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| US10412869B2 |
Component mounting device and component mounting method
A component mounting device performs measurement of a position of a reference section of a head and measurement of calibration data of the head, and the calibration data of the head and the position of the reference section are stored in association. The component mounting device controls operation of the head holding body in which the head is held based on the calibration data of the head and the position of the reference section. In a case where it is not necessary to generate the calibration data of the predetermined head, the component mounting device measures the position of the reference section, and controls operation of the head holding body in which the head is held based on the measured position of the reference section, the position of the reference section which is stored, and the calibration data of the head. |
| US10412867B2 |
Electromagnetic shielding assembly, electromagnetic interference and lightning protection module and power supply
The present invention discloses an electromagnetic shielding assembly including an electromagnetic interference shielding component including a plate body and a bending portion. An included angle is formed between the plate body and the bending portion, and the plate body and the bending portion cover an input socket of a power supply. The electromagnetic interference shielding component includes at least one grounding pin disposed on the plate body or/and the bending portion and configured to ground with and screw to a housing of the power supply, and a welding pin disposed on a side of the bending portion away from the plate body and electrically connected to an auxiliary circuit board. The electromagnetic interference shielding component provides functions of EMI shielding, lightning (current) discharging and fixture, which can simplify the structure, increase the discharging speed and time, and reduce the amount of disturbance of the large current instantaneous to the ground. |
| US10412865B2 |
Vehicle electrical apparatus
A vehicle electric apparatus installed in an extra-cabin space in a vehicle includes an electric circuit unit and a metal housing. The electric circuit unit includes a switching unit configured to switch a direct-current voltage. The metal housing houses the electric circuit unit. The metal housing includes multiple housing parts, and adjacent housing parts out of the multiple housing parts are secured to one another at multiple securing positions with respective bar-shaped securing members. An axial direction of at least one bar-shaped securing member out of the bar-shaped securing members used for at least one securing position out of the multiple securing positions is set so as to orient toward an outside of a cabin an emission direction of an electromagnetic wave from the electric circuit unit through the at least one bar-shaped securing member. |
| US10412864B2 |
Electromagnetic gaskets for a cable connection
A gasket assembly structure including a frame which includes a front half and a back half joined together with a plurality of interlocking tabs located around a perimeter of the frame, defining a window, and an electromagnetic gasket, constrained between the front half and the back half of the frame; where the electromagnetic gasket lines an interior perimeter of the window and partially extends from the frame into the window, and a passageway through the window of the frame with boarders defined by the constrained electromagnetic gasket. A housing structure including a receptacle recessed within an opening on a front side of the housing, the receptacle is rigidly attached to the housing, and a gasket assembly recessed within the opening and located between the front side of the housing and the receptacle, where the gasket assembly is directly secured to the housing. |
| US10412862B2 |
Air cooling arrangment for a power distributor
An information processing apparatus includes a power supply, a fan that causes air to flow into the power supply, and a power distributor that is disposed in front of or in back of the power supply in a direction of flow of the air due to the fan and that is electrically coupled to the power supply, wherein a vent through which the air passes is formed in a surface of the power distributor that faces the power supply. |
| US10412860B1 |
Heat capture system for electrical components providing electromagnetic pulse protection
An apparatus includes an electrically-powered component, a hermitically-sealed, liquid-impermeable, high thermal-conductivity, container encapsulating the electrically-powered component, and a liquid bath surrounding the hermitically-sealed container. The electrically-powered component can include a computer motherboard, a central processing unit of a computer, or an electrical power transformer. The container can include a substance in direct contact with the electrically-powered component and can include a silicone compound, an epoxy compound, or a polyurethane compound. |
| US10412858B2 |
Joint structure between electronic component and frame
In a joint structure between an electronic component and a frame provided in the present invention, an electronic component is disposed in a frame, and heat is conducted from the electronic component to a corresponding windward part of the frame when a bicycle moves, so that the heat can be dissipated rapidly, thereby achieving a desirable heat dissipation effect. |
| US10412856B2 |
Fan detection method, fan detection chip and fan detection system using the same
A fan detection method, a fan detection chip and a fan detection system using the same are disclosed. The fan detection method is applied to a fan detection chip including a first pin, a second pin, a third pin, a fourth pin, and the fan is electrically coupled to the first pin, the second pin and the third pin at least. The fan detection method includes following steps: controlling a switch to selectively conduct the first pin and the second pin; controlling a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal processing module to output a voltage pulse to the fourth pin; detecting, by the voltage detection module, a voltage level on the fourth pin; and determining the fan to be a PWM fan when the voltage level is changed, and determining the fan to be a DC fan when the voltage level is not changed. |
| US10412854B1 |
Restraining data center equipment
A server rack seismic restraint includes a rear restraint assembly configured to attach to a support surface that is operable to support a data center server rack. The rear restraint assembly includes at least one lateral member positioned to receive the server rack and restrain the server rack against lateral movement based on a force applied to the server rack; and an angled bracket positioned to receive the server rack and restrain the server rack against vertical movement based on the force applied to the server rack. The server rack seismic restraint also includes a front restraint assembly configured to attach to the support surface and engage the server rack to restrain the server rack against vertical movement based on the force applied to the server rack. |
| US10412852B1 |
Multi-piece storage shuttle
A multi-piece storage shuttle for removeably securing a storage device within an enclosure assembly includes a stationary shuttle portion rigidly affixed to the enclosure assembly. A moveable shuttle portion is slidably affixed to the enclosure assembly and is configured to releasably engage the storage device. |
| US10412850B1 |
Engaging mechanism and related server device
An engaging mechanism with multifunctional assembling function is applied to a server device. The engaging mechanism includes a base, a latching component and an actuating component. The latching component includes a hooking portion disposed between a first end and a second of the latching component. The actuating component is slidably disposed on the base, and includes a substrate, a pressing portion and a contacting portion. The pressing portion and the contacting portion are disposed on the substrate. When the pressing portion is in a protruding position, the contacting portion presses the second end of the latching component to set the hooking portion in an unlocked position; while the pressing portion is moved to a hiding position, the contacting portion may be separated from the second end to move the hooking portion to a locked position. |
| US10412845B2 |
Head mounted display
A head mounted display including a main strap, a display part, an adjusting mechanism, a forehead pad, a plurality of holders and a lace is provided. The main strap surrounds a user's head. The display part is connected to the main strap and corresponds to the user's eyes. The adjusting mechanism is disposed on the main strap. The forehead pad corresponds to the user's frontal bone. The holders are disposed on the main strap and the forehead pad. A path of the lace in sequence passes through a retractable portion, a portion of the main strap near a first side of the display part, a first side of the forehead pad, a fixed portion of the lace, a second side of the forehead pad and a portion of the main strap near a second side of the display part. The adjusting mechanism connects the retractable portion and is adapted to adjust a magnitude of tension of the lace at the retractable portion. The lace is fixed at the main strap and the forehead pad by the holders. |
| US10412838B2 |
Conductive particle, and connection material, connection structure, and connecting method of circuit member
There is provided a conductive particle including a core particle containing a resin material, and a surface layer that covers a surface of the core particle and contains a solder material, in which a melting point of the solder material is equal to or lower than a softening point of the resin material. |
| US10412833B2 |
Method to neutralize incorrectly oriented printed diodes
A programmable circuit includes an array of printed groups of microscopic transistors or diodes having pn junctions. The devices are pre-formed and printed as an ink and cured. The devices have a proper orientation and a reverse orientation after settling on a conductor layer. The devices are connected in parallel within small groups. To neutralize the reverse-oriented devices, a sufficient voltage is applied across the parallel-connected diodes to forward bias only the devices having the reverse orientation. This causes a sufficient current to flow through each of the reverse-orientated devices to destroy an electrical interface between an electrode of the devices and the conductor layer to create an open circuit, such that those devices do not affect a rectifying function of the devices in the group having the proper orientation. An interconnection conductor pattern may then interconnect the groups to form complex logic circuits. |
| US10412829B2 |
Nitride semiconductor light-emitting element base and manufacturing method thereof
To prevent degradation of electrical characteristics caused by a resin filled between electrodes in an ultraviolet light-emitting operation, the present invention provides a base 10 that comprises an insulating base material 11 and two or more metal films 12 and 13 that are formed on one side of the insulating base material 11 and electrically separated from each other. The two or more metal films are formed to include an upper surface and a side wall surface that are covered by gold or a platinum group metal, to be capable of mounting thereon one or more nitride semiconductor light-emitting elements and the like, and to have, as a whole, a predetermined planar view shape including two or more electrode pads. On the one side of the base material 11, along a boundary line between an exposed surface of the base material 11 that is not covered by the metal film 12, 13 and a side wall surface of the metal film 12, 13, at least a first part of the exposed surface of the base material 11 continuous with the boundary line that is sandwiched between two adjacent electrode pads and the side wall surfaces of the metal films 12 and 13 that oppose to each other with the first part interposed therebetween are covered by a fluororesin film 16, and a part of an upper surface of the metal film 12, 13 that composes at least the electrode pad is not covered by the fluororesin film 16. |
| US10412827B1 |
Method of making a rigid-flex circuit board
A rigid-flex circuit board includes a core substrate, a first outer conductive circuit layer, and a second outer conductive circuit layer. The core substrate includes a first base layer and a second base layer. A first conductive circuit layer is formed on a surface of the first base layer, and a second conductive circuit layer is formed on a surface of the second base layer. An insulating layer is located between the first base layer and the second base layer. The first conductive circuit layer and the second conductive circuit layer are embedded within the insulating layer. A portion of the core substrate located within the first opening and the second opening is defined as a flexible board section, and the portions of the core substrate located outside of the first opening and the second opening are defined as a hard board section. |
| US10412826B2 |
Circuit board and method for manufacturing the same, terminal test device
The present application discloses a circuit board and a method for manufacturing the same, and a terminal test device. The circuit board includes a base substrate, and a plurality of conductive lines on the base substrate, each of the plurality of conductive lines having one end configured to be connected with a signal output bus of a signal generator and the other end configured to be connected with a terminal. A fuse is connected in series in each conductive line, and a breaking current IT of the fuse, a maximum operating current I of the conductive line and a fault current IF of the conductive line satisfy: I |
| US10412819B2 |
Plasma heater
A plasma heater includes a plasma heating section, an exhaust wasteheat heating section, a gas circulation pump, a water cooling system, and a treatment tank for waste gas and waste water. Flames emitted by plasma torches of plasma generators are directly sprayed onto first water pipes for heating. Exhaust generated after combustion of the plasma torches flows through the tail gas residual heat heating section in the metal cylindrical casing, then flows out of the metal cylindrical casing to enter the gas circulation pump, and flows back into the plasma generators through the gas circulation pump for recycling. After the circulating exhaust operates for more than 10 minutes, the discharged waste gas and waste liquid enter the recovering treatment tank. |
| US10412815B2 |
Lighting system and multi-mode lighting device thereof and controlling method
A lighting system and a multi-mode lighting device thereof are provided. The multi-mode lighting device includes a wireless communication unit, a lighting unit, a projection unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit is coupled to the wireless communication unit, the lighting unit, and the projection unit. The processing unit is configured to selectively operate in one of multiple modes, wherein the multiple modes include a lighting mode and a projection mode. The processing unit is adapted to control the lighting unit to provide illumination light when the processing unit operates in the lighting mode. The processing unit is adapted to receive a video signal provided by an electronic device via the wireless communication unit and control the projection unit to project an image based on the video signal when the processing unit operates in the projection mode. |
| US10412814B2 |
Occupancy and non-occupancy detection in the lighting system
Disclosed herein is a lighting system including a detector, which is configure to obtain an indicator data of a RF signal. The detector compares the indicator data with a baseline indicator data to generate a difference value and determines a rate of change from the indicator data. The detector also determines a data metric based on the rate of change and the difference value and compares the data metric with a transition threshold to detect one of an occupancy condition or a non-occupancy condition in the area. The lighting system also includes a light source, which is controlled in response to the detected one of the occupancy condition or the non-occupancy condition in the area. |
| US10412813B1 |
Ambient light sensor
An ambient light sensor is provided, which includes a photoelectric component, a variable capacitor, an operational amplifier, a comparator, a pulse generator circuit and a pulse accumulator circuit. The photoelectric component converts light energy into a photocurrent. The variable capacitor is connected between a first input terminal and an output terminal of the operational amplifier. A capacitance of the variable capacitor is adjusted according to the photocurrent. The operational amplifier outputs an amplified error signal based on a difference between an input voltage at its first input terminal and a reference voltage at its second input terminal. The comparator compares the amplified error signal with the reference voltage to output a comparison signal. The pulse generator circuit outputs a pulse signal based on the comparison signal. The accumulator circuit accumulates the number of counts that the input voltage is increased to a voltage larger than the reference voltage. |
| US10412811B1 |
Electronic devices for controlling lights
The present disclosure describes a network device that is capable of coordinating the control of light emitters. For example, the network device may receive data indicating conditions for activating the light emitters. The network device may then receive sensor data generated by various sensors, such as motion sensors, light sensors, or a timer. Using the sensor data, the network device may determine that the conditions are satisfied and, in response, cause the light emitters to activate. To activate first light emitters, the network device may transmit a signal to an electronic device that causes the first light emitters to activate. The first light emitters may be powered by the electronic device. Additionally, to activate second light emitters, the network device may transmit signals to the second light emitters that include commands to activate. |
| US10412809B2 |
Lighting device including solid state emitters with adjustable control
Lighting devices and methods utilize multiple independently controllable groups of solid state light emitters of different dominant wavelengths, with operation of the emitter groups being automatically adjusted by processor(s) to provide desired illumination. Operation of the emitter groups may be further affected by sensors and/or user input commands (e.g., sound patterns, gesture patterns, or signal transmission). Operation may be adjusted to compensate for presence, absence, intensity, and/or color point of ambient or incident light. Presence of five or more groups of solid state light emitters provide desirable luminous flux, color point, correlated color temperature (CCT), color rendering index (CRI), CRI R9, and luminous efficacy characteristics of aggregate emissions over a wide range of CCT values, and may permit adjustment of vividness (e.g., relative gamut) and/or melatonin suppression characteristics for a selected color point or CCT. |
| US10412808B2 |
Light emitting module and lighting device having same
A lighting apparatus according to an embodiment comprises: a circuit board; and a plurality of light emitting modules having first to third light source units for emitting different colors on the circuit board; a control unit for providing a current control signal for controlling a current of each of the first to third light source units; a driver for controlling currents of the first to third light source units with a current control signal of the control unit, and a memory unit for storing luminous flux deviation data of the first to third light source units of each of the plurality of light emitting modules, wherein the first light source unit includes a plurality of first light emitting devices for emitting red light, and the second light source unit includes a plurality of second light emitting devices for emitting green light, and the third light source unit includes a plurality of third light emitting devices for emitting blue light, and the control unit controls currents of the first, second, and third light source units of the plurality of light emitting modules, respectively, according to an intensity value of an input current corresponding to the luminous flux deviation data. |
| US10412801B1 |
Light-emitting device
A light-emitting device includes a current source module having a first transistor, a first voltage control module providing a negative voltage and a second voltage control module having a second transistor. The second voltage control module is electrically connected to the current source module and the first voltage control module. |
| US10412797B2 |
Apparatus and methods for converter mode and load configuration control
A driver coupled to a configurable load includes a first switch coupled between an intermediate node of the load and a converter supply voltage and a second switch coupled between the converter supply voltage and a reference potential. A slew rate control circuit is responsive to a command input signal and to a feedback voltage across the first and second switches and is configured to generate switch control signals with a controllable slew rate for coupling to control terminals of the first and second switches. In an embodiment, the command input signal includes a load configuration command and a converter mode command. |
| US10412793B2 |
Cooking appliance
A cooking appliance comprising a base member, an upper member and a cooking chamber defined between the base member and the upper member, wherein the upper member is displaceable between a closed position, in which the upper member is closed on the base member and access to the cooking chamber is prevented, and an open position, in which access to the cooking chamber is permitted. The cooking appliance comprises a locking device displaceable from a locking condition, in which it prevents the upper member from being displaced from the closed position to the open position, and an unlocking condition in which it allows the upper member to be displaced from the closed position to the open position. The cooking appliance comprises an automatic actuating device for automatically taking the locking device in the unlocking condition upon a predetermined condition is reached, and a further manual actuating device for manually taking the locking device in the unlocking condition. |
| US10412790B2 |
Cooking appliance
A cooking appliance apparatus includes at least one current supply line, and at least one current sensor unit configured to measure a high-frequency current in the at least one current supply line. The at least one current sensor has a first sensor inductance, at least one second sensor inductance, and at least one conduction path, which connects the first sensor inductance to the at least one second sensor inductance in an electrically conducting manner. |
| US10412789B2 |
Method for regulating a cooking process
The invention relates to a method for regulating a cooking process using an item of cookware having inductive properties on a cooking area, wherein a coil is arranged as part of an LC resonant circuit in the region of the cooking area and the natural frequency of the LC resonant circuit is measured repeatedly or continuously. The invention also relates to a cooking apparatus having at least one cooking area, a temperature sensor, a power controller, an LC resonant circuit having a coil, which is arranged in, around or in the region of the cooking area, and a controller, which is connected to the temperature sensor and a unit for measuring the frequency of the LC resonant circuit and which is programmed to carry out method, wherein the controller has access to a memory for storing the mathematically determined parameter function or vector function. |
| US10412788B2 |
Heating element and manufacturing method thereof
Provided are a heating element, which includes: a transparent substance; a conductive heating line that is provided on at least one side of the transparent substance; bus bars that is electrically connected to the conductive heating line; and a power portion that is connected to the bus bars, wherein 30% or more of the entire area of the transparent substance has a conductive heating line pattern in which, when the straight line that intersects the conductive heating line is drawn, a ratio (distance distribution ratio) of standard deviation in respects to an average value of distances between adjacent intersection points of the straight line and the conductive heating line is 5% or more, and a method for manufacturing the same. |
| US10412786B2 |
Device for melting adhesive
A device for melting adhesive having a melting grill that has a multiplicity of passage openings, and heating elements, wherein the melting grill is heatable by the heating elements and melted adhesive heated by the hot melting grill is dischargeable through the passage openings, the melting grill on that side thereof that faces the adhesive to be melted having ribs. The melting grill has rotatable rods that are disposed beside one another and ribs that are disposed on the rods, the rods and the ribs being heatable by the heating elements, wherein ribs of adjacent rods are aligned so as to be directed toward one another, and the passage cross sections of the passage openings between the rods are modifiable by rotating rods of the melting grill. The device enables varied forms of delivery of solid adhesive to be melted at a high specific melting rate without the adhesive thereby being subjected to damage due to excessive thermal stress. |
| US10412773B2 |
Method for transceiving signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting and receiving data performed by a first user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system that supports a device-to-device (D2D) communication includes receiving control information related to the D2D communication through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling from a base station (eNB); receiving resource allocation (RA) information related to a Scheduling Assignment (SA) transmission through a D2D grant from the eNB; transmitting the SA to a second UE based on the received resource allocation information; and transmitting a D2D data to the second UE, wherein the control information includes at least one of an SA resource pool or a D2D data resource pool, and wherein the SA resource pool and the D2D data resource pool are pre-configured by a high layer. |
| US10412771B2 |
Method for controlling connection between user equipment and network, and mobility management entity
The present disclosure discloses a method for controlling a connection between a user equipment and a network, and a MME. The method includes receiving, by a MME, a network connection request sent by a user equipment; determining a priority of the network connection request and a network overload state; and controlling a connection between the user equipment and a network according to the priority of the network connection request and the network overload state. The MME according to the embodiments of the present disclosure can selectively control the connection between the user equipment and the network by determining the priority of the network connection request and the network overload state. |
| US10412770B2 |
Hybrid networking implementation method, system and device and computer storage medium
A method, system and device for implementing hybrid networking and a computer storage medium, herein the method includes: a femto cell sending an IP type to which the femto cell belongs to a femto cell gateway (601); the femto cell gateway acquiring the IP type to which the femto cell belongs, and acquiring IPV4 addresses and/or IPV6 addresses sent by an MME (602); the femto cell gateway sending an IP address matched with the IP type to which the femto cell belongs to the femto cell (603); and the femto cell acquiring the IP address sent by the femto cell gateway, and setting up a service bearer according to the IP address (604). |
| US10412769B2 |
Methods and systems for cross BSS sounding
Methods and systems for sounding a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by an access point a message including a beamforming report from a device. The device may be a station that is outside a basic service set of the access point. The method also includes transmitting a message to the device based on the beamforming report. For example, in some aspects, the access point may utilize the beamforming report to perform a coordinated beamforming, multi-access point transmission or a multi-access point MIMO transmission. In some aspects, the access point may transmit an interference nulling signal to the device based on the beamforming report. The nulling signal compensates for another simultaneous transmission by the access point that interferes with the device's reception of a message from an access point with which the device is associated. |
| US10412766B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing random access in a mobile communication system
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for performing random access in a user equipment for a small cell e-NB with a small cell service area in heterogeneous e-NB cell carrier integration (dual connectivity or inter-eNB carrier aggregation) in mobile communication systems. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for performing random access in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a configuration request message for configuring a Serving Cell Group (SCG) from a second eNB located in a service area of a first eNB through the first eNB; configuring an SCG cell based on the configuration request message, and sending a configuration response message in response to the configuration request message to the second eNB through the first eNB; and performing random access if there is uplink data present on a logic channel (LCH) relocated into the SCG cell. |
| US10412765B2 |
Communication method in unlicensed band and device using same
Provided are a communication method in an unlicensed band and a device using same. If the device succeeds in clear channel assessment (CCA) during a reservation time in an unlicensed band, the device transmits a reservation signal and detects reservation signals received from other wireless devices during the reservation time. According to the detection results, the device determines whether to transmit data during a data time corresponding to the reservation time. |
| US10412763B2 |
Method and device for uplink transmission in wireless local area network using OFDMA scheme
A method for transmitting data in a wireless local area network and the device using the same are provided. A device transmits a plurality of data units via one or more subchannels. The plurality of data units have same access categories. |
| US10412762B2 |
Methods and nodes for decoding of contention based uplink transmissions
A network node (200), a wireless device (202) and methods therein, for decoding of contention based uplink transmissions of data in a cell served by the network node. The network node (200) registers the wireless device (202) for contention based uplink transmissions of data on a radio resource reserved for contention based uplink transmissions of data, e.g. when receiving a registration request sent from the wireless device, such that the wireless device (202) is included in a set (200a) of wireless devices being registered for contention based uplink transmissions of data on the radio resource in the cell. The network node (200) then performs blind decoding of uplink signals transmitted on the radio resource by considering the wireless devices in the set. In this way, the decoding is made more efficient by disregarding any other wireless devices in the cell which are not registered for contention based uplink transmissions of data on the radio resource in the cell. |
| US10412761B2 |
Downlink channel access for non-operator devices
A device for providing downlink channel access for non-operator devices includes at least one processor that is configured to establish a local connection with an operator device that is serviced by a network operator. The at least one processor is configured to provide, to the operator device over the local connection, a request to establish a connection to a network, the request comprising a destination address. The at least one processor is configured to receive, from the operator device over the local connection, control information for reception of a downlink channel provisioned by the network operator for the operator device. The at least one processor is configured to receive downlink data associated with the destination address on the downlink channel. |
| US10412756B2 |
Devices, nodes and methods in a wireless communication network
Implementations described herein relate generally to a user device, to an access node, and to methods for a user device and for an access node. The user device includes a receiver configured to receive at least one downlink signal from an access node. The user device further includes a processor configured to measure the at least one downlink signal at two time instants, to determine if a difference of the measured at least one downlink signal at the two time instants exceeds a threshold, and to generate, when the difference exceeds the threshold, at least one uplink transmission. The user device further includes a transmitter configured to transmit the at least one uplink transmission over an uplink random access channel. |
| US10412753B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring different thresholds for different signals in wireless communication system
A base station (BS) operated in an unlicensed band configures a first energy detection threshold for a discovery signal and a second energy detection threshold for data, and performs energy detection. The BS transmits the discovery signal to a user equipment in the unlicensed band if a detected energy based on the energy detection is less than the first energy detection threshold. Further, the BS transmits the data to the user equipment in the unlicensed band if the detected energy based on the energy detection is less than the second energy detection threshold. The first energy detection threshold for the discovery signal is higher than the second energy detection threshold for the data. |
| US10412750B2 |
Method and device for scheduling and using remaining resources of synchronization signal block
A method and a device for scheduling and using remaining resources of a synchronization signal block is described. The method includes configuring a mini-slot according to the remaining resources, and transmitting scheduling information for the mini-slot to a user equipment. The method further includes scheduling information that includes downlink control information for the mini-slot. Further, the remaining resources include remaining symbols left after occupation of the last synchronization signal block in a slot where the last synchronization signal block is located, when at least one synchronization signal block is transmitted. |
| US10412749B2 |
Scheduling in license assisted access
According to some embodiments, a method in a network node comprises determining a first uplink/downlink scheduling pattern for a first plurality of consecutive subframes; transmitting the first uplink/downlink scheduling pattern to a wireless device; transmitting at least one subframe to the wireless device according to the first uplink/downlink scheduling pattern; determining a second uplink/downlink scheduling pattern for a second plurality of consecutive subframes, wherein the first plurality of consecutive subframes and the second plurality of consecutive subframes share at least one subframe; and transmitting the second uplink/downlink scheduling pattern to the wireless device. |
| US10412746B2 |
Method for forwarding in peer-to-peer wireless communications
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for forwarding of data in peer-to-peer transactions by a high-capability wireless device, such as an access point. |
| US10412744B2 |
Data transmission method in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
A method is provided for transmitting data performed by a station (STA) device in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system. The STA device generates a Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including a physical preamble and a data field sequentially, and transmits the PPDU. The physical preamble includes sequentially a Legacy (L)-preamble and a High Efficiency (HE)-preamble. The HE-preamble includes sequentially an HE-Signal (SIG) A field, an HE-SIG B field, an HE-Short Training Field (STF) field, and an HE-Long Training Field (LTF) field, A first Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform (IDFT)/Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) period is applied from the L-preamble to the HE-SIG B field and a second IDFT/DFT period is applied from the HE-STF field to the data field. The second IDFT/DFT period is 4 times of the first IDFT/DFT period. The HE SIG A field includes common control information and the HE-SIG B field includes user-specific information. |
| US10412737B2 |
Partitioning of frequency resources for transmission of control signals and data signals in SC-FDMA communication systems
A method and apparatus are provided for determining a resource for an acknowledgement signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Information is received for transmission of the acknowledgement signal in an operating bandwidth. A resource block (RB) is determined for transmission of the acknowledgement signal, based on the information. The acknowledge signal is transmitted on the determined RB. |
| US10412735B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting indication for D2D operation in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for transmitting an indication for a device-to-device (D2D) operation in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits an indication indicating a list of frequencies preferred for a D2D operation. The D2D operation may include reception/transmission of a D2D discovery signal/D2D communication data. |
| US10412732B2 |
User equipment and D2D communication method
User equipment to be used in a communication system supporting D2D communication includes a setting unit that receives D2D gap configuration information from a base station, and sets a D2D gap based on the D2D gap configuration information; and a communication unit that monitors a D2D signal in a different frequency using the D2D gap, wherein the D2D gap that is set based on the D2D gap configuration information is a time interval with a predetermined time length in a time domain, the time interval being allocated based on a time hopping pattern. |
| US10412731B2 |
Methods for transmitting and receiving uplink data and apparatuses thereof
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for uplink data scheduling of a cell using an unlicensed spectrum. The method may include configuring carrier aggregation including a secondary cell (SCell) using an unlicensed spectrum, receiving downlink control information including subframe allocation information for transmitting uplink data in the secondary cell from a base station, and transmitting the uplink data through a plurality of consecutive subframes based on the subframe allocation information. |
| US10412729B2 |
Apparatus and method for allocating resource in a mobile communication system
A method for allocating resources in a mobile communication system is provided. The resource allocation method includes determining whether a transmission time of response information indicating presence/absence of an error in received data overlaps a transmission time of channel state information; and when the transmission times overlap each other, allocating, to the response information, a resource block for the channel state information, cyclic shift values in a frequency domain, and orthogonal sequences having orthogonality in a time domain. |
| US10412728B2 |
LTE hierarchical burst mode
Methods, systems, and devices are described for hierarchical communications within a wireless communications system. An eNB and/or a UE may be configured to operate within the wireless communications system which is at least partially defined through a first layer with first layer transmissions having a first subframe type and a second layer with second layer transmissions having a second subframe type. The first subframe type may have a first round trip time (RTT) between transmission and acknowledgment of receipt of the transmission, and the second layer may have a second RTT that is less than the first RTT. Subframes of the first subframe type may be multiplexed with subframes of the second subframe type, such as through time division multiplexing. |
| US10412727B2 |
Method and apparatus for handling in-device co-existence interference in a wireless communication environment
The present invention provides a method and apparatus of handling in-device co-existence interference in a wireless communication environment. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting in-device co-existence interference between a LTE module and an ISM module in user equipment. The method further includes identifying subframes and corresponding HARQ processes in a set of subframes allocated to the LTE module which are affected by the ISM module operation. Additionally, the method includes reserving the remaining subframes and corresponding HARQ processes in the set of subframes for the LTE module operation. Furthermore, the method includes indicating to a base station that the remaining subframes and the corresponding HARQ processes are reserved for the LTE module operation to resolve the in-device co-existence interference. Moreover, the method includes receiving scheduling pattern indicating subframes and corresponding HARQ processes reserved for the LTE operation or derived DRX parameters from the base station based on the indication. |
| US10412726B2 |
Method and apparatus for X2 signalling
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for X2 signaling. The method comprises, in a wireless communication network supporting coordinated multiple point transmission, transmitting load information from a first base station to at least one second base station via X2 signaling, wherein the load information comprises at least one item of i) a relative narrowband beam information element or ii) a relative narrowband scheduling information element. Current X2 signaling is enhanced to support coordinated multiple point transmission with non-ideal backhaul and improve interference coordination. |
| US10412725B2 |
Method and apparatus for cooperation between base stations
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for eliminating and improving issues that can occur during the execution of the cooperation between base stations in a wireless communication. The method comprises the steps of: identifying whether at least one cell among cells belonging to a counterpart base station is located in the vicinity of a base station; determining, according to a result of the identifying, whether to include information on a neighboring cell in a base station-related message; and transferring the base station-related message to the counterpart base station according to the determination. |
| US10412722B2 |
Search space for EPDCCH control information in an OFDM-based mobile communication system
The present invention relates to a method for receiving control information within a subframe of a multi-carrier communication system supporting carrier aggregation, the method comprising the following steps performed at a receiving node: performing a blind detection for the control information within a search space by means of a first search pattern, wherein the first search pattern is one of a plurality of search patterns, each of the plurality of search patterns comprising a plurality of candidates distributed on any of a plurality of aggregation levels, and wherein the plurality of search patterns further comprises a second search pattern whose candidates are non-overlapping the candidates of the first search pattern on the same aggregation levels. |
| US10412720B2 |
Method for monitoring control channel and wireless device
A method is provided for monitoring a control channel in a wireless communication system. A wireless device receives information from a base station for a search space in which a downlink control channel is monitored. The received information further includes first information indicating either a localized transmission or distributed transmission. The wireless device monitors the downlink control channel in the search space of a subframe, in at least one enhanced control channel element (ECCE) including a plurality of enhanced resource element groups (EREGs). If the first information indicates the localized transmission, the plurality of EREGs in each of the at least one ECCE are mapped to one of a plurality of physical resource block (PRB) pairs. If the localized transmission is used, the plurality of EREGs are associated with a single antenna port selected based on an index of the at least one ECCE and the wireless device's specific information. |
| US10412718B2 |
Preamble design aspects for high efficiency wireless local area networks
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for resource allocation signaling in a high efficiency wireless local area network (WLAN) are disclosed. A receiver may receive, at a first station, a transmission frame that includes a WLAN signaling field decodable by a plurality of stations. The receiver may identify, in a station-specific portion of the WLAN signaling field, an order for a plurality of station-specific information blocks associated with the plurality of stations. The receiver may determine a number of spatial streams allocated to the first station based at least in part on the identified order for the plurality of station-specific information blocks. |
| US10412717B2 |
Management of D2D-related interference
A system, comprising a base station and a wireless device, is provided for managing reference signal interference in a wireless communication system allowing device-to-device, D2D, communication. The base station and the wireless device and methods therein are described. The method in the wireless device comprises receiving an indication, from a base station, of downlink transmission resources that are associated with D2D communication in a cell associated with the BS during at least a time period T. The method further comprises determining based on the received indication, downlink reference signals that may be subjected to interference, caused by D2D communication, when performing reference signal measurements during at least the time period T. The method further comprises excluding or reducing 403 the influence of said downlink reference signals when performing reference signal measurements during at least the time period T. |
| US10412712B2 |
Communication system, base station, and communication terminal
A cell2 configured by only a DL CC2 being a resource for downlink is configured. The cell2 does not include a resource for uplink, that is, a UL CC to be associated with the DL CC2 by a DL/UL link. The link information indicating the above is notified a communication terminal device by a base station device using the DL CC2. A DL CC1 and a UL CC1 constitute a cell1. The downlink communication from the base station device to the communication terminal device is performed using the cell1 and the cell2, and the uplink communication from the communication terminal device to the base station device is performed using the cell1. |
| US10412710B2 |
Method and system for implementing multiple-access in wireless communication system
Embodiments herein relate to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates in a Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein disclose a system for multiple-access in a wireless communication system. The system includes a base station (BS) configured to implement an uplink transmission configuration including a resource pool having a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) allocated to support a contention-based multiple access or a grant-free multiple access. The BS is configured to signal the resource pool to a plurality of UEs. The UE from the plurality UEs is configured to receive the resource pool from the BS and send an uplink transmission to the BS by accessing at least one RB from the plurality of RBs allocated in the resource pool. |
| US10412707B2 |
Resource pools for vehicular communications
According to some embodiments, a method of device-to-device (D2D) communication comprises obtaining a division of radio resources. The division of radio resources comprises a first plurality of pools of a first periodicity. Each of the first plurality of pools comprises a set of radio resources and a plurality of patterns spanning the set of radio resources. The division of radio resources also comprises a division of the first plurality of pools into a second plurality of pools of a second periodicity greater than the first periodicity. Each of the second plurality of pools comprises a plurality of patterns comprising a union of the plurality of patterns of each pool of the first plurality pools that are included within the pool of the second plurality of pools. The method further comprises determining a pattern from one of the first or second plurality of pools, and using it to transmit the message. |
| US10412704B2 |
Enhanced discontinuous reception design for a shared frequency band
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a configuration for enhanced paging to a UE being served by a cell over a shared frequency band. The enhanced paging may include multiple paging intervals for each paging cycle. The UE may enable reception for a paging interval and determine whether the UE receives a downlink transmission. The UE may lengthen a paging interval or enable reception during a second paging interval based in part on determining whether the UE receives a downlink transmission. In some examples, the UE may receive a paging queue status indication indicating that paging information will be transmitted during a paging interval or a later interval, or indicating that no paging information is present at a serving cell. |
| US10412703B2 |
Location-aware mobile device
One or more location-based clients can be activated on a mobile device for providing location-based services. The location-based clients can be provided with information (e.g., presets, defaults) related to the current location and/or mode of the mobile device. The information can be obtained from one or more network resources. In some implementations, a number of location-based clients can run concurrently on the mobile device and share information. |
| US10412701B2 |
Indoor positioning method and system based on wireless receiver and camera
The invention provides an indoor positioning method and system based on a wireless receiver and a camera, belonging to the field of positioning technology. The method in the invention comprises the following steps: a wireless receiver detects a query WIFI signal transmitted by a target device and extracts a MAC address and CSI of the target device from a query WIFI signal; a server captures the MAC address and the CSI of the target device from the wireless receiver, calculates an incident angle of the target device and the wireless receiver and sends a photographing instruction to a camera which photographs an image and uploads the image to the server; the server obtains the distance between the wireless receiver and the target device through the image pixels, and calculates the position information of the target device according to the coordinates of the wireless receiver. The invention realizes the accurate positioning of the target device by using only a wireless receiver and a camera, so that the cost can be controlled and a real-time calculation can be ensured; the combination of the two beneficial effects can help achieve good positioning results. |
| US10412698B2 |
System and method for IQ mismatch calibration and compensation
A method for providing IQ mismatch (IQMM) compensation includes: sending a single tone signal at an original frequency; determining a first response of an impaired signal at the original frequency and a second response of the impaired signal at a corresponding image frequency; determining an estimate of a frequency response of the compensation filter at the original frequency based on the first response and the second response; repeating the steps of sending the single tone signal, determining the first response and the second response, and determining the estimate of the frequency response of the compensation filter by sweeping the single tone signal at a plurality of steps to determine a snapshot of the frequency response of the compensation filter; converting the frequency response of the compensation filter to a plurality of time-domain filter taps of the compensation filter by performing a pseudo-inverse of a time-to-frequency conversion matrix; and determining a time delay that provides a minimal LSE for the corresponding time domain filter taps. |
| US10412697B2 |
Time synchronization method and system, and network device
A time synchronization method and system, and a network device, where the method includes receiving, by a second network device, a first packet from a first network device, where the first packet includes a first service frame and a first time stamp (T1), the first service frame carries a system clock of a radio equipment control (REC), obtaining, the system clock of the REC according to the first packet, sending, according to the system clock of the REC, the first service frame extracted from the first packet to a radio equipment (RE), recording a second time stamp (T2) at which the first service frame is sent, and determining, by the second network device, a transmission delay (T) according to T=T2−T1. Hence, a delay between the REC and the RE remains unchanged. |
| US10412696B2 |
Methods and arrangements for frame transmissions
Logic to “loosely” manage synch frame transmissions in a synch network via the devices synched to the network that implement the logic. Logic may distributedly adjust the frequency of attempting synch frame transmissions without estimating the size of the neighborhood. Logic in devices of a synch network to let each device maintain a Transmission Window (TW). Logic to determine the frequency of attempting synch frame transmissions based upon the TW. Logic to increase TW if the device detects a synch frame transmission. Logic to decrease TW if the device successfully transmits a synch frame. Logic to balance power consumption and discovery timing by adjusting the decrease in TW responsive to a synch transmission in relation to the increase in TW responsive to detection of a synch transmitted by another device. |
| US10412688B2 |
Power control method, terminal, and base station
A method, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The method includes: obtaining parameter information of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), where the parameter information includes one or more of quantity information of a resource block (RB), quantity information of a Reed-Muller (RM) code, quantity information of an orthogonal cover code (OCC), coding format information, modulation format information, and value information of a scale factor (SF) of the PUCCH, or the parameter information includes at least one configuration parameter corresponding to one or more of quantity information of an RB, quantity information of an RM code, quantity information of an OCC, coding format information, modulation format information, and value information of an SF; calculating transmit power of the PUCCH according to the parameter information; and transmitting the PUCCH according to the calculated transmit power. |
| US10412687B2 |
Systems and methods for cable and WLAN coexistence
Various of the disclosed embodiments improve the operations of a combined access point/Cable modem. Though the access point component and the Cable modem component may perform operations in different spectrums, harmonics in the Cable spectrum may interfere with operations, e.g., in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz range, of the access point. Some embodiments implement a remediation and/or channel transition process for the access point following detection of Cable-related interference. During remediation, the device may, e.g., adjust the wireless power levels, EDCA backoff times, signal thresholds, etc. In some embodiments, if the remediation actions prove ineffective, the wireless peers may be relocated to a channel further from the interfering Cable harmonics. The determination to remediate or reallocate may be based on various contextual factors, e.g., the character of the peer devices and the applications being run. |
| US10412683B2 |
Power control method, activation management method, user equipment, and base station
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a power control method, including: obtaining, by a UE, configuration information, where the configuration information includes a configuration parameter of at least one Scell configured by a base station for the UE; setting, by the UE, an initial power adjustment value of the Scell according to the configuration parameter of the Scell in the configuration information; and controlling, by the UE, transmit power on the Scell according to the set initial power adjustment value of the Scell. Correspondingly, an embodiment of the present invention further discloses an activation management method, a UE, and a base station. By using the present invention, transmit power of a UE on an Scell can be accurately controlled, thereby ensuring accuracy of data transmission. |
| US10412682B2 |
Mechanism to update/download profile using low power or no power
In an aspect of the present disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided to overcome the deficiencies discussed above. The apparatus may include a frontend component and a storage element. The frontend component may include a processor configured to communicate with a second device and to receive a signal from the second device, the signal providing power to the apparatus and providing profile information. The storage element may be coupled to the frontend component and may be configured to receive the profile information and to store the profile information while powered by the frontend component through the signal from the second device. |
| US10412681B2 |
System and method for controlling communication device use
A computer implemented method is provided including establishing a value corresponding to a particular user of a device, receiving an indication of a triggering condition of the particular user of the device, the triggering condition being enabled by the device or measurable by the device, and determining the triggering condition has been met by the user via the device. The method further includes modifying the value responsive to determining the triggering condition has been met, determining when the value crosses a particular threshold, and disabling an application or a functional component of the device responsive to the value crossing the particular threshold. A system for implementing the method is also provided. |
| US10412674B2 |
Method and apparatus for reducing signaling overhead and reducing battery of terminal
A communication method of a terminal for saving a battery of a terminal and reducing a signaling overhead when small data are processed is provided. The communication method includes receiving, from a base station, a first message including at least one of first information indicating whether a first signaling optimization is allowed for the terminal, or second information indicating whether a second signaling optimization is allowed for the terminal, transmitting, to the base station, a second message including at least one of third information indicating whether the first signaling optimization is supported by the terminal, or fourth information indicating whether the second signaling optimization is supported by the terminal, and receiving, from the base station, a third message including fifth information indicating a signaling optimization supported for the terminal. |
| US10412671B2 |
Proxy service and power savings in wireless device
This document discloses a solution for using a proxy for a service to improve power-efficiency. According to an aspect, a method comprises: offloading, by a wireless device configured to provide a service, at least one function of the service to a proxy apparatus by using a main radio interface of the wireless device; indicating, by the wireless device to the proxy apparatus in connection with said offloading, that the wireless device shall enter a power-save mode where the wireless device disables the main radio interface and enables a wake-up radio interface of the wireless device; receiving, by the wireless device while in the power-save mode, a wake-up frame through the wake-up radio interface and, as a response to the reception of the wake-up frame, enabling the main radio interface; and after enabling the main radio interface, receiving by the wireless device a message from a subscriber device that subscribes to the service. |
| US10412670B2 |
Information transmission method, wireless access device, and terminal device
The present invention provides an information transmission method, a wireless access device, and a terminal device. The method includes: sending an instruction message to a terminal device on a first band, where the instruction message is used to instruct the terminal device to detect information on a second band; obtaining permission to use a spectrum resource on the second band; and sending the information to the terminal device on the second band. |
| US10412669B2 |
Low power cellular modem system architecture
In some embodiments, a cellular modem that has reduced power requirements. The cellular modem architecture is divided into three orthogonal domains or modules, these being a control module, an uplink module, and a downlink module. Each of the uplink module and the downlink module is configured to be separately powered down without affecting operation of the other modules. |
| US10412667B2 |
Method for establishing a roaming connection
A method to establish a roaming connection of a communication terminal of a foreign communication network in a visited communication network includes receiving a roaming connection request from the communication terminal of the foreign communication network by a first identification entity of a first sub-network of the visited communication network, the roaming connection request having an identifier of the communication terminal. The method further includes identifying the communication terminal based on the identifier of the communication terminal, receiving a foreign sub-network identifier by the first identification entity of the visited communication network; verifying, on a basis of the foreign sub-network identifier, whether a respective sub-network of the visited communication network corresponds to the foreign sub-network; and sending a configuration request for a configuration of the foreign sub-network. |
| US10412666B2 |
UE accessibility indication for WI-FI integration in RAN
A network entity receives a WLAN access message from a UE. The WLAN access message includes an indication of the UE status with the telecommunication network. The network entity detects the indication of UE status and determines from the indication whether to allow the UE access to the WLAN. When the WLAN is integrated with the telecommunications network, the network entity sends a query to the telecommunication network (e.g. the RAN or core network part) for a decision based on the UE status with the telecommunication network. The indication may include data representative of RAN or core network accessibility information (e.g., limited service or no coverage), WLAN access only, a user preference for accessing the WLAN instead of the telecommunication network, and/or any other connectivity or preference information for use by the WLAN or network entity in determining whether to allow UE to access WLAN. |
| US10412663B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting and avoiding radio interference in a wireless sensor network
Some methods for detecting and avoiding radio interference in a wireless sensor network can include an access point device periodically transmitting a beacon message to a plurality of IoT enabled devices via a radio channel, upon receipt of the beacon message, an IoT enabled device attempting to decode the beacon message, the IoT enabled device measuring and storing a signal strength of a successfully decoded beacon message as signal strength data in a memory of the IoT enabled device, the IoT enabled device increasing a missed beacon counter stored in the memory of the IoT enabled device responsive to a beacon message that cannot be decoded, each of the plurality of IoT enabled devices periodically transmitting stored data to the access point device, and the access point device using the received data to identify an interference source, or an interference issue or a fading issue on the radio channel. |
| US10412661B2 |
Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for communication device, communication device, and method executed by communication device
A communication device may receive a predetermined signal from an external device in a situation where a specific wireless connection not via an access point is being established, determine whether a wireless communication via a first access point is executable with the external device, and supply a first disconnection instruction in a case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is executable with the external device. The communication device may execute the wireless communication with the external device using the first wireless connection in the case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is executable with the external device and execute a wireless communication with the external device using the specific wireless connection in the case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is not executable with the external device. |
| US10412660B2 |
Method and apparatus for radio resources management in multi-radio access technology wireless systems
Methods and apparatus for performing wireless communication in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) configured for multi-radio access technology (RAT) operation are disclosed. A method includes the WTRU wirelessly communicating information on a first operating frequency according to a first RAT. The WTRU also wirelessly communicates information on a second operating frequency according to a second RAT. |
| US10412656B2 |
Path selection in wireless mesh networks
The proposed technology relates to path selection in wireless mesh networks. In particular the disclosure relates to methods for selection of one or more transmission paths from an originating node to a target node in a wireless mesh network, wherein there are at least two possible transmission paths between the originating node and the target node. More specifically, the disclosure proposes a method, performed in an originating node in a wireless network comprising several nodes wirelessly connected to each other, for enabling selection of a transmission path from the originating node to a target node, wherein there are at least two possible transmission paths between the originating node and the target node. The method comprises the steps of receiving SI discovery signals from nodes in the at least two possible transmission paths and estimating S2, based on the received discovery signals, radio channels H for transmission from the originating node to the nodes transmitting the discovery signals. The method further comprises calculating S3, for different transmission modes, based on the estimated radio channels, metrics of links from the originating node to the nodes transmitting the discovery signals, wherein at least one of the transmission modes involves simultaneous transmission from the originating node to at least two of the nodes transmitting the discovery signals and transmitting S4 the calculated metrics to an adjacent node. The disclosure also relates to the corresponding apparatuses and computer programs. |
| US10412655B2 |
System and methods for managing a user data path
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that determines each of a default downlink forwarding address of a first interface of a user plane and a currently used downlink forwarding address of the first interface of the user plane. One of an uplink user data packet comprising an origination address of a second interface of the user plane, a downlink user data packet comprising a destination address of the second interface of the user plane or both are received, by way of the user plane. One of the default downlink forwarding address, the currently used downlink forwarding address or both can be modified based on the uplink origination address, the destination address or both. Modification of the default downlink forwarding address, the currently used downlink forwarding address or both results in a redirection of an associated packet flow within the user plane. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10412654B2 |
Method for improving data throughput in wireless networks
The proposed layer solution defines two or more layers of relay nodes to convey traffic data from a source node to a destination node. All of the nodes in a given layer were selected for that layer because they each satisfied a signal quality requirement specified for that layer, where all relay nodes defined in one layer simultaneously start transmitting in response to a received transmission. Due to the layered approach, the destination node may be configured to decode only the traffic data relayed by the relay nodes in the immediately preceding (final) layer while treating any remaining received signals as noise. As a result, only those access nodes most likely to significantly contribute to and improve the signal quality of traffic data received at the destination node are selected as relay nodes for a particular source-destination node pair. |
| US10412652B2 |
Apparatus and method for routing data packet to user equipment in LTE-WLAN aggregation system
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 5G communication technology and 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. A system and a method for routing a data packet to a user equipment (UE) in a long term evolution-wireless local area network (LTE-WLAN) aggregation are provided. The system includes an evolved node B (eNB) with a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) adaptation layer that adds a header to the data packet. |
| US10412651B2 |
User equipment triggered handover with long connected-discontinuous-reception cycle in connected mode
While operating in connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode, a wireless communication device may initiate handover operations when a neighboring base station is determined by the wireless communication device to be a better serving cell than a base station operating as the current serving cell for the wireless communication device. Instead of transmitting a measurement report to the current serving cell, the wireless communication device may select one of the neighboring base stations as the new serving cell, responsive to measurements of the current serving cell and the neighboring cells performed by the wireless communication device during the on-duration of the C-DRX cycle. This enables a longer C-DRX cycle, which leads to the wireless communication device saving more power during non-real-time sensitive background data transmissions, while also avoiding higher handover failure rates and extra Radio Resource Control signaling that may need to be performed as a result of radio link failure. |
| US10412645B2 |
Cell user occupancy indicator to enhance intelligent traffic steering
Traffic associated with user equipment that are served by a first radio access network is steered to a second radio access network based on a cell user occupancy criterion. Cell user occupancy data that represents a maximum number of devices served by an access point is determined based on a type of the access point (e.g., macro access point, femto access point, WiFi access point, etc.). Further, based on the cell user occupancy data, a normalized index value is generated that is relative to different cell types/capacities. The cell user occupancy data is then transmitted to one or more neighboring access points that can utilize the cell user occupancy data to facilitate traffic steering, load balancing, and/or neighbor relationship management. |
| US10412643B1 |
Off channel scanning on workgroup bridge (WGB) devices for fast roaming
Off channel scanning on workgroup bridge (WGB) devices for fast roaming may be provided. First, it may be determined, by a first WGB, that a second WGB is not off-channel. The second WGB may be peered with the first WGB. Next, the first WGB may perform channel scanning in response to determining that the second WGB is not off-channel. The first WGB may then prioritize a first WGB channel list based on results from the channel scanning performed by the first WGB. Next, the first WGB may roam while the second WGB in not off-channel, from a first access point to a second access point on a channel with the highest priority in the first WGB channel list. |
| US10412641B2 |
Anomaly correlation mechanism for analysis of handovers in a communication network
Optimizing neighbor cell relationships for improving handover performance by interpreting handover failures is presented herein. A method can include receiving data representing a time series of failures of outgoing handovers corresponding to a wireless access point device, and determining, based on a determined condition corresponding to a metric, that a source cell of the wireless access point device is associated with an anomalous cell relation corresponding to the time series of the failures of the outgoing handovers in response to quantifying the time series based on the metric. In various examples, the quantifying can include quantifying the time series with respect to: a volume of the failures during a period of time, an entropy calculated on a probability distribution of the failures by determined relations between the source cell and target cells, and/or an entropy calculated on a probability distribution of determined outgoing handover outcomes. |
| US10412638B2 |
Fast return method, apparatus, and system for CSFB user equipment
A fast return method for CSFB user equipment, includes: receiving a trigger message sent by a mobile switching center MSC, where the trigger message is used to trigger release of a circuit switched CS service of CSFB user equipment UE, and the UE runs both the CS service and a packet switched PS service; and sending a radio resource control RRC connection release message to the UE according to the trigger message, so as to trigger the UE to release a radio bearer of the CS service, a radio bearer of the PS service, and an RRC connection according to the RRC connection release message and fast return to a Long Term Evolution LTE network. According to embodiments of the present invention, a delay for the CSFB user equipment to return to the LTE network can be reduced, thereby improving user experience. |
| US10412636B2 |
Channel management for an enhanced directional multi-gigabit station
Embodiments of a user station (STA) and methods for operating in a millimeter-wave basic service set (BSS) are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a STA transmits a request, using a first channel with a first bandwidth, for an allocation to communicate data on a second channel with a second bandwidth different from the first bandwidth. The request can include a directional multi-gigabit (DMG) traffic specification (TSPEC) element with a value representative of the second bandwidth. The STA may receive the allocation of the second bandwidth in an Extended Schedule element. The STA may transmit data on the second channel with the second bandwidth responsive to receiving the allocation. |
| US10412635B2 |
Resource use method, device and system
The present invention provides a resource use method, device and system. The method comprises: a transmission node dynamically changes, according to information detected on a current carrier the size of a resource corresponding to the carrier, and uses the changed carrier to perform data transmission. The present invention solves the problem of lowness of spectrum resource utilization rate, and increases the spectrum utilization rate. |
| US10412629B2 |
Structure of MAC sub-header for supporting text generation mobile communication system and method and apparatus using the same
A communication technique of fusing a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with an Internet of things (IoT) technology and a system thereof are provided. The communication technique may be used for an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, health care, digital education, a retail business, a security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. A method for defining media access control (MAC) sub-header structures suitable for a next generation mobile communication system and applying the MAC sub-header structures to provide a high data transmission rate and a low latency in the next generation mobile communication system is provided. |
| US10412627B2 |
Signaling strategy for advanced receiver with interference cancellation and suppression
Signaling strategies for an advanced receiver with interference cancellation (IC) and suppression is discussed. Upon enablement of an advanced interference cancellation procedure according to the disclosure, transmitters within the enabled area transmit according to transmission restriction configurations that provide transmission limits based on either frequency, time, or scheduling. The restrictions on the transmitters reduces the complexity of processing by neighboring advanced receivers for cancellation of interference from the restricted transmitters. At the advanced receiver, transmission information, such as scheduling, reference signal (RS), resource block (RB) allocation, and the like, may either be determined through blind detection or received directly through signaling. The advanced receiver may use this transmission information associated with each interfering signal to detect, decode, and subtract the interfering signals from the received transmissions. |
| US10412621B2 |
Wireless communication method and wireless communication terminal for transmitting information on buffer status
Provided is a wireless communication terminal wirelessly communicating with a base wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal comprises a transceiver and the processor. The processer receives, by using the transceiver, a wireless signal including a trigger frame from the base wireless communication terminal and transmits, by using the transceiver, buffer status information to the base wireless communication terminal based on the trigger frame. The buffer status information is included in a QoS control field which signals information on a QoS control of a MAC header. |
| US10412620B2 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling uplink transmissions with reduced latency
A method and apparatus schedule uplink transmissions with reduced latency. A device can use a first Buffer Status Report (BSR) configuration when the device is configured for UL transmissions with a first TTI length and can use a second BSR configuration when the device is configured for UL transmissions with at least a second TTI length that is shorter than the first TTI length. A determination can be made as to whether the device has data to transmit with a particular characteristic. A BSR can be sent using the second BSR configuration when the device has data to transmit with the particular characteristic. A BSR can be sent using the first BSR configuration when the device has data to transmit without the particular characteristic. |
| US10412619B2 |
Buffer status report for eDCS
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. A user equipment (UE), for example, may determine a content size of an uncompressed buffer and a content size of a compressed buffer. The UE may then generate a buffer status report (BSR) based on the content sizes of the uncompressed buffer and the compressed buffer. Alternatively, a base station may receive a BSR based on a size of an uncompressed buffer of the UE. The base station may then receive a compressed packet from the UE and may determine a compression gain based on a size of the compressed packet and a size of a corresponding uncompressed packet. The base station may then adjust the received BSR based on the compression gain. |
| US10412618B2 |
Optimistic quality of service set up
The disclosure relates to optimistic QoS setup. A network element receives an IP packet that is not associated with a QoS request on a bearer for an application/service executing on a target client device, and initiates QoS activation for the target client device based on a combination of an application-specific identifier from the target client device and a user-specific identifier of the application/service. A server receives a session setup request that is not associated with a QoS request for an application/service executing on a target client device, the session setup request identifying one or more client devices to participate in a session, and initiates QoS activation for at least one of the client devices, before a session announcement is transmitted to the client devices, based on a combination of an application-specific identifier from the target client device and a user-specific identifier of the application/service. |
| US10412616B1 |
Equalized data latency for user applications in a wireless data network
A wireless data network equalizes latency for a user application. A source application controller exchanges application data with user communication devices over source wireless access points for a user application session. The source application controller maintains equalized latency within a latency window on the application data exchanges. The source application controller identifies a handover event for a user communication device and determines if the equalized latency can be maintained. The source application controller hands over the application session to a target application controller when the equalized latency cannot be adequately maintained within the latency window. The target application controller then exchanges application data with the user communication devices over the wireless access points for the user application session. The target application controller maintains equalized latency within another latency window on the subsequent application data exchanges for the user application session. |
| US10412615B2 |
Networking apparatuses and packet statistic determination methods employing atomic counters
Disclosed herein are methods and related apparatuses for determining statistics descriptive of packets received at a particular location on a network out of a set of packets transmitted on the network, which include transmitting first and second groups of packets on the network, the packets in the first and second groups labeled with first and second labels, respectively (the packets in the second group not in the first group), incrementing first and second packet counters associated with the particular network location in response to packet(s) in the first and second groups, respectively, being received at the network location until all packets in the first and second groups have drained from the network, and using values read from the first and second packet counters to determine a statistic descriptive of the packets received at the particular network location out of those in the first and second groups transmitted on the network. |
| US10412614B2 |
Coordination of measurement gaps across sets of multiple frequencies
Methods and apparatus for coordinating inter-frequency measurement gaps in a wireless network are disclosed. In various embodiments, a measurement gap pattern is determined and provided (via a serving frequency) to a user equipment (UE) in conjunction with frequency identification information identifying at least one target frequency. In accordance with the measurement gap pattern, the UE tunes a receiver to the target frequency and receives a reference signal upon which measurement operations are performed. Additional target frequencies can also be specified for the measurement gap pattern. In other embodiments, the frequency identification information identifies a band of target frequencies, any of which can be measured using the measurement gap pattern. In further embodiments, target frequencies employing overlapping reference signals are grouped into a timing group indicated by the frequency identification information. Broadcast or dedicated signaling can be utilized to associate target frequencies with a timing group or frequency band. |
| US10412610B2 |
Receiver behavior for uplink multi-user transmission in wireless LAN systems
A wireless communication device that is receiving a frame may determine whether the frame is an Up-Link Multi-User (UL MU) frame, receive the frame by performing a first procedure when the frame is determined to be the UL MU frame, and receive the frame by performing a second procedure when the frame is not determined to be the UL MU frame. Performing the first procedure may include performing a comparison of contents of a Legacy Signal (L-SIG) field of the frame to expected contents of the L-SIG field, performing a comparison of contents of a Signal A (SIG-A) field of the frame to expected contents of the SIG-A field, or both. The SIG-A field may be a High Efficiency SIG-A (HE-SIG-A) field. |
| US10412607B2 |
Electronic device and method for processing data in electronic device
An electronic device and method for the electronic device to process data are provided. The method includes retrieving information associated with at least one neighboring terminal, requesting, when the loss of data transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices is determined, transmission of the data of which a loss is determined, from the at least one neighboring terminal, based on the retrieved information associated with the at least one neighboring terminal and receiving the data of which the loss is determined, in response to the request. |
| US10412603B2 |
Hypervisor for access points and edge nodes
Systems and methods include a hypervisor for access points, edge nodes, and other network elements to facilitate use of and compatibility with shared access systems. |
| US10412602B2 |
Apparatus and method
There is provided an apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire measurement information or position-related information for each of one or more wireless communication devices capable of operating as a mobile station and a base station, the measurement information indicating a result of measurement for a cell by a wireless communication device, the position-related information being related to a position of a wireless communication device; and a selector confirmed to select a wireless communication device to operate as a base station from among the one or more wireless communication devices based on the measurement information or the position-related information for each of the one or more wireless communication devices. |
| US10412597B2 |
Selective robust header compression (RoHC) for a VoIP call in a cellular communications network
Systems and methods for selectively enabling Robust Header Compression (RoHC) for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a data radio bearer for a VoIP call is established between a base station and a mobile terminal. During the VoIP call, a radio frequency parameter for the data radio bearer is monitored. When the radio frequency parameter for the data radio bearer satisfies a predefined coverage-based condition, the base station enables RoHC for the VoIP call. In one preferred embodiment, the radio frequency parameter is a Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) for the data radio bearer for the VoIP call, and the predefined coverage-based condition is a predefined SINR threshold below which the base station enables RoHC. By enabling RoHC in this manner, RoHC resources are selectively made available for those VoIP calls that will benefit most from increased cell coverage provided by RoHC. |
| US10412596B2 |
Base station, machine-to-machine (M2M) terminal, method, and computer readable medium
A base station (13) is configured to receive, from a Machine-to-machine (M2M) terminal (11) or a core network (14), history information indicating whether or not specific coverage enhancement processing was executed in previous communication with the M2M terminal (11). Further, the base station (13) is configured to control communication using the specific coverage enhancement processing between the M2M terminal (11) and the base station (13) based on the history information received from the M2M terminal (11) or the core network (14). It is thus possible to contribute to improving efficiency of determination regarding whether to apply a special coverage enhancement processing to the M2M terminal. |
| US10412590B2 |
Heterogeneous mesh network and a multi-RAT node used therein
This invention discloses a heterogeneous mesh network comprised of multiple radio access technology nodes, wherein nodes can function dynamically, switching roles between client and server. Moreover, these nodes can operate in a heterogeneous fashion with respect to one another. In an alternate embodiment, the invention describes a mesh network comprised of nodes operating over TV white-space. This invention additionally discloses self-organizing network embodiments and embodiments that include novel methods of monitoring operational parameters within a mesh network, adjusting those operational parameters, and creating and implementing routing tables. |
| US10412589B2 |
Broadcast apparatus and method of authenticating broadcast data
A broadcast receiver includes a communicator configured to receive broadcast data including metadata associated with an application and a controller configured to obtain a comparison result by comparing a reference hash with a metadata hash generated based on the metadata, authenticate the metadata based on the comparison result, and launch the application based on a result of the authentication. |
| US10412587B1 |
Device, system and method to secure deployable access points in a side-haul communication network from a compromised deployable access point
A device, system and method to secure deployable access points in a side-haul communication network from a compromised deployable access point is provided. An indication that a second deployable access point is compromised is received at a first deployable access point in a side-haul communication network. The first deployable access point requests, from one or more communication devices, one or more manual confirmation votes indicating whether the second deployable access point is compromised. When a threshold number of the one or more manual confirmation votes received indicate that the second deployable access point is compromised, the first deployable access point implements an action to secure the deployable access points in the side-haul communication network from the second deployable access point. |
| US10412583B2 |
Method and apparatus for new key derivation upon handoff in wireless networks
A novel key management approach is provided for securing communication handoffs between a UE and two base stations. A UE establishes a secure communication session with a first base station based on a first master session key based on a master transient key. The UE obtains a second base station identifier associated with a second base station and sends a message associated with a handoff to either the first base station or the second base station. The UE generates a second master session key based on at least the master transient key and the second base station identifier. The second master session key is used for secure communications with the second base station in connection with an intra-authenticator handoff from the first base station to the second base station. The UE then moves the secure communication session to the second base station. |
| US10412575B2 |
System and method for virtual SIM card
A method is provided for using virtual subscriber identity modules (vSIMs) for client devices. A network device receives a selection of network services to be associated with a virtual subscriber identity module (vSIM); initiates creation of a blockchain including a vSIM certificate for the network services; associates the vSIM certificate with a user account; receives, from a client device associated with the user account, an access request for the vSIM certificate; activates, in response to the access request, the client device for access to the network services; and provides instructions to update the blockchain in response to the activating. Thus, the vSIM can be retrieved and used by any one of different devices associated with the user account or loaned to other users. |
| US10412574B2 |
Method and apparatus for selecting profile of terminal in mobile network
A method and apparatus of selecting profiles is provided that provides communication services of a terminal equipped with embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) (or embedded Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM)) and Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC). The method of selecting a profile in a terminal including a plurality of subscriber identity module (SIMs) that differ from each other in type, includes selecting, when sensing a profile changing event, one of the plurality of SIMs according to a preset rule, selecting one of a plurality of profiles stored in the plurality of SIMs, and applying the selected profile to the terminal. |
| US10412573B2 |
Service processing method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application provide a near-field wireless communication service processing method performed at a first computing device. While running a social networking application, the first computing device listens to a near-field wireless communication signal broadcasted by a second computing device. After detecting the near-field wireless communication signal broadcasted by the second computing device, first computing device processes the near-field wireless communication signal to obtain identification information associated with the second computing device. The first computing device sends the identification information associated with the second computing device to a remote server supporting the social networking application and obtains a preset service page corresponding to the identification information associated with the second computing device from the server, and displays the preset service page within the social networking application on the first computing device. |
| US10412562B2 |
Software defined IoT service network architecture
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving, by a processing system, data from a plurality of machine-to-machine (M2M) communication devices, and aggregating the data to generate local information. The method can also include receiving and analyzing a message, from a user communication device, that includes a request regarding an M2M communication device. If the request cannot be responded to based on the local information, a query is transmitted to the M2M communication device based on the analyzing, and a reply to the query is received from the M2M communication device. The processing system receives the data and transmits the query message within the premises using millimeter-wave communications or WiFi communications. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10412561B2 |
Controlling operation of computing devices
A method and system for controlling operation of a computing device. One or more applicable settings among settings of one or more features of the computing device are determined. The settings are indicated by policies provided by two or more providers according to priorities of corresponding providers for application of corresponding policies of the providers. The policies include an indication of corresponding settings of the one or more features of the computing device. The providers are validated with at least one authority. The at least one authority certified the priorities of the providers and permissions of the providers to set the features of the policies. The computing device is configured to operate according to the applicable settings of the features. |
| US10412557B2 |
Mobile machine
A system for providing mobile content to a mobile communication device includes a first computing system including one or more servers to provide, via a communications network, a graphical user interface at a second computing system, the graphical user interface (i) enabling the user of the second computing system to edit a digital file to create the mobile content and (ii) prompting and enabling a user of the second computing system to provide a phone number associated with the mobile communication device, the mobile communication device being separate and remote from the first computing system and the second computing system. The first computing system receives, from the second computing system via the communications network, the mobile content and the phone number associated with the mobile communication device. The first computing system uses a the phone number received from the second computing system to cause the delivery of the mobile content to the mobile communication device via a wireless data network in a format compatible with one or more operational parameters of the mobile communication device, the one or more operational parameters including at least one of a mobile communication device type and a software platform type, wherein the using of the received phone number to cause the delivery of the mobile content to the mobile communication device is performed without the mobile communication device identifying the one or more operational parameters to the first computing system or the second computing system. |
| US10412555B2 |
M2M-based information processing method and M2M service platform
The disclosure discloses a Machine-to-Machine/Man (M2M)-based information processing method and an M2M service platform. The method includes that: an M2M service platform provides subscription information storage and query service for subscribed M2M terminal devices and M2M applications; and the M2M service platform executes the transmission of service data between each subscribed M2M terminal device and the corresponding M2M application, between the M2M applications, and between the M2M terminal devices. The M2M service platform includes: a subscription module, configured to provide subscription information storage and query service for subscribed M2M terminal devices and M2M applications; and a service processing module, configured to execute the transmission of service data between each subscribed M2M terminal device and the corresponding M2M application, between the M2M applications, and between the M2M terminal devices. |
| US10412554B2 |
Mobile radio communications device for closed subscriber group management
The present invention provides for a mobile radio communications device, and related method of operation, arranged for closed subscriber group selection and for the storage of closed subscriber group information in the device, the stored information including information configured as a whitelist of closed subscriber group identities delivered between non-access-stratum layer and access-stratum layer within the device, and the device being further arranged to remove a previous user-selected closed subscriber group identity from the whitelist responsive to the device connecting to a cell is different from that identified by the previous user-selected closed subscriber group identity, and which different cell can comprise for example a non-CSG cell. |
| US10412546B2 |
Method and apparatus for phone as a key including dynamic wireless band switching
A system includes a processor configured to detect a vehicle wireless signal at a first frequency-band. The processor is also configured to choose a second signal at a second frequency-band having a predefined relationship to a requested action. The processor is further configured to connect to the second signal and lower a signal data-transfer rate, responsive to the detection, and use the second signal to perform a time-of-flight based user-proximity detection, to determine if a user is within a vehicle proximity range associated with the requested action. |
| US10412545B1 |
Device-to-device radio frequency proximity determination
The present disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses for device-to-device radio frequency proximity determination. These techniques, in contrast to conventional cellular and GPS services, can accurately locate mobile devices at relatively low cost. In some aspects, three or more mobile communication devices communicate radio frequency ranging signals and, using information about these signals, a distance and direction between two of the devices is determined. In some other aspects, two mobile communication devices communicate radio frequency ranging signals separated in time, and after movement of one of the mobile communication devices. Using information about these two signals, a distance and direction between the two devices is determined. |
| US10412535B2 |
Method and device for providing information in communication network using a beacon service
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method and a terminal can be provided, and a beacon service method of the terminal comprises the steps of: transmitting a beacon including identification information of the terminal; receiving beacon-related information from a reception device having received the beacon; receiving a beacon-related information report request message from an information collection device; and transmitting stored beacon-related information to the information collection device. In addition, the present disclosure can provide a beacon reception device communicating with the terminal and an operation method therefor, an information collection device communicating with the terminal and an operation method therefor, and a server for providing a beacon service and an operation method of the server. |
| US10412528B1 |
Audio content modification for playback audio
A method including accessing, by a user device, a location corresponding to at least one microphone array in a content of a free-viewpoint audio environment. The method includes tracking user movement of a user based on a user position in the content of the free-viewpoint audio environment, determining a probability of error in a direction estimate from at least one part of an audio signal; and applying audio ambience to the at least one part of the audio signal based on the user displacement from the nearest microphone array of the at least one microphone array and the probability of error in the direction estimate from the at least one part of the audio signal. |
| US10412527B1 |
Head-related transfer function determination using base stations
A system including base stations determines head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for a user. Each base station is located at a distinct location within a local area and includes a speaker configured to emit a test sound in accordance with calibration instructions. A depth camera assembly determines depth information describing a position of a head-mounted display (HMD) in the local area relative to the locations of the base stations. A microphone is placed in an ear canal of a user wearing the HMD, and generates a respective audio sample from the test sound emitted by the speaker of each base station. A controller determines the relative position of the HMD using the depth information, generates the calibration instructions based on the relative position of the HMD, and determines the HRTFs based on the audio samples. |
| US10412526B2 |
Binaural multi-channel decoder in the context of non-energy-conserving upmix rules
A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained. |
| US10412521B2 |
Simulating acoustic output at a location corresponding to source position data
Systems and methods of simulating acoustic output at a location corresponding to source position data are disclosed. A particular method includes receiving an audio signal and source position data associated with the audio signal. A set of speaker signals are applied to a plurality of speakers, where the set of speaker driver signals causes the plurality of speakers to generate acoustic output that simulates output of the audio signal by an audio source at a location corresponding to the source position data. |
| US10412516B2 |
Calibration of playback devices
Example techniques involve calibration of multiple playback devices. An example implementation receives, via a user interface of the network device, an input to initiate calibration of a group of playback devices comprising a first playback device and a second playback device configured to playback audio content in synchrony. After initiating the calibration of the group of playback devices, the implementation detects audio content rendered synchronously by the first playback device and the second playback device. Based on the detected audio content, the implementation determines a first equalization adjustment for the first playback device and a second equalization for the second playback device and causes the first playback device to apply the first equalization adjustment and the second playback device to apply the second equalization adjustment when the first playback device and the second playback device play audio content synchronously as part of the group of playback devices. |
| US10412514B2 |
Hearing device antenna with optimized orientation
A hearing device, such as a hearing aid, includes an antenna for wireless communication. The antenna is housed in the hearing aid with an orientation determined to approximately minimize change in performance of the wireless communication when the hearing aid goes onto a wearer's head from free space. In various embodiments, the orientation of the antenna can be optimized by considering various factors including head loading and performance of wireless communication with various other devices. |
| US10412512B2 |
Methods and apparatus for processing audio signals
Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals for vibrational conduction to the user. Received audio signals may be processed to cancel acoustic echo such that undesired sounds received by one or more intra-buccal and/or extra-buccal microphones are eliminated or mitigated. Additionally, a multiband actuation system may be used where two or more transducers each deliver sounds within certain frequencies. Also, the assembly may also utilize the sensation of directionality via the conducted vibrations to emulate directional perception of audio signals received by the user. Another feature may include the ability to vibrationally conduct ancillary audio signals to the user along with primary audio signals. |
| US10412509B2 |
Binaural hearing aid system with feedback suppression
A binaural hearing aid system includes: a first hearing aid having a first microphone, a first processing unit, a first receiver, and a first communication unit; and a second hearing aid having a second microphone, a second processing unit, a second receiver, and a second communication unit; wherein the first communication unit of the first hearing aid is configured to transmit a filtered signal for reception by the second communication unit of the second hearing aid in response to a signal associated with a phone. |
| US10412508B2 |
Distortion free filter bank for a hearing device
The application relates to a filter bank for an audio processing device, e.g. a hearing aid. The filter bank comprises an analysis filter bank comprising a plurality of M first filters hm(n), where m=0, 1, . . . , M−1 is a frequency band index, n being a time index, the first filters hm(n) having a first filter length of Lhm; a synthesis filter bank comprising a plurality of M second filters gm(n), m=0, 1, . . . , M−1, the second filters gm(n) having second filter lengths of Lgm; the plurality of first and second filters being arranged in pairs, each pair forming a frequency channel. the first filters hm(n) exhibiting a first filter delay τh, the second filters gm(n) exhibiting a second filter delay τg, each of the first filter lengths Lhm and the second filter lengths Lgm is uneven, and wherein the first filters are subject to the constraint that the sum of the first filters hm(n) of the analysis filter bank is a delta function δ(n−τh). |
| US10412507B2 |
Method for operating a hearing device, hearing device and binaural hearing device system
A method for operating a hearing device includes generating first and second input signals from a sound signal by using respective first and second input transducers, providing a first angle and an angular range and, with respect to frequency bands, based on the first and second input signals and first angle, forming an attenuation directional signal having relative attenuation at least for a second angle in the angular range about the first angle and thereby setting and an overlay parameter. A gain directional signal is formed based on the first and second input signals and the overlay parameter and/or second angle, having relative gain for the second angle. An angled directional signal is generated from the attenuation directional signal and the gain directional signal. An output signal is generated based on the angled directional signal. A hearing device and a binaural hearing device system are also provided. |
| US10412504B2 |
MEMS microphone and method of manufacturing the same
A MEMS microphone includes a substrate having a cavity, a back plate disposed over the substrate and having a plurality of acoustic holes, a diaphragm disposed over the substrate to cover the cavity, the diaphragm being disposed under the back plate to be spaced apart from the back plate, including venting holes communicating with the cavity, and sensing an acoustic pressure to create a displacement, a first insulation layer interposed between the substrate and the diaphragm to support the diaphragm, and the first insulation layer including an opening formed at a position corresponding to the cavity to expose the diaphragm, a second insulating layer formed over the substrate to cover an upper face of the back plate and an insulating interlayer formed between the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer, and the insulation interlayer being located outside the diaphragm and supporting the second insulation layer to make the back plate be spaced from the diaphragm. Thus, a process of manufacturing the MEMS microphone may be simplified. |
| US10412503B2 |
Microphone and methods of assembling microphones
A microphone can include a cover having a series of slits and a nest. The nest can be configured to receive a first diaphragm, a second diaphragm, and a PCB in a stacked arrangement, such that the PCB is positioned between the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm. Also the first diaphragm can define a first plane, the second diaphragm can define a second plane, and the PCB can define a third plane and the first plane, the second plane, and the third plane can extend parallel to one another. The cover can also include slits having a first length and a second length, and the first length can be greater than the second length. The slits can extend both radially and axially. |
| US10412500B2 |
Actuator fixing device and panel vibration type sound-generating display device including the same
Provided are an actuator fixing device and a panel vibration type sound-generating display device including the same. A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image, a cover bottom configured to cover the display panel, and a plurality of sound-generating actuators supported by the cover bottom, the sound-generating actuators being configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound, at least two of the sound-generating actuators being adjacent to each other. |
| US10412496B2 |
Sound equipment, lock release method, and medium
Sound equipment includes an operation element, a memory, a processor, a controller, and a display. The operation element receives a set value. The memory stores the set value. The processor performs processing by the set value of the memory. The controller executes a normal state in which the set value of the memory is updated by the set value of the operation element, and a locked state in which the set value of the memory is fixed regardless of the set value of the operation element, and, by either a first method when the set values are equal or a second method by updating the set value of the memory with the set value of the operation element, releases the locked state and shifts the locked state to the normal state. The display displays a selection screen that receives a selection of the first method or the second method. |
| US10412495B2 |
Customizable jewelry and wireless audio headset system
Embodiments for a customizable jewelry and wireless audio headset system are provided. The system includes a wireless audio headset with a housing to store multiple electrical components, at least one jewelry accessory, at least one connecting component to secure jewelry accessories to the housing of the wireless audio headset, and a securing mechanism to create a loop and secure the system around the user's neck. |
| US10412494B2 |
Operation mode switch of wireless headphones
Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for operation mode switch of wireless headphones are disclosed herein. In one example, a wireless audio system includes a first wireless headphone and a second wireless headphone. The first wireless headphone is configured to establish a first short-range wireless link with an audio source; transmit, to a second wireless headphone, link information associated with the first short-range wireless link; and remove the first short-range wireless link with the audio source in response to the second wireless headphone successfully establishing a second short-range wireless link with the audio source based on the link information. The second wireless headphone is configured to receive, from the first wireless headphone, the link information associated with the first short-range wireless link; and establish the second short-range wireless link with the audio source based on the link information. |
| US10412488B2 |
Microphone array signal processing system
The present invention relates in one aspect to a microphone array signal processing system comprising a digital buffer coupled to a signal input and configured to store first and second digital audio signals. A beamformer analyzer is configured to, in response to a first voice trigger, determine noise statistics based on the first signal segment of the first digital audio signal and a first signal segment of the second digital audio signal. A coefficients calculator is configured to calculate a first set of fixed beamformer coefficients of a beamforming algorithm. The beamforming algorithm is configured for applying the first set of fixed beamformer coefficients to the first signal segments of the first and second digital audio signals retrieved from the digital buffer to produce a noise reduced digital audio signal. |
| US10412480B2 |
Wearable personal acoustic device having outloud and private operational modes
A method of operating an audio system that includes a wearable personal acoustic device having an acoustic driver and an auxiliary acoustic driver includes generating a first acoustic signal having a range of acoustic frequencies at the acoustic driver. A first change of operational mode of the wearable personal acoustic device is requested. In response to the request, a second acoustic signal having a first sub-range of the acoustic frequencies is generated at the acoustic driver and a third acoustic signal having a second sub-range of the acoustic frequencies is generated at the auxiliary acoustic driver. The first sub-range of the acoustic frequencies is different from the second sub-range of the acoustic frequencies and the range of acoustic frequencies is inclusive of the first and second sub-ranges of the acoustic frequencies. |
| US10412478B2 |
Reproduction of ambient environmental sound for acoustic transparency of ear canal device system and method
An ear piece for use by an individual having an external auditory canal includes an earpiece housing configured for placement within the external auditory canal of the individual, a processor disposed within the ear piece housing, at least one microphone disposed within the earpiece housing wherein the at least one earpiece is positioned to detect ambient environmental sound, and at least one speaker disposed within the earpiece housing. The ear piece is configured to detect ambient environmental sound proximate the external auditory canal of the individual using the at least one microphone and reproduce the ambient environmental sound at the at least one speaker within the earpiece housing. The processor is further configured to modify the ambient environmental sound based on shape of the external auditory canal such that audio perception of the ambient environmental sound is as if the ear piece was not present. |
| US10412472B2 |
Contiguous network
A large-scale contiguous network comprises access nodes arranged into access groups and distributors arranged into constellations of collocated distributors. The distributors may comprise switches, rotators, or a mixture of switches and rotators. Each access group connects to each distributor of a respective set of distributors selected so that each pair of access groups connects once to a respective distributor. At least one access group comprises a global controller. Each access node has a dual multichannel link to each constellation of a respective set of constellations, the link carrying a set of dual channels connecting through a spectral demultiplexer and a spectral multiplexer to a subset of distributors. Each access node is equipped with a respective access controller having a memory device storing identifiers of dual paths to all other access nodes and the global controller, each path traversing only one distributor. |
| US10412465B2 |
System and method for controlling playback of digital content
Various aspects of a system and method to control playback of digital content are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a first electronic device, which is configured to pair the first electronic device with a unique user account in a server. The pairing is performed by use of an application embedded in a physical storage medium. User viewing information, associated with a content item currently played through the physical storage medium, is communicated by the first electronic device to the server. The playback of the content item is resumed on login to the unique user account on a second electronic device from a last view state of the content item played through the physical storage medium by the first electronic device. |
| US10412461B2 |
Media streaming with latency minimization
Minimizing latency when streaming media, such as but not necessary limited to limiting or otherwise ameliorating polling latency, network response latency and/or other communication related latencies, is contemplated. The latency minimization may include facilitating long polling or otherwise facilitating instantaneously transmitting requested media once available. |
| US10412457B2 |
User-tailored content access menus
An electronic device includes a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions and a processing unit that executes the instructions to present a group of selectable elements. Each of the selectable elements in the group corresponds to content assets accessed by a user. The group is ordered according to chronological access. Selection of a selectable element from the group provides access to content determined based on the respective content asset, an application used to access the respective content asset, and information regarding previous user behavior. The electronic device may be a content access device, such as a set top box, a digital video recorder, and so on. |
| US10412450B1 |
Systems and methods for managing local and cloud storage for media assets
Systems and methods are described for managing local and cloud storage space for a plurality of media assets. The media guidance application may detect that a command was received to delete a first media asset from storage. In response to detecting the command, the media guidance application may determine a viewing pattern for the first media asset associated with a subset of users in a plurality of users, where the subset of users consumed the first media asset. The media guidance application may retrieve viewing commands associated with a second media asset performed by the subset of users, where the second media asset is related to the first media asset. The media guidance application may determine whether the viewing commands satisfy the viewing pattern. And in response to determining that the commands satisfy the viewing pattern, the media guidance application may delete the second media asset from storage. |
| US10412446B2 |
Television content management with integrated third party interface
A method for presenting internet content associated with a set of video content is provided. During playback of the set of video content on an electronic device, the method detects, by the electronic device, that the electronic device has been repositioned to reveal blank space on a display of the electronic device, wherein the display presents the blank space and the set of video content after repositioning of the electronic device; and presents related internet content on the blank space, by the electronic device, during playback of the set of video content. |
| US10412444B2 |
Receiving apparatus and control method thereof
A receiving apparatus is provided. The receiving apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an input signal including a transmission frame which includes a bootstrap, a preamble, and a payload; a bootstrap detector configured to detect the bootstrap based on a correlation between the input signal and a reference signal which is pre-stored; and a signal processor configured to signal-process the preamble based on the detected bootstrap and signal-process the payload based on the signal-processed preamble, and the bootstrap detector is configured to determine the correlation by quantizing at least one of the input signal and the reference signal and then multiplexing the input signal and the reference signal at least one of which is quantized. Accordingly, an area occupied by hardware and cost can be reduced and loss of performance can be minimized. |
| US10412443B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method of transmitting broadcast signals and method of receiving broadcast signals
A method of providing a broadcast service, the method includes generating service data for a broadcast service and Service Layer Signaling (SLS) for signaling the broadcast service; generating a signaling table having information used for indicating a transport session carrying the SLS for the broadcast service; and transmitting the service data, the SLS and the signaling table via a broadcast network, wherein the SLS includes a Service-based Transport Session Instance Description (S-TSID) and a Media Presentation Description (MPD), wherein the S-TSID includes information for indicating transport sessions carrying service components and content items for the broadcast service, the MPD includes a period element having an event stream element, the event stream element includes a plurality of event elements, and each of the event elements includes an event ID for an event and timing information for indicating start time of the event. |
| US10412439B2 |
PVR channel and PVR IPG information
A system that maps media content information to an interactive program guide displayed on a screen includes, among other things, a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to display at least one personal video recording display channel in the interactive program guide. The processor is further preferably configured with the logic to display media content instance listings in the personal video recording display channel for corresponding media content instance recordings. |
| US10412434B1 |
Systems and methods for seamlessly connecting to a user's device to share and display a relevant media asset
Systems and methods are described for seamlessly connecting to a user's device in order to share and display a media asset. A media guidance application may determine that a first user has entered an environment of a second user (e.g., his/her mother's home). Stored on a first device of the first user may be a media asset (e.g., a photo album), which features an individual related to the second user (e.g., the second user's granddaughter). Based on the interaction data between the individual and the second user, the media guidance application may determine a likelihood that the second user will grant the access rights for the second device to the first user in order to view the media asset. In response to determining a high likelihood, the media guidance application may transmit the access rights to the first device and display the media asset on the second device. |
| US10412431B2 |
System and method for online collaboration of synchronized audio and video data from multiple users through an online browser
A system and method for online collaboration of synchronized audio and video data from multiple users through an online browser is disclosed. An online network environment (e.g., online social media platform) that is accessible by users through an online browser includes an online player/recorder that is capable of playing back multiple audio and video data uploaded by multiple users in real time, and to change tempo while maintaining the original audio key or change pitch while maintaining the original tempo during playback. The platform captures playback positions of audio data based on the corresponding playback positions of video data. The platform includes a synchronizing algorithm that calculates the discrepancies between audio playback positions and the corresponding video playback positions so that the audio and video data play in synchronization. |
| US10412421B2 |
System and method for product placement amplification
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations comprise obtaining product image data and comparing image data of a media program with the product image data. A product placement in the media program is determined based on the comparison, and an entry in a product placement database is generated. The entry comprises identifiers of the media program, a product descriptor descriptive of the product, and a context descriptor descriptive of a presentation scheme used for the first product placement. A rating is assigned to the media program with respect to the product in accordance with the entry of the product placement in the product placement database and other entries of other product placements in the product placement database. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10412418B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method capable of reducing an amount of codes in encoding or decoding.A type setting unit uses a deblocked pixel value to set a type of a filter which is common between components of Y, Cb, Cr in units of LCUs, and provides the type to a syntax write unit. An offset setting unit uses a deblocked pixel value to set an offset independent for each of components of Y, Cb, Cr in units of LCUs. An SAO control information setting unit provides the offset or a merge flag, which is set by referring to the offset given by the offset setting unit, to the syntax write unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus. |
| US10412413B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method
There is provided an encoder that enables an image of a field-of-view range of a user to be displayed immediately. The encoder encodes, for a pair of opposite surfaces among a plurality of surfaces of a model for an omnidirectional image, a first composite image obtained by combining an omnidirectional image of a first surface of a high resolution and an omnidirectional image of a second surface of a resolution lower than the high resolution and a second composite image obtained by combining an omnidirectional image of the second surface of the high resolution and an omnidirectional image of the first surface of a low resolution. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to an image display system or the like. |
| US10412409B2 |
Encoding system using motion estimation and encoding method using motion estimation
Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. |
| US10412407B2 |
Method and apparatus of inter prediction using average motion vector for video coding
A method and apparatus for video coding utilizing a motion vector predictor (MVP) for a motion vector (MV) for a block are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a mean candidate is derived from at least two candidates in the current candidate list. The mean candidate includes two MVs for the bi-prediction or one MV for the uni-prediction, and at least one MV of the mean candidate is derived as a mean of the MVs of said at least two candidates in one of list 0 and list 1. The mean candidate is added to the current candidate list to form a modified candidate list, and one selected candidate is determined as a MVP or MVPs from the modified candidate list, for current MV or MVs of the current block. The current block is then encoded or decoded in Inter, Merge, or Skip mode utilizing the MVP or MVPs selected. |
| US10412406B2 |
Method and apparatus for deriving temporal motion vector prediction
A method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a motion vector (MV) of a current block of a current picture using advanced temporal motion vector prediction are disclosed. At least two collocated pictures are selected from a set of reference pictures of the current picture. One or more TMVPs are derived based on reference motion vectors (MVs) associated with collocated reference blocks of the collocated pictures. A motion vector prediction candidate set including one or more TMVPs is then determined. The current block is encoded or decoding using the motion vector prediction candidate set. The reference motion vectors (MVs) are scaled before the reference motion vectors (MVs) are used to derive the TMVPs. |
| US10412400B1 |
Memory access ordering for a transformation
An apparatus generally having a plurality of memories and a first circuit is disclosed. The memories may be configured to store a plurality of first data points. The first data points generally form a two-dimensional block. The first data points may be arranged among the memories such that a load cycle from the memories accesses a rectangular region of the two-dimensional block. The load cycle generally comprises a plurality of read cycles, a different one of the read cycles corresponding to each one of the memories. The first circuit may be configured to (i) receive the first data points as read from the memories and (ii) generate a plurality of second data points by a video codec transformation of the first data points between a spatial domain and a frequency domain. |
| US10412399B2 |
Scalable video coding using reference and scaled reference layer offsets
A process for determining the selection of filters and input samples is provided for scalable video coding. The process provides for re-sampling using video data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system to improve quality in Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC). In order to accommodate other applications such as interlace/progressive scalability and to increase the resolution of the alignment between layers, it is proposed that the phase offset adjustment parameters be signaled. |
| US10412398B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method
Provided is an image processing device including a first rearrangement unit configured to rearrange first divided image data, which is image data corresponding to respective first divided regions obtained by dividing images to be processed represented by processing target image data in the horizontal direction and in the vertical direction, for each of second divided regions, obtained by dividing the images to be processed composed of a plurality of the first divided regions, in an order corresponding to the respective second divided regions, a compression processing unit configured to compress respective pieces of second divided image data, which are image data corresponding to the respective second divided regions, by performing a transform in a predetermined scheme, quantization, and variable length encoding on the data, and a second rearrangement unit configured to rearrange the compressed second divided image data in an order corresponding to all of the images to be processed. |
| US10412396B2 |
Transform coefficient coding for context-adaptive binary entropy coding of video
Methods and devices for encoding and decoding video are described that partition transform blocks into coefficient groups. The coefficients within non-zero coefficients are run-length coded in a reverse scan order within the group. Prior to coefficient coding, data is encoded indicating which coefficient group in group scan order is the last to contain a non-zero coefficient. Then data is encoded indicating the position within that last non-zero coefficient group of the last non-zero coefficient in scan order inside the coefficient group. Thus the decoder is able to decode run-length data knowing the positions of the coefficients and eliminating the need for end-of-block flags. |
| US10412393B2 |
Intra-frame encoding method, intra-frame decoding method, encoder, and decoder
An intra-frame encoding method, an intra-frame decoding method, an encoder, and a decoder, where the intra-frame encoding method includes obtaining reference pixel values of a current picture block obtaining a predicted value of a first-type pixel in the current picture block according to the reference pixel values of the current picture block using an intra-frame prediction algorithm, obtaining residual values of the first-type pixel, obtaining transform coefficients according to the residual values of the first-type pixel, quantizing the transform coefficients, reconstructing the first-type pixel according to the quantized transform coefficients and the predicted value of the first-type pixel, and obtaining a reconstructed value of the second-type pixel according to the reconstructed value of the first-type pixel using an interpolation method. Hence, flexible encoding can be implemented, and encoding efficiency can be improved. |
| US10412391B1 |
Minimize number of encoded video stream frames for content recognition
A computer implemented method of selecting significant frames of a compressed video stream based on content difference, comprising, obtaining change information created by an encoder for an encoded video stream constructed of a plurality of encoded frames and indicative of a difference in a visual content between consecutive frames and performing the following for each of the encoded frames to select a plurality of significant frames: (1) analyze the change information to calculate a cumulative difference between the visual content of the respective encoded frame and the visual content of a most recently selected significant frame previously selected from the plurality of encoded frames and (2) select the respective encoded frame as another significant frame in case the cumulative difference exceeds a predefined threshold. Indication for each of the plurality of significant frames is output to one or more analysis systems adapted to analyze the content of the significant frames. |
| US10412387B2 |
Unified intra-block copy and inter-prediction
A video coder may include a current picture and a reference picture in a reference picture list. The video coder may determine a co-located block of the reference picture. The co-located block is co-located with a current block of the current picture. Furthermore, the video coder derives a temporal motion vector predictor from the co-located block and may determine the temporal motion vector predictor has sub-pixel precision. The video coder may right-shift the temporal motion vector predictor determined to have sub-pixel precision. In addition, the video coder may determine, based on the right-shifted temporal motion vector predictor, a predictive block within the current picture. |
| US10412384B2 |
Picture coding device, picture coding method, picture coding program
In a case where a partition mode in which luma signals are partitioned horizontally and vertically is set when an intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of minimal coding blocks set in advance, an intra prediction unit is configured to make an intra prediction of a chroma signal in units of prediction blocks of the intra prediction of chroma signals within the minimal coding block set in accordance with a chroma format. A second bitstream constructing unit constructs a bitstream of information relating to a luma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of luma signals and information relating to a chroma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of chroma signals. |
| US10412383B2 |
Compressing groups of video frames using reversed ordering
Groups of video frames can be compressed using reversed ordering. For a group of a video sequence having a display order, a determination is made as to whether to arrange the group in a reversed display order before a prediction process of an encoder for the group. Responsive thereto, the group is arranged in the reversed display order as an input order to the prediction process. Otherwise, the group is provided to the prediction process in the display order as the input order. In performing the prediction process, the group, received in the input order, is arranged in a coding order using a group coding structure that defines at least one backward reference frame for inclusion within a set of candidate reference frames. Multiple backward reference frames may also be defined. The group is predicted in the coding order using the set of candidate reference frames. |
| US10412381B1 |
Calibration target for image sensor
A calibration target for an image sensor can include a plurality of bulbs that each emit light at one or more predetermined wavelengths. The calibration target can also include a container circumscribing the plurality of bulbs. The plurality of bulbs can be stacked and scattered within a volume partially or fully enclosed by the container, and the container has an open top that defines an area for the calibration target. Additionally, the image sensor can be deployed on an aircraft or a satellite. |
| US10412377B2 |
Augmented display device for use in a medical imaging laboratory
An augmented reality device used in a medical imaging laboratory housing a medical imaging device (10) includes a headset (30), cameras (32, 33) mounted in the medical imaging laboratory, and directional sensors (34, 35, 36, 37) mounted on the headset. The cameras generate a panorama image (54). Data collected by the directional sensors is processed to determine the viewing direction (60). The panorama image and the determined viewing direction are processed to generate an augmented patient view image (80) in which the medical imaging device is removed, replaced, or made partially transparent, the augmented image is presented on a display (40) of the headset. The directional sensors may include a headset camera (34) that provides a patient view image (50), which is augmented by removing or making partially transparent any portion of the medical imaging device in the patient view image by substituting corresponding portions of the panorama image. |
| US10412375B2 |
Display device, electronic apparatus, and method for controlling display device
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display unit that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and that is configured to display images corresponding to a plurality of viewpoints; a parallax adjustment that is placed at a position facing the display unit, and in which a plurality of transmissive regions for transmitting light and a plurality of non-transmissive regions for limiting transmittance of light are provided in a switchable manner; a parallax controller that is configured to change positions of the transmissive regions and the non-transmissive regions, based on external information; and a display controller that is configured to change a number of successive pixels displaying an image corresponding to each of the viewpoints, based on external information. |
| US10412371B1 |
Thin film acousto-optic structured light generator
A depth camera assembly (DCA) includes a structured light generator, an imaging device and a controller. The structured light generator illuminates a local area with one or more structured light patterns in accordance with emission instructions from the controller. The structured light generator comprises an illumination source, thin film acousto-optic device(s), and a projection assembly. The thin film acousto-optic device(s) generate a structured light pattern from optical beam(s) emitted from the illumination source. The projection assembly projects the structured light pattern(s) into the local area. The imaging device captures portions of the one or more structured light patterns scattered or reflected from the local area. The controller determines depth information for the local area based at least in part on the captured portions of the one or more scattered or reflected structured light patterns. |
| US10412370B2 |
Photographing device and vehicle
A photographing device includes a first image sensor, a first filter area, a second image sensor, a first distance calculating unit, and a second distance calculating unit. The first image sensor includes a first sensor receiving light of a first wavelength band and outputting a target image, and a second sensor receiving light of a second wavelength band and outputting a reference image. The first filter area transmits a first light of a third wavelength band, which includes at least part of the first wavelength band, the first light being a part of light incident on the first image sensor. The second image sensor outputs a first image. The first distance calculating unit calculates a first distance to an object captured in the target image and the reference image. The second distance calculating unit calculates a second distance to an object captured in the reference image and the first image. |
| US10412366B2 |
Sub-diffraction limit image resolution in three dimensions
The present invention generally relates to sub-diffraction limit image resolution and other imaging techniques, including imaging in three dimensions. In one aspect, the invention is directed to determining and/or imaging light from two or more entities separated by a distance less than the diffraction limit of the incident light. For example, the entities may be separated by a distance of less than about 1000 nm, or less than about 300 nm for visible light. In some cases, the position of the entities can be determined in all three spatial dimensions (i.e., in the x, y, and z directions), and in certain cases, the positions in all three dimensions can be determined to an accuracy of less than about 1000 nm. In one set of embodiments, the entities may be selectively activatable, i.e., one entity can be activated to produce light, without activating other entities. A first entity may be activated and determined (e.g., by determining light emitted by the entity), then a second entity may be activated and determined. The emitted light may be used to determine the x and y positions of the first and second entities, for example, by determining the positions of the images of these entities, and in some cases, with sub-diffraction limit resolution. In some cases, the z positions may be determined using one of a variety of techniques that uses intensity information or focal information (e.g., a lack of focus) to determine the z position. Non-limiting examples of such techniques include astigmatism imaging, off-focus imaging, or multi-focal-plane imaging. Other aspects of the invention relate to systems for sub-diffraction limit image resolution, computer programs and techniques for sub-diffraction limit image resolution, methods for promoting sub-diffraction limit image resolution, and the like. |
| US10412363B1 |
Light-field display with micro-lens alignment adapted color and brightness
A light-field display with pixel to micro-lens spatial alignment adapted color or brightness. In one embodiment, a first pixel is read from memory. A map is accessed to read a first index that is mapped to a first position of a first emitter in an array of emitters. A first correction data mapped to the first index is read. The first pixel is adjusted using the first correction data. The first emitter emits light based on the adjusted first pixel. |
| US10412353B2 |
Processing apparatus and image projecting method
A processing apparatus includes a processing section acquiring a position in which a card is placed, and a rendering control section controlling projection of an image by a projection apparatus. On the basis of the position in which the card is placed, the rendering control section causes the projection apparatus to project the image associated with the card onto the card in a manner larger than the card. An image projecting method includes acquiring a position in which a card is placed, and on the basis of the position in which the card is placed, causing a projection apparatus to project an image associated with the card onto the card in a manner larger than the card. |
| US10412352B2 |
Projector apparatus with distance image acquisition device and projection mapping method
The invention provides a projector apparatus with a distance image acquisition device and a projection mapping method that can project an image focused on the entire projection object even in a case in which there is a difference in distance to the projection object and the projection object moves. Two projector apparatuses with a TOF camera, that is, a first projector apparatus with a TOF camera including a first projector apparatus for a far distance and a first TOF camera that acquires a distance image of a far projection object and a second projector apparatus with a TOF camera including a second projector apparatus for a near distance and a second TOF camera that acquires a distance image of a near projection object can project a projection image for a far distance and a projection image for a near distance which are focused on the entire projection object even in a case in which there is a difference in distance to the projection object and the projection object moves. In addition, a first light source and a second light source of the projector apparatuses are pulse-driven to function as light sources of the first and second TOF cameras. |
| US10412351B2 |
Projector and control method
A projector includes a light-emitting element that outputs light of a first wavelength band which is in a first polarization state; a retardation plate that converts a portion of the light into a second polarization state; a polarization separation element that separates the light into a first flux of light in the first polarization state and a second flux of light in a second polarization state; a phosphor, which outputs a third flux of light of a second wavelength band; an optical modulator that modulates the light in accordance with a video signal; a light-emitting element control unit that controls brightness of the light-emitting element in accordance with brightness information; and a retardation plate control unit that controls a rotation angle of the retardation plate in accordance with the brightness information. |
| US10412349B2 |
Image sensor including phase detection pixel
Provided is an image sensor including a pixel array which provides a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns. The plurality of pixels include: a plurality of image sensing pixels each including a plurality of image sensing sub pixels that include the same color filter; and a plurality of phase detection pixels each including at least one phase detection sub pixel which generates a phase signal for calculating a phase difference between images, wherein the plurality of image sensing sub pixels included in the same image sensing pixel are connected to one selection signal line and receive the same selection signal. |
| US10412344B2 |
Surveillance system including video wall
A surveillance system including a video wall is provided. The surveillance system includes a plurality of video decoders configured to connect to the plurality of monitors in a one-to-one correspondence, respectively determine at least one image among a plurality of images based on first information, respectively receive an image-allocation area of the at least one image based on second information, the plurality of images respectively being provided from a plurality of cameras, and respectively input the image-allocation area to the plurality of monitors according to the one-to-one correspondence; and a video wall controller configured to provide each of the plurality of video decoders with the first information indicating at least one camera corresponding to the at least one image and the second information indicating an image-allocation area of the at least one image based on an entire video wall image. |
| US10412343B2 |
System and method of monitoring video data packet delivery
A method includes receiving, at a processor of a network device, data packets to be communicated to a multicast destination. The method includes recording, with the network device, performance data associated with the data packets, where the performance data is associated with a performance metric. The method includes determining, with the processor, a trend based on the performance data. The method also includes sending a warning from the processor to a performance server based on the trend satisfying a condition. |
| US10412342B2 |
Digital zoom conferencing
Methods, apparatuses, and techniques for security and/or automation systems are described. In one embodiment, the method including identifying a presence of a first person at a first location, capturing a first video related to the first person at the first location, and initiating an adjustment of a display of the first video based at least in part on identifying the presence of the first person. |
| US10412341B2 |
Image display device, frame transmission interval control method, and image display system
An image display device includes a communication device transmits a transmission request to each of the image transmission devices and receives a frame including differential data transmitted by each image transmission device in response to the transmission request. A measurement unit measures, for each image transmission device, a first required time interval, which is the time required from the start of transmission of the transmission request until the start of reception of the frame, and a second required time interval, which is the time required from the start of reception until the completion of reception of the frame. A control unit causes transmission requests to be sent to each of the image transmission devices at predetermined transmission intervals, causes measurement unit to measure the first and second required time intervals, and changes the transmission interval of the transmission request based on the measurement results. |
| US10412339B2 |
Electronic device and image encoding method of electronic device
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera configured to obtain an image, an input buffer configured to store the image, an encoder implemented with hardware, and configured to encode an image output from the input buffer, at least one memory, and a processor configured to electrically connect with the camera, the input buffer, the encoder, and the at least one memory. The processor is configured to generate an encoding parameter based on a characteristic of the encoder receiving the encoding parameter and to provide the encoding parameter to the encoder. |
| US10412337B2 |
Display device
A display device comprises a display component, an output component, a setting component, and a controller. The output component outputs a first signal having guidance information and a second signal having audio information pertaining to content. The setting component performs volume setting. The controller controls output levels of the first signal and the second signal. The controller sets the output level of the first signal to a value that is greater than or equal to the output level of the second signal, and sets the output level of the first signal to a value greater than zero when the output level of the second signal is zero. |
| US10412336B2 |
Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and program for video signal correction
This video signal processing apparatus includes a luminance correction circuit that multiplies video signals of M sequential frames by weight coefficients individually set for frames respectively ordered in the M frames, M being plural, and adds and averages results, to generate a correction video signal of a frame in a predetermined order in the M frames, a value of a weight coefficient set for the frame in the predetermined order being set to be maximum among values of the weight coefficients individually set for the frames respectively ordered in the M frames. |
| US10412332B2 |
Image-capturing device for generating image-capture data
An image-capturing device includes an image sensor outputting image-capture data of a subject for each predetermined unit, a first and second processors, and a display. The first processor receives the image-capture data, carries out a first processing for the image-capture data, and outputs first processing data. The second processor receives the first processing data, carries out a second processing for the first processing data, and outputs second processing data. The first processor starts the first processing after preparation of the image-capture data of the lowest necessary number of the predetermined unit for executing the first processing is finished. The second processor starts the second processing after preparation of the first processing data of the lowest necessary number of a predetermined unit for executing the second processing is finished. The display receives the second processing data and starts to display data of a single line based on the second processing data. |
| US10412331B2 |
Power consumption estimation method and power consumption estimation apparatus
A power consumption estimation method is applied to an image with N rows of pixels, and comprises a pixel estimation procedure comprising performing an estimation sub-procedure pixel by pixel for each of a plurality of pixels in one row of the N rows of pixels to obtain a plurality of pixel energy consumption values respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels in said one row of the N rows, and obtaining a row power consumption value corresponding to said one row of the N rows according to the plurality of pixel energy consumption values. The estimation sub-procedure comprises obtaining pixel content information corresponding to one of the plurality of pixels, and determining the pixel energy consumption value according to the pixel content information. The pixel energy consumption value indicates pixel energy consumption generated by performing a predetermined image processing procedure for said one of the plurality of pixels. |
| US10412330B2 |
Image capture apparatus and method for controlling the same
Regarding one or more pairs of image signals generated based on a signal obtained from an image sensor, a phase difference of the image signals is determined and a defocus amount is calculated based on the phase difference based on a correlation amount calculated while relatively shifting the positions of the one or more pairs of image signals. By using image signals whose detectable defocus amount range and defocus amount detection accuracies are different, the amount of correlation calculation for focus detection can be reduced in various defocused states of a subject for which focus detection is to be performed. |
| US10412327B2 |
Image sensor and electronic apparatus with different exposure times for different pixel blocks
The present technology relates to an image sensor and an electronic apparatus that make it possible to capture an image at different exposure time settings for individual pixel blocks each having a plurality of pixels.A plurality of pixels for performing photoelectric conversion are disposed in an array in a pixel array section. Two or more pixels in the pixel array section form each of a plurality of pixel blocks. A plurality of selection sections, which are equal in number to the pixel blocks and disposed in an array, select the supply of an exposure control signal, which controls the exposure time of the pixels, to each of the pixel blocks. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an image sensor that captures an image. |
| US10412323B2 |
High-temperature object observation device
Provided is a high-temperature object observation device including a camera capable of acquiring an image of an observation region adjacent to a heat source and a light shielding device. In the high-temperature object observation device, a light shielding device includes a light shielding part that covers the vicinity of the heat source, a holding object that holds the heat source at a position exposed from the light shielding part, and an actuator that releases engagement of the holding object, and immediately after the light shielding device is brought into operation and the heat source is covered with the light shielding part, the camera acquires an image of the observation region. |
| US10412319B2 |
Imaging apparatus including image sensor, optical system, control circuit, and signal processing circuit
An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, an optical system, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The image sensor includes a light-shielding film in which light-transmitting regions and light-shielding regions are alternately arranged in at least a first direction within a plane, a photodetector disposed opposite the light-shielding film, and an optically-coupled layer disposed between the light-shielding film and the photodetector. The optically-coupled layer includes a grating which generates a propagating light that propagates in the first direction and a transmitting light that transmits the optically-coupled layer when light of a predetermined wavelength enters the light-transmitting regions. The signal processing circuit extracts two different frames from frames included in a moving image acquired by the image sensor. |
| US10412317B2 |
Display control apparatus and display control method
Control is performed so that when an enlarged display state of a captured image is switched to an entire display state, and in a case where a particular operation is performed in the enlarged display state, a display item regarding focus adjustment is displayed at a position which is determined according to an enlarged area after movement of the enlarged area based on a movement instruction to move the enlarged area given in the enlarged display state, and in a case where the particular operation is not performed in the enlarged display state, the display item regarding focus adjustment is displayed at a position unrelated to the movement of the enlarged area based on the movement instruction. |
| US10412312B2 |
System and method for processing video data to detect and eliminate flickering light sources through dynamic exposure control
An image capture system is provided for a vehicle equipped with a display for displaying streamed video images of a scene proximate the vehicle. The image capture system includes a camera for capturing video images of the scene proximate the vehicle at a selected exposure time and streaming the video images, and an image processing unit for receiving the streamed video images, processing the streamed video images and supplying the streamed video images to the display. The image processing unit is configured to detect amplitude-modulated light sources in the streamed video images, and adjust the exposure time of the camera to match a multiple of a modulation frequency of the amplitude-modulated light sources decreasing a flicker intensity of the amplitude-modulated light sources in the streamed video images supplied to the display. |
| US10412307B2 |
Electronic device and image display method
For image display, an imaging device captures an image. A display unit displays the captured image. A processing unit displays a second interface in response to the image satisfying a predetermined condition, wherein the second interface comprises controls corresponding to the predetermined condition. |
| US10412303B2 |
Imaging device, startup method of imaging device, and computer readable recording medium
An imaging device includes: an imaging control unit configured to enable an imaging unit to operate after first predetermined time from stating of power supply to the imaging unit; a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display image data generated by the imaging unit after second predetermined time from starting of power supply to the display unit, the second predetermined time being longer than the first predetermined time; and a display image data generating unit configured to generate image data from when the display control unit controls the display unit to display the image data to when transition to a capturable state completes, to sequentially reduce or magnify an image formed based on the image data, and to control the display unit to display the reduced or magnified image. |
| US10412296B2 |
Camera using preview image to select exposure
A digital camera comprises an image sensor for providing initial sensor image data and final sensor image data; a lens for exposing the image of a scene onto the image sensor; an exposure control system for adjusting an exposure level of a final image on the image sensor in response to a scene type; and a processor for processing the initial sensor image data to select one of a plurality of scene types, and to process the final sensor image data in response to the scene type. |
| US10412293B2 |
Transmitter optical sub-assembly having improved receptacle
A transmitter optical sub-assembly includes a body and a receptacle assembled to a front side of the body, the receptacle including a nose body, a split sleeve enclosed by the nose body, a first body disposed behind the split sleeve, and a fiber stub either glued or shrink fit or pressed fit on to the first body, a rear end of the split sleeve being slip fitted on to the fiber stub; wherein the nose body is made from deep drawing or cold forging process and is attached on to a front surface of the body. |
| US10412292B2 |
Lens control device, lens control method, and recording medium
An imaging apparatus is able to perform limit control of limiting a drive range of a focus lens and performing control of the focus lens. When first information regarding an end position of the drive range of the focus lens in the limit control is set, a body control unit drives the focus lens from a position set as one end position of the drive range of the focus lens in the limit control on a near side and a far side to one end position of the movable range of the focus lens on a near side and a far side, and then stores information corresponding to a drive amount during the drive as the first information. |
| US10412288B2 |
Camera module including image sensor and camera window holding mechanism
A camera window holding mechanism (2) for holding a terminal camera window (3) is provided in a shoulder portion of a camera module (10a), an opening (H) is formed in a center portion of the camera window holding mechanism (2), and some of lenses on an object side of a lens unit (4a) are accommodated in the opening (H). |
| US10412287B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing electronic apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus capable of improving sensitivity while suppressing degradation of color mixture. The solid-state imaging device includes an anti-reflection portion having a moth-eye structure provided on a boundary surface on a light-receiving surface side of a photoelectric conversion region of each pixel arranged two-dimensionally, and an inter-pixel light-blocking portion provided below the boundary surface of the anti-reflection portion to block incident light. In addition, the photoelectric conversion region is a semiconductor region, and the inter-pixel light-blocking portion has a trench structure obtained by digging the semiconductor region in a depth direction at a pixel boundary. The techniques according to the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device of a rear surface irradiation type. |
| US10412286B2 |
Multicamera imaging system and method for measuring illumination
A multicamera imaging system includes multiple imaging subsystems. Each subsystem includes imaging optics, an optical filter, an optional shutter, a digital imaging sensor, and an analog-to-digital converter. After optional scaling, image displacement, keystone and other corrections, the captured images are aligned to result in a multi-layer registered image. Illumination metrics of individual pixels of the registered image are then calculated. The spatial distribution of the optical illumination properties of planar objects are measured, including colorimetric, photometric, radiometric, and spectroradiometric characterization and calibration of digital image displays and radiant scenes. |
| US10412284B2 |
Lens driving apparatus and camera module including function of shaking compensation
Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel disposed in a housing to receive a lens assembly; an elastic member in at least one of the housing and the lens barrel; a driving unit moving the lens barrel relative to the housing; and a sensor unit fixed to the housing. |
| US10412278B2 |
System-level camera module with electrical support and manufacturing method thereof
A camera module includes an optical lens, a photosensitive chip and an electrical support. The electrical support includes a circuit module embedded in a support body to form an integral structure, a connecting member provided on the support body to electrically connect with the circuit module, and a camera component coupled at the support body and electrically connected to the connecting member. Therefore, the electrical support not only forms a circuit board to electrically connect with the camera component but only serves as a base to support the camera component. |
| US10412274B2 |
Imaging unit, vehicle control unit and heat transfer method for imaging unit
An imaging unit includes two imaging devices, a substrate holder that holds a circuit substrate on which a component regarding operation of the two imaging devices is disposed, and a heat transfer device that transfers heat generated in the component to the substrate holder. One end of the heat transfer device is brought in contact with the component and other end of the heat transfer device is brought in contact with the substrate holder on a line having an equal distance from each of image pick-up devices of the two imaging devices. |
| US10412273B2 |
Smart non-uniformity correction systems and methods
Various embodiments of the present disclosure may include an imaging device configured to determine appropriate conditions for updating non-uniformity correction (NUC) terms. In certain embodiments, the imaging device may determine when the imaging device is likely not in use and update NUC terms during the times when the imaging device is likely not in use. Data from various position sensors such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, global positioning system receivers, and/or other data may be used to determine when the imaging device is likely not in use. Such position sensors may be coupled to the imaging device and/or may be remote from the imaging device. In certain embodiments, while NUC terms are updated, imaging data obtained may be modified with historical data to provide usable data. |
| US10412270B2 |
Ink amount upper limit setting method and non-transitory computer readable medium for storing program of ink amount upper limit setting method
An ink amount upper limit setting apparatus includes a target color designating section that accepts the designation of at least one target color for which an ink amount upper limit is to be set. A patch controller causes an output device to form patches in accordance with output values. A colorimetric value acquiring section acquires colorimetric values of the formed patches. A color reproduction determination output section outputs color reproduction determination information that indicates whether the target color is contained in a color reproduction region for each of ink amount upper limit candidates, on the basis of a coordinate value of the target color and the colorimetric values. |
| US10412268B2 |
Image capturing system including a controller to control supply of a system clock to an imager
An image capturing system includes an imager, a detector, and a controller. The imager is configured to move relative to an object to be imaged and capture an image of the object. The detector is configured to detect a predetermined relative position of the object with respect to the imager. The controller is configured to switch from stop supplying a system clock to supplying the system clock based on the detected predetermined relative position. The system clock is used to control a timing to start capturing an image by the imager. After stops supplying the system clock, the controller resumes supplying the system clock to the imager according to a relative movement of the object, based on the detected predetermined relative position. |
| US10412267B2 |
Document management system
Provided is a document management system for managing document data by applying access restrictions to each metadata acquired by character recognition of document data to be managed. The mage forming apparatus acquires document data to be managed. The image-processing server performs character recognition of document data and acquires metadata. The image forming apparatus specifies metadata to be concealed in document data. The image forming apparatus receives a security setting, correlates a metadata name to be concealed with the security setting, and transmits the security setting together with document data to the image-processing server. The document-management server, in the case where there is an access request from a user for document data, allows access to the document data based on the security setting by not masking metadata for which there is access authority, and masking metadata for which there is no access authority. |
| US10412261B2 |
Image forming apparatus capable of performing print recovery processing
An image forming apparatus receives print data and settings of a print job which are associated with the print data from an external apparatus via an external interface. A printer section forms an image on a sheet fed from a sheet feeder based on the received print data. It is determined whether or not the settings of the print job include a setting of not performing print recovery processing after sheet jam elimination, and in a case where it is determined that the settings of the print job include the setting of not performing print recovery processing after sheet jam elimination, the print job is cancelled in response to occurrence of a sheet jam in the printer section, and a user is notified of information prompting the user to input the print job again. |
| US10412259B2 |
Document reading apparatus and image forming apparatus
The amount of time for scanning a document that includes plural pages is shortened and information leakage is prevented.A file-storage apparatus (12) stores image data of a document that is scanned before as an image file for which access authority is set. A document-feeding unit (3) feeds a document one page at a time from the starting page. A document-reading unit (2) reads that document that is fed by the document-feeding unit (3), and converts the document to image data. A file-search unit (111) that, when a specified number of pages from the start of a document is read by the document-reading unit (2) according to an instruction from a user, searches, based on respective image data of the specified number of pages at the start that are read and access authority, for an image file from the file-storage apparatus (12) that is accessible by the user and that corresponds to the document as a corresponding image file. A liquid-crystal-display unit of an operation unit (5) as a notification unit notifies the user of a corresponding image file that is found by the file-search unit (111). |
| US10412258B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a processor to execute one of a plurality of modes. In a first mode the processor controls an image forming portion to form an image on the sheet only if a sheet type included in an image forming job is consistent with the sheet type stored in a storage portion, and in a second mode the processor controls image formation even if the sheet type is inconsistent with the stored sheet type. In a third mode the processor displays the type setting screen on the display at a time when the sheet is supported on the sheet support portion. In a condition in which the processor is set in the third mode, the display is controlled so as not to display the type setting screen at the time the sheet is supported on the sheet support portion in the second mode. |
| US10412256B2 |
Image reading device, image forming apparatus, and image reading method
An image reading device includes a first image reading portion, a cooling portion, a second image reading portion, and a notification processing portion. The first image reading portion reads an image of a document sheet at a first reading position. The cooling portion cools the document sheet at a cooling position downstream in a feeding direction of the document sheet with respect to the first reading position. The second image reading portion reads an image of the document sheet at a second reading position downstream in the feeding direction with respect to the cooling position. In a case where a difference image different from a first image read by the first image reading portion, the difference image being included in a second image read by the second image reading portion has been detected, the notification processing portion provides a notification that the difference image has been detected. |
| US10412249B2 |
Image processing apparatus and control method therefor, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus that is capable of calculating an appropriate replacement guide value of a part even in a case where the image processing apparatus operates under different operating modes. The image processing apparatus is capable of operating in a plurality of operating modes of different image forming speeds and has a replacement guide default value showing a guide for replacement of a part for each of the operating modes. A degree of wear of the part for each of the operating modes is calculated based on the replacement guide default value. The calculated degree of wear is, in a case where the operating mode is changed, converted to a degree of wear for the operating mode after the change, and a replacement guide value of the part in the operating mode is calculated after the change based on the converted degree of wear. |
| US10412246B2 |
Image reading unit
An image-reading unit includes an original document conveyor that includes a first original document tray to hold an original document to be read, a first original document feeding port to feed the original document placed on the first original document tray, and an original document conveying path to convey the original document from the first original document feeding port to an original document discharging port. The original document conveyor further includes an openable second original document tray attached near an intermediate portion of the original document conveying path to hold an original document when opened, and a second original document feeding port to feed the original document on the second original document tray. The image-reading unit further includes an image reader to read an image of the original document being conveyed along the original document conveying path. |
| US10412244B2 |
Information processing apparatus, computer-readable medium and information processing system
A function which can be executed by an application is determined from information obtained from data obtained within a standard rule, thereby implementing a function within the standard rule. More specifically, processing executed by a scanner is recorded in EXIF information, and the application determines a function to be executed, based on the EXIF information. |
| US10412241B2 |
Document reading apparatus
In a document reading apparatus including a document reading unit that reads a document, an image generation unit that generates a preview image based on document read information acquired by the document reading unit, and a display unit that can display the preview image, the document reading unit has a function to read a plurality of documents by one time reading operation and acquires first document read information obtained by reading the document in a state where a document pressing member is opened and second document read information obtained by reading the document in a state where the document pressing member is closed for each document, and the image generation unit generates a preview image corresponding to each document based on the first document read information and the second document read information. |
| US10412238B2 |
Recording apparatus
A recording apparatus, comprising: an apparatus body; a recording device that is provided inside the apparatus body and performs recording on a medium; a supporting tray that is switchable between a drawn-out state and a housed state and, when in the drawn-out state, supports the medium that is to be fed toward the recording device, the drawn-out state being a state of being drawn out from the apparatus body, the housed state being a state of being housed in the apparatus body; and a unit that is detachably attached to the apparatus body and includes a reverse roller for reverse the medium, wherein the supporting tray has a portion that is configured to be on a path of attachment and detachment of the unit when in the housed state. |
| US10412237B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and program
An information processing apparatus is provided and includes a display unit which displays an operation screen. The information processing apparatus controls whether or not to receive setting for a first application from a different apparatus and use the received setting for the first application, in accordance with a type of a screen being displayed on the display unit. |
| US10412234B2 |
Diagnostic device and diagnostic method
A diagnostic device includes an acquisition unit that acquires sound information, and a display that displays a first analysis result obtained by a time-frequency analysis on the sound information and plural second analysis results obtained by a time-frequency analysis on sound information of an abnormal sound, and that displays the second analysis results in descending order of a possibility presumed to be a cause of the abnormal sound and displays treatment candidates on a screen for inputting a treatment situation of the abnormal sound, based on an order in which the second analysis results have been displayed. |
| US10412233B2 |
Methods for configuring settings for an image forming apparatus with template sheet
An image forming apparatus prints a template sheet. The template sheet includes a graphical code and operation boxes. The graphical code includes information corresponding to a storage location address that stores information about settings for one or more image forming apparatuses. A user indicates what information is desired or to be changed on the image forming apparatus, marks it on the template sheet and scans the template sheet. Based on the instructions on the template sheet, information for settings is retrieved for an apparatus in a network. Maintenance information for the image forming apparatus also is retrieved using the template sheet and operation boxes. |
| US10412226B2 |
Audio signal processing apparatus and method
The disclosure relates to an audio signal processing apparatus for processing a plurality of audio signals defining a plurality of audio signal spectra, the audio signals to be transmitted to a listener in such a way that the listener perceives the audio signals to originate from virtual positions of a plurality of audio signal sources. The audio signal processing apparatus comprises a selector configured to select a spatial arrangement of the virtual positions of the audio signal sources relative to the listener from a plurality of possible spatial arrangements, and a filter configured to filter the plurality of audio signals on the basis of the selected spatial arrangement. |
| US10412223B2 |
Personalized support routing based on paralinguistic information
Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for inferring the current emotional state of a user based on paralinguistic features derived from audio input from that user. If the emotional state meets triggering conditions, the system provides the user with a prompt which allows the user to connect with a support agent. If the user accepts, the system selects a support agent for the user based on the predicted emotional state and on attributes of the support agent found in an agent profile. The system can also determine a priority level for the user based on the score and based on a profile of the user and determine where to place the user in a queue for the support agent. |
| US10412217B1 |
Anti-spoofing techniques for outbound telephone calls
Techniques are disclosed for verifying a caller ID field of an outbound telephone call. A termination service provider call server receives a call request from a calling endpoint that includes a called endpoint telephone number, and a caller ID telephone number. The termination service provider call server determines a calling endpoint telephone number assigned to the calling endpoint and creates an “in use” message comprising the calling endpoint telephone number and a timestamp of when the call request was received. The “in use” message is forwarded to an active call database before forwarding the call request to an inbound carrier call server servicing the called endpoint telephone number. The inbound carrier call server receives the call request intended and sends a query to the active call database to determine whether the caller ID telephone number in the call request is currently in use. The active call database sets the status of telephone numbers contained in all received “in use” messages to in use. It then determines whether the caller ID telephone number received in the query from the inbound carrier call server corresponds to a telephone number that is currently in use. If the caller ID telephone number does not correspond to a telephone number that is currently in use, the active call database returns a fail message to the inbound carrier call server. If the caller ID telephone number does correspond to a telephone number that is currently in use but the timestamps for the call request and the query differ by more than a predetermined duration, it returns a fail message to the inbound carrier call server. If the timestamps for the call request and the query are within the predetermined duration, it returns a pass message to the inbound carrier call server. The inbound carrier call server either routes or does not route the call request to the called endpoint depending on the query results. |
| US10412210B2 |
Multi-level control, variable access, multi-user contextual intelligent communication platform
An interactive, electronic network that enables multi-level control, variable access, multi-user communications of real-time contextually relevant data or information among network-connected devices, and actions based on those communications, as the network-connected devices move from one location to another and/or the data/information flow among those devices change over time. |
| US10412207B2 |
Mobile terminal, power adapter, and upgrade method thereof
A mobile terminal, a power adapter, and an upgrade method are disclosed. The method includes: downloading software upgrade information of the power adapter by a mobile terminal, the software upgrade information being upgrade software of the power adapter; and transmitting the software upgrade information to a processor of the power adapter by the mobile terminal through a data line in a charging port during a process that the mobile terminal is connected to the power adapter through the charging port to facilitate the processor to upgrade the software of the power adapter according to the software upgrade information. The mobile terminal downloads the software upgrade information, and the most updated software upgrade information is transmitted to the power adapter during the process that the mobile terminal connects to the power adapter, the power adapter is upgraded to solve the problem that the power adapter is difficult to upgrade. |
| US10412206B1 |
Communications for multi-mode device
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for dynamic mode switching and management of communications between devices. Example methods include receiving a first event from a first application on a first device, determining a first application identifier of the first application, and determining that the first device is in a communal mode. Example methods may include determining a communal mode profile for the first device, where the communal mode profile is associated with a first user account identifier that is associated with the first device, determining a set of user account identifiers associated with an accessory device identifier of the accessory device, and associating the set of user account identifiers and the accessory device identifier with the communal mode profile. Example methods may include receiving an indication of a second event, and disassociating the set of user account identifiers from the communal mode profile. |
| US10412205B2 |
Camera assembly and mobile electronic device
A camera assembly and a mobile electronic device are provided. The camera assembly includes at least two image sensors. Each image sensor includes a pixel array and a control circuit. The pixel array includes a light sensing region and an imaging region. The control circuit is configured to control the light sensing region to detect an illumination intensity when receiving a light sensing instruction and to control the imaging region to obtain an image when receiving an imaging instruction. The mobile electronic device includes a camera assembly and a processor. The processor is configured to generate the light sensing instruction and the imaging instruction. |
| US10412204B2 |
Housing assembly, dual-camera module and mobile terminal
A housing assembly includes: a support including a peripheral side wall and a lug, the peripheral side wall defining a first accommodating space configured to accommodate a dual-camera assembly, and the lug being connected to an outer peripheral side of the peripheral side wall away from the first accommodating space; and a middle frame having a second accommodating space and a groove in communication with the second accommodating space, the support being accommodated in the second accommodating space, and the lug being fitted with the groove. The present disclosure further provides a dual-camera module and a mobile terminal. |
| US10412202B2 |
Method and device for encoding/decoding a packet comprising data representative of a haptic effect
A method of encoding a packet of data representative of a haptic effect, the haptic affect being associated with an immersive content is described. The method includes adding a first information in the packet, the first information being representative of a dependency of said haptic effect with regard to a position of a body model in relation to the immersive content. Thereafter, a second information in the packet is added, the second information being representative of at least a first part of the body model targeted by the haptic effect. A method for decoding the packet and corresponding devices are also described. |
| US10412200B2 |
Reconfigurable extended communication interface devices for monitoring and control of power system devices
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of a configurable extended interface device are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is an interface device for coupling a power system device of a microgrid with a microgrid controller utilizing a data communication standard incompatible with the power system device, the interface device comprising three input ports configured to receive input from a power system device; a microgrid interface configured to provide output formatted according to any of a plurality of communication protocols, each being compatible with the data communication standard and configured to receive input defining microgrid configuration characteristics; data mapping logic structured to convert any of the input to output formatted according to any of the plurality of communication protocols; and parsing logic configured to parse the received input defining microgrid configuration characteristics effective to cause the data mapping logic to perform mapping of the received input to one of the plurality of communication protocols. |
| US10412197B1 |
Predictive prefetching of data from remote client-state cache from server to update local client-state cache
Response delay associated with a state-based client-server application can be reduced with utilization of an application state server-side cache. A server caches data for a set of one or more possible states of a client-server application that may follow a current state of the application. The server rapidly responds to a client request with data that corresponds to an appropriate new state of the application in accordance with the application state server-side cache. The server determines that the application will transition to the appropriate new state from the current state of the application with the application state server-side cache based, at least in part, on an operation indicated by the client request. |
| US10412196B2 |
Mapless user interfaces for limited network conditions
A client device provides mapless user interfaces to show a service provider's progress in movement toward a start location. One type of mapless interface is a grid interface, which the device selects if the device is subject to low network connectivity. The grid interface includes graphics representing the start location and the service provider. The two graphics are displayed at their respective location coordinates on a coordinate grid. Because the grid interface does not include a map, it can be loaded relatively quickly even when the service requestor device is experiencing low network connectivity. |
| US10412191B1 |
Hardware validation
A trusted co-processor can provide a hardware-based observation point into the operation of a host machine owned by a resource provider or other such entity. The co-processor can be installed via a peripheral card on a fast bus, such as a PCI bus, on the host machine. The provider can provide the customer with expected information that the customer can verify through a request to an application programming interface (API) of the card, and after the customer verifies the information the customer can take logical ownership of the card and lock out the provider. The card can then function as a trusted but limited environment that is programmable by the customer. The customer can subsequently submit verification requests to the API to ensure that the host has not been unexpectedly modified or is otherwise operating as expected. |
| US10412186B2 |
Front-end optimization in a content delivery network (CDN)
A computer-implemented method, operable on a device in a content delivery network (CDN), wherein the CDN delivers content on behalf of at least one content provider, the device implementing a content delivery (CD) service, the method includes, by the service on the device: receiving a request for a particular resource from a client; determining whether the client includes an optimization support mechanism; when the client includes an optimization support mechanism, providing the client with a first version of the particular resource, optimized, at least in part, for the capabilities of the client in combination with the optimization support mechanism; otherwise providing the client with either (i) an un-optimized version of the particular resource, or (ii) a version of the particular resource optimized, at least in part, for the capabilities of the client without the capabilities of the optimization support mechanism. |
| US10412185B2 |
Event information system classifying messages using machine learning classification model and pushing selected messages to user
The present disclosure provides an event information push method performed at a computer system, the method including: collecting network messages from a social networking platform; performing aggregation on the network messages, to obtain corresponding event information; obtaining, for each piece of event information, one or more attributes from the corresponding category of network messages; obtaining, from an event information and user database, a user group corresponding to the one or more attributes of each piece of event information; and pushing each piece of event information to a user in the user group corresponding to the event information. |
| US10412182B2 |
Communication speed estimation apparatus, communication speed estimation method, and program
A communication speed estimation apparatus configured: to generate communication log information representing history of communication executed by a user, and store the communication log information in a communication history information storage unit; to calculate, based on the stored communication log information, throughput result information for each of a server, a network, and a user terminal that were used for the communication for each time slot, and store the calculated throughput result information in a quality information storage unit; and, when the user performs new communication, in advance, to read out corresponding throughput result information from the quality information storage unit based on at least one of a terminal, a server, and a network that the user intends to use, and a time slot including a time when the user intends to perform communication, and to estimate a communication speed in the new communication based on the read-out throughput result information. |
| US10412181B2 |
Methods and systems for adjusting user experience on a social networking service using quotas
A method of adjusting user experience on a social networking service includes setting a data-usage threshold for a plurality of features in the social networking service, providing the plurality of features to a user of the social networking service at an initial quality of service, and monitoring data usage by the user during a period of time in which the plurality of features is provided to the user. The method further includes, in response to a determination that the data usage by the user during the period of time satisfies the data-usage threshold: (1) reducing the quality of service for the user for one or more features of the plurality of features, and (2) providing the one or more features to the user at the reduced quality of service. |
| US10412176B2 |
Website access method, apparatus, and website system
In the website system of the application, when a client accesses a page of a website, a web server obtains an initial URL of a content file included in the to-be-accessed page and a version parameter of a current version of the website, generates a current URL of the content file, and adds the version parameter to a search part of the current URL of the content file, so that the client can obtain the content file from the web server according to the current URL. During version upgrade of the website, a developer does not need to change a path to a content file, does not need to manually change a URL of the content file, and does not need to update a name of the content file either. This improves website upgrading efficiency. |
| US10412174B2 |
Configurable interface for a virtual function in a communication system
A first virtual function is instantiated using a virtual infrastructure that is deployed over at least one server in a communication system. A first subset of interface modules is selected from a set of interface modules and a first interface to the first virtual function is configured using the first subset. Communication is established between the first virtual function and a second virtual function over the first interface based on a first interface module in the first subset and a second interface module. A second interface to the second virtual function is configured using the second interface module. The first interface module is compatible with the second interface module. |
| US10412173B2 |
Passenger seat pairing system
Systems and methods for pairing a personal electronic device of a passenger with a passenger seat in a vehicle using a PWM light identification, and for allowing the personal electronic device to control passenger in-seat functions and features. The system comprises an on-board video system having an in-seat display system for installation in a vehicle. The on-board video system is configured to communication a PWM light identification from a monitor of the in-seat display system which is captured by an imaging device of the personal electronic device. The on-board video system receives pairing information from the personal electronic device corresponding to the captured light identification via a wireless communication link. The on-board video system then validates the pairing information and pairs the personal electronic device to the passenger seat and authorizes the personal electronic device to control passenger seat functions associated with the passenger seat. |
| US10412169B1 |
Systems and methods for identifying unidentified plumbing supply products
Methods and systems for identifying an unidentified plumbing supply product are provided. According to certain aspects, an application executing on an electronic device may be configured to capture image data encoding an image of the unidentified plumbing supply product therein. The application may cause the electronic device to transmit the image data to an identification server. The identification server may analyze the image data to determine the unidentified plumbing supply product encoded in the image data matches a known plumbing supply product in a plumbing supply products database. The identification server may then transmit an indication to the electronic device that the unidentified plumbing supply product was successfully identified. The identification of the unidentified plumbing supply product may be used to process and/or subrogate an insurance claim. |
| US10412159B1 |
Direct load balancing using a multipath protocol
Multipath load balancing methods and apparatus that may be implemented on or by load balancers in load balanced systems. The multipath load balancing method may leverage a multipath network protocol to establish multiple paths for at least some connections between client hosts and server hosts in load balanced systems, each connection corresponding to a particular data flow between a respective client host and server host. Using the multipath load balancing method, a load balancer may operate to establish a bi-directional connection directly between a client host and a server host after first establishing a connection between the client host and server host that passes through the load balancer. Most or all of the traffic that would move between the client host and the server host via the load balancer can then be diverted onto the second, more direct connection between the client host and the server host. |
| US10412140B2 |
Sending of a stream segment deletion directive
A method comprising causation of capture of a stream of visual information, sending of at least a portion of the stream of visual information to a separate apparatus, receipt of information indicative of a stream segment deletion input that identifies a segment of the stream of visual information for deletion, and sending of a stream segment deletion directive to the separate apparatus based, at least in part, on the stream segment deletion input is disclosed. |
| US10412139B2 |
Communication event
In a communication event via a network between a requesting user, operating a first user device, and a responding user, operating a second user device, each of the user devices captures a stream of audio data, transmits the captured stream of audio data to the other user device via the network for receiving thereat, and outputs, to its user, the audio stream received from the other user device. A video exchange function is initially suppressed for the communication event for both of the user devices. The first user device transmits to the second user device a request to stop suppressing video. If the responding user does not accept the request, the video exchange function continues to be suppressed for both of the user devices. If the responding user accepts the request, the video exchange function stops being suppressed for both of the user devices. |
| US10412138B2 |
Indication for partial segment
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable HTTP servers, such as HTTP servers providing segments to DASH clients according to the various embodiments, to pass incomplete versions of segments in response to segment requests from the DASH clients. The various embodiments may enable clients, such as DASH clients, to parse incomplete versions of segments. |
| US10412130B2 |
Method and apparatus for playing media stream on web browser
A media stream playing apparatus for receiving a media stream transmitted from a media service unit and playing the media stream on a web browser is provided. The media stream playing apparatus includes a transmission module configured to establish a communication connection at a transport layer level with the media service unit, a websocket module configured to establish a websocket connection with the media service unit via a handshake procedure based on the communication connection and transmit or receive websocket packets to or from the media service unit while maintaining the websocket connection, a streaming module configured to receive Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets carried by the websocket packets, a media decoder configured to decode the media stream obtained from the RTP packets to reconstruct video, and an output device configured to display the reconstructed video on a screen by embedding the reconstructed video in the web browser. |
| US10412126B2 |
Detection and auto-correction of talk path problems in communication sessions
Statistics of a media stream of a communication session are received from one or more communication devices involved in the communication session. The statistics are from various communication devices that are involved in the media stream of the communication session. A determination is made to see if at least one of the statistics from one of the communication devices meets a threshold. In response to the at least one of the statistics meeting the threshold, a message is sent to dynamically change a configuration the media stream of the communication session while the communication session is still active. For example, the message may be to switch to a different media server in order to improve the quality of the media stream. |
| US10412125B2 |
Devices with calling apps for inmate calls, information sharing, monitoring, and other functions
Systems and techniques for permitting, establishing, monitoring and controlling VOIP calls based on messages from outside parties, outside party availability information, institution's call restriction information, and/or account holder preferences. In one example, a message from an outside party app on an outside party computing device is receive by an inmate app on an inmate device. The inmate device displays the message at the inmate calling app including a request for the inmate to call the outside party device during a time period. When the inmate initiates a call to the outside party the call is permitted or not permitted based on determining whether the call is within the specified time period. |
| US10412121B2 |
Distributed aggregation for contact center agent-groups on growing interval
A method for aggregating and reporting data from a plurality of data sources in a contact center is provided. The method includes: maintaining by a computer device aggregated data for a current interval; updating by the computer device the aggregated data for the current interval based on updates for the current interval received from one or more of the data sources; determining by the computer device whether the current interval has expired; in response to determining that the current interval has not expired, reporting the updated aggregated data for the current interval to a client; and in response to determining that the current interval has expired, determining by the computer device whether each data source of the plurality of data sources has finished providing the updates for the current interval. |
| US10412117B2 |
Method and system for automated cybersecurity incident and artifact visualization and correlation for security operation centers and computer emergency response teams
A method and system is provided for visualizing and navigating cybersecurity information. A hypertree is displayed on a display device of a computerized system. The hypertree includes a plurality of nodes linked by edges, one or more of the nodes representing cybersecurity incidents, and one or more of the nodes representing elements or artifacts of cybersecurity incidents, the edges representing a specific relationship between the nodes linked by the edges. The computerized system displays an interactive navigation aid to enable a user to navigate the hypertree, and receives a navigation command from the user through the interactive navigation aid. The computerized system modifies the displayed hypertree in response to the navigation command. The navigation command comprises selective elimination or restoration of edges or nodes on the hypertree so as to enable the user to readily visualize interrelationships between the displayed nodes that are significant to a cybersecurity investigation or response. |
| US10412116B1 |
Mechanism for concealing application and operation system identity
An example method includes providing, by a computing system, first randomized configuration information, generating, by the computing system and based on the first randomized configuration information, a first unique instance of a software component, providing second randomized configuration information, wherein the second randomized configuration information is different from the first randomized configuration information, and generating, based on the second randomized configuration information, a second unique instance of the software component that is executable on the runtime computing system. The first and second unique instances of the software component comprise different instances of the same software component that each are configured to have uniquely different operating characteristics during execution on the runtime computing system, and the first and second unique instances of the software component are each further configured, during execution on the runtime computing system, to output false information to an external computing system. |
| US10412109B2 |
Method for detecting vulnerabilities in a virtual production server of a virtual or cloud computer system
The method for detecting vulnerabilities in a virtual production server of a virtual or cloud computer system of one or more virtual servers includes analyzing vulnerabilities in the virtual production servers by connecting to the virtual or cloud computer system; requesting the cloning of the virtual production server in order to obtain a clone or a disk copy of the virtual production server, which is created in the virtual or cloud computer system; connecting to the clone or to the disk copy; analyzing the vulnerabilities of the clone or of the disk copy; erasing the clone or the disk copy; and generating a report analyzing the vulnerabilities of the clone or of the disk copy. |
| US10412103B2 |
Techniques for sharing network security event information
This disclosure provides an architecture for sharing information between network security administrators. Events converted to a normalized data format (CCF) are stored in a manner that can be queried by a third party (e.g., an administrator of another, trusted network). Optionally made available as a service, stored event records can be sanitized for third party queries (e.g., by clients of a service maintaining such a repository). In one embodiment, each contributing network encrypts or signs its (sanitized) records using a symmetric key architecture, the key being unique to the contributing network. This key is used (e.g., by the repository) to index a set of permissions or conditions of the contributing network in servicing any query, e.g., by matching a stored hash of the event record or by decrypting the record. The information sharing service can optionally be provided by a hosted information security service or on a peer-to-peer basis. |
| US10412099B2 |
System security configurations based on assets associated with activities
Various systems, mediums, and methods may involve a data engine with various components. For example, a system with the data engine may include a segmentation component, an asset preparation component, a clustering component, a variable generation component, and classification component. As such, the system may determine a number of assets associated with a number of activities of one or more accounts. Further, the system may determine various links associated with the number of assets. As such, the system may detect an attack and/or an attack trend associated with the one or more accounts based on the various links associated with the number assets. Further, the system may generate a notification that indicates the attack and/or the attack trend detected. |
| US10412096B2 |
Wireless authentication based on location data
Embodiments of the invention involve using location data to authenticate individuals wirelessly. In one embodiment, an access device may obtain, by one or more cameras, images of an area captured at different time points, the images including a first image at a first time and a second image at a second time, and where the first image shows the user at a first location and the second image shows the user at a second location. The access device may, based on a position of the user and an association between the user and a communication device, conduct a transaction between the access device and the communication device, where the association between the user and the communication device is based on the first location being proximate to the communication device at the first time and the second location being proximate to the communication device at the second time. |
| US10412095B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing access permissions for a searchable enterprise platform
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing access permissions for a searchable enterprise platform. In one embodiment, an apparatus is configured to receive a search request from a client device associated with a user profile; retrieve a global content permissions profile, the global content permissions profile comprising content access permissions assigned to digital content items that are retrievable by one or more of the plurality of software applications; apply permissions conflict rules to resolve permissions conflicts between the global permissions profile and the global content permissions profile to produce a resolved permissions profile; retrieve search results comprising a preliminary digital content item set that is associated with the plurality of software applications; apply the resolved permissions profile to the search results to produce a user-permitted digital content item set; and output the user-permitted digital content set to the client device associated with the user profile. |
| US10412094B2 |
Privileged, diagnostic link connector based network monitoring capabilities within a vehicle employing a gateway module used to isolate and secure vehicle networks
A system for providing privileged access to an internal vehicle communication network is provided. The system includes a presentation network bus configured to provide listen-only access to a subset of in-vehicle networks, a security system configured to enable access to the presentation network bus by verifying access credentials, and a diagnostic service system configured to control access to the presentation network bus. The diagnostic service system is configured to receive a diagnostic service request after the access credentials have been verified to enable the presentation network busses for listen-only access to the subset of the in-vehicle networks. The presentation network busses may be enabled for the listen-only access after credential verification by the security system and in response to receipt of a diagnostic service request from the diagnostic service system requesting that the presentation network busses be enabled. |
| US10412088B2 |
Vehicle access systems and methods
Systems, devices, and methods for controlling access to vehicles in rental, loaner, shared-use, and other vehicle fleets. Some of the present systems, devices, and methods use encrypted virtual keys that can be relayed to a vehicle computing device via a user's mobile device. Such virtual keys can be command-specific such that successful use of a virtual key results execution of a predetermined command or group of commands, and further commands require one or more additional virtual keys with the additional commands. Others of the present systems, devices, and methods provide tools: for provisioning or initial pairing of vehicle computing devices with corresponding vehicles, identifying and permitting a user to select locally available vehicles, prompting vehicle computing devices to retrieve pending commands from a server, and/or various other functions described in this disclosure. |
| US10412084B2 |
Information processing system, peripheral device, wireless communication chip, computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having application program stored therein, and information processing method
In this information processing system including a server, a communication terminal communicable with the server via the Internet, and a peripheral device capable of performing short-range wireless communication with the communication terminal, the peripheral device transmits, to the server, device identification information which is information capable of uniquely identifying the peripheral device. On the basis of the transmitted device identification information, the server determines whether the peripheral device is a peripheral device whose connection to the communication terminal is permissible, and when such connection is permissible, the server transmits connection permission information indicating that the connection to the communication terminal is permitted. Then, the peripheral device executes a setting process for enabling the connection to the communication terminal on the basis of the connection permission information. |
| US10412080B1 |
Authenticating a user device via a monitoring device
A server device receives, from a user device, a session initiation request and information identifying a location of the user device, and receives, from a monitoring device that is separate from the user device, an authentication request and information identifying a location of the monitoring device. The server device processes the session initiation request and the authentication request to authenticate a user of the user device, and determines, based on the location of the user device and the location of the monitoring device, that the user device and the monitoring device are collocated. The server device creates, after authenticating the user of the user device and determining that user device and the monitoring device are collocated, a session token, and sends the session token to the user device to enable the user device to access at least one resource of the server device. |
| US10412076B2 |
Identifying users based on federated user identifiers
An online system receives a variety of identifiers associated with a user of the online system and generates a federated list of identifiers for the user that includes each of the received identifiers. Identifiers may be browser identifiers, device identifiers, Internet protocol address, personally identifiable information, or a user identifier of a different online system. For each identifier in the federated list of identifiers, the online system generates metadata information such as a confidence score indicating a degree of certainty that the identifier can be used to accurately identify the user of the online system. The online system aggregates features associated with the identifiers in the federated list of identifiers to generate a comprehensive user profile of the user and uses the comprehensive user profile to better serve the user. |
| US10412073B2 |
Cloud queue synchronization
Example implementations involve cloud queue synchronization. An example implementation may involve while playing back a particular media item from a local queue of media items, a playback device sending, to a remote server over the network interface, (i) a request for a window of media items from a cloud queue of media items that is accessible to the playback device via a wide area network, and (ii) an indication of the particular media item that is being played by the playback device. The playback device receives, over the network interface in response to the request for the window of media items, an indication of two or more media items from the cloud queue of media items and incorporates an indication of at least one of the two or more media items into the local queue of media items. |
| US10412069B2 |
Packet transmitting apparatus, packet receiving apparatus, and computer readable medium
An edit data generation unit concatenates the message authentication code of an X−1th data block with the message authentication code of an Xth data block, thereby generating Xth edit data. An additional data generation unit generates the message authentication code of the Xth edit data, and extracts a portion of the message authentication code of the Xth edit data as Xth additional data. A packet generation unit generates an Xth packet including the Xth data block and the Xth additional data. A packet transmitting unit transmits the Xth packet. |
| US10412068B2 |
API authentication
Techniques are disclosed relating to signing and authentication of network messages such as API calls. A server system and a client system may collaboratively establish a shared secret key, which is then usable to sign such messages. These techniques may be useful in various situations, such as for integrations between different systems. |
| US10412062B2 |
Job execution method and job execution device
An editing device generates a first public key and a first private key, receives a manuscript data encrypted using the first public key from an ordering device, and decrypts the encrypted manuscript data using the first private key. The editing device generates, based on the manuscript data, print data encrypted using a second public key generated in a RIP processing device, and deletes the first private key after finishing execution of a job. Using a third public key, the editing device encrypts a log which shows an execution process of the job, the log including information that a finish processing has been executed. The editing device may store the first private key before starting execution of the job, and may control whether the job is to be executed, based on a job ID received from the ordering device. |
| US10412061B2 |
Method and system for encrypted communications
Method and device of encrypting communication between a server and a peripheral device are disclosed. The method includes: a server receiving a session request from a control device, the session request including a predetermined device ID of a peripheral device associated with the control device; generating a first session key for encrypting and decrypting future communication between the peripheral device and the server; identifying a pre-stored encryption key corresponding to the predetermined device ID from a database, wherein the pre-stored encryption key is also pre-stored in the peripheral device; encrypting the first session key using the pre-stored encryption key; sending the encrypted first session key to the peripheral device via the control device; and encrypting communication to the peripheral device in a respective communication session using the first session key. |
| US10412058B2 |
Systems and methods for using mechanical vibration for out-of-band communications onboard a vehicle
A method for providing out-of-band data onboard a vehicle is provided. The method receives binary motion data, by a motion sensor onboard the vehicle; interprets the binary motion data to identify an encryption key, by a processor communicatively coupled to the motion sensor; stores the encryption key in a memory element communicatively coupled to the processor; encrypts a message using the encryption key, by the processor, to generate an encrypted message; and transmits the encrypted message, via a communication device communicatively coupled to the processor. |
| US10412054B2 |
Method for introducing dependence of white-box implementation on a set of strings
A method of performing a cryptographic operation using a cryptographic implementation in a cryptographic system, including: receiving, by the cryptographic system, an identifying string value; receiving, by the cryptographic system, an input message; performing, by the cryptographic system, a keyed cryptographic operation mapping the input message into an output message wherein the output message is the correct result when the identifying string value is one of a set of binding string values, wherein the set includes a plurality of binding string values. |
| US10412044B2 |
Information processing apparatus capable of improving convenience for users in change of names relating to management of destination tables, control method therefor, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus which is capable of improving convenience for users in changing names of a user group and a group destination table. An HDD stores a user group including at least one user ID, and a group destination table associated with the user group and including at least one address. A user is prompted to select a user group stored in the HDD and associated with a predetermined group destination table. When a new name for the selected user group is received, the received new name is set as a name of the predetermined group destination table. |
| US10412042B2 |
Topology based internet protocol (IP) addressing
IP addresses may be allocated to devices in an industrial control system by applying starting address information in combination with each device's relative position in a local network. The starting address information, which may include an IP subnet address, gateway address, subnet mask, subnet size, and/or local network group identifier, may be provided to a first positioned, or “initiator,” device in a local network. The initiator device may determine its IP address by applying the starting address information and knowledge of being the first positioned device. The initiator device may send the position information and at least a portion of the starting address information to a next device, which may determine its relative position based on the received position information, and which may apply its relative position with the portion of the starting address information to determine its IP address. This process may continue sequentially for each device. |
| US10412041B2 |
Internet protocol (IP) addressing using an industrial control program
A system is provided in which a position for each device (relative to other devices) in a topology, and a corresponding device ID for each device, may be predetermined. Then, the predetermined position and corresponding device ID for each device may be compared to actual devices in a topology having preprogrammed device ID's and pre-assigned IP addresses. If the comparison produces a match, the pre-assigned IP addresses in the actual devices may be utilized. However, if the comparison does not produce a match, the condition may be reported for further action. |
| US10412039B2 |
Electronic messaging system for mobile devices with reduced traceability of electronic messages
An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability by separation of display of media component of message content and header information. An electronic message having an identifier of a recipient and a message content including an image media component is received at a server from a sending user device at which a display for associating the media component with the electronic message is provided without displaying the identifier of a recipient with the media component such that a single screen capture of the identifier of a recipient and the media component is prevented. The electronic message including an identifier of a sending user is transmitted to a recipient user device at which a display presenting the media component is provided without displaying the identifier of a sending user such that a single screen capture of both the identifier of a sending user and the media component is prevented. |
| US10412038B2 |
Targeting effective communication within communities
Approaches presented herein enable tailoring messages to enhance sharing and resonance based on a community fingerprint and a key influencer. More specifically, a message to be directed to members of an online social community is received. Members of the social community who influence the social community and their likelihood to re-share messages are identified. A re-share fingerprint for the identified influencer is generated that maps the influencer's likelihood to re-share content. A communications fingerprint of the community is also created using an amalgamation of the communication patterns and styles of individual members of the community. The received message is optimized to most effectively target the message to the online social community and to solicit a desired response from the community based on the community communication fingerprint and the re-share fingerprint of the influencer. The optimized message can then be forwarded to the online social community. |
| US10412019B2 |
Path computation element central controllers (PCECCs) for network services
A method implemented by a path computation element centralized controller (PCECC), the method comprises: receiving a service request to provision for a service from a first edge node and a second edge node in a network; computing a path for a label switched path (LSP) from the first edge node to the second edge node in response to the service request; reserving label information for forwarding traffic of the service on the LSP; and sending a label update message to a third node on the path to facilitate forwarding of the traffic of the service on the path, wherein the label update message comprises the label information. |
| US10412018B1 |
Hierarchical queue scheduler
Some embodiments provide a method for scheduling a packet to be dequeued to a processing pipeline of a hardware forwarding element. The method selects a node representing one of multiple ports associated with the processing pipeline. For each of one or more layers of logical queues, the method (i) identifies a set of logical queue nodes associated with a previously selected node based on a configuration that maps multiple physical queues to the multiple ports via the one or more layers of logical queues and (ii) selects one of the identified logical queue nodes based on properties of the identified logical queue nodes. The method selects one of a set of physical queues associated with a selected logical queue node of the last layer of logical queues. The method dequeues a next packet from the selected physical queue for processing by the processing pipeline. |
| US10412014B2 |
Latency enhancement in a wireless communication system
The disclosure provides for a user equipment (UE) detecting an indication of an application-specific latency reduction triggering condition that may trigger switching of a communication state of the UE. For example, the UE may be in an initial state. The UE may transition into a different state that is associated with lower latency for data transfer. In an aspect, the UE may trigger the indication for latency reduction even when the network-configured criteria for the indication has not yet been met. The UE may trigger an application-specific latency reduction triggering condition during the startup of an application, which triggers a resource request message even before the network-configured threshold value for generating such resource request messages is satisfied. The resource request message may cause the network to command the UE to transition to a state that has a latency less than that in the current state. |
| US10412012B2 |
Intelligent, load adaptive, and self optimizing master node selection in an extended bridge
Techniques for intelligent, load adaptive, and self optimizing master node selection in an extended bridge are provided. According to one embodiment, a controlling bridge (CB) node that is part of a plurality of CB nodes in the extended bridge can determine a set of local configuration parameters and a set of local runtime parameters. The CB node can further broadcast the set of local configuration parameters and the set of local runtime parameters to other CB nodes in the plurality of CB nodes. The CB node can also receive a set of configuration parameters and a set of runtime parameters from each of the other CB nodes in the plurality of CB nodes. The CB node can then determine a particular CB node in the plurality of CB nodes to be a master CB node of the extended bridge based on the set of local configuration parameters, the set of local runtime parameters, the received sets of configuration parameters, and the received sets of runtime parameters. |
| US10412008B2 |
Packet processing method, apparatus, and system
A method includes receiving, by an ingress network element, a data packet, wherein an ingress flow entry is stored in the ingress network element. The ingress flow entry comprises flow description information and a processing network element indication, where the flow description information matches the data packet, and the processing network element indication is used to indicate a processing network element that processes the data packet after the ingress network element. The method further includes sending, by the ingress network element, the data packet to the processing network element according to the ingress flow entry, so that the processing network element performs context processing on the data packet. |
| US10412007B1 |
Method and system for determining balanced traffic flows for network capacity planning
An automated computer implemented method and system for determining balanced traffic flows comprises: automatically identifying, via a computer processor, current device count configuration for a communication link comprising a first end point and a second end point where the communication link is part of a network; determining a flow intensity for the communication link wherein the flow intensity comprises a first transmit intensity and a first receive intensity for the first end point and a second transmit intensity and a second receive intensity for the second end point; determining a flow matrix for the communication link where the flow matrix is proportional to the flow intensity of the first end point and the second end point; and providing the flow matrix to a network capacity planning tool for flow matrix deployment for the network. |
| US10412001B2 |
Communication terminal, communication method, and program
The communication terminal of the present invention, which is controlled by a control device, includes a first storage means for associating information identifying a packet with processing of the packet and storing it as an entry, a searching means for searching processing corresponding to a received packet from the first storage means, and an inquiry means for determining the control device of which is inquired, based on the entry corresponding to the received packet, the entry being stored in the first storage means, if the searched processing is the inquiry to the control device, and for performing the inquiry addressed to the determined control device. |
| US10411997B1 |
Routing methods, systems, and computer program products for using a region scoped node identifier
In various embodiments, an apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable media, and a method are provided to: receive a first packet that is specified according to a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network protocol and that includes: first data, and a first header with a region scoped node identifier that is in an identifier space having a scope that spans the region of the network and identifies a particular node in the region of the network; and in response to the selection of the region scoped node identifier in connection with the first data, transmit, based on the region scoped node identifier, the first data from a current node to the particular node in the region via a first path segment selected, utilizing a routing table of the current node, from a plurality of path segments that include at least one multi-hop path segment and that are capable of communicatively coupling the current node and the particular node as part of a network path segment that includes the current node and the receiving node. |
| US10411996B2 |
Validation of routing information in a network fabric
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for validating routing table information in a network. A network assurance appliance may be configured to retrieve routing table information from a plurality of nodes in a network fabric. The routing table information includes path information from at least one source node to at least one destination node. A graph representation of the routing table information is constructed with the at least one destination node as a sink vertex for the graph representation. The network assurance appliance determines, for each leaf node in the network fabric, whether the leaf node can reach the sink vertex based on the graph representation and determines that there is a misconfiguration of the network fabric based on whether each leaf node in the fabric can reach the sink vertex. |
| US10411994B2 |
Multi-link convergence method, server, client, and system
A multi-link convergence method include: receiving a first binding request sent by a client using a first link; sending a first LSID to the client using the first link; receiving a first authentication request sent by the client using the first link; performing authentication on the first link according to the first authentication request; if the first link is authenticated successfully, sending a BID to the client using the first link; receiving a second binding request sent by the client using a second link, where the second binding request carries the BID; sending a second LSID to the client using the second link; receiving a second authentication request sent the client by using the second link; performing authentication on the second link according to the second authentication request; and if the second link is authenticated successfully, sending a binding acknowledgement message to the client using the second link. |
| US10411993B2 |
Base station initiated control mechanism for supporting supplemental link
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for a base station initiated control mechanism for supporting supplemental a link. In some aspects, control information associated with a directional, first radio access technology (RAT) for a user equipment (UE) may be identified at a first base station, the first base station configured to communicate with the UE using the directional, first RAT, and the control information associated with the directional, first RAT may be transmitted to a second base station to forward to the UE using a second RAT. |
| US10411992B2 |
Routing data within a communications network
Data is routed within a data network (8), for example a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), comprising at least one wireless network node (10), typically having a router (11). A processor (18) analyzes characteristics of a wireless link (12ab) between a pair of nodes (10a, 10b) within the network (8). Following such analysis, the processor (18) assigns a link class to the wireless link (12ab), the link class being chosen from a predefined set of link classes. A first link class represents that the link (for example link 12ab) is suitable for carrying one or more types of traffic (for example real-time audio and text), but not suitable for one or more other types of traffic (for example real-time video of a certain quality). A second link class represents that a link (for example link 12ac) is suitable for two or more types of traffic (for example real-time audio and real-time video) including at least one type of traffic (for example real-time video) not supported by the first link class. Data may then be routed across the network (8) while ensuring that only data of types consistent with the link classes assigned to respective links (12ab, 12ac, 12bd, etc) are transmitted via those links. |
| US10411990B2 |
Routing stability in hybrid software-defined networking networks
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to routing stability in a hybrid software-defined networking (“SDN”) network in which control plane functionality is shared between a centralized SDN controller and a plurality of local routers. The controller can collect data plane messages from the plurality of local routers, extract information corresponding to source nodes and edges of a graph representative of the hybrid SDN network, and store the information as entries in a table. The controller can identify any outdated entries and remove any outdated entries from the table. The controller can obtain recovered information missing from the information collected from the data plane messages. The controller also can calculate an effective capacity of the edges. The controller can then generate a stable routing pattern based upon the recovered information and the effective capacity. The controller can deploy the stable routing pattern in the hybrid SDN network. |
| US10411984B2 |
Systems and methods related to diagnostics for ethernet rings based on media redundancy protocol
A system and method of identifying faulted devices in an Ethernet network of a building management system (BMS). The system includes a network manager device, a first client device, and a second client device. A first port of the first client device is connected to a first port of the network manager device, a first port of the second client device is connected to a second port of the first client device and a second port of the second client device is connected to a second port of the network manager device. The network manager device is configured to transmit a frame having a count field. The first client device is configured to increment the count field once based on a successful transmission of the frame to the second client device and increment the count field twice based on a failed transmission to the second client device. |
| US10411983B2 |
Latency monitoring for network devices
A network device comprises time measurement units configured to measure receipt times and transmit times of packets received/transmitted via network interfaces. One or more memories store configuration information that indicates certain network interface pairs and/or certain packet flows that are enabled for latency measurement. A packet processor includes a latency monitoring trigger unit configured to select, using the configuration information, packets that are forwarded between the certain network interface pairs and/or that belong to the certain packet flows for latency monitoring. One or more latency measurement units determine respective latencies for packets selected by the latency monitoring trigger unit using respective receipt times and respective transmit times for the packets selected by the latency monitoring trigger unit, calculates latency statistics for the certain network interface pairs and/or the certain packet flows using the respective latencies, and stores the latency statistics in the one or more memories. |
| US10411979B2 |
Control information management apparatus, control information presentation method, and program
A control information management apparatus, includes: a control information storage unit that stores a path(s) in association with an item(s) of control information that is set in a switch(es) by a control apparatus for controlling the switch(es) in a centralized manner; a search condition reception unit that receives information about a path associated with the item(s) of control information as a search condition for the item(s) of control information; a control information search unit that searches the control information storage unit for the item(s) of control information associated with the path that matches the search condition; and a search result output unit that outputs the item(s) of control information searched by the control information search unit. |
| US10411977B2 |
Visualization of workload distribution on server resources
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for visualization of workload distribution on server resources. A computer identifies a profile, wherein the profile corresponds to a role of an individual associated with one or more servers. The computer identifies data that includes a degree of resource utilization that corresponds to the identified profile. The computer generates a visualization of the identified data that includes the degree of resource utilization that corresponds to the identified profile, wherein the visualization includes depictions of resource utilization, distribution of a workload deployed on the one or more servers, and total quantity of available resources of the one or more servers. In another embodiment, the computer initiates display of the generated visualization of the identified data that includes the degree of resource utilization that corresponds to the determined profile. |
| US10411969B2 |
Backend resource costs for online service offerings
Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to calculate resource costs (e.g., processing, memory, storage and/or monetary costs) to provide an online service. The service is offered by a service provider that provides a plurality of different online services. To identify systems involved in providing a particular service, each request is associated with a unique identifier. The identifier is passed between systems and logged. Thus a trace of the unique identifier yields all systems involved in providing the service. A maximum operational load, calculated from operational data, is used to calculate a cost per request. A statistical sampling of the logged data is retrieved and the cost for each request in the sample is calculated based on a sum of the costs of the systems used to service the request. The cost of each system is the cost per request times the number of times the system is used to fill the request. |
| US10411968B2 |
Systems and methods for sharing network information
Techniques for sharing network information, such as routing table information, are described. In some examples, network nodes share information about the topology of their network. For example, nodes may share routing tables with their neighbors from time to time. To improve the performance of the network, by reducing the overhead of transmitting routing tables, the nodes share their routing tables with neighbor nodes only when those tables are updated or upon request. In other circumstances, such as when a routing table has not changed since it was last shared, each network node instead transmits an indicator, such as a routing table checksum, hash, or the like, that can be used by a neighbor node to determine the routing table is unchanged. |
| US10411965B2 |
Method and a mobile ad-hoc network for the effective identification of neighboring nodes
In a method for the effective identification of neighboring nodes in a mobile ad-hoc network, every node transmits within a given time raster (ΔT1, ΔT2, ΔT3) a message signalling its presence (1), which is acknowledged through transmission of an acknowledgement message (2) by at least one node which receives the message signalling a presence (1) for the first time. The time raster (ΔT2, ΔT3) within which the message signalling a presence (1) is transmitted is varied by a node which is disposed outside an ad-hoc network. |
| US10411961B2 |
Image management in cloud environments
A system and method for managing images in a cloud including providing a uniform image management interface for receiving from a user uniform image descriptions for building images in a cloud, and receiving a uniform image description for building an image from the user. The uniform image description is provided to an application to create a cloud-specific image description to provide to an image builder for building the image, and the uniform image description is stored in a local data store. |
| US10411959B1 |
Data analytics for the internet of things
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method for managing data from an Internet of Things (IoT) Device, the system, computer program product, and computer-executable method comprising receiving data from the IoT Device, analyzing the data using an analytic filter, and updating a mobile device based on the analyzing. |
| US10411945B2 |
Time-distributed and real-time processing in information recommendation system, method and apparatus
The present invention discloses a real-time and time-distributed information recommendation system, method and apparatus. Specifically, when first clients of the information recommendation system running on first terminal devices access and operate on pieces of information, influence values of the pieces of information on friend clients of the first clients are calculated, accumulated and recorded in a database based on fried intimacy and types of the operations at the times the pieces of information are accessed and operated on. As such, the influence values of the pieces of information on friend clients are updated over time and in real-time. The speed and efficiency of processes for recommending information to the friend clients, when requested, are thus improved. |
| US10411943B2 |
Polar phased-array transmitter and mobile terminal
The present disclosure relates to a polar phased-array transmitter and a mobile terminal. One example mobile terminal includes a baseband chip, the polar phased-array transmitter, and an antenna array. The baseband chip is configured to generate a quadrature digital baseband signal. The polar phased-array transmitter is configured to perform quadrature-to-polar conversion on the quadrature digital baseband signal to generate n amplitude signals and n phase signals, separately perform phase modulation and phase shifting on the n phase signals by using a local oscillator signal to obtain n phase modulation signals, and perform amplitude modulation and power amplification on the n phase modulation signals by using the amplitude signals to obtain n radio frequency signals. n is a natural number greater than 1. The antenna array is configured to obtain the n radio frequency signals from the polar phased-array transmitter, and transmit the n radio frequency signals. |
| US10411942B2 |
Techniques for using a modulation and coding scheme for downlink transmissions
Examples include techniques for using a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for downlink transmissions. In some examples information elements (IEs) for either a physical multicast channel (PMCH) or a physical multicast control channel (PMCCH) include information to indicate an MCS for downlink transmission over a PMCH or PMCCH between an evolved Node B (eNB) and user equipment (UE). For these examples, the information in the IEs include indications of whether higher order modulation for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) have or have not been enabled. Both the UE and the eNB may operate in compliance with one or more 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standards. |
| US10411941B2 |
Semi-orthogonal multiple access with power-adaptive constellation
Example embodiments provide a system and method for controlling power allocated to each of the constituent constellations that make up a superposed symbol constellation. In some examples, superposed constellations with adaptive power allocation are used in wireless local area networks (WLAN). |
| US10411938B2 |
Transmit diversity from orthogonal design for FBMC/OQAM
How to apply an Alamouti like space-time coding (or transmit diversity) to a Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) transmission using Offset QAM (OQAM). In FBMC, due to the orthogonality in the real domain only, an intrinsic interference results thereof for the imaginary component. Simply adapting the Alamouti scheme to FBMC OQAM is not obvious since the intrinsic interference terms are not equivalent at each antenna since it depends on the surrounding symbols. The application proposes to use a precoding symbol chosen to cancel out (zero) the intrinsic interference individually for each antenna, ie a code rate of 1/2 (sending one data symbol requires two time units). A more elaborated embodiment proposes to choose the contiguous precoding symbols such that a virtual QAM Alamouti scheme is achieved, without rate loss. |
| US10411934B2 |
Superposition coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SC-OFDM) system
A superposition coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system which sets forth a comprehensive solution and deals with factors such as peak-to average power ratio (PAPR), error performance enhancement, data rate increase, synchronization or channel estimation and multi input and output (MIMO), using a joint system. |
| US10411933B2 |
Apparatus and method for generating broadcasting signal frame that includes preamble for signalling injection level information
An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame including preamble for signaling injection level information. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an injection level controller configured to generate a power reduced enhanced layer signal by reducing a power of an enhanced layer signal; a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and the power reduced enhanced layer signal; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling injection level information corresponding to the injection level controller. |
| US10411927B2 |
Reconfiguration of active component carrier set in multi-carrier wireless systems
In a multi-carrier wireless system, potential problems from reconfiguring mobile station resources to accommodate changes in component-carrier configuration are mitigated by inserting a guard period each time the configuration of component carriers changes, so that transceiver reconfiguration can be carried out without interfering with ongoing transmission. A base station is configured to transmit data to a mobile station according to a first configuration of two or more component carriers, to determine that a change of configuration to a second component carrier configuration is required, and to signal the change of configuration to the mobile station, using the first configuration of component carriers. The base station then refrains from transmitting data to the mobile station during a pre-determined guard interval of at least one transmission-time interval subsequent to the signaling of the change of configuration. After the guard interval, data is transmitted to the mobile station according to the second component carrier configuration. |
| US10411924B2 |
Automatic gain compression detection and gain control for analog front-end with nonlinear distortion
Methods and systems are provided for gain control in circuits. Gain applied in a circuit may be set to a baseline set gain. A first baseline parameter, associated with a first feature of a particular pattern of a signal at said baseline set gain, and a second baseline parameter, associated with a second feature of said particular pattern of the signal at said baseline set gain, may be determined. The gain is then set a current set gain, and a gain compression ratio may be determined based on one or more of said first baseline parameter, said second baseline parameter, a first current parameter associated with said first feature of at said current set gain, and a second current parameter associated with said second feature at said current set gain. Said current set gain may then be adjusted until said gain compression ratio reaches a predefined limit. |
| US10411918B1 |
Receiver supporting multiple data rates
A receiver capable of receive and process data signals of multiple baud rates by using an equalizer that is disposed upstream of a decimator. The receiver includes an equalizer coupled to an output of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a decimator couple to the output of the equalizer. The ADC and the equalizer both operate in full rates even in the case of lower data rate, e.g., half or quarter data rate. As the equalizer inherently can inherent remove high frequency noise as well as perform equalization, it practically functions as a low pass filter (LPF). Thereby, there is no need to introduce an extra dedicate LPF upstream of the decimator. This can advantageously and significantly simplify circuitry design and reduce latency. |
| US10411916B1 |
Reducing supply noise in current mode logic transmitters
Methods, systems, and devices for mitigating supply noise in single-ended current mode logic (CML) transmitters are described. A first current source may generate a first bias current for a first differential transistor pair included in a CML transmitter, and a second current source may generate a second bias current for a second differential transistor pair. The first differential transistor pair may route the first bias current through either leg of the first differential transistor pair based on a polarity of an input signal and the second differential transistor pair may route the second bias current through either leg of the second differential transistor pair based on the polarity of the input signal. Based on a first polarity, the second bias current may be routed to a ground reference, and based on a second polarity, the second bias current may be routed through the first differential transistor pair to modify a load current internal to the CML transmitter. |
| US10411912B2 |
Managing tunnel endpoints for facilitating creation of logical networks
Some embodiments provide a novel method for managing hardware forwarding elements (MHFEs) that facilitate the creation of multiple logical networks on a set of shared physical forwarding elements. The method uses a set of logical controllers that generate data that defines a set of logical networks, and a set physical controllers to distribute the generated data to the hardware forwarding elements. In some embodiments, each MHFE can serve as either a master WIFE or a slave MHFE for one set of computing end nodes (e.g., VMs, containers, etc.) in a logical network. To ensure proper routing of data packets to the computing end nodes, each MHFE sends to its physical controller an inventory (e.g., a table, a list, etc.) of the set of computing end nodes for which it serves as the master MHFE or the slave MHFE. Each physical controller forwards the inventory for each logical network to the logical controller for the logical network. Each logical controller maintains the master inventory of the MHFEs that are masters (and slaves if applicable) of the various compute end nodes of each logical network managed by the logical controller. After receiving a new inventory from a physical controller, the logical controller updates its records, resolves any conflicts while it is updating its records, and distributes one or more master/slave inventories for one or more logical networks that it manages to the physical controllers, which, in turn, pass this information to the MHFEs that they manage. |
| US10411910B2 |
Distributed control synchronized ring network architecture
A ring network architecture includes multiple communication nodes configured in a ring. Wave pipelining is used to provide for high bandwidth and low latency on-chip communications. Each node implements a source-synchronized clocking scheme, such that there is no need to build an extensive low skew clock-tree across a large die area. A single reference clock signal is generated within a root node, and is routed through each of the nodes of the ring network in a unidirectional manner. Each node includes a timestamp counter and a color bit register, which store values that enable the node to resolve ordered transaction messages issued by the other nodes in a precise order, even though the nodes are operating independently, and receive the various transaction messages in totally different timing orders. Because the control logic is distributed among the nodes, no centralized controller is necessary. |
| US10411908B2 |
Interactive advisory system
A method for providing information to a plurality of vendors located remotely from a broadcast network. A plurality of user-defined parameters are received by a user input database with at least one of the user-defined parameters including a user profile. Each of the user profiles includes a user identifier code identifying a communicator device associated with a particular user. Real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices is received by a communicator location database. Search information is received independently from a plurality of vendors and a data set is generated for each vendor. |
| US10411907B2 |
Secure remote user authentication leveraging public key cryptography and key splitting
An ID service on an app server interacts with a corresponding identity app installed on a user device such as a smart phone. At setup, the ID service receives the user's public key and only a segment of the corresponding private key. A special challenge message is created and partially decrypted using the private key segment on the server side, and then decryption is completed on the client app using the remaining segment(s) of the private key to recover the challenge. A token authenticator based on the result of the decryption is sent back to the identity service, for it to verify validity of the result and, if it is valid, enable secure login without requiring a password. |
| US10411906B2 |
Secure certificate distribution
Disclosed are various examples of securely distributing certificates to client devices. A uniform resource locator (URL) is sent to a client device, wherein the URL represents an address from which the client device can request a user certificate. A certificate for a registration authority is sent to the client device, wherein the certificate comprises a first public key and a first private key. A certificate signing request (CSR) received from the client device at the URL is decrypted, wherein the CSR is encrypted with the first public key. The CSR is validated based at least in part on the URL sent to the client device. The user certificate is then sent to the client device. |
| US10411903B2 |
Information security realizing method and system based on digital certificate
A digital certificate based information security realization method and system are provided. The method includes: separately issuing a digital certificate for a cloud management host, a physical cloud computing host and a virtual cloud computing machine; and carrying out a compliance authentication according to a corresponding digital certificate when the cloud management host, the physical cloud computing host and the virtual cloud computing machine start up or are in the running process. By using a digital certificate trust chain technology for reference and combining with a cloud management system, the digital certificate based information security realization method and system provided in embodiments of the present disclosure realize trusted systems of the cloud management system, the physical host and the virtual machine; beside, by putting emphasis on the security protection of the host platform of a system itself, the security of a virtual cloud platform is improved. |
| US10411902B2 |
Authenticating a system based on a certificate
According to certain embodiments, a method receives a certificate that identifies a sender system as owning a domain. The method sends an electronic message to the domain identified in the certificate. The electronic message is sent via a mail exchange network that correlates the domain to an address that a true owner of the domain has registered with a mail exchange authority. The method receives a response from the address that the mail exchange network correlates to the domain. The response indicates that the certificate is associated with the true owner of the domain. The method authenticates the sender system as the true owner of the domain based on the response. |
| US10411901B2 |
Multi-user strong authentication token
Apparatus, methods and systems to secure remotely accessible applications using authentication devices are disclosed. More in particular apparatus, methods and systems are disclosed for thwarting overlay attacks against authentication applications for displaying transaction data and for generating signatures over these transaction data. |
| US10411897B2 |
Secret sharing via blockchains
Confidential, secret data may be shared via one or more blockchains. Mortgage applications, medical records, financial records, and other electronic documents often contain social security numbers, names, addresses, account information, and other personal data. A secret sharing algorithm is applied to any secret data to generate shares. The shares may then be integrated or written to one or more blockchains for distribution. |
| US10411896B2 |
Mixed checksum injection for content verification on multiple platforms
A mixed checksum injection system includes a memory, at least one processor in communication with the memory, a data repository including content, and a server including a CRMS. The CRMS executes on the at least one processor to generate a plurality of checksum values for the content. The plurality of checksum values includes a first checksum value generated using a first checksum function and a second checksum value generated using a second checksum function. The CRMS receives a first request for the content for a first platform, and responsive to receiving the first request, renders first metadata. The CRMS injects the first checksum value and an identifier of the first checksum function into the first metadata. Then, the CRMS publishes the content and the associated first metadata including the injected first checksum value and the identifier of the first checksum function. |
| US10411895B2 |
Creating match cohorts and exchanging protected data using blockchain
A method, computing system and computer program product are provided. A first entity system that stores sensitive information associated with different entities applies a hash function a portion of the sensitive information to produce hash values. Transaction information pertaining to transactions performed on entity systems are stored within a blockchain database accessible to the entity systems. The transaction information includes hash values corresponding to associated entities from the entity systems. The hash values of the first entity system are compared to the hash values from others of the entity systems to determine entity systems containing information pertaining to same entities. The sensitive information for an entity of the first entity system is exchanged with the determined entity systems containing information for that entity. |
| US10411894B1 |
Authentication based on unique encoded codes
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for authenticating users of personal computing devices using encoded versions of the temporary and unique codes. Techniques include receiving a first cryptographic key having been created by a personal computing device and corresponding to a second cryptographic key maintained on the personal computing device; associating a user identifier with the first cryptographic key; accessing a temporary and unique code; accessing an encoded version of the temporary and unique code; making available to the personal computing device the encoded version of the temporary and unique code; receiving, from the personal computing device, a signed version of the temporary and unique code, the signed version having been signed by the second cryptographic key; verifying, using the first cryptographic key, the signed version of the temporary and unique code; and determining, based on the verifying, whether to authenticate the user of the personal computing device. |
| US10411891B2 |
Distance-revealing encryption
A method for computing the distance between two encrypted data vectors using elliptic curve cryptography. |
| US10411890B2 |
Authentication system, authentication side device, and security system
The authentication system comprises: the authentication side unit configured to include the intensity modulated weak light source, the first reading unit, the decrypting unit, and the determining unit; and the client side unit configured to include the detecting unit, the second reading unit, and the encrypting unit. The intensity modulated weak light source generates intensity modulated weak light. The first reading unit reads the transmission time information. The detecting unit detects the intensity modulated weak light, and records the detected time in the second storage medium as reception time information. The encrypting unit encrypts all or part of the reception time information and generates encrypted information. The decrypting unit decrypts the encrypted information, and acquires all or part of the reception time information. The determining unit acquires a number of coincidence events and a number of elements of the all or part of the reception time information, generates determination information including information indicating approval when both of the number of coincidence events and the number of elements are within a range of a set value which is set in advance, and generates determination information including information indicating a denial in the other cases. |
| US10411889B2 |
Chaotic-based synchronization for secure network communications
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first logic to receive from a first node a synchronization portion of a message and to generate a set of state information using the synchronization portion, to synchronize the apparatus with the first node. The apparatus may further include a second logic to decrypt a data portion of the message using the set of state information to obtain a decrypted message. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10411886B1 |
Authenticating secure channel establishment messages based on shared-secret
Systems and processes are described for establishing and using a secure channel. A shared secret may be used for authentication of session initiation messages as well as for generation of a private/public key pair for the session. A number of ways of agreeing on the shared secret are described and include pre-sharing the keys, reliance on a key management system, or via a token mechanism that uses a third entity to manage authentication, for example. In some instances, the third party may also perform endpoint selection by providing a particular endpoint along with the token. The particular cipher suite applied in a particular implementation may be configurable. The process is applicable to either implicit key confirmation (e.g., handshake negotiation) or explicit key confirmation (e.g., full negotiation). |
| US10411874B2 |
Asynchronous digital communication module
Provided is a digital transmitting module included in a host device connectable to a client device. The digital transmitting module may include: a clock generator which provides the host device with a clock whose one cycle is composed of T1, T2, T3 and T4 connected sequentially; and a voltage encoder which receives the clock from the clock generator, receives a digital bit from the host device, generates a voltage pulse by encoding the digital bit based on the clock, and then transmits the voltage pulse to the client device. Provided is a digital receiving module included in a client device connectable to a host device. The digital receiving module may include: an inpulse extractor which receives a voltage pulse from the host device and generates an inpulse signal by referring to an inpulse component of the voltage pulse; a voltage decoder which decodes a digital bit by referring to the inpulse signal; and a clock synchronizer which generates a clock synchronized with a clock signal of the host device by referring to the inpulse component existing in each cycle of the inpulse signal. |
| US10411871B2 |
Wireless communication method, device, and system
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication method, device, and system, which relate to the field of communications technologies, and can resolve a problem of low carrier utilization in a wireless communications system. In the method, a wireless access device communicates with user equipment on a first carrier by using at least three timeslots, where the at least three timeslots include at least one full-duplex timeslot, at least one downlink timeslot, and at least one uplink timeslot; the wireless access device performs one or more of signal sending or signal reception in the full-duplex timeslot; the wireless access device sends a downlink signal in the downlink timeslot; and the wireless access device receives an uplink signal in the uplink timeslot. The embodiments of the present invention are used for wireless communication. |
| US10411869B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving data in wireless communication system and apparatus for the same
A method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for the method are disclosed. More specifically, a method for transmitting downlink data in a wireless communication system comprises transmitting, by an eNB, first downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region according to a radio frame structure based on a first transmission time interval (TTI); and transmitting, by the eNB, second downlink data through a short PDSCH (sPDSCH) region according to a radio frame structure based on a second TTI, wherein downlink control information (DCI) related to the second downlink data is transmitted through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a short PDCCH (sPDCCH). |
| US10411866B2 |
Method for receiving control information in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
Disclosed is a method for receiving, by a terminal which has been assigned multiple component carrier groups, control information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving control information for the multiple component carrier groups; and receiving data information via component carriers that belong to the multiple component carrier groups using the received control information, wherein the control information may comprise multiplex control information for each of the multiple component carrier groups, or single control information for the component carriers included in each of the multiple component carrier groups. |
| US10411864B2 |
Resource allocation for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH)
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource allocation. In certain aspects, a method for use by a user equipment (UE) for transmitting one or more uplink control information (UCI) bits in PUCCH includes determining resources allocated for providing one or more UCI bits based at least on a type of service associated with the UE and sending, to a base station, a PUCCH with the one or more UCI bits using the allocated resources. |
| US10411863B2 |
Uplink data transmission method and apparatus
A method includes obtaining, by a first terminal device, second uplink data of a second terminal device, performing, by the first terminal device, joint coding processing on first uplink data of the first terminal device and on the second uplink data, where the performing the joint coding processing generates jointly coded data that is based on the first uplink data and the second uplink data, and transmitting, by the first terminal device, the first uplink data and the jointly coded data to a network device, where the first uplink data is transmitted to the network device separately from the jointly coded data. The first uplink data may be transmitted on a first transmission resource, and the jointly coded data to the network device may be transmitted on a second transmission resource different from the first transmission resource. |
| US10411861B2 |
Method for reporting channel state in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
A method for reporting an aperiodic channel state in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention, the method being implemented by a terminal, comprises: a step for receiving an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reporting request from a base station; and a step for calculating aperiodic CSI corresponding to the aperiodic CSI reporting request and transmitting the calculated aperiodic CSI to the base station via an uplink shared channel, wherein if the number of component carriers or CSI processes for the terminal exceeds a specific value, only uplink control information including the aperiodic CSI can be transmitted through the uplink shared channel under specific conditions. |
| US10411853B2 |
Method and device for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, particularly, to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, resource allocation information indicating a frequency resource for a transmission of an uplink signal; and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink signal using the frequency resource indicated by the resource allocation information, wherein the frequency resource comprises multiple continuous tones when the resource allocation information relates to an Lcell, and the frequency resource comprises multiple tones separated by the same interval when the resource allocation information relates to a Ucell. |
| US10411852B2 |
Method and system for signaling and processing control information in a mobile broadband network environment
A method and a system for signaling and processing control information in a cloud cell environment are provided. According to an embodiment, in a cloud cell, a master Base Station (BS) coordinates with other BSs to determine resources available for use on communication links between a mobile station in the cloud cell and one or all the BSs during a scheduling interval. Based on the resources available, the master BS allocates cumulative resources associated with the BSs to the mobile station for the scheduling interval. Then, the master BS transmits resource allocation control information indicating the allocated cumulative resources to the mobile station over a communication link between the master BS and the mobile station. Upon receiving the resource allocation control information, the mobile station decodes the information and receives data packets from each of the BSs during the scheduling interval according to the decoded resource allocation control information. |
| US10411846B1 |
Multi-radio device for WLAN
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to wireless local area network devices. A described technique include accessing a data stream intended for transmission to a single wireless communication device; multiplexing the data stream to two or more radio pathways to produce a data packet; generating, via the two or more radio pathways, two or more different portions of the data packet based on an aggregated capacity of two or more wireless channels that are associated with the two or more radio pathways, the two or more radio pathways being respectively configured to use two or more groups of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers to generate the two or more different portions of the data packet; and transmitting the data packet to the single wireless communication device by concurrent transmissions of the two or more different portions via the two or more wireless channels. |
| US10411845B2 |
Internet protocol interface selection for routing data traffic
A technology for a user equipment (UE) that is operable to select an internet protocol (IP) interface in a communications network is disclosed. Local policy information and access network selection information can be received from an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) operating on a server in an evolved packet core (EPC). At least one IP interface on which to route an IP flow using inter access point name routing policies (IARP) can be determined prior to implementing other routing policies. The IP flow from the UE on at least one IP interface selected can be routed using the IARP. |
| US10411835B2 |
Transmitting device for performing an encoding process on an information bit sequence using a coding scheme selected from a coding scheme set
One coding method of a plurality of coding methods including at least a first coding method and a second coding method is selected, an information sequence is encoded by using the selected coding method, and an encoded sequence obtained by performing predetermined processing on the information sequence is modulated and transmitted. The first coding method is a coding method having a first coding rate, for generating a first encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated first codeword by using a first parity check matrix. The second coding method is a coding method having a second coding rate, for generating a second encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated second codeword by using a second parity check matrix that is different from the first parity check matrix, the second coding rate after the puncturing process being different from the first coding rate. Further, a number of bits of the first encoded sequence is equal to a number of bits of the second encoded sequence. |
| US10411834B2 |
Data transmission method and apparatus
A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for transmitting data by a transmitter. The method may comprise the steps of: when a transport block (TB) is divided into n data blocks, adding additional information after each of the n data blocks; and adding a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) after the last additional information. Here, the CRC may be generated on the basis of the n data blocks, and the n pieces of additional information added after each of data blocks. |
| US10411833B2 |
Early termination techniques for successive decoding processes
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may initiate a successive decoding process for an encoded code block received at the wireless device, and generate, using a successive decoder, one or more candidate paths for a first portion of the code block, where the first portion of the code block includes a first data portion and a first data check portion. The wireless device may then perform a checking function on respective first data portions for the one or more candidate paths using respective first data check portions, and determine whether to terminate the successive decoding process prior to completing decoding of the encoded code block based at least in part on determining whether the checking function for each of the one or more candidate paths for the first data portion has failed the checking function. |
| US10411831B2 |
Wireless power transfer in-band communication system
A wireless charging in-band communication system includes a channel encoding for message error correction and detection. A modulation module performs biphase modulation for DC balanced signals and impedance switching to change reflected impedance seen by the source. A synchronization module prepends the message with a synchronization sequence having Golay complementary codes. A receiver module receives the message from the transmitter module. A preamble detection block has a Golay complementary code correlator used for message detection, synchronization, and equalization coefficient estimation and selection. A decoding module that performs biphase demodulation with error correction with a DC offset being estimated as the average value of the signal over the length of the message before channel decoding. The decoding module performs equalization, error correction and detection channel decoding. |
| US10411830B2 |
Codeword builder for communication systems
A communication device (alternatively, device) includes a processor configured to support communications with other communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processor, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. Such a communication device includes a processor configured to perform codeword builder functionality to generate information that undergoes error checking and correction (ECC) and/or forward error correction (FEC) coding. The processor intelligently selects packets from buffers to generate information blocks that undergo ECC and/or FEC coding and transmission and to meet certain latency constraints in conjunction with a predetermined period of time (e.g., a programmable threshold). Such a communication device may be implemented in a point-to-multipoint communication system that services multiple other communication devices. |
| US10411826B2 |
Dynamic light channel
The invention relates to an apparatus, system and method for communicating data from a source node unit communicatively coupled with the lighting actuator to a data end node unit wirelessly via light waves. The lighting actuator comprises a network interface to receive a temporary data path definition assigning the lighting actuator as selected data injection unit for embedding data from the source node unit into light waves for emission to 5 the data end node unit and a light channel configuration to be applied, and a configuration module configured to assign a light channel to the data end node unit according to a light channel configuration stored on the lighting actuator, wherein data communication addressed to the data end node unit and received in accordance with the temporary data path definition is forwarded to the data end node unit using the assigned light channel. |
| US10411823B2 |
Optical transmitter and optical receiver
An optical transmitter includes: a plurality of laser diodes each of which outputs signal light having a wavelength that is different from a wavelength of other signal light; an optical multiplexer that is disposed adjacently to the laser diodes along a first direction, and that multiplexes the signal light output from the respective laser diodes; and a driving circuit that is disposed adjacently to the optical multiplexer along a second direction that is different from the first direction, and that drives the laser diodes. The optical multiplexer and the driving circuit are integrated. |
| US10411822B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling a multichannel TDM device
A method for developing TDM data with embedded control data includes obtaining signal data and control data, formatting the signal data and the control data into a plurality of channels of a DIN signal, and transmitting the DIN signal on one line of a 3-bit TDM bus. A multichannel input device includes a control extractor receptive to the three-bit TDM bus and operative to extract CNTL data from the DIN data, a DAI receptive to the 3-bit TDM bus and the channel select input and operative to develop a SIGNAL data output, and a DAC block including a DAC, the DAC block being receptive to the SIGNAL data and the CNTL data. |
| US10411819B1 |
System and method for adaptive OFDM guards
A system and method for reducing the OFDM out-of-band emissions (OOBE) by utilizing a transmitter windowing operation that smooths the inherent rectangular pulse shape of the OFDM signals. The technique retains the main design of the OFDM receivers and provides backward compatibility for the existing OFDM-based systems. The guard band and the window parameters that control the guard duration are jointly optimized regarding the use case and the power offset between the users. To fully exploit and further increase the potential of adaptive guards, an interference-based scheduling algorithm is proposed as well. |
| US10411815B2 |
Lighting system and quality determination method for lighting system
A lighting system includes: a wireless communication device that transmits a test signal; luminaires that measure a signal strength of the test signal upon receipt and transmit signal strength information on the signal strength to the wireless communication device; and a determining unit that determines a condition of the lighting system based on the signal strength or the signal strength information. The determining unit: determines the condition of the lighting system to be acceptable upon confirming transmission of the signal strength information by all luminaires and unacceptable upon failing to confirm transmission of the signal strength information by at least one luminaire; or determines the condition of the lighting system to be acceptable when each signal strength measured by all luminaires exceeds a reference value and unacceptable when the signal strength measured by at least one luminaire is less than or equal to the reference value. |
| US10411813B2 |
Apparatus and method for testing beamforming behavior
An apparatus for testing the beamforming behavior of a device under test comprises: at least two over-the-air power sensors. Each over-the-air sensor is adapted to measure the power received from the device under test over the air, which leads to at least two respective measurement results. The apparatus also comprises an evaluation unit, which is connected to each of the at least two over-the-air power sensors, and is adapted to receive and to evaluate the at least two respective measurement results. |
| US10411811B2 |
Systems and techniques for communication using combined orbital angular momentum and multiple-input-multiple-output processing
A system includes a transmitter with multiple transmit devices each having an OAM multiplexer that converts multiple input signals into an OAM beam. Each transmit device outputs a coaxial group of orthogonal OAM beams. The system also includes a receiver that has multiple receive devices each having an OAM demultiplexer that receives the group of OAM beams from a corresponding transmit device. The OAM demultiplexer also converts the coaxial group of mutually orthogonal OAM beams into a plurality of received signals corresponding to input signals represented by the OAM beams. The receiver also includes a MIMO processor that has an equalizer that determines a transfer function corresponding to crosstalk of each of the plurality of received signals. The MIMO processor also reduces the crosstalk of each of the plurality of received signals based on the transfer function and updates the transfer function. |
| US10411810B2 |
Receiver with mutually coherent optical frequency combs
A receiver architecture for physically-assisted computing of transforms, such as discrete Fourier transforms (DFT) and discrete Hilbert transforms (DHT), employs mutually-coherent optical frequency combs for detection of the coherent beating between an optical signal and a reference optical tone generated by a local oscillator (LO). A signal replication mixer generates a plurality of signal optical tones having a frequency pitch with an input signal mapped thereon. A reference mixer (local oscillator) generates a plurality of reference optical tones having an offset frequency pitch relative to the signal tones. A receiver backplane detects coherent beating between the signal optical tones and the reference optical tones. The input signal may be in the optical domain or in the radio-frequency domain. |
| US10411809B2 |
System and methods for high symbol-rate optical nyquist signal generation with roll-off factor approaching zero
Disclosed systems, methods, and computer program products enable high symbol-rate optical Nyquist signal generation with roll-off factors approaching zero by combining digital and all-optical methods. The combined digital and all-optical methods utilize all-optical sine-shaped pulse generation and orthogonal time-division multiplexing with quadrature amplitude modulation using digital Nyquist signals. Disclosed embodiments exhibit inter-channel-interference penalties that are less than 0.5-dB for both 75-GBaud and 125-GBaud optical Nyquist signals, in contrast to conventional signals generated using rectangular waveform driving signals that exhibit penalties greater than 2.5-dB and 1.5-dB for 75-GBaud and 125-GBaud signals, respectively. The disclosed embodiments, therefore, enable significant improvement over conventional systems by reducing inter-channel-interference penalties caused by excess modulation induced bandwidth. |
| US10411806B2 |
Gridless optical routing and spectrum assignment
A method implemented by a processing device for gridless optical routing and spectrum assignment on links in an optical network includes, responsive to one or more new channel requests, performing a path computation utilizing frequency markers to determine feasibility of the one or more new channel requests, wherein the optical spectrum is represented as a real line with the frequency markers indicative of used optical spectrum; allocating the one or more new channel requests based on the path computation and allocation criteria; and responsive to allocating the one or more new channel requests, updating the associated frequency markers on the real line. |
| US10411805B2 |
Systems and methods of optical path protection for distributed antenna systems
Systems and methods for optical path protection for distributed antenna systems are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a hub and at least one node located remotely from the hub. The hub is coupled to the node by first and second fiber paths, the first fiber path comprising an uplink fiber and a downlink fiber, the second fiber path comprising an uplink fiber and a downlink fiber. The node is coupled to the downlink fibers of the first and second fiber paths via an optical combiner, and is further coupled to the uplink fibers of the first and second fiber paths via an optical splitter. The node further monitors a signal quality of a downlink optical signal and communicates to the hub information indicative of the signal quality. The hub switches communications between the hub and the node from the first to second fiber path based on the information. |
| US10411803B2 |
Strong filter compensation method and device, and computer storage medium
Disclosed are a strong filter compensation method and device, and a computer storage medium. The method includes filtering out a high-frequency noise by delay summation; determining a correct path from one or more interference item paths; and comprehensively analyzing the determined correct path for every data input during a pre-set period of time, taking the correct path which has the largest number of occurrences as a final correct path, and outputting data in the path. |
| US10411802B2 |
Optical communication device, optical communication system, and optical communication method
A receiving-side splitter 4 that constitutes part of an optical communication device 1 splits a receiving-side signal light into a plurality of lights at a splitting ratio according to the intensity distribution of mutually different propagation modes included in the receiving-side signal light passed through a transmission medium 3. A transmission-side splitter 10 splits a transmission-side signal light into a plurality of-lights. A signal processing device 5 detects the light intensity and/or the phase of the receiving-side signal light, and sets a control target value for the light intensity and/or the phase of the transmission-side signal light to a value according to the result of the detection. A modulator 9 adjusts the light intensity or the phase of a the transmission-side signal light so that the light intensity or phase equals the set value. A multiplexer 8 multiplexes the plurality of transmission-side signal lights. |
| US10411800B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium
An image area detector detects a high-luminance image area having a luminance value equal to or higher than a predetermined value, having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined size, and including two or more high-luminance subject images disposed adjacent to or overlapping with each other, from an input image frame. The enlargement controller controls the detected high-luminance image area to be enlarged and displayed. If any instruction to designate a subarea within a rectangular border surrounding the enlarged high-luminance image area is provided from the user, the position coordinate setter converts the coordinates of the subarea into the coordinates before the enlargement, and stores the converted coordinates into the memory as the coordinates of the LED serving as a light source that transmits information. |
| US10411785B2 |
Receive beam indication for 5G systems
Systems and technologies described herein provide functionality for a cellular base station to dynamically indicate a reception (Rx) beam to be used by a user equipment (UE). The Rx beam can be indicated explicitly or implicitly. The UE can, for example, use the Rx beam for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) reception, Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) measurements, and/or Channel State Information (CSI) calculation at the UE. Systems and technologies described herein are generally useful for systems that use multiple transmission (Tx) beams and/or that support Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission technology. |
| US10411784B2 |
Apparatus and method for beam failure recovery
The disclosure relates to technology for identifying a user equipment beam index in a base station. The base station indicates one or more resources assigned to the user equipment within a beam failure random access channel (BRACH) resource, and transmits one or more synchronization signal block resources and one or more new beam identification reference signal resources to the user equipment. The base station then receives one of the resources from a group of the one or more resources within the BRACH resource assigned to the user equipment corresponding to the BRACH resource, and identifies a preferred beam index of the user equipment based on information in the BRACH resource and the received one of the resources. |
| US10411782B2 |
Channel estimation for per-tone continuous precoding in downlink MIMO transmission
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The apparatus may receive a transmission over a precoded channel. The transmission may include a layer having a plurality of symbols, each symbol having a plurality of modulated tones precoded on a per-tone basis. The receive layer may be associated with a power delay profile. The apparatus may estimate the precoded channel based on a time support of the power delay profile. |
| US10411777B2 |
Mapping between a control beam and a data channel beam
There is a need for a beam tracking technique that reduces the time needed to perform a beamforming procedure and that reduces beam overhead. The apparatus may determine a mapping between a first beam associated with a first type of channel and a second beam associated with a second type of channel. In an aspect, the first type of channel may be different than the second type of channel. The apparatus may receive the first beam associated with the first type of channel and the second beam associated with the second type of channel. In an aspect, the first beam and the second beam may be received from a second device. |
| US10411772B1 |
Robust spectrally efficient line-of-sight (LOS) wireless communications with geometrically-distributed antenna arrays
A system, method and computer program product for line of sight (LOS) communications using multiple-input-output (MIMO) communications is disclosed. The system includes a first platform having at least one transmit antenna element and at least one receive antenna element forming a first antenna array. A second platform having at least one transmit antenna element and at least one receive antenna element forms a second antenna array in wireless communication with the first array. Corresponding angles for antenna elements in the first antenna array and antenna elements in the second antenna array relative to a 3-D Cartesian coordinate system are determined to achieve a maximum three-dimensional (3-D) MIMO capacity, and the plurality of antenna elements are adaptively adjusted to maintain the maximum 3-D MIMO capacity by minimizing a zenith angle between each of the transmit antenna elements and receive antenna elements relative to a plane defined by the coordinate system over a LOS link. |
| US10411771B2 |
Wireless communication methods and apparatus
In an embodiment, a wireless communication method of transmitting a plurality of data streams from a transmitter to a receiver is disclosed. The transmitter comprises a plurality of antennas. The method comprises: encoding each of the data streams as a sequence of code words; determining a plurality of precoding transmit coefficients from channel information for each of a plurality of subcarriers, the precoding transmit coefficients defining spatial channels between the plurality of antennas of the transmitter and the receiver; determining a set of power loading factors for each spatial channel between the receiver and the transmitter, each set of power loading factors comprising a power loading factor for each of the plurality of subcarriers, by allocating power between the plurality of subcarriers to satisfy a signal to interference and noise target per code word; determining a signal for transmission by each antenna of the plurality of antennas by applying respective precoding coefficients and power loading factors to each respective sequence of code words; and transmitting each of the sequences of code words on a plurality of subcarriers of at least one of the spatial channels by transmitting the respective signals for transmission from each respective antenna. |
| US10411770B2 |
Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system with transmit diversity
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to transmitter and method of transmitting a signal stream from a plurality of antennas, in a communication network. The method comprises grouping, by a transmitter, a plurality of consecutive signals of the input to obtain a plurality of groups. Also, the method comprises generating a plurality of physical resource groups (PRGs) using the plurality of groups and a corresponding plurality of subcarriers and precoding each of the PRGs using one or more weighing coefficients to obtain precoded plurality of groups. Further, the method comprises processing the precoded plurality of groups to obtain a processed plurality of groups and transmitting the plurality of processed signal groups using a corresponding plurality of antennas. An indication about variation of the weighing coefficients corresponding to each of plurality of PRGs is provided by the transmitter to the one or more receivers. |
| US10411766B2 |
Semiconductor package device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a package body, a conductive layer, a dielectric layer, a magnetic layer, a first insulating layer and a coil. The package body is disposed on the substrate. The package body has a first part and a second part disposed above the first part. The conductive layer is disposed on the first part of the package body and is electrically connected to the substrate. The dielectric layer is disposed on the conductive layer. The magnetic layer is disposed on the dielectric layer. The first insulating layer is disposed on the magnetic layer. The coil is disposed on the first insulating layer. The coil has a first terminal electrically connected with the magnetic layer. |
| US10411765B2 |
Body detection using near field millimeter wave scattering
A communication device includes a processor subsystem that is in communication with a communication module, which is communicatively coupled to a millimeter wave (mmWave) antenna array to transmit and receive signals. The processor subsystem executes a computer program product of a near-field detection application in memory to perform a method. The mmWave antenna array transmits an mmWave signal that is swept across a range of frequencies and receives any back-scattered signals in the range of frequencies. The processor subsystem determines whether a near-field obstruction exists based on magnitude and phase characteristics of the received back-scattered signals. In response to determining that a near-field obstruction exists, the processor subsystem perform a selected one of: (i) altering a transmission beam transmitted by the communication device; and (ii) triggering an application to execute on the communication device, the application intended to interact with a user of the communication device. |
| US10411763B2 |
Wireless power transmission device
A wireless power transmission device comprises a power transmitter and a power receiver. The power transmitter is adapted to convert an input DC power into an electromagnetic energy. The power transmitter includes a wave generating circuit adapted to generate a square wave control signal having a predetermined frequency and a predetermined duty cycle according to the input DC power, a switching control drive circuit configured to convert the input DC power into an alternating electrical signal according to the received square wave control signal, and a first coil coupling circuit configured to convert the alternating electrical signal from the switching control drive circuit into the electromagnetic energy and output the electromagnetic energy. The power receiver is electromagnetically coupled with the power transmitter and adapted to receive the electromagnetic energy from the power transmitter. |
| US10411761B2 |
Communication apparatus capable of communicating with external apparatus, control method, and recording medium
A communication apparatus includes a communication unit that communicates with an image capturing apparatus, a Tele button, a Wide button, and a control unit that, in a case where an operation on the Tele button is received, controls the communication unit to transmit information for driving a lens of the image capturing apparatus toward a telephoto side to the image capturing apparatus, and that, in a case where an operation on the Wide button is received, controls the communication unit to transmit information for driving the lens of the image capturing apparatus toward a Wide side to the image capturing apparatus. In a case where both the Tele button and the Wide button are simultaneously operated, the control unit controls the communication unit to transmit data for performing pairing with the image capturing apparatus in response to receipt of data transmitted from the image capturing apparatus. |
| US10411747B2 |
Case having battery box for smart phone/tablet
A case having battery box for smart phone/tablet comprises a box of smart phone/tablet, which is a rectangular open box having four side walls and a bottom, a chamber of the box of smart phone/tablet is the same of the size and shape of the smart phone/tablet, a top of each side wall is bended inward to form a holding ring for the smart phone/tablet; a battery box for containing batteries, which is a rectangular open box having a bottom which is a part bottom of the box of smart phone/tablet; a battery electric connecting means for connecting the batteries, with a power plug of the smart phone/tablet; a cover for closing the battery box and holding the batteries in the battery box; and a lock means for locking the cover with the battery box. |
| US10411743B2 |
Cancelling intermodulation interference
Cancelling of intermodulation interference is described. A digital signal sample (x) is received and a power of the received digital signal sample is obtained. Based on the obtained power, at least one model value is obtained from a model that models model values of a non-linearity in amplitude and phase of a received signal that passes through passive and active components in the receiver. The model values correspond to a plurality of powers of the received signal. Intermodulation interference is then cancelled by multiplying the received digital signal sample with the obtained at least one model value, thereby obtaining an output digital signal sample (y) from which intermodulation interference, inflicted by the receiver, is cancelled. |
| US10411741B2 |
Data processing device and data processing method
The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method which can ensure high communication quality in data transmission using LDPC codes.In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 11/15 is interleaved in a unit of a bit group of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of bit groups of the LDPC code which has been subjected to the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a case in which data transmission is performed using LDPC codes. |
| US10411738B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, formatting, by an input formatting block, input streams into plural PLPs (Physical Layer Pipes); encoding, by an encoder, data in the plural PLPs; processing, by a framing and interleaving block, the encoded data in the plural PLPs to output at least one signal frame; and waveform modulating, by a waveform generation block, data in the at least one signal frame and transmitting, by the waveform generation block, broadcast signals having the waveform modulated data. |
| US10411736B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding of low density parity check codes
An encoding apparatus is provided. The encoding includes a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder which performs LDPC encoding on input bits based on a parity-check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword formed of 64,800 bits, in which the parity-check matrix includes an information word sub-matrix and a parity sub-matrix, the information word sub-matrix is formed of a group of a plurality of column blocks each including 360 columns, and the parity-check matrix and the information word sub-matrix are defined by various tables which represent positions of value one (1) present in every 360-th column. |
| US10411731B1 |
Device and method of compressing data using tiered data compression
A processing device is provided which includes a plurality of encoders each configured to compress a portion of data using a different compression algorithm. The processing device also includes one or more processors configured to cause an encoder, of the plurality of encoders, to compress the portion of data when it is determined that the portion of data, which is compressed by another encoder configured to compress the portion of data prior to the encoder in an encoder hierarchy, is not successfully compressed according to a compression metric by the other encoder in the encoder hierarchy. The one or more processors are also configured to prevent the encoder from compressing the portion of data when it is determined that the portion of data is successfully compressed according to the compression metric by the other encoder in the encoder hierarchy. |
| US10411729B2 |
Technologies for allocating ephemeral data storage among managed nodes
Technologies for allocating ephemeral data storage among managed nodes include an orchestrator server to receive ephemeral data storage availability information from the managed nodes, receive a request from a first managed node of the managed nodes to allocate an amount of ephemeral data storage as the first managed node executes one or more workloads, determine, as a function of the ephemeral data storage availability information, an availability of the requested amount of ephemeral data storage, and allocate, in response to a determination that the requested amount of ephemeral data storage is available from one or more other managed nodes, the requested amount of ephemeral data storage to the first managed node as the first managed node executes the one or more workloads. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US10411728B2 |
Device for and method of determining clusters
A device (100) for and method of determining clusters of sequences of instances of a first type of data for compacting a data set comprising sequences of instances of the first type of data is provided. Also a method of compacting a data set, a method of transmitting compacted data and a computer program product are provided. In a sequence clustering unit (110) of the device, sequences of a first set of data are clustered on basis of conditional probabilities. Each unique sequence of the first set of data is associated with one or more conditional probabilities that an instance of the second set of data has a specific value given the unique sequence. In the clustering a significant part of the mutual information between the first set of data and the second set of data is maintained. |
| US10411725B2 |
Analog-to-digital conversion circuit and method
An analog-to-digital conversion circuit and method are provided. At a sampling stage, the first capacitor array connects lower electrode plates of N capacitors to a first input voltage, connect lower electrode plates of the other capacitors to a common-mode voltage, and connect upper electrode plates of all the capacitors to the common-mode voltage to sample the first input voltage; in an ith conversion at a conversion stage, the logic circuit controls, the lower electrode plate of an ith capacitor to connect to a reference voltage or a ground voltage, a first comparison voltage output by the first capacitor array approximates a second comparison voltage; and the comparator stores a comparison result between the first and the second comparison voltage to an i+1th flag bit in the logic circuit, and analog-to-digital conversion is completed when i+1 is equal to the total number of capacitors in the first capacitor array. |
| US10411723B1 |
Dynamic triggering and sampling engine (DTSE) for low-latency and cost effective control systems
A Dynamic Triggering and Sample Engine (DTSE) that detects a first trigger received on a trigger input terminal that triggers a series of analog-to-digital conversions to be completed by an analog-to-digital converter circuit. The DTSE then determines a first sequence configuration stored in a sequence configuration table that is associated with the first trigger, causes a first analog-to-digital conversion to be performed using the first sequence configuration; causes a first analog-to-digital conversion result value to be stored in a sequence result table; and outputs an interrupt to a processor indicating that the first analog-to-digital conversion result value is available in the sequence result table. The interrupt is output from the DTSE before all remaining analog-to-digital conversions in the series are completed. In response to receiving the interrupt, the processor reads the analog-to-digital result value from the sequence result table via a bus. |
| US10411722B2 |
High-speed and low-power pipelined ADC using dynamic reference voltage and 2-stage sample-and-hold
Disclosed is a high-speed and low-power pipelined analog-digital converter (ADC) using a dynamic reference voltage and a 2-stage S/H. The pipelined ADC includes a 2-stage sample-and-hold (S/H) configured to secure a conversion time corresponding to a clock cycle per stage and to apply only a buffer to an input signal path, a reference voltage generator configured to receive the output of the D flip-flop of a previous stage as an input signal and to generate a required reference voltage during a half cycle of a sample frequency, and a comparator configured to include a linear transconductor (LT), a rail-to-rail latch (R2R) and a D flip-flop and to generate the output of the ADC and input to the reference voltage generator of a next stage for generating a reference voltage using the output of the D flip-flop. |
| US10411720B2 |
Efficient and dependable clock synchronization in hardware
The invention comprises a fault-tolerant clock synchronization method with high precision, hardware implementations thereof and the corresponding digital circuits, designed to contain metastability. |
| US10411717B2 |
Device and method for multiple reference system timer
A device and method is presented to allow the high frequency clock generators and functional blocks of a wireless communication device to enter a very low power sleep state while the low frequency reference clock generator within the wireless communications device remains in an active state. The timing block provides methods of increasing and maintaining accuracy of the system timer which may have been reduced by temperature variation or manufacturing defects. The timing block also allows for selection of the highest accuracy clock from among multiple high frequency clock references. A device for timing control is presented comprising at least one high frequency reference clock, a low frequency reference clock and a timing controller for generating a system timer, wherein the timing controller selects one of the at least one high frequency reference clock and processes the low frequency reference clock with the selected high frequency reference clock. |
| US10411716B2 |
Subsampling motion detector for detecting motion of object under measurement
A subsampling motion detector configured to detect motion information of an object under measurement receives a first wireless radio frequency (RF) signal and transmits a second wireless RF signal, the first wireless RF signal being generated by reflecting the second wireless RF signal from the object. The subsampling motion detector includes a controllable oscillator outputting an oscillation signal, wherein the first wireless RF signal is injected to the controllable oscillator for controlling the controllable oscillator through injecting locking. The subsampling motion detector further including a subsampling phase detector (SSPD) generating a control signal according to the oscillation signal generated by the controllable oscillator and a reference frequency, the SSPD outputting the control signal to the controllable oscillator for controlling the controllable oscillator, the oscillation signal of the controllable oscillator being locked to a multiple of the reference frequency and the control signal representing the motion information of the object. |
| US10411710B1 |
Adaptive read scheme for configuration SRAMs in a programmable device
An example read address generation circuit for a static random access memory (SRAM) cell includes an operational amplifier having a non-inverting input coupled to a reference voltage, a memory emulation circuit having an output coupled to an inverting input of the operational amplifier and a control input coupled to an output of the operational amplifier, and a multiplexer having a first input coupled to receive a constant read voltage, a second input coupled to the output of the operational amplifier, and an output coupled to supply a read address voltage to the SRAM cell. |
| US10411709B1 |
Circuit arrangements and methods for dividing a three-dimensional input feature map
Disclosed circuits and methods include N line buffers. Each line buffer is configured for storage of M data elements of a three-dimensional (3-D) input feature map (IFM). A request generator circuit is coupled to the N line buffers and to a memory configured for storage of the 3-D IFM. The request generator circuit is divides the 3-D IFM into a plurality of IFM sub-volumes based on values of N, M, and dimensions of the 3-D IFM. The request generator circuit reads from the memory, data elements at addresses of an unprocessed one of the IFM sub-volumes and stores the data elements of the unprocessed one of the IFM sub-volumes in the N line buffers. In response to a completion signal, the request generator circuit repeats the reading of an unprocessed one of the IFM sub-volumes and storing the data elements in the N line buffers. |
| US10411707B1 |
Systems and methods for improving signal margin for input buffer circuits
An input buffer circuit may include a first switch that may couple a first voltage source to an output line based on an enable signal, such that the enable signal is configured to cause the input buffer circuit to operate. The input buffer circuit may also include a first set of switches that may couple the first voltage source to the output line based on the enable signal and an input signal, wherein the first switch and the first set of switches may couple the first voltage source to the output line in response to the input signal being greater than an input reference signal. The input buffer circuit may also include a switch that may couple a second voltage source to the output line in response to the input signal being less than the input reference signal. |
| US10411701B2 |
Triaxial photoconductive switch module
Methods, systems, and devices describe triaxial photoconductive switch modules that include a center conductor, an inner conductor, an outer conductor, a high voltage capacitor that is formed between the center conductor and the inner conductor, and a photoconductive switch that is formed between the center conductor and a section of the outer conductor. The disclosed triaxial photoconductive switch modules include low inductance current paths that lead to high current efficiencies. Furthermore, the disclosed triaxial photoconductive switch modules eliminate or reduce parasitic capacitance problems of existing systems. |
| US10411699B2 |
Power supply control device
A power supply control device that includes a controller configured to switch on and off a first semiconductor switch and a plurality of second semiconductor switches whose current input terminals are connected to a current output terminal of the first semiconductor switch, the controller being configured to control supply of power via the plurality of second semiconductor switches by switching; a first parasitic diode connected between a current input terminal and the current output terminal of the first semiconductor switch; and a plurality of second parasitic diodes that are respectively connected between the current input terminals and current output terminals of the plurality of second semiconductor switches. |
| US10411698B2 |
Cascode connected SiC-JFET with SiC-SBD and enhancement device
An apparatus that includes a first device connected to an inductor. The first device includes a first silicon carbide (SiC) junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET), a first SiC schottky barrier diode (SBD) connected to a gate and a drain of the first SiC JFET, and a first silicon (Si) transistor connected to transmit current to a source of the first SiC JFET. An inductor input terminal is connected to the drain of the first SiC JFET. |
| US10411696B2 |
Power supply control device
A power supply control device includes a first semiconductor switch and a second semiconductor switch, which are switched on if the voltage at the gate is at least an ON-threshold, and they are switched off if the voltage at the gate is less than an OFF-threshold. A resistor is connected between the source and the gate of the first semiconductor switch. A diode is connected between gates of the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch. A driving unit adjusts the voltage at the gate of the second semiconductor switch, switches on and off the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch, and controls the supply of power via the second semiconductor switch. |
| US10411695B2 |
Programmable tunnel thermionic mode transistor
The field effect transistor (FET) of the present subject matter comprises a bottom gate electrode, a bottom gate dielectric provided on the bottom gate electrode, a channel layer provided on the bottom gate dielectric. A top portion comprising a source electrode, a drain electrode, a top gate electrode provided, and a top dielectric layer is provided on the channel layer. The channel layer forms Schottky barriers at points of contact with the source and the drain electrode. A back-gate voltage varies a height and a top-gate voltage varies a width of the Schottky barrier. The FET can be programmed to work in two operating modes-tunnelling (providing low power consumption) and thermionic mode (providing high performance). The FET can also be programmed to combine the tunnelling and thermionic mode in a single operating cycle, yielding high performance with low power consumption. |
| US10411691B2 |
Semiconductor device driving circuit
A semiconductor device driving circuit includes: a signal transmission circuit including a first level shift circuit, the signal transmission circuit and an unsaturated voltage detection circuit configured to output a first error signal when an unsaturated voltage of a semiconductor switching element driven by the drive signal is detected. The semiconductor device driving circuit generates a second error signal having the second voltage level by level-shifting the first error signal or a converted signal obtained by converting the first error signal into a pulse signal. The semiconductor device driving circuit further includes a soft shutdown circuit configured to change a drive signal for the semiconductor switching element to softly shut down the semiconductor switching element when the second error signal is input. |
| US10411688B1 |
Ultra-low power driver of reference voltage
A method and apparatus for implementing a CMOS buffer for driving a reference voltage that consumes very low current in normal operating conditions but drive high current when output voltage is off, tracking the required reference voltage. The circuit is operating in a “deadzone” most of the time, where pull-up and pull-down current paths are blocked, and ultra-low power comparators, with build-in offset, are monitoring the output voltage continuously, and driving compensation current, when needed. The circuit can be manufactured with a standard CMOS processing technology. |
| US10411682B2 |
Methods of and apparatus for determining particle inclusion and size in molten metal
Methods and apparatus for measuring the cleanliness of molten metal. Direct current is passed through molten metal advancing through a passage. A voltage signal is analyzed for the presence of solid generally non-metallic inclusions in the metal. A method includes sampling digital data of the voltage signal to generate data samples; updating a delayed running average of the data samples to establish a baseline for identifying sudden changes in amplitude of the data samples; determining a threshold by adding a prescribed value to the baseline; identifying a possible inclusion when a significant number of data samples exceeds the threshold; storing a maximum count as the data samples using peak detection until a prescribed number of the data samples fall below the threshold; and comparing a parameter of the possible inclusion with a lookup table to categorize the possible inclusion as either (i) an actual inclusion or (ii) noise. |
| US10411676B2 |
Voltage comparator
A voltage comparator (1) has a high switching speed and simplicity of design. It minimizes pulse-width distortion of input digital signals when functioning as a digital input buffer in high speed communications applications. In addition it provides a simple hysteresis circuit (31) that is easily tuneable with a reference current. The hysteresis circuit (31) is dependent on a reference current. This current may be chosen to have a proportionality to temperature, supply, or another selectable parameter, and may be programmable, in order to create the desired hysteresis performance. |
| US10411675B2 |
Delay circuit and duty cycle controller including the same
In an embodiment, a delay circuit comprises a delay loop controller outputting a signal obtained by operating a start signal and a delayed feedback clock signal output from outside the delay loop controller; and a loop counter configured to determine whether a predetermined delay time has elapsed since the start signal was input according to the delayed feedback clock signal and a predetermined loop count. |
| US10411673B2 |
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 16.21≤W/T≤17.71, where W is a length of a short side and T is a thickness. |
| US10411668B2 |
Methods and apparatus for adjusting a level of an audio signal
The invention relates to methods and apparatus for adjusting a level of an audio signal. An audio signal is divided into a plurality of frequency bands. Modification parameters are obtained for at least one of the plurality of frequency band. Gain factors are derived for at least one of the plurality of frequency bands, the gain factors determined based on the amplitude scale factors. The gain factors are smoothed. A level of noise from noise compensation factors is determined. The gain factors are applied to at least one of the frequency bands to generate gain adjusted frequency bands. The level of noise is adjusted based on the gain adjusted frequency bands. At least one of the frequency bands is filtered with a filter generated with the filter coefficients. The plurality of frequency bands is synthesized to generate an output audio signal. |
| US10411665B2 |
Resonant cavity combined solid state amplifier system
A resonant cavity combined solid-state amplifier system including a resonant cavity having at least one output port coupled to a high-power transmission line. A plurality of high-power transistors are each configured to generate a variable amount of power input directly into the resonant cavity. The plurality of high-power transistors may be configured such that a failure of one or more of the plurality of high-power transistors does not substantially impede operation of the resonant cavity. A plurality of output impedance matching networks each coupled to one of the plurality of high-power transistors and extending into the resonant cavity are configured to match an impedance of each transistor to an impedance of the resonant cavity and configured to electromagnetically couple power from each of the plurality of high-power transistors into the resonant cavity to provide a combined high-power output to the high-power transmission line. |
| US10411656B1 |
Method of and circuit for crest factor reduction for a cable TV amplifier
A crest factor reduction (CFR) system includes a digital tilt filter coupled to an input of the CFR system. In some embodiments, the digital tilt filter is configured to receive a system input signal and generate a digital tilt filter output signal at a digital tilt filter output. In some examples, the CFR system further includes a CFR module coupled to the digital tilt filter output, where the CFR module is configured receive the digital tilt filter output signal and perform a CFR process to the digital tilt filter output signal to generate a CFR module output signal at a CFR module output. In addition, the CFR system may include a digital tilt equalizer coupled to the CFR module output, where the digital tilt equalizer is configured to receive the CFR module output signal and generate a system output signal. |
| US10411650B2 |
Passive mixer with reduced second order intermodulation
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of receiver structures in radio communication systems and more specifically to passive mixers in the receiver structure and to a technique for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency. A passive mixer for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency comprises a cancellation component 220 for generating a first cancellation signal for cancelling second order intermodulation components by superimposing the first signal weighted by a cancellation value on the third signal; and a mixing component 231 having a first terminal 232 for receiving the first signal, a second terminal 234 for outputting the second signal, and a third terminal 236 for receiving the first cancellation signal, wherein the mixing component 231 is adapted to provide the second signal as output at the second terminal 234 by mixing the first signal provided as input at the first terminal 232 and the first cancellation signal provided as input at the third terminal 236. |
| US10411643B2 |
Floating solar panel array with one-axis tracking system
A floating solar array made of a closed loop of flexible high density polyethylene pipes with elbows, T fittings and couplings. An anti-lift membrane fills with water and mitigates the wind forces. The array can have a stabilizing skirt going downwardly from the border of the array, especially when it is used offshore in the sea. A vertical axis tracking system with windlasses, two anchoring points and four mooring lines allows all the solar panels to face the sun throughout the day. For small lakes or mine tailing, the two anchor points will be onshore, on a concrete foundation. Winches to wind and unwind the mooring lines are located at the anchor point or on the solar array. For larger water areas, or offshore applications in the sea water, the anchor points are under water; using typically a concrete block or a suction pile solution for each anchor. |
| US10411640B2 |
Integrated renewable energy harvesting system
A solar and wind energy harvesting system having a support structure with a pair of poles and a plurality of transversal members that extends between the pair of poles, a plurality of transducers affixed to a corresponding transversal member of the plurality of transversal members, a plurality of photovoltaic cells, wherein each photovoltaic cell is suspended from a corresponding transducer of the plurality of transducers and receives sunlight to provide sunlight input electricity and wind to bend the corresponding transducer and have the corresponding transducer provide wind input electricity, and a battery assembly that is electrically connected to the plurality of transducers and the plurality of photovoltaic cells to receive, regulate and store the solar input electricity and the wind input electricity. |
| US10411627B2 |
AC excitation synchronous condenser and control method thereof
An AC excitation synchronous condenser and a control method, an AC-excitation induction machine, a full-controlled AC excitation converter, a grid-side converter and a controller. The AC-excitation induction machine is the core power converting device, and its stator and rotor windings are AC windings with terminals. The controller is configured to control the full-controlled AC excitation converter to perform excitation and speed regulation on the AC-excitation induction machine and also control the grid-side converter to ensure the excitation capability of the full-controlled AC excitation converter, so that support and regulation of the active power and reactive power are achieved. |
| US10411625B2 |
Method and device for detecting a speed in a generator unit
A method for determining a speed (nG) of a generator unit which has an electric machine (100) with a rotor winding (110) and a stator winding (120) and a rectifier (130) connected thereto, via which rectifier the electric machine (100) is connected to an electrical system (150) of a motor vehicle, the speed (nG) being determined depending on the plot of an excitation current (IE) flowing through the rotor winding (110) of the electric machine (100). In particular, the speed is determined from a known relationship between the speed, the frequency of the excitation current, the number of pole pairs and optionally the number of phases when there is an error that leads to a constant phase voltage being output. |
| US10411622B2 |
Motor control apparatus and motor control apparatus control method
The control part includes: a gate control voltage output unit that is configured to output a drive signal which switches a switching element according to a Hall edge that forms each of six Hall stages which are represented by a combination of electric potentials of position detection signals that are outputs of a plurality of sensors; a counter value acquisition unit that is configured to acquire a counter value which is a time period of the Hall stage and which is represented by a time period between two Hall edges that form each of the Hall stages from the position detection signal; and a switching control unit that is configured to determine a value obtained by multiplying a previous counter value of each of the Hall stages by a preset correction coefficient as a delay time of each of current Hall edges and that allows the gate control voltage output unit to output a drive signal according to each of the Hall edges which are corrected by the delay time. |
| US10411620B2 |
Power tool
To provide a power tool capable of suppressing torque ripple and reducing power consumption without demagnetizing the permanent magnets in the rotor. The power tool includes a brushless motor, converting means, voltage detecting, and means conduction switching means. The brushless motor includes: a stator including a plurality of windings; and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The converting means is configured to convert an AC voltage supplied from an AC power supply into a varying DC voltage. The voltage detecting means is configured to detect the varying DC voltage. The conduction switching means includes an output line for applying the varying DC voltage to the plurality of windings. The conduction switching means is configured to perform: sequentially switching at least one winding to be applied with the varying DC voltage among the plurality of windings to rotate the rotor; and changing number of conducting windings on the basis of the varying DC voltage, the number of conducting windings being number of the at least one winding to be applied with the varying DC voltage. |
| US10411619B2 |
Motor controller, drive circuit, and methods for combined electric motor control
An electric motor controller, an electric motor drive circuit, and methods for combined electric motor control are provided. The drive circuit is configured to drive a first electric motor and a second electric motor. The drive circuit includes a rectifier configured to convert an AC input voltage to a pulsed DC voltage, and a first DC link electrically coupled to the rectifier. The first DC-link includes a low-capacitance capacitor having a capacitance less than 10 μF. The drive circuit also includes a first inverter coupled to the first DC-link, the first inverter configured to generate a conditioned output voltage to drive the first electric motor, a second DC-link electrically coupled to the first DC-link, and a second inverter coupled to the second DC-link. The second inverter is configured to generate a conditioned output voltage to drive the second electric motor. |
| US10411617B2 |
Dielectric elastomer motor
A dielectric elastomer motor includes an artificial muscle and a conversion mechanism cooperating with the artificial muscle. The artificial muscle includes a dielectric elastomer film or layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. First and second electrodes are attached to the first surface and the second surface of the dielectric elastomer film, respectively. First and second bases are attached to the dielectric elastomer so as to be spaced apart from each other. The first base and the second base are capable of reciprocation relative to each other upon change in size of the dielectric elastomer. The conversion mechanism converts the reciprocation of the bases to pivotal or rotational movement. The dielectric elastomer receives voltage application with a predetermined timing via the first and the second electrodes. |
| US10411611B2 |
Voltage discharge circuit
Technologies are described for an adaptable power supply that can switch between two or more output voltages. The power supply includes discharge circuitry that utilizes the secondary windings of a transformer as a discharge path when the power supply switches from a high voltage level to a low voltage level. In some embodiments, the discharge circuitry is included within a synchronous rectifier. In other embodiments, the discharge circuitry is separate from the synchronous rectifier. In still other embodiments, the power supply does not include a synchronous rectifier. Whichever embodiment is used, an output capacitor can be discharged through the secondary windings of a transformer and the transformer can store that energy for future use. |
| US10411609B2 |
Substrate mounted inverter device
The present disclosure reduces heat concentration on switching elements. A plurality of high-side transistors are connected in parallel to constitute high-side switching element. A plurality of low-side transistors are connected in parallel to constitute low-side switching element. The plurality of high-side transistors are arranged, one by one, next to the plurality of low-side transistors. |
| US10411601B2 |
Power converter and method of entering skip at a fixed output power in a light load condition independent of magnetizing inductance
A power converter has a power transistor and inductor coupled in a conduction path with the power transistor. A switching frequency of the power transistor is reduced during a light load condition. A pulse width of a drive signal to the power transistor is controlled to select a current through the inductor and power transistor corresponding to the switching frequency to maintain a fixed output power of the power converter, and further to vary the current through the inductor and power transistor to maintain the fixed output power of the power converter over a range of switching frequencies. A first number of pulses of the drive signal to the power transistor during a first time period sets the fixed output power of the power converter. No pulses of the drive signal are provided during a second time period after the first time period. |
| US10411600B1 |
Apparatus and methods for converter mode and load configuration control
A driver coupled to a configurable load having a first load portion coupled to a second load portion at an intermediate node includes a first switch coupled to the intermediate node and to a battery voltage, and a second switch coupled to the second load portion and ground. A current steering control circuit of the driver is responsive to a feedback voltage associated with the intermediate node and is configured to generate a first switch control signal and a second switch control signal to control a slew rate of either the first switch or the second switch. The current steering control circuit can include a gate driver and a current steering amplifier. |
| US10411598B2 |
Systems and methods for adjusting one or more thresholds in power converters
System controller and method for a power converter. For example, the system controller includes a first current controller configured to receive a first input signal and generate a first output signal based at least in part on the first input signal, a second current controller configured to receive a compensation signal and a second input signal and generate a second output signal based at least in part on the second input signal, and a drive signal generator configured to receive the first output signal and the second output signal, generate a first drive signal based at least in part on the first output signal and the second output signal, and generate a second drive signal based at least in part on the first output signal and the second output signal. |
| US10411597B1 |
Ultra-low power and ultra-low voltage bandgap voltage regulator device and method thereof
A family of bandgap embodiments are disclosed herein, capable of operating with very low currents and low power supply voltages, using neither any custom devices nor any special manufacturing technology, and fabricated on mainstream standard digital CMOS processes. As such, manufacturing cost can be kept low, manufacturing yields of digital CMOS system-on-a-chip (SOC) that require a reference can be kept optimal, and manufacturing risk can be minimized due to its flexibility with respect to fabrication process node-portability. Although the embodiments disclosed herein use novel techniques to achieve accurate operations with low power and low voltage, this family of bandgaps also uses parasitic bipolar junction transistors (BJT) available in low cost digital CMOS process to generate proportional and complementary to absolute temperature (PTAT and CTAT) voltages via the base-emitter voltage (VEB) of BJTs and scaling VEB differential pairs to generate the BJTs thermal voltage (VT). |
| US10411595B2 |
Ripple generation device and method for a constant on-time voltage regulator
Embodiments of ripple generation devices for a constant on-time voltage regulator and methods for ripple generation for a constant on-time voltage regulator are described. In one embodiment, a ripple generation device for a constant on-time voltage regulator includes a ripple generator configured to generate a ripple signal, a detector operably connected to the ripple generator and configured to detect a difference between an amplitude of the ripple signal and at least one reference amplitude and a feedback controller operably connected to the ripple generator and the detector and configured to generate a control signal for controlling the amplitude of the ripple signal based on the detected difference. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US10411590B2 |
Power consumption reduced type power converter
Provided is a power consumption reduction type power converter. For example, such a power converter includes a regulator configured to convert a power voltage into an operation power of a main integrated circuit (IC), a mode detecting pin configured to detect a voltage level of the operation power, wherein the detected voltage level indicates a disable mode or an enable mode, a mode signal output circuit connected to the mode detecting pin, configured to output a mode converting signal, and a switching controller configured to block or connect a power route according to the mode converting signal to supply or block the operation power from being provided to the main IC, wherein the mode detecting pin is connected to a first switch and a first capacitor to perform a charging or a discharging operation of the first capacitor according to a switching operation of the first switch. |
| US10411588B2 |
Power converter with trench and planar transistors to improve efficiency
A power converter includes one or more first conversion circuits, one or more second conversion circuits, and a controller. The first conversion circuit is configured to use a trench type transistor. The second conversion circuit is configured to use a planar type transistor. All the one or more first conversion circuits and all the one or more second conversion circuits are connected in parallel to each other or connected in series to each other. The controller stops all the one or more second conversion circuits and operates at least one of the one or more first conversion circuits while an output command value is lower than a predetermined output threshold value. The controller operates all the one or more first conversion circuits and operates at least one of the one or more second conversion circuits when the output command value exceeds the predetermined output threshold value. |
| US10411584B2 |
Start-up circuit to discharge EMI filter for power saving of power supplies
A start-up circuit to discharge EMI filter is developed for power saving. It includes a detection circuit detecting a power source for generating a sample signal. A sample circuit is coupled to the detection circuit for generating a reset signal in response to the sample signal. The reset signal is utilized for discharging a stored voltage of the EMI filter. |
| US10411583B2 |
System and method for reducing output harmonics
In one form, a power amplifier system includes first and second amplification path, and a combination element. The first amplification path has an input for receiving a drive signal, and an output. The second amplification path has an input coupled to the input of the first amplification path, and an output. The second amplification path has a delay element that inserts a signal path delay with respect to the first amplification path, wherein the delay element has a delay corresponding to a harmonic that is desired to be reduced. The combination element is coupled to the output of the first amplification path and an output of the second amplification path, and provides an output signal as a sum of outputs of the first amplification path and the second amplification path. |
| US10411579B2 |
Electric rotating machine
The electric rotating machine includes a rotatable rotor including first magnetic field parts and second magnetic field parts formed in front and rear surfaces, respectively, by arranging permanent magnets in a circumferential direction; a first stator equipped with coils opposing the first magnetic field parts disposed, the coils forming first stator magnetic fields; a second stator equipped with coils opposing the second magnetic field parts disposed, the coils forming second stator magnetic fields; and a power feeder for driving the rotor to rotate by supplying power to the coils, and a power collector for extracting an induced current generated in the coils of the other stator resulting from rotation of the rotor. At least the coils disposed on the power supply side are formed by a superconducting material, a current supplied to the superconducting coils being made larger than an induced current generated in the other coils. |
| US10411578B2 |
Low electric fan-type power generating device with low energy consumption
An electric fan-type power generating device includes a housing receiving an electric motor that is supplied electricity from a chargeable battery to drive a first fan and a second fan to rotate at high speeds to thereby generate wind power close to a third fan mounted to a first generator. The first fan uses the wind power to drive the third fan in the housing. The third fan drives the first generator to generate electricity that is supplied to the chargeable battery. The second fan uses the wind power in the housing to drive a fourth fan to rotate. The fourth fan drives the second generator to generate electricity that is supplied to the chargeable battery. The chargeable battery recycles the electricity that supports operation of the electric motor for generating wind power. Furthermore, the wind power drives the first and second generators to continue generating electricity. |
| US10411577B2 |
Magnet assembly for linear motor having cover member covering magnet plate
A magnet assembly for a linear motor includes a cover member having weak magnetic properties, which covers one or more magnet plates, and a fixing mechanism for positioning the end parts 14c of the cover member directly above permanent magnets and detachably fixing the cover member to the magnet plate. The cover member has a first surface part covering a surface of the magnet plate which faces an armature and second surface parts continuous from the first surface part and covering side parts of the magnet plate. Furthermore, the fixing mechanism is provided on the second surface parts. Through the use of this magnet assembly for a linear motor, it is possible to minimize a rise of the cover member from the magnet plate without deteriorating workability at the time of installation or replacement of the cover member. |
| US10411576B2 |
Liquid cooled linear induction motor
A primary for a linear induction motor having a core, electrical winding coils and a cooling system. The core extends longitudinally and has slots extending laterally in a first face thereof. Electrical winding coils inserted in the slots have end turns that extend laterally beyond each side of the core. The electrical winding coils are aligned sequentially along a length of the core. The cooling system, which is adapted to receive a cooling fluid, includes a serpentine tubing assembly and two lateral tubes. The serpentine tubing assembly is at least partially in contact with the core so as to transfer heat from the core to the environment. Each one of the two lateral tubes extend longitudinally along a different side of the core and within a respective longitudinal alignment of the end turns of the electrical winding coils. |
| US10411574B2 |
Motor controller
An electronic control unit includes two inverters, a magnetic sensor, a failure detection unit, an inverter driving unit, a signal examination unit, and a failed element identification unit. The magnetic sensor detects a magnetic flux generated around a winding. The failure detection unit detects an ON-state failure of the inverter. When the ON-state failure is detected, the inverter driving unit stops driving the inverter to which the ON-state failure has been detected, and continues driving the other inverter. The signal examination unit examines a presence or absence of a special signal. When there is a signal appearing according to a special magnetic flux, the failed element identification unit identifies a failed switching element based on a motor electric angle generated by the signal. |
| US10411571B2 |
Magnetic coupling
A magnetic coupling includes an inner rotor (11) and an outer rotor (9) which at least partly surrounds the inner rotor (11). These rotors (11, 9) each are formed of magnetic material (18) and are coupled to one another by way of magnetic forces. The inner rotor (11) and/or the outer rotor (9) contain powdery, magnetizable material (18). The powdery, magnetizable material (18) is magnetized at a side lying opposite the other rotor at several locations distributed over the periphery. |
| US10411570B2 |
Apparatus for manufacturing coil members for cores of dynamo electric machines by bending
Apparatuses and method for manufacturing coil members (230, 250) for insertion in slots of a core of an electric dynamo machine, wherein the coil members (230, 250) are formed by bending portions of an electric conductor (10). Portions of conductor of a predetermined length are fed through an aperture (80), where at least one engagement member (51) can move to engage and bend the conductor (10) so as to form the configuration of the coil member (230, 250). |
| US10411568B2 |
Method of manufacturing laminated core
A method of manufacturing a laminated stator core includes: blanking an electrical steel sheet at 1st to Nth (N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) positions arranged in the width direction of the electrical steel sheet to form 1st to Nth blank members, and laminating the 1st to Nth blank members to form a laminated stator core. The shape or arrangement of at least one odd-shaped part of a plurality of odd-shaped parts in the kth (k is a natural number of 1 to N) blank member differs from the shape or arrangement of at least one odd-shaped part of a plurality of odd-shaped parts in the mth (m is a natural number of 1 to N and satisfying m≠k) blank member such that the shapes of given two blank members do not agree with each other. |
| US10411564B2 |
Robot with a flexible board having reduced noise leakage
A robot includes a driving unit, a flexible board including a power line that transmits electric power to the driving unit, and a choke coil connected to the power line. A band rejection filter is formed by parasitic capacitance, which is formed by the electric line, and the choke coil. |
| US10411561B2 |
Cooling schemes and methods for cooling tower motors
The present invention provides techniques, schemes configurations and methods for removing or reducing heat in motors. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a cooling tower comprising a cooling tower structure and a motor supported by the cooling tower structure. The motor comprises a motor casing and a rotatable shaft. The cooling tower further comprises a cooling tower fan that comprises a fan hub, a plurality of fan blades attached to the rotatable shaft and a supplemental fan attached to the fan hub such that the supplemental fan is between the fan hub and the motor. Rotation of the cooling tower fan causes rotation of the supplemental fan which increases airflow around the casing of the motor so as to facilitate cooling of the motor. Other embodiments of configurations, schemes, method and techniques for thermally managing motors are described herein in detail. |
| US10411558B2 |
Cycle-by-cycle current limit for a power tool having a brushless motor
A power tool is provided including a brushless electric motor, a switching arrangement having motor switches and interposed between the electric motor and a power supply, and a controller configured to control a switching operation of the motor switches for driving the electric motor and enforce a current limit on the current delivered to the electric motor. The controller receives a measure of current passing from the power supply to the switching arrangement and takes corrective action to reduce current delivered to the electric motor if the measured current exceeds the current limit. The controller is further configured to initiate a protective response if a number of time intervals in which the measured current exceeds the current limit exceeds a predetermined threshold. |
| US10411555B2 |
Actuator module
An embodiment of the present invention provides an actuator module which can be equipped with a motor, a reduction gear and a control circuit, the actuator module comprising: a first housing which can have an active shaft, connected to a motor, pass through and be coupled thereto; and a second housing which is coupled to the first housing and has a passive idler horn, provided in a position in correspondence with the active shaft, pass through and be coupled thereto, wherein the idler horn has interposed a tube-shaped bearing, having a hollow portion formed in the center thereof, is coupled to a side of the second housing, and can have a cable connected into the second housing through the hollow portion of the tube-shaped bearing. |
| US10411552B2 |
Drive device
A drive device includes a control unit with a substrate. The control unit is disposed on an opposite side of a motor relative to an output shaft of the motor. The substrate has electronic components mounted on the substrate. A motor line connects the substrate and a winding. A frame member bears the surface-mount electronic components on a first surface of the substrate. A bearing holder holds a bearing that bears a shaft. A motor line takeout part allows the motor line to extend toward the control unit. A partition wall separates the shaft and the control unit at a radial inside position of the motor line takeout part. Such a structure prevents foreign matter from intruding into a control unit accommodating space. |
| US10411551B2 |
AC generator with stackable protective cover
In an AC generator, a protective cover includes a locking claw provided so as to extend outward in an axial direction from an open-side end surface of a peripheral wall portion. The locking claw includes an axial portion and a claw portion provided so as to project radially from an end portion of the axial portion. The locking claw is configured to be locked to a casing. The protective cover also includes a locking-claw restricting portion formed on an outer peripheral edge portion of a bottom portion. |
| US10411550B2 |
Motor with brush card having an X capacitor and double Y capacitors
A motor includes a rotor, a brush card assembly arranged to supply an electric current to the rotor, a housing, a permanent magnet, and a bearing. The rotor includes a core fixed to a shaft, a coil arranged to excite the core and a commutator connected to the coil. The coil is wound around the core in a concentrated winding method. The brush card assembly includes at least one pair of brushes having different polarities, the brushes disposed along a circumferential direction and connected to each other via the commutator and the coil, a X capacitor parallel-connected to the brushes, Y capacitors parallel-connected to the brushes and a brush card arranged to hold the brushes, the X capacitor and the Y capacitors. The brush card includes a ground portion. The X capacitor is positioned between the brushes in the circumferential direction. The Y capacitors are connected to the ground portion. |
| US10411542B2 |
Fixing structure and fixing method for wire connection plate, and rotating electrical machine
Provided is a fixing structure for fixing a wire connection plate including a busbar (9) having an annular shape, and a wire connection plate holder (10) for holding the busbar (9). The fixing structure includes a frame (5) having a cylindrical shape, for accommodating the wire connection plate therein, and a sheet metal member (12) for fixing the wire connection plate. One end of the sheet metal member (12) is fixed on a flange (4) of the frame (5), and another end of the sheet metal member (12) presses an end surface of the wire connection plate in an axial direction of the frame (5), to thereby fix the wire connection plate. The wire connection plate is fixed by elasticity of the sheet metal member (12), and hence the wire connection plate can be held even under application of impact load. |
| US10411541B2 |
Driving motor for environmentally friendly vehicles
The present disclosure relates to a driving motor for environmentally friendly vehicles. The driving motor for the vehicles includes: a stator core; a bobbin assembled to the stator core; a coil part wound on the bobbin; a coil lead-out portion configured such that an end portion of the coil part drawn from the bobbin is formed to have a curved structure; and a terminal bonded with a bonding portion formed in the coil lead-out portion. |
| US10411539B2 |
Stator for rotary electric machine having respective terminal wires connected to a connecting member
Winding bodies include: a first terminal wire that extends outward at a first axial end of a stator core from a radially innermost position inside slots; and a second terminal wire that extends outward at the first axial end of the stator core from a radially outermost position inside the slots, the first terminal wires are each led radially outward over coil ends of the stator winding, the second terminal wires are each led radially outward at positions that are nearer to the stator core than end portions of the first terminal wires that are led radially outward over the coil ends of the stator winding, and end portions of intraphase connecting second terminal wires are stacked in an axial direction with, placed in contact with, and connected to end portions of intraphase connecting first terminal wires that are subject to connection therewith. |
| US10411537B2 |
Rotor lamination and related rotor and electric motor incorporating same
A rotor lamination for an electric motor includes a body and a plurality of tangs. The body defines a shaft aperture, which defines a rotor axis, a plurality of flux directing aperture (FDA) sets, and a plurality of mass reduction apertures that are formed through the body. The FDA sets are spaced circumferentially about the body and each includes one or more apertures that are configured to receive a permanent magnet therein and/or form a flux barrier. The mass reduction apertures are disposed radially between the shaft aperture and the plurality of flux directing aperture sets. Each of the tangs is coupled to the body and extends radially inward into the shaft aperture. Each of the tangs has a pair of side walls that are disposed about a first centerline that intersects the rotor axis and an associated one of the mass reduction apertures that is disposed radially outwardly therefrom. |
| US10411532B2 |
Software-defined electric motor
A motor is provided that is capable of electronically switching between operating in a high torque mode and a low torque mode. The high torque mode may be switched reluctance mode and the low torque mode may be synchronous reluctance mode. The motor has a stator having two sets of armature windings, and a rotor having two sets of flux barriers each adapted to shape a magnetic flux distribution generated by a corresponding one of the sets of armature windings. The stator may comprise a plurality of teeth circumferentially spaced apart from one another around a rotation axis of the motor. The armature windings may include switched reluctance armature windings, each wrapped around a single stator tooth, and synchronous reluctance windings, each wrapped around multiple adjacent stator teeth. An inverter and controller may be connected to each set of armature windings for controlling the electronic switching of the armature windings. The inverter and controller are operable to toggle the motor between the two modes of operation using pulse-width modulation-like techniques. |
| US10411531B2 |
Stator assembly and magnetic bearing or electric motor having such a stator assembly
A stator assembly having a housing and a stator that are concentric, the stator being mounted radially inside the housing is provided. This stator assembly includes fastening elements that are mounted between a radial inner surface of the housing and a radial outer surface of the stator and exert a radial fastening force on the housing and the stator. |
| US10411529B2 |
Stator
A stator includes a yoke, teeth, insulating members, a first ribs, coils, annular members and adhesive bodies. The insulating members each have circumferential wall and a flange. The flange includes a plate wall. The first ribs protrude from the respective flanges. The coils each wound on the outsides of the circumferential wall and the first ribs of each of the teeth. The annular members close teeth distal end sides of cavities. A first hole and a second hole are provided in the plate wall. The turning passage contains varnish charged through the injection hole. |
| US10411524B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatuses for guidance and alignment in electric vehicles wireless inductive charging systems
An apparatus for determining a relative position of a wireless power transmitter from a wireless power receiver is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of sense coils, each configured to generate a respective signal under influence of an alternating magnetic field comprising a plurality of wave pulses, each wave pulse occurring in a respective time slot of a plurality of time slots. The apparatus further comprises a processor configured to determine the relative position of the wireless power transmitter from the wireless power receiver based on the respective signal from each of the plurality of sense coils. |
| US10411523B2 |
Intelligent multi-mode wireless power system
The present disclosure provides a method and system for intelligently managed multi-mode wireless transfer of energy for charging and/or powering electronics devices. Such a system may include a near field energy transfer mode and a far field energy transfer mode that when intelligently combined or used selectively at particular ranges yields an overall improved result. An energy transfer unit connected to a power source may transfer energy over-the-air within range of at least one mode to one or more electronic devices integrated with an energy receiving unit for converting transferred energy to usable power suitable for charging and/or powering of the electronic device. The system may intelligently manage the selection, combination and/or switching of modes as optimally determined by at least one integrated control circuit combined with a communications protocol. |
| US10411521B2 |
Wireless power transmission system
A relay apparatus in a wireless power transmission system includes a relay power reception antenna that receives power transmission alternating current power from a power transmission power transmission antenna, a relay rectifier that converts the power transmission alternating current power into relay direct current power, a relay inverter circuit that converts the relay direct current power into relay alternating current power, and a relay power transmission antenna that wirelessly transmits the relay alternating current power. When transmitting data to the power transmission apparatus through amplitude modulation, the relay apparatus varies amplitude of voltage of the power transmission alternating current power received by the relay power reception antenna between a first amplitude and a second amplitude and performs control for eliminating a difference between a third amplitude of the relay alternating current power and a fourth amplitude of the relay alternating current power. |
| US10411515B2 |
Primary coil circuit for wireless power transfer, ground assembly using the same, and manufacturing method therefor
A primary coil circuit of a ground assembly for wirelessly transferring power to a secondary coil includes: a primary coil magnetically coupled to the secondary coil and having a first terminal and a second terminal; a second capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the primary coil; a first inductor having a first terminal coupled to a first input terminal of a power source and a second terminal coupled to the first terminal of the second capacitor; and a first capacitor having a first terminal coupled commonly to the second terminal of the first inductor and the first terminal of the second capacitor and a second terminal coupled commonly to the second terminal of the primary coil and a second input terminal of the power source. |
| US10411512B2 |
Methods and apparatus for implementing presence and usage pattern detection in wireless charging applications
An apparatus for wirelessly transferring charging power is provided. The apparatus comprises a coupler configured to generate a wireless field when driven with a time-varying current. The apparatus comprises a measurement circuit configured to determine a parasitic capacitance between the coupler and ground while the coupler generates the wireless field. The apparatus comprises a controller circuit configured to determine a presence of a foreign object in response to the determined parasitic capacitance satisfying a detection criteria. The detection criteria may comprises a time-varying pattern of the determined parasitic capacitance predetermined to correspond to presence of a presence of the foreign object. The detection criteria may also comprises a threshold change in the determined parasitic capacitance predetermined to correspond to presence of a presence of the foreign object. |
| US10411511B2 |
Coupling optimized electrical wireless power transmission
In a first aspect of the current invention, a receiver circuit for a wireless power transmission link is proposed, wherein while maintaining substantially resonant coupling condition (resonance frequency of the transmitter unit is substantially equal to the resonance frequency of the receiver unit) the coupling is electronically controlled and optimized such that maximal critical coupling occurs.In a further aspect of the invention, the coupling between the transmitter unit and receiver unit is optimized by transforming of at least one receiver load such that maximal critical coupling occurs and overcritical coupling is avoided.In a further aspect of the invention, the coupling between the transmitter unit and receiver unit is optimized by transforming of at least one receiver load by means of boost- and/or buck converters such that maximal critical coupling occurs. |
| US10411510B2 |
Inductively-powered surgical instrument system and method
A surgical instrument system and method are disclosed. The surgical instrument system includes an instrument case and a charging plate that may be placed in a sterile surgical field. The charging plate is configured to receive electrical power from outside the sterile surgical field and transmit that electrical power to other devices within the sterile field. |
| US10411507B2 |
Circuit arrangement
In accordance with various embodiments, a circuit arrangement may include a first circuit, which is designed for contactless communication, and a second circuit, which is designed in accordance with a predefined functionality. The circuit arrangement may further include at least one electronic component which in a first operating mode together with the first circuit implements the contactless communication and in a second operating mode together with the second circuit implements the predefined functionality. |
| US10411506B2 |
Quality of charge detector for use in inductive charging systems
A quality of charge (QoC) detector for use in inductive charging systems is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes an inductor that receives a current signal to generate an electromagnetic field during a power transfer to an external device, and a quality detector to determine a quality metric associated with the power transfer. The apparatus also includes an indicator that indicates multiple states, where one of the multiple states is selected to indicate the quality metric. |
| US10411499B2 |
Distributed charge controller
A distributed charge controller that matches a charging and power profile of each individual battery cell within a bank of batteries with one or more strings of photovoltaic (PV) cells in order to maintain battery health and performance. The charge controller further optimizes the performance of a solar module by allowing active unshaded strings of cells to operate independently of other strings within the module that may be shaded. Strings of PV cells are selectively matched to one or more battery cells as required. |
| US10411490B2 |
Voltage regulator systems configured to control input voltage
Voltage regulator systems include, in part, a regulator comprising an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the regulator is configured to receive an input voltage from an adapter at the input terminal and provide an output voltage at the output terminal, wherein the regulator comprises at least one switched capacitor regulator operating in a first conversion mode corresponding to a first conversion factor. The voltage regulator systems also include a controller configured to control an operation of the regulator, wherein the controller is configured to determine when a conversion ratio of the regulator is greater than the first conversion factor, and, in response, to send a request to the adapter to decrease the input voltage. |
| US10411489B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling charging and discharging of capacitor module, and display apparatus
A method is disclosed for controlling charging/discharging of a capacitor module. The capacitor module includes a plurality of branches connected in parallel, each of which includes a capacitor and a switch connected in series with the capacitor. The method includes measuring a first charge/discharge time for the capacitor module being charged/discharged from an initial voltage to an intermediate voltage, and To adjusting a second charge/discharge time for the capacitor module being further charged/discharged from the intermediate voltage to a target voltage by controlling on/off of at least one of the switches depending on the first charge/discharge time, the intermediate voltage being between the initial voltage and the target voltage. Also disclosed are an apparatus for controlling charging/discharging of a capacitor module and a display apparatus including the apparatus. |
| US10411488B2 |
Onboard battery charging system
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of onboard battery charger systems are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a battery charging system comprising an isolation device and an electric vehicle charger. The isolation device includes an AC input terminal; an AC output terminal; two DC output terminals; a first portion of a detection circuit including a first sensor and a first resistor coupled in series; and a first controller. The charger includes an AC input terminal; two DC input terminals; and a second portion of the detection circuit including a second sensor and a second resistor coupled in series. The first controller is structured to isolate the AC input terminal of the isolation device from the AC output terminal of the isolation device when the two DC input terminals of the electric vehicle charger are not coupled to the two DC output terminals of the isolation device. |
| US10411484B2 |
Hybrid battery control system architecture systems and methods
One embodiment of the present disclosure describes a battery system that includes a battery string with a first and second battery module; and a battery control system. The battery control system includes a first cell control that determines first module level operational parameters related to operation of the first battery module; a second cell control that determines second module level operational parameters related to operation of the second battery module; a string control unit communicatively that determines string level operational parameters related to operation of the battery string based at least in part on the first and second module level operational parameters; and a system control unit that determines system level operational parameters related to operation of the battery system based at least in part on the string level operational parameters; and controls operation of the battery system based at least in part on the system level operational parameters. |
| US10411481B2 |
Device and method for generating a high voltage pulse
A hybrid pulse driver and method for generating a short, high-voltage pulse of electrical energy. The hybrid pulse driver combining a pulse transformer function and a flyback transformer function and comprising one or more core circuits, a switching circuit, and an output. Each core circuit including a transformer having a magnetic core, a single-turn primary winding, and a multi-turn secondary winding. The switching circuit, when switched to an on state, results in electrical energy discharging through the transformer in each core circuit, each transformer transforming the electrical energy into a stepped-up pulse, and each transformer transmitting a flyback pulse following the stepped-up pulse, the flyback pulse resetting the magnetic core. The output transmits an output pulse, the output pulse comprising the sum of each stepped-up pulse. |
| US10411480B2 |
Reconfiguration of the reactive power loop of a wind power plant
The present invention relates a method of controlling a wind power plant connected to an electrical grid, the wind power plant comprises a power plant controller (350), a plurality of wind turbine generators (1) and a STATCOM (230), with a STATCOM controller, comprises: controlling the plurality of wind turbine generators in a first control mode, with the power plant controller controlling a reactive power production from each of the plurality of wind turbine generators according to a closed loop control scheme, and controlling in a first control mode with a closed loop control scheme a reactive power production from the STATCOM according to a first setpoint dispatched from the power plant controller, and controlling the reactive power production from the STATCOM in a second control mode from the STATCOM controller according to an electrical measurement in the grid, and controlling the plurality of wind turbine generators in a second control mode, with the power plant controller controlling a reactive power production from the plurality of wind turbine generators, according to a feedforward control or a close loop control, based on a second setpoint from the STATCOM controller, and switching between the first control mode and the second control mode when receiving at least one trigger signal. The invention also relates to a wind power plant according to the method. |
| US10411478B2 |
Grid connection power conversion device and disconnection/welding detection method therefor
A grid connection power conversion device having isolated operation function for connecting a distributed power supply to a commercial power system is provided which comprises an inverter for converting DC power to AC power, a capacitor connected between the inverter and the commercial power system, a commercial voltage amplitude detection circuitry, an amplitude adjustment circuitry to increase an amplitude of an output voltage from the inverter stepwise from a given value to match the amplitude of the commercial system voltage, and a start-up control circuitry to control the grid connection power conversion device so that after the amplitude adjustment circuitry adjusts the amplitude of the output voltage from the inverter, after the start-up, to match the amplitude of the commercial system voltage detected by the commercial voltage amplitude detection circuitry, the start-up control circuitry connects the inverter to the commercial power system to start grid-connected operation. |
| US10411477B2 |
Distributed substring architecture for maximum power point tracking of energy sources
A photovoltaic array system includes multiple strings of series coupled photovoltaic modules to provide current at a voltage dependent on the number of modules in each string and their operating efficiency. Each string is coupled to a DC-to-DC converter to convert the current from each string for output to a DC bus. An inverter is coupled to DC bus to convert the current from the strings of series coupled photovoltaic modules to AC current at a grid-compatible voltage. |
| US10411470B2 |
Large capacity battery system for power system frequency regulation and large capacity battery operation method
A large capacity battery system for managing a large capacity battery used for power system frequency regulation and a large capacity battery operation method are provided. The method may include the steps of: calculating an estimated frequency regulation signal for the next day using history information of past frequency regulation signals; calculating a bidding capacity and a basic value for the large capacity battery, matched to the estimated frequency regulation signal; and determining an operation plan using the calculated bidding capacity and basic value; bidding the bidding capacity and basic value for the large capacity battery according to the operation plan on the day-ahead frequency regulation market. |
| US10411469B2 |
Reactive power control integrated with renewable energy power invertor
Systems and methods to incorporate control of reactive power produced by a variable reactive power output inverter that is installed in an existing installed power generation site. A reactive power output command value limiter is integrated with the variable reactive power output inverter. The reactive power command limiter iteratively: receives a reactive power command value, determines a threshold reactive power output value based on present real power output, determines that the reactive power command value exceeds the threshold reactive power output value, changes, based on the determining that the reactive power command value exceeds the threshold reactive power output value, the reactive power output command input value to a limited value reactive power output command that is one of equal to or less than the threshold reactive power output value, and outputs the limited value reactive power output command to the variable reactive power output inverter. |
| US10411468B2 |
Electrical load management system and method
Techniques for distributing electrical power to a plurality of electrical loads can include coupling an existing group of electrical loads to a common power source through a load management system, measuring an aggregate group current drawn by at least the existing group of electrical loads and comparing the measured aggregate group current to an aggregate group current threshold value. When the measured aggregate group current exceeds the aggregate group current threshold value, increase a number of subgroups of the existing group, using subgroups that are formed without requiring information about individual current associated with the individual electrical loads, sequentially apply power to individual subgroups during non-overlapping time periods, sequentially measure at least a corresponding current drawn by the individual subgroups while power is applied to the subgroups, and sequentially comparing the measured current to a threshold value. |
| US10411466B2 |
Apparatus and method for a mobile router to receive power from a plurality of power supplies
The present invention discloses an apparatus and a method for using a plurality of external USB power sources. The electronic apparatus comprises a plurality of USB jacks, a plurality of first diodes, at least one external power source jack, a second diode and a first voltage converter, a processing unit, a main memory, a network interface, at least one SIM card slot, a RF transceiver and a secondary storage. Further when voltage supplied via one or more of the external USB power sources is below a first reference voltage, a first action is performed. |
| US10411463B2 |
Method for using chemical thermodynamics to buffer the voltage of electric circuits and power systems
A method for buffering the voltage of an electric system that undergoes transient voltage changes includes the step of placing a new load upon the electric system by electrically connecting at least one electrochemical device to the electric system so that electrical current flows from the electric system to the electrochemical device. Also included are the steps of causing at least one electrochemical reaction to occur within the at least one electrochemical device; varying the new load placed upon the electric system as transient voltage changes in the electric system occur; and changing the electrical current from the electric system to the electrochemical device in a manner that retards transient voltage changes in the electric system that would occur in the absence of the steps of placing, causing, and varying. |
| US10411462B2 |
Medium voltage power supply
A medium voltage power supply is disclosed as including plural medium voltage power lines and plural medium voltage switchboards, connected by respective medium voltage power lines. The medium voltage switchboards are each provided with a respective electrical protection equipment under the IEC 61850 standard and with respective medium voltage signal couplers driven by the electrical protection equipment to transmit and receive Generic Object Oriented Substation Event messages through the medium voltage power lines. |
| US10411460B2 |
System and method for automatically ramping down a superconducting persistent magnet
An apparatus includes an electrically conductive coil which produces a magnetic field when an electrical current passes therethrough; a selectively activated persistent current switch connected across the electrically conductive coil; a cryostat having the electrically conductive coil and the persistent current switch disposed therein; an energy dump; at least one sensor which detects an operating parameter of the apparatus and outputs at least one sensor signal in response thereto; and a magnet controller. The magnet controller receives the sensor signal(s) and in response thereto detects whether an operating fault (e.g. a power loss to the compressor of a cryocooler) exists in the apparatus, and when an operating fault is detected, connects the energy dump unit across the electrically conductive coil to transfer energy from the electrically conductive coil to the energy dump unit. The energy dump unit disperses the energy outside of the cryostat. |
| US10411455B2 |
Re-enterable enclosure
An enclosure (20, 220) includes a housing (22, 222) and a sealing unit (48, 42a, 232) that mounts within a sealing unit opening (28, 230) of the housing. The sealing unit (48, 42a, 232) provides a peripheral seal between the housing (22, 222) and the sealing unit (48, 42a, 232) and provides seals around cable ports (50). The sealing unit (48, 42a, 232) can be mounted to and removed from the housing (222) through the sealing unit opening (28, 230). The base (26) lacks a permanent retention structure (55, 155a) at the outer end of the base (26) for retaining the sealing unit (48, 42a, 232) in the base (26). A cover (24) is removable from the base (26) without requiring the sealant arrangement (52, 236) to be de-pressurized. A fastening arrangement (55, 155a) releasably retains the sealing unit (48, 42a, 232) in the sealing unit opening (28, 230). |
| US10411447B1 |
System for electronic doorframe
A system for providing electronic features in a doorframe includes a body structure having a top wall, a bottom wall and a plurality of side walls. The walls define an interior space of the body structure. A plurality of ports are formed in the top wall and a plurality of ports are formed in the bottom wall with each port opening into the interior space. One or more of the top wall ports is longitudinally aligned with a respective bottom wall port to form a port pair. A diverter is positioned in the interior space and extends in the interior space from one side wall and toward an opposing side wall. The diverter spans between the port pair. The diverter has a diverter surface that is configured for directing an element that extends through a port of the port pair toward an area in the body structure. |
| US10411444B2 |
Method of assembling electrical control panel wire harness
A method is described that is suitable for automated use of peg apparatus and an electrical wire harness peg board. The pegs are utilized on a wire harness peg board during the assembly of a wire harness, and are particularly well suited for use in an automated assembly of the electrical wire harness where a constant upward, downward or lateral tension is desired without altering the free ends of each wire of a bundled wire harness. |
| US10411439B2 |
Surge arrester
A surge arrester for the power supply of low-voltage systems, having a housing, two electrodes which are situated axially opposite one another, an arc combustion chamber formed in the interior of the housing, and a trigger aid. A spark gap is formed between the two electrodes so that an arc is produced when the spark gap between the two electrodes is triggered, the axial distance between end faces of the two electrodes being so large that the arc voltage is greater than the expected line voltage. Conversion of energy within the surge arrester is reduced by the arc combustion chamber having an inner region and at least one expansion region into which the arc can propagate after triggering. The inner region is arranged between the two electrodes and is delimited axially by the end faces of the electrodes and is delimited longitudinally by the at least one expansion region. |
| US10411437B2 |
Creating arbitrary patterns on a 2-D uniform grid VCSEL array
An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate and an array of optoelectronic cells, formed on the semiconductor substrate. The cells include first epitaxial layers defining a lower distributed Bragg-reflector (DBR) stack; second epitaxial layers formed over the lower DBR stack, defining a quantum well structure; third epitaxial layers, formed over the quantum well structure, defining an upper DBR stack; and electrodes formed over the upper DBR stack, which are configurable to inject an excitation current into the quantum well structure of each optoelectronic cell. A first set of the optoelectronic cells are configured to emit laser radiation in response to the excitation current. In a second set of the optoelectronic cells, interleaved with the first set, at least one element of the optoelectronic cells, selected from among the epitaxial layers and the electrodes, is configured so that the optoelectronic cells in the second set do not emit the laser radiation. |
| US10411436B2 |
Robust, compact, field-able tunable integrated photonic device
A tunable laser device includes a laser structure and a plurality of individually addressable, separated contact stripes disposed on the laser structure. The laser structure includes a substrate, an active portion disposed on the substrate, and a chirped distributed feedback (DFB) grating disposed on the active portion. The active portion includes at least top and bottom contact layers and a gain medium. |
| US10411434B2 |
Semiconductor structure comprising a tensilely stressed suspended membrane including an optical cavity
The invention relates to a semiconductor structure, including:a semiconductor layer, including a membrane suspended above a carrier layer, the suspended membrane being formed of a central section, which is tensilely stressed and of a plurality of tensioning arms; andleast one optical cavity, bounded by two optical reflectors, which are placed in the lateral sections on either side of the central section;wherein:the central section is designed to transmit in the direction of the optical reflectors at least one uneven-order mode; andeach of said optical reflectors is formed of two lateral half-reflectors, which are arranged on either side of a longitudinal axis of the lateral section, so as to at least partially reflect said uneven-order mode. |
| US10411433B2 |
Active silicon optical bench
An integrated photonic module includes a semiconductor substrate configured to serve as an optical bench. Alternating layers of insulating and conducting materials are deposited on the substrate and patterned so as to define electrical connections. An optoelectronic chip is mounted on the substrate in contact with the electrical connections. A drive chip is mounted on the substrate so as to provide an electrical drive current to the optoelectronic chip via the electrical connections. |
| US10411431B2 |
Infrared laser system
Laser systems are provided with a semiconductor laser having an emission face, a drive circuit adapted to supply electric energy to the semiconductor laser to cause the semiconductor laser to emit a beam; a user input system adapted to sense a user input action; a controller adapted to control the drive circuit based upon the sensed user input action; a housing within which the laser is positioned and having an opening with a window through which the semiconductor laser can emit the beam. The semiconductor laser is positioned to emit the beam through the window and the emission face of the semiconductor laser is sized to cause a divergence in the beam to create a patterned emission with a predetermined shape without passing the beam through beam shaping optics. |
| US10411430B1 |
Optical system and method for locking a wavelength of a tunable laser
An optical system can lock a wavelength of a tunable laser to a specified wavelength of a temperature-insensitive spectral profile of a spectral filter. In some examples, the spectral filter, such as a Fabry-Perot filter, can have a temperature-insensitive peak wavelength and increasing attenuation at wavelengths away from the peak wavelength. The spectral filter can spectrally filter the laser light to form filtered laser light. A detector can detect at least a fraction of the filtered laser light. Circuitry coupled to the detector and the laser can tune the tunable laser to set a signal from the detector to a specified value corresponding to a specified wavelength in the spectral profile, and thereby adjust the selectable wavelength of the tunable laser to match the specified wavelength. In some examples, the optical system can include a polarization rotator, and can use polarization to separate incident light from return light. |
| US10411425B2 |
Modular connector with printed circuit board interconnection to display device
Disclosed herein are a connector capable of efficiently utilizing a space of a display device and a modular connector including a plurality of ports. A connector configured to be mounted on a display device receiving a signal from an external device, the connector comprises a body, a plurality of connection terminals provided on one side of the body and connected to a cable to which the external device is connected, and a printed circuit board (PCB) connection terminal provided on the other side of the body and mounted on the display device, wherein the body, the plurality of connection terminals, and the PCB connection terminal are provided as a single module. |
| US10411424B2 |
Conductive building block having multi-sided conductivity
A conductive building block having multi-sided conductivity includes a first stud disposed on a top side surface of an outer housing; a second stud disposed on a lateral side surface of the outer housing; and an engaging recess disposed on a bottom side surface of the outer housing. A circuit board, first positive-and-negative electrode connection pieces and second positive-and-negative electrode connection pieces are received in the outer housing. An illuminating member is mounted on the circuit board. The first positive-and-negative electrode connection piece is electrically connected with the circuit board and passes through the first stud. The second positive-and-negative electrode connection piece is electrically connected with the first positive-and-negative electrode connection piece and passes through the second stud. The conductive building blocks can form the longitudinal connection structure or the lateral connection structure, so that the connection ways of the conductive building blocks can be diversified. |
| US10411421B2 |
Electrical distribution system and methods of assembling same
An electrical distribution system includes a housing coupled to a bus bar assembly. The bus bar assembly includes a plurality of bus bars and a plurality of insulators. The housing includes a rear wall defining a plurality of ports and a plurality of notches, and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the rear wall to a front of the housing, the rear wall and the plurality of sidewalls defining an interior space of the housing, the plurality of sidewalls cooperatively defining an opening opposite the rear wall, the plurality of bus bars aligned with the plurality of ports, and the plurality of insulators received in the plurality of notches. The system further includes a neutral connector, and a conductor electrically coupling the neutral connector to a bus bar of the plurality of bus bars through a port of the plurality of ports. |
| US10411418B2 |
Plug device for a cable, in particular for a coaxial cable, preferably for connection to a musical instrument and/or sound effect equipment
The invention relates to a plug device for a cable, in particular for a coaxial cable, preferably for connection to a musical instrument and/or sound effect equipment, in particular a pedalboard, comprising: a distal connecting piece, in particular a pin, for connecting the plug device to a corresponding connecting piece, in particular a socket, of a device to be connected to the cable, in particular the musical instrument and/or the sound effect equipment, a proximal connecting piece for receiving the cable and an orientation adjustment device for changing an orientation of the proximal connecting piece relative to the distal connecting piece. |
| US10411415B2 |
Connector device
A connector device includes: a connection terminal including a first terminal connection portion electrically connected to a first counterpart terminal, a second terminal connection portion electrically connected to a second counterpart terminal, and a coupling portion having a flat plate shape, disposed between the first terminal connection portion and the second terminal connection portion electrically connected between the first terminal connection portion and the second terminal connection portion; a current sensor configured to measure current flowing in the coupling portion on the basis of magnetic flux according to the current; and a casing including a first housing portion housing the second terminal connection portion, and a second housing portion housing the coupling portion and the current sensor. |
| US10411412B2 |
Electrical receptacle connector with an enhanced structural strength of a tongue
An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulator, a first contact set, a second contact set, a U-shaped shielding structure, and a first plate member. The insulator includes a tongue and a base connected to the tongue. The first contact set and the second contact set are disposed inside the insulator and exposed out of a first side and a second side of the tongue opposite to each other. The U-shaped shielding structure is disposed on the base and at least partially exposed out of the base. The first plate member extends from an end portion of the U-shaped shielding structure along a third side adjacent to the first side and the second side of the tongue and toward a front end of the tongue. The first plate member includes a first step structure. Therefore, it effectively prevents the tongue from being worn or deformed by insertion and withdrawal forces. |
| US10411408B2 |
Connector assembly with an improved latch member easy to operate
A connector assembly includes: an insulative housing defining a receiving room communicating with outside; plural contacts retained in the insulative housing; and a latch member assembled on a rear side of the insulative housing, latch member comprising a locking portion received in the receiving room and a pressing portion connected to a rear end of the locking portion; wherein the latch member further comprises a resilient portion connected to a rear end of the pressing portion and a fixing portion connected to a rear end of the resilient portion and fixed relative to the insulative housing, the locking portion defines a locking section on a front end thereof to lock with a docking connector, and the locking portion is movable within the receiving room by applying an external force to the pressing portion, thereby unlocking the locking section from the docking connector. |
| US10411404B2 |
Grooved connector with land bridge
A connector assembly including a female element having a bore with an open end. A male element is insertable into the bore of the female element along an axis in a first axial direction and removable from the bore of the female element in a second axial direction. One of the female and male elements defines a circumferential surface extending around the axis and a depression in the circumferential surface, the depression having a catch wall facing in one of the first and second axial directions and a release wall facing in the other one of the first and second axial directions. A second one of the male and female elements has a finger mounted thereon, the finger has a catch end biased in a radial direction transverse to the axis, the catch end of the finger being configured to engage the depression and abut the catch wall. |
| US10411403B2 |
Card socket for electronic device
The present disclosure relates to a card socket for an electronic device and, more particularly, to a card socket for an electronic device having an improved card insertion confirmation structure, wherein the structure of a card insertion confirmation terminal, which senses full insertion of a card or a tray into a card socket, is changed so as to improve stability of insertion of the card or the tray. |
| US10411400B2 |
Connector unit
In a connector unit including a connector and a connector cover that fits on the connector, the connector includes a guide means that guides electric wires in one direction, while the connector cover includes a pressing means that presses on and deforms the guide means so as to restrict the movement of the electric wires that are guided by the guide means, whereby the electric wires that are pulled out of the connector are oriented in the one direction in which the electric wires are guided by the guide means. |
| US10411397B2 |
Connector seal device
A connector seal device includes, in one embodiment, a seal body extendable along an axis and configured to receive an end of a coupler. The coupler is configured to be rotatably coupled to a coaxial cable connector, and the seal body is configured to engage a portion of the coupler to establish a first environmental seal between the seal body and the coupler. The connector seal device also includes a seal neck integral with the seal body configured to extend along the axis beyond the end of the coupler. The seal neck is configured to engage an interface port to establish a second environmental seal between the seal neck and the interface port. |
| US10411396B2 |
Connector-equipped wire and production method for connector-equipped wire
A connector-equipped wire includes a terminal, and a wire including a core and an insulation coating provided around the core. The terminal is connected to an end part and is formed with a bulge so that a part of an end part of the insulation coating protrudes radially out. Further, the connector-equipped wire includes a connector housing including a body formed with a cavity into which the wire is to be inserted, and formed with a step on an inner peripheral surface of the cavity of the body. The bulge comes into contact with the step, and a retainer to be locked to the connector housing with the bulge pressed toward the step. |
| US10411395B1 |
Connector module with latch structure
A connector module with a latch structure includes a base (10), a terminal block (20) and latch structures (30). The base (10) includes a housing (11) having an accommodating space (A), and the incommoding space (A) includes a positioning member (113). The terminal block (20) inserted into the accommodating space (A) includes an insertion main body (21) and conductive terminals (22). Each latch structure (30) is arranged between the housing (11) and the insertion main body (21), which includes a latch portion (31) formed on the insertion main body (21) and a locking member (32) rotatably connected to the housing (11) on one side of the positioning member (113). The locking member (32) includes a locking portion (322) for locking onto the latch portion (31) and locking slots (324) provided for the positioning member (113). Accordingly, the terminal block can be removed without the use of any tools. |
| US10411394B2 |
Connector with latch protection
A connector with latch protection includes a metal casing, an insulating body, plural metal terminals and a partition. The insulating body covers the interior of the metal casing and has a tab extended forwardly from the front of the insulating body and disposed apart on the top and bottom of the tab respectively, and both sides of the tab corresponding to a connecting plug form an inwardly concave portion, and both sides of the partition have a protection plate corresponding to each inwardly concave portion and the front of the tab and bent and extended forwardly. When the partition is embedded into the insulating body by a molding method, a portion of the two metal protection plates exposed from the tab forms a pair of latch grooves for latching the connecting plug to effectively improve the durability and life and lower the manufacturing cost of the connector significantly. |
| US10411391B2 |
Power strip with two ends safely pluggable and a power strip assembly with plug
The present invention discloses a power strip with two ends safely pluggable, used for connecting with a plug, the power strip is provided with two receiving spaces respectively arranged at two ends of the power strip for allowing the plug to plug in, the receiving space is provided with pins and a blocking structure, the blocking structure is configured for, when the plug is plugged into one of the receiving spaces, closing or obstructing the other receiving space. |
| US10411388B2 |
Electrical connector with terminals having supporting portion
An electrical connector includes an insulating body provided with an accommodating cavity for insertion of a mating connector; and a plurality of terminals retained in the insulating body. At least one of the terminals has a retaining portion, an extending portion extending forward from the retaining portion, a contact portion bending upward from a front end of the extending portion and obliquely extending backward into the accommodating cavity, and a supporting portion bending upward and extending from one side of the extending portion. The supporting portion is located below the contact portion. When a non-matching mating connector is inserted into the accommodating cavity, the contact portion abuts the supporting portion, and the supporting portion is configured to block the contact portion from excessive downward deviation. |
| US10411385B2 |
Connector structure for device connection
A connector structure includes a conductive rubber. The consecutive rubber is accommodated in an accommodating recess part of a first connector, and is configured to be sandwiched between a first terminal and a second terminal to electrically connect them when a first casing and a second casing are assembled so as to abut the first connector to a second connector. The conductive rubber includes both end surfaces which are contact points abutting against the first terminal and the second terminal, and a resilient part including a groove part formed on an outer circumference between the contact points so as to extend in a circumferential direction orthogonal to an axial direction connecting the end surfaces. |
| US10411381B2 |
Electrical contact
The invention relates generally to a female electrical contact comprising a body portion and a contact portion that is distal to the body portion. The contact portion comprises a plurality of fingers tapered towards the longitudinal axis of the contact. The contact portion further comprises a tip portion at an end of the contact portion that is distal to the body portion, wherein the pluralities of fingers of the contact portion bend outward at the tip portion, away from the longitudinal axis of the contact. |
| US10411380B1 |
Connectors with liquid metal and gas permeable plugs
Circuit connectors comprising liquid metal and methods of manufacturing such circuit connectors are provided. An example circuit connector includes a stretchable housing including liquid metal having a first viscosity, where the stretchable housing includes a first opening associated with a first end of the stretchable housing. The circuit connector may further include a first gas permeable plug inserted in the first opening, where the first gas permeable plug is not liquid permeable with respect to any liquids having at least the first viscosity. |
| US10411377B2 |
Surface mount connector with alternative direction mounting feature
A connector that includes: a box-shaped substrate side housing containing a terminal mount wall extending in a plane defined by mutually orthogonal X and Y axes, four side walls; and terminals arranged in two rows, the rows being apart from each other in an X axis direction, such that the terminals in each row are in alignment with one another in a Y axis direction, is provided. A lock part is provided on one of the two first side walls for detachably locking a plug housing in an inserted position, and, on each of the second side walls, a first and a second reinforcement plate mount parts are provided at two different positions apart from each other in the X-axis direction, and a reinforcement plate may be mounted to each of the two first and the two second reinforcement plate mount parts. The housing may be alternatively mounted in an upward opening manner or in a right angle manner and with the reinforcement plate edges soldered to a printed circuit board in each case. |
| US10411373B1 |
Connector for establishing an electrical connection with terminal blocks
A connector for establishing an electrical connection with a plurality of terminal blocks may include a fixture and a plurality of electrical contacts attached to the fixture. The electrical contacts may be configured to engage conductive screws of the plurality of terminal blocks. The electrical contacts may also be configured to be mechanically biased against the conductive screws. The connector may include a printed circuit board attached to the fixture and electrical contacts. The connector may also include a cable connector. The printed circuit board may electrically connect the cable connector to the electrical contacts. A connector system may include a plurality of such connectors. One or more securing elements may be employed to attach such connectors to one another. |
| US10411372B2 |
DIN latch mechanism
An electronics module having a latch assembly including first and second reciprocating latch portions adapted to engage respective first and second opposite edges of a mounting rail. Each of the latch portions includes a locking tab, the locking tabs movable away from each other from a latched position to an unlatched position, the first and second latch portions being coupled together for reciprocating motion, at least one of said latch portions including an actuator portion extending from the housing for manual actuation of the latch assembly between the latch and unlatched positions. |
| US10411371B2 |
Assembly comprising conductor element and resilient means for unidirectionally retaining electric wires for switchboard terminal blocks
Conductive assembly for switchboard terminal blocks comprising a conductor element (200) for electrically connecting together the input and output (IN/OUT) of a switchboard terminal block, and resilient means for retaining electric wires (1) comprising at least one resilient element (100) with a body (110) having a first arm (111) substantially parallel to the vertical direction (Z-Z) and a second arm (112) forming an acute internal angle with the first vertical arm (111), which arms are resiliently connected together by a curved section (113), said conductor element (200) having a substantially U-shaped form and arms (211) which extend parallel to a substantially vertical direction (Z-Z) and are situated opposite each other in the longitudinal direction (X-X), wherein the conductor element comprises a pair of shoulders (212), each extending from the base (212) parallel to the vertical direction (Z-Z) and arranged facing, at a suitable distance, a respective vertical arm (211) of the conductor element. The first arm (111) of the at least one resilient element (100) has a substantially L-shaped foot (115) comprising a lug (115b) bent in the longitudinal direction (X) outwards. |
| US10411365B2 |
Ground connection for an aluminium component
A ground connection for an aluminum component has grounding bolt which is fastened to the component, with an adapter over the surface, and which is composed of a material having greater strength than the aluminum component and differs from the aluminum component in electrochemical series and has a thread element which clamps the cable shoe of the ground conductor on a corresponding contact area of the grounding bolt. Permanently high functional reliability is obtained by the grounding bolt and the adapter being composed of materials matched to one another so as to prevent corrosion and connected to one another in a cohesive manner, and the adapter is zinc-plated on the component side and is fastened to the component over a large surface area by a welded/soldered connection which is established using aluminum as an additional material. |
| US10411362B2 |
Synchronization for satellite system
Synchronization technology is implemented for a satellite communication system. Master clock information is accessed at a terrestrial location. A timing message based on the master clock information is transmitted from the terrestrial location to a satellite as the satellite is in orbit. The satellite is synchronized to the master clock based on the timing message. A beacon signal is transmitted from the satellite toward Earth. The beacon signal includes timing information. The beacon signal is received at a ground based gateway. The gateway is synchronized to the satellite based on the beacon signal. Communication is sent from the gateway to a terminal via the satellite. The communication includes timing data. The terminal is synchronized to the gateway based on the timing data. |
| US10411360B2 |
Planar antenna
A planar antenna according to the present invention includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged thereon and characterized in that two opposite corner parts from among corners of an N-gon (N is an even number equal to or greater than four) are cut out. For example, a planar antenna has a shape in which two opposite corner parts from among four corner parts included in a rectangle (11) (N=4) are cut out. The planar antenna may be composed by combining a plurality of square antenna units on which a plurality of antenna elements are arranged. |
| US10411359B2 |
Flight interference apparatus
A flight interference apparatus enabling it to block intrusion by a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle which is remotely piloted by radio communication into an area to be protected, suppress influence on communication within and outside the area, and reduce the number of required antenna devices. The flight interference apparatus includes one or a plurality of antenna devices which radiate a jamming signal from a directional antenna, and the directional antenna includes a radiating element which radiates a jamming signal of a predetermined frequency band and a reflector which gives directionality to the jamming signal in its radiation direction. |
| US10411357B1 |
Ultra-wideband unipole antenna
The ultra-wideband unipole antenna is a variant on a monocone antenna, including a plurality of electrically conductive rods that act as a parallel inductive-capacitive (L-C) network for improving the impedance match between the radiating element of the antenna and the antenna's feed. An electrically conductive conical surface having a vertex end and a base end acts as the radiating element. The vertex end is positioned adjacent to, and spaced apart from, a ground plane plate. Each electrically conductive rod has opposed first and second ends, the first end being secured to the electrically conductive conical surface, and the second end being secured to the ground plane plate. A coaxial cable feed line has a center conductor and an outer conductor. The center conductor is in electrical communication with the vertex end of the electrically conductive conical surface, and the outer conductor is in electrical communication with the ground plane plate. |