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| US10080318B2 |
Safety shield for charging
Methods, devices, and systems are provided to shield a passenger compartment of an electric vehicle from electromagnetic fields present during a wireless charging process. A charging system may include a power source and a charging plate wirelessly coupled to the power source, where the power source wirelessly transfers power to the charging plate. The system may further include at least one shield portion between the charging plate and a passenger compartment of the electric vehicle, where the at least one shield portion is configured to attenuate an electromagnetic field provided by the charging system. |
| US10080317B2 |
Polymeric electromagnetic shield for electronic components
An electronic device can include a circuit board, an electronic component mounted on the circuit board, a conductive contact disposed (e.g., deposited) on the circuit board, and a shielding polymer layer deposited over the electronic component. The shielding polymer layer includes a network of conductive pathways formed from sintered particles. The network of conductive pathways is electrically coupled to the conductive contact, which can be configured for connection to a power source ground. As such, the network of conductive pathways enables electromagnetic shielding of the electronic component. |
| US10080316B2 |
Electronic display assembly having thermal cooling plate and optional convective air cooling loop
Disclosed herein is an electronic display assembly including a backlight that is positioned to illuminate a liquid crystal display, and a novel cooling mechanism in the form of a thermal plate that is located and configured to transfer heat from the backlight to a thermally conductive housing of the electronic display assembly. The thermal plate is preferably placed in conductive thermal communication with the backlight and with the thermally conductive housing for this purpose. One or more air flow apertures may pass through the thermal plate. A convective cooling loop may also be provided, which cooling loop may include a fan that is located to move cooling air over the thermal plate and/or though one or more apertures in the thermal plate. Both a top and bottom thermal plate may be employed in some exemplary embodiments. |
| US10080313B2 |
Power module and method for manufacturing the same
A power module or the like is provided in which lower inductance and miniaturization are achieved. The power module includes: main body units (11 to 13), cooling units (21 to 24) which cool the main body units (11 to 13), busbars (51, 52) connected to power terminals (1i, 1j) of the main body units (11 to 13), a casing (W) in which at least contact parts with the busbars (51, 52) are insulative, and a metal member (30) which supports the casing (W). The metal member (30) tightly contacts the casing (W), thereby forming a box with one side opened. At least the main body units (11 to 13) and the busbars (51, 52) are arranged inside the box. An insulating sealant is provided to fill the inside of the box. |
| US10080309B2 |
Electronic system and external auxiliary heat dissipation device thereof
An external auxiliary heat dissipation device includes an external connection head module, a fluid driving module, a heat dissipation module, and a plurality of first pipes. The external connection head module includes a first carrier body and at least two first fluid connection disposed on the first carrier body. The first pipes connect to the first fluid connection head, the fluid driving module, and the heat dissipation module to form a first fluid pathway. The electronic system includes an internal connection head module and a plurality of second pipes. The second pipes connect to the internal connection head module to form a second fluid pathway. The internal connection head module is detachably connected to the external connection head module, so that the first and the second fluid pathways are in fluid communication with each other to form a loop fluid pathway. |
| US10080303B2 |
Interlock bracket unit
An example bracket unit to control installation of an electronic module is provided herein. The bracket unit includes a bracket body, a bracket plate, and a fastener. The bracket plate includes a receiving member and an alignment indicator. The receiving member to engage with a rail unit and move between an equilibrium position and a displaced position based on a movement of the rail unit. The alignment indicator connected to the receiving member, such that movement of the alignment indicator corresponds to the movement of the receiving member. The fastener to slideably connect the bracket plate and the bracket body together. |
| US10080301B2 |
High voltage power chip module
A power die module using a compression connection to a power die in a small package with corona extenders positioned around short efficient path exterior electrical connections. The module is built from a baseplate with connected sidewalls forming an interior compartment holding a power substrate with attached threaded inserts. A printed circuit board bolted to the power substrate with high voltage power die compressively held between the board and the substrate. The compressive hold enhances the electrical connections between the contacts on the top and bottom of the power die and either the power substrate or the printed circuit board. Exterior blade connectors extend upward from the printed circuit board through blade apertures in a lid that covers the interior compartment. The lid includes corona extenders positioned around the blade apertures to allow for high voltage applications while maintaining a small size lightweight package. The sidewall has a perimeter that also includes one or more corona extenders. |
| US10080300B1 |
Mechanical latch module
A latch module that includes a button carriage that is slidably coupled to a latch module chassis, thereby enabling the button carriage to move between an extended and a depressed position. The button carriage, when a user-operable button of the button carriage is depressed a first time, moves from the extended position to the depressed position. An inverter arm that is pivotally coupled to the latch module chassis and that is mechanically linked to the button carriage pivots when the button carriage, moves from the extended position to the depressed position, as the button is depressed. A latch arm that is mechanically linked to the inverter arm slides from a non-blocking position into a blocking position when the inverter arm pivots. In the blocking position, the latch arm extends beyond a retaining pin of a chassis; and in the non-blocking position, the latch arm clears the retaining pin. |
| US10080298B2 |
Circuit board interconnection structure and circuit board interconnection method
Provided is a circuit board interconnection structure including: a first circuit board including a first substrate and a first electrode formed on a surface of the first substrate; a second circuit board including a second substrate and a second electrode formed on a surface of the second substrate; one or more joining portions formed of a metal-containing conductive material for joining the first and second electrodes, interposed between the first and second electrodes; and a reinforcing resin portion for reinforcing the one or more joining portions. The first electrode is a transparent electrode including a metal oxide film. A first abutting portion of the joining portion abutting the first electrode, is formed by adhesional wetting of the first electrode with the conductive material. |
| US10080294B2 |
Display device
Terminal portions are arrayed at regular widths and regular intervals, and each face any enable terminal, and are electrically connected to the enable terminals by conductive particles. A lead portion is connected to the other terminal portion except for a pair of terminal portions which is a pair of terminal portions adjacent to each other, and extends from an overlap region to a lead region. A connection portion connects the respective terminal portions that are not connected with the lead portion to the adjacent terminal portions that are connected to the lead portion within an area of the overlap region. An interval between a pair of lead portions extending from a pair of connection portions located to sandwich a pair of terminal portions that are not connected with the lead portion therebetween is larger than an interval between the other adjacent lead portions. |
| US10080293B2 |
Electronic component-embedded board and electronic component device
An electronic component-embedded board includes: a core substrate; a cavity which penetrates the core substrate; a wiring layer formed on one face of the core substrate; a component mounting pattern formed of the same material as the wiring layer and laid across the cavity to partition the cavity into through holes in plan view; an electronic component mounted on the component mounting pattern and arranged inside the cavity; a first insulating layer formed on the one face of the core substrate to cover one face of the electronic component; and a second insulating layer formed on the other face of the core substrate to cover the other face of the electronic component. The cavity is filled with the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. |
| US10080290B2 |
Stretchable embedded electronic package
An embedded electronic package includes a stretchable body that includes at least one electronic component, wherein each electronic component includes a back side that is exposed from the stretchable body; and a plurality of meandering conductors that are electrically connected to one or more of the electronic components. In some forms, the embedded electronic package includes a stretchable body that includes an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the stretchable body includes at least one electronic component, wherein each electronic component is fully embedded in the stretchable body and the same distance from the upper surface of the stretchable body; and a plurality of meandering conductors that are electrically connected to one or more of the electronic components. |
| US10080289B2 |
Method and apparatus for electrical device placement using a pedestal
A system and method for placing an inductor on a circuit board. This method includes providing a circuit board, a pedestal, and an inductor, the pedestal has a top surface and a bottom surface and the circuit board has one or more electrical conductors, the inductor having a first inductor terminal and a second inductor terminal. Adhesive is placed on the circuit board and the bottom surface of the pedestal is placed on the adhesive located on the circuit board to secure the pedestal to the circuit board. Next, adhesive is placed on the top surface of the pedestal and the inductor is placed on the adhesive located on the top surface of the pedestal to secure the inductor to the pedestal. The inductor is electrically connected to the circuit board. |
| US10080286B2 |
Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic structure and method for producing same
A spar includes a conductive layer laminated and formed on a carbon-fiber prepreg, and a jumper formed of a conductor which penetrates through the conductive layer and the carbon-fiber prepreg. |
| US10080283B1 |
Interface for limiting substrate damage due to discrete failure
An apparatus is provided with a component configured with an interface comprising a resilient material. In a first state, the component is mechanically and/or electrically attached to a substrate. Exposure of the interface to the temperature that meets or exceeds the transition temperature of interface causes the resilient material to undergo a state change. The state change of the interface alters the position of the component, including separation of the component from the substrate. The separation disrupts the attachment thereby mitigating damage to the substrate and/or component. |
| US10080282B2 |
Flexible printed circuit and electronic apparatus
According to one embodiment, FPC has a flexible board body, a reinforcing plate, an opening portion, and a bent structure. The opening portion is formed to penetrate through the board body. The bent structure is bent to pass through the inside of the opening portion. |
| US10080279B2 |
Wired circuit board and producing method thereof
A wired circuit board, including a metal supporting layer; an insulating layer formed on one side of the metal supporting layer in a thickness direction thereof; and a conductive layer having a plurality of terminal portions placed to be spaced apart from each other and formed on one side of the insulating layer in the thickness direction. The insulating layer has a first opening which is formed to include the plurality of terminal portions, and the metal supporting layer includes a second opening formed to include the plurality of terminal portions, when projected in the thickness direction. The wired circuit board further includes at least one reinforcing insulating portion which is placed between the plurality of terminal portions in the first opening, and/or at least one reinforcing metal supporting portion which is placed between the plurality of terminal portions in the second opening, when projected in the thickness direction. |
| US10080276B2 |
Irradiation apparatus with limited swivel rotator
An irradiation apparatus with a limited swivel rotator includes a drive ring and at least one mount affixed thereto. The drive ring has a defined drive axis of rotation being configured to rotate about a source container, like an X-ray tube. The mounts are affixed to the drive ring. Each of the mounts is configured to mount a material holder to the drive ring for rotating the material holder about the source container. The limited swivel rotator is in communication with each of the mounts and is configured to maintain a radial planetary position of the mounts and the material holders mounted thereto to maintain an initial horizontal orientation of the mounts and the material holders mounted thereto on the drive ring as the mounts and the material holders mounted thereto are moved around the source container by the drive ring. |
| US10080275B2 |
Up and down conversion systems for production of emitted light from various energy sources including radio frequency, microwave energy and magnetic induction sources for upconversion
Methods and systems for producing a change in a medium. A first method and system (1) place in a vicinity of the medium at least one upconverter including a gas for plasma ignition, with the upconverter being configured, upon exposure to initiation energy, to generate light for emission into the medium, and (2) apply the initiation energy from an energy source including the first wavelength λ1 to the medium, wherein the emitted light directly or indirectly produces the change in the medium. A second method and system (1) place in a vicinity of the medium an agent receptive to microwave radiation or radiofrequency radiation, and (2) apply as an initiation energy the microwave radiation or radiofrequency radiation by which the agent directly or indirectly generates emitted light in the infrared, visible, or ultraviolet range to produce at least one of physical and biological changes in the medium. |
| US10080272B2 |
Electronic cigarette and electronic cigarette light emission control method
An electronic cigarette comprises at least one touch sensor, a microprocessor, and a light-emitting module. A control method comprises when a user touches the touch sensor, the touch sensor is triggered to generate an electric signal and transmit the electric signal to the microprocessor; the microprocessor controls the light-emitting module to emit a light on the basis of the electric signal transmitted by the touch sensor. The electronic cigarette light emission control method facilitates the user to find and use the electronic cigarette in the dark. Illumination with the light emitted by the electronic cigarette facilitates the user to walk in the dark, and, additionally, it facilitates the user to learn the power level of the electronic cigarette, while power saving is allowed by decreasing the intensity of light emission gradually. |
| US10080269B2 |
Mask assembly fabrication apparatus and mask assembly fabrication method using the same
A mask assembly fabrication apparatus includes a first vibration proof apparatus formed on a base surface, a first surface plate formed on the first vibration proof apparatus, stages formed on the first surface plate, a mask frame placed on the stages, a second vibration proof apparatus formed on the base surface to be separate from the first vibration proof apparatus, a second surface plate formed on the second vibration proof apparatus to be separate from the first surface plate, and a driving unit formed on the second surface plate and configured to move a mask. |
| US10080260B2 |
Fine heating wire and heating unit using the same
A fine heating wire having a small diameter and applicable to various products. The fine heating wire is bendable, densely installed, and has high thermal efficiency. It includes a core formed with synthetic fiber material and a coil spirally wound around the outer portion of the core. The core connects one or more pairs of polyaramid fiber units. Each unit is formed by braiding dozens to hundreds of fine polyaramid fiber strands to maintain the diameter within 200-600 denier. The coil is formed of copper or copper alloy to withstand temperature rising up to 60° within five minutes when 3.7-12V power is supplied to maintain a resistance per unit length value equal to or greater than 0.5 Ω/m. The diameter of the fine heating wire is minimized to be installed inside a slim fiber, and is bendable and densely installed to be applied to products, such as gloves and socks. |
| US10080252B2 |
Synchronous recording of audio using wireless data transmission
A method of synchronous recording of audio is described. The described method comprises: (a) establishing a first wireless data transmission connection between a master device and a first recording device, (b) establishing a second wireless data transmission connection between the master device and a second recording device, (c) determining a first data transmission delay for the first data transmission connection, (d) determining a second data transmission delay for the second data transmission connection, (e) transmitting predetermined reference data from the master device to the first recording device and to the second audio recording device, (f) at the first recording device: playing back the predetermined reference data and recording first recording data, and (g) at the second recording device: playing back the predetermined reference data and recording second recording data, (h) wherein during the transmission of the predetermined reference data a difference between the first data transmission delay and the second data transmission delay is taken into account in such a manner that the playing back of the predetermined reference data takes place synchronously at the first recording device and at the second recording device. Furthermore, a system for synchronously recording audio is described. |
| US10080251B2 |
Wireless communication system
A wireless communication system includes: a plurality of terminal devices respectively configured to support D2D (Device to Device) communication; and a base station configured to control the plurality of terminal devices. A first terminal device that communicates with a second terminal device via a first D2D link receives identification information of a third terminal device from the third terminal device that communicates with a fourth terminal device via a second D2D link. The first terminal device transmits the identification information of the third terminal device received from the third terminal device to the base station. The base station controls at least one of a resource for the first D2D link and a resource for the second D2D link in such a way that the resource for the first D2D link and the resource for the second D2D link are different from each other. |
| US10080247B2 |
Base station, terminal, and communication method
Even when a terminal goes out of a macro cell, data communication in the small cell can be caused to continue while the mobile management in a macro cell is continued. When a first determination unit (205) determines that a terminal exists outside the cell of a base station (200), an existence recognition packet transmission/reception unit (207) transmits a recognition packet, which is used for recognition, to the terminal via a small cell, and thereafter receives a response to the recognition packet from the terminal via the small cell. When a second determination unit (206) determines, because of the reception of the response, that the terminal exits inside the cell of the base station (200), a radio resource control unit (204) causes the connection of the control plane between the terminal and the base station (200) to continue. |
| US10080246B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting signals using multiple access schemes
The present invention provides a method and a device for differing the scheme of accessing a reception device on the basis of the probability of attempted access to the reception device or an indicator similar thereto. The transmission device according to the present invention transmits signals according to a first scheme or a second scheme on the basis of access attempts or indicators similar thereto and receives signals according to the first scheme or second scheme on the basis of the access attempts or indictors similar thereto. |
| US10080242B2 |
Method and system for allocating random access channel resource
Disclosed are a method and system for allocating random access channel resources, wherein the method includes the following steps: a first node sending random access channel configuration information through a downlink channel, wherein the information includes at least configuration information of a random access channel allocated to a second node. The present document relates to the field of mobile communication. The technical solution according to the embodiment of the present document is applicable to a machine type communication (MTC) system, thereby solving the problem of an MTC user equipment (UE) receiving a random access response message, and achieving a receiving configuration of the random access response message in an improvement design. |
| US10080241B2 |
Radio communication method
A radio communication method capable of eliminating a blocking effect caused by a collision of many pieces of data is provided. The radio communication method relaying data from a lower terminal to an upper terminal, includes: a step of determining the number of lower terminals connectable to the upper terminal; a step of connecting the lower terminal and the upper terminal based on the determined connectable number; a step of transmitting a first data from the lower terminal to the upper terminal connected to each other; a step of causing the upper terminal to receive the first data transmitted from the lower terminal; and a step of combining the first data received by the upper terminal and a second data to be transmitted from the upper terminal and creating combined data; and a step causing the upper terminal transmitting the combined data to a further upper terminal. |
| US10080240B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting frame in wireless LAN
A device and method for transmitting a frame in a wireless LAN, with the method including the steps of: transmitting, by an AP, an RTS frame for medium protection to a first STA set; receiving, by the AP, CTS frames, in sequence, from each of a plurality of STAs included in a second STA set in response to the RTS frame, the second STA set being included in the first STA set; and transmitting, by the AP, each of a plurality of PPDUs to each of the plurality of STAs via each of a plurality of subbands for each of the plurality of STAs on an overlapping time resource. |
| US10080238B2 |
Distributed reservation contention access (DRCA) for wireless local area network (WLAN) carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) stations
A method and apparatus are disclosed for enabling high-efficiency communication in wireless local area network (WLAN) systems. A station (STA) may receive an Uplink Priority List (UPL) from an access point (AP). In one example embodiment, a STA may send a request for prioritized access to an AP. The STA may then receive an ordered queue of STAs granted contention free prioritized access in a predetermined time interval, which may be referred to as the Exclusive Priority Access (EPA) period. The STA may then determine whether it is identified in the ordered queue of STAs granted prioritized access. The STA may then access a medium such as a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) wireless medium associated with the IEEE 802.11 network, in turn with other STAs in the ordered queue per the queue order during the predetermined time interval using an inter-frame spacing, thereby enabling contention free access. |
| US10080235B2 |
Base station, mobile station and method for downlink scheduling
There are provided a base station, a mobile station and a method for downlink scheduling by the base station. The base station comprises a scheduling unit, configured to assign a downlink resource block and a number of streams, an antenna port, and a scrambling identity for the antenna port to a mobile station, wherein a combination of the number of streams, the antenna port and the scrambling identity determines a successive interference cancellation order of the mobile station in the downlink resource block; and a transmitting unit, configured to transmit downlink scheduling information to the mobile station, the downlink scheduling information including information indicating the downlink resource block and information indicating the number of streams, the antenna port and the scrambling identity. |
| US10080233B2 |
Method for providing M2M data
A method for providing M2M data items according to M2M data subscriptions retrieved from an M2M frontend (FE) by an M2M backend (BE) to one or more M2M applications includes representing the data items by a set of parameters including a required update frequency and a weight representing an importance of the data item; determining a schedule for retrieving data items from the FE by the BE based on the weights of the data items; determining that an actual period required to update each of one or more respective data items is larger than a required period corresponding to the required update frequency and adding a penalty value to the weight of each of the respective one or more data items to provide updated weights; and modifying the schedule based on the updated weights. |
| US10080231B2 |
Channel bandwidth optimization for dynamic network conditions
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for optimizing channel bandwidth usage in a communication network from a sender. In a particular embodiment, a method provides transmitting first data on a first data channel from the sender to a receiver at a first rate that does not exceed an available amount of bandwidth on the communication network. The method further provides determining that the first data channel is attempting to transmit at a second rate that is higher than the first rate. Also, the method provides continuing to transmit the first data on the first data channel while increasing from the first rate to the second rate in increments until either the second rate is achieved or the available amount of bandwidth is reached. |
| US10080230B2 |
Port selection in combined cell of radio access network
The present invention relates to methods, network nodes and a system for port selection in a cell, particularly in combined cells, of a radio access network. Therein, one or more ports of the radio access network which are to be assigned to a user equipment are selected based on a traffic situation in said cell. |
| US10080229B2 |
Hybrid wireless communication system
The present disclosure generally discloses a hybrid wireless communication system configured to support wireless broadband connectivity for a geographic region including a set of wireless network access devices configured to support wireless communications by a set of communication gateways disposed at locations within the geographic region. The hybrid wireless communication system may be configured to operate across a set of multiple radio spectrum bands associated with a set of multiple carrier frequencies, respectively. The hybrid wireless communication system may be configured to jointly determine assignment of the locations (and, thus, the associated communication gateways) to the multiple carrier frequencies of the multiple radio spectrum bands and to configure the wireless network access devices to support the jointly determined assignment of the locations to the multiple carrier frequencies of the multiple radio spectrum bands. |
| US10080227B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting data signals in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A terminal and method are provided for data signal transmission in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving identification information of a band designated for the terminal; receiving a data signal generated based on resource allocation information on the band and an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheme; and demodulating and decoding the data signal based on the resource allocation information. |
| US10080222B1 |
Orthogonal frequency division multiple access short frame format
A method for transmitting an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) data unit is described. Respective sub-channels of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication channel are allocated to first and second communication devices for simultaneous OFDM transmission. A first sub-channel is allocated to the first communication device and a second sub-channel is allocated to the second communication device. Indications of the respective allocated sub-channels are transmitted to the first and second communication devices. A medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) is generated that omits i) a MAC address of a transmitter, and ii) a MAC address of the first communication device. An OFDMA data unit including the MPDU is transmitted by the transmitter via the first sub-channel to the first communication device. |
| US10080213B2 |
Method for transmitting buffer status report in device-to-device communication, and device thereof
Provided are a method for transmitting a buffer status report (BSR), and a device thereof, and to: a method by which a first terminal transmits and receives a BSR required for performing device-to-device communication with a second terminal in order to efficiently allocate a wireless resource to be used for the device-to-device communication; and a device therefor. Specifically, provided are a method and a device by which the first terminal performs device-to-device communication with the second terminal. Such a method includes triggering a BSR for the device-to-device communication with the second terminal, transmitting the BSR to a base station or a wireless resource allocation entity, and receiving wireless resource allocation information for the device-to-device communication with the second terminal from the base station or the wireless resource allocation entity. |
| US10080211B2 |
Method and apparatus for user equipment receiving MBMS service processing semi-permanent scheduling from MBSFN subframe in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a user equipment receiving MBMS service processing a semi-permanent scheduling from an MBSFN subframe. A method for a user equipment receiving the multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) processing a downlink scheduling in a mobile communication system of the present invention comprises: a detection step of detecting the occurrence of the downlink scheduling in a random transmission time interval; a decision step of deciding whether to process the downlink scheduling, depending on whether the user equipment is set to a transmission mode 9 or whether the transmission time interval belongs to a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe; and a processing step of processing or disregarding the downlink scheduling based on the result of the decision. |
| US10080207B2 |
Audio device, audio system, and synchronous reproduction method
An audio device includes a signal input interface, a first output interface, a second output interface, at least one processing circuit configured as a buffer control portion, at least one memory configured to store an audio signal. The buffer control portion sets a second reading position at a position that precedes a first reading position of the first output interface by delay time, and, when starting output of the audio signal, writes silent data for the delay time in the memory and sets the first reading position at the head of the silent data. |
| US10080206B2 |
Method of selecting synchronization source in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of selecting a synchronization source, which is selected by a D2D (device-to-device) UE in a wireless communication system includes the steps of receiving a plurality of synchronization signals, selecting a plurality of candidate synchronization signals from a plurality of the synchronization signals and determining a synchronization signal in a manner of applying a priority to a plurality of the candidate synchronization signals and selecting a UE, which has transmitted the determined synchronization signal, as a synchronization source. In this case, the application of the priority can be performed in a manner of sequentially applying a plurality of priorities related to a D2D signal according to a priority for the application of the priority. |
| US10080204B2 |
Cell search method, forward link frame transmission method, apparatus using the same and forward link frame structure
A method of searching a cell in a mobile station of a communication system in which a plurality of cells are grouped into a plurality of cell groups, each cell group including at least two cells, includes: detecting a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal from a received signal; and identifying a cell based on a combination of the primary synchronization signal and the secondary synchronization signal. The secondary synchronization signal is related to the cell group to which the mobile station belongs and the primary synchronization signal is related to the cell to which the mobile station belongs within the cell group. |
| US10080201B2 |
Technologies for controlling mobile communication devices for low reception areas
Technologies for controlling mobile communication devices in a low reception area includes predicting a future location of the mobile communication device and determining reception data for the predicted future location. The reception data is indicative of an expected level of reception by the mobile communication device while in the future location. Transmission power of a communication circuit of the mobile communication device may be reduced in response to a determination that the expected level of reception is less than a reference threshold. |
| US10080200B2 |
Intelligent deployment cascade control device based on an FDD-OFDMA indoor small cell in multi-user and interference environments
The invention presents an intelligent deployment cascade control (IDCC) device for frequency division duplexing (FDD)-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) indoor small cell to enable easy installation, multi-user (MU)service reliability, optimum throughput, power saving, minimum interference and good cell coverage. The proposed IDCC device is designed with a cascade architecture, which mainly contains five units including a resource allocator, a minimum throughput/cell edge CQI converter, an adaptive neural fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) based initial transmit power setting controller (ITPSC) in the first cascade unit, an ANFIS based channel quality index (CQI) decision controller (CQIDC) in the second cascade unit and an ANFIS based self-optimization power controller (SOPC) in the third cascade unit. The SOPC consists of three parts, namely the transmit power adjustment estimator (TPAE), transmission power assignment and self-optimization power controller protection mechanism. |
| US10080199B2 |
Method and device for acquiring control information in wireless communication system
A signal transmission method is a method by which a secondary node transmits a signal in a wireless communication system comprising the steps of: receiving a scheduling map from either a scheduling node or a master node; performing scheduling and/or transmission power control on the basis of the scheduling map; and transmitting a signal on the basis of the scheduling or transmission power control result, wherein when the secondary node respectively transmits control information and data in a discontinuous frequency domain, the transmission power control includes adjustment for each of the maximum transmission power of the control information and the maximum transmission power of the data. |
| US10080195B2 |
Access and power management for centralized networks
A system and method for managing power in a subnet having a hub in communication with one or more nodes is disclosed. The hub and nodes communicate using one or more non-contention access methods, such as scheduled, polled or posted access. The node may enter a sleep or hibernation state while no scheduled, polled or posted allocation interval is pending. The hibernation state allows the node to hibernate through one or more entire beacon periods. In the sleep state, the node may be asleep between any scheduled, polled and posted allocation intervals for the node or during another node's scheduled allocation interval in a current beacon period. By selecting which access scheme is in use, the node and hub can increase the node's chances to be in hibernation or sleep state and minimize power consumption. |
| US10080194B2 |
Method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for awaking electronic equipment
A method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for awaking electronic equipment. The method for awaking the electronic equipment includes monitoring whether a first processor needs to be awaked, when the first processor is powered off; and controlling a power supply module to supply power to the first processor to awake the first processor, if the first processor needs to be awaked. The monitoring whether the first processor needs to be awaked can be performed by a wireless module included in the electronic equipment, rather than by an additional Microcontroller Unit (MCU). |
| US10080189B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data by using plurality of carriers in mobile communication systems
The method for transmitting and receiving data at a base station in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of receiving a performance report from a terminal, determining whether the addition of a serving cell is necessary, when the addition of the serving cell is necessary, transmitting a request for receiving a cell identifying signal to one or more other base stations on the basis of the received performance report and transmitting a request for transmitting the cell identifying signal to the terminal. According to the embodiment, in a network in which a small cell and a macro cell are overlapped and operated, the terminal can minimize battery consumption and quickly recognize the small cell. |
| US10080188B2 |
System and method for controlling a wireless network
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a wireless station. The method includes receiving from an access point (AP) a request for measurement of at least one link-quality parameter. The method further includes measuring the at least one link-quality parameter to generate a link-quality-parameter measurement. The method also includes determining, for the wireless station, an appropriate wireless-station category of a plurality of wireless-station categories. The plurality of wireless-station categories are defined based at least in part on the link-quality-parameter measurement. In addition, the method includes communicating with the AP in accordance with a transmission schedule corresponding to the plurality of wireless-station categories. |
| US10080186B2 |
Carrier aggregation processing method and device
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of wireless communications technologies, and in particular, to a CA processing method and device, so as to provide a CA processing scheme applicable to a network sharing scenario. In the embodiments of the present invention, a second cell is determined according to a first PLMN ID used by a CA user equipment in a first cell and a frequency supported by the CA user equipment, where the first cell is a cell that the CA UE currently accesses, CA can be performed on a second PLMN ID supported by the second cell and the first PLMN ID used by the CA user equipment in the first cell, and a frequency used by the second cell can be supported by the CA user equipment; and, according to the determined second cell, a CA cell is configured for the CA user equipment. |
| US10080183B2 |
Information processing device, connection controlling method and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
An information processing device includes: a communication controller that is able to connect to plural wireless LANs; a setting information management unit that, when connection is made to an operation target device via a wireless LAN, manages setting information including information of a first wireless LAN, which is a wireless LAN as a connection destination, and information of the operation target device; a communication switching unit that, in a case where the operation target device does not exist on a second wireless LAN, which is a wireless LAN currently connected by the communication controller, switches the wireless LAN as the connection destination to the first wireless LAN based on the setting information; and an operation unit that searches for the operation target device on the first wireless LAN to which the communication switching unit has switched the wireless LAN, and if the operation target device exists, connects to the operation target device to operate thereof. |
| US10080178B2 |
Distributed antenna system
The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present invention enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as Flexible Simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous/assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc. As a result, a DAS in accordance with the present invention can increase the efficiency and traffic capacity of the operators' wireless network. |
| US10080176B2 |
Secure user plane location (SUPL) redirection and mobile location protocol (MLP) tunneling to a discovered SLP
Systems and methods for Secure User Plane (SUPL) Redirection and Mobile Location Protocol (MLP) Tunneling to a Discovered SUPL Location Platform (D-SLP) are disclosed. For example, a method for SUPL redirection by a SET, may include: receiving an initiation message at a SET from a Home SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP); establishing a secure connection with the H-SLP, and returning a response message; receiving a redirect message from the H-SLP; establishing a SET initiated SUPL session with a D-SLP; obtaining a location of the SET using the D-SLP; and returning the location to the H-SLP. |
| US10080165B2 |
Mobile communication system and communication method
A mobile communication system which can transfer information on the number of packets counted up until then by a base station of a mobile source, to a base station of a mobile target, even when a terminal performs a handover. UE moves to a Target eNode B, but a Source eNode B decides to perform a handover, and the Source eNode B includes information on the number of packets counted up until then in a Handover Request message to the Target eNode B, so as to notify the Target eNode B. After receiving a Handover Confirm message from the UE, the Target eNode B includes information on the number of packets received from the Source eNode B in a Handover Complete message transmitted to a CN Node, so as to notify the CN Node. |
| US10080159B2 |
Dynamic bandwidth management for load-based equipment in unlicensed spectrum
Systems and methods for dynamic bandwidth management for load-based equipment in unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. In an aspect, the disclosure provides a method for dynamic bandwidth management. The method includes obtaining training data by monitoring a plurality of channels in an unlicensed spectrum during a training period. The method further includes determining that at least a first channel of the plurality of channels is available for a transmission. The method also includes determining, based on the training data, whether to wait for an additional channel of the plurality of channels to become available for the transmission. Determining whether to wait may be based on either training data including probabilities that no additional channel is to become available within a transmission opportunity or a machine learning classification of a current state of the backoff counters based on training data including samples of previous states of backoff counters. |
| US10080158B2 |
Providing multiple interfaces for traffic
A system may be configured to receive data. The system may be associated with a plurality of network interfaces that each correspond to a different radio access technology associated with one or more cellular networks. The system may identify one or more measures of load associated with each of the plurality of network interfaces; and output, based on the identified measures of load, a different portion of the received data to each network interface, of the group of network interfaces. |
| US10080156B2 |
Method and network element for acquiring information about packet
The present invention provides a method and a network element for acquiring information about a packet. The method includes: after a UE establishes a bearer, sending, by a first network element, a first acquiring request to a second network element, where the first acquiring request is used to instruct the second network element to acquire information about a packet that is transmitted between the UE and a packet data network PDN and passes through the second network element; and receiving, by the first network element, information about a packet, where the information about the packet is sent by the second network element, and the information about the packet is information that is about a packet and is collected by the second network element according to the first acquiring request. |
| US10080155B1 |
Dynamic data collection in a WLAN
A controller and one or more access points that dynamically modify data collection in a system that includes a WLAN is described. In particular, during operation the access point may receive data for a type of data from an electronic device in the WLAN. Then, access point may aggregate the data based on an aggregation interval, where the aggregation interval is predefined for a group of types of data that includes the type of data. Moreover, the access point may transmit the aggregated data to the controller based on a reporting interval, where the reporting interval is predefined for the group of types of data. Next, the access point may receive an instruction from the controller to modify the aggregation interval and/or the reporting interval for the group of types of data. Furthermore, the access point may modify the aggregation interval and/or the reporting interval based on the instruction. |
| US10080152B2 |
Systems and methods for determining asymmetric downlink and uplink propagation delays in a wireless distribution system (WDS) for more accurately determining propagation delay
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining asymmetric downlink and uplink propagation delays in a wireless distribution system (WDS) for more accurately determining propagation delay. In this regard, a WDS is configured to determine both the separate downlink and uplink propagation delays between a central unit and a plurality of remote units. It is not presumed that the downlink propagation delay and the uplink propagation delay in the WDS are symmetric to provide a more accurate determination of propagation delay. Therefore, it is possible to determine the downlink and uplink propagation delays with improved accuracy, thus enabling more precise location identification in the WDS. |
| US10080149B2 |
Coverage solution recommendation tool
A coverage solution recommendation tool may generate prioritized lists of coverage solutions for resolving a network coverage problem at a location. The tool may obtain network parameters of a wireless communication network that provides services to user devices at the location. The tool may further acquire device parameters of the user devices used at the location, as well as collect environment parameters associated with the location. The environment parameters may affect whether a wireless telecommunication carrier is able to leverage additional coverage solutions to provide services at the location. Accordingly, the coverage solution tool may generate a prioritized list of coverage solutions for resolving the network coverage problem based on the parameters. |
| US10080148B2 |
Method of transmitting, by base station, signal for compensating for coverage in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
The present invention relates to a method of transmitting, by a base station, a signal for compensating for coverage in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. A method of transmitting, by a base station, a signal for compensating for coverage, comprises: receiving information indicating that a first base station is a base station supporting a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS), from the first base station in a state enabling switching off; receiving a coverage compensation request message containing MBMS-related information of the first base station from the first base station; and transmitting, by a compensation base station to the first base station, a coverage compensation response message indicating whether it is possible to compensate for the coverage of the first base station, wherein whether it is possible to compensate for the coverage of the first base station is determined on the basis of the MBMS-related information. |
| US10080144B1 |
Radio signal path design tool having characterization beyond proposed antenna sites
A radio signal path design tool that allows radio link propagation path profiling or path-loss measurement where the link partner antenna towers are located in a proposed fixed location on the earth's surface, but are extendable a certain distance in any direction from the fixed location. The design tool can be used to compute a radio link path profile at the proposed tower location, while still correctly representing terrain variations in a variable path extension distance on either side of the radio link. To correctly represent terrain variations across the depicted portion of the earth's surface, the tool computes and applies a modified earth-bulge factor or k-factor. The variable extension distance on either side of the radio link allows for latitudinal and/or longitudinal variations in antenna tower placement, greatly facilitating the identification of appropriate positions of antenna towers during the wireless link design phase. |
| US10080143B2 |
Method of placing an antenna of a radio access network (RAN) asset in a wireless communication network
An antenna of a network asset may be placed at a location determined based on a signal quality analysis carried out using a clutter object data set characterizing the influences of real world objects present in an area on signal propagation. The clutter object data set may be generated based on a set of clutter object data files each of which corresponds to a respective type of real world object. Clutter object data files may be generated based on an image of the area and each includes data representing the positions of pixels having a spectral characteristic indicative of the corresponding object type. The object clutter data set may include information derived from the object data files according to a relative hierarchical order of object types. |
| US10080136B2 |
Credibility token system for over the air multi-programming of a wireless device and method of operation
A mobile secure agent on a wireless device executes co-resident authenticated data collection profiles provisioned by private profile producers. Each wireless device has a MAC address that is transformed into a credibility token which is included in a notification to execute or update a data collection profile. The credibility token may also include attributes of location current or stored data. Each wireless device retains location history data transformed by encryption or by hashing. Each data package can only be transmitted to a collector certificated by the same private profile producer. Update profiles are signed and provisioned through a tunnel initiated from the mobile secure agent. A Certificate Authority provides libraries, anchors, and certificates in a key management message module to each mobile secure agent which enables revocation and replacement of certificates. Data stored in this way may only be transmitted to one destination per profile. |
| US10080135B2 |
Handling instant message delivery media to end user
A method for handling a plurality of instant message delivery media to a user of a mobile device is provided. The method may include detecting at least one instant message to be delivered to a recipient-user on the mobile device. The method may also include determining if a plurality of predefined conditions have been configured by the recipient-user. The method may further include displaying the at least one instant message to the recipient-user in accordance with the plurality of predefined conditions configured by the recipient-user. |
| US10080132B2 |
System for adaptation of multiple digital signatures in a distributed network
The present invention provides for managing communication of data from Internet-connected devices, such as those devices within an IoT environment. Specifically, the invention provides automated determination of which devices are communicating to which third-party entities and, in some embodiments, the type of data being communicated to such third-party entities. Once such information is known, the third-party entity can be automatically placed into a designated third-party category, which defines the type of data that the third-party entity is authorized to receive. In addition, a user can manage the communications from such devices by selecting to prohibit (i.e., block) or limit, based on data type, which data is communicated to which third-party entities. Additionally, the identity of the third-party entities can be authenticated/verified, such that if the third-party entity cannot be verified, communication of data to that entity is blocked or limited. |
| US10080124B2 |
Methods and apparatus for cluster management in DSRC cooperative safety systems
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The apparatus receives a safety message from a second UE. The received safety message includes a cluster indicator that indicates whether the received safety message is a first safety message type or a second safety message type. The first safety message type is associated with a single UE and the second safety message type is associated with multiple UEs. The apparatus determines whether the received safety message is the first safety message type or the second safety message type based on the cluster indicator included in the safety message. The apparatus determines whether a proximity condition between the apparatus and the second UE is satisfied based on the received safety message. |
| US10080121B2 |
System and method for remote communication
A method, device, and system for a user to place an order with a service provider using a Bluetooth-enabled apparatus that connects to a Bluetooth-enabled phone. Upon pressing a button on the Bluetooth-enabled apparatus, the apparatus and the phone automatically pair, and the phone automatically dials a preset number and sends a preset message to the service provider. A confirmation can be sent to the user. An order can also be placed automatically when the lid of the apparatus is opened. The apparatus can include indicator lights to signal errors and/or the status of the order. |
| US10080120B2 |
System and method for machine type communication
A method at a network element for providing data access to a network. The method comprising establishing a primary communication channel with the network with a first wireless interface of said network element, establishing a complementary communication channel with one or more of a group of delay tolerant devices with a second wireless interface of said network element, receiving data from respective delay tolerant devices in the group, aggregating the received data and transferring said aggregated data on the established primary communication channel to the network. In an embodiment the primary and complementary channels correspond respectively to first and second spectrums, which may in turn be, respective, licensed and unlicensed spectrums. |
| US10080115B2 |
Method and apparatus relating to online charging in an IP multimedia subsystem
A method is provided which relates to online charging within an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS. The method comprises at an IMS charging node (30): (a) receiving (S-C) a credit control request message from an IMS service network node (20) over a service charging interface (22) provided between the IMS service node (20) and the IMS charging node (30); (b) determining (S-A; S-D) with reference to one or more triggering conditions that an announcement is to be provided to a user associated with the credit control request message and/or another user; and (c) following such a determination, initiating an announcement service in the IMS service node (20) by sending (S-E) an announcement request in a credit control answer message over the service charging interface (22) to the IMS service node (20), the credit control answer message being in response to the credit control request message, and the announcement request comprising announcement information relating to the announcement to be provided. |
| US10080113B1 |
Method of and system for displaying mobile messages in unsupported formats
The present invention is directed to methods of and systems for converting data that is in a format unsupported by a recipient device into images that are supported and can thus be accurately rendered by the recipient device. Thus, recipient devices, such as mobile phones and text messengers, all of which are able to display images, are all able to render characters in languages not supported by the recipient device. A method of the present invention converts data for display on a receiving device configured to accurately render data in one or more supported formats. The method includes determining whether a first format of the data is a supported format, and automatically converting the data into a second format supported by the second device if the first format is not a supported format. Preferably, the first format is defined by a character set and the second format is a binary image format. |
| US10080110B1 |
Bracket for mounting a push-to-talk button off a control column of an airplane steering yoke
A bracket (20) for mounting a touch-to-talk actuator (38) off of a control column (24) of an airplane steering yoke (26) has a split collar (22) for clamping onto the control column (24) and an elongated support rod (32) cantilevered from the split collar (22), providing a distal mounting end (36) for the touch-to-talk actuator (38). Wires (44) link the touch-to-talk actuator (38) with controls in the airplane cockpit for intercom, radio, phone or other voice-communication path between the pilot and others, whether on the ground or elsewhere. The support rod (32) is elongated, configured and cantilevered from the split collar (22) such that the touch-to-talk actuator (38) is proximal one of the handles or hand grip portions of the steering yoke (26) so that the pilot can actuate it with a single digit, like his or her thumb, without otherwise letting go of the steering. |
| US10080108B2 |
Electronic device and method for updating point of interest
An electronic device includes a memory, which stores one or more pieces of schedule information of a user corresponding to the electronic device, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain location information corresponding to the electronic device, to select at least one schedule information, which is associated with a location corresponding to the location information, from among the one or more pieces of schedule information, to determine whether an event corresponding to the location occurs, based at least on the at least one schedule information, and to set the location to a POI corresponding to the user based at least on the occurrence of the event. |
| US10080103B2 |
Range-free proximity determination
Techniques of range free proximity determination are described. A mobile device can determine an entry into or exit from a proximity fence upon determining that the mobile device is sufficiently close to a signal source. The proximity fence can be a virtual fence defined by the signal source and associated with a service. The mobile device can detect signals from multiple signal sources. The mobile device can determine that, among the signal sources, one or more signal sources are located closest to the mobile device based on a ranking of the signal sources using signal strength. The mobile device can determine a probability indicating a confident level of the ranking. The mobile device can determine that the mobile device entered or exited a proximity fence associated with a highest ranked signal source satisfying a confidence threshold. |
| US10080095B2 |
Audio spatialization
A camera input can be used by the computer to support audio spatialization or to improve audio spatialization of an application that already supports it. A computer system may to support audio spatialization, for example, by modifying the relative latency or relative amplitude of the rendered audio packets. If a sound is intended, for example, to be located on the left side of the user, then the audio channel that is rendered on the headset speaker located on the user's left ear may have a somewhat decreased latency and increased amplitude compared to the other audio channel. |
| US10080094B2 |
Audio processing apparatus
An apparatus comprising: a spatial audio analyzer configured to determine, using at least one audio signal, at least one acoustic source; a location determiner configured to determining at least one point of interest location associated with the at least one acoustic source; a trajectory determiner configured to determine a trajectory of the at least one point of interest location associated with the at least one acoustic source; and a processor configured to reproduce the at least one audio signal from at least one sound playback transducer based on the determined trajectory. |
| US10080093B2 |
Switching binaural sound
A method provides binaural sound to a person through electronic earphones. The binaural sound localizes to a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space that is away from but proximate to the person. When an event occurs, the binaural sound switches or changes to stereo sound, to mono sound, or to altered binaural sound. |
| US10080087B2 |
Speaker
The present disclosure provides is a speaker, including a frame, a vibrating system accommodated in the frame and a magnet portion driving the vibrating system, the vibrating system includes a diaphragm and a voice coil, the diaphragm includes a first fixing portion, a second fixing portion and a vibrating portion connected therebetween, the vibrating portion includes a vibrating main portion, a first suspension and a second suspension, the first fixing portion is fixed on the magnet portion, the second fixing portion is fixed on the frame, the vibrating main portion vibrates at a side of the magnet portion under driving of the voice coil. Comparing with the related art, vibration of the speaker diaphragm provided by the present disclosure is not limited by the magnet portion, thickness of the speaker can be made thin, which meets requirements of portable mobile electronic products on lighter and thinner components. |
| US10080078B2 |
Battery-less, noise-cancellation headset
Methods and apparatus for a battery-less, noise-cancellation headset compatible with 4-pin audio jack are generally described herein. An example head device to support a noise cancellation function may include a first microphone associated with a first speaker, and a second microphone associated with a second speaker. The example headset device may further include an audio plug having a single microphone contact, and a controller circuit to oscillate back and forth between coupling the first microphone and the second microphone to the single microphone contact at a predetermined frequency. |
| US10080076B2 |
Headphone device
A headphone device includes a container and a first electrical connector. The container includes a first loudspeaker disposed in the container, a second loudspeaker disposed in the container, and a first cross-feed loudspeaker disposed in the container. The first electrical connector is disposed on the container, and is electrically connected to the first loudspeaker, the second loudspeaker and the first cross-feed loudspeaker. |
| US10080075B2 |
Portable sound equipment
Disclosed is a portable sound equipment. The present invention includes a body, first and second holders formed at the body, and a pair of earbuds, each earbud of the pair of earbuds detachably coupled with the first and second holders. And each earbud of the pair of the earbuds comprises a sound output unit, a wireless communication unit, a detecting unit configured to detect whether the earbud is coupled with the first holder or the second holder, and a controller configured to control the wireless communication unit and the sound output unit in first mode in response to detection of coupling of the earbud with the first holder, and control the wireless communication unit and the sound output unit in a second mode in response to detection of coupling of the earbud with the second holder. |
| US10080073B2 |
Microphone accessory and method of using a microphone
This invention relates to microphone accessories for use with a hand-held microphone, and to a method of using a microphone. The microphone accessory in accordance with the invention has a body comprising an attachment formation for attaching the microphone accessory to the handle of the microphone, a holding portion to be engaged by a hand of the user, a cover portion coupled to the holding portion and substantially spaced therefrom so as to define a holding zone between the holding portion and the cover portion for receipt of the hand of the user to engage the holding portion, in use, wherein the cover portion substantially shields or covers the holding zone and/or the hand of the user; and a static non-electronically variable display device and/or an electronically variable display device. The invention also relates to a wearable microphone accessory. |
| US10080065B2 |
Method and apparatus for sending stored advertising data from an internet protocol television end user network interface device
A method and system are disclosed for continuously providing preexisting default advertisement data to an end user device from a non-transitory computer readable memory in an end user network interface device, prior to the end user device connecting to an online destination. |
| US10080059B2 |
Web-based video broadcasting system having multiple channels
A video broadcast system comprising a web page having a web page address and being in communication with a host system to permit users and a content providers to access the host system. The host system is programmed to permit the content provider to register at least one channel and associate the channel with the content provider, selectively upload to the host system a video file and associate the video file with the channel, and associate a link source address with the channel, wherein the link source address is different from the web page address. The host system is further programmed to permit the content provider to determine which of the channels registered with the host system are accessible by the user accessing the host system from the link source address. |
| US10080052B2 |
Systems and methods for performing an action based on viewing positions of other users
Systems and methods for performing an action based on viewing positions of other users are provided. Viewing progress in a media asset of each of a plurality of users is retrieved. The viewing progress of each of the plurality of users is compared to identify a maximum viewing progress that is common to each of the plurality of users. A request from a user to access the media asset is received. A current viewing progress in the media asset of the user is monitored to determine when the current viewing progress of the user matches the identified maximum viewing progress that is common to each of the plurality of users. In response to determining that the current viewing progress of the user matches the identified maximum viewing progress, a message with an option to perform an action relative to the media asset is generated for display to the user. |
| US10080047B1 |
Methods for identifying, disrupting and monetizing the illegal sharing and viewing of digital and analog streaming content
Methods and systems for automatically monitoring, identifying, documenting, recording, interrupting, disrupting, educating, redirecting and infiltrating and/or monetizing the illegal and unauthorized sharing and viewing of video streaming content by using a keyword and an internet address and automatically retrieving data relating to the keyword and video streaming services or password sharing, automatically retrieving information relating to the retrieved data, automatically retrieving information relating with a combination of the first two retrievals, enhancing the data sets, and sending a message to the individual who shared the illegal share link or password and to all the viewers of the illegal video stream. |
| US10080046B2 |
Video display device and control method thereof
Provided are a video display device and a method of controlling the same. The method includes: obtaining an uncompressed audio-visual (AV) content; playing the uncompressed AV content through the display unit; obtaining content information of the uncompressed AV content on the basis of a content section of the uncompressed AV content; obtaining content change time information and enhanced service information on the basis of the content information; and determining a delay time for obtaining the next content information on the basis of the content change time information. |
| US10080045B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting high bandwidth signals with low bandwidth transponders
A method and apparatus for transmitting a plurality of elementary data streams to a plurality of receivers is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of generating M data streams comprising K multiplexed elementary data streams in a first entity, transmitting the M data streams to a second entity, generating N transmitter streams from the M data streams in the second entity; and transmitting each of the N transmitter streams to the plurality of receivers using an associated one of N broadcast sub-transmitters. |
| US10080043B2 |
Modifying media asset metadata to include identification of key moment
In the following, a content delivery system delivers a modified version of a media asset to a current content consuming user. Control information identifying a desired attribute of the modified version of the asset is received from the current content consuming user. The media asset is modified based on the control information and audience reaction data associated with the media asset and generated by analyzing at least a previous content consuming user's reactions to the media asset while the media asset was supplied to a media output device of the previous content consuming user. |
| US10080037B2 |
Method for encoding and decoding video including plurality of layers
A method for decoding a video including a plurality of views, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: configuring a base merge motion candidate list by using motion information of neighboring blocks and a time correspondence block of a current block; configuring an extended merge motion information list by using motion information of a depth information map and a video view different from the current block; and determining whether neighboring block motion information contained in the base merge motion candidate list is derived through view synthesis prediction. |
| US10080033B2 |
Moving picture coding method and a moving picture decoding method
A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable length coding unit (107) for performing variable length coding on coded residual data ERes, a prediction type PredType, a reference picture number RefNo2 and motion vectors MV1, MV2 on a block-by-block basis, and outputting them as coded moving picture data Str. |
| US10080032B2 |
Lossy channel video blur avoidance
Blurriness in a video image transmitted over a lossy network can be reduced by filtering the decoder output to determine whether updating of the reference frame based on the current video data is indicated. An update may be appropriate if the decoder output is sharper than the contents of the display buffer after the last update. Additionally, an update may be appropriate if there was a significant change to the underlying image, and thus to the encoder's input. Whether such a change has occurred can be determined by analyzing the prediction mode, motion vectors, and pixel data of the output image. |
| US10080025B2 |
Data processing system modifying motion compensation information, and method for decoding video data including the same
A data processing system includes a first core configured to decode a first picture and generate decoding history information of the decoded first picture, and a second core configured to modify first motion compensation information included in a second picture based on the decoding history information of the decoded first picture and decode the second picture based on the decoded first picture and the modified first motion compensation information. |
| US10080022B2 |
Calibration system for adaptive media encoder
A data processing system for calibrating a media codec comprising a sequence of time-stamped frames and comprising: an encoder subsystem configured to perform encoding in accordance with one or more encode parameters; a decoder subsystem; and a calibration system comprising: a data store for storing an encoded media stream; and a calibration monitor configured to, on the media codec entering a calibration mode, cause: the decoder subsystem to decode the encoded media stream so as to generate a decoded media stream; the encoder subsystem to re-encode said decoded media stream; and the re-encoded media stream to pass back into the decoder subsystem; the calibration monitor being configured to, through variation of the encode parameters of the encoder subsystem, identify maximal encode parameters corresponding to the greatest steady-state demand on the media codec that permits decoding of the sequence of time-stamped frames at a rate in accordance with their associated timestamps. |
| US10080018B2 |
Video content classification
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for video content classification. A video content classification system classifies input video data frame by frame. The video content classification system performs customized discrete cosine transform (DCT) operations on each frame. The video content classification system then determines, based on results of the DCT operations, how much image information in the frame may be lost due to compression. If the loss is estimated to be below a threshold value, the video content classification system applies a high data compression ratio algorithm to compress the frame. Otherwise, the video content classification system applies a low data compression ratio algorithm to compress the frame. The video content classification system may generate output video data that is compressed differently frame by frame. |
| US10080015B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method to apply deblocking filter
Provided is an image processing device including a decoding section that decodes an encoded stream to generate an image, a line determining section that determines whether to apply a deblocking filter to each of lines perpendicular to a boundary in neighboring blocks neighboring across the boundary in the image generated by the decoding section, and a filtering section that applies the deblocking filter to each line to which the line determining section determines to apply the deblocking filter. |
| US10080013B2 |
Image display device and method, as well as program
A stereoscopic image is generated by applying three-dimensional processing to two or more images, which are obtained through photographing from different positions. The stereoscopic image is stereoscopically displayed, and an instruction to start changing a parallax level of the stereoscopic image is received. In response to the instruction to start changing the parallax level, stereoscopic display of the stereoscopic image is switched into two-dimensional display of the two or more images overlapped with each other. An instruction to change the parallax level is received. In response to the instruction to change the parallax level, the two or more images are two-dimensionally displayed with the parallax level of the images being changed. |
| US10080012B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for generating three-dimensional (3D) images of a scene
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for generating three-dimensional (3D) images of a scene. According to an aspect, a method includes capturing a real-time image and a first still image of a scene. Further, the method includes displaying the real-time image of the scene on a display. The method also includes determining one or more properties of the captured images. The method also includes calculating an offset in a real-time display of the scene to indicate a target camera positional offset with respect to the first still image. Further, the method includes determining that a capture device is in a position of the target camera positional offset. The method also includes capturing a second still image. Further, the method includes correcting the captured first and second still images. The method also includes generating the three-dimensional image based on the corrected first and second still images. |
| US10080011B1 |
Light field imaging apparatus
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a light field imaging apparatus and method. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise one or more imaging modules that may include a lens array, to receive a light field of a surface of an object or scene, and a fiber optic image transferring device having a first end and a second end. The fiber optic image transferring device may be coupled with the lens array at the first end, to transfer the light field to the second end. The apparatus may further include an image sensor coupled with the second end of the fiber optic image transferring device, to register the transferred light field and provide the registered light field for processing. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10080009B2 |
Method and system for obtaining images for 3D reconstruction and method and system for 3D reconstruction
A method for obtaining images for three dimension (3D) reconstruction comprises: controlling brightness of each of at least two light sources which are spatially separated from each other to be changed periodically, wherein, among the at least two light sources, there is at least one light source having a period of brightness change different from those of the other light source(s), or the periods of the brightness change of the at least two light sources are the same, but among the at least two light sources, there is at least one light source having a phase of the brightness change different from those of the other light source(s); and using at least three cameras having different spatial positions to capture the images for the 3D reconstruction, respectively, wherein, among the at least three cameras, there is at least one camera starting exposure at a different time from the other cameras. |
| US10080007B2 |
Hybrid tiling strategy for semi-global matching stereo hardware acceleration
Apparatus and methods for disparity cost computation for a stereoscopic image. In an example, a method includes computing partial path matching costs for multiple disparities of pixels of multiple parallelogram blocks of an image in a forward pass direction. Between computing the partial path matching costs of the pixels of adjacent parallelogram blocks, the method includes computing partial path matching costs for the plurality of disparities of pixels along a boundary edge of a corresponding rectangular tile using paths that are external to the rectangular tile and computing partial path matching costs the disparities for all of the pixels of the corresponding rectangular tile. The method also includes computing total aggregated disparity costs for each disparity of the pixels of the image using the partial path matching costs computed for the pixels in the parallelogram blocks and in the rectangular tiles. |
| US10080006B2 |
Stereoscopic (3D) panorama creation on handheld device
A technique of generating a stereoscopic panorama image includes panning a portable camera device, and acquiring multiple image frames. Multiple at least partially overlapping image frames are acquired of portions of the scene. The method involves registering the image frames, including determining displacements of the imaging device between acquisitions of image frames. Multiple panorama images are generated including joining image frames of the scene according to spatial relationships and determining stereoscopic counterpart relationships between the multiple panorama images. The multiple panorama images are processed based on the stereoscopic counterpart relationships to form a stereoscopic panorama image. |
| US10080001B2 |
Video projection apparatus capable of realizing stable rocking angle at optimum resonant frequency
A video projection apparatus includes: an optical deflector having a mirror projecting a first view field and projecting a second view field, an actuator for rocking the mirror and a sensor; an optical guide unit provided within the second view field; a photodetector; and a control unit. The control unit is adapted to calculate a resonant frequency of the sinusoidal-wave voltage; detect a first timing point from a sense voltage; detect a second timing point from a photo detection voltage when the second light beam is incident to the optical guide unit; calculate a time period from the first timing point to the second timing point; calculate a product value between the time period and the resonant frequency; and control an amplitude of the sinusoidal-wave voltage. |
| US10080000B2 |
Intercom system
There is provided an intercom system capable of reducing power consumption by stably performing wireless communication between a camera and a monitor. Monitor 200 checks whether or not a communication error occurs in image data received from camera 100, and checks whether or not there is a slot as a moving destination in an empty state in a case where the communication error occurs. In a case where there is no slot as the moving destination, monitor 200 controls the number of connected image calls by transmitting an image call disconnect request to camera 100. Accordingly, intercom system 10 varies image quality (a frame rate, a compression ratio, or an image size) depending on a radio wave status. |
| US10079996B2 |
Communication system, communication device, and communication method
A device performs to: generate second correspondence information indicating a correspondence relation between coordinates of a projection area and coordinates of a captured image based on first correspondence information indicating a size of the projection area indicating an area to which an image is projected by an image projection device, a size of a basic area indicating an area predetermined as the area to which the image is projected, and indicating a correspondence relation between the coordinates of the basic area and the coordinates of the captured image obtained by an imaging unit; transmit coordinate information indicating a range, of the projection area, specified by a user and the second correspondence information to other device; and output, when receiving output information including voice whose directivity is controlled according to an area corresponding to the coordinate information of the captured image from the other device, the received output information. |
| US10079995B1 |
Methods and systems for generating resolution based content
The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating resolution based content to be streamed at various remote displaying devices. In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and at least one memory having computer-readable instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, configure the at least one processor to determine one or more streaming resolutions according to which a video stream is displayed at one or more receiving endpoints; generate a resolution based content of a video stream for each of the one or more streaming resolutions, each resolution based content being a different representation of an environment captured by the video stream from other resolution based contents; and transmit each resolution based content to a corresponding one of the one or more receiving endpoints for display thereon. |
| US10079991B2 |
Imaging apparatus and imaging method
An imaging apparatus includes: a light reception unit that receives a light emission signal from a transmission apparatus via a pixel; a detection unit that detects whether or not an output based on the light emission signal received by the light reception unit is a first threshold value or more; and a correction unit that corrects a luminance of the pixel when the output based on the light emission signal is the first threshold value or more based on a result detected by the detection unit. |
| US10079990B2 |
Comparator for double ramp analog to digital converter
Apparatuses and method for an image sensor with increased analog to digital conversion range and reduced noise are described herein. An example method may include disabling a first auto-zero switch of a comparator, the first auto-zero switch coupled to auto-zero a reference voltage input of the comparator, adjusting an auto-zero offset voltage of a ramp voltage provided to the reference voltage input of the comparator, and disabling a second auto-zero switch of the comparator, the second auto-zero switch coupled to auto-zero a bitline input of the comparator. |
| US10079986B1 |
Readout integrated circuit with multivalue digital counters
A high density, high speed ROIC uses in-pixel integration capacitors and comparators to convert each pixel charge to a train of pulse spikes which increment a capacitor to successive, discrete charge values that represent a digital, non-binary count value of an in-pixel multi-value digital counter (MVDC). The MVDC can include a plurality of stages whereby comparators limit the maximum count of each stage and increment subsequent stages. The maximum count can be a power of two for subsequent direct ADC conversion to binary. The count values and the residual integration capacitor charge can be read out by ramping the comparator reference inputs and measuring the comparator output timings, effectively forming partially in-pixel single-slope ADC's. The comparators can include temporary internal positive feedback to maintain consistency of the spike pulses to better than 10%. |
| US10079978B2 |
Apparatus and method for automatically adjusting size of characters using camera
A method is provided for automatically adjusting a size of characters using a camera. The method includes receiving an image with characters; adjusting a focus of the image with characters and detecting a region and a size of characters in the image; determining whether the size of the characters in the image falls within a preset range; recognizing the characters in the image and displaying the recognition results, if the size of the characters falls within the preset range; and automatically adjusting a zoom ratio of the image and recognizing the characters in the resized image, if the size of the characters does not fall within the preset range. |
| US10079972B2 |
Method for controlling graphical user interface of camera application
A method for controlling a graphical user interface (GUI) of a camera application on a portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a camera, a touch screen, and a sensor. The method includes the steps of: executing the camera application on the portable electronic device, wherein the GUI includes one or more shutter buttons that control the camera to take a photo; detecting whether the portable electronic device is in a portrait mode or a landscape mode according to sensor data from the sensor; determining positions of the shutter buttons of the GUI in response to the detection result; and rendering the shutter buttons at the determined positions on the GUI displayed on the touch screen. |
| US10079969B2 |
Endoscopy system and method for processing image of the same
Provided is an endoscopy system including: an image signal generator connected to one side of a cable, including a signal transmitter for amplifying and transmitting an image signal so as to transmit the image signal of inner body through the cable; a signal processor connected the other side of the cable, for damping and receiving the image signal which is transmitted through the cable; a central processing unit for outputting an operation control signal to perform an user interface for the image signal; and an image processing unit for overlapping the user interface into the image signal outputted from the signal processor and for processing the image signal in accordance with the operation control signal. |
| US10079964B2 |
Lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus, and camera system
A lens system, an interchangeable lens apparatus, and a camera system each include a front group including a first focus lens group that moves with respect to an image surface in focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-object in-focus condition; a rear group including a second focus lens group that moves with respect to the image surface in focusing, the front group and the rear group being located in order from an object side to an image side; a fixed lens group including at least one positive power lens element, the fixed lens group being located between the front group and the rear group and fixed with respect to the image surface in focusing; and an aperture diaphragm. The positive power lens in the fixed lens group satisfies dPgF>0.015 (dPgF is an anomalous dispersibility in a g-line and an F-line of the lens element). |
| US10079963B1 |
Display method and display system for video wall
A display method and a display system for a video wall are proposed. The method is applicable to a display system having a server and multiple player devices. Each of the player devices is connected to the server and a video wall having multiple displays, and each of the player devices corresponds to a different one of the displays and a different one of regions in a video stream. The method includes to receive the video stream from the server by each of the player devices, to send a broadcast command by a master player device among the player devices to other player devices, and to start displaying the corresponding region in a first frame of the video stream on the corresponding display of the video wall by each of the player devices after a preset delay time interval according to the broadcast command. |
| US10079962B2 |
Systems and methods for separating a digital image using a specified colour palette into a sequence of separation plates used in a multi-stage printing process to produce an acceptable facsimile of the digital image
Systems and methods of separating a digital image using a specified colour palette into a sequence of separation plates is disclosed. The method comprises receiving the digital image and the specified colour palette; setting a desired integer number of ink quantization levels, Q; determining a plurality of ink levels (0%, 100%, and evenly spaced intermediate levels there between when Q>0); combining all of the plurality of ink levels by Cartesian product for each of the plurality of printing inks forming a list of possible ink combinations; calculating the colour values for one or more composite colours by linear combination of the colour values of each possible combination weighted by the levels, for each pixel colour value in the digital image finding the potential colour separation combination colour value that is the closest to the pixel colour value, adding each of the printing ink-ink level pairs that resulted in the closest potential colour separation combination colour value to a final combination colour palette, and including each of the plurality of pixels associated with the pixel colour value on a separation plate logically associated with each of the printing inks that resulted in the closest potential colour separation combination colour value; ordering the printing ink, ink level pairs within the final combination colour palette; and returning the final combination colour palette and separation plates. |
| US10079961B2 |
Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for changing a value of a setting item
A data processing apparatus includes a reading unit, an extraction unit, and a rewriting unit. The reading unit reads, in a case where an instruction for changing a value of a setting item regarding a service to be provided by the data processing apparatus is issued by a user, a value of the instructed setting item before the change from a predetermined storing region. The extraction unit extracts shortcut information including the value before the change as a parameter value from among plural pieces of shortcut information each including a parameter for shortcut launching of a service to be provided by the data processing apparatus. The rewriting unit rewrites the parameter value included in the extracted shortcut information to a designated value. |
| US10079959B2 |
Creating image data for a tile on an image
A data structure includes entries corresponding to a plurality of tiles that form part of an image, where a given entry of the entries includes color information for a given tile of the plurality of tiles. Image data in the given tile is created using the color information of the given entry, where creating the image data in the given tile using the color information of the given entry is performed without using input image data for the given tile. |
| US10079957B2 |
Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, an addition unit, and a transfer unit. The reading unit reads image data from a document. The addition unit adds attribute information regarding a preset item to the image data read by the reading unit. The transfer unit transfers to a specified destination the image data to which the attribute information is added by the addition unit. |
| US10079952B2 |
System, apparatus and method for processing and combining notes or comments of document reviewers
Systems, apparatuses, methodologies and other tools can be provided for processing and managing documents, including provisions to manage and organize multiple copies or versions of a document and/or notes or comments handwritten or electronically superposed on the document or entered in a document file. |
| US10079950B2 |
Printing system includes a terminal and a printer to detect user action for changing display area of an electronic page displayed on a display, and create history information of the user action
A printing system includes a terminal and a printer communicable with the terminal. The terminal includes: an operation history recording unit that detects an operation performed by a user for changing a display area of an electronic document displayed on a screen of the terminal, and records operation history information that includes type information about the operation; and an instruction transmitting unit that transmits, to the printer, print instruction information including the operation history information recorded by the operation history recording unit and document information for identifying the electronic document. The printer includes: an instruction receiving unit that receives the print instruction information from the terminal; and a print controller that determines, in accordance with the operation history information included in the received print instruction information, a print area of the electronic document identified by using the document information, and performs control so as to print the determined print area. |
| US10079949B2 |
Image forming apparatus and storage medium
An image forming apparatus includes an application on a framework, that is separated into a core logic portion handling basic processing and a user interface frame portion handling rendering processing and operates; and a controller that executes the application and the framework. The core logic portion is implemented with an application programming interface defined by the framework. The application includes plural applications including a specific application, a core logic portion of the specific application stores user information collectively in a user context, and a core logic portion of another application acquires the user information from the user context. |
| US10079948B2 |
Image reading apparatus provided with original document skew correction function
According to detection results of a plurality of original document detectors, an image reading apparatus determines whether or not correcting skew of an original document is possible, controls a pair of a plurality of transport rollers in a case where it is determined that correcting the skew of the original document is possible, and corrects the skew of the original document by making transporting speeds of the pair of the plurality of transport rollers different from each other. |
| US10079940B2 |
Broadcasting system
A broadcasting system provides a telephone number as identity information during a registration process of a user equipment intended to be used as a user broadcasting equipment. The telephone number is one of many telephone numbers associated with the broadcasting system. During the registration process in which the user equipment is identified as a user broadcasting equipment, various information associated with the user equipment are obtained and stored. The identity information, i.e., the telephone number, maps to the stored information such that when the user equipment is used to dial the provided telephone number, the broadcasting system automatically recognizes the user equipment is making a dial to broadcast request. Upon checking the stored information associated with the user equipment, the broadcasting system allows the user equipment to broadcast to one or more other user equipment registered as listeners to a scheduled broadcast. |
| US10079939B1 |
Performing contextual analysis of incoming telephone calls and suggesting forwarding parties
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, an incoming telephone call from a caller; identifying, by the computing device, a telephone number associated with the telephone call; obtaining, by the computing device, contextual data based on the telephone number, predicting, by the computing device, one or more reasons for the telephone call based on the contextual data; and displaying, by the computing device, the one or more reasons for the telephone call. |
| US10079938B2 |
Dynamic management and redistribution of contact center media traffic
A system that supports multiple contact centers includes a communications network that is coupled between a private network (e.g. MPLS network) and a remote computing environment (e.g. cloud environment). A server system in the remote computing environment monitors health of different network segments (e.g. bandwidth of the connection between the communications network and the remote computing environment, bandwidth of a link used by a tenant to access the private network, etc.). When it is determined that quality of service for voice conversations for one or more contact centers is at risk due to a health status parameter of a network segment reaching a threshold, an appropriate system reaction is triggered. The system reaction may be to offload future calls to a peer remote computing environment to service future calls. The system reaction may also be to cancel outbound campaigns, provide pre-determined “sorry” messages, and the like. |
| US10079936B2 |
Methods, systems and applications for porting telephone numbers on wireless devices
The application is directed to a method and system for improving user experience with porting a telephone number to an electronic device. The method includes the steps of displaying a user interface on a display of the electronic device for initiating porting of a telephone number. Upon receiving user information via the user interface associated with the telephone number, it is determined whether the telephone number is portable. If the telephone number is portable, it is transmitted to the electronic device. |
| US10079935B1 |
Managing sensitive information transfer between parties in a telephone conversation
A communication device associated with a first party monitors a call between the first party and a second party. The communication device identifies a request for sensitive information from the second party during the call. The communication device determines whether the requested sensitive information matches sensitive information stored in an encrypted data store by determining whether a text representation of the requested sensitive information matches a text representation of the sensitive information stored in the encrypted data store. The communication device sends, responsive to determining that the requested for sensitive information matches the stored sensitive information, the requested sensitive information to the second party. |
| US10079933B2 |
System and method for user-privacy-aware communication monitoring and analysis
Methods and systems for monitoring, analyzing and acting upon voice calls in communication networks. An identification system receives monitored voice calls that are conducted in a communication network. Some of the monitored voice calls may be conducted by target individuals who are predefined as suspects. In order to maintain user privacy, the system selects and retains only voice calls that are suspected of being conducted by predefined targets. The techniques disclosed herein are particularly advantageous in scenarios where the network identifiers of the terminal used by the target are not known, or where the target uses public communication devices. In accordance with the disclosure, context-based identifiers such as speaker recognition or keyword matching are used. |
| US10079932B2 |
Method and system for logging and reporting call detail information
A method and apparatus for logging call detail information in an email message are provided herein. The method for logging call detail information in an email message includes (i) receiving, from a service provider, information associated with a first call event for a telecommunication session; (ii) creating a call record using the information associated with the first call event for the telecommunication session; (iii) receiving, from the service provider, information associated with an additional call event for the telecommunication session; (iv) updating the call record using the information associated with the additional call event; (v) repeating steps (iii) and (iv) until the information associated with one of the additional call events indicates the telecommunication session has ended; and (vi) sending a request to insert the call record into a user's email account using one or more email provider application programming interfaces (APIs). |
| US10079929B2 |
Determining threats based on information from road-based devices in a transportation-related context
Techniques for ability enhancement are described. Some embodiments provide an ability enhancement facilitator system (“AEFS”) configured to enhance a user's ability to operate or function in a transportation-related context as a pedestrian or a vehicle operator. In one embodiment, the AEFS is configured perform vehicular threat detection based on information received at a road-based device, such as a sensor or processor that is deployed at the side of a road. An example AEFS receives, at a road-based device, information about a first vehicle that is proximate to the road-based device. The AEFS analyzes the received information to determine threat information, such as that the vehicle may collide with the user. The AEFS then informs the user of the determined threat information, such as by transmitting a warning to a wearable device configured to present the warning to the user. |
| US10079928B2 |
Authenticating a second terminal based on information sensed by a first terminal
A mechanism is provided for authenticating a second terminal based on information sensed by a first terminal. Responsive to receiving an authentication request, a first output request is sent to a second terminal instructing the second terminal to generate information able to be sensed by a sensor in a first terminal. An authentication of the authentication request is performed based on a condition that the sensor in the first terminal has sensed the information generated by the second terminal. |
| US10079926B1 |
Virtual telephony assistant
Examples are disclosed for screening an inbound telephony call to a called party. At a communications server, an inbound telephony call intended for a called party's telephone number is received and checked against a whitelist database and a blacklist database. When the caller ID of the inbound call matches a telephone number contained in the blacklist database, the communications server automatically routes the call to a voicemail system or spam folder associated with the called party's telephone number. When the caller ID of the inbound call matches a telephone number contained in the whitelist database, the communications server determines whether the called party is available to receive the call. Otherwise, when the caller ID of the inbound call does not match a telephone number contained in either the whitelist database or the blacklist database, the communications server prompts the caller for additional information. |
| US10079925B2 |
Mobile telephone
The mobile telephone disclosed in the present specification has a mobile telephone upper edge unit including a right-ear cartilage conduction unit, a left-ear cartilage conduction unit, and a linking unit linking the right-ear cartilage conduction unit and the left-ear cartilage conduction unit, the units being exposed at the mobile telephone surface; and a cartilage-conduction vibration source for transmitting vibration to the mobile telephone upper edge unit. |
| US10079923B2 |
Foldable electronic gaming or mobile communication device for insertion into hip pocket
A mobile communication device which comprises a first member with first surface having a first curvature and a second surface having a second curvature; a second member having first surface with a third curvature and a second surface with a fourth curvature. A hinge pivotally connects the first and second members with one another such that they are movable between opened and closed configurations. The first and the second curvatures of the first member combine with one another and form a combined average curvature for the first member and the third and the fourth curvatures of the second member combine combine with one another and form a combined average curvature for the second member. The combined average curvature for the first member and the combined average curvature for the second member combine with one another to form a combined average curvature for the communication device which is 8 feet or less. |
| US10079922B2 |
Conductive structural members acting as NFC antenna
In an embodiment, conductive structural members of a device acting as NFC antenna are described. According to an embodiment, a device comprises: two conductive structural members, each comprising a first electrical end and a second electrical end, a dielectric isolation being configured between the first electrical end of the first structural member and the first electrical end of the second structural member; two NFC antenna feeds, the first feed being electrically coupled with the first electrical end of the first member, the second feed being electrically coupled with the first electrical end of the second member; two grounding components, one each grounding the second electrical end of the conductive structural members; at least one additional antenna feed configured for a frequency other than that of NFC, coupled to either of the two members. |
| US10079920B2 |
Customized data retrieval applications for mobile devices providing interpretation of markup language data
Systems and techniques, including computer software, for retrieving information to a mobile device involve installing a data retrieval application on the mobile device. The data retrieval application includes instructions for presenting a structured data display on the mobile device, defining a structure of the structured data display, requesting selected hyperlinks included in the structured data display, and rendering markup language information received in response to the selected hyperlinks. A user request to retrieve data through the data retrieval application is received, and data is retrieved in response to the received user request. The retrieved data is displayed according to the structure of the structured data display, and a user can select a hyperlink in the displayed data to retrieve and render markup language information using the data retrieval application. |
| US10079917B2 |
Method and apparatus for synthesized address detection
A method and apparatus for synthesized address prefix detection is provided. One example method includes generating a request for a first protocol address record of a name that has been assigned an address in accordance with a second protocol, causing the request to be sent to a domain name system server, and analyzing a response to the request for the first protocol address record to determine whether the domain name system server generated a synthesized address for the name in accordance with the first protocol. Similar and related example methods and example apparatuses are also provided. |
| US10079915B2 |
Methods of processing data corresponding to a device that corresponds to a gas, water, or electric grid, and related devices and computer program products
Methods of operating a communication node are provided. A method of operating a communication node may include receiving data from an electric grid device via a network interface. The method may include processing the data from the electric grid device at the communication node. Moreover, the method may include transmitting a filtered portion of the data to an electric utility head end system, after processing the data at the communication node. In some embodiments, a method of operating a communication node may include using a message broker controlled by a virtual machine in the communication node to provide a protocol to interface with a field message bus that includes a standards-based or open-source Application Programming Interface (API). Related communication nodes and computer program products are also described. |
| US10079913B2 |
Transmission method, terminal and system for application software
Provided are a transmission method, terminal and system for application software. In the method, a first terminal creates a wireless hotspot; a second terminal joins a wireless network constructed by the wireless hotspot when joining request information sent by the second terminal is received; and interaction of application software with the second terminal is performed based on the wireless network. By the technical solution, the application software may be shared among these terminals, and the users do not have to download the application software from the network so as to save the data consumption of the users. Moreover, downloaded application software may also be shared among these terminals through application store clients on the terminals, so as to improve enthusiasm of the user in searching for and downloading the application software and facilitate popularization of the application store clients as well as the application software thereof. |
| US10079912B2 |
Wireless communication system installation
Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, data is stored on a wireless mobile device, where the data is correlated to information to install a wireless server on an electronic system. At least a portion of the data from the wireless mobile device may be downloaded to initiate installation of the wireless server on the electronic system. |
| US10079909B2 |
Computer implemented method and system for proxy voting
A computer implemented method and system for proxy voting are disclosed. The method includes accessing a proxy admin system for casting a plurality of votes, clicking on a delegate button in the proxy admin system for selecting at least one fund, searching for a plurality of vote meetings of the fund manager on a vote card list screen, clicking on a quick vote for selecting a plurality of appropriate policies; a plurality of meetings and a plurality of comments and clicking on a vote button for successful voting in the proxy admin system. |
| US10079908B2 |
System and method for providing caching and pre-fetch of assets/media
A system and method for routing and delivering pre-fetched assets/media, such as a digital image, is provided. The present invention is directed to a system that allows for two digital images to be pre-fetched or otherwise transferred concurrently from two separate source devices to virtually expand the bandwidth and increase the efficiency of the transfer. The system also allows image enhancements to be made in a distributed manner either by a source or destination device, or by both. The invention further provides a method of efficiently delivering multiple versions of a single image to a destination device. An asset ranking system is also provided that takes into consideration the frequency at which the digital image is accessed and the number of source devices that that the digital image is stored within. |
| US10079906B2 |
Device mode settings to provide an enhanced user experience
According to some aspects of the disclosure, when a computing device sends a request for content, such as an Internet page, the computing device can include with the request one or more device context parameters, such as the computing device's power preferences (e.g., current battery level), wireless settings, network connection, etc. The content provider may then use this device context information to select the most appropriate version of the requested content. One example of device context information may be a low-power power save mode setting, or other mode setting. |
| US10079904B2 |
Packet transfer system, relay device, packet transfer method, and program
In a packet transfer system, a transmission-side relay device extracts and integrates data included in a packet transmitted from a transmission device to obtain a packet data stream, extracts data from the packet data stream to obtain a data block, encodes the data block with an error correction code to generate redundant data as a redundant block, generates an error correction data stream obtained by integrating the data block and the redundant block, and packetizes the error correction data stream and transmits the packetized error correction data stream. A reception-side relay device restores missing data using redundant data included in the received data in a case in which there is missing data. The system enables packet transmission and reception to be efficiently performed even in a high loss rate environment. |
| US10079901B2 |
Electronic notifications
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing for a user one or more electronic notifications that include information about a social network. The social network includes a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of edges, with at least one node corresponding to the user. The method further includes determining, for each of the electronic notifications, a score that estimates whether a user interaction with the social network will result if the electronic notification is provided to the user. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the determined scores, an action to take with respect to the electronic notifications. |
| US10079897B2 |
Control of a chain of services
A service control entity is configured to control chains of services provided in a service network having a plurality of service providing modules. A data packet flow from a source address to a destination address is transmitted through the service network applying a chain of services. A chain control unit determines possible chains of services to be applied, identifies the predefined sequence of services applied to the data packet flow, and identifies in which order the identified service providing modules have to be passed in order to apply the predefined sequence of services. A module control unit assigns, to each of the service providing modules in the chain of services, an ingress network address of an underlying layer of the end-to-end layer. The module control unit assigns ingress network addresses so that they have a predefined relationship to the ingress network address of a neighboring service providing module. |
| US10079895B2 |
Auto detecting remote session protocol for remote access
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a thin client. The thin client detects one or more remote session protocols supported by a first remote machine. The thin client determines a first remote session protocol from the one or more remote session protocols based on a first predetermined rule. The thin client determines a first protocol application from one or more protocol applications supporting the first remote session protocol based on a second predetermined rule. The thin client launches the first protocol application to establish a remote session with the first remote machine in accordance with the first remote session protocol. |
| US10079890B2 |
System and method establishing an adhoc network for enabling broadcasting
A system and method for dynamically establishing an adhoc network amongst plurality of communication devices in a beyond audible frequency range is disclosed. The system comprises a first communication device to transmit a quantity of data to a second communication device. The first communication device comprises of an input capturing module to receive the quantity of data from a broadcaster in a format and converts the quantity of data received into a quantity of modulated data, an identity generating module to generate a temporary identity for a broadcasting user. The second communication device then receives the data broadcasted from the first communication device and determines a probabilistic confidence level of the quantity of modulated data. A transreceiver implemented in the first communication device and second communication device transmits and receives the quantity of data in conjugation with the temporary identity within a predefined proximity of each device. |
| US10079887B2 |
Expanding storage capacity of a set of storage units in a distributed storage network
A method begins by a processing module determining that storage of a set of storage units has been expanded and determining, for a plurality of sets of a desired number of encoded data slices, updated storage properties. For each set of the desired number of encoded data slices of at least some of the plurality of sets of the desired number of slices, the method continues with the processing module performing a scoring function using the updated storage properties to produce a per set storage resultant, identifying a sub set of storage units of the set of storage units for storing the set of the desired number of encoded data slices based on the per set storage resultant, and storing the set of the desired number of encoded data slices in the sub set of storage units. |
| US10079884B2 |
Streaming digital content synchronization
Streaming digital content synchronization techniques are described. A response is received to a request to stream the digital content. The response includes a time at which the digital content was last modified (e.g., a last-modified header) and a time at which the response was generated, e.g., a date header. An age is calculated by subtracting the time at which the digital content was last modified, e.g., the last-modified header, from the time at which the response was generated, e.g., the date header. An age describing an amount of time the response spent in one or more caches, if available, is added as part of this age. The time is determined by subtracting the age from a predefined setback time and the stream of the digital content is rendered based at least in part on the determined time. |
| US10079879B2 |
Weighted rendezvous hashing
A device may be configured to store virtual identifier information indicating virtual identifiers associated with servers. The virtual identifier information may associate a quantity of virtual identifiers with each respective server of the servers based on a weight associated with the respective server. The device may receive an object identifier identifying an object to be processed by at least one of the servers. The device may calculate hash values for the virtual identifiers based on the object identifier. The device may determine a virtual identifier associated with a hash value that satisfies a particular condition. The device may select a server associated with the virtual identifier. The device may send an instruction to the server to process the object. |
| US10079872B1 |
Subscription levels in an internet-based content platform
An internet-based content platform for providing subscription levels to channels are described. The internet-based content platform presents to an end user, a channel that includes a plurality of media items, a list of types of access to the plurality of media items, and a plurality of subscription levels associated with different subscription fees for different types of access. The channel is one of a plurality of channels of an internet-based content platform. The internet-based content platform receives a selection of one of the plurality of subscription levels for the channel. The internet-based content platform records the selected subscription level of the end user for the channel. The internet-based content platform provides a type of access to the plurality of media items of the channel for the end user according to the recorded subscription level of the end user for the channel. |
| US10079869B2 |
Method and system for managing and distributing digital media
A system and method that integrates a plurality of media service systems offering different multimedia services such as media storage, syndication, delivery, and billing services. The system and method also provides automated file transcoding. In embodiment, a method of the present invention includes receiving a plurality of physical media files, organizing the plurality of physical media files so that different bit-rates and formats of a single source material are organized into a media database entity, receiving user specified delivery settings for the distribution of the physical media file, generating a release database entity storing the delivery settings of the physical media file, generating an address indicating the storage location of the release, and transmitting the address to a remote computing device. |
| US10079867B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method of controlling output of content data, and recording medium
The communication terminal determines whether a delay in output of an output signal based on first content data is detected, the first content data being received from a first counterpart communication terminal through a network, generates a first request for changing a code quantity of the first content data being received based on a determination indicating that the delay is detected, the first request including a reduction coefficient for determining an amount of reduction in the code quantity of the first content data being received, and transmits the first request to the first counterpart communication terminal that transmits the first content data, through the network. |
| US10079864B2 |
Communicating media data
Communicating media data over a communication system in which a first communication instance for a user of the communication system is implemented at a first user terminal, and a second communication instance for the user of the communication system is implemented at a second user terminal. The user is simultaneously logged into the communication system via: (i) the first communication instance at the first user terminal, and (ii) the second communication instance at the second user terminal. A media communication session is established between the first and second communication instances, wherein the media communication session is authenticated on the basis of the same user being simultaneously logged into the communication system via both the first and second communication instances. Media data is communicated in the media communication session from the first communication instance at the first user terminal to the second communication instance at the second user terminal. |
| US10079855B2 |
Password breach registry
A password breach registry is utilized to secure a service provided by a service provider. The password breach registry is a publicly accessible registry and includes password tokens written by breached service providers. The password tokens indicate passwords used to access breached service providers that may have been breached. A service provider can subscribe to the password breach registry and periodically query the password breach registry to determine if a password token corresponding to a user of a service provided by the service provider has been written to the password breach registry. This may indicate that the user of the service utilizes the same password on other services that have been breached. Upon determining that the password token has been written to the password breach registry, the user can be locked out from the service to prevent a malicious actor from gaining access to the account of the user. |
| US10079852B2 |
Sinkholing bad network domains by registering the bad network domains on the internet
Techniques for sinkholing bad network domains by registering the bad network domains on the Internet are provided. In some embodiments, sinkholing bad network domains by registering the bad network domains on the Internet includes determining a network domain is a bad network domain, in which the bad network domain is determined to be associated with an identified malware (e.g., malware that has been identified and has been determined to be associated with the bad domain), and the bad network domain is sinkholed by registering the bad network domain with a sinkholed IP address; and identifying a host that is infected with the identified malware based on an attempt by the host to connect to the sinkholed IP address. |
| US10079851B2 |
Device identification systems
Methods and systems for a device identification system may be provided. The device identification system may determine an identity of a user device associated with a transaction. The identity may be determined by network address information, hard link information, soft link information, and/or other such information. The network address information may include IPv4 information, IPv6 information, a device ID, and/or other such information. The identity of the user device may be determined and a transaction conducted from the user device may be assigned a fraudulent transaction risk score according to the information. Transactions that are determined to be at a high risk of fraud may be reviewed or otherwise flagged and/or canceled. |
| US10079850B1 |
Systems and methods for provisioning cyber security simulation exercises
A computer-implemented method for provisioning cyber security simulation exercises may include (1) maintaining, at a data center level for a data center including a multitude of nodes, a cyber security simulation template that defines a resource configuration for a cyber security simulation exercise in which a participant executes a security attack within a contained network environment to educate the participant about cyber security, (2) detecting an indication to place a user session of the cyber security simulation exercise within the data center to enable the participant to perform the cyber security simulation exercise, and (3) dynamically allocating, by an autonomous and centralized data center allocation agent in response to detecting the indication, a pool of resources at a node within the data center to the user session to enable the participant to perform the cyber security simulation exercise. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10079844B2 |
Insider attack resistant system and method for cloud services integrity checking
An insider attack resistant system for providing cloud services integrity checking is disclosed. In particular, the system utilizes an automated integrity checking script and virtual machines to check the integrity of a service. The system may utilize the integrity checking script and virtual machines to execute a set of operations associated with the service so as to check the integrity of the service. When executing the set of operations, the system may only have access to the minimum level of access to peripherals that is required for each operation in the set of operations to be executed. After each operation is executed, the system may log each result for each operation, and analyze each result to determine if a failure exists for any of the operations. If a failure exists, the system may determine that a change in an expected system behavior associated with the service has occurred. |
| US10079842B1 |
Transparent volume based intrusion detection
A computing resource service provider may provide customers with a block-level forensics service. Logical volumes associated a customer may be used to instantiate computing resources provided by a computing resource service provide for use by the customer. The block-level forensics service or component thereof may monitor the logical volume based at least in part on a log generated as a result of the logical volume being implemented as a log-structured storage system. Operations to the log may be collected by the block-level forensics service and malicious activity may be detected based at least in part on operations to the log. |
| US10079841B2 |
Automated runtime detection of malware
One example method and correspond apparatus extracts a model of a computer application during load time and stores the model of the computer application in a database. This example method and corresponding apparatus also inserts instructions into the computer application to collect data at runtime. This example method and corresponding apparatus then analyzes the data collected at runtime against the stored model of the computer application to detect one or more security events and tracks the one or more security events using a state machine. |
| US10079835B1 |
Systems and methods for data loss prevention of unidentifiable and unsupported object types
A computer-implemented method for data loss prevention of unidentifiable and unsupported object types may include (1) monitoring, through at least one filter, data input to an application during execution, (2) scanning, through a data loss prevention scanner, the data input to the application to detect whether the data includes sensitive data that is protected by a data loss prevention policy, (3) flagging, based on the scanning, the application as having accessed the sensitive data that is protected by the data loss prevention policy, (4) detecting that the application is requesting to output a data object in a format that obscures underlying content, and (5) performing, by a data loss prevention program, a remedial action to prevent loss of the sensitive data based on both flagging the application and detecting that the application is requesting to output the data object in the format that obscures underlying content. |
| US10079833B2 |
Digital rights management system with confirmation notification to document publisher during document protection and distribution
A digital rights management (DRM) method for protecting digital documents, implemented in a DRM system. When an operator (document publisher) scans a document on a scanner to generates a digital document and specifies a list of users who will be granted access rights to the document, the DRM system applies digital rights protection to the document according to the specified access rights, and distributes the document to the specified users; the system also sends a confirmation notification such as an email to the document publisher, which contains a list of the receiving users, a copy of the protected digital document, and a link to a web-based tool that will allow the publisher to modify the access rights granted to the users. In addition, when applying digital rights protection, the DRM system specifies the publisher as a user who will have access rights to the document. |
| US10079830B2 |
Lockable network testing device
A network testing device may be linked to a dedicated remote server e.g. a cloud-based server having a unique, pre-determined address. The testing device may be configured to cease operating, become locked or limited in testing functionality after a number of startup cycles, days of use, a certain date, etc. Once the testing device is locked, the testing device may be re-activated only by establishing a connection to the server. A database of network testing devices currently in use may be provided. Once a testing device is lost or stolen, the database may be remotely updated to prevent reactivation of that testing device, so as to render the lost or stolen testing device useless for an unauthorized operator of the testing device. |
| US10079828B2 |
CCTV monitoring system for registering camera and managing permission and control method thereof
The present invention provides a CCTV monitoring system for registering a camera and managing permission, and a control method of the system. In other words, according to the present invention, a manager having an installer terminal granted with temporal authority over the camera, can install the relevant camera, check whether the camera operates, and then, entrust/set authority over the camera to a terminal of an end-user through cooperation among the installer terminal, the terminal of the end-user, and a service server. Accordingly, convenience for a user can be improved and it is possible to more efficiently manage an installed camera. |
| US10079827B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system
An information processing apparatus for authenticating a user includes a wireless communication unit configured to obtain predetermined information from a wireless tag; a wireless authentication unit configured to authenticate the wireless tag based on the predetermined information; a capturing unit configured to capture an image; an image authentication unit configured to authenticate the user captured in the image; an image determination unit configured to determine whether an object of determination is a living body that satisfies a predetermined condition; and an apparatus authentication unit configured to permit the user to use the information processing apparatus in a case in which the image determination unit determines that the object of determination is the living body that satisfies the predetermined condition, and the user of the wireless tag which is authenticated by the wireless authentication unit and the user who is authenticated by the image authentication unit are the same. |
| US10079810B1 |
Decryption and analysis of network traffic using key material collected from endpoint devices of a computer network
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a first endpoint device having a processor coupled to a memory. The first endpoint device is adapted for communication with other endpoint devices over a network, and implements a key capture agent configured to interface with an operating system of the first endpoint device. The key capture agent is configured to collect key material associated with a session key utilized to encrypt packets sent by the first endpoint device to a second endpoint device over the network as part of a corresponding session. The key material and an identifier of the corresponding session are transmitted for delivery to a decoder that is not part of the first or second endpoint devices, so as to permit the decoder to be configured to decrypt the encrypted packets in intercepted network traffic. For example, the key capture agent may be configured to transmit the key material. |
| US10079805B2 |
Bypassing a firewall for authorized flows using software defined networking
Methods and systems for managing authorized data flows using software defined networking include receiving flow criteria sent from a firewall and extracted from a first data packet, determining whether flow criteria of the first data packet matches an entry in a master data flow list, inserting the flow criteria from the first data packet into the master data flow list on a software defined networking controller, and sending the flow criteria of the first data packet to the router. The router may forward a second data packet associated with the data flow toward a destination based on the validation of the first data packet by the firewall. The flow criteria may not match an entry in a router data flow list on the router and may include at least two of: a source IP address, a destination IP address, a destination port, and a protocol of transmission. |
| US10079802B2 |
Network transmission method and network transmission system for a multi-layer network address translator structure
A peer-to-peer server sends a first internal internet protocol (IP) address and a first internal port number of a first node to a second node, and sends a second internal IP address and a second internal port number of the second node to the first node. The first node sends a first packet to the second internal IP address and the second internal port number via a network address translator. The network address translator send a second packet corresponding to the first packet from an intermediary IP address and an intermediary port number to the second node. The second node sends a third packet to the intermediary IP address and the intermediary port number. The network address translator performs a lookup operation to send a fourth packet corresponding to the third packet to the first internal IP address and the first internal port number. |
| US10079800B2 |
Client subnet efficiency by equivalence class aggregation
A method for improving client subnet efficiency by equivalence class aggregation includes receiving a Domain Name System (DNS) query from a client, determining, based on predetermined class criteria, that the client is associated with an equivalency class, searching a cache associated with the equivalence class for an answer corresponding to the DNS query, and upon locating the answer, serving the answer to the client. If it is determined that the cache does not include the answer, the method proceeds with querying, by a recursive server, an authoritative server using client subnet data associated with the equivalence class, receiving the answer from the authoritative server, storing the answer to the cache associated with the equivalency class, and serving the answer to the client. The client subnet data may include a representative CIDR block, the representative CIDR block being used to make queries on behalf of all clients associated with the equivalence class. |
| US10079798B2 |
Domain intercommunication in shared computing environments
A method, system, and computer program product for enabling communication between different overlay solutions. The method includes one or more processor obtaining an address resolution request from a first resource in a first domain for a second resource in a second domain. Both domains are in a shared computing environment and the second domain includes a control plane engine. The one or more processor obtains source information from the request, registers the information to the engine, and utilizes the request to query the engine to locate the second resource in the domain. The second resource matches the request. The processor receives a response from the engine identifying a first host and the first host is in the second domain and is the host of the second resource. The processor sends a notification request to the first host requesting that the first host reply to the request. |
| US10079795B2 |
Unified messaging leveraging contacts across existing identities without compromising privacy
In one embodiment, a method of establishing a universal intercommunication connection between two users includes, executing on one or more processors the step of receiving a request from a first user to establish a universal intercommunication connection with a second user. The method includes providing an instance of a universal communication application to a first user's computing device. The method includes providing another instance of the universal communication application to a second user's computing device. The method includes verifying that the first user and the second user have at least one connection. The method includes establishing an intercommunication connection between the first user's computing device and the second user's computing device. The universal communication applications enable the first user and the second user to communicate via instant message, text message and cellular call with an established intercommunication connection. |
| US10079793B2 |
Wireless charging smart-gem jewelry system and associated cloud server
Wireless Charging Smart-Gem Jewelry System and Associated Cloud Server comprising a wearable electronic gemstone capable of sensing the emotional state and bodily vital signs of the user and being wirelessly charged and a mobile device capable of communicating with the electronic gemstone such that a cloud server manages communications between members of a social network wearing the electronically smart gemstone. The disclosed Jewelry System provides a custom gemstone with symbol-carved light effects, wireless charging of the stone electronics through universal audio jack of any mobile device, and electrical stimulation of the user along with visual triggers as a specific mode of social interaction. |
| US10079787B2 |
Method and apparatus for creating group and exiting group
A method for exiting a group includes receiving an exiting request for exiting a target subgroup. The exiting request is sent by a client and includes a subgroup identifier of the target subgroup. The method further includes searching a member list of the target subgroup according to the subgroup identifier and deleting the client from the member list. The target subgroup is associated with a target group. Members of the target subgroup constitute a subset of members of the target group. |
| US10079786B2 |
Methods and apparatus for enhancing device messaging
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for enhanced messaging. Specifically, methods and apparatus are presented for transmitting a communication characteristic indicator of a communication message substantially simultaneous to an input of data defining at least a portion of the communication message at the sending device. In one aspect, the communication characteristic indicator represents one or more characteristics of the data. |
| US10079782B2 |
Facilitating communication of data packets using credit-based flow control
Apparatuses and methods are described that provide for credit based flow control in a network in which a public buffer is supported at a receiver node, where a transmitter node can control the use of the public buffer. In particular, the transmitter node determines a buffer credit value (TCRi) for each virtual lane of the transmitter node. The buffer credit value (TCRi) is negative (e.g., less than 0) in an instance in which a respective virtual lane private buffer is fully used and thus reflects a loan of credits from the public buffer. In addition, the transmitter node knows the needed buffer size per virtual lane for transmitting a packet in advance based on the round trip time (RTT) and maximum transmission unit (MTU) for the packet and is precluded from consuming more space on the public buffer than required to meet RTT. |
| US10079777B2 |
Apparatus, systems, and methods of allocating heterogeneous resources
A system for allocating heterogeneous resources may include a client device, a plurality of heterogeneous resources, and a server host. The client device may be configured to request access to one or more specific resources, and the server host may be configured to allocate the requested resource(s) to the client device in response to the server host determining the availability of the requested resource(s). The client device may then establish direct and/or exclusive access to the requested resource(s) and communicate commands to and exchange data with the requested resource(s), bypassing the server host. The server host may also be configured to queue requests for unavailable resources and to later grant access to those resources upon those resources becoming available. Methods of allocating heterogeneous resources are also provided, as are other aspects. |
| US10079774B2 |
Hierarchical fairshare of multi-dimensional resources
A method to determine a hierarchical fair share of resources among one or more scheduling peers. The method determines a greatest fairness difference between the usage percentage difference of a most-served competing peer and that of a least-served competing peer. The method determines a greatest accumulated fairness difference between the accumulated usage percentage difference of the most-served competing peer and that of the least-served competing peer. The method adjusts a resource allocation such that resources from the most-served competing peer are allocated to the least-served competing peer if an adjustment condition is met, wherein the adjustment condition is based on one or both of i) the greatest fairness difference, and ii) whether the greatest accumulated fairness difference exceeds at least one threshold. |
| US10079773B2 |
Hierarchical fairshare of multi-dimensional resources
A method to determine a hierarchical fair share of resources among one or more scheduling peers. The method determines a greatest fairness difference between the usage percentage difference of a most-served competing peer and that of a least-served competing peer. The method determines a greatest accumulated fairness difference between the accumulated usage percentage difference of the most-served competing peer and that of the least-served competing peer. The method adjusts a resource allocation such that resources from the most-served competing peer are allocated to the least-served competing peer if an adjustment condition is met, wherein the adjustment condition is based on one or both of i) the greatest fairness difference, and ii) whether the greatest accumulated fairness difference exceeds at least one threshold. |
| US10079771B2 |
Congestion control in a communications network
A method of congestion control (500) in a communications network is provided. The method comprises detecting congestion (501, 502) for data packets being transmitted along a data path between a sender and a receiver of the communications network, wherein the receiver accesses the communications network via a Radio Access Network (RAN), interrupting transmission (503, 505, 506) of data packets to the receiver during an idle period, and transmitting an indication (504) pertaining to the interruption of transmission to the RAN. Thereby, the RAN may use opportunities for switching to a lower radio state directly, or shortly after, the onset of the idle period, rather than triggered by an inactivity timer. In that way, utilization of air interface resources is improved and power consumption on the UE side is reduced. Further, a corresponding computer program, a corresponding computer program product, and a network node for congestion control in a communications network, are provided. |
| US10079769B1 |
Methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic rate controllers using linked list of rate programs
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a rate module implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device that can be operatively coupled to a set of rate counters. Each rate counter is associated with a different network device associated with a level within the hierarchy of a network. The rate module can receive from a schedule module a signal to begin execution of a first page of a first rate program and can send during a first time period transmission credits to a first subset of rate counters. The rate module can send during a second time period transmission credits to a second subset of rate counters based on the execution of a page of a second rate program where the priority of the second rate program is no lower than a priority of the first rate program. |
| US10079758B2 |
Buffer-less virtual routing
A network includes a plurality of endpoint routers and intermediate routers. When a new data stream is detected at any endpoint router, the first packet is sent to a virtual routing server with knowledge of the entire network topology. Based on the topology, current usage, and historical usage, the virtual routing server determined a path for the data stream and begins to update the routing tables of the intermediate routers to reflect the determined path. Until the update is complete, all packets in the data stream are routed first to the virtual routing server and then to their destination. Once the update is complete, packets in the data stream are routed directly along the determined path. |
| US10079755B2 |
Programmable system architecture for routing data packets in virtual base stations
In one example embodiment, a distributed platform includes at least one node for performing baseband processing of signals, the at least one node including a memory and a processor. The memory has computer-readable instructions stored therein. The processor is configured to the execute computer-readable instructions to enable independent operations of a plurality of radio protocol stacks and a plurality of backhaul protocol stacks for performing the base band processing functions of a plurality of base stations, each of the plurality of base stations being configured to serve one or more user devices. The processor is further configured to manage data packet flows between the plurality of radio protocol stacks and the plurality of backhaul protocol stacks. |
| US10079752B2 |
Detecting and preventing network loops
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for detecting network loops. A system can identify, for each virtual tunnel endpoint (VTEP) from multiple VTEPs in a network, respective media access control address data including the respective local interface media access control addresses of the respective VTEP and respective media access control addresses learned by the respective VTEP. The system can determine whether the VTEPs are running spanning tree protocol (STP), and whether a media access control address learned by a first VTEP matches a respective local interface media access control address of a second VTEP. The system can detect a loop when the media access control address learned by the first VTEP matches the respective local interface media access control address of the second VTEP. The system can also detect a loop when the VTEPs are running STP and the first and second VTEPs see the same STP root bridge. |
| US10079744B2 |
Identifying a component within an application executed in a network
Identifying a component within an application executed in a network includes obtaining a traffic matrix, the traffic matrix defining a rate for which packets of data are exchanged between VMs corresponding to an application, analyzing the traffic matrix to identify VMs within a component, modifying the traffic matrix to create a modified traffic matrix, and defining, for the application, a tenant application graph (TAG) model based on the modified traffic matrix. |
| US10079742B1 |
Latency measurement in resource requests
Systems and method for the management and processing of resource requests by a service provider, such as a content delivery network (“CDN”) service provider, on behalf of a content provider are provided. The CDN service provider can measure the performance associated with the delivery of resources to a requesting client computing devices from various computing devices associated with the CDN service provider. In one embodiment, a client computing device can execute code, such as scripts, that cause the client computing device to transmit requests to different computing devices associated with the CDN service provider's domain. Information associated with the processing of the responses can be used to measure CDN service provider latencies. |
| US10079741B2 |
Method and apparatus for receiving reference signal in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for receiving a reference signal (RS) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for performing radio resource measurement (RRM) measurement for one or more sub-bands contained in an entire system band in a wireless communication system, wherein the method is performed by a terminal configured to operate in only one sub-band at a specific time includes: receiving a sub-band list or pattern for the RRM measurement and information regarding a measurement timing or section from a serving cell; and performing the RRM measurement in a radio resource defined by the sub-band list or pattern and information regarding the measurement timing or section within a report period of the RRM measurement, and reporting a result of the RRM measurement to the serving cell. The sub-band list or pattern includes sub-band candidates usable as a dedicated sub-band for the terminal from among sub-bands of the entire system band. |
| US10079740B2 |
Packet capture engine for commodity network interface cards in high-speed networks
A method, systems for a packet capture engine for commodity network interface cards (NICs) in high-speed networks that provides lossless zero-copy packet capture and delivery services by exploiting multi-queue NICs and multicore architectures. The methods, systems include a ring-buffer-pool mechanism and a buddy-group based offloading mechanism. |
| US10079737B2 |
Method and system for generating comparable visual maps for browsing activity analysis
Certain embodiments disclosed herein include a method and system for generating comparable visual maps for browsing activity analysis. A first visual map is generated respective of a web-page and a first set of parameters and a second visual map is generated respective of the web-page and a second set of parameters. In one embodiment, the second set of filter parameters is populated based on the first set of parameters and includes at least one filter parameter in difference. The second visual map is comparable to the first visual map, wherein the first and second visual map are rendered and displayed within a single display window. |
| US10079735B2 |
Optimization of web page download duration based on resource key performance indicator and network performance metric
Summarizing, the application relates to a network server system, a computer program product and a computer-implemented method for an efficient determination of one or more web page KPIs from a client device via a network, for an efficient determination of a correlation value of the derived resource KPIs and a predetermined network performance metric and for enabling an optimization of the web page download duration based on the determined correlation value. In particular the application relates to a network server system, a computer program product, and a computer implemented method suitable for down-load time determination and optimization. |
| US10079734B1 |
System, method, and computer program for selecting from among available network access points based on an associated quality of experience for use by a client device to access a network
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for maintaining quality of experience (QoE) for a client device on a network. In use, access points that are available to a client device are determined, based on a policy. Additionally, a current QoE provided to the client device by one of the access points utilized by the client device to access the network is determined. This QoE could be valued as a score computed by a function called QoE Metric taking QoS parameters as inputs. An expected QoE associated with each of the other access points is then determined. Further, the access point utilized by the client device to access the network is conditionally switched to one of the other access points, based on the current QoE and the expected QoEs. Additionally, any potential QoE downgrades on the current access point is detected using QoE Degradation Patterns that could be matched with current QoS measures and can encourage the client device to determine more accurately the current QoE. |
| US10079732B2 |
Calculating trust scores based on social graph statistics
Systems and methods for calculating trust scores (trustworthiness) based on social graph statistics are described herein. The trust scores (trustworthiness) may be determined within or between individuals, groups, and/or entities represented by nodes in a social graph or other network. Social graph analytics may be used to determine connectivity statistics for each node in the social graph or network. The trust score may then be calculated by analyzing a number of paths connecting nodes in the network and the connectivity statistics associated with the nodes of the network. This trust score may then be used to make prospective real-world decisions, such as a request for credit or initiating a transaction. |
| US10079718B1 |
Network traffic processing system
A network traffic processing device (NTPD) implements a plurality of virtual network traffic processing devices (VNTPDs), a control plane, and an NTPD manager. The plurality of VNTPDs are configured to perform respective versions of a network processing function on network transmissions, where at least two of the respective versions are different. The control plane is configured to select, for a network transmission based on a management policy, one or more of the VNTPDs to perform respective versions of the network processing function. The NTPD manager is configured to monitor results of the selected VNTPDs performing the respective versions of the network processing function and, based on the monitored results, to determine a configuration change for one or more of the VNTPDs or to control output of the network transmission. |
| US10079717B2 |
Configuring wireless devices for a wireless infrastructure network
Systems and methods permit a wireless device to receive data wirelessly via an infrastructure wireless network, without physically connecting the wireless device to a computer in order to configure it, and without having an existing infrastructure wireless network for the wireless device to connect to. A remote server hosts a website that permits a user of the wireless device to input via a computer credential data for at least one infrastructure wireless network. The content access point transmits the credential data for the at least one infrastructure wireless network to the wireless device via the ad hoc wireless network, such that, upon receipt of the credential data for the at least one infrastructure wireless network, the wireless device is configured to connect to the at least one infrastructure wireless network. |
| US10079714B2 |
Conference call resource assignment for failover
In one example, a method for a conference bridge failover in a conference call system may include determining that a first conference bridge with a connection for a participant telephone has failed. The method may also include determining whether one or more conference bridge have resources to manage the connection for the participant telephone of the first conference bridge and assigning the connection for the participant telephone to the one or more conference bridge in response to the determination. |
| US10079713B2 |
Determining statuses of computer modules
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions stored thereon for ranking multiple computer modules to reduce failure impacts. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system implementing the multiple computer modules to at least associate the multiple computer modules with multiple services that rely on the multiple computer modules, at least one of the multiple services relying on more than one of the multiple computer modules, determine values of the multiple services, and rank the multiple computer modules based on the determined values of the multiple services with which the respective multiple computer modules are associated. |
| US10079712B2 |
Multi-device complexity broker
A brokering device that manages multimedia information includes an interface device having access to a network and a multimedia service provider. The interface device enables selection of multimedia information from the network, and provides the selected multimedia information to a plurality of locations without requiring the user to specify a protocol associated with the multimedia information. |
| US10079711B1 |
Virtual file server with preserved MAC address
A method for preserving a media access control (MAC) address of a virtual server is provided. The method includes assigning a physical computing resource to a virtual server, assigning a physical storage memory resource to the virtual server, and assigning a physical network resource to the virtual server. The method includes assigning a virtual MAC address to the virtual server, the virtual MAC address to remain with the virtual server despite reassignment of one or more of the physical computing resource, the physical storage memory resource or the physical network resource, wherein at least one method operation is performed by a processor. A computing and storage system is also provided. |
| US10079710B2 |
System and method for dynamic file availability during encoding
A method for dynamic file availability during remote transfer and transcoding involves the conversion of a non-streamable media file to a streamable format prior to transcoding, and the streaming of the transcoded file before ingest and transcode is complete. A first portion of a non-streamable media file is received at an ingest server for transcoding. Upon determining that the first portion does not include a header, the probable location of the header in the media file is determined and a header portion of the file is received at the ingest server. The first portion is combined with at least part of the header to produce a first streamable segment. Prior to receiving the last portion of the media file at the ingest server, the first streamable segment is transcoded at a first transcode server to produce a first transcoded streamable segment. |
| US10079703B1 |
Use of an echo signal in synchronization of multiple signal collections from multiple sensors
Various embodiments associated with use of an echo signal are described. A plurality of sensors can be deployed to obtain editions of a signal of interest. The signal of interest may be so far away from the sensors that the editions collected are too noisy to be analyzed. A processing center can send an echo signal to the sensors and the sensors can respond to the processing center with a signal edition of the signal of interest and the echo signal. Since the processing center knows information about the echo signal, offsets among the sensors can be calculated based on the returned echo signals. These offsets can then be used to align the signal editions. At the processing center, the aligned signal editions can be combined into a combined signal and a demodulation scheme for the combined signal can be determined and then used for demodulation of the signal. |
| US10079701B1 |
Three-valued signal generation device and three-valued signal generation method
A three-valued signal generation device includes a first differential amplifier that outputs a differential signal, a second differential amplifier that outputs a differential signal and an inverted differential signal in accordance with a level based on a reference voltage of an inverted pseudo LFPS signal, which is obtained by inverting a logic level of the pseudo LFPS signal, a first signal synthesis unit that synthesizes the differential signal from the first differential amplifier and the inverted differential signal from the second differential amplifier to perform positive logic output of a three-valued LFPS signal, and a second signal synthesis unit that synthesizes the inverted differential signal from the first differential amplifier and the differential signal from the second differential amplifier to perform negative logic output of the three-valued LFPS signal. |
| US10079697B1 |
Receiving device and signal conversion method
A receiving device includes a first calculating circuit, an error slicer, a data slicer, a second calculating circuit, and an equalization circuit. The first calculating circuit is configured to generate a calculating signal according to an equalized signal and a feedback signal. The error slicer is configured to generate an error signal according to the calculating signal. The data slicer is configured to generate a data signal according to the calculating signal. The second calculating circuit is configured to generate a first, a second, and a third equalization coefficient according to the data signal and the error signal. The equalization circuit is configured to generate the feedback signal according to the first, the second, and the third equalization coefficient. A gain value of the equalization circuit is associated with the first equalization coefficient. A time constant of the equalization circuit is associated with the second and the third equalization coefficient. |
| US10079693B2 |
Storage cluster management proxy
A request is received, from a tenant by a cluster management proxy, to perform a cluster management operation of a cluster that is storing data from multiple tenants that include the tenant. In response to determining that the request is within a group of admissible cluster management requests for the cluster, the request is modified, by the cluster management proxy, to restrict access of the cluster management operation based on an identity of the tenant. The cluster is accessed, by the cluster management proxy, based on the modified request that has restricted access of the cluster management operation. In response to determining that the request is not within the group, the request is tunneled to a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) assigned to the tenant. The SVM is configured to access the cluster based on the request. |
| US10079689B2 |
Method for realizing smart home service, smart home terminal and service hotspots
Disclosed are a method for realizing smart home service, a smart home terminal and service hotspot, wherein the method includes: a smart home terminal scanning service hotspots and accessing a first scanned service hotspot; after accessing the first service hotspot, the smart home terminal acquiring an available service list from the first service hotspot, requesting the first service hotspot for a download address of a service component to be used according to the acquired available service list, if it needs to download or update the service component to be used, then downloading or updating and installing the service component according to the download address, and loading the service component to be used; the smart home terminal receiving data transmitted from peripherals, selecting an corresponding service component to send the data sent by peripherals to the first service hotspot and receiving a data processing result returned by the first service hotspot. |
| US10079687B2 |
System and method for password recovery using fuzzy logic
The embodiments herein provide a method and system for password recovery using Fuzzy logic. The system includes a receiving module, a validation module, an authentication module, a display module, a memory module, and a network interface. The system uses a phonetic algorithm such as Soundex algorithm for enabling the password recovery process. The user credentials received through the receiving module is validated with the validation module at the time of accessing the application. The authentication module is configured to authenticate the user using a fuzzy logic derived from a phonetic algorithm, by matching the answers of the user with the stored answers to compute a score which is compared with a threshold score. The user is enabled to unlock the user device when the computed validation score is greater than the threshold score. |
| US10079683B1 |
Distributed token-less authentication
Distributed token-less authentication. In an embodiment, a partially-hashed personal identification number (PIN) is received from a terminal via at least one first network, wherein the partially-hashed PIN comprises an unhashed first portion that identifies a service-specific interface associated with the user account, and a hashed second portion. The partially-hashed PIN is relayed to the service-specific interface, identified by the first unhashed portion of the partially-hashed PIN, via at least one second network. Subsequently, a first-level confirmation or rejection is received from the service-specific interface via the at least one second network, and the first-level confirmation or rejection is relayed to the terminal via the at least one first network. |
| US10079679B2 |
Cryptographic encryption key escrow and recovery
Various features described herein may include supervision or control of a cryptographic signal necessary for encryption or decryption. Specifically, key management may be performed, wherein the key is deposited or retrieved to or from a third party. For example, data may be encrypted. The encrypted data may be unencrypted by using a key, which may be stored on a different device (e.g., a server). The different device may perform authenticating a device requesting access to the key, determining a recovery key for the encrypted data, and providing the recovery key for the encrypted data. The recovery key may then be used to recover access to the encrypted data. Thus, the key may be deposited for escrow by the different device until such time that the key is necessary for recovery of the encrypted data, at which time the key may be retrieved for decryption of the encrypted data. |
| US10079677B2 |
Secure circuit for encryption key generation
Techniques are disclosed relating to relating to a public key infrastructure (PKI). In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is disclosed that includes at least one processor and a secure circuit isolated from access by the processor except through a mailbox mechanism. The secure circuit is configured to generate a key pair having a public key and a private key, and to issue, to a certificate authority (CA), a certificate signing request (CSR) for a certificate corresponding to the key pair. In some embodiments, the secure circuit may be configured to receive, via the mailbox mechanism, a first request from an application executing on the processor to issue a certificate to the application. The secure circuit may also be configured to perform, in response to a second request, a cryptographic operation using a public key circuit included in the secure circuit. |
| US10079675B2 |
Generating cryptographic function parameters from a puzzle
Methods, systems, and computer programs for generating cryptographic function parameters are described. In some examples, a solution to a puzzle is obtained. A pseudorandom generator is seeded based on the solution. After seeding the pseudorandom generator, an output from the pseudorandom generator is obtained. A parameter for a cryptographic function is generated. The parameter is generated from the output from the pseudorandom generator. |
| US10079674B2 |
Systems and methods for privacy-preserving functional IP verification utilizing fully homomorphic encryption
A privacy-preserving verification methodology for SoC computing systems is described. The verification methodology utilizes the principles of Multi-Party Computation (“MPC”), and enables meaningful manipulation of encrypted data in the encrypted domain through the use of a fully homomorphic encryption (“FHE”) scheme. In the described verification methodology, IP logic is transformed and test vectors utilized to verify the IP logic are encrypted. The parties involved in the verification (e.g., the designer, the manufacturer, a third-party verification service, etc.) can functionally verify the IP core via the encrypted test vectors while the encrypted test vectors remain in the encrypted domain. Accordingly, the IP core is verified without revealing unwarranted information, such as the underlying IP behind the SoC. |
| US10079669B2 |
Selection of acknowledgment timing in wireless communications
Disclosed is a method including communicating, by a mobile device, with a base station via first and second component carriers having different frequency bands and time division duplexing (TDD) configurations. The method may include receiving one or more downlink transmissions via the second component carrier. The method may include selecting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing sequence based on the TDD configurations of the first and second component carriers. The method may include transmitting one or more positive acknowledgment and/or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signals, associated with the one or more downlink transmissions, according to the selected HARQ timing sequence. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US10079667B2 |
Method and apparatus for signal interference processing
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining when a communication device will transmit signals comprising transmission segments in a communication link. Signal interference is detected in a portion of transmission segments according to the determining when the communication device will transmit the signals including the transmission segments and at least one threshold for detecting interference. Aspects of the disclosure further include detecting that a number of signal interferers in the portion of the transmission segments exceeds a number of filters of a group of filters, and prioritizing use of the group of filters to filter signal interference in the portion of the transmission segments for suppressing at least a portion of the signal interference detected. |
| US10079663B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals comprises encoding DP (data pipe) data carrying at least one service, mapping the encoded DP data onto constellations, time interleaving the mapped DP data, building at least one signal frame including the time interleaved DP data, modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM scheme and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the at least one signal frame includes emergency alert information. |
| US10079662B2 |
Communicating a transport block in a wireless network
A method (900) performed by a communication device for receiving a downlink transmission across a plurality of subframes comprises receiving (901) control information comprising a repetition index. The method further comprises receiving (902) a set indicator for indicating one of a plurality of sets. Each set comprises a plurality of subframe values. A number of subframes used to carry the downlink transmission is indicated by a said subframe value, and wherein the said subframe value is indicated by the repetition index within the indicated set. |
| US10079659B2 |
Processing method and system for hybrid automatic repeat request data transmissions
In data transmissions, a processing method for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) is applied to a transmitter transmitting a first semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packet to a receiver. The receiver receives the first SPS data packet and transmits feedback to the transmitter. The transmitter which receives the feedback message can determine that a transmission of a repeat SPS data packet is required when the feedback message is a negative acknowledgement, and a repeat SPS data packet together with a HARQ ID corresponding to the repeat SPS data packet is transmitted to the receiver. If the receiver can match the repeat SPS data packet with the first SPS data packet according to the HARQ ID, a combination of the first SPS data packet and the repeat SPS data packet can be decoded. |
| US10079655B2 |
Radio node, wireless device and methods therein, for configuring a plurality of channel quality information values
A method performed by a radio node (101) for configuring a plurality of Channel Quality Information (CQI) values. The radio node (101) operates in a wireless communication network (100). The radio node (101) configures (301) the plurality of CQI values. Each of the plurality of CQI values are configured in association with a first indication for a number of repetitions of data transmission. Also described is a method performed by a wireless device (120) for receiving configuration data from the radio node (101). The wireless device (120) operates in the wireless communication network (100). The wireless device (120) receives (401) the configuration data from the radio node (101). The configuration data indicates configuration for the plurality of CQI values. |
| US10079652B2 |
Transmission device with mode division multiplexing and methods for use therewith
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes at least one transceiver configured to modulate data to generate a plurality of first electromagnetic waves. A plurality of couplers are configured to couple at least a portion of the plurality of first electromagnetic waves to a transmission medium, wherein the plurality of couplers generate a plurality of mode division multiplexed second electromagnetic waves that propagate along the outer surface of the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10079650B2 |
Robust high speed sensor interface for remote sensors
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are discussed that enable robust, high-speed communication of sensor data. One example system includes a sensor bus, an electronic control unit (ECU), and one or more sensors. The ECU is coupleable to the sensor bus and configured to generate a synchronization signal, and is configured to output the synchronization signal to the sensor bus. The one or more sensors are also coupleable to the sensor bus, and at least one sensor of the one or more sensors is configured to sample sensor data in response to the synchronization signal and to output the sampled sensor data to the sensor bus. |
| US10079649B2 |
Broadcast signal transmission apparatus, broadcast signal receiving apparatus, broadcast signal transmission method, and broadcast signal receiving method
The present invention proposes a method for providing a broadcast service. The method for providing a broadcast service in a broadcast signal transmitter according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: encoding media data to a media stream; creating signaling information for signaling the media stream; multiplexing the encoded media stream and the signaling information; and transmitting a broadcast signal comprising the multiplexed media stream and the signaling information. |
| US10079648B2 |
Apparatus and method for measuring power supply noise
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a power delivery distribution network (PDN) to provide a power supply to at least one circuit; and an on-die synchronous power supply noise injector to inject noise to the power supply on the PDN. Described is another apparatus which comprises: a PDN to provide power supply to various circuits; an on-die power supply noise (PSN) sampler to sample the power supply with an injected noise, wherein the PSN sampler to sample the power supply with at least two different clock signals; and a phase noise accumulator to randomize the periods of the at least two different clock signals. |
| US10079646B2 |
System and method for testing antenna arrays
A system for testing and/or calibrating an antenna array. The system comprises a device under test comprising the antenna array and at least one active radio frequency device for transmitting a test signal being known and always the same on each of at least two signal paths, and a measurement device comprising at least one probe for receiving the test signal on each of the at least two signal paths. The test signal is a non-repeatable one. |
| US10079640B1 |
Window heater with reduced wavefront distortion
An optical communication system includes a free space optical transceiver within a housing to transmit and receive optical communication signals along an optical pathway through a window in the housing. Heating elements applied to the interior surface of the window substantially uniformly heat the window such that the window is kept free from condensation and ice without introducing significant distortions in the wavefront. Accordingly, the heating elements are designed and placed on the window such that the obscuration caused by the presence of the heating elements within the optical pathway and the wavefront distortion caused by temperature gradients within the cross-section of the window in the optical pathway cause less than 1 decibel (dB) in transmission loss as compared to the same system without the heating elements on the window. |
| US10079639B2 |
Multiple timebase sampling scope
A test and measurement instrument includes a first input port and a second input port that receive a first input signal modulated according to a first clock signal and a second input signal modulated according to a second clock signal, respectively. The first clock signal and the second clock signal may be asynchronous. The instrument also includes a phase reference that generates clock data for the second clock signal. The instrument includes a processor that determines time bases for the input signals that comprise different rates based on the received and/or generated clock data. The instrument also includes a display coupled to the processor. The display concurrently displays the first input signal in a first graticule according to the first time base and the second input signal in a second graticule according to the second time base. |
| US10079635B1 |
Network capacity management
An example embodiment may involve receiving a request to provide unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based wireless coverage to a particular geographical location. Possibly in response to the request, a UAV may fly to the particular geographical location. A first wireless interface of the UAV may define a wireless coverage area that covers at least part of the particular geographical location. A second wireless interface of the UAV may establish a wireless backhaul link to a data network. The UAV may provide wireless data transfer services to at least one device in the particular geographical location, where the wireless data transfer services allow the device to exchange data communication with the data network via the UAV. |
| US10079625B2 |
Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method
By a transmission method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, in a broadcasting system that generates a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal by performing multi-antenna encoding on program data, and wirelessly transmits a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal, a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal, a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal, the first transmit station and the second transmit station transmit the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal to an overlapping area at an identical time using an overlapping frequency band, polarized wave transmitted from the first transmit station differs from polarized wave transmitted from the second transmit station, and arrangement of the first transmit station differs from arrangement of the second transmit station. |
| US10079619B2 |
Wireless batteryless data processing unit
A wireless, parasitically powered data processing unit 1 is fastened to a current carrying conductor 3 without additional tools, by means of a flexible ferromagnetic belt 11 that is clamped by its housing around the conductor and forms a transformer core to concentrate magnetic flux 5 produced by the conductor and provide operational power to a sensor interface 18, a data processing device 16, and a wireless transceiver 22, without the need for batteries. Sensor signals 33 received from local sensors are processed by the data processing device and information derived from the sensor signals is wirelessly transmitted to remote receivers. The sensor signals may represent measurements of the physical condition of the current carrying conductor or another electrical device, for such conditions as temperature, humidity, vibration, or noise. |
| US10079615B2 |
Multilayer body and communication apparatus
A branch circuit includes a common antenna port and separates a first communication signal including a signal in a low band and a signal in a high band and a second communication signal that is a signal in a frequency band between the low band and the high band. The branch circuit includes a first-communication-signal-line-side band elimination filter and a second-communication-signal-line-side band elimination filter and SAW filter. |
| US10079614B2 |
Noise canceler
In a noise canceler, interference signals received by sub-antennas 12 are cross-correlated by a first correlation-value calculation unit and the peaks of the interference signals are detected by a first peak detector. Interference signal information is acquired by a first-interference-signal information acquisition unit and the interference signals are synthesized by an interference signal synthesizer. A signal received by a main antenna and the synthesized interference signal are correlated by a second correlation-value calculation unit and the peak of the synthesized interference signal is detected by a second peak detector. The interference signal information is acquired by a second interference-signal-information acquisition unit and an interference signal replica is generated by an interference signal replica generator. The interference signal replica is subtracted by an interference signal removal unit from the signal received by the main antenna. |
| US10079613B2 |
Data mapping scheme for generalized product codes
Memory systems and operating methods thereof comprise a memory storage and an error control coding (ECC) unit. The memory storage stores data which is split into a plurality of data chunks. The error control coding (ECC) unit is suitable for arranging each data chunk into codewords, each data chunk is arranged as part of at least two codewords, and mapping the codewords by reverse indexing the data chunks. |
| US10079610B2 |
Built-in self-test for ADC
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a built-in self-test (BIST) for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Stimuli needed to test an ADC are generated within the chip containing the ADC. Evaluation circuitry is also available on-chip. Generation and evaluation circuits and systems are based on existing circuits and/or components of the chip. |
| US10079606B2 |
Clock generation circuit
A clock generation circuit includes a clock generation unit suitable for generating a first clock, a first inversion clock having an opposite phase to the first clock, a second clock having a different phase from the first clock, and a second inversion clock having an opposite phase to the second clock; and a reset control unit suitable for comparing the phases of the first and second clocks, and controlling the clock generation unit to disable for a time and then enable the second clock and the second inversion clock when the second clock leads the first clock. |
| US10079605B2 |
Semiconductor structure with back-gate switching
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to circuits with logical back-gate switching and methods of operation. The circuit includes at least one front-gate contact and digital back-gate potentials for logical function implementation on a back side of at least one device. The digital back-gate potentials are switchable between two logic levels. |
| US10079604B1 |
Staggered switching in a load driver
An apparatus comprises multiple impedances and multiple pairs of transistors. Each pair connects to an impedance. Each pair includes high and low side transistors. The high side transistors and the low side transistors are connected each other and to a first terminal of the corresponding impedance, wherein second terminals of the impedances are connected to each other. The apparatus also comprises a staggered signal transistor driver to assert separate delayed high side signals to control inputs of the high side transistors. The delayed high side signals are time delayed with respect to each other. The driver asserts separate delayed low side signals to control inputs of the low side transistors. |
| US10079600B2 |
Low-power activation circuit with motion detector
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus to perform a low power activation of a system. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a sensor element configured to output a sensor output signal corresponding to a sensed quantity to a digital difference detection circuit. The digital difference detection circuit has a digital measurement element configured to track the sensor output signal and generate a digital signal therefrom, a digital storage element configured to store previous digital signals corresponding to the sensor output signal generated over time, and a difference detector configured to detect a difference between a current digital signal and at least one of the previous digital signals. If the difference is larger than a digital reference level, the difference detector causes an activation signal generator to generate an activation signal that awakens a system from a sleep mode or a low-power mode. |
| US10079598B2 |
Gate driving circuit and display device including the same
A gate driving circuit includes: a plurality of stages configured to output a plurality of gate signals, wherein an Nth stage of the plurality of stages includes: an output pull-up unit including a control electrode connected to a first node, wherein the output pull-up unit is configured to increase an electric potential at the first node and is further configured to receive a clock signal and to output a gate signal of the Nth stage; a control node pull-up unit configured to charge the first node according to an (N−1)th control signal and an (N−2)th control signal; a control node pull-down unit configured to discharge a voltage of the first node as a first low voltage according to an (N+1)th control signal; and an output pull-down unit configured to discharge a gate signal of the Nth stage as the first low voltage according to the (N+1)th control signal. |
| US10079596B2 |
Semiconductor device, charge pump circuit, semiconductor system, vehicle, and control method of semiconductor device
A semiconductor device capable of preventing deterioration of a transistor caused by a flow of an overcurrent is provided. According to an embodiment, a semiconductor chip includes a first transistor provided between a high-potential side voltage terminal to which a constant voltage generated by reducing a power-supply voltage is supplied and an output terminal, a second transistor provided between a low-potential side voltage terminal to which a ground voltage is supplied and the output terminal, a control circuit controlling turning-on/off of the first and second transistors, a boosting circuit boosting the power-supply voltage by using a voltage of the output terminal to generate an output voltage, and an overvoltage detection circuit detecting an overvoltage of a power-supply line that couples the high-potential side voltage terminal and the first transistor to each other. The control circuit performs control to turn off the second transistor, when the overvoltage has been detected. |
| US10079594B2 |
Current reduction for activated load
In one example, a circuit includes an input, an output, and a control module. The input is configured to receive a control signal indicating whether to activate or deactivate a load. The output is configured to supply current to activate the load. The control module is configured to determine whether a state of the circuit is a low current consumption mode (LCCM). In response to determining that the state of the circuit is not the LCCM, the control module is configured to determine whether the control signal indicates to activate the load and output, at the output, the current to activate the load. In response to determining that the state of the circuit is the LCCM, the control module is configured to ignore the control signal indicating whether to activate or deactivate the load and output, at the output, the current to activate the load. |
| US10079591B2 |
Resistance calibration circuit and device
The present invention discloses a resistance calibration circuit. An embodiment of the resistance calibration circuit includes: a reference voltage outputting circuit operable to output a reference voltage; an adjustable internal resistor including at least one positive temperature coefficient resistor and at least one negative temperature coefficient resistor; a reference current generating circuit operable to generate an internal resistor reference current according to the reference voltage and the internal resistor and generate an external resistor reference current according to the reference voltage and an external resistor; and a comparison and control circuit operable generate a comparison result according to the internal and external resistor reference currents, and adjust the internal resistor according to the comparison result till the comparison result indicates that the difference between the internal and external resistor reference currents is less than a predetermined threshold or unable to be further reduced. |
| US10079584B1 |
Closed-loop automatic gain control in linear burst-mode transimpedance amplifier
An optical network system comprising an optical line terminal (OLT) and an optical network unit (ONU) coupled to the OLT and configured to communicate with the OLT via an optical signal. At least one of the OLT or the ONU comprises a closed-loop gain controlled transimpedance amplifier (TIA) comprising a first amplifier configured to receive an input signal, generate a main output signal by amplifying the input signal according to a gain factor of the first amplifier, and generate an auxiliary output proportional to the input signal, an average detector coupled to the first amplifier and configured to receive the auxiliary output, and determine an average of the input signal according to the auxiliary output, and a feedback loop coupled to the first amplifier and the average detector and configured to control the gain factor of the first amplifier according to the average of the input signal. |
| US10079583B2 |
Transmitter power detection circuit and method
A circuit includes a first device between a first input node and an internal node, a second device between a second input node and the internal node, a third device between the internal node and ground, a fourth device between the internal node and an output node, and a fifth device between the output node and ground. The second and third devices generate a direct current (DC) voltage on the internal node by dividing a bias voltage on the second input node. The fourth device generates, from the DC voltage, a first component of an output voltage on the output node. The first and third devices generate a modulation signal on the internal node by dividing a radio frequency (RF) signal on the first input node. The fifth device rectifies the modulation signal to generate a second output voltage component. |
| US10079582B2 |
Wideband amplifier circuits and methods
An wideband amplifier circuit such as a transimpedance amplifier achieves improved amplifier and/or system performance, such as a reduced input impedance. The transimpedance amplifier may use a complementary common gate stage that receives an input signal and generates current to a current summing stage. In one instance, an input current is received by a complimentary common gate stage that includes a first common gate transistor and a second common gate transistor, each having different polarities, in which the first terminals of each of the transistors are configured to receive the input current. Each of the transistors generates an output current to a current summing stage that generates an output voltage at an output terminal. The output voltage may be based on the combined currents from the first common gate transistor and second common gate transistor. |
| US10079579B2 |
Circuit for amplifying radio signal using high frequency
A high frequency amplifier circuit includes a transistor including a drain, a gate, and a source, an inductance-capacitor (LC) tank connected to the drain, and a transformer connected to the gate and the source. |
| US10079576B2 |
Envelope tracking modulator with feedback
There is disclosed an envelope tracking modulated supply arranged to generate a modulated supply voltage in dependence on a reference signal, comprising a low frequency path for tracking low frequency variations in the reference signal and including a switched mode power supply, a correction path for tracking high frequency variations in the reference signal and including a linear amplifier, a feedback path from the output of the linear amplifier to the input of the linear amplifier, and a combiner for combining the output of the switched mode power supply and the output of the linear amplifier to generate a modulated supply voltage. |
| US10079575B2 |
Low distortion multiple power amplifier power supply
A PA power supply, which includes a first ET power supply, power supply control circuitry, a first PMOS switching element, and a second PMOS switching element, is disclosed. During a first operating mode, the power supply control circuitry selects an OFF state of the first PMOS switching element, selects an ON state of the second PMOS switching element, and adjusts a voltage of a first switch control signal to maintain the OFF state of the first PMOS switching element using a voltage at a source of the first PMOS switching element and a voltage at a drain of the first PMOS switching element; the PA power supply provides a first PA power supply signal; and the first ET power supply provides a first ET power supply signal, such that the first PA power supply signal is based on the first ET power supply signal. |
| US10079573B2 |
Embedding data on a power signal
Disclosed are various embodiments for embedding data on a guided surface wave. A guided surface waveguide probe emits power as a guided surface wave received by a guided surface wave receive structure circuit. An aggregate electric load of the receiver circuit is modulated with reference to a data signal. A current at the guided surface waveguide probe is monitored. A data signal is recaptured at the guided surface waveguide probe. |
| US10079569B1 |
Roof system for production of electrical power
A roof system for production of electrical power from solar energy including a roof with laterally disposed longitudinally extending standing seams and brackets secured to the laterally disposed standing seams. The roof system includes a backer panel with an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the backer panel extends between and is secured to the brackets forming an arch shaped backer panel configuration. A thin film solar panel is secured to the upper surface of the arch shaped backer panel. |
| US10079566B1 |
Pulse injection current pattern for rotor position estimation
A system and method for estimating a position and a speed of a rotor of a Switched Reluctance (SR) machine is provided. The SR machine comprises the rotor, a stator and at least one winding. The method includes generating a diagnostic pulse having a trapezoidal shape. The method further includes injecting a diagnostic pulse into the at least one winding of the SR machine. The method further includes measuring an actual stator current flowing through the at least one winding of the SR machine. The method further includes computing an estimated stator current flowing through the at least one winding using observer-based estimation technique. The estimated stator current is compared with the actual stator current to compute an error signal. At least one of the position and the speed of the rotor is estimated based on the error signal. |
| US10079565B2 |
Electrically-driven vehicle
An electrically-driven vehicle includes: a battery; an induction motor connected to the battery; a synchronous motor connected to the battery that is connected to the induction motor; and at least one electronic control unit configured to change a slip frequency command of the induction motor based on a predetermined frequency of current fluctuation when a temperature of the battery is low such that an amplitude of the current fluctuation increases, the current fluctuation being any one of current fluctuation of a battery current or current fluctuation of a battery-related current that relates to the battery current. |
| US10079558B2 |
Switching scheme for static synchronous compensators using cascaded H-bridge converters
A static synchronous compensator includes at least one converter pole for producing a first phase of an AC voltage waveform having a fundamental cycle. The first phase of the AC voltage waveform includes alternating converter pole charging and discharging regions in each fundamental cycle. The at least one converter pole includes a plurality of cascaded H-bridge cells, each having a DC voltage source and a plurality of switches. The switches are capable of being switched to produce a plurality of switching states. There is a controller configured to control the switching states of the plurality of switches of each of the cascaded H-bridge cells based on the voltages of DC voltage sources of the H-bridge cells and on whether the AC waveform is in the converter pole charging region or the converter pole discharging region. |
| US10079556B2 |
Inverter device
An inverter includes: a converter circuitry to convert an alternating-current voltage to a direct-current voltage; an inverter circuitry to convert a direct-current voltage obtained by conversion by the converter circuitry to an alternating-current voltage and to supply the alternating-current voltage obtained by conversion to a load; a current detector to detect an output current of the inverter circuitry; a calculator to calculate an output frequency based on the output current detected by the current detector, and a pulse-signal outputter to output a pulse signal based on the output frequency calculated by the calculator. The inverter circuitry converts the direct-current voltage obtained by conversion by the converter circuitry to the alternating-current voltage based on the pulse signal output from the pulse-signal outputter, so as to obtain a frequency corresponding to the magnitude of the load. |
| US10079555B2 |
Control method for polyphase step-up converter, and polyphase step-up converter
A control method for a polyphase step-up converter that drives step-up circuits, the step-up circuits being connected in parallel between an input terminal and an output terminal from which an output voltage supplied to a load circuit is output. The control method includes, in changing the frequency of each of driving signals from a first frequency to a second frequency while N circuits are being driven, determining whether the second frequency is M times as high as a resonance frequency of a resonance circuit provided between the polyphase step-up converter and the load circuit; and when the second frequency is M times as high as the resonance frequency, setting a phase difference between driving signals to a phase difference determined in accordance with a value of M. |
| US10079553B1 |
Bridge rectifier circuit component
The present disclosure illustrates an electronic component applicable single-phase or three-phase bridge rectifier circuit. The electronic component includes a lead frame, a first die, and a second die. The first and second pins of the lead frame are connected to the first and second boards respectively, and a surface of the first die opposite to the first board is connected to the second board, a surface of the second die opposite to the second board is connected a third pin of the lead frame. The bridge rectifier circuit may include two or three electronic components, and the first pins of the electronic components are connected to each other as a first DC output terminal, the third pins are electrically connected to each other as a second DC output terminal, and the second pins are served as AC input terminals, respectively. |
| US10079551B2 |
Symmetry control circuit of a trailing edge phase control dimmer circuit
A symmetry control circuit for a trailing edge phase control dimmer circuit for controlling alternating current (AC) power to a load, the symmetry control circuit including: a bias signal generator circuit configured to monitor non-conduction periods of each half cycle of said AC power for an elapsed duration of the non-conduction periods, and generate a bias signal voltage based on the elapsed duration, whereby an amplitude of the bias signal voltage is proportional to the elapsed duration of the non-conduction periods; and a bias signal converter circuit configured to convert the bias signal voltage to a bias signal current, wherein the bias signal current is added to a reference current of a conduction period timing circuit configured to determine said conduction periods, and wherein the conduction period timing circuit is configured to alter one of the conduction periods immediately following one of the non-conduction periods based on the bias signal current when added to the reference current to compensate for a phase shift of a zero-crossing of said one of the non-conduction periods corresponding to an elapsed duration of said one of the non-conduction periods so as to restore symmetry of the non-conduction periods of each half cycle of AC power. |
| US10079549B1 |
Synchronous rectification controller with pull-up and pull-down circuit and power conversion apparatus having the same
A power conversion apparatus and a synchronous rectification (SR) controller thereof are provided. The SR controller includes a first control circuit, a second control circuit, a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit. The first control circuit generates a pull-up control signal and a first pull-down signal according to a drain voltage of an SR transistor and a first voltage. The second control circuit compares the drain voltage with a second voltage to generate a second pull-down signal, and selects one of the first pull-down signal and the second pull-down signal as a pull-down control signal. The pull-up circuit and the pull-down circuit regulate a driving voltage on a gate terminal of the SR transistor in response to the pull-up control signal and the pull-down control signal respectively. |
| US10079547B2 |
Insulating synchronous rectifying DC/DC converter, synchronous rectifying controller, power supply using the same, power adapter and electronic device, and control method of synchronous rectifying controller
A synchronous rectifying controller on secondary side of insulating synchronous rectifying converter to control synchronous rectifying transistor, comprising: first comparator to compare drain voltage of the transistor with first negative threshold voltage, and assert set signal based on the comparison of them; second comparator to compare drain voltage with second negative threshold voltage, and assert reset signal based on the comparison of them; third comparator to compare drain voltage with third positive threshold voltage, and assert release signal based on the comparison of them; control circuit set in response to the assertion of the set signal and to adjust control pulse to have ON level, and reset in response to the assertion of the reset signal and to adjust the control pulse to have OFF level; and driver to drive the transistor, wherein set operation of the control circuit is inhibited until the release signal is asserted. |
| US10079544B2 |
Method and apparatus for implementing an unregulated dormant mode with an event counter in a power converter
A method for controlling an output of a power converter with a control circuit includes generating a drive signal to control switching of a switch to regulate the output of the power converter. It is detected if a switching period of one switching cycle of the drive signal exceeds a threshold switching period. The drive signal is disabled when a period of a switching cycle of the drive signal exceeds the threshold switching period for a threshold consecutive number of switching cycles. |
| US10079540B2 |
System and method to improve standby efficiency of LLC converter
A system includes an LLC converter to convert an input DC voltage to an output DC voltage. A burst generator generates a switching signal having a burst time and a sleep time to operate the LLC converter when output load current of the LLC converter is below a predetermined threshold. A burst power calculator adjusts the sleep time for the switching signal such that output power of the LLC converter during the burst time is held substantially constant with respect to changes in the output load current. |
| US10079539B2 |
Power supply protection circuit
A protection circuit and a method for a high voltage switching regulator is presented. A power supply comprising a switching converter for providing an output voltage is provided. The switching converter is comprised of a first power switch coupled to a second power switch via a switching node, and a driver coupled to the first and second power switches. There is a protection circuit comprised of a first isolation switch coupled to a second isolation switch and a first driver for driving the first isolation switch, and a second driver for driving the second isolation switch. The circuit and method may comprise turning off both the first isolation switch and the second isolation switch when the first power switch and the second power switch are both turned off. This isolates a low voltage domain from a high voltage domain. This prevents current leakages from occurring during switching dead times. |
| US10079533B2 |
Lens driving device
A lens driving device capable of efficiently inhibiting garbage from falling to the side of a photosensitive sensor includes a lens support for retaining a lens, a fixed member, one or two spring members for connecting the lens support and the fixed member, and an electromagnetic driving assembly. The fixed member includes a substrate defining a circular through hole, a cylindrical dividing wall extending from an edge defining the circular through hole, several protruding parts protruding from the substrate outside the dividing wall, and concave parts formed between the protruding parts and the dividing wall. The lens support is provided with an end face capable of contacting a second front end face of the protruding parts and opposite to the concave parts, and a ring-shaped end surface arranged opposite to an end face of the dividing wall. |
| US10079532B2 |
Induction generator and method for generating an electric current using an induction generator
An induction generator (200; 301) having a magnet assembly (204; 304) for generating a permanent magnetic field, an annular coil (206; 306), a spring element (228; 328) and an air channel (212; 312) through which the permanent magnetic field passes, is proposed, wherein the magnet assembly (204; 304) comprises a first pole section (208; 308) and a second pole section (210; 310) and a magnet (214; 314) disposed between the first pole section (208; 308) and the second pole section (210; 310), the coil (206; 306) is connected to the spring element (228; 328) and is movably disposed in the air channel (212; 312) and the spring element (228; 328) is designed to cause an oscillation movement (224) of the coil (206; 306) in the air channel (212; 312) transverse to a magnetic flux (222; 322) of the permanent magnetic field inside the air channel (212; 312) in response to a deflection of the coil (206; 306), characterized in that the air channel (212; 312) is annular and is designed to accommodate the annular coil (206; 306) in its entire circumference. |
| US10079529B2 |
Method for manufacturing core of rotating electric machine
A method for manufacturing a core of a rotating electric machine includes arranging a permanent magnet in a receptacle of a core body and injecting an anchoring material into a gap between a wall surface of the receptacle and an outer surface of the permanent magnet. A liquid crystal polymer, more specifically, liquid crystal polyester is used as the anchoring material. The liquid crystal polymer is injected at a velocity of 100 to 300 millimeters per second. |
| US10079522B2 |
Electric machine having a mounting flange
The invention relates to an electric machine (12) having a mounting flange (10) and to a method for producing an electric machine (12) of this kind having a mounting flange (10) of this type. Said mounting flange is arranged on a—preferably cylindrical—housing part (14) of said electric machine (12) in such a way that the mounting flange (10) at least in portions surrounds the housing part (14) in the circumferential direction (16) of said housing part (14), the mounting flange (10) and/or the housing part (14) being coated. The invention is characterized in that the mounting flange (10) has an at least radially directed raised portion (18) abutting the housing part (14), the mounting flange (10) being mounted on the housing part (14) by a welding process. |
| US10079521B2 |
Motor actuator
A motor actuator includes a housing and an electric motor contained in the housing. The electric motor has a motor casing and a motor shaft protruding from a front face of the motor casing. The housing has a back wall behind a rear face of the motor casing. A gap space, which continues in a motor shaft direction, is formed between the back wall of the housing and the rear face of the motor casing. A counter region, which defines the gap space, is provided in the rear face of the motor casing. The motor actuator further includes a sound insulating member placed in the gap space, and covers the counter region in its entirety from behind. |
| US10079519B2 |
Motor
A motor may include a shaft, an armature, a commutator, a bearing, a housing, a bracket, and a brush card assembly. The brush card assembly may include a brush contacting the commutator, and a brush card holding the brush. The bracket may include a bracket bottom portion covering at least a portion of a lower side of the brush card, a cylindrical bracket cylindrical portion extending upwardly from a radially outer edge of the bracket bottom portion, a bearing holding portion extending upwardly from the bracket bottom portion at a radially inner side of the bracket cylindrical portion, and holding the bearing, and a rib positioned above the bracket bottom portion, and extending radially outward from the bearing holding portion. |
| US10079518B2 |
Rotor for a motor, and a motor and an appliance comprising the rotor, and a method for making a rotor
A rotor for a motor comprising a frame having a hub for connecting the rotor to a shaft and a perimeter portion for interacting with a stator of the motor to cause the rotor to rotate about an axis of rotation. The frame comprises legs extending from an outer portion of the frame towards the hub, each leg having an inner end at the hub and an outer end at the outer portion of the frame, the inner ends of a first plurality of legs being spaced from the inner ends of a second plurality of legs in a direction along the axis of rotation. |
| US10079517B2 |
Outer rotor-type rotating electric machine
An outer rotor-type rotating electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets each of which extends in a circumferential direction of the rotor and is magnetized in a radial direction of the rotor. The stator is disposed radially inside the rotor. The stator has a plurality of stator teeth formed in a radial pattern. Each of the stator teeth has an inner circumferential width at its radially inner end and an outer circumferential width at its radially outer end. Moreover, the following relationship is satisfied: Wi/Wo≥0.6, where Wi is the inner circumferential width and Wo is the outer circumferential width of each of the stator teeth. |
| US10079515B2 |
Near-field RF charging pad with multi-band antenna element with adaptive loading to efficiently charge an electronic device at any position on the pad
An example radio frequency (RF) charging pad includes: at least one processor for monitoring an amount of energy that is transferred from the RF charging pad to an RF receiver of an electronic device. The pad also includes: one or more transmitting antenna elements that are in communication with the processor for transmitting RF signals to the RF receiver. In some embodiments, each respective transmitting antenna element includes: (i) a conductive line forming a meandered line pattern; (ii) a first terminal of the conductive line for receiving current at one or more frequencies controlled by the processor; and (iii) one or more adaptive load terminals coupled with a plurality of respective components that allows for modifying an impedance value at each of the adaptive load terminals. In some embodiments, the processor adaptively adjusts the frequency and/or the impedance value to optimize the amount of energy that is transferred from the one or more transmitting antenna elements to the RF receiver. |
| US10079509B2 |
Free-resonance analog ping for wireless power transmission
A wireless transmitter wirelessly charges/powers a wireless receiver. The transmitter performs an analog ping to tentatively detect a device. During an energizing phase of the analog ping, the transmitter applies power pulses to a resonant circuit within the transmitter, where, after application of the power pulses, the resonant circuit enters a free-resonance state of a resonating phase of the analog ping that follows the energizing phase. During the resonating phase, while the resonant circuit is in the free-resonance state, the transmitter samples voltage within the resonant circuit to generate one or more voltage-level samples. The transmitter processes the voltage-level samples to tentatively detect the device. If a device is tentatively detected then the transmitter performs a digital ping to definitively determine whether the device is present. If definitively detected then the transmitter wirelessly charges/powers the wireless receiver. |
| US10079502B2 |
Power management system for dispensers
A power management system for dispensers is described. The system includes a controller connected to a lower power zero net voltage (ZNV) power source. A power rectification circuit (PRC) converts ZNV power to higher voltage direct current (HVDC) power. An energy storage system connected to the HVDC power source receives and stores HVDC power within the energy storage system which is selectively provided to a dispenser motor load connected to the energy storage system. The system provides an effective solution to the problem of transferring power from a low power battery source on a disposable product to a dispenser as well as providing a system that minimizes corrosion at the electrical interface between the disposable product and the dispenser particularly in higher humidity environments. |
| US10079501B2 |
Battery control device, battery control system, battery control method, and recording medium
A battery control device controlling an operation of a battery connected to a power system includes detection means that detects battery-related information showing a state of the battery, or a state of an interconnection point of the power system and the battery, first communication means that transmits a detection result of the detection means to an external device, and executes reception processing to receive operation control information to control the operation of the battery from the external device at a predetermined time interval, and control means that executes battery operation control processing to control the operation of the battery based on a state of the power system and based on the operation control information received by the first communication means, at a time interval shorter than the predetermined time interval. |
| US10079496B2 |
Systems for managing charging devices based on battery health information
A charging device can include an input interface for receiving electrical power from a power source and an output interface for outputting electrical power to a mobile electronic device. The charging device can include a supplemental battery. A bypass electrical pathway can couple the input interface to the output interface to pass electrical charge from the power supply through the charging device to the mobile electronic device. A charging electrical pathway can couple the input interface to the supplemental battery. A discharge electrical pathway can couple the supplemental battery to the output interface. The bypass electrical pathway can include a voltage modifier configured to modify the voltage output by the output interface. The charging device can be configured to empirically determine the power capacity of the power supply. The charging device can monitor temperatures and/or battery health information, which can be used to reduce current or disable the charging device. |
| US10079494B2 |
Removably attachable portable device apparatus with integrated wireless power receiving facilities
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe removably attachable portable device apparatuses with integrated wireless power receiving facilities (also referred to as wireless power reception apparatuses herein). In some embodiments, a wireless power reception apparatus for a portable electronic device is described. The wireless power reception apparatus can include a housing, one or more antennas, and a wireless power receiver. The housing is configured to be removably attachable to the portable electronic device. The one or more antennas are situated on or within the housing and are configured to receive wireless power from a wireless charging (or wireless power transmission) system. The wireless power receiver is disposed within the housing and is configured to process the wireless power received via the one or more antennas and provide the received power to the portable electronic device via a power interface port. |
| US10079490B2 |
Method and device for determining safe threshold for power grid voltage of wind farm converging area
Disclosed are a method and a device for determining safe threshold for power grid voltage of a wind farm converging area, The method includes: obtaining ground state voltage; obtaining upper and lower limit voltage of the output bus, first lower and upper limit of reactive powers of fans and compensation devices, and lower and upper limit of active power fluctuations; obtaining second lower and upper limit of reactive powers of fans and compensation devices; determining whether voltage error is greater than a predetermined threshold; replacing the first lower and upper limit of the reactive powers of fans and the reactive powers of compensation devices with the second lower and upper limit of reactive powers of fans and compensation devices respectively, and repeating above steps if the voltage error is greater than the predetermined threshold, else defining the upper and lower limit voltage of the output bus as a safe threshold. |
| US10079487B2 |
Clamp circuit for electrical overstress and electrostatic discharge
An apparatus includes a device, a comparison circuit, and a switch. The device includes a first terminal coupled to a first power supply signal, and a second terminal coupled to a ground reference. The comparison circuit is configured to compare a first voltage level on the first power supply signal to a second voltage level of a second power supply signal, and enable the device in response to a determination that the first voltage level is greater than the second voltage level. The switch circuit is configured to couple a power supply terminal of the comparison circuit to the first power supply signal in response to determining that the first voltage level is greater than the second voltage level, and to couple the power supply terminal to the second power supply signal in response to determining that the first voltage level is less than the second voltage level. |
| US10079483B2 |
Assembly for electrically protecting a potential short-circuit or an overload in a direct current power network having a system-determined, variable source-internal resistance
An assembly for electrical protecting a potential short-circuit path in a power network having an energy store and having a system-determined, variable source internal resistance. The assembly includes a separating element, the triggering characteristic of which is insufficiently sized for protecting a first and second conductor section of the potential short-circuit path in a first operating state of the energy store, and a second protection device, which is configured to protect the first and second conductor section against a load which occurs below the triggering limit of the separating element in the first operating state. |
| US10079479B2 |
Module extraction apparatus of high voltage direct current system
The present invention relates to a module extraction apparatus of a high voltage direct current system. In the present invention, a fixed base (30) is secured to a structure (82), and a sub-module (10) is mounted on a movable base (60) that slides on the fixed base (30), thereby enabling the sub-module (10) to be extracted from the structure (82). The sub-module (10) may be separated into a power unit (12) and a capacitor unit (24) which may be separately extracted from the structure (82). A connection support (84) is connected to the fixed base (30) and installed to protrude toward the outside of the structure (82), and the tip end of the connection support (84) extending toward the outside of the structure (82) is supported by a wire (86). As described above, the present invention has an advantage of more easily extracting the module, which is a heavy object, from the structure (82) to carry out the maintenance thereof. |
| US10079475B2 |
Plug connector, rubber member, and ring member
A plug connector capable of increasing the sealing between a rubber member and an outer circumferential surface of a spark plug insulator for improvement in current leakage resistance. The plug connector includes a conductive part that electrically connects a spark plug and a power supply member for power supply to the spark plug; and a rubber member that covers the conductive part. The spark plug has an insulator and a terminal electrode protruding toward the rear from a rear end of the insulator. The plug connector further includes a ring member arranged on an outer circumference of the rubber member. |
| US10079474B2 |
Single mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) includes first reflector having a first reflectivity; a second reflector having a second reflectivity, where the second reflectivity is less than the first reflectivity; a gain region between the first and second reflectors; and a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, where the first surface is coupled to the second reflector, and where the second surface is formed into a lens to act upon light emitted the VCSEL through the substrate. The VCSEL lases in a single transverse mode. |
| US10079473B2 |
Light-emitting component and light-emitting device
A light-emitting component includes laser elements and a setting unit. Each laser element is set to be in an on state with a logical value “m (m represents an integer of 1 or more)”, an on state considered as having a logical value “0”, or an off state. The setting unit sets the laser element to be in a state ready to transition to an on state and sets the laser element in the state ready to transition to the on state to be in the on state considered as having a logical value “0” before a timing of setting the laser element to the on state with a logical value “m”. |
| US10079471B2 |
Bonding interface layer
An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first layer and a second layer to be bonded to the first layer. The first and second layers are materials that generate gas byproducts when bonded, and the first and/or second layers is/are compatible with photonic device operation based on a separation distance. At least one bonding interface layer is to establish the separation distance for photonic device operation, and is to prevent gas trapping and to facilitate bonding between the first layer and the second layer. |
| US10079470B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes: a base; at least one semiconductor laser element disposed on the base and configured to emit light laterally; a reflecting member that is disposed on the base; a surrounding part that is disposed on the base and that surrounds the at least one semiconductor laser element and the reflecting member; a wiring part that is electrically connected to the at least one semiconductor laser element and that is disposed on an upper surface of the base so as to extend laterally to a location on the upper surface of the base that is laterally outside of the surrounding part; a radiating body disposed on the surrounding part, the radiating body comprising at least one of a metal and a ceramic, and the radiating body having an opening; and a wavelength converting member that is located in the opening of the radiating body. |
| US10079466B2 |
Multi-pump-pass fiber based lasers and amplifiers
The invention is optical configurations for constructing laser oscillators or laser amplifiers that comprise an extremely short fiber (typically tens of cm long or below, e.g. 5 cm to 30 cm). In order to overcome the absorption limitation due to the very short length of the fiber, the present invention employs a multi pump-pass scheme for pump light confinement. This scheme is based on the small angular overlap between the lasing and pump beams. The multi pump-pass method of the invention leads to efficient fiber laser oscillators and amplifiers having pulse duration of a few ns, with high average and peak power output that is comparable to the state-of-the-art solid state lasers. |
| US10079465B1 |
Coherent amplification using phase modulation mediated two-beam coupling
A coherent amplification device includes a phase modulation stage for preconditioning a laser beam, and a coupling stage for transferring energy and spatial phase information between the first laser beam and a second laser beam. The phase modulation stage may include an electro-optically active medium having a time-dependent refractive index manipulatable by an electric field thereby introducing a time-dependent phase shift to the first laser beam when passed therethrough. The coupling stage may include a coupling medium having a time-dependent and intensity-dependent refractive index with a finite lifetime, where an interference pattern of the laser beams is written into the coupling medium through the time-dependent and intensity-dependent refractive index to generate a holographic grating based on the interference pattern, and where the finite lifetime of the coupling medium and the preconditioned phase modulation facilitates a transfer of energy and spatial phase information between the laser beams. |
| US10079462B1 |
Electrical coupling adaptor
An electrical coupling adapter configured to be mounted to an exterior wall of a structure so as to electrically couple a device located externally to the structure with a power source disposed within the interior of the structure. The electrical coupling adapter includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion integrally formed. The first portion of the housing is located adjacent to an exterior wall of a structure to which the electrical coupling adapter is secured. The second portion is configured to be journaled through the exterior wall of the structure. Coupled to the second portion is a cord that is configured to be operably coupled to a power source disposed within the interior of the structure. A receptacle is mounted on the first portion of the housing and is electrically coupled to the cord. The cord and receptacle are configured to be either male or female. |
| US10079461B1 |
Reversible plug
A swap logic unit including a set of outputs configured to be in a first configuration or a second configuration, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to connect to a swap indication contact, wherein a voltage of the swap indication contact is configured to indicate an orientation of a reversible plug in a cable unit, and configure the set of outputs in the first configuration or the second configuration based on the voltage of the swap indication contact, wherein the first configuration corresponds to a first orientation of the reversible plug and the second configuration corresponds to a second orientation of the reversible plug. |
| US10079459B2 |
Detached power supply apparatus and shelving system having same
A shelving system having a detached power supply apparatus includes at least a hollow vertical shelf rail, at least a bus bar inserted into the vertical shelf rail, and at least a detached power supply apparatus inserted in the vertical shelf rail and electrically connected to the bus bar. Each of the vertical shelf rails includes at least a punched hole, and two locating protrudes. Each of the bus bar includes a slot, and two current conductors. The slot includes a carrier surface, and a track abutting surface. Each of the detached power supply apparatus passes through the punched hole and is inserted between the carrier surface and the track abutting surface. Each of the detached power supply apparatus includes two push-in resilient ball head plungers, a receiving surface, an abutting surface, and two reeds. The abutting surface is engaging with the track abutting surface. |
| US10079456B2 |
Electrical receptacle connector
An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, upper-row receptacle terminals, and lower-row receptacle terminals. The insulated housing is in the receptacle cavity of the metallic shell. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and the tongue portion. The tail portions of the power terminals and the tail portions of the ground terminals have three bent portions, i.e., the first bent portion, the second bent portion, and the third bent portion. The bent portions allow the terminals to have different and non-parallel delivering paths for electromagnetic waves, so that the signals do not interfere with each other easily. |
| US10079450B2 |
Connector having high vibration resistance and durability
Provided is a connector including first and second connector members connected to each other. The first connector member is formed with a protrusion. The second connector member includes a lever member rotatably provided thereto. The lever member is formed with at least one claw-shaped part configured to lock the protrusion. When connecting the first and second connector members, the lever member is rotated so that the protrusion locked in the claw-shaped part of the lever member is drawn in a connecting direction, and the first and second connector members are moved in the connecting direction and brought into contact with each other. After the movement is restrained, the lever member is further rotated so that the lever member is fixed while being elastically deformed. |
| US10079449B1 |
Multiple connector system
A multiple connector assembly includes a connector housing. A first connector and a second connector, adjacent the first connector, extend from a first surface of the connector housing. A securing member is coupled to the connector housing and is configured to engage a connector coupling member to secure the first connector in a first connector receptacle and the second connector in a second connector receptacle. A connector release actuator that is located on a second surface of the connector housing that is opposite the first surface of the connector housing. The connector release actuator is configured to actuate the securing member to cause the securing member to disengage with the connector coupling member such that the first connector is no longer secured in the first connector receptacle and the second connector is no longer secured in the second connector receptacle. |
| US10079448B2 |
Cable connector assembly having seizing structure and method of making the same
A cable connector assembly includes a first connector having a mating portion and a rear portion; a cable connected with the first connector; and a seizing structure bundling the cable. The seizing structure includes a metal wire wrapping the cable, a middle insulative layer cladding the metal wire, and an outer insulative layer wrapping the middle insulative layer. |
| US10079439B2 |
Metal surface coating composition and terminal-equipped covered electrical wire using same
A composition for a metal surface coating that does not require a posttreatment such as heating, has flexibility to be able to follow deformation of a member to be coated, hardly peels off from a metal surface, and can be used for the purpose of corrosion protection, and a terminal-equipped covered electric wire using the same. The composition contains an adduct and a base oil. The adduct contains an acidic phosphate ester consisting of one or more kinds of compounds represented by General Formulae (1) and (2), and a metal, P(═O)(—OR1)(—OH)2 . . . (1), P(═O)(—OR1)2(—OH) . . . (2), where R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 4 to 30 carbon atoms. |
| US10079433B2 |
Multifilar helix antenna
The invention relates to a multifilar helix antenna (1) comprising a wave feed and polarizing section (2) comprising a cover portion (3) comprising a through opening (4). The antenna (1) comprises a helix radiator (5) comprising three or more resonant helical elements (6) evenly distributed about an imaginary circle. Each helical element (6) extends in a longitudinal direction (Z) from the feed and polarizing section (2) through the opening (4) in the cover portion (3) and wound to form the helix radiator (5). Each helical element (6) comprises one or a plurality of wave perturbations (7) separated in the longitudinal direction (Z) and that each set of perturbations are positioned at the same level in the longitudinal direction (Z) to yield an equivalent array of stacked helical radiators, wherein the cover portion (3) comprises a rotationally symmetric corrugated assembly (8). |
| US10079431B2 |
Antenna array having mechanically-adjustable radiator elements
A tri-column antenna array architecture, containing a plurality of active radiating elements that are spatially arranged on a modified reflector structure is disclosed. Radiating elements disposed along (P1 and P2) outlying center lines are movable and provided with compensating radio frequency feed line phase shifters so as to provide broad range of beam width angle variation of the antenna array's azimuth radiation pattern. |
| US10079428B2 |
Coupled antenna structure and methods
Antenna apparatus and methods of use and tuning. In one exemplary embodiment, the solution of the present disclosure is particularly adapted for small form-factor, metal-encased applications that utilize satellite wireless links (e.g., GPS), and uses an electromagnetic (e.g., capacitive) feeding method that includes one or more separate feed elements that are not galvanically connected to a radiating element of the antenna. In addition, certain implementations of the antenna apparatus offer the capability to carry more than one operating band for the antenna. |
| US10079426B2 |
Chip antenna
Provided is a chip antenna (1), including: an antenna pattern (3); and a base body (2), which has a hexahedral shape, the antenna pattern (3) including: an antenna part (31), which is held on an upper surface of the base body (2); and a plurality of terminal parts (32), which are held on a lower surface of the base body (2), each of the plurality of terminal parts (32) being soldered to a circuit board (10), in which the antenna pattern (13) further includes a band-shaped protruding part (34), which extends in a long-side direction of the antenna part (31), and is embedded in the base body (2), and the band-shaped protruding part (34) is provided at least along a range of each of two long sides of the antenna part (31) excluding a range in which the plurality of terminal parts (32) are arranged. |
| US10079425B2 |
Portable terminal with antenna device for display element or display assembly including flexible functional region
A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes a flexible display element, a first antenna element disposed at a first region on the display element, a second antenna element disposed at a foldable second region on the display element to face the first region, and a switch element configured to selectively connect the second antenna element. When the display element is folded or rolled, the first and second antenna elements at least partially overlap each other, and the switch element disconnects the second antenna element. The portable terminal including the antenna device as described above may maintain a stable transmission/reception performance although it includes a flexible display element or a display assembly. When a plurality of antenna elements are provided, the portable terminal may implement a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna device in a state where the display element is extended. |
| US10079424B2 |
Multiple-assembly antenna positioner with eccentric shaft
Methods, systems, and devices are described for an antenna positioning apparatus, which includes a multiple-assembly positioner for adjusting a positioning angle about a positioning axis. The multiple-assembly positioner has two or more positioning assemblies that are coupled in series between a base structure and a positioning structure. Positioning assemblies can be individually selected based on various criteria, such as cost, complexity, angular range, and other performance, and be configured to work together to provide a desired range of adjustment to the positioning angle while simultaneously meeting precision requirements. In one example, a positioning assembly can include a shaft with an eccentric portion, which is rotated in order to provide the adjustment. A method is described where a first positioning assembly can be actuated to a first initial position, and then held, such that a second positioning assembly can be actuated to provide a selected antenna positioning angle. |
| US10079418B2 |
Flexible terahertz waveguide comprising a dielectric waveguide core which is supported within a segmented tube by dielectric threads
A flexible and twistable terahertz waveguide assembly has a flexible waveguide with waveguide flange connectors at its ends. The flexible waveguide comprises a segmented tube of a plurality of tube segments which are connected to each other. The tube encloses a dielectric waveguide which is held by means of threads (filaments) at the center of the tube. The individual segments are tiltable and/or pivotable against each other, allowing bending and twisting of the waveguide cable. |
| US10079413B2 |
Li-ion pouch cell and a cell module
The present invention provides a Li-ion pouch cell wherein the Li-ion pouch cells comprise a sealed enclosure, electrode stack and thermally conductive elements, wherein the electrode stack and the thermally conductive elements are in the sealed enclosure, the thermally conductive elements include extensions which extend beyond the electrode stack, the sealed enclosure has thermal conductivity, the thermally conductive elements provide a thermally conductive pathway connecting the electrode stack and the sealed enclosure by way of the extension. The present invention also provides a cell module comprising the Li-ion pouch cells. The Li-ion pouch cell and the cell module according to the present application could minimize differences in cell temperature, monitor internal cell temperature, cool the cell rapidly, increase cell and module safety, allowing for minimal impact on cell energy density, performance or life and difficulty of manufacturing. |
| US10079410B2 |
Methods for dendrite detection and devices for batteries and dendrite sensors
An electrical device is provided. The electrical device includes a pulse generator configured to generate a first pulse. The electrical device also includes a battery. The battery includes a first conductive electrode configured to receive the first pulse from the pulse generator, a second conductive electrode coupled to the first conductive electrode, and a dielectric separator element coupled to the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode and configured to provide a second pulse. The second pulse is based on the first pulse and based on the electrical properties of the dielectric separator element. The electrical device also includes a controller coupled to the pulse generator and the dielectric separator element. The controller is configured to compare the first pulse with the second pulse. |
| US10079407B2 |
Support plate for protection module and battery module having the same
A support plate for a protection module, and a battery module including the same. A support plate for a protection module of a battery module includes: a plate-shaped plate portion; and a support unit protruded or recessed from the plate portion and coupled to a protection member configured to control charging and discharging of a rechargeable battery, and the plate portion and the support unit are integrally formed. |
| US10079398B2 |
Transition arrangement and process of a fuel cell system operation state
A start-up transition process is disclosed for a fuel cell system operation state, which includes utilization of predefined first and second temperature limits for the fuel cells, specifying a low temperature operating state of cells below the first limit, at which presence of carbonaceous species at the cells is precluded, a transition temperature range of cells above the first and below the second limit at which fuel flow supply is initiated to the fuel system in a mixture with air, combined with anode tail gas recirculated at a recirculation rate over 70, and an intermediate temperature operating state of the cells above the second temperature limit, at which free oxygen at the anodes. |
| US10079397B2 |
Method of detecting leakage of reactive gas of fuel cell and fuel cell system
To provide a technique that allows prompt detection of leakage of fuel gas in a fuel cell system. A controller included in a fuel cell system performs a hydrogen leakage detecting process of detecting the occurrence of hydrogen leakage in the low-pressure zone based on the detected pressure in a low-pressure zone of an anode gas piping at a time of start-up of the fuel cell system. A controller uses at least one of a first condition and a second condition for determination as a determination condition in hydrogen leakage detecting process, and determines that there is no leakage of the reactive gas while the fuel cell stops generating power if the determination condition is satisfied. |
| US10079394B2 |
Method of welding porous body flow path
A method of welding comprising contacting a first electrode to a porous body flow path, contacting a second electrode to a plate material, pressing the porous body flow path and the plate material by the first and second electrodes in a thickness direction of the plate material, and spot welding the porous body flow path and the plate material, wherein: a deformation of the plate material in a direction of the second electrode pressing the plate material is smaller than a deformation of the porous body flow path in a direction of the first electrode pressing the porous body flow path. |
| US10079392B2 |
Metal-doped graphene and growth method of the same
A metal-doped graphene and a growth method of the same are provided. The metal-doped graphene includes graphene and metal elements, wherein the metal elements accounts for 1-30 at % based on the total content of the metal-doped graphene. The growth method includes performing a PECVD by using a carbon precursor, a metal precursor, and a group VI precursor in order to grow the metal-doped graphene. |
| US10079390B2 |
Secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle
According to one embodiment, a secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector including elemental zinc, and a negative electrode layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode layer includes a negative electrode active material including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an oxide of titanium, a lithium-titanium oxide, and a lithium-titanium composite oxide. The electrolyte solution includes an aqueous solvent and an electrolyte. |
| US10079383B2 |
All-solid battery and method for manufacturing the same
An all-solid battery that includes a negative electrode layer, a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, a negative electrode current collector connected to the negative electrode layer, and a positive electrode current collector connected to the positive electrode layer, wherein the negative electrode layer contains a sulfide solid electrolyte, the negative electrode current collector contains a metal that reacts with the sulfide solid electrolyte, a sulfur compound layer that contains a sulfur compound generated by a reaction of the sulfide solid electrolyte and the metal is present between the negative electrode layer and the negative electrode current collector, charge capacity when constant current charge was conducted up to 3.6 V at 0.3 C or more and 3.6 C or less in an initial charge after preparation of the all-solid battery is 50 mAh/g or more and 90 mAh/g or less. |
| US10079380B2 |
Jelly-roll of improved productivity and battery cell comprising the same
Disclosed herein is a jelly roll for a secondary battery configured by winding a cathode sheet, a separator, and an anode sheet, wherein electrode tabs are connected to uncoated portions of the electrode sheets, to which electrode active materials are not applied, by welding, and each of the electrode tabs is configured to have an embossed structure protruding toward the uncoated portion to improve weldability. |
| US10079379B2 |
Separator, battery, battery pack, electronic apparatus, electric vehicle, power storage device, and electric power system
The present invention relates to a layer disposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, which is a layer containing particles and a resin material, and having a porous structure with a heat capacity per unit area of 0.0001 J/Kcm2 or more and a heat capacity per unit volume of 3.0 J/Kcm3 or less. |
| US10079376B2 |
Battery pack
A battery pack that prevents arbitrary disassembly, and yet, that can be separated, includes a battery cell, a case for accommodating the battery cell therein, and a holder enclosing the case. A first engagement portion is formed on an outer surface of the case, and a second engagement portion is formed on an inner surface of the holder for coupling with the first engagement portion. |
| US10079375B2 |
Dual seal microbattery and method of making
A method of forming a flexible microbattery and battery is provided. The method including: forming a film with a cavity therein; applying a first outer flexible substrate to a first side of the film; applying a second outer flexible substrate to a second opposite side of the film, wherein a cathode, an anode, a separator and an electrolyte are located within the cavity and the film provides a first seal about the cathode, the anode, the separator and the electrolyte and wherein the first seal extends between the first outer flexible substrate and the second outer flexible substrate; cutting a trench through the first outer flexible substrate, the film and the second outer flexible substrate after the first seal is formed; disposing a curable material in the trench; curing the curable material to provide a second seal, wherein the first seal is located between the cavity and the second seal. |
| US10079374B2 |
Thin power storage device and production method thereof
A power storage device includes a positive electrode part including a first metallic foil layer and a positive electrode active material layer partially laminated on one surface of the first metallic foil layer, a negative electrode part including a second metallic foil layer and a negative electrode active material layer partially laminated on one surface of the second metallic foil layer, and a separator arranged between the positive electrode part and the negative electrode part. The positive electrode active material layer is arranged between the first metallic foil layer and the separator, and the negative electrode active material layer is arranged between the second metallic foil layer and the separator. The peripheral regions of the one surfaces of the first and second metallic foil layers in which the positive and negative electrode active material layers are not formed are joined via a peripheral sealing layer containing a thermoplastic resin. |
| US10079373B2 |
Pouch type secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same
A pouch type secondary battery and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The pouch type secondary battery includes a pouch type case formed by attaching an upper sheet and a lower sheet, and an electrode assembly received in the pouch type case. A polymer coating layer for improving sealability is further included at an outer side portion of the pouch type case, in which the upper sheet and the lower sheet are attached. |
| US10079369B2 |
OLED display panel and manufacture method thereof
The present invention discloses an OLED display panel, comprising a substrate; a semitransparent cathode, formed on the substrate; an emission layer, formed at one side of the semitransparent cathode away from the substrate; a transparent anode, formed at one side of the emission layer away from the semitransparent cathode; and a photochromic layer, being formed at one side of the transparent anode away from the emission layer, and the photochromic layer comprises photochromic material which changes from transparent to opaque under excitation of light, and the light emitted by the emission layer comprises a wavelength employed to excite the photochromic material. The OLED display panel of the present invention has the longer micro cavity total optical distance. The present invention further discloses a manufacture method of an OLED display panel. |
| US10079367B2 |
Waterproof and anti-reflective flexible OLED apparatus and method for manufacturing the same
The present disclosure relates to an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same. The OLED apparatus comprises an OLED device, a device packaging layer, an upper flexible substrate, and a lower flexible substrate, wherein an anti-reflection layer is arranged outside the upper flexible substrate, and a layer of inorganic nanoparticles is provided on a surface of the anti-reflection layer. Using the technical solution of the present disclosure, an OLED apparatus which has both waterproof and anti-reflection effects and a small overall thickness is obtained. |
| US10079365B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device
An organic light emitting diode display device is provided. The organic light emitting diode display device includes a first insulating layer disposed on a substrate and having a first refractive index, a refraction inducing layer disposed on the first insulating layer having a second refractive index, a second insulating layer disposed on the refraction inducing layer and having a third refractive index, a first electrode disposed on the second insulating layer and having a fourth refractive index, and an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode disposed on the first electrode. The second insulating layer, the first electrode, the organic light emitting layer, and the second electrode include a plurality of convex parts and a plurality of concave parts. |
| US10079364B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a display panel including a display substrate having an active area and a non-active area outside the active area and a thin film encapsulation layer covering the display substrate; a printing film on the display panel and including a base film, a printing layer on one surface of the base film, and a plurality of reflectors arranged in a reflective area of the base film corresponding to the non-active area; a cover window on the printing film; and an adhesive layer between the printing film and the cover window. |
| US10079354B2 |
Vertically aligned carbon nanotube trapezoid FIN structure
A transistor device includes an array of fin structures arranged on a substrate, each of the fin structures being vertically alternating stacks of a first isoelectric point material having a first isoelectric point and a second isoelectric point material having a second isoelectric point that is different than the first isoelectric point; one or more carbon nanotubes (CNTs) suspended between the fin structures and contacting a side surface of the second isoelectric point material in the fin structures; a gate wrapped around the array of CNTs; and source and drain contacts arranged over the fin structures; wherein each of the fin structures have a trapezoid shape or parallel sides that are oriented about 90° with respect to the substrate. |
| US10079353B2 |
Light-emitting device with flexible substrates
A flexible device is provided. The hardness of a bonding layer of the flexible device is set to be higher than Shore D of 70, or preferably higher than or equal to Shore D of 80. The coefficient of expansion of a flexible substrate of the flexible device is set to be less than 58 ppm/° C., or preferably less than or equal to 30 ppm/° C. |
| US10079352B2 |
Flexible display device and manufacturing method for flexible device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a manufacturing method for a flexible device and a flexible display device. The manufacturing method for a flexible device comprises: step S1, forming an organosiloxane layer on a supporting substrate; step S2, forming a flexible substrate on the organosiloxane layer; step S3, forming a display device on the flexible substrate; step S4, performing an oxidation treatment on a surface of the organosiloxane layer that contacts the supporting substrate such that a silicon dioxide layer is formed between the organosiloxane layer and the supporting substrate; and step S5, peeling off the supporting substrate from the silicon dioxide layer. |
| US10079339B2 |
Magnetoresistive stack/structure and method of manufacturing same
A method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive stack/structure comprising (a) etching through a second magnetic region to (i) provide sidewalls of the second magnetic region and (ii) expose a surface of a dielectric layer, (b) depositing a first encapsulation layer on the sidewalls of the second magnetic region and over a surface of the dielectric layer, (c) thereafter: (i) etching the first encapsulation layer which is disposed over the dielectric layer using a first etch process, and (ii) etching re-deposited material using a second etch process, wherein, after such etching, a portion of the first encapsulation layer remains on the sidewalls of the second magnetic region, (d) etching (i) through the dielectric layer to form a tunnel barrier and provide sidewalls thereof and (ii) etching the first magnetic region to provide sidewalls thereof, and (e) depositing a second encapsulation layer on the sidewalls of the tunnel barrier and first magnetic region. |
| US10079334B2 |
BAW component and method for manufacturing a BAW component
A BAW component is provided. A method for manufacturing a BAW component is also provided. The component includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode and a first piezoelectric material. The first piezoelectric material is between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The first piezoelectric material has a higher piezoelectric coefficient than AlN. |
| US10079332B2 |
Package manufacturing method, light emitting device manufacturing method, package, and light emitting device
A method for manufacturing a package includes the steps of: preparing a lead frame having a frame, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first connecting portion connecting the frame and the first electrode, and a second connecting portion connecting the frame and the second electrode; placing the lead frame in a mold; injecting a first resin into the mold from an inlet of the mold located adjacent to the first electrode to mold a flange portion and a wall portion of the package; and cutting the lead frame and a part of the flange portion located adjacent to the first electrode. In the step of injecting the first resin, the mold and the lead frame together provide a hollow space into which the first resin is injected and in which a part of the flange portion is formed so as to have a thickness different from a thickness of the lead frame. |
| US10079331B2 |
High index dielectric film to increase extraction efficiency of nanowire LEDs
Various embodiments include semiconductor devices, such as nanowire LEDs, that include a plurality of first conductivity type semiconductor nanowire cores located over a support, a plurality of second conductivity type semiconductor shells extending over and around the respective nanowire cores, and a layer of a high index of refraction material over at least a portion of a surface of at least one of the nanowire cores and the shells, wherein the high index of refraction material has an index of refraction that is between about 1.4 and about 4.5. Light extraction efficiency may be improved. |
| US10079326B2 |
Optical sensor and method of manufacture
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an optical sensor, including: a substrate; an infrared ray sensing thin film transistor including a first semiconductor layer that is formed on the substrate and arranged to operate by receiving infrared light, and a bandpass filter formed on the substrate and sized and arranged to pass the infrared light; a visible ray sensing thin film transistor including a second semiconductor layer formed on the substrate and arranged to operate by receiving visible light; and a switching thin film transistor including a third semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, wherein the bandpass filter may be formed of a metal material patterned to have features, successive features spaced apart from each other by a predetermined period so as to pass the infrared light and to block the visible light. |
| US10079325B2 |
Semiconductor radiation detector
A semiconductor radiation detector device includes a semiconductor substrate. On one surface of the substrate are a MIG layer (241) of semiconductor of second conductivity type, a barrier layer (251) of semiconductor of first conductivity type, and pixel dopings of semiconductor of the second conductivity type. The pixel dopings are adapted to be coupled to at least one pixel voltage in order to create a source and a drain of a pixel-specific transistor. The device further includes a first conductivity type first contact, so that the pixel voltage is a potential difference between one of the pixel dopings and the first conductivity type first contact. The location of a main gate (983) corresponds at least partly to the location of a channel between the source and the drain. The device includes at least one extra gate (981, 982) horizontally displaced from the main gate (983). |
| US10079320B2 |
Optoelectronic device comprising perovskites
The invention provides an optoelectronic device comprising a porous material, which porous material comprises a semiconductor comprising a perovskite. The porous material may comprise a porous perovskite. Thus, the porous material may be a perovskite material which is itself porous. Additionally or alternatively, the porous material may comprise a porous dielectric scaffold material, such as alumina, and a coating disposed on a surface thereof, which coating comprises the semiconductor comprising the perovskite. Thus, in some embodiments the porosity arises from the dielectric scaffold rather than from the perovskite itself. The porous material is usually infiltrated by a charge transporting material such as a hole conductor, a liquid electrolyte, or an electron conductor. The invention further provides the use of the porous material as a semiconductor in an optoelectronic device. Further provided is the use of the porous material as a photosensitizing, semiconducting material in an optoelectronic device. The invention additionally provides the use of a layer comprising the porous material as a photoactive layer in an optoelectronic device. Further provided is a photoactive layer for an optoelectronic device, which photoactive layer comprises the porous material. |
| US10079319B2 |
Solar cell fabrication using laser patterning of ion-implanted etch-resistant layers and the resulting solar cells
Solar cell fabrication using laser patterning of ion-implanted etch-resistant layers, and the resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a back contact solar cell includes a maximum concentration of the approximately Gaussian distribution of P-type dopants approximately in the center of each of segmented P-type emitter regions between first and second sides of each of the segmented P-type emitter regions. |
| US10079316B2 |
Split gate embedded memory technology and method of manufacturing thereof
Semiconductor devices and methods for forming a semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate prepared with a memory cell region. A first gate structure is formed on the memory cell region. An isolation layer is formed on the substrate and over the first gate structure. A second gate structure is formed adjacent to and separated from the first gate structure by the isolation layer. The first and second gate structures are processed to form at least one split gate structure with first and second adjacent gates. Asymmetrical source and drain regions are provided adjacent to first and second sides of the split gate structure. |
| US10079314B2 |
Nonvolatile charge trap memory device having a deuterated layer in a multi-layer charge-trapping region
A nonvolatile charge trap memory device is described. The device includes a substrate having a channel region. A gate stack is disposed above the substrate over the channel region. The gate stack includes a multi-layer charge-trapping region having a first deuterated layer. The multi-layer charge-trapping region may further include a deuterium-free charge-trapping layer. |
| US10079313B2 |
Graphene electronic device having channel layer including graphene islands and method of fabricating the same
A graphene electronic device includes a gate insulating layer on a conductive substrate, a channel layer on the gate insulating layer, and a source electrode on one end of the channel layer and a drain electrode on another end of the channel layer. The channel layer includes a semiconductor layer and a graphene layer in direct contact with the semiconductor layer, and the graphene layer includes a plurality of graphene islands spaced apart from each other. |
| US10079311B2 |
Thin film transistor substrate and method for making same
A TFT substrate includes a substrate and a plurality of TFTs on the substrate. Each TFT includes a channel layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode on opposite sides of the channel layer. An ohmic contact layer is applied between the channel layer and the source electrode, and between the channel layer and the drain electrode. Both the channel layer and the ohmic contact layer are made of a metal oxide containing zinc. The channel layer has a zinc atomic percentage of less than 35%, and the ohmic contact layer has a zinc atomic percentage of more than 65%. |
| US10079307B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method for the same
An object is to provide a method for manufacturing a highly reliable semiconductor device including thin film transistors which have stable electric characteristics and are formed using an oxide semiconductor. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming an oxide semiconductor film over a gate electrode with a gate insulating film interposed between the oxide semiconductor film and the gate electrode, over an insulating surface; forming a first conductive film including at least one of titanium, molybdenum, and tungsten, over the oxide semiconductor film; forming a second conductive film including a metal having lower electronegativity than hydrogen, over the first conductive film; forming a source electrode and a drain electrode by etching of the first conductive film and the second conductive film; and forming an insulating film in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, over the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode. |
| US10079306B2 |
Semiconductor device
An object is to provide a semiconductor device having a structure in which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be efficiently reduced. In a bottom gate thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor layer, an oxide insulating layer used as a channel protection layer is formed above and in contact with part of the oxide semiconductor layer overlapping with a gate electrode layer, and at the same time an oxide insulating layer covering a peripheral portion (including a side surface) of the stacked oxide semiconductor layer is formed. Further, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are formed in a manner such that they do not overlap with the channel protection layer. Thus, a structure in which an insulating layer over the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer is in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer is provided. |
| US10079304B2 |
Silicon germanium fin immune to epitaxy defect
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming at least one fin on a semiconductor substrate. The least one fin includes a semiconducting material. A gate is formed over and in contact with the at least one fin. A germanium comprising layer is formed over and in contact with the at least one fin. Germanium from the germanium comprising layer is diffused into the semiconducting material of the at least one fin. |
| US10079303B2 |
Method to form strained nFET and strained pFET nanowires on a same substrate
A semiconductor is provided that includes an nFET gate structure straddling over a first nanowire stack and a portion of a first SiGe layer having a first Ge content. The first nanowire stack comprises alternating layers of a tensily strained silicon layer, and a second SiGe layer having a second Ge content that is greater than the first Ge content and being compressively strained. Portions of the tensily strained silicon layers extend beyond sidewalls surfaces of the nFET gate structure and are suspended. The structure further includes a pFET gate structure straddling over a second nanowire stack and another portion of the first SiGe layer. The second nanowire stack comprises alternating layers of the tensily strained silicon layer, and the second SiGe layer. Portions of the second SiGe layers extend beyond sidewalls surfaces of the pFET gate structure and are suspended. |
| US10079302B2 |
Silicon germanium fin immune to epitaxy defect
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming at least one fin on a semiconductor substrate. The least one fin includes a semiconducting material. A gate is formed over and in contact with the at least one fin. A germanium comprising layer is formed over and in contact with the at least one fin. Germanium from the germanium comprising layer is diffused into the semiconducting material of the at least one fin. |
| US10079297B2 |
Compound semiconductor device
A compound semiconductor device includes a compound semiconductor layer, a gate electrode disposed above the compound semiconductor layer, and source and drain electrodes disposed above the compound semiconductor layer with the gate electrode between the source and drain electrodes, wherein the compound semiconductor layer has a groove in a surface thereof at least between the source electrode and the gate electrode in a region between the source electrode and the drain electrode, the groove gradually deepened toward the source electrode. |
| US10079292B2 |
Fabrication of vertical field effect transistor structure with controlled gate length
A method of forming a gate structure, including forming one or more vertical fins on a substrate; forming a bottom spacer on the substrate surface adjacent to the one or more vertical fins; forming a gate structure on at least a portion of the sidewalls of the one or more vertical fins; forming a gauge layer on at least a portion of the bottom spacer, wherein the gauge layer covers at least a portion of the gate structure on the sidewalls of the one or more vertical fins; and removing a portion of the gauge layer on the bottom spacer. |
| US10079288B2 |
Contact formation on germanium-containing substrates using hydrogenated silicon
A method and structure is provided in which germanium or a germanium tin alloy can be used as a channel material in either planar or non-planar architectures, with a functional gate structure formed utilizing either a gate first or gate last process. After formation of the functional gate structure, and contact openings within a middle-of-the-line (MOL) dielectric material, a hydrogenated silicon layer is formed that includes hydrogenated crystalline silicon regions disposed over the germanium or a germanium tin alloy, and hydrogenated amorphous silicon regions disposed over dielectric material. The hydrogenated amorphous silicon regions can be removed selective to the hydrogenated crystalline silicon regions, and thereafter a contact structure is formed on the hydrogenated crystalline silicon regions. |
| US10079279B2 |
FET with local isolation layers on S/D trench sidewalls
A method is provided for fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a gate structure; and forming offset sidewall spacers around the gate structure. The method also includes forming trenches in the semiconductor substrate at outside of the gate structure; and forming isolation layers on side surfaces of the trenches to prevent diffusions between subsequently formed doping regions. Further, the method includes removing at least portions of the offset sidewall spacers to expose portions of the surface of the semiconductor substrate between the gate structure and the trenches; and forming filling layers with a top surface higher than the surface of the semiconductor substrate by filling the trenches and covering portions of the surface of the semiconductor substrate between the trenches and the gate structure. Further, the method also includes forming doping regions configured as raised source/drain regions in the filling layers. |
| US10079278B2 |
Bipolar transistor with carbon alloyed contacts
A method for forming a bipolar junction transistor includes forming a collector intrinsic region, an emitter intrinsic region and an intrinsic base region between the collector intrinsic region and the emitter intrinsic region. A collector extrinsic contact region is formed in direct contact with the collector intrinsic region; an emitter extrinsic contact region is formed on the emitter intrinsic region and a base extrinsic contact region is formed in direct contact with the intrinsic base region. Carbon is introduced into at least one of the collector extrinsic contact region, the emitter extrinsic contact region and the base extrinsic contact region to suppress diffusion of dopants into the junction region. |
| US10079277B2 |
Method of fabricating metal-insulator-metal capacitor
A method of fabricating a metal-insulator-metal capacitor includes providing a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is etched to form a first hole including a first convex profile bulging into the dielectric layer. Subsequently, the dielectric layer is etched to form a second hole including a second convex profile bulging into the dielectric layer. A first metal layer is formed to conformally cover the capacitor trench. An insulating layer is formed to cover the first metal layer. Finally, a second metal layer is formed covering the insulating layer. |
| US10079276B2 |
Organic light emitting display panel comprising pixel repair region
An organic light emitting display panel is provided that comprises a substrate comprising an emission area and a non-emission area; a black matrix disposed on the non-emission area and comprising at least one open area that exposes at least a portion of a pattern formed on the substrate, wherein the pattern or the exposed portion of the pattern comprises a multi-layer structure comprising a conductive layer and at least one low reflective layer. |
| US10079271B2 |
Mask assembly, apparatus, and method of manufacturing display apparatus
Provided are a mask assembly, an apparatus for manufacturing a display apparatus, and method of manufacturing a display apparatus. The mask assembly includes a mask frame and a mask sheet arranged on the mask frame. The mask sheet includes a pattern portion configured to allow a deposition material to pass through an opening of the pattern portion. The pattern portion is recessed from a surface of the mask sheet. In addition, an outermost edge of the pattern portion is uneven. |
| US10079269B2 |
Multi-functional active matrix organic light-emitting diode display
A multi-functional active matrix display comprises a transparent front sheet, a semi-transparent layer of light emissive devices adjacent the rear side of the front sheet and forming a matrix of display pixels, and a solar cell layer located behind the light emissive devices for converting both ambient light and internal light7 from the light emissive devices into electrical energy, the solar cell layer including an array of electrodes on the front surface of the solar cell layer for use in detecting the location of a change in the amount of light impinging on a portion of the front surface of the solar cell layer. |
| US10079262B2 |
Semiconductor photo-detector
A semiconductor device is disclosed, which includes: at least one device layer being a crystallized layer for example including: a superlattice layer and/or a layer of group III-V semiconductor materials; and a passivation structure comprising one or more layers wherein at least one layer of the passivation structure is a passivation layer grown in-situ in a crystallized form on top of the device layer, and at least one of the one or more layers of the passivation structure includes material having a high density of surface states which forces surface pinning of an equilibrium Fermi level within a certain band gap of the device layer, away from its conduction and valence bands. |
| US10079260B2 |
Imaging element and method of manufacturing the same
A solid-state image sensor including a substrate having a photoelectric conversion element disposed therein, the photoelectric conversion element converting an amount of incident light into a charge amount, a memory unit disposed at a side of the photoelectric conversion element, the memory unit receiving the charge amount from the photoelectric conversion element, a first light-shielding section formed at a first side of the memory unit and disposed between the charge accumulation region and the photoelectric conversion element, and a second light-shielding section formed at a second side of the memory unit such that the second side is opposite the first side. |
| US10079256B2 |
Image sensor pixels with light guides and light shield structures
A front-side illuminated image sensor with an array of image sensor pixels is provided. Each image pixel may include a photodiode, transistor gate structures, shallow trench isolation structures, and other associated pixel circuits formed in a semiconductor substrate. Buried light shielding structures that are opaque to light may be formed over regions of the substrate to prevent the transistor gate structures, shallow trench isolation structures, and the other associated pixel circuits from being exposed to stray light. Buried light shielding structures formed in this way can help reduce optical pixel crosstalk. |
| US10079255B1 |
Color filter array apparatus
A color filter array apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first color filter array comprising color filters arranged in a first pattern and a second color filter array comprising color filters arranged in a second pattern. The first pattern and second pattern may be arranged to optimize the detection or viewing of first and second objects, respectively. |
| US10079254B2 |
Chip scale package and related methods
Implementations of semiconductor packages may include: a die coupled to a glass lid; one or more inner walls having a first material coupled to the die; an outer wall having a second material coupled to the die; and a glass lid coupled to the die at the one or more inner walls and at the outer wall; wherein the outer wall may be located at the edge of the die and the glass lid and the one or more inner walls may be located within the perimeter of the outer wall at a predetermined distance from the perimeter of the outer wall; and wherein a modulus of the first material may be lower than a modulus of the second material. |
| US10079253B2 |
Imaging device and electronic device
An imaging device with excellent imaging performance is provided. The imaging device has a first circuit including a first photoelectric conversion element and a second circuit including a second photoelectric conversion element. The second circuit is shielded from light. In the imaging device, a current mirror circuit in which a transistor connected to the second photoelectric conversion element serves as an input transistor and a transistor connected to the first photoelectric conversion element serves as an output transistor is formed. With such a configuration, the amount of photocurrent in the first circuit from which the contribution of the dark current of the first photoelectric conversion element has been excluded can be detected. |
| US10079250B2 |
Array substrate, its manufacturing method, and display device
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, its manufacturing method, and a display device. The method includes steps of forming a passivation layer on a base substrate, and forming a contact layer and a pixel electrode on the base substrate with the passivation layer through a single patterning process. The contact layer is made of an identical transparent conductive material to the pixel electrode. |
| US10079247B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a nonvolatile memory device. In the method, a stacked structure is formed on a conductive substrate structure. The stacked structure includes at least one interlayer insulating layer and at least one sacrificial layer alternately stacked with the at least one interlayer insulating layer. A first trench is formed to extend through the stacked structure and to expose the conductive substrate structure. A first gate electrode layer, a dielectric structure, and a channel layer are formed on a side wall of the first trench, the dielectric structure including a ferroelectric layer. At least one recess is formed to expose a side wall of the first gate electrode layer by removing the at least one sacrificial layer. At least one second gate electrode layer is formed by filling the at least one recess with a conductive layer. |
| US10079242B2 |
Logic and flash field-effect transistors
Methods of forming a device structure for a field-effect transistor and device structures for a field-effect transistor. A first gate dielectric layer is formed on a semiconductor layer in a first area. A hardmask layer is formed on the first gate dielectric layer in the first area of the semiconductor layer. A gate stack layer is formed on the semiconductor layer in a second area and on the hardmask layer in the first area of the semiconductor layer. The hardmask layer separates the gate stack layer from the first gate dielectric layer on the first area of the semiconductor layer. |
| US10079234B1 |
Metal-insulator-metal capacitor analog memory unit cell
A memory device including a plurality of memory unit cells arranged in a crossbar configuration for a neural network is provided. Each of the memory unit cells includes a readout transistor, a charging transistor, a discharging transistor, and a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor connected to one of source/drain regions of each of the charging transistor and the discharging transistor and a functional gate of the readout transistor for storing analog information. |
| US10079228B1 |
Tight integrated vertical transistor dual diode structure for electrostatic discharge circuit protector
An electric static discharge (ESD) diode pair is disclosed. The first diode of the device includes a first diode junction portion having vertically orientated and horizontally oriented portions of a first conductivity and a second diode junction portion of a second conductivity in direct contact with both of the vertically orientated and horizontally orientated portions of the first diode junction portion. The second diode of the device includes a first diode junction portion having vertically orientated and horizontally oriented portions of a second conductivity and a second diode junction portion having a first conductivity in direct contact with both of the vertically orientated and horizontally orientated portions of the first diode junction portion. A common electrical contact is in direct contact first diode junction portion for each of the first diode and the second diode. |
| US10079227B2 |
Apparatus for rectified RC trigger of back-to-back MOS-SCR ESD protection
An apparatus includes: a first SCR device having a first source terminal coupled to a signal terminal, a first body terminal coupled to the first source terminal, a first gate terminal coupled to the signal terminal, and a first drain terminal; a second SCR device having a second drain terminal coupled to the first drain terminal, a second gate terminal coupled to a reference voltage terminal; and a second source terminal coupled to the reference voltage terminal. The apparatus also includes: a third SCR device having a third source terminal coupled to the signal terminal, a third gate terminal coupled to the first gate terminal, and a third drain terminal; a first capacitor coupled between the third drain terminal and the second gate terminal; and a second capacitor coupled between the second gate terminal and the reference voltage terminal. |
| US10079225B2 |
Die package with openings surrounding end-portions of through package vias (TPVs) and package on package (PoP) using the die package
Various embodiments of mechanisms for forming through package vias (TPVs) with openings surrounding end-portions of the TPVs and a package on package (PoP) device with bonding structures utilizing the TPVs are provided. The openings are formed by removing materials, such as by laser drill, surrounding the end-portions of the TPVs. The openings surrounding the end-portions of the TPVs of the die package enable solders of the bonding structures formed between another die package to remain in the openings without sliding and consequently increases yield and reliability of the bonding structures. Polymers may also be added to fill the openings surrounding the TPVs or even the space between the die packages to reduce cracking of the bonding structures under stress. |
| US10079215B2 |
Electronic chip
An electronic chip including: a plurality of first semiconductor bars of a first conductivity type and of second semiconductor bars of a second conductivity type arranged alternately and contiguously on a region of the first conductivity type; two detection contacts arranged at the ends of each second bar; a circuit for detecting the resistance between the detection contacts of each second bar; insulating trenches extending in the second bars down to a first depth between circuit elements; and insulating walls extending across the entire width of each second bar down to a second depth greater than the first depth. |
| US10079205B2 |
Interconnection structure and method of forming the same
An interconnection structure includes a non-insulator structure, a liner layer, a dielectric structure and a conductive structure. The liner layer is present on the non-insulator structure and has an opening therein. The dielectric structure is present on the liner layer. The dielectric structure includes a via opening therein. The conductive structure is present in the via opening of the dielectric structure and electrically connected to the non-insulator structure through the opening of the liner layer. At least a portion of the conductive structure tapers along a direction from the non-insulator structure to the dielectric structure. |
| US10079202B2 |
Structure for isolating high speed digital signals in a high density grid array
Due to size and cost, it becomes advantageous for integrated circuit (IC) manufacturers to use “single-ended” (one signal path per unique information path) high speed signals electrical contact pins (pins transmitting digital information that connect the integrated circuit to a printed circuit board) with a minimum number of surrounding powers and grounds. This lower cost method, however, creates electrical interference and coupling issues known as crosstalk between two adjacent signal paths in the via structure required to electrically connect the integrated circuit to the signal paths in the printed circuit board. Such crosstalk, in turn, increases jitter, degrades timing, and ultimately reduces the maximum operating speed of the circuit (performance). This disclosure presents a structure using micro-plating, micro-drilling and micro-machining methods that isolates adjacent signals by placing a metal barrier that shunts coupling currents to ground. The micro-drilling methods also reduce the length of adjacent signal paths in a specific signal routing and controlled depth drilling sequence. |
| US10079199B2 |
Through-substrate via structure and method of manufacture
A through-substrate vias structure includes a substrate having opposing first and second major surfaces. One or more conductive via structures are disposed extending from the first major surface to a first vertical distance within the substrate. A recessed region extends from the second major surface to a second vertical distance within the substrate and adjoining a lower surface of the conductive via. In one embodiment, the second vertical distance is greater than the first vertical distance. A conductive region is disposed within the recessed region and is configured to be in electrical and/or thermal communication with the conductive via. |
| US10079189B2 |
P-type transparent conducting nickel oxide alloys
Disclosed herein is the formation of p-type transparent conducting oxides (TCO) having a structure of MgxNi1-xO or ZnxNi1-xO. These structures disrupt the two-dimensional confinement of individual holes (the dominant charge carrier transport mechanism in pure NiO) creating three-dimensional hole transport by providing pathways for hole transfer in directions that are unfavorable in pure NiO. Forming these structures preserves NiO's transparency to visible light since the band gaps do not deviate significantly from that of pure NiO. Furthermore, forming MgxNi1-xO or ZnxNi1-xO does not lead to hole trapping on O ions adjacent to Zn and Mg ions. The formation of these alloys will lead to creation of three-dimensional hole transport and improve NiO's conductivity for use as p-type TCO, without adversely affecting the favorable properties of pure NiO. |
| US10079188B2 |
Resin composition for encapsulating, manufacturing method of on-vehicle electronic control unit, and on-vehicle electronic control unit
Provided is a resin composition for encapsulating which is used for forming an encapsulating resin of an on-vehicle electronic control unit including a wiring substrate, a plurality of electronic components mounted on the wiring substrate, and the encapsulating resin encapsulating the electronic component, the resin composition including: a thermosetting resin; and one or more imidazole compounds, in which when a torque value is measured over time under conditions of the number of rotations of 30 rpm and a measurement temperature of 175° C. by using Labo Plastomill, a time T1 at which the torque value is less than or equal to 2 times a minimum torque value is longer than or equal to 15 seconds and shorter than or equal to 100 seconds, and the minimum torque value is greater than or equal to 0.5 N·m and less than or equal to 2.5 N·m. |
| US10079184B2 |
Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a manufacturing processor, a signal acquisition unit, a frequency characteristic acquisition unit, and an end-point acquisition unit. The signal acquisition unit acquires a first processing signal which shows a different behavior during processing of a stacked body and after the processing of the stacked body. The frequency characteristic acquisition unit acquires a frequency characteristic of a noise caused by a periodic structure of the stacked body from the first processing signal during the processing of the stacked body. The end-point acquisition unit detects an end point of the processing using the acquired frequency characteristic. The manufacturing processor ends the processing when the end point is detected. |
| US10079182B2 |
Field effect transistor gate stack
A method for fabricating a gate stack of a semiconductor device comprises forming a first dielectric layer over a channel region of the device, depositing a first nitride layer on exposed portions of the first dielectric layer, depositing a scavenging layer on the first nitride layer, forming a capping layer over the scavenging layer, removing portions of the capping layer, the scavenging layer, and the first nitride layer to expose a portion of the first dielectric layer in an n-type field effect transistor (nFET) region of the gate stack, forming a barrier layer over the first dielectric layer and the capping layer, forming a first gate metal layer over the barrier layer, depositing a second nitride layer on the first gate metal layer, and depositing a gate electrode material on the second nitride layer. |
| US10079175B2 |
Insulating a via in a semiconductor substrate
Insulating a via in a semiconductor substrate, including: depositing, in the via, a dielectric layer; depositing, in the via, a barrier layer; allowing the barrier layer to oxidize; and depositing, in the via, a conducting layer. |
| US10079174B2 |
Composite contact plug structure and method of making same
An embodiment contact plug includes a bilayer structure and a diffusion barrier layer on a sidewall and a bottom surface of the bilayer structure. The bilayer structure includes a conductive core and a conductive liner on a sidewall and a bottom surface of the conductive core. In the embodiment contact plug, the conductive liner comprises cobalt or ruthenium. |
| US10079173B2 |
Methods of forming metallization lines on integrated circuit products and the resulting products
One illustrative method disclosed includes, among other things, forming a layer of insulating material comprising a first insulating material above a substrate and forming a metallization blocking structure in the layer of insulating material at a location that is in a path of a metallization trench to be formed in the layer of insulating material, the metallization blocking structure comprising a second insulating material that is different from the first insulating material. The method also includes forming the metallization trench in the layer of insulating material on opposite sides of the metallization blocking structure and forming a conductive metallization line in the metallization trench on opposite sides of the metallization blocking structure. |
| US10079171B2 |
Combined method for producing solids, involving laser treatment and temperature-induced stresses to generate three-dimensional solids
The present invention relates to a method for the production of at least one three-dimensional layer of solid material, in particular for usage as wafer, and/or at least one tree-dimensional solid body. The inventive method preferably comprises the following steps: providing a work piece for removing of layers of solid material and/or the solid bodies, wherein the work piece comprises at least one exposed surface, generating defects inside the work piece, wherein the defects define at least one crack directing layer, wherein the crack directing layer describes at least one three-dimensional contour; attaching or generating a receiving layer at the exposed surface of work piece by forming a composite structure, thermal treating of the receiving layer for generating stresses inside the work piece, wherein the stresses are causing a crack propagation inside the work piece, wherein a layer of solid material or a three-dimensional solid body is separated along the crack directing layer due to the crack propagation, wherein a surface of the layer of solid material or a surface of the solid body corresponds to the three-dimensional contour of the crack directing layer. |
| US10079166B2 |
Processing apparatus
A temporary receiving unit of a processing apparatus includes a first support rail having a first bottom wall and a first side wall for guiding a workpiece for sliding movement in unloading and loading directions of the workpiece by an unloading and loading unit, a second support rail disposed in an opposing relationship to the first support rail and having a second bottom wall and a second side wall for guiding a workpiece for sliding movement, a support rail actuation unit for actuating the first support rail and the second support rail in directions in which the first support rail and the second support rail approach each other and are spaced away from each other, and a load detection unit for detecting a load on the support rail actuation unit. |
| US10079162B1 |
Method for making lead frames for integrated circuit packages
Disclosed examples include a method of making a semiconductor die package comprising arranging at least one preformed die attach pad and at least two preformed leads on a lead frame carrier in a predetermined configuration to form a lead frame, attaching a semiconductor die to the at least one preformed die attach pad, wire bonding the semiconductor die to the at least two preformed leads, forming a molding structure including at least part of the semiconductor die and the at least two preformed leads, and removing the molding structure from the lead frame carrier. |
| US10079161B2 |
Method for producing a semiconductor package
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor package with which it is possible to reduce a volume of an encapsulation resin and to easily embed a resin regardless of thicknesses of semiconductor chips and a small distance between adjacent semiconductor chips, as well as to provide a thin semiconductor package with which a final product includes no support flat plate. To realize this, a semiconductor package having a structure wherein semiconductor chips are accommodated in cavity parts of a support which is formed by copper plating and includes the cavity parts is provided. |
| US10079160B1 |
Surface mount package for semiconductor devices with embedded heat spreaders
A method of mounting one or more semiconductor or microelectronic chips, which includes providing a carrier; temporarily adhering the one or more semiconductor or microelectronic chips to the carrier with active faces of the one or more chips facing towards the carrier; providing a package body with at least one chip-receiving opening therein and with at least one contact opening therein; temporarily adhering the package body to the carrier with the at least one opening in the package body accommodating at least a portion of the one or more chips; covering backsides of the one or more chips and filling empty spaces between the one or more chips and walls of the at least one opening in the package body with a metallic material; filling the at least one contact opening with the aforementioned metallic material; wirebonding contacts on the active faces of the one or more chips with contact surfaces in electrical communication with the metallic material in the at least one contact opening; and releasing package body with the one or more chips embedded in the metallic material from the carrier. |
| US10079158B2 |
Vertical trench routing in a substrate
An interconnect topology that includes vertical trench routing in a substrate is disclosed. In one embodiment, the interconnect comprises a substrate having a plurality of layers including a first ground plane layer; a pair of signal conductors that form a differential signal pair, each conductor of the pair of signal conductors having a first portion and a second portion, the second portion extending from the first portion into at least one of the plurality of layers, wherein width of the second portion is less than width of the first portion; and wherein the first ground plane layer is only a first partial layer and has a first void region that is closer to the pair of signal conductors than the first partial layer. |
| US10079155B2 |
Semiconductor device manufacturing method
A semiconductor device manufacturing method, sequentially includes a semiconductor element preparation step of preparing a first semiconductor element on which is formed a plurality of metal electrodes, a step of covering a surface of the first semiconductor element on which the metal electrode is not formed with a first insulating member, and a step of forming a second metal layer that conductively connects the metal electrode of the first semiconductor element and a first metal layer on an insulated circuit substrate across the second insulating member. |
| US10079154B1 |
Atomic layer etching of silicon nitride
A method for selectively etching SiN with respect to SiO or SiGe or Si of a structure is provided comprising providing a plurality of cycles of atomic layer etching. Each cycle comprises a fluorinated polymer deposition phase comprising flowing a fluorinated polymer deposition gas comprising a hydrofluorocarbon gas into the plasma processing chamber, forming the fluorinated polymer deposition gas into a plasma, which deposits a hydrofluorocarbon polymer layer on the structure, and stopping the flow of the fluorinated polymer deposition gas into the plasma processing chamber and an activation phase comprising flowing an activation gas comprising at least one of NH3 or H2 into the plasma processing chamber, forming the activation gas into a plasma, wherein plasma components from NH3 or H2 cause SiN to be selectively etched with respect to SiO or SiGe or Si, and stopping the flow of the activation gas into the plasma processing chamber. |
| US10079151B2 |
Method for bottom-up deposition of a film in a recessed feature
Embodiments of the invention provide a processing method for bottom-up deposition of a film in a recessed feature. According to one embodiment, the method includes a) providing a substrate containing a recessed feature having a bottom and a sidewall, b) depositing a film on the bottom and on the sidewall of the recessed feature, and c) covering the film at the bottom of the recessed feature with a mask layer. The method further includes d) etching the film from the sidewall, and e) removing the mask layer to expose the film at the bottom of the recessed feature. Steps b)-e) may be repeated at least once until the film at the bottom of the recessed feature has a desired thickness. In one example, the recessed feature may be filled with the film. |
| US10079149B2 |
Semiconductor device with self-aligned carbon nanotube gate
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a channel layer on a substrate. A gate dielectric is deposited on the channel layer, and a mask is patterned on the gate dielectric. An exposed portion of the gate dielectric is removed to expose a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region of the channel layer. A first source/drain contact is formed on the first source/drain region and a second source/drain contact is formed on the second source/drain region. A cap layer is formed over the first source/drain contact and the second source/drain contact, and the mask is removed. Spacers are formed adjacent to sidewalls of the first source/drain contact and the second source/drain contact. An oxide region is formed in the cap layer and a carbon material is deposited on an exposed portion of the gate dielectric. |
| US10079139B2 |
Metal oxide laser ionization-mass spectrometry
Disclosed herein are metal oxides, metal oxide surfaces, and methods of using metal oxides and metal oxide surfaces for matrix-free analysis, identification, and characterization of small molecular mass compounds. The disclosed compounds and methods may be used with laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry. The disclosed surfaces may aid in producing mass/charge spectra having low or no interference found with traditional matrices. In some aspects, the method may be used to produce molecular ions. The disclosed compounds, surfaces, and methods may be used to analyze complex mixtures including fuels, vegetable shortening, lipid extracts from a variety of organic sources such as animals, plants, bacteria, algae, viruses, etc. |
| US10079135B1 |
Gas-sealed stub tuner for microwave systems
A stub tuner apparatus includes a body portion having a first end and a second end and defining an internal space configured to carry electromagnetic energy. A gas-sealed pocket extends from the body portion such that, when the body portion forms a portion of a gas-sealed environment, the stub tuner apparatus is gas sealed. A stub is disposed in the gas-sealed pocket and the apparatus includes a linear translation means for moving the stub at least partially out from and into the pocket and at least partially into and out from the internal space without breaching the gas-sealed environment of the stub tuner apparatus. |
| US10079134B2 |
Inductively coupled plasma device
The present disclosure provides an inductively coupled plasma device, comprising a reaction chamber, a dielectric coupling plate, and a coil above the dielectric coupling plate. The dielectric coupling plate comprises at least two layers. The dielectric coupling plate comprises a plurality of regions, each region being provided with an electric field regulating structure, the electric field regulating structure being located between the at least two layers of the dielectric coupling plate. The electric field regulating structure is configured to regulate an intensity of an electric field that enters the reaction chamber through each region of the dielectric coupling plate. |
| US10079133B2 |
Plasma processing device
A plasma processing device includes: a chamber; a flat-plate-shaped first electrode; a first high frequency power supply; a helical second electrode disposed outside the chamber and disposed to face the first electrode with a quartz plate forming an upper lid of the chamber therebetween; and a gas introducing unit, in which a second high frequency power supply and a third high frequency power supply are configured to be electrically connected to the second electrode, the second high frequency power supply being configured to apply an AC voltage of a second frequency to the second electrode, the third high frequency power supply being configured to apply an AC voltage of a third frequency to the second electrode, and the third frequency being higher than the second frequency; and two types of AC voltages are configured to be simultaneously applied. |
| US10079128B2 |
Integrated electro-mechanical actuator
The present invention provides an integrated electro-mechanical actuator and a manufacturing method for manufacturing such an integrated electro-mechanical actuator. The integrated electro-mechanical actuator comprises an electrostatic actuator gap between actuator electrodes and an electrical contact gap between contact electrodes. An inclination with an inclination angle is provided between the actuator electrodes and the contact electrodes. The thickness of this electrical contact gap is equal to the thickness of a sacrificial layer which is etched away in a manufacturing process. |
| US10079126B2 |
Card operated power plug interrupter/monitor and method of use
A device that is placed between the electrical power source and electrical equipment such that power going to the equipment can be controlled, regulated, and monitored. An individual may request access to use the electrical equipment by means of unique identification. The device is able to compare the user's request for authentication via a locally stored list (database) or remotely situated list. The device contains audio and visual indications of the current status of power going to the electrical device. An apparatus is used to prevent a user from disconnecting electrical equipment from the device and reconnecting it directly to the power source. A related method of use is also claimed. |
| US10079125B2 |
Illuminated push-button switch having fixed member and keyboard including same
An illuminated push-button switch according to the present invention includes a key top, a plunger, and a supporting fix member that forms a space between the key top and the plunger, and supports and fixes together the key top and the plunger. A plurality of the supporting fix members are provided, separated from each other, in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis. With this configuration, the illuminated push-button switch having a wide illuminated region secured on a touch surface, and a keyboard can be provided. |
| US10079124B2 |
Keycap and keyboard apparatus
A keyboard apparatus includes a base plate, a plurality of lifting mechanisms mounted to the base plate, and a plurality of keycaps. The keycaps are correspondingly mounted to the lifting mechanisms and are movable up and down relative to the base plate to form a pressing stroke. Each of the keycaps has a pressing surface, an assembly surface opposite to the pressing surface, and a plurality of connectors. The connectors are disposed on the assembly surface to be connected to the lifting mechanism, and a jig engagement portion protrudes from one side of at least one of the connectors. When the keycap is to be painted, the keycap is removably fixed to a painting jig by the jig engagement portion. |
| US10079122B2 |
Monitoring and responding to an abnormal condition associated with energizing of poles of a circuit breaker
A multi-pole circuit interrupter configured to be coupled between an AC source and an electric load electronically detects a hazardous condition associated with energizing of poles and responds to overcome the hazardous condition using a solenoid. The multi-pole circuit interrupter comprises a first switch to energize a first pole on a phase A conductor of the multi-pole circuit interrupter and a second switch to energize a second pole on a phase B conductor of the multi-pole circuit interrupter. The multi-pole circuit interrupter further comprises an electronic solid-state circuit coupled to the phase A conductor and the phase B conductor to detect a line voltage variation and control a current to a device in response to trip an energized pole among the first pole and the second pole if only one of the first pole and the second pole is energized when a user controls a tie bar to turn ON or turn OFF the multi-pole circuit interrupter or when a trip bar fails to trip one of the first pole and the second pole. |
| US10079117B2 |
Electric storage device and method for manufacturing the same
A electric storage device that includes a device body having a first end face that has a first portion and a second portion, and second end face that has a third portion and a fourth portion. The second portion is inclined relative to the first portion, and the fourth portion is inclined relative to the third portion. A first electrode film extends from the first portion to the second portion, and a second electrode film extends from the third portion to the fourth portion. |
| US10079109B2 |
Thin film capacitor
A thin film capacitor includes: a body in which first and second internal electrodes and dielectric layers are alternately stacked; and a plurality of first vias disposed in the body and electrically connected to the first internal electrodes and a plurality of second vias disposed in the body and electrically connected to the second internal electrodes. Each of the first and second vias includes two regions on left and right sides of a central portion, the two regions being alternately disposed in a stacking direction. |
| US10079101B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor and board having the same
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body having a plurality of dielectric layers stacked therein, and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with at least one among the plurality of dielectric layers interposed therebetween. The first internal electrodes include first and second lead portions exposed to a mounting surface of the ceramic body, and disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a length direction of the ceramic body. The second internal electrodes include a third lead portion exposed to the mounting surface of the ceramic body, and disposed between the first and second lead portions in the length direction of the ceramic body. |
| US10079097B2 |
Capacitor structure for power delivery applications
A passive discrete device may include a first asymmetric terminal and a second asymmetric terminal. The passive discrete device may further include first internal electrodes extended to electrically couple to a first side and a second side of the first asymmetric terminal. The passive discrete device may also include second internal electrodes extended to electrically couple to a first side and a second side of the second asymmetric terminal. |
| US10079095B2 |
Capacitor and method of manufacturing the same
A capacitor includes a body including a plurality of dielectric layers and internal electrodes which are alternately stacked, and a compensation region formed in the interior of the body, the compensation region including portions of the plurality of dielectric layers and including a central portion and an end portion extended from the central portion. A thickness of the central portion of the compensation region is between 4 and 13 times as great as that of a dielectric layer among the plurality of dielectric layers on which the internal electrodes are formed. |
| US10079094B2 |
Capacitor, in particular an intermediate circuit capacitor for a multi-phase system
A capacitor (1) wherein the first voltage layer (11) and the second voltage layer (21) form an overlap region (4) in which the first voltage layer (11) and the second voltage layer (21) are arranged parallel to one another, separated by a gap (5), on a base side (6) of the capacitor (1), directly above one another, and wherein the at least one first pole terminal (12) extends in lateral continuation of the first voltage layer (11) and, in parallel with this, the at least one second pole terminal (22) extends in lateral continuation of the second voltage layer (21) over and beyond the overlap region (4), and in this way form at least one contact lug pair (7) protruding from the base side (6) of the capacitor (1). |
| US10079088B2 |
Advanced electronic header apparatus and methods
A low profile, small size and high performance electronic device for use in, e.g., electronic circuits which provides maximum creepage and/or clearance distances. In one embodiment, the device is configured for a small footprint and utilizes two or more windings that require isolation. The exemplary device includes a self-leaded header made from a unitary construction which comprises a generally a box-like support body having a cavity for mounting a circuit element with primary and secondary windings, the support body having a base and a plurality of leads extending generally horizontally outward from the support body adjacent the base, the support body having one side opening on a side with leads permitting the loading of the inductive device in the cavity, and a routing channel residing on the top of the base, so as to maximize the creepage and clearance distance of the electronic device. Shaped-core and other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| US10079087B2 |
Dither current power supply control method and dither current power supply control apparatus
In the dither current power supply control method, in order to prevent occurrence of a difference between the target average current and the detected average current, which is caused when a medium current (I0) between a dither large current (I2) and a dither small current (I1) and a waveform average (Ia) of the dither current are different from each other depending on a response time difference (a−b) between a rise time (b) and a fall time (a) of the dither current, negative feedback control is carried out by using a command medium current corresponding to the target average current corrected by a correction parameter based on experimentally measured data, thereby suppressing occurrence of a transient fluctuation error by the negative feedback control, so that a highly precise and stable load current is acquired. |
| US10079086B2 |
Processing of bound and unbound magnetic particles
The invention relates to an apparatus (100) and a method for the processing of magnetic particles (MP) provided in a processing chamber (114) with a binding region (116) to which said magnetic particles (MP) can (specifically) bind. Removal of unbound magnetic particles (MP) from the binding region (116) is achieved by first separating them from the binding region (116) by gravitational forces and then moving them further away by magnetic forces. Gravitational forces can for example be generated by tilting the binding region with a tilting unit (156). The prior separation by gravitational forces prevents that unbound magnetic particles (MP) are captured in a cluster with bound magnetic particles. |
| US10079084B1 |
Fine-grained Nd—Fe—B magnets having high coercivity and energy density
Magnets and methods of making the magnets are disclosed. The magnets may have high coercivity and may be suitable for high temperature applications. The magnet may include a plurality of grains of a Nd—Fe—B alloy having a mean grain size of 100 to 500 nm. The magnet may also comprise a non-magnetic low melting point (LMP) alloy, which may include a rare earth element and one or more of Cu, Ga, and Al. The magnets may be formed from a Nd—Fe—B alloy powder produced using HDDR and jet milling, or other pulverization process. The powder may have a refined grain size and a small particle size and particle size distribution. The LMP alloy may be mixed with a powder of the Nd—Fe—B alloy or it may be diffused into a consolidated Nd—Fe—B bulk magnet. The LMP alloy may be concentrated at the grain boundaries of the bulk magnet. |
| US10079082B2 |
Data transmission cable
A data transmission cable includes a first wire and a second wire adjacent to each other, each of the first wire and the second wire has a central conductor and a cover layer enclosing the conductor. The conductor has an outer diameter in the range of 28 to 31 AWG, and when the outer diameter of the conductor is 28 AWG, the center distance between the first and second wires is defined between 0.51 mm to 0.75 mm; when the outer diameter of the conductor is 29 AWG, the center distance between the first and second wires is set between 0.38 mm to 0.75 mm; when the outer diameter of the conductor is 30 to 31 AWG, the center distance between the first and second wires is set between 0.38 mm to 0.62 mm. |
| US10079081B2 |
Low R, L, and C cable
A cable having low values for resistance, inductance, and capacitance. The cable includes a plurality of conductors for each signal or leg, which may be configured as a braid of three subsets of braids of bonded pairs of insulated conductors. The bonded pairs may be twisted or untwisted, in close proximity such that inductance is reduced via magnetic field cancellation. Each leg may be separate and parallel, rather than interwoven or braided together, increasing the distance between the two signals and reducing capacitance. The legs may be positioned close to each other, such that their magnetic fields cancel to further reduce inductance. |
| US10079076B2 |
Emergency core cooling system for a water-cooled reactor system
An emergency core cooling system removes decay heat generated by a reactor core of a reactor system. A reactor vessel uses water as a coolant. A containment structure surrounds the reactor system. A reactor cavity surrounds the reactor vessel. A first cavity pipe extends into the reactor vessel and provides a recirculation loop of cooling water by discharging vapor generated in the reactor vessel and supplying condensed water collected in the reactor cavity in an opposite direction. |
| US10079071B1 |
Method and system for whole body bone removal and vascular visualization in medical image data
A method and apparatus for whole body bone removal and vasculature visualization in medical image data, such as computed tomography angiography (CTA) scans, is disclosed. Bone structures are segmented in the a 3D medical image, resulting in a bone mask of the 3D medical image. Vessel structures are segmented in the 3D medical image, resulting in a vessel mask of the 3D medical image. The bone mask and the vessel mask are refined by fusing information from the bone mask and the vessel mask. Bone voxels are removed from the 3D medical image using the refined bone mask, in order to generate a visualization of the vessel structures in the 3D medical image. |
| US10079069B2 |
Array substrate and method for forming the same
An array substrate and a method for forming the same are provided. The array substrate includes: a gate driver in a non-display area, wherein the gate driver includes M shift register circuits and each shift register circuit includes two shift register groups, which includes N shift registers each, where M is a positive even number and N is a positive integer greater than 2; in each of the shift register groups, a gate output end of an nth shift register has signal wires; along a direction perpendicular to the non-display area, at least one of the signal wires of one shift register group are stacked above at least one of the signal wires of another shift register group. Accordingly, a display panel using this array substrate may realize a narrow side frame design. |
| US10079067B1 |
Data read method and a non-volatile memory apparatus using the same
A data read method and a non-volatile memory apparatus using the same are provided. The data read method includes: obtaining a first read current and a second read current from a memory cell pair of the non-volatile memory; performing a calculation operation according to the first read current and the second read current to obtain a calculation result; and determining a logical state of the memory cell pair according to the calculation result. The calculation operation includes at least a signal addition operation and a signal multiplying operation. |
| US10079066B2 |
Booster circuit capable of reducing noise in an output voltage generated thereby
A booster circuit includes a charge pump circuit and a clock processing circuit. The clock processing circuit includes a first transistor of a first conductivity type, a second transistor of a second conductivity type, and a third transistor of a third conductivity type. The first and second transistors are connected in series between a high-voltage node and a low-voltage node, and gates of the first and second transistors are connected to each other. The third transistor is connected in parallel with the first transistor between the high-voltage node and an output terminal of the clock processing circuit that is connected to a node between the first transistor and the second transistor and to the charge pump circuit. |
| US10079057B2 |
3D magnetic memory device based on pure spin currents
The invention relates to a three dimensional magnetic memory device (1) employing pure spin currents to write information into magnetic bits. The magnetic memory device (1) is formed of one or more stack of two storage layers (13) placed between two reference layers (9). The stacks are connected to each other through common reference electrodes (12) formed by connecting reference electrodes (11) placed on bottom of a first stack and on top of the second stack positioned under the first stack. |
| US10079052B2 |
Multiple rank high bandwidth memory
Methods and apparatus related to multiple rank high bandwidth memory are described. In one embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a high bandwidth memory with multiple ranks. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. |
| US10079047B2 |
Apparatus and method for dynamically aligned source synchronous receiver
A method is provided that compensates for misalignment on a synchronous data bus. The method includes: replicating propagation path lengths, loads, and buffering of a radial distribution network for a strobe; receiving a first signal, and generating a second signal by employing the replicated propagation path lengths, loads, and buffering; when an update signal is asserted, when an update signal is asserted, measuring a propagation time beginning with assertion of the first signal and ending with assertion of the second signal by selecting one of a plurality of successively delayed versions of the first signal that coincides with the assertion of the second signal, wherein said selecting comprises incrementing and decrementing bus states of select inputs on a mux, wherein the plurality of successively delayed versions of the first signal comprises inputs to the mux; gray encoding a value on a lag bus that indicates the propagation time; and receiving one of a plurality of radially distributed strobes and a data bit, and delaying registering of the data bit by the propagation time. The receiving includes generating successively delayed versions of the data bit; receiving the value on the lag bus, and selecting one of the successively delayed versions of the data bit that corresponds to the value; and registering the state of the one of the successively delayed versions of the data bit upon assertion of one of a plurality of radially distributed strobe signals. |
| US10079046B2 |
Apparatus and method for dynamically aligned source synchronous receiver
An apparatus is provided that compensates for misalignment on a synchronous data bus. The apparatus includes a replica radial distribution element, a bit lag control element, and a synchronous lag receiver. The replica radial distribution element is configured to receive a first signal, and is configured to generate a second signal, where the replica radial distribution element comprises replicated propagation path lengths, loads, and buffering of a radial distribution network for a strobe. The bit lag control element is configured to measure a propagation time beginning with assertion of the first signal and ending with assertion of the second signal, and is configured to generate a value on a lag bus that indicates the propagation time. The bit lag control element has delay lock control and a gray encoder. The delay lock control is configured to select one of a plurality of successively delayed versions of the first signal that coincides with the assertion of the second signal, where the delay lock control selects the one of a plurality of successively delayed versions of the first signal by incrementing and decrementing bus states of select inputs on a first mux, and where the plurality of successively delayed versions of the first signal comprises inputs to the first mux, and where the plurality of successively delayed versions comprises outputs of a first plurality of series-coupled matched inverter pairs. The gray encoder is configured to gray encode the propagation time to generate the value on the lag bus. The synchronous lag receiver is configured to receive one of a plurality of radially distributed strobes and a data bit, and is configured to delay registering of the data bit by the propagation time. The synchronous lag receiver includes a second plurality of series-coupled matched inverter pairs, a second mux, and a bit receiver. The second plurality of series-coupled matched inverter pairs is configured to generate successively delayed versions of the data bit. The second mux is coupled to the second plurality of series-coupled matched inverter pairs, is configured to receive the value on the lag bus, and is configured to select one of the successively delayed versions of the data bit that corresponds to the value. The bit receiver is configured to receive the one of the successively delayed versions of the data bit and one of a plurality of radially distributed strobe signals, and is configured to register the state of the one of the successively delayed versions of the data bit upon assertion of the one of a plurality of radially distributed strobe signals. |
| US10079045B2 |
Sense amplifier, memory apparatus and system including the same
A sense amplifier may be provided. The sense amplifier may include an amplification circuit and/or a cell current control circuit. The amplification circuit may be configured to compare a voltage level of a signal line with a level of a read voltage. The cell current control circuit may be configured to decrease the voltage level of the signal line based on an output signal. |
| US10079041B2 |
Digital image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same
A digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The digital image processing apparatus includes: a display controller for displaying first content on a display unit; and an image generator for generating second content based on a photographing signal input, which may be from a user, and third content related to the second content. |
| US10079035B1 |
Linear actuator with coil winding portions having opposing current flow directions
A linear actuator for linearly positioning a recording head in a data storage mechanism. The disclosed linear actuator includes an electrically conductive coil having first and second parts that are both wound in the same rotary direction about an axis, and a magnet spaced from the electrically conductive coil by an air gap. Transmission of an electric current through the first part of the electrically conductive coil in a first current flow direction about the axis and through the second part of the electrically conductive coil in an opposite second current flow direction about the axis induces linear movement of one of the electrically conductive coil and magnet relative to the other of the electrically conductive coil and magnet. |
| US10079032B2 |
Device and recording apparatus
A combination of a semiconductor member and a metal member is selected appropriately from a view point of increasing an enhancement factor of a near-field light. A device (1) has a semiconductor member (101) and a metal member (102), a near-field light is generated at the metal member when an energy is supplied to the semiconductor member, the metal member is made of an alloy including a first metal and a second metal, a condition of Rm1 |
| US10079030B2 |
System and method to provide an alert using microphone activation
A device may be configured to alert a user while the user is listening to audio over headphones. For example, the device may be configured to alert the user of the device, such as by reducing the volume of an audio signal output through the headphones and/or by providing a visual alert to the user on a display of the device. The device may compare a volume level of an outputted audio signal to a threshold. The device may activate a microphone based on the comparison of the volume level to the threshold. When the microphone is activated, the device may provide an alert to a user based on a determination that a received audio signal includes a portion that corresponds to a predetermined value. |
| US10079028B2 |
Sound enhancement through reverberation matching
Embodiments of the present invention relate to enhancing sound through reverberation matching. In sonic implementations, a first sound recording recorded in a first environment is received. The first sound recording is decomposed to a first clean signal and a first reverb kernel. A second reverb kernel corresponding with a second sound recording recorded in a second environment is accessed, for example, based on a user indication to enhance the first sound recording to sound as though recorded in the second environment. An enhanced sound recording is generated based on the first clean signal and the second reverb kernel. The enhanced sound recording is a modification of the first sound recording to sound as though recorded in the second environment. |
| US10079021B1 |
Low latency audio interface
Systems and methods for utilizing incremental processing of portions of output data to limit the time required to provide a response to a user request are provided herein. In some embodiments, portions of the user request for information can be analyzed using techniques such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), speech-to-text (STT), and natural language understanding (NLU) to determine the overall topic of the user request. One the topic has been determined, portions of the anticipated audio output data can be synthesized independently instead of waiting for the complete response. The synthesized portions can then be provided to the electronic device in anticipation of being output through one or more speakers on the electronic device, which speeds up the time that the response can be provided to the user. |
| US10079020B2 |
Speech recognition method and speech recognition apparatus to improve performance or response of speech recognition
In a speech recognition method, a criteria value is determined to determine the length of a silent section included in a processing section, and a processing mode to use is determined in accordance with the criteria value. The criteria value is used to obtain audio information of the processing section. Audio processing is executed on the audio information in the processing section, using the processing mode that has been determined. Speech recognition processing is executed on the audio information in the processing section that has been subjected to audio processing. |
| US10079017B1 |
Speech-responsive portable speaker
An electronic device may operate in different modes of operations. In a first mode of operation, the electronic device may receive user speech via a microphone, generate audio data that represents the user speech, and then send the audio data to one or more remote computing device for analysis. In a second mode of operation, the electronic device may receive user speech via the microphone, generate audio data that represents the user speech, and then analyze the audio data using speech processing. In some instances, the electronic device may operate in the first mode of operation and/or the second mode of operation based on whether the electronic device is receiving power from an external source. |
| US10079016B2 |
Natural language user interface for computer-aided design systems
A natural language user interface for computer-aided design systems (CAD) comprises a natural language command module including a parser, language database and a CAD model analyzer, and a natural language server module including a second, increased capability parser, a second, preferably larger language database and a CAD context database. The CAD model analyzer analyzes and retrieves associated CAD model information related to a parsed voice command and the CAD context database provides specific CAD related contextual information to facilitate parsing and interpreting CAD specific commands. The natural language server program module may also include an artificial intelligence based query generator and communicate through a network or cloud with resource providers such as third-party market places or suppliers to generate queries for retrieval of third party supplied information necessary to respond to or execute CAD specific voice commands. The natural language user interface may query a user for missing information. |
| US10079013B2 |
Sharing intents to provide virtual assistance in a multi-person dialog
A computing system is operable as virtual personal assistant (VPA) to understand relationships between different instances of natural language dialog expressed by different people in a multi-person conversational dialog session. The VPA can develop a common resource, a shared intent, which represents the VPA's semantic understanding of at least a portion of the multi-person dialog experience. The VPA can store and manipulate multiple shared intents, and can alternate between different shared intents as the multi-person conversation unfolds. With the shared intents, the computing system can generate useful action items and present the action items to one or more of the participants in the dialog session. |
| US10079012B2 |
Customizing speech-recognition dictionaries in a smart-home environment
A method for customizing speech-recognition dictionaries for different smart-home environments may include generating, at a smart-home device mounted in an enclosure, an acoustic impulse response for the enclosure. The method may also include receiving, by the smart-home device, an audio signal captured in the enclosure. The method may additionally include performing, by the smart-home device, a speech-recognition process on the audio signal using a second speech dictionary generated by convolving the acoustic impulse response with a first speech dictionary. |
| US10079010B1 |
Compact solar mount
A mounting, positioning, and deployment system for the sonar head of a sonar survey system facilitates rapid, accurate, and repeatable alignment of the sonar head in relation to the keel of a marine vessel. Precision and stability are enhanced with refinements to a cross tube positioning apparatus, and further enhanced with an adjustable Z-pole mount and an extruded aluminum Z-pole embodied as, or encased in, a drag-reducing foil. |
| US10079008B2 |
Magnetically secured cymbal trigger and choke assembly
An apparatus, system, and method for a magnetically and releaseably attachable trigger for an instrument is provided along with a choking device for use of the trigger in connection with a cymbal or like percussion device. The trigger and securing device are disposed on either side of a cymbal surface or a cymbal stand via magnetic force and the choking mechanism is in electrical connection with the trigger to interrupt the signal for choking purposes and is mounted on a surface of the cymbal to be choked. |
| US10079003B2 |
Method and device for imaging a region of interest
Methods and systems of displaying an image of an object are described. The displayed image is comprised of at least two parts that are displayed so as to present a unified image of the object. One part of the image is derived using a first temporal filter and the other part of the image is derived using a second temporal filter. |
| US10079001B2 |
Autonomous pixel with multiple different sensors
An autonomous pixel comprises a display element, a plurality of different sensors and a control element. The sensors are arranged to detect one or more external stimuli and the control element is arranged to generate, entirely within the autonomous pixel, a control signal to drive the display element based, at least in part, on a magnitude of an external stimulus detected by one or more of the different sensors. |
| US10078995B2 |
Gate driver and display device including the same
A gate driver includes a plurality of stage circuits to output a clock signal from the outside as gate signals. A jth stage circuit includes an input unit to charge a first node at an initial voltage when a first input signal is input to a first input terminal, a buffer unit to output the clock signal as a gate signal to an output terminal when the initial voltage is supplied to the first node, a holding unit to maintain the first node at a reset power source level when the clock signal is supplied to the holding unit, and an inverter unit to supply the clock signal or the reset power source to the holding unit. The input unit maintains the first node at a second input signal input voltage to a second input terminal when a third input signal is input to a third input terminal. |
| US10078987B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a timing controller configured to generate a single clock control signal comprising a plurality of ON-control pulses and a plurality of OFF-control pulses, a gate clock generator configured to generate a plurality of clock signals based on the single clock control signal, ON-periods of the plurality of clock signals starting in response to an ON-control pulse among the ON-control pulses and OFF-periods of the plurality of clock signals starting in response to an OFF-control pulse among the OFF-control pulses, a gate driver comprising a plurality of shift registers which generates a plurality of gate signals based on the plurality of clock signals, and a display panel comprising a display area in which a plurality of pixels is arranged and a peripheral area in which the plurality of shift registers is arranged. |
| US10078985B2 |
Liquid crystal display
A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid-crystal-display device; a display control circuit; a backlight device; and a light-emitting-diode control circuit that adjusts luminance of the backlight device using a pulse width modulation signal as an output to the white light emitting diode. Gradation correction data corresponding to a chromaticity variation due to a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation signal is stored in the display control circuit in advance, the display control circuit determines the gradation correction data corresponding to input image data input to the liquid crystal display, based on the input image data and the duty ratio, and the display control circuit outputs output image data, which is calculated so as to correct the chromaticity variation based on the gradation correction data and the input image data, as the image signal to the liquid-crystal-display device. |
| US10078979B2 |
Display panel with pixel circuit having a plurality of light-emitting elements and driving method thereof
A pixel circuit, a driving method and a display panel are provided by the disclosure. The pixel circuit includes: a sharing unit and N light-emitting control units. An input terminal of each of the light-emitting control units is electrically connected to an output terminal of the sharing unit; an output terminal of each of the light-emitting control units is electrically connected to a light-emitting element, a control terminal of each of the light-emitting control units is electrically connected a control signal line. The sharing unit is configured to drive, through each of the light-emitting control units. The light-emitting element electrically connected to the light-emitting control unit. N is positive integer greater than or equal to 2. The pixel circuit, the driving method and the display panel of the disclosure may solve the problem of the non-uniform display due to the drift of the threshold voltage of the driving transistor. |
| US10078978B2 |
Image data compression and transmission
A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a data compressor compressing first line data received from the outside to generate first compressed data, compressing differential data between the first line data and second line data, which are the previous line data of the first line data, to generate second compressed data, and selectively outputting any one of the first and second compressed data; and a source driver decompressing the compressed data output from the data compressor to reconstruct the first line data and supplying data signals corresponding to the reconstructed first line data to the plurality of pixels. |
| US10078977B2 |
Optically determining messages on a display
A verifiable display is provided that enables the visual content of the display to be detected and confirmed in a variety of ambient lighting conditions, enviroments, and operational states. In particular, the verifiable display has a display layer that is capable of visually setting an intended message for human or machine reading, with the intendended message being set using pixels. Depending on the operational condition of the display and the ambient light, for example, the message that is actually displayed and perceivable may vary from the intended message. To detect what message is actually displayed, a light detection layer in the verifiable display detects the illumination state of the pixels, and in that way is able to detect what message is actually being presented by the display layer. |
| US10078976B2 |
Display device
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display device including: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a COF package overlapped with the non-display area of the substrate; a printed circuit board (PCB) overlapped with the COF package; a plurality of pixels disposed on the display area of the substrate; a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels; a first crack sensing line disposed on the non-display area of the substrate; a second crack sensing line that extends to be parallel to the first crack sensing line on the non-display area of the substrate and is connected to the first data line of the plurality of data lines; a first dummy wire that is disposed on the COF package and is overlapped with the first crack sensing line and the second crack sensing line; a first anisotropic conductive film disposed between the substrate and the COF package; a first test pattern and a second test pattern disposed on the PCB; a third test pattern that is disposed on the COF package and is overlapped with the first test pattern and the second test pattern; and a second anisotropic conductive film disposed between the COF package and the PCB. |
| US10078974B2 |
Color coding system for PVC pipes and couplings
A system of visual and non-visual marks for PVC pipes and couplings which allows users to group PVC pipes and couplings by type, size, and composition with a series of colors, shapes, swirls, patterns. The series of colors, shapes, swirls, patterns are applied to the PVC pipes and couplings by etching, painting, applying stickers, and or molding into the PVC itself. The non-visual mark utilize the magnetic and radio reflective nature of the marks to allow remote identification of the plumbing pipes and couplings after being buried. |
| US10078972B2 |
Twelve-piece tangram puzzle set
A twelve-piece tangram puzzle set is disclosed. The twelve-piece tangram puzzle set includes twelve pieces, the twelve pieces being formed in such a manner that an equilateral triangle is formed as a basic frame and is bisected into right-angled triangles by a first cutting line, second cutting lines, horizontal cutting lines and vertical cutting lines, and equiangular cutting lines so as to be divided into respective pieces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, such that triangles (pieces 1, 3, 7, 9, 11) are symmetrical to triangles (pieces 2, 4, 8, 10, 12), and a trapezoidal quadrangle (piece 5) is symmetrical to a trapezoidal quadrangle (piece 6) based on the first cutting line. |
| US10078969B2 |
Music teaching system
A gaming platform including a touch panel having a contact surface that a user may contact to operate the gaming platform to perform a gaming function. A plurality of touch regions divides the contact surface into a plurality of discrete regions. Each touch region may correspond to a different gaming function such that contacting the contact surface of the touch panel within a particular touch region causes the gaming platform to perform a corresponding gaming function. The gaming platform may include a plurality of touch regions each corresponding to the gaming platform playing a different musical note. In this configuration, each touch region may correspond to a key, string, striking surface, or other musical part for playing a particular musical note. |
| US10078968B2 |
System and method for electronic test delivery
Systems and methods for electronic test delivery are described herein. A host computer is in electronic communication with one or more devices over a wireless private network. The host computer is configured to transmit data describing a plurality of test unit components to at least one of the devices. Each of the devices is configured to request from the host computer certain of the data describing the plurality of test unit components that form a test unit, receive the certain data, assemble the certain data, and display the assembled certain data as the test unit. The host computer is further configured to receive data describing one or more responses associated with the test unit from at least one of the devices. |
| US10078967B2 |
Apparatus and system for and method of registration, admission and testing of a candidate
The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and system for and method of registering, admitting and testing of a candidate. Test candidate can be registered and admitted through verification of identity using biometric comparisons and third party identification systems. Scanning of identification documents and comparison with security information database can authenticate the validity and authenticity of identification documents. Authentication of testing candidates can be accomplished by comparison of biometric data of candidate against biometric data contain in identification document. Testing can be conducted on an apparatus remotely located from a proctor monitored administrative station or apparatus. The remote testing station can detect and prevent individuals from cheating, detect unauthorized objects, and can prevent or detect unauthorized copying of an examination or portions thereof. |
| US10078959B2 |
Systems and methods for testing hazard detectors in a smart home
Systems and methods for self-administering test to verify operation of various components within a hazard detection system are described herein. Users may be able interact with their mobile devices to control and monitor the results of test being administered by the hazard detection system. The mobile device may receive status updates from a central server that receives data from one or more hazard detection systems within a structure. The status information may be displayed on the user's device to inform the user of potential issues that any of his or her hazard detection systems may have. |
| US10078956B1 |
Method and system for determining whether an individual takes appropriate measures to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infections
A system and method that caregivers, central monitoring companies and other persons to monitor whether individuals entering patients' rooms take appropriate steps to mitigate the spread of healthcare associated infections to the patients receiving healthcare services. In one non-limiting the system and method determine whether an individual who has entered the room of a patient has wash his or her hands prior to approaching the patient. |
| US10078955B1 |
Event-based data collection for smart sensors on a master/slave bus
A system and method includes a master/slave data bus, a plurality of sensing nodes, and a master node configured to communicate with the plurality of sensing nodes over the master/slave data bus. The master node is configured to command the plurality of sensing nodes into an event monitoring mode over the master/slave data bus. The plurality of sensing nodes are configured to digitize and retain a first amount of data during a listening mode of the event monitoring mode and detect an event based upon the first amount of data. The plurality of sensing nodes are further configured to drive an event trigger on the master/slave data bus upon detection of the event, and digitize and retain a second amount of data following detection of the event trigger on the master/slave data bus. |
| US10078954B1 |
Reading tracking system
A reading tracking system specifically designed for children including a wrist-worn arm motion and heart rate sensor coupled to a parental monitoring system, a game-style application for the child's use, and a group application useful in a classroom setting. The user's heart rate and arm movements are monitored to detect reading-related behavior states, such as reading, fallen asleep, distracted, and awoke after haven falling asleep states, independent from precise eye gaze tracking. Heart rate monitoring detects a high heart rate that is inconsistent with reading, a moderate heart rate indicative of a sedentary awake state consistent with reading, and a low hart rate indicating that the user has fallen asleep. Arm movement monitoring detects a high arm activity state that is inconsistent with reading, a moderate arm movement state or gestures consistent with page turning while reading, and a low arm activity rate indicating that the user has fallen asleep. |
| US10078948B2 |
Smoke detector with a double optical chamber
A smoke detector with an improved double optical chamber is provided. The smoke detector can include a chamber cover, a chamber base, an optical block, and a printed circuit board, wherein a smoke chamber is bound by the chamber cover, the chamber base, and the optical block, wherein a monitoring chamber is bound by the chamber base, the optical block, and the printed circuit board, wherein the monitoring chamber is closed to access outside of the smoke detector, and wherein radiation from only the monitoring chamber produces a non-zero clean air value of the detector. |
| US10078943B2 |
Synchronization of notification patterns in alerting systems
Method for synchronizing a non-symmetrical tonal pattern in a wireless alerting system involves receiving at a plurality of alerting devices a beacon message. The beacon message is used at the alerting devices to synchronously generate a synchronization pulse signal comprised of a plurality of synchronization pulses which are periodic in accordance with a predetermined synchronization pulse interval. A cadence section indicator (CSI) in the beacon message is used in combination with the synchronization pulse signal to determine a portion of an alarm cadence to sound at each of the alerting device so that the alarm cadence is synchronized among the plurality of the alerting devices. |
| US10078940B2 |
Method and system for facilitating monetary value gaming ticket redemption
In accordance with a method and system for facilitating redemption of monetary value gaming tickets, such as issued by a gaming device upon cash-out, a ticket is presented to a redemption kiosk. If the ticket is validated or approved for payment and has a monetary value which includes a fractional currency value, then the player is offered the opportunity to place a wager which includes the fractional currency value in order to play a wagering game. If the player elects to play the game, the game is presented. If the outcome of the game is losing, then the player is paid a first whole currency value comprising the monetary value less the wager via currency dispensed from the kiosk and when an outcome of the wagering game is winning, then the player is paid a second whole currency value which is greater than the monetary value (such as by including a winning amount) via currency dispensed from said currency dispensing device. |
| US10078937B2 |
Unified gaming machine and method of use
A gaming machine is provided, including a display, a credit input device, a non-transitory memory, and a processor. The display is configurable to selectively present a centrally determined game and a non-centrally determined game. The credit input device is used to establish a credit balance for wagering on the centrally determined game and the non-centrally determined game. The non-transitory memory stores a centrally determined game engine and a non-centrally determined game engine. The processor is coupled to the non-transitory memory and the display, and is configured to select a game engine from the centrally determined game engine and the non-centrally determined game engine, and execute the selected game engine and a corresponding game. |
| US10078936B1 |
Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller
Systems and methods of electronic gaming are disclosed. In various embodiments, a gaming system may implement a method for electronic gaming, which may comprise receiving a credit wager to initiate play of a game, selecting a plurality symbols from a plurality of reel strips stored in the memory, displaying the selected plurality of symbols in a plurality of adjacent columns of symbol display positions, dividing the symbol display positions in each of the plurality of columns into a first subset of symbol display positions and a second subset of symbol display positions, determining whether an evaluation change condition has been met with respect to a column in the plurality of columns, a first game evaluation based upon the evaluation change condition, and performing a second game evaluation based upon the evaluation change condition. |
| US10078930B2 |
Networked door closer and auto-operator
An access control system for a plurality of door operators that are each respectively coupled to one of a plurality of doors providing an entrance to or exit from a building. A system controller monitors the status of each of the doors real time and controls the operation of each of the door operators based on the monitored status. The system controller adjusts the status of one or more door operators as a function of the determined status of one or more other door operators. Door operator commands are provided by the system controller to selected door operators to, for example, extend the opening time of one or more doors due to current activity by other door closers. The system controller is configured adjust the status of an entire group of doors or a sub-group group of doors depending on the status of the door operators. |
| US10078929B1 |
Wireless transmission system used for a self-locking lock box
A wireless transmission system used for a self-locking lock box has a first transmission unit received in a first insert hole of a door frame, and a self-locking lock box secured at a door plank. The self-locking lock box is provided therein with a square bolt able to eject out of the lock box, and the square bolt is connected with a control pin and has its front end fixed with a second transmission unit. By so designing, when a user closes the door plank, the control pin will be pressed by the door frame and release the square bolt to make the square bolt eject out of the self-locking lock box and get into the first insert hole of the door frame, thus enabling the first transmission unit to approach the second transmission unit for elevating transmission efficiency. |
| US10078927B2 |
Systems and methods for time-bound homogenous consecutive events triggering a procedure in an access control host system
Systems and methods for time-bound homogeneous consecutive events triggering a procedure in an access control host system are provided. Some methods can include receiving notifications of a plurality of events occurring in an access control system, identifying an event trigger when at least some of the plurality of events are homogeneous, time-bound, and consecutive, and, responsive to identifying the event trigger, transmitting an instruction to at least one device in the access control system for execution of a procedure associated with the event trigger. |
| US10078924B2 |
Maintenance management for vehicle-share systems
A system to manage the routine maintenance of a vehicle incorporated in a vehicle-share system is presented herein. The maintenance management system includes a vehicle having a vehicle sensor, vehicle communication platform (VCP), and remote entity. The VCP is located within the vehicle and communicates with the vehicle sensor. The VCP is configured to generate and communicate a data transmission. The remote entity has at least one database and is configured to receive the VCP data transmission. Moreover, the VCP collaborates with the vehicle sensor to generate at least one routine maintenance notice and subsequently transmits the routine maintenance notice to the remote entity. Upon review and analysis of the routine maintenance notice, the remote entity will predict future maintenance of the vehicle and modify the vehicle registration status in the database to allow for a maintenance event. |
| US10078921B1 |
Placement of augmented reality objects using a bounding shape
A system may include a camera, a display, one or more memories, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories. The system may output a bounding shape for presentation on the display. The bounding shape may be superimposed on an image being captured by the camera and presented on the display. The bounding shape may bound an object in the image. The system may determine 3D coordinates of an intersection point associated with the bounding shape. The intersection point may be a point where a projection of the bounding shape into 3D space intersects with a horizontal plane identified in the image. The system may determine 2D coordinates for presentation of an augmented reality object on the display based on the 3D coordinates of the intersection point, and may superimpose a representation of the augmented reality object on the image based on the 2D coordinates. |
| US10078909B1 |
Video stream customization using graphics
An online system customizes video conversations between users of the online system by providing graphics that are likely to interest the users. The online system may present composite views overlaying selected graphics on a video stream, which may be part of an augmented reality (AR) environment. The graphics include, for example, background graphics, masks, props, visual or particular effects, frames or borders, etc. The online system may use a machine learning model to predict whether a user is likely to select or interact with a particular graphic. The online system can also filter or rank graphics according to user affinities or user connections on the online system. Users may be encouraged to interact with the graphics that are customized to their specific interests, which can promote an engaging video conversation or AR experience. |
| US10078904B2 |
Impact time from image sensing
Impact time between an image sensing circuitry and an object relatively moving at least partially towards, or away from, the image sensing circuitry can be computed. Image data associated with a respective image frame of a sequence (1 . . . N) of image frames sensed by said image sensing circuitry and which image frames are imaging said object can be received. For each one (i) of multiple pixel positions, a respective duration value (f(i)) indicative of a largest duration of consecutively occurring local extreme points in said sequence (1 . . . N) of image frames can be computed. A local extreme point is present in a pixel position (i) when an image data value of the pixel position (i) is a maxima or minima in relation to image data values of those pixel positions that are closest neighbors to said pixel position (i). |
| US10078898B2 |
Noncontact metrology probe, process for making and using same
Disclosed is a noncontact metrology probe including: a first camera including a first field of view; a second camera including a second field of view and arranged such that the second field of view overlaps the first field of view to form a prime focal volume; a third camera including a third field of view and arranged such that the third field of view overlaps the prime focal volume to form a probe focal volume; and a tracker including a tracker field of view to determine a location of the probe focal volume in the tracker field of view. Further disclosed is a process for calibrating a noncontact metrology probe, the process including: providing a noncontact metrology probe including: a first camera including a first field of view; a second camera including a second field of view; a third camera including a third field of view; and a tracker including a tracker field of view; overlapping the first field of view with the second field of view to form a prime focal volume; overlapping the prime focal volume with the third field of view to form a probe focal volume; and overlapping the a tracker field of view with the probe focal volume to calibrate the noncontact metrology probe. |
| US10078896B2 |
System and method for connectivity mapping
A processing system for and a method of segmenting a physiological image is provided. Once the physiological image is received, extrinsic data defining extrinsic regions is further received. Additionally, intrinsic data defining at least one intrinsic region, each intrinsic region corresponding to one extrinsic region is received. A primary modification is performed, where a shape and size of at least one extrinsic region having a corresponding intrinsic region is modified based on a shape and size of the corresponding intrinsic region, to form a modified extrinsic data. The physiological image is segmented into segmented regions based on the modified extrinsic data, each segmented region which has a corresponding intrinsic region representing a primary modification based on the corresponding intrinsic region. |
| US10078894B2 |
Method and apparatus for restoring image
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for restoring an image. The method and apparatus may detect boundary information associated with a boundary in an image, generate a reproducing kernel used to restore a hole in the image based on the detected boundary information, estimate hole information using the generated reproducing kernel, and restore the hole based on the estimated hole information. |
| US10078889B2 |
System and method for image calibration
The disclosure relates to a system and method for generating an image by the following steps: obtaining a first image and a second image relating to a subject; obtaining a third image of the subject by a radiology imaging technique; registering the first image and the second image to obtain a first element; calibrating the third image to obtain a second element based on the first element; calibrating the second image based on the second element. |
| US10078887B2 |
Scene-based non-uniformity correction in focal plane arrays
Methods and systems for correcting non-uniformity in focal plane arrays include averaging pixel intensity values from a plurality of data captures to generate an image, spatially median filtering the image to generate a median filtered image, temporally stacking the median filtered image with at least one previously median filtered images to generate a median filtered image stack, and temporally median filtering a pixel offset value stack corresponding to each of a plurality of filtered pixel locations within the median filtered image stack to generate a process dataset. |
| US10078883B2 |
Writing graphics data from local memory to system memory
This disclosure is directed to graphics data storage. A graphics processing unit (GPU) may determine pixels of a tile for which the GPU generated graphics data during the rendering of the tile. The GPU may store the generated graphics data in a local memory, and use the information of the pixels of the tile for which the GPU generated graphics data to limit the amount of graphics data stored in the local memory that the GPU is to write to an external memory. |
| US10078882B2 |
Priority-based command execution
A method of processing commands is provided. The method includes holding commands in queues and executing the commands in an order based on their respective priority. Commands having the same priority are held in the same queue. |
| US10078881B2 |
Graphics processing device and operating method for performing tile-based graphics processing using the same
A method and device for processing graphics data include generating primitives including objects in an image, classifying tiles dividing the image into scalable tile groups, generating a coverage pattern identifying primitives that are covered on tiles included in each scalable tile group, generating a bin stream including the coverage pattern corresponding to the each scalable tile groups, and performing rendering for each tile of the tiles using the bin stream. |
| US10078880B2 |
Image processing device and image processing system
The present invention provides CPU load reduction and a method of efficient image data transfer. An image processing device, which comprises an image generating unit (203) which further comprises a plurality of processing units which process a plurality of instances of image information and in where the image generating unit (203) transfers accumulated data for each interrupt factor, comprises: data transfer units for each factor (208-212) which accept the interrupts from the image generating unit (203) for each interrupt factor and transfer the data for each interrupt factor, and notifies a CPU (207) of the interrupt when the transfer of the data to be transferred for each interrupt factor is completed; and a communication line (1) which is connected to the image generating unit (203) and the data transfer units for each factor (208-212). |
| US10078870B2 |
System and method for automated consolidation of individual retirement accounts
A computer implemented system/method carried out over one or more networks for consolidating retirement accounts owned by an owner, comprising: receiving an electronic data record from a first record keeper for a first retirement account owned by the owner; searching databases and/or sending search requests to one or more account record keepers including said first record keeper for one or more other retirement accounts owned by the owner; and consolidating the first retirement account into the one or more other retirement accounts upon finding the one or more other retirement accounts account. |
| US10078869B2 |
System and method for coordinating automated and semi-automated trading tools
The present embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products that provide tools for use in any type of electronic trading environment. In one aspect, leaning manager includes software that can be implemented on any type of computer device for tracking and/or coordinating the buying and selling of available market quantities by multiple automated or semi-automated trading tools. For instance, if more than one automated or semi-automated trading tool is leaning on the same tradable object then the leaning manager may track and/or coordinate such action. The trading tools can use the tracked information and/or the allocated quantities and their prices to enhance their trading strategies. |
| US10078868B1 |
System and method for providing an aggregation tool
Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources. |
| US10078867B1 |
Augmented reality virtual banker
A method implemented on an augmented reality electronic device includes viewing at least a portion of a financial document with the augmented reality electronic device. One or more words or phrases in a section of the financial document are identified using the augmented reality electronic device. A customer associated with the financial document is identified. An indication of the one or more words or phrases and an identification of the customer are sent to a server computer. Customized content is received from the server computer based on the one or more words or phrases and the identification of the customer. The customized content is displayed on the augmented reality electronic device. |
| US10078863B2 |
Systems and methods for augmented reality payments
Systems and methods are provided for augmented reality payments. An augmented reality display may include product information and/or payment information images displayed over an image of one or more real world background objects. The augmented reality display may be displayed on a display of a mobile user device such as a smartphone or tablet or on a structure of a vehicle such as a vehicle windshield. The real world background objects may include a merchant store. The product information and/or the payment information may be overlaid on the merchant store as viewed through a vehicle windshield or as viewed in an image of the merchant store captured by a camera of the user device. The user may be provided with the ability to select one or more items for purchase, make one or more payments, or execute other transactions by interacting with the augmented reality display. |
| US10078858B2 |
Systems, methods, and computer program products for implementing a free-text search database
Systems, methods, and computer program products for implementing a dynamic free-text search database. First data is generated for the dynamic free-text search database that represents a first relationship including a first keyword, a first trip, and a first weight value. A plurality of free-text search requests are received, and a second weight value for the first relationship is calculated based on the free-text search requests. The second weight value differs from the first weight value. The first data is transformed into second by inserting the second weight value into the first data such that the first relationship includes the second weight value. |
| US10078855B2 |
Managing an exchange that fulfills natural language travel requests
An exchange that fulfills natural language travel requests is described herein. According to some embodiments, systems for managing an exchange that fulfills natural language travel requests may include a publishing module that receives a plurality of inventory records from a plurality of suppliers, each of the plurality of inventory records pertaining to an available offering, the offering being defined by a set of metadata attributes, and a pattern recognition artificial intelligence engine that generates equivalent phrases for the set of metadata attributes from each inventory record by applying pattern recognition artificial intelligence to the set of metadata attributes, the equivalent phrases representing possible natural language queries to which an inventory record may correspond. |
| US10078852B2 |
Predicting locations and movements of users based on historical locations for users of an online system
An online system receives location information from a plurality of user devices used by users of the online system. The location information identifies a plurality of different locations at which each of the user devices was located. From the location information, a plurality of chains of locations visited by each of a plurality of users are extracted. The online system generates one or more location pairs based on the chain of locations, where each location pair includes a first location and a second location to which there is a high probability a user will travel if the user is located at the first location. The location pairs are used for a variety of applications, such as for advertising to users based on locations and for providing insights into the movements of users. |
| US10078849B2 |
Navigable content units
Merchants create ecommerce-enabled ad units advertising items offered by the merchants. The ad units contain functionality enabling customers to purchase the items by interacting with the ad units. The ad units have associated bid prices that the merchants agree to pay for sales through the ad units. The merchants provide the ad units to a broker. The broker publishes the ad units on web pages provided by publishers as comparison shop ad units that contain multiple ad units and functionality for navigating among them. A customer receiving a web page interacts with an ad unit to purchase the item. During the interactions, the broker dynamically updates the ad unit to conduct the transaction. |
| US10078848B2 |
Method of operating nearby function and electronic device supporting the same
An electronic device and a method of operating a nearby function of the electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a low-power short-range communication module configured to perform a scanning operation and to collect advertising information as a result of the scanning operation, a display module configured to display an item for performing at least one of a short range communication connection and a remote communication connection with at least one reception-side device corresponding to the collected advertising information, and a control module configured to control the scanning operation of the low-power short-range communication module and the displaying of the item for performing the at least one of the short range communication connection and the remote communication connection with the at least one reception-side device corresponding to the collected advertising information. |
| US10078847B2 |
Distribution device and distribution method
A distribution device includes a distribution unit which distributes a control program for controlling content to be displayed on a user terminal, to the user terminal. The control program is a display program to be executed in the user terminal, and controls the user terminal to execute a sound playback procedure for playing back a sound when content is included in an area specified by the display program for displaying the content, a viewable area acquisition procedure for acquiring the area specified by the display program in the content as a viewable area, a display area determination procedure for determining whether a display area where a video is displayed corresponding to the content is positioned in the viewable area, and a video playback procedure for stopping playback of the sound and starting playback of the video, when determined that the display area is positioned in the viewable area. |
| US10078842B2 |
Selective scent dispensing
A computer implemented method, a computerized system and a computer program product for selective scent dispensing. The computer implemented method comprising: detecting an event, wherein the event is associated with a person entering a predetermined physical area; in response to the detection of the event, determining, by a processor, a scent for the event; and applying, by a dispenser, the scent on the predetermined physical area. |
| US10078837B2 |
Systems and methods to generate a receipt for a transaction
A system includes a transaction terminal that is configured to examine an authorization response for an indicator, which, when set, causes the transaction terminal to communicate with a portal to obtain content relevant to the receipt for the transaction approved by the authorization response. The content may identify the benefit of an offer applied to the transaction, which is not reflected in the authorization response. The content may direct the user to select an option regarding the delivery of the receipt. Options presented for selection include suppression of the printing of the paper receipt in favor of an electronic receipt transmitted to a communication reference of the user, printing a mini paper receipt in addition to transmitting an electronic receipt, and/or printing the full paper receipt at the transaction terminal. |
| US10078835B2 |
Authentication token for wallet based transactions
Transaction address data is received at a point of interaction (POI) device, from a payment-enabled mobile device. The transaction address data includes first address data and second address data. The first address data identifies a wallet service provider that is associated with the payment-enabled mobile device. The second address data indicates an internet address for a server function present in the payment-enabled mobile device. The first address data is used to dispatch the second address data from the POI device to the wallet service provider. |
| US10078833B2 |
Combination payment card and methods thereof
Systems and methods for processing payment transactions using combination payment cards. The combination payment card is associated with an open-loop account and one or more closed-loop accounts. Transaction information is received from a point-of-sale device. At least one of the closed-loop and open-loop account is debited. |
| US10078832B2 |
Method for using barcodes and mobile devices to conduct payment transactions
Embodiments of the invention facilitate payment transactions by integrating the image capture and image processing capabilities of certain mobile devices with the card-based payment transaction infrastructure. In some embodiments, a camera contained in a mobile device is used to capture an image of a barcode that is visible on the surface of a substrate. The barcode may represent or otherwise encode one or more of payment account data, consumer authentication data, consumer profile data, or other relevant information. In some embodiments, the captured image may be processed by the mobile device to extract the payment account data, authentication data, or other relevant data. This data may then be communicated to a data processing element that is connected to, or forms part of, a payment processing network in order to conduct the desired payment transaction. |
| US10078830B2 |
Modulating mobile-device displays based on ambient signals to reduce the likelihood of fraud
Provided is a process of classifying ambient signals to reduce fraudulent use of information, the process including: receiving, with the mobile computing device, from a remote server, balance-access information by which a stored value card balance can be spent at a point of sale terminal; storing, with the mobile computing device, the balance-access information; sensing, with one or more sensors of a mobile computing device, ambient signals; classifying the ambient signals as indicating the user is in a retail establishment; and in response to the classification, displaying, on a display screen of the mobile computing device, the balance-access information, such that the balance-access information can be input to a point-of-sale terminal. |
| US10078828B2 |
Commodity registration apparatus and commodity registration method
A commodity is learnt and stored in an HDD on the basis of a commodity image captured by an image capturing section. Commodity registration is carried out through a key input. The commodity which is not stored in the HDD yet is stored in the HDD as commodity data when the commodity registration is carried out through a key input, in this way, the registration as a learnt commodity is realized. Then the target commodity captured by the image capturing section is read from the commodity data stored in the HDD. In this way, the commodity image can be added and learnt based on that the unregistered commodity is input through a key operation by the operator. |
| US10078824B2 |
Platform and method for integrating services in a terminal or kiosk
A software platform and method are presented for integrating loosely coupled services or offerings provided across a retail environment into self-service terminals configured to perform different type of retail functions. The integration is accomplished with little or no modifications to existing software applications that provide the services or offerings. |
| US10078821B2 |
System and method for securely registering a recipient to a computer-implemented funds transfer payment network
A computer-implemented payment processing method includes storing, by a computer system, information regarding a recipient in an account information directory, the account information directory being implemented in a data storage system, the information including a public identifier identifying the recipient, the public identifier including an e-mail address and/or a telephone number assigned to the recipient when the public identifier is stored in the account information directory; receiving, by the computer system, a funds transfer request identifying the recipient by the public identifier, the funds transfer request being received via a computer network; determining, by the computer system, a private identifier for the recipient based on the public identifier; and transmitting, by the computer system, a funds transfer message via a computer network to cause funds to be transferred from a sender to the recipient, the funds transfer message being generated using the private identifier. |
| US10078820B2 |
Split ticket handling
This disclosure describes techniques and arrangements for splitting one or more items from a ticket to another ticket. Some techniques and arrangements facilitate the splitting of one or more items from an open ticket to one or more split tickets. In some implementations, a foster ticket is utilized to account for items associated with split tickets. Other techniques and arrangements include providing split ticket suggestions. In some implementations, split ticket suggestions are provided based on historical ticket information and/or customer information. |
| US10078816B2 |
Automated transaction machine with shuttle
A document delivery system within an automated transaction machine includes a shuttle for receiving a stack of documents. The shuttle is moveable from a dock location to a user interface location along a track system The shuttle may be utilized with a rear-load configuration or a front-load configuration in which the track system has a travel path from the dock location to the user interface location. |
| US10078815B2 |
Overstock inventory sorting at retail sales facilities
In some embodiments, methods and systems of locating overstock items at a retail sales facility include receiving data when a worker of the retail sales facility scans a product case containing a product using an inventory management electronic device including a processor; obtaining at least one inventory management factor associated with the product; estimating whether the product is to be picked by the worker from a storage bin at a stock room location while packed in the product case or after being removed from the product case; and outputting, based on the estimating step, an indication to the worker either that the product is to be picked from the storage bin without being removed from the product case, or that the product is to be picked from the storage bin after being removed from the product case. |
| US10078808B1 |
On-demand designated delivery locator
Delivery area guidance may be provided to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivering a package to a customer. For example, a UAV may be programmed to fly to a delivery area. When the UAV approaches the delivery area, the UAV may send a signal that it has a package for the customer. A delivery area guidance (DAG) device associated with the customer may receive the signal and project a visible landing marker to guide the UAV to a designated delivery location. The DAG device may monitor motion near the designated delivery location, indicate existence of obstacles, and/or notify inhabitance of the approach of the UAV and/or receipt of the package. |
| US10078805B2 |
Operations management system and related methods
An operations management server associated with a site location having a plurality of distributed assets therein may store a database(s) including a hierarchy of places within the site location, respective places for the plurality of assets within the site location, and pending work orders for respective assets and respective priority indicators associated therewith, determine a respective place associated with a given asset based upon a work order associated therewith and the database, determine a parent place within the site location within which the place associated with the given asset resides based upon the database, and determine at least one sibling place within the parent place based upon the database. The server may also determine pending work orders for other assets, determine a relative priority of the determined work orders, and communicate the determined work orders to a mobile communications device for completion in order of relative priority. |
| US10078803B2 |
Screen-analysis based device security
Systems and methods are provided for a content-based security for computing devices. An example method includes identifying content rendered by a mobile application, the content being rendered during a session, generating feature vectors from the content and determining that the feature vectors do not match a classification model. The method also includes providing, in response to the determination that the feature vectors do not match the classification model, a challenge configured to authenticate a user of the mobile device. Another example method includes determining a computing device is located at a trusted location, capturing information from a session, the information coming from content rendered by a mobile application during the session, generating feature vectors for the session, and repeating this until a training criteria is met. The method also includes training a classification model using the feature vectors and authenticating a user of the device using the trained classification model. |
| US10078797B1 |
Stem ejectable component assembly
A stem ejectable component assembly for electronic devices does not use a pin or needle to eject the tray holder. The assembly includes a receiving housing coupled to a SIM/MMC tray, a front plate, and a stem. The front plate incorporates slider pins that slide out to engage with recesses in the support frame of the electronic device to lock the assembly. The slider pins have inner ends that abut the stem and hold the stem in a pushed-in position. The slider pins also incorporate profiled protrusions that engage with ball pins fixed to the receiving housing. When the front plate is pushed inward, the profiled protrusions cause the slider pins to move outwards and release the stem to project out of the front plate. Pulling the stem causes the slider pins to slide in and disengage from the recesses in the support frame to enable withdrawal of the assembly. |
| US10078796B2 |
Apparatus and method of hand gesture recognition based on depth image
Disclosed is an apparatus for hand gesture recognition based on a depth image, which includes a depth image acquiring unit configured to acquire a depth image including a hand region, a depth point classifying unit configured to classify depth points of a hand region in the depth image according to a corresponding hand portion by means of a machine studying method, and a hand model matching unit configured to match a three-dimensional hand model with the classified depth points by using distances between the classified depth points and a hand portion respectively corresponding to the depth points. A recognition method using the apparatus is also disclosed. |
| US10078787B2 |
Crowd-based video identification and analytical recognition system
An analytical recognition system includes one or more video cameras configured to capture video and a video analytics module configured to perform real-time video processing and analyzation of the captured video and generate non-video data. The video analytic module includes one or more algorithms configured to identify an abnormal situation. Each abnormal situation alerts the video analytics module to automatically issue an alert and track one or more objects or individuals by utilizing the one or more video cameras. The abnormal situation is selected from the group consisting of action of a particular individual, non-action of a particular individual, a temporal event, and an externally generated event. |
| US10078784B2 |
Forestry information management systems and methods streamlined by automatic biometric data prioritization
Methods and systems are presented for obtaining photographic data recently taken via one or more airborne vehicles (drones, e.g.) and for prioritizing forestry-related review and decision-making as an automatic response to the content of the photographic data even where remote decision-makers are only available via limited-bandwidth connections. |
| US10078783B2 |
Enhanced user authentication
A method and system for authenticating a user. A first digital representation of an iris of an eye of at least one authentic user is obtained. A second digital representation of at least one authentic overlay pattern is obtained. A third digital representation of a captured image of an iris of a user to be authenticated is obtained, where the iris of the user has been overlaid with a contact lens including a further overlay pattern thereby creating an image composed of the iris of the user and the further overlay pattern. An expected digital representation of an iris of at least one authentic user is generated, by combining the first and second digital representations. Authenticating the user is attempted by comparing the third digital representation with the expected digital representation. An authentication signal indicative of whether authentication of the user has been successful is generated based on the comparing. |
| US10078782B2 |
Method for identifying and/or authenticating an individual by iris recognition
A method for identifying and/or authenticating an individual by a system including a storage device storing at least one binary code of a reference iris and a binary code of an associated reference mask: acquisition of an image of an eye of the individual, segmentation of the acquired image to isolate a region containing the texture of the iris and determine an associated mask, division of the region and the mask into N2 concentric rings, normalization of the region, determination of a binary iris code IC and a binary code of mask IM matching at least one ring of the iris with a ring of the reference iris to minimize a matching distance between the acquired image and the reference image, computation of the minimized matching distance, identification and/or authentication of the individual if the minimized matching distance is less than a predetermined threshold. |
| US10078781B2 |
Automatically organizing images
A method includes obtaining a plurality of images, including geolocation information and time information for each image. The method also includes identifying a group of related images from the plurality of images from a common geographical area and a common time period based on the geolocation information and the time information for each of the plurality of images, and identifying an event that occurred within the common time period and within the common geographical area by searching a repository of event information. The method also includes storing the group of related images in an image collection, and assigning a title to the image collection, wherein the title is based at least in part on a title of the event. |
| US10078777B2 |
Fingerprint recognition sensor and portable display device having the same
Disclosed are a fingerprint recognition sensor including: a light source positioned while being spaced apart on one surface of the substrate and irradiating light toward the substrate; and a light direction switching layer positioned between the substrate and the light source, having a thickness-direction cross-section having a right-angled triangular shape, and including multiple protrusions constituted by a first surface in which the light irradiated from the light source is incident and refracted, a second surface contacting the one surface of the substrate, in which the refracted light is transmitted toward the substrate, and a third surface vertical to the one surface of the substrate, and a mobile display device having the same. |
| US10078773B1 |
Machine readable code with portion analysis
Embodiments are directed to methods and systems to increase flow and throughput of particular data through the use of a machine readable code with portion analysis. The machine readable code may be generated by a transaction processing network and correspond with one or more resource provider computers. When data is received by the transaction processing network that corresponds with one of the resource provider computers, a portion of the machine readable code that is proportional to a size or measurement of the data may be provided in exchange for the data. The recipient of the portion of the code and, once the recipient collects a predetermined number of machine readable code portions to complete the machine readable code, the complete machine readable code may be scanned and transmitted back to the transaction processing network to be exchanged for additional information or to initiate further processing. |
| US10078766B2 |
Labeling and authenticating using a microtag
An identifier made using a silicon film fragment. The silicon film has a varying optical index of refraction. The varying optical index of refraction reflects one or more spectral peaks when illuminated with light. The one or more spectral peaks includes a reference peak. The silicon film is fragmented to generate the silicon film fragment. |