US11265513B2
An industrial visualization system generates and delivers virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) presentations of industrial facilities to wearable appliances to facilitate remote or enhanced interaction with automation systems within the facility. VR presentations can comprise three-dimensional (3D) holographic views of a plant facility or a location within a plant facility. The system can selectively render a scaled down view that renders the facility as a 3D scale model, or as a first-person view that renders the facility as a full-scale rendition that simulates the user's presence on the plant floor. Camera icons rendered in the VR presentation can be selected to switch to a live video stream generated by 360-degree cameras within the plant. The system can also render workflow presentations that guide users through the process of correcting detected maintenance issues.
US11265512B2
A method for teleconferencing between a monitoring device and a user device includes establishing an audio channel connection between the user device and the monitoring device of a remote user; displaying an entry code on a display of the monitoring device; obtaining from a user of the monitoring device a verbal confirmation of the entry code; and, in response to receiving the entry code from the remote user, enabling a camera of the monitoring device. In response to the verbal confirmation, the entry code is sent to the remote user. Enabling the camera of the monitoring device establishes an audio-visual connection between the user device and the monitoring device.
US11265506B1
An image sensor apparatus includes a pixel array having pixel units each including an image sensor cell and a processing circuit. The processing circuit includes a bias transistor, second floating diffusion node, first switch unit, signal transfer capacitor, reset transfer capacitor, second switch unit, and third switch unit. Bias transistor is coupled between first and second floating diffusion nodes and has control terminal coupled to bias voltage. First switch unit is coupled between first and second floating diffusion nodes. Second switch unit is coupled between second floating diffusion node and signal transfer capacitor. Third switch unit is coupled between second floating diffusion node and reset transfer capacitor. Signal transfer capacitor is selectively coupled to second floating diffusion node. Reset transfer capacitor is selectively coupled to second floating diffusion node.
US11265503B2
A differential amplifier circuit amplifies a difference between an input analog signal and a ramp signal which changes over time and outputs a difference signal. An amplifying element amplifies the difference signal and outputs the same as an amplified signal. A time measuring unit measures a length of a conversion period until a level of the analog signal substantially coincides with a level of the ramp signal on the basis of a level of the amplified signal and outputs the same as a digital signal obtained by converting the analog signal. One end of a capacitor is connected to one of an input terminal and a predetermined connection terminal of the amplifying element. A switch connects the other end of the capacitor to the other of the input terminal or the predetermined connection terminal in the conversion period, and disconnects the other end outside the conversion period.
US11265497B2
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus and method, an imaging element, and an electronic apparatus capable of suppressing deterioration of subjective image quality. Driving of a shift register controlling transfer of pixel data of digital data obtained by A/D conversion is stopped in a part or the entirety of a period in which the A/D conversion is performed on a pixel output of an analog signal. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a signal processing apparatus, an imaging element, an imaging device, an image processing apparatus, an electronic apparatus, a signal processing method, a program, or the like.
US11265490B2
Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices for spatiotemporal image noise reduction are disclosed, comprising: maintaining an accumulated image in memory; and obtaining a first plurality of multispectral images (e.g., RGB-IR images). For each image in the first plurality of multispectral images, the method may: calculate a multispectral guide image for the current image; calculate blending weights for the current image; apply the calculated blending weights to each channel of the current image to generate a denoised current image; and update the accumulated image based on pixel differences between the denoised current image and the accumulated image. In some embodiments, additional images (e.g., the accumulated image and/or other images captured prior to or after a given current image) may also be included in the denoising operations for a given current image. Finally, the method may generate a denoised output image for each input image, based on the updated accumulated image.
US11265488B2
An image sensor includes an active pixel array, at least one dummy reset array, a dummy read array, and an image processor. The image processor sequentially resets respective rows of pixels included in the at least one dummy reset array in a period in which pixels of the active pixel array do not perform a reset operation, and sequentially reads respective rows of pixels included in the dummy read array in a period in which the pixels of the active pixel array do not perform a read operation.
US11265486B2
The present disclosure relates to a focus tracking system and method. The system comprises: a primary camera comprising a first focus adjustable lens and a first focus adjusting servo motor driving the first focus adjustable lens to perform focus adjusting; a secondary camera comprising a second focus adjustable lens and a second focus adjusting servo motor driving the second focus adjustable lens to perform focus adjusting, coded aperture is installed inside the second focus adjustable lens, the secondary and primary camera have equivalent optical parameters; a synchronization system performing frame level synchronization between images of the primary and secondary camera to obtain frame-level synchronized primary and secondary camera images; a focus control system calculating out-of-focus offset utilizing coded patterns of the coded aperture and out-of-focus images in the frame-level synchronized secondary camera images, sending focus adjusting signals to the first and second focus adjusting servo motor based on the out-of-focus offset.
US11265482B2
A position detecting device for detecting a position of a magnet configured to move over a first target point and a second target point in steps includes a first hall device configured to generate a first hall voltage, a second hall device configured to generate a second hall voltage, a subtractor configured to generate a subtraction voltage based on a difference between the first hall voltage and the second hall voltage, an adder configured to generate an addition voltage based on a combination of the first hall voltage and the second hall voltage, a divider configured to calculate a ratio of the subtraction voltage to the addition voltage, and a subtraction voltage changing unit configured to maintain the subtraction voltage at the first target point and the second target point and in a transition section between the first target point and the second target point to be constant.
US11265480B2
Systems and methods for processing one or more images include determining one or more current exposure settings for a current image of a current scene at a current time. One or more motion characteristics associated with an image sensor are determined. Based on the one or more motion characteristics, a location of a portion of the current image to use for determining one or more future exposure settings for the image sensor are determined, the one or more future exposure settings for capturing a future image of a future scene at a future time, the future time being subsequent to the current time. The one or more future exposure settings are determined based on the predicted portion of the current image.
US11265477B2
An image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit capable of moving its imaging direction and a sound input unit including a plurality of microphones, a sound source direction detecting unit which detects a sound source direction based on sound data from the sound input unit, a control unit which performs processing related to image capturing, and, a vibration detecting unit which detects a vibration due to a contact on a housing of the image capturing apparatus, wherein, in a case where a vibration due to a contact is detected, the sound source direction detecting unit detects a direction of sound due to the contact, the control unit estimates a position of the contact on the housing, and the control unit sets the imaging direction of the image capturing unit to a direction based on the estimated position.
US11265476B2
Preferable optical performance is ensured to improve image quality. The present technology includes: a housing having a mount part to which at least a first accessory and a second accessory are selectively attached; and an imaging element that photoelectrically converts captured light into an electrical signal, in which the mount part is formed with a first mount surface to which the first accessory is attached, and a second mount surface to which the second accessory is attached, and the first mount surface and the second mount surface are located on the same plane. Therefore, since the first accessory and the second accessory are selectively attached to the first mount surface and the second mount surface, which are located on the same plane, it is possible to ensure preferable optical performance and improve image quality.
US11265475B2
An image capturing apparatus comprising an image capturing unit, a communication unit and a control unit that controls communication by the communication unit, wherein the control unit determines whether a predetermined setting has been made on the image capturing apparatus, upon receiving, from the client apparatus via the local network, a connection request for connecting the image capturing apparatus and the cloud server via an Internet, wherein the predetermined setting includes at least one of: a setting of a mask function for masking at least a part of an image captured by the image capturing unit; and a setting of a limiting function for limiting a driving range of a driving unit that can drive the image capturing unit in a pan direction or a tilt direction.
US11265460B2
The present invention, in an aspect thereof, enables a human imaging subject to simultaneously and easily recognize his/her face and a line-of-sight guidance image on a display device. In an electronic device, an image capturing device is disposed in a peripheral region of a display screen of a display device. A control device performs a display process of displaying a line-of-sight guidance image on the display screen around an arrangement position of the image capturing device.
US11265455B1
A method and apparatus for differentiating focus drift of an imaging system from position changes of an object of interest. The method includes obtaining an image of an object of interest and identifying a region of interest in the image, wherein the region of interest contains an indicia indicative of the object of interest. The processor determines an image quality of the image and analyzes the indicia and determines a pixel measurement of the indicia. The processor then compares the pixel measurement of the indicia to a reference pixel measurement. Based on the comparison, the processor determines that the image quality of the image results either from a difference in a distance of the object from the imaging system or from focusing drift of the imaging system.
US11265448B2
Provided are a camera system, a camera, a lens, an accessory, and an accessory detection method of a camera system capable of simply and quickly detect presence or absence of an attachment of the accessory and a type of the accessory. Data for accessory detection is transmitted from the lens to the camera. In a case where the accessory is attached between the lens and the camera, the accessory relays the data for accessory detection. At the time of relaying the data for accessory detection, the accessory adds own accessory information to update the data for accessory detection. The camera detects the presence or absence of the attachment of the accessory and the number of attachments of the accessory based on the received data for accessory detection. Further, in a case where the attachment is detected, the camera acquires information on the attached accessory.
US11265447B2
An image forming apparatus outputs a tone chart for calibration by a printer, reads the output tone chart by a scanner, determines whether data on a sheet is affected by a surface shape of the sheet based on the read tone chart, corrects data on a white area of the read chart based on a result of the determination, and executes calibration using the corrected data.
US11265445B1
Color conversion attempt to reproduce an input CMYK combination on a print media using an output CMYK combination. In a 2-step process, ICC profiles are used for the color conversion. In some instances, a 1-step process may be used that avoids the use of the ICC profiles and provides a faster processing time. A color progression checker determines whether the 1-step process may be used for color conversions based on standard deviations of the colorants along paths within a three-dimensional look-up table for a destination ICC profile. If a certain number of standard deviations exceed 20%, then the 1-step process for color conversion may not be effective.
US11265443B2
An image is rendered on a display having a limited number of primary colors by (104) combining input data representing the color of a pixel to be rendered with error data to form modified input data, determining in a color space the simplex (208—typically a tetrahedron) enclosing the modified input data and the primary colors associated with the simplex, converting (210) the modified image data to barycentric coordinates based upon the primary colors associated with the simplex and (212) setting output data to the primary having the largest barycentric coordinate. calculating (214) the difference between the modified input data and the output data for the pixel, thus generating error data, applying (106) this error data to at least one later-rendered pixel, and applying the output data to the display and thus rendering the image on the display. Apparatus and computer-storage media for carrying out this process are also provided.
US11265440B2
Even from a plurality of small documents, their front-side and back-side images to be formed on a recording paper sheet, with alignment and coincidence of the front-side and back-side images of each document between the front and back sides of the recording paper sheet. In an image forming apparatus, an image processing section detects a front-side image of an original document from a scan area read in a first scan by an image reading section, detects a back-side image of the original document from a scan area read in a second scan, and moves or rotates the front-side image and the back-side image of the original document in terms of a whole image of the scan area so that the front-side image and the back-side image of the original document are brought into alignment and coincidence between a front side and a back side of a recording paper sheet.
US11265439B2
An image forming apparatus is used in a post-payment system based on a customer's electronic money, and includes an image forming section, a communication section, and a controller. The image forming section performs a printing operation of forming an image on a sheet. The communication section performs communication so as to acquire settlement information including information that identifies the customer. The controller controls the image forming section and the communication section. As to the printing operation performed after acquisition of the settlement information, the controller settles a printing fee with a discount in a unit price per sheet in a situation where a printed sheet count is a predetermined number or more.
US11265437B2
A lens array unit includes a lens array including a plurality of lenses, a first side plate, and a second side plate, the first side plate and the second side plate being configured to hold the plurality of lenses therebetween, and a frame made of resin and including a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion, the first supporting portion being in contact with an outside surface of the first side plate, the second supporting portion being in contact with an outside surface of the second side plate, the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion being configured to hold the lens array therebetween and support the lens array. The outside surface of the first side plate includes a plurality of first concave portions spaced from each other in an array direction of the lenses and configured to fit with the first supporting portion.
US11265435B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire, from a read image, a predetermined item, and a value corresponding to the item, the read image being obtained by reading a document and being subjected, prior to acquisition of the item and the value, to preprocessing and character recognition. Further, the processor is configured to, in response to not successfully acquiring at least one of the item and the value, change a setting on the preprocessing or a setting on the character recognition in accordance with the acquisition or non-acquisition state of the item and the value, and then perform the preprocessing or the character recognition.
US11265430B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit that accepts an input of setting change information of the information processing apparatus, a setting change unit that changes a setting of the information processing apparatus by using the setting change information accepted by the acceptance unit, and a transmission unit that transmits the setting change information accepted by the acceptance unit to other apparatuses through BLE communication which is a communication method in which it is not necessary to specify a communication partner in advance.
US11265414B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for waking up a voice recognition function in a mobile terminal. The method includes: receiving a trigger instruction of an input interface, and activating the input interface; acquiring a rotation angle of the mobile terminal in a first rotation direction with an x-axis as a rotation axis, in which the x-axis is a widthwise direction of a screen of the mobile terminal; and activating the voice recognition function when the rotation angle of the mobile terminal in the first rotation direction with the x-axis as the rotation axis is greater than or equal to a first trigger threshold.
US11265411B1
A protective cover (1) having a flexible body (3) wherein the body is constructed from a clear material capable of adhering to a surface of an electronic touchscreen device (2), such as a smart phone or tablet, to prevent the spread of germs and viruses while not interfering with functionality of the electronic touchscreen device.
US11265401B2
A system for handling 3 dimensional spatial information, the system including: a specialised application layer for the production of visual interactive applications associated with the 3 dimensional spatial information; a generic foundation client layer providing 3 dimensional spatial information interrogation routines, including a message passing interface; and a voxel server for interconnected to said generic foundation client via said message passing interface for the storage of 3 dimensional spatial information as a voxel data base.
US11265400B2
This invention discloses a multimode interconnection interface controller for a converged network, which comprises a SERDES element responsible for serial/parallel conversion, a LANE_TXCLK element responsible for generating a transmit clock, a SERDES initialization element responsible for link training and rate negotiation, and a PCS_EB coding element and an PCS_AF coding element responsible for physical layer coding of messages. The link training and rate negotiation are completed automatically via the shared SERDES initialization element. More universality and flexibility are provided for interconnection chip design by the PCS_EB coding element. The PCS_AF coding element is provided to reduce message penetration delay. The multimode interconnection interface controller is integrated in a single chip. Through flexible configuration, the single chip can meet transmission requirements of dedicated high speed networks and Ethernet networks. The multimode interconnection interface controller also supports interconnection of data center Ethernet and high performance computing high speed network.
US11265398B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for managing client computing systems, such as a client distributed-computing system. In one embodiment, a desired state of the client distributed-computing system and a current state of the client distributed-computing system are received. Measurement data generated by a plurality of components of the client distributed-computing system is received. The measurement data is processed using one or more analytical or statistical techniques to generate distilled data. Based on one or more policies and the desired state, the distilled data and the current state are analyzed to determine one or more actions predicted to converge the current state of the client distributed-computing system towards the desired state. One or more control commands corresponding to the one or more actions are provided to the client distributed-computing system. The one or more control commands cause the client distributed-computing system to perform the one or more actions.
US11265395B2
Systems, methods, and software for operating a content delivery system to purge cached content are provided herein. In one example, purge messages are transferred for delivery to content delivery nodes (CDNs) in the content delivery system. The CDNs receive the messages, purge content associated with the messages, and compile purge summaries based on the messages. The CDNs further periodically transfer the purge summaries to one another to compare the messages received, and gather purge information for purge messages that may have been inadvertently missed by the CDNs.
US11265390B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and storage media for detecting events based on updates to node profiles from electronic activities. Exemplary implementations may access an electronic activity transmitted or received via an electronic account associated with a data source provider; generate a plurality of activity field-value pairs; maintain a plurality of node profiles; identify a first state of a first node profile of the plurality of node profiles; update the first node profile using the electronic activity; identify a second state of the first node profile subsequent to updating the first node profile using the electronic activity; detect a state change of the first node profile based on the first state and the second state; determine that the state change satisfies an event condition; and store an association between the first node profile and an event type corresponding to the event condition.
US11265380B1
A system of a machine includes a network of a plurality of nodes distributed throughout the machine, a controller, and a plurality of waveguides. Each of the nodes is operable to communicate through one or more radio frequencies, where the machine includes a cooler portion and a hotter portion. The controller is operable to communicate with the network of nodes using a higher frequency to communicate with one or more of the nodes in the cooler portion of the machine and a lower frequency to communicate with one or more of the nodes in the hotter portion of the machine. The waveguides are configured to guide transmission of the one or more radio frequencies between the controller and one or more of the nodes.
US11265375B2
A method of transmitting distributed data over a channel includes distributing data from a data source to N number of collaborating transmitter devices operable to synchronously transmit N number of contributing data signals based on the data to a receiver over a channel. Channel state information of the channel between each transmitter device and the receiver is obtained. A spatial spectral weight (SSW) filter for each transmitter device based on the obtained channel state information is determined. The SSW filter associated with each transmitter device is applied to each contributing data signal transmitted from the associated transmitter device. The N number of contributing data signals filtered by the SSW filters are transmitted through the channel to the receiver, such that the contributing data signals are received at the receiver synchronously and in substantial phase alignment such that the contributing data signals coherently combine to form a coherently combined data signal.
US11265373B2
An electronic device of a first user is configured to: connect with a second electronic device of a second user of the plurality of electronic devices over a first peer-to-peer wireless network link when the second electronic device is within a communicable range of the first electronic device; receive from the second electronic device, a second unique code generated by the second electronic device, the second unique code including a second unique identifier of the second electronic device; store on the first electronic device: the second unique identifier; information associated with the proximity of the second electronic device; and information associated with the time when the second electronic device is within the communicable range of the first electronic device; and display a notification on the first electronic device when the second unique identifier is downloaded from a web server to the first electronic device.
US11265370B1
A system includes a first data server storing a first data file for a user and a second data server storing a second data file for the user, wherein a pre-authorized secure connection can be established between the first data server and the second data server. The second data file receives a request for a first amount of data from the second data file and detects that the first amount of data is larger than a second amount of data in the second data file. The second user determines that the first data file at the first data server includes a third amount of data that equals or exceeds a difference between the first amount and the second amount, and receives a fourth amount of data that equals the difference from the first data server over the pre-authorized connection. In response, the second data server processes the request.
US11265369B2
An exemplary edge compute orchestration system that is communicatively coupled with a set of edge compute nodes in a communication network receives a task assignment request generated by a user equipment (“UE”) device coupled to the network. The request is associated with an edge compute task that is to be performed in furtherance of an application executing on the UE device. The system also accesses node characterization data for the set of nodes and manages a node selection policy configured to facilitate a balancing of node performance and node efficiency when assigning edge computing tasks to different nodes in the set. The system selects a node for performance of the edge compute task from the set of nodes in response to the request, based on the node characterization data, and in accordance with the selection policy. The system assigns the edge compute task to be performed by the selected node.
US11265367B2
An application platform system and method. A data synchronization instance manages a reference state object for a data synchronization system (DSS) account. A first local state object is stored at a first application system. The first application system receives update notifications provided by the DSS. A second local state object is stored at a second application system. The second application system receives update notifications provided by the DSS. An application instruction of the first application system is transformed into a state update, and the first local state object is modified to include the state update. The state update is provided to the DSS via a local update notification. The reference state object is modified to include the state update. The state update is provided to the second application system via a reference update notification. The second local state object is modified to include the state update.
US11265361B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises a communication circuit, at least one memory, and at least one processor, which is electrically connected to the communication circuit and the at least one memory, wherein the at least one memory, when executed, can store instructions allowing the at least one processor to: connect to a first external electronic device through the communication circuit; include a header based on a second protocol in first data generated in order to be transmitted to a second external electronic device by a first application using a first protocol; generate second data in which at least a part of the header based on the second protocol is changed; and transmit the second data to the first external device. Additional various embodiments are possible.
US11265359B2
A system and method are provided for managing a concurrent streaming of a first media stream (031) and a second media stream (032). The media streams (031, 032) represent different recordings of an event. The concurrent streaming of the media streams (031, 032) is enabled by a resource having a resource limitation (080). To address this resource limitation, when it is determined that the resource limitation is exceeded by the concurrent streaming of the first media stream (031) streaming to a first streaming client (041) and the second media stream (032) streaming to a second streaming client (042), the first media stream (031) is selected for substituting the second media stream (032) in the streaming to the second streaming client (042). As a result of the substitution, the first and the second streaming client (041, 042) stream the same media stream rather than different media streams. This may have as advantage that the allocation of the resource is reduced, since the streaming of a same media stream to different streaming clients (041, 042) typically represents a lower resource allocation than the streaming of different media streams to different streaming clients.
US11265343B2
A system and method for facilitating various forms of cyber training. In some embodiments, the system and method enable the creation and deployment of cyber ranges. Such a cyber range can simulate one or more network environment(s) of one or more real or hypothetical organizations for various network, software, and system/hardware components, as well as simulations of various network traffic.
US11265335B2
A method comprising: monitoring events collected from a plurality of network nodes; detecting a first suspicious event among the monitored events by a detection mechanism; monitoring the behaviour of the first suspicious event and any related events; in case the monitored first suspicious event and/or a related event is detected to perform an activity triggering an IOC (indicator of compromise, generating a new IOC; monitoring new events when the activity ends; comparing the behaviour of the new events with the behaviour of the generated IOC; in case a matching behaviour is found, merging the new event with the first suspicious event and/or related events related to the generated IOC; and generating a security related decision on the basis of the IOC.
US11265334B1
An Active Intelligence method and system are provided for detecting malicious servers using an automated machine-learning active intelligence manager. The Active Intelligence method and system automatically and covertly extract forensic data and intelligence related to a selected server in real time to determine whether the server is part of a cybercrime infrastructure. An automated machine-learning active intelligence manager is provided that collects or gathers one or more types of forensic intelligence related to the operation of the server under investigation. The active intelligence manager combines the collected one or more types of forensic intelligence, extracts features from the combined forensic intelligence, and classifies the server as malicious or benign based on the extracted features.
US11265331B2
A multifunction printer connects to a controlled device via a proximity network link. The multifunction printer is connected as a master of the controlled device. The multifunction printer connects with a mobile device via a Bluetooth link, such that the mobile device is connected as a master of the multifunction printer. The mobile device is authenticated to determine credentials and access permissions relative to the controlled device. The mobile device's access to the controlled device is controlled from the multifunction printer via the Bluetooth link based on the credentials and access permissions.
US11265326B2
Methods and systems for using block chain technology to verify transaction data are described herein. A computing platform may receive data about events related to transactions, personal or corporate information, supply chains, and other relevant information about a person or corporate entity. The event information may be received, aggregated, and processed to determine metadata about the person or corporate entity. The metadata may indicate, for example, a trustworthiness of the person or corporate entity for various purposes. Such event information and/or metadata may be stored as transactions in a block chain that may be accessible by counterparties to a potential transaction involving the person or corporate entity. The automated event processing computing platform may further use automated techniques to implement smart transactions between the person/entity and counterparty based on the trust metadata.
US11265315B2
An information processing terminal, including a speaker unit, for receiving and processing an input of voice information, performs control, in a case where it is determined that authentication is needed for execution of a service corresponding to an input of voice information, to perform biometric authentication using information extracted as biological information of a user corresponding to the input voice information, and notifies, in a case where the biometric authentication is successful, the user via the speaker unit of a message regarding the execution of the service as a response to the input of the voice information.
US11265311B1
A method of authenticating a user of a multifunction device to a server, the method comprising associating a user-supplied image with user login credentials, using a server; receiving, at the server, an image uploaded from the multifunction device; and comparing the uploaded image to the user-supplied image, using the server, and, only if the uploaded image is identical to the user-supplied image, allowing the user of the multifunction device to authenticate to the server by providing additional login credentials to the server using the multifunction device.
US11265304B2
Various embodiments concern mechanisms for facilitating communication between network-accessible platforms for developing, hosting, or running hybrid applications that utilize resources hosted across multiple platforms. Hybrid applications cause messages or “calls” to be passed between the platforms that must be authenticated. For example, when a call is placed by a Heroku platform to a Force.com platform, the call must be authenticated for security purposes. If Heroku has not already been authenticated when the call is submitted, an authentication process is invoked. An event listener can be used to register details regarding the initial callout task, and then register or “fire” an event when the authentication process is successfully completed. Registration of the initial callout task completely separates the authentication process from the resource being invoked. Requests can be completed without requiring further user input using at least some of the details registered by the event listener.
US11265302B2
A trusted server receives a request for an activation code, which includes an identifier associated with the trusted server and a one-time password, for a client device. The trusted server obtains the identifier from a public server, generates the one-time password, and combines the one-time password with the identifier to create the activation code. The trusted server provides the activation code to a provisioning client, which presents the activation code to the client device. The trusted server and client device secure a communication session using the one-time password as a shared secret. The trusted server downloads trusted cryptographic information to the client device over the secure communication session.
US11265300B1
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for anonymizing information in an end-to-end (E2E) encrypted environment; the information may include, for example, statistical data about unique page/message views, view counts, view time, what users selected on the message or page, etc. Exemplary embodiments may prevent an E2E system server from being able to identify which user is associated with which record. Various examples are described, including an embodiment in which an originating client generates the data, encrypts it, and sends it to a random contact. The contact decrypts the data, re-encyrpts it, and sends it to another random contact. The procedure continues for a set amount of time or for a set number of hops. Other embodiments relate to wrapping the data in various layers of encryption and sending the data to clients in a chain. The encrypted layers prevent clients along the chain from being able to view the anonymized data.
US11265296B1
A system and method are disclosed for making Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections in networks, which currently cannot have VPNs due to technical limitations and some practices by network operators. The system and method are a solution that may be independent of VPN protocols used for making secure connections. The system and method can be used in a public cloud on the internet or a in a private network. The system and method are capable of providing VPN connections “everywhere” and in all connection scenarios.
US11265295B2
A modified accessor function call is provided to the client device by a clientless VPN in conjunction with a browsing session performed by the client device via the clientless VPN. A native accessor function call is received at a client device. The modified accessor function call is executed at the client device, including by using the native accessor function call.
US11265293B2
An apparatus and method is disclosed for the secure access to field instruments. An interface device that includes a built-in firewall, is communicatively coupled between the device manager of an industrial automation process control system and a network of field instruments. The interface device includes at least one processor configured to execute instructions that provides a firewall for the one or more field instruments by blocking one or more user selected commands from being sent to the field instruments from the device manager.
US11265291B2
A method includes accessing, by a hypervisor executing by a processing device, a filtering queue that stores at least one packet determined to be malicious by a virtual machine, generating, by the hypervisor, a filtering rule in view of characteristics of the at least one packet determined to be malicious, and storing the filtering rule in a data store to apply to subsequent packets addressed to the virtual machine to determine whether any of the subsequent packets have similar characteristics with the at least one packet determined to be malicious.
US11265290B2
Techniques for transport layer signaling security with next generation firewall are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for transport layer signaling with next generation firewall includes monitoring transport layer signaling traffic on a service provider network at a security platform; and filtering the transport layer signaling traffic at the security platform based on a security policy.
US11265288B2
Various embodiments manage the migration of servers. In one embodiment, a set of server-level dependency information is obtained for servers to be migrated from a source computing environment to a target computing environment. A set of network configuration data is obtained for a plurality of network devices associated with the servers. The set of server-level dependency information is updated to include one or more additional dependencies of at least one of the servers based on the set of network configuration data. Updating the set of server-level dependency information generates an updated set of dependency information. The servers are assigned to multiple migration groups based on the updated set of dependency information. The migration groups optimize cross-group dependencies among the migration groups.
US11265268B1
The technology described in this document can be embodied in an integrated circuit device comprises a first data processing unit comprising one or more input ports for receiving incoming data, one or more inter-unit data links that couple the first data processing unit to one or more other data processing units, a first ingress management module connected to the one or more inter-unit data links, the first ingress management module configured to store the incoming data, and forward the stored data to the one or more inter-unit data links as multiple data packets, and a first ingress processing module. The integrated circuit device also comprises a second data processing unit comprising one or more output ports for transmitting outgoing data, and a second ingress management module connected to the one or more inter-unit data links.
US11265266B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium is provided in which a port switching program for causing a computer to execute a process including: transmitting, in response to a mirror switching instruction that specifies a migration source port and a migration destination port, a first mirror switching notification to a virtual switch that has the migration destination port to request a change of mirror setting in the migration destination port; canceling mirror setting for a transmission packet to the migration destination port in the migration source port; and canceling mirror setting for a received packet from the migration destination port in the migration source port in response to a second mirror switching notification from the virtual switch, the second mirror switching notification indicating the change of the mirror setting in the migration destination port is stored.
US11265262B1
An information processing system capable of controlling bursting more appropriately is provided. The information processing system includes: a credit management unit that manages a credit amount for controlling allocation of a resource amount of resources via the bursting with respect to each of a plurality of operation targets; and a bursting management unit that calculates the resource amount to be added via the bursting with respect to each of the plurality of operation targets according to the credit amount managed by the credit management unit and issues an instruction to a storage apparatus to allocate each calculated resource amount to each of the plurality of operation targets.
US11265258B2
This application describes a network device, a controller, a queue management method, and a traffic management chip. The method may be applied to a traffic management chip that uses an HQoS technology, and can include receiving a queue management instruction sent by a controller, where the queue management instruction includes an identifier of a first scheduler and an identifier of a first queue, and the first scheduler is one of multiple first-level schedulers. The method may also include controlling, according to the queue management instruction, scheduling of the first queue by the first scheduler, where a queue scheduled by the first scheduler belongs to a queue resource pool of the TM chip, and the queue resource pool includes at least one to-be-allocated queue. In this application, decoupling between queue allocation and the first-level schedulers is implemented, flexibility of queue allocation is improved, and utilization of queue resources is improved.
US11265256B2
The described technology is generally directed towards selecting, by user equipment, a selected maximum transmission unit (MTU) packet size for wireless data transfer based on radio signal conditions. In one aspect, reference signal received power (RSRP) and reference signal received quality (RSRQ) are used to select the MTU packet size, e.g., by using RSRP and RSRQ as indices to a lookup table of predetermined MTU packet sizes, such as previously determined by field testing. In general, smaller MTU packet sizes are used with poorer quality radio signal conditions. The selected MTU packet size may be increased or decreased based on actual performance data and/or based on changed radio signal conditions, such as for a subsequent data transfer session. The user equipment may comprise a Cat-M device that transfers data related to Machine-Type Communications (MTC)/Machine to Machine (M2M) communications.
US11265253B2
Disclosed are various examples for network management in hyper-converged infrastructures. In one example, tagged data is received by a switch. The tagged data includes a header that identifies that the tagged data is for replication. The switch generates replicated versions of the tagged data. The replicated versions of the tagged data can include modified header data. The replicated versions of the tagged data are transmitted to a plurality of hosts within the hyper-converged infrastructure.
US11265250B2
This disclosure involves applying rate limits to violating tenant computing devices causing resource consumption violations at system components identified via violation evaluation processes. A system identifies a resource consumption violation with respect to a computing system hosting an online service. The system retrieves log data identifying tenant systems that accessed the memory resource during a particular time period in which the resource consumption violation impacted performance of the online service. The system determines, from the log data, that a violator tenant system accessing the online service caused the resource consumption violation. The system enforces a rate limit against the violator tenant system rather than other tenant systems identified in the log data.
US11265246B2
In some embodiments, a method inserts, by a first computing device, a first value for a capability in a first message that is used in a process to automatically exchange capability values with a second computing device. The first value for the capability indicates the first computing device requires a default route to reach the second computing device as a next hop for sending a packet to a destination. The first computing device sends the first message to the second computing device; and receives a second value for the capability in a second message from the second computing device. The second value indicating the second computing device will send the default route to reach the second computing device. When the default route is received from the second computing device, the first computing device stores the default route from the second computing device in a route table.
US11265245B2
A label switching router for a switching network configured for source routing can be configured to modify one or more reported properties of a link associated with that router based on one or more link quality metrics. For example, a router can include a link with available bandwidth of 10 Gbps, a value that can be used by a headend when evaluating nodes of the network against a set of constraints required by a particular requested connection or tunnel. A link of that router may exhibit an increased bit error rate which can be used by the label switching router to artificially deflate available bandwidth, thereby reducing the number of label switching paths including the router are selected by the headend.
US11265243B2
Processes for managing computing processes within a plurality of data centers configured to provide a cloud computing environment are described. An exemplary process includes executing a process on a first host of a plurality of hosts. When the process is executing on the first host, a first network identifier associated with the plurality of hosts is not a network identifier of a pool of network identifiers associated with the cloud computing environment and first and second route tables respectively corresponding to first and second data centers of the plurality of data centers associate the first network identifier with the first host. The exemplary process further includes detecting an event associated with the process. In response to detecting the event associated with the process, the first and second route tables are respectively updated to associate the first network identifier with a second host of the plurality of hosts.
US11265238B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for load balancing using Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) Version 6 are provided. A request for a connection is received from a client at a routing stack. A Mobile IP Version 6 Binding Update message is transmitted from the routing stack to the client responsive to the received request. The Binding Update message identifies a selected target stack so as to allow the client to communicate directly with the target stack bypassing the routing stack.
US11265237B2
A method includes receiving summary messages summarizing respective aggregated traffic metadata packets output from the at least one traffic management device and an engine. Each summary message identifies an origination pair having a traffic management device and an aggregation engine and a sequence number. The method further includes tracking per subinterval of a series of sub-intervals, highest and lowest sequence numbers and a count of summary messages received for each unique origination pair from the beginning of the subinterval. The method further includes accumulating, per interval, accumulated highest and lowest sequence numbers and an accumulated count of summary messages for each unique origination pair from the beginning of the interval and for all previous subintervals for tracking dropped aggregated traffic metadata packets for the interval. The method further includes estimating a number of dropped aggregated traffic metadata packets for the interval based on the accumulated highest and lowest sequence numbers and the count of summary messages.
US11265209B2
A device management system that receives a first service request message for a remote device node, the request including an address identifier and a connection profile identifier. The system retrieves from a database protocol configuration information associated with the service request. The system connects to the remote device using the protocol configuration information and iterates through device packs and identifies a device type and support for in-band and out-of band application protocols for the remote device. The system retrieves and stores the retrieved device type and in-band and out-of band application protocols. The system further receives a second service request message that includes a device identifier of the remote device and iteratively connect to the remote device associated with the device identifier using each of the in-band and out-of band application protocols and retrieves an inventory of management operations associated with each application protocol.
US11265202B2
The current document is directed to an integrated cloud-management facility, or subsystem, that incorporates an automated-application-deployment-facility integrator that incorporates one or more automated-application-deployment facilities into the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator allows users of the cloud-management facility to access one or more automated-application-deployment facilities within the context of the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator provides to system managers and administrators, through the cloud-management facility, a wider range of functionalities and capabilities than is provided by a cloud-management facility that includes only a single automated-application-deployment facility, or subsystem.
US11265201B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for selectively compensating for a specific Intermodulation Distortion (IMO) product(s) of an arbitrary order in a transmitter system. In some embodiments, a method of compensating for one or more specific IMO products in a concurrent multi-band transmitter system comprises generating an IMO correction signal for a specific IMO product as a function of two or more frequency band input signals for two or more frequency bands of a concurrent multi-band signal, the IMO product being an arbitrary order IMD product. The method further comprises frequency translating the IMD correction signal to a desired frequency that corresponds to a Radio Frequency (RF) location of the specific IMO product and, after frequency translating the IMO correction signal to the desired frequency, utilizing the IMO correction signal to compensate for the specific IMO product.
US11265197B2
Methods, systems, and devices for synchronization signal block (SSB) design are described to enable a base station to configure and transmit an SSB with a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) below a threshold. A low-PAPR SSB configuration may include a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS). A user equipment (UE) may use the low-PAPR SSB configuration to monitor for and decode the SSB and begin communications with the base station. A low-PAPR SSB configuration may indicate available PSS sequences and lengths. A low-PAPR SSB configuration may also indicate multiplexing and symbol arrangements for a PBCH, DMRS, and SSS, and low-PAPR communications methods. A configuration may further indicate reference signal configurations, information for different communication types, subcarrier spacing, a number of symbols of an SSB, or a number of available SSBs and associated groups.
US11265194B2
A method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication systems that support broadcast signals. The UE receives a first radio signal on a first time-frequency resource. The first radio signal comprises a first RS sequence, RSs in the first RS sequence are mapped from lower frequency to higher frequency in frequency domain, the first time-frequency resource belongs to a first frequency domain resource. The first frequency domain resource comprises K frequency domain sub-resource(s). (A) Position(s) of the K frequency domain sub-resource(s) in the first frequency domain resource is(are) unfixed, RSs of the first RS sequence in a given frequency domain sub-resource are not related to a position of the given frequency domain sub-resource in the first frequency domain resource. Therefore, the UE is able to correctly receive RSs even without knowing the position of frequency domain resources in the system bandwidth.
US11265176B1
Systems and applications are described that use group signature technology to allow for anonymous and/or semi-anonymous feedback while allowing for the application of rules and parameters. The use of group signature technology may serve to potentially mitigate or prevent malicious identification of individuals or entities providing a communication such as feedback. Feedback may range from constructive feedback all the way to the ‘whistleblower’ variety. It may be desirable to identify the individuals as belonging to a particular group or having a particular status or position while maintaining the anonymity of the individuals within the particular group.
US11265174B2
A method for processing blockchain data is applied to a terminal device provided with a trusted execution environment and includes: acquiring, from a blockchain, data to be verified of a target service, the data to be verified including circulation data generated during execution of the target service and recorded in the blockchain; determining, based on the target service, a relevant third-party authority for verifying authenticity of the data to be verified, and acquiring benchmark circulation data generated during the execution of the target service and recorded in the third-party authority; transferring the data to be verified and the benchmark circulation data to the trusted execution environment through a first trusted application on the terminal device; and determining whether the data to be verified meets a verification rule, and outputting a verification result of the data to be verified.
US11265172B2
A system for supporting Enhanced Privacy Identification (EPID) is provided. The system may include a host processor operable to communicate with a remote requestor, where the host processor needs to perform signature revocation checking in accordance with EPID. To perform signature revocation checking, the host processor has to perform either a sign or verify operation. The host processor may offload the sign/verify operation onto one or more associated hardware acceleration coprocessors. A programmable coprocessor may be dynamically configured to perform the desired number of sign/verify functions in accordance with the requirements of the current workload.
US11265164B2
Exemplary systems and methods for the addition of a block to a permissioned blockchain using efficient consensus are disclosed. The methods and systems may include receiving transaction messages having transaction values from consensus nodes and generating a Merkle root for the transaction messages using transaction references and a proposed block header having the Merkle root and a hash of the header of the most recently added block in a blockchain. The proposed block header may be hashed and transmitted with a proposal message having a digital signature to auditing nodes. A response message accepting the digital signature may be received and an accept message may be transmitted to the auditing nodes and a confirmation message may be transmitted to the consensus-nodes. A new block may be written to the blockchain having the transaction values from the transaction messages and a header including the proposed block header and digital signature.
US11265152B2
Disclosed herein is a data storage device. A data port transmits data between a host computer system and the data storage device. A non-volatile storage medium stores encrypted user content data and a cryptography engine connected between the data port and the storage medium uses a cryptographic key to decrypt the encrypted user content data. The access controller receives from a manager device a public key. The public key is associated with a private key stored on a device to be authorized. The controller determines a user key that provides access to the cryptographic key; encrypts the user key based on the public key and such that the user key is decryptable based on the private key stored on the device to be authorized; and stores, on the data store, authorization data indicative of the encrypted user key.
US11265148B1
Various arrangements relate to a method performed by a processor of a computing system. An example method includes hashing a first salted value to generate a first hashed salted value. The first salted value includes a first salt value and a value. A first tuple is generated. The first tuple includes the first hashed salted value and a first token. The first token is associated with the value. A first BAT message is generated. The first BAT message includes the first salt value. The first BAT message is associated with the first tuple. A second salted value is hashed to generate a second hashed salted value. The second salted value includes a second salt value and a value. A second tuple is generated. The second tuple includes the second hashed salted value and a second token. The second token is associated with the value. A second BAT message is generated.
US11265147B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to obtain a document, segmented into a first number of segments (510), obtain the first number of outputs of a cryptographic operation, such that for each output, a random value and a document segment are employed to generate an input to the cryptographic operation (520), build a Merkle tree based on the outputs of the cryptographic operation (530), and store a top hash of the Merkle tree in a block chain (540).
US11265145B2
The disclosure concerns implementing, by a cryptographic circuit, a set of substitution operations of a cryptographic process involving a plurality of substitution tables. For each set of substitution operations of the cryptographic process, a series of sets of substitution operations are performed. One set of the series is a real set of substitution operations corresponding to the set of substitution operations of the cryptographic process. One or more other sets are dummy sets of substitution operations, each dummy set being based on a different permutation of said substitution tables.
US11265142B2
The disclosure concerns a method of protecting a calculation on a first number and a second number, including the steps of: generating a third number including at least the bits of the second number, the number of bits of the third number being an integer multiple of a fourth number; dividing the third number into blocks each having the size of the fourth number; successively, for each block of the third number: performing a first operation with a first operator on the contents of a first register and of a second register, and then on the obtained intermediate result and the first number, and placing the result in a third register; and for each bit of the current block, performing a second operation by submitting the content of the third register to a second operator with a function of the rank of the current bit of the third number, and then to the first operator with the content of the first or of the second register according to state “0” or “1” of said bit, and placing the result in the first or second register.
US11265133B2
Provided is a terminal apparatus capable of efficiently performing uplink and/or downlink communication. A coding unit (1071) configured to divide a transport block into multiple CBs and code each of the multiple CBs, a transmitter (107) configured to transmit the transport block by using a PUSCH, and a receiver (105) configured to receive a first HARQ-ACK are included, wherein each of the multiple CBs is included in any one of multiple CBGs, the first HARQ-ACK includes a second HARQ-ACK for each of the multiple CBGs or a third HARQ-ACK for the transport block, in a case that a signal waveform applied to the PUSCH is OFDM, whether the first HARQ-ACK includes the second HARQ-ACK or the third HARQ-ACK is given based on higher layer signaling, and in a case that a signal waveform applied to the PUSCH is DFT-s-OFDM, the first HARQ-ACK includes the third HARQ-ACK.
US11265132B2
A radio terminal receives multicast data belonging to an MBMS service from a base station. The radio terminal includes a receiver configured to receive configuration information indicating one or more common resource pools shared by a plurality of radio terminals to transmit feedback information corresponding to the multicast data to the base station, the configuration information including information indicating a correspondence relationship between an attribute of the feedback information and a common resource pool and/or a signal sequence; a controller configured to select a specific common resource pool used for transmission of the feedback information and/or a specific signal sequence used for transmission of the feedback information, based on the attribute of the feedback information to be transmitted to the base station and the correspondence relationship; and a transmitter configured to transmit the feedback information to the base station using the specific common resource pool and/or the specific signal sequence.
US11265127B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting a DMRS, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method and the apparatus are applicable to an NR system. The method for transmitting a DMRS may include: determining a time-frequency resource used to carry a DMRS; and then sending the DMRS by using the time-frequency resource.
US11265124B2
A method, wireless device (100) and network node (200) for performing sounding reference signal, SRS, transmission According to one aspect a method includes receiving a definition of one or more SRS resource sets to be configured, comprising at least one SRS transmission setting. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selected SRS resource set to use for a SRS transmission, from the one or more configured SRS resource sets and determining a precoding configuration for the SRS transmission based on the selected SRS resource set and the at least one SRS transmission setting. The method also includes transmitting a SRS according to the determined precoding configuration.
US11265121B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method in a base station for coordinating resources in a wireless communications system with carrier aggregation in which a first group of terminal devices is served by a primary cell and one or more secondary cells under control of the base station. The method comprises obtaining information indicating arrival of a second group of terminal devices at coverage of the base station. A speed of any terminal device of the second group is higher than a speed of any terminal device of the first group. The method also comprises releasing resources on at least one secondary cell of the one or more secondary cells and allocating the released resources to the second group of terminal devices.
US11265120B2
The invention provides a base station that does not cause the number of blind decodings to be increased and further can prevent the flexibility of resource allocation from degrading. A search space setting unit sets search spaces each of which is constituted by one or more control channel elements (CCEs) and each of which is to be decoded in the terminals and each of which is defined by a plurality of to-be-decoded candidates. An allocating unit places, in one of the plurality of to-be-decoded candidates included in the search space, a control channel. The number of connections of CCEs constituting the to-be-decoded candidate is associated with the number of to-be-decoded candidates. The search space setting unit causes, in accordance with the control channel to be transmitted, the association of the number of connections of CCEs constituting the to-be-decoded candidate with the number of to-be-decoded candidates to differ.
US11265115B2
A user equipment is configured with at least two collections of uplink resources to be used for transmitting control information to a communication network. The UE receives an assignment of radio resources to be used for receiving a downlink transmission from a base station of the communication network. The UE receives an acknowledgement resource indication, ARI, indicating one of the configured collections of uplink resources to be used for transmitting control information associated with the DL transmission. Further, the UE transmits the control information to the base station on at least a subset of the indicated collection of UL resources. In example embodiments, the indicated collection of uplink resources comprises a plurality of selectable uplink resource sets. The control information is transmitted on one of the uplink resource sets which corresponds to an operational state of the communication network.
US11265110B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for adaptive hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) communication for changing a reference signal (RS) configuration between one or more re-transmissions. In some embodiments, the method includes detecting a failure to decode a first communication from a network entity. The method may also include determining one or more communication metrics associated with the first communication. The method may also include selecting a physical parameter configured to identify the one or more communication metrics associated with the first communication, and transmitting a second communication in accordance with the selected physical parameter to the network entity in response to detecting the failure to decode the first communication.
US11265108B2
The present disclosure provides an encoding method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to reduce an encoding latency and complexity, and the amount of computation of real-time construction. The encoding method includes: obtaining information bits; determining a puncturing pattern, where the puncturing pattern includes an element in a puncturing set and an element in a shortening set, and the puncturing set and the shortening set have no intersection set; and performing, by using the determined puncturing pattern, rate matching on data obtained after the information bits are encoded.
US11265107B2
Channel encoding is provided that includes applying turbo coding with a coding rate of 1/5 to an input bit sequence, applying a subblock interleaver to each of first to fifth code bit sequences to which the turbo coding is applied, applying bit collection to the first to fifth code bit sequences output from the subblock interleaver, the bit collection outputting the first code bit sequence in order, outputting the second code bit sequence and the fourth code bit sequence alternately on a bit-by-bit basis after the first code bit sequence, and outputting the second code bit sequence and the fifth code bit sequence alternately on a bit-by-bit basis.
US11265106B1
A method by a network device for detecting data in a data stream. The method includes receiving the data stream, where the data stream includes a sequence of original characters, generating a sequence of type-mapped characters corresponding to the sequence of original characters, converging each of two or more consecutive occurrences of a first character in the sequence of type-mapped characters into a single occurrence of the first character, inserting beginning/ending of segment indicators in the sequence of type-mapped characters, searching for occurrences of one or more predefined sequences of characters in the sequence of type-mapped characters, and responsive to finding an occurrence of any of the one or more predefined sequences of characters, extracting a sequence of characters in the sequence of original characters corresponding to the predefined sequence of characters found in the sequence of type-mapped characters.
US11265102B2
The present disclosure provides a downlink control channel detection method, a downlink control channel transmission method, a network side device and a User Equipment (UE). The downlink control channel detection method includes: determining a detection mode for a downlink control channel; and detecting the downlink control channel in accordance with the determined detection mode for the downlink control channel. The detection mode for the downlink control channel includes a one-stage detection mode in which control information for the detection of a data channel is acquired through a single downlink control channel detection operation and a multiple-stage detection mode in which the control information for the detection of the data channel is acquired through at least two downlink control channel detection operations.
US11265101B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a rate matching method and an apparatus. The method includes performing, by a sending apparatus, encoding using a polar code to obtain a first encoded sequence whose length is N. A sequence number of a polarization channel may range from 0 to N−1. The method includes determining, by the sending apparatus, P1 to-be-punctured bit positions. The method includes performing puncturing at the P1 bit positions in the first encoded sequence to obtain rate-matched encoded bits. The P1 to-be-punctured bit positions are bit positions corresponding to polarization channels 0 to PT1−1, PT1 to 3N/8−1, and/or N/2 to 5N/8−1, PT1 is a threshold of a quantity of to-be-punctured bit positions, and PT1≤N/4. The method includes sending the rate-matched encoded bits.
US11265081B2
A method and an apparatus for predicting a fault of an optical circuit includes determining a classification threshold of an operating parameter based on a classification sample set corresponding to the operating parameter of optical circuit and predicting, based on comparison results between the classification threshold and a plurality of measured values in a sequence, whether a fault occurs in the future on the optical circuit corresponding to the sequence.
US11265075B2
Radio frequency signal boosters serving as outdoor cellular infrastructure are provided. In certain embodiments, a signal booster system for a high frequency cellular network includes a parabolic base station antenna configured to receive a downlink signal of a frequency band higher than 20 gigahertz and to transmit an amplified uplink signal of the frequency band, booster circuitry configured to amplify an uplink signal to generate the amplified uplink signal and to amplify the downlink signal to generate an amplified downlink signal, and a mobile station antenna configured to receive the uplink signal and to transmit the amplified downlink signal.
US11265070B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may perform a digital simulation to determine a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) associated with a digital reception beam. A base station may send, to the UE, a reference signal. The UE may perform a coarse beam search on the reference signal using non-oversampled digital reception beams. The UE may measure the signal strength of the reference signal for each of the non-oversampled digital reception beams and select the non-oversampled digital reception beam with the strongest signal. The UE may perform a refined beam search procedure on the selected beam by using a set of oversampled digital reception beams which correspond to the selected non-oversampled digital reception beam. The UE may determine the PMI associated with the strongest oversampled digital reception beam and send the PMI in a report to the base station.
US11265066B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications provide for identification of multiple antenna panels at a user equipment (UE), and determination of panel-specific capabilities for the multiple antenna panels. A UE may determine whether simultaneous communications using two or more antenna panels is supported. The UE may determine that simultaneous communications using two or more antenna panels is supported based on a predetermined rule that indicates such simultaneous communications are supported or unsupported. Whether simultaneous communications on multiple panels is supported may be dependent upon a capability of the UE. The UE may transmit panel-specific capabilities to the base station, that may be used by the base station for subsequent communications between the UE and the base station.
US11265055B2
An apparatus is disclosed for flexible beamforming using frequency-division multiplexing. In an example aspect, an apparatus includes an antenna array and a wireless transceiver with two or more dedicated receive paths respectively coupled to two or more antenna elements of the antenna array, two or more mixers, a first combiner, a second combiner, and a switching circuit. The first combiner has a first input coupled to a first dedicated receive path and an output coupled to an input of a first mixer. The second combiner has a first input coupled to an output of the first mixer and a second input coupled to an output of a second mixer. The switching circuit is configured to selectively connect a second dedicated receive path to a second input of the first combiner or connect the second dedicated receive path to an input of the second mixer.
US11265054B2
The present disclosure relates to beamforming methods and devices. In one example method, an access network device calculates an uplink channel frequency response, calculates a model parameter in a channel frequency response mathematical model based on the uplink channel frequency response and each uplink subcarrier frequency, where the model parameter has reciprocity on uplink and downlink subcarrier frequencies, constructs a downlink channel frequency response based on the model parameter, the channel frequency response mathematical model, and each downlink subcarrier frequency, calculates a beamforming weight for each downlink subcarrier frequency based on the downlink channel frequency response, and performs downlink beamforming on an antenna array based on the beamforming weight for each downlink subcarrier frequency, where the antenna array is a dual-polarized antenna array or a single-polarized antenna array.
US11265042B2
A method of communicating between a first electronic communication device of a plurality of electronic communication devices and a wireless communication initiating device for reading the first electronic communication device. The method comprises receiving, at the first electronic communication device, a communication signal from the wireless communication initiating device and determining a first characteristic value relating to the communication signal. The method further comprises receiving at least a second characteristic value relating to a communication signal received by at least a second electronic communication device that is connected to the first electronic communication device and initiating communication with a reading device based on the first and second value.
US11265040B2
A method and system for providing a cooperative spectrum sharing model that jointly optimizes primary user equipment parameters for improved frequency agility and performance while mitigating mutual interference between the primary user equipment and secondary user equipment. Spectrum sensing is implemented to form a power spectral estimate of the electromagnetic environment (EME) and apply multi-objective optimization to adjust the operational parameters of the primary user equipment to mitigate interference.
US11265035B1
A mobile device holder includes an attachment assembly and a support assembly. The attachment assembly includes a magnet enclosed in a shell. When brought into proximity to a magnetic part of a mobile device, the magnet causes the mobile device holder to be attached to the mobile device by magnetic attraction. The magnet has a ring shape. Toward the center of the ring-shaped magnet, the attachment assembly has an accommodating recess. The support assembly includes a handle that is movable on a hinge in and out of the accommodating recess. The joint permits the handle to rotate about a first axis and a second axis not parallel to the first axis.
US11265027B1
Bias arrangements for amplifiers are disclosed. An example arrangement includes a bias circuit, configured to produce a bias signal for the amplifier, and a linearization circuit, configured to improve linearity of the amplifier by modifying the bias signal based on an RF signal indicative of an RF input signal to be amplified by the amplifier. The linearization circuit includes a bias signal input for receiving the bias signal, an RF signal input for receiving the RF signal, and an output for providing a modified bias signal. The linearization circuit further includes at least a first linearization transistor, having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, where each of the bias signal input and the RF signal input of the linearization circuit is coupled to the first terminal of the first linearization transistor, and the output of the linearization circuit is coupled to the third terminal of the first linearization transistor.
US11265008B2
Circuitry and techniques are described herein for performing accurate and low power conversion of an analog value into a digital value. According to some aspects, this disclosure describes a successive approximation register (SAR) analog to digital converter (ADC). According to some aspects the SAR ADC comprises an active integrator between a sample and hold stage and a comparator stage. The active integrator operates differently dependent on whether the SAR ADC is operated in a sample phase or a conversion phase. According to other aspects, the SAR ADC utilizes a ring oscillator-based comparator to compare a sampled analog input value to a plurality of reference values to determine a digital value representing the analog value.
US11264997B2
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided to generate a radio frequency (RF) signal having a desired radio frequency fRF. In one example a frequency synthesizer system includes a clock, an opportunistic phase locked loop (PLL), and an RF PLL. The clock circuitry is configured to generate a clock signal having a frequency fXTL. The opportunistic phase locked loop (PLL) is configured to generate a reference signal having a reference frequency fREF that is close to a free-running frequency of an oscillator in the opportunistic PLL. The opportunistic PLL is configured to synchronize the reference signal to the clock signal. The RF PLL is configured to generate the RF signal having the desired radio frequency and to synchronize the RF signal with the reference signal.
US11264996B1
A digital PLL circuitry, according to the present embodiment, includes: a phase difference arithmetic circuitry configured to arithmetically operate and output a phase difference between an input clock signal and an output clock signal; a first control code generation circuitry configured to generate a first control code for controlling an oscillation frequency based on the phase difference and a frequency control input being a control target frequency relating to the output clock signal, and output the first control code; a second control code generation circuitry configured to generate and output a second control code for controlling the oscillation frequency according to a sequence; a selection circuitry configured to select and output one of the first control code and the second control code as a selection control code; and a digitally controlled oscillator configured to output the output clock signal of the oscillation frequency according to the selection control code.
US11264972B2
In described examples, a pulse width modulation (PWM) system includes an initiator and a receiver. The initiator includes an initiator counter and an initiator PWM signal generator. The initiator counter advances an initiator count in response to an initiator clock signal. The initiator PWM signal generator generates an initiator PWM signal in response to the initiator count. The receiver includes a receiver counter, a receiver PWM signal generator, and circuitry configured to reset the receiver count. The receiver counter advances a receiver count in response to a receiver clock signal. The receiver PWM signal generator generates a receiver PWM signal in response to the receiver count. The circuitry resets the receiver count in response to a synchronization signal and based on an offset.
US11264971B2
A multiplexer includes a filter (10) arranged between a common terminal and an input/output terminal (110) and configured to pass a radio frequency signal in a first frequency band, and a filter (20) arranged between the common terminal and an input/output terminal (120) and configured to pass a radio frequency signal in a second frequency band. The filter includes series arm circuits (31 and 32) connected in series, a series arm circuit (33) connected in parallel to the series arm circuit (32), and a parallel arm circuit. The series arm circuit (32) includes a series arm resonator that is an acoustic wave resonator. The series arm circuit (33) includes a switch arranged on a second path connecting nodes. In a CA mode, the switch is OFF. In a non-CA mode, the switch is ON.
US11264965B2
Provided is a noise filter that can enhance noise removal performance with a simple configuration. A noise filter (10) includes a connector (20) that houses a terminal fitting (22) connected to an input/output wire (WH) in a state in which the input/output wire (WH) is lead out from the connector (20). The noise filter (10) includes a coil (40) that is connected to the input/output wire (WH), a capacitor (30) that is electrically connected to the coil (40), and a magnetic member (50). The noise filter (10) includes a case (60) that houses the capacitor (30), the coil (40), and the magnetic member (50), and a holding member (70) that holds the magnetic member (50) in a state in which the magnetic member (50) is positioned with respect to the coil (40).
US11264963B1
An input buffer circuit includes an input differential amplifier unit, a differential amplifier stage, and a buffer. The input differential amplifier unit has input terminals and at least one output terminal, wherein at least two of the input terminals of the input differential amplifier unit are configured to be capacitively coupled respectively so as to provide at least one pair of signal paths for a first input signal and a second input signal of a differential input signal. The differential amplifier stage, coupled to the input differential amplifier unit, has first and second differential input terminals, and a corresponding output terminal, wherein the first and second differential input terminals are capable of being coupled to the first input signal and the second input signal respectively. The buffer, coupled to the output terminal of the differential amplifier stage, is used for outputting an output single-ended signal.
US11264956B2
A DC offset cancellation circuit and a DC offset cancellation method are disclosed. The DC offset cancellation circuit comprises a high-speed amplifier, a voltage comparator, a microprocessor, and a digital-to-analog converter. The high-speed amplifier comprises an input stage with a DC offset cancellation function, an amplification stage, and an output buffer stage. The voltage comparator is connected to the output buffer stage. The microprocessor is connected to the voltage comparator. The digital-to-analog converter is connected to the microprocessor. The digital-to-analog converter is connected to the input stage.
US11264949B2
Apparatus and methods for rotary traveling wave oscillators (RTWOs) are disclosed. In certain embodiments, an RTWO system include an RTWO ring that carries a traveling wave, a plurality of selectable capacitors distributed around the RTWO ring and each operable in a selected state and an unselected state, and a decoder system that controls selection of the plurality of selectable capacitors based on a frequency tuning code. The frequency tuning code includes a fine tuning code and a coarse tuning code, and the decoder system is operable to maintain a constant number of capacitors that toggle state for each value of the fine tuning code.
US11264939B2
A siding material for a building configured to hold one or more solar panels is disclosed including a siding shell including a first section and/or a second section, wherein each first and/or second section includes an essentially flat face disposed at an angle ranging from about 30 degrees to about 90 degrees relative to the ground or a perpendicular plane extending from a side of the building. In addition, one or more surfaces of the first section and/or the second section are perforated, and the first section and/or the second section each include a channel configured to hold an electrical cable.
US11264936B2
A method, system, and apparatus for controlling and regulating operation of a permanent magnet rotary electric machine including a stator and a rotor includes determining a first reactive power term associated with the electric machine based upon voltage, and determining a second reactive power term associated with the electric machine based upon flux. A first motor temperature associated with the electric machine is determined based upon the first and second reactive power terms, and power output from the permanent magnet electric machine is controlled based upon the first motor temperature.
US11264935B2
A variable speed drive comprises an output for delivering a drive voltage to an electric motor, power inverter, a drive controller, and a current sensor. The drive controller includes a PWM generator, a control law module, and a state variable estimator for estimating a state variable of the electric motor. The module computes a target voltage signal based on state variable estimates provided by the estimator and outputs the target voltage signal to the PWM generator. The generator approximates the target voltage signal with a PWM control signal, controls the inverter using the control signal, computes, based on the deviation between the control signal and the target voltage signal, an estimation support signal, and outputs the estimation support signal to the estimator. The estimator estimates a state variable of the motor based on the estimation support signal and the drive current, and outputs the estimate to the module.
US11264933B2
A sensorless control method and an apparatus for a three-phase switched reluctance motor. The sensorless control method obtains line inductances of three phases according to real-time phase inductances of the three-phase switched reluctance motor and then determines feature points of the line inductances of the three phases. A position angle of the rotor at any time in the next corresponding region is calculated according to an average rotation speed of the rotor in the region corresponding to two adjacent feature points. A control signal is output to realize a precise sensorless control for the three-phase switched reluctance motor. The control apparatus includes a microcontroller, a power conversion circuit, a drive module for the power conversion circuit, a current detection module, a voltage detection module, an input and output module and a direct current regulated power supply.
US11264932B2
A method and apparatus for quasi-sensorless adaptive control of a high rotor pole switched-reluctance motor (HRSRM). The method comprises the steps of: applying a voltage pulse to an inactive phase winding and measuring current response in each inactive winding. Motor index pulses are used for speed calculation and to establish a time base. Slope of the current is continuously monitored which allows the shaft speed to be updated multiple times and to track any change in speed and fix the dwell angle based on the shaft speed. The apparatus for quasi-sensorless control of a high rotor pole switched-reluctance motor (HRSRM) comprises a switched-reluctance motor having a stator and a rotor, a three-phase inverter controlled by a processor connected to the switched-reluctance motor, a load and a converter.
US11264931B2
The invention provides a vibration controlling method which amplifies a steady state voltage and generates a first voltage signal for controlling the vibrator to accelerate vibration to a target vibration amplitude lower than the steady state vibration amplitude, and then attenuates the startup voltage to the steady state voltage to generate a second voltage signal for controlling the vibrator to vibrate from the target vibration amplitude to the steady state vibration amplitude. Through the implementation of the invention, the steady state voltage is amplified and used as an excitation voltage of the acceleration section of vibrator vibration, and then it steadily decreases to the steady state voltage, which effectively shortens the acceleration time for the early stage of the vibrator vibration response and reduces the hysteresis of the vibrator vibration fed back to the user.
US11264925B2
An electric motor controller system for modulating requested motor torque via oscillating the instantaneous torque, including a bi-stable torque controller; a proportional-integral (PI) velocity controller a proportional-integral-differential (PID) position controller; and sinusoidal zero-velocity table mapping.
US11264924B2
In a motor driving apparatus including an inverter connectable to n motors (n being an integer not less than 2) each including a rotor having a permanent magnet, braking operation is performed on i (i being an integer from 1 to n−1) of the n motors, and then braking operation is performed on j (j being an integer from 1 to n−i) of the n motors other than the i motors. It is possible to reduce the risks of failure of the inverter and demagnetization of the motors due to overcurrent by reducing current flowing through the inverter and the motors when the braking operation is performed.
US11264921B2
Servomotor (1) comprising: —a base body (10), —an actuator body (20) which is arranged on the base body (10)—a drive arrangement (40) which is coupled to a drive section of the actuator body (20) and, when the drive arrangement (40) is activated, brings about a movement of the drive section of the actuator body (20) in one of two opposing circumferential directions on the basis of this coupling, —a rotational guide (50) with which the actuator body (20) is rotatably guided on the base body (10) and by which the movement of the drive section of the actuator body (20) is converted into a rotational movement of the actuator body (20), —a resetting arrangement (80) which couples the actuator body (20) and the base body (10) to one another and applies a resetting force between them, which resetting force opposes the actuating movement of the actuator body (20), —a magnet-compensation device (90) which reduces or cancels out the resetting force applied by the resetting device (80).
US11264920B2
The invention provides an energy generation system comprising a generator having charged mutually rotating plate elements, and comprising an integrated drive mechanism for precisely controlling a separation distance between the plates. The drive mechanism provides a separation which varies as a function of the speed of rotation, hence assimilating separation control within the natural operation of the device. Embodiments provide plates comprising self-generating bearings, both hydrodynamic gas and fluid bearings and centrifugal regulator solid bearings, the bearings providing a supporting force between the plates of a magnitude which increases as the rotational speed of the plates increases. Methods of energy generation are also provided.
US11264892B2
A power-supply apparatus includes a power-supply circuit to which an input voltage and an input current are input, to include a switching element to be controlled by a control signal so as to generate an output voltage and an output current, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor to calculate a first duty ratio of the control signal so that the output voltage approaches a target voltage, calculate a second duty ratio of the control signal for the switching element, based on the input voltage, the input current, the output voltage, and the output current, detect deterioration of the power-supply circuit, based on the first duty ratio and the second duty ratio, generate the control signal of the first duty ratio when the power-supply circuit has not deteriorated, and generate the control signal for stopping the power-supply circuit when the power-supply circuit has deteriorated.
US11264881B2
In a magnetic drive circuit of an actuator, a first yoke and a second yoke are disposed on both sides in a first direction across a coil, and a first magnet and a second magnet are fixed to the first yoke and the second yoke. The first yoke includes a first connecting plate part and a second connecting plate part that extend toward the second yoke. Thus, welding of the first connecting plate part and the second yoke and the second connecting plate part and the second yoke can be efficiently performed on a different side in the first direction (a side where the second yoke is located).
US11264880B2
A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor having a field pole of a rotor core, wherein the field pole has a radius smaller than an arc centered on a shaft of the rotor, a multiple of slits are formed in the field pole, the multiple of slits are disposed so that an interval between a first central line positioned between a multiple of the slits and a second central line positioned between a neighboring multiple of the slits increases as the first central line and the second central line head toward an outer peripheral side of the rotor core, and of the multiple of slits of the field pole, a first slit disposed in a central position of the field pole, and a second slit and a third slit disposed on either side of the first slit, are disposed within 20% of a circumferential direction width of the permanent magnet.
US11264879B2
An in-wheel motor, comprising: a rotor (14) of a surface permanent magnet type, wherein a plurality of permanent magnets (15) are fixed along an inner circumferential surface of the rotor; wedge-shaped protrusions (42) for fixing the permanent magnets (15) on the rotor (14); and a stator (30) disposed inside the rotor (14), wherein teeth (35) and slots (36) are alternately formed on an outer circumferential portion of the stator; wherein the number of the permanent magnets (15) is 32, and the number of the slots 36 is 24; wherein each of the permanent magnets (15) has chamfers (43) on each of the ends so that a magnetic flux cannot concentrate, and is convex toward the stator (30), in a cross-section perpendicular to a rotary axis of the rotor (14).
US11264874B2
The disclosure relates to the technical field of motor driven, and in particular to a current-controlled motor. The motor includes a rotator assembly, a stator assembly, external connectors and bearings, wherein the stator assembly is in driven connection with the rotator. And the rotator assembly is connected with the bearings which connected with the external connector. Two capacitance structures are formed by the outer surfaces of the two ends of the rotator assembly and the inner surface of the relative position of the external connector with air gap between them.
US11264871B2
An inverter drive assembly includes a first array of inverters, a second array of inverters spaced from the first array of inverters and defining a plenum therebetween, and a crossover bus bar spanning the plenum and electrically connecting the first array of inverters to the second array of inverters. The crossover bus bar includes a first laminated bus section electrically connected to the first array of inverters, a second laminated bus section electrically connected to the second array of inverters, and a solid bus connection interconnecting the first laminated bus section with the second laminated bus section.
US11264869B2
A motor includes a shaft presenting a shaft lead end, a switch assembly including a switch arm shiftable between a first position and a second position, and shield structure. The shaft lead end and the switch assembly are disposed axially outward of an endhsield. The shield structure is disposed axially outward of the switch arm to at least substantially restrict direct tool access to the switch arm from an axially outward position relative to the switch arm. The shield structure at least in part defines first and second tool access channels each extending radially inwardly to the shaft lead end, such that the shield structure enables direct tool access to the shaft lead end via the tool access channels but prevents or at least substantially restricts direct tool access to the switch arm via the tool access channels.
US11264864B2
An electronic device includes a signal trigger circuit, a flat-motor drive circuit, and a flat motor. The signal trigger circuit sends a starting instruction to the flat-motor drive circuit for instructing to start the flat motor. A processor of the flat-motor drive circuit sends a first triggering instruction to a voltage processing circuit of the flat-motor drive circuit after receiving the starting instruction. The voltage processing circuit provides a first working voltage V1 to the flat motor after receiving the first triggering instruction, and provides a second working voltage V0 to the flat motor after a first time period. V0
US11264859B2
A rotary electric machine includes: a housing; a stator that is disposed in the housing; a rotating shaft that is rotatably disposed in the housing; a rotor that is disposed on the rotating shaft; and a rotational angle detecting apparatus that generates a signal that corresponds to a rotational angle of the rotating shaft. The rotational angle detecting apparatus includes: a magnetism generating body that is disposed on an axial end surface of the rotating shaft; and a magnetic sensor that faces the magnetism generating body. A recess portion is disposed on the end surface. The magnetism generating body is disposed in the recess portion.
US11264852B2
A cooling structure is provided that cools a rotor in a motor. The motor includes a shaft that is rotatably supported on a case and a rotor having a rotor core to which a plurality of magnets are provided on an outer periphery of the shaft and which is disposed to face a stator. Flow passages are formed on the shaft and the rotor and cooling oil passes through a core flow passage inside the rotor core from an introduction flow passage on a first side in an axial direction of the shaft and flows to the introduction flow passage on a second side in the axial direction of the shaft. An inlet communicating with the introduction flow passage and an outlet communicating with the introduction flow passage are formed in the case.
US11264851B2
A motor includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes: a plurality of rotor core segments arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor on the inner side or the outer side of the stator and spaced apart from one another to define a plurality of permanent magnet arrangement slots between the plurality of rotor core segments; a plurality of permanent magnets inserted into the plurality of permanent magnet arrangement slots, respectively; a first frame that couples the plurality of rotor core segments to the plurality of permanent magnets, the first frame being made of a first material; and a second frame that surrounds the plurality of rotor core segments, the plurality of permanent magnets, and the first frame and that couples the plurality of rotor core segments, the plurality of permanent magnets, and the first frame to one another. The second frame is made of a second material different from the first material.
US11264845B2
A rotary electrical machine includes a switch for supplying power to a field winding and a controller. A ratio of an on-time to a switching cycle of the switch, i.e., a duty ratio which is larger than the duty ratio corresponding to the field current that gives the maximum reduction amount of the inductance of the field winding with respect to an increasing amount of the field current in a range that the field current can take and which has a predetermined value less than 100%. The controller calculates the duty ratio on the condition that an upper limit of the duty ratio is set as the predetermined value and turns on/off the switch based on the calculated duty ratio, and sets the predetermined value to be larger as a rotation speed of a rotor is higher, or as a d-axis current flowing through an armature winding is larger.
US11264840B2
A wireless power transmission device radiating electromagnetic waves is disclosed. The wireless power transmission device can comprise: a first circuit board; a first conductive member mounted on a first surface of the first circuit board; a first ground member mounted on a second surface facing opposite from the first surface; and an electrical circuit disposed on a position, on the second surface of the first circuit board, which does not overlap the first ground member and for controlling the radiation of electromagnetic waves from the first circuit board.
US11264834B2
A coil apparatus includes a base having a front surface and a rear surface, a magnetic portion provided on a side of the front surface of the base, and a coil portion which is provided on an opposite side from the base with respect to the magnetic portion and includes a conductive wire. The magnetic portion includes a first passing region, the base includes a second passing region, and the conductive wire is drawn out from the rear surface of the base through the first passing region and the second passing region.
US11264828B2
Provided are a vehicle-mounted power source control apparatus, a vehicle-mounted power source apparatus, and a vehicle control method that are highly versatile. A power source control apparatus sets a setting value corresponding to a combination of loads to be connected to multiple output ports based on information determining a candidate value for a setting value for each combination of the loads. Also, control relating to backup is performed based on the set setting value. By doing so, it is possible to perform control relating to backup in a mode corresponding to the combination of the loads.
US11264827B2
A charging power system with low standby power consumption includes a system control unit and a plurality of charging modules. The charging modules are electrically connected in parallel and receive an input power source. Each charging module includes an auxiliary power supply unit, a power conversion unit, and a charging module control unit. When the charging modules enter standby conditions, the system control unit produces auxiliary control signals and the charging module control units produce main control signals to correspondingly control the auxiliary power supply units to stop outputting auxiliary power. Accordingly, it is to reduce standby power consumption and increase overall efficiency of the charging power system.
US11264824B2
A method, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided for improving a wireless charging efficiency. The method includes: a current capacitance value of a resonant capacitor in a receiver of the electronic device is adjusted to a target capacitance value, where a wireless charging efficiency corresponding to the target capacitance value is superior to a wireless charging efficiency corresponding to the current capacitance value.
US11264819B1
A vehicle interior panel includes a decorative layer having a decorative side, a sensor, a wireless charger, and a light source. The sensor is configured to detect a mobile device situated on the decorative side of the decorative layer, and the wireless charger is configured to create a wireless charging area on the decorative side of the decorative panel. The light source is configured to display a trace sequence that is located between the mobile device and the wireless charging area to help a user locate the wireless charging area.
US11264817B2
A handy terminal has a housing, a secondary battery embedded in the housing, and a terminal portion including a charging terminal for charging the secondary battery, and is used by gripping the housing with one hand, wherein: the housing is provided with a grip assumed region extending, within a predetermined range, upward from the lower end of the front surface, the back surface, the left-side surface, and the right-side surface in a vertical direction and capable of being touched by one gripping hand of an operator during operation; and the terminal is provided outside the grip assumed region in the right-side surface.
US11264807B2
A customer's solar array is connected to a utility-owned battery and inverter system. The battery and inverter system may convert DC power from the solar array or a battery bank to provide AC power to the grid. The inverter system may also convert AC power from the grid to DC power to charge the battery bank, or the battery bank may be charged by DC power from the solar array. The utility's inverter system is connected to the customer's premise on the utility's side of the meter. A transfer switch provides either grid power to the premise or AC power from the inverter via the battery bank. A solar production meter on the utility side measures power flowing from the solar array to the grid, as well as power flowing between the battery bank and the grid.
US11264789B2
An over-current protection device includes first and second electrodes and a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) multilayered structure disposed between the first and second electrodes. The PTC multilayered structure includes a first polymer layer that is bonded to the first electrode, an intermediate layered unit that is bonded to said first polymer layer and that includes a second polymer layer, a third polymer layer that is bonded to and disposed between the intermediate layered unit and the second electrode. The first, second and third polymer layers respectively have first, second and third volume resistances, the second volume resistance being higher than the first and third volume resistances.
US11264784B2
Conductor identification may be provided. A first sleeve may be placed around a first conductor and a second sleeve around a second conductor. Next, a first tag may be placed on the first conductor and a second tag on the second conductor. Then, the first conductor and the second conductor may be pulled together through a conduit. The first conductor may slideably move through the first sleeve and the second conductor may slideably move through the second sleeve as the first conductor and the second conductor are pulled together through the conduit.
US11264781B2
A manufacturing method for an optical semiconductor device includes: forming a first semiconductor layer; forming a first mask pattern on the first semiconductor layer in a first area where an electro absorption type modulator is formed; forming an unevenness along the first direction on the first semiconductor layer; forming a second semiconductor layer on the unevenness; and forming an optical waveguide layer on the second semiconductor layer. The first mask pattern includes a first pattern in the first area and a second pattern in a second area where a DFB laser is formed, the first pattern including a first opening pattern and a first cover pattern, and the second pattern including a second opening pattern and a second cover pattern, and a ratio of the first opening pattern to the first cover pattern is different from that of the second opening pattern to the second cover pattern.
US11264779B2
The optical module includes: a housing having first and second end walls and a pair of side walls; a semiconductor laser element; a first TEC; a wavelength locker unit including an optical splitting component and an etalon filter; and a second TEC. The second end wall is provided with a feedthrough. The pair of side walls is not provided with an external connection terminal. The second TEC is disposed between the first TEC and the second end wall and has: a first substrate thermally coupled to a bottom surface of the housing; a second substrate thermally coupled to the etalon filter; and a heat transfer part that transfers heat. The optical module further includes a wiring pattern that is arranged side by side with the heat transfer part and that supplies electric power to the first TEC from the feedthrough.
US11264777B2
A semiconductor laser tuned with an acousto-optic modulator. The acousto-optic modulator may generate standing waves or traveling waves. When traveling waves are used, a second acousto-optic modulator may be used in a reverse orientation to cancel out a chirp created in the first acousto-optic modulator. The acousto-optic modulator may be used with standing-wave laser resonators or ring lasers.
US11264768B1
The outdoor utility stake is an electric distribution device that is for outdoor use. The outdoor utility stake anchors into the ground. The outdoor utility stake draws electric energy from a national electric grid. The outdoor utility stake distributes electric energy for use by one or more electrically powered devices. The outdoor utility stake forms a protected space that encloses the electric connection between the national electric grid and the outdoor utility stake. The outdoor utility stake comprises a distribution structure and a transfer circuit. The distribution structure contains the transfer circuit. The distribution structure forms the protected space used to form the protected space that encloses the electric connection between the national electric grid and the outdoor utility stake.
US11264767B2
A power pedestal is described. The power pedestal includes a plurality of receptacles that are configured to connect to external devices. The plurality of receptacles includes a first receptacle and a second receptacle of the plurality of receptacles. The first receptacle and the second receptacle are electrically interlocked with one another. The power pedestal includes a first circuit breaker connected to the first receptacle and a second circuit breaker connected to the second receptacle, and a shunt trip circuit that is configured to trip the first circuit breaker to disable power to the first receptacle of the power pedestal, responsive to the second circuit breaker associated with the second receptacle of the power pedestal being in an active state. Related devices and methods are also described.
US11264765B2
An electrical connector includes two adjacent terminal groups in a front-rear direction, including a front terminal group and a rear terminal group. Each terminal group includes a ground terminal and a signal terminal. The ground terminal has a first base portion and a first elastic arm. The first elastic arm includes two extending arms and a through slot formed therebetween. The signal terminal has a second base portion and a second elastic arm. The first elastic arm and the second elastic arm are used to be electrically connected to a mating member. In a same terminal group, the signal terminal is located in front of the first base portion, and the second elastic arm runs through the through slot. The mating member presses on the first elastic arm. The first elastic arm of the ground terminal of the rear terminal group abuts the ground terminal of the front terminal group.
US11264757B2
Control box, in particular for adjustable items of furniture, such as vertically adjustable tables for example, comprising: a control box housing and a mains plug in a wall of the control box housing, wherein the control box housing has a strain relief device for a mains cable with a main cable socket for connection to the mains plug, characterized in that the strain relief device has an, in particular channel-like, mains cable clamping guide which is arranged upstream of the mains plug in the insertion direction of the mains cable socket and so as to run transversely to the insertion direction in the control box housing and therefore below the mains plug such that the mains cable socket, when it is inserted into the mains plug, at least partially closes the mains cable clamping guide on the top side in such a way that the associated mains cable does not move out of the mains cable clamping guide.
US11264756B2
A connector mounting rack configured to assemble a plurality of connectors includes a panel, a frame and one or more first partitions. The panel has a plurality of openings formed in an array, each adjacent two of the openings separated by a portion of the panel. The frame is arranged at a back side of the panel. The frame has one or more first walls arranged corresponding to the portion of the panel between the openings along a first direction to define a slot between each adjacent two of the first walls. The slot communicates with the opening. Each of the one or more first walls has an assembling part. Each of the one or more first partitions has a first engaging part and removably connected to one of the one or more first walls by engaging the first engaging part with the assembling part.
US11264749B2
A circuit board for use in a modular electrical connector. The circuit board has a first surface and an oppositely facing second surface. Signal pathways are provided on the first surface. The signal pathways have signal pathway ends abutting a mounting end of the circuit board. First ground pathways are provided on the first surface. The first ground pathways are positioned adjacent at least one of the signal pathways. The first ground pathways have first ground pathway ends abutting the mounting end of the circuit board. One or more second ground pathways are provided on the second surface. The one or more second ground pathways have second ground pathway ends abutting the mounting end of the circuit board. The positioning of the signal pathway ends, the first ground pathway ends and the second ground pathway ends abutting the mounting end reduces crosstalk between signal pairs.
US11264746B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative rectangular housing with a planar base defining opposite upper surface and lower surface thereon. Four restriction parts are formed at four corners of the base to cooperate with the base for commonly forming a receiving cavity to receive the electronic package therein. A plurality of first contacts are disposed in the base with corresponding contacting sections upwardly extending into the receiving cavity to upwardly abut against the corresponding pads on the undersurface of the electronic package. A plurality of second contacts are disposed in the base with corresponding contacting sections sidewardly extending into the receiving cavity to sidewardly abut against the corresponding pads on the side faces of the electronic package.
US11264727B2
A lensed base station antenna includes a first array that includes a plurality of first radiating elements that are configured to transmit respective sub-components of a first RF signal, a second array that includes a plurality of second radiating elements that are configured to transmit respective sub-components of a second RF signal and an RF lens structure positioned to receive electromagnetic radiation from a first of the first radiating elements and from a first of the second radiating elements. A first subset of the first radiating elements are aligned along a first vertical axis and a second subset of the first radiating elements are aligned along a second vertical axis that is spaced apart from the first vertical axis. The first and second arrays each include a single radiating element per horizontal row.
US11264724B2
An antenna includes a feed element, a ground element, and a slot therebetween. The feed element includes a feed end wall and first and second feed side walls extending from the feed end wall at first and second corners. The ground element includes a ground end wall and first and second ground side walls at first and second corners. The slot includes a first slot portion between the first feed and ground side walls, a second slot portion between the second feed and ground side walls, and a third slot portion between the feed and ground end walls. The third slot portion is continuous between the first slot portion and the second slot portion.
US11264718B2
An eight-frequency band antenna includes a carrier, a high-frequency segment, a low-frequency segment, a printed circuit board (PCB) and an inductor. The high-frequency segment is arranged on left side of the carrier and the low-frequency segment is arranged on right side of the carrier. The radiator on the bottom face of the carrier electrically connects with the micro strip of the PCB and the ground line of the ground metal when the carrier is fixed to the PCB. Moreover, the low-frequency segment is corresponding to a metal face with smaller area such that the low-frequency segment is at a free space to enhance the frequency response of the low-frequency segment and the bandwidth of the high-frequency segment. The area and the volume of blind hole on the carrier can adjust the effective dielectric constant to adjust the resonant frequency and bandwidth of the antenna.
US11264716B2
An actuator gearbox includes a drive shaft including a plurality of gear linkages that are spaced apart along the drive shaft, and a plurality of output shafts adjacent respective ones of the plurality of gear linkages. Each of the gear linkages includes a fixed gear coupled to one of the plurality of output shafts and a moving gear that is slideably coupled to the drive shaft. A bias spring is coupled to the moving gear to urge the moving gear out of engagement with the fixed gear. The mechanical switch moves the moving gear into engagement with the fixed gear on the output shaft adjacent the linkage to thereby cause the output shaft to rotate in response to rotation of the drive shaft.
US11264707B2
Antenna apparatus and related communication systems for use with vehicle lamps are disclosed. A disclosed communication system for a vehicle and a trailer includes a lamp positioned on the vehicle and a conductive structure coupled to a stylized component of the lamp. The communication system also includes a primary antenna at least partially formed by the conductive structure and electrically coupled to a vehicle electronic device. The communication system also includes a secondary antenna positioned on the trailer and electrically coupled to a trailer electronic device. The primary and secondary antennas, together, are configured to interact with each other to provide wireless communication between the vehicle and trailer electronic devices.
US11264705B2
The antenna apparatus has a base station installed in a first space partitioned by a wall, a radio terminal provided in a second space, and a repeater including passive antennas and installed on the wall. The repeater is constituted of a first antenna that transmits and receives signals to and from a base station, a plurality of second antennas that transmit and receive the signals to and from the radio terminal, and a transmission line that connects the first antenna with the second antenna. Further, the plurality of second antennas are installed such that planes of polarization of the second antennas are different from each other to improve transmission with the radio terminal.
US11264696B2
A multi-antenna mounting device includes: a mounting member to which two or more antennas are fixable; and a tilt angle adjusting mechanism including an upper adjusting component and a lower adjusting component spaced apart along a length direction of the mounting member. The upper adjusting component includes a plurality of tilt angle adjusting holes arranged in a row, one end of the upper adjusting component is connectable to the mounting member, and the other end is connectable to a user's support pole with a fastening element extending through one of the tilt angle adjusting holes. When the fastening element extends through different tilt angle adjusting holes, the multi-antenna assembly has different mechanical tilt angles relative to the support pole. The lower adjusting component includes a first section and a second section. The second section has a predetermined length and the first section is pivotable relative to the second section.
US11264694B2
A satellite signal acquiring apparatus includes antenna, azimuth motor, elevation motor, main body, inclination sensor and processor. Antenna receives radio wave from a communication satellite. Azimuth motor rotates the antenna in azimuth angle direction. Elevation motor changes elevation angle of the antenna. Main body is equipped with the antenna, the azimuth motor, and the elevation motor. Inclination sensor obtains inclination information of the main body. Processor corrects the elevation angle based on inclination information to hold the elevation angle of the antenna in an earth coordinate system constant regardless of an azimuth angle of the antenna. Processor acquires the communication satellite signal based on reception intensity of the radio wave.
US11264688B2
An interposer (16) and a substrate (10) incorporating the interposer (16) are provided. The interposer (16) includes one or more layers (18) and a cavity (20) defined in the one or more layers (18), the cavity (20) being configured as a waveguide for propagation of electromagnetic waves.
US11264663B2
A battery cover assembly includes a cover plate, an electrode inner terminal and an electrode outer terminal. The electrode inner terminal is electrically connected to the electrode outer terminal through a current interrupt structure disposed on the cover plate. The current interrupt structure includes a sealed chamber configured to fill a gas-producing medium therein. The sealed chamber is configured to make the gas-producing medium to be electrically connected to positive electrodes and negative electrodes of a battery. When a voltage difference between the positive electrodes and negative electrodes of the battery exceeds a rated value, the gas-producing medium is capable of producing gas, to disrupt the electrical connection between the electrode inner terminal and the electrode outer terminal under the action of the pressure of the gas.
US11264661B2
Disclosed is a battery cell, which includes: an electrode assembly; an electrode lead connected to the electrode assembly; a pouch case surrounding the electrode assembly and sealed in a state in which the electrode lead extends through the pouch case and is exposed at an outside surface of the pouch case; and a fire extinguishing unit disposed in the pouch case and configured to eject a fire extinguishing powder when a temperature of the first extinguishing unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined limit temperature.
US11264659B2
An electrochemical device includes an air cathode; a lithium-containing anode metal; a porous separator; and a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising a lithium salt, a sodium salt, and a solvent; wherein the electrochemical device is a lithium-air battery. A total concentration of the lithium salt and the sodium salt in the non-aqueous electrolyte may be from about 0.001 M to about 7 M.
US11264649B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a wound electrode assembly (14) formed by spirally winding, via a separator (13), a positive electrode (11) and a negative electrode (12) in which a negative electrode mixture layer is formed on a negative electrode core, where: the negative electrode (12) includes a non-opposing portion (12a) that is wound 1.25 turns or more from an inner edge in a winding direction of the wound electrode assembly (14) without facing the positive electrode via the separator (13); the non-opposing portion (12a) includes a negative electrode mixture layer-formed portion (12c) in which the negative electrode mixture layer is formed on at least either side continuously in an inward winding direction from an outer edge in the winding direction; and the negative electrode mixture layer-formed portion (12c) is wound 0.75 turns or more.
US11264648B2
To provide a power storage device whose charge and discharge characteristics are unlikely to be degraded by heat treatment. To provide a power storage device that is highly safe against heat treatment. The power storage device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, an electrolytic solution, and an exterior body. The separator is located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator contains polyphenylene sulfide or solvent-spun regenerated cellulosic fiber. The electrolytic solution contains a solute and two or more kinds of solvents. The solute contains LiBETA. One of the solvents is propylene carbonate.
US11264646B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of energy storage materials, and particularly, to an electrolyte and an electrochemical device. The electrolyte includes an additive A and an additive B, the additive A is selected from a group consisting of multi-cyano six-membered N-heterocyclic compounds represented by Formula I-1, Formula I-2 and Formula I-3, and combinations thereof, and the additive B is at least one halogenated cyclic carbonate compound. The electrochemical device includes the above electrolyte. The electrolyte of the present disclosure can effectively passivate surface activity of the positive electrode material, inhibit oxidation of the electrolyte, and effectively reduce gas production of the battery, while an anode SEI film can be formed to avoid a contact between the anode and the electrode and thus to effectively reduce side reactions.
US11264644B2
A lithium battery includes a cathode including a cathode active material, an anode including an anode active material, and an organic electrolytic solution between the cathode and the anode. The organic electrolytic solution includes a first lithium salt, a second lithium salt different from the first lithium salt, an organic solvent, and a bicyclic sulfate-based compound represented by Formula 1 below: wherein, in Formula 1, each of A1, A2, A3, and A4 is independently a covalent bond, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C5 alkylene group, a carbonyl group, or a sulfinyl group, wherein both A1 and A2 are not a covalent bond and both A3 and A4 are not a covalent bond.
US11264634B2
A battery is provided. The battery includes an electrode group including a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and an electrolyte including an electrolytic solution. The electrode group includes an insulating layer having an insulating material, and the electrolytic solution includes a nonaqueous solvent containing propylene carbonate in an amount of 5% by mass or more and an additive including one or more predetermined compounds.
US11264632B2
The flow battery according to the present disclosure comprises an anode and a cathode. The cathode comprises a first electrode, a first liquid, a first active material, and a first circulation mechanism. The first liquid is in contact with the first active material and the first electrode. The first circulation mechanism is configured to circulate the first liquid between the first electrode and the first active material. The first liquid includes perylene or the derivative thereof.
US11264626B2
Disclosed herein is an integrated multiple heat exchange device and a fuel cell system using the same. The integrated multiple heat exchange device includes a plurality of heat exchangers for consecutively collecting heat contained in a plurality of gases that are present in the fuel cell system and that have different temperatures, wherein the plurality of heat exchangers are separated from each other, a porous separator is placed between the plurality of heat exchangers such that condensate is collected at a lowermost heat exchanger, and a coolant line penetrates a separator to pass through all the plurality of heat exchangers.
US11264623B2
Compositions comprised of a tin film, coated by a shell of less than 50 nm thick made of palladium and tin in a molar ratio ranging from 1:4 to 3:1, respectively, are disclosed. Uses of the compositions as an electro-catalyst e.g., in a fuel cell, and particularly for the oxidation of various materials are also disclosed.
US11264620B2
A PEM fuel or electrolysis cell with an extended lifetime, improved performance and uniform and stable operation is disclosed wherein a membrane electrode assembly is provided with a gradient of one or more properties in combination with a modification of one or more control parameters of the cell during its operation.
US11264618B2
A lithium metal electrode includes a current collector having a surface irregularity structure, a lithium metal layer disposed outside of the surface irregularity structure except the uppermost surface of the surface irregularity structure in the current collector, an electron-insulating protective layer disposed outside of the lithium metal layer, and a lithium ion-isolating layer disposed (1) on the uppermost surface of the surface irregularity structure of the current collector, or (2) on the uppermost surface of the surface irregularity structure of the current collector, on the uppermost surface of the lithium metal layer, and on the uppermost surface of the electron-insulating protective layer, wherein the electron-insulating protective layer includes a non-porous layer transporting lithium ions and having no pores, and a polymer porous layer disposed outside thereof. A lithium secondary battery and flexible secondary battery including the lithium metal electrode are also provided.
US11264613B2
The present application provides a lithium-ion battery and an apparatus. The lithium-ion battery includes an electrode assembly and an electrolytic solution. The electrode assembly includes a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet, and a separation film. A positive active material in the positive electrode sheet includes Lix1Coy1M1-y1O2-z1Qz1. A negative active material in the negative electrode sheet includes one or more of Si, SiOx2, a Si/C composite material, and a Si alloy. The electrolytic solution contains an additive A and an addictive B, the additive A is a polynitrile six-membered nitrogen-heterocyclic compound with a relatively low oxidation potential, and the additive B is a halogen-substituted cyclic carbonate compound. The lithium-ion battery has superb cycle performance and storage performance, especially under high-temperature and high-voltage conditions.
US11264608B2
A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided. The positive electrode active material includes a layer-structured, nickel-containing lithium transition metal complex oxide. The lithium transition metal complex oxide contains titanium and niobium in a chemical composition thereof, and has a ratio of a total number of moles of titanium and niobium relative to a total number of moles of metals excluding lithium in the chemical composition of 0.04 or less.
US11264593B2
A flexible display device and a method for manufacturing the flexible display device are provided by embodiments of the present application, which solve problems that a module of a flexible active-matrix organic light emitting diode has a poor moisture and oxygen blocking effect on a side, and an edge is prone to fracture or be peeled off when bent. A flexible display device provided by an embodiment of the application includes a display substrate, and an encapsulating film layer disposed on a surface of the display substrate. An edge of the encapsulating film layer includes a concave-convex sawtooth structure.
US11264587B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate having a first region and a second region surrounding the first region. An insulating part is disposed above the substrate, covering the first region and the second region, and comprising a first opening portion in the second region. A dam part is disposed above the insulating pan in the second region and surrounds a periphery of the first opening portion. A first organic insulating layer is disposed above the insulating part and covers an inner surface of the first opening portion. An organic light-emitting device is disposed above the insulating part in the first region and comprises a pixel electrode. An encapsulation layer is disposed above the insulating part in both the first region and the second region. The encapsulation layer covers the organic light-emitting device.
US11264576B2
Specifically substituted ladder type compounds of formula (I) wherein A is formula (II) a material for an organic electroluminescence device comprising at least one compound of formula (I), and an organic electroluminescence device which comprises one or more organic thin film layers including an emitting layer between a cathode and an anode, wherein at least one layer of the organic thin film layers comprises at least one compound of formula (I).
US11264573B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes an amine compound represented by Formula 1 below in at least one organic layer among a plurality of organic layers, and an amine compound represented by Formula 1: where R1 to R3, Ar1, Ar2, n, m, L and X are as defined in the specification.
US11264569B2
A phase change material memory device is provided. The phase change material memory device includes one or more electrical contacts in a substrate, and a dielectric cover layer on the electrical contacts and substrate. The phase change material memory device further includes a lower conductive shell in a trench above one of the one or more electrical contacts, and an upper conductive shell on the lower conductive shell in the trench. The phase change material memory device further includes a conductive plug filling the upper conductive shell. The phase change material memory device further includes a liner layer on the dielectric cover layer and conductive plug, and a phase change material block on the liner layer on the dielectric cover layer and in the trench.
US11264566B2
A perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction is disclosed wherein a metal insertion (MIS) layer is formed within a free layer (FL), a partially oxidized Hk enhancing layer is on the FL, and a nitride capping layer having a buffer layer/nitride layer (NL) is on the Hk enhancing layer to provide an improved coercivity (Hc)/switching current (Jc) ratio for spintronic applications. Magnetoresistive ratio is maintained above 100%, resistance×area (RA) product is below 5 ohm/μm2, and thermal stability to 400° C. is realized. The FL comprises two or more sub-layers, and the MIS layer may be formed within at least one sub-layer or between sub-layers. The buffer layer is used to prevent oxygen diffusion to the NL, and nitrogen diffusion from the NL to the FL. FL thickness is from 11 Angstroms to 25 Angstroms while MIS layer thickness is preferably from 0.5 Angstroms to 4 Angstroms.
US11264561B2
A method of forming a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) device includes forming a bottom electrode layer over a substrate including an inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer having a metal line therein; forming a barrier layer over the bottom electrode layer; forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) layer stack over the bottom electrode layer; forming a dielectric layer over the MTJ layer stack; forming an opening in the dielectric layer to expose the barrier layer; filling the opening in the dielectric layer with a top electrode; after filling the opening in the dielectric layer with the top electrode, etching the dielectric layer to expose the barrier layer; and patterning the MTJ layer stack to form an MTJ stack that exposes the bottom electrode layer.
US11264557B2
A method for manufacturing a magnetic random access memory element having increased retention and low resistance area product (RA). A MgO layer is deposited to contact a magnetic free layer of the memory element. The MgO layer is deposited in a sputter deposition chamber using a DC power and a Mg target to deposit Mg. The deposition of Mg is periodically stopped and oxygen introduced into the deposition chamber. This process is repeated a desired number of times, resulting in a multi-layer structure. The resulting MgO layer provides excellent interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy to the magnetic free layer while also having a low RA.
US11264552B2
The light emitting device includes: a light emitting element, a covering member, a pair of electrode layers, and a pair of electrode terminals. The light emitting element has an electrode-formed surface on which a pair of electrode posts are formed. The covering member covers an electrode-formed surface of the light emitting element while forming an exposed portion of each of the pair of electrode posts which is exposed from the covering member. The pair of electrode layers are provided on a surface of the covering member and electrically connected to the exposed portions of the pair of electrode posts. The pair of electrode terminals are electrically connected to the pair of electrode layers, and provided on the surface of the covering member. The pair of electrode terminals are thicker than the pair of electrode layers, and are disposed at an interval larger than an interval between the pair of electrode posts.
US11264547B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate, a first light-emitting chip, a first wavelength conversion member, and a barrier member. The first light-emitting chip is mounted on the substrate. The first wavelength conversion member covers the upper surface of the first light-emitting chip. A first reflective member covers the side surface of the first wavelength conversion member. Further, the barrier member includes an outer wall surrounding the side surfaces of the first light-emitting chip and the first reflective member.
US11264544B2
A wavelength conversion part includes: a wavelength conversion member formed primarily of a ceramic material, wherein the wavelength conversion member has a lower face and one or more lateral faces; an enclosing member formed primarily of a ceramic material, wherein the enclosing member has a lower face, and wherein the enclosing member surrounds the one or more lateral faces of the wavelength conversion member; and a heat dissipating member having a upper face, wherein the heat dissipating member is fixed to the wavelength conversion member, and wherein the upper face of the heat dissipating member opposes the lower face of the wavelength conversion member and the lower face of the enclosing member. The lower face of the wavelength conversion member projects towards the heat dissipating member beyond the lower face of the enclosing member.
US11264542B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate comprising a base member, a first wiring, a second wiring, and a via hole; at least one light-emitting element electrically connected to and disposed on the first wiring; and a covering member having light reflectivity and covering a lateral surface of the light-emitting element and a front surface of the substrate. The base member defines a plurality of depressed portions separated from the via hole in a front view and opening on a back surface and a bottom surface of the base member. The substrate includes a third wiring covering at least one of inner walls of the plurality of depressed portions and electrically connected to the second wiring. A depth of each of the plurality of depressed portions defined from the back surface toward the front surface is larger on a bottom surface side than on an upper surface side of the base member.
US11264530B2
Described are light emitting diode (LED) devices having patterned substrates and methods for effectively growing epitaxial III-nitride layers on them. A nucleation layer, comprising a III-nitride material, is grown on a substrate before any patterning takes place. The nucleation layer results in growth of smooth coalesced III-nitride layers over the patterns.
US11264526B1
A phototransistor includes an emitter, a collector, and a base between the emitter and the collector. The base has a thickness greater than 500 nanometers and the base absorbs photons passing through the collector to the base.
US11264522B2
A space-grade solar array includes relatively small cells with integrated wiring embedded into or incorporated directly onto a printed circuit board. The integrated wiring provides an interface for solar cells having back side electrical contacts. The single side contacts enable the use of pick and place (PnP) technology in manufacturing the space-grade solar array. The solar cell is easily and efficiently packaged and electrically interconnected with other solar cells on a solar panel such as by using PnP process. The back side contacts are matched from a size and positioning standpoint to corresponding contacts on the printed circuit board.
US11264521B2
A photosensitive field-effect transistor which can be configured to provide an electrical response when illuminated by electromagnetic radiation incident on the transistor. The field-effect transistor has a channel (13) made from a two-dimensional material and comprises a photoactive layer (22) which can be configured to donate charge carriers to the transistor channel (13) when electromagnetic radiation is absorbed in the photoactive layer (22). The photosensitive field-effect transistor comprises a top electrode (21) which is in contact with the photoactive layer on one or more contact areas which together form a contact pattern. With a suitably patterned top electrode (21), a voltage applied to the electrode can function as an electrical shutter which can switch the photosensitive field-effect transistor between a light-sensitive state and a light-immune state.
US11264517B2
A varactor is described that may be constructed in CMOS and has a high tuning range. In some embodiments, the varactor includes a well, a plurality of gates formed over the well and having a capacitive connection to the well, the gates comprising a first subset of the gates that are adjacent and consecutive and coupled to a positive pole of an excitation oscillation signal, and a second subset of the gates that are adjacent and consecutive and coupled to a negative pole of the excitation oscillation signal, and a plurality of source/drain terminals formed over the well and having an ohmic connection to the well, each coupled to a respective gate to receive a control voltage to control the capacitance of the varactor.
US11264513B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods for the fabrication of gate-all-around (GAA) field effect transistors (FETs) with low power consumption. The method includes depositing a first and a second epitaxial layer on a substrate and etching trench openings in the first and second epitaxial layers and the substrate. The method further includes removing, through the trench openings, portions of the first epitaxial layer to form a gap between the second epitaxial layer and the substrate and depositing, through the trench openings, a first dielectric to fill the gap and form an isolation structure. In addition, the method includes depositing a second dielectric in the trench openings to form trench isolation structures and forming a transistor structure on the second epitaxial layer.
US11264512B2
Thin film transistors having U-shaped features are described. In an example, integrated circuit structure including a gate electrode above a substrate, the gate electrode having a trench therein. A channel material layer is over the gate electrode and in the trench, the channel material layer conformal with the trench. A first source or drain contact is coupled to the channel material layer at a first end of the channel material layer outside of the trench. A second source or drain contact is coupled to the channel material layer at a second end of the channel material layer outside of the trench.
US11264511B2
A semiconductor device with high on-state current is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes a first insulator; a first oxide over the first insulator; a second oxide over the first oxide; a third oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor over the second oxide; a second insulator; a third conductor; a fourth insulator over the first conductor and the second conductor; and a third insulator over the fourth insulator. An opening reaching the second oxide is provided in the third insulator and the fourth insulator. The third oxide is positioned to cover an inner wall of the opening. The second insulator is positioned to cover the inner wall of the opening with the third oxide therebetween. The third conductor is positioned to fill the opening with the third oxide and the second insulator therebetween. In the channel length direction of the transistor, an angle formed by a bottom surface of the first insulator and a side surface of the first conductor facing the second conductor is smaller than 90°.
US11264510B2
The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin film transistor includes a substrate, a light shielding layer, an intermediate buffer layer, and a buffer layer, wherein the light shielding layer is formed on the substrate, the buffer layer is located above the substrate and the light shielding layer, the intermediate buffer layer is formed between the buffer layer and the light shielding layer, and the intermediate buffer layer is made of ceramic material.
US11264492B2
A method for fabricating high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes the steps of: forming a buffer layer on a substrate; forming a barrier layer on the buffer layer; forming a hard mask on the barrier layer; performing an implantation process through the hard mask to form a doped region in the barrier layer and the buffer layer; removing the hard mask and the barrier layer to form a first trench; forming a gate dielectric layer on the hard mask and into the first trench; forming a gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer; and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode adjacent to two sides of the gate electrode.
US11264488B2
Provided is a manufacturing method of s semiconductor structure. The method includes: providing a substrate, wherein the substrate has a plurality of fin portions and at least one recessed portion, the at least one recessed portion is located between two adjacent fin portions of the plurality of fin portions and a bottom surface of the at least one recessed portion is lower than a surface of the substrate between the two of the plurality of fin portions; forming a doping layer on a sidewall of the plurality of fin portions, the surface of the substrate, and a sidewall and a bottom portion of the at least one recessed portion; and forming a dielectric layer on the doping layer. A top surface of the doping layer and a top surface of the dielectric layer are lower than a top surface of each of the plurality of fin portions.
US11264486B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device, including a substrate, a fin over the substrate, wherein the fin extends along a primary direction, a gate over the fin, the gate extends along the secondary direction orthogonal to the primary direction, a first conductive contact over the gate, and a conductive routing layer over the first conductive contact, wherein at least a portion of the fin is free from the coverage of a vertical projection of the conductive routing layer.
US11264482B2
A semiconductor device may include: a dummy gate structure including a first gate pattern in which dummy gate lines extending in one direction are connected to each other on a substrate, and a second gate pattern in which dummy gate lines extending in the one direction are connected to each other on the same line with the first gate pattern; and a third gate pattern extending in parallel with the dummy gate structure on one side of the dummy gate structure.
US11264481B2
Self-aligned semiconductor FET device source and drain contacts and techniques for formation thereof are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor FET device includes: at least one gate disposed on a substrate; source and drains on opposite sides of the at least one gate; gate spacers offsetting the at least one gate from the source and drains; lower source and drain contacts disposed on the source and drains; upper source and drain contacts disposed on the lower source and drain contacts; and a silicide present between the lower source and drain contacts and the upper source and drain contacts.
US11264473B2
A method of manufacturing a split-gate type nonvolatile memory improving reliability and manufacturing yield. In a method of manufacturing a split-gate type nonvolatile memory in which a memory gate electrode is formed prior to a control gate electrode, a protective film is formed to cover the gate insulating film exposed between control gate electrodes before unnecessary control gate electrodes are removed.
US11264470B2
One illustrative device disclosed herein includes a semiconductor substrate and a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) device that comprises a collector region, a base region and an emitter region. In this example, the device also includes a field effect transistor and at least one base conductive contact structure that conductively and physically contacts the base region.
US11264467B2
A semiconductor device includes a metal layer, an insulating layer disposed above the metal layer, and a multi-layer diffusion barrier disposed on the metal layer between the metal layer and the insulating layer. The multi-layer diffusion barrier includes a first material layer including a metallic nitride and a second material layer including a metallic oxide.
US11264463B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a multiple fin field effect transistor (finFET) with low-resistance gate structure. A metallization line is formed in parallel with the gate, and multiple contacts are formed over the fins which connect the metallization line to the gate. The metallization line provides reduced gate resistance, which allows fewer transistors to be used for providing In-Out (IO) functionality, thereby providing space savings that enable an increase in circuit density.
US11264461B2
Disclosed is a graphene electrochemical transfer method assisted by multiple supporting films, comprising: (1) growing graphene on a substrate, and then spin-coating a thin layer of photoresist on a surface of the graphene as a first film; (2) spin-coating n layers of thick, tough, and selectively dissolvable polymer films on the surface of the first film as an top film; (3) dissociating the multi-layer composite film and the graphene from the surface of the substrate by an electrochemical process, and dissolving the thick polymer films which is the top film with a first solvent; (4) after cleaning, transferring the thin first film and the graphene to a target substrate, and finally dissolving the thin first film away with a second solvent to complete the transfer process. This transfer process is fast, stable, and capable of transferring a large-size graphene, which may promote the large-scale application of graphene.
US11264458B2
The independent claims of this patent signify a concise description of embodiments. Disclosed is technology, roughly described, in which a semiconductor structure includes a substrate supporting a column of at least one (and preferably more than one) horizontally-oriented nanosheet transistor, each having a respective channel segment of semiconductor crystalline nanosheet material (preferably silicon or a silicon alloy) sheathed by gate stack material, wherein the channel segments have a diamond cubic crystal structure and are oriented such that the {111} planes are horizontal. Also disclosed is a method for fabricating such a structure, and a corrugated substrate that may be formed as an intermediate product. This Abstract is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.
US11264457B1
Semiconductor structures with electrical isolation and methods of forming a semiconductor structure with electrical isolation. A shallow trench isolation region, which contains a dielectric material, is positioned in a semiconductor substrate. A trench extendes through the shallow trench isolation region and to a trench bottom in the semiconductor substrate beneath the shallow trench isolation region. A dielectric layer at least partially fills the trench. A polycrystalline region, which is arranged in the semiconductor substrate, includes a portion that is positioned beneath the trench bottom.
US11264453B2
Methods and structures formed thereby are described relating to the doping non-planar fin structures. An embodiment of a structure includes a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises silicon, a fin on the substrate comprising a first portion and a second portion; and a dopant species, wherein the first portion comprises a first dopant species concentration, and the second portion comprises a second dopant species concentration, wherein the first dopant species concentration is substantially less than the second dopant species concentration.
US11264447B2
A touch display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate has a signal wire and a display unit which are electrically connected to each other. The second substrate has a conductive circuit and a touch unit which are disposed on one side of the second substrate facing the first substrate. The second substrate includes a touch area and a bending area, the touch unit is disposed in the touch area, and the touch area is stacked on the display unit, and the conductive circuit is disposed in the bending area and is electrically connected to the signal wire. The bending area extends from an edge of the first substrate and is bent to one side of the first substrate facing away from the second substrate.
US11264433B2
A display device includes: a substrate including an opening and a display area surrounding the opening; a plurality of display elements in the display area and including a first display element and a second display element spaced apart from each other about the opening; an input sensing layer on the plurality of display elements and including two first sensing electrodes spaced apart from each other around the opening and two second sensing electrodes spaced apart from each other around the opening; and a plurality of segments between the opening and the display area, wherein the plurality of segments comprise: a first segment electrically connected to one of the two first sensing electrodes through a first line; and a second segment electrically connected to the first segment through a second line.
US11264432B2
A display device includes a scan line extending in a first direction, a data line and a driving voltage line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a switching thin film transistor (“TFT”) connected to the scan line and the data line, a driving TFT connected to the switching TFT and including a driving semiconductor layer and a driving gate electrode, a storage capacitor connected to the driving TFT and including first and second storage capacitor plates, a node connection line between the data line and the driving voltage line and connected to the driving gate electrode, and a shielding portion between the data line and the node connection line.
US11264430B2
A pixel arrangement structure are provided, which includes a plurality of repeating units. Each of the plurality of repeating units includes two first sub-pixels, one second sub-pixel, and one third sub-pixel. Each of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel includes a pixel defining layer, the pixel defining layer includes a pixel defining layer opening to define an effective light emitting region of each sub-pixel; a plurality of first sub-pixels are arranged along the second direction to form a plurality of first sub-pixel groups, orthographic projections of pixel defining layer openings of the first sub-pixels in adjacent ones of the plurality of first sub-pixel groups on a straight line parallel to the second direction do not overlap each other.
US11264423B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels composed of a photoelectric conversion section and a pixel transistor is arranged; an on-chip color filter; an on-chip microlens; and a multilayer interconnection layer in which a plurality of layers of interconnections is formed through an interlayer insulating film. The solid-state imaging device further includes a light-shielding film formed through an insulating layer in a pixel boundary of a light receiving surface in which the photoelectric conversion section is arranged.
US11264420B2
The present technology relates to a light detecting element and a method of manufacturing the same that make it possible to reduce pixel size. The light detecting element includes a plurality of pixels arranged in the form of a matrix. Each of the pixels includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type formed in an outer peripheral portion in the vicinity of a pixel boundary, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type opposite from the first conductivity type formed on the inside of the first semiconductor layer as viewed in plan. A high field region formed by the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer when a reverse bias voltage is applied is configured to be formed in a depth direction of a substrate. The present technology is, for example, applicable to a photon counter or the like.
US11264410B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel that includes: a separation layer disposed on a surface of a planarization layer facing away from a substrate in a transition area, and surrounds at least a part of an opening area of the substrate in a circumferential direction of the opening area, and a sidewall of the separation layer gradually is shrunk toward the substrate in a direction perpendicular to the substrate; and a barrier layer located in the transition area and at least covers a surface of the barrier layer facing away from the substrate. The barrier layer includes a material for blocking moisture and oxygen. The display layer covers the planarization layer and the barrier layer. The display layer includes a light-emitting layer, and the light-emitting layer is discontinuous at a sidewall position of the separation layer.
US11264409B2
There is provided an array base plate, including: a substrate; a first patterned part disposed on the substrate and adjacent to an encapsulation region of the substrate; a second patterned part disposed on the substrate, in a same layer as the first patterned part and adjacent to the first patterned part; wherein the first patterned part includes a through part on its side close to the second patterned part. There is also provided a manufacturing method for manufacturing the array base plate, and a display panel including the array base plate.
US11264407B2
An array substrate including a substrate, a plurality of fan-out traces and a plurality of bonding terminals. The substrate includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The fan-out traces and the bonding terminals are disposed in the non-display area. The bonding terminals are spaced apart from each other. First ends of the fan-out traces are respectively electrically connected to the bonding terminals. Second ends of the fan-out traces are electrically connected to the display area. The fan-out traces include a plurality of first fan-out traces and a plurality of second fan-out traces. The first fan-out traces are formed by a first metal layer. The second fan-out traces are formed by a second metal layer. An insulating layer is provided between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The first fan-out traces and the second fan-out traces are partially overlapped.
US11264406B2
A thin-film transistor array including an insulating substrate, a gate insulating film sandwiched between a first structure and a second structure, the first structure including a gate electrode, a gate wire connected to the gate electrode, a capacitor electrode, and a capacitor wire connected to the capacitor electrode, and the second structure including a source electrode, a source wire connected to the source electrode, a drain electrode, and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode, a resistor inserted between parts of the capacitor wire, and a semiconductor layer formed between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The pixel electrode is positioned over the capacitor electrode with the gate insulating film positioned therebetween and has a storage capacitance, and the source electrode and the drain electrode are positioned over the gate electrode with the gate insulating film positioned therebetween.
US11264404B2
A microelectronic device comprises a first set of tiers, each tier of the first set of tiers comprising alternating levels of a conductive material and an insulative material and having a first tier pitch, a second set of tiers adjacent to the first set of tiers, each tier of the second set of tiers comprising alternating levels of the conductive material and the insulative material and having a second tier pitch less than the first tier pitch, a third set of tiers adjacent to the second set of tiers, each tier of the third set of tiers comprising alternating levels of the conductive material and the insulative material and having a third tier pitch less than the second tier pitch, and a string of memory cells extending through the first set of tiers, the second set of tiers, and the third set of tiers. Related microelectronic devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US11264400B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor substrate includes first and second source/drain regions which are separated from one another by a channel region. The channel region includes a first portion adjacent to the first source/drain region and a second portion adjacent the second source/drain region. A select gate is spaced over the first portion of the channel region and is separated from the first portion of the channel region by a select gate dielectric. A memory gate is spaced over the second portion of the channel region and is separated from the second portion of the channel region by a charge-trapping dielectric structure. The charge-trapping dielectric structure extends upwardly alongside the memory gate to separate neighboring sidewalls of the select gate and memory gate from one another. An oxide spacer or nitride-free spacer is arranged in a sidewall recess of the charge-trapping dielectric structure nearest the second source/drain region.
US11264399B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may include first and second vertical conductive patterns isolated from each other by a first slit. The semiconductor device may include at least one first half conductive pattern extending toward a first region disposed at one side of the first slit from the first vertical conductive pattern. The semiconductor device may include at least one second half conductive pattern extending toward a second region disposed at the other side of the first slit from the second vertical conductive pattern.
US11264390B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor memory device with air gaps between conductive features for reducing capacitive coupling and a method for preparing the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes an isolation layer defining a first active region in a substrate; a first doped region positioned in the first active region; a first word line buried in a first trench adjacent to the first doped region; a high-level bit line contact positioned on the first doped region; a first air gap surrounding the high-level bit line contact; wherein the first word line comprises a lower electrode structure and an upper electrode structure on the lower electrode structure; wherein the upper electrode structure comprises: a source layer substantially covering a sidewall of the first trench; a conductive layer on the source layer; and a work-function adjustment layer disposed between the source layer and the conductive layer.
US11264384B2
The disclosure relates to a CMOS structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The CMOS structure includes a substrate and an N-type TFT and a P-type TFT on the substrate. The N-type TFT includes a first gate electrode, a first active layer, and a first gate dielectric layer therebetween. The first active layer includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer of the N-type, and a third semiconductor layer of the N-type which are located at opposite ends of the first semiconductor layer and sequentially stacked in a direction away from the first gate dielectric layer. An N-type doping concentration of the second semiconductor layer is smaller than that of the third semiconductor layer. The P-type TFT includes a fifth semiconductor layer and a sixth semiconductor layer. A P-type doping concentration of the fifth semiconductor layer is smaller than that of the sixth semiconductor layer.
US11264380B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first active fin, a second active fin, a dummy fin and a first gate structure. The first and the second active fin are on the substrate and extend along a first direction. The dummy fin is disposed between the first active fin and the second active fin, and extends in the first direction. The dummy fin includes a plurality of layers, and each of the layers includes a material different from another layer. The first gate structure crosses over the dummy fin, the first and the second active fins.
US11264378B2
A device includes a dielectric layer, an interlayer metal pad in the dielectric layer, a first capacitor over the interlayer metal pad, and a second capacitor over the dielectric layer. The first capacitor includes a first bottom capacitor electrode over and in contact with the interlayer metal pad, a first top capacitor electrode, and a first inter-electrode dielectric layer between the first bottom capacitor electrode and the first top capacitor electrode. The second capacitor includes a second bottom capacitor electrode over and in contact with the dielectric layer, a second top capacitor electrode, and a second inter-electrode dielectric layer between the second bottom capacitor electrode and the second top capacitor electrode.
US11264373B2
Embodiments may relate to a die with a front-end and a backend. The front-end may include a transistor. The backend may include a signal line, a conductive line, and a diode that is communicatively coupled with the signal line and the conductive line. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US11264372B2
A display according to various embodiments may include: a first face oriented in a first direction; a second face oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction; a plurality of pixels disposed in a space between the first face and the second face; and a plurality of pins disposed on the second face and configured to electrically connect the plurality of pixels to an external device. Each of the plurality of pixels may include a plurality of LEDs and a driving circuit. A conductive pattern configured to electrically connect the plurality of LEDs to the driving circuit may be located in the space and a wiring line configured to electrically connect the driving circuit to the plurality of pins may be located in the space.
US11264369B2
In described examples, an integrated circuit includes a leadframe structure, which includes electrical conductors. A first coil structure is electrically connected to a first pair of the electrical conductors of the leadframe structure. The first coil structure is partially formed on a semiconductor die structure. A second coil structure is electrically connected to a second pair of the electrical conductors of the leadframe structure. The second coil structure is partially formed on the semiconductor die structure. A molded package structure encloses portions of the leadframe structure. The molded package structure exposes portions of the first and second pairs of the electrical conductors to allow external connection to the first and second coil structures. The molded package structure includes a cavity to magnetically couple portions of the first and second coil structures.
US11264366B2
Provided is a module which has a package-on-package structure including a redistribution layer and can be easily reduced in height. A module includes an upper module including a substrate, a first component, and a sealing resin layer, and a lower module including an intermediate layer and a redistribution layer. The first component is connected to the redistribution layer with a columnar conductor interposed therebetween and provided in the intermediate layer, and both the first component and a second component are rewired by the redistribution layer. By fixing a resin block containing the second component to a lower surface of the substrate by a fixing conductor, positional deviation of the second component can be prevented. Further, by polishing an upper surface of the resin block, it is possible to improve the flatness.
US11264360B2
Some embodiments include apparatus, systems, and methods having a base, a first die, a second arranged in a stacked with the first die and the base, and a structure located in the stack and outside at least one of the first and second dice and configured to transfer signals between the base and at least one of the first and second dice.
US11264358B2
The technology relates to an integrated circuit (IC) package. The IC package may include a substrate. An IC die may be mounted to the substrate. One or more photonic modules may be attached to the substrate and one or more serializer/deserializer (SerDes) interfaces may connect the IC die to the one or more photonic modules. The IC die may be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die and the one or more photonic modules may include a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and fiber array. The one or more photonic modules may be mounted to one or more additional substrates which may be attached to the substrate via one or more sockets.
US11264356B2
A method of manufacturing packages is disclosed. In one example, the method comprises providing an electrically conductive sheet being continuous at least in a mounting region, mounting first main surfaces of a plurality of electronic components on the continuous mounting region of the sheet and forming interconnect structures for electrically coupling second main surfaces of the electronic components with the sheet. The second main surfaces oppose the first main surfaces. After the forming, structuring the sheet.
US11264350B2
A semiconductor device includes an interconnect structure disposed over a first semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die includes a semiconductor substrate and a first conductive pad disposed over the semiconductor substrate, and the first conductive pad is covered by the interconnect structure. The semiconductor device also includes dielectric spacers surrounding the interconnect structure. An interface between the dielectric spacers and the interconnect structure is curved. The semiconductor device further includes a dielectric layer surrounding the dielectric spacers, and a second semiconductor die bonded to the dielectric layer and the interconnect structure. The second semiconductor die includes a second conductive pad, and the interconnect structure is covered by the second conductive pad.
US11264348B2
A semiconductor device of embodiments includes a substrate; a semiconductor chip provided above the substrate; a first ultrasonic bonding portion provided between the substrate and the semiconductor chip; a first terminal plate electrically connected to the semiconductor chip via the first ultrasonic bonding portion, the first ultrasonic bonding portion being provided on the substrate, and the first terminal plate having a first surface facing the semiconductor chip; and a first adhesive layer provided on the first surface, and the first adhesive layer containing a first adhesive.
US11264336B2
In a described example, an apparatus includes a packaged device carrier having a board side surface and an opposing surface, the packaged device carrier having conductive leads having a first thickness spaced from one another; the conductive leads having a head portion attached to a dielectric portion, a middle portion extending from the head portion and extending away from the board side surface of the packaged device carrier at an angle to the opposing surface, and each lead having an end extending from the middle portion with a foot portion configured for mounting to a substrate.
US11264327B2
Nanostructure field-effect transistors (nano-FETs) including isolation layers formed between epitaxial source/drain regions and semiconductor substrates and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a power rail, a dielectric layer over the power rail, a first channel region over the dielectric layer, a second channel region over the first channel region, a gate stack over the first channel region and the second channel region, where the gate stack is further disposed between the first channel region and the second channel region and a first source/drain region adjacent the gate stack and electrically connected to the power rail.
US11264320B1
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a set of true digit-lines and a set of complementary digit-lines. Each of the complementary digit-lines is comparatively coupled with an associated one of the true digit-lines. A semiconductor substrate is under the true digit-lines. The semiconductor substrate includes semiconductor features which project upwardly from a semiconductor base and which extend along a first direction. Each of the semiconductor features has opposing sidewalls. First source/drain regions are within the semiconductor features and second source/drain regions are within the semiconductor base. The true digit-lines are coupled with the first source/drain regions. Wordlines are along the opposing sidewalls and include gating regions which gatedly couple the first source/drain regions with the second source/drain regions. Storage-elements are coupled with the second source/drain regions. In some embodiments, memory may utilize a 4F2 layout.
US11264315B2
An electronic package with passive components located between a first substrate and a second substrate. The electronic package can include a first substrate including a device interface for communication with an electronic device. An interposer can be electrically coupled to the first substrate. A second substrate can be offset from the first substrate at a distance. The second substrate can be electrically coupled to the first substrate through the interposer. A passive component can be attached to one of the first substrate or the second substrate. The passive component can be located between the first substrate and the second substrate. A height of the passive component can be is less than the distance between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate can include a die interface configured for communication with a die. The die interface can be communicatively coupled to the passive component.
US11264313B2
A semiconductor device includes a molded body and an interconnection layer. The molded body includes a semiconductor chip, at least one terminal body disposed around the semiconductor chip and a resin member provided between the semiconductor chip and the terminal body. The molded body has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a side surface connected to the first and second surfaces. The interconnection layer is provided on the first surface of the molded body. The interconnection layer includes an interconnect electrically connecting the semiconductor chip and the terminal body. The terminal body has first and second contact surfaces. The first contact surface is exposed at the first or second surface of the molded body. The second contact surface is connected to the first contact surface and exposed at the side surface of the molded body.
US11264312B2
An object of the present invention is to achieve both securing an insulation distance and securing a chip mounting area in a non-insulated power module. A non-insulated power module includes a plurality of die pads, a plurality of semiconductor chips mounted on upper surfaces of the plurality of die pads, and a package sealing the semiconductor chips, in which lower surfaces of the plurality of die pads are exposed from a lower surface of the package, on the lower surface of the package, first grooves are formed in areas between the plurality of die pads, and the plurality of die pads have a trapezoidal cross-sectional shape in the thickness direction, in which an area of an upper surface is larger than an area of the lower surface.
US11264311B2
Implementations of a clip may include a first copper layer directly bonded to a first side of a ceramic layer, a second copper layer directly bonded to a second side of the ceramic layer, the second side of the ceramic layer opposite the first side of the ceramic layer, and a plurality of channels partially etched into a thickness of the second copper layer.
US11264307B2
Techniques that can assist with fabricating a package layer that includes a plurality of dual-damascene zero-misalignment-vias (dual-damascene ZMVs) and a trace between the dual-damascene ZMVs are described. The disclosed techniques allow for the dual-damascene ZMVs and their corresponding trace to be plated simultaneously in a single step or operation. As such, there is little or no misalignment between the dual-damascene ZMVs, the trace, and the metal pads connected to the ZMVs. In this way, one or more of the embodiments described herein can assist with reducing manufacturing costs, reducing development time of fabricating a package layer, and with increasing the I/O density in a semiconductor package.
US11264292B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a floating gate test device with a cell-like top layout, as well as a method for forming the IC. In some embodiments, the IC comprises a semiconductor substrate and the floating gate test device. The floating gate test device is on the semiconductor substrate, and comprises a floating gate electrode and a control gate electrode overlying the floating gate electrode. The floating gate electrode and the control gate electrode partially define an array of islands, and further partially define a plurality of bridges interconnecting the islands. The islands and the bridges define the cell-like top layout and may, for example, prevent process-induced damage to the floating gate test device.
US11264289B2
A method for microfabrication of a three dimensional transistor stack having gate-all-around field-effect transistor devices. The channels hang between source/drain regions. Each channel is selectively deposited with layers of materials designed for adjusting the threshold voltage of the channel. The layers may be oxides, high-k materials, work function materials and metallization. The three dimensional transistor stack forms an array of high threshold voltage devices and low threshold voltage devices in a single package.
US11264288B2
A method of integrated circuit (IC) fabrication includes exposing a plurality of channel regions including a p-type channel region and an n-type channel region; forming a gate dielectric layer over the exposed channel regions; and forming a work function metal (WFM) structure over the gate dielectric layer. The WFM structure includes a p-type WFM portion formed over the p-type channel region and an n-type WFM portion formed over the n-type channel region, and the p-type WFM portion is thinner than the n-type WFM portion. The method further includes forming a fill metal layer over the WFM structure such that the fill metal layer is in direct contact with both the p-type and n-type WFM portions.
US11264284B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate stack, an air spacer, a first spacer, a second spacer, a sacrificial layer, and a contact plug. The gate stack is on the semiconductor substrate. The air spacer is around the gate stack. The first spacer is around the air spacer. The second spacer is on the air spacer and the first spacer. The sacrificial layer is on the gate stack, and an etching selectivity between the second spacer and the sacrificial layer is in a range from about 10 to about 30. The contact plug lands on the second spacer and the gate stack.
US11264279B2
Systems and methods for manufacturing flexible electronics are described herein. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include disposing electrical features, such as thin film circuits, on a first side of a glass substrate, applying a first protective material over the electronic features, and exposing a second side of the glass substrate to a chemical etching tank to thin the glass substrate to a predetermined thickness. The thinning process can remove cracks and other defects from the second side of the glass substrate and enhance the flexibility of the electronic assembly. A second protective material can be disposed on the second side of the thinned glass substrate to maintain the enhanced backside surface of the glass substrate. In some embodiments, the method also includes singulating the plurality of electronic features into individual electronic components by submerging the electronic assembly into a chemical etching tank.
US11264278B1
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes two gate structures, a first conductor, a barrier, a second conductor and a plurality of air gaps. The two gate structures are located on a surface of a semiconductor material substrate. The first conductor is disposed between the two gates structures. The barrier is disposed between the first conductor and the gate structure. The second conductor is disposed on the first conductor. The air gaps are disposed at two sides of the second conductor. A width of the second conductor is greater than a width of the first conductor.
US11264277B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductive structure. The semiconductor device includes a first dielectric structure. The semiconductor device includes a second conductive structure. The first dielectric structure is positioned between a first surface of the first conductive structure and a surface of the second conductive structure. The semiconductor device includes an etch stop layer overlaying the first conductive structure. The semiconductor device includes a first spacer structure overlaying the first dielectric structure. The semiconductor device includes a second dielectric structure overlaying the first spacer structure and the etch stop layer.
US11264242B2
A method and an apparatus for determining expansion compensation in a photoetching process, and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. A relative vector misalignment value of a first wafer and a second wafer after being bonded is obtained based on a relative position relationship between a first alignment pattern of the first wafer and a second alignment pattern of the second wafer in a boding structure. A relative expansion value of the first wafer and the second wafer is obtained based on the relative vector misalignment value. A developing expansion compensation value in the photoetching process is obtained. The expansion compensation value is used to the photoetching process of a first conductor layer including the first alignment pattern of the first wafer and/or a second conductor layer including the second alignment pattern of the second wafer.
US11264239B2
Techniques that can assist with fabricating a semiconductor package that includes a zero misalignment-via (ZMV) and/or a trace formed using a polarization process are described. The disclosed techniques can result in creation of ZMVs and/or traces between the ZMVs using a process comprising application of polarized light to one or more resist layers (e.g., a photoresist layer, etc.). One embodiment of a technique includes modulating an intensity of light applied to one or more resist layers by interaction of a light source with a photomask and at least one polarizer such that one or more patterns are created on the one or more resist layers. One embodiment of another technique includes creating patterns on one or more resist layers with different types of polarized light formed from a photomask and at least one polarizer. The disclosed techniques can assist with reducing manufacturing costs, reducing development time, and increasing I/O density.
US11264237B2
A transistor is provided including a source-drain region, the source-drain region including a first layer wherein a first average silicon content is between about 80% and 100%, a second layer wherein a second average silicon content is between zero and about 90%, the second average silicon content being smaller than the first average silicon content by at least 7%, and the second layer disposed on and adjacent the first layer, a third layer wherein a third average silicon content is between about 80% and 100%, and a fourth layer wherein a fourth average silicon content is between zero and about 90%, the fourth average silicon content being smaller than the third average silicon content by at least 7%, and the fourth layer disposed on and adjacent the third layer.
US11264235B2
Provided are an active matrix substrate having a reduced driving voltage and excellent adhesion between a dielectric layer and a water-repellent layer and a microfluidic device including the substrate. The active matrix substrate includes an array electrode, a dielectric layer covering the array electrode, and a first water-repellent layer in this order on a first substrate. The dielectric layer includes a silicon nitride film located on the side in contact with the first water-repellent layer, and the silicon nitride film has a surface layer region containing oxygen in the surface on the side in contact with the first water-repellent layer.
US11264214B2
A low-cost, durable silicon carbide member for a plasma processing apparatus. The silicon carbide member for a plasma processing apparatus can be obtained by processing a sintered body which is produced with a method in which metal impurity is reduced to more than 20 ppm and 70 ppm or less, and an α-structure silicon carbide power having an average particle diameter of 0.3 to 3 μm and including 50 ppm or less of an Al impurity is mixed with 0.5 to 5 weight parts of a B4C sintering aid, or with a sintering aid comprising Al2O3 and Y2O3 with total amount of 3 to 15 weight parts, and then a mixture of the α-structure silicon carbide power with the sintering aid is sintered in an argon atmosphere furnace or a high-frequency induction heating furnace.
US11264208B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber, a substrate support, a radio-frequency power supply, and a controller. The substrate support includes a lower electrode and is disposed in the chamber to mount a focus ring to surround a disposed substrate on the substrate support. The radio-frequency power supply supplies a bias radio-frequency power to the lower electrode. The controller causes specifying a power level of the bias radio-frequency power corresponding to a specified value of the DC potential of the focus ring by using a table or a function that defines a relationship between the power level of the bias radio-frequency power and the DC potential of the focus ring generated by supplying the bias radio-frequency power to the lower electrode, and controlling the radio-frequency power supply to supply the bias radio-frequency power having the specified power level to the lower electrode during a plasma generation in the chamber.
US11264206B2
Methods for fracturing or mask data preparation are disclosed in which a set of single-beam charged particle beam shots is input; a calculated image is calculated using a neural network, from the set of single-beam charged particle beam shots; and a set of multi-beam shots is generated based on the calculated image, to convert the set of single-beam charged particle beam shots to the set of multi-beam shots which will produce a surface image on the surface. Methods for training a neural network include inputting a set of single-beam charged particle beam shots; calculating a set of calculated images using the set of single-beam charged particle beam shots; and training the neural network with the set of calculated images.
US11264193B2
Two wire pressure indicating switch with all electronic architecture with millivolt operating supply
Systems, devices, and methods for a two wire detection circuit powered system comprising: an electronic switch circuit configured to sense a pressure level above or below a predetermined value and indicate an open or closed switch condition, wherein the electronic switch circuit provides a contact resistance voltage of about 20 mV in the closed switch condition; and an energy harvester configured to convert 20 mV when the electronic switch circuit is in the closed switch condition to an operating voltage between 3.6 Volts and 5 Volts for the electronic switch circuit to operate without an additional power source.
US11264186B2
A keyswitch structure includes a keycap, a base, and two supports pivotally connected to each other relative to a rotation axis and connected to and between the keycap and the base. One of the supports includes a first shaft recess, a first shaft portion, and a division slot formed therebetween; the other support includes a second shaft recess, a second shaft portion, and a division wall therebetween. The two supports are pivotally connected relative to the rotation axis by the first shaft portion and the second shaft portion rotatably disposed in the first shaft recess and the second shaft recess respectively. Therein, the division wall is inserted into the division slot. The keycap can move up and down relative to the base through the two supports.
US11264184B2
A remote control device is provided that is configured for use in a load control system that includes one or more electrical loads. The remote control device includes a mounting structure and a control unit, and the control unit is configured to be attached to the mounting structure in a plurality of different orientations. The control unit includes a user interface, an orientation sensing circuit, and a communication circuit. The control unit is configured to determine an orientation of the control unit via the orientation sensing circuit. The control unit is also configured to translate a user input from the user interface into control data to control an electrical load of the load control system based on the orientation of the control unit and/or provide a visual indication of an amount of power delivered to the electrical load based on the orientation of the control unit.
US11264182B2
An electrochemical device includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode for the electrochemical device includes a positive current collector, and an active layer including a conductive polymer disposed on the positive current collector. The conductive polymer contains a polyaniline or a derivative of polyaniline. An infrared absorption spectrum of the active layer exhibits a first peak derived from a quaternized nitrogen atom of the polyaniline or the derivative of polyaniline, and a second peak derived from a benzenoid structure of the polyaniline or the derivative of polyaniline. And a ratio of an absorbance of the first peak to an absorbance of the second peak is more than or equal to 0.3.
US11264180B2
A dye-sensitized solar cell having a porous conductive powder layer, which layer is formed by deposition of a deposit comprising metal hydride particles onto a substrate; heating the deposit in a subsequent heating step in order to decompose the metal hydride particles to metal particles; and sinter said metal particles for forming a porous conductive powder layer.
US11264174B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a ceramic body including a stack of a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes; and first and second external electrodes provided at each of both end faces of the ceramic body. Each of the plurality of dielectric layers contain Ba, Ti, P and Si. The plurality of dielectric layers include an outer dielectric layer located on an outermost side in the stacking direction; an inner dielectric layer located between the first and second internal electrodes; and a side margin portion in a region where the first and second internal electrodes do not exist. In at least one of the outer dielectric layer, the inner dielectric layer and the side margin portion, the P and the Si segregate in at least one of grain-boundary triple points of three ceramic particles.
US11264172B2
An element body includes a principal surface arranged to constitute a mounting surface and a first side surface adjacent to the principal surface. An external electrode includes a first electrode portion disposed on the principal surface and a second electrode portion disposed on the first side surface. The first electrode portion includes a sintered metal layer, a conductive resin layer formed on the sintered metal layer, and a plating layer formed on the conductive resin layer. The second electrode portion includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes a sintered metal layer and a plating layer formed on the sintered metal layer. The second region includes a sintered metal layer, a conductive resin layer formed on the sintered metal layer, and a plating layer formed on the conductive resin layer. The second region is located closer to the principal surface than the first region.
US11264168B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer chip having a parallelepiped shape in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked and each of the internal electrode layers is alternately exposed to two end faces of the multilayer chip, a main component of the plurality of dielectric layers being a ceramic; and a pair of external electrodes that are formed on the two end faces; wherein: the pair of external electrodes have a structure in which a plated layer is formed on a ground layer; a main component of the ground layer is a metal or an alloy including at least one of Ni and Cu; and at least a part of a surface of the ground layer on a side of the plated layer includes an interposing substance including Mo.
US11264159B2
A common mode choke coil includes a multilayer body obtained by stacking insulating layers, first and second coils inside the multilayer body, and first to fourth outer electrodes on outer surfaces of the multilayer body. The first and second outer electrodes are respectively connected to first and second ends of the first coil. The third and fourth outer electrodes are respectively connected to first and second ends of the second coil. The first coil includes first to third spiral conductors connected to one another through via conductors. The second coil includes fourth to sixth spiral conductors connected to one another through via conductors. The first spiral conductor is adjacent to the second and fourth spiral conductors. The fourth spiral conductor is adjacent to the first and fifth spiral conductors. The distance between the first and fourth spiral conductors is smaller than the distances between other spiral conductors.
US11264158B2
A ferromagnetic actuator is disposed between first and second semiconductor devices that include first and second inductors. Each inductor is disposed on top of a multilevel wiring structure. Current flows through the first inductor to generate a first magnetic field that attracts the ferromagnetic actuator towards the first inductor causing the ferromagnetic actuator to transition from a first state to a second state. In the second state, a portion of the ferromagnetic actuator is disposed closer to the first inductor than it is in the first state. Current flows through the second inductor to generate a second magnetic field that attracts the ferromagnetic actuator towards the second inductor causing the ferromagnetic actuator to transition from the first or second state to a third state. In the third state, a portion of the ferromagnetic actuator is disposed closer to the first inductor than it is in the first state.
US11264157B2
A magnetic force control device includes a first pole piece having an interaction surface, made of a ferromagnetic material, and configured to be in contact with an N pole of a permanent magnet, a second pole piece having an interaction surface, made of a ferromagnetic material, and configured to be in contact with an S pole of the permanent magnet or another permanent magnet different from the permanent magnet, rotary permanent magnet configured to be rotatable to define a first arrangement state in which an N pole thereof is magnetically connected to the second pole piece and an S pole thereof is magnetically connected to the first pole piece and a second arrangement state in which the N pole is magnetically connected to the first pole piece and the S pole is magnetically connected to the second pole piece.
US11264153B2
An electrical isolator comprising: a first fluid-carrying member and a second fluid-carrying member spaced apart from said first fluid-carrying member; wherein said first fluid-carrying member has a first toothed surface and said second fluid-carrying member has a second toothed surface; wherein the electrical isolator further comprises: a fibre-reinforced polymer tube that overlaps both the first fluid-carrying member and the second fluid-carrying member and which contacts the first toothed surface in a first interface region of the fibre-reinforced polymer tube and which contacts the second toothed surface in a second interface region of the fibre-reinforced polymer tube; and a compression fitting arranged to bias the first interface region and the first toothed surface together.
US11264142B2
A system and method for storing multiple canisters containing high level waste below grade that afford adequate ventilation of the spent fuel storage cavity. In one aspect, the invention is a ventilated system for storing high level waste emitting heat, the system comprising: an air-intake shell forming an air-intake cavity; a plurality of storage shells, each storage shell forming a storage cavity; a lid positioned atop each of the storage shells; an outlet vent forming a passageway between an ambient environment and a top portion of each of the storage cavities; and a network of pipes forming hermetically sealed passageways between a bottom portion of the air-intake cavity and at least two different openings at a bottom portion of each of the storage cavities such that blockage of a first one of the openings does not prohibit air from flowing from the air-intake cavity into the storage cavity via a second one of the openings.
US11264139B2
The present teaching relates to surgical procedure planning. In one example, at least one 3D object contained in a 3D volume is rendered on a display screen. The at least one 3D object includes a 3D object corresponding to an organ. First information related to a 3D pose of a surgical instrument positioned with respect to the at least one 3D object is received from a user. A 3D representation of the surgical instrument is rendered in the 3D volume based on the first information. Second information related to a setting of the surgical instrument is received from the user. A 3D treatment zone in the 3D volume with respect to the at least one 3D object is estimated based on the first and second information. The 3D treatment zone in the 3D volume is visualized on the display screen. Controls associated with the 3D representation of the surgical instrument and/or the 3D treatment zone are provided to facilitate the user to dynamically adjust the 3D treatment zone via the controls.
US11264132B2
A terminal device configured to be able to communicate with a measuring device for measuring biological information includes a first processing unit executing the processing of a first application and a second processing unit executing the processing of a second application. The first processing unit stores biological information acquired from the measuring device. The second processing unit determines whether the second application is able to use biological information, based on specifying information for specifying an application able to use biological information and the identification information of the second application. When the second application is able to use biological information, the second processing unit reads out biological information from the biological information storage unit and outputs the read biological information.
US11264128B2
Techniques are described optimizing operations of an integrated healthcare system in real-time using a machine learning framework. In one embodiment, a method comprises monitoring, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, activity of healthcare workers of a healthcare system over a defined timeframe in association with operation of the healthcare system, including monitoring performance of healthcare tasks scheduled for performance over the defined timeframe. The method further comprises determining, by the system based on the monitoring, a timeslot within the defined timeframe in which a healthcare worker of the healthcare workers is not performing, anticipated to perform, or scheduled to perform a healthcare task of the healthcare tasks, and determining, by the system, a supplemental healthcare task for performance by the healthcare worker during the timeslot.
US11264121B2
Direct measurement and simulation of real-time production rates of chemical products in complex chemical plants is complex. A predictive model developed based on machine learning algorithms using historical sensor data and production data provides accurate real-time prediction of production rates of chemical products in chemical plants. An optimization model based on machine learning algorithms using clustered historical sensor data and production data provides optimal values for controllable parameters for production maximization.
US11264118B2
Methods and systems for monitoring and determining antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial treatment using genomic subtype information. Various embodiments utilize molecular epidemiology and next-generation sequencing technologies (NGS) to monitor multi-drug resistant pathogens and provide early insight into emergent microbial threats.
US11264107B2
The application relates to a data reading circuit of an embedded flash memory cell. The data reading circuit a switch circuit, a current clamp circuit, a current mirror circuit, a reference current source, a precharge circuit and a comparison circuit; the switch circuit includes a transmission gate, one end of the transmission gate is connected with a drain of the embedded flash memory cell, and the other end of the transmission gate is connected with a detection end of the current clamp circuit; a response end of the current clamp circuit is connected with a data node; the current mirror circuit is connected with the reference current source and the data node; an output end of the precharge circuit is connected with the data node; one input end of the comparison circuit is connected with the data node, and the other input end is connected with reference voltage.
US11264104B2
Apparatus, media, methods, and systems for data storage systems and methods for improved recovery after a write abort event are described. A data storage system may comprise a non-volatile memory device, having one or more wordlines configured to receive a read level voltage, and a controller. The controller is configured to detect whether a write abort event occurred for the data storage system. The controller is configured to determine a first voltage offset based on one or more of a wear-level indication of the non-volatile memory device, or one or more voltage parameters of the non-volatile memory device. The controller is configured to determine, based on the first voltage offset, an adjusted read level voltage. The controller is configured to apply the adjusted read level voltage to a wordline of the non-volatile memory device. The controller is configured to read data, based on the applied adjusted read level voltage, from the wordline of the non-volatile memory device.
US11264102B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a bit line driver, and a control circuit configured to be able to execute a writing sequence for repeating at least one loop including a program operation for writing data into at least one of the plurality of memory cells and a verify operation for verifying the data a plurality of times while increasing a program voltage by a step-up voltage. The bit line driver can obtain a number of memory cells into which writing is completed or a number of memory cells into which writing is insufficient for each of the at least two consecutive loops from a result of the verify operation, and the control circuit can determine the step-up voltage in the subsequent loop based on a result obtained by the bit line driver.
US11264089B1
A superconducting memory cell includes a magnetic Josephson junction (MJJ) with a ferromagnetic material, having at least two switchable states of magnetization. The binary state of the MJJ manifests itself as a pulse appearing, or not appearing, on the output. A superconducting memory includes an array of memory cells. Each memory cell includes a comparator with at least one MJJ. Selected X and Y-directional write lines in their combination are capable of switching the magnetization of the MJJ. A superconducting device includes a first and a second junction in a stacked configuration. The first junction has an insulating layer barrier, and the second junction has an insulating layer sandwiched in-between two ferromagnetic layers as barrier. An electrical signal inputted across the first junction is amplified across the second junction.
US11264074B2
Techniques, systems, and devices for time-resolved access of memory cells in a memory array are described herein. During a sense portion of a read operation, a selected memory cell may be charged to a predetermined voltage level. A logic state stored on the selected memory cell may be identified based on a duration between the beginning of the charging and when selected memory cell reaches the predetermined voltage level. In some examples, time-varying signals may be used to indicate the logic state based on the duration of the charging. In some examples, the duration of the charging may be based on a polarization state of the selected memory cell, a dielectric charge state of the selected state, or both a polarization state and a dielectric charge state of the selected memory cell.
US11264071B2
A magnetoresistance effect element where asymmetry of an inversion current due to a leakage magnetic field from a magnetization fixed layer is decreased. A magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer whose magnetization direction is variable, a second ferromagnetic layer whose magnetization direction is fixed, and a nonmagnetic layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer which are laminated in a first direction which is a lamination direction, where both the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer are curved so that central portions of the first and second ferromagnetic layers protrude with respect to outer circumferential portions in the first direction, and protruding directions of the central portions are opposite to each other so that a distance between the outer circumferential portions is larger than a distance between the central portions in the first direction.
US11264070B2
Systems and method are provided for a memory circuit. In embodiments, the circuit includes a plurality of memory cells corresponding to a word of data and a global write word line. A plurality of local write lines are connected to a subset of the plurality of memory cells of the word of data. Selection logic is configured to activate a particular subset of memory cells for writing via a particular local write line based on a signal on the global write line and a selection signal associated with the particular subset of memory cells.
US11264065B2
A data transceiver device and an operation method are provided. The data transceiver device receives input data and transmits output data. The data transceiver device includes a buffer circuit, a storage circuit, a timing circuit and a control circuit. The buffer circuit is configured to store input data. The storage circuit is configured to store the output data. The timing circuit is configured to generate a time-out signal according to the set time. The control circuit is configured to process the input data to generate the output data, to store the output data in the storage circuit, and to transmit the output data according to an output data threshold value and the time-out signal. The control circuit adjusts the set time and/or the output data threshold value based on an initial condition and the state of the buffer circuit.
US11264062B2
An electronic device includes an operation control circuit and an input data generation circuit. The operation control circuit generates a detection signal and an internal masking signal based on a masking signal and data during a write operation. The input data generation circuit converts input data based on the internal masking signal to generate converted data. In addition, the input data generation circuit selects and outputs either the converted data or drive data as the input data, which are input to a data storage circuit, based on the detection signal.
US11264059B2
An electrical feed-through, such as a PCB connector, involves at least one positioning protrusion protruding from a main body, and may further include multiple positioning protrusions protruding in respective directions from the main body. A data storage device employing such a feed-through includes an enclosure base with which the feed-through is coupled. The base includes an annular recessed surface surrounding an aperture that is encompassed by the feed-through and is at a first level, and at least one recessed positioning surface at a higher level than the first level, and extending in a direction away from the annular recessed surface. The positioning protrusion of the electrical feed-through contacts the recessed positioning surface of the base, such that the position of the feed-through is constrained by the recessed positioning surface.
US11264058B2
Coordinated audio and video filter pairs are applied to enhance artistic and emotional content of audiovisual performances. Such filter pairs, when applied in audio and video processing pipelines of an audiovisual application hosted on a portable computing device (such as a mobile phone or media player, a computing pad or tablet, a game controller or a personal digital assistant or book reader) can allow user selection of effects that enhance both audio and video coordinated therewith. Coordinated audio and video are captured, filtered and rendered at the portable computing device using camera and microphone interfaces, using digital signal processing software executable on a processor and using storage, speaker and display devices of, or interoperable with, the device. By providing audiovisual capture and personalization on an intimate handheld device, social interactions and postings of a type made popular by modern social networking platforms can now be extended to audiovisual content.
US11264056B1
The technology disclosed herein pertains to a system and method for managing write failures in a disc drive. Implementations disclosed herein provide a method including monitoring write fault events per sector for a storage device, in response to a write fault event, updating a write fault repeat count table, wherein the repeat count table tracks a number of write fault repeat counts per sector, comparing a write fault repeat count for a sector to a predetermined threshold write fault repeat count, and in response to determining that the write fault repeat count for a sector is above the predetermined threshold write fault repeat count, performing a write-reassign operation.
US11264048B1
A boundary of a highlight of audiovisual content depicting an event is identified. The audiovisual content may be a broadcast, such as a television broadcast of a sporting event. The highlight may be a segment of the audiovisual content deemed to be of particular interest. Audio data for the audiovisual content is stored, and the audio data is automatically analyzed to detect one or more audio events indicative of one or more occurrences to be included in the highlight. Each audio event may be a brief, high-energy audio burst such as the sound made by a tennis serve. A time index within the audiovisual content, before or after the audio event, may be designated as the boundary, which may be the beginning or end of the highlight.
US11264042B2
An apparatus for generating an enhanced signal from an input signal, wherein the enhanced signal has spectral values for an enhancement spectral region, the spectral values for the enhancement spectral regions not being contained in the input signal, includes a mapper for mapping a source spectral region of the input signal to a target region in the enhancement spectral region, the source spectral region including a noise-filling region; and a noise filler configured for generating first noise values for the noise-filling region in the source spectral region of the input signal and for generating second noise values for a noise region in the target region, wherein the second noise values are decorrelated from the first noise values or for generating second noise values for a noise region in the target region, wherein the second noise values are decorrelated from first noise values in the source region.
US11264040B2
A method for rendering an audio output based on an audio data stream including M audio signals, side information including a series of reconstruction instances of a reconstruction matrix C and first timing data, the side information allowing reconstruction of N audio objects from the M audio signals, and object metadata defining spatial relationships between the N audio objects. The method includes generating a synchronized rendering matrix based on the object metadata, the first timing data, and information relating to a current playback system configuration, the synchronized rendering matrix having a rendering instance for each reconstruction instance, multiplying each reconstruction instance with a corresponding rendering instance to form a corresponding instance of an integrated rendering matrix, and applying the integrated rendering matrix to the audio signals in order to render an audio output.
US11264022B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus, method, and program. The information processing apparatus includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire input information of a user that includes a time lag between an input start and end, in a mode in which a plurality of contents are consecutively provided via at least one non-content period; and an output control unit configured, in a case where the input information is acquired in a content period in which first content or second content to be provided at a time later than the first content is being provided, to cause an output unit to output first output information on the basis of the input information, and in a case where the input information is acquired in the non-content period, to cause the output unit to output second output information different from the first output information, on the basis of the input information.
US11264019B2
Methods, systems, and media for voice-based call operations are provided. In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving, at a first user device, a communication; detecting a voice command, using the first user device, that includes a keyword; and in response to detecting the voice command, causing the communication to be transferred to a second user device that is associated with the keyword.
US11264012B2
Conversations between agents of a contact center and a customer are often transcribed so that text is maintained. However, text conversations consist only of text and omit significant portions of a conversation that are conveyed outside of the specific words spoken. By determining the emotion, tone, or other aspect in a conversation, which may contradict the text content, a data structure may be maintained such that the textual content is annotated with emotion or tonal information and/or utilized in a routing decision to cause a communication network to be altered, such as to include at least one additional node based upon a particular emotion or tone.
US11264011B2
The disclosed method may include (1) determining whether a next operation of a plurality of operations of an artificial neural network (ANN) is dependent upon a Boolean predication value based on a representative value for a weight or an input of a node of the ANN, (2) based on the next operation not being dependent on the Boolean predication value, allowing the next operation to update a state of the ANN, and (3) based on the next operation being dependent on the Boolean predication value, performing at least one of (a) allowing, based on the Boolean predication value being a first value, the next operation to update the state of the ANN, and (b) preventing, based on the Boolean predication value being a second value different from the first value, the next operation from updating the state of the ANN. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11264006B2
A voice synthesis method is provided. The method includes: determining a recommended sound model by performing a first matching operation on a user attribute and a sound model attribute of the sound model; determining a recommended content by performing a second matching operation on a sound model attribute of the recommended sound model and a content attribute of the content; and performing a voice synthesis on the recommended content by using the recommended sound model, to obtain a synthesized voice file.
US11264002B2
A method and system may provide for interactive song generation. In one aspect, a computer system may present options for selecting a background track. The computer system may generate suggested lyrics based on parameters entered by the user. User interface elements allow the computer system to receive input of lyrics. As the user inputs lyrics, the computer system may update its suggestions of lyrics based on the previously input lyrics. In addition, the computer system may generate proposed melodies to go with the lyrics and the background track. The user may select from among the melodies created for each portion of lyrics. The computer system may optionally generate a computer-synthesized vocal(s) or capture a vocal track of a human voice singing the song. The background track, lyrics, melodies, and vocals may be combined to produce a complete song without requiring musical training or experience by the user.
US11263996B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first display area having a first shape and a second display area having a second shape, and a first driving circuit which drives the display panel to display an image in at least one of the first display area and the second display area, where the first display area includes a first sub-area and a second sub-area, and the second sub-area includes a light emitting area and a transmitting area adjacent to the light emitting area and having a higher light transmittance than the light emitting area.
US11263994B2
Displays having calibrators are disclosed. An example display includes a sensor to measure a plurality of readings for color settings of a color pattern presented by the display. A processor is to calculate average values corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of readings for the color settings. A calibration manager is to generate calibrated measurement values based on the average values. The calibrated measurement values to enable determination of color space information for the display.
US11263990B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for adjusting a display panel, a device for adjusting a display panel, and a display device including the adjusting device. The method includes: detecting an image displayed by a display panel to determine whether the displayed image is a flickering image; inverting original polarities of data voltages inputted onto at least partial data lines of the display panel when it is detected that the displayed image is the flickering image; scanning an I2C interface, and determining whether a common voltage is written; and restoring the polarities of the data voltages on the at least partial data lines to the original polarities when it is determined that the common voltage is written via the I2C interface.
US11263987B2
The present disclosure describes methods of contrast enhancement and dual-cell display apparatus. The method includes receiving an RGB value of each second pixel of a displayed image, and determining a brightness value of each first pixel according to the RGB value of each second pixel. The method also includes determining a local brightness adjustment factor and a global brightness adjustment factor by performing statistics processing for local region brightness values and global image brightness values according to the brightness value of each first pixel; and calculating a brightness drive signal corresponding to the first pixel, according to the brightness value of each first pixel, the local brightness adjustment factor and the global brightness adjustment factor. The brightness drive signal adjusts a transmittance of a corresponding pixel of the first panel. The global brightness adjustment factor adjusts an output brightness value of a corresponding pixel of the first panel.
US11263980B2
A display apparatus including a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver, an emission driver, and a driving controller. The display panel includes a pixel including a switching element of a first type and a switching element of a second type. The driving controller determines a driving frequency of the switching element of the first type to be a first driving frequency and a driving frequency of the switching element of the second type to be a second driving frequency less than the first driving frequency in a low frequency driving mode. The driving controller determines the second driving frequency based on a difference of a luminance of a writing frame in which the data voltage is written in the pixel and a luminance of a holding frame in which the written data voltage in the pixel is maintained without writing the data voltage.
US11263978B2
A display device comprises a substrate, a data link line, a power link line, and a dummy pattern. The substrate includes a display area in which pixels are arranged and a non-display area outside the display area. The data link line is positioned in the non-display area to deliver a predetermined signal to the pixels. The power link line is spaced apart from the data link line at a predetermined distance in the non-display area and delivers a predetermined power to the pixels. The dummy pattern is positioned between the data link line and the power link line in the non-display area.
US11263973B2
A shift register unit, a grid drive circuit, a display device and a driving method are disclosed. The shift register unit includes a display sub-shift-register and a detection sub-shift-register. The display sub-shift-register includes a display output terminal, and the display sub-shift-register is configured to output a display output signal of the shift register unit from the display output terminal at a display stage; the detection sub-shift-register is connected to a display output terminal of the display sub-shift-register to receive a display output signal, and includes a first random pulse signal terminal to receive a first random pulse signal. The detection sub-shift-register is configured to output a detection output signal of the shift register unit when the display output signal is at a turn-on level and the first random pulse signal is at a turn-on level.
US11263971B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel, a display panel driver, and a power supply. The display panel includes pixels. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode configured to emit light in an emission period based on a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage. The display panel driver is configured to apply a scan signal, an emission control signal, and a data signal to the pixels. The power supply is configured to: generate the first power supply voltage, the second power supply voltage, and a third power supply voltage applied to the pixels in a non-emission period; and adjust a voltage level of the second power supply voltage and a voltage level of the third power supply voltage based on an ambient temperature and a brightness of the display panel.
US11263968B2
A display substrate, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate includes: a first display sub-region including a plurality of first repeating regions each including a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit disposed adjacently, the first pixel unit including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, and the second pixel unit including a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel; and a second display sub-region including a plurality of second repeating regions each including a third pixel unit and a first transparent pixel, the third pixel unit including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel; the first transparent pixel is configured such that a pixel density of the second display sub-region is less than a pixel density of the first display sub-region, and a light transmittance of the second display sub-region is greater than a light transmittance of the first display sub-region.
US11263966B2
A display device including a display unit which has a plurality of pixels and a plurality of driving lines for driving the plurality of pixels; a driving circuit which drives the plurality of pixels through the plurality of driving lines; and a control unit which adjusts a driving capability of the driving circuit according to the number of simultaneous driving lines of the driving circuit.
US11263965B2
A pixel includes an organic light-emitting diode; a first transistor that receives a signal in response to a voltage applied to a first node and controls an amount of current flowing from a second node electrically connected to a power supply voltage line to the organic light-emitting diode; a fourth transistor electrically connected between the first node and a first initializing voltage line; and a bias capacitor electrically connected between the second node and a light-emission control line, the bias capacitor including a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode. The first capacitor electrode of the bias capacitor and a semiconductor layer of the first transistor are disposed on a same layer, and the second capacitor electrode of the bias capacitor and a second portion included in a gate electrode of the fourth transistor are disposed on a same layer.
US11263961B2
The present disclosure relates to a driver for a display device. A driver for a display device according to an embodiment is characterized in generating a voltage supplied as a bias voltage of a source buffer of a data driver in conjunction with a voltage supplied to a display panel. Therefore, the driver for the display device according to the present disclosure has an advantage that the headroom margin of the source buffer can be secured and power consumption of the driver is low at the same time, even when an image data pattern causing a variation in the voltage is input to the display device.
US11263945B2
This application discloses a driving method of a display panel, a driving circuit and a display device. The display panel includes a first gate driving circuit and a second gate driving circuit respectively controlling all gate lines in a scanning display area, and the driving method includes the following steps: when a first preset condition is met, controlling the first gate driving circuit to be in a dormant state, and meanwhile, controlling the second gate driving circuit to be in a working state; and when a second preset condition is met, controlling the second gate driving circuit to be in a dormant state, and meanwhile, controlling the first gate driving circuit to be in a working state.
US11263944B2
A circuit device includes a transfer gate and a control circuit. The transfer gate includes a P-type transistor and an N-type transistor. The control circuit sets, as a first value, a transistor size ratio that is a ratio of a size of the P-type transistor to a size of the N-type transistor when a voltage of an input signal to the transfer gate is in a first voltage range at a timing at which the transfer gate is turned off. The control circuit sets the transistor size ratio as a second value greater than the first value when a voltage of the input signal is in a second voltage range lower than that in the first voltage range at a timing at which the transfer gate is turned off.
US11263942B2
A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are provided. A shift register unit includes a blanking input circuit, a display input circuit, an output circuit; the blanking input circuit is configured to input a blanking control signal to a first node during a blanking period in response to a blanking input signal, the blanking input circuit includes a charging sub-circuit, the charging sub-circuit is configured to input the blanking control signal to a control node in response to a first compensation control signal and a second compensation control signal, the display input circuit is configured to input a display control signal to the first node during a display period in response to a display input signal; the output circuit is configured to output a composite output signal to an output end under control of a level of the first node.
US11263934B2
A display system comprises one or more display elements in the form of hollow geometrically shaped pillars that can be easily assembled, disassembled, and stored. Each display element is comprised of a plurality of side panels that are removably interconnected in an overlapping manner to themselves and a base. Each side panel has a dense arrangement of mounting apertures formed in at least a portion thereof configured to receive and provide support for mounting hardware to which signage and other elements can be connected. Multiple display elements can be ganged together by themselves or with removably shelving to allow for construction of a wide variety of presentation spaces and structures.
US11263931B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate including: a first flexible substrate; a second flexible substrate; and a bonding layer between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate and bonding the first and second flexible substrates to each other; wherein the second flexible substrate includes a plurality of first support parts and a second support part spacing the plurality of first support parts apart from each other; a side of each first support part distal to the first flexible substrate is provided thereon with a display unit; the second support part includes a first part and a second part other than the first part, and a signal line configured to connect display units is disposed on a side of the first part distal to the first flexible substrate; and a thickness of the second part is smaller than a thickness of the first support part.
US11263929B2
A flexible display apparatus includes at least two components that are stacked, and at least one optical adhesive layer. Each optical adhesive layer is disposed between two adjacent components of the at least two components, and includes at least two adhesive layers stacked in a stacking direction of the at least two components. The at least two adhesive layers include at least one first adhesive layer and at least one second adhesive layer. One of the at least one first adhesive layer is adhered to one of the two adjacent components, and a storage modulus of each second adhesive layer is less than a storage modulus of each first adhesive layer.
US11263925B1
A pilot and burner apparatus is provided for use in firefighting training. The apparatus includes a main fuel conduit and a main fuel valve. The apparatus includes a pilot tube and a pilot fuel conduit configured to deliver fuel from the main fuel conduit to the pilot tube. The apparatus includes main and pilot fuel valves to respectively control a flow of fuel in the main and pilot fuel conduits. In a pilot phase, the valves direct fuel to the pilot tube. An ignition component is configured to ignite fuel in the pilot tube to generate a pilot flame. In a burn phase, the pilot flame generates a controllable flame out of a main burner pipe by igniting fuel exiting the main fuel conduit. The controllable flame can be delivered to a training structure for training purposes.
US11263924B2
An artificial eye system comprising: a display unit for displaying an image of an eye thereon, the display unit comprising a light cell adapted to selectively emit light and detect light; and a controller for controlling the display unit, the controller for: operating the display unit to concurrently detect light through the light cell and display an actual image of the eye; determining a next mage of the eye to be displayed on the display unit as a function of the detected light; and operating the display unit to display the next image.
US11263921B2
An apparatus includes a simulated medicament delivery device and an electronic circuit system. The simulated medicament delivery device includes a housing, and is devoid of a medicament delivery mechanism that causes a medicament to be delivered. The electronic circuit system is coupled to the housing and includes an audible output device and a cover. The housing of the medicament delivery device and the cover of the electronic circuit system collectively define an acoustic enclosure. The audible output device is configured to be disposed within the acoustic enclosure.
US11263919B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to improving an athlete's ability to synchronize the movement of their body in time. Certain embodiments provide a feedback system that allows an athlete (or another individual, such as a trainer) to comprehend and optimize the timing of one or more components or features of an athletic movement. Image data, such as video, of an athlete performing physical activity may be utilized (alone or in combination with non-image data) may be used to generate and emit real-time feedback signals to provide an indication of tempo to the athlete. Still further aspects relate to using image and/or other sensor data to detect improper timing and/or movements of an athlete, and in response generating real-time feedback signals.
US11263918B1
Audio bible players with a 6-digit numerical indexing system to the chapter level or a 9-digit numerical indexing system to the verse level are disclosed. Users can not only find a particular chapter or verse of the bible quickly, but also can switch to the same chapter or verse of a different translation easily for comparison study. They are easy and convenient to use, and are great tools for bible study, bible memorization, language study, and sharing bible with people in other languages, etc.
US11263914B2
Systems and methods of the present invention provide for generating a first, second, and third series of interface objects comprising a first and second sequence respectively, displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI). At least one visual indicator display object is also displayed that requires a switch between the first and second series of user interface objects. A user navigates through the first and second series of interface objects, including the visual indicator display object(s), and a score for the user is calculated according to a user input matching, or failing to match, a correct response associated with a task data defining a function skill demonstrating a cognitive ability of the user.
US11263907B2
The present invention discloses a system and method to reserve and park a vehicle in a parking lot via an application through a smartphone. The system comprises a parking meter installed at the parking lot to prevent unauthorized access of vehicle to the reserved parking lot. The parking meter could communicate to a server via a wireless communication for reserving a parking lot. The application could identify the user's location and allows the user to communicate or engage the parking meter at the parking lot via the navigation system. The parking meter comprises a housing, a camera, a chip reader, displays, a plurality of backlight panels, NFC, and ultrasonic sensor. The parking meter authorizes the vehicle's number and provides access to the parking lot. The user could pay for the usage of the parking lot via the application or the chip reader or NFC of the parking meter.
US11263906B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for locating parking spaces are disclosed. According to one method, a request is received from a user of a vehicle to locate a space; the location of the user is determined; a database comprising spaces within a geographic region is accessed; from the database, a subset of spaces within the geographic region is identified, the subset comprising user-specific spaces; a determination is made regarding the availability of the user-specific spaces; and if a user-specific space is available, a transmission is initiated, intended for the user, providing the location of at least one available space. The systems, methods, and apparatus may be used to locate free spaces, may allow users to indicate when they are vacating a space to enable other users to access the space via a “park it forward” approach, and may assign available spaces to users based on an equitable prioritization protocol.
US11263900B2
A device for calculating a traffic index that is required for calculation of a signal control parameter. The device includes: a first calculation unit that calculates normalized data representing a ratio of a traffic variable of an inflow road at a target intersection to a saturation flow rate; and a second calculation unit that calculates, by using the normalized data, the traffic index that is defined by a formula in which the traffic variable of the inflow road is included in a numerator and the saturation flow rate is included in a denominator.
US11263892B2
A building alarm system and automated door lock arranged to place the alarm system in an armed state when a door lock fails to engage to lock an associated door in a closed position. Activation of a single button by a user or use of specific code by a user to gain access to a building can cause the alarm system to automatically rearm and for door locks at the building to be locked after entry by the user. A first responder code can be used by first responder personnel to gain access to a building after an alarm system indicates an alarm state, e.g., that corresponds to an emergency condition.
US11263885B2
An information processing device that transmits a detection result to another device when abnormal detachment of a wearing device worn by a user is detected.
US11263882B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and system for operating a security tag, comprising activating a piezo-electric component of the security tag to generate an electrical charge in response to an applied mechanical force on the security tag; determining whether a verification signal has been received by the security tag upon activating the piezo-electric component; and disengaging a mechanical component of the security tag based on a determination that the verification signal has been received.
US11263878B2
A phase computing device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a coordinate determination unit and a computing unit. The coordinate determination unit determines space coordinates at which an interference pattern of wave motion emitted from a vibrator phased array is to be presented, the wave motion including ultrasonic waves, electromagnetic waves, or other waves. The computing unit calculates an initial phase of each vibrator, a sum of energy densities of the wave motion at respective points of the space coordinates being maximum in the initial phase.
US11263876B2
Data is collected for Self-Service Terminals (SSTs) including tallies, events, and outcomes associated with servicing the SSTs. Statistical correlations are derived from the tallies and events with respect to the outcomes. Subsequent collected data is processed with the statistical correlations and a probability for a failure of a component or a part of the component associated with a particular SST is reported for servicing the component or part before the failure.
US11263875B2
It is described a method for detecting the presence of a device for cloning a smart card in an automatic payment and/or withdrawal terminal, comprising the steps of detecting that a smart card has not been at least partially inserted inside a reader of the terminal; simulating the presence of a smart card inside the reader; measuring a current or voltage value generated by the simulation; comparing the measured current or voltage value with respect to a defined threshold value; detecting the presence of the cloning device if, as a function of said comparison, it results that the measured current or voltage value is greater than or equal to the threshold value; and blocking the operation of the automatic payment and/or withdrawal terminal in case of detecting the presence of the cloning device.
US11263874B1
A cash cassette includes a housing, a pick-up module, a push plate, and one or more separator modules. The housing has a dispense end, a floor, and a size suitable to store multiple notes. Each note has a particular note edge. The pick-up module is disposed at the dispense end of the housing and is configured to transfer one note at a time out of the housing. The push plate is movably disposed inside the housing and is configured to bias the notes against the pick-up module. The separator modules are disposed on the floor of the housing proximate to the pick-up module. Each separator module has a rough surface that engages the particular note edges as the notes are pushed onto the separator modules by the push plate. The rough surface loosens individual notes from each other as the notes move across the separator modules toward the pick-up module.
US11263872B2
Some embodiments may relate to wagering one or more events. Such events may include sporting events. For example, one or more races may be wagered upon. In some embodiments, one or more wager may include an in running or in game wager. In some embodiments, one or more wagers may include a wager on a group of participants. Various apparatus and methods are described.
US11263867B2
Systems and methods for real-time interactive wagering on event outcomes are presented. Clients are first qualified and given wagering limits before being allowed to interactively wager on event outcomes. Event outcomes may be based on, for example, financial markets and indices, sporting and entertainment events, casino games, casino performances, and natural phenomena such as weather and earthquakes. Events on which wagers can be placed include both those with known and unknown outcome probabilities, and wagers can be a fixed-odds type or a spread-bet type. Wager transactions, including acceptances and confirmations, are executed in real time. Clients can customize displays of events on which they are authorized to wager. Real-time client credit management, automatic dealer hedging, automatic price-spread adjustments, and automatic client and dealer defined wagering limits are also provided.
US11263864B2
A gaming system having gaming machines or devices configurable in a ‘z’-shaped geometric arrangement are provided. The gaming system can include a plurality of gaming machines having a respective main display screen and a plurality of secondary display screens. Each of the plurality of gaming machines can be spaced apart from one another in a first direction with the respective main display of each of the plurality of gaming machines being parallel to each other. Each of the plurality of secondary screens can be coupled between the respective main display screen of respective ones of the plurality of gaming machines to fill a gap therebetween and are positioned at an angle with respect to the respective main display screen of the respective ones of the plurality of gaming machines.
US11263863B2
A gaming machine is described herein. The gaming machine includes a game control unit programmed to display a game screen on the display unit and initiate an instance of the game. The game screen includes a grid including a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of columns. Each column is associated with a corresponding symbol and includes a predefined number of cells. The game control unit initiates an instance of the game by populating a subset of cells within each column with a plurality of awards, randomly determining, for each corresponding column, a number of corresponding symbols to be displayed in a stack of corresponding symbols, and displaying each stack of corresponding symbols within each corresponding column. The game control unit then determines each cell of the subset of cells being displayed with a corresponding symbol and a corresponding award, and provides each corresponding award to the player.
US11263860B2
An electronic gaming machine is provided. The electronic gaming machine includes a carousel display screen, at least one memory device, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory device. The at least one processor is programmed to control the carousel display screen to display a plurality of play areas.
US11263855B2
A device for verifying a machine-readable security feature of a document of value, having: a transport device configured to transport the document on a transport plane, a radiation emitter that is arranged on a first flat side and emits radiation in the direction towards the first flat side, a sensor that is arranged on the first flat side and is configured to receive at least part of the luminescent radiation, a reflector arranged and configured on the second flat side-so as to at least partly reflect the luminescent radiation of the security feature of the document of value to the sensor, and an evaluation unit.
US11263852B2
Disclosed are a method, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium for creating a vote. The method includes: receiving a vote initiation instruction to obtain voice information inputted currently; determining textual information by recognizing the voice information; determining at least two option words based on semantic recognition of the textual information; generating a question stem of the vote based on the textual information; and generating voting options based on the option words for the vote.
US11263845B2
An intelligent storage device is provided that enables a user to securely store odorous materials, lock and unlock the storage device via a mobile device or other remote computing device, and receive alerts when the storage device is moved or tampered with. Embodiments include an intelligent storage device comprising a lid with a locking mechanism and a user-controllable device configured to activate the locking mechanism upon receiving a first user input; a container with an opening sized and shaped to receive the lid, wherein the locking mechanism is configured to securely seal the lid to the container when activated; and an electronics module configured to cause deactivation of the locking mechanism in response to receiving a second user input via the user-controllable device and upon confirming authorization of the user to access the storage device.
US11263841B2
A data storage library system includes a data storage library having at least one library frame, at least one environmental conditioning unit associated with the data storage library and configured to control one or more interior environmental conditions within the at least one library frame, and at least one access door for providing access to an interior portion of the at least one library frame. The system also includes a library controller configured to initiate a service mode prior to and/or during a service procedure performed within the at least one library frame, wherein the service mode comprises configuring the at least one environmental conditioning unit to adjust the one or more environmental conditions within the at least one library frame toward one or more exterior environmental conditions outside of the data storage library. Optionally, a lock and/or indicator (visual and/or audible) may control access to the interior of the library frames. Associated methods of servicing a data storage library are disclosed.
US11263840B2
It is provided a method for controlling access to a physical space. The method is performed in an access control device and comprises the steps of: communicating with an electronic key to obtain an identity of the electronic key; obtaining a plurality of delegations; determining, from one of the delegations, that there is an auxiliary condition, wherein the auxiliary condition is that access is approved for the electronic key by an auxiliary party, authenticated by a digital signature by the auxiliary party; and granting access to the physical space when the plurality of delegations comprises a sequence of delegations covering a delegation path from the access control device to the electronic key such that, in the sequence of delegations, the delegator of the first delegation is the access control device, the receiver of the last delegation is the electronic key, and the auxiliary condition is fulfilled.
US11263836B1
This disclosure is directed to customizable charge status indicator systems for electrified vehicle charge port assemblies. Exemplary charge status indicator systems may include a charge port lighting module, and a human machine interface (HMI) that includes various user interfaces configured for receiving inputs for customizing different lighting effects that can be emitted by the charge port lighting module. The charge status indicator systems may further include a controller operably coupled to both the charge port lighting module and the HMI and configured for commanding the charge port lighting module to emit customized lighting effects in response to receiving input signals from the HMI.
US11263831B2
A mobile machine includes a load carrying mechanism configured to carry a load of material during operation of the mobile machine at a worksite. The mobile machine includes a position detection system configured to determine a position of the mobile machine and generate a position output indicative of the position of the mobile machine. The mobile machine includes a measuring system configured to determine a measure of the load and generate a measure output indicative of the measure of the load. The mobile machine also includes a material movement tracking system configured to receive the position output from the position detection system and the measure output from the measuring system and, based on both the position and the measure output, generate a material tracking indicator indicative of movement of the load of material around the worksite.
US11263828B2
In the disclosed systems and methods for competitive scene completion, an application displays an initial scene of a first scene completion challenge and displays within the initial scene a plurality of markers. Each of the markers has corresponding predefined designated coordinates and corresponds to a furnishing unit type. The application also displays virtual furnishing units that match the furnishing unit type of a corresponding marker. User selection of virtual furnishing units results in display of a three-dimensional rendition of the selected units at corresponding coordinates within the scene, thereby creating an augmented scene that comprises the initial scene with three-dimensional renditions of selected virtual furnishing units. The augmented scene or user selections of virtual furnishing units is submitted to a remote server and the user is provided with a reward.
US11263826B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for displaying an augmented reality virtual object on a multimedia device. One method comprises detecting, in an augmented reality environment displayed using a first device, a virtual object; detecting, within the augmented reality environment, a second device, the second device comprising a physical multimedia device; and generating, at the second device, a display comprising a representation of the virtual object.
US11263821B1
Systems and methods for generating augmented reality prerenderings can provide the benefit of an augmented reality rendering without requiring the use of user data. Template images can be used instead of user data to protect the user's privacy while enabling the user to see an object or product rendered onto a preferred template image or a variety of template images.
US11263816B2
A method for a placement of a virtual object of an augmented or mixed reality application in a real-world 3D environment, comprises: selecting (14), at a runtime of the augmented or mixed reality application, one of a finite set of at least two candidate insertion areas predetermined in the real-world 3D environment for the placement of the virtual object in the real-world 3D environment, based on criteria combining, for each of the candidate insertion areas, relationships between each of: the real-world 3D environment, the virtual object considered with respect to a placement of that virtual object in that candidate insertion area, and a user position; and inserting (14) the virtual object in the selected candidate insertion area.
US11263808B2
Computer systems and methods are described for automatically generating a 3D model, including, with computer processor(s), obtaining geo-referenced images representing the geographic location of a structure containing one or more real façade texture of the structure; locating a geographical position of real façade texture(s) of the structure; selecting base oblique image(s) from the images by analyzing image raster content of the real façade texture depicted in the images with selection logic; analyzing the real façade texture to locate a geographical position of at least one occlusion using pixel pattern recognition of the real façade texture; locating oblique image(s) having an unoccluded image characteristic of the occlusion in the real façade texture; applying the real façade texture to wire-frame data of the structure to create a 3D model of the structure; and applying the unoccluded image characteristic to the real façade texture to remove the occlusion from the real façade texture.
US11263791B2
The present invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for generation of an interactive color workspace, the method including: generating a workspace; receiving successive inputs from a user to create two or more controllable color swatches, the controllable color swatches including an associated color; generating the controllable color swatches on the workspace; and upon receiving a command from a user to select and associate at least two of the controllable color swatches, generating a gradient of colors with the colors of the selected controllable color swatches as endpoints to the gradient.
US11263790B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. There electronic device according to an embodiment includes: a memory; and a processor electronically connected to the memory, wherein the processor can be configured to recognize a face region from an image, check first skin probability data, corresponding to a region to be corrected, on the basis of a first skin color distribution including a skin color distribution stored in association with a plurality of races, first color data of the face region, and a second color data of the region to be corrected which is in the image and includes the face region, determine a category of the face region on the basis of the first color data of the face region, and correct the color, of the region to be corrected, on the basis of the determined category and the first skin probability data. Various other embodiments understood from the specification are also possible.
US11263783B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for color prediction. The systems and methods can be configured to utilize machine learning and user input data to generate color transformation process, whereby perceived colors between images may be indistinguishable from one another despite having different color model values, thereby improving and rendering more accurate or desired color perception to an end-user.
US11263782B2
Techniques are provided for using one or more machine learning systems to process input data including image data. The input data including the image data can be obtained, and at least one machine learning system can be applied to at least a portion of the image data to determine at least one color component value for one or more pixels of at least the portion of the image data. Based on application of the at least one machine learning system to at least the portion of the image data, output image data for a frame of output image data can be generated. The output image data includes at least one color component value for one or more pixels of the frame of output image data. Application of the at least one machine learning system causes the output image data to have a reduced dimensionality relative to the input data.
US11263781B2
The invention relates to a process for determining an infiltration profile of biological cells of interest in a biological object of interest from a digital histopathological image of biological tissues, a histological stain having previously been applied to the biological tissues, comprising generating a biological cell detection image, pixels associated with the histological stain on the histopathological image being of a predetermined color on said image, determining a distance map comprising distance iso-curves to the boundary of the biological object, and, from the distance map, calculating a curve representative of the surface density of biological cells of interest as a function of distance to the boundary, by counting, for each boundary distance value, pixels that are both of the predetermined color on the detection image and located between the iso-curve associated with said distance value and the consecutive iso-curve.
US11263780B2
Provided is a position detection unit configured to detect position information of a first imaging device and a second imaging device on the basis of corresponding characteristic points from a first characteristic point detected as a physical characteristic point regarding a subject imaged by the first imaging device, and a second characteristic point detected as a physical characteristic point regarding the subject imaged by the second imaging device. The present technology can be applied to an information processing apparatus that specifies positions of a plurality of imaging devices.
US11263778B2
A device may receive images identifying interiors of buildings and movable objects and unmovable objects located in the interiors, and may train a machine learning model with the images to generate a trained machine learning model. The device may receive an image identifying an interior portion of a building and objects located in the interior portion, and may process the image, with the trained machine learning model, to identify a movable object and an unmovable object. The device may disregard the movable object to generate an image in which data identifying the movable object has been disregarded, and may process the image in which the data identifying the movable object has been disregarded, with a visual positioning system, to determine a location of the user device in the interior portion of the building. The device may perform one or more actions based on the location of the user device.
US11263777B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an estimating unit that estimates at least one of a location or an attitude of a predetermined chassis in real space on the basis of a first image captured by a first image capturing unit among a plurality of image capturing units held in the chassis. The information processing apparatus further includes a verifying unit that verifies a likelihood of the estimation result on the basis of a second image captured by a second image capturing unit having an optical axis different from an optical axis of the first image capturing unit among the plurality of image capturing units.
US11263775B2
A system for surveying a surface (2) to measure a physical or chemical property associated with the surface. The system includes a handheld probe (4) measuring a physical or chemical property at locations over a surface (2). The video camera (12) captures video data of a user (6) using the handheld probe (4) to survey the surface. The depth sensing device (14) measures the distance to the handheld probe (4). Processing circuitry identifies the handheld probe from the video data and determines the position of the handheld probe (4) relative to the surface (2). A data recorder and/or a data transmitter records and/or transmits data representative of the physical or chemical property measured by the handheld probe (4) and data representative of the associated position of the handheld probe, when the handheld probe (4) is determined to be less than a threshold distance from the surface (2) being surveyed.
US11263771B2
A computing device including processor circuitry. The processor circuitry may perform operations comprising obtaining images representative of features within an environment of a host vehicle; identifying, from the images, a target object partially obscured in the environment; obtaining map data corresponding to the environment of the host vehicle, the map data comprising information of the features within the environment; localizing a position of the partially obscured target object within the environment based on comparing the features in the images to the information of the features obtained from the map data; and identifying a predicted trajectory of the partially obscured target object based on the localized position of the partially obscured target object within the environment.
US11263769B2
The present disclosure provides an image processing device, image processing method, and image processing system that are capable of freely deciding a position of a cutout region when cutting out an image from an original image. The image processing device includes an object detection unit configured to detect an object in a first image, and a cutout region deciding unit configured to decide, as a cutout region, a region positioned in a relative direction based on a position at which the object is detected in the first image, the relative direction varying depending on a detection condition.
US11263764B2
Embodiments of the disclosure may be directed to an image processing system configured to receive a medical image of a region of a subject's body taken at a first time and to receive a surface image of an exterior portion of the region of the subject's body taken at the first time. The image processing may also be configured to receive a medical image of the region of the subject's body taken at a second time and to register the medical image taken at the first time, the surface image taken at the first time, and the medical image taken at the second time.
US11263763B2
An image processing apparatus obtains segment definition information that defines a plurality of segments obtained by dividing a human body along a body axis, and obtains a three-dimensional image including a plurality of slice images indicating cross sections of a subject. The image processing apparatus identifies, based on the segment definition information, a segment to which a cross section corresponding to at least one slice image among the slice images included in the image belongs, and calculates a coordinate value of the at least one slice image, based on the identified segment and a reference coordinate system in which a coordinate value is defined for each of the segments.
US11263751B2
A method for real-time semantic image segmentation using a monocular event-based sensor includes capturing a scene using a red, green, blue (RGB) sensor to obtain a plurality of RGB frames and an event sensor to obtain event data corresponding to each of the plurality of RGB frames, performing object labeling for objects in a first RGB frame among the plurality of RGB frames by identifying one or more object classes, obtaining an event velocity of the scene by fusing the event data corresponding to the first RGB frame and at least one subsequent RGB frame among the plurality of RGB frames, determining whether the event velocity is greater than a predefined threshold, and performing object labeling for objects in the at least one subsequent RGB frame based on the determination.
US11263750B1
Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for training and then applying computer-implemented models designed for segmentation of an object in the frames of video. By training and then applying the segmentation model in a cyclical manner, the errors encountered when performing segmentation can be eliminated rather than propagated. In particular, the approach to segmentation described herein allows the relationship between a reference mask and each target frame for which a mask is to be produced to be explicitly bridged or established. Such an approach ensures that masks are accurate, which in turn means that the segmentation model is less prone to distractions.
US11263744B2
For saliency mapping, a machine-learned classifier is used to classify input data. A perturbation encoder is trained and/or applied for saliency mapping of the machine-learned classifier. The training and/or application (testing) of the perturbation encoder uses less than all feature maps of the machine-learned classifier, such as selecting different feature maps of different hidden layers in a multiscale approach. The subset used is selected based on gradients from back-projection. The training of the perturbation encoder may be unsupervised, such as using an entropy score, or semi-supervised, such as using the entropy score and a difference of a perturbation mask from a ground truth segmentation.
US11263741B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide methods for generating an in-die reference for die-to-die defect detection techniques. The inspection methods using in-die reference comprise finding similar blocks of a lithographic mask, the similar blocks are defined by similar CAD information. A comparison distance is selected based on (i) areas of the similar blocks and (ii) spatial relationships between the similar blocks. The similar blocks are aggregated, based on the comparison distance, to provide multiple aggregated areas; and comparable regions of the lithographic mask are defined based on the multiple aggregate blocks. Images of at least some of the comparable regions of the lithographic mask are acquired using an inspection module. The acquired images are compared.
US11263736B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for mapping one or more inclusions in a mineral crystal. A set of image data associated with the mineral crystal is receiving. The received set of image data is analyzed. One or more inclusions associated with the mineral crystal is identified based on the analyzed image data. The identified one or more inclusions of the mineral crystal are mapped to a tree structure representing the surface of the mineral crystal. The mapped one or more inclusions are encoded as a chain-code associated with the mineral crystal. A radial distance between a center of mass value of the mineral crystal and a center of mass value of the identified one or more inclusions is calculated and a mineral crystal fingerprint is generated.
US11263726B2
An approach is provided for generating a super-resolution image as a higher resolution version of an input image. The approach, for example, involves determining a set of tasks to be performed on the input image to facilitate generating the super-resolution image. The approach also involves selecting a combination of loss functions, wherein each loss function of the combination of loss functions is respectively a task-specific neural network pre-trained to perform a corresponding one of the set of tasks. The approach also involves training the super resolution neural network using the combination of loss functions as one or more layers of the super resolution neural network. The approach also involves using the trained super resolution neural network to generate the super-resolution image as a higher resolution version of the input image.
US11263716B2
Techniques of rendering digitized services in a smart environment are described. The techniques involve identification of a first action based on at least one of a user input and a user schedule. In an example, the first action may include visiting a restricted setup to avail services provided therein. Based on the first action, a plurality of second actions may be performed to render the services to the user. The techniques may further involve tracking the presence of the user at the restricted setup in real-time, and using the tracking information to plan the first and the second actions for other users.
US11263709B2
A supply information communication system, a communication module, a liquid supply facility, and a supply information communication method are provided. The communication module is mounted on a vehicle to which liquid is supplied from the liquid supply facility. An obtaining section of the liquid supply facility obtains identifying information for identifying the vehicle that is a supply destination of the liquid discharged by a supplying section. A transmitting section of the liquid supply facility transmits supply information to the vehicle identified by the identifying information. The supply information includes information indicating that the liquid has been supplied. The communication module includes a receiving section and a storing section. The receiving section receives the supply information addressed to the vehicle on which the communication module is mounted. The storing section stores the received supply information.
US11263708B2
A system and method for scheduling at least one event includes a component module arranged to receive component data regarding a plurality of possible operation decisions, a modelling module arranged to utilise the plurality of operation decisions to construct a Petri net model to simulate a real world system, a scheduling module arranged to utilise the Petri net and variable data regarding the plurality of operation decisions to determine a schedule of events that is feasible subject to a set of predetermined constraints, and an operation module arranged to provide the schedule of events to at least one external device.
US11263702B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for extracting information from a transaction description. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that may include one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, performs operations consistent with the disclosed embodiments. In one embodiment, the operations may include receiving a transaction description. The operations may also include identifying known location information corresponding to the transaction description and determining whether information from the transaction description corresponds to the identified known location information. The operations may further include removing location information from the transaction description based on the determination. In another aspect, the operations may also include extracting additional location information from the transaction description that is not associated with the known location information.
US11263678B2
An interactive kiosk includes a display, a microphone, and one or more processors that perform operations including receiving user input provided as a spoken query of a user, receiving user-specific data, querying, by a virtual agent, one or more back-end systems based on the user input, and the user-specific data to provide one or more responses, displaying one or more graphical representations of the one or more responses to the user on the display, the one or more graphical representations depicting at least one product for purchase, facilitating a purchase of the at least one product, and providing instructions to the passenger for physical retrieval of the at least one product within a location.
US11263677B2
A system includes a device, a database, and a processor. The device receives a social network post including text and an image depicting a customizable product. The database stores a purchase history of a user of the device. In response to determining that the device displayed the post, the processor determines, using a machine learning algorithm, that the image depicts the product and determines a set of retailers offering the product. The processor predicts, based in part on the purchase history, a customization for the customizable feature of the product that the user prefers and a retailer of the set of retailers offering the customized product. The processor then sends a recommendation of the customized product to the user, including a link to purchase the product from the predicted retailer. Then, in response to receiving a purchase request from the user, the processor completes a purchase of the customized product.
US11263676B2
Techniques are described for automatically identifying and inhibiting suspect electronic communications between users, such as for electronic communications that may reflect fraudulent activities by one or more of the users or that are otherwise inappropriate for one or more reasons. In some situations, the communications may relate to transactions in which the users are involved, such as for users that are buyers and sellers of items interacting via one or more electronic marketplaces. The communications may occur via a communication mechanism provided by an electronic marketplace that acts as an intermediary between the sender of a communication and the one or more intended recipients of the communication. The automatic identification of suspect communications that may be inappropriate includes automatically assessing the communications in one or more ways, and identified suspect communications and any associated inappropriate user activities may be inhibited in various ways.
US11263672B2
Fueling station network management systems and methods generate rating metrics and/or rankings regarding one or more fueling stations based, in part, on user fueling experience feedback data. A user device can include an application through which user feedback can be received and communicated to a data server. Additionally, the fueling station can also provide information, such as a status of the fueling station, to the data server. The data server can provide suggested fueling stations to a user based on the user's location and/or the user feedback and fueling station data. An incentivization system can be included to incentivize users to provide feedback regarding their fueling experience.
US11263669B2
Header bidding systems and methods increase a number of advertisers that can place bids for an advertising impression while maintaining low latency in loading of the webpage. The systems and methods utilize a specialized control wrapper in the header to manage one or more additional wrappers so as to allow for simultaneous bid collection from multiple groups of advertisers, one group per wrapper, without experiencing the traditional increase in latency of page loading as the number of entities bidding on an impression increases. Each wrapper contains information relating to a separate subset of advertisers from which to receive bids for the advertising impression. The control wrapper, as part of the header of the webpage, controls synchronization and timing of the separate bid processes controlled by the various wrappers to ensure that latency issues are avoided while the number of bids received is increased and revenue maximized.
US11263665B2
Method and server for managing placement of a digital signage content based on metric thresholds. The server stores parameters associated to a plurality of locations. The parameters for each location comprise at least one metric and a corresponding threshold for each metric. The server determines a plurality of candidate locations among the plurality of locations for displaying the content. For each candidate location, the server processes the at least one metric and corresponding threshold of the candidate location to determine if each metric among the at least one metric is within the corresponding threshold. The server identifies one or more target location among the plurality of candidate locations for displaying the content. Each metric among the at least one metric of the one or more target location is within the corresponding threshold. The locations may include digital signage players, geographical areas, displays controlled by a player.
US11263658B1
Systems and methods are presented for determining non-promotion content to include in an electronic promotion correspondence sent to a consumer. A promotion program offering system may access a set of promotions generated for a target consumer and determine the effect of presenting non-promotion content with one or more of the promotions. The promotion program offering system may determine selected promotions and/or non-promotion content to include in the electronic promotion correspondence according to any number of criteria, e.g., to maximize the probability the target consumer purchases one or more promotions in the electronic promotion correspondence.
US11263656B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for interacting with a blockchain and users of the blockchain to perform coupon authentication services. A method may include generating coupon transaction(s) that include data associated with a smart coupon contract and broadcasting the coupon transaction(s) to one or more distributed nodes communicatively coupled to the network. The data may be code or input data that may be processed by the code. The one or more distributed nodes may be configured to apply a set of consensus rules to validate the coupon transaction(s) prior to adding the coupon transaction onto the blockchain associated with the smart coupon contract.
US11263649B2
Quantitative rating systems and techniques are described that prioritize customers by propensity to buy and buy size to generate customer ratings. In one example, a propensity model is used to determine a likelihood of a potential customer to purchase a product, and a projected timeframe buy size for the potential customer is determined. An expected value for the potential customer is generated by combining the likelihood of the potential customer to purchase the product and the projected timeframe buy size. In another example, a ratio model of annualized recurring revenue (ARR) is used to determine a timeframe buy size for an existing customer in consecutive time frames. An upsell opportunity for the existing customer is determined based on the timeframe buy size less an ARR for a current time frame for the existing customer. A rating of the potential or existing customer is output in a user interface.
US11263643B2
Methods and systems for detecting fraudulent data points in a database of a computerized system include receiving, from a user device, a request for detecting one or more fraudulent data points in a database storing data points representing electronic transactions. The system constructs a feature vector fore each data point and k random vectors. After constructions, the system performs a combination of Locality Sensitive Hashing algorithm and Local Outlier Factor (LOF) algorithm on the constructed feature vectors and the constructed k random vectors to compute outlier scores for each data point. The system detects a fraudulent data point based on the outlier scores that indicate consistent degrees.
US11263642B2
A computer-implemented method includes monitoring, by an agent, resource consumption at a system running at an on-premises data center, where the agent is embedded into the system. Compliance data is determined by measuring, by the agent, the resource consumption according to one or more cost factors of a consumption-based pricing agreement. The compliance data is useable to determine a consumption-based price of operating the system according to the consumption-based pricing agreement.
US11263626B2
A method for generating cryptograms in a webservice environment includes: receiving, in a first environment of a computing system, a credential request transmitted by an external computing device using a secure communication protocol, the credential request including a transaction identifier and account identifier; transmitting, by the first environment, a data request to a second environment of the computing system, the data request including the account identifier; receiving, by the first environment, an account profile and session key from the second environment; transmitting, by the first environment, a cryptogram request to a third environment of the computing system, the cryptogram request including the account profile and session key; receiving, by the first environment, a cryptogram from the third environment generated using the account profile and session key; and transmitting, by the first environment, the cryptogram and transaction identifier to the external computing device via the secure communication protocol.
US11263620B2
Systems and related methods for facilitating payments via a consumer device carried by a consumer are discussed herein. Wallet identifying tokens may be used to secure messages between the consumer device and the merchant device over a wireless link. For example, the merchant device may include circuitry configured to wirelessly receive a wallet identifying token from a consumer device and to transmit the wallet identifying token to the central system. In response, consumer identifying data associated with the wallet identifying token may be received by the merchant device from the central system. In some embodiments, payments may be secured via limiting the lifetime of wallet identifying tokens after initial use.
US11263619B2
A near field communication device included in a secure transaction card provides an addition and/or transitional communication link for communicating secure transaction information. The near field communication device may be selectively engaged or disengaged and, when engaged, either active or passive modes of operation of the near field communication device can be selected. in the active mode, secure transaction information is transmitted upon establishment of a communication link with a complementary near field communication device. In the passive mode, secure transaction information is transmitted upon interrogation from a complementary near field communication device. Secure transaction information is generated and stored for transmission in a memory and at least a portion of the memory is erased or nulled upon transmission or upon expiration of a selected period of time.
US11263614B2
Example implementations relate to determining cash drawer access. An example controller can detect a request to access an integrated cash drawer, determine a source of the request, and filter the request based on the determined source. In some examples, in response to a rejection during filtering, access to the integrated cash drawer can be denied and in response to an allowance during filtering access to the integrated cash drawer can be allowed.
US11263594B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for surfacing and interacting with electronic meeting insights are presented. A meeting request that includes a plurality of invitees may be received. The meeting request may be associated with a plurality of related documents based on one or more attributes and a meeting insight related to the related documents may be surfaced. The meeting request may have a low acceptance in relation to a threshold and a corresponding insight may be surfaced to reschedule the meeting. A user may send a time modification suggestion to the meeting organizer and a rescheduling insight may be surfaced. Time and location information corresponding to invitees and the meeting time may be analyzed and reminders may be surfaced for each of the invitees in relation to a meeting location. Attendees may interact with location-based insights to have directions to a meeting surfaced.
US11263593B1
One example method of operation may include identifying a proposed meeting summary, processing proposed meeting summary content of the proposed meeting summary to identify topics to apply to a meeting, identifying profiles matching one or more of the topics, transmitting meeting invites to user accounts linked to the profiles, receiving one or more confirmations from the user accounts confirming attendance at the meeting, initiating the meeting at a scheduled time, and forwarding an initial topic summary to each user account during a beginning of the meeting.
US11263584B2
Methods and systems for managing supply chains are disclosed. Replenishment of items within retail stores and distribution centers is optimized to respond to real-time demands. One method includes receiving demand signals corresponding to a sold inventory items and evaluating those demand signals against real-time inventory positions and demand forecasts for that particular inventory item to determine whether to replenish the inventory item and how much inventory to replenish. A router service for assessment of such demand signals is also disclosed.
US11263575B2
A system and method to integrate metric collection with vehicle request fulfillment include obtaining a vehicle request from a vehicle requestor, the vehicle request including one or more vehicle criteria, and obtaining a data request from a data requestor, the data request including one or more data criteria corresponding with vehicle metrics. The method includes suggesting to the vehicle requestor one or more suggested vehicles from a fleet of vehicles based on their match with the one or more vehicle criteria and the one or more data criteria. The method also includes obtaining the vehicle metrics based on usage of one of the one or more suggested vehicles by the vehicle requestor, and providing the vehicle metrics to the data requestor.
US11263573B2
In order to supplement results of diagnosis of degradation of an object that has been implemented at set intervals using a degradation progression model for simulating the progression of degradation of the object, a degradation prediction apparatus 100 is provided with: a data generation unit 112 configured to generate, as supplement data, diagnosis results that would be obtained if the degradation diagnosis were performed at an interval shorter than the set interval; a prediction model generation unit 113 configured, using the supplement data, to generate a prediction model for predicting a degradation index indicating a degradation state of the object at a specific point in time; and a degradation index prediction unit 114 configured to predict the degradation index of the object based on the prediction model.
US11263572B1
An example method for rendering a dynamic dashboard for an electronic computing device includes receiving data regarding a server computing device. The data indicates whether there are any current or potential problems that impact an operation of the server computing device. Information is obtained regarding any business applications currently running on the server computing device. Information is obtained regarding customers using the business applications currently running on the server computing device. The dynamic dashboard is created to include the information regarding the customers and the business applications currently running on the server computing device and that describes any current or potential problems based on the data. Content of the dynamic dashboard is tailored based upon an identity of an individual who is accessing the dynamic dashboard. The dynamic dashboard is rendered on the electronic computing device.
US11263567B2
Methods and systems for managing supply chains are disclosed. Replenishment of items within retail stores and distribution centers is optimized to respond to real-time demands. One method includes receiving demand signals corresponding to a sold inventory items and evaluating those demand signals against real-time inventory positions and demand forecasts for that particular inventory item to determine whether to replenish the inventory item and how much inventory to replenish. A router service for assessment of such demand signals is also disclosed.
US11263562B1
In various implementations, improvement of a business intelligence ecosystem may include analyzing component(s) of a business intelligence ecosystem, identifying candidate improvements, applying at least a portion of candidate improvements, and/or verifying effects of the candidate improvements. Candidate improvements for business intelligence artifact(s), underlying data sources, BI environment configurations, metadata models, and/or computing resources may be analyzed and identified.
US11263560B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for processing at least one service request for an on-demand service. The systems may perform the methods to determine a start location and a destination related to the service request; determine a recommended route based on the start location and the destination; determine a reference direction related to a vehicle based on the recommended route; and send, to at least one provider terminal, data related to the reference direction.
US11263556B2
The present disclosure relates to the electronic document review field and, more particularly, to various apparatuses and methods of implementing batch-mode active learning for technology-assisted review (TAR) of documents (e.g., legal documents).
US11263552B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for computing device management. An embodiment may include preparing, by an estimated arrival time of a user at a location, at least one computing device needed by the user to perform a computing task at the location.
US11263551B2
A method for machine-learning based process flow recommendation is provided. The method may include training a machine-learning model by at least processing training data with the machine-learning model. The training data may include a matrix representing one or more existing process flows by at least indicating actions that are performed on a document object to generate a subsequent document object. An indication that a first document object is created as part of a process flow may be received. In response to the indication, the trained machine-learning model may be applied to generate a recommendation to perform, as part of the process flow, an action to generate a second document object. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11263545B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to generating control inputs for a cyber-physical system. A prediction concerning a phenomenon can be generated, utilizing a classifier, based on sensor data acquired by a sensor. The prediction can include a probability distribution over a set of possible values of the phenomenon, where the phenomenon pertains to the cyber-physical system or an environment in which the cyber-physical system operates. Control inputs for the cyber-physical system that satisfy constraints that maintain safe operation of the cyber-physical system in the environment can be synthesized. The constraints can be based on the prediction that includes the probability distribution over the set of possible values of the phenomenon. Further, the cyber-physical system can be caused to operate in the environment based on the control inputs.
US11263538B1
The most likely path for an underground utility having an unknown location is predicted using artificial intelligence. A cognitive system is trained with details associated with historical utility installations whose underground paths are known. The system is applied to whatever installation details are available for the unknown underground utility such as geographic features which are subjected to spatial correlation to derive geographic locations relative to a region of interest for the underground utility. Cognitive analysis is performed on the locations in association with the features to generate candidate paths for the utility. The candidate paths are presented to the user along with computed confidence scores. The installation details may further include nongeographic features used in the cognitive analysis such as a date of installation of the utility or an entity associated with the utility.
US11263537B1
An online system, such as an online content distribution system, receives information describing presentations of a content item. The online system identifies online system users included among individuals presented with the content item, retrieves information describing a household of each user, and de-biases this information to adjust for differences between the population of online system users and the individuals to whom the content item was presented. The online system then trains a set of machine-learning models to infer a reach of the content item for each of multiple households using the de-biased information. Using the machine-learning models, the online system infers a reach of the content item for each of the households.
US11263528B2
The present disclosure provides an artificial neural network communicatively-coupled to at least one computer having one or more processors, including a plurality of neurons arranged in layers. The artificial neural network is arranged to receive a new neuron into a layer of the artificial neural network during training; the new neuron is added to the neural network when no other neuron in that layer for a selected output can learn a relationship associated with an input vector of a data set being learnt. The new neuron is updated with both the relationship which could not be learnt by any other neuron in that layer and a modified data set from a last trained neuron in that layer that contributes to the selected output of the neural network. Methods and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11263527B2
A method provides a set of predicted responses to a user. The method includes receiving a message from a user, the message having natural language information. The method includes processing, using cognitive switching logic (CSL), the natural language information and information from previous messages from the user. The method includes identifying, using CSL, a context of the natural language information based on the information from the previous messages. The method includes identifying, using CSL, at least one knowledge domain which contains a response to the message, based on the identified context and on user persona information. The method includes retrieving a response from each identified knowledge domain. The method further includes, in response to retrieving more than one response, transmitting feedback to CSL to refine identifying the at least one knowledge domain until only one response is retrieved. The method further includes presenting the one response to the user.
US11263517B1
Disclosed herein are techniques for obtain weights for neural network computations. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit may include an arithmetic circuit configured to perform arithmetic operations for a neural network. The integrated circuit may also include a weight processing circuit configured to: acquire data from a memory device; receive configuration information indicating a size of each quantized weight of a set of quantized weights; extract the set of quantized weights from the data based on the size of the each weight indicated by the configuration information; perform de-quantization processing on the set of quantized weights to generate a set of de-quantized weights; and provide the set of de-quantized weights to the arithmetic circuit to enable the arithmetic circuit to perform the arithmetic operations. The memory device may be part of or external to the integrated circuit.
US11263514B2
In one aspect, this specification describes a recurrent neural network system implemented by one or more computers that is configured to process input sets to generate neural network outputs for each input set. The input set can be a collection of multiple inputs for which the recurrent neural network should generate the same neural network output regardless of the order in which the inputs are arranged in the collection. The recurrent neural network system can include a read neural network, a process neural network, and a write neural network. In another aspect, this specification describes a system implemented as computer programs on one or more computers in one or more locations that is configured to train a recurrent neural network that receives a neural network input and sequentially emits outputs to generate an output sequence for the neural network input.
US11263507B2
A working method for an IC card having a fingerprint recognition function, comprising: an IC card receiving and determining an instruction type from a terminal, and when determined that the received instruction is an application selection instruction, the IC card selecting an application and returning a response to the terminal; when determined that the received instruction is a processing option acquisition instruction, the IC card acquiring a user fingerprint information verification state according to the content of the instruction, and if verification is successful, returning to the terminal a processing option instruction response containing an application file locator list for which a personal identification number does not need to be verified; if verification fails, returning to the terminal a processing option instruction response containing an application file locator list for which a personal identification number must be verified; when determined that the received instruction is a record reading instruction, the IC card returning a record reading response to the terminal according to the record reading instruction, wherein the record reading response contains a method for verifying a card holder. Thus, the risk of a personal identification number being leaked is avoided, thus enhancing the security of a transaction, while also improving user experience.
US11263506B2
A secure smart card is described. The smart card can include a processor, a memory and a transceiver. The smart card can communicate with various terminals and store a digital signature and other information on the card. Another terminal can validate the information stored on the smart card using the digital signature. In certain embodiments, the terminal can also validate the information by using a blockchain. The advanced design of the smart card obviates the need for a network connection.
US11263502B1
A method, at a terminal having at least one associated graphical user interface(s)(GUI)(s), comprising: receiving input data, at one or more I/O device(s) associated with and communicatively connected to the terminal, selecting one or more file object(s) displayed on the at least one associated graphical user interface(s); retrieving, from a database stored on a computer-readable medium, parameters associated with one or more criteria for performing a sequence of one or more commands; accessing properties of file(s) associated with the one or more file objects; comparing the properties of the file(s) with the parameters associated with one or more criteria to determine which criteria are met; retrieving, from a database stored on a computer-readable medium, sequences of one or more commands to be performed under specified conditions; and calculating and initiating the appropriate sequence of commands. A terminal, system, and computer readable medium are also disclosed.
US11263496B2
Methods for matching features in patterns for electronic designs include inputting a set of pattern data for semiconductor or flat panel displays, where the set of pattern data comprises a plurality of features. Each feature in the plurality of features is classified, where the classifying is based on a geometrical context defined by shapes in a region. The classifying uses machine learning techniques.
US11263495B2
A device and computer implemented method for digital image content recognition. The method includes determining, depending on a digital image, a first candidate class for the content of the digital image by a baseline model neural network comprising a first feature extractor and a first classifier for classifying digital images; determining a second candidate class for the content of the digital image by a prototypical neural network comprising a second feature extractor and a second classifier for classifying digital images, classifying the content of the digital image into either the first candidate class or the second candidate class depending on the result of a comparison of a first confidence score for the first candidate class to a threshold or of a comparison of a first confidence score for the first candidate class to a second confidence score for the second candidate class.
US11263491B2
The invention discloses a person search method based on person re-identification driven localization refinement. On one hand, the region of interest (ROI) conversion module converts an original input image into a small image corresponding to a ROI, and contradiction existing in part of features shared by a person re-identification network and a detection network is avoided; and on the other hand, loss of the person re-identification network can be transmitted back to the detection network in a gradient manner through the ROI conversion module, the supervision of loss of the person re-identification network for the detection bounding box output by the detection network is realized, and the adjusted detection bounding box can effectively remove background interference, contains more useful attribute information and is more suitable for person search, so that the person search accuracy is greatly improved.
US11263488B2
Embodiments may provide learning and recognition of classifications using only one or a few examples of items. For example, in an embodiment, a method of computer vision processing may be implemented in a computer comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the method may comprise training a neural network system implemented in the computer system to classify images into a plurality of classes using one or a few training images for each class and a plurality of associated semantic information, wherein the plurality of associated semantic information is from a plurality of sources and comprises at least some of class/object labels, textual description, or attributes, and wherein the neural network is trained by modulating the training images by sequentially applying the plurality of associated semantic information and classifying query images using the trained neural network system.
US11263487B2
A computer-implemented technique uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) to jointly train a generator neural network (“generator”) and a discriminator neural network (“discriminator”). Unlike traditional GAN designs, the discriminator performs the dual role of: (a) determining one or more attribute values associated with an object depicted in input image fed to the discriminator; and (b) determining whether the input image fed to the discriminator is real or synthesized by the generator. Also unlike traditional GAN designs, an image classifier can make use of a model produced by the GAN's discriminator. The generator receives generator input information that includes a conditional input image and one or more conditional values that express desired characteristics of the generator output image. The discriminator receives the conditional input image in conjunction with a discriminator input image, which corresponds to either the generator output image or a real image.
US11263479B2
An anomaly detection apparatus generates pieces of image data using a generator and train the generator and a discriminator that discriminates whether an image data, generated by the generator, is real or fake. The anomaly detection apparatus trains the generator such that the generator, in generating the pieces of image data to maximize the discrimination error of the discriminator, generate at least a piece of specified image data to reduce the discrimination error at a fixed rate with respect to the pieces of image data and trains, based on the pieces of image data and the at least a piece of specified image data, the discriminator to minimize the discrimination error.
US11263476B2
The system and method are directed to a prototypical contrastive learning (PCL). The PCL explicitly encodes the hierarchical semantic structure of the dataset into the learned embedding space and prevents the network from exploiting low-level cues for solving the unsupervised learning task. The PCL includes prototypes as the latent variables to help find the maximum-likelihood estimation of the network parameters in an expectation-maximization framework. The PCL iteratively performs an E-step for finding prototypes with clustering and M-step for optimizing the network on a contrastive loss.
US11263475B2
A method of dynamically updating a feature database that contains features corresponding to a known target object includes providing an image, extracting a first set of features from within the captured image, and comparing the first set of features to the features stored in the feature database. If it is determined that the target object is present in the image then at least one of the extracted features of the first set that are not already included in the feature database are added to the feature database.
US11263464B2
Provided is a system protecting privacy or the like of a land owner when providing an image taken by an unmanned flying object to the public (1) includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (10) and a computer (30). A control unit (14) in the unmanned aerial vehicle (10) executes an image acquisition module (141) to acquire an aerial image including positional information. A control unit (32) in the computer (30) executes a region designation module (321) to set a region where viewing is to be restricted. The control unit (32) executes a condition setting module (332) to set conditions for canceling the viewing restriction and set the conditions in a viewing authorization database (332). The control unit (32) executes a provision module (323) to provide an aerial image which includes the region where viewing is restricted.
US11263455B2
A mobile terminal in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure include: a flicker sensor configured to recognize a surrounding environment of the mobile terminal; a time of flight (ToF) sensor configured to measure a depth of a subject and a camera configured to capture the subject to generate an image of the subject; and a controller configured to control the camera to recognize the surrounding environment by operating the flicker sensor in response to a user input for operating the camera, to determine a light output time of the ToF sensor in response to the surrounding environment, and to capture the subject while measuring the depth of the subject by operating the ToF sensor in an operation mode corresponding to the light output time. Other embodiments are also available.
US11263449B2
An automated communication design analysis and construction system that includes one or more intelligent communication design servers, comprising: a normalization module that converts communication content files for different recipients to normalized intermediate format files; an objects identification and quantification module that identifies text objects and image objects in the normalized intermediate format files; a cross-recipient group analysis module configured to identify static global objects that are invariant between recipients, data variables, and variable global objects that vary between recipients in the normalized intermediate format files; and an intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine that can construct standard communication design files based on the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects. A data storage stores the communication content files and the standard communication design files. A communication resource allocation server sends the standard communication design files to one or more product fulfillment centers.
US11263444B2
A method for studying the behavior of an animal in an experimental area including stimulating the animal using a stimulus device; collecting data from the animal using a data collection device; analyzing the collected data; and developing a quantitative behavioral primitive from the analyzed data. A system for studying the behavior of an animal in an experimental area including a stimulus device for stimulating the animal; a data collection device for collecting data from the animal; a device for analyzing the collected data; and a device for developing a quantitative behavioral primitive from the analyzed data. A computer implemented method, a computer system and a nontransitory computer readable storage medium related to the same. Also, a method and apparatus for automatically discovering, characterizing and classifying the behavior of an animal in an experimental area. Further, use of a depth camera and/or a touch sensitive device related to the same.
US11263438B2
An augmented reality device (ARD) can present virtual content which can provide enhanced experiences with the user's physical environment. For example, the ARD can detect a linkage between a person in the FOV of the ARD and a physical object (e.g., a document presented by the person) or detect linkages between the documents. The linkages may be used in identity verification or document verification.
US11263436B1
A facial feature matching system comprises a facial feature matching engine. A first user selection of reference facial images is received, and facial features of reference faces are characterized using the facial feature recognition engine comprising a neural network with input, hidden, and output layers. The facial features are weighted. The weighted facial features are used to identify users that have facial features similar to the weighted facial features, wherein the respective reference faces include faces different than the faces of the users. Similarity indicators are generated for the identified users. The generated respective similarity indicators are used to generate a ordering of the identified users which is rendered via the user device. A first user selection of a second user in the ordered identified users is received and the first user and the second user are enabled to communicate over an electronic communication channel.
US11263426B2
A fingerprint identification device, a driving method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The fingerprint identification device includes: a receiving electrode layer, a piezoelectric material layer, and a drive electrode layer. The piezoelectric material layer is between the receiving electrode layer and the drive electrode layer, the piezoelectric material layer is configured to emit ultrasonic waves under an excitation of at least a drive voltage, and is further configured to convert ultrasonic waves, which are emitted by the piezoelectric material layer and reflected by a fingerprint to be detected, into electrical signals; the drive electrode layer is configured to receive the drive voltage and a first fixed voltage simultaneously, and the receiving electrode layer is configured to output the electrical signals while receiving a second fixed voltage; the electrical signals are used for obtaining a fingerprint image.
US11263422B2
Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for providing fingerprint sensors based on ultrasound imaging techniques in electronic devices and fabrication techniques for producing ultrasound-based fingerprint sensors. In some aspects, an ultrasound fingerprint sensor device includes an intermediate layer coupled to a base chip including an integrated circuit having conducive contacts at a surface of the base chip, the intermediate layer including an insulation layer formed on the base chip and a corresponding array of channeling electrode structures coupled to the conductive contacts and passing through the insulation layer, in which the channeling electrodes terminate at or above a top surface of the insulation layer to provide bottom electrodes; a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements including an acoustic transducer material coupled to the bottom electrodes; and a plurality of top electrodes positioned on the ultrasonic transducer elements.
US11263421B2
A dual touch sensor with XY-position and Z-force sensing, such as for implementing a touch button, includes a touch sensor assembly with: (a) an XY-position sensor (such as capacitive, single ended or differential) including an XY electrode disposed at the backside of the touch surface opposite the button area to define an XY sensing area corresponding to the button area, the XY-position sensor to sense a touch within the XY sensing area, as a button-touch event; and (b) a Z-force sensor (such as inductive or capacitive) including a Z-electrode to sense touch-pressure deflection of the touch surface, including to sense a touch-pressure deflection that exceeds a button-press threshold as a button-press event. Sensor electronics coupled to the XY-position sensor and the Z-force sensor detects, as a button touch-press condition, the capacitive XY-position sensor sensing a button-touch event, substantially contemporaneous with the Z-Force sensor sensing a button-press event.
US11263419B2
A biometric analysis structure, method and neural network with coded mask are provided. The biometric analysis structure includes a display panel, a light source, and a sensor. The sensor is disposed on the optical path of light from the light source and reflected by the display panel. The biometric analysis structure includes an coded mask. The coded mask is disposed on the optical path in front of the sensor. the coded mask is represented as a first matrix in a matrix form and the first matrix is a delta function after satisfying an autocorrelation operation. The resulting image can be inversely resolved based on the image of the coded mask. Thus, the security of the fingerprint recognition method is improved, and the thickness of the entire imaging structure is reduced.
US11263413B2
A barcode-reading system for a mobile device may include a camera assembly. The barcode-reading system may include a barcode-reading enhancement accessory and a barcode-reading application. The barcode-reading enhancement accessory may be securable to the mobile device and may be configured to provide an indication of license entitlement to the mobile device. The barcode-reading application may be stored in memory of the mobile device and executable by a processor of the mobile device. The barcode-reading application may also be configured to enable an enhanced mode of operation of the barcode-reading application conditional upon determining obtaining the license entitlement from the accessory.
US11263412B2
Remote measuring and sensing. Some example embodiment related to optical energy harvesting by identification device, such as infrared identification device GRID devices). Other embodiments relate to RFID device localization using low frequency source signals. Yet still other embodiments related to energy harvesting by RFID in electric fields in both conductive and non-conductive environments.
US11263410B2
There is provided a method including generating an initial token being associated with a given context, and sending the initial token to a destination device. The method also includes receiving a scanned token generated by a mobile device scanning an output of the destination device. The output may be generated based on the initial token. In addition, the method includes authenticating the scanned token by comparing the scanned token to the initial token. Furthermore, the method includes generating a productivity indicator based on the scanned token, and outputting the productivity indicator.
US11263408B2
A computer generates a plurality of encoded sentences in the first language by encoding a plurality of sentences in the first language in prescribed units. Next, the computer generates a plurality of encoded sentences in the second language by encoding a plurality of sentences in the second language, each of which is associated with each of the plurality of sentences in the first language, in the prescribed units. The computer generates alignment information based on a code included in each of the plurality of encoded sentences in the first language and a code included in an encoded sentence in the second language, which is associated with each of the plurality of encoded sentences in the first language. The alignment information indicates an alignment between a plurality of codes in the first language and a plurality of codes in the second language.
US11263405B2
A computer-implemented method for answering natural language medical information questions posed by a user of a medical conversational interface of a cognitive artificial intelligence system, the method comprising: receiving from a medical conversational user interface a user-generated natural language medical information query at an artificial intelligence-based medical conversation cognitive agent; extracting a medical question from the query; compiling a medical conversation language sample; extracting internal medical concepts and medical data from the sample, where the internal medical concepts include descriptions of medical attributes of the medical data entities; inferring a therapeutic intent of the user; generating a therapeutic paradigm logical framework for interpreting of the medical question, wherein logical framework comprises a catalog of medical logical progression paths from the medical question to respective therapeutic answers, each of the logical progression paths includes one or more medical logical linkages from the medical question to a therapeutic path-specific answer, and the medical logical linkages include the internal medical concepts and external therapeutic paradigm concepts derived from a store of medical subject matter ontology data; selecting a likely medical information path based upon the therapeutic intent of the user; and answering the medical question.
US11263404B2
A system, method and program product that provides a conversational AI platform using a declarative graph model. A system is included having a natural language (NL) interface the receives NL user inputs from a message queue; an intent analyzer that determines an intent of a received NL user input and loads a graph associated with the intent; and a graph traversal manager having traversal logic to first traverse the graph first along a start path from an intent node to a dialog node, then traverse an ask path to a question node to obtain missing entity data, then traverse a contacts path to a service node to execute an external service and return a fulfillment response based on submitted entity data, then traverse a replies with path to a response node to create a formatted fulfillment response that is forwarded to the message queue.
US11263395B1
A system and method for document transformation and compliance are provided. Document templates are maintained and each template includes data fields each associated with a data field identifier. Data values are received in one or more of the data fields of at least one document template. The data values are associated with the data fields into which the data values are received via the data field identifiers for those data fields. A property address is received and a set of compliance rules is identified. A subset of the document templates are retrieved as active documents for a transaction of the property based on the identified rules. The active documents are populated with those data fields that are associated with the linked data values via the data field identifiers. Compliance checking of the populated data values in the active documents is performed using a compliance rule set.
US11263390B2
Systems, methods, and media for controlling the review of documents. Methods may include receiving a request to review a document, responsive to the request, retrieving the document, the document including source content in an extensible markup language format, the document having a read-only access file permission, converting the document to read-write access file permission such that the source content is modifiable, receiving a modification of the source content of the document, incorporating the modification of the source content into the document to create a modified document, and automatically providing the modified document in a displayable format via the web-based interface.
US11263383B2
A document architecture system includes an intelligent document processing engine that can receive raw data streamed from external data source(s), analyze the raw data to identify triggering events, apply rules to the triggering events identified, break down the raw data accordingly, and generating messages in an internal format to represent the pieces of data without any formatting or layout information. The messages can be augmented with custom metadata and stored as fragments that reference, but that do not physically incorporate, the messages. The stored fragments can be used by the document process engine to intelligently render documents and versions thereof. Some embodiments store only unique fragments, resulting in a significant reduction in storage requirements and an extremely efficient way of processing huge amounts of data (e.g., millions of documents) for document production. The messages and fragments are in internal formats under control of the document architecture system.
US11263380B2
A circuit includes a reference node configured to carry a reference voltage level, a first node configured to carry a signal having a first voltage level or the reference voltage level, a second node configured to carry a power supply voltage having a power supply voltage level in a power-on mode and the reference voltage level in a power-off mode, and a plurality of transistors coupled in series between the first node and the reference node. Each transistor of the plurality of transistors receives a corresponding control signal of a plurality of control signals, and each control signal has a first value based on the power supply voltage in the power-on mode and a second value based on the signal in the power-off mode.
US11263376B1
A computer executable tool fixes gate-level logic simulation when unknowns (Xs) exist in nested clock gater chains to improve simulation accuracy. Due to X-pessimism in logic simulation, false Xs are generated when simulating nested clock gaters, producing incorrect simulation results. The tool analyzes the fan-in cones along a nested clock gater chain to find such false Xs. Furthermore, it generates auxiliary code to be used with logic simulation to eliminate such false Xs. Gate-level simulation can then be repaired to produce correct results for nested clock gaters.
US11263372B2
In a first aspect, the current invention provides a method for manipulating a computer aided design (CAD) model, comprising the following computer-implemented steps of: —obtaining a composite object comprising a 3D geometry; —defining a 2D cross section of the composite object; —selecting a pattern of an event; —displaying the pattern; —applying modifications to the pattern, whereby the modifications are saved as a 2D patch, directly linked to the 3D geometry. The method according to an embodiment of the invention is particularly suitable for linking the maps providing 2D details, used on a construction site, to 3D composite objects and is particularly useful to avoid incompatibilities between the 2D and 3D information. In a second aspect, the present invention provides a computer program product for manipulating a CAD model. In a third aspect, the present invention provides a server for manipulating a CAD model.
US11263370B2
Techniques for allocating hydrocarbon production include receiving a selection of a particular area identification (ID) of a plurality of area IDs stored on the server; determining based on the selected particular area ID, a plurality of hydrocarbon production values that include periodic area-level hydrocarbon production values associated with the particular area ID and a plurality of wells associated with the particular area ID; determining a decline curve model for the area-level hydrocarbon production values associated with the particular area ID; modeling the aggregated periodic well-level hydrocarbon production values with the determined decline curve model; and determining allocated well-level hydrocarbon production values based at least in part on the selected decline curve model to display at a client device.
US11263368B2
A computing system includes memory configured to store instructions and a nozzle library, and a processor configured to access the memory and to execute the instructions. The instructions cause the computing system to select at least one nozzle unit as a selected at least one nozzle unit based on the nozzle library and to place the selected at least one nozzle unit at corresponding location coordinates, to create multiple volume meshes for the process chamber, and to simulate the flow of the gas through the selected at least one nozzle unit in the process chamber based on the multiple volume meshes in the process chamber. The nozzle library includes information about multiple nozzle units of which each has multiple volume meshes formed therein. The nozzle units have different shapes from each other.
US11263357B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a design method for a LiDAR scanning mirror. The design method may include receiving, by a communication interface, design parameters of the LiDAR scanning mirror. The design method may further include setting, by at least one processor, an initial value and a step size for each design parameter. The design method may also include adjusting the design parameters according to the respective step sizes. The design method may additionally include computing one or more mirror performance indexes, by the at least one processor, by applying a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) model to the adjusted design parameters. The design method may further include determining that the mirror performance indexes meet a predetermined target performance. The design method may also include providing, by the at least one processor, the adjusted design parameters and the mirror performance indexes for making the LiDAR scanning mirror.
US11263353B2
This disclosure describes systems on a chip (SOCs) that prevent side channel attacks (SCAs). An example SoC of this disclosure includes an engine configured to encrypt transmission (Tx) channel data using an encryption operation set configured with a first polynomial, and to decrypt encrypted received (Rx) channel data using a decryption operation set configured with a second polynomial different from the first polynomial. The SoC further includes a security processor configured to multiplex the encryption operation set against the decryption operation set with a varied sequence of selection inputs on a round-by-round basis to generate a mixed sequence of encryption rounds and decryption rounds, and to control the engine to encrypt the Tx channel data and decrypt the encrypted Rx channel data in a combined datapath according to the mixed sequence of encryption rounds and decryption rounds.
US11263350B2
In a cryptographic apparatus, a cryptographic module executes first assurance check processing, which is processing for satisfying a predetermined certification requirement on image data of first software, and also executes second assurance check processing, which is processing for satisfying the above predetermined certification requirement on a verification target, which is at least part of image data of second software, and on which verification for satisfying the predetermined certification requirement is not performed by a device.
US11263349B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for discovery and analysis of software distributed across an electronic network platform of an entity. The present invention is configured to continuously monitor one or more hardware devices associated with a technology environment; initiate an open source code discovery engine on the one or more hardware devices, wherein initiating further comprises automatically populating a first database with at least the portion of the one or more applications that match the attributes associated with open source code identifiers; and initiate an approval and enforcement engine on at least the portion of the one or more applications stored on the first database.
US11263348B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving permission data from an application server. The permission data is for an account to access a software application of a plurality of software applications, and the application server is configured to provide the software application. Responsive to receiving the permission data from the application server, storing the permission data in a native database. Receiving a request to grant the account access to the software application. Determining whether the database stores the permission data for the account to access the software application. In response to determining that the database stores the permission data, granting access to the account to access the software application.
US11263346B2
A method for controlling exposure of sensitive data though a logging system is provided. The method comprises: upon receiving a request by the request handler, determining sensitive data as part of the request by applying a rule, converting the data into a transformed format, and registering the data together with a related data field label with a log handler. Then, upon receiving by the log handler a log entry, converting each expression of the log entry into the transformed format, and comparing each transformed expression with each of the sensitive data in the transformed format. Upon determining a match of one of the transformed expressions with one of the sensitive data in the transformed format, the method comprises issuing an alert indicating that the log entry comprises sensitive data.
US11263341B1
Methods and systems for identifying personally identifiable information (PII) are disclosed. In some aspects, frequency maps of fields storing known PII information are generated. The frequency maps may count occurrences of unique bigrams in the PII fields. A field of interest may then be analyzed to generate a second frequency map. Correlations between the first frequency maps and the second frequency map may be generated. If one of the correlations meets certain criterion, the disclosed embodiments may determine that the field of interest does or does not include PII. Access control for the field of interest may then be based on whether the field includes PII. In some aspects, a storage location of data included in the field of interest may be based on whether the field includes PII.
US11263334B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for validating a structured data object. A computer system receives a request to access enterprise data within a human resources database. The request is received from a consuming service within an authentication context of the user. The computer system determines a view context for the human resources (HR) database by applying a business rule to the authentication context. The business rule comprises a set of data nodes that are composed into a structured data object according to a domain specific language. The computer system creates a data view of the human resources database according to the view context determined by the business rule. The computer system provides the data view to the consuming service. The consuming service natively accesses the enterprise data through the data view.
US11263333B2
An example operation may include one or more one or more of receiving two or more authorization decisions from two or more authorization entities into a blockchain system, recording the two or more authorization decisions into one or more blocks of a blockchain of the blockchain system, determining, by the blockchain system, whether the two or more authorization decisions satisfy a policy to authorize access to at least one of a device or identifiable content on the device, and when the two or more authorization decisions satisfy the policy, authorizing access to a public key that can be used to gain access to the device.
US11263331B2
An electronic device for checking a randomness of an identification key device, a random key checker circuit for an electronic device and a method of checking randomness for an electronic device. An electronic device for checking a randomness of an identification key device includes an identification key generator, configured to generate an identification key. A random key checker circuit, configured to receive the identification key from the identification key generator, calculates a randomness value of the identification key according to the identification key for checking a randomness of the identification key and generates an output of the identification key with high randomness.
US11263330B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving at a computing device that is in a locked state, one or more user inputs to unlock the device and to execute at least one command that is different from a command for unlocking the device. The method further includes executing in response to the user inputs to unlock the device an unlocking operation by the device to convert the device from a locked state to an unlocked state. The method further includes executing the at least one command in response to receiving the user inputs to execute the at least one command. The at least one command executes so that results of executing the at least one command are first displayed on the device to a user automatically after the device changes from the locked state to the unlocked state.
US11263325B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to capture an image on a display, where the image includes at least one user interface element and is part of an application, create a screen signature of the image, determine an exploration strategy for the image based on the screen signature, and perform the exploration strategy on the image. The image can be abstracted to create the screen signature and the exploration strategy includes interacting with each of the at least one user interface elements.
US11263317B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatically processing diversely structured operational policies. Techniques include identifying a policy associated with an application or computer code; applying a language processing protocol to the policy to interpret the policy and extract attribute(s) of the policy, where the policy is defined using a vocabulary and syntax; normalizing the policy to define the policy using a standardized vocabulary and syntax agnostic to an infrastructure or service associated with the application or computer code, where one or more of the vocabulary and syntax are respectively different from the standardized vocabulary and syntax and where normalizing the policy comprises translating the attribute(s) of the policy; and evaluating the policy based on the normalizing to determine whether a potentially malicious activity is associated with the application or computer code.
US11263304B2
A dyschromatopsia deciding method and apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an I/O interface configured to receive an input for a program, a memory configured to store the input for the program and a processing result of the input, and a processor configured to execute the program, wherein the processor is configured to provide first CAPTCHA information for distinguishing between a person and a machine together with second CAPTCHA information for deciding dyschromatopsia, receive first CAPTCHA input information corresponding to the first CAPTCHA information and second CAPTCHA input information corresponding to the second CAPTCHA information together with authentication information, authenticate a user based on the first CAPTCHA input information, decide dyschromatopsia of the user based on the second CAPTCHA input information, and store a decision result of the dyschromatopsia in response to a decision that the user has the dyschromatopsia.
US11263302B2
A method for managing portable data carriers in a system having at least one portable data carrier, an authentication server, and several service providers systems each including reading devices and a service provider unit. The reading devices may request an authentication information item of the data carrier and relay the authentication information item to the authentication server. The authentication server may authenticate the data carrier on the basis of the authentication information item and establish an application identity associated with the data carrier in the service provider system with the help of the security identity The established application identity associated with the data carrier may be transmitted from the authentication server to the reading device of the service provider system.
US11263282B2
A system and a method are disclosed that enable a mobile device to use an encoded tag to initiate and maintain communications with at least one remote server. The encoded tag is positioned to identify a point of interest, and in response to using the mobile device to scan the encoded tag, communications regarding the point of interest may be initiated. A single encoded tag may be used to obtain and update recorded information about the point of interest, to notify others about an issue related to the point of interest, to log into the system, and to wait to be alerted about an issue related to the point of interest. If an issue relating to a point of interest has been reported, the system and method may monitor the reported issue to ensure that an action has been taken to address the reported issue.
US11263275B1
This disclosure discloses systems, devices, and methods for parallelized data structure processing in context of machine learning and reverse proxy servers.
US11263271B2
There are provided a digital content viewing system, a digital content viewing method, and a computer program, all of which make it possible to update a digital content that has been downloaded without downloading the entire digital content again if the digital content is updated. A digital content viewing system 1 includes a viewer terminal 5. The viewer terminal 5 includes: a configuration information file acquisition section 57A configured to check if a configuration information file corresponding to a digital content is stored in a data storage section 55 when the digital content is designated, and download the configuration information file OPF as necessary; and a content file acquisition section 57B configured to specify a corresponding content file on a basis of the configuration information file when the content file is designated, check if the content file having the same file name is stored in the data storage section 55, and download the content file as necessary.
US11263267B1
Methods, apparatuses, or computer program products provide for providing interaction vectors related to a component management system. An interaction vector data structure request for a component management system may be received from a client device. The interaction vector data structure request may include one or more interaction vector identifiers and one or more component identifiers. Additionally, metadata associated with the one or more component identifiers may be retrieved. The metadata may include respective component object identifiers for the one or more component identifiers. A component dependency work graph structure may be traversed based on the respective component object identifiers to generate one or more interaction vector data structures based on one or more dependencies between component object data associated with the respective component object identifiers. Furthermore, one or more interaction vector interface elements representative of the one or more interaction vector data structures may be transmitted to the client device.
US11263264B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide improvements to graph indexing. In one implementation, a graph management system may identify an event to generate a new vertex type to index a graph based on an attribute type in one or more vertices of the graph. In response to the event, the graph management system may generate one or more new indexing vertices that correspond to the new vertex type and may connect each of the one or more vertices to the one or more new indexing vertices based on an attribute in the vertex.
US11263262B2
Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that process one or more tags associated with a dataset and index the dataset based on the processing of the one or more tags. Processing a tag may include, for example, tokenizing the tag, mapping or expanding abbreviations included within the tag, and otherwise mapping or expanding elements of the tag based on alphanumeric characteristics. Additionally, as part of processing the tag, a number of potential tags may be determined. An ontology may be searched to determine whether any of the potential tags are also found within the ontology. The dataset may be indexed into a searchable index based on any of the potential tags that are found within the ontology.
US11263259B2
Compositing aware digital image search techniques and systems are described that leverage machine learning. In one example, a compositing aware image search system employs a two-stream convolutional neural network (CNN) to jointly learn feature embeddings from foreground digital images that capture a foreground object and background digital images that capture a background scene. In order to train models of the convolutional neural networks, triplets of training digital images are used. Each triplet may include a positive foreground digital image and a positive background digital image taken from the same digital image. The triplet also contains a negative foreground or background digital image that is dissimilar to the positive foreground or background digital image that is also included as part of the triplet.
US11263255B2
Techniques of the disclosure are directed to a computing device creating and outputting, for display at client devices accessing a social media platform, targeted content. The computing device may receive candidate messages composed by users of a group of client devices, where the candidate messages each include a reference to the requisite product, brand, or market. If a candidate message has a determined interest score that satisfies a threshold interest score, the computing device includes the candidate message into a group of brand messages. The computing device may then send the targeted message to be output for display at another group of client devices, where the targeted message includes both an original portion and a carousel portion. The carousel portion includes a group of transitional windows, where each transitional window includes one of the brand messages from the group of brand messages.
US11263253B2
An example method involves receiving a playlist defining a sequence of media content items including a first media content item and a second media content item; retrieving, from one or more server devices, first data representing the media content items of the received playlist, and using the retrieved first data to play out the media content items in accordance with the sequence defined by the playlist; making a determination of whether a condition has been satisfied, wherein the condition corresponds to a content category type; and responsive to the determination being that the condition has been satisfied, (i) retrieving second data representing a media content item of the content category type, and (ii) using the retrieved second data to play out the media content item of the content category type in between playing out the first and second media content items.
US11263252B2
Embodiments described herein are related to cloning a volume in a file system. In some embodiments, for each index node representing a file or directory in the volume, the index node is updated to include a back pointer to each file or directory which points to the index node in the volume. In some embodiments, a copy-on-write operation is performed in order to generate a clone of the volume's root node. In certain embodiments, upon determining that a file or directory of the clone has been modified, a new index node is generated representing the file or directory by copying an index node representing a corresponding file or directory of the volume. In some embodiments, each file or directory which should point to the new index node in the clone is identified based on one or more back pointers and updated to point to the new index node.
US11263246B2
System and method for processing time-related geospatial data from one or more data sources. For example, a system includes an application server; and a storage. The application server is configured to: receive data including temporal information and geospatial information for each data object of one or more data objects, send the data to a client device to display the data on a map, and generate one or more first multi-dimensional tiles based at least in part on the temporal information and the geospatial information. The one or more first multi-dimensional tiles correspond to a temporal dimension associated with a first temporal width. The application server is further configured to send the one or more first multi-dimensional tiles to store in the storage for retrieval by the client device.
US11263243B1
Digital records are clustered and assigned unique individual identity across a plurality of data sources. Each record contains one or more tagged common properties, which belongs to an underlying identifiable entity. A special parameterized metric distance is calculated for all pairs of records. With adjustment of the metric parameters, the records are clustered based on a predetermined distance threshold. Based on the clustered records, the underlying identity associated with the records can be resolved.
US11263240B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to organizing electronic text documents. In particular, one or more embodiments comprise a content management system that improves the organization of electronic text documents by intelligently and accurately categorizing electronic text documents by topic. The content management system organizes electronic text documents based on one or more topics, without the need for a human reviewer to manually classify each electronic text document, and without the need for training a classification algorithm based on a set of manually classified electronic text documents. Further, the content management system identifies and suggests topics for electronic text documents that relate to new or emerging topics.
US11263229B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for efficiently detecting alert states within unstructured event data. Alert states are illustratively defined as occurring when a threshold number of journey instances are present within the unstructured event data, each journey instance representing a series of events within the event data representing steps within a pre-defined journey. Detecting journey instances within unstructured event data can require significant computational resources, and thus attempting to detect alert states directly from unstructured event data can lead to inefficiencies. Embodiments of this disclosure enable a structured data set of journey instances to be generated from unstructured event data, and for the structured data set to be evaluated based on criteria of multiple alert states. By utilizing a single structured data set to support evaluation based on multiple alert states, detecting alert states from unstructured event data is rendered more efficient.
US11263227B2
An interactive vehicle information map system is disclosed in which, in various embodiments, geographical, geospatial, vehicle, and other types of data, geodata, objects, features, and/or metadata are efficiently presented to a user on an interactive map interface. In an embodiment, the user may search vehicle-related data via the interactive map by providing search criteria including, for example, information regarding a geographic area, a time period, a vehicle, a vehicle owner, and/or a license plate number, among other items. The map system may provide search results including a list of vehicles that match the search criteria, vehicle information, and/or points on the interactive map that indicate license-plate recognition read locations, among other information. In an embodiment, the user may view detailed information associated with particular vehicles including, for example, captured images, vehicle-owner data, event history, and the like. Further, the user may export data and/or create search alerts.
US11263214B2
A method for referencing and updating objects in a shared resource environment. A reference counter counts is incremented for every use of an object subtype in a session and decremented for every release of an object subtype in a session. A session counter is incremented upon the first instance of fetching an object type into a session cache and decremented upon having no instances of the object type in use in the session. When both the reference counter and the session counter are zero, the object type may be removed from the cache. When the object type needs to be updated, it is cloned into a local cache, and changes are made on the local copy. The global cache is then locked to all other users, the original object type is detached, and the cloned object type is swapped into the global cache, after which the global cache in unlocked.
US11263210B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data clean room allowing secure data analysis across multiple accounts, without the use of third parties. Each account may be associated with a different company or party. The data clean room may provide security functions to safeguard sensitive information. For example, the data clean room may restrict access to data in other accounts. The data clean room may also restrict which data may be used in the analysis and may restrict the output. The overlap data may be anonymized to prevent sensitive information from being revealed.
US11263204B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for managing cloud services using smart contracts to facilitate various functions, such as tenant login, tenant enrollment, service registration, tenant usage charging, tenant usage tracking, tenant quota management, and tenant rights revocation. The proposed techniques allow tenant and service accounts to be represented as smart contracts, and for services to delegate authorization for bundles of service attributes to tenants and other services, for which the tenants and services are then charged. The business logic is implemented on a permissioned, distributed ledger (e.g., a private blockchain) and therefore is easily customized for specific classes of tenants and services.
US11263202B2
Scalable implementations of exact distinct counts and multiple exact distinct counts in distributed query processing systems are implemented via systems and devices. Distinct counts and multiple exact distinct counts for identifiers/values are performed based on keys. For distinct counts, datasets including data fields are sorted by values of fields and divided into balanced partitions in distributed servers. Subsets of fields with the same value are partitioned together. Key presence is determined for subsets on each partition, and the number of instances for the key are aggregated for exact distinct counts of values. For multiple distinct counts, fields of a dataset are combined by un-pivoting field columns. Compound keys are generated for combined fields from field identifiers of the combined fields and values of another field. Totals of unique values of the combined fields are determined for values in the counted field based on the compound keys.
US11263185B2
Aspects discussed herein relate to employing deep learning to automate mapping and transformation of a source data set to a target data schema. A system may utilize deep learning algorithms to determine a mapping from the source schema to the target schema through identifying the source schema and creating a correspondence between source fields and target fields, and a corresponding data transformation. Artificial neural networks, configured as schema-level and instance-level classifiers, may generate a set of predictions based on the fields of the source data set and fields of the target data schema. These predictions may be combined with other predictions based on other criteria (such as similarity between the fields) to generate a complete prediction of a schema mapping. Similarly, deep learning techniques may be employed to determine an appropriate data transformation to transform source data content to an appropriate format for corresponding fields of the target schema.
US11263179B2
A method may include receiving request from a first user via an application, for assistance with completion of a document within the application; determining expected characteristics of the completed document, the expected characteristics identifying: a plurality of tasks to be performed to generate the completed document; and a document value; performing a computer-implemented matching process to match the first user with a second user based on the plurality of tasks and document value; and configuring permissions of the application to allow collaborative editing within the application between the first user and second user to complete the document.
US11263175B2
An apparatus includes a processor to: within each reading thread, retrieve a data set part and corresponding part metadata from storage device(s), analyze row group metadata for each row group within the data set part to identify candidate row group(s) meeting specified criteria, and store the candidate row group(s) and corresponding row group metadata within a data buffer of a queue; operate the queue as a FIFO buffer; within each provision thread, retrieve one of multiple row groups and corresponding metadata from within the data buffer, use information in the metadata to identify rows meeting the criteria, and provide those rows to the requesting device or an application; and in response to each instance of storage of a data set part within a data buffer of the queue, analyze the availability of storage space and/or of processing resources to determine whether to dynamically adjust the quantity of reading threads.
US11263170B1
Disclosed is a data processing system to receive a processing graph of an application. A compile time logic is configured to modify the processing graph and generate a modified processing graph. The modified processing graph is configured to apply a post-padding tiling after applying a cumulative input padding that confines padding to an input. The cumulative input padding pads the input into a padded input. The post-padding tiling tiles the padded input into a set of pre-padded input tiles with a same tile size, tiles intermediate representation of the input into a set of intermediate tiles with a same tile size, and tiles output representation of the input into a set of non-overlapping output tiles with a same tile size. Runtime logic is configured with the compile time logic to execute the modified processing graph to execute the application.
US11263167B2
An exemplary method includes establishing, by a sending device, a communication session with a receiving device, the communication session configured to transfer an array of related, sequenced data blocks from the sending device to the receiving device. The method includes sending one or more parameter messages including parameters associated with the array of data blocks. The method includes receiving one or more parameter acknowledgement messages to the one or more parameter messages, the one or more parameter acknowledgement messages including a plurality of memory addresses of the receiving device, the plurality of memory addresses including a respective memory address for each data block of the array of data blocks. The method includes sending the array of data blocks to the receiving device, each data block of the array of data blocks sent to the respective memory address using a remote direct memory access (RDMA) protocol.
US11263163B2
A sensor unit includes at least one sensor for detecting and converting measured quantities into sensor signals; at least one microprocessor; at least one memory for program modules for processing sensor signals, the program modules being executable on the microprocessor; and at least one communications interface to an external application processor, the program modules being able to be activated and deactivated via this communications interface, and further program modules are able to be loaded into the memory via this communications interface. The microprocessor includes at least one closed environment for executing plug-in program modules.
US11263160B2
An electronic device is disclosed. In addition, various embodiments identified through the specification are available. An electronic device disclosed in the disclosure includes a connector that is connected to a docking device, a first interface module supporting a display port protocol, a second interface module supporting a UFS protocol, a third interface module supporting a USB protocol, a switch located between the connector and the first interface module and the second interface module, a processor that controls the switch, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the switch such that the first interface module is connected to the connector, receive a first signal requesting a change of an interface module from the docking device through the third interface module, and control the switch such that the second interface module is connected to the connector.
US11263159B2
Configuration devices in a module. In some embodiments a radio-frequency module includes a serial bus including a first serial data line and a second serial data line. The radio-frequency module also includes a control component coupled to the serial bus and the first switch, the control component configured to determine whether first data is detected on the first serial data line, determine whether second data is detected on the second serial data line, and decode a command based on the first data and second data when the first data is detected on the first serial data line and when the second data is detected on the second serial data line.
US11263155B2
A realm management unit (RMU) maintains an ownership table specifying ownership entries for corresponding memory regions defining ownership attributes specifying, from among a plurality of realms, an owner realm of the corresponding region. Each realm corresponds to at least a portion of at least one software process. The owner realm has a right to exclude other realms from accessing data stored in the corresponding region. Memory access is controlled based on the ownership table. In response to a region fuse command specifying a fuse target address indicative contiguous regions of memory to be fused into a fused group of regions, a region fuse operation updates the ownership table to indicate that the ownership attributes for the fused group of regions are represented by a single ownership entry. This provides architectural support for enabling improvement of TLB performance.
US11263154B2
Embodiments are provided for protecting boot block space in a memory device. Such a memory device may include a memory array having a protected portion and a serial interface controller. The memory device may have a register that enables or disables access to the portion when data indicating whether to enable or disable access to the portion is written into the register via a serial data in (SI) input.
US11263152B2
A hybrid hierarchical cache is implemented at the same level in the access pipeline, to get the faster access behavior of a smaller cache and, at the same time, a higher hit rate at lower power for a larger cache, in some embodiments. A split cache at the same level in the access pipeline includes two caches that work together. In the hybrid, split, low level cache (e.g., L1) evictions are coordinated locally between the two L1 portions, and on a miss to both L1 portions, a line is allocated from a larger L2 cache to the smallest L1 cache.
US11263150B2
A method, apparatus and product for utilizing address translation structures for testing address translation cache. The method comprises: obtaining a first address translation structure that comprises multiple levels, including a first top level which connects a sub-structure of the first address translation structure using pointers thereto; determining, based on the first address translation structure, a second address translation structure, wherein the second address translation structure comprises a second top level that is determined based on the first top level, wherein the second top level connects the sub-structure of the first address translation structure; executing a test so as to verify operation of an address translation cache of a target processor at least by: adding a plurality of cache lines to the address translation cache, wherein said adding is based on the address translation structures; and verifying the operation of the address translation cache using one or more memory access operations.
US11263147B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system stores a part of a logical-to-physical address translation table stored in a nonvolatile memory, as a first cache, in a random-access memory, and stores a compressed logical-to-physical address translation table obtained by compressing the logical-to-physical address translation table, as a second cache, in the random-access memory. The memory system stores first information indicative of a part of a first address translation data, in a first area of a first entry of the second cache where first compressed address translation data is stored. When executing processing of checking a part of the first address translation data, the memory system refers to the first information stored in the first entry of the second cache.
US11263146B2
Systems for accessing client data is described. A request to access a first data block is received. The request indicates a first logical address referencing the first data block. First mapping data is employed to identify a first physical addresses corresponding to the first logical addresses. The first mapping data encodes a first LOM transaction ID and candidate local addresses. The first mapping data is employed to identify the candidate local address and the first LOM transaction ID. A usage table is employed to determine the current status of the first LOM transaction ID. The candidate local address is employed to access the first data block. Second mapping data is employed to identify an updated local address of the set of local addresses. The updated local address currently references the first data block. The updated local address is employed to access the first data block.
US11263139B2
A processing system includes a cache, a host memory, a CPU and a hardware accelerator. The CPU accesses the cache and the host memory and generates at least one instruction. The hardware accelerator operates in a non-temporal access mode or a temporal access mode according to the access behavior of the instruction. The hardware accelerator accesses the host memory through an accelerator interface when the hardware accelerator operates in the non-temporal access mode, and accesses the cache through the accelerator interface when the hardware accelerator operates in the temporal access mode.
US11263135B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to retrieving data from an in-memory cache, such as that for a database system. In various embodiments, an in-memory cache receives a request from an application for data, where the request specifies a class having a function executable to access the data from a location external to the cache in response to a cache miss. The cache handles the request such that the cache miss is not returned to the application. Specifically, the cache, in some embodiments, determines whether it stores the requested data, and in response to determining that it does not store the data, calls the function of the class to access the data from the location external to the cache and receives the data returned by the execution of the function. The cache then stores the received data in the cache and returns the received data in response to the request.
US11263132B2
One embodiment provides a system which facilitates organization of data. During operation, the system identifies an original data chunk stored in a non-volatile memory of a storage device, wherein the original data chunk is a logical chunk which includes original logical block addresses. The system stores a first mapping of the original logical block addresses to original physical block addresses in a first data structure. The system assigns new logical block addresses to be included in a new data chunk. The system creates, in a second data structure based on an order of the assigned new logical block addresses, a mapping of the new logical block addresses to valid original logical block addresses. The system stores, based on the first data structure and the second data structure, a second mapping of the new logical block addresses to the original physical block addresses.
US11263129B1
A processor having a functional slice architecture is divided into a plurality of functional units (“tiles”) organized into a plurality of slices. Each slice is configured to perform specific functions within the processor, which may include memory slices (MEM) for storing operand data, and arithmetic logic slices for performing operations on received operand data. The tiles of the processor are configured to stream operand data across a first dimension, and receive instructions across a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension. The timing of data and instruction flows are configured such that corresponding data and instructions are received at each tile with a predetermined temporal relationship, allowing operand data to be transmitted between the slices of the processor without any accompanying metadata. Instead, each slice is able to determine what operations to perform on received data based upon the timing at which the data is received.
US11263126B2
A data storage device may include a nonvolatile memory apparatus and a controller. The controller may be configured to translate a logical address into a physical address when receiving a host command (such as a write command or a read command) including the logical address from a host device, to generate a pre-command including the physical address, to transmit the generated pre-command to the nonvolatile memory apparatus before completing one or more remaining operations of the operations used to process the host command, and to transmit a confirm command to the nonvolatile memory apparatus when the remaining operations are complete. The controller may perform the remaining operations and the transmission of the pre-command to the nonvolatile memory apparatus at the same time.
US11263112B2
A method and an apparatus for evaluating quality of a software running environment of a device. The method includes: determining time deviation values of a to-be-evaluated device in all of N time periods; determining an inherent deviation value based on the time deviation values in all of the N time periods; determining, based on the time deviation values in all of the N time periods and the inherent deviation value, timing jitter amplitudes in all of the N time periods; and selecting a target timing jitter amplitude with a largest timing jitter amplitude. The evaluation parameter for measuring the quality of the software running environment of the to-be-evaluated device can be obtained, and the quality of the software running environment of the device can be evaluated by using the evaluation parameter.
US11263108B2
A device for testing a blockchain network is provided. The device includes a processor. The processor is configured to calculate a matching degree between a configuration of the blockchain network and a template configuration corresponding to application scenario of the blockchain network; calculate performance of the blockchain network; calculate a health degree for the blockchain network; and determine whether the blockchain network is in a stable state based on the matching degree, the performance and the health degree.
US11263106B2
A trace configuration calculating method is applied to pivotal connection of a first workpiece and a hinge. A first trace space is formed at a position where the hinge is pivoted to the first workpiece. A first trace is disposed through the first trace space. The trace configuration calculating method includes the hinge and the first workpiece rotating first and second angles to make the first trace space have first and second contour cross-sections respectively, overlapping the first and second contour cross-sections to form a first intersection area, calculating a first maximum inscribed circle according to the first intersection area, and determining a first optimal center and a first maximum diameter of the first trace according to the first maximum inscribed circle.
US11263097B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using a track format code in a cache control block for a track in a cache to process read and write requests to the track in the cache. A track format table associates track format codes with track format metadata. A determination is made as to whether the track format table has track format metadata matching track format metadata of a track staged into the cache. A determination is made as to whether a track format code from the track format table for the track format metadata in the track format table matches the track format metadata of the track staged. A cache control block for the track being added to the cache is generated including the determined track format code when the track format table has the matching track format metadata.
