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26 results about "Programmable circuits" patented technology

Methods and apparatus to determine audience engagement

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example system includes: interface circuitry; programmable circuitry; and instructions to program the programmable circuitry to: obtain audio of a media presentation; obtain ambient noise in an area associated with the media presentation; determine an intensity of a difference between the audio and the ambient noise; and determine an engagement level of an audience of the media presentation based on a duration the intensity satisfies a threshold value.
Owner:THE NIELSEN CO (US) LLC

Scalable trusted platform module in programmable network interface devices

An apparatus includes a host interface, a network interface, and a programmable circuitry communicably coupled to the host interface and the network interface. The programmable circuitry can include one or more processors to implement network interface functionality, and a discrete trusted platform module (dTPM) to enable the one or more processors to establish a secure boot mechanism for the apparatus, wherein the one or more processors are to instantiate a virtual TPM (vTPM) manager that is associated with the dTPM, the vTPM manager to host vTPM instances corresponding to one or more virtualized environments hosted on at least one of the programmable circuitry or a host device communicable coupled to the apparatus.
Owner:INTEL CORP

Verification of nucleic acid amplification reaction test results

PendingCN122162195AMicrobiological testing/measurementBiostatisticsEngineeringProgrammable circuits
Systems, devices, articles, and methods for validating results of nucleic acid amplification reaction tests are disclosed. An example device includes programmable circuitry to instantiate or execute at least one of machine-readable instructions to: calculate amplitude differences between consecutive cycles of a plurality of cycles in a fluorescent signal obtained from the test; determine a sum of the amplitude differences between consecutive cycles; identify a final amplitude; identify a minimum amplitude of the plurality of cycles; determine a distance as a difference between the final amplitude and the minimum amplitude; determine a ratio of the sum to the distance; and validate a test result based on the ratio.
Owner:ABBOTT LAB INC

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for private network mobility management

ActiveUS12665664B2Network topologiesRadio transmissionPrivate networkNetwork mobility
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for private network mobility management. An example private network in a box includes interface circuitry to communicate with multi-access terrestrial network (TN) nodes and non-terrestrial network (NTN) nodes, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry. The example programmable circuitry is to generate a first mesh associated with a geographical area of the private network and a second mesh associated with the geographical area. The example programmable circuitry is also to initiate at least one of the multi-access TN nodes in alignment with the first mesh and at least one of the NTN nodes in alignment with the second mesh. Additionally, the example programmable circuitry is to facilitate communication associated with at least one user equipment within at least one of the first mesh or the second mesh using the private network.
Owner:INTEL CORP

Methods and apparatus to improve the efficiency of an artificial intelligence-based threat detection model

ActiveUS12641129B2Securing communicationEmail addressAlgorithm
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to improve the efficiency of an artificial intelligence-based threat detection model. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: obtain an email address from a group of email addresses to be considered as candidates for adding to the list of non-suspicious email addresses, determine that a domain of the email address is indicative of a non-email service providing entity, determine that the email address has a policy configured for a domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance (DMARC) record, add the email address associated to the list of non-suspicious email addresses, and cause the artificial intelligence-based threat detection model to skip an analysis of an email associated with the email address.
Owner:MCAFEE LLC

Pace pulse detection in cardiac signals

ActiveUS12635929B2SensorsDiagnostic recording/measuringEcg signalProgrammable circuits
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to detect a pace pulse in an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. An example apparatus includes programmable circuitry configured to execute instructions to: identify a leading edge of a pulse in an input signal based on an amplitude change; identify a transition time of the leading edge of the pulse; validate the leading edge of the pulse based on the amplitude change and transition time; identify a trailing edge of the pulse; determine a width of the pulse between the leading edge and the trailing edge; and validate the pulse based on the width.
Owner:TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC

Programmable circuit, integrated circuit, and electronic device

This application discloses a programmable circuit, an integrated circuit, and an electronic device. The programmable circuit comprising: a signal conversion module that converts parallel signal input from an external circuit into a serial signal; a signal configuration module that shifts the phase of the serial signal output by the signal conversion module by 0 degree or 360 degree; a first enable signal generation module that generates a first enable signal; a DDR configuration module that generates a second enable signal and sets the DDR mode of the programmable circuit; a phase monitoring module that monitors the phase of the DQS signal input from the external circuit and outputs the monitoring results; a phase adjustment module that adjusts the phase of the first enable signal generated by the first enable signal generation module based on the monitoring results input from the external circuit.
Owner:SHENZHEN PANGO MICROSYST CO LTD

Methods and apparatus to generate audience metrics for connected television

PendingUS20260181199A1Selective content distributionMediaFLOProgrammable circuits
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate audience metrics for connected television. An example system includes at least one memory, programmable circuitry, and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to obtain media access data corresponding to connected television media and a user identifier corresponding to a media access device, generate, using a machine learning model, probability values for corresponding audience demographics in a household composition corresponding to the user identifier, the probability values indicative of likelihoods that corresponding ones of the audience demographics are accessing the connected television media, determine a person-level characteristic based on the probability values of the audience demographics, the person-level characteristic corresponding to an audience member of the connected television media, and assign the media access data to the person-level characteristic.
Owner:THE NIELSEN CO (US) LLC

Backside Anti-fuses

PendingUS20260181884A1Device materialHemt circuits
A semiconductor device includes an active region on a frontside of the semiconductor. The active region includes an anti-fuse control cell including a plurality of first transistors. The semiconductor device includes a frontside metallization layer coupled with the plurality of first transistors. The semiconductor device includes a one-time-programmable circuit on a backside of the semiconductor device. The one-time-programmable circuit includes a second transistor coupled with a programing wordline (WLP) line of the anti-fuse control cell. The one-time-programmable circuit includes a third transistor coupled with a read wordline (WLR) line of the anti-fuse control cell. The semiconductor device includes a backside metallization layer coupled with the second and third transistor.
Owner:TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO LTD

A video transmission system, a video transmission apparatus, and a video reception apparatus

The application discloses a video transmission system, a video transmission device and a video receiving device, comprising a camera device, a video transmission device and a video receiving device, wherein the video transmission device is connected with the camera device and the video receiving device in communication, the video transmission device comprises a first programmable circuit module and an electro-optical conversion module, wherein the first programmable circuit module is connected with the camera device and the electro-optical conversion module in communication; and the electro-optical conversion module is connected with the video receiving device through an optical fiber, used for converting an electrical signal received from the first programmable circuit module into an optical signal suitable for optical fiber transmission, and transmitting the converted optical signal to the video receiving device through the optical fiber.
Owner:BEIJING DOSEE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

Method and apparatus for generating a pulsed waveform from a tachometer signal

PendingCN122295581AProgrammable circuitsPulse waveform
Systems, apparatuses, articles of manufacture, and methods for generating pulse waveforms from tachometer signals are disclosed. Exemplary apparatuses disclosed herein include machine-readable instructions and a programmable circuit system for performing at least one of the following operations: instantiating or executing machine-readable instructions to access a signal output by a tachometer monitoring machine having rotating components; determining a first pulse threshold candidate for the signal based on a first attribute of the signal; determining whether the first pulse threshold candidate meets a test criterion; generating a second pulse threshold candidate after determining that the first pulse threshold candidate does not meet the test criterion, the second pulse threshold candidate being based on (1) a second attribute of the signal or (2) a modification of the first pulse threshold candidate; determining whether the second pulse threshold candidate meets the test criterion; and generating a pulse waveform based on the second pulse threshold candidate after determining that the second pulse threshold candidate meets the test criterion.
Owner:COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS INC

Methods and apparatus to identify structural similarity between webpages

ActiveUS12664268B2Platform integrity maintainanceEngineeringProgrammable circuits
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry; machine readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: remove content data from a file corresponding to a first webpage, the file to include structure determiners after the removal of the content data; normalize data within the structure determiners; group the normalized structure determiners into tiles; compute a first output of a hashing algorithm using the tiles; and compare the first output to a second output of the hashing algorithm to generate a similarity value, the second output corresponding to a second webpage, the similarity value representing a structural similarity between the first webpage and the second webpage.
Owner:MCAFEE LLC

BACK-SIDE ANTIFUMES

UndeterminedDE102025116868A1Device materialHemt circuits
A semiconductor device has an active region on a front face of the semiconductor. The active region includes an antifuse control cell with several first transistors. The semiconductor device has a front-facing metallization layer connected to the several first transistors. The semiconductor device has a one-time programmable circuit on a rear face. The one-time programmable circuit has a second transistor connected to a programming word line (WLP) of the antifuse control cell. The one-time programmable circuit has a third transistor connected to a read word line (WLR) of the antifuse control cell. The semiconductor device has a rear-facing metallization layer connected to the second and third transistors.
Owner:TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO LTD

Methods and apparatus to determine engine status with plenum measurements

PendingUS20260146917A1Gas-turbine engine testingEngine fuctionsProgrammable circuitsPlenum chamber
Methods and apparatus to determine engine status with plenum measurements are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes interface circuitry, and programmable circuitry configured to at least one of instantiate or execute machine readable instructions to: determine, based on output from at least one sensor, at least one parameter corresponding to: (i) a first plenum in a casing of a gas turbine engine, the first plenum positioned at or downstream of a volume at which flows from respective ones of bleed offtakes of the gas turbine engine are combined, and (ii) a second plenum in the casing, the second plenum positioned upstream of the first plenum, a status of at least one of the bleed offtakes or the at least one sensor based on the at least one parameter and provide or indicate a notification of the status in response to the status indicating improper operation of at least one of the bleed offtakes or the at least one sensor.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Memory control method, memory controller and electronic device

ActiveCN115309340BAdd control strategyReduce control delayControl signalLogical combination
The present disclosure provides a memory control method, a memory controller and an electronic device. The memory control method is executed by programmable circuitry for controlling a target memory, and includes: detecting, by the programmable circuitry, a plurality of target events in real time; when a type and a number of the detected target events satisfy a trigger condition of any one of a plurality of preset states, selecting to run an action execution circuit module corresponding to the preset state, the trigger condition including a logical combination of one target event or a plurality of target events; and executing, by the action execution circuit module corresponding to the preset state, one or more actions corresponding to the preset state, at least one of the one or more actions being used for controlling the target memory. The embodiments of the present disclosure can flexibly configure a memory control scheme and improve the efficiency of sending control signals to the memory.
Owner:NANJING TENAFE ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

Methods and apparatus for synchronous HTTP media playback

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to synchronize media playback at devices in a multicast environment. Disclosed is a system to synchronize media playback, the system comprising programmable circuitry, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed or instantiated by the programmable circuitry, facilitate performance of operations, comprising transmitting, using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), a first request in a first HTTP message to a first client device and to a second client device, receiving, from the first client device in response to the first request. a first time stamp associated with a first presentation, the first time stamp representing a first playback time within the first presentation, receiving, from the second client device in response to the first request, a second time stamp associated with a second presentation, the second time stamp representing a second playback time within the second presentation, calculating a time difference between the first time stamp and the second time stamp, determining whether the time difference satisfies a threshold, transmitting a second HTTP message to the first client device and the second client device in response to a determination that the time difference fails to satisfy the threshold, the second HTTP message to cause the first client device to pause the first presentation and the second client device to pause the second presentation, transmitting seek instructions in a third HTTP message to the second client device, the seek instructions to cause the second client device to synchronize the second presentation to the first presentation by setting the first and second playback times equal, and transmitting a fourth HTTP message to cause the first client device to resume the first presentation and the second client device to resume the second presentation.
Owner:DIRECTV LLC

METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MATRIX MULTIPLICATION WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Technical solutions for matrix multiplication using reinforcement learning are revealed. An exemplary setup includes an interface circuit arrangement, machine-readable instructions, and a programmable circuit arrangement for instantiating and / or executing the machine-readable instructions for identifying matrices to be multiplied, splitting the matrices into subgroups, determining an initial tiling state based on the subgroups, determining an action to be performed on the matrices, transforming the initial tiling state by performing the action on the matrices, calculating a tiling state latency based on the execution of the action on the matrices, and updating the initial tiling state based on the transformed tiling state and / or the calculated tiling state latency.
Owner:INTEL CORP

Methods and apparatus for leak detection and mitigation for hydrogen fueled aircraft

ActiveUS12637229B2Detection of fluid at leakage pointFuel tank safety measuresHydrogen concentrationHydrogen fuel
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for leak detection and mitigation for hydrogen fueled aircraft are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to determine a hydrogen concentration threshold for a location within an undercowl of an engine of an aircraft, based on an engine condition of the aircraft, determine, based on an output of a hydrogen concentration sensor within the undercowl, a hydrogen concentration at the location, compare the hydrogen concentration to the hydrogen concentration threshold, and conduct a mitigation action in the hydrogen fuel distribution system based on the comparison of the hydrogen concentration and the hydrogen concentration threshold.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Attestation logic on memory for memory die verification

Examples described herein provide for attestation of memory dies using a respective memory identifier of the memory die itself. A memory device may include a memory die with a memory array, attestation logic, and programmable circuitry that stores a memory identifier associated with the memory array. The attestation logic may generate an encryption key pair based on the memory identifier stored in the programmable circuitry. Advantageously, by attesting memory die using a memory identifier stored in programmable circuitry, examples of systems and methods described herein may provide increased security for data processed by memory die. For example, a non-attested or compromised memory die may be remediated. The attestation of memory dies may include attestation of memory dies on wireless devices, drones, vehicles, and / or Internet-of-Things devices.
Owner:MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC

Method and apparatus for detecting pressure relief valve proximity activation

Systems, apparatuses, articles, and methods for detecting pressure relief valve near activation are disclosed. An example computing device includes interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable instructions to perform operations to obtain pressure data from a pressure sensor, the pressure data associated with a differential pressure between a first region of a pressure relief valve and a second region of the pressure relief valve, the first region different from the second region; obtain setpoint data corresponding to a threshold pressure and an activation pressure of the pressure relief valve; determine whether the differential pressure is between the threshold pressure and the activation pressure based on the pressure data and the setpoint data; and generate an indication corresponding to the differential pressure being between the threshold pressure and the activation pressure.
Owner:EMERSON AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS FINAL CONTROL US LP

Methods and apparatus for navigation with point mass filters

Methods and apparatus for navigation with point mass filters are disclosed. A disclosed apparatus to adjust a probabilistic grid of a point mass filter for navigation of a vehicle includes interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a sensor of the vehicle, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to move the probabilistic grid based on movement of the vehicle, and perform a linear adjustment of at least a portion of the probabilistic grid with respect to time based on a bounded error corresponding to the movement of the vehicle.
Owner:THE BOEING CO

Methods and apparatus to self-guardrail large language model responses

ActiveUS12639526B2Natural language translationProgramming languageProgrammable circuits
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to self-guardrail large language model responses are disclosed. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of execute or instantiate the instructions to access a first response message provided by a first large language model, the first response message generated based on an initial prompt, cause a second large language model to determine the first response message is inappropriate, modify the initial prompt to create a modified prompt, and provide the modified prompt to the first large language model to trigger generation of a second response message.
Owner:MCAFEE LLC