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US10283874B2	Antenna apparatus An antenna apparatus includes: an antenna array that: i) includes a plurality of antennas arranged next to each other in a predetermined direction, ii) is supplied with power from a power source, and iii) transmits radio waves; and a plurality of dummy antennas that: i) are provided on opposite sides of the antenna array in the predetermined direction, ii) are supplied with power from an electric field leaked from the antennas of the antenna array, and iii) transmit radio waves. Thus, it is possible to prevent an accuracy of detecting a target from deteriorating.
US10283873B2	Microwave absorbing composite for turbine blade applications The invention provides a composite laminate comprising an outer, an intermediate and an inner section comprising, respectively, first layers of composite material and one or more functional layers having a printed circuit for absorbing the electromagnetic radiation incident on the composite laminate; second layers of composite material; a conducting layer contiguous to the intermediate section and third layers of composite material. The values of the resistivity of the functional layer and the thickness of the intermediate section are comprised in predefined ranges for the attenuation of the reflection of electromagnetic radiation of the composite laminate in the S or X bands up to a peak of −20 dB. The invention also refers to manufacturing methods of the composite laminate (11) and to wind turbine blades including the composite laminate.
US10283867B2	Square shaped multi-slotted 2.45 GHz wearable antenna A microstrip antenna including: a substrate; a radiating slotted patch; a square plate; and a coaxial feed, wherein the coaxial feed further comprises an inner central conducting pin; wherein the substrate is sandwiched between the radiating slotted patch and the square plate, and wherein the coaxial feed is connected to the square plate, and the inner central conducting pin of coaxial feed passes through the substrate and is connected to the radiating slotted patch.
US10283864B2	Antenna and terminal The present invention discloses an antenna and a terminal, which can extend antenna bandwidth. The antenna includes a capacitor component and at least one radiator, where one end of each radiator of the at least one radiator is connected to form a first node, the first node is connected to one end of the capacitor component to form a second node, and the second node is grounded; and the other end of the capacitor component receives a feed signal.
US10283862B2	Phase-mode feed network for antenna arrays A sparse phase-mode feed network for an antenna array is described. The waveguide assembly includes a plurality of radiating element probes for coupling to respective radiating elements of the antenna array, and a plurality of phase-mode feed probes. A variable phase shifter is positioned in the waveguide assembly in an annular region between the radiating element probes and the phase-mode feed probes to cause additional progressive electrical phase shifts of the radiating elements of the antenna array from 0 to 2πK radians, the phase shift progressing for one complete physical angular cycle in the plane of the waveguide assembly. A beam forming network couples the phase-mode feed probes to a plurality of phase-mode feed ports corresponding to respective consecutive-order phase modes of the antenna array. When coupled to the antenna array, respective orders of the phase modes provided at the phase-mode feed ports are selectable in accordance with K.
US10283857B2	Nozzle cap multi-band antenna assembly An antenna assembly includes a curved printed circuit board (PCB) configured to mount around a curved surface. The curved PCB can include an outward-facing first side and an inward-facing second side with a plurality of antenna structures disposed on one of the first side and second side of the PCB. The plurality of antenna structures can be configured to provide directional radiation in at least one frequency band.
US10283854B2	Low-cost ultra wideband LTE antenna An antenna system capable of operating among all LTE bands, and also capable of operation among all remote side cellular applications, such as GSM, AMPS, GPRS, CDMA, WCDMA, UMTS, and HSPA among others. The antenna provides a low cost alternative to active-tunable antennas suggested in the prior art for the same multi-platform objective.
US10283853B2	Antenna module The invention relates to an antenna system (1) having a housing (2), in which a printed circuit board is provided, and at least one antenna element (8), the at least one antenna element (8) being arranged inside a cover. A motherboard (11) without an antenna element (8) is preferably arranged inside the housing (2), an antenna circuit board (12) is provided at a distance from the motherboard (11), outside the housing (2), and the at least one antenna element (8) is arranged on the antenna circuit board (12).
US10283850B2	Wireless wearable devices having self-steering antennas Wireless wearable devices having self-steering antennas are disclosed. A disclosed example wearable device includes an antenna to be communicatively coupled to a wireless data transceiver of a base station. The disclosed example wearable device also includes a steering mount coupled to the antenna, where the steering mount is to adjust an orientation of the antenna towards a wireless coverage zone associated with the wireless data transceiver based on a movement of the wearable device.
US10283848B2	Active antenna system The object of the present invention is to provide an active antenna system which is flexibly configurable and efficient in operation. According to a first aspect of the present invention an active antenna system comprises a radio equipment having a plurality of transceiver modules, each transceiver module being connected to at least one antenna, and a radio equipment control unit having a hub being connected to the transceiver modules via an antenna interconnect. The hub is embodied for receiving base band signals via the antenna interconnect from the transceiver modules and to extract channel signals from the received base band signals. As the hub is arranged in the radio equipment control unit which is part of a base station the base band signals are transmitted to the radio equipment control unit without extracting the channel signals. This allows easily to distribute the base band signals on several data connections, particularly several antenna cables, of one antenna interconnect. This results in a reduced information loss and minimizes the requirements for the transmission capacity of a single data connection of the antenna interconnect between the radio equipment control unit and the radio equipment. The radio equipment control unit does receive all the information which is originally received by the transceiver modules.
US10283846B2	Electronic device including metal housing antenna An electronic device is provided including a housing including a first plate, a second plate facing the first plate, and a side member between the first and second plate, a radio frequency (RF) circuit, a processor, a ground member, a first electric path connected between a first port of the RF circuit and a first point of a first conductive portion of the side member, a second electric path connected between a second port of the RF circuit and a first point of a second conductive portion of the side member, a third electric path connected between a second point of the first conductive portion and the ground member, a fourth electric path connected between a second point of the second conductive portion and the ground member, and a fifth electric path connected between one point of the second electric path and one point of the third electric path.
US10283837B2	Apparatuses for mounting an antenna assembly Methods, systems, and devices are described for mounting an antenna assembly to a vehicle, whereby rotational degrees of freedom between the antenna assembly and the vehicle are constrained. For example, an antenna mount may employ an intermediate structure between the antenna assembly and the vehicle. In various examples, the intermediate structure may be coupled with one of the vehicle or the antenna assembly by a linear coupling, and the intermediate structure may be coupled with the other of the vehicle or the antenna assembly by a planar coupling. The antenna assembly may be coupled with the vehicle by a compliant coupling that provides a centering force between the antenna assembly and the vehicle. According to various examples, rotational movement between the antenna assembly and the vehicle may be suppressed, and vibration from the vehicle to the antenna assembly may be attenuated.
US10283835B2	Deployable structure for use in establishing a reflectarray antenna A deployable structure for use in establishing a reflectarray antenna is provided that includes a flexible reflectarray and a deployment structure that includes an endless pantograph for deploying the flexible reflectarray from a folded, undeployed state towards a deployed state in which the flexible reflectarray is substantially planar. In a particular embodiment, the deployment structure includes a plurality of tapes that engage the endless pantograph and are used to establish a positional relationship between the deployed reflectarray and another component of the reflectarray antenna.
US10283834B2	Methods and apparatuses for versatile beamforming The present invention is directed to methods and apparatuses for beamforming signals or compute beamformed signals. The present approach is to determine a series of beams from or for a set of devices configured for receiving signals from and/or transmitting signals to one or more regions of interest in an n-dimensional space, with n=2 or 3. Each of the devices has a known position pi within said n-dimensional space. Signals are to be respectively transmitted or received non-uniformly in this space, i.e., according to the particular regions of interest. During a first phase, operations are performed in order to successively obtain a spatial filter function {circumflex over (ω)}(r), a beamforming function ω(p), and beamforming weights ω(pi). The spatial filter function {circumflex over (ω)}(r) matches projections of the regions of interest onto an n−1-dimensional sphere centered on said set of devices. The function {circumflex over (ω)}(r), however, extends over the n-dimensional space and does not restrict to the n−1-dimensional sphere. During a second phase, delays and gains are suitably introduced in the signals, by weighting time-series according to beamforming weights ω(pi) obtained during the first phase.
US10283831B2	Triple mode sphere radio frequency filters An RF filter includes: an electrical conductor defining an outer sphere; a dielectric material defining an inner sphere disposed within the conductor outer sphere; and at least a first electrical probe and a second electrical probe. Each probe extends through the conductor and is electrically insulated from it. A spherical shape of one or both of the inner and outer spheres is interrupted by: a) a first localized discontinuity in said spherical shape disposed along a first axis passing through a geometric center of the one or both of the inner and outer spheres; and b) a second localized discontinuity in said sphere form disposed along a second axis passing through the geometric center, the second axis perpendicular to the first axis. There can be more than these two discontinuities, implemented as chamfers, tuning screws, and the like. Series and parallel coupling of the spheres is detailed.
US10283824B2	Thermal exchange assembly for vehicle battery A battery assembly according to a non-limiting aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a housing, an array of battery cells provided within the housing, and a thermal exchange assembly adjacent the array and including an inlet, an outlet, and a tube configured to direct fluid from the inlet to the outlet. Further, the tube is overmolded with the housing. This disclosure also relates to a method of forming a battery assembly.
US10283823B2	Energy storage apparatus Provided is an energy storage apparatus where a cooling fluid minimally leaks to the outside from a passage formed between an outer spacer and an energy storage device. The energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage device; an outer spacer arranged adjacently to the energy storage device; and an end plate arranged such that the outer spacer is sandwiched between the energy storage device and the end plate, wherein the outer spacer includes: a base extending along the energy storage device, the base defining, with the energy storage device, a passage; and a seal portion projecting from the base and being in contact with the energy storage device, wherein the end plate includes a pressing portion disposed at a position corresponding to the seal portion, the pressing portion pressing the seal portion toward the energy storage device via the base.
US10283820B2	Electrical storage system, controller, and storage battery charging and discharging method Provided is an electrical storage system including an electrical storage unit that includes one or two or more storage batteries, a storage unit that stores historical information of the electrical storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit acquires the historical information from the storage unit, and performs a control of changing a charging setting voltage value of the electrical storage unit to a low-charging voltage value lower than a typical-charging voltage value in a case where the charging setting voltage value of the electrical storage unit is set to the typical-charging voltage value and in a case where the historical information satisfies a voltage changing condition, and of returning the charging setting voltage value of the electrical storage unit to the typical-charging voltage value after the electrical storage unit performs charging and discharging with the low-charging voltage value.
US10283819B2	Battery system for secondary battery comprising blended cathode material, and apparatus and method for managing the same Disclosed is a battery system for a secondary battery including a blended cathode material, and an apparatus and method for managing a secondary battery having a blended cathode material. The blended cathode material includes at least a first cathode material and a second cathode material. The first and second cathode materials have different operating voltage ranges. When the secondary battery comes to an idle state or a no-load state, the battery system detects a voltage relaxation occurring by the transfer of operating ions between the first and second cathode materials.
US10283818B2	Electronic device There is provided an electronic device that can heat an auxiliary battery as a standby power supply and check a function of the auxiliary battery with a simpler configuration. The device is provided with a heater resistor for heating an auxiliary battery incorporated in an in-vehicle emergency notification device as a standby power supply for a main battery, and is also provided with first and second power supply switches for forming first and second power supply paths for supplying power from the main battery and the auxiliary battery to the heater resistor, respectively. A control circuit controls the first and second power supply switches to form the power supply paths so as to conduct a current to the heater resistor.
US10283811B2	Micromachined electrolyte sheet The disclosure relates to ceramic lithium ion electrolyte membranes and processes for forming them. The ceramic lithium electrolyte membrane may comprise at least one ablative edge. Exemplary processes for forming the ceramic lithium ion electrolyte membranes comprise fabricating a lithium ion electrolyte sheet and cutting at least one edge of the fabricated electrolyte sheet with an ablative laser.
US10283806B1	Manufacturing method for laminated secondary battery Provided is a method of manufacturing a laminated secondary battery in which in the battery cell laminate in which the electrode cells are laminated, one full cell manufactured by the heat fusion process is laminated, and each unit electrode cell is laminated between each of the full cells to form one electrode assembly, thereby simplifying a manufacturing process, minimizing reworking due to defective electrode cells and minimizing an initial investment cost. To this end, provided is a method of manufacturing a laminated secondary battery having a structure in which two or more unit cells (a), an electrode cell (b), and an electrode cell (c) are cross stacked, including: 1) preparing a unit full cell, wherein the unit cell (a) is composed of a separation membrane/a cathode cell/a separation membrane/a anode cell/a separation membrane; 2) preparing an anode unit cell by the electrode cell (b) and a cathode unit cell by the electrode cell (c); and 3) sequentially laminating the unit cell (a), the electrode cell (b), the flipped-over unit cell (a′), and the electrode cell (c), wherein the laminated uppermost electrode has a structure in which electrodes having the same polarity as the lowermost polarity of the unit cell (a) are laminated, and wherein the laminate completed with the lamination is wrapped with the outer film, and the film end portion is fixed by the tape or the heat fusion.
US10283794B2	Electricity and syngas co-generation system using porous solid oxide fuel cells A porous solid oxide fuel cell (PSOFC) system for electricity and syngas co-generation. The system has a porous layer, a porous electrolyte layer with catalyst, a porous anode layer, and a porous catalyst layer. A fuel air/O2 mixture is introduced from through the porous cathode layer so that it next passes through the porous electrolyte layer with catalyst, then the porous anode layer, and finally the porous catalyst layer. Syngas exits the porous catalyst layer with electricity being produced across the anode and cathode layers.
US10283786B2	Bipolar plate for a fuel cell A bipolar plate, which forms a first polar plate of a first base element of a fuel cell and a second polar plate of a second base element adjacent to the first base element of the fuel cell, includes two parallel plates. Each plate of the parallel plates includes at least one distribution channel formed in a thickness thereof, for distributing fuel or oxidant. Each distribution channel is arranged so that, when the first and second base elements of the fuel cell are stacked together, a flow channel is formed between the two parallel plates, and the flow channel communicates with a cooling fluid supply opening.
US10283783B2	Method forming a graphene oxide-reduced graphene oxide junction A method including a deposition step comprising depositing a layer of graphene oxide; a deposition step including selectively exposing a region of the deposited graphene oxide layer to electromagnetic radiation to form a region of reduced graphene oxide adjacent to a neighboring region of unexposed graphene oxide, the graphene oxide and adjacent reduced graphene oxide regions forming a junction therebetween to produce a graphene oxide-reduced graphene oxide junction layer; and repeating the deposition and exposure steps for one or more further respective layers of graphene oxide, over an underlying graphene oxide-reduced graphene oxide junction layer, to produce an apparatus in which the respective junctions of the graphene oxide-reduced graphene oxide layers, when considered together, extend in the third dimension.
US10283778B2	Copper foil for current collector of lithium secondary battery with improved wrinkle characteristics A copper foil for a current collector of a lithium secondary battery has a crystalline structure, in which a ratio of the sum of texture coefficients of a (111) surface and a (200) surface to the total sum of texture coefficients of the (111), (200) and (220) surfaces is 60 to 85%, a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (111) surface to the total sum of texture coefficients of the (111), (200) and (220) is 18 to 38%, a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (200) surface thereto is 28 to 62%, and a ratio of the texture coefficient of the (220) surface thereto is 15 to 40%. The copper foil has surface roughness (Rz-JIS) of 2 mum or less, weight deviation of 3% or less, tensile strength of 30 to 40 kgf/mm2, elongation of 3 to 20%, and thickness of 1 to 35 mum.
US10283775B2	Negative electrode active material for lithum ion rechargeable battery and negative electrode using the same A negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, made up of substantially spherical graphite particles (A), having fine protrusions on the surfaces thereof and obtained by impregnating and coating substantially spherical graphite particles with a mixture of pitch and carbon black, followed by baking in a range of 900 to 1500° C. In accordance with Raman spectroscopic analysis of the particles (A) using argon laser Raman scattering light, there exists a G-band composite peak comprising peaks in the vicinity of 1600 cm−1, and 1580 cm−1, respectively, and at least one peak in the vicinity of D-band at 1380 cm−1, an interlayer distance of the lattice plane d002, obtained by wide-range X-ray diffraction, being in the range of 0.335 to 0.337 nm.
US10283773B2	Active material, method of manufacturing active material, and lithium-ion secondary battery The present invention provides an active material which can increase the discharge capacity of a lithium-ion secondary battery as compared with the case using conventional LiMnPO4 as a positive electrode active material. The active material in accordance with the present invention contains a crystallite of LiMnPO4, the crystallite having a size of 20 to 93 nm in a direction perpendicular to a (060) plane thereof.
US10283772B2	Cathode material for Li-ion battery, method for preparing the same and Li-ion battery containing the same The present invention relates to the field of the Li-ion battery and, particularly, relates to a cathode material for the Li-ion battery, a method for preparing the same and a Li-ion battery containing the same. A surface of the cathode material of spinel type lithium-manganese-nickel-containing composite oxide of the present invention is coated with a complex coating layer composed of a first coating layer containing Li7La3Zr2O12 and a second coating layer containing LiNbO3. The method includes: firstly coating the first coating layer containing Li7La3Zr2O12 on the surface of spinel type lithium-manganese-nickel-containing composite oxide in a solid phase method; and then coating the second coating layer containing LiNbO3 in a hydro-thermal method. The cathode material of the present invention improves cycle stability and rate performance of spinel type lithium-manganese-nickel-containing composite oxide, and meanwhile reduces dissolution and erosion effect of the electrolyte on the cathode material during charging or discharging.
US10283769B2	Non-aqueous organic electrolyte secondary cell In a non-aqueous organic electrolyte secondary cell, the counter charge capacity ratio (A/C) between the cathodes and the anodes represented by the following formula is set to within the range from 1.10 to 1.35, A/C=β×(anode charge capacity×α)/(cathode charge capacity×η×τ) where α is the electrode area coefficient defined as (anode area)/(cathode area) and α>1.0, β is a design coefficient and 0.85≤β≤1.15, η is the charge-discharge efficiency ratio defined as (charge-discharge ratio at 25° C.)/(charge-discharge ratio at 55° C.), and τ is the temperature characteristic coefficient defined as (charge capacity at 55° C.)/(charge capacity at 25° C.).
US10283767B2	Silicon particles having a cavity in the shape of a microorganism A method is described for producing silicon particles, in particular for an anode material of a lithium cell. In order to improve the cycle stability of lithium cells and to minimize losses in capacitance, in particular, microorganisms are dispersed in at least one solvent in a method step a), the solvent including at least one silicon compound. In a method step b), the at least one solvent is then removed, and a residue remains. In method step c), the residue is then heated under a reducing atmosphere. In addition, the invention relates to corresponding silicon particles, and to a corresponding anode material including silicon particles, and to a lithium cell provided with such.
US10283765B2	Energy storage device and method for manufacturing the same Provided are an energy storage device including an electrode in which lithium is introduced into a silicon layer and a method for manufacturing the energy storage device. A silicon layer is formed over a current collector, a solution including lithium is applied on the silicon layer, and heat treatment is performed thereon; thus, at least lithium can be introduced into the silicon layer. By using the solution including lithium, even when the silicon layer includes a plurality of silicon microparticles, the solution including lithium can enter a space between the microparticles and lithium can be introduced into the silicon microparticles which are in contact with the solution including lithium. Moreover, even when the silicon layer is a thin silicon film or includes a plurality of whiskers or whisker groups, the solution can be uniformly applied; accordingly, lithium can be included in silicon easily.
US10283764B2	Positive electrode active material for secondary battery and secondary battery including same A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery and a secondary battery including the same are provided. The positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes on the surface of a core, a surface treatment layer composed of a B and Si-containing amorphous oxide, and thus may exhibit reduced moisture reactivity, improved thermal and chemical stability, and high-voltage stability.
US10283762B2	Anode active material for lithium secondary battery, method for preparing the same and lithium secondary battery comprising the same Provided are an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method of preparing the same and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The anode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a carbonaceous material core; and a shell formed outside of the carbonaceous material core. The shell includes a plurality of spinel-type lithium titanium oxide particles, and a plurality of metal oxide particles, wherein the metal belongs to group 4 or 13 of the periodic table, the metal oxide particles filling voids formed by the carbonaceous material and the plurality of spinel-type lithium titanium oxide particles. The anode active material for a lithium secondary battery has the metal oxide shell, and thus has the improved conductivity, a high output density, and consequently excellent electrical characteristics. The lithium secondary battery manufactured using the anode active material ensures safety sufficiently.
US10283761B2	Electrode materials, their manufacture and use Electrode material comprising (a) at least one compound of general formula (I) LiFe(1-y)M1yPO4 (I) y is in the range of from zero to 0.4 M1 is at least one element selected from Co, Mn, Ni, V, Mg, Nd, Zn and Y, that contains at least one further iron-phosphorous compound, and in the range of from 0.05 to 0.25% by weight of sulphur and in the range of from 0.003 to 0.5% by weight of Ti, (b) carbon in electrically conductive modification.
US10283757B2	Positive electrode active material precursor for lithium secondary battery, positive electrode active material manufactured by using thereof, and lithium secondary battery including same The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode active material precursor for a lithium secondary battery, a positive electrode active material manufactured by using thereof, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. More specifically, it relates to a positive electrode active material precursor for a lithium secondary battery as a secondary particle comprising transition metals, and formed by gathering of a plurality of primary particles having different a-axis direction length to c-axis direction length ratio, wherein the a-axis direction length to c-axis direction length ratio of the primary particle making up the secondary particle is increased from the center to the surface of the secondary particle; a positive electrode active material; and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same.
US10283756B2	Negative electrode active material, method for producing a negative electrode active material, and lithium ion secondary battery The present invention is a negative electrode active material for a negative electrode active material layer of a lithium ion secondary battery, wherein: the negative electrode active material comprises silicon-based material consisting of SiOx (0.5≤x≤1.6); and the negative electrode active material has two or more peaks in a region of a bond energy ranging from 520 eV to 537 eV in an O 1s peak shape given in an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. As a result, it is possible to provide a negative electrode active material in which a battery capacity can be increased and cycle characteristics and initial charge/discharge characteristics can be improved when used as a negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery.
US10283755B2	Battery module A battery module includes a cell assembly comprising a plurality of cells; a module housing including an upper housing having a closed inner space accommodating the cell assembly and a lower housing air-tightly attached to a lower end of the upper housing; and an air vent member air-tightly disposed at one side of the module housing to discharge inner gas of the module housing to the outside, the air vent member being configured to block external gas from entering into the module housing.
US10283753B2	Cell and electrochemical device The present disclosure provides a cell and an electrochemical device. The cell comprises: a first electrode plate comprising a first current collector and a first active material layer, a second electrode plate comprising a second current collector and a second active material layer; a first electrode tab, a second electrode tab, a separator. The first current collector has a first surface uncoated region; the second current collector has a second surface uncoated region; the first electrode tab is provided on the first surface uncoated region, the second electrode tab is provided on the second surface uncoated region. The first electrode tab and/or the second electrode tab are enlarged in length and width. When the cell is subjected to a mechanical shock, the first electrode tab and the second electrode tab are deformed to puncture the separator therebetween, so the first current collector and the second current collector are electrically connected.
US10283749B2	Laminated polyolefin microporous membrane, battery separator, and production method thereof A laminated polyolefin microporous membrane is disclosed. The laminated polyolefin microporous membrane includes a first polyolefin microporous membrane, and a second polyolefin microporous membrane. A shutdown temperature of the laminated polyolefin microporous membrane is from 128° C. to 135° C., an air permeation resistance increase rate from 30° C. to 105° C. per 20 μm of thickness of the laminated polyolefin microporous membrane is less than 1.5 sec/100 cc Air/° C., and a variation range in an F25 value of the laminated polyolefin microporous membrane in a longitudinal direction is not greater than 1 MPa. The F25 value represents a value determined by dividing the load at 25% elongation of a sample of the laminated polyolefin microporous membrane as measured with a tensile tester by the cross-sectional area of the sample polyolefin microporous membrane.
US10283743B2	Battery module A battery module provided in a vehicle, includes a holder plate. The holder plate includes openings, a first end surface, a second end surface, support portions and a vulnerable portion. The openings are configured such that cells are inserted in the openings respectively. The first end surface is configured to receive a collision load of a collision object to collide from a third direction. The second end surface is placed on an opposite side to the first end surface in the third direction of the holder plate. The holder plate is supported by the support portions so as to define a space between the second end surface and an adjacent member in the third direction. The vulnerable portion is configured to break the holder plate along a boundary between a first battery group and a second battery group when the vulnerable portion receives the collision load.
US10283742B2	Top cover assembly for power battery and power battery having the same Provided is a top cover structure for power battery, including a first electrode assembly, a second electrode assembly, a top cover plate electrically connected with the first electrode assembly, and a deformable plate attached to the top cover plate; the second electrode assembly includes a second electrode terminal, a second connecting block, a second insulating piece in which a via-hole and an gas-guide hole are defined, an upper sealing piece arranged between the second insulating piece and the second connecting block and including a sealing area for deforming space and a sealing area for electrode terminal, and a lower sealing piece arranged between the second insulating piece and the top cover plate and enclosing the via-hole for deformable plate. The sealing area for deforming space encloses the via-hole and the gas-guide hole, the sealing area for electrode terminal enclose the second electrode terminal.
US10283740B2	Battery packaging material A battery packaging material has a laminate in which at least a base material layer, a metal layer and a sealant layer are laminated in this order, wherein the sealant layer has a plurality of fatty acid amide-based lubricants, and at least one of the fatty acid amide-based lubricants is a saturated fatty acid amide.
US10283739B2	Packaging material for electrical storage devices, electrical storage device, and method for producing embossed packaging material A packaging material for electrical storage devices which includes a base layer, a metal foil layer arranged on the base layer, and a sealant layer arranged on the metal foil layer. In the packaging material for electrical storage devices, the base layer includes at least one of a stretched polyester resin and a stretched polyamide resin, and the metal foil layer is an aluminum foil containing iron in the range of about 0.5 mass % or more to about 5.0 mass % or less. The packaging material has a tensile elongation of about 50% or more both the MD and TD directions of the base layer.
US10283736B2	Display apparatus and portable terminal A display apparatus includes a display panel including a display surface that displays an image and a rear surface that faces the display surface, a cover panel attached to the rear surface of the display panel, the cover panel including a center portion and an edge portion surrounding the center portion, the center portion having a thickness greater than a thickness of the edge portion, and a reinforcing member in an overlapping relationship with the edge portion of the cover panel, the reinforcing member facing the display panel such that the cover panel is between the reinforcing member and the display panel.
US10283733B2	Packaging structure for OLED device and display apparatus A packaging structure for an OLED device is provided. The packaging structure includes a plurality of films coated on an outer side of the OLED device and comprising alternately stacked inorganic layers and organic layers, wherein both a film in contact with the OLED device and a film farthest from the OLED device are inorganic layers, wherein the inorganic layer in contact with the OLED device comprises at least two sub-films sequentially stacked, and wherein a contact angle between i) a material for forming a sub-film of the at least two sub-films that contacts an organic layer and ii) an organic material for forming the organic layer is smaller than a preset angle.
US10283731B2	Laser welding transparent glass sheets using low melting glass or thin absorbing films A method of sealing a workpiece comprising forming an inorganic film over a surface of a first substrate, arranging a workpiece to be protected between the first substrate and a second substrate wherein the inorganic film is in contact with the second substrate; and sealing the workpiece between the first and second substrates as a function of the composition of impurities in the first or second substrates and as a function of the composition of the inorganic film by locally heating the inorganic film with a predetermined laser radiation wavelength. The inorganic film, the first substrate, or the second substrate can be transmissive at approximately 420 nm to approximately 750 nm.
US10283730B2	OLED encapsulation method and OLED encapsulation structure The present invention provides an OLED encapsulation method and an OLED encapsulation structure. By arranging at least two loops of encapsulation resin frames around an outer circumference of the OLED device, the potential risk of external moisture and oxygen invading can be greatly reduce, and even one of the multiple loops of the encapsulation resin frames appears a defect spot, no influence would occur on the OLED device located internally. Further, by arranging a single or multiple encapsulation resin connection sections between two adjacent loops of the encapsulation resin frames, multiple discontinuous sealed and enclosed spaces are formed between two adjacent loops of the encapsulation resin frames so as to effectively block moisture and oxygen to flow among different ones of the sealed and enclosed spaces, whereby a defect spot occurring in any one of the encapsulation resin frames could only affect the sealed and enclosed space where the defect spot is located and would not affect the sealed and enclosed spaces of other sites so as to better block the invasion of external moisture and oxygen to the OLED device and thus improving encapsulation effectiveness of the OLED device. Based on the two features discussed above, the present invention may overcome the issue of invasion of moisture and oxygen resulting from defect spot caused by aging of an encapsulation resin frame and significantly improving light emission quality and service life of the OLED device.
US10283728B2	Electrolytic copper foil and manufacturing method therefor There is provided a high gloss electrodeposited copper foil which can be manufactured in a short time. The electrodeposited copper foil has a fraction of the areas occupied by the {100} plane deviating by 18° or less from the <001> crystal orientation of 10% or more determined by analysis of the surface by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and at least one surface of the electrodeposited copper foil has a glossiness Gs (20°) of 1,500 or more, determined in accordance with JIS Z 8741-1997.
US10283725B2	Organic Schottky diodes An organic diode has a substrate, a first conductor layer on the substrate, an organic semiconductor layer on the first conductor layer, and a second conductor layer on the organic substrate layer, wherein one of the conductor layers has an injection enhancement.
US10283721B2	Material for organic electroluminescent elements, and organic electroluminescent element using same Disclosed are an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) having improved luminous efficiency, sufficiently secured driving stability, and a simple construction, and a material for an organic EL device. The material for an organic EL device includes a carborane compound having a structure in which at least one carborane ring and at least one dibenzothiophene ring are present, and the at least one carborane ring is bonded to the at least one dibenzothiophene ring at position 1, 2, or 3. In addition, the organic EL device includes, between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, at least one organic layer, in which the at least one organic layer includes the carborane compound.
US10283720B2	Compound, composition and organic light-emitting device A compound of formula (I) wherein: Ar1 represents an aryl or heteroaryl group that may be unsubstituted or substituted with one or more substituents; n is 0 or 1; and Xan independently in each occurrence represents a group selected from formula (IIa) or (IIb): wherein X is O or S; R1 independently in each occurrence is H or a substituent; R2 independently in each occurrence is H or a substituent; p independently in each occurrence is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; q is 0, 1, 2 or 3; and * represents a bond to Ar1. Use of compounds of formula (I) as a host for phosphorescent emitters is disclosed.
US10283719B2	Organic thin-film transistor and method for manufacturing the same, material for organic thin-film transistor, composition for organic thin-film transistor, compound, and organic semiconductor film An object of the present invention is to provide a compound which, when used for organic semiconductor films in organic thin-film transistors, makes the organic thin-film transistors exhibit a high carrier mobility, a material for an organic thin-film transistor for which the compound is used, a composition for an organic thin-film transistor, an organic thin-film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, and an organic semiconductor film.An organic thin-film transistor of the present invention contains a compound represented by General Formula (1) in an organic semiconductor film (organic semiconductor layer) thereof.
US10283716B2	Compound for organic electric element, organic electric element using the same, and electronic device comprising same Provided is a novel compound for EBL capable of improving the light emitting efficiency, stability and life span of a device, and an organic electric element and an electronic device using the same.
US10283714B2	Organic electroluminescent material containing alkaline earth metal based metal-organic frameworks and organic electroluminescent device using the same An organic electroluminescent material is shown in the following general formula (1), {[M(L)(H2O)x].(H2O)y}n General Formula (1) wherein x is between 1 and 4, y is between 1 and 8, and n is a positive integer. M is any one selected from the group consisting of beryllium (Be), strontium (Sr), and radium (Ra). L is an organic ligand containing a naphthalene group and an anhydride group. M and L form metal-organic frameworks. An organic electroluminescent device containing the organic electroluminescent material is also disclosed.
US10283711B2	Method of producing organic EL ink and method of manufacturing organic EL device A method of producing an organic electroluminescent ink includes reducing ozone contained in an organic electroluminescent mixture comprising an organic electroluminescent material and a solvent.
US10283709B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same In an embodiment, a substrate that includes a cell region and a dummy region is provided. Lower interconnection structures are formed in the cell region and the dummy region. One or more first multilayered structure patterns are formed in the cell region and one or more second multilayered structure patterns in the dummy region over the lower interconnection structures. The first multilayered structure patterns and second multilayered structure patterns extend in a first direction. Each of the second multilayered structure patterns includes an etch target layer. An insulating material layer is formed over the first multilayered structure patterns and the second multilayered structure patterns. An interlayer insulating layer that fills a space between two adjacent patterns of the first multilayered structure patterns and second multilayered structure patterns is formed by planarizing the insulating material layer. The etch target layer in each of the second multilayered structure patterns is removed.
US10283706B2	Memory device A memory device includes first interconnects extending in a first direction; a second interconnect extending in a second direction crossing the first interconnects; an insulating film provided between two first interconnects; and a resistance change film between the first interconnects and the second interconnect. The resistance change film includes a first layer and second layers, the first layer extending in the second direction along the second interconnect, and the second layers being provided selectively between the respective first interconnects and the first layer. The second layers protrude toward the second interconnect exceeding an end surface of the insulating film in a third direction from the respective first interconnects toward the second interconnect. The respective second layers have a surface on a side of the first interconnects, and a width in the second direction of the surface is wider than a width in the second direction of the first interconnect.
US10283705B2	Memory cells, semiconductor devices including the memory cells, and methods of operation Memory cells are disclosed, which cells include a cell material and an ion-source material over the cell material. A discontinuous interfacial material is included between the cell material and the ion-source material. Also disclosed are fabrication methods and semiconductor devices including the disclosed memory cells.
US10283704B2	Resistive memory device The invention is notably directed to a resistive memory device comprising a control unit for controlling the resistive memory device and a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of memory cells includes a first terminal, a second terminal and a phase change segment comprising a phase-change material for storing information in a plurality of resistance states. The phase change segment is arranged between the first terminal and the second terminal. The phase change material consists of antimony. Furthermore, at least one of the dimensions of the phase change segment is smaller than 15 nanometers. Additional implementations of the resistive memory device include a related method, a related control unit, a related memory cell and a related computer program product.
US10283702B2	Methods for resistive random access memory (RRAM) Methods for a resistive random access memory (RRAM) device are disclosed. A bottom electrode is formed over a substrate. A top electrode is formed over the bottom electrode. A resistive switching layer is formed interposed between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The resistive switching is made of a composite of a metal, Si, and O, formed by oxidation of a metal silicide of a metal, co-deposition of the metal and silicon in oxygen ambiance, co-deposition of a metal oxide of the metal and silicon, or co-deposition of a metal oxide of the metal and silicon oxide. There may be an additional tunnel barrier layer between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The top electrode and the bottom electrode may comprise multiple sub-layers.
US10283701B1	Method and system for providing a boron-free magnetic layer in perpendicular magnetic junctions A magnetic junction and method for providing the magnetic junction are described. The method includes providing a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer and a free layer switchable between stable magnetic states. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the pinned and free layers. Providing the pinned layer and/or providing the free layer includes cooling a portion of the magnetic junction, depositing a wetting layer while the portion of the magnetic junction is cooled, oxidizing/nitriding the wetting layer and depositing a boron-free magnetic layer on the oxide/nitride wetting layer. The portion of the magnetic junction is cooled to within a temperature range including temperature(s) not greater than 250 K. The wetting layer has a thickness of at least 0.25 and not more than three monolayers. The wetting layer includes at least one magnetic material. The boron-free magnetic layer has a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy greater than an out-of-plane demagnetization energy.
US10283699B2	Hall-effect sensor isolator A coupler is disclosed that employs hall-effect sensing technology. Specifically, the coupler is configured to produce an output voltage by converting the magnetic field generated by a current conductor at an input side. The output and input sides may be electrically isolated from one another but may be coupled via the hall-effect sensing technology, such as a hall-effect sensor. The output and input sides may be provided in an overlapping configuration.
US10283698B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same A device, which may include a semiconductor device, may include a contact plug, a first barrier metal covering a bottom surface of the contact plug and a lower sidewall of the contact plug, such that the first barrier metal exposes an upper sidewall of the contact plug, and an insulation pattern covering the upper sidewall of the contact plug such that the insulation pattern isolates the first barrier metal from exposure. A magnetic tunnel junction pattern may cover a top surface of the contact plug. Each element of the contact plug, the first barrier metal, and the insulation pattern may be in a contact hole of a first interlayer dielectric layer.
US10283694B2	Method for increasing the integration level of superconducting electronics circuits, and a resulting circuit A method for increasing the integration level of superconducting electronic circuits, comprising fabricating a series of planarized electrically conductive layers patterned into wiring, separated by planarized insulating layers, with vias communicating between the conductive layers. Contrary to the standard sequence of patterning from the bottom up, the pattern of vias in at least one insulating layer is formed prior to the pattern of wiring in the underlying conductive layer. This enables a reduction in the number of planarization steps, leading to a fabrication process which is faster and more reliable. In a preferred embodiment, the superconductor is niobium and the insulator is silicon dioxide. This method can provide 10 or more wiring layers in a complex integrated circuit, and is compatible with non-planarized circuits placed above the planarized wiring layers.
US10283692B2	Power generation system A power generation system includes: a heat source having a temperature being changed over time; a flow passage through which a heat medium heated by the heat source passes; a power generation device including a power generation element and a first electrode, the power generation element being electrically polarized by temperature change thereof depending on temperature change of the heat medium, the first electrode extracting electric power from the power generation element; a temperature detection device being disposed on an upstream side relative to the power generation device in the flow passage and detecting the temperature of the heat medium; a voltage application device that applies voltage to the power generation element; and a control device that activates the voltage application device when the temperature increase of the heat medium has been detected and deactivates the voltage application unit when the temperature decrease of the heat medium has been detected.
US10283690B2	Formation of P-type filled skutterudite by ball-milling and thermo-mechanical processing A method of manufacturing a thermoelectric material comprising: ball-milling a compound comprising a plurality of components, the first component M comprising at least one of a rare earth metal, an actinide, an alkaline-earth metal, and an alkali metal, the second component T comprising a metal of subgroup VIII, and the third component X comprises a pnictogen atom. The compound may be ball-milled for up to 5 hours, and then thermo-mechanically processed by, for example, hot pressing the compound for less than two hours. Subsequent to the thermo-mechanical processing, the compound comprises a single filled skutterudite phase with a dimensionless figure of merit (ZT) above 1.0 and the compound has a composition following a formula of MT4X12.
US10283687B2	Light emitting diode A light emitting diode is disclosed. The light emitting diode includes: a plurality of light emitting cells including a first light emitting cell and a second light emitting cell spaced apart from each other on a single substrate; a continuous passivation layer formed over the upper surface and one facet of the first light emitting cell, the upper surface and the other facet of the second light emitting cell, and the substrate; and an interconnection layer formed on the passivation layer to electrically connect the first light emitting cell to the second light emitting cell. The interconnection layer includes an edge lump portion formed around a first edge where the upper surface and the one facet of the first light emitting cell meet each other or a second edge where the upper surface and the other facet of the second light emitting cell meet each other. The edge lump portion protrudes in a direction away from the edge.
US10283685B2	Light emitting device and method of fabricating the same Provided are a light emitting device and a method of fabricating the same. The light emitting device includes: a light emitting structure including a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and an active layer and including a first surface and a second surface; first and second contact electrodes each ohmic-contacting the first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers; and first and second electrodes disposed on the first surface of the light emitting structure, in which the first and second electrodes each include sintered metal particles and the first and second electrodes each include inclined sides of which the tangential gradients with respect to sides of vertical cross sections thereof are changing.
US10283683B1	Filament structure and LED light bulb having the same An LED filament contains: a light transmissive substrate, at least one LED chip, a first electrode pin, a second electrode pin, a light emitting layer, and a phosphor layer. The phosphor layer packages the at least one LED chip, and the first electrode pin and the second electrode pin expose outside the phosphor layer. The light emitting layer is made of electromagnetic wave material of different radiation waves, the at least one LED chip produces excitation light source to excite the phosphor layer to illumine lights, and a part of the excitation light source of the at least one LED chip excites the light emitting layer to illuminate the lights after passing through the substrate. The part of the excitation light source excites phosphors of the light emitting layer to illuminate the lights toward the LED filament or the light emitting layer absorbs visible lights converted from infrared lights.
US10283681B2	Phosphor-converted light emitting device A phosphor-converted light emitting device includes a light emitting diode (LED) on a substrate, where the LED comprises a stack of epitaxial layers comprising a p-n junction. A wavelength conversion material is in optical communication with the LED. According to one embodiment of the phosphor-converted light emitting device, a selective filter is adjacent to the wavelength conversion material, and the selective filter comprises a plurality of nanoparticles for absorbing light from the LED not down-converted by the wavelength conversion material. According to another embodiment of the phosphor-converted light emitting device, a perpendicular distance between a perimeter of the LED on the substrate and an edge of the substrate is at least about 24 microns. According to another embodiment of the phosphor-converted light emitting device, the LED comprises a mirror layer on one or more sidewalls thereof for reducing light leakage through the sidewalls.
US10283676B2	Light-emitting diode chip with one of a mirror layer and an adhesion-promoting layer for high efficiency and long service life A light-emitting diode chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence based on InGaAlAsP and generates visible light or near-infrared radiation, a current spreading layer located directly on the semiconductor layer sequence and based on AlGaAs, an encapsulation layer applied directly to at least one of the current spreading layer and the semiconductor layer sequence and has an average thickness of 10 nm to 200 nm and a defect density of at most 10/mm2, at least one cover layer applied directly to the encapsulation layer at least in places, at least one non-metallic reflection layer located in places on a side of the current spreading layer facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence and covered in places by the encapsulation layer, and at least one of a mirror layer and an adhesion-promoting layer arranged in places on a side of the reflection layer facing away from the current spreading layers.
US10283675B2	Vertical light emitting diode having electrode configuration and light emitting diode package having the same A light emitting diode including a semiconductor stack including a lower semiconductor layer, an active layer, and an upper semiconductor layer; an upper electrode connected to the upper semiconductor layer and including an electrode pad and extensions extending from the electrode pad; and a lower electrode connected to the lower semiconductor layer. The electrode pad includes a first electrode pad having an elongated shape, disposed along a first side of the upper semiconductor layer, and covering the upper semiconductor layer near the first side of the upper semiconductor layer, and the extensions include an edge extension extending along an edge of the upper semiconductor layer in the electrode pad and surrounding a luminous region and middle extensions extending from the edge extension or the electrode pad and dividing the luminous region into a plurality of luminous regions.
US10283673B2	Light emitting device, light emitting device package and illumination system A light emitting device is provided. The light emitting device includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer including a plurality of well layers and a plurality of barrier layers on the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer on the active layer, and an electrode layer on the second semiconductor layer. A top surface of a first barrier layer adjacent to the second semiconductor layer includes an uneven surface and has a larger area than an area of a top surface of a second barrier layer, wherein the first barrier layer has a thickness thicker than a thickness of the second barrier layer.
US10283672B2	Quantum dot light-emitting device A quantum dot light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode opposite to the first electrode; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the emission layer including quantum dots; and an inorganic layer between the emission layer and the second electrode, the inorganic layer including a metal halide.
US10283669B2	Semiconductor light emitting device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor light-emitting device comprises a substrate; a first adhesive layer on the substrate; multiple epitaxial units on the first adhesive layer; a second adhesive layer on the multiple epitaxial units; multiple first electrodes between the first adhesive layer and the multiple epitaxial units, and contacting the first adhesive layer and the multiple epitaxial units; and multiple second electrodes between the second adhesive layer and the multiple epitaxial units, and contacting the second adhesive layer and the multiple epitaxial units; wherein the multiple epitaxial units are totally separated.
US10283665B2	Compensated photonic device structure and fabrication method thereof Various embodiments of a compensated photonic device structure and fabrication method thereof are described herein. A photonic device may include a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate with a buried oxide (BOX) layer therein, a Si waveguide and an n-type contact layer formed on the BOX layer, a Si multiplication layer disposed on the n-type contact layer, a p-type Si charge layer disposed on the Si multiplication layer, a germanium (Ge) absorption layer disposed on the p-type Si charge layer, a p-type contact layer disposed on the Ge absorption layer, and a metal layer disposed on the p-type contact layer. A compensated region may be formed between the p-type Si charge layer and the Ge absorption layer with a portion of the compensated region in the p-type Si charge layer and another portion of the compensated region in the Ge absorption layer.
US10283659B2	Configurations for solar cells, solar panels, and solar panel systems Embodiments of the disclosure are generally related to solar panel configurations. In some embodiments, the active surface area of the solar panel is increased compared to traditional flat solar cell arrays. The increase in active surface area may increase solar panel efficiency. For example, in some embodiments, a single light ray may have portions reflected onto a plurality of solar cell surfaces to provide further opportunities for light capture and conversion to electricity.
US10283658B2	Interband cascade devices Photovoltaic (PV) and photodetector (PD) devices, comprising a plurality of interband cascade (IC) stages, wherein the IC stages comprise an absorption region with a type-I superlattice and/or a bulk semiconductor material having a band gap, the absorption region configured to absorb photons, an intraband transport region configured to act as a hole barrier, and an interband tunneling region configured to act as an electron barrier, wherein the absorption region, the intraband transport region, and the interband tunneling region are positioned such that electrons will flow from the absorption region to the intraband transport region to the interband tunneling region.
US10283657B1	Broadband photovoltaic sheets and method of constructing the same The invention described herein details flexible, high-efficiency photovoltaic cells with nano-enhanced absorbers and ultra-low dark current. By extending infrared absorption, power conversion efficiencies in single-junction, nano-enhanced solar cells can potentially meet or even exceed the Shockley-Queisser limit. Novel device designs utilizing advanced band gap engineering are employed to suppress non-radiative recombination and expose the limiting radiative component of the dark current. Light trapping structures and new nanostructured absorber designs are also considered to maximize the creation and collection of photogenerated carriers. Flexible photovoltaic devices are fabricated using established full-wafer epitaxial liftoff processes. The innovative design described herein provides for light-weight and flexible photovoltaic sheets capable of achieving ultra-high conversion efficiencies over a wide range of operating conditions.
US10283653B2	Solar cell with reduced absorber thickness and reduced back surface recombination A stacked-layered thin film solar cell. The solar cell has reduced absorber thickness and an improved back contact for Copper Indium Gallium Selenide solar cells. The back contact provides improved reflectance particularly for infrared wavelengths while still maintaining ohmic contact to the semiconductor absorber. This reflectance is achieved by producing a back contact having a highly reflecting metal separated from an absorbing layer with a dielectric layer.
US10283645B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same A semiconductor device includes a TFT (101), the TFT including a gate electrode (12), a gate insulating layer (14) covering the gate electrode, a metal oxide layer (16A) including a channel region (16c), a source contact region (16s) and a drain contact region (16d), a first electrode (18A) in contact with the source contact region, an insulating layer (22) formed on the metal oxide layer and the first electrode, the insulating layer having a first opening (22p) therein through which a portion of the metal oxide layer is exposed, and a light-transmissive second electrode (24) formed on the insulating layer and in a contact hole including the first opening, wherein the second electrode (24) is in contact with the drain contact region (16d) in the contact hole, the drain contact region (16d) is a portion of a region (17) of the metal oxide layer (16A) that is exposed through the contact hole, and as seen from a direction normal to a substrate (11), the second electrode (24) does not overlap the channel region (16c).
US10283643B2	Display device The purpose of the invention is suppressing a kink phenomenon and improving the image quality of a display device. The display device has a TFT in a pixel. The TFT has a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer under the semiconductor layer, a second insulating layer over the semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode facing the semiconductor layer with a gap. The gate electrode has a first gate electrode portion facing a lower surface of the semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode portion facing an upper surface of the semiconductor layer, and a third gate electrode portion facing a lateral surface of the semiconductor layer and connected to the first and second gate electrode portions. A laminated part where the first and second insulating layers are stacked is around the semiconductor layer, and a part of the laminated part is between the lateral surface and the third gate electrode portion.
US10283639B2	Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first fin structure disposed over the substrate, a second fin structure disposed over the substrate, and an isolation structure disposed between the first fin structure and the second fin structure and electrically isolating the first fin structure from the second fin structure. The isolation structure includes a first thickness, a second thickness and a third thickness different from each other.
US10283637B2	Individually-tunable heat reflectors in an EPI-growth system A semiconductor fabrication system includes a wafer carrier configured to carry a wafer thereon. A radiation source is positioned above the wafer carrier. The radiation source is configured to emit thermal radiation. A plurality of reflectors is positioned above, and aligned with, an edge region of the wafer. The reflectors each have a reflective coating configured to reflect the thermal radiation. A plurality of separately-controllable motors is coupled to the reflectors, respectively. The motors are each configured to cause its respective reflector to rotate in a counterclockwise direction or a clockwise direction so as to redirect the thermal radiation back toward the edge region of the wafer. A controller is communicatively coupled to the plurality of motors. The controller is configured to control each of the motors separately to cause each motors to rotate independently of other motors.
US10283635B2	Field effect transistor device with separate source and body contacts and method of producing the device The field effect transistor device comprises a substrate (1) of semiconductor material, a body well of a first type of electric conductivity in the substrate, a source region in the body well, the source region having an opposite second type of electric conductivity, a source contact (3) on the source region, a body contact region of the first type of electric conductivity in the body well, a body contact (5) on the body contact region, and a gate electrode layer (2) partially overlapping the body well. A portion (2*) of the gate electrode layer (2) is present between the source contact (3) and the body contact (5).
US10283633B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and an insulating layer. A position of the third electrode is between a position of the first electrode and a position of the second electrode. The first layer includes at least one of Alx1Ga1-x1N (0
US10283629B2	Scalable process for the formation of self aligned, planar electrodes for devices employing one or two dimensional lattice structures A method of forming an electrical device that includes forming a gate dielectric layer over a gate electrode, forming source and drain electrodes on opposing sides of the gate electrode, wherein one end of the source and drain electrodes provides a coplanar surface with the gate dielectric, and positioning a 1D or 2D nanoscale material on the coplanar surface to provide the channel region of the electrical device.
US10283625B2	Integrated strained stacked nanosheet FET Transistors include stress liners, with one or more semiconductor structures between the stress liners. The stress liners provide a stress on the one or more semiconductor structures. A gate is formed over and around the one or more semiconductor structures. A source and drain region is formed on the one or more semiconductor structures on opposite sides of the gate, between the stress liners.
US10283620B2	Approach to control over-etching of bottom spacers in vertical fin field effect transistor devices A method of forming a vertical fin field effect transistor device, including, forming one or more vertical fins with a hardmask cap on each vertical fin on a substrate, forming a fin liner on the one or more vertical fins and hardmask caps, forming a sacrificial liner on the fin liner, and forming a bottom spacer layer on the sacrificial liner.
US10283619B2	Metal gate scheme for device and methods of forming Gate structures and methods of forming the gate structures are described. In some embodiments, a method includes forming source/drain regions in a substrate, and forming a gate structure between the source/drain regions. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer over the substrate, a work function tuning layer over the gate dielectric layer, a metal-containing compound over the work function tuning layer, and a metal over the metal-containing compound, wherein the metal-containing compound comprises the metal as an element of the compound.
US10283612B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor The present invention discloses a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate; forming a semiconductor stacked structure on the substrate; forming at least apart of a stacked cap layer on the semiconductor stacked structure, wherein the part of the stacked cap layer includes a nitride layer; removing a part of the nitride layer; forming the rest part of the stacked cap layer; forming a protection layer on the stacked cap layer, and etching the protection layer to form an opening, wherein the nitride layer is not exposed by the opening; and introducing an etchant material into the opening to etch the substrate. The present invention also provides a semiconductor device made by the method.
US10283610B2	Binary metal oxide based interlayer for high mobility channels A method of forming a gate stack that includes treating a semiconductor substrate with a wet etch chemistry to clean a surface of the semiconductor substrate and form an oxide containing interfacial layer, and converting the oxide containing interfacial layer to a binary alloy oxide based interlayer using a plasma deposition sequence including alternating a metal gas precursor and a nitrogen and/or hydrogen containing plasma. The method of forming the gate stack may further include forming a high-k dielectric layer atop the binary alloy oxide based interlayer.
US10283605B2	Self-aligned metal gate etch back process and device A method of forming a semiconductor device includes receiving a device having a substrate and a first dielectric layer surrounding a gate trench. The method further includes depositing a gate dielectric layer and a gate work function (WF) layer in the gate trench, and forming a hard mask (HM) layer in a space surrounded by the gate WF layer. The method further includes recessing the gate WF layer such that a top surface of the gate WF layer in the gate trench is below a top surface of the first dielectric layer. After the recessing of the gate WF layer, the method further includes removing the HM layer in the gate trench. After the removing of the HM layer, the method further includes depositing a metal layer in the gate trench.
US10283603B2	Methods for forming wrap around contact In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor fin that extends from a substrate. The first semiconductor fin has source and drain regions, which are separated from one another by a channel region in the first semiconductor fin. A gate overlies an upper surface and sidewalls of the channel region. A contact is coupled to the source or drain region of the first semiconductor fin, where the source or drain region includes a layer of epitaxial material with a substantially diamond-shaped cross-section. The contact surrounds the source or drain region on top and bottom surfaces of the substantially diamond-shaped cross-section. A first capping material is arranged along outer sidewalls of the first semiconductor fin under the contact. The first capping material has an uppermost surface that is spaced below a lowermost surface of the contact by a non-zero distance.
US10283600B2	Integrated circuit device An integrated circuit device includes a substrate, a gate structure, a spacer structure, a source/drain region, and a first contact structure. The substrate includes a fin-type active region. The gate structure intersects with the fin-type active region on the substrate, and has two sides and two side walls. The spacer structure is disposed on both side walls of the gate structure and includes a first spacer layer contacting at least a portion of both side walls of the gate structure and a second spacer layer disposed on the first spacer layer and having a lower dielectric constant than a dielectric constant of the first spacer layer. The source/drain region is disposed on both sides of the gate structure. The first contact structure is electrically connected to the source/drain region and includes a first contact plug disposed on the source/drain region and a first metallic capping layer disposed on the first contact plug.
US10283599B2	High electron mobility transistor structure and method of making the same A transistor includes a first layer over a substrate. The transistor also includes a second layer over the first layer. The transistor further includes a carrier channel layer at an interface of the first layer and the second layer. The transistor additionally includes a gate structure, a drain, and a source over the second layer. The transistor also includes a passivation material in the second layer between an edge of the gate structure and an edge of the drain in a top-side view. The carrier channel layer has a smaller surface area than the first layer between the edge of the gate structure and the edge of the drain in the top-side view.
US10283597B2	Scandium-containing III-N etch-stop layers for selective etching of III-nitrides and related materials A semiconductor device structure including a scandium (Sc)- or yttrium (Y)-containing material layer situated between a substrate and one or more overlying layers. The Sc- or Y-containing material layer serves as an etch-stop during fabrication of one or more devices from overlying layers situated above the Sc- or Y-containing material layer. The Sc- or Y-containing material layer can be grown within an epitaxial group III-nitride device structure for applications such as electronics, optoelectronics, and acoustoelectronics, and can improve the etch-depth accuracy, reproducibility and uniformity.
US10283594B2	SiC structure, semiconductor device having SiC structure, and process of forming the same A silicon carbide (SiC) structure and a method of forming the SiC structure are disclosed. The SiC structure includes an SiC substrate and a film provided on the SiC substrate. The SiC substrate contains both of a hexagonal close packed (hcp) structure and a face centered cubic (fcc) structure, and has only one of the hcp surface and the fcc surface, where the hcp surface includes atoms in the topmost layer whose rows overlap with rows of atoms in the third layer, while, the fcc surface includes atoms in the topmost layer whose rows are different from rows of atoms in the third layer.
US10283593B2	Thin film transistor and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a thin film transistor including a gate electrode on a substrate, a gate insulator over the entire surface of the substrate including the gate electrode, a first active layer corresponding to the gate electrode on the gate insulator, a second active layer on or under the first active layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart by a predetermined distance, the source electrode and the drain electrode being connected to the first active layer or the second active layer.
US10283590B2	Field-effect transistors having contacts to 2D material active region Exemplary FET devices having 2D material layer active regions and methods of fabricating thereof are described. For example, a black phosphorus active region has a first thickness in the channel region and a second, greater, thickness in the source/drain (S/D) region. The BP in the S/D region has a sidewall that interfaces a contact disposed over the FET. A gate electrode is disposed over the channel region. In some embodiments, the sidewall has passivated edge. In some embodiments, the sidewall is nonlinear. In some embodiments, the stress layer is disposed over the 2D material layer.
US10283589B2	Integration methods to fabricate internal spacers for nanowire devices A nanowire device having a plurality of internal spacers and a method for forming said internal spacers are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a nanowire stack disposed above a substrate, the nanowire stack having a plurality of vertically-stacked nanowires, a gate structure wrapped around each of the plurality of nanowires, defining a channel region of the device, the gate structure having gate sidewalls, a pair of source/drain regions on opposite sides of the channel region; and an internal spacer on a portion of the gate sidewall between two adjacent nanowires, internal to the nanowire stack. In an embodiment, the internal spacers are formed by depositing spacer material in dimples etched adjacent to the channel region. In an embodiment, the dimples are etched through the channel region. In another embodiment, the dimples are etched through the source/drain region.
US10283587B2	Modulated super junction power MOSFET devices A semiconductor device—e.g., a super junction power MOSFET—includes a number of columns of one type of dopant formed in a region of another type of dopant. Generally speaking, the columns are modulated in some manner. For example, the widths (e.g., diameters) of some columns are greater than the widths of other columns.
US10283584B2	Capacitive structure in a semiconductor device having reduced capacitance variability A capacitor, such as an N-well capacitor, in a semiconductor device includes a floating semiconductor region, which allows a negative biasing of the channel region of the capacitor while suppressing leakage into the depth of the substrate. In this manner, N-well-based capacitors may be provided in the device level and may have a substantially flat capacitance/voltage characteristic over a moderately wide range of voltages. Consequently, alternating polarity capacitors formed in the metallization system may be replaced by semiconductor-based N-well capacitors.
US10283581B2	Organic light emitting display device having auxiliary lines Provided is an organic light emitting display (OLED) device that includes, for example, a thin film transistor including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a planarization layer on the thin film transistor; an anode on the planarization layer; an organic light emitting layer on the anode; a cathode on the organic light emitting layer; a first auxiliary line on the same layer and formed of the same material as the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a second auxiliary line on the same layer and formed of the same material as the anode, wherein the first auxiliary line and the second auxiliary line cross each other with the planarization layer interposed therebetween, and wherein the first auxiliary line is electrically connected with the cathode through the second auxiliary line.
US10283577B2	One-way transparent display A transparent emissive device is provided. The device may include one or more OLEDs having an anode, a cathode, and an organic emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. In some configurations, the OLEDs may be non-transparent. The device may also include one or more locally transparent regions, which, in combination with the non-transparent OLEDs, provides an overall device transparency of 5% or more.
US10283575B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display device includes an array substrate; an organic light emitting layer including a second electrode; a thin film encapsulation layer cladding the organic light emitting layer; a touch electrode. A projection on the array substrate of part of a border of the second electrode/thin film encapsulation layer has a concave-convex outline. The concave-convex outline includes convex portions and concave portions. The convex portions of the second electrode are electrically connected with first metal wires in the array substrate via first through holes. Perpendicular projections on the array substrate of the second through holes are not overlapped with that on the array substrate of the thin film encapsulation layer; the perpendicular projections on the array substrate of at least part of the second through holes are in that on the array substrate of the concave portions of the thin film encapsulation layer.
US10283573B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus and thin film deposition mask for manufacturing the same Provided is an organic light emitting display apparatus. The organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate having a light emitting area and a bezel area surrounding the light emitting area; and an organic light emitting element. The organic light emitting element includes an organic layer disposed in a plurality of columns in the light emitting area on the substrate. Each of the plurality of columns includes a different number of pixels disposed therein. The organic layer corresponds to the plurality of columns.
US10283572B2	Organic light-emitting diode display device and method of fabricating the same An OLED display device includes a first substrate; organic light-emitting diodes each including a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer and a second electrode on the first substrate; a passivation layer on the organic light-emitting diodes; a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate; a color filter layer on an inner surface of the second substrate; and a color changing layer contacting the passivation layer and the color filter layer.
US10283565B1	Resistive memory with a plurality of resistive random access memory cells each comprising a transistor and a resistive element A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of vertical field-effect transistors (VFETs) disposed on a substrate and forming a plurality of resistive elements disposed over top surfaces of the VFETs. Each pair of a given one of the plurality of VFETs and a corresponding resistive element disposed over the given VFET provides a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) cell. The VFETs are arranged in two or more columns and two or more rows, wherein each column of VFETs provides a bitline of the ReRAM cells sharing a bottom source/drain region and wherein each row of VFETs provides a wordline of the ReRAM cells sharing a gate. Top source/drain regions of the VFETs provide bottom contacts for the resistive elements disposed over the VFETs.
US10283549B2	Via support structure under pad areas for BSI bondability improvement Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method includes forming a first interconnect wire within a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer over a substrate. One or more vias are formed on the first interconnect wire and within a second ILD layer separated from the substrate by the first ILD layer. One or more additional vias are formed within the second ILD layer. Respective ones of the one or more vias have a larger size than respective ones of the one or more additional vias. A thickness of the substrate is reduced, and the substrate is etched to form a bond pad opening extending through the substrate to the first interconnect wire. A bond pad is formed within the bond pad opening and directly over the one or more vias.
US10283548B1	CMOS sensors and methods of forming the same CMOS sensors and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The CMOS sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer, an interconnect, a bonding pad and a dummy pattern. The semiconductor substrate has a pixel region and a circuit region. The dielectric layer is surrounded by the semiconductor substrate in the circuit region. The interconnect is disposed over the dielectric layer in the circuit region. The bonding pad is disposed in the dielectric layer and electrically connects the interconnect in the circuit region. The dummy pattern is disposed in the dielectric layer and surrounds the bonding pad in the circuit region.
US10283542B2	Optoelectronic modules having a silicon substrate, and fabrication methods for such modules Optoelectronic modules include a silicon substrate in which or on which there is an optoelectronic device. An optics assembly is disposed over the optoelectronic device, and a spacer separates the silicon substrate from the optics assembly. Methods of fabricating such modules also are described.
US10283541B2	Semiconductor device comprising an aperture array and method of producing such a semiconductor device A photosensor (2) is arranged in a semiconductor substrate (1) at a main surface (10), a dielectric layer (4) is arranged on or above the main surface, the dielectric layer including a metal layer (6) electrically connected with the photosensor, and an aperture layer (16) formed from an opaque or semitransparent material is arranged on or above the dielectric layer. The aperture layer is provided with an array of transparent aperture zones (18) above the photosensor, each of the aperture zones penetrating the aperture layer.
US10283538B2	Imaging device and method of driving imaging device An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, each of which including a first pixel element including a first photoelectric conversion unit, and a second pixel element including a second photoelectric conversion unit lower in sensitivity than the first photoelectric conversion unit, a readout circuit configured to read out a first image signal based on signal charge generated in the first pixel element during a first accumulation period, and a second image signal based on signal charge generated in the second pixel element during a second accumulation period longer than the first accumulation period, the second image signal being synchronized with the first image signal, and a control unit configured to control the readout circuit so that a first readout period for reading out the first image signal is performed during the second accumulation period.
US10283537B2	Optoelectronics and CMOS integration on GOI substrate A single chip including an optoelectronic device on the semiconductor layer in a first region, the optoelectronic device comprises a bottom cladding layer, an active region, and a top cladding layer, wherein the bottom cladding layer is above and in direct contact with the semiconductor layer, the active region is above and in direct contact with the bottom cladding layer, and the top cladding layer is above and in direct contact with the active region, a silicon device on the substrate extension layer in a second region, a device insulator layer substantially covering both the optoelectronic device in the first region and the silicon device in the second region, and a waveguide embedded within the device insulator layer in direct contact with a sidewall of the active region of the optoelectronic device.
US10283536B2	Array substrate, method for manufacturing the same, display device and mask plate A method for manufacturing an array substrate includes (S1) forming a pattern including a gate electrode and a gate line, (S2) forming an insulating layer, (S3) forming a pattern including an active layer, where the region where the active layer is arranged includes a first region corresponding to the gate electrode and second regions arranged on both sides of the first region, (S4) forming a mask pattern including a hollowed-out portion, a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion has a thickness smaller than the first portion, (S5) etching the insulating layer to form a via hole for exposing a portion of the gate line, and (S6) ashing a portion of the mask pattern corresponding to the second region to remove the portion of the mask pattern corresponding to the second region, and implanting ions into the active layer.
US10283533B2	Transistor array panel including transistor with top electrode being electrically connected to source electrode and manufacturing method thereof A transistor array panel includes a transistor disposed on a substrate. The transistor includes a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a semiconductor, and a top electrode. The top electrode is disposed on and overlaps the semiconductor, and is electrically connected to the source electrode.
US10283532B2	Semiconductor device and display device including the semiconductor device Provided is a novel semiconductor device. The semiconductor device comprises a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor comprises a first gate electrode; a first insulating film over the first gate electrode; a first oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film; a first source electrode and a first drain electrode over the first oxide semiconductor film; a second insulating film over the first oxide semiconductor film, the first source electrode, and the first drain electrode; and a second gate electrode over the second insulating film. The second transistor comprises a first drain electrode; the second insulating film over the second drain electrode; a second oxide semiconductor film over the second insulating film; a second source electrode and a second drain electrode over the second oxide semiconductor film; a third insulating film over the second oxide semiconductor film, the second source electrode, and the second drain electrode; and a third gate electrode over the third insulating film. The first oxide semiconductor film partly overlaps with the second oxide semiconductor film.
US10283531B2	Thin film transistor, method for manufacturing the same, and display device including the same Disclosed is a thin film transistor including both an N-type semiconductor layer and a P-type semiconductor layer, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device including the same, wherein the thin film transistor may include a first gate electrode on a substrate; a first gate insulating film covering the first gate electrode; a semiconductor layer on the first gate insulating film; a second gate insulating film covering the semiconductor layer; and a second gate electrode on the second gate insulating film, wherein the semiconductor layer includes the N-type semiconductor layer and the P-type semiconductor layer.
US10283527B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device An SOI substrate having a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor layer formed on the insulating layer is provided. A first region is one for forming a low breakdown voltage MISFET in the semiconductor layer, and a second region, in which the insulating layer and the semiconductor layer have been removed, is one for forming a high breakdown voltage MISFET. After an n-type semiconductor region is formed in the second region and an n-type extension region is formed in the first region, a first heat treatment is performed on the semiconductor substrate. Thereafter, a diffusion layer is formed in each of the first and second regions, and then a second heat treatment is performed on the semiconductor substrate. Herein, the time for which the first heat treatment is performed is longer than the time for which the second heat treatment is performed.
US10283526B2	Standard cell circuits employing voltage rails electrically coupled to metal shunts for reducing or avoiding increases in voltage drop Standard cell circuits employing voltage rails electrically coupled to metal shunts for reducing or avoiding increases in voltage drop are disclosed. In one aspect, a standard cell circuit is provided that employs active devices that include corresponding gates disposed with a gate pitch. First and second voltage rails having a line width are disposed in a first metal layer. Employing the first and second voltage rails having substantially a same line width reduces the height of the standard cell circuit as compared to conventional standard cell circuits. Metal lines are disposed in a second metal layer with a metal pitch less than the gate pitch such that the number of metal lines exceeds the number of gates. Electrically coupling the first and second voltage rails to the metal shunts increases the conductive area of each voltage rail, which reduces a voltage drop across each voltage rail.
US10283522B2	Three dimensional semiconductor memory device in which a channel layer has a stacked structure including an outer semiconductor layer and a doped inner semiconductor layer According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body in which insulating layers and electrode films are alternately stacked, a pillar member arranged in a memory hole that is disposed in the stacked body in a thickness direction, and a semiconductor layer provided below the pillar member. The pillar member has a structure in which a memory film and a channel layer are stacked in order from a side of the stacked body. The channel layer has a stacked structure that includes an outer channel semiconductor layer, an intermediate layer made of an insulating material, and an inner channel semiconductor layer, from a side of the memory film. Both of the outer channel semiconductor layer and the inner channel semiconductor layer are electrically connected to the semiconductor layer.
US10283518B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a first stacked structure having first conductive layers and first insulating layers formed alternately with each other, first semiconductor patterns passing through the first stacked structure, a coupling pattern coupled to the first semiconductor patterns, and a slit passing through the first stacked structure and the coupling pattern.
US10283517B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of control gate electrodes, a semiconductor layer, and a charge accumulation layer. The plurality of control gate electrodes are provided as a stack above a substrate. The semiconductor layer has as its longitudinal direction a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and faces the plurality of control gate electrodes. The charge accumulation layer is positioned between the control gate electrode and the semiconductor layer. A lower end of the charge accumulation layer is positioned more upwardly than a lower end of a lowermost layer-positioned one of the control gate electrodes.
US10283508B2	Semiconductor device and fabricating the same The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating an integrated circuit device. The method includes providing a precursor including a substrate having first and second metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) regions. The first and second MOS regions include first and second gate regions, semiconductor layer stacks, and source/drain regions respectively. The method further includes laterally exposing and oxidizing the semiconductor layer stack in the first gate region to form first outer oxide layer and inner nanowire set, and exposing the first inner nanowire set. A first high-k/metal gate (HK/MG) stack wraps around the first inner nanowire set. The method further includes laterally exposing and oxidizing the semiconductor layer stack in the second gate region to form second outer oxide layer and inner nanowire set, and exposing the second inner nanowire set. A second HK/MG stack wraps around the second inner nanowire set.
US10283507B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a first region and a second region; a first fin-shaped structure on the first region and a second fin-shaped structure on the second region; a first bump on the first region; a first doped layer on the first fin-shaped structure and the bump; and a gate structure covering the bump.
US10283502B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a plurality of active patterns protruding from a substrate, a gate structure intersecting the plurality of active patterns, a plurality of source/drain regions respectively on the plurality of active patterns at opposite sides of the gate structure, and source/drain contacts intersecting the plurality of active patterns, each of the source/drain contacts connected in common to the source/drain regions thereunder, each of the plurality of source/drain regions including a first portion in contact with a top surface of the active pattern thereunder, the first portion having a width substantially increasing as a distance from the substrate increases, and a second portion extending from the first portion, the second portion having a width substantially decreasing as a distance from the substrate increases, bottom surfaces of the source/drain contacts being lower than an interface between the first and second portions.
US10283501B2	GaN-on-Si semiconductor device structures for high current/ high voltage lateral GaN transistors and methods of fabrication thereof A GaN-on-Si device structure and a method of fabrication are disclosed for improved die yield and device reliability of high current/high voltage lateral GaN transistors. A plurality of conventional GaN device structures comprising GaN epi-layers are fabricated on a silicon substrate (GaN-on-Si die). After processing of on-chip interconnect layers, a trench structure is defined around each die, through the GaN epi-layers and into the silicon substrate. A trench cladding is provided on proximal sidewalls, comprising at least one of a passivation layer and a conductive metal layer. The trench cladding extends over exposed surfaces of the GaN epi-layers, over the interface region with the substrate, and also over the exposed surfaces of the interconnect layers. This structure reduces risk of propagation of dicing damage and defects or cracks in the GaN epi-layers into active device regions. A metal trench cladding acts as a barrier for electro-migration of mobile ions.
US10283497B2	Light-emitting diode chip The present invention provides a light-emitting diode (LED) chip. The LED chip includes a LED structure and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure. The ESD protection structure is in a corner of the LED chip and connects with the LED structure in anti-parallel. An interface between the LED structure and the ESD protection structure is a straight line from a top view.
US10283491B2	Light emitting device package A light emitting device package is provided. The light emitting device package may include a main body having a cavity including side surfaces and a bottom, and a first reflective cup and a second reflective cup provided in the bottom of the cavity of the main body and separated from each other. A first light emitting device may be provided in the first reflective cup, and a second light emitting device may be provided in the second reflective cup.
US10283488B2	Semiconductor module A semiconductor module includes: a substrate having an insulating layer and a connecting portion connecting front and rear surfaces of the insulating layer; a first pattern on a front surface of the substrate; a second pattern on a rear surface of the substrate; a first semiconductor device disposed adjacent to the front surface of the substrate and including a first switching device having a lateral structure; a second semiconductor device disposed adjacent to the rear surface of the substrate and including a second switching device having the lateral structure; and a capacitor. A path formed by the first pattern and the first semiconductor device and a path formed by the second pattern and the second semiconductor device are opposed to each other across the substrate, and in the paths, currents flow in directions opposite to each other.
US10283486B2	Semiconductor package including package substrate and chip stack in which a lower chip has a respective dummy pad by which each upper chip is connected to the package substrate A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, semiconductor chips stacked on the package substrate, and electrical connectors that connect internal circuitry of each of the chips to the package substrate. Each of the semiconductor chips includes a chip selection pad for transmitting a chip selection signal to the internal circuitry of the semiconductor chip and a chip dummy pad, electrically isolated from the internal circuitry, along a first side of the semiconductor chip. The electrical connectors include a lower chip connector that electrically connects the package substrate to the chip selection pad of the lower semiconductor chip, a first auxiliary connector that electrically connects the package substrate to the chip dummy pad of the lower semiconductor chip, and a second auxiliary connector that electrically connects the chip dummy pad of the lower semiconductor chip to the chip selection pad of the upper semiconductor chip.
US10283481B2	Device packaging facility and method, and device processing apparatus utilizing DEHT Provided are a device packing facility and method using DEHT and a device processing apparatus utilizing the DEHT. The device packaging facility includes a mounting unit providing bis(2-ethylhexyl) terephthalate (DEHT) between first and second devices to attach the first and second devices to each other, a processing unit thermally processing the first and second devices that are attached to each other to remove the DEHT and fix the first and second devices to each other, and a transfer unit transferring the first and second devices that are attached to each other from the mounting unit to the processing unit.
US10283472B2	Electrode for a semiconductor device of a ball grid array (BGA) type A semiconductor device of the ball grid array (BGA) type, the device having an electrode, and a process of forming the electrode are disclosed. The electrode includes an insulating film, a seed layer on the insulating film, a mound metal on the insulating film and an interconnection on the seed layer. The mound metal surrounds the seed layer without forming any gap therebetween. The interconnection, which is formed by electroless plating, is apart from the insulating film with the mound metal as an extension barrier for the plating.
US10283471B1	Micro-connection structure and manufacturing method thereof A micro-connection structure is provided. The micro-connection structure includes an under bump metallurgy (UBM) pad, a bump and an insulating ring. The UBM pad is electrically connected to at least one metallic contact of a substrate. The bump is disposed on the UBM pad and electrically connected with the UBM pad. The insulating ring surrounds the bump and the UBM pad. The bump is separate from the insulating ring with a distance and the bump is isolated by a gap between the insulating ring and the bump.
US10283463B2	Terahertz detector comprised of P-N junction diode A method of forming a semiconductor detector including: forming a p-n junction diode in an active device layer of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, the active device layer being formed on an insulator layer of the SOI substrate; forming a first opening through the insulator layer to access a backside of a first doped region of the diode, the first doped region underlying a second doped region of the diode; forming a back contact on a back surface of the first doped region and electrically connecting with the first doped region; forming a conductive interconnect layer on an upper surface of the SOI substrate, the interconnect layer including a first top contact providing electrical connection with the second doped region; and forming an electrode in the first opening on the backside of the detector structure, the electrode providing electrical connection with the back contact of the diode.
US10283461B1	Info structure and method forming same A method includes encapsulating a package component in an encapsulating material, with the encapsulating material including a portion directly over the package component. The portion of the encapsulating material is patterned to form an opening revealing a conductive feature in the package component. A redistribution line extends into the opening to contact the conductive feature. An electrical connector is formed over and electrically coupling to the conductive feature.
US10283460B2	Semiconductor device, manufacturing method thereof, and electric power conversion device A technology is proposed in which the improvement of the capability of a semiconductor device can be realized by satisfying both reduction of leakage currents and suppression of the degradation of the conductive characteristic of the semiconductor device. An electric field relaxation region ERR is formed in an outer edge region on the outside of a mesa structure MS. In addition, an electric charge implantation region EIR formed on a drift layer EPI, a resistance reduction region RR formed on the electric charge implantation region EIR, and a leakage reduction region LR formed at a sidewall portion of the mesa structure MS are formed in the mesa structure MS. In this case, the impurity concentration of the leakage reduction region LR is set larger than the impurity concentration of the electric field relaxation region ERR, and is set smaller than the impurity concentration of the resistance reduction region RR.
US10283459B2	Vanishing via for hardware IP protection from reverse engineering A semiconductor device can include a first metal trace, a first via disposed on the first metal trace, a second metal trace disposed on the first via, and an insulator interposed between the first metal trace and the first via. The insulator can be configured to lower an energy barrier or redistribute structure defects or charge carriers, such that the first metal trace and the first via are electrically connected to each other when power is applied. The semiconductor device can further include a dummy via disposed on the first metal trace.
US10283457B2	Method for lithographically forming wafer identification marks and alignment marks The present disclosure relates a method of forming substrate identification marks. In some embodiments, the method may be performed by forming a photosensitive material over a substrate. A first type of electromagnetic radiation is selectively provided to the photosensitive material to expose a plurality of substrate identification marks within the photosensitive material, and a second type of electromagnetic radiation is selectively provided to the photosensitive material to expose one or more alignment marks within the photosensitive material. Exposed portions of the photosensitive material are removed to form a patterned photosensitive material. The substrate is etched according to the patterned photosensitive material to form recesses within the substrate that are defined by the plurality of substrate identification marks and the one or more alignment marks.
US10283455B2	Manufacturing method of package structure having embedded bonding film A manufacturing method of a package structure having an embedded bonding film comprises the following steps: forming a bonding film, forming a redistribution substrate and forming a core on a bottom side of the redistribution substrate opposite to the top side. The bonding film comprises the following steps: forming a plurality of dielectric layers and metal circuit layers sequentially and alternatively in a plurality of bonding areas; exposing a plurality of top metal pads of a topmost metal circuit layer among the metal circuit layers in the plurality of bonding areas; and etching to form a bonding film. The bonding film has a left longitudinal branch and a lower latitudinal branch. A lower end of the left longitudinal branch is connected to a left end of the lower latitudinal branch. The left longitudinal branch and the lower latitudinal branch form an L shape.
US10283454B2	Power semiconductor module The present invention relates to a power semiconductor module, comprising at least two power semiconductor devices, wherein the at least two power semiconductor devices comprise at least one power semiconductor transistor and at least one power semiconductor diode, wherein at least a first substrate is provided for carrying the power semiconductor transistor in a first plane, the first plane lying parallel to the plane of the substrate, wherein the power semiconductor diode is provided in a second plane, wherein the first plane is positioned between the substrate and the second plane in a direction normal to the first plane and wherein the first plane is spaced apart from the second plane in a direction normal to the first plane. The first plane is spaced apart from the second plane in a direction normal to the first plane, whereby the first substrate is based on a direct bonded copper substrate and the first substrate is a direct-bonded copper substrate for carrying the transistor, on which first substrate a layer of a printed circuit board is provided for carrying the diode. Alternatively, the first substrate is a direct-bonded copper substrate for carrying the transistor, on which first substrate a foil is provided for carrying the diode, wherein the foil comprises an electrically insulating main body and an electrically conductive structure provided thereon for carrying the diode. Such a power semiconductor module provides a low stray inductance and/or may be built easily.
US10283449B2	Low stress vias A component can include a substrate having a front surface and a rear surface remote therefrom, an opening extending from the rear surface towards the front surface, and a conductive via extending within the opening. The substrate can have a CTE less than 10 ppm/° C. The opening can define an inner surface between the front and rear surfaces. The conductive via can include a first metal layer overlying the inner surface and a second metal region overlying the first metal layer and electrically coupled to the first metal layer. The second metal region can have a CTE greater than a CTE of the first metal layer. The conductive via can have an effective CTE across a diameter of the conductive via that is less than 80% of the CTE of the second metal region.
US10283440B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a frame; a first-external-terminal provided to a first side portion of the frame; a first substrate enclosed in the frame and having a first-conductive-layer at an upper surface; a first-semiconductor-element: mounted on the first-conductive-layer; having, on a lower surface, a first main electrode connecting with the first-conductive-layer; and having a second main electrode and a control electrode on an upper surface; a first terminal connecting portion establishing a connection between the first-external-terminal and an exposed portion of the first-conductive-layer between the first-semiconductor-element and the first-external-terminal; a first-external-control-terminal provided above a wire in the frame and between the first main electrode of the first-semiconductor-element and the first-external-terminal; and a first control terminal connecting portion establishing a connection: between the control electrode of the first-semiconductor-element and the first-external-control-terminal; and above a wire between the first main electrode of the first-semiconductor-element and the first-external-terminal.
US10283437B2	Metal density distribution for double pattern lithography Methods, a computer readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. A method includes and the computer readable medium is configured for decomposing an overall pattern into a first mask pattern that includes a power rail base pattern and into a second mask pattern, and generating on the second mask pattern a power rail insert pattern that is at least partially aligned with the power rail base pattern of the first mask pattern. The apparatus is produced by photolithography using photolithographic masks generated by the method.
US10283436B2	Power electronics module with first and second coolers A power electronics module comprises a first liquid cooler comprising a cooling channel for receiving a cooling liquid, wherein the first liquid cooler comprises a metal body providing a first terminal of the power electronics module; a second liquid cooler comprising a cooling channel for receiving a cooling liquid, wherein the second liquid cooler comprises a metal body providing a second terminal of the power electronics module; a plurality of semiconductor chips arranged between the first liquid cooler and the second liquid cooler, such that a first electrode of each semiconductor chip is bonded to the first liquid cooler, such that the first electrode is in electrical contact with the first liquid cooler, and an opposite second electrode of each semiconductor chip is in electrical contact with the second liquid cooler; and an insulating encapsulation, formed by molding the first liquid cooler, the second liquid cooler and the plurality of semiconductor chips into an insulation material, such that the first liquid cooler, the second liquid cooler and the plurality of semiconductor chips are at least partially embedded onto the insulation material.
US10283434B2	Electronic device, method for manufacturing the electronic device, and electronic apparatus An electronic device includes: a first circuit board; a second circuit board located above a first region of the first circuit board; a first semiconductor element located above a second region of the first circuit board, which is different from the first region, and above a third region of the second circuit board; a first connection interposed between the first semiconductor element and the second region so as to electrically interconnect the first semiconductor element and the first circuit board; and a second connection interposed between the first semiconductor element and the third region so as to electrically interconnect the first semiconductor element and the second circuit board.
US10283432B2	Molded package with chip carrier comprising brazed electrically conductive layers A method of manufacturing a package, wherein the method comprises a forming a chip carrier by covering a thermally conductive and electrically insulating core on both opposing main surfaces thereof at least partially by a respective electrically conductive layer by brazing the respective electrically conductive layer on a respective one of the main surfaces; a mounting at least one electronic chip on the chip carrier; an electrically coupling an electrically conductive contact structure with the at least one electronic chip; and an encapsulating part of the electrically conductive contact structure, and at least part of the chip carrier and of the at least one electronic chip by a mold-type encapsulant.
US10283430B2	Power semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same In a power semiconductor device, an IGBT has a collector electrode bonded to a metal plate by a bonding material. A diode has a cathode electrode bonded to the metal plate by the bonding material. An interconnection member is bonded to an emitter electrode of the IGBT by a bonding material. The bonding material includes a bonding material and a bonding material. The bonding material is interposed between the IGBT and the interconnection member. The bonding material fills a through hole formed in the interconnection member. The bonding material reaches the bonding material and is therefore connected to the bonding material.
US10283428B2	Semiconductor package and method manufacturing the same A semiconductor package including at least one integrated circuit component, a glue material, an insulating encapsulation, and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The glue material encapsulates the at least one integrated circuit component and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the at least one integrated circuit component is exposed by the first surface of the glue material, and an area of the first surface is smaller than an area of the second surface. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the glue material, wherein an interface is between the glue material and the insulating encapsulation. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the at last one integrated circuit component, the glue material and the insulating encapsulation, wherein the redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the at least one integrated circuit component.
US10283424B1	Wafer structure and packaging method Packaging method and wafer structures are described. A semiconductor wafer having dies, scribe streets surrounding the dies and between the dies and test pads in the scribe streets is provided. Wafer testing is performed to the semiconductor wafer through the test pads. A laser grooving process is performed to the semiconductor wafer along the scribe streets and the test pads in the scribe streets are removed to form laser scanned regions in the scribe streets. A mechanical dicing process is performed cutting through the semiconductor wafer along the scribe streets to singulate the dies. The singulated dies are packaged.
US10283421B2	System to detect wafer arcing in semiconductor manufacturing equipment Methods and systems for accurate arc detection in semiconductor manufacturing tools are disclosed. Such methods and systems provide real-time arc detection and near real-time notification for corrective actions during a semiconductor manufacturing process. Such methods and systems utilize data with high sample rate and wavelet analysis to provide for more accurate arc detection, which leads to more effective and cost efficient semiconductor manufacturing operations.
US10283415B2	Semiconductor structure with a bump having a width larger than a width of fin shaped structures and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a plurality of fin shaped structures, a trench, and a first bump. The substrate has a base, and the fin shaped structures protrude from the base. The trench is recessed from the base of the substrate. The first bump is disposed within the trench and protrudes from a bottom surface of the trench. A width of the first bump is larger than a width of each of the fin shaped structures.
US10283412B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. A substrate having a dummy gate thereon is prepared. A spacer is disposed on a sidewall of the dummy gate. A source/drain region is disposed adjacent to the dummy gate. A sacrificial layer is then formed on the source/drain region. A cap layer is then formed on the sacrificial layer. A top surface of the cap layer is coplanar with a top surface of the dummy gate. A replacement metal gate (RMG) process is performed to transform the dummy gate into a replacement metal gate. An opening is then formed in the cap layer to expose a top surface of the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer is removed through the opening, thereby forming a lower contact hole exposing a top surface of the source/drain region. A lower contact plug is then formed in the lower contact hole.
US10283410B2	Method of processing workpiece A method of processing a workpiece with a cutting blade, the workpiece having a body of metal disposed in superposed relation to projected dicing lines, including: a first metal burr removing step of moving the cutting blade through first cut grooves while the cutting blade is positioned at such a height that a lowermost end of the cutting blade is lower than an upper end of the body of metal; and a second metal burr removing step of moving the cutting blade through the second cut grooves while the cutting blade is positioned at such a height that the lowermost end of the cutting blade is lower than the upper end of the body of metal. A liquid containing an organic acid and an oxidizing agent is supplied to the workpiece in the first metal burr removing step and the second metal burr removing step.
US10283408B2	Middle of the line (MOL) contacts with two-dimensional self-alignment Disclosed are methods of forming an integrated circuit (IC) structure with self-aligned middle of the line (MOL) contacts and the resulting IC structure. In the methods, different, selectively etchable, dielectric materials are used above the gate level for: a dielectric cap above a gate; a dielectric spacer above a gate sidewall spacer and laterally surrounding the dielectric cap; and a stack of dielectric layer(s) that covers the dielectric cap, the dielectric spacer, and metal plugs positioned laterally adjacent to the dielectric spacer and above source/drain regions. Due to the different dielectric materials, subsequently formed gate and source/drain contacts are self-aligned in two dimensions to provide protection against the occurrence of opens between wires and/or vias in the first BEOL metal level and the contacts and to further provide protection against the occurrence of shorts between the gate contact and any metal plugs and between the source/drain contacts and the gate.
US10283407B2	Two-dimensional self-aligned super via integration on self-aligned gate contact Techniques relate to contacts for semiconductors. First gate contacts are formed on top of first gates, second gate contacts are on second gates, and terminal contacts are on silicide contacts. First gate contacts and terminal contacts are recessed to form a metal layer on top. Second gate contacts are recessed to be separately on each of the second gates. Filling material is formed on top of the recessed second gate contacts and metal layer. An upper layer is on top of the filling material. First metal vias are formed through filling and upper layers down to metal layer over first gate contacts. Second metal vias are formed through filling and upper layers down to metal layer over terminal contacts. Third metal vias are formed through filling and upper layers down to recessed second gate contacts over second gates. Third metal vias are taller than first.
US10283400B1	Semiconductor device package and manufacturing method thereof Methods and systems for a semiconductor device package with a die to interposer wafer first bond are disclosed and may include bonding a plurality of semiconductor die comprising electronic devices to an interposer wafer, and applying an underfill material between the die and the interposer wafer. Methods and systems for a semiconductor device package with a die-to-packing substrate first bond are disclosed and may include bonding a first semiconductor die to a packaging substrate, applying an underfill material between the first semiconductor die and the packaging substrate, and bonding one or more additional die to the first semiconductor die. Methods and systems for a semiconductor device package with a die-to-die first bond are disclosed and may include bonding one or more semiconductor die comprising electronic devices to an interposer die.
US10283396B2	Workpiece holder for a wet processing system Techniques herein provide a workpiece holder that can hold relatively flexible and thin workpieces for transport and electrochemical deposition while avoiding electroplating fluid wetting contacts or contact regions of a given workpiece. A workpiece holder frame holds a workpiece by gripping the workpiece on opposing sides of the workpiece. A flexure structure is used for clamping a given workpiece and for providing an electrical path for supplying a current to the workpiece. An elastomer covering provides sealing and insulation of the electrical flexure structure. The workpiece holder also provides tension to the workpiece to help hold the workpiece flat during processing. Each flexure structure can provide an independent electrical path to the workpiece surface.
US10283395B2	Substrate gripping hand and substrate transfer apparatus A substrate gripping hand includes: a base plate wherein a center line and gripping position are prescribed; at least one fixed claw capable of mating with a substrate edge in the gripping position and provided at a base plate distal end side; a movable claw having an acting portion acting on a substrate edge in gripping position and movable back-and-forth on center line; a pusher having an acting portion acting on an edge lower than the substrate center in a perpendicular orientation and movable back-and-forth parallel with the center line; and an actuator for moving the movable claw and pusher. The pusher acting portion is positioned more to the distal end side than the movable claw acting portion such that the substrate is grasped by the movable claw joint operation and the fixed claw after the substrate is brought to gripping position by the pusher moving forward toward the distal end side.
US10283391B2	Multiple gases providing method and multiple gases providing apparatus Provided is a method for multi-supplying gas, the method comprising: installing a control valve and an flow meter on each of a plurality of branch lines branched from a main supply line, in which one or more gases are supplied, and supplying the gas; and providing the gas by adjusting flow of the gas by a controller connected to each of the control valve and the flow meter, wherein the controller has a first control manner, which controls each of the control valves based on a rate of flow measured by the flow meter to required portion flow for each branch line, and the first control manner adjusts an open rate of the control valve if the rate of the measured flow to the required portion flow is not within a predetermined range, and a unit of adjusting the control valve increases or decreases according to a difference between the measured flow and the required portion flow.
US10283389B2	Adjustable semiconductor processing device and control method thereof Disclosed is an adjustable semiconductor processing apparatus and a control method thereof. The apparatus comprises a micro chamber with an upper chamber portion defining an upper working surface and a lower chamber portion defining a lower working surface that are relatively moveable towards each other between an open position and a closed position. When the chamber is in the closed position, a cavity formed by the upper working surface and the lower working surface defines a gap between the upper working surface, the lower working surface and a semiconductor wafer received in the cavity for flow of a processing fluid. A drive device enables the upper working surface of the upper chamber portion or/and the lower working surface of the lower chamber portion to tilt or deform to control flow of chemical agents within the micro chamber.
US10283388B1	Detaping machine and detaping method A detaping machine is adapted for removing a tape from a frame, the tape includes a wafer mounting area and a periphery area surrounding the wafer mounting area. The detaping machine includes a carrier and a detaping module. The carrier is for supporting the tape and the frame. The detaping module includes an elastic pressing device and a detaping head, wherein the periphery area of the tape is adapted to be pressed by the elastic pressing device, and the wafer mounting area of the tape is adapted to be pressed by the detaping head. A detaping method is further provided.
US10283387B2	Peeling apparatus A peeling apparatus peels a protective member off a wafer, the protective member including a resin and a film which is fixed to one surface of the wafer with the resin interposed therebetween. The film has a protrusive marginal side extending radially outwardly beyond an outer circumferential edge of the wafer. A holding unit holds another surface of the wafer with the protective member disposed therebelow. A gripping unit grips the protrusive marginal side of the protective member. A peeling mechanism peels the protective member off the wafer by relatively moving the gripping unit and the holding unit radially inwardly from the outer circumferential edge of the wafer toward the center of the wafer. A camera then captures an image of the wafer, and a decision unit determines whether residue of the resin remains on the wafer from the image captured by the camera.
US10283382B2	Plasma processing apparatus A plasma processing apparatus including an electrostatic chuck supporting a wafer; a focus ring disposed to surround an outer circumferential surface of the wafer; an insulation ring disposed to surround an outer circumferential surface of the focus ring; and an edge ring supporting lower portions of the focus ring and the insulation ring, the edge ring being spaced apart from the electrostatic chuck and surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the electrostatic chuck; wherein the edge ring includes a flow channel containing a fluid therein.
US10283380B2	Substrate processing apparatus A cleaning drying processing unit includes a lower spin chuck, a splash prevention cup, and a storage member. The splash prevention cup is provided to surround the lower spin chuck, and has an annular opening that can be opposite to an outer peripheral end of a substrate rotated by the lower spin chuck. A lower portion of the splash prevention cup is stored in the storage member. Cleaning and drying processing using a cleaning liquid are performed on the substrate rotated by the lower spin chuck. At this time, the splash prevention cup is supported such that the annular opening is opposite to the outer peripheral end of the substrate. Gas in a space opposite to the annular opening is sucked from the annular opening through a first annular space of the splash prevention cup and a second annular space in the storage member.
US10283376B2	Chip encapsulating method and chip encapsulating structure A chip encapsulating method includes: fixing a plurality of wafers to a first panel level substrate, the wafer including a plurality of chips; forming a re-distribution layer on the wafer for each of the chips; forming each individual chip and the re-distribution layer connected to the chip by cutting; fixing the chip and the re-distribution layer connected thereto to a second panel level substrate; and encapsulating the chip to form an encapsulating layer. A chip encapsulating structure is prepared by the above described chip encapsulating method.
US10283375B2	Integrated circuit package pad and methods of forming A semiconductor device and method for forming the semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit having through vias adjacent to the integrated circuit die, wherein a molding compound is interposed between the integrated circuit die and the through vias. The through vias have a projection extending through a patterned layer, and the through vias may be offset from a surface of the patterned layer. The recess may be formed by selectively removing a seed layer used to form the through vias.
US10283368B2	Plasma etching method and plasma etching apparatus There is provided a plasma etching method for etching a base film by a plasma using a photoresist as a mask. The method includes etching the base film by the plasma, under a first processing condition in which a selectivity of the photoresist to the base film is set to a first selectivity, while using as a mask the photoresist formed in a predetermined pattern by exposure and development and a scum remaining in the photoresist, without performing a process of removing the scum; and switching, during the etching of the base film, the first processing condition to a second processing condition in which the selectivity of the photoresist to the base film is set to a second selectivity lower than the first selectivity and further etching the base film by a plasma while using the photoresist as a mask under the second processing condition.
US10283367B2	Hydrogenation annealing method using microwave Provided is a hydrogenation annealing method using a microwave, which performs hydrogenation annealing at a low temperature and with low power in a manufacturing process of a thin film transistor (TFT) for a display device. The hydrogenation annealing method is constituted by a loading step of loading a device requiring hydrogenation annealing into a chamber and an annealing step of irradiating a microwave having a frequency in an industrial scientific medical (ISM) band into the chamber into which the device is loaded. As hydrogenation annealing is performed at a low temperature by using the microwave for an oxide semiconductor TFT or LTPS having very large electron mobility, high integrated energy is transmitted to the device by the microwave, thereby implementing recoupling of hydrogen atoms which have been performed only at a high temperature, even at a low temperature.
US10283366B2	Passivation of nonlinear optical crystals A laser system includes a nonlinear optical (NLO) crystal, wherein the NLO crystal is annealed within a selected temperature range. The NLO crystal is passivated with at least one of hydrogen, deuterium, a hydrogen-containing compound or a deuterium-containing compound to a selected passivation level. The system further includes at least one light source, wherein at least one light source is configured to generate light of a selected wavelength and at least one light source is configured to transmit light through the NLO crystal. The system further includes a crystal housing unit configured to house the NLO crystal.
US10283365B1	Technique and related semiconductor devices based on crystalline semiconductor material formed on the basis of deposited amorphous semiconductor material A method of forming a crystalline semiconductor material on the basis of a very thin semiconductor base material and an amorphous semiconductor material deposited thereon is disclosed. Radiation-based anneal process techniques may be applied by using appropriate radiation wavelengths, for instance, below 380 nm, in order to efficiently restrict energy deposition to the surface-near area. A solid and crystalline bottom portion of the semiconductor base material may be reliably preserved, thereby achieving crystallization of the overlying material portions and, in particular, of the previously deposited amorphous semiconductor material. Extremely thin channel regions of fully depleted SOI transistor elements may be used as a semiconductor base material, upon which raised drain and source regions may be formed in a later manufacturing stage, thereby substantially avoiding any process irregularities, which are conventionally associated with the epitaxial growth of a semiconductor material on a very thin semiconductor base material.
US10283363B2	Quasi-vertical diode with integrated ohmic contact base and related method thereof A quasi-vertical Schottky diode architecture includes a topside anode contact that connects to external circuitry through an airbridge finger, a thin mesa of semiconductor material with epilayers including a bottomside highly-doped layer, a bottomside ohmic contact directly below the anode, and a host substrate onto which the diode material is bonded by a thin adhesive layer. A method of fabricating the diode architecture includes preparation of the semiconductor wafer for processing (including initial etching to expose the highly-doped epilayer, deposition of metals and annealing to form the ohmic contact, application of the adhesive layer to the host substrate, thermal compression bonding of diode wafer and host wafer, with ohmic contact side facing host wafer to form a composite wafer, etching and formation of diode mesas to isolate devices on the host substrate, lithography and formation of topside anode contact and external circuitry on host wafer).
US10283359B2	Systems and methods for gap filling improvement Systems and methods are provided for contact formation. A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes an opening formed by a bottom surface and one or more side surfaces. A first conductive material is formed on the bottom surface and the one or more side surfaces to partially fill the opening, the first conductive material including a top portion and a bottom portion. Ion implantation is formed on the first conductive material, the top portion of the first conductive material being associated with a first ion density, the bottom portion of the first conductive material being associated with a second ion density lower than the first ion density. At least part of the top portion of the first conductive material is removed. A second conductive material is formed to fill the opening.
US10283357B2	Compositionally matched molecular solders for semiconductors Chalcogenidometallates of group IIB, IV and V elements and, particularly, alkali metal-containing chalcogenidometallates of cadmium, lead and bismuth are provided. Also provided are methods of using the chalcogenidometallates as molecular solders to form metal chalcogenide structures, including thin films, molded objects and bonded surfaces composed of metal chalcogenides.
US10283355B2	Method for manufacturing poly-silicon layer, thin film transistor, array substrate and display device The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a poly-silicon layer. The method for manufacturing the poly-silicon layer comprises steps of: depositing a porous metal film on a microcrystalline silicon layer of a base substrate; immersing the base substrate deposited with the porous metal film into an etching liquid comprising hydrogen fluoride and oxidants for etching the microcrystalline silicon layer; after the microcrystalline silicon layer has been etched successfully, removing the metal film with an acid solution and washing the microcrystalline silicon layer with a deionized water subsequently so as to obtain a processed microcrystalline silicon layer; and depositing an amorphous silicon layer on the processed microcrystalline silicon layer and subjecting the amorphous silicon layer to laser annealing treatment so as to obtain the poly-silicon layer. The present disclosure further provides a thin film transistor, an array substrate and a display device comprising the poly-silicon layer manufactured according to the above-described method.
US10283351B2	Single-crystal silicon carbide substrate, method for producing single-crystal silicon carbide substrate, and method for inspecting single-crystal silicon carbide substrate A single-crystal silicon carbide substrate has a main surface having a surface roughness fulfilling Ra≤1 nm, and has a ratio of hidden scratches of less than 50%, where, in the case where the main surface is arbitrary observed at 50 or more observation points with a field of view having a diameter of 100 μm, the ratio of hidden scratches is defined by a value obtained by dividing the number of the observation points at which a striped hidden scratch having a length of at least 50 μm by the total number of the observation points.
US10283349B2	Single-crystal rare earth oxide grown on III-V compound A substrate with a (001) orientation is provided. A gallium arsenide (GaAs) layer is epitaxially grown on the substrate. The GaAs layer has a reconstruction surface that is a 4×6 reconstruction surface, a 2×4 reconstruction surface, a 3×2 reconstruction surface, a 2×1 reconstruction surface, or a 4×4 reconstruction surface. Via an atomic layer deposition process, a single-crystal structure yttrium oxide (Y2O3) layer is formed on the reconstruction surface of the GaAs layer. The atomic layer deposition process includes water or ozone gas as an oxygen source precursor and a cyclopentadienyl-type compound as an yttrium source precursor.
US10283347B2	Touch sensing unit and display device A display device including a first film, a flexible printed circuit, and a second film. The first film includes a substrate and a non-adhesive pattern, where the substrate includes a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area, and the non-adhesive pattern is formed on at least a portion of the second area. The flexible printed circuit is disposed on the first area of the first film. The second film is disposed on the flexible printed circuit and the first film.
US10283331B2	PVD plasma control using a magnet edge lift mechanism Apparatus for providing a magnetic field within a process chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus for providing a magnetic field within a process chamber includes: an inner rotating mechanism including a first plate having a central axis, wherein the first plate includes and a first plurality of magnets and is rotatable about the central axis; and an outer lifting mechanism including a ring disposed proximate the first plate, the ring having a second plurality of magnets coupled to a bottom surface of the ring proximate the peripheral edge of the ring, wherein the ring is movable in a direction perpendicular to the first plate.
US10283326B2	Ion generator and method of controlling ion generator An ion generator includes an ion source control unit that controls a gas supply unit and a plasma excitation source in accordance with a current ion source condition and a new ion source condition to be employed subsequent to the current ion source condition, a retention time obtaining unit that obtains retention time for the current ion source condition, and a pre-treatment condition setting unit that sets a pre-treatment condition defining a pre-treatment for forming a surface layer region suitable for the new ion source condition on a plasma chamber inner wall based on the current ion source condition, the retention time, and the new ion source condition. The ion source control unit is configured to control the gas supply unit and the plasma excitation source in accordance with the pre-treatment condition when the current ion source condition is changed to the new ion source condition.
US10283318B1	Extraction electrode arms An extraction electrode arm includes first and second ends spaced apart along a longitudinal axis and first and second sides spaced apart along a lateral axis. The arm also includes first and second surfaces apart, extending longitudinally between the first and second ends and laterally between the first and second sides. The arm further includes a base portion extending from the first end toward the second end and extending between the first and second sides, an end portion longitudinally spaced apart from the base portion and extending to the second end, and a diagonal shank portion extending between the base portion and the end portion and extending laterally from a first diagonal surface region on the first side to a second diagonal surface region on the second side. The diagonal shank portion has a shank thickness that extends laterally between the first and second diagonal surface regions.
US10283313B2	X-ray generator and adjustment method therefor Provided are an X-ray generator capable of easily measuring a beam size of an electron beam on an electron target, and an adjustment method therefor. The X-ray generator includes an electron target including a first metal, a second metal different from the first metal, and a third metal different from the second metal, which are sequentially arranged side by side along a first direction in a continuous manner.
US10283311B2	X-ray source Disclosed is an X-ray source, including: a cathode; an anode positioned on the cathode so as to face the cathode; emitters formed on the cathode; a gate electrode positioned between the cathode and the anode and including openings at positions corresponding to those of the emitters; an insulating spacer formed between the gate and the anode; and a coating layer formed on an internal wall of the insulating spacer, and including a material having a lower secondary electron emission coefficient than that of the insulating spacer.
US10283303B2	Fuse circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit device Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a fuse circuit whose area and cost are minimized by a simple circuit configuration. The fuse circuit includes a first fuse and a second fuse having substantially the same shape and different sheet resistances, which are connected in series between terminals with different potentials. In a state in which none of the fuses is cut, a potential of an output terminal is fixed to a potential of one of the terminals.
US10283299B2	Magnetic position indicator for miniature circuit breaker handle The status monitoring system for a circuit breaker (100) includes a movable handle (110) with a magnet (112), a magnetic sensor (140) and a processor (150). The magnet is movable with the handle. The magnetic sensor is arranged in proximity to the handle, and is used to sense a magnetic field produced from the magnet of the handle. The processor receives information of the sensed magnetic field from the magnetic sensor and determines a status of the circuit breaker based on the sensed magnetic field which relates to a position of the handle. The status of the circuit breaker may include a handle position (e.g., ON, OFF or TRIPPED position), a handle velocity or a handle acceleration. A diagnosis of breaker functionality may then be reported.
US10283295B2	Protection device The present invention provides a protection device including a bimetal component and a PTC component. This protection device includes a resin base, a first terminal, a second terminal, a PTC component, a bimetal component, an arm, an upper plate and a resin cover. A portion of the first terminal configures a first electrode, and a portion of a second terminal configures the second electrode, and the first electrode and the second electrode are exposed outward at the bottom surface of the resin base. In a normal state, the first terminal, the arm and the second terminal are electrically connected in series. When the bimetal component is activated, the first terminal and the arm become electrically cut off while the first terminal, the PTC component, the bimetal component, the arm and the second terminal are electrically connected in series in the mentioned order.
US10283292B2	Cutout for use in electrical distribution network The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a cutout which can comprise a top contact assembly being capable of electrically coupled with a first electric cable; a bottom contact assembly being capable of electrically coupled with a second electric cable; an insulator assembly secured to the top contact assembly in a first end thereof, and secured to the bottom assembly in a second end thereof opposite to the first end; and a tube assembly having a fuselink placed therein for conducting electricity between the top contact assembly and a bottom contact assembly. The bottom contact assembly has a bottom contact member which is capable of electrically coupled with the second electrical cable at one end thereof, and removeably coupled with the tube assembly at the other end thereof, such that a current path is formed from the second electrical cable to the tube assembly via the bottom contact member.
US10283278B2	Gas-induced perovskite formation A method of forming a perovskite film is provided, the method comprising inducing a chemical reaction between a metal halide compound and methylamine (CH3NH2) gas. Specifically, the method includes: forming a metal halide film on a substrate; and exposing the metal halide film to the methylamine (CH3NH2) gas for inducing the chemical reaction between the metal halide compound and the methylamine (CH3NH2) gas to form a perovskite film. Post treatments can be carried out by adding a step of exposing the perovskite film to hydriodic acid (HI) gas and methylamine (CH3NH2) gas sequentially or simultaneously.
US10283277B2	Capacitor and substrate module A substrate module includes capacitors, a first coupling conductor, and a mounting substrate. The first coupling conductor couples two of the capacitors together. The mounting substrate includes a first power supply layer and a second power supply layer. The capacitors each include a first electrode, a second electrode, a first terminal conductor, a second terminal conductor, and a third terminal conductor. The first terminal conductor is coupled to the first electrode and to the first power supply layer. The second terminal conductor is coupled to the second electrode and to the second power supply layer. The third terminal conductor is coupled to the first coupling conductor. The third terminal conductor is coupled to the first electrode at a coupling position that is different from a coupling position of the first terminal conductor.
US10283276B2	Method of manufacturing a capacitor array An improved array of capacitors is provided wherein the improvement includes improved electrical properties and improved packing density. The array has an anode foil and a dielectric on a surface of the anode foil. A multiplicity of areas are defined on the dielectric wherein each area is circumvented by an isolation material and the isolation material extends through the dielectric. A conductive cathode layer in each area forms a capacitive couple. At least one substrate vacancy is in the anode foil and the substrate vacancy electrically isolates adjacent anodes of adjacent capacitive couples. A carrier film is attached to the capacitive couples.
US10283267B2	Multilayer ceramic electronic component and board having the same A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a capacitance forming part in which first and second dielectric layers are alternately disposed; and external electrodes disposed on both end surfaces of the ceramic body. The capacitance forming part includes first and second internal electrodes, first floating electrodes, and second floating electrodes. The ceramic body further includes a protective part having third dielectric layers on which first and second dummy electrodes exposed to the end surfaces of the ceramic body are disposed and a third dummy electrode is disposed between the first and second dummy electrodes.
US10283255B2	Reactor Provided is a reactor configured to suppress damage to a core thereof accompanying vibrations during an operation of the reactor and to reduce noise, while fixing an assembly of a coil and the core to a casing. A reactor includes: a coil, a magnetic core and a coil, a casing and a sealing resin portion. The reactor includes a support portion that is attached to the casing and arranged so as to overlap an upper face of an outer core portion of the magnetic core exposed from the coil, and, together with the sealing resin portion, prevents detachment of the assembly from the casing, the sealing resin portion is interposed between an upper face of the outer core portion and a lower face of the support portion, and the outer core portion and the support portion are not in direct contact with each other.
US10283250B2	Method for manufacturing high-density integrally-molded inductor Provided is a method for manufacturing a high-density integrally-molded inductor, comprising the following steps: (1) winding an enameled wire coil to be spiral; (2) mechanically pressing first ferromagnetic powder into a magnetic core; (3) mounting the magnetic core into a hollow cavity of the enameled wire coil; (4) mounting the enameled wire coil provided with the magnetic core into an injection mold; (5) uniformly mixing and stirring resin glue, a coupling agent and an accelerant, to obtain high-temperature resin glue; (6) uniformly stirring second ferromagnetic powder and the high-temperature resin glue, to obtain a magnetic composite material; (7) injecting the magnetic composite material into a mold cavity of the injection mold for molding, and solidifying the magnetic composite material to obtain an outer magnet; and (8) cooling and de-molding the outer magnet, to obtain a molded inductor.
US10283247B2	Multilayer coil component In a multilayer coil component, even when both pairs of ends of a first coil part and a second coil part are located at the same positions when viewed from the laminated direction and have the same shapes, a connecting part is connected only to a second end of the first coil part on the upper side in the laminated direction, and is connected only to a first end of the second coil part on the lower side in the laminated direction. Thus, a coil wound around along the laminated direction is structured without misaligning the positions of respective connecting parts. Consequently, the entire shapes of the respective coil parts can be designed to be the exact same shape, which makes it possible to reduce the number of types of coil part, saving labor and time for preparing many types of conductor patterns like the conventional type.
US10283246B1	MTJ structures, STT MRAM structures, and methods for fabricating integrated circuits including the same Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures, spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT MRAM) structures, and methods for fabricating integrated circuits including such structures are provided. In an embodiment, an MTJ structure includes a cobalt iron carbon (CoFeC) fixed reference layer. Further, the MTJ structure includes a cobalt iron carbon (CoFeC) free storage layer. Also, the MTJ structure includes a tunnel barrier layer between the fixed reference layer and the free storage layer.
US10283244B2	Downhole solenoid actuator drive system An example method for driving a solenoid actuator includes providing at least one solenoid of the solenoid actuator coupled to a power supply through a plurality of switches. The at least one solenoid of the solenoid actuator may be energized by closing at least one switch of the plurality of switches. Energy from the at least one solenoid may be discharged to the power supply or another solenoid of the solenoid actuator by at least one of opening the at least one switch of the plurality of switches and closing at least one other switch of the plurality of switches.
US10283236B2	Corrosion resistant electrical conduit system A corrosion resistant conduit system that protects against corrosion and against electrical shortage. The corrosion resistant conduit system includes: a multilayer conduit having a metal layer disposed between two polymeric layers, a conduit fitting having an electrically conductive component and a body having one or more layers of polymeric material, and means for conductively coupling the metallic layer of the multilayer tube to the electrically conductive component of the fitting, which provides a continuous electrical path throughout the corrosion resistant conduit system.
US10283232B2	Enhancing dielectric constants of elastomers using electric fields An enhanced elastomer molding process applies an electric field to an elastomer doped to include dielectric ceramic particulates inserted in a cavity of a mold while maintaining a temperature at or near a melting point of the elastomer and a Curie temperature of the ceramic particulates. Because a material's dielectric constant is related to the material's net remnant ferroelectric polarization, which may be increased by poling near the material's Curie temperature, applying the electric field to the elastomer doped with the dielectric ceramic particulates increases the dielectric constant of the dielectric ceramic particulates. This maintains the high elasticity of the elastomer while increasing the elastomer's dielectric constant of the material by increasing the value of the dielectric constant of the dielectric ceramic particulates included in the elastomer.
US10283231B2	Conductive composition An electrically conductive composition of the present invention contains an expanded graphite, carbon nanotubes, and a polymer compound. An amount of the expanded graphite to be contained is not less than 30 parts by weight and not more than 70 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of a total amount of the expanded graphite and the polymer compound. An amount of the carbon nanotubes to be contained is not less than 0.5 part by weight and not more than 10 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the expanded graphite and the polymer compound.
US10283229B2	High-aspect ratio structure production method, ultrasonic probe production method using same, and high-aspect ratio structure A high-aspect ratio structure production method and an ultrasonic probe production method of the present invention include: forming, in a principal surface of a substrate, a plurality of pores each extending in a direction intersecting the principal surface; plugging, among the plurality of pores, one or more pores formed in a first region; and forming a recess in a second region by a wet etching process. A high-aspect ratio structure includes a grating having a plurality of convex portions, wherein each of the plurality of convex portions is provided with a plugging member plugging a plurality of pores formed therein in a thickness direction of the structure.
US10283225B2	Thermoacoustic enhancements for nuclear fuel rods A nuclear thermoacoustic device includes a housing defining an interior chamber and a portion of nuclear fuel disposed in the interior chamber. A stack is disposed in the interior chamber and has a hot end and a cold end. The stack is spaced from the portion of nuclear fuel with the hot end directed toward the portion of nuclear fuel. The stack and portion of nuclear fuel are positioned such that an acoustic standing wave is produced in the interior chamber. A frequency of the acoustic standing wave depends on a temperature in the interior chamber.
US10283224B2	Molten salt reactor Systems and methods for providing and using molten salt reactors are described. While the systems can include any suitable component, in some cases, they include a graphite reactor core defining an internal space that houses one or more fuel wedges, where each wedge defines one or more fuel channels that extend from a first end to a second end of the wedge. In some cases, one or more of the fuel wedges comprise multiple wedge sections that are coupled together end to end and/or in any other suitable manner. In some cases, one or more alignment pins also extend between two sections of a fuel wedge to align the sections. In some cases, one or more seals are also disposed between two sections of a fuel wedge. Thus, in some cases, the reactor core can be relatively long (e.g., to be a pipeline reactor). Other implementations are also described.
US10283221B2	Risk assessment based on patient similarity determined using image analysis A method for risk assessment comprises receiving one or more images of a plurality of lesions captured from a body of a target person, generating one or more digital signatures based on the one or more images from the body of the target person, comparing the generated one or more digital signatures to digital signatures of respective reference persons, wherein the comparing comprises measuring similarities between the generated one or more digital signatures and the digital signatures of the respective reference persons, and determining a risk factor for the target person of developing a disease based on the measured similarities and predetermined risk factors of developing the disease for the reference persons.
US10283220B2	System and method for coordinated motion among heterogeneous devices A system and method of coordinated motion among heterogeneous devices includes a medical device with one or more movable elements and one or more processors. Any of the processors uses a shared interface to access services. The medical device requests a movement token from a token service through the shared interface, receive the movement token from the token service, exchange configuration data, kinematic data, or planned motion data through the shared interface, plan a first motion for a first movable element of the movable elements based on the movement token and the configuration data, the kinematic data, or the planned motion data, and execute the first motion. In some embodiments, the movement token is selected from a group consisting of an exclusive-motion token, a master follow-me token, a slave follow-me token, a master collision-avoidance token, a slave collision-avoidance token, and a passive collision-avoidance token.
US10283219B2	Wearable device A wearable device comprising a memory storing a database of product codes and associated product recommendations derived from personalised biological information, a product code reader for reading a product code or data from a product, and a processor for using a read product code or read data to perform a look-up in the database to obtain a product recommendation for the associated product. The wearable device further comprises an indicator for providing an indication of the obtained product recommendation to a wearer of the device.
US10283216B2	Data storage device and data maintenance method thereof A data storage device includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of chips, each of the chips includes a plurality of pages, the pages are arranged to assemble into a super block, the pages of the super block are numbered 0˜X from top to bottom of the super block, the pages with number 0˜Y−1 constitute a data area, and the pages with numbers Y˜X constitute a RAID parity area. The controller corrects data of the data area according to data of the RAID parity area when the data in the data area cannot be successfully read.
US10283214B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor integrated system A semiconductor device is provided where it is possible to access and test a memory chip by a simple method. The semiconductor device that mounts a plurality of chips in a common package includes a logic chip having a predetermined function and a memory chip that is coupled with the logic chip and stores data. The memory chip includes a memory chip testing circuit that performs an operation test of the memory chip and a serial bus interface circuit for transmitting and receiving data between the memory chip testing circuit and a serial bus provided outside the package.
US10283211B2	Shift register unit and driving method thereof, shift register and display apparatus Disclosed are a shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a shift register and a display device. The shift register unit comprises: an input module (P1), which connected to a first clock signal end (Clk1), a second clock signal end (Clk2) and a data carry signal end (STV) and is used for providing a selection signal according to signals input via the first clock signal end (Clk1), the second clock signal end (Clk2) and the data carry signal end (STV); and an output module (P2), which is connected to a high level end (VGH), a low level end (VGL), and an output end (Output) of the shift register unit and is used for selectively outputting a high level or a low level at the output end (Output) according to the selection signal provided by the input module (P1). The shift register comprises a plurality of stages of shift register units, and the display device comprises a shift register. The normal operation of a shift register unit can be ensured by utilizing only one stage of circuit, so that a circuit structure of the shift register unit is simplified.
US10283199B2	Block erase schemes for cross-point non-volatile memory devices A storage device includes a cross-point non-volatile memory (NVM) device that includes a first subset of cells. Cells of the first subset of cells may share either a bitline or a wordline. There may be at least one buffer cell on a respective bitline or wordline between each adjacent pair of cells from the first subset of cells. The storage device includes a control module. The control module is configured to receive a set of I/O operations. The control module is configured to execute a first subset of the set of I/O operations in parallel across the first subset of cells of the cross-point memory component. The control module may execute the first subset of the set of I/O operations such that I/O operations are not executed at the respective buffer cells.
US10283193B2	SRAM arrays and methods of manufacturing same An embodiment static random access memory (SRAM) array includes a first SRAM mini array having a first plurality of functional SRAM cells in a first column of the SRAM array. Each of the first plurality of functional SRAM cells share a first bit line (BL). The SRAM array further includes a second SRAM mini array having a second plurality of functional SRAM cells in the first column. Each of the second plurality of functional SRAM cells share a second BL independently controlled from the first BL. The SRAM array further includes and a SRAM dummy array between the first SRAM mini array and the second SRAM mini array. The SRAM dummy array includes a plurality of SRAM array abut dummy cells in the first column. A first endpoint of the first BL and a second endpoint of the second BL are disposed in the SRAM dummy array.
US10283190B1	Transpose non-volatile (NV) memory (NVM) bit cells and related data arrays configured for row and column, transpose access operations Transpose non-volatile (NV) memory (NVM) bit cells and related data arrays configured for both memory row and column, transpose access operations. A plurality of transpose NVM bit cells can be arranged in memory rows and columns in a transpose NVM data array. To facilitate a row read operation, the transpose NVM bit cell includes a first access transistor coupled to a word line. An activation voltage is applied to the word line to activate the first access transistor to read a memory state stored in the NVM cell circuit in a row read operation. To facilitate a column, transpose read operation, the transpose NVM bit cell includes a second access transistor coupled to a transpose word line. An activation voltage is applied to the transpose word line to activate the second access transistor to read the memory state stored in the NVM cell circuit in a column, transpose read operation.
US10283189B2	Semiconductor device and memory system having input buffer circuit Provided is an input buffer circuit comprising a high-voltage protection unit coupled to a pad and comprising a low-voltage pass unit and a high-voltage pass unit that are coupled in common to an output signal node. The low-voltage pass unit may transfer the first voltage to the output signal node, when a first voltage falling within a first voltage range is applied through the pad. The high-voltage pass unit may transfer a third voltage lower than the second voltage to the output signal node, when a second voltage falling within a second voltage range higher than the first voltage range is applied through the pad.
US10283182B2	Compensating for variations in selector threshold voltages Methods, systems, and devices are described for operating a memory array. A first voltage may be applied to a memory cell to activate a selection component of the memory cell prior to applying a second voltage to the memory cell. The second voltage may be applied to facilitate a sensing operation once the selection component is activated. The first voltage may be applied during a first portion of an access operation and may be used in determining a threshold voltage of the selection component. The subsequently applied second voltage may be applied during a second portion of the access operation and may have a magnitude associated with a preferred voltage for accessing a ferroelectric capacitor of the memory cell. In some cases, the second voltage has a greater rate of increase over time (e.g., a greater “ramp”) than the first voltage.
US10283180B2	Nonvolatile resistance changing semiconductor memory using first and second writing operations A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a resistance-change element having first and second terminals, a transistor having third and fourth terminals and a control terminal, the third terminal being connected to the second terminal, and a first driver electrically connected to the control terminal, applying a first potential to the control terminal in a first write operation, and applying a second potential larger than the first potential to the control terminal in a second write operation.
US10283179B2	Magnetic Tunnel Junction Memory Device Various memory devices and associated methods of operation are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes flowing a current through an electrode of a memory device. The current exerts a spin-torque for orienting a magnetic field of a magnetic layer of the memory device and produces a magnetic field in the electrode that assists in orienting the magnetic field of the magnetic layer. The current can produce the magnetic field in the electrode when flowing through a region of the electrode having a winding orientation that is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the memory device. In some implementations, flowing the current through the electrode includes storing data in the memory device.
US10283174B2	Memory system initializing page buffers and operating method thereof A memory system includes a memory device for storing data, and a controller for controlling the memory device by outputting control signals to the memory device. In the memory device, when an address of a selected operation is received in response to the control signals, the memory device simultaneously initializes a page buffer included in the memory device.
US10283173B2	Intelligent backup capacitor management Methods and apparatuses for intelligently managing backup capacitors in a storage device. The power consumption of the device is monitored in order to determine a current backup energy requirement comprising an amount of energy needed to power the device for data-backup and power-down operations in the event of an interruption of main power to the device. Based on the current backup energy requirement, one or more of a plurality of backup capacitors of the device are turned on or off, wherein the plurality of backup capacitors are configured such that those of the plurality of backup capacitors remaining in the on state provide backup energy to the device during the interruption of main power.
US10283172B2	Flexible memory system with a controller and a stack of memory Embodiments of a system and method for providing a flexible memory system are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a substrate is provided, wherein a stack of memory is coupled to the substrate. The stack of memory includes a number of vaults. A controller is also coupled to the substrate and includes a number of vault interface blocks coupled to the number of vaults of the stack of memory, wherein the number of vault interface blocks is less than the number of vaults.
US10283168B2	Audio file re-recording method, device and storage medium Provided are an audio file re-recording method and device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining first time, the first time being start time of a recorded clip to be re-recorded in an audio file; playing a first recorded clip that has been recorded, the first recorded clip using the first time as end time in the audio file; upon arrival of the first time, collecting first voice data of a user to obtain a second recorded clip; and processing the first recorded clip and the second recorded clip to obtain a re-recorded audio file.
US10283167B2	Image decoding device, image decoding method, image encoding device, and image encoding method Provided is an image encoding device including circuitry configured to generate a file with clean random access (CRA) information, which identifies CRA pictures in the image and which is set in a header region of a file that includes the header region and a data region within which a series of encoded image data associated with actual data of the image is stored, wherein the file is an MP4 format file, wherein the CRA information is sample group information grouping a plurality of CRA pictures, wherein the CRA information includes previous picture information used to identify a previous picture which is previous to each CRA picture in a presentation order and is not encoded normally at a time of random access to the CRA picture, and wherein output of the previous picture from the image encoding device is skipped based on the previous picture information.
US10283166B2	Video indexing method and device using the same A video indexing method includes: analyzing trajectory information of a plurality of objects in video data and storing a plurality of pieces of object trajectory data obtained correspondingly in a storage device; determining whether the storage device satisfies a data removal condition; when the data removal condition is satisfied, performing an object trajectory analysis on the plurality of pieces of object trajectory data to select at least one target object from the objects; and extracting the object trajectory data of the at least one target object from the storage device and generating at least one video indexing image accordingly.
US10283163B1	Method and system for generating video content based on user data The present disclosure discloses method and video generation system for generating video content based on user data. The video generation system receives user data sequentially from user, where each sequence of user data is converted into text data. One or more objects, relations, emotions, and actions from user data is identified by evaluating text data, a scene descriptor is generated for each sequence of user data, by associating one or more objects with one or more relations, emotions, and actions. The method comprises performing consistency check for scene descriptor of each sequence of user data, based on one or more previously stored scene descriptors, performing, one or more modifications to inconsistent scene descriptors, identified based on consistency check, generating, segments for each of scene descriptor and generating video content for by combining video segments associated with each of scene descriptor.
US10283162B2	Method for triggering events in a video A computer implemented method of triggering events in a video, the method comprising: providing a list of objects with their states and corresponding events in video such that each state from the list triggers at least one event of the corresponding events, wherein each object from the list has at least one state triggering at least one event of the corresponding events from the list in video; detecting at least one object from the list that at least partially and at least occasionally is presented in frames of the video; tracking the at least one object and its state; triggering at least one event of the corresponding events from the list in video in case the state of the at least one object matches with one of its states from the list.
US10283161B2	Storage card adapter Technology is provided for a storage card adapter. The storage card adapter is used for housing storage cards (e.g., M.2 storage cards), and the storage card adapter can then be inserted into a drive bay. The storage card adapter includes an adapter frame and an adapter cover. The adapter frame includes a pair of guide posts having a ledge upon which one end of a storage card rests when the storage cards are installed in storage card connectors on a printed circuit board installed in the storage card adapter. The adapter cover includes a pair of clamping posts that are aligned to engage with the guide posts when the adapter cover is fully mated with the adapter frame. In this manner, the end of the storage card becomes clamped between the guide post and the clamping post to thereby secure the storage card within the storage card adapter.
US10283155B2	Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus A magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic substrate on which at least a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a perpendicular magnetic layer, and a protective layer are disposed. The perpendicular magnetic layer includes first to fourth magnetic layers. A first exchange coupling control layer is disposed between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. A second exchange coupling control layer is disposed between the second magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer. Following relations are satisfied where Kui is a magnetic anisotropic constant of an i-th magnetic layer, Msi is a saturation magnetization of the i-th magnetic layer, and ti is a film thickness of the i-th magnetic layer, Ku1>Ku2, Ku2>Ku3, Ms1×t1>Ms2×t2, Ms2×t2>Ms3×t3, Ku3
US10283149B2	Energy-assisted magnetic recording device capable of predicting the usable life of magnetic head A Data Storage Device (DSD) includes a magnetic storage medium and a head configured to read and write data using a current default write policy that affects an amount of power output by at least one write-assistive component of the head. One or more experimental writes are performed by writing data on the magnetic storage medium using an experimental write policy for the at least one write-assistive component, and the data is read from the magnetic storage medium. An experimental performance of the one or more experimental writes is evaluated based on the reading of the data. An experimental prediction value is determined indicating a predicted usable life of the head based on the evaluation of the experimental performance. Based on the experimental prediction value, it is determined whether to change the current default write policy for the at least one write-assistive component for future non-experimental writes.
US10283146B2	System and method for reading data recorded on ferroelectric storage medium by means of a near-field transducer According to one embodiment, a system includes a head, where the head includes: an optical signal source configured to emit a first optical signal, and a near-field transducer (NFT) configured to focus the first optical signal on a moving ferroelectric storage medium positioned below the head. The system also includes a detector operatively coupled to the head, where the detector is configured to detect a second optical signal generated in and reflected from the ferroelectric storage medium, and where the second optical signal has twice the optical frequency as the first optical signal.
US10283145B2	Electromagnetically-shielded near-field transducer thermal sensor for heat-assisted magnetic recording Disclosed herein are write heads for data storage devices, methods for making and using such write heads, and data storage devices comprising such write heads. A write head comprises a near-field transducer (NFT), a thermal sensor, and a shield disposed between the NFT and the thermal sensor, wherein the shield comprises a magnetic or conductive material, such as, for example, Cu, Ag, Au, Al, Rh, Ti, Cr, Mo, Fe, Co, or Ni or an alloy that includes Cu, Ag, Au, Al, Rh, Ti, Cr, Mo, Fe, Co, and/or Ni. In some embodiments, the thermal sensor comprises a first lead and a second lead, and the shield is connected to the first lead but not the second lead to provide heat sinking for the shield.
US10283142B1	Processor-implemented systems and methods for determining sound quality Systems and methods are provided for a processor-implemented method of analyzing quality of sound acquired via a microphone. An input metric is extracted from a sound recording at each of a plurality of time intervals. The input metric is provided at each of the time intervals to a neural network that includes a memory component, where the neural network provides an output metric at each of the time intervals, where the output metric at a particular time interval is based on the input metric at a plurality of time intervals other than the particular time interval using the memory component of the neural network. The output metric is aggregated from each of the time intervals to generate a score indicative of the quality of the sound acquired via the microphone.
US10283141B2	Systems for and methods of intelligent acoustic monitoring A system for intelligent acoustic monitoring. The system includes a microphone to capture environmental acoustic data and a processor coupled to the microphone. The processor is configured to receive and perform acoustic analysis on the captured acoustic data to generate an acoustic signature, based on a result of the acoustic analysis, identify an event indicated by the acoustic signature, and perform a remedial action based on the identified event.
US10283140B1	Enhancing audio signals using sub-band deep neural networks Systems and methods for enhancing reverberated audio signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving an audio signal; partitioning a frequency domain representation of the audio signal into a plurality of sub-band vectors; inputting each sub-band vector into a corresponding deep neural network; calculating, using the corresponding deep neural networks, a plurality of output vectors for each sub-band; concatenating the plurality of output vectors to generate a clean audio feature matrix; and converting the clean audio feature matrix into a time-domain audio signal.
US10283137B2	Device and method for tuning a frequency-dependent attenuation stage A device (160) and a method are proposed for tuning a frequency-dependent attenuation stage (122), with the purpose of suppressing non-linear distortion occurring in an audio reproduction system (120) associated with the frequency-dependent attenuation stage. The device comprises a receiving section (162) adapted to receive data representing an output acoustic signal (140) from the audio reproduction system, recorded upon excitation of the audio reproduction system by a predetermined input data signal (110)a first distortion detection section (163) adapted to detect presence of non-linear distortion based on the received data and to apply psycho-acoustic compensation to the detected non-linear distortion and a control section (164) adapted to determine, based on the psycho-acoustically compensated non-linear distortion, control information (170) suitable for controlling the frequency-dependent attenuation stage.
US10283136B1	Doppler microphone processing for conference calls Systems and methods are provided for conducting conference calls using doppler-based, i.e., reverberation-based techniques. The embodiments comprise a call device performing operations to join a call session hosted on a session server; receive sensor data comprising an audio signal from a first microphone and location information associated with the first microphone; determine a reverberation parameter associated with the location information; generate a first processed audio signal based on the audio signal and the reverberation parameter; and transmit the first processed audio signal to the session server. The session server may perform operations to receive a respective processed audio signal; determine a sound quality parameter of the respective processed audio signal; generate a balanced audio signal based on the sound quality parameter and the received processed audio signal; and transmit the balanced audio signal to a remote call device belonging to a second party.
US10283135B2	Touchscreen tapping noise suppression Suppression of tapping noise caused by tapping an acoustically coupled touchscreen. When a tapping event is detected on the touchscreen, a tapping noise suppressor is alerted of the event, and responds by at least temporarily mitigating the tapping noise in the audio stream. The suppression occurs temporarily for at least part of the duration of surge in audio levels that occurs as a result of the tapping event, and in a manner that reduces the psychoacoustic impact on the conversation. Suppression may be performed by first placing the tapping noise suppressors in an alert mode when a tapping event occurs. The tapping noise suppressor then monitors the audio stream generated by the microphone for the beginning of the tapping event—which will be represented in the form of a surge in volume. The tapping noise suppressor then temporarily applies the suppression window.
US10283132B2	Gain adjustment coding for audio encoder by periodicity-based and non-periodicity-based encoding methods In an encoding method that is expected to produce a smaller code amount out of a periodicity-based encoding method and a non-periodicity-based encoding method, the amount of code or an estimated value of the amount of code of an integer value sequence which is derived from an audio signal is obtained while adjusting gain. In the other encoding method, an integer value sequence obtained in this process is substituted to obtain the amount of code or an estimated value of the amount of code of the integer value sequence. The obtained code amounts or estimated values are compared to choose one of the encoding methods and the integer value sequence is encoded using the chosen encoding method to obtain and output an integer signal code.
US10283129B1	Audio matching using time-frequency onsets Systems and methods are provided herein relating to audio matching. Interest points that are onsets are generally very efficient in audio matching in that they are robust to multiple types of distortion. Prominent onsets can be detected within an audio signal excerpt as interest points and combined as a function of a set of interest points to form a descriptor. Descriptors associated with an audio signal excerpt that contain a set of prominent onsets as interest points can be used in matching the audio signal excerpt to an audio reference. The benefits in generating and using prominent onsets within descriptors improve the accuracy of an audio matching system.
US10283128B2	Coded acoustic signal communication with separate code-associated data communication A composite signal having frequencies within a sonic first frequency bandwidth may be received from a communication media on a receiver. The composite signal may include an audio base signal and at least one code signal. The code signal may be encoded with a code. The composite signal may be output on a speaker, the speaker converting the composite signal into sound. While outputting the composite signal, a signal processing device may detect the output sound corresponding to the code signal. The code may be determined from the detected output sound corresponding to the code signal. Data associated with the code may be retrieved from a data storage device that is internal to or remote from the signal processing device. The retrieved data, when displayed on a display device, may be selected by a user. The signal processing device may automatically send signal-processing-device-specific data to a remote server when the code is determined or when the user inputs an input using the displayed code-associated data.
US10283126B2	MDCT-based complex prediction stereo coding The invention provides methods and devices for stereo encoding and decoding using complex prediction in the frequency domain. In one embodiment, a decoding method, for obtaining an output stereo signal from an input stereo signal encoded by complex prediction coding and comprising first frequency-domain representations of two input channels, comprises the upmixing steps of: (i) computing a second frequency-domain representation of a first input channel; and (ii) computing an output channel on the basis of the first and second frequency-domain representations of the first input channel, the first frequency-domain representation of the second input channel and a complex prediction coefficient. The upmixing can be suspended responsive to control data.
US10283122B2	Processing of audio signals during high frequency reconstruction The application relates to HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction/Regeneration) of audio signals. In particular, the application relates to a method and system for performing HFR of audio signals having large variations in energy level across the low frequency range which is used to reconstruct the high frequencies of the audio signal. A system configured to generate a plurality of high frequency subband signals covering a high frequency interval from a plurality of low frequency subband signals is described. The system comprises means for receiving the plurality of low frequency subband signals; means for receiving a set of target energies, each target energy covering a different target interval within the high frequency interval and being indicative of the desired energy of one or more high frequency subband signals lying within the target interval; means for generating the plurality of high frequency subband signals from the plurality of low frequency subband signals and from a plurality of spectral gain coefficients associated with the plurality of low frequency subband signals, respectively; and means for adjusting the energy of the plurality of high frequency subband signals using the set of target energies.
US10283119B2	Architecture for multi-domain natural language processing Features are disclosed for processing a user utterance with respect to multiple subject matters or domains, and for selecting a likely result from a particular domain with which to respond to the utterance or otherwise take action. A user utterance may be transcribed by an automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) module, and the results may be provided to a multi-domain natural language understanding (“NLU”) engine. The multi-domain NLU engine may process the transcription(s) in multiple individual domains rather than in a single domain. In some cases, the transcription(s) may be processed in multiple individual domains in parallel or substantially simultaneously. In addition, hints may be generated based on previous user interactions and other data. The ASR module, multi-domain NLU engine, and other components of a spoken language processing system may use the hints to more efficiently process input or more accurately generate output.
US10283113B2	Method for detecting driving noise and improving speech recognition in a vehicle The disclosure concerns a method for recognizing driving noise in a sound signal that is acquired by a microphone disposed in a vehicle. The sound signal originates from the surface structure of the road. According to the disclosure, a segment of the road lying ahead of the vehicle in the direction of travel is observed with a sensor installed in or on the vehicle. Using the observation data obtained, the start and duration of driving noise originating from the surface structure of the road are predicted.
US10283110B2	Methods and apparatuses for automatic speech recognition Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses for automatic speech recognition are described. First model parameters associated with a first representation of an input signal are generated. The first representation of the input signal is a discrete parameter representation. Second model parameters associated with a second representation of the input signal are generated. The second representation of the input signal includes a continuous parameter representation of residuals of the input signal. The first representation of the input signal includes discrete parameters representing first portions of the input signal. The second representation includes discrete parameters representing second portions of the input signal that are smaller than the first portions. Third model parameters are generated to couple the first representation of the input signal with the second representation of the input signal. The first representation and the second representation of the input signal are mapped into a vector space.
US10283109B2	Nickname management method and apparatus A nickname management apparatus includes a speech agent configured to recognize a speech of a user to obtain nickname information of a device, and a nickname manager configured to determine a device corresponding to the nickname information from one or more devices on a network, and register the named device based on the determination.
US10283108B2	Active noise control device and error path characteristic model correction method An error path characteristic model correction control unit determines the deviation of the phase of an actual transfer function from the phase of an error path characteristic model, from a cross correlation between an error signal output from a microphone and a signal in which the error path characteristic model is applied to a noise cancellation sound to be output and a cross correlation between the error signal and a signal in which a transfer function having a phase characteristic deviating by +90 degrees from the phase characteristic of the error path characteristic model is applied to the noise cancellation sound. The error path characteristic model correction control unit then corrects the error path characteristic model so that the determined deviation is reduced to ±90 degrees.
US10283106B1	Noise suppression The present application describes techniques for noise control which utilize a feedback control unit comprising a filter, derived from one or more predetermined filter candidates, for reducing or cancelling a feedback component of a noise control signal.
US10283104B2	Method and apparatus for controlling earphone noise reduction A method and apparatus for controlling earphone noise reduction. The method for controlling earphone noise reduction can include collecting a noise signal of an environment where a terminal microphone is placed, processing the collected noise signal to generate a judgement result, and controlling connected earphones to enable a noise reduction function or disable the noise reduction function according to the judgement result. Embodiments of the present disclosure can be realized without a hardware switch for noise reduction adjustment on earphones. Embodiments of the present disclosure are capable of automatic noise reduction, thereby improving the integration degree of the earphones and also enhancing the noise reduction efficiency of the earphones.
US10283102B2	Ultrasonic transducer and ultrasonic flow measuring device An ultrasonic transducer comprising a coupling element and a piezo element, wherein a metal disk is arranged between the coupling element and the piezo element, wherein the metal disk is connected with the piezo element or with the coupling element by means of an adhesive layer, characterized in that the adhesive layer is producible, at least in certain regions, by means of a photochemically curable adhesive.
US10283101B2	Systems and methods for capturing and interpreting audio A device is provided as part of a system, the device being for capturing vibrations produced by an object such as a musical instrument. Via a fixation element, the device is fixed to a drum. The device has a sensor spaced apart from a surface of the drum, located relative to the drum, and a magnet adjacent the sensor. The fixation element transmits vibrations from its fixation point on the drum to the magnet. Vibrations from the surface of the drum and from the magnet are transmitted to the sensor. A method may further be provided for interpreting an audio input, such as the output of the sensors within the system, the method comprising identifying an audio event or grouping of audio events within audio data, generating a model of the audio event that includes a representation of a timbre characteristic, and comparing that representation to expected representations.
US10283091B2	Buffer optimization Buffer optimization techniques are described herein in which a graphics processing system is configured to implement and select between a plurality of buffer schemes for processing of an encoded data stream in dependence upon formats used for decoding and rendering (e.g., video format, bit depth, resolution, content type, etc.) and device capabilities such as available memory and/or processing power. Processing of an encoded data stream for display and rendering via the graphics processing system then occurs using a selected one of the buffer schemes to define buffers employed for the decoding and rendering, including at least configuring the sizes of buffers. The plurality of schemes may include at least one buffer scheme for processing the encoded content when the input format and the output format are the same, and a different buffer scheme for processing the encoded content when the input format and the output format are different.
US10283090B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An information processing apparatus that has a display unit and a plurality of graphic controllers, the apparatus comprises: a detection unit that detects an event that is generated by a user operation on the display unit; a determination unit that determines, when the event is detected by the detection unit, which of the plurality of graphic controllers an application displaying a screen on the display unit uses; and a transmission unit that, based on a resolution of the display unit and information of the application for which the determination is made by the determination unit, converts coordinate information of the user operation that the event indicates to a value of a coordinate system corresponding to the graphic controller that the application uses, and transmits a result of the conversion to the application.
US10283086B1	Display device with novel sub-pixel configuration A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixel arrays and each of sub-pixel arrays includes a plurality of first sub-pixels having a first color and forming a plurality of vertexes of a virtual quadrilateral, wherein there is not any other first sub-pixels having the first color located in the virtual quadrilateral; at least one second sub-pixel, having a second color different from the first color and located in the virtual quadrilateral; and at least one third sub-pixel, having a third color different from the first color and the second color and located in the virtual quadrilateral.
US10283083B2	Method and apparatus for managing graphics layers within a graphics display component A layer selection module for a graphics display component, and method therefor. The layer selection module is arranged to identify a set M of active layers to be blended for a pixel, configure a display controller to generate composite pixel data for the pixel based on a subset N of up to n layers from the set M, determine whether a number m of active layers in the set M exceeds n, and output an indication of which active layers within the set M were excluded from the subset N, if it is determined that the number m of layers in the set M exceeds n.
US10283081B2	Method, system, and apparatus for battery life extension and peripheral expansion of a wearable data collection device An apparatus for providing an external power supply, memory device, camera, and/or other peripheral capabilities to a head-mounted data collection device may include a first portion releasably connecting to the data collection device. The first portion may have a first data port interface configured for connection to a corresponding data port interface of the data collection device. The apparatus may have a second portion releasably connectable to the first portion, the second portion including an internal data port interface configured for connection to a corresponding internal data port interface of the first portion, a power cell module, and a power supply interface configured for connection to a corresponding power supply input of the head-mounted wearable data collection device. The first portion and/or the second portion may include interface logic for receiving data via the first data port and command logic for issuing commands to the data collection device.
US10283075B2	Electronic apparatus which effects touch coordinate based on proximity and strain A strain quantity obtaining unit is provided that obtains a strain quantity at an interval faster than variation in the strain to be detected and stores the maximum value of the strain quantity. When a touch coordinate is obtained at a predetermined sampling interval, if the maximum value of the strain quantity when the touch coordinate is obtained does not exceed a strain quantity threshold value, the touch coordinate is not caused to be effective. However, if the maximum value of the strain quantity when the touch coordinate is obtained exceeds a strain quantity threshold value, the touch coordinate is caused to be effective. If a touch coordinate is caused to be effective once, the touch coordinate is caused to be effective continuously until an instructing object is separated from an operation surface of a touch panel unit at a predetermined distance or more in a perpendicular direction.
US10283072B2	Pixel circuit and driving method thereof, display panel and display device A pixel circuit is provided which includes a data writing module, a drive module, a control module and an electrochromic device. The data writing module provides a data signal to the control terminal of the drive module under the control of a first control signal. The drive module drives the electrochromic device for color development or color fading according to a power supply voltage signal under the control of the data signal. The control module controls the conduction between the drive module and the electrochromic device on the basis of a second control signal, and the control module controls the conduction so that the conduction is realized later than the change in the power supply voltage signal. The pixel circuit effectively removes interference of the power supply voltage signal, avoids display fluctuations caused by the change in the power supply voltage signal, and further improves the display effect.
US10283068B1	GOA circuit The invention provides a GOA circuit, each GOA unit of GOA circuit comprising: a pull up control module, an output module, a pull down module, a first pull down maintenance module, and a second pull down maintenance module; wherein the 32nd TFT of first pull down maintenance module and the 33rd TFT of second pull down maintenance module having gate connected to the second node and third node respectively, source connected to the first low voltage signal, and drain connected to the scan signal; the 42nd TFT of first pull down maintenance module, the 43rd TFT of second pull down maintenance module, and the 41st TFT of pull down module having source connected to the second low voltage signal. The first low voltage signal is higher than the second low voltage signal, and the second low voltage signal is higher than low voltage level of the clock signal.
US10283062B2	Display with pixel dimming for curved edges A display may have curved edges such as rounded corners. Pixels in the display may be controlled so that the active area of the display has the desired curved edge shape. In order to maximize the apparent smoothness of the curved edge, the display may include circuitry that dims some of the pixels based on their location relative to a spline for the curved edge. The display circuitry may include a multiplication circuit that receives image data as a first input and dimming factors from a gain table as a second input. The image data may include a brightness level for each pixel in the array of pixels. The multiplication circuit may multiply the brightness level for each pixel by its respective dimming factor. This modified image data may then be supplied to the imaging pixels using display driver circuitry.
US10283058B2	Display device and driving method thereof Provided is a display device including a plurality of light sources configured to be driven by a driving voltage, turned on during an on section, and turned off during an off section, a display panel configured to display an image by using light outputted from the light sources, a voltage converter connected to the light sources and configured to generate the driving voltage, and a backlight control circuit including a light source driving circuit and a voltage drop circuit. The light source driving circuit includes a pulse generator including a control input terminal configured to receive a first voltage during the on section and receive a second voltage during the off section and output a control pulse signal to control a level of the driving voltage based on a voltage applied to the control input terminal. The voltage drop circuit applies the second voltage to the control input terminal during the off section. The second voltage is smaller than the first voltage.
US10283055B2	Organic light-emitting diode display device and driving method thereof The present invention discloses an organic light-emitting diode display device and a driving method thereof. The device includes: a plurality of pixels, including a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes and a plurality of drive transistors for supplying drive currents to the organic light-emitting diodes; a data driver, configured to transmit corresponding data signals to the plurality of pixels via a plurality of data lines; and a pre-charge circuit, configured to pre-charge voltage signals reserved in a previous time sequence to an initial voltage, the initial voltage being less than or equal to a minimum voltage of the data signals, wherein before the data driver transmits the corresponding data signals to the plurality of pixels, the pre-charge circuit acts to pre-charge the voltage signals reserved in the previous time sequence by the plurality of pixels to be less than or equal to the minimum voltage of the data signals.
US10283053B2	Display with cell voltage compensation An active matrix display wherein each cell comprises: two thin-film transistors (TFTs) connected in series, the first TFT having its drain connected to a high supply line and the second TFT having its source connected to a low supply line. Gates of the first and second TFTs are selectively connected to respective first and second data driver signals under the control of a scan line signal. A storage capacitance is connected to a node joining the first and second TFT. A driving TFT has a gate connected to the joining node and is connected to drive a light emitting device with a bias current. In one embodiment, the first and second TFTs are sized relative to one another and the first and second data driver signal voltages are related proportionally, so that the data driver signals and the bias current are related to one another by a function substantially independent of a threshold voltage of the driving TFT.
US10283049B2	Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes a scanning line, a data line intersecting with each other, a pixel circuit which is provided corresponding to the intersection thereof, and a wire. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, one transistor which controls a current flowing to the light emitting element, and the other transistor of which conduction state is controlled according to a scanning signal which is supplied to the scanning line between a gate node of the one transistor and the data line. The wire is provided between the data line and the one transistor.
US10283044B2	Display device, display device correction method, display device manufacturing method, and display device display method A display device correction method is provided for correcting luminance unevenness in a display device including pixels, which are arranged in a matrix and include light-emitting elements that emit light according to a luminance signal. The method includes obtaining in advance first correction data, which includes correction data components each corresponding to a different one of the pixels and is for correcting the luminance signal. The method also includes transforming the first correction data into second correction data by decomposing the correction data components included in the first correction data into frequency components, and removing a predetermined frequency component among the frequency components. The method further includes correcting the luminance signal using the second correction data.
US10283041B2	Display device A display apparatus time-divisionally expresses gradation values allocated to the sub-frames so that the gradation value of the single frame is expressed by a total of the gradation values of the sub-frames. Each of the plurality of sub-frames includes a plurality of weighted elements with different gradation values to express the gradation values by powers of two. A lighting controller performs control such that the weighted elements in at least one of the plurality of sub-frames in one frame are aligned in an order different from an order of the weighted elements in at least one of the plurality of sub-frames in another frame and, of the plurality of weighted elements in at least one of the plurality of sub-frames in the single frame, the weighted element at the end of the timeline turns OFF a corresponding one of the light emitting elements.
US10283038B2	Shift register unit and method for driving the same, gate drive circuit and display device A shift register unit and a method for driving the shift register unit, a gate drive circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes a driving signal generating module and a selecting module. The driving signal generating module generates a driving signal for driving n rows of gate lines to be turned on, a duration of the driving signal being equal to a duration spent on scanning the n rows of gate lines, and n is equal to or greater than 2. The selecting module, connected to the driving signal generating module and input terminals of the n rows of gate lines, selects the n rows of gate lines sequentially and connects each selected gate line to the driving signal generating module, such that the driving signal is inputted to the n rows of gate lines sequentially.
US10283037B1	Digital architecture with merged non-linear emission clock signals for a display panel Systems and apparatuses provide a digital architecture with merged non-linear emission clocks for a display panel. In one embodiment, a display driver hardware circuit includes decoder logic to store a mapping between a plurality of non-linear gray scale clock signals and a merged non-linear gray scale clock signal that represents a combination of the plurality of non-linear gray scale clock signals including first and second non-linear gray scale clock signals. In one example, the first non-linear gray scale clock signal is associated with at least one display element of a first color and the second non-linear gray scale clock signal is associated with at least one display element of a second color. A driver circuitry is coupled to the decoder logic. The driver circuitry includes a counter to store a number of pulses of the merged non-linear gray scale clock signal and driving circuitry to cause emission of the at least one display element of a first color based on the first non-linear gray scale clock signal.
US10283033B2	Driving method for display panel, driving circuit and display device A driving method for a display panel, a driving circuit and a display device are disclosed. The driving method comprises; dividing input signals into M×N final signal groups according to positions of respective corresponding initial pixels in an input image; determining a reference brightness value of each final subarea according to the input signals; determining a brightness reduction function corresponding to the reference brightness value of the final subarea; adjusting a brightness value of each initial pixel in the final subarea according to the brightness reduction function corresponding to the final subarea, so as to adjust the brightness value of each initial pixel in each final subarea from an initial brightness value to a final brightness value; generating a voltage enabling display pixels of the display panel to display the obtained final brightness values; and inputting the obtained voltage to the display pixels of the display panel, respectively.
US10283032B2	Integrated circuit for nonlinear data encoding A method of image processing, the method including performing linear processing of an input data signal encoded with a nonlinear function to generate a linear representation of the input data signal including linearized image data, and using an integrated circuit to generate a processed linear image by nonlinearly quantizing the linearized image data to generate nonlinear quantized data, generating a memory address based on the nonlinear quantized data, and accessing a lookup table based on the generated memory address.
US10283031B2	Electronic device with image processor to reduce color motion blur An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of pixels each of which includes subpixels of different colors. The content that is to be displayed on the display may include an object such as a black object that is moved across a background. Due to differences in subpixel values in the background for subpixels of different colors, there is a potential for color motion blur to develop along a trailing edge portion of the object as the object is moved across the background. The electronic device may have a blur abatement image processor that processes the content to reduce color motion blur. The blur abatement image processor may identify which pixels are located in the trailing edge and may adjust subpixel values for pixels in the trailing edge.
US10283030B2	Shift register, gate driver, display panel and driving method A shift register, a gate driver, a display panel and a driving method are provided. The shift register includes an input-reset circuit, which is connected with a pull-up node; and a driving circuit, which is connected with the pull-up node. The input-reset circuit is configured to: write a voltage of a first signal into the pull-up node in response to a second signal, in an input phase of forward scanning; write a voltage of a fourth signal into the pull-up node in response to a third signal, in a reset phase of forward scanning; write the voltage of the fourth signal into the pull-up node in response to the third signal, in an input phase of reverse scanning; and write the voltage of the first signal into the pull-up node in response to the second signal, in a reset phase of reverse scanning.
US10283028B2	Organic electroluminescent display panel, aging testing device and method, and display device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an organic electroluminescent display panel, an aging testing device and method, and a display device. A signal generator can simultaneously drive a plurality of parallel organic electroluminescent display panels to ensure the high efficiency of the aging test. In addition, during the aging test, the electrical coupling between the normal organic electroluminescent display panel and the signal generator can be maintained, and the electric coupling between the abnormal organic electroluminescent display panel and the signal generator can be disconnected. Thus, it is possible to prevent the abnormal organic electroluminescent display panel from affecting other normal organic electroluminescent display panels in parallel therewith, under the premise of ensuring the high efficiency of the aging test.
US10283027B2	Dual gate array substrate, testing method, display panel and display apparatus A dual gate array substrate is disclosed. In two vertically adjacent pixel pairs, two pixel units in each of the pixel pairs are connected to the same data line of the two adjacent data lines respectively, and two adjacent pixel units in the two pixel pairs in an extending direction of the data line are connected to different data lines in the two adjacent data lines respectively; in two adjacent pixel pairs in an extending direction of any set of the dual gate lines, a data line connected to two pixel units in one pixel pair is different from but adjacent to a data line connected to two pixel units in the other pixel pair; and two adjacent pixel units in the extending direction of the data line are connected to their respective adjacent gate lines transmitting different scan signals respectively.
US10283024B2	Display device and method for driving display device A display device and a method for driving the display device are disclosed. The display device comprises a black and white liquid crystal display panel, an organic light emitting display panel, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the organic light emitting display panel to emit light, at least divide a frame of display time into a first time period, a second time period, and a third time period, and to drive the first primary color sub-pixel to emit light only in the first time period, the second primary color sub-pixel to emit light only in the second time period, and the third primary color sub-pixel to emit light only in the third time period. According to embodiments of the present invention, there is no need to provide lenticular lenses or a slit grating to realize 3D display, thus reducing production cost.
US10283023B1	3D shelf talker A 3D shelf talker in the form of a planar substrate has a profile and scored fold lines defining three advertising panels for displaying text and/or graphics identified with a product, and at least one fastener panel integral with one of the advertising panels and adherable to another of the panels for stabilizing the shelf talker once erected into a hollow rectangular parallelepiped. The fastener panel may be provided with a connector for mounting the shelf talker on a shelf fixture in an aisle of a store where one of the advertising panels is visible for indicating the location of the product to a customer along either end of the aisle or directly opposite the product.
US10283019B2	Mechanical display system and method of making A display system having a housing, a plurality of panels rotatably mounted in the housing and configured to present first and second display faces, each panel having first and second opposing faces that meet at opposing longitudinal first and second edges, the plurality of panels including a first panel having a portion of a first character removed from the first edge of the first panel, a second panel having a remaining portion of the first character removed from the second edge of the second panel, the first and second panels cooperating so that when the first and second panels are rotated with the respective first and second edges adjacent each other, the portion of the first character on the first panel and the remaining portion of the first character on the second panel cooperate to form a visual display of the complete first character, and a mechanism coupled to the plurality of panels and configured to cause the plurality of panels to rotate in unison in the housing and change the display face.
US10283015B2	Device and method for simulation of surface bleedings A device to simulate a surface bleeding is provided. The device includes A source of a blood liquid; A pump system connected to the source of blood liquid and configured to provide a controlled flow of said blood liquid; A wound simulator having an open chamber connected to the pump system to receive the controlled flow of blood liquid, wherein the wound simulator includes a set of interchangeable plates having a plurality of holes arranged through said plates according to a specific pattern, and each plate being adapted to be removably mounted on the wound simulator to close the open chamber, so that blood liquid flows out of the chamber through the holes of the plate mounted on the wound simulator.
US10283013B2	System and method for language learning through film A computer-assisted system and method for foreign language instruction. A motion picture having audio dialog in a target language is stored, in a computer-readable form, with chapter divisions, scene subdivisions and dialog sequence sub-subdivisions. In an Engage Mode, the motion picture is played on a display screen sequence-by-sequence, scene-by-scene, and chapter-by-chapter for a student listening to the audio dialog on a speaker. Interlinear target and source language subtitles are provided with interactive capabilities accessed through cursor movement or other means. The interlinear subtitles may be semantically color-mapped. After selecting a scene to view, the student is progressed through a series of modules that break-down and dissect each dialog sequence of the scene. The student studies each dialog sequence before moving to the next scene. Likewise, all scenes in a chapter are studied before moving to the next chapter and ultimately completing the motion picture.
US10283012B2	Bicolor notes and charts for easy music note reading The present invention relates generally to music notes for an easy note reading. In particular, the invention relates to make music note reading much easier, including piano notes.
US10283008B2	Motion simulation system controller and associated methods A motion simulation system includes actuators having a planetary gearbox engaged with and driven by a servomotor engaged with a crank. A connector rod is engaged with the crank of each actuator, and engaged with a platform configured to attach to a vehicle. A control system is operable with each electric servo motor of each actuator for delivering control for providing a simulated motion to the top plate. Control data is sent to the servomotors using a msec data send and receive rate, with internal processing within the nano-second range. Such update rates coupled with a real time, dynamically responsive motion controller results in a desirably smooth and accurate simulator motion. The control system includes a washout filter for transforming input forces and rotational movements. One to six degrees of freedom systems having smooth performance with high payload capability are provided.
US10283005B2	Image display method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention disclose an image display method and apparatus, and relates to the field of Internet communications. The method includes: acquiring a source image and a user image corresponding to the source image, where the user image is a movement image generated after a user imitates the source image; processing the source image and the user image; and sending the processed source image and user image to a terminal, so that the terminal simultaneously displays the source image and the user image. In embodiments of the present invention, a terminal simultaneously presents a source image and a user image to a user, so that the user can visually compare a difference between the user image and the source image, which is convenient for the user to imitate the source image and accelerates a learning speed of the user.
US10282996B1	Collision prevention based on connected devices A method of performing collision prevention and a system to perform collision prevention involve a communication interface to receive information from connected devices of individuals. The system also includes a processor to obtain the information from the connected devices, estimate a potential for an upcoming collision, and issue an alert based on the potential for the upcoming collision to one or more of the connected devices.
US10282992B2	Method and system for generating space to park for motor vehicles A method, which can be performed by a system executing instructions on a computer-readable medium, for generating space to park for a motor vehicle includes determining a need for a parking area in a geographic area that includes a roadway, determining a need for road space for the roadway, determining, based on the determined need for the parking area and the determined need for road space, whether a lateral region of the roadway should be set for use as a parking area, and, in response to a positive result of the determination, setting the lateral region of the roadway for use as the parking area.
US10282991B2	Information processing apparatus, communication apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus in accordance with the present disclosure includes processing circuitry configured to detect an occurrence of an event; receive, via a base station to which a communication apparatus loaded onto a moving body belongs, information related to the moving body from the communication apparatus; and determine whether or not to recognize the moving body as an execution subject of an operation appropriate to the event, on a basis of the information related to the moving body and information indicating the event.
US10282990B2	Road traffic optimization system To optimize road traffic within an application server (SA) providing itineraries recommended to users connected to said application server from communication terminals (TC), each recommended itinerary being provided to a user based on a profile of the user containing the departure date or arrival date, the departure location and the arrival location, the application server compares the itineraries recommended to users whose indicated departure date belongs to a given interval time, produces a set of users whose corresponding recommended itineraries have at least one itinerary segment of given length in common, and modifies an itinerary recommended to at least one user who belongs to said set of users.
US10282989B2	Method and device for controlling a transmission behavior for transmitting a warning message for a vehicle A method for controlling a transmission behavior for transmitting a warning message for a vehicle. In this case, a warning message for warning a driver of the vehicle about a hazardous situation is initially read in. Furthermore, a piece of context information about a context in which the warning message was generated is received. In a further method step, a control signal for controlling a transmission of the warning message via a communication interface of the vehicle and/or a vehicle-external data server connected to the communication interface is provided as a function of the piece of context information.
US10282977B2	Training and controlling multiple functions of a remote device with a single channel of a trainable transceiver The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of training and controlling multiple functions of a remote device with a single transceiver channel. A trainable transceiver may detect a button press on a command button corresponding to a channel. The trainable transceiver may identify the channel as trained to control a first function of the remote device. The trainable transceiver may determine that a second function of the remote device satisfies a message similarity condition with the first function. The trainable transceiver may train the channel to control both the first function and the second function, responsive to determining that the second function satisfies the message similarity condition with the first function. The trainable transceiver may configure the command button to transmit control signals to alternately actuate the first function and the second function of the remote device responsive to successive button presses.
US10282975B2	Carbon monoxide alarm supervision Supervision and testing of a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm using an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and microcontroller. Wherein an electrochemical CO sensor is isolated from its detection circuit and a voltage charge is changed thereon then the CO sensor is reconnected to the detection circuit, wherein the voltage charge on the CO sensor returns to an equilibrium state over time. From the voltage versus time results a determination is made as to whether the CO sensor and CO detection circuit are functioning properly. All test and control circuits may be provided by the ASIC.
US10282973B2	Smart stay day In some embodiments, security and/or automation systems, collectively referred to as automation systems, may offer a user the peace of mind of having an automation system active while the user is present in a residence. False alarms may become costly to both the user of the automation system and to emergency responders using resources to respond to the false alarms. The automation system may provide the benefit of an armed automation system without the risk of frequent false alarms. An automation system may provide additional or alternative security to a residence when a person is detected in the home with a reduction in the false alarms that may be present in a strict alarm state. This may provide security to a person in the home during the day and provide unique daytime features.
US10282971B2	Apparatus and method for improved drug regimen compliance A method and apparatus for monitoring drug-regimen compliance is disclosed. Systems in accordance with the present invention enable automatic monitoring of the state of medicine content of a blister card. Each tablet location on the blister card is operatively coupled with a different sensor that detects whether the tablet location is occupied and/or a dispensing event at a tablet location. In some embodiments, capacitive sensing is employed, where the capacitance of each sensor is based on the physical state of a dispensing region of the lidding film of the blister pack, which is located at the tablet location being monitored. Alternative sensing approaches are based on optical, acoustic, and tactile sensors that interrogate either the dispensing region at each tablet location or the tablets themselves to determine whether tablets have been dispensed. The sensors interface with a mobile app that provides the user instructions to help improve drug-regimen compliance.
US10282970B2	Mobile device loss prevention A method for a mobile device to prevent loss including monitoring environmental parameters by a mobile device; storing the environmental parameters in the mobile device to form a history of the environmental parameters; applying statistical analysis to a current set of environmental parameters as compared to the history of the environmental parameters to determine a probability that the mobile device is lost; and responsive to determining the probability that the mobile device is lost exceeds a threshold, performing an action to prevent loss of the mobile device.
US10282968B2	Intelligent monitoring method and apparatus The present disclosure discloses an intelligent monitoring method and apparatus. One specific implementation of the method comprises: determining, based on a plurality of parameter values of a warning associated parameter of a to-be-monitored apparatus within a preset period, a time dependent characteristic that parameter values of the warning associated parameter; and determining a target period, based on the parameter values of the warning associated parameter of the to-be-monitored apparatus at a current time and the time dependent characteristic of the parameter values of the warning associated parameter, and determining whether to generate a warning information based on a period interval encompassing the target period. The warning of possible faults in the operation of industrial equipment is implemented, without a manual monitoring of the operation of the industrial equipment is not required and a complete automated operation of the industrial equipment is implemented.
US10282961B1	Systems and methods for automatically generating an escape route Methods and systems for generating escape routes are provided. With a home owner's or insured's permission, a smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may analyze data received from a plurality of smart devices disposed on, within, or proximate to a home, as well as data received from an insurance provider. If it is determined that an emergency situation necessitating an evacuation exists, the smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may automatically generate escape routes to guide occupants to safety. The smart home controller may then transmit the generated escape routes to inform occupants of emergency situation and how to reach safety. The smart home controller and/or insurance provider may also issue commands to smart devices to ensure the safety of the generated escape routes. Insurance policies, premiums, or discounts may be adjusted based upon the escape route determination functionality.
US10282956B2	Smoke detectors with light shields and alarm systems including such Smoke detectors and smoke alarms are provided which have one or more light shields configured to block or minimize the transmission of ambient light to their light receivers. Light shield configurations for facilitating such functionality are provided as well. The shield/s include a material which attenuates a majority amount of light within a particular range of light that a light source of the smoke detector may be configured to only emit and/or the range of light the light receiver may configured to only convert to photocurrent. In some cases, the shield/s surrounds the light source and/or the light receiver arranged external to an interior chamber of the smoke detector. In some cases, the shield/s may at least partially span a connection side of an external housing of the smoke detector. Alternatively, the shield may be arranged in a space between the interior chamber and the connection side of the housing.
US10282951B1	Electrical continuity unattended package security apparatus and method of operation An electrical continuity unattended package security apparatus and method of operation prevents unattended delivered packages from theft or molestation. A bag contains an item. The bag has a mesh sidewall weaved with a matrix of conductive wires. An electric cable, carrying electrical current is in contact with conductive wires. A current sensing device detects a disturbance to electrical continuity through the electric cable and conductive wires, such as attempts to cut the cable or open the bag. A disturbance to the electric cable or conductive wires triggers a visual and audible alarm. The terminus of the cable forms a loop that serves as a mounting means to the anchoring structure. Fasteners also serves as a mounting means. A coded pad controls a gate. When the package recipient or package deliverer register a predetermined code, the gate opens to enable access to electric cable and alarm reset means.
US10282946B2	Lucky spot betting Methods and systems are provided for enabling player to play a keno game allowing for additional betting. The player may select keno board spots on the keno board, and then place an additional wager on one of the selected keno board spots. If the selected keno board spot is part of a winning combination, the player may be awarded a supplemental bonus.
US10282944B2	Marketing bonus system and method A marketing bonus system and method for use in one or more casino establishments for awarding a prize to a player who is a member of a loyalty program and has a player card in active use at an eligible electronic gaming machine. The marketing bonus system and method randomly selects a player for an award. It may be configured to offer multiple bonuses across the floor of a casino or other gaming establishment at any given time. Players are notified prior to a bonus being awarded so that they may insert their card into an electronic gaming machine on the casino floor in the area where the bonus is active and be eligible to win. Awards are offered to eligible players at electronic gaming machines such as slot machines and video poker machines, but may also be offered on other types of devices that are in active use such as general purpose computing devices connected to the system over a network such as the internet.
US10282942B2	Augmented or replaced application outcome interleaved wagering system An augmented or replaced application outcome interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller by a network, the interactive controller configured to: communicate application telemetry; receive application outcomes, advancement of an interactive application being based on the application outcomes; and receive a wager outcome. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive application outcome requests; generate application outcomes; communicate the application outcomes; determine a wager outcome. The system also includes the application controller operatively connected to the interactive controller and the wager controller, the application controller constructed to: receive the application telemetry; communicate the application outcome request; receive the application outcomes; communicate the application outcomes; receive the wager outcome; and communicate the wager outcome.
US10282941B2	Cashing out independent wagering games A gaming system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include controlling a first casino wagering game. The first casino wagering game has a first credit meter balance. The operations can further include intercepting an electronic request sent from a second device to cash out a second credit meter balance for a second casino wagering game controlled by the second device. In some examples, the gaming system is independent from the second device. The operations can further include, after intercepting the electronic request, cashing out a combined total of the first credit meter balance and the second credit meter balance.
US10282937B2	Gaming system and method of gaming having player selectable win line A gaming system comprising a display area and a player symbol selector for selecting the player symbols from a plurality of player symbols. The player symbol selector comprises a plurality of reels and each reel has a plurality of player symbols. The player symbol selector is arranged so that selected player symbols are displayed at an array of display positions when the reels are stationary. A display position selector enables a player to select, prior to stopping of the reels, groups of display positions. An award allocator allocates an award associated with a winning combination of the player symbols when a winning combination of the player symbols is displayed along a win line. The player symbol selector is arranged so that each one of different player symbols of each reel has the same probability to be displayed at any one of the display positions associated with that reel.
US10282936B2	Method, system and ticket for facilitating lottery related activities via mobile devices An enhanced lottery media representation object such as a ticket, for example, permits a user to access certain desirable features using a communications device. In embodiments of the present invention, an improved physical lottery ticket is provided with one or more icons, such as code elements or graphic patterns, thereupon to enable a user with a properly enabled device to detect, such as by scanning or photographing the icon, or by maintaining the icon within a field of view, one or more of the icons to reveal one or more enhanced experiences via the device.
US10282935B2	Apparatus for controlling access to and use of portable electronic devices Various prison services are rendered more efficient by providing inmates access to portable electronic devices in a controlled and regulated manner. A dispenser is employed to control and monitor the checking out and return of portable electronic devices and to communicate with such devices during use by inmates to monitor inmate use and ensure the portable electronic devices are only used by inmates as authorized.
US10282934B2	Leasing terminal of mobile power supply A leasing terminal of a mobile power supply comprises a CPU, a network communication module and a main control MCU which are respectively connected to the CPU, and at least one charging module, at least one charging cabinet motion drive motor and at least one mobile power supply information reading module which are respectively connected to the main control MCU; and each charging cabinet corresponds to one charging module, one charging cabinet motion drive motor and one mobile power supply information reading module. By means of the present invention, when a user is outside, a mobile power supply can be leased from a leasing terminal of the mobile power supply in a self-service manner, thereby providing the flexible charging service to the user.
US10282933B2	Media storage device Disclosed is an apparatus for storing media. The apparatus comprises a bottom cover, a pillar assembly mounted inside the bottom cover, a handling plate mounted within the pillar assembly and coupled to the pillar assembly via a linear actuator assembly. Further, the bottom cover comprises a cassette indexing mechanism mounted on the bottom surface of the bottom cover and a media entry assembly mounted through the side wall of the bottom cover. Furthermore, the pillar assembly comprises a shaft extending through the bottom surface of the bottom cover and the shaft is coupled with the cassette indexing mechanism for indexing the pillar assembly in a predefined configuration. Further, the handling plate is indexed along with the pillar assembly during operation, and the handling plate is configured to store a plurality of media indexed with respect to each other.
US10282932B2	Capacitance detection device and image reading device A capacitance detection device includes a first electrode and a second electrode that at least partially face each other on opposite sides of a transfer path. An oscillator circuit forms an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode. A detection circuit detects a change in capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode. At least one of the oscillator circuit and the detection circuit is included in each of a first board and a second board. The first board is disposed such that a side surface of the first board faces the first electrode in an electric field direction, and the second board is disposed such that a side surface of the second board faces the second electrode in the electric field direction.
US10282928B2	Individualized control system utilizing biometric characteristic A control system including a detection device and a control host is provided. The detection device is configured to detect a biometric characteristic to accordingly identify a user ID, and output an ID signal according to the user ID. The control host is configured to receive the ID signal to accordingly perform an individualized control associated with the user ID.
US10282927B1	Access control provisioning Method, systems, devices, and techniques for access control provisioning are described. A monitoring system configured to monitor a property includes an access control device that is configured to receive an access control request and provide access to a portion of the property in response to the request. The system also includes a control unit or board that is configured to transmit, through a particular relay out of multiple relays, the access control request. The control unit further receives data indicating that the access control device received the access control request and determines that the particular relay corresponds to the access control device.
US10282926B2	Calculator for a vehicle, such as a power steering calculator, provided with an integrated event recorder A computer for a motor vehicle including at least one main control module intended to manage an onboard system such as a power steering system, which uses a plurality of internal variables representative of the successive life situations of the vehicle, the computer including, in addition to the main control module, an integrated monitoring module that includes an extraction and recording unit, placed under the dependency of a trigger unit in order to extract, from a buffer memory, in case of a detection of a predefined alarm event occurring at a triggering time, one or more recordings, that correspond respectively to one or more internal variables, and that each cover a time interval that extends from a start time that precedes the triggering time to an end time that follows the triggering time, and then to store the recording or recordings in a non-volatile memory.
US10282924B2	System and method for sending and receiving messages between an electronic control unit of a vehicle and an external device A device for sending and receiving messages between an electronic control unit of a vehicle and an external device includes a processor, a memory, a first port, and a second port. The memory, first port, and second port are each in communication with the processor. The first port is configures to communicate with the electronic control unit of a vehicle, while the second port is configured to communicate with the external device. The processor is configured to receive a request message from the external device via the second port, transmit the request message to the electronic control unit of the vehicle; receive requested information from the electronic control unit of the vehicle based on the request message, and determine an information subset in the requested information that should be transmitted to the external device; and transmitting the information subset to the external device.
US10282922B1	Techniques for detecting and reporting a vehicle crash Techniques are described for automated vehicle crash detection and prevention. In one exemplary embodiment, information from one or more sensors, e.g., accelerometer and gyroscope, or from event data recorder (EDR) through OBD-II ECU, is received and recorded in a system. The system saves the received information in a memory for later use. The status of the vehicle may be sent to appropriate recipients. For example, a report of vehicle malfunction may be sent, e.g., through 2G/3G communication, to the driver's mobile phone or a maintenance center, and a report of the accident may be sent to an emergency center, police and/or an insurance company.
US10282921B2	System for managing mobile vehicle A system is provided for managing a mobile vehicle. The system may include: a first terminal that is located in the mobile vehicle and communicates with an external server by being connected to a communication network, and a second terminal that is located in the mobile vehicle and connected to the communication network through the first terminal. At least one of the first terminal and the second terminal is connected to at least one of a meter, a card reader, and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, which are located in the mobile vehicle, through a connecting device. The first and second terminals may receive power from a power supply device.
US10282918B2	Two-dimensional cinematic medical imaging in color based on deep learning A 2D medical image is colorized. In one approach, a deep-learnt classifier is trained to colorize from color 2D medical images. The color 2D medical images for training are cinematically rendered from slabs to add color. In another approach, a deep machine-learnt generator creates slices as if adjacent to the 2D medical image. The slices and 2D medical image form a slab, which is cinematically rendered to add color. The result is a colorized 2D medical image.
US10282917B2	Interactive mesh editing A system and method are provided for interactive editing of a mesh which has been applied to a three-dimensional (3D) image to segment an anatomical structure shown therein. To facilitate the interactive editing of the applied mesh, a view of the 3D image is generated which shows a mesh part to be edited, with the view being established based on a local orientation of the mesh part. Advantageously, the view may be generated to be substantially orthogonally to the mesh part, or to a centerline of the anatomical structure which is determined as a function of the mesh part. Accordingly, an orthogonal view is established which facilitates the user in carrying out the editing action with respect to the mesh part. It is therefore not needed for the user to manually navigate through the 3D image to obtain a view which is suitable for mesh editing, which is typically time consuming.
US10282916B2	Intelligently placing labels Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a rotation of a 3D map and corresponding rotation of a set of map labels overlaying the 3D map in response to receiving input to rotate the 3D map. When a particular map label in the set of map labels rotates towards an upside down orientation, the mapping application also replaces the particular map label with a version of the particular map label arranged in a right side up orientation to prevent the particular map label from being displayed in the upside down orientation in the 3D map.
US10282914B1	Systems and methods for computer assisted operation Systems and methods are disclosed method for rendering reality for an object by performing motion tracking and area learning of an environment; selecting a pattern or color from a plurality of product variations; blending the pattern or color of the object and the environment; and displaying the color on the object as an augmented reality view.
US10282913B2	Markerless augmented reality (AR) system A markerless augmented reality (AR) can track 2D feature points among video frames, generate 2D point clouds and 3D point clouds based thereon, and match a 3D model against 3D point cloud to obtain proper positional information of the model with respect to a frame. The AR system can use the 3D model with the obtained positional information to render and project AR content to a user's view. Additionally, the AR system can maintain associations between frames and 3D model positional information for search and retrieval.
US10282912B1	Systems and methods to provide an interactive space over an expanded field-of-view with focal distance tuning Systems and methods to provide an interactive space over an expanded field-of-view with focal distance tuning are presented herein. The system may include one or more of a headset, a first image forming component, a second image forming component, a set of tuning components, one or more physical processors, and/or other components. The first image forming component may be configured to generate light rays to form a first set of images presented over a first angular portion of a user's field-of-view. The second image forming component may be configured to generate light rays to form a second set of images of virtual content presented over a second angular portion of the user's field-of-view. A vergence distance of a gaze of a user may be determined. A focal distance of the images may be adjusted to match the vergence distance.
US10282911B2	Augmented reality geolocation optimization Providing of an electronic map displaying preferred real-world locations to utilize in connection with an augmented reality world. A request is received at a server computer to provide the electronic map to utilize in connection with the augmented reality world. A geolocation is received. Real-world locations in a vicinity are queried from a real-world location profile. A virtual location profile of virtual locations in the augmented reality world is accessed to generate an initial virtual location set. A participant preference profile containing virtual preferences and real-world preferences is accessed. Real-time participant data is accessed. The virtual locations in the initial virtual location set are prioritized to generate a prioritized virtual location set. The prioritized virtual location set is limited based upon the real-time participant data to generate a real-time prioritized location set. The electronic map is generated based upon the real-time prioritized location set, and transmitted.
US10282908B2	Systems and methods for presenting indication(s) of whether virtual object presented at first device is also presented at second device In one aspect, a first device includes a housing, a processor coupled to the housing, a first display coupled to the housing and accessible to the processor, and storage coupled to the housing and accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to present, on the first display, a virtual object. The instructions are also executable by the processor to visually indicate, on the first display, whether the virtual object is observable via a second display of a second device that is different from the first device.
US10282905B2	Assistive overlay for report generation A computing device includes at least one processor and at least one module operable by the at least one processor to output, for display, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising one or more graphical objects representing one or more data elements, receive input to select a graphical object representing a data element, wherein the selection occurs at a start location within the GUI, and determine a set of spatial locations with which the data element can be associated. The at least one module is further operable to output, for display, a plurality of overlay elements, each comprising a respective boundary that forms a respective path from the start location to a respective graphical representation of a respective spatial location, receive input to traverse a chosen overlay element, and associate the data element with the respective spatial location corresponding to the chosen overlay element.
US10282904B1	Providing augmented reality view of objects A user can capture image information about an object in order to identify the object. In addition to obtaining information about the object, the user can obtain additional views of the object. For example, if the user captures an image of packaging containing the object, the user can receive views of the object when out of the packaging, as well as a view showing the relative size of the object within the packaging. If the object requires assembly, the views can include views of the object at the component, part, or ingredient level, as well as views during assembly and one or more views of the finished product. A user also can obtain a virtual x-ray view that enables the user to move the client device with respect to the object in order to obtain different views of what is contained within the packaging.
US10282902B1	Real-time textured 3D models 3D models of objects in motion may be generated using depth imaging data and visual imaging data captured at different times. A 3D model of an object in motion at a first position may be generated at a first time and projected forward to a second position corresponding to a second time. Imaging data captured from the object at the second position at the second time may be compared to the projected-forward 3D model of the object at the second position. Differences between the imaging data and the projected-forward 3D model may be used to modify the 3D model, as necessary, until an accurate and precise 3D representation of the object has been derived.
US10282901B2	Configuration of navigational controls in geometric environment According to embodiments of the invention, methods, and a computer system for configuring navigational controls in a geometric environment are disclosed. The method may include obtaining a data set for geometric representation on a display, forming one or more reference surfaces, calculating a fit score and a confidence score using one or more of the reference surfaces, and configuring the navigational system to a control scheme when a computational operation on the fit score and the confidence score is outside of a threshold value. The control scheme may be a geometric control scheme, a planar control scheme, and a roaming control scheme.
US10282900B2	Systems and methods for projecting planar and 3D images through water or liquid onto a surface Systems and methods for projecting planar and 3D images through water or liquid onto a surface include creating a 3D model of the body of liquid and surface and 3D models of creative elements to be used in scenes. Animating the 3D models of the creative elements, placing them inside the 3D model of the body of liquid. Lighting the animated creative elements, rendering planar animations of the modeled creative elements and, using projection and texturing software, virtually projecting the planar animations back onto the surface of the 3D model of the body of liquid from the same camera position in order to “bake in” a warped transformation of the digitally rendered planar animations. Digitally rendering a 3D animation of the warped, transformed planar animations, and playing or looping the digitally rendered 3D animation through the body of liquid on a digital video player or digital server.
US10282892B2	Image space-based particle generation modeling Volume rendering is performed by a method, comprising: obtaining an original volume data, transforming the original volume data based on a distance from a viewpoint to the original volume data, to generate transformed volume data, generating particles from the transformed volume data, and projecting the particles on an image plane to obtain a 2D image corresponding to the original volume data.
US10282891B2	Apparatus and method for processing three dimensional image on multi-layer display An apparatus and method of processing three-dimensional (3D) images on a multi-layer display may generate virtual depth information based on original depth information, and display 3D images having various depth values using the generated virtual depth information. Also, the apparatus and method may appropriately provide color information to each of a plurality of display layers, thereby preventing an original image from being damaged.
US10282889B2	Vertex attribute compression and decompression in hardware One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus used in source data compression, comprising a memory and a at least one processor. The memory is configured to store vertex attribute data and a set of instructions. The processor is coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive a source data stream that includes one or more values corresponding to the vertex attribute data. The processor is also configured to provide a dictionary for the one or more values in the source data stream, wherein the dictionary includes a plurality of index values corresponding to the one or more values in the source data stream. The processor is also configured to lace at least some of the one or more values in the source data stream with corresponding index values of the plurality of index values.
US10282884B2	Inertial damping for enhanced simulation of elastic bodies Inertial damping is used to improve the simulation of deformable bodies for physics-based animation. Using this technique, undesirable dynamics of deformable bodies can be suppressed or completely removed while retaining other, more desirable dynamics. An inertial damping module selectively applies inertial damping to a subset of the dynamic modes of a simulated system (e.g., by using the quasi-static solution for these modes or reducing their magnitude). Thus, when the dynamics are simulated, the interactions between modes can be retained while the undesirable effects of the damped modes are reduced or eliminated. The results of the simulation are used to drive a physics-based animation.
US10282883B2	Hierarchy-based character rigging Animated characters for a computer animated production are rigged via a rigging hierarchy. A character rigging system receives a first selection associated with a template character rig description. The character rigging system identifies a first root character rig description associated with the template character rig description, wherein the template character rig description inherits at least one attribute from the first root character rig description. The character rigging system creates an individual character rig description for the animated character based on the first root character rig description and the template character rig description.
US10282881B2	Rendering tool information as graphic overlays on displayed images of tools An operator telerobotically controls tools to perform a procedure on an object at a work site while viewing real-time images of the work site on a display. Tool information is provided in the operator's current gaze area on the display by rendering the tool information over the tool so as not to obscure objects being worked on at the time by the tool nor to require eyes of the user to refocus when looking at the tool information and the image of the tool on a stereo viewer.
US10282879B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires measurement results of a user's skin state; and a presentation unit that displays a chart image configured by arranging a plurality of areas, to which a plurality of items of the measurement results are assigned, having a same shape and a same size in respective directions with a predetermined position used as the center and arranging score images representing scores of the items inside each of the areas so as to have sizes corresponding to the scores and to expand from the predetermined position.
US10282878B2	Method and apparatus for annotating a graphical output Various methods are provided for generating and annotating a graph. One example method may include determining one or more key patterns in a primary data channel, wherein the primary data channel is derived from raw input data in response to a constraint being satisfied. A method may further include determining one or more significant patterns in one or more related data channels. A method may further include generating a natural language annotation for at least one of the one or more key patterns or the one or more significant patterns. A method may further include generating a graph that is configured to be displayed in a user interface, the graph having at least a portion of the one or more key patterns, the one or more significant patterns and the natural language annotation.
US10282869B2	Few-view image reconstruction A CT image reconstruction system is provided that provides a solution to a few-view problem by generating a 3D image from measurements and a forward projection matrix for a CT scan of an object that tends to minimize streaks and other artifacts. The system initially receives measurements and a forward projection matrix for the CT scan. The system during an initial stage generates an initial 3D image based on various constraints so that (1) the reconstruction of the initial 3D image can be perform quickly and (2) the difference between the measurements and the forward projection of the initial 3D image has significantly lower contrast and high frequency content as compared the measurements themselves. The system then during a final stage applies an iterative algorithm to reconstruct the 3D image with the 3D image initialized to the initial 3D image at the beginning of the iterative algorithm.
US10282868B2	Method and system for generating accurate graphical chromophore maps A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for generating one or more graphical chromophore maps are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving a plurality of images from a plurality of different customers, estimating a plurality of different illuminates that were used to capture each one of the plurality of images, calculating a correlation of a spectral reflectance of a lip region of a customer with an absorption curve of hemoglobin for the each one of the plurality of images for each one of the plurality of different illuminates that is estimated, selecting an illuminance of the plurality of different illuminates that provides a highest correlation and generating one or more graphical chromophore maps for subsequently received images of customers using the illuminance that is selected.
US10282864B1	Method and device for encoding image and testing method and testing device using the same A method for encoding an image based on convolutional neural network is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device a learning device including a first to an n-th convolutional layers, (a) obtaining at least one input image; (b) instructing each of at least one of the convolutional layers to (i) apply one or more transposed convolution operations to the input image or an input feature map received from its corresponding previous convolutional layer, to thereby generate one or more transposed feature maps which have different sizes respectively, and (ii) apply one or more convolution operations, with a different stride and a different kernel size, to their corresponding transposed feature maps, to thereby generate their corresponding one or more inception feature maps as a first group; and (c) concatenating or element-wise adding the inception feature maps included in the first group to thereby generate its corresponding output feature map.
US10282863B2	Lossless compression of fragmented image data Lossless compression of fragmented image data is disclosed. In some embodiments, a stream of information comprising data elements having statistical characteristics is received. An encoded output is produced by an encoder comprising a data compressor that implements a variable length code that is adapted to the statistical characteristics of the data elements. The output and information from which the variable length code can be derived are stored.
US10282860B2	Monocular localization in urban environments using road markings The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for monocular localization in urban environments. The method may generate an image from a camera at a pose. The method may receive a pre-generated map, and determine features from the generated image based on edge detection. The method may predict a pose of the camera based on at least the pre-generated map, and determine features from the predicted camera pose. Further, the method may determine a Chamfer distance based upon the determined features from the image and the predicted camera pose, optimize the determined Chamfer distance based upon odometry information and epipolar geometry. Upon optimization, the method may determine an estimated camera pose.
US10282859B2	Intra-sensor relative positioning An example system for determining relative position information includes a plurality of positioning devices for determining relative position data within a three-dimensional space, each positioning device having a line of sight. The relative position data determined via each positioning device includes relative position data with respect to the positioning device for each other positioning device within its line of sight. The system further includes a plurality of imaging devices for obtaining image data of an object within the three-dimensional space. The system also includes a computing device configured to correlate the relative position data determined via the plurality of positioning devices and the image data obtained via the plurality of imaging devices, to thereby determine relative position information corresponding to the object within the three-dimensional space.
US10282858B2	Methods and systems for estimating three-dimensional information from two-dimensional concept drawings A method is for estimating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a set of two-dimensional (2D) curves of a concept drawing, the estimate of the 3D representation corresponding to a 3D object underlying the concept drawing. The method comprises: obtaining a representation of a set of 2D curves a concept drawing that represent a 3D object underlying the concept drawing; determining an energy function based on the set of 2D curves, the energy function comprising one or more terms, each term reflective of a preference for a 3D representation based on a characteristic of the 2D curves which reflects how concept drawings are commonly perceived to represent 3D objects; and performing an optimization which minimizes the energy function to thereby determine the 3D representation.
US10282852B1	Autonomous store tracking system A system that analyzes camera images to track a person in an autonomous store, and to determine when a tracked person takes or moves items in the store. The system may associate a field of influence volume around a person's location; intersection of this volume with an item storage area, such as a shelf, may trigger the system to look for changes in the items on the shelf. Items that are taken from, placed on, or moved on a shelf may be determined by a neural network that processes before and after images of the shelf. Person tracking may be performed by analyzing images from fisheye ceiling cameras projected onto a plane horizontal to the floor. Projected ceiling camera images may be analyzed using a neural network trained to recognize shopper locations. The autonomous store may include modular ceiling and shelving fixtures that contain cameras, lights, processors, and networking.
US10282851B2	Video analysis method and apparatus and computer program Provided is a video analysis (VA) method comprises calculating, by a VA apparatus, a size of each of a plurality of frames by summing sizes of a plurality of packets constituting each of the plurality of frames, analyzing, by the VA apparatus, the size of each of the plurality of frames constituting a video to determine a pattern of the sizes of the plurality of frames and determining, by the VA apparatus, whether there is a motion in the video based on the size pattern.
US10282849B2	Systems and methods for predictive/reconstructive visual object tracker Systems and methods for predictive/reconstructive visual object tracking are disclosed. The visual object tracking has advanced abilities to track objects in scenes, which can have a variety of applications as discussed in this disclosure. In some exemplary implementations, a visual system can comprise a plurality of associative memory units, wherein each associative memory unit has a plurality of layers. The associative memory units can be communicatively coupled to each other in a hierarchical structure, wherein data in associative memory units in higher levels of the hierarchical structure are more abstract than lower associative memory units. The associative memory units can communicate to one another supplying contextual data.
US10282846B2	Model-based segmentation of an anatomical structure A method is provided for generating a deformable model (300) for segmenting an anatomical structure in a medical image. The anatomical structure comprises a wall. The deformable model (300) is generated such that it comprises, in addition to two surface meshes (320, 360), an intermediate layer mesh (340) for being applied in-between a first surface layer of the wall and a second surface layer of the wall. In generating the intermediate layer mesh (340), the mesh topology of at least part (400) of the intermediate layer mesh is matched to the mesh topology of one of the surface meshes (320, 360), thereby establishing matching mesh topologies. The deformable model (300), as generated, better matches the composition of such walls, thereby providing a more accurate segmentation.
US10282845B2	Determining a mark in a data record with three-dimensional surface coordinates of a scene, captured by at least one laser scanner A method for determining a mark in a data record with three-dimensional surface coordinates of a scene includes ascertaining a first collection of edge points in a three-dimensional coordinate system of the data record, fitting an equalization area into at least a subset of the edge points of the first collection of edge points to permit the edge points in the three-dimensional coordinate system to be partly positioned on a first side of the equalization area and partly positioned on a second side, lying opposite the first side, of the equalization area, displacing edge points of the first collection of edge points into the equalization area to permit a corrected collection of edge points to be formed, and determining the mark in the three-dimensional coordinate system based on the corrected collection of edge points or the corrected closed circumferential edge line.
US10282844B2	System and method for image segmentation A system and method for image segmentation are provided. A three-dimensional image data set representative of a region including at least one airway may be acquired. The data set may include a plurality of voxels. A first-level seed within the region may be identified. A first-level airway within the region may be identified based on the first-level seed. A second-level airway may be identified within the region based on the first-level airway. The first-level airway and the second-level airway may be fused to form an airway tree.
US10282843B2	System and method for lesion analysis and recommendation of screening checkpoints for reduced risk of skin cancer A method for image analysis comprises receiving one or more current images of a lesion from a body of a person, wherein the one or more current images are electronically captured by and transmitted from a capture device, and analyzing the one or more current images, wherein the analyzing comprises performing image processing to compare the one or more current images captured at a first time to one or more previous images of the lesion captured at a second time prior to the first time, and determining at least one difference between the one or more current images and the one or more previous images based on the comparing. The method further comprises determining a probability that the lesion will become diseased based on the analysis, and recommending a time for a future image capture of the lesion and/or a consultation with a practitioner based on the determined probability.
US10282842B2	Methods and apparatus for analysing embryo development Apparatus and methods for helping a user establish values (e.g. timings) for a plurality of parameters of interest (e.g. cell divisions) relating to the development of an embryo from a series of images of the embryo are described. For each parameter of interest an image is selected for display to a user seeking to establish a value for the parameter of interest. For example, the selected image may be an image predicted to be an image reflecting the value for the parameter of interest. For example, the selected image may be based on a calculated timing for a particular developmental event. The timing may be calculated from a numerical analysis of the images or maybe predetermined. If the user is unable to determine a value for the parameter of interest from the selected image, the user may scroll through neighboring images until the user can determine a value for the parameter of interest. A value for the proud of interest may then be established in response to user input, for example a user providing an indication that a timing associated with a currently displayed image from the series of images should be taken to be the value of the parameter of interest. The different parameters of interest may be established in an iterative manner in which an initial image for display to a user is selected for each parameter of interest based on the parameter of interest.
US10282833B2	Gate-level mapping of integrated circuits using multi-spectral imaging Optical verification testing of an IC includes obtaining images of the IC by, for each image: (i) illuminating the IC with excitation light, wherein the excitation light corresponds to a respective specific optical excitation of a predefined spectrum of optical excitations (e.g., wavelength spectrum); and (ii) detecting scattered light from the IC in response to the specific optical excitation. For each of a set of sub-regions of the images, the respective sub-region is mapped to at least one of (i) a specific sub-unit of a predefined set of sub-units (e.g., gates) of the IC and (ii) a null result, thereby creating a representation of a detected layout of the IC as an arrangement of the sub-units. The representation can be used to verify that an as-fabricated layout is consistent with an as-designed layout, to detect unauthorized modifications of the IC structure.
US10282830B2	Apparatus for image contrast enhancement and method, electronic equipment An apparatus for image contrast enhancement and a method, electronic equipment that includes: a dividing unit configured to divide an input image into at least two layers; and detail degrees of the at least two layers are different; an enhancing unit configured to perform contrast enhancement on each of the at least two layers respectively; and degrees of enhancing contrasts of the layers are different; and a combining unit configured to combine the contrast-enhanced at least two layers. By dividing the input image into at least two layers with different detail degrees and performing contrast enhancement on the at least two layers at different degrees, the contrast of the image may be accurately and effectively enhanced, thereby a display effect of the image may be improved.
US10282829B2	Image processing apparatus for processing x-ray image, radiation imaging system, image processing method, and storage medium An image forming apparatus includes a conversion acquisition unit configured to acquire a gradation conversion characteristic based on an X-ray image captured by an X-ray sensor, a storage unit configured to store a pixel value range in which a signal-to-noise ratio is higher than a threshold value according to a characteristic of the X-ray sensor, a determination unit configured to determine whether a pixel value range in which gradation is widened according to the gradation conversion characteristic is included in the stored pixel value range, and a correction unit configured to correct the gradation conversion characteristic depending on a result of determination by the determination unit.
US10282826B2	Despeckling method for radiographic images A method includes acquiring a radiographic image and processing the acquired image to obtain a gradient image. The method then includes generating, from the gradient image, an initial set of pixels exhibiting speckle and removing one or more pixels from the initial set of pixels according to features indicative of image content, forming a mapping of pixels for replacement from the remaining set of pixels. A replacement pixel value is calculated for one or more pixels in the mapping and pixel values from the acquired radiographic image replaced according to the calculated replacement pixel value to form a corrected image. The corrected image can be displayed.
US10282822B2	Digital correction of optical system aberrations A digital method for removing optical aberrations from the image is disclosed. The method includes the initial profiling of an optical system and using the obtained information to correct the optical aberrations introduces to the image by the same or identical optical system.
US10282821B1	Observational data processing and analysis Processing and analyzing observational data is disclosed. A set of data comprising at least a first tile and second tile is received. A first determination is made, for a first pixel position, which tile has a pixel with the highest value for that first pixel position. A second determination is made, for a second pixel position, which tile has a pixel with the highest value for that second pixel position. A composite image is generated using data obtained from the respective tiles in accordance with the two determinations.
US10282816B2	Non-transitory storage medium storing instructions, mobile terminal, and image processing apparatus A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions executable by a mobile terminal. The instructions cause the mobile terminal to: change a first image to a first size and change a second image to a maximum size in which the second image is displayable on a display area which remains after the first image of the first size is arranged, when priority mode information indicates a first-image priority mode; and change the first image to a second size less than the first size and change the second image to a maximum size in which the second image is displayable on a display area which remains after the first image of the second size is arranged, when the priority mode information indicates a second-image priority mode.
US10282810B2	Rendering illustrations using a two-dimensional rendering engine A rendering engine is described that implements rendering techniques to render 2D illustrations by assigning light values to objects that define an illustration ‘inside out’. Light values may be assigned to a first object and subsequently inherited by objects that are hierarchly related to the first object. The light values assigned to the objects may include a light variable that depends on a relationship between the two or more groups of objects. Various rendering techniques may be employed by the rendering engine to render illustrations that are both customizable and realistic in appearance.
US10282804B2	Facilitating configuration of computing engines based on runtime workload measurements at computing devices A mechanism is described for facilitating configuration of computing engines based on runtime workload measurements at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a work unit corresponding to a workload, and collecting metrics relating to the work unit, where the metrics to indicate one or more characteristics of the work unit. The method may further include evaluating the one or more characteristics based on one or more configuration parameters relating to computing resources, and generating, based on evaluating of the one or more characteristics, a configuration plan specific to the work unit and applicable to one or more subsequent work units that are similar to the work unit. The method may further include applying and executing the configuration plan at a computing device upon execution of the one or more subsequent work units.
US10282803B2	State handling in a tiled architecture One embodiment of the present invention includes a graphics subsystem that includes a tiling unit, a crossbar unit, and a screen-space pipeline. The crossbar unit is configured to transmit primitives interleaved with state change commands to the tiling unit. The tiling unit is configured to record an initial state associated with the primitives and to transmit to the screen-space pipeline one or more primitives in the primitives that overlap a first cache tile. The tiling unit is further configured to transmit the initial state to the screen-space pipeline and to transmit to the screen-space pipeline one or more primitives in the primitives that overlap a second cache tile. The tiling unit includes a state filter block configured to determine that a first state change in the state change commands is followed by a second state change, without an intervening primitive, and to forego transmitting the first state change in response.
US10282800B2	System and method for providing medical caregiver and equipment management patient care A medical device and caretaking management system (10) includes a plurality of medical devices (14) that transmit equipment data and patient data. A central or distributed monitoring system (12) receives the equipment data and patient data from the plurality of medical devices, derives an acuity for each of the patients, and assigns caregivers and equipment based on the derived acuity for display on a display device (26).
US10282793B2	Bus stop systems and methods of allocating service-based resources Methods of providing services to individual and methods of manufacturing items are described. Data structures to represent priority values for those individuals or items are also described. By ascribing priority values to a set of items, those items can be grouped based on those priority values. Once grouped based on priority values, the items within each group can be manufactured according to group priority as well as according to the characteristics of each item to be manufactured within that group. The same concept applies to providing services to individuals.
US10282789B1	Method of controlling for undesired factors in machine learning models A method of training and using a machine learning model that controls for consideration of undesired factors which might otherwise be considered by the trained model during its subsequent analyzes of new data. For example, the model may be a neural network trained on a set of training images to evaluate an insurance applicant based upon an image or audio data of the insurance applicant as part of an underwriting process to determine an appropriate life or health insurance premium. The model is trained to probabilistically correlate an aspect of the applicant's appearance with a personal and/or health-related characteristic. Any undesired factors, such as age, sex, ethnicity, and/or race, are identified for exclusion. The trained model receives the image (e.g., a “selfie”) of the insurance applicant, analyzes the image without considering the identified undesired factors, and suggests the appropriate insurance premium based only on the remaining desired factors.
US10282788B1	Systems and methods for managing service log information Methods and systems for processing insurance policies associated with properties may be provided. A home may be populated with smart devices that are connected to, or in communication with, a central (or “smart home”) controller, such as via wired or wireless communication. The smart devices are covered by an insurance policy, such as homeowners, renters, or personal articles insurance. The central controller may receive, with customer permission, service log information for the devices, and update an inventory list to include the service log information. The controller may detect that a smart device has been repaired, and then generate and transmit a notification to the customer. In some cases, the notification may prompt the customer to schedule a future repair event. The smart devices may be associated with appliances, electronics, computers, televisions, jewelry, vehicles, furniture, or other personal belongings. Insurance discounts may be provided based upon the service log/maintenance functionality.
US10282786B1	Techniques to visualize and gamify risk management services Techniques for gamifying risk management services include associating a financial status of a user with a defensible position display element in a gameplay scenario, receiving risk management data regarding at least one risk management service secured by the user, associating the risk management service with at least one defensive display element in the gameplay scenario, and providing the defensible position display element and each defensive display element to a display to cause the display to visualize the defensible position display element protected by each defensive display element in the gameplay scenario.
US10282781B2	Data analytics database and platform system and method A data analytics platform system includes a first database including economic forecast, house pricing, unemployment, and interest rate data object structures. A second database includes data object structures associated with attributes of mortgage loans and borrowers. A first module performs projections for predicting a monthly status on performing and modified performing mortgage loans. A second module performs projections of lifetime outcomes for delinquent mortgage loans. A third module performs calculations of mortgage loan level credit losses and timing parameters of loan loss recognition attributes. A fourth module performs calculations of forecasted mortgage loan performance attributes, mortgage loan contract terms, and interest rates to generate mortgage loan level cash flow data analytics. A fifth module summarizes projections of data performance analytics over a forecasted period of time, and creates an electronic summary report of the projections. An electric signal generator, a signal converter, and a display device output the electronic report.
US10282780B1	Systems and methods for scheduling and tracking account activity A computer-assisted method for alerting a user of a potential negative balance condition in a financial account. The method includes estimating a future account balance of the financial account and determining whether the future account balance will be a negative value. The method also includes generating for display, in a graphical format, an alert to the user that signifies when the future account balance is the negative value.
US10282777B2	Recently viewed items display area A most recently viewed item is displayed in a display element, which is positioned next to at least one other element on a web page. The display element is expanded so that the element covers the at least one other element on the web page and so that at least one other recently viewed item appears in the display element. The display element is contracted so that only the most recently viewed item appears in the display element and so that the at least one other element on the web page is visible.
US10282772B2	Systems and methods for wardrobe management A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method. The system may provide a virtual wardrobe management system. The system may store wardrobe data associated with a plurality of garments. The system may then receive input data indicative of a garment selection. The system may identify the garment based on the input data received. The system may then generate a garment recommendation based on the selected garment and the stored wardrobe data and provide an indication of the recommendation to a computing device.
US10282769B2	Collaborative co-shopping for e-commerce Embodiments of the present provide a method, system and computer program product for collaborative co-shopping in e-commerce. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for collaborative co-shopping in e-commerce includes registering different shoppers in a database for collaborative co-shopping and selecting an item for sale in an e-commerce Web site on behalf of an online shopper. The method also includes determining from the database a location of the item in a brick and mortar store and detecting one of the registered different shoppers in proximity to the item in the brick and mortar store. The method yet further includes establishing a collaborative communicative session through the Web site over a network between the online shopper and the detected one of the registered different shoppers. Finally, the method includes transmitting messages regarding the item between the online shopper and the detected one of the registered different shoppers over the session.
US10282768B2	System and method for arbitrating encrypted electronic transactions among intermediary and authoring users only when an interaction occurs between authoring and candidate users who was exposed by the intermediary user to data published by authoring user System and computer-implemented method of permitting or arbitrating encrypted electronic transactions to occur among an intermediary and an author in an electronic data system only when an interaction occurs between the author and a candidate who was exposed by the intermediary to data published by the author. The author publishes criteria about a candidate, and the candidate posts information about the candidate, which is ingested and married to personally identifiable information about the candidate. A score is calculated indicating a correlation between the candidate and the published criteria, and an intermediary exposes the candidate to the criteria, which is tracked. When the candidate completes an interaction with the author, an encrypted transaction is permitted to occur between the author and the candidate through a proxy, without the author knowing the identity of the intermediary who facilitated the introduction.
US10282763B1	Queue wait time estimation system The queue wait time estimation system of the present disclosure leverages its users' Internet-connected mobile devices—and the data they generate based on sensor feedback—to estimate the queue wait times at various establishments. The queue wait time estimation system communicates the estimated queue wait times to the users to enable the users to make an informed decision as to whether they'd like to visit a particular establishment based on its estimated queue wait time.
US10282762B2	Self regulating transaction system and methods therefor A first processor-accessible memory device system and a second processor-accessible memory device system of a self-regulating transaction system may each store a respective local copy of one or more transaction ledgers that record transactions. A first data processing device system may be configured to generate a transaction information block associated with a particular market channel, store it in the local copy of a transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel stored in the first processor-accessible memory device system, and transmit it to a second data processing device system over a communications network for storage in the local copy of the transaction ledger associated with the particular market channel stored in the second processor-accessible memory device system.
US10282757B1	Targeted ad buys via managed relationships Certain embodiments herein relate to targeting ads for purchase by leveraging relationships between advertisers and publishers. Ad campaigns may be established between an ad device associated with an advertiser and publisher devices associated with publishers. An ad campaign for displaying an ad may be determined based on information associated with a communication session from a user device (e.g., as identified in a cookie) and/or information associated with a user utilizing the user device. An ad device may activate one or more established ad campaigns as part of an auction process, and may subsequently provide one or more ads for displaying on a web page according to attributes that may characterize the ad campaigns.
US10282754B2	Commercial information tagging An approach to commercial information tagging. A digital radio receiver may be configured to receive commercial metadata that is part of a digital radio stream. A user may be able to provide input indicating that a particular commercial is of interest, thereby selecting the commercial metadata. The digital radio receiver may then determine one or more devices, from a set of devices that are communicatively connected to the digital radio receiver, that are configured to receive advertising associated with the commercial metadata. The digital radio receiver may then transmit the advertising to the various devices. In response, the devices may display information about the entity that sponsored the particular commercial; for example, a cellular phone may display a coupon, while a GPS device displays directions to the nearest location.
US10282752B2	Computerized system and method for displaying a map system user interface and digital content In the Internet field, interfaces which support social interaction are used by two or more people to share information and content. An example is a geolocation (map-type) interface (a web page for instance) which is relied upon by users to obtain travel routes, plan trips and find geolocation information, such as stores, restaurants and other places. Described here is a system for advertising whereby targeted advertisements are displayed to users of such an interface and the advertisements are the result of an analysis of user behavior during a particular interface session or several sessions, so advertisements are closely targeted to each particular user.
US10282748B2	System and method for measuring advertising effectiveness In some embodiments, a method defines a test group from a population of consumers that have been exposed to a communication associated with a promoted entity. The test group includes a (1) retailer profile, and (2) a first purchase amount associated with the promoted entity. The method also includes receiving purchase information associated with a third party. The purchase information includes (1) a second purchase amount associated with the promoted entity, and (2) a third purchase amount associated with the promoted entity. The method further includes defining a first multiplier based on a relationship between the first purchase amount and the second purchase amount, and defining a second multiplier based on a relationship between the first purchase amount and the third purchase amount. The method additionally includes sending a signal indicative of a combined multiplier based on (1) the first multiplier, and (2) the second multiplier.
US10282745B2	System and method for isolated simulations for accurate predictions of counterfactual events Systems and methods of determining effectiveness of a test content item in a computer network environment are provided. A data processing system can receive a request for content from a computing device and predict a test content item as a winner of a content item auction. The data processing system can assign the computing device to a test group or a control group. The data processing system can execute the content item auction, while withholding the test content item from the auction if the computing device is assigned to the control group. The data processing system can transmit the winning content to the computing device. The data processing system can identify computer network activity associated with the test content item by the computing device. The data processing system can perform additional predictions if the computing device is the subject of additional experiments regarding additional test content items.
US10282743B2	Customer-triggered store management In some embodiments, systems, apparatus and methods are disclosed that utilize customer feedback to obtain store intelligence and automatically respond to the customer without the need to involve a store associate or employee, thereby allowing employees to continue on with other tasks. For example, customers may provide feedback for a particular product not on the shelves and be advised that it is being pulled (if it is on-site, such as in a back room), or offered the opportunity to order the product or advised of an alternate on-site or off-site location where the product can be found. The system, method or apparatus may also identify products the store should add to its assortment of products based on such customer inquiries and/or may take automated actions in response (e.g., generating pick requests, generating orders for products, reporting potential new products to add to offerings, etc.).
US10282739B1	Comparative item price testing An online gaming system for valuing new virtual items introduced into an online game. The system may comprise one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules. The system may include a virtual shop module configured to present offers to sell instances of probability item bundles including a first offer to sell instances of a first probability item bundle that includes a first primary item and a first set of secondary items for a price, and a second offer to sell instances of a second probability item bundle that includes a second primary item and a second set of secondary items for the same price. The system may include a price determination module configured to determine a value for the second primary virtual item based on comparative sales of the first probability item bundle and the second probability item bundle.
US10282737B2	Analyzing sentiment in product reviews A processor uses natural language processing to ingest product reviews for a plurality of products. Each of the products embodies a specific form for each of the plurality of product features. The processor analyzes the ingested product reviews for sentiments associated with the specific forms. The processor generates a sentiment score for each product feature based on the analysis. The processor ranks the plurality of product features based on the sentiment scores.
US10282736B2	Dynamic modification of a parameter of an image based on user interest Methods and systems for changing a parameter associated with an image displayed on a display screen based on criteria related to a user are described. One of the methods includes receiving a selection of an image from a plurality of images. The method further includes examining the selected image to identify a keyword and criteria associated with the selected image. The keyword includes an identification of the image and the criteria including a time associated with the selected image. The method further includes ranking the selected image compared to remaining images of the plurality of images based on the keyword and the criteria, assigning a weight to an image parameter of the selected image to associate the image parameter with the rank of the selected image, and sending the assigned weight of the image parameter to a display device for display of the selected image according to the assigned weight.
US10282734B2	Authentication of articles of manufacture An authentication system configured to identify counterfeit articles. The authentication system configured to capture and scan an optical code engraved on an artifact, decode the optical code to determine a unique code associated with an article, transmitting the unique code to the authentication server and receiving a result of authentication from the authentication server to verify the authenticity of the article being scanned.
US10282733B2	Speech recognition analysis and evaluation system and method using monotony and hesitation of successful conversations according to customer satisfaction A speech analysis and evaluation system and method where behavioral and conversational features of successful customer representatives are determined. Reference models are obtained by analyzing the voices of the successful customer representatives using the voices' monotony and hesitation acoustic parameters and their respective speech recognition reliability score. A successful customer representative is the one that increases customer's satisfaction as a result of a conversation with a customer. Reference models that are generated by analyzing the voices of successful customer representatives are used for recruitment and training purposes.
US10282730B2	Method for managing a transaction, corresponding server, computer program product and storage medium A method for managing at least one transaction implemented by an electronic payment terminal having a magnetic stripe reader for reading a paycard of a user. The method includes the following acts implemented in a secured remote server: receiving, from the electronic payment terminal, a transaction message carrying a piece of data of the card, read by the magnetic stripe reader and encrypted by the electronic payment terminal, and an identifier of a mobile communications terminal of the user; sending, to the mobile terminal, a transaction validation request message carrying a piece of information on the transaction; receiving, from the mobile terminal, a validation message carrying a response to the validation request message; managing the transaction.
US10282724B2	Security system incorporating mobile device In some embodiments, a first server computer may be provided. The first server computer may comprise a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium may include code executable by the processor for implementing a method. The method may include the step of electronically receiving an authorization request message that includes a first device verification value from a merchant for a first transaction, where the first device verification value may have been received by the merchant from a mobile device based on an interaction between the mobile device and an access device. In some embodiments, the mobile device may have received the first verification value based on a first request. The method may further include the step of determining by a data processor if the first device verification value corresponds to a stored device verification value.
US10282720B1	Camera-based authorization extension system A system that analyzes camera images to track a person from a point where the person obtains an authorization to a different point where the authorization is used. The authorization may be extended in time and space from the point where it was initially obtained. Scenarios enabled by embodiments include automatically opening a locked door or gate for an authorized person and automatically charging items taken by a person to that person's account. Supports automated stores that allow users to enter, take products and exit without explicitly paying. An illustrative application is an automated, unmanned gas station that allows a user to pay at the pump and then enter a locked on-site convenience store or a locked case with products the user can take for automatic purchase. Embodiments may also extend authorization to other people, such as occupants of the same vehicle.
US10282716B1	Smart chaining Identification information is received from a transaction card at a transaction machine. The transaction card is associated with an account holder using the transaction machine and includes a transaction card type. Using the identification information, activity profile information is accessed for the account holder. The account holder's transaction machine usage is monitored and activity profile information related to the account holder's transaction machine usage is stored. A custom sequence of user interfaces to be displayed to the account holder is generated based on the transaction card type.
US10282713B2	Bill splitting and payment system and method The present subject matter discloses systems and methods in which a mobile application integrates with a restaurant's point of sale (POS) system such that, by providing a table identifier, users may split and pay an itemized bill, without the need of servers or restaurant staff.
US10282711B2	System and method for implementing hybrid public-private block-chain ledgers The disclosed embodiments include computerized systems and methods that generate secured distributed storage ledger structures, such as block-chain-based ledger structures, that facilitate event-based control of tracked assets. In one embodiment, an apparatus associated with a centralized authority of the secured distributed storage ledger may detect an occurrence of a triggering event, and may access and decrypt a set of rules hashed into the secured distributed storage ledger using a confidentially-held master cryptographic key. The apparatus may identify a rule associated with the detected event, and perform one or more operations consistent with the rule and involving at least one of assets tracked within the secured distributed storage ledger or an owner of a portion of the tracked assets.
US10282710B2	Selective authorization method and system Embodiments of the invention generally relate to mobile payments. For example, an application running on a phone can verify a passcode of a consumer. An indication of whether the passcode was verified and a time associated with when the passcode was verified is then sent to a mobile gateway. Later, when a user conducts one or more transactions, a payment processing network can use the indication sent to the mobile gateway to determine whether a the one or more transactions were conducted within a time window, which can be used to authorize the one or more transactions.
US10282709B2	Processor issuer detection and user level stand-in authorization Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for stand-in processing using data driven capabilities. Transaction activity of an issuer may be monitored to detect a major incident and to automatically invoke stand-in processing. By modeling each individual account holder's behavior, improved authorization outcomes may be provided by a payment processing network during stand-in processing.
US10282708B2	Service advisor accounts for remote service monitoring of a vehicle Methods and systems are provided. One method includes receiving a request, at a server, to establish an advisor account for a vehicle associated with a user account. The request identifies a service entity and a vehicle service to be assigned to the service entity. The service entity is configured to receive said diagnostics data of the vehicle. The advisor account is associated to the service entity. Programming data is sent to the vehicle for use by a computer of the vehicle to identify select diagnostics data that relates to the vehicle service and to make accessible said select diagnostics data to the advisor account. The advisor account is made accessible to the service entity subsequent to establishing of the advisor account. The server receives select diagnostics data from the vehicle regarding the vehicle service, and the select diagnostics data is accessible for viewing and/or processing by a device of the service entity. The select diagnostics data produces updates that identify characteristics or changes in characteristics that relate to the vehicle service, and the server uses the identified characteristics or changes in characteristics to trigger a notification to the service entity regarding a problem or potential problem regarding the vehicle service.
US10282704B2	System and method for controlling sale of a company A computerized system and method for controlling sale of a company comprising identifying a target company sale value on a dashboard, identifying a current company value on the dashboard based on an Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) analysis, assigning tasks for reducing a difference between the target company sale value and the current company value, displaying on the dashboard a reduction between the target company sale value and the current company value, and authorizing sale of the company when the target company sale value equals a current company value. An adjusted company value can be calculated based on additions and deductions. A current company value can be calculated as a product of the adjusted company value and a multiplier. A difference between the target company sale value and the current company value can be reduced by completing tasks contained within a plurality of checklists.
US10282702B2	Dynamic employee security risk scoring Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products that provide for an employee security risk score. The security risk score is presented as an extensible composite vector that supports an arbitrary number of risk categories. The risk categories can be aggregated at any level in the business hierarchy or according to any employee parameter. The simplistic, highly normalized approach to employee security risk scoring reduces redundancies and dependencies and provides for real-time updates, As such, the employee security risk scoring system provides for easily identifiable recognition of employees who pose security threats and for a means to track and monitor security risks posed by the employee based on their security risk score.
US10282696B1	Augmented reality enhanced interaction system Described are systems and techniques configured to present information to a user of a materials handling facility storing items in inventory locations. A device such as a head-mounted display or a tablet computer is configured to provide an augmented reality user interface in which computer-generated data overlays objects in the real-world. The user interface may present information associated with assisting other users of the facility, operation of the facility, and so forth.
US10282695B1	Color adaptable inventory management user interface Described are systems and techniques configured to determine and present information to a user of a materials handling facility. As the user moves through the facility, information is dynamically presented to the user on one or more displays using a user interface. The user interface may be presented on the display as the user approaches, and presentation may cease as the user moves away. The amount of information, size of elements presented on the display, and so forth may be based on kinematic data about the user. The kinematic data may include position, speed, orientation, and so forth.
US10282694B2	Partial load shipment consolidation and scheduling Transportation services are matched with demand, in multiple segments in accordance with capabilities and business practices of a transportation service provider. A request for transportation services is received, including an origin, destination and a characterization of a load or service. Origin and destination geographical areas or locations are identified, and a main line segment and at least one distinct segment are identified to form a contiguous multi-segment routing. A transportation service provider is matched to the specified demand for transportation services, in order to comply with the scheduled sequence. One or more competitive bids are aggregated to provide a total bid price and provision of the transportation services are arranged using the candidate service interests winning the bid or bids.
US10282690B1	Mainframe workflow manager system and method Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer implemented web based unified workflow management system and method for reducing complexity and building repeatable mainframe workflows by creating and managing workflow tasks associated with at least one mainframe workflow. The system and method provide a workflow creation engine for creating at least one mainframe workflow task associated with the at least one mainframe workflow, the at least one mainframe workflow task including an execution target destination, a mainframe process, and a success criteria. The system and method further provide a web dashboard that displays the details and results of the mainframe workflow tasks associated with a mainframe workflow, and allows a user to monitor and control the mainframe workflow, and its associated tasks. The system and method further comprise a workflow task dependency manager for creating global task dependencies between tasks associated with the at least one mainframe workflow.
US10282688B2	System and method for computing and overwriting the appearance of project tasks and milestones A computer-implemented system that transforms one or more project plans to create a graphical project view. The appearance of the project view is determined by a default style, one or more style rules applied to each task or milestone in the chart, or both. Once the project view has been created, users may alter its appearance by changing the default style settings, modifying the data-driven style rules, or by manually changing the appearance of selected tasks and milestones to deviate from the default style or style rules. As project plans are updated, the project view may be refreshed to create a new snapshot, or to replace an existing snapshot. As data is refreshed, the system will preserve manual style changes, and will also reapply style rules, which may result in a change to the project view's appearance. Snapshots may have different appearances, based on rules and manual changes.
US10282685B2	Issue rank management in an issue tracking system Described herein is a computer implemented method for maintaining a plurality of issues, each issue having an associated rank value, the rank values of the plurality of issues defining an order of the plurality of issues. The method comprises receiving a rank operation request to change the rank of a subject issue; determining relevant issues to the rank operation request; and attempting to acquire locks on each of the relevant issues. In response to successfully acquiring locks on each of the relevant issues a new rank value for the subject issue is calculated and saved.
US10282681B2	System and method for customizable prescheduled dispatching for transportation services A method for providing a customized platform for facilitating prescheduling transport and delivery services based on estimated driver availability and compatibility with individual customers. A service provider and customer may be matched based on favorites, preferred or regular and a dispatch matrix of preferences, limitations, and indicators. Customers and service providers may create favorites lists, preferred lists, and blacklists according to feedback with each other to enable customers to receive service from their favorite service providers and vice versa, and prevent service between customers and service providers when blacklisted. Customers and drivers may also negotiate prices for requested services based at least in part on supply and demand. The method provides for automatically scheduling transportation services in which service requests are received and automatically scheduled based on a partner driver arrangement using a micro-dispatch system without live dispatching agent involvement.
US10282676B2	Automatic signal processing-based learning in a process plant Techniques for automatically or autonomously performing signal processing-based learning in a process plant are disclosed. Generally, said techniques automatically or autonomously perform signal processing on a real-time signal that is generated based on the process plant controlling a process. Typically, the signal corresponds to a parameter value that varies over time, and the signal is processed as it is generated in real-time during on-line plant operations. Results of the signal processing may indicate characteristics of the signal, and one or more analytics functions may determine the sources of the characteristics, which may include a process element or device, a piece of equipment, and/or an asset of the process plant that is upstream, within the process, of the source of the signal. An autonomous signal processor may be integrated with or included in a process control device and/or a big data node of the process plant.
US10282674B2	Heuristic graph embedding methods for adiabatic quantum computation optimization Methods are provided for implementing schemes for embedding a particular optimization problem into a particular hardware solution employing unique graph embedding techniques. The disclosed methods implement an adiabatic quantum optimization in a quantum computing device or a quantum processor. Heuristics for graph minor embedding are employed to map a problem graph structure of a particular binary unconstrained optimization problem onto a physical graph structure (topology) of the quantum computing device or quantum processor to provide an optimized hardware implementation. Known constraints that are presented with current schemes in their application to particular hardware solutions are avoided, including limited qubit connectivity and the presence of faulty qubits.
US10282672B1	Visual content analysis system with semantic framework A processing device determines a plurality of visual concepts for visual data based on at least one of visual entities in the visual data or feature-level attributes in the visual data, wherein the visual entities are based on the feature-level attributes, and wherein each of the plurality of visual concepts comprises a subject visual entity related to an object visual entity by a predicate. The processing device further determines one or more visual semantics for the visual data based on the plurality of visual concepts, wherein the one or more visual semantics define relationships between the plurality of visual concepts.
US10282669B1	Logical inference expert system for network trouble-shooting Techniques are disclosed for determining a possible cause of a problem in a computer system. A trouble-shooting component of the computer system may perform forward chaining on the available data to determine one or more hypotheses of the cause of the problem. The component may then perform backward chaining on the hypotheses to determine missing information that, if known, would increase or decrease the likelihood of the hypotheses being true. Then, the component may perform Bayesian probability analysis on the known and missing information to determine a probability that each hypothesis is correct.
US10282665B2	Action selection with a reward estimator applied to machine learning There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reward estimator generator using action history data, including state data expressing a state, action data expressing an action taken by an agent, and a reward value expressing a reward obtained as a result of the action, as learning data to generate, through machine learning, a reward estimator estimating a reward value from inputted state data and action data. The reward estimator generator includes: a basis function generator generating a plurality of basis functions; a feature amount vector calculator calculating feature amount vectors by inputting state data and action data in the action history data into the basis functions; and an estimation function calculator calculating an estimation function estimating the reward value included in the action history data from the feature amount vectors according to regressive/discriminative learning. The reward estimator includes the plurality of basis functions and the estimation function.
US10282663B2	Three-dimensional (3D) convolution with 3D batch normalization The technology disclosed uses a 3D deep convolutional neural network architecture (DCNNA) equipped with so-called subnetwork modules which perform dimensionality reduction operations on 3D radiological volume before the 3D radiological volume is subjected to computationally expensive operations. Also, the subnetworks convolve 3D data at multiple scales by subjecting the 3D data to parallel processing by different 3D convolutional layer paths. Such multi-scale operations are computationally cheaper than the traditional CNNs that perform serial convolutions. In addition, performance of the subnetworks is further improved through 3D batch normalization (BN) that normalizes the 3D input fed to the subnetworks, which in turn increases learning rates of the 3D DCNNA. After several layers of 3D convolution and 3D sub-sampling with 3D across a series of subnetwork modules, a feature map with reduced vertical dimensionality is generated from the 3D radiological volume and fed into one or more fully connected layers.
US10282659B2	Device for implementing artificial neural network with multiple instruction units The present disclosure relates to a processor for implementing artificial neural networks, for example, convolutional neural networks. The processor includes a memory controller group, an on-chip bus and a processor core, wherein the processor core further includes a register map, a first instruction unit, a second instruction unit, an instruction distributing unit, a data transferring controller, a buffer module and a computation module. The processor of the present disclosure may be used for implementing various neural networks with increased computation efficiency.
US10282658B2	Hardware architecture for simulating a neural network of neurons Embodiments of the invention relate to a neural network system for simulating neurons of a neural model. One embodiment comprises a memory device that maintains neuronal states for multiple neurons, a lookup table that maintains state transition information for multiple neuronal states, and a controller unit that manages the memory device. The controller unit updates a neuronal state for each neuron based on incoming spike events targeting said neuron and state transition information corresponding to said neuronal state.
US10282656B2	Method and device for detecting unauthorized tranfer between persons A method of confirming the identity of a person who issued a token to signify eligibility for a privilege. Possession token is confirmed to be by the same person by using sensors in the token which track the movements of the person. A machine learning system is trained to evaluate the sensor data detecting transfer of possession of the token. The state of continuous possession since the token was issued or set to an enabled state is confirmed and the privilege is granted. The method of identity confirmation is used in various contexts such as for to control entry to a location, use of a facility or service. It is also useful to determine continuous possession of a weapon to prevent misuse after the weapon is stolen, dropped or lost. Servers, beacons and outside sources of data or inputs to be measured by the sensor can also be used.
US10282655B2	Chip card module, chip card, chip card arrangement, method of forming a chip card module, and method of forming a chip card A chip card module is provided. The chip card module may include a carrier having a first side and an opposite second side, a chip arranged over the carrier, the chip having a first chip contact, a first and a second antenna contact formed over the first side, a metal-free area formed over the first side between the first antenna contact and the second antenna contact, wherein the metal-free area extends between a first edge portion and a second edge portion of the carrier, and a first chip connection electrically connecting the first chip contact to the first antenna contact, wherein the first chip connection is at least partially arranged over the second side in a region opposite the metal-free area.
US10282654B2	Tag assembly methods Embodiments are directed to assembling an RFID tag through wire bonding techniques. In some examples, the RFID tag may be assembled by wire bonding of an RFID integrated circuit (IC) to an antenna through a hole in a substrate. In other examples, methods for assembling RFID tags from a singulated IC or diced ICs still on a dicing frame may be disclosed. The disclosed methods may use a single metal layer for producing RFID tags with multi-turn loop antenna.
US10282653B1	RFID tags in wearables An article of manufacture comprises a wearable, stretchable synthetic or natural textile article. At least one RFID tag is mounted on the wearable, stretchable synthetic or natural textile article. A stretch-activated switch on the at least one RFID tag has a first mode and a second mode. The first mode is associated with a first RFID tag state and the second mode is associated with a second RFID tag state. The stretch-activated switch comprises a ground contact, an RFID enable contact and a contact to slidably engage the ground contact and the RFID enable contact to transition between the first RFID tag state and the second RFID tag state.
US10282652B2	Method for producing a single-sided electronic module including interconnection zones The invention relates to a method for producing a module having an electronic chip including metallizations which are accessible from a first side of the metallizations and an integrated circuit chip which is arranged on the second side of the metallizations, opposite the first side. The method comprises the step of forming electrical interconnection elements which are separate from the metallizations, directly connecting the chip, and are arranged on the second side of the metallizations. The invention also relates to a module corresponding to the method and to a device comprising said module.
US10282650B1	System and apparatus for encrypted data collection using RFID cards A secure smart card is described. The smart card can include a processor, a memory and a transceiver. The smart card can communicate with various terminals and store a digital signature and other information on the card. Another terminal can validate the information stored on the smart card using the digital signature. In certain embodiments, the terminal can also validate the information by using a blockchain. The advanced design of the smart card obviates the need for a network connection.
US10282648B2	Machine readable visual codes encoding multiple messages There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable visual representation of data encoded therein, the data being retrievable by reading and decoding the visual representation by a visual code reader, the visual representation including: multiple function patterns; a first visual code comprising a first encoded message embedded therein, and a first subset of the function patterns, such that reading the first encoded message requires reading the first function patterns subset; and a second visual code comprising a second encoded message embedded therein, and a second subset of the function patterns, such that reading the second encoded message requires reading the second function patterns set, wherein the first function patterns subset and the second function patterns subset have at least one common function pattern, and wherein at least a part of the second visual code is read differently by the reader before and after a physical event occurs.
US10282643B2	Method and apparatus for obtaining semantic label of digital image The present application discloses a method and apparatus for obtaining a semantic label of a digital image. An implementation of the method includes: obtaining the digital image; looking up a semantic label model corresponding to the digital image, the semantic label model being used for representing correlation between digital images and semantic labels, and a semantic label being used for literally describing a digital image; and introducing the digital image into the semantic label model to obtain full-image recognition information and local recognition information corresponding to the digital image, and combining the full-image recognition information and the local recognition information to form a semantic label, the full-image recognition information being a summarized description of the digital image, and the local recognition information being a detailed description of the digital image. According to the implementation, the digital image is obtained first, then a semantic label model corresponding to the digital image is looked up, and a semantic label is obtained by using the semantic label model, which may improve the accuracy of obtaining the semantic label corresponding to the digital image.
US10282642B2	Fine-grained categorization An image is passed through an image identifier to identify a coarse category for the image and a bounding box for a categorized object. A mask is used to identify the portion of the image that represents the object. Given the foreground mask, the convex hull of the mask is located and an aligned rectangle of minimum area that encloses the hull is fitted. The aligned bounding box is rotated and scaled, so that the foreground object is roughly moved to a standard orientation and size (referred to as calibrated). The calibrated image is used as an input to a fine-grained categorization module, which determines the fine category within the coarse category for the input image.
US10282641B2	Technologies for classification using sparse coding in real time Technologies for classification using sparse coding are disclosed. A compute device may include a pattern-matching accelerator, which may be able to determine the distance between an input vector (such as an image) and several basis vectors of an overcomplete dictionary stored in the pattern-matching accelerator. The pattern matching accelerator may be able to determine each of the distances simultaneously and in a fixed amount of time (i.e., with no dependence on the number of basis vectors to which the input vector is being compared). The pattern-matching accelerator may be used to determine a set of sparse coding coefficients corresponding to a subset of the overcomplete basis vectors. The sparse coding coefficients can then be used to classify the input vector.
US10282639B2	Object detection in image data using depth segmentation RGB-D data generated by at least one optical sensor for a field of view is received. Thereafter, the RGB-D data is bifurcated into (i) RGB data and (ii) depth data for the field of view. One or more bounding polygons are defined within the depth data that each characterize a window within the field of view encapsulating an object. The RGB data is then cropped using the bounding polygon(s). Image processing can later be applied to the cropped RGB data to identify at least one object therein. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10282629B2	Main-subject detection method, main-subject detection apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium A degree-of-saliency map generated from an input image is divided into a plurality of partial areas, and the degree of nonuniformity is calculated from the distribution characteristics of the degrees of saliency of the partial areas. Whether a main subject is present in the input image is judged based on the calculated degree of nonuniformity.
US10282627B2	Method and apparatus for processing handwriting data A method for processing handwriting data is provided. The method includes filtering the handwriting data to remove one or more ineffective data points, acquiring a number of sampling points included in the handwriting data, when the number of the sampling points exceeds a first threshold, screening the handwriting data such that the number of the sampling points included in the screened handwriting data is not greater than the first threshold, acquiring attribute information of the handwriting data and processing the attribute information based on a preset length, and transmitting the screened handwriting data through a network.
US10282624B1	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining when a vehicle operator is texting while driving Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining when a vehicle operator is texting while driving. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining when a vehicle operator is texting while driving based on digital image data.
US10282618B2	Multi-blend fingerprinting Multi-blend fingerprinting may be detected. First, a video sample may be received. Next, frames of the received video sample may be step iteratively through until a probability value corresponding to a current frame indicates a match. Deciding that the probability value indicates the match may comprise creating an augmented frame, determining the probability value corresponding to the created augmented frame, and determining that the probability value indicates the match. Then a fingerprint from the created augmented frame may be extracted.
US10282617B2	Methods and systems for performing sleeping object detection and tracking in video analytics Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for maintaining blob trackers for video frames. For example, a first blob tracker maintained for a current video frame is identified. The first blob tracker is associated with a blob detected in one or more video frames. The blob includes pixels of at least a portion of a foreground object in the one or more video frames. It is determined that the first blob tracker is a first type of tracker. Trackers having the first type are associated with objects that have transitioned at least partially into a background model (referred to as sleeping objects and sleeping trackers). One or more interactions are identified between the first blob tracker and at least one other blob tracker. The at least one other blob tracker can be the first type of tracker or can be a second type of tracker that is not a sleeping tracker (the second type of tracker is not associated with an object that has transitioned at least partially into the background model. A characteristic of the first blob tracker can then be modified based on the identified one or more interactions. Modifying the characteristic of the first blob tracker can include transitioning the first blob tracker from the first type of tracker to the second type of tracker, updating an appearance model of the first blob tracker, and/or other suitable characteristic of the first blob tracker.
US10282616B2	Visual data mining Method and system for finding targets within visual data, comprising receiving target object information. Generating a set of target object semantic attributes from the target object information. Identifying a plurality of candidate objects within visual data. Generating a set of low-level feature descriptors from the visual data for each candidate object. Generating from the set of low-level feature descriptors a set of candidate semantic attributes for each candidate object within the visual data. Identifying one or more portions of the visual data containing a candidate object, from the plurality of candidate objects, having a set of candidate object semantic attributes that match the set of target object semantic attributes. Providing an output indicating the identified one or more portions of the visual data.
US10282612B2	Enhanced user authentication A method and system for authenticating a user. An expected digital representation of an iris of at least one authentic user is a combination of a first digital representation of an iris of an eye of at least one authentic user and a second digital representation of at least one authentic overlay pattern. In response to a determination that a third digital representation of a captured image of an iris of a user to be authenticated does not match the expected digital representation: the expected digital representation is modified to alter a relative rotational alignment between the representation of the at least one authentic overlay pattern and the expected digital representation of the iris; and a further comparison between the modified expected digital representation and the third digital representation is performed. From the further comparison, an authentication signal indicative of whether authentication of the user has been successful is generated.
US10282607B2	Reducing scale estimate errors in shelf images Example image processing methods, apparatus/systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an image recognition application to identify matches between stored patterns and objects detected in a shelf image, where the shelf image has a shelf image scale estimate. The example apparatus further includes a scale corrector to calculate deviation values between sizes of (A) a first set of the objects detected in the shelf image and (B) a first set of the stored patterns matched with the first set of the objects and reduce an error of the shelf image scale estimate by calculating a scale correction value for the shelf image scale estimate based on the deviation values.
US10282603B2	Analyzing technical documents against known art Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for analyzing technical documents against known art. One or more machine learning classifiers are trained by a training set. References are ingested and assembled into a corpus. An input query is processed by natural language processing, and the classifiers are used to retrieve relevant documents and references, providing solutions to the input query. Anti-patterns are identified and provided to a user in the form of a report to alert the user to potential problems with the input query.
US10282588B2	Image-based tumor phenotyping with machine learning from synthetic data Machine training and application of machine-trained classifier are used for image-based tumor phenotyping in a medical system. To create a training database with known phenotype information, synthetic medical images are created. A computational tumor model creates various examples of tumors in tissue. Using the computational tumor model allows one to create examples not available from actual patients, increasing the number and variance of examples used for machine-learning to predict tumor phenotype. A model of an imaging system generates synthetic images from the examples. The machine-trained classifier is applied to images from actual patients to predict tumor phenotype for that patient based on the knowledge learned from the synthetic images.
US10282587B2	Sensing module substrate and sensing module including the same A sensing module substrate and a sensing module including the same are provided. The sensing module substrate includes a film substrate having a first surface and a second surface; sensing vias which penetrate the film substrate from the first surface to the second surface, each of the sensing vias being configured to be coupled to pixels of a semiconductor chip; and an interconnection pattern provided on at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the film substrate.
US10282582B2	Finger biometric sensor for generating three dimensional fingerprint ridge data and related methods A finger biometric sensor may include a dielectric layer having a front surface capable of receiving a user's finger thereon and at least one light source capable of injecting light into the user's finger. The finger biometric sensor may also include image sensors adjacent a back surface of the dielectric layer defining overlapping target areas directed toward the user's finger, and a controller capable of collecting image data from the image sensors based upon diffuse scattering and specular reflections from the user's finger, and generating fingerprint ridge three-dimensional (3D) data.
US10282579B2	Initiating fingerprint capture with a touch screen A method for initiating fingerprint capture in an electronic device is described. The device includes a touch screen with a sensing region, a touch controller, a fingerprint controller, and a host. The device is placed in a low power doze mode where the fingerprint controller is in a low power state and the device scans for an object proximate to the sensing region. When an object is proximate to the sensing region, the device executes a validation mode to determine whether the object is a fingerprint. When a fingerprint is detected, the device sends a wake up signal to the fingerprint controller and places the fingerprint controller in a high power mode. One or more fingerprint images are then captured.
US10282578B2	Array sensor and sensing method thereof An array sensor is provided. The array sensor includes a sensing array, a memory array, and an access module. The sensing array includes a plurality of sensing units, wherein each of the sensing units includes a sensing electrode. The memory array includes a plurality of memory units, wherein each of the memory units is disposed below the corresponding sensing unit or between the two adjacent sensing units. The access module selectively reads a sensing value of the sensing electrode of the sensing unit to provide a sensing output, or accesses the memory unit.
US10282575B2	Method and apparatus for improving radio frequency identification coverage A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving RFID coverage using an antenna array having an adaptive antenna beam. The apparatus includes an RFID reader including an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. Subsets of the plurality of antenna elements are selectively activating in order to direct an antenna beam to communicate with at least one RFID tag. The method includes transmitting an interrogation signal from an antenna array by activating one or more subsets of a plurality of antenna elements forming the antenna array. In this way, the interrogation signal is directed thereby improving antenna coverage.
US10282572B2	Method for preventing unauthorized diversion of NFC tags A method, system and apparatus for pairing authorized NFC enabled RFID devices with an intended object or product. The method, system and apparatus can include a primary RFID with a radio frequency identification chip, a coil antenna, a bridge and a substrate; an association of the at least primary RFID device with an object; an integration of a material into one of the at least primary RFID device and the object that provides the RFID device with a predetermined resonant frequency; and the detuning of one or more secondary communication devices located proximate the RFID device.
US10282567B2	High voltage inductive adder A high voltage inductive adder is disclosed. In some embodiments, the high voltage inductive adder comprising a first adder circuit and a second adder circuit. The first adder circuit including a first source; a first switch electrically coupled with the first source; a first transformer core; and a first plurality of primary windings wound about the first transformer core and electrically coupled with the first switch. The second adder circuit including a second source; a second switch electrically coupled with the second source; a second transformer core; and a second plurality of primary windings wound about the second transformer core and electrically coupled with the second switch. The high voltage inductive adder comprising one or more secondary windings wound around both the first transformer core and the second transformer core and an output coupled with the plurality of secondary windings.
US10282563B2	Video-based privacy supporting system Computer display privacy and security for computer systems. In one aspect, the invention provides a computer-controlled system for regulating the interaction between a computer and a user of the computer based on the environment of the computer and the user. For example, the computer-controlled system provided by the invention comprises an input-output device including an image sensor configured to collect facial recognition data proximate to the computer. The system also includes a user security parameter database encoding security parameters associated with the user; the database is also configured to communicate with the security processor. The security processor is configured to receive the facial recognition data and the security parameters associated with the user, and is further configured to at least partially control the operation of the data input device and the data output device in response to the facial recognition data and the security parameters associated with the user.
US10282562B1	Secure digital data collection Systems and methods for generating certified images and incident reports are disclosed. An image capture device can be used to capture an image and integrate metadata from camera sensors as well as other ancillary device sensors into the image. The image and its metadata can then be certified upon a check that the image and its metadata are authentic and unaltered. The image and its metadata can then be included in or as a part of an incident or other report describing an incident or event such as an accident or a crime. The image and/or incident report may be maintained at a cloud-based server for viewing, authorized editing, and subsequent distribution.
US10282561B2	Method and apparatus for managing application The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for managing an application. Whether an application is allowed to run in the background of a terminal device is determined based on a configuration file. When an application is allowed to run in the background, whether each of specific activities of the application is allowed be performed in the background is further determined based on the configuration file. The configuration file may be generated from a record information file used by the terminal device to keep track of the running data for applications. In particularly, whether an application or an activity of an application is allowed to run in the background of the terminal device may be determined by analyzing the record information file and tracked in the configuration file.
US10282559B2	Data processing systems for identifying, assessing, and remediating data processing risks using data modeling techniques In various embodiments, a Data Model Adaptive Execution System may be configured to take one or more suitable actions to remediate an identified risk in view of one or more regulations (e.g., one or more legal regulations, one or more binding corporate rules, etc.). For example, in order to ensure compliance with one or more standards related to the collection and/or storage of personal data, an entity may be required to modify one or more aspects of a way in which the entity collects, stores, and/or otherwise processes personal data (e.g., in response to a change in a legal or other requirement). In order to identify whether a particular change or other risk trigger requires remediation, the system may be configured to assess a relevance of the risk posed by the risk and identify one or more processing activities or data assets that may be affected by the risk.
US10282557B1	Systems and methods for protecting sensitive data against data loss The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting sensitive data against data loss may include (1) identifying a resource comprising sensitive data, (2) establishing, for the resource, an accessibility threshold that indicates a limit on permissions to access the resource, (3) monitoring how the permissions to access the resource drift over time by tracking changes in users' permissions to access the resource, (4) detecting, while tracking the changes in users' permissions to access the resource, that access to the resource has surpassed the accessibility threshold, and (5) in response to detecting that the access to the resource has surpassed the accessibility threshold, performing a security action to protect the sensitive data from potentially being exposed. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10282555B2	Validation and authentication of digital documents issued by an architect A method and system for authenticating and validating electronic architectural documents. A document approved by a licensed architect has the architects digital seal and signature associated with or inserted into the document file. A hash function is performed to create an issued file with the digital seal and signature and a cryptographic hash. The issued document is distributed to a recipient, extracted to a local drive, and subsequently accessed for use in an architectural project. The cryptographic hash of the extracted file is compared to that of the accessed filed to determine if they are the same. If the same, the accessed document is validated and the digital seal and signature remain visible in the accessed document. If not, the accessed document is not validated and the digital seal and signature are removed from or hidden, indicating the document should not be used.
US10282554B2	System and method for providing a cryptographic platform for exchanging information A system and method configured for providing a cryptographic platform for exchanging information. One or more information transactions including encrypted information may be generated and/or provided to a distributed ledger. The one or more information transactions may include information intended for one or more parties. Information transactions intended for one or more parties may be identified. An information transaction may include one or more of a transaction identifier associated with one or more parties, an information payload, and/or other information. The information payload may include encrypted information. The encrypted information may be encrypted with one or more public keys associated with one or more parties. One or more information transactions may be retrieved from the distributed ledger. The encrypted information may be decrypted with one or more private keys that correspond to the public keys. Presentation of the encrypted information to one or more parties may be facilitated.
US10282553B1	Systems and methods for controlling data exposure using artificial-intelligence-based modeling Systems and methods for controlling the exposure of data privacy elements are provided. The systems and methods may generate an artificial profile model. The artificial profile model may include a constraint for generating new artificial profiles. A signal may be received indicating that a computing device is requesting access to a network location. One or more data privacy elements associated with the computing device can be detected. An artificial profile can be determined for the computing device. The artificial profile may be usable to identify the computing device. The one or more data privacy elements may be automatically modified according to the constraint included in the artificial profile model. The method may include generating a new artificial profile for the computing device. The new artificial profile may include the modified one or more data privacy elements. The new artificial profile may mask the computing device from being identified.
US10282551B2	Systems and methods to control publication of user content in a virtual world A computing system and method to implement a three-dimensional virtual reality world having user created virtual objects. During the creation of a virtual object, a user of the virtual reality world identifies components and/or resources of the virtual object, such as a mesh model defining the shape of the virtual object, an image specifying the appearance of the virtual object, and a script defining the run time behavior of the virtual object. The computer system examines the components and/or resources duration the creation process of the virtual object to detect and/or address security threats and/or performance hurdles. Before the approval of the publication of the virtual object in the virtual world, the computer system performs a simulation of the rendering of the virtual object to detect security threats and evaluate performance impacts.
US10282548B1	Method for detecting malware within network content Systems and methods for detecting malicious content are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for detecting malicious content is described that detects when a client device has access to a remote network server of a communication network. The client device includes one or more processors. Thereafter, a controller being a device separate from the client device, activates one or more security programs within the remote network server. The security programs enable the controller to analyze data stored within or transmitted from the remote network server. Lastly, the controller analyzing the data to determine whether the data includes malware.
US10282546B1	Systems and methods for detecting malware based on event dependencies The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting malware based on event dependencies may include (1) applying, to a malware detection system capable of analyzing event dependencies, an event sequence derived from the execution of an application, (2) obtaining, from the malware detection system, a malware confidence score for the event sequence which the malware detection system calculates after a certain event within the event sequence has executed based at least in part on one or more dependencies between the certain event and at least one other event within the event sequence, (3) determining that the malware confidence score exceeds a threshold, and (4) classifying the application as malicious in response to determining that the malware confidence score exceeds the threshold. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10282544B2	Identifying suspected malware files and sites based on presence in known malicious environment Disclosed herein is a system and method for identifying potential sources of malicious activity as well as identifying potentially malicious files that originated from suspected malicious sources. Using an anchor event and telemetry data from devices known to have been infected by malicious activity similar events in the telemetry data between two devices can be identified. These satellite events are then used to identify other files that may have been deposited by the satellite event such that those files can be highlighted to a malware researcher. Additionally, the malware protection may be updated based on this analysis to label an associated site with the satellite event as a malicious site such that the site may be blocked or quarantined.
US10282542B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable medium An attack activity definition information database 111 stores, for a plurality of events, attack activity definition information describing an event, a precondition, and an achieved phenomenon. The event is observed by an information system when an attack against the information system is underway. The precondition is a prerequisite condition for the event to be observed. The achieved phenomenon is a phenomenon of the time after the event is observed. An event receiving part 108 receives observed event notice information notifying an observed event which is observed by the information system. An attack activity predicting part 105 acquires an achieved phenomenon from the attack activity definition information describing the observed event notified by the observed event notice information, and extracts an event that is predicted to be observed by the information system, based on the attack activity definition information describing a precondition corresponding to the acquired achieved phenomenon of the observed event.
US10282537B2	Single prompt multiple-response user authentication method A request for authentication from a user of a computer system is received. An authentication prompt is transmitted to the user, wherein the authentication prompt corresponds to a plurality of stored authentication responses, and wherein each of the plurality of stored authentication responses is used to authenticate the user. A first user authentication response is received. Whether to accept the first user authentication response based on a degree of similarity between the first user authentication response is determined and a stored authentication response from the plurality of stored authentication responses. Responsive to accepting the first user authentication response, a security score is calculated representing a level of confidence with respect to verifying the user for authentication, based on a type of authentication response for the first user authentication response. Responsive to determining that the security score is greater than an authentication score the user is authenticated.
US10282532B2	Secure storage of fingerprint related elements The present disclosure relates to secure storage of a detailed set of elements relating to fingerprint features for a finger and to a method for authenticating a candidate fingerprint of a finger using said detailed set of elements, allowing for improved security and user convenience.
US10282531B1	Quick-logon for computing device Methods and systems for verifying a user's identity on a computing device using two-factor authentication are described. More particularly, the system can use a personal identification number input by a user, together with one or more of a secure browsing feature, a device fingerprint, and a token generator to authenticate the user on the computer.
US10282527B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, storage medium, and password entry apparatus An information processing apparatus that generates a second password different from a first password in response to a password change request from a terminal, and generates and sends a change screen page to the terminal, stores the first password as an old password, and sends a notification when an authentication is attempted using the old password.
US10282524B1	Content selection and delivery for random devices Intelligent content delivery enables content to be delivered to different devices in formats appropriate for those devices based on the capabilities of those devices. A user might access the same piece of content on two different devices, and can automatically receive a higher quality format on a device capable of playing that higher quality format. The user can purchase rights to content in any format, such that as new formats emerge or the user upgrades to devices with enhanced capabilities, the user can receive the improved formats automatically without having to repurchase the content. Further, the user can pause and resume content between devices even when those devices utilize different formats, and can access content on devices not otherwise associated with the user, receiving content in formats that are appropriate for those unknown devices even if the user has not previously accessed content in those formats.
US10282523B2	License management solution for central-management products A license manager running on a central-management server receives a license request for licensing a managed node as a client of a central-management product running on a central-management server. The license manager proposes a solution involving applying respective licenses for plural distinct central-management products. In response to a unified command, implementing said solution.
US10282519B2	Method and apparatus for providing nursing service A method performed by an apparatus for providing nursing service is provided. The method includes: receiving result information about nursing service provided to a patient from a first medical care provider terminal, extracting rule information that is pre-set with respect to the nursing service, determining whether the result information corresponds to the rule information, and transmitting the result information to a second medical care provider terminal if the result information corresponds to the rule information.
US10282518B2	Systems and methods for viewing electrocardiograms Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying an electrocardiogram (ECG) on a computing device using actions including receiving data corresponding to the ECG, processing the data to generate a plurality of traces, displaying a plurality of trace display windows, displaying each trace of the plurality of traces in a trace window of the plurality of trace windows, receiving user input corresponding to at least one trace window of the plurality of trace windows, and modifying a display of each trace of the plurality of traces in the respective trace display windows in response to the user input.
US10282508B1	Overcoming retiming limitations due to initial conditions conflicts In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes performing retiming using a first circuit design to determine one or more variations to the first circuit design, identifying one or more source registers that are involved in one or more unsuccessful retiming moves due to initial conditions conflicts, and recommending, via a graphical user interface, one or more corrective actions to the one or more source registers to avoid the initial conditions conflicts and improve performance of the one or more variations.
US10282507B2	Method and system for determining circuit failure rate A method involves determining failure in time rate for a circuit. The method may include obtaining circuit data regarding a circuit. The circuit may include a first wire segment and a second wire segment. The method may further include obtaining reliability data. The reliability data may describe a failure of the circuit over a pre-determined time period. The method may further include obtaining a thermal map. The method may further include determining a first failure rate for the first wire segment of the circuit. The first failure rate may be a probability that the first wire segment fails in a predetermined amount of time. The method may further include determining a second failure rate for the second wire segment of the circuit. The method may further include generating a model of the circuit. The model of the circuit may describe the first and the second failure rate of the circuit.
US10282504B2	Method for improving circuit layout for manufacturability A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC) includes receiving a layout of the IC having a first region interposed between two second regions. The layout includes a first layer having first features and second and third layer having second and third features in the first region. The second and third features collectively form cut patterns for the first features. The method further includes modifying the second and third features by a mask house tool, resulting in modified second and third features, which collectively form modified cut patterns for the first features. The modifying of the second and third features meets at least one of following conditions: total spacing between adjacent modified second (third) features is greater than total spacing between adjacent second (third) features, and total length of the modified second (third) features is smaller than total length of the second (third) features.
US10282501B1	Support for multiple user defined assertion checkers in a multi-FPGA prototyping system A method is provided that includes selecting an assertion checker for a design under test. The design under test includes hardware and firmware for a system on a chip, the method including instantiating the assertion checker in a compilation file, annotating the compilation file to define an assertion control signal for the assertion checker, and selecting one of a DISABLE or an ENABLE definition for the assertion control signal. The method also includes configuring a clock in a prototyping platform to stop when the assertion control signal is enabled in the assertion checker and a logic condition for the assertion control signal is satisfied in the prototyping platform. A system and a computer readable medium including instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US10282499B2	Method and apparatus for x-ray ionizing radiation control The present invention pertains to a method and apparatus for x-ray ionizing radiation control and ionizing radiation control. A digital representation of an inanimate object is formed. The amount of the radiation at a surface of the inanimate object is simulated. The radiation-matter interaction for a material of the inanimate object is calculated. The amount of energy deposited at a plurality of locations at the inanimate object is calculated. The digital representation of the inanimate object is modified in response to an input from a user and the modified digital representation of the inanimate object is displayed.
US10282497B2	Model for estimating drilling tool wear A method for estimating the wear of a drilling tool is disclosed. The method includes selecting a first incremental distance along a length of a formation. The method further includes determining a first characteristic of the formation along the first incremental distance. The method further includes deriving a first fractional wear factor, y1, for the drilling tool based on the first characteristic of the formation and a first operating condition of the cutting element. The method further includes calculating a first wear function, Wf1, the cutting element based on the first fractional wear factor and estimating an amount of wear of the cutting element during a drilling operation based on the first wear function.
US10282496B2	Graph partitioning to distribute wells in parallel reservoir simulation A method, apparatus, and program product use graph partitioning to distribute wells to a plurality of solve processors in a parallel reservoir simulation environment to optimize performance of well solve operations during reservoir simulations. Wells may be distributed to assign wells to partitions and associated solve processors and/or other processing resources in a manner that optimizes communication costs and/or costs associated with performing well solve operations.
US10282494B2	Modeling and simulation of infrastructure architecture for big data Embodiments for modeling and simulation of one or more architecture models for Big Data of an organization are described. In one example, at least one user requirement and set of model requirements are received from a user associated with the organization, where the set of model requirements is indicative of information relating to the one or more architecture models. Subsequently, one or more architecture models are generated for providing recommendation to the user, where the one or more architecture models are generated based on the at least one user requirement and the set of model requirements. Further, the one or more architecture models are simulated to ascertain performance of each of the one or more architecture models based at least on a pre-defined specification of architecture components associated with each of the one or more architecture models.
US10282493B2	Systems and methods for particle pattern simulation A method is provided comprising, receiving, by a computer system comprising a processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory, particle parameters, creating, by the computer system, particle elements in accordance with the particle parameters, and building, by the computer system, a pattern using the particle elements.
US10282491B2	System and method for engineering and detailing steel joints in a steel structure A system for engineering and detailing joints in a steel structure includes a compute device that is electronically linked with a web-enabled server. In use, the system engages in an automated process of connecting the various joints in the steel structure by first collecting basic connection preferences via the compute device. Additionally, raw data is extracted from a computer model of the steel structure on the compute device. Using the connection preferences and raw data, the server analyzes framing interrelationships and engineers the connection details for each joint based upon connection preferences and load requirements. Taking into account the connection details of other local joints in the steel structure, the server utilizes an iterative engineering process to ensure that the connection details satisfy structural loads in a cost-effective fashion. Upon completion, the engineered connection details are uploaded back into the computer model of the steel structure on the compute device.
US10282486B2	Methods and apparatuses for searching data stored in a memory array using a replicated data pattern A method includes replicating a data pattern to be searched for, storing the replicated data pattern into a first row of memory cells, and comparing the replicated data pattern to data stored into a second row of memory cells. In response to detecting the data pattern in the data stored into the second row of memory cells, storing into a third row a value indicative of at least one of an occurrence of the data pattern or a position of the searched for data pattern in the data stored into the row of memory cells.
US10282485B2	Node relevance scoring in linked data graphs Technique to determine relative relevance of pairs of nodes in a linked data graph, such as an RDF graph, including calculation of raw relevance scores (which are based upon adjacency relations between nodes after edge filtering, the incoming and outgoing degrees of nodes in the graph after the edge filtering, and the distance (or weight) values of the edge(s)) and/or “refined relevance scores,” which take into account “complementary nodes.”
US10282475B2	Generation of browser suggestions based on internet of things device data Systems, methods and computer program products are described herein that collect and analyze data generated by embedded systems included within a user's devices to generate recommendations for presentation to the user within the context of the user's web browser. The recommendations may comprise, for example, suggested information resources and/or search queries. Such recommendations may be presented to the user as part of a new tab page or within an address bar of the web browser's graphical user interface. In accordance with further embodiments, the user device data is used by a search engine to generate search results, and/or a ranking of search results.
US10282471B2	Audio matching based on harmonogram In an example context of identifying live audio, an audio processor machine accesses audio data that represents a query sound and creates a spectrogram from the audio data. Each segment of the spectrogram represents a different time slice in the query sound. For each time slice, the audio processor machine determines one or more dominant frequencies and an aggregate energy value that represents a combination of all the energy for that dominant frequency and its harmonics. The machine creates a harmonogram by representing these aggregate energy values at these dominant frequencies in each time slice. The harmonogram thus may represent the strongest harmonic components within the query sound. The machine can identify the query sound by comparing its harmonogram to other harmonograms of other sounds and may respond to a user's submission of the query sound by providing an identifier of the query sound to the user.
US10282469B2	System and method for summarizing a multimedia content item A multimedia content item is summarized based on its audio track and a desired compression budget. The audio track is extracted and processed by an automatic speech recognizer to obtain a time-aligned text transcript. The text-transcript is partitioned into a plurality of segment sequences. An informativeness score based on a salience score and a diversity score is computed for each of the segments. A coherence score is also computed for the segments in the plurality of sequences. A subsequence of one of the segment sequences that optimizes for informativeness and coherence is selected for generating a new content item summarizing the multimedia content item.
US10282468B2	Document-based requirement identification and extraction According to an aspect, document-based requirement identification and extraction includes parsing a set of documents and identifying relationships among parsed components of the documents and applying the parsed components and identified relationships to a meta-model that defines requirements. The requirements include a statement expressing a need and/or responsibility. A further aspect includes identifying candidate requirements and their candidate topics from results of the applying. For each of the identified candidate topics, a feature vector is built from the corresponding candidate requirements. A further aspect includes training the meta-model with the feature vectors, validating the meta-model, and classifying output of the validating to identify a subset of the candidate requirements, and corresponding topics expressed in the set of documents.
US10282467B2	Mining product aspects from opinion text A text stream having one or more sentences is received, and any number of the one or more sentences are parsed to determine corresponding subject-verb-object (SVO) triples. Each sentence whose corresponding SVO triple contains an identified verb is selected, based on the identified verb, or a lemma of the identified verb, matching a predefined verb. A subject of each selected sentence is identified as an aspect candidate. Each identified aspect candidate is tokenized and normalized. One or more n-grams are generated for each tokenized and normalized aspect candidate. For each generated n-gram, a frequency at which the n-gram is generated is determined. A number of the generated n-grams are selected as aspects based on the frequency with which the number of n-grams are generated.
US10282459B2	System for detecting and characterizing seasons Techniques are described for characterizing and summarizing seasonal patterns detected within a time series. A set of time series data is analyzed to identify a plurality of instances of a season, where each instance corresponds to a respective sub-period within the season. A first set of instances from the plurality of instances are associated with a particular class of seasonal pattern. After classifying the first set of instances, a second set of instances may remain unclassified or otherwise may not be associated with the particular class of seasonal pattern. Based on the first and second set of instances, a summary may be generated that identifies one or more stretches of time that are associated with the particular class of seasonal pattern. The one or more stretches of time may span at least one sub-period corresponding to at least one instance in the second set of instances.
US10282458B2	Event notification system with cluster classification An event-notification system provides for monitoring resource-status parameters so as to repeatedly generate resource-status values for each of N resource-status parameters applicable to the resources. Each datapoint specifies a resource, a time of collection, and the values of parameters for the resource at the time. The datapoints are represented in an N-dimensional space, including N dimensions corresponding to the resource-status parameters and one dimension devoted to time. The datapoints are clustered on a proximity basis. The clusters are manually classified as Normal or Ack-Abnormal. A machine-learning engine develops a model that allows the classifications to be automated. Alerts are sent for respective Abnormal clusters rather than for each abnormal datapoint, thus reducing the amount of data an administrator must deal with to address potential problems.
US10282457B1	Distributed transactions across multiple consensus groups Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for distributed transactions across multiple consensus groups are disclosed. A distributed transaction system comprises a proposer and a plurality of consensus groups, including a first consensus group comprising a first plurality of members and a second consensus group comprising a second plurality of members. The proposer proposes a transaction to at least a portion of the first consensus group and at least a portion of the second consensus group. A majority of the members in the first consensus group agree to perform the transaction, where the transaction is selected from a plurality of proposed transactions involving the first consensus group. A majority of the members in the second consensus group also agree to perform the transaction. The members of the first and second consensus groups perform the transaction to update a plurality of stored replicas.
US10282456B2	Managing contact center metrics A contact center includes: a microprocessor; a computer readable medium, coupled to the microprocessor, to store, for one or more contact center objects, contact center information; and a microprocessor executable report generator, The report generator, when executed, receives, from a user, a selected contact center object, retrieves, from the computer readable medium, a set of data elements associated with the selected contact center object, the set of data elements defining a first space having a first dimension, projects the set of data elements onto a subspace of the first space to form a transformed set of data elements, the subspace having a second dimension less than the first dimension, and provides, for display to a user, the transformed set of data elements.
US10282454B2	Machine for generating unstructured syntax Data conversion circuitry receives structured records including normalized data and performs a data conversion process on the structured records to generate unstructured records including unstructured syntax. The data conversion circuitry performs the data conversion process according to an unstructured syntax requirement including a syntax field mapping between the structured records and the generated unstructured records.
US10282449B1	Multiple aggregates in a single user-defined function A data store system may include a persistent storage device that may store a plurality of data tables. The data store system may further include a processor array in communication with the persistent storage device. The processor array may receive a query comprising a call to a user-defined function (UDF) that may determine a plurality of aggregates for at least one data table from the plurality of data tables. The processor array may determine a number of the plurality of aggregates in the UDF. The processor array may perform a single read of rows associated with the plurality aggregates from the at least one data table. At least one row of the rows may be commonly associated with more than one of the plurality of aggregates. The processor array may generate each aggregate of the plurality of aggregates using the rows according to the UDF. A method and computer-readable medium may also be implemented.
US10282445B1	Incremental kurtosis calculation for big data or streamed data using components The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computing system program products for incrementally calculating kurtosis for Big Data or streamed data in real time by incrementally calculating one or more components of kurtosis. Embodiments of the invention include incrementally calculating one or more components of a kurtosis for a modified computation subset based on the one or more components of the kurtosis calculated for a pre-modified computation subset and then calculating the kurtosis based on the incrementally calculated components. Incrementally calculating kurtosis avoids visiting all data elements in the modified computation subset and performing redundant computations thereby increasing calculation efficiency, saving computing resources and reducing computing system's power consumption.
US10282444B2	Disambiguating join paths for natural language queries One of the methods includes, obtaining a natural language query from a user; while converting the natural language query into structured operations to be performed on structured application programming interfaces (APIs) of a knowledge base: responsive to detecting a linguistic ambiguity associated with the converting, wherein the linguistic ambiguity identifies two or more interpretations of a word included in the natural langue query: resolving the linguistic ambiguity by selecting an interpretation of the word, from the two or more interpretations of the word, based on one or more join paths that have been generated based on a data schema of the knowledge base; modifying the converting in accordance with the selected interpretation of the word, to generate one or more structured operations; performing the one or more structured operations on the structured APIs of the knowledge base; and returning search results matching the natural language query results to the user.
US10282440B2	Prioritizing rebuilding of encoded data slices A method begins by a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices accessing a rebuild hierarchical index structure to identify a data object having encoded data slices requiring rebuilding, where the structure includes a plurality of nodes that organizes a plurality of data objects based on a level of need of rebuilding. The method continues with the first computing device utilizing a rebuilding function to rebuild one or more of the identified encoded data slices to be rebuilt to produce one or more rebuilt encoded data slices and sending a write request to memory of a dispersed storage network to store the one or more rebuilt encoded data slices. The method continues with the first or another computing device updating the level of need of rebuilding of the identified data object and updating the rebuild hierarchical index structure based on the updated level of need of rebuilding.
US10282439B2	Storing and querying multidimensional data using first and second indicies The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for storing and querying data. According to the embodiments of the present invention, two-layer indexes are created for multi-dimension data, wherein the primary index is created based on two or more dimensions to retrieve respective data units of the data, while the secondary index is created based on specific dimensions to retrieve respective data blocks in the data unit. Correspondingly, when receiving a multi-dimension query request for data, the primary retrieval first determines a data unit including the target data based on a primary index, and then the secondary retrieval quickly locates a data block including the target data based on the secondary index. In this way, the multi-dimension retrieval can be efficiently performed. Moreover, by appropriately setting the size of a smallest data block, the I/O efficiency of data access will be significantly enhanced.
US10282438B2	Locating data in a set with a single index using multiple property values Identifying objects in a datastore with specified object properties, where each object is characterized by a Bloom filter, a Hamming value of the Bloom filter, and a binary logarithm of the Bloom filter. A set of object properties is received. A search Bloom filter is created from the object properties. A Hamming value of the search Bloom filter is determined. A binary logarithm of the search Bloom filter is calculated. Objects in the datastore which have respective Hamming values greater than or equal to the Hamming value of the search Bloom filter and respective binary logarithms that are greater than or equal to the binary logarithm of the search Bloom filter are identified.
US10282435B2	Apparatus, method, and storage medium for automatically correcting errors in electronic publication systems An apparatus that includes: a scanning module that electronically extracts operational details relating to one or more venues from venue data published on one or more electronic publication systems; a query module that provides a query for detecting errors in the extracted operational details using automated contact with a venue representative of the one or more venues; an audio module that communicates to the venue representative an electronically-controlled audio script based on the query, and receives from the venue representative, responses to the audio script; and a correction module that automatically initiates error correction of the operational details in response to errors detected using the responses received from the venue representative.
US10282434B2	Suppression and deduplication of place-entities on online social networks In one embodiment, an online social network accesses a place-entities graph that includes a plurality of place-entity nodes, each place-entity node representing a particular place-entity associated with a particular geographic location. From one of a plurality of search clients associated with the online social network, a threshold duplication value and a threshold redirect value is received. The online social network identifies place-entity clusters of place-entity nodes within the place-entities graph. In each place-entity cluster, the place-entity nodes have duplication values with respect to a canonical place-entity node in the cluster that are above the threshold duplication value. The online social network generates a redirection graph for the one search client. The redirection graph includes the identified place-entity clusters, where for each cluster, a redirection edge is established between a place-entity node and the corresponding canonical place-entity node based on the duplication value and the threshold redirect value.
US10282420B2	Evaluation element recognition method, evaluation element recognition apparatus, and evaluation element recognition system A method, an apparatus and a system for recognizing an evaluation element are provided. The method includes receiving an input text; performing, using a first conditional random field model, first recognition for the input text to obtain a first recognition result, the first recognition result including a pre-evaluation element that is recognized by using the first conditional random field model; performing, using a second conditional random field model, second recognition for the input text to obtain a second recognition result, the second recognition result including a false positive evaluation element that is recognized by using the second conditional random field model, the false positive evaluation element being an element erroneously detected as an evaluation element; and recognizing, based on the first recognition result and the second recognition result, an evaluation element in the input text.
US10282411B2	System, method, and recording medium for natural language learning A natural language learning method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium include analyzing a corpus of sentences stored in a database to identify an internal structure of words in the corpus of sentences, creating a plurality of new words that are a combination of the internal structure of a word of the words in the corpus of sentences and the word, clustering the plurality of new words created by the creating that match into a plurality of cluster groups, filtering the plurality of cluster groups to create a partial set of each of the plurality of cluster groups, and performing word embedding processing on the partial set of each of the plurality of cluster groups to obtain vectors for new words.
US10282409B2	Performance modification based on aggregation of audience traits and natural language feedback Mechanisms, in a natural language processing (NLP) system comprising a processor and a memory are provided. The NLP system receives a plurality of communications from a plurality of devices associated with audience members of a real-time presentation by a presenter of the presentation while the presentation is being presented. The NLP system analyzes the plurality of communications using natural language processing techniques, to identify attributes of the audience members and generates an aggregate audience model based on the identified attributes of the audience members. The aggregate audience model specifies an aggregate of attributes of the audience. Moreover, the NLP system outputs, to the presenter via a device associated with the presenter, a suggestion output identifying one or more portions of the presentation that are currently of interest to the audience members based on the aggregate audience model.
US10282407B1	Method for filtering data to generate a balance sheet According to exemplary inventive embodiments, a computer spreadsheet program (e.g., Excel) is used to devise a balance sheet template and to import a financial report. The balance sheet template is a tabular presentation having headings designating network numbers, activity numbers, and various types of financial data. Network and activity numbers are enumerated on the balance sheet template, each network number being sub-categorized into one or more activity numbers. The balance sheet template is designed for entry, in blank spaces, of the designated types of financial data corresponding to pairings of enumerated network and activity numbers. A data-filtering macro (e.g., programmed in Visual Basic for Applications) identifies in the financial report, and inserts into the balance sheet template, every item of financial data that is pertinent to both (i) a designated type of financial data and (ii) a pairing of enumerated network and activity numbers.
US10282403B2	Server device, client device, information processing method, and recording medium A server device, including: a document acquisition unit configured to acquire a document including a reference to a resource in response to a client request; a resource acquisition unit configured to acquire the resource; an abbreviated character string generation unit configured to generate abbreviated character strings of character strings included in the document and the resource and add records associating the character strings with the abbreviated character strings; an abbreviated character string writing unit configured to replace the character strings with the abbreviated character strings in the document and the resource; a document transmission unit configured to transmit the document including the abbreviated character string to the client; and a resource transmission unit configured to transmit the resource including the abbreviated character string to the client. The server device speeds up provision of a document to a client by utilizing throughput of a server.
US10282399B2	System and method for web content presentation management A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a selection of one or more presentation templates of a plurality of presentation templates for at least a portion of a web page, wherein the one or more presentation templates define, at least in part, a display format for one or more display types. At least a portion of the one or more display types is mapped to one or more content elements within a content type. At least the portion of the one or more presentation templates is rendered when the one or more content elements are requested, wherein rendering includes retrieving at least the portion of the one or more content elements from one or more of each content item to be rendered within each of the one or more presentation templates, wherein rendering further includes using the content type of the one or more content elements requested to dynamically map the one or more content elements defined in the one or more display types to the one or more presentation templates.
US10282396B2	Markup language namespace declaration resolution and preservation An object of an in-memory object model created from markup language syntax is identified. The in-memory object model includes an element value that includes both a prefix part and a local value part. A determination is made that the element value, that includes both the prefix part and the local value part, does not have a corresponding data type definition within a schema specification used to define data types within the markup language syntax. A namespace resolver service is invoked using at least the prefix part of the element value. A valid namespace declaration of the prefix part is received from the namespace resolver service. The valid namespace declaration is associated with the prefix part as a namespace definition for the local value part of the element value.
US10282395B2	Handling timer-based resizing events based on activity detection Computer-implemented methods, media, and systems implemented to handling timer-based resizing events based on activity detection can trigger a start of a resize timer. The resize timer can periodically provide a notification to check for resize activity in a user interface displayed on a display device. In response to the notification, an absence of the resize activity can be determined after a threshold inactivity time period has expired from the start of the resize timer. In response, a stop of the resize timer can be triggered. After triggering the stop, a first resize activity associated with a first timestamp can be detected in the user interface. A restart of the resize timer from the first timestamp can be triggered to periodically provide the notification to check for resize activity in the user interface. Subsequent continuation or stopping of the resize timer can be based on further presence or absence of resize activity.
US10282394B1	Composable docking navigation for optimized application interaction A first indication to dock a page associated with a web-based application is received. In response to receiving the first indication, a docked page is saved. A second indication to display the docked page is received and in response to receiving the second indication, the docked page is displayed in the web-based application.
US10282392B2	Interacting with data from a document via document an application pages A document application is used to interact with a document as if the document was an application. Data from the document is automatically/manually selected to be associated with the document application. The document application displays document application pages (DAPs) that are used to interact with the document. One or more DAPs are automatically created using the selected data along with any rules associated with the data. For example, column names from selected data in the document may be used to create data entry/display fields within one or more DAPs and the rules may be used to specify how to interact with the data in the document application. The automatically created default DAPs may be customized by a user. For example, one DAP may be configured to be the starting page for the document application and another DAP may be configured to display a chart.
US10282386B1	Sampling a part of a content item In some implementations, a user may use an electronic device to sample and/or share a sample of content of a content item. Furthermore, the electronic device may display a consumption representation in connection with the content item that may represent locations of parts of content that have been received as samples out of an expanse of content of the content item. In some examples, a user may select a portion of the content to sample based at least in part on one or more aspects or features of the content item, such as may be represented in a content representation. Further, a content provider may track an amount of content that is sent to the electronic device or other electronic devices associated with the same user account to limit the amount of content that may be provided as samples for each content item.
US10282385B2	Estimation of oil recovery in foam flooded hydrocarbon reservoirs A method for the estimation of oil recovery factor in a foam flooded hydrocarbon reservoir. The hydrocarbon reservoir is divided into three sweep sub-zones, with sweep efficiency and displacement efficiency for each zone being estimated. The oil recovery factor is determined as a function of porous volume injected, based on the sweep efficiency and displacement efficiency.
US10282383B2	Universal visitor identification system A tag management system can include features to assist in developing a cross-vendor profile for individual visitors to content pages of a content site. The visitors to the content site can obtain universal identifiers usable by the content site to identify the visitors. The universal identifiers can be included in the content pages by the visitor end user systems so that browser tags that may not have native access to the universal identifier can access the universal identifiers. The universal identifiers may then be provided to tag vendor systems with associated visitor data, thereby enabling the tag vendor systems to provide processed or raw data that can be compared by individual universal identifiers. Using this processed data, the content site can prepare the cross-vendor profile of individual visitors and realize insights that may be unavailable using conventional systems and methods.
US10282380B2	Data retrieval/distribution method and apparatus, and storage medium In a data retrieval/distribution apparatus which retrieves designated information from the collected data in accordance with a retrieval/distribution request sent from a data retrieval/distribution client, and sends a retrieval result to the data retrieval/distribution client, the data retrieval/distribution client sends, to the data retrieval/distribution server, the retrieval/distribution request including a first retrieval condition using a virtual data conversion definition, which is a virtualization of data conversion definitions as a definition for converting the collected data into a distribution format, a processing unit of the data retrieval/distribution apparatus generates a second retrieval condition using each of the data conversion definitions from the first retrieval condition, executes retrieval processing according to the generated second retrieval condition, and sends a retrieval result of the retrieval processing to the data retrieval/distribution client as a retrieval result according to the first retrieval condition.

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