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| US09526195B2 |
Ultrathin shielding film of high shielding effectiveness and manufacturing method thereof
The present application provides an ultrathin shielding film of high shielding effectiveness, comprising two or more solid shielding layers. An electrically-conductive adhesive layer is coated onto the outer surface at one side of the solid shielding layers, and one or more insulation film layers are formed on the outer surface at the other side of the solid shielding layers. A carrier film layer is provided on the outer surface of the insulation film layers. A protective film covers the lower surface of the electrically-conductive adhesive layer. The present application further discloses a manufacturing method of an ultrathin shielding film of high shielding effectiveness. The present application has the following advantages: the two or more ultrathin complete solid shielding layers are provided, which are capable of repeatedly reflecting and adsorbing high-frequency interference signals, and meanwhile, excessive charges are conducted into a ground layer, so that the high shielding effectiveness is realized; tests show that, at a frequency over 300 MHz, the shielding effectiveness can reach 60 dB or more; meanwhile, the ultrathin solid shielding layer is capable of providing great bending performance, so that the requirements of an electronic product for lightness and thinness are met. |
| US09526192B2 |
Cold chassis for electronic modules and method of making same
A cold chassis and method of making a cold chassis for electronic modules featuring the fabrication of individual brazed cooling ribs each including microchannels along the length thereof and a peripheral flange. A set of adjacent ribs are secured together and assembled onto at least one face of a frame member. The rib flanges are sealed (e.g., friction stir welded) with respect to the frame member. |
| US09526190B2 |
Electronic board for avionics equipment comprising vibration damping means between its reinforcing surround and its retention means
An electronic board for avionics equipment, the board comprising a printed circuit, a reinforcing surround and board retention means. In order to improve the vibration resistance of the board, the board further comprises vibration damping means interposed between the reinforcing surround and the retention means. |
| US09526184B2 |
Circuit board multi-functional hole system and method
A method and system for constructing a printed circuit board with multifunctional holes. A first conductive material is deposited into a hole in a substrate to form a first plating on an inner surface of the hole. At least one outer portion of the hole is modified to have a larger diameter than the original hole and to remove the first conductive material from that outer portion. A seed material is deposited into the modified hole. An etchant is applied to the hole to non-mechanically remove the first conductive material from the unmodified portion of the hole. Another conductive material is deposited to into the modified hole that adheres to the seed material in the modified outer portion via to form a second plating at the outer portion. |
| US09526180B2 |
Reducing dielectric loss in solder masks
A circuit board may include a substrate, an interconnected structure associated with the substrate, and a solder mask associated with the interconnected structure and the substrate. The solder mask may be based on a mixture that includes epoxy and a powder. The powder may be hollow glass micro-balloons. |
| US09526179B2 |
Printed circuit board and method thereof
A printed circuit board and the method of manufacturing the same are provided. The printed circuit board comprises a supporting plate having a front side and a rear side; a first adhesive layer placed on the front side of the supporting plate; and a front wire layer embedded into the first adhesive layer. The front wire layer includes at least one external contact portion for connecting an electronic component, wherein the surface of the external contact portion is coplanar with the surface of the first adhesive layer surrounding the external contact portion. |
| US09526178B2 |
Printed circuit board method
A printed circuit board (PCB) backdrilling method is disclosed, where a conductive layer is disposed between a surface of a PCB on an intended-for-backdrilling side of a plated through hole (PTH) and a target signal layer of the PCB, and the method includes: performing a first backdrilling on the PTH with a first preset depth starting from the surface of the PCB; controlling the backdrill bit to move along the drill hole formed in the first backdrilling toward the target signal layer; and when the backdrill bit is in contact with the conductive layer, completing a second backdrilling with a second preset depth starting from the conductive layer. |
| US09526177B2 |
Printed circuit board including electronic component embedded therein and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board including an electronic component embedded therein and a method for manufacturing the same. The printed circuit board including an electronic component embedded therein includes: a core formed with a cavity which is formed of a through hole and has a side wall formed with an inclined surface having a top and bottom symmetrically formed based on a central portion thereof; an electronic component embedded in the cavity; insulating layers stacked on upper and lower portions of the core including the electronic component; and external circuit layers formed on the insulating layers. |
| US09526176B2 |
Component-embedded resin substrate
A component-embedded resin substrate includes a resin structure including a plurality of laminated resin layers and having an end surface surrounding an outer periphery of the resin layers and a plurality of embedded components arranged as embedded in the resin structure. The plurality of embedded components include a first embedded component and a second embedded component. When viewed in a planar view, the first embedded component has a first outer side extending along a portion of an end surface 5 closest to the first embedded component. When viewed in a planar view, the second embedded component has a second outer side extending along a portion of the end surface closest to the second embedded component. When viewed in a planar view, the outer side is oblique to the second outer side. |
| US09526174B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component and board having the same mounted thereon
A multilayer ceramic electronic component may include: a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body, a plurality of first and second internal electrodes formed to be alternately exposed to both side surfaces of the ceramic body, having a dielectric layer therebetween, and first and second external electrodes connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively; and an interposer board including an insulation board coupled to the mounting surface of the multilayer ceramic capacitor and first and second connection terminals formed on the insulation board and connected to the first and second external electrodes, respectively. |
| US09526173B2 |
Attachment for preventing liquid from adhering to electronic component
An attachment capable of preventing liquid from adhering to a specific electronic component within an electronic device. An electronic substrate has an attachment which can be attached to and detached from the electronic substrate. The attachment has an attachment part detachably attached to an edge of the electronic substrate; and a shield part connected to or integrally formed with the attachment part. The attachment part is a clip-like member having a certain degree of elasticity, and is configured to grip an edge of the electronic substrate so that the attachment is held at a predetermined place. The shield part has an inclined surface, and is configured to shield the electronic component so that liquid, such as a splash or droplet moving toward the electronic component, does not adhere to the component when the attachment is held at the predetermined place. |
| US09526168B2 |
Printed wiring board and method for manufacturing the same
A printed wiring board includes an inner conductive-circuit layer, an insulation layer structure including a first insulation layer laminated on inner conductive-circuit layer and a second insulation layer laminated on the first insulation layer, and an outermost conductive-circuit layer laminated on the insulation layer structure and including connection portions such that the connection portions are positioned to mount a component on the insulation layer structure. The second insulation layer is interposed between the first insulation layer and the outermost conductive-circuit layer and has a thickness which is smaller than a thickness of the first insulation layer such that an outer surface of the second insulation layer on an outermost conductive-circuit-layer side is flatter than an inner surface of the second insulation layer on a first insulation-layer side. |
| US09526166B2 |
Bezel structure for a display device and display device having the same
A bezel structure for a display device includes a first resin layer capable of being cured by ultraviolet radiation, an ink layer including a non-volatile solvent disposed on the first resin layer, a second resin layer disposed in the ink layer, and an upper structure disposed on the ink layer. The second resin layer prevents an uncured portion of the first resin layer from permeating into a cavity in the ink layer. |
| US09526163B2 |
Device and method for crosstalk reduction in transmission lines
A system and method is provided for crosstalk reduction in a coupled transmission line on a multilayer structure. The coupled transmission line provides a high frequency signal such as from a local oscillator to an electronic component such as a mixer. The signal carried by the coupled transmission line may be buffered and asymmetrically tapped. The coupled transmission line may have individual parallel lines extending in the direction of current flow. The lines may carry current in opposite directions. Each line contains strips and/or is disposed on a different metallization layer. Strips on each metallization layer (before being routed to another metallization layer) may carry current in opposite directions and overlying strips on different metallization layers may carry current in opposite directions. Multiple strips of an individual line present on a single metallization layer may be disposed symmetrically around a centerline of the coupled transmission line. |
| US09526162B2 |
Board assembly
A board assembly includes: a circuit board; a shield member coupled to the circuit board to face the circuit board; and at least one socket for a storage medium which is mounted on the circuit board. The shield member includes an opening that exposes the entirety of the socket to the outside. The board assembly forms an opening in a dual recess structure to accommodate the socket. Thus, the board assembly may contribute to the reduction of the thickness of an electronic device while being stacked with a battery. Further, the entire socket is exposed to the outside of the shield member, the storage medium may be easily removed. |
| US09526161B2 |
High-frequency power supply device
A transformer is formed into a substantially U shape. The length of the transformer may thus be secured, and also the length of pattern wiring between an input terminal and an output terminal of a secondary coil of the transformer and the control terminals of a semiconductor device may be reduced. Moreover, the primary coil and the secondary coil of the transformer are arranged in parallel. The coupling coefficient between the primary coil and the secondary coil is thereby increased. An LC resonant circuit, not including the induction coil, and a switching circuit and the transformer are accommodated inside a housing. A water-cooling radiator is provided inside the housing, and also air inside the housing is circulated by a cooling fan while being guided to the radiator. |
| US09526160B2 |
Cavity resonator of microwave plasma generating apparatus
A resonator body 1 comprises a square-tube-shaped side wall 2 with upper and lower walls. A cavity 5 is formed in the resonator body. The side wall has a microwave supply opening 6. A wave guide 7 is connected to the microwave supply opening through an inductive window 13. The upper and lower walls have reaction tube attachment openings 3a, 4a. A reaction tube 8 is attached to the reaction tube attachment openings and extends vertically through the cavity and cross an axis of the wave guide. Square tubes 10a-10b made of non-magnetic metal meshes are arranged concentrically to the resonator body and in nested manner in the cavity at a distance from both the interior surface of the side wall and the reaction tube. |
| US09526158B1 |
Laser-sustained plasma light source
A laser sustained plasma light source having a cell with a gas volume contained within the cell. At least one laser is directed into the gas volume, for sustaining a plasma within the gas volume, which plasma produces a light. Means are provided for continuously providing the gas volume to the plasma in a laminar flow. A reflector collects the light and provides the light to a desired location. |
| US09526157B2 |
Light source apparatus, discharge lamp driving method, and projector
A light source apparatus includes a discharge lamp including a light-emitting container having a cavity in which a discharge medium is enclosed, and a pair of electrodes disposed such that respective tip portions thereof oppose each other in the cavity, and a driving unit that supplies a driving current to the pair of electrodes. The driving current is generated by modulating amplitude of alternating current having a frequency not lower than 1 kHz and not higher than 10 GHz, such that a first section and a second section in which the amplitude is smaller than in the first section are alternately repeated. |
| US09526156B2 |
System and method for theatrical followspot control interface
There is provided a system and method for controlling a tracking device to follow a location of a performer on a stage. The tracking device may comprise a lighting fixture such as a high output video projector or an automated mechanical moving light such as a DMX lighting fixture to provide a followspot, or a microphone to record audio from a particular performer. The method comprises capturing a video feed of the stage using a camera, presenting the video feed on a display of a control device, receiving input data indicating a position of the performer in the video feed, translating the input data into the location of the performer on the stage, and adjusting the tracking device to follow the location of the performer on the stage. The control device thereby provides lighting operators with an intuitive interface readily implemented using cost effective commodity hardware. |
| US09526154B2 |
Light switch
A light switch comprises a user input mechanism, a wireless receiver for receiving remote control signals and a processor coupled to the user input mechanism and to the wireless receiver and configured to control a light source to turn it on and off both in response to activation of the user input mechanism and in response to the remote control signals. The light switch is configured, in response to a user override input via the user input mechanism, to enter an override state, whereby the light source is maintained in an off state and remote control signals are prevented from causing the light source to be switched on, until the override state is disengaged. An additional light switch may also be provided that communicates with the aforementioned light switch to provide multi-way switching. |
| US09526151B2 |
Mechanisms for light management
Mechanisms for light management include a light emitting diode (LED) light bulb. The LED light bulb includes multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs) configured for illumination in the LED light bulb and includes a battery. A base is configured to fit a standard socket designed for an incandescent light bulb, and the base is configured to operatively connect to an electrical power source. A module is operative to detect a residual voltage of the power source when a control for powering the LED light bulb is powered off. The module is configured to determine that a power outage occurred and operative to switch to battery power from the battery in response to not detecting the residual voltage of the power source. |
| US09526149B2 |
Object-sensing lighting network and control system therefor
Disclosed herein is an object—sensing lighting network and an intelligent control system therefore. The control system dynamically determines the at least one lighting fixture's relationship to a plurality of other lighting fixtures. The light output level of a light source of the at least one lighting fixture is based at least partially on the at least one lighting fixture's relationship to the other lighting fixtures. |
| US09526136B1 |
Electronic driver for an illumination device and method of operating thereof
An electronic driver is provided. The electronic driver includes a power converter including an output terminal and configured to generate a converter output power based on a first switching frequency of the power converter. The electronic driver also includes a first controller operatively coupled to the power converter and configured to control the first switching frequency of the power converter. The electronic driver further includes a visible light communication adapter operatively coupled to the output terminal of the power converter and configured to alter the converter output power to perform visible light communication. |
| US09526133B2 |
LED retrofit lamp with shunt capacitors across rectifier diodes for use with a ballast
The invention relates to LED replacement lamp suitable for operation with a high frequency fluorescent lamp ballast, comprising—a LED load (LS) comprising a series arrangement of LEDs, —a first lamp end circuit comprising—a first lamp pin (LP1) and a second lamp pin (LP2) for connection to a first lamp connection terminal comprised in the high frequency fluorescent lamp ballast, —a first rectifier (D1-D4; D1, D2) equipped with at least one input terminal coupled to the second lamp pin and with first and second output terminals coupled to respective ends of the LED load, the first rectifier comprising at least two diodes, one of which is shunted by a first capacitor (C1), —a second lamp end circuit comprising—a third lamp pin (LP3) and a fourth lamp pin (LP4) for connection to a second lamp connection terminal comprised in the high frequency fluorescent lamp ballast, —a second rectifier (D5-D8, D5, D6) equipped with at least one input terminal coupled to the fourth lamp pin and with first and second output terminals coupled to respective ends of the LED load, the second rectifier comprising at least two diodes, one of which is shunted by a second capacitor (C2), wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor form a series arrangement coupled between the second lamp pin and the fourth lamp pin. |
| US09526132B2 |
Wiring boards for array-based electronic devices
In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems include one or more lightsheets each including a plurality of strings of light-emitting elements, control elements, and power conductors for supplying power to the light-emitting elements and control elements. |
| US09526130B2 |
Transparent panel having a heatable coating
A transparent pane having an electrically heatable coating is described. The transparent pane is electrically connected to at least two first electrodes provided for electrical connection to two terminals of a voltage source. A heating field includes at least one coating-free zone. At least one second electrode is provided for electric connection to one terminal of the voltage source. A method for manufacturing the transparent pane is also described. |
| US09526127B1 |
Affecting the behavior of a user device based on a user's gaze
A device may determine whether a user is facing a display screen associated with the device; and present feedback to the user. When presenting the feedback, the device may present visual information, that is based on the feedback, when determining that the user is facing the display screen associated with the device, and present audio information, that is based on the feedback, when determining that the user is not facing the display screen associated with the device. At least a portion of the audio information might not be presented when the visual information is presented when the user is facing the display screen associated with the device. |
| US09526126B2 |
Mobile communications radio receiver for multiple network operation
A mobile communications radio receiver for multiple radio network operation includes an RF unit for generating a first down-converted signal from a radio signal received from a first radio network and a second down-converted signal from a radio signal received from a second radio network. Further, the receiver includes a first receiving unit including a user data channel demodulator configured to demodulate a dedicated user data physical channel and a control channel demodulator configured to demodulate a common control data channel of the first radio network based on the first down-converted signal. Still further, the receiver includes a second receiving unit including a pilot channel demodulator configured to demodulate a pilot channel of the second radio network based on the second down-converted signal. A first data connection is configured to couple control data contained in the second down-converted signal to the control channel demodulator of the first receiving unit. |
| US09526125B2 |
Transfer of data-intensive content between portable devices
Described herein are technologies that facilitate transfer of data-intensive content between portable telephones. Phones are configured to transmit data indicative of phone location to a proxy server by way of respective cellular network data connections. When a user of a phone wishes to acquire content that is labeled as shareable on another phone, the user of the phone initiates a location-based request, which causes the proxy server to provide a list of phones that are estimated to be in Wi-Fi range of such phone. The user thereafter selects a particular phone, and the proxy server instructs that phone to activate its Wi-Fi radio. The phone of the user additionally activates its Wi-Fi radio, and a peer-to-peer connection between phones is established. Thereafter, rich content is transferrable between the phones. |
| US09526121B1 |
Unified communication access system
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods that allow a mobile device to fully access unified communication services of a carrier. In a particular embodiment, a control system receives a call for a unified communications service and determines whether the mobile device is associated with the unified communication service. If the mobile device is not associated with the unified communication service, then the call is connected to a unified communication system to provide access to a first portion of the unified communication service. If the call is associated with the services, then the call is assigned a virtual number and connected to an intermediate communication system, which determines at least a second portion of the unified communication service associated with the virtual number. The call is then connected to the unified communication system to provide access to the first and second portions of the unified communication service. |
| US09526120B2 |
Techniques for context-based application invocation for short-range wireless communication interactions
A computer-implemented technique for context-based application invocation for short-range wireless communication interactions can include exchanging sets of information between first and second computing devices via a short-range wireless communication medium. The set of information for a specific computing device can include at least one of (i) device type information for the specific computing device and (ii) user information for the specific computing device. The techniques can include performing, at one of the computing devices, at least one of a plurality of actions based on the set of information received from the other computing device. The plurality of actions can generally include (a) automatically configuring another wireless communication medium and (b) outputting a menu configured to receive a user selection from a set of operations associated with at least one of the short-range wireless communication medium and the other wireless communication medium. |
| US09526119B2 |
Methods and apparatus for multiple data packet connections
A network can handle access attempts by a mix of user equipments (UEs) that do and do not support multiple packet data network connections and do and do not support Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and access attempts from networks that do and do not support multiple PDN connections. A method of operating a Trusted Non-3GPP Access network with a 3GPP network involves an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) proxy in the Trusted Non-3GPP Access network and a UE that supports multiple PDN connections, with the AAA proxy sending an indication to the UE that the network supports multiple PDN connections. |
| US09526118B2 |
System and method for controlling priority-based contention period channel access for reducing complexity in WBAN MAC protocol
The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling contention period channel access, and in particular, to a system and method for controlling priority-based contention period channel access for reducing complexity in a WBAN MAC protocol which grants levels according to the importance of data and preferentially transmits data in a next beacon period having higher levels than data, the transmission of which was delayed in a previous beacon period. The present invention is supported by: a national research and development project, unique number 2011-0015744, with a research period of Jun. 1, 2011 to May 31, 2014; a WBAN core algorithm research project for an efficient smart medical space as a basic research project/staff researcher support project/core research support project supervised by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, unique project number NIPA-2011-(C1090-1121-0003), with a research period of Nov. 1, 2006 to Dec. 31, 2014; and an oriental and western new medical u-Life Care technology research project for a university IT research center promotion and support project supervised by the Ministry of Knowledge and Economy. |
| US09526115B1 |
Multiple protocol support in distributed device systems
A base device may work in conjunction one or more peripheral devices to capture audio from different locations within a room. The peripheral devices may include a companion device and an accessory device, either or both of which may be present in a given situation or deployment. The base device is configured to communicate with the companion device using a first wireless communications protocol and with the accessory device using a second wireless communications protocol. When both of the companion and accessory devices are present, however, the companion and accessory devices communicate with each other using the second wireless communications protocol and the companion device relays communications between the base device and the accessory device. This avoids the need for the base device to use the second wireless communications protocol and reduces contention for shared resources by the base device. |
| US09526111B2 |
Clear-to-send signaling to limit WiFi interference in unlicensed spectrum
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication in an unlicensed spectrum. In one method, a clear-to-send (CTS) signal may be employed to manage or otherwise limit potential interference for communications in the unlicensed spectrum. For example, communications using long term evolution (LTE) may employ an unlicensed spectrum, particularly for small cell deployment. In such case, the LTE communications may be protected from interference due to communications by other networks, such as WiFi, using the unlicensed spectrum. |
| US09526108B2 |
Apparatus and method for mitigation/removal of interference between macro-cell and femto-cell
There is provided a method for removing interference between a femto-cell and a macro-cell, comprising: allocating communication resources to a plurality of femto-cell user devices; receiving uplink signals between a plurality of the macro-cell user devices and a macro-cell base station from the plurality of the macro-cell user devices; detecting a high interference indicator (HII) from the uplink signals; deciding a macro-cell user device, which has transmitted the high interference indicator, as an interference subject user device; extracting channel state information (CSI) from the uplink signal received from the interference subject user device; and changing and allocating the communication resource allocated to the femto-cell user device based on the extracted channel state information. |
| US09526107B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for controlling radio resources
An apparatus, system and method for managing radio resources are disclosed. The apparatus for managing radio resources includes a media independent services (MIS) user unit, a link layer unit, and a media independent services function (MISF) unit. The link layer unit outputs its own link status and radio resource allocation status. The MISF unit receives a report on the link status and radio resource allocation status from the link layer unit, receives a report on link status of a terminal from the corresponding terminal, receives a report on link status and radio resource allocation status of a neighboring Point of Attachment (PoA) from the corresponding neighboring PoA, and receives network configuration information from a network configuration information server. The MIS user unit determines to change radio resource allocation based on information from any one of the link layer unit, the terminal, the neighboring PoA and the network configuration information server. |
| US09526102B2 |
Method and apparatus for assigning slot
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for assigning slot. The method includes: constructing an HELLO packet, the HELLO packet including GTS request information of a local node or including GTS request information of the local node and GTS request information of at least one neighboring node within a collision domain of the local node; and broadcasting the HELLO packet, so that a node receiving the HELLO packet performs slot reservation according to information contained in the HELLO packet. With the method and apparatus for assigning slot provided by the embodiments of the present invention, no central controller is needed any longer in comparison with a centralized slot assignment method, complexity of calculation is lowered, and utilization of slot is improved. |
| US09526100B2 |
Method for more efficiently utilizing radio resources in a wireless communication system including a plurality of small cells
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for determining a radio resource by a terminal. According to the method, information on a second cell can be received from a first cell, wherein a radio resource of the first cell includes a plurality of wireless frames along a time axis, each wireless frame includes a plurality of subframes, and the information on the second cell can include an ID of the second cell. In addition, a radio resource of the second cell can be determined by using the information on the second cell, wherein the radio resource of the second cell can be determined as a partial region in the wireless frames or the subframes of the first cell, which is indicated by the information on the second cell. |
| US09526095B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring a plurality of scheduling request triggers
The invention provides a method and apparatus for configuring a plurality of scheduling request triggers for a user equipment in a communication system. First, the base station determines a plurality of scheduling request triggers and a transmission type of each of the plurality of scheduling request triggers for the user equipment, based on the service characteristics of services of the user equipment; and then the base station transmits configuration information of the plurality of scheduling request triggers to the user equipment, the configuration information of the plurality of scheduling request triggers including the allocation way of the plurality of scheduling request triggers with respect to the services of the user equipment and the transmission type of each of the plurality of scheduling request triggers. The user equipment first receives the configuration information from the base station. After that the user equipment selects a scheduling request trigger corresponding to the current service based on the service characteristics of current service to be transmitted and the allocation way, and transmits the triggered scheduling request via the transmission type corresponding to the scheduling request trigger. By applying the technical solution of the invention, the efficient radio resource utilization could be achieved. |
| US09526094B2 |
Terminal, base station, transmission method, and reception method
Provided is a terminal that can accurately measure channel information between the terminal and each TP subjected to CoMP control. In this terminal, a reception processing unit (203) receives a reference signal transmitted from a specific transmission point and control information, and receives a signal transmitted from a transmission point other than the specific transmission point, this signal being received in resources comprising, from among a reference-signal resource group, a resource of a first number specified from the control information, and a resource of a second number separated from the first number by a predetermined number. A CSI generation unit (206) uses the reference signal and a signal received by an interference measurement resource to generate channel information. A transmission signal-forming unit (208) transmits the generated channel information. |
| US09526091B2 |
Method and apparatus for coordination of self-optimization functions in a wireless network
A network management device and method for coordination of self-optimization functions in a wireless network. A network management device for coordination of self-optimization functions includes one or more processors and an interface. The interface communicates with a plurality of enhanced node Bs (eNodeBs). The interface is arranged to receive a request to change a coverage or a capacity of an enhanced node B (eNodeB). The interface is further arranged to transmit a query to the eNodeB to obtain a self-optimizing network (SON) coordination state of the eNodeB. The one or more processors are arranged to determine whether to grant or deny the request based on a coordination policy and the SON coordination state. |
| US09526090B2 |
Wireless communications system and method
A wireless communications system includes a base station, a plurality of intermediate devices, and a terminal device. Downlink communications may be provided directly from the base station to the terminal device, including control signals which instruct the terminal device where to send uplink data. This enables the base station to directly control scheduling of uplink communications, and in particular to define an uplink route from the terminal device to the base station via one or more intermediate devices. Power is conserved at the terminal device on the uplink because a lower power transmission can be used which although insufficient to reach the base station can reach the intermediate device. The terminal device is not required to determine the uplink path itself and therefore does not require complex, expensive, and power consuming control logic. |
| US09526088B2 |
Wireless communications system and method
A wireless communications system including a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to receive from the base station an allocation of uplink resources for transmitting uplink data to the relay device, and to transmit uplink data to the relay device using the uplink resources allocated to the terminal device. The relay device is operable to receive the transmitted uplink data from the terminal device on the allocated resources, to receive an allocation of uplink data resources for relaying the received uplink data to the base station, and to transmit the received uplink data to the base station using the uplink resources allocated to the relay device. |
| US09526085B2 |
Apparatuses for communicating with new carrier type physical broadcast channel
A communication station includes a modulation circuit, a mapping circuit and a transmitting circuit. The modulation circuit is configured to operably modulate the master information block (MIB). The mapping circuit is configured to operably map the modulated MIBs to the new carrier type physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The PBCH is configured in a plurality of radio frames. The transmitting circuit is configured to operably transmit the radio frames. Moreover, the mapping circuit maps the modulated MIBs to only part of six central radio blocks of the predetermined subframes of the radio frames. The six central radio blocks are configured to locate around the DC subcarrier. |
| US09526082B2 |
Method and apparatus for estimating location of pedestrian using step length estimation model parameters
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for estimating the location of a pedestrian using step length estimation model parameters. In the method of estimating a location of a pedestrian according to the present invention, mobile User Equipment (UE) having sensors generates positioning measurement information. The mobile UE requests positioning assistance information from a positioning server. The positioning server generates the positioning assistance information. The positioning server provides the positioning assistance information to the mobile UE. The mobile UE performs location estimation of the pedestrian using the positioning measurement information and the positioning assistance information. |
| US09526075B2 |
System, a device and a method for adjusting signal strength in a distributed amplifier system
The invention discloses a system comprising a first device and a plurality of second device. The system comprises a first device and a plurality of second devices. The first device comprises a receiver, a spectrum analyzer, a controller and a transmitter. The receiver receives, from at least one antenna, a plurality of signals with different signal strengths from different sources. The spectrum analyzer is communicatively coupled to the receiver and obtains strengths of the plurality of received signals. The controller is communicatively coupled to the spectrum analyzer and adjusts a radiation feature of one of at least one antenna to minimize a difference of the strengths between a plurality of received signals after adjustment. The transmitter transmits the received signals after adjustment to a plurality of second devices distributed within a site. The plurality of second devices transmit the plurality of received signals after adjustment within the site. |
| US09526074B2 |
Methods and apparatus for determining a transmit antenna gain and a spatial mode of a device
Methods and apparatus for determining a transmit antenna gain and a spatial mode of a wireless device (100) are disclosed. The apparatus (100) includes a main receive antenna (112) associated with a first receive signal strength, a diversity receive antenna (114) associated with a second receive signal strength, and a transmit antenna (116). Each of the antennas (112, 114, and 116) is operatively coupled to a controller (102). The controller (102) determines (i) a difference between the first receive signal strength and the second receive signal strength, (ii) a correction factor based on the difference, and (iii) the transmit antenna gain based on the correction factor. In addition, the difference between the first receive signal strength and the second receive signal strength may be used, along with other sensor data (e.g., accelerometer), to estimate the spatial mode (e.g., orientation and hand grip) of the device (100). This spatial mode estimation may be then be used, among other things, to more accurately determine transmit antenna gain. |
| US09526071B2 |
Method and apparatus for operating wake on WLAN
A method of connecting to a network by a terminal in a communication system, the communication system including the terminal, one or more access points, and a network controller controlling the one or more access points is provided. The method includes establishing a connection with a first access point, setting and storing wake-up information, configured to selectively transceive with the first access point, in the first access point and the network controller, performing hand off to a second access point connected to the network controller, and selectively transceiving data with the second access point based on the wake-up information set and stored in the network controller. |
| US09526070B2 |
Sleep-state for mobile terminal and service initiation for mobile terminals in sleep-state
The invention relates to the initiation of a service to a mobile terminal capable of communicating via at least a first and second access network. Further, the invention relates to a reduction of power consumption of mobile terminals supporting connectivity to at least two access networks. The invention also relates to mobile communication systems and in particular to mobile communications through heterogeneous access networks. In order to prove improved method for initiating services to mobile terminals and/or to reduce power consumption of mobile terminals, the invention introduces of a sleep state that can be entered by the terminal for an access system if same is not used. Upon requesting a service from/to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal starts service initiation through a second access system and transits back to active state for the first access system for service provision. |
| US09526065B2 |
Device and method for WiFi scan optimization
A method and wireless station used to perform WiFi scans. The wireless station determines a first cell identity of a first cell to which the wireless station is currently connected, determines a second cell identity of a second cell that is available, determines whether either of the first or second cell identities are related to a WiFi network based on relationships between cell identities and WiFi networks stored in the wireless station, performs a first type of scan for available WiFi networks when either of the first cell identity or the second cell identity is related to the WiFi network and performs a second type of scan for available WiFi networks when neither of the first cell identity or the second cell identity is related to the WiFi network, the first type of scan is performed more frequently or over more channels compared to the second type of scan. |
| US09526062B2 |
Method and wireless sensor networks
In a wireless sensor network having a plurality of mobile sensor nodes (62, 63, 64, 65), a sink (70) is provided and re-positioned as required by assigning the role of sink to one of the mobile sensors at a time. Re-positioning involves finding candidate sinks in the vicinity of a current sink, a temporary sink or a central candidate in the network; judging the suitability of each candidate, for example by estimating the data throughput likely to be achieved if each candidate is selected as the new sink; and transferring the role of sink to the best candidate found. The temporary sink or central candidate may be selected with the aid of a positioning system (80) of the network. Suitability of a candidate sink may take into account a desired transmission rate of each sensor node in the vicinity of a candidate, this desired rate being found from a 3-D look-up table of each sensor. |
| US09526052B2 |
Cell reselection method and apparatus, base station
Disclosed are a cell reselection method, comprising: when a source cell determines that a UE meets an initial reselection condition of reselecting a target cell, the source cell performing a local search to find whether a reselection threshold parameter of reselecting the source cell from the target cell exists, if not, reselecting the target cell for the UE, and if yes, further determining whether a corresponding parameter of the UE in the source cell is smaller than or equal to the reselection threshold parameter, if not, not reselecting the target cell for the UE, and if yes, reselecting the target cell for the UE. Further disclosed are a cell reselection apparatus and a base station. The technical solution of the present invention avoids asymmetry of reselection policy between a TD cell and a GSM cell, avoids pingpong reselection between the TD cell and the GSM cell, shortens the duration that the paging of a VE is off during reselection, reduces the network load, and making the VE energy conservative. |
| US09526050B2 |
Method and apparatus for neighbor cell tracking
The client terminals in a mobile wireless communication system typically continually search and keep track of the neighbor cells surrounding the cell from which it may be receiving service. Keeping track of neighbor cells by the client terminal may require periodic measurements on the neighbor cells and these measurements contribute to power consumption in the client terminal. The power consumption for neighbor cell measurements is an important factor when the client terminal either actively receiving service from the network or in standby mode when the client terminal is not actively receiving service from the network. A method and apparatus are presented that enable the client terminal to keep track of the neighbor cells with reduced measurements and thereby with reduced power consumption. |
| US09526048B2 |
Method of handling measurement gap configuration and communication device thereof
A method of handling measurement gap configuration for a network in a wireless communication system comprising a mobile device capable of receiving and/or transmitting on a plurality of component carriers is disclosed. The method comprises configuring at least a measurement gap configuration each for at least a component carrier of the plurality of component carriers, to the mobile device. |
| US09526045B2 |
Call drop avoidance during radio link failure
The present invention relates to a radio resource controller (220a) for controlling radio resources of a serving radio access node (100a). The controller is configured to assign particular radio resources of the serving radio access node to a radio communication session established between the serving radio access node and a particular mobile station, and to push session information (UE_id; UE_ctx_ptr) of the radio communication session into a common data repository (320) accessible to a further radio resource controller (220b) controlling radio resources of a further radio access node (100b). The session information comprise a mobile identifier (UE_id) that may be used by the particular mobile station for resumption of the radio communication session, and further allow retrieval of contextual communication parameters (UE_ctx) used by the serving radio access node for radio communication with the particular mobile station during the radio communication session. The radio resource controller and the further radio resource controller would run on a common computer platform as two respective process instances. The computer platform would further hold the common data repository. |
| US09526043B2 |
Soft handover method and device
Embodiments of the present invention provide a soft handover method and device. The soft handover method includes: receiving a soft handover request sent by a home access node, where the soft handover request includes user plane information of the home access node and an identifier of an RNC; establishing a signaling connection mapping between the home access node and the RNC, and forwarding the soft handover request to the RNC; receiving a soft handover response returned by the RNC; establishing a user plane connection mapping between the home access node and the RNC, forwarding the soft handover response to an HNB based on forwarding user plane information, and forwarding user plane data. The technical solutions of the present invention implement a soft handover process between a macro cell and a home access node cell. |
| US09526042B2 |
Fast handover method for cross sector scenario in mobile communication systems
A method for handover in a mobile communication system, wherein cell search is performed by determining cell identities based on cell identity information transmitted within downlink data is provided. The cell power of cells detected by cell search is measured. Moreover, the cell power of an additional cell is measured, the additional cell having a cell identity that is related to a cell identity of a cell detected by cell search in that the additional cell and the cell detected by cell search are adjacent cells. The method is applicable in cross-sector scenarios avoiding call drops due to lengthy cell detection. |
| US09526035B2 |
Method of seamless roaming between wireless local area networks and cellular carrier networks
A scheme that enables seamless roaming between the WLAN and the cellular carrier network by enabling a user that originates a call in the WLAN and happens to go outside the range of the WLAN to automatically switch over to the cellular carrier network without losing connection with the other party. This solution assumes that the mobile device has the capability to operate in at least two modes that include the WLAN mode and one of the cellular carrier modes, such as the GSM, IS-95 CDMA, IS-136 TDMA, and iDEN. |
| US09526029B2 |
Methods and arrangements for packet flows in wireless networks
Logic may compress wireless communications frames and communicate compressed frames that do not include the duplicative bit sequences within the packet flow. Logic may include the compressed frames in flow frames. Logic may generate, encode, transmit, decode, parse, and interpret flow frames after a packet flow is created. Flow frames may comprise a flow frame control field, a compressed frame, and a frame sequence check. Logic may decompress the compressed flow frame based upon flow decompression rules associated with a flow index of the flow frame. Flow frames may include a duration field to set the network allocation vectors of other stations. And the frame sequence check may be generated based upon the entire flow frame. |
| US09526023B2 |
System and method for adaptive control of an averaging parameter for PCINR and RSSI
A system and method for adaptive control of an averaging parameter in a communications network may include an averaging parameter adaptive control module (APAC) that is associated with a base station and that includes one or more processors configured to generate a first averaging parameter that is transmitted by the base station to a mobile station communicating with the base station. The mobile station may use the first averaging parameter to generate first channel condition information that indicates a condition of a communication channel. First feedback information including the first channel condition information may be received at the base station. The APAC may generate a second averaging parameter using the first averaging parameter and the first feedback information and may transmit the second averaging parameter from the base station to the mobile station, thereby adaptively controlling the second averaging parameter based on the first feedback information. |
| US09526022B2 |
Establishing operating system and application-based routing policies in multi-mode user equipment
Techniques for establishing and implementing operating system and application-based routing policies for multi-mode wireless communication devices such as a user equipment (UE) are generally described herein. In some examples, information particular to the profile and platform configuration of the UE is communicated to an Access Network Discovery Function (ANDSF) server. The ANDSF server may provide an inter-system routing policy (ISRP) to handle appropriate network offloading actions for the particular application and device configuration. In some examples, the ISRP may be specific to flow-based or non-seamless based traffic offloading from certain software applications. The techniques described herein may be propagated from the ANDSF server and implemented in a variety of multi-mode UE mobile computing devices in connection with offloading policies established in a 3GPP Long Term Evolution/Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE/LTE-A) Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network architecture. |
| US09526021B2 |
Intelligent network access controller and method
An intelligent network access controller coupled to wireless communication hardware controls wireless communications in a targeted coverage area of a local wireless network overlaying an existing wireless network. The controller controls the hardware to provoke wireless devices within the targeted coverage area of the local wireless network to attempt to register with the intelligent network access controller; receives, through the hardware, registration signals and identification information from the wireless devices; locks the wireless devices to the intelligent network access controller; determines an access category for each of the wireless devices based on the received registration signals and identification information; maintains first access category wireless devices locked to the controller while the first access category wireless devices remain in the targeted coverage area of the local wireless network; and unlocks second category wireless devices by controlling the hardware to signal the second access category wireless devices to attempt access to the existing wireless network. |
| US09526020B2 |
Monitoring non-supported wireless spectrum within coverage areas of distributed antenna systems (DASs)
Monitoring non-supported wireless spectrum within a coverage area of a distributed antenna system (DAS) in which a listening module connected to a remote unit of the DAS monitors non-supported wireless frequencies (i.e., frequencies that are outside the frequency ranges supported by the downlink and uplink signals of the DAS), via one or more antennas. The listening module also transmits the wireless frequencies to a monitoring module connected to head-end equipment (HEE) of the DAS. In that manner, a monitoring module can use an existing DAS infrastructure to monitor non-supported portions of the wireless spectrum at remote locations. In addition to avoiding the need to run a parallel DAS infrastructure, the disclosed arrangements are also useful in shared spectrum environments and other environments where efficient spectrum utilization is desired. |
| US09526017B2 |
Mobile communication system, radio base station, and mobile station
An appropriate action is taken when an abnormality in a layer 2 is detected, even in an “Inter-site CA” operation in which communication for a C-plane signal is performed in a cell #1 under a radio base station eNB#1 via a SRB, and communication for a U-plane signal is performed in a cell #11/#12 under a radio base station eNB#11/#12 via a DRB. In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, the radio base station eNB#11/#12 is configured to provide the radio base station eNB#1 with predetermined notification, when an abnormality is detected in a layer 2 of a downlink to a mobile station UE. |
| US09526016B2 |
Computing system with feedback mechanism and method of operation thereof
A computing system includes: an inter-device interface configured to communicate receiver signal corresponding to serving signal contemporaneous with interference signal from an interference source at an interference-aware receiver; a communication unit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: determine a serving-interference metric for describing capability of the interference-aware receiver associated with serving communication capacity and interference communication capacity, and generating feedback signal including the serving-interference metric for communicating the feedback signal to a node device.An embodiment includes: an inter-device interface configured to communicate feedback signal including a serving-interference metric for representing an interference-aware receiver processing receiver signal corresponding to serving signal contemporaneous with interference signal; a communication unit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: generate a communication rate profile based on the serving-interference metric for describing the interference-aware receiver, and determine serving detail based on the communication rate profile for communicating serving content to the interference-aware receiver. |
| US09526015B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving traffic indication map in wireless communication system and device therefor
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a traffic indication map (TIM) in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting the same. More particularly, the method for transmitting a traffic indication map comprises the step of transmitting a TIM to a STA through a beacon frame, wherein the TIM includes: a block bitmap field for indicating a subblock including a STA in which buffered downlink data exists for respective N (N are two or more natural numbers) blocks; and a block control field for indicating an encoding method for the bitmap field. |
| US09526014B2 |
Method and apparatus for reporting a logged measurement in a wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing a logged measurement in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives a measurement configuration and a terminal selection parameter from a base station. The terminal determines whether or not to apply the measurement configuration based on the terminal selection parameter. If the measurement configuration is determined to be applied, the terminal logs a measurement based on the measurement configuration. |
| US09526012B2 |
Efficient evaluation of hotspots for metrocell deployment
Session data for sessions associated with user equipment in portions of a macrocellular coverage area is accessed and a hierarchical data structure including a plurality of levels is generated. Each entry in a higher level of the plurality of levels encompasses a predetermined number of entries in the next lower level and stores aggregated session data for sessions associated with the encompassed entries. Entries in the hierarchical data structure can be selected to represent a hotspot that overlays the macrocellular coverage area. Session data stored in the selected entries can be aggregated. |
| US09526011B2 |
Channelization method in whitespace band and apparatus for the same
A wireless communication system is disclosed. Specifically, a channelization method in a whitespace band and an apparatus for the same are disclosed. A method for providing whitespace operation information includes transmitting, by a first station (STA) to a second STA, a frame including a TV whitespace high throughput (TVHT) operation information field. The TVHT operation information field includes primary channel number, channel width, channel center frequency segment 0 and channel center frequency segment 1 subfields. A channel center frequency of frequency segment 0 or frequency segment 1 is determined based on a channel start frequency. The channel start frequency is determined as a function of a TV channel index corresponding to the frequency segment 0 or a TV channel index corresponding to the frequency segment 1. |
| US09526005B2 |
GSM A3/A8 authentication in an IMS network
A telecommunication network comprises an ICS GW configured to receive an access request from a UE; an HSS FE configured to retrieve A3/A8 authentication vectors including an A3/A8 authentication response from an HLR, and further configured to encode the A3/A8 authentication vectors as AKA authentication vectors and send the AKA authentication parameters to an S-CSCF; the ICS GW configured to receive an authentication challenge from the S-CSCF with encoded A3/A8 authentication vectors, and further configured to detect the A3/A8 authentication vectors and issue an A3/A8 authentication challenge to the UE; and the ICS GW configured to receive an A3/A8 authentication response from the UE, and further to encode the A3/A8 authentication response into an AKA authentication response and sending it to the S-CSCF for comparison. |
| US09526000B1 |
Secure wireless network setup using multicast packets
A method is described of adding a wireless device to a secure wireless local area network (WLAN) that is secured by a wireless network security key. A computer that is independent of the wireless device receives a device key specific to the wireless device, and generates encrypted data by encrypting, using the device key, the wireless network security key. The computer transmits, to the wireless device, a first packet over the WLAN. The first packet includes a multicast address, which includes at least a portion of the encrypted data. The method includes, in response to the wireless device receiving the first packet, decrypting the encrypted data received in the first packet to obtain the wireless network security key. The method includes the wireless device transmitting and receiving encrypted payloads over the WLAN, wherein the encrypted payloads are encrypted using the wireless network security key. |
| US09525998B2 |
Wireless display with multiscreen service
Techniques of this disclosure are generally directed to a method of transmitting content of a first wireless computing device to a second wireless computing device. A first wireless computing device may initiate a WI-FI display (WFD) connection, transmit data from the first wireless computing device via the WFD connection to the second wireless computing device, execute a media sharing application that enables the first wireless computing device to share a media item of a playlist with a wireless client computing device, transmit information that describes the media item of the playlist to the wireless client computing device, wherein transmitting the information that describes the media item causes the second wireless computing device to determine if the wireless client computing device is capable of outputting the media item, and transmit the media item to the wireless client computing device. |
| US09525996B2 |
System, terminal, network entity, method, and computer program product for system selection in a multi-mode communication system
A terminal, network entity, system, method and computer program product enable communications to be established with an available system that is on a priority list and that has a desired service available. Communications may be established automatically with the system that is highest on the priority list and that has the desired service available. Alternatively, all of the systems that are on the priority list and that have the desired service available may be displayed to a user, such that the user may select one of the displayed systems and communications may be established with the selected system. |
| US09525991B2 |
Systems and methods for sharing digital information between mobile devices of friends and family using embedded devices
A method is provided for sharing digital information between first and second mobile devices. The method may include, at an embedded device, receiving the digital information from the first mobile device; at the embedded device, notifying the second mobile device of the digital information via a push notification; and at the embedded device, maintaining communication with the first and second mobile devices. In some embodiments, the method further includes, at the embedded device, receiving an embedded device wide area network (WAN) Internet protocol (IP) address. Maintaining communication with the first and second mobile devices may include notifying the first and second mobile devices of the new embedded device WAN IP address via respective additional push notifications, or using a DDNS server. |
| US09525987B2 |
System and method for facilitating audio access to radio stations
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for facilitating audio access to radio stations via a call-to-listen application on a device. A server can provide a listing of radio stations via an application on a user device, such as a smartphone, receive a selection of a radio station by a user and obtain a phone number associated with the selection. The server utilizes a phone dialer on the device to dial the phone number and is presented with received audio from a radio station associated with the phone number via the device. In one embodiment, a least expensive transmission mode is determined based on a data plan balance and a voice plan balance, and the audio is presented via the determined least expensive transmission mode. In another embodiment, the phone number dialed is determined by user location. |
| US09525984B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for mobile custom response
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for selecting and sending one of a plurality of responses to a call on a communications device. A user may select a default response or a custom response. When the user receives a call to a communications device, a set of responses is displayed on the communications device to facilitate selection by the user. A response includes a message and a call processing command. A message is in the form of an audio clip, text message, webpage, picture, video, etc. A call processing command is performed along with the message. This plurality of responses can be organized by the user in groups associated with classes of callers, such as friends, family, co-workers, etc. In this manner, the responses available to the user when a call is received changes depending on the caller. |
| US09525979B2 |
Remote control of separate audio streams with audio authentication
A process for remote control of audio streams, including capturing and digitizing a broadcasted audio stream for an event, sending the captured audio stream of the event to a server based program, providing control functions to users for processing the audio stream according to user preferences, providing Internet appliance applications to users for accessing the control functions on the server, and authenticating users to the server who are authorized to use the control functions on the server on the captured audio stream for the event. |
| US09525975B2 |
System for connecting to wireless local area networks while in motion to send and receive GPS data and other information to a web portal or software application
A process for detecting and connecting a GPS-enabled device to available in-range wireless local area networks (WLANs), particularly while the device is in motion. Once connected, the GPS enabled device sends and receives data and other information from a web service or software application. The process includes detecting relative movement speed of the GPS device and repeatedly attempts connections with new WLAN access points when in motion, particularly in excess of five miles per hour and/or twenty-five miles per hour. |
| US09525974B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of performing a position measurement
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of performing a range measurement. For example, a first wireless communication device may include a radio to communicate a discovery frame with a second wireless communication device, the discovery frame including at least one movement indication field to indicate a time of movement of a sender of said discovery frame; and a controller to perform a range measurement procedure with said second wireless communication device. |
| US09525972B2 |
Systems and methods for location-based authentication
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. |
| US09525970B2 |
Power preservation through motion-activated location reporting
A tracking device can securely communicate with a secondary device by generating a hash value based on the identity of the tracking device. If the secondary device cannot resolve the hash value, the hash value can be provided to a tracking server, such as a cloud server, for resolving the hash value. Upon resolving the hash value, the tracking server can store a location of the tracking device in association with the identity of the tracking device. To preserve power, the secondary device can activate location-detection functionality (such as a GPS receive) only in response to the detection of movement of the tracking device, can obtain location information, and can de-activate the location-detection functionality upon providing the location information to the tracking server. The tracking server can associate one or both of a previous location and the current location information based on movement of the tracking device. |
| US09525964B2 |
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage media for providing interactive navigational assistance using movable guidance markers
Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage media for displaying at a first user equipment a first marker a location wherein the location is defined remotely at a second user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a current geographic location and a current vantage point for the first user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a second marker; accepting at the second user equipment an input for adjusting the second marker from a first position to a second position, wherein the second position is indicative of a target geographic location in a first virtual view of the current geographic location of the first user equipment as displayed on the second user equipment; and in response to the adjusting, displaying at the first user equipment the first marker at the target geographic location in a second virtual view of the current geographic location. |
| US09525962B2 |
Head unit of vehicle for supporting bluetooth connection and control method thereof
A method for performing connection through Bluetooth by a head unit of a vehicle with a mobile device which is paired with the head unit includes transmitting, by a controller, a first message for checking a link-key to the mobile device. The controller transmits, upon receiving a second message indicating that connection is refused from the mobile device, a third message for starting a new pairing procedure to the mobile device. |
| US09525959B1 |
Language selection for user equipment interface during initialization
A mobile communication device comprising a radio transceiver to communicatively couple the mobile communication device to a radio access network by a wireless communication link, a processor coupled to the radio transceiver, a memory coupled to the processor, and an application stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, collects language information for use in determining a default language for the mobile communication device, analyzes the language information to determine a probability of accuracy of the default language, and assigns the default language to the mobile communication device. |
| US09525953B2 |
Method and apparatus for transit system annunciators
An apparatus and method for spatialized communication of announcements to persons in a transit vehicle moving among a plurality of transit stations in at least two different languages simultaneously, in which at least two sound-emittive speakers are spaced-apart and disposed in opposing relation for persons to hear announcements. A storage device stores signals representative of at least one announcement associated with at least each transit station in at least two different languages. A communicator simultaneously communicates the signals representative of the announcement for each one of the at least two languages to a respective one of the speakers at a predetermined time prior to arrival of the transit vehicle at the transit station in sequence. The announcement, being communicated by each one of the at least two speakers in one of the at least two languages, is spatializedly discernable by persons in the transit vehicle in each of the communicated language. |
| US09525944B2 |
Apparatus and method for an active and programmable acoustic metamaterial
An acoustic metamaterial including cells to digitally process an incoming sound waveform, and to produce a corresponding response sound waveform as a function of a frequency and a phase of the incoming sound waveform, to produce a total response sound waveform that, when combined with the incoming sound waveform, modifies the incoming sound waveform. |
| US09525942B2 |
Mobile apparatus and control method thereof
A mobile apparatus and control method thereof are provided, which includes an audio data signal input unit arranged to receive an audio data signal. An audio output unit is arranged to output an audio signal according to the received audio data signal within a first reproduction frequency. A balanced armature is arranged to output an audio signal according to the received audio data signal within a second reproduction frequency band. The second reproduction frequency band is different from the first reproduction frequency band. An audio signal processor is arranged to adjust the first reproduction frequency band and the second reproduction frequency band such that a combination of the first reproduction frequency band and the second reproduction frequency band is wider than the first reproduction frequency band and the second reproduction frequency band individually. |
| US09525941B2 |
Earjack and electronic device including the same
An ear jack for preventing the generation of popup noise, and an electronic device including the same are provided. The ear jack includes a body including a passage into which an earphone is inserted. On an inside of the passage is disposed a microphone terminal to which a capacitor is connected, the microphone terminal for receiving microphone bias power when the earphone is connected to the ear jack, a ground terminal, a right sound terminal for outputting right sounds, a left sound terminal for outputting left sounds, and a detection terminal for detecting insertion of the earphone. The ground terminal includes a first ground terminal, according to a standard of the ear jack; and a second ground terminal for discharging an electric power of the capacitor, which is charged by the microphone bias power when the earphone is removed. |
| US09525940B1 |
Multi-path analog front end and analog-to-digital converter for a signal processing system
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a processing system may include multiple selectable processing paths for processing an analog signal in order to reduce noise and increase dynamic range. Techniques are employed to transition between processing paths and calibrate operational parameters of the two paths in order to reduce or eliminate artifacts caused by switching between processing paths. |
| US09525938B2 |
User voice location estimation for adjusting portable device beamforming settings
An audio device may use the audio detected at two opposite facing, front and rear omnidirectional microphones to determine the angular directional location of a user's voice while the device in speaker mode or audio command input mode. The angular directional location may be determined to be at front, side and rear locations of the device during the period of time by calculating an energy ratio of audio signals output by the front and rear microphones during the period. Comparing the ratio to experimental data for sound received from different directions around the device may provide the location of the user's voice. Based on the determination, audio beamforming input settings may be adjusted for user voice beamforming. As a result, the device can perform better beamforming to combine the signals captured by the microphones and generate a single output that isolates the user's voice from background noise. |
| US09525937B2 |
Circuit for suppressing audio output noise and audio output circuit
A circuit for suppressing audio output noise and an audio output circuit are provided. The circuit for suppressing audio output noise includes: a detecting circuit, configured to detect output voltages of output stages of an audio power amplifier; a control circuit, configured to output at least one control signal, the control signal is related to detection results of the detecting circuit; and a compensating circuit, configured to compensate at least one output stage of the audio power amplifier which includes a differential circuit based on the at least one control signal output by the control circuit, to make parameters of the differential circuit symmetrical or approach symmetrical. Based on detection results of the output stage voltages, the differential circuit in the output stages of the audio power amplifier is compensated. The circuit for suppressing audio output noise has a wider application scope and it is easy to design the circuit. |
| US09525936B1 |
Wireless earbud communications using magnetic induction
Disclosed are systems and devices for transmission of an audio signal. In some embodiments, the system may include a wearable computing device, a first audio receiver, and a second audio receiver. The wearable computing device may include an audio source configured to generate an audio signal that includes a first channel and a second channel, and a transmission coil configured to transmit the audio signal. The first audio receiver may include a first receiving coil configured to receive the audio signal, a first circuit configured to process the audio signal to determine the first channel, and a first audio output configured to output the first channel. Similarly, the second audio receiver may include a second receiving coil configured to receive the audio signal, a second circuit configured to process the audio signal to determine the second channel, and a second audio output configured to output the second channel. |
| US09525935B2 |
Audio processing during low-power operation
A system may configure at least a low power engine (LPE) and network interface circuitry when transitioning from an active state to a low-power state. The network interface circuitry may be configured to receive information from a network and to store any received information containing audio information into a memory location. The LPE may be configured to monitor the memory location, to retrieve the stored information from the memory location, to generate audio information based on the stored information and to provide the audio information to audio circuitry for playback. It is also possible for the LPE to receive audio information from the audio circuitry, to generate information for transmission based on the audio information and to store the information into a second memory location. The network interface circuitry may then retrieve the stored information from the second memory location and transmit the information to the network. |
| US09525933B2 |
Ultrathin speaker module
An ultrathin speaker module, comprising: a casing provided with a sound hole thereon; a speaker unit comprising a diaphragm; a first separating wall provided with a diaphragm accommodating hole, wherein the diaphragm is fixed in the diaphragm accommodating hole, and the first separating wall and the diaphragm separate the internal space of the casing into an upper space and a lower space; and a second separating wall, which separates the upper space into one first upper cavity and at least one second upper cavity, wherein the first upper cavity comprises the diaphragm and forms a front acoustic cavity, and the front acoustic cavity is in communication with the outside through the sound hole on the casing; and the at least one second upper cavity is in communication with the lower space through a through hole on the first separating wall, and forms a rear acoustic cavity. |
| US09525929B2 |
Variable occlusion headphones
An adjustable occlusion headphone includes a housing having a face, a resilient seal member on the housing, adapted to surround the user's ear, and with the face of the housing form a chamber enclosing the user's ear. A speaker communicates through the face of the housing to provide sound to the user's ear. There is at least one port in the face of the housing. A passage extends from each port to the exterior of the housing. A valve member associated with each passage, is operable between an open position and a closed position, and an operator for operating each valve member between its open and closed position to control sound communication from outside the housing to the chamber. |
| US09525926B2 |
Acoustic sensor apparatus and acoustic camera for using MEMS microphone array
An acoustic camera for using a MEMS microphone array comprises: an acoustic sensor apparatus (30) comprising a print circuit board (20) on which the plural of MEMS microphone (10) are mounted, to send signals for the detected sound to a data collection unit (40); a data collection unit (40) connected to the acoustic sensor apparatus (30), which samples analog signals related to sound transmitted from the acoustic sensor apparatus (30) to transform into digital signals and transmit them to the central processing unit (40); a central processing unit (50) connected to the data collection unit (40), which calculates noise level based on digital signals related to sound transmitted from the data collection unit (40); and a display unit (60) which is connected to the central processing unit (50), which displays in color the noise level calculated at the central processing unit. |
| US09525923B2 |
Multi-detection of heartbeat to reduce error probability
A communications system improves performance of detecting a signal having an indication of a request to change communications states by making at least two positive identifications of the request in a given time frame. The system may further improve performance by applying a difference in power levels for a non-request state (i.e., steady state or ‘control hold’ state) versus a request state (i.e., ‘request to change’ state). In one particular application, a base station determines a request to change communications states with a reasonably high probability of detection and a reasonably low probability of false detection. The system has a reduced number of erroneous communications states, such as erroneous traffic channel allocations. The detection technique is compatible with 1xEV-DV systems and I-CDMA systems, but general enough to support systems employing various other communications protocols used in wired and wireless communications systems. |
| US09525922B2 |
Optical access network
An optical access network comprises an optical network unit having a first port for connecting to a first optical link, a second port for connecting to a second optical link and an optical source. The optical source is arranged to generate a first optical signal, to transmit the first optical signal via the first port, to receive an optical seed signal via the first port and to amplify the optical seed signal. The optical seed signal has a narrower bandwidth compared to the first optical signal. A modulator is arranged to modulate the amplified optical seed signal with upstream data to form an upstream optical signal and to transmit the upstream optical signal via the second port. A polarization modifier can modify polarization of the first optical signal. |
| US09525921B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing an interactive service
A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes generating an application parameter table which includes information about at least one of applications, wherein the application parameter table includes a first identifier and a second identifier, wherein the first identifier identifies a interactive programming segment which application parameter table pertains to, and wherein the second identifier identifies an application within the scope of application parameter table; generating an activation message file that indicates at least one of activation times of the applications, wherein the activation message file includes a third identifier and activation messages, wherein the third identifier matches the first identifier of application parameter table which contains the applications, wherein the activation message includes a fourth identifier and a start time information, wherein the fourth identifier matches the second identifier of the application in the application parameter table, and wherein the start time information indicates the start time for an event targeted to the application relative to segment time; generating a multi-part message with the application parameter table as the first part and the activation message file as the second part; and transmitting the multi-part message to receiver via HTTP. |
| US09525919B2 |
Program guide system with real-time data sources
A program guide system in which an interactive television program guide is implemented at least partially on user television equipment receives program listings data and real-time data such as sports scores, news data, etc. The real-time data may be stored in a database maintained by the program guide, so that the program guide may access the stored real-time data at a later time. Updated program listings information may be provided to the program guide as part of the data stream in which the real-time data is provided. Unique keys may be generated for the program listings data and real-time data associated with each live event. The keys may be compared at the program guide to determine which program listings correspond to which items of real-time data. Different types of real-time data may be assigned different expiration times. When data has expired it may be removed from the database. |
| US09525918B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically setting up user preferences for enabling subtitles
Systems and methods for automatically enabling subtitles are provided. A user request to enable subtitles setting is received while the user is viewing a first media asset. A characteristic associated with the first media asset is retrieved. An indication of user preference for subtitles of media assets associated with the retrieved characteristic is automatically stored in response to receiving the user request. The subtitles setting is automatically enabled when the subtitles setting is disabled, based on the stored indication, when a second media asset that is associated with the retrieved characteristic is accessed. |
| US09525917B2 |
Automatic commercial playback system
While a multimedia device is fast-forwarding content, the multimedia device reads “jump back” tags expressed in or derived from a closed-caption stream. When the multimedia device detects the presence of a “jump back” tag while fast-forwarding, the multimedia device enters a special state. While in this special state, if the multimedia device detects that the user has instructed the multimedia device to stop fast-forwarding, the multimedia device locates a specified temporal location in a recorded commercial break. This specified temporal location may be specified by the particular tag, for example. The multimedia device stops performing whatever activity in which the multimedia device was engaged, “jumps back” to the specified temporal location in the recorded commercial break, and resumes playing the recorded content stream at normal speed from the specified temporal location. |
| US09525916B2 |
Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same
A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel. |
| US09525914B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing cut-offs in program recording
A media recording system may be provided. The recording system may include features for reducing recording cut-off of a particular media event due to changes in the start time and end time of what is scheduled to be recorded. The recording system may provide a user with an opportunity to select a program by for example, selecting a listing, to have that program automatically recorded at a scheduled time for presentation to viewers. Changes in the schedule of programs may be compensated manually or automatically when the recording system receives information about actual or predicted time changes. In a manual mode, a user may adjust start or end times based on time change information that is displayed. For an automatic mode, the recording system may automatically compensate for predicted or actual time changes that are known by automatically adjusting the start and end times of recording. |
| US09525913B2 |
Systems, methods, and media for inhibiting the presentation of spoiler content based on requested content
Systems, methods, and media for inhibiting the presentation of spoiler content based on requested content are provided. In some embodiments, a method for content management is provided, the method comprising: determining a channel that has been selected for presenting content to a user; identifying the content presented on the channel as requested content based on a comparison of first metadata associated with the content and second metadata associated with recorded content on a storage device; determining that the requested content contains spoiler content based on one or more criterion, wherein the one or more criterion include (i) determining that the first metadata associated with the content includes episode data or airing data; (ii) determining that the first metadata associated with the content indicates that the content belongs to a non-excluded content category; or (iii) determining, for the recorded content not viewed to completion, that the second metadata associated with the recorded content indicates an earlier occurrence than the first metadata associated with the requested program; and, in response to determining that a plurality of the one or more criterion have been met, selecting an alternate channel for presentation. |
| US09525909B2 |
Set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of same
A set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a television input, television output, a processor, and memory. The set-top box may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Content, such as the Internet, movies, music, or games, for example, may be imported from the programmable device and reformatted at the set-top box for display on a television via the television output, thereby creating an experience on the television parallel to the experience on the programmable device. Virtual remote control functionality may then be provided by a spoken sequence of words. |
| US09525902B2 |
Discovery and analytics for episodic downloaded media
Matching advertising information to media content/user combinations in which information and content are delivered to a user over a network is disclosed. Content providers and advertisers may find out about the offerings of one another as well as user profiles and preferences thereby facilitating agreement of ads with content and users. Viral syndication is also facilitated by allowing the user to share downloaded media with friends and associates. Users may bookmark, share, and/or request/find more content with similarities to the downloaded content with various analytics being reported with respect to the same. |
| US09525900B2 |
Video management system
A system and method for managing video data and metadata associated with the video data is disclosed. In one embodiment, a content management system receives video data and metadata associated with the video data, such as a title, a thumbnail image and a subject matter identifier. Instructions for a media player used to present the video data using a destination site are also generated to simplify distribution of the video data to one or more destination sites. The content management system further enables a user to edit the stored video data to customize placements of advertisements or other data within the video data by identifying one or more cue points in the video data. A data store is coupled to the content management system to store the video data and the metadata associated with the video data. |
| US09525896B2 |
Automatic summarizing of media content
The subject matter discloses an automatic summarizing method the method comprising: receiving from a computerized device a request for summarizing a media content; segmenting the media content into a plurality of segments; wherein an at least one of the plurality of segments is associated with a metadata; wherein said metadata comprising characteristics; ranking a relevancy of each of the plurality of segments; wherein the ranking comprising associating scores to the segments according to the metadata; and selecting an at least one selected segment from said plurality of segments; wherein the at least one selected segment is associated with a highest score from the scores. |
| US09525891B2 |
Method and apparatus for entropy coding video and method and apparatus for entropy decoding video
Provided are entropy decoding and encoding methods of a video. The entropy decoding method includes obtaining a transformation unit significant coefficient flag indicating whether a non-zero transformation coefficient exists in the transformation unit, from a bitstream, determining a context model for arithmetically 5 decoding the transformation unit significant coefficient flag, based on the transformation depth of the transformation unit and arithmetically decoding the transformation unit significant coefficient flag based on the determined context model. |
| US09525890B2 |
Method and apparatus for decoding for AVS system using fetching flag
A decoding method for an audio video coding standard (AVS) system is provided. According to a stop-fetching criterion, a stop-fetching flag is set to an enabled status or a disabled status. In an offset fetching procedure, it is determined whether an offset value is smaller than a threshold and whether the stop-fetching is in the disabled status. When a determination result is affirmative, one subsequent bit is fetched for the offset value, an offset shift value is correspondingly increased, and the determination step is iterated. When the determination result is negative, the offset fetching procedure is terminated. Next, it is determined whether a decoding result is a least probable symbol (LPS) or a most probable symbol (MPS). |
| US09525889B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding video signal and method and apparatus for decoding video signal
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding a video signal and a method and apparatus for decoding a video signal. The method of encoding the video signal includes: determining an optimum scaling bit depth of the video signal in consideration of a maximum bit number of an intermediate value obtained during transformation of the video signal and a maximum bit precision of the video signal; scaling the video signal according to a local shift value corresponding to a difference between the determined optimum scaling bit depth and an original bit depth of the video signal; and transforming the scaled video signal. |
| US09525883B2 |
Cross-layer alignment of intra random access point pictures
A video processing device includes a memory storing video data and one or more processors configured to: receive a first network abstraction layer (NAL) unit comprising a first picture of an access unit; in response to determining the first NAL unit comprises an intra random access point (IRAP) picture and in response to a NAL unit type for the first NAL unit indicating the presence of an instantaneous decoding refresh (IDR) picture without any associated leading pictures for a second NAL unit of the access unit comprising another IRAP picture, determine a NAL unit type for the second NAL unit to be a NAL unit type indicating the presence of an IDR picture without any associated leading pictures; and, process the first NAL unit and the second NAL unit based on the NAL unit type for the second NAL unit. |
| US09525880B2 |
Lossless video data compressor with very high data rate
Lossless video data compression is performed in real time at the data rate of incoming real time video data in a process employing a minimum number of computational steps for each video pixel. Each pixel 8-bit byte is converted to a difference byte representing the difference between the pixel and its immediate predecessor in a serialized stream of the pixel bytes. This reduces the dynamic range of the data. Any carry bits generated in the subtraction process of two's complement arithmetic are discarded. This reduces the data by a factor of two. Finally, the 8-bit difference pixel bytes thus produced are subject to a maximum entropy encoding process. Such a maximum entropy encoding process may be referred to as a minimum length encoding process. |
| US09525879B2 |
Method and apparatus for parsing error robustness of temporal motion vector prediction
A method and apparatus for deriving a motion vector predictor (MVP) are disclosed. The MVP is selected from spatial MVP and temporalone or more MVP candidates. The method determines a value of a flag in a video bitstream, where the flag is utilized for selectively disabling use of one or more temporal MVP candidates for motion vector prediction. The method selects, based on an index derived from the video bitstream, the MVP from one or more non-temporal MVP candidates responsive to the flag indicating that said one or more temporal MVP candidates are not to be utilized for motion vector prediction. Further, the method provides the MVP for the current block. |
| US09525877B2 |
Video decoder parallelization for tiles
A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame. |
| US09525874B2 |
Transmitting apparatus and transmission method
If a loss of a RTP packet is detected, a RTT acquisition unit acquires time information corresponding to a period of time needed from transmission of data from a transmitting apparatus to reception of this data at a receiving apparatus. A QoS switching unit determines based on the time information whether moving image data is to be retransmitted that was transmitted from the transmitting apparatus but that has been lost without being received by the receiving apparatus or moving image data located in playback time sequence after the lost moving image data is to be encoded without referring to the lost moving image data and the resultant encoded moving image data is to be transmitted. |
| US09525870B2 |
Encoding an image
A quantization level is determined for use by an encoder in encoding an image in accordance with a target number of bits. For each section of the image, the pixels are analyzed to estimate the complexity of the image section. For each of a plurality of candidate quantization levels, a relationship and the estimated complexity of the image sections are used to estimate the number of bits that would be generated by encoding the image with the encoder using the respective candidate quantization level, and based thereon one of the candidate quantization levels is selected. The relationship is a function of the quantization level used by the encoder, and is for use in relating the complexity of an image section to the number of bits that would be generated by encoding that image section with the encoder. The encoder uses the selected quantization level in encoding the image. |
| US09525869B2 |
Encoding an image
An image processor comprises an image pre-processing block and an encoder processing block for processing and encoding an image. The image pre-processing block receives image data and processes it to provide an image comprising image sections which each comprise pixels. For each of the image sections, the pixels are analyzed to estimate an indication of the complexity of the image section, and metadata is determined based on the estimated complexity indications of the image sections. The metadata is passed to the encoder processing block which uses it to determine a quantization level for use in encoding the image. The encoder processing block can then encode the image using the determined quantization level. Conveniently, the image pre-processing block 106 processes the image data to provide the image, and therefore has access to the image which it can analyze to determine the metadata without requiring a separate read operation of the image. |
| US09525866B1 |
Building a digital camera fingerprint from cropped or corrupted images
A method of identifying a digital camera is disclosed. First and second digital images generated by the camera have dimensions that are not equal. The method includes calculating noise residuals and normalized cross-correlations (NCCs) between the noise residuals corresponding to candidate translations. The method further includes calculating a noise floor and identifying first and second peak values corresponding to translations. The method further includes calculating a peak ratio, determining that the peak ratio exceeds an alignment threshold and calculating a digital camera fingerprint for the digital camera based on the noise residuals and the first translation. The method further includes receiving a digital image, calculating a noise residual of the digital image, and determining that the image was generated by the digital camera based on the noise residual and the fingerprint and generating a record associating the image with the camera. |
| US09525865B2 |
Fault detection and method of detecting faults in digital imaging systems
A method of analyzing a digital camera includes generating first image data using an image sensor in the camera. A first analysis is performed on at least one portion of the first image data. Second image data is generated using the image sensor and a second analysis is performed on the at least one portion of the second image data. The results of the first analysis are compared to the results of the second analysis. A signal indicating a fault with the digital camera is generated in response to the first analysis differing from the second analysis by a predetermined amount. |
| US09525857B2 |
Color processing device, color processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium
A color processing device includes the following elements. An image data obtaining unit obtains image data which is obtained by imaging a white member illuminated by a light source and a display device on which a white image is displayed. A color component extracting unit extracts color components of red, green, and blue from image data concerning the white member and image data concerning the white image. A relation determining unit determines a relation between a color temperature and/or a brightness level of the light source and a color temperature and/or a brightness level of the white image, on the basis of a magnitude relation of the extracted color components. |
| US09525855B2 |
Projection subsystem
Projection subsystems are described. More, particularly, projection subsystems that include a light source and a polarizing beam splitter are described. The polarizing beam splitters of the presently described projection subsystems are capable of avoiding performance degradation even after exposure to large doses of incident light. |
| US09525837B1 |
Dual sample-and-hold circuit with resistive gain
An image processing circuit includes a first dual sample-and-hold circuit that samples a first data and a second data from a first pixel, a second dual sample-and-hold circuit that samples a third data and a fourth data from a second pixel, a voltage-to-current circuit including a resistor and a current source, that receives the first data and the second data to output a first difference data, and that receives the third data and the fourth data to output a second difference data; and an analog-to-digital converter that converts the first and second difference data from an analog form to a digital form. |
| US09525836B2 |
AD conversion apparatus, solid-state imaging apparatus, and imaging system
Provided is an AD conversion apparatus including: a reference signal generating circuit configured to output a first reference signal and a second reference signal, whose voltages change with time; a comparison circuit configured to perform a comparison between a voltage of the analog signal and the voltage of the first reference signal; a control circuit configured to generate and output digital data based on the comparison; a digital-to-analog converter configured to generate, using the second reference signal, a signal whose voltage changes with time from a comparison base voltage, the comparison base voltage being based on the digital data, and configured to output the signal to the comparison circuit; and a counter configured to generate a count value by measuring an elapsed time. The comparison circuit is further configured to perform a comparison between the voltage of the analog signal and the signal output from the digital-to-analog converter. |
| US09525835B2 |
Solid-state image pickup device and camera system
A solid-state image pickup device including a pixel unit in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements having different sensitivities are arranged; and a pixel reading unit configured to read and add output signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements in the pixel unit, and to obtain an output signal seemingly from one pixel. The pixel unit includes an absorbing unit configured to absorb overflowing electric charge from a photoelectric conversion element with a high sensitivity. |
| US09525833B2 |
Imaging device for phase difference detection
An imaging device includes phase difference detection pixels. The imaging device receives an image formed by an optical system and includes a plurality of pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged. Each of the plurality of pixels include a micro lens; a photoelectric conversion unit positioned below the micro lens; and an optical aperture disposed between the micro lens and the photoelectric conversion unit and that is eccentric with respect to an optical axis of the micro lens, wherein the plurality of pixels of the imaging device output a signal for obtaining phase difference. The imaging device performs phase difference detection on the entire surface of a captured image without addition of pixels. |
| US09525832B1 |
Image sensor device with an electromagnetic compatibility shield (EMC) and associated methods
An image sensor device includes a base having a rectangular shape and comprising first contacts and a reference voltage contact extending along a first side thereof, a housing carried by the base, and an image sensor integrated circuit (IC) carried by the base within the housing and having an image sensing surface. A focus cell is within the housing, aligned with the image sensing surface, and includes second contacts. An electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) shield is carried by the housing and includes a top panel having an opening therein aligned with the focus cell, and side panels extending downwardly from the top panel. Conductive leads extend between one of the first contacts and a corresponding one of the second contacts. A reference conductive lead extends between the reference voltage contact and the EMC shield. |
| US09525830B1 |
Captioning communication systems
A method to generate a contact list may include receiving an identifier of a first communication device at a captioning system. The first communication device may configured to provide first audio data to a second communication device. The second communication device may be configured to receive first text data of the first audio data from the captioning system. The method may further include receiving and storing contact data from each of multiple communication devices at the captioning system. The method may further include selecting the contact data from the multiple communication devices that include the identifier of the first communication device as selected contact data and generating a contact list based on the selected contact data. The method may also include sending the contact list to the first communication device to provide the contact list as contacts for presentation on an electronic display of the first communication device. |
| US09525828B2 |
Group recording method, machine-readable storage medium, and electronic device
A group recording method for an electronic device is provided. The method includes establishing a connection between the electronic device and at least one other electronic device through wireless communication, acquiring a first image created by photographing a target subject, acquiring a second image created by photographing the target subject from the another electronic device, and concurrently recording by the electronic device the first image and the second image and displaying the first image and the second image together on a display screen, in which a second viewpoint corresponding to the second image is different from a first viewpoint corresponding to the first image. |
| US09525827B2 |
Imaging apparatus, image processing device, image processing method, and program
An imaging apparatus includes a control unit which displays cutout positions of a start frame and an end frame on an object image which is displayed on a display unit, and sets frame setting information including the cutout positions of the start frame and the end frame, in which the control unit determines a cutout region of an image frame according to the frame setting information in each of a plurality of photographed images which are photographed continuously or intermittently, and executes image cutout processing according to determined information. |
| US09525826B2 |
Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling the image pickup apparatus, and recording medium
An image pickup apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a designation of an image pickup direction of an image pickup unit in relation to superimposition of a mask image on an picked-up image; and a setting unit configured to set, when the receiving unit receives the designation of the image pickup direction, a position of superimposition of the mask image in an image pickup range where the image pickup unit can pick up images, on the basis of the designated image pickup direction. |
| US09525823B2 |
Display control apparatus, display control method, and program
There is provided a display control apparatus including an external memory accommodating unit for accommodating a removable external memory; a database recognizing unit for recognizing a database stored in the external memory, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other; a display method setting unit for setting either display method of a stored first display method or a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database based on a recognition result of the database recognizing unit; and a display controlling unit for displaying the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the set display method. |
| US09525822B2 |
Imaging apparatus and image blur correction method
An imaging apparatus includes a follow shot control unit and a blur correction unit. The follow shot control unit calculates a panning angular velocity and a tilting angular velocity based on a first or second angular velocity for an image pickup device on the basis of magnitude correlation between the first and second angular velocities for image pickup device and on the basis of an inclination angle immediately before exposure and a ratio between the first and second angular velocities, when a state is a following shot state. The blur correction unit calculates an image blur correction amount on the basis of a difference between the first angular velocity and the panning angular velocity and a difference between the second angular velocity and the tilting angular velocity. |
| US09525818B2 |
Automatic tuning of images based on metadata
Automatic techniques to tune images based on metadata are described. In one or more implementations, image data and metadata are received that references a geographic location. Responsive to a user input, the image data is processed using one or more tuning parameters that correspond to the geographic location to change one or more visual characteristics of the image data. |
| US09525812B2 |
Master flash apparatus and method
A master flash apparatus which emits light when an image capturing device outputs a synchronous light emission command after the image capturing device outputs a first light emission start command. The apparatus can perform wireless communication with a slave flash apparatus which emits light in response to a second light emission start command received from the master flash apparatus. A transmission unit transmits the second light emission start command to the slave flash apparatus when a predetermined time has elapsed after the image capturing device outputs the first light emission start command. A measurement unit measures a time from the output of the first light emission start command from the image capturing device to the output of the synchronous light emission command from the image capturing device. An adjustment unit adjusts the predetermined time based on the time measured by the measurement unit. |
| US09525805B1 |
Surveillance assembly
A surveillance assembly provides notification and real time monitoring of activity sensed proximate to one or more positionable cameras. The assembly includes a housing and at least one camera coupled to the housing. A dome is coupled to the housing and extends around each camera. The dome is translucent such that each camera is positionable to monitor an area proximate the housing through the dome. At least one sensor is provided with each sensor being coupled to the housing and directed to the position monitored by an associated camera. A processor is operationally coupled to each sensor and each camera wherein the processor actuates each camera when the associated sensor detects activity in the position monitored by the camera. A transmitter is operationally coupled to the processor and transmits a notification to an extrinsic remote device upon actuation of any camera. |
| US09525801B2 |
Image reading control apparatus and method for executing image reading processing based on a reading instruction and inhibiting a reading apparatus from accepting new tasks
An image reading control apparatus performs processing to achieve adequate execution of image reading processing based on a reading instruction which is provided while the image reading processing is being performed. In a case where the image reading control apparatus detects that the image reading apparatus provides an image reading instruction, it is determined whether processing based on the image reading processing is being performed. In a case where the image reading apparatus is currently in the processing based on the image reading processing, the image reading control apparatus causes the currently detected processing for the image reading instruction to stand by as well as requests the image reading apparatus not to accept the other new job. |
| US09525799B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and recording medium for updating the transmission result of a multi-address transmission
If instruction information for a multi-address transmission for performing a FAX transmission to a plurality of destinations is transmitted, and if an acquired transmission result indicates failure of the FAX transmission to at least one of the destinations, a transmission result indicating failure of the multi-address transmission is displayed. After the instruction information for performing the FAX transmission again to a retransmission target destination to which FAX transmission has failed is transmitted to an image forming apparatus, a result of the FAX transmission performed based on the instruction information for performing the FAX transmission again to the retransmission target destination is acquired. |
| US09525797B2 |
Image capturing device having continuous image capture
Methods, devices, and systems for continuous image capturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes continuously capturing a sequence of images with an image capturing device. The method may further include storing a predetermined number of the sequence of images in a buffer. The method may further include receiving a user request to capture an image. In response to the user request, the method may further include automatically selecting one of the buffered images based on an exposure time of one of the buffered images. The sequence of images is captured prior to or concurrently with receiving the user request. |
| US09525796B2 |
Device, system and method for controlling device
The present invention manages a reset type and a reset condition state, the reset type indicating whether or not a screen reset operation is necessary when each synchronized setting value is synchronized. This information is confirmed when synchronization is performed, and necessary reset processing such as log-out processing is executed if necessary. |
| US09525792B2 |
Image reading apparatus, method for controlling image reading apparatus, and storage medium
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image on a document, a document conveyance unit that conveys the document to the reading unit, a first identification unit that identifies a size of the document before the document begins to be conveyed, a reading control unit that controls the reading unit to read the document, based on the size identified by the first identification unit, and a second identification unit that identifies a size of the document after the document begins to be conveyed, wherein the reading control unit performs control to, in a case where the size identified by the first identification unit is smaller than the size identified by the second identification unit, cancel reading processing, and in a case where the size identified by the first identification unit is greater than the size identified by the second identification unit, continue the reading processing. |
| US09525791B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method of displaying object in image processing apparatus
In one embodiment, an image processing apparatus has a display, a memory and a processor. The display displays a plurality of objects. The memory stores display setting data for displaying the objects. When a move button which is added to the object detects an operation of a user, the processor edits the display setting data so that display positions of the relevant object and an object which is paired with the relevant object are exchanged. |
| US09525788B2 |
Method and apparatus to input workflow steps and parameters
An image forming method and apparatus, and a host in which the image forming method includes setting a processing order of a plurality of operations of a same image data and detailed setup information of the plurality of operations, and executing the plurality of operations using the detailed setup information according to the set processing order. |
| US09525785B2 |
Efficient image transmission
A mobile telephone (10, 20) receives, constructs and displays an image (32) from a server (18) over a mobile telephone network (12, 16, 18) where the server (18) determines the parameters for data transfer from the server (18) to the mobile telephone (10, 20), the capabilities of the mobile telephone (32) transfer task requirements, and apportions the processing between the server and the mobile telephone (10, 20) for each of a plurality of elements (28, 30, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 60, 62) in each image (32), thereby to meet the task requirement, which can include being within a predetermined time for task completion, or being the fastest means for task completion. Parameters for data transfer from server (18) to telephone (10, 20) include server (18) transmission bandwidth, phone (10, 20) reception bandwidth, data channel bandwidth, transmission protocol; and channel accessibility. Phone (10, 20) capabilities include the data processing speed, the available memory, display size and the data processing software available; Task requirements include the maximum time from transmission to display of the image; and the minimum display resolution of the image. |
| US09525782B2 |
Usage-based adaptive data allocation for a toll-free data service campaign
A device may receive campaign information for deploying a toll-free data service campaign. The campaign information may identify a total amount of data to be allocated for a toll-free data service associated with the toll-free data service campaign. The device may determine enforcement devices associated with the toll-free data service campaign, and may allocate a portion of data, of the total amount of data, to an enforcement device. The device may receive, from the enforcement device, data usage information that indicates an amount of the portion of data consumed during a first time period, by mobile devices associated with the enforcement device, in association with the toll-free data service campaign. The device may determine, based on the data usage information, an additional amount of data to be allocated to the enforcement device, and may allocate the additional amount of data to the enforcement device. |
| US09525776B2 |
System and method for managing enterprise communications
A response managing system for managing at least one communication session in an enterprise is disclosed. The response managing system includes a monitoring module for monitoring one or more parameters associated with the at least one communication session between a customer and a resource, wherein the resource provides one or more responses to the customer. The response managing system further includes a database for storing the one or more monitored parameters. The response managing system further includes a processing module for processing the one or more stored parameters to determine one or more characteristics of the customer. The response managing system further includes a response preparation module for preparing one or more responses based on the one or more determined characteristics. |
| US09525773B2 |
Controlled communication between residents of controlled-environment facilities
Embodiments receive an indication of initiation of communication from a controlled-environment facility resident, using a communications device, with another controlled-environment facility resident. A determination is made whether the residents are allowed to communicate and the communication is established between the communications device and another communications device in use by the other resident. The residents may be residents of different or the same controlled-environment facility(ies). The communication may be monitored and/or a database of residents that communicate with one another may be compiled. The communication between the controlled-environment facility residents may proceed, even despite a determination or predetermination that the residents are not allowed to communicate with one another, so the communication may be monitored. At least one of the residents may be charged for the communication, such as by charging a community communications account maintained to the benefit of at least one of the residents. |
| US09525769B1 |
Providing interactive alert information
In some implementations, a computer-implemented method of displaying alert information with a mobile communication device includes displaying device status indicators to a user of a mobile device in a status area; receiving information from an application to display an alert in the status area; displaying in the status area a first level of information for the alert and a user-selectable control; and displaying, in response to a selection of the user-selectable control, a second level of information for the alert that provides greater detail than the first level of information. |
| US09525766B2 |
Method, device and system for automatically switching voice call services
A method, device and system for automatically switching voice call services are described which are capable of intelligently determining IP network service authority states and data connection states of a current calling party and a called party through the cooperation of a terminal and an IP network service server when a user initiates a voice call based on a PLMN network and automatically switching the voice call of the PLMN network to a voice call service of an IP network when the states of the calling party and the called party both meet a set switching condition. By bearing the current call with the IP network instead of the PLMN network, the method, the device and the system disclosed herein achieve the purposes of improving call quality and saving call fee. |
| US09525764B1 |
Co-mold features on a chassis shell of a mobile device
A mobile device can include a unibody component (e.g. chassis shell) with at least a co-mold feature that isolates a contiguous portion of the unibody component from an outer portion of the unibody component. For example, the outer portion and the contiguous portion can be made of an electrically conductive material. The co-mold feature can be made of non-conductive material that electrically isolates the contiguous portion from the outer portion. The co-mold feature can be made by co-molding a resin material in a channel cut into a piece of metal and later exposing the cured resin material on two sides. |
| US09525761B1 |
Mobile communication device
A mobile communication device including a substrate, an antenna element and a sensing element is provided. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The antenna element is disposed on the first surface and converts a feeding signal into an electromagnetic wave. The antenna element includes a first portion receiving the feeding signal and a second portion electrically connected to a ground. The sensing element is disposed on the second surface and generates a sensing signal in response to proximity of an object. An orthogonal projection of the sensing element on the first surface and an orthogonal projection of the second portion on the first surface are overlapped with each other and have the same shape. |
| US09525759B2 |
Physical layer data unit format
In a wireless communication system wherein communication devices exchange information utilizing data units that conform to a first format, wherein the first format includes a short training field (STF) spread with a first spread code, a physical layer (PHY) data unit that conforms to a second format and is for transmitting PHY control information is generated. Generating the PHY data unit includes generating a first portion of the PHY data unit to indicate the PHY data unit conforms to the second format, wherein the first portion of the PHY data unit includes an STF spread with a second spread code different than the first spread code. A second portion of the PHY data unit is generated according to the second format, wherein the second portion of the PHY data unit omits header fields specified by the first format. |
| US09525756B2 |
Method and apparatus for invoking content of contact list
The present disclosure discloses an apparatus for calling content of a contact list, including: a determining unit configured to send a shortcut adding unit a determining result that a shortcut to a contact list can be added in an Input Method Editor IME system; the shortcut adding unit configured to add the shortcut to the contact list in the IME system of a shortcut responding unit when receiving the determining result that the shortcut to the contact list can be added in the IME system sent by the determining unit; and the shortcut responding unit configured to save in the IME system the shortcut to the contact list sent by the shortcut adding unit, and call the contact list according to an operation of selecting the shortcut to the contact list from the IME system. The present disclosure also discloses a method for calling content of a contact list. With the present disclosure the content of a contact list can be called promptly without being limited by a category of content to be acquired or by a device. |
| US09525752B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing contextual services
Provided are systems and methods for contextually providing services via a portable computer at a selected location. According to some embodiments, the systems and methods include processes for determining location-specific information about the selected location, determining status information about a user of the portable computer interface, and displaying an available service to the user on a display screen of the portable computer, the available service being selected based on the location-specific information and the status information, configuring a portable computer for transient use by a plurality of guests at a selected location. |
| US09525745B2 |
System and method for performing follow up based on user interactions
A system and method for follow up management comprising determining if a user has a repository record, extracting information from the repository record associated with the user, and acting on information stored in the repository record. The method may be practiced on a system for managing online interaction comprising a business rules engine a follow up repository, and a follow up engine. |
| US09525744B2 |
Determining a uniform user identifier for a visiting user
Determining a uniform user identifier for a visiting user is disclosed, including: generating a plurality of access sets based at least in part on the network address identifier associated with a plurality of access requests submitted by one or more visiting users, and a plurality of header field elements associated with the plurality of access requests, wherein each of the plurality of access requests includes a preliminary user identifier, the network address identifier, and the plurality of header field elements, and wherein an access set includes the network address identifier and at least some of the plurality of header field elements; determining information loss rates corresponding to respective ones of at least a subset of the plurality of access sets; and selecting an access set from the plurality of access sets based at least in part on the respective information loss rate to use to determine a uniform user identifier corresponding to a visiting user of the plurality of visiting users. |
| US09525737B2 |
Lockless distributed redundant storage and NVRAM cache in a highly-distributed shared topology with direct memory access capable interconnect
A method for data storage includes, in a system that includes multiple servers and multiple multi-queue storage devices that communicate over a network, accumulating data blocks by a server in a Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory (NVRAM) cache that is accessible to the servers and to the storage devices, by sending the data blocks from the server to the NVRAM cache using remote direct memory access, so as to form one or more stripes. The stripes are transferred from the NVRAM cache to respective server-specific queues on the storage devices. Another server is prevented from causing inconsistency in the data blocks, by querying a data structure, which is shared and modified by the servers using remote direct memory access, and which specifies storage locations of the data blocks. |
| US09525732B2 |
Social networking and network connectivity
Social networking is used to enhance content delivery to mobile devices. Sometimes a mobile device lacks network connectivity, such as when the mobile device is off or offline. Content cannot be sent to the mobile device when lacking network connectivity. A social network, however, may be retrieved for interim storage of the content. When the mobile device lacks network connectivity, the content may be routed to a member device of the social network. The member device stores the content until the mobile device resumes network connectivity. The member device may then send or forward the content to the mobile device. |
| US09525729B2 |
Remote monitoring pool management
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for remotely and/or automatically managing a monitoring pool of management servers configured to monitor resources, such as storage devices. For example, a monitoring installer package may be sent from a remote source to a management server for remote installation of a monitoring component capable of monitoring resources. The monitoring installer package may be remotely executed from the remote source to install the monitoring component on the management server. The management server may be assigned to the monitoring pool, and may be configured to monitor, utilizing the monitoring component, a set of resources of a resource pool. In this way, management servers may be remotely added to and/or removed from the monitoring pool. Load balancing may be remotely performed for the management servers assigned to the monitoring pool. |
| US09525724B1 |
Method and apparatus for managing sequential processing of messages
A method and apparatus to help manage sequential processing of messages. When a layer of a protocol stack in a computing device encounters a need to transmit two or more messages in a particular sequence, the layer generates and pass to a next layer of the stack a composite message defining the two or more messages together, rather than sending the messages one by one to the next layer. With this process, the combination of the two or more messages may thus pass between and/or through layers of the stack, and a layer of the stack receiving the combination may then extract the messages individually from the combination and output the extracted messages in sequence as desired. |
| US09525722B2 |
Obtaining mobile contact information
The present invention provides an information processing method applied to a first electronic device having a communication function, able to be connected to a second electronic device, and including a display unit. The method includes obtaining first character string information used for looking up first contact information corresponding to a first contact person; transmitting the first character string information to the second electronic device; receiving N pieces of contact information including the first contact information which are obtained by the second electronic device based on the first character string information, N being an integer equal to or larger than one; and displaying the N pieces of contact information on the display unit, so as to determine the first contact information from among the N pieces of contact information in response to a selection operation from a user when detecting the selection operation. |
| US09525721B2 |
Client-side aggregation of nested resource dependencies
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product retrieves a nested resource. A client computer identifies software modules that are required by a primary software module. The dependent and primary software modules are consolidated at a client computer into an aggregated software module, which is a nested resource. A request for the aggregated software module is transmitted to a module server from a client-side module loader, which is incapable of identifying a name of received software modules from the module server. The client-side module loader in the client computer then receives the requested aggregated software module without any identification. |
| US09525719B2 |
HTTP parallel processing router
According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a router having a first I/O terminal and a second I/O terminal, wherein the first I/O terminal is configured to be in communication with at least one client via a first network, wherein the second I/O terminal is configured to be in communication with a plurality of remote servers via a second network, and wherein the router is configured to receive, at the first I/O terminal via the first network, a web services request from the at least one client, identify, based on the web services request from the at least one client, a group of the plurality of remote servers that are capable of fulfilling the web services request, and transmit, in parallel via the second I/O terminal and the to second network, the received web services request to each one of the plurality of remote servers within the group. |
| US09525715B2 |
Deploying a portion of a streaming application to one or more virtual machines
A streams manager monitors performance of a streaming application, and when the performance needs to be improved, the streams manager determines from split rules how to split the flow graph for the streaming application. The streams manager requests virtual machines from a cloud manager. In response, the cloud manager provisions one or more virtual machines in a cloud. The streams manager then modifies the flow graph so a portion of the flow graph is deployed to the one or more virtual machines in the cloud. In this manner a streaming application can dynamically evolve to increase its performance as needed. |
| US09525712B1 |
Dynamic auto-registration and transcoding of media content devices via network attached storage
A method and system for providing media to a client device by a network attached storage unit is provided. A connection is established between the client device and the network attached storage unit, a media format for the client device is selected based upon a negotiation involving the client device and the network attached storage unit. |
| US09525711B2 |
Multi-media conferencing system
A multi-media conferencing system that integrates visual, audio, independent data interaction and modification, collaboration of information, independent video and 3D model viewing and manipulation, and networking among all participants in the meeting. Each participant conference display typically shows two content sectors under the control of the presenter and a selectable number of other content sectors under the control of the participant. The presenter conference display selectively includes a presenter dashboard for managing the presentation. Each content sector on the participant and attendee conference displays may be enlarged to full screen or reduced to a sector display or an icon with a simple command. The system also includes geo-location display functionality, participant monitoring, attendee chat functionality, and a wide range of additional functionality under the control of the conference presenter and attendees. |
| US09525709B2 |
Multimedia conversation history
A method performed by a computing system includes maintaining a record of a terminated conversation, the conversation comprising a plurality of participants and a plurality of media types, wherein the media types used during the conversation changed during the conversation. The method further includes receiving a request from a client system associated with a participant of the terminated conversation, the request being to reestablish the terminated conversation. The method further includes, in response to the request, initiating reestablishment of the terminated conversation by attempting to reestablish the terminated conversation, wherein attempting to reestablish the terminated conversation includes a default setting of initiating communication sessions between a cumulative total of each of the participants using a cumulative total of each media type associated with the terminated conversation. |
| US09525703B2 |
Method, system, and logic for in-band exchange of meta-information
In an embodiment, a method is provided for enabling in-band data exchange between networks. The method can comprise receiving, by a first enveloping proxy located in the first network, at least one regular secure sockets layer (SSL) record for a SSL session established between a client and a server; receiving the data from a network element located in the first network; encoding the data into at least one custom SSL record; and transmitting the at least one regular SSL record and the at least one custom SSL record to an enveloping proxy. In another embodiment, a method can comprise receiving at least one regular secure sockets layer (SSL) record and at least one custom SSL record for a SSL session established between a client and a server; extracting the data from the at least one custom SSL; transmitting the at least one regular SSL record. |
| US09525697B2 |
Delivering security functions to distributed networks
Systems and methods for delivering security functions to a distributed network are described herein. An exemplary method may include: processing a data packet received from a switch, the data packet directed to the at least one network asset; selectively forwarding the data packet using the processing and a rule set; inspecting the forwarded packet; directing the enforcement point to at least one of forward the data packet to the at least one network asset and drop the data packet, using the inspection and the rule set; accumulating data associated with at least one of the data packet, the processing, and the inspection; analyzing the at least one of the data packet, the processing, and the inspection; and initiating compilation of a high-level security policy by the compiler using the analysis to produce an updated rule set. |
| US09525696B2 |
Systems and methods for processing data flows
A flow processing facility, which uses a set of artificial neurons for pattern recognition, such as a self-organizing map, in order to provide security and protection to a computer or computer system supports unified threat management based at least in part on patterns relevant to a variety of types of threats that relate to computer systems, including computer networks. Flow processing for switching, security, and other network applications, including a facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of conditions are directed at internal network security, virtualization, and web connection security. A flow processing facility for inspecting payloads of network traffic packets detects security threats and intrusions across accessible layers of the IP-stack by applying content matching and behavioral anomaly detection techniques based on regular expression matching and self-organizing maps. Exposing threats and intrusions within packet payload at or near real-time rates enhances network security from both external and internal sources while ensuring security policy is rigorously applied to data and system resources. Intrusion Detection and Protection (IDP) is provided by a flow processing facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of types of network and data integrity threats that relate to computer systems, including computer networks. |
| US09525694B2 |
Authenticating customers and managing authenticated sessions
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for authenticating customers of an organization and managing authenticated sessions of various customers are presented. Some aspects of the disclosure provide ways for a customer of an organization to authenticate using a mobile computing device, such as the customer's personal mobile device, when interacting with the organization in various contexts, such as when accessing an automated transaction device or when interacting with an agent of the organization during an in-person session or during a teleconference session. In some arrangements, the customer's authentication status, which may be established on the mobile computing device and which, in some instances, may be verified based on the location of the mobile computing device, may be carried over from the mobile computing device to another computing device or system, such as an automated transaction device or a teller terminal device, which may be used by an agent of the organization. |
| US09525691B2 |
Access permissions management system and method
An access permissions management system including a hierarchical access permissions repository including access permissions relating to data elements arranged in a data element hierarchy, wherein some of the data elements have only access permissions which are inherited from ancestral data elements, some of the multiplicity of data elements are prevented from having inherited access permissions and thus have only unique access permissions which are not inherited and some of the data elements are not prevented from having inherited access permissions and have not only inherited access permissions but also unique access permissions which are not inherited, some of which unique access permissions possibly being redundant with inherited access permissions, and an access permissions redundancy prevention engine operative to ascertain which of the unique access permissions are redundant with inherited access permissions and not to store the unique access permissions which are redundant with inherited access permissions in the repository. |
| US09525690B2 |
Securely integrating third-party applications with banking systems
Systems and methods enable third-party applications and devices to interface with financial service provider computer networks in a secure, compliant manner. In one embodiment, an interface computing device connected to a provider computer network transmits a registration request message to a custodian. The interface computing device receives a registration request response message from the custodian indicating whether the registration request was approved or denied. The interface computing device receives a data request message requesting data stored on the provider computer network. The interface competing device gathers data stored on the provider computer network, sanitizes the data, and generates a response communication using the sanitized data. |
| US09525677B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing media content by capturing media content at a client device and storing the media content at a network accessible media repository
Media content is managed by defining a list of authorized recipients in a network accessible security information repository, recording media content at a client device, obtaining the list of authorized recipients at the client device, associating at least one of the authorized recipients with the media content, and transmitting the media content along with information identifying the at least one of the authorized recipients associated therewith from the client device to a network accessible media repository for storage therein. The media content includes audio, video, and/or image content. |
| US09525676B2 |
Message content adjudication based on security token
A computer program product for processing a message is provided. The computer program product comprises a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions readable by a processing circuit cause the processing circuit to perform a method. The method validates a security token for a user. The method allows the user to compose a message. Based on the security token, the method verifies that the user is authorized to send the message to an intended recipient of the message and that a security level of the message is at or below a security level of the user. |
| US09525675B2 |
Encryption key retrieval
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include an authentication module. The authentication module can be configured to receiving a request to access an electronic device, where the electronic device is separate from the authentication module, collect authentication data, communicate the authentication data to a network element, receive an authentication key, and communicate the authentication key to the electronic device. |
| US09525673B1 |
Content protection for extract, transform, load (ETL) scripts
Embodiments encrypt Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) scripts created by a developer for an initial customer, against unauthorized access and copying. Such protection preserves the economic value of the ETL script for the developer, allowing re-use with other customers (who could otherwise simply copy the ETL script from the initial customer). A new hidden attribute is introduced to indicate ownership and protection of an object used in an ETL utility. A customer will not see this hidden attribute via the ETL utility. The hidden attribute may be assigned programmatically during a protecting process, and its value may be a current keycode (e.g., the signature of the developer's license of the ETL utility). The protected object thus has the attribute signature, and its value does not match any current keycode known to the customer. The signature for internal decryption of the script by the ETL utility, could be supplied by the developer. |
| US09525669B2 |
Method and opportunistic sensing
A method in a first device for anonymously delivering data to a part that has initiated a task is provided. The first device and the part initiating a task are participants in opportunistic sensing. The method comprises creating a data sample and encrypting the data sample with a public key of the task initiating part. After communicating the protected sample to one or more intermediate devices, one of the one or more intermediate devices delivers the protected sample to the task initiating part, such that the task initiating part does not know the identity of the first device. The task initiating device only know the identity of the one of the one or more intermediate devices that delivered the protected sample to the task initiating part, wherein the intermediate devices are participants in the opportunistic sensing. |
| US09525667B2 |
Method and system for roaming website account and password
A method and system for roaming website accounts and passwords are provided. The method is operational on a first client and includes: authenticating website accounts and passwords that have been stored; obtaining the stored website addresses, accounts and passwords according to a success verification; encrypting the stored website addresses, accounts and passwords for generating encrypted information, and generating a first QR code to be obtained by a second client according to the encrypted information. The website accounts and passwords are roamed and synchronized to be shared. The synchronization process verifies the accounts and passwords, and would not need a third-party server. Risk of data lost in case that the third-party server is attacked would be eliminated, and the safety for the accounts and passwords is improved. |
| US09525665B1 |
Systems and methods for obscuring network services
A computer-implemented method for obscuring network services may include (1) identifying a local network comprising at least one client and at least one host, where the host provides a service that is not bound to any routable address on the local network and the client is expected to send messages to the service, (2) provisioning the client with a proxy that intercepts the messages directed to the service by the client, identifies the host that provides the service, and adds at least one layer of encryption to the messages, (3) configuring the proxy to route the messages through an onion routing network within the local network that comprises at least one onion routing node, and (4) configuring the onion routing network to remove the at least one layer of encryption from the messages before forwarding the messages. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US09525664B2 |
Systems and methods for providing secure access to local network devices
A computer-implemented method for providing secure access to local network devices may include (1) identifying a local area network that provides Internet connectivity to at least one device within the local area network, (2) obtaining, from an identity assertion provider, (i) a shared secret for authenticating the identity of a guest user of the device and (ii) a permission for the guest user to access the device from outside the local area network, (3) storing the shared secret and the permission within the local area network, (4) receiving, via the Internet connectivity, a request by the guest user from outside the local area network to access the device, and (5) providing access to the device in response to validating the request based on the shared secret and the permission. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed. |
| US09525662B2 |
Automatic assignment of internet protocol addresses in a ring network
In one embodiment, a negotiation is performed between each adjacent pair of a plurality of packet switching devices in a ring network to determine an Internet Protocol (IP) subnet to be used for communicating between said packet switching devices of said adjacent pair. Packets are communicated by said packet switching devices of said adjacent pair using a different IP address of said determined IP subnet. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of packet switching devices is initially assigned an IP subnet to use on one of its two interfaces participating in the ring network; and wherein said negotiation determines which of said two interfaces will use said initially assigned IP subnet. |
| US09525656B2 |
Offender message delivery system
A correctional facility communication system for sending an external message to an offender of a correctional facility is disclosed. The correctional facility communication system includes a messaging system and a correctional facility system coupled together with a wide area network. The messaging system is at a first location and the correctional facility system is at a second location, different from the first location. The messaging system authenticates a sender of the external message, receives the external message in electronic form at the first location, checks the external message against criteria specified by the correctional facility, determine a second location of the offender and a corresponding printer, and sends the external message to the second location for automatic printing with the corresponding printer. |
| US09525655B1 |
Reserving space in a mail queue
A mail handler is provided. The mail handler manages a source queue for incoming messages. The source queue has a first count of slots in memory and is associated with a source read pointer and a source write pointer. The mail handler manages the source write pointer and the source read pointer. The mail handler also manages a destination queue for outgoing messages. The destination queue has a second count of slots in memory and is associated with a destination read pointer and a destination write pointer. The mail handler advances the destination write pointer in response to at least one of (i) transferring one or more messages form the source queue to the destination queue and (ii) reserving one or more slots in the destination queue. The at least one processor advances the destination read pointer in response to reading at least one message from the destination queue. |
| US09525652B2 |
Selecting subsets of participants in electronic message threads
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for selecting subsets of participants in electronic message threads. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to exclude participants based, at least in part, on activity level from message conversations, thereby streamlining message conversation and reducing unwanted message communications. |
| US09525647B2 |
Network control apparatus and method for creating and modifying logical switching elements
A network controller for managing several managed switching elements that forward data in a network that includes the managed switching elements. The network controller is further for creating a logical switching element to be implemented in a set of managed switching elements. The network controller includes a set of modules for receiving input data specifying a logical switching element and for creating, based on the received input data, a set of logical switch constructs for the logical switching element by performing a set of database join operations. At least one of the logical switch constructs is for facilitating non-forwarding behavior of the logical switching element. |
| US09525641B1 |
Facilitating buffer wait time determination based on device- or entity-related conditions
Systems and methods that relate to determination of buffer wait time based on defined parameters are described. A method includes: determining, by a first device including a processor, information associated with one or more defined parameters; and generating a buffer wait time based on the information, wherein the information is associated with at least one of an entity for which buffering of content will be provided or a second device that performs playback of the content. The defined parameters can include, but are not limited to, the type of the second device (e.g., Android operating system 3 or Android operating system 4), the type of connection for the second device (e.g., Long-Term Evolution, 3G) or a geographical location of the second device. |
| US09525637B1 |
System and method for location based interaction with a device
Systems and methods for interacting with a device based on the location of the device are disclosed. Embodiments of these systems and methods may allow a content delivery system to provide certain content to a device, or restrict certain content from being delivered to the device, based on the location of the device. When a user requests certain content the location of the device may be determined and compared against an access control list defining a set or rules regarding that content to determine if the requested content may be accessed from that location. Similarly, the location of a device may be utilized to tailor the delivery of content to a device. |
| US09525634B2 |
Dynamic filtering and load optimization instructions based on subscribtion and real-time network and service load data
A server may receive flow information from multiple network devices. The flow information may include information regarding multiple data flows received by the multiple network devices and destined for a client device. The server may determine generate an optimization instruction, based on flow information, to re-route one or more of the plurality of data flows or to apply filters to the one or more of the plurality of data flows; provide the optimization instruction to cause one or more of the multiple network devices to re-route one or more of the multiple data flows or to apply filters to the one or more data flows to alleviate overloaded network components or to re-route network resources to or from the client device; receive updated flow information after receiving the flow information; generate an updated optimization instruction based on the updated flow information; and provide the updated optimization instruction. |
| US09525632B1 |
Minimize recycle SYN issues for split TCP hot flows to improve system reliability and performance
Embodiments are directed towards employing a packet traffic management device that has a split data flow segment (“DFS”) and control segment (“CS”) to determine if a connection flow update provided by the DFS to the CS is valid. The CS may be utilized to establish connection flows at the DFS based on connection flow requests. The CS may generate a connection flow identifier (“CFID”) for a connection flow request. The CS may cache the CFID at the CS. The CS may establish a connection flow at the DFS based at least on the connection flow request and the CFID. After a connection flow is established, a DFS may provide a connection flow update and a corresponding CFID to the CS. The CS may determine that the connection flow update is valid if the corresponding CFID matches the CFID cached at the CS. |
| US09525631B2 |
Packet forwarding method, apparatus, and system
A packet forwarding method, includes: receiving an IP packet, and obtaining a destination IP address carried in the IP packet; obtaining an IP address of a next-hop device on a link from a routing table according to the destination IP address; obtaining a MAC address of the next-hop device and a corresponding port number according to the IP address of the next-hop device; and if failing to obtain the MAC address of the next-hop device and the corresponding port number, obtaining a corresponding interface on the routing device from the routing table according to the destination IP address, and obtaining the MAC address of the next-hop device and the corresponding port number from a fuzzy ARP table according to the interface; and forwarding the IP packet to the next-hop device according to the MAC address of the next-hop device and the port number. |
| US09525630B2 |
Method and apparatus for assigning resources used to manage transport operations between clusters within a processor
A method, and corresponding apparatus, of assigning processing resources used to manage transport operations between a first memory cluster and one or more other memory clusters, include receiving information indicative of allocation of a subset of processing resources in each of the one or more other memory clusters to the first memory cluster, storing, in the first memory cluster, the information indicative of resources allocated to the first memory cluster, and facilitating management of transport operations between the first memory cluster and the one or more other memory clusters based at least in part on the information indicative of resources allocated to the first memory cluster. |
| US09525629B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting data packets
A method of transmitting data packets across a network, comprising: at a first server: receiving a first data packet of a message-based connectionless protocol (e.g., a first UDP data packet); identifying a second server for forwarding the first data packet toward a respective destination of the first data packet; adding a respective packet identifier to the first data packet to generate a first augmented data packet of the message-based connectionless protocol; and sending at least two copies of the first augmented data packet to the second server at substantially the same time. The second server receives at least one of the two copies of the first augmented data packet, restores the first data packet from the received copy of the first augmented data packet, and forwards the first data packet toward the respective destination of the first data packet. |
| US09525625B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating forwarding entries for devices in optical network
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for generating forwarding entries for devices in an optical network. The optical network includes a virtual access node AN, where the virtual AN includes a first access device, a second access device, and an access port management apparatus. The access port management apparatus acquires a virtual AN forwarding entry sent by an access management device; generates a first forwarding entry for a first device in the first access device and the second access device according to the virtual AN forwarding entry; and generates a second forwarding entry for a second device in the first access device and the second access device according to the virtual AN forwarding entry. The virtual AN may automatically generate forwarding entries for the first access device and second access device in the virtual AN according to the virtual AN forwarding entry. |
| US09525624B2 |
Virtual router redundancy protocol for scalable distributed default routing gateway
A VRRP router group can operate in either a standard VRRP mode or a distributed gateway mode in which all VRRP routers generate VRRP control packets but transmit those packets only to local access network-side hosts. The rate of VRRP control packet generation may be decreased in the distributed gateway mode relative to the standard mode. Moreover, VRRP router CPUs may cease processing of VRRP control packets in the distributed gateway mode. |
| US09525622B2 |
Label stack encoding and processing to enable OAM procedures for service segments in segment routed (SR) networks
Exemplary methods for creating label stacks include creating and sending a first SR label stack for a data packet, wherein the first SR label stack causes the data packet to be forwarded through the SR network using a first set of links, and wherein the first SR label stack includes a first service label that identifies a first service to be applied to the data packet by a second network device. In one embodiment, the methods include creating and sending a second SR label stack for an operations administration and maintenance (OAM) packet, wherein the second SR label stack causes the OAM packet to be forwarded through the SR network using the first set of links, and wherein the second SR label stack prevents the second network device from applying the first service to the OAM packet. |
| US09525619B2 |
Scalable edge node protection using segment routing
In one embodiment, a method comprises generating, by a first provider edge router associated with a first segment identifier, a primary label for reaching a destination, and repair information for reaching the destination if a second provider edge router is unavailable to reach the destination; allocating, by the first provider edge router, a first protected next-hop address associated with the first segment identifier for protected reachability to at least the destination; and sending via a core network, by the first provider edge router, an advertisement specifying the label and the repair information, enabling an ingress provider edge router to insert, into a data packet destined for the destination, the labels from the first provider edge router and the second provider edge router based on the repair information, for fast rerouting to the destination via one of the first or second provider edge router if the other is unavailable. |
| US09525613B2 |
Communication system, logical channel control device, control device, communication method and program
A configuration having a control device that sets a processing rule in a forwarding node, the configuration being capable of forwarding control of duplicated packets in private IP address spaces. At least one forwarding node among forwarding nodes operates as a logical channel control device that establishes a logical channel to an external node, generate or delete a virtual port information associated with said logical channel established to said external node, and gives notification thereof to the control device, and the control device computes a forwarding path of a packet using the notified port information. |
| US09525609B2 |
Relay system and switching device
A first fault monitoring unit monitors presence/absence of fault on a communication path between bridge ports, and a second fault monitoring unit monitors presence/absence of fault on a communication path via a ring network between upper link ports. A third fault monitoring unit monitors presence/absence of fault at a MCLAG port. When a monitoring result by the third fault monitoring unit changes from absence of fault to presence of fault, a MCLAG control unit transmits a fault notification frame. At this time, when a monitoring result by the first fault monitoring unit is absence of fault, the MCLAG control unit transmits the fault notification frame from the bridge port, and when the monitoring result by the first fault monitoring unit is presence of fault and a monitoring result by the second fault monitoring unit is absence of fault, it transmits the fault notification frame from the upper link port. |
| US09525608B2 |
Out-of band network port status detection
A device for out-of-band network port status detection includes a management controller (MC), a network interface controller (NIC) with a PHY and a link indicator, an electrical connection coupling the link indicator to an input pin of the MC, and at least one processor. The MC monitors a status of the link indicator and the at least one processor is configured for reporting the status of the link indicator to a user of the apparatus. |
| US09525606B1 |
Differential processing of data streams based on protocols
This disclosure relates to the processing of data streams. More specifically, application of particular protocols to a stream and a detection analysis facilitate a selective, reliable and efficient transmission of pertinent stream data to destination addresses. |
| US09525605B2 |
Method of and system for collecting network data
The invention discloses a method of collecting network data. This method is applicable to collection of data of network documents, published on a website, related respectively to M subjects, wherein M is a positive integer, the method including: configuring webpage link addresses, of network data to be collected, into queues of corresponding types according to types corresponding to the webpage link addresses of the network data to be collected, wherein the webpage link addresses of the network data to be collected are link addresses of webpages where the data of the network documents related respectively to the M subjects are located; obtaining webpage source codes corresponding to the webpage link addresses, of the network data to be collected, in the queues of the corresponding types; and extracting the data of the network documents corresponding to URLs corresponding to the webpage source codes according to the URL information and collection depth values of the URLs. |
| US09525599B1 |
Modeling distributed systems
A modeling system including a data processing device in communication with a non-transitory memory storing a model modeling interactions of resources of a distributed system. The data processing device executes instructions that cause the data processing device to implement a system monitor that monitors interactions of the resources of the distributed system and builds the model. The system monitor detects a state change of a first resource of the distributed system and identifies an entity causing the state change of the first resource. The system monitor determines whether a second resource of the distributed system changes state within a threshold period of time after the first resource changed state. The system monitor updates the model to indicate a relationship between the first resource, the second resource and the identified entity, in response to the first resource and the second resource changing state within the threshold time period. |
| US09525593B2 |
Oversubscribing a packet processing device to adjust power consumption
Embodiments are directed to saving power consumption in packet processing devices. A method for controlling power consumption of a packet processing device includes determining a power-save link utilization based upon one or more power-save enabled links of the packet processing device, determining an aggregate minimum processing bandwidth for the packet processing device based at least upon the determined power-save link utilization, and adjusting a processing capacity of the packet processing device based upon the determined aggregate minimum processing bandwidth, wherein the power consumption is changed by the adjusting. System and computer program product embodiments are also disclosed. |
| US09525592B2 |
Client/server network environment setup method and system
A setup method of a client/server network environment is provided. The client/server network environment includes a controller node and a compute node. The controller node and the compute node are respectively predefined with a specific device function. In the method, a master node recording a plurality of components and a configuration file of each of the components is provided, and an Internet Protocol (IP) address is respectively assigned to the master node, the controller node, and the compute node. When the master node receives a setup request from a device to be set up between the controller node and the compute node, an auto-shell is generated according to the setup request and transmitted to the device to be set up. The auto-shell is executed by the device to be set up to automatically accomplish the setup for realizing the specific device function corresponding to the device to be set up. |
| US09525590B2 |
Relay system and relay device
Each of first and second monitoring points monitors the continuity between itself and outside of the device by use of a CCM frame. First and second internal monitoring points monitor the continuity between the first monitoring point and the second monitoring point inside the device by an internal continuity monitoring frame. When a first internal monitoring point or a second internal monitoring point does not receive the internal continuity monitoring frame within a predetermined period, a ring control unit instructs the first and second monitoring points to transmit a RDI frame or instructs them to stop transmission of a CCM frame. |
| US09525589B2 |
Proactive M2M framework using device-level vCard for inventory, identity, and network management
A network device may connect to a smart-enabled network. Once connected, the network device may receive a network address for a network management server (NMS). Having the network address for the NMS, the network device may generate a vCard comprising the attributes necessary for registering with the NMS. The network device may then communicate the vCard to the NMS. The NMS may then be configured to identify, register, and add the network device to a directory. |
| US09525588B2 |
Push content to a currently utilized device among client devices
In one example, a system includes an authentication server that is configured to receive an authentication request for a primary application, provide time-based authentication credentials for the primary application, receive an updated authentication request for the primary application, wherein the updated authentication request includes a client device identifier (ID) corresponding to a client device from which the authentication request is received, and transmit the client device ID; the system may further include a push server that is configured to receive the transmitted client device ID, and push an update to the client device having the client device ID. |
| US09525587B2 |
Updating web resources
Updating web resources includes downloading an application to a client device, extracting web resources from the application to local files, and querying an external server for web resource updates specific to at least one operating condition of the client device. |
| US09525585B2 |
Resilient messaging infrastructure
A first message resilience client device receives from a second message resilience client device a message and a request to deliver the message to a client/server-based server application executed by a server device on behalf of a remote client/server-based client application executed by the second message resilience client device that originated the message. A determination is made as to whether a connection to the server device that executes the client/server-based server application is currently possible using at least one available connection. In response to determining that the connection to the server device that executes the client/server-based server application is not currently possible, the message is stored locally for one of later delivery to the client/server-based server application and propagation of the message to another message resilience client device on behalf of the remote client/server-based client application. |
| US09525584B2 |
One-way public relationships
Techniques are described to establish one-way public relationships. In an implementation, a service manager module is usable to configure a webpage for output to a client over a network to provide to a user of the client an indication of others users that are part of a social network of the user and have establishes one-way public relationships, respectively, with another user corresponding to an object of a social networking service available from a service provider. In addition, a relation module is configured to establish a one-way public relationship between the user of the client and the other user corresponding to the object without establishing a mutual friend relationship between the user and the other user. In an implementation, the one-way public relationship is established in response to user selection of a control that is presented on the webpage that is output at the client in conjunction with the object. |
| US09525579B2 |
FFT circuit
In one embodiment, an FFT circuit (1) includes a pipeline in which L number of butterfly operational elements each having Single-path Delay Feedback, SDF, architecture are connected with each other. Each of LHF number of butterfly PEs (10), corresponding to a first stage to an LHFth stage, is configured to rearrange output data order such that, in units of N/(2S−1) pieces of output data starting from head output data whose Data Flow Graph, DFG, index i is “0”, intermediate result data GS(i) whose bS(i) is 1 is output after intermediate result data GS(i) whose bS(i) is 0 in the N/(2S−1) pieces of the output data, where N represents the number of FFT points, S represents an integer indicating a stage number, and bS(i) represents the Sth bit from the least significant bit in binary representation of the DFG index i. |
| US09525575B2 |
Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus and digital radio communication method
A transmission method includes modulating a transmission signal using a modulation scheme selected from a plurality of modulation schemes, to generate a first symbol sequence and generating at least one second symbol including a pilot symbol generated using a PSK modulation scheme. The method includes changing an insertion interval of the second symbol to be inserted in the first symbol sequence, to generate a modulation signal and transmitting the modulation signal. The second symbol is configured for synchronization in a reception apparatus. |
| US09525571B2 |
Calibration of single-ended high-speed interfaces
A method for calibrating signal swing and a trip reference voltage. The signal swing of a system can be calibrated in a symmetric or asymmetric technique through adjustment of a drive parameter such as a supply voltage for a transmitter or a drive termination. The trip reference voltage of the system can also be calibrated in a symmetric or asymmetric technique through sampling of a data pattern to determine an ideal level of the trip reference voltage. |
| US09525563B2 |
Forwarding packets in an edge device
An edge device searches a MAC table to obtain information of a public network egress interface for a packet which is to be sent from a local site to a remote site to access a service, replaces a VLAN ID in the packet with a VLAN ID used for transmission in a public network, and sends the packet in which the VLAN ID has been replaced to a remote site according to the information of the public network egress interface. |
| US09525558B1 |
Coaxial cable or transmission medium classification system, circuit and method
Remote devices are classified or identified as devices configured to be powered by power injected onto a transmission medium such as a coaxial cable. From a local position, local classification circuitry applies a first low voltage DC signal to the transmission medium. Energy from the first DC signal is received by remote classification circuitry at the remote position of a remote device, and stored within an energy storage component. Using the stored energy, the remote classification circuitry generates a digital classification signal on the coax cable or transmission medium. Upon receipt of the digital classification signal at the local end, the local classification circuitry responsively applies a second higher voltage DC signal to the transmission medium. The second DC signal is received at the remote end and used in providing power to the remote device. |
| US09525557B2 |
Certificate issuing system, client terminal, server device, certificate acquisition method, and certificate issuing method
Provided is a certificate issuing system including a client terminal and a server device. The client terminal derives a first hash value from a first random number using a unidirectional function, generates a secret key and a public key of the client terminal, and transmits the first hash value and the public key of the client terminal to the server device. The server device receives the first hash value and the public key of the client terminal from the client terminal, stores the first hash value, authenticates the client terminal on the basis of the stored first hash value and the derived first hash value, generates a client certificate on the basis of the public key of the client terminal and a secret key of the server device when the authentication succeeds, and transmits the client certificate to the client terminal. |
| US09525555B2 |
Partitioning access to system resources
In one embodiment, a processor has at least one core to execute instructions, a security engine coupled to the at least one core, a first storage to store a first immutable key associated with a vendor of the processor, and a second storage to store a second immutable key associated with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the system. A first portion of firmware is to be verified based at least in part on the first immutable key and a second portion of firmware is to be verified based at least in part on the second immutable key, the first portion of firmware associated with the vendor and the second portion of firmware associated with the OEM. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US09525552B2 |
Audio device and method for adding watermark data to audio signals
An audio device and method for adding a watermark data to digital signals which represent audio generates a digital signature by applying a hash calculation on the hardware address of the audio device. The audio device searches for an orthogonal code in a walsh matrix. The audio device decodes audio digital signals according to the orthogonal code to output decoded data. The audio device loads the orthogonal code into an identification information of the audio device to form the watermark data in accordance with a determination that the decoded value is not equal to one of a plurality of specific values, wherein the identification information includes the hardware address of the audio device. The audio device adds the watermark data into audio digital signals. |
| US09525548B2 |
Provisioning techniques
Provisioning techniques are described. In implementations, a particular one of a plurality of public keys are located using an identifier included in a request received via a network. The located public key is communicated via the network, the public key configured to encrypt data that is to be decrypted by a secure element of a mobile communication device, the secure element implemented using hardware and including a private key that is configured to decrypt the data that was encrypted using the public key. |
| US09525545B2 |
Phase locked loop for preventing harmonic lock, method of operating the same, and devices including the same
A phase locked loop includes a voltage controlled oscillator including a plurality of delay cells configured to respectively generate a plurality of clock signals having different phases and a harmonic lock detector configured to detect harmonic lock in the voltage controlled oscillator and to generate a reset signal in response. Remaining ones of the delay cells other than a first delay cell among the plurality of delay cells are reset in response to the reset signal. |
| US09525541B2 |
Method and system for implementing time synchronization
The present disclosure discloses a method and a communication system for time synchronization. The system includes at least one base station, an optical line terminal OLT, and a fiber for transmitting information between the base station and the OLT. The system further includes a clock synchronization server, configured to transmit synchronization data between the clock synchronization server and the at least one base station, so that time synchronization is implemented between the at least one base station and the clock synchronization server. According to the solutions provided by the present disclosure, the system apparatus is simple, and the cost low. |
| US09525538B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of communicating non-cellular access network information over a cellular network
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating non-cellular access network information via a cellular network. For example, an Evolved Node B (eNB) may include a radio to transmit a control message over a cellular communication medium, the control message including access network information of at least one non-cellular network within a coverage area of the eNB. |
| US09525527B2 |
Wireless device performance in heterogeneous networks
The present invention relates to a method in a wireless device for improving wireless device performance, and to corresponding methods in a radio network node and to the corresponding nodes. The method comprises identifying (910) an occasion comprising a time period during which at least one time-frequency resource element, in a subframe that is transmitted between the wireless device and the radio network node, does not comprise information intended for the wireless device, or is not a time-frequency resource element in which the wireless device is expected to transmit. The method further comprises performing (920) an auxiliary action during the identified occasion to improve the wireless device performance. |
| US09525525B2 |
Device, system and method of transferring a wireless communication session between wireless communication frequency bands
Some demonstrative embodiments include coordinating a session transfer between first and second multi-band wireless communication devices capable of communicating over at least first and second wireless communication frequency bands, wherein at least one device uses the same medium access control (MAC) address in both the first and second wireless communication frequency bands. An information element may be used to convey information between the devices to assist in the transfer. |
| US09525522B2 |
Systems and methods for improved communication efficiency in high efficiency wireless networks
Methods and apparatus methods and apparatus for providing wireless messages according to various tone plans. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a processing system configured to allocate a resource for wireless communication to each of a plurality of devices. The resource includes at least one of a sub-band of frequencies or a subset of data tones within a single uplink or downlink tone plan. The processing system is further configured to provide the resource allocation to the devices. The processing system is further configured to process a message according to one of an uplink or downlink tone plan associated with at least one of the allocated sub-band or the allocated subset. |
| US09525520B2 |
Block acknowledgement selection rules
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for selecting a type of block acknowledgement. An apparatus for wireless communications is provided herein. The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to participate in a session with another apparatus during which the apparatus receives a plurality of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs) transmitted from the other apparatus during a window and select between a null data packet (NDP) BlockAck or a block acknowledgement (BA) frame for acknowledging which of the MPDUs have been successfully received by the apparatus. The apparatus generally also includes a transmitter configured to acknowledge which of the MPDUs have been successfully received by the apparatus in accordance with the selection. |
| US09525519B2 |
Method and system of transferring data in a carrier aggregation environment
Disclosed is a method for communicating service data units/Packet Data Units (PDUs) in a carrier aggregation environment, including receiving a plurality of grants on a plurality of active component carriers from an Evolved Node B, allocating transmission resources associated with the plurality of grants to at least one Radio Link Control (RLC) entity of a user equipment, identifying one of the allocated transmission resources associated with one of the plurality of grants by the at least one RLC entity based on criteria for communicating a status report, and transmitting a status PDU including the status report using the identified one of the allocated transmission resources. |
| US09525512B2 |
Digital broadcasting system and data processing method
A digital broadcasting system is provided. The system includes an RS (Reed-Solomon) encoder configured to encode mobile service data for FEC (Forward Error Correction) to build RS frames including the mobile service data and a signaling information table, a signaling encoder configured to encode signaling information including fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, a group formatter configured to form data groups, wherein at least one of the data groups includes encoded mobile service data, known data sequences, the FIC data and the TPC data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the broadcast signal including a parade of the data groups. |
| US09525507B2 |
Method of tuning wavelength in time and wavelength division multiplexing-passive optical network (TWDM-PON)
A method of tuning a wavelength in a TWDM-PON which has a plurality of operable channels is provided. First, a second channel is added as an operating channel of the TWDM-PON in which at least a first channel is working, and then an OLT that is providing a service to an ONU through the first channel requests the ONU to tune to the second channel. In response to receiving the request, the ONU determines whether a downstream wavelength of the second channel has been recorded thereon. According to the determination result, the ONU sends to the OLT an ACK message that indicates that the ONU is able to perform wavelength tuning and then commences wavelength tuning to the second channel, or the ONU sends to the OLT a NACK message that indicates that the ONU is unable to perform wavelength tuning. |
| US09525506B2 |
Rogue optical network unit mitigation in passive optical networks
An optical line terminal (OLT) comprises a target OLT channel termination (CT), and a source OLT CT in communication with the target OLT CT, wherein the source OLT CT is configured to exchange tuning messages with the target OLT CT to initiate upstream wavelength tuning of an optical network unit (ONU), wherein the source OLT CT is configured to transmit a tuning request to the ONU after the tuning messages have been exchanged and to receive a tuning acknowledgement message from the ONU indicating that the tuning request will be executed, wherein the source OLT CT is configured to transmit a broadcast notification message to all OLT CTs within the OLT, except for the source OLT CT, after receipt of the tuning acknowledge message from the ONU, and wherein the broadcast notification message includes a tuning time of the ONU. |
| US09525502B2 |
Timing over packet demarcation entity
Apparatus for synchronizing a local clock to a master clock, the apparatus comprising: at least one port for receiving and transmitting packets; a local clock; and a packet inspector that uses time from the local clock to timestamp packets received at a port of the at least one port, copies timing information from the received packets if the packets are timing distribution packets that are transmitted between a master clock and a slave clock in order to synchronize the slave clock to the master clock, and forwards the received packets for transmission from a port of the at least one port towards a packet destination that is not a packet source from where the packets originate, wherein the local clock uses the copied timing information and timestamps to synchronize the local clock to the master clock. |
| US09525499B2 |
Cellular up-link harmonic spurs mitigation in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth receivers
Described herein are technologies related to an implementation of improving de-sensitivity in a receiver of a portable device. |
| US09525496B2 |
Link emission control
Establishing a communication link may include transmitting by a first device an unmodulated first electromagnetic EHF signal and receiving by a second device the first electromagnetic EHF signal. The second device may determine whether the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that a first shield portion and a second shield portion are in alignment. The transmission of a modulated second electromagnetic EHF signal may be enabled when the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that both the shield portions are in alignment. The transmission of a modulated second signal may be disabled when the received first electromagnetic EHF signal indicates that the first and second shield portions are not in alignment. |
| US09525491B2 |
Optical modulator and method of encoding communications traffic in a multilevel modulation format
An optical modulator is described, comprising—an optical splitter to receive an optical carrier signal and split it into sub-signals; modulation assemblies, each comprising a binary optical modulator to apply a binary phase shift keyed (BPSK) modulation to a respective optical sub-signal to form a BPSK modulated optical sub-signal. Modulation assemblies comprise a phase-shifter, each to apply a phase shift to the respective BPSK modulated optical sub-signal in dependence on a pre-selected modulation format; an encoding apparatus to receive communications traffic to map into symbols, and to generate and transmit a respective drive signal to the optical modulator of a modulation assembly, each drive signal to cause the optical modulator to apply said BPSK modulation, to encode the symbols onto the respective optical carrier sub-signal; and a combiner to receive each BPSK modulated optical sub-signal to form an output optical signal having said multilevel modulation format. |
| US09525490B2 |
Reconfigurable optical transmitter
Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, optical systems, and methods for utilizing a dynamically reconfigurable optical transmitter. A laser array outputs a plurality of laser signals (which may further be modulated based on electrical signals), each of the plurality of laser signals having a wavelength, wherein the wavelength of each of the plurality of laser signals is tunable based on other electrical signals. An optical router receives the plurality of (modulated) laser signals at input ports and outputs the plurality of received (modulated) laser signals to one or more output ports based on the tuned wavelength of each of the plurality of received laser signals. This reconfigurable transmitter enables dynamic bandwidth allocation for multiple destinations via the tuning of the laser wavelengths. |
| US09525486B2 |
Visible light communications personal area network controller and access point systems and methods
A network, a Visible Light Communications (VLC) controller, and a method relate to a network architecture splitting frame processing functionality between Light Fidelity (LiFi) Access Points (APs) and a VLC controller or virtualized controller. In such configurations, the LiFi APs are so-called thin devices that may be widely deployed through an infrastructure to concurrently provide illumination and network access via VLC protocols such as IEEE 802.15.7 or variants thereof. |
| US09525484B2 |
Photo-sensor array to adjust alignment of optical receiver
In the context of a balloon network, embodiments described herein may help to maintain an optical communications link between two balloons. For example, an illustrative balloon may include auxiliary photodetectors that are arranged around the photodetector in the balloon's optical receiver system. The balloon may detect intensity differences between the auxiliary photodetectors on opposite sides of an optical receiver, and adjust the positioning in an effort to reduce the intensity difference, and by so doing, better align the optical receiver with the optical transmitter of the transmitting balloon. |
| US09525483B2 |
Actively monitored optical fiber panel
An optical fiber panel unit includes multiple fiber input ports, each configured to connect to a different one of multiple optical fibers. Each fiber input port includes a connector port configured to connect to a respective fiber panel optical path, an optical tap and a photo-detector. The optical tap is configured to couple to the respective optical path. The photo-detector couples to the optical tap to detect optical signals carried over the respective optical path, and to produce electrical signals that correspond to the detected optical signals. A telemetry circuit analyzes the electrical signals that correspond to the detected optical signals of each respective optical path, and determines at least one of a loss of signal (LOS) or loss of light (LOL) at each of the fiber input ports based on the analysis of the electrical signals. |
| US09525478B2 |
Peer group diagnosis detection method and system
Systems and methods for peer group diagnosis detection are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a beam profile including a plurality of satellite beam characteristics is determined. A peer group of satellite terminals is determined. Terminal profiles with terminal characteristics for the satellite terminals in the peer group are determined. A normalized baseline profile including normalized terminal characteristics for the peer group is determined. Measured operational statistics of the satellite terminals in the peer group are received and converted into normalized operation statistics using the terminal profiles and the normalized baseline profile. Normalized peer group operational statistics including a mean and a standard deviation of normalized operational statistics are determined. A normalized deviation of the normalized operational statistics is determined for each satellite terminal. The normalized deviations for each satellite terminal are compared to a threshold deviation. Satellite terminals are diagnosed as good, degraded, or bad. |
| US09525477B1 |
Frequency tracking with sparse pilots
A method and apparatus for estimating a frequency offset of received signals. The receiving device receives a plurality of pilot signals form a transmitting device, and determines an un-aliased frequency offset estimate based on the received pilot signals. The receiving device further determines a low-noise frequency offset estimate based on the received pilot signals, wherein the low-noise frequency offset estimate is blow a threshold noise level. The receiving device then generates a hybrid frequency offset estimate based at least in part on the un-aliased and low-noise frequency offset estimates, wherein the hybrid frequency offset estimate is un-aliased and has a lower estimation noise than the un-aliased frequency offset estimate. |
| US09525475B1 |
Adaptive dual polarized MIMO for dynamically moving transmitter and receiver
Systems and methods are presented for increasing throughput between mobile transmitters/receivers (e.g., between an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and a ground station) using orthogonally polarized transmission channels. The system may first calibrate the receiver and transmitter antenna pairs using pilot signals and then may update look up tables for feedforward correction. The system may decouple and predict the cross polarization interference due to relative dynamic movement between the transmitter and the receiver. The system may perform a closed-loop suboptimal estimation to generate refined corrections by minimizing a difference between a training vector and a pilot-signal feedback. Cross-polarization discrimination between the transmission and reception antennas may then be Cancelled to improve signal to noise and interference ratio and performance of the system. |
| US09525473B2 |
Communication device and communication method, computer program, and communication system
Suitable beam pattern control is performed while performing access control based on physical carrier sense.A communication device transmits frames having a long preamble under a state where signals will not reach unless a beam pattern is formed, thereby enabling access control based on physical carrier sense, and under a state where signals will sufficiently reach without a beam pattern being formed transmits frames having a shorter preamble, thereby suppressing transmission overhead. Also, a beam pattern and preamble type are decided based on transmission/reception history of access control following CSMA/CA procedures. |
| US09525471B2 |
Enhanced node B and method for precoding with reduced quantization error
Embodiments of an enhanced Node B (eNB) and method for precoding with reduced quantization error are generally described herein. In some embodiments, first and second precoding-matrix indicator (PMI) reports may be received on an uplink channel and a single subband precoder matrix may be interpolated from precoding matrices indicated by both the PMI reports. Symbols for multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) beamforming may be precoded using the interpolated precoder matrix computed for single subband for a multiple user (MU)-MIMO downlink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) transmission. In some embodiments, each of the first and second PMI reports includes a PMI associated with a same subband that jointly describes a recommended precoder. |
| US09525470B1 |
Adaptive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) data detection and precoding
A system includes a memory and an integrated circuit coupled to the memory. The integrated circuit is configured to communicate data in a channel characterized as a space having at least a frequency dimension. Anchor locations within the space correspond to respective regions of the space. The integrated circuit is further configured to determine a first inverse of a first matrix that corresponds to a first channel matrix for a first anchor location of the anchor locations. The first anchor location corresponds to a first region of the regions. The integrated circuit is further configured to perform an access link process for a second location other than the first anchor location but within the first region, the access link process using the first inverse determined for the first anchor location. |
| US09525466B2 |
Method of performing interference cancellation and apparatus therefor
A method of cancelling interference of a terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving interference parameter configuration information including a transmission timing of interference parameter information indicating a restricted set of a plurality of interference parameters to be used by one or more interference base stations associated with the terminal and interference parameter release information including a transmission timing of an indicator indicating release of the interference parameter information, receiving the interference parameter information according to the interference parameter configuration information, performing interference cancellation using the received interference parameter information, attempting detection of the indicator according to the interference parameter release information, and performing the interference cancellation without the received interference parameter information or suspending the interference cancellation when the indicator is detected. |
| US09525465B2 |
Transmitter for near-field chip-to-chip multichannel transmission
This application relates to a transmitter for a near-field chip-to-chip multichannel transmission system such as the capacitive or inductive links used for vertical signal transmission between the stacked chips of a system-in-package. A transmitter for near-field chip-to-chip multichannel transmission providing 4 transmission channels for digital transmission between two monolithic integrated circuits comprises 4 coupling devices, each of said coupling devices being a planar winding sensitive to magnetic field variations. A multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port amplifier has 4 output ports, each of said output ports being connected to one and only one of said coupling devices. The transmitter also includes 4 signal shaping circuits, each of said signal shaping circuits having an input port connected to the source, each of said signal shaping circuits having an output port connected to one of the input ports of the multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port amplifier. |
| US09525463B2 |
Contactless replacement for cabled standards-based interfaces
A contactless, electromagnetic (EM) replacement (substitute, alternative) for cabled (electric) Standards-based interfaces (such as, but not limited to USB) which effectively handles the data transfer requirements (such as bandwidth, speed, latency) associated with the Standard, and which is also capable of measuring and replicating relevant physical conditions (such as voltage levels) on data lines so as to function compatibly and transparently with the Standard. A contactless link may be provided between devices having transceivers. A non-conducting housing may enclose the devices. Some applications for the contactless (EM) interface are disclosed. A dielectric coupler facilitating communication between communications chips which are several meters apart. Conductive paths may provide power and ground for bus-powered devices. |
| US09525462B1 |
Data recovery of data symbols
In one or more embodiments, a plurality of PLC endpoints and a data processing circuit are configured to share information, in the form of data blocks over power lines in a power line communication (PLC) network. A first signal representing a transmitted one of the data blocks is received over a first one of the plurality of different communication channels. A second signal representing the transmitted one of the data blocks is received over a second one of the plurality of different communication channels. Information carried by said one of the data blocks is discerned, as a function of a signal versus noise measure associated with the first signal and the second signal, by aligning phases of the first and second signals, combining energy from the first and second signals as aligned, and converting the combined energy and therefrom providing output data representing the transmitted one of the data blocks. |
| US09525461B2 |
Suppression method for strong interference noise of carrier channel of power line and circuit structure thereof
A suppression method for strong interference noise of power line carrier channel is based on the processing process to carrier signals transmitted in standardized frequency interval among power line transmission regional area. According to the situation of frequency lead or lagging carrier of strong interference noise, the pending signals are respectively transmitted to a first suppression circuit (3) of which the frequency of strong interference noise signal is lower than the frequency of carrier signal, and a second suppression circuit (5) of which the frequency of strong interference noise signal is higher than the frequency of carrier signal through split-flow processing channel module to process the amplitude limiting signal, and then output signals of the first suppression circuit (3) and second suppression circuit (5) are conducted with differential mixing and output to complete the noise reduction process. Regardless of any position of strong interference noise and carrier in channel, the suppression of strong interference noise of power line can be realized by this method. In the major premise of the weak carrier signal not being suppressed, this method has realized that the strong interference noise is effectively attenuated. |
| US09525458B2 |
Wireless audio transmission system, particularly a wireless microphone system
There is provided a wireless audio transmission system, in particular a wireless microphone system, for wireless audio transmission. The system has at least one wireless microphone unit for detecting audio signals and for wirelessly transmitting the detected audio signals, and a central unit. The central unit has a wireless receiving unit for receiving the wirelessly transmitted audio signals from the wireless microphone units, a pilot tone transmitting unit for transmitting a first pilot tone on a pilot channel, and a pilot tone receiving unit for receiving and processing a second pilot tone signal. The pilot tone signal has information in respect of the wireless transmission between the microphone units and the central unit. |
| US09525457B1 |
Spread spectrum clock generation using a tapped delay line and entropy injection
Spread spectrum clocking circuitry may be configured to produce a spread spectrum clock signal that coordinates the actions of functional circuitry. Spread spectrum clocking circuitry may be configured to include delay circuitry configured to generate a random delay signal based on a random input value and generate the spread spectrum clock signal based on the random delay signal. By introducing true randomness into the delay signal, spread spectrum clocking signal may be able to generate a truly random, as opposed to a merely pseudo random, clock signal. |
| US09525454B2 |
Wireless communication method
A method of control of a plurality of end-points by a plurality of base stations, comprises issuing a frame by at least one end-point and sending the frame to at least one base station, sending a response frame from the base station to the end-point upon receiving the frame, the response frame comprising a plurality of downchirps, at least two sequences, each comprising a positive acknowledge and an increase rate and a positive acknowledgement and a decrease rate, and additional control sequences. |
| US09525449B2 |
Reduction of electromagnetic (EM) radiation from a client device
In wireless communication, a camera on a mobile communication device may be activated to take photographs of the surroundings. The photographs may be further converted into infrared photographs. People near the mobile communication device may be identified on the infrared photographs. The EM radiation of the mobile communication device may then be adjusted to avoid the regions in which people are identified. |
| US09525440B2 |
Transmission-based temperature control for an electrical device
A method includes estimating a temperature change to an integrated circuit, which is associated with a pending transmission from the integrated circuit. The method includes, based on the estimated temperature change, regulating at least one parameter that is associated with the pending transmission to maintain a temperature of the integrated circuit below a temperature threshold. |
| US09525439B2 |
Fully integrated millimeter-wave radio frequency system
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a radio frequency (RF) system that may be implemented in a variety of devices. For example, the RF system may include a plurality of first RF-modules, each configured to process RF signals received from a corresponding antenna array to generate intermediate frequency (IF) signals and to process IF signals for transmission via the antenna array, wherein the plurality of first RF modules are coupled to each other via a first interface comprising transmission lines for carrying at least an IF signal, a local oscillator (LO) signal, and a control signals; at least one second RF module; and a baseband module configured to provide IF signals, the LO signal, and the control signals to one of the first RF modules via a second interface and to provide at least IF signals to the second RF module via a third interface. |
| US09525438B2 |
Method and system for providing explosion proof video and communication relay module
Embodiments of methods, devices and systems are presented for communicating information in an explosive environment. An explosion proof video and data communication module includes features that prevent the generation of a spark or other ignition sources that could ignite explosive dust, gas or vapors in the air. The explosion proof video and communications relay modules may operate independently or as a group to provide real-time information, situation awareness, functionally and responsiveness for personnel that are in explosive environments. |
| US09525429B2 |
Multi-stage digital-to-analog converter
A circuit includes a first digital filter that generates a first output based on a digital input and a first digital output signal. A first digital modulator generates the first digital output signal and a first error output based on the first output and a feedback error output. A second digital modulator generates a second output and a second error output based on the first error output. A second digital filter generates a second digital output signal based on the second output, and a third digital filter generates the feedback error output based on the second error output. The second digital output signal and the second error output are based on the first error output amplified by a predetermined gain. |
| US09525426B2 |
Cross-coupled input voltage sampling and driver amplifier flicker noise cancellation in a switched capacitor analog-to-digital converter
A switching component comprises a plurality of switches configured to receive a differential signal at an input and is configured to provide a non-inverted version of the differential signal at an output during a first phase of operation and an inverted version of the differential signal at an output during a second phase of operation. A driver amplifier component is configured to receive the non-inverted version of the differential signal at an input during the first phase of operation and the inverted version of the differential signal at an input during the second phase of operation. A sampling capacitor component is configured to sample the output of the driver amplifier component during the first phase of operation and the second phase of operation. |
| US09525425B2 |
Asynchronous sample rate converter
An asynchronous sample rate converter and method for converting an input signal to a resampled output signal is disclosed. An efficient and cost-effective sample rate converter for converting an input signal of arbitrary sample rate to a resampled output signal of a second sample rate is disclosed. A hardware-efficient sample-rate converter for resampling an audio input signal with an arbitrary sample rate to an output audio signal with a known sample rate for use in an audio processor is disclosed. |
| US09525421B2 |
High speed low voltage hybrid output driver for FPGA I/O circuits
A hybrid input/output pad driver includes an input node in a first voltage supply domain coupled to a p-device driver in the second voltage supply domain and an n-device driver in the second voltage domain. A p-channel pullup transistor is coupled between a voltage potential in a third voltage domain and an input/output pad. Its gate is coupled to the output of the p-device driver. An n-channel pulldown transistor is coupled between ground and the input/output pad. Its gate is coupled to the output of the n-device driver. An n-channel pullup transistor has a source coupled to the input/output pad, a drain coupled to the voltage potential in the third voltage supply domain. An inverter in the second voltage supply domain is programmably connectable between the output of the p-driver circuit and the gate of the n-channel pullup transistor. |
| US09525419B2 |
Heterogeneous segmented and direct routing architecture for field programmable gate array
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for segmented and direct routing in a programmable gate array. In one embodiment, the programmable gate array comprises a plurality of programmable tiles, including at least one SHLRT having: a block configurable as a logic function or a routing function; and one or more switching blocks coupled to programmable tiles in the plurality of programmable tiles for segmented routing. |
| US09525411B2 |
Power supply circuits for gate drivers
An embodiment of a power supply circuit to generate a supply voltage for a gate driver circuit can include an isolated power supply circuit to receive a first voltage in a first isolated system and provide power to a cyclic charging power supply circuit, the cyclic charging power supply circuit providing a supply voltage to the gate driver circuit in a second isolated system, the isolated power supply circuit providing the power to the cyclic charging power supply circuit while the gate driver circuit drives a transistor in an on state. The isolated power supply circuit can include a control circuit to regulate the power provided to maintain or increase the supply voltage while the gate driver circuit drives the transistor in an on state. The power supply circuit can also include the cyclic charging power supply circuit to receive a second voltage in the second isolated system and provide the supply voltage to the gate driver circuit. The cyclic charging power supply circuit can include one or more of a bootstrap power supply circuit or a charge pump power supply circuit. |
| US09525406B2 |
Apparatus and method for compensating for duty signals
An apparatus and method for compensating for duty signals are disclosed herein. The apparatus for compensating for duty signals includes a signal input unit, a signal control unit, a combined signal control unit, a determination unit, and a signal output unit. The signal input unit receives a first signal and a second signal. The signal control unit controls the timing of the first and second signals based on first and second control signals, and outputs a combined signal. The combined signal control unit outputs first and second logic operation signals. The determination unit generates the first and second control signals if the timing of the first signal does not match the timing of the second signal, outputs the generated first and second control signals, and applies a third control signal to the combined signal control unit. The signal output unit outputs the first and second signals. |
| US09525404B2 |
Input circuit
The input circuit includes a first switch control circuit that controls a first switch and a second switch. The first switch control circuit turns off the first switch and the second switch in a first period during which a first input signal and a second input signal are DC signals. The first switch control circuit turns on the first switch and the second switch in a second period during which the first input signal and the second input signal are AC signals. |
| US09525400B2 |
Resonator element, resonator, oscillator, electronic apparatus and moving object
A resonator element has a piezoelectric substrate including a vibration section and a thick section having a thickness which is thicker than that of the vibration section, and a pair of excitation electrodes provided on a surface and a back surface of the vibration section. In addition, the thick section has a second thick section provided along a second outer edge of the vibration section. The second thick section has an outer edge section intersecting with both axes of an X axis and a Z′ axis in an end portion opposite to the fixing section in a plan view of the resonator element. |
| US09525397B2 |
Acoustic resonator comprising acoustic reflector, frame and collar
A solidly mounted resonator (SMR) device includes an acoustic reflector having stacked acoustic reflector layer pairs, each of which includes a low acoustic impedance layer formed of low acoustic impedance material stacked on a high acoustic impedance layer formed of high acoustic impedance material. The SMR device further includes a bottom electrode disposed on the acoustic reflector, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the bottom electrode, and a top electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer. A collar is formed outside a main active region defined by an overlap between the top electrode, the piezoelectric layer and the bottom electrode, and at least one frame is disposed within the main active region. The collar has an inner edge substantially aligned with a boundary of or overlapping the main active region, and the at least one frame has an outer edge substantially aligned with the boundary of the main active region. |
| US09525393B1 |
Technique for designing acoustic microwave filters using lcr-based resonator models
A method of designing an acoustic microwave filter in accordance with frequency response requirements comprises generating a modeled filter circuit design having a plurality of circuit elements comprising an acoustic resonant element defined by an electrical circuit model that comprises a parallel static branch, a parallel motional branch, and one or both of a parallel Bragg Band branch that models an upper Bragg Band discontinuity and a parallel bulk mode function that models an acoustic bulk mode loss. The method further comprises optimizing the modeled filter circuit design to generate an optimized filter circuit design, comparing a frequency response of the optimized filter circuit design to the frequency response requirements, and constructing the acoustic microwave filter from the optimized filter circuit design based on the comparison. |
| US09525390B2 |
Switching circuit
A switching circuit generates a switching pulse that is pulse modulated according to an input signal. An error amplifier includes a phase compensating filter that generates a feedback signal corresponding to the switching pulse. The error amplifier generates an error signal corresponding to a difference between the input signal and the feedback signal. A pulse modulator includes an oscillator that generates a carrier signal having a variable frequency. The pulse modulator pulse-modulates the carrier signal according to the error signal, so as to generate a pulse modulated signal. The phase compensating filter is configured such that its frequency characteristics can be adjusted according to the frequency of the carrier signal. |
| US09525383B2 |
Apparatus and methods for a capacitive digital-to-analog converter based power amplifier
This application provides apparatus and methods for a capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) based power amplifier. In an example, a transmitter amplifier can include an input inductor, a switch having a first node coupled to the input inductor, and a control node, the amplifier configured to receive a first analog representation of an envelope signal at the first node, to receive a second analog representation of the amplitude signal from the inductor, to receive a phase signal at the control node, and to provide a first modulated signal using the phase signal, the first analog representation of the amplitude signal and the second analog representation of the amplitude signal, and a capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) configured to receive a digital representation of the amplitude signal and to provide the first analog representation of the amplitude signal. |
| US09525381B2 |
Method and apparatus for electrically accessing photovoltaic modules
An apparatus and a method for testing and/or conditioning photovoltaic modules. The apparatus includes a set of contacts for contacting electrical conductors of the module and a testing and/or conditioning system for testing and/or conditioning of the module and measuring parameters associated therewith. |
| US09525374B2 |
Motor driving circuit, electronic device using the same, and driving method thereof
A motor driving circuit for driving a step motor includes a logical circuit synchronized with a step pulse signal to control a bridge circuit connected to a coil of the step motor and control electric power supplied to the coil of the step motor, a counter electromotive force detecting unit configured to detect a counter electromotive force generated between both ends of the coil, and a step-out predicting unit configured to assert a detection signal indicating a sign of step-out of the step motor, when the counter electromotive force detected at a detection time after the lapse of a time calculated by multiplying a predetermined coefficient to a length of a high impedance period of the coil since transition to the high impedance period is lower than a predetermined threshold voltage. |
| US09525372B2 |
Method and system for determining the position of a synchronous motor's rotor
To establish an initial/resting position of a permanent magnet rotor, all motor stator windings are stimulated (voltage applied thereto) in sequence, the time it takes for current in the stimulated stator winding to rise to a specific current value is measured for each stator winding and these time measurement results processed. From the measured time results rotor position to within 60 degrees is determined and the position sector is known prior to starting/rotating the motor. Once the rotor position is known, the next commutation point in a six step sequence is known before actually starting/rotating the motor. Position measurement winding stimulation may be interleaved with commutation pulses, or the unexcited stator winding may be stimulated between commutation pulses to the other two excited stator, wherein one of the two stator windings remains connected to the power and provides a current return path to the unexcited but stimulated stator winding. |
| US09525369B2 |
Reverse rotation braking for a PM motor
A system includes a motor, an inverter bridge, a voltage detection circuit, and a controller. The motor has a stator and a rotor. The inverter bridge is configured to provide a voltage to the stator, and includes a first switch connected in a series-type relationship with a second switch, a first diode coupled across the first switch, and a second diode coupled across the second switch. The voltage detection circuit is configured to detect a back EMF voltage in the winding. The controller is configured to control the first switch and the second switch to drive the motor, and to receive an indication of the back EMF voltage in the winding from the voltage detection circuit. The controller is also configured to determine a fault has occurred, and to drive one of the first switch and the second switch when a fault has occurred. |
| US09525368B2 |
System for controlling a synchronous electric motor
A control system included in a speed selector connected by output phases to a synchronous electric motor, the synchronous electric motor being controlled according to a control law implemented by the speed selector. A first speed of the synchronous electric motor is determined by a first speed estimator. A second speed estimator is used to determine a second speed of the synchronous electric motor. The system includes a signal generator module configured to apply, to the output phases, voltages taking account of a non-constant current signal. The second speed estimator is configured to recover the current response on the output phases, to deduce therefrom the second speed of the synchronous electric motor. |
| US09525365B2 |
Power-generating device with vibration plate that applies compressive stress to the piezoelectric layer when the vibration plate does not vibrate
A power-generating device includes a vibration plate, a lower electrode on the vibration plate, a piezoelectric layer made of piezoelectric material on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode on the piezoelectric layer, a fixing member for supporting a fixed end of the vibration plate. The vibration plate applies compressive stress to the piezoelectric layer when the vibration plate does not vibrate. The power generating device is excellent in long-term reliability. |
| US09525364B2 |
Smart grid power converter
A DC-to-AC power converter is disclosed. The power converter has a DC input to receive DC power from a photovoltaic device, an AC output configured for direct connection to an AC mains power supply line, six semiconductor switches, one isolated high-frequency power transformer, two high-frequency inductors, a small resonant capacitor, and a large non-electrolytic (e.g. film) capacitor energy storage component. One of the semiconductor switches located on the primary side of the transformer operates to regulate the voltage across the non-electrolytic capacitor energy storage component. A second semiconductor switch located on the primary side of the transformer provides a resonant reset for the energy stored in the transformer and allows the first semiconductor switch to operate with nearly zero-voltage-switching. The other four semiconductor switches and a high-frequency inductor coupled to the ac output operate with a variable switching frequency to produce a sinusoidal current into the ac output such that the sinusoidal current may be either in phase or out of phase with the ac output voltage. |
| US09525363B2 |
Method for voltage dip compensation of inverter
Disclosed is a method for voltage dip compensation of inverter, the method including reducing an output frequency of an inverter to obtain a regenerative energy when it is determined that power failure has occurred during the inverter operation, adjusting increase/decrease of inverter output frequency in response to size of exceeding current and voltage based on an output current and DC-link voltage of the inverter, increasing the inverter output frequency in order to prevent excessive current flow when power restoration occurs at a power failure state, and returning to a speed prior to the momentary voltage dip by gradually increasing the inverter output frequency in a state where the inverter output frequency does not exceed an over-current limit by monitoring the inverter output frequency. |
| US09525361B2 |
Controlled rectifying circuit
A rectifying circuit includes a first diode coupled between a first terminal configured to receive application of an A.C. voltage and a first terminal configured to deliver a rectified voltage; and an anode-gate thyristor coupled between a second terminal configured to receive application of the A.C. voltage and a second terminal configured to deliver the rectified voltage, wherein an anode of the anode-gate thyristor is connected to the second terminal configured to deliver the rectified voltage. |
| US09525357B2 |
Control and drive circuit and method
Disclosed herein are control and drive circuits and methods for synchronous rectification switching power supply bias voltage generating circuits configured for a switching power supply. In one embodiment, a control and drive circuit can include: (i) a primary side switch controller configured to generate a primary side switch control signal; (ii) a logic circuit configured to generate a first control signal based on the primary side switch control signal; (iii) a converting circuit configured to generate a second control signal based on the first control signal; and (iv) a synchronous rectifier switch controller configured to generate a synchronous rectifier switch control signal based on the second control signal such that phases of the primary side switch control signal and the synchronous rectifier switch control signal are the same or inverse based on a topology of the synchronous rectification switching power supply. |
| US09525348B1 |
Power converter having integrated capacitor-blocked transistor cells
A converter for connecting a voltage source to a load includes a plurality of ICBT (integrated capacitor blocked transistor) cells configured as switches and connected in series to form a series connection path, a main capacitor connected across the series connection path, and a controller. Each ICBT cell includes a main transistor disposed in the series connection path and a series connected auxiliary transistor and auxiliary capacitor coupled in parallel with the main transistor. The controller is operable to develop a voltage across the main capacitor which exceeds a voltage rating of the ICBT cells, by switching the ICBT cells so as to commutate current within the individual ICBT cells without the ICBT cells providing active power to the load so that power flow is from the voltage source, to the main capacitor, to the load and not through the auxiliary transistors and the auxiliary capacitors. |
| US09525345B2 |
Arrangement for improving transient deviation compensation of an output voltage of a DC-to-DC converter
When generating a voltage Vout of a DC-to-DC converter for a load which is connected to the converter, it is necessary to monitor the quality of the voltage, in particular its amplitude. For this, provision is made for a comparator to be arranged between the output of the DC-to-DC converter and a control input of the control unit, with a first input of the comparator being connected to the output of the DC-to-DC converter (Vout), the second input of the comparator being connected to a reference voltage (Vrestore) and the output of the comparator being connected to the control input of the control unit of the DC-to-DC converter, for controlling the voltage Vout. |
| US09525344B2 |
Constant time controller and controlling method for a switching regulator
In one embodiment, a controlling method for a switching regulator, can include: (i) detecting an output voltage and an inductor current of the switching regulator; (ii) determining if there is a transient change on a load of the switching regulator by using the output voltage and a first reference voltage; (iii) generating a control signal using the output voltage, the inductor current, and a second reference voltage; (iv) controlling a switch of the switching regulator to maintain the output voltage substantially constant when no transient change is determined on the load; and (v) deactivating the control signal to keep the inductor current changing along with a variation tendency of an output current of the switching regulator when a transient change is determined on the load. |
| US09525340B1 |
Boost capacitor circuit and charge pump
A boost capacitor circuit is disclosed which includes a first nMOS transistor and a voltage doubler circuit including: a first pMOS transistor having a drain coupled to a working voltage, a source coupled to a first node and a gate coupled to a second node; a drive inverter having an input terminal for receiving a first signal; a second pMOS transistor having a gate coupled to an output terminal of the drive inverter, a source and a drain coupled to each other and further to the first node; a third pMOS transistor having a gate for receiving the first signal, a source coupled to the first node and a drain coupled to the second node; and a second nMOS transistor having a gate for receiving the first signal, a source coupled to a low voltage and a drain coupled to the second node. |
| US09525336B2 |
Harmonic control method and circuit for flyback switching power supply
In one embodiment, harmonic control method for a flyback switching power supply, can include: (i) generating a sense voltage signal based on an output signal of the flyback switching power supply; (ii) generating a first compensation signal by determining and compensating an error between the sense voltage signal and a reference voltage; (iii) generating a second compensation signal by regulating the first compensation signal based on a duty cycle of a main power switch in the flyback switching power supply; and (iv) generating a control signal based on the second compensation signal and a triangular wave signal, to control the main power switch such that the output signal is substantially constant and an input current follows a waveform variation of an input voltage of the flyback switching power supply. |
| US09525334B2 |
Control circuit with multiple feedback loops and switching power supply thereof
A control circuit with multiple feedback loops configured for a switching power supply, can include: (i) a plurality of feedback circuits configured to receive a plurality of feedback signals of a power stage circuit, and to correspondingly generate a plurality of error signals; (ii) a plurality of switching circuits configured to transfer the error signals to a compensation circuit, where each switching circuit is correspondingly coupled to one of the feedback circuits, and where only one of the switching circuits is turned on to correspondingly transfer one of the error signals to the compensation circuit when in a steady status; (iii) the compensation circuit being configured to receive the error signals, and to generate a compensation signal; and (iv) a PWM control circuit configured to receive the compensation signal, and to generate a PWM control signal to control operation of a power switch in the power stage circuit. |
| US09525328B2 |
Rotating electric machine, in particular double-fed asynchronous machine with a power range of between 20 MVA and 500 MVA
The invention proceeds from a rotating electric machine, in particular a double-fed induction machine in the power range between 20 MVA and 500 MVA, which comprises a rotor that rotates about a machine axis, is concentrically surrounded by a stator, and has a rotor plate body and a shaft, which rotor plate body bears a rotor winding that is arranged further outwards and is connected by means of connectors to slip rings that are arranged further inwards at the end of the shaft. A flexible and secure connection is achieved in that the connectors have mechanical connectors that run at right angles to the shaft to absorb forces arising owing to centrifugal acceleration, which mechanical connectors are connected on one side to a rotor winding head of the rotor winding and are supported on the other side on an auxiliary rim on the rotor plate body. |
| US09525327B2 |
Current diverter ring
The current diverter rings and bearing isolators serve to dissipate an electrical charge from a rotating piece of equipment to ground, such as from a motor shaft to a motor housing. One embodiment of the current diverter ring includes an inner body and an outer body configured to clamp at least one conductive segment between them. In the preferred embodiments of the current diverter ring, the conductive segments are positioned in radial channels. The outer body may be affixed to a shaft, a motor housing, a bearing isolator, or other structure. The bearing isolator may incorporate a retention chamber for holding conductive segments within the stator of the bearing isolator, or the bearing isolator may be fashioned with a receptor groove into which a current diverter ring may be mounted. |
| US09525325B2 |
Liquid-cooled rotary electric machine having axial end cooling
A liquid-cooled rotary electric machine including jacket defining a heat transfer surface in conductive thermal communication with a stator and having an axial end portion partially enclosing an interior volume. A heat source is in conductive thermal communication with a wall of the jacket axial end portion. A fluid channel traverses the heat transfer surface between opposite axial ends of the jacket, and a fluid passage in fluid communication with the fluid channel is defined by jacket axial end portion walls. A flow path of liquid coolant through the machine is defined by the fluid channel and the fluid passage between a machine coolant inlet and outlet, whereby at least a portion of heat transferable between the heat source and the fluid passage is convectively transferable between the jacket axial end portion walls and liquid coolant along the flow path. Also a method for liquid-cooling a rotary electric machine. |
| US09525323B1 |
Energy harvester system
An energy harvester system including a primary energy collector (PEC), a cam gear ring, multiple secondary energy collectors (SEC), and a central gear is provided. The PEC and the SECs harness ambient motion energy. The PEC is attached to a support base member. The cam gear ring is operably engaged to the PEC and rotated by the PEC. The SECs are positioned in a space defined by the cam gear ring and rotated on receiving ambient motion energy. One SEC is unclamped from the support base member and slides towards the central gear when the cam gear ring contacts the SEC, while the other SECs are clamped on the support base member. The central gear operably engages with the unclamped SEC that slid towards the central gear and rotates with the unclamped SEC. The rotating central gear can be coupled to different power generating devices for generating electrical energy. |
| US09525322B2 |
Wiper motor
A wiper motor has: a magnet disposed on the yoke and formed with at least four poles; an armature disposed on an inner side of the magnet; a speed reduction mechanism unit having an output shaft for transmitting the rotation of the armature shaft; a gear housing connected to the yoke; a gear housing cover covering an opening of the gear housing; a magnet attached to the output shaft of the speed reduction mechanism unit; an absolute position detecting sensor disposed so as to face the magnet; and a control board having the absolute position detecting sensor attached thereto, the control board being disposed between the gear housing and the gear housing cover, and configured to control the rotation of the armature shaft. |
| US09525321B2 |
Rotation driving device
A rotation driving device includes a motor provided in a housing, a planetary gear reducer connected to the motor coaxially with the motor, an output shaft connected to an end reduction member of the planetary gear reducer coaxially with the end reduction member, and a rotation detector located at the same position as the end reduction member in an axial direction of the planetary gear reducer and located at a different position from a center axis of the end reduction member in a radial direction of the planetary gear reducer, the rotation detector being capable of detecting a degree of rotation of the end reduction member. Accordingly, the rotation driving device can be made to be smaller and compact in the axial direction. |
| US09525320B2 |
Electromechanical device with included gear stages and internal lubrication system
An electromechanical device having a mechanical interface structure for connecting to an external rotating element, an electrical machine, and one or more gear stages on a mechanical power transmission path between the mechanical interface structure and a rotor of the electrical machine. The electromechanical device also has bearings for connecting the rotor of the electrical machine rotatably to the structure of the electromechanical device. The bearings carry the axial and radial forces of the rotor, and at least partly the axial and radial forces of the driving shaft of the gear stage, directly connected to the rotor. |
| US09525319B2 |
High force rotary actuator
An actuator includes a first stator with four first poles and a second stator with four second poles aligned with the four first poles. A permanent magnet is attached to the first stator and the second stator. Four moving armatures are positioned at terminal ends of the four first poles and the four second poles. Coils are wrapped around the first stator and the second stator. A controller selectively applies current to the coils to migrate flux created by the permanent magnet through selective poles of the first stator and the second stator and thereby alter the size of air gaps associated with the four moving armatures. |
| US09525318B2 |
Vehicular AC generator
Adverse effects of a large assembling step comparable to tolerance of stacking members among constituent parts are prevented. At least two components and, among a voltage regulator, a brush holder and a rectifier, that are fastened with each other are provided with both component-fixing portions and fastening-together portions and for fastening the components together with each other, and an assembling step absorbing portion is provided at least at the fastening-together portion that is not close to the component-fixing portions of the respective components. |
| US09525314B2 |
Rotary electric machine
In the rotary electric machine, a cylinder 04a of a ring component 04 is formed in such a way that a fitting outer surface 04c1 of the cylinder 04a of the ring component 04 is fitted to a fitting inner surface 02a of a first housing 02; a clearance value between the fitting outer surface of the cylinder and a fitting inner surface of the first housing is lower than a clearance value between an outer surface, in which the fitting outer surface is excepted, of the cylinder and an inner surface, in which the fitting inner surface is excepted, of the first housing; and a position in a diameter direction of a stator core 3 facing to the first housing is set by above-described fitting process. |
| US09525312B2 |
Methods for optically powering transducers and related transducers
The present disclosure describes a method for optically powering transducers and related transducers with a photovoltaic collector. An optical fiber power delivery method and a free space power delivery method are also provided. A fabrication process for making an optically powered transducer is further described, together with an implantable transducer system based on optical power delivery. |
| US09525305B2 |
Electric system and vehicle
An in-vehicle solar system that supplies electric energy from a solar battery module to an electric device such as a secondary battery, a load, and the like includes a capacitor that accumulates electric energy from the solar battery module and supplies the accumulated electric energy to the electric device. |
| US09525303B2 |
Wireless charger circuit and method
A charging system for a mobile device includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes (a) a first interface to a power source; (b) a second interface to the receiver; (c) a polarity detection circuit for detecting polarities of the; and (d) first and second switches controlled by the polarity detection circuit, wherein each switch selectively connects a terminal of the first interface to a terminal of the second interface. The receiver includes: (a) a first interface; (b) a second interface coupled to a device to be charged; and (c) a connection circuit between a terminal of the first interface and a terminal of the second interface, wherein the connection circuit is conductive when the voltage across these terminals is of a first polarity, and a second polarity otherwise. |
| US09525298B1 |
Method and system for voltage balancing of multiple rechargeable energy storage devices
A system is provided for balancing voltage of two rechargeable energy storage devices connected in series at a common node. A voltage divider is configured to divide a total voltage across the two devices into first and second reference voltages. First and second circuit elements include, respectively: first and second comparators, first and second P-channel MOSFETs, first and second current limiting resistors, and first and second networks of resistors. The first circuit elements are in electrical communication and configured to actively discharge a first device of the two devices when a difference between a voltage at the common node and the first reference voltage is greater than a first predetermined voltage. The-second circuit elements are in electrical communication and configured to actively charge the first device when a difference between the voltage at the common node and the second reference voltage is less than a second predetermined voltage. |
| US09525286B2 |
Shutdown system and method for photovoltaic system
A method and system is provided for achieving power shut down or disconnect at individual solar panel level for a DC solar power system. The system provides fail safe power disconnect for emergencies or electrical system maintenance. A high-frequency current source signal is transmitted over DC power lines to each junction box of a photovoltaic panel array. The high frequency signal is transmitted concurrently with the DC power, and is isolated from an inverter by an inductor. A communications receiver circuit controls the PV panel to short circuit the PV panel output terminals and disconnect the PV panel from the output terminals in response to the high-frequency signal. |
| US09525277B2 |
Section of cable tray
The invention relates to a section of cable tray, which can be connected to other sections without using additional accessories, allowing the connection of anchoring elements located at one end of the walls of each tray section. The aforementioned anchoring elements take the form of rods bent to form a V-shape that extends into straight extensions which are installed between longitudinal rods. In addition, turns are provided in the aforementioned rods between the straight zones and the V-shape, one turn towards the interior of the tray and another turn towards the exterior. Sections are coupled by sliding the sides of the first transverse rod of the tray section to be joined through the V-shape, such that they remain trapped between the inner turns and the sides of the last transverse rod of the receiving tray section. |
| US09525272B2 |
Corona ignition device
Described is a corona ignition device comprising an insulator, a housing that is closed at its front end by the insulator, a center electrode that protrudes out of a front end of the insulator and has at least one ignition tip, wherein the insulator protrudes out of the housing and widens outside of the housing. The insulator curves in a dome-shaped manner over the front end of the housing. |
| US09525269B2 |
Wavelength beam combining laser systems utilizing etalons
In various embodiments, wavelength beam combining laser systems incorporate etalons to establish external lasing cavities and/or to combine multiple input beams into a single output beam. |
| US09525260B2 |
Separator welding device and separator welding method
A production device 100 for a packaged electrode 20, to which a separator welding device is applied, includes joining heads 301 having joining tips 302 and 303 that join a pair of separators 30 to each other and holding units 304 that fasten the pair of separators. After the joining heads 301 are moved closer to each other with respect to the separators, and the separators are fastened by the holding units 304, the pair of separators is joined to each other by the joining tips 301. Meanwhile, after the joining heads 301 are separated from each other with respect to the separators, and the joining tips are separated from the pair of separators, the separators are released from fastening by the holding units 304. |
| US09525255B2 |
Low profile faceplate having managed connectivity
A faceplate assembly includes a faceplate member; at least one jack module mounted in an opening of the faceplate member; and a printed circuit board assembly. The printed circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board; a first set of secondary contacts that are electrically connected to the printed circuit board; and a network connector that is electrically connected to the secondary contacts of the first set via the printed circuit board. The secondary contacts extend into the jack module. The secondary contacts are isolated from primary contacts of the jack module. |
| US09525253B2 |
Socket, a plug, an assembly, a method of setting a socket and a method of resetting a socket
There is provided a socket for selectively coupling to a plug. The socket comprising a conforming portion adapted to conform to a first configuration complementary to the plug, wherein the first configuration allows the socket to electrically couple to the plug; and a securing member adjustable to releasably engage at least part of the conforming portion to substantially prevent the conforming portion from changing to a second configuration different from the first configuration, wherein the second configuration substantially prevents the socket from electrically coupling to the plug. There are also provided a plug configured to cooperate with the socket, a plug and socket assembly, a method of setting the socket for selectively coupling to the plug, and a method of resetting the socket programmed to selectively coupling to the plug. |
| US09525250B2 |
Laser direct structured connection for intravascular device
The invention generally relates to intravascular imaging catheters and methods of making catheters for imaging systems. The invention provides a connector for an imaging catheter that includes a unitary body with very thin electrical contacts that are formed on the surface of the body. Due to the scale of the contacts, the connector operates essentially as a single unitary piece of material. Each of the leads may be less than about 100 μm wide and less than about 8 μm thick, and further the leads may be spaced apart by less than about 160 μm. |
| US09525244B1 |
Electrical connector with and inner grounding unit and an outer grounding unit
An electrical connector comprises an insulating housing, several first and second conductive terminals, an inner grounding unit, and an outer grounding unit, which are disposed on the insulating housing. The first conductive terminals have a pair of first inside signal terminals and two pairs of first outside signal terminals respectively arranged at two opposite sides of the pair of first inside signal terminals. The inner grounding unit is arranged between the first conductive terminals and the second conductive terminals. The outer grounding unit has a first sheet portion covering the insulating housing and at least one first transverse shielding sheet electrically connected to the first sheet portion. The first transverse shielding sheet is arranged between the two pairs of first outside signal terminals and arranged at one of two opposite sides of the pair of first inside signal terminals. |
| US09525243B1 |
Electrical connector
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a middle shielding plate integrally molded to the insulating housing, and a plurality of terminals received in the insulating housing. The insulating housing has a base portion and a tongue portion. A front section of the tongue portion has two fixing portions. The middle shielding plate has a base plate, an extending plate, and two bending portions formed at two opposite sides of a front end of the extending plate. The two bending portions are respectively molded in the two fixing portions. Outer side surfaces of the two bending portions are exposed outside from two opposite sides of the two fixing portions. A thickness of each of the bending portions is greater than a thickness of the extending plate. |
| US09525242B1 |
Modular connectors with electromagnetic interference suppression
Presented herein is a modular connector with electromagnetic interference suppression. The modular connector includes a substrate, at least one set of spring pins, and a ferrite component. Each spring in the at least one set of springs includes a first portion adjacent the substrate and a second portion extending away from the substrate. The ferrite component surrounds the at least one set of spring pins, couples the at least one set of spring pins to the substrate, and is configured to suppress electromagnetic interference. |
| US09525241B1 |
Electrical connector
An electrical connector includes a middle shielding plate, a lower terminal module, an upper terminal module mounted on a top surface of the middle shielding plate, an insulation module and a shielding shell. The middle shielding plate is mounted on the lower terminal module. The lower terminal module includes a plurality of lower terminals which include two lower ground terminals. A front end of an outer side of each of the lower ground terminals is connected with a lower connecting piece. The upper terminal module includes a plurality of upper terminals which include two upper ground terminals. A front end of an outer side of each of the upper ground terminals is connected with an upper connecting piece. The shielding shell is mounted outside the lower terminal module, the upper terminal module and the insulation module. |
| US09525240B2 |
Arrangement for contacting a screen of an electrical high voltage cable
An arrangement for contacting an electrical screen includes an armature that has at least two ring shaped contact elements, a first contact element, and a second contact element which, in the assembly position, are connected to each other by a screw connection. The first contact element has a conical outer surface which widens toward the end of the high voltage cable and surrounds the cable strand of the high voltage cable. The second contact element is attached to parts of the screw connection and has a conical inner surface which also widens toward the end of the high voltage cable and which extends in the assembly position parallel to the outer surface of the first contact element. |
| US09525237B2 |
Connector
A connector configured to electrically connect an electric wire to a motor mounted on a vehicle, the connector including: a connector main body portion attached to one end portion of the electric wire, a bracket fixed to the motor in a state of holding the connector main body portion, and a cover placed over the bracket so as to cover the connector main body portion and fixed to the motor in a state of holding the electric wire. |
| US09525234B2 |
Electrical conductor
An electrical connector including a metal plate including an insulating portion and an insulating portion; and a contact support portion including a hole portion that is extended in a thickness direction, of which a top end is blocked by a connection portion, and of which a bottom end exposes the insulating portion but not the metal plate, and a hole portion that is extended in the thickness direction, of which a bottom end opens to an outer surface and is blocked by a connection portion, and of which a top end exposes the insulating portion but not the metal plate. |
| US09525232B1 |
Functional indoor electrical wall outlet cover
An indoor electrical wall outlet cover permitting functional use of an electrical wall outlet while fully concealing the plug contact openings of the outlet. The cover has a functional electrical plug that inserts into the wall outlet and is connected to an extended electrical cord having at its distal end one or more functional electrical receptacles for indirect use of the wall outlet. In one embodiment, the cover is essentially featureless in outward appearance, and when positioned over the wall outlet, the cover fully hides the wall outlet from view, including the perimeter dimension of the wall outlet. The functional electrical plug has electrical connection pins that are bent at an angle enabling the cover to function without extending any significant degree outward of the wall outlet, so that furniture may be positioned effectively flush against the wall in front of the covered wall outlet. |
| US09525230B2 |
Connector having terminal position assurance article
A connector is provided and includes a housing and a terminal position assurance article. The housing has a body and a terminal receiving portion extending rearward from the body. The terminal position assurance article is wholly received into a rear end of the housing and corresponds with the terminal receiving portion. |
| US09525227B2 |
Flippable electrical connector
A plug connector includes a mating tongue defining top and bottom surfaces thereon. Each surface is provided with a plurality of conductors in one row wherein the characters/categories of the conductors on the top surface are sequentially arranged to be same with those on the bottom surface with a pair of power conductors in two notches at two lateral side edges. The corresponding receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board, defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue therein. Opposite top and bottom rows of contacts are respectively located by upper and bottom sides of the receiving cavity and categorized essentially in a same sequence with the conductors of the plug connector for respectively connecting to the corresponding conductive pads, respectively. A pair of power contacts are located by two lateral sides of the receiving cavity to couple to the corresponding power conductor portions in the notches. |
| US09525225B1 |
Card connector
A card connector includes an insulating housing, electrical terminals and a group of switch terminals which includes a detecting terminal and a grounding terminal fixed to the insulating housing. The detecting terminal has a horizontal first fixed portion and a resisting portion. The grounding terminal has a perpendicular second fixed portion, a flexing portion, a connecting portion and an extending plate. A rear edge of an outside of the extending plate is beyond the connecting portion. The ejector mechanism includes a sliding block with a pushing portion. The card first pushes the pushing portion rearward to press on an outside of the extending plate, then the card pushes the connecting portion and the pushing portion rearward simultaneously to ensure the extending plate always being pressed by the pushing portion, when the card is fully inserted in the card connector, the extending plate is against the resisting portion. |
| US09525224B1 |
Electrical connector and electronic system
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing and a plurality of terminals coupled to the insulating housing. The insulating housing includes a positioning body, a head portion extending from a first face of the positioning body, and a tail portion extending from a second face of the positioning body. Each terminal includes a first contact portion, a second contact portion, and a retaining portion between the first contact portion and the second contact portion. The retaining portion includes a first coupling portion coupled to the first contact portion and a second coupling portion between the first coupling portion and the second contact portion. The first coupling portion and the second coupling portion are noncoplanar. The first contact portion is coupled to the head portion, the second contact portion is coupled to the tail portion. The retaining portion extends from the head portion to the tail portion. |
| US09525223B2 |
Flippable electrical connector
A plug connector includes a mating tongue defining top and bottom surfaces thereon. Each surface is provided with a plurality of conductors in one row wherein the characters/categories of the conductors on the top surface are sequentially arranged to be same with those on the bottom surface with a pair of power conductors in two notches at two lateral side edges. The corresponding receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board, defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue therein. Opposite top and bottom rows of contacts are respectively located by upper and bottom sides of the receiving cavity and categorized essentially in a same sequence with the conductors of the plug connector for respectively connecting to the corresponding conductive pads, respectively. A pair of power contacts are located by two lateral sides of the receiving cavity to couple to the corresponding power conductor portions in the notches. |
| US09525222B2 |
Reducing or eliminating board-to-board connectors
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for creating a connection mechanism for a circuit board. The method includes securing a plurality of electrical conductors to a sleeve. Once the electrical conductors have been coupled to the sleeve, the sleeve and the plurality of conductors are coupled to, and molded with, the circuit board. At least one side of the circuit board, such as, for example, the molding over the plurality of electrical conductors, is subsequently reduced to expose at least a portion of at least one of the plurality of electrical conductors. An electrical connector is then coupled to the at least the portion of the one or more of the plurality of electrical conductors that was exposed when the first side of the printed circuit board was reduced. |
| US09525218B2 |
Conductive wire connection structure of rail-type electrical terminal
A conductive wire connection structure of rail-type electrical terminal is able to reduce the yield of waste material in manufacturing, enhance heat dissipation effect and increase operational and motional stability in condition of structural simplification. The conductive wire connection structure includes a conductive support mounted in an insulation case. The conductive support is divided into two parts of a U-shaped support main body and a C-shaped wire connector. The wire connector is assembled with a metal leaf spring and disposed on the support main body together with the metal leaf spring for pivotally connecting with the grounding conductive wire coming from an apparatus. The wire connector and the metal leaf spring are respectively formed with insertion sections for assembling the wire connector with the metal leaf spring to help the support main body to hold the metal leaf spring and prevent the metal leaf spring from deflecting. |
| US09525216B2 |
Shift member fixing structure of electrical connection terminal
A shift member fixing structure of electrical connection terminal includes an assembly of a terminal and a shift member to improve the shortcoming of the conventional terminal that the structure is complicated and the manufacturing cost is higher. The terminal includes a main body defining a chamber and a metal leaf spring disposed in the chamber for pressing a conductive wire or releasing the conductive wire in response to the operation of the shift member. A predetermined section of the shift member is formed with an insertion section and walls defining the insertion section. A part of the wall is removed to provide elastic effect for the insertion section. The removed part is repositioned on a surface of upper section of the main body to form an interference section. After the shift member is pressed down, the interference section is assembled with the insertion section. |
| US09525215B2 |
Crimp terminal, method of manufacturing crimp terminal, electrical wire connection structure, and method of manufacturing electrical wire connection structure
A crimp terminal that can maintain excellent water-stop performance over a long term and is enhanced in joint strength between a fitting portion and a covered electrical wire connection portion. The crimp terminal has a fitting portion at a tip thereof and an electrical wire connection portion at a rear end thereof, the electrical wire connection portion is configured in a tubular shape, a tip of the tube is crushed to be superimposed and closed, and a portion between the fitting portion and the electrical wire connection portion is formed by superimposing and bending two or more sheets of a plate material. |
| US09525214B2 |
Power transmission systems and components for direct current applications
A power conversion and distribution system. In one embodiment low voltage source components convert a high voltage AC power source to a relatively low voltage supply and provide a direct current output. First superconductor wires carry current from the low voltage source components to a load, and second superconductor wires carry current from the load to the low voltage source components. Individual ones of the first wires are grouped with individual ones of the second wires so that wires connected to carry current in opposite directions are in such sufficiently close proximity that additives of self-fields generated by individual ones of the wires during power transmission result in reduction of the magnetic fringe field generated, thereby increasing the current carrying capacity of the wires. |
| US09525213B2 |
Antenna device
The antenna device includes a signal line that distributes input signals. The signal line includes a substrate, a pair of ground conductors opposite each other such as to sandwich the substrate, a first front side pattern and a second front side pattern formed on a front side of the substrate, and a first back side pattern and a second back side pattern formed on a back side of the substrate. While the first front side pattern is split, the second front side pattern is not split, and while the second back side pattern is split, the first back side pattern is not split. Parts of the split first front side pattern are conductive to each other via the first back side pattern, and parts of the split second back side pattern are conductive to each other via the second front side pattern. |
| US09525211B2 |
Antenna and communication system including the antenna
An antenna and a communication system with the antenna are provided. The antenna may include a first layer including a plurality of folded stubs, a second layer including a pattern of the folded stubs, and a third layer connected to ground is disposed between the first layer and the second layer. |
| US09525210B2 |
Guided-wave transmission device with non-fundamental mode propagation and methods for use therewith
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes a transmitter that generates a first electromagnetic wave to convey data. A coupler couples the first electromagnetic wave to a single wire transmission medium having an outer surface, to forming a second electromagnetic wave that is guided to propagate along the outer surface of the single wire transmission medium via at least one guided wave mode that includes an asymmetric or non-fundamental mode having a lower cutoff frequency. A carrier frequency of the second electromagnetic wave is selected to be within a limited range of the lower cutoff frequency, so that a majority of the electric field is concentrated within a distance from the outer surface that is less than half the largest cross sectional dimension of the single wire transmission medium, and/or to reduce propagation loss. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US09525209B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for contactless power supply and power control
A power supply apparatus includes a supply unit that supplies power to an external apparatus wirelessly by using a quality factor that indicates the resonance characteristic of the power supply apparatus and a control unit that controls the quality factor. |
| US09525207B2 |
Reconfigurable antenna structure with parasitic elements
The present invention refers to a reconfigurable antenna structure. The antenna structure comprises an active radiating structure comprising at least an active radiating element, a passive radiating structure comprising at least a passive radiating element, a ground plane structure comprising at least a ground plane element and at least a first circuitry element to selectively electrically connect/disconnect said passive radiating element with/from said ground plane element. The ground plane structure comprises regulating means of the current distribution along said ground plane structure, when said antenna structure emits/receives an electromagnetic radiation. |
| US09525204B2 |
Wireless network element and method for antenna array control
A wireless network element is operably couplable to an antenna array for communicating with at least one remote wireless communication unit. The antenna array comprises a plurality of radiating elements where at least one first radiating element of the plurality of radiating elements is arranged to create a radiation pattern in a sector of a communication cell. The wireless network element comprises a receiver arranged to receive and process at least one signal from the at least one remote wireless communication unit via the at least one first radiating element. The wireless network element also comprises a beam scanning module for stepping/sweeping the radiation pattern through the sector of the communication cell, such that at least one signal from the at least one remote wireless communication unit is processed to identify signal parameters representative of incoming signal power and angle of arrival of the received at least one signal. |
| US09525203B2 |
Controlling MTD antenna VSWR and coupling for SAR control
A method and apparatus has been developed to reduce SAR for a mobile device by designing appropriate matching circuits between each antenna and its power amplifier. In the presence of such matching circuits the normal phase adjustments may be carried out to provide a preferred safe SAR level that can be maintained during phase adjustment without sacrificing TRP. |
| US09525199B2 |
Millimeter waveband filter
In a millimeter waveband filter, electric wave half mirrors are provided in transmission lines of a first waveguide configured to allow electromagnetic waves in a predetermined frequency range of a millimeter waveband to propagate in a TE10 mode and a second waveguide connected to the first waveguide in a state where one end of the second waveguide is inserted into the first waveguide, and the waveguides are relatively moved to vary the interval between the electric wave half mirrors, thereby changing a resonance frequency. The first waveguide is a square waveguide, and the second waveguide is a ridge waveguide in which the outside thereof is a rectangular shape at a predetermined interval with respect to the inside of the first waveguide and a sectional shape of a transmission line has a central portion having a height smaller than both side portions. |
| US09525196B2 |
Electrolyte solution for lithium air batteries, and lithium air battery
The present invention aims to provide an electrolyte solution for a lithium-air cell, the electrolyte solution having excellent chemical stability and a high withstand voltage and being in a stable liquid state without undergoing precipitation of salts or coagulation over a broad temperature range. The present invention also aims to provide a lithium-air cell which is produced using the electrolyte solution for a lithium-air cell and has excellent long-term reliability and good charge-discharge cycle characteristics. The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution for a lithium-air cell, the electrolyte solution containing: an organic solvent that contains a chain alkyl sulfone compound represented by Formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a straight-chain or branched-chain alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbons and may be the same as or different from each other; and a lithium salt. |
| US09525186B2 |
Hydrogen gas generator with flexible feed member
A hydrogen generator (30) and fuel cell system are disclosed. The hydrogen generator (30) includes a housing (32) and a flexible feed member (56) including a flexible carrier (64) and a hydrogen-containing reactant (62) disposed on the carrier. The flexible feed member (56) may include a reactant having a braided carrier on the outside or a flexible strip having a carrier with reactant disposed thereon. The hydrogen-containing reactant (62) will release hydrogen gas when heated. The hydrogen generator further includes a heating system including a heater (48) and a pinch roller system (40) for feeding the flexible feed member (56) to position the flexible feed member in proximity to the heater (48), such that the heater is capable of heating the hydrogen-containing reactant to release hydrogen gas. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell having a hydrogen gas input port and a hydrogen generator. |
| US09525184B2 |
Manifold block for fuel cell stack
Disclosed is a manifold block for a fuel cell, which provides excellent electrical insulation for a coolant flow channel in an internal flow channel. More specifically, a manifold block for a fuel cell stack, includes a coolant interface formed of a polymer insulating material and coolant flow channels; and a reactant gas interface formed of a metal material and including reactant gas flow channels. In particular, the reactant and coolant interfaces are mounted to a stack module and, at the same time, are integrally bonded to each other. |
| US09525182B2 |
Fuel cell separator and fuel cell stack including the same
A fuel cell is provided that includes a plurality of membrane-electrode assemblies (MEAs) and a first flow channel that supplies fuel to one of the membrane-electrode assemblies in which the first flow channel is formed by a plurality of channel plates between the membrane-electrode assemblies. Additionally, a second flow channel supplies air to another one of the membrane-electrode assemblies, and a cooling channel circulates a cooling medium for cooling the first flow channel and the second flow channel. In particular, the cooling channel is provided therein with a split fin that divides the cooling channel accordingly. |
| US09525181B2 |
Fuel cell system with interconnect
The present invention includes an integrated planar, series connected fuel cell system having electrochemical cells electrically connected via interconnects, wherein the anodes of the electrochemical cells are protected against Ni loss and migration via an engineered porous anode barrier layer. |
| US09525179B2 |
Ceramic anode materials for solid oxide fuel cells
Novel anode materials including various compositions of vanadium-doped strontium titanate (SVT), and various compositions of vanadium- and sodium-doped strontium niobate (SNNV) for low- or intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFCs). These materials offer high conductivity achievable at intermediate and low temperatures and can be used as the structural support of the SOFC anode and/or as the conductive phase of an anode. A method of making a low- or intermediate-temperature SOFC having an anode layer including SVT or SNNV is also provided. |
| US09525177B2 |
Electrical power storage devices
An electrical storage device includes high surface area fibers (e.g., shaped fibers and/or microfibers) coated with carbon (graphite, expanded graphite, activated carbon, carbon black, carbon nanofibers, CNT, or graphite coated CNT), electrolyte, and/or electrode active material (e.g., lead oxide) in electrodes. The electrodes are used to form electrical storage devices such as electrochemical batteries, electrochemical double layer capacitors, and asymmetrical capacitors. |
| US09525171B2 |
Lithium secondary battery including tungsten-containing lithium complex oxide
Disclosed is a lithium ion secondary battery which includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution. The positive electrode contains, as the positive electrode active material, a lithium-transition metal composite oxide having a layered structure. The positive electrode active material includes at least one metal element M0 from among Ni, Co and Mn, and includes at least one metal element M′ from among Zr, Nb and Al, and further includes W. When 2 g of a powder of the positive electrode active material and 100 g of pure water are stirred together to prepare a suspension and the suspension is filtered to obtain a filtrate, the amount of W eluted into the filtrate, as measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, is 0.025 mmol or less per gram of filtrate. |
| US09525167B2 |
Lithium secondary battery of high energy with improved energy property
Disclosed is a high-energy lithium secondary battery including: a cathode including, as cathode active materials, a first cathode active material represented by Formula 1 below and having a layered structure and a second cathode active material represented by Formula 2 below and having a spinel structure, wherein the amount of the first cathode active material is between 40 and 100 wt % based on a total weight of the cathode active materials; an anode including amorphous carbon having a capacity of 300 mAh/g or more; and a separator. |
| US09525164B1 |
Method of reducing vanadium pentoxide to vanadium(III) oxide
A method for producing pure vanadium(III) oxide and a vanadyl sulfate solution comprising contacting vanadium pentoxide with a solid inorganic reducing agent. The resultant mixture containing a mix of vanadium oxides is leached with sulfuric acid to form vanadium(III) oxide and vanadyl sulfate. |
| US09525162B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery, including an electrode assembly; a cap plate that seals the electrode assembly; an electrode pin electrically connected to the electrode assembly and on the cap plate with an insulating gasket therebetween; and a first lead tab coupled to the electrode pin, a relative ratio W2/W1 of a width W2 of the insulating gasket to a width W1 of the first lead tab satisfying 1.0 |
| US09525160B2 |
High-rate overcharge-protection separators for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and the method of making the same
This invention relates to low-cost, electroactive-polymer incorporated fine-fiber composite membranes for use as overcharge and/or overdischarge protection separators in non-aqueous electrochemical cells and the methods for making such membranes. |
| US09525157B2 |
Secondary battery assembly including multiple lids
A secondary battery for electronic appliance to be installed in an electronic appliance includes a battery cell in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte are accommodated in a pack. A positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal are lead out from one side face of the pack. The secondary battery may further include a metallic battery can accommodating the battery cell therein and a pair of lids made of a synthetic resin, each plugging an opening of the battery can. |
| US09525153B2 |
Organic light emitting display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate, a sealing substrate on the display unit, a sealing member around the display unit and bonding the substrate and the sealing substrate, and a filler inside the sealing member and filling a gap between the substrate and the sealing substrate, wherein the filler is a non-hardening type, and a molecular weight of the filler is from about 100 kg/mol to about 5,000 kg/mol. |
| US09525152B2 |
Permeable electrodes for high performance organic electronic devices
Improved electrode types and device configurations for organic electronic devices are disclosed. This improvement can be achieved by facilitating gettering or desiccating action of impurities, such as water, oxygen or residual solvents from the active layers of the device. Device structure and device layer materials can contribute to this improved gettering, which is inherently useful in printed electrode devices, but may also be useful in devices with electrodes patterned by other techniques. Improvement in impurity flow out of the active area of the device leads to improved performance and operational lifetime for as-made and encapsulated devices throughout their product lifecycle. Aspects of the present invention enables improved thin film electronic devices, such as OLEDs, organic photovoltaics (OPVs) and the like. |
| US09525148B2 |
Device including quantum dots
A device including an emissive material comprising quantum dots is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a first electrode and a second electrode, a layer comprising quantum dots disposed between the first electrode and the second electrodes, and a first interfacial layer disposed at the interface between a surface of the layer comprising quantum dots and a first layer in the device. In certain embodiments, a second interfacial layer is optionally further disposed on the surface of the layer comprising quantum dots opposite to the first interfacial layer. In certain embodiments, a device comprises a light-emitting device. Other light emitting devices and methods are disclosed. |
| US09525146B2 |
Organic semiconductor compositions
The present invention relates to organic semiconductor compositions and organic semiconductor layers and devices comprising such organic semiconductor compositions. The invention is also concerned with methods of preparing such organic semiconductor compositions and layers and uses thereof. The invention has application particularly in the field of displays such as organic field effect transistors (OFETS), integrated circuits, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDS), photodetectors, organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, sensors, lasers, memory elements and logic circuits. |
| US09525145B2 |
Silicon-based compound and organic light emitting diode comprising the same
A silicon based compound and an organic light-emitting diode including the same. |
| US09525143B2 |
Triarylamine compound, light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device
A novel triarylamine compound having a bipolar property is provided. The triarylamine compound can be used for a hole-injection layer, a hole-transport layer, a light-emitting layer, or an electron-transport layer in a light-emitting element. The triarylamine compound can also be used as a host material with a light-emitting material which emits relatively short-wavelength light, in a structure where the host material and the guest material constitute a light-emitting layer. The triarylamine compound of the present invention is a fluorescent compound and therefore can also be used as a light-emitting substance of a light-emitting layer. A light-emitting element having high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting device, an electronic device, or a lighting device having low power consumption is provided. |
| US09525141B2 |
Organic light emitting device
Provided is an organic light-emitting device, including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer (EML) disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a hole transporting region between the first electrode and the EML; and an electron transporting region between the EML and the second electrode. The hole transporting region includes an amine-based compound represented by one of Formulae 1A and 1C: The EML includes an organic metal complex and a compound represented by one of Formulae formula 2, 10A, 10B, 10C, 10D, and 10E: |
| US09525138B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode, method of manufacturing the same, and method of forming material layer
In an aspect, an organic light-emitting diode, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of forming a material layer are provided. |
| US09525136B1 |
Ultraviolet, infrared and terahertz photo/radiation sensors using graphene layers to enhance sensitivity
Ultraviolet (UV), Terahertz (THZ) and Infrared (IR) radiation detecting and sensing systems using graphene nanoribbons and methods to making the same. In an illustrative embodiment, the detector includes a substrate, single or multiple layers of graphene nanoribbons, and first and second conducting interconnects each in electrical communication with the graphene layers. Graphene layers are tuned to increase the temperature coefficient of resistance to increase sensitivity to IR radiation. Absorption over a wide wavelength range of 200 nm to 1 mm are possible based on the two alternative devices structures described within. These two device types are a microbolometer based graphene film where the TCR of the layer is enhanced with selected functionalization molecules. The second device structure consists of a graphene nanoribbon layers with a source and drain metal interconnect and a deposited metal of SiO2 gate which modulates the current flow across the phototransistor detector. |
| US09525135B2 |
Thixotropic composition
A thixotropic conductive composition is disclosed that can be used to form conductive features on an electronic device. The thixotropic composition comprises a conjugated polymer, a solvent, and multi-wall carbon nanotubes. The conjugated polymer and the solvent are capable of forming a thixotropic fluid. This enables excellent stability of the carbon nanotubes in the composition at a very high loading. The composition has a long shelf life. |
| US09525129B2 |
Methods of manufacturing a magnetic field sensor
A semiconductor process integrates three bridge circuits, each include magnetoresistive sensors coupled as a Wheatstone bridge on a single chip to sense a magnetic field in three orthogonal directions. The process includes various deposition and etch steps forming the magnetoresistive sensors and a plurality of flux guides on one of the three bridge circuits for transferring a “Z” axis magnetic field onto sensors orientated in the XY plane. |
| US09525128B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming a material layer on a substrate, performing a selective oxidation process to form a capping oxide layer on a first surface of the material layer, wherein a second surface of the material layer is not oxidized, and etching the material layer through the second surface to form a material pattern. An etch rate of the capping oxide layer is less than an etch rate of the material layer. A semiconductor device may include a lower electrode on a substrate, a data storage part on a top surface of the lower electrode, an upper electrode on the data storage part, and a capping oxide layer arranged on at least a portion of a top surface of the upper electrode. The capping oxide layer may include an oxide formed by oxidation of an upper surface of the upper electrode. |
| US09525127B2 |
Magnetoresistance element and non-volatile semiconductor storage device using same magnetoresistance element
The invention provides a magnetoresistance element with a configuration such that a stable switching action is possible with a current flowing in response to the application of a unipolar electrical pulse, and a non-volatile semiconductor storage device using the magnetoresistance element.A magnetoresistance element 1-1 includes a magnetic tunnel junction portion 13 configured by sequentially stacking a perpendicularly magnetized first magnetic body 22, an insulation layer 21, and a perpendicularly magnetized second magnetic body 200. The second magnetic body 200 has a configuration wherein a ferromagnetic layer and a rare earth-transition metal alloy layer are stacked sequentially from the insulation layer 21 side interface. A heat assist layer 28-1 that heats the second magnetic body 200 with a heat generated based on a current flowing through the magnetic tunnel junction portion 13 is further provided, and the magnetization direction of the second magnetic body 200 is reversed by the heating of the second magnetic body 200. A non-volatile semiconductor storage device 10-1 includes the magnetoresistance element 1-1, a switching element connected in series to the magnetoresistance element 1-1, information rewriting means that carries out a write and erase by causing a write current to flow through the magnetoresistance element 1-1, and reading means that reads information stored from the amount of current flowing through the magnetoresistance element 1-1. |
| US09525121B2 |
Electromechanical transducer and method of producing the same
An electromechanical transducer includes a first electrode; a silicon oxide film disposed on the first electrode; and a vibration film including a silicon nitride film disposed on the silicon oxide film with a space therebetween and a second electrode disposed on the silicon nitride film so as to oppose the first electrode. |
| US09525120B2 |
Multi-layer piezoelectric element and piezoelectric actuator, injection device and fuel injection system including the same
There are provided a multi-layer piezoelectric element capable of suppressing the development of a small crack occurring at an interface between a piezoelectric layer and an internal electrode layer or in the internal electrode layer, and a piezoelectric actuator, an injection device and a fuel injection system including the same. A multi-layer piezoelectric element includes a stacked body in which piezoelectric layers and internal electrode layers are laminated, and an external electrode disposed on a side surface of the stacked body and electrically connected to the internal electrode layers through a conductive bonding material, the external electrode including protrusions protruding toward the stacked body. |
| US09525114B2 |
Optical semiconductor device
An optical semiconductor device includes a substrate that has a silver plating layer formed on a surface, a light emitting diode that is bonded to the silver plating layer, a light reflecting portion that surrounds the light emitting diode, a transparent sealing portion that is filled into the light reflecting portion and seals the light emitting diode, and a clay film that covers the silver plating layer. The transparent sealing portion and the light reflecting portion are bonded to each other. |
| US09525113B2 |
Method of manufacturing a LED package structure for preventing lateral light leakage
A method of manufacturing a LED package structure for preventing lateral light leakage includes placing a plurality of light-emitting units on a carrier substrate, the light-emitting units being electrically connected to the carrier substrate; forming a plurality of light-transmitting gel bodies on the carrier substrate for respectively enclosing the light-emitting units, the light-transmitting gel bodies being separated from each other to form a gel receiving space among the light-transmitting gel bodies; forming a light-shielding gel body to fill up the gel receiving space; and then cutting the carrier substrate and the light-shielding gel body to form the plurality of LED package structures separated from each other, the carrier substrate being cut to form a plurality of circuit substrates for respectively carrying the light-emitting units. |
| US09525112B2 |
Method of manufacturing phosphor for light-emitting diode
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a phosphor for a light-emitting diode, including filling a phosphor frame in which phosphor models are formed in an engraving form with a fluorescent material solution including a fluorescent material that converts light provided by the light-emitting diode into white light by changing a wavelength of the light provided by the light-emitting diode, polishing a top surface of the phosphor frame filled with the fluorescent material solution, and drying the phosphor frame filled with the fluorescent material solution and polished. |
| US09525110B2 |
Phosphor, light emitting device and lighting apparatus
An object of the invention is to provide a phosphor that emits a light containing much red and green light components and a light-emitting device and a lighting apparatus comprising the phosphor that have favorable color rendering properties. An oxide nitride phosphor having a garnet structure represented by Formula [1]: AwAlxCy:Cez, in Formula [1], A=(Lua,Yb), a+b=1, 0 |
| US09525108B2 |
Optoelectronic semiconductor device
An optoelectronic semiconductor device includes a conductive layer; a plurality of electrical connectors extending into the conductive layer; a semiconductor system, formed on the conductive layer, electrically connected to the plurality of electrical connectors and having a side surface; an insulation material directly covering the side surface; and an electrode arranged at a position not corresponding to the plurality of electrical connectors. |
| US09525107B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting device and fabricating method thereof
A semiconductor light-emitting device including a light-emitting semiconductor structure, a transparent dielectric pattern and an electrode pattern is provided. The light-emitting semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed opposite to the first semiconductor layer and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The transparent dielectric pattern is disposed above at least one portion of the light-emitting semiconductor structure. The electrode pattern is disposed above the transparent dielectric pattern. At least one cave is formed between the transparent dielectric pattern and the light-emitting semiconductor structure. The cave is disposed opposite to the electrode pattern. Moreover, a fabricating method of the semiconductor light-emitting device is also provided. |
| US09525105B2 |
Nitride semiconductor element and method for manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor element includes dry etching a main surface of a sapphire substrate at a c-plane side thereof, using a mask provided on the main surface, to form a plurality of projections, each having a circular bottom surface; wet etching the sapphire substrate to form an upper part of each projection into a triangular pyramid shape while maintaining the circular bottom surface of the projection; and growing a semiconductor layer made of a nitride semiconductor on a dry etched surface and a wet etched surface of the sapphire substrate. |
| US09525100B2 |
Nano-structured light-emitting devices
Provided is a nano-structured light-emitting device including: a first type semiconductor layer; a plurality of nanostructures which are formed on the first type semiconductor layer and include nanocores, and active layers and second type semiconductor layers that enclose surfaces of the nanocores; an electrode layer which encloses and covers the plurality of nanostructures; and a plurality of resistant layers which are formed on the electrode layer and respectively correspond to the plurality of nanostructures. |
| US09525097B2 |
Photovoltaic module having printed PV cells connected in series by printed conductors
A PV module is formed having an array of PV cells, where the cells are separated by gaps. Each cell contains an array of small silicon sphere diodes (10-300 microns in diameter) connected in parallel. The diodes and conductor layers may be patterned by printing. A continuous metal substrate supports the diodes and conductor layers in all the cells. A dielectric substrate is laminated to the metal substrate. Trenches are then formed by laser ablation around the cells to sever the metal substrate to form electrically isolated PV cells. A metallization step is then performed to connect the cells in series to increase the voltage output of the PV module. An electrically isolated bypass diode for each cell is also formed by the trenching step. The metallization step connects the bypass diode and its associated cell in a reverse-parallel relationship. |
| US09525094B2 |
Proximity and ranging sensor
A proximity sensor having a relatively small footprint includes a substrate, a semiconductor die, a light emitting device, and a cap. The light emitting device overlies the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die is secured to the substrate and includes a sensor area capable of detecting light from by the light emitting device. The cap also is secured to the substrate and includes a light barrier that prevents some of the light emitted by the light emitting device from reaching the sensor area. In one embodiment, the light emitting device and the semiconductor die are positioned on the same side of the substrate, wherein the light emitting device is positioned on the semiconductor die. In another embodiment, the light emitting device is positioned on one side of the substrate and the semiconductor die is positioned on an opposing side of the substrate. |
| US09525092B2 |
Solar module employing quantum luminescent lateral transfer concentrator
A solar concentrator module (80) employs a luminescent concentrator material (82) between photovoltaic cells (86) having their charge-carrier separation junctions (90) parallel to front surfaces (88) of photovoltaic material 84 of the photovoltaic cells (86). Intercell areas (78) covered by the luminescent concentrator material (82) occupy from 2 to 50% of the total surface area of the solar concentrator modules (80). The luminescent concentrator material (82) preferably employs quantum dot heterostructures, and the photovoltaic cells (86) preferably employ low-cost high-efficiency photovoltaic materials (84), such as silicon-based photovoltaic materials. |
| US09525091B2 |
Protective sheet for solar cell, manufacturing method thereof, and solar cell module
Protective sheet 1 for solar cells comprises a base material 11 and a thermoplastic resin layer 12 laminated on at least one surface of the base material 11. The thermoplastic resin layer 12 comprises a first layer 121 laminated on the base material 11 and a second layer 122 laminated on the first layer 121. The first layer 121 contains as the main component a copolymer of ethylene and at least one type selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid, (meth)acrylic acid ester, glycidyl (meth)acrylate and vinyl acetate. The second layer 122 contains an olefin-based resin as the main component. The protective sheet 1 for solar cells has excellent adhesiveness between the base material and the thermoplastic resin layer and can suppress the warping caused in a solar cell module. |
| US09525090B2 |
Flexible photovoltaic articles
The invention is a flexible photovoltaic article having excellent environmental barrier and mechanical protection for the photovoltaic system. The article comprises top side protective layers that include a flexible thin film glass under a top side stress relieving layer and on the opposite side of the photovoltaic cell a backside stress relieving layer. |
| US09525089B2 |
Receiver
A receiver for a solar radiation-based electrical power generation system comprises a plurality of photovoltaic cells, with the cells being arranged in modules, with each module comprising one or more than one cell, and with the modules being arranged in subarrays, with each subarray comprising a plurality of modules. The receiver also comprises a support framework for the subarrays. |
| US09525087B2 |
Light receiving device and method for manufacturing light receiving device
A light receiving device includes a mesa structure including a light absorption layer disposed on a semiconductor region; a passivation film disposed on a side surface of the mesa structure, the passivation film containing oxygen; and a nitriding layer disposed between the side surface of the mesa structure and the passivation film. The light absorption layer includes a super-lattice structure including first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers that are alternately stacked. The first semiconductor layer is made of a III-V group compound semiconductor. The second semiconductor layer is made of a III-V group compound semiconductor that is different from the III-V group compound semiconductor of the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer contains antimony as a group V constituent element. In addition, the nitriding layer is made of a nitride containing a group III constituent element of the first semiconductor layer and/or the second semiconductor layer. |
| US09525084B2 |
Microstructure enhanced absorption photosensitive devices
Techniques for enhancing the absorption of photons in semiconductors with the use of microstructures are described. The microstructures, such as holes, effectively increase the absorption of the photons. Using microstructures for absorption enhancement for silicon photodiodes and silicon avalanche photodiodes can result in bandwidths in excess of 10 Gb/s at photons with wavelengths of 850 nm, and with quantum efficiencies of approximately 90% or more. Their thickness dimensions allow them to be conveniently integrated on the same Si chip with CMOS, BiCMOS, and other electronics, with resulting packaging benefits and reduced capacitance and thus higher speeds. |
| US09525081B1 |
Method of forming a bifacial solar cell structure
A method of forming bifacial solar cell structure is described. The method comprises: performing boron diffusion on an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate to form a P+ region and a boron silicon glass (BSG) layer on the P+ region; stripping the BSG layer to expose the P+ region and stripping a blocking layer on a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate simultaneously; forming a first anti-reflection coating layer on the P+ region; forming sacrifice film on the first anti-reflection coating layer; performing phosphorus diffusion on the lower surface to form an N+ region and a phosphorus silicon glass (PSG) layer on the N+ region; stripping the PSG layer on the N+ region to expose the N+ region and stripping the sacrifice film on the first anti-reflection coating layer simultaneously; and forming a second anti-reflection coating layer on the N+ region. |
| US09525079B2 |
Photoelectrical coversion module
A photoelectrical conversion module includes at least one photoelectrical conversion device, at least one first ribbon, a second ribbon, and at least two encapsulation layers. The photoelectrical conversion device includes a solar substrate having a plurality of finger electrodes. The first ribbon is located on the solar substrate and is intersected with the finger electrodes. The first ribbon has a first connection portion located out of the solar substrate. The second ribbon has at least one second connection portion. The first connection portion is intersected and overlapped with the second connection portion, such that a portion of the first connection portion is located above the second connection portion, and another portion of the first connection portion is located under the second connection portion. The relative position of the first and second ribbons is fixed by the encapsulation layers. |
| US09525077B1 |
Integration of a baritt diode
A vertically oriented BARITT diode is formed in an integrated circuit. The BARITT diode has a source proximate to the top surface of the substrate of the integrated circuit, a drift region immediately below the source in the semiconductor material of the substrate, and a collector in the semiconductor material of the substrate immediately below the drift region. A dielectric isolation structure laterally surrounds the drift region, extending from the source to the collector. The source may optionally include a silicon germanium layer or may optionally include a schottky barrier contact. |
| US09525075B2 |
Array substrate, method for manufacturing the same, and display device
An array substrate provided according to the present disclosure may include: a base substrate; a gate electrode and a gate insulating layer sequentially formed on the base substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on the base substrate on which the gate insulating layer has been formed; and a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the base substrate on which the semiconductor layer has been formed. The semiconductor layer may be connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode respectively. A first connection region in which a first connection point is located may be arranged between the semiconductor layer and the source electrode. And a second connection region in which a second connection point is located may be arranged between the semiconductor layer and the drain electrode. A length of a shortest distance on the semiconductor layer from the first connection point to the second connection point may be no less than a reference distance which refers to a longest distance of a straight line between any two points among all points on a perimeter of the gate electrode. |
| US09525074B2 |
Display substrates, methods of manufacturing the same and display devices including the same
A display substrate includes a base substrate, a switching device on the base substrate and an alignment pattern. The switching device includes an active pattern, a gate insulation layer pattern partially covering the active pattern, a gate electrode on the gate insulation layer pattern, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the active pattern. The alignment pattern has a multi-layered structure and is spaced apart from the switching device on the base substrate. The alignment pattern includes materials which have different transmittances. |
| US09525073B2 |
Semiconductor device including oxide semiconductor
A semiconductor device which occupies a small area is provided. A semiconductor device includes a resistor. The resistor includes a transistor. The increase rate of a drain current of the transistor with a 0.1 V change in drain voltage is preferably higher than or equal to 1% when the drain voltage is higher than a difference between a gate voltage and a threshold voltage of the transistor. The semiconductor device has a function of generating a voltage based on the resistance of the resistor. |
| US09525069B2 |
Structure and method to form a FinFET device
A method for fabricating a FinFET device includes forming a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate having a semiconductor layer overlaying a buried oxide (BOX) layer; etching the semiconductor layer to form a plurality of fin structures and a semiconductor layer gap in between the plurality of fin structures and the BOX layer; depositing a sacrificial gate over at least one gate region, wherein the gate region separates a source and a drain region; disposing offset spacers on vertical sidewalls of the sacrificial gate; removing the sacrificial gate; removing the semiconductor layer gap in the gate region to prevent merging of the plurality of fin structures in the gate regions; and fabricating a high-k dielectric metal gate structure overlaying the fin structures in the gate region. |
| US09525066B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
Provided is a technique for promoting miniaturization of a MISFET. A p-type well region is disposed between LDDs (n-type low-concentration regions) of a MISFET (Qn) to cause both the well region and the low-concentration region to partially overlap each other, whereby an overlap region formed of an n-type semiconductor region having a higher resistance than that of the n-type low-concentration region is provided between the p-type well region and each of the n-type low-concentration regions. In this way, the overlap region can relieve an electric field concentration at the end of the n-type low-concentration region, thereby suppressing the occurrence of hot carriers without elongating an offset length of the LDD, which can promote the miniaturization of the MISFET (Qn), particularly, that operates at high voltage. |
| US09525062B2 |
Insulated gate switching element
An insulated gate switching element includes: a semiconductor substrate; a gate insulating film disposed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating film. The semiconductor substrate includes a first semiconductor region, a base region, and a second semiconductor region. The gate electrode faces the base region with the gate insulating film interposed therebetween. A high-resistance region, which is separated from the gate insulating film and has higher resistance to a number of carriers of a first conduction type semiconductor than that of the base region, is disposed in at least one of a first interface which is an interface between the base region and the first semiconductor region and a second interface which is an interface between the base region and the second semiconductor region. |
| US09525060B2 |
Reduced area power devices using deep trench isolation
An integrated circuit including an isolated device which is isolated with a lower buried layer combined with deep trench isolation. An upper buried layer, with the same conductivity type as the substrate, is disposed over the lower buried layer, so that electrical contact to the lower buried layer is made at a perimeter of the isolated device. The deep trench isolation laterally surrounds the isolated device. Electrical contact to the lower buried layer sufficient to maintain a desired bias to the lower buried layer is made along less than half of the perimeter of the isolated device, between the upper buried layer and the deep trench. |
| US09525056B2 |
Vertical microelectronic component and corresponding production method
A vertical microelectronic component includes a semiconductor substrate having a front side and a back side, and a multiplicity of fins formed on the front side. Each fin has a side wall and an upper side and is separated from other fins by trenches. Each fin includes a GaN/AlGaN heterolayer region formed on the side wall and including a channel region extending essentially parallel to the side wall. Each fin includes a gate terminal region arranged above the GaN/AlGaN heterolayer region and electrically insulated from the channel region in the associated trench on the side wall. A common source terminal region arranged above the fins is connected to a first end of the channel region in a vicinity of the upper sides. A common drain terminal region arranged above the back side is connected to a second end of the channel region in a vicinity of the front side. |
| US09525055B2 |
High-electron-mobility transistors
High-electron-mobility transistors that include field plates are described. In a first implementation, a HEMT includes a first and a second semiconductor material disposed to form a heterojunction at which a two-dimensional electron gas arises and source, a drain, and gate electrodes. The gate electrode is disposed to regulate conduction in the heterojunction between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The gate has a drain-side edge. A gate-connected field plate is disposed above a drain-side edge of the gate electrode and extends laterally toward the drain. A second field plate is disposed above a drain-side edge of the gate-connected field plate and extends laterally toward the drain. |
| US09525052B2 |
Active area shaping of III-nitride devices utilizing a field plate defined by a dielectric body
In an exemplary implementation, a III-nitride semiconductor device includes a III-nitride heterojunction including a first III-nitride body situated over a second III-nitride body to form a two-dimensional electron gas. The III-nitride semiconductor device further includes a gate well formed in a dielectric body, the dielectric body situated over the III-nitride heterojunction. The III-nitride semiconductor device also includes a gate arrangement situated in the gate well and including a gate electrode and a field plate. The field plate includes at least two steps, the at least two steps being defined in the dielectric body. |
| US09525048B2 |
Symmetrical extension junction formation with low-k spacer and dual epitaxial process in finFET device
A technique relates to a dual epitaxial process a device. A first spacer is disposed on a substrate, dummy gate, and hardmask. A first area extends in a first direction from the gate and a second area extends in an opposite direction. A doped intermediate spacer is disposed on the first spacer. A first region is opened on the substrate by removing first spacer and intermediate spacer at the first region. A first epitaxial layer is disposed in the first region. The intermediate spacer is removed from first area. A second spacer is disposed on the intermediate spacer. A second region is opened on the substrate by removing the first spacer, intermediate spacer, and second spacer. A second epitaxial layer is disposed in second region. The width of the second epitaxial layer is enlarged by annealing causing dopant in the intermediate spacer layer to flow into the second epitaxial layer. |
| US09525041B2 |
Semiconductor process for forming gates with different pitches and different dimensions
A semiconductor process for forming gates with different pitches includes the following steps. A gate layer is formed on a substrate. A first mandrel and a second mandrel are respectively formed on the gate layer. A first spacer material is formed to conformally cover the first mandrel but exposing the second mandrel. A second spacer material is formed to conformally cover the first spacer material and the second mandrel. The first spacer material and the second spacer material are etched to form a first spacer beside the first mandrel and a second spacer beside the second mandrel simultaneously. The first mandrel and the second mandrel are removed. Layouts of the first spacer and the second spacer are transferred to the gate layer, thereby a first gate and a second gate being formed. Moreover, a semiconductor process, which forms the first spacer and the second spacer separately, is also provided. |
| US09525040B2 |
Method of fabricating hybrid impact-ionization semiconductor device
A method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having an active region and forming an isolation structure to isolate the active region. First and second gate structures are formed over the active region. First and second doped regions are formed within the active region of the substrate, the first doped region has a first conductivity type, the second doped region has the second conductivity type. The first and second gate structures are interposed between the first and second doped regions. |
| US09525031B2 |
Epitaxial channel
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an epitaxially grown replacement channel region within a transistor, which mitigates the variations within the channel of the transistor due to fluctuations in the manufacturing processes. The replacement channel region is formed by recessing source/drain and channel regions of the semiconductor substrate, and epitaxially growing a replacement channel region within the recess, which comprises epitaxially growing a lower epitaxial channel region over a bottom surface of the recess, and epitaxially growing an upper epitaxial channel region over a bottom surface of the recess. The lower epitaxial channel region retards dopant back diffusion from the upper epitaxial channel region, resulting in a steep retrograde dopant profile within the replacement channel region. The upper epitaxial channel region increases carrier mobility within the channel. The replacement channel region provides improved drive current, thereby enabling better performance and higher yield. |
| US09525028B1 |
Dual-well metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device and manufacturing method thereof
A dual-well metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device includes: a substrate, an epitaxial layer, a first conductive type well, a first conductive type body region, a second conductive type well, a gate, a first conductive type lightly doped diffusion (LDD) region, a second conductive type lightly doped diffusion (LDD) region, a second conductive type source, and a second conductive type drain. The second conductive type well is connected to the first conductive type well in a lateral direction, and an PN junction is formed between the second conductive type well and the first conductive type well. The MOS device includes LDD regions of opposite conductive types, each located in a corresponding well of a corresponding conductive type, to reduce the channel length. |
| US09525027B2 |
Lateral bipolar junction transistor having graded SiGe base
A lateral bipolar junction transistor is fabricated using a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate. The transistor includes a germanium gradient within a doped silicon base region, there being an increasing germanium content in the direction of the collector region of the transistor. The use of a substrate including parallel silicon fins to fabricate lateral bipolar junction transistors facilitates the inclusion of both CMOS FinFET devices and lateral bipolar junction transistors having graded silicon germanium base regions on the same chip. |
| US09525021B2 |
Methods and apparatus for high voltage integrated circuit capacitors
High voltage integrated circuit capacitors are disclosed. In an example arrangement, A capacitor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a bottom plate having a conductive layer overlying the semiconductor substrate; a capacitor dielectric layer deposited overlying at least a portion of the bottom plate and having a first thickness greater than about 6 um in a first region; a sloped transition region in the capacitor dielectric at an edge of the first region, the sloped transition region having an upper surface with a slope of greater than 5 degrees from a horizontal plane and extending from the first region to a second region of the capacitor dielectric layer having a second thickness lower than the first thickness; and a top plate conductor formed overlying at least a portion of the capacitor dielectric layer in the first region. Methods and additional apparatus arrangements are disclosed. |
| US09525016B2 |
Organic light emitting display devices and methods of manufacturing organic light emitting display devices
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel regions and a plurality of transparent regions, thin film transistors disposed in the pixel regions, an insulation layer disposed on the thin film transistors, first electrodes electrically contacting the thin film transistors, a pixel defining layer including a black material disposed on the first electrodes, organic light emitting structures disposed on the pixel defining layer, and a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting structures. The pixel defining layer may define an asymmetrical configuration of adjacent transparent regions disposed on opposing sides of corresponding pixel regions. |
| US09525014B2 |
Organic light emitting display device
An organic light emitting display device includes a first substrate having a plurality of organic light emitting structures thereon, a second substrate facing the first substrate to encapsulate the organic light emitting structures, an aperture under a lower surface of the first substrate, and an aperture controller under the lower surface of the first substrate. The organic light emitting structures define a pixel area. The second substrate has a light absorption area. The aperture corresponds to the light absorption area. The aperture controller is adjacent to the aperture. |
| US09525010B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode display unit, driving method thereof and display device
An organic light-emitting diode display unit, a driving method thereof and a display device are disclosed. At least part of pixel units are pixel units each with a stacked structure; each pixel unit with the stacked structure includes two adjacent subpixel unit stacked groups; and each subpixel unit stacked group includes at least two subpixel units which have different emitting colors and are stacked and insulated from each other. During display of different image frames, each subpixel unit stacked group in each pixel unit with the stacked structure can display gray-scale effect of at least two colors based on applied signals. Compared with an approach that each subpixel unit can only display gray-scale effect of only one color for different image frames, the display effect can be improved. |
| US09525000B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, solid-state imaging device manufacturing method, electronic device, and lens array
A solid-state imaging device includes: multiple micro lenses, which are disposed in each of a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, focus the incident light into the light-receiving surface; with the multiple micro lenses of which the planar shape is a shape including a portion divided by a side extending in the first direction and a side extending in the second direction being disposed arrayed mutually adjacent to each of the first direction and the second direction; and with the multiple micro lenses being formed so that the depth of a groove between micro lenses arrayed in a third direction is deeper than the depth of a groove between micro lenses arrayed in the first direction, and also the curvature of the lens surface in the third direction is higher than the curvature of the lens surface in the first direction. |
| US09524998B2 |
Image sensor having pixels capable of detecting phase differences with each pixel includes dual color filter layer overlapping each other
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged in two dimensions, wherein at least one pixel includes: a photoelectric conversion layer formed in a substrate; a first color filter layer formed over the photoelectric conversion layer; and a second color filter layer formed over the first color filter layer and defining an opening that is eccentrically formed with respect to an optical axis of the photoelectric conversion layer. |
| US09524997B1 |
Semiconductor device having seal ring
A semiconductor device includes a thermal conductor formed on and thermally connected to the seal ring. The thermal conductor is spatially spaced from the electrically conductive pad. The thermal conductor is exposed of the substrate and can be regarded as an extension of the thermal path of the seal ring, such that the heat from the seal ring is dissipated efficiently. |
| US09524990B2 |
Display device
A display device including: a substrate including first and second sides which face and are parallel to each other, and third and fourth sides which are orthogonal to the first and second sides, and face each other; a gate driver and a data driver disposed along the first side of the substrate; a first diagonal gate line, which is extended in a first direction crossing directions in which the first to fourth sides are extended, and has both ends heading the second and fourth sides of the substrate; a gate pad part extended from one end of the first diagonal gate line adjacent to the second side; an insulation layer including an opening for exposing at least a partial area of the gate pad part and formed on the substrate; a redundancy line extended in a second direction parallel to a direction in which the third and fourth sides are extended, and connected to the gate driver; and a redundancy pad part extended from the redundancy line to be in direct contact with the gate pad part exposed through the opening. |
| US09524988B2 |
Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display. An array substrate, comprises: a substrate (11), gate lines (2), data lines (4) and common electrode lines (3) disposed on said substrate (11), said gate lines (2) and said data lines (4) define a plurality of pixel units (20, 21); two transparent conductive film layers (12, 19) and thin film transistor are formed in each of said pixel units (20, 21); wherein, said pixel units (20, 21) comprise a first pixel unit (20) and a second pixel unit (21), and the first pixel unit (20) and the second pixel unit (21) are alternately arranged along the direction of said data lines (4); wherein, in said first pixel unit (20), a first transparent conductive film layer (12) is electrically connected with a common electrode line (3), a second transparent conductive film layer (19) is electrically connected with a drain electrode (16) of a thin film transistor; in said second pixel unit (21), a first transparent conductive film layer (12) is electrically connected with a drain electrode (16) of a thin film transistor, a second transparent conductive film layer (19) is electrically connected with a common electrode line (3); the common electrode lines (3) in the pixel units (20, 21) are electrically connected with each other. |
| US09524987B2 |
Fin-shaped structure and method thereof
A method of forming a fin-shaped structure includes the following steps. A substrate having at least a fin structure thereon is provided. A liner is formed on sidewalls of the fin structure. An oxide layer is formed between the fin structure and the substrate. The fin structure is removed until a bottom layer of the fin structure is reserved, to form a recess between the liner. A buffer epitaxial layer and an epitaxial layer are sequentially formed in the recess. A top part of the liner is removed until sidewalls of the epitaxial layer are exposed. Moreover, a fin-shaped structure formed by said method is also provided. |
| US09524984B1 |
3D semiconductor device with enhanced performance
The present disclosure may provide a semiconductor device with a low manufacturing degree of difficulty and an enhanced performance. The device may include conductive layers and insulating layers, alternately stacked, each of the insulating layers being thinner than each of the conductive layers; a channel layer passing through the conductive layers and the insulating layers; a data storage layer surrounding a side-wall of the channel layer; and first charge blocking patterns, each of the first charge blocking patterns interposed between the conductive layers and the insulating layers and between the data storage layer and the conductive layers. |
| US09524982B2 |
Semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, the semiconductor body of the first portion includes a first semiconductor part and a second semiconductor part. The first semiconductor part extends in the stacking direction. The second semiconductor part is provided between the first semiconductor part and the first electrode layer, and has an end located closer to the first electrode layer side than the first semiconductor part. The first insulating film of the second portion includes a first insulating part and a second insulating part. The first insulating part extends in the stacking direction. The second insulating part is provided between the first insulating part and the second electrode layer, and has an end located closer to the second electrode layer side than the first insulating part. |
| US09524978B2 |
3D non-volatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same
A 3D non-volatile memory device includes a pipe gate, at least one first channel layer including a first pipe channel layer formed in the pipe gate and a pair of first source side channel layer and first drain side channel layer connected to the first pipe channel layer, and at least one second channel layer including a second pipe channel layer formed in the pipe gate and positioned over the first pipe channel layer and a pair of second source side channel layer and second drain side channel layer connected to the second pipe channel layer. |
| US09524977B2 |
Metal-semiconductor alloy region for enhancing on current in a three-dimensional memory structure
Resistance of a semiconductor channel in three-dimensional memory stack structures can be reduced by forming a metal-semiconductor alloy region between a vertical semiconductor channel and a horizontal semiconductor channel located within a substrate. The metal-semiconductor alloy region can be formed by recessing a portion of the semiconductor material layer in the semiconductor substrate underneath a memory opening after formation of a memory film, selectively depositing a metallic material in the recess region, depositing a vertical semiconductor channel, and reacting the deposited metallic material with an adjacent portion of the semiconductor material layer and the vertical semiconductor channel. A sacrificial dielectric material layer can be formed on the memory film prior to the selective deposition of the metallic material. The vertical semiconductor channel can be formed in a single deposition process, thereby eliminating any interface therein and minimizing the resistance of the vertical semiconductor channel. |
| US09524975B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device may include a dummy structure formed on a peripheral region of a substrate, and insulating spacers configured to pass through the dummy structure and protrude from an upper surface of the dummy structure. The semiconductor device may include first contact plugs configured to pass through the insulating spacers and protrude from upper surfaces of the insulating spacers. |
| US09524972B2 |
Metal layers for a three-port bit cell
An apparatus includes a first metal layer coupled to a bit cell. The apparatus also includes a third metal layer including a write word line that is coupled to the bit cell. The apparatus further includes a second metal layer between the first metal layer and the third metal layer. The second metal layer includes two read word lines coupled to the bit cell. |
| US09524968B1 |
Semiconductor device having metal gate and fabrication method thereof
A fabrication method of semiconductor device having metal gate includes providing a substrate, successively forming a gate insulating layer and a bottom barrier layer on the surface of the substrate, forming a work function layer covering the bottom barrier layer, removing the work function layer, and forming a top barrier layer on the bottom barrier layer to be directly contact with the bottom barrier layer, and forming a metal layer on the top bottom barrier layer. |
| US09524964B2 |
Capacitor structure in an integrated circuit
In an example, a capacitor in an integrated circuit (IC), includes: a first finger capacitor formed in at least one layer of the IC having a first bus and a second bus; a second finger capacitor formed in the at least one layer of the IC having a first bus and a second bus, where a longitudinal edge of the second bus of the second finger capacitor is adjacent a longitudinal edge of the first bus of the first finger capacitor and separated by a dielectric gap; and a first metal segment formed on a first layer above the at least one layer, the first metal segment being electrically coupled to the first bus of the first finger capacitor and increasing a width and a height of the first bus of the first finger capacitor. |
| US09524963B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device comprising: a first, a second and a third conductive layer; the second conductive layer being located between the first and third conductive layers; wherein respective regions of the first and second conductive layers form a first capacitor; and respective regions of the second and third conductive layers form a second capacitor. |
| US09524962B2 |
Semiconductor device comprising an e-fuse and a FET
A method of forming a semiconductor device including the steps of forming an electrically programmable fuse (e-fuse) on an isolation region and a transistor on an active region of a wafer, wherein forming the transistor includes forming a dummy gate above a substrate, removing the dummy gate and forming a metal gate in place of the dummy gate, and forming the e-fuse includes forming a metal-containing layer above the isolation region, forming a semiconductor layer on the metal-containing layer during the process of forming the dummy gate and of the same material as the dummy gate, forming a hard mask layer on the semiconductor layer formed on the metal-containing layer, and forming contact openings in the hard mask layer and semiconductor layer during the process of removing the dummy gate. |
| US09524956B2 |
Integrated fan-out structure and method
A semiconductor package comprises a top package and a bottom package with fan-out interconnect structures. A plurality of inter-package connectors electrically connect the top package and the bottom package, and are located near a perimeter of the semiconductor package. A first material is located in a space delimited by a lower surface of the top package, an upper surface of the bottom package, and the inner-most inter-package connectors of the semiconductor package, wherein the first material partially fills the space. A second material different from the first material encapsulates the inter-package connectors. |
| US09524954B2 |
LED-based light sources for light emitting devices and lighting arrangements with photoluminescence wavelength conversion
An LED-based light source for generating light having a selected dominant wavelength λds comprises a package housing a plurality of LEDs consisting of LEDs from first and second wavelength bins. The first wavelength bin comprises LEDs having a dominant wavelength λd1 that is within a first wavelength range and the second wavelength bin comprises LEDs having a dominant wavelength λd2 that is within a second wavelength range. The first wavelength bin can comprise LEDs having a dominant wavelength that is shorter than the selected dominant wavelength while the second wavelength bin comprises LEDs having a dominant wavelength that is longer than the selected dominant wavelength. The wavelength bins and number of LEDs are selected such that in operation the dominant wavelength of the combined light emitted by the source is the selected dominant wavelength. Lighting arrangements and light emitting devices incorporating such light sources are disclosed. |
| US09524951B2 |
Semiconductor assembly comprising chip arrays
A semiconductor assembly includes a frame having at least one opening, an identical number of electrically conductive first contact plates, and an identical number of chip arrays. Each chip array has a number of semiconductor chips that are cohesively connected to one another by an embedding compound. In addition, each of the semiconductor chips has a first load terminal and a second load terminal arranged at mutually opposite sides of the relevant semiconductor chip. One of the chip arrays is inserted into each of the openings. Each of the first contact plates is arranged above one of the chip arrays in such a way that, for each of the semiconductor chips, the first load terminal is situated at a side of said semiconductor chip facing the first contact plate and the second load terminal is situated a of said semiconductor chip facing away from the first contact plate. |
| US09524950B2 |
Stacked microelectronic packages having sidewall conductors and methods for the fabrication thereof
A method for fabricating a stacked microelectronic device includes attaching a first package layer to a second package layer to form stacked microelectronic layers. Saw streets of the first package layer overlie and are aligned with saw streets of the second package layer. The first and second package layers include respective edge connectors formed between the saw streets and electronic components in the first and second package layers. A through package via is formed in one of the saw streets of the first and second package layers. The via is filled with conductive material. The stacked package layers are singulated along the saw streets in a manner that retains a portion of the conductive material to form a sidewall connector between at least two of the edge connectors. |
| US09524942B2 |
Chip-on-substrate packaging on carrier
A method includes mounting a wafer-level package substrate over a carrier, and pre-cutting the wafer-level package substrate to form trenches extending from a top surface of the wafer-level package substrate into the wafer-level package substrate. A plurality of dies is bonded over the wafer-level package substrate. The plurality of dies is molded in a molding material to form a wafer-level package, with the wafer-level package including the wafer-level package substrate, the plurality of dies, and the molding material. The carrier is detached from the wafer-level package. The wafer-level package is sawed into a plurality of packages, with each of the plurality of packages including a portion of the wafer-level package substrate and one of the plurality of dies. |
| US09524941B2 |
Power semiconductor housing with redundant functionality
In various embodiments, a power semiconductor housing having an integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit may include: a first gate pad and a second gate pad; and a first gate contact and a second gate contact; wherein the first gate pad is electrically connected to the first gate contact; wherein the second gate pad is electrically connected to the second gate contact. The integrated circuit may further include a drain-contact surface, wherein the drain-contact surface is connected to a drain contact; and a second drain contact, which is electrically connected to the drain-contact surface of the integrated circuit. |
| US09524930B2 |
Configurable interposer
A modularized interposer includes a plurality of interposer units that are assembled to provide a complete set of electrical connections between two semiconductor chips. At least some of the plurality of interposer units can be replaced with other interposer units having an alternate configuration to enable selection of different functional parts of semiconductor chips to be connected through the modularized interposer. Bonding structures, connected to conductive metal pads located at peripheries of neighboring interposer units and an overlying or underlying portion of a semiconductor chip, can provide electrical connections between the neighboring interposer units. The interposer units can be provided by forming through-substrate vias (TSV's) in a substrate, forming patterned conductive structures on the substrate, and cutting the substrate into interposers. |
| US09524929B2 |
Semiconductor module package and method of manufacturing the same
There is provided a semiconductor module package including: a base substrate formed by mounting one or more first semiconductor devices thereon; a lead frame formed on a top surface of the first semiconductor device and having an inlet formed to inject a solder paste; and spaces inserted between the first semiconductor device and the lead frame to form a separation space, wherein the solder paste is filled in the separation space. |
| US09524925B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
There is provided a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a first semiconductor base substrate, a second semiconductor base substrate that is bonded onto a first surface side of the first semiconductor base substrate, a through electrode that is formed to penetrate from a second surface side of the first semiconductor base substrate to a wiring layer on the second semiconductor base substrate, and an insulation layer that surrounds a circumference of the through electrode formed inside the first semiconductor base substrate. |
| US09524923B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate, a through silicon via hole, an interlayer dielectric, a liner layer and a conductor. The through silicon via hole is formed in the substrate. The interlayer dielectric is formed on the substrate. The interlayer dielectric defines an opening corresponding to the through silicon via hole. The interlayer dielectric comprises a bird beak portion near the through silicon via hole. The liner layer is formed on a bottom and a sidewall of the through silicon via hole. The conductor is filled in the through silicon via hole and the opening. |
| US09524922B2 |
Integrated circuit having main route and detour route for signal transmission and integrated circuit package including the same
The integrated circuit includes first and second vias, a first buffer configured to receive a signal transmitted from the first via, a second buffer configured to receive a signal transmitted from the second via, a first detour circuit configured to receive a signal transmitted through the second buffer, a second detour circuit configured to receive a signal transmitted through the first buffer, a first selector configured to selectively output one of the signal transmitted from the first via and a signal transmitted through the first detour circuit, and a second selector configured to selectively output one of the signal transmitted from the second via and a signal transmitted through the second detour circuit. Each of the first and second buffers and the first and second detour circuits transmits a signal in only one direction. |
| US09524921B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device comprising a substrate including a first surface and a second surface that face each other, a planarization layer formed on the first surface of the substrate, a passivation layer formed on the planarization layer, and a through via contact penetrating the substrate, the planarization layer, and the passivation layer, and being exposed from the passivation layer. |
| US09524920B2 |
Apparatus and method of three dimensional conductive lines
An apparatus and method of three dimensional conductive lines comprising a first memory column segment in a first tier, a second memory column segment in a second tier, and conductive lines connecting the first memory column segment to the second memory column segment. In some embodiments a conductive line is disposed in the first tier on a first side of the memory column and in the second tier on a second side of the memory column. |
| US09524919B2 |
Semiconductor module and semiconductor device
A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor element having a gate electrode and source electrode on the front surface, and a drain electrode on the rear surface, the drain electrode being electrically connected to the front surface of a drain plate; a laminated substrate having, on the front surface of an insulating plate, a first circuit plate to which the gate electrode is electrically connected, and a second circuit plate to which the source electrode is electrically connected, and which is disposed on the front surface of the drain plate; a gate terminal disposed on the first circuit plate; a source terminal disposed on the second circuit plate; and a cover disposed opposite to the front surface of the drain plate, and having an opening in which the gate terminal and the source terminal are positioned and a guide groove contacting the opening and extending to the outer peripheral portion. |
| US09524915B2 |
Semiconductor device
A mask includes a substrate, an effective pixel formation region and a reference pattern formation region. A pixel pattern for forming a pixel component that constitutes a pixel is arranged in the effective pixel formation region. A reference pattern for indicating a reference position where pixel pattern should be arranged in the effective pixel formation region is arranged in the reference pattern formation region. Pixel pattern is arranged to be displaced from the reference position toward a center side of the effective pixel formation region. |
| US09524913B2 |
Polishing method and polishing apparatus
A polishing method and a polishing apparatus for performing a measurement of a film thickness of a substrate, such as a wafer, if an error has occurred during polishing of the substrate. The polishing method includes polishing a plurality of substrates, measuring a film thickness of at least one substrate, which has been designated in advance, of the plurality of substrates that have been polished, and if a polishing error has occurred during polishing of any one of the plurality of substrates, measuring a film thickness of that substrate. |
| US09524911B1 |
Method for creating self-aligned SDB for minimum gate-junction pitch and epitaxy formation in a fin-type IC device
Methods for creating self-aligned FINFET SDBs for minimum gate junction pitch and epitaxy formation. Embodiments include forming separated openings in a hard mask on upper surfaces of Si fins; forming cavities in the fins, each of the cavities having a concave shape and a width extending under the hard mask on each side of the cavity; forming trenches in the fins, the trenches having an upper width substantially equal to a width of the openings and less than the width of a cavity; removing the hard mask; filling the trenches and the cavities with oxide, forming STI regions; forming an oxide mask layer on the upper surfaces of the fins and the STI regions; removing upper portions of the oxide in sections between the STI regions; and removing remaining portions of the oxide mask revealing the fins and upper surfaces of the STI regions. |
| US09524910B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. An example method may include: forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer sequentially on a substrate; patterning the second and first semiconductor layers to form an initial fin; forming an isolation layer on the substrate, wherein the isolation layer exposes partially the first semiconductor layer, and thus defines a fin above the isolation layer; and forming a gate stack intersecting the fin on the isolation layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer comprises a compound semiconductor, with at least one component whose concentration has a graded distribution in a stack direction of the first and second semiconductor layers. |
| US09524903B2 |
Interconnection structure, semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing the same
An interconnection structure may include insulating layers stacked stepwise and dielectric layers interposed between the insulating layers. The interconnection structure may include conductive layers interposed between the insulating layers and surrounding sidewalls of the dielectric layers, respectively. The interconnection structure may include contact plugs each coupled to one of the conductive layers. The contact plugs may at least partially pass through the dielectric layers. |
| US09524901B2 |
Multiheight electrically conductive via contacts for a multilevel interconnect structure
A method of making multi-level contacts includes providing an in-process multilevel device having a device region and a contact region including a stack of alternating sacrificial layers and insulating layers located over a major surface of a substrate. A contact mask having contact mask openings is provided over the stack, and a first over mask having first over mask openings is provided over the contact mask. A subset of the contact mask openings is substantially aligned with the first over mask openings. Contact openings are formed through the stack, wherein each of the contact openings extends substantially perpendicular to the major surface of the substrate to a respective one of the sacrificial layers. A plurality of electrically conductive via contacts is formed in the plurality of the contact openings. |
| US09524900B2 |
Silicon-on-insulator microchannels for biological sensors
Novel methods to fabricate biological sensors and electronics are disclosed. A silicon-on-insulator wafer can be employed by etching a pattern of holes in the silicon layer, then a pattern of cavities in the insulating layer, and then sealing the top of the cavities. Further, n or p doped regions and metallic regions can be defined in the processed wafer, thereby enabling integration of biological sensing and electronic capabilities in the same wafer. |
| US09524896B2 |
Apparatus and methods for transporting and processing substrates
There is described apparatus and methods for transporting and processing substrates including wafers as to efficiently produce at reasonable costs improved throughput as compared to systems in use today. A linear transport chamber includes linear tracks and robot arms riding on the linear tracks to linearly transfer substrates along the sides of processing chambers for feeding substrates into a controlled atmosphere through a load lock and then along a transport chamber as a way of reaching processing chambers. |
| US09524895B2 |
Substrate transfer antechamber mechanism
There is provided a substrate transfer antechamber mechanism for a compact manufacturing apparatus that produces various types of devices in small volume using a small-diameter processing substrate at low cost. A container placement table, on which a wafer transfer container housing a semiconductor wafer is placed, is provided on an upper surface of an apparatus antechamber for a compact semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and the apparatus antechamber includes therein a wafer elevating mechanism and a horizontal transfer mechanism. The wafer elevating mechanism moves down while holding from below a delivery bottom of the wafer transfer container, on which the semiconductor wafer remains placed, to transfer the semiconductor wafer into the apparatus antechamber. The horizontal transfer mechanism transfers the semiconductor wafer into a processing chamber using a transfer arm that receives the semiconductor wafer from the delivery bottom and extends. |
| US09524891B2 |
Apparatus for fixing metal mask
An apparatus for fixing a metal mask includes a first substrate, a magnet array structure, a second substrate, and a metal mask. The magnet array structure includes a plurality of magnets. The magnet array structure is disposed on the first substrate. The plurality of magnets includes their respective magnetic axes. The magnetic axes cross each other. The second substrate is disposed on the magnet array structure. The metal mask is disposed on the second substrate. |
| US09524882B2 |
Contact structure and extension formation for III-V nFET
FinFET devices including III-V fin structures and silicon-based source/drain regions are formed on a semiconductor substrate. Silicon is diffused into the III-V fin structures to form n-type junctions. Leakage through the substrate is addressed by forming p-n junctions adjoining the source/drain regions and isolating the III-V fin structures under the channel regions. |
| US09524880B2 |
Mask and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A mask may be used in a process for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may include a source line, a first drain contact terminal, and a second drain contact terminal. The mask may include the following elements: a source-line corresponding light-transmitting portion, which corresponds to the source line; a first-drain-contact-terminal corresponding light-transmitting portion, which corresponds to the first drain contact terminal; a second-drain-contact-terminal corresponding light-transmitting portion, which corresponds to the second drain contact terminal; and a first light-blocking portion, which abuts at least one of the source-line corresponding light-transmitting portion, the first-drain-contact-terminal corresponding light-transmitting portion, and the second-drain-contact-terminal corresponding light-transmitting portion. |
| US09524876B2 |
Plasma etching method and plasma etching apparatus
Disclosed is a plasma etching method including a deposition process and an etching process. For a processing target object including a base layer and a photoresist having a predetermined pattern which are laminated in sequence, the deposition process deposits a protective layer including silicon and carbon on the photoresist of the processing target object by plasma of a first processing gas including silicon tetrachloride gas, methane gas, and hydrogen gas. The etching process etches the base layer by plasma of a second processing gas using the photoresist including the protective layer deposited thereon, as a mask. The second processing gas is different from the first processing gas. |
| US09524875B2 |
Methods of etching trenches into silicon of a semiconductor substrate
A method of etching trenches into silicon of a semiconductor substrate includes forming a mask over silicon of a semiconductor substrate, with the mask comprising trenches formed there-through. Plasma etching is conducted to form trenches into the silicon of the semiconductor substrate using the mask. In one embodiment, the plasma etching includes forming an etching plasma using precursor gases which include SF6, an oxygen-containing compound, and a nitrogen-containing compound. In one embodiment, the plasma etching includes an etching plasma which includes a sulfur-containing component, an oxygen-containing component, and NFx. |
| US09524874B2 |
Aqueous polishing composition and process for chemically mechanically polishing substrates containing silicon oxide dielectric and polysilicon films
An aqueous polishing composition comprising (A) abrasive ceria particles and (B) amphiphilic nonionic surfactants selected water-soluble and water-dispersible, linear and branched polyoxyalkylene blockcopolymers of the general formula I: R[(B1)m/(B2)nY]p (I), wherein the indices and the variables have the following meaning: m, n, and p integers≧1; R hydrogen atom or monovalent or polyvalent organic residue, except C5-C20 alkyl groups; (B1) block of oxyethylene monomer units; (B2) block of substituted oxyalkylene monomer units wherein the substituents are selected from two methyl groups, alkyl groups of more than two carbon atoms and cycloalkyl, aryl, alkyl-cycloalkyl, alkyl-aryl, cycloalkyl-aryl and alkyl-cycloalkyl-aryl groups; and Y hydrogen atom or monovalent organic residue, except C5-C20 alkyl groups; with the proviso that when (B) contains more than one block (B1) or (B2) two blocks of the same type are separated by a block of the other type. |
| US09524871B2 |
Silicon-containing resist underlayer film-forming composition having sulfone structure
A composition for forming a resist underlayer film for lithography, including: as a silane, a hydrolyzable organosilane, a hydrolysate of the hydrolyzable organosilane, or a hydrolysis-condensation product of the hydrolyzable organosilane, wherein the hydrolyzable organosilane is a compound of Formula (1): [(R1)aSi(R2)(3−a)]b(R3) Formula (1) [in Formula (1), R3 is an organic group having a sulfonyl group and a light-absorbing group and is bonded to a Si atom through a Si—C bond; R1 is an alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, halogenated alkyl, halogenated aryl, halogenated aralkyl, alkenyl, an organic group having an epoxy, acryloyl, methacryloyl, mercapto, alkoxyaryl, acyloxyaryl, isocyanurate, hydroxy, cyclic amino, or a cyano group, or a combination of any of these groups and is bonded to a Si atom through a Si—C bond; R2 is an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, or a halogen group; a is an integer of 0 to 2; and b is an integer of 1 to 3]. |
| US09524870B2 |
Method of fabricating semiconductor device
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming line patterns over a first region of an etch target layer and a pre-pad pattern over second and third regions of the etch target layer; forming pillars over the line patterns and a sacrificial pad pattern over the pre-pad pattern; forming first spacers over sidewalls of the pillars such that the first spacers contact one another and form first pre-openings therebetween; removing the pillars to form second pre-openings; cutting the line patterns through the first and second pre-openings, and forming cut patterns; etching the pre-pad pattern using the sacrificial pad pattern as an etch mask, and forming a pad pattern; and etching the etch target layer using the cut patterns and the pad pattern as an etch mask, to define first patterns and a second pattern over the first region and the second region, respectively. |
| US09524869B2 |
Nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device
A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device includes a light-emitting stack comprising a first semiconductor structure having a first conductivity, a second semiconductor structure having a second conductivity, and an active region interposed the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure; a semiconductor buffer structure formed under the first semiconductor structure; and an un-doped AlGaN layer formed between the first semiconductor structure and the semiconductor buffer structure. |
| US09524867B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a film on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes non-simultaneously performing: forming a first layer by supplying a precursor gas including a chemical bond of a first element and carbon and a first catalyst gas to the substrate; exhausting the precursor gas and the first catalyst gas through an exhaust system; forming a second layer by supplying a reaction gas including a second element and a second catalyst gas to the substrate to modify the first layer; and exhausting the reaction gas and the second catalyst gas through the exhaust system. At least in a specific cycle, the respective gases are supplied and confined in the process chamber while closing the exhaust system in at least one of the act of forming the first layer and the act of forming the second layer. |
| US09524864B2 |
Manufacturing method and fluid supply system for treating substrate
A method of manufacture and fluid supply system for treating a substrate is provided. The fluid supply system for treating a substrate may include a substrate dry part supplying a dry fluid to dry a rinse solution doped on a substrate; a dry fluid separation part retrieving a mixed fluid that the dry fluid and the rinse solution are mixed with each other during a dry process of the substrate from the substrate dry part and separating the dry fluid from the mixed fluid; and a dry fluid supply part resupplying the dry fluid separated from the dry fluid separation part to the substrate dry part. |
| US09524859B2 |
Pulsed ion beam source for electrospray mass spectrometry
Apparatus and methods for creating a pulsed ion beam. The pulsed ion beam can be used for performing mass spectrometry. A pulsed solenoid valve can provide a pulsed ion beam from an electrospray in a pre-vacuum chamber. The pulsed ion beam can enter a high vacuum region and a mass analyzer for mass spectrometry. |
| US09524858B2 |
Analytical apparatus utilizing electron impact ionization
An analytical apparatus (1) for mass spectrometry comprises an electron impact ioniser including an electron emitter (22) and an ionisation target zone (18). The target zone (18) is arranged to be populated with matter to be ionised for analysis. An electron extracting element (36) is aligned with an electron pathway (34) defined between the electron emitter (22) and the ionisation target zone (18). The electron extracting element (36) is configured to accelerate electrons away from the emitter (22) along the electron pathway (34) between the emitter (22) and the extracting element (36) and to decelerate the electrons along the electron pathway (34) between the extracting element (36) and the ionisation target zone (18) to enable soft ionisation while avoiding the effects of coulombic repulsion at the electron source (22). |
| US09524855B2 |
Cascaded-signal-intensifier-based ion imaging detector for mass spectrometer
A detector system for a mass spectrometer comprises: a metal channel dynode (MCD) comprising at least one perforated metal plate configured to receive the exiting ions and eject electrons in response; a plurality of electron-to-photon converters arranged in a parallel stacked configuration, each such converter comprising a substrate plate having a phosphor coating on a first face; and an electrode film disposed on the phosphor coating; at least one photocathode, each of the at least one photocathode disposed between a respective pair of the plurality of electron-to-photon converters; an optical detector optically coupled a last one of the electron-to-photon converters; and at least one direct current power supply configured to apply, in operation, a respective bias electrical potential to the MCD and each of the electrode films and photocathodes. |
| US09524852B2 |
Method for monitoring ion implantation
A method for monitoring ion implantation, comprising: a), providing a control piece and forming a mask layer; b), performing ion implantation process to implant a predetermined dose of impurity ions into the control piece, an area on the control piece uncovered by the mask layer being an impurity implantation area and an area on the control piece covered by the mask layer being an impurity non-implantation area; c), peeling off the mask layer from the control piece; d), performing oxidation treatment on the control piece; and e), respectively measuring thicknesses of the oxide layers on the impurity implantation area and the impurity non-implantation area of the control piece, and monitoring the impurity dose of the ion implantation on the basis of a ratio of the thickness of the oxide layer in the impurity implantation area to the thickness of the oxide layer in the impurity non-implantation area. By this method, it is possible to accurately monitor whether or not the dose of the implanted ions meets the predetermined requirement, and it is possible to effectively avoid the defects of incorrect monitor result caused by the variation of the intrinsic resistance of the semiconductor, improve the accuracy of the monitoring, and thus improve the performance and yield rate of the device. |
| US09524838B2 |
Method for protecting charging cable, and charging device
A driving battery of a vehicle that can be electrically driven is charged by determining a resistance value that corresponds to the size of the electrical resistance between two contacts of the charging cable, where the size of the electrical resistance specifies the current-carrying capacity of the charging cable. As a function of the determined resistance value, one of a plurality of line protection devices which are disposed on the charging device is switched into the charge current path. |
| US09524837B2 |
Electrical contact arrangement
An electrical contact configuration includes a first contact piece with a contact socket and a second contact piece which can move relative to the first contact piece. The second contact piece has a complementary shape to the first contact piece. An auxiliary contact piece is guided in such a way that it can move in the contact socket of the first contact piece. The auxiliary contact piece is guided in an electrically isolated manner. |
| US09524831B2 |
Method for producing hybrid negative plate for lead-acid storage battery and lead-acid storage battery
There is provided a method for producing a hybrid negative plate for a lead-acid storage battery which is improved in the production working efficiency and the productivity and enhances the quick charge and discharge characteristics and the discharge characteristics at a low temperature under PSOC of a lead-acid storage battery.A carbon mixture sheet produced by such a way that a carbon mixture prepared by mixing two types of carbon materials consisting of a first carbon material having electroconductivity and a second carbon material having capacitor capacitance and/or pseudocapacitor capacitance, and at least a binder, is adhered by pressure to the surface of a negative plate in a wet state, so that a hybrid negative plate is produced. The lead-acid storage battery provided with the hybrid negative plate is improved in the discharge characteristics. |
| US09524830B2 |
Method for selecting nanoporous carbon material for polarizable electrode, method for manufacturing such polarizable electrodes and method for manufacturing electrochemical double layer capacitor
A method of selecting the nanoporous carbon material for at least one of the polarizable electrodes (positive and/or negative) of EDLC with given organic electrolyte is suggested. The method includes providing of a number of nanoporous carbon materials, which can potentially be used for manufacturing the EDLC electrodes, impregnating the materials with the selected electrolyte followed by measuring the diffusion coefficients of anions and cations of the electrolyte inside the pores of the carbon materials and selecting for positive and negative electrodes the carbon materials, which provide the maximum diffusion coefficients of anions and cations, respectively. A method of manufacturing polarizable electrodes (positive and/or negative) and a method of manufacturing electrochemical double-layer capacitor based on the said method of selecting the nanoporous carbon material are also suggested. |
| US09524826B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include a capacitance forming layer including dielectric layers and internal electrodes disposed on the dielectric layers; a lower cover layer disposed below the capacitance forming layer; an upper cover layer disposed above the capacitance forming layer; and a plurality of crack inducing air gaps disposed in the lower cover layer. |
| US09524824B2 |
Driver for wireless power transmitter sensing required transmit power for optimum efficiency
An auto-resonant driver for a transmitter inductor drives the inductor at an optimal frequency for maximum efficiency. The transmitter inductor is magnetically coupled, but not physically coupled, to a receiver inductor, and the current generated by the receiver inductor is used to power a load. The system may be used, for example, to remotely charge a battery (as part of the load) or provide power to motors or circuits. A feedback circuit is used to generate the resonant driving frequency. A detector in the transmit side wirelessly detects whether there is sufficient current being generated in the receiver side to achieve regulation by a voltage regulator powering the load. This point is achieved when the transmitter inductor peak voltage suddenly increases as the driving pulse width is ramped up. At that point, the pulse width is held constant for optimal efficiency. |
| US09524819B2 |
Transformer device and manufacturing method thereof
A transformer device includes: a transformer that includes a magnetic body core and a winding; a case that houses the transformer; an external terminal that is provided in the case; a relay section that is provided in the case and to which an end portion of the winding of the transformer is connected; and a conducting wire of which one end is wound around the external terminal and bonded thereto, and another end is connected to the relay section. |
| US09524816B2 |
Method of fabricating a working component for magnetic heat exchange
A process of fabricating a monolithic working component for magnetic heat exchange is disclosed. The process includes mixing two or more portions comprising amounts of La, Fe, Si and at least one of T and R suitable to produce a La1-aRa(Fe1-x-yTySix)13Hz phase, wherein T is at least one element from the group consisting of Mn, Co, Ni and Cr and R is at least one element from the group consisting of Ce, Nd, Y and Pr. The amount of T, R, and Si is selected for each of the two or more portions to provide the two or more portions with differing Curie temperatures and, preferably, a density, d, within a range of ±5% of an average density, dav, of a total number of portions. The process includes heat treating a single monolithic green body formed from two or more precursor powder mixtures to produce a single monolithic working component. |
| US09524815B2 |
Surge arrester with moulded sheds and apparatus for moulding
A high voltage surge arrester including insulating polymer housing with a protruding shed. The shed has an upper shed surface that forms a blunt angle with the longitudinal axis of the surge arrester and a lower shed surface. The lower shed surface includes an inner portion that forms an essentially right angle with said axis and an outer portion that forms an acute angle with said axis. Further the invention relates to an apparatus for molding an electrically insulating polymer housing. |
| US09524814B2 |
Metal-oxide sintered body for temperature sensor, and method for manufacturing same
A metal-oxide sintered body for a temperature sensor that can be installed in a combustion engine and components connected to the engine in order to sense temperature uses metal oxide. The metal-oxide sintered body has particles with large resistance values and particles with small resistance values mixed therein. The particles with the small resistance values may serve as a main resistance component in the temperature range of 0° C. to 500° C., and the particles with the large resistance values may contribute to the total resistance in proportion to the mixing ratio in the temperature range of 500° C. to 900° C. Thus, the metal-oxide sintered body enables a single sensor to measure all resistances, and can be used in an exhaust device or the like of a motor vehicle that requires temperature measurement over a wide range of temperatures. |
| US09524811B2 |
Wire harness
A wire harness which can absorb a position shift or a dimensional tolerance related to mounting or the like sufficiently is provided. A wire harness (21) includes a harness body (22), a motor side connector (23) provided at one end of the harness body (22), and an inverter side connector (24) provided at the other end of the harness body (22). The harness body (22) includes high voltage conduction paths (25), and an electromagnetic shielding member (26) which collectively covers the high voltage conduction paths (25). The high voltage conduction path (25) includes a conductor body (27), connecting parts (28, 29) and a mold part (30). The conductor body (27) is provided with a tolerance absorbing part (31). |
| US09524810B2 |
Cable structure for preventing tangling
This is directed to a cable structure for use with an electronic device. The cable structure can include one or more conductors around which a sheath is provided. To prevent the cable structure from tangling, the cable structure can include a core placed between the conductors and the sheath, where a stiffness of the core can be varied along different segments of the cable structure to facilitate or hinder bending of the cable structure in different areas. The size and distribution of the stiffer portions can be selected to prevent the cable from forming loops. The resistance of the core to bending can be varied using different approaches including, for example, by varying the materials used in the core, varying a cross-section of portions of the core, or combinations of these. |
| US09524800B2 |
Performance evaluation of solid state memory device
Embodiments relate methods and computer program products for performance testing of a solid state memory devices. The method includes operating a first solid state memory device for a period of time and capturing state information of the first solid state memory device after the period of time. The method also includes storing the state information in a control file and loading the control file onto a second solid state memory device. Once the control file has been loaded into the second solid state memory device the state information can be adapted to fix any issues due to physical variation. Performance testing can then be preformed on the second solid state memory device without preconditioning the second solid state memory device. |
| US09524798B2 |
Data sampler circuit
A circuit includes: a first circuit stage configured to sample a differential input signal at a first logic state of a sampling clock and regenerate the sampled differential input signal at a second logic state of the sampling clock to output a first regenerated differential signal; a second circuit stage configured to amplify the first regenerated differential signal at the second logic state of the sampling clock to output an amplified differential signal; and a third circuit stage configured to regenerate the amplified differential signal at the first logic state of the sampling clock to output a second regenerated differential signal. |
| US09524796B2 |
Shift register circuit, display panel, and electronic apparatus
Disclosed herein is a shift register circuit that is formed on an insulating substrate with thin film transistors having channels of the same conductivity type and includes shift stages, each of the shift stages including: a first thin film transistor; a second thin film transistor; a 3(1)-th thin film transistor; a 3(2)-th thin film transistor; a 4(1)-th thin film transistor; a 4(2)-th thin film transistor; a fifth thin film transistor; and a sixth thin film transistor. |
| US09524793B1 |
Semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof
There are provided a semiconductor memory device and an operating method thereof. A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells connected between a source select transistor and a drain select transistor, a peripheral circuit for performing a program operation on the memory cell array, and a control logic for controlling the peripheral circuit such that the potential level of a source control voltage applied to the source select transistor as a selected memory cell is closer to the drain select transistor in a program verify operation during the program operation. |
| US09524789B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a sense amplifier electrically connected to the memory cell, the sense amplifier including a node for sensing a voltage during a sense operation and a data latch electrically connected to the node and configured to hold a first voltage corresponding to a voltage of the node when a strobe signal is issued during a strobe operation, and a controller configured to raise the voltage of the node during the strobe operation before the strobe signal is issued. |
| US09524787B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes memory cells, word lines that are electrically connected to gates of the memory cells, a source line that is electrically connected to one end of the memory cells, and a controller that executes a read operation over first, second, third, and fourth time periods. A first voltage is applied to a selected word line during the first and second time periods of the first operation, and a second voltage that is higher than the first voltage is applied to the selected word line during the third and fourth time periods of the second operation. A third voltage is applied to the source line during the first and third time periods, and fourth and fifth voltages that are lower than the third voltage are applied to the source line during the second and fourth time periods, respectively. |
| US09524784B1 |
Device and method for improved threshold voltage distribution for non-volatile memory
The present invention provides methods and associated devices for controlling the voltage threshold distribution corresponding to performing a function on cells of non-volatile memory device. In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method may comprise providing the non-volatile memory device. The device comprises one or more strings, each string comprising a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells comprising a first cell and a second cell. The method further comprises performing a function of the non-volatile memory device by applying a first function voltage to the first cell and a second function voltage to the second cell. The first function voltage and the second function voltage are different. |
| US09524782B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device and method of writing data in nonvolatile memory device
A nonvolatile memory device, including a first latch unit and a nonvolatile memory cell, and a method of writing data in a nonvolatile memory device are provided. The method includes receiving a first writing command or a second writing command from outside of the nonvolatile memory device, and writing first data stored in the first latch unit in the nonvolatile memory cell in response to the first or second writing command. The first data is retained in the first latch unit until the writing of the first data stored in the first latch unit in the nonvolatile memory cell is completed. |
| US09524780B2 |
Memory cell having closed curve structure
A memory cell including a drain, a channel, and a floating gate. The channel surrounds the drain and includes a first rounded closed curve structure around the drain. The floating gate is situated over the channel and includes a second rounded closed curve structure over the channel. |
| US09524779B2 |
Three dimensional vertical NAND device with floating gates
A monolithic three dimensional NAND string including a stack of alternating first material layers and second material layers different from the first material layers over a major surface of a substrate. The first material layers include a plurality of control gate electrodes and the second material layers include an insulating material and the plurality of control gate electrodes extend in a first direction. The NAND string also includes a semiconductor channel, a blocking dielectric, and a plurality of vertically spaced apart floating gates. Each of the plurality of vertically spaced apart floating gates or each of the second material layers includes a first portion having a first thickness in the second direction, and a second portion adjacent to the first portion in the first direction and having a second thickness in the second direction which is different than the first thickness. |
| US09524777B1 |
Dual program state cycling algorithms for resistive switching memory device
A method of controlling a resistive switching memory cell can include: receiving a first command to be executed on the resistive switching memory cell; performing, in response to the first command, an erase operation to erase the resistive switching memory cell to an erased state; verifying the erased state of the resistive switching memory cell; performing a weak program operation to program the resistive switching memory cell to a first programmed state; and verifying the first programmed state of the resistive switching memory cell. |
| US09524773B2 |
Multi-task concurrent/pipeline NAND operations on all planes
This invention provides a 2-level BL-hierarchical NAND memory architecture and associated concurrent operations applicable to both 2D and 3D HiNAND2 memory arrays. New Latch designs in Block-decoder and Segment-decoder with one common dedicated metal0 power line per one 2N-bit dynamic page buffer (DPB) formed in corresponding 2N broken-LBL metal1 line capacitors for Program and per one 2N-bit Segment DPB formed in corresponding 2N local LBL metal1 line capacitors for Read are provided for performing concurrent and pipeline operations of multiple-WL Program, Read, Erase-Verify, and Program-Verify in dispersed Blocks in a same or multiple different NAND planes with much enhanced array flexibility and multiple-fold performance improvements. |
| US09524772B2 |
Memory device of a single-ended bitline structure including reference voltage generator
A memory device includes a first memory cell array including memory cells of a single-ended bitline structure, a second memory cell array including memory cells of a single-ended bitline structure, a reference voltage generator configured to output a bitline voltage of a selected one of the first and second memory cell arrays as a sensing voltage according to an array select signal and output a bitline voltage of an unselected memory cell array as a reference voltage, and a differential sense amplifier configured to amplify and output a difference between the sensing voltage and the reference voltage. Logic states of the sensing voltage and the reference voltage are complementary to each other. |
| US09524770B2 |
Semiconductor memory devices including redundancy memory cells
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a repair control circuit and a refresh control circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of redundancy memory cells. The repair control circuit receives a repair command and performs a repair operation on a first defective memory cell among the plurality of memory cells during a repair mode. The semiconductor memory device may operate in a repair mode in response to the repair command. The refresh control circuit performs a refresh operation on non-defective ones of the plurality of memory cells during the repair mode. |
| US09524757B2 |
Data storage device capable of reducing power consumption
A data storage device that includes a nonvolatile memory device, a controller suitable for controlling the nonvolatile memory device and for reading and writing data to the nonvolatile memory device, and a power management unit suitable for supplying power to the nonvolatile memory device. The controller may control the power management unit to adjust the power supplied to the nonvolatile memory device. |
| US09524756B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for coupling semiconductor devices of a memory module in a memory system
A system includes memory chips mounted on a memory module each having an alert terminal that notifies that the memory chip has detected a predetermined error. The memory module has a first transmission line connected to alert terminals of memory chips, output terminal being connected to one end of the first transmission line, and a first termination resistor having an end connected to another end of the first transmission line. The system further includes a second transmission line having an end connected to the alert terminal and another end connected to a controller and a third transmission line having an end connected to a first input terminal on the memory module and a second end line and a second end having a voltage different from a voltage of another end of the first termination resistor. |
| US09524755B1 |
Semiconductor memory device and method for driving the same
A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a stacked body provided on the semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor pillar and an electrode member provided inside the stacked body, a charge storage film, and a control circuit. The stacked body includes insulating films and electrode films stacked alternately. The semiconductor pillar and the electrode member extend in a stacking direction and lower ends thereof are connected to the semiconductor substrate. The charge storage film is provided between the semiconductor pillar and one of the electrode films. The control circuit sets an upper end of the semiconductor pillar to a floating state, applies a first potential to the semiconductor substrate, applies a second potential to the electrode member, and applies a third potential to the one of the electrode films. The second potential is lower than the first potential. The third potential is lower than the second potential. |
| US09524751B2 |
Semi-automatic generation of multimedia content
A method for multimedia content generation includes presenting to a user text that will serve as audio narration in a video clip, and a collection of media items to be selectively included in the video clip. Instructions, which associate one or more selected media items with corresponding elements of the text, are received from the user. The video clip is generated automatically, such that the selected media items appear in the video clip in synchronization with the corresponding elements of the text in accordance with the instructions. |
| US09524747B2 |
Controlling persisting of data to disk
Embodiments relate to controlling persisting of data to disk for use with a messaging system including an application operable for generating and sending a message to a destination. An aspect is an apparatus, which includes a comparator operable to determine whether the message includes common data, and an extractor, responsive to a determination that the message includes common data, configured to extract the common data and non-common data from the message. The apparatus also includes a persistor operable to determine whether the common data have already been persisted to disk. The persistor is operable, in response to a determination that the common data have not already been persisted to disk, to separately persist the common data and the non-common data to disk. The persistor is operable, in response to a determination that the common data have already been persisted to disk, to persist the non-common data to disk. |
| US09524743B2 |
Heat assisted magnetic recording for bit-patterned media
A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) device includes a controller that selects a power for operating a heat source for a data write to a target data track. According to one implementation, the controller selects the power based on an assessment of whether the target data track is bounded by any data-storing tracks. A first power is selected when the data track is not bounded by any data-storing tracks and a second lower power is selected when the data track is bounded by one or more data-storing tracks. In another implementation, the controller writes to different partitioned regions of a storage media with different powers of the heat source. The controller selects a storage location for data based on an expected write error rate and environmental conditions within the HAMR device. |
| US09524742B2 |
CXNYHZ film, deposition method, magnetic recording medium and method for manufacturing the same
To provide a CxNyHz film of high density and a deposition method. One aspect of the present invention is a CxNyHz film formed on a substrate to be deposited, wherein x, y and z satisfy formulae (1) to (4) below: 0.4 |
| US09524741B1 |
High-density pattern detector for hybrid servo patterns
In one embodiment, a tape drive includes a controller including a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to obtain at least two periodic waveform components of a high density (HD) servo signal read by a servo reader from a HD pattern written on a servo band of a magnetic tape medium. The logic is also configured to filter the HD servo signal using a number of digital filters that are configurable to detect waveform components simultaneously read from the magnetic tape medium, each digital filter being configured to match waveform component parameters and tape velocity. Moreover, the logic is configured to compute a position error signal (PES) based on the filtering of the HD servo signal comprising the waveform components. |
| US09524733B2 |
Objective speech quality metric
Methods and systems are provided for using a model of human speech quality perception to provide an objective measure for predicting subjective quality assessments. A Virtual Speech Quality Objective Listener (ViSQOL) model is a signal-based full-reference metric that uses a spectro-temporal measure of similarity between a reference signal and test speech signal. Specifically, the model provides for the ability to detect and predict the level of clock drift, and determine whether such clock drift will impact a listener's quality of experience. |
| US09524729B2 |
System and method for noise estimation with music detection
In a system and method for noise estimation with music detection described herein provides for generating a music classification for music content in an audio signal. The music detector may classify the audio signal as music or non-music. The non-music signal may be considered to be signal and noise. An adaption rate may be adjusted responsive to the generated music classification. A noise estimate is calculated applying the adjusted adaption rate. The system and method may mitigate the noise modeling algorithms being misled by the music components. |
| US09524719B2 |
Bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification
Systems and methods for bio-phonetic multi-phrase speaker identity verification are disclosed. Generally, a speaker identity verification engine generates a dynamic phrase including at least one dynamically-generated word. The speaker identity verification engine prompts a user to speak the dynamic phrase and receives a dynamic phrase utterance. The speaker identity verification engine extracts at least one voice characteristic from the dynamic phrase utterance and compares the at least one voice characteristic with a voice profile the generate a score. The speaker identity verification engine then determines whether to accept a speaker identity claim based on the score. |
| US09524715B2 |
System and method for content recognition in portable devices
According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a system and method for content recognition in portable devices. Content, preferably audio content is recorded by the instant invention, preferably a sample with a length between 1 and 10 seconds. A fingerprint will be generated from the recorded sample and automatically, and preferably without further user interaction, prompting, notification, etc. (e.g. invisible to the user), compared with the fingerprints in a fingerprint database that is stored locally in the portable device and the result thereafter presented to the user. |
| US09524713B2 |
Business platform voice interactions
According to some embodiments, a user device may receive business enterprise information from a remote enterprise server. The user device may then automatically convert at least some of the business enterprise information into speech output provided to a user of the user device. Speech input from the user may be received via and converted by the user device. The user device may then interact with the remote enterprise server in accordance with the converted speech input and the business enterprise information. |
| US09524709B2 |
Multiferroic transducer for audio applications
A multiferroic transducer for an electrical stringed-instrument pickup comprising an upper layer and lower layer of magnetostrictive material and a middle layer of piezoelectric or ferroelectric material disposed between the upper layer and lower layer. |
| US09524705B2 |
Wind instrument supports
An instrument support for a wind musical instrument includes a bracket configured to be attached to the wind musical instrument, a base section configured to rest on a trunk of a user, and one or more support members spanning a distance between the bracket and the base section. The instrument support further includes a first adjustment mechanism that can be used to adjustably and selectively fix a position of the one or more support members with respect to the bracket and a second adjustment mechanism that can be used to adjustably and selectively fix the distance between the bracket and the base section. |
| US09524704B2 |
Stringed instrument with fingerboard support
Embodiments are disclosed that relate a stringed instrument having a fingerboard support disposed between a fingerboard and a neck base. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a body, and a neck structure extending from the body, the neck structure comprising a neck base, a fingerboard support coupled with the neck base, and a fingerboard coupled with the fingerboard support, wherein the fingerboard support comprises a support surface configured to contact an underside of the fingerboard and a raised side that at least partially covers a lateral side of the fingerboard. |