US11264952B2
Provided is a power amplification circuit that includes: an amplifier that amplifies an input signal and outputs an amplified signal; a first bias circuit that supplies a first bias current or voltage to the amplifier; a second bias circuit that supplies a second bias current or voltage to the amplifier; a first control circuit that controls the first bias current or voltage; and a second control circuit that controls the second bias current or voltage. The current supplying capacity of the first bias circuit is different from the current supplying capacity of the second bias circuit.
US11264948B2
A forecast engine generates a clear-sky solar power generation level corresponding to a photovoltaic installation that resides within a geographical area. The clear-sky solar power generation level indicates an amount of electricity generated by the photovoltaic installation under clear-sky conditions. The forecast engine also generates a measurement device index corresponding to a measurement device that resides proximate to the photovoltaic installation. The measurement device index indicates an amount of cloud cover present at the location where the measurement device resides. The forecast engine then generates a solar power generation forecast for the geographical area based on the clear-sky solar power generation level and the measurement device index.
US11264943B1
A system for tracking the sun has a bottom frame and a top frame hingedly coupled at a first end to the bottom frame. Further, the system has a solar panel removably coupled to the top frame via at least one clamp on a second end of the top frame. Also, the system has a processor configured to adjust the solar panel horizontally and vertically to align with the sun for maximum efficiency.
US11264938B2
A thermophotovoltaic panel assembly including a heat sink and a plurality of thermophotovoltaic modules mounted on the heat sink. Each thermophotovoltaic module includes a photovoltaic element separated from an emitter assembly by a gap. The emitter assembly includes an emitter and applies force towards the photovoltaic element to maintain the gap. The thermophotovoltaic panel assembly may also utilize a force application layer on the emitter and be bolted in place. A housing can be used for protection and to transfer energy to the emitter. The heat sink cantilevers into the housing to define a space between the thermophotovoltaic modules and the inner surface of the housing. Preferably, the housing maintains a vacuum and, in turn, the gap is evacuated. The heat sink can be monolithic and cooled with fluid pumped therethrough. The emitter may be transparent or at least partially transmissive.
US11264929B2
A system includes a motor configured to be coupled to a non-rigid load and a control system disposed within, or communicatively coupled to, a drive system configured to control an operation of the motor. The control system includes a processor and a memory accessible by the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a smooth move input profile to control the operation of the motor based on inputs specifying a desired operation of the motor, apply a notch filter having a notch filter frequency to the smooth move input profile to produce a filtered smooth move input profile, and send a command to the drive system based on the filtered smooth move input profile, wherein the command is configured to adjust the operation of the motor.
US11264926B2
Excitation position is changed in accordance with an external clock. The state of a full bridge circuit including four transistors connected to a coil of a stepping motor, is controlled in accordance with the excitation position. At the time of transition from the excitation position at which coil current that flows in the coil is nonzero to the excitation position at which the coil current is zero, a switch is made to (i) the inverse state where the on or off state of each of the four transistors before the transition is inverted, and then a switch is made to (ii) the off state where all the four transistors are off.
US11264912B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes an aerosol precursor composition and a quasi-resonant flyback converter configured to cause components of the aerosol precursor composition to vaporize to produce an aerosol. The quasi-resonant flyback converter includes a transformer including an induction transmitter and an induction receiver, a capacitor that with the induction transmitter forms a tank circuit. The quasi-resonant flyback converter also includes a transistor that is switchable in cycles to cause the induction transmitter to generate an oscillating magnetic field and induce an alternating voltage in the induction receiver when exposed to the oscillating magnetic field, the alternating voltage causing the induction receiver to generate heat and thereby vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition.
US11264905B2
An embodiment DC to DC conversion circuit comprises a DC to DC converter and a regulation circuit. The regulation circuit comprises a comparator configured to detect, during a discharge phase of the DC to DC converter, an overshoot period during which an output voltage of the DC to DC converter exceeds a target voltage, and a timer configured to measure a duration of the overshoot period.
US11264903B2
A power converter circuit includes a power stage that includes a transformer and a switch. The switch can be controlled in response to a PWM signal to provide a primary current through a primary winding of the transformer to induce a secondary current in a secondary winding of the transformer to generate an output voltage. The power stage includes a switching node between the switch and the primary winding having a switching voltage. The circuit also includes a switching controller configured to generate the PWM signal in response to a ramp signal. The ramp signal can have an amplitude of a slope that is proportional to a decay rate of a magnetizing current of the transformer and generated in response to feedback from the power stage. The switch can be activated in response to the switching voltage having an amplitude of approximately zero volts based on the amplitude of the ramp signal.
US11264902B2
Apparatus and methods for controlling voltage converter are provided. In an example, a switched-mode DC-DC voltage converter can include an inductor, at least four switches coupled to the inductor and configured to direct current through the inductor to provide a desired output voltage at an output voltage terminal of the voltage converter using an input voltage supply and a ground reference of the converter, and a controller circuit, configured to receive an indication of inductor current through the inductor and to use the slope of the inductor current to control a change between two operating modes of a group of operating modes that include a boost operating mode, a buck operating mode, and a buck-boost operating mode.
US11264899B2
A semiconductor device according to embodiments includes a normally-off transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first control electrode, a normally-on transistor having a third electrode electrically connected to the second electrode, a fourth electrode, and a second control electrode, a first element having a first end portion electrically connected to the first control electrode and a second end portion electrically connected to the first electrode, and the first element including a first capacitance component; and, a second element having a third end portion electrically connected to the first control electrode and the first end portion and a fourth end portion, and the second element including a second capacitance component, wherein, when a threshold voltage of the normally-off transistor is denoted by Vth, a maximum rated gate voltage of the normally-off transistor is denoted by Vg_max, a voltage of the fourth end portion is denoted by Vg_on, the first capacitance component is denoted by Ca, and the second capacitance component is denoted by Cb, Vth<(Cb/(Ca+Cb))Vg_on
US11264897B2
A switching power supply controller includes a pulse width modulator circuit. The pulse width modulator circuit includes a delay circuit and a delay control circuit coupled to the delay circuit. The delay control circuit includes an amplifier circuit. The amplifier circuit includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. The first input terminal is coupled to a first voltage reference terminal. The second input terminal is coupled to the second voltage reference terminal. The output terminal is coupled to a control terminal of the delay circuit.
US11264890B2
A power supply protection circuit is a circuit that controls a protection switch provided on a power supply line connecting a direct current power supply and a load circuit. The power supply protection circuit includes: circuitry connected to the protection switch; and a controller that switches an operation state of the circuitry between a first state and a second state. The first state is an operation state in which driving of the protection switch is enabled when the protection switch is a first semiconductor switch having a control terminal connected to a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type. The second state is an operation state in which driving of the protection switch is enabled when the protection switch is a second semiconductor switch having a control terminal connected to a semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type that is different from the semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type.
US11264888B2
System and method for protecting a power converter. An example system controller for protecting a power converter includes a signal generator, a comparator, and a modulation and drive component. The signal generator is configured to generate a threshold signal. The comparator is configured to receive the threshold signal and a current sensing signal and generate a comparison signal based on at least information associated with the threshold signal and the current sensing signal, the current sensing signal indicating a magnitude of a primary current flowing through a primary winding of a power converter. The modulation and drive component is coupled to the signal generator.
US11264872B2
To automate setting of coupling rods when using a rotor core retaining jig and thereby to improve the production efficiency of a magnet embedded core, a setting device includes: a support base (42) on which the rotor core retaining jig (10) is to be placed; an opposing base (46) joined to the support base 42 to oppose the support base (42); a pressurizing device (48) provided on the opposing base (46) and configured to pressurize an upper plate (14) of the rotor core retaining jig (10) on the support base (42) toward a lower plate (12); chuck devices (126) provided on the support base (42) to releasably grip the coupling rods (30) and capable of moving between a separated position where the coupling rods (30) are separated from engagement grooves (32, 34) and an engaged position where the coupling rods (30) engage the engagement grooves (32, 34); and a fluid pressure cylinder device (120) provided on the support base (42) to drive each chuck device (126) between the separated position and the engaged position.
US11264870B2
A method of obtaining a mechanical position of a motor for an ESC includes obtaining magnetic field strengths of two or more Hall sensors respectively and determining the mechanical position of the motor based on the magnetic field strengths of the two or more Hall sensors. The magnetic field strengths are obtained by measuring a magnetic leakage of two or more pairs of magnetic poles by the two or more Hall sensors. The motor includes two or more Hall sensors and two or more pairs of magnetic poles. The motor is connected to the ESC; a phase difference between the two or more Hall sensors is a preset angle; and arrangements between each pair of magnetic poles and the two or more Hall sensors are different.
US11264868B2
An electric motor assembly includes a stator, rotor, housing, rotatable shaft, and cooling fan. The stator and rotor are at least partly housed in the housing. The shaft is associated with the rotor to rotate about an axis. The cooling fan is fixed to and thereby rotates with the shaft to induce airflow within the housing. The cooling fan includes a wheel plate projecting radially relative to the shaft. The cooling fan further includes a plurality of radial blades that project axially from the wheel plate. The blades define a series of radial channels. The wheel plate defines an axial plate opening therethrough in alignment with a respective one of the channels.
US11264863B2
A rotor (10) of an electric machine has a shaft (11) a laminated core (12) arranged on the shaft (11) and balancing bodies (13) arranged on the shaft (11). The balancing bodies (13) have an aperture (15) situated outside the center of gravity. Each balancing body (13) is mounted by way of the aperture (15) on the shaft (11) of the rotor (10) in a defined angular position. Positioning sleeves (20) are arranged on the shaft (11) to define a distance between bearings (16, 17) of the shaft (11) and the laminated core (12) or the balancing bodies (13) and to provide an anti-rotational safeguard for the balancing bodies (13).
US11264861B2
A rotor core for a rotating electrical machine includes a laminated body that has insertion holes, a permanent magnet accommodated inside each of the insertion holes and fixed to the laminated body, and an end plate arranged at an end of the laminated body in the rotation axis direction. The laminated body includes annular flat metal plates that are stacked. A circumferential edge of the end plate is welded and fixed to circumferential edges of the metal plates such that the end plate is arranged at an end of the laminated body in the rotation axis direction to close openings of the insertion holes. A through-hole extends through an outer edge portion of at least one of an outermost metal plate of the laminated body or the end plate.
US11264854B2
An electric machine includes a stator and a rotor configured to be driven in rotation in relation to one another. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets, and the stator further includes a magnetic circuit including poles extending toward the rotor. The machine includes windings of conducting elements around each pole and at least one heat sink arranged inside a conducting element and/or between the conducting elements. The heat sink includes a phase change material.
US11264839B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a plurality of charging cells provided on a charging surface, a charging circuit and a controller. The controller may be configured to cause the charging circuit to provide a charging current to a resonant circuit when a receiving device is placed on the charging surface, detect a change or rate of change in voltage or current level associated with the resonant circuit, provide a measurement slot by terminating the charging current for a period of time, and determine that the receiving device has been removed from the charging surface by performing a passive or digital ping procedure during the measurement slot.
US11264836B2
A power unit and method of manufacturing a power unit. The power unit may include one or more inductors arranged in an alternating pole configuration. The inductors are attached to a circuit board to form an electrical generator configured to provide electrical energy to a wireless charger. The wireless charger may be detached from the generator.
US11264822B2
This application provides a method for determining a charger, a related device, and a system. The method includes: detecting, by an electronic device, a charging current output from a charger; when amplitude values of the charging current are a sequence of variable current, quantifying the current sequence into a binary sequence; determining whether the quantified binary sequence is the same as a prestored binary sequence; and when the quantified binary sequence is different from the prestored binary sequence, outputting prompt information indicating that the charger is a non-standard configuration charger. According to the present invention, whether the charger is a standard configuration charger is determined. This manner is simple and convenient. In addition, no specific device detection module needs to be disposed on the charger.
US11264813B2
The present disclosure discloses a charging circuit, a terminal and a charging method, and belongs to a field of electronic circuit technologies. The charging circuit includes: a control circuit and a voltage reduction circuit connected to the control circuit; wherein the control circuit is configured to obtain a feedback signal indicating a generation frequency of a control signal, generate the control signal based on the feedback signal, and send the control signal to the voltage reduction circuit; and the voltage reduction circuit is configured to obtain an input voltage and the control signal, perform voltage reduction processing on the input voltage based on the control signal and output an output voltage to a battery, wherein an output current corresponding to the output voltage is greater than an input current corresponding to the input voltage, and the output voltage is configured to determine the generation frequency.
US11264809B2
A method for operating an energy storage system, which includes at least one energy store with a plurality of cells and is designed to supply an electric drive system of a vehicle is provided. The method includes identifying a reference cell from among the cells, and carrying out a first symmetrization procedure for the cells at a first point in time, at which the reference cell has a first reference charge state. The method also includes carrying out a second symmetrization procedure for the cells, if the following conditions a) and b) are met at a second point in time following the first point in time: a) the voltage difference between the voltage of the cell with the lowest voltage and the voltage of the cell with the highest voltage is greater than or equal to a specified voltage difference; and b) the reference state of charge of the reference cell at the second point in time lies within a specified state of charge range, the state of charge range being determined in such a way that it includes the first reference state of charge.
US11264808B2
In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include determining how many computing devices are in a stackable configuration and selecting an algorithm for charging the computing devices while in the stackable configuration. The method may include, based on the number of computing devices in the stackable configuration, charging the computing devices according to the selected algorithm.
US11264800B2
Systems and methods for performing actions in response to charging events, such as charging events associated with a specific electric vehicle and/or a specific charging station, are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may receive a request from an electric vehicle to identify a charging station from which to charge a battery of the electric vehicle, provide information associated with the electric vehicle to one or more charging stations proximate to the electric vehicle, receive from the one or more charging stations information identifying parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations, and provide the information identifying the parameters associated with potential charging events provided by the one or more charging stations to the electric vehicle.
US11264798B2
A charging station for charging a plurality of electric vehicles, in particular electric automobiles, comprising: a supply device, in particular for connection to an electricity supply grid for supplying the charging station with electric power, a plurality of charging terminals for charging in each case at least one electric vehicle, and each charging terminal comprises a supply input for drawing electric power from the supply device, a charging output with one or more charging connections for outputting a respective charging current for charging a respective connected electric vehicle, and at least one DC chopper arranged between the supply input and the charging output in order to generate a respective chopper current from the electric power of the supply device, or as an alternative at least one chopper terminal arranged between the supply input and the charging output in order to provide a chopper current generated outside the charging terminal by a DC chopper, in particular chopper current generated in the supply device, wherein in each case each charging current is formed from a chopper current or a plurality of chopper currents, and wherein the charging terminals are connected to one another at exchange connections via electrical exchange lines in order thereby to exchange chopper currents with one another.
US11264796B2
A first surge absorber has a low resistance when a surge voltage which is greater than or equal to a first operating voltage is applied to a power supply line, and has a high resistance when the surge voltage which is greater than or equal to the first operating voltage is not applied. A detector outputs a detection signal indicating that the surge voltage is greater than or equal to the first operating voltage when the surge voltage is greater than or equal to the first operating voltage. A second surge absorber becomes a low resistance when a surge voltage greater than or equal to a second operating voltage is applied, and becomes a high resistance when a surge voltage greater than or equal to the second operating voltage is not applied.
US11264794B2
The present invention provides a series compensator and a control method. The series compensator includes a series transformer, a series transformer bypass device, a voltage source converter, a high-speed converter bypass device, a high-speed switch, and a reactor. The reactor and the high-speed switch are connected in parallel to form a current limiting module; one winding of the series transformer has two ends connected in series to a line, and the other winding thereof is sequentially connected to the current limiting module and the high-speed converter bypass device; the voltage source converter and the high-speed converter bypass device are connected in parallel; and at least one winding of the series transformer are connected in parallel to at least one series transformer bypass device. The series compensator of the present invention indirectly provides the current limiting module, so as to effectively limit the short-circuit current of a system, reduce the fault current to which the compensator is subjected, and improve the reliability of an alternating current system and the series compensator. Moreover, the current limiting module has a low voltage level, and the high-speed switch has a small breaking current, thereby providing good industrial applicability.
US11264793B2
The present invention discloses a method for quickly eliminating ferromagnetic resonance of a voltage transformer. The method includes: first sampling a three-phase voltage and an open-delta voltage of a voltage transformer; calculating a flux linkage corresponding to a zero-sequence voltage by means of an integral algorithm; and when detecting that ferromagnetic resonance occurs in the mutual inductor, further checking whether the absolute value of the flux linkage corresponding to the zero-sequence voltage or the absolute value of the open-delta voltage respectively falls within a set range, and if yes, starting a secondary resonance elimination loop for resonance elimination. The present invention also discloses a corresponding device for quickly eliminating ferromagnetic resonance of a voltage transformer. The present method and device accurately analyze and control resonance elimination trigger time based on a conventional secondary resonance elimination principle, and can effectively eliminate the impact of the core saturation of a voltage transformer on a resonance elimination process, thereby greatly improving the success probability of single resonance elimination.
US11264788B2
An example power adaptor includes a converter and a circuit to detect an overcurrent event at the converter and to pause power output of the converter when the overcurrent event is detected. The circuit is further to count a number of overcurrent events at the converter within a time period. The circuit is further to compare the number of overcurrent events to a threshold number and to switch off the power output of the converter when the number of overcurrent events passes the threshold number.
US11264785B2
An electrical connection assembly includes an electrical box including a housing having an internal surface defining an internal volume of the housing. An electrical connector is positioned outside the internal volume of the housing and fixed to the housing with a fastener. The housing includes an aperture having an opening defining an insertion path extending from a location external to the housing along a frame of the electrical connector to a location within the internal volume of the housing. The assembly includes a disc mechanically secured to the housing relative to the opening to obstruct the insertion path. A retainer and a bushing including a membrane for the electrical connector as well as methods of making an electrical connector are also provided.
US11264780B2
A flip chip backside Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) package has a VCSEL pillar array. A first metal contact is formed over a top section of each pillar of the VCSEL pillar array. A second metal contact is formed on a back surface of the VCEL pillar array. An opening is formed in the second metal contact and aligned with the pillars of the VCSEL pillar array. Solder tip is applied on each pillar of the VCSEL pillar array to flip chip mount the VCSEL pillar array.
US11264778B2
A semiconductor package is manufactured by physically attaching a side emitting laser diode to a floor portion of a recessed flat no-leads (FNL) package having a wall extending from and surrounding a perimeter of a recessed floor portion. The attached side emitting laser diode is oriented to direct a laser beam toward an opposing portion of the wall. The FNL package is singulated into a first piece and a second piece along a singulation plane through the FNL package wall and floor portion between the side emitting laser diode and the opposing portion of the wall. After singulation the opposing portion of the wall is in the second piece and the side emitting laser diode is in the first piece.
US11264776B2
In order to solve the problem that the power consumption of optical amplifiers is not optimized over the life time of a network whose capacity in use varies, an optical amplifier according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a gain medium for amplifying a plurality of optical channels, the gain medium including a plurality of cores through which the plurality of optical channels to propagate respectively and a cladding area surrounding the plurality of cores; monitoring means for monitoring the plurality of optical channels inputted into the gain medium and producing a monitoring result; a first light source configured to emit a first light beam to excite the cladding area; a second light source configured to emit a plurality of second light beams to excite each of the plurality of cores individually; and controlling means for making a decision as to whether each of the plurality of cores to transmit one of the plurality of optical channels based on the monitoring result, and controlling the first light source and the second light source based on the decision.
US11264769B1
A power adapter configured to provide power to a load is described. The power adapter may comprise a first plurality of contact elements accessible on an outer surface of the power adapter, the first plurality of contact elements comprising a first contact element configured to receive power; and a recess comprising a second plurality of contact elements and adapted to receive a control attachment; wherein a second contact element of the second plurality of contact elements is configured to receive power by way of the first contact element of the first plurality of contact elements, and a third contact element of the second plurality of contact elements is configured to receive power by way of the control attachment.
US11264763B1
A connector with a direct locking and a rotational pre-ejection function is provided. The connector includes an insulated body, a plurality of terminals, an inner shell, an outer shell, a snap ring, a plurality of fasteners, an ejector, a first elastic element, and a second elastic element. The outer shell has a cam surface, the ejector has an abutting portion, and the abutting portion is in contact with the cam surface. When the connector and a mating connector are inserted into each other, snap bodies of the fasteners and fastener bodies of the mating connector can be snapped into each other to be directly locked. When the connector and the mating connector are to be separated from each other, the snap bodies of the fasteners and the fastener bodies of the mating connector can be separated from each other to be directly unlocked.
US11264762B2
An electrical connection device (1). The electrical connection device comprises a vehicle side electrical connector (3) comprising a first mounting seat (31), a first high-voltage assembly (32) and a first low-voltage assembly (33); and a battery side electrical connector (5) comprising a second mounting seat (50), a second high-voltage assembly (51) and a second low-voltage assembly (52). The first high-voltage assembly and the second high-voltage assembly are in a separable floating electrical connection. By means of the electrical connection device, the first high-voltage assembly and the second high-voltage assembly can be prevented from hard damage, the stability of the electrical contact between the first high-voltage assembly and the second high-voltage assembly can be ensured, thereby ensuring the reliability of the electrical connections of the two parties, and improving the waterproof performance of the vehicle side electrical connector and the battery side electrical connector.
US11264761B2
A spacer and tether device for adapting a multiconductor plug includes a spacer configured to position a plug having multiple conductors at a predetermined distance from a jack having fewer conductors so that one or more conductors of the plug are not inserted into the jack, allowing the remaining conductors of the plug to properly align with the conductors in the jack. A tether attaches at one end to the spacer and at an opposite end to the housing of the plug so that the spacer is secured to the plug for use when required.
US11264748B2
An electrical connector that includes a housing with an interior cavity configured to receive a card. Electrical contacts are secured across a wall of the housing within the interior cavity and are configured to matingly receive corresponding electrical contacts of the card. The plurality of electrical contacts secured across the wall of the housing are the only electrical contacts of the electrical connector. Each of the plurality of electrical contacts includes a mating interface and the mating interface of each of the plurality of electrical contacts is co-planer. Additionally, the housing includes a card slot opening and each of the plurality of electrical contacts are arranged on one side of the card slot opening.
US11264744B2
A connector is mountable on a circuit board. A card-type device is accommodatable in the connector. The connector comprises a base, a cover and a terminal. The cover is attached to the base to be openable and closable. The terminal is held by the base. The cover has one or more connection portions. The connection portion is directly connected to the circuit board under a close state where the connector is mounted on the circuit board and the cover is closed relative to the base.
US11264743B2
A plug connector includes: an insulative housing including a main body, a reinforcement projecting forward from the main body, and a pair of baffle plates; and a printed circuit board partially received in the insulative housing, the printed circuit board extending forward from the main body and beyond the reinforcement, the reinforcement wrapping on the printed circuit board, wherein a width of a front end of the printed circuit board exposed outside the main body in a horizontal direction is greater than a width of the reinforcement, and a limiting groove is formed between the baffle plate and the printed circuit board for guiding the plug connector to mate with a socket connector.
US11264740B2
A battery post terminal assembly includes a conductive band and a clamp mechanism. The conductive band includes a first free end and a second free end. The conductive band defines an aperture for receiving a battery post of a battery. The clamp mechanism includes a wedge member that defines a recess between a first surface and a second surface thereof. The recess has an open end and a closed end that is narrower than the open end. The first surface is convex. The first free end and the second free end are positioned in the recess. The first free end is movable along the first surface toward the closed end to be moved by the first surface toward the second free end to tighten the conductive band around the battery post.
US11264739B2
Trace wire connectors that include a cover that can be attached to a base and used to electrically interconnect two or more tracer wires without having to remove insulation from the tracer wires. The cover has multiple portals that permit one or more tracer wires to pass into an inner cavity of the cover. The base has multiple cradles on which tracer wires passing into the cavity can rest. The cover can be oriented relative to the base for use with a through tracer wire and a dead-end tracer wire, or for use with multiple dead-end tracer wires.
US11264735B1
An electrical terminal for terminating magnet wire. The terminal includes a mating portion and a wire barrel positioned in line with the mating portion. The wire barrel has a first asymmetrical termination section and a second asymmetrical termination section, with the first termination section provided in line with the second termination section. The first termination section is positioned closer to the mating portion. The first and second termination sections have first side walls, second side walls and base walls. The first side walls, the second side wall and the base walls have a plurality of serrations.
US11264731B2
An antenna array and a wireless communications device are disclosed. The antenna array includes at least two directional antennas in different directions. Each directional antenna includes an antenna element, a reflector, a feed line coupled to the antenna element, and a switch for controlling the feed line. The antenna element is a microstrip dipole antenna element. The reflector is a parasitic microstrip antenna element. A length of the reflector is greater than a length the antenna element. Two ends of the reflector are bent toward the antenna element. A distance between midpoints of reflectors of any two directional antennas is less than a distance between midpoints of antenna elements thereof. Because the reflectors of the antenna array are located on an inner side of a pattern enclosed by the antenna elements of directional antennas, a size of the antenna array is small.
US11264726B2
Phased array antennas include a plurality of radiating elements and a plurality of RF lenses that are generally aligned along a first vertical axis. Each radiating element is associated with a respective one of the RF lenses, and each radiating element is tilted with respect to the first vertical axis.
US11264721B2
One end of a second feeding line is connected to a first feeding line configured to transmit a first polarization at a first position and the other end is connected to a patch at a second position. One end of a third feeding line is connected to the first feeding line and the other end is connected to the patch at a third position. One end of a fourth feeding line is connected to the patch at a fourth position and configured to transmit a second polarization, wavelengths of the first and second polarizations being the same as each other. The second and third feeding lines are configured to cause the first polarization at the second position to be in opposite phase to the first polarization at the third position. A distance between the second and fourth positions is equal to a distance between the third and fourth positions.
US11264715B2
A phased-array includes, in part, N transceivers each including a receiver and a transmitter, and a controller. The phased array is configured to transmit a first radio signal from a first element of the array during a first time period, receive the first radio signal from a second element of the array, recover a first value associated with the radio signal received by the second element, transmit a second radio signal from the second element of the array during a second time period, receive the second radio signal from the first element of the array, recover a second value associated with the radio signal received by the first element, and determine a first phase of a reference signal received by the second element from the recovered first and second values. The first phase is relative to a second phase of the reference signal received by the first element.
US11264711B2
An antenna assembly is disclosed including a ground plane having a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge. The first and second longitudinal edges may extend in a longitudinal direction and may be spaced apart in a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The ground plane may define a first plurality of slots that are open to the first longitudinal edge and a second plurality of slots that are open to the second longitudinal edge. The antenna assembly may also include a patch antenna spaced apart from the ground plane and arranged in parallel with the ground plane. The patch antenna may have a pair of opposite edges and may define a first plurality of slots that are open to one of the pair of opposite edges of the patch antenna. In some embodiments, the antenna assembly may include one or more parasitic elements that also define a plurality of slots.
US11264704B2
A base station antenna is provided, including at least two antenna sub-arrays. Each antenna sub-array includes a circuit board and two antenna oscillators. The circuit board includes a circuit substrate, and a first and second power divider disposed on a surface of the circuit substrate. The first and second power divider include a first, second and third end. Each antenna oscillator includes two pairs of first and second oscillator units of which polarizations are orthogonal. The second and third end of the first power divider are respectively electrically connected to the first oscillator unit of a first and second antenna oscillator. The second and third end of the second power divider is respectively electrically connected to the second oscillator unit of the first and second antenna oscillator. Two antenna oscillators form a 4T4R transceiving mode. The base station antenna of the present disclosure has the advantage of simple feeding mode.
US11264700B2
An electronic device is provided that includes a housing; a printed circuit board including a first and second surfaces; an antenna module disposed on the first surface and adjacent to a side surface member, forming a first gap therewith, the antenna module being configured to radiate an antenna beam; a wireless communication circuit electrically connected with the antenna module, and configured to transmit or receive a signal having a frequency between 3 and 100 gigahertz; and a dielectric structure including a seating portion to have the antenna module mounted thereon, and configured to form the antenna beam to be radiated toward an outside of the housing.
US11264689B2
A broadband transition coupling for transition between a waveguide and a printed circuit board with a substrate integrated waveguide is disclosed. The broadband transition coupling comprises a main body that encompasses an air-filled waveguide section and a transition section. The air-filled waveguide section comprises a first interface for the waveguide. The transition section provides a second interface for the printed circuit board. The transition section continuously tapers along the second interface in order to reduce a height of the transition section for transition coupling with the printed circuit board. Further, the present disclosure relates to a broadband system for processing electromagnetic signals.
US11264683B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to an electrode assembly, a secondary battery, a battery pack and a device. The electrode assembly includes: an electrode unit including an electrode body and an electrode terminal part electrically connected with the electrode body; and a first insulating film for being wound around the electrode unit, the first insulating film including a connection part and an extension part connected with each other, the connection part being provided with an adhesive area for connecting with the electrode terminal part, the extension part being a part of the first insulating film extending beyond an end face of the electrode terminal part, and at least part of the extension part being provided as a non-adhesive area.
US11264682B2
Disclosed herein is a pouch-shaped secondary battery including a battery case, an electrode assembly having a structure in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are stacked in the state in which a separator is interposed therebetween, an electrode lead having an asymmetrical notch formed in a first surface of the electrode lead, the electrode lead being electrically connected to electrode tabs of the electrode assembly, the asymmetrical notch being configured to induce the rupture of the electrode lead, a lead film attached to the first surface and a second surface of the electrode lead, the lead film adhering the electrode lead to the battery case, the lead film including a first lead film located between the electrode assembly and the asymmetrical notch, and a second lead film located between the asymmetrical notch and a portion of the electrode lead that protrudes out of the battery case.
US11264681B2
An electrode assembly includes a first electrode plate having a first electrode active material layer and a first electrode uncoated portion, a second electrode plate having a second electrode active material layer and a second electrode uncoated portion, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, and a case accommodating the electrode assembly, where a ceramic layer having a smaller thickness than the first electrode active material layer is on the first electrode uncoated portion.
US11264679B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode body that includes a positive-electrode sheet and a negative-electrode sheet, an exterior body that accommodates the electrode body, a sealing plate that seals an opening of the exterior body, a positive-electrode terminal that is secured to the sealing plate, a positive-electrode tab that is connected to the positive-electrode sheet, a first positive-electrode current collector that is connected to the positive-electrode terminal and electrically connected to the positive-electrode tab, an inner insulating member that is disposed between the sealing plate and the first positive-electrode current collector, and a cover that is composed of a resin and disposed between the first positive-electrode current collector and the electrode body. The cover includes a cover portion that faces the first positive-electrode current collector and a cover joint that extends from the cover portion toward the sealing plate. The cover joint is connected to the inner insulating member.
US11264670B2
Disclosed is a battery pack, which includes a plurality of unit battery modules, each unit battery module having a plurality of battery cells accommodated in an inner space thereof, the plurality of unit battery modules being structurally connected successively in one direction; and a pack case configured to cover the plurality of unit battery modules, wherein each unit battery module has two side plates forming opposite side surfaces thereof, and wherein one of the side plates of any one of the unit battery modules and one of the side plates of another one of the unit battery modules adjacent thereto are engaged with each other to form a single common wall.
US11264669B2
The present application provides a battery box and a battery module. The battery box includes two end plates and two side plates, in which the end plates and the side plates are connected end to end in sequence to enclose to form a cavity of the battery box; each of the end plates is respectively bent at different positions to form a plurality of reinforcing members and a plurality of supporting members, each of the reinforcing members is parallel to the bottom surface of the battery box, at least one supporting member is provided between any two adjacent reinforcing members; and the location where the reinforcing member is opposite to the supporting member is a connecting portion, in which a connecting member of the battery box passes through the connecting portion and is connected to a case of a battery pack.
US11264667B2
A battery assembly includes a battery array and a foam shell that surrounds the battery array. The battery array may be housed within a foam shell, and a barrier can be secured to the foam shell to establish a battery assembly. The battery assembly may then be secured to a vehicle body.
US11264665B1
Battery housings and batteries are presented for accommodating swelling of an electrode assembly. In one aspect, a battery includes an electrode assembly that includes a cathode and an anode. The battery also includes a receptacle that includes at least one feedthrough disposed through one or more sides of the receptacle. A lid is sealed to the receptacle. The receptacle, the at least one feedthrough, and the lid form a sealed volume in which the electrode assembly and an electrolyte are disposed. The lid is configured to displace from a first position to a second position in response to a swelling of the electrode assembly within the sealed volume. The receptacle is configured to strain less than the lid during the swelling of the electrode assembly. The second position of the lid may correspond to an expanded volume of the electrode assembly that is 15% greater than an initial volume.
US11264658B2
A heat exchanger for cooling multiple rows of battery cells has a plurality of longitudinal flow sections defining at least first and second U-shaped flow areas, each underlying a row of battery cells. The flow sections includes inlet and outlet flow sections, and at least two intermediate flow sections. Inlet and outlet ports are in flow communication with the respective inlet and outlet flow sections, and a first bypass channel extends between the inlet port and at least one of the intermediate flow sections. The first bypass channel supplies relatively cold heat transfer fluid from the inlet to mix with warmer fluid in a second or subsequent U-shaped flow area, to improve temperature uniformity between the rows of battery cells. A second bypass channel may extend around the outer periphery of the heat exchanger, from the inlet flow section to a second or subsequent U-shaped flow area.
US11264656B2
In order to realize temperature control of a battery in a simplified manner, a control module having a coolant control valve, a coolant temperature sensor and a coolant pump is provided. The coolant control valve, the coolant temperature sensor and the coolant pump are integrally assembled to form the control module.
US11264650B2
An apparatus and method for testing the strength of an end plate mounted in a battery module. The apparatus includes a memory unit configured to store a first parameter representing a number of battery cells included in the battery module, a second parameter representing a spring constant of a battery cell and a third parameter representing a spring constant of the end plate, and a control unit configured to generate a one-dimensional model associated with the battery module based on the first parameter, calculate a first F-D curve based on the second and third parameters and the one-dimensional model, and store first reference data representing the first F-D curve in the memory unit. The first F-D curve corresponds to a relationship between a deformation amount and a load of the end plate according to the number of battery cells represented by the first parameter.
US11264647B2
A battery is provided, which includes an anode and a cathode. The anode includes a first current collector and anode active material. The anode active material is lithium metal or lithium alloy. The cathode includes a second current collector and cathode active material. The battery also includes an electrolyte film disposed between the cathode and the anode, and a porous film disposed between the electrolyte film and the anode. The battery includes an anolyte in the porous film between the electrolyte film and the anode, and a catholyte between the electrolyte film and the cathode. The catholyte is different from the anolyte, and the anolyte and the catholyte are separated by the electrolyte film and are not in contact with each other.
US11264641B2
An all-solid secondary battery, including: a first current collector; a pair of first active material layers disposed on opposite sides of the first current collector; a pair of solid electrolyte layers disposed on surfaces of the pair of first active material layers; a pair of second active material layers disposed on surfaces of the pair of solid electrolyte layers; and a pair of second current collectors disposed on surfaces of the pair of second active material layers, wherein a surface of one of the pair of second current collectors opposite to a surface of one of the pair of second active material layers does not comprise protrusions having a height of greater than about 8 micrometers.
US11264638B2
A sodium-ion battery includes an electrode having a crystalline active material represented by formula units that intercalate and/or deintercalate more than two charge carriers during operation of the battery. In some instances, the active material that experiences a volume change of less than 6.0%, 4.0%, or even 2.0% when the active material intercalates more than two charge carriers during operation of the battery.
US11264627B2
A fuel cell system includes a first fuel cell having first unit cells stacked together, a second fuel cell having second unit cells stacked together, a first voltage detector, a second voltage detector, and a controller. The first voltage detector detects voltage of the first unit cells for every “N” unit cells on average, and the second voltage detector detects voltage of the whole second fuel cell, or detects voltage of the second unit cells for every “M” unit cells on average. The controller determines whether any of the first unit cells is in a fuel deficiency state, by referring to a detection result of the first voltage detector, and performs a cancellation process to cancel the fuel deficiency state, on the first fuel cell that is in a power generating state, while stopping power generation of the second fuel cell, when an affirmative decision is obtained.
US11264603B2
A battery includes a fluid negative electrode and a fluid positive electrode separated by a solid electrolyte at least when the electrodes and electrolyte are at an operating temperature. The solid electrolyte includes ions of the negative electrode material forming the fluid negative electrode and has a softness less than beta-alumina solid electrolyte (BASE) ceramics. In one example, the fluid negative electrode comprises lithium (Li), the fluid positive electrode comprises sulfur (S) and the solid electrolyte comprises lithium iodide (LiI).
US11264601B2
A method for making a vanadium pentoxide-based active material for a cathode of an alkali metal ion battery includes steps of: a) preparing an aqueous solution of a triazine derivative of Formula (I) wherein each R independently represents hydrogen or an amino group; and b) adding vanadium pentoxide to the aqueous solution of the triazine derivative under stirring, so as to permit condensation among hydrolyzed vanadium pentoxide along with self-assembly of the triazine derivatives to obtain a reaction solution containing the active material.
US11264599B2
An electrode performance evaluation system and an electrode performance evaluation method is disclosed. The method includes acquiring impedance measurement data for different frequencies by applying an alternating current signal to an electrode assembly including an electrode which is immersed in an electrolyte solution, calculating impedance calculation data for different frequencies while changing the frequency of an impedance equation corresponding to a circuit model of the electrode assembly, calculating the resistance value of ion bulk resistance in the electrolyte solution using the ion conductivity of the electrolyte solution, the area of the electrode and the thickness and porosity of an active material layer of the electrode, and determining effective tortuosity as a factor of the electrode performance based on the impedance measurement data for different frequencies, the impedance calculation data for different frequencies and the resistance value of the ion bulk resistance.
US11264595B2
A display panel disclosed in the embodiments of the present application includes a substrate layer, a first inorganic layer, a plurality of first organic layers, a second inorganic layer, and a plurality of second organic layers. The first inorganic layer is disposed on the substrate layer, and a plurality of first receiving structures are disposed on a side of the first inorganic layer away from the substrate layer. The first organic layers are respectively disposed in the first receiving structures. The second inorganic layer is disposed on the first inorganic layer and the first organic layers, and a plurality of second receiving structures are disposed on a side of the second inorganic layer away from the substrate layer. The second organic layers are respectively disposed in the second receiving structures.
US11264590B2
The present disclosure provides a benzo diheterocyclic compound having a structure represented by Formula (I). In Formula (I), Y1 and Y2 are oxygen or sulfur; Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently selected from a group consisting of single bond, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, a substituted or unsubstituted naphthyl, a substituted or unsubstituted anthracyl, a substituted or unsubstituted phenanthryl, a substituted or unsubstituted acenaphthylenyl, and a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group; m and n are integers independently selected from 0 and 1; D1 and D2 are aryl or heteroaryl, Ar3 and Ar4 are aryl or heteroaryl, and R1 is hydrogen, phenyl, or naphthyl. When the benzo diheterocyclic compound is used as a capping layer of a cathode, it will not interfere light emission of an OLED, and the OLED can maintain a high color purity.
US11264575B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1), (17) 18) or (20) and to the use thereof in electronic devices, and to electronic devices which contain these compounds. The invention furthermore relates to the preparation of the compounds of the formula (1), (17) 18) or (20) and to formulations contains one or more compounds of the formula (1), (17) 18) or (20).
US11264570B2
An alignment method, an alignment device and evaporation equipment are provided. The alignment device includes: a first alignment module, located outside an evaporation chamber and configured to determine relative position information between a substrate to be evaporated and a mask for evaporation; a second alignment module, located in the evaporation chamber and configured to adjust a position of the substrate to be evaporated and/or the mask for evaporation according to the relative position information until an orthographic projection of a first alignment mark of the substrate to be evaporated on the mask for evaporation at least partially overlaps a hollowed area of the mask for evaporation, obtain position information of the first alignment mark through the hollowed area, and adjust a position of the substrate to be evaporated and/or the mask for evaporation according to the position information.
US11264567B2
Various embodiments of a three-dimensional cross-point (3D X-point) memory cell design include one or more electrodes having an increased resistance compared to existing memory cell designs or compared to other electrodes within a same memory cell. A memory device includes an array of memory cells with each memory cell arranged between a word line and a bit line of the memory device. Some embodiments include additional material layers to increase memory cell resistance. Some embodiments include electrodes having an increased thickness to increase the resistance. Some embodiments include electrodes having a composition with a higher resistivity. Some embodiments include electrodes with increased interface resistance. Some embodiments include a combination of such features. In any case, the resulting increased memory cell resistance causes a reduction in the transient selection current for the given memory cell.
US11264549B2
Provided is a method for producing a light emitting device, including the steps of providing an intermediate body including a precursor substrate including a base member that includes a top surface and a first bottom surface, a pair of first wiring portions on the top surface, and a pair of second wiring portions electrically connected with the pair of first wiring portions respectively and positioned between the top surface and the first bottom surface; and a light emitting element on the first wiring portions; removing a part of the base member off the first bottom surface of the base member to thin the base member so that a second bottom surface of the base member is formed; and forming a pair of external electrodes, to be electrically connected with the pair of second wiring portions respectively, on the second bottom surface.
US11264533B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting module includes a step of providing a bonded board including a board including, on a first surface, a circuit pattern and wiring pads that are continuous with the circuit pattern and each have bottomed holes and light-emitting segments connected on a second surface of the board with an adhesive sheet interposed therebetween and including an array of light-emitting devices; a step of supplying electrically conductive paste inside the bottomed holes and on portions of the surface of the wiring pad around the bottomed holes through openings of a mask; and a step of performing thermal compression to harden the electrically conductive paste such that the thickness of the electrically conductive paste on the portions of the surface of the wiring pad is smaller than the electrically conductive paste at the timing of being disposed through the openings of the mask.
US11264527B2
Various embodiments of an integrated circuit package and a method of forming such package are disclosed. The integrated circuit package includes first and second active dies. Each of the first and second active dies includes a top contact disposed on the top surface of the die and a bottom contact disposed on a bottom surface of the die. The package further includes a via die having first and second vias that each extends between a top contact disposed on a top surface of the via die and a bottom contact disposed on a bottom surface of the via die, where the bottom contact of the first active die is electrically connected to the bottom contact of the first via of the via die and the bottom contact of the second active die is electrically connected to the bottom contact of the second via of the via die.
US11264516B2
A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a insulating medium layer and at least one Schottky diode unit. The at least one Schottky diode unit is located on a surface of the insulating medium layer. The at least one Schottky diode unit includes a first electrode, a semiconductor structure and a second electrode. The semiconductor structure comprising a first end and a second end. The first end is laid on the first electrode, the second end is located on the surface of the insulating medium layer. The semiconducting structure includes a nano-scale semiconductor structure. The second electrode is located on the second end.
US11264514B2
A thin film transistor is provided to include a gate, an active layer, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode includes at least two first conductive parts extending in a first direction and a first connection part extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The at least two first conductive parts are arranged at intervals along the second direction and a first end of each of the at least first conductive parts is coupled to the first connection part, and two adjacent ones of the at least two first conductive parts form a first U-shaped opening with the first connection part. The second electrode includes at least one second conductive part extending in the first direction, a first end of the second conductive part proximal to the first connection part is in the first U-shaped opening.
US11264509B2
A thin film transistor, an array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided, which is related to the field of display technologies. A thin film transistor comprises: a substrate; at least two active layers on the substrate, each active layer comprising a first terminal and a second terminal opposite to each other; a source and a drain above the substrate. The first terminal of each of the at least two active layers is electrically connected to the source, and the second terminal of each of the at least two active layers is electrically connected to the drain, and the at least two active layers are arranged on an upper surface of the substrate and separated from one another.
US11264507B2
A thin film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, an array substrate and an electronic device. The thin film transistor includes a gate, a gate insulator, an active layer, a source and a drain. A protective structure is disposed on a side of the source and the drain close to the gate.
US11264504B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a scheme of active and dummy fin structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: an active fin structure; at least one dummy fin structure running along at least one side of the active fin structure along its length; a fin cut separating the at least one dummy fin structure along its longitudinal axes; and a gate structure extending over the active fin structure and the fin cut.
US11264499B2
One illustrative transistor device disclosed herein includes a gate structure positioned above a semiconductor substrate and a source region and a drain region, each of which comprise an epi cavity with a bottom surface and a side surface. The transistor further includes an interface layer positioned on at least one of the side surface and the bottom surface of the epi cavity in each of the source/drain regions, wherein the interface layer comprises a non-semiconductor material and an epi semiconductor material positioned on at least an upper surface of the interface layer in the epi cavity in each of the source region and the drain region.
US11264497B2
Disclosed is an LDMOS device comprising a drift region formed by a selected area of a doped layer of a first conductivity type on a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure comprising a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductive layer which are sequentially formed on a surface of the doped layer of the first conductivity type, a doped self-aligned channel region of a second conductivity type, and a doped layer formed by tilted ion implantation with a first side face of the gate structure as a self-alignment condition. A method for manufacturing an LDMOS device is further disclosed. The channel length is not affected by lithography and thus can be minimized to fulfill an ultralow specific-on-resistance, and the distribution uniformity of the channel length can be improved, so that the performance uniformity of the device is improved.
US11264493B2
An apparatus including a circuit structure including a first side including a device layer including a plurality of devices and an opposite second side; an electrically conductive contact coupled to one of the plurality of devices on the first side; and an electrically conductive interconnect disposed on the second side of the structure and coupled to the conductive contact. A method including forming a transistor device including a channel between a source and a drain and a gate electrode on the channel defining a first side of the device; forming an electrically conductive contact to one of the source and the drain from the first side; and forming an interconnect on a second side of the device, wherein the interconnect is coupled to the contact.
US11264487B2
A method includes forming a dummy gate stack on a top surface and a sidewall of a middle portion of a semiconductor fin, and forming a spacer layer. The spacer layer includes a first portion on a sidewall of the dummy gate stack, and a second portion on a top surface and a sidewall of a portion of the semiconductor fin. The method further includes performing an implantation on the spacer layer. After the implantation, an anneal is performed. After the anneal, the second portion of the spacer layer is etched, wherein the first portion of the spacer layer remains after the etching. A source/drain region is formed on a side of the semiconductor fin.
US11264485B2
The present disclosure describes an inner spacer structure for a semiconductor device and a method for forming the same. The method for forming the inner spacer structure in the semiconductor device can include forming a vertical structure over a substrate, forming a gate structure over a portion of the vertical structure, exposing sidewalls of the portion of the vertical structure, forming multiple spacers over the sidewalls of the portion of the vertical structure, and forming a void in each of the multiple spacers.
US11264480B2
Incorporation of metallic quantum dots (e.g., silver bromide (AgBr) films) into the source and drain regions of a MOSFET can assist in controlling the transistor performance by tuning the threshold voltage. If the silver bromide film is rich in bromine atoms, anion quantum dots are deposited, and the AgBr energy gap is altered so as to increase Vt. If the silver bromide film is rich in silver atoms, cation quantum dots are deposited, and the AgBr energy gap is altered so as to decrease Vt. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of neutral quantum dots of different sizes also varies Vt. Use of a mass spectrometer during film deposition can assist in varying the composition of the quantum dot film. The metallic quantum dots can be incorporated into ion-doped source and drain regions. Alternatively, the metallic quantum dots can be incorporated into epitaxially doped source and drain regions.
US11264475B2
A Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) trench cell includes a plurality of main gate trenches etched in the semiconductor body. In conduction state, the main gate electrode forms vertical MOS channels on the short edges and at least on a portion of the long edges in a mesa of the semiconductor body between neighbouring trenches. The longitudinal direction of the main gate trenches is oriented at an angle between 45 degrees to 90 degrees compared to the longitudinal direction of the first main electrode contacts, in a top plane view. This design offers a wide range of advantages both in terms of performance (reduced losses, improved controllability and reliability) and processability (narrow mesa design rules) and can be applied to both IGBTs and MOSFETs based on silicon or wide bandgap materials such as silicon carbide SiC, zinc oxide (ZnO), gallium oxide (Ga2O3), gallium nitride (GaN), diamond.
US11264471B2
A junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET) includes a substrate, a source region formed in the substrate, a drain region formed in the substrate, a channel region formed in the substrate, and at least one gate region formed in the substrate. The channel region connects the source and drain regions. The at least one gate region contacts one of the source and drain regions at an interface, and the at least one gate region is isolated from the other of the source and drain regions. A dielectric layer covers the interface while exposing portions of the gate region and the one of the source and drain regions.
US11264465B2
III-nitride materials are generally described herein, including material structures comprising III-nitride material regions and silicon-containing substrates. Certain embodiments are related to gallium nitride materials and material structures comprising gallium nitride material regions and silicon-containing substrates.
US11264455B2
A method for forming a three-dimensional memory device includes forming, on a first side of a first substrate, a plurality of semiconductor device arrays and forming a first interconnect layer on the plurality of semiconductor device arrays. The method also includes forming, on a second substrate, a memory array including a plurality of memory cells and a second interconnect layer. The method further includes bonding the first and second interconnect layers and forming one or more isolation trenches through a second side of the first substrate that is opposite to the first side to expose a portion of the first side of the first substrate. The one or more isolation trenches are formed between first and second semiconductor device arrays of the plurality of semiconductor devices arrays. The method further includes disposing an isolation material to form one or more isolation structures respectively in the one or more isolation trenches.
US11264450B2
The embodiments of the invention provides a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing it The semiconductor device provided by the embodiments of the invention comprises: a first electrode layer; a substrate layer positioned on the first electrode layer; an epitaxy layer positioned on the substrate layer and comprising a first surface far from the substrate layer; a plurality of well regions disposed by extending from the first surface into the epitaxy layer and orthographic projections thereof on the first surface are spaced from each other; a second electrode layer, comprising first metal layers, each disposed between adjacent two of the well regions on the first surface and forms a Schottky contact with the epitaxy layer, wherein the Schottky contact has variable barrier height. The semiconductor device provided by the embodiments of the invention may improve the forward conduction ability without affecting the reverse blocking ability.
US11264445B2
A method of compensating for degradation of a display device includes sensing a first sensing current flowing through a sensing line connected to a pixel, which includes a programming period for writing a data voltage of a predetermined color to a storage capacitor of the pixel, sensing a sensing voltage of the sensing line, which includes a period for charging a line capacitor connected to the sensing line, estimating a voltage of an anode electrode of an organic light emitting diode using a second sensing current estimated from the first sensing current and the sensing voltage, and determining a degradation compensation value using the voltage of the anode electrode.
US11264443B2
A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are disclosed. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a pixel driving circuit on the base substrate; and the pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor and a gate leading line, the driving transistor includes a gate electrode, the gate leading line is electrically connected to the gate electrode, and the gate leading line is between the gate electrode and the base substrate.
US11264440B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a display device are provided. A retaining wall of the OLED display panel includes a substrate retaining wall layer, an inorganic retaining wall layer, and an organic retaining wall layer stacked on each other. Based on a structure of the retaining wall, a height of the retaining wall is increased, which can better block movements of organic materials and reduce a distance between the retaining wall and a display region. Meanwhile, the undercut shape between the retaining wall and the display region can also increase moving paths of the organic materials, which can further reduce the distance between the retaining wall and the display region, and can prevent cutting cracks from extending to the display region along the inorganic layer and a substrate, which can further reduce frame sizes.
US11264436B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, a plurality of display areas arranged in an array on the base substrate, and non-display areas between the display areas. A display structure is disposed in the display area and configured to display images. The non-display area is light-transparent and is provided with a photochromic pattern. The photochromic pattern is configured to adjust the light transmittance of the non-display area according to the illumination intensity of the received light.
US11264429B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image. The display panel has a folding axis extending in a first direction. An optical film is disposed over the display panel. The optical film includes a circular polarizer including at least two phase retarders and one polarizer. Slow axes of each of the at least two phase retarders are located in the same quadrant of four quadrants of the optical film.
US11264427B2
An optoelectronic circuit including a substrate and display pixels, each display pixel having a first light-emitting diode adapted to emit a first radiation and a second light-emitting diode adapted to emit a second radiation, the first light-emitting diode having a planar structure and resting on the substrate and the second light-emitting diode having a tridimensional structure and resting on the first light-emitting diode or crossing at least partially through the first light-emitting diode.
US11264415B2
An object is to provide a pixel structure of a display device including a photosensor which prevents changes in an output of the photosensor and a decrease in imaging quality. The display device has a pixel layout structure in which a shielding wire is disposed between an FD and an imaging signal line (a PR line, a TX line, or an SE line) or between the FD and an image-display signal line in order to reduce or eliminate parasitic capacitance between the FD and a signal line for the purpose of suppressing changes in the potential of the FD. An imaging power supply line, image-display power supply line, a GND line, a common line, or the like whose potential is fixed, such as a common potential line, is used as a shielding wire.
US11264413B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first data line, a scan line, a first sub-pixel, a passivation layer, and a common electrode. The first sub-pixel includes a first main-driving element, a first sub-driving element, a first capacitor electrode, and a first pixel electrode. The first main-driving element includes a first main-gate, a first main-channel layer, a first main-source, and a first main-drain. The first sub-driving element includes a first sub-gate, a first sub-channel layer, a first sub-source, and a first sub-drain. The first capacitor electrode is electrically connected with the first main-drain and the first sub-source. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected with the first sub-drain. The common electrode and the first capacitor electrode have a first main capacitor therebetween. The common electrode and the first pixel electrode have a first sub capacitor therebetween.
US11264412B2
A thin-film transistor (TFT) array substrate including: a first conductive layer selected from an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode of a TFT; a second conductive layer in a layer different from the first conductive layer; and a connection node coupling the first conductive layer to the second conductive layer. Here, the TFT array has a node contact hole formed by: a first contact hole in the first conductive layer; and a second contact hole in the second conductive layer, the second contact hole being integral with the first contact hole and not being separated from the first contact hole by an insulating layer, and at least a portion of the connection node is in the node contact hole.
US11264403B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: first and second interconnect layers; a plurality of third interconnect layers stacked between the first and second interconnect layers; a first insulating layer passing through the plurality of third interconnect layers, and including one end that is in contact with a first face of the first interconnect layer; a first memory pillar including a first semiconductor layer passing through the plurality of third interconnect layers and a charge storage layer provided between the plurality of third interconnect layers and the first semiconductor layer. A distance between a third face of the first interconnect layer opposite to the first face and the second interconnect layer in the first direction, differs at a position corresponding to the first insulating layer from at positions corresponding to the third interconnect layers.
US11264402B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method includes forming a plurality of memory devices within an embedded memory region of a substrate and forming a plurality of transistor devices within a logic region of the substrate. A first isolation structure is formed within a boundary region of the substrate disposed between the logic region and the embedded memory region. The first isolation structure is formed within a recess in the substrate. A logic wall is formed over the first isolation structure. The logic wall surrounds the embedded memory region and has a first height that is greater than heights of the plurality of memory devices.
US11264382B2
Disclosed are a method of forming a fin-type field effect transistor (FINFET) and a FINFET structure. In the method, isolation regions are formed on opposing sides of a semiconductor fin. Each isolation region is shorter than the fin, has a lower isolation portion adjacent to a lower fin portion, and has an upper isolation portion that is narrower than the lower isolation portion and separated from a bottom section of an upper fin portion by a space. Surface oxidation of the upper fin portion thins the top section, but leaves the bottom section relatively wide. During gate formation, the gate dielectric layer fills the spaces between the bottom section of the upper fin portion and the adjacent isolation regions. Thus, the gate conductor layer is formed above any fin bulge area and degradation of gate control over the channel region due to a non-uniform fin width is minimized or avoided.
US11264379B2
A monolithic integration of enhancement mode (E-mode) and depletion mode (D-mode) field effect transistors (FETs) comprises a compound semiconductor substrate overlaid by an epitaxial structure overlaid by source and drain electrodes. The epitaxial structure includes from bottom to top sequentially a buffer layer, a channel layer, a Schottky barrier layer, a first etch stop layer, and a first cap layer. The respective first gate metal layers of the D-mode and E-mode FET are in contact with the first etch stop layer. The D-mode and E-mode gate-sinking regions are beneath the respective first gate metal layers of the D-mode and E-mode gate electrode at least within the first etch stop layer. The first gate metal layer material of the D-mode is the same as that of the E-mode, where the first gate metal layer thickness of the E-mode is greater than that of the D-mode.
US11264377B2
A semiconductor device includes a stack structure comprising decks. Each deck of the stack structure comprises a memory element level comprising memory elements and control logic level in electrical communication with the memory element level, the control logic level comprising a first subdeck structure comprising a first number of transistors comprising a P-type channel region or an N-type channel region and a second subdeck structure comprising a second number of transistors comprising the other of the P-type channel region or the N-type channel region overlying the first subdeck structure. Related semiconductor devices and methods of forming the semiconductor devices are disclosed.
US11264374B2
A method of making an electrostatic discharge (ESD) testing structure includes forming, in a first die, a first measurement device. The method further includes forming, in a second die, a fuse, a first trim pad, and a second trim pad. The method further includes forming, between the first die and the second die, a plurality of electrical bonds, wherein a first bond of the plurality of bonds is electrically connected to the first trim pad and a first side of the fuse, and a second bond of the plurality of bonds is electrically connected to the second trim pad and a second side of the fuse.
US11264370B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) package structure includes a substrate, an LED, a side wall, an encapsulant, and a waterproof protective coating. The LED is disposed on the substrate, the side wall defines a through hole and is disposed on the substrate, and the LED is accommodated in the through hole. The encapsulant is filled in the through hole and covers the LED. A heterojunction is disposed between the encapsulant and the side wall, and the waterproof protective coating seals the heterojunction. Furthermore, the encapsulant includes a first fluoropolymer, the waterproof protective coating includes a second fluoropolymer, and the light transmittance of the first fluoropolymer is greater than that of the second fluoropolymer.
US11264365B2
An image display device includes a plurality of micro light-emission elements that constitute a pixel and that are provided on a driving circuit substrate. The micro light-emission element displays an image by emitting light to a side opposite to the driving circuit substrate. A light convergence portion that converges light is disposed in the pixel.
US11264357B1
Techniques and arrangements for performing exposure operations on a wafer utilizing both a stepper apparatus and an aligner apparatus. The exposure operations are performed with respect to large composite base dies, e.g., interposers, defined within the wafer, where the interposers will become a part of microelectronic devices by coupling with active dies or microchips. The composite base dies may be coupled to the active dies via “native interconnects” utilizing direct bonding techniques. The stepper apparatus may be used to perform exposure operations on active regions of the composite base dies to provide a fine pitch for the native interconnects, while the aligner apparatus may be used to perform exposure operations on inactive regions of the composite base dies to provide a coarse pitch for interfaces with passive regions of the composite base dies.
US11264345B2
A method for forming a direct hybrid bond and a device resulting from a direct hybrid bond including a first substrate having a first set of metallic bonding pads, preferably connected to a device or circuit, capped by a conductive barrier, and having a first non-metallic region adjacent to the metallic bonding pads on the first substrate, a second substrate having a second set of metallic bonding pads capped by a second conductive barrier, aligned with the first set of metallic bonding pads, preferably connected to a device or circuit, and having a second non-metallic region adjacent to the metallic bonding pads on the second substrate, and a contact-bonded interface between the first and second set of metallic bonding pads capped by conductive barriers formed by contact bonding of the first non-metallic region to the second non-metallic region.
US11264341B2
Provided is a microwave integrated circuit including: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of amplification units that are formed in the semiconductor substrate; a wiring that is formed in one layer wiring excluding an uppermost layer wiring and a lowermost layer wiring among a plurality of layer wirings formed on the semiconductor substrate and is used for supplying power to the plurality of amplification units; and a plurality of vias that connect a plurality of conductive regions formed in the layer wiring with the wiring interposed therebetween and other conductive regions formed in a region interposing the wiring in the two layer wirings immediately above and immediately below the layer wiring, in which each of the plurality of vias forms a via structure connected to the conductive regions of the lowermost layer wiring by a plurality of other vias.
US11264340B2
A capacitor structure includes a first metal layer, a first metal oxide layer, a second metal oxide layer, a first conductive member, a second conductive member and a metal composite structure. The first metal layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first metal oxide layer is formed on the first surface of the first metal layer. The second metal oxide layer is formed on the second surface of the first metal layer. The first conductive member penetrates through the capacitor structure and is electrically isolated from the first metal layer. The second conductive member is electrically connected to the first metal layer. The metal composite structure is disposed between the second conductive member and the first metal layer.
US11264335B2
An anti-electromagnetic interference radio frequency module and an implementation method therefor. The anti-electromagnetic interference radio frequency module comprises a radio frequency module body, the inside of the radio frequency module body is provided with an electrical connection area (1) and a grounding area (2), a metal thin film structure (4) is attached to an upper surface and side surfaces of the radio frequency module body, and the metal thin film structure is connected to the grounding area, forming an anti-electromagnetic interference shielding layer structure which is integrated with the radio frequency module body. The radio frequency module achieves an anti-electromagnetic interference effect by means of the anti-electromagnetic interference shielding layer structure, so that electromagnetic interference generated around the radio frequency module is effectively isolated, thereby improving the performance of the radio frequency module.
US11264332B2
Described are semiconductor interposer, and microelectronic device assemblies incorporating such semiconductor interposers. The described interposers include multiple redistribution structures on each side of the core; each of which may include multiple individual redistribution layers. The interposers may optionally include circuit elements, such as passive and/or active circuit. The circuit elements may be formed at least partially within the semiconductor core.
US11264318B2
Provided is a semiconductor device free from chipping of a thin semiconductor element during transportation. The semiconductor device includes: a thin semiconductor element including a front-side electrode on the front side of the semiconductor element, and including a back-side electrode on the back side of the semiconductor element; a metallic member formed on at least one of the front-side electrode and the back-side electrode, the metallic member having a thickness equal to or greater than the thickness of the semiconductor element; and a resin member in contact with the lateral side of the metallic member and surrounding the periphery of the metallic member, with a part of the front side of the semiconductor element being exposed.
US11264316B2
A package structure includes a first RDL structure, a die, an encapsulant, a film, a TIV and a second RDL structure. The die is located over the first RDL structure. The encapsulant laterally encapsulates sidewalls of the die. The film is disposed between the die and the first RDL structure, and between the encapsulant and the first RDL structure. The TIV penetrates through the encapsulant and the film to connect to the first RDL structure. The second RDL structure is disposed on the die, the TIV and the encapsulant and electrically connected to die and the TIV.
US11264275B2
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.
US11264269B1
A method of manufacturing a trench type semiconductor device includes the following steps. First, an epitaxial layer is formed on a substrate, then a trench is formed in the epitaxial layer, and a gate structure is formed in the trench. The gate structure includes an upper gate and a lower gate, and an intermediate insulating portion, and the intermediate insulating portion is located in the upper gate.
US11264255B2
A system for removing an oxide material from a surface of a substrate can include a substrate tray to receive the substrate, and a cooling body to receive the substrate tray. The system may include a first temperature control element configured to control a temperature of the substrate tray and a second temperature control element configured to control a temperature of the cooling body, where the first temperature control element and the second temperature control element can be independently controlled. A method for removing oxide material from a surface of a substrate can include providing the substrate on a substrate tray having heating elements, cooling the substrate by transferring heat from the substrate tray to a cooling body, depositing a halogen-containing material on the cooled substrate while the substrate is on the cooling body, and subsequently sublimating the halogen-containing material by heating the cooled substrate by transferring heat from the substrate tray to the substrate.
US11264250B2
Use of a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) composition (Q) for chemical mechanical polishing of a substrate (S) comprising (i) cobalt and/or (ii) a cobalt alloy, wherein the CMP composition (Q) comprises (A) Inorganic particles (B) an anionic surfactant of the general formula (I) R-S wherein R is C5-C20-alkyl, C5-C20-alkenyl, C5-C20-alkylacyl or C5-C20-alkenylacyl and S is a sulfonic acid derivative, an amino acid derivative or a phosphoric acid derivative or salts or mixtures thereof (C) at least one amino acid, (D) at least one oxidizer (E) an aqueous medium and wherein the CMP composition (Q) has a pH of from 7 to 10.
US11264248B2
A method of etching a substrate including an etching film and a mask formed on the etching film is provided. The mask includes a first pattern of a first recess having a first opening and a second pattern of a second recess having a second opening. The method includes etching the etching film to a predetermined depth; depositing a protective film on the mask after the etching; and etching the etching film after the depositing. The first opening is smaller than the second opening. As a result of the depositing, the first opening of the first pattern is clogged and the second opening of the second pattern is not clogged.
US11264247B2
According to one or more embodiments, a method for forming an etching mask includes forming a mask layer including a first organic material on a processing object, processing the mask layer to form a pattern including an opening, exposing the mask layer to a first oxidizing gas containing a first metal material such that the first metal material penetrates into the mask layer, and then exposing the mask layer to a first oxidizing gas including hydrogen peroxide or ozone to oxidize the first metal material.
US11264240B2
A semiconductor device is manufactured by implanting impurity ions in one surface of a semiconductor substrate made of silicon carbide; irradiating a region of the semiconductor substrate implanted with the impurity ions with laser light of a wavelength in the ultraviolet region; and forming, on a surface of a high-concentration impurity layer formed by irradiating with the laser light, an electrode made of metal in ohmic contact with the high-concentration impurity layer. When irradiating with the laser light, a first concentration peak of the impurity ions that exceeds a solubility limit concentration of the impurity ions in silicon carbide is formed in a surface region near the one surface of the semiconductor substrate within the high-concentration impurity layer.
US11264223B2
A method is disclosed comprising providing a biological sample on a swab, directing a spray of charged droplets onto a surface of the swab in order to generate a plurality of analyte ions, and analysing the analyte ions.
US11264220B2
A method for producing an atom trap (20) comprising the steps: (a) applying an electrically conductive starting layer (2) onto a substrate (1), (b) applying at least one electric conductor element (4) to the starting layer (2) by means of electro-chemical deposition and/or a lift-off method, (c) applying at least one contacting element (6) by means of electro-chemical deposition and/or a lift-off method, such that the at least one contacting element (6) is connected to the at least one electric conductor element (4) in an electrically conductive manner, (d) removing the starting layer (2) in regions in which no electric conductor element (4) has been applied, (e) applying an insulation layer (7) that at least partially covers the at least one electric conductor element (4) and the at least one contacting element (6), (f) planarizing the insulation layer (7) and exposing the at least one contacting element (6), and (g) applying at least one additional electric conductor (14) element by means of electro-chemical deposition and/or a lift-off method, such that the at least one additional electric conductor element (14) is connected to the at least one contacting element (6) in an electrically conductive manner.
US11264213B2
Gas distribution assemblies are described including an annular body, an upper plate, and a lower plate. The upper plate may define a first plurality of apertures, and the lower plate may define a second and third plurality of apertures. The upper and lower plates may be coupled with one another and the annular body such that the first and second apertures produce channels through the gas distribution assemblies, and a volume is defined between the upper and lower plates.
US11264209B2
Plasma processing systems and methods are disclosed. The system may include at least one modulating supply that modulates plasma properties where the modulation of the plasma properties has a repetition period, T. A synchronization module configured to send a synchronization signal with a synchronization-signal-repetition-period that is an integer multiple of T to at least one piece of equipment connected to the plasma processing system. A waveform-communication module communicates characteristics of a characterized waveform to at least one piece of equipment connected to the plasma system to enable synchronization of pieces of equipment connected to the plasma processing system. The characterized waveform may contain information about the modulation of the plasma or information about a desired waveform of a piece of equipment connected to the plasma processing system.
US11264207B2
An isolation system includes an input junction coupled to one or more RF power supplies via a match network for receiving radio frequency (RF) power. The isolation system further includes a plurality of channel paths connected to the input junction for distributing the RF power among the channel paths. The isolation system includes an output junction connected between each of the channel paths and to an electrode of a plasma chamber for receiving portions of the distributed RF power to output combined power and providing the combined RF power to the electrode. Each of the channel paths includes bottom and top capacitors for blocking a signal of the different type than that of the RF power. The isolation system avoids a risk of electrical arcing created by a voltage difference between an RF terminal and a non-RF terminal when the terminals are placed proximate to each other.
US11264197B2
A resetting element for transmitting resetting force to a thermal switch. The resetting element includes a first end and an elastic element configured to transmit a force received at the first end to the reset switch of the thermal switch, wherein the elastic element is prevents damage to the thermal switch by decreasing the force transmitted to the reset switch from the first end.
US11264195B2
The relay according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a main body configured to open and close a circuit by an input signal, and a plurality of terminals extending from the main body and coupled to a PCB, wherein each of the plurality of terminals comprises an inclined extension portion configured to allow the main body to be spaced apart from the PCB and maintain an inclined state with respect to a surface of the PCB and a lower surface of the main body, and a coupling portion extending from the inclined extension portion in a direction to enter a coupling slot of the PCB.
US11264176B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes stacked with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and having first and second external electrodes disposed on the ceramic body and connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The first external electrode includes a first electrode portion and a first band portion, and the second external electrode comprises a second electrode portion and a second band portion. A length of the ceramic body in a first direction is L, a width thereof in a second direction is W, a length of the first and second electrode portions in the first direction is BW, a width of the first or second band portion in the second direction is SW, a ratio SW/W is less than 0.46, and a ratio BW/L exceeds 0.10.
US11264175B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic main body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes, principal surfaces, side surfaces, and end surfaces, and an external electrode electrically connected to the internal electrode on both end surfaces. The dielectric layer includes at least one element of Si and Mg. In a section defined by the width and lamination directions at a position of a central portion in the length direction of the ceramic main body, an outside in the width direction is higher than a central portion in the width direction in an amount of at least one element existing in a rectangular region of about 10 μm×about 10 μm of the dielectric layer in planar view, and continuity of the internal electrodes within a range of about 10 μm from an end in the width direction of the internal electrodes is greater than or equal to about 95%.
US11264164B2
An inductor for a boost converter in a hybrid vehicle includes a core, a coil winding, and an end cap. The coil winding is disposed about the core. The end cap is disposed over a first end of the inductor, overhangs the coil winding, defines a channel that is configured to receive fluid from a pump, defines at least one nozzle that is configured to direct fluid from an overhanging portion of the end cap and onto the coil, and defines a fluid reservoir that is in fluid communication with the channel and the at least one nozzle.
US11264154B2
A rare earth permanent magnet includes a main phase containing: a rare earth element R of one or more types including Nd; an element L of one or more types selected from a group consisting of Co, Be, Li, Al, and Si; B; and Fe, wherein crystals which form the main phase belong to P42/mnm; some of B atoms occupying a 4f site of the crystals are substituted with atoms of the element L; each distribution of Nd atoms and the atoms of the element L appears along a C-axis direction of the crystals in a plurality of cycles; and the rare earth permanent magnet includes an area where a cycle of the atoms of the element L matches a cycle of the Nd atoms.
US11264150B2
A method for producing an at least two-part structure, such as a semifinished product for a superconducting wire is provided. A first structure and a second structure are separately produced, and the first structure and the second structure are then inserted one into the other. The first structure and the second structure are respectively produced in layers by selective laser melting or selective electron beam melting of a powder. The method produces two-part structures for semifinished products of superconducting wires.
US11264140B1
A system and method for an automated pharmaceutical research utilizing contextual workspaces comprising a workspace drive engine, a data analysis engine, one or more machine and deep learning modules, a knowledge graph, and a workspace interface, which can create a virtual research workspace where data files containing biochemical data related to current research can be uploaded, which automatically processes and analyzes the uploaded data file to autonomously extract a plurality of information related to the uploaded data file, which performs various similarity searches on the uploaded data, and which formats and displays all the extracted information in the workspace, such that the workspace may provide a deeper contextualized view of the uploaded biochemical data.
US11264138B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a mental health prediction for a patient. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data captured by one or more sensors characterizing a brain of a patient; determining a network graph from the brain data, wherein: a node of the network graph corresponds to a parcellation in the brain of the patient, and a subset of nodes of the network graph corresponds to a particular functional area of the brain; generating, for each of a plurality of nodes in the network graph, a measure of centrality of the node; generating, for the particular functional area of the brain and using the generated measures of centrality, a health score representing a measure of health of the functional area of the brain; generating a mental health prediction for the patient using the health score.
US11264137B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a mental health prediction for a patient using a centrality ranking of the brain of the patient. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data of a patient, wherein the brain data comprises, for each of a plurality of pairs of parcellations formed from a set of parcellations where each pair comprises a first parcellation and a second parcellation, data characterizing a number of tracts connecting the first parcellation and the second parcellation; determining a network graph from the brain data; generating, for each of a plurality of nodes in the network graph, a measure of centrality of the node; determining a centrality ranking of the plurality of nodes of the network graph according to the respective measures of centrality; generating a mental health prediction for the patient using the determined centrality ranking.
US11264135B2
Using computer-assisted classification and/or computer-assisted segmentation with or without monitoring the field of view for change, the workflow for ultrasound imaging may be made more efficient. The classification and/or segmentation is used to perform a next act in the sequence of acts making up the ultrasound examination. Rather than requiring a user to determine the act and implement the act, the ultrasound scanner determines and implements the act based on the identification and/or location of an imaged object. For example, the identification of the object as a kidney using a machine-learnt classifier triggers a color flow scan, and the location of the object determines a placement for the color flow region of interest (ROI), avoiding the user having to perform the ROI initiation and/or placement and increasing workflow efficiency.
US11264134B2
A wearable data storage and transmission device and related systems that collect and store sensor data from sensors worn by a user. The device components can include a processor, battery, data storage media, NFC components, Bluetooth components, Wi-Fi components, and wired communications components. The device can remain powered down, powering up periodically to collect sensor data using low energy methods and/or in response to receiving a signal (e.g., NFC, power, Bluetooth, etc.) from an external device that causes the device to power up its components and make sensor data available to the external device. The collected sensor data may be encoded, compressed, stored, and/or exchanged in one or more structured records using various methods to improve the information storage capabilities of the device, including using the disclosed QR coding methods.
US11264130B2
To prevent the spread of hospital-acquired infections, embodiments described herein monitor mobile device usage in clinical settings (by a physician, nurse, etc.) to characterize potential pathogenic contamination of the mobile device, the user's hands, and the surfaces in contact with the device. Our method considers the physical properties of how the device is handled and held during use, as well as the location and setting before, during, and after use to estimate potential contamination and transmission of pathogens. A system can use the estimation, along with knowledge (e.g., of the user's upcoming schedule) to alert them of potential contamination hazards and suggest when to avoid mobile device use as well as when to sanitize the device and user's hands.
US11264126B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient predictive data analysis solutions and/or more effective and efficient solutions for generating image representations of categorical/scalar data. Various embodiments of the present invention address one or more of the noted technical challenges. In one example, a method comprises receiving the one or more categorical input features; generating an image representation of the one or more categorical input features, wherein the image representation comprises image region values each associated with a categorical input feature, and further wherein each image region value of the one or more image region values is determined based at least in part on the corresponding categorical input feature associated with the image region value; and processing the image representation using an image-based machine learning model to generate the image-based predictions.
US11264125B2
This invention provides a dosage form dispenser, comprising a casing comprising a first portion adapted for insertion within an oral cavity of a subject and a second portion adapted to encase a dosage form dispensing mechanism located therewithin; at least one camera positioned on said second portion of said casing, further positioned to capture a field of view of a portion of a face of a subject, wherein said field of view comprises at least a portion of a base view of the nose of said subject; a dosage form dispensing mechanism; a microprocessor and associated memory for processing and storing user authentication information, comparing images relayed from said at least one camera to at least one stored user standard and providing authentication when a match is established; and an interface connected to said dispensing mechanism, which promotes dispensing said dosage form when said authentication has been obtained. Methods for dispensing a dosage form directly within an oral cavity of a subject in need thereof, using the dispensers are also described.
US11264120B2
A method for managing flow of particles into an array of pairwise-point-interaction-module includes receiving a first set of particles into a first queue. The first set is a proper subset of a second set of particles that comprises all particles that are to be passed into an array of pairwise-point-interaction-modules during a current time period. Prior to having received all particles from the second set, particles from the first set are allowed to pass from the first queue into the array.
US11264114B2
A test pattern generator includes a random command address generator suitable for generating N combinations, each combination of a command and an address, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; an address converter suitable for converting the N combinations into an N-dimensional address; a history storage circuit which is accessed based on the N-dimensional address; and a controller suitable for classifying the N combinations as issue targets, when an area in the history storage circuit, which is accessed based on the N-dimensional address, indicates a value of no hit.
US11264100B2
An operation method of a memory device may include performing a program operation on a memory block in response to a program command from a controller, and applying a program voltage to a dummy word line coupled to dummy cells within the memory block such that the dummy cells have an indication threshold voltage higher than a normal pass voltage and providing a program fail signal to the controller when the program operation fails.
US11264096B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for content addressable memory (CAM) cells. Each CAM cell may include a comparator portion which stores a bit of information. Each CAM cell may also include a comparator portion, which compares an external bit to the stored bit. A group of CAM cells may be organized into a CAM register, with each CAM cell coupled in common to a signal line. Any of the CAM cells may change a voltage on the signal line if the external bit does not match the stored bit.
US11264095B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory includes a word line, a bit line, and a memory cell coupled to and disposed between the word line and the bit line, the memory cell including a variable resistance layer that remains in an amorphous state regardless of a value of data stored in the memory cell. In a reset operation, the memory cell is programmed to a high-resistance amorphous state by applying, to the memory cell, a sub-threshold voltage that is greater than 0.7 time of a threshold voltage of the memory cell and is smaller than 0.95 time of the threshold voltage.
US11264085B1
In a memory component having a page buffer with 2N independently accessible regions, N bits of a command/address value are decoded to access contents within a first one of the 2N page-buffer regions if a configuration value specifies a first addressing resolution and, if the configuration value specifies a second addressing resolution, a composite address that includes fewer than N bits of the command/address value together with a plurality of bits generated within the memory component to access contents within a second one of the 2N page-buffer regions.
US11264080B1
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a transmission circuit including first and second transistors coupled in series between a first voltage terminal and a second voltage terminal, and a first common node coupled between the first and second transistors and coupled to a through line, the transmission circuit outputting a signal transferred from an internal circuit to the first common node according to an output control signal; a reception circuit including third and fourth transistors coupled in series between the first voltage terminal and the second voltage terminal, and a second common node coupled between the third and fourth transistors and coupled to the internal circuit, the reception circuit transferring a signal transferred through the through line to the internal circuit according to a first input control signal; and a deterioration acceleration circuit for applying stress to the first and third transistors according to a test signal.
US11264078B2
Memory devices receive a data signal and an accompanying data strobing signal, which informs the device that data is ready for latching. The data strobing signal enables capturing the data while the data signal transitions from a logic high to a logic low or vice versa, resulting in an indeterminate output (e.g., between 0 and 1). The indeterminate value may cause metastability in memory operations using the indeterminate output. To prevent or reduce metastability, a cascaded timing arbiter latch includes cascaded alternating NAND timing arbiters and NOR timing arbiters. In some embodiments, these logic gates are connected to transistors above and below the cascaded timing arbiters. The cascaded timing arbiters and/or transistors provide amplification on a feedback path of the latch. In other embodiments, the cascaded timing arbiters are isolated by inverters and are not connected to transistors. This embodiment reduces capacitive loading on nodes of the internal feedback path.
US11264069B2
An apparatus includes: a master die; one or more slave dies; a ZQ resister between a first node and a second node coupled to a voltage terminal; a ZQ pad coupled to each of the first node of the ZQ resister, the master die and the one or more slave dies; and a calibration channel electrically coupling the master die and the one or more slave dies, the calibration channel configured to communicate signals between the master die and the one or more slave dies for coordinating access to the ZQ pad across the master die and the one or more slave dies.
US11264064B2
A data driving circuit may include a trigger circuit and a pre-driver. The trigger circuit may be configured to block a remaining signal path among a plurality of signal paths for transmitting data except for a signal path corresponding to a currently selected driving strength. The pre-driver may be configured to drive data, which are transmitted through the signal path corresponding to the currently selected driving strength, using an impedance determined in accordance with a plurality of impedance control codes.
US11264057B2
A method of facilitating modified content play such that modification actions may be implemented during play of original content form. The modification actions may be specified by users to modify the original content form. The modification may be disseminated to subscribers or other users desiring similar content modifications. The method may be useful in social networking systems to allow social members to share commentary and otherwise modify original content forms to include their personal reflections.
US11264055B2
A storage array includes a plurality of hard disks, where each of the hard disks is divided into a plurality of chunks, and a plurality of chunks of different hard disks form a chunk group by using a redundancy algorithm. The storage array obtains fault information of a faulty area in a first hard disk, and determines a faulty chunk storing the lost data according to the fault information. The storage array recovers the data in the faulty chunk by using another chunk in a chunk group to which the faulty chunk belongs and stores the recovered data in a recovered chunk. The recovered chunk is located in a second hard disk which is not a hard disk for forming the chunk group.
US11264054B2
In the magnetic recording medium, a number distribution A of a plurality of bright regions, based on equivalent circle diameters thereof, in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer by a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 5 kV and a number distribution B of a plurality of dark regions, based on equivalent circle diameters thereof, in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer by a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 2 kV respectively satisfy a predetermined number distribution.
US11264046B2
A speech signal leveling system and method include generating an output signal by applying a frequency-dependent or frequency-independent controllable gain to an input signal, the gain being dependent on a gain control signal, and generating at least one speech detection signal indicative of voice components contained in the input signal. The system and method further include generating the gain control signal based on the input signal and the at least one speech detection signal, controlling the controllable-gain block to amplify or attenuate the input signal to have a predetermined mean or maximum or absolute peak signal level as long as voice components are detected in the input signal.
US11264038B2
The invention provides methods and devices for stereo encoding and decoding using complex prediction in the frequency domain. In one embodiment, a decoding method, for obtaining an output stereo signal from an input stereo signal encoded by complex prediction coding and comprising first frequency-domain representations of two input channels, comprises the upmixing steps of: (i) computing a second frequency-domain representation of a first input channel; and (ii) computing an output channel on the basis of the first and second frequency-domain representations of the first input channel, the first frequency-domain representation of the second input channel and a complex prediction coefficient. The upmixing can be suspended responsive to control data.
US11264036B2
Provided are a method of generating a trained third neural network to recognize a speaker of a noisy speech signal by combining a trained first neural network which is a skip connection-based neural network for removing noise from the noisy speech signal with a trained second neural network for recognizing the speaker of a speech signal, and a neural network device for operating the neural networks.
US11264035B2
A system and method of automatic transcription using a visual display device and an ear-wearable device. The system is configured to process an input audio signal at the display device to identify a first voice signal and a second voice signal from the input audio signal. A representation of the first voice signal and the second voice signal can be displayed on the display device and input can be received comprising the user selecting one of the first voice signal and the second voice signal as a selected voice signal. The system is configured to convert the selected voice signal to text data and display a transcript on the display device. The system can further generate an output signal sound at the first transducer of the ear-wearable device based on the input audio signal.
US11264031B2
A method for processing plan is provided. The method includes multiple end points including obtaining an intent corresponding to a user utterance, generating the plan for setting a connection order of actions for executing the intent, determining whether there are multiple end points of the actions, determining whether the actions having different end points are independent, and combining actions having the same end points to generate a plurality of sub plans again and then processing the plurality of sub plans in parallel when the actions having the different end points are independent.
US11264028B2
Systems, methods, devices, and other techniques are described herein for determining dialog states that correspond to voice inputs and for biasing a language model based on the determined dialog states. In some implementations, a method includes receiving, at a computing system, audio data that indicates a voice input and determining a particular dialog state, from among a plurality of dialog states, which corresponds to the voice input. A set of n-grams can be identified that are associated with the particular dialog state that corresponds to the voice input. In response to identifying the set of n-grams that are associated with the particular dialog state that corresponds to the voice input, a language model can be biased by adjusting probability scores that the language model indicates for n-grams in the set of n-grams. The voice input can be transcribed using the adjusted language model.
US11264025B2
A system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to receive an utterance, transmit the utterance to a cloud to generate an intent and an entity, receive the intent and the entity, and perform an action with respect to a graphical user interface. A method includes receiving an utterance, transmitting the utterance to a cloud to generate an intent and an entity, receiving the intent and the entity, and performing an action with respect to a graphical user interface. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to receive an utterance, transmit the utterance to a cloud to generate an intent and an entity, receive the intent and the entity, and perform an action with respect to a graphical user interface.
US11264021B2
A method for providing intent-based interactive voice response by an electronic device. The method includes receiving, by the electronic device, a voice input while obtaining an image of an object by using an image sensor, and generating an interactive voice response associated with the object based on the voice input. The method may further include determining a first intent and a second intent from the voice input, and generating an interactive voice response to the voice input, based on the first intent and the second intent.
US11264015B2
A method includes receiving multiple frames of time-domain data that includes noise, and computing, for a first frame of the multiple frames, a frequency domain value for each of multiple frequency bins, each frequency bin representing a corresponding range of frequencies. The method also includes determining that a first frequency domain value corresponding to a first frequency bin is less than or equal to a first threshold value, and in response, updating the first frequency domain value based on a function of (i) a smoothing parameter, and (ii) a second frequency domain value corresponding to the first frequency bin. The second frequency domain value is computed using one or more preceding frames of the multiple frames. The method further includes determining a noise floor corresponding to the first frequency bin using the updated first frequency domain value.
US11264014B1
An audio device for improved talker discrimination is provided. To improve suppression of close talker interference, i.e., of a person talking in close proximity to the user of the audio device, the audio device comprises at least an audio input to receive a voice input signal; a filter bank, configured to provide a plurality of sub-band signals from the voice input signal; a multi-band audio expander, arranged to receive at least a group of the sub-band signals and configured to conduct audio expansion on the group of sub-band signals to provide gain-controlled sub-band signals; and an audio output, configured to provide a voice output signal from at least the gain-controlled sub-band signals.
US11264005B2
A support structure for active noise control systems is provided. The support structure may be used with active noise control systems in enclosed spaces such as a neonatal incubator.
US11264000B2
A display control device controls display of a virtual image which is superimposed on foreground of a vehicle by projection of a display light image from an optical unit to a projection area. The display control device sets a projection position of the display light image which is projected in the projection area on the basis of a relative position of a superimposition object on which the virtual image is superimposed, obtains a measurement information from one vehicle height sensor measuring a displacement in a vertical direction occurring in the vehicle, obtains a gradient information indicating a gradient of a road on which the vehicle travels on the basis of three-dimensional map data, and corrects the projection position of the display light image on the basis of the measurement information and the gradient information.
US11263986B2
A display device for a vehicle comprises a pixel array comprising a plurality of display elements. The device further comprises at least one test element and a controller. The controller is configured to selectively activate the display elements of the pixel array via a plurality of control signals and identify the activation of the at least one test element in response to at least one of the control signals. The controller is further configured to identify a display fault of the display device by comparing the at least one control signal communicated to the at least one test element to a diagnostic signal communicated from the at least one test element.
US11263979B2
The present invention provides a method of driving a display panel and a driving device. The present invention determines sub-pixels shared by sub-pixel rendering technology through comparing differences of the color components, and the sub-pixels shared by the display image are not fixed. Since the sub-pixels with the smallest absolute value of the color component difference are selected for sharing, a contrast of an edge region of an image is improved, and distortion of an edge region of an image is reduced.
US11263975B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a first area, a display area surrounding the first area, and a non-display area surrounding the display area; pixels disposed in the display area; scan lines extending in a first direction and disconnected in the first area; data lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction and disconnected in the first area; and data connection lines electrically connecting the data lines disconnected in the first area.
US11263969B2
A pixel circuit, a parameter detection method, a display panel and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a data writing-in circuit, a driving circuit, a reset control circuit, a detection control circuit, and a light emitting element. The detection control circuit is configured to control the connection or disconnection between the first electrode of the light emitting element and the sensing line under the control of a detection control signal provided by the detection control line. The reset control circuit is configured to control the connection or disconnection between the first electrode of the light emitting element and the second electrode of the light emitting element under the control of a reset control signal provided by the reset control line.
US11263967B2
OLED display color output may vary substantially as a function of display temperature, which changes over time. Luminance of each of the pixels is defined by the current flowing therethrough, which is a function of the applied voltage and resistivity of the pixels. Temperature affects the resistivity of the pixels and thus the current flowing therethrough if voltage is held constant. The temperature response of red, green, and blue pixels differs, particularly at low applied voltage levels. As a result, the relative luminance of red, green, blue may vary with temperature changes, which may yield an undesirable overall color variance. The presently disclosed systems and methods dynamically adjust driving voltage to maintain color quality within a desired specification, while also reducing (or in some implementations, minimizing) power consumption of the OLED display.
US11263963B2
Local passive matrix displays and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, the display includes a pixel driver chip coupled with a matrix of rows and columns of LEDs. The pixel driver chips may be arranged in rows across the display with separate portions to operate separate matrices of LEDs.
US11263957B2
Provided is a display device including: a display panel; and a driving chip. The display panel includes: sub-pixels including first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels located, each first sub-pixel including a first pixel circuit and a first light-emitting element, and each second sub-pixel including a second light-emitting element. The driving chip includes: a data signal output module electrically connected to the first pixel circuit and configured to output a first data signal to the first pixel circuit, so that the first pixel circuit outputs, in response to the first data signal, a first driving current signal for driving the first light-emitting element to emit light; and a driving current signal output module electrically connected to the second light-emitting element and configured to output a second driving current signal to the second light-emitting element, so that the second light-emitting element emits light in response to the second driving current signal.
US11263955B2
A display panel and an electronic device are provided. The display panel includes a driving substrate, an insulating layer, which is provided with a first receiving groove and a second receiving groove, a first micro light emitting diode disposed in the first receiving groove, a second micro light emitting diode disposed in the second receiving groove, and a first reflective layer disposed above the second micro light emitting diode. The display panel and the electronic device can reduce a thickness of the display panel.
US11263953B2
A shift register unit and a drive method thereof, a gate drive circuit, and a display device are provided. A shift register unit includes a first noise reduction circuit, a first input circuit, and an output circuit; the first input circuit is coupled to a first node, and is configured to input a first control signal to the first node in response to a first input signal; the output circuit is coupled to the first node and an output terminal, and is configured to output a first output signal to the output terminal under control of a level of the first node; and the first noise reduction circuit is coupled to the output terminal, and is configured to perform noise reduction on the output terminal in response to a level of the output terminal.
US11263952B2
A shift register unit includes a shift register circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit is electrically coupled to the shift register circuit and at least one control terminal, and is configured, based on at least one control signal respectively from the at least one control terminal, to output a hold signal to a pull-up node in the shift register circuit such that a high voltage maintains at the pull-up node during a specified time period. The shift register includes a plurality of shift register circuits cascadedly connected in stages, includes a first shift register circuit, which is coupled with a control circuit to form a shift register unit described above. The above shift register can be used in an array substrate in a display apparatus with touch control functionality.
US11263937B2
A pixel circuit includes a data written-in sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a threshold compensation sub-circuit, a light-emitting element, a sensing sub-circuit and a first light-emission control sub-circuit. The driving sub-circuit is configured to control a driving current for driving the light-emitting element to emit light. The data written-in sub-circuit writes threshold compensation information into a second terminal of the driving sub-circuit at a compensation stage. The threshold compensation sub-circuit stores a data signal and adjusts a voltage at the second terminal of the driving sub-circuit in a coupled manner. The sensing sub-circuit writes a sensing voltage into a first terminal and the second terminal of the driving sub-circuit at a display process, senses aging information of the light-emitting element during an aging detection process and transmits the aging information to the aging detection device.
US11263933B2
An LED panel includes a panel body having a substrate, a plurality of LED elements and a mold, and a light absorbing layer formed at a lateral side of the panel body to absorb at least one of ambient light or light emitted from the plurality of LED elements. The light absorbing layer prevents a seam formed by a gap between the adjacent LED panels from being visible. The light absorbing layer absorbs the external light incident on the gap or absorbs the light emitted from the LED element to the gap.
US11263928B2
A manufacturing method of a flexible display panel includes providing a display substrate which includes a substrate bending region, attaching a back film onto a back surface of the display substrate. A region of the back film corresponding to the substrate bending region is a back film bending region. The manufacturing method includes removing at least the back film bending region to form a perforated region, and bending the display substrate toward the back surface thereof along the substrate bending region to form a flexible display panel.
US11263922B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods and/or apparatuses that may facilitate simulation for various cannulation activities. As may be implemented consistent with one or more embodiments herein, an apparatus includes a pliable surface structure having an inner surface and an outer surface, a tube adjacent the inner surface, and a tank configured to hold fluid and to receive fluid exiting from the tube. The tube and pliable surface structure simulate a blood vessel below the inner surface of the pliable surface structure. The tank operates with the tube and the pliable surface to receive a cannula passed through the pliable surface, into the tube and extending into the tank, and facilitates simulated blood flow in the tube below the inner surface of the pliable surface structure via fluid pumped from the tank, through the tube and back into the tank.
US11263920B2
A display panel for the blind and a display device are provided in the embodiments of the disclosure. The display panel for the blind includes: a back plate; and a plurality of display units provided on the back plate, each comprising: supports provided on the back plate; and an elastic film layer provided on top of the supports and spaced apart from the back plate; the elastic film layer, the supports and the back plate cooperate with one another to define an accommodation cavity thereamong of a respective one of the plurality of display units, and the respective one of the plurality display units is configured to deform in a condition that it is energized so as to drive the accommodation cavity to change its shape and in turn to squeeze the elastic film layer to project outwards; the display device comprises the display panel for the blind as above and a housing configured to receive the display panel.
US11263917B2
A motion simulator for imposing loads on an occupant, the simulator having: a movable carrier for supporting the occupant; a first drive mechanism for moving the carrier; multiple loading elements configured for attachment to the occupant when the occupant is supported by the carrier; a second drive mechanism for actuating the loading elements to apply loads to the occupant; and a controller, the controller being configured to implement a simulation of a motion event by: (i) estimating a motion of the carrier consistent with the motion event and controlling the first drive mechanism to cause the carrier to adopt the estimated motion; (ii) estimating a first load on the occupant consistent with the motion event; (iii) estimating a second load on the occupant due to the motion adopted by the carrier and (iv) controlling the second drive mechanism to cause the second drive mechanism to apply to the occupant a load that is the difference between the first estimated load and the second estimated load.
US11263912B2
An aircraft includes an engine, a thrust reverser, landing gear, a brake system, a pilot input device, and a control system. The engine is configured to generate thrust directed to move the aircraft in a forward direction. The landing gear includes wheels. The brake system is configured to generate a braking force on the wheels. The pilot input device is positioned for use by a pilot of the aircraft. The control system is programmed to: determine whether the taxi operations are allowed; receive a request to achieve and hold a taxi speed at a desired taxi speed from the pilot input device; and command the engine, the thrust reverser, and the brake system to achieve and maintain the desired taxi speed in response to receiving the request to hold taxi speed only when the taxi operations are allowed.
US11263911B2
An identification system for a digital air traffic control center includes a sensor with a field of view and having a pulse detection array, a user interface to display air traffic objects in the field of view of the sensor, and a controller. The controller includes a pulse detection module disposed in communication with the pulse detection array to identify an air traffic object using pulsed illumination emitted by a pulsed illuminator carried by the air traffic object within the field of view of the sensor. Digital air traffic control centers, airfields, and air traffic object identification methods are also described.
US11263908B2
A service system includes a service provider server-system in wireless communication over a network with at least one service requesting application, wherein the requesting application is executing in a smartphone. The requesting application includes a computer coded map. The requesting application is configured, on a request by a user of the application, to request a service by transmitting a map information layer including a visual symbol located on the geographical position (GPS) of the smartphone together with an indication of the requested service to the service provider server-system.
US11263904B2
The network system triggers registration of the start of a transport journey in response to a communication of a transport user device and a transport provider device with each other, performs a continuous coordinated proximity monitoring to verify the identity of a transport user and a transport provider vehicle, and triggers registration of the end of the transport journey through communication of the transport user device and the transport provider device with each other.
US11263902B2
In a method for efficiently guiding a driver of a vehicle through intersections, information regarding status of one or more traffic lights positioned at one or more intersections is received by a computing device or system associated with the driver or vehicle, and a current speed of the vehicle is monitored as the vehicle approaches the intersection(s). A dynamic visual or audio indicator is set based on the status information and the current speed, and presented to the driver via a display or speaker, respectively, of the computing device or system. The dynamic indicator is indicative of one or more changes in speed that, if matched by the driver as the vehicle approaches the one or more intersections, would cause the driver to avoid one or more stops as the vehicle moves through the one or more intersections.
US11263891B2
Disclosed is a back-end system for emergency response, and a corresponding front-end system. The back-end system handles network communication to and/or from multiple information sources for gathering emergency response information from the information sources, including at least video data related to an emergency and/or security situation and additional emergency response information. The back-end system extracts subsets of information from the emergency response information at least partly based on input originating from one or more users and/or operators. The back-end system is configured to perform processing of the emergency response information to enable formation of a common overview of the emergency and/or security situation valid for different users/operators, while also enabling the emergency response information and/or extracted subsets thereof to be processed, compiled and/or filtered, and/or presented to a specific user and/or operator in a way that is customized for the specific user and/or operator of the emergency response system.
US11263884B2
The present invention comprises a system or method that collects data regarding the current and predicted weather in the proximity of a targeted vehicle and compares it with aspects of the targeted vehicle comprising the temperature in the passenger compartment, its geographical location, features, interior and exterior colors, size, whether its parked in a shaded area, etc. The system or method also comprises a regression function that may predict the time that a person, animal, or food product may remain in the vehicle in a safe condition. For example, under certain weather conditions, it may not be safe to keep a dog inside of a parked vehicle for more than four minutes. In addition, the system or method may collect and analyze additional factors based on previously collected data for the same vehicle models, and may comprise a prediction unit that may exchange information with other devices over communication protocols.
US11263873B1
A system which can implement an electronic version of pai gow poker using an electronic gaming system, as well as a physical pai gow game played with physical cards on a physical table.
US11263871B2
In an electronic gaming device, an instance of a process uses a set of reels. A determination is made regarding whether or not a result satisfies a trigger condition for a special mode. Responsive to the special mode being triggered, the process is adjusted so that a final outcome of the instance necessarily satisfies a threshold condition. For example, the set of reels is changed by, for at least one of the reels, swapping or modifying the reel strip for the reel to include a higher concentration of target symbol instances, while also increasing a count of instances of symbols enclosed in a reel area. Graphical elements associated with the process can be changed accordingly. The final outcome is determined according to the adjusted process, and indicators of the instance and final outcome can be displayed using the graphical elements for the adjusted process.
US11263856B2
A method and system for authenticating an item includes providing the item including a polymer substrate comprising a polymer material and a doping material, the polymer material and the doping material configured to transmit radiation laterally through the polymer substrate, and the doping material capable of scattering radiation and absorbing radiation of at least one specific wavelength to generate a spectral signature in a spectral band of wavelengths of the transmitted radiation, irradiating the item with incident radiation characterized by a spectral band of wavelengths spanning a band of wavelengths including the at least one specific wavelength absorbed and scattered by the doping material, detecting the spectral signature after the radiation is transmitted laterally through the polymer substrate, and determining a code associated with the spectral signature.
US11263853B1
An electronic voting identity authentication system a method employing a voting kiosk is provided for facilitating electronic voting using a three-part voter identity authentication thereby enhancing voter identity authentication and the reduction of voter fraud. The voting kiosk employs a palm vein scanner and a QR code reader that employ a user profile comprising at least a DNA sample, a set of genealogical information and a palm vein scan that are specific to a particular registered voter. Upon arriving at a polling site to vote, the registered voter employs the voting kiosk to capture a palm vein scan that is employed to authenticate the identity of the voter.
US11263849B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating between devices using short-range communication links. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating access-right data between devices for verification or transfer.
US11263847B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a wireless communication interface; a display; a magnetic stripe transmission (MST) module comprising a coil for inducing generation of a magnetic field; a processor electrically connected to the wireless communication interface, the display, and the MST module; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions for controlling the processor, the instructions, when executed, causing the processor to: receive digital card key information for unlocking a door lock apparatus from an external device through the wireless communication interface; convert the digital card information into an MST signal containing the same; activate the MST module in response to an MST module activation request input thereto; and unlock the door lock apparatus by transmitting the converted MST signal through magnetic induction and waking up the door lock apparatus through the transmitted MST signal. Other embodiments are also possible.
US11263842B2
The present invention relates to a method for preventing security breaches of a passive remote keyless entry system for authorizing access to a vehicle. The passive remote keyless entry system comprises a base station located at the vehicle and a mobile device, in particular a remote key, wherein the base station comprises a first processor unit and a first transceiver unit, the first transceiver unit comprises a timing device, the mobile device comprises a second processor unit and a second transceiver unit, an air travel time T of a single message sent back and forth from the base station to the mobile device is measured, and access to the vehicle is granted depending on the measured air travel time T.
US11263839B2
A vehicle performance evaluation method, device and terminal are provided. The method includes: acquiring a labeled ADE score of an ADE item within a time period in which the ADE item occurs, and recording labeled data of an ADE index for indicating a vehicle state; acquiring a correlation between the ADE item and the vehicle state, according to the labeled ADE score and the labeled data of the ADE index; acquiring data of a target ADE index within a preset time period, and acquiring a target ADE score according to the data of the target ADE index and a correlation between the ADE item and the vehicle state; and acquiring a vehicle performance evaluation result according to the target ADE score. The passenger participation is not necessary, costs can be reduced and a vehicle evaluation efficiency can be improved.
US11263838B2
The technology involves operation of a self-driving truck or other cargo vehicle when it is being inspected at a weigh station. This may include determining whether a weigh station is open for inspection. Once at the weigh station, the vehicle may follow instructions of an inspection officer or autonomous inspection system. The vehicle may perform predefined actions or operations so that various vehicle systems and safety issues can be evaluated, such as the brakes, lights, tires, connections between the tractor and trailer, exposed fuel tanks, leaks, etc. A visual inspection may be performed to ensure the load is secured, vehicle and cargo documents meet certain criteria, and the carrier's safety record meets any requirements. In addition, the weigh station itself may be operated in a partly or fully autonomous mode when dealing with autonomous and manually driven vehicles.
US11263834B1
Systems and methods for using a vehicle's relative speed to determine an automobile insurance risk assessment rating are provided. According to certain aspects, an average velocity may be calculated, either from real-time or historical telematics data, for a group of vehicles traveling in the same direction on a roadway. Additionally, an average velocity differential for a target vehicle may be determined based upon the average velocity of the group of vehicles. Moreover, based upon the average velocity differential, an automobile insurance risk assessment rating for an individual may be determined which may cause a change in the individual's automobile insurance premium. Further, recommendations on how to improve the individual's automobile insurance risk assessment rating may be provided to the user via the user interface of an electronic device associated with the individual.
US11263825B2
Aggregating data and storing information in connection with a digital sticky note that can be displayed in connection with a file. A method includes generating a digital sticky note to be stored in connection with a file. The method includes storing a coordinate location in connection with the digital sticky note, wherein the coordinate location indicates where the digital sticky note should be displayed within the file. The method includes aggregating data to be stored in connection with the digital sticky note, wherein the data comprises information applicable to the coordinate location.
US11263823B2
The disclosed subject matter is directed to employing machine learning models configured to predict 3D data from 2D images using deep learning techniques to derive 3D data for the 2D images. In some embodiments, a method is provided that comprises employing, by a system comprising a processor, one or more three-dimensional data from two-dimensional data (3D-from-2D) neural network models to derive three-dimensional data from one or more two-dimensional images captured of an object or environment from a current perspective of the object or environment viewed on or through a display of the device. The method further comprises, determining, by the system, a position for integrating a graphical data object on or within a representation of the object or environment viewed on or through the display based on the current perspective and the three-dimensional data.
US11263806B2
A graphics processing system configured to use a rendering space which is subdivided into a plurality of tiles, includes geometry processing logic having geometry transform and sub-primitive logic configured to receive graphics data of input graphics data items, and to determine transformed positions within the rendering space of one or more sub-primitives derived from the input graphics data items using a plurality of shader stages; and a tiling unit configured to generate control stream data including sub-primitive indications to indicate which of the sub-primitives are to be used for rendering each tile. The geometry processing logic is configured to write to a memory, for each instance of a pre-determined shader stage, shader stage output data comprising data output from each instance of the pre-determined shader stage used to process the received graphics data.
US11263804B1
Disclosed is a system and method for rendering point clouds via a hybrid data point and construct visualization. The system receives a point cloud of a three-dimensional (“3D”) environment, and differentiates a first set of the point cloud data points from a second set of the data points based on a position of each data point relative to a specified render position. The system generates a first visualization from values of each of the first set of data points, and a second visualization from values of a set of constructs that replace the second set of data points. Each construct has a polygonal shape and a singular set of values defined from the values of two or more of the second set of data points. The system presents a final render of the 3D environment from the render position by combining the first visualization with the second visualization.
US11263796B1
Computer animation involving monocular pose prediction is disclosed. A plurality of candidate pose sequences of a three-dimensional model of an animation character is generated such that each candidate pose of each sequence has a segmentation map that matches a segmentation map of a corresponding character derived from a corresponding frame of a video. A distance between candidate poses at each time step is maximized. An optimum pose sequence is determined and used to generate a corresponding sequence of frames of animation.
US11263793B2
A method of forming a probability map is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include: (1) obtaining multiple measures of multiple imaging parameters for every stop of a moving window on an image, wherein two neighboring ones of the stops of the moving window are partially overlapped with each other; (2) obtaining first probabilities of an event for the stops of the moving window by matching the measures of the imaging parameters to a classifier; and (3) obtaining second probabilities of the event for multiple voxels of a probability map based on information associated with the first probabilities.
US11263785B2
An object detection method, an electronic apparatus and an object detection system are provided. The method is adapted to the electronic apparatus and includes the following steps. A first image is obtained. A geometric transformation operation is performed on the first image to obtain at least one second image. The first image and the at least one second image are combined to generate a combination image. The combination image including the first image and the at least one second image is inputted into a trained deep learning model to detect a target object.
US11263774B2
A three-dimensional position estimation device includes: a feature point detection unit detecting feature points from images captured by an image capturing device mounted in a moving object; a position-posture change amount calculation unit calculating change amounts of a position and a posture of the moving object; a feature point association unit associating feature points using a feature amount indicating a feature of the feature point; a three-dimensional position acquisition unit acquiring three-dimensional positions of the feature points and acquires a position and a posture of the image capturing device; a graph structure data generation unit generating graph structure data configured with feature point and image nodes, and a feature point and image capturing edges; an error function setting unit setting first and second error functions; and a graph structure data optimizing unit optimizing the three-dimensional position and the position and the posture of the image capturing device.
US11263768B2
A 3D information calculation apparatus includes processing circuitry that may receive first and second images of different first and second wavelength bands, respectively, at a same time and angle of view based on a subject being imaged while structured light of the first wavelength band is projected on to subject, receive third and fourth images of the first and second wavelength bands, respectively, at a same time and angle of view based on the subject being imaged while the structured light is not projected on the subject, calculate a first difference image of the first wavelength band based on subtracting the first and third images, calculate a second difference image of the second wavelength band based on subtracting the second and fourth images, calculate an extraction image based on subtracting the first and second difference images, and calculate a distance to the subject based on the extraction image.
US11263765B2
A method for corrected depth measurement with a time-of-flight camera using amplitude-modulated continuous light. In order to enable an accurate and efficient depth measurement with a time-of-flight camera, the method includes, for each of a plurality of pixels of a sensor array of the camera: acquiring with the camera a raw depth value rm for the pixel; and automatically calculating a ground truth value rt according to: rt=g(rm−cm)+ct, to correct a systematic depth error of the raw depth value rm, wherein cm is a pixel-dependent first offset, g is a pixel-independent first function and ct is a pixel-independent second offset.
US11263761B2
A method for controlling a movable object to track a target object includes determining a change in one or more features between a first image frame and a second image frame, and adjusting a movement of the movable object based on the change in the one or more features between the first image frame and the second image frame. The one or more features are associated with the target object, and the first image frame and the second image frame are captured at different points in time using an imaging device on the movable object.
US11263760B2
An information processing apparatus comprises a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information concerning an index based on a captured image including a physical object added with the index, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a thumbnail image of the physical object, and a holding unit configured to hold, in a memory, physical object information including the information and the thumbnail image of the physical object added with the index.
US11263757B2
An image identifying method is applied to a monitoring camera and a monitoring camera system and used to determine whether a target object is a leaving object or a missing object. The image identifying method includes acquiring a foreground region within a monitoring image corresponding to the target object, analyzing whether the target object inside the foreground region conforms to a variant feature, and comparing the foreground region with a reference image for determining the target object belongs to the leaving object or the missing object when the foreground region does not conform to the variant feature.
US11263749B1
The present disclosure describes a method comprising: obtaining one or more first images of a region of interest of an anatomy from an image source; obtaining at least one of a text input, and one or more physiological signals of a patient; automatically segmenting one or more second images of at least one structure that resides within the one or more first images; extracting one or more volumes of the at least one structure from the one or more first images of the region of interest; determining a feature associated with the at least one structure based on the one or more volumes and one or more inputs, and rendering the feature in at least one of a two-dimensional (2D) format, a three-dimensional (3D) format, and at least one anatomical plane.
US11263724B2
A device for interpolating a color includes at least one processor to implement: a directions interpolation candidate values calculator configured to calculate third horizontal/vertical directions interpolation candidate values with respect to a pixel in a red (R) channel or a blue (B) channel on a Bayer color filter array pattern, based on a local gradient similarity between the R channel and a green (G) channel or a local gradient similarity between the B channel and the G channel; a directions interpolation weights calculator configured to calculate third horizontal/vertical directions interpolation weights based on the first horizontal/vertical directions interpolation candidate values by using a local complexity; and a G value interpolation execution unit configured to interpolate a G value of the pixel in the R channel or the B channel based on the calculated third horizontal/vertical directions interpolation candidate values and the third calculated horizontal/vertical directions interpolation weights.
US11263720B2
A control surface tracks an individual cacheline in the original surface for frequent data values. If so, control surface bits are set. When reading a cacheline from memory, first the control surface bits are read. If they happen to be set, then the original memory read is skipped altogether and instead the bits from the control surface provide the value for the entire cacheline.
US11263715B2
Generating a risk and constraint labeled context map of an operational space is provided. The risk and constraint labeled context map of the operational space corresponding to a user of a cognitive suit is generated to drive the cognitive suit contextually using three-dimension reconstruction, virtual reality, and semi-supervised learning. Labeled risks and constraints in the risk and constraint labeled context map are associated with cognitive suit actuation events to deploy a set of mitigation strategies to address the labeled risks and constraints. An apparatus embedded in the cognitive suit is actuated to deploy the set of mitigation strategies in response to sensing a labeled risk or labeled constraint proximate to the user along a trajectory of the user in the operational space.
US11263713B2
A property inspection system includes a mobile inspection device, a camera, a project template generator, a report generator, and an image association program. The project template generator guides the user through an inspection project. The report generator provides a list of defects, along with the number of occurrences of each defect and the number of locations where the defect can be found. The image association program creates a record for each still image taken by the camera, the record including the name, location, and sublocation of the defect shown in the still image. The image association program may also associate video of a defect with the still images of the defect.
US11263710B2
Systems and methods for market-based financial settlement of transactions within an electric power grid are disclosed. At least one active grid element is constructed and configured in Internet Protocol (IP)-based network communication with a settlement processor via at least one coordinator in real-time or in a predetermined timeframe. The at least one active grid element generates revenue grade metrology data based on measurement and verification for a participation of the at least one active grid element in the electric power grid. The at least one active grid element provides automated messaging to the settlement processor. The settlement processor provides a market-based financial settlement message based upon the revenue grade metrology data and a kilowatt packet (KWP) unit. The KWP unit provides a quantifying market rate for monetization for any unit of kilowatts with respect to time.
US11263707B2
A crop prediction system performs various machine learning operations to predict crop production and to identify a set of farming operations that, if performed, optimize crop production. The crop prediction system uses crop prediction models trained using various machine learning operations based on geographic and agronomic information. Responsive to receiving a request from a grower, the crop prediction system can access information representation of a portion of land corresponding to the request, such as the location of the land and corresponding weather conditions and soil composition. The crop prediction system applies one or more crop prediction models to the access information to predict a crop production and identify an optimized set of farming operations for the grower to perform.
US11263693B1
A pricing administration and calculation tool comprises user interface logic, pricing administration logic and pricing calculation logic that cooperates with the user interface logic to generate display screens configured to receive user inputs specifying credit guarantee pricing and user inputs specifying terms and conditions for mortgage backed security (MBS) loan commitments. The inputs are specific to individual external user (seller). The credit guarantee price is a fee for guaranteeing to an investor the timely payment of principal and interest from the mortgages underlying a mortgage backed security. The credit guarantee pricing may be specified via the display screens on a seller-by-seller basis, a mortgage product-by-product basis, an issue month-by-issue month, and a coupon-by-coupon basis. A committing tool comprises committing logic that cooperates with the user interface logic to generate display screens configured to receive user inputs from external user (seller) to enter into MBS loan commitments.
US11263692B2
Aspects described herein may allow for receiving authorization allowing monitoring a user's spending account. A base-line spending profile and a dysfunctional spending profile for the user are established. When notification of a pending purchase transaction is received, a determination is made as to whether the pending purchase transaction is in accordance with the base-line spending profile of the user. If the pending purchase transaction is in accordance with the base-line spending profile of the user, the pending purchase transaction is allowed, however, if the pending purchase transaction is not in accordance with the base-line spending profile of the user, then a temporary secondary approval may be instituted for a predetermined period of time and a secondary approval person is electronically notified that their approval is required before allowing the pending purchase transaction to be made using the spending account of the user.
US11263689B2
The present invention relates generally to a system and method for sorting, ranking, and presenting and/or recommending multiple products for purchase having different labels in a coherent and structured way, and more specifically a system and method to generate marketing communications which display labels and/or wine labels based on an affinity system and ranking to help consumer and buyer select and purchase wine using either a digital interface or even in the course of normal retail buying process to select appropriate product.
US11263688B2
A computer-implemented method of optimising an electronic shopping list is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at a user equipment, a user list of products; receiving, at a user equipment, a store list of available products, each available product characterised by at least one variable; compiling a revised list from the user list and the store list, comprising associating each product from the user list with one or more available products and arranging an order of the revised list depending upon the at least one variable; and presenting the revised list using the user equipment.
US11263687B2
A secure inventory management system includes a product information data store that holds inventory information for products that are associated with one or more channels, as well as a consumer profile data store holding consumer-product purchase event information for each channel. The system also includes a channel manager user interface via which the system will receive a consumer identifier from a channel manager user for a first channel, identify products that are in an inventory of the first channel, and use the consumer profile data to generate recommendations for products in the inventory. At least some of the consumers, and at least some of the products, will be associated with multiple channels. The system maintains security and privacy of information so that only aggregate supplier information is shared across channels, and no personally identifiable consumer information is shared with anyone who is not authorized to access the information.
US11263682B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing shopping recommendations. Amounts and timing of user purchases are recorded and analyzed to determine consumption rates for various products. A list of recommended products is generated for a user including previous purchases. Expected runout dates for products may be determined based on previous purchases and consumption rates. The list of recommended products may be prioritized based on expected runout dates. A listing of products may be presented with one or both of validation and alternative indicators associated with items of the list. A validation indicator indicates that the product satisfies a criteria and an alternative indicator indicates that an alternative product satisfies the criteria better than the product.
US11263681B2
Product recommendations are selected according to a model. Product recommendations may be annotated with rules of the model used to select the products. A user may modify the model and be provided with a URL and a cookie associated with the modified model. Subsequent requests or the URL and presenting the cookie are processed using the modified model. A context may be associated with the cookie and modified by the user to observe performance of the model for the context. An interface may permit a user to specify rules for the model or otherwise model its behavior. User interactions with a website result in recommendations according to the model. A journey is recorded that records content, recommendations, and parameters of the model corresponding to the recommendations. The journeys of users may be filtered and visually presented to a user.
US11263666B2
A micro-engagement platform system and method for creating and launching micro-engagements is disclosed. The platform enables creation of a set of one or more micro-engagements, which are short snippets of information exchanged as part of an overall goal of customer engagement; couples micro-engagements to intended customers on their mobile device via messaging; collects responses that a customer sends immediately or at a later point in time; initiates the next micro-engagement in the sequence after getting a response from the customer to the previous micro-engagement as part of the overall goal. The platform chooses from one of a plurality of modes of delivery for that snippet of information; modes can be SMS, mobile browser or ore or more mobile apps.
US11263662B2
One or more aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a digital social medial platform configured to automatically identify and tag elements in an upload content using machine learning techniques. In one aspect, a method includes receive media content; automatically identify one or more elements and associated metadata in the media content using a machine learning technique; embed one or more hashtags within the media content, each of which corresponds to one of the one or more elements identified in the media content; publish the media content with the one or more hashtags; track engagements of one or more users with the media content having the one or more hashtag to yield a set of statistics; and generate a user-specific loyalty identifier for a user associated with the media content, based on the set of statistics.
US11263661B2
In an example embodiment, a bid of an impression of a piece of content, while dynamically set at impression time, may be based on a base bid that is something of a rough indicator of what the estimated price will be. That base bid then is adjusted dynamically up or down at impression time. This base bid can be determined by dividing the expected number of impressions for a day by a total daily budget. The expected number of impressions may be determined by using the empirical number of impressions from the previous day. As such, in an example embodiment, the prediction of the number of impressions for a day utilizes a corrected version of the empirical number of impressions from the prior day, with the corrected version based on a specialized formula with weights trained by a machine learning algorithm.
US11263655B2
A method for confirming post-authorization erasure of a transaction payment using reward points includes: storing account profiles including data related to reward accounts, each including an account identifier and point amount; receiving a transaction message associated with a payment transaction, the message including a specific account identifier and transaction amount; identifying a specific account profile that includes the specific account identifier; calculating a point cost based on the transaction amount; identifying an authorization reference key associated with the payment transaction and specific account profile; identifying a unique identifier associated with the authorization reference key; storing an authorization record including authorization reference key and unique identifier; generating a request message including the identified unique identifier one of: the point cost and transaction amount; and transmitting the request message to a consumer associated with the specific account profile.
US11263654B2
Methods and server systems for facilitating sharing of reward points between users are disclosed. Information related to linked one or more social IDs of a first user to a payment account of the first user is received and stored in a mapping file. A request for reward points redemption is initiated by the second user in response to an offer to redeem a fixed number of reward points posted by the first user on a social media platform. A social ID used by the second user to initiate the request on the social media platform is identified. A transfer of the fixed number of reward points from the first user to the second user is facilitated based on the mapping file and the social ID of the second user.
US11263650B2
A system and a process using that system is provided for creating, analyzing and optimizing a customer journey. The process includes real-time creation and continuing analysis of an “Event Sequence Index,” (ESI) corresponding to a time-stamped labeled set of data points representing cumulative events along the customer journey. The data points are further associated with channels, which are modes of interaction between the customer and the organization, and mapped into a linked directed graph which is amenable to analysis through a recursive pattern matching method, such as a non-deterministic finite automaton, employing DQL (Distributed Query Language). Selected portions of these graphs can be identified, either statistically or causally, as signatures of highly satisfactory or unsatisfactory outcomes and may be stored in memory as real-time predictors of the course of a present customer experience and to suggest statistically feasible and effective interventions. Concurrently, the signatures may be used as feedback to an organization for improvements in customer relations.
US11263646B1
Systems, apparatus, and methods for determining unique contacts from a collection or pool of merchant data are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for an apparatus including circuitry configured to: access first merchant data associated with a first merchant; access second merchant data associated with a second merchant; determine a match score based the first merchant data and the second merchant data indicating a likelihood of the first merchant being the same as the second merchant; determine a match score threshold; determine whether the match score exceeds the match score threshold; and in response determining the match score fails to exceed the match score threshold, determine the first merchant as being different from the second merchant. Some embodiments may provide for techniques for machine learning with merchant data training sets to determine match scores.
US11263638B2
A method is provided for cryptographically authenticating a cardholder in an online transaction by sending an authentication request to the issuing bank that is intercepted by a service worker and handled within the cardholder's computing device. The service worker signs a description of the transaction with a private key or forwards the request to a bank app that authenticates the cardholder biometrically in addition to signing the transaction.
US11263633B2
Systems and methods for biometric payments are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for biometric payments may include (1) receiving transaction information from a merchant terminal, the transaction information comprising an identification of a good or service to purchase and a biometric payment instruction; (2) at least one computer processor authenticating the individual based on the biometric payment instruction; (3) the at least one computer processor determining a payment account from the biometric payment instruction; (4) the at least one computer processor retrieving a payment device associated with the payment account; and (5) the at least one computer processor providing the payment device to the merchant terminal.
US11263627B2
A card use system includes a first client configured to send a card use request including card information of a card, and display a payment code including a first resource account number corresponding to the first client; a second client configured to send a payment request to transfer a first quantity of resources from the first resource account number to a second resource account number corresponding to the second client; a card server configured to validate the card according to the card information; and in response to successfully validating the card, send a confirmation indication to the payment server; and a payment server configured to, in response to receiving the confirmation indication from the card server, transfer a second quantity of resources in the first resource account number corresponding to the first client to the second resource account number corresponding to the second client.
US11263625B2
A method for securing payment data for transmission over open communication networks is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a data connection between a first and a second transceiver device, the first transceiver device configured as a merchant device and the second transceiver device configured as a customer transceiver device. The merchant device transmits a first data package which comprises a unique merchant identifier and transaction request data, to the customer transceiver device over the data connection. The merchant device receives a cryptogram from the customer transceiver device. The cryptogram having been generated from using a secret key and a counter value together with the received unique merchant identifier and the transaction request data. The method comprises forming an authorisation request comprising the received cryptogram, merchant identifier and the transaction request data and submitting said authorisation request to at least one of an issuer and an acquirer to facilitate authorisation and processing of said transaction request data.
US11263624B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method for automatically encoding data in an electronic communication. The method includes the steps of receiving an electronic communication including textual data, the textual data including account data inputted with a microphone and processed with a speech recognition system, in response to receiving the electronic communication, automatically processing the textual data, identifying the account data based on processing the textual data, generating at least one token, wherein the at least one token is unique to the account data, generating a modified electronic communication based at least partially on the textual data and the at least one token, the modified electronic communication comprising the at least one token, and communicating the modified electronic communication to a recipient system. A system and computer program product for automatically encoding data in an electronic communication are also disclosed.
US11263615B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for authentication by augmented reality (AR) for fraud prevention. The method includes receiving AR map data of an authorized area of operation associated with a merchant. The AR map data is generated from an AR recording device and includes one or more environmental anchors and one or more virtual object reference points. The method also includes storing the AR map data in association with a merchant identifier and receiving a request for authentication of an operation by a merchant point-of-sale (POS) device. The method further includes communicating at least a portion of the AR map data to the merchant POS device for execution of an AR re-localization process, and, in response to success of the re-localization process by the merchant POS device, authenticating the operation.
US11263609B2
A method for automatically providing items based on an item preference may include receiving payment credential data associated with a payment credential and preference data associated with an item preference of a user, determining whether one or more items associated with the item preference of the user is available, and processing, with at least one processor, a payment transaction involving the one or more items associated with the item preference of the user based on determining that the item is available. A system and a computer program product are also provided.
US11263607B2
Electronic watch faces can be created in customized and associated with a block chain system. More particularly, the block chain's system uses non-fungible tokens which are in general unique, to represent the ownership of a specific watch face. Users own the token and can display the watch face only while they own the token. After selling the watch face, the token is changed to represent the new owner of the token and the original owner can no longer display the watch face at that point.
US11263602B2
Embodiments allocate and synchronize virtual currency balance of a user among multiple user devices. A user profile is maintained at a central server. The user profile stores a total virtual currency balance and a designation of multiple user devices associated with the user. The total virtual currency balance may be divided among and allocated to the multiple user devices, for example, based on usage data associated with each user device. The portion of the total virtual currency balance allocated to each user device may be stored locally at a local wallet of the corresponding user device. The local virtual currency balance on a user device may be used to purchase goods or services, such as playing a game. If the locally stored virtual currency balance of a given user device runs low, the user device may request additional virtual currency from other user devices without contacting the central server.
US11263599B2
The present application overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a system for proper life-cycle management of plastic products and the plastic waste that plastic products produce.
US11263598B2
A system for depositing of recyclable articles includes an internally-compartmented structure. The compartments are accessed through hatches which are selectively closed with covers. The system includes a user-operated kiosk which controls operation of the covers in response to user information and the degree to which the compartments are filled with recyclable articles. The kiosk includes a display for directing the user to deposit the articles into specific compartments and a user interface for entry and display of user-specific information.
US11263596B2
Methods, systems, and techniques are disclosed for selecting and dispatching a worker to assist a robot. The system may include a computer comprising a processor and a computer readable memory. The computer readable memory may include lists of worker criteria items for a plurality of workers and a list of assistance criteria items for a robot. The system may include a triggering application executable by the processor for identifying triggering data corresponding to a triggering item within sensor data from the robot. A ranking application may also be stored on the computer and may be executed in response to an identification of triggering data corresponding to the triggering item. The ranking application may be operable to cross-reference the worker criteria items on each of the first lists with the assistance criteria items on the second list and to generate a ranking of the plurality of workers based on the cross-referencing.
US11263595B2
Methods and systems for providing electronic scheduling assistance. One system includes an electronic computing device including an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to retrieve a category assigned from a plurality of categories to each of a plurality of participants associated with a calendar event and retrieve a schedule associated with each of the plurality of participants associated with the calendar event. The electronic processor is also configured to aggregate the schedules of each of the plurality of participants assigned to each of the plurality of categories to create an aggregated schedule associated with each of the plurality of categories and generate and output a user interface for display on a display device, the user interface including the aggregated schedule of each of the plurality of categories in separate regions of the user interface.
US11263592B2
Computerized systems for synchronizing multiple calendars are provided. User activity is monitored via sensors and user devices associated with the user. Monitoring user activity includes detecting calendar activity associated with a set of calendars that includes a first calendar. A first calendar event associated with the first calendar is detected. A second calendar included in the set of calendars and associated with the first event is determined. The second calendar is determined based on the user activity, the first calendar, or the first event. The second calendar may be determined based on a synchronization profile associated with the first calendar. The second calendar is updated to include at least a portion of the first event. The first event is synchronized and/or shared with the second calendar. Only selective portions of the event data of the first event may be provided to the second calendar.
US11263590B2
A prediction system and method may include receiving a plurality of discrete applicant data inputs and a supporting document, the applicant data inputs and the supporting document being relevant to a permit application, providing a first predicted probability of approval of the permit application by comparing the discrete applicant data inputs with weighted criteria of previous applicant profiles stored in a first database, analyzing the supporting document to determine a second predicted probability of approval of the permit application by comparing the supporting document with previous applicant supporting documents stored in a second database, performing a sentiment analysis on external publically available information relevant to at least one aspect of the permit application to determine an impact score on the permit application, and determining an overall probability of success based on the first predicted probability, the second predicted probability, and the impact score.
US11263588B2
Computer systems, devices, and associated methods of intelligent content management are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes scanning a document to determine whether one or more words in the document represent a resource in the file management system, the resource being a name of a person or a linked document in the file management system. In response to determining that one or more words in the document represents a resource, the method includes retrieving a resource record corresponding to the resource from a database in the computing system, the resource record having a data field containing data representing a current status of the resource and surfacing, in the document, the retrieved data of the current status of the resource to the user.
US11263587B2
Systems and methods that support the creation and timely electronic scheduling and delivery of course materials for training of individuals in an organization, in which course recommendations, scheduling, and rollout are based upon a number of factors including, for example, specific individual and/or business day-to-day operational performance measures, sales performance, and seasonal weather conditions by geographical region.
US11263581B2
A cabinet that has manually reconfigurable shelves, that can automatically detect the configuration of compartments in a shelf, and that can automatically detect if a user is accessing or restocking the right compartment is contemplated. The shelf can be reconfigured using one or more dividers to divide the shelf into two or more compartments. The compartments can have different sizes and store different items. The compartments can be physically reconfigured by the user and the cabinet can automatically detect the specifics of the reconfiguration and adjust compartment size and availability. A surface of the shelf includes a plurality of visual markers. The cabinet has cameras mounted to it and uses visual markers to determine if a compartment contains an item and other information.
US11263579B1
The present disclosure is directed to a network of autonomous vehicles, such as autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) that deliver items to and/or from a destination location and/or perform a service. For example, a community (e.g., neighborhood, apartment complex) may include a plurality of autonomous vehicles that deliver payloads to different locations (e.g., homes, apartments) within the community for use or consumption. Some of the payloads are community items (e.g., microwave, stove top, cooking utensils) that are shared by members of the community and transferred between locations within the community by autonomous vehicles.
US11263561B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) receiving a first transport request and a second transport request, (ii) evaluating a fitness of matching the first and second transport requests to be fulfilled by a transport provider, based at least partly on a transportation overlap between the first and second transport requests, (iii) generating a simulated future transport request, (iv) evaluating a fitness of matching the first transport request with the simulated future transport request, based at least in part on a transportation overlap between the first transport request and the simulated future transport request, and (v) matching the first and second transport requests based at least in part on the fitness of matching the first and second transport requests and based at least in part on the fitness of matching the first transport request with the simulated future transport request. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.
US11263559B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a travel based subscription service that includes one or more processors that perform operations comprising: receiving travel information for a subscriber of a travel-based subscription service, the travel information comprising a booking date and a travel date; computing a subscription value for the subscriber based on the travel information; searching a list of travel services that are available on the travel date to identify candidate travel services that correspond to the subscription value, each of the candidate travel services having a predetermined travel duration; receiving input from the subscriber that selects a given travel service from the identified candidate travel services; and in response to receiving the input from the subscriber, presenting an option to extend the predetermined travel duration of the given travel service.
US11263548B2
Systems and methods for determining predictive model types are provided. A method may include generating a predictive model for a web page of a web site, wherein the web page includes a configuration defining one or more objects presented with the web page, and wherein each object is associated with a predictive model. The method may include determining one or more predictive model types that are associated with the predictive model, determining one or more performance indicators that correspond to each determined predictive model type, wherein performance indicators represent one or more benefits to a website, selecting a predictive model type of the predictive model out of the one or more predictive model types, wherein the predictive model type is selected based on a performance indicator corresponding to the selected predictive model type, and determining a configuration of the web page using the selected predictive model type of the predictive model.
US11263542B2
Technologies for automatic discovery and connection to a representational state transfer (REST) interface include a provider computing device communicatively coupled to a REST interface of a Web service hosted by a 3rd party. The provider computing device is configured to analyze a data representation received from a REST interface of a Web service in response to having transmitted an HTTP request to an endpoint of the Web service and determine a pattern of the data representation as a function of the analysis of the data representation. Additionally, the provider computing device is configured to generate one or more possible schemas for the REST interface based on the determined pattern. Additional embodiments are described herein.
US11263533B2
A rule is received at a client application from an input text control. The received rule includes a sequence of characters and is parsed into a plurality of tokens. For each of the tokens, a plurality of behaviors associated with that token are configured to generate a behavior configuration. Each of the generated behavior configurations can be modified by an authorized user. A user interface (UI) control is generated based on the behavior configurations.
US11263532B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for predicting artists that create media content who are more likely to increase in popularity. Users are determined who requested playback of media content items associated with one or more generators of popular media content within a window of time. One or more early adopters are determined from these users based on a quantity of the one or more generators of popular media content whose media content items were requested for playback by the users. Artists that create media content who are more likely to increase in popularity than other artists that create media content are then predicted based on following further requested playback of media content items by the one or more early adopters.
US11263529B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for updating machine learning models to improve locality are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data of a machine learning model. The data represents operations of the machine learning model and data dependencies between the operations. Data specifying characteristics of a memory hierarchy for a machine learning processor on which the machine learning model is going to be deployed is received. The memory hierarchy includes multiple memories at multiple memory levels for storing machine learning data used by the machine learning processor when performing machine learning computations using the machine learning model. An updated machine learning model is generated by modifying the operations and control dependencies of the machine learning model to account for the characteristics of the memory hierarchy. Machine learning computations are performed using the updated machine learning model.
US11263526B2
A deep neural network (DNN) includes hidden layers arranged along a forward propagation path between an input layer and an output layer. The input layer accepts training data comprising quaternion values, outputs a quaternion-valued signal along the forward path to at least one of the hidden layers. At least some of the hidden layers include quaternion layers to execute consistent quaternion (QT) forward operations based on one or more variable parameters. A loss function engine produces a loss function representing an error between the DNN result and an expected result. QT backpropagation-based training operations include computing layer-wise QT partial derivatives, consistent with an orthogonal basis of quaternion space, of the loss function with respect to a QT conjugate of the one or more variable parameters and of respective inputs to the quaternion layers.
US11263521B2
A device, system, product and method of controlling resistive processing units (RPUs), includes applying an input voltage signal to each node of an array of resistive processing units, and controlling a learning rate of the array of resistive processing units by varying an amplitude of the input voltage signal to the array of resistive processing units. A conductance state of the array of resistive processing units is varied according to the amplitude received at each of the resistive processing units of the array of resistive processing units. The controlling of the amplitude of input voltage signal is according to a processor of a control device.
US11263518B2
A method is provided for forming a Deep Neural Network (DNN). The method includes quantizing deep learning data structures of the DNN into at least two modes using at least two scale factors, respectively. Each of the at least two modes corresponds to a respective one of the at least two scale factors. The method further includes identifying which of the at least two scale factors to use for a given one of the data structures based on a data distribution of the given one of the data structures. The quantizing step includes identifying when a tail of the given one of the data structures starts by (i) building a histogram of values in the given one of the data structures using successive bins; (ii) identifying a ratio of density between the successive bins; and (iii) checking whether the ratio of density is greater than a ratio of density threshold.
US11263516B2
Methods and systems for training a neural network include identifying weights in a neural network between a final hidden neuron layer and an output neuron layer that correspond to state matches between a neuron of the final hidden neuron layer and a respective neuron of the output neuron layer. The identified weights are initialized to a predetermined non-zero value and initializing other weights between the final hidden neuron layer and the output neuron layer to zero. The neural network is trained based on a training corpus after initialization.
US11263513B2
The present disclosure provides a bit quantization method of an artificial neural network. This method may include: (a) of selecting one parameter or one parameter group to be quantized in the artificial neural network; (b) a bit quantizing to reduce the data representation size for the selected parameter or parameter group to a unit of bits; (c) of determining whether the accuracy of the artificial neural network is equal to or greater than a predetermined target value; and (d) repeating steps (a) to (c) when the accuracy of the artificial neural network is equal to or greater than the target value.
US11263510B2
A system includes a processor and memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor configure the processor to receive an image of a metallographic sample of a product from a microscope, the image including dendritic structures in the metallographic sample; select a portion of the image; and perform morphological operations on the selected portion of the image to transform the image. The instructions configure the processor to overlay a plurality of concentric circles on the transformed image, measure circumferences of the circles, and count the number of intercepts of the circles and boundaries of the dendritic structures in the transformed image. The instructions configure the processor to determine parameters of the dendritic structures based on the measured circumferences and the number of intercepts. The instructions configure the processor to determine structural properties of the product based on the parameters of the dendritic structures.
US11263508B2
An assembly for a solid-state drive (SSD) includes a base printed circuit board having a PCIe adapter form factor, and at least one U.2 connector that is capable of being connected to a NGSFF device. The NGSFF device includes an NGSFF PCB, a first PCIe connector and a second PCIe connector. The NGSFF PCB is capable of receiving at least one SSD device and includes a first end and a second end in which the first end is opposite the second end. The first PCIe connector is at an edge of the first end of the NGSFF PCB and is capable of physical insertion into the at least one U.2 connector on the base PCB, and the second PCIe connector is at an edge of the second end of the NGSFF PCB and is capable of receiving a first PCIe connector of another NGSFF PCB.
US11263498B2
A method of providing information related to a state of an object in a refrigerator includes obtaining a first camera image including at least one object kept in the refrigerator through a camera arranged in the refrigerator, obtaining environmental information in the refrigerator through an environmental sensor arranged in the refrigerator, predicting information related to a current state of the at least one object by applying the first camera image including the at least one object and the environmental information in the refrigerator to an artificial intelligence (AI) model; and providing the information related to the current state of the at least one object.
US11263493B2
A system, method and computer program product for accessing content. The method comprises processing at least one image with a classifier, and, in response to the at least one image being processed by the classifier, outputting from the classifier a value indicative of the likelihood that the at least one image belongs to at least one classification. The method also comprises determining whether the at least one image belongs to the at least one classification, based on the value, and accessing predetermined content when it is determined that the at least one image belongs to the at least one classification. Images may be classified by, e.g., genre, musical album, concept, or the like, and, in cases where an image belongs to any such classes, predetermined content (e.g., metadata and/or an audio track) relating thereto is identified and presented to the user.
US11263490B2
Methods and systems for budgeted and simplified training of deep neural networks (DNNs) are disclosed. In one example, a trainer is to train a DNN using a plurality of training sub-images derived from a down-sampled training image. A tester is to test the trained DNN using a plurality of testing sub-images derived from a down-sampled testing image. In another example, in a recurrent deep Q-network (RDQN) having a local attention mechanism located between a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a long-short time memory (LSTM), a plurality of feature maps are generated by the CNN from an input image. Hard-attention is applied by the local attention mechanism to the generated plurality of feature maps by selecting a subset of the generated feature maps. Soft attention is applied by the local attention mechanism to the selected subset of generated feature maps by providing weights to the selected subset of generated feature maps in obtaining weighted feature maps. The weighted feature maps are stored in the LSTM. A Q value is calculated for different actions based on the weighted feature maps stored in the LSTM.
US11263489B2
Techniques and apparatus for generating dense natural language descriptions for video content are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to receive a source video comprising a plurality of frames, determine a plurality of regions for each of the plurality of frames, generate at least one region-sequence connecting the determined plurality of regions, apply a language model to the at least one region-sequence to generate description information comprising a description of at least a portion of content of the source video. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11263483B2
A method and apparatus for recognizing an image, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining labeling results of training data to be labeled in a target training data set; determining a weight coefficient of each labeling result in response to that the training data includes a plurality of labeling results; determining a label of the training data based on labeling result and the weight coefficient corresponding to the labeling result, wherein the training data with the label is the target training data for training a recognition model; and recognizing the image based on the recognition model trained based on the target training data.
US11263473B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for recommending clothing coordination information in the 5G communication environment by executing an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm, which have been mounted therein. A method for recommending clothing coordination information according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include classifying style information through an analysis of a collected clothing image, calculating a harmony matching score between clothing images included in the classified style information or a TPO matching score on a time, a place, and an occasion of each of the clothing images and registering the calculated score in a database, recognizing a clothing coordination request speech voice received from a user, and confirming the speech intention of the clothing coordination request speech voice of the user, and recommending clothing coordination information corresponding to the speech intention, based on the harmony matching score or the TPO matching score.
US11263469B2
A method for controlling an electronic device is provided. The method includes obtaining an image, detecting at least one object in a facial area from the image, and applying a virtual light source effect to the image based on an attribute of the detected object and displaying the image.
US11263459B2
An augmented reality system to perform operations that include: accessing image data at a client device; determining a position of a user of the client device based on the image data; causing display of a projection that extends from the position of the user upon a presentation of the image data at the client device; detecting an intersection of the projection and a surface of an object; generating a request that includes an identification of the portion of the surface of the object at the client device; and presenting the portion of the surface of the object based on the graphical property of the projection at the client device in response to the request that includes the identification of the portion of the surface of the object.
US11263454B2
A method and a system for counting pigs in a pig house. The system includes a computing device and an imaging device. The computing device has a processor and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code is configured to: receive images captured from one end to the other end of the house; detect keypoints in the images using a neural network; identify pig skeletons by associating several related keypoints; track the skeletons in the images to obtain trajectories; divide each image into an activated zone and a deactivated zone; designate a spatial value of 0 for the skeletons in the activated zone and a spatial value of 1 for the skeletons in the deactivated zone; summating first order difference of the spatial values for each trajectory to obtain a trajectory count; and add the trajectory counts to obtain pig count.
US11263452B2
Various aspects relate to a method of detecting an inventory in a storage space. The method comprises acquiring an image comprising image data depicting at least part of the storage space and determining, for at least an area of the image, at least one product inventory area. Next, it is detected whether the image data comprised by the image area has a transition of intensity above a pre-determined threshold within a pre-determined distance. Based on the outcome of the detection, it is determined a product is present in the product inventory area if the transition of intensity within the pre-determined distance is detected. Using edge detection, no comparison of subsequently acquired images is required. If an edge is detected, a product is determined to be present on a particular location on the shelf. This determination may be executed based on one single image, rather than on two consecutively acquired images.
US11263442B1
The present system may be deployed in various scenarios to provide proof of liveness (also referred to herein as “liveness verification”) of an image without interaction of the subject of the image. The liveness verification process generally comprises imperative analysis and dynamic analysis of the image, after which liveness of the image may be determined.
US11263441B1
The present system may be deployed in various scenarios to provide proof of liveness (also referred to herein as “liveness verification”) of an image without interaction of the subject of the image. The liveness verification process generally comprises imperative analysis and dynamic analysis of the image, after which liveness of the image may be determined.
US11263440B1
The present system may be deployed in various scenarios to provide proof of liveness (also referred to herein as “liveness verification”) of an image without interaction of the subject of the image. The liveness verification process generally comprises imperative analysis and dynamic analysis of the image, after which liveness of the image may be determined.
US11263439B1
The present system may be deployed in various scenarios to provide proof of liveness (also referred to herein as “liveness verification”) of an image without interaction of the subject of the image. The liveness verification process generally comprises imperative analysis and dynamic analysis of the image, after which liveness of the image may be determined.
US11263437B2
The present invention relates to a method for extracting a feature vector from an input image representative of an iris by means of a neural network, characterized in that it can be trained end-to-end and comprises the implementation by data-processing means of a client of steps of: (a) Segmentation of the input image representative of the iris by means of a first subnetwork in order to obtain an iris segmentation map, a pupil segmentation map and an attention map; (b) Extraction by a second subnetwork of the neural network of a feature vector from the normalized image representative of the iris segmented by a normalization operation, characterized in that it is derivable.
US11263432B2
Technologies are presented herein in support of a system and method for performing fingerprint recognition. Embodiments of the present invention concern a system and method for capturing a user's biometric features and generating an identifier characterizing the user's biometric features using a mobile device such as a smartphone. The biometric identifier is generated using imagery captured of a plurality of fingers of a user for the purposes of authenticating/identifying the user according to the captured biometrics and determining the user's liveness. The present disclosure also describes additional techniques for preventing erroneous authentication caused by spoofing. In some examples, the anti-spoofing techniques may include capturing one or more images of a user's fingers and analyzing the captured images for indications of liveness.
US11263418B2
Described herein are systems and methods that may autonomously identify a person of a member pool based on pictures of the person, without requiring the person's cooperation. Contextual information of the picture(s) along with the picture(s) are utilized. Contextual information may be the information that is related to current circumstances when the picture was taken. A system may comprise cameras that map appearances to visual data; a mapping function that maps identities and camera information to generate contextual information and a set of a priori probabilities; recognition functions that map the visual data to another set of probabilities, which match each of the visual data with each of the one of the identities; and a decision function that combines the set of a priori probabilities and the another set of probabilities to determine one of the plurality of the identities.
US11263414B2
According to one embodiment, data is exchanged between two devices where the transmitting device displays a barcode (e.g., a Quick Response “QR” code) and the receiving device captures the barcode with a camera. Each of the devices may alternate between being the transmitting device and the receiving device. Therefore, bidirectional exchange of data between the devices can be achieved. No electrical or radio connections, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cables, or the Internet, etc., are required between the devices for the transmission to take place.
US11263406B2
Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in a conventional conversation system via a novel technique utilizing artificial neural networks to train the conversation system whether or not to continue context. In some aspects, an interactive media guidance application determines a type of conversation continuity in a natural language conversation comprising first and second queries. The interactive media guidance application determines a first token in the first query and a second token in the second query. The interactive media guidance application identifies entity data for the first and second tokens. The interactive media guidance application retrieves, from a knowledge graph, graph connections between the entity data for the first and second tokens. The interactive media guidance application applies this data as inputs to an artificial neural network. The interactive media guidance application determines an output that indicates the type of conversation continuity between the first and second queries.
US11263403B2
A method includes identifying a set of identigens for each word of a first phrase of a phrase group to produce a first plurality of sets of identigens and determining whether first and second identigen rules are applicable to the first plurality of sets of identigens. When the first and second identigen rules are applicable to the first plurality of sets of identigens, the method further includes identifying a set of identigens for each word of a second phrase of the phrase group to produce a second plurality of sets of identigens and determining that the first identigen rules are applicable to the second plurality of sets of identigens. The method further includes identifying one valid identigen of each set of identigens of the first plurality of sets of identigens by applying the first identigen rules to the first plurality of sets of identigens to produce a first entigen group.
US11263396B2
Systems and methods are provided for converting a document comprising text to a template using a model, and for improving the model so used. The systems and methods presented comprise a local computing device, a remote computing device, communication modules, information on datatypes and patterns that may be converted from document text to template fields, rules regarding document context, and verification criteria. A user may use the systems and methods to convert a document comprising text into a template comprising fields derived from the document text, and optionally may use the systems and methods to improve the model based on a set or subset of documents. The present invention solves problems with the currently available systems and methods of converting document text to a template.
US11263394B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for sentence compression in which a provided sentence is compressed to fit within an allotted space. Portions of the input sentence are copied to generate the compressed sentence. Upon receipt of a sentence, top candidate compressed sentences may be determined based on probabilities of segments of the input sentence to be included in a potential compressed sentence. The top candidate compressed sentences are re-ranked based on grammatical accuracy scores for each of the candidate compressed sentences using a language model trained using linguistic features of words and/or phrases. The highest scoring candidate compressed sentence may be presented to the user.
US11263393B1
Methods and systems for organizing information in a grid. Aspects of this grid may be easily manipulated via user interface operations. This grid may be easily manipulated to create or edit a hierarchy. Grid elements may be expanded or collapsed alternatively to show or hide hidden elements. A canvas may contain objects that may be easily moved and/or repositioned via user interface operations.
US11263391B2
Methods and apparatus to facilitate annotation projects to extract structured information from free-form text using NLP techniques. Annotators explore text documents via automated preannotation functions, flexibly formulate annotation schemes and guidelines, annotate text, and adjust annotation labels, schemes and guidelines in real-time as a project evolves. NLP models are readily trained on iterative annotations of sample documents by domain experts in an active learning workflow. Trained models are then employed to automatically annotate a larger body of documents in a project dataset. Experts in a variety of domains can readily develop an annotation project for a specific use-case or business question. In one example, documents relating to the health care domain are effectively annotated and employed to train sophisticated NLP models that provide valuable insights regarding many facets of health care. In another example, annotation methods are enhanced by utilizing domain-specific information derived from a novel knowledge graph architecture.
US11263384B2
Artificial intelligence is introduced into document review to identify content suggestions from input to generate suggested annotations for the reviewed document. An approach is provided for receiving an electronic document that contains original content from an original electronic document for review and electronic mark-ups provided by a first user. One or more electronic mark-ups that represent content suggestions proposed by the first user are identified from the electronic document. For each electronic mark-up of the one or more electronic mark-ups identified a document portion of the original content that corresponds to the electronic mark-up is identified, and an annotation is generated for the electronic mark-up comprising the electronic mark-up and a first user ID for the first user and associating the annotation to the document portion identified. The original content with one or more annotations generated from the one or more electronic mark-ups is displayed, in electronic form, within a display window.
US11263381B1
Embodiments include herein are directed towards a method for use in an electronic design environment is provided. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, an electronic design and providing, at a graphical user interface, an option to change an object associated with the electronic design. Embodiments may further include identifying a damage area associated with the electronic design, the damage area including an object therein. Embodiments may also include generating a polygon for the damage area and caching one or more voids located outside of the damage area. Embodiments may further include performing a cut and stamp operation on a portion of the electronic design associated with the damage area and populating, at the graphical user interface, a repaired damage area.
US11263374B2
Systems and methods include a method for locating a leak in a pipeline. Pressure and flowrate measurements are received corresponding to fluid flowing through a pipeline for which a leak is to be located in a pipeline segment. A calculated leak size is determined based pressure and flowrate measurements for upstream and downstream locations. A first assumed leak location is identified. A first assumed leak size is determined. A simulation is executed based on the first assumed leak size, first assumed leak location, and pressure and flowrate measurements, producing a virtually measured leak size. If a difference between the virtually measured and calculated leak size is not within acceptance criteria, a second assumed leak size is iteratively determined, the simulation is re-executed, and the difference is re-determined. A second assumed leak location is iteratively identified, and the simulation is re-executed to determine an estimated leak location of the leak.
US11263371B2
A computer-aided design (CAD) system enables physical articles to be customized via printing or embroidering and enables digital content to be customized and electronically shared. A CAD user interface may be generated that includes an image of a model of an article of manufacture and a customizable template. The customizable template may include user customizable design areas. One or more defined rules associated with respective customizable areas may be accessed. In response to a user selection of a default content item and a corresponding rule, content items may be automatically used to populate other template design areas and/or change a color of one or content items. Manufacturing instructions corresponding to the user customizations may be transmitted to a printing system using a file that includes location, rotation, and/or scale data.
US11263367B2
A method for simulating the distribution of blades on a turbomachine disc includes: providing blade configurations, each being associated with a blade and including at least one measurement of a balancing parameter measured on the associated blade; and searching for and selecting a bladed-disc distribution combining the configurations of blades supplied with positions on the disc, the bladed disc distribution encouraging the attainment of at least one criterion defined according to a predetermined cost function dependent on the balancing parameter measurements, and the searching and selecting being performed by successive iterations.
US11263366B2
Systems and methods described herein concern improving an interior design of a vehicle under development. One embodiment presents an electronic survey to ridesharing customers from a plurality of ridesharing trips in a rideshare vehicle having a reconfigurable interior that is configured in accordance with a proposed interior design for the vehicle under development, the electronic survey pertaining to one or more features of the proposed interior design, and collects and stores, in a computer memory, responses to the electronic survey for the plurality of ridesharing trips. The proposed interior design is modified based, at least in part, on the responses to the electronic survey.
US11263365B2
A method of producing a vehicle includes determining the performance of aged adhesive coupons, which are subject to a worst-case scenario of manufacturing, aging, and stress testing. Virtual vehicle components are modeled using the performance of the aged adhesive coupons. The virtual vehicle components are then subjected to virtual mechanical forces to determine their virtual performance, which is then validated against the performance of identical real-life aged vehicle components subjected to identical mechanical forces. A virtual vehicle is modeled using the validated virtual vehicle components. The virtual performance of the virtual vehicle when subject to a virtual crash test is then compared against a predetermined standard, and the design of the virtual vehicle is considered feasible if its performance exceeds the predetermined standard. A vehicle is manufactured according to the feasible design of the virtual vehicle.
US11263363B2
The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for automatic generation of a design model of a building. To illustrate, a computing device may generate a design model, such as a three-dimensional model of a building, based on criteria and layout information. The design model may indicate a layout of one or more rooms (or other spaces), locations of one or more hallways, doors, windows, furniture, fixtures, or a combination thereof, within the building. The computing device may perform a load analysis based on the design model and enable selection of equipment to be included in the building based on the load analysis. Virtual models of the equipment, and connections between the equipment, may be automatically added to the design model by the computing device, thereby reducing user input and cost, and improving speed, associated with the building design process.
US11263358B2
Introduced herein is a platform with multiple graphical user interfaces (GUI) for rapidly designing, editing, and sharing of a three-dimensional (3-D) design. A GUI can include a menu with add-on elements and a display interface to depict the 3-D design. A user can select add-on elements to build a 3-D design, view the environment at different angles, and interact in other ways with the 3-D design. Additionally, the platform enables multiuser collaboration within a collaboration GUI to allow for input from multiple users. The platform generates a join code which can be shared with multiple users and is associated with the collaboration GUI. A user can join the multiuser collaboration to view and edit the 3-D design simultaneously with multiple users. Each user can view the 3-D at their own angle and view each other's edits in real time.
US11263354B2
Provided herein are compositions, devices, systems and methods for the generation and use of biomolecule-based information for storage. Additionally, devices described herein for de novo synthesis of nucleic acids encoding information related to the original source information may be rigid or flexible material. Further described herein are highly efficient methods for long term data storage with 100% accuracy in the retention of information. Also provided herein are methods and systems for efficient transfer of preselected polynucleotides from a storage structure for reading stored information.
US11263352B2
Systems and techniques for a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) security plugin are described herein. A component message may be received at an interconnect endpoint from an SoC component. The interconnect endpoint may pass the component message to a security component via a security interlink. The security component may secure the component message, using a cryptographic engine, to create a secured message. The secured message is delivered back to the interconnect endpoint via the security interlink and transmitted across the interconnect by the interconnect endpoint.
US11263338B2
Proposed is a data security maintenance method for data analysis application, including a data selection step of selecting data to be analyzed from a linked database management system (DBMS), a data request step of requesting the data to be analyzed, a data transformation step of transforming the data to be analyzed using a predetermined transformation method, a data analysis step of analyzing the transformed data to be analyzed, an error comparison step of comparing analysis errors for each transformation method, a tradeoff step of determining the extent of analysis accuracy and the extent of data security, and a data provision step of providing the result of analysis of the data to be analyzed.
US11263335B2
A system and a method are provided for integrating a sensitive data discovery engine (SDDE), a data anonymization engine (DAE), a data monitoring module (DMM), and a data retirement module (DRM) and managing sensitive data security across its lifecycle. The SDDE determines sensitive data in similar and variant data sources and applications, identifies their operating application codes, and generates sensitive data discovery intelligence (SDDI). The system generates and distributes one or more templates including the SDDI with metadata, discovery results, and data security rules to the DAE, the DMM, and the DRM deployed on each data source. Based on the templates, the DAE flexibly and consistently masks, encrypts, or tokenizes the sensitive data for static, dynamic, blended, and hybrid anonymization based on different data classifications and application environments; the DMM continuously monitors sensitive data access by users and applications; and the DRM retires inactive sensitive data without removing transactional data.
US11263332B2
A computer system, processor, and method for processing information is disclosed that includes watching logical operations to detect unauthorized attempts to access a register, and taking evasive action in response to detecting unauthorized attempts to access the register. In an embodiment, the register is a hidden, secret, restricted, or undocumented register, and the method further includes, in response to unauthorized attempts to access the secret register, locking the contents of the secret register. The evasive action may include one or more of interrupting the operations of the processor; causing the processor to shut-down, malfunction, lock, self-destruct; no longer providing read or write permission or access to the register; releasing data disguised to look like the real register data while not releasing the real data; and combinations thereof.
US11263329B2
A method for providing a data record of a vehicle to a third party includes: receiving a cryptographic key pair including a public, cryptographic key and a private, cryptographic key; receiving the data record of the vehicle; encrypting the received data record by the public, cryptographic key; transmitting the encrypted data record to a data memory for storing the encrypted data record; generating a cryptographic hash value for the encrypted data record; transmitting the hash value of the encrypted data record to a blockchain database for storing the hash value of the encrypted data record; receiving a request message from a third party for retrieving the data record; generating a first request message to the data memory and a second request message to the blockchain database on the basis of the received request message; transmitting the first request message to the data memory and the second request message to the blockchain database; receiving the encrypted data record from the data memory in response to the first request message and the hash value of the encrypted data record from the blockchain database in response to the second request message; validating the encrypted data record by the hash value; and, when validation of the encrypted data record is successful: decrypting the encrypted data record by the private, cryptographic key; and transmitting the data record in response to the request message from the third party to a server of the third party.
US11263324B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring source code repository data in real-time to protect sensitive information and provide entity-specific alerts. A computing platform may receive configuration information defining one or more criteria for identifying sensitive data of an enterprise organization. The computing platform may monitor external code repository server infrastructure based on the configuration information. In response to detecting that first source code received by the external code repository server infrastructure contains first sensitive information associated with the enterprise organization, the computing platform may generate a notification comprising information indicating that the first sensitive information associated with the enterprise organization has been detected at the external code repository server infrastructure. Subsequently, the computing platform may send the notification to an enterprise administrator user computing device associated with the enterprise organization.
US11263318B2
Monitoring a process in a trusted execution environment (TEE) to identify a resource starvation attack. A first monitor executing outside of a first TEE determines that a first process is executing in the first TEE. The first monitor makes a determination that the first process is being denied resources necessary for execution of the first process. The first monitor sends an indication indicating that the first process is being denied resources necessary for execution of the first process.
US11263313B2
In a general aspect, a method can include: executing an operation of a program that loads an arbitrarily chosen value of an initial data item of a series of ordered data; executing a series of calculation operations distributed in the program, that calculate a current data item based on a preceding data item; performing a final calculation operation of the series of operations that calculates a final data item of the data series; and executing an operation of the program that detects a program execution error by comparing the current data item of the data series with an expected value of the current data item or the final data item, the final data item having an expected value that is independent of the number of data items in the data series and is calculated based on the current data item of the data series and a final compensation data item.
US11263312B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and media for processing service requests. One of the methods includes: receiving, from a client application and by a trusted application, a first service request for executing a first service by the trusted application, wherein the first service request comprises a first expression and an input parameter of the first expression, and the first expression specifies a plurality of target interfaces related to the first service and a sequence of the plurality of target interfaces; executing, by the trusted application and based on the input parameter, the plurality of target interfaces according to the sequence to obtain a target execution result; and returning, by the trusted application to the client application, the target execution result responsive to the first service request.
US11263306B2
An apparatus, a method, and a system are presented in which the apparatus includes an interface control circuit that may be configured to receive a message including a cryptographic keyword and a policy value. The policy value may include one or more data bits indicative of one or more policies that define allowable usage of the cryptographic keyword. The apparatus also includes a security circuit that may be configured to extract the cryptographic keyword and the policy value from the message, and to apply at least one policy of the one or more policies to usage of the cryptographic keyword in response to a determination that an authentication of the message succeeded.
US11263305B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include mapping an internal network to identify various nodes of the internal network. The method may further include determining where at least some of the internal network nodes identified in the mapping are located. The method may also include receiving a request for metadata service information from an application hosted on a cloud server instance. The method may then include providing a response to the received request for metadata service information if the determined location of the requesting node is approved or preventing a response to the received request for metadata service information if the determined location of the requesting node is not approved. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11263297B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for dynamically injecting secrets in a pipeline integration system. One of the methods includes receiving, by a pipeline controller, a job identifying a pipeline for executing a plurality of tasks. A preparatory task is invoked for the pipeline that obtains one or more original task definitions for the identified pipeline and generates one or more modified task definitions for the pipeline, wherein each modified task definition references one or more variablized secret names specified as the value of the reserved variable of the one or more configuration files. One or more subsequent execution tasks are invoked using each respective modified task definition. One or more retrieved secrets are injected into an execution environment for each particular execution task.
US11263294B2
An apparatus comprises a logic processor and at least one hardware device the processor being configured to orchestrate at least one virtual machine, wherein each device and virtual machine respectively forms an isolated execution environment, the processor being configured to: generate a unique ID associated with the request for the result; commit to the unique ID; transmit to the data source the request for data, to trigger the data source to generate and return the result and to generate an authenticity proof of the result by leveraging at least one software attestation technique or at least one hardware attestation technique; verify the authenticity proof; and transmit to the remote application the returned result and verified authenticity proof. This apparatus can be used to provably enforce the correct execution of a given process without relying on the security of a single isolated execution environment only.
US11263291B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus that includes decoding circuitry that decodes a single instruction. The single instruction includes an identifier of a first source operand, an identifier of a second source operand, an identifier of a destination, and an opcode indicative of execution circuitry is to multiply from the identified first source operand and the identified second source operand and store a result in the identified destination. Additionally, the apparatus includes execution circuitry to execute the single decoded instruction to calculate a dot product by calculating a plurality of products using data elements of the identified first and second operands using values less precise than the identified first and second source operands, summing the calculated products, and storing the summed products in the destination.
US11263289B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods optimizing geometries. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a programmed computing device, a geometry comprising a plurality of edges and selecting a set of edges from the plurality of edges based on an intersecting location in which two or more the edges intersect. For each edge of the set of edges, a density is determined that corresponds to the intersecting location for the set of edges. The method further includes determining a target density related to the intersecting location in view of an aggregate of the density associated with respective edges of the set of edges. The target density indicates a gradient of a falloff for the intersecting location.
US11263281B2
A method and system for dynamically customizing website displays is provided. Upon receiving a request from a user to display a web page, the geographic locations of items described on the web page is determined as well as the geographic location of the user. A relevance of the locations on the web page to the user is determined according to proximity. If the locations are determined to be relevant to the user weather data associated with the locations on the web page and the location of the user is retrieved. Content on the web page related to the weather data is identified, and the standard style sheet for the web page is modified to generate a customized style sheet, wherein weather-related content is displayed more prominently than it would be in the standard style sheet.
US11263269B2
An expert system designed to automatically generate requirements receives a set of natural-language statements. The system extracts from each statement keywords, rules, conditions, and semantic meanings of the statement's verbs. Verbs are organized into groups of synonyms and each statement's verb groups are each associated with one or more of that statement's keywords. Each statement is categorized as having simple, complex, or compound atomicity, as a function of the numbers of that statement's keywords, rules and verbs, and is assigned a degree of orthogonality as a function of the numbers of that statement's keywords that are associated with each of that statement's groups. Each statement is divided into segments and the procedure is repeated upon each segment until all resulting segments have simple atomicity. The segments are forwarded to downstream computerized modules that use the segments as requirements for a planned project.
US11263260B2
A system for searching and ranking modifiable videos in a multimedia messaging application (MMA) is provided. In one example embodiment, the system includes a database configured to store modifiable videos, the modifiable videos being associated with text messages and rankings, a processor, and a memory storing processor-executable codes, wherein the processor is configured to implement the following operations upon executing the processor-executable codes: receiving, via the MMA, an input of a user; selecting, based on the input, a list of relevant modifiable videos from the database; rendering, via the MMA, the list of relevant modifiable videos for viewing by the user; determining that the user has shared, via the MMA, a modifiable video from the list; storing an information concerning the list and the shared modifiable video into a statistical log; and updating, based on the information in the statistical log, the rankings of the modifiable videos in the database.
US11263257B2
Various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein provide techniques for automatically exposing 3D production assets to an editorial workstation in a content creation pipeline. A production asset management system transmits, to an editorial workstation, a first content library that includes first metadata associated with a 3D production asset that is included in an editorial cut. The first metadata allows a user to see what versions of the 3D production asset are available for incorporation into the editorial cut. The production asset management system retrieves second metadata associated with a second version of the 3D production asset from a production database. The production asset management system retrieves, based on the second metadata, the second version of the 3D production asset from the production database. The production asset management system transmits the second version of the 3D production asset to the editorial workstation for incorporation into the editorial cut.
US11263248B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for presenting content in accordance with a placement designation. One example method includes identifying terms associated with a campaign, the campaign having an associated content item that is presented to users responsive to requests for content, receiving an indication of a placement designation including targeting criteria for presenting the content item in a search suggestion control along with search suggestions, storing information associated with the campaign, and processing content requests.
US11263247B2
Disclosed herein are techniques related to automated generation of regular expressions. In some embodiments, a regular expression generator may receive input data comprising one or more character sequences. The regular expression generator may convert character sequences into a sets of regular expression codes and/or span data structures. The regular expression generator may identify a longest common subsequence shared by the sets of regular expression codes and/or spans, and may generate a regular expression based upon the longest common subsequence.
US11263226B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for providing real-time intelligence engine for data asset discovery. The present invention is configured to receive an indication that a first user has initiated a creation of a first multi-dimensional cube using a first computing node; initiate an asset recovery engine on the first computing device to: compare attributes associated with the first multi-dimensional cube with attributes associated with the multi-dimensional cubes stored on the first edge computing unit of the first computing node to determine a match; retrieve a first configuration file associated with the subset of the one or more multi-dimensional cubes stored on the first edge computing unit of the first computing node; and execute the creation of the first multi-dimensional cube based on the first configuration file using the first computing node.
US11263216B2
A computer system performs decentralized collection and aggregation of data. A plurality of requests for data are transmitted, by a data collection server, to a corresponding plurality of remote servers, wherein the plurality of remote server submit responses to the plurality of requests for data to a distributed data structure. The distributed data structure is accessed, by the data collection server, to retrieve the plurality of responses to the plurality of requests. The plurality of responses are aggregated, by the data collection server, into a message and the message is transmitted to an entity requesting data collection. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for performing decentralized collection and aggregation of data in substantially the same manner described above.
US11263213B2
A method and system for forecasting a histogram in a database system is provided. The method includes determining that database table statistics and historical statistical histograms associated with specified subject matter have been previously retrieved. The database table statistics and historical statistical histograms are retrieved and determined to be frequency based histograms. Historical target values associated with the historical statistical histograms are identified and new target values associated with the historical target values are identified. A value identifying a number of occurrences for identified target values comprising the new target values and the historical target values is forecast and database table histograms comprising the identified target values are stored.
US11263212B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for dynamic partition selection. One of the methods includes receiving a representation of a query plan generated for a query, wherein the query plan includes a dynamic scan operator that represents a first computing node obtaining tuples of one or more partitions of a table from storage and transferring the tuples to a second computing node that executes a parent operator of the dynamic scan operator. A partition selector operator is generated corresponding to the dynamic scan operator. A location in the query plan is determined for the partition selector operator. A modified query plan is generated having the partition selector operator at the determined location.
US11263201B2
An example system includes persistent storage and a discovery application configured to perform operations including obtaining a uniform resource locator (URL) that addresses a function of an application programming interface (API) provided by a remote computing system of remote computing systems that provide computing resources. The function returns attributes of computing resources specified by the URL. The operations additionally include generating (i) a system-specific portion of a request that invokes execution of the function and (ii) a system-invariant portion of the request. The system-specific portion adheres to first rules adopted by the remote computing system for interacting with the API. The system-invariant portion adheres to second rules adopted by each of the remote computing systems for interacting with respective APIs thereof. The operations yet further include transmitting the request to the remote computing system, receiving therefrom a response containing the attributes, and storing, in the persistent storage, the attributes.
US11263193B2
Systems and methods for generating tables using data associated with records. For example, a system may store the data associated with the record in one or more databases. The system may then generate tables associated with fields of the record, where the tables indicate updates and/or changes to the fields. For instance, when changes are made to a field of the record, the system may update the table to indicate the changes, times at which the changes occurred, identifiers of users that made the changes, reasons for the changes, and/or so forth. The system may further update a version of the record when updates and/or changes are made to the fields. Furthermore, the system may update the tables to indicate versions of the record when the updates and/or changes occurred to the fields.
US11263192B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system, a computer program product, and a method that comprises generating a context data tree for each variable in a plurality of variables based on a received input; determining data folding points for each generated context data tree; conducting a hyper-folding process on the determined data folding points in each context data tree, wherein the hyper-folding process converts each generated context data tree into a single data tree; and automatically loading the single data tree into an application.
US11263191B2
A method of storing multi-dimensional data, the method comprises encoding a structure of nodes of a tree data structure into an order representation; compressing data of nodes of the tree data structure to create a data stream of compressed data portions of variable length in a sequence corresponding to the order represented in the order representation. Each compressed data portion is formed from the data of each node. The method further comprises mapping the positions of the data portions in the data stream to the order representation to produce a location representation; and storing the order representation, data stream and location representation. A system of storing multi-dimensional data is also disclosed, as well as a method and system for retrieving stored multi-dimensional data.
US11263189B2
At least one of the embodiments described herein relate generally to a method of communicating between a first repository and a second repository. The method can be performed at a second repository, and may include the acts of: identifying a content object stored in the first repository; identifying metadata for the content object stored in the first repository, the metadata comprising a link to an interface associated with the content object, the interface being provided by the first repository; retrieving the metadata from the first repository; and storing a harvested content object corresponding to the content object, the harvested content object comprising the metadata that includes the link to the interface, wherein the interface is accessible by the second repository to communicate information related to the harvested content object to the first repository.
US11263188B2
A method for automatically generating documentation for an artificial intelligence model includes receiving, by a computing device, an artificial intelligence model. The computing device accesses a model facts policy that indicates data to be collected for artificial intelligence models. The computing device collects artificial intelligence model facts regarding the artificial intelligence model according to the model facts policy. The computing device accesses a factsheet template. The factsheet template provides a schema for an artificial intelligence model factsheet for the artificial intelligence model. The computing device populates the artificial intelligence model factsheet using the factsheet template with the artificial intelligence model facts related to the artificial intelligence model.
US11263186B2
The present disclosure is directed to a modified GraphQL server that enables application developers to define custom GraphQL schema fragments. For example, a developer may provide the GraphQL server with a GraphQL standard definition language (SDL) file having annotations that indicate that a customized data-handling script, such as a custom data-fetching script or a custom type resolver script, be called for handling certain data types or fields. These customized data-handling scripts are resolved and called at runtime based on the annotations in the GraphQL SDL file. By enabling developers to define schema fragments in the SDL language and implement data-handling scripts in a suitable scripting language, schema portability can be maintained across client instances, as well as instance release versions. Additionally, the disclosed approach enables enhanced modularity and reuse of previously defined data types and data-handling scripts, which increases developer productivity and reduces errors during application development.
US11263183B2
In a computer-implemented method for integrating a file system of a virtual machine into a native file explorer of a client system, a virtualization infrastructure that manages at least one virtual machine is accessed. The virtual machine is discovered. The file system of virtual machine is accessed. The file system of virtual machines is integrated with the native file explorer of the client system.
US11263180B2
A method for facilitating recovery from a crash of a solid-state storage device (SSD) is adapted to be implemented by an SSD controller of the SSD that receives a write request. The method includes: assigning a write request identifier (WID) and a request size in a spare area of each written page of the SSD; counting a number of appearances of the WID in all written page(s) to result in a WID count; determining whether the WID count is equal to the request size; and determining that the write request is completed and is eligible for recovery after a crash of the SSD when it is determined that the WID count is equal to the request size.
US11263174B2
Method and apparatus for reducing resource consumption in container image management. Embodiments include receiving directory information and checksum information corresponding to a plurality of files of a container image. Embodiments include determining, based on the directory information and the checksum information, whether each file of the plurality of files is present in a repository. For each respective file of the plurality of files that is determined to be present in the repository, embodiments include updating a file list for the container image to indicate a respective location in the repository of the respective file. For each given file of the plurality of files that is determined not to be present in the repository, embodiments include storing the given file at a given location in the repository and updating the file list for the container image to indicate the given location in the repository of the given file.
US11263164B1
Conventionally, for processing multi-legged orders, matching engines were implemented in software and were connected through Ethernet which is very slow in terms of throughput. Such traditional trading systems failed to process orders of tokens on different machines and these were summarily rejected. Present disclosure provides multiple FPGA system being optimized for processing/executing multi-legged orders. The system includes a plurality of FPGAs which are interconnected for communication via a PCIe port of a multi-port PCIe switch. Each FPGA comprise a net processing layer, a matcher, and a look-up table. Each FPGA is configured to process tokens (e.g., securities, etc.). If orders to be processed are for tokens on same FPGA where the order is received, then tokens are processed locally. Else net processing layer of a specific FPGA routes to specific order request to another FPGA where the tokens (securities) are located thereby reducing the latency and improving overall throughput.
US11263140B2
Embodiments are disclosed for performing cache aware searching. In response to a search query, a first bucket and a second bucket in remote storage for processing the search query. A determination is made that a first file in the first bucket is present in a cache when the search query is received. In response to the search query, a search is performed using the first file based on the determination that the first file is present in the cache when the search query is received, and the search is performed using a second file from the second bucket once the second file is stored in the cache.
US11263124B2
Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for verifying host generated physical addresses at a memory device during a host-resident FTL mode of operation to ameliorate erroneous or potentially malicious access to the memory device.
US11263122B2
The disclosure provides an approach for implementing fine grain data coherency of a memory region shared by an application within a virtual machine and a compute accelerator. The approach includes locating within a compute kernel a data write instruction to the shared memory region, and modifying the compute kernel to add a halting point after the data write instruction. The approach further includes configuring a virtualization system on which the virtual machine runs to set a value of a halt variable to true at an interval or in response to an occurrence of an event, wherein setting the halt variable to true causes the compute kernel to suspend execution at the conditional halting point.
US11263121B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for visualizing and configuring controller function sequences. Techniques include identifying at least one executable code segment associated with a controller; analyzing the at least one executable code segment to determine at least one function and at least one functional relationship associated with the at least one code segment; constructing, a software functionality line-of-code behavior and relation model visually depicting the determined at least one function and at least one functional relationship; displaying the software functionality line-of-code behavior and relation model at a user interface; receiving a first input at the interface; in response to the received first input, animating the line-of-code behavior and relation model to visually depict execution of the at least one executable code segment on the controller; receiving a second input at the interface; and in response to the received second input, animating an update to the line-of-code behavior and relation model.
US11263120B2
Techniques for feature-based deployment pipelines are disclosed. The feature-based deployment pipelines use a service file as well as other manifest files to set up a repository, a continuous integration service to initiate testing, and a container orchestration system to build images and establish version control over the system. The feature-based deployment pipelines invoke sequential stages to enable feature branches of an application to be fully tested before proceeding to a succeeding stage. At each stage, relevant stakeholders are able to evaluate the new features before they become part of the master image of the tested application. A variety of validation and performance tests are conducted at each stage, resulting in a fully vetted application available for a consumer.
US11263110B1
An inter-object validation system includes a computing system that executes an application to receive an aggregated object configuration comprising multiple design elements (DEs) associated with multiple objects of a test system in which at least one DE has one or more behaviors of its respective object in the test system represented by the aggregated object configuration. The application may also execute, under control of the application, logic stored in the at least one DE to determine whether one or more other DEs in the aggregated object configuration meet a specified criteria associated with the a personality of the DE in which the personality representing a type of behavior that the at least one DE and the other DEs in the aggregated object configuration are to provide, and generate a report indicating the results of the determination. The logic is separate and distinct from the instructions that control the logic.
US11263105B2
A method may include obtaining at least one dataset that includes information corresponding to periods of usage of a plurality of components within a cloud infrastructure and usage cost for each component of the plurality of components within the cloud infrastructure. The method may include comparing the information corresponding to the periods of usage with at least a portion of the information corresponding to the usage cost for components. The method may include determining a cost for one or more of the components for a period of time. The cost may be determined based on the comparison of the information corresponding to the periods of usage of the components with at least the portion of the information corresponding to the usage cost for the components. The method may include generating a visualization that includes information representative of the cost of the components and displaying the visualization via a display screen.
US11263103B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed a computer-implemented method for efficiently assessing data quality metrics. A non-limiting example of the computer-implemented method includes receiving, using a processor, a plurality of updates to data points in a data stream. The processor is further used to provide a plurality of data quality metrics (DQMs), and to maintain information on how much the plurality of DQMs are changing over time. The processor also maintains information on computational overhead for the plurality of DQMs, and also updates data quality information based on the maintained information.
US11263102B2
A memory system includes a status information register configured for checking threshold voltages of select transistors included in memory blocks, storing status information on a check result, and outputting a code based on the status information, a status monitor configured to receive the code from the status information register, determine a number of select transistors that have shifted according to the code, and output status signal based on the number of the select transistors that have shifted, and a central processing unit configured for outputting a setup command set for setting parameters of the memory blocks, outputting a re-program command set for re-programming the select transistors, or outputting a bad block address for processing the memory blocks as bad blocks in response to the status signals.
US11263101B2
A model generation apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processor circuit. The processor circuit is configured to: divide time-series data of operation information in a time direction to generate a plurality of segments; allocate any one memory control method of a plurality of memory control methods to each of the plurality of segments; estimate, for each of the plurality of segments, execution performance of memory access that is obtainable in a case where an information processing apparatus executes processing of a corresponding segment by an allocated memory control method; select a plurality of training segments from among the plurality of segments; and generate a decision model based on the selected plurality of training segments.
US11263089B2
Embodiments are described for prioritizing input/output (I/O) operations dispatched to a solid-state device (SSD) cache in a network, by defining a maximum write I/O operation size for writing data to the SSD cache, splitting large write I/O operations into smaller write I/O operations, each with a size less than the maximum write I/O operation size, interleaving cache read I/O operations in between the smaller write I/O operations, and performing the cache read I/O operations and the smaller write I/O operations in an order created by the interleaving. The network may comprise a deduplication backup system storing data to storage media including the SSD cache.
US11263073B2
An apparatus has a processing pipeline (2) comprising an execute stage (30) and at least one front end stage (10), (20), (25) for controlling which micro operations are issued to the execute stage. The pipeline has an intra-core lockstep mode of operation in which the at least one front end stage (10), (20), (25) issues micro operations for controlling the execute stage (30) to perform main processing and checker processing. The checker processing comprises redundant operations corresponding to associated main operations of at least part of the main processing. Error handling circuitry (200), (210) is responsive to the detection of a mismatch between information associated with given checker and main operations to trigger a recovery operation to correct an error and continue forward progress of the main processing.
US11263068B2
Methods and systems for printing accurate three-dimensional structures include printing an original three-dimensional structure according to an original three-dimensional model. The original three-dimensional model is adjusted to reduce measured differences between the printed three-dimensional structure and the original three-dimensional model, by adding material to the original three-dimensional model in proportion to an amount of thermal contraction in a region. An adjusted three-dimensional structure is printed according to the adjusted three-dimensional model.
US11263063B1
A system for device-specific event handler generation, includes a computing device configured to configure a first remote device to display an event handler graphic, receive a plurality of data via a data-reception event handler, retrieve at least a memory entry linked to the memory map index, divide a device identifier space into a first identifier set and a disjoint second identifier set, and configure the first remote device to generate a graphical view, wherein the graphical view includes at least a display element generated as a function of the at least a memory entry and a first selectable event graphic corresponding to a first selectable event handler, wherein the first selectable event handler is configured to trigger a first action if first remote device identifier corresponding to the first remote device matches the first identifier set and a second action if the identifier matches the second identifier set.
US11263054B2
Disclosed are aspects of memory-aware placement in systems that include graphics processing units (GPUs) that are virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled. In some embodiments, a computing environment is monitored to identify graphics processing unit (GPU) data for a plurality of virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled GPUs of the computing environment, a plurality of vGPU requests are received. A respective vGPU request includes a GPU memory requirement. GPU configurations are determined in order to accommodate vGPU requests. The GPU configurations are determined based on an integer linear programming (ILP) vGPU request placement model. Configured vGPU profiles are applied for vGPU enabled GPUs, and vGPUs are created based on the configured vGPU profiles. The vGPU requests are assigned to the vGPUs.
US11263052B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining optimal compute resources for distributed batch based optimization applications are provided herein. A method includes obtaining a size of an input dataset, a size of a model, and a set of batch sizes corresponding to a job to be processed using a distributed computing system; computing, based at least in part on the set of batch sizes, one or more node counts corresponding to a number of nodes that can be used for processing said job; estimating, for each given one of the node counts, an execution time to process the job based on an average computation time for a batch of said input dataset and an average communication time for said batch of said input dataset; and selecting, based at least in part on said estimating, at least one of said node counts for processing the job.
US11263048B1
In a computing resource environment including at least one resource capable of being allocated to at least one of a plurality of tasks, techniques are disclosed for applying a taint to a resource in a computing resource environment, the taint being configured to prevent the resource from being claimed for a resource request without a toleration to that taint. Variations include receiving, at a resource scheduler in the resource environment, a request to allocate the resource to perform a particular task and determining whether the resource is subject to a taint. If the resource is subject to a taint, analyzing the request to determine if it includes a toleration for the taint. If the request includes a toleration for the taint, allocating the resource to the task. If the request does not include a toleration for the taint, not allocating the resource due to the taint.
US11263042B2
A control processing device includes a determining unit that determines whether a write of a transaction is to be executed using a write lock or without using the write lock upon receiving a write command of the transaction, a writing unit that acquires the write lock for the transaction and executes the write of the transaction when the determining unit has determined that the write of the transaction is to be executed using the write lock, an optimizing unit that discards the write command of the transaction when the determining unit has determined that the write of the transaction is to be executed without using the write lock, and a return unit that returns to a command source that the write of the transaction has succeeded after the write by the writing unit or after the discarding of the write command by the optimizing unit.
US11263028B2
A computing system includes a virtualization server that runs virtual machine sessions and provides a hosted application having user interface (UI) elements. A client computing device receives the UI elements and displays the UI elements as local virtual UI elements, applies user input to one of the local virtual UI elements in focus, generates a local virtual UI element graphics overlay corresponding to a predicted response to the user input and sends the user input to the virtualization server, which generates an updated UI element graphics corresponding to an actual response to the user input. The client computing device replaces at least a portion of the local virtual UI element graphics overlay corresponding to the predicted response with the received updated UI element graphics.
US11263027B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for plugin loading. The method includes obtaining an identifier of a plugin component of a plugin from a threading module, recording the identifier of the plugin component, and replacing the identifier of the plugin component with an identifier of a host component of an application program. The method also includes sending the identifier of the host component to a threading module, to perform system permission verification and receiving runnable notification information when passing the verification. The method further includes in response to the received runnable notification information, replacing the identifier of the host component with the identifier of the plugin component according to the recorded identifier of the plugin component; and sending the identifier of the plugin component to the threading module, to load the plugin. The present invention further discloses an apparatus and a storage medium for plugin loading.
US11263025B2
Proactively performing tasks based on estimating hardware reconfiguration times. A determination is made, prior to performing one or more reconfiguration actions to reconfigure a configuration of the computing environment, at least one estimated reconfiguration time to perform the one or more reconfiguration actions. At least one reconfiguration action of the one or more reconfiguration actions is performed, and one or more tasks are initiated prior to completing the one or more reconfiguration actions. The initiating is based on the at least one estimated reconfiguration time.
US11263020B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for erasing user data stored in a file system. The method includes destroying all key bags containing encryption keys on a device having a file system encrypted on a per file and per class basis, erasing and rebuilding at least part of the file system associated with user data, and creating a new default key bag containing encryption keys. Also disclosed herein is a method of erasing user data stored in a remote file system encrypted on a per file and per class basis. The method includes transmitting obliteration instructions to a remote device, which cause the remote device to destroy all key bags containing encryption keys on the remote device, erase and rebuild at least part of the file system associated with user data, and create on the remote device a new default key bag containing encryption keys.
US11263015B1
Described herein are systems and methods for microarchitectural sensitive tag flow. For example, some methods include detecting dependence of data stored in a second data storage circuitry on the first instruction, where the first instruction will output a value to be stored in the second data storage circuitry, and wherein the second data storage circuitry is associated with a third tag indicating whether the second data storage circuitry has been designated as storing sensitive data; responsive to the dependence of data stored in the second data storage circuitry on the first instruction, checking whether the second tag indicates a sensitive instruction; and, responsive to the second tag indicating a sensitive instruction, updating the third tag to indicate that data stored in the second data storage circuitry has been designated as sensitive.
US11263011B2
A device for controlling neural inference processor cores is provided, including a compound instruction set architecture. The device comprises an instruction memory, which comprises a plurality of instructions for controlling a neural inference processor core. Each of the plurality of instructions comprises a control operation. The device further comprises a program counter. The device further comprises at least one loop counter register. The device is adapted to execute the plurality of instructions. Executing the plurality of instructions comprises: reading an instruction from the instruction memory based on a value of the program counter; updating the at least one loop counter register according to the control operation of the instruction; and updating the program counter according to the control operation of the instruction and a value of the at least one loop counter register.
US11263000B2
An event-driven compute service upgrades an execution environment for registered functions of the compute service. Some compute nodes of the service have an updated version of the execution environment and some compute nodes have the old version of the execution environment. As a part of the upgrade process, some functions are executed in both environments. For example, for some invocations of a particular function, the function is executed in the updated execution environment while for other invocations of the same function, the function is executed in the old execution environment. Based on resulting status of the executions, the compute service determines that the particular function is compatible or incompatible with the updated version of the execution environment. The compute service performs subsequent executions of incompatible functions in the old version of the execution environment instead of in the updated version. A client may be notified of the incompatibility.
US11262997B2
Systems and methods for performing parallel program installations using a script-based installation mode are provided. An exemplary system can include: a plurality of backend servers on which a plurality of scripts is executed to automatically install application programs; and an application server, the application server being configured to: receive a plurality of web service calls from a user device via a user interface; locate web services in response to the web service calls; and send a plurality of Secure Shell (SSH) calls to a plurality of backend servers; in response to the web service calls, provide and expose the plurality of the scripts being as the web services, wherein a number of the web service calls processed by the application server are based on a hardware capacity of the application server.
US11262993B2
Unused instructions and no longer used instructions in a target application binary are determined. The target application binary is rewritten before and after runtime execution of the target application binary to remove the unused and no longer used instructions to reduce binary attack surface area for the runtime execution of the target application binary. Methods, computer systems, and computer program products are disclosed.
US11262992B2
A hardware acceleration method includes: obtaining compilation policy information and a source code, where the compilation policy information indicates that a first code type matches a first processor and a second code type matches a second processor, analyzing a code segment in the source code according to the compilation policy information, determining a first code segment belonging to the first code type or a second code segment belonging to the second code type, compiling the first code segment into a first executable code, sending the first executable code to the first processor, compiling the second code segment into a second executable code, and sending the second executable code to the second processor.
US11262984B2
A code completion tool uses a neural transformer model to generate candidate sequences to complete a line of source code. The neural transformer model is trained using a conditional language modeling objective on a large unsupervised dataset that includes source code programs written in several different programming languages. The neural transformer model is used within a beam search that predicts the most likely candidate sequences for a code snippet under development.
US11262973B2
A system operates to manage accessibility of media content items based on a user's performance of a repetitive motion activity. The system can generate rule data based on a rule designed to permit access to certain media content items. The rule data can include information about various conditions to be satisfied to make the media content items accessible for playback. Such conditions can be associated with a user's performance or status of a repetitive motion activity.
US11262965B2
The present invention provides a display device. The display device includes a display module, a first mounting frame, one or more electromotive driving elements, and a control module. The display module is disposed on and spaced from a setting surface and has a display surface. The first mounting frame is spaced from the display module and is disposed on the setting surface. The electromotive driving elements are disposed on the first mounting frame and face the display module relatively. The control module controls display of the display surface based on a display signal, and controls each of the electromotive driving elements to selectively generate an attractive force and a repulsive force with respect to the display module based on an actuation signal, so as to change a distance of the display module from the first mounting frame, a setting angle of the display module with respect to the setting surface, or a combination thereof.
US11262962B2
A home appliance and a control method therefor are provided. The home appliance includes a display, a sensor to detect whether a door is opened or closed, and at least one processor configured to control the display to display one or more objects, and based on sensing, by the sensor, at least one of an opening or a closing of the door, provide visual feedback to the one or more objects.
US11262959B1
In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for estimating ink use by a printer is provided. The method involves receiving, by a computer, a request for a comingled print job comprising a plurality of print jobs to be carried out by the printer. The method also involves traversing, by the computer, pages of the comingled print job and identifying, for each page of the comingled print job, a print job of the plurality of print jobs to which the page belongs. The method also involves for each of the plurality of print jobs, calculating, by the computer, an estimated total amount of ink required for printing the print job. The method also involves communicating, by the computer, to a client terminal, the estimated total amounts of ink required for printing the plurality of print jobs.
US11262948B2
What is specified is a method for transforming a first binary signal read from a memory, wherein the first binary signal is transformed into a second binary signal provided that the first binary signal is a code word or a predefined code word of a k-out-of-n code, wherein the first binary signal is transformed into a predefined signal provided that the first binary signal is not a code word or is not a predefined code word of the k-out-of-n code, wherein the predefined signal is different than the second binary signal. A corresponding device is furthermore specified.
US11262944B1
Systems and methods are provided for utilizing rules for placement of objects in storage in a manner that improves retrieval times relative to a default ordering utilized by an object storage system. For example, a request to store an object in a persistent storage of a data storage system may be received, metadata associated with the request may then be parsed to identify a signal for placement of the object within the persistent storage, and a rule may be identified for placement of objects associated with that signal, such as by indicating a desired grouping or ordering of objects associated with the signal. A particular storage location for the object may then be determined within the persistent storage based at least in part on the signal, the rule, and previously determined storage locations of one or more other data objects associated with the signal.
US11262941B2
Apparatuses and methods including memory commands for semiconductor memories are described. An example method includes receiving a data clock signal responsive to receiving a timing command, performing an access operation responsive to receiving an access command associated with the timing command, providing an access data clock signal based on the data clock signal, and providing an access data clock signal based on the data clock signal. The access command may be separated in time from the associated timing command by at least one clock cycle of a system clock signal. In some examples, the access command may precede the associated timing command or may follow the associated timing command. In some examples, the access command may immediately follow or precede the associated timing command.
US11262936B2
The write time is to be shortened in a storage device using memories that require different write times from each other, such as nonvolatile memories. In a memory controller including a plurality of write request holding units and a selection unit, the write request holding units holds a write request with respect to each of a plurality of memory modules that require different write times from one another. The selection unit selects one of the plurality of write request holding units in accordance with memory state information indicating whether each of the plurality of memory modules is in a busy state, and causes outputting of the write request.
US11262935B2
Distributed deduplication wherein runtime performance of dedup pipelines in all nodes is monitored. The bottleneck for each pipeline is identified and machine resources from different nodes are reallocated to seek to balance the costs of each stage of each task in each of the pipelines. While the overall cost for each task may remain the same, stalls may be eliminated such that the total cost to complete all the tasks is reduced. The global dedup ratio and the local compression ratio may be used to weight certain stage costs.
US11262933B2
Techniques are provided for managing the utilization of shared memory resources among a plurality of asynchronous replication workloads. A data replication system maintains a respective replication journal for each replication workload in an allocated portion of system memory of a source server node. Each replication journal is divided into journal barrier intervals by respective individual barriers for transmission to a destination server node. The data replication system waits for a triggering event to occur for generating a common barrier, wherein the triggering event is configured to prevent exhaustion of the allocated portion of system memory for storing the replication journals. The common barrier is generated to close the replication journals of some or all of the replication workloads in advance of the respective individual barriers associated, and the replication journals closed by the common barrier are transmitted to the destination server node.
US11262929B2
An implementation of the disclosure provides a system comprising a storage array comprising a storage controller coupled to the storage array. The storage controller comprising a processing device to remap a plurality of deduplication references in a deduplication map to point to an earlier occurrence of duplicate data of a data block for the deduplication map. The processing device further to update an entry of the deduplication map associated with the plurality of deduplication references with a record indicating that the entry is no longer referenced and trim the entry from the deduplication map that is associated with the record.
US11262928B2
A storage system and method for enabling partial defragmentation are provided. In one embodiment, a storage system comprises a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to receive an indication from a host that the host will be reading from a portion of the memory in a burst mode; determine whether a fragmentation level of the portion of the memory is above a threshold; and in response to determining that the fragmentation level of the portion of the memory is above the threshold, perform a defragmentation of the portion of the memory prior to reading data stored in the portion of the memory. Other embodiments are provided.
US11262924B2
Automatic memory overclocking, including: increasing a memory frequency setting for a memory module until a memory stability test fails; determining an overclocked memory frequency setting including a highest memory frequency setting passing the memory stability test; and generating a profile including the overclocked memory frequency setting.
US11262923B2
A provided a storage device configured to support a number of namespaces. The storage device includes a memory and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller includes a host interface layer and a flash translation layer configured to report to the host interface layer a first over-provisioning chunk from an over-provisioning pool and a first chunk separate from the over-provisioning pool. The controller is configured to receive a command at the host interface layer to utilize a portion of the memory for a first namespace from among the number of namespaces and the first namespace includes an unaligned chunk. The controller is configured to utilize the first over-provisioning chunk as the unaligned chunk of the first namespace. A number of over-provisioning chunks to be utilized as unaligned chunks is less than the number of namespaces.
US11262910B2
A method and system for presenting and manipulating a map user interface include presenting the map user interface in a vehicle tracking mode. The method and system also include changing the map user interface from the vehicle tracking mode to an exploration mode. The method and system additionally include determining a first gesture on the touchpad to pan a scalable map presented on the map user interface at a first speed. The method and system further include determining a second gesture on the touchpad to pan the scalable map presented on the map user interface at a second speed which is faster than the first speed.
US11262907B2
A display device includes a display controller that causes a touch panel to scroll display a plurality of button images, wherein compared with the number of characters displayed in a plurality of button images in a first state being not scrolled, the display controller reduces the number of characters displayed in a plurality of the button images in a second state being scrolled by starting scroll from the first state. Thereby, it is possible to make the scroll speed higher than before.
US11262891B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for managing e-notes of electronic books and an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring content data of an e-note when the e-note is generated for the electronic book; storing the content data of the e-note into an e-note file corresponding to the electronic book; in response to receiving an e-note management instruction, identifying the electronic book corresponding to the e-note management instruction, acquiring and displaying the e-note file corresponding to the electronic book, and managing the e-note based on the e-note file corresponding to the electronic book.
US11262888B1
Systems and methods are provided for rendering content for presentation in a portion of a user interface based on context-independent data and a template that is selected based on context information associated with the user interface. The template may be selected from among a number of different templates based at least in part on a template selection data structure that associates each template with one or more combinations of contextual attributes associated with the context of the user interface. The content for inclusion in at least a portion of the user interface may then be rendered using the selected template and at least a portion of the context-independent data.
US11262882B2
A touch sensor in which an increase in manufacturing processes is suppressed and which can be provided inexpensively is obtained. A touch sensor (1) has a structure in which resistance membranes (12A, 12B) and membranes (13A, 13B) made of pressure sensitive ink are formed on predetermined places of a film (11), two parts (11A, 11B) on which the resistance membranes (12A, 12B) are formed are interfolded so that the resistance membranes (12A, 12B) face each other, two parts (11C, 11D) on which the membranes (13A, 13B) are formed are interfolded so that the membranes (13A, 13B) face each other, and the interfolded two parts are further interfolded.
US11262880B2
A high performance touch sensor according to the present invention comprises: a substrate; a first detection electrode formed on the substrate; an insulation layer formed on the first detection electrode; a second detection electrode formed on the insulation layer; and a protection layer formed on the second detection electrode, wherein one of the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode has a triple-film structure including a metal oxide and a thin film metal laminated on each other, and the other one includes a metal pattern. Therefore, the present invention can implement touch sensor having a high resolution and a large area while simultaneously satisfying a low resistance characteristic and an optical characteristic, facilitate progress of a high-temperature process, and diversify the substrate.
US11262879B1
A touch module includes a substrate, a touch sensing layer, a first transparent adhesive layer, and a second transparent adhesive layer. The substrate has a visible area and a peripheral area surrounding the visible area. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the substrate and located in the visible area. The first transparent adhesive layer is disposed on the touch sensing layer, and a dielectric constant of the first transparent adhesive layer is between 1.5 and 3.0. The second transparent adhesive layer is disposed on the first transparent adhesive layer, and a dielectric constant of the second transparent adhesive layer is between 3.0 and 8.0.
US11262872B2
A multi-modal sensor is disclosed that is able to detect and discriminate objects in the near-range range, mid-range and far-range. The sensor uses different sensing modalities that are adapted to cooperate and operate together depending upon the range of the object that is being detected. In an embodiment, infrared transmitters and infrared sensors are used, wherein the infrared transmitters transmit signals in the infrared range that frequency orthogonal with respect to each other.
US11262871B2
The present disclosure provides a touch control display panel, a driving method thereof and a touch control display device. The touch control display panel includes a plurality of gate lines on a base substrate, a plurality of touch control lines above the plurality of gate lines and opposite to the plurality of gate lines, and a driving circuit, wherein the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of touch control lines extend along a same direction, and the driving circuit includes a timing controller, a control unit and a touch control driving unit. The timing controller is configured to output a gate driving signal to the control unit. The control unit is configured to generate touch control synchronization signal(s) according to the gate driving signal and output the touch control synchronization signal(s) to the touch control driving unit.
US11262868B2
A display panel, a driving method and a touch display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area and a non-display area. The display panel also includes a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels located in the display area and arranged in a first direction and a second direction, a plurality of electrode rows extending in the first direction and arranged in the second direction, a plurality of electrode columns arranged in the first direction and extending in the second direction, a plurality of switch units located in the display area, a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines, and a plurality of first driving circuits. In a touch stage, the first driving circuits supply a driving signal to the second signal lines, and the first signal lines transmit a touch detection signal to first electrodes in the electrode rows and columns.
US11262863B2
A sensing component includes multiple piezoelectric pressure sensors. The piezoelectric pressure sensor includes a piezoelectric material layer, a thin film transistor array and an induced electrode. The piezoelectric material layer is configured to measure pulse at multiple positions to generate the corresponding multiple pulse signals. The thin film transistor array electrically coupled to the piezoelectric material layer includes multiple transistors. The transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal. The first terminal is configured to receive one of the pulse signals. The second terminal coupled to a data line is configured to output a first sensing signal according to the one of the pulse signals. The control terminal is configured to receive a clock signal. The induced electrode coupled to the piezoelectric material layer is configured to receive another one of the pulse signals to output a second sensing signal.
US11262862B2
A panel bottom assembly includes a light-blocker with first concave patterns formed on a top surface thereof. A vibration acoustic device is disposed below, and coupled to, the light-blocker. A buffer is disposed below the light-blocker. A bonding is disposed between the light-blocker and the vibration acoustic device. The bonding has second concave patterns formed on a top surface thereof. The second concave patterns are different from the first concave patterns.
US11262860B2
An input sensor includes: a first connection pattern; a second connection pattern on a layer different from the first connection pattern and electrically disconnected from the first connection pattern; a first sensor pattern on a layer different from the first connection pattern and coupled to the first connection pattern; a second sensor pattern on a layer different from the first connection pattern and coupled to the second connection pattern; and a floating pattern overlapping at least a portion of the first connection pattern when viewed in a plan view and spaced apart from the second connection pattern.
US11262857B2
A rendering device that renders a three-dimensional object displayed in a virtual reality space on a display includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to render the 3D object as a 3D object of 3D displaying in a virtual reality space coordinate system, render the 3D object as a 3D object of 2D displaying in a plane coordinate system, and update displaying of the display based on a result of the 3D object being rendered as the 3D object of 3D displaying in the virtual reality space coordinate system and a result of the object being rendered as the 3D object of 2D displaying in the plane coordinate system. The rendering device enables intuitive drawing with high accuracy in the virtual reality space.
US11262855B2
A method for configuring a mouse (1) for a computer (101), the mouse (1) comprising at least four degrees of freedom and being able to transmit one data signal (31) for each degree of freedom of the mouse (1), includes (i) defining a first data signal (31) able to be sent by the mouse (1), the first data signal (31) being chosen from a first list via a human-machine interface, the human-machine interface especially comprising a computer (101) and a screen (102), (ii) defining a first condition (32) relating to the first data signal (31), the first condition (32) being chosen from a second list via the human-machine interface, and (iii) defining a first instruction (33) able to be executed by a computer (101), the first instruction (33) being chosen from a third list via the human-machine interface.
US11262848B1
Disclosed is a method for reducing motion sickness in virtual reality (VR) of a user, comprising determining a pattern of force cue based on a motion signal of a locomotion in the VR, the pattern of force cue including a type of force cue, a position of application or a direction of application, a time of application, and an amplitude of force cue, and applying a force cue to a head of the user according to the pattern of force cue, wherein the force cue corresponds to an inertial force and/or a centrifugal force in connection with the motion signal. Also disclosed is a head-mounted device thereof.
US11262843B1
The present disclosure relates to a pair of keyboard/mouse gloves and a control method thereof, where the pair of keyboard/mouse gloves include a left-handed keyboard/mouse glove and a right-handed keyboard/mouse glove that are matched for use and have a same structure, a glove body, a control chip, a plurality of sensor groups, and a display. The sensor group is disposed inside the glove body and respectively sleeved on each finger, and the sensor groups are connected to the control chip after being connected to each other through a data communication line. The control chip receives a single signal or a signal combo from each sensor group for key position analysis, and transmits a key position analysis result to the display for display.
US11262839B2
A method for updating information for a graphics pipeline including executing in the first frame period an application on a CPU to generate primitives of a scene for a first video frame. Gaze tracking information is received in a second frame period for an eye of a user. In the second frame period a landing point on an HMD display is predicted at the CPU based at least on the gaze tracking information. A late update of the predicted landing point to a buffer accessible by the GPU is performed in the second frame period. Shader operations are performed in the GPU in the second frame period to generate pixel data based on the primitives and based on the predicted landing point, wherein the pixel data is stored into a frame buffer. The pixel data is scanned out in the third frame period from the frame buffer to the HMD.
US11262838B2
Provided is an information processing device that provides feedback to a user. The information processing device includes: a recognition unit that recognizes a physical relation between a real object and a first virtual object positioned on an identical surface and a control unit that controls the behavior of the real object based on the physical relation.
US11262832B2
In an example, power consumption of a computing device can be controlled based on a change in surface temperature of a power adapter supplying charging current to the computing device.
US11262830B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for identifying and responding to one or more power loss events on a computing node. For example, systems disclosed herein may relate to management of a power loss event on a computing node hosting one or more compute platforms thereon. The systems disclosed herein may implement a power handling configuration that identified a subset of data from a volatile portion of a storage system to prioritize for storage on a non-volatile portion of the storage system. By selectively identifying and flushing data associated with compute platforms hosted by a computing node, systems described herein may significantly reduce demand for capacitance on cloud computing systems while optimizing other performance parameters (e.g., write performance, hardware durability) of devices on cloud computing systems.
US11262822B1
A portable information handling system rejects excess thermal energy from within a housing by blowing a cooling airflow with a cooling fan across first and second sets of cooling fins and out an exhaust. The cooling fan has an upper and lower intake and moves vertically within the housing to adjust spacing at the upper intake. The cooling fan exhaust couples to one of the sets of cooling fins to exhaust across both sets of cooling fins when interleaved and the one set of cooling fins when spacing at the upper cooling fan intake increases.
US11262817B2
Disclosed is a direct cooling-type display device having a double-sided display, the display device being configured to implement efficient heat radiation and comprising: a first display; a second display provided such that the back surface thereof faces the back surface of the first display; a housing for mounting the first display; an inlet port formed in the housing so as to form a path along which external air flows in; a first discharge port formed in a first area in which the first display is provided; a second discharge port formed in a second area in which the second display is provided; a first temperature measurement portion for measuring the temperature in the second area; a first outlet fan for discharging air in the first are through the first discharge port; a second outlet fan for discharging air in the second area through the second discharge port; a first backflow prevention portion provided in the first discharge port so as to prevent air from flowing from outside the housing into the same through the first discharge port; a second backflow prevention portion provided in the second discharge port so as to prevent air from flowing from outside the housing into the same through the second discharge port; and a flow rate control portion for driving the first outlet fan and the second outlet fan on the based of the measured temperature in the first area and the measured temperature in the second area.
US11262807B1
A piezoelectric speaker fits in a cavity of a portable information handling system covered by a transparent cover that defines a speaker chamber within the cavity. The transparent cover integrates wirelines that align power pads with power contacts of the speaker to communicate audible information that generates sounds. In one embodiment, the transparent cover integrates a liquid crystal display that presents visual images associated with generated sound and backlit with illumination provided from the cavity.
US11262806B1
An electronic apparatus includes a chassis; a display panel that is supported by an inner face of a cover member that defines a rear face of the chassis, the display panel having a display surface exposed to a front face of the chassis; and a support member that supports the display panel at the inner face of the cover member. The support member includes: a cover fixed portion having a cover fixed face that is fixed to the inner face of the cover member; and a panel fixed portion having a panel fixed face that is fixed to a back face of the display panel, the panel fixed portion being elastically displaceable toward the inner face of the cover member.
US11262803B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a housing, a roller disposed in the housing, a display unit configured to be wound around or unwound from the roller, a foldable link having a first side pivotably coupled to the housing and a second side pivotably coupled to an upper part of the display unit, a motor disposed in the housing and configured to drive a pivoting movement of the foldable link such that the foldable link is extended out of or retracted into the housing, a fulcrum disposed adjacent to the first side of the foldable link, a lever extending in a longitudinal direction of the housing and pivotably mounted on the fulcrum and comprising a first side and a second side oppositely positioned with respect to the fulcrum, and an elastic member coupled to the second side of the lever, when the foldable link is retracted into the housing the foldable link contacts the first side of the lever to cause the lever to pivot about the fulcrum.
US11262802B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed An example apparatus to update a spatially adjustable display disclosed herein includes a display size monitor to acquire an indication of a size of the spatially adjustable display, a service image comparator to compare the indication of the size to a size model, and a source image adjuster to invoke visual configuration adjustments to an output image of the spatially adjustable display based on parameters identified in the size model.
US11262800B2
An electronic device includes a body including a first portion and a second portion, a display including a first display area and a second display area, and a processor embedded inside the body. The first portion and the second portion rotate about a rotation axis. The first display area is disposed in the first portion. The second display area is disposed in the second portion. The processor is configured to execute a plurality of applications in the first display area by a first division line in a state where the body is folded by rotation of the first portion and the second portion and to execute the plurality of applications in the first display area and the second display area by a second division line parallel to the rotation axis in a state where the body is unfolded by the rotation of the first portion and the second portion.
US11262797B1
A system may include a wearable electronic device that gathers force input. The device may transmit force measurement information and other input to external equipment such as a head-mounted device. The wearable electronic device may have a force sensor that gathers force measurements as the wearable electronic device is being worn. The force sensor may have a force sensor housing structure configured to form a fluid-filled channel and one or more collapsible force sensor elements such as collapsible fluid-filled domes or other protruding portions of the force sensor housing structure. A pressure sensor may monitor changes in pressure in a fluid that fills the channel and the fluid-filled domes. The monitored changes in pressure represent force measurements for force applied by a user's body part or other objects on the collapsible force sensor elements.
US11262790B1
A smart mirror attaches directly to a larger mirror, window pane, or other base structure in a fashion meant to appear as low profile as possible, meaning the smart mirror extends a very short distance outward from the mounting surface of the base structure, and there are no visible attachment devices. The smart mirror appears to be a part of the surface upon which it is mounted and appears to blend in seamlessly when the base structure is a mirror. Additionally, the smart mirror is easy to install onto the base structure with thin adhesive gel pads that leave behind no residue and are completely reusable. This enables the user to mount the device onto any smooth surface and to be able to easily move the device when desired. The smart mirror does not have any integral, built-in camera or microphone, but can be added as separate add-on peripheral modules.
US11262789B2
A curved display device may include a display panel and a chassis member. The display panel may include a first edge and a second edge. The first edge may be longer than the second edge and may be convex in a back direction. The second edge may be convex in an image-displaying direction. The back direction and the image-displaying direction may be with reference to the display panel. The chassis member may be coupled to the display panel and may support the display panel.
US11262784B2
Provided is a resin pedal arm of which strength is further improved. A resin pedal arm 10 includes a hollow arm body 20. The arm body 20 includes a front wall portion 30, a rear wall portion 32 facing the front wall portion 30, a left wall portion 34 formed between left edges 30A, 32A of the front wall portion 30 and the rear wall portion 32 and having multiple first flat plate portions 38 arranged to bridge between the left edges 30A, 32A, and a right wall portion 36 formed between right edges 30B, 32B of the front wall portion 30 and the rear wall portion 32, having multiple second flat plate portions 40 arranged to bridge between the right edges 30B, 32B, and facing the left wall portion 34. The multiple second flat plate portions 40 are each present in multiple left opening areas S1 each provided between adjacent ones of the multiple first flat plate portions 38, as viewed in a direction in which the left wall portion 34 and the right wall portion 36 face each other.
US11262783B2
A semiconductor device may include a bandgap circuit that outputs a reference voltage. The semiconductor device may also include a startup circuit coupled to the bandgap circuit. The startup circuit may connect a voltage source to a node that corresponds to an output of the bandgap circuit in response to the bandgap circuit being initialized. The startup circuit may also disconnect the voltage source from the node in response to the reference voltage being greater than a threshold.
US11262776B2
A system can control, with a positive temperature-voltage correlation, an output of a voltage regulator with a Peltier device. The Peltier device can receive heat from a heat-producing electronic device, and can have a positive terminal and a negative terminal. A voltage regulator circuit can include a driver device electrically coupled to an input voltage and an output terminal electrically coupled to one of the Peltier device terminals. The voltage regulator circuit can also include a differential amplifier electrically coupled to a reference voltage, an input electrically coupled to another Peltier device terminal and an output electrically coupled to the driver device. The differential amplifier can, in response to a voltage produced by the Peltier device, modulate, with a positive temperature-voltage correlation, an output voltage on the output terminal of the driver device.
US11262773B2
A method and a device for compensating leakage losses in a line system, in which at least one positive displacement pump and at least one shut-off member are provided, wherein the method and device can be used for the isobaric metering of liquid plastic components and wherein the actual liquid pressure in the system is determined by way of a pressure measuring device and, when the shut-off member is closed is regulated to a pressure target value by actuation of the positive displacement pump, wherein the conveying loss rate of the positive displacement pump, which ensues to maintain the pressure target value when the shut-off member is closed is added to a target delivery rate in order to compensate for the leakage loss occurring at the corresponding pressure target value.
US11262769B2
Aspects of the disclosure include a method for tracking the quality of a beverage produced according to a batch process that includes adding ingredients to water to form a batch, measuring the density of the batch in real time using an in-line density device, monitoring changes in density of the batch, detecting deviations from the batch process based on the changes in density, and correcting for any detected deviations from the batch process in real time. Other aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of detecting inhomogeneity in real time for a batch process for producing a beverage. Other aspects of the disclosure include a method of tracking addition of ingredients for producing a beverage in a batch process includes sequentially adding a plurality of ingredients to water according to a standard recipe to form a batch and correcting for any detected deviations from the recipe in real time.
US11262765B2
Method and vehicle for tracking the position of a remotely operated vehicle following a set route relative to tracks laid out on a frame structure forming a grid, the vehicle having first and second sets of wheels connected to drives for moving the vehicle in corresponding x- and y-directions on the grid, the method comprising: receiving information of the number of track crossings to pass between start and stop positions in x- and y-directions according to the set route; directing sensors attached to the vehicle at the tracks along the route of the vehicle; detecting and monitoring track crossings passed when moving the vehicle in the x- and y-directions according to the set route, and transmitting a signal to a controller, controlling the drives of the wheels of the vehicle, when the number of track crossings passed is close to the total number of track crossings to pass between the start and stop positions in respective x- and y-directions along the set route.
US11262763B2
Systems and methods for using risk profiles for creating and deploying new vehicle event definitions to a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a first risk profile, a second risk profile, and vehicle event characterization information; select individual ones of the previously detected vehicle events that have one or more characteristics in common; determine circumstances for at least a predefined period prior to occurrences of the selected vehicle events; create a new vehicle event definition based on the determined set of circumstances; distribute the new vehicle event definition to individual vehicles in the fleet of vehicles; and receive additional vehicle event information from the individual vehicles in the fleet of vehicles.
US11262752B2
A vehicle controller that controls a vehicle having a first driving mode in which the vehicle travels according to a first control signal based on manual driving or automated driving, and has a second driving mode in which the vehicle travels according to the second control signal based on remote driving is provided, the vehicle controller including a signal comparing unit that compares, to a first control signal, a second control signal acquired by a second control signal acquiring unit while a vehicle control unit is controlling the travelling of the vehicle according to the first control signal, and a mode control unit that causes the vehicle to exit the first driving mode and enter the second driving mode when a comparison result by a signal comparing unit satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11262750B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: adjusting a first flight control device of a rotorcraft to control flight around a first axis of the rotorcraft, the first flight control device exercising flight control authority around the first axis of the rotorcraft; detecting a failure of the first flight control device; transitioning at least a portion of the flight control authority around the first axis of the rotorcraft from the first flight control device to a second flight control device of the rotorcraft, the transitioning being performed automatically in response to detecting the failure of the first flight control device; and adjusting the second flight control device to control flight around the first axis of the rotorcraft, the second flight control device being adjusted by a first control process when the rotorcraft is in a first flight mode, the second flight control device being adjusted by a second control process when the rotorcraft is in a second flight mode.
US11262737B2
Systems and methods for monitoring a vehicle steering system are disclosed. An example monitoring system for a vehicle steering system may include a vehicle steering system comprising a rack, a pinion, and a steering column; a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values corresponding input sensors operationally coupled to the rack, the pinion, or the steering column; a data storage circuit structured to store specifications, and to buffer the plurality of detection values for a predetermined length of time. The example system may further include a timer circuit structured to generate a timing signal based on a first detected value of the plurality of detection values; a steering system analysis circuit to determine a steering system performance parameter in response to a relative phase difference and a response circuit structured to perform at least one operation in response to the steering system performance parameter.
US11262736B2
Methods and systems for policy automation for a data collection system in an industrial environment are disclosed. A policy input interface may be structured to receive policy inputs relating to definition of at least one parameter of at least one of a rule, a policy, or a protocol, wherein the at least one parameter defines at least one of: a configuration for a data collection device, an access policy for accessing data from the data collection device, or a collection policy for collection of data by the data collection device, and a policy automation engine structured to interpret the policy inputs and automatically configure and deploy the at least one of the rule, the policy, or the protocol within the data collection system.
US11262727B2
An integrated simulation system includes a first simulation device which executes a simulation of a first program, a second simulation device which executes a simulation of a second program, a start timing setting section which sets start timing for the correlated first program and second program so as to verify the presence or absence of malfunctions caused by a start order of the correlated first program and second program, and a program starting section which issues commands to the first simulation device and the second simulation device to start the correlated first program and second program at the set start timing by a single starting operation.
US11262726B2
A cable processing machine control system includes middleware for data exchange with data brokers of multiple cable processing machines, and a wearable communication device for data exchange with the middleware. When a user of the cable processing machine control system has logged into the wearable communication device, depending on a role of the user that is assigned by the middleware, different information is displayed for the user on the wearable communication device via the cable processing machines assigned to the assigned role of the user and/or different action possibilities for controlling the cable processing machines assigned to the assigned role of the user are provided for the user on the wearable communication device.
US11262725B2
The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a manufacturing process, comprising the steps of: detecting a workpiece with a sensor unit of a portable device, sending the information acquired by the sensor unit to a database and applying a workpiece-specific data set, detecting the workpiece before, during and/or after carrying out a machining step or a handling step on the workpiece by the sensor unit of the portable device, updating the data set stored in the database before, during and/or after carrying out a machining step or handling step on the workpiece. The manufacturing process can, for example, relate to the machining of a board-shaped workpiece, such as a solid wooden board, a chipboard, a MDF board, a HDF board, or a workpiece made of another wood material.
US11262723B2
A machining path generation device which generates a cutting path upon rough cutting a workpiece by a turning process, and a numerical control device equipped therewith, are provided to shorten the path during rough cutting, and thus reliably shorten the cycle time. The device includes a storage unit which stores information of a cutting start point and a cutting end point of rough cutting; a finishing allowance permitted range setting unit which sets a finishing allowance permitted range for a finishing step; and a cutting path generation unit which generates a cutting path connecting the cutting start point and the cutting end point in a cross-sectional view in a direction along a rotation axis line of the workpiece, the cutting path arranged within the finishing allowance permitted range, and shorter than a path following along a shape line of a product form.
US11262720B2
A data storage of a communication device stores a communication parameter. A communication parameter responder of a controller, upon receipt from a control device, via a communicator, of a communication parameter request-command indicating a communication parameter request, reads and acquires the communication parameter stored in the data storage. The communication parameter responder generates a response command containing the acquired communication parameter and sends the response command to the control device via the communicator.
US11262718B2
A method for managing a microgrid, the microgrid having an intermittent energy source and energy storage, comprising: using a microgrid asset management system, dispatching the energy storage to maintain optimal power flow to and from a power grid by: producing a generation forecast and a generation forecast error probability distribution for an intermittent energy source coupled to the microgrid from a historic generation forecast and one or more measurements; generating random intermittent energy source generation inputs from at least one of historic generation data, the historic generation forecast, and the generation forecast error probability distribution; using the random intermittent energy source generation inputs, calculating a microgrid performance value using a microgrid performance model and a microgrid financial value using a microgrid financial model; and, selecting an energy storage dispatch scenario to optimize operation of the microgrid using at least one of the microgrid performance value and the microgrid financial value.
US11262713B2
A method for calculating control parameters of a heating supply power of a heating network, pertaining to the technical field of operation and control of a power system containing multiple types of energy. The method: establishing a heating network simulation model that simulates a thermal dynamic process of the heating network; starting an upward simulation based on the heating network simulation model to obtain first control parameters from a set of up adjustment amounts; starting a downward simulation based on the heating network simulation model, to obtain second control parameters from a set of down adjustment amounts.
US11262712B2
A process and a system collect data from a data-source into a manufacturing operation management (MOM) data warehouse. The data in the MOM data-warehouse are exposed according to a basic data model in which a performance parameter is linked to a basic set of context identifiers for MOM analysis purposes. The data in the data source are exposed according to a source data model in which a source performance parameter is linked to a source set of context identifiers. A data extensor module is provided for processing the data received from the data source to add, upon need, a context identifier linked to the source performance parameter. Whereby the added context identifier is present in the basic set but it is not present in the source set. The data extensor module processing data is received from the data source to obtain augmented data stored in the MOM data warehouse.
US11262704B2
A watch case for a wristwatch including a watch middle, at least one strut for supporting the watch middle, the strut extending beyond the space occupied by the watch middle, a device for removably attaching a watch strap to the strut. The watch case further includes a member for fixing the strut or one of the struts to the watch middle, the removable attachment device being formed when the strut is fixed to the watch middle, and the fixing member includes a device for detaching the strut from the watch middle, configured to allow release of the strut from the watch middle without using tools, the strut being removably fixed to the watch middle.
US11262699B2
An ultrasonic apparatus (100) for creating a holographic ultrasound field (1) comprises an ultrasound source device (10) being adapted for creating an ultrasound wave, and a transmission hologram device (20) having a transmission hologram (21) and an exposed acoustic emitter surface (22), said transmission hologram device (20) being acoustically coupled with the ultrasound source device (10) and being arranged for transmitting the ultrasound wave through the acoustic emitter surface (22) and creating the holographic ultrasound field in a surrounding space, wherein the acoustic emitter surface (22) is a smooth surface which do not influence the field distribution of the ultrasound wave. Furthermore, a method of creating a holographic ultrasound field in an object (3), wherein the ultrasonic apparatus (100) is used, and applications of the ultrasonic apparatus (100) are described.
US11262672B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an exposure device configured to expose the image bearing member to form an electrostatic latent image thereon, and a developing device including a rotatable developing member configured to carry and feed a developer containing toner and a carrier to develop the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member, and a magnet provided non-rotatably and stationarily inside the rotatable developing member including a developing magnetic pole, wherein magnetic chains formed by the carrier, on the rotatable developing member, magnetized by the magnet contact the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member in a developing region of the rotatable developing member, wherein a maximum peak position where a magnetic flux density of the developing magnetic pole is maximum with respect to a normal direction of the rotatable developing member exists within a range of the developing region with respect to a rotational direction of the rotatable developing member, and wherein a ratio of an 80%-value-width which is a width of a portion where the magnetic flux density of the developing magnetic pole with respect to the normal direction of the rotatable developing member is 80% of the maximum of the magnetic flux density of the developing magnetic pole with respect to the normal direction of the rotatable developing member to a half peak width which is a width of a portion where the magnetic flux density of the developing magnetic pole with respect to the normal direction of the rotatable developing member is half of the maximum of the magnetic flux density of the developing magnetic pole with respect to the normal direction of the rotatable developing member is 0.65 or more.
US11262668B1
An image forming apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to switch between (i) first speed printing in which a rotation speed of the polygon mirror is a first speed and the power of a laser beam from a first and second laser light sources is a first laser power, and (ii) second speed printing in which the speed of the mirror is slower than the first speed and the power of laser beam from the light sources is a second power weaker than the first power. The controller is configured to control an output timing of the laser beam from the light sources in the second speed printing based on the timings at which the laser beam is detected by first photodetector and second photodetectors when the laser powers of the first laser light source and the second laser light source are changed, respectively.
US11262660B2
An image sensor for a position sensor apparatus for ascertaining a position of at least one mirror of a lithography apparatus includes: a plurality of integrated optical waveguides; a plurality of incoupling areas; a multiplexer apparatus; and an image reconstruction apparatus.
US11262658B2
A photomask includes a transparent substrate and a shielding pattern disposed on the transparent substrate. The shielding pattern includes shielding island structures. The shielding island structures are separated from and spaced apart from one another by dividing lanes. The dividing lanes expose the underlying transparent substrate. The photomask is configured for a light of a wavelength, and the dividing lanes reduce or hinder a transmission of the light of the wavelength.
US11262656B2
Organic coating compositions, particularly antireflective coating compositions for use with an overcoated photoresist, are provided that comprise that a blend of two or more resins, where one resin has epoxy groups either pendant or fused to the polymer backbone. Preferred coating compositions include: 1) a first resin that comprises one or more epoxy reactive groups; and 2) a crosslinker resin that is distinct from the first resin and comprises epoxy groups.
US11262654B2
Chain scission resist compositions suitable for EUV lithography applications may include monomer functional groups that improve the kinetics and/or thermodynamics of the scission mechanism. Chain scission resists may include monomer functional groups that reduce the risk that leaving groups generated through the scission mechanism may chemically corrode processing equipment.
US11262646B2
A system is provided. The system includes a translucent display positioned such that a first face is a display face and that a second face is a projection face and at least one projector configured to project an image on the second face of the translucent display. The image is displayed on the first face. The system also includes at least one sensor configured to transmit a signal when triggered and a projector controller in communication with the at least one projector and the at least one sensor. The projector controller is programmed to receive a signal from the at least one sensor and instruct the at least one projector to project at least one image on the translucent display in response to the signal from the at least one sensor.
US11262640B2
A device comprising a nonlinear optical (NLO) material according to the formula XLi2Al4B6O20F. A device comprising a nonlinear optical material (NLO) according to the formula KSrCO3F, wherein the NLO comprises at least one single crystal. A nonlinear optical material selected from the group consisting of KSrCO3F Rb3Ba3Li2Al4B6O20F and K3Sr3Li2Al4B6O20F.
US11262627B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a display region and a non-display region disposed around the display region, and the display region comprises a center region and edge regions located at four corners of the center region. Pixels in the liquid crystal display panel comprise a main-pixel region and a sub-pixel region, wherein the pixels comprise first pixels intersecting a boundary line between the edge regions and the non-display region, and at least two first pixels are symmetrical about a horizontal centerline. Brightness of an upper portion and a lower portion of the horizontal center line are same in the present disclosure.
US11262623B2
A sealant, a manufacturing method therefor, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a display device are provided. The sealant includes a sealant matrix and luminescent particulates distributed in the sealant matrix. The luminescent particulates at least emit ultraviolet (UV) light under UV irradiation.
US11262613B2
A flexible display apparatus includes a bending area and a non-bending area. The flexible display apparatus further includes a display panel and a polarizing structure disposed on the display panel. The polarizing structure includes a λ/4 phase retardation layer, a linear polarizer disposed on the λ/4 phase retardation layer, and a first adhesive structure disposed between the λ/4 phase retardation layer and the linear polarizer. The linear polarizer includes a stretched polymer film. The first adhesive structure is an adhesive layer with a glass transition temperature that is greater than or equal to 40° C. and less than or equal to 150° C. Accordingly, deformation of the λ/4 phase retardation layer may be prevented or reduced when the flexible display apparatus is folded or bent, thereby improving display quality.
US11262611B2
Provided is a liquid crystal element. The liquid crystal element includes a first substrate, a first electrode provided on the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided on the first electrode and including a liquid crystal portion and a hydrophobic portion, and a second electrode on the liquid crystal layer, wherein the hydrophobic portion is phase-separated from the liquid crystal portion, wherein the liquid crystal portion includes polymer materials, a first dye, and liquid crystal molecules dispersed in the polymer materials, wherein the hydrophobic portion is spaced apart from the first electrode, wherein the hydrophobic portion includes hydrophobic materials and a second dye, wherein the first dye is dissolved in the polymer materials, wherein the second dye is dissolved in the hydrophobic portion, wherein the polymer materials include photo-curable polymer materials.
US11262610B2
A vehicle window pane, includes, in this sequence, a first glass pane, one or a plurality of polymer layers, a PDLC layer, including a polymer matrix in which liquid crystal droplets are embedded, wherein an electrically conductive layer is arranged in each case on both sides of the PDLC layer, or an SPD layer, including a polymer matrix in which suspension droplets are embedded, in which light-polarizing particles are suspended, wherein an electrically conductive layer is arranged in each case on both sides of the SPD layer, one or a plurality of polymer layers, and a second glass pane, wherein, in the case of the PDLC layer, the liquid crystal droplets or, in the case of the SPD layer, the suspension droplets have an average size of more than 2 μm. The vehicle window pane can be switched between a transparent state and a turbid or opaque state.
US11262608B2
An electronic device includes a liquid crystal display device having a first substrate, a second substrate bonded to the first substrate, with liquid crystal material held between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an upper polarizing plate affixed to the second substrate. A protective member is disposed over the upper polarizing plate, and an adhesive member is disposed between the protective member and the upper polarizing plate without an air layer between the protective member and the upper polarizing plate. The protective member is configured as a protective cover of the electronic device.
US11262604B2
Photonic devices having Al1-xScxN and AlyGa1-yN materials, where Al is Aluminum, Sc is Scandium, Ga is Gallium, and N is Nitrogen and where 0
US11262600B2
The present application relates to a light modulation device and a use thereof. The present application can provide a light modulation device having both excellent mechanical properties and optical properties by applying a polymer film that is also optically anisotropic and mechanically anisotropic to a substrate.
US11262595B2
A wearable device includes a frame, two feet, and two pivoting modules. Each of the pivoting modules includes a first bracket fixedly connected to the frame, and a second bracket fixedly connected to one of the feet and pivotally coupled to the first bracket. The second bracket includes a positioning member and an inserting member. The positioning member is located in the first bracket, and the positioning member includes a plurality of slots. The inserting member is switchably inserted into one of the slots for adjusting a maximum outreaching volume from the frame to the feet.
US11262591B2
A system for generating pump illumination for laser sustained plasma (LSP) is disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes an illumination source and a beam shaper. The illumination source can be configured to output illumination having a first pupil power distribution. In embodiments, the beam shaper is configured to receive the illumination having the first pupil power distribution from the illumination source and is further configured to output pump illumination having a second pupil power distribution that is different from the first pupil power distribution.
US11262588B2
A user may interact and view virtual elements such as avatars and objects and/or real world elements in three-dimensional space in an augmented reality (AR) session. The system may allow one or more spectators to view from a stationary or dynamic camera a third person view of the users AR session. The third person view may be synchronized with the user view and the virtual elements of the user view may be composited onto the third person view.
US11262579B1
A method and apparatus for illuminating at least one object appearing in a field of view (FOV). An illumination system includes an illumination source configured to provide illumination to illuminate a target of the object. A collimating lens is configured to collimate the illumination and to provide the illumination to a fixed multiple lens array (MLA). The fixed multiple lens array provides the illumination to a movable MLA. The movable MLA is configured to provide the illumination to the target to illuminate the target. The position of the movable MLA may be adjusted to alter the illumination full field angle.
US11262574B2
A light path shifting device is provided with a glass plate which incident light enters, a first frame for holding the glass plate, a second frame for supporting the first frame in the state of being swingable around a first oscillation axis, a base member for supporting the second frame in the state of being swingable around a second oscillation axis crossing the first oscillation axis, a first actuator for oscillating the first frame, and a second actuator for oscillating the second frame, and is capable of shifting the light path of the incident light in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction by oscillating the first frame and the second frame to thereby change an incident angle of the incident light to the glass plate.
US11262569B2
A high content imaging system and a method of operating the high content imaging system are disclosed. A microscope has a first objective lens and a second objective lens, and an objective lens database has first and second transformation values associated with the first and the second objective lenses, respectively. A microscope controller operates the microscope with the first objective lens to develop first values of acquisition parameters. A configuration module automatically determines second values of the acquisition parameters using the first values of the acquisition parameters, first transformation values associated with the first objective lens, and second transformation values associated with the second objective lens. The microscope controller operates the microscope using the second objective lens and the second values of the acquisition parameters.
US11262567B2
The invention relates to a correction objective (10), comprising a first lens group (12) of positive optical power, a second lens group (14) of positive optical power, a third lens group (16) of negative optical power, and a fourth lens group (18) of positive optical power, which are arranged in this order from the object side, the second lens group (14) being movable along the optical axis (O) in such a way that the sum of the distance (V1) between the second lens group (14) and the first lens group (12) and the distance (V2) between the second lens group (14) and the third lens group (16) is constant. The image scale of the second lens group (14) lies in a range of −0.9 to −1.1.
US11262562B2
The technology provides a camera module cover that prevents infrared light from leaking into the lens of an adjacent camera. The camera module cover can be used with in-vehicle environments, such as the passenger area and truck, as well as other indoor locations and places where infrared illumination is co-located with an optical camera system. An infrared illuminator unit is positioned adjacent to the camera, for instance in such a way that infrared light is evenly distributed or diffused around the camera lens. The camera module cover has a surface that includes an infrared-transparent material to promote even distribution of the infrared light. To avoid leakage into the camera lens, an infrared-opaque or otherwise blocking material is disposed within the cover so as to be between the infrared illuminator unit and the camera lens. The infrared-transparent and infrared-blocking materials may be formed as a single part via double injection molding.
US11262559B2
Zoom digital cameras comprising a Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a reflecting element inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. The folded Tele sub-camera is configured to have a low profile to enable its integration within a portable electronic device.
US11262556B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power, and an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric, and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof has at least one inflection point.
US11262540B2
An imaging lens system includes eight lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. Each of the eight lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one lens element of the imaging lens system has at least one lens surface having at least one inflection point. The imaging lens system has a total of eight lens elements.
US11262523B2
A method for adhering a tubular body onto a surface that includes smoothing a portion of the surface to create a smoothed segment of the surface and applying a tubular body directly onto the smoothed segment of the surface after the smoothing of the portion of the surface. The surface at the smoothed segment is smoother than the remainder of the surface. The method further includes applying an uncured protectant onto the tubular body while the tubular body is on the smoothed segment of the surface and curing the uncured protectant into a cured protectant while the uncured protectant is on the tubular body on the smoothed segment of the surface. The cured protectant protectively encases and adheres the tubular body to the surface.
US11262520B2
Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to an enclosure (10) including a housing, a volume of sealant (66) that defines a port (28) in communication with an interior of the housing, and a fiber optic connection module (32) including a sleeve that mounts within the port with the volume of sealant forming a seal about an exterior of the sleeve. The sleeve includes an inner end (34) adjacent the interior of the housing and an outer end (36) outside the housing. The fiber optic connection module also includes a demateable fiber optic connection interface adjacent the outer end of the sleeve. The demateable fiber optic connection interface includes a fiber optic connector. Other aspects of the present disclosure relate to fiber optic connection modules having features that make such modules suitable to be mounted within a port defined by a volume of sealant.
US11262518B2
A cable management device for mounting to a telecommunications fixture includes an outer barrel disposed over an inner barrel, one of the outer barrel and the inner barrel defining a plurality of discrete detents positioned in a stacked arrangement axially along an length thereof, and the other of the outer barrel and the inner barrel defining at least one flexible cantilever arm defining a tab configured to lock into a selected one of the detents for allowing adjustment of a length of the cable management device.
US11262512B2
In the technical field of optical communication a multi-path wavelength division multiplexing light receiving component including a substrate placed at the bottom of a housing is provided. The housing and substrate form an installation chamber, and include a light emitting unit, a light de-multiplexing unit, a reflector and a light receiving unit. The light emission unit, the light de-multiplexing unit, the reflector, and the light receiving unit are located inside the installation cavity, and the light emission unit, the light de-multiplexing unit, and the reflector are fixed on the housing, and the light receiving unit is fixed on the substrate. An optical module includes the multiplex wavelength division multiplexing optical receiving component. The length of the light receiving unit is shortened by reflecting an optical signal decomposed by a light de-multiplexing unit, and disposing the light receiving unit integrally below a reflector.
US11262511B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber alignment device that has an alignment housing that includes first and second ends. The alignment housing defines a fiber insertion axis that extends through the alignment housing between the first and second ends. The alignment housing includes a fiber alignment region at an intermediate location between the first and second ends. First and second fiber alignment rods are positioned within the alignment housing. The first and second fiber alignment rods cooperate to define a fiber alignment groove that extends along the fiber insertion axis. The first and second fiber alignment rods each having rounded ends positioned at the first and second ends of the alignment housing.
US11262508B2
A fiber optic adapter block is disclosed. The fiber optic adapter block includes at least three fiber optic adapters provided in a stacked arrangement extending widthwise in a longitudinal direction, wherein every other adapter of the at least three fiber optic adapters is staggered in a front to back direction with respect to an adjacent adapter such that front ends of the every other adapter of the at least three fiber optic adapters are aligned at a first depth and a front end of the adjacent adapter is at a second depth that is different than the first depth.
US11262505B2
A device includes a plurality of photon sources coupled to a plurality of output terminals. The plurality of photon sources are coupled together, by a first switch layer, into a plurality of photon source groups. The first switch layer comprises a plurality of switches. The device further includes a second switch layer coupled to output terminals of the first switch layer. The second switch layer includes a plurality of second layer n-by-n switches and a plurality of second layer l-by-l switches, wherein l is less than n. At least two output terminals from two respective photon sources residing within a first photon source group of the plurality of photon source groups and a second photon source group of the plurality of photon source groups are coupled directly to respective output terminals of the device without being coupled to any intervening second switch from the second switch layer.
US11262499B2
An arrayed waveguide, an input-side slab waveguide, an output-side slab waveguide, an input waveguide, and an output waveguide are included. Provided are a groove formed to extend in a direction crossing a plurality of the output waveguides, and an optical conversion unit made of a conversion material that converts near-infrared light to visible light, the groove being filled with the optical conversion unit. The conversion material is, for example, a phosphor or fluorescent substance that converts near-infrared light to visible light.
US11262498B2
An optoelectronic module. In some embodiments, the module includes: a housing, a substantially planar subcarrier, a photonic integrated circuit, and an analog electronic integrated circuit. The subcarrier has a thermal conductivity greater than 10 W/m/K. The photonic integrated circuit and the analog electronic integrated circuit are secured to a first side of the subcarrier, and the subcarrier is secured to a first wall of the housing. A second side of the subcarrier, opposite the first side of the subcarrier, is parallel to, secured to, and in thermal contact with, an interior side of the first wall of the housing.
US11262495B1
A manufacturing system for creating waveguides that include optical gratings having high coupling efficiencies is described herein. The waveguides are used to guide image light from a source assembly to an eye of a user. The optical gratings are used to couple light into an optical waveguide element and/or decouple light from the optical waveguide element. The manufacturing system creates optical gratings by patterning and adjusts refractive indexes of the optical gratings by infusion and post-processing. A refractive index of an optical grating can be uniform or non-uniform. In-coupling efficiencies of light into a waveguide via the optical gratings and/or out-coupling efficiencies of light out of a waveguide via the optical gratings can be increased. The manufacturing system includes a patterning system, an infusion system, and a post-processing system.
US11262486B2
The present disclosure provides an optical lens, glasses and a display device. The optical lens includes: a first surface, a second surface, a first lens portion and a second lens portion. The optical lens is a convex lens. The first surface and the second surface are at two side surfaces of the optical lens. The first surface is a convex aspheric surface, and the second surface is a Fresnel surface with a recessed curved base. The first lens portion and the second lens portion are adjacent each other and connected in a direction perpendicular to a main optical axis of the optical lens. A first focal point of the first lens portion and a second focal point of the second lens portion are on the main optical axis, and a focal length of the second lens portion is greater than a focal length of the first lens portion.
US11262483B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a light source lens that makes it possible to improve unevenness in a luminance distribution, an illumination unit, and a display unit. A light source lens (1) according to the present disclosure includes an incident surface on which light from a light-emitting device is incident, and an exit surface (20) that has a diffusing function at a center part (21) for light incident through the incident surface as well as a light-condensing function at at least a portion of an intermediate part (22) and a peripheral part (23) for the light incident through the incident surface.
US11262482B2
An impact resistant structure adapted to an electronic component. The impact resistant structure includes a resistance stack layer and a damping laminate. The resistance stack layer is disposed on a first surface of the electronic component, and the damping laminate is disposed on a second surface of the electronic component. The second surface of the electronic component is opposite to the first surface. The damping laminate includes a soft film and a support film, where the support film is disposed between the soft film and the electronic component.
US11262478B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a method for predicting a weather-related dangerous situation at a specific point on the path of a user by referencing separate observation data observed from multiple observation points, comprising the steps of: a weather-related dangerous situation prediction server obtaining observation data from each of the observation points; and (b) the server predicting the weather status of the specific point by analyzing geographical distribution information of the observation data and/or temporal change information of the observation data by referencing a machine learning database.
US11262473B2
Imaging systems and methods are provided for detecting objects that may be hidden under clothing, ingested, inserted, or otherwise concealed on or in a person's body. An imaging assembly, e.g., X-ray source and X-ray detector, and mechanisms, e.g., a translational mechanism for vertically moving the imaging assembly, may be configured to reduce the overall form factor of such imaging systems, while still retaining an ability to perform full/complete imaging of a subject.
US11262471B2
A method includes receiving a first transition probability matrix (TPM) of a subsurface region, wherein the TPM defines, for a given lithology at a current depth sample (or micro-layer), a probability of particular lithologies at a next depth sample (or micro-layer), receiving seismic data for the subsurface region, utilizing the first TPM and the seismic data to generate first pseudo wells, calculating a second TPM from the first pseudo wells, determining whether the second TPM is consistent with the first TPM, and utilizing the first pseudo wells to characterize a reservoir in the subsurface region when the second TPM is determined to be consistent with the first TPM.
US11262469B2
A method is described for seismic amplitude analysis including receiving a seismic dataset representative of a subsurface volume of interest wherein the seismic dataset includes an angle or angle stack dimension; select a plurality of sets of sub-cubes in the seismic dataset wherein each set of sub-cubes includes a plurality of the angles or the angle stacks; compute standard score statistics for each of the plurality of sub-cubes; identify amplitude variation with angle (AVA) anomalies based on the standard score statistics for each of the set of sub-cubes; classify the AVA anomalies to generate classified AVA anomalies; and displaying, on a user interface, the classified AVA anomalies as a graphical display. The method is executed by a computer system.
US11262465B2
A method for evaluating a single-photon detector signal includes duplicating the single-photon detector signal into a first and a second signal. The first signal is processed and the second signal is either not processed or is processed in a manner different from the first signal. A differential signal is formed between the unprocessed or differently processed second signal and the processed first signal. The differential signal is evaluated to determine pulse events.
US11262460B2
A radiation monitor for a lighting device, and operating methods and systems therefor are provided. In one example, a radiation monitor may include a first sensor receiving radiation output directly from a light-emitting element of the lighting device and radiation output from external sources; and a second sensor receiving the radiation output from the external sources without receiving the radiation output directly from the light-emitting element of the lighting device. The radiation monitor may determine an intensity of the radiation output directly from the light-emitting element based on a difference in the output signals from the first sensor and the second sensor.
US11262456B2
A positioning system including a satellite signal receiver 20 that receives satellite signals from a plurality of positioning satellites; a plurality of indoor pseudo satellite stations that transmit pseudo satellite signals; and a pseudo station control device that selects the positioning satellites to be allocated to the plurality of pseudo satellite stations based on the received satellite signals, allocates a PRN code corresponding to each of the selected positioning satellites to each of the plurality of pseudo satellite stations one by one, determines a delay time of the PRN code allocated to the plurality of pseudo satellite stations, and transmits a plurality of pseudo satellite signals generated using the PRN code corresponding to each of the plurality of pseudo satellite stations and the delay time to each of the plurality of pseudo satellite stations.
US11262455B2
A LIDAR system includes a laser source, a first scanner, and a second scanner. The first scanner receives a first beam from the laser source and applies a first angle modulation to the first beam to output a second beam at a first angle. The second scanner receives the second beam and applies a second angle modulation to the second beam to output a third beam at a second angle.
US11262438B2
An improved method for optical distance measurement is provided, in which only subsets of the transmitting elements of the transmission matrix are activated when using a transmission matrix to transmit measuring pulses and a reception matrix for receiving the latter.
US11262436B2
A radar system is provided that includes a first radar transceiver integrated circuit (IC) including transmission signal generation circuitry operable to generate a continuous wave signal and a first transmit channel coupled to the transmission generation circuitry to receive the continuous wave signal and transmit a test signal based on the continuous wave signal, and a second radar transceiver IC including a first receive channel coupled to an output of the first transmit channel of the first radar transceiver IC via a loopback path to receive the test signal from first the transmit channel, the second radar transceiver IC operable to measure phase response in the test signal.
US11262430B2
A system and method for determining a position or a movable device is disclosed. The present system utilizes a movable device equipped with a locator device that has an antenna array such that it may determine the angle of arrival of a plurality of incoming beacon signals. In certain embodiments, the movable device is also able to measure its distance travelled. By knowing its distance moved and the angle of arrival from each beacon, the locator device is able to calculate its position as well as the position of each beacon. This procedure may be executed at regular intervals so that the movable device accurately determines its position.
US11262428B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to apply a filter to each of a first real-part image and a first imaginary-part image of a first complex image generated based on acquired magnetic resonance data and thereby generate a second complex image that includes a second real-part image and a second imaginary-part image. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a phase image denoised by the filter, the denoised phase image generated based on the second real-part image and the second imaginary-part image. The processing circuitry is configured to generate an intensity image related to an absolute value of the first complex image based on pixel values of the denoised phase image, the first real-part image, and the first imaginary-part image.
US11262426B2
A system and method for simultaneous multi-slice nuclear spin tomography is provided which requires no sensitivity profile of a receiving coil along a slice axis. A pulse space region to be sampled can be specified. A first pulse space dimension (ky) can be assigned to a first phase-encoded axis and a second pulse space dimension (kz) can be assigned to a second phase-encoded axis and the second phase-encoded axis corresponds to the slice axis. A sampling scheme can also be specified, and a complete sampled can be provided along the second pulse space dimension (kz). A magnetic resonance scan can then be carried out within the pulse space region to be sampled based on the sampling scheme and respective phase-encodings of the first and second phase-encoded axis.
US11262418B2
Apparatuses and methods for sending and receiving rotation speed information and corresponding computer programs and electronically readable data carriers are provided. A current interface is configured to transmit pulse sequences coding a number of bits. In a first bit group of the number of bits, it is flagged whether the pulse sequence has been sent for a zero crossing in a magnetic field. Information modulated onto a second bit group of the number of bits is selected on the basis of the first bit group.
US11262406B2
A method and apparatus for correcting a state of charge (SOC), a battery management system and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring state data of a battery cell in a case where the battery cell meets a preset standing condition; determining, according to the state data of the battery cell, a near-steady-state battery model for characterizing a change in an open circuit voltage (OCV) over time in a near-steady-state and a steady-state time period threshold for characterizing whether a standing time period is sufficient; processing the steady-state time period threshold by using the near-steady-state battery model to obtain an estimated steady-state OCV value; determining a SOC corresponding to the estimated steady-state OCV value by using a preset correspondence between steady-state OCVs and SOCs; and correcting a current SOC by using the SOC corresponding to the estimated steady-state OCV value.
US11262404B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit including a logic circuit, and a plurality of scan flip-flop circuits that hold input data or output data of the logic circuit and are capable of forming a scan chain for executing a scan test of the logic circuit. Each scan flip-flop circuit includes a scan data input part that receives input of scan data for the scan test, a normal data input part that receives input of normal data different from the scan data, and a data holding part capable of separately holding the normal data and the scan data.
US11262401B2
A wafer probe station includes a thermal chuck, a chuck stage, a platen, some probes, a first focusing device, a second focusing device and a thermal plate. The thermal chuck heats up to an operational temperature and holds a device under test (DUT). The chuck stage connects with the thermal chuck and moves the thermal chuck. The thermal chuck locates between the chuck stage and the platen. The probes are disposed on the platen and configured to contact with the DUT. The first focusing device is disposed on the platen to focus on the DUT. The second focusing device is disposed on the chuck stage to focus on the probes. The thermal plate locates between the second focusing device and the platen and is configured to heat up to the operational temperature. The thermal plate has a through hole aligning with the second focusing device.
US11262397B2
Technologies are described herein for enabling the automated testing of remote control units by providing a suitable test system that includes a plurality of test stations for simultaneously testing a plurality of remote control units. Each test station includes features that allow it to interact with the remote control unit's inputs, such as buttons and microphone, and outputs, such as IR and RF remote control codes, status LEDs, and audio output. Each test station may be controlled by a controller that executes test scripts or other routines that exercise the functionality of the remote control unit as desired.
US11262394B2
Provided is a method for inspecting a piezoelectric element in which voltage is applied to a piezoelectric element and evaluation of the electrical characteristics of the piezoelectric element is performed. The method includes a first step in which the piezoelectric element is held on a flat plate-shaped slightly adhesive sheet and a second step in which voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element held on the slightly adhesive sheet and evaluation of the electrical characteristics of the piezoelectric element is performed.
US11262377B2
An inertial sensor includes: a substrate; a moving element swinging about a swing axis along a Y-axis; a detection electrode provided at the substrate, overlapping the moving element as viewed in a plan view from a Z-axis direction orthogonal to the Y-axis, and forming an electrostatic capacitance with the moving element; an exposure part provided at an inner side of the detection electrode and exposing a surface facing the moving element, of the substrate; a protrusion overlapping the moving element as viewed in a plan view from the Z-axis direction and protruding toward the moving element from the exposure part of the substrate; and a covered electrode provided at a top of the protrusion and having a same electric potential as the moving element.
US11262374B2
A sensor unit includes a plurality of terminal members each of which includes a lead portion and an external terminal portion having an external connection end face, a sensor device connected to the lead portions, and a resin member that covers the sensor device and a part of the plurality of terminal members. The lead portion includes a thin wall portion having a thickness thinner than the external terminal portion and a protruding portion protruding from the thin wall portion to an external connection end face side. In a plan view from a direction where the terminal member and the sensor device overlap, the sensor device is disposed at a position overlapping the protruding portion and not overlapping the external terminal portion.
US11262364B2
Provided is a composition including a combination of at least one short peptide and at least one peptide dimer, in defined ratio, to which autoantibodies found in elevated levels in schizophrenic patients bind.
