Patents Examined by Vu A. Le
  • Patent number: 11978509
    Abstract: A memory device includes a plurality of resistive random access memory (RRAM) cells commonly connected between a bit line (BL) and a source line (SL). Each of the RRAM cells includes a resistor, a first transistor, and a second transistor coupled to each other in series, with the resistor connected to the BL and the second transistor connected to the SL. The first transistor has a first threshold voltage, and the second transistor has a second threshold voltage, the first threshold voltage being less than the second threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Meng-Sheng Chang, Chia-En Huang, Yih Wang
  • Patent number: 11978251
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods for determining adoption and impact of regenerative farming practices. Embodiments of these methods, take satellite imagery and weather data as inputs, process those data according to methods of the present invention, and produce outputs which indicate whether a specific farming practice (for example, no-till or cover cropping) was adopted for a particular field or region for a particular season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INDIGO AG, INC.
    Inventors: Eli Kellen Melaas, Bobby Harold Braswell, Douglas Kane Bolton
  • Patent number: 11978250
    Abstract: In an approach for determining the date of planting of a crop growing in an agricultural field, a processor receives an aerial image of one or more agricultural fields in a pre-determined geographical region. A processor selects a plurality of points from the aerial image. A processor calculates a Vegetation Index of one or more crops growing at the plurality of points selected. A processor compares the Vegetation Index calculated for the one or more crops growing at the plurality of points selected to the Vegetation Index known for a plurality of historical reference signatures. A processor generates an actual signature. A processor cross-correlates the actual signature against the plurality of historical reference signatures to measure a degree of similarity. A processor identifies the one or more crops growing in the one or more agricultural fields in the pre-determined geographical region from the cross-correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Daniel Wolfson, Kevin Brown, David Alec Selby, Hamish C. Hunt
  • Patent number: 11972603
    Abstract: Provided is a diagnostic system including: a user terminal configured to take an image; and a server configured to obtain diagnosis assistance information on the basis of the image. The user terminal is configured to obtain a first photographing parameter, determine whether a pre-stored condition is satisfied, and transmit the first photographing parameter and a captured image to the server when it is determined that the pre-stored condition is satisfied. The server is configured to obtain a first verification parameter, determine whether to use the captured image as a diagnostic image which includes comparing the first verification parameter with the first photographing parameter, and obtain the diagnosis assistance information by using the diagnostic image when it is determined to use the captured image as the diagnostic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: THYROSCOPE INC.
    Inventor: Kyubo Shin
  • Patent number: 11972564
    Abstract: To provide a recording medium capable of estimating the early signs of diseases relating to amyloid ? without using a PET image, an information processing device, an information processing method, a trained model generation method, and a correlation image output device. The recording medium recording the computer program causes a computer to execute processes of: acquiring an MRI image of a subject; and inputting the acquired MRI image to a trained model that outputs a correlation image representing a correlation between a magnetic susceptibility capable of being specified on the basis of the MRI image and amyloid ? in a case where the MRI image is input, and outputting the correlation image representing the correlation between the magnetic susceptibility of the subject and amyloid ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Splink, Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Julian Brandenburg, Akihiro Okuno, Yuki Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11967126
    Abstract: A device and a computer implemented method of anomaly detection, including processing a digital representation of a signal or image with a wavelet decomposition to generate a first, second, and third plurality of decomposed representations, processing a first decomposed representation of the third plurality of decomposed representations with a first generative model to determine a first likelihood, processing a second decomposed representation of the third plurality of decomposed representations with a second generative model to determine a second likelihood, processing a second decomposed representation of the second plurality of decomposed representations with a third generative model to determine a third likelihood, processing a second decomposed representation of the first plurality of decomposed representations with a fourth generative model to determine a fourth likelihood, detecting an anomaly when at least one of the first likelihood, the second likelihood, the third likelihood and the fourth likeliho
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Dan Zhang, Robin Tibor Schirrmeister
  • Patent number: 11967364
    Abstract: Described are memory modules that support different error detection and correction (EDC) schemes in both single- and multiple-module memory systems. The memory modules are width configurable and support the different EDC schemes for relatively wide and narrow module data widths. Data buffers on the modules support the half-width and full-width modes, and also support time-division-multiplexing to access additional memory components on each module in support of enhanced EDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, John Eric Linstadt, Kenneth L. Wright
  • Patent number: 11967176
    Abstract: Provided are a facial recognition method, an electronic device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a facial recognition system. The facial recognition method includes: obtaining a first required comparison value and a second required comparison value based on a facial feature; if the first required comparison value is less than a preset comparison threshold and the second required comparison value is also less than the preset comparison threshold, re-extracting a facial feature, and matching the re-extracted facial feature against a plurality of original images separately to obtain a third required comparison value; and if the third required comparison value is greater than or equal to the preset comparison threshold, determining that the recognition is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNVIEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hui Wang
  • Patent number: 11967374
    Abstract: Circuits and methods are disclosed for voltage-mode bit line precharge for random-access memory cells. A circuit includes an array of random access memory cells; a low-impedance voltage source configured to provide a precharge voltage; and a control circuit configured to precharge a bit line of one of the random access memory cells to the precharge voltage using the low-impedance voltage source prior to reading the one of the random access memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hefei Reliance Memory Limited
    Inventor: Danut Manea
  • Patent number: 11961557
    Abstract: A memory cell is coupled between first and interconnects and includes a variable resistance element and a switching element. The variable resistance element includes first and second ferromagnetic layers and an insulating layer between the first and second ferromagnetic layers. A first circuit is configured to apply a first voltage to the first interconnect. A second circuit is configured to apply a second voltage to the second interconnect. A third circuit is configured to apply a third voltage to the second interconnect. A fourth circuit is configured to apply a fourth voltage to the first interconnect. A sense amplifier circuit is coupled to the first and second interconnects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11958201
    Abstract: Systems and methods for visuo-tactile object pose estimation are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving image data about an object and receiving depth data about the object. The method also includes generating a visual estimate of the object based on the image data and the depth data. The method further includes receiving tactile data about the object. The method yet further includes generating a tactile estimate of the object based on the tactile data. The method includes estimating a pose of the object based on the visual estimate and the tactile estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nawid Jamali, Huckleberry Febbo, Karankumar Patel, Soshi Iba, Akinobu Hayashi, Itoshi Naramura
  • Patent number: 11961583
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory chips, at least one of the memory chips including a first controller configured to be shifted to a wait state of generating a peak current, before generating the peak current in accordance with a command. The device further includes a control chip including a second controller configured to search a state of the first controller and control, based on a result of searching the state of the first controller, whether or not to issue a cancel instruction for the wait state to the first controller that has been shifted to the wait state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Sugahara, Yoshikazu Harada, Shoichiro Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11955164
    Abstract: A method for accessing memory and a memory device using the same method are provided. The method includes: coupling, by a first sense amplifier (SA) of a memory, to a memory cell of the memory to receive data from the memory cell; coupling a first terminal of a transistor of the memory to the first SA; coupling a first command terminal of a system on chip (SoC) to a second terminal of the transistor, and coupling a first input/output (I/O) terminal of the SoC to a third terminal of the transistor; and issuing, by the SoC, an access command to the second terminal of the transistor to access the data output by the first SA through the third terminal of the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventor: Ying-Te Tu
  • Patent number: 11954566
    Abstract: A data collection system includes a classification model storing unit, a model delivery unit, a classification result storing unit, an optimum model recommendation unit, and a teacher data recording unit. The model delivery unit delivers a classification model to the user environment. The classification result storing unit classifies each of the classification models on the classification model storing unit using data with a label transmitted from the user environment as an input. The classification result storing unit stores a classification result including at least one of classification correctness or a percentage of correct answers for each input data. The optimum model recommendation unit presents an appropriate classification model for the input data based on the classification result for each of the classification models. The teacher data recording unit records the input data as teacher data or test data of the classification model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ueno
  • Patent number: 11954836
    Abstract: A method, electronic device and storage medium for processing an image using depth-of-field information is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a weight matrix and a weight image based on depth-of-field data of an input image; obtaining a first horizontal summed area table corresponding to the weight matrix and a second horizontal summed area table corresponding to the weight image by performing horizontal summing operation on the weight matrix and the weight image; obtaining a first weighted blurring image corresponding to the weight matrix based on the first horizontal summed area table, and obtaining a second weighted blurring image corresponding to the weight image based on the second horizontal summed area table; and obtaining a pixel value of the pixel in a target image based on the first and second weighted blurring images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meiya Chen, Qiang Rao, Ran Zhu, Shuangshuang Yin, Piyao He
  • Patent number: 11948267
    Abstract: The device includes a database (8) storing a digital cartography (MAP) of a terrain, an acquisition unit (4) configured to acquire a digital image (IMG) of the terrain, as well as a processing unit (2) configured to receive from the acquisition unit (4) the digital image (IMG) and determine a similarity between the digital cartography (MAP) and the digital image (IMG), so as to deduce a position (POS) of said machine from a result of said similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus Defence and Space SAS, Airbus (SAS)
    Inventors: Loris Gliner, Romain Lefez, Guy Le Besnerais
  • Patent number: 11948631
    Abstract: A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, each of the plurality of memory cells having a switch element, and a data storage element connected to the switch element and containing a phis change material; and a memory controller for obtaining first read voltages from the plurality of memory cells, inputting a first write current to the plurality of memory cells, and then, obtaining second read voltages from the plurality of memory cells, wherein the memory controller compares the first read voltage of a first memory cell of the plurality of memory cells to the second read voltage of the first memory cell to determine a state of the first memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Hui Na, Mu Hui Park, Kwang Jin Lee, Yong Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 11948330
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide localization systems and methods using surface imaging. In one implementation, a raw image of a target surface is captured using at least one imager. The raw image is encoded into a template using at least one transform. The template specifies a course direction and an intensity gradient at one or more spatial frequencies of a pattern of the target surface. The template is compared to a subset of reference templates selected from a gallery stored in one or more storage media. A location of the target surface is identified when the template matches a reference template in the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew E. Last, Ricardo da Silveira Cabral, Daniel E. Potter, Paul Furgale
  • Patent number: 11948633
    Abstract: A resistive memory device includes: conductive layers and interlayer insulating layers, which are alternatively stacked; a vertical hole vertically penetrating the conductive layers and the interlayer insulating layers; a gate insulating layer disposed over an inner wall of the vertical hole; a charge trap layer disposed over an inner wall of the gate insulating layer; a channel layer disposed over an inner wall of the charge trap layer; and a variable resistance layer disposed over an inner wall of the channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Jae Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 11948340
    Abstract: An example apparatus for detecting objects in video frames includes a receiver to receive a plurality of video frames from a video camera. The apparatus also includes a first still image object detector to receive a first frame of the plurality of video frames and calculate localization information and confidence information for each potential object patch in the first frame. The apparatus further includes a second still image object detector to receive an adjacent frame of the plurality of video frames adjacent to the first frame and calculate localization information and confidence information for each potential object patch in the adjacent frame. The apparatus includes a similarity detector trained to detect paired patches between the first frame and the adjacent frame based on a comparison of the detected potential object patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Yu, Ciyong Chen, Xiaotian Guo, Yan Hao, Hui Li, Lu Li, Jianguo Pei, Zhi Yong Zhu