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US09608412B2	Spark plug having long service life A spark plug, including a central electrode, a first ground electrode, which is situated in a curved shape having a horizontal area and an essentially vertical area, and at least one second ground electrode, which is situated adjacent to the central electrode in such a way that a distance between the first ground electrode and the central electrode is less than a distance between the second ground electrode and the central electrode.
US09608411B2	Spark plug In a spark plug, an annular gap is formed between a metallic shell and an outer surface of a leg portion of an insulator. A contact end position is provided at a front most position of a contact portion formed between a packing and the metallic shell. A radial distance between the outer surface of the leg portion and an inner surface of the metallic shell is a gap distance. A maximum end position is provided at the rear end of the annular gap maximum portion. The gap distance at a front end of the metallic shell is larger than the gap between the center electrode and the ground electrode. The metallic shell includes an increased inner diameter portion having an inner diameter at the front side relative to the contact end position. The maximum end position is located at the rear side relative to an intermediate position.
US09608408B2	Long wavelength quantum cascade lasers based on high strain composition An improved longwave infrared quantum cascade laser. The improvement includes a strained InxGa1-xAs/AlyIn1-yAs composition, with x and y each between 0.53 and 1, an active region emitting at a wavelength equal to or greater than 8 μm, an energy spacing E54 equal to or greater than 50 meV, an energy spacing EC4 equal to or greater than 250 meV, and an optical waveguide with a cladding layer on each side of the active region. Each cladding layer has a doping level of about 2·1016 cm−3. The optical waveguide also has a top InP layer with a doping level of about 5·1016 cm−3 and a bottom InP layer with a doping level of about 5 1016 cm−3. Additionally, the optical waveguide has a plasmon layer with a doping level of about 8·1018 cm−3.
US09608401B2	Method for producing semiconductor laser elements and semi-conductor laser element Method for producing semiconductor laser elements (1) comprises A) providing a carrier composite (20) having a plurality of carriers (2) for the semiconductor laser elements (1), B) providing a laser bar (30) having a plurality of semiconductor laser diodes (3) which comprise a common growth substrate (31) and a semiconductor layer sequence (32) grown thereon, C) generating predetermined breaking points (35) on a substrate underside (34) of the growth substrate (31), said substrate underside facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence (32), D) attaching the laser bar (30) to a carrier upper side (23) of the carrier composite (20), wherein the attachment is performed at an elevated temperature and is followed by cooling, and E) singulating into the semiconductor laser elements (1), wherein steps B) to E) are performed in the indicated sequence.
US09608399B2	193 nm laser and an inspection system using a 193 nm laser An improved laser uses a pump laser with a wavelength near 1109 nm and a fundamental wavelength near 1171 nm to generate light at a wavelength between approximately 189 nm and approximately 200 nm, e.g. 193 nm. The laser mixes the 1109 nm pump wavelength with the 5th harmonic of the 1171 nm fundamental, which is at a wavelength of approximately 234.2 nm. By proper selection of non-linear media, such mixing can be achieved by nearly non-critical phase matching. This mixing results in high conversion efficiency, good stability, and high reliability.
US09608397B2	Laser processing device Provided is a laser processing device capable of performing high-power laser processing while preventing reduction of life duration of a light source for excitation light. By collecting the light emitted from single emitters of a plurality of single emitter LDs onto one end face of an optical fiber cable, high-power excitation light is transmitted to a marking head through the optical fiber cable. Excitation light emitted from the other end face of the optical fiber cable is separated into first excitation light and second excitation light. The first excitation light excites a first laser medium to generate laser light. The generated laser light enters a second laser medium. The second excitation light enters the second laser medium. With this, the second laser medium is excited, and the laser light that has entered the second laser medium from the first laser medium is amplified.
US09608393B2	Repeater with two connectors mounted on two opposite sides of a circuit board A repeater includes two connectors to each of which a communication cable is connected and a circuit board on which the two connectors are mounted and which includes a signal transmission section configured to connect corresponding ones of electrodes of the two connectors together, and the two connectors are mounted on different surfaces of the circuit board such that the communication cables are inserted in opposite insertion directions.
US09608388B2	Connector A connector includes a contact that has a first end provided with a contact point for connecting to a coaxial cable, and a second end provided with a terminal for connecting to a substrate, a body that includes a contact mount to which the contact is mounted and a substrate mount to which the substrate is mounted, and a bracket attached to the substrate mount, that holds the substrate and includes a slot into which the terminal is inserted. The bracket is detachably attached to the body, and the terminal applies pressure to the substrate and contacts the substrate by mounting the bracket to the body.
US09608386B2	Communications cable with status indicator for electronic devices An electronic device system can include an electronic device. The electronic device can include a receptacle, and a device logic driving status unit configured to generate a status signal indicating activity of the electronic device, and a communications cable. The communications cable can include a first plug configured to connect to the receptacle and receive the status signal, wherein the first plug includes a status indicator configured to indicate activity of the electronic device based on the status signal.
US09608383B2	High density electrical connector with shield plate louvers An electrical assembly has a lead frame with a plurality of elongated conductor sets and an insulative housing. Each conductor set has two differential signal pair conductors between a first ground conductor and a second ground conductor. A slot extends through the insulative housing and at least partially exposes the first ground conductor of a first conductor set and the second ground conductor of a second conductor set. A first ground shield has a first tab bent inward that extends into the slot from a first side of the lead frame. A second ground shield has second tab bent inward that extends into the slot from a second side of the lead frame. A conductive medium is provided in the slot to electrically connect the first tab, the second tab, the first ground conductor and the second ground conductor.
US09608375B2	LAN port lock device Disclosed is a LAN port lock device for selectively locking a LAN port connector, having a resilient hook that is locked and coupled inside a LAN port of an electronic device when inserted into the LAN port, so as not to be separated when in the state coupled to the LAN port. The LAN port lock device is characterized by including: a device main body through which a LAN port connector passes and is coupled, and which, upon being coupled, has the terminal portion of the LAN port connector projecting outward therefrom; a locking unit coupled to the device main body, for selectively impeding and allowing the resilient deformation of the resilient hook of the LAN port connector coupled to the device main body by inhibiting or being separated from the resilient hook, according to the position to which the connector has moved; and a release button installed to be capable of being inserted in and extruded from the device main body, so as to interfere with and resiliently deform the resilient hook when inserted into the device main body in a state in which the resilient hook is separated from the locking unit.
US09608374B2	Holding frame for plug connector modules Described is a holding frame for receiving a multiplicity of plug-in connector modules. The plug-in connector modules are received in recesses of the holding frame by holding elements. The recesses of the holding frame are inserted into frame portions located opposite each other. The holding frame according to the invention allows a spring-loaded reception and support of the plug-in connector modules in the holding frame. Tolerances of the various plug-in connector modules and the contacting means thereof can be compensated. A secure and complete plugging in of plug-in connector modules of a modular plug-in connector together with the counter-plug-in connector thereof can be ensured in this way.
US09608369B1	Connector system with connector position assurance A connector system includes an electrical connector that has a housing, a rounded member, and a connector position assurance (CPA) lever. The housing defines a cavity that receives a mating connector and a socket that holds the rounded member therein. The rounded member is moved by the mating connector from a seated position to a lifted position, and attains the lifted position when the mating connector is fully loaded in the cavity. The CPA lever is slidable relative to the housing between an extended position and a retracted position. When the rounded member is in the seated position, a protrusion on the housing blocks movement of the CPA lever from the extended position to the retracted position. When the rounded member is in the lifted position, the rounded member deflects the deflectable tab to clear the protrusion, allowing the CPA lever to be moved to the retracted position.
US09608368B2	Contact device for establishing an electric contact between a printed circuit board and an electromotor A device for establishing an electric contact between two electric units, in particular between a printed circuit board and an electromotor, including at least one electric conductor and a plug-in body for receiving the conductor. The plug-in body has a plurality of positioning members for aligning the plug-in body relative to a recess in a receiving body.
US09608366B2	Apparatus for holding an electronic device Disclosed is an apparatus for holding an electronic device that includes an interface surface, a central electrical contact on the interface surface, a first radial electrical contact on the interface surface, a first magnetic member near the first radial electrical contact, and a second magnetic member near the central electrical contact.
US09608365B2	Direct plug-in element with integrated locking mechanism The invention relates to a direct plug-in element comprising: a plug housing (3), a direct contact (4) with a contact tongue (5), the contact tongue (5) having at least one contact section (50) for directly contacting an exposed contact area on a counterpart, and a catch device (6) for an interlocked connection between the plug housing (3) and the direct contact (4), in order to retain the direct contact (4) in the plug housing (3), the direct contact (4) being arranged in the plug housing (3), the contact tongue (5) having a first and second flat side (52, 53) and a first and second narrow side (54, 55), the catch device (6) comprising a first catch element (60) on the direct contact (4) and a second catch element (61) formed on the plug housing (3) complementary to the first catch element (60), the first catch element (60) being arranged on one of the flat sides (52, 53) of the direct contact (4), and the contact section (50) being arranged on one of the narrow sides (54, 55) of the contact tongue (5).
US09608364B2	Printed circuit board, method of manufacturing same, and method of mounting the circuit board in a connector socket A circuit board that is to be mounted in a connector socket includes a plurality of electrical connectors located along a side edge of the circuit board. Retention bosses are formed on first and second opposite sides of the circuit board, each of the retention bosses protruding from a surface of the circuit board and extending parallel to and adjacent to the first edge of the circuit board. When the first edge of the circuit board is inserted into a slot of a connector socket, contact surfaces of the first and second retention bosses contact top surfaces of the connector socket to help immobilize the circuit board with respect to the connector socket. Adhesive layers on the contact surfaces of the first and second retention bosses may adhere to the top surfaces of the connector socket to help hold the circuit board immobile with respect to the connector socket.
US09608363B2	Sealing insert for electrical connectors Disclosed is a method and structure for sealing an electrical connector. The structure includes a sealing insert for insertion into the housing of an electrical connector. The sealing insert has a flared lip spaced from and extending above a base and the flared lip has a diameter that is larger than a diameter of the base. The sealing insert further includes a retention feature and at least one electrical pin guide. The sealing insert is inserted into the housing of an electrical connector after applying a form in place sealant inside the housing. The flared lip forms a seal against an inner wall of the housing and the retention feature of the sealing insert engages a retention feature inside the housing thereby locking the sealing insert into the housing and forcing the sealant into a sealant gap formed between the housing and the sealing insert thereby sealing the electrical connector.
US09608361B2	Protective sleeve for weatherproofing boot for interface of cable to remote radio head An assembly includes: a cable; a first connector attached to the cable; a second connector that mates with the first connector to form an interface; a sealing boot that encloses the interface, the sealing boot including a cable section that fits conformably over the cable; a conduit that circumferentially overlies a portion of the cable adjacent the first connector, the conduit including a plurality of first corrugations; and a protective cover that overlies the corrugations of the conduit and the sealing boot, the cover including at least one second corrugation on an inner surface thereof that interdigitates with one of the first corrugations.
US09608360B1	Anti-rotation seal for connector assembly An interface seal for an electrical connector assembly that includes a housing and a seal retainer defining a seal recess and configured to couple to the housing, is disclosed. The interface seal includes a main body portion configured to substantially surround the housing to create a sealing interface, and an anti-rotation projection coupled to and extending from the main body portion. The anti-rotation projection includes (i) an engagement portion extending in a first direction and (ii) a connecting portion that couples the engagement portion with the main body portion and that extends in a second direction different from the first direction. The anti-rotation projection cooperates with the seal recess to inhibit movement of the interface seal with respect to the housing and seal retainer.
US09608356B2	Cover component for connection port Disclosed is a headset and a cover component for a connection port in a housing portion of a headset, wherein the cover component is movable relative to the position of the connection port, where the cover component is arranged to at least partly enclose at least a part of the housing portion, and where the cover component is configured to be: arranged in a first position where the connection port is uncovered by the cover component, and where a cable is configured to be inserted into the connection port; and arranged in a second position where the connection port is covered by the cover component.
US09608351B2	Self-secured electrical connector An electrical connector includes a housing stack and plural conductors. The housing stack includes a front housing and a rear housing. The rear housing is disposed rearward of the front housing. The housing stack defines plural cavities that extend continuously through the front housing and the rear housing. The front housing includes a forward-facing shoulder within at least some of the cavities. The rear housing includes a rear-facing shoulder associated with the cavities that include the forward-facing shoulder. The conductors are disposed in the cavities of the housing stack. At least some of the conductors have a first projecting feature that engages the forward-facing shoulder in the corresponding cavity and a second projecting feature that engages the rear-facing shoulder to secure the front housing to the rear housing.
US09608349B2	Contact having two contact portions with their central lines in one plane A contact configured to be retained and arranged in an insulating object includes a contact portion that is configured to come into contact with a counterpart object, a connecting portion connectable to an object to be connected, a main body portion having two side walls and a joining wall that joins the side walls, the main body portion having a substantially U-shaped cross section, first and second contact pieces protruding from the two side walls and extending along a direction of mating with a counterpart object, and first and second contact portions disposed at free end parts of the first and second contact pieces, respectively. The first and second contact portions each has a curved shape and configured to come into contact with the same surface of the counterpart object. The first and second contact portions are spaced apart along the direction of mating, the first and second contact portions being configured to come into roll-face contact with the counterpart object.
US09608346B2	Mechanical and/or electrical connector with axial-pull apparatus and methods A mechanical and/or electrical connector grips onto one or more members inside a hollow passageway of a spiral connector by means of the spiral, or a portion of the spiral being pulled axially to elongate the spiral/spiral-portion, which consequently reduces the diameter of the passageway. The reduction in the diameter of the passageway causes the spiral/spiral-portion to tighten/squeeze/grip on or around the member(s) inside the passageway, to retain the member(s) inside the passageway. Thus, the spiral/spiral-portion mechanically connects the inserted member(s) to each other and/or to another object to which the spiral/spiral-portion is mechanically connected. For example, members inserted into opposite ends of the passageway, or multiple members inserted together into one end of the passageway, will be mechanically connected. The spiral/spiral-portion may be used to mechanically connect one or more members inserted into one, or optionally two ends of the passageway, to a fastener that is connected to or fixed to another object, for example, a construction or other utilitarian element. Adjustment systems may be included to length, shorten, pivot or swing portions of the connector for improved orientation and/or tension of connect members.
US09608343B2	Coaxial cable and connector with capacitive coupling A coaxial connector junction includes first and second coaxial connectors. The first coaxial connector includes: a first central conductor extension; a first outer conductor extension spaced apart from and circumferentially surrounding the first central conductor extension; and a first dielectric spacer interposed between the first central conductor extension and the first outer conductor extension. The second coaxial connector includes: a second central conductor extension; a second outer conductor extension spaced apart from and circumferentially surrounding the second central conductor extension; and a second dielectric spacer interposed between the second central conductor extension and the second outer conductor extension. Each of the central conductor extensions and the outer conductor extensions has circular symmetry about the longitudinal axis, such that electrical properties of the engaged first and second coaxial connectors are substantially the same irrespective of the relative orientations of the first and second coaxial connectors about the longitudinal axis.
US09608342B2	Plug, socket and connection apparatus A plug (1), socket (30) and connection apparatus for making an electrical connection. The plug (1) can hold a wire (20) and be received within a socket (30) having a conductor (37) and sealant (39), for making a waterproof electrical connection. The plug (1) comprises a plug body (2) and a passage (7) extending axially within the plug body (2) for receiving a wire (20), wherein the plug body (2) is configurable in a first wire-receiving configuration so that a wire can be placed within the passage (7) and a second clamping configuration so that the plug body (2) can clamp to and retain the wire (20) within the passage (7) when received within the socket (30).
US09608336B1	Radial-free collinear omni-directional triband half wavelength antenna with virtual ground, single coaxial cable feedpoint, and with minimal interaction of adjustment between bands An omni-directional triband antenna operates without ground radials with gain commensurate with a half wavelength vertical on each band. The triband antenna includes a dual-band twinlead J-pole providing half wavelength radiators for UHF and VHF, and an impedance transformer defining feedpoints to which a length Lc of coaxial cable is attached. The Lc lower end is the triband antenna connector port. Intermediate band radiators are first and second wire elements that collectively are a half-wavelength at the intermediate band. The first element is wound helically about the impedance transformer, with upper end floating and lower end connected to a first feedpoint. The second element is wound helically about the Lc upper portion of coaxial cable, with upper end connected to the remaining feedpoint, and lower end of the element floating. The helical windings radiate vertically and there is no cross-interference between antenna radiation in any of the three bands.
US09608334B2	Radar antenna system A device is described. The device includes a chip, a reflector, and an antenna. The reflector is disposed on a surface of the chip. The reflector is a metalized layer on the surface of the chip.
US09608333B1	Scalable high compaction ratio mesh hoop column deployable reflector system A reflector system includes a hoop assembly, a collapsible mesh reflector surface and an extendible mast assembly. The hoop assembly includes a plurality of link members extending between a plurality of hinge members and the hoop assembly is moveable between a collapsed configuration wherein the link members extend substantially parallel to one another and an expanded configuration wherein the link members define a circumferential hoop. The reflector surface is secured to the hoop assembly and collapses and extends therewith. The hoop is secured by cords relative to top and bottom portions of a mast that maintains the hoop substantially in a plane. The mast is stored on a spool and extends to release the hoop, pull the mesh reflector surface into a shape that is intended to concentrate RF energy in a desired pattern, and tension the cords that locate the hoop.
US09608332B2	Hybrid antenna A hybrid antenna includes a dielectric substrate and a stamping element. The stamping element includes a main radiator, a first holder, a second holder, a feeding element, and an extension branch. The main radiator is substantially disposed above the dielectric substrate. The first holder is coupled to a first end of the main radiator. The second holder is coupled to a second end of the main radiator. The feeding element is coupled to a signal source. The extension branch is substantially disposed below the dielectric substrate, and is coupled between the second holder and the feeding element.
US09608331B1	SAR reduction architecture and technique for wireless devices A modal antenna is proposed that provides for dynamic tuning and optimization of antenna system parameters for SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) management in mobile wireless devices. A modular approach is described where the radiator and active components are integrated into a module, allowing the fixed radiator to be used across multiple wireless products and form factors. Multiple radiation modes can be generated by a single antenna structure with one or several of the modes designed to minimize SAR while maintaining efficient communication link performance. Proximity sensors or other sensors provide indicators to determine when mode selection is necessary.
US09608326B2	Circular polarized isolated magnetic dipole antenna A circularly polarized isolated magnetic dipole (CP-IMD) antenna includes: a first isolated magnetic dipole (IMD) element; a second IMD element positioned adjacent to the first IMD element; a third IMD element positioned adjacent to the second IMD element and configured to oppose the first IMD element; a fourth IMD element disposed positioned adjacent to each of the first and third IMD elements and configured to oppose the second IMD element; and a feed network configured to supply signals to the first thru fourth IMD elements at a phase difference of ninety degrees in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction.
US09608322B2	Electronic device having antenna An electronic device includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an antenna and a switch. The antenna is printed on the PCB. The antenna includes multiple key contacts. Each of the multiple key contacts includes a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal. The first terminal is an output terminal. The second terminal and the third terminal are connected in series in the antenna. The switch switches the electronic device to an input mode and an antenna mode, thus the electronic device can be alternatively switched to an input function or a communication function.
US09608321B2	Radome having localized areas of reduced radio signal attenuation A radome having localized areas of reduced radio signal attenuation includes a body having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a reduced radio signal attenuation property in a transmit band and a second portion has a reduced radio signal attenuation property in a reception band.
US09608319B2	Flexible substrate antenna and antenna device This disclosure provides a flexible substrate antenna and antenna device including a flexible substrate antenna. The flexible substrate antenna includes a first parasitic radiation electrode and a second parasitic radiation electrode provided on the flexible substrate, where a leading ends (open ends) of the first parasitic radiation electrode and the second parasitic radiation electrode face each other with a slit of a predetermined gap therebetween. Further, a capacitive feed electrode is formed on the flexible substrate at a position facing the first parasitic radiation electrode, and is configured to capacitively feed power to the first parasitic radiation electrode.
US09608318B2	Antenna assemblies and methods of manufacturing the same According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of antenna assemblies and methods of manufacturing the same. In an exemplary embodiment, a method generally includes forming (e.g., molding, etc.) a sleeve over and/or between a first portion of a first component (e.g., a bushing, etc.) and a second portion of a second component (e.g., adaptor, etc.). The sleeve is coupled to the first and second portions of the respective first and second components. The method may also include removably attaching an antenna connector subassembly to the first component such that a printed circuit board assembly of the antenna connector subassembly is covered by the sleeve. The method may additionally include overmolding a sheath over the sleeve and one or more radiating elements of a multiband antenna assembly that includes the antenna connector subassembly, whereby the sleeve covers and protects the printed circuit board assembly during the overmolding.
US09608314B1	Mobile terminal The present invention relates to a mobile terminal, which includes a terminal body having a rear surface and side surfaces extending from each end portion of the rear surface toward a front surface, the terminal body made of a metal, a lower cap detachably coupled to a lower end of the terminal body and externally exposed to operate as a radiator of an antenna apparatus, a non-metal member interposed between the terminal body and the lower cap and forming a slot by spacing the terminal body and the lower cap apart from each other, and a dividing member crossing the non-metal member, and dividing an area where the terminal body and the lower cap are electrically connected and generate an electric field accordingly, the dividing member dividing the slot into first and second slots.
US09608313B2	On-chip waveguide feeder for millimeter wave ICS and feeding methods, and multiple input and output millimeter wave transceiver system using same Provided is a waveguide feeder. The waveguide feeder includes: a probe aligned at a center of a waveguide aperture at a metal wiring layer of a semiconductor substrate to input and output an electric signal; and an open stub located at a contact surface of a waveguide flange on a ground surface of a semiconductor chip in order to form a ground path of the probe on a surface of the waveguide flange.
US09608310B2	Apparatus having a conductive housing and an antenna with tunable resonance An apparatus and a portable electronic device are provided to facilitate tuning of the resonance of an antenna at least partially disposed within a conductive housing. As such, an apparatus is provided that includes a conductive housing having a first conductive portion. The first conductive portion defines a non-conductive aperture. The apparatus also includes a second conductive portion disposed at least partially within the conductive housing. The second conductive portion defines an open-ended non-conductive slot. The slot is configured to couple to radio frequency circuitry. The apparatus further includes a conductive element extending between and conductively coupling the first and second conductive portions. A personal electronic device that embodiments the apparatus is also provided.
US09608309B2	Mobile communication device A mobile communication device is provided and includes a plastic frame body, a metal outer frame, a metal inner frame and a first conductive spring. The plastic frame body has an opening, a first locking groove, a first inserting groove and a first protrusive portion formed between the first locking groove and the first inserting groove. The metal outer frame is locked to the first locking groove and fixed on the outside of the plastic frame body. The metal inner frame is inserted into the first inserting groove and fixed in the surroundings of the opening of the plastic frame body. Besides, the metal inner frame is electrically connected to a system ground plane. The first conductive spring clasps the first protrusive portion. The first conductive spring extends into the first locking groove and the first inserting groove so as to electrically connect the metal outer and inner frames.
US09608306B1	Communications-tower antenna mount An antenna mount for mounting radio antennas on a communications tower is described. The antenna mount includes a ring structure that encircles the tower and includes a channel disposed about its outer perimeter. The channel is configured to receive a plurality of antenna carriages upon which antennas are mounted on a first end. A second end of the antenna carriage is disposed in the channel and is slideably movable along the length of the channel about the perimeter of the ring structure. The antenna is thus aimable in any desired azimuthal direction by moving the antenna along the ring structure. Bands for communication of data, power, control signaling, and propulsion of the antenna carriages about the ring structure are disposed in the channel. The ring structure may include a junction that allows reorientation of antennas with respect to one another.
US09608305B2	System and method for a directional coupler with a combining circuit A circuit includes a current sensing circuit comprising a current input terminal coupled to an input port, a current output terminal coupled to a transmitted port, and a current sensing output terminal configured to provide a current sensing signal proportional to a current flowing between the current input terminal and the current output terminal. The circuit further includes a voltage sensing circuit having a voltage input terminal coupled to the transmitted port and a voltage sensing output terminal configured to provide a voltage sensing signal proportional to a voltage at the transmitted port. A combining circuit has a first input coupled to the current sensing output terminal, a second input coupled to the voltage sensing output terminal, and a combined output node coupled to an output port.
US09608300B2	Battery device, battery management system, and battery management method The present invention relates to a battery device, a battery management system, and a battery management method which can facilitate management of a battery.A battery device 11 includes a battery 51, an IC chip 53, and a direct-current blocking section 52. The direct-current power of the battery 51 is outputted via power lines 17, 18. By the IC chip 53, stored battery information is outputted via the power lines 17, 18 by load-modulating an alternating-current signal exchanged via the power lines 17, 18. By the direct-current blocking section 52, the direct-current power outputted via the power lines 17, 18 is blocked from being inputted to the IC chip 53. A voltage generating section 151 that is connected in parallel with the IC chip 53, and supplies a voltage generated by the alternating-current signal exchanged via the power lines 17, 18 to the IC chip 53 can be provided. The present invention can be applied to an electronic apparatus.
US09608297B2	In-cell battery management device Various embodiments relate to an in-cell battery management device including: an integrated circuit (IC) including a controller, a resistive balancer, a voltage sensor, and a pressure sensor; and an IC package that encloses the IC having a hole over the pressure sensor wherein the hole allows the pressure sensor to measure pressure in a battery cell; wherein the IC package is contact with the battery cell.
US09608296B2	Arrangement and method for storing electric energy in electrochemical cells with a large diameter and high storage capacity An electrochemical cell assembly has electrochemical cells of large diameter and high storage capacity, making it particularly useful for stabilization of electric supply systems. The assembly includes at least one electrochemical cell composed of a layer of: a liquid metal or liquid metal alloy forming the cathode, a liquid electrolyte layer, and a layer of a liquid metal or liquid metalloid forming the anode. An electrically insulating inner tube is provided along the vertical axis of the assembly, the presence of which prevents the occurrence of the Tayler instability or other instabilities caused in the liquids by the current flow, and thus prevents the intermixing of the liquids. Another very efficient option for increasing the maximum current of the cell is that of conducting a current having a suitable direction and intensity through the interior of the inner tube.
US09608295B2	Lithium-ion secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same A lithium-ion secondary battery (10) includes a wound electrode assembly (40) having a positive electrode current collector foil (51) and a negative electrode current collector foil 61). An edge portion (52) of the positive electrode current collector foil (51) is exposed in a spiral form at one end of a winding axis (WL). An edge portion (62) of the negative electrode current collector foil (61) is exposed in a spiral form at the other end of the winding axis (WL). The spirally exposed edge portion (52) of the positive electrode current collector foil (51) is divided and gathered into a plurality of parts divided at at least one of a plurality of gaps (S), excluding a central portion (WC) containing the winding axis (WL), provided between wound layers of the positive electrode current collector foil (51) stacked in a direction orthogonal to the winding axis (WL). Likewise, the spirally exposed edge portion (62) of the negative electrode current collector foil (61) is divided and gathered into a plurality of parts divided at at least one of a plurality of gaps (S), excluding the central portion (WC) containing the winding axis (WL), provided between wound layers of the negative electrode current collector foil (61) stacked in a direction orthogonal to the winding axis (WL).
US09608292B2	Lithium secondary cell with high charge and discharge rate capability and low impedance growth A lithium-ion battery is provided that has a fast charge and discharge rate capability and low rate of capacity fade during high rate cycling. The battery can exhibit low impedance growth and other properties allowing for its use in hybrid electric vehicle applications and other applications where high power and long battery life are important features.
US09608288B2	Positive electrode for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium ion secondary battery including the same A positive electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, the positive electrode including: a coated particle including a positive active material particle and a reactive layer on the surface of the positive active material particle; and a sulfide-containing solid electrolyte particle which is in contact with the coated particle, wherein the reactive layer includes a reactive element other than lithium and oxygen, wherein the reactive element has a reactivity with the sulfide-containing solid electrolyte particle which is greater than with a reactivity of the reactive element with a transition metal element included in the positive active material particle, and wherein a ratio of a thickness of the reactive layer to a particle diameter of the positive active material particle is in a range of about 0.0010 to about 0.25.
US09608285B2	Stack for a solid oxide fuel cell using a flat tubular structure The preset invention relates to a solid oxide fuel cell stack capable of producing electricity, in which unit cell modules are connected in series and in parallel, and to a manufacturing method thereof. The solid oxide fuel cell stack is manufactured by: making a unit cell module comprising at least one unit cell formed on the outer surfaces of a flat tubular support, a first electrical interconnector formed on the front end of the support and at least a portion of the outer surfaces so as to be connected to a first electrode of the unit cell, and a second electrical interconnector formed on the rear end of the support and at least a portion of the outer surfaces so as to be connected to a second electrode of the unit cell; and stacking the unit cell modules such that the electrical interconnectors come into contact with each other.
US09608282B2	Fuel cell having perforated flow field A fuel cell system includes a bipolar plate having a flow field formed therein. The flow field is partially defined by at least two adjacent channel portions separated by a wall portion. The wall portion includes a surface at least partially defining a passageway between the channel portions. The passageway may be sized so as to create a pressure difference between the channel portions. The pressure difference may draw at least a portion of a liquid droplet obstructing one of the channel portions toward and into the passageway.
US09608281B2	Conductive interconnected porous film and method of production of same A new conductive interconnected porous film, useful as a material for a gas diffusion layer which is used in a solid polymer type fuel cell, which satisfies the requirements of a good conductivity, good gas permeability, surface smoothness, corrosion resistance, and low impurities and which is strong in bending and excellent in handling to an extent not obtainable by existing sheet materials of carbon fiber, that is, a conductive interconnected porous film wherein a resin base material part of a thermoplastic resin has a porous interconnected cell structure which is formed by removal of removable particulate matter and has cells of sizes of 10 μm to 50 μm and wherein the resin base material part is comprised of different particle size particles of first carbon particles of large size carbon particles of a diameter of 5 μm or more and second carbon particles of micro size carbon particles of a diameter of 10 nm or more mixed together, and a method of production of the same.
US09608279B2	Metal-air battery Provided is a metal-air battery which has higher discharge capacity than conventional metal-air batteries. The present invention is a metal-air battery, which comprises a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer and an electrolyte layer that is arranged between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, and wherein the positive electrode layer contains a carbon material and is provided with two or more through holes that penetrate the positive electrode layer in the thickness direction.
US09608274B2	Sodium secondary battery including graphite felt as current collector Provided is a sodium secondary battery including a graphite felt having a maximum porosity on a surface facing a solid electrolyte and a decreased porosity in a thickness direction, as a cathode current collector impregnated with an electrolyte.
US09608272B2	Composition for a secondary battery cell Composite electrode material for a rechargeable battery cell includes an electroactive material; and a polymeric binder including pendant carboxyl groups, characterized in that (i) the electroactive material includes one or more components selected from the group including an electroactive metal, an electroactive semi-metal, an electroactive ceramic material, an electroactive metalloid, an electroactive semi-conductor, an electroactive alloy of a metal, an electroactive alloy of a semi metal and an electroactive compound of a metal or a semi-metal, (ii) the polymeric binder has a molecular weight in the range 300,000 to 3,000,000 and (iii) 50 to 90% of the carboxyl groups of the polymeric binder are in the form of a metal ion carboxylate salt. A method of making a composite electrode material, an electrode, cells including electrodes and devices using such cells are also disclosed.
US09608266B2	Cathode material for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries Disclosed are a cathode active material and a method to produce the same at low cost. The cathode powder comprises modified doped LiCoO2 carrying a secondary phase having either one of space groups Fm-3m or Fd-3mS. The modified LiCoO2 is Ni and Mn bearing and has regions of low and high manganese content, where regions with high manganese content are located in islands on the surface. The cathode material has high cycling stability, a very high rate performance and good high temperature storage properties.
US09608263B2	Anode material having a uniform metal-semiconductor alloy layer The present invention relates to methods for producing anode materials for use in nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries. In the present invention, a metal-semiconductor alloy layer is formed on an anode material by contacting a portion of the anode material with a solution containing metals ions and a dissolution component. When the anode material is contacted with the solution, the dissolution component dissolves a part of the semiconductor material in the anode material and deposit the metal on the anode material. After deposition, the anode material and metal are annealed to form a uniform metal-semiconductor alloy layer. The anode material of the present invention can be in a monolithic form or a particle form. When the anode material is in a particle form, the particulate anode material can be further shaped and sintered to agglomerate the particulate anode material.
US09608261B2	Positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same [Object] Provided is a means for improving cycle characteristics by suppressing electrode deterioration resulting from non-uniformity of voltage across an electrode plane in a high-capacity and large-area non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes lithium nickel-based composite oxide as a positive electrode active substance.[Solving Means] Disclosed is a positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery used in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in which the ratio value of battery area (projected area of the battery including the battery outer casing body) to rated capacity is 5 cm2/Ah or more and the rated capacity is 3 Ah or more, the positive electrode comprising a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active substance layer that is formed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector and has a positive electrode active substance containing a lithium nickel-based composite oxide and a spinel type lithium manganese composite oxide, in which, when the average secondary particle diameter (D50) of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide is D50(A) [μm], the content ratio of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide in the positive electrode active substance layer is A [% by mass], the average secondary particle diameter (D50) of the spinel type lithium manganese composite oxide is D50(B) [μm], and the content ratio of the spinel type lithium manganese composite oxide in the positive electrode active substance layer is B [% by mass], the positive electrode satisfies the following Mathematical Formula 1 and Mathematical Formula 2: [Math. 1] 0.5≦D50(A)/D50(B)≦2.0 MathematicalFormula1: B/(A+B)≧0.2 MathematicalFormula2:
US09608253B2	Lead-acid battery terminal member and lead-acid battery A lead-acid battery terminal member includes: a terminal portion which is arranged in a resin-made cover for closing a container; and a cylindrical bushing which is connected to the terminal portion through a conducting portion. The bushing is embedded in the cover, and has a plurality of annular projecting portions formed on an outer periphery thereof. Poles extending from an electrode group arranged in the container are inserted into and are welded to the bushing. Surface roughness of a surface of the annular projecting portion which faces a resin forming the cover in an opposed manner is lower than surface roughness of a surface of a portion other than the annular projecting portion.
US09608252B2	Secondary battery and secondary battery module A secondary battery of a secondary battery module includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first and second electrode plates, a case accommodating the electrode assembly, a cap plate coupled to the case, and first and second terminals each having a flat shape and each coupled to the cap plate. The first terminal may include a first terminal plate electrically coupled to the first electrode plate and formed of a first material. The second terminal may include a second terminal plate electrically coupled to the second electrode plate and further including a first part formed of a second material different from the first material, and a second part formed integrally with the first part and formed of the first material.
US09608247B2	Energy storage device including spiral electrode group with reinforced separator An energy storage device including a spiral electrode group in which a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate having polarity reverse to that of the first electrode plate are spirally wound with a separator interposed therebetween, wherein the second electrode plate is opposed to an inner circumference and an outer circumference of the first electrode plate, portions of the separator are reinforced, the reinforced portions of the separator include a first reinforced portion formed between a winding-start end of the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate located on a radially outer side of the winding-start end, and a second reinforced portion formed between the winding-start end of the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate located on a radially inner side of the winding-start end, and the first reinforced portion and the second reinforced portion are arranged apart from each other.
US09608243B2	Electronic device with battery terminal sealing member There is provided an electronic device includes a detachable battery pack from a casing; and a battery pack loading section in which the battery pack is loaded. The battery pack loading section includes a battery receiving surface that receives a battery and a peripheral wall that is formed at the peripheral edge of the battery receiving surface and faces the side surface of the battery. A connector to be connected to a battery terminal of the battery pack is disposed on the peripheral wall. A raised portion that is raised toward the battery pack is formed on the battery receiving surface and on the peripheral wall in the battery pack loading section. The battery pack has an elastic sealing member surrounding the battery terminal at a portion in contact with the raised portion in a manner disposed in the battery pack loading section.
US09608237B2	Frame assembly for donor film and method of manufacturing organic light emitting display apparatus using the same A frame assembly for a donor film includes a main frame, an extension frame, and a clamping unit. The main frame extends in a first direction. The extension frame includes a cavity region configured to receive at least a portion of the main frame, the extension frame being coupled to at least one side of the main frame and moveable in the first direction relative to the main frame. The clamping unit is configured to detachably couple the donor film to the frame assembly, the extension frame being disposed between the at least one side of the main frame and the clamping unit.
US09608236B2	Display panel A display panel includes a lighting device, a color conversion layer, and a reflective sheet. The lighting device at least includes a first lighting part emitting a first light of a first color having a wavelength within the first wavelength range and a second lighting part emitting a second light of the first color having a wavelength within a second wavelength range. The color conversion layer includes a number of bases corresponding to the first lighting part and the second lighting part. The reflective sheet reflects a light having a wavelength within a first wavelength range and lets a light having a wavelength out of the first wavelength range to pass through. The bases corresponding to the first lighting part are doped with a number of quantum dot particles to convert the first light to a third light of a second color.
US09608235B2	Thin film encapsulation structure and organic light emitting device having the same The present disclosure provides a thin film encapsulation structure for encapsulating a functional device on a substrate, including: a mixing layer thin film covering the functional device, and an inorganic layer thin film located above the mixing layer thin film, wherein the mixing layer thin film is mainly composed of amorphous aluminum oxide and a crystalline oxide. The present disclosure also provides an organic light emitting device, including a substrate, an OLED device located on the substrate, and the thin film encapsulation structure as mentioned above.
US09608234B2	Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a display apparatus includes: a substrate; a display unit which is formed on the substrate and includes an emission area and a non-emission area; a first coating layer which is formed on the display unit and has an uneven area formed on the emission area; a first blocking layer which is formed on the non-emission area of the first coating layer; and a second blocking layer which is formed on the first blocking layer and prevents reflection of external light.
US09608225B2	Light emitting device and method of fabricating the same A light emitting device may include a first electrode on a substrate, a first emission layer on the first electrode, a buffer layer on the first emission layer, a middle electrode on the buffer layer, a second emission layer on the middle electrode, and a second electrode on the second emission layer. The buffer layer may include a material selected from the group consisting of a metal oxide, a polyelectrolyte, and a combination thereof. The first emission layer, buffer layer, middle electrode, and second emission layer may be fabricated using a wet process.
US09608223B2	Organic light emitting diode and organic light emitting diode display device including the same An organic light emitting diode includes an anode; a cathode facing the anode; a first emitting material layer between the anode and the cathode and including a first host material, the first host material having a first triplet energy; and a hole transporting layer between the first emitting material layer and the anode, a material of the hole transporting layer having a second triplet energy being larger than the first triplet energy.
US09608222B2	Light-emitting element having electron-trapping layer A light-emitting element is provided, including a first electrode and a second electrode, a first layer including first and second organic compounds, the first layer being formed between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the first organic compound is capable of emitting a first light and the second organic compound has an electron transporting property, and a second layer including third and fourth organic compounds, the second layer being formed between the first layer and the second electrode wherein the third organic compound is capable of emitting a second light and has an electron trap property and the fourth organic compound has an electron transporting property.
US09608217B2	Transistor element The present invention provides a transistor element having a laminated structure, the laminated structure comprising a sheet-like base electrode being arranged between an emitter electrode and a collector electrode; at least one p-type organic semiconductor layer being provided on each of the surface and the back sides of the base electrode; and a current transmission promotion layer being formed, on each of the surface and back sides of the base electrode, between the base electrode and the p-type organic semiconductor layer or layers provided on each of the surface and back sides of the base electrode. According to the present invention, it becomes possible to provide a transistor element (MBOT) that is, in particular, stably supplied through a simple production process, has a structure capable of being mass-produced, and has a large current modulation effect and an excellent ON/OFF ratio at a low voltage in the emitter electrode and the collector electrode.
US09608215B2	Display apparatus and electronic apparatus Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a foldable substrate; a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate and each including an electro-optical device; the foldable substrate being folded at a substrate end portion at least on one side thereof around the pixel array section; a peripheral circuit section disposed on the substrate end portion and adapted to drive the pixels of the pixel array section; and a pad section provided on the substrate end portion on which the peripheral circuit section is provided and adapted to electrically connect the peripheral circuit section to the outside of the substrate.
US09608213B2	Method for manufacturing functional material and electronic component A method for manufacturing a functional material including a porous metal complex with nanoparticles included therein, the method including a configuration of adding more than one particle constituent raw material constituting the nanoparticles and a porous metal complex to a solvent, and then synthesizing nanoparticles included in the porous metal complex by heating to a desired temperature. In addition, provided is an electronic component including an electronic component element using a functional material including a porous metal complex with nanoparticles included therein.
US09608207B2	Organic electroluminescence element An organic electroluminescence element that uses a compound expressed by the following general formula has low inter-molecular interaction and high orientation during vapor deposition, and by using compounds that are resistant to aggregation, luminous efficiency is high, and there is little change in chromaticity accompanying drive deterioration (either V1 or W1 and either V2 or W2 form rings, the rings formed by V1 and V2 are six-membered rings, and the rings formed by W1 and W2 are five-membered rings; A2 to A4 and A6 to A8 represent CRZ or N, and RZ represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and R2, R3, R7, and R8 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a fluorine atom, a hydrogen atom [sic], or a deuterium atom.).
US09608200B2	Hybrid metallic hard mask stack for MTJ etching A hard mask stack for etching a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure is described. The hard mask stack is formed on a stack of MTJ layers on a bottom electrode and comprises an electrode layer on the MTJ stack, a buffer metal layer on the electrode layer, a metal hard mask layer on the buffer metal layer, and a dielectric layer on the metal hard mask layer wherein a dielectric mask is defined in the dielectric layer by a photoresist mask, a metal hard mask is defined in the metal hard mask layer by the dielectric mask, a buffer metal mask is defined in the buffer metal layer by the metal hard mask, an electrode mask is defined in the electrode layer by the buffer metal mask, and the MTJ structure is defined by the electrode mask wherein the electrode mask remaining acts as a top electrode.
US09608191B2	Substrate for superconductor thin film, superconductor thin film, and method for producing substrate for superconductor thin film A superconducting thin film having excellent critical current characteristics is provided. A substrate for a superconducting thin film includes a substrate body (10A) having a main surface (10B) in which the root mean square slope RΔq of a roughness curve is 0.4 or less.
US09608188B2	Thermoelectric devices having reduced thermal stress and contact resistance, and methods of forming and using the same A method includes preparing a thermoelectric material including p-type or n-type material and first and second caps including transition metal(s). A powder precursor of the first cap can be loaded into a sintering die, punches assembled thereto, and a pre-load applied to form a first pre-pressed structure including a first flat surface. A punch can be removed, a powder precursor of the p-type or n-type material loaded onto that surface, the punch assembled to the die, and a second pre-load applied to form a second pre-pressed structure including a second substantially flat surface. The punch can be removed, a powder precursor of the second cap loaded onto that surface, the first punch assembled to the die, and a third pre-load applied to form a third pre-pressed structure. The third pre-pressed structure can be sintered to form the thermoelectric material; the first or second cap can be coupled to an electrical connector.
US09608187B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device, method for producing same, and display device A semiconductor light-emitting device (101) includes an LED chip (4), a lead (1) having a main surface (11) on which the LED chip (4) is mounted, and a resin package (5) covering the LED chip (4). The main surface (11) is roughened, and the main surface (11) is held in contact with the resin package (5). These configurations contribute to the downsizing of the semiconductor light-emitting device (101).
US09608185B2	Ohmic contacts for semiconductor structures A composition and method for formation of ohmic contacts on a semiconductor structure are provided. The composition includes a TiAlxNy material at least partially contiguous with the semiconductor structure. The TiAlxNy material can be TiAl3. The composition can include an aluminum material, the aluminum material being contiguous to at least part of the TiAlxNy material, such that the TiAlxNy material is between the aluminum material and the semiconductor structure. The method includes annealing the composition to form an ohmic contact on the semiconductor structure.
US09608182B2	Light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a light emitting device that reduces color unevenness between a plurality of light emitting elements. A light emitting device 1 includes a base substrate 10, a first frame body 11 disposed at an upper surface 10a of the base substrate 10, and a second frame body 12 disposed at the upper surface 10a of the base substrate 10 and surrounding the first frame body 11 while being spaced away from the first frame body 11. A plurality of light emitting elements 2 is disposed within a region surrounded by the first frame body 11. A first sealing resin 21 is disposed within the region surrounded by the first frame body 11 to cover the light emitting elements 2. The first sealing resin 21 includes a wavelength conversion member that converts a wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting elements 2. A second sealing resin 22 is disposed within the region surrounded by the second frame body 12 to cover the first sealing resin 21. The second sealing resin 22 has a light diffusion material layer 221 having a convex upper surface over the first sealing resin 21.
US09608181B2	Opto-electronic modules with masking feature for reducing the visibility of interior components Opto-electronic modules include masking features that can help reduce the visibility of interior components or enhance the outer appearance of the module or of an appliance incorporating the module as a component. The modules can include an optical diode or saturable optical absorber.
US09608180B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device comprises a package having a recess; a light emitting element mounted in the recess of the package; a light transmissive member provided above the light emitting element; a sealing resin that seals the recess of the package; and a fluorescent material contained in the sealing resin. The fluorescent material is distributed to a side of the light emitting element in a greater amount than to above the light emitting element, a side surface of the light emitting element is exposed to the sealing resin, and a portion of the light transmissive member protrudes from the sealing resin.
US09608178B2	Semiconductor light emitting device The present invention relates to a semiconductor light emitting device including: a substrate for element mounting; a wiring provided on the substrate; an LED element provided on the substrate and electrically connected to the wiring; an encapsulating resin layer for encapsulating the LED element; and a wavelength conversion layer which contains a phosphor material and converts a wavelength of light emitted by the LED element, in which the wavelength conversion layer is provided on an upper side of the LED element, and a diffusive reflection resin layer is provided in a state that side faces of the LED element are surrounded therewith, and an area at the LED element face side of the wavelength conversion layer is at least twice larger by area ratio than an area of light emitting area on an upper surface of the LED element.
US09608177B2	Light emitting device package and backlight unit having the same Provided are a light emitting device package in which lens tilting is prevented to reduce luminance and color deviations and a backlight unit having the same. The light emitting device package includes an encapsulation material disposed on a substrate to surround a light emitting device and a guide member disposed on the encapsulation material to guide an assembly path of a lens. The guide member includes a first inclined surface having a first inclination to guide a light incident part of the lens and a second inclined surface having a second inclination greater than the first inclination to further guide the light incident part of the lens.
US09608174B2	Coating method and device [PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] To provide a method and apparatus for applying a coating material that reacts at ordinary temperatures and increases in viscosity with lapse of time or a coating material that is difficult to handle, such as an unstable slurry in which sedimentation occurs at high rate, to a high-value-added object to be coated.[SOLUTION] Before at least applying coating material to an object to be coated, the coating amount is automatically measured using a highly-accurate measuring device set in an atmosphere that does not substantially affect the measurement to control the coating amount during production. Therefore, high-quality products can be mass-produced with a low production cost.
US09608171B2	Light-emitting diode and application therefor A light-emitting diode is provided to include: a transparent substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a side surface; a first conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the first surface of the transparent substrate; a second conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the first conductive semiconductor layer; an active layer positioned between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first pad electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second pad electrically connected to the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the transparent substrate is configured to discharge light generated by the active layer through the second surface of the transparent substrate, and the light-emitting diode has a beam angle of at least 140 degrees or more. Accordingly, a light-emitting diode suitable for a backlight unit or a surface lighting apparatus can be provided.
US09608168B2	Light emitting diode Exemplary embodiments provide a light emitting diode that includes: at least one lower electrode providing a passage for electric current; a light emitting structure placed over the at least one lower electrode to be electrically connected to the lower electrode, the light emitting structure is disposed to form at least one via-hole; a reflective electrode layer placed between the at least one lower electrode and the light emitting structure; and an electrode pattern formed around the light emitting structure and electrically connecting the lower electrode to the light emitting structure through the via-hole.
US09608167B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device uses an Ag wire and exhibits excellent light extraction efficiency. In the light emitting device, a pad electrode of a light emitting element and a mount electrode are connected to each other using an Ag wire. The pad electrode contains Pt in a region where the Ag wire is bonded.
US09608160B1	Polarization free gallium nitride-based photonic devices on nanopatterned silicon After forming patterned dielectric material structures over a (100) silicon substrate, portions of the silicon substrate that are not covered by the patterned dielectric material structures are removed to provide a plurality of openings within the silicon substrate. Each opening exposes a surface of the silicon substrate having a (111) crystalline plane. A buffer layer is then formed on the exposed surfaces of the patterned dielectric material structures and the silicon substrate. A dual phase Group III nitride structure including a cubic phase region is formed filling a space between each neighboring pair of the patterned dielectric material structures and one of the openings located beneath the space. Finally, at least one Group III nitride layer is epitaxially deposited over the cubic phase region of the dual phase Group III nitride structure.
US09608155B1	Structurally integrated parabolic trough concentrator with combined PV and thermal receiver The invention includes a parabolic solar concentrator typified by a highly integrated structure whereby, mirror, aerodynamic elements, a shell structure, cooling elements and other elements have been integrated to form a unibody structure, which is both stiffer and lighter than traditional trough structures. The invention includes; aerodynamic features that greatly limit lift forces induced by high speed winds, a receiver with liquid cooling for better control of PV cell temperatures and which allows for the collection of the heat for beneficial use, accommodations for a solar tracker, and improvements in the focusing and distribution of light using secondary mirrors. The receiver incorporates specific details to improve heat transfer and reduce parasitic pumping loads and incorporates secondary mirrors to increase light acceptance angles. Automated mirror washing is addressed. In applications where the heat is un-utilized the integrated radiator is employed to dissipate the heat using both convection and radiation heat transfer.
US09608154B2	Solar cell module having a conductive pattern part A solar cell module is discussed. The solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells each including a plurality of first current collectors and a plurality of second current collectors, a first protective layer positioned on incident surfaces of the solar cells, a transparent member positioned on the first protective layer, and a conductive pattern part positioned on non-incident surfaces of the plurality of solar cells. The conductive pattern part includes a first pattern having a plurality of first protrusions connected to first current collectors of one solar cell and a second pattern having a plurality of second protrusions connected to second current collectors of the one solar cell. The plurality of first current collectors and the plurality of second current collectors are positioned on a surface of each solar cell on which light is not incident.
US09608150B2	Photoelectric converting apparatus A photoelectric converting apparatus has first and third semiconductor layers of a first conductivity type which respectively output signals obtained by photoelectric conversion, and second and fourth semiconductor layers of a second conductivity type supplied with potentials from a potential supplying unit. In the photoelectric converting apparatus, the first, second, third and fourth semiconductor layers are arranged in sequence, the second and fourth semiconductor layers are electrically separated from each other, and the potential to be supplied to the second semiconductor layer and the potential to be supplied to the fourth semiconductor layer are controlled independently from each other.
US09608144B2	Photovoltaic devices and method of making In one aspect of the present invention, a photovoltaic device is provided. The photovoltaic device includes a window layer and an absorber layer disposed on the window layer, wherein the absorber layer includes a first region and a second region, the first region disposed adjacent to the window layer. The absorber layer further includes a first additive and a second additive, wherein a concentration of the first additive in the first region is greater than a concentration of the first additive in the second region, and wherein a concentration of the second additive in the second region is greater than a concentration of the second additive in the first region. Method of making a photovoltaic device is also provided.
US09608142B2	Optoelectronic modules with optics integrated into a cap Optoelectronic modules for light emitting and/or light sensing include optical assemblies and active optoelectronic components. An optical assembly and a corresponding optoelectronic component can be aligned. The optoelectronic modules can include multiple optical assemblies and active optoelectronic components. Multiple optical assemblies and corresponding active optoelectronic components can be aligned independently of each other in various implementations of optoelectronic modules that include alignment features and optical assembly barrels.
US09608137B2	Composition for solar cell electrodes and electrode fabricated using the same A composition for solar cell electrodes includes a conductive powder, a glass frit, an organic vehicle and a thixotropic agent, and has a first thixotropic index (TI I) of about 1.5 to about 4 as represented by the following Equation 1, and a second thixotropic index (TI II) of about 4 to about 8 as represented by the following Equation 2, both the first thixotropic index and the second thixotropic index being measured at 23° C. by a rotary viscometer. [Equation 1] TI I=(viscosity at 1 rpm/viscosity at 10 rpm) [Equation 2] TI II=(viscosity at 10 rpm/viscosity at 100 rpm).
US09608135B2	Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same A solar cell according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor substrate; a first dopant layer formed at one surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a first electrode electrically connected to the first dopant layer. At least a part of the first dopant layer includes a pre-amorphization element, and a concentration of the pre-amorphization element in one portion of the first dopant layer is different from a concentration of the pre-amorphization element in another portion of the first dopant layer.
US09608134B2	Processes for uniform metal semiconductor alloy formation for front side contact metallization and photovoltaic device formed therefrom A method of forming a photovoltaic device is provided that includes a p-n junction with a p-type semiconductor portion and an n-type semiconductor portion, wherein an upper exposed surface of one of the semiconductor portions represents a front side surface of the semiconductor substrate. Patterned antireflective coating layers are formed on the front side surface of the semiconductor surface to provide a grid pattern including a busbar region and finger region. A mask having a shape that mimics each patterned antireflective coating layer is provided atop each patterned antireflective coating layer. A metal layer is electrodeposited on the busbar region and the finger regions. After removing the mask, an anneal is performed that reacts metal atoms from the metal layer react with semiconductor atoms from the busbar region and the finger regions forming a metal semiconductor alloy.
US09608133B2	Solar cell A solar cell includes a substrate of a first conductive type, an emitter layer, of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type, positioned at one surface of the substrate, a first electrode electrically connected to the emitter layer, a first protective layer positioned on a front surface of the emitter layer where the first electrode is not positioned, a back surface field layer positioned at another surface of the substrate, a second electrode electrically connected to the back surface field layer, and a second protective layer positioned on a back surface of the substrate where the second electrode is not positioned. Each of the first and second protective layers is formed of a material having fixed charges of the first conductive type.
US09608132B2	Optical sensor arrangement and method for generating an analog output signal An optical sensor arrangement (10) comprises a light sensor (11) that is connected to a summation node (13) and is designed for generating a sensor current (S2), a current source (S2) connected to the summation node (13) and designed to provide a source current (S3), and an integrator (21) that is coupled to the summation node (13) and is designed for generating a first value (VP1) of an integrator signal (S6) by integrating during a first phase (P1) and for generating a second value (VP2) of the integrator signal (S6) by integrating during a second phase (P2). The optical sensor arrangement (10) comprises a sum and hold circuit (31) that is coupled to the integrator (21) and is designed to generate an analog output signal (S7) as a function of a difference of the first value (VP1) and the second value (VP2) of the integrator signal (S6).
US09608131B2	Solar cell having doped semiconductor heterojunction contacts A silicon solar cell has doped amorphous silicon contacts formed on a tunnel silicon oxide layer on a surface of a silicon substrate. High temperature processing is unnecessary in fabricating the solar cell.
US09608130B2	Semiconductor device having trench capacitor structure integrated therein Semiconductor devices are described that include a capacitor integrated therein. In an implementation, the semiconductor devices include a substrate. The substrate includes multiple capacitor regions, such as a first capacitor region and a second capacitor region that are adjacent to one another. Each capacitor region includes trenches that are formed within the substrate. A metal-insulator-metal capacitor is formed within the trenches and at least partially over the substrate. The trenches disposed within the first capacitor region are at least substantially perpendicular to the trenches disposed within the second capacitor region.
US09608127B2	Amorphous oxide thin film transistor, method for manufacturing the same, and display panel Embodiments of the disclosed technology provide an amorphous oxide thin film transistor (TFT), a method for preparing an amorphous oxide TFT, and a display panel. The amorphous oxide thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The semiconductor active layer comprises a channel layer and an ohmic contact layer, and the channel layer has a greater content of oxygen than the ohmic contact layer; the channel layer contacts the gate insulating layer, and the ohmic contact layer comprises two separated ohmic contact regions, one of which contacts the source electrode and the other of which contacts the drain electrode.
US09608126B1	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor device includes a substrate, an interconnect structure, and an oxide semiconductor structure. The substrate has a first region and a second region. The interconnect structure is disposed on the substrate, in the first region. The oxide semiconductor structure is disposed over a hydrogen blocking layer, in the second region of the substrate.
US09608121B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device To reduce defects in an oxide semiconductor film in a semiconductor device. To improve electrical characteristics of and reliability in the semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a gate electrode and a gate insulating film over a substrate, forming an oxide semiconductor film over the gate insulating film, forming a pair of electrodes over the oxide semiconductor film, forming a first oxide insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film and the pair of electrodes by a plasma CVD method in which a film formation temperature is 280° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower, forming a second oxide insulating film over the first oxide insulating film, and performing heat treatment at a temperature of 150° C. to 400° C. inclusive, preferably 300° C. to 400° C. inclusive, further preferably 320° C. to 370° C. inclusive.
US09608120B2	Image pickup unit and image pickup display system A semiconductor device including a substrate, at least one gate electrode, at least two silicon oxide layers comprising a first silicon oxide layer and a second silicon oxide layer, wherein the first silicon oxide layer is nearer to the substrate than the second silicon oxide layer, and wherein a thickness of the first silicon oxide layer is greater than or equal to a thickness of the second silicon oxide layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between at least a portion of the first silicon oxide layer and at least a portion of the second silicon oxide layer. Also, an image pick-up device and a radiation imaging device including the semiconductor device.
US09608118B2	Array substrate, display device and manufacturing method of array substrate An array substrate, a display device and a method of producing the array substrate are provided, and the array substrate includes a substrate and a thin film field effect transistor and a data line formed on the substrate, and the thin film field effect transistor includes a gate electrode, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, a gate insulating layer is formed between the gate electrode and the active layer, and the array substrate includes: a protection layer formed between the gate insulating layer and the data line and being in direct contact with the data line; and the protection layer is provided on the same layer with and has the same material with the active layer.
US09608116B2	FINFETs with wrap-around silicide and method forming the same A device includes isolation regions extending into a semiconductor substrate, with a substrate strip between opposite portions of the isolation regions having a first width. A source/drain region has a portion overlapping the substrate strip, wherein an upper portion of the source/drain region has a second width greater than the first width. The upper portion of the source/drain region has substantially vertical sidewalls. A source/drain silicide region has inner sidewalls contacting the vertical sidewalls of the source/drain region.
US09608112B2	BULEX contacts in advanced FDSOI techniques The present disclosure provides, in accordance with some illustrative embodiments, a method of forming a semiconductor device, the method including providing an SOI substrate with an active semiconductor layer disposed on a buried insulating material layer, which is in turn formed on a base substrate material, forming a gate structure on the active semiconductor layer in an active region of the SOI substrate, partially exposing the base substrate for forming at least one bulk exposed region after the gate structure is formed, and forming a contact structure for contacting the at least one bulk exposed region.
US09608111B2	Recessed transistors containing ferroelectric material Some embodiments include transistor constructions having a first insulative structure lining a recess within a base. A first conductive structure lines an interior of the first insulative structure, and a ferroelectric structure lines an interior of the first conductive structure. A second conductive structure is within a lower region of the ferroelectric structure, and the second conductive structure has an uppermost surface beneath an uppermost surface of the first conductive structure. A second insulative structure is over the second conductive structure and within the ferroelectric structure. A pair of source/drain regions are adjacent an upper region of the first insulative structure and are on opposing sides of the first insulative structure from one another.
US09608109B1	N-channel demos device An n-channel DEMOS device a pwell finger defining a length and a width direction formed within a doped surface layer. A first nwell is on one side of the pwell finger including a source and a second nwell on an opposite side of the pwell finger includes a drain. A gate stack is over a channel region the pwell finger between the source and drain. A field dielectric layer is on the surface layer defining a first active area including a first active area boundary along the width direction (WD boundary) that has the channel region therein. A first p-type layer is outside the first active area at least a first minimum distance from the WD boundary and a second p-type layer is doped less and is closer to the WD boundary than the first minimum distance.
US09608103B2	High electron mobility transistor with periodically carbon doped gallium nitride A method for forming a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device with a plurality of alternating layers of one or more undoped gallium nitride (GaN) layers and one or more carbon doped gallium nitride layers (c-GaN), and an HEMT device formed by the method is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a channel layer stack on a substrate, the channel layer stack having a plurality of alternating layers of one or more undoped gallium nitride (GaN) layers and one or more carbon doped gallium nitride layers (c-GaN). The method further includes forming a barrier layer on the channel layer stack. In one embodiment, the channel layer stack is formed by growing each of the one or more undoped gallium nitride (GaN) layers in growth conditions that suppress the incorporation of carbon in gallium nitride, and growing each of the one or more carbon doped gallium nitride (c-GaN) layers in growth conditions that promote the incorporation of carbon in gallium nitride.
US09608102B2	Gallium nitride material devices and associated methods Gallium nitride material devices and methods associated with the same. In some embodiments, the devices may be transistors which include a conductive structure connected to a source electrode. The conductive structure may form a source field plate which can be formed over a dielectric material and can extend in the direction of the gate electrode of the transistor. The source field plate may reduce the electrical field (e.g., peak electrical field and/or integrated electrical field) in the region of the device between the gate electrode and the drain electrode which can lead to a number of advantages including reduced gate-drain feedback capacitance, reduced surface electron concentration, increased breakdown voltage, and improved device reliability. These advantages enable the gallium nitride material transistors to operate at high drain efficiencies and/or high output powers. The devices can be used in RF power applications, amongst others.
US09608101B2	Semiconductor device The present invention concerns semiconductor devices comprising a source electrode, a drain electrode and a semiconducting layer consisting of a single or double 2-dimensional layer(s) made from one of the following materials: MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, WSe2, MoTe2 or WTe2. Replacing a stack by only one or two 2-dimensional layer(s) of MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, or WSe2, MoTe2 or WTe2 provides an enhanced electrostatic control, low power dissipation, direct band gap and tunability.
US09608096B1	Implementing stress in a bipolar junction transistor Device structure and fabrication methods for a bipolar junction transistor. One or more trench isolation regions are formed in a substrate to define a device region having a first width. A protect layer is formed on a top surface of the one or more trench isolation regions and a top surface of the device region. An opening is formed in the protect layer. The opening is coincides with the top surface of the first device region and has a second width that is less than or equal to the first width of the first device region. A base layer is formed that has a first section on the device region inside the first opening and a second section on the protect layer.
US09608094B2	Heterosection tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) A Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor (TFET) device is provided comprising at least one heterosection between the source region and the channel region. The at least one heterosection has a low dielectric constant and thickness below 10 nm. Additionally a pocket region and another heterosection may be added in between the at least one heterosection and the channel region.
US09608082B2	Electro-mechanical switching devices A switching device includes an opening disposed in a substrate. A source is disposed adjacent the opening and has a contact surface parallel to sidewalls of the opening. A drain is disposed adjacent the opening and has a contact surface parallel to the sidewalls of the opening. A moveable gate stack includes a channel and a gate. The moveable gate stack is disposed within the opening.
US09608081B2	Simple and cost-free MTP structure Embodiments of a simple and cost-free multi-time programmable (MTP) structure for non-volatile memory cells are presented. The memory cell includes a substrate, a first transistor having a select gate and a second transistor having a floating gate. The select and floating gates are adjacent to one another and disposed over a transistor well. The transistors include first and second S/D regions disposed adjacent to the sides of the gates. A control gate is disposed over a control well. The control gate is coupled to the floating gate and includes a control capacitor. An erase terminal is decoupled from the control capacitor and transistors.
US09608078B2	Semiconductor device with improved field plate A transistor device includes a semiconductor body, a spacer layer, and a field plate. The spacer layer is over at least a portion of a surface of the semiconductor body. The field plate is over at least a portion of the spacer layer, and includes a first current carrying layer, a refractory metal interposer layer over the first current carrying layer, and a second current carrying layer over the refractory metal interposer layer. By including the refractory metal interposer layer between the first current carrying layer and the second current carrying layer, the electromigration of metals in the field plate is significantly reduced. Since electromigration of metals in the field plate is a common cause of transistor device failures, reducing the electromigration of metals in the field plate improves the reliability and lifetime of the transistor device.
US09608072B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided with a first well region of a first conduction type having a first voltage (voltage VB) applied thereto, a second well region of a second conduction type formed in the surface layer section of the first well region and having a second voltage (voltage VS) different from the first voltage applied thereto, and a charge extracting region of the first conduction type formed in the surface layer section of the second well region and having the first voltage applied thereto. This inhibits the operation of a parasitic bipolar transistor.
US09608070B2	Semiconductor device comprising a field effect transistor and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device A semiconductor device comprises a field effect transistor in a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface. The field effect transistor comprises a source region, a drain region, a body region, and a gate electrode at the body region. The gate electrode is configured to control a conductivity of a channel formed in the body region, and the gate electrode is disposed in gate trenches. The body region is disposed along a first direction between the source region and the drain region, the first direction being parallel to the first main surface. The body region has a shape of a ridge extending along the first direction, the body region being adjacent to the source region and the drain region. The semiconductor device further comprises a source contact and a body contact, the source contact being electrically connected to a source terminal, the body contact being electrically connected to the source contact and to the body region.
US09608069B1	Self aligned epitaxial based punch through control A method of forming a semiconductor device that may include etching source and drain portions of a fin structure of a first semiconductor material selectively to an underlying semiconductor layer of a second semiconductor material, and laterally etching undercut region in the semiconductor layer underlying the fin structure. The method may further include filling the undercut region with a first conductivity type semiconductor material, and forming a second conductivity type semiconductor material for a source region and a drain region on opposing sides of the channel region portion of the fin structure.
US09608066B1	High-K spacer for extension-free CMOS devices with high mobility channel materials A field effect transistor device includes a gate structure formed over a channel region in a semiconductor material. An inner spacer is formed on sidewalls of the gate structure and over an extension region of the semiconductor material. The inner spacer includes charge or dipoles. A source/drain region is formed adjacent to the gate structure. An inversion layer is formed in the extension region induced by the inner spacer to form a conductive link between the channel region and the source/drain region.
US09608063B2	Nanowire transistor structures with merged source/drain regions using auxiliary pillars A nanowire transistor structure is fabricated by using auxiliary epitaxial nucleation source/drain fin structures. The fin structures include semiconductor layers integral with nanowires that extend between the fin structures. Gate structures are formed between the fin structures such that the nanowires extend through the gate conductors. Following spacer formation and nanowire chop, source/drain regions are grown epitaxially between the gate structures.
US09608060B2	Isolation structure for semiconductor device A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor device in the substrate, and an isolating structure in the substrate and adjacent to the semiconductor device. The isolating structure has a roughness surface at a sidewall of the isolating structure, and the roughness surface includes carbon atoms thereon.
US09608059B2	Semiconductor device with isolated body portion Semiconductor devices with isolated body portions are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor body disposed above a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor body includes a channel region and a pair of source and drain regions on either side of the channel region. An isolation pedestal is disposed between the semiconductor body and the semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode stack at least partially surrounds a portion of the channel region of the semiconductor body.
US09608057B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A MOS semiconductor device has a MOS structure, including a p− region that surrounds an n+-type source region and has a net doping concentration lower than a concentration of a p-type impurity in a surface of a p-type well region, and a gate electrode that is provided on top of the surface of the p-type well region sandwiched between the n+-type source region and a surface layer of an n− layer, with a gate insulator disposed between the p-type well region and the gate electrode. This configuration can make the gate insulator thicker without increasing a gate threshold voltage, and help improve the reliability of the gate insulator and reduce the gate capacitance.
US09608056B2	Schottky-barrier device and related semiconductor product In one general aspect, a power rectifier device can include a drift layer including silicon carbide of n-type conductivity, and a Schottky electrode disposed on the drift layer where the Schottky electrode and a surface of the drift layer can provide a Schottky contact. The power rectifier device can also include an array of p-type regions disposed underneath the Schottky electrode.
US09608051B2	Display apparatus, manufacturing method of display apparatus, and electronic device A display apparatus including: a display region provided with a plurality of pixel portions; wires installed to the respective pixel portions within the display region from an outside of the display region for transmitting a signal to drive the respective pixel portions; connection pads provided on the outside of the display region and serving as input portions to provide the wires with a signal while electrically conducting with the wires; switch elements provided on the outside of the display region in a middle of the wires; and a light shielding covering portion shielding the switch elements from light and formed to cover the connection pads while electrically conducting with the connection pads.
US09608047B2	Integrated touch screen In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a display stack for a touch-sensitive screen. The display stack comprises a plurality of layers in which a top layer comprises a substantially transparent cover layer. The display stack is configured to display a color image. The apparatus also includes a touch sensor provided within the display stack. The touch sensor comprises a plurality of first conductive electrodes contacting a layer of a subset of the plurality of layers of the display stack. The subset of the plurality of layers is below the substantially transparent cover layer. The touch sensor also includes a plurality of second conductive electrodes contacting a layer of the subset of the plurality of layers.
US09608046B2	Organic light emitting diode display having quantum dot The present disclosure relates to an organic light emitting diode display having a quantum dot. The present disclosure suggests an organic light emitting diode display including a substrate having a plurality of pixel area, each pixel area having a light emitting area and a non-light emitting area; a thin film transistor disposed in the non-light emitting area; an organic light emitting diode including an anode electrode, a cathode electrode and a source energy layer between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, connected to the thin film transistor, and disposed in the light emitting area; an encapsulation layer joined on the substrate; and a quantum light emitting layer radiating lights having any one wavelength by an energy from the source energy layer, and disposed on an inner surface of the encapsulation layer as corresponding to the source energy layer.
US09608042B2	Electrode configurations to increase electro-thermal isolation of phase-change memory elements and associated techniques Embodiments of the present disclosure describe electrode configurations to increase electro-thermal isolation of phase-change memory elements and associated techniques. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a plurality of phase-change memory (PCM) elements, wherein individual PCM elements of the plurality of PCM elements include a phase-change material layer, a first electrode layer disposed on the phase-change material layer and in direct contact with the phase-change material layer, and a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer and in direct contact with the first electrode layer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09608037B2	Mesa structure diode with approximately plane contact surface There is provided an electronic device including at least two diodes each having a mesa structure, including: a first and a second doped semiconductor portion forming a p-n junction, such that a first part of the second doped semiconductor portion located between a second part of the second doped semiconductor portion and the first doped semiconductor portion forms an offset from the second part; a first electrode electrically connected to the first portion, and a second electrode electrically connected to the second portion at an upper face of the second part; and dielectric portions covering side faces of the first portion, the second portion, and the first electrode, wherein upper faces of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the dielectric portions form an approximately plane continuous surface.
US09608035B2	Method of wafer-scale integration of semiconductor devices and semiconductor device The method of wafer-scale integration of semiconductor devices comprises the steps of providing a semiconductor wafer (1), a further semiconductor wafer (2), which differs from the first semiconductor wafer in at least one of diameter, thickness and semiconductor material, and a handling wafer (3), arranging the further semiconductor wafer on the handling wafer, and bonding the further semiconductor wafer to the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor device may comprise an electrically conductive contact layer (6) arranged on the further semiconductor wafer (2) and a metal layer connecting the contact layer with an integrated circuit.
US09608022B2	Color filter array and image receiving method thereof A color filter array, for an image sensing device, includes a plurality of filter patterns. Each filter pattern includes at least one first filter, corresponding to a first wavelength range of a first color; at least one second filter, corresponding to a second wavelength range of a second color; at least one third filter, corresponding to a third wavelength range of a third color; at least one fourth filter, corresponding to a first infrared wavelength range, wherein the first infrared wavelength range is an intersection of the first wavelength range and the second wavelength range; and at least one fifth filter, corresponding to a second infrared wavelength range, wherein the second infrared wavelength range is an intersection of the first wavelength range and the third wavelength range.
US09608018B2	Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed are an LCD device and a method of manufacturing the same, which reduce a capacitance deviation between pixels without any change in a viewing angle and a high transmittance. The LCD device includes a plurality of gate lines formed in a first direction on a substrate, a plurality of data lines formed in a second direction to intersect the plurality of gate lines, a thin film transistor (TFT) formed in each of a plurality of pixel areas defined by the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, a pixel electrode formed in a tetragonal shape in each of the plurality of pixel areas, and a common electrode formed on the pixel electrode, and configured to include a plurality of finger patterns. Each of the plurality of pixel areas is formed in a tetragonal shape.
US09608015B2	Thin film transistor array panel and manufacturing method thereof Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide a thin film transistor array panel including a first insulating substrate; a gate line and a data line disposed on the first insulating substrate, intersecting with each other, and being insulated from each other; a first passivation layer disposed on the gate line and the data line and comprising a plurality of first openings; a first electrode disposed on the first passivation layer; and a second electrode disposed in the first opening, thereby simplifying a manufacturing process of the thin film transistor array panel.
US09608013B2	Array substrate, liquid crystal panel, and manufacturing method of array substrate The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a liquid crystal panel, and a manufacturing method of the array substrate. In the present disclosure, the first discharging elements and the second discharging elements are arranged on the array substrate, the first discharging elements are electrically connected to the common electrode line, and the second discharging elements are respectively electrically connected to the data lines, and the first discharging elements and the second discharging elements are simultaneously formed with the scanning lines and the data lines or are formed after the scanning lines and the data lines are formed, thus, electrostatic protection is provided to the components in the subsequent manufacturing process of the array substrate after the scanning line and the data lines are formed on the array substrate.
US09608012B2	Display panel A display panel is disclosed, comprising: a first substrate; a thin film transistor layer disposed on the first substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the thin film transistor layer; at least one pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and exposing an exposure region of the insulating layer; and an alignment layer disposed on the pixel electrode and the exposure region; wherein a surface roughness of the alignment layer disposed on the exposure region is larger than a surface roughness of the alignment layer disposed on the pixel electrode.
US09608010B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device which shifts a low-level signal is provided. In an example, a first transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a first wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a second wiring, a second transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a third wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to the second wiring, a third transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a fourth wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor, a fourth transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a fifth wiring, a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the third transistor, and a gate electrically connected to a sixth wiring, and a first switch including a first terminal electrically connected to the third wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor are included.
US09608007B2	Display device An object is to provide a semiconductor device having a structure with which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be sufficiently reduced. An oxide insulating layer serving as a channel protective layer is formed over part of an oxide semiconductor layer overlapping with a gate electrode layer. In the same step as formation of the oxide insulating layer, an oxide insulating layer covering a peripheral portion of the oxide semiconductor layer is formed. The oxide insulating layer which covers the peripheral portion of the oxide semiconductor layer is provided to increase the distance between the gate electrode layer and a wiring layer formed above or in the periphery of the gate electrode layer, whereby parasitic capacitance is reduced.
US09608004B2	Semiconductor device and peeling off method and method of manufacturing semiconductor device The present invention provides a peeling off method without giving damage to the peeled off layer, and aims at being capable of peeling off not only a peeled off layer having a small area but also a peeled off layer having a large area over the entire surface at excellent yield ratio. The metal layer or nitride layer 11 is provided on the substrate, and further, the oxide layer 12 being contact with the foregoing metal layer or nitride layer 11 is provided, and furthermore, if the lamination film formation or the heat processing of 500° C. or more in temperature is carried out, it can be easily and clearly separated in the layer or on the interface with the oxide layer 12 by the physical means.
US09608003B2	Integrated circuit product with bulk and SOI semiconductor devices An integrated circuit product is disclosed including an SOI structure including a bulk semiconductor substrate, a buried insulation layer positioned on the bulk semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor layer positioned on the insulation layer, wherein, in a first region of the SOI structure, the semiconductor layer and the buried insulation layer are removed and, in a second region of the SOI structure, the semiconductor layer and the buried insulation layer are present above the bulk semiconductor substrate. The product further includes a semiconductor bulk device comprising a first gate structure positioned on the bulk semiconductor substrate in the first region and an SOI semiconductor device comprising a second gate structure positioned on the semiconductor layer in the second region, wherein the first and second gate structures have a final gate height substantially extending to a common height level above an upper surface of the bulk semiconductor substrate.
US09608000B2	Devices and methods including an etch stop protection material Protective dielectrics are discussed generally herein. In one or more embodiments, a three-dimensional vertical memory may include a protective dielectric material. A device may include an etch stop material, a first control gate (CG) over the etch stop material, a first CG recess adjacent the first CG, a trench adjacent the first CG recess, and an at least partially oxidized polysilicon on at least a portion of the etch stop material. The at least partially oxidized polysilicon may line a sidewall of the trench and may line the first CG recess.
US09607999B2	System and method of UV programming of non-volatile semiconductor memory A method of forming a semiconductor memory storage device that includes forming first and second doped regions of a first type in a semiconductor substrate and laterally spaced from one another, forming a gate dielectric extends over the semiconductor substrate between the first and second doped regions, forming a floating gate on the gate dielectric, and forming an ultraviolet (UV) light blocking material vertically disposed above the floating gate such that the floating gate remains electrically charged after the semiconductor memory storage device is exposed to UV light.
US09607997B1	Metal line with increased inter-metal breakdown voltage A wide trench having a width W1 and narrow trenches having a width W2 that is less than W1 are formed in a dielectric layer, the wide trench extending deeper in outer regions than in a central region. A trench modification step changes the width of the wide trench and reduces a depth difference between the outer regions and the central region of the wide trench.
US09607995B2	Semiconductor structure and fabrication method thereof, and static random access memory cell A method for forming a semiconductor having a plurality of FinFETs. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a surface; and forming a plurality of first fins and a plurality of second fins on the surface of the semiconductor substrate. Further, the method also includes forming a mask layer on top surfaces of the plurality of first fins and the plurality of second fins; and forming an insulation material layer covering side surfaces of the first fins, the second fins and the mask layer. Further, the method includes removing a portion of the mask layer on the first fins; and forming a continuous first gate structure covering side and top surfaces of a plurality of first fins and a discontinuous second gate structure covering only the side surfaces of the second fins and the side surfaces of the mask layer.
US09607994B2	Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices Provided are semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same. In methods of forming the same, an etch stop pattern and a separate spacer can be formed on a sidewall of a bit line contact, wherein the etch stop pattern and the separate spacer each comprise material having an etch selectivity relative to an oxide. A storage node contact plug hole can be formed so that the etch stop pattern and the separate spacer form a portion of a sidewall of the storage node contact plug hole spaced apart from the bit line contact. The storage node contact plug hole can be cleaned to remove a natural oxide formed in the storage node contact plug hole. Related devices are also disclosed.
US09607992B2	Etchstop layers and capacitors Capacitor structures for integrated circuit devices are provided. Capacitors include proximate dense or highly dense etchstop layers. The dense or highly dense etchstop layer is, for example, a high-k material. Capacitors are, for example, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors and are useful in DRAM (dynamic random access memory) and eDRAM (embedded dynamic random access memory) structures.
US09607985B1	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of fin shaped structures, a first trench and at least one bump. The substrate has a base. The fin shaped structures protrude from the base of the substrate. The first trench recesses from the base of the substrate and has a depth being smaller than a width of each of the fin shaped structures. The at least one bump is disposed on a surface of the first trench.
US09607982B1	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. First, a substrate is provided, a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is formed on the substrate, a metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor is formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the BJT, a resistor is formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the MOS transistor, a dielectric layer is formed on the substrate to cover the BJT, the MOS transistor, and the resistor, and an oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (OS-FET) is formed on the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the MOS transistor and the resistor.
US09607981B2	Semiconductor device and driver circuit with source and isolation structure interconnected through a diode circuit, and method of manufacture thereof Embodiments include methods of forming a semiconductor device having a first conductivity type, an isolation structure (including a sinker region and a buried layer), an active device within area of the substrate contained by the isolation structure, and a diode circuit. The buried layer is positioned below the top substrate surface, and has a second conductivity type. The sinker region extends between the top substrate surface and the buried layer, and has the second conductivity type. The active device includes a source region of the first conductivity type, and the diode circuit is connected between the isolation structure and the source region. The diode circuit may include one or more Schottky diodes and/or PN junction diodes. In further embodiments, the diode circuit may include one or more resistive networks in series and/or parallel with the Schottky and/or PN diode(s).
US09607978B2	ESD-protection circuit for integrated circuit device A double-diffused metal oxide semiconductor (DMOS) structure is configured as an open drain output driver having electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and a reverse voltage blocking diode inherent in the structure and without requiring metal connections for the ESD and reverse voltage blocking diode protections.
US09607976B2	Electrostatic discharge protection device An ESD protection device including a Si substrate with an ESD protection circuit formed at the surface of the substrate; pads formed on the Si substrate; a rewiring layer opposed to the surface of the Si substrate, which includes terminal electrodes electrically connected to the pads. The rewiring layer includes a SiN protection film formed on the surface of the Si substrate to cover parts of the pads except regions in contact with openings (contact holes) formed in a resin layer, and the resin layer that is lower in dielectric constant than the SiN protection film, and formed between the SiN protection film and the terminal electrodes. Thus, provided is a semiconductor device which can reduce the generation of parasitic capacitance, and eliminates variation in parasitic capacitance generated.
US09607973B1	Method for establishing interconnects in packages using thin interposers A method of interconnecting first and second semiconductor dies is provided. A splice interposer is attached to a top surface of a substrate through first pillars formed on a bottom surface of the splice interposer. The first semiconductor die is attached to the top surface of a substrate through second pillars formed on a bottom surface of the first semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die is attached to a top surface of the splice interposer through third pillars formed on the bottom surface of the first semiconductor. The second semiconductor die is attached to the top surface of the splice interposer through fourth pillars formed on a bottom surface of the second semiconductor die. The first to fourth plurality of pillars and the splice interposer form interconnection and wiring between the first semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die and the substrate.
US09607972B2	Optical module To suppress appearance of a ghost.The present optical module includes a sensor configured to pick up an image of an image pickup object, and a memory chip configured to store pixel data read out from the sensor and having the sensor joined thereto. The memory chip is connected to a substrate by a connection portion by flip-chip connection. The sensor can be connected by a wire to the memory chip, to which the sensor is joined. Further, the sensor can be joined to the memory chip in such a manner as to project toward an opening of the substrate. The present technology can be applied to a camera module.
US09607969B1	Package including a plurality of stacked semiconductor devices including a capacitance enhanced through via and method of manufacture A package can include a plurality of semiconductor devices stacked in a first direction and commonly sharing at least a first reference potential and a data signal; each semiconductor device including a first through via electrically connected to receive the first reference potential and a second through via electrically connected to receive the data signal, each first through via provides an electrical connection in the first direction between a first side and a second side opposite the first side of one of the plurality of semiconductor devices. A total first through via capacitance value is substantially greater than the total second through via capacitance value.
US09607968B1	Flexible packages including chips A flexible package may be provided. The flexible package may include a flexible molding member including a top surface. The flexible package may include a first chip within the flexible molding member, and including a first top surface. The flexible package may include a second chip within the flexible molding member, and including a second top surface. The first top surface may face away from the top surface of the flexible molding member and the second top surface may face towards the top surface of the flexible molding member.
US09607967B1	Multi-chip semiconductor package with via components and method for manufacturing the same A multi-chip semiconductor package includes a lower RDL interposer, a first chip on the lower RDL interposer within a chip mounting area, via components mounted within a peripheral area, and a first molding compound surrounding the first chip and the via components. Each of the via components comprises a substrate portion and a connection portion coupled to the substrate portion. An upper RDL interposer is integrally constructed on the first chip, on the via components, and on the first molding compound. The upper RDL interposer is electrically connected to the connection portion of each of the via components. A second chip is mounted on the upper RDL interposer. A second molding compound surrounds the second chip.
US09607965B2	Semiconductor device and method of controlling warpage in reconstituted wafer A semiconductor device has a substrate with a stiffening layer disposed over the substrate. The substrate has a circular shape or rectangular shape. A plurality of semiconductor die is disposed over a portion of the substrate while leaving an open area of the substrate devoid of the semiconductor die. The open area of the substrate devoid of the semiconductor die includes a central area or interstitial locations among the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die are disposed around a perimeter of the substrate. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and substrate. The substrate is removed and an interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die. By leaving the predetermined areas of the substrate devoid of semiconductor die, the warping effect of any mismatch between the CTE of the semiconductor die and the CTE of the encapsulant on the reconstituted wafer after removal of the substrate is reduced.
US09607964B2	Method and materials for warpage thermal and interconnect solutions Embodiments describe a semiconductor package that includes a substrate, a die bonded to the substrate, and a solder paste overmold layer formed over a top surface of the die. In an embodiment, the solder paste comprises a high-melting point metal, a solder matrix, intermetallic compounds and a polymer. The overmold layer has a high elastic modulus, a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to the substrate, and reduces the warpage of the package. In an embodiment, interconnects of a semiconductor package are formed with a no-slump solder paste that includes vents. Vents may be formed through a conductive network formed by the high-melting point metal, solder matrix and intermetallic compounds. In an embodiment, vents provide a path through the interconnect that allows for moisture outgassing. In an embodiment, a mold layer may be mechanically anchored to the interconnects by the vents, thereby providing improved mechanical continuity to the mold layer.
US09607958B2	Semiconductor device and method for forming openings and trenches in insulating layer by first LDA and second LDA for RDL formation A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die with an encapsulant deposited over the semiconductor die. A first insulating layer having high tensile strength and elongation is formed over the semiconductor die and encapsulant. A first portion of the first insulating layer is removed by a first laser direct ablation to form a plurality of openings in the first insulating layer. The openings extend partially through the first insulating layer or into the encapsulant. A second portion of the first insulating layer is removed by a second laser direct ablation to form a plurality of trenches in the first insulating layer. A conductive layer is formed in the openings and trenches of the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed over the conductive layer. A portion of the second insulating layer is removed by a third laser direct ablation. Bumps are formed over the conductive layer.
US09607957B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor chip includes a substrate, an electrode pad formed on the substrate, an insulating layer covering the substrate and the electrode pad, and having an opening exposing a portion of a surface of the electrode pad, a first conductive layer formed on the exposed portion of the surface of the electrode pad and extending to a surface of the insulating layer, and a second conductive layer formed on the first conductive layer, covering the first conductive layer in a plan view, and having an outer edge portion which is located further out than an outer edge of the first conductive layer in a plan view. The outer edge portion of the second conductive layer has at least one curved portion. At least one portion of the curved portion is located between the outer edge of the first conductive layer and an outer edge of the second conductive layer in a plan view.
US09607952B1	High-z oxide nanoparticles embedded in semiconductor package A method includes embedding high-z oxide nanoparticles in a semiconductor package of a semiconductor packaged assembly, wherein the high-z nanoparticles are operative to emit electron radiation when exposed to a radiation source to render a semiconductor device in the semiconductor package inoperable.
US09607951B2	Chip package According to an embodiment of the present invention, a chip package is provided. The chip package includes a substrate. A chip is disposed on the substrate. A stiffener is disposed on the substrate. The thermal conductivity of the stiffener is higher than the thermal conductivity of the substrate.
US09607947B2	Reliable microstrip routing for electronics components Reliable microstrip routing arrangements for electronics components are described. In an example, a semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor die having a surface with an integrated circuit thereon coupled to contact pads of an uppermost metallization layer of a semiconductor package substrate by a plurality of conductive contacts. A plurality of discrete metal planes is disposed at the uppermost metallization layer of the semiconductor package substrate, each metal plane located, from a plan view perspective, at a corner of a perimeter of the semiconductor die. Microstrip routing is disposed at the uppermost metallization layer of the semiconductor package substrate, from the plan view perspective, outside of the perimeter of the semiconductor die.
US09607941B2	Conductive via structure and fabrication method thereof A method for fabricating a conductive via structure is provided, which includes the steps of: forming in an encapsulant a plurality of openings penetrating therethrough; forming a dielectric layer on the encapsulant and in the openings of the encapsulant; forming a plurality of vias in the dielectric layer in the openings of the encapsulant; and forming a conductive material in the vias to thereby form conductive vias. Therefore, by filling the openings having rough wall surfaces with the dielectric layer so as to form the vias having even wall surfaces, the present invention improves the quality of the conductive vias.
US09607940B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to an embodiment is a semiconductor device in which a semiconductor chip mounted on a chip mounting part is sealed by resin and a first member is fixed to a chip mounting surface side between a peripheral portion of the semiconductor chip and a peripheral portion of the chip mounting part. Also, the first member is sealed by the resin. Also, a length of the first part of the chip mounting part in the first direction is larger than a length of the semiconductor chip in the first direction, in a plan view.
US09607937B2	Pin grid interposer An interposer to form a frame around a bottom chip bonded to a package substrate and to standoff a top chip or package for clearance of the bottom chip. The interposer has pins arrayed on a first side which are soldered to the package substrate for reduced interposer z-height and pads arrayed on a second side to which the top package (chip) is bonded. During assembly, the interposer pins may be pressed against pre-soldered pads and the solder reflowed to join the interposer to the package substrate. A top package (chip) is then joined to an opposite side of the interposer to integrate the first and second chips.
US09607935B2	Semiconductor chip package with undermount passive devices Various semiconductor chip packages with undermounted passive devices and methods of making the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing is provided that includes coupling a semiconductor chip to a first side of a carrier substrate where the carrier substrate includes a second side opposite the first side. At least one passive device is coupled to the second side of the carrier substrate. The at least one passive device includes at least one first terminal electrically coupled to the semiconductor chip and at least one second terminal adapted to couple to a printed circuit board.
US09607934B2	Lead frame, lead frame with resin attached thereto, resin package, light emitting device, and method for manufacturing resin package A lead frame includes at least one row of a plurality of unit regions arranged in a first direction. Each of the unit regions includes: a first lead; a second lead; and an isolation region configured to isolate the first lead from the second lead, the isolation region including a bent portion that is located at an end part of the second lead. The first lead has an extending portion extending along the end part of the second lead. The plurality of unit regions includes a first unit region, and a second unit region that is adjacent to the first unit region in the first direction. The first lead of the first unit region is connected to the first lead or second lead of the second unit region via the extending portion.
US09607933B2	Lead frame structure for quad flat no-lead package, quad flat no-lead package and method for forming the lead frame structure A lead frame structure for quad flat no-lead (QFN) package includes a main base, a plurality of terminals and a first metal layer. The main base has a center area for carrying a semiconductor die, and a periphery area surrounding the center area. The plurality of terminals are arranged around the main base. The first metal layer has a first part formed on the periphery area of the main base, and a second part formed on the plurality of terminals. Wherein the main base and the plurality of terminals are formed by a stamping process, and the first metal layer is formed by a plating process before the stamping process.
US09607931B2	Semiconductor device for suppressing a temperature increase in beam leads Provided is a semiconductor device that can suppress a temperature increase in beam leads while reducing the number of wiring lines and can suppress an increase in manufacturing costs. The semiconductor device is provided with a power module including an upper arm and a lower arm each configured by connecting in parallel a plurality of power elements and a plurality of rectifying elements. Current to one arm flows through a plurality of separately wired beam leads. A portion of the power elements and a portion of the rectifying elements in one arm form a pair and are connected by a common beam lead.
US09607930B2	Disabling electrical connections using pass-through 3D interconnects and associated systems and methods Pass-through 3D interconnects and microelectronic dies and systems of stacked dies that include such interconnects to disable electrical connections are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system of stacked dies includes a first microelectronic die having a backside, an interconnect extending through the first die to the backside, an integrated circuit electrically coupled to the interconnect, and a first electrostatic discharge (ESD) device electrically isolated from the interconnect. A second microelectronic die has a front side coupled to the backside of the first die, a metal contact at the front side electrically coupled to the interconnect, and a second ESD device electrically coupled to the metal contact. In another embodiment, the first die further includes a substrate carrying the integrated circuit and the first ESD device, and the interconnect is positioned in the substrate to disable an electrical connection between the first ESD device and the interconnect.
US09607929B2	Tsv wafer with improved fracture strength A method including forming a through-substrate via through a thickness of a substrate, the thickness of the substrate is measured from a front side of the substrate to a back side of the substrate, removing a first portion of the substrate to form an opening in the back side of the substrate such that a second portion of the substrate remains in direct contact surrounding a vertical sidewall of the through-substrate via, and filling the opening with an alternate material having a lower modulus of elasticity than the substrate.
US09607928B2	Method and structures for via substrate repair and assembly A component can include a substrate having an opening extending between first and second surfaces thereof, and an electrically conductive via having first and second portions. The first portion can include a first layer structure extending within the opening and at least partially along an inner wall of the opening, and a first principal conductor extending within the opening and at least partially overlying the first layer structure. The first portion can be exposed at the first surface and can have a lower surface located between the first and second surfaces. The second portion can include a second layer structure extending within the opening and at least partially along the lower surface of the first portion, and a second principal conductor extending within the opening and at least partially overlying the second layer structure. The second portion can be exposed at the second surface.
US09607927B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip including a semiconductor substrate, an element formed in an element forming region of the semiconductor substrate, and a through-via penetrating across a front surface and a rear surface of the semiconductor substrate while avoiding the element forming region of the semiconductor substrate to form a conductive path between the front surface and the rear surface; a circuit component mounted on a circuit component connection surface at the same side as the front surface of the semiconductor substrate of the semiconductor chip; and an external connection members formed on the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US09607921B2	Package on package interconnect structure A structure comprises a post passivation interconnect layer formed over a semiconductor substrate, a metal bump formed over the post passivation interconnect layer and a molding compound layer formed over the semiconductor substrate. A lower portion of the metal bump is embedded in the molding compound layer and a middle portion of the metal bump is surrounded by a concave meniscus molding compound protection layer.
US09607919B2	Semiconductor device with thin redistribution layers A semiconductor device with thin redistribution layers is disclosed and may include forming a first redistribution layer on a dummy substrate, electrically coupling a semiconductor die to the first redistribution layer, and forming a first encapsulant layer on the redistribution layer and around the semiconductor die. The dummy substrate may be removed thereby exposing a second surface of the first redistribution layer. A dummy film may be temporarily affixed to the exposed second surface of the redistribution layer and a second encapsulant layer may be formed on the exposed top surface of the semiconductor die, a top surface and side edges of the first encapsulant layer, and side edges of the first redistribution layer. The dummy film may be removed to again expose the second surface of the first redistribution layer, and a second redistribution layer may be formed on the first redistribution layer and on the second encapsulant layer.
US09607917B2	Stacked inductor-electronic package assembly and technique for manufacturing same An embodiment of a circuit includes a circuit module and an inductor disposed over and electrically coupled to the module. Disposing the inductor over the module may reduce the area occupied by the circuit as compared to a circuit where the inductor is disposed adjacent to the module, or to a circuit where the inductor is disposed in the module adjacent to other components of the module. Furthermore, disposing the inductor outside of the module may allow one to install or replace the inductor.
US09607916B2	Encapsulant materials and a method of making thereof The present disclosure relates generally to encapsulant materials, a method of making thereof and the use thereof for maintaining the electrical and mechanical integrity of solder connections between electronic devices and substrates. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to reflow encapsulant materials with fluxing properties and a method of making thereof. The present disclosure further relates to a method of manufacturing flip-chip assemblies using the reflow encapsulant materials of the present disclosure wherein only one heating cycle is utilized.
US09607911B2	Optical programming of electronic devices on a wafer A system for programming integrated circuit (IC) dies formed on a wafer includes an optical transmitter that outputs a digital test program as an optical signal. At least one optical sensor (e.g., photodiode) is formed with the IC dies on the wafer. The optical sensor detects and receives the optical signal. A processor formed on the wafer converts the optical signal to the digital test program and the digital test program is stored in memory on the wafer in association with one of the IC dies. The optical transmitter does not physically contact the dies, but can flood an entire surface of the wafer with the optical signal so that all of the IC dies are concurrently programmed with the digital test program.
US09607903B2	Method for forming field effect transistors A method for forming field effect transistors comprises forming a first dummy gate stack over a first fin, forming a second dummy gate stack over a second fin, depositing a first layer of spacer material on the first dummy gate stack, the first fin, the second dummy gate stack, and the second fin, patterning a first masking layer on the first dummy gate stack and the first fin, etching to remove portions of the first layer of spacer material and form a spacer adjacent to the second dummy gate stack, removing the first masking layer, epitaxially growing a silicon material on the second fin, depositing a layer of oxide material on the first layer of spacer material, the first epitaxial material and the second dummy gate stack, and depositing a second layer of spacer material on the layer of oxide material.
US09607901B2	Integrated tensile strained silicon NFET and compressive strained silicon-germanium PFET implemented in FINFET technology A tensile strained silicon layer is patterned to form a first group of fins in a first substrate area and a second group of fins in a second substrate area. The second group of fins is covered with a tensile strained material, and an anneal is performed to relax the tensile strained silicon semiconductor material in the second group of fins and produce relaxed silicon semiconductor fins in the second area. The first group of fins is covered with a mask, and silicon-germanium material is provided on the relaxed silicon semiconductor fins. Germanium from the silicon germanium material is then driven into the relaxed silicon semiconductor fins to produce compressive strained silicon-germanium semiconductor fins in the second substrate area (from which p-channel finFET devices are formed). The mask is removed to reveal tensile strained silicon semiconductor fins in the first substrate area (from which n-channel finFET devices are formed).
US09607898B1	Simultaneously fabricating a high voltage transistor and a finFET Forming a semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate, a top surface of the semiconductor layer above a fin in a second region is higher than a top surface of the semiconductor layer in a first region, etching the semiconductor layer and a mask in the first region to expose a top surface of the semiconductor substrate to form a first stack, and etching the semiconductor layer and the mask in the second region to expose a top surface of the fin to form a second stack, epitaxially growing a semiconductor material on a top surface of the fin not covered by the second stack, recessing the first and second stack to expose a top surface of the semiconductor layer, a portion of the mask remains above the semiconductor layer in the first stack, top surfaces of each of the first and second stacks each are substantially flush with one another.
US09607897B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided with: a step of preparing a semiconductor wafer (22) in a state where the circumference of the semiconductor wafer, which has been divided into semiconductor device parts, is adhered on a dicing sheet (21) supported by a wafer ring (23); a step of fixing the wafer ring (23) after transferring the wafer ring to a table (14) where laser printing is to be performed; and a step of marking on the main surface where the semiconductor material of the semiconductor device parts which configure the semiconductor wafer (22) is exposed, by radiating laser beams through the dicing sheet and an adhesive layer.
US09607894B2	Radio-frequency device package and method for fabricating the same An electronic device package has a base and an electronic device chip mounted on the base. The electronic device chip includes a semiconductor substrate having a front side and a back side, a electronic component disposed on the front side of the semiconductor substrate, an interconnect structure disposed on the electronic component, a through hole formed through the semiconductor substrate from the back side of the semiconductor substrate, connecting to the interconnect structure, and a TSV structure disposed in the through hole. The interconnect structure is electrically connected to the RF component, and a thickness of the semiconductor substrate is less than that of the interconnect structure.
US09607892B2	Method for forming a two-layered hard mask on top of a gate structure A method for fabricating semiconductor device comprising: providing a substrate having a gate structure thereon and a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer surrounding the gate structure; removing part of the gate structure; forming a first mask layer on the first ILD layer and the gate structure; removing the first mask layer on the first ILD layer and part of the first mask layer on the gate structure for forming a first hard mask on the gate structure; forming a second mask layer on the first ILD layer, the first hard mask, and the gate structure; and planarizing the second mask layer to form a second hard mask on the gate structure, in which the top surfaces of the first hard mask, the second hard mask, and the first ILD layer are coplanar.
US09607890B1	Stress relieving through-silicon vias Methods and systems for stress relieving through-silicon vias are disclosed and may include forming a semiconductor device comprising a stress relieving stepped through-silicon-via (TSV), said stress relieving stepped TSV being formed by: forming first mask layers on a top surface and a bottom surface of a silicon layer, forming a via hole through the silicon layer at exposed regions defined by the first mask layers, and removing the first mask layers. The formed via hole may be filled with metal, second mask layers may be formed covering top and bottom surfaces of the silicon layer and a portion of top and bottom surfaces of the metal filling the formed via hole, and metal may be removed from the top and bottom surfaces of the metal exposed by the second mask layers to a depth of less than half a thickness of the silicon layer.
US09607886B1	Self aligned conductive lines with relaxed overlay A method for forming conductive lines comprises forming a hardmask on an insulator layer, a planarizing layer on the hardmask, and a hardmask on the planarizing layer, removing exposed portions of a layer of sacrificial mandrel material to form first and second sacrificial mandrels on the hardmask, and depositing a layer of spacer material in the gap, and over exposed portions of the first and second sacrificial mandrels and the hardmask. Portions of the layer of spacer material are removed to expose the first and second sacrificial mandrels. A filler material is deposited between the first and second sacrificial mandrels. A portion of the filler material is removed to expose the first and second sacrificial mandrels. Portions of the layer of spacer material are removed to expose portions of the hardmask. A trench is formed in the insulator layer, and the trench is filled with a conductive material.
US09607885B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method Various embodiments provide semiconductor devices and fabrication methods. In an exemplary method, a dielectric layer can be formed on a semiconductor substrate. A plurality of pillar structures having a matrix arrangement can be formed on the dielectric layer. A plurality of sidewall spacers can be formed on the dielectric layer. Each sidewall spacer can be formed on a sidewall surface of one of the plurality of pillar structures. A distance between adjacent pillar structures in a same row or in a same column can be less than or equal to a double of a thickness of the each sidewall spacer on the sidewall surface. The plurality of pillar structures can be removed. The dielectric layer can be etched using the plurality of sidewall spacers as an etch mask to form a plurality of trenches or through holes in the dielectric layer.
US09607882B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes metal wirings formed in a first interlayer dielectric layer disposed over a substrate, a first insulating layer covering portions of the metal wirings and the first interlayer dielectric layer, a second interlayer dielectric layer with air gaps disposed in a recess between adjacent two metal wirings, and a protective layer formed in a portion of an upper surface of the first interlayer dielectric layer, where the recess is not formed.
US09607879B2	Process for fabrication of a structure with a view to a subsequent separation A process for fabrication of a structure includes assembling at least two substrates. At least one of these two substrates is intended to be used in electronics, optics, optoelectronics and/or photovoltaics. The structure includes at least two separation interfaces extending parallel to the main faces of the structure. The assembling process is carried out with a view to a separation of the structure along one interface selected from the interfaces, the separation being carried out by inserting a blade between the substrates and applying a parting force, via the blade. The interface chosen for the separation is formed so that it is more sensitive than the other interface(s) to stress corrosion. Separation occurs due to the combined action of the parting force and of a fluid capable of breaking siloxane (Si—O—Si) bonds present at the interface. A structure obtained by such a process may be separated along the chosen interface.
US09607877B2	Substrate structure, semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a substrate structure, a semiconductor device, and a manufacturing method thereof. The substrate structure comprises: a semiconductor substrate; and a first isolation region, wherein the first isolation region comprises: a first trench extending through the semiconductor substrate; and a first dielectric layer filling the first trench. Due to the isolation region extending through the substrate, it is possible to make device structures on both surfaces of the substrate, so as to increase the utilization of the substrate and the integration degree of the devices.
US09607874B2	Plasma processing apparatus A plasma processing apparatus includes a stage in a processing chamber where plasma is formed, a wafer to be processed, and an electrode arranged at an upper part of the stage and supplied with power to electrostatically attract and hold the wafer on the stage, and consecutively processing a plurality of wafers one by one. There are plural processing steps of conducting processing using the plasma under different conditions and there are plural periods when formation of plasma is stopped between the processing steps. An inner wall of the processing chamber is coated before starting the processing of any wafer, and voltage supplied to the electrode is changed according to a balance of respective polarities of particles floating and charged in the processing chamber in each period when formation of plasma is stopped.
US09607868B2	Substrate heat treatment apparatus The present invention provides a substrate heat treatment apparatus capable of uniformly heat a substrate at high speed with less breakage of constituent members due to thermal expansion even at high temperature. An embodiment of the present invention is a substrate heat treatment apparatus to perform heat treatment for a substrate and includes: a peripheral ring capable of supporting the substrate; a connection ring; a lifting device to raise and lower the peripheral ring; balls having a lower heat conductivity than that of the peripheral ring; and a lamp to heat the substrate supported by the peripheral ring. The balls are different members from both of the peripheral ring and the connection ring. The lifting device raises and lowers the peripheral ring between a first position close to the lamp and a second position distant from the lamp.
US09607867B2	Substrate processing device and substrate processing method The invention provides a substrate processing device and a substrate processing method for cooling a substrate, which are capable of conveying a substrate in a cleaner condition. A substrate cooling device serving as a substrate processing device of an embodiment of the invention includes: a chamber; a cooling unit which performs cooling; a substrate holder which is provided with a substrate mounting surface for mounting a substrate inside the chamber, and is cooled by the cooling unit; and a shield which is provided with a side surface portion surrounding a lateral side of the substrate mounting surface inside the chamber, and is cooled by the cooling unit. Moreover, a shield heater is provided in the vicinity of a surface on the inside of the shield.
US09607864B2	Dual medium filter for ion and particle filtering during semiconductor processing The present disclosure is directed to fluid filtering systems and methods for use during semiconductor processing. One or more embodiments are directed to fluid filtering systems and methods for filtering ions and particles from a fluid as the fluid is being provided to a semiconductor wafer processing tool, such as to a semiconductor wafer cleaning tool.
US09607863B1	Integrated circuit package with vacant cavity Integrated circuit packages with cavity are disclosed. A disclosed integrated circuit package includes a first die. A second die may be coupled to the first die by attaching the first die to a top surface of the second die. A blocking element such as a barrier structure may be formed that surrounds the second die. A cavity may be formed between the blocking element and the first die that encloses the second die. The barrier structure may help prevent underfill material from entering the cavity during underfill deposition processes. A heat spreading lid may cover the first die, second die and package substrate.
US09607861B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including steps of: (a) bonding a support plate to a first main face of a wafer, the first main face having an integrated circuit disposed thereon; (b) thinning the wafer by polishing or grinding a second main face after step (a), the second main face being opposite to the first main face; (c) dividing the wafer into multiple chip bodies concurrently with or after step (b); (d) bonding multiple reinforcing layers to second main faces of the respective chip bodies after step (c); and (e) removing the support plate after step (d).
US09607859B2	Process for manufacturing a semiconductor power device comprising charge-balance column structures and respective device Process for manufacturing a semiconductor power device, wherein a trench is formed in a semiconductor body having a first conductivity type; the trench is annealed for shaping purpose; and the trench is filled with semiconductor material via epitaxial growth so as to obtain a first column having a second conductivity type. The epitaxial growth is performed by supplying a gas containing silicon and a gas containing dopant ions of the second conductivity type in presence of a halogenide gas and occurs with uniform distribution of the dopant ions. The flow of the gas containing dopant ions is varied according to a linear ramp during the epitaxial growth; in particular, in the case of selective growth of the semiconductor material in the presence of a hard mask, the flow decreases; in the case of non-selective growth, in the absence of hard mask, the flow increases.
US09607855B2	Etching method and storage medium An etching method includes: disposing a target substrate including a silicon and a silicon-germanium within a chamber; and performing both of selectively etching the silicon-germanium with respect to the silicon and selectively etching the silicon with respect to the silicon-germanium by varying ratios of F2 gas and NH3 gas in an etching gas that has a gas system including the F2 gas and the NH3 gas.
US09607849B2	Pattern-forming method and resist underlayer film-forming composition A pattern-forming method includes providing a resist underlayer film on a substrate using a resist underlayer film-forming composition. The resist underlayer film-forming composition includes a first polymer having a glass transition temperature of 0 to 180° C. A silicon-based oxide film is provided on a surface of the resist underlayer film. A resist pattern is provided on a surface of the silicon-based oxide film using a resist composition. The silicon-based oxide film and the resist underlayer film are sequentially dry-etched using the resist pattern as a mask. The substrate is dry-etched using the dry-etched resist underlayer film as a mask.
US09607848B2	Etch process with pre-etch transient conditioning A method for etching features with different aspect ratios in an etch layer is provided. A plurality of cycles is provided wherein each cycle comprises a pre-etch transient conditioning of the etch layer, which provides a transient condition of the etch layer, wherein the transient condition has a duration and etching the etch layer for a duration, wherein the duration of the etching with respect to the duration of the transient condition is controlled to control etch aspect ratio dependence.
US09607847B1	Enhanced lateral cavity etch A cavity is formed in a semiconductor substrate wherein the width of the cavity is greater than the depth of the cavity and wherein the depth of the cavity is non uniform across the width of the cavity. The cavity may be formed under an electronic device in the semiconductor substrate. The cavity is formed in the substrate by performing a first cavity etch followed by repeated cycles of polymer deposition, cavity etch, and polymer removal.
US09607846B2	Polishing of small composite semiconductor materials A device includes a crystalline material within an area confined by an insulator. A surface of the crystalline material has a reduced roughness. One example includes obtaining a surface with reduced roughness by using a planarization process configured with a selectivity of the crystalline material to the insulator greater than one. In a preferred embodiment, the planarization process uses a composition including abrasive spherical silica, H2O2 and water. In a preferred embodiment, the area confined by the insulator is an opening in the insulator having an aspect ratio sufficient to trap defects using an ART technique.
US09607843B2	Method for roughness improvement and selectivity enhancement during arc layer etch via adjustment of carbon-fluorine content A method of patterning a silicon containing ARC (anti-reflective coating) layer underlying a patterned layer is described that includes establishing a flow of a process gas to a plasma processing system, selecting a process condition that increases an etch selectivity of the silicon containing ARC layer relative to the patterned layer, igniting plasma from the process gas using a plasma source in accordance with the process condition, and exposing the substrate to the plasma to extend the feature pattern of the patterned layer into the silicon containing ARC layer. The composition of the process gas and the flow rate(s) of the gaseous constituents in the process gas are selected to adjust the carbon-fluorine content.
US09607841B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Provided is a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The method may include forming trenches in a substrate and lower gate patterns on the substrate between the trenches, forming sacrificial patterns filling the trenches, forming a porous insulating layer on the lower gate patterns to cover top surfaces of the sacrificial patterns, removing the sacrificial patterns through pores of the porous insulating layer to form air gaps surrounded by the trenches and the porous insulating layer, and forming a liner insulating layer on inner surfaces of the trenches through the pores of the porous insulating layer.
US09607840B2	Method for forming spacers for a transistor gate A method for forming spacers of a gate of a transistor is provided, including forming a protective layer covering the gate; after the forming the protective layer, at least one step of forming a carbon film on the transistor; removing portions of the carbon film located on a top and on either side of the gate; modifying the protective layer on the top of the gate and on either side of the gate; and removing the modified protective layer.
US09607838B1	Enhanced channel strain to reduce contact resistance in NMOS FET devices A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a fin structure and an isolation layer formed on the substrate and adjacent to the fin structure. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure formed on at least a portion of the fin structure and the isolation layer. The semiconductor device includes an epitaxial layer including a strained material that provides stress to a channel region of the fin structure. The epitaxial layer has a first region and a second region, in which the first region has a first doping concentration of a first doping agent and the second region has a second doping concentration of a second doping agent. The first doping concentration is greater than the second doping concentration. The epitaxial layer is doped by ion implantation using phosphorous dimer.
US09607836B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: forming an electric metal layer by depositing metal as art electrode material on an inside of an opening of an insulating layer on a surface of an SiC semiconductor substrate; widening a gap between an inner wall surface in an opening formed in the insulating layer and the electrode metal layer by etching the insulating layer after the electrode metal layer is formed; and forming an ohmic contact between the electrode metal layer and the SiC semiconductor substrate by heating the SiC semiconductor substrate and the metal electrode layer after the insulating layer is etched.
US09607834B2	Trench and hole patterning with EUV resists using dual frequency capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) A method for etching an antireflective coating on a substrate is disclosed. The substrate comprises an organic layer, an antireflective coating layer disposed above the organic layer, and a photoresist layer disposed above the antireflective coating layer. The method includes patterning the photoresist layer to expose a non-masked portion of the antireflective coating layer and selectively depositing a carbon-containing layer on the non-masked portions of the antireflective coating layer and on non-sidewall portions of the patterned photoresist layer. The method further includes etching the film stack to remove the carbon-containing layer and to remove a partial thickness of the non-masked portions of the antireflective coating layer without reducing a thickness of the photoresist layer. The method further includes repeating the selective depositing and etching, at least until the complete thickness of the non-masked portions of the antireflective coating layer is removed, to expose the underlying organic layer.
US09607830B2	Method of forming germanium film and apparatus therefor There is provided a method of forming a germanium (Ge) film on a surface of a target object, which includes: supplying an aminosilane-based gas into a processing chamber in which the target object is loaded; supplying a high-order silane-based gas of disilane or higher into the processing chamber; and supplying a Ge source gas into the processing chamber. A process temperature in supplying the Ge source gas is set to fall within a range from a temperature, at which the Ge source gas is thermally decomposed or higher, to 300 degrees C. or less.
US09607828B2	Method of depositing a silicon-containing film A method of depositing a silicon-containing film using a film deposition apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a turntable provided in a process chamber. In the method, a seed layer is formed on a surface of the substrate by supplying an aminosilane gas from the first process gas supplying unit for a predetermined period of time while rotating the turntable. A boron-containing gas is supplied from the first gas supplying unit to the surface of the substrate while rotating the turntable after finishing the step of forming the seed layer on the surface of the substrate. A silane-based gas is supplied from the second process gas supplying unit to the surface of the substrate while rotating the turntable and causing silicon atoms contained in the silane-based gas to bond with each other on the surface of the substrate by a catalytic action of the boron-containing gas.
US09607817B1	Systems and methods for ion separation A system for analyzing a sample includes a source configured to generate ions from constituent components of the sample; a mobility separation device, a plurality of ion channels, and a mass analyzer configured to determine the mass-to-charge ratio of the ions. The mobility device is configured to separate ions received from the source based on the mobility in a gas. The mobility separation device provides a gas flow in a first direction and an electric field gradient along a second direction such that ions move in the first direction and drift according to their mobility in the second direction and are sorted based on their respective mobility. The ion channels are arranged adjacent to the mobility separation device such that ions from the mobility separation device are directed to different channels according to their respective mobility.
US09607816B2	Two-dimensional separation and imaging technique for the rapid analysis of biological samples A method of ion mapping is disclosed comprising depositing a sample onto a target surface and separating the sample on the target surface according to a first physico-chemical property in a first dimension and according to a second physico-chemical property in a second dimension. The method further comprises ionizing and mass analyzing multiple separate regions of the sample so as to generate an ion map of at least a portion of the sample deposited upon the target surface. The sample is deposited onto and separated on the target surface by mechanical, hydrodynamic and/or aerodynamic means.
US09607812B2	Sputtering target and method for producing same Provided is a sputtering target which contains Na in high concentration and, despite this, is inhibited from discoloration, generating spots, and causing abnormal electrical discharge and which has high strength and rarely breaks. Also provided is a method for producing the sputtering target. The sputtering target has a component composition that contains 10 to 40 at % of Ga and 1.0 to 15 at % of Na as metal element components other than F, S, and Se, with the remainder composed of Cu and unavoidable impurities, wherein the Na is contained in the form of at least one Na compound selected from sodium fluoride, sodium sulfide, and sodium selenide. The sputtering target has a theoretical density ratio of 90% or higher, a flexural strength of 100 N/mm2 or higher, and a bulk resistivity of 1 mΩ·cm or less. The number of 0.05 mm2 or larger aggregates of the at least one of sodium fluoride, sodium sulfide, and sodium selenide present per cm2 area of the target surface is 1 or less on average.
US09607811B2	Workpiece processing method Disclosed is a method of processing a workpiece including a mask. The processing method includes: a first process of generating plasma of a first gas containing a silicon halide gas in a processing container of a plasma processing apparatus that accommodates a workpiece having a mask, to form a reactive precursor; a second process of purging a space in the processing container; a third process of generating plasma of a second gas containing oxygen gas in the processing container to form a silicon oxide film; and a fourth process of purging the space in the processing container. In the processing method, a sequence including the first to fourth processes is repeated.
US09607809B2	High density plasma reactor with multiple top coils A plasma reactor includes an enclosure having a top and a bottom and defining a processing chamber. Inlets are formed in the enclosure for injecting process gas into the chamber. An outlet is formed in the enclosure for withdrawing gas from the chamber. A platform is positioned to support a wafer in the chamber above the bottom. A plurality of coils is positioned above the top of the chamber. Each coil is coupled to a radio frequency generator.
US09607808B2	Method of electron-beam lithography with correction of corner roundings A method of electron-beam lithography by direct writing solves the reliability of design of etched components through rounding of the corners of contiguous patterns, notably in patterns to be etched of critical dimension of the order of 35 nm. The method determines critical patterns, and correction patterns by subtracting patterns of corrections of dimensions and of locations as a function of rounding of external or internal corners to be corrected and etching of the corrected design. The corrections may be by a correction model taking account of the parameters of the critical patterns. A correction of the proximity effects specific to these methods is also performed, by resizing of edges of blocks to be etched in combination optimized by the energy latitude with a modulation of the radiated doses. A rescaling and negation functions and eRIF functions may be used to optimize the parameters and the realization of the extrusion.
US09607804B2	Scanning transmission electron microscope having multiple beams and post-detection image correction Embodiments are further directed to an information processing system for generating a corrected image of a sample. The system includes a detector, a memory communicatively coupled to the detector, and a post-detection image processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the detector. The system is configured to perform a method that includes detecting, by the detector, data of a plurality of moving particles, wherein the data of the plurality of moving particles correspond to an uncorrected image of the sample, and wherein the uncorrected image includes defocus, astigmatism and spherical aberration. The method further includes generating, by the post-detection image processor, a corrected image of the sample based at least in part on processing the detected data of the plurality of moving particles.
US09607803B2	High throughput cooled ion implantation system and method An ion implantation system has a process chamber having a process environment, and an ion implantation apparatus configured to implant ions into a workpiece supported by a chuck within the process chamber. A load lock chamber isolates the process (vacuum) environment from an atmospheric environment, wherein a load lock workpiece support supports the workpiece therein. An isolation chamber is coupled to the process chamber with a pre-implant cooling environment defined therein. An isolation gate valve selectively isolates the pre-implant cooling environment from the process environment wherein the isolation chamber comprises a pre-implant cooling workpiece support for supporting and cooling the workpiece. The isolation gate valve is the only access path for the workpiece to enter and exit the isolation chamber. A pressurized gas selectively pressurizes the pre-implant cooling environment to a pre-implant cooling pressure that is greater than the process pressure for expeditious cooling of the workpiece. A workpiece transfer arm transfer the workpiece between the load lock chamber, isolation chamber, and chuck. A controller controls the workpiece transfer arm selectively cools the workpiece to a pre-implant cooling temperature in the isolation chamber at the pre-implant cooling pressure via a control of the isolation gate valve, pre-implant cooling workpiece support, and pressurized gas source.
US09607798B2	Fuse unit A fuse unit includes: a bus bar including a plurality of fusible parts interposed between a power supply side terminal and a plurality of load side terminals; and an insulating resin portion formed by insert molding using the bus bar as an insert component. The insulating resin portion includes: first and second resin portions respectively arranged at peripheries on the sides of the power supply side terminal and the load side terminals with respect to the fusible parts; and a plurality of coupling portions coupling the first resin portion and the second resin portion in a position outside each of the fusible parts. Each of the coupling portions is formed such that a reinforcement portion having a lower heat shrinkage rate than the insulating resin portion and having a higher strength than the insulating resin portion is an insert component. The reinforcement portion is provided using the bus bar.
US09607796B2	Electromagnetic structure comprising a permanent magnet An electromagnetic structure comprising permanent magnets comprises an outer yoke (a6), a first permanent magnet group (a3, a5), an inner yoke (a8), an armature (a1), and a second permanent magnet group (a2, a4). The outer yoke is in a hollow cylinder shape. The first permanent magnet group comprises multiple permanent magnets arrayed in a round shape, the multiple permanent magnets are connected to the outer yoke, and a magnetizing direction of each permanent magnet is along an axial direction. The inner yoke comprises an inner yoke upper base, an inner yoke sidewall, and an inner yoke lower base. The inner yoke upper base and the inner yoke lower base are separately extended outwards and horizontally from an upper end and a lower end of the inner yoke sidewall to form a circular ring. The armature comprises an armature upper base, an armature lower base, and an armature barrel body. The armature barrel body penetrates through the inner yoke sidewall, and the height of the armature barrel body is greater than that of the inner yoke. The armature upper base and the armature lower base are separately in a round shape with a diameter greater than an inner diameter of the inner yoke sidewall. The second permanent magnet group comprises multiple permanent magnets arrayed in a round shape, the multiple permanent magnets are connected to the outer yoke and the inner yoke, and a magnetizing direction of each permanent magnet is along an axial direction. The electromagnetic structure is low in power consumption of a coil, has a good shock resistance performance, and has a good capability against the centrifugal acceleration impact.
US09607795B2	Complex protection device for blocking abnormal state of current and voltage A complex protection device for blocking an abnormal state of current and voltage is disclosed. In the complex protection device, a resistive element is configured in the form of a structure and thus the resistive element has enhanced durability and surface mounting technology suitable for automation may be utilized, and a plurality of resistive elements is configured in various resistances and sizes to be optimally designed for product characteristics.
US09607794B2	Molded circuit breaker case with exhaust guide and cover A molded case circuit breaker (MCCB) includes a case, an interrupter assembly, an exhaust guide part, an exhaust cover, a sealing groove and a sealing projection. The interrupter assembly is mounted inside the case, and has an arc gas exhaust port to exhaust an arc gas generated inside the case. The exhaust guide part is disposed between the interrupter assembly and the terminal part, and has an exhaust chamber therein to provide an arc gas passage between the arc gas exhaust port and a vent chute of the terminal part. The exhaust cover is mounted to the case in a structure covering the exhaust guide part, to seal the arc gas passage. The sealing groove is formed in an inner surface of the exhaust cover. The sealing projection is formed on the arc gas exhaust port of the interrupter assembly, to be inserted and coupled into the sealing groove.
US09607790B2	Operating device with a plurality of actuating elements arranged next to and/or below one another An operating device with a number of actuating elements, such as switches and/or pushbuttons, arranged next to one another and/or one below the other is provided. The actuating elements are delimited, at least in part, by at least one frame element. The frame element is provided, at least in some regions, with surface sections that are shaped such that they can be detected haptically. One actuating element is respectively assigned to at least a part of the haptically detectable surface sections.
US09607783B2	Switch device mounting structure A switch device structure includes at least one contact seat having a first end wall, a second end wall, two sidewalls, an upper section and a bottom section to together define a cavity for arranging a contact assembly. Each of the first and second end walls of the contact seat has a protruding assembling section and an oblique socket directed to the assembling section. The switch device structure includes a contact support equipped with a fixing board. The contact support is formed with latch sections detachably latched with the assembling sections. An operator can use a tool to directly pass through the oblique socket to unlatch the latch section from the assembling section to quickly install/uninstall the contact seat and the contact support. This solves the problem of the conventional switch device that it is troublesome and time-consuming to install/uninstall the contact seat and the contact support.
US09607779B2	Emergency button for vehicle An emergency button for a vehicle used for emergency rescue when a vehicle accident or an emergency situation occurs has a design structure reflecting a design to prevent an erroneous operation for conforming to governmental regulations, and an intuitive human-machine interface (HMI) to allow a user to easily operate the emergency button and prevent an erroneous operation from being generated. The emergency button includes a case; a cap coupled to an upper portion of the case so as to move up and down during rotation; and a button part which is interfered in a rotation direction and slidably coupled with the cap to be rotated together with the cap, receives elastic support by a spring at a lower side to be movable up and down, and is in contact with the switch for transmitting a call connection signal within the case to transmit a call connection signal.
US09607775B2	High-voltage and high-capacitance activated carbon and carbon-based electrodes A positive electrode for an energy storage device includes a first activated carbon material comprising pores having a size of ≦1 nm, which provide a combined pore volume of >0.3 cm3/g, pores having a size of >1 nm to ≦2 nm, which provide a combined pore volume of ≧0.05 cm3/g, and <0.15 cm3/g combined pore volume of any pores having a size of >2 nm. A negative electrode for the energy storage device includes a second activated carbon material comprising pores having a size of ≦1 nm, which provide a combined pore volume of ≦0.3 cm3/g, pores having a size of >1 nm to ≦2 nm, which provide a combined pore volume of ≧0.05 cm3/g, and <0.15 cm3/g combined pore volume of any pores having a size of >2 nm. The total oxygen content in at least the first activated carbon material is at most 1.5 wt. %.
US09607773B2	Dye-sensitized solar cell module having a serial structure and a method for manufacturing the solar cell The present invention relates to a dye-sensitized solar cell module (1) which comprises at least two dye-sensitized solar cell units (2a-c) arranged adjacent to each other and connected in series. The dye-sensitized solar cell module comprises a porous insulating substrate (7), the first conducting layer (4) is a porous conducting layer formed on one side of the porous insulating substrate, and the second conducting layer (5) is a porous conducting layer formed on the opposite side of the porous insulating substrate. A series connecting element (6) is penetrating through the porous insulating substrate and extending between the first conducting layer of one of the cell units and the second conducting layer of the adjacent cell unit, thereby electrically connecting the first conducting layer of one of the cell units with the second conducting layer of the adjacent cell unit. This invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the dye-sensitized solar cell module.
US09607771B2	Flexible supercapacitor, method of manufacturing the same, and device including the flexible supercapacitor A flexible supercapacitor, a method of manufacturing the same, and a device including the same are provided, the flexible supercapacitor includes a first flexible electrode assembly, a second flexible electrode assembly corresponding to the first flexible electrode assembly, a separator for preventing contact between the first flexible electrode assembly and the second flexible electrode assembly, and an electrolyte between the first flexible electrode assembly and the second flexible electrode assembly. The flexible supercapacitor may include a tube including the first flexible electrode assembly, the second flexible electrode assembly, the separator, and the electrolyte.
US09607768B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor and circuit board having the same A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes first through fourth internal electrodes. The first and second internal electrodes are connected to first and second external electrodes, respectively, and disposed to face each other. The third and fourth internal electrodes are connected to the first and second external electrodes, respectively, and disposed to face each other, with a connection area of the third and fourth internal electrodes with the first and second external electrodes being different from the connection area where the first and second internal electrodes connect with the first and second external electrodes. The first and second external electrodes include first and second conductive layers disposed in inner portions thereof, and first and second conductive resin layers disposed in outer portions thereof, respectively.
US09607766B2	Laminated ceramic capacitor A laminated ceramic capacitor is characterized in that when the section constituted by two internal electrode layers positioned adjacent to each other in the laminating direction and one dielectric layer present between the two internal electrode layers is considered a unit capacitor, then the respective capacitances of the unit capacitors arranged in the laminating direction are distributed in such a way the capacitance at the center in the laminating direction is lower than the capacitances at both ends in the laminating direction. The laminated ceramic capacitor is resistant to deterioration of insulation resistance.
US09607764B2	Method of fabricating high energy density and low leakage electronic devices A method for fabricating a magnetic capacitor is provided. A first conducting material is deposited to form a first electrode layer. One or more first ferro-magnetic elements are deposited to form magnetic layer and are aligned and magnetized to produce a magnetic field. An insulating material is deposited to form an insulating layer. A second conducting material is deposited to form a second electrode layer. The one or more ferro-magnetic elements are aligned and magnetized to apply the magnetic field to the insulator layer so that the magnetic field is perpendicular to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, and so that the magnetic field is periodic along the length of the insulator layer and results in electric dipoles being formed in the insulator layer when a voltage is applied between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.
US09607763B2	Monolithic ceramic electronic component A monolithic ceramic electronic component includes a component body and outer electrodes. The component body includes a plurality of stacked ceramic layers and a plurality of inner electrodes which extend between the ceramic layers, which contain Ni, and which include exposed ends exposed on predetermined surfaces of the component body. The outer electrodes are electrically connected to the exposed ends of the inner electrodes and are formed on the predetermined surfaces of the component body by plating. The inner electrodes include Mg—Ni coexistence regions where Mg and Ni coexist.
US09607761B2	Winding device and method for binding wire material to terminal A winding device includes a wire cutting mechanism for cutting the wire wound around the winding target member in the vicinity of the terminal, and a wire binding mechanism for winding, around the terminal, the end portion of the wire wound around the winding target member and cut by the wire cutting mechanism. The wire binding mechanism includes a cylindrical member through which the terminal is insertable, and a rotating mechanism for rotating the cylindrical member about the terminal. A protrusion is formed at a distal end of the cylindrical member so as to protrude in an axial direction of the cylindrical member.
US09607754B2	Pre space transformer, space transformer manufactured using the pre space transformer, and semiconductor device inspecting apparatus including the space transformer Disclosed herein is a pre space transformer including: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, which is an opposite surface to the first surface; individual electrodes disposed on the first surface; and common electrodes disposed in the substrate, wherein the individual electrodes are repeatedly disposed while configuring a unit pattern.
US09607752B2	Wire-wound inductor and method for manufacturing the same A wire-wound inductor includes: a magnetic core; a first coil unit embedded in the magnetic core and formed by winding a conductive wire; a pair of second coil units bent from both ends of the first coil unit and including lead portions exposed to opposing surfaces of the magnetic core; and a pair of external terminals disposed on the opposing surfaces of the magnetic core and electrically connected to the lead portions of the pair of second coil units, respectively.
US09607751B2	Ferrite sintered body, ferrite core, and coil component A ferrite sintered body includes a crystal grain of a Ni—Zn ferrite and a grain boundary thereof, in which Ti is unevenly distributed in an outer region of the crystal grain, the outer region extending from an interface of the crystal grain to a length of 20% of a major axis of the crystal grain.
US09607747B2	Magnetization apparatus for magnet of magnetic encoder and method thereof A magnetization apparatus for a magnet of a magnetic encoder. The magnetization apparatus is configured to alternately form a positive and a negative magnetization areas by moving a magnetic member along a route penetrating a gap of a magnetization yoke while alternately generating positive and negative magnetic fields in the gap of the magnetization yoke. The magnetization apparatus includes a power supply part configured to supply electric power to a coil wound around the magnetization yoke; an area setting part configured to receive magnetization pattern information specifying arrangement of the magnetization areas relative to the magnetic member; a positional information generation part configured to output positional information of the magnetic member moving along the route; and a control part configured to control the power supply part in such a manner that each portion of the magnetic member corresponding to the magnetization area specified in the magnetization pattern information receives corresponding positive or negative magnetic field based on the positional information outputted from the positional information generation part.
US09607741B2	Ferrite particles for bonded magnet, resin composition for bonded magnet and molded products using the same The present invention relates to ferrite particles for bonded magnet, having a volume-average particle diameter of 2.1 to 2.7 μm and a particle diameter ×90 of 4.3 to 5.4 μm wherein the ×90 represents a particle diameter at which a cumulative percentage of particles under sieve (undersize particles) based on a volume thereof is 90%, when determined from a particle size distribution thereof measured by using a laser diffraction type particle size distribution measuring apparatus.
US09607735B2	Shielded electrical ribbon cable with dielectric spacing An electrical ribbon cable includes at least one conductor set having at least two elongated conductors extending from end-to-end of the cable. Each of the conductors are encompassed along a length of the cable by respective first dielectrics. A first and second film extend from end-to-end of the cable and are disposed on opposite sides of the cable The conductors are fixably coupled to the first and second films such that a consistent spacing is maintained between the first dielectrics of the conductors of each conductor set along the length of the cable. A second dielectric disposed within the spacing between the first dielectrics of the wires of each conductor set.
US09607731B2	Dielectric electroactive polymers comprising an ionic supramolecular structure The present invention relates to an ionic interpenetrating polymer network comprising at least one elastomer and an ionic supramolecular structure comprising the reaction product of at least two chemical compounds wherein each of said compounds has at least two functional groups and wherein said compounds are able to undergo Lewis acid-base reactions. The interpenetrating polymer network may be used as dielectric electroactive polymers (DEAPs) having a high dielectric permittivity.
US09607729B2	Binder pitch and method for producing the same The object of the present invention is to provide a binder pitch increased in carbonization yield (fixed carbon content) without varying the softening point thereof. A binder pitch has a carbon-to-hydrogen molar ratio of 1.90 or more, a quinoline insoluble content of 12.0% to 30.0% by mass, a free carbon content of 12.0% to 30.0% by mass, a mesophase content of 0.50% by mass or less, a toluene insoluble content of 24.0% by mass or more, and a fixed carbon content of 58.0% by mass or more.
US09607724B2	Devices processed using x-rays Objects undergoing processing by a high resolution x-ray microscope with a high flux x-ray source that allows high speed metrology or inspection of objects such as integrated circuits (ICs), printed circuit boards (PCBs), and other IC packaging technologies. The object to be investigated is illuminated by collimated, high-flux x-rays from an extended source having a designated x-ray spectrum. The system also comprises a stage to control the position and orientation of the object; a scintillator that absorbs x-rays and emits visible photons positioned in very close proximity to (or in contact with) the object; an optical imaging system that forms a highly magnified, high-resolution image of the photons emitted by the scintillator; and a detector such as a CCD array to convert the image to electronic signals.
US09607722B2	Infusion systems including computer-facilitated maintenance and/or operation and methods of use Methods for setting up, maintaining and operating a radiopharmaceutical infusion system, that includes a radioisotope generator, are facilitated by a computer of the system. The computer includes pre-programmed instructions and a computer interface, for interaction with a user of the system, for example, in order to track contained volumes of eluant and/or eluate, and/or to track time from completion of an elution performed by the system, and/or to calculate one or more system and/or injection parameters for quality control, and/or to perform purges of the system, and/or to facilitate diagnostic imaging.
US09607719B2	Vacuum chamber for plasma electric generation system A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are electrostatically confined in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions ions are fused together by the nuclear force, thus forming fusion products that emerge in the form of an annular beam. Energy is removed from the fusion product ions as they spiral past electrodes of an inverse cyclotron converter. Advantageously, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement and energy conversion system include advanced (aneutronic) fuels.
US09607718B2	Semiconductor memory device and test operation method thereof A semiconductor memory device includes: a word line driving unit suitable for performing activation operations for a plurality of normal word lines and a plurality of redundancy word lines in response to test addresses; and a test control unit suitable for controlling a number of activations of each of the plural normal and redundancy word lines to be equal based on repair information corresponding to a repair target word line among the plural normal word lines during a test operation.
US09607716B2	Detecting defective connections in stacked memory devices A method for testing a stacked memory device having a plurality of memory chips connected to and arranged on top of a logic chip for a connection defect is disclosed. The method may include testing a memory chip by writing a data value into a first location in the memory chip, reading a data value from the first location, detecting a first bit error and recording a bit number of the first bit error. The method may also include testing the memory chip by writing a data value into a second location in the memory chip, reading a data value from the second location in the memory chip, detecting a second bit error and recording a bit number of the second bit error. The method may also include replacing a connection common to the first and second bit errors with a spare connection.
US09607713B1	Electronic device and method for driving the same An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory that includes: a first line; a second line intersecting the first line; a memory cell coupled at a cross point of the first line and the second line; and a test control circuit coupled between the first line and the second line and suitable for controlling parameters corresponding to operational characteristics of the memory cell and outputting a result information signal corresponding to the control result to a pad based on a clock signal and an initial value set signal.
US09607712B1	Shift register group A shift register group includes a plurality of series-coupled shift registers each being configured to provide an output signal. The third control signal of a first sift register of the plurality of shift registers is the output signal provided by the shift register N stages after the first shift register, and the fourth control signal of the first sift register is the voltage at the driving node of the shift register 2N stages after the first shift register, wherein N is a natural number. A driving method of the aforementioned shift register group is also provided.
US09607705B1	Apparatuses and methods for charging a global access line prior to accessing a memory Apparatuses and methods for charging a global access line prior to accessing a memory are described. An example apparatus may include a memory array of a memory. A plurality of global access lines may be associated with the memory array. The global access line may be charged to a ready-access voltage before any access command has been received by the memory. The global access line may be maintained at the ready-access voltage during memory access operations until the receipt of a post-access command. The post-access command may reset the global access line to an inactive voltage.
US09607704B2	Data reading method, memory controlling circuit unit and memory storage device A data reading method is provided. The data reading method includes receiving a read command from a host system; sending a first read command sequence to obtain a first data string from memory cells of a rewritable non-volatile memory module; performing a decoding procedure on the first data string to generate a decoded first data string; and, if there is an error bit in the decoded first data string, sending a second read command sequence to obtain a second data string from the memory cells, performing a logical operation on the decoded first data string and the second data string to obtain an adjusting data string, adjusting the decoded first data string according to the adjusting data string to obtain an adjusted first data string, and using a data string obtained after re-performing the decoding procedure on the adjusted first data string as the decoded first data string.
US09607702B2	Sub-block page erase in 3D p-channel flash memory A NAND array includes blocks of memory cells. A block of memory cells includes a plurality of strings having channel lines between first and second string select switches. The strings share a set of word lines between the first and second string select switches. A channel-side voltage can be applied to the channel lines. A control voltage can be applied to a selected subset of the first string select switches. The channel lines can be floated at ends of the second string select switches. Tunneling in memory cells coupled to an unselected subset of the first string select switches can be inhibited. Word line-side erase voltages can be applied to word lines in the set of word lines in the block to induce tunneling in memory cells coupled to the word lines and coupled to the selected subset of the first string select switches.
US09607697B2	Non-volatile semiconductor memory device and improved verification and programming method for the same Provided herein are semiconductor memory devices and operating methods thereof. A semiconductor memory device may include a memory cell array including a plurality of cell strings, and a peripheral circuit. The peripheral circuit may include a voltage generating unit configured to perform a program loop for alternately performing a program operation and a verification operation on the memory cell array. The peripheral circuit may include a control logic configured to control the voltage generating unit to perform the program loop. Wherein, in performing the program loop, a second pass voltage applied to an unselected word line adjacent to a selected word line among a plurality of word lines connected with the memory cell array is lower than a first pass voltage applied to a remaining unselected word line during the program operation.
US09607695B1	Multi-bit non-volatile random-access memory cells Multi-bit non-volatile random access memory cells are disclosed. A multi-bit non-volatile random access memory cell may include a volatile storage element and a non-volatile storage circuit. The non-volatile storage circuit may include at least one first pass transistor connected to a data true (DT) node of the volatile storage element and at least one second pass transistor connected to a data complement (DC) node of the volatile storage element. The non-volatile storage circuit may also include multiple non-volatile storage elements. Each non-volatile storage element may be configured to be selectively connectable to the DT node of the volatile storage element via the at least one first pass transistor and selectively connectable to the DC node of the volatile storage element via the at least one second pass transistor, allowing the multi-bit non-volatile random access memory cell to store/recall more than one databit per cell.
US09607691B1	Memory cell architecture for multilevel cell programming Methods, systems, and devices for operating and forming a multilevel memory cell and array are described. A multilevel memory cell includes two or more binary memory elements, which may include phase change material. Each memory element may be programmed to one of two possible states—e.g., a fully amorphous state or a fully crystalline state. By combining multiple binary memory elements in a single memory cell, the memory cell may be programmed to store more than two states. The different memory elements may be programmed by selectively melting each memory element. Selective melting may be controlled by using memory elements with different melting temperatures or using electrodes with different electrical resistances, or both.
US09607685B2	Memory array with strap cells A memory array comprises a plurality of memory cells arranged in columns and rows. The memory array also comprises a plurality of first-type strap cells arranged in a row, wherein each first-type strap cell comprises a first-type well strap structure. The memory array further comprises a plurality of second-type strap cells arranged in a row. Each second-type strap cell comprises a second-type well strap structure. Each column of memory cells is bracketed by at least one first-type strap cell of the plurality of first-type strap cells or at least one second-type strap cell of the plurality of second-type strap cells.
US09607684B2	Circuit-level abstraction of multigate devices using two-dimensional technology computer aided design A method for predicting a condition in a circuit under design includes obtaining a set comprising first static noise margin curve for the circuit and a second static noise margin curve for the circuit, wherein the second static noise margin curve is complementary to the first static noise margin curve, matching the set to a two-dimensional model of a cell, and predicting the condition in accordance with hardware characterization data corresponding to the cell.
US09607683B1	Emulator for imulating an operation of a SRAM In some embodiments, a semiconductor device includes an SRAM cell, an emulator and a suppressing device. The SRAM cell, enabled by a word line, includes a first inverter formed by a first PMOS transistor and a first NMOS transistor and stores a first data at an output of the first inverter. The emulator is configured to emulate the first inverter operating in a condition that the PMOS transistor is weaker than the first NMOS transistor in driving strength. The suppressing device is configured to, in response to a voltage at an output of the emulator, selectively suppress a voltage level of the word line.
US09607682B1	Address decoding circuit A decoder is disclosed that is used to select an area of address space in an Integrated Circuit. The decoder uses a hardware shifting module that performs shift operations on constants. Such a structure reduces an overall area consumption of the shifting module. Additionally, the decoder can perform a multi-bit shift operation in a single clock cycle.
US09607681B2	Memory device that supports multiple memory configurations A memory device comprises: a plurality of memory configuration modes; an option selection logic for selecting one of the plurality of memory configuration modes to operate the memory device; and bonding pads. The bonding pads are connected to inputs of the option selection logic. The bonding pads are configurable to allow for a default mode selection for the selected one of the plurality of memory configuration modes to operate the memory device.
US09607680B2	EDRAM/DRAM fabricated capacitors for use in on-chip PMUS and as decoupling capacitors in an integrated EDRAM/DRAM and PMU system One or more integrated circuits including at least one integrated circuit that is fabricated in a DRAM fabrication process. Capacitors in the DRAM-fabricated integrated circuit can be used for decoupling for logic components of the integrated circuits, and may be used for fine-grain on-chip PMUs. The capacitors may be physically placed near the logic components for which the capacitors are providing decoupling capacitance, in an embodiment. The capacitors may be series connections of at least two capacitors, or at least one capacitor and a switch, to provide decoupling capacitance in the face of defects, in an embodiment. Embedded DRAM memories can be used instead of SRAM memories, with increased density and reduced leakage. More compact systems can be implemented using the integrated circuits.
US09607677B2	Apparatuses for resetting an address counter during refresh operations An example apparatus includes an address counter configured to provide refresh addresses to a refresh circuit, wherein the address counter includes a plurality of counter cells configured to count through count values between a minimum count value to a maximum count value, wherein an output of each of the plurality of counter cells each corresponds to an address bit of the refresh address, and a reset circuit coupled to a counter cell of the plurality of counter cells, wherein the reset circuit is configured to reset the counter cell of the plurality of counter cells to an initial value responsive to the plurality of counter cells changing from a first count value to a second count value to skip at least some of the count values to provide the refresh addresses, wherein the first and second count values are less than the maximum count value.
US09607676B2	Method and apparatus for adjustment of current through a magnetoresistive tunnel junction (MTJ) based on temperature fluctuations A non-volatile memory system includes a first circuit and a second circuit both coupled to a magnetoresistance tunnel junction (MTJ) cell to substantially reduce the level of current flowing through the MTJ with rise in temperature, as experienced by the MTJ. The first circuit is operable to adjust a slope of a curve representing current as a function of temperature and the second circuit is operable to adjust a value of the current level through the MTJ to maintain current constant or to reduce current when the temperature increases. This way sufficient current is provided for the MTJ at different temperatures, to prevent write failure, over programming, MTJ damage and waste of current.
US09607675B1	Read/write control device of resistive type memory A read/write control device of resistive type memory includes a first logic unit and a second logic unit. In a bit line driving circuit, the first logic unit is connected to a gate of a first transistor set for outputting a bit line signal, wherein the first transistor set includes one PMOS and one NMOS serially connected to each other. The first logic unit has a pair of input terminals respectively for receiving a column selection signal and receiving a control signal that decides if data “0” is to be written. In a source line driving circuit, the second logic unit is connected to a gate of a second transistor set for outputting a source line signal, wherein the second transistor set includes one PMOS and one NMOS serially connected to each other. The second logic unit has a pair of input terminals respectively for receiving a column selection signal and receiving a control signal that decides if data “1” is to be written.
US09607667B1	Memory device and electronic apparatus including the same A memory device includes a plurality of channels that respectively include memory cell arrays and local input/output lines electrically coupled to the memory cell arrays and are independently operable, shared global input/output lines electrically coupled to the local input/output lines included in the plurality of channels and having a connection relation controlled through one or more path switch circuits arranged among the plurality of channels, and the path switch circuits that control the connection relation of the shared global input/output lines according to a path control signal.
US09607663B2	Non-volatile dynamic random access memory (NVDRAM) with programming line A memory circuit includes a first bit line, a second bit line, and a memory cell that is coupled to first bit line and the second bit line. The memory cell includes a capacitor, a first pass gate transistor, a non-volatile (NV) element, and a second pass gate transistor. The first capacitor has a first terminal coupled to a first storage node and a second terminal coupled to a reference. The first pass gate transistor is coupled between the first bit line and the first storage node. The NV element and a second pass gate transistor are coupled in series, wherein the first NV element and the second pass gate transistor are coupled between the first storage node and the first program line.
US09607662B1	Sealing and enclosure system for disc drives A disc-drive enclosure system comprising an enclosure assembly having an interior area, a divider separating the interior area into two chambers. An opening in the divider receives the end of a disc drive the a disc tray being openable into the first chamber, while the disc drive's body remains in the second chamber. A sled assembly in the enclosure assembly support the disc drive and is movable relative to the divider between first and second positions. The sled assembly has a sealing member coupled to a leading end portion and positioned to form a seal around the drive opening when the sled assembly is in the first position with the end portion of the housing in the first chamber and the body portion in the second chamber.
US09607660B2	Carrier used for mounting data storage drive into enclosure A data storage carrier includes a middle member with at least one handle between ends of the middle member. Side members are coupled to the respective ends of the middle member via living hinges. The side members each include at least two protrusions configured to interface with side mounting holes of a data storage drive. The living hinges are bendable so that the protrusions interface with the side mounting holes of the drive and the middle member interfaces with a back side of the drive.
US09607651B2	Method and apparatus for controlling contents in electronic device Provided is a method and apparatus for playing contents in an electronic device. The method of playing contents may include displaying a reference image of a content, when sensing a user's input, determining a playback scheme matched with the user's input, and playing the content on the basis of the playback scheme matched with the user's input.
US09607648B2	Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording medium This recording/reproducing apparatus that records or reproduces information by radiating light to a recording medium is provided with: a medium rotating unit that rotates the recording medium; a moving unit having a movable unit that is capable of moving within a predetermined plane; a rotation angle detecting unit that detects a rotating angle of the recording medium using an angle detection mark that is provided on the recording medium; a position detecting unit that detects a position of the recording medium using an eccentricity detection mark that is provided on the recording medium; and a member for fixing the rotation angle detecting unit and the position detecting unit. With respect to the member, the movable unit relatively moves within a plane substantially parallel to the recording surface of the recording medium, and the medium rotating unit is fixed to the movable unit.
US09607642B1	Head-medium contact detection using a thermal sensor and surface charge control of a slider An AC signal having a specified frequency and a DC offset voltage is applied to a slider substrate or a magnetic recording medium. A low- or non-modulation interface is defined between the slider and medium. In response to applying the AC signal, an oscillation in an electrostatic force occurs between the slider and the medium at the specified frequency, which causes an oscillation in thermal sensor signal at the slider, which oscillates at the specified frequency. A heater of the slider is adjusted to decrease spacing between the slider and medium during oscillation of the electrostatic force. For each heater adjustment, thermal sensor resistance is measured over a specified number of medium revolutions. Head-medium contact is detected using one of an amplitude of a harmonic of the thermal sensor signal and a summation of amplitudes of all frequency components at the specified frequency.
US09607641B1	Bond pad sharing for powering multiple writers of a recording head A slider of a magnetic recording head comprises a plurality of electrical bond pads coupled to bias sources. A first writer on the slider is coupled between first and second bond pads. A second writer on the slider is coupled between third and fourth bond pads. At least one heater is coupled between two of the first, second, third, and fourth bond pads. The first writer can have a center-tap coupled to first and second bond pads. The second writer can have a center-tap coupled to third and fourth bond pads. A first writer heater can be coupled between the center-tap of the second writer and the ground pad. A second writer heater can be coupled between the center-tap of the first writer and the ground pad.
US09607638B1	Recording head with an on-wafer integrated laser A recording head includes a layer of plasmonic metal deposited on a surface of the recording head. One or more non-self-supporting layers of crystalline material are attached to the plasmonic metal, the one or more layers of crystalline materials configured to form an active region of a laser. A waveguide is configured to receive plasmons from the laser and direct the plasmons to a recording medium.
US09607632B1	Multiple virtual preamps in a single die Methods, apparatuses, and systems for allowing a single-die preamp to act as two or more virtual preamps for reading or writing data through multiple heads or elements concurrently. A selection register of a preamplifier is set to enable access to a primary register map. Values of registers in the primary register map are set to program a primary preamp channel for performing read or write operations to a first head. The selection register is then set to enable access to a secondary register map, and values of registers in the secondary register map are set to program a secondary preamp channel for performing read or write operations to a second head. Read or write operations can be performed to the first head through the primary preamp channel at a same time that read or write operations are performed to the second head through the second preamp channel.
US09607623B2	Method and apparatus for determining watermark symbols in a received audio signal that can contain echoes, reverberation and/or noise Following transmission of a watermarked audio signal over an acoustic path causing echoes, reverberation and/or noise, watermark detection correlation result peak values are concentrated within a limited temporal range around main correlation result peaks, which limited temporal range is much smaller than the total correlation length. The watermark detection is based on the following: given np correlation result peak values v=(v1, v2, . . . , vnp) in an average or expected probability distribution for correlation result values for unmarked content, the probability is calculated that within windows covering the limited temporal range there are np or more values from a correlation result value set greater than or equal to these peaks v.
US09607619B2	Voice identification method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a voice identification method, including: obtaining voice data; obtaining a first confidence value according to the voice data; obtaining a noise scenario according to the voice data; obtaining a second confidence value corresponding to the noise scenario according to the first confidence value; and if the second confidence value is greater than or equal to a pre-stored confidence threshold, processing the voice data. An apparatus is also provided. The method and apparatus that flexibly adjust the confidence value according to the noise scenario greatly improve a voice identification rate under a noise environment.
US09607618B2	Out of vocabulary pattern learning A method for adapting a speech recognition system for out-of-vocabulary, comprising, decoding by a hybrid speech recognition a speech including out-of-vocabulary terms, thereby generating graphemic transcriptions of the speech with a mixture of recognized in-vocabulary words and unrecognized sub-words, while keeping a track of the decoded segments of the speech, determining in the transcription sequences of sub-words as candidate out-of-vocabulary words based on a first condition with respect to lengths of the sequences of sub-words and a second condition with respect to the number of repetitions of the sequences, audibly presenting to a user the candidate out-of-vocabulary words from the corresponding segments of the speech according to the track, and receiving from the user indications of valid words corresponding to audible presentations of the sequences of sub-words in the candidate out-of-vocabulary words, and training a speech recognition to additionally recognize the candidate out-of-vocabulary words, thereby adapting the speech recognition to recognize out-of-vocabulary words, wherein the method is performed on an at least one computerized apparatus configured to perform the method, and an apparatus for performing the same.
US09607603B1	Adaptive block matrix using pre-whitening for adaptive beam forming An adaptive filter of an adaptive blocking matrix in an adaptive beam former or null former may be modified to track and maintain noise correlation between an input and a reference noise signal to the adaptive noise canceller module. That is, a noise correlation factor may be determined, and that noise correlation factor may be used in an inter-sensor signal model applied when generating the blocking matrix output signal. The output signal may then be further processed within the adaptive beamformer to generate a less-noisy representation of the speech signal received at the microphones. The inter-sensor signal model may be estimated using a gradient decent total least squares (GrTLS) algorithm. Further, spatial pre-whitening may be applied in the adaptive blocking matrix to further improve noise reduction.
US09607602B2	ANC system with SPL-controlled output An anti-noise signal is produced in accordance with an active noise cancellation process (ANC), at an input of a speaker so as to control how much background noise a user can hear. Strength of the anti-noise signal is adjusted gradually, rather than abruptly, in proportion to decreasing or increasing sound pressure level (SPL) of the background noise, during inactivation or activation of the ANC process. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09607600B2	Attenuators, arrangements of attenuators, acoustic barriers and methods for constructing acoustic barriers An arrangement comprising a plurality of attenuators for attenuating acoustic waves, each attenuator of the plurality of attenuators comprising: a first body defining a cavity therein and at least one open aperture extending across a portion of the first body, the first body being configured to attenuate acoustic waves over a resonant frequency band.
US09607597B2	Particulate sound absorption board and preparation method thereof A particulate sound absorption board and its preparation method. The said particulate sound absorption board consists of binding agent and sound absorption particle; the external surface of sound absorption particle is covered with a layer of binding agent, and the angularity coefficient of particle covered with binding agent is less than 1.3; the said sound absorption particle consists of skeleton particle and filling particle, in which the former is used for sound absorption board skeleton, and the latter flows into the pore between skeleton particles to form sound absorption pore, and the average diameter of cross section of sound absorption pore is 0.07 mm. The two-stage manufacturing technology (i.e. coating, curing and then shaping) is adopted for the said preparation method to prevent the pore between particles from being blocked by excess binding agent, and further improve the angularity coefficient of particle.
US09607595B2	System and method for creation of musical memories A music generating system comprising sensors configured to acquire data sets related to physiological and environmental condition of a user and a computing device comprising a processor and a memory. The computing device is configured to read, by a data acquisition module, the data sets received from the sensors, to perform, by a data analysis module, a value range analysis of the data sets received to normalize the data sets, to map, with the help of the data analysis module, each of the normalized data sets to families of sounds stored in a data store, to create, by the data analysis module, individual music pieces on the basis of a time series analysis and a frequency analysis of the normalized data sets mapped to the families of sounds and to merge, by a music generation module, the individual music pieces to create a final piece of music.
US09607590B1	Drum counterhoop clamping device A drum counterhoop clamping device, which is to be fixed to a drum counterhoop, comprises a base, a clamping block and a locking member. The base includes a sliding chute and a first clamping plate extending outward and vertically to the sliding chute. The clamping block includes a sliding post slidably installed inside the sliding chute and a second clamping plate extending outward and vertically to the sliding post. The first clamping plate and the second clamping plate are disposed corresponding to each other. The locking member drives the base and the clamping block to approach to each other and enforces the sliding post to pass through the sliding chute to decrease the distance between the first clamping plate and the second clamping plate. Thereby, the present invention uses the plane-like first clamping plate and second clamping plate to increase stability and strength of clamping the drum counterhoop.
US09607589B2	String bender A string bender includes a base portion configured to anchor a plurality of strings and to be removably (or releasably) mounted to a guitar body without requiring drilling or cutting of the guitar body. The string bender can also include at least one bar extending from the base portion in a direction substantially toward a top of the guitar body, the at least one bar being attached to at least one corresponding cam and disposed so as to be able to rotate relative to the base portion such that a rotation of the at least one bar causes a rotation of the cam and a change in tension of a string associated with the cam. The string bender can be constructed to bend one or more strings, for example the B and/or G strings. The string bender can also be constructed to fit a variety of guitar styles, such as the Gibson Les Paul-style and the Fender Telecaster-style guitars.
US09607584B2	Real world analytics visualization A server receives and analyzes analytics data from an application of one or more devices. The application corresponds to a content generator. The server generates, using the content generator, a visualization content dataset based on the analysis of the analytics data. The visualization content dataset comprises a set of images, along with corresponding analytics virtual object models to be engaged with an image of a physical object captured with the one or more devices and recognized in the set of images. The analytics data and the visualization content dataset may be stored in a storage device of the server.
US09607583B2	Display controller device having a debug interface A display controller device for processing image data has a data processor for generating a display signal. The device has a writeback unit having an input coupled to the display signal and an output coupled to a debug interface. The writeback unit has a slice controller for defining a set of slices of the image and consecutively selecting slices of the set, and a slice selector for sampling pixel data from a selected slice. A slice buffer is coupled between the slice selector and the debug output for temporarily storing the selected pixel data. The slice controller transfers the selected pixel data to the debugger and subsequently selects a next slice until all slices of the set have been transferred. The debug system receives the slices and regenerates and displays the image.
US09607572B2	Information processing method and electronic device An information processing method and an electronic device are described. The method includes acquiring a first sensing parameter through a first sensor; determining whether the first sensing parameter satisfies a first predetermined condition, the first predetermined condition being a distance threshold of a distance between an object that operates the electronic device and a display output area to which a display unit of the first display module of the electronic device corresponds; generating a first control instruction when the first sensing parameter satisfies the first predetermined condition; and controlling the first display module to switch from a first state to a second state based on the first control instruction.
US09607571B2	Information processing method and electronic device An information processing method and an electronic device, the method comprising: acquiring a first value of a first parameter by the first sensor; acquiring a second value of the first parameter by the second sensor; judging whether a difference value between the first value and the second value is larger than or equal to a first threshold or not; determining a third value based on a first algorithm, the first value and the second value, and reporting the third value as a value of the first parameter to the processing unit, when the difference value is larger than or equal to the first threshold; determining a fourth value based on a second algorithm, the first value and the second value, and reporting the fourth value as the value of the first parameter to the processing unit, when the difference value is smaller than the first threshold.
US09607567B2	Display panel and mobile terminal A display panel comprising a light guide plate; a main light source configured to emit light from a first lateral surface of the light guide plate in a first direction; a sub-light source configured to emit light from a second lateral surface vertical to the first lateral surface of the light guide plate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a liquid crystal panel provided in a front surface of the light guide plate and configured to output image information.
US09607566B2	Display apparatus and display panel driver including software-controlled gate waveforms A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel having gate lines and source lines, a GIP circuit which drives the gate lines and a source driver IC3 which drives the source lines. The source driver IC3 includes a gate control signal generator which generates gate control signals SOUT1-SOUTn which control the GIP circuit. The gate control signal generator is configured so that it is possible to control the waveforms of the gate control signals SOUT1-SOUTn in software.
US09607562B2	Method of driving display panel and display apparatus for performing the same A method of driving a display panel is proposed. The method includes determining whether an input image data represents a video image or a static image, determining whether an image transition occurs in the input image data when the input image data represents the static image, and inserting a plurality of image sticking compensation frames between normal frames in a low frequency driving when the image transition occurs in the input image data between the normal frames. The number of the image sticking compensation frame may be properly adjusted during a cycle of low frequency driving.
US09607561B2	Liquid crystal display device and method for driving same An image determination part configured to determine whether or not an image based on an input image signal is an image analogous to a polarity reversal pattern in a reversal driving scheme employed by default and to output a determination result, and a reversal pattern decision part configured to decide a reversal driving scheme based on the determination result are provided as constituent elements anterior to a liquid crystal drive unit. With regard to each unit area where the determination by the image determination part is made, the reversal pattern decision part decides the reversal driving scheme in the unit area, as a reversal driving scheme different from the reversal driving scheme employed by default, when the determination result indicates that the image based on the input image signal is the image analogous to the polarity reversal pattern in the reversal driving scheme employed by default.
US09607560B2	Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same Discussed are an LCD device and a method of driving the same in which, by decreasing the number of lines of a PCB, the manufacturing cost is saved, and the influence of noise is reduced.
US09607559B2	Charge-sharing controlling method and display panel A charge-sharing controlling method and a display panel are disclosed. The charge-sharing controlling method is suitable for the display panel including plural sub-pixels. The charge-sharing controlling method includes following steps: determining whether the display panel is displaying a primary color screen; if the display panel is displaying a primary color screen, prolonging an activated time of a charge-sharing circuit, which is coupled between any two of the sub-pixels displaying the same color, adjacent to each other and having opposite polarities.
US09607556B2	Systems and methods for controlling dual modulation displays In one embodiment, a dual modulator display systems and methods for rendering target image data upon the dual modulator display system are disclosed where the display system receives target image data, possible HDR image data and first calculates display control signals and then calculates backlight control signals from the display control signals. This order of calculating display signals and then backlight control signals later as a function of the display systems may tend to reduce clipping artifacts. In other embodiments, it is possible to split the input target HDR image data into a base layer and a detail layer, wherein the base layer is the low spatial resolution image data that may be utilized as for backlight illumination data. The detail layer is higher spatial resolution image data that may be utilized for display control data.
US09607555B2	Display apparatus and control method thereof A display apparatus includes: a light-emitting unit that includes a plurality of light-emitting devices; a display unit; a first determination unit configured to determine, in a region, whether a ratio of a total number of first type pixels is a first ratio or more; a second determination unit configured to determine, in the region, whether a ratio of a total number of second type pixels is a second ratio or more, when the determination result of the first determination unit is affirmative; and a control unit configured to increase emission brightness of a target device based on the determination result of the second determination unit.
US09607549B2	Organic light emitting diode display panel and organic light emitting diode display device An organic light-emitting diode display panel and an OLED display device have a sensing driving stabilizer that can increase accuracy in sensing and compensation by providing potential stability to a reference voltage line acting as a sensing line during the sensing driving.
US09607548B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of subpixels, each subpixel including a luminescent element, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of image signal lines, a plurality of reset power source lines, a first power source line, a scanning line driving circuit and a signal line driving circuit, wherein at least one subpixel comprises an output switch, a driving transistor, a retaining capacitance, a pixel switch and a reset switch, and the output switch is shared with a plurality of subpixels included in at least one pixel.
US09607545B2	Organic light emitting display and pixel compensation circuit and method for organic light emitting display The present invention discloses a pixel compensation circuit and method for an organic light emitting display. The circuit comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a driving transistor, a capacitor, and an organic light emitting element. The first transistor transmits a data signal to a first plate of the capacitor; the second transistor applies a reference voltage to the first plate of the capacitor; the driving transistor determines a magnitude of a driving current; the third transistor establishes a connection between the gate electrode and the drain electrode of the driving transistor; the fourth transistor passes the driving current from the driving transistor to the organic light emitting element; and the organic light emitting element emits light in response to the driving current.
US09607544B2	Brightness compensating method and self-illuminating display device Embodiments of the application provide a brightness compensating method and a self-illuminating display device. The brightness compensating method includes: retrieving a table of compensation parameters pre-stored in the self-illuminating display device, which includes compensation parameters of the N zones, where a compensation parameter of a zone at higher temperature than the temperature in the reference zone is smaller than G, and a compensation parameter of a zone at lower temperature than the temperature in the reference zone is larger than G; and compensating for the brightness of an image displayed in each of the N zones according to the compensation parameters. The embodiments of the application can be applicable to compensation for the brightness of the self-illuminating display device.
US09607539B2	Display panel capable of reducing a voltage level changing frequency of a select signal and drive circuit thereof The present invention discloses a display panel and a drive circuit thereof. The drive circuit comprises: a data signal providing module, generating a data signal; a first select signal generation module, providing a first select signal; a second select signal generation module, providing a second select signal; a select module, comprising a select switch combination receives a first, a second select signal, and outputs the data signal to the pixel array. The present invention can reduce the voltage level changing frequency of the select signal.
US09607538B2	Method for managing power in electronic device and the electronic device The present invention relates to an electronic device and a method for managing power in the electronic device that can control the refresh rate to reduce power consumption. An embodiment of the invention provides a method for managing power in an electronic device that includes: measuring a content rate of a displayed content; and controlling a refresh rate based on the content rate.
US09607531B2	Label for use on store shelves in a retail environment A label for use on store shelves in a retail environment. The label include adhesive strips applied to a bottom surface of each label and a top laminate layer with a release coating applied to the top surface of each label.
US09607529B2	Taxidermy mannequin and method of making the same A method of manufacturing a taxidermy mannequin includes providing a mold having an open end, a wall having an internal surface and an opposing external surface, and an internal cavity surrounded by the internal surface of the wall. The method further includes applying a layer of a mold release material to a portion of the internal surface, applying a powder material on an exposed surface of the mold release material, applying a layer of a glue mixture on an exposed surface of the powder material and the mold release material layer, applying a granular or fibrous material on an exposed surface of the glue mixture layer, allowing the glue mixture to at least partially dry, filling at least a portion of the internal cavity of the mold with a liquid expandable urethane foam, allowing the expandable urethane foam to expand and harden, and removing the taxidermy mannequin from the mold.
US09607522B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination. One of the methods includes determining, by an electronic system in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an estimated fuel remaining in the UAV. An estimated fuel consumption of the UAV is determined. Estimated information associated with wind affecting the UAV is determined using information obtained from sensors included in the UAV. Estimated flights times remaining for a current path, and one or more alternative flight paths, are determined using the determined estimated fuel remaining, determined estimated fuel consumption, determined information associated wind, and information describing each flight path. In response to the electronic system determining that the estimated fuel remaining, after completion of the current flight path, would be below a first threshold, an alternative flight path is selected.
US09607517B2	Method and device for the position determination of objects by means of communication signals, and use of the device The invention relates to a method for the position determination of objects (62, 707,84, 96) by means of communication signals, in which a transceiver capable of wireless communication transmits communication signals, the transceiver (51) being capable of simultaneous transmission and reception, and wherein the communication signals are at least partially reflected as reflection signals on at least one object (62, 707, 84, 96) in a signal propagation zone and the transceiver (51) receives the reflection signals. The method is characterized in that phase information of the reflection signals or communication signals are determined. The invention further relates to a corresponding device and to a use of the device.
US09607510B1	Traffic display with viewing distance control A sign (100) displays moving, still, or blank images (130). In one aspect the sign is mounted over a roadways for viewing by occupants of vehicular traffic (105) and pedestrians. In another aspect the sign is mounted on a vehicle. An associated sensor (125, 220, 221, 222) senses the motion of traffic in the vicinity of the sign. When traffic moves at less than a predetermined speed, the sign displays moving or changing information. At greater speeds the display on the sign is either still or blank, so as to avoid distracting nearby drivers. An electronic system (135) provides various aspects that augment sign operation such as GPS, reception of signage information for use in particular locations, advertiser billing information based on sign usage, and collection and reporting of demographics that aid advertisers in maximizing their impact.
US09607509B2	Identification of vehicle parking using data from vehicle sensor network A framework for identifying parking areas from vehicle trajectory data is described herein. Vehicle trajectory data collected from a sensor network having a plurality of sensor stations for detecting vehicles is provided. The vehicle trajectory data is pre-processed to generate a tracking table of vehicles and analyzed to determine an interstation parking area between first and second sensor stations of interest based on input parameters from a user.
US09607505B2	Closed loop universal remote control An electronic device configured for closed loop remote control functionality and related methods are disclosed herein. In particular, in one embodiment, an electronic device configured for closed loop remote control functionality is provided. The device includes a processor and a transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit instructions to a remotely controlled device. Additionally, the device includes an input device configured to allow a user to provide input to the electronic device related to remote control and one or more sensors configured to obtain information related to a state of the remotely controlled device. The processor is configured to use the information obtained by the one or more sensors to determine the state of the remote controlled devices upon receiving the input from a user to transmit instructions.
US09607498B2	Method, system and apparatus for fall detection Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for detecting fall events of a person. Fall events are falls that are likely to occur, are occurring, or have occurred. Fall detectors and fall detector systems detect fall events of the person. Data relating to the person are received from sensors and analyzed to perform fall detection. Data relating to the person includes accelerations and forces experience by the person, changes in body position of the person, movements of the person, and body signals and sounds of the person. Neurological tests are administered to determine levels of responsiveness and awareness of the person in response to detections. Warnings are issued, and safety measures are deployed, in response to detections. Data relating to fall events are recorded and logged. Fall event histories based upon the logged data and fall detection algorithm performance are used to improve future fall detection and prediction.
US09607490B2	Haptic device There is provided a haptic device including a small-size haptic unit. The haptic device includes a weight, a magnet fixed to the weight, a coil that generates a magnetic field to reciprocate the magnet along a predetermined direction, and a current control unit that presents a haptic sensation to a user by controlling a current flowing in the coil to vibrate the weight.
US09607488B2	Wearable vehicle information indicator and method of indicating vehicle information using the same A vehicle information indicator and a method of indicating vehicle information using the indicator are disclosed. The indicator is configured such that a driver who wears the indicator is capable of coordinating devices within a vehicle and can give commands to the coordinated devices. The indicator includes a coordinate setting module which designates a space within the vehicle as spatial coordinates, recognizes the distance of a change in line-of-sight of the user based on an eye zone, and designates a desired zone as detailed zone coordinates. A user command module recognizes a body motion pattern of the user and the number of times of the motion, or a direction and distance that the line-of-sight of the user moves, and provides commands to the devices. In addition, a wireless communication module provides wireless communication between the user command module and the vehicle. A battery is configured to supply power to the modules.
US09607485B2	Banking machine controlled responsive to data read from data bearing records A banking system operates responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system includes an automated banking machine comprising a card reader. The card reader includes a movable read head that can read card data along a magnetic stripe of a card that was inserted long-edge first. The card reader includes a card entry gate. The gate is opened for a card that is determined to be properly oriented for data reading. The card reader can encrypt card data, including account data. The card data is usable by the machine to authorize a user to carry out a financial transfer involving the account.
US09607483B2	Processing automated banking transactions requiring approval In an example embodiment, an automated banking machine operable to perform cash withdrawals. If a withdrawal is below a threshold, authorization is obtained from a first transaction authorization computer. If a withdrawal is greater than or equal to the threshold, a first portion of the cash is dispensed responsive to authorization from a first transaction authorization computer and a second portion of the cash amount is dispensed responsive to authorization from a second transaction authorization computer.
US09607478B2	Gaming machine running common game A plurality of gaming terminals provided in a parallel manner, a plurality of upper displays which are provided in a parallel manner independently from the gaming terminals and form a single common effect display screen, a plurality of display controllers controlling image display on the respective upper displays, and a center controller controlling the display controllers are provided. The center controller controls the display controllers so that the upper displays perform image display as one common effect display screen.
US09607477B2	Using coded identifiers for adaptive gaming A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include initiating a wagering game session for presentation of wagering game content. The operations can further include scanning a coded identifier during the wagering game session. The coded identifier indicates a characteristic associated with activity, events, achievements, etc. performed or attained prior to initiation of the wagering game session. For instance, the coded identifier can be a two-dimensional barcode generated in response to online activity (e.g., in response to progress attained in an online game). In some embodiments, the characteristics indicate information about the activity. The operations can further include adapting the wagering game content during the wagering game session based, at least in part, on the characteristic indicated in the coded identifier, such as providing gaming rewards and bonus games, adding funds, unlocking content, modifying wagering game content, etc.
US09607475B2	Interactive toys A plurality of individual toys, at least a first one of which generates acoustic signals and at least a second one of which receives acoustic signals. When the second toy receives acoustic signals from the first toy, it responds, for example, by generating a sound and/or controlling its motion. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the toys flock and/or form a procession of toys which follow a leader toy, for example a mother goose and a plurality of following and preferably quacking goslings.
US09607473B2	Wagering game system with player rewards A gaming system includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming system to perform a plurality of operations. The operations include awarding a plurality of points to a player, and, in response to a predetermined number of the points being redeemed by the player, accessing or modifying wagering game content.
US09607467B2	Gaming device and method for providing wagering for additional symbol functionality and package betting A gaming device which includes a plurality of different predefined wager packages. Each predefined wager package is associated with a wager amount or value and includes one or more of a plurality of different game play features. In operation, the gaming device enables players to wager an amount equal to one of the plurality of predefined wager packages available to the player. The game play features associated with the wagered on predefined wager package are activated for one or more plays of a game.
US09607466B2	Wagering game with evaluable symbols randomly determined by sub-arrays A gaming system includes one or more input devices, display devices, processors, and memory devices. At least one of the memory devices store instructions that cause the system to receive a wager and to display a main array with main positions including a special position, which is randomly transformed into a sub-array with secondary positions. An outcome for the sub-array is determined in which the secondary positions are populated with respective secondary symbols. The outcome of the sub-array determines a special symbol that is associated with the special position of the main array. The special symbol is displayed for the special position. The main positions are populated with main symbols and the special symbol, the main array including may symbols populating the main positions and any determined special symbols populating the transformed special positions. An evaluation of the main array is performed to determine if a winning combination is achieved.
US09607462B2	System for anti-tamper parcel packaging, shipment, receipt, and storage An apparatus and system for secure packaging, shipment, receipt and storage of mail, parcels and parcels is described. The apparatus includes an appliqué with a multitude of sensitized residue within that surround the parcel; the residue in the media forms a unique optical fingerprint, which is an exemplar image data for comparison. Substantial damage to one or more fibers alters the optical fingerprint pattern. The data is read and independently verified at waypoints and the destination. Comparing the current image data to the exemplar image data indicates damage or tampering.
US09607460B2	Smart entry system A smart entry system comprises a communication section and a control device. Upon determination that a mobile device has continued to be present within a first transmission area for a predetermined time or over, the control device lowers first transmitter power output of a first electromagnetic wave to be transmitted from the communication section to second transmitter power output of the first electromagnetic wave so that the first transmission area is narrowed to a second transmission area until no more response is received from the mobile device. Then, the communication section not only transmits the first electromagnetic wave having the second transmitter power output and generating the second transmission area but also transmits, with a second cyclic period longer than the first cyclic period, a second electromagnetic wave, the second electromagnetic wave has the first transmitter power output and generates the first transmission area which is not narrowed.
US09607458B1	Systems and methods to manage access to a physical space In one embodiment, a lock comprises a locking mechanism selectively positionable between a locked position and an unlocked position, a user interface to receive a first user input which uniquely identifies a first user, a communication interface to enable electronic communication with a remote computer system and a controller comprising logic to generate a query to a directory service, wherein the query comprises the first user input, and open the locking mechanism in response to a signal from the directory service indicating that that the first user is authorized to open the lock and that a set of conditions required to open the lock are satisfied.
US09607456B2	Method and system for operating electrical consumers in a building A method and a system are provided for switching at least one electrical consumer in a building comprising an elevator system. The switched electrical consumer is, for example, a camera. The camera is activated if when using the elevator system the user does not actuate a building door within an ascertained route time, i.e. the user does not arrive at his/her destination. It is possible using an image recorded by the camera to establish whether the user is possibly in a dangerous situation.
US09607453B2	Dynamic industrial vehicle measure A task to be performed using an industrial vehicle is defined and segmented into segments including a start segment and an end segment. The performance of the industrial vehicle while the industrial vehicle performs the segments is measured, and a target score for the task based on an extrinsic factor that is in effect at least one time during performance of the task is defined. The measured performance of the industrial vehicle during the segments is aggregated to create a task performance score, which is evaluated to the target score to create a task evaluation.
US09607449B1	Control of wireless communication channels for a vehicle telematics unit A vehicle telematics system and a method for controlling access to a plurality of wireless communication channels between the telematics system and on-board vehicle systems and mobile communications devices is provided. The telematics system includes one network interface connected to a telecommunications network and another network interface connected to one or more on-board vehicle systems and mobile communications devices to permit the on-board vehicle systems and communications devices to access the telecommunications network. The telematics system further includes a controller that receives a request by an on-board vehicle system to establish a communication channel, determines whether all of the channels are in active use, and, if so, identifies a low priority application of one of the on-board vehicle systems or communications devices using one of the active channels and then severs the channel and establishes the communication channel between the telematics system and requesting vehicle system.
US09607448B2	Vehicle diagnosis system, server, and computer program According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a vehicle diagnosis system equipped with a communication terminal for transmitting vehicle information acquired from a vehicle to a server, and a server for analyzing the vehicle information received from the communication terminal and diagnosing the vehicle. The server is provided with a WEB screen providing unit for providing a WEB screen including instructions for the operator in a manner that the communication terminal can display via a communication network. The communication terminal displays the provided WEB screen via the communication network.
US09607447B2	Automated transmission of aircraft anomalous incident data via preferred transmission modes This disclosure is directed to techniques for automated transmission of surveillance incident data or other anomalous incident data from an aircraft via a preferred transmission mode. An example method includes detecting, by a processing device onboard an aircraft, an anomalous incident involving the aircraft that qualities for reporting relative to a set of anomalous incident reporting criteria. The method further includes identifying, by the processing device, data onboard the aircraft relevant to the anomalous incident. The method further includes detecting that the aircraft is in a status that makes available a selected data transmission mode for transmitting the data relevant to the anomalous incident. The method further includes communicating the data relevant to the anomalous incident to a transmission system for transmission from the aircraft via the selected data transmission mode in response to detecting that the aircraft is in the status that makes available the selected data transmission mode.
US09607441B2	Morphological attractor for creating custom ancestors in inheritance-based character generation Techniques are disclosed for creating and customizing graphical models. In one embodiment, a design application receives a morphological attractor created from the same mesh as one or more inheritance-based character generation ancestor models. Upon receiving the morphological attractor, the design application may use the attractor to align and transform the ancestor models to create a new set of ancestor models which resemble the attractor. The new set of ancestor models is referred to herein as being in the “genetic space” of the attractor. A user may then create child character models in this same genetic space by, globally or locally, blending two or more of the new ancestor models.
US09607440B1	Composite image associated with a head-mountable device In one aspect, an HMD is disclosed that provides a technique for generating a composite image representing the view of a wearer of the HMD. The HMD may include a display and a front-facing camera, and may be configured to perform certain functions. For instance, the HMD may be configured to make a determination that a trigger event occurred and responsively both generate a first image that is indicative of content displayed on the display, and cause the camera to capture a second image that is indicative of a real-world field-of-view associated with the HMD. Further, the HMD may be configured to generate a composite image that combines the generated first image and the captured second image.
US09607439B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a viewpoint position of an observer who observes a first three-dimensional virtual object arranged in a virtual space and having at least one cross section; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a normal vector of a first cross section of the first three-dimensional virtual object; an image generation unit configured to generate, based on the viewpoint position of the observer and the normal vector of the first cross section, a second three-dimensional virtual object having a second cross section with a different normal vector from the first cross section; and an output unit configured to output an image of the second three-dimensional virtual object generated by the image generation unit.
US09607437B2	Generating augmented reality content for unknown objects Techniques described herein provide a method for defining virtual content for real objects that are unknown or unidentified at the time of the development of the application for an augmented reality (AR) environment. For example, at the time of development of an AR application, the application developer may not know the context that the mobile device may operate in and consequently the types or classes of real object and the number of real objects that the AR application may encounter. In one embodiment, the mobile device may detect unknown objects from a physical scene. The mobile device may then associate an object template with the unknown object based on the physical attributes, such as height, shape, size, etc., associated with the unknown object. The mobile device may render a display object at the pose of the unknown object using at least one display property of the object template.
US09607434B2	Apparatus and method for encoding three-dimensional (3D) mesh, and apparatus and method for decoding 3D mesh An apparatus and method for encoding a 3D mesh, and an apparatus and method for decoding the 3D mesh are disclosed. The 3D mesh encoding apparatus may determine mesh information including position information of each of vertices constituting the 3D mesh, and connectivity information among the vertices, based on a level, and may progressively encode the determined mesh information based on the level, thereby reducing an error with an original 3D object when compared to an equal transmission rating.
US09607432B2	Systems and methods for hybrid process mining and manual modeling with integrated continuous monitoring A computer system for hybrid process modeling is provided. A graphical model of a process and transaction events of executed instances of the process are stored. Types of the transactional events are mapped to the elements of the graphical model. A performance values is derived for at least one of the graphical model elements based on transaction events that are associated with that graphical model element. A hybrid version of the graphical model is generated with the derived performance values.
US09607426B1	Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed.
US09607423B2	Shape data generation method and apparatus This shape data generation method include: setting an input shape that has a simple shape that has a same topology as the target shape for a target shape that is a shape of a transformation target identified from image data; identifying first vertices that satisfy a predetermined condition including a first condition that a normal line of a certain vertex of the plural vertices crosses with the target shape, among plural vertices of the input shape; transforming the input shape so that a first vertex is moved in a direction of a normal line of the first vertex by a first distance that is shorter than a distance up to the target shape; and performing the identifying and the transforming a predetermined number of times while changing the input shape after the transforming as the input shape to be processed.
US09607416B2	Device for displaying a trend related to a process variable Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device for displaying process trends related to a process variable of a process plant. The device has a display that has a number of pixels in the horizontal axis in a row in the vertical axis, a calculator that is used for dividing the plurality of data points by the number of pixels in the horizontal axis to get a first value. The display is further used for displaying the plurality of data points in a number of lines in a corresponding column of pixels, the number of lines is the half of the first value. This advantageously also allows the operator to comprehend the shape of the graph retaining the important information of the trend.
US09607415B2	Obscured relationship data within a graph Techniques for generating a visual representation of a graph are described herein. The techniques may include determining a metamodel indicating relationships between objects, and determining rules for obscuring data about the objects of the metamodel. A visual representation of a graph is generated, which visual representation illustrates at least some of the data about the objects and their relationships without illustrating the obscured data.
US09607413B2	Method and apparatus for creating structural drawing A method and an apparatus for creating structural drawings and an electronic device adapted to the method are provided. The method includes setting a reference height for at least one wall, receiving image information regarding at least one wall, generating vectors for the wall of the image information, and generating a structural drawing based on one or more of the generated vectors.
US09607410B2	Method and device for forming surface treatment data A surface of a product is divided into a plurality of patches and a polygon mesh is formed. Sequences of vertexes on borderlines between the adjacent patches are allowed to correspond to each other, and then, a texture is mapped on each of patch units. The vertexes of the polygon mesh displaced in accordance with the mapped texture are connected together to form crimp applied polygon data for each of the patch units. In each of processing stages, since data to be processed can be limited to data of the two adjacent patches at the maximum, a practicable range of a computer is not exceeded due to the restriction of capacity of an operation memory.
US09607407B2	Variable-width differential memory compression A method, in one embodiment, can include performing difference transformation of image samples. In addition, the method can also include performing length selection. Furthermore; the method can include performing packing that includes utilizing varying sized bit fields to produce a compressed representation.
US09607402B1	Calibration of pedestrian speed with detection zone for traffic intersection control Pedestrian detection and counting for traffic intersection control analyzes characteristics of a field of view of a traffic detection zone to determine a location and size of a pedestrian area, and applies protocols for evaluating pixel content in the field of view to identify individual pedestrians. The location and size of a pedestrian area is determined based either on locations of vehicle and bicycle detection areas or on movement of various objects within the field of view. Automatic pedestrian speed calibration with a region of interest for pedestrian detection is accomplished using lane and other intersection markings in the field of view. Detection and counting further includes identifying a presence, volume, velocity and trajectory of pedestrians in the pedestrian area of the traffic detection zone.
US09607399B2	Video feed playback and analysis Systems and methods may provide for detecting motion of an object, capturing a video feed of the motion, analyzing the video feed according to a predefined characteristic of the motion, and playing back a modified video feed. Analyzing the video feed may include measuring an object motion measurement and generating an object motion metric.
US09607397B2	Methods and systems for generating a user-hair-color model Disclosed herein are methods and systems for generating a user-hair-color model. One embodiment takes the form of a process that includes obtaining video data depicting a head of a user. The process also includes determining a set of line segments of pixels of the video data, wherein each line segment in the determined set of line segments intersects an upper contour of the depicted head of the user. The process also includes grouping at least some of the pixels of at least one of the line segments in the determined set of line segments into three sets of pixels based at least in part on respective color data of the pixels. The three sets of pixels include a skin-pixel set, a hair-pixel set, and a background-pixel set. The process also includes updating a user hair-color model based at least in part on the skin-pixel set.
US09607390B2	Rasterization in graphics processing system A technique is provided for performing rasterisation of input primitives to generate graphics fragments to be processed to generate output data. The technique comprises determining a bounding box for an input primitive, and performing a multi-level patch analysis, each patch having an array of grid points defining boundaries of a set of sub-patches within that patch. The technique further comprises, when performing patch analysis of a selected patch, performing a bounding box evaluation step to determine if a condition exists where the bounding box does not cover any of the grid points, or if a special grid point coverage condition exists, and in the presence of the condition, adopting an alternative operation for that selected patch instead of a default operation. The alternative operation is configured to determine whether the primitive at least partially covers any of the sub-patches of the selected patch.
US09607387B2	System and method for optimizing fiducial marker and camera positions/orientations A method for optimizing fiducial marker and camera positions/orientations is realized to simulate camera and fiducial positions and pose estimation algorithm to find best possible marker/camera placement comprises the steps of: acquiring mesh data representing possible camera positions and feasible orientation boundaries of cameras on the environment of tracked object; acquiring mesh data representing possible active marker positions and feasible orientation placements of markers on a tracked object; pose data representing possible poses of tracked object under working conditions; initializing the control parameter for camera placement; create initial solution strings for camera placement; solving marker placement problem for the current camera placement; evaluating the quality of the current LED and camera placement taking pose coverage, pose accuracy, number of placed markers, number of placed camera etc. into account; determining if a stopping criterion is satisfied.
US09607385B2	Adjusting monitored region in tracking scan A method and device for adjusting a monitored region in a tracking scan, comprising: selecting a best match of a positioned image from tracked image(s) as a monitored layer image so as to reduce position deviation of the monitored layer image with respect to the positioned image in a direction perpendicular to a plane on which the positioned image is located; and adjusting a position of a second monitored region on the monitored layer image according to a position of a corresponding first monitored region selected from the positioned image so as to reduce position deviation of the second monitored region with respect to the first monitored region in a plane parallel to the plane on which the positioned image is located.
US09607380B2	Methods and apparatus for quantifying color changes induced by specific concentrations of biological analytes Methods and electronic devices for performing color-based reaction testing of biological materials. The method includes capturing and interpreting digital images of an unexposed and later exposed paddle at various delay times within an automatically calibrated environment. The test paddle includes a unique identification mechanism (UID), a Reference Color Bar (RCB) providing samples of standardized colors for image color calibration, compensation and corrections, and several test-specific sequences of Chemical Test Pads (CTP). The method further includes locating the paddle in the image, extracting the UID and validating the paddle, extracting the RCB and locating the plurality of CTP in each image. The method further reduces image noise in the CTP and calibrates the image automatically according to lighting measurements performed on the RCB. To determine test results, the method further determines several distances between the CTP and its possible trajectory in the color space described by the Manufacturer Interpretation Color Chart.
US09607379B1	Methods for feature analysis on consecutive tissue sections Feature analysis on consecutive tissue sections (FACTS) includes obtaining a plurality of consecutive tissue sections from a tissue sample, staining the sections with at least one biomarker, obtaining a digital image thereof, and identifying one or more regions of interest within a middle of the consecutive tissue sections. The digital images of the consecutive tissue sections are registered for alignment and the one or more regions of interest are transferred from the image of the middle section to the images of the adjacent sections. Each image of the consecutive tissue sections is then analyzed and scored as appropriate. Using FACTS methods, pathologist time for annotation is reduced to a single slide. Optionally, multiple middle sections may be annotated for regions of interest and transferred accordingly.
US09607378B2	Image region mapping device, 3D model generating apparatus, image region mapping method, and image region mapping program An image region mapping device captures a blood vessel through which a contrast medium is passing, serially at first and second photographing angles to acquire plural image sets each including first and second projection images captured at the angles, respectively acquires brightness change information on the medium for a predetermined time period in a first image region and each of a plurality of second image regions after a bifurcation on the first projection image each of a plurality of second image regions after the bifurcation on the second projection image in each image set, the second image regions being candidates corresponding to the first image region, calculates a similarity degree between the information acquired earlier and each information piece acquired later, determines one of the second image regions in accordance with the calculated similarity degrees, and maps the plural vessel image regions.
US09607374B2	Color decomposition in histology The method according to the invention generates a color decomposition of histological tissue image data into density maps, where each density map corresponds to the portion of the original image data that contains one stain/tissue combination. After a microscope captures histological tissue image data from a tissue sample that has been stained with at least one stain, the said stain or stains being light absorbent, the method derives from the histological tissue image data a color mixing matrix with the columns of the matrix being color reference vectors. From this mixing matrix the method derives a density map, when the mixing matrix is well-conditioned, by applying a pseudo-inverse of the mixing matrix to the optical density data, and when the mixing matrix is medially-conditioned, by applying a piece-wise pseudo-inverse of the mixing matrix to the optical density data. The method according to the invention also generates stain/tissue combination efficacy measures.
US09607372B2	Automated bone marrow cellularity determination The invention determines cell to fat ratio statistic, applicable in the field of pathology, in a greatly improved manner over manual or prior art scoring techniques. The cellular areas are identified and displayed in an easy to read format on the computer monitor, printer output or other display means, with average cellularity, nuclear quantity distribution at a glance. These output data are an objective transformation of the subjective visible image that the pathologist or scientist relies upon for diagnosis, prognosis, or monitoring therapeutic perturbations. The invention uses multi-stage thresholding and segmentation algorithms in RGB and HSB spaces, auto-thresholding on red and blue channels in RGB to get the raw working image of all cells, then refines the working image with thresholding on hue and intensity channels in HSB using an adaptive parameter epsilon in entropy mode, and further separates different groups of cells within the same class, by auto-thresholding within the working image region.
US09607370B2	System and methods of inspecting an object A system for use in inspecting an object is provided. The system includes at least one array of visual imaging devices configured to capture a plurality of two-dimensional images of the object. The array is configured to capture a first set of two-dimensional images over a first predetermined interval and a second set of two-dimensional images over a second predetermined interval that is after the first predetermined interval. The system also includes a computing device coupled to the at least one array of visual imaging devices. The computing device is configured to extract point clouds of the object from the first and second sets of two-dimensional images, generate a three-dimensional model of the object from the extracted point clouds, determine variations in the extracted point clouds from the first and second sets of two-dimensional images, and utilize the determined variations to detect potential anomalies in the three-dimensional model.
US09607366B1	Contextual HDR determination A system uses machine learning techniques to train models for determining whether to activate high dynamic range (HDR) imaging in devices. The system may train machine learning components/models based on customized image metrics (such as customized histograms) that can be used across devices. The system may also train HDR systems on non-image data like GPS data, etc. to make improved HDR recommendations based on the context of a particular image.
US09607365B1	Systems and methods for enhancing quality of image media The invention provides median image media quality enhancer. The image media is fed into a computing device which is essentially a burst of images or video to be enhanced. Each frame within the image media is identically exposed and hence neighboring images are used to enhance quality of the image media. For each of the neighboring frames, each pixel of these neighboring frame is moved in order to correspond to the image media. Once all the neighboring frames are processed, these are stacked in order to increase signal to noise ratio to create a composite image. This reduces unwanted spots and luminosity fluctuation from the digitized video.
US09607363B2	Projector, trapezoidal distortion correction method, and storage medium storing trapezoidal distortion correction program A projector includes a projection unit to project an image on a screen; an angle detector to detect shaking of the projection unit; and a trapezoidal distortion correction unit to conduct automatic trapezoidal distortion correction of the image displayed on the screen based on an inclination angle of the projection unit detected by the angle detector, and to enable manual trapezoidal distortion correction of the image displayed on the screen. When the manual trapezoidal distortion correction is conducted after the automatic trapezoidal distortion correction, the trapezoidal distortion correction unit determines whether an angle deviation of the inclination angle exceeds for a given threshold angle for a given time period. When the trapezoidal distortion correction unit determines that the angle deviation exceeds the given threshold angle, the automatic trapezoidal distortion correction is conducted again.
US09607362B2	Compressive imaging using approximate message passing with denoising Various examples of methods and systems are provided for compressive imaging using approximate message passing with denoising. According to an aspect, a method includes applying an approximate message passing (AMP) conversion framework to a plurality of substantially linear measurements for conversion into a plurality of scalar measurements. A denoiser algorithm can be applied to the plurality of scalar measurements to generate a plurality of denoised scalar measurements. Further, a conversion term can be applied to the plurality of denoised scalar measurements for converting the plurality of denoised scalar measurements to a plurality of denoised substantially linear measurements. The plurality of substantially linear measurements can represent two-dimensional or three-dimensional signals.
US09607361B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus performs distortion aberration correction appropriate for each of the cases where the image processing apparatus clips image data by performing electronic image stabilization and does not clip the image data by performing the electronic image stabilization. The image processing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to perform the distortion aberration correction on image data in which distortion aberration has, and a stabilization unit configured to perform clipping from the image data based on a movement of an imaging unit when the image data has been generated. The correction unit reduces an amount of the distortion aberration correction in a case where the stabilization unit does not clip the image data, as compared to a case where the stabilization unit clips the image data.
US09607360B2	Modifying the size of document content based on a pre-determined threshold value Various embodiments for methods and systems for processing documents are disclosed. A size of at least a part of a content in an electronic document is determined. Size of the part of the content is modified based at least on a pre-determined threshold value for size and the determined size. Further, various embodiments for methods and systems for processing N-Up documents are disclosed. One or more page images from an N-Up document are extracted based on an analysis of a content distribution in the N-Up document. A size of a content in at least a part of extracted one or more page images is determined. The size of the content is modified in accordance to a pre-determined threshold value receive from a user.
US09607357B2	Image processing device for displaying moving image and image processing method thereof Methods and Apparatus provide for obtaining a data sequence representative of a three-dimensional parameter space; forming a plurality of coding units by dividing, in three dimensions, the data sequence subject; and generating, for each of the plurality of coding units: (i) a palette defined by two representative values, and (ii) a plurality of indices, each index representing a respective original data point as a value, determined by linear interpolation, to be one of, or an intermediate value between, the representative values, and setting the palette and the plurality of indices for each of the coding units as compressed data.
US09607354B1	Method and system for application broadcast Methods and apparatuses are described for application broadcasting. For one embodiment, pixel data being broadcast from a moderator to one or more participants is divided into tiles. Display data is generated for each tile. Each display data segment (segment) contains the pixel data for the tile, and also contains a tile identifier. The segments are periodically evaluated. If the pixel data has changed, the segment is replaced with the most recent segment corresponding to that tile. A time indicator is also included within each segment for each tile indicating the time at which the segment was updated. A participant DPS requests data from the server and provides the time indicator for the last segment it received. The server then transmits the current segment for each tile that has been updated subsequently. This allows presentation at the participant's DPS of the most current version of the moderator's display screen.
US09607353B2	Load balancing and merging of tessellation thread workloads In one embodiment described herein, a graphics engine with shader unit thread load balancing functionality executes shader instructions from multiple execution threads in a smaller number of execution threads by combining instructions from multiple threads at runtime. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit threads containing less than a minimum number of instructions are combined to minimize the discrepancy between the shortest and longest thread. In one embodiment, threads are merged when they contain a common output register.
US09607352B2	Prediction based primitive sorting for tile based rendering Techniques related to graphics rendering are discussed. Such techniques may include predicting primitive intersection information for tiles of a frame, rendering the frame on a tile-by-tile basis based on the predicted primitive intersection information, and re-rendering any tiles with predicted primitive errors.
US09607351B2	Systems and methods for GPU virtualization A method is provided for sharing access to graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware between multiple client virtual machines, wherein each of the client virtual machines has a high-level application programming interface (API) associated therewith for communicating with the GPU hardware. The method includes virtualizing the GPU by intercepting GPU-specific commands from the plurality of client virtual machines, wherein the commands specific to the GPU are at a lower level than that of the high-level API, and providing the intercepted commands to the GPU hardware.
US09607350B2	Steganographic encoding and decoding This patent document relates generally to encoded information and digital watermarking. One claim recites an image capture device comprising: an optical system; an image sensor on a substrate for capturing imagery provided by the optical system, in which captured imagery includes encoded information, and in which the captured imagery comprises first color information, second color information and third color information; means for compressing the captured imagery captured by said image sensor; means for detecting the encoded information from the captured imagery, in which said detecting utilizes different color information weightings so that at least the first color information and the third color information are weighted differently than one another for detection of the encoded information; and means for providing the encoded information for output or display, once the encoded information is detected. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided as well.
US09607348B2	Position information adding apparatus, position information adding method, and computer program for adding position information and position detection apparatus A position information adding apparatus includes: a reference position setting unit which sets a plurality of reference positions for each of a plurality of pictures contained in digitalized video data; a region setting unit which sets a first position information adding region at a first position defined based on at least any of the plurality of reference positions and a second position information adding region at a second position different from the first position, for each of the plurality of pictures; and a position information embedding unit which embeds a first moving pattern which moves on the pictures in a first temporal period into the first position information adding region and a second moving pattern which moves on the pictures in a second temporal period into the second position information adding region.
US09607346B2	Method and system for dynamic estimation and predictive route generation The preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for dynamic route estimation and prediction using discrete sampled location updates from various mobile devices for the purpose of providing a graphical representation of a mobile device's route along a known network path of map data. The embodiments also provide supplemental route metrics, such as traveled distance, elapsed time, etc., and the capability to assign destination points for the purpose of providing the ability to modify location update points in an application, such as a route planner, and/or to store the dynamically generated route based on various preferences for later retrieval.
US09607343B2	Generating a demand response for an energy-consuming facility A demand response for an energy-consuming facility is disclosed. A demand response is generated by estimating a likelihood of a coincident peak time period, modeling workloads to be scheduled in the energy-consuming facility, determining a workload schedule based on the likelihood of the coincident peak time period and a plurality of utility charging rates, and scheduling the workloads for execution in the energy-consuming facility according to the determined workload schedule.
US09607342B2	GPS-based ticket generation in harvest life cycle information management system and method A system and method is presented for gathering data concerning harvests. Data tickets are generated at a point of origination (i.e., the field), local storage, processing, or a customer location. Data tickets may also be generated for supplies delivered to the field. Implements attached to a vehicle in the field (e.g., a tractor) may provide sensor data over a vehicle communication bus about how a field processing task was performed. A computing device on the vehicle periodically reads the sensor data and records the data along with the current time and GPS position of the vehicle as a data point. A plurality of data points are transmitted to a remote server as a data trail. Data trails from a plurality of vehicles are compared to find points of intersection. Sensor data in the data trails for the points of intersection are examined to determine data related to the transfer of goods between vehicles during the time of intersection.
US09607337B2	Data capture and real time risk controls for electronic markets A distributed, transparent, in-line risk management and traffic capture system that solves securities trading compliance problems. A transparent cut-through sniffer device is coupled with a real-time packet processor to police traffic flows between trading clients and exchange servers.
US09607331B2	Near-duplicate filtering in search engine result page of an online shopping system Reducing near-duplicate entries in online shopping system search results. For each pair of entries in a set of entries, each entry characterizing a product in a data store of an online shopping system and each entry characterized by a set of attributes, determining a distance between the entries in the pair based on the attributes. Determining entry clusters from a graph formed with each determined distance as an edge between nodes representing the entries used to determine the distance, each entry cluster identified by cluster identifier. Returning an ordered list of results responsive to the query from the data store of an online shopping system, filtered as a function of at least one of the distance and the cluster identifier.
US09607329B2	Digital conferencing services marketplace A communication system provides a service provider marketplace that includes a data store storing provider data for a plurality of different service providers. A search or selection component provides user interface displays that allow users to search for and select service providers. A payment component provides a mechanism by which payment for the services can be made by the users.
US09607326B2	Order management system with a decomposition sequence An order management system is provided. The order management system receives an order that includes one or more order lines, fulfillment topology data, and fulfillment flow data. The order management system generates one or more first order components from the order, the fulfillment topology data, and the fulfillment flow data based on a first criteria, where the first criteria is based on a first stage of a decomposition sequence, where the decomposition sequence comprises one or more stages. The order management system determines which of the one or more first order components each order line of the order is to be applied to, based on the first criteria. The order management system stores each order line of the order at each of the determined one or more first order components.
US09607320B2	WiFi proximity messaging Techniques for utilizing APs and messaging service for delivering personalized message to individual mobile devices connected to internet through APs. In one example embodiment, for any particular wireless AP, a set of messages are identified based at least in part on attributes of the service subscriber associated with the particular wireless AP; and the set of messages are distributed to the particular wireless AP for further distribution to wireless devices in the vicinity of the particular wireless AP.
US09607319B2	Motion and gesture-based mobile advertising activation The presentation of advertisements to a user on a mobile communications device is disclosed. A first external input corresponding to a triggering of an advertisement delivery is received on a first input modality. An advertisement overlay is displayed in a graphical user interface in response to receiving the external input. Advertisement invocation instructions are displayed within the advertisement overlay. A second external input is received on a second input modality different from the first input modality. The second external input is translated to a set of quantified values. An advertisement is then displayed within the advertisement overlay in response to a substantial match between the set of quantified values translated from the received second external input to the set of predefined values corresponding to the advertisement invocation instructions.
US09607318B1	Method and system for providing relevant sale event notifications using financial transaction data and location data Financial data associated with a consumer is obtained and analyzed to generate merchant watch list data associated with consumer. Sale events data is obtained associated with one or more sale events being sponsored by one or more merchants. Geographic position data associated with the consumer is the monitored and obtained. The merchant watch list data, the sale events data, and the geographic position data associated with the consumer, is then analyzed to identify matched sale event data representing sale events being sponsored by one or more merchants identified in the merchant watch list data and having sale event location data indicating a sale event location within a defined threshold distance of the approximate current geographic location of the consumer, and/or an anticipated future geographic location of the consumer. Sale event alert data is then provided to the consumer.
US09607313B2	Targeted content streaming banners An apparatus and method for providing a streaming banner promoting one or more items/content on mobile devices are disclosed herein. User activity information is determined based on a user interfacing with a mobile device. The user activity information is transmitted by the mobile device to a server. In response to receiving a streaming banner, the streaming banner is displayed at a pre-determined portion of a screen of the mobile device. The streaming banner recommends one or more applications that targets the user based on the user activity information and an initial application identification source.
US09607311B2	System and methods for conducting surveys Embodiments introduced utilize one action to complete multi-event survey or multiple surveys simultaneously. In addition, users are awarded with benefit for doing surveys. Awards from different surveys may be added together for redemption of a product or gift.
US09607305B2	Inspection apparatus According to one embodiment, an inspection apparatus includes an optical system portion on which a plurality of reflected light rays corresponding to a plurality of observation directions with respect to an optical variable image device are incident and which images the plurality of reflected light rays incident thereon, an imaging portion that images the plurality of reflected light rays imaged by the optical system portion and thereby generates reflected light images corresponding the plurality of respective observation directions, an object relation determination portion that determines whether or not there is a predetermined geometric difference between objects that are contained in reflected light images imaged by the imaging portion and corresponding to different observation directions, and an authenticity determination portion that determines authenticity of the optical variable image device based on a result of the determination by the object relation determination portion.
US09607303B2	Messaging model and architecture A system, architecture and model for facilitating extensible messaging and interaction are provided. The message system may use a messaging architecture that includes a domain message model, and open message model and a wire format. The wire format may implement primitive data types that may be used by the open message model to define additional and/or more complex data formats. The open message model may further specify interaction paradigms, generic messages, and message and transport attributes. The generic messages may include payload data whose meaning and context may be defined using the domain message model. The domain message model may include a content definition model and an item type model for building data and object types and specifying data context and relationships. As such, the message system may use generic messages and formats to create different message and item types.
US09607294B2	Dual validator self-service kiosk Apparatus and methods are provided for a dual validator self-service kiosk (“SSK”). The SSK may include a first validator. The first validator may examine a deposit inserted into the SSK. The SSK may include a second validator. The second validator may examine a tangible item before the SSK dispenses the tangible item. The SSK may retract the tangible item if the tangible item in not collected by a customer. The second validator may examine the tangible item after being retracted by the SSK. The first validator may apply a first examination routine to the deposit. The second validator may apply a second examination routine before the SSK dispenses the tangible item. The second validator may apply a third examination routine to a tangible item retracted by the SSK.
US09607293B2	Method and system for account management and electronic wallet access on a mobile device A method and system are described that facilitate efficient and secured management of a mobile payment account by an electronic wallet on a user portable electronic device, the electronic wallet for conducting payment transactions with a merchant point of sale terminal over a contactless communications link. In an aspect, the electronic wallet provides for the real-time addition of one or more users authorized to use the mobile payment account associated with the electronic wallet from their own respective portable devices, in a secure and efficient manner.
US09607292B1	Method and system for controlling certificate based open payment transactions Methods and systems for controlling certificate-based open payment transactions involving a merchant and a customer utilizing various types of networks and terminals. Prior to accessing a merchant POS terminal or, for example, a merchant website, a customer obtains a certificate from a service provider (SP), such as a bank, certifying his identification (ID) and his relevant financial information, in a form that is understandable by the SP. The SP is capable of performing multiple functions. For example, the SP is capable of acting as a certificate authority when it issues the customer's certificates, an authenticator when it receives private-key encrypted certificates from the customers to be decrypted using the corresponding public-key, and an authorizing authority when it checks the value available in a customer' chosen payment account against the requested purchase or transfer amount.
US09607290B2	Apparatus and method for detecting messages in a parsing process The subject matter discloses a method of handling messages received to an email client of a computerized device, the method comprises detecting the received message, said message is generated by a machine in a structured format; identifying the detected message to be conformant to a structured template related to a computerized application; generating a response upon identifying the message. In some cases, the rules are generated by a server connected to a plurality of computerized devices to create efficient and fast rules and templates.
US09607289B2	Content type filter In one embodiment, a plurality of content items is displayed. The content items are of a plurality of content types. In response to a user selecting a specific content type, only those content items of the specific content type are displayed. In response to the user unselecting the specific content type, all the content types are displayed.
US09607288B2	Method and system for streamlining voting process A method and system for streamlining a voting process performed by a web application is provided. As the web application may require that a voting action is effectuated after the user is registered to vote and also has supplied valid credentials, a voting application may be configured to intercept a request from a user to effectuate voting process directed to the web application, access credentials of the user stored by the web-based social networking application, and provide these credentials to the web application, such that the web application can process the request to effectuate voting process by registering the user to vote and storing the vote information for the user.
US09607287B2	Integrated view of multi-sourced information objects Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface rendering for information objects and provide method, system and computer program product for an integrated view of multi-sourced information objects. In an embodiment of the invention, an attention manager data processing system can be provided. The system can include integrated view logic executing in a computing device and an attention manager user interface generated by program code of the integrated view logic. The user interface can include a grid of quadrants. Each quadrant can correspond to a unique combination of importance and urgency. The quadrant further can include representations of underlying information objects from multiple different sources of information objects. Correspondingly, each information object can include a respective importance and urgency consistent with a corresponding one of the quadrants.
US09607285B1	Entity monitoring for kiva robotic floors Techniques for providing an entity monitoring safety feature in an inventory management system may be described. For example, information that indicates respective locations for a plurality of mobile drive units within an inventory management system may be received. Tracking information may be received from a mobile location unit that is moving within a bounded area around a signal transmitter that is coupled to an entity. The tracking information may include an approximate location of the signal transmitter relative to the mobile location unit. Pathway information may be generated that indicates to the plurality of mobile drive units within the inventory management system to stay outside of a radius distance of the mobile location unit based on the received tracking information. The generated pathway information may be provided to the plurality of mobile drive units to enable safe passage for the entity within the inventory management system.
US09607283B1	Machine or group of machines for monitoring location of a vehicle or freight carried by a vehicle A machine or group of machines for monitoring location of at least one of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle includes a server comprising a central processing unit, a memory, a clock, and a server communication transceiver that receives location information of a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a GPS receiver, a microprocessor and a wireless communication transceiver coupled to the GPS receiver, the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver programmed to receive data sent by a plurality of GPS satellites, calculate location information of the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver and transmit the location information.
US09607281B2	Method and apparatus for activation and deactivation of aircraft container tracking device A tracking system that includes equipment and methodology to determine when the tracked container is in close proximity to an aircraft. In general, the tracking device is deactivated while the aircraft container is close to or on board of the aircraft, and the tracking device is activated while the aircraft container is outside the aircraft. The tracking system includes multiple machine vision sensors associated with the tracking device positioned on the container to identify the curvature associated with the container's surroundings. Activation and deactivation of the tracking device is associated with the information transmitted and received by the tracking device, based on various features of the geographic position of the container.
US09607278B2	Systems and methods for supporting social productivity using relevancy scoring A system comprises a workspace associated with content objects and users, the workspace enabling actors to perform operations on the objects; a data capture module configured to capture scoring factors associated with operations performed, the scoring factors including a number of times a target user has performed operations on the objects, the target user being possibly interested in receiving a notification about the operations performed; a relevance scoring module configured to evaluate the scoring factors associated with the operations performed to generate a relevance score associated with the target user and associated with the operations performed; and a notification module configured to provide a notification to the target user upon satisfaction of a notification threshold condition, satisfaction of the notification threshold condition based on identification of particular operations performed that satisfy relevance threshold conditions, satisfaction of the relevance threshold conditions based on the relevance score associated with the operations performed.
US09607277B2	System and method for crowd sourcing A method for crowd sourcing tasks may include identifying a group of potential candidates for crowd sourcing. Each candidate of the group of potential candidates may be identified based on the candidate being expected to accept a certain type of task. The certain type of task may be at least a task that is performable within a predetermined range of time. The method may also include receiving a request to perform a particular task from a requester. The method may additionally include determining if the particular task is the certain type of task. The method may further include transmitting an offer for performance of the particular task to at least a subgroup of the group of potential candidates in response to the particular task being the certain type of task.
US09607275B2	Method and system for integration of systems management with project and portfolio management A method for scheduling an information technology (IT) project includes receiving a project request at an interface and determining one or more tasks associated with the project request. The method also includes identifying one or more hardware components coupled to a network operable to perform each of the one or more tasks and retrieving a schedule for each of the identified hardware components. The method further includes selecting a hardware component to perform each of the one or more tasks scheduling each of the selected hardware components to perform each of the one or more tasks.
US09607272B1	System and method for training data generation in predictive coding A predictive coding system updates a plurality of training documents for an untrained classification model based on a plurality of additional documents. The plurality of additional documents are selected from a plurality of unlabeled documents based on a decision hyperplane associated with a first trained classification model. The predictive coding system provides the updated plurality of training documents to the untrained classification model to cause the untrained classification model to be retrained and to cause a second trained classification model to be generated.
US09607268B2	Optical rule checking for detecting at risk structures for overlay issues A method and system is provided for detecting at risk structures due to mask overlay that occur during lithography processes. The method can be implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to obtain a simulation of a metal layer and a via, and determine a probability that an arbitrary point (x, y) on the metal layer is covered by the via by calculating a statistical coverage area metric followed by mathematical approximations of a summing function.
US09607259B2	Tag housing asembly for attachment to a bottle neck A tag housing assembly for attaching an electronic tag to an extending neck of a bottle with a perimetrical undercut thereabout. The tag housing assembly includes a tag housing, at least one electronic tag and a retaining device. The tag housing includes a perimetrical exterior side wall extending between a top surface and a base plate to define an interior and an opening extending through the top surface and base plate for receiving the extending neck of the bottle. The at least one electronic tag is located in the interior. The retaining device extends into the opening and defines an adjustable aperture for engaging the extending neck of the bottle. When the tag housing is in a closed position, the retaining device is secured to the neck of the bottle.
US09607255B2	Printing device and method Example systems and related methods may relate to processing and printing print data in the case of an error. Namely, a printing device may include a communication interface and a controller. The controller includes a processor configured to execute instructions. The instructions include receiving multi-page print data in a first file format via a communication interface. The instructions also include when an error condition is determined during print data processing, responsively transmitting an error message via the communication interface and storing an error page location. The instructions further include receiving the print data in a second file format and determining a remainder portion and a discard portion of the print data in the second file format based on the error page location. The instructions further include processing the remainder portion of the print data in the second file format.
US09607254B2	Image recording apparatus, server, and communication system An image recording apparatus includes a controller configured to control an image recorder to execute a recording processing in a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, the controller controls the image recorder to execute the recording processing when a specific-type cartridge has not been connected to a connecting portion and controls the image recorder not to execute the recording processing when the specific-type cartridge has been connected to the connecting portion. In the second mode, the controller controls the image recorder to execute the recording processing in any of a case where the specific-type cartridge has not been connected to the connecting portion and a case where the specific-type cartridge has been connected to the connecting portion. The controller stores first recording information relating to the recording processing executed when the specific-type cartridge has been connected to the connecting portion.
US09607253B2	Printing apparatus and print control method A printing apparatus inputs print data, generates a driving pulse to cause a plurality of print elements of a printhead to perform a printing operation and generates a print data signal based on the input print data to cause the printhead to print on a print medium. At this time, for example, the signal generation timing is controlled so as to determine, based on a driving pulse width, a generation range of the print data signal so as not to overlap with the leading edge and the trailing edge of the driving pulse. Subsequently, the generated driving pulse and the generated print data signal are transferred to the printhead, and the printhead is driven to print on the print medium.
US09607251B2	Image recording apparatus and non-transitory storage medium storing instructions to be executed by the image recording apparatus In an image recording apparatus, when an advance notification about execution of interrupt recording is accepted at a first time point that is a middle of creation of raster data on a first processed page of a first job and when an instruction for execution of the interrupt recording is accepted at a second time point that is a middle of creation of raster data on a second processed page of the first job, a controller continues creation of the raster data on the first job and storing of the created raster data until the second time point. The controller stores yet-to-be-recorded raster data that is a portion of the raster data on the first job and that corresponds to at least one page before the second processed page. The controller releases a storage area storing the raster data created for the first job.
US09607249B2	System and method for adding data to a printed publication Systems and methods for adding data to a printed publication are provided. One method includes receiving variable data and controlling an energy source to at least partially ablate the printed publication based on the variable data. The printed publication is printed on the substrate using the commercial printing press based on fixed data. Controlling the energy source to at least partially ablate the printed publication includes, after the printed publication has been printed on the substrate by the commercial printing press based on the fixed data, controlling the energy source to remove a portion of the printed publication based on the variable data.
US09607244B2	Image processing device, system, image processing method, and image processing program Disclosed is an image processing device that includes: a storage unit that holds model information including information indicating a plurality of feature points of a detection object; a correspondence-relationship determination unit that extracts a plurality of feature points included in an input image as a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional image and that determines a correspondence relationship between an extracted plurality of feature points and a plurality of feature points of the model information; and a position estimating unit that estimates, based on the correspondence relationship, one or a plurality of second positions of the input image corresponding to one or a plurality of first positions set relatively to the detection object. The one or plurality of first positions is included in a point, a line, or a region.
US09607240B2	Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method, image capturing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for focus bracketing An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit and an arranging unit. The obtaining unit obtains a first image, a second image, and a third image. The first image is an image captured with the focus set at a first distance. The second image is an image captured with the focus set at a second distance different from the first distance. The third image is an image captured using an f-number larger than an f-number used in capturing of the first image and the second image. The arranging unit arranges at least a part of the first image and at least a part of the second image at a position based on the third image.
US09607231B2	Use of relatively permanent pigmented or vascular skin mark patterns in images for personal identification Embodiments include methods, devices, software, and systems for identifying a person based on relatively permanent pigmented or vascular skin mark (RPPVSM) patterns in images. Locations of RPPVSMs in different images of people are point matched, and a correspondence probability that the point matched RPPVSMs are from different people is calculated. Other embodiments are also described. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09607228B2	Parts based object tracking method and apparatus The method and apparatus segment parts from a main target image, represent each part as a vertex in a spanning tree, use a detector to generate a confidence map of a location of each part in a succeeding video frame and apply scale change to detector sliding windows centered about each pixel in the part location image. In the succeeding video frame, the target location is sampled and a tracking probability is generated for each part bounding box, with the tracking probability having the maximum value being selected as the location of the target in the succeeding video frame.
US09607225B2	Method for detecting target objects in a surveillance region The present application presents methods and apparatuses for detecting target objects in an image sequence of a monitoring region. In some examples, such methods may include adjusting pixel values of images of the image sequence for interference components associated with at least one interfering object, generating the interference components associated with the at least one interfering object that is situated in the monitoring region, searching the image sequence for the target objects based on the adjusted pixel values, detecting a start of a predetermined sequence of motions associated with the interfering object, and computing an instantaneous position of the at least one interfering object during the predetermined sequence of motions, wherein adjusting the pixel values of the images is based upon the instantaneous position.
US09607223B2	Systems and methods for defining and analyzing video clusters based on video image frames Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a first video represented based on a first set of image frames. A first subset of image frames can be extracted from the first set of image frames. The first subset of image frames can be compared to one or more image frames associated with a collection of video clusters. It can be determined that at least a threshold quantity of image frames in the first subset matches, within an allowable deviation, at least some image frames associated with a first video cluster included the collection of video clusters. The first video cluster can be defined to include the first video.
US09607220B1	Image-based vehicle speed estimation Methods and systems for estimating the speed of passing vehicles based on License Plate Recognition (LPR) image information are described herein. The distance traversed by a vehicle between image frames is estimated based on a difference between a pixel location of a tracking point on the vehicle in a first image and a second pixel location of the tracking point in second image of the vehicle. In some embodiments, the displacement identified in the images is converted to a projected displacement on the roadway surface based on the mapping between pixel locations within the field of view of the image sensor and locations on the surface of the roadway. The projected displacement is corrected by accounting for the difference in height of the camera module and tracking point over the roadway surface. An estimate of vehicle speed is calculated from the corrected displacement and the elapsed time between image frames.
US09607218B2	Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium storing program A plurality of regions corresponding to respective attributes in an image are detected, and a target region serving as a thumbnail image out of the plurality of regions is determined. Thumbnail image data is generated from data corresponding to the determined target region.
US09607216B2	Identifying updated content in images Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for analyzing an image. The method includes one or more processors identifying a document that includes (i) at least one image and (ii) unstructured text that is situated proximate to the image, wherein both the image and the unstructured text are concurrently displayed in the document. The method further includes identifying one or more potential locations depicted in the image included in the identified document, based on an analysis of the unstructured text that is situated proximate to the image. The method further includes identifying a set of images of a first potential location from the identified one or more potential locations. The method further includes determining whether an image in the set of images of the first potential location substantially matches the image included in the identified document.
US09607214B2	Tracking at least one object Tracking at least one object is disclosed. Initially, four or more first images are received showing a first object. First static and dynamic characteristics and second static and dynamic characteristics of the first object are determined. The second static characteristic is compared to the first static characteristic and the second dynamic characteristic is compared to the first dynamic characteristic. It is then determined that the first object is moving.
US09607213B2	Body scan A depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device. The depth image may then be analyzed to determine whether the depth image includes a human target. For example, the depth image may include one or more targets including a human target and non-human targets. Each of the targets may be flood filled and compared to a pattern to determine whether the target may be a human target. If one or more of the targets in the depth image includes a human target, the human target may be scanned. A skeletal model of the human target may then be generated based on the scan.
US09607211B2	Face recognition apparatus, system and method for managing users based on user grouping A face recognition apparatus comprising: a database that stores face information mapped to each corresponding user; a face recognition unit configured to recognize the face information of a user; a user management unit configured to classify the face information into groups of the users of which the face information is not similar between one another so that the users having the similar face information does not fall within the same groups to store the classified face information in the database.
US09607209B2	Image processing device, information generation device, image processing method, information generation method, control program, and recording medium for identifying facial features of an image based on another image A feature value extraction section extracts a feature value from a pixel or a group of pixels of a sampling point for every plurality of sampling points for a reference point with respect to a region point on an image, and extracts a group of feature values with respect to the reference point; the location information identification section references an LRF function indicating a correspondence of the group of feature values with respect to the reference point and the location information indicating a relative location of the region point with respect to the reference point to identify the location information corresponding to the group of feature values extracted by the feature value extraction section, and the region point identification section assumes the location indicated by the location information identified by the location information identification section as a region point of the object.
US09607208B2	Analyzing a skin condition from a video An image analysis apparatus that analyzes a skin condition from a video of the face of a subject captured with an imaging part includes a tracking part configured to track the amount of changes of multiple tracking points arranged in advance in an analysis region of the face based on a change in the expression of the face included in the video, and obtain the compression ratio of the skin in the analysis region based on the amount of changes, and a skin condition analysis part configured to analyze the skin condition of the subject based on the compression ratio obtained by the tracking part.
US09607204B2	Biometric information processing apparatus, method, and recording medium A biometric information processing apparatus, a method for processing biometric information, and a biometric information processing program are provided for analyzing biometric information that is obtained by combining and reconstructing two or more captured partial biometric images, and a mismatching region is extracted from the combined biometric image. Then, a mismatching region is excluded from the biometric image, and a proper region suitable for identification is extracted. Accordingly, false rejection or the like may be avoided. Moreover, the reliability of biometric identification may be improved, and the number of times of asking a user to reinput his/her biometric information may be reduced. Hence, the convenience is enhanced.
US09607203B1	Biometric sensing device with discrete ultrasonic transducers A biometric sensing system includes discrete ultrasonic transducers, a first electrode layer disposed over a first surface of the discrete ultrasonic transducers, and a second electrode layer disposed over a second surface of the discrete ultrasonic transducers. The first electrode layer includes discrete electrode members. Each discrete electrode member spans two or more discrete ultrasonic transducers. The second electrode layer includes discrete electrode elements, with a discrete electrode element disposed over the second surface of one ultrasonic transducer. Drive circuitry is operably connected to the first electrode layer, and readout circuitry is operably connected to the second electrode layer.
US09607202B2	Methods of generating trophectoderm and neurectoderm from human embryonic stem cells Methods for inducing differentiation of stem cells into trophectoderm, neurectoderm, or progeny cells thereof are described, and mathematical and statistical image analysis methods and systems, for example, to identify differentiated cells and screen for agents which modulate differentiation are provided for separate or combined use.
US09607194B2	Half-duplex passive transponder A half-duplex passive transponder including: a resonant circuit including an antenna and input capacitor and configured to allow an electrical signal to oscillate in the resonant circuit when periodically receiving across the antenna an activation signal from a reader; at least one switch between the input capacitor and a storage capacitor so the two capacitors are in parallel when the switch is turned on; a peak voltage detector configured to measure amplitude of the electrical signal oscillating in the resonant circuit; and a variable voltage threshold determination circuit configured to trigger each of plucking pulses when voltage of the oscillating electrical signal substantially attains a variable voltage threshold in a respective period before an extremum of the oscillating electrical signal and in a half-cycle of the extremum, to thus deliver plucking pulses during a transmission period in the resonant circuit to maintain a certain amplitude of the oscillating electrical signal.
US09607188B2	Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag(s) and sensor(s) A passive radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor is provided. This passive RFID sensor includes at least one antenna, at least one processing module, and a wireless communication module. The at least one antenna has an impedance that may vary with an environment in which the sensor is placed. Additionally, the antenna impedance might be permanently changed in response to an environmental variation or an event. The at least one processing module couples to the antenna and has a tuning module that may vary a reactive component impedance coupled to the antenna in order to change a system impedance. The system impedance includes both the antenna impedance and the reactive component impedance. The tuning module then produces an impedance value representative of the reactive component impedance. A memory module may store the impedance value which may then later be communicated to an RFID reader via the wireless communication module. The RFID reader may then exchange the impedance value representative of the reactive components of impedance with the RFID reader such that the RFID reader or another external processing unit may process the impedance value in order to determine environmental conditions at the inductive loop. These environmental conditions may include but are not limited to temperature, humidity, wetness, or proximity of the RFID reader to the passive RFID sensor.
US09607183B2	System for controlling user access to a service A system for controlling user access to a service includes a read device that reads a payment card of a user, and a first control block coupled an entry gate determines whether online payment authorization should be requested for the payment card. A first memory stores a hot list indicating payment cards for which the first control block denies user access to the service. If the online payment authorization is denied for the payment card, the first control block adds the payment card to the hot list. A further read device is configured to read the payment card, and a second control block coupled to the further read device controls a second gate after determining whether the payment card is on the hot list stored in a second memory coupled to the second control block, the hot list being updated with modifications via a network.
US09607182B1	Universal emergency power-off switch security device A security device for a universal emergency power-off (UEPO) switch of a computer system enclosure involves a plate body having a first and second portion, the first portion has a length and width sufficient to allow it to be rigidly constrained, the second portion has: a surface including multiple openings to allow for ventilation while substantially impeding access to the UEPO switch, a port through which system identification information can be viewed, and a hand grip near an end of the second portion including surface texturing sufficient to capture and retain epithelial cells from a person who grips the hand grip. The plate body also has a deformation region such that, when the first portion is rigidly constrained, application of a force, directed within a range from 0° to about 45° from a right angle to the surface, will cause plastic deformation of the plate body within the deformation region.
US09607181B2	Information processing device and portable settlement terminal device An information processing device includes a first information processing unit that is accommodated in a housing, and in which a first input display section is provided on an operational surface of the housing, and a tamper-resistant secure second information processing unit that is accommodated in front of the first information processing unit in the housing gripped by an operator, and in which a second input display section is provided in front of the first input display section on the operational surface. Further, in the information processing device, for example, a secure state display section that indicates a secure mode in authentication input, or indicates a non-secure mode in a case other than the authentication input is disposed on the operational surface. Even when a secure portion and a non-secure portion are present together, security of authentication information is secured, and an operator's mistake or an incorrect operation is suppressed.
US09607175B2	Privacy safety manager system A method is provided for accessing user personal information. In such method, personal information belonging to a particular user is stored at a user information processing system such as a user computer. A form may then be displayed on the user information processing system. A user-provided recall input can then be received at the user information processing system and the fact of its receipt can be indicated on the form. Using the recall input, the stored user personal information can be accessed for processing in connection with the displayed form. Display of information at the user information processing system may then be manipulated based on a result of the processing.
US09607172B2	Electronic data security apparatus An apparatus for providing security for an integrated circuit (IC) chip is disclosed. The apparatus may include the IC chip, attached to a surface of a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB may include a first, electrically insulative, conformal coating layer attached to the PCB surface and to exposed IC chip surfaces. The PCB may also include a Wheatstone bridge circuit to indicate changes to a second, X-ray opaque, optically opaque and electrically resistive, conformal coating layer. The circuit may include four resistors, formed from second conformal coating layer regions, four sets of electrically conductive pads on the PCB, each set electrically connected to a resistor of the four resistors. The circuit may also include a voltage source, connected to two conductive pads and a monitoring device, connected to another two conductive pads and configured to detect a change of resistance of the Wheatstone bridge.
US09607170B2	Compromise free cloud data encryption and security A cloud data encryption and security system includes a central computing authority and a network of computing devices. At least some of the computing devices are pod computing devices physically hosted by an operator. The pod computing devices include a central processing unit and a computer readable storage media in data communication with the central processing unit. Data is encrypted in the computer readable storage media so that the owner can access the data but the operator cannot access the data.
US09607169B2	Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touch screen; and a controller configured to receive a user signature that identifies a user and has a predetermined trace on the touch screen, and enter a user-only accessible folder based on the received user signature.
US09607159B2	Intelligent key selection and generation A method, computer program product, and system for selecting and generating a key to perform a cryptographic operation are described. The method includes receiving one or more inputs representing criteria for the key, the one or more inputs excluding an explicit identification of the key and one of the one or more inputs specifying the cryptographic operation; retrieving, from a memory device, information corresponding with the one or more inputs; selecting and generating the key based on the one or more inputs and the information; and performing the cryptographic operation using the key.
US09607158B2	Proxy computing system, computing apparatus, capability providing apparatus, proxy computing method, capability providing method, program, and recording medium A computing apparatus outputs τ1 and τ2 corresponding to a ciphertext x, a capability providing apparatus uses τ1 to correctly compute f(τ1) with a probability greater than a certain probability and sets the result of the computation as z1, uses τ2 to correctly compute f(τ2) with a probability greater than a certain probability and sets the result of the computation as z2, the computing apparatus generates a computation result u=f(x)bx1 from z1, generates a computation result v=f(x)ax2 from z2, and outputs ub′va′ if the computation results u and v satisfy a particular relation, where G and H are groups, f(x) is a function for obtaining an element of the group G for xεH, X1 and X2 are random variables having values in the group G, x1 is a realization of the random variable X1, and x2 is a realization of the random variable X2.
US09607152B1	Detect encrypted program based on CPU statistics Techniques are presented for detecting malware in an executable. The method includes receiving an executable to evaluate for malware, emulating an execution of the executable up to a first count of instructions, determining a number of cache misses that occur while emulating the executable up to the first count of instructions, comparing the number of cache misses to a threshold, and upon determining the number of cache misses exceeds the threshold, identifying the executable as potentially containing malware.
US09607149B2	System and method of monitoring and controlling application files A system and method for updating a system that controls files executed on a workstation. The workstation includes a workstation management module configured to detect the launch of an application. A workstation application server receives data associated with the application from the workstation. This data can include a hash value. The application server module can determine one or more categories to associate with the application by referencing an application inventory database or requesting the category from an application database factory. The application database factory can receive applications from multiple application server modules. The application database factory determines whether the application was previously categorized by the application database factory and provides the category to the application server module. Once the application server module has the category, it forwards a hash/policy table to the workstation management module. Upon receipt of the hash/policy table, the workstation management module applies the policy that is associated with the launched application to control access to the application on the workstation.
US09607148B1	Method and apparatus for detecting malware on a computer system Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for detecting malware on a target computer system is described. A threat profile is obtained at the target computer, the threat profile having manifestation information for known malware, the manifestation information including effects of the known malware on computer systems infected by the known malware. Using the threat profile, at least a portion of the manifestation information is detected on the target computer. A confidence level for detection of potential malware is determined based on the at least a portion of the manifestation information detected. The potential malware on the target computer is convicted as malware for remediation if the confidence level satisfies a threshold confidence level.
US09607146B2	Data flow based behavioral analysis on mobile devices Methods, devices and systems for detecting suspicious or performance-degrading mobile device behaviors intelligently, dynamically, and/or adaptively determine computing device behaviors that are to be observed, the number of behaviors that are to be observed, and the level of detail or granularity at which the mobile device behaviors are to be observed. The various aspects efficiently identify suspicious or performance-degrading mobile device behaviors without requiring an excessive amount of processing, memory, or energy resources.
US09607143B2	Provisioning account credentials via a trusted channel Disclosed are various embodiments for provisioning account credentials via a trusted channel. An identification of an account is received. A security credential reset corresponding to the account is requested. The account is linked to a trusted channel of communication for reset purposes. A security credential communication corresponding to the account is received via the trusted channel of communication. The security credential communication may be parsed to obtain a token.
US09607141B2	Mobile terminal and control method thereof The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal displays a plurality of figures arranged in a first composition on a touch screen when a specific mode is locked, rearranges the plurality of figures in a second composition different from the first composition upon receiving a specific input, and determines whether to unlock the specific mode on the basis of a pattern which is input using the plurality of figures arranged in the first or second composition.
US09607139B1	Map-based authentication Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for map-based authentication are provided herein. A method includes establishing a set of cryptographic information, wherein said set of cryptographic information comprises (i) at least one graphical-based input element and (ii) one or more graphical-based input sub-elements derived from said at least one graphical-based input element, wherein said at least one graphical-based input element comprises at least one given map and wherein said one or more graphical-based input sub-elements comprise one or more points of interest on said at least one given map; generating a prompt via a computing device interface in connection with an authentication request to access a protected resource associated with the computing device; processing input cryptographic information entered via the computing device interface in response to the prompt against the set of cryptographic information; and resolving the authentication request based on said processing.
US09607138B1	User authentication and verification through video analysis Approaches utilize image information to not only identify a user, but also verify that the user is actually a physical person and not a false representation of that user. For example, a computing device can utilize image information with a facial recognition process in order to verify an identity of a current user of the device. A fingerprint or other verification metric can be generated from the image information and can be used to verify that the user is actually a physical human user instead of a representation (e.g., photo) of a human user. The fingerprint can include a number of cues, such as a shape of the face, a stereo disparity signature of the face, facial feature movement, as well as a presence of a human pulse. The cues can be combined and utilized for authenticating a user into the device as well as for verifying that the user is actually a physical person and not a false representation of that user.
US09607137B2	Verbal command processing based on speaker recognition For verbal command processing, a phoneme module selects recognition phonemes from a phoneme input stream. A user recognition module selects a user profile for a user recognized based on the recognition phonemes. The command module processes a command concurrently identified from the phoneme input stream based on the user profile.
US09607134B2	System and method for protected publication of sensitive documents Protected publication of sensitive documents with authentication and accountability enables storing and sharing confidential files, while reducing risk that a recipient will distribute and share the file information with unauthorized recipients. Every user request for an original file generates a unique provided file based on the original file, the user request, and configuration information. The provided file has characteristics that make the provided file based on a first user request unique from any other provided file based on any other user request. Unique characteristics include changing the format of the original file to another format for the provided file, altering file properties, altering file content, and watermarking.
US09607133B1	Method and apparatus for watermarking binary computer code A method and apparatus for inserting a watermark into a compiled computer program. A location process specifies an insertion point in the compiled program and a watermark generating process inserts a watermark, based on data to be encoded, into the program at the insertion point. The location process is also utilized to specify the location of watermark data to be decoded.
US09607131B2	Secure and efficient content screening in a networked environment Methods, devices, and computer program products facilitate the application of a content use policy based on watermarks that are embedded in a content. Watermark extraction and content screening operations, which can include the application of content usage enforcement actions, may be organized such that some or all of the operations can be conducted at different times by different devices. These operations can be conducted by one or more trusted devices that reside in a networked environment. The authenticity of various devices can be verified through the exchange of certificates that can further enable such devices to ascertain capabilities of one another. Based on the ascertained capabilities, an operational configuration for conducting watermark extraction and content screening can be determined.
US09607128B2	Detection and correction of jumps in real-time PCR signals Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for detecting and potentially invalidating or correcting jump errors in data from growth processes. A jump error can be identified by determining a second derivative of the data set, and identifying two consecutive cycles with opposite signs in the second derivative. Once a jump error has been detected, the data set can be invalidated or corrected based on various criteria. Whether to invalidate or correct can be based on an absolute jump height, a relative jump height (e.g., relative to the net growth or relative to the baseline), an absolute location (cycle number) of the jump, or a relative location. In one implementation, the jump can be corrected by subtracting a jump height from points subsequent to the jump or by adding the jump height to points prior to the jump.
US09607125B1	Context-aware reliability checks Embodiments of an electromigration (EM) check scheme to reduce a pessimism on current density limits by checking wire context. This methodology, in an embodiment, includes applying existing electronic design automation (EDA) flows and tools to identify potentially-failing wires based on a worst-case EM check using conservative foundry current density limits. A more accurate, context-specific check can be performed on the potentially-failing wires to eliminate one or more of the potentially-failing wires if those wires do not experience worst-case conditions and meet current density limits based on an actual context of those wires. A designer can correct remaining wires which are not eliminated by the context-specific check.
US09607119B1	Simulating effects of temperature on acoustic microwave filters A method of designing an acoustic microwave filter comprises generating a proposed filter circuit design having an acoustic resonant element with a defined admittance value, introducing a lumped capacitive element in parallel and a lumped inductive element in series with the resonant element, selecting a first capacitance value for the capacitive element and a first inductance value for the inductive element, thereby creating a first temperature modeled filter circuit design, simulating the first temperature modeled filter circuit design at a first operating temperature, thereby generating a first frequency response, selecting a second capacitance value for the capacitive element and a second inductance value for the inductive element, thereby creating a second temperature modeled filter circuit design, simulating the second temperature modeled filter circuit design at a second operating temperature, thereby generating a second frequency response, and comparing the first and second frequency responses to the frequency response requirements.
US09607118B1	Evaluating on-chip voltage regulation A linear circuit simulator can be supplied with a linear power distribution model of an integrated circuit (IC) and two sets of voltage regulator equivalent resistances. The linear circuit simulator can then be used to calculate two voltages, at a sense point of the IC, corresponding to the two sets of voltage regulator equivalent resistances. The two sets of voltage regulator equivalent resistances and the two voltages at the IC sense point can be used to interpolate a slope of a resistance versus voltage curve of the linear power distribution model. The slope can be used to calculate an updated set of voltage regulator equivalent resistances, which can be used by the linear circuit simulator to calculate a set of performance metrics and an updated voltage at the sense point of the IC.
US09607117B2	Method and apparatus for calculating delay timing values for an integrated circuit design A method of calculating at least one delay timing value for at least one setup timing stage within an integrated circuit design includes applying Negative/Positive Bias Temperature Instability (N/PBTI) compensation margins to delay values for elements within the at least one setup timing stage, and calculating the at least one delay timing value for the at least one setup timing stage based at least partly on the N/PBTI compensation margins applied to the delay values. The method further includes identifying at least partially equivalent elements within the parallel timing paths of the at least one setup timing stage, and applying reduced N/PBTI compensation margins to delay values for the identified at least partially equivalent elements within parallel timing paths of the at least one setup timing stage.
US09607107B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method To provide a method for displaying a list of contents divided in plural pages by saving a trouble for finding the desired contents. If the user puts (hovers) a cursor over an index for displaying a divided partial list, the attribute values of the contents included in the partial list corresponding to the index are displayed. Also, it is suitable that the attribute values displayed at this time are configured so that the attribute values used for sort may be displayed as a tooltip.
US09607102B2	Task switching in dialogue processing Disclosed methods and systems are directed to task switching in dialog processing. The methods and systems may include activating a primary task, receiving, one or more ambiguous natural language commands, and identifying a first candidate task for each of the one or more ambiguous natural language commands. The methods and system may also include identifying, for each of the one or more ambiguous natural language commands and based on one or more rules, a second candidate task of the plurality of tasks corresponding to the ambiguous natural language command, determining whether to modify at least one of the one or more rules-based task switching rules based on whether a quality metric satisfies a threshold quantity, and when the second quality metric satisfies the threshold quantity, changing the task switching rule for the corresponding candidate task from a rules-based model to the optimized statistical based task switching model.
US09607093B2	Method and system for operating multiple web pages with anti-spoofing protection Method and system for operating tabbed browsing with anti-spoofing protection. Tabbed browsing operates to detect pop-up dialogs sent from malicious web pages operating in a background browser. Keystrokes and keyboard messages are prevented from being delivered to background browsers. Unauthorized movement of background browsers are detected. URLs are inspected before being saved or restored.
US09607092B2	Mapping method and system A method comprises the steps of: transmitting a map request from a client computer to a server; receiving in the client computer data representing a map from a map server; receiving, in the client computer, dynamic, location-based data from a content provider separately from the data representing the map; generating within the client computer a rendering of the dynamic, location-based data overlaid on the map; and displaying the rendering on the client computer.
US09607090B2	Computer implemented methods and apparatus for recommending events Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for recommending an event to a user. In some implementations, one or more servers receive information identifying a plurality of events. The one or more servers store data of the plurality of events in a first one or more data tables having an action field, an item field, and a user field, and analyze the data of the first one or more data tables to generate one or more pairs, each pair including information identifying a set of events and a target event. The one or more servers may calculate a similarity score for each of the one or more pairs and store the respective similarity score in a second one or more data tables having a set field, a target event field, and a similarity score field.
US09607086B2	Providing prevalence information using query data In one example, a data security system may determine prevalence of a file based query data for an object (e.g., a file or a hash or a file). An example algorithm may provide using a statistically justifiable estimate of the prevalence while storing few data records, and therefore may provide prevalence information in O(1) time complexity (i.e., constant time). Such an algorithm may be applied in near real-time to provide, e.g., an immediate response to a query for the prevalence of a file.
US09607085B2	Hierarchical diff files A method of organizing a data in a database system using a swarm database system that has one or more nodes comprising one or more processors and memory, the memory of the one or more nodes storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors. Identifying data to store in one or more tables on a bucket, wherein the bucket is a allocation of a partitioned storage in a node of the one or more nodes. Assigning to each of the identified data an identifier and a data storage hierarchical level of a plurality of hierarchical levels.
US09607084B2	Assigning a single master identifier to all related content assets Assigning a single master identifier to all related content assets. Memory is provided for storing content assets and metadata associated with each of the content assets, wherein the metadata includes a plurality of metadata field entries. A processor is coupled to the memory. The processor is configured for analyzing the metadata associated with each of the content assets to produce correlations between metadata field entries associated therewith, identifying related content assets by determining content assets having a predetermined correlation between metadata field entries and assigning a single, unique asset identifier to the related content assets.
US09607083B2	Audio systems and related devices and methods An audio system including an audio playback device that is configured to operatively connect to a plurality of digital audio sources for playback of content from the digital audio sources and each of the audio playback devices including a set of preset indicators. Each preset indicator in the set of preset indicators is configured to have assigned to it an entity associated with one of the plurality of digital audio sources. A first control device is wirelessly coupled to the audio playback device via a first wireless communication interface and includes a first level of control functionality while a second control device is wirelessly coupled to the audio playback device via a second wireless communication interface and includes a second level of control functionality that is greater than the first level of control functionality.
US09607077B2	Method or system for recommending personalized content Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to recommend content to a user.
US09607071B2	Managing a distributed database across a plurality of clusters A multi-cluster database management system is disclosed that distributes and manages data across a multi-cluster database through the use of cluster partitions. The multi-cluster database management system assigns cluster partitions to clusters of the multi-cluster database. The multi-cluster database management system can evenly or substantially evenly divide the cluster partitions and associated data among the clusters of the multi-cluster database. The multi-cluster database management system can scale in or out by adding or removing clusters from the multi-cluster database when needed or desired. Once a cluster is added or removed, the multi-cluster database management system re-balances the cluster partitions and the associated data across the clusters of the modified multi-cluster database.
US09607070B2	Checkpoint capture and tracking in a high availability system The present disclosure includes a method for transferring checkpoint information of a primary virtual machine from a primary host to a secondary host that includes, by the primary host, capturing checkpoint information from the primary virtual machine to a primary holding buffer on the primary host, generating a first number of partition state records from the checkpoint information, transmitting the first number of partition state records to the secondary host, receiving acknowledgements from the secondary host for a second number of partition state records, and tracking the second number of partition state records acknowledged by the secondary host.
US09607067B2	Synchronization of time between different simulation models Embodiments relate to a method and computer program product for generating a composite simulated model. A method includes receiving a specification request for generating a set of target time-series data from a set of source time-series data and obtaining specification information relating to the set of source time-series data, obtaining specification information relating to the set of target time-series data, and obtaining the source time-series data. The method also includes comparing the source and target specification information to determine if the set of source time-series data are time-aligned with the set of target time-series data and converting the set of source time-series data to the set of target time-series data upon determination that time alignment is needed.
US09607062B1	Data locality in data integration applications A computer-implemented method includes identifying a logical node. The logical node is associated with one or more source stages. The computer-implemented method further includes identifying one or more file block components. The one or more file block components include a retrieval target for at least one of the one or more source stages. The computer-implemented method further includes identifying one or more physical nodes and determining, for each of the one or more physical nodes, a degree value. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
US09607061B2	Using views of subsets of nodes of a schema to generate data transformation jobs to transform input files in first data formats to output files in second data formats Provided is a method for processing input data in a storage system and in communication with a repository. Views are generated that comprise a tree of nodes selected from a subset of nodes in a hierarchical representation of a schema. The views are saved to the repository. At least one of the views are used to create a job comprising a sequence of data transformation steps to transform the input data described by input schemas to the output data described by output schemas.
US09607059B2	Intelligent data mining and processing of machine generated logs According to some embodiments, a method and an apparatus of analyzing log files comprises sampling a log and determining a structure associated with the log file based on the sampling and a pattern within the structure. If the structure and the pattern are stored in a repository, data from the log file will be exported into a database based on the determined pattern.
US09607057B2	System and method for building multiple online legal research applications The present inventors devised, among other things, an application development system and method. One exemplary method entails providing a set of legal research application feature or functions and receiving a first configuration file from a user, selectively enabling or disabling one or more of the features to define a first legal research application on a first server for a first country. The method further entails receiving a second configuration file from a user, which similarly selectively enables or disables one or more of the features to define a second legal research application on a second server for a second country. The configuration files also customize the user interfaces accord to brand specific criteria for each of the countries.
US09607054B2	Displaying list of multiple contents An information processing apparatus which makes it possible to easily find a page on which a desired content is allocated when many contents are displayed separately on a plurality of pages. Contents are classified into a plurality of groups based on attribute information on the contents. One tab is selected from among a displayed plurality of tabs corresponding to the groups. Contents in a group corresponding to the selected tab are displayed in a predetermined display area. The attribute information on the contents is displayed near the plurality of tabs. First attribute information on a first content in a first group corresponding to a first tab and second attribute information on a second content in a second group corresponding to a second tab displayed next to the first tab are compared, and based on a comparison result, the second attribute information is displayed near the second tab.
US09607050B2	Computer implemented method and device for ranking items of data A computer implemented method of ranking items of data stored in a database comprising a plurality of records, wherein each record is associated with one or more items of data. The method includes generating a concordance of the items of data associated with the records in the database. Each record is assigned to a first group of records or to a second group of records. For each item of data a first indicator is determined representative of its occurrences in the records of the first group. For each item of data a second indicator is determined representative of its occurrences in the records of the second group. For each item of data a score is determined representative of a discriminative power of that item of data on the basis of the first and second indicator of that item of data.
US09607048B2	Generation of synthetic context frameworks for dimensionally constrained hierarchical synthetic context-based objects A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product derives and utilizes a context object to generate a synthetic context-based object. A context object for a non-contextual data object is derived by contextually searching a document, which contains multiple instances of the non-contextual data object, according to a profile of a particular user. The non-contextual data object is associated with the derived context object to define a synthetic context-based object, where the non-contextual data object ambiguously relates to multiple subject-matters, and where the context object provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from the multiple subject-matters, of the non-contextual data object. The synthetic context-based object is then associated with a data store in a data structure that contains heterogeneous data stores having different formats. A dimensionally constrained hierarchical synthetic context-based object library for multiple synthetic context-based objects is then constructed for handling requests for data stores from the particular user.
US09607047B2	Topical search system A topical search computer system identifies topics from various definitional (i.e., data) sources. The system generates a catalog of different topics from the data sources. Topics with similar names are differentiated by the system based on the context in which each topic is used. The context for a topic is represented by a context vector, which describes the co-occurrence relationships between the topic and other topics derived from the data sources. Because the system has computed a context for each topic, the system can provide improved search results responsive to user queries for information.
US09607045B2	Progressive query computation using streaming architectures The described implementations relate to processing of electronic data. One implementation is manifest as a technique that can include obtaining a relational query that references one or more data items and associating progress intervals with the data items. The technique can also include converting the relational query into a corresponding streaming query, and providing the streaming query and the data items with the progress intervals to a stream engine that produces incremental results of the query. For example, the progress intervals can be based on row numbers of a relational database table. The progress intervals can be used to define event lifetimes of streaming events that are provided as inputs to the stream engine.
US09607044B2	Systems and methods for searching multiple related tables Methods and systems for performing a query over joined tables in the context of inexact matching provide efficient search engine functionality. The systems and methods are used to perform an efficient query on a parent table and joined child tables. Search grams are determined based on the query and parent records and child records are scanned for the search grams. Gram scores are computed based on a degree of matching between the parent and child records and the search grams.
US09607042B2	Systems and methods for optimizing database queries A computer-based method for optimizing database queries is provided. The method uses a server computer device including a processor communicatively coupled to a database. The method includes receiving a main query requesting data from a partitioned database table within the database. The partitioned database table includes a plurality of partitions. The method also includes determining a partition list. The partition list includes two or more partitions of the plurality of partitions and excludes at least one partition of the plurality of partitions. The method further includes generating a plurality of sub-queries where each sub-query is associated with one partition included within the partition list, and processing each sub-query of the plurality of sub-queries on the associated partition included within the partition list.
US09607039B2	Subject-matter analysis of tabular data A system, and computer program product for subject-matter analysis of tabular data are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first document including the tabular data is received. A library of functional signatures for a first subject-matter domain is selected. A determination is made whether a threshold number of functional signatures from the selected library are applicable to the tabular data, wherein a functional signature is applicable to the tabular data when values in the tabular data correspond to an operation and a table structure specified in the functional signature. Responsive to the threshold number of functional signatures from the selected library being applicable to the tabular data, a processor and a memory process the first document according to a process for the first subject matter domain selected from a plurality of processes for respective subject matter domains.
US09607037B2	Database schema upgrade as a service A method for upgrading a database schema in real time, wherein the database schema is associated with a plurality of databases is provided. The method may include installing a first plugin on a database upgrade process associated with a database. The method may include installing a second plugin on each database instance within the plurality of databases. The method may include determining a delta associated with a final target version of the database schema. Additionally, the method may include outlining an existence of an incongruence, an existence of an override or an existence of a customization removal based on the determined delta. The method may include performing a peer-to-peer broadcasting analysis between each database. The method may include defining a migration strategy for each database instance within the plurality of databases based on the peer-to-peer broadcasting analysis. The method may further include creating a script for upgrading the database schema.
US09607034B2	System, method and computer program product for monitoring data activity utilizing a shared data store In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for monitoring data activity utilizing a shared data store. These mechanisms and methods for monitoring data activity utilizing a shared data store can enable enhanced data monitoring, more efficient data storage, improved system resource utilization, etc.
US09607031B2	Social data filtering system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium of the same A social data filtering system is provided. The social data filter system comprises a database, a retrieving module, a filtering module and a determining module. The database stores personal data and corresponding identification information. The retrieving module retrieves the personal data and the identification information corresponding to a designated person and generates search information accordingly to retrieve user information and corresponding social interaction information from a plurality of social data sources accordingly to the search information The filtering module performs filtering on the user information and the social interaction information according to the personal data to retrieve filtered information. The determining module determines at least one key word corresponding to the designated person according to the filtered information.
US09607029B1	Optimized mapping of documents to candidate duplicate documents in a document corpus Technologies are disclosed for mapping documents to candidate duplicate documents in a document corpus. A bitset optimized inverted index is created for a document corpus. A document is received for which candidate duplicate documents in the document corpus are to be identified. The document is tokenized using adaptive tokenization. A determination made as to whether tokens in the document are represented in the bitset optimized inverted index. A list of candidate duplicate documents is created for tokens represented in the optimized inverted index utilizing in-memory bitsets that map tokens to documents that contain the tokens in the document corpus.
US09607027B1	Multi-source compilation profiles for targeted content sourcing In at least one embodiment, a profile/content system generates, accesses, and/or serves a compilation profile for targeting content to identifiable communication devices (“ICDs”). The compilation profile can include data associated with a user of an ICD, and the profile/content system obtains the data from multiple data sources. The data sources can include a particular ICD and can also include particular applications running on the ICD and other data sources such as web sites and data aggregators that store data associated with the IDC user. The profile/content system can operate in a variety of modes depending upon a type of request received by the profile/content system. Exemplary modes are: (1) a direct content provision mode, (2) an indirect content provision mode, and (3) a compilation profile provision mode. In at least one embodiment, in the direct content provision mode, the profile/content system receives a request for content directly via an ICD.
US09607026B2	Automatic layout derivation and implementation Embodiments are directed to determining a data insertion point in a data layout based on relative cardinalities between data objects and to determining a data insertion point in a data layout based on defined hierarchies between data objects. In an embodiment, a computer system receives a user input indicating that an additional portion of information is to be added to an existing data layout which includes multiple different data objects. The computer system accesses the data objects to determine relative cardinalities between the data objects in the data layout. The computer system determines an optimal data insertion point for inserting the additional portion of information based on the determined relative cardinalities between the data objects. The computer system also inserts the additional portion of information in the existing data layout at the determined optimal data insertion point.
US09607022B2	Automatic data store architecture detection The present invention is a system for automatic recognition of data store architecture and tracking dynamic changes and evolution in data store architecture. The system of the invention is a complementary system, which can be added onto an existing data store system using the existing interfaces or can be integrated with a data store system. The system comprises three main components that are configured to compose an approximation of the data store architecture. The first of these components is adapted to execute an analysis of the architecture of the data store; the second of the components is adapted to collect and compile statistics from said data store; and the third of the components is adapted to compose an approximation of the architecture of said data store. Methods for using the system of the invention are also described.
US09607019B1	Splitting database partitions Techniques are disclosed for splitting a database partition into two partitions. In embodiments, where the partition is a hash partition, the partition is split at its logical midpoint, so that half of the partition's rows are placed in each split partition. Where the partition is a hash-range partition, a number of rows of the partition are sampled. Where enough samples fall on each side of the logical midpoint, the logical midpoint is again used as the split point. Where not enough samples fall on one side of the logical midpoint, then the median of the samples is used as the split point.
US09607018B2	Pluggable domain-specific typing systems and methods of use Systems and methods for generating pluggable domain-specific data types are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods for generating pluggable domain-specific data types may include determining a schema for the domain-specific data type, the schema including a data protocol that defines how data units are to be encoded into a domain-specific data unit, the domain-specific data unit including two or more data units received from one or more data sources, generating the domain-specific data type utilizing the determined schema, the domain-specific data type having a pluggable format such that the domain-specific data type may be utilized by a third-party application, and storing the domain-specific data type in a domain-specific data type library.
US09607017B2	Methods of micro-specialization in database management systems Systems and methods for utilizing relation- and query-specific information to specialize DBMS code at runtime based on identifying runtime locally invariant variables. Runtime invariant is often of the form of variables in code that hold values that are constant during a portion of code execution. Micro-specialization is applied to eliminate from the original program unnecessary code such as branching statements that reference local invariant(s) in branch-condition evaluation. The resulting specialized code reduces the code complexity as well as significantly improves the runtime efficiency during code execution.
US09607016B1	Combining games based on levels of interactivity of the games A method of combining games based on levels of interactivity of the games is disclosed. It is identified that a player is idle with respect to a primary game, the primary game having a first level of interactivity. A secondary game having a second level of interactivity is selected based on the second level of interactivity being compatible with the first level of interactivity. The player is provided with an option to participate in the secondary game while the player is idle with respect to the primary game.
US09607015B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for encoding object formations A method of generating metadata includes using at least one digital image to select a plurality of objects, wherein the at least one digital image depicts the plurality of objects in relation to a physical space. The method also includes, by at least one processor and based on information indicating positions of the selected objects in a location space, producing metadata that identifies one among a plurality of candidate geometrical arrangements of the selected objects.
US09607014B2	Image tagging A system is configured to annotate an image with tags. As configured, the system accesses an image and generates a set of vectors for the image. The set of vectors may be generated by mathematically transforming the image, such as by applying a mathematical transform to predetermined regions of the image. The system may then query a database of tagged images by submitting the set of vectors as search criteria to a search engine. The querying of the database may obtain a set of tagged images. Next, the system may rank the obtained set of tagged images according to similarity scores that quantify degrees of similarity between the image and each tagged image obtained. Tags from a top-ranked subset of the tagged images may be extracted by the system, which may then annotate the image with these extracted tags.
US09607012B2	Interactive graphical document insight element In one embodiment, metadata associated with a document is received. At least one keyword is extracted from the received metadata, wherein the at least one keyword include at least one of actionable information and non-actionable information. Further, an interactive graphical document insight element is generated including a representation of the non-actionable information and one or more interactive icons representing the actionable information. The generated interactive graphical document insight element is rendered on a computer generated user interface.
US09607008B2	Analysis engine control device An analysis engine control device includes: an analysis data selecting for selecting at least two analysis data of a plurality of analysis data that are analysis results obtained by analysis by a plurality of analysis engines, respectively; and an analysis data integration calculating for executing new analysis by using at least two analysis data selected by the analysis data selecting as integration target analysis data. Based on classifications assigned according to one characteristic or each of a plurality of characteristics previously set of the analysis engines, the analysis data selecting selects analysis data obtained by the analysis engines that the classifications are at least partly different from each other, as the integration target analysis data.
US09607007B2	Processing of geological data A method of processing data points distributed throughout a geological volume is described. In the method, each data point is associated with respective geological attributes. The method provides for: coding the geological attributes of each data point as a respective character string; compiling a query character string defining sought geological attributes of an arrangement of one or more data points; searching the coded geological attributes for arrangements of data points having geological attributes matching the query character string; and identifying matched data points.
US09607002B2	File retrieval from multiple storage locations In embodiments, apparatuses, methods and storage media are described that are associated with retrieval of a file stored at multiple storage locations, such as a content file. A file retrieving device may receive an identifier of multiple storage locations from which a file may be downloaded, including content delivery networks and distinct storage servers at a particular content delivery network. The decoder may retrieve portions of the file from the different indicated storage locations. The file retrieving device may be configured to assign portion sizes to various storage locations based on a history of bandwidth experienced from the various storage locations. The file retrieving device may be configured to dynamically manage retrieval of portions of the file from the multiple storage locations, such as by re-assigning a slow or stalled portion from one storage location to a faster or underutilized storage locations. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09607001B2	Automated failover of a metadata node in a distributed file system Switching an active metadata node is disclosed. An indication that a standby metadata node of a distributed file system should replace an active metadata node of the distributed file system as a new active metadata node of the distributed file system is received. The standby metadata node is included in a server. A request that indicates that the standby metadata node would like to become an exclusive metadata node writer of a transaction log is sent. A confirmation that the standby metadata node is the exclusive metadata node writer of the transaction log is received. Based at least in part on the confirmation, an update that the standby metadata node has become the new active metadata node of the distributed file system is provided.
US09606999B2	Lock free data transfer A system receives a request to transfer an object, and transfers the object without placing a lock on the object such that the object can still be processed by a service or a function during the transfer. Upon completion of the transfer of the object, the system determines if the object was modified by the processing during the transfer, and the system re-transfers the object when the object was modified by the processing during the transfer.
US09606998B2	Extending a content repository using an auxiliary data store According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system extends a content repository by creating an auxiliary data store outside of the content repository and storing auxiliary data in the auxiliary data store, wherein the auxiliary data is associated with a collection of documents in the content repository. The system stores version information for the auxiliary data store and records of operations against the auxiliary data store in a log in the repository. In response to receiving a request for an operation against the auxiliary data store, the system determines that the auxiliary data store and repository are consistent based on the version information and applies the operation against the auxiliary data store. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for extending a content repository data model in substantially the same manners described above.
US09606990B2	Cognitive system with ingestion of natural language documents with embedded code Mechanisms are provided for processing natural language content having a computer code segment. Natural language content is processed using a natural language processing (NLP) engine and a segment of content within the natural language content is identified that is not recognized by the NLP engine. The segment is analyzed to determine whether the segment contains computer code and, if so, a code segment annotation for the computer code is generated that provides a natural language description of functionality of the computer code in the segment. The code segment annotation is stored in association with the natural language content and natural language processing is performed using the NLP engine on the code segment annotation to further process the natural language content.
US09606988B2	Predicting the quality of automatic translation of an entire document A system and method predict the translation quality of a translated input document. The method includes receiving an input document pair composed of a plurality of sentence pairs, each sentence pair including a source sentence in a source language and a machine translation of the source language sentence to a target language sentence. For each of the sentence pairs, a representation of the sentence pair is generated, based on a set of features extracted for the sentence pair. Using a generative model, a representation of the input document pair is generated, based on the sentence pair representations. A translation quality of the translated input document is computed, based on the representation of the input document pair.
US09606980B2	Generating natural language text sentences as test cases for NLP annotators with combinatorial test design Test cases for a text annotator are generated by determining types of inputs to the annotator and analyzing language structures in a corpus to identify sentence types and grammar constructs. An input type can correspond to multiple grammar constructs. Test cases are generated by performing grammar tree transformations on selected fragments from the corpus based on the sentence types and the grammar constructs. Additional test cases are generated by replacing starting phrases in selected fragments with substitute phrases from dictionaries associated with the input types (a dictionary can include a false synonym for an input type for purposes of negative testing). The two generating approaches can be combined, i.e., performing one or more successive (different) grammar tree transformations to yield a sentence which is then subjected to phrase substitution.
US09606975B2	Apparatus and method for automatically generating visual annotation based on visual language Provided are an apparatus and method for automatically generating a visual annotation with respect to a massive image based on a visual language. The apparatus for automatically generating a visual annotation based on a visual language includes an image input unit configured to receive an input image, an image analyzing unit configured to extract feature information of the input image received by the image input unit, a searching unit configured to search a similar image with respect to the input Image and text information included in the similar image by using the feature information extracted by the image analyzing unit, and a visual annotation configuring unit configured to configure a visual annotation with respect to the input image by using the text information searched by the searching unit.
US09606970B2	Web browser device for structured data extraction and sharing via a social network A method and system for implementing a browser based information extraction and transmission method. A method and system for identifying, extracting, and transmitting predefined structured information from web pages browser interface. The extracted information is then added to a user profile on a social network and a database. The information is shared with other users who can comment, copy, vote on, or go to the original information source. The information can be combined with other extracted information to form collections for the purposes of voting on one or more items in the collection, combining multiple items to form a useful kit, saving information for later use, adding addition information such as dates and purchase location for personal inventory purposes, and for saving bookmarks to structured data.
US09606968B2	Footnote formatting and layout of multi-section documents A computer implemented system provides intelligent formatting of footnotes in electronic documents. The system includes a display device that displays an electronic document in a graphical user interface, a user interface, and a processor. The processor controls the display device and the user interface to display, in response to user input, a footnote editing interface that allows a user to create new footnotes and edit existing footnotes. The system provides multi-user access to a single document in which individual sections of the document may be in active, inactive, and/or locked states, where users perform activities as permitted by a combination of user authorization rights and these states. The footnotes may reference multiple sections on one or more pages of a document, are formatted so that each footnote resides on only a single page, and may display an obscured or blank area for footnotes originating in other sections.
US09606965B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a plurality of spin units individually including a memory cell configured to store values of spins in an Ising model, a memory cell configured to store an interaction coefficient from an adjacent spin that exerts an interaction on the spin, a memory cell configured to store an external magnetic field coefficient of the spin, and an interaction circuit configured to determine a subsequent state of the spin. The spin units individually include a random number generator configured to supply the random number to the plurality of the spin units and generate two-valued simulated coefficients of two values or simulated coefficients of three values in performing an interaction to determine a subsequent state of a spin of the spin units from a value of a spin from an adjacent spin unit, an interaction coefficient, and an external magnetic field coefficient.
US09606964B1	Visual modeller for mathematical optimization Embodiments include methods, and computer program products of a visual modeler of mathematical optimization. Aspects include: analyzing requirements of a visual model of mathematical optimization, designing the visual model of mathematical optimization in graphical form using a visual interface, visualizing the visual model of mathematical optimization model, generating computer code for the solution of the optimization model, and providing output of the visual model of the mathematical optimization from the relevant solver. Designing may include: collecting required data in graphical form using the visual interface and from databases connected to the visual interface, designing objects manually using simple mathematical notation by an expert user, using descriptions in words for later implementation by an inexperienced user, and selecting from a list of standard object types. The providing may include providing output computer code in a predetermined language to one or more computers, and link visual model of mathematical optimization directly to one or more solvers to generate results of visual model of mathematical optimization.
US09606961B2	Instruction and logic to provide vector compress and rotate functionality Instructions and logic provide vector compress and rotate functionality. Some embodiments, responsive to an instruction specifying: a vector source, a mask, a vector destination and destination offset, read the mask, and copy corresponding unmasked vector elements from the vector source to adjacent sequential locations in the vector destination, starting at the vector destination offset location. In some embodiments, the unmasked vector elements from the vector source are copied to adjacent sequential element locations modulo the total number of element locations in the vector destination. In some alternative embodiments, copying stops whenever the vector destination is full, and upon copying an unmasked vector element from the vector source to an adjacent sequential element location in the vector destination, the value of a corresponding field in the mask is changed to a masked value. Alternative embodiments zero elements of the vector destination, in which no element from the vector source is copied.

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