. And a plurality of pairs of driving reset control signal lines. A second driving reset control signal line of the m-th pair of driving reset control signal lines is configured to provide a second driving reset control signal to the sub-pixel in the 2n-th column from the sub-pixels in the m-th row. The m and n are integers greater than or equal to 1. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first scan signal line of the m-th pair of scan signal lines and the second driving reset control signal line of the m-th pair of driving reset control signal lines are the same signal line. |
| US11893927B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device includes a processor which supplies grayscale data in active periods of frame periods and stops supply of the grayscale data in blank periods of the frame periods, a timing controller which generates a change signal when a difference between a first blank period of a first frame period and a second blank period of a second frame period is greater than a threshold value, a power supply which supplies a first power voltage having a voltage level changed based on the change signal to a first power line, and pixels commonly connected to the first power line. |
| US11893925B2 |
Always-on display signal generator
An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively less amounts of power, the controller may operate the switch to change the power supply of the display panel to be a power supply of an electronic display, such as a power supply used to power driver circuitry of the electronic display. |
| US11893921B2 |
Data processing device and data driving device for driving display panel, and display device
According to an embodiment, both the high-speed communication and the low-speed communication are performed using a single communication line, thereby reducing limitations on wiring on a PCB and increasing the utilization efficiency of a transmission line. |
| US11893920B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel including pixels in a display area, scan lines disposed in the display area and electrically connected to the pixels, a gate driving circuit disposed in the display area and electrically connected to the scan lines, and clock lines disposed in the display area and electrically connected to the gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit includes stage blocks adjacent to each other and outputting a scan signal in response to a clock signal provided through a corresponding clock line among the clock lines, and a scan signal output from a stage block among the stage blocks is supplied to scan lines of another stage block among the stage blocks. |
| US11893918B2 |
Shift register unit, method for driving the same, driving circuit and display device
A shift register unit, a driving method, a driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes a first node control circuit, a second node control circuit, an output node control circuit, an output circuit, a maintaining circuit, and a potential control circuit. The first node control circuit controls the potential of the first node, the second node control circuit controls the potential of the second node, the output node control circuit controls the connection between the output terminal and the first voltage terminal under the control of the potential of the output node, the potential control circuit control the potential of the control terminal of the maintaining circuit according to the second clock signal; the maintaining circuit controls the connection between the output terminal and the second voltage terminal under the control of a potential of the control terminal of the maintaining circuit. |
| US11893916B2 |
Method for measuring temperature in integrated circuit, integrated circuit having temperature sensor, and display device
An embodiment relates to a method of measuring an ambient temperature by using a temperature sensor provided in an integrated circuit (IC) and a measurement error of a temperature sensor may be improved by correcting an output value of a temperature sensor by using a correction value stored in a memory. |
| US11893915B2 |
Image sticking test method and image sticking test device
An image sticking test method and an image sticking test device. The image sticking test method includes: acquiring a first correspondence between a source-drain current of a preset drive transistor and time within a first preset time after a voltage of the preset drive transistor in an array substrate is switched from a first preset voltage to a second preset voltage; acquiring a second correspondence between a source-drain current of the preset drive transistor and time within a second preset time after the voltage of the preset drive transistor is switched from a third preset voltage to the second preset voltage; and acquiring a first image sticking test curve of the array substrate according to the first correspondence, the second correspondence and an image sticking evaluation formula, where the first image sticking test curve is a correspondence between time and an image sticking evaluation value. |
| US11893914B2 |
Test circuit and method for display panel and display panel
A test circuit and method for a display panel, and a display panel. The test circuit includes a panel test sub-circuit configured to control panel test switch units to turn on or turn off, to transmit multiple panel test signals; an array test sub-circuit configured to control array test switch units to turn on or turn off, to output short circuit determination signals at test terminals according to the multiple panel test signals, which are used to determine whether there is a short-circuited data line in the display panel; at least one set of the array test switch units are turned on in a test sub-period, and under a condition that the at least one set of the array test switch units are turned on, the panel test signals corresponding to different types of sub-pixels in the display panel change alternately to an effective level. |
| US11893908B2 |
Modular advertising system
The present invention provides a modular advertising system. One object of the current invention may be to provide a modular advertising system that may be secured to a pole or other external surface and elevated by a user to a desired height without the need of a ladder or lift. Another object of the current invention may also be to provide a quick-release assembly that may be used to quickly couple and de-couple the assembly from a pole or other external surface/structure. Another object of the current invention may be to provide a modular assembly that can be adaptable to a number of surfaces, such as a pole surface, ground surface or horizontal surface. An additional object of the current invention may be to provide a modular advertising display having interchangeable modular structures that may be configured to vary the position and number of advertising displays presented to consumers. |
| US11893907B2 |
Systems and methods for evidence-based training of aircraft operators
Systems and methods are disclosed for evidence-based training of aircraft operators. For example, a computer-implemented method may include: analyzing aircraft flight data indicative of actions performed by an aircraft operator in operating aircraft, to thereby determine an assessment of a performance of the aircraft operator in operating aircraft; based on the assessment, determining a training scenario to be presented to the aircraft operator via a training simulator as part of training for the aircraft operator; providing, to the training simulator, information indicative of the determined training scenario; receiving, from the training simulator, training flight data indicative of actions performed by the aircraft operator during a simulation of the scenario using the training simulator; and based on the training flight data and the assessment, determining an evaluation of the training for the aircraft operator. |
| US11893902B1 |
Educational training system using mechanical models
A teaching system includes a CAD/CAM facility that features a CAD-generated crane boom design and a CAM-generated crane boom model based on the crane boom design. A simulator runs a simulation of the crane design using a finite element analysis (FEA) to evaluate the stress-strain performance of the crane design as a function of variable input parameters. The crane boom model is tested under various load and operating conditions to measure its behavioral response in terms of stress-strain behavior. A sensor array monitors the stress-strain behavior of the crane model during testing. The testing performance of the CAM-generated crane model is will allow a comparison with the FEA-based simulation results of the CAD/CAM generated crane design. |
| US11893901B2 |
Systems and method to simulate joining operation on customized workpieces
Systems and methods to simulate joining operations are disclosed. An example method to generate customized training workpieces for simulation based on physical real parts includes: analyzing a three-dimensional model of a physical part to determine a number of visual markers as needed and a placement of the visual markers on the physical part, the number and the placement of the visual markers being based on the geometry of the physical part; and generating physical markers representative of the determined visual markers for attachment to the physical part based on the determined placement of the visual markers. |
| US11893893B1 |
Unmanned vehicle recognition and threat management
Systems and methods for automated unmanned aerial vehicle recognition. A multiplicity of receivers captures RF data and transmits the RF data to at least one node device. The at least one node device comprises a signal processing engine, a detection engine, a classification engine, and a direction finding engine. The at least one node device is configured with an artificial intelligence algorithm. The detection engine and classification engine are trained to detect and classify signals from unmanned vehicles and their controllers based on processed data from the signal processing engine. The direction finding engine is operable to provide lines of bearing for detected unmanned vehicles. |
| US11893890B2 |
Information processing device and method for vehicle
Included are an identification data input unit (11) to which identification data for identifying an occupant of a vehicle is input, a preference data storage unit (12) configured to store preference data regarding a preference of the occupant in association with the identification data, an object acquisition unit (13) configured to acquire object data of objects existing around an occupant on board the vehicle, a determination unit (15) configured to determine whether or not an object included in the object data is visually or audibly recognizable by the occupant on board the vehicle, and a notification data generator (16) configured to generate notification data for the occupant on board the vehicle based on the preference data of the occupant and the object for which the determination unit determines that it is recognizable by the occupant. The preference data of the occupant is stored in the preference data storage unit and associated with the identification data. |
| US11893887B2 |
Parking lot management system, parking lot management method, and storage medium
Whether a vehicle is parked inside parking lines in a parking lot is detected. When the vehicle is detected not parked inside the parking lines, either the vehicle or the parking lines are moved in such a manner that the vehicle is parked inside the parking lines. |
| US11893883B2 |
Short-term traffic speed prediction and forecasting using machine learning analysis of spatiotemporal traffic speed dependencies in probe and weather data
A framework for modeling traffic speed in a transportation network analyzes both the spatial and temporal dependencies in probe-based traffic speeds, historical weather data, and forecasted weather data, using multiple machine learning models. A decentralized partial least squares (PLS) regression model predicts short-term speed using localized, historical probe-based traffic data, and a deep learning model applies the predicted short-term speed to further estimate traffic speed at specified times and at specific locations in the transportation network for predicting traffic bottlenecks and other future traffic states. |
| US11893874B2 |
Networked touchscreen with integrated interfaces
Methods and systems for managing a premises are disclosed. An interface device and a premises system may be located at the premises. The interface device may receive a signal from a premises device of the premises system. An indication of the premises device may be output via a user interface. Configuration information may be associated with the premises device. The interface may monitor and control the premises device. |
| US11893873B2 |
Information collection apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and information collection method
An information collection apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives an alarm indicating an abnormality related to a control station that is for a plant, and a collection unit that collects investigation information on a cause of the alarm from a part of the control station, where the part is identified based on the alarm received by the receiving unit. |
| US11893872B2 |
System and methods for wireless hand hygiene monitoring
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for providing hand hygiene dispenser stations configured to remind users to use the hand hygiene dispenser stations. In one or more embodiments, the present systems and methods provide individual provider identification and networked communication among hand hygiene stations (dispenser stations), enabling tracking of providers and data collection regarding hand hygiene products usage (hand hygiene compliance). |
| US11893868B2 |
Multi-level LED security light with motion sensor
A method of configuring a white LED light with a tunable diffused light color temperature, includes using a light-emitting unit configured with a first LED load emitting light with a first color temperature between 1800K and 3000K and a second LED load emitting light with a second color temperature between 4000K and 6500K, electrically connected in parallel; using a light diffuser to cover the first LED load and the second LED load to create a diffused light with a diffused light color temperature; using two semiconductor switching devices working in conjunction with a controller to respectively control a first electric power delivered to the first LED load and a second electric power delivered to the second LED load such that a total electric power of the light-emitting unit remains unchanged; and using at least one external control device to activate a selection of the diffused light color temperature. |
| US11893864B2 |
Input device, automated teller machine and method
An input device has a support that has a user control area and that has a coupling area for coupling an object to be monitored to the input device; an electromechanical transducer structure that is coupled both to the user control area and to the coupling area; and a control apparatus that uses the electromechanical transducer structure to implement a user control function of the user control area and further to implement mechanical integrity monitoring of the object to be monitored and/or the support. |
| US11893863B2 |
System for prizing remote users using real life sports personalities
Systems, methods and apparatus for game play using virtual players, sometimes referred to herein as vBots, where they may have images including those of real world personalities, such as sports personalities, is disclosed. In one aspect, a system for electronic game play involves the use of the system wherein one or more virtual players are displayed to the player of the game, preferably, the virtual players have differing play characteristics, receiving from the user association with a selection of a virtual player, displaying a simulated game using the virtual players, identifying a subset of the virtual players as being winners of the simulated game, and awarding a win to the lottery user if the selected virtual player is in the subset of virtual players. In one aspect, a team may be formed in which real life sports personalities images are utilized. |
| US11893862B2 |
Gaming machine and method with dynamic game progression
A gaming system comprises game-logic circuitry and a display device configured to display an active array of symbol positions. The game-logic circuitry establishes award levels having respective awards and respective array sizes and establishes a predefined path defining progression through the award levels. The display device selectively populates the active array with symbols through one or more game cycle outcomes, updates, in response to detecting a branching condition within the game cycle outcomes, the predefined path to a modified path such that progression from the first award level is altered from a second award level to a third award level, and, in response to progressing from the first award level to the third award level based on the modified path: (i) modifies the active array to the array size of the third award level, and (ii) repeats the selective population for one or more additional game cycle outcomes. |
| US11893860B2 |
Proximity increased chances of win during special event
A first electronic gaming machine (“EGM”) includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the EGM to perform operations. The operations include determining that a first event has been triggered on a second EGM. The second EGM can be separate from the first EGM. The operations can further include, responsive to determining that the first event has been triggered on the second EGM, adjusting a probability of triggering a second event on the first EGM. |
| US11893858B2 |
Fraud detection system in a casino
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud. |
| US11893857B2 |
Fraud detection system in a casino
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud. |
| US11893847B1 |
Delivering items to evaluation rooms while maintaining customer privacy
Evaluation rooms (or fitting rooms) at a clothing store include replenishment closets that are accessible to customers and associates of the clothing store, albeit not at the same time. Doors of evaluation rooms include access control systems with interlocks that govern operation of the respective doors. Before an associate opens a first door between an exterior of an evaluation room and a closet to place an item therein, a second door between an interior of the evaluation room and the closet is locked. After the associate places the item in the closet, the first door is closed and locked, and the second door is unlocked, enabling the customer to open the second door and retrieve the item. Feedback indicating that items are being staged in a closet, or that items are staged therein and the closet is accessible to a customer, is provided to the customer within the evaluation room. |
| US11893843B2 |
Communication node and corresponding operating method
In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a communication node is provided, comprising: an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication unit configured to enable UWB communication with a plurality of external communication nodes; a processing unit configured to perform ranging sessions between the communication node and said external communication nodes, wherein said ranging sessions comprise one or more distance measurements based on messages exchanged through the UWB communication unit between the communication node and said external communication nodes; and a prioritization unit configured to prioritize said ranging sessions in dependence on at least one previously measured distance between the communication node and the respective external communication nodes. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a method of operating a communication node is provided. In accordance with a third aspect of the present disclosure, a computer program is provided, comprising executable instructions for carrying out said method. |
| US11893839B2 |
Performance system for analyzing a vehicle's performance
A performance system can enable an untrained end user to analyze the performance of a vehicle based on performance data that the vehicle's ECU generates. The performance system can include a performance tool that is configured to request performance data from one or more ECUs of a vehicle. The performance system can also include a performance engine that interfaces with the performance tool to create a log of the performance data. The performance engine can be configured to process the performance data log to generate a number of performance values which correspond to performance parameters. The performance engine can then use the performance values to generate performance representations which can then be presented to the end user. |
| US11893838B2 |
Vehicle electronic repair and diagnostic system and method
A diagnostic system and method for troubleshooting an electronic system of a vehicle includes receiving a diagnostic trouble code set into a diagnostic system. The diagnostic trouble code set includes one or more diagnostic trouble codes. The method includes receiving diagnostic specifications. The diagnostic specifications associate connector pins and wires of the electronic system with possible diagnostic trouble codes. The method includes receiving wiring circuit specifications. The wiring circuit specifications associate wiring circuits of the electronic system with the connectors of the electronic system. The method includes determining a set of possible repair locations based on the diagnostic trouble code set, the diagnostic specifications, and the wiring circuit specifications, and displaying at least one possible repair location of the set of possible repair locations. |
| US11893833B1 |
Systems and methods utilizing gravity feed for postage metering
Systems and methods which utilize gravity feed for mail item movement in postage metering operations are shown. Embodiments provide for gravity drop feeding mail items into a portion of a postage metering system for metering operations, such as to activate or apply postage indicia thereto. Embodiments provide for gravity drop exit of mail items from a portion of a postage metering system after metering operations, such as activation or application of postage indicia thereto. Postage metering operations as performed by embodiments of the invention may comprise scanning and activation of preprinted tokens. Postage metering operations according to alternative embodiments of the invention may printing postage indicia. Embodiments provide processing in addition to or in the alternative to the aforementioned postage indicia activation or printing and mail item marking operations, such as weighing, sorting, etc. |
| US11893832B1 |
Method and system for baggage check-in
The disclosure includes a method and system for checking in baggage of a passenger. The method includes electronically acquiring, by at least one electronic acquiring device, an originating hardcopy bag tag identifier (OP-BTI) associated with or printed on a printed bag tag from an originating airline travel carrier that is on a luggage item of a passenger. This creates a digital BTI data record linked to the airline travel carrier. The method includes utilizing, by at least one processor, the OP-BTI as a unique identifier to query a database to retrieve return flight data of the passenger. The method includes checking in, by the at least one processor, each luggage item for the passenger for the return flight with a return flight travel carrier identified in the retrieved return flight data. |
| US11893831B2 |
Identity information processing method and device based on fundus image
The present disclosure provides a method and device to process identity information based on a fundus image. An identity information comparison method includes: recognizing a fundus image by using a neural network to obtain a multi-dimensional feature vector representing the identity of a user; comparing the obtained multi-dimensional feature vector with each multi-dimensional feature vector stored in a database; and determining, according to a comparison result, whether there is a matching between the currently obtained multi-dimensional feature vector and a multi-dimensional feature vector pre-stored in the database. |
| US11893830B2 |
Method and apparatus for connecting through on-vehicle bluetooth, and storage medium
A method and an apparatus for connecting through on-vehicle Bluetooth, and a storage medium includes: acquiring a first face image of a driver in response to an on-vehicle Bluetooth apparatus being on; determining a first face identifier corresponding to the driver by performing face recognition on the first face image; querying a first correspondence according to the first face identifier, in which the first correspondence indicates a correspondence between face identifiers and Bluetooth identifiers of terminals; in response to determining a first Bluetooth identifier matching the first face identifier, establishing, according to the first Bluetooth identifier, a Bluetooth connection between the on-vehicle Bluetooth apparatus and a first terminal Bluetooth apparatus corresponding to the first Bluetooth identifier. |
| US11893829B2 |
Method for deploying a face sample library and method and apparatus for business processing based on face recognition
The present application relates to the field of data processing, and provides a method for deploying a face sample library, and a method and an apparatus for business processing based on face recognition. The method for deploying a face sample library, comprises: obtaining historical business information of users corresponding to face samples in a password face sample library under a condition that a number of face samples in the password face sample library is greater than or equal to a preset sample number threshold, wherein confidential business passwords of the users corresponding to the face samples in the same password face sample library are the same; dividing the password face sample library to obtain M levels of face sample sub-libraries according to the historical business information, where M is a positive integer. Use of the technical solution of the present application improves the accuracy of business processing using face recognition. |
| US11893827B2 |
Systems and methods of detecting mask usage
Example aspects include a method, an apparatus and a computer-readable medium of enforcing a mask wearing rule, comprising monitoring video frames of one or more video feeds. The aspects further include detecting a person in at least one video frame of the video frames. The at least one video frame corresponding to a first area of one or more areas. Additionally, the aspects further include determining whether the person is in violation of a mask wearing rule. Additionally, the aspects further include generating an alert in response to determining that the person is in violation of the mask wearing rule. |
| US11893824B2 |
Image processing device, fingerprint collation system, image processing method, and recording medium
An image processing device outputs, by using a result of machine learning, an image including three or more gradations and indicating a central line in response to an input of a fingerprint image, the machine learning being performed by using data including at least a fingerprint image, central line information indicating a central line in the fingerprint image, and zone information indicating a zone that is a portion of the fingerprint image which is effective for fingerprint collation, and generates a binary central line image based on the output image. |
| US11893819B2 |
Systems and methods for extracting and processing data using optical character recognition in real-time environments
Methods and systems for extracting and processing data using optical character recognition in real-time environments. For example, the methods and systems provide novel techniques during extracting data using OCR and for a mechanism to process that data. These methods and systems are particularly relevant in real-time environments as the methods and system limit the need for manual review. |
| US11893818B2 |
Optimization and use of codebooks for document analysis
A method of generating and optimizing a codebooks for document analysis comprises: receiving a first set of document images; extracting a plurality of keypoint regions from each document image of the first set of document images; calculating local descriptors for each keypoint region of the extracted keypoint regions; clustering the local descriptors such that each center of a cluster of local descriptors corresponds to a respective visual word; generating a codebook containing a set of visual words; and optimizing the codebook by maximizing mutual information (MI) between a target field of a second set of document images and at least one visual word of the set of visual words. |
| US11893815B2 |
Systems and methods for generating search results based on optical character recognition techniques and machine-encoded text
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating search result data based on machine-encoded text generated by computer vision optical character recognition machine learning techniques performed on digital media. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing machine learning visual search or machine learning text extraction techniques on digital media in order to extract and analyze the data therein and further conduct search queries based on the extracted and analyzed data. The disclosed framework may leverage the aforementioned computer vision machine learning techniques in order to provide a user with relevant search results regarding objects and text detect in digital media captured on a user device. |
| US11893814B2 |
Extraction method, computer-readable recording medium storing extraction program, and information processing device
An extraction method executed by a computer includes: acquiring a first word input by a first user; acquiring a second word input by a second user; calculating a first distributed representation of a first character string, the first character string including the first word and a character string that identifies the first user; calculating a second distributed representation of a second character string, the second character string including the second word and a character string that identifies the second user; calculating a similarity between the first distributed representation and the second distributed representation; and extracting a word associated with the second distributed representation on a basis of the similarity. |
| US11893809B2 |
Re-identification of rough gemstones
A method of re-identifying a rough gemstone comprises providing a 3D model of a first rough gemstone; generating a series of virtual 2D silhouette images of the 3D model; processing each 2D image of the series of virtual 2D silhouette images to obtain a dataset associated with the first rough gemstone; and comparing the dataset of the first rough gemstone with an existing dataset of a rough gemstone. Where the dataset of the first rough gemstone and the existing dataset match each other, the method comprises re-identifying the first rough gemstone as the same rough gemstone from which the existing dataset was obtained. |
| US11893804B2 |
Method and device for protecting child inside vehicle, computer device, computer-readable storage medium, and vehicle
The invention provides a method and device for protecting a child inside a vehicle, a computer device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a vehicle, which are applied to the technical field of automobiles. The method for protecting a child inside a vehicle includes: receiving image data inside a vehicle; performing facial detection on the image data to detect passengers in the vehicle; further classifying the detected passengers in the vehicle into children and adults according to the facial detection; and performing a corresponding protection operation when a result of the classification indicates that there is a child alone in the vehicle. |
| US11893800B2 |
Scene reproduction test method, apparatus, device and program product of autonomous driving system
A scene reproduction test method, apparatus, device and program product of an autonomous driving system are provided by the present application. The method includes: obtaining problematic scene data generated during a test on an autonomous driving vehicle equipped with a first autonomous driving system, and determining key obstacle information and non-key obstacle information according to the problematic scene data; generating, according to the non-key obstacle information, a virtual obstacle model, and determining, according to the key obstacle information, a real device used to simulate a key obstacle; where the real device is a device that actually exists in a test environment; performing, by utilizing the virtual obstacle model and the real device, a reproduction test on an autonomous driving vehicle equipped with a second autonomous driving system. In the solution, the test object is a real autonomous driving vehicle, and the key obstacle is a real device. |
| US11893797B2 |
Information processing device
An information processing device of the present invention includes a detection means that detects the content of an image, a determination means that determines a processing mode for the image based on the result of detection of the content of the image, and an execution means that executes processing for a captured image corresponding to the processing mode. |
| US11893794B2 |
Hierarchical segmentation of screen captured, screencasted, or streamed video
Embodiments are directed to segmentation and hierarchical clustering of video. In an example implementation, a video is ingested to generate a multi-level hierarchical segmentation of the video. In some embodiments, the finest level identifies a smallest interaction unit of the video—semantically defined video segments of unequal duration called clip atoms. Clip atom boundaries are detected in various ways. For example, speech boundaries are detected from audio of the video, and scene boundaries are detected from video frames of the video. The detected boundaries are used to define the clip atoms, which are hierarchically clustered to form a multi-level hierarchical representation of the video. In some cases, the hierarchical segmentation identifies a static, pre-computed, hierarchical set of video segments, where each level of the hierarchical segmentation identifies a complete set (i.e., covering the entire range of the video) of disjoint (i.e., non-overlapping) video segments with a corresponding level of granularity. |
| US11893789B2 |
Deep neural network pose estimation system
A deep neural network provides real-time pose estimation by combining two custom deep neural networks, a location classifier and an ID classifier, with a pose estimation algorithm to achieve a 6D0F location of a fiducial marker. The locations may be further refined into subpixel coordinates using another deep neural network. The networks may be trained using a combination of auto-labeled videos of the target marker, synthetic subpixel corner data, and/or extreme data augmentation. The deep neural network provides improved pose estimations particularly in challenging low-light, high-motion, and/or high-blur scenarios. |
| US11893786B1 |
Scan-free barcode reading
Systems and techniques for performing a scan-free reading of a structured identifier are provided. One technique involves obtaining a first set of images of an object within a scanning volume of an environment. The object is passed through the scanning volume without an explicit presentation of the structured identifier to an optical scanner within the environment. For each image of a plurality of the first set of images, an indication of a first region of interest of the structured identifier on the object within the image is obtained, based in part on a second set of images of the object having a lower quality than the first set of images. The first region of interest of the structured identifier is extracted from a first image of the plurality of the first set of images. The structured identifier within the first region of interest within the first image is decoded. |
| US11893785B2 |
Object annotation method and apparatus, movement control method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
Embodiments of this application disclose an object annotation method and apparatus, a movement control method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a reference image recorded by an image sensor from an environment space, the reference image comprising at least one reference object; obtaining target point cloud data obtained by a three-dimensional space sensor by scanning the environment space, the target point cloud data indicating a three-dimensional space region occupied by a target object in the environment space; determining a target reference object corresponding to the target object from the reference image; determining a projection size of the three-dimensional space region corresponding to the target point cloud data and the three-dimensional space region being projected onto the reference image; and performing three-dimensional annotation on the target reference object in the reference image according to the determined projection size. |
| US11893780B2 |
Method and apparatus for image segmentation
The present disclosure provides a method for image segmentation, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium, relating to the field of computer vision technology and artificial intelligence technology. The method comprises: performing feature extraction on an image through a feature extraction network to obtain a feature map; performing feature map processing on the feature map to complete semantic segmentation of the image. The disclosure may effectively improve performance of semantic segmentation. |
| US11893777B2 |
Systems and methods for image based content capture and extraction utilizing deep learning neural network and bounding box detection training techniques
Systems, methods, and computer program products for image recognition in which instructions are executable by a processor to dynamically generate simulated documents and corresponding images, which are then used to train a fully convolutional neural network. A plurality of document components are provided, and the processor selects subsets of the document components. The document components in each subset are used to dynamically generate a corresponding simulated document and a simulated document image. The convolutional neural network processes the simulated document image to produce a recognition output. Information corresponding to the document components from which the image was generated is used as an expected output. The recognition output and expected output are compared, and weights of the convolutional neural network are adjusted based on the differences between them. |
| US11893774B2 |
Systems and methods for training machine models with augmented data
Systems and methods for training machine models with augmented data. An example method includes identifying a set of images captured by a set of cameras while affixed to one or more image collection systems. For each image in the set of images, a training output for the image is identified. For one or more images in the set of images, an augmented image for a set of augmented images is generated. Generating an augmented image includes modifying the image with an image manipulation function that maintains camera properties of the image. The augmented training image is associated with the training output of the image. A set of parameters of the predictive computer model are trained to predict the training output based on an image training set including the images and the set of augmented images. |
| US11893766B2 |
Neural network system and operating method thereof
A neural network system, includes: a processor configured to detect a plurality of object candidates included in a first image, generate metadata corresponding to the plurality of object candidates based on the first image, and set data processing orders of the plurality of object candidates based on the metadata; and at least one resource configured to perform data processing with respect to the plurality of object candidates. The processor is configured to sequentially provide pieces of information related to data processing of the plurality of object candidates to the at least one resource according to the set data processing orders, and the at least one resource is configured to sequentially perform data processing with respect to the plurality of object candidates according to an order in which a piece of information related to data processing of each of the plurality of object candidates is received. |
| US11893764B1 |
Image analysis for decoding angled optical patterns
An angled optical pattern is decoded. To decode an optical pattern imaged at an angle, an area of interest of an image is received. A start line and an end line of the optical pattern are estimated. Corners of the optical pattern are localized. A homography is calculated based on the corners. And a scanline of the optical pattern is rectified based on the homography. |
| US11893763B2 |
Generating modified digital images utilizing a global and spatial autoencoder
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating a modified digital image from extracted spatial and global codes. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a global and spatial autoencoder to extract spatial codes and global codes from digital images. The disclosed systems can further utilize the global and spatial autoencoder to generate a modified digital image by combining extracted spatial and global codes in various ways for various applications such as style swapping, style blending, and attribute editing. |
| US11893761B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
An image processing apparatus including a decoder configured to identify an area in an image frame at which object recognition is to be performed by using type information of a macroblock included in the image frame, and perform object recognition on the area of the image frame and skip the object recognition on areas of the image frame other than the area. |
| US11893759B2 |
Homography error correction using a disparity mapping
An object tracking system that includes a first sensor and a second sensor that are each configured to capture frames of at least a portion of a global plane for a space. The system is configured to identify a first pixel location for a marker within a first frame and to determine an (x,y) coordinate for the marker using a first homography. The system is further configured to identify a second pixel location for the marker in the second sensor using a second homography, to identify a third pixel location using a disparity mapping, and to determine a distance difference between the second pixel location and the third pixel location. The system is further configured to compare the distance difference to a difference threshold level and to recompute the first homography and/or the second homography in response to determining that the distance difference exceeds the difference threshold level. |
| US11893758B2 |
Automated color calibration system for optical devices
A color calibration system for color correction in an optical device using a database of target colors includes a physical target card. The physical target card includes at least three unique colored patches arranged in a predetermined pattern on the physical target card, identifying indicia, and alignment indicia. The color calibration system also includes an executable machine-readable software. The software is configured to read and assign a value to the colored patches. The software is further configured to read the identifying indicia and identify the physical target card, and to read the alignment indicia for identifying individual colored patches. The software is further configured to compare color values in the optical device to known factory color values, generate a target card profile, and convert native color space for use in subsequent images under the same lighting conditions. |
| US11893756B2 |
Depth camera device
Electronic device depth camera systems having a reduced number of outwardly-facing optical components are disclosed. Monocular depth camera systems, including basic depth camera systems as well as RGB-D camera systems, have exactly one window on a housing panel of the device through which light is transmittable out of and into the device housing. An optical emitter and detector(s) are located within the device housing. Binocular RGB-D camera systems have exactly two outwardly-facing optical components on the housing panel. One of the components, such as an optical emitter or an exit window, is associated with illumination light leaving the device, and the other optical component is an entrance window associated with transmitting detection light into the housing. |
| US11893752B2 |
Moving body speed derivation method and moving body speed derivation program
A moving body speed derivation method that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes deriving a reference point in a second moving body region that is an image of a second moving body, from one image capturing the second moving body among a plurality of time-series images captured by an imaging device installed in a first moving body; deriving a position of the second moving body based on a distance between the imaging device and a feature point in the second moving body corresponding to the reference point in the second moving body region; and deriving speed of the second moving body based on a change amount of the position of the second moving body corresponding to the second moving body region included in the plurality of time-series images. |
| US11893751B2 |
System and method for forecasting location of target in monocular first person view
This disclosure relates generally to system and method for forecasting location of target in monocular first person view. Conventional systems for location forecasting utilizes complex neural networks and hence are computationally intensive and requires high compute power. The disclosed system includes an efficient and light-weight RNN based network model for predicting motion of targets in first person monocular videos. The network model includes an auto-encoder in the encoding phase and a regularizing layer in the end helps us get better accuracy. The disclosed method relies entirely just on detection bounding boxes for prediction as well as training of the network model and is still capable of transferring zero-shot on a different dataset. |
| US11893749B1 |
Focus following method based on motion gravity center, storage medium and photographing system
A focus following method based on a motion gravity center, a storage medium and a photographing system are provided. The focus following method includes the following steps: S1, acquiring video data captured by a camera within an initial time period; S2, acquiring video data with only a living object within the initial time period; S3, acquiring a motion gravity center image from the video data with only the living object according to a motion gravity center library; and S4, calculating an initial motion direction and an initial motion speed of the motion gravity center image within the initial time period. According to the present disclosure, the calculation amount is greatly reduced, the complex data is simplified, focus following based on the motion gravity center under poor hardware conditions can be can achieved, and requirements of low-cost and mass-production hardware can be satisfied. |
| US11893746B2 |
Image processor, display device having the same and operation method of display device
The present disclosure describes an image processor of a display device. The image processing includes a pre-processor, a segmentation processor, and a correction processor. The pre-processor performs spatial filtering on an input image signal and output a line image signal. The segmentation processor classifies a class of the line image signal and outputting a segmentation signal representing the class. The correction processor corrects the segmentation signal based on the line image signal. Additionally, the correction processor detects a class boundary of the segmentation signal, detects an edge within an edge region of the line image signal corresponding to the class boundary, and corrects the segmentation signal based on the detected edge. |
| US11893742B2 |
Accelerated segmentation for reverse engineering of integrated circuits
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for accelerated segmentation for reverse engineering of integrated circuits. In one example, an embodiment provides for receiving an SEM image for an integrated circuit, performing filtering and binarization with respect to the SEM image, extracting information associated with filter sizes for the filtering, extracting signatures related to a distribution for background pixels and foreground pixels of the SEM image, extracting respective distance to mean signatures for the background pixels and the foreground pixels, and segmenting the SEM image based at least in part on the filter sizes and the respective distance to mean signatures to generate a segmented image for the integrated circuit. |
| US11893735B2 |
Similarity determination apparatus, similarity determination method, and similarity determination program
A finding classification unit classifies each pixel of a first medical image into at least one finding. A feature amount calculation unit calculates a first feature amount for each finding. A weighting coefficient setting unit sets a weighting coefficient indicating a degree of weighting, which varies depending on a size of each finding, for each finding. A similarity derivation unit performs a weighting operation for the first feature amount for each finding calculated in the first medical image and a second feature amount for each finding calculated in advance in a second medical image on the basis of the weighting coefficient to derive a similarity between the first medical image and the second medical image. |
| US11893733B2 |
Treatment efficacy prediction systems and methods
Systems and methods for predicting a patient response to various agents and/or combinations of agents using ex vivo dosing and imaging are disclosed. In one example, a method of determining treatment efficacy includes analyzing a solid cell culture over time, e.g., first and second responses to a solid cell culture to respective treatments may be compared to determine a treatment efficacy of each treatment. Systems and methods for applying the treatments to the cell culture and analyzing the cell culture and efficacy are disclosed. |
| US11893732B2 |
Computer supported review of tumors in histology images and post operative tumor margin assessment
A computer apparatus and method for identifying and visualizing tumors in a histological image and measuring a tumor margin are provided. A CNN is used to classify pixels in the image according to whether they are determined to relate to non-tumorous tissue, or one or more classes for tumorous tissue. Segmentation is carried out based on the CNN results to generate a mask that marks areas occupied by individual tumors. Summary statistics for each tumor are computed and supplied to a filter which edits the segmentation mask by filtering out tumors deemed to be insignificant. Optionally, the tumors that pass the filter may be ranked according to the summary statistics, for example in order of clinical relevance or by a sensible order of review for a pathologist. A visualization application can then display the histological image having regard to the segmentation mask, summary statistics and/or ranking. Tumor masses extracted by resection are painted with an ink to highlight its surface region. The CNN is trained to distinguish ink and no-ink tissue as well as tumor and no-tumor tissue. The CNN is applied to the histological image to generate an output image whose pixels are assigned to the tissue classes. Tumor margin status of the tissue section is determined by the presence or absence of tumor-and-ink classified pixels. Tumor margin involvement and tumor margin distance are determined by computing additional parameters based on classification-specified inter-pixel distance parameters. |
| US11893729B2 |
Multi-modal computer-aided diagnosis systems and methods for prostate cancer
Methods and apparatus for computer-aided prostate condition diagnosis are disclosed. An example computer-aided prostate condition diagnosis apparatus includes memory to store instructions and a processor. The example processor can detect a lesion from an image of a prostate gland and generate a mapping of the lesion from the image to a sector map, the generating the mapping of the lesion comprising identifying a depth region of the lesion, wherein the depth region indicates a location of the lesion along a depth axis. The processor can also provide the sector map comprising a representation of the lesion within the prostate gland mapped from the image to the sector map. |
| US11893726B2 |
Imaging system for assessing integrity of metal motive parts in industrial plants
An installation, for use with a computer, for inspecting pinion gear teeth, the installation comprising: an enclosure, the enclosure including a back, a top, a bottom, sides and a front, which includes an opening, to define an interior; a transparent window, the transparent window separating at least a part of the interior from an ambient environment; at least one door operatively connected to the enclosure and retractably separating the transparent barrier from the ambient environment; a programmable logic controller which is housed in the enclosure behind the transparent window; a thermal imager which is housed in the enclosure behind the transparent window, is directed to the transparent window and is in electronic communication with the programmable logic controller; a visible light camera which is housed in the enclosure behind the transparent window, is directed to the transparent window and is in electronic communication with the programmable logic controller; and an air blade blower which is attached to the enclosure and is positioned to provide an air blade in front of the transparent window. |
| US11893723B2 |
Inspection result display device and storage medium
Provided is a technique that allows an operator or the like to easily perceive a tendency of defects which are present in molds or patterns. A display device displays a result of inspection of a plurality of molds or a plurality of patterns which are inspection target objects. The display device classifies the inspection target objects into a plurality of groups, generates, for each of the plurality of groups, a heat map image from a result of defect inspection of one or more of inspection target objects which are classified into the each of the plurality of groups, the heat map image representing a spatial distribution of defect occurrence frequencies; and causes a display to display one or more of the heat map images generated, the one or more heat map images corresponding to one or more groups specified by a user from among the plurality of groups. |
| US11893721B2 |
Defect detection apparatus and medium
A defect detection apparatus includes a defect detection unit and a calculation unit. The defect detection unit detects a defect that appears on an external appearance of a structure through imaging processing from external appearance image data that is generated by imaging the external appearance of the structure with a surveying instrument. The calculation unit calculates defect data relating to the defect detected by the defect detection unit by using coordinate data that is correlated with the external appearance image data. |
| US11893719B2 |
Single-shot differential phase contrast quantitative phase imaging method based on color multiplexed illumination
A single-shot differential phase contrast quantitative phase imaging method based on color multiplexing illumination. A color multiplexing illumination solution is used to realize single-shot differential phase contrast quantitative phase imaging. In the single-shot color multiplexing illumination solution, three illumination wavelengths of red, green, and blue are used to simultaneously illuminate a sample, and the information of the sample in multiple directions is converted into intensity information on different channels of a color image. By performing channel separation on this color image, the information about the sample at different spatial frequencies can be obtained. Such a color multiplexing illumination solution requires only one acquired image, thus enhancing the transfer response of the phase transfer function of single-shot differential phase contrast imaging in the entire frequency range, and achieving real-time dynamic quantitative phase imaging with a high contrast, a high resolution, and a high stability. In addition, an alternate illumination strategy is provided, so that a completely isotropic imaging resolution at the limit acquisition speed of the camera can be achieved. |
| US11893717B2 |
Initializing a learned latent vector for neural-network projections of diverse images
This disclosure describes one or more embodiments of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that can learn or identify a learned-initialization-latent vector for an initialization digital image and reconstruct a target digital image using an image-generating-neural network based on a modified version of the learned-initialization-latent vector. For example, the disclosed systems learn a learned-initialization-latent vector from an initialization image utilizing a high number (e.g., thousands) of learning iterations on an image-generating-neural network (e.g., a GAN). Then, the disclosed systems can modify the learned-initialization-latent vector (of the initialization image) to generate modified or reconstructed versions of target images using the image-generating-neural network. For instance, the disclosed systems utilize the learned-initialization-latent vector as a starting point to learn a learned-latent vector for a target image that an image-generating-neural network converts into a high-fidelity reconstruction of the target image (with a reduced number of learning iterations). |
| US11893716B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method, and image capturing apparatus
An image processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires a first image obtained through shooting and distance information of the first image; a detection unit that detects a main subject from the first image; an extraction unit that extracts another subject from the first image based on the distance information of the main subject; a setting unit that sets parameters of one or more virtual light sources that emit virtual light to the main subject and the extracted other subject; and a processing unit that generates from the first image a second image in which the main subject and the other subject are illuminated with the virtual light using the parameters set by the setting unit. |
| US11893708B2 |
Image processing method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
Provided are an image processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, relating to the technical field of image processing, in particular to the artificial intelligence fields such as computer vision and deep learning. The specific implementation scheme is as follows: inputting a to-be-processed image into an encoding network to obtain a basic image feature, wherein the encoding network includes at least two cascaded overlapping encoding sub-networks which perform encoding and fusion processing on input data at at least two resolutions; and inputting the basic image feature into a decoding network to obtain a target image feature for pixel point classification, wherein the decoding network includes at least one cascaded overlapping decoding sub-network to perform decoding and fusion processing on input data at at least two resolutions respectively. |
| US11893698B2 |
Electronic device, AR device and method for controlling data transfer interval thereof
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure includes: a communication module comprising communication circuitry and a processor operatively connected to the communication module. The processor may be communicatively connected to an augmented reality (AR) device through the communication module, and be configured to receive image information obtained by a camera of the AR device from the AR device, to detect an object based on the received image information, to acquire virtual information corresponding to the object, to control the communication module to transmit the virtual information to the AR device, to determine, based on the received image information, whether the object is out of a viewing range of the AR device, and to change a transfer interval of the virtual information for the AR device based on the determination. |
| US11893696B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for extended reality user interface
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing an extended reality (XR) user interface. A method for providing an XR user interface occurs at a user device executing an XR application. The method comprises: receiving content information about a hierarchical container structure; obtaining, via the XR application, spatial information about a physical and/or virtual environment; generating, using the content information, at least one immersive visual element for visually representing the hierarchical container structure, wherein each of the at least one immersive visual element represents a container, a sub-container, or a data element of the hierarchical container structure; and providing, using the XR application, the spatial information, and a display, the at least one immersive visual element by augmenting a depiction of the physical and/or virtual environment so that a user can enter the at least one immersive visual element, access elements of the hierarchical container structure from within the at least one immersive visual element, and view the physical and/or virtual environment through the at least one immersive visual element. |
| US11893693B2 |
Systems and methods for generating digital media based on object feature points
Generating and storing digital media can be resource intensive processes. Some systems and methods disclosed herein relate to generating digital media using a pre-existing three-dimensional (3D) model of an object and feature points of the object. According to an embodiment, a method includes an e-commerce platform receiving a request for digital media depicting an object. In response to the request, the e-commerce platform may obtain a 3D model corresponding to the object and data pertaining to one or more feature points of the object. The one or more feature points may correspond to respective views of the 3D model. The e-commerce platform may then generate the digital media based on the 3D model and the one or more feature points, where the digital media could include renders of the 3D model depicting the one or more feature points. |
| US11893690B2 |
3D reconstruction with smooth maps
A computer-implemented method for 3D reconstruction including obtaining 2D images and, for each 2D image, camera parameters which define a perspective projection. The 2D images all represent a same real object. The real object is fixed. The method also includes obtaining, for each 2D image, a smooth map. The smooth map has pixel values, and each pixel value represents a measurement of contour presence. The method also includes determining a 3D modeled object that represents the real object. The determining iteratively optimizes energy. The energy rewards, for each smooth map, projections of silhouette vertices of the 3D modeled object having pixel values representing a high measurement of contour presence. This forms an improved solution for 3D reconstruction. |
| US11893688B2 |
Method of fusing mesh sequences within volumetric video
A computer-implemented method of smoothing a transition between two mesh sequences to be rendered successively comprises steps of: (a) providing first and second mesh sequences {1} and {2} formed mesh frames, respectively, to be fused into a fused sequence; (b) selecting mesh frames gn and gm being candidates for fusing therebetween; calculating geometric rigid and/or non-rigid transformations of candidate frames gn and gm belonging to said first and second mesh sequences {1} and {2}; applying calculated geometric rigid and/or non-rigid transformations to candidate frames gn and gm belonging to said first and second mesh sequences {1} and {2}; calculating textural transformations of said candidate frames gn and gm belonging to said first and second mesh sequences {1} and {2}; and applying calculated textural transformation to said candidate frames gn and gm belonging to said first and second mesh sequences {1} and {2}. |
| US11893685B2 |
Landform map building method and apparatus, electronic device and readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides a landform map building method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, and relates to the field of image processing technologies. The method for building landform map includes: acquiring a to-be-processed image to obtain a grayscale image of the to-be-processed image; classifying pixels in the grayscale image according to grayscale values to obtain binary images corresponding to different landform categories; extracting image spot contours of image spots in the binary images, and taking the extracted image spot contours as vector graphs to obtain a vector graph set; merging, according to position information, the vector graphs corresponding to a same landform category in the vector graph set, and obtaining a first landform map according to merging results corresponding to different landform categories; and mapping, by using a preset landform type, the vector graphs corresponding to different landform categories in the first landform map, and taking a mapping result as a second landform map. |
| US11893684B1 |
Systems and methods for signal-based point cloud representation
Disclosed is an encoding and decoding system and associated methods for producing a compressed waveform that encodes data points of a point cloud in a format and size that may be transmitted over a data network, decompressed, decoded, and rendered on a remote device without the buffering or lag associated with transmitting and rendering an uncompressed point cloud. The encoder receives a request from a remote device to access the point cloud, encodes a set of data points from the point cloud as one or more signals derived from values defined for the positional and non-positional elements of each data point from the set of data points, generates one or more compressed waveforms from compressing the one or more signals and transmits the one or more compressed waveforms to the remote device in response to the request for decompression, decoding, and image rendering. |
| US11893678B2 |
Apparatus and method for searching for global minimum of point cloud registration error
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for searching for a global minimum of a point cloud registration error. The apparatus includes memory in which at least one program is recorded and a processor for executing the program. The program performs collecting multiple registration results in which the registration error between a source point cloud and a target point cloud is a local minimum as candidates and selecting the registration result in which the registration error between the source point cloud and the target point cloud is a global minimum, among the candidates. Collecting the multiple registration results may comprise repeatedly randomly initializing the source point cloud and the target point cloud and registering the initialized source point cloud to the initialized target point cloud to thereby search for a registration result in which the registration error therebetween is a local minimum. |
| US11893677B1 |
Bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) widening based on node compressibility
Systems and techniques are provided for widening a hierarchical structure for ray tracing. For instance, a process can include obtaining a plurality of primitives of a scene object included in a first hierarchical acceleration data structure and determining one or more candidate hierarchical acceleration data structures each including the plurality of primitives. A cost metric can be determined for the one or more candidate hierarchical acceleration data structures and, based on the cost metric, a compressibility prediction associated with a candidate hierarchical acceleration data structure of the one or more candidate hierarchical acceleration data structures can be determined. An output hierarchical acceleration data structure can be generated based on the compressibility prediction. |
| US11893675B1 |
Processing updated sensor data for remote collaboration
Various implementations set forth a computer-implemented method for scanning a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The method includes generating, in a first time interval, a first extended reality (XR) stream based on a first set of meshes representing a 3D environment, transmitting, to a remote device, the first XR stream for rendering a 3D representation of a first portion of the 3D environment in a remote XR environment, determining that the 3D environment has changed based on a second set of meshes representing the 3D environment and generated subsequent to the first time interval, generating a second XR stream based on the second set of meshes, and transmitting, to the remote device, the second XR stream for rendering a 3D representation of at least a portion of the changed 3D environment in the remote XR environment. |
| US11893672B2 |
Context real avatar audience creation during live video sharing
An embodiment for creating an avatar of an online viewer during a live video broadcast is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a number of in-person viewers at an event. The embodiment may also include identifying a number of online viewers watching the event remotely. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the number of in-person viewers at the event is below a threshold, identifying a location of the in-person viewers at the event. The embodiment may also include analyzing reactions of the online viewers to scenarios of the event. The embodiment may further include creating an avatar for each of the online viewers. The embodiment may also include populating each empty seat at the event with the created avatar for each online viewer. The embodiment may further include displaying the created avatars occupying the empty seats to the online viewers. |
| US11893671B2 |
Image regularization and retargeting system
Systems and methods for image retargeting are provided. Image data may be acquired that includes motion capture data indicative of motion of a plurality of markers disposed on a surface of a first subject. Each of the markers may be associated with a respective location on the first subject. A plurality of blendshapes may be calculated for the motion capture data based on a configuration of the markers. An error function may be identified for the plurality of blendshapes, and it may be determined that the plurality of blendshapes can be used to retarget a second subject based on the error function. The plurality of blendshapes may then be applied to a second subject to generate a new animation. |
| US11893669B2 |
Development platform for digital humans
A digital human development platform can enable a user to generate a digital human. The digital human development platform can receive user input specifying a dialogue for the digital human and one or more behaviors for the digital human, the one or more specified behaviors corresponding with one or more portions of the dialog on a common timeline. Scene data can be generated with the digital human development platform by merging the one or more behaviors with one or more portions of the dialogue based on times of the one or more behaviors and the one or more portions of the dialog on the common timeline. |
| US11893668B2 |
Imaging system and method for generating a final digital image via applying a profile to image information
A method of generating an image may include obtaining a profile of a combination of a full-frame camera and a lens; obtaining image information from an electronic sensor of a mobile electronic device; and/or generating, via an electronic control unit of the mobile electronic device, a final digital image via applying a profile of the one or more profiles to the image information. |
| US11893667B2 |
Techniques for rendering vector graphics using precomputed textures
A system and method for rendering vector graphics using precomputed textures, includes receiving a vector image, the vector image including a plurality of instructions, each instruction for rendering at least a geometric primitive; detecting in the plurality of instructions an instruction for generating a first Bezier curve; selecting a first precomputed curve in a texture map to match the first Bezier curve; and generating a raster image based at least on the first precomputed curve. In an embodiment selecting the first precomputed curve includes computing a transformation matrix between the first precomputed curve and target coordinates, wherein the target coordinates are coordinates of a display; computing texture coordinates based on the computed transformation matrix and the texture map; and rendering an adapted precomputed curve, based on the texture map and the computed texture coordinates. |
| US11893665B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer program for displaying an evolution of a filling quantity
As a container (3) is filled with a material to a very small tolerance, a method displays an evolution of a measured current filling quantity (Q) of the material, from a starting filling quantity Q0 to a target filling quantity QT. A measuring means (5) measures the measured current filling quantity as filling proceeds. A display means (10) shows a first pointer (11), a position X of which is indicative of the measured current filling quantity. The position X on the display means is a monotonic function of the measured current filling quantity. As the measured current filling quantity enters a tolerance subrange on either side of the target filling quantity, a function that defines the position of the first pointer is changed to permit accurate filling, but in a manner so that a user of the measuring means does not perceive a discontinuity in the display. |
| US11893660B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method
An image processing apparatus includes a first image creation unit, a second image creation unit, and a CNN processing unit. The first image creation unit creates a first tomographic image of an m-th frame using a data group in list data included in the m-th frame. The second image creation unit creates a second tomographic image using a data group in the list data having a data amount larger than that of the data group used in creating the first tomographic image. The CNN processing unit inputs the second tomographic image to a CNN, outputs an output tomographic image from the CNN, trains the CNN based on a comparison between the output tomographic image and the first tomographic image, and repeats the training operation to generate the output tomographic image in each training. |
| US11893658B2 |
Augmented vehicle testing environment
An augmented virtual vehicle testing system and method for presenting graphics to a vehicle operator during operation of a vehicle. The method includes: determining a position of a vehicle operator within a vehicle testing environment; executing an augmentative simulation of the vehicle testing environment, wherein the augmentative simulation is used to provide a position of one or more virtual objects within the vehicle testing environment; generating graphics representing the one or more virtual objects based on the position of the vehicle operator and the position of the one or more virtual objects within the vehicle testing environment; and presenting the graphics on an electronic display and to the vehicle operator during operation of the vehicle. |
| US11893656B2 |
Prediction system for texture streaming
The present invention relates to a prediction system for determining a set of subregions to be used for rendering a virtual world of a computer graphics application, said subregions belonging to streamable objects to be used for rendering said virtual world, said streamable objects each comprising a plurality of subregions. The prediction system comprises a plurality of predictor units arranged for receiving from a computer graphics application information on the virtual world and each arranged for obtaining a predicted set of subregions for rendering a virtual world using streamable objects, each predicted set being obtained by applying a different prediction scheme, a streaming manager arranged for receiving the predicted sets of subregions, for deriving from the predicted sets a working set of subregions to be used for rendering and for outputting, based on the working set of subregions, steering instructions concerning the set of subregions to be actually used. |
| US11893648B2 |
Methods and systems for recommending agricultural activities
A computer-implemented method for recommending agricultural activities is implemented by an agricultural intelligence computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving, over a network, field definition data and environmental data; determining soil data from at least the environmental data; determining, based on at least the soil data, carbon load data indicating carbon load present in the field during a planting date; receiving first input indicating a plurality of starter application criteria; based on the first input and the carbon load present in the field, generating application data that include at least an amount of the starter fertilizer that provides nutrients to seeds throughout a nutrient immobilization period between the planting date and a beginning of a microorganism mineralization period; generating control instructions for controlling an agricultural implement based on the application data. |
| US11893646B1 |
Systems and methods for providing context to customer activity through a visual representation
A system and method provide context to customer activity through a visual representation. In one implementation, a system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions. The system may also include one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive transaction data associated with a customer, and receive a request to generate a visual representation of a trip taken by the customer. The one or more processors may also be configured to determine transactions associated with a trip taken by the customer based on at least the transaction data, and generate a visual representation of the trip, the visual representation including the transactions. |
| US11893643B1 |
Systems and methods for recommending action after assessing risk of property damage
A system may include one or more sensors that acquire location information associated with the one or more sensors. The system may also include a processor that receives a first set of data comprising environmental information associated with a location, receives the location information from the one or more sensors, and determines whether a risk of damage to property associated with at least one of the one or more sensors is greater than a threshold based on the location information and the environmental information. When the risk is greater than the threshold, the processor may send a notification including the risk of damage to the property to a computing device that may provide an audio or visual indication of the notification. |
| US11893642B1 |
Systems and methods for generating data representative of multi-product insurance discounts and related user interface displays
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for generating data representative of multi-product insurance discounts and related user interface displays. The systems and methods may include receiving personal data from an insurance customer and insurance product data. The systems and methods may further include generating data representative of multi-product insurance discounts based on personal data from an insurance customer and insurance product data. The systems and methods may further include generating displays of the multi-product discounts based on data representative of multi-product insurance discounts. |
| US11893640B2 |
Method of interactive financial service including investing, funding and trading, and apparatus, interface and platform thereof
Disclosed herein is a method, apparatus, interface and platform for interactive investing, funding and trading. The Great Disruptors Platform (TGDP) provides a platform to companies (business entities) to raise capital online in exchange for equity, royalty and/or other compensation from individual investors and other investors by engaging with the potential investors. |
| US11893639B2 |
System and method for processing a trade order
Systems and apparatus for processing a trade order include a computer configured for receiving market data for a financial asset, receiving pricing parameters and receiving proposed order quantity and price data. The computer is further configured for constructing proposed trades based on the proposed order quantity and price data, and for calculating a theoretical price for the financial asset based on the market data, pricing parameters as well as the proposed order price data. In addition, the computer is configured for comparing the constructed trades with the theoretical price, and displaying market data indicators relative to the theoretical price indicators based on the comparison. |
| US11893635B1 |
Realtime access and control of secure regulated data
The systems and methods described herein allow users to control access to regulated data of the user (stored in a secured third party database) through interaction on a mobile device (or other computing device), such as to provide a touch gesture on the mobile device that causes the users regulated data to be accessible to a third party. The regulated data may include credit data of the user, such as a credit report or credit file. Access rights to the regulated data may be provided in real-time (or near real-time) in response to a request for the data from a third party, for example. The system may allow a user to respond to an alert or notification that is automatically sent to the computing device of the user in response to a request for a secure regulated data of the user. |
| US11893633B2 |
Adjustment of card configurations for flight interruptions
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for adjustment of card configurations for flight interruptions. Past flight interruptions that users experienced may be determined. Transactions conducted via the users' payment cards during the past flight interruptions may be determined. The data may be used for determining customized metrics for adjusting card configurations of the payment cards during current flight interruptions. Default metrics for adjusting card configurations of the payment cards during current flight interruptions may be determined. Current flight statuses may be monitored for the users. Current flight interruptions may be detected for the users. Card configurations of the payment cards may be adjusted during the detected current flight interruptions. |
| US11893630B2 |
Systems and methods for debt management with spending recommendation
A method may include receiving financial information regarding a user; categorizing transaction information of the user based on the financial information; causing display of the categorized transaction information; receiving information regarding at least one financial preference and transaction preference of the user; determining using a trained machine learning model activities available to the user; calculating, for each of the one or more activities available to the user, an estimated influence on the at least one financial preference, causing display of the estimated influence on the at least one financial preference based on a user selected one of the one or more activities available to the user; filtering the one or more activities available to the user with a positive estimated influence to the at least one financial preference; and causing display of a recommendation of action relating to the one of the one or more activities available to the user. |
| US11893627B2 |
Adaptive risk-based verification and authentication platform
In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to perform an adaptive risk-based assessment of a user is disclosed. A method includes receiving a request from a user to perform an action at an electronic marketplace, retrieving a plurality of risk assessment factors associated with the action and the user, performing a risk assessment process on the risk assessment factors to identify a risk mitigation process, requesting that the user perform the identified risk mitigation process, and allowing the user to perform the action in response to the user completing the risk mitigation. |
| US11893624B2 |
E-commerce tags in multimedia content
Techniques described herein are directed to e-commerce tags in multimedia content. In an example, multimedia content is received and item-recognition techniques are performed to identify one or more items referenced in the content. An interactive element is generated that indicates information about a given referenced item, and that interactive element is displayed while the multimedia content is output. Selection of the interactive element may cause a purchasing user interface to be displayed with item and/or or payment information prepopulated based at least in part on identified attributes of the item and/or user preferences determined from historical purchase data associated with the user. |
| US11893619B2 |
Flowerbed sales order system, flowerbed sales order program, and flowerbed sales order method
An object of the present invention is to provide a flowerbed sales order system, which enables a user to order a flowerbed with a simple method without having the user design the flowerbed from scratch. The present invention relates to a flowerbed sales order system comprising a user terminal and a server apparatus capable of communicating with the user terminal, the system comprising: a flowerbed storage that stores information regarding flowerbeds; a flowerbed recommendation displayer that recommends and displays a flowerbed based on a prescribed condition; an order placement request transmitter that transmits an order placement request of the recommended and displayed flowerbed; and an order placement request receiver that receives the order placement request. |
| US11893617B2 |
Systems and methods of application of machine learning to traffic data for vehicle recommendation
According to certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method may be used for providing vehicle recommendations based on traffic camera data. The method may include acquiring traffic data from a plurality of traffic cameras and determining vehicle information based on the traffic data. Additionally, calculating average idling time of vehicles based on the traffic data from the plurality of traffic cameras. Additionally, determining accident information based on the traffic data from the plurality of traffic cameras and selecting at least one available vehicle for purchase, wherein the at least one available vehicle matches one or more predetermined requirements based on the determined vehicle information, average idling time, and the determined accident information. Additionally, transmitting a recommendation based on the selected at least one available vehicle for purchase. |
| US11893616B2 |
System and method for automated preparation of quotes and proposals
A system includes a proposal engine configured to present quotes and/or proposals to customers at a network site. |
| US11893614B2 |
Systems and methods for balancing online stores across servers
Methods and systems for balancing online stores across servers. Monitoring a level of customer activity associated with a particular online store in a plurality of online stores. Detecting, based on the level of customer activity, a demand-level condition for the particular online store. Responsive to the detecting of the demand-level condition for the particular online store, moving one or more of the plurality of online stores from a first server of a plurality of servers to a second server of the plurality of servers. |
| US11893613B2 |
Systems, manufacture, and methods for controlling access to resources
Methods and systems for controlling access to resources. Receiving, at a server from user devices, requests associated with a resource. Transmitting, by the server to the user devices, tickets associated with the requests, each ticket associated with a respective one of a plurality of groups, the groups identifying requests received in successive windows of time. Receiving, at the server from one of the user devices, a subsequent request, the subsequent request identifying one of the tickets previously transmitted to that user device. Determining that the identified one of the tickets should be accepted and the subsequent request should be serviced. |
| US11893606B2 |
Information processing system
A server stores online information related to a user and transmitted and received via a communication network. The server detects a behavior of a user who came to an event venue based on data output from a sensor (for example, 3D LiDAR) installed in the event venue. The server associates the user who came to the event venue with a user whose online information is stored, based on data obtained from the behavior of the user who came to the event venue. The server executes predetermined processing with respect to the user in a case where at least one of behavior information and the online information of the user who came to the event venue satisfies a predetermined condition. |
| US11893603B1 |
Interactive, personalized advertising
Techniques for selecting and providing highly targeted, interactive advertisements in a personalized manner. These advertisements may be audio-only advertisements, video-only advertisements, or advertisements that include both audio and video. As described below, advertisements may be selected and/or generated for a particular user based on an array of factors, including the user's interactions with multiple different client devices (e.g., a tablet computing device, a voice-controlled device, a television etc.), as well as additional behavior of the user. In some instances, the client devices may include a voice-controlled device that the user interacts with via voice commands and that provides audible content for output to the user. |
| US11893598B1 |
On-chain loyalty program management
Methods and systems for managing loyalty programs using a decentralized blockchain are provided. Transactions between users and a merchant are monitored via an application programming interface (API) of a service provider. Based on the monitoring, it may be determined that at least one of the users has satisfied reward criteria for a loyalty program associated with the merchant. The loyalty program includes a plurality of tokens to be distributed to users who satisfy the reward criteria configured by the merchant via a merchant interface. At least one token from among the plurality of tokens may be selected for the user, based on at least one smart contract associated with the merchant. The smart contract is stored on the blockchain in association with a unique identifier for the merchant. A transaction is broadcasted to the decentralized blockchain for transferring the at least one token to a digital wallet of the user. |
| US11893597B2 |
System and method for loading secure data in multiparty secure computing environment
A computational approach is proposed herein for controlling a user interface for rendering of interactive graphical control elements representing offers and coupons that are inserted into a computational payment process. In particular, the offers and coupons can interact with stored payment information resident (or tokens thereof) on a digital wallet data structure. The approach can be implemented as a computing system, a computing method operable on a computing system, or a computer program product affixed in the form of a non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine-interpretable instructions. |
| US11893590B2 |
Interpretation workflows for machine learning-enabled event tree-based diagnostic and customer problem resolution
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to interpretation workflows for machine learning-enabled event tree-based diagnostic and customer problem resolution. According to one aspect, a system can receive a workflow construction specification derived from a machine learning-enabled event tree (“MLET”). The MLET can be generated for use by a customer service agent to resolve a customer problem. The workflow construction specification can include a plurality of objects, each of which represents a navigation path through the MLET. The system can traverse the workflow construction specification and can create a set of workflow creation commands based upon at least one policy. The system can generate a workflow visualization interpretation file based upon the set of workflow creation commands. The workflow visualization interpretation file can identify how the MLET derived a root cause of the customer problem. The system can then present the workflow visualization interpretation file to the customer service agent. |
| US11893588B1 |
Token management system
A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository. |
| US11893587B2 |
System for enhanced authentication using non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
Enhanced authentication at resource event apparatuses of a card device and, in some instances, the user of the card device. Card device-specific Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are generated and, in some instance, user credential-specific NFTs are generated. The NFTs are stored within a distributed ledger of a distributed trust computing network, which provides verification as the uniqueness and authenticity of the NFTs. Once a resource event is initiated at a resource event apparatus, card device-related information and, in some instance, user credential-related information is received, and the information is compared to the corresponding NFT as a means of authenticating the card device and, in some instances, the card device and the linked user of the card device. As a result, the use of imitation card devices is prevented and, in some instances, the identity of the user of the card device is authenticated and deemed to be linked to the card device. |
| US11893586B2 |
Method, system, and computer program product for processing a potentially fraudulent transaction
A method for processing a potentially fraudulent electronic payment transaction includes: receiving a first fraud detection rule configured to identify a potentially fraudulent electronic payment transaction; storing the first fraud detection rule in a fraud rules database; receiving a transaction request message; generating and storing a first case record associated with the first transaction in a case management database; receiving an updated fraud detection rule superseding the first fraud detection rule; applying the updated fraud detection rule to the first transaction to determine whether the first transaction does not satisfy the at least one updated fraud detection rule; and deleting the first case record from the case management database before the first transaction is further analyzed for fraud. |
| US11893585B2 |
Associating multiple user accounts with a content output device
A device implementing a system to associate a user account with a content output device includes at least one processor configured to receive an invitation to access content associated with a first user account on another device associated with a second user account, the other device being connected to a local area network. The at least one processor is further configured to send, to a server, a request for authorization to access the content associated with the first user account on the other device associated with the second user account, the request comprising information included with the invitation, and to receive, from the server, the authorization to access the content. The at least one processor is further configured to access, based at least in part on the authorization, the content associated with the first user account on the other device associated with the second user account. |
| US11893584B2 |
Constraining injection of unlocking transaction bytecode
The disclosure is related to injection of a serialized set of field values of an unlocking transaction into a locking script, such as for distributed ledge technologies and consensus-based blockchains. A first transaction to validate is received at a node in the blockchain network. The first transaction includes a first script that includes a set of field values of the first transaction and, as a result of being executed, causes the node to obtain a set of field values. A second transaction is obtained, with the second transaction having been validated. The second transaction includes a second script that, as a result of being executed, causes the node to generate a signature based at least in part on the set of field values supplied as a result of execution of the first script. The first transaction is validated by execution of the first script and the second script. |
| US11893581B1 |
Tokenization for payment devices
A payment device such as electronic transaction card or an near field communication device can use a temporary token for payment transactions. When processing a payment transaction, the temporary token is provided to a server of the issuer of the payment device, which can authorize the payment transaction and determine if the temporary token can be used for a subsequent transaction. If the server determines that the temporary token cannot be used for another transaction, the server provides the payment device with a new temporary token and an issuer script. When the payment device receives the issuer script, the payment device can execute the issuer script to store the new temporary token on the payment device. |
| US11893580B2 |
Establishment of a secure session between a card reader and a mobile device
In some examples, a mobile card reader includes a card interface to read information from a card, an interface to enable the mobile card reader to communicate with a mobile device, and a processor configured to send security related information of the mobile card reader to an application executing on the mobile device. The security related information may be for transmission by the mobile device to a remote server system. The mobile card reader may receive, from the application, an indication that the application has been validated by the remote server system based on validation of the security related information of the mobile card reader and security related information of the application. In response, the mobile card reader generates a secure session key with which to carry out encrypted communication between the application and the mobile card reader. |
| US11893577B2 |
Cryptographic key storage system and method
Aspects of the disclosure relate to storing sensitive information. A computing platform may split a signature key into shares, which may be used to regenerate the signature key. The computing platform may encrypt these shares using corresponding SEKs, and may subsequently encrypt the SEKs using corresponding operator keys. The computing platform may distribute the operator keys to user devices via corresponding HSMs. The computing platform may store the encrypted shares, encrypted SEKs, and identifiers of the user devices. The computing platform may receive requests for the encrypted SEKs from the user devices, and may send the respective encrypted SEKs accordingly. The user devices may return, to the computing platform, corresponding decrypted SEKs. The computing platform may use the SEKs to decrypt the encrypted shares, which may then be used to reconstruct the signature key. |
| US11893574B2 |
Stored-value card-to-card direct communication
A method for performing a card-to-card direct contactless transaction between a first active stored-value smart card (“SVSC”) and a second active SVSC, each comprising an active near-field communication (“NFC”) reader. The method may include activating the first active SVSC by receiving input of a personal identification number (“PIN”) on a keypad located on the first active SVSC, verifying the PIN and further receiving input of a transaction amount on the keypad. The method may further include initiating a wireless NFC communication to perform the transaction by positioning the first active SVSC within a pre-determined distance to the second active SVSC and confirming accuracy of each of the first and second active SVSC using the active NFC reader to retrieve card ID data and confirm accuracy. Following confirming, the method may include directly completing the transaction between the first active SVSC and the second active SVSC. |
| US11893571B2 |
Electronic transaction processing systems and methods
The invention relates generally to the processing of electronic payments that involve an payment instrument. A payment instrument reading device is paired with a payment initiating device to allow transaction information generated by the payment initiating device to be automatically transmitted to its associated payment instrument reading device. This means that rekeying of transaction information is not required. In some embodiments one or more beacons are provided in a premises, to allow the location of a mobile payment initiating device to be determined. This location is used to either direct the payment initiating device to a payment instrument reading device, or vice versa. Transaction data generated by the payment initiating device is automatically transmitted to the payment instrument reading device. A pairing module is also provided, which is configured to pair a payment instrument reading device with a payment initiating device. |
| US11893568B1 |
Automated proximity fraud account lock systems and methods
Methods and systems described in this disclosure for protecting one or more consumer accounts. In one implementation, the system includes a security device and a portable computing device. The portable computing device detects whether it is in proximity to the security device. When the portable computing device is in proximity to the security device, one or more consumer accounts associated with the portable computing device is permitted to be used in a transaction. When the portable computing device is not in proximity to the security device, one or more consumer accounts is prevented from being used in the transaction. |
| US11893565B2 |
Wireless dongle facilitated mobile transactions
Computing systems and methods for facilitating mobile transactions are disclosed. An example method includes: detecting, via a hardware communication interface, a user check-in request based at least on a communication exchange between a user device and a signaling device at a location. The communication exchange corresponds to a proximity of the user device to the signaling device. The method further includes: determining a user identifier associated with the user device based at least on the user check-in request; and transmitting one or more promotional items to the user device based at least on the user identifier. |
| US11893563B2 |
Reading system, shopping assistance system, reading method, and program
A reading system includes an evaluation value acquirer and a determining processor. The evaluation value acquirer is configured to acquire, with regard to a reading device configured to perform wireless communication with an electronic tag attached to each of one or more items by using a radio wave as a medium to read item information on each of one or more items, an evaluation value about at least one of: the number of times; a time interval; or a frequency, of reading the item information for each of at the one or more items. The determining processor is configured to determine, for each of the one or more items, whether or not each of the one or more items is an object to be read based on a change in the evaluation value over time. |
| US11893558B2 |
System and method for collaborative shopping, business and entertainment
Systems and methods for synchronous content viewing are provided. In embodiments, a method includes providing an interface to a user of a remote user device; receiving a user selection of one or more contacts of the user as invitees to a synchronized session; providing content synchronously to the remote user device of the user and other remote user devices of the respective one or more contacts of the user based on receiving an acceptance from the one or more contacts of the user, wherein the user and the one or more contacts of the user view the content synchronously during the synchronized session; and providing functions of an application to the participants synchronously, wherein the functions enable the participants to interact with the content in real-time during the synchronized session, and wherein all participants view interactions with the content simultaneously. |
| US11893555B1 |
Systems and methods for electronic database communications
A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value. |
| US11893554B2 |
Secure smart note
An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a smart note, to a blockchain configured to store Bitcoins (BTCs) of a user on a ledger, displaying, by the smart note, a value of a BTC read from the ledger on a display screen located on the smart note, detecting, by the smart note, a press of a button located on the smart note, generating, by the smart note, a BTC address pair in response to the detecting of the press of the button, checking, by the smart note, if a private key associated with the smart note has been used, in response to a confirmation that the private key has not been used, generating and displaying, by the smart note, a trusted symbol indicating to the user of the smart note that the private key has not been used, and transferring, by the smart note, the value of the BTC to the blockchain using the private key associated with the smart note. |
| US11893550B2 |
System and method for hosting and remotely provisioning a payment HSM by way of out-of-band management
A payment HSM hosted in a data center and comprising a host interface accessible by a remote end-user entity running a payment application using critical resources protected in the payment HSM, a second interface for main, operational management of the payment HSM by the end-user entity, and an Out-Of-Band, OOB, management interface being distinct and physically isolated from the communication channel of the second interface, and configured to allow secure access to the payment HSM by a third-party entity, distinct from the end-user entity. A resident, remotely configurable provisioning state-machine is implemented in the HSM for the management of the provisioning of the payment HSM for service to one or more end-user entities, under the control of the third-party entity over the OOB management interface. |
| US11893549B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting potentially compromised payment cards
A computer-implemented method for detecting potentially compromised payment cards is provided. The method uses a processor in communication with a memory. The method includes storing a plurality of tokens. Each token includes merchant identification data corresponding to a first merchant. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of tokens to the first merchant and receiving an authorization request message from a merchant. The authorization request message includes a token and a merchant identifier corresponding to the merchant. The method further includes determining that the received token is one of the plurality of tokens associated with the first merchant, determining that the merchant identifier does not correspond to the first merchant, transmitting a message including instructions to decline the transaction, and attaching a potentially compromised flag to the first merchant. The potentially compromised flag indicates a heightened probability of fraudulent activity. |
| US11893547B2 |
Intelligent reliability evaluation and service life prediction method for kilometer deep well hoist brake
An intelligent reliability evaluation and service life prediction method for a kilometer deep well hoist brake, the method including: the establishment of a digital twin model for a hoist brake, data acquisition and synchronization, and reliability evaluation and service life prediction, wherein the digital twin model for the hoist brake can accurately reflect actual physical characteristics of the hoist brake, the data acquisition and synchronization can realize real-time mapping between a physical entity of the hoist brake and the digital twin model therefor, and furthermore, on the basis of the digital twin model for the hoist brake, the reliability evaluation and service life prediction are realized. Digital twin technology is combined with a reliability analysis method, so that real-time updating of reliability evaluation and service life prediction of the hoist brake are realized. |
| US11893545B2 |
Mobile secretary cloud application
The disclosure provides a method, system, and a software program product for assisting a user and/or managing tasks of the user, by a mobile secretary cloud application configured to operate in a mobile client device and cloud server network. The mobile secretary cloud application reads data from another software application and operates at least one of another application and a third application based on the read data. Further, Artificial intelligence is utilized by the mobile secretary cloud application for operating another application and the third application. |
| US11893543B2 |
Optimized automatic consensus determination for events
A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) generates a digital wardrobe for each user of a set of users. The processor(s) obtains a prospective theme(s) for a given event and a list of participants comprising a portion of the set of users. The processor(s) identify preferences, in the digital wardrobes of the portion of the set of users, relevant to each of the one or more prospective themes for the given event. The processor(s) determine, based on analyzing the relevant preferences in the digital wardrobes of the portion of the set of users, if a consensus exists in the relevant preferences of the portion of the set of users, where the consensus represents a given prospective theme, where the respective relevant preferences for the given prospective theme are aligned across the portion of the set of users. Based on determining that the consensus exists, the processor(s) generates an event theme for the given event, wherein the event theme is the consensus. |
| US11893539B2 |
Healthcare universal patient payment billing records
Gateways for patient-responsibility portions of medical bills (PRPMB) transactions, regardless of healthcare provider or merchant services (Credit card processing) provider are disclosed. These principles provide uniform, consistent and secure devices, methods and systems that allow a patient to make PRPMB payments on one website or by one phone call or physical address regardless of the entity that is due payment, or when multiple entities are due payment. |
| US11893537B2 |
Linguistic analysis of seed documents and peer groups
Systems may evaluate a claim or patent with respect to a related set of claims or patent documents. The systems may perform linguistic analyses of claims included in the patent and the related set of patent documents. Based on the linguistic analyses, the systems may identify claim limitations, and/or claim elements. The systems may generate a claim profile for each claim being evaluated. The claim profile may include ratings or scores for various metrics related to the claims being evaluated. The systems may also generate a peer group profile that provides an overall measure of metrics for claims included in a peer group of patent documents. |
| US11893534B2 |
System for inventory management
The present disclosure includes an inventory fulfillment system for managing information regarding pertaining to the inventory supply chain logistics and automation of medical items dispensed in conjunction with medical treatment of a patient at a medical facility, wherein the medical items are stored in a physical inventory space in the medical facility, wherein the medical items have radiofrequency tags attached thereto is disclosed herein. In some implementations, the inventory fulfillment system receives, dispenses, and manages, medical items that are provided by a multiplicity of suppliers, collects patients' payments. In some implementations, the inventory fulfillment system also includes assigning items to patients, updating inventory applications, insurance eligibility, patient estimation, and patient payment. |
| US11893533B2 |
Storage and retrieval system
A product order fulfillment system includes multiple decks arrayed at different levels and defining multilevel decks, at least one autonomous transport vehicle on each of the decks, and configured for holding and transporting a pickface on each deck, at least one lift, traversing and connecting more than one level of the decks, and arranged for lifting and lowering the pickface from the decks, and at least one pickface transfer station on each deck interfacing between the transport vehicle and the at least one lift to effect transfer of the pickface between the transport vehicle and the at least one lift, the at least one lift defines a fulfillment stream of mixed case pickfaces outbound from the multilevel decks to a load fill, at least one stream of the fulfillment stream has an ordered sequence of streaming pickfaces wherein the ordered sequence of streaming pickfaces is based on another fulfilment stream. |
| US11893526B2 |
Customer contact service with real-time supervisor assistance
Systems and methods to implement customer contact service with real-time supervisor assistance. A supervisor may oversee multiple agents in a customer contact service. A service of a computing resource service provider may monitor a plurality of audio connections at a service of a computing resource service provider, generate transcripts for the plurality of audio data, analyze the transcripts using a set of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to generate metadata, tag the transcripts with categories based at least in prat on the metadata, generate information for at least a portion of the plurality of connections based on the transcripts, metadata, and categories, and provide the information to a supervisor of the agents. |
| US11893524B2 |
Service area maps for autonomous vehicles
Aspects of the technology relate to providing service area maps for an autonomous vehicle transportation service having a fleet of vehicles. For instance, each vehicle of the fleet is associated with a polygon corresponding to a service area for that vehicle. A first location may be received from a client computing device, and a set of vehicles of the fleet of vehicles that are currently available to provide transportation services may be identified based on the first location. The polygons associated with each of the set of vehicles may be used to determine a first polygon having a geographic area. A first portion of map information corresponding to the geographic area of the first polygon may be identified, and the first portion may be provided to the client computing device for display to a user such that the portion represents a currently available service area for the user. |
| US11893523B2 |
Methods and systems for generating holistic airline schedule recovery solutions accounting for operations, crew, and passengers
Methods and systems for generating a recovery scheduling solution in response to a scheduling disruption are disclosed. A method includes receiving a request to modify an original schedule operations solution based on disruptive events, computing a flight recovery solution to reschedule disrupted flights, generating a crew recovery solution using the flight recovery solution that includes covered and uncovered flights by assigning flight crews to rescheduled disrupted flights, iteratively generating recommendations to delay or cancel uncovered flights until a best recovery solution is obtained, the best recovery solution including a crew recovery solution with a least amount of uncovered flights, iteratively generating, by the processing device, subsequent flight and crew recovery solutions based on the recommendations, generating a passenger recovery solution based on the best recovery solution and re-assigning disrupted passengers to the rescheduled disrupted flights, and configuring the airline recovery scheduling solution. |
| US11893521B2 |
Systems and methods for facilitating aerial vehicle services
Systems and methods for facilitating aerial vehicle services are provided. A service entity system can obtain multi-modal transportation services data indicative of a plurality of anticipated aerial transportation service. The service entity system can obtain vehicle attributes associated vehicle(s) of an aerial vehicle provider and determine an expected performance of the vehicle(s) based on the vehicle attributes and the anticipated aerial transportation services. The service entity system can generate an aerial vehicle service request that requests access to the vehicle(s) for providing aerial transportation services for the service entity based on the expected performance of the vehicle(s). A vehicle provider system can obtain a number of different aerial vehicle service requests from a number of different service entities. The vehicle provider system can select portions of the different aerial vehicle service requests to accept and provide access to vehicle(s) of the vehicle provider based on the selected portions. |
| US11893518B2 |
Methods and systems of optimizing pressure regulation at intelligent gas gate stations based on internet of things
A method and system of optimizing pressure regulation at an intelligent gas gate station based on an Internet of Things are provided. The method is performed by an intelligent gas management platform, and the intelligent gas management platform includes an intelligent customer service management sub-platform, an intelligent operation management sub-platform, and an intelligent gas data center, the method includes: obtaining, by the intelligent gas data center, gas terminal information from an intelligent gas object platform through the intelligent gas sensor network platform, wherein the gas terminal information includes gas terminal flow and a gas terminal distribution feature; predicting, by the intelligent operation management sub-platform, gas gate station flow based on the gas terminal information; and determining, by the intelligent operation management sub-platform, a pressure regulation scheme of the gas gate station based on the gas gate station flow. |
| US11893517B2 |
Information processing apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and information processing method
Provided are an arrangement information acquisition unit that acquires arrangement information indicating a position where a charging device for charging one or more storage batteries is arranged, a user position acquisition unit that acquires user position information indicating a position of the user, a charge state acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a charge state of at least one of the one or more storage batteries at specific time, and a state information generation unit that generates information to which (i) a charge state at the specific time and (ii) a charge state at an estimated time of arrival of the user at the charging device are associated for at least one of the one or more storage batteries, in accordance with (i) the arrangement information acquired by the arrangement information acquisition unit and (ii) the user position information acquired by the user position acquisition unit. |
| US11893511B2 |
Determining general causation from processing scientific articles
Examples of the disclosure are directed toward generating a causation score with respect to an agent and an outcome, and projecting a future causation score distribution. For example, a causation score may be determined with respect to a hypothesis that a given agent causes a given outcome, and the score may indicate the acceptance of that hypothesis in the scientific community, as described by scientific literature. A future causation score distribution, then, may indicate a probability distribution over possible future causation scores, thereby predicting the scientific acceptance of the hypothesis at some specific date in the future. A future causation score distribution can be projected by first generating one or more future publication datasets, and then determining causation scores for each of the one or more future publication datasets. |
| US11893510B2 |
Systems and methods for processing images to classify the processed images for digital pathology
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving a target image corresponding to a target specimen, the target specimen comprising a tissue sample of a patient, applying a machine learning model to the target image to determine at least one characteristic of the target specimen and/or at least one characteristic of the target image, the machine learning model having been generated by processing a plurality of training images to predict at least one characteristic, the training images comprising images of human tissue and/or images that are algorithmically generated, and outputting the at least one characteristic of the target specimen and/or the at least one characteristic of the target image. |
| US11893509B2 |
Method and apparatus for certification of facts
A method and apparatus for certification of facts introduces a certifier and a fact certificate into the fact-exchange cycle that enables parties to exchange trustworthy facts. Certification is provided to a fact presenter during the first part of the fact-exchange cycle, and verification is provided to the fact receiver during the last part of the cycle. To request a certification, a fact presenter presents the Certifier with a fact. In return, the certifier issues a fact certificate, after which the fact presenter presents the fact certificate to the fact receiver instead of presenting the fact itself. The receiver inspects the received certificate in order to evaluate the fact's validity and trustworthiness. For some facts and notions of verification, the certificate is sufficient and its inspection does not require any communication. For others, the receiver requests a verification service from the Certifier in order to complete the verification. |
| US11893507B1 |
Predicting customer lifetime value with unified customer data
Disclosed are techniques for generating features to train a predictive model to predict a customer lifetime value or churn rate. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a record that includes a plurality of fields and selecting a value associated with a selected field in the plurality of fields. The method then queries a lookup table comprising a mapping of values to aggregated statistics using the value and receives an aggregated statistic based on the querying. Next, the method generates a feature vector by annotating the record with the aggregated statistic. The method uses this feature vector as an input to a predictive model. |
| US11893500B2 |
Data classification for data lake catalog
Aspects include processors configured to (or include program code that causes a processor to) provide for data classifier devices that extract from structured text business data inputs, via natural language understanding processing, training set data elements (for example, training keywords, training concepts, training entities, and/or training taxonomy classifications, etc.). The aspects identify associations within the structured training business data of each of a plurality of business class categories with respective ones of the extracted training set data elements; and build a logical relationship data classification training knowledge base ontology that connects ones of the business classes to respective associated ones of the extracted training data elements as questions, into a plurality of knowledge base ontology question-business class associations. |
| US11893497B2 |
Method and apparatus for acquiring feature data from low-bit image
A processor-implemented method of generating feature data includes: receiving an input image; generating, based on a pixel value of the input image, at least one low-bit image having a number of bits per pixel lower than a number of bits per pixel of the input image; and generating, using at least one neural network, feature data corresponding to the input image from the at least one low-bit image. |
| US11893496B2 |
Method for recognizing objects in an environment of a vehicle
A method recognizes objects in an environment of a vehicle including a sensor system having at least one sensor unit for registering the environment and an evaluation unit for evaluating sensor data provided by the at least one sensor unit. The method includes receiving the sensor data in the evaluation unit, the sensor data including a plurality of chronologically successive measurements; inputting the sensor data into a machine learning module; and outputting an object state of at least one object estimated based on the sensor data by way of the machine learning module. The method further includes determining a plurality of chronologically successive future object states based on the estimated object state; ascertaining deviations between the future object states and measurements chronologically corresponding to the future object states based on the sensor data; and correcting a machine learning algorithm of the module based on the deviations. |
| US11893491B2 |
Compound model scaling for neural networks
A method for determining a final architecture for a neural network to perform a particular machine learning task is described. The method includes receiving a baseline architecture for the neural network, wherein the baseline architecture has a network width dimension, a network depth dimension, and a resolution dimension; receiving data defining a compound coefficient that controls extra computational resources used for scaling the baseline architecture; performing a search to determine a baseline width, depth and resolution coefficient that specify how to assign the extra computational resources to the network width, depth and resolution dimensions of the baseline architecture, respectively; determining a width, depth and resolution coefficient based on the baseline width, depth, and resolution coefficient and the compound coefficient; and generating the final architecture that scales the network width, network depth, and resolution dimensions of the baseline architecture based on the corresponding width, depth, and resolution coefficients. |
| US11893490B2 |
Incremental precision networks using residual inference and fine-grain quantization
One embodiment provides for a computer-readable medium storing instructions that cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising determining a per-layer scale factor to apply to tensor data associated with layers of a neural network model and converting the tensor data to converted tensor data. The tensor data may be converted from a floating point datatype to a second datatype that is an 8-bit datatype. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to generate an output tensor based on the converted tensor data and the per-layer scale factor. |
| US11893484B2 |
System and method for efficient parallel execution of physical simulations
In some embodiments, a method for optimal parallel execution of a simulation of a design is provided. A computing device extracts one or more features from the design. The computing device provides at least the one or more features as inputs to one or more machine learning models to determine one or more predictions of execution times. The computing device determines an optimum execution architecture based on the one or more predictions of execution times. The computing device distributes portions of the design for simulation based on the optimum execution architecture. In some embodiments, one or more machine learning models are trained to generate outputs for predicting an optimal parallel execution architecture for simulation of a design. |
| US11893483B2 |
Attention-based sequence transduction neural networks
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an encoder neural network configured to receive the input sequence and generate encoded representations of the network inputs, the encoder neural network comprising a sequence of one or more encoder subnetworks, each encoder subnetwork configured to receive a respective encoder subnetwork input for each of the input positions and to generate a respective subnetwork output for each of the input positions, and each encoder subnetwork comprising: an encoder self-attention sub-layer that is configured to receive the subnetwork input for each of the input positions and, for each particular input position in the input order: apply an attention mechanism over the encoder subnetwork inputs using one or more queries derived from the encoder subnetwork input at the particular input position. |
| US11893482B2 |
Image restoration for through-display imaging
Examples are disclosed that relate to the restoration of degraded images acquired via a behind-display camera. One example provides a method of training a machine learning model, the method comprising inputting training image pairs into the machine learning model, each training image pair comprising an undegraded image and a degraded image that represents an appearance of the undegraded image to a behind-display camera, and training the machine learning model using the training image pairs to generate frequency information that is missing from the degraded images. |
| US11893476B2 |
Processing apparatus and inference system
According to an embodiment, an inference system includes a recurrent neural network circuit, an inference neural network, and a control circuit. The recurrent neural network circuit receives M input signals and outputs N intermediate signals, where M is an integer of 2 or more and N is an integer of 2 or more. The inference neural network circuit receives the N intermediate signals and outputs L output signals, where L is an integer of 2 or more. The control circuit adjusts a plurality of coefficients that are set to the recurrent neural network circuit and adjusts a plurality of coefficients that are set to the inference neural network circuit. The control circuit adjusts the coefficients set to the recurrent neural network circuit according to a total delay time period from timing for applying the M input signals until timing for firing the L output signals. |
| US11893474B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic device
A neuron circuit can switch between two functions: as an input neuron circuit, and as a hidden neuron circuit. An error circuit can switch between two functions: as a hidden error circuit, and as an output neuron circuit. A switching circuit is configured to be capable of changing the connections between the neuron circuit, a synapse circuit, and the error circuit. The synapse circuit includes an analog memory that stores data that corresponds to the connection strength between the input neuron circuit and the hidden neuron circuit or between the hidden neuron circuit and the output neuron circuit, a writing circuit that changes the data in the analog memory, and a weighting circuit that weights an input signal in reaction to the data of the analog memory and outputs the weighted output signal. The analog memory includes a transistor comprising an oxide semiconductor with extremely low off-state current. |
| US11893473B2 |
Method for model adaptation, electronic device and computer program product
A method for model adaptation, an electronic device, and a computer program product are disclosed. For example, the method comprises processing first input data by using a first machine learning model having first parameter set values, to obtain first feature information of the first input data, the first machine learning model having a capability of self-ordering and the first parameter set values being updated after the processing of the first input data; generating a first classification result for the first input data based on the first feature information by using a second machine learning model having second parameter set values; processing second input data by using the first machine learning model having the updated first parameter set values, to obtain second feature information of the second input data; and generating a second classification result for the second input data based on the second feature information by using the second machine learning model having the second parameter set values. As such, the machine learning model for classification can be adapted to changes in features of input data to provide better classification results. |
| US11893471B2 |
Encoding and decoding information and artificial neural networks
In one implementation, a method is implemented by a neural network device and includes inputting a representation of topological structures in patterns of activity in a source neural network, wherein the activity is responsive to an input into the source neural network, processing the representation, and outputting a result of the processing of the representation. The processing is consistent with a training of the neural network to process different such representations of topological structures in patterns of activity in the source neural network. |
| US11893466B2 |
Systems and methods for model fairness
Systems and methods for training models to improve fairness. |
| US11893463B2 |
Online trained object property estimator
This disclosure describes systems and methods for using an estimator to produce values for dependent variables of streaming objects based on values of independent variables of the objects. The systems and methods may include continuously tuning the estimator based on any objects received with pre-populated values for the dependent variables. |
| US11893459B1 |
Artificial intelligence labeling platform for secure data including observation validation
A method includes identifying records in a database for labeling; presenting one of the records in the database to a first labeling entity; and receiving a first observation on an information source in the one of the records from the first labeling entity. The first observation has one of a plurality of observation types associated therewith. The plurality of observation types including a validation observation type in which the first observation comprises a confirmation of whether a second observation on the information source in the one of the records from another labeling entity is accurate and an edit for the second observation when the second observation is confirmed as inaccurate. The one of the records is updated in the database with the first observation on the information source in the one of the records from the first labeling entity. |
| US11893456B2 |
Device type classification using metric learning in weakly supervised settings
In one embodiment, a device classification service receives telemetry data indicative of behavioral characteristics of a plurality of devices in a network. The service obtains side information for the telemetry data. The service applies metric learning to the telemetry data and side information, to construct a distance function. The service uses the distance function to cluster the telemetry data into device clusters. The service associates a device type label with a particular device cluster. |
| US11893452B2 |
Quantum circuit with tailored Rydberg states
In the context of gate-model quantum computing, atoms (or polyatomic molecules) are excited to respective Rydberg states to foster intra-gate interactions. Rydberg states with relatively high principal quantum numbers are used for relatively distant intra-gate interactions and require relatively great inter-gate separations to avoid error-inducing inter-gate interactions. Rydberg states with relatively low principal quantum numbers can be used for intra-gate interactions over relatively short intra-gate distances and require relatively small inter-gate separations to avoid error-inducing inter-gate interactions. The relatively small inter-gate separations provide opportunities for parallel gate executions, which, in turn, can provide for faster execution of the quantum circuit constituted by the gates. By using Rydberg states with relatively high principal quantum numbers where required, and Rydberg states with relatively low principal quantum numbers where possible, an optimal tradeoff between intra-gate interaction flexibility and inter-gate parallelism can be achieved. |
| US11893446B1 |
RFID integrated circuit identifier self-check
A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag IC stores an identifier and a check code. The IC determines whether the stored identifier is corrupted by comparing it to the check code. If the stored identifier does not correspond to the check code then the IC may terminate operation or indicate an error. The IC may also reconstruct the correct identifier from the check code. |
| US11893445B2 |
System, device, and method for securing removable cards with varying mechanical geometry
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, the quantity of hardware resources available may be modified. The quantity of hardware resources may be modified by adding removable cards. When the removable card is added, a retention element may be used to secure the removable card in place. The retention element may be adaptable to allow for removable cards of varying topology to be secured. The retention element may secure the removable cards automatically or in response to user intervention. |
| US11893438B2 |
Positive feedback latch amplitude limiting control circuit and method of passive radio frequency identification tag
A positive feedback latch amplitude limiting control circuit and method of the passive radio frequency identification tag of the present disclosure dynamically control the voltage between the first and the second antenna terminal. When the voltage between the antenna terminals is too high, the signal generating circuit turns on the discharge circuit, which reduces the rectified DC voltage. When the voltage between the antenna terminals is within the limited voltage, the signal generating circuit turns off the discharge circuit. The discharge circuit in the present disclosure includes a MOS transistor whose gate voltage is indirectly controlled by a latch. A positive feedback mechanism of the latch makes the first control signal S1 have a substantially strong strength when being pulled to a low level, such that the discharge path is fully turned off, which avoids a discharge of the MOS transistor being in a sub-threshold region, thereby improving communication performance. |
| US11893433B1 |
Leveraging a uniform resource locator (URL) to produce a corresponding machine-readable label
Apparatus and methods for mining a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) are provided. A method according to the embodiments includes generating a quick-response (“QR”) code including a data zone, a position detection pattern and an environmental zone. The method further includes storing an application programming interface (“API”) in a memory. The API is for retrieving a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) from a selected location. The URL includes a logo. The method also includes building the data zone, the position detection pattern and the environmental zone of the QR code based on the URL—and creating dark and light color categorization of a plurality of colors derived from the URL. |
| US11893432B2 |
Authentication medium, authentication medium manufacturing method, authentication medium reading method, and authentication medium verification method
An authentication medium includes a sheet-like laminate sheet; a first region that is formed on the laminate sheet and where personal identification information is recorded; and a second region that is formed on the laminate sheet and has a hologram structure where check data associated with first individual information is recorded. |
| US11893430B2 |
Printing system and method
A method for dynamically modifying an image during a printing process. The method includes executing a digitized pre-process wherein a submitted image is prepared to be a printable image, identifying what marking options are to be applied to the printable image, and executing a real-time feed operation wherein the printable image is modified based on the marking options and applied to a printed article. |
| US11893423B2 |
Techniques for configuring a processor to function as multiple, separate processors
A parallel processing unit (PPU) can be divided into partitions. Each partition is configured to operate similarly to how the entire PPU operates. A given partition includes a subset of the computational and memory resources associated with the entire PPU. Software that executes on a CPU partitions the PPU for an admin user. A guest user is assigned to a partition and can perform processing tasks within that partition in isolation from any other guest users assigned to any other partitions. Because the PPU can be divided into isolated partitions, multiple CPU processes can efficiently utilize PPU resources. |
| US11893421B2 |
Data movement between storage tiers of a clustered storage system based on input/output patterns of storage objects
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to classify an input/output pattern of a given storage object that is stored utilizing a first type of storage resources associated with a first storage tier in the clustered storage system, and to identify, for the classified input/output pattern, a performance difference between utilizing first and second types of storage resources associated with first and second storage tiers in the clustered storage system. The processing device is further configured to determine, based at least in part on the identified performance difference, whether to move the given storage object from the first type of storage resources associated with the first storage tier to the second type of storage resources associated with the second storage tier in the clustered storage system and to move, responsive to the determination, the given storage object to the second type of storage resources associated with the second storage tier. |
| US11893419B2 |
Hardware accelerators using shared interface registers
Methods and systems include processors and hardware accelerators. The processor initiates a first process in a first hardware accelerator configured to aid the processor in performing the first process. The processor initiates the first process using one or more interface registers. The processor performs additional processing while the first hardware accelerator performs the first process after initiation of the first process. The processor also initiates a second process in a second hardware accelerator configured to aid the processor in performing a second process. Moreover, the processor initiates the second process using the one or more interface registers. |
| US11893418B2 |
Systems for processing a resource event across disparate real-time processing networks
Initiating the processing of resource events across disparate real-time processing networks, such as networks located international. In order to facilitate such resource events determinations are made that authorize the resource event participants to conduct the resource event across the international real-time processing networks. Once properly authorized the present invention provides for processing parameters to be determined, which may be specific to anyone of the resource participants and/or international real-time processing networks. Such processing parameters may be related to rules associated with settlement of the resource event, conversion rules for the international conversion of resources, resource sponsorship and the like. Once the resource event has been authorized and processing parameters determined, commands are sent to the respective interconnected international real-time processing networks that initiate the real-time processing of the resource event. |
| US11893414B2 |
Operation method, device and related products
The invention relates to an operation method and device and a related product, the product comprises a control module, and the control module comprises an instruction caching unit, an instruction processing unit and a storage queue unit; the instruction caching unit is used for storing a calculation instruction associated with the artificial neural network operation; the instruction processing unit is used for analyzing the calculation instruction to obtain a plurality of operation instructions; the storage queue unit is used for storing instruction queues, and the instruction queues comprise a plurality of operation instructions or calculation instructions to be executed according to the sequence of the queues. Through the method, the operation efficiency of related products during operation of the neural network model can be improved. |
| US11893412B2 |
Device initialization by an access-restricted virtual machine
Device initialization by an access-restricted virtual machine, including: restricting access by a first operating system to a device during one or more device initialization operations, wherein the first operating system is executing in a first virtual machine supported by a hypervisor; determining, by a second operating system executing in a second virtual machine supported by the hypervisor, one or more modifications attempted by the first operating system to the device; and performing, by the second operating system, the one or more modifications to the device. |
| US11893411B2 |
System and method for resource optimized intelligent product notifications
The disclosure provides automated update notifications. Embodiments include receiving, by a cloud provider, a request to manage updates for a computing device communicating with the cloud provider via a network. Embodiments include registering an agent at the computing device with the cloud provider as a recipient for an automated update notification based on configuration details of the computing device and detection of an update item related to an aspect of the configuration details. Embodiments include identifying, by the agent, the configuration details of the computing device, the configuration details comprising details of a hardware configuration of the computing device and a software configuration of the computing device. Embodiments include monitoring one or more databases for the update item. Embodiments include transmitting the automated update notification to the agent based on detection of the update item in the one or more databases. |
| US11893407B2 |
Overlay container storage driver for microservice workloads
A first command is received from a workload, by a host system executing a nested container storage interface (CSI) driver, to create a persistent volume. The nested CSI driver converts the first command used by the workload to create the persistent volume to a second command used by the host system to increase a capacity of a previously generated persistent volume allocated to the workload. The second command is transmitted to an undercluster CSI driver of the host system, wherein the second command causes the undercluster CSI driver to increase the capacity of the previously generated persistent volume. |
| US11893406B2 |
Using virtual local area networks in a virtual computer system
A virtual computer system includes virtualization software, and one or more physical network interfaces for connecting to one or more computer networks. The virtualization software supports one or more virtual machines (VMs), and exports one or more virtual network interfaces to the VM(s) to enable the VM(s) to access the computer network(s) through the physical network interface(s). The virtualization software modifies and filters network data frames from the VM(s) and from the physical network interface(s) to restrict one or more VMs to one or more virtual local area networks (VLANs) that are implemented within a VLAN topology. Restricting a VM to a VLAN limits the broadcast domain to which the VM belongs, which may reduce security risks facing the VM. Implementing the VLAN functionality within the virtualization software provides the functionality to every VM in the computer system, without requiring every VM to provide the functionality. |
| US11893405B2 |
Workspace resiliency with multi-feed status resource caching
A client device includes resource caches, and a processor coupled to the resource caches. The processor receives resources from different resource feeds, and caches user interfaces (UI) of the resources from the different resource feeds, with at least one resource feed having a resource cache separate from the resource cache of the other resource feeds. Statuses of the resource feeds are determined, with at least one status indicating availability of the at least one resource feed having the separate resource cache. UI elements from the separate resource cache are retrieved for display in response to the at least one resource feed associated with the separate resource cache not being available. |
| US11893400B1 |
System and method for automated adjustment of software application function integrations of graphical user interface
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein automated adjustment of software application function integrations. The present invention is configured to continuously monitor user activity on a device application, determine one or more integrations of the device application as requiring data persistence, determine, via a machine learning engine, one or more frequently utilized integrations of the device application based on the user activity, generate an automated suggestion to add or remove at least one of the one or more integrations of the device application, receive a response indicating that the user would like to remove the at least one of the one or more integrations of the device application, and generate a secure call to a source application of the at least one of the one or more integrations to alter the data load associated with the integration. |
| US11893393B2 |
Computational array microprocessor system with hardware arbiter managing memory requests
A microprocessor system comprises a computational array and a hardware arbiter. The computational array includes a plurality of computation units. Each of the plurality of computation units operates on a corresponding value addressed from memory. The hardware arbiter is configured to control issuing of at least one memory request for one or more of the corresponding values addressed from the memory for the computation units. The hardware arbiter is also configured to schedule a control signal to be issued based on the issuing of the memory requests. |
| US11893390B2 |
Method of debugging a processor that executes vertices of an application, each vertex being assigned to a programming thread of the processor
A method for debugging a processor which is executing vertices of a software application is described. Each vertex is assigned to a programming thread of the processor. The processor has debug hardware for raising exceptions in certain break conditions. The method comprises inspecting a vertex identifier, comparing the vertex identifier and raising an instruction exception event for the programming thread if the vertex identifier assigned to the thread matches the vertex break identifier in the debug hardware. Exceptions are raised based on identified vertices, rather than just individual instructions or instruction addresses. |
| US11893387B2 |
Systems and methods for software quality prediction
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention can automatically track the creation of documents, such as source code files and unit tests, along with the development of those documents. A variety of metrics can be generated regarding errors and issues identified during the development process along with predictive metrics regarding potential issues within the documents. These metrics can be used to identify common issues, automatically generate proactive suggestions to avoid issues during document creation and testing, and/or generate developer profiles indicating the performance of particular developers. A variety of machine learning classifiers can be used to generate the metrics. |
| US11893385B2 |
Methods and systems for automated software natural language documentation
Systems and methods for automatically generating natural language documentation for source code files are provided. An exemplary method includes parsing a source code file to extract a function and generate an abstract syntax tree, generating first natural language documentation for each of a plurality of program statements within the function using a programming language neural network model, generating second natural language documentation for the function as a whole by processing a code snippet of the function using a function documentation neural network model, consolidating the first natural language documentation and the second natural language documentation at a function level, a source file level, and a project level to create consolidated natural language documentation, and summarizing multiple sentences of the consolidated natural language documentation into an abstract summary of the source code file by applying a set of rules. |
| US11893384B2 |
Refactoring and/or rearchitecting source code using machine learning
Implementations are described herein for leveraging machine learning to automate source code refactoring and/or rearchitecting. In various implementations, one or more ground truth boundaries may be removed from one or more boundaried source code files to produce one or more boundary-less source code files. One or more of the boundary-less source code files may be processed using a machine learning model to predict one or more candidate boundaries for reintroduction into the one or more boundary-less source code files. The one or more ground truth boundaries may be compared with the one or more predicted candidate boundaries. The machine learning model may be trained based on the comparing. |
| US11893373B2 |
Exposure and de-duplication of input parameters for complex Helm chart deployment
Techniques are disclosed for deploying functions in a cloud computing environment. Parameters are annotated in a plurality of Helm charts with a predetermined token. Duplicated values in the Helm charts are identified and the predetermined token is reused for the duplicated values. Schema files from the plurality of Helm charts are parsed to extract the predetermined tokens. Input data are received as values for the predetermined tokens. The function is deployed in the cloud computing environment using the values for the predetermined tokens as parameters in the Helm charts. |
| US11893370B2 |
System and process for compiling a source code
According to one aspect, a method for compiling by a compilation tool a source code into a computer-executable code comprises receiving the source code as input of the compilation tool, translating the source code into an object code comprising machine instructions executable by a processor, then introducing, between machine instructions of the object code, additional instructions selected from illegal instructions and no-operation instructions so as to obtain the executable code, then delivering the executable code as output of the compilation tool. |
| US11893367B2 |
Source code conversion from application program interface to policy document
In some implementations, a device may receive source code associated with an application program interface (API) configured to execute on a dedicated runtime infrastructure. The device may generate an executable policy document including machine-readable text based on one or more code sections in the source code that implement one or more function calls associated with one or more function call types. The device may invoke a validation utility to cross-check the executable policy document against a design document associated with the API. The device may deploy the executable policy document in a common runtime environment that includes a shared runtime infrastructure to support multiple executable policy documents based on the validation utility indicating that the executable policy document satisfies functional requirements described in the design document associated with the API. |
| US11893360B2 |
Process for a floating point dot product multiplier-accumulator
A process for performing vector dot products receives a row vector and a column vector as floating point numbers in a format of sign plus exponent bits plus mantissa bits. The process generates a single dot product value by separately processing the sign bits, exponent bits, and mantissa bits to form a sign bit, a normalized mantissa formed by multiplying pairs multiplicand elements, and exponent information including MAX_EXP and EXP_DIFF. A second pipeline stage receives the multiplied pairs of normalized mantissas, optionally performs an exponent adjustment, pads, complements and shifts the normalized mantissas, and the results are added in a series of stages until a single addition result remains, which is normalized using MAX_EXP to form the floating point output result. |
| US11893359B2 |
Speech translation method and terminal when translated speech of two users are obtained at the same time
This application discloses an audio processing method and a terminal. The method may include: collecting, by a first terminal, an original speech of a first user, translating the original speech of the first user into a translated speech of the first user, receiving an original speech of a second user that is sent by a second terminal, and translating the original speech of the second user into a translated speech of the second user; sending at least one of the original speech of the first user, the translated speech of the first user, and the translated speech of the second user to the second terminal based on a first setting; and playing at least one of the original speech of the second user, the translated speech of the second user, and the translated speech of the first user based on a second setting. |
| US11893354B2 |
System and method for improving chatbot training dataset
The present invention provides for improving training dataset by identifying errors in training dataset and generating improvement recommendations. In operation, the present invention provides for identifying and correcting duplicate utterances in training dataset comprising utterances-intent pairs. Further, a plurality of Natural Language ML models are trained with the corrected training dataset to obtain diverse set of trained ML models. Each utterance of training dataset are fed as input to trained ML models, and a probability of error associated with each utterances-intent pairs of training dataset are evaluated based on analysis of respective intent predictions received from each of the trained ML models. Furthermore, spelling errors in the dataset are identified and data-imbalances in the training dataset are evaluated. Finally, a set of improvement recommendations for each utterances-intent pair is generated based on evaluated probability of errors, spelling errors, duplicate utterances and data imbalances. |
| US11893353B2 |
Vector generation device, sentence pair learning device, vector generation method, sentence pair learning method, and program
To make it possible to accurately generate a word vector even if vocabulary of a word vector data set is not limited.In a vector generating device 10 that generates vectors representing an input sentence P, when generating a series of the vectors representing the input sentence P based on vectors corresponding to words included in the input sentence P, a definition-sentence-considered-context encode unit 280 generates, based on a dictionary DB 230 storing sets of headwords y and definition sentences Dy, which are sentences defining the headwords y, concerning a word, which is the headword stored in the dictionary DB, among the words included in the input sentence P, the series of the vectors representing the input sentence P using the definition sentence Dy of the headwords y. |
| US11893351B2 |
Modified machine learning model and method for coherent key phrase extraction
A method including receiving, in a machine learning model (MLM), a corpus including words. The MLM includes layers configured to extract keywords from the corpus, plus a retrospective layer. A first keyword and a second keyword from the corpus are identified in the layers. The first and second keywords are assigned first and second probabilities. Each probability is a likelihood that a keyword is to be included in a key phrase. A determination is made, in the retrospective layer, of a first probability modifier that modifies the first probability based on a first dependence relationship between the second keyword being placed after the first keyword. The first probability is modified using the first probability modifier. The first modified probability is used to determine whether the first keyword and the second keyword together form the key phrase. The key phrase is stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. |
| US11893350B2 |
Detecting continuing conversations with computing devices
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting a continued conversation are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving first audio data of a first utterance. The actions further include obtaining a first transcription of the first utterance. The actions further include receiving second audio data of a second utterance. The actions further include obtaining a second transcription of the second utterance. The actions further include determining whether the second utterance includes a query directed to a query processing system based on analysis of the second transcription and the first transcription or a response to the first query. The actions further include configuring the data routing component to provide the second transcription of the second utterance to the query processing system as a second query or bypass routing the second transcription. |
| US11893346B2 |
Transformer-based encoding incorporating metadata
From metadata of a corpus of natural language text documents, a relativity matrix is constructed, a row-column intersection in the relativity matrix corresponding to a relationship between two instances of a type of metadata. An encoder model is trained, generating a trained encoder model, to compute an embedding corresponding to a token of a natural language text document within the corpus and the relativity matrix, the encoder model comprising a first encoder layer, the first encoder layer comprising a token embedding portion, a relativity embedding portion, a token self-attention portion, a metadata self-attention portion, and a fusion portion, the training comprising adjusting a set of parameters of the encoder model. |
| US11893344B2 |
Morpheme analysis learning device, morpheme analysis device, method, and program
It is possible to achieve high analysis accuracy on the whole irrespective of a coverage ratio of a morpheme dictionary. A morpheme prediction section 38 outputs a morpheme label string as a morphological analysis result of input text by inputting a resultant vector generated for each character by a vector combination section 36 into a series predictor and sequentially performing calculation. At this point, there is used the series predictor which is subjected to learning in advance such that a morpheme label string obtained by inputting a resultant vector in which a character vector and a morpheme information vector are combined and which is generated without being combined with the morpheme information vector with a specific probability into the series predictor and sequentially performing the calculation coincides with a morpheme label string of learning data. |
| US11893343B2 |
Multiple datapoint formats in spreadsheets
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein that allow multiple values to be stored and referenced individually in a spreadsheet or table cell. In an implementation, an application identifies a format of a cell in a spreadsheet with a format having multiple data points. The application receives multiple values corresponding to the multiple data points and stores each value of the multiple values in the cell as a separately referenceable value with respect to each other value of the multiple values. In some implementations, formulas in other cells or sub-routines can reference an individual one of the values in the cell. |
| US11893342B2 |
Statistical join methods for data management
Aspects of the disclosure relate to joining data tables. A computing platform may input two or more tables into a statistical join function, which may initiate execution of the statistical join function, and where executing the statistical join function comprises applying one or more of: an end condition function, a partition tables function, or an outer join function to generate a new table that includes information from the two or more tables. The computing platform may send, to a user device, the new table and one or more commands directing the user device to display the new table, which may cause the user device to display the new table. |
| US11893338B2 |
Merging selected digital point text objects
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that merge separate digital point text objects into a single merged digital text object while preserving the properties and original visual appearance associated with the digital text included therein. For example, the disclosed systems can determine point text character properties associated with the separate digital point text objects (e.g., rotations, baseline shifts, etc.). The disclosed systems can merge the separate digital point text objects into a single merged digital point text object and modify associated font character properties to reflect the determined point text character properties. Further, the disclosed systems can generate an area text object based on the merged digital point text object where the area text object includes the digital text and the font character properties. |
| US11893333B2 |
Hybrid sheet layout, method, system, and structure
A method of generating an IC layout diagram includes abutting a first row of cells with a second row of cells along a border, the first row including first and second active sheets, the second row including third and fourth active sheets, the active sheets extending along a row direction and having width values. The active sheets are overlapped with first through fourth back-side via regions, the first active sheet width value is greater than the third active sheet width value, a first back-side via region width values is greater than a third back-side via region width value, and a value of a distance from the first active sheet to the border is less than a minimum spacing rule for metal-like defined regions. At least one of abutting the first row with the second row or overlapping the active sheets with the back-side via regions is performed by a processor. |
| US11893330B2 |
Method and system for visualization of 3D electronic device
Provided are a method and system for visualization of a 3D electronic device. The method includes: a structural and/or electrical characteristic of the electronic device is simulated to obtain first visualization data, the electronic device including a semiconductor device and/or an integrated circuit and the first visualization data including 3D grid position information of the electronic device and/or a physical quantity at a grid point; the 3D grid position information and/or physical quantity at the grid point in the first visualization data are/is converted into second visualization data suitable for virtual 3D displaying according to a data type; and the second visualization data is rendered in a virtual space to display a structure and/or physical quantity of the electronic device in the virtual space. |
| US11893323B2 |
Systems and methods for generating scenarios for AV simulation using parametric modeling
Systems and methods for using parametric modeling to design scenarios for autonomous vehicle simulation are provided. In particular, a computing system can obtain data identifying a plurality of parameters, each parameter associated with a particular scenario component. The computing system can determine values associated with a first set of parameters in the plurality of parameters. The computing system can determine one or more parameter relationships, such that values associated with a second set of parameters in the plurality of parameters are determined, at least in part, based on the values associated with the first set of parameters. The computing system can initiate a simulation of a scenario based, at least in part, on the values associated with the first set of the parameters and the one or more parameter relationships. The computing system can determine whether the simulated autonomous vehicle has successfully completed the scenario. |
| US11893321B2 |
Adaptive compression of simulation data for visualization
The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for displaying a simulation. The method includes computing a full simulation. The full simulation includes states. The method further includes computing a reduced model of the computed full simulation. The reduced model includes a basis with elements. Each state of the full simulation is represented by a respective linear combination of basis elements. The method further includes displaying, for at least one state of the full simulation, a part of the respective linear combination. This constitutes an improved method for displaying a simulation. |
| US11893311B2 |
Virtual assistant configured to automatically customize groups of actions
A method includes determining, by an assistant executing at one or more processors, a default group of actions that the assistant is configured to execute in response to receiving a particular audible command. The method includes determining, by the assistant, based on the default group of actions and a user profile associated with a particular user, a custom group of actions that the assistant is configured to execute in response to receiving the particular audible command from the particular user. The method also includes receiving, by the assistant, an indication of the particular audible command, and determining, by the assistant, whether the indication of particular audible command originated from the particular user. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the indication of particular audible command originated from the particular user, executing, by the assistant, each action from the custom group of actions. |
| US11893309B2 |
Conditionally assigning various automated assistant function(s) to interaction with a peripheral assistant control device
In response to a user interacting with a tangible peripheral assistant control device (e.g., depressing a button of the device), causing an automated assistant to perform one or more actions. The action(s) performed can be based on input previously provided by the user in configuring the peripheral assistant control device. The action(s) performed in response to interaction with the peripheral assistant control device can vary based on one or more conditions, such as which user is currently active, where the peripheral assistant control device is currently located (which can optionally be inferred based on which of multiple assistant computing devices the button is paired with), and/or the current state of one or more smart devices and/or other devices (e.g., as determined based on a device topology). A utility of the peripheral assistant control device can be automatically extended beyond what was specifically requested by a user during configuration. |
| US11893308B2 |
Media playback system with concurrent voice assistance
Example techniques involve invoking voice assistance for a media playback system. In some embodiments, a NMD stores in memory a set of command information comprising a listing of playback commands and associated command criteria. The NMD captures a voice input and detects inclusion, within the voice input, of one or more particular playback commands from among the playback commands in the listing. In response, the NMD selects a local voice assistant that supports (a) one or more additional playback commands relative to a cloud-based VAS and (b) fewer non-playback commands relative to the cloud-based VAS, determines, via the local voice assistant, an intent in the captured voice input, and performs a response to the determined intent. The NMD foregoes selection of the cloud-based VAS when the local voice assistant is selected. |
| US11893305B2 |
System and method for synthetic audio generation
Embodiments provide a method and system for audio generation from contextual text input is provided. The disclosure gives due importance to the granularity of the content. The system allows the user to specify the properties of the audio to be generated. Here, context is used to identify the importance of a particular sound over the others and thus automatic adjustments of the audio output to give a more realistic feel. The system generates dataset for training audio models. The user can give input query in natural language and the audio requested will be generated for training and developing the necessary classification or other necessary audio models. The system provides a feature of automated fine-tuning of the model parameters to suit the new automatically collected training data. Furthermore, the system provides a pre-trained inbuilt model repository with audio models belonging to the main categories of noises. |
| US11893302B2 |
Content transmission method and terminal device
A content transmission method includes obtaining, by a first terminal device, a first instruction instructing the first terminal device to perform content transmission with a second terminal device sending, by the first terminal device, to the second terminal device, and in response to the first instruction, first information instructing the second terminal device to determine that that the first terminal device transmits content to the second terminal device. Receiving, by the first terminal device, content transmission direction indication information from the second terminal device, determining, by the first terminal device, first content, and sending, by the first terminal device, the first content to the second terminal device to display the first content. |
| US11893301B2 |
Colocated shared augmented reality without shared backend
Methods and systems are disclosed for creating a shared augmented reality (AR) session. The methods and systems perform operations comprising: receiving, by a client device, input that selects a shared augmented reality (AR) experience from a plurality of shared AR experiences; in response to receiving the input, determining one or more resources associated with the selected shared AR experience; determining, by the client device, that two or more users are located within a threshold proximity of the client device; and activating the selected shared AR experience in response to determining that the two or more users are located within the threshold proximity of the client device. |
| US11893300B2 |
Electronic device
A tiled electronic device includes a plurality of display panels, and at least one of the display panels includes a flexible substrate, a pixel, and two signal wires. The flexible substrate has a display portion and a bent portion connected to the display portion. The pixel is disposed on the display portion. The signal wires are disposed on the flexible substrate, and electrically connected to the pixel. Each of the signal wires has a first segment disposed on the display portion, and a second segment disposed on the bent portion. The two first sections have a first pitch, and the two second sections have a second pitch. The first pitch is different than the second pitch. |
| US11893299B2 |
Display panel and electronic device
An electronic device including a housing, a display panel with a flexible substrate, and a flexible printed circuit, in which the housing comprises a flat surface and a side surface comprising a curved region, the display panel comprises a first region that overlaps with the flat surface and a second region that overlaps with the side surface, the display panel comprises a convex portion that comprises a region overlapping with a flexible printed circuit, and the display panel comprises a display portion in the first region and the second region. |
| US11893297B2 |
Display control device and display control method
In the display control device according to the present embodiment, a first index and a second index are assigned to a plurality of first still images and a plurality of second still images, respectively, such that the feature points having periodic movements correspond between the plurality of first still images and the plurality of second still images; a first animation included in a first display screen and a second animation included in a second display screen are displayed by means of continuous playback of the plurality of first still images and the plurality of second still images; when there is a transition from the first display screen to the second display screen, a pre-transition image, which is the first still image immediately before the screen transition, is displayed, the second index corresponding to the first index assigned to the pre-transition image is selected to play back the second still image. |
| US11893292B2 |
Information processing apparatus, method therefor and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes an authenticating unit, a transmitting unit, a detecting unit, and a determining unit. The authenticating unit authenticates a user who is holding a portable device. The transmitting unit transmits an action instructing signal for issuing an instruction to perform an action to a portable device that is associated with the user, via a radio communication line. The detecting unit detects a change of a status of the portable device that is being held by the user. The determining unit determines, by determining whether or not the change corresponds to the instructed action, whether or not the user is holding the portable device. |
| US11893290B1 |
Printing system operated responsive to data bearing records
A printing system that operates responsive to data bearing records enables providers of printable content records to have printed copies of the content records produced and delivered to designated record recipients. Central system circuitry (22) is in operative connection with at least one data store (24), and includes record data corresponding to the content records and records regarding printing operations, the locations thereof and other record data. The central system circuitry operates to cause printed copies of the content records produced by respective printing operations located in geographic proximity to respective record recipients. The exemplary system further enables a content record provider to operate the system to host content records so that printed copies of the records may be obtained by record requesters located in widely dispersed geographic locations. |
| US11893289B1 |
Printer, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for printer, and method implementable by printer
A printer includes a print engine and a controller. The controller is configured to cause the printer to perform: in response to image data being transmitted from a terminal to a server, receiving print data to be used in printing from the server, the image data representing a target image to be printed, the terminal being different from the printer; in response to receiving the print data from the server, transmitting a first notification to the server prior to completion of the printing of the target image, the first notification indicating that the printing of the target image has been completed; subsequent to the transmission of the first notification to the server, detecting a specific input; and in response to detecting the specific input, causing the print engine to perform the printing of the target image. |
| US11893286B1 |
Printing system and methods for managing color printing resources
A printing system uses different color quality values to set quality levels for color printing operations. When creating a calibration for a paper, a color quality attribute is defined that corresponds with the level of color printing quality for the calibration. The resulting calibration is stored with the color quality attribute. The calibration is used to create an ICC profile that is used in color printing operations for the paper. Print jobs may indicate the color quality attribute for the paper for color printing such that the calibration and ICC profile are selected. |
| US11893285B2 |
System and method for improved color calibration
A method for color calibration of a print device is provided. The method includes receiving, at the print device, a print job request that includes a color print job, determining, at the print device, print job data including data associated with the color print job and the print device, wherein the data associated with the print device includes an ambient temperature sensed by an embedded temperature sensor in the print device, and transmitting, by the print device, the print job data to a cloud server to request a stored matching color profile having associated data that matches, within a defined threshold, the print job data. Using techniques disclosed herein, printer calibration is automated using big data analytics (i.e., continuous learning, analyzing, and optimizing). A spectrophotometer and temperature sensor are embedded into the print device and a printer bot, as a helper printer-resident application, builds a data module and automates the calibration process; a calibration profile is generated for each print job based on the current printer, paper, ink, and the room temperature. A non-transitory computer-readable medium and print device are also provided. |
| US11893283B2 |
Asynchronous process topology in a memory device
Apparatuses and methods can be related to generating an asynchronous process topology in a memory device. The topology can be generated based on the results of a number of processes. The processes can be asynchronous given that the processing resources that implement the processes do not use a clock signal to generate the topology. |
| US11893267B2 |
Data flow control and routing using machine learning
A device configured to identify a first link between a value of a first data element in a first plurality of data elements and values of a first set of data elements in a second plurality of data elements and to remove the first link between the first data element and the first set of data elements. The device is further configured to input the data elements into a machine learning model that is configured to output a second link between the first data element and a second set of data elements. The device is further configured to create an entry in a relationship table that identifies the first data element and the second set of data elements. The device is further configured to generate a data stream with the first data element and the second set of data elements and to output the data stream. |
| US11893261B2 |
Usage of OP logs to synchronize across primary and secondary storage clusters of a cross-site distributed storage system and lightweight OP logging
In one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining state information regarding a data synchronous replication status for a storage object of a primary storage cluster and a replicated storage object of a secondary storage cluster. The method includes temporarily disallowing input/output (I/O) operations for the storage object when the storage object of the primary storage cluster has a failure, which causes an internal state as out of sync for the storage object while maintaining an external state as in sync for external entities. The method performs persistent inflight tracking and reconciliation of I/O operations with a first Op log of the primary storage cluster and a second Op log of the secondary storage cluster and performs a resynchronization between the storage object and the replicated storage object based on the persistent inflight tracking and reconciliation of I/O operations. |
| US11893259B2 |
Storage system configured with stealth drive group
A storage system comprises a plurality of storage devices, and is configured to establish a production drive group comprising a first subset of the storage devices, using a first firmware-level configuration process, and to establish a stealth drive group comprising a second subset of the storage devices, using a second firmware-level configuration process, the storage devices of the stealth drive group thereby being separated at a firmware level of the storage system from the storage devices of the production drive group. The storage system is further configured to copy data of one or more logical storage volumes from the production drive group to the stealth drive group, and responsive to completion of the copying of the data of the one or more logical storage volumes from the production drive group to the stealth drive group, to initiate a firmware-level reconfiguration process for the storage devices of the stealth drive group. |
| US11893250B1 |
Offset-based memory management for integrated circuits and programmable network devices
Integrated circuits that perform offset-based memory management using offset values for allocated, de-allocated, and free memory portions. An example method includes receiving a first request for allocating a first portion of a memory module coupled to an integrated circuit, and determining a first address space for allocating the first portion of the memory module based on one or more offset values. |
| US11893246B2 |
Method for calculating index of stripe where strip is located for disk, terminal and storage medium
The present application provides a method and a system for calculating a stripe of a strip for a disk, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: calculating a pack offset of a parity block according to a given disk index; calculating an address of a strip where the parity block is located in the disk according to the pack offset; comparing an address of a to-be-checked strip with the address of the strip where the parity block is located in the disk to determine whether the parity block is on the to-be-checked strip; and calculating a stripe index of the to-be-checked strip by considering redundant elements caused by the parity block in response to determining that the parity block is on the to-be-checked strip; or calculating the stripe index of the to-be-checked strip directly in response to determining that the parity block is not on the to-be-checked strip. |
| US11893242B1 |
Multi-chip module (MCM) with multi-port unified memory
Semiconductor devices, packaging architectures and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-chip module (MCM) is disclosed. The MCM includes a common substrate and a first integrated circuit (IC) chip disposed on the common substrate. The first IC chip includes a first memory interface. A second IC chip is disposed on the common substrate and includes a second memory interface. A first memory device is disposed on the common substrate and includes memory and a first port coupled to the memory. The first port is configured for communicating with the first memory interface of the first IC chip. A second port is coupled to the memory and communicates with the second memory interface of the second IC chip. In-memory processing circuitry is coupled to the memory and controls transactions between the first memory device and the first and second IC chips. |
| US11893236B2 |
Interface display method and apparatus of application, device, and medium
This application discloses a method of displaying information in a program interface of an application performed by a computer device. The method includes: displaying a virtual keyboard control and an extension bar control in the program interface; in response to an input operation in the virtual keyboard control, displaying at least one character string in the extension bar control, the at least one character string being determined according to the input operation in the virtual keyboard control; and in response to a select operation on a target string among the at least one character string in the extension bar control, displaying a function interface of applying a target function to the target string. This embodiment allows a user to quickly switch between function interfaces when using an application, thereby reducing operation steps of the user and improving human-computer interaction efficiency. |
| US11893233B2 |
Device, method, and graphical user interface for moving user interface objects
An electronic device, while displaying a user interface with a favored navigation axis, detects first movement of a contact on a touch-sensitive surface that includes a first component along the favored navigation axis and a second component in a direction different from the favored navigation axis. In response, if first movement meets direction-lock termination criteria, the device moves one or more user interface objects in two dimensions in accordance with both components of the first movement; and if first movement does not meet the direction-lock termination criteria, the device moves user interface objects in one dimension along the favored navigation axis in accordance with the first component of the first movement. After meeting the direction-lock termination criteria, in response to continued second movement of the contact, the device moves user interface objects in accordance with the second movement without regard to whether the second movement meets the direction-lock termination criteria. |
| US11893228B2 |
Devices and methods for interacting with an application switching user interface
While concurrently displaying representations of a plurality of recently used applications, including a first application representation that corresponds to a first application and a second application representation that corresponds to a second application, at least a first portion of a first user input, including first movement of an input object, is detected. If the first movement of the input object includes movement in a first direction that meets first criteria, the representations of the plurality of recently used applications cease to be displayed and an application launching user interface is displayed. If the first movement of the input object includes movement in a second direction that meets second criteria, the representations of the plurality of recently used applications cease to be displayed and a first user interface of the first application is displayed in an enhanced-reachability mode and shifted in a predefined direction at least partially off of the display. |
| US11893227B2 |
Automated pacing of vehicle operator content interaction
In one example, a computing device includes one or more user input detection components, and one or more processors configured to receive an indication of a first user input detected by the one or more user input detection components, responsive to receiving the indication of the first user input, adjust a level of an attention buffer at a defined rate; responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a first threshold, prevent further interaction with a user interface of the computing device, responsive to determining that an indication of a second user input has not been received within a time period, adjust a level of the attention buffer, and responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a second threshold, allow further interaction with the user interface. |
| US11893222B2 |
Automatically scaling trend chart graphical display generation in a toxic gas monitoring system
Methods, apparatuses, and systems that cause rendering of a gas concentration trend chart user interface on a display is provided. The gas concentration trend chart user interface includes a gas concentration data point graphic section configured to display a first data set in an hourly mode, a left graphic slider user interface element, and a right graphic slider user interface element. A first user interaction input causing a reduced graphic distance between the left graphic slider user interface element and the right graphic slider user interface element is received and identified. The reduced graphic distance is determined to satisfy a minute mode triggering distance threshold and in response to determining that the reduced graphic distance satisfies the minute mode triggering distance threshold, the gas concentration data point graphic section is caused to display a second data set in a minute mode. |
| US11893221B2 |
Texture shader generation
A method for generating a texture shader is described. A user interface for editing the texture shader is displayed. The texture shader has a plurality of parameters that affect rendering characteristics of the texture shader. Displaying includes displaying a widget for at least one parameter of the plurality of parameters, and applying the texture shader to an input image using current values of the plurality of parameters to generate a preview of the texture shader. A user input that changes a value of a parameter of the at least one parameter is received via at least one widget. The texture shader is applied to the input image using the changed value of the parameter to generate the preview of the texture shader. The preview of the texture shader applied to the input image is displayed. |
| US11893220B1 |
Generating and modifying graphical user interface elements
An embodiment for generating and modifying graphical user interface elements based on user item interests. The embodiment may detect a user interacting with a connected application. The embodiment may determine item interests of the detected user. The embodiment may generate and store a personalized user profile based on the determined item interests of the user. The embodiment may, in response to detecting a query made by the user, extract from the detected query interest topics, subject matter, and a series of associated key terms. The embodiment may determine a highest-prioritized key term. The embodiment may identify a first GUI element displayed by the connected application based on the detected query. The embodiment may generate, using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a custom GUI element based on the highest-prioritized key term. The embodiment may replace the first GUI element with the custom GUI element. |
| US11893206B2 |
Transitions between states in a hybrid virtual reality desktop computing environment
A hybrid workstation enables a virtual reality (VR) interface, a traditional (TD) interface, and transitions between the interfaces. The VR interface comprises three-dimensional (3D)-based software and hardware components. The TD interface comprises two-dimensional (2D)-based software and hardware components. The state of the hybrid workstation is defined by three parameters comprising interface (VR interface or TD interface), position (seated or standing), and movement (stationary or room-scale). The hybrid workstation detects a transition from a current state to a next state upon determining that any of the three parameters have changed. The hybrid workstation then determines a transition response based on the particular transition that is detected. The transition response comprises a set of operations that are performed on the VR interface and/or the TD interface that mitigate the disruption and inefficiency caused when the particular transition occurs. |
| US11893205B2 |
Real-time gestures in shared electronic canvases
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for enabling real-time gestures on shared canvases are presented. A shared object service may be associated with a plurality of shared objects. A plurality of user accounts and/or client devices may be granted access to a shared object. Each client device that accesses the shared object may store a distributed data structure locally that corresponds to the shared object. When client devices perform operations associated with the shared object the operations are logged by the shared object service and timestamped. Those operations are then reported to the client devices, where cursor movements can be rendered in real time. If cursor movements and/or user input device operations associated with a cursor meet conditions for a gesture operation the cursor may be transformed to a gesture/animation and rendered on canvases of each connected client device. |
| US11893199B2 |
Systems and methods for viewing incompatible web pages via remote browser instances
Embodiments described herein enable a browser to display content of a web page that is incompatible therewith. When such a page is to be traversed, the first browser causes a virtual machine that executes an instance of a second browser with which the page is compatible to be instantiated. The browsers communicate via communication channels utilized to share information therebetween. For instance, the first browser provides a URL of the page to the second browser for traversal thereby. Graphics information corresponding to the page is provided to the first browser. The first browser generates an image corresponding to the page based on the graphics information and renders the image in a tab of the first browser. This enables a visual experience for the user where it appears that the page is being rendered by the first browser when it is in fact being rendered by the second browser. |
| US11893196B2 |
Electronic device comprising bonding layer in contact with active area of digitizer
An electronic device including a bonding layer in contact with an active area of a digitizer may include: the digitizer, a main magnet attached to a surface of the digitizer, a flexible printed circuit board electrically connected to the digitizer, and a bonding layer connecting the digitizer and the flexible printed circuit board, wherein the flexible printed circuit board includes a base part overlapping the bonding layer with respect to a stacking direction of the digitizer, the flexible printed circuit board, and the bonding layer, and extension parts extending toward the main magnet from the base part. |
| US11893195B2 |
Detection device
A detection device includes a shield layer provided with a shield electrode and a shield electrode connection wiring connected to the shield electrode, and a sensor layer located over the shield layer and provided with a sensor electrode and a sensor electrode connection wiring connected to the sensor electrode. The shield electrode has the same planar pattern as the sensor electrode and overlaps the sensor electrode. The shield electrode connection wiring has the same planar pattern as the sensor electrode connection wiring and overlaps the sensor electrode connection wiring. |
| US11893193B2 |
Display panel with touch detector, touch panel, and electronic unit
There are provided a display panel with a touch detector that allows the touch detection electrodes to be less visible, a touch panel, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detector. The display panel with a touch detector includes: a display layer including a plurality of display elements arranged side by side; and an electrode layer alternately segmented into first regions and second regions along a first direction, the electrode layer including a plurality of first slits arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, and a plurality of second slits each allowing an adjacent pair of the plurality of first slits in the second regions to be in communication with one another. |
| US11893190B2 |
Cluster-based sensor assignment
The logic of a handheld controller system may use a clustering algorithm to determine which sensors of a touch sensor array, such as capacitive pads, to assign to individual fingers of a user's hand. The clustering algorithm disclosed herein allows for dynamically determining the controller configuration on-the-fly for a given user. An example process includes receiving data generated by a plurality of sensors of a touch sensor array of the handheld controller, generating a covariance matrix that indicates correlations between pairs of sensors, determining a plurality of feature vectors based at least in part on the covariance matrix, each feature vector corresponding to an individual sensor and describing that sensor's correlation(s) with one or more other sensors, clustering the feature vectors using a clustering algorithm, and configuring the touch sensor array according to a controller configuration that assigns sensors to respective fingers of a hand. |
| US11893187B2 |
Display device in which transmission signals are varyingly generated based on a synchronization signal
A display device including: a display panel configured to display an image in units of a frame; an input sensor disposed on the display panel, and configured to sense an external input; a panel driver configured to control driving of the display panel in response to a synchronization signal; and a sensor controller configured to control driving of the input sensor, wherein the sensor controller receives the synchronization signal from the panel driver and outputs a plurality of transmission signals to the input sensor, and the plurality of transmission signals are varyingly generated based on the synchronization signal. |
| US11893186B2 |
Input sensing device and display device including the same
An input sensing device includes first driving electrodes, second driving electrodes, and sensing electrodes, and a sensing driver that transmits a first driving signal to the first driving electrodes at a first frequency, transmits a second driving signal to the second driving electrodes at a second frequency, and determines a touch or approach of an external object based on sensing signals received from the sensing electrodes. The sensing driver includes analog front-end circuits that separate a sensing signal of the first frequency and a sensing signal of the second frequency that are received from the respective sensing electrodes, and generate digital sensing data based on a result of a recombination of the separated sensing signals. |
| US11893177B2 |
Flexible display device haptics
A touch screen display device with a flexible display that also includes an embedded haptic drive system. The device may be made up of one continuous flexible display that does not fold, or of multiple display segments which can be folded from a compact state that is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller, to an expanded state that is roughly the size of a larger phone or tablet computer. The haptic drive system is located underneath the flexible display and can physically alter its surface geometry by partially flexing the display at single or multiple points. The device may further include sensors to indicate the state of configuration and mechanisms for alignment, locking, and further structural support. In one embodiment, a module attached to, situated within, or otherwise associated with at least one segment of the flexible display may contain all or substantially all processing and memory, along with a communications system, which may be used in any folded state. |
| US11893169B2 |
Multi-functional stylus
A stylus includes an elongated housing, a tip extending from a first end of the elongated housing and a tri-axial force sensor mounted on a second end. A first wireless transmitter transmits a signal via the tip based on which the tip interacts with a digitizer sensor of a touch screen. The tri-axial force sensor senses contact force applied by a user pressing against the tri-axial sensor. A second wireless transmitter transmits output sensed by the tri-axial force sensor. The stylus further includes a controller that controls transmission of the first wireless transmitter and the second wireless transmitter. |
| US11893164B2 |
Methods and systems for eyes-free text entry
The present disclosure relates to a system for eyes-free text entry. The system may include a wearable device having a display and processing circuitry configured to receive a haptic input provided to a keyboard mounted on a finger of a user, the haptic input being an indication of an alphabetical letter, generate a list of candidate words based on the received haptic input, each candidate t word of the list of candidate words being associated with a probability thereof, display the generated list of candidate words to the user via the display of the wearable device, receive a selection of a particular candidate word of the list of candidate words, and append the particular candidate to a present sentence structure, wherein the keyboard has a layout based on a spatial model reflecting spatial awareness, by the user, of key locations on the finger. |
| US11893162B1 |
Using wearable devices to capture actions of participants in a meeting
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for capture actions of users participating within a virtual conference and conveying those actions to participants of the virtual conference. The systems and methods include connecting to at least one wearable device, connecting to a virtual conference device connected to a virtual conference hosted by a virtual conference provider, receiving sensor data from the at least one wearable device, identifying one or more expressions based on the sensor data, and transmitting the identified one or more expressions to the virtual conference device to be provided to the virtual conference provider for conveyance within the virtual conference. |
| US11893157B2 |
Device for providing tactile stimulation
A tactile stimulation providing apparatus includes a plurality of actuators and a plurality of actuator cases respectively corresponding to the plurality of actuators. Each of the actuator cases includes: a cap covering an upper portion of a corresponding actuator; and a base covering a lower portion of the actuator, the base being connected to the cap to fix the actuator. |
| US11893154B2 |
Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for updating display of a device relative to a user's body
An electronic device, while the electronic device is worn over a predefined portion of the user's body, displays, via a display generation component arranged on the electronic device opposite the predefined portion of the user's body, a graphical representation of an exterior view of a body part that corresponds to the predefined portion of the user's body. The electronic device detects a change in position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body. The electronic device, in response to detecting the change in the position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body, modifies the graphical representation of the exterior view of the body part that corresponds to predefined portion of the user's body in accordance with the detected change in position of the electronic device with respect to the predefined portion of the user's body. |
| US11893153B2 |
Head mounted display apparatus
Provided is a technique in which, in arranging a virtual object with respect to a real space, a user has less trouble, usability is good, and the object is suitably placeable. A head mounted display apparatus (HMD apparatus) according to one embodiment has a function of arranging and displaying the virtual object in a space based on an operation by a user. The HMD apparatus displays, on a display surface, a grid including a plurality of points for supporting an operation of the virtual object, and disposes and displays, according to an operation includes designation of a target virtual object and designation of a first point at an arrangement destination, the target virtual object at the position of the first point. |
| US11893148B2 |
Methods and systems for providing haptic feedback for virtual 3D objects
Described herein are various embodiments for enabling realistic haptic feedback for virtual three-dimensional (3D) objects. A real proxy surface is provided for a virtual object, where the proxy surface may be a relief surface, such as a depth-compressed model of the virtual object. In an exemplary method, when a user touches a proxy surface, a position of the touch point on the surface is detected. The touch point is mapped to a corresponding point on the virtual object. A position of the virtual object is determined such that the touch point is in alignment with the corresponding point on the virtual object, and the virtual object is displayed at the first determined position on an augmented reality display. As a result, a user touching the proxy surface may have the sensation of touching a solid version of the virtual 3D object instead of the proxy surface. |
| US11893138B2 |
Dynamic trigger of web beacons
Techniques are disclosed relating to methods that include receiving an indication of an access by a user to a web page that includes a beacon, and calculating a readiness score for triggering the beacon. The methods may also include determining, based on the readiness score, whether to perform a client-side or server-side triggering of the beacon. The triggering causes data associated with the access to be transmitted to a third-party computer system. |
| US11893137B2 |
Secure multi-client data analysis
According to a disclosed embodiment, data analysis is secured with a microservice architecture and data anonymization in a multitenant application. Tenant data is received by a first microservice in a multitenant application. The tenant data is isolated from other tenant data in the first microservice and stored separately from other tenant data in a tenant database. The tenant data is anonymized in the first microservice and thereafter provided to a second microservice. The second microservice stores the anonymized tenant data in an analytics database. The second microservice, upon request, analyzes anonymized tenant data from a plurality of tenants from the analytics database and provides an analytics result to the first microservice. |
| US11893136B2 |
Token-based data security systems and methods with cross-referencing tokens in freeform text within structured document
Multiple types of tokens can be generated and utilized in a highly structured document with freeform text. For example, a tokenization system may receive a request for tokenizing a document with a first portion having structured content and a second portion having unstructured or semi-structured content. In response, the tokenization system identifies sensitive information in the first portion of the document, generates format-preserving tokens for the sensitive information in the first portion of the document, identifies sensitive information in the second portion of the document, and generates self-describing tokens for the sensitive information in the second portion of the document. The self-describing tokens reference the sensitive information in the first portion of the document. The tokenization system may then communicate the format-preserving tokens and the self-describing tokens to the first client computing system or to a second client computing system. |