Patents Examined by Khai M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11477724
    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment comprising circuitry configured to transmit system information specific for aerial UEs, the system information specific for aerial UEs comprising assistance information for cell selection/reselection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma
  • Patent number: 11475118
    Abstract: A mobile computing device can include a processing unit, wireless communication interfaces, and a computer-readable memory including instructions executable by the processing unit to cause the device to perform various operations. The device may receive a request to access an application includes application pages that may be configured to provide functional features of the application, and in response to receiving the request, may present an authentication user interface (UI) and may detect a gesture from a user by the UI. The device may transmit the gesture to an authentication server and may receive a confirmation from the server that the user has been successfully authenticated. The device may determine a specific application page to present to the user based on the gesture by accessing mappings between the application pages and corresponding gestures. The specific application page, providing functional features, can be presented to the user by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Reinaldo Gamaliel Rivera Colon, Everardo Calamaco, Jr., Michaela Rose Cestari, Jeffrey Jason Griffin
  • Patent number: 11476861
    Abstract: An error correction method and a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TIADC) are provided. The method is applied to a TIADC that includes a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and the method includes: determining whether a current value of a codeword of a first ADC in the plurality of ADCs is within a preset range; when the current value of the codeword of the first ADC is not within the preset range, adjusting a plurality of codewords that are in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of ADCs; and controlling a clock frequency division circuit to generate, by using a plurality of adjusted codewords, a plurality of sampling clocks that are in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of ADCs. In embodiments of this application, a sampling time-period skew existing between ADCs may be adjusted by adjusting codewords corresponding to the ADCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fang Gao
  • Patent number: 11477754
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for resolving aliasing ambiguities produced when using channel state information reference signal, a sounding reference signal (SRS) or other transmission as a positioning reference signal (PRS) occupying a subset of tones of a PRS bandwidth. The aliasing ambiguity results in a plurality of different possible positioning measurements, such as time of arrival (TOA), reference signal timing difference (RSTD), or reception to transmission difference (Rx?Tx). The aliasing ambiguity may be resolved using a previous position estimate that may be used to produce an approximation of the expected positioning measurement. A position estimate may be generated using a multiple stage PRS configuration, in which one or more stages provide a coarse position estimate that has no ambiguity, which can be used to resolve the ambiguity of a more accurate position estimate resulting from the PRS signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Alexandros Manolakos, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 11476863
    Abstract: A data acquisition system comprises a signal processing chain including an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit configured to: produce a digital output from an input signal; detect a specified signal feature of the input signal; and change an operating condition of an additional circuit of the signal processing chain in response to detecting the signal feature of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Rares Andrei Bodnar, Sean Kowalik, William P. Buckley
  • Patent number: 11476860
    Abstract: A TI-ADC (50) comprising a group of sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N) is disclosed. During operation, M?2 of the sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N) are simultaneously operated for converting M respective consecutive input signal samples of the TI-ADC (50) from an analog to a digital representation. The total number of sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N) in the group is M+N, N?1. The TI-ADC (50) comprises error-estimation circuitry (60) for estimating errors of the sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N). Furthermore, the TI-ADC (50) comprises a control circuit (55) configured to, for each input signal sample, assign which sub-ADC (A1-AM+N) is to operate on that input signal sample. The control circuit (55) is configured to, for sub-ADCs (Ak1) in a first subset of the group of sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N), which are subject to error estimation by the error-estimation circuitry (60), perform the assignment according to a first scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lars Sundström, Mattias Palm, Roland Strandberg
  • Patent number: 11469769
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for a data sampler with one or more capacitive digital-to-analog converters (DACs) for adjusting a threshold voltage range of the data sampler. According to some embodiments, two or more capacitive DACs can be used to set a threshold voltage for a data sampler and, by doing so, serve as a trigger mechanism for the data sampler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis-Francois Tanguay, Jean-Francois Delage, Guillaume Fortin
  • Patent number: 11468265
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method for discovering latent factors from data in a neural network environment. Aspects include adding, by a data noise unit of the neural network environment, noise to a set of input data; computing, by the encoder model and a set of stochastic non-linear units, a set of latent code based on the set of input data; obtaining, by decoding the latent code with a decoder model, a set of reconstructed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohit Chhabra, Martin Klinkigt, Tomokazu Murakami
  • Patent number: 11467563
    Abstract: An electronic tool for copying a plurality of settings from a first mechanical tool to a second mechanical tool comprises: a smart device having a processor, and having a non-transitory memory storing program instructions executable on the processor. The program instructions are configured, when executed on the processor, to: read the plurality of settings from the first mechanical tool; and write the plurality of settings to the second mechanical tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Linehan, Ashok Muralidhar, Manivasagan Krishna Pillay, Madhusudhana Rao R V, Nfn Habibullah
  • Patent number: 11468370
    Abstract: A communication compression method based on model weight distribution in federated learning, and belongs to the technical field of wireless communication. Based on the existing federated average idea in federated learning, counts the distribution of model weight information to be transmitted between nodes during each communication, then performs scalar quantization and compression through Lloyd-Max quantizer according to their distribution characteristics, then encodes with Huffman coding method, and finally sends the codes to the target node, thereby the minimum mean square quantization error is realized and the number of bits required for communication is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shuaishuai Guo, Shuheng Lv, Haixia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11469773
    Abstract: A literal element that has a plurality of bits is received. The plurality of bits in the literal element is divided into a first sub-literal comprising a first set of bits and a second sub-literal comprising a second set of bits. The first sub-literal is encoded using a first Huffman code tree to obtain a first sub-literal codeword; the second sub-literal is encoded using a second Huffman code tree to obtain a second sub-literal codeword. Encoded data that includes information associated with the first Huffman code tree, information associated with the second Huffman code tree, the first sub-literal codeword, and the second sub-literal codeword is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Yingquan Wu
  • Patent number: 11463101
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for continuous-time sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The continuous-time sigma-delta ADC may include a feed-forward capacitor in parallel with a current-steering excess loop delay (ELD) digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and by creating a zero in a transfer function of a Gm cell, both an ELD feedback loop settling and a main feedback loop may be recovered. As a result, the performance and stability of the continuous-time sigma-delta ADC can be achieved. Additionally, a summation node in the continuous-time sigma-delta ADC may offer flexibility in the architecture design of the continuous-time sigma-delta ADC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Chenming Zhang, Lucien Johannes Breems, Muhammed Bolatkale
  • Patent number: 11463098
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC includes a bit step selector. During testing of the ADC, the bit step selector selects a number of bits to be tested for a next analog test voltage based on digital values that are within an integer delta value of most recent digital value for a most recent analog test voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V.
    Inventors: Ankur Bal, Sri Ram Gupta, Rupesh Singh
  • Patent number: 11454726
    Abstract: A spatial approach is provided to mitigate multipath error for an indoor pedestrian localization system using broadband communication signals, such as cellular long-term evolution (LTE) carrier phase measurements. Motion of a receiver may be used to synthesize an antenna array from time-separated elements. Received data may then be combined for synthetic aperture navigation that allows for suppressing multipath error based on determination of direction-of-arrival (DOA) of the incoming communication (e.g., LTE) signals. In one embodiment, navigation observables may be determined based on determined direction of arrival.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Zak Kassas, Ali Abdallah
  • Patent number: 11455728
    Abstract: A diagnosis support device acquires medical image data representing a medical image obtained by imaging an animal as a subject with a medical image capturing device and type information representing a type which is classified by at least one of a body length or weight of the animal and to which the subject belongs, and determines presence or absence of an abnormality in the medical image of the subject based on the acquired medical image data and type information and a learned model learned in advance using a set of a plurality of pieces of the medical image data for learning and the type information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 11454710
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute information. Attribute values for at least one starting point are included in a compressed attribute information file and attribute correction values are included in the compressed attribute information file. An order for the points is determined based on a space filling curve, wherein an encoder and a decoder determine a same order for the points based on the space filling curve. Levels of detail are determined by sampling the ordered points according to different sampling parameters, and attribute values are predicted for the points in the levels of detail using the determined order. The encoder determines attribute correction values based on a comparison of the predicted values to an original value prior to compression. The decoder corrects the predicted attribute values based on received attribute correction values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Alexandros Tourapis, Jungsun Kim
  • Patent number: 11455749
    Abstract: Methods and devices for encoding a point cloud. A current node associated with a sub-volume is split into further sub-volumes, each further sub-volume corresponding to a child node of the current node, and, at the encoder, an occupancy pattern is determined for the current node based on occupancy status of the child nodes. A probability distribution is selected from among a plurality of probability distributions based on occupancy data for a plurality of nodes neighbouring the current node. The encoder entropy encodes the occupancy pattern based on the selected probability distribution to produce encoded data for the bitstream and updates the selected probability distribution. The decoder makes the same selection based on occupancy data for neighbouring nodes and entropy decodes the bitstream to reconstruct the occupancy pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Flynn, Sébastien Lasserre
  • Patent number: 11457107
    Abstract: Provided are an unread-message reminding method and apparatus, a terminal device and a storage medium. The method includes displaying, in response to receiving an activation instruction of a session interface and in a case where an unread message is present on the session interface, an unread-message reminder icon on the session interface; skipping, in response to receiving a trigger instruction of the unread-message reminder icon, to a corresponding unread message for a user to read; and updating, in real time and according to a session message received by the session interface in real time and an unread-message reading state, the unread-message reminder icon displayed on the session interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhenxing Luo
  • Patent number: 11449188
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing shared-content sessions. In some embodiments, content is shared with a group of users participating in a shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is screen-share content that is shared from one device to other participants of the shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is synchronized content for which output of the content is synchronized across the participants of the shared-content session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Taylor G. Carrigan, Marcel Van Os, Craig M. Federighi, Elliot A. Barer
  • Patent number: 11451240
    Abstract: A quad signal generator circuit generates four 2N-1 bit control signals in response to a 2N-1 bit thermometer coded signal. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit has 2N-1 unit DAC elements, with each unit DAC element including four switching circuits controlled by corresponding bits of the four 2N-1 bit control signals. Outputs of the 2N-1 unit DAC elements are summed to generate an analog output signal. The quad signal generator circuit controls a time delay applied to clock signals relative to the 2N-1 bit thermometer coded signal and a time delay applied to the 2N-1 bit thermometer coded signal relative to the delayed clock signals in logically generating the four 2N-1 bit control signals. The analog output signal may be a feedback signal in a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit that includes a multi-bit quantization circuit operating to quantize a filtered loop signal to generate the 2N-1 bit thermometer coded signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventor: Vivek Tripathi