US11716477B2
A display device includes a first display layer including display elements disposed on an object; a power supply that supplies a power signal to the display elements; and a signal controller having an encoder that encodes first image data into second image data and that supplies it to the display elements. Each display element includes a base member; a pixel a driving circuit unit having a decoder that decodes the second image data into the first image data and that provides a pixel driving signal to the pixel; a first antenna unit that receives the power signal and that provides the power signal to the driving circuit unit; a second antenna unit that receives the second image data and that provides the second image data to the decoder; and a third antenna unit that transmits and receives an addressing signal for detecting a relative position between the display elements.
US11716475B2
An image processing device 300, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, a monitoring camera 200 and a method 100 of pre-processing images of a video stream before encoding the video stream are disclosed. The images are obtained S110, wherein the obtained images have a first resolution. The obtained images are subsampled S120 to intermediate images having a second resolution lower than the first resolution and lower than a third resolution. The intermediate images are upsampled S130 to output images having the third resolution, wherein the third resolution is the same for all images of the video stream.
US11716473B2
Various embodiments provide an encoder that performs an up-conversion and a down-conversion on a first quantization matrix to generate a second quantization matrix, and quantizes transform coefficients of a current block using the second quantization matrix. The first quantization matrix has a first number of rows and a first number of columns equal to the first number of rows, and the second quantization matrix has a second number of rows and a second number of columns different from the second number of rows. In the up-conversion, the circuitry generates the second quantization matrix such that one of the second number of rows or the second number of columns is larger than the first number of rows. In the down-conversion, the circuitry generates the second quantization matrix such that the other of the second number of rows or the second number of columns is smaller than the first number of rows.
US11716472B2
A method for encoding a picture of a video sequence in a bit stream that constrains tile processing overhead is provided. The method includes computing a maximum tile rate for the video sequence, computing a maximum number of tiles for the picture based on the maximum tile rate, and encoding the picture wherein a number of tiles used to encode the picture is enforced to be no more than the maximum number of tiles.
US11716471B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention may include splitting a picture into a plurality of tiles; and determining at least one slice on the basis of the plurality of tiles. Here, splitting a picture into a plurality of tiles may include: determining the width of a first tile column in the picture; and determining the width of a second tile column neighboring the first tile column.
US11716470B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: encodes information for deriving a parameter into a header of a bitstream; filters reconstructed samples in a first image using a filtering process, to generate a second image; determines whether the parameter has a predefined value; encodes a third image using the second image when the parameter has the predefined value; and encodes the third image using the first image when the parameter does not have the predefined value.
US11716467B2
A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: determining a first prediction mode for a first sub-block in a current block and a second intra prediction mode for a second sub-block, performing a first prediction for the first sub-block based on the first intra prediction mode, performing a second prediction for the second sub-block based on the second intra prediction mode, and obtaining a prediction sample of the current block according to a result of the first prediction and the second prediction.
US11716464B2
A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus according to the present document may comprise the steps of: parsing a prediction weighted table syntax from a bitstream; parsing number information about weighted reference pictures in a reference picture list from the prediction weighted table syntax; deriving a weighting factor-related flag about the reference picture list on the basis of the number information; performing weighted prediction on a current block on the basis of the weighting factor-related flag so as to derive prediction samples of the current block; generating residual samples on the basis of residual information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing a current picture on the basis of the prediction samples and the residual samples, wherein the prediction weighted table syntax is parsed from a picture header of the bitstream.
US11716458B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for testing communication with a device. A multimedia receiver may be communicatively coupled to a media device, such as a source media device. The multimedia receiver may transmit a test command to control the source media device using a communication protocol. A video frame output by the source media device may be obtained. Based at least on the video frame, it may be determined whether the source media device received the test command. In response to a determination that the source media device received the test command, an indication may be stored that the source media device may be controlled using the communication protocol.
US11716453B2
Disclosed is a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing device includes: a linear tone mapper configured to perform linear tone mapping on a part of an input image; a non-linear tone mapper configured to perform non-linear tone mapping on another part of the input image; and a combiner configured to combine an output from the linear tone mapper and an output from the non-linear tone mapper. Accordingly, it is possible to map the dynamic range of an input image to a display.
US11716437B2
There are provided a conversion processing method of performing LUT conversion processing for converting, via a lookup table (LUT), texture characteristic information of an object of which texture is to be reproduced into ink amount information of an ink, which is used in order to reproduce the object of which texture is to be reproduced on a medium, the conversion processing method for optical texture reproduction in which the texture characteristic information is separated into internal scattering information and color signal information, the internal scattering information and the color signal information, which are separated out, are used as inputs of the LUT conversion processing, and as values of a modulation transfer function as the internal scattering information and the color signal information are used in the LUT conversion processing, reproduction of internal scattering and reproduction of color reproduction, which are important qualities of texture, can be simultaneously realized with high accuracy in print production of performing texture reproduction, a printed material production method, and a printed material production system.
US11716436B2
An apparatus for processing an image, includes circuitry configured to: input a first image indicating a target color; input a second image formed by an image forming device to be subjected to adjustment; determine types of objects; and compare the first image and the second image and generate, for each of the types of the objects, a color conversion parameter, based on a correspondence between a chromaticity value in the first image and a chromaticity value in the second image.
US11716435B2
Embodiment of systems and methods for the sending, delivery or receiving of faxes are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at users' sites, and a fax registration system that may be deployed remotely from these users' site. The fax connector can be accessed at a user's site over a computer based network in order to perform functions associated with faxing, including sending, receiving and obtaining status on faxes. The fax connector deployed at a sending user's site communicates with the fax registration system to obtain destination data associated with a recipient user's fax connector and transmits the fax to the destination fax connector over the computer based network based on the destination data obtained from the registration system. The fax can then be presented to the recipient at the recipient user's site.
US11716432B2
An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.
US11716430B2
An image abnormality detecting device includes an image reader, an abnormality detector, a pattern holder, and circuitry. The image reader is configured to read an image on a recording medium. The abnormality detector is configured to detect abnormality of the image based on read information of the image on the recording medium, read by the image reader. The pattern holder has a check pattern and is disposed within a reading area of the image reader. The circuitry is configured to inspect a detecting operation of the abnormality detector based on read information of the check pattern read by the image reader.
US11716424B2
A video call mediation method of a system may include receiving, by a server, a mediation request, from a plurality of mobiles, mediating, by the server, a first mobile and a second mobile, of the plurality of mobiles, establishing, by the first mobile and the second mobile, a video call session, receiving, by the first mobile, a video, from the second mobile, through the video call session, detecting, by the first mobile, a certain input, reporting, by the first mobile, a video received in the server, in response to the certain input, ending, by the first mobile, the video call session with the second mobile, and establishing, by the first mobile, a video call session with a third mobile, and verifying, by the server, the reporting, and rejecting, by the server, additional mediation request of the second mobile.
US11716422B1
Systems and methods receiving call center network architecture data associated with a call center network; utilizing the call center network architecture data to create a model of the call center network; employing the model to run a simulation of the call center network that generates performance data associated with the model; using the model to generate solution parameters for the call center network; and providing the solution parameters to the call center network implementation in the call center network.
US11716419B2
Methods and systems for communicating active voice calls within a system that supports messaging functions between a plurality of accounts are disclosed. Active voice calls are identified between a call participant and a first account of a messaging system. A call object is generated for the active voice call having a data structure including call information about the active voice call. A message is received from the first account, the message associated with the active voice call. An object container is generated including the call object and the received message from the first account. The call object, including the message associated with the active voice call, is displayed in a call user interface of the system, providing controls for a second account of the plurality of accounts of the system to interact with the active voice call.
US11716412B2
Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.
US11716407B2
A system and method of automated downtime scheduling and control is disclosed. A failure of at least one component of at least one bare-metal server associated with a client is detected and a first notification is transmitted to a client system associated with the client. The notification includes a request to schedule downtime. A response including a selected downtime is received from the client system and the at least one bare-metal server is transitioned to an offline state at the selected downtime. A ticket is generated in a ticketing system for repair of the bare-metal server. The ticket identifies the at least one component.
US11716398B1
Profile swapping systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed involving an intermediary system adapted to connect to a network and adapted to manage interaction of a user on the network based on a profile-in-use being used by the user; and a profile system adapted to manage profiles within the intermediary system and adapted to manage swapping of profiles for use by the user in interacting on the network; wherein the profile system includes a user profile for the user and at least one other's profile; and wherein the profile system is adapted to enable the user to swap the user profile for the other's profile, whereby the user profile is swapped out as the profile-in-use and the other's profile is swapped in as the profile-in-use by the user.
US11716395B2
One example process may include identifying a paused active communication session between a client device and a server, releasing communication session resources dedicated to the communication session to a session resource pool, and re-establishing the active data session responsive to receiving a message from the client device including one or more session re-establishment parameters.
US11716391B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to obtain an encryption key from a user. The processor may identify session activity data during a proxy session of the user and may encrypt the identified session activity data using the encryption key obtained from the user. The processor may store the encrypted session activity data.
US11716386B1
A system in an atmospheric suit includes a controller within the atmospheric suit. The system also includes a network that is a hub and spoke network arranged within the atmospheric suit. The controller is the hub of the network and each spoke of the network represents wiring that leads to one of a plurality of ports accessible from outside the atmospheric suit.
US11716378B2
A network device queue manager receives a request to execute a workload on a node of a cloud computing environment, where the cloud computing environment comprises a plurality of nodes; determines that the workload is to be executed by a dedicated processor resource; identifies a set of one or more shared processor resources associated with the node, wherein each shared processor resource of the set of shared processor resources processes device interrupts; selects a processor resource from the set of one or more shared processor resources to execute the first workload on the first node; bans the selected processor resource from processing device interrupts while executing the workload; and executes the workload with the selected processor resource.
US11716377B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for cloning a set of one or more applications implemented by a first set of machines connected through a first logical network that defines a virtual private cloud in a set of one or more datacenters. The method instantiates a cloned, second set of machines that is a replicated copy of the first set of machines. The method identifies a set of network configuration data that configures a set of logical forwarding elements (LFEs) of the first logical network. The method uses the identified set of network configuration data to define a cloned, second logical network to connect the cloned, second set of machines.
US11716372B2
A system for centralized management of access subnetwork selections is disclosed. The system comprises an Internet protocol-based communications management (ICM) client located on an onboard server of each of one or more vehicles, and an ICM server located at a ground center. The ICM server is in operative communication with the ICM client on each of the one or more vehicles. The ICM client on each of the one or more vehicles is operative to communicate with the ICM server through one or more subnetworks, which are in operative communication with a ground network. The ground network communicates with the ICM server.
US11716368B2
A method of multicasting real-time video is described. The method begins by establishing a multicast network of machines capable of ingress, forwarding and broadcasting traffic, together with a mapping infrastructure. The multicast network preferably comprises a portion of an overlay network, such as a content delivery network (CDN). A video stream is published to the multicast network by (a) using the mapping infrastructure to find an ingress node in the multicast network, and then receiving the video stream from a publisher at the ingress node. One or more subscribers then subscribe to the video stream. In particular, and for subscriber, this subscription is carried out by (a) using the mapping infrastructure to find an egress node for the requesting client, and then delivering the video stream to the subscriber from the egress node. Preferably, the publisher and each subscriber use WebRTC to publish or consume the video stream, and video stream is consumed in a videoconference.
US11716367B2
An apparatus for monitoring a multicast group is provided. The apparatus includes a storage, a receiver and an operation processor. The storage is configured to store first data including a first authenticated message authenticated as being published by a publisher of the multicast group to n-th data including an n-th authenticated message authenticated as being published by the publisher where n is a natural number of 2 or more. The receiver is configured to receive status data including a first propagation message to be delivered to the multicast group. Further, the operation processor is configured to generate monitoring information including status information of the multicast group by using the status data and the first to n-th data.
US11716366B2
An example playback device includes programming for executing functions including, while connected to both (i) a local area network and (ii) an audio playback network configured separately from the local area network and arranged for playback of media content via at least the playback device, receiving from a network device via the local area network, a request for the network device to connect to the audio playback network. The functions also include, in response to the request, transmitting to the network device via the local area network, a message indicating an identifier of the audio playback network and a password for accessing the audio playback network. The functions also include exchanging one or more messages with the network device via the audio playback network to authenticate the network device for the audio playback network and receiving an audio playback command from the network device via the audio playback network.
US11716364B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product reduce bandwidth requirements of a virtual collaboration session. The method includes capturing session data from a virtual collaboration session. The session data is selected from a group consisting of video data, audio data, an image of a screen of a connected device and text data. The method also includes connecting to a live blog platform. The method further includes transmitting a text transcription of the virtual collaboration session to the live blog platform. The text transcription is generated by scanning the audio data using a speech-to-text algorithm. In addition, the method includes classifying a topic in the virtual collaboration session based on importance. Lastly, the method includes transmitting a multimedia file related to the topic to the live blog platform in response to the topic being classified as important. The multimedia file is extracted from the session data.
US11716362B1
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. A non-transitory medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least determine whether client circuitry has entered a power save mode, in response to a determination that the client circuitry has entered the power save mode, generate an association request for an access point, receive a connection approval frame, and in response to a determination that the access point has sent an acknowledge frame, generate an acknowledge response for the access point.
US11716353B2
A method for establishing network connections includes connecting a device to a first network, retrieving voice input of a user, sending a message including data related to the voice input to at least one gateway device on the first network, receiving configuration data for a second network via the first network in response to the message, and establishing a connection of the device to the second network using the configuration data received via the first network. Furthermore, an electronic device, a network gateway device and a system are defined.
US11716352B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating an application protectability index for network applications and a corresponding protectability scheme. In one aspect, a method includes identifying, by a network controller, network layers associated with an application; determining, by the network controller, a corresponding security index for the application at each of the network layers to yield a plurality of security indexes, each of the plurality of security indexes providing an objective assessment of protectability of the application at a corresponding one of the network layers; determining, by the network controller, an application protectability index; and providing an application protectability scheme for protecting the application based on the application protectability index.
US11716347B2
The cyber security appliance can have at least the following components. A phishing site detector that has a segmentation module to break up an image of a page of a site under analysis into multiple segments and then analyze each segment of the image to determine visually whether a key text-like feature exists in that segment. A signature creator creates a digital signature for each segment containing a particular key text-like feature. The digital signature for that segment is indicative of a visual appearance of the particular key text-like feature. Trained AI models compare digital signatures from a set of key text-like features detected in the image of that page under analysis to digital signatures of a set of key text-like features from known bad phishing sites in order to output a likelihood of maliciousness of the unknown site under analysis.
US11716344B2
The disclosure generally relates to a vulnerability management system configured to implement an asset-based identification algorithm to identify, update, and otherwise reconcile assets in a network according to various identification attributes that are ordered on a spectrum from authoritative to speculative based on an ability that each identification attribute has to accurately link a host to a given asset. The identification algorithm may further enable an elastic asset-based licensing approach, wherein each asset that is scanned in a current licensing period consumes a single license and licenses are reclaimed from any old assets that are not scanned in a current licensing period (i.e., the old assets do not count towards a total licensed asset count. Furthermore, asset counts may be allowed to temporarily exceed the total licensed asset count without requiring license upsells, with true-up payments only required if and/or when asset counts reflect general expansion of a customer network.
US11716343B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determine a neighborhood graph can include the following processes. A neighborhood graph system generates a neighborhood graph for a plurality of nodes in an enterprise network, the neighborhood graph representing a multi-hop connections between any two nodes of the plurality of nodes. A security score service determines a security score for each of the plurality of nodes to yield a plurality of scores. The neighborhood graph system updates the neighborhood graph of the plurality of nodes using the plurality of scores to provide a visual representation of securities of the plurality of nodes relative to each other.
US11716340B2
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for improving cloud resource security. A method can include obtaining a cloud resource management log that details actions performed by users of cloud resources in a cloud portal, the actions including entries comprising at least two of a user identification (ID) of a user of the users, an operation of operations performed on the cloud resource, a uniform resource identifier (URI) of a cloud resource of the cloud resources that is a target of the operation, or a time the operation was performed. The method can include determining a respective score for each action in the cloud resource management log, comparing the respective score to a specified criterion, and providing an indication of anomalous action in response to determining the respective score satisfies the specified criterion.
US11716338B2
Systems and methods of determining file-access patterns in at least one computer network, the network comprising a file-access server, including training a first machine learning (ML) algorithm with a first training dataset comprising vectors representing network traffic such that the first ML algorithm learns to determine network characteristics associated with file-access traffic, determining, using the first ML algorithm, network characteristics based on highest interaction of traffic with the file-access server compared to other interactions in the at least one computer network, and determining file-access patterns in the at least one computer network based on the network characteristics associated with file-access traffic.
US11716330B2
A system performs mobile biometric identification system enrollment using a known biometric. The system receives a digital representation of a first biometric for a person. Prior to using the digital representation of the first biometric to identify the person, the system compares a received digital representation of a second biometric for the person to known biometric data for the person. When the digital representation of the first biometric has been thus verified, the system is operative to identify the person using the digital representation of the first biometric.
US11716327B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving user input indicating a first user selection of a first form of biometric authentication from a plurality of forms of biometric authentication, providing a first interface for display on a user device, the first interface corresponding to the first form, receiving first biometric data, the first biometric data being provided using the first interface, and selectively enabling communication between the user device and a back-end system based on the first biometric data.
US11716324B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing location-based authentication using location-aware devices. One method includes: receiving an access request comprising authentication credentials and a first location from a first location-aware device; receiving a second location from a second location-aware device associated with the authentication credentials; and upon determining that the first location and second location are within a pre-determined distance, authenticating the authentication credentials.
US11716314B2
Described embodiments provide systems and apparatuses for enhanced quality of service, steering and policy enforcement for https traffic via intelligent in-line path discovery of a TLS terminating node. The system may include a first network device having a secure connection traversing through the first network device, and in communication with a second network device. The first network device and the second network device may be intermediary to a client device and a server. The first network device may determine that the second network device terminates the secure connection. The first network device may receive key generation information of the secure connection from the second network device following determining the second network device terminates the secure connection. The first network device may decipher packet(s) of the secure connection destined for the device or the server using the received key generation information, to regulate network traffic of the secure connection at the first network device.
US11716307B1
Domain name system (DNS) configuration during virtual private network (VPN) connection includes, by a VPN entry server, receiving from a client device, via a VPN tunnel between the entry server and the client device, a first request for first content that identifies a first external source for the first content, receiving, from an operative DNS server configured for the tunnel, an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a first VPN system exit server, in response to determining that the first content is unavailable via the first system exit server, identifying a second DNS server, such that a second VPN system exit server for obtaining the first content is available using the second DNS server, obtaining, from the second system exit server, the first content, wherein the second system exit server obtained the first content from the first external source, and transmitting, to the client device, via the tunnel, the first content.
US11716302B2
A system that can coordinate user interface formats having customized threads comprising messages from a common thread. Each client device can be managed by a data structure that defines thread containers, where individual thread containers define threads and topics for each thread. Each thread can also be associated with unique groups of messages. The data structure can cause each client computer to display different user interface formats, with each format showing different threads for each user. Users engaged in a chat on a parent thread can split the parent thread into multiple child threads, that can each be associated with unique topics. The system can then associate individual messages of the parent thread with each child thread. The system provides more granular control of user interface formats to allow users to separate messages of high-priority topics.
US11716301B2
Systems and methods are provided for sending serialized data for an interactive message comprising a first session data item to a second computing device to render the interactive message using the first session data item and display the rendered interactive message comprising a first media content item associated with a first interactive object and receiving, from the second computing device, a second media content item associated with a second interactive object of the interactive message. The systems and methods further provided for generating a second session data item for the second interactive object of the interactive message, adding the second session data item to the serialized data, and sending the serialized data to a third computing device to render the interactive message using the serialized data and display the rendered interactive message comprising the first media content item and the second media content item.
US11716293B2
Methods and systems for supporting efficient load balancing among a plurality of switches and a plurality of end nodes arranged in a tree topology in a network environment. The methods and systems can sort the plurality of end nodes, wherein the plurality of end nodes are sorted in a decreasing order of a receive weight. The method and system may further route, in the decreasing order of receive weights, the plurality of end nodes, wherein the routing comprises selecting at least one down-going port and at least one up-going port. Further, the method and system can increase an accumulated downward weight on each selected down-going port by the receive weight of the routed end node, and increase an accumulated upward weight on each selected up-going port by the receive weight of the routed end node.
US11716291B1
A method of multicasting packets by a forwarding element that includes several packet replicators and several egress pipelines. Each packet replicator receives a data structure associated with a multicast packet that identifies a multicast group. Each packet replicator identifies a first physical egress port of a first egress pipeline for sending the multicast packet to a member of the multicast group. The first physical egress port is a member of LAG. Each packet replicator determines that the first physical egress port is not operational and identifies a second physical port in the LAG for sending the multicast packet to the member of the multicast group. When a packet replicator is connected to the same egress pipeline as the second physical egress, the packet replicator provides the identification of the second physical egress port to the egress pipeline to send the packet to the multicast member. Otherwise the packet replicator drops the packet.
US11716289B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication apparatus that is configured to enable end-users (e.g., non-admin users) to initiate, by way of client devices, generation of a shareable resource associated with a group-based communication resource identifier to efficiently authorize communication between client devices associated with different organization identifiers in group-based communication interfaces associated with a shared group-based communication resource identifier.
US11716284B2
Techniques for group-based classification and policy enforcement at a network fabric edge for traffic that is being sent to external network destinations are disclosed herein. The techniques may include receiving, at a control plane of a network and from an edge node of the network, a request to provide mapping data associated with sending a packet to a destination. Based at least in part on an address prefix value associated with the destination, the control plane may determine that the destination is located in an external network. Additionally, a group identifier that is associated with the destination may be determined. In this way, an indication of the group identifier may be sent to the edge node such that the edge node may determine, based at least in part on the group identifier, a policy decision for routing the packet to the external network.
US11716275B1
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating correlated load test scripts for use in load testing by receiving an archive of transaction records, each transaction record including a request and a response, organizing the archive of transaction records, determining a collection of transaction records, generating a plain load test script, and correlating the plain load test script to generate a correlated load test script.
US11716271B2
Systems and methods for a flow-based data processing can begin with receiving a selection of a plurality of data processor blocks and a configuration mapping corresponding to the inputs and outputs of each data processor block. At a first compute node associated with a selected data source, an automated data flow can be initiated, wherein the automated data flow is generated from the configuration mapping and comprises a continuous sequence of one or more of the selected plurality of data processor blocks. Data from the selected data source is ingested into the automated data flow and is transformed by the continuous sequence of data processor blocks. The transformed ingested data is transmitted from the automated data flow to a second compute node associated with a selected data destination, via a data accelerator.
US11716262B2
A control method for collecting traffic statistics includes a control node obtains a statistics collection instruction, where the statistics collection instruction is used to instruct to collect traffic statistics of a target data flow, generates a traffic statistics collection policy according to the statistics collection instruction, where the traffic statistics collection policy includes a matching identifier of the target data flow, a first command, and a second command, and sends the traffic statistics collection policy to a forwarding node. The first command is used to instruct the forwarding node to set a traffic identifier for the target data flow based on the matching identifier, the second command is used to instruct the forwarding node to add traffic generated by a target packet to a traffic statistics collection result corresponding to the traffic identifier which is used to describe the traffic of the target data flow.
US11716259B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for generating and/or configuring a computing instance. A request to configure a computing instance for integration with at least one first computing system is received. At least one first computing component associated with the first computing system required for integration of the configured computing instance with the first computing system is identified. At least one second computing component for inclusion into the computing instance is identified. The second computing component is not required for integration of the configured computing instance with the first computing system. A configuration of the computing instance is generated using the identified first and second computing components. The configuration of the computing instance is applied in the first computing system. The configuration of the computing instance is executed by the first computing system and stored.
US11716252B2
A method for generating network function (NF) set load information aware NF discovery responses includes, at an NF repository function (NRF), receiving NFUpdate messages from producer NF instances. The method further includes collecting or generating, from the NFUpdate messages, NF set load information for NF sets of which the producer NF instances are members. The method further includes receiving, from a consumer NF, an NF discovery request. The method further includes generating, using query parameters in the NF discovery request, an NF discovery response including NF profiles of producer NF instances corresponding to the query and, including, in the NF discovery response, NF set load information for NF sets of producer NF instances whose NF profiles are included in the NF discovery response. The method further includes forwarding the NF discovery response including the NF set load information to the consumer NF.
US11716247B2
A hybrid reconfiguration scheme can allow for fast partial network reconfiguration with different routing algorithms of choice in different subparts of the network. Partial reconfigurations can be orders of magnitude faster than the initial full configuration, thus making it possible to consider performance-driven reconfigurations in lossless networks.
US11716246B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique which combines a 5G communication system, for supporting a higher data transmission rate than 4G systems, with IoT technology, and a system for same. The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, the present disclosure relates to: an application layer network structure which provides an edge computing service in a cellular wireless communication system (5G system); and a method for same. A method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for a terminal to acquire edge data network setting information in order to receive an edge computing service in a wireless communication system, and includes: a step for transmitting an initial provisioning request message to an edge data network configuration server; and a step for receiving, from the edge data network configuration server, an initial provisioning response message including information about an edge data network, wherein the initial provisioning request message may include a URI address of the edge data network configuration server.
US11716225B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for time domain resource allocations in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include time-domain symbol determination and/or indication using a combination of higher layer and downlink control information signaling for physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel; time domain resource allocations for mini-slot operations; rules for postponing and dropping for multiple mini-slot transmission; and collision handling of sounding reference signals with semi-statically or semi-persistently configured uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11716218B1
A system and method to monitor individual appliance performance. A monitor module is provided for aggregating data from a plurality of appliances wherein the module includes. Included in the monitor device is a gateway device configured to capture operational data relating to each of the plurality of appliances and an analyzing device configured to determine individual operational characteristics for each of the appliances from analysis of the captured operational data. A notification device is further provided which is configured to provide information to a user regarding the determined operational characteristics for each of the appliances.
US11716217B2
A system and method for streaming real-time data from a user device to a dispatch unit terminal, where the method includes: identifying a connection between a user device and a call center; sending a link to the user device, wherein the link includes instructions to initiate streaming of real-time data from the user device, and further includes a unique identifier associated with the user device; and sending the real-time data to a dispatch unit terminal, where the unique identifier is used to match the real-time data with the dispatch terminal used in the first connection.
US11716214B2
Embodiments described herein provide for the dynamic adjustment of traffic associated with audiovisual conferences or other types of communication sessions in situations where a network connection of one or more conference participants exhibits issues that may affect audio and/or video quality. The adjustment may include the determination at a particular conference participant (e.g., a particular User Equipment (“UE”)) of degraded network conditions, the generation of condensed conference information at the UE, and the outputting of the condensed conference information via the network. The condensed conference information may be included in control signaling. The condensed conference information may be used to generate reconstructed conference information, which may be distributed to other conference participants.
US11716209B2
Systems and methods for azimuthal multiplexing using three-dimensional diffractive optics An azimuthal optical multiplexing system includes a light source. The system includes two or more at least partially transparent plates. Each plate of the two or more plates has a structured or patterned surface positioned in an optical path of the light source. The system includes means for rotating at least one plate of the two or more plates axially with respect to at least one other plate of the two or more plates. The means for rotating is operatively coupled to the at least one plate. The structured or patterned surface is configured to modulate light directed along the optical path and through the two or more plates.
US11716208B2
A method for registering and provisioning an electronic device is provided. The method includes a step of inserting a first keypair into a secure element of the electronic device. The first keypair includes a public key and a private key. The method further includes a step of requesting, from a server configured to register and provision connected devices, a provisioning of credentials of the electronic device. The method further includes a step of verifying, by the server, the electronic device credentials. The method further includes a step of registering, by the server, the electronic device. The method further includes a step of transmitting, from the server to the electronic device, a device certificate. The method further includes steps of installing the transmitted device certificate within the secure element of the electronic device, and provisioning the electronic device according to the installed device certificate.
US11716202B2
Described herein are systems and methods for providing secure blockchain routing utilizing an extended blockchain protocol. In some embodiments, a blockchain routing node may join an overlay network including a plurality of blockchain routing nodes. The blockchain routing node may receive a plurality of forwarding tables from the plurality of blockchain routing nodes in accordance with an extended blockchain protocol. The blockchain routing node may determine a routing table for the overlay network based at least on part on the plurality of forwarding tables. In some embodiments, the blockchain routing node may route a payload message to a destination blockchain routing node in the overlay network in accordance with the determined routing table.
US11716200B2
The system and methods described herein may be utilized to perform operations in a faster and less complex manner than provided by conventional systems. An encrypted record may be stored at a user device. The encrypted record may include entries related to operations that were previously requested by the user device. The encrypted record may have been encrypted using a dynamic value and a key that is associated with an entity associated with the user. A recipient computer of a request by the user device may be configured to utilize the dynamic value provided in the request and the key associated with the entity to derive the encryption key(s) last used to encrypt the record. The recipient computer may decrypt and modify the decrypted record to perform the requested operation while the user device is precluded from doing so.
US11716197B2
A system and method for generating a cryptographic key using a sequence of data segments selected by a user from one or more data resources. Raw data from the one or more data resources corresponding to each of the selected data segments, and the sequence in which such data segments are selected, is extracted and processed to generate a key. The key can be used for any cryptographic and authentication purpose. By enabling a user to select the sequence of data segments from the one or more data resources in any manner the user desires, the user can create a strong key, but also easily remember the underlying data resource and chosen sequence. This technique provides enhanced security while maintaining ease of creation and use of such security.
US11716195B2
The present application describes a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for exchanging encrypted communications using hybrid encryption. According to the present disclosure, a first device receives an encrypted communication from a second device. The encrypted communication includes a first encrypted secret, a second encrypted secret, a first signature, and a second signature. The first device verifies the first signature and the second signature, and, when the first and second signatures are valid, decrypts the first encrypted secret using a first encryption algorithm and the second encrypted secret using a second encryption algorithm. The first device combines the first decrypted secret and the second decrypted secret to recover a first communication and provides the first communication to a user of the first device.
US11716193B2
A device receives a time-based restriction for usage by a first user with respect to an application, a website or a device-level function. The device receives encrypted data indicating a usage by the first user on a second device with respect to the application, website or device-level function. The device determines that at least one of the usage by the first user on the second device or a usage by the first user on the device with respect to the application, website or device-level function violates the time-based restriction. The device provides, in response to the determining, a notification that the time-based restriction has been violated by the first user.
US11716186B2
Control information such as downlink control information (DCI) may be used to indicate whether the DCI is for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) cancellation. For example, the base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), first DCI to trigger an SPS configuration of a plurality of SPS occasions. The base station may further determine to cancel one or more SPS occasions of the plurality of SPS occasions, and transmit second DCI to trigger an SPS cancellation that cancels the one or more SPS occasions, the second DCI including at least a redundancy version field including one or more redundancy version values to indicate the SPS cancellation.
US11716182B2
A transmission device that improves data reception quality includes: a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into a first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×Δλ to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is greater than or equal to 0; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. Δλ satisfies π/2 radians<Δλ<π radians or π radians<Δλ<3π/2 radians. When the communications scheme is an OFDM scheme, the phase changer and the phase changer apply a phase change, and when the communications scheme is a single-carrier scheme, do not apply a phase change.
US11716178B2
A system and method for detecting a failure in a redundant signal path during operation of the redundant path is disclosed. A test signal is sequentially injected into each signal path while an input signal is conducted by the other signal path not receiving the test signal. The test signal is selected at a frequency to verify operation of a filter connected in series along each path. A processor generates the test signal, injects the test signal at the input of the filter, and receives the output of the filter. The processor then generates a frequency response of the filter in each signal path as a function of the output from the filter and of the original test signal. The frequency response obtained along each of the redundant signal paths is compared to each other to detect a failure of one of the filters present along the respective signal paths.
US11716176B2
A method for communicating data between Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices (200, 202) in a network (100) comprising multiple nodes, the method comprising: broadcasting data from a broadcasting node (200); receiving the data at multiple receiving nodes (202); transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) packet from each of the receiving nodes (202) to the broadcasting node (200), wherein each receiving node (202) waits for a waiting period before transmitting the ACK packet, and wherein the waiting period is a varying length of time for each receiving node (202).
US11716174B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a bandwidth part comprising resource block (RB) sets, each RB set having an RB index. The wireless device receives, during a downlink control channel monitoring occasion, a plurality of downlink control information (DCI)s and each DCI of the plurality of DCIs is received via a respective RB set of the RB sets. The wireless device transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook comprising HARQ-ACK information bits corresponding to the plurality of DCIs, wherein the HARQ-ACK information bits are in order of indexes of RB sets corresponding to the DCIs.
US11716167B2
The application provides methods for transmitting and receiving Downlink Control Information (DCI), and a related device. The receiving method includes: determining configuration information of to-be-transmitted DCI, based on a corresponding relationship between a DCI Aggregation Level (AL), and/or, a number of blind detections corresponding to the AL, and a payload size of the DCI; configuring the to-be-transmitted DCI, by using the configuration information; and, transmitting the to-be-transmitted DCI to a mobile communication terminal.
US11716159B2
One example communication device receives a radio frequency (RF) signal. The communication device may include a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) that includes an internal attenuator. The RFIC and other processing circuitry may convert the received RF signal to a baseband frequency to generate a processed complex baseband signal. A digital signal processor of the communication device may determine, based on detection of or lack of detection of distortion terms in a frequency spectrum of the processed complex baseband signal at frequencies corresponding to integer multiples of a symbol rate of a linear modulation interferer, a modulation type of an interferer signal that forms at least part of the processed complex baseband signal. The digital signal processor may also control whether the internal attenuator is enabled based on a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of a desired RF signal and the modulation type of the interferer signal.
US11716154B2
In an embodiment, a communications system includes a first transmitter including a digital beamforming baseband section configured to receive an input signal to be transmitted, the input signal at a baseband frequency, and a modulation section electrically coupled to the digital beamforming baseband section and a first antenna of a phased array antenna. The modulation section is configured to receive a local oscillator signal at a first local oscillator frequency and apply a baseband frequency shift to the input signal to generate a baseband frequency shifted input signal. The modulation section generates a modulated signal based on the input signal. The communication system includes a second transmitter included in a second IC chip of the plurality of IC chips electrically coupled to a second antenna and configured to provide a second modulated signal at the carrier frequency and a second LO leakage signal at a second local oscillator frequency.
US11716145B2
Provided is a distributed antenna system (DAS) for multi-frequency band and multi-carrier equipped with an open radio access network (O-RAN) remote unit (RU) according to an O-RAN technology standard for building a next-generation radio infrastructure. To this end, the DAS for multi-carrier and multi-frequency band based on an O-RAN standard includes an O-RAN RU connected to a fronthaul network according to an O-RAN split option specification of base station transceiver systems (BTSs), and including a plurality of O-RAN RUs to accommodate a plurality of carriers and a plurality of frequency bands; and a channel combiner to which outputs of the plurality of O-RAN RUs are combined.
US11716143B2
Useful data is transmitted to a terminal existing in a transportation vehicle. A communication apparatus installed in the transportation vehicle and configured to transmit the data to the terminal existing in the transportation vehicle includes a data selection unit and an illumination unit. The data selection unit acquires location information indicating a location of the transportation vehicle in which the terminal exists and which is traveling. Based on the acquired location information, the data selection unit selects approaching-location data related to a location ahead of a current location of the transportation vehicle in a traveling direction from a plurality of pieces of data related to the location. The illumination unit transmits, as a modulated light signal, a signal comprising the approaching-location data.
US11716141B1
An apparatus includes a photonic integrated circuit having an optical phased array, where the optical phased array includes multiple unit cells. Each unit cell includes (i) an antenna element configured to receive optical signals and (ii) a modulator configured to phase-shift the optical signals received by the antenna element. Multiple subgroups of the unit cells in the optical phased array are configured to generate multiple combined optical signals based on the received optical signals. The apparatus also includes at least one of: (i) amplitude adjusters configured to modify amplitudes of the combined optical signals in order to compensate for amplitude modulations across a receive aperture of the optical phased array and (ii) phase modulators configured to modify phases of the combined optical signals in order to compensate for phase modulations across the receive aperture of the optical phased array.
US11716130B2
Systems and methods provide for determining whether a user device is experiencing interference; attempting to identify a source of the interference based on determining that the user device is experiencing interference; initiating a timer in response to determining that the user device is experiencing interference; determining whether the source of the interference was identified before the timer expires; and dynamically mitigating the interference based on identifying the source of the interference before the timer expires.
US11716111B2
A system includes a housing operably coupled with a vehicle system, and a vehicle monitoring system disposed within the housing comprising a wireless communication device including an antenna configured to wirelessly communication data signals. One or more ground radials are electrically coupled with the wireless communication device and conduct the data signals from the wireless communication device. The one or more ground radials form a ground plane of the antenna while the vehicle system is moving and the antenna is wirelessly communicating the data signals.
US11716104B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. Input data for in-phase branch/quadrature branch (I/Q) imbalance or mismatch may be compensated for or non-linear power amplifier noise may be used to generate compensated input data. In some examples, a transmitter may be configured to transmit communications signaling via a first antenna, the transmitter including a filter configured for digital mismatch correction; a receiver may be configured to receive communications signaling via a second antenna; and a switch may be configured to selectively activate a first switch path to couple the transmitter and the first antenna and a second switch path to couple the receiver and the transmitter to provide communications signaling received via the transmitter as feedback for the filter through the receiver.
US11716102B2
An energy-efficient implementation of a WiFi transceiver is proposed in this disclosure. The WiFi transceiver comprises a receive chain comprising a variable receive (Rx) filter circuit and a variable Rx analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit. The receive chain is configured to receive a receive signal during a receive mode of operation, having a receive bandwidth associated therewith and receive a transmit signal associated with a transmit chain of the transceiver during a transmit mode of operation, having a transmit bandwidth associated therewith. The WiFi transceiver further comprises a control circuit configured to dynamically adapt a bandwidth of the variable Rx filter and the variable Rx ADC in the receive chain to the receive bandwidth or to the transmit bandwidth, based on the mode of operation.
US11716101B2
One example discloses a multi-radio device, including: a controller configured to be coupled to a first radio that is configured to transmit a first signal, and a second radio that is configured to transmit a second signal; wherein the controller includes a detection element configured to detect a third signal generated in response to simultaneous transmission of the first and second signals; wherein the controller includes a decision element configured to modulate one or more information packets in the first and second signals in response to the third signal.
US11716099B2
A radio frequency module and a communication device capable of reducing a mounting substrate size. The radio frequency module includes a mounting substrate, a first filter, and a second filter. The mounting substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface that are on opposite sides of the mounting substrate. The first filter is provided on the first main surface and allows a first receiving signal in a first frequency band to pass through. The second filter is stacked on the first filter and allows a second receiving signal in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band to pass through.
US11716092B2
A delta sigma modulator includes a summation circuit, at least one integrator, a multi-bit quantizer and a negative feedback circuit. The summation circuit is configured to produce a difference signal between a unipolar or bipolar analog input signal and an analog feedback signal. The integrator is operatively coupled to the summation circuit to integrate the difference signal. The multi-bit quantizer is operatively coupled to the integrator to digitize the integrated signal to generate an N-bit digital output signal, N being an integer greater than 1. The negative feedback circuit operatively couples the multi-bit quantizer to the summation circuit. The negative feedback circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter arrangement for receiving the N-bit digital output signal and providing the analog feedback signal such that digital values of the N-bit digital output signal and values of the analog feedback encoded by the digital values have a non-linear relationship to one another.
US11716082B2
A capacitive touch sensor is disclosed for use with input signal. The capacitive touch sensor includes a number n of input/output lines. Each of the number n of input/output lines is electrically disconnected from every other of the number n of input/output lines. Each of the number n of input/output lines is arranged to cross every other of the number n of input/output lines. Each of a number β of positions includes one of the number n of input/output lines crossing another of the number n of input/output lines.
US11716081B2
The present disclosure provides a controller for controlling a GaN-based semiconductor device. The controller is configured to receive a current sensing signal VCS which is indicative of a drain-to-source current of the GaN-based semiconductor device and generate a control driving signal VDRV to the GaN-based semiconductor device such that a gate-to-source voltage VGS applied to the GaN-based semiconductor device for switching on the GaN-based semiconductor device is stabilized to a voltage value equal to a reference voltage Vref over an on-time duration. Impact of the change in the voltage drop across the current sensing resistor to the operation of the GaN-based semiconductor device is eliminated.
US11716078B2
In one example, an apparatus comprises: a voltage sensing circuit having a voltage sensing terminal and a voltage sensing output, the voltage sensing circuit configured to generate a first voltage at the voltage sensing output representing a second voltage at the voltage sensing terminal; a control circuit having a control circuit input and a control circuit output, the control circuit input coupled to the voltage sensing output, the control circuit configured to: determine a state of a transistor based on the first voltage; and generate a driver signal at the control circuit output based on the state; and a driver circuit having a driver input and a switch control output, the driver input coupled to the control circuit output, the driver circuit configured to provide a current at the switch control output responsive to the driver signal.
US11716076B2
Circuits and methods for performing a hash algorithm are disclosed. A circuit includes: an input module receiving data; and an operation module calculating a hash value based on the received data. The operation module includes multiple operation stages (0th operation stage, 1st operation stage, up to P-th operation stage, P being a fixed positive integer greater than 1 and less than the number of operation stages in a pipeline structure) arranged in the pipeline structure. Each of the 1st operation stage to P-th operation stage includes: cache registers storing intermediate values of a current operation stage and operating at a first frequency, and extension registers storing extension data of the current operation stage and the extension registers comprising a first set of extension registers operating at the first frequency and a second set of extension registers operating at a second frequency which is 1/N times the first frequency.
US11716071B2
A N-path filter includes a plurality of switch-capacitor circuits controlled by a plurality of logical signals, respectively, and joined at a common shunt node, each of said switch-capacitor circuit comprising: a respective switch configured to controllably connect the common shunt node to a respective middle node in accordance with a respective logical signals among said plurality of logical signals; and a respective balanced MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) capacitor connected to the respective middle node, wherein the respective balanced MOS capacitor exhibits a capacitance at the respective middle node with reference to a power supply node and a ground node.
US11716067B2
Circuits and methods that provide wider bandwidth and smaller IM inductances for phase change material (PCM) based RF switch networks. The present invention recognizes that it is beneficial to consider the total high parasitic capacitance to ground of the various PCM switches in an RF switch network as constituting two or more separate capacitive contributions. This leads to several “split capacitance” concepts, including signal-path splitting, switch-block splitting, stacked-switch splitting, and splitting parasitic capacitances due to layout discontinuities, in which compensating impedance matching inductances are inserted between additive capacitances.
US11716062B2
Devices, systems, and methods for multi-channel common-mode coupled alternating current (AC) gain amplifiers (MC-CM-AC Amp) are disclosed. The MC-CM-AC Amp can comprise a first operational amplifier including: a first non-inverting input port configured to be coupled to a first input signal, and a first inverting input port configured to be coupled to a first capacitor. The MC-CM-AC Amp can comprise a second operational amplifier including a second non-inverting input port configured to be coupled to a second input signal, and a second inverting input port configured to be coupled to a second capacitor. The MC-CM-AC Amp can comprise one or more gain-setting resistors configured to be coupled between the first capacitor and the second capacitor.
US11716060B2
The present disclosure relates to chopper amplifier circuits with inherent chopper ripple suppression. Example implementations can realize a doubly utilized chopper amplifier circuit that is a current-saving circuit with a wake-up function that is capable of providing a self-wake signal in order to change into a fast, low-jitter/low-latency mode, and to provide a wake-up signal for a sleeping microprocessor or a system in response to signal changes.
US11716059B2
In some implementations, there is provided an apparatus comprising a resonant amplifier circuit including a first inductor having a first inductive input and a first inductive output; a second inductor having a second inductive input and a second inductive output; a first switch coupled to the first inductive output; and a second switch coupled to the second inductive output, wherein the first switch and the second switched are driven out of phase, wherein the first inductor is configured to be resonant with a first capacitance associated with the first switch, and wherein the second inductor is configured to be resonant with a second capacitance associated with the second switch. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also provided.
US11716057B2
Disclosed is envelope tracking circuitry having an envelope tracking integrated circuit (ETIC) coupled to a power supply to provide an envelope tracked power signal to a power amplifier (PA) with a filter equalizer configured to inject an error-correcting signal into the ETIC in response to equalizer settings. Further included is PA resistance estimator circuitry having a first peak detector circuit configured to capture within a window first peaks associated with a sense current generated by the ETIC, a second peak detector circuit configured to capture within the window second peaks associated with a scaled supply voltage corresponding to the envelope tracked power signal, comparator circuitry configured to receive the first peaks and receive the second peaks and generate an estimation of PA resistance, and an equalizer settings correction circuit configured to receive the estimation of PA resistance and update the equalizer settings in response to the estimation of PA resistance.
US11716053B1
A solar panel apparatus having an upper frame and a lower frame, the upper and lower frames being pivotally connected to one another via a hinge. The upper frame contains a solar panel, and the lower frame contains a plurality of louvres. The plurality of louvres is configured to rotate as the angle of the upper frame is adjusted relative to the sun. Dividing walls inside each of the upper and lower frames are configured to allow warm air to flow from behind the louvres, which are black on their front faces to absorb solar rays, upward to behind the solar panel, thereby warming the solar panel and melting any snow or ice from the front surface of the solar panel. Air vents in both the upper and lower frames prevent the apparatus from overheating.
US11716050B2
This system is directed to a mobile platform having a power array carried by the mobile platform, connected to a distribution hub adapted to provide power to a base power source; an input controller having input computer readable instructions adapted to deliver power to a set of storage units from the base power source, the set of storage power units carried by the mobile platform; an output controller connected to the set of storage units having output computer readable instructions adapted to receive charge requirements from a load connected to the output controller, retrieving from a device lookup table included in the output controller a load type having charge specifications and delivering power to the load according to the charge specifications; and, an external power source connected to the distribution bus for proving power to the base power source from the external power source.
US11716044B2
A power conversion device includes an inverter, a current detector, a frequency analysis processor, a storage, a determination unit, a reference rotational rate change unit, and a rate controller. The determination unit determines a frequency at which a signal component having a magnitude exceeding a prescribed value has been detected among frequency components of a load current, generates restriction information for excluding a reference rotational rate for a rotational rate corresponding to the detected frequency based on a determination result after the determination, and causes the storage to store the generated restriction information. The reference rotational rate change unit changes a reference rotational rate of an electric motor so that mechanical resonance of the detected frequency is avoided based on the stored restriction information. The rate controller controls a rotational rate of the inverter using the changed reference rotational rate. The electric motor is driven at the controlled rotational rate.
US11716039B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a winding switching device capable of enhancing the reliability of electrical contact between a movable unit and a fixed unit, and a rotating electrical machine drive system including such a winding switching device. A winding switching device switches a connection state of a plurality of windings, and includes a plurality of electrodes to which the plurality of windings are connected; a movable unit that includes a plurality of conductor portions in contact with the plurality of electrodes, and that is driven in a predetermined direction in which the plurality of electrodes are arranged; and a fixed unit including a regulating portion that regulates movement of the movable unit in the predetermined direction; where the connection states of the plurality of windings are switched according to the position of the movable unit; and when the movable unit moves in the predetermined direction, the plurality of conductors are displaced in a direction of moving away from the plurality of electrodes by the regulating portion.
US11716036B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for haptic feedback devices with reduced power consumption. In one embodiment, an example device may include a first spring, a mass coupled to the first spring, and a resonant piezoelectric actuator coupled to the first spring. The resonant piezoelectric actuator may be configured to impart a force on the mass via the first spring responsive to an applied voltage. The device may include a power source configured to supply the applied voltage to the resonant piezoelectric actuator, where motion of the mass generates vibration.
US11716035B2
The present disclosure relates to an electromechanical linear drive having a housing, an electromechanical drive unit, a transmission element which is coupled to the electro-mechanical drive unit, and an element to be driven which is in frictional contact with the transmission element, where the transmission element is mounted on at least two bearing points with respect to the housing. Improved accessibility to the element to be driven and a longer adjustment path of the element to be driven can be achieved by placing the element to be driven in frictional contact with the transmission element at a point of engagement outside of all bearing points.
US11716032B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a multi-level inverter clamping modulation method and apparatus, and an inverter. Switching elements of an inverter are controlled when an output voltage of the inverter crosses zero, and switching elements in each inverter bridge arm of an active clamp multi-level inverter include an internal tube, an external tube, and a clamping tube. The internal tube and the external tube are connected in series between a positive bus and a negative bus, the clamping tube is connected between a common terminal of the internal tube and the external tube and a bus, the internal tube is a low-frequency switching element, and the external tube and the clamping tube are high-frequency switching elements.
US11716028B2
A driver circuit controls a half-bridge that includes a high-side power switch and a low-side power switch. The driver circuit may comprise a high-side compare unit configured to determine a first drain-to-source voltage, wherein the first drain-to-source voltage is associated with the high-side power switch when the high-side power switch is ON, and a low-side compare unit configured to determine a second drain-to-source voltage, wherein the second drain-to-source voltage is associated with the low-side power switch when the low-side power switch is ON. The high-side compare unit may be further configured to determine a third drain-to-source voltage, wherein the third drain-to-source voltage is associated with the high-side power switch when the high-side power switch is OFF, and the low-side compare unit may be further configured to determine a fourth drain-to-source voltage, wherein the fourth drain-to-source voltage is associated with the low-side power switch when the low-side power switch is OFF.
US11716025B2
The present disclosure aims to avoid a situation where a drive unit to be used for precharge does not drive due to a drop in power supply voltage. The power supply device is provided with the first voltage conversion unit and the control unit. The first voltage conversion unit performs a third voltage conversion operation in which a voltage applied to a second conductive path is boosted and an output voltage is output to a first conductive path to which a capacitive component is electrically connected. The control unit supplies the third control signal to only some of the plurality of first voltage conversion units, thereby causing the some of the first voltage conversion units to perform the third voltage conversion operation.
US11716022B2
A power converter is disclosed. The power converter includes a switching circuit coupled to a capacitor and further coupled to a regulated power supply node via an inductor. The switching circuit is configured to magnetize the inductor, using the capacitor, in response to activation of a first control signal, and further configured to charge the capacitor, using an input power supply, in response to activation of a second control signal. A control circuit is configured to activate the first control signal based on a comparison of a first threshold value and a current flowing in the inductor. The control circuit is further configured to activate the second control signal based on a comparison of a second threshold value and the current flowing in the inductor.
US11716015B2
A switch mode power supply includes a bootstrap circuit, control circuits, and an auxiliary winding coupled to the bootstrap circuit and configured to supply power to the control circuits after startup of the power supply. The bootstrap circuit is configured to supply power to the control circuits during startup and includes an isolation circuit to limit current flow between the starting capacitor and the control circuits while the starting capacitor is charged to a starting voltage by the high voltage input. During the initial charge of the starting capacitor, the control circuits do not have power to provide the initial functionality of the power supply. Once the starting capacitor is charged to the starting voltage, the isolation circuit is activated to allow current flow that powers the control circuits during the remainder of the startup until the auxiliary winding is able to power the control circuits.
US11716007B2
By means of the system described, the use of eddy current generators on vehicles, especially bicycles, can be simplified by easier integration into standardized components such as brake pads, making them more suitable for everyday use. The problem of overcoming the magnetic holding forces at low speeds is essential for cyclists, as these would otherwise rule out the use of such systems in everyday traffic due to the lack of power generation when starting off at low speed. The integration into brake pads provides a significant advantage, as a new functionality is achieved without the need for additional components. The claimed additional functions for signalling contribute to increased traffic safety, especially for two-wheel traffic.
US11716000B2
A method of manufacturing a rotor for a rotating electric machine. The rotor includes a rotor core and at least one magnet fixed in at least one magnet fixing portion provided in the rotor core. The method includes: (a) placing the at least one magnet and at least one fixing member in the at least one magnet fixing portion such that each of the at least one fixing member is positioned between a corresponding one of the at least one magnet fixing portion and a corresponding one of the at least one magnet; and (b) applying an electric current to the at least one magnet to heat the at least one fixing member by heat generated by an electrical resistance of the at least one magnet, and fixing the at least one magnet to the at least one magnet fixing portion through the heated at least one fixing member.
US11715995B2
A power tool (1; 90) includes a motor (17) having a stator (18) and a rotor (19). The stator (18) includes front and rear insulators (21, 22) respectively disposed forward and rearward of a stator core (20) in an axial direction thereof. At least six coils (23) are respectively wound on the stator (18) such that the coils (23) are wound through the front and rear insulators (21, 22). Winding wires (23a) respectively electrically connect circumferentially-adjacent pairs of the coils (23). A short circuiting device (25) short circuits respective pairs of windings (23a) that are located diagonally or diametrically across from one another.
US11715994B2
A control system includes a phase shift unit configured to provide a phase difference between a first switching clock signal and a second switching clock signal, a power transmission coil, a switching circuit configured to switch an input voltage based on the first switching clock signal and apply the switched voltage to the power transmission coil, a power reception coil configured to receive electric power output from the power transmission coil by electromagnetic field coupling, a wireless transmission unit configured to wirelessly transmit the second switching clock signal and output a third switching clock signal, and a rectifier circuit configured to rectify a voltage input from the power reception coil by switching the voltage based on the third switching clock signal and apply the rectified voltage to a load. A voltage input from the power reception coil to the rectifier circuit and the third switching clock signal have different phases.
US11715993B2
A motor-driven compressor includes a compression unit, an electric motor, a drive circuit, a first housing, a second housing, and a soundproofing material. The second housing covers at least part of an outer surface of the first housing. The soundproofing material is arranged between the outer surface of the first housing and an area that includes an inner surface and a wall surface of the second housing. The soundproofing material has sound insulating properties. The soundproofing material includes a sound absorbing layer and a sound insulating layer. A first region and a second region are formed between the outer surface of the first housing and the area that includes the inner surface and the wall surface of the second housing. An air layer is formed in the second region.
US11715985B2
A stator includes a cylindrical shaft extending in an axial direction, annular portions positioned side by side in the axial direction radially outside the shaft and extending in a radial direction, pole teeth extending in the axial direction from a radially outer end portion of each of the annular portions, and one or more coils between the annular portions adjacent to each other in the axial direction and wound around the shaft. The shaft includes at least one slit recessed radially inward from an outer peripheral surface of the shaft and extending along the axial direction. A portion of the at least one slit is radially inside the annular portion. A lead wire of the coil is accommodated in the at least one slit.
US11715982B2
A wireless power transmission method executed by a power transmitter comprising multi-coils, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: detecting a second power receiver while transmitting power to a first power receiver; determining at least one primary coil adequate for power transmission; by using the determined at least one primary coil, determining whether the second power receiver supports a shared mode protocol; and if the second power receiver supports the shared mode protocol, transmitting power to the first and second power receivers according to the shared mode protocol, wherein the shared mode protocol may be a protocol for simultaneously managing information exchanges between the power transmitter and multiple power receivers.
US11715972B2
A power management system is provided to manage internal and external power sources for an embedded electronic device. The power management system includes an internal power source and an external power source. The power management system determines when to power the internal embedded electronic device or devices from either the internal or external power source, when to recharge the internal power source, when to shut down the internal embedded electronic device so as not to over discharge and damage the internal power source when external power is not available.
US11715969B2
By using the co-charging system of this invention, a 12V battery such as a lead storage battery is not required, so that depreciation cost can be suppressed. In order to realize above, power should be always supplied to the power supply node of the control circuit by following. (1) Connect the diode so that current flows from the power supply supplied from the solar cell, the power supply supplied from the AC adapter, the power supply supplied from the mobile battery, to the power supply node of the control circuit. (2) Connect a large-capacity capacitor such as an electric double layer capacitor to the power supply of the control circuit. (3) The inverter has an nMOS field-effect transistor+resistor configuration, and the inverter has an nMOS field-effect transistor+resistor+pMOS field-effect transistor configuration.
US11715968B2
A hybrid electrical power supply control system for providing electrical energy to at least one load. The load may alternate between a first low energy consuming operational modus and a second high energy consuming operational modus. The control system may include a first power source comprising at least one battery unit and a second power source comprising at least one energy harvesting unit and arranged to harvest and convert energy into Direct Current, DC, energy, and wherein the converted DC energy is stored in a charge collecting unit. The control system further includes an operational modus detecting unit and a power source switching unit, connected to the operational modus detecting unit and arranged to alternately connect the first power source and the second power source to the load.
US11715959B2
A voltage conversion circuit includes: an inductor, a first switch module, N second switch modules connected in series, N third switch modules connected in series, and N−1 flying capacitors. One terminal of the first switch module is separately connected to one terminal of the N second switch modules connected in series and one terminal of the N third switch modules connected in series. The other terminal of the N third switch modules connected in series is connected to a positive electrode of a high-voltage power supply. The other terminal of the first switch module and the other terminal of the N second switch modules connected in series are connected to a negative electrode of the high-voltage power supply. A low-voltage power supply is connected to the two terminals of the first switch module through the inductor.
US11715948B2
A vehicle is provided that includes a basic structure; and coupled to the basic structure, power sources, a propulsion system and power distribution circuitry. The propulsion system includes a plurality of electric motors configured to power propulsors to generate propulsive forces that cause the vehicle to move. The power distribution circuitry is configured to deliver DC electric power from the power sources to the electric motors, the power distribution circuitry including a plurality of DC-to-DC converter assemblies configured to input the DC electric power from the power sources and deliver voltage-regulated outputs to the electric motors, a DC-to-DC converter assembly operatively coupled to multiple ones of the power sources and multiple ones of the electric motors, and the DC-to-DC converter assembly including a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transformer with a single transformer core.
US11715944B1
A cord protector with an elongated body and a coupler that joins the elongated body to an adjacent elongated body to form an elongated cord protector system. The elongated body has a base and a lid. The base has a channel extending between a first end and a second end. The base also has ridges that extend into the channel, a cavity configured to mate with the coupler, and a central pillar that extends from the floor into the channel along a majority of the channel. The lid is configured to be inserted into the channel. The lid has two grooves that are sized and shaped to receive one of the ridges. The lid also has a slot configured to receive the top of the central pillar when the lid is inserted into the channel. The central pillar supports the lid when the lid is inserted into the channel.
US11715943B2
A control device and face plate is described, where the faceplate includes a first region formed from a first material that is non-conductive, a second region that is formed a second material that is transparent to infrared radiation, and where the first region and the second region are seamlessly joined to form a unitary structure.
US11715935B2
An igniter having at least two electrodes spaced from each other by an insulating member having a substantially continuous surface along a path between the electrodes. The electrodes extend substantially parallel to each other for a distance both above and below said surface. The insulating member has a channel (recess) for receiving at least a portion of a length of at least one of said electrodes below and to said surface of the insulating member. The surface of the insulating member may preferably be augmented with a conductivity enhancing agent. The insulating member and electrodes are configured so that an electric field between the electrodes at said surface does not have abrupt field intensity changes, whereby when a potential is applied to the electrodes sufficient to cause breakdown to occur between the electrodes, discharge occurs at said surface of the insulating member to define a plasma initiation region.
US11715931B1
An optical device has a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate including a surface region and a strain control region, the strain control region being configured to maintain a quantum well region within a predetermined strain state. The device also has a plurality of quantum well regions overlying the strain control region.
US11715927B2
The present disclosure provides a method and structure for producing large area gallium and nitrogen engineered substrate members configured for the epitaxial growth of layer structures suitable for the fabrication of high performance semiconductor devices. In a specific embodiment the engineered substrates are used to manufacture gallium and nitrogen containing devices based on an epitaxial transfer process wherein as-grown epitaxial layers are transferred from the engineered substrate to a carrier wafer for processing. In a preferred embodiment, the gallium and nitrogen containing devices are laser diode devices operating in the 390 nm to 425 nm range, the 425 nm to 485 nm range, the 485 nm to 550 nm range, or greater than 550 nm.
US11715920B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a connector plug for attachment to a single pair Ethernet cable comprising a pair of conductors, and configured for being received in a connector receptacle. The connector plug includes a first end for receiving the single pair Ethernet cable and a second end having a pair of contacts, each of the contacts comprising a receptacle contact interface, a conductor interface, and an extension to provide an increased width between conductor gripping prongs at the conductor interface while maintaining a consistent spacing between the pair of contacts at the receptacle contact interface with connector plugs configured to mate with different gauge cables. The connector plug comprises a latch for secure attachment to the receptacle and a pull cord connected to the latch and accessible when the connector plug is inserted into the receptacle with other connector plugs for release of the connector plug.
US11715918B1
A powered wall plate comprising a wall plate, at least two electrical plug prongs, an electrical circuit, and an electrical feature. The wall plate has a front surface opposite a rear surface and at least one opening sized to expose a first electrical receptacle of an electrical device. The at least two electrical plug prongs originate within the wall plate and extend rearward from the rear surface, and are configured to removably mate with a second electrical receptacle of the electrical device. The electrical circuit is located between the front surface and the rear surface. The electrical feature is exposed on the wall plate and is configured to receive power from the at least two electrical plug prongs through the electrical circuit. The wall plate may have a profile with a first thickness and a second thickness. The second thickness may be less than three times the first thickness.
US11715914B2
A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. The connector may be assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. Modules of different sizes may be assembled into wafers, which are then assembled into a connector. Wafers may include lossy material. In some embodiments, shielding members of two mating connectors may each have compliant members along their distal portions, such that, the shielding members engage at points of contact at multiple locations, some of which are adjacent the mating edge of each of the mating shielding members.
US11715909B2
A card edge connector includes an insulative housing defining a front face, a rear face, and a card slot opening forward through the front face, a row of first terminals retained in the insulative housing from the front face, a row of second terminals retained in the insulative housing from the rear face, and a grounding and shielding plate. The row of second terminals includes signal terminals and grounding terminals, each second terminal including an upright portion, an elastic portion extending from the upright portion with a contacting portion exposed upon the card slot, and a leg portion. The grounding and shielding plate covers the rear face of the insulative housing and electrical connects to all the grounding terminals of the row of second terminals.
US11715900B2
An electrical connector system for electrically and mechanically connecting with a component in a motor vehicle is disclosed. The connector system includes a motor vehicle component and a male connector assembly with a male housing that receives a male terminal. This terminal includes a receiver and side walls with a contact arm that extends across an aperture in the side wall. An internal spring member with at least one spring arm resides within the male terminal receiver. A female connector assembly includes a female terminal with a receptacle that receives both the male terminal and the spring member. A female housing receives the female terminal and an extent of the male connector assembly. When the connector system moves from the partially assembled state to a connected position for connection of the vehicle component, the male connector assembly is inserted into female housing, the contact arm is brought into sliding engagement with an angled internal segment of the female housing, and the contact arm is inwardly displaced as the contact arm slidingly engages with the angled internal segment.
US11715898B2
Problem: To realize a connection with a counterpart connector with high spacing efficiency, and to stably maintain an electrically connected state while having a compact and low profile and without the terminal being deformed or damaged, even when subjected to a force from a counterpart terminal when mated with the counterpart terminal, which increases reliability. Solution: The terminal includes a substrate fixing part 52 fixed to a substrate 11, a pair of contact parts which sandwich a counterpart terminal 151, and an elastic deformation part having both ends connected to the substrate fixing part 52 and the contact parts, respectively, wherein a spring constant of the elastic deformation part is smaller than a spring constant of the contact parts.
US11715896B2
A coaxial connecting member (1) for transmitting radio-frequency signals between a first and a second circuit board (2, 3) includes an inner conductor (4), an outer conductor (5) and an insulating member (6) arranged between the inner conductor (4) and the outer conductor (5). The inner conductor (4) and/or the outer conductor (5) comprise a first and a second end section (7, 8) to interconnect the inner conductor (4) to the first and the second circuit board (2, 3). The first and the second end section (7, 8) are interconnected to each other by at least one elastically deformable transversal section (9) to compensate axial and/or lateral misalignment of the first and the second circuit board (2, 3) with respect to each other.
US11715893B2
A structure of electrical connection is a structure of mutual electrical connection between a first power supply unit, a second power supply unit, and electric wires. The first power supply unit is provided with a first columnar terminal, and the second power supply unit is provided with a second columnar terminal. A tubular terminal is connected to an end of the electric wire. A first tubular terminal fitted to the first columnar terminal, a second tubular terminal fitted to the second columnar terminal, and a columnar terminal fitted to the tubular terminal are joined to a conductive connection plate. The entirety of the connection plate and the ends of the electric wires are covered with a cover.
US11715891B2
A communication device includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a third antenna element, a fourth antenna element, a fifth antenna element, a sixth antenna element, a seventh antenna element, an eighth antenna element, and a PCB (Printed Circuit Board). The PCB has a first side and a second side positioned opposite to each other. At least one of the first antenna element, the second antenna element, the third antenna element, the fourth antenna element, the fifth antenna element, the sixth antenna element, the seventh antenna element, and the eighth antenna element is adjacent to the first side of the PCB. The other(s) of the first antenna element, the second antenna element, the third antenna element, the fourth antenna element, the fifth antenna element, the sixth antenna element, the seventh antenna element, and the eighth antenna element is/are adjacent to the second side of the PCB.
US11715880B2
A waveguide structure for a compact and scalable dual-polarized antenna array. In one example, a waveguide device comprises septum polarizers dividing common waveguides into first waveguides associated with a first polarization and second waveguides associated with a second polarization. The sets of septum polarizers may be inverted relative to each other to form first groups of four adjacent first waveguides for each type of waveguide. The waveguide device may also include a waveguide feed network including a first waveguide feed stage including waveguide combiner/dividers coupled between the four adjacent waveguides intermediate waveguides. The waveguide device may further include a second waveguide feed stage coupled with the first intermediate waveguides and the second intermediate waveguides, wherein the second waveguide feed stage extends in a direction perpendicular to the first waveguide feed stage.
US11715876B2
A system having a platform upon which several phased antenna arrays are mounted and which can communicate with satellites. The system includes a switch that can connect any of the phased array antennas to any of available modems. The system further includes a router that can connect any of the modems to any available computing devices. Based on parameters such as data rates, signal strength, and account information, one or more communication paths are selected for a computing device requesting to communicate with a satellite. Each communication path is established by operating the switch to connect a selected antenna to a selected modem, and operating the router to transfer data between the computing device and the selected modem.
US11715864B2
The invention provides a composite separator and an electrochemical device such as a battery with the composite separator. The composite separator includes at least one metal-organic framework (MOF) composite layer, and at least one porous layer serving a mechanical support for the at least one MOF composite layer. The at least one MOF composite layer includes at least one MOF material defining a plurality of pore channels and at least one polymer. The at least one MOF material is a class of crystalline porous scaffolds constructed from metal clusters with organic ligands and is activated at a temperature for a period of time such that the at least one MOF material includes unsaturated metal centers, open metal sites and/or structural defects that are able to complex with anions in electrolyte.
US11715863B2
The present disclosure provides methods of preparing a solid-state polymer matrix electrolyte (PME) and methods for preparing a PME precursor solution for forming the PME for use in battery technologies.
US11715858B1
Mobile swappable battery for a powered workstation. In an embodiment of a mobile swappable battery sized for detachable coupling with a base of a powered workstation of the present disclosure, the battery comprises a wheeled housing enclosing a portion of the battery, wherein the wheeled housing comprises at least two wheels attached to a bottom side of the housing, and a collapsible handle for pushing and guiding the wheeled housing into detachable alignment with a battery guide in the base of the powered workstation.
US11715856B2
The present disclosure provides a battery pack including a casing and a battery module housed in the casing. The battery module can include a plurality of batteries arranged along a length direction and an end plate located at an end of the plurality of batteries in the length direction. The end plate can include a main body portion and a lug integrally formed with the main body portion, wherein the lug protrudes outwardly from the main body portion along the length direction and is fixedly connected to the casing. The design disclosed herein reduces the number of the components that are fixedly connected between the end plate and the casing, the number of steps in the operating procedure, and the production cost.
US11715855B2
Provided is a battery module including a plurality of battery cells stacked on one another and being capable of effectively preventing damage to the battery cells despite such a configuration. A battery module 1 includes a plurality of battery cells 10 stacked on one another and a battery cell support 2. The battery cells 10 each include a battery 11 and an exterior casing 12 accommodating the battery 11. The battery cell support 2 is disposed between the plurality of battery cells 10. The battery module preferably further includes a fixation film 6 wound around the plurality of battery cells in a stacking direction and fixing the plurality of battery cells.
US11715843B2
A power storage device includes a power storage module, a conductive plate, and a sealing member. The power storage module includes an electrode laminate and a sealing body. The sealing body includes a plurality of resin portions. Metal plates at laminate ends of the electrode laminate each have an exposed surface exposed from the resin portion. The exposed surface includes a contact region and a non-contact region. The sealing member includes a first sealing portion. The first sealing portion is provided along an inner edge of the resin portion to be in contact with the resin portion. The first sealing portion adheres to the conductive plate and the non-contact region and fills a portion between the conductive plate and the non-contact region. The first sealing portion seals a portion between the conductive plate and the exposed surface.
US11715834B2
A fuel cell catalyst for oxygen reduction reactions including Pt—Ni—Cu nanoparticles supported on nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon (MPC) having enhanced activity and durability, and method of making said catalyst. The catalyst is synthesized by employing a solid state chemistry method, which involves thermally pretreating a N-doped MPC to remove moisture from the surface; impregnation of metal precursors on the N-doped MPC under vacuum condition; and reducing the metal precursors in a stream of CO and H2 gas mixture.
US11715828B2
A positive-electrode material for a lithium secondary battery is provided. The material includes a lithium oxide compound or a complex oxide as reactive substance. The material also includes at least one type of carbon material, and optionally a binder. A first type of carbon material is provided as a coating on the reactive substance particles surface. A second type of carbon material is carbon black. And a third type of carbon material is a fibrous carbon material provided as a mixture of at least two types of fibrous carbon material different in fiber diameter and/or fiber length. Also, a method for preparing the material as well as lithium secondary batteries including the material is provided.
US11715818B2
A wavelength-converting element includes a substrate, a wavelength-converting layer and a diffuse reflection layer. The wavelength-converting layer is disposed above the substrate. The diffuse reflection layer is disposed between the substrate and the wavelength-converting layer. The diffuse reflection layer includes an inorganic binder and a plurality of diffuse reflection particles. The diffuse reflection particles are mixed with the inorganic binder. The inorganic binder includes an alcohol-soluble inorganic binder or a water-soluble inorganic binder. A projection apparatus using the wavelength-converting element and a manufacturing method of the wavelength-converting element are also provided.
US11715817B2
Disclosed in an embodiment is a light-emitting element package comprising: a body including a cavity; a light-emitting element arranged on the bottom surface of the cavity and including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second conductive type semiconductor layer and an active layer, which is arranged between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer; and a light-transmitting member arranged on the upper part of the cavity, wherein the body includes: a lower body including the bottom surface of the cavity; an upper body including the lateral surface of the cavity; and a first insulating layer arranged between the lower body and the upper body, the lower body includes a first conductive body and a second conductive body insulated and arranged together with the first conductive body, the first conductive type semiconductor layer is electrically connected with the first conductive body, the second conductive type semiconductor layer is electrically connected with the second conductive body, and the height from the lower surface of the lower body to the bottom surface of the cavity is less than the height from the lower surface of the lower body to the lower surface of the first insulating layer.
US11715804B2
A SiC Schottky rectifier with surge current ruggedness is described. The Schottky rectifier includes one or more multi-layer bodies that provide multiple types of surge current protection.
US11715799B2
Methods and apparatus to form silicon-based transistors on group III-nitride materials using aspect ratio trapping are disclosed. An example integrated circuit includes a group III-nitride substrate and a fin of silicon formed on the group III-nitride substrate. The integrated circuit further includes a first transistor formed on the fin of silicon and a second transistor formed on the group III-nitride substrate.
US11715792B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward an integrated chip including an undoped layer overlying a substrate. A first barrier layer overlies the undoped layer. A doped layer overlies the first barrier layer. Further, a second barrier layer overlies the first barrier layer, where the second barrier layer is laterally offset from a perimeter of the doped layer by a non-zero distance. The first and second barrier layers comprise a same III-V semiconductor material. A first atomic percentage of a first element within the first barrier layer is less than a second atomic percentage of the first element within the second barrier layer.
US11715791B2
A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate with a compliant substrate layer advantageous for seeding an epitaxial III-N semiconductor stack upon which III-N devices (e.g., III-N HFETs) may be formed. The compliant layer may be (111) silicon, for example. The SOI substrate may further include another layer that may have one or more of lower electrical resistivity, greater thickness, or a different crystal orientation relative to the compliant substrate layer. A SOI substrate may include a (100) silicon layer advantageous for integrating Group IV devices (e.g., Si FETs), for example. To reduce parasitic coupling between an HFET and a substrate layer of relatively low electrical resistivity, one or more layers of the substrate may be removed within a region below the HFETs. Once removed, the resulting void may be backfilled with another material, or the void may be sealed, for example during back-end-of-line processing.
US11715786B2
An integrated circuit device includes: a fin-type active area including a fin top surface on a top portion and an anti-punch-through recess having a lowermost level lower than a level of the fin top surface; a nanosheet stack facing the fin top surface, the nanosheet stack including a plurality of nanosheets having vertical distances different from each other from the fin top surface; a gate structure surrounding each of the plurality of nanosheets; a source/drain region having a side wall facing at least one of the plurality of nanosheets; and an anti-punch-through semiconductor layer including a first portion filling the anti-punch-through recess, and a second portion being in contact with a side wall of a first nanosheet most adjacent to the fin-type active area among the plurality of nanosheets, the anti-punch-through semiconductor layer including a material different from a material of the source/drain region.
US11715781B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, two source/drain (S/D) regions over the substrate, a channel region between the two S/D regions and including a semiconductor material, a deposited capacitor material (DCM) layer over the channel region a dielectric layer over the DCM layer and a metallic gate electrode layer over the dielectric layer.
US11715772B1
A nanoelectric field effect sensor uses the field created by the surface charge profile of biomolecular binding to modulate the current flowing between a source and a drain. We have shown that a patterned side or top gate can be used to calibrate the biomolecular field modulation. This approach provides an electrical sensitivity characterization of the sensor before exposing it to sample fluid. Furthermore, a side gate or a top gate voltage with the right sign can be used to control the binding event during functionalization or sensing. For instance, a negative gate voltage can prevent binding of negatively charged proteins on a sensor. This approach of electric-field control of binding can be used in a differential sensor configuration as well. For instance, in a two-sensor single-bridge technique, one of the sensors can be exposed to a local electric field to prevent binding events, which can then be used for background cancellation in a second sensor, not exposed to the electric field. Furthermore, this approach can be used to prepare a sensor chip for multiplexing, where different chip areas can be turned on or off by applying local electric fields.
US11715771B2
Provided is a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a hydrogen containing region including hydrogen, and the hydrogen containing region includes a high concentration region with a higher carrier concentration than a virtual carrier concentration determined based on a concentration of hydrogen included and an activation ratio of hydrogen. The semiconductor substrate includes an N type drift region, an N type emitter region that has a higher carrier concentration than that in the drift region, a P type base region, a P type collector region provided to be in contact with a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, and an N type buffer region that is provided between the collector region and the drift region, and has a higher carrier concentration than that in the drift region, and the hydrogen containing region is included in the buffer region.
US11715770B2
The current disclosure describes semiconductor devices, e.g., transistors including a thin semimetal layer as a channel region over a substrate, which includes bandgap opening and exhibits semiconductor properties. Described semiconductor devices include source/drain regions that include a thicker semimetal layer over the thin semimetal layer serving as the channel region, this thicker semimetal layer exhibiting metal properties. The semimetal used for the source/drain regions include a same or similar semimetal material as the semimetal of the channel region.
US11715768B2
A method for producing a silicon carbide component includes forming a silicon carbide layer on an initial wafer, forming a doping region of the silicon carbide component to be produced in the silicon carbide layer, and forming an electrically conductive contact structure of the silicon carbide component to be produced on a surface of the silicon carbide layer. The electrically conductive contact structure electrically contacts the doping region. Furthermore, the method includes splitting the silicon carbide layer or the initial wafer after forming the electrically conductive contact structure, such that a silicon carbide substrate at least of the silicon carbide component to be produced is split off.
US11715765B2
A method of manufacturing a channel all-around semiconductor device includes: forming a plurality of gate structures having the same extension direction, and forming a multi-connected channel layer on a substrate. Each of the gate structures has opposite first end and second end, and the gate structures are all surrounded by the formed multi-connected channel layer, and a plane direction of the multi-connected channel layer is perpendicular to the extension direction of the gate structures, so that channels of the gate structures are connected to each other.
US11715764B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a substrate, a source/drain contact disposed over the substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed on the source drain contact, an etch stop layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, and a source/drain conductive layer disposed in the etch stop layer and the first dielectric layer. The structure further includes a spacer structure disposed in the etch stop layer and the first dielectric layer. The spacer structure surrounds a sidewall of the source/drain conductive layer and includes a first spacer layer having a first portion and a second spacer layer adjacent the first portion of the first spacer layer. The first portion of the first spacer layer and the second spacer layer are separated by an air gap. The structure further includes a seal layer.
US11715762B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first nanostructure; a second nanostructure; a gate dielectric around the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure, the gate dielectric including dielectric materials; and a gate electrode including: a work function tuning layer on the gate dielectric, the work function tuning layer including a pure work function metal, the pure work function metal of the work function tuning layer and the dielectric materials of the gate dielectric completely filling a region between the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure, the pure work function metal having a composition of greater than 95 at. % metals; an adhesion layer on the work function tuning layer; and a fill layer on the adhesion layer.
US11715756B2
A device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The device structure includes a structure, a first passivation layer disposed on the structure, a buffer layer disposed on the first passivation layer, a barrier layer disposed on a first portion of the buffer layer, a redistribution layer disposed over the barrier layer, an adhesion layer disposed on the barrier layer and on side surfaces of the redistribution layer, and a second passivation layer disposed on a second portion of the buffer layer. The second passivation layer is in contact with the barrier layer, the adhesion layer, and the redistribution layer.
US11715754B2
A semiconductor package includes a first die comprising an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface. The first die includes a plurality of through-silicon vias (TSVs) penetrating through the first die. A second die is stacked on the upper surface of the first die. An interposer layer is disposed on the lower surface of the first die. An inductor is disposed in the interposer layer. The inductor comprises terminals directly coupled to the TSVs.
US11715750B2
A method of manufacturing a photodetector device is provided. The method includes providing a photodetector array comprising an array of photodetectors and a plurality of metal structures arranged laterally between photodetectors of the array of photodetectors, wherein the photodetectors are co-planar with the plurality of metal structures, and wherein the plurality of metal structures are arranged in a first pattern; applying an antireflective coating to a surface of a transparent substrate, the antireflective coating being patterned according to a second pattern that matches the first pattern; aligning the transparent substrate over the photodetector array such that the first pattern is aligned with the second pattern; and coupling the transparent substrate to the photodetector array such that the antireflective coating covers the plurality of metal structures.
US11715722B2
Fabrication of a bondwire inductor between connection pads of a semiconductor package using a wire bonding process is disclosed herein. To that end, the bondwire inductor is fabricated by extending a bondwire connecting two connection pads of the semiconductor package around a dielectric structure, e.g., a dielectric post or posts, disposed between the connection pads a defined amount. In so doing, the bondwire inductor adds inductance between the connection pads, where the added inductance is defined by factors which at least include the amount the bondwire extends around the dielectric structure. Such additional inductance may be particularly beneficial for certain semiconductor devices and/or circuits, e.g., monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) to control or supplement impedance matching, harmonic termination, matching biasing, etc.
US11715718B2
Embodiments of bonded semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. A first device layer is formed on a first substrate. A first bonding layer including a first bonding contact is formed above the first device layer. A first capping layer is formed at an upper end of the first bonding contact. The first capping layer has a conductive material different from a remainder of the first bonding contact. A second device layer is formed on a second substrate. A second bonding layer including a second bonding contact is formed above the second device layer. The first substrate and the second substrate are bonded in a face-to-face manner, so that the first bonding contact is in contact with the second bonding contact by the first capping layer.
US11715708B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate and a semiconductor chip disposed over the substrate. The substrate includes: a base layer including an upper surface facing the semiconductor chip; an upper ground electrode plate disposed over the upper surface of the base layer and configured to transmit a ground voltage to the semiconductor chip; and a dummy power pattern disposed in the upper ground electrode plate and having a side surface which is surrounded by the upper ground electrode plate and is spaced apart from the upper ground electrode plate with an insulating material between the dummy power pattern and the upper ground electrode plate. A ground voltage transmission path from the upper ground electrode plate to the semiconductor chip is spaced apart from the dummy power pattern.
US11715706B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor chip, a semiconductor device and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection method for a semiconductor device. The semiconductor chip includes an electrical contact, an application circuit, and an ESD protection unit. The application circuit performs operations according to a one signal received by the electrical contact. The ESD protection unit is coupled to the electrical contact. The capacitance of the ESD protection unit is adjustable.
US11715697B2
A semiconductor package may include a lower package including a first substrate, a first semiconductor chip on the first substrate, and a first molding portion on the first substrate to cover the first semiconductor chip, an interposer substrate on the first semiconductor chip, a supporting portion between the interposer substrate and the first substrate to support the interposer substrate, a connection terminal connecting the interposer substrate to the first substrate, and an upper package on the interposer substrate. The upper package may include a second substrate, a second semiconductor chip on the second substrate, and a second molding portion on the second substrate to cover the second semiconductor chip.
US11715696B2
Semiconductor devices having electrical interconnections through vertically stacked semiconductor dies, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a semiconductor assembly includes a die stack having a plurality of semiconductor dies. Each semiconductor die can include surfaces having an insulating material, a recess formed in at least one surface, and a conductive pad within the recess. The semiconductor dies can be directly coupled to each other via the insulating material. The semiconductor assembly can further include an interconnect structure electrically coupled to each of the semiconductor dies. The interconnect structure can include a monolithic via extending continuously through each of the semiconductor dies in the die stack. The interconnect structure can also include a plurality of protrusions extending from the monolithic via. Each protrusion can be positioned within the recess of a respective semiconductor die and can be electrically coupled to the conductive pad within the recess.
US11715681B2
A method comprises embedding a semiconductor structure in a molding compound layer, depositing a plurality of photo-sensitive material layers over the molding compound layer, developing the plurality of photo-sensitive material layers to form a plurality of openings, wherein a first portion and a second portion of an opening of the plurality of openings are formed in different photo-sensitive material layers and filling the first portion and the second portion of the opening with a conductive material to form a first via in the first portion and a first redistribution layer in the second portion.
US11715671B2
A film forming system for forming a magnetic film is provided. The film forming system includes a processing module configured to form the magnetic film on a substrate, a magnetization characteristic measuring device configured to measure magnetization characteristics of the magnetic film formed on the substrate in the processing module, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the substrate between the processing module and the magnetization characteristic measuring device. The magnetization characteristic measuring device includes a magnetic field applying mechanism having a permanent magnet magnetic circuit configured to apply a magnetic field to the substrate and adjust the magnetic field to be applied to the substrate, and a detector configured to detect magnetization characteristics of the substrate.
US11715659B2
Proposed is an EFEM configured to perform wafer transfer between a wafer storage device and process equipment. More particularly, proposed is an EFEM that prevents harmful gases inside a transfer chamber in which wafer transfer is performed from escaping out of the EFEM.
US11715655B1
A flexure-based continuous ejector pin mechanism for Mini/Micro chip mass transfer includes a first drive frame, a second drive frame, a mounting base, a first thorn die attach drive device, a second thorn die attach drive device, first flexible hinges, second flexible hinges, and a pricking pin. The second drive frame and the first drive frame are connected through the first flexible hinge. The mounting base is connected to a left side and a right side of the second drive frame through the second flexible hinges. Compared with a laser transfer technology, the flexible movable thorn die attach device has lower cost and higher accuracy; compared with a vacuum nozzle transfer technology, the flexible movable thorn die attach device has higher transfer efficiency and quality; and compared with a conventional thorn die attach device, the flexible movable thorn die attach device has higher transfer efficiency and precision.
US11715652B2
A member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a ceramic plate having an upper surface serving as a wafer mounting surface and incorporating an electrode, a ceramic dense plug disposed adjacent to a lower surface side of the ceramic plate and ceramic-bonded to the ceramic plate by a ring-shaped joint portion, a metal cooling plate joined to the lower surface of the ceramic plate in a portion other than the ring-shaped joint portion, and a gas flow channel. The gas flow channel includes a gas discharge hole that passes completely through the ceramic plate in the thickness direction of the ceramic plate and an internal gas flow channel that passes from the upper surface to the lower surface of the dense plug while winding through the dense plug. The gas flow channel passes inside of an inner periphery of the joint portion.
US11715650B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a nozzle unit. The nozzle unit includes a line and a nozzle tip provided on a tip end of the line. The line includes a first layer, a second layer and a third layer. The nozzle tip is formed of a corrosion resistant resin having conductivity. The third layer is configured to cover the first layer and the second layer from outside and cover a part of the nozzle tip from outside.
US11715648B2
A substrate processing apparatus performs a drying process for drying a substrate with a liquid film formed on a pattern formation surface thereof, using a processing fluid in a supercritical state. The substrate processing apparatus includes a processing container, a holder, and a processing liquid supply. The processing container accommodates the substrate. The holder holds the substrate inside the processing container. The processing liquid supply supplies a processing fluid into the processing container. Further, the holder includes a base, a plurality of support members, and a lifting mechanism. The base is disposed below the substrate. The plurality of support members are provided on the base, and support the substrate from below. The lifting mechanism moves the plurality of support members up and down.
US11715646B2
A method includes forming a plurality of first conductive vias over a redistribution layer (RDL); disposing a first die over the RDL and adjacent to the first vias; and forming a plurality of second conductive vias over and electrically connected to the first conductive vias, each of the second conductive vias corresponding to one of the first conductive vias. The method further includes forming a plurality of third conductive vias over the first die; disposing a second die over the first die and adjacent to the third conductive vias; and encapsulating the first die, the second die, the first conductive vias, the second conductive vias and the third conductive vias with a molding material.
US11715639B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes depositing a silicon layer over a substrate, removing a portion of the silicon layer to form a gate stack, and performing a hydrogen treatment on the gate stack to repair a plurality of voids in the stack structure.
US11715618B2
Systems and methods for reducing the buildup of charge during the investigation of samples using charged particle beams, according to the present disclosure include irradiating a first portion of a sample during a first time period, wherein the irradiating the first portion of the sample causes a gradual accumulation of net charge in the first portion of the sample, generating imaging data based on emissions resultant from irradiating the first portion of the sample, and then irradiating a second portion of a sample holder for a second time period. The methods may further includes iteratively repeating the irradiation of the first portion and the second portion during imaging of the sample region. When more than one region of interest on the sample is to be investigated, the method may also include continuing to image additional portions of the sample by iteratively irradiating a region of interest on the sample and a corresponding portion of the sample holder.
US11715616B2
Systems and methods for the batch production of large numbers of highly uniform multichannel-plate photomultiplier tubes (MCP-PMTs) for large-scale applications are provided. The systems and methods employ dual, nested low-vacuum (LV) and UHV processing in a rapid-cycling, small-footprint, scalable, batch-production facility that is capable of fabricating many MCP-PMTs simultaneously.
US11715615B2
A light modulated electron source utilizes a photon-beam source to modulate the emission current of an electron beam emitted from a silicon-based field emitter. The field emitter's cathode includes a protrusion fabricated on a silicon substrate and having an emission tip covered by a coating layer. An extractor generates an electric field that attracts free electrons toward the emission tip for emission as part of the electron beam. The photon-beam source generates a photon beam including photons having an energy greater than the bandgap of silicon, and includes optics that direct the photon beam onto the emission tip, whereby each absorbed photon creates a photo-electron that combines with the free electrons to enhance the electron beam's emission current. A controller modulates the emission current by controlling the intensity of the photon beam applied to the emission tip. A monitor measures the electron beam and provides feedback to the controller.
US11715612B2
A crank arm of an auxiliary rotary switch in a circuit breaker changes electrical connections of contacts in the auxiliary rotary switch when the crank-arm is rotated about its axis. An auxiliary switch actuator decouples abrupt forces from being applied to the crank arm resulting from closing main contacts of the circuit breaker. In response to the main contacts starting to close, the crank arm is set into rotation by motion of a connection-state link that is coupled to the main contacts. The rotation of the crank arm continues up to a point at which the rotation is stopped, while the connection-state link continues its motion without being connected to the crank arm. In this manner, the connection-state link is decoupled from the crank arm, to relieve the crank arm from receiving the abrupt forces conducted by the connection-state link resulting from the main circuit breaker contacts closing.
US11715604B2
A method of producing a multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: forming a base film formed from an electrically conductive material on a surface of a ceramic body including internal electrodes laminated and drawn to the surface in such a manner that the base film is connected to the internal electrodes; forming a first nickel film on the base film by an electrolytic plating method; performing, after forming the first nickel film, heat treatment in a weakly reducing atmosphere at a temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which the first nickel film is recrystallized; and forming a second nickel film on the first nickel film, on which the heat treatment is performed, by an electrolytic plating method.
US11715590B2
A multilayer inductor component includes an element body that is an insulator and a coil in which a plurality of coil conductor layers that extend along planes in the element body are electrically connected to each other. Also, each of the coil conductor layers includes metal part and glass part, and the glass part include internal glass portion that is entirely included in the metal part.
US11715589B2
An inductive filtering device includes a plurality of grouped electrical conductors and at least two toric magnetic cores, each formed around a central void, the two magnetic cores having different magnetic lengths, the electrical conductor being wound together around both magnetic cores by passing through the central voids of both magnetic cores.
US11715584B2
A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an insulator around the conductor, a shield layer around the insulator, and a sheath around the shield layer. The shield layer includes a lateral winding shielding portion with metal wires helically wrapped around the insulator, and a batch plating portion covering the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes a joining portion where adjacent metal wires are joined with each other with the batch plating portion at a gap between the adjacent metal wires, and inner peripheral portions where the metal wires are not being covered with the batch plating portion and plating layers are exposed. The joining portion is provided between adjacent inner peripheral portions. When an elemental analysis is performed in any analysis region having an area of 0.015 mm2 or more and 0.300 mm2 or less in an insulator-side surface of the shield layer which is stripped from the insulator, an area of a chlorine present region where chlorine is present in the analysis region is 5% or less of an area of the analysis region.
US11715583B2
Disclosed is an armored cable assembly including a core having a notched assembly tape about a plurality of conductors. A metal sheath surrounds the core.
US11715580B2
A seal mold divided structure for combination cable disclosed comprises the following structures: a first cable and a second cable separated from the combination cable; a connector provided at the end of the first cable; a division molding portion that molds the division part between the first cable and the second cable and keeps the first cable and the second cable separated from each other; a connector molding portion that molds the connection part between the connector and the first cable; and a protect tube, with its ends respectively fixed to the division molding portion and the connector molding portion to protect the first cable and prevent inflow of a molding compound.
US11715574B2
Systems (100) and methods (600) for providing a product with a radiation mitigation feature. The methods comprise: obtaining a composite base layer formed of a fiber-reinforced material; and performing a deposition process to dispose a first coating layer on the composite base layer so as to form the product with a radiation barrier, the first coating layer comprising 35% by mass or less of a metal constituent, at least 65% by mass of a germanium constituent, a zero or substantially zero coating stress, and/or an overall thickness between 2 microns and 8 microns.
US11715565B2
Systems and methods are provided for implementing a tool for evaluating an effect on an event, such as a medication or treatment, on a subject's condition, using a propensity model that identifies matched treatment and control cohorts within a base population of subjects. A propensity value threshold, which can be obtained based on user input, can be used to adjust the selection of subjects for treatment and control cohorts. The tool allows analyzing features of the subjects in the treatment and control groups, and further allows for evaluation and comparison of survival objectives of subjects in the treatment and control groups.
US11715562B2
Disclosed is a method for multi-center effect compensation based on a PET/CT intelligent diagnosis system. The method includes the following steps: estimating multi-center effect parameters of a test center B relative to a training center A by implementing a nonparametric mathematical method for data of the training center A and the test center B based on a location-scale model about additive and multiplicative multi-center effect parameters, and using the parameters to compensate the data of the test center B to eliminate a multi-center effect between the test center B and the training center A. According to the present disclosure, the multi-center effect between the training center A and the test center B can be compensated, so that the compensated data of the test center B can be used in the model trained by the training center A, and the generalization ability of the model is indirectly improved.
US11715560B2
A computer-based surgery support system and method for obtaining information of surgical procedures from networked equipment in an operating room, storing the retrieved information in a database, receiving a request for the stored information from a user terminal, and providing the stored information in accordance with the received request. The networked equipment may be configured for use in cataract surgical procedures, such as a phacoemulsification system.
US11715551B2
Methods and systems for evaluating a query perturbation, in a cell based assay representing a test state, are provided. Control data points having dimensions representing measurements of different features across control cell aliquots are obtained. Test data points having dimensions representing measurements of different features across test cell aliquots are obtained. A composite test vector is computed between measures of central tendency across the control data points and measures of central tendency across the test data points. Query perturbation data points having dimensions representing measurements of different features across perturbation cell aliquots are obtained. A composite query perturbation vector is computed between measures of central tendency across the control data points and measures of central tendency across the plurality of query perturbation data points.
US11715547B2
A system includes a memory array of sub-blocks, each sub-block including groups of memory cells, and a processing device. The processing device causes a first wordline to be programmed through the sub-blocks with a mask by causing to be programmed, to a first voltage level: a first group of memory cells of a first sub-block; and a second group of memory cells of a second sub-block. The processing device further scans a second wordline that has been programmed and is coupled to the first wordline, scanning includes: causing a custom wordline voltage to be applied to the second wordline, the custom wordline voltage to select groups of memory cells corresponding to those of the first wordline programmed to the first voltage level; concurrently reading data from the selected groups of memory cells of the second wordline; and performing, using the data, an error check of the second wordline.
US11715544B2
An apparatus includes a first group of memory units and a second group of memory units coupled to a first data path and a second data path coupled to a controller, a first delay element on the first data path coupled to the second group of memory units and configured to send, from the controller to the second group of memory units, signals for write and read operations in a sequence of time cycles delayed by a time cycle with respect to the first group of memory units, and a second delay element on the second data path and coupled to the first group of memory units and configured to send, from the first group of memory units to the controller, test result signals delayed by a time cycle, the delayed test result signals having a matching delay to the delayed write and read operations.
US11715541B2
A method includes associating each block of a plurality of blocks of a memory device with a corresponding frequency access group of a plurality of frequency access groups based on corresponding access frequencies, and performing scan operations on blocks of each of the plurality of frequency access groups using a scan frequency that is different from scan frequencies of other frequency access groups. A scan operation performed on a frequency access group with a higher access frequency uses a higher scan frequency than a scan operation performed on a frequency access group with a lower access frequency.
US11715540B2
The disclosure provides an anti-fuse device including an anti-fuse unit and a sensing circuit. The anti-fuse unit includes a first anti-fuse and a second anti-fuse serially connected between a first terminal of the anti-fuse unit and a second terminal of the anti-fuse unit. The sensing circuit is coupled to the first terminal and the second terminal of the anti-fuse unit for sensing a blown state of the anti-fuse unit.
US11715534B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory strings, each connected between one of a plurality of bit lines and a source line and includes a first select transistor, a second select transistor, and memory cell transistors that are connected in series between the first select transistor and the second select transistor, and a plurality of word lines respectively connected to gates of the memory cell transistors in each memory string. A threshold voltage of the memory cell transistor is increased when a voltage that is applied to the word line connected to the gate thereof is lower than a voltage of a channel thereof. In the erase operation, data stored in the memory cell transistors connected to a selected one of the word lines are erased while data stored in the memory cell transistors not connected to the selected word line are not erased.
US11715529B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory circuit, a first FIFO, a second FIFO and an input/output circuit. The memory circuit outputs data. The first FIFO receives data from the memory circuit and outputs data synchronously with a first clock signal. The second FIFO receives data output from the first FIFO and outputs data synchronously with the first clock signal. The input/output circuit outputs data output from the second FIFO. The second FIFO is disposed in the vicinity of the input/output circuit than the first FIFO.
US11715525B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory block including a first structure formed on a substrate and a second structure formed on the first structure. An erase method of the nonvolatile memory device includes applying a word line erase voltage to first normal word lines of the first structure and second normal word lines of the second structure, and applying a junction word line erase voltage smaller than the word line erase voltage to at least one of a first junction word line of the first structure and a second junction word line of the second structure. The first junction word line is a word line adjacent to the second structure from among word lines of the first structure, and the second junction word line is a word line adjacent to the first structure from among word lines of the second structure.
US11715517B2
A phase change (PCM) memory device that includes a PCM and a resistance-capacitance (RC) circuit. The PCM has one or more PCM properties, each PCM property has a plurality of PCM property states. As the PCM property states of a given property are Set or Reset, the PCM property states each produce an incremental change to a property level of the respective/associated PCM property, e.g., PCM conductance. The incremental changes to property level of the PCM memory device are in response to application of one or more of a pulse number of voltage pulses. The RC circuit produces a configuring current that flows through the PCM in response to one or more of the voltage pulses. The configuring current modifies one or more of the incremental changes to one or more of the property levels so that the property level changes lineally with respect to the pulse number. The PCM memory device has use in a synapse connector, e.g., in a memory array. The memory array can be used to store and/or read memory values associated with one or more of the property levels. The memory values can be used as weighting values in a neuromorphic computing application/system, like a neural network.
US11715515B2
A semiconductor memory instance is provided that includes an array of memory cells. The array includes a plurality of semiconductor memory cells arranged in at least one column and at least one row. Each of the semiconductor memory cells includes a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell. Further includes are a plurality of buried well regions, wherein each of the buried well regions can be individually selected, and a decoder circuit to select at least one of the buried well regions.
US11715511B2
A method includes determining a quantity of refresh operations performed on a block of a memory device of a memory sub-system and determining a quantity of write operations and a quantity of read operations performed to the block. The method also includes determining the block is read dominant using the quantity of write operations and the quantity of read operations and determining whether the quantity of refresh operations has met a criteria. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the block is read dominant and that the quantity of refresh operations has met the criteria, modifying trim settings used to operate the block of the memory device.
US11715508B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a source follower-based sensing architecture and sensing scheme are described. In one example, a memory device may include a sense circuit that includes two source followers that are coupled to each other and to a sense amplifier. A method of operating the memory device may include transferring a digit line voltage to one of the source followers and transferring a reference voltage to the other source follower. After transferring the digit line voltage and the reference voltage, the source followers may be enabled so that signals representative of the digit line voltage and the reference voltage are transferred from the outputs of the source followers to the sense amplifier for sensing.
US11715507B2
A memory system includes a memory controller and a memory. The memory controller selectively operates in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the memory controller transmits a first command continuously during a plurality of clock cycles. In the second mode, the memory controller to mix a second command with the first command and transmit the mixture of the first command and the second command. The memory changes command latch timing depending on the first or second mode.
US11715501B2
Header circuitry for a memory device includes multiple backside power rails that form distinct voltage sources for a plurality of switching devices in the header circuitry. The header circuitry includes at least one region of a first conductivity type. A first section in the first region includes one backside power rail (BPR) that forms a first voltage source that provides a first voltage. A second section in the same first region includes another BPR that forms a second voltage source that provides a second voltage that is different from the first voltage.
US11715489B2
Systems and methods for suppressing noise and detecting voice input in a multi-channel audio signal captured by a plurality of microphones include (i) capturing a first audio signal via a first microphone and a second audio signal via a second microphone, wherein the first and second audio signals respectively comprises first and second noise content from a noise source; (ii) identifying the first noise content in the first audio signal; (iii) using the identified first noise content to determine an estimated noise content captured by the plurality of microphones; (iv) using the estimated noise content to suppress the first and second noise content in the first and second audio signals; (v) combining the suppressed first and second audio signals into a third audio signal; and (vi) determining that the third audio signal includes a voice input comprising a wake word.
US11715486B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying the language of a spoken utterance. One of the methods includes receiving input features of an utterance; and processing the input features using an acoustic model that comprises one or more convolutional neural network (CNN) layers, one or more long short-term memory network (LSTM) layers, and one or more fully connected neural network layers to generate a transcription for the utterance.
US11715479B1
An audio signal is enhanced using interaural coherence to control noise reduction and binaural cue preservation. Sounds from a local area are detected via an acoustic array. An interaural coherence is determined using the detected sounds. Sound filters for an audio signal are generated based on the interaural coherence. The sound filters implement a tradeoff between increasing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) between a target source and an interfering source and preserving of binaural information of the interfering source. The tradeoff is controlled based on the interaural coherence. The sound filters are applied to the audio signal to generate audio content. The audio content is presented via a speaker array.
US11715470B2
A computing system generates an extended reality environment for an end user. The extended reality environment includes a plurality of tasks and a plurality of goals to be achieved by the end user. The computing system receives input data from an extended reality system associated with the end user. The computing system updates a progress of the end user through the plurality of tasks and the plurality of goals based on the input data. The computing system receives a voice command from the end user. The voice command corresponds to a statement uttered by the end user within the extended reality environment. The computing system processes the voice command to generate a response to the voice command. The computing system causes the response to appear within the extended reality environment as an audible, visual or haptic feedback response to the voice command.
US11715469B2
A system and method of improving the Natural Language Understanding of a voice assistant. A first utterance is converted to text and parsed by a Bi-LSTM neural network to create a vector representing the utterance. A subsequent utterance is similarly converted into a representative vector and the two vector are combined to predict the true intent of a user's subsequent utterance in context with the initial utterance.
US11715466B2
Systems and methods are described herein for locally interpreting a voice query and for managing a storage size of data stored locally to support such local interpretation of voice queries. A voice query is received and compared with a plurality of stored voice queries having similar audio characteristics. If a match is identified, text corresponding to the matching stored voice query is retrieved, and an action corresponding to the retrieved text is performed. If the locally stored table does not contain a stored voice query that matches the voice query, the voice query is transmitted to a remote server for transcription. Once the transcription is received from the remote server, the voice query and the transcription are stored in the table in association with one another.
US11715459B2
An alert generator in a communication system for processing a call includes at least one machine learning model generating call classifiers from outputs of an audio signal processor and a natural language processor configure to operate on the call. Heuristic logic is configured to transform the call classifiers into a plurality of weighted sub-metrics for the call, and aggregate normalized Gaussian logic is configured to transform the weighted sub-metrics into a metric control. A threshold analyzer is configured to generate an alert signal to the communication system based on the metric control meeting a condition.
US11715457B1
Systems and methods for real-time correction of an accent in a speech audio signal are provided. A method includes dividing the speech audio signal into a stream of input chunks, an input chunk from the stream of input chunks including a pre-defined number of frames of the speech audio signal, extracting, by an acoustic features extraction module from the input chunk and a context associated with the input chunk, acoustic features, the context is a pre-determined number of the frames preceding the input chunk in the stream; extracting, by a linguistic features extraction module from the input chunk and the context, linguistic features, receiving a speaker embedding for a human speaker, providing the speaker embedding, the acoustic features, and the linguistic features to a synthesis module to generate a melspectrogram with a reduced accent, providing the melspectrogram to a vocoder to generate an output chunk of an output audio signal.
US11715443B2
The present disclosure relates to display brightness control apparatuses and electronic devices. The display brightness control apparatus can be applied to a display panel. The display panel includes a thin film transistor unit and a light emitting unit. The display brightness control apparatus includes: a detector, which includes a plurality of thin-film transistors in the thin-film transistor unit and is used for outputting a detection current according to the brightness of ambient light; and a controller electrically connected to the detector and used for controlling the luminous brightness of the light-emitting unit according to the detection current. The detector is realized by means of the thin-film transistors, and is arranged inside the thin-film transistor unit of the display panel. The photosensitive characteristic of the thin-film transistors is used to detect the brightness of the ambient light.
US11715438B2
A display device that achieves both high-accuracy sensing by a touch sensor unit and smooth input using the touch sensor unit is provided. The display device includes a display unit and the touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit performs touch sensing operation at a different timing from display image rewriting by the display unit, whereby the high-accuracy sensing can be achieved. The display unit has a function of rewriting a display image only in a region that needs to be rewritten. In the case where the entire display region is not necessarily rewritten, the time for the sensing operation by the touch sensor unit can be lengthened, whereby the smooth input can be achieved.
US11715435B2
A display apparatus capable of improving image quality is provided. In the display apparatus, an adder circuit is provided inside and outside a display region, and the adder circuit has a function of adding a plurality of pieces of data supplied from a source driver. Some components of the adder circuit are separately arranged in a pixel region. Thus, limitation on the size of a component included in the adder circuit can be eased, and data addition can be performed efficiently. In addition, by providing the other components included in the adder circuit outside the display region, the number of wirings in the display region can be reduced and the aperture ratio of the pixel can be increased.
US11715429B2
There is provided a portable electronic device including a backlight module, an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor and a processing unit. The backlight module illuminates with backlight brightness. The ambient light sensor is configured to detect ambient light intensity. The proximity sensor is configured to detect an object. The processing unit is configured to activate the proximity sensor when the ambient light intensity detected by the ambient light sensor is lower than a predetermined value or decreases more than a predetermined range, and to maintain or reduce the backlight brightness according to a detection result of the proximity sensor. There is further provided an automatic detection method.
US11715428B2
A pixel circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes: a first driving element including a first electrode connected to a 1-1 th node, a gate electrode connected to a 1-2 th node, and a second electrode connected to a 1-3 th node; and a second driving element including a first electrode connected to a 2-1 th node, a gate electrode connected to a 2-2 th node, and a second electrode connected to a second-third node. A second electrode voltage of the first driving element is transmitted to the gate electrode of the second driving element, and a second electrode voltage of the second driving element is transmitted to the gate electrode of the first driving element.
US11715427B2
A display device includes each of the plurality of data lines divided into a plurality of sub data lines, and each of the plurality of sub data lines connected to a plurality of sub pixels having the same color, the first reference voltage line connected to the plurality of first sub pixels disposed in the 8k-7th column, the plurality of second sub pixels disposed in the 8k-6th column, the plurality of third sub pixels disposed in the 8k-5th column, the plurality of fourth sub pixels disposed in the 8k-4th column, and the second reference voltage line is connected to the plurality of first sub pixels disposed in the 8k-3rd column, the plurality of second sub pixels disposed in the 8k-2nd column, the plurality of third sub pixels disposed in the 8k-1st column, the plurality of fourth sub pixels disposed in the 8k-th column.
US11715413B2
A display module includes a plurality of pixels; a substrate; a plurality of inorganic LEDs arranged on the substrate, each of the plurality of pixels including two or more inorganic LEDs among the plurality of inorganic LEDs; and a plurality of micro-pixel controllers two-dimensionally arranged in a first direction and a second direction on the substrate, each of the plurality of micro-pixel controllers being configured to control two or more pixels among the plurality of pixels. Each micro-pixel controller of the plurality of micro-pixel controllers is electrically connected to micro-pixel controllers adjacent thereto, and is configured to convert a voltage input from one of the micro-pixel controllers that is electrically connected thereto in a direction opposite to the first direction into a target voltage and supply the target voltage to another micro-pixel controller of the micro-pixel controllers that is electrically connected thereto in the first direction.
US11715409B2
A driving circuit that includes a timing controller, a selecting module connected to the timing controller, and a level shifter connected to the selecting module, wherein the timing controller includes N pins, each of the pins provides a clock signal, and N is a positive integer; the selecting module includes N selecting units, an input terminal of each of the selecting units is connected to a corresponding pin of the timing controller, output terminals of each of the selecting units are connected to M input pins of the level shifter, and M is greater than or equal to 2. The driving circuit according to the present invention individually passes clock signals of a timing controller through selecting units and outputs to a level shifter, and pins of the timing controller can be substantially saved.
US11715405B1
A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a see-through display. The method includes determining a light superposition value that quantifies ambient light from a physical environment. The method includes obtaining image data that is associated with a color characteristic vector. The color characteristic vector includes a first chroma value. The method includes determining, via a color correction function, a second chroma value based on the color characteristic vector and the light superposition value. The first chroma value is different from the second chroma value. The method includes generating, from the image data, display data that is associated with the second chroma value. The method includes displaying the display data on the see-through display.
US11715399B2
Disclosed is integrated circuit panel which detects fault of a driving circuit. The integrated circuit panel includes: a driving circuit array including first and second driving circuits; a data driver configured to output first and second input data signals through first and second data lines, respectively; a switch driver configured to output a switching signal through a switch line; and an error detection driver configured to receive first and second output data signals through first and second test lines, respectively, wherein, in response to the switching signal, the first and second driving circuits are configured to output the first and second output data signals, which are based on the first and second input data signal, through the first and second test lines, respectively, and the error detection driver is configured to detect a fault of the first or second driving circuit based on the first or second output data signal.
US11715397B2
Provided is a vehicle display device that includes: an image display unit that emits display light of an image; an optical system that projects the display light emitted from the image display unit toward a reflection face in front of a driver; and a controller that controls the image display unit. The image has a first region that is a region viewed by both eyes of the driver and a second region that is a region of the image on an end part side in an image lateral direction relative to the first region. In a case where a graphic image included in the image is across a boundary between the first region and the second region, the controller executes blur processing on the graphic image.
US11715394B1
A combination wristband and label form. The form comprises a front side formed of paper. The front side has a first portion having a plurality of labels die cut therein and a second portion having a void. A back side of the form has a polyester section comprising a wristband defined by die cuts in the polyester section and removable from the form. The single-ply wristband has a strap and a foldable having a first panel and a second panel. The first panel has an imaging area defined by a coating and the second panel is configured to laminate only a portion of the imaging area. A size of the second panel is disparate from a size of the first panel.
US11715386B1
Provided is a means for professors and tutors to easily queue and manage students in a video conference session during online office hours or similar scenarios in which the professor gives one student one-to-one attention while other students wait their turn but are able to listen. Students queue in order of arrival, transparency is provided to students so that they know where they are in the queue relative to other students, and provides students with real-time status updates, thus reducing frustration and making the experience of waiting and queuing more psychologically palatable and pleasant. There is a current student having a one-on-one session with the professor; the rest are waiting and listening in the queue. Further, the professor need only click one button in order to place the current student at the back of the queue and bring the next student in the queue into the one-on-one session. A virtual reality room also has a queue.
US11715364B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for alerting users of out of range tracking devices are provided.
US11715360B2
A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property is disclosed. The monitoring system includes a thermal camera that is configured to generate a thermal image of the property. The monitoring system further includes a monitor control unit that is configured to receive, from the thermal camera, the thermal image. The monitor control unit is further configured to, based on the thermal image, determine a temperature of a portion of the property depicted in the thermal image. The monitor control unit is further configured to determine that the temperature of the portion of the property depicted in the thermal image satisfies a temperature threshold. The monitor control unit is further configured to, based on determining that the temperature of the portion of the property depicted in the thermal image satisfies the temperature threshold, select and perform a monitoring system action.
US11715358B2
A plurality of sensors are operably coupled to a system controller. Each sensor includes a detection mode in which the sensor applies one or more detection algorithms to sensor data generated by the corresponding sensor to detect a possible event and to report the possible event to the system controller, but does not report the system data to the system controller. Each sensor also includes a sensor data mode in which the sensor data is reported to the system controller. When one of the plurality of sensors reports a possible event to the system controller, the system controller instructs one or more of the plurality of sensors to switch from the detection mode to the sensor data mode. The system controller is configured to receive the sensor data and to process the received sensor data to confirm or otherwise provide a measure of confidence in the reported possible event.
US11715356B2
The disclosure relates to technology for haptic stimulation. A haptic interface device comprises an array comprising haptic stimulation elements configured to generate a stimulation pattern. The haptic interface device comprises a controller configured to continually propagate the stimulation pattern on a user's skin, including repeatedly eliminate a portion of a first end of the stimulation pattern and replace the eliminated portion with a new portion at a second end of the stimulation pattern.
US11715346B2
An inspection system of a chip includes a reading device and a determining unit. The reading device is configured to count a number of chips stored in a storage case, the chips associated with a table game and including a chip having a radio tag, read the radio tag while the chips are stored in the storage case, and acquire chip information. The determining unit is configured to compare the chip information of the chips in the storage case with a physical number of the chips in the storage case, determine that there is an abnormal chips among the chips stored in the storage case based on a determination that the counted number of the chips does not match a physical number of the chips in the storage case, and output a result associated with an indication of the abnormal chip.
US11715344B2
A multi-cabinet game build is disclosed. The multi-cabinet game build includes common game play assets and tailored game play assets. The common game play assets are shared by gaming machines across multiple cabinet types. The tailored game play assets are used by gaming machines of a certain cabinet type. A configuration tool is also disclosed which permits a technician to specify a game build configuration for a gaming machine, which configures the gaming machine to present a game of a multi-cabinet game build using the common game play assets and appropriate tailored game play assets for the gaming machine.
US11715341B2
Forms of interaction with an electronic system, such as for games of chance, games of skill, and combinations thereof are described herein. A system is provided for effecting defined game play and prizing structure parameters in an electronic entertainment environment. The system may include an input for receiving the parameters, a memory coupled to the input for storing the parameters, a processing system coupled to the storage for generating game play to effect the defined parameters, storage for recording information regarding particular game play events and an interface for at least presenting game play events to users of the electronic entertainment system. In one mode of operation, one or more mandated parameters are externally imposed, and variable parameters are selected such that the mandated parameters are met globally, and such that the user experience is optimized.
US11715340B1
Embodiments relate to a system comprising a drug storage comprising a container to hold a drug; a communication module; and a cyber security module. The system is operable to log record of access to the drug and maintain a ledger of the record of access to the drug using a blockchain technology. The access to the drug is secured by the cyber security module.
US11715333B2
Related methods are provided for establishing a baseline value to represent an eyelid opening dimension for a person engaged in an activity, where the activity may be driving a vehicle, operating industrial equipment, or performing a monitoring or control function; and for operating a system for monitoring eyelid opening values with real time video data.
US11715323B2
A fingerprint sensing device includes a first substrate, a sensing element layer, a second substrate, a micro-structure layer, and a spacer layer. The sensing element layer is located on the first substrate and includes multiple sensing elements. The second substrate is located on the sensing element layer. The micro-structure layer is located between the second substrate and the sensing element layer, and includes multiple micro-lens structures and multiple dummy structures. Orthogonal projections of the micro-lens structures on the first substrate overlap orthogonal projections of the sensing elements on the first substrate. The spacer layer is located between the second substrate and the sensing element layer, and includes multiple main spacers. Each of the main spacers covers at least one of the dummy structures.
US11715321B2
Improving the accuracy of ultrasonic touch sensing and fingerprint imaging using acoustic impedance matching is disclosed. Acoustic impedance mismatches between an ultrasonic transducer array and a sensing plate can be reduced to maximize energy transfer and minimize parasitic reflections. A reduction in acoustic impedance mismatches can be accomplished using (i) a composite epoxy having a higher acoustic impedance than epoxy alone, (ii) one or more matching layers having an acoustic impedance that is approximately the geometric mean of the acoustic impedance of the sensing plate and the acoustic impedance of the transducer array, (iii) pores or perforations in the sensing plate, or (iv) geometric structures formed in the sensing plate. In addition, parasitic reflections can be suppressed using an absorbent layer.
US11715308B2
A vision system for determining an identity of an individual animal in a population of animals with known identity is provided. A first image sensor arrangement is configured to capture three-dimensional or thermographic images of the individual animal. A second image sensor arrangement is configured to capture two-dimensional images of the individual animal. Control circuitry is configured to obtain a first image of the individual animal captured by the first image sensor arrangement and to detect a body part in the first image, and in response to detecting the body part, obtain a second image of the individual animal captured using the second image sensor arrangement, and to identify the individual animal by comparing metrics of the second image with the reference data in a data storage.
US11715305B1
A method of detecting traffic passing a camera overlooking a roadway. The method comprises receiving video frames by a traffic analytics engine from the camera, determining a mask that defines a lane detection region by the traffic analytics engine based on an assumed average length of a vehicle and based on analyzing lane boundary markers in the video frames; determining a background reference frame by the traffic analytics engine by applying the mask to the video frames and by averaging the pixels of the masked video frames; determining that at least some of the masked video frames differ from the background reference frame by more than a detection threshold; and incrementing a traffic count associated with the lane detection region stored in a memory of the computer system based on the masked video frames that differ from the background reference frame by more than the detection threshold.
US11715302B2
Methods for automatically tagging one or more images and/or video clips using a audio stream are disclosed. The audio stream may be processed using an automatic speech recognition algorithm, to extract possible keywords. The image(s) and/or video clip(s) may then be tagged with the possible keywords. In some embodiments, the image(s) and/or video clip(s) may be tagged automatically. In other embodiments, a user may be presented with a list of possible keywords extracted from the audio stream, from which the user may then select to manually tag the image(s) and/or video clip(s).
US11715301B2
Implementations of the subject technology provide visualizations of non-visible features of a physical environment, at the location of the non-visible features in the physical environment. The non-visible features may include wireless communications signals, sounds, airflow, gases, subsonic and/or ultrasonic waves, hidden objects, or the like. A device may store visual contexts for visualizations of particular non-visible features. The device may obtain a depth map that allows the device to determine the location of the non-visible feature in the physical environment and to overlay the visualization on a user's view of that location. In this way, the non-visible feature can be visualized its correct location, orientation, direction and/or strength in the physical environment.
US11715296B2
Techniques are described herein for using artificial intelligence to predict crop yields based on observational crop data. A method includes: obtaining a first digital image of at least one plant; segmenting the first digital image of the at least one plant to identify at least one seedpod in the first digital image; for each of the at least one seedpod in the first digital image: determining a color of the seedpod; determining a number of seeds in the seedpod; inferring, using one or more machine learning models, a moisture content of the seedpod based on the color of the seedpod; and estimating, based on the moisture content of the seedpod and the number of seeds in the seedpod, a weight of the seedpod; and predicting a crop yield based on the moisture content and the weight of each of the at least one seedpod.
US11715295B2
A construction field management apparatus is wirelessly connected to a remote control vehicle with a surveying device for positioning the vehicle itself, a travel route is specified based on the position information in the coordinate system set in the work field, and a travel instruction based on the travel route, an instruction of performance of a predetermined function with the traveling, and are transmitted to the remote control vehicle, and the apparatus receives data based on the execution of the predetermined function from the remote control vehicle, and the construction field is managed by the construction field management apparatus for managing based on the received data.
US11715291B2
In establishment of a general-purpose artificial intelligence system, the machine simulates similarity, repeatability and adjacency of information, and stores the demand, award/penalty and emotion symbols together with related low-level features as a preset relation network. When the machine encounters input information, the machine iteratively identifies low-level features in the input information and stores them in a memory according to a simultaneous storage method. With the low-level features as nodes and the similarity, repeatability and adjacency relations between nodes as connection relations, the machine establish relations between the low-level features and the demand, award/penalty and emotion symbols to extend the relation network. The machine uses the low-level features and searches for related low-level features through a chain associative activation process, searches for imitable experiences through segmented simulation, reassembles the experiences according to a principle of benefit-seeking and harm-avoiding to form an optimal response path.
US11715286B2
Disclosed is a method for recognizing a marine object based on hyperspectral data including collecting target hyperspectral data; preprocessing the target hyperspectral data; and detecting and identifying an object included in the target hyperspectral data based on a marine object detection and identification model, trained through learning of the detection and identification of the marine object. According to the present invention, the preprocessing and processing of the hyperspectral data collected in real time according to a communication state may be performed in the sky or on the ground.
US11715282B2
A determination system includes an imaging data acquisition device that captures an image of a printed surface of a printed product to acquire imaging data of the captured image, and a determination device that determines a printing method used to produce the printed surface of the printed product for capturing an image by the imaging data acquisition device. The determination device selects a determination area included in the captured image, extracts a determination end image from a portion around an end portion of a black determination image included in the determination area, acquires difference data that is a difference in gradation between two colors among gradation data of RBG colors of the extracted determination end image, acquires a determination value for determining a printing method used to produce the printed surface of the printed product, and determines a printing method used to produce the printed surface of the printed product.
US11715281B2
The invention relates to a system for detecting objects in a digital image. The system comprises a neural network which is configured to generate candidate windows indicating object locations, and to generate for each candidate window a score representing the confidence of detection. Generating the scores comprises: generating a latent representation for each candidate window, updating the latent representation of each candidate window based on the latent representation of neighboring candidate windows, and generating the score for each candidate window based on its updated latent representation The invention further relates to a system for rescoring object detections in a digital image and to methods of detecting objects and rescoring objects.
US11715279B2
A display control unit displays a medical image from which at least one region of interest is extracted on a display unit. A correction unit corrects a boundary of the region of interest according to a correction instruction for the boundary of the region of interest extracted from the displayed medical image. An image generation unit generates a weighted image in which each pixel in the medical image has, as a pixel value of each pixel, a weight coefficient representing a weight of being within the region of interest, by setting an initial weight coefficient for the extracted region of interest and setting a corrected weight coefficient for a corrected region for which the correction instruction is given in the medical image.
US11715277B2
Image processing techniques are described to obtain an image from a camera located on a vehicle while the vehicle is being driven, cropping a portion of the obtained image corresponding to a region of interest, detecting an object in the cropped portion, adding a bounding box around the detected object, determining position(s) of reference point(s) on the bounding box, and determining a location of the detected object in a spatial region where the vehicle is being driven based on the determined one or more positions of the second set of one or more reference points on the bounding box.
US11715274B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of image analysis, in particular, it relates to a method for generating a virtual scene of objects. The disclosure also relates to a device comprising circuitry configured to carry out the method. The disclosure also relates to a computer program product adapted to carry out the method.
US11715273B2
The present specification discloses a method for displaying an AR navigation screen, and an AR navigation system. The method for displaying an AR navigation screen according to the present specification may comprise the steps of: overlapping and displaying images of the surroundings of a vehicle and a plurality of AR images corresponding to the images of the surroundings; generating a window for separately displaying a first area including AR images overlapping at least one of the plurality of AR images; and overlapping and displaying the window and the images of the surroundings. The invention of the present specification has the effect of improving user convenience and promoting safe vehicle operation by using a window when AR images and the like are difficult to recognize due to being overlapped.
US11715269B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include acquiring, from a client device within a real-world environment, information representative of the real-world environment, and transmitting the information representative of the real-world environment to a relocalization service. The method may further include receiving, from the relocalization service, (1) an anchor point that may include a mapped position within the real-world environment, and (2) a determined position within the real-world environment of a client device relative to the mapped position of the anchor point. The method may further include sending an identifier of the anchor point to an asset management service, and obtaining, from the asset management service, a digital asset. The method may further include presenting the digital asset at a position within an artificial environment relative to the mapped position of the anchor point. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11715249B2
An animation system is provided for generating an animation control rig for character development, configured to manipulate a skeleton of an animated character. Hierarchical representation of puppets includes groups of functions related in a hierarchy according to character specialization for creating the animated rig are derived using base functions of a core component node. The hierarchical nodes may include an archetype node, at least one appendage node, and at least one feature node. In some implementations, portions of a hierarchical node, including the functions from the core component node, may be shared to generate different animation rigs for a variety of characters. In some implementations, portions of a hierarchical node, including the component node functions, may be reused to build similar appendages of a same animation rig.
US11715246B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for modifying character motion for 3D animated assets (e.g., modifying character motions). In some implementations, an object to be animated is identified, where the object is a part of a three dimensional (3-D) digital model. In some implementations, a motion descriptor is identified that includes path-generating components that generate a preliminary motion path for animation of the object. The motion descriptor is modified to generate a modified motion path, where the motion descriptor is modified by deforming at least one path-generating component of the motion descriptor, and the object is animated based on the modified motion path. In some implementations, the modified motion path is transferred to another 3D animated asset (e.g., the same or a different type of 3D animated asset).
US11715241B2
A system and method for privacy protection in vision systems that can include collecting image data from an environment; collecting spatial information corresponding to the image data; selecting a sanitization image region in the image data based at least in part on the spatial information; and applying image sanitization to the sanitization image region thereby generating sanitized image data.
US11715239B2
A method for decoding image content from an encoded bitstream including a plurality of blocks includes: dividing a block including one or more components of the image content into N single samples and M sample groups corresponding to one of the components, where N and M are greater than or equal to one; decoding each of the N single samples using a symbol variable length code to generate one or more decoded single samples; decoding each of the M sample groups using a common prefix entropy code to generate one or more decoded sample groups, each of the M sample groups including a variable length prefix and one or more fixed length suffixes representing a plurality of samples; concatenating the decoded single samples and the decoded sample groups into a block of residuals; and reconstructing image content based on previously reconstructed neighboring blocks and the block of residuals.
US11715231B2
Head pose information may be determined using information describing a fixed gaze and image data corresponding to a user's eyes. The head pose information may be determined in a manner that is disregards facial features with the exception of the user's eyes. The head pose information may be usable to interact with a user device.
US11715229B2
A moving body includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to collect an external image of the moving body from an external sensor and collect information associated with an inner state of the moving body from an internal sensor. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether or not to adopt the external image collected by the external sensor as a first image for estimating a position of the moving body, based on the information associated with the inner state of the moving body collected by the internal sensor. The processing circuitry is configured to estimate a position of the moving body by comparing the first image and a second image associated with a collection position of the first image.
US11715228B2
Imaging systems, including radio frequency, microwave and millimeter-wave arrangements, and related methods are described. According to one aspect, an imaging system includes an antenna array, a position capture system configured to generate position information indicative of locations of one of the antenna array and the target at the first and second moments in time, and wherein the one of the antenna array and the target move between the first and second moments in time, a transceiver configured to control the antenna array to emit electromagnetic energy towards the target and to generate an output that is indicative of the received electromagnetic energy, a data acquisition system configured to generate radar data, processing circuitry configured to process the position information and the radar data to generate image data regarding the target, and an interface configured to use the image data to generate visual images regarding the target.
US11715227B2
An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a detection unit (2020), a state estimation unit (2040), and a height estimation unit (2080). The detection unit (2020) detects a target person from a video frame. The state estimation unit (2040) estimates a state of the detected target person. The height estimation unit (2080) estimates a height of the person on the basis of a height of the target person in the video frame in a case where the estimated state satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11715225B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a ground boundary estimation method, a ground boundary estimation apparatus, and a program that can acquire the elevation of the ground boundary of the electrical pole quickly and accurately even when the base of the electrical pole is shielded by any shield at observation of the electrical pole. According to the ground boundary estimation method of the present invention, a difference in height between the columnar shape of a three-dimensional model of a columnar object such as an observed electrical pole and a standard shape of the columnar object at a position in which the three-dimensional model and the standard shape are equal to each other in the horizontal dimension is determined, and a penetration depth prescribed by the standard is subtracted from the difference in height, to find a height of a shielded portion of the ground boundary of the columnar object.
US11715223B2
An active depth detection system can generate a depth map from an image and user interaction data, such as a pair of clicks. The active depth detection system can be implemented as a recurrent neural network that can receive the user interaction data as runtime inputs after training. The active depth detection system can store the generated depth map for further processing, such as image manipulation or real-world object detection.
US11715218B2
An information processing obtains a first image which is obtained by using a first camera to capture a three-dimensional space; obtains map information that is generated based on a second transformed image obtained by using second transformation information to geometrically transform a second image which has been captured by using a second camera to capture the three-dimensional space; generates a first transformed image by using first transformation information to geometrically transform the first image; and collates the map information and the first transformed image. The first transformation information and the second transformation information are set so that a geometric correspondence relationship between the three-dimensional space and the first transformed image and a geometric correspondence relationship between the three-dimensional space and the second transformed image will have a common geometric correspondence relationship.
US11715214B1
Methods and apparatus for determining a trajectory of a axisymmetric object in 3-D physical space using a digital camera which records 2-D image data are described. In particular, based upon i) a characteristic length of the axisymmetric object, ii) a physical position of the camera determined from sensors associated with the camera (e.g., accelerometers) and iii) captured 2-D digital images from the camera including a time at which each image is generated relative to one another, a position, a velocity vector and an acceleration vector can be determined in three dimensional physical space for axisymmetric object objects as a function of time. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus can be applied to determine the trajectories of objects in games which utilize axisymmetric object objects, such as basketball, baseball, bowling, golf, soccer, rugby or football.
US11715212B2
A dynamic anatomic atlas is disclosed, comprising static atlas data describing atlas segments and dynamic atlas data comprising information on a dynamic property which information is respectively linked to the atlas segments.
US11715210B2
There is provided a method for generating a 3D physical model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images. The 2D medical images are uploaded by an end-user via a Web Application and sent to a server. The server processes the 2D medical images and automatically generates a 3D printable model of a patient specific anatomic feature from the 2D medical images using a segmentation technique. The 3D printable model is 3D printed as a 3D physical model such that it represents a 1:1 scale of the patient specific anatomic feature. The method includes the step of automatically identifying the patient specific anatomic feature.
US11715206B2
Methods and systems for image processing are provided. Image data may be obtained. The image data may include a plurality of voxels corresponding to a first plurality of ribs of an object. A first plurality of seed points may be identified for the first plurality of ribs. The first plurality of identified seed points may be labelled to obtain labelled seed points. A connected domain of a target rib of the first plurality of ribs may be determined based on at least one rib segmentation algorithm. A labelled target rib may be obtained by labelling, based on a hit-or-miss operation, the connected domain of the target rib, wherein the hit-or-miss operation may be performed using the labelled seed points to hit the connected domain of the target rib.
US11715200B2
The technology disclosed relates to classification of process cycle images to predict success or failure of process cycles. The technology disclosed includes capturing and processing images of sections arranged on an image generating chip in genotyping process. Image description features of production cycle images are created and given as input to classifiers. A trained classifier separates successful production images from unsuccessful or failed production images. The failed production images are further classified by a trained root cause classifier into various categories of failure.
US11715197B2
An image segmentation method according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed in a computing device having one or more processors and memory for storing one or more programs executed by means of the one or more processors, and includes the steps of: (a) receiving the input of an image; (b) generating a first-generation image segment set by dividing the input image in an overlapped manner; and (c) generating a second or higher-generation image segment set from the first-generation image segment set, wherein a subsequent-generation image segment set is generated by dividing in an overlapped manner at least one of a plurality of image segments included in the previous-generation image segment set.
US11715196B2
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for deriving multi-dimensional images of an object and an according system and method. The image processing apparatus comprises an interface configured to provide 3D image data of an object and to provide a sequence of images of the object. The image processing apparatus further comprises a processing unit configured to obtain a personalized 3D model of the object by applying a model-based segmentation to the 3D image data of the object and to adapt the personalized 3D model based on at least a part of the images of the sequence of images of the object.
US11715192B2
A processor identifies an original drawing part that is originally drawn in a test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a noise point in the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines which of predetermined two types of cause candidates is a cause of the noise point by determining a degree of overlapping between the original drawing part and the noise point. The two types of cause candidates are: waste toner dropping in which waste toner that has adhered to a transfer body that transfers a toner image to a sheet, is transferred to the sheet in the image forming device; and carrier developing in which magnetic carrier that has been mixed with toner is transferred to a sheet.
US11715190B2
Provided is a technique capable of generating a discriminator having high inference precision at low cost. An inspection system according to one aspect of the present invention generates, from first image data, plural pieces of second image data of a product; determines, by a first discriminator, whether to adopt each piece of the second image data as learning data; generates a learning data set by the second image data that is determined to be adopted as learning data; constructs, by applying machine learning using the generated learning data set, a second discriminator that determines the acceptability of a product; and uses the constructed second discriminator to determine the acceptability of a product in target image data.
US11715183B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for performing tone mapping and/or contrast enhancement. In some examples, a block mapping curve is low-pass filtered with block mapping curves of surrounding blocks to form a smoothed block mapping curve. In some examples, overlapped curve mapping of block mapping curves, including smoothed block mapping curves, is performed, including weighting, based on a pixel location, block mapping curves of a group of blocks to generate an interpolated block mapping curve and applying the interpolated block mapping curve to a pixel to perform ton mapping and/or contrast enhancement.
US11715179B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for improving image quality with shortened acquisition time. The method comprises: determining an accelerated image acquisition scheme for imaging a subject using a medical imaging apparatus; acquiring a medical image of the subject according to the accelerated image acquisition scheme using the medical imaging apparatus; applying a deep network model to the medical image to improve the quality of the medical image; and outputting an improved quality image of the subject, for analysis by a physician.
US11715173B2
An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11715163B2
Systems and methods for using social network data to validate a loan guarantee are disclosed. An example system may include a social networking input circuit to interpret a loan guarantee parameter; a social network data collection circuit to collect data using a plurality of algorithms that is configured to monitor social network information about an entity involved in a loan in response to the loan guarantee parameter; and a guarantee validation circuit to validate a guarantee for the loan in response to the monitored social network information.
US11715162B2
Systems and methods for capturing digital image data associated with a property for an insurance quote are described. According to certain aspects, a mobile device may enable a user to capture digital image data and/or a video stream and other information of house features and characteristics that may be used to determine insurability and estimated replacement cost of the property. The mobile device may enable the user to capture the information at the property location, which may eliminate the need for a manual assessment or characterization of home features by a homeowner. A back-end server may receive the data, analyze the data to generate an insurance quote (and/or insurance application) for the property, and transmit the insurance quote (and/or application) to the mobile device for presentation to the user. The mobile device may enable the user to select terms, deductibles, limits, and/or coverages, and ultimately approve a homeowner's insurance policy.
US11715160B1
Systems and methods to process overhead imagery received from overhead image sources are described herein. Examples include accessing an aerial image including a property, determining an owner of the property, determining whether the owner of the property is eligible to be a member of a financial institution, determining whether the owner of the property has property insurance with the financial institution for the property type of the property in the aerial image, and presenting an offer for insurance to insure the property in the aerial image when the owner is determined to be eligible for the financial institution and does not already have insurance with the financial institution. Examples include accessing an aerial image of properties, determining damage estimates, and reserving resources to repair the properties based on the damage estimates. Examples include receiving information describing property damage, determining a cause, and based on the cause, conditionally deploying a unmanned aerial vehicle to perform insurance adjustment activities.
US11715152B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for creating an open loop prepaid gift account. The system identifies a request to purchase an open loop prepaid gift account which can be used to make a purchase at a merchant, presents a menu from which a customer can select the merchant, and receives a selection. Based on the selection, the system presents an option to load funds onto the open loop prepaid gift account and, upon receipt of payment, creates the open loop prepaid gift account and loads the open loop prepaid gift account with money, wherein information associated with the open loop prepaid gift account is encoded onto a physical card, and wherein merchant information is printed on the physical card according to an authorization from the merchant, the merchant information including at least one of a legal name, a trade name, a logotype, and a marketing tagline of the merchant.
US11715145B2
Transaction items for a transaction are received during a transaction. Any non-barcoded items are identified and processed within a retailer-specific vector space to identify a most-similar barcoded item offered by a corresponding retailer to the non-barcoded item. The transaction items are revised to include the most-similar barcoded item as a replacement for the non-barcoded item. The revised transaction item list is used to identify a recommended item based on a segment-specific vector space associated with a segment assigned to the transaction. The recommended item is provided in real time to a transaction service that processes the transaction for delivery to a customer associated with the transaction.
US11715139B2
A method for determining an availability of an electric vehicle charging station is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a distance between a mobile device and the electric vehicle charging station using a first geolocation information and a second geolocation information; based on the determined distance, determining an availability of the electric vehicle charging station; and sending a message to a user regarding the determined availability of the electric vehicle charging station.
US11715130B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for identifying potential individuals to contact in a campaign of interest. The method includes receiving campaign data including description about the campaign of interest and information about the potential individuals to contact for the campaign of interest and selecting a plurality of trained machine learning models from a library of trained machine learning models based on the campaign data. The library of trained machine learning models is created from data of historical campaigns administered, and each of the selected plurality of trained models corresponds to a historical campaign that is within a similarity threshold from the campaign of interest. The method also includes scoring a pool of existing customers using the select plurality of trained machine learning models and identifying the potential individuals to contact in the campaign of interest by ranking the existing customers by their corresponding propensity scores.
US11715129B2
Technologies for attributing purchases to a targeted marketing campaign include associating a captured payment card number and a captured cardholder identifier with a globally unique identifier. Additional payment card numbers related to the captured payment card number are associated with the globally unique identifier. A cardholder-specific marketing message associated with a targeted marketing campaign is transmitted to the captured cardholder identifier based on the globally unique identifier. The targeted marketing campaign is for an advertised product, which corresponds to a product identifier. A purchase transaction is attributed to the targeted marketing campaign in response to determining that a payment card number associated with the purchase transaction matches any of the payment card numbers associated with the globally unique identifier and determining that a product identifier corresponding to a purchased product of the purchase transaction is associated with the targeted marketing campaign. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11715127B2
A method and digital signage player for managing display of a distributed digital signage content. The digital signage player stores the distributed digital signage content, and a local placement target for the distributed digital signage content. The digital signage player displays the distributed digital signage content in accordance with the local placement target. The digital signage player exchanges messages with a neighbor digital signage player, for increasing the local placement target of the distributed digital signage content at the request of the neighbor digital signage player. The neighbor digital signage player also displays the distributed digital signage content in accordance with its own placement target, which needs to be decreased. The digital signage player ultimately increases the local placement target of the distributed digital signage content based on the messages exchanged with the neighbor digital signage player.
US11715125B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for encouraging engagement with a rewards system are described herein. A customer associated with a customer device holds a rewards account with a provider associated with a provider computing system. The provider computing system receives rewards and payment card activity of the customer, analyzes the rewards and payment card activity, and generates a rewards engagement rating, which the provider uses to generate and transmit tailored rewards engagement messages to the customer device. The messages provide rewards earn and burn opportunities in which the customer can select to participate.
US11715123B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for testing a plurality of variants among a plurality of users. One of the methods includes: determining a spatial granularity to divide an area into a plurality of grid cells; randomly splitting the plurality of grid cells into a plurality of testing groups, wherein a quantity of the plurality of testing groups is determined based on a quantity of the multiple versions of the feature to be tested; determining a temporal granularity to divide a testing period into a plurality of testing intervals; during each of the plurality of testing intervals, respectively assigning the multiple versions of the feature to the plurality of testing groups; and obtaining a treatment effect for each of the multiple versions of the feature and determining an optimal version of the feature.
US11715121B2
A computer system for performing automated market research using an electronic survey is provided herein. The computer system includes a communications subsystem for receiving survey content data. The communications subsystem also receives survey response data from at least one respondent device. The computer system includes a memory for storing the survey content data and the survey response data. The computer system includes a processor configured to execute a survey programming application. The survey programming application includes a survey design application for creating a survey program from the survey content data. The survey program provisions the electronic survey to respondents via the at least one respondent device and collects the survey response data from the respondents. The survey programming application also includes at least one survey program quality assurance tool. The survey program quality assurance tool interfaces with the survey design application and performs a survey program quality assurance function.
US11715119B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a geographic recommendation platform. The geographic recommendation platform receives data identifying a geographic region specified by a user and gathers data relating to the geographic region. The geographic recommendation platform determines, based on the data relating to the geographic region, an anticipated demand for an item within geographic region. The anticipated demand indicates how likely the item is to be purchased by a user that is located within the geographic region. The geographic recommendation platform generates a recommendation for the item based on the anticipated demand. The recommendation indicates the anticipated demand for the item within the geographic region. The geographic recommendation platform transmits the recommendation to the user.
US11715115B2
Compliance with retail display regulations that retailers are subject to within a plurality of jurisdictions is managed. Retail display regulations may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. To facilitate compliance, retail display regulations for a plurality of jurisdictions are centrally maintained. The regulations may then be used to dynamically generate retail display materials for locations across a plurality of jurisdictions with different regulatory schemes. The central storage and/or maintenance of the retail display regulations may facilitate compliance with disparate regulatory schemes that retailers are subject to based in part of retail location. Central storage of the retail display regulations may facilitate certification of compliance by regulating entities associated with the jurisdictions.
US11715104B2
Systems and methods of executing a real-time electronic transaction by a real-time transaction system are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by an application programing interface (API) system, an electronic transaction request from a user. The API system may transmit the electronic transaction request to a choreographer system. The choreographer system may transmit a validation API call based on the electronic transaction request to an account system. The account system may determine whether an account associated with the electronic transaction request exists in the real-time transaction system. The choreographer system may transmit an authorization API call based on the electronic transaction request to an authorization system. The choreographer system may receive an authorization response from the authorization system. The choreographer system may transmit an electronic transaction request message to at least one of a routing engine, an account ledger system, an audit system, and/or a transaction system.
US11715101B2
Provided are systems and methods for managing and implementing single-use payment-enabled tokens. In one example, a method may include distributing, via a server, a payment-enabled token to a payment application on a computing device, the payment-enabled token being mapped to a payment account of the payment application via a tokenization service, detecting use of the payment-enabled token as a payment via the payment application, and in response to the detecting, deactivating the payment-enabled token at the server and storing an identifier of the payment-enabled token and an additional data element of the payment-enabled token that identifies the payment account together within a data structure of the server.
US11715098B2
Provided is an information management system that comprises: a payment information confirmation device which is connected over a network to a cryptocurrency system management terminal that manages a cryptocurrency system, which extracts transaction information including address information for a seller account in a cryptocurrency system, and which generates and transmits payment confirmation information including at least a transfer amount from the extracted transaction information; and a register device which is connected to the payment information confirmation device, receives the payment confirmation information from the payment information confirmation device, displays the received payment confirmation information, converts the currency units of an entered transaction amount into a cryptocurrency units payment amount in the currency units of the cryptocurrency system, generates a two-dimensional code in which are recorded the cryptocurrency units payment amount and the address information, and displays the generated two-dimensional code.
US11715089B2
A system and method for establishing multiparty electronic communication include generating, a dashboard for electronic resolution of a healthcare claim for a payer portion of a cost of an item. The method can include calculating, in response to a selection in the dashboard, an estimated user portion of the cost of the item. Further, the method includes establishing a network interface for network communication between a provider of the item and the payer. Additionally, the method includes coordinating, via the network interface, the resolution of the payer portion of the cost of the item. The method also includes updating, in real-time, the dashboard with a status of the resolution of the payer portion of the cost.
US11715082B2
A shopping cart and method of autonomous shopping are provided including a cart chassis, a scale configured to rest on base of the chassis, a basket resting on the scale, wherein weights of products placed in the basket are indicated by the output signal of the scale, a weight guard rail positioned above the product basket and attached to the cart chassis, a user identification unit, a payment module, and a motion sensor.
US11715081B2
A wireless checkout system includes peripheral stations, a server that stores location information indicating a position coordinate of each of the peripheral stations, one or more base stations, and a mobile point-of-sale (POS) terminal. The mobile POS terminal includes a wireless communication interface configured to receive a wireless signal from the base stations, a display, and a processor. The processor designates one of the peripheral stations as an associated peripheral station, determines a position coordinate of the mobile POS terminal based on the wireless signal, selects, based on the determined position coordinate of the mobile POS terminal and the location information, another of peripheral stations that is closest to the mobile POS terminal to be an alternative peripheral station to be recommended for the checkout, when the associated peripheral station is not available, and then controls the display to display a screen indicating the alternative peripheral station.
US11715076B2
There are provided systems and methods for user interfaces for account statement assignment. A user may engage in transactions over a time period, such as purchases of goods, services, or other items using a physical payment card associated with an online transaction processor. A statement may be issued at the completion of the time period, where the statement may include account information requiring a payment by the user, such as a statement balance. The user may request for another user to provide a payment for all or a portion of the balance using one or more user interfaces of a peer-to-peer payment and social networking platform. Thereafter, a request may be provided to the other user, which may request the payment. The other user may process the payment, which may be used to provide funds directly to the statement balance.
US11715071B2
A wrist terminal includes a communicator, timer, and at least one processor. The communicator receives a beacon ID transmitted from a beacon transmitter installed in a workplace. The timer obtains date-and-time information on a date and time at which the communicator receives the beacon ID. The processor performs a determining process and recording process. In the determining process, the processor determines whether a work status in the workplace is a work start or a work end, based on a state of the wrist terminal when the communicator receives the beacon ID. In the recording process, the processor records, in a storage, log information that includes the date-and-time information obtained by the timer and work status information on the work status determined in the determining process, the date-and-time information and the work status information being associated with each other.
US11715067B2
An automated method for managing, delivering and tracking dynamic content. The method includes processing customer data related to one or more customers, managing and selecting textual and graphical dynamic content to specify delivery to targeted subsets of customers as a function of business rules, and delivering that content to targeted subsets of customers via one or more appropriate customer touchpoints. A portion or location within the customer touchpoint is identified as a dynamic destination area for receipt of the selected content, which then contains that content qualified for delivery to the targeted subset of customers via the customer touchpoint dynamic destination area through execution of targeting business rules. The qualification, delivery and responses to the delivered content are tracked for each customer, across each touchpoint, and targeting rules are refined and updated to encompass past qualification, delivery, and responses.
US11715065B1
Systems and methods which provide localized item procurement fulfilment using virtual distribution center inventory are described. For example, stocking locations of one or more intermediaries may provide virtual distribution center inventory for use by a supplier in facilitating localized item procurement fulfilment for acquirers. A supplier may provide a web based sales platform allowing acquirers to purchase items of the supplier's goods wherein the item procurement fulfilment is configured to utilize a network of intermediaries to facilitate competitive and satisfactory delivery timeframes, such as next day, same day, and even on-demand delivery of the goods, using economy shipping options. An intermediary may share inventory data and/or account information to facilitate operation of the web based sales platform to provide transparent and seamless order and/or checkout processing for items of the supplier's goods purchased by the acquirer that are to be fulfilled out of the intermediary's stocking location.
US11715059B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring condition compliance. In some embodiments, a system comprises a child device comprising a child device sensor configured to capture condition data, a child device memory configured to store the condition data, a child device transmitter configured to transmit the condition data, and a control circuit configured to cause transmission of a discovery message, receive acknowledgment messages, determine if the discovery message reached a parent device, if the discovery message reached a parent device, cause transmission of the condition data to the parent device, and if the discovery message did not reach a parent device, determine, from the other devices, one of the other devices, and cause transmission of the condition data to the one of the other devices, and the parent device configured to store and transmit condition data received from a plurality of child devices.
US11715046B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for enhancing data-analytic visualizations of a data analytics system. A computing device captures input data and output data associated with a data-analytic visualization generated by an advanced user using the data analytics system. The input data and output data are mapped together for defining the data-analytic visualization generated. A machine learning model is trained relative to the mapped input data and output data for generating the data-analytic visualization. During a normal usage of the data analytics system by a user, the trained model generates data-analytic visualizations to suggest to the user responsive to input data from the user. An optional threshold is set and applied relative to the data-analytic visualizations generated. If a data-analytic visualization meets the threshold, the data analytics system reports the data-analytic visualization.
US11715045B2
Provided are a legal information processing system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program which enable the acquisition of useful information anticipating trends in the revision of legislation, regulations, or standards. This legal information processing system sets one or more key persons who are involved in legislation, regulations, or standards, collects at least public information which is created by the key person or in the publication of which the key person is involved, and predicts a trend in the revision of legislation, regulations, standards on the basis of the content of the collected information.
US11715043B2
The subject technology receives assessment values determined by a first machine learning model deployed on a client electronic device, the assessment values being indicative of classifications of input data and the assessment values being associated with constraint data that comprises a probability distribution of the assessment values with respect to the classifications of the input data. The subject technology applies the assessment values determined by the first machine learning model to a second machine learning model to determine the classifications of the input data. The subject technology determines whether accuracies of the classifications determined by the second machine learning model conform with the probability distribution for corresponding assessment values determined by the first machine learning model. The subject technology retrains the first machine learning model when the accuracies of the classifications determined by the second machine learning model do not conform with the probability distribution.
US11715031B2
An information processing method includes acquiring first output data for input data of first learning model, reference data for the input data, and second output data for the input data of second learning model obtained by converting first learning model; calculating first difference data corresponding to a difference between the first difference data and the reference data and second difference data corresponding to a difference between the second output data and the reference data; and training first learning model with use of the first difference data and the second difference data.
US11715029B2
Certain aspects involve updating data structures to indicate relationships between attribute trends and response variables used for training automated modeling systems. For example, a data structure stores data for training an automated modeling algorithm. The training data includes attribute values for multiple entities over a time period. A computing system generates, for each entity, at least one trend attribute that is a function of a respective time series of attribute values. The computing system modifies the data structure to include the generated trend attributes and updates the training data to include trend attribute values for the trend attributes. The computing system trains the automated modeling algorithm with the trend attribute values from the data structure. In some aspects, trend attributes are generated by applying a frequency transform to a time series of attribute values and selecting, as trend attributes, some of the coefficients generated by the frequency transform.
US11715023B2
The present disclosure relates to a concept for training one or more model parameters of a predictive parking difficulty model for different locations based on collected telemetry data. A ground truth ranking related to subjective parking difficulties at the different locations is obtained based on pairwise comparison of parking difficulties between pairs of the different locations by one or more humans. A prediction loss between a model ranking of the different locations obtained by the predictive parking difficulty model and the ground truth ranking is determined. The one or more model parameters are adjusted to minimize the prediction loss between the model ranking and the ground truth ranking.
US11715021B2
A variable embedding method, for solving a large-scale problem using dedicated hardware by dividing variables of a problem graph into partial problems and by repeating an optimization process of the partial problems when an interaction of the variables of an optimization problem is expressed in the problem graph, includes: determining whether a duplicate allocation of the variables of the optimization problem to the vertices of the hardware graph is required when embedding at least a part of all the variables into the vertices of the hardware graph; and selecting one of the variables requiring no duplicate allocation and embedding selected variable in one of the vertices of the hardware graph without using another one of the variables requiring the duplicate allocation as one of the variables of the partial problem.
US11715017B2
Systems are methods are provided for training an automated agent. The automated agent maintains a reinforcement learning neural network and generates, according to outputs of the reinforcement learning neural network, signals for communicating resource task requests. First and second task data are received. The task data are processed to compute a first performance metric reflective of performance of the automated agent relative to other entities in a first time interval, and a second performance metric reflective of performance of the automated agent relative to other entities in a second time interval. A reward for the reinforcement learning neural network that reflects a difference between the second performance metric and the first performance metric is computed and provided to the reinforcement learning neural network to train the automated agent.
US11715016B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer processing system are provided for generating an adversarial input. The method includes reducing, by a Conditional Variational Encoder, a dimensionality of each of inputs to a target algorithm to obtain a set of latent variables. The method further includes separately training, by a processor, (i) a successful predictor with a first subset of the latent variables as a first input for which the target algorithm succeeds and (ii) an unsuccessful predictor with a second subset of the latent variables as a second input for which the target algorithm fails. Both the successful and the unsuccessful predictors predict outputs of the target algorithm. The method also includes sampling, by the processor, an input that is likely to make the target algorithm fail as the adversarial input by using a likelihood of the successful predictor and the unsuccessful predictor.
US11715015B2
Logic may identify feature contributions to erroneous predictions by predictive models. Logic may provide a set of two or more models. Each model may train based on a training dataset and test based on a testing dataset and two or more models may be unique. Logic may test the set during a monitoring period. Logic may perform residual modeling on each model in the set during the monitoring period and may determine a list of input features that contribute to a residual of each model of the set. A residual comprises a difference between a predicted result and an expected result. Logic may generate a combined list of the input features from the set and may rank the input features. Logic may perform a voting process to generate the ranks for the input features. And logic may classify features as exogenous or endogenous based on a threshold and the ranks.
US11715010B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including instructions encoded on storage media, for performing reduction of gradient vectors for a network having one or more degraded nodes. A method comprises training a respective replica of a machine learning model on each node of multiple nodes organized in an n-dimensional network topology, combining the respective individual gradient vectors in the nodes to generate a final gradient vector by performing operations comprising: designating each group of nodes along the dimension as either a forwarding group or a critical group, updating, for each receiving node, a respective individual gradient vector with an intermediate gradient vector, performing a reduction on each critical group of nodes along the dimension to generate a respective partial final gradient vector for the critical group, and updating, for each critical group of nodes, an individual gradient vector for a representative node with the respective partial final gradient vector.
US11715009B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network including a first subnetwork followed by a second subnetwork on training inputs by optimizing an objective function. In one aspect, a method includes processing a training input using the neural network to generate a training model output, including processing a subnetwork input for the training input using the first subnetwork to generate a subnetwork activation for the training input in accordance with current values of parameters of the first subnetwork, and providing the subnetwork activation as input to the second subnetwork; determining a synthetic gradient of the objective function for the first subnetwork by processing the subnetwork activation using a synthetic gradient model in accordance with current values of parameters of the synthetic gradient model; and updating the current values of the parameters of the first subnetwork using the synthetic gradient.
US11715006B2
A natural language code search service provides idioms or frequently-occurring code patterns for a code fragment based on similar type usage and method/API invocation usage. The search service uses a data mining technique that mines code snippets found from various websites and code snippets generated from a neural model to detect idioms in the code snippets that were previously unknown and which can be reused. A search is initiated through a natural language query within a code development tool or application thereby avoiding the need to switch out of the current application to perform the search.
US11714998B2
An apparatus to facilitate accelerating neural networks with low precision-based multiplication and exploiting sparsity in higher order bits is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising a re-encoder to re-encode a first input number of signed input numbers represented in a first precision format as part of a machine learning model, the first input number re-encoded into two signed input numbers of a second precision format, wherein the first precision format is a higher precision format than the second precision format. The processor further includes a multiply-add circuit to perform operations in the first precision format using the two signed input numbers of the second precision format; and a sparsity hardware circuit to reduce computing on zero values at the multiply-add circuit, wherein the processor to execute the machine learning model using the re-encoder, the multiply-add circuit, and the sparsity hardware circuit.
US11714997B2
Users interact with a computer system, which collects data about individual interactions the users have had with the computer system. The users are sorted into one of a first group or a second group. The computer system generates respective user sequence models for the users using information representing the individual interactions. The computer system analyzes the respective user sequence models using a recurrent neural network with an attention mechanism, which produces respective vectors corresponding to the user sequence models. Individual values in the vectors represent respective individual interactions by a given user and correspond to an amount of correlation between the respective individual interactions and the sorting of the given user into the first group or the second group. The computer system identifies a particular type of interaction that is correlated to users being sorted into the first group by analyzing the respective vectors.
US11714993B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for classifying a new example using a comparison set of comparison examples. One method includes maintaining a comparison set, the comparison set including comparison examples and a respective label vector for each of the comparison examples, each label vector including a respective score for each label in a predetermined set of labels; receiving a new example; determining a respective attention weight for each comparison example by applying a neural network attention mechanism to the new example and to the comparison examples; and generating a respective label score for each label in the predetermined set of labels from, for each of the comparison examples, the respective attention weight for the comparison example and the respective label vector for the comparison example, in which the respective label score for each of the labels represents a likelihood that the label is a correct label for the new example.
US11714992B1
Systems and methods for providing executable instructions to a neural network processor are provided. In one example, a system comprises a database that stores a plurality of executable instructions and a plurality of subgraph identifiers, each subgraph identifier of the plurality of subgraph identifiers being associated with a subset of instructions of the plurality of executable instructions. The system further includes a compiler configured to: identify a computational subgraph from a computational graph of a neural network model; compute a subgraph identifier for the computational subgraph, based on whether the subgraph identifier is included in the plurality of subgraph identifiers, either: obtain, from the database, first instructions associated with the subgraph identifier; or generate second instructions representing the computational subgraph; and provide the first instructions or the second instructions for execution by a neural network processor to perform computation operations for the neural network model.
US11714990B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an action selection neural network that is used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, the method comprises: receiving an observation characterizing a current state of the environment; processing the observation and an exploration importance factor using the action selection neural network to generate an action selection output; selecting an action to be performed by the agent using the action selection output; determining an exploration reward; determining an overall reward based on: (i) the exploration importance factor, and (ii) the exploration reward; and training the action selection neural network using a reinforcement learning technique based on the overall reward.
US11714980B1
Techniques are disclosed for using tag placement to determine 3D object orientation. An extended reality (XR) system detects, in a two-dimensional image, a data marker associated with an object viewable in an XR environment. The XR system applies a first function to the data marker to generate a rectilinear data marker by transforming a quadrilateral that circumscribes the data marker into a rectangle. The XR system determines a three-dimensional orientation of the object based on transformation of the data marker to the rectilinear data marker. The XR system determines an XR object associated with the data marker. The XR system applies a second function to the XR object, where the second function uses the three-dimensional orientation of the data marker to modify an orientation of the XR object to generate a transformed XR object. The XR system causes the transformed XR object to be displayed within the two-dimensional image.
US11714977B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for replacing floating point matrix multiplication operations with an approximation algorithm or computation in applications that involve sparse codes and neural networks. The system may replace floating point matrix multiplication operations in sparse code applications and neural network applications with an approximation computation that applies an equivalent number of addition and/or subtraction operations.
US11714972B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a system, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating stylistic expression transfers in machine translation of source sequence data. Using integrated loss functions for style transfer along with content preservation and/or cross entropy, source sequence data is processed by an autoencoder trained to reduce loss values across the loss functions at each time step encoded for the source sequence data. The target sequence data generated by the autoencoder therefore exhibits reduced loss values for the integrated loss functions at each time step, thereby improving content preservation and providing for stylistic expression transfer.
US11714968B2
Systems and methods for identifying data of interest are disclosed. The system may retrieve unstructured data from an internet data source via an alert system or RSS feed. The system may input the unstructured data into various models and scoring systems to determine whether the data is of interest. The models and scoring systems may be executed in order or in parallel. For example, the system may input the unstructured data into a Naïve Bayes machine learning model, a long short-term memory (LSTM) machine learning model, a named entity recognition (NER) model, a semantic role labeling (SRL) model, a sentiment scoring algorithm, and/or a gradient boosted regression tree (GBRT) machine learning model. Based on determining that the unstructured data is of interest, a data alert may be generated and transmitted for manual review or as part of an automated decisioning process.
US11714964B2
An apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to pre-process text data for inputting to a trained model, the pre-processing comprising: receiving a set of text data including numerical information, the set of text data comprising a plurality of tokens, wherein a first subset of the plurality of tokens comprises tokens that do not comprise numerical information, and a second subset of the plurality of tokens comprises tokens that each comprise respective numerical information; transforming each of the plurality of tokens into a respective encoding vector, each of the plurality of tokens in the second subset having a common encoding vector; assigning a respective numerical vector to each of the plurality of tokens, wherein each token in the second subset is assigned a respective numerical vector in dependence on the numerical information in said token; and combining the encoding vectors and numerical vectors to obtain a vector representation of the text data.
US11714963B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for modifying content associated with an item comprises at least one processor. Features of interest of the item to a plurality of different groups are determined based on user comments produced by members of the plurality of different groups. The members within each group have a common characteristic. The features of interest to each group within the content associated with the item are identified, and the content associated with the item is modified by balancing the features of interest to the plurality of different groups within the content associated with the item. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for modifying content associated with an item in substantially the same manner described above.
US11714958B2
A system and method are provided for generating and publishing electronic content using predetermined templates. The method comprises providing a predetermined template specifying a predetermined layout for at least one slide to contain content; enabling the content to be added to the template by a plurality of contributors, each contributor having access to a project comprising the template over a network; receiving the content; and compiling a published output according to the received content and parameters of the predetermined template.
US11714957B2
A digital story includes textual, visual, and/or audio aspects. Generation of a new digital story and/or editing of an existing digital story can include, for instance, coordinating presentation of textual, visual, and/or audio aspects of the digital story. A digital story can be viewed and/or accessed by a user remote from one or more authors of the digital story.
US11714955B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for dynamic document annotations. In some implementations, a keyword is identified in a first view of a document, the first view being provided on a user interface. An annotation for the keyword is provided for display at a first location with the first view provided on the user interface. An adjustment to the first view is detected that causes a second view of the document on the user interface, where a position of the keyword in the second view is different from a position of the keyword in the first view. In response to detecting the adjustment to the first view, the annotation is hidden from the user interface, and, after hiding the annotation, the annotation for the keyword is provided for display at a second location with the second view of the document.
US11714950B2
Processing a circuit design includes stabilizing the circuit design by a design tool that performs one or more iterations of implementation, optimization assessment, optimization, and stability assessment until a threshold stability level is achieved. The design tool determines, in response to satisfaction of the threshold stability level, different strategies based on features of the circuit design and likelihood that use of the strategies would improve timing. Each strategy includes parameter settings for the design tool. The design tool executes multiple implementation flows using different sets of strategies to generate alternative implementations. One implementation of the alternative implementations nearest to satisfying a timing requirement is selected. The selected implementation is iteratively optimized to satisfy the timing requirement, while restricting changes to placement of cells and nets on a critical path of the one implementation to less than a threshold portion of cells and nets on the critical path.
US11714944B2
In an embodiment, a method for optimizing an integrated circuit physical design for an integrated circuit. A physical design graph includes a plurality of physical design sub-configurations, each including a placement of a group of physical cells and having annotated characteristics. The method includes identifying, in the integrated circuit physical design, a first physical design sub-configuration including a first placement of a first group of the physical cells and having first annotated characteristics, the first annotated characteristics being outside target characteristics. The method includes selecting from the physical design graph, based on the first group of the physical cells and the target characteristics, at least a second physical design sub-configuration including a second placement of the first group of the physical cells and being within the target characteristics. The method includes replacing the first physical design sub-configuration in the integrated circuit physical design with the second physical design sub-configuration.
US11714940B2
Methods and apparatus operative to quantify building metrics using artificial intelligence analysis of a design plan. A design plan is represented using multiple dynamic components. Each dynamic component may include a parameter changeable via the user interactive interface. The dynamic components may be arranged in a user interactive interface to form a first set of boundaries, including a respective length and area, and defining at least a portion of a first unit. AI may determine a longest path of egress and a supportable occupancy load that may be used to determine compliance with parameters of a given code. The AI may assess whether a building described in the design plans complies with a relevant code set forth by an authority having jurisdiction. Codes may include, for example, codes enforcing fire safety and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
US11714939B2
An estimated gas leak flow rate can be determined using a teaching set of concentration profiles, a regression model implemented by a machine-learning subsystem, and a subset of attributes measured within an environment. The teaching set of concentration profiles can include gas flow rates associated with relevant attributes. The regression model can be transformed into a gas leak flow regression model via the machine-learning subsystem using the teaching set. The subset of attributes measured within the environment can be applied to the gas leak flow regression model to determine other attributes absent from the subset of attributes and an estimated gas flow rate for the environment. A gas leak attenuation action can be performed in response to the estimated gas flow rate.
US11714930B2
A building system including one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an indication to execute an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, execute the AI agent based on the digital twin to generate an inference or a prediction, cause a graphical model of the building including graphical representations of the entities to include information based on the inference or the prediction, and cause a display device of a user device to display the graphical model.
US11714929B2
A method of determining placement of pipes within a fire suppression system including: obtaining a layout of nozzles within a room for a fire suppression system; determining a number of pipes, a length of each of the pipes, and a location of each of the pipes to connect each nozzle within the room to a fire suppression agent source in response to the layout of nozzles within the room; determining locations of junctions and elbows to interconnect the pipes; and determining whether the pipe, junctions, and elbows violate a piping constraint.
US11714927B2
A processor may receive a geofence perimeter of a geospatial region. The processor may analyze one or more objects within the geofence perimeter. The processor may generate a digital twin ecosystem. The digital twin ecosystem may include digital copies of the one or more objects. The processor may present a simulation of the digital twin ecosystem to a user.
US11714926B1
Product displays are used to hold and present products. A method of manufacturing a product display can include forming display unit and cartridge blanks for assembly into a product display that has been designed using a product display design model executed on a computing device. A dataset of standardized units is created and includes products, cartridges, and display units. The product display design model generates product display design options that specify geometric arrangements of cartridges within display units, where the cartridges are each associated with a product type. The geometric arrangements are based on inputs that include combinations of a target total product count, a target mix ratio, product types, and a product display type. Display unit blanks and cartridge blanks used to construct display units and cartridges of the product display are formed by a manufacturing device based on a generated product display design option.
US11714921B2
Provided are an image processing method, an image matching method, a device, and a storage medium. The image processing method includes: obtaining an image feature of an input image; determining a plurality of local image features of the image feature; determining a plurality of local feature vectors corresponding to the plurality of local image features respectively; determining a hash code of the input image based on the plurality of local feature vectors.
US11714919B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure disclose methods and systems for assessing the data risk management capabilities of data processors that receive second-party data as part of an engagement to provide support services. In some embodiments, the transfer of the second-party data to the data processors can be monitored to identify file transfers including unauthorized personally identifiable information (PII) attributes. In some embodiments, the database of the data processor may be scanned to locate any residual second-party data that should be removed after the data processor's engagement to provide the support services have expired.
US11714918B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for sending and receiving requests to delete and/or retrieve certain data. Example methods may include sending from an electronic device a request to delete and/or retrieve selected data from a server based on selected categories, receiving the request at the server, and determining data to delete and/or retrieve on the server based on the request from the electronic device, deleting and/or retrieving the data on the server, and/or sending the retrieved selected to the electronic device.
US11714913B2
A method includes receiving historical interaction data, which includes a plurality of historical interactions. Each historical interaction is associated with a plurality of data fields. The method includes assigning a plurality of weights to the plurality of data fields, generating a neural network using the plurality of weights and the plurality of data fields, identifying a first plurality of feature indicators indicative of a first class, the first class being different from a second class; receiving a second plurality of feature indicators derived from data relating to compromised accounts, updating, a probability distribution component using the first plurality of feature indicators and the second plurality of feature indicators, and receiving current data for an interaction. The method also includes applying the probability distribution component to the current data, and scoring the interaction using the probability distribution component.
US11714901B2
A computing device can receive a first notification that a process has started on the at least one computing device. The computing device can record a first access token associated with the process into the token cache. The computing device can receive a second notification that the process has interacted with the operating system to perform at least one of a set of predetermined operations on the at least one computing device. The computing device can capture a second access token from the process. The computing device can perform a comparison of the second access token captured from the process against the first access token recorded into the token cache. The computing device can determine that an escalation of privilege attack has occurred based on the comparison.
US11714898B2
Embodiments provide automated security scanning of incoming images for use in creating containers such as a Virtual Machines. Based upon attribute(s) of metadata of the incoming image, a security engine chooses from amongst stored scripts for mounting and execution by installation logic. Such scripts can relate to the scanning itself, and/or pre-scanning considerations (such as scan frequency). In one example, the meta data attribute identifies a relevant Operating System (OS) of the incoming image. Other meta data attributes such as •scan frequency, •most recent passed scan, •log information, and •contact information (for issuance of a possible alert), may also be considered as part of the processing of an incoming image. Embodiments may enhance security by avoiding introduction of vulnerabilities through image instantiation. Embodiments may also impart flexibility to conserve resources by selectively scanning according to a frequency and/or date of last successful passage of the image.
US11714889B2
A method for authentication or identification of an individual, comprising the implementation by data processing means (11) of a terminal (1) of the following steps: (a) Obtaining of a visible image, an infrared image and a depth image on each of which a biometric feature of said individual appears; (b) Selection of at least one of said visible images, infrared image and depth image depending on the ambient lighting conditions; (c) Detection of said biometric feature of the individual in each image selected; (d) Fusion of the biometric feature(s) detected; and, (e) Authentication or identification of said individual on the basis of the result of the fusion of the biometric feature(s) detected.
US11714886B2
Account permissions and data accessibility can be modified based on level of confidence for a login attempt to the account. User activity observations corresponding to one or more login attempts to access a user account can be stored. A confidence score associated with a successful login attempt of the user account can be determined. The confidence score is based on the user activity observations. A level of access to an application with functions and data for the user account can be determined. The level of access is based on the confidence score. The level of access is associated with the functions and the data that are executable and accessible subsequent to the successful login attempt.
US11714882B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein manage descriptive attributes associated with objects in video data. In one example, a video processing service obtains video data and identifies an object of interest in the video data. The video processing service further identifies attributes for the object of interest from the video data based on the attributes satisfying uniqueness requirements to differentiate the object of interest from other objects. Once the attributes are identified, the attributes may be stored in a storage system to be compared against other objects in second video data.
US11714878B2
A system and method for detecting construction site defects and hazards using artificial intelligence (AI) is provided. The system includes a movable base unit, a coordinate measurement scanner, a vision based sensor, and one or more processors. The one or more processors perform operations that include generating a two-dimensional (2D) map of the environment based at least in part on output from the coordinate measurement scanner, applying image recognition to the video stream data to identify and label a defect or hazard in the video data stream, correlating a location of the defect or hazard in the video stream data with the location in the 2D map, and recording the location of the defect or hazard in the 2D map.
US11714877B1
A machine learning system to determine an identity of a user is trained using triplets of ad hoc synthetic data and actual data. The data may comprise multimodal images of a hand. Each triplet comprises an anchor, a positive, and a negative image. Synthetic triplets for different synthesized identities are generated on an ad hoc basis and provided as input during training of the machine learning system. The machine learning system uses a pairwise label-based loss function, such as a triplet loss function during training. Synthetic triplets may be generated to provide more challenging training data, to provide training data for categories that are underrepresented in the actual data, and so forth. The system uses substantially less memory during training, and the synthetic triplets need not be retained further reducing memory use. Ongoing training is supported as new actual triplets become available, and may be supplemented by additional synthetic triplets.
US11714876B1
A real-time event transcription system and related methods provides for determining the existence, sequencing and timing of an event and/or event elements, for detecting and compensating for latency issues and cheating while providing synchronized user engagement, wherein users who are observing an event interact with a stream of stimuli generated over the course of the event, each user's interactions precisely recorded and accurately timestamped, accounting and/or compensating for various delays that may cause different users to encounter the stimuli at different times. Embodiments further provide for methods to determine and synchronize stimuli and reaction timing across a plurality of geographical locations, transmission methods and media.
US11714869B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying relevant information for an entity, referred to as a seed entity. A plurality of search queries can be generated each comprising a property of a seed entity or one of the entities associated with the seed entity (seed-linked entities). Preferably, a collection of search queries includes ones representing different properties of the seed entity and properties of different seed-linked entities. Optionally, the collection of search queries is optimized to reduce search burden. Searches can then be conducted with the search queries in one or more data sources to obtain a plurality of search results, wherein each search result comprises a hit entity and one or more entities associated with the hit entity (hit-linked entity). For each of the search results, a score can be determined taking as input (a) likelihood of match between the seed entity and the hit entity or between a seed-linked entity and a hit-linked entity, (b) presence of a new entity in the search result not present in the search queries or a difference between the new entity and an entity present in the search queries, and (c) characteristic of the new entity in the search result. Based on the scores, high priority search results can be presented a user for further analysis.
US11714860B2
A verifying entity of a decentralized system is configured to receive information associated with at least one ledger entry of a distributed ledger of the decentralized system, to verify at least a portion of one or more computations associated with the received information, to generate evidence of at least one error in the at least a portion of the one or more computations associated with the received information, and to associate the generated evidence with a public key of the verifying entity. The decentralized system may comprise a proof of space based mining system, and the at least one ledger entry of the distributed ledger may comprise at least one proof of space for the proof of space based mining system.
US11714854B2
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating a communication associated with an optimization code. Generating a communication may include generating an optimization code, which may include (i) receiving a first data associated with one or more of a first computing device and a first computing device user; (ii) generating at least two confirmation codes, including one or more of a verification code, a consistency code, and an activity code; and (iii) generating an optimization code which may be based, at least in part, on the at least two confirmation codes.
US11714849B2
Embodiments of this application provide an image generation system and method. In an exemplary manufacturing industry scenario, a style requirement of a product category in a manufacturing industry is automatically captured according to user behavior data and product description information associated with the product category. Based on these data, a style description text may be generated and converted to product images by using a text prediction-based image generation model. The product images are further screened by using an image-text matching model, to obtain a product image with high quality. This process covers from style description text mining to text-to-image prediction to image quality evaluation. It provides an automation product image generation capability for the manufacturing industry, shorten a cycle of designing and producing the product image in the manufacturing industry, and improve production efficiency of the product image.
US11714838B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a computing system to search and interact with service records containing natural language text to aid in the analysis of those records by: displaying in a user interface an image of a complex system; receiving, from the user interface, a high-level selection of criteria of the complex system; querying issue maps associated with individual natural language service records of a corpus of natural language service records based on the high-level selection, wherein the issue maps specify at least one term related to the complex system and a location on the complex system associated with the at least one term; and returning at least one issue map, wherein the at least one issue map returned specifies a term or location correlated to the criteria of the complex system indicated by the high-level selection.
US11714835B2
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.
US11714832B2
An approach is provided for combining location data sources. The approach, for instance, involves generating a first context-aware vector representation of a first location entity in a first data source and a second context-aware vector representation of a second location entity in a second data source. The approach also comprises processing the first context-aware vector representation and the second context-aware vector representation using a machine learning model to perform a classification of the first location entity as the same as the second location entity. The approach further comprises combining the first data source and the data source into a new database based on the classification and providing the new database as an output.
US11714814B2
The technology described herein solicits user feedback in order to improve the processing of contextual signal data to identify automation setting preferences. Users have limited availability or willingness to provide explicit feedback. The technology calculates an impact score that measures a possible improvement to the automation system that could result from receiving feedback. Feedback is solicited when the impact score exceeds a threshold. Other rules can be provided in conjunction with the impact score to determine when feedback is solicited, such as a daily cap on feedback solicitations.
US11714811B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing run-time querying of multi-tenant non-relational database objects. A database system maintains a multi-tenant non-relational database associated with a number of enterprises, a number of records, and a number of data objects for each of the enterprises, each data object having at least one composite key field. A request is received during runtime to query data related to a data object, and the system determines that the data object is defined to be used in associated with a non-relational database. The system then retrieves a metadata model of the data object, determines that the request includes at least one composite key field for the data object, and processes the requery to query data in synchronous fashion. Finally, a query response is provided to the user.
US11714803B1
A system for handling Implicit transactions in a hybrid cloud cache. The hybrid cloud cache maintains folders in a metadata file system that includes a hierarchy of cached folders, and maintains a meta-file containing metadata of files and folders. The system obtains a meta-file from a cloud platform and compares that to a meta-file obtained from the hybrid cloud cache. An object associated with an Implicit metadata transaction is transferred to an internal namespace of the hybrid cloud cache if the comparison indicates that certain conditions are met. The system may perform a bottom-up traversal of the namespace and may abort the traversal if an outstanding explicit transaction for the object is present or the object exists in the cloud platform. An object may be moved to a temporary storage location if there is no explicit transaction on it and the object does not exist in the cloud platform.
US11714799B1
Described are techniques for evaluating technology add-ons used with a data intake and query system to identify errors that may be present in or associated with configuration files defining the functions of the technology add-on or with operation of the technology add-on. For example, the technology add-on may be used to provide searching of event data stored by the data intake and query system using a late-binding schema, where the technology add-on provides for formalized interpretation of non-standard event data according to a user- or vendor-defined scheme. The disclosed techniques can identify errors and determine if the technology add-on is compliant with a schema definition for a common information model.
US11714795B2
A system includes storage of data into a target memory location allocated to a target leaf node of a tree-based index structure, the target leaf node being a child node of a parent node of the tree-based index structure, where the tree-based index structure comprises one or more other leaf nodes which are child nodes of the parent node, and each of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes is associated with a plurality of allocated memory locations, incremental identification of all unused allocated memory locations between a first allocated memory location of a left-most one of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes and a last used allocated memory location of a right-most one of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes, and movement of data stored in the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes into the identified unused allocated memory locations.
US11714793B2
A system and method is provided for providing searchable customer call indexes. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a system may receive call information associated with telephone conversations between callers and a vendor, the call information including an audio recording or transcript for each telephone conversation. The system may also identify one or more keywords from the audio recordings or transcripts and index the call information into one or more indexes based on the identified keywords. Finally, the system may determine search results responsive to a search query based on the indexing. In some embodiments, changes to customer service may be identified based on the search results.
US11714791B2
Technologies are provided for automated generation of revision summaries for an electronic document. In some embodiments, a computing system can determine that a first section of a first version of the electronic document includes changes relative to a second section of a second version of the electronic document. The second section corresponds to the first section. The computing system also can generate respective descriptions of the first section and the second section. The computing system can then generate a summary of the changes by comparing the respective descriptions. The computing system can determine that the summary has a defined placement in a ranking of similarity scores, where a first similarity score in the ranking defines similarity between the respective descriptions. The computing system can add metadata to the first version of the electronic document. The metadata controls presentation of a visual element indicative of the summary within a user interface.
US11714777B2
A method for data transmission control of inter field programmable gate array (FPGA) and an associated apparatus are provided. The method includes: utilizing a first register device to latch a set of data from a first FPGA according to a first clock, wherein the set of data is arranged and divided into multiple sets of partial data according to attributes of payloads and pointers; utilizing a time-division multiplexing (TDM) interface to transmit the multiple sets of partial data from the first register device to a second register device according to a TDM clock at multiple time points, respectively; and utilizing the second register device to sequentially receive the multiple sets of partial data, in order to output the set of data to a second FPGA, wherein the second FPGA operates according to a second clock different from the first clock.
US11714774B1
An endpoint interface device architecture utilized in multi-drop communication networks, such as the RS485 architecture, that utilizes control logic software/firmware within the endpoint microprocessor to isolate shorted lines from the communication transceiver, and to communicate status information to a first or second data source.
US11714771B2
A universal serial bus (USB) signal transmission device, an operation method thereof, and a USB cable are provided. The USB signal transmission device includes a signal processing circuit, a switch circuit, and a control circuit. A first terminal of the switch circuit is coupled to a first USB circuit. A second terminal of the switch circuit is coupled to a second USB circuit. The control circuit turns off the switch circuit during a detection period to detect both terminals of the switch circuit to obtain a detection result. The control circuit turns on the switch circuit during a transmission period, and controls a transmission direction of the signal processing circuit according to the detection result.
US11714756B2
Embodiments of information handling systems (IHSs) and methods are provided herein to improve the security and performance of a shared cache memory contained within a multi-core host processor. Although not strictly limited to such, the techniques described herein may be used to improve the security and performance of a shared last level cache (LLC) contained within a multi-core host processor included within a virtualized and/or containerized IHS. In the disclosed embodiments, cache security and performance are improved by using pre-boot Memory Reference Code (MRC) based cache initialization methods to create page-sized cache namespaces, which may be dynamically mapped to virtualized and/or containerized applications when the applications are subsequently booted during operating system (OS) runtime.
US11714755B2
One embodiment can provide a node controller in a multiprocessor system. The node controller can include a processor interface to interface with a processor, a memory interface to interface with a fabric-attached memory, a node-controller interface to interface with a remote node controller, and a cache-coherence logic to operate in a first mode or a second mode. The cache-coherence logic manages cache coherence for a local memory of the processor coupled to the processor interface when operating in the first mode, and the cache-coherence logic manages cache coherence for the fabric-attached memory coupled to the memory interface when operating in the second mode.
US11714749B2
Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms, apparatus, and improvements thereof for in-memory computing using charge-domain circuit operation to provide energy efficient, high speed, capacitor-based in-memory computing. Various embodiments contemplate controlling input signal presentation within in-memory computing structures/macros in accordance with predefined or dynamic switch selection criteria to reduce energy consumption associated with charging and/or discharging summing capacitors during reset and evaluation operating modes of multiplying bit-cells (M-BCs).
US11714746B2
Comparing the performance of multiple versions or branches/paths of an application (e.g., a web service or application) may be conducted within a suitable computing environment. Such an environment may be virtual in nature, cloud-based, or server-based, and is hosted with tools for simultaneously (or nearly simultaneously) executing multiple containers or other code collections with the same or similar operating conditions (e.g., network congestion, resource contention, memory management schemes). By arranging the performance test of different application versions in different sequences executed in parallel in separate containers, fair comparisons of the tested applications will be obtained. Testing sequences may be executed multiple times, and metrics are collected during each execution. Afterward, the results for each metric for each code version are aggregated and displayed to indicate their relative performance quantitatively and/or qualitatively.
US11714745B1
Test cases written to test a software application can be dynamically distributed among a set of software application instances such that different sets of test cases can execute simultaneously in parallel, thereby speeding up testing relative to executing the test cases sequentially. To avoid database conflicts that may occur when different test cases are executed in parallel, each software application instance can be associated with a different database instance. Accordingly, a first test case executing in association with a first database instance can avoid interfering with a second test case executing in association with a second database instance.
US11714731B2
Failover methods and systems for a storage environment are provided. During a takeover operation to take over storage of a first storage system node by a second storage system node, the second storage system node copies information from a first storage location to a second storage location. The first storage location points to an active file system of the first storage system node, and the second storage location is assigned to the second storage system node for the takeover operation. The second storage system node quarantines storage space likely to be used by the first storage system node for a write operation, while the second storage system node attempts to take over the storage of the first storage system node. The second storage system node utilizes information stored at the second storage location during the takeover operation to give back control of the storage to the first storage system node.
US11714729B1
A Highly Available system utilizes at least one host fit to send data, and a primary server fit to receive data. The primary server comprises, a failover server capable of communicating with a http server and able to receive data from the host, and where the http server can receive data from the failover server, and an adapter capable of receiving data from the http server for processing. The Highly Available system also utilizes at least one secondary server fit to receive data from the host, and further fit to process data on failure of primary server or its components. The secondary server comprises a second failover server capable of communicating with a second http server and able to receive data from the host, and where the second http server can receive data from the second failover server, and an adapter capable of receiving data from the second http server for processing.
US11714722B2
An example memory sub-system includes one or more memory devices and a processing device, operatively coupled to the one or more memory devices. The processing device is configured to store, on a non-volatile memory device of the one or more memory devices, a snapshot of a logical-to-physical (L2P) table comprising a plurality of L2P table entries, each L2P table entry mapping a logical address defined in a logical address space to a physical address identifying a management unit on a memory device of the one or more memory devices; store, on the non-volatile memory device of the one or more memory devices, a physical-to-logical (P2L) table comprising a plurality of P2L table entries, each L2P table entry mapping a physical address identifying a management unit on a memory device of the one or more memory devices to metadata associated with the management unit; store, on the non-volatile memory device, a list of unallocated MUs; store, on the non-volatile memory device, an L2P update journal including one or more L2P journal entries, wherein each L2P journal entry reflects an update to an L2P table entry of the plurality of L2P table entries, wherein the update has been performed after storing the snapshot of the L2P table; and responsive to detecting a power up event following a power loss event, reconstruct the L2P table using the snapshot of the L2P table, the L2P update journal, the P2L table, and the list of unallocated management units.
US11714719B2
Apparatus for tiered storage of data in a storage network. In an example of operation, a computing device receives a data object for storage and forwards the data object for storage in a first plurality of memory devices of a first memory type. The computing device determines a system level storage efficiency for the data object based, at least in part, on a data attribute associated with the data object. The computing device further selects, based at least in part on the system level storage efficiency preference, a second plurality of memory devices comprised of a second memory type. The computing device determines error encoding parameters based on the second plurality of memory devices, retrieves the data object from the first plurality of memory devices, and encodes the data object with the error encoding parameters to generate a plurality of encoded data slices for storage in the second plurality of memory devices.
US11714716B2
An apparatus is disclosed having a parity buffer having a plurality of parity pages and one or more dies, each die having a plurality of layers in which data may be written. The apparatus also includes a storage controller configured to write a stripe of data across two or more layers of the one or more dies, the stripe having one or more data values and a parity value. When a first data value of the stripe is written, it is stored as a current value in a parity page of the parity buffer, the parity page corresponding to the stripe. For each subsequent data value that is written, an XOR operation is performed with the subsequent data value and the current value of the corresponding parity page and the result of the XOR operation is stored as the current value of the corresponding parity page.
US11714713B2
In described examples, a memory module includes a memory array with a primary access port coupled to the memory array. Error correction logic is coupled to the memory array. A statistics register is coupled to the error correction logic. A secondary access port is coupled to the statistics register to allow access to the statistics register by an external device without using the primary interface.
US11714710B2
A first data stored at a first portion of a memory cell and a second data stored at a second portion of the memory cell are identified. A first error rate associated with first data stored at the first portion of the memory cell is determined. The first error rate is adjusted to exceed a second error rate associated with the second data stored at the second portion of the memory cell. A determination is made as to whether the first error rate exceeds a threshold. The second data stored at the second portion of the memory cell is provided for use in an error correction operation by a controller associated with the memory cell in response to determining that the first error rate exceeds the threshold.
US11714693B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a dynamic api, includes receiving a first message in a first format from a client, the first format being specified for the client, the first message including information sufficient to cause a target service to execute an operation. The method includes identifying, using the API message, the target service. The method includes determining based of the target, a second format. The method includes generating a second message in the second format prescribed by the target service using the first message, the second message including information sufficient to cause the target service to execute the operation. The method also includes sending the second message to the target service over the network connector.
US11714691B2
Systems and methods for implementing a command stack for an application are disclosed and an embodiment includes receiving an input for executing a first command of the application, initiating execution of the first command, executing one or more second commands which are set to execute based on execution of the first command, completing execution of the first command, and including the first command in the command stack such that an association is defined between the first command and the one or more second commands. In one embodiment, defining the association in the command stack between the first command the one or more second commands may include generating a first nested command stack associated with the first command, including the one or more second commands in the first nested command stack, and including the first command and the first nested command stack in the command stack.
US11714682B1
Systems and methods are described for reclamation of computing resources in an on-demand code execution system. An on-demand code execution system may execute user-submitted code on virtual machine instances, which may be provisioned with quantities of various computing resources (memory, storage, processor time, etc.). These quantities of computing resources may be unused or underutilized depending on the resource requirements of the user-submitted code, or may become idle once the user-submitted code has completed execution. A resource reclamation system may thus reclaim these underutilized computing resources and reallocate them to other uses. The resource reclamation system may interact with a reclaimable resource identification process that executes within the virtual machine instance, which may identify unused or underused computing resources, claim them, and then allow the resource reclamation system to reallocate them. The resource reclamation system may thus enable reclaiming the computing resources without requiring the virtual machine instance to be reprovisioned.
US11714675B2
Systems and methods are described for providing virtualized transaction retries in an on-demand network code execution system. A user may generate a task on the system by submitting code. The task may include a transaction that can succeed or fail depending on external factors, such as accessing a resource that other processes are also trying to access. The system may obtain success criteria for evaluating whether the transaction was successful, and may configure a virtual machine instance to execute the submitted code. The system may generate a “snapshot” or otherwise capture information regarding the state of the virtual machine instance prior to executing the code, and may then execute the code or a portion of it to attempt the transaction. The system may then apply the success criteria to determine whether the transaction was successful, and if not may retry the transaction by restoring the snapshot and re-executing the code.
US11714673B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for redeploying a baseline VM (BVM) to one or more child VMs (CVMs) by merely cloning virtual drives of the BVM, instead of the entirety of the parent BVM. A temporary directory is created in a datastore that has the target CVMs that are targeted for virtual drive replacement (e.g., are to be “re-baselined”). One or more replacement virtual drives (RVDs) are created in the temporary directory, where the RVDs comprise a clone of a virtual drive of the source BVM. The one or more RVDs are moved from the temporary directory to a directory of the target CVMs, replacing existing virtual drives of the target CVMs so that the target CVMs are thus re-baselined to the state of the parent BVM.
US11714672B2
A system is provided that includes one management cluster to manage network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) resources lifecycle in more than one edge POD locations, where resources include hardware and/or software, and where software resources lifecycle includes software development, upgrades, downgrades, logging, monitoring etc. Methods are provided for decoupling storage from compute and network functions in each virtual machine (VM)-based NFVI deployment location and moving it to a centralized location. Centralized storage could simultaneously interact with more than one edge PODs, and the security is built-in with periodic key rotation. Methods are provided for increasing NFVI system viability by dedicating (fencing) CPU core pairs for specific controller operations and workload operations, and sharing the CPU cores for specific tasks.
US11714667B2
A system and method for autoscaling a multi-tier application, that has components executing on a plurality of tiers of a virtual data center, allocates resources to each of the plurality of tiers based on cost and performance. An application performance is determined, and a new application performance is estimated based at least partially on an application reservation and an application limit. An optimized utility of the application is calculated based on the cost to execute the application, the application reservation, and the application limit. A scaling factor for each tier is then determined to scale up or down a number of virtual machines operating in each of the tiers.
US11714661B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein are configured to dynamically configure a baseboard management controller to monitor a state of a server. For example, a configuration schema may be provided to the baseboard management controller. The configuration schema specifies each of the devices of the server that is to be monitored by the baseboard management controller. The configuration schema also specifies additional configuration details with respect to each of the devices. Based on the configuration information included in the configuration schema, the baseboard management controller performs a discovery sequence with respect to each of the devices to verify that such devices are communicatively coupled to the baseboard management controller. If the discovery sequence is successful, the baseboard management controller begins monitoring the devices. However, if the discovery sequence is unsuccessful, the baseboard management controller issues an error, thereby enabling the proper personnel to remediate the issue.
US11714659B2
Disclosed are various examples for device provisioning using a manufacturer boot environment. A management agent can be executed from a manufacturer's boot environment and can install a management application that is executable in the main operating system to provision a client device for management. The management agent can then set a provisioning status BIOS variable to indicate that the client device is provisioned. The client device can then be booted to the main operating system and the management application can be executed.
US11714658B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for automated idle environment shutdown. In some implementations, activity of a server environment is monitored over a period of time. A measure of user-initiated activity of the server environment is determined based on the monitored activity of the server environment over the period of time. The level of user-initiated activity over the period of time is determined to be less than a threshold level. In response to determining that the level of user-initiated activity over the period of time is less than the threshold level, shut down of the server environment is initiated.
US11714655B2
Devices and techniques for pipeline merging in a circuit are described herein. A parallel pipeline result can be obtained for a transaction index of a parallel pipeline. Here, the parallel pipeline is one of several parallel pipelines that share transaction indices. An element in a vector can be marked. The element corresponds to the transaction index. The vector is one of several vectors respectively assigned to the several parallel pipelines. Further each element in the several vectors corresponds to a possible transaction index with respective elements between vectors corresponding to the same transaction index. Elements between the several vectors that correspond to the same transaction index can be compared to determine when a transaction is complete. In response to the transaction being complete, the result can be released to an output buffer in response to the transaction being complete.
US11714650B2
The present disclosure relates to a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an analysis program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes sampling an instruction address of one of instructions included in a program during execution of the program, identifying a first function that includes the sampled instruction address in an address range, rewriting mark information associated with the identified first function, identifying first information corresponding to the instruction address of the first function among a plurality of first information based on the rewritten mark information, identifying second information corresponding to the instruction address of the first function among a plurality of second information based on the rewritten mark information, storing the first information and the second information in a memory, and analyzing performance of the program based on the first information and the second information stored in the memory.
US11714649B2
An RISC-V-based 3D interconnected multi-core processor architecture and a working method thereof. The RISC-V-based 3D interconnected multi-core processor architecture includes a main control layer, a micro core array layer and an accelerator layer, wherein the main control layer includes a plurality of main cores which are RISC-V instruction set CPU cores, the micro core array layer includes a plurality of micro unit groups including a micro core, a data storage unit, an instruction storage unit and a linking controller, wherein the micro core is an RISC-V instruction set CPU core that executes partial functions of the main core; the accelerator layer is configured to optimize a running speed of space utilization for accelerators meeting specific requirements, wherein some main cores in the main control layer perform data interaction with the accelerator layer, the other main cores interact with the micro core array layer.
US11714644B2
A predicated vector load micro-operation specifies a load target address, a destination vector register for which active vector elements of the destination vector register are to be loaded with data associated with addresses identified based on the load target address, and a predicate operand indicative of whether each vector element of the destination vector register is active or inactive. A predetermined type of predicated vector load micro-operation can be issued to the processing circuitry before the predicate operand is determined to meet an availability condition, and if issued in this way memory access circuitry can determine, based on the load target address, whether the predetermined type of predicated vector load micro-operation satisfies a predetermined condition, and if the predetermined condition is unsatisfied, perform a complete vector load assuming all vector elements of the destination vector register are active vector elements, independent of whether the predicate operand when available identifies any inactive vector element of the destination vector register.
US11714643B2
Embedded systems and methods of reading or writing data or instructions of at least one application in a non-volatile memory are disclosed. A method includes reading or writing data or instructions of at least one application in a non-volatile memory of an embedded system. The data or instructions transit through a memory area and are interpreted by a distinct program of an operating system of the embedded system.
US11714641B2
An apparatus and method are provided for performing vector processing operations. In particular the apparatus has processing circuitry to perform the vector processing operations and an instruction decoder to decode vector instructions to control the processing circuitry to perform the vector processing operations specified by the vector instructions. The instruction decoder is responsive to a vector generating instruction identifying a scalar start value and wrapping control information, to control the processing circuitry to generate a vector comprising a plurality of elements. In particular, the processing circuitry is arranged to generate the vector such that the first element in the plurality is dependent on the scalar start value, and the values of the plurality of elements follow a regularly progressing sequence that is constrained to wrap as required to ensure that each value is within bounds determined from the wrapping control information. The vector generating instruction can be useful in a variety of situations, a particular use case being to implement a circular addressing mode within memory, where the vector generating instruction can be coupled with an associated vector memory access instruction. Such an approach can remove the need to provide additional logic within the memory access path to support such circular addressing.
US11714635B2
Systems and methods for remediation of software configurations are disclosed. The system may store a plurality of configuration policies in a compliance repository. The system may receive trigger data including at least one compliance error and indicating a software instance operating on a cloud service is out of compliance. The system may compare the at least one compliance error with the plurality of configuration policies. When at least one compliance error matches at least one configuration policy, the system may identify a software configuration file and apply the matching configuration policy to the software configuration file to remediate the software instance. When the at least one compliance error does not match at least one configuration policy, the system may generate a new configuration policy, validate the new configuration policy, and apply the new configuration policy to the software configuration file to remediate the software instance.
US11714634B2
A computer may receive a request to generate a snapshot view of the enterprise network infrastructure. The computer may implement a multithread process to contemporaneously query a plurality of blade servers and server enclosures within the entire network infrastructure. The computer may contemporaneously receive a plurality of information files from the queried network resources (e.g. the blade servers, server enclosures). In active state modes, the computer may push firmware update binaries to the network resources. In a server processing and an active state mode, the computer may implement a multithreaded process to push the firmware update binaries to standalone servers or blade servers that can be accessed directly. In a blade enclosure processing and an active state mode, the computer may implemented a nested multi-threader, using child threads nested within a parent thread to a blade server enclosure to push firmware update binaries to blade servers in the enclosure.
US11714633B2
A method provides a firmware update to an electronic device, to code signing for firmware updates of electronic devices, and a system therefor. In particular, the system and method for updates firmware that is authenticated through a public key infrastructure. The method includes an electronic device receiving a firmware update provided with a signature of a signing key, a signing certificate with a signature of a master key, and a revision number. The device verifies the signature of the master key on the signing certificate of the signing key, checks the revision number on the signing certificate of the signing key against a roll back counter, and verifies the signature of the signing key on the firmware update. The device then rejecting or accepting the received firmware update based on the outcome of the above verifying and checking.
US11714621B2
An example apparatus includes means for generating an application blueprint during a design phase, the application blueprint to bind a service template to a node of an application to be deployed in a cloud environment, the service template to be mapped to a plurality of services that are selectable during a runtime phase; and means for generating a deployment profile during the runtime phase, the deployment profile generating means to: select a first service and a second service from the plurality of services mapped to the service template when the application is to be deployed in the cloud environment, the first service different from the second service; generate a first deployment profile to deploy a first instance of the application based on the first service; and generate a second deployment profile to deploy a second instance of the application based on the second service.
US11714616B2
This document relates to compilation of source code into services. One example method involves receiving input source code, identifying data dependencies in the input source code, and identifying immutability points in the input source code based at least on the data dependencies. The example method also involves converting at least some of the input source code occurring after the immutability points to one or more service modules.
US11714615B2
Described are techniques for application migration. The techniques include migrating an application to a target cloud infrastructure and generating a cost-aware code dependency graph during execution of the application on the target cloud infrastructure. The techniques further include modifying the application by removing source code corresponding to unused nodes according to the cost-aware code dependency graph and replacing identified source code of a high-cost subgraph of the cost-aware code dependency graph with calls to a generated microservice configured to provide functionality similar to the identified source code. The techniques further include implementing the modified application on one or more virtual machines of the target cloud infrastructure.
US11714613B2
Embodiments automate surfacing of underutilized development tool features, thereby enhancing the discoverability of subtools, commands, shortcuts, settings, visualizers, and other tool features. After spotting an inefficiency in the user's interaction with one or more tools, the feature surfacing functionality offers the user an interaction optimization suggestion. A mapping structure correlates detected interaction patterns with objectively better interaction optimizations. Several examples of mappings are discussed. The user can accept a suggestion, have the suggested optimization applied by an enhanced tool, and thereby reduce the number of user gestures utilized to accomplish a desired result, reduce the number of tools utilized, increase security, reduce risk of error, or get to the desired result faster, for example. Interaction optimizations also help the user stay focused, by reducing or avoiding departures from the user's current primary workflow. Other aspects of tool feature surfacing functionality are also described herein.
US11714611B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for enhancing operable functionality of input source code files from a software program by identifying candidate code snippets from the plurality of input source code files that meet a similarity threshold measure for library functions stored in the system library and then identifying at least a first validated code snippet from the candidate code snippets that matches a first library function stored in the system memory on the basis of at least first and second matching metrics so that the developer is presented with a library function recommendation which includes the first validated code snippet, the first library function, and instructions for replacing the first validated code snippet with the first library function.
US11714607B2
A four-input lookup table (“LUT4”) is modified to operate in a first mode as an ordinary LUT4 and in a second mode as a 1-bit adder providing a sum output and a carry output. A six-input lookup table (“LUT6”) is modified to operate in a first mode as an ordinary LUT6 with a single output and in a second mode as a 2-bit adder providing a sum output and a carry output. Both possible results for the two different possible carry inputs can be determined and selected between when the carry input is available, implementing a 2-bit carry-select adder when in the second mode and retaining the ability to operate as an ordinary LUT6 in the first mode. Using the novel LUT6 design in a circuit chip fabric allows a 2-bit adder slice to be built that efficiently makes use of the LUT6 without requiring additional logic blocks.
US11714601B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure receive a request for assistance from a device associated with a user, launch a conversational virtual assistant on the device, determine at least one potential subject of the request based on information associated with the user and a tab or webpage from which the conversational virtual assistant is launched, receive a verification of the subject of the request, create a contact menu with options for receiving the assistance, and receive a selection of one of the options.
US11714596B2
Disclosed is an operation method of an audio signal processing device configured to process an audio signal including a first audio signal component and a second audio signal component. The operation method includes: receiving the audio signal; normalizing loudness of the audio signal, based on a pre-designated target loudness; acquiring the first audio signal component from the audio signal having the normalized loudness, by using a machine learning model; and de-normalizing loudness of the first audio signal component, based on the pre-designated target loudness.
US11714593B2
A modular display apparatus is provided. The modular display apparatus includes a plurality of display apparatuses, each of which includes a plurality of pixels; a storage configured to store a plurality of gain sets, each of which includes gain values respectively corresponding to a plurality of power loads; and a processor configured to: identify a gain set from among the plurality of gain sets based on a resolution of the modular display apparatus; transmit the gain set to the plurality of display apparatuses; receive a plurality of gain values which respectively correspond to power loads for the plurality of display apparatuses to display an image from the plurality of display apparatuses; and transmit a gain value from among the plurality of gain values to the plurality of display apparatuses. Each of the plurality of display apparatuses is configured to display the image by driving a plurality of light-emitting devices of the plurality of pixels based on the gain value received from the processor.
US11714583B2
A print data generating device is configured to generate print data for creating a printed medium by printing a target image on a heat-sensitive medium with a printing device. The printing device includes a thermal head having a heating element. The heat-sensitive medium includes: a base material; and a heat-sensitive layer. The base material has a transparency. The heat-sensitive layer is provided over one surface of the base material and is configured to develop a first color when heated to a first temperature or higher. The printing device is configured to control the heating element according to the print data to heat the heat-sensitive medium. The print data generating device includes a controller. The controller is configured to perform: (a) determining a condition of a background area on which the heat-sensitive medium is to be superimposed; and (b) generating the print data in accordance with the condition determined in (a).
US11714578B2
A method of operating a storage device includes receiving, at the storage device, a meta information transfer command based on a data read request. The meta information transfer command is received from a host device. The method further includes receiving, at the storage device, a data read command corresponding to the data read request and the meta information transfer command. The data read command is received from the host device. The method further includes receiving, at the storage device, a plurality of meta data corresponding to the data read request and the meta information transfer command. The plurality of meta data is received from the host device. The method further includes performing a data read operation, at the storage device, based on the data read command and the plurality of meta data.
US11714568B2
An improved information management system is described herein that provides on-demand or live mount access to virtual machine data in a secondary copy format. For example, instead of restoring all of the virtual machine data in the secondary copy format to a virtual disk that is then mounted to a virtual machine, the improved information management system can, in response to request to access virtual machine data in a secondary copy format, create a virtual disk having a universal network component (UNC) path and create a virtual machine configured to access data via the UNC path. Once created and booted, the administrator or user can attempt to access the desired virtual machine data via the virtual machine.
US11714559B2
A framework disclosed herein extends a relaxed, scoped memory model to a system that includes nodes across a commodity network and maintains coherency across the system. A new scope, cluster scope, is defined, that allows for memory accesses at scopes less than cluster scope to operate on locally cached versions of remote data from across the commodity network without having to issue expensive network operations. Cluster scope operations generate network commands that are used to synchronize memory across the commodity network.
US11714558B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to predictive memory management are described. Error correction operations can be performed on a memory system and can include a latency associated with performing various error correction techniques on data and the health of physical addresses used to store the data can be predicted based on that latency information. In an example, a method can include determining, by a controller, latency information corresponding to one or more error correction operations performed on data received by the controller, and assigning, based on the latency information corresponding to a health of physical address locations corresponding to the data, and taking an action involving the physical address locations based, at least in part, on the information corresponding to the health of the plurality of physical address locations corresponding to the data.
US11714557B2
An SPD-based memory monitoring and service life prediction method and system. Said method includes: acquiring parameter information of each memory bank in a server, and setting a weight for the parameter information; reading configuration information of each memory bank, and calculating occupation ratio information of parameters of each memory bank according to the configuration information and the parameter information; calculating state information of each memory bank according to the weight and the occupation ratio information; determining an influence factor according to the number of CPUs in the server and the number and position of memory banks in each CPU; and calculating a final memory state value according to the influence factor and the state information, and according to the used time and the state information of each memory bank, calculating the remaining service life of each memory bank by means of piecewise fitting using a least square method.
US11714537B2
Techniques are described herein for providing search features within a carousel. A request may be received to display a network page (e.g., a user profile page). The carousel may present a subset of items of a set of items (e.g., items associated with the user profile). User input indicating a scrolling action within the carousel can be received. In response, a user interface (UI) element associated with conducting a search may be presented in an expanded form overlaid atop the carousel. After a predefined period of time has elapsed, the UI element may transition to a collapsed form. If the UI element is selected, the user may be navigated to the end of the carousel where a statically-positioned presentation of the UI element is presented. A search may be conducted from the statically-positioned presentation. The search may be performed against the set of items associated with the user profile.
US11714534B2
A map displaying method, an electronic device, a storage medium and a terminal device are provided, and relate to the technical fields of computer vision and intelligent transportation. The method includes: receiving a trigger operation in a case that a terminal device displays a map of a first area, and determining a screen coordinate of the trigger point, where the map of the first area is a map where a first position is at a center area; determining a coordinate of a ground projection point corresponding to the trigger point based on the screen coordinate of the trigger point; switching a currently displayed map of the first area to a map of a second area, in a case that the ground projection point falls within the first area, wherein the map of the second area is a map where the ground projection point is at a center area.
US11714532B2
A server device may be configured to obtain image data that depicts a set of objects associated with a user. The server device may be configured to process, using at least one image analysis technique, the image data to determine identification information for each object of the set of objects. The server device may be configured to obtain exchange data related to at least one exchange log of the user and may be configured to determine, based on the exchange data and the identification information, estimated exchange information for each object of a subset of objects of the set of objects. The server device may be configured to determine, based on the estimated exchange information, estimated assessment information for each object of the subset of objects and may be configured to generate, based on the estimated assessment information, presentation information for display via a graphical user interface (GUI).
US11714526B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating content item to virtual meeting associations based upon whether content items are accessed during a virtual meeting. During a virtual meeting, a monitoring application executing on a personal computing device detects a user-input-triggered access of a content item during a virtual meeting. In response to detecting the user-input-triggered access of the content item, the monitoring application displays, in a computer graphical user interface, an indication that the monitoring application is associating the content item with the virtual meeting. The monitoring application stores content-item-to-virtual-meeting association data that associates the content item with the virtual meeting.
US11714524B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for navigating an avatar based on time zones. A global event is identified that begins at a particular time on a given date; a sequential list of time zones associated with a plurality of geographical locations is retrieved; and a current time at a first time zone of the sequential list of time zones is determined to have reached the particular time on the given date. In response, an avatar is generated for display on a map at a first of the plurality of geographical locations associated with the first time zone and is navigated to a second geographical location when a current time at a second time zone, associated with the second geographical location, reaches the particular time on the given date.
US11714523B2
In an exemplary embodiment, user input is received, a selected portion of a digital image is identified based on the user input, a data instance is selected, and a tag is applied to the selected portion of the digital image. The applied tag provides an association between the selected portion of the digital image and the data instance. In certain examples, a visual indicator representative of the tag is provided for display together with the tagged digital image.
US11714521B1
Virtual buttons for dynamically displaying giveaway information are disclosed. The virtual buttons may include an interactive body, and dynamic information displayed within the body. The dynamic information may be associated with a giveaway. The dynamic information may include a first set of information relating to the giveaway and displayed prior to a user's interaction with the interactive body, a second set of information relating to the giveaway and displayed after the user's interaction with the interactive body, and a third set of information relating to the giveaway and displayed after the giveaway has ended.
US11714518B2
A process and method for generation of 3D interactive rendition of space by first digitizing the space as a TXLD file from point clouds, 2-D floor plans, photographs and/or videos, and/or elevation views then processing the file to create 3D interactive renditions of the space using virtual reality, augmented reality, or mixed reality technologies, constantly growing and evolving 3D library of digital representations of both fixtures and non-fixtures based on real products, automating and personalizing product selection and placement for a given user and target environment, using an ensemble recommendation system, which relies on weighted averages of probabilistic, content-based, clustering, and collaborative filtering models, among other suitable models that may be added to the ensemble in the future. If a medium does not necessitate 3D model creation of the environment the products are automatically placed in the medium view based on the encoded position in the TXLD file.
US11714511B2
An active stylus is provided, which can reduce battery power consumption and reduce the time required for its signal transmission. A position detection device includes a tablet and the stylus having a built-in power source, which are capable of bi-directional transmission and reception of signals through capacitive coupling therebetween. The tablet is configured to transmit a trigger signal US_trg and then transmit a command signal US_cmd to the stylus. The trigger signal US_trg causes the stylus to start its command information receiver to receive the command signal US_cmd including information for controlling the stylus.
US11714509B2
An optical assembly including a reflectance-based sensor emitting light into a detection plane and detecting reflections of the emitted light, reflected by an object located in the detection plane, a light redirector positioned away from the sensor redirecting light emitted by the sensor into one or more spatial planes parallel to the detection plane and, when the object is located in the one or more spatial planes, redirecting light reflected by the object into the detection plane, and a processor controlling light emitted by the sensor and receiving outputs from the sensor, and configured such that when an object passes through one or more of the spatial planes, the processor identifies both the spatial planes through which the object passes, and the location of the object within the spatial planes through which it passes, based on the received outputs and the position of the light redirector relative to the sensor.
US11714506B2
An input system is provided which is capable of mitigating certain inconveniences that may arise due to data processing performed by a host processor. The input system includes a first signal path, a second signal path, and a switch section. The first signal path is used for transmitting a signal from a sensor controller to a display controller through the host processor. The second signal path is used for transmitting a signal from the sensor controller to the display controller without passing the signal through the host processor. The switch section is configured to be able to switch between the first signal path and the second signal path.
US11714504B2
A display device includes a first substrate, pixel substrates, first connection lines, second connection lines, and a touch electrode. The pixel substrates are disposed on the first substrate, and are spaced apart from each other along a first direction and along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first connection lines connect pixel substrates disposed along the first direction. The second connection lines connect pixel substrates disposed along the second direction. The touch electrode is disposed between the pixel substrates in an area adjacent to areas in which the first connection lines and the second connection lines are disposed.
US11714494B2
An external device, such as a head-mountable device, can be operated with a ring input device worn on a finger of a user. Such devices can be operated to provide inputs that are received and acted upon by the external device. The inputs can be provided as rotating, tilting, and/or sliding at least a portion of the ring input device with another finger of the user. The ring input device can provide feedback to the user as confirmation that the inputs are being received. A feedback system can also be operated to limit or otherwise provide a force on the finger and/or another portion of the hand to simulate sensations perceived by the user.
US11714492B2
An acoustic field may be produced from a transducer array having known relative positions and orientations In this acoustic field, one or more control points may be defined. An amplitude may be assigned to the control point. Mid-air haptic effect for a virtual object on a human body part may be generated by moving the control point in a single closed curve comprising a plurality of curve segments. The single closed curve traverses at least one location where the human body part intersects with the virtual object. Additionally, a user may interact with virtual three-dimensional content using the user's hands while a tracking system monitoring the user's hands, a physics engine updates the properties of the virtual three-dimensional content and a haptic feedback system provides haptic information to the user.
US11714489B2
Electromechanical polymer (EMP) actuators are used to create haptic effects on a user interface deface, such as a keyboard. The keys of the keyboard may be embossed in a top layer to provide better key definition and to house the EMP actuator. Specifically, an EMP actuator is housed inside an embossed graphic layer that covers a key of the keyboard. Such a keyboard has a significant user interface value. For example, the embossed key provides the tactile effect of the presence of a key with edges, while allowing for the localized control of haptic vibrations. For such applications, an EMP transducer provides high strains, vibrations or both under control of an electric field. Furthermore, the EMP transducer can generate strong vibrations. When the frequency of the vibrations falls within the acoustic range, the EMP transducer can generate audible sound, thereby functioning as an audio speaker.
US11714485B2
Various embodiments disclose an electronic device including a camera, at least one mmWave antenna module, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: acquire image information of a surrounding environment via the camera; acquire signal information resulting from a signal emitted from the at least one mmWave antenna module by the surrounding environment; and track a position of the user, based on at least one of the image information acquired via the camera and the signal information acquired via the at least one mmWave antenna module. Various other embodiments derived from the specification are possible.
US11714480B2
A voltage regulator circuit included in a computer system may generate a voltage level on a power supply signal using a source power supply signal and based initial values of one or more operation parameters derived from wafer-level test data. One or more operation characteristics of the voltage regulator circuit may be sampled, by a measurement circuit, at multiple time points to generated measurement data. A control circuit may adapt operation of the voltage regulator circuit based on the measurement data.
US11714472B2
A system for providing power over Ethernet emergency lighting is disclosed. The system includes a rechargeable battery pack that is charged without interfering with data signals present on a power over Ethernet link that provides normal lighting. The system includes a power loss monitor for monitoring the presence of normal lighting power present on a power over Ethernet link without interference.
US11714471B2
A system includes a programmable logic device (PLD) and a processor. The processor determines sets of power values associated with respective portions of a plurality of portions of the PLD. The processor also determines a temperature value for each portion of the plurality of portions based on the sets of power values and platform data associated with the PLD. Additionally, the processor generates a power map indicative of an expected amount of power for each portion of the plurality of portions based on the sets of power values. Furthermore, the processor generates a heat map indicative of an expected temperature value for each portion of the plurality of portions.
US11714467B2
An immersion cooling tank includes a tank body and a liquid flow tube. The tank body holds a coolant and an electronic device. The tank body defines an inlet and an outlet. The inlet and the outlet are respectively located at opposite ends of the electronic device for inputting and outputting the coolant. The coolant flows through the electronic device. The liquid flow tube includes at least one adjuster. The liquid flow tube is located inside the tank body and coupled to at least one of the inlet or the outlet. The at least one adjuster faces the electronic device for controlling an amount of the coolant flowing in or out of the tank body.
US11714464B2
A tray assembly for positioning data storage devices is disclosed. The tray assembly includes a base, a backplane circuit board coupled to the base, an electrical connector coupled to the backplane circuit board, a first support bracket coupled to the base and moveable with respect to the base and the backplane circuit board, and a second support bracket coupled to the base. The second support bracket opposes the first support bracket and is moveable towards and away from the first support bracket to adjust a distance between the first support bracket and the second support bracket.
US11714461B2
This disclosure relates to a folding module and a foldable electronic device. A first protrusion and a first sliding slot are provided between a drive portion and a first connection member. A second protrusion and a second sliding slot are provided between the drive portion and a second connection member. A first drive spring and a second drive spring press against the drive portion. In a process in which the first support member folds or unfolds relative to the second support member, folding or unfolding can be implemented provided that the first support member and the second support member rotate by a relatively small angle, so that a speed of folding or unfolding of the first support member relative to the second support member is increased.
US11714460B2
A slide rail mechanism for a retractable screen structure includes a holder assembly including a holder; and a slide rail assembly including a fixed seat fixedly coupled to the holder, a sliding member coupled to a flexible display screen of the retractable screen structure and arranged on the fixed seat and slidable along a first direction, and an elastic assembly having a first end coupled to the fixed seat and a second end coupled to the sliding member. The second end of the elastic assembly and the flexible display screen are driven to move together when the sliding member slides along the first direction relative to the fixed seat.
US11714444B2
A bandgap current reference circuit includes a bandgap core circuit and an error amplifier. The bandgap core circuit is configured to generate a zero temperature coefficient bandgap current. The bandgap core circuit includes a bipolar transistor. The bipolar transistor is configured to pass a current that is proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT current). The error amplifier is coupled to the bandgap core circuit and includes a bipolar differential input pair. The bipolar differential input pair is configured to ensure that the PTAT current is flowing in the bipolar transistor.
US11714439B2
A supply circuit has a first and a second terminal for connecting an accumulator, a third and a fourth terminal for connecting at least one battery, and an output terminal. A voltage regulator is connected to the first terminal on the input side and to a fifth terminal on the output side. An undervoltage detection circuit is adapted to activate the voltage regulator when a voltage at the first terminal is greater than a threshold voltage. A reverse polarity protection device is coupled between the third terminal and the output terminal. A blocking diode is coupled between the fifth terminal and the output terminal.
US11714437B2
A variable reference voltage source that generates a variable reference voltage corresponding to setting data set from outside includes a control unit including a calibration control unit that controls operation for acquiring calibration data including calibration values of an offset voltage and a predetermined unit voltage of a determiner, which determines magnitudes of two voltages, and an output control unit that controls operation for generating, based on the calibration data, a variable reference voltage corresponding to the setting data set from the outside, a reference voltage unit that outputs a reference voltage, and an integrated-voltage generating unit that repeats, when the calibration control unit controls the operation, an integrating operation until an integrated voltage obtained by integrating at least two or more kinds of unit voltages becomes equal to the reference voltage and outputs, when the output control unit controls the operation, the variable reference voltage corresponding to the setting data.
US11714434B2
A gas safety device includes flow path, shutoff valve that shuts off flow path, flow rate measurement unit that measures a flow rate of gas, gas-side absolute pressure sensor that measures absolute pressure of the gas, atmosphere-side absolute pressure sensor that measures absolute pressure of atmospheric pressure, and pressure value transition detector that detects a transition state of the absolute pressure measured by gas-side absolute pressure sensor. Further provided are sensor drive controller that controls driving of atmosphere-side absolute pressure sensor in accordance with a value of pressure transition in pressure value transition detector, and gas pressure determination unit that calculates gas supply pressure from a difference between pressure values measured when the two sensors are driven. Control circuit is further provided to shut off flow path with shutoff valve when determining anomaly from a flow rate measured by flow rate measurement unit and gas supply pressure calculated by gas pressure determination unit.
US11714432B2
An observed operational state can include an operational state of one or more system devices. A sensor can emit, in response to a detected observable condition reflective of a given operational state, a simulated signal reflective of a different operational state as a proxy for the detected condition. A controller receiving such a proxy signal can, at least partially responsively to the proxy signal, issue a command corresponding to the given operational state. An electro-mechanical actuator can be selectively activatable responsive to the command.
US11714429B2
A vehicle to transport a first drone and a second drone includes a controller and a storage unit. The storage unit is configured to store a plurality of package containers. The controller is configured to initiate movement of a package container from the storage unit to the first drone and to initiate coupling of a first electromechanical interface of a plurality of electromechanical interfaces of the package container to the first drone. The controller is also configured to release the first drone from the vehicle with instructions for the first drone to move the package container to a package container reception point configured to couple to a second electromechanical interface of the plurality of electromechanical interfaces. The second drone is configured to provide data to the first drone. The data is related to a route from the vehicle to the package container reception point.
US11714423B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein are directed to performing segmentation on voxels representing three-dimensional data to identify static and dynamic objects. LIDAR data may be captured by a perception system for an autonomous vehicle and represented in a voxel space. Operations may include determining a drivable surface by parsing individual voxels to determine an orientation of a surface normal of a planar approximation of the voxelized data relative to a reference direction. Clustering techniques can be used to grow a ground plane including a plurality of locally flat voxels. Ground plane data can be set aside from the voxel space, and the remaining voxels can be clustered to determine objects. Voxel data can be analyzed over time to determine dynamic objects. Segmentation information associated with ground voxels, static object, and dynamic objects can be provided to a tracker and/or planner in conjunction with operating the autonomous vehicle.
US11714416B2
The disclosed subject matter includes a method and system for navigating an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), that include: generating, based on the scanning output data, a first map comprising a first group of cells and characterized by a first size; generating, based on the scanning output data, a second map representing an area smaller than that of the first map comprising a second group of cells, which are characterized by a second size being smaller than the first size; wherein each cell in the first group of cells and the second group of cells is classified to a class selected from at least two classes, comprising traversable and non-traversable, wherein the second part at least partly overlaps the first part; navigating the UGV based on data deduced from crossing between cells in the first map and second map.
US11714407B2
A method of targeting, which involves capturing a first video of a scene about a potential targeting coordinate by a first video sensor on a first aircraft; transmitting the first video and associated potential targeting coordinate by the first aircraft; receiving the first video on a first display in communication with a processor, the processor also receiving the potential targeting coordinate; selecting the potential targeting coordinate to be an actual targeting coordinate for a second aircraft in response to viewing the first video on the first display; and guiding a second aircraft toward the actual targeting coordinate; where positive identification of a target corresponding to the actual targeting coordinate is maintained from selection of the actual targeting coordinate.
US11714401B2
A system includes an article supply location, wherein the article supply location includes a plurality of articles to be sorted, first and second transport vehicles, each having a first position in which an article is stowed about the vehicle and a second position in which the article is deposited into a proximal container. And a control system. The control system is configured to receive an order for a plurality of disparate articles, determine one destination container of a plurality of destination containers to direct the transport vehicle to deposit a selected article, direct the first transport vehicle to transport a selected article to the destination container and deposit the article by manipulation of the first transport vehicle from the first position to the second position for deposit of the selected article in the destination container.
US11714397B2
A method for detecting a fault includes: receiving a plurality of time-series sensor data obtained in one or more manufacturing processes of an electronic device; arranging the plurality of time-series sensor data in a two-dimensional (2D) data array; providing the 2D data array to a convolutional neural network model; identifying a pattern in the 2D data array that correlates to a fault condition using the convolutional neural network model; providing a fault indicator of the fault condition in the one or more manufacturing processes of the electronic device; and determining that the electronic device includes a fault based on the fault indicator. The 2D data array has a dimension of an input data to the convolutional neural network model.
US11714394B2
A computer-implemented system and method for configuring a plurality of field devices enables a user to perform both device parameter editing and marking device parameters for bulk transfer in a simple an easy manner. The system and method provide a single application or utility that enables a user to view and make configuration changes as well as to view and change bulk transfer status for individual field device parameters while providing the user contextual information regarding the field device components to which the field device parameters belong or relate. The system and method provide the user with typical or standard configuration screens that enable the user to perform configuration activities in a simple and well-known format, but that include contextual indications of the various field device components to which the displayed field device parameters relate. This functionality enables the user to view and change the bulk transfer status of the individual parameters, without needing to go to a separate application or screen.
US11714393B2
A controller includes a processing circuit comprising one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include determining a gradient of an objective function with respect to a constraint variable used to define a constraint on a control process that uses the objective function and modifying the constraint variable to have a modified value in response to determining that a trigger condition is satisfied. The trigger condition is based on the gradient. The operations include performing the control process subject to the constraint using the modified value of the constraint variable and operating equipment in accordance with a result of the control process.
US11714368B2
An image forming apparatus includes a heating rotary member, a pressure rotary member, a nip portion formed by the rotary members, a temperature adjustment control section controlling a temperature of the heating rotary member to a target temperature, a cleaning web removing toner adhering to the heating rotary member, and a controller selectively executing one of a cleaning mode and a non-cleaning mode. A first basis weight and a second basis weight greater than the first predetermined basis weight are set, in a job that mixedly uses recording media with the first and second basis weights. When the controller executes the non-cleaning mode, the temperature adjustment control section sets a target temperature of a recording medium with a basis weight less than or equal to the first basis weight to a temperature lower than a target temperature of the recording medium in the cleaning mode.
US11714361B2
Toners are provided which may comprise toner particles, a colorant, and optionally, a wax, wherein the toner particles comprise a resin comprising a polymerization product of reactants comprising a dioxane/dioxolane monomer and a vinyl co-monomer, wherein the dioxane/dioxolane monomer is an ester of (meth)acrylic acid with an alcohol comprising a dioxane moiety, an ester of (meth)acrylic acid with an alcohol comprising a dioxolane moiety, or both.
US11714350B2
A method includes placing a photomask having a contamination on a surface thereof in a plasma processing chamber. The contaminated photomask is plasma processed in the plasma processing chamber to remove the contamination from the surface. The plasma includes oxygen plasma or hydrogen plasma.
US11714341B2
A projection device includes at least one heat source and a heat dissipation module. The heat dissipation module is connected to the heat source and is configured to dissipate heat energy generated by the heat source. The heat dissipation module includes a tank, at least one radiator, at least one cold plate, a cooling fluid, and a connection pipe. The connection pipe connects the tank, the radiator, and the cold plate, so that the cooling fluid flows in the heat dissipation module. The tank includes a pressure sensing device configured to measure a liquid level of the cooling fluid in the tank. Also, a tank is provided. The projection device provided in the disclosure can learn the liquid level of the tank in real-time, and the design cost is low.
US11714336B2
A camera module includes a first lens barrel configured to receive one or more lens groups, a second lens barrel coupled to the first lens barrel and configured to support a front lens disposed on an object side of the one or more lens groups, an energy generating unit configured to contact the second lens barrel and configured to supply thermal energy to the second lens barrel, and a barrel holder coupled to the first lens barrel and configured to accommodate the energy generating unit.
US11714335B2
An electronic device includes a body frame formed by mating first to third members. The first and second members each include first to third mating surfaces. The first and second mating surfaces face corresponding surfaces in a first direction and the third mating surfaces face each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first to third members each include fourth to sixth mating surfaces. Between the first and second members and the third member, the fourth and fifth mating surfaces face corresponding surfaces in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, and the sixth mating surfaces face each other in the second direction. Microstructures for a liquid repellency are provided on at least one of the first to third mating surfaces and at least one of the fourth to sixth mating surfaces.
US11714334B2
An automatic focus apparatus for a camera module includes a voice coil motor and a driving unit. The voice coil motor includes a frame, a moving member with a lens, and a magnetic member. The magnetic member is positioned at a side wall of the moving member, the driving unit is positioned at a side plate of the frame. A magnetic field is generated by the driving unit and the magnetic member, the magnetic field drives the moving member with the lens to move, to achieve automatic focus.
US11714327B2
A non-light-emitting variable transmission device can include an active stack; a transparent conductive layer overlying the active stack; an antireflective layer overlying the transparent conductive layer and defining a hole; and a bus bar comprising a conductive tape that extends into the hole and contacts the transparent conductive layer. Proper selection of materials and design of a bus bar can allow an electrical connection to be made to the transparent conductive layer without the need to cut an underlying transparent conductive layer. A method of forming the non-light-emitting variable transmission device can include patterning the antireflective layer to define the hole that extends to the transparent conductive layer. Improved control in patterning allows the antireflective layer to be relatively thin and not remove too much of the underlying transparent conductive layer.
US11714309B2
Disclosed is an LCD device which realizes decreased thickness, simplified process, and decreased cost by using a common electrode for formation of electric field to drive liquid crystal as a sensing electrode, and removing a touch screen from an upper surface of the liquid crystal panel, the LCD device comprising gate and data lines crossing each other to define plural pixels on a lower substrate; a pixel electrode in each of the plural pixels; plural common electrode blocks patterned at the different layer from the pixel electrode, wherein the common electrode blocks, together with the pixel electrode, forms an electric field, and senses a user's touch; and plural sensing lines electrically connected with the common electrode blocks, wherein, if the sensing line is electrically connected with one of the common electrode blocks, the sensing line is insulated from the remaining common electrode blocks.
US11714294B2
Provided is a camera module which includes a cover, a base connected with the cover, and a lens carrier provided between the cover and the base, the camera module including: an OIS body provided inside the cover; a first ball bearing interposed between the cover and the OIS body; an AF driver provided between the OIS body and the lens carrier; and an OIS driver for moving the OIS body in perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens carrier. Since the first ball bearing is supported while being in direct contact with an inner ceiling of the cover and an upper surface of the OIS body, the overall module thickness may be formed to be thinner than a structure in which the ball bearing is provided below the OIS body.
US11714289B2
A multi-image display apparatus includes a light source configured to emit a first wavelength light, a second wavelength light, and a third wavelength light, a spatial light modulator configured to modulate the first wavelength light, the second wavelength light, and the third wavelength light to form a first image including a first color holographic image, a second color holographic image, and a third color holographic image, a polarization selective lens configured to focus the first image having only a first polarization component and transmit a second image having only a second polarization component without refraction, the second image being provided to the polarization selective lens along a different path from the first image, wherein chromatic aberration of the polarization selective lens is offset by adjusting a depth of the first color holographic image, the second color holographic image, and the third color holographic image.
US11714281B2
Disclosed herein is an image generation device including: a space construction section that constructs a virtual world to be displayed on a head-mounted display; an image generation section that generates, based on a position and a posture of a head of a player wearing the head-mounted display, a display image representing the virtual world in a field of view corresponding to a point of view of the player, and causes the head-mounted display to display the generated display image; and a visitor information acquisition section that acquires information regarding presence of a visitor without a head-mounted display in a space where the player is able to move. While the visitor is present, the space construction section displays an object indicating the presence of the visitor at a corresponding position in the virtual world.
US11714280B2
Augmented reality eyewear devices allow users to experience a version of our “real” physical world augmented with virtual objects. Augmented reality eyewear may present a user with a graphical user interface that appears to be in the airspace directly in front of the user thereby encouraging the user to interact with virtual objects in socially undesirable ways, such as by making sweeping hand gestures in the airspace in front of the user. Anchoring various input mechanisms or the graphical user interface of an augmented reality eyewear application to a wristwatch may allow a user to interact with an augmented reality eyewear device in a more socially acceptable manner. Combining the displays of a smartwatch and an augmented reality eyewear device into a single graphical user interface may provide enhanced display function and more responsive gestural input.
US11714268B2
A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having positive refractive power; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group and a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied. The variable magnification optical system further includes a V lens group GV having negative refractive power and being moved to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and an F lens group GF having positive refractive power and being moved along the optical axis upon focusing from an infinitely distant object to a close object, the V lens group GV being disposed on the more object side than the F lens group GF. Thereby, it is possible to provide the compact variable magnification optical system with a high zoom ratio and high performance, an optical apparatus therewith and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system.
US11714266B2
The disclosure discloses a projection lens, which sequentially includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens from an image source side to an imaging side along an optical axis. The first lens has a positive refractive power, and a surface near the image source side thereof is a convex surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power or negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power is a meniscus lens of which a surface near the imaging side is a convex surface. An image source height ImgH of the projection lens and a total effective focal length f of the projection lens meet ImgH/f<0.2.
US11714250B2
Disclosed is a welding structure (20) for an optical module (300) and an application thereof, wherein the optical module (300) comprises at least a first module assembly and at least a second module assembly, the welding structure (20) comprises at least a first welding part (21) and at least a second welding part (22), wherein the welding part (21) is provided on the first module assembly and the second welding part (22) is provided on the second module assembly, and after the first welding part (21) is welded to the second welding part (22), the first module assembly and the second module assembly are fixed relative to each other.
US11714248B2
Embodiments of a bundled optical fiber cable are provided. Included therein is a central cable unit spanning a first length from a first end to a second end. The central cable unit has a first plurality of optical fibers disposed within a cable jacket. The bundled optical fiber cable also includes at least one optical fiber drop cable wound around the cable jacket of the central cable unit. Each optical fiber drop cable spans a second length from a first end to a second end. Further, each optical fiber drop cable includes one or more optical fibers disposed within a buffer tube. The first end of each optical fiber drop cable is substantially coterminal with the first end of the central cable unit, and the first length spanned by the central cable unit is longer than the second length spanned by each of the optical fiber drop cables.
US11714247B2
An optical splitting apparatus includes an enclosure, an even optical splitter and an uneven optical splitter that are disposed in the enclosure. A light inlet and a plurality of light outlets are disposed on the enclosure, and fiber adapters are disposed on the light outlets. The light inlet, the even optical splitter, the uneven optical splitter, and the light outlets are connected, so that optical paths are formed between the light inlet and the light outlets by using the even optical splitter and the uneven optical splitter. The light inlet is connected to at least one of a light input end of the even optical splitter and a light input end of the uneven optical splitter, and the fiber adapter on the light outlet is connected to at least one of a light output end of the even optical splitter and a light output end of the uneven optical splitter.
US11714238B2
A wavelength division multiplexing filter comprises: a first multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer comprising a plurality of first-order Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and a second multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer comprising a plurality of first-order Mach-Zehnder interferometers; wherein the first multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer and the second multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer are included in a group of multiple multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometers arranged within a binary tree arrangement, the binary tree arrangement comprising: a first set of a plurality of multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometers, the first set including the first multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and having an associated spectral response with a first spacing between adjacent passbands, and a second set of at least twice as many multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometers as in the first set, the second set including the second multi-order Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and having an associated spectral response with a second spacing between adjacent passbands that is twice the first spacing.
US11714235B2
A first waveguide and a second waveguide including a first layer and a second layer are provided. In a first longitudinal segment, the first layer gradually approaches a first waveguide in a first transverse direction. In a second longitudinal segment, the first and second waveguides are longitudinally oriented. In a third longitudinal segment, the first layer includes a length portion having a width in the first transverse direction that gradually decreases along the third longitudinal segment, and the second layer includes a length portion having a width in the first transverse direction that gradually increases along the third longitudinal segment.
US11714232B2
The present invention concerns an optical coupling device including at least one supporting layer comprising a first support wall and a second support wall. The at least one supporting layer comprises at least one bridging waveguide for coupling electromagnetic radiation to and from an optical resonator or optical device, the at least one bridging waveguide extending between the first support wall and the second support wall.
US11714213B2
Embodiments of this disclosure pertain to articles that exhibit scratch-resistance and improved optical properties. In some examples, the article exhibits a color shift of about 2 or less, when viewed at an incident illumination angle in the range from about 0 degrees to about 60 degrees from normal under an illuminant. In one or more embodiments, the articles include a substrate, and an optical film disposed on the substrate. The optical film includes a scratch-resistant layer and an optical interference layer. The optical interference layer may include one or more sub-layers that exhibit different refractive indices. In one example, the optical interference layer includes a first low refractive index sub-layer and a second a second high refractive index sub-layer. In some instances, the optical interference layer may include a third sub-layer.
US11714203B2
According to an aspect, an active matrix substrate of an X-ray imaging panel includes: an active matrix substrate having a pixel region including a plurality of pixels; and a scintillator that converts X-rays projected onto the X-ray imaging panel to scintillation light. The plurality of pixels include respective photoelectric conversion elements. The active matrix substrate further includes a first planarizing film that covers the photoelectric conversion elements, is formed from an organic resin film, and has a plurality of first contact holes and a first wiring line that is formed in the first contact holes and in a layer upper than the first planarizing film and connected to the photoelectric conversion elements within the first contact holes.
US11714202B2
Disclosed herein are variations of megavoltage (MV) detectors that may be used for acquiring high resolution dynamic images and dose measurements in patients. One variation of a MV detector comprises a scintillating optical fiber plate, a photodiode array configured to receive light data from the optical fibers, and readout electronics. In some variations, the scintillating optical fiber plate comprises one or more fibers that are focused to the radiation source. The diameters of the fibers may be smaller than the pixels of the photodiode array. In some variations, the fiber diameter is on the order of about 2 to about 100 times smaller than the width of a photodiode array pixel, e.g., about 20 times smaller. Also disclosed herein are methods of manufacturing a focused scintillating fiber optic plate.
US11714200B2
Systems and methods for a single-difference based pre-filter of measurements for use in solution separation framework are provided. In certain embodiments, a navigation system includes at least one receiver configured to receive a plurality of signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitters. The navigation system further includes a processing unit operatively coupled to the navigation system, the processor configured to identify a plurality of measurements associated with the plurality of transmitters. Additionally, executable instructions cause the processing unit to calculate an auxiliary navigation solution based on a calculated single difference between the plurality of measurements; calculate one or more single difference residuals for the auxiliary navigation solution; perform statistical tests on the one or more single difference residuals; and to identify a set of measurements in the plurality of measurements for use in a solution separation method based on the statistical tests.
US11714197B2
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and methods for tracking patients that suffer from dementia. The disclosed apparatus is a wearable device capable of micro-tracking through Bluetooth Low Energy technology and capable of macro-tracking through GPS technology. The device may additionally include sensors to monitor other information such as the health of the patient or the patient's surrounding environment. The disclosed systems utilize the disclosed device in an overall system for tracking patients. These systems teach how the device interacts with the other components of the system (e.g., signal beacons, wireless transmitters, a central processing unit, mobile computing devices) to provide an integrated system to tracking the location and monitoring the well being of the patient. Finally, methods for tracking patients that use the disclosed devices and systems are disclosed.
US11714192B2
The angle of a trailer with respect to a tow vehicle is an important parameter to the stability of the vehicle and trailer. A tow vehicle pulling a trailer in a straight line is generally more stable than when the vehicle is turning. While turning, the angle between the tow vehicle and the trailer is not a straight line but is another angle depending on how sharply the tow vehicle is turning. To safely operate a vehicle towing a trailer, for a given steering input and speed, there is a maximum angle between the tow vehicle and trailer whereby exceeding the angle causes instability and may cause the trailer or tow vehicle to roll over or jackknife. Accordingly, the angle between the trailer and tow vehicle must be determined to ensure the vehicle and trailer will continue to be in control.
US11714189B2
An aerial vehicle system for mapping an object buried in a subterranean surface, the aerial vehicle system including an aerial vehicle, an electronic sensor, a processor, and a memory. The memory includes instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the system to receive a first input data set by the electronic sensor, the first input data set based on an electromagnetic signal and geographic location data, generate a raw image based on the first input data set, and compare the raw image to a calibration data set, the calibration data set based on material calibration data. The material calibration data is based on unique spectral reflection patterns of an object in a controlled environment at predefined heights and subterranean conditions.
US11714185B2
A sensor-cluster apparatus, in which a sensor configured to detect and collect external environment information is mounted in a case. The sensor-cluster apparatus includes a body member on which one kind or more of sensors are mounted on one surface thereof, a case in which an inner space is provided, and one surface thereof is opened to define an opening and on which the body member is mounted so that each of the sensors is exposed to the opening, and a position control device mounted inside the case to adjust a mounting position or a mounting angle of the body member.
US11714183B2
An apparatus including a transmitter including a pulsed Radio Frequency (RF) source coupled to an antenna. A receiver includes an amplifier coupled to the antenna. A controller is configured to adjust one or more durations of a ranging cycle of the apparatus, wherein the ranging cycle includes a first duration of a gated mode and a second duration of a non-gated mode. The gated mode blinds the amplifier during a transmission of the transmitter. The non-gated mode reduces a gain of the amplifier during the transmission.
US11714173B2
A method is presented for optimizing a scan pattern of a LIDAR system on an autonomous vehicle. The method includes receiving first SNR values based on values of a range of the target, where the first SNR values are for a respective scan rate. The method further includes receiving second SNR values based on values of the range of the target, where the second SNR values are for a respective integration time. The method further includes receiving a maximum design range of the target at each angle in the angle range. The method further includes determining, for each angle in the angle range, a maximum scan rate and a minimum integration time. The method further includes defining a scan pattern of the LIDAR system based on the maximum scan rate and the minimum integration time at each angle and operating the LIDAR system according to the scan pattern.
US11714168B2
Various forms of optical circulator are disclosed. The optical circulators act on polarisation of the light to direct light between its ports. Also disclosed are systems and methods for facilitating estimation of a spatial profile of an environment based on a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) based technique. The systems and method may include or use one or more of the various forms of optical circulator. In one arrangement, the present disclosure facilitates spatial profile estimation based on directing light over one dimension, such as along the vertical direction. In another arrangement, by further directing the one-dimensionally directed light in another dimension, such as along the horizontal direction, the present disclosure facilitates spatial profile estimation based on directing light in two dimensions.
US11714165B2
A method for determining presence of an object via a vehicular radar sensing system includes providing a radar sensor having a plurality of antennas, which includes a plurality of transmitting antennas and a plurality of receiving antennas. The plurality of antennas includes a plurality of sets of antennas, each set having a V shape or an X shape, and with each of the shaped sets of antennas having an apex. A signal feed is provided to the apex of each of the shaped sets of antennas. A radar beam is transmitted via the plurality of transmitting antennas and side lobes of the transmitted radar beam are reduced via the plurality of shaped sets of antennas. An output of the receiving antennas is communicated to a processor, and the processor determines presence of one or more objects exterior the vehicle and within the field of sensing of the radar sensor.
US11714151B2
Techniques of prospectively compensating for motion of a subject being imaged by an MRI system, the MRI system comprising a plurality of magnetics components including at least one gradient coil and at least one radio-frequency (RF) coil, the techniques comprising: obtaining first spatial frequency data and second spatial frequency data by operating the MRI system in accordance with a pulse sequence, wherein the pulse sequence is associated with a sampling path that includes at least two non-contiguous portions each for sampling a central region of k-space; determining a transformation using a first image obtained using the first spatial frequency data and a second image obtained using the second spatial frequency data; correcting the pulse sequence using the determined transformation to obtain a corrected pulse sequence; and obtaining additional spatial frequency data in accordance with the corrected pulse sequence.
US11714148B2
A split cylindrical superconducting magnet system including two half magnets, each half magnet comprising superconducting magnet coils retained in an outer vacuum chamber, having a thermal radiation shield located between the magnet coils and the outer vacuum chamber, wherein the thermal radiation shield is shaped such that the axial spacing between thermal radiation shields of respective half magnets is greater at their internal diameter than at their outer diameter.
US11714142B2
Techniques for creating a low pass filter associated with a flux line are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first substrate and second substrate. A low pass filter, comprising at least one inductor and at least one capacitor can be formed, wherein respective components of or associated with the low pass filter can be formed on the first or second substrates, and wherein one or more bump bonds can extend between the substrates to connect respective components that are on respective substrates. The filter can receive an input signal via an input line and filter the signal to produce a filtered signal as output to a flux line that is in proximity to a coupler with SQUID loop and one or more flux-tunable qubits that are formed on one of the substrates. The filter can reduce electrical noise and Purcell decay associated with the flux line.
US11714140B2
A ground fault detection device includes: a detection capacitor; a switch group for switching between a first charging path connecting the battery and the detection capacitor, a second charging path connecting the battery, a negative side insulation resistance and the detection capacitor, a third charging path connecting the battery, a positive side insulation resistance and the detection capacitor, and a measurement path for measuring a charging voltage of the detection capacitor; and a controller configured to calculate the insulation resistance based on a charging voltage measured value of the detection capacitor which exists after charging each of the charging paths, wherein after measurement of the charging voltage of the second charging path, the controller is configured to cause the switch group to switch to the third charging path before switching to the first charging path.
US11714133B2
A method for estimating a property of an electrical switching device that includes an electromagnetic actuator that includes a coil. The method includes: measuring electric current flowing through the coil; measuring supply electrical voltage of a control circuit for the actuator; injecting an electric current pulse into the coil; identifying a first time corresponding to a time for which the current flowing through the coil reaches a predetermined threshold value when the current increases following the injection of the pulse; and identifying a second time corresponding to a time for which the current flowing through the coil again reaches the predetermined threshold value when the current decreases after a spike. The method further includes estimating a resistance of the coil on the basis of a ratio of a sum of the values of the voltage that are measured between the second time and the first time, to a sum of the values of the current that are measured between the second time and the first time.
US11714132B2
Presented embodiments facilitate efficient and effective diagnostic of test system operations, including temperature control of test equipment components. In one embodiment a test equipment diagnostic method includes applying a known/expected first bit pattern to a test equipment component, applying a known/expected second bit pattern to a test equipment component, and performing a test equipment temperature control analysis based upon the results of applying the known/expected first bit pattern and known/expected second bit pattern. The first bit pattern and second bit pattern have known/expected respective thermal loads and corresponding respective first known/expected/expected temperature and second known/expected/expected temperature. In one embodiment, performing a test equipment temperature control analysis includes determining if temperature control components control a temperature of the test equipment component within acceptable tolerances. In one exemplary implementation, the test equipment component is a test control component (e.g., a field programmable gate array (FPGA), etc.).
US11714128B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for testing an artificial intelligence chip test, a device and a storage medium, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence. The specific implementation solution is: the target artificial intelligence chip has multiple same arithmetic units, the method includes: obtaining scale information of the target artificial intelligence chip; determining whether the target artificial intelligence chip satisfies a test condition of an arithmetic unit array level according to the scale information; dividing all the arithmetic units into multiple same arithmetic unit arrays, and performing a DFT test on the arithmetic unit arrays, respectively, if it is determined that the test condition of the arithmetic unit array level is satisfied; performing the DFT test on the arithmetic units, respectively, if it is not determined that the test condition of the arithmetic unit array level is not satisfied.
US11714122B2
A semiconductor device and a method of testing the same are provided. A semiconductor device includes a Design Under Test (DUT), a processing core configured to execute test software to determine an optimum operating voltage of the DUT, and a protection circuit configured to block the transmission of undefined signals generated by the DUT while the processing core executes the test software.
US11714115B2
An instrument interface method and device. Two capacitors, one capacitor has one end as input of the device, connected to live line of power output of a LISN, and has other end as output of the device, connected to one test port of an oscilloscope; the other capacitor has one end as input of the device, connected to neutral line of the power output of the LISN, and has other end as output of the device, connected to another test port of the oscilloscope; without changing the LISN design, existing LISN products can be used for conducted emission test with oscilloscope-based time-domain EMI measurement instruments by means of the method and device. Said two capacitors have a capacity of <0.09 μF, which reduced the requirements of oscilloscope's A/D conversion, making low-cost oscilloscope can also be used for EMI testing.
US11714111B2
An electric circuit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes only a single amperemeter configured to measure either a positive current or a negative current through a respective measurement resistance between a respective high voltage potential and a common ground potential. The respective actual measurement resistance value of the unmeasured measurement resistance is calculated by applying a respectively calculated actual measurement resistance value of the respective measured measurement resistance, a calculated actual positive isolation resistance value, and a calculated negative isolation resistance value.
US11714109B2
Presented are one or more embodiments of a device which includes a case and a sensor device. The case includes a first indent configured to secure an electronic device, the first indent in a first side of the case, a second indent in a second side of the case opposite the first side, the second indent extending from a first edge of the case in a first direction such that second indent is open at the first edge of the case, and a securing device in the second indent. The sensor device includes an outer casing configured to slide in the first direction in the second indent and at least partially prevented from leaving the second indent by the securing device, and a sensor at least partially in the outer casing.
US11714108B2
A system current sensor module can accurately sense or measure system current flowing through a sense current resistor by shunting current through a gain-setting resistor and using an amplifier to measure a resulting voltage, with an output transistor controlled by the amplifier controlling current through the gain setting resistor in a manner that tends to keep the amplifier inputs at the same voltage. The resistors can be thermally coupled to maintain similar temperatures when a system current is flowing. The thermal coupling can include conducting heat from a first resistor layer carrying the current sense resistor to a thermal cage layer located beyond a second resistor layer carrying the gain-setting resistor. This preserves accuracy, including during aging.
US11714097B2
A system and a method are disclosed for aligning process data to a flow of material in a manufacturing process. That is, the disclosed embodiments enable tracking of material as that material travels (e.g., via a transportation mechanism such as a conveyor belt) between various processing devices in the manufacturing process. Each processing device may include one or more sensors. For example, the disclosed system and method enable tracking the same material over different manufacturing steps.
US11714087B2
The present invention derives from the unexpected finding that necroptosis is a novel biomarker and target for therapy in patients with liver failure such as acute liver failure (ALF) and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). RIPK1, MLKL or RIPK3 can be detected and quantified in serum or plasma, and used as a biomarker for outcome in ACLF and other diseases involving aberrant necroptosis. By antagonising RIPK1, MLKL or RIPK3 many of the unwanted consequences or symptoms of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) may be reduced. The present invention utilises these findings to identify and provide antagonists of RIPK1, MLKL and RIPK3 that may be used in the treatment or prevention of ACLF. The present invention utilises these findings to identify and provide antagonists of RIPK1, MLKL or RIPK3 that may be used in the treatment or prevention of aberrant necroptosis in the kidney, brain, liver or other organ of the body.
US11714082B2
A method for measuring the presence of calprotectin (S100A8/A) heterodimer in a biological sample using a particle-enhanced turbidimetric immunoassay (PETIA) based on monoclonal antibodies. The method can be adapted on automated standard analyzers and provides a reliable clinical measurement of calprotectin in faecal samples and extracts. The method is comparable to commerical two-site sandwich ELISA. The disclosed method counters spontaneous agglutination caused by calcium ions and low-molecular weight calcium-binding S100 proteins as observed with conventional PETIAs. The method can be used for measuring the presence of human calprotectin in stool, urine, serum, plasma, synovial liquid and other body liquids. Metrological traceability and high commutability with conventional immunoassays (ELISA) has been shown despite of different measurement principles used.
US11714081B2
Described herein are methods of transdifferentiating preadipocytes, populations of transdifferentiated preadipocytes, and methods of using the transdifferentiated preadipocytes.
US11714078B1
Systems for determining GW/SW interaction are provided. The systems can include: a sensing assembly comprising sensors for pressure, fluid conductivity, temperature, and transfer resistance; processing circuitry operatively coupled to the sensing assembly and configured to receive data from the sensing assembly and process the data to provide a GW/SW interaction, wherein the data includes pressure, fluid conductivity, temperature, transfer resistance data. Methods for determining GW/SW interaction are provided. The methods can include: receiving real time data including pressure, fluid conductivity, temperature, and transfer resistance; from at least some of the data received simulating the SW/GW interaction; and fitting the real time data with the simulated data to provide actual SW/GW interaction.
US11714075B2
A chemical sensor and a system and method for sensing a chemical species. The chemical sensor includes a plurality of nanofibers whose electrical impedance varies upon exposure to the chemical species, a substrate supporting and electrically isolating the fibers, a set of electrodes connected to the plurality of fibers at spatially separated points to permit the electrical impedance of the plurality of fibers to be measured, and a membrane encasing the fibers and having a thickness ranging from 50 μm to 5.0 mm. The system includes the chemical sensor, an impedance measuring device coupled to the electrodes and configured to determine an electrical impedance of the plurality of fibers, and an analyzer configured to identify the chemical species based on a change in the electrical impedance.
US11714071B2
Provided is a method of inspecting a growth quality of a graphene layer of a graphene-grown copper foil obtained by growing the graphene layer on a copper foil layer by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), the method including reacting oxygen or water molecules with the copper foil layer via a defect portion of the graphene layer, partitioning an entire region of the graphene-grown copper foil into partial regions, sequentially obtaining images of the partial regions, detecting, with respect to each of the images of the partial regions, an oxidized region where the copper foil layer is oxidized, and setting the oxidized region as a graphene defect region, and obtaining a ratio of an area of the graphene defect region to an entire area of each of the images of the partial regions.
US11714070B2
A permeative amine/acid introduction device (PAID) is placed after a conventional KOH eluent suppressed conductometric anion chromatography (SCAC) system. The PAID converts the suppressed eluites from the acid form to the corresponding salt. For example, when the analytes are acids, they are converted to the corresponding ammonium salt (NR2H+HX→NR2H2++X−) and allows very weak acids HX (pKa≥7.0) that cannot normally be detected by SCAC to be measured by a second conductivity detector following the PAID. Permeative reagent introduction is dilutionless, can be operated without pumps and provides good mixing with low band dispersion (as small as 30 μL). An exemplary amine is diethylamine (DEA), which was chosen as the amine source due to its low pKb value (pKb 3.0), high vapor pressure, and low toxicity and low odor.
US11714068B2
The disclosure provides a method for preparing exosomes using: (i) a step for ultrafiltering a sample containing at least one exosome; and (ii) a step for subjecting the sample that can be obtained from step (i) to anion exchange column chromatography.
US11714056B2
An in-line rapid impedance measurement device and methods of performing in-line rapid impedance spectroscopy including a switch network operable under a switching algorithm useful to rapidly perform targeted impedance measurements to assess state of health, defect or failure of battery packs or modules having a plurality of electrochemical cells interconnected in series or parallel and to isolate individual cells within a pack or module to distinguish between non-repeatable anomalous impedance measurements from repeatable deviant impedance measurements and identify the source of deviant impedance measurements.
