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| US10362713B2 |
Process for making an apparatus with fluid-flow-through cooling of circuit boards
A disclosed apparatus for use with a conduction-cooled card assembly may include a frame comprising first and second thermally conductive portions adapted to engage respective thermal management interfaces on opposite sides of a conduction cooling frame for at least one circuit card. The apparatus may also include a passageway extending between first and second openings in the frame so as to allow cooling fluid to flow into the first opening, through the passageway, and out of the second opening. According to a disclosed method, an insert may be installed between components of a mezzanine connector so as to increase a height of the connector. In some implementations, the installing of the insert may be performed while the first and second components of the mezzanine connector are mounted on a host card and a mezzanine card, respectively, so that installation of the insert between the first and second components increases a spacing between the host card and the mezzanine card. |
| US10362711B2 |
Fan mounting arrangement in a power supply
A power supply includes a bottom case, a top cover, a circuit board and a heat-dissipating fan. In this case, the bottom case and the top cover are fitted together to delimit an accommodating space. The circuit board is mounted on the bottom case and located within the accommodating space. The heat-dissipating fan includes a supporting frame, a driving module provided on the supporting frame, and a fan blade set covering the driving module and being driven by the driving module to rotate. The supporting frame is provided with a main body for the driving module and the fan blade set to be installed, as well as a plurality of supporting posts respectively connected to the main body and fixed on the circuit board, and the heat-dissipating fan is not provided with a barrier wall around the fan blade set. |
| US10362709B2 |
Vent-free and fan-less preconfigured information networking system
A vent-free, fan-less pre-configured Information Technology component cluster suitable for in-wall mounting is provided which maintains proper operational temperature of all components within the cluster. |
| US10362705B2 |
Lightweight server chassis configured for modular insertion of customer selectable components for downstream assembly of information handling system at customer locations
An information handling system (IHS) includes a lightweight server chassis having a surface that includes a plurality of slots formed within the chassis surface. Each slot is sized to receive a specific compute component of a plurality of different compute components that collectively provide a fully functional IHS. In one embodiment, at least one slot that is formed within the chassis surface is sized to receive a respective one of the more than one type of compute component of a plurality of different compute components. Thereby, an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) can flexibly ship at least portions of the IHS to an end user destination for possible downstream reconfiguration and assembly. |
| US10362700B2 |
Aircraft turbomachine computer
An aircraft turbomachine calculator including a parallelepiped metal casing including an electronic circuit wherein a control channel and a monitoring channel are integrated. The casing includes a first cavity wherein a first electronic board is provided for managing the control channel and a second cavity, independent of the first cavity, wherein a second electronic board is provided for managing the monitoring channel, these electronic boards being provided in two planes oriented with respect to each other at an angle of 90°. |
| US10362699B2 |
Low density electronic device
An electronic device includes a display screen, one or more internal components, and a foam outer housing coupled to the display screen and enclosing the one or more internal components. The electronic device may also include a foam midframe enclosed by the foam outer housing. The foam outer housing may be resilient so as to provide impact absorption and water resistance, while the foam midframe may be rigid to provide stiffness to the electronic device. The electronic device may have a density less than 1 gram/centimeter3 such that the electronic device is buoyant in liquid water. |
| US10362696B2 |
Foldable display device and method for manufacturing the same
A foldable display device according to example embodiments includes a support member including a first support portion, a second support portion, and a hinge portion connected between the first support portion and the second support portion, the support member being divided into an adhesive area and a non-adhesive area, a coating layer on the non-adhesive area of the support member, an adhesive member integrally on the adhesive area of the support member and the coating layer, and a foldable display module attached on the adhesive member. |
| US10362695B2 |
Door closer mechanism for hot/cold aisle air containment room
A hot/cold aisle air containment room includes a plurality of electronic equipment enclosures at least partially defining an interior aisle, a frame structure supporting one or more ceiling panels above the interior aisle, and a door assembly. The door assembly includes a sliding door and an unpowered door closer mechanism adapted to move the sliding door from an open state to a closed state, thereby providing controlled access to the interior aisle and minimizing intermixing of hot air and cold air between an environment external to the hot/cold aisle air containment room and an environment internal to the hot/cold aisle air containment room. |
| US10362693B2 |
Electronic apparatus, electronic apparatus manufacturing method, and die
An electronic apparatus includes a base that includes a flat portion and a side wall provided upright on a part of an outer edge of the flat portion, a printed circuit board disposed in the base and including a device, and a cover covering the base. The base includes a hole that is contiguous to the side wall and provided in the flat portion, a support portion, one end of the support portion being supported by the side wall, and a positioning member provided on the support portion and positioning the cover with respect to the base. |
| US10362691B2 |
Touch-controlling device, functional expansion member thereof, and USB socket connector
A USB socket connector includes a columnar housing, a circuit board, and an expansion board. The columnar housing has a front portion and an opposite rear portion. The columnar housing includes an accommodating slot recessed from the front portion toward the rear portion and a receiving slot recessed on the rear portion and in air communication with the accommodating slot. A cross section of the receiving slot is larger than that of the accommodating slot. The circuit board includes a tongue plate portion arranged on one side thereof and having a USB3.1 Type-C interface. The circuit board is inserted into the accommodating slot, and the tongue plate portion is arranged in the front portion. The expansion board is substantially and perpendicularly connected to an end of the circuit board away from the tongue plate portion, and the expansion board is arranged in the receiving slot. |
| US10362690B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus is disclosed including a housing; at least one roller disposed within the housing; a display unit comprising a display panel and a module cover; a motor assembly; an upper bar coupled to the upper portion of the display unit; a drive unit including at least one support unit, of which one end is coupled to both ends of the upper bar and the other end is coupled to the motor assembly, to raise the upper bar; and an encoder disposed to be spaced apart from the at least one roller within the housing, wherein the at least one support unit includes an upper link; a lower link; and a hinge for connecting the upper link and the lower link, and the encoder is coupled to a rotation axis of one end of the lower link. |
| US10362689B2 |
Method of providing a rollable display device
A method of providing a rollable display device includes providing a display panel for displaying an image, a printed circuit board connected to an edge of the display panel, and a roller which the display panel is rolled onto or unrolled from. The roller has a cylindrical shape having an inner space, and the printed circuit board is disposed in the inner space. |
| US10362685B2 |
Protective coating for printed conductive pattern on patterned nanowire transparent conductors
A method for making an electronic assembly includes applying a protective layer including an organosulfur compound to at least a portion of a patterned conductive interconnect circuit, wherein the conductive interconnect circuit overlies at least a portion of a conductive layer on a substrate, and wherein the conductive layer includes nanowires; and engaging an electrical contact of an electronic component with the protective layer to electrically connect the electronic component and the patterned conductive layer. |
| US10362684B1 |
Method for improving adhesion between ceramic carrier and thick film circuit
The present invention relates to a method for improving adhesion between ceramic and a thick film circuit. The method is particularly directed to accelerate the formation of a ceramic-metal eutectic phase between the ceramic carrier and the metal circuit by solid-phase diffusion bonding under a positive atmosphere. A metallic conductive slurry or its oxide slurry is printed on the surface of the ceramic carrier to form a circuit pattern by a thick film screen printing. The ceramic carrier is placed in an oven with temperature controlled by a program under a positive-pressure atmosphere of an inert gas including nitrogen, hydrogen or their mixtures. An eutectic phase is formed between the ceramic carrier and the metal circuit under a high temperature eutectic condition to increase the adhesion between the ceramic carrier and the thick film circuit. |
| US10362682B2 |
Manufacturing method of circuit board
A manufacturing method of a circuit board including the following steps is provided. A carrier substrate is provided. A patterned photoresist layer is formed on the carrier substrate. An adhesive layer is formed on the top surface of the patterned photoresist layer. A dielectric substrate is provided. A circuit pattern and a dielectric layer covering the circuit pattern are formed on the dielectric substrate, wherein the dielectric layer has an opening exposing a portion of the circuit pattern. The adhesive layer is adhered to the dielectric layer in a direction that the adhesive layer faces of the dielectric layer. The carrier substrate is removed. A patterned metal layer is formed on a region exposed by the patterned photoresist layer. The patterned photoresist layer is removed. The adhesive layer is removed. |
| US10362680B2 |
Patterning of graphene circuits on flexible substrates
A process for forming a graphene circuit pattern on an object is described. A graphene layer is grown on a metal foil. A bonding layer is formed on a protective film and a surface of the bonding layer is roughened. The graphene layer is transferred onto the roughened surface of the bonding layer. The protective film is removed and the bonding layer is laminated to a first core dielectric substrate. The metal foil is etched away. Thereafter the graphene layer is etched using oxygen plasma etching to form graphene circuits on the first core dielectric substrate. The first core dielectric substrate having graphene circuits thereon is bonded together with a second core dielectric substrate wherein the graphene circuits are on a side facing the second core dielectric substrate wherein an air gap is left there between. |
| US10362675B2 |
Flexible circuit board having three-layer dielectric body and four-layer ground layer structure
Disclosed is a flexible circuit board having a three-layer dielectric body and four-layer ground layer structure. A flexible circuit board having a three-layer dielectric body and four-layer ground layer structure, according to the present invention, comprises: a first dielectric body; a second dielectric body facing the flat surface of the first dielectric body; a third dielectric body facing the bottom side of the first dielectric body; a signal line formed on the flat surface of the first dielectric body; a pair of first ground layers laminated on the flat surface of the first dielectric body and having the signal line therebetween; second ground layers laminated on the bottom side of the first dielectric body so as to correspond to the first ground layers; a third ground layer laminated on the flat surface of the second dielectric body; and a fourth ground layer laminated on the bottom side of the third dielectric body. |
| US10362673B2 |
Patterned nano graphene platelet-based conductive inks
A nano graphene platelet-based conductive ink comprising: (a) nano graphene platelets (preferably un-oxidized or pristine graphene), and (b) a liquid medium in which the nano graphene platelets are dispersed, wherein the nano graphene platelets occupy a proportion of at least 0.001% by volume based on the total ink volume and a process using the same. The ink can also contain a binder or matrix material and/or a surfactant. The ink may further comprise other fillers, such as carbon nanotubes, carbon nano-fibers, metal nano particles, carbon black, conductive organic species, etc. The graphene platelets preferably have an average thickness no greater than 10 nm and more preferably no greater than 1 nm. These inks can be printed to form a range of electrically or thermally conductive components or printed electronic components. |
| US10362672B2 |
Resin multilayer substrate and method of manufacturing the same
A resin multilayer substrate includes a laminate including a plurality of resin layers and an interlayer connecting conductor which extends through at least one of the plurality of resin layers and is directly exposed to an outside of the laminate. |
| US10362666B2 |
Compac carbon ion LINAC
The invention provides a method for accelerating protons and carbon ions up to 450 MeV/u in a very compact linac, the method comprising subjecting the particles to a radio frequency quadrupole field to accelerate the particles to at least 3 MeV/u, a drift tube linac (DTL) to an energy of 20 MeV/u, followed by a coupled DTL to 45 MeV/u and finally a high-gradient section made of CCL-type standing wave cavities or negative harmonic traveling wave cavities operating at S-band frequencies and capable of delivering voltage gradients of 40 to 60 MV/m. Focusing the accelerated particles while accelerated to higher energy is provided by appropriately placed constant field permanent magnets and electromagnetic quadrupoles. The compactness and power efficiency of the linac is enabled by using high-gradient structure in the S-band frequencies for lower energy particles than ever before. The low-intensity required for hadron therapy allows the use of small-aperture S-band structures and the operation at very high gradient compared to high-intensity machines for research. Operating with very short sub-microsecond pulses at repetition rates up to 400 Hz allows the fast and flexible beam energy and intensity tuning not provided by existing hadron therapy machines. The designed linac is capable of accelerating ions as heavy as neon to the full 450 MeV/u energy, therefore allowing fast beam switching if different ion sources are installed in the front-end of the linac. |
| US10362664B2 |
System, method and apparatus for target material debris cleaning of EUV vessel and EUV collector
A system and method of removing target material debris deposits simultaneously with generating EUV light includes generating hydrogen radicals in situ in the EUV vessel, proximate to the target material debris deposits and volatilizing the target material debris deposits and purging the volatilized target material debris deposits from the EUV vessel without the need of an oxygen containing species in the EUV vessel. |
| US10362663B1 |
Overdrive dimming
A luminaire includes a microcontroller and program logic that calculates the operational age of a light engine that includes a plurality of light emitting diodes connected in series. The program logic uses changes in transition voltage to calculate the operational age of a light engine. Changes in forward voltage across the light engine are used to detect sudden catastrophic failure of individual light emitting diodes. In response to the sudden catastrophic failure of one of the light emitting diodes, the program logic adjusts the power provided to the light engine based on the calculated operational age of the light engine. For example, the operational age of the light engine may be compared with a warrantied lifespan, and the power may be adjusted to increase the likelihood of compliance with the warranty. |
| US10362662B2 |
Lighting system and method for operating a lighting system
A lighting system and a method for an operating a lighting system, enabling to obtain an identification tag comprised in lighting design data directly from an output beam, i.e. from the emitted light of the at least one lighting unit. It is thus possible to trace any unauthorized distribution of a lighting design by monitoring the emitted light without the need to directly access the controller or any other part of the lighting system. |
| US10362659B2 |
Illumination control system, lighting system, illumination system, non-transitory recording medium, and illumination control method
An illumination control system includes a manipulation detector and an electric power controller. The electric power controller stops supply of electric power to a plurality of lighting apparatuses when an OFF manipulation is detected. The electric power controller starts the supply of the electric power to the lighting apparatuses when an ON manipulation is detected after detection of the OFF manipulation and before a first timing, or when the ON manipulation is detected at or after a second timing. The first timing is a timing at which a threshold time which is predetermined has elapsed since the detection of the OFF manipulation. The second timing is a timing at which a predetermined forced interruption time has elapsed since the first timing. |
| US10362649B2 |
LED lighting device
The purpose of the present invention is to reduce heat generated through a switching IC circuit in order to protect a switching IC circuit by connecting a resistor to an LED unit in which a plurality of LEDs are connected so as to disperse heat in the resistor when a rated voltage or more is inputted. To this end, the LED lighting device comprises: a rectification circuit unit for receiving input power from a power source unit and outputting a rectified power; an LED unit having a plurality of LED channels connected in series and a resistor unit connected to the last end of the LED channels; a current sensing resistor; and a switch circuit unit comprising a plurality of switches, wherein an nth switch is connected to the rear end of an nth LED channel so as to control an operation of the nth LED channel and is controlled by a sum of a current of the nth switch and a current of an (n+1)th switch, which flows through the current sensing resistor. |
| US10362648B2 |
Optoelectronic circuit comprising light-emitting diodes
An optoelectronic circuit for receiving a variable voltage containing alternating increasing and decreasing phases, the optoelectronic circuit including a plurality of groups of light-emitting diodes and a switching device for allowing or interrupting the circulation of a current through each group, the switching device also being suitable for detecting whether said variable voltage is supplied by a dimmer. |
| US10362645B1 |
Negative charge pump doubling output voltage range for step-up LED driver
A supply circuit comprises a regulated positive supply circuit and an unregulated negative supply circuit. The regulated positive supply circuit includes an inductor arranged to receive input energy from an input circuit node, a switch circuit coupled to the inductor at a switch circuit node, and a control circuit coupled to the switch circuit. The control circuit is configured to control activation of the switch circuit to regulate a voltage at a regulated circuit node and generate a positive output voltage at a positive output circuit node. The unregulated negative supply circuit is operatively coupled to the switch circuit node and is configured to generate a negative supply voltage at a negative output circuit node. |
| US10362643B2 |
LED driver circuit and LED driving method
A light emitting diode (LED) driver circuit includes an LED string and a conducting state detection circuit. The conducting state detection circuit detects a conducting state of the LED string, and generates a discharge control signal upon sensing that the LED string is in a non-conducting state. A current source generates a discharge current according to the discharge control signal when the LED string is in the non-conducting state. A passive bleeder provides current compensation by internal regulator operation. An LED spike current suppression circuit suppresses spike current that can occur when the input voltage increases above a threshold. A bias supply circuit has an input capacitor that provides a bias voltage. |
| US10362638B2 |
Process for producing a metal plate having an embedded heating element and metal plate produced thereby
A description is given of a process for producing a metal plate having at least one embedded heating element and of the metal plate produced by the process. The heating element is arranged between two plate bodies, and the heating element is embedded in the plate bodies by rolling with material displacement. The adjacent sides of the plate bodies have a layer of aluminum or an aluminum alloy. After a heat pre-treatment at the re-crystallization temperature of the aluminum or the aluminum alloy, the plate bodies are pressed against one another to bring about a reduction in thickness, with which the plate bodies form a diffusion bond with one another and are integrally bonded to one another over the entire surface area thereof to form the metal plate to be produced. The process produces a metal plate as a whole with better thermal conductivity and a broader spectrum of use. |
| US10362631B2 |
Last resource disaster routing in a telecommunications network
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing disaster routing of particular communications through a telecommunications network during a network outage. The disaster routing may ensure that communications from a particular source or to a particular destination are connected to the destination even during times when portions of the network may be inoperable. In one particular embodiment, the disaster routing may be performed for emergency communications received at the network and connected to one or more emergency services configured to receive the emergency communication. However, the disaster routing mechanisms and techniques described herein may be applied or available to any type of communication from any source or customer to the telecommunications network. |
| US10362629B2 |
Systems and methods for establishing a communication link between an implantable medical device and an external instrument
Systems and methods are provided for establishing a bi-directional communication link with an implantable medical device. The systems and methods include an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external instrument configured to establish a wireless bi-directional communication link there between over a wireless protocol. The wireless bi-directional communication link is established based on a scanning interval. The external instrument includes one or more processors electrically coupled to a radio frequency (RF) circuit and a memory device. The one or more processors are configured to define the scanning interval based on an advertising schedule received from the IMD. |
| US10362628B2 |
Communication service for machine-to-machine devices
When machine-to-machine (M2M) devices attach to a mobile communication network, the associated communication session can be treated differently than the attachment of other devices. For example, upon determining that a subscriber device that attaches to a communication network is an M2M device and has completed a given network transaction, the M2M device can be immediately detached without waiting on expiration of an inactivity timer. As another example, upon determining that a subscriber device that attaches to a communication network is an M2M device, the M2M device can be excluded from various signaling procedures such as load-balancing procedures. |
| US10362626B2 |
Method and apparatus for handling DRX (discontinuous reception) operation in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring a control channel for detection of an UL grant. The method further includes receiving the UL grant associated with a HARQ process on the control channel at a first timing. The method also includes sending an UL data associated with the UL grant on a data channel at a second timing. In additional, the method also includes starting a retransmission timer associated with the HARQ process after detection of the UL grant at a third timing. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a signaling indicating stop the retransmission timer at a fourth timing. In addition, the method includes stopping the retransmission timer and stopping monitoring the control channel, wherein the UE monitors the control channel when the retransmission timer is running. |
| US10362620B2 |
Electronic device, method for controlling same and computer-readable storage medium storing control program
An electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit section which intermittently executes connection with another electronic device by wireless communication, a sensor section which outputs sensor data related to the movement of the electronic device, and a control section. When the electronic device is making a periodic movement, the control section acquires the cycle of the periodic movement of the electronic device based on the sensor data, and causes the wireless communication circuit section to set connection timing for connecting the electronic device with the another electronic device by the wireless communication to periodic timing based on the cycle. |
| US10362611B2 |
Communication device, control method, and storage medium
A communication device establishes a first connection to a first other communication device, establishes, based on the first connection, a second connection to a second other communication device that is connected to the first other communication device, while the first connection has been established, and then performs direct communication with the second other communication device using the second connection. The communication device determines whether an operation mode of the first connection is a mode in which a periodic search for other networks is performed while a network has been established by the first connection. If the operation mode is the mode in which the periodic search is performed, the communication device restricts at least one of establishment of the second connection and switching of a channel in the second connection while the first connection has been established. |
| US10362609B2 |
Methods and systems for automatically pairing a personal electronic device on a transportation vehicle
Methods and systems for a transportation vehicle are provided. For example, one method includes requesting a network connection by an electronic device to a network on a transportation vehicle; transmitting passenger information by the electronic device to a transportation vehicle computing device, after the network connection is established; verifying passenger information by the transportation vehicle computing device; requesting confirmation of passenger information by the transportation vehicle computing device; and enabling communication from the electronic device to a system of the transportation vehicle for managing one or more seat control functions. |
| US10362604B2 |
Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output reverse direction duration communications
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to reverse direction duration. A device may establish a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication with one or more station devices. The device may determine a frame to be sent to the one or more station devices, wherein the frame includes at least one of a duration field or a reverse direction indication. The device may cause to send the frame to the one or more station devices. |
| US10362602B2 |
Air channel detection method and node device
A clear channel detection method includes: if a node device performs a CCA detection for the first time and finds that a full bandwidth of an unlicensed carrier channel is in a busy state, the node device divides the full bandwidth of the unlicensed carrier channel into two or more sub-bandwidths for the first time according to a preset division manner; if the node device performs the CCA detection again and finds that all sub-bandwidths are in the busy state, the node device divides each of the divided sub-bandwidths into two or more sub-bandwidths for the second time according to the preset division manner, and continues to perform CCA detection until the CCA detects that any sub-bandwidth is in a clear state, or the number of CCA cycle detections is up to a maximum value, then exits from the CCA cycle detections. |
| US10362598B2 |
Method for relaying D2D link in wireless communication system and device for performing same
A method for performing a device-to-device (D2D) relay operation by a D2D terminal supporting D2D communication according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a base station, a D2D relay request including information on multiple D2D links capable of being relayed; and acquiring at least one D2D grant from the base station on the basis of one of multiple radio network temporary identities (RNTIs) allocated to the D2D terminal, wherein when the at least one D2D grant approves the D2D relay request, the at least one D2D grant is indicated by a second RNTI which is different from a first RNTI used for approving a D2D synchronization operation or a D2D discovery operation among the multiple RNTIs. |
| US10362594B2 |
Scheduling in cellular networks
First reoccurring resources on a radio interface of a cellular network (100) are allocated and shared between communication devices (121-125) assigned to a first set (151). Second reoccurring resources on the radio interface are allocated and shared between communication devices (121-125) assigned to a second set (152). A control message is sent, the control message indicating the first reoccurring resources and the second reoccurring resources. The control message may optionally be sent employing a broadcast transmission (110). |
| US10362593B2 |
Grant-free uplink transmission in unlicensed spectrum
Methods and devices for grant-free uplink transmission in unlicensed spectrum are provided. A base station (BS) transmits grant-free resource configuration information to one or more electronic devices (EDs). The grant-free resource configuration information is used to configure the ED for GF uplink transmission in unlicensed spectrum. The GF resource configuration information includes GF ED group-specific resource configuration information indicating GF ED group-specific time-frequency (T/F) resources of the unlicensed spectrum for GF uplink transmission. The ED(s) transmit grant-free uplink transmissions over the unlicensed spectrum in accordance with the GF resource configuration information. |
| US10362589B2 |
Communication method and apparatus using multiple antennas in wireless communication system
Disclosed are a communication method and a communication apparatus using multiple antennas in a wireless communication system. A communication method of a receiver comprises receiving reference signals from a transmitter of the communication system through beams to which the hybrid beamforming is applied; selecting at least one analog beam having a quality equal to or higher than a preset threshold value among analog beams belonging to the beams, based on the reference signals; and selecting at least one digital beam corresponding to the at least one analog beam and having a quality equal to or higher than the preset threshold value among digital beams belonging to the beams, based on the reference signals. Thus, performance of the communication system can be improved. |
| US10362585B2 |
Licensed-assisted access (LAA) using long term evolution (LTE) protocols
The disclosure is directed systems and methods for providing robust coexistence for LAA-LTE, including physical layer enhancements and options to support robust coexistence for LAA-LTE, and deployment and evaluation scenarios and methods. |
| US10362584B2 |
Management and mitigation of narrowband interference
A method performed by a transmitting station for assisting a receiving station in mitigating effects of a narrowband interference affecting the receiving station in a wireless communications network. The transmitting station determines (503) a likelihood of presence of the narrowband interference. When the likelihood of presence of the narrowband interference exceeds a threshold of the likelihood, the transmitting station sends (505) to the receiving station a recommendation to avoid smoothing of the channel estimates of the receiving station. The recommendation indicates a high likelihood of presence of the narrowband interference. |
| US10362582B2 |
Estimating signaling traffic in mobile networks
A method upgrading a core section of a packet switched mobile network, includes: a) collecting information about a maximum signaling transaction amount managed by nodes of the core section with respect to active data connection established between user equipment and the packet switched mobile network, and calculating a corresponding active users parameter based on the collected information; b) retrieving an indication of how the maximum signaling transaction amount managed by the nodes is distributed among user equipment attached to the packet switched mobile network, and calculating a corresponding activity parameter based on the retrieved indication; c) calculating a forecasted number of user equipment which potentially can attach to the network in a future predetermined period; d) calculating a signaling traffic estimation based on the active users parameter, the activity parameter, and the forecasted number of user equipment, e) setting up the core section based on the calculated signaling traffic estimation. |
| US10362580B2 |
Fair resource sharing in broadcast based D2D communications
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for fair resource sharing among user(s) or user groups in broadcast based D2D communications are provided. One method includes monitoring, by a cluster head, at least one user group sharing physical channel resources. The at least one user group may include at least one D2D user equipment. The method may further include calculating a current share of the physical channel resources for the at least one user group based on pre-configured fair sharing rules, determining when a maximum fair share of the physical channel resources are allocated to one of the at least one user group, determining whether remaining physical resources are sufficient. When the remaining physical resources are sufficient, the method may include issuing an indication to the one of the at least one user group. When the remaining physical resources are not sufficient, the method may include issuing a warning to the one of the at least one user group. |
| US10362578B2 |
TM9-based carrier aggregation method and device
A TM9-based carrier aggregation (CA) method and device, wherein the method includes: a network side device determining a component carrier (CC) currently activated in a CA system; if a CC configured with TM9 exists in the currently activated CCs, the network side device determining a CC transmission mode (TM) for the CC configured with TM9; the network side device transmitting data to a UE according to the TM. An embodiment enables a CA cell to support CA of 8 downlink (DL) ports for TD-LTE-A cell using TM9, thus increasing user rate and improving user experience. The method increases checkpoints such as maximum supporting data streams and UE capability, thus increasing user throughput. |
| US10362572B2 |
Method for indexing the resources in D2D
The disclosure relates to a method performed by a UE, for using subframes of a radio access network for a D2D communication. The method comprises determining (650) subframes available for D2D communication among subframes of the radio access network. The subframes available for D2D communication exclude a number of subframes of the radio access network, such that a periodicity of the D2D communication in number of subframes divides the number of subframes available for D2D communication. The method also comprises using (660) the determined subframes for enabling D2D communication. |
| US10362571B2 |
Power control and triggering of sounding reference signal on multiple component carriers
Various devices, methods, and processes are provided for handling conflicting and/or redundant power control and triggering information for transmitting reference signal(s) such as sounding reference signal (SRS) using carrier aggregation (CA). A user equipment (UE) receives a first downlink control information (DCI) and a second DCI including SRS control information that is in conflict with that of the first DCI, for controlling SRS transmission on a component carrier (CC). The UE determines a resolution to reconcile the conflict between the DCIs. Then the UE can transmit an SRS on the CC in accordance with the resolution. |
| US10362569B2 |
Method and apparatus for allocating uplink resource in wireless communication system
The present specification relates to a method for allocating an uplink resource in a wireless communication system which supports low latency service. The method performed by a terminal comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a base station, a first message comprising an uplink resource request information element (UL resource request IE) to request uplink resource allocation; receiving, from a base station, a second message comprising a response to the UL resource request IE; receiving allocation of the uplink resource from the base station on the basis of the received response; and transmitting a third message to the base station by using the allocated uplink resource. |
| US10362567B2 |
Uplink control information transmission method, terminal device, base station, and communications system
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an uplink control information transmission method, a terminal device, a base station, and a system. The transmission method includes the following steps: First, the terminal device determines an information bit sequence of to-be-transmitted uplink control information. Then, the terminal device determines a first sequence according to the information bit sequence, where the first sequence is a linear-phase complex exponential sequence. Finally, the terminal device sends the to-be-transmitted uplink control information to the base station by using an uplink control channel, where the uplink control channel occupies N symbols, N is a positive integer, a signal carried on a symbol l of the N symbols is directly proportional to a product of the first sequence and a second sequence, and the second sequence is a cyclic shift sequence. |
| US10362565B2 |
Method and user equipment for transmitting uplink signal, and method and base station for receiving uplink signal
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving an uplink signal. A user equipment receives information indicating a data transmission code rate for uplink data. The user equipment channel-codes the uplink data using a channel code corresponding to a channel code rate. The channel code rate is determined among a plurality of predefined channel code rates based on the data transmission code rate. The user equipment transmits the channel coded uplink data. |
| US10362563B2 |
Method for deactivating SCells upon a TAT expiry for PUCCH cell in a carrier aggregation system and a device therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for deactivating SCells upon a TAT expiry for PUCCH cell in a carrier aggregation system, the method comprising: configuring a first cell with Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource in a PUCCH group and in a Timing Advance Group (TAG) with a configured Time Alignment Timer (TAT), wherein the first cell and zero or more second cells belong to the PUCCH group, and the first cell and zero or more third cells belong to the TAG; starting the TAT of the TAG; and deactivating all cells belonging to the PUCCH group when the TAT expires. |
| US10362561B2 |
Radio communication system, method, program, base station apparatus, multi-cell/multicast cooperation control apparatus
Disclosed is a radio communication system in which transmission parameters, such as MCS of MBSFN, the number of subframes, and a transmission power of a reserved cell, are adaptively output, based on a unicast traffic volume in a MBSFN area, a number of terminals, and a number of cells of the MBSFN area, so that a system throughput in the MBSFN area is maximized while satisfying an MBSFN quality requirement condition. |
| US10362559B2 |
Method for supporting device-to-device direct communication in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
Disclosed are a method for supporting direct communication, and a network entity, the method receiving, from a relay UE, a message which notifies that it is not necessary to perform paging to a remote UE since a direct link to the remote UE is set, and transmitting, to a network entity, a message which notifies that it is not necessary to perform paging to the remote UE. |
| US10362557B2 |
Downlink data notification message sending method, and apparatus
Embodiments of the invention relate to communications field, in particular, to a downlink data notification message sending method, and apparatus. The method is: receiving, a delay instruction sent by a mobility management network element, which is used to instruct a control plane network element to delay sending a DDN message; receiving, an event report message sent by a user plane network element, where the event report message includes a reported event, and the reported event is used to notify the control plane network element that a downlink data packet sent to UE matches no bearer; determining, that the UE is registered in the mobility management network element; and if the control plane network element has not received, within a first time period, routing information of a base station, sending, the DDN message to the mobility management network element when the first time period expires. |
| US10362544B2 |
Power headroom report method and apparatus of UE
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.An improved method and an apparatus for reporting Power Headroom (PH) of a UE are provided. The Power Headroom Report (PHR) method of the present invention includes determining whether to trigger PHR based on a change of Power Management Maximum Power Reduction (P-MPR) between two time points, generating, if PHR is determined to be triggered, Power Headroom, and reporting the Power Headroom information to a base station. |
| US10362542B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink demodulation reference signals
A method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) is provided. The method includes a user equipment (UE) determines an uplink DMRS format for demodulating a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to frequency-domain resources occupied by the PUSCH, in which the uplink DMRS format includes a comb occupied by a PUSCH DMRS sequence. The comb is subcarriers having specified intervals occupied by demodulation reference signals, and the specified intervals between the occupied subcarriers are same. For the DMRSs using the comb format, subcarriers with specific intervals are used for channel estimation, and values of the channel estimation are used for data demodulation. The UE transmits uplink information and the demodulation reference signals on physical resources using the uplink DMRS format. The present disclosure can improve the multiplexing ratio of uplink physical resources in a multi-UE scenario. |
| US10362540B2 |
Methods for monitoring paging messages with reduced power consumption and communications apparatuses utilizing the same
A method for monitoring paging messages in a mobile station with a subscriber identity card camping on a cell is provided. A paging message from the cell is monitored at a set of M predetermined time intervals. A first paging message with a first subscriber identity information being successively broadcasted in the paging channel at a Nth predetermined time interval and a (N+i)th predetermined time interval of the set of M predetermined time intervals is determined. A second paging message with a second subscriber identity information being successively broadcasted in the paging channel at the Nth predetermined time interval and a (N+j)th predetermined time interval of the set of M predetermined time intervals is determined, wherein j>i. The paging channel is monitored at a (N+i)th predetermined time interval and a (N+j)th predetermined time interval of following predetermined time intervals subsequent to the M predetermined time intervals. |
| US10362539B2 |
Method and device for saving power of electronic device in wireless communication system
Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided so as to support a data transmission rate higher that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for receiving data in a wireless communication system by using a channel bonding scheme can comprise the steps of: monitoring reception of a preamble in a preset minimum bandwidth of the entire channel-bondable bandwidth; acquiring data transmission bandwidth information and switching interval time information from the preamble when the preamble is to be received; and receiving data by switching from the minimum bandwidth to the data transmission bandwidth for the acquired switching interval time. |
| US10362538B2 |
WUR packets generation with legacy WiFi transmitter
Techniques are disclosed for generating 802.11 packets that simulate an 802.11ba Wake-Up Radio (WUR) packet by wireless access points (APs) that implement pre-802.11ba standards. According to one embodiment disclosed herein, a predefined bit stream including a plurality of data bits is evaluated. A data bit of the plurality is mapped to one of a plurality of subcarriers. A symbol is encoded in a data payload of a network packet based on the mapping of the data bit to the subcarrier. The symbol simulates an on-off key (OOK)-modulated symbol in a WUR sequence. The network packet is transmitted to a client device. |
| US10362537B2 |
Provision of time information to a wireless device
There is provided provision of timing information of a first timing information source using timing information of a second timing information source to a wireless device. A network node determines that second timing information from the second timing information source is available and that timing information from the first timing information source is derivable from the second timing information. The network node instructs the wireless device to use the second timing information as a source for deriving first timing information of the first timing information source. |
| US10362532B2 |
Service provider selection in a wireless network
According to one configuration, a shared wireless access node supports wireless access for multiple wireless network service providers. A mobile communication device receives notification of multiple wireless network service providers, each of which provides access to a remote network through the shared wireless access node. The notification includes connection information such as priority information assigned to the wireless network service providers. The priority information indicates an order in which to select amongst the multiple available wireless network service providers to access the remote network. Based at least in part on the priority information, the mobile communication device selects a wireless network service provider amongst the multiple wireless network service providers. The mobile communication device communicates with the wireless access node to establish a wireless communication link to access the remote network through the corresponding wireless access node using wireless services provided by the selected service provider. |
| US10362530B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling network access in directional communication networks
A radio unit (RU) in a directional communication network establishes a connection with a first antenna among two antennas of a first TE in a first moving object that first enters a serving duration of the RU according to a network access request from the first antenna, and when receiving the network access request from a second antenna among two antennas of a second TE in a second moving object that next enters the serving duration, the RU processes the network access request from the second antenna based on network access priority of the second antenna and network access priority of the first antenna to which the connection is established. |
| US10362528B2 |
System and method for detecting and controlling contraband devices
The growing problem of contraband devices being smuggled into a correctional facility raises both security and safety issue. General fixed contraband detection systems are not cost effective because they require a high up-front cost and high maintenance, training and upgrade cost after installation. The present disclosure provides details of a system and method to detect and control the usage of contraband devices in a correctional facility cost effectively. Such a system is portable and can be relocated to different locations. Such as system both detects contraband devices and disrupts the operations of the contraband devices. Such a system further provides a report on the severity of contraband usage to the correctional facility. |
| US10362526B2 |
Client steering
A wireless network device, for use within a wireless network, comprising: a processor; a memory; and an interface for receiving and transmitting data; wherein the wireless network device is adapted to: determine a first cost associated with communication between the wireless network device and a client device to which the wireless network device is connectable; determine a second cost associated with communication between the client device and a further wireless network device to which the client device is connectable; determine whether the first cost or the second cost is the lower cost; and if the second cost is the lower cost, the wireless network device is adapted to guide the client device to communicate with the further network device. |
| US10362523B1 |
System and method for providing extending femtocell coverage
Femtocell coverage can be extended across a coverage area by providing a cluster of femtocell access points (FAPs). Each FAP is independently registered with a core network and provisioned with a location area code common to each FAP. At hand-in from the macrocell network, an association is made between the mobile station and the hand-in FAP, which becomes an anchor FAP for the duration of the mobile station's presence within the cluster. Calls between the mobile station and the core network are routed via a servicing FAP of the cluster and the anchor FAP. |
| US10362522B2 |
Optimized packet replication in predictive routing in LISP for cellular handover
Disclosed herein are various embodiments designed to implement a handover operation of a user entity (UE) from a source base station to a target base station using a predictive routing feature in LISP or other ID protocols for packet replication to reduce latency in packet delivery to the user entity. |
| US10362521B2 |
Method of multi-radio interworking in heterogeneous wireless communication networks
A method of multi-radio interworking to provide integrated cellular and WLAN access for a multi-radio device is provided. A serving base station in a cellular network first obtains wireless local area network (WLAN) information and then forward the WLAN information to a serving device such that the serving device is capable to connect with both the cellular network and a WLAN. The WLAN information may comprise scanning information, WLAN QoS information, WLAN layer-3 information, or additional WLAN access point information. The WLAN information is forwarded based on triggering events associated with the serving base station information, WLAN coverage information, or the serving device information. Based on the received WLAN information, when entering WLAN coverage, the serving device activates its WLAN access to forward traffic from the cellular access network to the WLAN access network. When leaving WLAN coverage, the serving device deactivates its WLAN access to save power consumption. |
| US10362520B2 |
Congestion reduction of LTE networks
Optimal reduction of 4G LTE cellular network congestion utilizes two components of learning and optimization. First, an MLPDL learning approach is used to model cellular network congestion measured in terms of PRB utilization and predict 80% utilization as breakpoint thresholds of cellular towers as a function of average connected user equipments. Then, an optimization problem is formulated to minimize LTE network congestion subject to constraints of user quality and load preservation. Two alternative solutions, namely Block Coordinated Descent Simulated Annealing (BCDSA) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) are presented to solve the problem. Performance measurements demonstrate that GA offers higher success rates in finding the optimal solution while BCDSA has much improved runtimes with reasonable success rates. Accordingly, integrated iterative methods, programs, and systems are described aiming at minimizing the congestion of 4G LTE cellular networks by redistributing traffic from congested cellular towers to non-congested cellular towers. |
| US10362519B2 |
Handover apparatus and method
A handover apparatus and method, where the handover method includes receiving, by a target primary base station, a handover request from a source primary base station, where the handover request includes first configuration information of a source secondary base station, and the source primary base station and the source secondary base station jointly provide services for user equipment, sending, by the target primary base station, a first indication to the source secondary base station, where the first indication instructs the source secondary base station to remain unchanged, and sending, by the target primary base station, a handover acknowledgement to the source primary base station. |
| US10362518B2 |
Method for starting inter-frequency measurement and related device
A method for starting inter-frequency measurement is provided. The method is applied to an inter-frequency network, the inter-frequency network includes a first base station and a second base station, there is an overlapping area between a signal coverage area of the first base station and a signal coverage area of the second base station, and an access priority of the second base station is higher than an access priority of the first base station; user equipment accesses the first base station; a distance between the second base station and an AP is less than a first distance threshold, and the AP is controlled by an AC. The method includes: receiving, by the AC, a user authentication request; obtaining an identifier of the user equipment from the user authentication request; and sending an inter-frequency measurement request to the user equipment according to the identifier of the user equipment. |
| US10362499B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for network coverage detection
A method for a telecommunications network includes: identifying a prior coverage area of a subscriber based on a location of a last communication made by the subscriber; identifying a next coverage area of the subscriber; identifying a reduced coverage area of the subscriber based on the prior coverage area and the next coverage area of the subscriber; and displaying, at an apparatus, at least one additional subscribe in the reduced coverage area. |
| US10362498B2 |
Method and apparatus for coordinated multipoint receiver processing acceleration and latency reduction
Methods and apparatus for coordinated multipoint receiver processing acceleration and latency reduction. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a receiver that receives symbols from a wireless transmission and stores the symbols in a memory. The receiver also outputs an indicator that indicates that storage of the symbols in the memory has begun. The apparatus also includes a controller that outputs control signaling in response to the indicator. The apparatus also includes a link that acquires the symbols and remote scheduling and control information (RSCI) from the memory in response to receiving the control signaling. The link combines the symbols with the RSCI to form packets and transmits the packets to an external system. |
| US10362493B2 |
High-bandwidth beamforming LTE Base Station
Apparatus and associated methods relate to transmitting an independent data stream from a beamforming base station to a User Equipment receiver in a beam directed based on the User Equipment transmitter signal Angle of Arrival estimated as a function of separately demodulated and jointly decoded User Equipment transmitter signals received by at least two spatially separated base station antennas, and scheduling transmission to and from the User Equipment as a function of the Angle of Arrival. In an illustrative example, the beamforming base station may be an LTE base station. The User Equipment may be, for example, a user's smartphone accessing the Internet. The independent data stream may be transmitted to the smartphone in a beam directed to the location of the smartphone. Various examples may advantageously provide higher bandwidth, for example a concentrated beam directed to User Equipment may provide an independent data stream with the full radio bandwidth. |
| US10362492B2 |
Moving cellular communication system
A cellular system that includes one or more moving relays, each having one or more add-on Interference Cancellation Modules (ICMs) capable of generating a cleaner signal by increasing the Signal-to-Interferer Ratio (SIR), thereby cancelling interference. The interference originates from intra-network or from out-of-network source. The system enables cellular communication between two or more mobile stations, in a geographic area that lacks adequate cellular coverage by one or more stationary base station. |
| US10362489B1 |
Channelization of wireless communication network in presence of interference
Techniques for channelization of a wireless communication network in the presence of interference are described. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting an unlicensed wireless wide area network signal. The method includes selecting a wireless channel for a wireless local area network that includes frequencies associated with the unlicensed signal. The method includes allocating a first portion of the wireless channel that includes frequencies associated with the unlicensed signal to a first plurality of resource units and allocating a second portion of the wireless channel that excludes frequencies associated with the unlicensed signal to a second plurality of resource units. The method includes assigning the first plurality of resource units to a first group of client devices, and assigning the second plurality of resource units to a second group of client devices. |
| US10362488B2 |
Method and system for computing bandwidth requirement in a cellular network
Provided a method and system for computing a bandwidth requirement for a cellular operator from shared spectrum in a cellular network, the shared spectrum comprising at least one shared spectrum class which is accessible by multiple entities, the method comprising: computing an average user throughput in the cellular network; comparing the average user throughput to a target minimum average user throughput, taking into account an average percentage of users within coverage and a coverage probability threshold; and based on the comparison, computing an additional bandwidth requirement from the at least one shared spectrum class. |
| US10362484B2 |
Bluetooth device as security access key
This application is directed to a system for remotely directing a host device to perform an operation using a key. The key may include a communications circuitry for transmitting data, for example a key identifier or an instruction to perform an operation, within a personal area network created by the communications circuitry. When a host device is within the personal area network, the key may transmit data received by a transceiver on the host device. In response to receiving the data, the host device may perform an operation (e.g., an authentication operation). In some embodiments, the key may transmit data identifying an operation for the host device to perform. In some embodiments, the host device may store in memory key identification information and an associated operation which may be retrieved when the key is brought in proximity of the host device. |
| US10362483B2 |
System, methods and devices for secure data storage with wireless authentication
A secure data storage device with wireless authentication is provided. The described data storage device is wirelessly unlocked using another wireless device. The secure data storage device interoperates with a cloud server for configuring and managing the data storage device. |
| US10362480B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatuses for enabling wearable device user access to secured electronics systems
Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed enable wearable device (e.g., smartwatch) user access to secured electronic systems based on at least one of user authentication for access to secured electronic system by the wearable device, user biometric authentication by a wireless carrier, user biometric authentication by remote server, user location, and user proximity to a secured electronic system. A wearable device can include a telecommunications carrier identification module (e.g., SIM), cellular RF communications, and short-range RF communications. A registration module can register secure electronic systems, authenticate a wearable device user, and grant the wearable device user with access to secured electronic systems if the wearable device user is authenticated by at least one of the wearable device, the registration module, a carrier network, a remote server, and the secured electronic system. Authentication can include biometric measurement facilitated by the wearable device. |
| US10362479B2 |
Management of access to a plurality of security modules incorporated into a data-processing device
The invention relates to a method for managing the use, in a terminal, of a plurality of security modules (SIM1, SIM2) managed by an entity (STK) capable of requiring the provision of security codes in order to unlock the modules. The method is characterized in that it comprises: a first phase of accessing the modules (PH1), including a step of receiving (ET13-1, ET13-2), by the entity, codes of the modules, a step of transmitting (ET14-1, ET14-2) the received codes to the security modules, followed by a step of storing (ET16), in a security module referred to as the main module, at least one code received by the entity relative to a module (SIM2) other than the main module; and a second subsequent access phase during which the unlocking of the main module is followed by a step of transmitting at least one code from the main module to at least one other security module (SIM2) corresponding to said at least one code. |
| US10362477B1 |
Mobile phone performance management based on personalized user criteria
A method of migrating a mobile communication device. The method comprises monitoring subscriber mobile device behaviors by a device migration client application executing on a mobile communication device, where the messages comprise reports of subscriber mobile device behaviors, receiving a categorization message by the device migration client application, where the categorization message assigns the mobile communication device to a subscriber category, storing the subscriber category as a current subscriber category parameter of the device, receiving a plurality of device migration offers by the device migration client application, where each device migration offer identifies a subscriber category and information about a migration device and about a migration channel, generating a device migration notification by the device migration client application for each device migration offer that identifies a subscriber category that matches the current subscriber category parameter, and placing the device migration notification in a notification tray of the mobile communication device. |
| US10362472B2 |
Communication apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
A communication apparatus includes a transmitting function and a receiving function for a radio signal, and, while belonging to a first group of devices, activates the transmitting and receiving functions to perform communication during a first period, and deactivates the transmitting and receiving functions outside the first period. The communication apparatus determines whether or not it performs monitoring for a presence of a second group of devices during a second period, controls performing of the monitoring by activating the receiving function during the second period when it is determined that the communication apparatus performs such monitoring, and keeping the transmission and receiving functions inactive outside the first period when it is determined that the communication apparatus does not perform such monitoring, and notifies another device in the first group of information related to the second group during the first period when a presence of the second group is detected. |
| US10362467B2 |
Enhanced wireless communication for medical devices
Methods and apparatuses for wireless communication between medical devices are provided. In some embodiments, commodity low power, low bandwidth communication protocols may be utilized to simultaneously convey multiple signals with high fidelity and reliability. For example, cardiac sound data and ECG data may be compressed using a common ADPCM component and inserted into a common BLE packet structure. Command-control data may also be inserted. Where required command-control data reporting frequency is less than the packet frequency, header bits may be utilized to convey multiple types of command-control data in a given packet byte position. Rolling packet sequence values may be inserted into the common packet structure, for use by receiving devices to identify link integrity failures. |
| US10362466B2 |
Methods and apparatus for improved low energy data communications
Embodiments include determining a reference value on a first device; broadcasting the reference value from the first device; connecting the first device to a second device if the second device requests data from the first device; transmitting any new data if the second device requests data from the first device; generating and broadcasting a new reference value if the first device has new data; broadcasting the reference value from the first device again if the first device does not have new data; receiving a reference value in the second device from the first device; and if the received reference value does not match the stored reference value then transmitting a request from the second device for new data from the first device, receiving new data from the first device into the second device, and storing the received reference value as a new stored reference value. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10362465B2 |
Communication apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions for communication apparatus
A communication apparatus may include: a first interface being set in one of a first operating state and a second operating state; a second interface; and an apparatus controller. The first interface is configured to: receive specific access point information in a case where a wireless connection is established in a situation where the first interface is set in the first operating state; and not receive the specific access point information in a case where a wireless connection via the first interface is established in a situation where the first interface is set in the second operating state. The apparatus controller performs: setting the first interface in the first operating state in a case where the access point information is not registered; registering the specific access point information; and setting the first interface in the second operating state in a case where the specific access point information is registered. |
| US10362461B2 |
System and method for microlocation sensor communication
A system and a method to wirelessly synchronize, monitor, or communicate, or a combination thereof, amongst sensors (e.g., sensors, hubs, sensor controllers, etc.) in a Bluetooth Low Energy-based microlocation system. The system or method, or both, may use the BLE hardware (e.g., transmitters, receivers, antennas, etc.) to interleave a communications protocol within the connection interval gaps of the BLE protocol used to communicate with devices. |
| US10362459B1 |
Identifying the purpose and context of a line of people
A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed for identifying the purpose and context of a line of people using mobile devices. A message is generated for transmitting to one or more mobile devices, and the message identifies a purpose of a line of people. The message is transmittable using a beacon at a starting point of the line. The message includes the purpose of the line to a first mobile device of a first person in the line. The message transmitted by the beacon is receivable by at least the first mobile device. In sequence, the message is transmitted, to each of a plurality of mobile devices belonging to people in the line, from the first mobile device to a next mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices, thereby relaying the message including the purpose of the line to multiple mobile devices, respectively. |
| US10362452B2 |
Mechanism for quick connection in wireless peer to peer networks
A connection method in a wireless peer-to-peer group of nodes, wherein one of the nodes acts as a leader and others act as clients of the group, includes the steps of: sending credential information required for creating a virtual persistent group configuration from the leader to each of the clients; creating a virtual persistent group configuration at each of the clients which has received the credential information from the leader; and when leadership of the leader disappears, establishing a first-time connection between a first client and a second client based on persistent mechanism by invitation using the virtual persistent group configuration. |
| US10362447B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of angle of departure (AoD) estimation
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of Angle of Departure (AoD) estimation. For example, an apparatus may include circuitry and logic configured to cause a wireless station to determine a beamforming scheme configured for AoD estimation, the beamforming scheme including a plurality of beamforming settings to be applied to a respective plurality of antennas, the beamforming scheme configured to transmit a plurality of tones in a plurality of directions such that a direction may be associated with at least one tone of the plurality of tones; and to sequentially transmit a plurality of transmissions according to the beamforming scheme, a transmission of the plurality of transmissions comprising a transmission via one or more antennas of the plurality of antennas according to one or more beamforming settings corresponding to the one or more antennas. |
| US10362439B2 |
Proximity-based item data communication
A method includes receiving, at a server from a mobile communication device proximate to a retail store display, identification information for the retail store display. The method includes, responsive to receipt of the identification information, sending, from the server to the retail store display, first display data for a first display to be sent to a first display device of the retail store display. The first display identifies an item and includes first information associated with the item. The item is located proximate to the retail store display. The method also includes, responsive to receipt of the identification information, sending, from the server to the mobile communication device, second display data for a second display to be sent to a second display device of the mobile communication device. The second display identifies the item and includes second information associated with the item. The second information is different than the first information. |
| US10362437B1 |
Micro-location monitoring techniques
In some implementations, methods for selecting a set of beacons that are to be monitored by a mobile device may be employed. Specifically, an optimal set of beacons to monitor may be provided to a mobile device depending on particular groups of beacons that are in proximity to the mobile device, the distance from the mobile device to each of the particular groups of beacons, and the mobile device's position/movements as provided by a tracking service such as GPS. These techniques may ensure that the mobile device is not blind to the closest and/or most relevant beacons. |
| US10362435B2 |
Interactive advisory system
A method for locating at least one individual located remotely from a broadcast network. An analysis unit compares user profiles, dynamic locations stored in the communicator location database, and/or fixed locations entered into the analysis unit. A data set of at least one matching individualized locatee user profile is generated and the individualized locatee user profile is transmitted to the locator via the locator's communicator device. |
| US10362432B2 |
Spatially ambient aware personal audio delivery device
A signal indicative of sound detected by at least one sensor at an audio device is received. The audio device may at least partially covers a pinna and the detected sound may interact with at least a torso of a human body, but can also interact with the head and shoulder. The signal is modulated with a non-linear transfer function to generate a modulated signal indicative of one or more audio cues for spatializing the detected sound while the audio device at least partially covers a pinna. Sound is output by the audio device based on the modulated signal. |
| US10362430B2 |
Audio providing method and device therefor
An electronic device may comprise: a sensing unit for acquiring image data and sensing an object and a user; an output unit for outputting audio; and a processor for receiving image data from the sensing unit, rendering information on a space from the image data to generate space information, recognizing the object in the space and mapping the object to the space information, recognizing the user in the space, and controlling the output unit on the basis of position information of the object and the user when a notification associated with the object occurs. |
| US10362429B2 |
Systems and methods for generating spatial sound information relevant to real-world environments
Spatial exploration systems and methods of spatial exploration utilizing spatial sound in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a spatial exploration system acquires sensor data and constructs a 3D spatial model of a surrounding real world environment. The system can instantiate a 3D object at a location within the 3D spatial model corresponding to the location of a real world feature, determine a location and orientation of a user within the 3D spatial model, and generate an audio clip containing vocalized information describing the feature. The spatial exploration system can then output a spatial sound describing the identified feature by modifying an audio clip based upon the position of the 3D object relative to the location and orientation of the user within the 3D spatial model to encode audio cues as to the location of the feature in the surrounding real world environment. |
| US10362426B2 |
Upmixing of audio signals
Example embodiments disclosed herein relates to upmixing of audio signals. A method of upmixing an audio signal is described. The method includes decomposing the audio signal into a diffuse signal and a direct signal, generating an audio bed at least in part based on the diffuse signal, the audio bed including a height channel, extracting an audio object from the direct signal, estimating metadata of the audio object, the metadata including height information of the audio object; and rendering the audio bed and the audio object as an upmixed audio signal, wherein the audio bed is rendered to a predefined position and the audio object is rendered according to the metadata. Corresponding system and computer program product are described as well. |
| US10362424B2 |
Method and device for applying dynamic range compression to a higher order ambisonics signal
A method for performing DRC on a HOA signal comprises transforming the HOA signal to the spatial domain, analyzing the transformed HOA signal, and obtaining, from results of said analyzing, gain factors that are usable for dynamic compression. The gain factors can be transmitted together with the HOA signal. When applying the DRC, the HOA signal is transformed to the spatial domain, the gain factors are extracted and multiplied with the transformed HOA signal in the spatial domain, wherein a gain compensated transformed HOA signal is obtained. The gain compensated transformed HOA signal is transformed back into the HOA domain, wherein a gain compensated HOA signal is obtained. The DRC may be applied in the QMF-filter bank domain. |
| US10362420B2 |
Method of rendering one or more captured audio soundfields to a listener
A computer implemented system for rendering captured audio soundfields to a listener comprises apparatus to deliver the audio soundfields to the listener. The delivery apparatus delivers the audio soundfields to the listener with first and second audio elements perceived by the listener as emanating from first and second virtual source locations, respectively, and with the first audio element and/or the second audio element delivered to the listener from a third virtual source location. The first virtual source location and the second virtual source location are perceived by the listener as being located to the front of the listener, and the third virtual source location is located to the rear or the side of the listener. |
| US10362418B2 |
Mounting assembly for a bone conduction hearing device
A mounting assembly for arranging a bone conducting hearing device to a skin surface over the skull of a user is disclosed. The mounting assembly comprises an attachment element configured to be attached to a corresponding vibrator attachment element of a vibrator assembly, the attachment element and the vibrator attachment element being adapted to operationally couple with each other; a plate member configured to be arranged over the skin surface; one or more removably arranged mounting structures arranged outside the skull for attaching the mounting assembly to the skin surface over the skull. |
| US10362415B2 |
Ultrasonic hearing system and related methods
A hearing system to activate an auditory system using cerebrospinal fluids includes at least one processor configured to receive an audio signal captured using a sound sensor (e.g., a microphone), extract temporal and spectral features from the audio signal, and create modulated ultrasound signals in a range of 20 Hz to 20 kHz with ultrasound carrier frequencies in the range of 50 kHz to 4 MHz, which are ultrasound frequencies that are well-suited to reach the cerebrospinal fluids (e.g., can pass across the skull/bones to reach the cerebrospinal fluids). The system further includes at least one ultrasonic transducer which receives the modulated signal and delivers the modulated signal to the body and activates the auditory system via vibration of cerebrospinal fluids that vibrate cochlear fluids, bypassing the normal conductive pathway that uses middle ear bones and minimizing bone conduction and distortion through the skull. |
| US10362409B1 |
Adjustable laser microphone
A method of capturing audio includes initiating capture, at a laser microphone, of first audio of an area of interest. The first audio is captured while the laser microphone is focused on a first target surface associated with the area of interest. The method also includes generating adjustment parameters based on a feedback signal to adjust targeting characteristics of the laser microphone. The method further includes adjusting the targeting characteristics of the laser microphone based on the adjustment parameters to focus the laser microphone on a second target surface associated with the area of interest. The method also includes initiating capture, at the laser microphone, of second audio of the area of interest in response to adjusting the targeting characteristics. The second audio has an audio quality that is greater than the first audio. |
| US10362403B2 |
Mechanically actuated panel acoustic system
An electronic device whose enclosure or housing panel is used as part of an acoustic system is described. The panel is divided into several sub-panels. For each sub-panel, the device includes one or more actuators attached to vibrate the sub-panel. The actuator and its attached sub-panel convert an audio signal to acoustic output. Each actuator and sub-panel combination may receive a separate audio signal. The device includes a digital signal processor for controlling each of the sub-panel driving audio signals. The device may further include one or more backing frames that are attached to the panel to provide boundary conditions to the sub-panels. The boundary conditions define a resonance frequency for each sub-panel. |
| US10362399B1 |
Detection of headphone orientation
Some embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods of detecting headphone orientation. The systems and methods described herein may be used, for example, to determine which ear cup of a pair of headphones is positioned on which ear of a user. By making this determination, stereophonic audio signals may be divided into their left audio channel signal and right audio channel signal components and transmitted to the proper ear cup. In another example, the systems and methods described herein may be used to determine when a pair of headphones are being worn on a user's head and/or are removed from a user's head. By determining when the headphones are being worn, the headphones may be able to automatically pause an audio signal and/or power off when a transition from on-head to off-head is detected. |
| US10362397B2 |
Voice enhancement method for distributed system
A voice enhancement method for distributed system is disclosed. In the method of the present invention, a plurality of picking devices are disposed in a space for picking voice signal. The picking devices communicate with each other and have an enhancement operation on the voice information from each picking device to generate an enhanced voice signal. |
| US10362390B2 |
Vibration diaphragm
The present disclosure provides a vibration diaphragm. The vibration diaphragm includes a vibration part; a suspension extending from and surrounding the vibration part; and a pattern module part formed on the vibration part. The pattern module part includes a protrusion extending outwardly from the vibration part and having a groove recessed inwardly toward the vibration part; a partition dividing the groove into at least two rooms; and a second protrusion located in each of the rooms. By virtue of the configuration of the pattern module part, the solution described by the present embodiment increases the surface area of the vibration part, and widens the bandwidth of the vibration diaphragm, and further improves the acoustic performance of the diaphragm. |
| US10362388B2 |
Passive radiators and related devices
A passive radiator includes an elastomeric member and mass. The elastomeric member defines a suspension structure that has an inner peripheral boarder and an outer peripheral boarder and a first snap-attach feature that is arranged along the outer peripheral boarder of the suspension structure. The first snap-attach feature enables the elastomeric member to be coupled to a mating feature. The mass is supported along the inner peripheral boarder of the suspension structure and is configured for pistonic movement, relative to the first snap-attach feature, along a motion axis of the passive radiator. |
| US10362387B2 |
Acoustic resistor, acoustic resistor member including same, and audio device including same
An acoustic resistor for use in an audio device includes a resin film having air permeability in a thickness direction of the resin film, and the resin film is a non-porous film having through holes formed to extend straight through the resin film in the thickness direction. This acoustic resistor is used in an audio device including: a transducing part that performs conversion between sound and an electrical signal and that includes an acoustic element; a housing enclosing the transducing part and having at least one opening; and a passage for gas that is present inside the housing and communicates with the opening and in which the acoustic element is placed. The acoustic resistor is placed between the opening and the acoustic element in the passage. The variation in properties of the acoustic resistor of the present disclosure can be made smaller than that of conventional acoustic resistors. |
| US10362385B1 |
Controlling perceived ambient sounds based on focus level
In one embodiment, a focus application controls ambient sounds perceived by a user. In operation, the focus application determines a focus level associated with the user based on a biometric signal associated with the user. The focus application then determines an ambient awareness level based on the focus level. Subsequently, the focus application modifies at least one characteristic of an ambient sound perceived by the user based on the ambient awareness level. |
| US10362384B2 |
Earphone cover
An earphone cover for an earphone includes an ear bud skin and an extension. The earphone includes an ear bud with a stem, and the earphone is inserted into a user's ear canal. The stem extends from the ear bud and a primary speaker outlet is formed on the ear bud. The ear bud skin substantially covers the ear bud of the earphone and increases friction between the ear bud and user's ear (provides an interface that increases friction between the ear bud and the user's ear) and the extension extends from the ear bud skin for more secure fit of the earphone to user's ear. The earphone cover is sufficiently flexible and elastic to accept insertion of the earphone therein along with being made of a material to provide a comfortable fit too. |
| US10362376B2 |
Speaker and rear cover therefor
The present invention discloses a speaker and a rear cover therefor. The rear cover comprises a rear cover body whose one side is provided with a first connection portion; and a connection assembly provided with a first surface and a second surface which are connected with each other. A contact is formed by extending and bending the first surface, and is provided with a conductor. A connection hole is further formed in the first surface. A limiting device and a second connection portion are arranged on the second surface; and the cross section of the limiting device is C-shaped. The connection assembly is connected to the first connection portion of the rear cover body through the second connection portion. The contact is configured to conduct the speaker with the outside. The connection hole is configured to fix the speaker or conduct the speaker with other components. |
| US10362369B2 |
Receiving apparatus, broadcasting apparatus, server apparatus, and receiving method
This receiving apparatus includes a broadcast reception unit configured to receive a broadcasting signal including a broadcast program and tag information, the broadcast program including at least one scene, the tag information including information that is transmitted temporally corresponding to each of at least one scene of the broadcast program and is necessary for acquiring related information related to the broadcast program; an application controller configured to acquire an application that uses the related information and an application information table in which at least identification information for identifying the tag information including information for controlling an operation of the application and information for identifying the related information used by the application is described, and to control the operation of the application based on the application information table; a tag information processing unit configured to acquire the tag information based on the identification information described in the application information table from the received broadcasting signal, to acquire the related information based on the tag information, and to supply it to the application being executed. |
| US10362365B2 |
Systems and methods for managing an interactive session in an interactive media guidance application
Systems and methods to address shortcomings in conventional systems that traditionally provide interactive television services. In some aspects, the systems and methods provide for a method for managing an interactive session in an interactive media guidance application. The interactive media guidance application receives a user selection of a media asset. The interactive media guidance application stores, in a buffer, an advertisement received during display of the media asset. The interactive media guidance application receives a user request to initiate an interactive session. The interactive media guidance application analyzes the buffer for information relating to the advertisement based on the user request to initiate the interactive session. The interactive media guidance application receives a user request for information in the interactive session. The interactive media guidance application generates for display the information relating to the advertisement based on the user request for information relating to the advertisement. |
| US10362360B2 |
Interactive media display across devices
A computer-implemented method includes identifying a computer-based portable program module, automatically altering code in the portable program module to permit display of the module on a television-based display so that the displayed module has a substantially similar appearance on the television-based display as on a computer display, and providing the altered code for execution on a processor connected to a television-based display. |
| US10362356B2 |
Efficient insertion of media items in media streams
This document describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for determining media items to insert in a media stream. A first media client can play a primary media stream that is multicast to various media clients including the first media client and other media clients. The first media client identifies a start of a primary programming timeslot in the primary media stream, and in response, obtains and stores a secondary media item. After storing the secondary media item at the first media client, the first media client detects an insertion signal in the primary media stream that indicates a secondary programming timeslot is about to begin in the primary media stream. The first media client can then play the secondary media item in place of the primary media stream during the secondary programming timeslot. |
| US10362355B2 |
Systems and methods for recording media assets
Systems and methods are provided to record portions of media assets. User request is received to record a media asset together with a criterion for recording portions of that media asset. A content recognition algorithm is executed against segments of the media asset to determine a set of keywords associated with those segments. Separately a set of keywords associated with the criterion is generated. Sets of keywords are compared and segments that match the criterion are discovered. If it is determined that a first segment and third segment each match the criterion and a second segment does not, a delete indicator is added to the second segment and the third and first segments are compared. If those segments match the delete indicator is removed from the second segment. |
| US10362350B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for interacting with a security system using a television remote control
A method and apparatus is described for interacting with a security system using a television remote control. Commands sent by the remote control are received by an auxiliary interface device, which then provides the commands to a security system controller either directly, via a local-area network, or via a wide-area network and server. Status and acknowledgement messages are transmitted from the security system controller to the auxiliary device, whereupon they are provided to and displayed by a television in the form of a security dashboard. |
| US10362339B2 |
Networked device group information in a system with multiple media playback protocols
A first networked device may perform operations including receiving, from a media source device, a first media stream and a first media stream identifier. The first networked device may receive the first media stream via a wireless network connection. Operations may further include receiving, from a second networked device, a second media stream identifier that corresponds to a second media stream the second networked device is receiving from the media source device. Operations may further include determining a common stream characteristic between the first media stream and the second media stream and, in response to determining the common stream characteristic, grouping the second networked device with the first networked device. Operations may further include transmitting, to a controller device, an indication that the first networked device and second networked device are grouped. |
| US10362338B2 |
Image processing
A method of processing an image is provided. The method includes receiving compressed image data comprising encoded image data representing the image. The method includes decoding the encoded image data to generate first decoded image data with a first bit precision. The method includes processing the first decoded image data to generate second decoded image data with a second bit precision higher than the first bit precision. The method includes applying a tone mapping operation to the second decoded image data to generate first tone mapped image data with the second bit precision. The method includes converting the first tone mapped image data to second tone mapped image data with the first bit precision. A computing device is also provided. |
| US10362337B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for encoding HDR images
To enable future video transmission of a large range of HDR videos, and render them on displays of variable dynamic range or peak brightness capability, we describe an encoder (301) for encoding an input high dynamic range video set of images (Im_5000), having pixel colors with luminances lower than a first maximum luminance (L_max_M), into an encoded high dynamic range video (Im_2000), being a high dynamic range image, i.e. with a maximum luminance for displaying on a display with a corresponding peak brightness of at least 900 nit, being characterized in that the encoding definition allows encoding pixel color luminances up to a second maximum luminance (L_max_C), which is equal to or less than 50% of the first maximum luminance, the encoder comprising: a re-grading unit (320) arranged to allow a content creator to specify at least a tone mapping function (F_2Tu, 601) for color mapping the encoded high dynamic range video (Im_2000) of lower second maximum luminance (L_max_C) to a HDR video reconstruction (Im_5000*) of the high dynamic range video (Im_5000); and a formatter, arranged to write into a video signal (S_im) the encoded high dynamic range video (Im_2000) and as metadata the at least a tone mapping function (F_2Tu, 601), and related encoder and decoder embodiments and methods, and transmission technical components and technologies. |
| US10362330B1 |
Combining history-based motion vector prediction and non-adjacent merge prediction
A method and apparatus for generating a merge candidate list for encoding or decoding of a video sequence includes determining a block size of a current block. History-based motion vector predictors and non-adjacent motion vector predictors are identified. The merge candidate list is generated using the history-based motion vector predictors and the non-adjacent motion vector predictors to permit the encoding or the decoding of the video sequence. |
| US10362329B2 |
Video coding using reference motion vectors
Techniques described use a reference motion vector to reduce the amount of bits needed to encode motion vectors for inter prediction. One method includes determining a reference motion vector used to encode a current block of a current frame. The reference motion vector was selected by identifying, multiple candidate motion vectors used to inter predict blocks, and identifying a set of reconstructed pixel values from at least one block adjacent to the current block. For each candidate motion vector, a set of predicted pixel values for the set of reconstructed pixel value is generated using the candidate motion vector and a first reference frame, and an error value is calculated based on a difference between the sets of pixel values. Finally, a reference motion vector from the candidates is selected based on the error values. The method also includes decoding the current block using the reference motion vector. |
| US10362327B2 |
B-picture syntax change for generalized bi-prediction in high efficiency video coding (HEVC)
An enhanced prediction direction method and encoding syntax for B-pictures in state-of-the-art video compression. In bi-directional prediction, instead of using one motion vector (MV) from list 0 and one from list 1, both may be alternatively drawn from list 0 or list 1, and this information communicated to a decoder similarly configured for recognizing the generalized syntax. |
| US10362323B2 |
Methods and apparatus of encoding real time media content
Methods, apparatus and systems of parallel encoding and publishing media content in a plurality of encoded formats. One exemplary embodiment includes the steps of receiving at least a first portion of a first content stream; communicating the first portion of the stream to a plurality of encoders including a first through Nth encoder, operating said first through Nth encoders in parallel to perform different encoding operations in real time to generate first through Nth encoded versions of said first portion of content; monitoring the encoding status of each of the first through Nth encoders; determining when at least the first through Nth encoders are done processing the first portion of the stream, and publishing, in response to determining that the first through Nth encoders are done processing the first portion of the stream, at the same time, the successfully encoded versions of the first portion of the stream. |
| US10362322B2 |
Context and bypass encoding video
A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video data, including context encoding or decoding portions of an array of transform coefficients and bypass encoding or decoding a sign indicator for significant transform coefficients in an array related to a block of an image. |
| US10362321B2 |
Image distribution device, image distribution system, and image distribution method
In general, according to one embodiment, an image distribution device of the embodiment includes a receiver, a compressor, a request acceptor, a determiner, and a distributor. The receiver receives data captured by an imaging device of an in-vehicle device mounted in a vehicle. The compressor compresses the captured data of after elapse of a certain time to generate compressed captured data. The request acceptor accepts a distribution request to specify a desired time from an information processing device. The determiner determines whether the desired time is a past time within a certain time from a present time. The distributor distributes, when the desired time is the past time within the certain time from a present time, the captured data to the information processing device, and distributes, when the desired time is a past time prior to the certain time, the compressed captured data to the information processing device. |
| US10362320B2 |
Systems and methods for rendering and pre-encoded load estimation based encoder hinting
Systems and methods for hinting an encoder are disclosed in which a server monitors for information related to changes in frame rendering, calculates tolerance boundaries, rolling average frame time, and short-term trends in frame time, and uses those calculations to identify a frame time peak. The server then hints a codec (encoder) to modulate the quality settings of frame output in proportion to the size of the frame time peak. In certain embodiments, a renderer records one or more playthroughs in a game environment, sorts a plurality of frames from one or more playthroughs into a plurality of cells on a heatmap, and collects the list of sorted frames. A codec may then encode one or more frames from the list of sorted frames to calculate an average encoded frame size for each cell in the heatmap, and associate each average encoded frame size with a per-cell normalized encoder quality setting. |
| US10362318B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method that horizontal filtering on pixel blocks
An image processing device including processing circuitry that perform horizontal filtering determination processes in parallel across a plurality of vertical block boundaries among a plurality of 8x8 blocks within a locally decoded image. The processing circuitry is configured to apply in parallel a horizontal filter to pixels neighboring the plurality of vertical block boundaries within the locally decoded image to which the horizontal filter is determined to be applied by the horizontal filtering determination processes to generate a first filtered image, perform vertical filtering determination processes in parallel across a plurality of horizontal block boundaries among the plurality of 8x8 blocks within the first filtered image, apply in parallel the vertical filter to the pixels neighboring the horizontal block boundaries within the first filtered image to generate a second filtered image, and encode an image using the second filtered image to generate an encoded stream. |
| US10362317B2 |
Adaptive partition coding
Although wedgelet-based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand, compared to contour partitioning, the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partitions have to be wedgelet partitions, enables applying relatively uncomplex statistical analysis onto overlaid spatially sampled texture information in order to derive a good predictor for the bi-segmentation in a depth/disparity map. Thus, in accordance with a first aspect it is exactly the increase of the freedom which alleviates the signaling overhead provided that co-located texture information in form of a picture is present. Another aspect pertains the possibility to save side information rate involved with signaling a respective coding mode supporting irregular partitioning. |
| US10362315B2 |
Codec and devices including the same
A method, codec device, and system on chip (SoC) are provided for coding a region of interest (ROI) object of a frame. A current frame, which includes the ROI object is received, and a type of the current frame is determined. A complexity of the current frame is estimated. An ROI control signal is generated for controlling ROI coding of the ROI object based on the complexity. |
| US10362311B2 |
Method of coding and decoding images, coding and decoding device and computer programs corresponding thereto
A method for coding includes; segmenting an image into blocks; grouping blocks into a number of subsets; coding, using an entropy coding module, each subset, by associating digital information with symbols of each block of a subset, including, for the first block of the image, initializing state variables of the coding module; and generating a data sub-stream representative of at least one of the coded subsets of blocks. Where a current block is the first block to be coded of a subset, symbol occurrence probabilities for the first current block are determined based on those for a coded and decoded predetermined block of at least one other subset. Where the current block is the last coded block of the subset: writing, in the sub-stream representative of the subset, the entire the digital information associated with the symbols during coding of the blocks of the subset, and implementing the initializing sub-step. |
| US10362309B2 |
Apparatus and methods for recompression of digital images
A system and method for generating a second reduced size digital image from a first digital image, the method including iteratively compressing the first digital image to an extent determined by a quality measure comprising at least a blockiness measure quantifying added artifactual edges along coding block bomldaries of the second image and/or use of a quantization matrix generated by computing a weighted average of the quantization matrix of the first digital image and a scaled second quantization matrix. |
| US10362302B2 |
Managing a display
A system and computer implemented method for managing a display for a software application is disclosed. The software application may have a set of portions. The method can include collecting, for a first portion and a second portion of the set of portions, optical tracking information including a set of viewing coordinates having a temporal feature. The method can also include determining, based on the optical tracking information including the set of viewing coordinates having the temporal feature, a set of viewing scores including a first group of viewing scores and a second group of viewing scores. The method can also include generating a frustum having a set of regions. The set of regions can include a first region, to provide the first portion, based on the first group of viewing scores, and a second region, to provide the second portion, based on the second group of viewing scores. |
| US10362300B2 |
Three dimensional content projection
The present application relates generally to a projection system and method for projecting content onto a moving performer. In one embodiment, the system includes a projector that projects light onto the performer, a position sensor, such as a camera and/or depth sensor that captures position information about the performer, and a computer that modifies original content based on the position information of the performer. The computer uses the position information to generate a mask, such as a silhouette, of the performer, and then modifies the original content based on the mask of the performer. The modified content is then projected by the projector onto the performer. |
| US10362295B2 |
Optical apparatus with beam steering and position feedback
A method for projection includes projecting a pattern toward a target by directing optical radiation, which is collimated along an optical axis by projection optics, through a diffractive optical element (DOE). An optical signal that is indicative of a shift of the projected pattern is detected. An actuator is driven to translate the projection lens in a direction transverse to the optical axis responsively to the detected optical signal. |
| US10362292B2 |
System and method for three dimensional imaging
A system for three dimensional imaging includes: a light source; a modulator connected with the light source and configured to modulate output of the light source with a frequency sweep signal; an optical circuitry connected to the light source; a light sensor circuitry connected with the optical circuitry and configured to sense optical output of the optical circuitry and convert the optical output into a plurality of electrical signals; and a signal processing circuit connected with the light sensor circuitry and configured to extract 3D information of the object from the electrical signals. A mobile phone having the system and a method for three dimensional imaging are also provided. |
| US10362291B2 |
Light field imaging device
A light-field capture device including a photo-sensor, a main lens configured to refract light from a scene towards an image focal field, a micro-lens array positioned in the image focal field between the main lens and the photo-sensor, each micro-lens being configured to project a micro-lens image onto a respective dedicated area of the photo-sensor. The light-field capture device is provided with at least one compressive sensing calculation unit connected to at least one of the dedicated areas and configured to calculate data such as for example standard deviation data representative of the homogeneity of input pixels of said dedicated area, and to provide output data representative of the input pixels of said dedicated area; the output data comprising either a number of output pixels corresponding to the number of input pixels, or a single output pixel, depending on the relative value of the homoegeneity compared with a threshold. |
| US10362289B2 |
Method for data reuse and applications to spatio-temporal supersampling and de-noising
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for image processing to reduce aliasing using a temporal anti-aliasing algorithm modified to implement variance clipping. The method includes the step of generating a current frame of image data in a memory. Then, each pixel in the current frame of image data is processed by: sampling a resolved pixel color for a corresponding pixel in a previous frame of image data stored in the memory, adjusting the resolved pixel color based on a statistical distribution of color values for a plurality of samples in the neighborhood of the pixel in the current frame of image data to generate an adjusted pixel color, and blending a color value for the pixel in the current frame of image data with the adjusted pixel color to generate a resolved pixel color for the pixel in the current frame of image data. |
| US10362284B2 |
System and method for displaying location dependent content
A system and method for simultaneously displaying, in plural spatially distinct zones via a multi-view display, differentiated content is disclosed. In accordance with the method, a plurality of spatially distinct zones are defined, differentiated content is assigned to the zones, a location for at least some of plural landing spots of beamlets projected by multi-view pixels of the multi-view display is estimated, the spatially distinct zone in which each said landing spots resides is determined, and beamlets associated with said some landing spots are driven to cause an appropriate content portion to be viewable at said some landing spots, as a function of location in a particular spatially distinct zone. |
| US10362279B2 |
Image capturing device
An image capturing device includes a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, wherein each of the pixels includes a pair of photoelectric conversion devices, an analog to digital converter that converts a pair of pixel signals corresponding to charges accumulated in the pair of photoelectric conversion devices included in each of the pixels into a pair of digital signals, and a circuit receiving the pair of digital signals being output from each of the pixels, detecting a pixel including a photoelectric conversion device outputting a saturation current based on the received pairs in the detected pixel to output a correction signal. |
| US10362278B1 |
Firearm environmental recording apparatus and system
A firearm environmental recording apparatus, which may be used with a firearm environmental recording system, may include: a firearm attachment structure configured to attach to portions of a firearm; a processing unit; a camera configured to record image data; a microphone configured to record audio data; and an inertial sensor module configured to provide to orientation data. The image data, audio data, and orientation data may be associated with and/or stored in a database, such as a blockchain database of a blockchain network, so that a chain of trust and the integrity of data recorded by the one or more firearm environmental recording apparatuses is maintained and accessible in a secure unalterable state. Nodes of the blockchain network may include client devices, servers, and firearm environmental recording apparatuses, and tokens of a cryptocurrency may be provided to nodes for performing data transactions in the blockchain database. |
| US10362276B2 |
Image capture apparatus, method for setting mask image, and recording medium
A transmission apparatus that transmits an image to be distributed to a reception apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold a plurality of settings that include resolution of a captured image and that are used for generating the image to be distributed, a reception unit configured to receive, from the reception apparatus, specification information for specifying one of the plurality of held settings in relation to superimposition of the mask image and superimposition information indicating a position at which the mask image is superimposed upon the image to be distributed generated in accordance with the one of the settings specified by the specification information, and a setting unit configured to set a position at which the mask image is superimposed upon the captured image on the basis of the specified one of the settings and the superimposition information received by the reception unit. |
| US10362275B2 |
Imaging system and imaging device
In one embodiment, an image capturing system is configured so that a device for capturing images is communicable with an external device through a communication unit. The image capturing system is provided with an operating unit configured to make settings pertaining to image capturing, an image capturing device serving as the device for capturing images and being configured to produce image data by periodically capturing images based on the settings made to the operating unit and a display unit configured to produce a display output based on the image data. |
| US10362272B1 |
Multi-participant live communication user interface
An electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more programs may include instructions for displaying a live video communication user interface that includes concurrently displaying representations of a first, second, and third participant in the live communication session. While displaying the live video communication user interface, the one or more programs may also include instructions for include receiving data indicating that an activity level of the second participant has increased above the activity level of the first participant. Further, in response to receiving the data, the one or more programs may further include instructions for changing a size and/or position of the representations of the first, second, and third participants. |
| US10362270B2 |
Multimodal spatial registration of devices for congruent multimedia communications
Systems and methods are described for determining orientation of an external audio device in a video conference, which may be used to provide congruent multimodal representation for a video conference. A camera of a video conferencing system may be used to detect a potential location of an external audio device within a room in which the video conferencing system is providing a video conference. Within the detected potential location, a visual pattern associated with the external audio device may be identified. Using the identified visual pattern, the video conferencing system may estimate an orientation of the external audio device, the orientation being used by the video conferencing system to provide spatial audio video congruence to a far end audience. |
| US10362264B2 |
Profile for frame rate conversion
The present application relates to a method for frame rate conversion. The present application relates also to a system for frame rate conversion and a computer comprising said frame rate. In addition, the present application relates to a computer readable medium having a computer program for performing said method. The method comprises defining a first frame rate profile with a first frame rate, defining at least a second frame rate profile with a second frame rate, rendering video frames at the first frame rate profile, detecting the quality of the rendered video frames, and switching from the first frame rate profile to the second frame rate profile at least depending on the detected quality of the rendered video frames. |
| US10362263B2 |
System and method for remote activation of a storage operation of pictorial information
The invention relates to a system and method for remote activation of a storage operation of pictorial information. According to the invention, it involves a wearable sensor device, comprising at least one sensor, a processing unit, a memory unit, and a wireless signaling unit for communicating with external devices over a wireless link by means of one-way transmission of information. A second device comprises a recording apparatus adapted to be set in a mode of continuous capture of pictorial information, a memory, and a wireless signaling system for communicating with external devices over a wireless link. The processing unit in the wearable sensor device is adapted, based on sensor signals received from said at least one sensor, to send commands over the wireless link to the second digital device to trigger, in response to said commands, storage of at least part of said continuously captured pictorial information. |
| US10362261B2 |
Memory card having a wireless function for linking location information to image data
A method of linking location information to image data in a storage device includes: generating image files, each including image data of a captured image and a time stamp of when the image was captured; determining an first time stamp and a second time stamp within a group of the image files; wirelessly transmitting the first time stamp and the second time stamp to a device having a location logging function and, in response to the wirelessly transmitting, receiving location information corresponding to at least one of a plurality of time stamps including the first time stamp, the second time stamp, and a third time stamp that is between the first time stamp and the second time stamp; and embedding location information in each image file based on the time stamp included therein and the location information received from the device. |
| US10362258B2 |
Information processing to control a movement of a focus displayed on a display screen
A control device includes a control unit configured to discretely move a focus on a display screen according to a user's operation. Movement of the focus is limited according to a movement speed of the user's operation. |
| US10362257B2 |
Communication interface device and display device
A communication interface device is disclosed. The communication interface device includes a plurality of terminals configured to receive a differential signal from an external device, a filter configured to include a low pass filter connected to at least one of the plurality of terminals, and a controller configured to determine whether a differential signal is input from the external device based on a change of an output value of the low pass filter. |
| US10362254B2 |
Focal plane array processing method and apparatus
A digital focal plane array includes an all-digital readout integrated circuit in combination with a detector array. The readout circuit includes unit cell electronics, orthogonal transfer structures, and data handling structures. The unit cell electronics include an analog to digital converter. Orthogonal transfer structures enable the orthogonal transfer of data among the unit cells. Data handling structures may be configured to operate the digital focal plane array as a data encryptor/decipherer. Data encrypted and deciphered by the digital focal plane array need not be image data. |
| US10362253B2 |
Image sensor for improving nonlinearity of row code region, and device including the same
An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a pixel configured to generate a reset signal and an image signal, a comparator configured to compare the reset signal with a reference signal and generate a first comparison signal, a counter configured to generate a first count value corresponding to the reset signal based on a clock signal and the first comparison signal, and a reference signal generator configured to generate the reference signal which changes between a first level corresponding to a maximum reset count value of the counter and a second level corresponding to a minimum reset count value of the counter during a reset signal period. |
| US10362251B2 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus and image pickup system
Provided is a photoelectric conversion apparatus including a plurality of pixels and a control unit, wherein each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion unit and a digital-signal output unit configured to output a digital signal based on the output of the photoelectric conversion unit, and the number of bits of the digital signal may be switched. |
| US10362247B2 |
Devices and methods for lens shading correction of an image
A lens shading correction circuit includes a gain generator configured to generate a first gain value for each pixel of an input image in response to a gain generation parameter, and an adjustment circuit configured to receive the first gain value and first YUV data, and to adjust at least one of U and V values of the first YUV data using at least one of the first gain value and a Y value of the first YUV data. |
| US10362244B2 |
Parallax reduction for multi-sensor camera systems
A multi-sensor camera system includes a first optical sensor having a focus mechanism. The focus of the first optical sensor is adjusted using the focus mechanism. The multi-sensor camera system also includes a second optical sensor mounted inside the focus mechanism of the first optical sensor. The radial distance between optical axes of the first and second optical sensors is not limited by the focus mechanism. |
| US10362241B2 |
Video stream delimiter for combined frame
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a server is provided, comprising a processor configured to produce a combined frame from two or more video streams. The combined frame may include two or more panels, wherein each panel includes one of the two or more video streams. The combined frame may further include panel metadata indicating a set of coordinates for each panel. The coordinates of each panel may indicate a height, width, and position of that panel. The combined frame may further include at least one delimiter region of pixels formed between the panels. The processor may be further configured to transmit the combined frame over a network for output on a display device. |
| US10362239B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and image capturing apparatus for tone conversion based on luminance values
An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires exposure information of an image signal; a setting unit that sets tone conversion characteristic based on the exposure information and visual characteristics; and a tone conversion unit that performs tone conversion on the image signal using the tone conversion characteristic. The visual characteristics is a minimum amount of luminance change that a human can recognize and that differ for different luminance, and the setting unit obtains for each luminance an intersection of a first function that indicates a ratio of an amount of luminance change per one code value difference of the image signal before the tone conversion is performed and a second function that indicates a ratio of a minimum amount of luminance change that a human can recognize, and sets the tone conversion characteristic based on the intersection. |
| US10362237B2 |
Structured illumination system for increased dynamic range in quantitative imaging
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for the measurement of signal intensity across a large dynamic range. The systems disclosed herein employ an iterative image collection strategy that utilizes structured illumination to achieve greater than 1,000,000-fold dynamic range measurements, representing a dramatic improvement over the prior art. |
| US10362234B2 |
Configurable sunshade for use with multiple-field-of-view camera system
A configurable sunshade for use with a multiple-camera system that has multiple camera sensors with associated fields of view. The sunshade has multiple portions that are independently rotatable with respect to a fixed platform such that in distinct orientations with respect to each other, specified cameras may be blocked from receiving light from a scene, in whole or in part. In other embodiments, individual apertures of a multi-sunshade housing may be separately activated. |
| US10362231B2 |
Head down warning system
Techniques for implementing a head down warning system in a handheld electronic device are described. An example of a device includes a display and a depth detection unit disposed on a surface of the handheld electronic device opposite the display. The depth detection unit includes a pair of cameras with panoramic lenses. The device also includes one or more processors that receive distance information from the depth detection unit, process the distance information to detect a hazard, and render a warning on the display to alert a user of the handheld electronic device about the hazard. |
| US10362229B2 |
Multi-aperture imaging device, portable device and method of producing a multi-aperture imaging device
A multi-aperture imaging device includes a one-line array of adjacently arranged optical channels and beam-deflecting unit for deflecting an optical path of the optical channels. The beam-deflecting unit includes a first position and a second position between which the beam-deflecting unit is translationally moveable along a line extension direction of the one-line array. The beam-deflecting unit is configured such that it deflects the optical path of each optical channel into mutually different directions depending on whether it is located in the first position or in the second position. |
| US10362226B2 |
Method to control lens of a camera module, a lens control terminal and a storage media
Some embodiments in this disclosure provide a method to control lens of a camera module, a lens control terminal and a storage media, wherein the method to control lens of a camera module includes receiving power-off signal of the camera module; controlling the lens moving towards a zero position gradually, till the lens moves back to the zero position; powering off the camera module. |
| US10362218B2 |
Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same
Disclosed is a mobile terminal, by which an image can be easily attached. In particular, the present invention includes a 1st camera, a touchscreen, and a controller controlling the touchscreen to output a running screen of a prescribed application and a preview screen of the 1st camera to a 1st region and a 2nd region on the touchscreen, respectively, the controller, if a photograph command is received, attaching an image data photographed through the 1st camera to the prescribed application, wherein a data size of the attached image data is based on a size of the 2nd region. |
| US10362217B1 |
Device for operating touch screen underwater
This disclosure has disclosed a novel device for operating touch screen underwater, including a hollow shell, the shell includes a bottom shell and a middle frame. The bottom shell is provided with a camera window. The shell is provided with a partition plate. The partition plate divides the shell into a first chamber configured to accommodate a mobile phone, and a second chamber configured to accommodate a camera controller. The camera controller is provided with a plurality of buttons which are configured to control the mobile phone camera shooting. The middle frame is covered with a movable surface cover at upward side. The surface cover is provided with a transparent window for showing the screen at an upper part of the surface cover. The device in this disclosure can control the mobile phone to shoot underwater. |
| US10362214B2 |
Control apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A control apparatus includes an acquirer (129a) that acquires a first signal and a second signal that correspond to output signals of a first photoelectric converter and a second photoelectric converter, respectively, the first and second photoelectric converters receiving light beams passing through different pupil regions of an image capturing optical system from each other, and a calculator (129b) that calculates a correlation value of the first signal and the second signal to calculate a defocus amount based on the correlation value, and the calculator corrects the correlation value based on a light receiving amount of at least one of the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter. |
| US10362212B2 |
Exchangeable lens having a settable aperture and camera body that captures an image by an optical system which has a settable aperture
A lens barrel including: an optical system which includes a focus adjustment optical system; an aperture which limits the light beam which pass through the optical system to predetermined range at the time of detection of the focus state of the optical system; a drive which drives the focus adjustment optical system; a memory which stores a first predetermined value which is a aperture value within the predetermined range; and a transmitter which sends the first predetermined value to the camera body. |
| US10362211B1 |
Electronic device and method of switching a camera module
An electronic device includes a camera module, a first capacitive sensing element, a monitoring circuit, and a blocking module. The monitoring circuit is electrically connected to the first capacitive sensing element and the camera module. The blocking module includes a moving member and a first conductive element. The moving member moves relative to the camera module. The first conductive element is disposed on the moving member. When the moving member is located in a first position, the first capacitive sensing element senses the first conductive element, so as to generate a sensing signal. The monitoring circuit enables the camera module according to the sensing signal. When the moving member is located in a second position and the first capacitive sensing element does not sense the first conductive element, the monitoring circuit turns off the camera module. |
| US10362210B2 |
Transmission control device and transmission control method for transmitting image
A transmission control device includes, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to, transmit a first captured image to apparatus when acquiring the first captured image obtained by imaging by a camera, receive a request including range information from the apparatus after transmitting the first captured image, extract a first image from a second captured image in accordance with range information, the second captured image being obtained by imaging by the camera, and transmit the extracted first image and position information of a range corresponding to the range information in the second captured image to the apparatus. |
| US10362205B2 |
Performing intensity equalization with respect to mono and color images
In general, techniques are described that facilitate processing of color image data using both a mono image data and a color image data. A device comprising a monochrome camera, a color camera and a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The monochrome camera may be configured to capture monochrome image data of a scene. The color camera may be configured to capture color image data of the scene. The processor may be configured to perform intensity equalization with respect to a luma component of either the color image data or the monochrome image data to correct for differences in intensity between the color camera and the monochrome camera. |
| US10362202B2 |
Device and method for relative positioning of multi-aperture optics comprising several optical channels in relation to an image sensor
A device for relative positioning of multi-aperture optics having several optical channels in relation to an image sensor includes a reference object, a positioning device, and a calculating device. The reference object is arranged such that the reference object is imaged onto one image region per channel in the optical channels by the multi-aperture optics. The positioning device is controllable to change a relative location between the multi-aperture optics and the image sensor. The calculating device is configured to determine actual positions of the reference object in at least three image regions in images of the reference object and to control the positioning device on the basis of a comparison of the actual positions with positions. |
| US10362197B2 |
Image control device and non-transitory computer readable medium
An image control device includes a reception unit that receives patch chart data items arranged such that the patch data items corresponding to a plurality of patches belonging to a same hue, among a plurality of patches constituting a patch chart, are positioned only in any of grid points of grid lines which divide a lightness axis and a saturation axis which define a hue plane corresponding to the hue at equal intervals, and a controller that outputs the patch chart data items to an image forming unit which forms the patch chart on a recording material if an output operation of the patch chart is received. |
| US10362195B2 |
Image reading apparatus, control method and control program
Provided are an image reading apparatus and the like for accurately determining the position where an extraneous substance exists. An image reading apparatus comprises: a first unit having an image capture section for capturing a first image and a second image; a second unit having a reference member placed at a position opposed to the image capture section; a conveying mechanism for conveying an original between the first unit and the second unit such that a front end of the original is in contact with one of the first unit and the second unit; an extraneous substance determination unit that determines whether an extraneous substance is included in the first image and the second image; and a position determination unit that, if an extraneous substance is included in the first image, determines whether the position where the extraneous substance exists is on the first unit side or on the second unit side, on the basis of whether the extraneous substance is included in an area of the second image corresponding to an area of the first image in which the extraneous substance is included. The first image is an image obtained by capturing an image of the reference member, while the second image is an image obtained by capturing an image of the reference member after the first image is captured and further the original is conveyed thereafter. |
| US10362194B2 |
Recursive halftoning and gray value substitution
An example system in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a halftone engine and a gray value engine. The halftone engine is to apply halftoning to an image recursively across a plurality of levels of image scales and spatial resolutions, to generate a pattern that is at least quasi-periodic across the plurality of levels. The gray value engine is to substitute gray values recursively for at least a portion of the halftoning. |
| US10362192B2 |
Reading apparatus and method for controlling the same
A reading apparatus includes a reader that obtains image data by reading a reading target, a platen on which a document to be read by the reader located at a first position is set, a first member read by the reader located at the first position if there is no document on the platen, a second member read by the reader located at a second position, which is different from the first position, and a determination unit that performs a determination process for determining whether the document is set on the platen on the basis of a first output, which is obtained if the reader located at the first position reads the reading target, and a second output, which is obtained if the reader located at the second position reads the reading target. |
| US10362190B2 |
Information processing apparatus that installs module according to a usage form of the information processing apparatus method of controlling the same, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus that enables a user to install a desired module with ease. A plurality of modules are installed into a PC as an information processing apparatus for performing print processing in an MFP as an image processing apparatus. A usage form of the PC is set. Required ones of the plurality of modules are displayed based on the set usage form, and are installed into the PC. |
| US10362188B2 |
Image processing method, program, and image processing apparatus
A captured image is obtained in which an adapter tray is captured which is fitted in a predetermined first area in a conveyance tray conveyed by a printing apparatus and has a second area fitted with a printing medium on which printing is performed by the printing apparatus. A shape of the second area is specified based on the captured image and information about the predetermined first area. Further, an image based on the specified shape of the second area is output. |
| US10362186B2 |
Image scanning apparatus with timing control for document feeder, and method and computer-readable medium therefor
An image scanning apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a setting process to set a specific waiting time for a timer, based on a detected position of a document guide. The setting process includes, when the detected position of the document guide is a particular guide position for a first-size document sheet, setting a first waiting time as the specific waiting time for the timer, and when the detected position of the document guide is not the particular guide position, setting a second waiting time as the specific waiting time for the timer, the second waiting time being longer than the first waiting time. |
| US10362182B2 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and image forming method with sheet feeding abnormality control
An image forming apparatus transmits a sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device, obtains a sheet through a receiving device and performs image formation on the sheet. The receiving device comprises an inlet sensor for detecting a sheet fed from the sheet feeding device. The image forming apparatus transmits the sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device again in a case where the inlet sensor does not detect a sheet within a predetermined time after the sheet feeding device starts to feed a sheet and no signal indicating an abnormality with regard to a sheet is received from the sheet feeding device. If the number of times the sheet feeding request is transmitted exceeds a predetermined number of times, the image forming apparatus stops operation. |
| US10362179B2 |
Peel and stick activation code for activating service for a wireless device
A system for adding, authorizing, or activating pre-paid wireless service includes a sticker, and a server. The sticker has an authorization code. The sticker is configured to be affixed to a surface of a product. The server is configured to receive the authorization code. The server is further configured to verify that the received authorization code is authentic. The server is further configured to at least one of add, authorize, and activate wireless service in response to receiving and verifying the received authorization code. |
| US10362176B2 |
ACR buffering in the cloud
A network element of an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem buffers network resource usage information in the cloud. After generating network resource usage information based on an observation of network resource usage, the network element transmits the network resource usage information to a cloud-based storage service for buffering. Once a network resource usage collection function is available, the network element retrieves the network resource usage information from the cloud-based storage service and transmits it to a charging collection function for generation of call detail records. |
| US10362175B2 |
Network telephone device, external connection card and communication method therefor
A network telephone device, an external connection card, and a communication method therefor are provided. The network telephone device includes a controller, a network connection port, a network transmission module and a relay. The relay is coupled between the controller and at least two of a plurality of pins of the network connection port. While an external network cable connected to the network connection port is not capable of supplying power over Ethernet (POE) or a power supply mode of the POE is a first mode of the POE, the relay connects a transmit node and a receive node of the controller to the at least two of the pins respectively. The controller and an external device connected to the external network cable transmit signals compatible with a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) interface to transmit data or instructions with each other through the at least two of the pins of the network connection port. |
| US10362169B1 |
Call data management platform
A device may receive voice call data indicating that a voice call has been initiated between a first device and an interactive voice response device. The device may obtain, based on the voice call data, a user account identifier identifying a user account and obtain, based on the user account identifier, user account data including user authentication data. The device may receive user input provided by the first device during the voice call and determine, based on the user authentication data, that the user input fails to authenticate a user associated with the user account. The device may receive data indicating that the voice call has terminated and identify, based on the user input failing to authenticate the user, a second device. The device may perform an action based on the second device and the voice call data. |
| US10362167B2 |
Proximity based interactions with wallboards
Proximity-based interactions with wallboards and mobile devices create an interactive and effective communication model, efficiently utilizing space and opportunities for communication between a contact center and its agents and supervisors. The system provides a dynamic, proximity-based location service including displays for agents and real-time message capabilities for supervisors. |
| US10362165B2 |
System and method for tracking persons of interest via voiceprint
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for tracking a person of interest. The method embodiment comprises identifying a person of interest, capturing a voiceprint of the person of interest, comparing a received voiceprint of a caller with the voiceprint of the person of interest, and tracking the caller if the voiceprint of the caller is a substantial match to the voiceprint of the person of interest. |
| US10362163B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for preventing unintentional communication
A method, apparatus, and system discussed herein are directed to a computing device, or a user equipment (UE), for preventing unintentional communication. After a user enters a command to send a communication such as a text or email message or a phone call, to a particular recipient addressed in the communication, appropriateness of the communication for the particular recipient is evaluated based on the time of the communication and/or a comparison of the contexts of the communication against the particular recipient. If a questionable context for the particular recipient is found, the user is notified and provided with an opportunity to cancel or edit before the message is actually sent. |
| US10362160B2 |
Mixed-mode interaction
A user of a wireless device, such as a mobile phone, can make purchases or obtain information via a network, such as the Internet, using both voice and non-verbal methods. Users can submit voice queries and receive non-verbal replies, submit non-verbal queries and receive voice replies, or perform similar operations that many the voice and data capabilities of modern mobile communication devices. The user may provide notification criteria indicating under what conditions a notification should be sent to the user's wireless device. When purchasing opportunities matching the selected notification criteria become available, the user is notified. The user can respond to the notification, and immediately take advantage of the purchasing opportunity if he so desires. Mixed-mode interactions can also be used by sellers to more advantageously control the marketing of distressed, time sensitive, or other merchandise/services. |
| US10362158B2 |
Appliance control system and method
A system and method to control an appliance using a computing device, such as a smartphone. The system may have one or more computing devices (each with a control client) and one or more appliances that communicate over a backend control unit to allow a user with the computing device to virtually control the appliance. |
| US10362154B2 |
Clip for mounting external device to electronic device
In an aspect, a device-and-clip system is provided for an electronic device. The system includes an external device that cooperates with at least one electronic device feature on the rear face to perform a selected function. The system includes a clip including a first clip arm having an arm marker thereon and which is engageable with the front face of the electronic device and a second clip arm that is engageable with the rear face of the electronic device. The system further includes an application that is executable to instruct the electronic device to display a screen marker on the display screen in a selected position and in a selected orientation such that positioning and orienting of the first clip arm on the display screen of the smart phone with the arm marker aligned with the position and orientation of the screen marker positions the external device in alignment with the at least one electronic device feature. |
| US10362153B2 |
Method and apparatus to provide direct access to one or more sensors from an internet protocol network
A method and apparatus for providing direct access to one or more sensors from an internet protocol network. One example method includes detecting, by the remote terminal unit, a first sensor coupled to a first communications port. The method also includes generating a first unique internet protocol address for the first sensor, and mapping the first unique internet protocol address, at an application layer of a network protocol stack, to the first sensor. The method includes broadcasting, over the internet protocol network at a network layer, the first unique internet protocol address and an identity of the first sensor with which the first unique internet protocol address is associated. The method includes monitoring, at the network layer of the internet protocol network, for a sensor message identifying the first unique internet protocol address as a destination address, and forwarding the sensor message to the application layer for further processing. |
| US10362150B2 |
Communication device and communication method
[Object] To provide a mechanism capable of improving communication efficiency even in communication before allocation of an AID.[Solution] A communication device including: a communication unit configured to transmit a first frame including a second association identifier decided by a communication device to which a first association identifier is allocated and receive a second frame including information related to the second association identifier. |
| US10362148B2 |
Path selection using TCP handshake in a multipath environment
A plurality of SYN packets is sent from a first system, each of the plurality of SYN packets traverses a different path in a first set of paths between the first system and a second system in a multipath data communication network and includes a unique source identifier. From a plurality of SYN-ACK packets, a SYN-ACK packet is selected that is first to arrive at the first system. Each SYN-ACK packet includes a unique source identifier of a selected SYN packet. A path is configured corresponding to the selected SYN packet, as an outbound path from the first system. A path corresponding to the selected SYN-ACK packet is configured as an inbound path to the first system. A session between the first and the second systems is established using the outbound and inbound paths. |
| US10362146B1 |
Method and system for enforcing governance across multiple content repositories using a content broker
A method and system for a content broker, including a unified object index, where the content broker is coupled to the unified object index and receives, from a requesting entity, a request to perform an action on an object and the object is stored in the content repository. The method further including obtaining the object associated with the request from a content repository, determining, using the unified object index, a normalized object type associated with the object, obtaining a governance rule based on the normalized object type, and servicing the request using the governance rule. |
| US10362137B2 |
Hebbian learning-based recommendations for social networks
A network device applies Hebbian-based learning to provide content recommendations in content-based social networks. The method includes obtaining customer activity data for a content-based social network; modeling the customer activity data as nodes and edges within the content-based social network, the nodes representing users and the edges representing connections between the users; assigning initial weights to the edges, that correspond to a connection strength, based on user-designated of relationships between the nodes; adjusting the initial weights in response to temporally correlated activity between the nodes from the customer activity data, to provide adjusted weights; identifying a content recommendation for a particular node based on an activity to access content by another node and one or more of the adjusted weights; storing a customer profile including the content recommendations associated with a node; and providing the content recommendation to a user device associated with the customer profile. |
| US10362134B2 |
Peer cache filling
The embodiments provide peer cache filling. The peer cache filling allocates a set of caching servers to distribute content in response to user requests with a limited first subset of the set of servers having access to retrieve the content from an origin and with a larger second subset of the set of servers retrieving the content from the first subset of servers without accessing the origin. The peer cache filling dynamically escalates and deesclataes the allocation of the caching servers to the first and second subsets as demand for the content rises and falls. Peer cache filling is implemented by modifying request headers to identify designated hot content, provide a request identifier hash result for identifying the ordering of servers, and provide a value for designating which servers in the ordering as primary server with access to the origin. |
| US10362131B1 |
Fault tolerant message delivery
A plurality of redundant brokers may be used as intermediaries to exchange messages between one or more producers and one or more consumers. More specifically, one or more producers may enqueue messages to a primary broker. The primary broker then dispatches the received messages to one or more interested consumers. However, should the primary broker fail, messages enqueued by the producers may be lost, and thus delivery of such messages may fail. Accordingly, one or more backup brokers may be provided that can assume the responsibilities of the failed primary broker and dispatch copies of the messages that were enqueued by the producers to the failed primary broker. |
| US10362128B2 |
Server device, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method
A server device includes first and second acquisition units, a memory, an analyzer, a generating unit, and a transmitter. The first acquisition unit acquires first history information about an operation performed during displaying of a first screen in at least one client device and first attribute information about at least one user thereof. The memory stores the two acquired pieces of information. When receiving an acquisition request for a new screen from a client device of the at least one client device, the second acquisition unit acquires second attribute information about a first user using the client device. The analyzer analyzes the two stored pieces of information to specify an operation characteristic of a second user having an attribute indicated by the second attribute information. The generating unit generates a second screen according to the specified operation. The transmitter transmits screen data indicating the second screen to the client device. |
| US10362125B2 |
Technologies for pre-action execution
Technologies for pre-action execution include a client computing device to request a resource from a server and receive content from the server including the requested resource and one or more pre-action hints. Each of the one or more pre-action hints identifies a suggested pre-action to be taken by the client computing device prior to receipt of a corresponding user request to perform the corresponding suggested pre-action. The client computing device determines a likelihood of success of one or more pre-actions based on historical behavior data of a user of the client computing device, wherein each pre-action corresponds to at least one of the one or more pre-action hints. The client computing device selects a pre-action to execute based on the determined likelihood of success of the one or more pre-actions. |
| US10362122B2 |
Replacing a virtual network function in a network service
A method and associated computer system. A processor queries a service catalog and a virtual service inventory to obtain network service instances including a virtual network function. The processor deploys a new version of the virtual network function by performing at least one step of the following steps: replacing the network address of the virtual network function with the network address of the new version of the virtual network function; detaching a floating network address from the virtual network function and attaching the detached floating network address to the new version of the virtual network function (if one of the obtained network service instances is connected to a load balancer and/or the virtual network function is configured with an inherent load balancing); replacing the instance identifier of the virtual network function in a forwarding policy rule with the instance identifier of the new version of the virtual network function. |
| US10362121B1 |
Communications path verification
A method can include storing, in memory, resource operating data associated with at least one endpoint resource that is registered for operation in a communications network for a given user. The resource operating data can be analyzed in response to establishing a communications session over a communications path between an endpoint resource associated with the given user and at least one other communications resource. The method can include verifying the communications path for the established communications session based on the analyzing. |
| US10362119B2 |
System and method for internet of things and home automation using a vehicle
A system for home and automobile connectivity, including: a smart home, the smart home including a plurality of internet-of-things (IoT) devices, the IoT devices communicably coupled to a home network; an automobile module, the automobile module connected to a plurality of sensors and a plurality of wired communication paths in a vehicle, the automobile module configured to output sensor data via a plurality of wireless communication paths; and an automobile bridge, the automobile bridge including a plurality of different communication protocols for communicating with different ecosystems in the home network, and a plurality of wireless communication paths for communication with the home network and the automobile module. |
| US10362118B2 |
Synchronization of appliances to a schedule of a user
A method and system are provided that synchronize one or more appliances to one or more users' schedules. Sensor data may be obtained from a sensor. The sensor data may indicate a state of a first appliance. A user location may be determined. A first characteristic of the first appliance may be obtained. Based upon the user location and the sensor data, a schedule indicating when the user will desire a state change of the first appliance may be determined. A feature of the first appliance may be dynamically modified to cause the first appliance to operate according to the schedule. A notice may be sent to the user that contains information about the first appliance. |
| US10362117B1 |
Systems and methods for modified network routing based on modal information
A network interface devices includes a configuration engine, a mode modification engine, and a switch. The configuration engine defines a static routing configuration for communicating one or more first data packets received from a first processing circuit along a network pathway to a predetermined one or more second processing circuits. The mode modification engine is configured to receive an indication of a networking mode and modify the network pathway based on the indication of the networking mode. The switch is configured to communicate the first data packets along the network pathway. |
| US10362108B2 |
Application transfer using time delay and proximity detection
Transferring a set of elements between devices is provided. A set of rules governing a transfer of the set of elements from a sending client device to a receiving client device is received. The set of elements for the transfer is received from the sending client device. It is determined whether the set of rules governing the transfer of the set of elements from the sending client device to the receiving client device are met. In response to determining that the set of rules governing the transfer of the set of elements from the sending client device to the receiving client device are met, the set of elements is transferred to the receiving client device. |
| US10362107B2 |
Synchronization of storage transactions in clustered storage systems
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage system is provided that includes processing systems configured to receive storage operations for storage drives coupled over a communication fabric. The data storage system includes a control processor configured to establish a timer synchronization signal and distribute the timer synchronization signal to the processing systems. Each of the processing systems is configured to assign timestamps to received storage operations based on a timestamp counter synchronized among the processing systems using the timer synchronization signal. The processing systems are configured to order committing of the storage operations to the storage drives based at least on the timestamps associated with the storage operations. |
| US10362104B2 |
Data manager
A system and approach that provides a basis for monitoring, control, and communications among many remote controller sites and building equipment. A system architectural goal may be to distribute a workload of a supervisor across multiple processing units while maintaining a seamless and integrated workflow for a user experience. |
| US10362103B2 |
System and method for evaluating the feasibility of introducing a new node in a blockchain infrastructure
The present disclosure envisages a system for evaluating the feasibility of introducing a new node in a blockchain infrastructure. The blockchain dimension queries and the transaction dimension queries are presented to a user. The user provides responses to the blockchain dimension queries and transaction dimension queries. A feature detector module detects features from the blockchain dimension responses and the transaction dimension responses. A feature value assignor assigns feature values to the detected features. A criticality assignor assigns criticality scores to the detected features. A weightage assignor assigns weightage scores to the blockchain dimension queries and the transaction dimension queries. The feasibility evaluator receives the feature values, the criticality scores, and the weightage scores, and calculates a feasibility score, thereby evaluating the feasibility of introducing the new node. |
| US10362102B2 |
Information processing apparatus for analyzing network type data
An information processing apparatus includes a first network information acquisition unit that acquires first network information including plural event nodes and event links each connecting one pair of event nodes involved in an event, among the plural event nodes, a second network information acquisition unit that acquires second network information including at least two time links each connecting the plural event nodes and plural time nodes, and the one pair of event nodes and the time nodes indicating a time of occurrence of the event, and a second community generation unit that generates one or more second communities to which the plural event nodes and the plural time nodes belong, for the second network information. |
| US10362101B2 |
Mechanism for providing load balancing to an external node utilizing a clustered environment for storage management
A method for providing load balancing to a client node external to a clustered environment for storage management, includes deploying a lightweight load balancing component at the client node, receiving I/O requests issued by virtual machines hosted at the client node by the lightweight load balancing component, performing a hashing algorithm on content of the I/O requests by the lightweight load balancing component to identify one or more controller virtual machines at the clustered environment for handling the I/O requests and dynamically distributing the I/O requests from the lightweight load balancing component to the one or more controller virtual machines at the clustered environment for storage management. |
| US10362094B2 |
Retrieval and playout of media content
An example method involves accessing a playlist defining a sequence of media content items including a first media content item and a second media content item; retrieving, from one or more server devices, first data representing the media content items of the received playlist, and using the retrieved first data to playout the media content items in accordance with the sequence defined by the playlist; determining a status of an event, and using the determined status of the event as a basis to determine a condition; making a determination that the determined condition has been satisfied; and responsive to making the determination that the determined condition has been satisfied, (i) retrieving second data representing a media content item related to the event, and (ii) using the retrieved second data to playout the media content item related to the event in between playing out the first and second media content items. |
| US10362093B2 |
NFA completion notification
Multiple processors share access, via a bus, to a pipelined NFA engine. The NFA engine can implement an NFA of the type that is not a DFA (namely, it can be in multiple states at the same time). One of the processors communicates a configuration command, a go command, and an event generate command across the bus to the NFA engine. The event generate command includes a reference value. The configuration command causes the NFA engine to be configured. The go command causes the configured NFA engine to perform a particular NFA operation. Upon completion of the NFA operation, the event generate command causes the reference value to be returned back across the bus to the processor. |
| US10362092B1 |
Entity management in distributed systems
Systems for managing shared entities between computing clusters while avoiding race conditions. Multiple clusters are interconnected over a network. When a node of a cluster intends to move a shared data item or virtual machine from its cluster to another cluster, the movement or migration can be initiated by establishing sole ownership followed by a request to an arbiter to intermediate during the movement or migration. The request explicitly includes subject entity metadata that describes sharing states pertaining to the subject entity. Upon granting a request, the arbiter generates a master copy of the entity metadata and grants itself read-write access. Any other sharers of the subject entity observe read-only access while the arbiter maintains the sole master copy. A sharer of the subject entity can cause changes to the subject entity through the arbiter. The arbiter can pass ownership to a new cluster to complete the subject entity migration. |
| US10362089B1 |
Methods and systems for dynamically generating and reusing dynamic web content
Methods and systems for generating and reusing dynamic web content involve, for example, automatically generating client-side code on a server at run time, and automatically downloading the client-side code to the client side at run time. The client-side code is executed on the client side to become a widget with dynamic behavior attributes displayed as a component of a web page on a display screen of a client-side computing device. Dynamic behavior of the client-side code may triggered via an event handler mechanism wherein properties of the client-side code are dynamically changed without affecting any other content on the web page. The widget may be redisplayed on a subsequent occasion with a change in the widget without regenerating the client-side code. |
| US10362085B2 |
Applications on top of a web site
An integrated user interface that provides an enriched and enhanced end-user experience is enabled via the seamless addition of applications selected by the end-user and accessed as part of a web site. Additional services, features and capabilities that are not provided by the core web site technology may be provided by third-party developers, to inject content and capabilities into the web site. The third-party developers may add pages inside of an existing web site to display end-user selectable elements, and to display various forms of content in web pages of the web site. |
| US10362081B2 |
Methods and systems for quantifying the holistic quality of experience for internet multimedia
A system and method is provided for providing a composite Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics associated with a multimedia transmitted via a network. The method includes obtaining multimedia data corresponding to the multimedia transmitted via the network and acquiring metrics associated with the multimedia data. The metrics includes at least one multimedia transmitting metrics and at least one multimedia quality metrics. The method also includes normalizing the metrics and determining, based on the one or more normalized metrics, the composite multimedia QoE metrics. |
| US10362078B2 |
Location-based music content identification
Example techniques disclosed herein relate to location-based media content identification. In an example implementation, a first computing device transmits, over one or more networks to a second computing device, location information indicating a particular location of the first computing device at a given time. The first computing device receives, over the one or more networks from the second computing device, identification information indicating media content played by one or more playback devices at the particular location and availability information indicating that at least one media item of the media content is available for playback via a media streaming service and causes presentation of an indication of the media content played at the particular location and an indication that the at least one media item of the media content is available for playback via the media streaming service. |
| US10362073B2 |
Social networking system and method
A social network is provided. The social network of the present invention may prompt a user to create a “moment”. The moment of the present invention may include at least a time and a location of a place that the user is currently located, was located in the past, or will be located in the future. The moment may be stored on a database. Multiple users may create accounts and create a plurality of moments. All of the moments of the users may be stored on the database. The present invention may include a search box so that third party users may search for other third party user's moments. A user may enter in search criteria and may be presented with a plurality of moments based on the inputted search criteria. |
| US10362072B2 |
Systems and methods for multimedia multipoint real-time conferencing allowing real-time bandwidth management and prioritized media distribution
A system is disclosed for multimedia multipoint real-time conferencing that includes a communication module to receive a request to share media content in a virtual room setting. The content may include an audio, a video, a text, or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) code referencing a third-party resource. The system may further include a content encoder at the host website to create a data packet encapsulating the transport characteristics and the routing requirements and a multipoint router to share the content via the transport protocol in the real-time group conference associated with the users of the virtual room. |
| US10362068B2 |
System and method for scheduling a video conference in an autonomous vehicle
A system, a multi-user scheduling unit comprised in the system, and corresponding methods are described for scheduling a video conference call for at least one autonomous vehicle. The system provides a means of scheduling such a call for various participants while minimizing driver interaction or need for attention while a vehicle is in a manual driving mode. |
| US10362065B2 |
Management of actions initiated by applications in client devices
A client device identifies an action being performed using a first application in the client device. The client device identifies that the first application is not authorized to be used to perform the action. In response, the client device identifies a second application that is authorized to perform the action. The client device also facilitates the second application being used to perform the action. |
| US10362062B1 |
System and method for evaluating security entities in a computing environment
System and method to evaluate a plurality of security entities in a network environment is disclosed. Communication between a user computer and a destination computer is monitored by a security appliance. Selective information from the communication is extracted by the security appliance. The selective information is indicative of a value for one or more attributes of the plurality of security entities. A first value indicative of occurrence of each of the values for each of the attributes is generated. A second value indicative of occurrence of each of the values for each of the attributes for each of the security entity is generated. A third value is calculated based on the first value and the second value for each of the attribute value for each of the security entity, wherein the third value is indicative of significance of the value of the attribute for the security entity. |
| US10362058B2 |
Secure and scalable data transfer using a hybrid blockchain-based approach
Techniques for facilitating secure and scalable data transfers using a hybrid blockchain-based approach are provided. In one embodiment, a first computer system at a first site can transmit a token to a second computer system at a second site, where the token includes metadata regarding a data set to be transferred from the first computer system to the second computer system and one or more cloud storage service addresses where the data set will be temporarily stored. The token can be transmitted using a blockchain network that is accessible to the first and second computer systems via a public network. The first computer system can then upload the data set to the one or more cloud storage service addresses via the public network, and the second computer system can download the data set from the one or more cloud storage service addresses via the public network. |
| US10362057B1 |
Enterprise DNS analysis
Provided are methods, network devices, and computer-program products for a domain name system (DNS) threat detection engine for analyzing DNS traffic for potential threats. In various implementations, the DNS threat detection engine can include threat profiles that include characteristics of network threats associated with DNS. When a DNS message includes a characteristic associated with a particular threat profile, a remediation rule associated with the threat profile can be used to modify the DNS message, including modifying the destination for the DNS message. When the DNS message is received at the new destination, the DNS message can be analyzed to determine whether the DNS message is associated with a threat to the network. |
| US10362056B1 |
Content-aware spoofed sensor measurement data detection in microgrids
Systems and methods for detection of spoofed sensor measurements in a microgrid are provided. A system can include a control agent that is configured to determine whether an isolated or continuing intrusion of measurement data received from the primary sensors has occurred, and transmit forecasted measurement data to the controller rather than suspected corrupt measurement data for a suspected isolated intrusion. The control agent and a clone agent can be configured to communicate and work in parallel to confirm a continuing intrusion is occurring, and the control agent can be further configured to transmit measurement data from the redundant sensors to the controller if a continuing intrusion is confirmed. |
| US10362055B2 |
System and methods for active brute force attack protection
Embodiments are described for provision of a brute force attack protection service to a middleware service, for example in the context of a distributed computing system receiving requests for connection from remote client devices. The brute force attack protection service may avoid relying upon presenting a Turing challenge at client devices for identifying and handling malicious requests for access or resources at the middleware service. |
| US10362053B1 |
Computer security threat sharing
A computer security threat sharing technology is described. A computer security threat is recognized at an organization. A partner network graph is queried for security nodes connected to a first security node representing the organization. The first security node is connected to at least a second security node representing a trusted security partner of the organization. The second security node is associated with identification information. The computer security threat recognized by the organization is communicated to the trusted security partner using the identification information associated with the second security node. |
| US10362052B2 |
Generating a virtual database to test data security of a real database
Determining a data security risk level of a virtual database is provided. An object catalog corresponding to a real database is imported into the virtual database. Objects in the object catalog are organized by levels. It is determined whether one or more data security policy definitions corresponding to a set of objects referenced by test query message traffic performed an action in response to determining that one or more test query messages in the test query message traffic run on the virtual database did not satisfy respective parameters of the one or more data security policy definitions. In response to determining that one or more of the data security policy definitions corresponding to the set of objects referenced by the test query message traffic did not perform the action, a test failure result is returned. A data security risk level for the virtual database is determined based on the result. |
| US10362050B2 |
System and methods for scalably identifying and characterizing structural differences between document object models
A security auditing computer system efficiently evaluates and reports security exposures in a target Web site hosted on a remote Web server system. The auditing system includes a crawler subsystem that constructs a first list of Web page identifiers representing the target Web site. An auditing subsystem selectively retrieves and audits Web pages based on a second list, based on the first. Retrieval is sub-selected dependent on a determined uniqueness of Web page identifiers relative to the second list. Auditing is further sub-selected dependent on a determined uniqueness of structural identifiers computed for each retrieved Web page, including structural identifiers of Web page components contained within a Web page. The computed structural identifiers are stored in correspondence with Web page identifiers and Web page component identifiers in the second list. A reporting system produces reports of security exposures identified through the auditing of Web pages and Web page components. |
| US10362044B2 |
Identifying command and control endpoint used by domain generation algorithm (DGA) malware
A command endpoint used by Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) malware is identified using machine learning-based clustering. According to this technique, at least one attribute associated with a candidate resolved DNS name is identified. The candidate resolved DNS name has associated therewith a set of names that are failed DNS lookups but that cluster with the candidate resolved DNS name. A set of additional names that share the at least one attribute with the candidate resolved DNS name are then identified. For the set of additional names, an extent to which the set of additional names also clusters with the set of names that are failed DNS lookups is then determined. The candidate resolved DNS name is characterized as associated with the command endpoint when the set of additional names cluster with the set of names that are failed DNS lookups to a configurable degree. |
| US10362043B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting man-in-the-middle attack
A method and an apparatus for detecting a man-in-the-middle attack, where the method includes receiving, by a macro evolved Node B (MeNB), a first check request message sent by a secondary evolved Node B (SeNB), where the first check request message includes first identifier information and a first data packet count value, generating a second check request message according to the first identifier information, sending the second check request message to a user terminal, receiving a first check response message generated by the user terminal according to the second check request message, where the first check response message includes second identifier information and a second data packet count value, determining, by the MeNB, that the man-in-the-middle attack exists between the SeNB and the user terminal when the first data packet count value is different from the second data packet count value. |
| US10362042B2 |
Method for transmitting verification information and terminal
A method for transmitting verification information includes: detecting, by a first terminal, whether a condition for performing a verification operation is satisfied; generating, by the first terminal, a verification information obtaining request if the condition for performing a verification operation is satisfied, where the verification information obtaining request is used to request a second terminal to feed back verification information; sending, by the first terminal, the verification information obtaining request to the second terminal; receiving, by the first terminal, a verification information obtaining response returned by the second terminal, where the verification information obtaining response includes the verification information; and sending, by the first terminal, the verification information to a server, where the verification information is used for the server to verify the first terminal. |
| US10362038B2 |
Maintaining a limited user profile for social networking system users unable to establish a user profile
A social networking system maintains a limited user profile associated with a user of the social networking system who does not satisfy one or more criteria for the social networking system to maintain a user profile. The limited user profile includes information describing the user and allows the user to be associated with limited types of interactions with the social networking system. An administrator is associated with the limited user profile and may modify information associated with the limited user profile as well as authorize or deny interactions involving the limited user profile. When the user satisfies criteria for the social networking system maintaining a user profile, the social networking system generates a user profile based on information in the limited user profile and prior interactions involving the limited user profile. |
| US10362037B2 |
Private cloud control
Management of IoT devices through a private cloud. An IoT device is coupled to a gateway. A request from the IoT device to connect to a private cloud, wherein the private cloud is used to manage IoT devices, is received at a private cloud control center agent. An identification of the IoT device is determined. The IoT device is onboarded, using the identification, for management through the private cloud. A device profile of the IoT device is generated. The flow of data to and from the IoT device is regulated through application of IoT rules according to the device profile of the IoT device. |
| US10362035B1 |
Secured communications using avionics power bus network
Embodiments of the inventive concepts disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods for providing secured communications via an avionics power bus network. The power bus network can have a plurality of power bus domains, for providing power to at least two endpoint systems. The avionics power bus network can incorporate a plurality of network access interfaces, and each of the network access interfaces may provide power bus isolation between at least two of the power bus domains, and/or network communications isolation across at least two power bus domains. A network gateway may configure communications between the two endpoint systems through one or more of the network access interfaces, and for validating credentials to permit the communications to be transmitted through some of the power bus domains. The network gateway can be accessed via a network access point to configure the communications. |
| US10362034B2 |
Secure online gaming registration system with privacy controls
An online gaming registration system allows online gaming patrons to register once and use this registration to create online gaming accounts with gaming Web sites, thereby avoiding having to show proof of residency, age and other requirements set by regulatory entities multiple times. Residency rules and other requirements vary from one jurisdiction to another and the present invention addresses some of the issues that arise from this. An online gaming Web site receives a login from an online player over the Internet. The site determines that the player has an account with the online gaming site and that the account is linked to an online gaming registration system account. The online gaming site receives claims-based data relating to the online player and accepts the player as verified for online gaming at the gaming Web site. |
| US10362033B1 |
Finding users
An application executed on a first device presents a user interface on a device display. The application is associated with a validation system used by the device. Based on receiving a first user input, the application controls the first device to scan, using a first communication protocol, for other devices that are located within a first communication range of the first device. Based on the scan, the application discovers a second device that is located within the first communication range of the first device. The application receives, from the second device, an identification information that uniquely identifies a user associated with the second device on the validation system. The application validates the identification information by communicating with a validation server. Based on validating the identification information, the application displays an indication that the second device associated with the user is located within the first communication range of the first device. |
| US10362030B2 |
Method and system for providing access to administrative functionality a virtualization environment
Described is an architecture for providing access to administrative functionality in a virtualization system using implied authentication. This approach avoids the problems associated with the requirements to use a user ID and password to access an admin console. The user ID and password can be rendered completely unnecessary, or where the user ID and password combination is only used as a supplement to the implied authentication. |
| US10362029B2 |
Media access policy and control management
Embodiments for media access policy and control management by one or more processors. A user is identified using biometric data to enable enforcement of one or more media policies for controlling access to media content for one or more types of computing devices. The one or more media policies may be incrementally applied over a predetermined period of time according to a resistance factor of the user to the one or more media policies for controlling access to media content for each of the one or more types of computing devices. |
| US10362028B2 |
Information processing apparatus
A picked up image displaying unit displays a picked up image on a display unit. A face authentication unit detects a face image of a registered user existing in the picked up image using face identification data retained in a registered user information retaining block. A position designation image processing unit displays a position designation image for designating a position of an object for the detected registered user on the display unit. An object authentication unit detects that an object image is included in the region designated by the position designation image. |
| US10362024B2 |
System and methods for secure entry of a personal identification number (PIN)
Systems and methods for credential character selection are provided. The system includes one or more sensors configured to detect a character selection and generate a character selection signal, and detect a character selection completion and generate a character selection completion signal. The system also includes one or more processors coupled to the one or more sensors, the one or more processors configured to receive the character selection signal and the character selection completion signal, and generate an output signal based on the received character selection signal that includes components of a credential. The system also includes a network interface component configured to transmit the output signal. The credential characters may be components of a PIN or password. Moreover, the credential character selections may be made on one device, but displayed on a separate coupled device. The character selections may be a selection of a character or a modification of character. |
| US10362021B2 |
Device authentication based upon tunnel client network requests
Disclosed are various approaches for providing authentication of a user and a client device. A user's credentials can be authenticated by an identity provider. In addition, a device posture assessment that analyzes the device from which the authentication request originates is also performed. An authentication request can be authenticated based upon whether the device posture assessment reveals that device to be a managed device that is in compliance with compliance rules. |
| US10362017B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus, authentication apparatus, wireless communication method and authentication method
According to one embodiment, when a control unit is notified of information in at least one second signal received by one of first and second wireless communication units after the control unit provides the second wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a first signal containing first address information and before a waiting time elapses and when the at least one second signal contains second address information assigned to an authentication apparatus having received the first signal, then the control unit provides the first wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a third signal for a connection request with the second address information set in a destination address. |
| US10362013B2 |
Out of box experience application API integration
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing an original equipment manufacturer with application program interface (API) for registering an account and creating a custom uniform resource locator (URL) on a content management system, from which the out-of-box experience application can download and install a pre-authorized version of a client application for the content management system. |
| US10362009B2 |
Methods and apparatus for authentication and identity management using a public key infrastructure (PKI) in an IP-based telephony environment
Methods and apparatus are provided for user authentication using a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in an IP-based telephony environment, such as an IMS network. A user of a user device attempting to access an IP-based telephony network can be authenticated by obtaining one or more private keys of the user from a secure memory associated with the user device; generating an integrity key and a ciphering key; encrypting the integrity key and the ciphering key using a session key; encrypting the session key with a public key of the IP-based telephony network; and providing the encrypted session key, encrypted integrity key and encrypted ciphering key to the IP-based telephony network for authentication. A network-based method is also provided for authenticating a user in an IP-based telephony network. |
| US10362008B2 |
Information processing system capable of performing communication at high security level, method of controlling the same, information processing apparatus, and storage medium
An information processing system that is capable of performing communication at a high security level even when no encryption key having a predetermined or higher encryption strength is stored. An information processing system includes an MFP as an information processing apparatus and a client PC as the other information processing apparatus that is connected to the MFP. The MFP stores encryption keys in a key storage dedicated area of an HDD. When a strong key which is an encryption key difficult to crack is not stored in the key storage dedicated area, the strong key is generated. Communication between the MFP and the client PC is performed using the generated strong key. |
| US10362002B2 |
Methods and systems for journaling and coaching using a wearable device
A method to create autonomous decision logic (ADL) may include receiving a request to create the ADL. The request includes a selection of an input and a selection of an output. When executed by a client device, the ADL is configured to provide the output based at least partially on an identification of the input. The method further includes electronically packaging the input and the output to generate the ADL. The method includes sending the ADL via a transport layer to the client device for execution of the ADL on the client device. The client device is configured to generate encrypted data pertaining to the execution of the ADL. The method includes receiving, from the client device, the encrypted data pertaining to the execution of the ADL. The method further includes decrypting the encrypted data. The method includes presenting at least some of the decrypted data on a display. |
| US10362001B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing secure communications based on trust evaluations in a distributed manner
An approach is provided for providing secure communications based on trust evaluation in a distributed manner. A method can comprises: sending data to a plurality of devices, the data being encrypted with a communication key; encrypting the communication key with public attribute keys associated with attributes, wherein the attributes comprising at least one trust level related attribute representing an access condition for the data based on a trust level; evaluating a trust level of each device of the plurality of devices, to identify eligible devices of the plurality of devices whose trust levels satisfy the access condition; sending the encrypted communication key to the plurality of devices; and sending secret attribute keys associated with the attributes to each device of the eligible devices for decrypting the encrypted communication key, the secret attribute keys being personalized for the each device of the eligible devices. |
| US10361999B2 |
Category-based data loss prevention for network-connected devices
A network-connected device (such as an “internet of things” device) that periodically transmits data to recipient devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops) may be protected by a firewall that include software firewall elements, hardware firewall elements, or some combination thereof. The firewall may intercept datasets sent by the network-connected device, inspect the datasets, and categorize data within each dataset as belonging to one of a number of previously-identified data categories, such as personal data, location data, behavior data, or energy data, or as not belonging to any recognized data category. Rules within firewall policies may indicate whether data of each data category is to be allowed to be sent to the recipient devices or to be blocked from being sent to the recipient devices, for example allowing a firewall to block transmission of location data. Data not belonging to a recognized data category is sent to a support system for classification. |
| US10361996B2 |
Serial bus auto-addressing
A bus node is capable of performing a method for the assigning of bus node addresses to bus nodes of a serial data bus. The method is performed with the aid of bus shunt resistors in the individual bus nodes of the data bus system in an assignment time period. After the assigning of bus node addresses to the bus nodes in the assignment time period, there follows an operating time period. For this purpose, the bus node comprises such a bus shunt resistor. The bus node is characterized by a bus shunt bypass switch which, prior to assigning a bus node address to the bus node in the assignment time period is opened and which after the assignment of bus node address to the bus node in the assignment time period is closed, and which is closed in the operating time period. |
| US10361993B2 |
Cross-protocol communication in domain name systems
Systems and methods for processing domain name system requests in accordance with subscriber information are provided. A request for domain name information can be correlated with subscriber information using a subscriber identifier to resolve the domain name information at a domain name system (DNS) nameserver. The subscriber identifier and/or subscriber information may be transmitted from a DNS nameserver to a webserver using the domain name information provided in response to the subscriber's DNS queries. The subscriber identifier and/or information may be used in delivering a landing page or in facilitating proxying of resource requests for the requested domain. |
| US10361990B2 |
Computer implemented methods and apparatus for integrating a social network information feed with a network communications application
Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for integrating an information feed. In various implementations, an identity of a user may be determined based on authentication information, where the authentication information identifies a user profile. In some implementations, profile information is identified based on the determined identity, where the profile information identifies one or more entities tracked using one or more information feeds associated with the user profile, and where the one or more information feeds comprises one or more feed items stored in a database system. In various implementations, the identified profile information is associated with a user account provided by a network communications application. |
| US10361986B2 |
Gameplay in a chat thread
There is provided a system and method for user generated gameplay in chat. The system including a memory storing a text and multimedia messaging software application, and a processor configured to execute the text and multimedia messaging software application to initiate a message exchange session with a remote mobile device, in response to a request received from a user of the mobile device, the message exchange session displaying a user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages, provide a plurality of games for selection by the user to be played during the message exchange session and within the user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages, receive a selection of one of the plurality of games by the user after initiating the message exchange session, and initiate the one of the plurality of games for playing within the user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages. |
| US10361985B1 |
Message processing using messaging services
A message processing technology is provided that includes subscription of stateless compute functions to messaging queues of the message queueing service. The message queueing service may be configured to provide highly scalable hosted messaging queues for reliable delivery of messages. When messages are received in a messaging queue, then a stateless compute function, of a serverless compute service, that is subscribed to the messaging queue may be invoked to process the message. The serverless compute service manages compute resource for execution of the stateless compute function in response to dynamic message traffic. |
| US10361982B2 |
Interactive message-based delivery of narrative content using a communication network
A system and related methodologies of delivering storyline content to users are presented herein. A server system maintains storyline data corresponding to an interactive narrative storyline having variable narrative paths that influence outcomes of the storyline. Storyline messages are communicated from the server system using a messaging service, wherein each communicated storyline message includes a portion of the narrative storyline. The server system receives messages generated from the subscriber device in response to communicated storyline messages, wherein each response message includes a user-specified storyline option. Subsequent storyline messages are retrieved by the server system based on the user-specified storyline options conveyed with the user responses. |
| US10361981B2 |
Automatic extraction of commitments and requests from communications and content
A system that analyses content of electronic communications may automatically extract requests or commitments from the electronic communications. In one example process, a processing component may analyze the content to determine one or more meanings of the content; query content of one or more data sources that is related to the electronic communications; and based, at least in part, on (i) the one or more meanings of the content and (ii) the content of the one or more data sources, automatically identify and extract a request or commitment from the content. Multiple actions may follow from initial recognition and extraction, including confirmation and refinement of the description of the request or commitment, and actions that assist one or more of the senders, recipients, or others to track and address the request or commitment, including the creation of additional messages, reminders, appointments, or to-do lists. |
| US10361978B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing data using plural processors
A method for managing data in an electronic device including a first processor and a second processor, the method comprising: receiving data transmitted by a first external device by using the first processor; identifying, by the first processor, a service or content corresponding to the data; in response to detecting that the data corresponds to a first service or a first content, using the first processor to transmit at least a portion of the data to the second processor; and in response to detecting that the data corresponds to a second service or a second content, using the first processor to transmit at least a portion of the data to a second external device. |
| US10361975B2 |
Messaging bot selection in multi-bot chat sessions
A user profile and messaging bots can be joined to participate in a group chat session. A first natural language requirement set can be received from the profile and sent to the bots. A first solution set from a first bot can be processed, with the set including a first natural language script describing a first solution to the requirement set. A second solution set from a second bot can be processed, with the set including a second natural language script that describes a second solution to the requirement set. The first and second scripts can be sent to the profile, and at least part of each solution set can be sent to the other bot. A selection of the first bot for providing a solution to the requirement set can be received from the profile, and an indication of the selection can be transmitted to the first bot. |
| US10361971B2 |
Resource reservation mechanism for overlay networking
An approach is provided in which an information handling system establishes a resource reservation protocol (RSVP) session corresponding to a flow between a first entity and a second entity operating within a computer environment that implements a network virtualization overlay protocol. Once the RSVP session is established, the information handling system encapsulates data packets of the flow based on the network virtualization overlay protocol and, in turn, sends the encapsulated data packet over the computer network with a quality of service (QoS) assurance level that is based on the established RSVP session. |
| US10361965B2 |
Datacenter operations optimization system
Various methods and systems for implementing resource management for an infrastructure are provided. Resource management includes datacenter byproduct management interfaces, datacenter power management, datacenter operations optimization and infrastructure resource management. Resource management facilitates using and distributing physical resources, including incidental physical resources that are generated during operation of an infrastructure, based on a minimum threshold reserve of the physical resource associated with the operating the infrastructure. Resource management can include controlling an amount of the physical resource that is generated and an amount the physical resource that is reserved. The minimum threshold reserve in combination with the control over generating and reserving the physical resource help identify an allocable amount of the physical resource. Physical resources of an infrastructure are quantified to support resource management. Quantifying physical resources is associated with devices of the infrastructure and requests for physical resources in the infrastructure to perform different types of operations. |
| US10361957B1 |
Predicting optical spectral profiles in advance of capacity changes in optical networks
Systems and methods for preconditioning an optical spectrum through predicting optical spectral profiles in advance of capacity changes in an optical section include obtaining data associated with the optical section to model a current state of spectral loading in the optical section; responsive to a proposed capacity change in the current state of spectral loading, estimating a future state of spectral loading which includes the capacity change; and causing changes to one or more settings in the optical section to achieve an optimized spectral loading for the future state of spectral loading. |
| US10361953B1 |
Data communication system to direct a user equipment to re-originate a media session invite having a wireless priority service (WPS) prefix over a long term evolution (LTE) network
An Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) receives a media session invite having a Wireless Priority Service (WPS) prefix over a non-Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for a User Equipment (UE). The IMS identifies the WPS prefix and adds a Resource Priority Header (RPH) indicating that the media session invite is for a WPS call. The IMS transfers an authentication request to a WPS Application Server to authenticate the UE for the WPS call based on a UE identifier and receives an authentication response indicating that the UE is authenticated. The IMS determines that the media session invite was transferred over the non-LTE network and transfers an instruction to the UE indicating that the UE should re-originate the media session invite over the LTE network. The UE receives the instruction and transfers the media session invite having the WPS prefix to the IMS over the LTE network. |
| US10361952B2 |
Intermediate logical interfaces in a virtual distributed router environment
A LRE (logical routing element) that have LIFs that are active in all host machines spanned by the LRE as well as LIFs that are active in only a subset of those spanned host machines is provided. A host machine having an active LIF for a particular L2 segment would perform the L3 routing operations for network traffic related to that L2 segment. A host machine having an inactive LIF for the particular L2 segment would not perform L3 routing operations for the network traffic of the L2 segment. |
| US10361949B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for sharing labels across label-switched paths within networks
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving, at a network node within a network, a packet from another network node within the network, (2) identifying, within the packet, a label stack that includes a plurality of labels that collectively represent at least a portion of an LSP within the network, (3) popping, from the label stack, a label that corresponds to a specific link to a further network node, and then upon popping the label from the label stack, (4) forwarding the packet to the further network node by way of the specific link. Various other methods, systems, and apparatuses are also disclosed. |
| US10361947B2 |
Service chaining using source routing
A source routing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving a data packet that comprises a destination address, a source address, and a payload, determining a plurality of next-hops along a service chain path between the source address and the destination address, generating a source routed data packet that comprises the destination address, the source address, the plurality of next-hops, and the payload, setting the destination address of the source routed data packet to a first next-hop from the plurality of next-hops along the service chain path, and forwarding the source routed data packet in accordance with the destination address. |
| US10361945B2 |
System and method to reconcile cabling test results with cabling test configurations
A cable testing system and method including at least one testing device configured to perform cabling testing pursuant to a cabling testing configuration and a cloud-based server device configured to couple, via the Internet, to the at least one testing device. The server device includes a database configured to store one or more cabling testing configurations and a processor configured to send one or more cabling testing configurations from the database to the at least one testing device such that the at least one testing device performs a cabling test pursuant to the cabling test configuration received from the server device. |
| US10361944B2 |
Automated test for uniform web service interfaces
A method of automated testing of a Web Service public interface may include retrieving a first data set from the Web Service. The first data set may include information for accessing individual data records stored by the Web Service. The method may also include retrieving a second data set from the Web Service. The second data set may include a data model for the individual data records. The method may additionally include retrieving a first data record from the Web Service using the information for accessing individual data records. The method may further include verifying that the first data record retrieved from the Web Service is correct by comparing fields in the first data record with the data model. |
| US10361940B2 |
Monitoring quality of service
A system comprises a first computing device including a processor programmed to define a plurality of download slots during a download session, each of the download slots being a predetermined period of time. The processor further selects download slots from the plurality of download slots during which a first amount of data in the download buffer remained greater than or equal to a first predetermined threshold. For each of the selected download slots, the processor determines a first download throughput rate. The processor calculates a session download throughput rate based on the first download throughput rates, and reports the session download throughput rates to a second computing device. |
| US10361936B2 |
Filtering content based on user mobile network and data-plan
A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive a content request from a client device of a user; determine level of network availability on the client device and data plan availability associated with the user; determine one or more content filtering factors to filter the content for display to the user; filter the content based on the one or more filtering factors, the level of network availability, and the data plan availability; and provide filtered content for display on the client device of the user. |
| US10361933B2 |
Method and apparatus for a power-efficient framework to maintain data synchronization of a mobile personal computer to simulate a connected scenario
An apparatus and method for a power-efficient framework to maintain data synchronization of a mobile personal computer (MPC) are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the detection of a data synchronization wakeup event while the MPC is operating according to a sleep state. Subsequent to wakeup event, at least one system resource is disabled to provide a minimum number of system resources required to re-establish a network connection. In one embodiment, user data from a network server is synchronized on the MPC without user intervention; the mobile platform system resumes operation according to the sleep state. In one embodiment, a wakeup alarm is programmed according to a user history profile regarding received e-mails. In a further embodiment, data synchronizing involves disabling a display, and throttling the system processor to operate at a reduced frequency. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10361931B2 |
Methods and apparatus to identify an internet domain to which an encrypted network communication is targeted
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture disclosed herein can be used to identify an internet domain to which an encrypted network communication is targeted. A disclosed method includes collecting a plurality of unencrypted communications with a domain name server, and identifying, by executing an instruction with a processor, network traffic patterns associated with the unencrypted communication based on a combination of routing information, internet protocol flow data, and internet transactions associated with the plurality of unencrypted communications with the domain name server. An example disclosed method further includes determining, by executing an instruction with a processor, and based on the network traffic patterns associated with the unencrypted communications, the internet domain to which the encrypted communication is to be delivered. |
| US10361929B2 |
Information displaying device, information processing device, information displaying system, and information displaying method
An information displaying device has a display and a display controller. The display controller displays, on the display, statistic information associated with device identification information for identifying a field device. The statistic information is obtained by an information processing device which statistically processes communication quality information over a predetermined period. The communication quality information representing a communication quality between the field device installed in a plant and the information processing device. |
| US10361928B2 |
Cluster instance management system
A system for cluster management comprises a status monitor and an instance replacement manager. The status monitor is for monitoring status of an instance of a set of instances on a cluster provider. The instance replacement manager is for determining a replacement strategy for the instance in the event the instance does not respond. The replacement strategy for the instance is based at least in part on a management criteria for on-demand instances and spot instances on the cluster provider. |
| US10361926B2 |
Link prediction with spatial and temporal consistency in dynamic networks
A computer-implemented method executed by at least one processor for performing link prediction with spatial and temporal consistency by employing a time-dependent matrix factorization technique is presented. The method includes developing, at a plurality of timestamps, relational data of a sequence of network structures each including a plurality of nodes and learning, by the at least one processor, a feature vector of each node of the plurality of nodes of the sequence of network structures by concurrently optimizing a temporal fitting constraint and a network propagation constraint. The method further includes determining a network structure at each timestamp, determining evolutionary patterns at each timestamp, and predicting links in a future network structure based on an evolution of the sequence of network structures within a user-defined sliding window by reducing time complexities of finding neighbors of each node of the plurality of nodes of the sequence of network structures. |
| US10361925B1 |
Storage infrastructure scenario planning
Systems and methods for “what-if” scenario planning of a distributed data storage system. A scenario planning engine has a user interface to facilitate user interactions to describe “what if” scenarios. A method comprises steps to collect system performance measurements pertaining to measurable characteristics of the distributed storage system. A predictive model is generated and formatted for use as a predictor of one or more predictive model parameters that are derived from the collected system performance measurements and/or any calculated predictions and/or correlations. A user can vary a set of scenario input parameters so as to characterize one or more “what if” scenarios. The user-defined scenario input parameters are formatted and used as predictive model inputs. The predictive model is used to simulate predicted system performance parameters corresponding to respective “what-if” planning scenarios. A user interface is provided to present a graphical depiction of predicted system performance corresponding to the scenarios. |
| US10361924B2 |
Forecasting computer resources demand
An approach for forecasting demand. The approach includes a method that includes receiving one or more variables associated with an event. The method further includes generating, by at least one computing device, a model to forecast future demand based on the one or more variables. The method further includes determining, by the at least one computing device, a load to provision one or more servers to meet the future demand. The load is based on the model. |
| US10361919B2 |
Self-healing and dynamic optimization of VM server cluster management in multi-cloud platform
Virtual machine server clusters are managed using self-healing and dynamic optimization to achieve closed-loop automation. The technique uses adaptive thresholding to develop actionable quality metrics for benchmarking and anomaly detection. Real-time analytics are used to determine the root cause of KPI violations and to locate impact areas. Self-healing and dynamic optimization rules are able to automatically correct common issues via no-touch automation in which finger-pointing between operations staff is prevalent, resulting in consolidation, flexibility and reduced deployment time. |
| US10361915B2 |
System, method and computer program product for network function optimization based on locality and function type
A network function optimization method, system, and computer program product, include annotating network functions by providing constraints on a placement of different virtual network function chain components and optimizing the network function chain by modifying a structure of the network function chain based on the constraints in the annotating. |
| US10361913B2 |
Determining whether to include or exclude device data for determining a network communication configuration for a target device
Techniques for determining whether to include or exclude device data for determining a network communication configuration for a target device are disclosed. Device data for devices in a communication network are monitored for a particular time period. A particular set of device data, for a particular device, indicates a change in network communication behavior of the particular device. Responsive to determining that there was no event that may have caused the change in behavior, the particular set of device data is not used for determining a configuration for a target device. Responsive to determining that there was an event that may have caused the change in behavior, the event type of the event is determined. Whether to include or exclude the particular set of device data, for determining a configuration for a target device, is determined based on the event type. |
| US10361912B2 |
Traffic switching method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention provide a traffic switching method and apparatus. The method includes: establishing a mapping relationship between a performance parameter of a network and a forwarding node switching sequence, where the performance parameter of the network includes link usage rate before switching and link usage rate after switching; when traffic switching needs to be performed, obtaining a current performance parameter of the network, and determining, according to the mapping relationship, a switching sequence corresponding to the current performance parameter; and delivering a switching instruction to forwarding nodes according to the switching sequence, so as to control the forwarding nodes to sequentially perform traffic switching. In this way, traffic switching can be systematically implemented, thereby effectively avoiding a link congestion phenomenon in a switching process, and ensuring network performance. |
| US10361911B2 |
Managing use of alternative intermediate destination computing nodes for provided computer networks
Techniques are described for managing communications for a managed computer network by using a defined pool of alternative computing nodes of the managed computer network that are configured to operate as intermediate destinations to handle at least some communications that are sent by and/or directed to one or more other computing nodes of the managed computer network. For example, a manager module associated with a source computing node may select a particular alternative intermediate destination computing node from a defined pool to use for one or more particular communications from the source computing node to an indicated final destination, such as based on a configured logical network topology for the managed computer network and/or on one or more other selection criteria (e.g., to enable load balancing between the alternative computing nodes). The manager module then forwards those communications to the selected intermediate destination computing node for further handling. |
| US10361909B2 |
Method and a system for automating an enterprise network optimization
A method and system for optimizing a distributed enterprise information technology (IT) network infrastructure is disclosed, wherein the IT infrastructure comprises at least one server, at least one storage element, and at least one network element. The method comprises collecting data and arranging the collected data pertaining to an existing state of the information technology network infrastructure in a first set of templates. The method further comprises mapping the existing state and a new state of at least one of the at least one server and at least one storage element with an existing set of network elements using the first set of templates to form a second set of templates, wherein the method further comprises of planning the new state of the IT network infrastructure for transformation using the first set of templates and the second set of templates, the new state being an optimized state. |
| US10361905B2 |
Alert remediation automation
Technical solutions to automate alert remediation are described. One aspect includes a method that includes receiving a plurality of alerts from an application monitoring system, the plurality of alerts associated with a plurality of remediation procedures respectively. The method also includes selecting a subset of alerts from the plurality of alerts. The method also includes identifying a subset of remediation procedures corresponding to the subset of alerts and analyzing compliance, with a service level agreement, of an execution of the entire subset of remediation procedures. In response to the execution of the entire subset of remediation procedures being non-compliant, the latest alert that was added, is removed from the subset of alerts, and a remediation procedure corresponding to the latest alert is removed from the subset of remediation procedures. The method includes executing the entire subset of remediation procedures. |
| US10361903B2 |
Federated management of intelligent service modules
Intelligent services are provided in a storage network using intelligent service modules that can be cabled to a switch external to the switch chassis and yet be managed as part of the switch's logical domain. Data and management communications between the intelligent service module and the core switch are provided through a “soft-backplane” implemented using in-band communications through cabling attached between the switch and the intelligent service module rather than through a hardwired backplane within the chassis. Management communications from management software is directed to the switch, which handles the management functions relating to the intelligent service module or forwards the management requests to the intelligent service module for processing. |
| US10361902B2 |
Method and system for guaranteeing resource utilization rate of website using content distribution network
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for guaranteeing website resource utilization rate using a content delivery network. The method includes following steps: receiving a domain name resolution request sent by a local domain name server; monitoring a resource load of a website source site corresponding to the domain name resolution request; utilizing monitoring data and according to a predetermined strategy to determine whether a result of the domain name resolution request is an address of the website source site or a content delivery network system; and sending a domain name resolution result to the local domain name server. |
| US10361898B2 |
Complexity reduction for OFDM signal transmissions
An OFDM signal may include a first edge band signal corresponding to a first edge band of the bandwidth of the OFDM signal, a second edge band signal corresponding to a second edge band of the bandwidth, and a center band signal corresponding to a center band of the bandwidth. The OFDM signal may be filtered by filtering the first edge band signal and/or the second edge band signal, so that out-of-band radiation of the OFDM may be reduced or eliminated. |
| US10361894B2 |
Techniques for a unified demodulation reference signal pattern for various multiplexing schemes
A method and apparatus for demodulation reference signal (DMRS) communication are described. The method and apparatus include determining a DMRS pattern for at least two multiplexing schemes. In some aspects, the at least two multiplexing schemes may include orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and single carrier frequency-division multiplexing (SC-FDM). Further, in some aspects, the DMRS pattern may correspond to a continuous tone pattern in each subframe transmitted in accordance with both SC-FDM and OFDM. Additionally, in some aspects, the DMRS pattern may correspond to a comb tone pattern in each subframe transmitted in accordance with both SC-FDM and OFDM. The method and apparatus further include transmitting a DMRS in accordance with at least one of the two multiplexing schemes and based on the DMRS pattern. |
| US10361889B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus for increasing throughput using MIMO in LOS environment and method therefor
The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication apparatus capable of increasing throughput using MIMO in an LOS environment and a method for the same. A wireless communication apparatus based on the LOS-MIMO technique may comprise a multi-link configuration unit, a frequency response correction unit, a signal compensation unit, and a feedback unit. In the apparatus, an additional LOS-MIMO equalizer is used at the front of an LOS-MIMO estimator and a coding unit in order to compensate in-band frequency characteristics of frequency response characteristics estimated by the LOS-MIMO estimator and a signal channel estimator, whereby the LOS-MIMO estimation performance can be remarkably enhanced. Also, precise separation of multiplexed signals through the above-described LOS equalizer can make it possible to increase transmission capacity by using the LOS-MIMO which can be applied to high-order mode (e.g., over 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)) digital communications. |
| US10361888B2 |
Wireless communications system, wireless communications apparatus, wireless communications method and computer program for wireless communication
In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals. |
| US10361887B2 |
Time of arrival estimation
The subject system aggregates, or stitches, multiple component channel estimates to generate an aggregated wideband channel estimate that can be used to determine more accurate time of arrival estimations than those determinable from the individual component channel estimates. The subject system also provides for multipath detection on a single channel or an aggregated channel that may be used to facilitate an accurate time of arrival estimation. For example, information derived from the multipath detection may be used to supplement and/or enhance a time of arrival estimation algorithm. The subject system also provides a sounding protocol that allows devices to perform one or more signal exchanges to facilitate generating the aggregated wideband channel estimate and/or to facilitate performing the multipath detection. The protocol allows the devices to perform signal exchanges over one or more channels within a coherence time, and also provides for security mechanisms as well as failure recovery. |
| US10361885B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing a point-to-point connection over a network
A method and apparatus for providing a point-to-point connection are disclosed. The method queries for a next available label for a first provider edge router and a next available label for a second provider edge router, performs a first configuration at the first provider edge router and a second configuration at the second provider edge router, wherein the performing the first configuration comprises configuring a first interface and configuring a label for using at least one tunnel by a second interface, wherein the performing the second configuration comprises configuring a third interface and configuring a label for using the at least one tunnel by a fourth interface, and performs a first mapping for the first provider edge router from the first interface to the second interface, and a second mapping for the second provider edge router from the third interface to the fourth interface. |
| US10361879B2 |
Persona-based service delivery
A method of persona-based service delivery includes receiving use data from a sensor and from a service device while a user interacts with the service device in a current environment. Based on the use data, the method includes developing, a preference that reflects the interaction by the user with the service device as monitored by the sensor. Based on the preference, the method includes developing a command instruction that modifies a physical operational condition of the service device consistent with the preference. The method includes storing a persona specific to the user, the persona including the preference and the command instruction for the user in the current environment. The method includes subsequently receiving collected data that includes a user characteristic of the user in the current environment. In response to receipt of the collected data, the method includes downloading the persona of the user to the sensor. |
| US10361866B1 |
Proof of image authentication on a blockchain
Disclosed is improved technology for authenticating electronic images and storing proof of tampering or non-tampering on the blockchain. An image authentication application of a user device may generate an image. The user device may generate an image hash of the image using a hash function. The image hash may be written to the blockchain. This may occur immediately after the image has been taken. The user device may upload the image to an authentication server, which authenticates the image. At various times, such as after receipt, during authentication, and/or after authentication, the authentication server may generate an image hash of the image using the hash function. The authentication server may write the image hash(es) to the blockchain. As such, a state of the image at various times may be recorded on the blockchain to determine whether or not the image has been tampered with between various times. |
| US10361861B2 |
Input assembly and terminal
An input assembly and a terminal are provided. The input assembly includes a decoration enclosure and a fingerprint chip package structure. The decoration enclosure is configured for decorating the fingerprint chip package structure. The decoration enclosure includes a decoration ring for accommodating the fingerprint chip package structure and a support rim. The support rim extends inwards from an inner wall of the decoration ring. |
| US10361860B2 |
Method and apparatus for authentication and validation of persons using gait data
A system for authentication and validation of the identity of a person. The person carries a mobile device configured to measure motion as the person walks or stands still, generating a time record of motion data. A security system in a facility which the person seeks to access receives the time record of motion data and compares gait characteristics inferred from the time record with gait characteristics inferred from motion data previously obtained for a person whom the person seeking access purports to be. The security system may instruct the person to pause and stand still, and then to begin walking again, and it may then verify that the received time record of motion data includes an interval with little motion at a point in the time record corresponding to the pause. |
| US10361854B2 |
Modular multiplication device and method
There is provided a modular multiplication device for performing a multiplication of a first multiplicand and a second multiplicand modulo a given modulus, each of the multiplicand comprising a given number of digits, each digit having a given word size. The modular multiplication device comprises: a multiplier for multiplying at least one digit of the first multiplicand with the second multiplicand to produce a multiplier output; a modular reduction unit configured to reduce a quantity derived from the multiplier output by the product of an extended modulus and an integer coefficient, the extended modulus being the product of the given modulus with an extension parameter, which provides a reduction output, the reduction output being a positive integer strictly smaller than the extended modulus, wherein the modular multiplication device further comprises a selection unit configured to select the extension parameter such that the time taken for the device to perform the multiplication is independent from the multiplicands. |
| US10361852B2 |
Secure verification system
Systems, computer products, and methods are described herein for an improved secure certificate system that utilizes multiple digital signatures, and in some cases multiple public keys within one or more certificates. The improved secure certificate systems allows for additional security by having multiple certification authorities validate the organization as the owner of the organization application (e.g., website, dedicated application, or the like), as well as allowing for the use of the multiple digital signatures and/or certificates to provide seamless verification of the organization application should one or more of the digital signatures and/or certificates become compromised. Moreover, security may be improved by utilizing multiple public keys to encrypt a session key for use in sending and receiving data. |
| US10361851B2 |
Authenticator, authenticatee and authentication method
According to one embodiment, an authenticator which authenticates an authenticatee, which stores first key information (NKey) that is hidden, includes a memory configured to store second key information (HKey) which is hidden, a random number generation module configured to generate random number information, and a data generation module configured to generate a session key (SKey) by using the second key information (HKey) and the random number information. The authenticator is configured such that the second key information (HKey) is generated from the first key information (NKey) but the first key information (NKey) is not generated from the second key information (HKey). |
| US10361849B2 |
Methods and systems of providing verification of the identity of a digital entity using a centralized or distributed ledger
Providing verification of the identity of a digital entity may include including receiving information and a public key of the digital entity, the information having been previously attested to in an attestation transaction stored within a centralized or distributed ledger at an attestation address, the centralized or distributed ledger providing a record of transactions. The system may derive an attestation address using the information and the public key of the digital entity. The system may verify the existence of the attestation transaction at the attestation address in the centralized or distributed ledger and verify that the attestation transaction has not been revoked. The processor associated with the user may receive a cryptographic challenge nonce signed by the digital entity's private key; and may verify the digital entity's identity with the cryptographic challenge nonce signed by the digital entity's key. |
| US10361848B2 |
Systems and methods for quantum key generation
A quantum key generation system including two photon detector units, two photon entanglement chains extending between the two photon detector units, and a plurality of multicore fiber links each including at least two non-uniform cores structurally configured to provide non-uniform photon propagation delay. Each photon entanglement chain includes at least one quantum repeater structurally configured to entangle a pair of photons and first and second terminating quantum memories optically coupled the quantum repeater using the multicore fiber links such that photons received by the first and the second terminating quantum memories are entangled with photons entangled by the quantum repeater. The first and second terminating quantum memories of each of the two photon entanglement chains form first and second cross-chain quantum repeaters, and the first and the second photon detector units are structurally configured to receive the measurable entangled particles generated by the first and second cross-chain quantum repeaters, respectively. |
| US10361845B2 |
Systems and methods securing an autonomous device
A system and method for cryptographically securing a device includes initializing a cryptographic processing circuit which includes provisioning a cryptographic key store associated with the cryptographic processing circuit with cryptographic key material; and establishing a first cryptographically secured connection between a main central processing unit of the autonomous device and the cryptographic processing circuit of the device; and implementing a cryptographic validation of resident firmware of the main central processing unit by validating a cryptographic digital signature ascribed to the resident firmware against an up-to-date cryptographic digital signature used for installing and/or updating the resident firmware of the main central processing circuit. |
| US10361843B1 |
Native blockchain platform for improving workload mobility in telecommunication networks
A network slice manager receives a workload mobility request to add network resources to a domain in the communication network, and authenticates a virtual network function (VNF) with a blockchain authentication function (BAF) over a blockchain network interface based on the workload mobility request. The network slice manager further receives an indication of a successful authentication from the BAF, and instantiates the VNF in the domain of the communication network based on the indication of the successful authentication. Notably, these authentication processes may be readily adapted to instantiate new network resources or migrate existing network resources between domains. |
| US10361842B2 |
Encryption function and decryption function generating method, encryption and decryption method and related apparatuses
An encryption/decryption function generating method, an encryption/decryption method and related apparatuses, which can ensure the confidentiality of a key used in a white-box encryption and decryption function when a white-box encryption and decryption function generating algorithm is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a random seed and an original key that are input by a user; generating, according to the original key, a round key required for R-round iterative computing; generating, according to the random seed, an affine expansion mask required for the R-round iterative computing and random disturbance data required for the R-round iterative computing; and generating an encryption/decryption function. |
| US10361840B2 |
Server apparatus, search system, terminal apparatus, search method, non-transitory computer readable medium storing server program, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing terminal program
In a server apparatus, a data storage part stores a plurality of pieces of encrypted data. An index storage part stores, as an index I, a data structure which is for performing search with using a function H that outputs a unique numeric value in response to an inputted keyword, the data structure having a plurality of storage areas corresponding, in one-to-one relation, to numeric values outputted from the function H, and storing, for a plurality of keywords corresponding to plaintext data, an identifier of encrypted data being post-encryption data of the plaintext data to which each keyword corresponds, in a storage area corresponding to the numeric value outputted from the function H when each keyword is inputted. A search part inputs one of the plurality of keywords to the function H, identifies a storage area corresponding to the numeric value outputted from the function H, from the index I, and acquires encrypted data corresponding to the identifier stored in the identified storage area, from the data storage part. |
| US10361833B2 |
Method and apparatus for improving device to device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system
Methods and apparatuses for improving device to device (D2D) communication are disclosed herein. One method includes communicating, by a user equipment (UE), with a device via the D2D communication. The method further includes triggering, by the UE, a first power headroom report (PHR) to indicate a power status of the D2D. The method also provides for triggering and transmitting, by the UE, a Scheduling Request (SR) to ask for radio resources from a network for scheduling if the UE has no available resources to transmit the first PHR. The method further includes triggering, by the UE, a second PHR to indicate a power status of a transmission path from the UE to the network and not triggering and transmitting the SR to ask for radio resources from the network for scheduling if the UE has no available resource to transmit the second PHR. |
| US10361832B2 |
Block acknowledgment generation and selection rules
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In an aspect, the apparatus is configured to receive at least one frame from at least one wireless device and to generate a BA frame that may include a block ACK bitmap based on the received at least one frame. The BA frame may include a fragment number field and a bitmap length indicator within the fragment number field that indicates a length of the block ACK bitmap within the BA frame. The apparatus may be configured to transmit the generated BA frame to the at least one wireless device. |
| US10361831B2 |
Wireless device and method for selecting uplink transmission parameters
The present invention relates to a method for selecting a set of uplink transmission parameters. The method is performed in a wireless device of a radio communications system. The method comprises obtaining information mapping resources of a physical downlink control channel region to at least two sets of uplink transmission parameters. The method also comprises receiving a downlink control message on a resource of the physical downlink control channel region, and selecting a set among the at least two sets of uplink transmission parameters. The selection of set is based on the resource of the physical downlink control channel region on which the downlink control message is received, and on the obtained information mapping resources of the physical downlink control channel region to the at least two sets of uplink transmission parameters. |
| US10361830B2 |
Method and apparatus for designing uplink reference signal according to repeating pattern considering cell coverage in wireless communication system
Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink reference signal in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives from a base station, information on the maximum repetition number of the uplink reference signal, determines the repetition number of the uplink reference signal using the received information on the maximum repetition number of the uplink reference signal and signal quality obtained through downlink synchronization, and repeatedly transmits, to the base station, the uplink reference signal according to the determined repetition number of the uplink reference signal. The base station determines the uplink coverage of the terminal on the basis of the repeatedly received uplink reference signal. |
| US10361828B2 |
Pilot transmission and reception for orthogonal frequency division multiple access
A wireless device transmits a frame by determining a plurality of Resource Units (RUs) of the frame, providing pilots in a first RU of the frame at a first set of positions, providing pilots in a second RU of the frame at a second set of positions, and transmitting the frame. The first set of positions is different from the second set of positions. A wireless device receives a frame including an RU including pilots and processes the pilots. When an RU for the data symbol includes an odd-numbered lowest subcarrier, the pilots are included at a first set of positions in the resource unit. When the RU includes an even-numbered lowest subcarrier, the pilots are included at a second set of positions in the resource unit. The second set of positions is different from the first set of positions. |
| US10361826B2 |
Efficient signaling of OFDM/A structure within wireless communications
A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes a processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processing circuitry, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A WDEV generates and transmits an OFDM packet that specifies resource allocation of a communication channel for other WDEVs. The WDEV then support communications with the other WDEVs based on the resource allocation of the communication channel. The OFDM packet includes an OFDMA indicator bit and a multi-purpose field that serves different purposes based on setting of the OFDMA indicator bit (e.g., the multi-purpose field is used for different purposes when the OFDMA indicator bit indicates OFDMA or non-OFDMA resource allocation). |
| US10361823B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink data in licensed-assisted access system
A method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink data in a licensed-assisted access (LAA) system are provided. The method includes: receiving mode configuration indication information sent by a network device, where the mode configuration indication information is used to indicate that a synchronous hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mode and an asynchronous HARQ mode are configured for uplink transmission of user equipment on an unlicensed carrier; and performing uplink transmission on the unlicensed carrier using the synchronous HARQ mode or the asynchronous HARQ mode and according to the mode configuration indication information. |
| US10361821B2 |
Sub-subframe assignment and HARQ timing
In one aspect, a wireless device receives a first data transmission from a base station during a predetermined subframe interval and within a duration that is less than a maximum data transmission duration that is possible within the predetermined subframe interval, and determines a transmission time for transmitting HARQ feedback to the base station such that the determined transmission time depends on which subset of symbols within the predetermined subframe interval was used for the first data transmission. The wireless device transmits HARQ feedback for the first data transmission at the determined transmission time. In another aspect, a base station transmits the first data transmission and determines a reception time for receiving HARQ feedback such that the determined transmission time depends on which subset of symbols within the predetermined subframe interval was used. The base station receives HARQ feedback for the first data transmission at the determined transmission time. |
| US10361817B2 |
Systems and methods to optimize partitioning of a data segment into data packets for channel encoding
Systems and methods to transmit data over multiple communication channels in parallel with forward error correction. An optimized number is determined to partition a data segment of a given size into the optimized number of original packets of the same size, by reducing the cost of transmitting dummy data added to the original packets due to the partition, the data fields added to communication packets to support decoding, and redundant packets that are expected to be transmitted via a plurality of parallel channels before the termination of the transmission, as well as the computation cost that increases as a function of the number of original packets. Copies of packets are generated by distributing the original packets to the copies as initial packets and generating each subsequent channel-encoded packet by rejecting useless channel-encoded packets in view of packets assumed to have been received prior to the transmission of the subsequent channel-encoded packet. |
| US10361816B2 |
Communication apparatus and communication method
A communication apparatus includes circuitry configured to perform a process on a frame so that the frame has redundancy corresponding to first information indicating at least one of a first transmission period or a band used for transmission, or uses a modulation scheme corresponding to the first information. |
| US10361814B2 |
Encoding for frameless packet transmissions
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for encoding frameless packets. One of the methods includes receiving a data payload to be transmitted. The data payload is partitioned into multiple payload words, each payload word being of a predetermined size. A first sync word is added to each of the multiple payload words. A control word comprising label and an error checking value is added. A second sync word is added to the label and error checking word. If one or more counter criteria are satisfied while transmitting the multiple payload words, an idle word is transmitted before transmitting the label and error checking word. |
| US10361809B2 |
Transmission process in a wireless device and wireless network
A wireless device receives at least one downlink control information (DCI) indicating uplink resources in a set of m consecutive subframes 0 to m−1. The wireless device performs an LBT procedure on a channel to make a transmission in subframe k+1, if the wireless device cannot access the channel for a transmission in subframe k, k ∈{0, . . . , m−2}. |
| US10361804B2 |
User equipment and method for dynamic non-orthogonal multiple access communication
Embodiments pertain to systems, methods, and component devices for dynamic non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communications. A first example embodiment includes user equipment (UE) configured to receive a first downlink control indicator (DCI) from an evolved node B (eNB) and process the first subframe as a first higher power NOMA subframe in response to a first power ratio signal. The DCI includes the first power ratio signal for a first NOMA subframe. The UE may then receive, from the eNB, a second DCI, the second DCI comprising a second power ratio signal for a second subframe and process, by the UE, the second subframe as a second lower power NOMA subframe in response to the second power ratio signal. Additional embodiments may further use another DCI with a third power ratio signal to configure the UE to receive orthogonal multiple access (OMA) communications. |
| US10361800B2 |
Radiobeacon data sharing by forwarding low energy transmissions to a cloud host
Remote actuation of machines or machine systems is realized by a system for coupling a radiobeacon to a smart device and in turn to a broader network. The smart device is configured as a proximity-actuated “community nodal device” by an application that operates as part of the system. The community nodal device is given instructions to function as a “soft switch”: to automatically “upswitch”, amplify, and broadcast low energy, local area radiobeacon “messages” to a cloud-based server, where the message is interpreted according to rules or policies established by an operator, and a command is transmitted for execution to a remote device. Conventional smart devices generally discard data not addressed to the owner of the smart device. Instead of discarding third party messages, the system preempts their handling, and using a soft switch formed from background resources, anonymously, without access to the message by a user interface of the proxy device, and without waiting for a network query from the host, engineers an “upswitched transmission” of radiobeacon-generated data to a cloud host. Advantageously, confidential sharing of ad hoc community resources results in a negligible load on background resources of the community nodal device. Messages may include a sensor data payload. Bit overloading enables a sensor data payload to be compressed into a few hundred bytes or less. |
| US10361791B2 |
Information interaction methods and user equipment
Embodiments of the present application provide interaction methods and user equipment. An interaction method disclosed here in comprises: determining, by a user equipment, information that needs to be sent to at least one other user equipment, wherein the at least one other user equipment and the user equipment are in contact with a same human body; determining at least one frequency corresponding to the information at least according to the information and a preset information rule; and controlling a capacitance value of the user equipment to change at the at least one frequency. |
| US10361786B1 |
Phase optimization technique in high-speed simultaneous bi-directional links
A bidirectional transceiver includes a transmitter and a receiver that respectively transmits a local signal to and receives remote signal from a common bidirectional communication channel, thus the bidirectional channel signal is the superimposition of the local and remote signals. The bidirectional transceiver also includes a transmit canceller that substantially removes the local transmitted signal from the superimposed signals on the bidirectional channel before the local receiver. The remote signal is transmitted by a remote transceiver over the bidirectional channel. A sampling phase is set, based on timing information in the received remote signal, and the received signal is sampled. Timing relation of transitions in the local transmit signal relative to the receiver sampling phase is set such that transmit signal cancellation is optimum at receiver sampling phase, by changing the delay applied to the local transmit signal. To keep the timing relation of the local transmit signal relative to the remote transceiver, a second delay is applied to the local transmit signal before transmission into the bidirectional channel that provides a delay substantially same as the first delay but opposite in direction. |
| US10361784B2 |
Remote radio apparatus and component thereof
An example remote radio apparatus is provided, including a body, a mainboard, a mainboard heat sink, a maintenance cavity, an optical module, and an optical module heat sink. The maintenance cavity and the optical module heat sink are integrally connected, while the optical module is mounted on a bottom surface of the optical module heat sink. The maintenance cavity and the optical module heat sink are mounted on a side surface of the body, and the mainboard heat sink is mounted on and covers the mainboard. The mainboard heat sink and the mainboard are installed on a front surface of the body, and the mainboard heat sink and the optical module heat sink are spaced by a preset distance. The temperature of the optical module is controlled within a range required by a specification. |
| US10361782B2 |
Cabling connectivity monitoring and verification
Connectivity between components in a system is monitored by applying a low voltage at one end of an RF cable, interpreted as a “0” logical state, and determining whether a similar voltage appears at the other end of the cable. If the cable is connected properly, the DC voltage applied at one end will appear at the other end and a proper indication is generated. If the expected voltage level does not appear at the other side, it means that RF connection was not correctly established and an alert is generated. Test systems for testing connectivity may include a first component comprising at least one port, at least one capacitor, and at least one resistor for providing high impedance. A controller provides a first logic state to the at least one port, scans multiple input ports of the system, and records a link corresponding to the applied first logic state. |
| US10361778B2 |
Optical signal monitor, optical wavelength multiplexing transmitter, and method for monitoring optical signal
An optical signal monitor, including: a storage that holds a threshold value set for each of determination areas having a bandwidth set in accordance with an average grid of dummy light; a measurement section that sequentially measures an optical intensity of an inputted wavelength-multiplexed optical signal with respect to each of measurement areas obtained by dividing the determination area into areas with a bandwidth sufficiently smaller than a grid width of a monitoring-target optical signal composing the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal, and output measured values; and a section that determines that dummy light corresponding to the determination area needs introducing if each of measured values in the determination area is smaller than a threshold value, and, determines that dummy light corresponding to the determination area does not need introducing if at least one of the measured values in the determination area is equal to or larger than the threshold value. |
| US10361776B2 |
Sparing configurations and protocols for parallel fiber optics
A transceiver can include a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter can include: a primary laser emitter; a primary monitor photodiode optically coupled with the laser emitter; a spare laser emitter; and a transmitter integrated circuit having a primary channel operably coupled with the primary laser emitter; a spare channel operably coupled with the spare laser emitter; a switch on the primary channel; and a secondary channel operably coupled with the switch and the spare channel. The receiver can include: a primary detector photodiode; a spare detector photodiode; and a receiver integrated circuit a primary receiver channel operably coupled with the at least one primary detector photodiode; a spare receiver channel operably coupled with the spare detector photodiode; a receiver switch on the spare receiver channel; and a secondary receiver channel operably coupled with the receiver switch and the primary receiver channel. |
| US10361772B2 |
Timing synchronization for a beam hopping satellite
A system and method for timing synchronization of satellite switching instants with gateway switching instants is described. The method includes: generating satellite switching instants according to a Beam Hopping Time Plan (BHTP); generating gateway switching instants according to the BHTP; transmitting a channel addressed to a plurality of beams hopped according to the BHTP based on the gateway switching instants, wherein each of the plurality of beams includes a signal including timing markers and a guard period at an end of the signal for the respective beam; receiving a synchronization information, without a loopback beam, for one of the plurality of beams; determining an adjustment period and an adjusted symbol rate for the generating of the gateway switching instants, based on the synchronization information, for a transmission of the channel such that at least a portion of the guard period in a respective signal for a respective beam aligns with one of the satellite switching instants; and adjusting a timing and a symbol rate of the transmission according to the adjustment period and the adjusted symbol rate, respectively. |
| US10361771B2 |
Determining an attenuation environment of a satellite communication terminal
Described techniques and apparatuses relate to determining an attenuation environment surrounding a satellite terminal in a satellite communication system. The satellite terminal may receive signals from an auxiliary satellite system, and determine aspects of an attenuation environment that may affect communications with a communications satellite system. For example, transmissions from an auxiliary satellite system may be associated with a respective location of the transmitting satellite in order to define an attenuation profile for the satellite terminal antenna assembly. Subsequent signals from the auxiliary satellite system may be compared with the attenuation map, and the comparison may be used to identify a diagnostic condition for communications with a communications satellite system. In some examples the comparison of signals to the attenuation profile may indicate an obstruction between the satellite terminal antennas and a communications satellite, or a misalignment of a satellite terminal antenna assembly. |
| US10361770B2 |
Apparatus and method for broadband wireless local area communication
Provided is an apparatus and method for wideband short-range wireless communication using a directional antenna in a millimeter wave band, and the method for wideband short-range wireless communication according to an embodiment may determine a first time interval and a second time interval for a cooperated data frame transfer based on a packet transmission time at each transmission from a source node to a destination node, transmit a frame to a relay node through an antenna pattern directed towards the relay node at a start point of the first time interval, and transmit the frame to the destination node through an antenna pattern directed towards the destination node after a predetermined period of time from a start point of the second time interval. |
| US10361765B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling array antenna device in communication system
One or more embodiments provide a method for controlling array antenna device in a base station (BS) in a communication system. The method includes determining whether to perform a calibration operation for BSs while operating in one of a normal mode and an interference control mode. The method also includes transiting from the one of the normal mode and the interference control mode to a calibration mode based on the determining result of whether to perform the calibration operation for the BSs. A reference antenna among antennas included in the array antenna device is used in all of the normal mode, the interference control mode, and the calibration mode. |
| US10361763B2 |
Channel state information feedback method and device in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure relates to a method and device for reporting channel state information. The method for a terminal according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving feedback configuration information from a base station; measuring a channel state using a reference signal received from the base station; and reporting channel state information using two subsamplings at a reporting time which is determined on the basis of the feedback configuration information. |
| US10361761B2 |
Fast training on multi-antenna systems
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for performing beamforming training in multi-antenna wireless devices. For example, an apparatus for wireless communication may include a first interface configured to obtain, from each of a plurality of radio frequency (RF) modules, a first information regarding detection of one or more pilot signals via at least one antenna element at a respective one of the plurality of RF modules. The apparatus may also include a processing system configured to process the first information obtained from the plurality of RF modules to generate second information to synchronize the plurality of RF modules, and a second interface configured to provide the second information to the plurality of RF modules. |
| US10361753B2 |
Network termination and methods for use therewith
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network termination includes a downstream channel modulator modulates downstream data into downstream channel signals to convey the downstream data via a guided electromagnetic wave that is bound to a transmission medium of a guided wave communication system. A host interface sends the downstream channel signals to the guided wave communication system and receives upstream channel signals corresponding to upstream frequency channels from the guided wave communication system. An upstream channel demodulator demodulates upstream channel signals into upstream data. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10361752B2 |
Universal voltage converter and inductive power coupling
The present invention relates to a Voltage converter (100) for converting an input voltage (V10) to an output voltage (V20) comprising an input circuitry (102) for receiving the input voltage (V10) from a power supply (112), wherein the input circuitry includes chopper means (110) for chopping a voltage (V12) derived from the input voltage (V10) at a chopper frequency to a chopped voltage (V14), an inductive transformer unit (106) for transforming the chopped voltage (V14) to a chopped AC voltage (V16), and an output circuitry (104) for converting the chopped AC voltage (V16) of the inductive transformer unit (106) to the output voltage (V20) having a lower frequency than the chopper frequency. |
| US10361745B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing transmit and receive power via a T/R switch
A wireless communication device is described. The wireless communication device includes a transmit/receive (T/R) switch that is configured with an antenna port coupled to an antenna, a transmitter port coupled to a transmitter and a receiver port coupled to a receiver. The T/R switch selectively connects the transmitter port to the antenna port or the receiver port to the antenna port. The wireless communication device also includes a T/R switch controller that sets the T/R switch to disconnect the transmitter from the antenna when the transmitter is actively transmitting in a high insertion loss mode to reduce power from the transmitter to the antenna. |
| US10361744B1 |
Transceiver circuit and related radio frequency circuit
A transceiver circuit and related radio frequency (RF) circuit are provided. An RF circuit is coupled to a transceiver circuit configured to generate an envelope tracking (ET) target voltage. The RF circuit includes a tracker circuit and a power amplifier circuit(s). The tracker circuit may have inherent frequency-dependent impedance that can interact with a load current of the amplifier circuit(s) to cause degradation in an ET modulated voltage, which can lead to spectral distortions in an RF offset spectrum. As such, a voltage compensation circuit is provided in the transceiver circuit and configured to add a voltage compensation term in the ET target voltage. By adding the voltage compensation term into the ET target voltage, it is possible to compensate for the degradation in the ET modulated voltage, thus helping to reduce the spectral distortions in the RF offset spectrum and improve linearity and efficiency of the amplifier circuit(s). |
| US10361742B2 |
Case having standing leg for electronic devices
A case having a standing leg for an electronic device includes a soft protective cover, a hard protective frame, and a standing leg. An opening is formed on a back portion of the hard protective frame to receive the standing leg therein. The standing leg is pivoted with the soft protective cover and the hard protective frame. The standing leg is configured to rotate up to about a predetermined angle until the rotation of the standing leg is prevented by a pivoting end wall of the hard protective frame. The opening is sized to receive the standing leg. The standing leg is rotatable from a closed position in which it is received in the opening to an open position in which the standing leg is rotated about the predetermined angle. In an open position, the electronic device rests on a surface at a preferred viewing angle. |
| US10361739B2 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic radio emission compliance monitoring
The disclosure generally relates to a method, apparatus and system for identifying non-compliant radio emissions and for enforcing compliance. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a dynamic radiation control of a radio by measuring a signal attribute for an outbound signal having a protocol; comparing the signal attribute with a predefined mask, the predefined mask governed by at least one of a radio location or a signal protocol; and determining whether to transmit the outbound signal. |
| US10361738B2 |
Bluetooth assisted remote discovery and wakeup
Disclosed herein are techniques to enable remote discovery of connectivity capabilities and remote connection of devices in a power efficient manner. In particular, discovery and connection requests for connectivity capabilities utilizing a first radio may be communicated using a second radio, the second radio utilizing a lower amount of power relative to the first radio. For example, connectivity capabilities such as Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, WiGig, Zigbee can be discovered and connection request communicated using a Bluetooth radio. |
| US10361737B2 |
Portable communication system having modular components
A portable communication system is provided with modular components. The modular components can include internal modules located in a base unit and external modules that can be connected to predefined terminals on the exterior of the base unit. The internal modules can include modules that provide one or more of simplex, half-duplex or full-duplex communication modes. The external modules can include modules that can provide one or more of a full-duplex communication mode or a boost to the power level of the portable communication system. An internal connection can be connected to each of the terminals to provide internal couplings to the terminals. The internal modules can be connected to the external modules by the corresponding internal connections and terminals. The configuration of the portable communication system can be changed by disconnecting the internal modules and/or external modules from the base unit and then connecting new internal modules and/or external modules to the base unit. |
| US10361736B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving signal by aggregating two uplink carriers
When a terminal aggregates three downlink carriers by using the carrier aggregation (CA) of the LTE-A technology and transmits an uplink signal on two uplink carriers while aggregating at least two uplink carriers, a harmonic component and an intermodulation distortion (IMD) component are generated, thereby influencing a downlink band of the terminal itself. Therefore, the present specification presents a scheme therefor. |
| US10361734B1 |
Second order interference rejection in a radio receiver
A device and method for reducing intermodulation within a radio receiver. The device includes an intermodulation filter. The intermodulation filter is configured to receive a signal, apply a first filter and a second filter to the signal to generate a first and a second filtered signal. The intermodulation filter is configured to isolate a first intermodulation component located on a first side of a frequency spectrum of the signal within the second filtered signal, determine an estimated second intermodulation component based on a potential frequency band location, determine a correction factor based on an amplitude and phase relationship between the first and second intermodulation components, apply the correction factor to the estimated second intermodulation component, determine if the second intermodulation component exceeds a predetermined power threshold, and apply the adjusted estimated second intermodulation component to the first filtered signal, suppressing the second intermodulation component. |
| US10361728B2 |
Multiple-symbol combination based decoding for general polar codes
The present disclosure relates to multiple-symbol combination based decoding for general polar codes. Multiple-symbol combination based decoding of a received word that is based on a codeword involves determining whether all nodes at an intermediate stage of the multiple-symbol combination based decoding, which provide their outputs as inputs to a subset of nodes at a next stage of the multi-symbol combination based decoding, are associated with trust symbols in the received word that have a higher reliability of being successfully decoded than doubt symbols in the received word. A hard decision is performed in response to a positive determination. |
| US10361727B2 |
Error correction encoder, error correction decoder, and optical communication device including the same
Provided is an error correction encoder. The error correction encoder includes input nodes for receiving input words, first encoders for generating first parities by performing a first error correction encoding on each of the input words, an interleaver for generating interleaved words by performing interleaving on the input words, a second encoder for generating a plurality of second parities by performing a second error correction encoding on each of the interleaved words, output nodes for outputting each of the input words, first parity output nodes for outputting the first parities, and second parity output nodes for outputting the second parities. |
| US10361724B2 |
Data processing device and data processing method for improving resistance to error of data
A data processing device and a data processing method capable of improving resistance to error of data. An LDPC encoder encodes by an LDPC code whose code length is 16200 bits and code rate is 4/15, 7/15, or 8/15. A parity check matrix of the LDPC code is composed by arrangement of an element of an information matrix determined by a parity check matrix initial value table indicating a position of the element of the information matrix corresponding to an information length corresponding to the code length and the code rate for each 360 columns of the parity check matrix with a period of 360 columns in a column direction. The parity check matrix initial value table is for digital broadcasting for a mobile terminal, for example. This technology may be applied to a case in which LDPC encoding and LDPC decoding are performed. |
| US10361723B2 |
Decoding of non-binary LDPC codes
A method is proposed for managing a parity-check node calculation unit of an error-correcting code decoder having a representation as a bipartite graph comprising at least one parity-check node, the parity-check node being configured to receive first and second input messages, and to produce an output message, the elements of the input and output messages of the parity-check node comprising a symbol and a measure of reliability associated with the symbol, the first and second input messages containing lists of elements ordered by their measure of reliability. The method comprises: initializing a plurality of nbub FIFO memories with elements calculated from combinations of elements of the first and second input messages, and iteratively determining the values of the output message. |
| US10361722B2 |
Semiconductor memory device performing randomization operation
Provided herein is a semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device may include a plurality of planes including a plurality of memory cells, read/write circuits coupled to the plurality of planes, respectively, and temporarily storing normal data inputted from an external device, random data, and parity data, and an error correction circuit generating the random data by randomizing the normal data, generating parity data for the random data during a program operation, correcting an error of the random data by using the parity data and de-randomizing the random data during a read operation. |
| US10361716B2 |
Data recovery utilizing optimized code table signaling
A computer-implemented method, system, and apparatus for storing binary data is disclosed. A processor receives a digital bit stream and transforms the digital bit stream to an encoded digital bit stream. The encoded digital bit stream comprises a data message encoded by an OCTS-expanded table for storage. The processor stores the encoded digital bit stream on a digital data storage device or system. |
| US10361710B2 |
Reconfigurable Ethernet receiver and an analog front-end circuit thereof
The present application relates to a reconfigurable analog front-end circuit and a reconfigurable Ethernet transceiver with a reconfigurable analog front-end circuit. The circuit is reconfigurable using the at least one signal-path switching element controlled by a mode signal to operationally establish a first or a second signal path. The first signal path comprises an optional first signal-conditioning section and a shared ADC. The second signal path comprises an optional second signal-conditioning section, an upstream ADC and the shared ADC. The signal paths are selectively switched in response to a mode signal. |
| US10361706B2 |
Clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit
A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit for data sampling includes a sampler, a phase detector, a proportional-integral (PI) controller, and an oscillator. The sampler receives a data signal and a clock signal, and generates first, second, and third sampled signals. The phase detector receives the first, second, and third sampled signals, and generates first and second early-late vote (ELV) signals. The charge pump steers a current signal into or out of one of summing nodes based on the first and second ELV signals. The integrator circuit receives the current signal from one of the summing nodes, and generates a first control signal. The proportional circuit receives the first and second ELV signals, and generates a second control signal. The oscillator receives the first and second control signals from the integrator and proportional circuits, respectively, and generates a clock signal for sampling the data. |
| US10361705B2 |
Strobe centering apparatus and method
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a receiver to receive a differential clock; a delay locked loop (DLL) coupled to the receiver; a first phase interpolator (PI) coupled to the DLL, the first PI to provide a first clock phase; a second PI coupled to the DLL, wherein the second PI is to provide a second or third clock phase; circuitry to adjust the first and second PIs according to the first clock phase, and the second or third clock phase. |
| US10361702B2 |
FPGA math block with dedicated connections
An architecture in a user-programmable integrated circuit includes a hard logic block having inputs and outputs, a first group of user-configurable general-purpose routing resources coupled to first selected ones of the inputs of the hard logic block, a soft logic block having inputs and outputs, first selected ones of the inputs of the soft logic block coupled to the first group of user-configurable general-purpose routing resources, first selected ones of the outputs of the soft logic block having dedicated connections to second selected ones of the inputs to the hard logic block, and a second group of user-configurable general-purpose routing resources coupled to second selected ones of the outputs of the soft logic block and to first selected ones of the outputs of the hard logic block. |
| US10361701B2 |
Operational amplifier, driving interface, measurement and control device, driving circuit and driver
An operational amplifier, a driving interface, a measurement and control device, a driving circuit and a driver are provided. The operational amplifier is used as at least one of an input interface and output interface, and when the operational amplifier corresponds to one transistor (Q), an external circuit of the transistor further includes: a first port (Vdj), connected with a base (B) of the transistor (Q) through a first resistor (Rb); a second port (I/Oe), connected with an emitter E of the transistor (Q); a third port (I/Oc), connected with a collector (C) of the transistor (Q); and a fourth port (GND), connected with the emitter (E) of the transistor (Q) through a second resistor and used as a public port for signal input and signal output. |
| US10361700B1 |
Testing method to quantify process variation distribution in physically unclonable function device, computer readable medium thereof
A process variation evaluation method and a process variation evaluating device are provided. The process variation evaluation method is adapted to an electronic device having a PUF device, a recording array and a controller, and includes: iteratively powering up the PUF device in various conditions and detecting a state change of each of the PUF cells in the PUF device by the controller, in which the controller compares a current state in a current iteration and a previous state in a previous iteration of each PUF cell to detect the state change and setting a value indicating the state change in a corresponding bit in the recording array; counting a number of bits with the set value in the recording array after a plurality of iterations; and evaluating a variation of a process according to the counted number by the controller. |
| US10361698B2 |
Transformer based gate drive circuit
A gate drive circuit for generating asymmetric drive voltages comprises a gate drive transformer comprising: a primary winding responsive to a pulse width module (PWM) input signal to generate a bipolar signal having a positive bias voltage and a negative bias voltage; and a secondary winding responsive to the bipolar signal to generate a PWM output signal. A first charge pump is connected to the secondary winding responsive to the PWM output signal to generate a level shifted PWM output signal. A second charge pump is connected to the secondary winding to generate a readjusted PWM output signal by decreasing at least a portion of the level shifted PWM output signal. A gate switching device is connected to the first charge pump and second charge pump. A level shifted PWM output signal establishes an ON condition and the readjusted PWM output signal establishes an OFF condition of the gate MOSFET. |
| US10361696B1 |
RF sensor in stacked transistors
An RF switch includes series-coupled RF switch cells coupled between an RF input and ground, a transistor including a first current node coupled to a first load resistor, a second current node coupled to ground, and a control node coupled to an internal switch node, and a filter having an input coupled to the first current node of the first transistor and an output for providing a DC voltage corresponding to the RF power present at the internal switch node. |
| US10361694B2 |
Switching circuitry, DC-interface and method for operating a switching circuitry
A switching circuitry is configured to provide, during an ON-State, a connection between a first port and second port and to electrically disconnect, during an OFF-State, the first port from the second port. The switching interface comprises a first and a second cascode transistor element having an applicable operational voltage and comprising a control terminal, wherein the first cascode transistor element is connected with the first port of the switching interface and wherein the second cascode transistor element is connected with the second port of the switching interface. The switching interface comprises a switching transistor element, having the applicable operational voltage and comprising a third control terminal, the switching transistor element being serially connected the first and second cascode transistor elements. A supply signal arrangement is connected to the control terminals and configured to provide control voltages to the control terminals. |
| US10361692B2 |
Duty cycle detector and phase difference detector
A duty cycle detector includes a first ring oscillator suitable for including an odd number of first inverters and generating a first periodic signal by using the first inverters, at least one inverter among the first inverters being enabled during a time interval when a clock has a first value, a second ring oscillator including an odd number of second inverters and suitable for generating a second periodic signal using the second inverters, at least one inverter among the second inverters being enabled during a time interval when the clock has a second value. The duty cycle detector further includes a frequency comparator suitable for comparing a frequency of the first periodic signal with a frequency of the second periodic signal and generating a duty cycle detection signal of the clock. |
| US10361683B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit
An object of the present invention is to reduce burden on a program for changing an operation mode of an internal circuit in accordance with an internal clock frequency without mounting a large-scale circuit in an LSI in which setting of the frequency of an internal clock can be dynamically changed. In an LSI including an internal clock generation circuit generating an internal clock from a clock source in accordance with a parameter supplied, a register storing frequency information of the clock source, a register storing the parameter, and an internal circuit having a plurality of operation modes, a table circuit controlling the operation mode of the internal circuit in association with the frequency information and the parameter supplied from the registers is provided. |
| US10361675B2 |
Quartz crystal blank and quartz crystal resonator unit
A rectangular quartz crystal blank having long sides substantially parallel to a Z′ axis of the quartz crystal blank, and short sides substantially parallel to an X axis of the quartz crystal blank. The quartz crystal blank includes a center region, a second region and a third region that are adjacent to the center region along a long-side direction, and a fourth region and a fifth region that are adjacent to the first region along a short-side direction. A thickness of the second region and a thickness of the third region are smaller than a thickness of the first region, and/or a thickness of the fourth region and a thickness of the fifth region are smaller than a thickness of the first region, and 25.90≤W/T≤27.17, where W is a length of a short side and T is a thickness. |
| US10361672B2 |
Controlling a power amplification stage of an audio signal amplifier
An audio reproduction apparatus is shown and includes an amplifier with a power amplification stage having transistors in a push-pull arrangement. A bias generator biases the transistors with a standing current. A processor receives a data stream comprising digital samples of an analog audio signal and analyzes the peak level of each group. It then determines the appropriate standing currents to maintain Class A operation of the power amplification stage given the peak levels of each of the groups. A digital to analog converter produces an analog input signal for the input stage of the amplifier from the data stream. A feedforward path between the processor and the bias generator allows the standing current to be adjusted prior to the arrival of the analog input signal in the power amplification stage. |
| US10361664B2 |
Power amplifier circuit
A power amplifier circuit is capable of restraining uneven temperature distribution among a plurality of unit transistors while restraining the deterioration of the characteristics of the power amplifier circuit. The power amplifier circuit includes: a first transistor group which includes a plurality of unit transistors and which amplifies an input signal and outputs an amplified signal; a bias circuit which supplies a bias current or a bias voltage to a base or a gate of each unit transistor of the first transistor group; a plurality of first resistive elements, each of which is connected between the base or the gate of each unit transistor of the first transistor group and an output of the bias circuit; and a plurality of second resistive elements, each of which is connected between an emitter or a source of each unit transistor of the first transistor group and a reference potential. |
| US10361662B2 |
Low noise amplifier including current bleeding circuit
Disclosed is a low noise amplifier including a current bleeding circuit. The low noise amplifier includes a common gate amplifier, a common source amplifier of which a gate is connected to a source of the common gate amplifier, a symmetric load connected to an output end of the common gate amplifier and an output end of the common source amplifier, and a current bleeding circuit of which one end is connected to the output end of the common source amplifier and another end is connected to the symmetric load, and including an active element and a load corresponding to the symmetric load. |
| US10361659B2 |
Power envelope tracker and adjustable strength DC-DC converter
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a low-side switch; at least two high-side switches coupled to the low-side switch; a supply boost circuitry coupled to one of the at least two high-side switches; and a high-side switch selection circuit which is operable to enable one of the at least two high-side switches according to a relative difference between a signal and a threshold. |
| US10361656B1 |
Method for inspecting solar cell packages
The present invention uses a power supply to splay a forward bias to a concentrating solar cell. Then the solar cell will emit red light (electroluminescence). After passing the secondary optical device packaged on the solar cell, the red light will exhibit specific light distribution. According to the light distribution, the accuracy of the packaging location of the solar cell, the forming precision of the secondary optical device, and whether the optical devices are defective can be examined. |
| US10361647B2 |
Motor drive controlling apparatus, motor drive controlling method, and tube pump
A motor drive controlling apparatus includes: a controller that generates and outputs a drive control signal, in response to input of a speed command signal and a rotational direction signal; a motor driver that generates and outputs a drive signal to a motor, in response to the drive control signal; and an encoder that detects a rotational position of the motor to output an encoder signal. The controller includes: a measurement unit that detects, based on the encoder signal, a time at which a rotational state of the motor becomes, caused by an external factor, different from that commanded by the speed command and rotational direction signals, and measures a movement amount from the time; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the motor driver, a signal for stopping an output of the drive signal, when the movement amount and a drive-control-signal outputting state satisfy a predetermined condition. |
| US10361645B2 |
Method for identifying an error state in a brushless direct current motor
A method for identifying an error state in a brushless direct current motor. For the purposes of this identification, an angle deviation between a shaft angle and a control angle is calculated and used to identify error states on the basis of characteristic patterns. This also works, in particular, for slowly-rotating or stationary brushless direct current motors and allows a clear reduction in the calculation capacities required, compared to the prior art. |
| US10361643B2 |
Power generating element
A base end of a flexible plate-like structure body (111) having a first attribute is fixed to a pedestal (310) and a leading end thereof is connected to a connector between different attributes (112). Base end of a flexible plate-like structure body (113, 114) having a second attribute is connected to the connector between different attributes (112) and leading end thereof is given as free ends. Weight body (211, 212, 213) is connected to the lower surface of the connector between different attributes (112) and the leading-end lower surface of the plate-like structure body (113, 114) having the second attribute. When vibration energy is applied to the pedestal (310), the weight body (211, 212, 213) undergoes vibration, resulting in deformation of each of the plate-like structure bodies (111, 113, 114). The deformation energy is taken out by a charge generating element (400) such as a piezoelectric element to generate electric power. The plate-like structure body (111) having the first attribute extends in a positive direction of an Y axis, and the plate-like structure body (113, 114) having the second attribute extend in a negative direction of the Y axis. Therefore, a plurality of resonance systems different in resonance frequency exists concurrently along the same axis, thereby widening a frequency band capable of generating electric power. |
| US10361640B2 |
Cascaded photovoltaic grid-connected inverter, control method and control device for the same
Provided are a cascaded photovoltaic grid-connected inverter and a control method and control device thereof. The method includes: determining whether at least one of inverter units of the inverter is over-modulated; if yes, calculating a maximum reactive power and a minimum reactive power permitted to be injected to a power grid in a situation that a power factor of a system is not less than a minimum permitted value; simulating an operation state of the inverter after the maximum reactive power is injected to the power grid and determining whether each of the inverter units in the operation state is in a modulating region; if yes, injecting a suitable reactive power to the power grid; and if no, controlling the inverter to exit an operation mode of independently performing maximum power point tracking control on each photovoltaic panel. |
| US10361639B1 |
Power supply apparatus
A main unit 2 and a subsidiary unit 4 include two inverters 6m, 8m and 6s, 8s, and PWM control circuits 26m, 26s, respectively. A changeover switch 20 operates to simultaneously connect the inputs of the two inverters of the main unit 2 and the inputs of the two inverters of the subsidiary unit 4 in series or in parallel. An imbalance detecting circuit 28 detects imbalance in the input voltages to the two inverters of the main unit 2, and provides the detection result to the PWM control circuits 26m and 26s. The PWM control circuit 26m controls the inverters 6m and 8m of the main unit 2 in accordance with the detection result supplied from the imbalance detecting circuit 26m, and the PWM control circuit 26s controls the subsidiary unit 4 in accordance with the detection result supplied from the imbalance detecting circuit 26m. The input current to the main unit 2 is larger than the input current to the subsidiary unit 4. |
| US10361631B2 |
Symmetrical power stages for high power integrated circuits
A circuit assembly for a power converter includes power stage blocks. A power stage block includes a power stage IC die, an output inductor that is connected to a switch node of the power stage IC die, and capacitors that form an output capacitor of the power stage block. The output capacitors of the power stage blocks are symmetrically arranged. The output inductors can be placed on the same side of the substrate as the power stage IC dies, or on a side of the substrate that is opposite to the side where the power stage IC dies are disposed. A power stage block may generate two output phases of the power converter. |
| US10361621B2 |
DC power supply with reduced input current ripple
A power supply comprising a DC to DC converter coupled to a current limited controller and an accumulator is disclosed, where the DC to DC converter may be a switch-mode DC to DC converter. The current limit controller may be configured to limit a current draw of the switch-mode DC to DC converter. The accumulator may be configured to discharge to an output terminal of the DC to DC converter while the current limit controller limits the current draw of the DC to DC converter. |
| US10361618B2 |
Driving circuit for high-side transistor
A driving circuit drives an N-channel or NPN high-side transistor. A level shift circuit includes an open-drain differential conversion circuit that converts an input signal SIN into a differential signal SdiffP/SdiffN, and a latch circuit that switches its state according to the differential output SdiffP/SdiffN of the differential conversion circuit. A driver drives a high-side transistor according to an output of the level shift circuit. A bootstrap circuit generates a bootstrap voltage VBST to be used as an upper-side power supply for the driver. Upon detecting an abnormal state, a protection circuit controls at least a part of the driving circuit except for the input signal SIN so as to turn off the high-side transistor. |
| US10361607B2 |
Alternator with series fans
An electric machine for a vehicle comprises a housing, a rotor shaft, a first fan member, and a second fan member. The housing includes a first end portion having at least one air inlet opening and an opposite second end portion having at least one air outlet opening. The rotor shaft extends through at least one of the first end portion and the second end portion and is configured to rotate relative to the housing. The first fan member is located within the housing and is mounted on the rotor shaft. The second fan member is located outside of the housing and is mounted on the rotor shaft. Rotation of the rotor shaft causes each of the first and second fan members to generate an airflow from the at least one air inlet opening to the at least one air outlet opening. |
| US10361604B1 |
Electromagnetic gravity driven generator
A gravity driven generator include a wheel hub surrounded by a circular wheel frame having a plurality of radial spokes extending from the hub to the frame and each carrying a movable weight that is impelled from a resting position proximate the hub to an extended position proximate the frame as the wheel rotates from the 12 o'clock position to the 6 o'clock position. This results in placing the overall structure out-of-balance and causes rotation. The movable weight are impelled inward from the 6 o'clock position to the 12 o'clock position. The rotating hub is connected to generators, such as geared generators, to produce electrical power. In a preferred embodiment, the movable weight are carried on tracks and impelled by electromechanical induction devices. |
| US10361603B2 |
Mechanically and electrically integrated driving apparatus and manufacturing method therefor
In a mechanically and electrically integrated driving apparatus, a common coolant flow channel for cooling a motor unit and an inverter unit is disposed inside a wall portion of a frame unit. Power modules are placed in close contact with an inner wall surface of the frame unit. A bracket that is separate from the frame unit is fitted into the frame unit. A space inside the frame unit is divided by the bracket into: a space in which the motor unit is housed; and a space in which the inverter unit is housed. |
| US10361602B2 |
Stainless steel motor with high weather resistance and high sealing performance
A stainless steel motor with high weather resistance and high sealing performance comprises a cylindrical housing (11) made of a stainless steel material. A front end cover (12) is arranged at one end of the cylindrical housing, and a rear end cover (13) is arranged at the other end of the cylindrical housing. A rotary shaft hole (12a) is provided in the front end cover. A rotary shaft sealing sleeve (12b) is arranged in the rotary shaft hole, and a rotor shaft (12) is sleeved in the rotary shaft sealing sleeve (12b). A first drainage structure is arranged on the front end cover, and a second drainage structure is arranged on the rear end cover. A first wire penetrating hole (11a) and a second wire penetrating hole (11b) are provided in the cylindrical housing. A junction box (3) located on the outside of the first wire penetrating hole and a capacitor box (4) provided with a capacitor (4a) and located on the outside of the second wire penetrating hole are arranged on the outer wall of the cylindrical housing. A first sealing structure is arranged between the cylindrical housing and the junction box, and a second sealing structure is arranged between the cylindrical housing and the capacitor box. The motor has the advantages of easy draining and good sealing effect. |
| US10361601B2 |
Rotor assembly
Disclosed herein is a rotor assembly, including a cylindrical housing coupled to an outer circumferential surface of a rotor body and configured to house a coil turn therein, a supporting unit disposed in the housing and configured to prevent the coil turn from being pushed in an axial direction of a rotor, and a vane ring coupled to one end of the housing and provided with blades guiding cooling fluid to the coil turn. The rotor assembly may include: coil turns each of which is formed by stacking conductors in a multilayer structure and includes a linear part interposed between teeth, and a curved part extending from the linear part and disposed on an outer surface of a spindle; first supporting blocks which are inserted into the curved part and disposed between the conductors; and a second supporting block which is disposed between the first supporting blocks. |
| US10361598B2 |
Rotating electrical machine and elevator
According to one embodiment, a rotating electrical machine includes an annular winding, L (L is an arbitrary integer) stator magnetic poles, and L rotor magnetic poles having the same polarity. The L stator magnetic poles are disposed apart from each other in a rotational direction and facing the winding. The L rotor magnetic poles have the same polarity as each other. The L rotor magnetic poles are disposed apart from each other in the rotational direction and configured to face the L stator magnetic poles If an order of the fundamental wave component of a torque pulsation is N, M (M≤L) distances between centers of the adjacent poles between pole centers in one set of either the L stator magnetic poles or the L rotor magnetic poles are combinations of (Θ, Θ+Θ1/M, Θ+Θ1×2/M, . . . , and Θ+1×(M−1)/M), and Θ1 satisfies the relationship (180°/N)<Θ1<(540°/N) in the notation of electrical angle. |
| US10361596B1 |
Protocol, method and system for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer relaying network
A simultaneous wireless information and power transfer relaying network system includes a source, a relay and a destination node. An overall time slot constituting a relaying protocol of the system includes a first time slot assigned for the source and a second time slot assigned for the relay, where at least a part of the first time slot is assigned for an information transmission from the source to the relay. A time duration of the second time slot is greater than a time duration of the at least part of the first time slot assigned for the information transmission from the source to the relay. A method of communication for the SWIPT relaying network system includes determining a structure of the overall time slot including ratios of time durations of subparts of the overall time slot. |
| US10361595B1 |
Directional wireless power and wireless data communication
Methods and apparatus are disclosed of a wireless power transmission system (WPTS) and wireless power receiver client (WPRC). The WPTS may directionally transmit wireless power to a first WPRC while concurrently directionally transmitting wireless data to at least a second WRPC. The WPTS and WPRC may reuse circuitry configured to transmit/receive wireless power to also transmit/receive wireless data. |
| US10361594B2 |
Wireless power transmission device and foreign object detection coil thereof for detecting metallic foreign object
A wireless power transmission device radiates electromagnetic waves through a transmission antenna and generates multiple sensed signals by using multiple foreign object detection (FOD) coils for detecting metallic foreign object to sense the electromagnetic waves. Each FOD coil has three coil units connected in series to and spaced apart from one another. The radiation pattern of the transmission antenna overlaps a sensing range of the FOD coils. A controller of the wireless power transmission device determines if any metallic foreign object enters the radiation range of the transmission antenna according to a reference voltage signal and sensed signals of the cells, and stops the generation of electromagnetic waves when determining entry of metallic foreign object into the radiation range to avoid the metallic foreign object to be heated by the electromagnetic waves. |
| US10361590B2 |
Wireless power system with device specific power configuration and method therefor
A method includes establishing mutual communication between a wireless power transmitting unit (PTU) and a wireless power receiving unit (PRU), receiving at the wireless PTU an identifier corresponding to a device that includes the wireless PRU, and selecting a wireless PTU power transmission level based on the identifier. |
| US10361589B2 |
Power transmission device, and power transmitter and power receiver for the same
A power transmission device performs contactless power transmission from a power transmitter to a power receiver. The power transmitter includes a main body supporting the power receiver by first and second surfaces that are disposed adjacent to each other, a power transmitting coil disposed within the main body and having a first coil portion corresponding to the first surface and a second coil portion corresponding to the second surface, and a power source supplying power to the power transmitting coil. The power receiver includes a main body having a third surface and a fourth surface opposed to the first and second surfaces, respectively, and a power receiving coil disposed within the main body and having a third coil portion corresponding to the third surface and a fourth coil portion corresponding to the fourth surface. |
| US10361586B2 |
Method of wirelessly transferring power
A wireless power transfer device including a first power amplifier configured to generate a first drive signal, a second power amplifier configured to generate a second drive signal, a first transmitter coil configured to generate a first magnetic field having a first magnitude in response to receiving the first drive signal, and a second transmitter coil configured to generate a second magnetic field having a second magnitude in response to receiving the second drive signal. The wireless power transfer device also includes a repeater coil magnetically coupled to the first transmitter coil and the second transmitter coil, and configured to generate a third magnetic field having a third magnitude. The third magnitude is greater than the first magnitude and greater than the second magnitude. The repeater coil is configured to magnetically transfer power to an external device. |
| US10361585B2 |
Systems and methods to allow for a smart device
Smart switch devices, systems, and methods for modifying an existing electrical system to utilize the power state output of a physical switch as an indicator or signal for the operation of a smart home device or system or network of such devices to facilitate interoperability of physical switches with smart devices. The smart switch detects or determines the power state of a circuit and infers the corresponding state of a mechanical switch that operates the circuit. This information is then transmitted to associated smart devices, which may not be physically connected to the circuit controlled by the switch. When the mechanical switch is operated, it can control both electrically attached loads, such as a conventional light or appliance, and wirelessly control unconnected smart devices. |
| US10361584B2 |
System for managing energy, method of managing energy, and method of predicting energy demand
Disclosed is a system for managing energy of a community in which at least one building exists. The system includes a community agent for managing community energy demand prediction data including building energy demand prediction data of each building and a community demand reaction load capacity including a building demand reaction load capacity of each building and managing a community demand reaction incentive policy applied to the community; and a machine learning device for generating a building demand reaction incentive policy to be applied to each building through a community-optimized machine learning model. |
| US10361582B2 |
Power metering and control system adaptable to multi-standard device
Apparatus for powering a smart load capable of receiving power at a first power-reception level and a second power-reception level greater than the first power-reception level includes a solar panel and a connector operably coupled to the solar panel. A monitoring device is configured to monitor a power-reception level of the smart load when the smart load is coupled to the connector. The apparatus includes an interrupting device configured to interrupt power flow to the smart load based on a determination that the smart load is receiving power at the first power-reception level. The smart load receives power at the second power-reception level in response to the interruption. |
| US10361580B2 |
Apparatus and method for charging electronic device having battery
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for operating an electronic device may include receiving information related to a second battery from an external electronic device having the second battery by an electronic device having a first battery and a charger for charging the first battery; and identify at least one operation of: 1) receiving an electric power from the external electronic device to the electronic device, 2) supplying an electric power from the electronic device to the external electronic device, or 3) not transferring an electric power between the electronic device and the external electronic device, by the electronic device based at least one of the information related to the second battery or information related to the first battery. Further, various embodiments can be implemented. |
| US10361576B2 |
Automobile and control method for automobile
An electronic control unit is configured to i) turn off a charging relay when a charger is disconnected from an external power source while external charging is in progress which is started when the charger is connected to the external power source and the charging relay is turned on while a system is off and in which a battery is charged with electric power from the external power source by the charger, and ii) set the period from the disconnection of the charger from the external power source to the turn-off of the charging relay to be longer when preliminary air conditioning is in progress than when preliminary air conditioning is not in progress. |
| US10361575B2 |
Power storage module, power storage apparatus, power storage system, control method, electronic apparatus, electric vehicle, and electric power system
A power storage apparatus includes a plurality of power storage modules connected in series and a control apparatus that controls each power storage module. The power storage module includes a battery section, a controller, a communication unit, a first insulator that insulates the controller from the communication unit, and a second insulator having a withstand voltage higher than a withstand voltage of the first insulator. The second insulator is provided between the communication unit of each power storage module and the control apparatus. |
| US10361573B2 |
Battery pack
A battery pack includes a first battery with a first capacity, a second battery with a second capacity less than the first capacity, and a variable resistor. The second battery has a larger maximum discharge current than the first battery. The variable resistor circuit limits the discharge current of the first battery to a predetermined limit current value. |
| US10361567B2 |
Complementary engagement of battery banks to augment life, performance and capacity of energy storage system
The embodiments herein provide an energy storage battery system constituting multiple banks of individual batteries, each of which may have different characteristics, and methods of operation of the system. The multiple battery banks configuration is based on split battery configuration derived by a splitter based on a probability distribution function (pdf) of expected usage pattern, optimization goal, and battery characteristics of a corresponding single battery system. The energy system optimizes at least one of cost, weight or size of the overall system by rotating usage of various battery banks based on usage pattern. |
| US10361561B2 |
Dispatching method and device for integrated transmission and distribution network
The present disclosure provides a dispatching method and a dispatching device for an integrated transmission and distribution network. The integrated transmission and distribution network includes a transmission network and at least one distribution network. The method includes: establishing a dispatch model of the integrated transmission and distribution network, in which dispatch model includes an objective function and constraints, the objective function is a minimizing function of a total generation cost of the transmission network and the at least one distribution network under the constraints; solving the dispatch model to obtain dynamic dispatch parameters for the integrated transmission and distribution network; and dispatching the integrated transmission and distribution network according to the dynamic dispatch parameters. |
| US10361555B2 |
Device to reduce residual current
A device for reducing residual current in an electrical circuit, in particular an electrical low-voltage line, has a residual current sensor and a current measuring unit, wherein an output of the residual current sensor is connected to an input of the current measuring unit. The device has a voltage reducing unit, the voltage reducing unit is connected to an output of the current measuring unit, and the voltage reducing unit is designed to reduce the electrical voltage—subsequently applied to the device—depending on the height of the measured residual current in order to limit the measured residual current to a predeterminable value, in particular 30 mA. |
| US10361546B2 |
Electrical enclosure
An electrical housing including a housing portion defined by a base and sidewalls extending from the base. The housing portion is adapted to be covered by a lid to configure an enclosure for housing electric components therewithin. A flange portion extends from the at least one sidewall for facilitation mounting of the electrical power housing. The flange portion comprises a pair of apertures configured at operative ends of the flange portion, and a corner portion surrounding the pair of apertures. The corner portion is defined by an arcuate projection circumscribing the pair of apertures. |
| US10361541B2 |
Magnetic arc vent seal
Method and apparatus for sealing an air vent in a switchgear cabinet provide a vent seal assembly having a vent seal cover and a set of linear guides on which the vent seal cover may be mounted. The vent seal cover and linear guides are housed within a casing attachable to an interior surface of the switchgear cabinet and directly over an air vent. Within the casing, the vent seal cover may slide freely along the linear guides toward the air vent, with no spring or other mechanical biasing mechanism to oppose the sliding of the cover. A catch on the casing releasably holds the vent seal cover to keep the air vent open during normal operating conditions. When an arc event occurs, pressure from the arc event knocks the vent seal cover free of the catch and propels it toward the air vent, quickly slamming the air vent shut. |
| US10361534B2 |
Semiconductor light source
A semiconductor light source is disclosed. In an embodiment a semiconductor light source includes at least one semiconductor laser configured to generate a primary radiation and at least one coupling-out element comprising a continuous base region and rigid light guide columns extending away from the base region, the light guide columns acting as waveguides for the primary radiation, wherein the primary radiation is irradiated into the base region during operation, is led through the base region to the light guide columns and is directionally emitted from the light guide columns so that an intensity half-value angle of the emitted primary radiation is at most 90°. |
| US10361533B2 |
Optical module implementing laser diodes
An optical module that provides a feedthrough to carry an electrical signal output from and/or provided to a semiconductor optical device is disclosed. The feedthrough has a signal pad that carries the electrical signal thereon and at least two ground pads sandwiching the signal pad therebetween. The feedthrough further provides a cavity provided under the signal pad and spaces each between the signal pad and the ground pads. |
| US10361531B2 |
Light emitting semiconductor devices with getter layer
The invention describes a light emitting semiconductor device (100) comprising a substrate (120), a light emitting layer structure (155) and an AlGaAs getter layer (190) for reducing an impurity in the light emitting layer structure (155), the light emitting layer structure (155) comprising an active layer (140) and layers of varying Aluminum content, wherein the growth conditions of the layers of the light emitting layer structure (155) comprising Aluminum are different in comparison to the growth conditions of the AlGaAs getter layer (190). The AlGaAs getter layer (190) enables a reduction of the concentration of impurities like Sulfur etc. in the gas phase of a deposition equipment or growth reactor. The reduction of such impurities reduces the probability of incorporation of the impurities in the light emitting layer structure (155) which may affect the lifetime of the light emitting semiconductor device (100). The growth conditions are chosen out of the group Arsenic partial pressure, Oxygen partial pressure, deposition temperature, total deposition pressure and deposition rate of Aluminum. The invention further relates to a corresponding method of manufacturing such a light emitting semiconductor device (100). |
| US10361527B2 |
Electrical terminal and device for forming a terminal
A crimping device includes an anvil and a crimp tooling member. The anvil is configured to receive a terminal on a top surface thereof. The crimp tooling member has a forming profile recessed from a bottom side of the crimp tooling member. The forming profile is configured to engage a crimp barrel of the terminal as the crimp tooling member moves towards the anvil during a crimping operation to crimp the crimp barrel into mechanical and electrical engagement with an electrical wire disposed within the crimp barrel. The forming profile defines at least one pocket along a top-forming surface of the forming profile that extends between two side walls of the forming profile. Each pocket is configured to form a corresponding protrusion in the crimp barrel of the terminal during the crimping operation. |
| US10361521B2 |
Push-on coaxial connector
A push-on coaxial cable connector includes a port grip, a joint, and a cable clamp. |
| US10361518B2 |
Electrical connector having shielding plate retained tightly thereto
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a mating chamber opening forwardly along a front-to-back direction, a number of contacts retained to the insulative housing, and a shielding plate having a pair of latch arms located at two opposite lateral sides of the mating chamber. Each of the contacts includes a contact portion extending into the mating chamber. The shielding plate includes a pair of retention arms each including an interference protrusion engaged with the insulative housing by interference fit. The interference protrusions are disposed in a face-to-face way to engage with a rear wall of the insulative housing so that the interference protrusions are retained tightly to insulative housing and less likely to damage the insulative housing. |
| US10361514B2 |
Communication connectors utilizing multiple contact points
Disclosed herein are various communications systems allowing for multiple contacts points between plug contacts in a communications plug and plug interface contacts (PICs) in a communications jack. In some disclosed implementations, a communications plug including a first and a second plug contact mated with a communications jack having a first and a second plug PIC may form a plurality of plug/jack interfaces. The plug/jack interfaces may form multiple current paths between the communications plug and the communications jack. When a signal propagates between the communications plug and the communications jack, it may be split in the communications plug between a first current path and a second current path, and recombined in the communications jack after traveling through the plurality of plug/jack interfaces. |
| US10361508B2 |
Docking devices and cable connectors for patient monitoring systems
A connector includes a connector array of magnets having a first magnetic polarity pattern. A port includes a port array of magnets having a second magnetic polarity pattern that is complementary to the first magnetic polarity pattern. The connector is guided and aligned toward a mounted position in which the connector is retained on the port. The guiding and the aligning is through both (i) attraction when the connector is properly aligned to the port and (ii) repulsion when the connector is improperly aligned to the port. The port further includes a securing magnet configured to be activated when the connector reaches the mounted position, to magnetically secure the connector to the port. |
| US10361505B2 |
Dual-cover structure protectively enclosing socket
An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a cover set used with the connector. The connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained in the housing. Each contact extends beyond both the upper surface and the lower surface of the base of the housing. The cover set includes an upper cover and a lower cover independently detachably attached to the housing and respectively covering the upper portion and the lower portion of the housing for protecting the extending exposed contacts wherein the upper cover further provides holding/suction device for mounting the connector to the printed circuit board after the lower cover is removed. |
| US10361496B1 |
Conductor assembly with a crimped tubular ferrule and method and tool for manufacturing same
A cable assembly includes an elongate conductor surrounded by an outer insulator and an outer ferrule surrounding a portion of the conductor. An outer surface of the outer ferrule is deformed to produce an indentation having an indentation surface that is angled relative to the outer surface. The indentation forms a barb that at least partially penetrates the outer insulator. A method of manufacturing the cable assembly and a tool for forming the outer ferrule is also presented and described. |
| US10361491B2 |
Connectors for flexible busbar and methods of connecting
A connector for a flexible busbar is provided. The connector includes a jaw and a relief. The jaw has a first member and a second member both depending from a support member and spaced from one another by a distance. The distance is larger than a thickness of the flexible busbar. The relief is defined on first member and/or second member. The jaw is deformably compressible onto the flexible busbar upon application of a deformation force on the first and second members so that the flexible busbar conforms to the at least one relief to form an electrical and mechanical connection. |
| US10361490B1 |
Pattern diversity assisted antenna systems
Antenna structures and methods of operating the same of an electronic device are described. One apparatus includes a radio coupled to a RF feed and an RF switch, a first antenna element coupled to the RF feed, and a second antenna element coupled to the RF switch, the RF switch being coupled to a grounding point of a ground plane. The radio controls the RF switch between a first mode and a second mode. The radio causes the first antenna element to radiate electromagnetic energy in a first radiation pattern in the first mode and causes the second antenna element to radiate electromagnetic energy in a second radiation pattern in the second mode. The second radiation pattern is different than the first radiation pattern. |
| US10361484B2 |
Antenna selection
A network device communicates with one or another set of antennas depending on an orientation of the network device. The network device includes a first set of one or more antennas, a second set of one or more antennas, a processor, and memory having stored thereon instructions executable by the processor to cause the device to perform functions. The functions include (1) determining that an orientation of the network device is one of a first orientation and a second orientation; (2) if the determined orientation is the first orientation, then causing the network device to communicate using the first set of one or more antennas; and (3) if the determined the orientation is the second orientation, then causing the network device to communicate using the second set of one or more antennas. |
| US10361483B2 |
Antenna device and array antenna device
The antenna device includes: an element part 100 having an excitation element 1, a first passive element 11 having first and second conductive parts 11a and 11b, a second passive element 21 having third and fourth conductive parts 21a and 21b, a first switch 12 controlling conduction between the first and second conductive parts, and a second switch 22 controlling conduction between the third and fourth conductive parts; and a controller 200 outputting an electric signal for controlling conduction of the first and second switches. The controller outputs identical DC signal to the first and second switches, and one of the first and second switches is brought into conduction while the other one is brought out of conduction. |
| US10361480B2 |
Antenna isolation using a tuned groundplane notch
There is disclosed an antenna device relating to a single or dual band antenna system for use in mobile telecommunications devices, laptop and tablet computers, USB adapters and electrically small radio platforms comprising a pair of antennas attached to a conductive ground plane, the antennas being separated by free space in which at least one notch is formed in the conductive ground plane between the pair of antennas characterized in that the notch further includes an inductive component and a capacitive component providing good antenna isolation so as to enable MIMO operation or diversity operation. |
| US10361478B2 |
Housing, method for manufacturing housing, and mobile terminal
A housing, a method for manufacturing the housing, and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: manufacturing a cover body made of shielding material and having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; defining at least one slot in the cover body, wherein the at least one slot has a depth less than a thickness of the cover body and has an opening in the first surface and a bottom opposite to the opening; filling the at least one slot with first non-shielding material; and removing at least a portion of the cover body which is located between the bottom of the at least one slot and a portion of the second surface opposite to the bottom of the at least one slot, such that the at least one slot penetrates through the cover body in the thickness direction of the cover body. |
| US10361477B2 |
Antenna and mobile terminal having the same
An antenna and a mobile terminal having the same are provided. The antenna includes: a metal shell having a first slot, penetrated through the metal shell, extending in a transverse direction of the metal shell, having two ends which are closed; and a second slot, penetrated through the metal shell, extending in a longitudinal direction of the metal shell, having a first end communicated with the first slot and a second end extending to an edge of the metal shell and opened thereat; an exciting sheet disposed at an inner side of the metal shell, covering the first slot in a width direction thereof; a dielectric filling layer disposed between the exciting sheet and the metal shell, configured to fill the first and second slots; and an expanding resonance branch, disposed on a surface of the dielectric filling layer facing away from the metal shell, connected to the exciting sheet. |
| US10361475B2 |
Antenna unit and antenna system
An antenna unit includes a first metal portion, a second metal portion connected to one side of the first metal portion, a third metal portion connected to another side of the first metal portion and opposite to the second metal portion, a feed point disposed at the second metal portion, a first ground terminal, and a second ground terminal. The feed point, the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal are disposed in a straight line. The shape of the first metal portion is mirror-image symmetrical relative to the feed point, the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal. |
| US10361473B2 |
Bidirectional coupler
A bidirectional coupler includes a first main line that transmits a first signal from a first input end thereof to a first output end thereof, a second main line that transmits a second signal from a second input end thereof to a second output end thereof, a first sub-line having a first end corresponding to the first input end and a second end corresponding to the first output end, a second sub-line having a first end corresponding to the second input end and a second end corresponding to the second output end, a detector port, a termination circuit, and a switch circuit. The first end of the first sub-line and the first end of the second sub-line are connected to each other. |
| US10361470B2 |
Battery module having all-solid-state battery and cartridge
A cartridge having a novel structure for guaranteeing stable operational performance of a secondary battery that operates at a high temperature or has improved performance at a high temperature, and a battery module including the cartridge is provided. The battery module includes at least one secondary battery; and a cartridge receiving at least a portion of the secondary battery and configured to be stacked in at least one direction, the cartridge including a heat insulating member. |
| US10361458B2 |
Laminated body
A laminated body includes: a porous base material containing a polyolefin-based resin as a main component; and a porous layer which is disposed on at least one surface of the porous base material and which contains a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, the laminated body being arranged so that: a diminution rate of diethyl carbonate dropped on the porous base material is 15 sec/mg to 21 sec/mg; a spot diameter of the diethyl carbonate 10 seconds after the diethyl carbonate was dropped on the porous base material is not less than 20 mm; and the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin containing crystal form α in an amount of not less than 36 mol % with respect to 100 mol % of a total amount of the crystal form α and crystal form β contained in the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator made of the laminated body is not easily curled. |
| US10361454B2 |
Metal plating-based electrical energy storage cell
The present disclosure provides an electrochemical storage cell including a battery. The battery includes an alkali metal anode having an anode Fermi energy, an electronically insulating, amorphous, dried solid electrolyte able to conduct alkali metal, having the general formula A3-xHxOX, in which 0≤x≤1, A is the alkali metal, and X is at least one halide, and a cathode including a cathode current collector having a cathode Fermi energy lower than the anode Fermi energy. During operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal plates dendrite-free from the solid electrolyte onto the alkali metal anode. Also during operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal further plates on the cathode current collector. |
| US10361453B2 |
Battery cell structure including a solid-state electrolyte
A battery cell structure, a system including the structure, and a method of fabricating the structure. The structure includes: a cell housing; a cathode in the cell housing, the cathode including a cathode material; a cathode current collector adjacent the cathode in the cell housing; an anode in the cell housing, the anode including an anode material; an anode current collector adjacent the anode in the cell housing; a separator in the cell housing between the cathode and the anode. The cathode material comprises a recycled material including a contaminant, and the battery cell structure further includes a solid-state electrolyte disposed in the cell housing to at least partially prevent the contaminant from growing. |
| US10361448B2 |
Fuel cell stack
A power generation cell of a fuel cell stack has a plurality of first introduction flow paths arranged along a direction of gravity to introduce the reaction gas to a power generation region. The dummy cell has a plurality of second introduction flow paths arranged along the direction of gravity to introduce the reaction gas to a central region. The fuel cell stack has at least one of a first configuration in which the flow path width of the second introduction flow path at a lowermost end in the direction of gravity is narrower than the average flow path width of the second introduction flow paths, and a second configuration in which the flow path width of the first introduction flow path at a lowermost end in the direction of gravity is wider than the average flow path width of the first introduction flow paths. |
| US10361447B2 |
Polymer and polymer electrolyte membrane comprising same
The present specification relates to a polymer with improved acid resistance, a polymer electrolyte membrane including the same, a membrane-electrode assembly including the polymer electrolyte membrane, a fuel cell including the membrane-electrode assembly, and a redox flow battery including the polymer electrolyte membrane. |
| US10361446B2 |
Process for the preparation of PBI based membrane electrode assembly (MEA) with improved fuel cell performance and stability
The present invention discloses a process for the preparation of poly-benzimidazole (PBI) based membrane electrode assembly (MEA) with improved fuel cell performance and stability. It discloses a simple strategy to overcome the leaching of phosphoric acid (PA) from the membrane during fuel cell operation by an in-situ Current-Voltage (I-V) assisted doping of membrane with PA. The invention provides an improved method for the preparation of membrane electrode assembly (MEA) wherein said MEA possess high stability and improved fuel cell performance achieved by overcoming the leaching of phosphoric acid during cell operation. |
| US10361444B2 |
Solid-oxide fuel cell systems
The present application provides combined cycle fuel cell systems that include a fuel cell, such as a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC), comprising an anode that generates a tail gas and a cathode that generates cathode exhaust. The system or plant may include adding fuel, such as processed or refined tail gas, to the inlet air stream of a reformer to heat the reformer. The system or plant may include removing water from the tail gas and recycling the removed water into an inlet fuel stream. The inlet air stream may be the cathode exhaust stream of the fuel cell, and the inlet fuel stream may be input hydrocarbon fuel that is directed to the reformer to produce hydrogen-rich reformate. The system or plant may direct some of the processed or refined tail gas to a bottoming cycle. |
| US10361443B2 |
Fuel cell system, and control method for fuel cell system
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell supplied with fuel gas for power generation; a fuel supply flow passage flowing fuel gas, supplied from a fuel supply source, to the fuel cell; a pressure regulating valve regulating a pressure of fuel gas flowing through the fuel supply flow passage; a fuel circulation flow passage returning gas, emitted from the fuel cell, to the fuel supply flow passage; a circulation pump delivering gas in the fuel circulation flow passage to the fuel supply flow passage; an emission valve emitting gas in the fuel circulation flow passage to an outside; and a control device controlling the pressure regulating valve, the circulation pump and the emission valve such that the sum of losses of crossover hydrogen, circulation pump power and purge hydrogen is minimum while a hydrogen stoichiometric ratio required for power generation of the fuel cell is ensured. |
| US10361441B2 |
Membrane electrode assembly and methods of making the same
Membrane electrode assembly comprising a first gas diffusion layer having a first microporous layer on a major surface thereof, wherein the first microporous layer has a major surface, wherein the major surface of the first microporous layer has discontinuous areas therein substantially free of microporous material, and wherein at least a portion of the first discontinuous areas has adhesive therein; and methods for making the same. Membrane electrode assemblies described herein are useful, for example, in fuel cells. |
| US10361438B2 |
Alkaline dry cell
An alkaline dry cell includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an alkaline electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes a terephthalic acid compound and a negative electrode active material containing zinc. The terephthalic acid compound is terephthalic acid having an electron-withdrawing substituent or a salt thereof. The electron-withdrawing substituent is, for example, at least one selected from the group consisting of Br, F, and Cl. The terephthalic acid compound preferably includes terephthalic acid having one electron-withdrawing substituent or a salt thereof. |
| US10361436B2 |
Electrochemical cells and methods for making same
The present disclosure is directed to electrochemical cells having injection molded or 3D printed components, such as cathodes, anodes, and/or electrolytes, and methods for making such electrochemical cells. The cathodes, anodes, and/or electrolytes can be formed from a binder resin and various conductive and active materials, mixtures of which are injected into a mold under heat and pressure to form the components of the electrochemical cells. The cathode can include conductive metallic powder, flakes, ribbons, fibers, wires, and/or nanotubes. Further, electrochemical arrays can be formed from multiple electrochemical cells having injection molded or 3D printed components. |
| US10361431B2 |
Lithium ion secondary battery
The present invention relates to a positive electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries, the positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material and a positive electrode binder, in which the positive electrode active material comprises lithium manganate having a spinel structure, and the positive electrode binder comprises at least polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and a resin having sulfone linkages, and to a lithium ion secondary battery comprising the positive electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries. |
| US10361425B2 |
Random copolymer, electrolyte, protected anode and lithium battery including the same, and method of preparing the random copolymer
A random copolymer including a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1 and a second repeating unit represented by Formula 2 in a molar ratio of about 1:99 to about 99:1, wherein the polymer has a degree of polymerization of about 10 to about 5,000: wherein CY1, CY2, A, X, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and Y− are the same as defined in the detailed description. |
| US10361419B2 |
Submarine provided with rows of power storage means
Disclosed is a submarine provided with lithium-ion battery-based electricity storage, assuming the form of associated individual storage elements (2, 3, 4), each element (2, 3, 4) being provided with an electronic connecting and operation management card (5, 6, 7), in which: the associated individual storage elements (2, 3, 4) are arranged in a row; each electronic card (5, 6, 7) of an element of a row (1) is mechanically and electrically connected, at its ends (8, 9), to the electronic cards (5, 6, 7) of the row (1) that are its closest neighbors, to form a strip of cards (1a) for this row (1); this strip of cards (1a) can be manipulated by an operator from at least one of its ends and is able to slide relative to the storage elements (2, 3, 4) of the row (1). |
| US10361418B2 |
Laminated body
To afford a laminated body that is usable as a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator and that is not easily curled, a laminated body includes: a porous base material containing a polyolefin-based resin as a main component; and a porous layer containing a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, the porous base material having a temperature rise ending period of a particular value with respect to the amount of resin per unit area, the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin containing crystal form α in an amount of not less than 36 mol % with respect to 100 mol % of a total amount of the crystal form α and crystal form β contained in the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin. |
| US10361414B2 |
Separator for secondary battery
Provided herein is a separator used for an electrochemical device such as a lithium-ion battery. The separator disclosed herein comprises a porous base material, and a protective porous layer coated on one or both surfaces of the porous base material disclosed herein, wherein the protective porous layer comprises an organic binder and an inorganic filler, and wherein the inorganic filler comprises a whisker-type material selected from the group consisting of Al2O3, SiO2, TiO2, ZrO2, BaOx, ZnO, CaCO3, TiN, AlN, MTiO3, K2O.nTiO2, Na2O.mTiO2, and combinations thereof, wherein x is 1 or 2; M is Ba, Sr or Ca; n is 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8; and m is 3 or 6. Also provided herein is a lithium-ion battery including the separator disclosed herein. The separator disclosed herein is excellent in terms of safety, ion permeability, and cycle characteristics. |
| US10361412B2 |
Method and apparatus for forming thin-board-like base material
A method for forming a thin, board-like base material has a tensile transfer step and a forming step. In the tensile transfer step, the long, thin, board-like base material is transferred by pulling the thin, board-like base material in the transfer direction while holding both ends of the thin, board-like base material along the transfer direction and pulling the ends outward in the direction intersecting the transfer direction. In the forming step, predetermined forming operations are performed with respect to the thin, board-like base material. |
| US10361407B1 |
Interface between electrodes and battery terminal
An electrical energy storage device has electrodes positioned in a case. A feedthrough pin extends through a portion of the case. A sealant surrounds the feedthrough pin and contacts a component of the device. A seal activator is received in the sealant such that the pressure that the sealant applies to the component increases above the level of pressure that the sealant applies to the component before the sealant activator is received in the sealant. In some instances, the component is the feedthrough pin. |
| US10361391B2 |
Organic light emitting display device having a connecting clad electrode
An organic light-emitting display device in which a connecting clad electrode is disposed between the thin film transistor and the light-emitting structure is provided. The connecting clad electrode may include a repair cutting region overlapping with a transparent of a lower substrate. Thus, in the organic light-emitting display device, reducing the area of the transparent area by the repair cutting region may be prevented. |
| US10361388B2 |
Light-emitting element, display device, electronic device, and lighting device
A light-emitting element having low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. In the light-emitting element, a combination of a guest material and a host material forms an exciplex. The guest material is capable of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. Light emission from the light-emitting layer includes light emission from the guest material and light emission from the exciplex. The percentage of the light emission from the exciplex to the light emission from the light-emitting layer is greater than 0 percent and less than or equal to 60 percent. The energy after subtracting the energy of light emission from the exciplex from the energy of light emission from the guest material is greater than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.23 eV. |
| US10361386B2 |
Planar light emitting device
Provided is a planar light emitting device which is highly productive employing inexpensive FPCs capable of being easily electrically connected, and which has a light emitting region with reduced unevenness in luminance and hence is highly reliable. The planar light emitting device, which has a light emitting surface and a back surface, includes a planar light emitting tile including a planar light emitting element and a plurality of flexible printed circuits (FPCs) disposed on the back surface. The planar light emitting tile includes a non-pad region where none of an anode pad and a cathode pad are disposed. In an overlapped region where part of two circuit boards overlap each other, an electrical connection site where an equipotential region of the two circuit boards are directly electrically connected to each other is formed. The non-pad region forms a connecting-part disposed region that overlaps with the electrical connection site. |
| US10361385B2 |
Display device
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a substrate including a first area, a second area, and a first bending area located between the first and second areas. The first bending area is bent about a first bending axis extending in a first direction. The display device also includes a first inorganic insulating layer arranged over the substrate and having a first opening or a first groove at least in the first bending area, an organic material layer filling at least a part of the first opening or the first groove, and a first conductive layer extending from the first area to the second area across the first bending area and located over the organic material layer. |
| US10361380B2 |
Heterocyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same
A heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 below, and an organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound: wherein X1 and R1 to R10 are defined as in the specification. |
| US10361378B2 |
Organic electroluminescent device
Provided is a practically useful organic EL element having high efficiency and high driving stability while being capable of being driven at a low voltage. The organic EL element has a light-emitting layer and any other organic layer between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other. The light-emitting layer contains at least two host materials and at least one light-emitting dopant. At least one of the host materials is a host material selected from compounds each having one or two indolocarbazole skeletons, and at least one of the other host materials is a host material selected from carbazole compounds each substituted with a dibenzofuran or a dibenzothiophene. |
| US10361375B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
A composition formed of a mixture of a first compound and a second compound wherein the first compound has a different chemical structure than the second compound. The first compound and the second compound are both organic compounds. At least one of the first compound and the second compound contains at least one less abundant stable isotope atom. The first compound has an evaporation temperature T1 and the second compound has an evaporation temperature T2 where both T1 and T2 are between 100 to 400 ° C. and the absolute value of T1-T2 is less than 20 ° C. The first compound has a concentration C1 in said mixture and a concentration C2 in a film formed by evaporating said mixture in a high vacuum deposition tool with a chamber base pressure between 1×10−6 Torr to 1×10−9 Torr, at a 2Å/sec deposition rate on a surface positioned at a predefined distance away from the mixture being evaporated; and wherein absolute value of (C1-C2)/C1 is less than 5%. |
| US10361371B2 |
Fullerene derivatives, and related materials, methods and devices
The invention relates to improved fullerene derivatives, to methods for their synthesis and any educts or intermediates used in such methods, to compositions and formulations containing fullerene derivatives, to the use of the fullerene derivatives, compositions and formulations in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices like for example organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices or organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising, or being prepared from, these fullerene derivatives, compositions or formulations. |
| US10361366B2 |
Resistive random accress memory containing a conformal titanium aluminum carbide film and method of making
A plurality of embodiments for ReRAM devices and method of making are described. According to one embodiment, the ReRAM device includes a first electrode film formed on a substrate, a metal oxide film with oxygen vacancies formed on a first electrode film, a conformal TiAlC film, oxidized by diffused oxygen atoms from the metal oxide film, formed on the metal oxide film, and a second electrode film formed on the TiAlC film. According to another embodiment, the ReRAM device includes a pair of vertical metal oxide films, a pair of vertical conformal TiAlC films formed on the pair of vertical metal oxide films, the pair of vertical conformal TiAlC films oxidized by diffused oxygen atoms from the pair of vertical metal oxide films, and an electrode film formed between the pair of vertical conformal TiAlC films. |
| US10361365B2 |
Implementing deposition growth method for magnetic memory
A magnetic memory array and a method for implementing the magnetic memory array for use in Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are provided. A plurality of magnetic pillar memory cells is formed using a deposition and/or growth process to produce a magnetic memory array substantially avoiding milling of magnetic materials. |
| US10361364B2 |
Co-fabrication of magnetic device structures with electrical interconnects having reduced resistance through increased conductor grain size
A method of forming magnetic device structures and electrical contacts, including removing a portion of a second interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer to expose an underlying portion of a cap layer in a first device region, wherein the cap layer is on a first ILD layer, while leaving an ILD block in a second device region, forming a spacer layer on the exposed portion of the cap layer in the first device region, forming an electrical contact layer on the spacer layer in the first device region, forming a magnetic device layer on the electrical contact layer and ILD block, removing portions of the magnetic device layer to form a magnetic device stack on the ILD block, and removing portions of the electrical contact layer to form electrical contact pillars, wherein the portions of the electrical contact layer and portions of the magnetic device layer are removed at the same time. |
| US10361363B2 |
Method of manufacturing tunnel magnetoresistive effect element and sputtering apparatus
A method includes: a first film formation process forming a film by sputtering a first insulator target when a projection plane of the first insulator target on a plane including a front face of a substrate is in a first state; and a second film formation process forming a film by sputtering a second insulator target when a projection plane of the second insulator target formed on the plane including the front face of the substrate is in a second state different from the first state. The second film formation process provides the insulating film having a second characteristic variation having opposite tendency to a first characteristic variation in the film provided by the first film formation process, the first characteristic variation occurring from a center portion to a peripheral portion of the substrate, the second characteristic variation occurring at least partly from the center portion to the peripheral portion. |
| US10361361B2 |
Thin reference layer for STT MRAM
Techniques relate to forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). A synthetic antiferromagnetic reference layer is adjacent to a tunnel barrier layer. The synthetic antiferromagnetic reference layer includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a reference spacer layer sandwiched between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. A magnetic free layer is adjacent to the tunnel barrier layer so as to be opposite the synthetic antiferromagnetic reference layer. The synthetic antiferromagnetic reference layer has a thickness of at least one of 3 nanometers (nm), 4 nm, and 3-4 nm. |
| US10361359B1 |
Magnetic random access memory with reduced internal operating temperature range
A Magnetic Random Access Memory apparatus device having a memory element formed as a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) pillar and having a heating element for maintaining a desired minimum temperature of the memory element. The heating element is separated from the memory element by a thin, non-magnetic, electrically insulating wall, which can be constructed of alumina. The heating element is connected with circuitry that controllably delivers electrical current to the heating element to maintain a desired minimum temperature of the memory element. |
| US10361353B2 |
Sidewall metal spacers for forming metal gates in quantum devices
Disclosed herein are fabrication techniques for providing metal gates in quantum devices, as well as related quantum devices. For example, in some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a quantum device may include providing a gate dielectric over a qubit device layer, providing over the gate dielectric a pattern of non-metallic elements referred to as “gate support elements,” and depositing a gate metal on sidewalls of the gate support elements to form a plurality of gates of the quantum device. |
| US10361350B2 |
Optoelectronic component and production method therefor
An optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment the component includes a semiconductor chip, a molded body and an electrical through-contact constituting an electrically conductive connection through the molded body. The through-contact and the semiconductor chip are embedded alongside one another and are spaced apart in the molded body. A first contact pad of the through-contact is arranged at an underside of the molded body. A second contact pad of the through-contact is arranged at a top side of the molded body. The second contact pad is electrically conductively connected to the electrical contact of the semiconductor chip. The through-contact is arranged such that a molded body is arranged at least in a section between the first and second contact pads on a straight line between the first and second contact pads. |
| US10361349B2 |
Light emitting diodes, components and related methods
Light emitting diode components and devices with a wall of reflective material and having improved performance and beam angle, are provided. Reflective material provided with light emitting diode devices is configured to optimize light reflectivity by altering the composition, thickness, placement and/or angle thereof. Methods of making and assembly light emitting diode components and devices with reflective materials and improved performance, are also provided. |
| US10361347B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a base member, a light emitting element, a wire, a protective film, first and second resin members, and a light shielding portion. The base member has a conductive member. The wire connects the light emitting element and the conductive member. The protective film covers the conductive member to be spaced apart from a portion of a connecting portion. The first resin member continuously covers at least a portion of each of the protective film, a portion of the conductive member around the connecting portion, and the wire. The first resin member contains first light reflecting particles to reflect light emitted by the light emitting element. The second resin member covers the light emitting element and the first resin member. The light shielding portion is disposed on the base member and disposed on a line connecting the light emitting element and the first resin member. |
| US10361344B2 |
Light emitting device
A light-emitting device in which the emission intensity of light-emitting elements is improved by making heat generated by light emission of the light-emitting elements be effectively released is provided. The light-emitting device includes a mounting substrate including a mounting region, light-emitting elements mounted on the mounting region, a sealing resin which contains a phosphor and integrally seals the light-emitting elements, and at least one heat transfer member which is arranged among the light-emitting elements on the mounting region, is embedded in the sealing resin, and has a higher thermal conductivity than the sealing resin. |
| US10361341B2 |
Indium gallium nitride red light emitting diode and method of making thereof
A red-light emitting diode includes an n-doped portion, a p-doped portion, and a light emitting region located between the n-doped portion and a p-doped portion. The light emitting region includes a light-emitting indium gallium nitride layer emitting light at a peak wavelength between 600 and 750 nm under electrical bias thereacross, an aluminum gallium nitride layer located on the light-emitting indium gallium nitride layer and a GaN barrier layer located on the aluminum gallium nitride layer. |
| US10361326B2 |
Advanced CPV solar cell assembly process
This disclosure relates to a solar cell assembly structure for supporting a concentrator photovoltaic cell comprising a semiconducting structure and a diode, wherein the semiconducting structure comprises a first semiconducting region at least a part of which for placing the concentrator photovoltaic cell structure, and a second semiconducting region for realizing the diode within or on the second semiconducting region and wherein the part of the first semiconducting region for placing the concentrator photovoltaic cell structure and the second semiconducting region are not vertically overlapping. |
| US10361321B2 |
Method of forming a contact for a photovoltaic cell
The present disclosure provides a method of forming a contact for a photovoltaic (PV) cell. The method comprises the step of providing a substrate of a semiconductor material. The substrate has first regions that have a first doping property and are located at first surface portions. The method also comprises depositing a passivation layer on the surface of the substrate including the first surface portions. Further, the method comprises depositing a conductive layer on the passivation layer such that material of the passivation layer is sandwiched between the first regions and the conductive layer. In addition, the method comprises applying an electric field between the first regions and the conductive layer in a manner such that locally a dielectric breakdown of the sandwiched passivation layer material is induced. The first regions having a doping property and the method is conducted such that an electrical resistance is reduced in the passivation layer at the first regions and an electrical contact is formed. |
| US10361319B2 |
Integrated circuit devices
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate, first and second fin active regions formed on the substrate and extending in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, a first gate structure disposed on a side surface of the first fin active region, a pair of first impurity regions respectively formed on a top portion and a bottom portion of the first fin active region, a second gate structure disposed on a side surface of the second fin active region, and a pair of second impurity regions respectively formed on a top portion or a bottom portion of the second fin active region, wherein the pair of first impurity regions vertically overlap each other, and the pair of second impurity regions do not vertically overlap each other. |
| US10361318B2 |
Semiconductor device
A transistor includes a multilayer film in which an oxide semiconductor film and an oxide film are stacked, a gate electrode, and a gate insulating film. The multilayer film overlaps with the gate electrode with the gate insulating film interposed therebetween. The multilayer film has a shape having a first angle between a bottom surface of the oxide semiconductor film and a side surface of the oxide semiconductor film and a second angle between a bottom surface of the oxide film and a side surface of the oxide film. The first angle is acute and smaller than the second angle. Further, a semiconductor device including such a transistor is manufactured. |
| US10361316B2 |
Low temperature poly-silicon thin film transistor and method for manufacturing the same
A low temperature poly-silicon thin film transistor includes at least an interlayer dielectric layer formed of a material including silicon oxide and silicon nitride, in such a way that the interlayer dielectric layer includes a depression region channel in a stepped form. A source metal layer and a drain metal layer are formed in the depression region channel in the stepped form. |
| US10361312B2 |
Thin film transistor substrate and display panel having the same
A thin film transistor array panel device comprises: a base substrate; a barrier layer disposed over the base substrate and comprising a plurality of transparent material layers; and an array of thin film transistors disposed over the barrier layer. A difference between a refractive index of the barrier layer and a refractive index of the base substrate may be within about 6%. The transparent material layers may be arranged such that the transparent material layers having compressive residual stress and the transparent material layers having tensile residual stress are alternately stacked. Each of the transparent material layers may comprise silicon oxynitride (SiON). |
| US10361310B2 |
Method of fabricating semiconductor devices
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes patterning a substrate to form an active fin, forming a sacrificial gate pattern crossing over the active fin on the substrate, removing the sacrificial gate pattern to form a gap region exposing the active fin, and forming a separation region in the active fin exposed by the gap region. Forming the separation region includes forming an oxide layer in the exposed active fin and forming an impurity regions with impurities implanted into the exposed active fin. |
| US10361309B2 |
Semiconductor device having a fin-shaped active region and a gate electrode
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a fin-shaped active region that protrudes from the substrate, a gate insulating film covering a top surface and both side walls of the fin-shaped active region, a gate electrode on the top surface and the both side walls of the fin-shaped active region and covering the gate insulating film, one pair of insulating spacers on both side walls of the gate electrode, one pair of source/drain region on the fin-shaped active region and located on both sides of the gate electrode, and a lower buffer layer between the fin-shaped active region the source/drain region. The source/drain regions include a compound semiconductor material including atoms from different groups. The lower buffer layer includes a compound semiconductor material that is amorphous and includes atoms from different groups. |
| US10361303B2 |
Vertical transport fin field effect transistors on a substrate with varying effective gate lengths
A method of forming vertical transport fin field effect transistors, including, forming a bottom source/drain layer on a substrate, forming a channel layer on the bottom source/drain layer, forming a recess in the channel layer on a second region of the substrate, wherein the bottom surface of the recess is below the surface of the channel layer on a first region, forming a top source/drain layer on the channel layer, where the top source/drain layer has a greater thickness on the second region of the substrate than on the first region of the substrate, and forming a vertical fin on the first region of the substrate, and a vertical fin on the second region of the substrate, wherein a first top source/drain is formed on the vertical fin on the first region, and a second top source/drain is formed on the vertical fin on the second region. |
| US10361299B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
In an n-type current diffusion region, a first p+-type region is provided under a bottom of a trench (gate trench). Further, in the n-type current diffusion region, a second p+-type region is provided between adjacent trenches so as to be separated from the first p+-type region and in contact with a p-type base region. In the p-type base region, a third p+-type region is provided near a side wall of the trench so as to be separated from the trench and first and second p+-type regions. A depth of the third p+-type region from an interface of the p-type base region and an n+-type source region does not reach the n-type current diffusion region. A shortest distance from the third p+-type region to the second p+-type region is at most a distance between the first and second p+-type regions. |
| US10361298B2 |
Semiconductor device having improved trench and electrode structures
A semiconductor device may comprise a substrate; a trench formed in the substrate and filled with an insulating layer; and a gate electrode and a source embedded in the insulating layer. The gate electrode and the source electrode may be positioned in the insulating layer in the trench above and below each other. From a cross-sectional perspective, the gate electrode and the source electrode are not overlapped in horizontal or vertical direction. The trench may extend to a first depth of a bottom surface of the trench below the gate electrode, and may extend to a second depth of the bottom surface of the trench below the source electrode. The first depth and the second depth may be different. |
| US10361297B2 |
Semiconductor epitaxial wafer, semiconductor device, and method of producing semiconductor device
A semiconductor epitaxial wafer includes a semiconductor wafer, and a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type disposed on a main surface of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor epitaxial wafer includes a plurality of device regions. The plurality of device regions each include a body region of a second conductivity type in contact with the semiconductor layer, a source region of the first conductivity type in contact with the body region, and a channel layer that is constituted by a semiconductor, and that is disposed on the semiconductor layer so as to be in contact with at least a part of the body region. In a plane parallel to the main surface of the semiconductor wafer, a thickness distribution in the channel layer and a concentration distribution of the first conductivity type impurity in the channel layer are negatively correlated to each other. |
| US10361288B2 |
Method for manufacturing FinFETs by implanting counter-doped regions in lightly-doped S/D extensions away from the channel
Fin field-effect transistors and fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a providing a plurality of fins on a surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate structure across the fins by covering portions of top and side surfaces of the fins, wherein portions of the fins under the gate structure are channel regions; forming lightly doped regions in the fins at both sides of the gate structure by performing a lightly doping ion implantation process; performing a counter doping ion implantation process on a portion of each lightly doped region away from the channel region to form a counter doped region in the lightly doped region; and performing a source/drain doping process on the fins at both sides of the gate structure to form doped source/drain regions. |
| US10361284B2 |
Method for vertical gate-last process
A method for fabrication of vertical nanowire MOSFETs is considered using a gate-last process. The top ohmic electrode is first fabricated and may be used as a mask to form a gate recess using etching techniques. The gate is thereafter formed allowing a large degree in access resistance reduction. |
| US10361282B2 |
Method for forming a low-K spacer
The present disclosure is directed to formation of a low-k spacer. For example, the present disclosure includes an exemplary method of forming the low-k spacer. The method includes depositing the low-k spacer and subsequently treating the low-k spacer with a plasma and/or a thermal anneal. The low-k spacer can be deposited on a structure protruding from the substrate. The plasma and/or thermal anneal treatment on the low-k spacer can reduce the etch rates of the spacer so that the spacer is etched less in subsequent etching or cleaning processes. |
| US10361281B2 |
Method to improve reliability of replacement gate device
A method of fabricating a replacement gate stack for a semiconductor device includes the following steps after removal of a dummy gate: growing a high-k dielectric layer over the area vacated by the dummy gate; depositing a thin metal layer over the high-k dielectric layer; depositing a sacrificial layer over the thin metal layer; performing a first rapid thermal anneal; removing the sacrificial layer; and depositing a metal layer of low resistivity metal for gap fill. |
| US10361274B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device having metal silicide surrounds a peripheral of metal carbide
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate that has a front surface and a rear surface, and is made of silicon carbide; and an ohmic electrode that is ohmically connected to the front surface or the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate. The ohmic electrode includes a metal silicide part and a metal carbide part. The metal silicide part surrounds a periphery of the metal carbide part that has a block shape. The metal silicide part is disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the metal carbide part. |
| US10361273B2 |
Silicon carbide substrate
A silicon carbide substrate whose majority carrier density is 1×1017 cm−3 or greater is such that a standard deviation of minority carrier lifetime as obtained by μ-PCD analysis is 0.7 ns or less in an area other than an area within a distance of 5 mm from an outer perimeter of a main surface. |
| US10361271B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device comprises an active region and a passive region located outside the active region. The active region comprises a plurality of active region units. At least one pair of adjacent active region units do not completely overlap in a length direction of the semiconductor device. |
| US10361264B2 |
Method for driving dual-media display panel, and electronic device and display system using the same
A method for driving a dual-media display panel includes the following. Display data is obtained. A first driving signal for driving a transparent display panel of the dual-media display panel is generated in response to the display data. A display-unit grayscale value for the display data is obtained. The display-unit grayscale value is determined whether it falls within a grayscale value interval. When the display-unit grayscale value is less than a lower limit of the grayscale value interval, a driving signal adapted to enabling the light-shielding display panel to display a black color is used as the second driving signal. When the display-unit grayscale value is greater than an upper limit of the grayscale value interval, a driving signal adapted to enabling the light-shielding display panel to display a white color is used as the second driving signal. |
| US10361258B2 |
Light emitting device and electronic device
Thinned and highly reliable light emitting elements are provided. Further, light emitting devices in which light emitting elements are formed over flexible substrates are manufactured with high yield. One light emitting device includes a flexible substrate, a light emitting element faulted over the flexible substrate, and a resin film covering the light emitting element, and in the light emitting element, an insulating layer serving as a partition has a convex portion and the convex portion is embedded in the resin film, that is, the resin film covers an entire surface of the insulating layer and an entire surface of the second electrode, whereby the light emitting element can be thinned and highly reliable. In addition, a light emitting device can be manufactured with high yield in a manufacturing process thereof. |
| US10361251B2 |
Image sensors and electronic devices including the same
Image sensors, and electronic devices including the image sensors, include a first photoelectronic device including at least one of a blue photoelectronic device sensing light in a blue wavelength region, a red photoelectronic device sensing light in a red wavelength region, and a green photoelectronic device sensing light in a green wavelength region, and a second photoelectronic device stacked on one side of the first photoelectronic device without being interposed by a color filter, wherein the second photoelectronic device senses light in an infrared region. |
| US10361247B2 |
Device comprising a plurality of diodes
A device including a plurality of interconnected concentric coplanar diodes. |
| US10361245B2 |
Solid state transducer devices, including devices having integrated electrostatic discharge protection, and associated systems and methods
Solid state transducer devices having integrated electrostatic discharge protection and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a solid state transducer device includes a solid state emitter, and an electrostatic discharge device carried by the solid state emitter. In some embodiments, the electrostatic discharge device and the solid state emitter share a common first contact and a common second contact. In further embodiments, the solid state lighting device and the electrostatic discharge device share a common epitaxial substrate. In still further embodiments, the electrostatic discharge device is positioned between the solid state lighting device and a support substrate. |
| US10361242B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and method of producing solid-state imaging device
A solid-state imaging device includes a sensor including an impurity diffusion layer provided in a surface layer of a semiconductor substrate; and an oxide insulating film containing carbon, the oxide insulating film being provided on the sensor. |
| US10361238B2 |
Insulating wall and method of manufacturing the same
A pixel includes a semiconductor layer with a charge accumulation layer extending in the semiconductor layer. A transistor has a read region penetrating into said semiconductor layer down to a first depth. An insulating wall penetrates into the semiconductor layer from an upper surface and containing an insulated conductor connected to a node of application of a potential. The insulating wall includes at least a portion provided with a deep insulating plug penetrating into the insulated conductor down to a second depth greater than the first depth. A continuous portion of the insulating wall laterally delimits, at least partially, a charge accumulation area and includes a wall portion with the deep insulating plug at least partially laterally delimiting the read region of the transistor. |
| US10361237B2 |
Low dark current backside illumination sensor
Light sensors and methods of making the same include a photodiode and a hole accumulation layer directly on a sensing surface of the photodiode. A metal oxide layer is formed over the hole accumulation layer. An anti-reflection layer is formed over the metal oxide layer. |
| US10361234B2 |
3DIC interconnect apparatus and method
An interconnect apparatus and a method of forming the interconnect apparatus is provided. Two substrates, such as wafers, dies, or a wafer and a die, are bonded together. A first mask is used to form a first opening extending partially to an interconnect formed on the first wafer. A dielectric liner is formed, and then another etch process is performed using the same mask. The etch process continues to expose interconnects formed on the first substrate and the second substrate. The opening is filled with a conductive material to form a conductive plug. |
| US10361229B2 |
Display device
The invention allows formation of LTPS TFTs and TAOS TFTs on the same substrate. The invention provides a display device including a substrate having a display area in which pixels are formed. The pixels include a first TFT made of a TAOS. The drain of the first TFT is formed of first LTPS 112. The source of the first TFT is formed of second LTPS 113. The first LTPS 112 is connected to a first electrode 106 via a first through-hole 108 formed in an insulating film 105 covering the first TFT. The second LTPS 113 is connected to a second electrode 107 via a second through-hole 108 formed in the insulating film 105 covering the first TFT. |
| US10361226B2 |
Array substrate, manufacturing method for the same and display panel
The present invention discloses an array substrate, manufacturing method for the same and display panel. The present invention adopts a vertical superposition method to connect the QLED device with the TFT. When applying a voltage, the first semiconductor pattern and the second semiconductor pattern respectively generate electron holes and electrons to move toward the QLED device. The electron holes and electrons are recombined in the light-emitting layer to emit a light such that the light can be emitted right above the QLED device in order to realize a light-emitting at a TFT region, and increase the aperture ratio of the display panel. |
| US10361223B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate which has a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a first conductive wiring at the non-display area of the substrate, and a second conductive wiring at the non-display area of the substrate and on the first conductive wiring. The second conductive wiring surrounds at least a part of the first conductive wiring. |
| US10361221B2 |
Display device
To provide a display device including a flexible panel that can be handled without seriously damaging a driver circuit or a connecting portion between circuits. The display device includes a bent portion obtained by bending an element substrate. A circuit for driving the display device is provided in the bent portion and a wiring extends from the circuit whereby the strength of a portion including the circuit for driving the display device is increased and failure of the circuit is reduced. Furthermore, the element substrate is bent in a connecting portion between an external terminal electrode and an external connecting wiring (FPC)) so that the element substrate provided with the external terminal electrode fits the external connecting wiring, whereby the strength of the connecting portion is increased. |
| US10361218B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same
According to one embodiment, a source layer includes a semiconductor layer including an impurity. A stacked body includes a plurality of electrode layers stacked with an insulator interposed. A gate layer is provided between the source layer and the stacked body. The gate layer is thicker than a thickness of one layer of the electrode layers. A semiconductor body extends in a stacking direction of the stacked body through the stacked body and the gate layer. The semiconductor body further extends in the semiconductor layer where a side wall portion of the semiconductor body contacts the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor body does not contact the electrode layers and the gate layer. |
| US10361211B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device, includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first well region; an insulating layer formed on a first portion of the semiconductor substrate, and contacted with the first well region; a semiconductor layer formed on the insulating layer; an element isolation region reaching to an inside of the first well region, in cross-section view; a first gate electrode layer formed on a first portion of the semiconductor layer via a first gate insulating film; a second gate electrode layer formed on a second portion of the semiconductor layer via a second gate insulating film, and formed on a first portion of the element isolation region; an interlayer insulating film covering the first gate electrode layer, the second gate electrode layer and a second portion of the element isolation region; and a first plug conductor layer formed in the interlayer insulating film. |
| US10361206B2 |
Semiconductor device having junctionless vertical gate transistor and method of manufacturing the same
A junctionless vertical gate transistor includes an active pillar vertically protruding from a substrate and including a first impurity region, a second impurity region and a third impurity region sequentially formed over the first impurity region; gate electrodes coupled to sidewalls of the second impurity region; and bit lines arranged in a direction of intersecting with the gate electrodes and each contacting the first impurity region. The first to the third impurity regions include impurities of the same polarity. |
| US10361201B2 |
Semiconductor structure and device formed using selective epitaxial process
Semiconductor structures, devices, and methods of forming the structures and device are disclosed. Exemplary structures include multi-gate or FinFET structures that can include both n-channel MOS (NMOS) and p-channel MOS (PMOS) devices to form CMOS structures and devices on a substrate. The devices can be formed using selective epitaxy and shallow trench isolation techniques. |
| US10361196B2 |
Method and device for FinFET with graphene nanoribbon
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure, which has a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor fin on the substrate. The method also includes forming a catalytic material layer overlying the semiconductor fins, and forming an isolation region covering the catalytic material layer in a lower portion of the semiconductor fins. Next, a graphene nanoribbon is formed on the catalytic material layer on an upper portion of the semiconductor fin, and a gate structure is formed on the graphene nanoribbon. |
| US10361195B2 |
Semiconductor device with an isolation gate and method of forming
An embodiment includes a semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate; a continuous diffusion region disposed on the substrate; a first gate structure disposed on the continuous diffusion region; a second gate structure disposed on the continuous diffusion region; an isolation gate structure disposed between the first gate structure and the second gate structure and disposed adjacent to the both the first gate structure and the second gate structure; a first diffusion region of the continuous diffusion region disposed between the first gate structure and the isolation gate structure; a second diffusion region of the continuous diffusion region disposed between the second gate structure and the isolation gate structure; a conductive layer disposed on the first and second diffusion regions; and an isolation gate contact disposed over the isolation gate structure and electrically insulated from the first diffusion region. |
| US10361191B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a switching device region including an active region having a first conductivity-type emitter region formed on an upper surface side of a first conductivity-type substrate, a second conductivity-type base region formed on an upper surface side of the substrate, a second conductivity-type collector layer formed on a lower surface side of the substrate, and a diode region having a second conductivity-type anode layer formed on the upper surface side of the substrate and a first conductivity-type cathode layer formed on the lower surface side of the substrate, wherein the cathode layer is separated from the active region when planarly viewed, and on an upper surface side of the active region, a second conductivity type high-concentration region having an impurity concentration higher than that of the anode layer is formed. |
| US10361189B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a trench electrode provided in a trench, a trench insulating film provided between the trench electrode and the semiconductor substrate, a MOS electrode provided near the trench electrode, and a MOS insulating film provided between the MOS electrode and the semiconductor substrate, in which the semiconductor substrate includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer provided over the first semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer provided over the second semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor layer provided below the MOS electrode, and one and the other of fifth semiconductor layers provided on both sides of the fourth semiconductor layer, and in which the semiconductor device further includes a wiring layer that couples the one of the fifth semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layer together. |
| US10361188B2 |
Method for fabricating a JFET transistor within an integrated circuit and corresponding integrated circuit
An integrated circuit of the BiCMOS type includes at least one vertical junction field-effect transistor. The vertical junction field-effect transistor is formed to include a channel region having a critical dimension of active surface that is controlled by photolithography. |
| US10361185B2 |
ESD protection device with buried layer having variable doping concentrations
An electrostatic discharge protection clamp includes a substrate and a first electrostatic discharge protection device over the substrate. The first electrostatic discharge protection device includes a buried layer over the substrate. The buried layer has a first region having a first doping concentration and a second region having a second doping concentration. The first doping concentration is greater than the second doping concentration. The first electrostatic discharge protection device includes a first transistor over the buried layer. The first transistor has an emitter coupled to a first cathode terminal of the electrostatic discharge protection clamp. The first electrostatic discharge protection device includes a second transistor over the buried layer. The second transistor has an emitter coupled to a first anode terminal of the electrostatic discharge protection clamp. A collector of the first transistor and a collector of the second transistor are over the first region of the buried layer. |
| US10361183B2 |
Electrostatic protective device and electrostatic protective circuit
The electrostatic protective device includes an insulator and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a device forming region and a device separating region. The device forming region includes a primary first conductive impurity diffused layer, a body region, a secondary first conductive impurity diffused layer, and a second conductive region that are arranged in order. The second conductive region includes a second conductive impurity diffused layer separated electrically from the body region. The device separating region includes a device separating layer that surrounds the device forming region. A gate electrode is further provided on the body region in the semiconductor layer with an insulating film interposed in between. |
| US10361182B2 |
Chip parts and method for manufacturing the same, circuit assembly having the chip parts and electronic device
The chip part of the present invention includes a substrate, an electrode on the substrate and having a front surface in which a plurality of recessed portions are formed toward the thickness direction thereof, and an element region having a circuit element that is electrically connected to the electrode. |
| US10361181B2 |
Packaging mechanisms for dies with different sizes of connectors
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate. A redistribution structure is bonded to the package substrate. A bottommost surface of the redistribution structure is lower than a topmost surface of the package substrate. A conductive connector electrically couples the redistribution structure to the package substrate. The conductive connector physically contacts a sidewall of the redistribution structure. A first integrated circuit die is bonded to the redistribution structure through first bonding structures and is bonded to the package substrate through second bonding structures. The first bonding structures and the second bonding structures have different sizes. |
| US10361179B2 |
Display device
Provided is a display device, which includes a substrate, a transistor, a capacitor and a light emitting unit. The transistor and the capacitor are disposed on the substrate. The light emitting unit is disposed on the substrate and arranged corresponding to the capacitor. The light emitting unit includes a first light emitting diode. The first light emitting diode is electrically connected with the transistor and overlaps the capacitor. The display device has favorable space utilization, provides a repair function, or reduces the probability of failure. |
| US10361178B2 |
Interconnection structure, LED module and method
In an embodiment, an interconnection structure includes a first semiconductor device including a conductive stud, a second device including a contact pad, an adhesive layer including an organic component arranged between a distal end of the conductive stud and the contact pad, the adhesive layer coupling the conductive stud to the contact pad, and a conductive layer extending from the conductive stud to the contact pad. The conductive layer has a melting point of at least 600° C. |
| US10361176B2 |
Substrate with array of LEDs for backlighting a display device
An apparatus includes a substrate and a circuit trace having a predetermined pattern disposed on the substrate. A plurality of LEDs are connected to the substrate via the circuit trace. The predetermined pattern is arranged as an array of lines along a surface of the substrate, and the plurality of LEDs are distributed along the lines of the array. |