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| US10418791B2 |
Mount for access point
A mount for attaching an access point (AP) device to a surface is described. The mount includes a housing, a tension member for securing the AP within a compartment of the housing, a retention device for securing the tension member to or about the housing with adjustable tension, and attachment means for securing the mount to or in the ceiling or wall. The tension member can be a cable and the retention device can be a cable retention device. The cable can include first and second ends attached to first and second ends of a spring that maintains tension on the cable even if the cable begins to relax over time while securing the AP within the compartment. The mount can also include a cover for concealing the AP within the housing. The cover, the housing, or both can include magnets for securing the cover to the housing. |
| US10418790B2 |
Housing
A housing for switchgear includes: first and second parallel side walls connected by a frame, a top wall, and/or a bottom wall; a door extending between the first and second side walls and arranged hingedly on the first side wall, a door hinge axis of the door being parallel to the side walls; and an instrument panel including a front face and third and fourth parallel side walls extending perpendicular from the front face. The door has an opening through which the third and fourth side walls of the instrument panel extend. The instrument panel is hingedly arranged on the door. An instrument panel hinge axis of the instrument panel is parallel to the door hinge axis. The instrument panel hinge axis is positioned adjacent to the second side wall. |
| US10418788B2 |
Spark plug
Disclosed is spark plug including: an insulator with an axial hole; a center electrode disposed in a front end side of the axial hole; a cylindrical metal shell holding therein the insulator; and a ground electrode having a rod-shaped electrode base made of a Ni-based material and connected at a base end portion thereof to the metal shell and a tip made of a noble metal-based material and joined to a distal end portion of the electrode base. The distal end portion of the electrode base has a first surface facing a front end surface of the center electrode and second and third surfaces connected to the first surface. The tip includes a first tip member joined to the first surface and a second tip member joined to at least one of the second and third surfaces. The first and second tip members are separated apart from each other. |
| US10418786B2 |
High voltage connection sealing method for corona ignition coil
A corona igniter assembly 20 comprises an ignition coil assembly 22, a firing end assembly 24, and a metal tube 26 connecting the ignition coil assembly 22 to the firing end assembly 24. A rubber boot 28 is disposed in the metal tube 26 and compressed symmetrically between a coil output member 30 of the ignition coil assembly 22 and an insulator 42 of the firing end assembly 24. Thus, the rubber boot 28 fills any air gaps and provides a hermetic seal between the ignition coil assembly 22 and the firing end assembly 24 to prevent unwanted corona discharge from forming from those air gaps. |
| US10418784B2 |
Surface emitting laser, information acquiring apparatus, imaging apparatus, laser array, and method of manufacturing surface emitting laser
A surface emitting laser having a wide wavelength tunable band is provided.A surface emitting laser includes a first reflecting mirror (102); a second reflecting mirror (116); and an active layer (104) arranged between the first reflecting mirror (102) and the second reflecting mirror (116), a gap being formed between the second reflecting mirror (116) and the active layer (104), an oscillation wavelength being tunable. The second reflecting mirror (116) includes a beam (108) comprising a single-crystal semiconductor, and a dielectric multilayer film (110) supported by the beam (108), and the dielectric multilayer film (110) is arranged in an opening (118) formed in the beam (108). |
| US10418781B1 |
Quantum well passivation structure for laser facets
An edge-emitting laser diode is formed to include a quantum well passivation structure comprising alternating thin layers of a semiconductor material (e.g., silicon, germanium, or antimony) and a dielectric barrier. The semiconductor layers are sufficiently thin to form quantum wells, with the dielectric layers functioning as barriers between adjacent quantum wells. The semiconductor layer adjacent to the facet is formed of crystalline material, with the remaining quantum wells formed of amorphous material. The structure, and the method of forming the structure, results in a configuration that exhibits higher levels of COD than devices using a bulk (thick) silicon passivation layer. |
| US10418780B1 |
Dot projector with automatic power control
A dot projector with automatic power control includes a housing covering a substrate with an installing space and a platform therein, an automatic power control integrated circuit, a photodiode and a reflector disposed under the platform of the housing, a collimator disposed in the installing space of the housing and a diffractive optical element bonded on the platform of the housing. Whereby a laser diode emits a laser light to the reflector for the laser light to be reflected perpendicularly through the collimator to the diffractive optical element; then the diffractive optical element produces a plurality of light spots and the a stray light is also produced from the laser light. The photodiode of the automatic power control integrated circuit then detects the stray light and produces a feedback signal transmitted back to the laser diode for adjustment of the laser emission power in order to control the light spots produced by the diffractive optical element. |
| US10418777B2 |
Coaxial transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) including side-by-side laser diode and monitor photodiode arrangement
A coaxial transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) including a side-by-side laser diode and monitor photodiode package, consistent with embodiments of the present disclosure, may be used in an optical transceiver for transmitting an optical signal at a channel wavelength. In an embodiment, the coaxial TOSA includes a laser sub-mount coupled to a mounting region defined by a body of the coaxial TOSA. The laser sub-mount includes a monitor photodiode disposed adjacent to a side of a laser diode such that a sensor region of the monitor photodiode is disposed within, or in close proximity to, a light cone emitted by a light emitting surface of the laser diode. The monitor photodiode is thus configured to directly receive a portion of emitted channel wavelengths from the laser diode for monitoring purposes. |
| US10418775B2 |
External cavity tunable laser with dual beam outputs
The invention relates to an external cavity tunable laser with dual beam outputs. The first laser cavity of the tunable laser comprises a first laser cavity mirror, a laser gain medium, an intracavity collimating lens, an active optical phase modulator, a tunable acousto-optic filter, a tunable Fabry-Perot tunable filter, a second reflection mirror all disposed inside a laser cavity sequentially, and a laser driver and control system. The laser cavity beam reflected by the first laser cavity mirror enters the tunable acousto-optic filter to generate a zeroth order diffracted beam as the first laser output beam. The laser cavity beam reflected by the second laser cavity mirror enters the tunable acousto-optic filter to generate a zeroth order diffracted beam as the second laser output beam. The tunable laser further comprises a wavelength locker outside the laser cavity. The second laser cavity of the tunable laser has a Fabry-Perot etalon disposed in the first laser cavity to further compress the spectrum width of the laser output beams. The invention is compact with high performance without mechanical moving parts, stable laser output, low cost for volume production and installation. |
| US10418768B1 |
Rotating socket
A rotating socket comprises a wiring assembly, a rotating assembly, an elastic member, a locking mechanism, and a housing. The wiring assembly comprises a fixing base and lugs, the fixing base comprises a substrate and a side wall. The rotating assembly comprises a panel, a rotating base, conductive tabs and conductive rings. The locking mechanism controlling whether the rotating base is separated from the fixing base. When the locking mechanism is in a locked state, the rotating base compresses the elastic member, and one end of the rotating base away from the panel abuts against the substrate and is limited by the side wall; when the locking mechanism is in a unlocked state, the rotating base is separated from the fixed base by resilient force of the elastic member and free to be rotated. |
| US10418764B2 |
Patch panel frame for circuit board module
An improved patch panel assembly includes a frame and faceplate that mate with a housing, and the housing defines a plurality of individual communication ports. The housing is mounted to the patch panel frame and includes jack openings that accommodate data jacks and circuit board openings that accommodate mating blades of circuit boards. The two sets of openings are separated on the housing by an intervening spacing and interposer terminal sets are provided to electrically interconnect the jacks with circuits on the circuit boards. The patch panel housings may be formed in discrete groupings so that, if desired, the patch panels may have ports that are grouped together by bandwidth, storage capability and the like. Inasmuch as the housings are mounted to the patch panel frames, the jacks and the circuit boards can be easily and individually replaced, repaired or upgraded with similar components without requiring disassembly of the patch panel. |
| US10418762B2 |
High serial port count infrastructure management device
Infrastructure management device housing a multitude of serial ports and communicatively connected over a network may configure IT device(s) communicatively connected over a communications interface. The infrastructure management device may discover and/or cluster IT device(s). An IT device information may be indexed and searched based criteria applied to the IT device index. Action(s) may be performed on one or more IT device(s), determined at least in part, by an IT device information. |
| US10418761B2 |
Hybrid coaxial cable fabrication
A signal transmission line, includes: a coaxial electrical connector comprising a coaxial electrical connector inner conductor and a coaxial outer conductor; a coaxial cable comprising a coaxial inner conductor and a coaxial outer conductor; and a section of resistive cable disposed between the coaxial cable and the coaxial connector, the section of resistive cable comprising an electrically thin resistive layer disposed between the coaxial cable inner conductor and a section outer conductor. The coaxial cable inner conductor is fastened to the coaxial electrical connector inner conductor. |
| US10418760B2 |
Coaxial cable connector having an outer conductor engager
A connector for a coaxial cable includes a coupler configured to engage another coaxial cable connector. The connector further includes a body disposed at least partially within the coupler. The connector further includes an outer conductor engager made of a conductive material disposed within the body and the coupler. The connector further includes a biasing element on an interior of the body. During a coupling of the connector to the coaxial cable: a connector end of the outer conductor engager moves axially relative to the body, the outer conductor engager is compressed by the biasing element, and an interior of the outer conductor engager is inwardly compressed against an outer conductor of the coaxial cable. |
| US10418757B2 |
Rear camera system for a vehicle with a trailer
A vehicle plug for transmitting power and signals between a vehicle and a trailer includes a power conductor and one or more video signal conductors. The power conductor is configured to provide power to one or more electrical components of the trailer, the one or more electrical components of the trailer includes one or more video cameras. The one or more video signal conductors are configured to receive video signals from the one or more video cameras of the trailer. |
| US10418747B2 |
Electrical connector having an improved o-ring
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of conductive contacts affixed to the insulative housing, a shell enclosing the insulative housing, and an o-ring attached to a front end of the shell. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The shell includes a front surface, an outer surface, and an inner surface. There exists a mating room between the inner surface of the shell and the tongue portion. The o-ring includes an internal attached surface attached to the inner surface of the shell. |
| US10418746B2 |
Charge port assembly and molding method
A charge port assembly for an electrified vehicle includes a housing having an opening and a first interchangeable seal removably received within the opening. A molding method for molding a charge port assembly includes injecting a first shot of material into a mold cavity to form a housing of the charge port assembly, positioning an insert within the mold cavity, and injecting a second shot of material into the mold cavity to form an interchangeable seal within the housing. |
| US10418744B2 |
Connector
It is aimed to prevent separation of a cover (30) from a housing (10). The housing (10) includes lock receiving portions (21) on an outer side of a wire extending surface (13). The cover (30) is in the form of a cap for covering wires (80) extending from the wire extending surface (13) and includes a wire pull-out opening (35) configured such that the wires (80) are pulled out therethrough, an opening end (34) configured to contact the housing (10) along a front-rear direction, and locks (41) configured to restrict separation from the housing (10) by locking the lock receiving portions (21). The cover (30) includes a rib (37) serving as a forward movement restricting portion. The housing (10) includes opening restricting portions (23) arranged to contact and face a front end of the rib (37) and to face an outer surface of the cover (30). |
| US10418742B1 |
Connector-assembly with primary-lock-reinforcement device having a shipping-position
A connector-assembly includes a connector-housing and a primary-lock-reinforcement device. The connector-housing retains electrical-terminals within terminal-cavities defined by a terminal-tower disposed within the connector-housing. The electrical-terminals mate with one or more corresponding electrical-terminals along a mating-axis of the connector-assembly. The primary-lock-reinforcement device slideably engages the terminal-tower and is moveable from a shipping-position to a pre-stage-position. The primary-lock-reinforcement device has a base and a skirt. The primary-lock-reinforcement device has a post extending beyond an inner-surface of the skirt that engages a corresponding L-shaped slot defined by an outer-surface of the terminal-tower. The corresponding L-shaped slot has a first-leg and a second-leg. The first-leg defines a wall configured to inhibit a movement of the primary-lock-reinforcement device along the mating-axis. When the primary-lock-reinforcement device is moved from the shipping-position to the pre-stage-position, the post aligns with an entrance to the second-leg, thereby enabling the primary-lock-reinforcement device to move from the pre-stage-position to a full-stage-position. |
| US10418740B2 |
Terminal module
A terminal fitting (50) includes a metal case (52) having an opening (52A) through which a mating contact point (31) is inserted, a coil spring (16) accommodated in the metal case (52), and an electrical contact (53) biased toward the opening (52A) by the coil spring (16) and configured to move while compressing the coil spring (16) by being pressed by the mating contact point (31). The metal case (52) includes a first guide (parts at both front and rear sides of an opening (57) in a front wall (55) of the metal case (52)) configured to guide the electrical contact (53) to a position shifted from a position before a movement in a direction orthogonal to an inserting direction of the mating contact point (31) by sliding in contact with the electrical contact (53) when the electrical contact (53) moves by being pressed by the mating contact point (31). |
| US10418734B1 |
Contact assembly for a straddle mount connector
A straddle mount connector includes a housing and a contact assembly received in a cavity of the housing between a mating card slot and a host board slot. The contact assembly has a contact organizer having upper and lower contact channels in a top wall and a bottom wall, respectively receiving upper and lower contacts and engaging corresponding upper and lower locating features. The upper and lower contacts are electrically connected to a host board and a mating card. The contact assembly is loaded into the cavity such that upper and lower blocking surfaces of the housing block the upper contacts in the upper and lower contact channels. |
| US10418732B2 |
Board attaching structure
A board attaching structure includes a first board on which a first connector provided, a second board on which a second connector provided, a plate-like member extending parallel to the first board and covering at least part of an surface of the first board, a posture restricting portion formed by bending part of the plate-like member toward the first board and configured to restrict a posture of the second board with respect to the first board when the second connector is mounted on the first connector, and a position restricting portion formed by bending part of the plate-like member and configured to restrict a position at which the second board is arranged on the first board while the second connector is mounted on the first connector. |
| US10418728B2 |
Connector
A connector having a contact made of metal, and comprises a pair of elastic arms adapted to clamp a conductor of a wire, so as to electrically contact the conductor. A first release structure is on one of the pair of elastic arms and a second release structure, facing the first release structure, is on the other of the pair of elastic arms. A wedge channel is defined between the first release structure and the second release structure when the conductor is clamped between the pair of elastic arms and the wedge channel gradually widens toward free ends of the pair of elastic arms. The pair of elastic arms are adapted to be expanded away from each other by inserting an external tool into the wedge channel, so as to release the clamped conductor, improving the use convenience of the connector. |
| US10418727B1 |
Rotate-to-open clamping unit and connection device having the same
A rotate-to-open clamping unit and a connection device having the same are disclosed. The connection device includes a housing and plural clamping unit disposed in the housing. The clamping unit includes an elastic member and a rotate-to-open member. The elastic member is leaned by a conductive terminal and has a moveable elastic arm and a pivotal connection space. The rotate-to-open member has an extending arm formed with an extending distal end pivoted in the pivotal connection space. The rotate-to-open member is rotated with the extending distal end served as an axis, the rotate-to-open member in a rotating status is able to drive the moveable elastic arm to be displaced so as to be opened, so that a conductive member can be elastically clamped or released between the moveable elastic arm and the conductive terminal. |
| US10418726B2 |
Bus bar connection structure
A bus bar connection structure includes a housing, a circuit board including metal, and a bus bar that are disposed in order from a lower side, a lower nut including metal and disposed in an upper surface-side of the housing in a state in which the lower nut is embedded in the housing, and a bolt including metal. On an upper surface of the circuit board, an insulation layer and a copper foil pattern are formed in order from a lower side. An insulation paper piece is disposed between the lower nut and the circuit board. The bolt is screwed into the lower nut in a state in which the bolt is inserted through the insulation paper piece, the circuit board, the insulation layer, the copper foil pattern, and the bus bar. A rotation-preventing part is further provided, the rotation-preventing part preventing the insulation paper piece from rotating due to torque generated during fastening of the bolt. |
| US10418723B1 |
Dual polarized circular or cylindrical antenna array
An antenna array includes a first substrate having a first curved edge, a second substrate having a second curved edge, and members extending outwardly toward or past the first curved edge. The members include a first member and a second member below the first member. The antenna array also includes a vertical polarization (BAVA) element disposed perpendicular to the first substrate or the second substrate and between the first member and the second member, and a horizontal polarization BAVA element disposed parallel to the first substrate or the second substrate and between a top of the first member and the second member. |
| US10418722B2 |
Dipole antenna arrays
Dipole antenna arrays are disclosed. An example dipole antenna array includes a ground plane having a first serrated edge, and a first dipole antenna, at least a portion of the first dipole antenna disposed parallel to the first serrated edge. |
| US10418721B2 |
Low-profile and high-gain modulated metasurface antennas from gigahertz to terahertz range frequencies
A modulated MTS antenna including a metasurface fabricated from metallized cylinders on a ground plane. The antenna structure can be designed to operate in the Gigahertz or Terahertz frequency band and to have a well defined directivity. The MTS antenna may be micromachined out of a silicon wafer using deep reactive ion etching (DRIE). |
| US10418720B1 |
Signal line conversion structure of antenna array
A signal line conversion structure of the antenna array is disposed between the antenna array and the circuit substrate, which includes a first dielectric substrate is disposed on the circuit substrate, a second dielectric substrate is vertically disposed on the first dielectric substrate and divided into a first region and a second region, and the second dielectric substrate is provided with the antenna array. At least one signal line is disposed on the first region and extends to the second dielectric substrate for connecting the circuit substrate and the antenna array. A metal connecting plate has at least three metal through holes pierced in the first dielectric substrate and connected to the second ground layer. The metal connecting plate is connected to the first ground layer of the first dielectric substrate and the second ground layer of the second dielectric substrate through the metal through holes. |
| US10418715B2 |
Tunable antenna module using frequency-division circuit for mobile device with metal cover
A tunable antenna module for a mobile device includes an antenna, a frequency-division circuit and one or more impedance-tuning circuits. The frequency-division circuit is coupled to a radiator of the antenna for forming one or more signal paths for one or more of component frequencies of a radio-frequency signal of the antenna. One or more the impedance-tuning circuits are coupled to the frequency-division circuit for tuning an impedance of the antenna at one or more of the component frequencies of the radio-frequency signal. |
| US10418711B2 |
RFID antenna structure for increased range when coupled with a mobile device
An RFID tag device with an RFID antenna assembly that increases transmission range of the RFID tag device when adhesively coupled to a mobile device. The RFID tag device includes a RF interface that operates at a first RF frequency, a controller coupled to the RF interfaces, and the RFID antenna assembly. The RFID antenna assembly includes a first and a second dipole elements, each shaped as a half rectangle with an additional segment joining the respective element to a tuning element. The RFID antenna also includes a tuning element, which is a loop antenna, connecting the RF interface to the controller and a ferrite dielectric on the back of one of the dipole elements. A structure of the RF antennal assembly, when the RFID tag device is coupled to a mobile device, causes the mobile device to function as a reflector to increase gain of the RFID antenna assembly thereby improving transmission range. |
| US10418708B2 |
Wideband antenna
This disclosure provides a wideband antenna including a feed line, a ground conductor plate and a radiating conductor element connected to the feed line and facing the ground conductor plate at a distance from the ground conductor plate. A parasitic conductor element is provided on a side opposite to the ground conductor plate as viewed from the radiating conductor plate and is insulated from these plates. A coupling adjusting conductor plate is positioned between the radiating conductor element and the parasitic conductor element, is configured to adjust an amount of coupling between them, overlaps an area where the radiating conductor element and the parasitic conductor element overlap, and straddles the radiating conductor element in a direction orthogonal to the direction of a current I that flows therein. Both end sides of the coupling adjusting conductor plate are electrically connected to the ground conductor plate via via-holes. |
| US10418707B2 |
Planar end fire antenna for wideband low form factor applications
An end-fire antenna for wideband low form factor applications includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second metal layers. An open cavity formed in the dielectric layer that is filled with air, the cavity defined by a pair of sidewalls that extend from an aperture of the cavity to a rear wall of the cavity, where the depth of the aperture is defined between the aperture and the rear wall. The cavity is formed by selecting the width of the aperture of the cavity and the depth of the cavity such that the antenna achieves the same gain during operation irrespective of a variation in the thickness of the antenna. |
| US10418705B2 |
Electromagnetic navigation antenna assembly and electromagnetic navigation system including the same
An antenna assembly for radiating at least one electromagnetic field for electromagnetic navigation and an electromagnetic navigation system including such an antenna assembly are provided. The antenna assembly includes a substrate and a planar antenna including a trace that is deposited on the substrate and arranged in a plurality of loops. Respective distances between adjacent pairs of the loops increase in a direction from an innermost loop to an outermost loop. |
| US10418704B2 |
Co-located active steering antennas configured for band switching, impedance matching and unit selectivity
An antenna system includes collocated active steering antennas implemented in a bottom portion of a wireless communication device designed for positioning near a user's mouth or chin. The co-located active steering antennas are each configured to steer a radiation pattern of the respective antenna, and can be further configured for active band switching and/or active impedance matching. These co-located active steering antennas can be used independently, or in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) configuration. In addition, the antenna system is capable of antenna unit selectivity, which includes the ability to select one of the co-located antennas with the lowest head and hand loss for use, while disabling the antenna with the highest loss attributed to hand head loading. |
| US10418701B2 |
Antenna device
An antenna device including a ground conductor and first and second antennas. The first and second antennas are linear antennas and have respective feeding points at ends on a side of the ground conductor. The first and second antennas perform transmission/reception at first and second frequencies that are adjacent to each other, respectively. Moreover, the first antenna includes a first monopole antenna and a loop antenna branched off from the first monopole antenna. An end of the loop antenna opposing a branching point at which the loop antenna is branched off from the first monopole antenna is short-circuited between the feeding points of the first and second antennas on the ground conductor. |
| US10418699B2 |
Systems, devices and methods for transmitting electrical signals through a Faraday cage
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide devices, methods, and systems that support electrical connection, signal delivery, and/or communication between internal and external portions of a Faraday cage. In some embodiments, devices and methods are provided for transmitting electrical signals through a waveguide port of a Faraday cage. In some embodiments, aspects of the present disclosure are employed to adapt a magnetic resonance imaging system for communications between a scanner room and a control room. |
| US10418692B2 |
Modular base station
Disclosed herein are embodiments including a modular base station that is, for example, easily deployable in emerging markets. The modular base station is designed to be easily transported and affixed, for example, to poles or trees. The modular base station is designed to withstand high temperatures caused by operating at high altitudes and to be easily configured, oriented, and serviced in the field. Its components (e.g., radio frequency (RF) circuit boards) are modular so as to interoperate with various third-party compatible devices. |
| US10418690B2 |
Earthing card
An earthing card emits energy tuned to the natural frequency of the Earth. The card may include a material, carbon fiber or other substrate, programmed using scalar waves. Information is embedded into the carbon fiber via a system that uses a wave function generator to produce resonant frequencies for the application and drive wave information from a transmitting electrode to a receiving electrode. The scalar waves between the electrodes may be subjected to a wave or field source modulating the resultant wave information received at the receiving electrode. A material placed on a receiving coil at the receiving electrode receives the resultant wave information programming the material to emit energy tuned to the natural frequencies of the Earth. By placing the card on the body or running water over the card and spraying the body, the body will receive the energetic information emitted by the programmed material. |
| US10418689B2 |
Electronic device comprising antenna
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a slit, a first antenna element extending along a portion of the housing, a second antenna element spaced apart from at least a portion of the first antenna element by the slit and extends along another portion of the housing, and a wireless communication circuit positioned inside the housing and electrically connected to the first antenna element. The first antenna element is electrically connected to the second antenna element. |
| US10418688B2 |
Mobile terminal
A terminal includes: a metal housing; a frame surrounds the metal housing; and a metal antenna radiator arranged between the metal housing and the frame, surrounding the metal housing, and having a first end coupled with a feed source through a matching circuit and a second end grounded. |
| US10418685B1 |
Flexed perimeter roller antenna positioner
One embodiment disclosed herein is related to a device for pointing a radiating element. The device includes an aligned radiating surface; a hinge that is circumferentially mounted to a rear side of the aligned radiating surface, the hinge configured to change azimuth of the aligned radiating surface; and a Tubular Universal joint (TU-joint) having one end coupled to a rear side of the aligned radiating surface and a second end coupled to a base, the TU-joint being configured to change an elevation of the aligned radiating surface. Another embodiment is related to a Tubular Universal-joint (TU-joint). In the embodiment, the TU-joint includes a hollow tube having a first end and a second end; a plurality of slits along the surface of the tube; and a plurality of members between the plurality of slits, each of the plurality of members configured to bear a portion of a load of the TU-joint, wherein the TU-joint is configured to be axially and torsionally stiff while being bendable. |
| US10418680B1 |
Multilayer coupler having mode-compensating bend
A multilayer coupler may include electromagnetically coupled planar first and second signal conductors that are separated by a gap, extend adjacent each other along a ground plane, and change orientation in a bend. A plate may be positioned along the bend between the ground plane and the signal conductors. The ground plane may have an opening extending along the bend and the plate. A multilayer coupler may include two coupled signal conductors formed in a loop having a four-wire section in which different sections of the two signal conductors overlap in a four-wire section. In a transition region in which the coupler transitions from the four-wire section to a two-wire section, an isolating ground plane may separate the two two-wire sections extending from the four-wire section. A bend in the transition region may include a plate between the two signal conductors and the ground plane. |
| US10418678B2 |
Apparatus and method for affecting the radial dimension of guided electromagnetic waves
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for receiving a communication signal, generating an electromagnetic wave from the communication signal, and inducing the electromagnetic wave on a portion of a transmission medium having an insulation layer with a tapered end covering at least part of a conductor. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10418675B2 |
Cooling structure of battery and battery unit
One embodiment provides a cooling structure of a battery, including: a battery; an intake port, from which air in an vehicle interior is taken in; and an intake duct, which is in communication with the intake port and from which the air in the vehicle interior is introduced to the battery, wherein the intake duct is connected with a discharge port of an air conditioning duct, which is connected with an air conditioning system, and from which air discharged from the air conditioning system is introduced. |
| US10418673B2 |
Battery module with a controllable external heat sink
A battery module having a controllable external heat sink and methods of operating the battery module are provided. According to an aspect of the invention, the battery module includes a battery cell, an external circuit connected to the battery cell, and a controller that controls the external circuit. The external circuit includes a first switch and a heat sink. If an internal short circuit within the battery cell is detected, the controller closes the first switch in order to generate heat in the heat sink. |
| US10418671B2 |
Power supply device, power supply system provided with said power supply device, and separator for battery cells
A power supply device is provided with: a plurality of battery cells, each of which has a prismatic external form; a separator connected to each battery cell to cover at least a portion of the surface of the battery cell; and a fastening member that fastens a battery stack obtained by stacking the battery cells covered by the separator in a state where main surfaces face each other. The separator is formed from an insulating material which is elastically deformable, and provided with the main plate section covering the main surface of the battery cell disposed to face said section, a box-shaped covering section provided on a bottom part of the main plate section on a side of a first surface, and a corner covering section provided on a top part of the main plate section on the side of the first surface. |
| US10418669B2 |
Method of propagation test on battery system
A method of propagation test on a battery system has: a main irradiation step of irradiating a laser beam in prescribed conditions, on a light-receiving part of the outer member of a light-receiving cell, or on a light-receiving part which is arranged in contact with the outer member of the light-receiving cell, thereby to heat the light-receiving cell; a thermal runaway confirming step of confirming a thermal runaway of the light-receiving cell; an irradiation stopping step of stopping the laser-beam irradiation after the thermal runaway was confirmed in the thermal runaway confirming step; and a system integrity inspection step of inspecting an integrity of the cells other than the light-receiving cell after the irradiation stopping step. The prescribed conditions are conditions in which a melted scar is formed on the light-receiving part. |
| US10418667B2 |
Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery (30) which includes: a positive electrode (1); a negative electrode (2); a non-aqueous electrolyte containing a non-aqueous solvent; an outer package (5, 7, 19) receiving the positive electrode (1), the negative electrode (2), and the non-aqueous electrolyte; and a current interrupt valve (14) which interrupts a current in response to an increase in pressure inside the outer package (5, 7, 19). The positive electrode (1) contains a carbonate compound, the non-aqueous solvent contains a fluorinated cyclic carbonate and a fluorinated chain ester, and the total content of the fluorinated cyclic carbonate and the fluorinated chain ester is with respect to the total volume of the non-aqueous solvent, 50 percent by volume or more. |
| US10418665B2 |
Separator roll, method for producing separator roll, and label checking method
A separator roll in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a core, a heat-resistant separator wound around the core and in contact with an outer peripheral surface thereof, and a multilayer label attached to an outer layer surface of the heat-resistant separator, the multilayer label including a first film base and a second film base detachable from the first film base. |
| US10418663B2 |
Metal-ion battery
A metal-ion battery are provided. The disclosure provides a metal-ion battery. The metal-ion battery includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode, wherein the negative electrode is a metal or an alloy thereof, the metal is Cu, Fe, Zn, Co, In, Ni, Sn, Cr, La, Y, Ti, Mn, or Mo; a separator, wherein the positive electrode is separated from the negative electrode by the separator; and an electrolyte, disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The electrolyte includes ionic liquid, aluminum halide. |
| US10418662B2 |
Flexible and shape-conformal cable-type alkali metal batteries
Provided is a cable-shaped alkali metal battery comprising: (a) a first electrode comprising an electrically conductive porous rod having pores and a first mixture of a first electrode active material and a first electrolyte, wherein the first mixture resides in the pores of the porous rod; (b) a porous separator wrapping around the first electrode; (c) a second electrode comprising an electrically conductive porous layer wrapping around or encasing the porous separator, wherein the conductive porous layer contains pores and a second mixture of a second electrode active material and a second electrolyte, and the second mixture resides in the pores of the porous layer; and (d) a protective casing or packing tube wrapping around or encasing the second electrode. |
| US10418658B2 |
Electrical storage system comprising a disc-shaped discrete element, discrete element, method for the production thereof, and use thereof
An electrical storage system is provided that has a thickness of less than 2 mm, which includes at least one sheet-type discrete element. The sheet-type discrete element exhibits high resistance against an attack of transition metals or transition metal ions, in particular titanium, wherein the sheet-type discrete element contains titanium. The invention also relates to a sheet-type discrete element for use in an electrical storage system, which exhibits high resistance to the attack of transition metals or of transition metal ions, in particular titanium. |
| US10418657B2 |
Formation of solid oxide fuel cells by spraying
The present embodiment describes a method of forming different layers in a solid oxide fuel cell. The method begins by preparing slurries which are then delivered to a spray nozzle. The slurries are then atomized and sprayed subsequently onto a support to produce a layer which is then dried. In this embodiment different layers can comprise an anode, an electrolyte and a cathode. Also the support can be a metal or a metal oxide which is later removed. |
| US10418649B2 |
Fuel cell stack and seal plate used for the same
A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of cell modules each formed by stacking a plurality of fuel cells, each of the plurality of fuel cells having a membrane electrode assembly having an insulating member at an outer periphery portion thereof and paired separators sandwiching the membrane electrode assembly, and by attaching the insulating members of adjacent fuel cells together, and a seal plate interposed between the stacked cell modules. The seal plate includes a plurality of manifold holes from which two power-generation gases flow separately through the plurality of fuel cells, and a first seal member provided along a peripheral portion of each of the plurality of manifold holes to seal a corresponding one of the two power-generation gases flowing through the manifold hole. |
| US10418647B2 |
Mitigation of parasitic reactions within flow batteries
Productive electrochemical reactions can often occur most effectively in proximity to a separator dividing an electrochemical cell into two half-cells. Parasitic reactions can often occur at locations more removed from the separator. Parasitic reactions are generally undesirable in flow batteries and other electrochemical systems, since they can impact operating performance. Flow batteries having a decreased incidence of parasitic reactions can include, a first half-cell containing a first electrode, a second half-cell containing a second electrode, a separator disposed between the first half-cell and the second half-cell and contacting the first and second electrodes, a first bipolar plate contacting the first electrode, and a second bipolar plate contacting the second electrode, where a portion of the first electrode or the first bipolar plate contains a dielectric material. The first electrode and the first bipolar plate still define a contiguous electrically conductive pathway when containing the dielectric material. |
| US10418641B2 |
High activity Pt—Bi catalyst for dimethyl ether electro-oxidation
Provided are processes for preparing a thermodynamically stable PtBi2 alloy nanoparticle. In certain aspects, the process comprises preparing an aqueous mixture, with the aqueous mixture comprising: an inorganic compound comprising SnCl2; an inorganic compound comprising Bi; and HCl. The process further comprises adding PtCl4 to the mixture. The process results in the spontaneous reduction of Bi and Pt. Excess SnCl2 is adsorbed as a ligand at the surface of the PtBi2 alloy nanoparticle, which serves to stabilize the nanoparticle. Another aspect provides a thermodynamically stable PtBi2 nanoparticle. The nanoparticle comprises a core comprising a PtBi2 alloy. The nanoparticle further comprises a shell at least partially encapsulating the core, with the shell comprising stannous chloride. The thermodynamically stable PtBi2 nanoparticle has a negative charge. |
| US10418639B2 |
Non-noble metal electrocatalysts for oxygen depolarized cathodes and their uses
Highly anion resistant electrocatalysts suitable for catalyzing an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and methods of synthesizing the same are provided. The catalysts contain a transition metal, a heteroatom, and carbon. Preferred catalysts include N as the heteroatom and Fe as the transition metal, with active sites having Fe—N4 stoichiometry (FexNyCz) as part of a metal organic framework (MOF) or sequestered within a MOF. Electrocatalysts further including Fe nanoparticles (FeNPs) are also provided. The catalysts described herein are applicable in the preparation of oxygen decoupled cathodes (ODC) for chlorine evolution processes such as in chlor-alkali cells or HCl electrolyzers. The catalysts are also useful in preparing ODC for use in fuel cells, including phosphoric acid fuel cells. |
| US10418638B2 |
Electrode with perforated current collector and lithium secondary battery including the same
Disclosed are an electrode including a perforated current collector, and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and according to the present disclosure, precipitation and elimination reactions of lithium metal are induced inside a perforation of a negative electrode current collector, and therefore, volume expansion of a cell is suppressed and battery performance is enhanced therefrom. |
| US10418633B2 |
Electrode for lithium secondary battery, method for preparing same, electrode assembly for lithium secondary battery comprising same, and lithium secondary battery comprising same
The present invention relates to an electrode for a lithium secondary battery, a method for preparing the same, an electrode assembly for a lithium secondary battery comprising the same, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material, an aqueous binder, a compound represented by Formula 1, and a compound represented by Formula 2. Formula 1 and Formula 2 are the same as set forth in the specification. The electrode for a lithium secondary battery improves the physical properties of the aqueous binder in a manner whereby a cross-linking reaction material is combined with the aqueous binder, so that the electrode can improve initial charge/discharge efficiency and the life span of a lithium secondary battery, preferably a lithium sulfur battery, and improve the area capacity of the electrode. |
| US10418629B2 |
Composite active material for lithium ion secondary batteries and method for producing same
Provided are: an anode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery with which high initial efficiency and battery capacity can be maintained and excellent cycling characteristics are achieved; and a method for producing such an active material. The anode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, the active material comprising a Si compound and a carbonaceous material or a carbonaceous material and graphite, is obtained by a method comprising the steps of: mixing a Si compound, a carbon precursor, and, as appropriate, graphite powder; performing granulation/compaction; pulverizing the mixture to form composite particles; firing the composite particles in an inert gas atmosphere; and subjecting the pulverized and conglobated composite powder or the fired powder to air classification. |
| US10418625B2 |
Sulfur-infused carbon for secondary battery materials
A reactor for producing a sulfur-infused carbonaceous material as a cathode material for use in a Li—S battery is described, including a reactor body capable of withstanding a pressure from about 1 atm to about 150 atm; and an inner sulfur-resistant layer at the inner surface of the reactor, wherein the inner layer is inert to sulfur vapor at a temperature from about 450° C. to about 1000° C. |
| US10418624B2 |
Cathode arrangement, energy cell comprising the same, method for manufacturing the cathode arrangement, and arrangement for processing hydrogen gas
The invention is a cathode arrangement comprising a cathode housing defining a space for cathode material and comprising a cathode housing wall being permeable to an electrolyte, and a collector member made of carbon, having a first end part extending into the space for cathode material and a second end part extending outside the space for cathode material, and cathode particles, having a cylindric shape with a diameter of 2-5 mm and being extruded from carbon, are arranged in the space for cathode material. The invention is, furthermore, an energy cell comprising the cathode arrangement, an arrangement for processing hydrogen gas comprising the cathode arrangement and use the energy cell applying seawater or salt water as an electrolyte. Furthermore, the invention is a method for manufacturing the cathode arrangement. |
| US10418623B2 |
Producing electrodes for lead-acid batteries
A method for manufacturing electrodes for lead-acid batteries includes producing a profiled strip blank in a casting process, wherein the casting process alone is sufficient to cause the strip blank to be formed of greater thickness on one side in a region corresponding to the upper frame element or the lower frame element than in another region corresponding to the meshed region; and producing the meshed region with the openings in a subsequent expanded metal process. In addition, an electrode produced by the method has an upper frame element, or a lower frame element, or both, and a meshed region extending away from the upper frame element, or the lower frame element, or both and having a plurality of openings. The upper frame element, the lower frame element, or both, is of greater thickness than the meshed region. |
| US10418621B2 |
Accelerated formation and increased performance in chemically pre-formed (CPF) iron negative electrodes
Provided is a process for preparing an electrode comprising an iron active material. The process comprises first fabricating an electrode comprising an iron active material, and then treating the surface of the electrode with an oxidant to thereby create an oxidized surface. The resulting iron electrode is preconditioned prior to any charge-discharge cycle to have the assessable surface of the iron active material in the same oxidation state as in discharged iron negative electrodes active material. |
| US10418620B2 |
Cylindrical battery including pressurizing part and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed herein is a cylindrical battery including an electrode assembly (jelly roll) including a positive electrode, a separator, and a negative electrode, a cylindrical container including a receiving part for receiving the electrode assembly together with an electrolytic solution, a cap assembly mounted to an open upper end of the cylindrical container, a safety vent mounted in the cap assembly, and a pressurization part located between the safety vent and the receiving part, the pressurization part communicating with the receiving part, the pressurization part being configured to apply a predetermined pressure, which is generated by gas, to the receiving part, wherein the positive electrode includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide represented by Formula 1 in the specification as a positive electrode active material. |
| US10418615B2 |
Battery terminal
A battery terminal includes a fastening portion (11) that is partially open in a circumferential direction and a flange (42) projects radially out from the fastening portion (11). Two facing portions (14) project radially out from open ends (13) of the fastening portion (11) and face each other in the circumferential direction. The fastening portion (11) is reduced in diameter and fastened to a battery post P by having the facing portions (14) approach each other. The flange (42) of the fastening portion (11) has cuts (20) for partially reducing a thickness of the fastening portion (11) in a radial direction. |
| US10418614B2 |
Electrical feedthroughs for redistributing thermally-induced stresses that result from welding
Electrical feedthroughs are presented for redistributing thermally-induced stresses that result from welding. In some embodiments, an electrical feedthrough includes a tubular conduit having a flange at one end. The flange includes a first surface disposed opposite a second surface. The first surface includes at least one of a protrusion and a notch. The electrical feedthrough also includes an electrically-conductive terminal disposed through the tubular conduit. An electrically-insulating material is disposed between the tubular conduit and the electrically-conductive terminal and forms a seal therebetween. The protrusion and the notch are configured individually or as a combination to reduce thermally-induced stresses within the electrically-insulating material that result from welding the flange. Methods for welding such electrical feedthroughs to a wall, such as a wall of a battery housing, are also presented. |
| US10418613B2 |
Electricity storage module
An electricity storage module includes: an electricity storage element group formed by stacking multiple electricity storage elements each having lead terminals of a cathode and an anode; and a connection member that is joined to the lead terminals. A cathode lead terminal and an anode lead terminal are composed of different metal materials, and the connection member is formed by joining a first metal portion that is connected to the cathode lead terminal and is composed of the same metal material as the cathode lead terminal, and a second metal portion that is connected to the anode lead terminal and is composed of the same metal material as the anode lead terminal. The first metal portion and the second metal portion each have a terminal joining portion joined with a lead terminal and a member joining portion at which the first metal portion and the second metal portion are joined. |
| US10418608B2 |
Laminated porous film and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
The present invention provides a laminated porous film and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The laminated porous film is a laminated porous film in which a heat-resistant layer comprising a binder resin and a filler is laminated on one or both of the surfaces of a porous film substrate mainly comprising a polyolefin, wherein a part occupied by at least one out of the binder resin and the filler is formed in the porous film substrate so as to touch the heat-resistant layer, and the total thickness of the occupied part is not less than 1% and not more than 20% of the overall thickness of the porous film substrate. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises the laminated porous film according as a separator. |
| US10418604B2 |
Battery carrier for battery of portable communication device
A method and apparatus for carrying a battery of a portable communication device. The battery carrier includes a body, a carrier sealing surface, and a wiper. The carrier sealing surface engages a battery seal while the battery is positioned in the battery carrier. The wiper is positioned on a support surface of a battery receptacle in the body. The wiper is aligned with battery contacts of the battery. The wiper wipes the electrical contacts when the battery is inserted into the battery receptacle. |
| US10418601B2 |
Steel foil for power storage device container, power storage device container, power storage device, and manufacturing method of steel foil for power storage device container
A steel foil for a power storage device container includes a rolled steel foil which has a thickness of 200 μm or less, a diffusion alloy layer which is formed on a surface layer of the rolled steel foil and contains Ni and Fe, and a chromium-based surface treatment layer which is formed on the diffusion alloy layer. The <111> polar density in a reverse pole figure of the diffusion alloy layer in a rolling direction is 2.0 to 6.0, and the aspect ratio of crystal in a surface of the diffusion alloy layer is 1.0 to 5.0. |
| US10418597B2 |
Display panel, display device, and fabrication method for display panel
A display panel, a display device, and a fabrication method for the display panel are provided. The display panel comprises an array substrate comprising a display region, wherein the display region comprises a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scanning lines, and a plurality of first pixel regions defined by the plurality of data lines and the plurality of scanning lines intersecting the plurality of data lines. At least two data lines have different lengths, at least one second pixel region is disposed between a first pixel region corresponding to a data line and an edge of the display region corresponding to the data line. The at least one second pixel region at least comprises a first metal line segment and a second metal line segment arranged in parallel, and the first metal line segment is disposed on an extension line of the data line. |
| US10418596B2 |
OLED display panel manufacturing method and device thereof
An organ light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel manufacturing method and an OLED display panel manufacturing device, the device includes a chamber configured to accommodate and heating an OLED lamination plate, where he OLED lamination plate has a substrate and a packaging lid adhered by glass adhesive and UV adhesive; a transparent lamination plate located in the chamber and configured to laminate the OLED lamination plate; a laser head located in the chamber, located on a side of the packaging lid above the transparent lamination plate and utilizing the laser beam irradiate a protruding portion of a start point of the glass adhesive. |
| US10418594B2 |
Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device
Provided is a light-emitting device which can emit monochromatic light with high purity due to a microcavity effect and which can emit white light in the case of a combination of monochromatic light. Provided is a high-definition light-emitting device. Provided is a light-emitting device with low power consumption. In a light-emitting device with a white-color filter top emission structure, one pixel is formed of four sub-pixels of RBGY, an EL layer includes a first light-emitting substance which emits blue light and a second light-emitting substance which emits light corresponding to a complementary color of blue, and a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective electrode (an upper electrode) is formed so as to cover an edge portion of the EL layer. |
| US10418587B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate which includes a pixel region and a peripheral region which is provided on at least one side of the pixel region, a plurality of pixels provided in the pixel region, a passivation layer that disposed on the substrate, a light emitting element disposed on the passivation layer and which emits light, and a sealing member which covers the light emitting element. The sealing member includes a first inorganic layer disposed on the light emitting element, a lens portion disposed on the first inorganic layer and which extracts light which is emitted from the light emitting element, an organic layer disposed on the lens portion, and a second inorganic layer disposed on the organic layer. |
| US10418583B2 |
Organic light emitting device
Provided is an organic light emitting device including an overcoat layer on a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the overcoat layer, an organic light emitting layer disposed on the first electrode and including a convex or concave curve; and a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting layer. |
| US10418582B2 |
Organic light emitting display device
An organic light emitting display device secures an auxiliary electrode with a sufficient area without forming a passivation layer, an additional planarization film, an additional connection electrode and an auxiliary electrode. Accordingly, manufacturing of a top-emission organic light emitting display device may use three to four fewer masks, thus advantageously simplifying the process and reducing manufacturing costs, the thickness of the organic light emitting display device and the resistance of the second electrode. |
| US10418578B2 |
Quantum dot light-emitting diode and display device
This disclosure provides a quantum dot light-emitting diode comprising a first electron layer, an organic light-emitting layer, a first hole layer, a second electron layer, a quantum dot light-emitting layer, and a second hole layer. The first electron layer and the first hole layer are configured to transport first electrons and first holes to the organic light-emitting layer. The organic light-emitting layer is configured to emit a first light by recombining the first electrons and the first holes. The second electron layer and the second hole layer are configured to transport second electrons and second holes to the quantum dot light-emitting layer. The quantum dot light-emitting layer is configured to emit a second light by recombining the second electrons and the second holes. |
| US10418577B2 |
White organic light emitting device
An organic light emitting device can include first and second electrodes formed to face each other on a substrate; a first stack interposed between the first and second electrode and configured with a hole injection layer, a first hole transportation layer, a first light emission layer and a first electron transportation layer which are stacked on the first electrode; a second stack interposed between the first stack and the second electrode and configured with a second hole transportation layer, a second light emission layer, a third light emission layer and a second electron transportation layer which are stacked on the first stack; a third stack interposed between the second stack and the second electrode and configured with a third hole transportation layer, a fourth light emission layer, a third electron transportation layer and an electron injection layer which are stacked on the second stack; and a first charge generation layer interposed between the first and second stacks and a second charge generation layer interposed between the second and third stacks. |
| US10418575B2 |
OLED with mixed layer between the hole transport and emission layers
The present invention provides an organic light-emitting display apparatus where an organic light-emitting device comprises an anode layer, a cathode layer, and an organic light-emitting dielectric layer disposed between the anode layer and the cathode layer; organic light-emitting dielectric layer comprises a hole injection layer, a hole transporting layer, a first mixed layer, an emission layer, an electron transporting layer, and an electron injection layer sequentially disposed; wherein first mixed layer is a mixed material layer consisting of a hole transporting material and an electron transporting material, and first mixed layer is doped with either of a material having an electron blocking function and a material having a hole control function. It can decrease injection barrier of carriers of holes and electrons in the organic light-emitting device, control carrier injection rate and position of carrier recombination region, and raise the recombination efficiency of the carriers, thereby achieving a high efficiency, long lifetime organic light-emitting device. |
| US10418573B2 |
Organic light-emitting device comprising host, phosphorescent dopant and fluorescent dopant
According to an aspect, an organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a host and a dopant, wherein the host is an exciplex host, which is a combination of a hole transporting host and an electron transporting host which form an exciplex, or a delayed fluorescent organic compound, and the dopant includes both a phosphorescent dopant and a fluorescent dopant. |
| US10418572B2 |
Flexible display device with bend stress reduction member and manufacturing method for the same
There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display. |
| US10418570B2 |
Curved screen attaching device and attaching method using the same
A curved screen attaching device is provided for achieving an attachment between a flexible display layer and a curved cover, and includes: a base platform formed with a curved surface on an upper surface thereof; a magnet layer provided on a bottom of the curved surface and having a plurality of strip-type magnetic field generators disposed independent of each other; an attaching roller magnetically attracted to and moved on the curved surface to process a roll forming on the flexible display layer; and a controller configured to control the strip-type magnetic field generators to be switched on or off to form a moving magnetic field to guide and move the attaching roller. |
| US10418566B2 |
Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device comprising the same
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode as an anode; a second electrode as a cathode and facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, where at least one selected from the emission layer and the electron transport region includes at least one selected from condensed cyclic compounds represented by Formula 1: A2-(A1)n1. Formula 1 |
| US10418565B2 |
Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, lighting device, and organic compound
To provide a light-emitting element with an improved reliability, a light-emitting element with a high current efficiency (or a high quantum efficiency), and a novel dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline derivative that is favorably used in a light-emitting element which is one embodiment of the present invention. A light-emitting element includes an EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer; the light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound having an electron-transport property and a hole-transport property, a second organic compound having a hole-transport property, and a light-emitting substance; the combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex; the HOMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the HOMO level of the second organic compound; and a difference between the HOMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound is less than or equal to 0.4 eV. |
| US10418558B2 |
Organic light emitting display device including a P-type dopant in an electron transport layer
An organic light emitting display device includes: an anode electrode; a cathode electrode; an emitting layer disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode; and an electron transport layer disposed between the cathode electrode and the emitting layer, the electron transport layer including a p-type dopant. |
| US10418556B2 |
Conjugated polymer blends for high efficiency organic solar cells
The invention relates to a process for producing a conjugated polymer blend. The process for producing the conjugated polymer blend comprises the mixture of: a polymer A (X-Y), where X is and Y is and h is a substituent, a polymer B (X-Y′) where X is Y′ is and j is a substituent, and an acceptor. In this process h and j are different substituents and independently selected from each other. |
| US10418552B1 |
Transition metal doped germanium-antimony-tellurium (GST) memory device components and composition
Methods, systems, and devices for operating memory cell(s) using transition metal doped GST are described. As discussed herein, a composition including germanium (Ge), antimony (Sb), tellurium (Te), and at least one of yttrium (Y) and scandium (Sc) may be used as a memory element in a memory cell. For example, a memory element may include a composition having Ge in an amount ranging from 15 to 35 atomic percent (at. %) of the composition, Sb in an amount less than or equal to 50 at. % of the composition, Te in an amount greater than or equal to 40 at. % of the composition, and at least one of Y and Sc in an amount ranging from 0.15 to 10 at. % of the composition. |
| US10418551B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device of an embodiment includes a memory cell array. The memory cell array comprises: a semiconductor layer extending in a first direction; a plurality of conductive layers that face a side surface of the semiconductor layer and are stacked in the first direction; a variable resistance film provided at an intersection of the semiconductor layer and one of the conductive layers; a plurality of contact parts provided at ends of the plurality of conductive layers in a second direction intersecting the first direction, respectively; and a plurality of conductive parts that extend in the first direction and are connected to the plurality of contact parts, respectively. At least one of the plurality of contact parts includes a projection part projecting in the second direction. |
| US10418545B2 |
Spin current magnetization reversal element, element assembly, and method for producing spin current magnetization reversal element
This spin current magnetization reversal element includes a magnetoresistance effect element having a first ferromagnetic metal layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a second ferromagnetic metal layer having a variable magnetization direction, and a non-magnetic layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic metal layer and the second ferromagnetic metal layer, and spin-orbit torque wiring which extends in a first direction that intersects the stacking direction of the magnetoresistance effect element, and contacts the surface of the magnetoresistance effect element on the side facing the second ferromagnetic metal layer, wherein at least one surface of the second ferromagnetic metal layer in the stacking direction has an inclined surface that is inclined in the first direction, and the direction of magnetization of the second ferromagnetic metal layer is inclined due to the inclined surface. |
| US10418541B2 |
Magnetostrictive torque sensor
A low-cost magnetostrictive torque sensor having a high sensitivity is obtained. A torque sensor 10 includes a substrate 12, a magnetostrictive portion 26, a magnetostrictive portion 28, a detection coil 18a, a detection coil 18b, a detection circuit 48, and a detection circuit 50. The substrate 12 has a tubular shape. Each of the magnetostrictive portions 26 and 28 is constituted by a plating film and disposed on the outer peripheral surface of the substrate 12. The detection coil 18a generates a magnetic flux passing through the magnetostrictive portion 26. The detection coil 18b generates a magnetic flux passing through the magnetostrictive portion 28. Each of the detection circuits 48 and 50 detects a potential between the detection coil 18a and the detection coil 18b. |
| US10418539B2 |
Enhanced superconductivity of fullerenes
Superconductive fullerenes, methods for enhancing characteristics of superconductive fullerenes and devices incorporating the fullerenes are disclosed. Enhancements can include increase in the critical transition temperature at a constant magnetic field; the existence of a superconducting hysteresis over a changing magnetic field; a decrease in the stabilizing magnetic field required for the onset of superconductivity; and/or an increase in the stability of superconductivity over a large magnetic field. The enhancements can be brought about by transmitting electromagnetic radiation to the superconductive fullerene such that the electromagnetic radiation impinges on the fullerene with an energy that is greater than the band gap of the fullerene. |
| US10418535B2 |
Optoelectronic component and a method of producing an optoelectronic component
An optoelectronic component includes a boundary layer is arranged between a semiconductor body and a metallic layer in a lateral direction, adjoins the semiconductor body at least in places, covers an active layer laterally, and has a lower refractive index compared to the semiconductor body, a metallic layer is configured to prevent the electromagnetic radiation generated during operation of the component and passes through the boundary layer from impinging on a mold body, the boundary layer is formed from a radiation-transmitting dielectric material having a refractive index of 1 to 2, and a layer thickness of the boundary layer is at least 400 nm and selected such that an amplitude of an evanescent wave, which is obtained in the event of total internal reflection at an interface between the boundary layer and the semiconductor body, is reduced to less than 37% of its original value within the boundary layer. |
| US10418534B2 |
Light guide with patterned ink
A light-emitting device comprising: a light source; and a light guide that is optically coupled to the light source, the light guide including a plurality of first non-fluorescent light extraction elements and a plurality of second non-fluorescent light extraction elements that are printed on the light guide, each of the first light extraction elements having a reflectance that is higher than a reflectance of any of the second light extraction elements, each of the first light extraction elements having a light transmittance that is lower than a light transmittance of any the second light extraction elements, each of the first light extraction elements having the same shape and size as any other one of the plurality first light extraction elements, and each of the second light extraction elements having the same shape and size as any other one of the plurality of second light extraction elements. |
| US10418533B2 |
Light-emitting device having a light-transmissive member including particles of at least one first filler and method for manufacturing the same
A light-emitting device includes a package, a light-emitting element disposed on the package, and a light-transmissive member over the light-emitting element. An upper surface of the light-transmissive member and an upper surface of the package each have a plurality of projections. The light-transmissive member contains particles of light-transmissive first fillers having refractive indices smaller than the refractive index of a matrix of the light-transmissive member. Part of the particles of the first fillers is exposed to the air from the matrix of the light-transmissive member on the upper surface of the light-transmissive member. |
| US10418532B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting device and method for producing the same
Provided are a semiconductor light-emitting device capable of easily adjusting the light intensity of output light and a method for producing such a semiconductor light-emitting device. The semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a substrate; a light-emitting element mounted on the substrate; and a seal layer provided on the substrate so as to cover the light-emitting element. The seal layer contains resin and inorganic pigment particles. The inorganic particles have an average particle size of 1 □m or larger and 50 □m or smaller in a volumetric basis particle size distribution by a laser diffraction scattering particle size distribution measurement method. The inorganic particles distributed at a concentration becoming thicker in a direction toward said substrate. |
| US10418522B2 |
Optoelectronic device and method for making the same
An optoelectronic device and method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device are disclosed. The optoelectronic device includes a substrate; a semiconductor comprising an n-type layer disposed on the substrate, a p-type layer disposed on the n-type layer, and an active layer disposed between the n-type layer and the p-type layer; a transition layer disposed on the substrate and located between the n-type layer and the substrate, the transition layer including an oxygenated IIIA-transition metal nitride; and a p-contact layer disposed on the p-type layer of the semiconductor. |
| US10418520B2 |
Light emitting display device
A light emitting display device includes: a light emitting element that includes a light emitting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode; a wavelength conversion layer overlapping the light emitting element; and an uneven layer that includes a plurality of furrows between the light emitting element and the wavelength conversion layer, wherein a shortest distance between a bottom surface of the plurality of furrows and the wavelength conversion layer is 0.1 um or greater. |
| US10418519B2 |
LED sidewall processing to mitigate non-radiative recombination
LEDs and methods of forming LEDs with various structural configurations to mitigate non-radiative recombination at the LED sidewalls are described. The various configurations described include combinations of LED sidewall surface diffusion with pillar structure, modulated doping profiles to form an n-p superlattice along the LED sidewalls, and selectively etched cladding layers to create entry points for shallow doping or regrowth layers. |
| US10418515B2 |
Optoelectronic lighting device
An optoelectronic lighting device includes a black housing including a cavity, wherein the cavity includes a base, a semiconductor component is arranged on the base of the cavity with an underside of a main body facing the base, and the cavity is filled with a reflective material from the base up to a predetermined height, which is smaller than a height of a top side of the main body relative to the base of the cavity such that electromagnetic radiation emerging from the main body through side faces may be reflected by the reflective material back in the direction of the side faces to couple reflected electromagnetic radiation into the main body such that at least part of the electromagnetic radiation coupled in may emerge again from the main body through the top side of the main body. |
| US10418514B2 |
Light emitting diode and method of fabricating the same
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a light emitting diode including an n-type contact layer doped with silicon, a p-type contact layer, an active region disposed between the n-type contact layer and the p-type contact layer, a superlattice layer disposed between the n-type contact layer and the active region, the superlattice layer including a plurality of layers, an undoped intermediate layer disposed between the superlattice layer and the n-type contact layer, and an electron reinforcing layer disposed between the undoped intermediate layer and the superlattice layer. Only a final layer of the superlattice layer closest to the active region is doped with silicon, and the silicon doping concentration of the final layer is higher than that of the n-type contact layer. |
| US10418510B1 |
Mesa shaped micro light emitting diode with electroless plated N-contact
A method for fabricating a light emitting diode (LED) with a first electrical contact deposited around the side of a layered mesa structure. First, layers of materials are formed. The layers of materials include a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer between the first and second semiconductor layers for producing light responsive to passing current through the light emitting layer. The formed layers of material are shaped to include a bottom surface, a top surface, and at least one side surface extending from the bottom surface to the top surface. The top surface has a smaller area than the bottom surface. An electrical contact is deposited on the at least one side surface. |
| US10418509B2 |
Light-emitting metal-oxide-semiconductor devices and associated systems, devices, and methods
Various embodiments of solid state transducer (“SST”) devices are disclosed. In several embodiments, a light emitter device includes a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitor, an active region operably coupled to the MOS capacitor, and a bulk semiconductor material operably coupled to the active region. The active region can include at least one quantum well configured to store first charge carriers under a first bias. The bulk semiconductor material is arranged to provide second charge carriers to the active region under the second bias such that the active region emits UV light. |
| US10418508B2 |
Full-laser scribing method for large-area copper indium gallium selenide thin-film solar cell module
Disclosed is a full-laser scribing method for a large-area copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cell module, including: using a laser I to scribe a molybdenum thin film prepared on soda-lime glass to form a first scribed line (P1); preparing the following film layers in sequence on the molybdenum layer in which P1 has been scribed: a CIGS layer, a cadmium sulfide layer and an intrinsic zinc oxide layer; after finishing preparation of the above film layers, using a laser II for scribing to form a second scribed line (P2), wherein the scribed line P2 is parallel with the scribed line P1; and preparing an aluminum-doped zinc oxide layer on the intrinsic zinc oxide layer in which P2 has been scribed, and using a laser III for scribing to form a third scribed line (P3), wherein the scribed line P3 is parallel with the scribed line P1. |
| US10418506B2 |
Light-emitting device with integrated light sensor
A light-emitting device including a substrate at least partially doped with a first type of conductivity and including a face; light-emitting diodes each including at least one three-dimensional semiconducting element which is undoped or doped with the first type of conductivity and resting on the said face; and semiconducting regions forming photodiodes, at least partially doped with a second type of conductivity opposite to the first type of conductivity and extending in the substrate from the said face between at least some of the three-dimensional semiconducting elements, a portion of the substrate of first type of conductivity extending up to the said face at the level of each three-dimensional semiconducting element. |
| US10418503B2 |
Solar battery module and method for manufacturing solar battery module
An object of the present invention is to obtain an easy-to-work solar battery module having high joining strength as well as suppressing an increase in residual thermal stress without increasing the thickness of an interconnector. The solar battery module of the present invention includes a solar battery cell including a semiconductor substrate having pn junction, and a first electrode and a second electrode that are formed on a p-type region and an n-type region of the semiconductor substrate and an interconnector to connect the solar battery cell and an adjacent solar battery cell. The interconnector is a bundle of a plurality of round thin wires and includes abutment regions abutting on the first electrode and the second electrode of the adjacent solar battery cell. |
| US10418499B2 |
Self-aligned nanowire-based light emitting diode subpixels for a direct view display and method of making thereof
A light emitting device, such as an LED, is formed by forming clusters of semiconductor nanostructures separated by inter-cluster regions that lack semiconductor nanostructures over a substrate, where each semiconductor nanostructure includes a nanostructure core having a doping of a first conductivity type and an active shell formed around the nanostructure core, and selectively depositing a second conductivity type semiconductor material layer having a doping of a second conductivity type on the clusters of semiconductor nanostructures. Portions of the selectively deposited second conductivity type semiconductor material layer form a continuous material layer in each cluster of semiconductor nanostructures, and the second conductivity type semiconductor material layer is not deposited in the inter-cluster regions. |
| US10418496B2 |
Photodiode array
A photodiode array includes a plurality of photodiodes formed in a semiconductor substrate. Each of the photodiodes includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, provided with respect to the first semiconductor region on one surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and having an impurity concentration higher than an impurity concentration of the first semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, provided with respect to the first semiconductor region on the one surface side so as to surround the second semiconductor region separately from the second semiconductor region, and constituting a light detection region together with the first semiconductor region, and a through-electrode provided within a through-hole passing through the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region, and electrically connected to the third semiconductor region. |
| US10418495B2 |
Gallium nitride-based sensor having heater structure and method of manufacturing the same
A gallium nitride-based sensor having a heater structure and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed, the method including growing an n-type or p-type GaN layer on a substrate, growing a barrier layer on the n-type or p-type GaN layer, sequentially growing a u-GaN layer and a layer selected from among an AlxGa1-xN layer, an InxAl1-xN layer and an InxAlyGa1-x-yN layer on the barrier layer, patterning the n-type or p-type GaN layer to form an electrode, forming the electrode along the pattern formed on the n-type or p-type GaN layer, and forming a sensing material layer on the layer selected from among the AlxGa1-xN layer, the InxAl1-xN layer and the InxAlyGa1-x-yN layer, wherein a HEMT sensor or a Schottky diode sensor can be heated using an n-GaN (or p-GaN) layer, thus increasing the sensitivity of the sensor and reducing the restoration time. |
| US10418493B2 |
Tight pitch stack nanowire isolation
Devices and methods for forming a tight pitch stack nanowire without shallow trench isolation including a base nanosheet formed on a substrate. At least one fin are formed, and at least one dummy gate is formed over the at least two fins, on the base nanosheet, the at least two fins including at least two alternating layers of a first material and a second material. The base nanosheet is replaced with a blanket dielectric to form a shallow trench isolation (STI) around the at least one fin and around the at least one dummy gate. A gate replacement is performed to replace the at least one dummy gate and the second material with a gate conductor material and a gate cap to form gate structures. |
| US10418491B2 |
Oxide semiconductor film and semiconductor device
It is an object to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device with good electrical characteristics and a display device including the semiconductor device as a switching element. In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a needle crystal group provided on at least one surface side of the oxide semiconductor layer grows in a c-axis direction perpendicular to the surface and includes an a-b plane parallel to the surface, and a portion except for the needle crystal group is an amorphous region or a region in which amorphousness and microcrystals are mixed. Accordingly, a highly reliable semiconductor device with good electrical characteristics can be formed. |
| US10418487B2 |
Non-planar gate all-around device and method of fabrication thereof
A non-planar gate all-around device and method of fabrication thereby are described. In one embodiment, the device includes a substrate having a top surface with a first lattice constant. Embedded epi source and drain regions are formed on the top surface of the substrate. The embedded epi source and drain regions have a second lattice constant that is different from the first lattice constant. A channel nanowire having a third lattice is formed between and are coupled to the embedded epi source and drain regions. In an embodiment, the second lattice constant and the third lattice constant are different from the first lattice constant. A gate dielectric layer is formed on and all-around the channel nanowire. A gate electrode is formed on the gate dielectric layer and surrounding the channel nanowire. |
| US10418483B2 |
Laterally diffused metal oxide semiconducting devices with lightly-doped isolation layers
An example laterally diffused metal oxide semiconducting (LDMOS) device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, active MOS regions, and a lightly-doped isolation layer (LDIL) of a second conductivity type. The active MOS regions include source and drain regions and a plurality of PN junctions. The LDIL is formed above and laterally along the semiconductor substrate, and located between the semiconductor substrate and at least a part of the active MOS regions. The LDIL is doped with dopant of the second conductivity type to cause, in response to selected voltages applied to the LDMOS device, the plurality of PN junctions to deplete each other and to support a voltage drop between the source and drain regions along the LDIL. |
| US10418482B2 |
High voltage device and manufacturing method thereof
A high voltage device is formed in a semiconductor substrate, and includes: a first deep well, a lateral lightly doped region, a high voltage well, an isolation region, a body region, a gate, a source, a drain, and a first isolation well. The first deep well and the first isolation well are for electrical isolating the high voltage device from neighboring devices below a top surface of the semiconductor substrate. The lateral lightly doped region is located between the first deep well and the high voltage well in a vertical direction, and the lateral lightly doped region contacts the first deep well and the high voltage well. The lateral lightly doped region is for reducing an inner capacitance of the high voltage device when the high voltage device operates, to improve transient response. |
| US10418478B2 |
Semiconductor device
On a surface of an n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer on an n+-type silicon carbide substrate, first and second p+-type base regions are formed in the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer, an n-type region is formed in the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer, a p-type base layer is formed on the n-type region, an n+-type source region and a p++-type contact region are formed in the p-type base layer, and a trench is formed to a position shallower than the second p+-type base region and penetrates the p-type base layer. A first sidewall angle of the trench at a position of the p-type base layer is 80° to 90° with respect to a main surface. A difference of the first sidewall angle and a second sidewall angle of the trench at a position deeper than a boundary of the p-type base layer and the n-type region is 1° to 25°. |
| US10418465B1 |
Non-volatile memory structure in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a memory device. One example memory device generally includes a first semiconductor region having a first region, a second region, and a third region, the second region being between the first region and the third region and having a different doping type than the first region and the third region. In certain aspects, the memory device also includes a first non-insulative region, a first insulative region being disposed between the first non-insulative region and the first semiconductor region. In certain aspects, the memory device may include a second non-insulative region, and a second insulative region disposed between the second region and the second non-insulative region, wherein the first insulative region and the second insulative region are disposed adjacent to opposite sides of the second region. |
| US10418464B2 |
Techniques for forming transistors on the same die with varied channel materials
Techniques are disclosed for forming transistors on the same substrate with varied channel materials. The techniques include forming a replacement material region in the substrate, such region used to form a plurality of fins therefrom, the fins used to form transistor channel regions. In an example case, the substrate may comprise Si and the replacement materials may include Ge, SiGe, and/or at least one III-V material. The replacement material regions can have a width sufficient to ensure a substantially planar interface between the replacement material and the substrate material. Therefore, the fins formed from the replacement material regions can also have a substantially planar interface between the replacement material and the substrate material. One example benefit from being able to form replacement material channel regions with such substantially planar interfaces can include at least a 30 percent improvement in current flow at a fixed voltage. |
| US10418462B2 |
Silicidation of bottom source/drain sheet using pinch-off sacrificial spacer process
A vertical fin field-effect-transistor and a method for fabricating the same. The vertical fin field-effect-transistor includes at least a substrate, a first source/drain layer, and a plurality of fins each disposed on and in contact with the first source/drain layer. Silicide regions are disposed within a portion of the first source/drain layer. A gate structure is in contact with the plurality of fins, and a second source/drain layer is disposed on the gate structure. The method includes forming silicide in a portion of a first source/drain layer. A first spacer layer is formed in contact with at least the silicide, the first source/drain layer and the plurality of fins. A gate structure is formed in contact with the plurality of fins and the first spacer layer. A second spacer layer is formed in contact with the gate structure and the plurality of fins. |
| US10418461B2 |
Semiconductor structure with barrier layers
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a base substrate; forming a dummy gate structure over the base substrate; forming source/drain regions having source/drain doping ions in the base substrate at both sides of the dummy gate structure; forming a dielectric layer on the source/drain regions and covering the side surfaces of the dummy gate structure; removing the dummy gate structure to form an opening in the dielectric layer; performing one or more of a first ion implantation process, for implanting first barrier ions in the base substrate toward the source region to form a first barrier layer under the opening, and a second ion implantation process, for implanting second barrier ions in the base substrate toward the source region to form a second barrier layer under the opening; and forming a gate structure in the opening. |
| US10418460B2 |
Dummy gate structure and methods thereof
A structure and method for implementation of dummy gate structures within multi-gate device structures includes a semiconductor device including an isolation region that separates a first and second active region. The first active region is adjacent to a first side of the isolation region and the second active region is adjacent to a second side of the isolation region. A device including a source, a drain, and a gate is formed within the first active region. One of the source and drain regions are disposed adjacent to the isolation region. A dummy gate is formed at least partially over the isolation region and adjacent to the one of the source and drain regions. In various examples, the gate includes a first dielectric layer having a first thickness and the dummy gate includes a second dielectric layer having a second thickness greater than the first thickness. |
| US10418459B2 |
High electron mobility transistor including surface plasma treatment region
A high electron mobility transistor includes a III-V compound layer, a nitride layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, a surface plasma treatment region, and at least one moat. The nitride layer is disposed on the III-V compound layer. The source and the drain electrodes are disposed above the III-V compound layer. The gate electrode is disposed above the nitride layer. The moat is at least partially disposed in the nitride layer and between the source and the drain electrodes. The surface plasma treatment region is at least partially disposed in the nitride layer. The surface plasma treatment region is at least partially disposed at a top surface of the nitride layer between the moat and the drain electrode, a top surface of the nitride layer between the moat and the source electrode, and/or a top surface of the nitride layer under the moat. |
| US10418456B2 |
Method of fabricating a semiconductor device having modified profile metal gate
A method of forming a semiconductor device having a semiconductor substrate with a dielectric layer disposed thereon. A trench is defined in the dielectric layer. A metal gate structure is formed in the trench. The metal gate structure includes a first layer and a second layer disposed on the first layer. The first layer extends to a first height in the trench and the second layer extends to a second height in the trench; the second height is greater than the first height. In some embodiments, the second layer is a work function metal and the first layer is a dielectric. In some embodiments, the second layer is a barrier layer. |
| US10418455B2 |
Methods, apparatus and system for stringer defect reduction in a trench cut region of a finFET device
At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed herein involves forming trench in a gate region, wherein the trench having an oxide layer to a height to reduce or prevent process residue. A plurality of fins are formed on a semiconductor substrate. Over a first portion of the fins, an epitaxial (EPI) feature at a top portion of each fin of the first portion. Over a second portion of the fins, a gate region is formed. In a portion of the gate region, a trench is formed. A first oxide layer at a bottom region of the trench is formed. Prior to performing an amorphous-silicon (a-Si) deposition, a flowable oxide material is deposited into the trench for forming a second oxide layer. The second oxide layer comprises the flowable oxide and the first oxide layer. The second oxide layer has a first height. |
| US10418450B2 |
Self aligned replacement metal source/drain finFET
A fin-shaped field effect transistor (finFET) device comprising includes a substrate, an insulating layer displaced over the substrate, and a fin. The device also includes a gate formed over the fin, the gate including: a gate stack; and a high-k dielectric on opposing side of the gate stack. The device further includes metallic source and drain regions formed over the fin and on opposing sides of the gate. |
| US10418447B2 |
Thin film transistor, production method thereof, and electronic apparatus
Provided is a thin film transistor, a production method thereof, and an electronic apparatus. The thin film transistor comprises a substrate, and a gate electrode, a gate insulator layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and an active layer on the substrate, wherein the active layer comprises a stack of two or more layers of graphene-like two-dimensional semiconductor material. The electronic apparatus comprises the thin film transistor, and may be used as an optical or mechanical sensor. |
| US10418444B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device
A SiC semiconductor device capable of increasing a switching speed without destroying a gate insulating film. In addition, in a SiC-MOSFET including an n-type semiconductor substrate formed of SiC, a p-type semiconductor layer is entirely or partially provided on an upper surface of a p-type well layer that has a largest area of the transverse plane among a plurality of p-type well layers provided in an n-type drift layer and is arranged on an outermost periphery immediately below a gate electrode pad. It is preferable that a concentration of an impurity contained in the p-type semiconductor layer be larger than that of the p-type well layer. |
| US10418438B2 |
Capacitor structure with an extended dielectric layer and method of forming a capacitor structure
A capacitor structure may include a lower conducting layer (e.g., poly 1 layer) and an upper conducting layer (e.g., overlying poly 2 layer), which define an anode and cathode, and a dielectric layer (e.g., an ONO layer stack) located between the upper conducting layer and the lower conducting layer, wherein a portion of the dielectric layer (e.g., at least the nitride layer of the ONO layer stack) extends beyond a lateral edge of the upper conducting layer. A method forming such capacitor structure may utilize a spacer adjacent the lateral edge of the upper conducting layer and over the first portion of the dielectric layer, performing an etch to remove a first portion of the dielectric layer but protect a second portion located below the spacer and extending laterally beyond an edge of the upper conducting layer. |
| US10418437B1 |
Flexible display panel
The present disclosure provides a flexible display panel including a display area and a non-display area, and a bending area is arranged therebetween. The flexible display panel further includes a flexible substrate and a thin film transistor layer. The thin film transistor layer includes a semi-conductor layer, a gate electrode insulation layer, a gate electrode layer, an insulation interlayer and a source-drain electrode metal layer. The flexible display panel includes a touch layer arranged on one side of the thin film transistor layer away from the flexible substrate. The touch layer includes a first and second touch metal layer. The flexible display panel further includes signal transmission lines including at least two parallel wiring layers in the bending area. Each wiring layer is fabricated in a same layer with at least two of the source-drain electrode metal layer, the first touch metal layer, and the second touch metal layer. |
| US10418436B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes an insulating substrate having a display area, a pad area and a bend area, wiring lines, a first protective film and a second protective film. The wiring lines are elongated from the display area to the pad area. The first protective film is located on the insulating substrate and the wiring lines. The second protective film is located on the first protective film and is formed of an organic insulating material different from that of the first protective film. |
| US10418430B2 |
Display device
A display device including a substrate including an emitting region and a non-emitting region; an auxiliary electrode disposed in the non-emitting region; a first passivation film covering the emitting region and the auxiliary electrode in the non-emitting region and including a first passivation hole exposing the auxiliary electrode; an overcoat layer disposed on the first passivation film and includes an over-hole exposing the auxiliary electrode; a first barrier layer disposed on the first passivation film and the overcoat layer and contacting the auxiliary electrode; a second passivation film disposed on the first barrier layer and including a second passivation hole exposing the first barrier layer; a bank layer disposed on the second passivation film and including a bank hole exposing the first barrier layer and having an undercut structure; an organic layer disposed on the bank layer and disconnected by the undercut structure; and a second electrode disposed on the organic layer and contacting the first barrier layer via the bank hole of the bank layer. |
| US10418428B2 |
Organic light emitting display device
An organic light emitting display device is disclosed. The organic light emitting display device includes a first sub-pixel that includes a first emission region which makes a first color, a second sub-pixel that is disposed adjacent to the first sub-pixel, and includes a second emission region which makes a second color, a third sub-pixel that is disposed adjacent to the first sub-pixel, and includes a third emission region which makes a third color, and a fourth sub-pixel that is disposed adjacent to the second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel, and includes a fourth emission region which makes a fourth color. At least one of the first to fourth sub-pixels includes a transmission region which cannot emit light and through which external light is transmitted. The transmission region is surrounded by at least one of the first to fourth emission regions. |
| US10418425B2 |
Organic light emitting display module and organic light emitting display device having the same
Provided is an organic light emitting display module including an active area, a pad area, and a boundary area between the active area and the pad area. Unlike the active area and the pad area, since the boundary area does not include an inorganic layer, less stress is applied to the boundary area when the boundary area is bent. Display panel pads and touch sensing member pads are disposed at the same height without having a height difference therebetween. Thus, a dummy pad may be added to remove the height difference between the display panel pads and the touch sensing member pads. |
| US10418419B2 |
Radiation-emitting apparatus having an outer optoelectronic device surrounding an inner optoelectronic device and methods for producing the same
The invention relates to a radiation-emitting device (600), which comprises a substrate (100), an inner optoelectronic component (300) and an outer optoelectronic component (200) which at least partially laterally surrounds the inner optoelectronic component (300). Further, the radiation-emitting device (600) has a cover element (500) which is arranged on the optoelectronic components (200, 300) and comprises a first contact element (521), connected to a first electrode surface of the inner optoelectronic component (300) in an electrically conductive manner, and a second contact element (522) connected to a second electrode surface of the inner optoelectronic component (300) in an electrically conductive manner. |
| US10418418B2 |
Storage device and production method thereof
According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first wiring extending in a first direction, a second wiring connected to the first wiring and extending in a second direction, which crosses the first direction, a third wiring extending in a third direction, which crosses the second direction, and a first variable resistance film connected to the second wiring and the third wiring. The third wiring includes a first portion that extends in the third direction and a second portion that protrudes from a side surface of the first portion toward the second wiring and that has an end surface connected to the first variable resistance film. |
| US10418413B1 |
Method for manufacturing a light emitting diode display
A method for manufacturing a light emitting diode (LED) display includes providing a template having keyed holes disposed in the template, depositing keyed LED's onto the template manipulating the keyed LED's such that each of the keyed LED's fits within a corresponding keyed hole in the template, and transferring the keyed LED's onto a circuit board. |
| US10418412B2 |
Light-emitting diode
A semiconductor device, comprises a semiconductor stack comprising a first area and a second area, wherein the second area comprises a first side wall, a first isolation path formed between the first area and the second area, a second isolation path formed in the semiconductor stack, an isolation layer formed in the first isolation path and covering the first side wall, an electrical contact layer formed under the semiconductor stack, and an electrode contact layer directly contacting the electrical contact layer. |
| US10418407B2 |
High-speed light sensing apparatus III
A circuit, including: a photodetector including a first readout terminal and a second readout terminal different than the first readout terminal; a first readout circuit coupled with the first readout terminal and configured to output a first readout voltage; a second readout circuit coupled with the second readout terminal and configured to output a second readout voltage; and a common-mode analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including: a first input terminal coupled with a first voltage source; a second input terminal coupled with a common-mode generator, the common-mode generator configured to receive the first readout voltage and the second readout voltage, and to generate a common-mode voltage between the first and second readout voltages; and a first output terminal configured to output a first output signal corresponding to a magnitude of a current generated by the photodetector. |
| US10418402B2 |
Near ultraviolet photocell
In an embodiment, an image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, an epitaxial layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate, a first heavily doped region disposed in the epitaxial layer, and a shallow trench isolation region disposed in the epitaxial layer and surrounding the first heavily doped region. The semiconductor substrate and the epitaxial layer are of a first doping type and the semiconductor substrate is coupled to a reference potential node. The first heavily doped region is of a second doping type opposite to the first doping type. The epitaxial layer, the first heavily doped region, and the shallow trench isolation region are part of a p-n junction photodiode configured to operate in the near ultraviolet region. |
| US10418398B2 |
Solid-state image pickup apparatus, and image pickup system using solid-state image pickup apparatus having metal film with first and second portions
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge storage unit, and a floating diffusion unit, all disposed on a semiconductor substrate. The solid-state image pickup apparatus further includes a first gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor substrate and extending between the photoelectric conversion unit and charge storage unit, and a second gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor substrate and extending between the charge storage unit and the floating diffusion unit. The solid-state image pickup apparatus further includes a light shielding member including a first part and a second part, wherein the first part is disposed over the charge storage unit and at least over the first gate electrode or the second gate electrode, and the second part is disposed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode such that the second part extends from the first part toward a surface of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US10418393B2 |
Photodetector
A photodetector is provided, including a plurality of optical signal detection units located at each of multiple pixels and configured to generate electric charges corresponding to light being received, and a switch transistor selectively turned on and off so as to transfer the electric charges generated through the plurality of optical signal detection units at each of the multiple pixels, wherein the plurality of optical signal detection units are connected to each other in series. |
| US10418391B2 |
Display substrate, manufacture method thereof, and display device
Disclosed are a display substrate, a manufacture method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate comprises: a base substrate, and a metal layer, at least one insulating layer and a metal oxide conducting layer respectively on the base substrate, wherein, the at least one insulating layer is disposed between the metal layer and the metal oxide conducting layer; the metal oxide conducting layer is electrically connected to the metal layer through at least one via hole penetrating the at least one insulating layer; and the metal oxide conducting layer in the at least one via hole comprises metal particles produced by reducing the metal oxide conducting layer. |
| US10418385B2 |
Array substrate and fabrication method thereof, display panel
An array substrate, a display panel, and a fabrication method of the array-substrate are provided. The array substrate comprises a first thin film transistor including a first metal oxide thin film transistor and disposed in a display region, a second thin film transistor including an amorphous silicon thin film transistor and disposed in a peripheral circuit region; and a third thin film transistor including a second metal oxide thin film transistor and disposed in the peripheral circuit region. A first insulating layer is disposed between a first metal oxide semiconductor layer and a first gate electrode, and a second insulating layer is disposed above the first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, and the first metal oxide semiconductor layer. The amorphous silicon semiconductor layer, a first source electrode, a first drain electrode, a second source electrode, a second drain electrode are disposed above the second insulating layer. |
| US10418381B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is described, which includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. The second transistor and the capacitor are provided over the first transistor so as to overlap with a gate of the first transistor. A semiconductor layer of the second transistor and a dielectric layer of the capacitor are directly connected to the gate of the first transistor. The second transistor is a vertical transistor, where its channel direction is perpendicular to an upper surface of a semiconductor layer of the first transistor. |
| US10418377B2 |
Three-dimensional non-volatile semiconductor memory device having replacement gate
The disclosed technology relates generally to semiconductor devices and more particularly to three dimensional semiconductor memory devices, such as vertical three dimensional non-volatile memory devices. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a memory device comprises providing, on a substrate, an alternating stack of control gate layers and dielectric layers. The method additionally includes forming a memory block. comprising forming at least one memory hole through the alternating stack, where the at least one memory hole comprises on its sidewalls a stack of a programmable material, a channel material and a dielectric material, thereby forming at least one memory cell. The method additionally comprises removing a portion of the alternating stack to form at least one trench, where the at least one trench forms at least part of a boundary of the memory block. The method additionally comprises partially removing the control gate layers exposed at a sidewall of the at least one trench, thereby forming recesses in the control gate layers. The method further comprises filling the recesses with an electrically conductive material, thereby forming electrically conductive plugs. In another aspect, a device formed using the method is also provided. |
| US10418375B2 |
3D memory device
A 3D memory device comprising: a substrate; at least three first “U”-shaped strings of memory cells each including a first buried string portion, a first source line selector side string portion and a first bit line selector side string portion, wherein the first buried string portion is formed in the substrate and connects the first source line selector side string portion and the first bit line selector side string portion, each of the first “U”-shaped string of memory cells including stacks of memory cells along the first source line selector string side portion and along the first bit line selector side string portion; and at least three second “U”-shaped strings of memory cells each including a second buried string portion, a second source line selector side string portion and a second bit line selector side string portion, wherein the second buried string portion is formed in the substrate and connects the second source line selector side string portion and the second bit line selector side string portion, each of the second “U”-shaped string of memory cells including stacks of memory cells along the second source line selector side string portion and along the second bit line selector side string portion. The first buried string portions are formed at mutually different heights in the substrate and they have mutually different lengths, and the second buried string portions are formed at mutually different heights in the substrate and they have mutually different lengths. The first and second source line selector side string portions are between the first and second bit line selector side string portion. |
| US10418374B2 |
Vertical memory devices
A vertical memory device includes a plurality of stacked structures, at least one inter-structure layer, and a channel structure. The plurality of stacked structures comprises a plurality of gate electrodes and a plurality of insulation film patterns that are alternately and repeatedly stacked on a substrate. At least one inter-structure layer is positioned between the two stacked structures adjacent to each other from among the plurality of stacked structures. A channel structure penetrates the plurality of stacked structures and the at least one inter-structure layer, the channel structure extending in the first direction, the channel structure being connected to the substrate. |
| US10418369B2 |
Multi-level semiconductor memory device and structure
A multilevel semiconductor device including: a first level including a first array of first memory cells and first control line; a second level including a second array of second memory cells and second control line; a third level including a third array of third memory cells and third control line, where the second level overlays the first, and where the third level overlays the second; a first, second and third access pillar; memory control circuits designed to individually control cells of the first, second and third memory cells, where the device includes an array of units, where each of the units includes a plurality of the first, second and third memory cells, and a portion of the memory control circuits, where the array of units include at least eight rows and eight columns of units, and where the memory control is designed to control independently each of the units. |
| US10418366B2 |
Semiconductor devices including enlarged contact hole and methods of forming the same
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. The methods may include forming first and second line patterns. The first line pattern has a first side facing the second line pattern, and the second line pattern has a second side facing the first line pattern. The methods may also include forming a first spacer structure on the first side of the first line pattern and a second spacer structure on the second side of the second line pattern. The first and the second spacer structures may define an opening. The methods may further include forming a first conductor in a lower part of the opening, forming an expanded opening by etching upper portions of the first and second spacer structures, and forming a second conductor in the expanded opening. The expanded opening may have a width greater than a width of the lower part of the opening. |
| US10418364B2 |
Semiconductor device structure with self-aligned capacitor device
A semiconductor device structure is disclosed including a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, the SOI substrate comprising a semiconductor layer, a substrate material and a buried insulating material layer positioned between the semiconductor layer and the substrate material, a trench isolation structure positioned in at least a portion of the SOI substrate, the trench isolation structure defining a first region in the SOI substrate, and a capacitor device formed in the first region, the capacitor device comprising a first electrode formed by a conductive layer portion formed in the first region on the buried insulating material layer, the conductive layer portion at least partially replacing the semiconductor layer in the first region, a second electrode formed over the first electrode, and an insulating material formed between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| US10418358B2 |
Semiconductor device having an electrostatic discharge protection structure
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A first isolation layer is provided over the first surface of the semiconductor body. The semiconductor device further includes an electrostatic discharge protection structure over the first isolation layer. The electrostatic discharge protection structure has a first terminal region of a first conductivity type and a second terminal region of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. |
| US10418357B2 |
Protection circuit including a plurality of protection transistors
A protection circuit may include a first power line and a second power line, a plurality of high voltage interconnections, a plurality of low voltage interconnections, first and second pickup active regions, a high voltage protection transistor, and a low voltage protection transistor. The first power line and the second power line extending in parallel to each other while facing each other, and a plurality of high voltage interconnections are coupled to the first power line and extend toward the second power line while being spaced apart from each other. The plurality of low voltage interconnections are coupled to the second power line and extend toward the first power line while being spaced apart from each other. The first pickup active region extends across the plurality of high voltage interconnections and the second pickup active region extends across the plurality of low voltage interconnections. |
| US10418356B2 |
Diode structure and electrostatic discharge protection device including the same
The present disclosure provides a diode structure and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit including the same. The diode structure includes a P-type substrate. The diode structure further includes a plurality of wavy N-doping regions formed on the P-type substrate. Each of the wavy N-doping regions extends in a first direction and has an N-doping width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The diode structure further includes a plurality of wavy P-doping regions formed on the P-type substrate. Each of the wavy P-doping regions extends in the first direction and has a P-doping width in the second direction. The N-doping widths are essentially identical at different positions along the first direction, and the P-doping widths are essentially identical at different positions along the first direction. |
| US10418353B2 |
Stacked semiconductor package having mold vias and method for manufacturing the same
A stacked semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip having a first active surface over which first bonding pads including peripheral bonding pads and central bonding pads are arranged, a first encapsulation member, two second semiconductor chips having second active surfaces over which second bonding pads are arranged at one side peripheries and disposed to be separated from each other such that the second active surfaces face the first active surface and the second bonding pads overlap with the peripheral bonding pads, first coupling members interposed between the peripheral bonding pads and the second bonding pads, a second encapsulation member formed over second side surfaces of the second semiconductor chips including a region between the second semiconductor chips, and a mold via formed through a portion of the second encapsulation member in the region between the second semiconductor chips and coupled with the central bonding pads. |
| US10418352B1 |
Mobile communication device and optical package structure thereof
An optical package structure of a mobile communication device includes a board, electrodes formed on the board, a light emitter and an IC chip both disposed on the board, and a light permeable package body encapsulating the light emitter and the IC chip. The electrodes are respectively arranged on a lower edge portion and two lateral edge portions of the board, and the number of the electrodes on the lower edge portion is larger than that on any of the two lateral edge portions. The light emitter is electrically coupled to at least one of the electrodes. The IC chip includes a light sensor corresponding in position to the light emitter and connecting pads electrically coupled to the electrodes. A distance from the light sensor to the upper edge portion is less than that to the lower edge portion, and is equal to or less than 250 μm. |
| US10418351B2 |
Optoelectronic chip embedded organic substrate
Optoelectronic devices and method of forming the same include an optoelectronic component in a substrate layer. An integrated circuit chip is positioned on the substrate layer. A lens is positioned on the substrate layer directly above the optoelectronic component and above at least part of the integrated circuit chip. The lens has a cut-out portion that accommodates the integrated circuit chip. |
| US10418342B1 |
Silicon strip fan out system in package
A method to fabricate a reconstructed panel based fan-out wafer level package is described. A reconstructed wafer panel is provided comprising a plurality of individual dies encapsulated in a first molding compound. Interconnected metal redistribution layers (RDL) separated by PSV layers are formed on top surfaces of the plurality of individual dies. Thereafter, the reconstructed wafer panel is cut into a plurality of rectangular strips. Thereafter, backend processing is performed on each of the plurality of rectangular strips. |
| US10418339B2 |
3D packaging method for semiconductor components
The present disclosure relates to a method for bonding semiconductor components. A semiconductor component comprising microbumps on a planar bonding surface is prepared for bonding by applying a photosensitive polymer layer on the bonding surface. The average thickness of the initial polymer layer in between the microbumps is similar to the average height of the microbumps. In a lithography process, the polymer is removed from the upper surface of the microbumps and from areas around the microbumps. The polymer is heated to a temperature at which the polymer flows, resulting in a polymer layer that closely adjoins the microbumps, without exceeding the microbump height. The closely adjoining polymer layer may have a degree of planarity substantially similar to a planarized layer. |
| US10418335B2 |
Substrate, method of sawing substrate, and semiconductor device
A method of dividing a substrate includes preparing a substrate including a crystalline semiconductor layer having a scribe lane region and device regions, a dielectric layer on the crystalline semiconductor layer, and a partition structure in physical contact with the dielectric layer and provided on the scribe lane region of the crystalline semiconductor layer, forming an amorphous region in the crystalline semiconductor layer, and performing a grinding process on the crystalline semiconductor layer after the forming of the amorphous region. The amorphous region is formed in the scribe lane region of the crystalline semiconductor layer. |
| US10418330B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of making semiconductor devices
Semiconductor devices may include a substrate and a semiconductor die on the substrate. The semiconductor die may include an active surface and a lateral edge at a periphery of the active surface. An electrically insulating material may be located on the active surface proximate the lateral edge. The electrically insulating material may be distinct from any other material located on the active surface. A wire bond may extend from the active surface, over the electrically insulating material, to the substrate. Methods of making semiconductor devices may involve positioning an electrically insulating material on an active surface of a semiconductor die proximate a lateral edge at a periphery of an active surface. After positioning the electrically insulating material on the active surface, a wire bond extending from the active surface, over the electrically insulating material, to the substrate may be formed. |
| US10418328B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
An upper surface of a plug (PL1) is formed so as to be higher than an upper surface of an interlayer insulating film (PIL) by forming the interlayer insulating film (PIL) on a semiconductor substrate (1S), completing a CMP method for forming the plug (PL1) inside the interlayer insulating film (PIL), and then, making the upper surface of the interlayer insulating film (PIL) to recede. In this manner, reliability of connection between the plug (PL1) and a wiring (W1) in a vertical direction can be ensured. Also, the wiring (W1) can be formed so as not to be embedded inside the interlayer insulating film (PIL), or a formed amount by the embedding can be reduced. |
| US10418325B2 |
Semiconductor device and designing method thereof
A metal wiring layer includes a plurality of hierarchical blocks each divided by a side that serves as a boundary. One of the hierarchical blocks is placed to extend along the outer periphery of the self hierarchical block, and includes: a shield ring wire formed by a single metal wire or by a plurality of metal wires; and a plurality of metal wires that are placed inside the shield ring wire and extend in a preferential direction determined in advance. The shield ring wire has a first section extending in the preferential direction and a second section extending in a non-preferential direction perpendicular to the preferential direction. |
| US10418321B2 |
Semiconductor device
A compact semiconductor device with an isolator. The semiconductor device includes two chips, namely a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip which are stacked with the main surfaces of the semiconductor chips partially facing each other. A first coil and a second coil which are formed in the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip respectively are arranged to face each other so as to be magnetically coupled during operation of the semiconductor device. The pair of first and second coils make up an isolator. The first coil is arranged in a manner to overlap part of the circuit region of the first semiconductor chip in plan view and the second coil is arranged in a manner to overlap part of the circuit region of the second semiconductor chip in plan view. |
| US10418320B2 |
Structure and method for improving high voltage breakdown reliability of a microelectronic device
A method and structure suitable for, e.g., improving high voltage breakdown reliability of a microelectronic device such as a capacitor usable for galvanic isolation of two circuits. A metal plate having a top surface and a side surface is located over a first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer of a second different material is located over the first metal plate. A dielectric structure of the first material is located over the side surface of the metal plate and over the surface of the first dielectric layer. |
| US10418319B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing an electrically conductive carrier and placing a semiconductor chip over the carrier. The method includes applying an electrically insulating layer over the carrier and the semiconductor chip. The electrically insulating layer has a first face facing the carrier and a second face opposite to the first face. The method includes selectively removing the electrically insulating layer and applying solder material where the electrically insulating layer is removed and on the second face of the electrically insulating layer. |
| US10418318B1 |
Fine pitch copper pillar package and method
An electronic component package includes a substrate having an upper surface. Traces on the upper surface of the substrate extend in a longitudinal direction. The traces have a first latitudinal width in a latitudinal direction, the latitudinal direction being perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Rectangular copper pillars are attached to bond pads of an electronic component, the copper pillars having a longitudinal length and a latitudinal second width. The latitudinal second width of the copper pillars is equal to and aligned with the first latitudinal width of the traces. Further, the longitudinal length of the copper pillars is parallel with the longitudinal direction of the trace and equal to the length of the bond pads. The copper pillars are mounted to the traces with solder joints. |
| US10418314B2 |
External connection pad for semiconductor device package
At least some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a substrate for packaging a semiconductor device. The substrate includes a first dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first patterned conductive layer adjacent to the first surface of the first dielectric layer, a second patterned conductive layer adjacent to the second surface of the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first patterned conductive layer, and an external connection pad tapered from a top surface to a bottom surface. The second patterned conductive layer includes a pad and a trace adjacent to the pad. The external connection pad is disposed on the pad of the second patterned conductive layer. A bottom width of the external connection pad is greater than or equal to a width of the pad of the second patterned conductive layer. |
| US10418310B2 |
BGA package substrate and method of manufacturing the same
A BGA package substrate includes a substrate, a resist formed over the substrate and includes an opening, a land formed over the substrate in the opening, and a solder ball fused to the land, wherein the resist includes a notch at an edge of the opening through which the land is exposed, the notch having a bottom at a position lower than a surface of the land. |
| US10418306B1 |
Thermal interface for electronics
A thermal interface for positioning between an electronics packaging and a target object includes a pad having a first side facing one of the electronics packaging and the target object and a second side. Carbon fibers having varying lengths extend from the second side towards the other of the electronics packaging and the target object. |
| US10418297B2 |
Wafer-level packaging for enhanced performance
The present disclosure relates to a wafer-level packaging process. According to an exemplary process, a precursor wafer that includes a device layer with a number of input/output (I/O) contacts, a number of bump structures over the device layer, the stop layer underneath the device layer, and a silicon handle layer underneath the stop layer is provided. Herein, each bump structure is electronically coupled to a corresponding I/O contact. A first mold compound is then applied over the device layer to encapsulate each bump structure. Next, the silicon handle layer is removed substantially. A second mold compound is applied to an exposed surface from which the silicon handle layer was removed. Finally, the first mold compound is thinned down to expose a portion of each bump structure. |
| US10418293B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus, method of manufacturing semiconductor device, and thermocouple support
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a reaction tube configured to accommodate a substrate holder holding a plurality of substrates and process a substrate held on the substrate holder; a heating unit installed outside the reaction tube and configured to heat an inside of the reaction tube; a protection tube installed to extend in a vertical direction in contact with an outer wall of the reaction tube; an insulating tube disposed inside the protection tube and having through-holes extending in a vertical direction; a thermocouple having a thermocouple junction provided at an upper end thereof, and thermocouple wires joined at the thermocouple junction and inserted into the through-holes of the insulating tube; a gas supply unit configured to supply a gas, for processing a substrate accommodated in the reaction tube, into the reaction tube; and an exhaust unit configured to exhaust a gas from the reaction tube. |
| US10418289B2 |
Anomaly detection method and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus
A method performed by a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes calculating, by a processor of the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, 3 standard deviations of process condition measurements obtained at a predetermined interval from log information of processing of substrates that have been correctly processed, calculating at least one of an upper limit and a lower limit for anomaly detection based on the calculated 3 standard deviations, and detecting an anomaly in the processing of the substrates based on the at least one of the upper limit and the lower limit. |
| US10418287B2 |
Method and structure for improving dielectric reliability of CMOS device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure including a semiconductor substrate, an interlayer dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, multiple trenches extending through the interlayer dielectric layer to the semiconductor substrate and having a first trench of a PMOS device and a second trench of an NMOS device, and a high-k dielectric layer on sidewalls and a bottom of the trenches. The method also includes forming a semiconductor layer filling the trenches, removing the semiconductor layer in the first trench, forming a PMOS work function adjustment layer in the first trench and a metal electrode layer on the PMOS work function adjustment layer in the first trench, removing the semiconductor layer in the second trench, and forming an NMOS work function adjustment layer in the second trench and a metal electrode layer on the NMOS work function adjustment layer in the second trench. |
| US10418285B1 |
Fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) and method of production thereof
Methods of forming a CT pillar with reduced width and increased distance from neighboring fins and the resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include providing a first pair of fins and a second pair of fins in an oxide layer, wherein the first and second pair of fins include Si; and forming a CT pillar including SiN between the first and second pair of fins and over a portion of the oxide layer, wherein width of the CT pillar and distance between the CT pillar and the first and second pair of fins are inversely proportional. |
| US10418284B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor devices may include gate electrodes on a substrate. A longitudinal direction of each of the gate electrodes may extend in a first direction, and ones of the gate electrodes may be arranged in the first direction. The semiconductor devices may also include first and second gate spacers extending in the first direction and on respective sidewalls of the ones of the gate electrodes. The first and second gate spacers may be spaced apart from each other in a second direction that is different from the first direction. The semiconductor devices may further include gate separation patterns, and ones of the gate separation patterns may be between two among the ones of the gate electrodes adjacent to each other in the first direction and between the first and second gate spacers. |
| US10418282B2 |
Methods for forming the isolation structure of the semiconductor device and semiconductor devices
A method for forming an isolation structure of a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a patterned dielectric structure in a first area and a second area of a substrate; forming a first isolation structure in the first area and forming a second isolation structure in the second area of the substrate; forming a cap layer over the first area and the second area of the substrate and performing an etching process to etch the cap layer of the second area completely; and performing an oxidation process on the second area to form a first oxide region over the second isolation structure and under the bottom surface of the patterned dielectric structure of the second area. |
| US10418278B2 |
Semiconductor device having interconnection structure
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor pattern on a semiconductor substrate, a three-dimensional memory array on the semiconductor pattern, and a peripheral interconnection structure between the semiconductor pattern and the semiconductor substrate. The peripheral interconnection structure includes an upper interconnection structure on a lower interconnection structure. The upper interconnection structure includes an upper interconnection and an upper barrier layer. The lower interconnection structure includes a lower interconnection and a lower barrier layer. The upper barrier layer is under a bottom surface of the upper interconnection and does not cover side surfaces of the upper interconnection. The lower barrier layer is under a bottom surface of the lower interconnection and covers side surfaces of the lower interconnection. |
| US10418276B2 |
Control method for differentiated etching depth
A control method for differentiated etching depth is provided. The method includes: providing a first etching stop pattern layer in a panel having stacked structure; adopting a first etchant to perform a first etching process to the panel such that a location of the panel provided with the first etching stop pattern layer forms a first etching depth, and forms a second etching depth at a location of the panel without providing the first etching stop pattern layer; through controlling an etching time, the second etching depth is deeper than a bottom of the first etching stop pattern layer; and adopting a second etchant to perform a second etching process to the panel in order to etch and remove the first etching stop pattern layer. In a same mask process, through changing the etchant, different depths are etched and formed to reduce the time consuming and decrease the production cost. |
| US10418265B2 |
Sample holder and plasma etching apparatus using same
A sample holder includes a substrate composed of ceramics, having a sample holding surface on one main surface thereof; and a heat-generating resistor provided on an other main surface of the substrate, containing a glass component. The substrate contains the glass component in a vicinity region of the heat-generating resistor. |
| US10418263B2 |
Overhead transportation system for transporting objects between multiple work stations
Proposed is an overhead transportation system for transporting FOUPs in the environment of semiconductor production. The system includes a pair of rails and a hoist travelling along the rails on two pairs of independently controlled wheels. The wheels are driven from in-wheel drive motors and are provided with lateral guide rollers that prevent the wheels from contact with the side walls of the rails. The FOUP gripper mechanism for grasping FOUPs is suspended from the hoist on multifunctional electrically conductive straps, which raise a gripper-grasped FOUP by pulling it up together with the lower pulleys of the strap-guiding unit. The gripper mechanism is attached to a swinging member rotationally installed on a slider, which is laterally moveable from the hoist toward a work station. The in-wheel motors receive power from batteries on the hoist. Other drives are fed from an external source switched in to the hoist on work stations. |
| US10418262B2 |
Gas floated workpiece supporting apparatus and noncontact workpiece support method
An apparatus for conveying a substrate includes a base along which the substrate is conveyed, a first upward gas ejecting section, a second upward gas ejecting section and a third upward gas ejecting section disposed over the base, the third upward gas ejecting section being disposed between the first and second upward gas ejecting sections, and a first downward gas ejecting section and a second downward gas ejecting section disposed above and facing respective portions of the third upward gas ejecting section. Gas ejected upward from the first, second and third upward gas ejecting sections floats the substrate. The substrate is subjected to pressure by gas ejected downward from the first and second downward gas ejecting sections. The first and second downward gas ejecting sections are spaced to provide a working area therebetween and through which the substrate is irradiated with a laser beam. |
| US10418240B2 |
Nitride semiconductor structure
A nitride semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a nitride semiconductor layer, and a buffer stack layer between the substrate and the nitride semiconductor layer. The buffer stack layer includes a plurality of metal nitride multilayers repeatedly stacked, wherein each of the metal nitride multilayers consists of a first, a second, and a third metal nitride thin films in sequence, or consists of the first, the third, the second, and the third metal nitride thin films in sequence. The aluminum concentration of the first metal nitride thin film is higher than that of the third metal nitride thin film, and the aluminum concentration of the third metal nitride thin film is higher than that of the second metal nitride thin film. |
| US10418238B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for light emission and detection using amorphous silicon
Amorphous silicon devices, systems, and related methods are described herein. An example method for fabricating a thin film with light-emitting or light-detecting capability can include depositing a thin film of amorphous silicon on a wafer such that crystalline defects are distributed throughout the thin film. Additionally, an example photonic device can include a p-doped region and an n-doped region formed on a wafer, and a resonator structure formed on the wafer. The resonator structure can be formed from amorphous silicon and can be arranged between the p-doped and n-doped regions to form a PIN junction. Optionally, the photonic device can be incorporated into a monolithic integrated optical system. |
| US10418236B2 |
Composite dielectric interface layers for interconnect structures
Dielectric composite films characterized by a dielectric constant (k) of less than about 7 and having a density of at least about 2.5 g/cm3 are deposited on partially fabricated semiconductor devices to serve as etch stop layers. The dielectric composite film in one embodiment includes Al, Si, and O and has a thickness of between about 10-100 Å. The dielectric composite film can reside between two layers of inter-layer dielectric, and may be in contact with metal layers. An apparatus for depositing such dielectric composite films includes a process chamber, a conduit for delivering an aluminum containing precursor to the process chamber, a second conduit for delivering a silicon-containing precursor to the process chamber and a controller having program instructions for depositing the dielectric composite film from these precursors, e.g., by reacting the precursors adsorbed to the substrate with an oxygen-containing species. |
| US10418230B2 |
Method and apparatus for manufacturing cleaned substrates or clean substrates which are further processed
Plasma etch-cleaning of substrates is performed by means of a plasma discharge arrangement comprising an electron source cathode (5) and an anode arrangement (7). The anode arrangement (7) comprises on one hand an anode electrode (9) and on the other hand and electrically isolated therefrom a confinement (11). The confinement (11) has an opening (13) directed towards an area (S) of a substrate (21) to be cleaned. The electron source cathode (5) and the anode electrode (9) are electrically supplied by a supply circuit with a supply source (19). The circuit is operated electrically floating. |
| US10418229B2 |
Aerosol deposition coating for semiconductor chamber components
An component of a processing chamber comprises an aerosol deposited coating on the component, the aerosol deposited coating comprising a first type of metal oxide nanoparticle and a second type of metal oxide nanoparticle. |
| US10418226B2 |
Activated gas generation apparatus
An activated gas generation apparatus includes a gas jet flow straightener below an activated gas generating electrode group and a nozzle constituent part. The gas jet flow straightener receives a plurality of nozzle passing activated gases as a whole at an inlet part of a gas flow-straightening passage. The gas flow-straightening passage is formed so that the outlet opening area of an outlet part is set to be narrower than the inlet opening area of the inlet part, and the cylindrical gas jet of each of the plurality of nozzle passing activated gases is converted into a linear flow-straightened activated gas by the flow-straightening action of the gas flow-straightening passage. |
| US10418224B2 |
Plasma etching method
In the plasma etching method, a sample is placed on a stage in a chamber. A first gas is introduced into the chamber. Electric field is supplied within the chamber to plasma is generated from the first gas. A first RF power of a first frequency, which is for generating a bias voltage in the sample for etching the sample with radicals which are generated in the plasma while the plasma is generated, is supplied to the stage. A second gas is introduced from a position in outer periphery of a surface of the stage, on which the sample is placed. A second RF power of a second frequency higher than the first frequency and capable of generating plasma from the second gas above the stage that allows radicals generated in the plasma generated from the second gas to be supplied in the outer periphery, is supplied to the stage. |
| US10418221B2 |
X-ray source with tube-shaped field-emitter
An x-ray tube can include an electron-emitter, which can include a tube-shape with a minimum inside diameter of at least 0.5 millimeters. The electron-emitter can provide field-emission of electrons, and thus can avoid the electrical power required for heating, and can avoid degradation due to high temperature of, a thermionic-emission electron-emitter. This type of electron-emitter, with a tube-shape, can have a relatively large electron-emission region, allowing high electrical current without excessive current density. |
| US10418211B2 |
Switching contact of a vacuum interrupter comprising supporting bodies
A switching contact, of a vacuum interrupter including support bodies, includes an additional support body which has the shape of a truncated cone or of a hollow truncated cone or of a partially hollow truncated cone. The additional support body is offset from a first location or region on the bottom of the contact carrier, located in the notional extension of the contact rod and inside the contact carrier, to a second location or region, located on the side of the contact plate facing the contact carrier and on the outer edge of the contact plate in relation to the first region. |
| US10418210B2 |
DC circuit breaker
Disclosed is a DC circuit breaker capable of interrupting fault currents flowing in both forward and backward directions. The DC circuit breaker includes: a first mechanical switch for interrupting a current in a DC transmission line; a first diode connected in parallel with the first mechanical switch; a second mechanical switch, connected in series with the first mechanical switch, for interrupting a current in the DC transmission line; a second diode connected in parallel with the second mechanical switch; an LC circuit connected in parallel with the first and second mechanical switches and including a capacitor and a reactor connected in series to induce LC resonance; a first unidirectional switching device connected in parallel with the LC circuit and switching a current to induce LC resonance; and a bidirectional switching device connected in series with the LC circuit and switching currents flowing in both forward and backward directions. |
| US10418208B2 |
Household appliance and control assembly thereof
The present disclosure provides a household appliance and a control assembly which includes a control panel, a display screen and a power switch. The display screen is arranged on the control panel and can move relative to the control panel. The power switch is connected to the control panel and/or the display screen for controlling the power-on and power-off of the household appliance. When the display screen is pressed, the display screen moves relative to the control panel and controls the power-on or power-off of the power switch. By pressing the display screen to control the power-on and power-off of the power switch, a complete power-off can be achieved to eliminate the drawbacks of weak power and incomplete power-off of the touch-sensitive power switch, and the arrangement of a power switch key is omitted, therefore the operation and the overall appearance of the household appliance is simplified. |
| US10418204B2 |
Switch device
A switch device includes a housing, an operating member, a fixed contact, and a moving contact. The moving contact is, while being in contact with the fixed contact, urged toward the fixed contact so as to be in elastic contact with the fixed contact. The fixed contact includes a plate portion and is held by the housing with a space on one surface side of the plate portion. The moving contact includes a first extended portion that extends so as to intersect the plate portion. When the moving contact and the fixed contact are in contact with each other, the first extended portion intersects the plate portion while being inclined relative to the plate portion, and the first extended portion is in elastic contact with a corner portion on a one surface side of an edge of the plate portion. |
| US10418203B2 |
Vented push switch
A push switch of the present disclosure has: a resin case that has a recess, a through hole, and a groove; a connection terminal; an upper protection sheet; and a lower protection sheet. The through hole penetrates from a bottom part of the recess to a lower surface of the resin case, and the groove is provided on the lower surface of the resin case. The through hole and the groove are connected to each other, and the through hole overlaps with the lower protection sheet in plan view. The groove has a first area and a second area, and of the first area and the second area, only the first area overlaps with the lower protection sheet in plan view. |
| US10418199B2 |
Retrofittable switch guard
A switch guard for preventing accidental actuation of a control switch is disclosed. The switch guard includes a rigid wall structure comprising a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls arranged to accommodate positioning of the control switch therein, each of the pair of end walls including at least one opening formed therein. The switch guard also includes a mating feature provided at each of the end walls of the wall structure, with each mating feature being a separate component from the rigid wall structure and being configured to selectively translate through the at least one opening formed in the respective end wall between a first position and a second position to secure the switch guard about the control switch. |
| US10418195B2 |
Contact lever for use in an electrical switch assembly
A contact lever for use in an electrical switch assembly so as to allow selectable movement within the switch assembly of a contact lever contact member from electrical connection with a first stationary contact member into electrical connection with a second stationary contact member, the contact lever including: first and second lever arms that are connected at respective first ends to the contact lever contact member; said first and second lever arms having respective second ends, and, said first and second lever arms being configured to extend away from the contact member and to terminate at their respective second ends; a gap disposed between the first and second lever arms which separates the first and second lever arms as they extend away from the contact member, and wherein the gap is configured to allow movement of a spring element of the switch assembly therethrough; and a bridge member configured for connection with the first and second lever arms so as to traverse the gap separating the first and second lever arms. |
| US10418190B2 |
Electronic component manufacturing method and film forming apparatus
An electronic component manufacturing method includes inserting an electronic component base body, which has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and paired opposing end surfaces, paired opposing lateral surfaces connecting the end surfaces, and paired opposing principal surfaces perpendicular to the end surfaces and the lateral surfaces and connecting the end surfaces, in a receiving portion of a component holder. The receiving portion defining an accommodation space that is capable of receiving the electronic component base body, forming an oleophobic film over the surfaces of the electronic component base body by exposing the surfaces of the electronic component base body inserted in the receiving portion to gas containing an oleophobic material, taking out the electronic component base body, which includes the oleophobic film formed thereon, from the receiving portion, and forming outer electrodes on the electronic component base body having been taken out. |
| US10418189B2 |
Enhanced structural supercapacitors
The present disclosure is directed to structural supercapacitors and electrodes for structural supercapacitors having high energy storage and high mechanical characteristics and methods of making the structural supercapacitors and electrodes. The structural supercapacitors can include a solid electrolyte and carbon fiber electrodes comprising carbon nanotubes, surface functionalized redox-active moieties, and/or a conducting polymer. |
| US10418188B2 |
Method for manufacturing laminated supercapacitor
In a method for manufacturing a supercapacitor, a first graphene current collector, a first electrode and a first separating layer are sequentially formed on a first metal layer, to form a first stacked layer. A second graphene current collector and a second electrode are sequentially formed on a second metal layer, to form a second stacked layer. The second electrode of the second stacked layer is formed on the first separating layer of the first stacked layer, to form a third stacked layer. The third stacked layer is compressed to remove the first and second metal layers, to form a unit stacked layer. The unit stacked layer and a second separating layer or an insulating layer are alternately formed. |
| US10418183B2 |
Composite electronic component and resistor device
A composite electronic component includes a capacitor device and a resistor device stacked together in a height direction. The capacitor device includes a capacitor body and first and second external electrodes. The resistor device includes a base, a resistive element, first and second upper surface conductors, first and second lower surface conductors, a first connection conductor, and a second connection conductor. The upper surface of the base of the resistor device faces the lower surface of the capacitor body of the capacitor device, the first upper surface conductor is electrically connected to the first external electrode, and the second upper surface conductor is electrically connected to the second external electrode. |
| US10418181B2 |
Single layer capacitors
Capacitors having form factors (e.g., dimensions and functionality) comparable with traditional single layer capacitors, but with considerably higher capacitance and methods of their manufacture are provided. Capacitors and methods that implement capacitors where at least one of the dielectric layers is reduced in thickness post firing to produce a device robust enough for automated handling and provide a stable surface for wire-bonding are also provided. Capacitors and methods that implement an internal electrode between at least two layers of pre-fired ceramic dielectric are also provided. Capacitors and methods that implement the integration of multiple dielectric types in a single device producing high frequency performance characteristics are also provided. Capacitors and dielectrics that implement the combination of a multi-layer capacitor with a thin single layer capacitor to further increase operating frequency and capacitance are also provided. Capacitors and methods that implement a single layer capacitor capable of combination with any other passive electronic component such as a resistor or inductor further improving functionality and reducing space requirements on the circuit are also provided. |
| US10418180B2 |
Electronic component and manufacturing method for the same
In an electronic component, a first outer electrode includes a first conductive layer provided on a first end surface. A second outer electrode includes a second conductive layer provided on a second end surface. A first inner electrode passes through the first conductive layer. A second inner electrode passes through the second conductive layer. |
| US10418179B2 |
Multilayer thin-film capacitor
A multilayer thin-film capacitor includes a multilayer body in which a plurality of dielectric layers and first and second internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, and first and second external electrodes are disposed on the multilayer body and connected to the first and second internal electrode layers, respectively. The multilayer thin-film capacitor may include a first edge via connected to the external electrode and disposed at or adjacent at least one edge of an upper surface of the multilayer body, and a second edge via connected to the second external electrode and disposed at or adjacent at least one edge of the upper surface of the multilayer body. |
| US10418177B2 |
Capacitor with improved heat dissipation
A capacitor comprises a first winding member, where the first winding member comprises a first dielectric layer and a first conductive layer. A second winding member comprises a second dielectric layer and second conductive layer. The first winding member is interleaved, partially or entirely, with the second winding layer. A dielectric package is adapted to at least radially contain or border the first winding member and the second winding member. A first metallic member has a generally planar, radially extending surface for electrically and mechanically contacting an upper portion the first conductive layer. A second metallic member has a generally planar, radially extending surface for electrically and mechanically contacting a lower portion of the second conductive layer. |
| US10418174B2 |
Coil component and manufacturing method thereof
Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a drum core including a pair of flange portions and a winding core portion positioned between the flange portions, a plurality of terminal electrodes formed on the flange portions, and a plurality of wires wound around the winding core portion, each end of the wires being electrically connected to an associated one of the terminal electrodes. Each of the flange portions has an inner side surface connected to the winding core portion and an outer side surface opposite to the inner side surface, the outer side surface has a plurality of ridges and at least one groove, and the terminal electrodes are formed on at least the ridges of the outer side surfaces such that the terminal electrodes are isolated from each other by the groove. |
| US10418173B2 |
Coil winding method and winding apparatus
The present invention is to provide a plurality of unit coil portions formed by winding one conductive wire about a winding axis is placed side by side in the winding axis direction, each of the unit coil portions is formed by unit wound portions having different inner circumferential lengths from each other, the unit coil portion is multi-layered in at least a part thereof by pushing at least a part of the unit wound portion having a small inner circumferential length inside the unit wound portion having a large inner circumferential length, and the unit wound portion is wound along a loop shape winding route having a plurality of arc shape corner parts. In unit wound portions forming the unit coil portion, corner parts formed at the same phase angle with respect to the winding axis are formed in an arc shape having curvature center at the same position. |
| US10418172B2 |
Methods of forming coils for inductive components
A method of forming a coil for an inductive component includes bending a conductor into a figure 8 configuration. The figure 8 configuration has opposite first and second ends, a first substantially rounded portion, and a second substantially rounded portion. Each of the first and second substantially rounded portions terminates at one of the first and second ends. The method further includes folding the figure 8 configuration so the first substantially rounded portion overlies the second substantially rounded portion. Other example methods of forming coils for inductive components and other example coils are also disclosed. |
| US10418171B2 |
Production method for R—T—B-based sintered magnet
A step of, while an RLM alloy powder (where RL is Nd and/or Pr; M is one or more elements selected from among Cu, Fe, Ga, Co, Ni and Al) and an RH compound powder (where RH is Dy and/or Tb; and the RH compound is an RH fluoride and/or an RH oxyfluoride) are present on the surface of a sintered R-T-B based magnet, performing a heat treatment at a sintering temperature of the sintered R-T-B based magnet or lower is included. The RLM alloy contains RL in an amount of 50 at % or more, and the melting point of the RLM alloy is equal to or less than the temperature of the heat treatment. The heat treatment is performed while the RLM alloy powder and the RH compound powder are present on the surface of the sintered R-T-B based magnet at a mass ratio of RLM alloy:RH compound=9.6:0.4 to 5:5. |
| US10418170B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing undesired eddy currents
Systems and methods to reduce the amplitude of undesirable eddy currents in conducting structures, e.g., induced by the translation of an FRC into a confinement chamber, while leaving beneficial eddy currents unaffected. This is achieved by inducing opposing currents in the same conducting structures prior to plasma translation into the confinement chamber. |
| US10418167B2 |
Inductor component
An inductor component has an element body defined by a length, a height, and a width, a coil disposed in the element body and helically wound in the width direction, and first and second external electrodes disposed in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The coil includes a plurality of coil conductor layers arranged side by side in the width direction. The plurality of coil conductor layers is each wound in parallel with a plane including the length direction and the height direction. At least one of the coil conductor layers has a shortest distance of 140 μm or less in at least one of the length and height directions between an inner circumferential surface of the coil conductor layer and an outer surface of the element body opposite to this inner circumferential surface. |
| US10418165B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes an insulating layer, a plurality of upper wiring electrode patterns formed on an upper surface of the insulating layer, and a plurality of lower wiring electrode patterns formed on a lower surface of the insulating layer. The upper wiring electrode patterns and the lower wiring electrode patterns each include an underlying electrode layer formed of a conductive paste and a plating electrode layer formed on the underlying electrode layer. With this configuration, the resistivity of the upper and lower wiring electrode patterns and can be made lower than that of the upper and lower wiring electrode patterns and each including only the underlying electrode layer formed of a conductive paste. |
| US10418164B2 |
Coil component, manufacturing method thereof, and circuit board on which coil component are mounted
Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes first and second magnetic members; a coil layer arranged between the first and second magnetic members, the coil layer including a plurality of conductor layers and a plurality of non-magnetic insulating layers, the conductor layers and the non-magnetic insulating layers being alternately laminated, the conductor layers being connected to each other via through holes formed in the non-magnetic insulating layers to form a coil pattern; a first external terminal covering one end of the coil pattern exposed to at least one of side surfaces of the coil layer without covering the first and second magnetic members; and a second external terminal covering other end of the coil pattern exposed to at least one of the side surfaces of the coil layer without covering the first and second magnetic members. |
| US10418160B2 |
Metal powder core, coil component employing same, and fabrication method for metal powder core
Provided are: a metal powder core having a configuration suitable for core loss reduction and strength improvement; a coil component employing this; and a fabrication method for metal powder core. The metal powder core is obtained by dispersing Cu powder among soft magnetic material powder comprising pulverized powder of Fe-based soft magnetic alloy and atomized powder of Fe-based soft magnetic alloy and then by performing compaction. The fabrication method for metal powder core includes: a mixing step of mixing together soft magnetic material powder containing thin-leaf shaped pulverized powder of Fe-based soft magnetic alloy and atomized powder of Fe-based soft magnetic alloy, Cu powder, and a binder and thereby obtaining a mixture; a forming step of performing pressure forming on the mixture obtained at the mixing step; and a heat treatment step of annealing a formed article obtained at the forming step. |
| US10418158B1 |
Composite circuit protection device
A composite circuit protection device includes a polymer positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) component, a voltage-dependent resistor, a first conductive lead and a second conductive lead. The PPTC component is formed with a hole and includes a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) polymeric layer, and first and second electrode layers respectively disposed on two opposite surfaces of the PTC polymeric layer. The hole is formed in the PTC polymeric layer. The voltage-dependent resistor is connected to the second electrode layer of the PPTC component. The first and second conductive leads are respectively bonded to the first electrode layer of the PPTC component and the voltage-dependent resistor. |
| US10418156B1 |
Method of manufacture of electrical wire and cable having a reduced coefficient of friction and required pulling force
A process for manufacturing finished wire and cable having reduced coefficient of friction and pulling force during installation, includes providing a payoff reel containing at least one internal conductor wire; supplying the at least one internal conductor wire from the reel to at least one extruder; providing the least one extruder, wherein the at least one extruder applies an insulating material and a polymerized jacket composition over the at least one internal conductor wire, wherein the polymerized jacket composition comprises a predetermined amount by weight of nylon; and at least 3% by weight of a silica providing a cooling device for lowering the temperature of the extruded insulating material and the polymerized jacket composition and cooling the insulating material and the polymerized jacket composition in the cooling device; and, reeling onto a storage reel the finished, cooled, wire and cable for storage and distribution. |
| US10418155B2 |
Twisting device for electrical conductors
Twisting device for electrical conductors has at least one twisting head that rotates about an axis of rotation and a clamping device. The twisting head is movable in the direction of its axis of rotation toward the clamping device and is mounted on a first, motorized length compensation carriage, while the clamping device is mounted on a travel compensation carriage that is movable towards the length compensation carriage parallel to the axis of rotation of the twisting head. After the conductors have been cut to size and transferred to the twisting head and the clamping device, they are placed under tension. Then, the twisting head is activated to rotate about an axis of rotation parallel to the conductors while simultaneously moving towards the clamping device. Simultaneously, the clamping device is subjected to a force directed away from the twisting head and the travel/force profile for the clamping device is evaluated. |
| US10418154B2 |
Superconducting structure for connecting tape conductors, in particular having a corrugated or serrated seam
A superconductor structure (10, 20, 30), having a first strip piece (1), a second strip piece (2) and a third strip piece (3). Each strip piece has a substrate (5) and a superconducting layer (6) deposited thereon. End sections of the second and third strip pieces are connected via a layer (7) made of a first normally conducting material to the first strip piece, the second and third strip pieces overlap with the first strip piece, the superconducting layers of the second and third strip pieces face the superconducting layer of the first strip piece, and a seam (4, 23, 24) with a defined path length is formed between the end sections of the second and third strip pieces. The seam extends over an extension region (8) of the superconductor structure. Splicing strip pieces together in this manner achieves a high current load capacity. |
| US10418153B2 |
Fabricatable data transmission cable
A data transmission cable which can be fabricated includes a plurality of pairs of cores that each comprise a pair of twisted together cores, a central filler which is surrounded by the pairs of cores and bears against the pairs of cores, where the pairs of cores are aligned with one another via the central filler, and a plurality of bundles of filler threads are also arranged equidistantly in the circumferential direction around the pairs of cores, and where each bundle of filler threads is arranged to bear against two pairs of cores that are respectively adjacent to one another such that the pairs of cores are affixed to one another firstly by the central filler and secondly by the bundles of filler threads. |
| US10418150B2 |
Core electric wire for multi-core cable and multi-core cable
A core electric wire for a multi-core cable according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a conductor obtained by twisting element wires, and an insulating layer covering the conductor, a principal component of the insulating layer being a copolymer of ethylene and an α-olefin having a carbonyl group; the α-olefin content in the copolymer being 14% to 46% by mass; and a mathematical product C*E being 0.01 to 0.9, wherein C is a linear expansion coefficient of the insulating layer at from 25° C. to −35° C., and E is a modulus of elasticity thereof at −35° C. Average area of the conductor in the transverse cross section is 1.0 to 3.0 mm2. Average diameter of the element wires in the conductor is 40 to 100 μm, and number of the element wires is 196 to 2,450. |
| US10418149B2 |
Composition for electric wire coating material and insulated electric wire
A composition for an electric wire coating material that has excellent damage resistance, low-temperature flexibility, and tear resistance, and an insulated electric wire in which this composition is used. The composition for an electric wire coating material containing polyvinyl chloride contains a plasticizer in an amount of 15 to 30 parts by mass and a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer in an amount of 0.01 to 10 parts by mass, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl chloride. An insulated electric wire is obtained by coating an outer circumference of a conductor with an insulating coating layer, using this composition for an electric wire coating material in an electric wire coating material. |
| US10418147B2 |
Conductive coating liquid composition, and an antistatic film and a display device using the same
Provided is a display device having an antistatic film made of a conductive coating liquid composition. The conductive coating liquid composition includes 10 to 100 parts by weight of a silane sol based on 100 parts by weight of a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid composition, and 0.1 to 5 wt % of a polar solvent based on 100 wt % of the conductive coating liquid composition. |
| US10418146B2 |
Conductive polymer composite
A conductive polymer composite is disclosed. The composite comprises a thermoplastic polymer and a plurality of metal-plated carbon nanotubes. A method of three dimensional printing using the conductive polymer composite and a filament comprising the conductive polymer composite are also disclosed. |
| US10418145B2 |
Stretchable conductive composites for use in soft devices
An elastically-deformable, conductive composite using elastomers and conductive fibers and simple fabrication procedures is provided. Conductive elastomeric composites offer low resistance to electrical current and are elastic over large (>25%) extensional strains. They can be easily interfaced/built into structures fabricated from elastomeric polymers. |
| US10418144B2 |
Carbon nanotube composite material and process for producing same
A carbon nanotube composite material includes a metallic base composed of a polycrystalline substance in which a plurality of rod-shaped metallic crystal grains are oriented in a same direction and a carbon nanotube conductive path, which is composed of a carbon nanotube, and forms a conductive path allowing electricity to conduct therethrough in a longitudinal direction of the metallic base by being present in a part of grain boundaries between the rod-shaped metallic crystal grains on a transverse plane of the metallic base, and being present along the longitudinal direction of the metallic base. |
| US10418137B2 |
Self-aligning neutron absorbing apparatus for reactivity mitigation in nuclear fuel storage systems
A neutron absorber apparatus for use in restoring reactivity control to a nuclear fuel rack. The apparatus comprises an elongated tubular insert assembly configured for insertion in a storage cell of the rack. First and second absorber plates, each formed of a boron-containing material, are coupled together by upper and lower stiffening bands at the insert extremities and form a longitudinally-extending cavity configured for receiving a fuel assembly. The absorber plates and stiffening bands may have a rectilinear cross sectional configuration in one embodiment. At least one elastically deformable locking protrusion mounted proximate to the lower end of the absorber plates lockingly engages an available lower edge disposed in the cell sidewall above its bottom end. This fixes the tubular insert axially in the cell, thereby preventing its withdrawal after installing the insert. In one embodiment, the edge may be the bottom of existing absorber sheathing in the cell. |
| US10418136B2 |
System and method for reclaiming energy from heat emanating from spent nuclear fuel
The present invention provides a system and method for reclaiming energy from the heat emanating from spent nuclear fuel contained within a canister-based dry storage system. The inventive system and method provides continuous passive cooling of the loaded canisters by utilizing the chimney-effect and reclaims the energy from the air that is heated by the canisters. The inventive system and method, in one embodiment, is particularly suited to store the canisters below-grade, thereby utilizing the natural radiation shielding properties of the sub-grade while still facilitating passive air cooling of the canisters. In another embodiment, the invention focuses on a special arrangement of the spent nuclear fuel within the canisters so that spent nuclear fuel that is hotter than that which is typically allowed to be withdrawn from the spent fuel pools can be used in a dry-storage environment, thereby increasing the amount energy that can be reclaimed. |
| US10418135B2 |
Bottom nozzle and light-water reactor fuel assembly
A bottom nozzle includes a skirt, support blocks, transverse blades and longitudinal blades. The skirt is a hollow structure and a bottom thereof is provided with corner legs which are protruded downwards, a cavity is defined in the hollow structure, the transverse blades are configured in the cavity, the longitudinal blades are configured in the cavity, the transverse blades and longitudinal blades are firmly connected with the skirt, projections of the transverse blades and the longitudinal blades in a level plane are intersectant to form interleaved grids, and the support blocks run through and are fixed on the transverse blades and the longitudinal blades. In such a way, the bottom nozzle forms a three-dimensional gridded water passage, thereby improving the filter capacity and generating small water pressure drop. |
| US10418131B2 |
System for providing identification and information, and for scheduling alerts
A device and system for providing identification and medical information are disclosed. The device includes a readable code that contains medical biographical information of the subject, a programmable reporter element that is programmed to electronically store at least one particular event relating to the subject, and a signal producing element functionally related to the programmable reporter element. The system includes collecting and storing medical biographical information of a subject, embedding the medical biographical information in a readable code of the device, and scanning the readable code of the device worn by or in the possession of the subject using an appliance to retrieve the medical biographical information of the subject. The medical biographical information allows medical professionals to obtain the subject's medical information in order to provide medical care. Also disclosed is an integrated system for alerting subjects to upcoming events related to their continued care. |
| US10418129B2 |
Method and system for drug virtual screening and construction of focused screening library
The present invention relates to a virtual drug screening method with high prediction accuracy based on various biological activities extracted from multiple drug screening data, without using structures or structural attribute information of target proteins or compounds; an intensive screening library constructing method; and a system therefor. |
| US10418127B2 |
Method of formulating a skin-lightening composition
A method of formulating a skin-lightening composition by identifying actives with a data architecture and incorporating the actives into a skin care composition. The data architecture can be used to identify connections between perturbagens and genes associated with skin tone. A gene expression profile for a control human cell is compared to the gene expression profile a cell exposed to perturbagen to identify the genes which are differentially expressed. The differentially expressed genes are analyzed and arranged into an ordered list of identifiers, which along with other instances create a data architecture. |
| US10418123B2 |
Column repair in memory
Apparatuses and methods related to column repair in memory are described. The sensing circuitry of an apparatus can include a first sensing component, a second sensing component, and a third sensing component. The second sensing component can include a defective sense amplifier that is column repaired. The apparatus can include a controller configured to use the sensing circuitry to shift data from the first sensing component to the third sensing component by transferring the data through the second sensing component. The second sensing component can be physically located between the first sensing component and the third sensing component. |
| US10418122B2 |
Threshold voltage margin analysis
The present disclosure is related to a threshold voltage margin analysis. An example embodiment apparatus can include a memory and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller is configured to determine a previous power loss of a memory to be an asynchronous power loss, and identify a portion of the memory last subject to programming operations during the determined asynchronous power loss. The controller is further configured to perform a threshold voltage (Vt) margin analysis on the portion of the memory responsive to the determined asynchronous power loss. |
| US10418120B2 |
Sense amplifier driving device
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a bit line connected to the memory cell, and a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier is connected to the bit line, receives a first control signal, and detects and amplifies a bit line signal of the bit line. The sense amplifier includes a precharge device that is turned on or turned off based on a read control signal, and a transistor output unit that outputs an output voltage based on the bit line signal when the precharge device is turned off. |
| US10418116B2 |
Memory device with control logic configured to group memory blocks, and determine driving voltages to be respectively applied to the groups to control memory operation
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and a control logic. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory blocks. The control logic groups the memory blocks, determines driving voltages to be respectively applied to the groups, and applies each of the determined driving voltages to memory blocks included in a corresponding group to control the operation of the memory cell array. |
| US10418114B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory cell transistors between first and second select transistors, third and fourth memory cell transistors between third and fourth select transistors, a first word line for first and third memory cell transistors, a second word line for second and fourth memory cell transistors, first to fourth selection gate lines respectively for first through fourth select transistors, a bit line, and a source line. During a read operation, while a voltage applied to the second word line is boosted, voltages applied to the first word line and the third and fourth selection gate line are also boosted, after which the voltage applied to the first word line is lowered, and the third and fourth selection gate lines are discharged. After the time the third and fourth selection gate lines are discharged, voltages applied to the bit line and the source line are boosted. |
| US10418111B2 |
Memory system and operating method thereof
There are provided a memory system and an operating method thereof. A memory system includes: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, the memory device configured to perform a read operation on a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks; and a memory controller for controlling the memory device to perform the read operation, wherein an Initial turn-on period of the read operation is controlled based on information on an erase number of source line sharing blocks of the selected memory block. |
| US10418110B2 |
Asymmetric pass field-effect transistor for nonvolatile memory
A method of performing an operation on a non-volatile memory (NVM) cell of a memory device is disclosed. The pass transistor of the NVM cell is an asymmetric transistor including a source with a halo implant. The source of the pass transistor is coupled to a common source line (CSL) that is shared among NVM cells of a sector of NVM cells. The operation may be performed by applying a first signal to a word line (WLS) coupled to a gate of a memory transistor of the NVM cell and applying a second signal to a bit line (BL) coupled to a drain of the memory transistor of the NVM cell. |
| US10418105B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes: a first memory block; and a second memory block sharing a block word line with the first memory block, in which the block word line includes a first block word line disposed so as to overlap the first memory block and a second block word line disposed so as to overlap the second memory block. According to the present disclosure, it is less likely to have an operation failure. |
| US10418103B1 |
TCAM-driven RRAM
According to examples, an apparatus may include a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) including a plurality of TCAM bit cells connected in a row along a match line. Each of the TCAM bit cells may store a bit of a TCAM word and the TCAM bit cells may drive a digital signal over the match line in response to a search word matching the TCAM word. The apparatus may include a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) comprising a row of RRAM bit cells connected to the TCAM via the match line. Each of the RRAM bit cells may store a bit of a RRAM word. The RRAM bit cells may output the RRAM word in response to the TCAM bit cells driving the digital signal over the match line. |
| US10418098B2 |
Methods and systems for performing a calculation across a memory array
Devices for computing the sum of multiple Vector-Vector Dot-Products (VVDP) or multiple partial sums of VVDP can include a resistive memory array and a reduction circuit. The reduction circuit can be configured to determine a sum of a selected one or more of a plurality of bit lines of the resistive memory array. A VVDP reduction can be determined from the sum of the selected one or more of the plurality of bit lines. |
| US10418096B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a data storage circuit and a control circuit. The data storage circuit holds first data to be written into the memory cell and holds 1 bit data calculated from the first data. The control circuit writes the data of n bits into the memory cell in a first write operation and then executes a second write operation. The control circuit carries out the following control in the second write operation. It reads data stored in the memory cell in the first write operation. It restores the first data based on the data read from the memory cell and the 1 bit data held in the data storage circuit. It writes the restored first data into the memory cell. |
| US10418095B2 |
Read assist circuit with process, voltage and temperature tracking for a static random access memory (SRAM)
A memory circuit includes a wordline, memory cells connected to the wordline and a wordline driver circuit. The memory circuit further includes a read assist circuit including an n-channel pull-down transistor having a source-drain path connected between the wordline and a ground node. A bias circuit applies a biasing voltage to the gate terminal of the n-channel pull-down transistor that is modulated responsive to process, voltage and temperature conditions in order to provide controlled word line underdrive. |
| US10418093B1 |
DRAM sense amplifier active matching fill features for gap equivalence systems and methods
A memory device may include a memory array with multiple memory cells and one or more sense amplifiers connected to the memory array. Each sense amplifier may include a matched pair of transistors. An active matching fill feature may also be included proximate to at least one transistor of the matched pair of transistors. |
| US10418090B1 |
Write signal launch circuitry for memory drive
Systems and methods include capture circuitry configured to capture a write signal from a host device using a data strobe signal from the host device and to output one or more indications of capture of the write signal. Calculation circuitry is configured to receive the data strobe signal, receive the one or more indications of capture, and determine a delay between a first edge of the data strobe signal and receipt of the one or more indications of capture. The systems and methods also include transmission and control circuitry configured to launch subsequent write signals at a time based at least in part on the delay. |
| US10418089B2 |
Low-power source-synchronous signaling
A method of operating a memory controller is disclosed. The method includes transmitting data signals to a memory device over each one of at least two parallel data links. A timing signal is sent to the memory device on a first dedicated link. The timing signal has a fixed phase relationship with the data signals. A data strobe signal is driven to the memory device on a second dedicated link. Phase information is received from the memory device. The phase information being generated internal to the memory device and based on a comparison between the timing signal and a version of the data strobe signal internally distributed within the memory device. A phase of the data strobe signal is adjusted relative to the timing signal based on the received phase information. |
| US10418088B2 |
Power reduction technique during read/write bursts
A memory device may include one or more memory banks that store digital data. The memory device includes first tri-state driver circuitry that provides a first signal to a first data read/write (DRW) line coupled between write driver circuitry and one or more DQ pads. The first signal is indicative of either a high state or a medium state. The memory device includes second tri-state driver circuitry that provides a second signal to a second data read/write (DRW) line coupled between the write driver circuitry and the one or more DQ pads. The second signal is indicative of either a medium state or a low state. A voltage level of the medium state is between a voltage level of the high state and a voltage level of the low state. |
| US10418079B1 |
Register file bit cells with integrated multiplexer
A bit cell structure with an integrated multiplexer is disclosed. In one embodiment, a circuit includes a plurality of bit cells, e.g., first and second bit cells. The circuit further includes a multiplexer having an input coupled to a first data line associated with the first bit cell and a second input coupled to a second data line associated with a second bit cell. The circuit further includes a PMOS transistor having a gate terminal coupled to an output of the multiplexer, and further coupled between a local read bit line and a voltage source. The PMOS transistor is configured to pull the local read bit line to a logic high value responsive to a selected one of the plurality of bit cells conveying a logic low to its respectively coupled input of the multiplexer. |
| US10418078B1 |
Semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device may include a multipurpose command latch circuit, a latched control signal generation circuit, and a training control circuit. The multipurpose command latch circuit may be configured to synchronize a multipurpose command with a first division clock signal to generate a first latched multipurpose command. The latched control signal generation circuit may be configured to latch a control signal in synchronization with the first division clock signal to generate a first latched control signal. The training control circuit may be configured to generate a training signal for executing a training operation of a chip selection signal from a first latched multipurpose command and a first latched control signal based on a training flag. |
| US10418077B2 |
Realtime streaming control of an arbitrary waveform generator
A device has a digital-to-analog converter to convert waveform data into analog waveforms, a waveform memory to store stored waveform data, an external waveform interface to receive real-time waveform data from an external device, a waveform multiplexer connected to the digital-to-analog converter to select between the first memory and the external waveform interface, a sequencer to receive and execute instructions to identify and access waveform data to drive the digital-to-analog converter, a sequencer instruction memory to provide stored instructions to the sequencer, an external instruction interface to receive real-time instructions for the sequencer, and a sequencer multiplexer to select between the sequencer instruction memory and the external instruction interface connected to the sequencer. A method of controlling a waveform generator includes selecting a mode of operation, where the mode of operation is selected from streaming waveform data, real-time waveform memory updates, real-time sequencer instructions, real-time sequencer instruction updates, and real-time sequencer flow control. |
| US10418076B2 |
Apparatus for data retention and supply noise mitigation using clamps
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first power gate transistor coupled to an ungated power supply node and a gated power supply node, the first power gate transistor having a gate terminal controllable by a first logic; and a second power gate coupled to the ungated power supply node and the gated power supply node, the second power gate transistor having a gate terminal controllable by a second logic, wherein the first power gate transistor is larger than the second power gate transistor, and wherein the second logic is operable to: weakly turn on the second power gate, fully turn on the second power gate, turn off the second power gate, and connecting the second power gate as diode. |
| US10418075B2 |
Bit line power supply apparatus
A bit line power supply apparatus including a bit line high voltage generator is provided. The bit line high voltage generator includes a first voltage generation circuit and a second voltage generation circuit. The first voltage generation circuit includes a first sensor and a first linear voltage regulator. The first sensor compares a first reference voltage with a bit line high voltage to generate a first sensing voltage according to a first control signal. The first linear regulator generates the bit line high voltage according the first sensing voltage. The second voltage generation circuit includes a second sensor and a switching voltage regulator. The second sensor compares the first reference voltage with the bit line high voltage to generate a second sensing voltage according to a second control signal. The switching regulator generates the bit line high voltage according the second sensing voltage. |
| US10418073B1 |
Power noise reduction technique for high density memory with frequency adjustments
Memory devices may have internal circuitry that employs voltages higher than voltages provided by an external power source. Charge pumps are DC/DC converters that may be used to generate, internally, higher voltages for operation. The available charge pumps in a memory device may be adjusted through adjustment of the operation frequency of oscillating circuitry that drives the charge pump. Delay elements may also be adjusted to facilitate operation of the charge pump. |
| US10418072B2 |
Memories having select devices between access lines and in memory cells
Memories may include a first bi-directional select device connected between a first access line and a second access line, and a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells connected between the second access line and a respective third access line of a plurality of third access lines. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells comprises a respective second bi-directional select device, of a plurality of second bi-directional select devices, and a respective programmable element, of a plurality of programmable elements, connected in series. |
| US10418069B2 |
Recording and reproducing apparatus and method thereof
In a recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method for the recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing image information on a scene obtained through photographing, relative to a predetermined first recording medium and being capable of setting one or more chapters to each scene, a face recognizing process is executed for a photographed image based on the image information, an importance level of each chapter is set in accordance with a result of the face recognizing process for a very important person (VIP) set by a user, and each chapter having a relevant importance level among importance levels of respective chapters is selectively reproduced. A user can therefore find an object chapter and scene quickly and easily. |
| US10418068B2 |
Visual data recording synchronization system
A positional recording synchronization system can include: creating a time stamped telemetry point for an unmanned aerial vehicle; creating a time stamped recording; creating transformed data from the time stamped recording, the transformed data being tiles for zooming or thumbnails; creating a flightpath array, an image metadata array, and a video metadata array; determining whether entries of the video metadata array match with the flightpath array; determining whether entries of the image metadata array match with the flightpath array; synchronizing the time stamped telemetry point with the time stamped recording based on either the entries of the image metadata array matching the flightpath array, the entries of the visualizer module matching the flightpath array, or a combination thereof; and displaying the time stamped telemetry point as a selection tool for calling, viewing, or manipulating the time stamped recording on a display. |
| US10418066B2 |
System and method for synchronization of selectably presentable media streams
A system for synchronizing audio and video of selectably presentable multimedia content includes a memory for storing a plurality of selectably presentable multimedia content segments. Each content segment defines a portion of one or more content paths and includes a decision period during which a user may select a subsequent content segment as the content segment is playing. An assembly engine seamlessly assembles a subset of the content segments into one of the content paths, ultimately forming a multimedia presentation. A configuration manager determines an audio file and a video file to be played based on a content segment that is selected to be played immediately following the currently playing content segment. An audio engine processes the audio file for playback, and a video engine synchronizes playback of the video file with the playback of the audio file. |
| US10418064B2 |
Content play device having content forming function and method for forming content thereof
A content play device capable of forming content and a method for forming content thereof. The method for forming content of the content play device, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, comprises providing a content forming user interface (UI) which reflects a plurality of data to be played, receiving a play time of each of the plurality of data via the content forming UI, and forming content in which the plurality of data is reproduced according to a received play time of each data. Accordingly, a user may easily form content in which background music is set for each image file. |
| US10418061B2 |
In-circuit calibration of anti-aliasing filter
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a hardware based controller that is configured to perform operations. The operations include performing anti-aliasing filtering on each of a plurality of signals, each signal having a frequency that is a different fraction of a frequency of a data read clock. An amplitude is measured of each of the signals after the anti-aliasing filtering. Moreover, the operations include determining whether the measured amplitudes of the signals are within a predefined range. Anti-aliasing settings used during the anti-aliasing filtering are stored in response to a determination that the amplitudes of the signals are within the predefined range. The anti-aliasing settings are changed in response to a determination that the amplitudes of the signals are outside the predefined range. |
| US10418060B2 |
Recording medium, playback method, and playback device
A recording medium includes a video stream of a standard-luminance range and a video stream of high-luminance range, which are used selectively in accordance with a playback environment. The recording medium also includes a subtitle stream of the standard-luminance range and a subtitle stream of the high-luminance range, which are used selectively in accordance with the playback environment. A playlist file includes a management region where playback control information relating to a main stream is stored, and includes an extended region. The management region stores first playback control information specifying playing of the video stream of the high-luminance range and the subtitle stream of the high-luminance range in combination. The extended region stores second playback control information specifying playing of the video stream of the standard-luminance range and the subtitle stream of the standard-luminance range in combination. |
| US10418055B1 |
Dual-stage head suspension assembly having additional microactuator pair
A head suspension assembly for supporting a read/write head of a disk drive located on a rotatable drive actuator arm is disclosed. The head suspension assembly includes a baseplate end proximate to and operatively connected to a first microactuator pair, the first microactuator pair communicatively coupled to a controller. The head suspension assembly also includes a load beam movably connecting the first microactuator pair to a second microactuator pair. The head suspension assembly also includes a head transducer end proximate to and operatively connected to the second microactuator pair, the second microactuator pair communicatively coupled to the controller. The read/write head is located proximate to the head transducer end, the read/write head being flexibly connected to the load beam, and the controller is configured to selectably transmit control signals to the first and second microactuator pairs in order to improve tracking control of the read/write head. |
| US10418054B1 |
Dual perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer base structures and mirror imaged asymmetrical magnetic core shapes for reduced writer-writer spacing (WWS)
A dual PMR writer is disclosed wherein a first main pole (MP1) in writer 1 is a mirror image of a second main pole (MP2) in writer 2 with respect to a center plane aligned orthogonal to the air bearing surface (ABS). MP1 and MP2 may have an asymmetrical top-down shape to reduce writer-writer spacing (WWS) and read write offset (RWO) when a single or double reader is positioned down-track at the center plane. Accordingly, there is less track misregistration and better area density capability. Each of MP1 and MP2 as well as a top yoke (TY), and a tapered bottom yoke (tBY) have a rectangular back portion of width “w” from 4 to 10 microns. Spacing between MP1 and MP2 back portions may be ≥4 microns to prevent cross-talk. RWO is reduced from ≥4 microns for symmetrical TY/MP/tBY shapes to 3 microns or less for asymmetrical shapes. |
| US10418053B1 |
Disk-drive with efficient command-reordering
A storage device includes a disk, a head configured to write data to and read data from the disk, and a controller. The controller is configured to, for each of a plurality of unexecuted commands, carry out a calculation of an amount of time that is required for the head to start accessing the disk to begin execution of the non-executed command upon completion of a currently-executed command, until the earlier of i) a number of unexecuted commands for which the calculation has been carried out reaches a threshold value or ii) the completion of the currently-executed command, select a next command to be executed from one or more unexecuted commands for which the calculation has been carried out, based on the calculated amount of time for each of the one or more unexecuted commands, and execute the selected next command. |
| US10418052B2 |
Voice activity detector for audio signals
According to one aspect, a method for detecting voice activity is disclosed, the method including receiving a frame of an input audio signal, the input audio signal having an sample rate; dividing the frame into a plurality of subbands based on the sample rate, the plurality of subbands including at least a lowest subband and a highest subband; filtering the lowest subband with a moving average filter to reduce an energy of the lowest subband; estimating a noise level for each of the plurality of subbands; calculating a signal to noise ratio value for each of the plurality of subbands; and determining a speech activity level of the frame based on an average of the calculated signal to noise ratio values and a weighted average of an energy of each of the plurality of subbands. Other aspects include audio decoders that decode audio that was encoded using the methods described herein. |
| US10418051B2 |
Indexing based on time-variant transforms of an audio signal's spectrogram
An audio identification system generates audio fingerprints and indexes associated with the audio fingerprints based on discrete and overlapping frames within a sample of an audio signal. The system applies a time-to-frequency domain transform to a time-sequence of frames, which may be filtered. The audio identification system then applies a time-variant transformation (e.g., a Discrete Cosine Transform) to the transformed frames and generates an audio fingerprint and index by selecting sets of coefficients of the time-variant transformation. The system selects coefficients that are less sensitive to possible noise and/or distortions in the underlying signal, such as low-frequency coefficients. The time-variant transformation provides sufficient sampling among the indexes by incorporating the phase information of the frames into the indexes. The system stores the audio fingerprint and other identifying information by index for efficient retrieval and matching of the retrieved fingerprints. |
| US10418039B2 |
Research data gathering
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for research data gathering are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein to recover a code from media include memory including computer readable instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to at least process the media based on a sample corresponding to a first window of time to determine whether the code is recoverable from the media using the first window of time, and in response to determining that the code is not recoverable from the media using the first window of time, process the media again based on a sample corresponding to a second window of time larger than the first window of time to recover the code from the media. |
| US10418036B1 |
Handling computer security incidents through a unified conversational agent
The present disclosure relates to security incident analysis systems, and more specifically to searching across multiple security incident analysis systems through a unified conversational agent. One example method generally includes receiving, from a client device, a natural language command requesting information about a security incident from a first incident analysis system. One or more keywords related to the security incident are extracted from the natural language command. The unified conversational agent executes a search against the first incident analysis system and one or more second incident analysis systems for the information about the security incident based on the extracted one or more keywords and transmits, to the client device, an indication of the information about the security incident aggregated from the executed search against the first incident analysis system and the one or more second incident analysis systems. |
| US10418035B1 |
Systems and methods to utilize text representations of conversations
A method for electronically utilizing content in a communication between a customer and a customer representative is provided. An audible conversation between a customer and a service representative is captured. At least a portion of the audible conversation is converted into computer searchable data. The computer searchable data is analyzed during the audible conversation to identify relevant meta tags previously stored in a data repository or generated during the audible conversation. Each meta tag is associated with the customer. Each meta tag provides a contextual item determined from at least a portion of one of a current or previous conversation with the customer. A meta tag determined to be relevant to the current conversation between the service representative and the customer is displayed in real time to the service representative currently conversing with the customer. |
| US10418034B1 |
Systems and methods for a wireless microphone to access remotely hosted applications
The technology of the present application provides software as a service (SaaS) executing on a server in a cloud or network. The SaaS receives data from a mobile device of a user over the network. The SaaS processes the data and returns the processed data to a client application executing on a client device of the user, which user is the same as the user of the mobile device wherein there is no direct communication link, wireless or wired, between the mobile device and the client device. In one aspect, the technology of the present application provides the mobile device as a smartphone and a microphone application to be executed on the smartphone. |
| US10418030B2 |
Acoustic model training device, acoustic model training method, voice recognition device, and voice recognition method
An acoustic model training device includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: generating, based on feature vectors obtained by analyzing utterance data items of a plurality of speakers, a training data item of each speaker by subtracting, for each speaker, a mean vector of all the feature vectors of the speaker from each of the feature vectors of the speaker; generating a training data item of all the speakers by subtracting a mean vector of all the feature vectors of all the speakers from each of the feature vectors of all the speakers; and training an acoustic model using the training data item of each speaker and the training data item of all the speakers. |
| US10418029B2 |
Method of selecting training text for language model, and method of training language model using the training text, and computer and computer program for executing the methods
Method of selecting training text for language model, and method of training language model using the training text, and computer and computer program for executing the methods. The present invention provides for selecting training text for a language model that includes: generating a template for selecting training text from a corpus in a first domain according to generation techniques of: (i) replacing one or more words in a word string selected from the corpus in the first domain with a special symbol representing any word or word string, and adopting the word string after replacement as a template for selecting the training text; and/or (ii) adopting the word string selected from the corpus in the first domain as the template for selecting the training text; and selecting text covered by the template as the training text from a corpus in a second domain different from the first domain. |
| US10418027B2 |
Electronic device and method for controlling the same
An electronic device is provided, which includes a storage configured to store a voice recognition application including a wakeup word for entering into a voice command recognition mode, a sensor configured to sense a sound signal, and a processor configured to convert the sound signal into a digital signal and to transfer the converted digital signal to the application, wherein the application identifies whether a characteristic value of the digital signal is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold level if the digital signal is received, performs voice recognition for the digital signal if the characteristic value of the digital signal is equal to or higher than the predetermined threshold level, and activates the voice command recognition mode if a keyword of a voice included in the digital signal coincides with the wakeup word. |
| US10418025B2 |
System and method for generating expressive prosody for speech synthesis
A method for producing speech comprises: accessing an expressive prosody model, wherein the model is generated by: receiving a plurality of non-neutral prosody vector sequences, each vector associated with one of a plurality of time-instances; receiving a plurality of expression labels, each having a time-instance selected from a plurality of non-neutral time-instances of the plurality of time-instances; producing a plurality of neutral prosody vector sequences equivalent to the plurality of non-neutral sequences by applying a linear combination of a plurality of statistical measures to a plurality of sub-sequences selected according to an identified proximity test applied to a plurality of neutral time-instances of the plurality of time-instances; and training at least one machine learning module using the plurality of non-neutral sequences and the plurality of neutral sequences to produce an expressive prosodic model; and using the model within a Text-To-Speech-System to produce an audio waveform from an input text. |
| US10418024B1 |
Systems and methods of speech generation for target user given limited data
Systems and methods are provided for training an audio generation model for a first person using a first voice audio data and a first text transcript of the first voice audio data. Using a second voice audio data and a second text transcript of the second voice audio data, a plurality of pitch voice audio data for the second person may be generated with different pitches. The audio generation model may be trained for the second person using the generated plurality of pitch voice audio data with the different pitches for the second person. Output voice audio may be generated for the second person using received text and the model trained with the generated plurality of pitch voice audio data. |
| US10418021B2 |
Noise reduction device, noise reduction system, and noise reduction control method
A noise reduction device is connectable to a plurality of sound acquisition devices and a plurality of control sound output devices for reducing noises in a given space where seats are arranged and a sound field can be formed. The device includes a sound receiver, a processor, a control sound transmitter. The sound receiver receives a sound signal from at least two of the plurality of sound acquisition devices. The processor detects a state change of the sound field, and generates a control sound signal for reducing noise with respect to the sound signal. The control sound transmitter outputs the control sound signal to each of control sound output devices. The processor acquires, for example, seat information for specifying the reclining state of a seat. The processor controls the generation of the control sound signal based on the change of state of the sound field including the seat information. |
| US10418017B1 |
Acoustic insulation with hook and loop fasteners
A panel of acoustically absorbent material with at least one side carrying a portion of looped material to engage with the hooked structures of a mounting patch placed on a mounting substrate is provided. The panel may be releasably attached to the mounting substrate via the association of the looped material with the mounting patch, such that the panel of acoustically absorbent material may be removed from the mounting substrate without damaging the structural integrity of the panel. A method of releasably attaching an acoustically absorbent material to a mounting substrate is also provided. |
| US10418015B2 |
System for spectral shaping of vehicle noise cancellation
The present disclosure is directed to a system and a method for spectral shaping of vehicle noise cancellation. In an example implementation, the method includes determining a center frequency of an expected tonal peak within a selected noise band based upon vehicle data, generating a noise cancellation signal using a weighted shaping filter to shape the noise band, and outputting the noise cancellation signal to smooth the expected tonal peak. |
| US10418008B2 |
Cyber reality device including gaming based on a plurality of musical programs
A system enabling the performance of sensory stimulating content including music and video using gaming in a cyber reality environment, such as using a virtual reality headset. This disclosure includes a system and method through which a performer can virtually trigger and control a presentation of pre-packaged sensory stimulating content including musical programs through gaming. A theme for the performer is that the pre-packaged sensory stimulating content is preferably chosen such that, even where the performer is a novice, the sensory stimulating data is presented in a pleasing and sympathetic manner and scoring is provided as a function of the performer's ability to provide a gesture in association with a displayed virtual trigger. |
| US10418007B2 |
Musical instrument stand
The present application introduces a musical instrument stand which can be easily carried or installed, comprising: a first part in which a stopper piece extends upward on one side of a support body for placing musical instrument; a second part elastically connected to the first part and extendable in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first part; and a locking means provided on the first and second parts and a fixing force to a counterpart. |
| US10418004B1 |
Guitar pick with an improved grip
A guitar pick with an improved grip has a body. The body has a top surface and a bottom surface. The top surface has a top picking area and a top gripping area. The bottom surface has a bottom picking area and a bottom gripping area. At least one of the top gripping area or the bottom gripping area has an abrasive substrate. The abrasive substrate is applied to the at least one of top gripping area or the bottom gripping area by an electroplating process. In some embodiments, the abrasive substrate is only on the top gripping area; in other embodiments, the abrasive substrate is only on the bottom gripping area; and, yet in other embodiments, the abrasive substrate is on both the top gripping area and the bottom gripping area. |
| US10418000B2 |
Method and apparatus for screen capture on a display device
An apparatus and method for performing screen captures on display devices are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a screen capture command, determining pixel values of rows of the display device based on the screen parameters, obtaining framebuffer parameters from a framebuffer of the display device, the framebuffer parameters comprising pixel values of rows of the framebuffer, determining whether pixel values of the rows of the framebuffer are substantially equivalent to the pixel values of the rows of the display device, processing screenshot data read from the framebuffer based on the pixel values of the rows of the screen when the pixel values of the rows of the framebuffer are not substantially equivalent to the pixel values of the rows of the screen, and creating a file comprising the screenshot. |
| US10417996B2 |
Method, image processing device, and display system for power-constrained image enhancement
A method, an image processing device, and a display system for power-constrained image enhancement are proposed. The method is applicable to an image processing device and includes the following steps. First, an input image is received and inputted into a power-constrained sparse representation (PCSR) model, where the PCSR model is associated with a sparse representation model and a power-constraint model, where the sparse representation model is associated with an over-complete dictionary and sparse codes, and where the power-constrained model is associated with pixel intensities of the input image and a gamma correction value of a display Next, a reconstructed image outputted by the PCSR model is obtained and displayed on the display. |
| US10417992B2 |
On-head detection with touch sensing and eye sensing
Disclosed are methods and devices for varying functionality of a wearable computing device. An example device includes a first sensor and a second sensor. An example method includes, while a device is operating in a first state, receiving an indication of a touch input at the first sensor. The second sensor is configured in an idle mode based on the device operating in the first state. The method further includes, in response to receiving the indication of the touch input, triggering the second sensor to operate in an active mode and receiving data from the second sensor. The method further includes determining, based on the data, whether the device is being worn. |
| US10417982B2 |
Display device
The disclosure, which relates to a display device is created so that it can be integrated in a surface, providing in particular a seamless extension and an integrated appearance between the surface surrounding the display device and the display device itself and thus appears to the viewer of the display device as being part of a surface. |
| US10417973B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method
An image processing device includes a luminance modulator operable to receive a video input signal and operable to calculate a video output signal to be supplied to a display panel, a peak value detector operable to calculate a peak value as a maximum luminance in a prescribed region of the video input signal, a histogram detector operable to calculate frequency distribution about a luminance value of the video input signal in the prescribed region, a peak Automatic contrast level (ACL) control gain calculation unit operable to calculate a peak ACL control gain with which luminance of each pixel of the video input signal is amplified, based on the ratio of the peak value to a maximum possible value of the video output signal, and a pattern-adaptive gamma characteristic calculation unit operable to calculate a luminance modulation gain. |
| US10417968B2 |
AMOLED display and driving method thereof
The invention provides an AMOLED display and driving method thereof, wherein a display panel is provided with a plurality of multiplexers, with each multiplexer having a multiplexer control end receiving a multiplexing control signal, a first input end connected to gate driver and a second input end to a constant low voltage. The first and second output ends are respectively connected to the first and second control ends of corresponding rows of sub-pixel driving circuits. When driving AMOLED display, the multiplexer receives scan signal from gate driver, and under control of multiplex control signal, the first and second output ends selectively output scan signal or the constant low voltage, respectively to generate two different control signals respectively outputted to the first and second control ends of corresponding row of sub-pixel driving circuits. The invention can reduce the number of the output channels of gate drivers to reduce production cost. |
| US10417962B2 |
Data compensating device and display device having the same
A data compensating device includes a plurality of data compensating blocks. Each of the data compensating blocks includes: a memory cell configured to store an image signal; a one-time programmable (OTP) cell including a program transistor; and a calculator configured to output a compensation signal that is based on an offset signal output from the OTP cell and the image signal stored in the memory cell. The OTP cell is configured to output the output signal from the program transistor. The program transistor includes a gate oxide and is configured to be irreversibly changed based on the image signal. Thicknesses of the gate oxide of the program transistor of the OTP cell in different ones of the data compensating blocks are different from each other. |
| US10417961B2 |
Organic light-emitting display panel and driving method thereof, organic light-emitting display device
An organic light-emitting display panel, a driving method, and an organic light-emitting display device are provided. The organic light-emitting display panel comprises a plurality of pixel driving circuits, wherein a pixel driving circuit includes a first scan signal terminal and a second scan signal terminal; a light-emitting signal terminal, a data signal terminal, an initialization signal terminal, a first voltage terminal, and a second voltage terminal; a driving module comprising a driving transistor and a first capacitor having two electrode plates electrically connected to a gate electrode and a first electrode of the driving transistor, respectively; an initialization module comprising a first transistor, a first electrode, and a second electrode electrically connected to a second electrode of the driving transistor; a data writing module electrically connected to the gate electrode of the driving transistor; a light-emitting control module; and an organic light-emitting element. |
| US10417959B2 |
Display panel, a display device, and a method of driving a display panel
A display panel includes a distributor to transfer a second data signal to a second data line in a first period of a data period and to transfer a first data signal to a first data line in a second period of the data period, the second period being different from the first period; a first pixel electrically connected to the first data line, to initialize a first previous data signal in the data period in response to a first control signal, and to store the first data signal in the second period in response a scan signal; and a second pixel electrically connected to the second data line and to store the second data signal in the first period in response to the scan signal. |
| US10417956B2 |
LED display with patterned pixel landings and printed LEDs
Pixel locations in an addressable display are defined by metal landings on a top surface of a flexible substrate, such as by depositing a metal film and etching the film. The substrate surface may be hydrophobic so that the hydrophobic surface is exposed between the metal landings. The substrate has conductive vias that connect the metal landings to traces on a bottom surface of the substrate for connection to addressing circuitry. LED ink is then blanket-printed over the top surface and cured to electrically connect bottom electrodes of the LEDs to the metal landings. LEDs that fall between the landings are ineffective. A dielectric layer is blanket-printed which exposes the top electrodes, and a transparent conductor layer is blanket-printed over the LEDs to connect all LEDs associated with an individual pixel location in parallel. Accordingly, all printed steps can be performed without any alignment. |
| US10417955B2 |
Image processing method and device for LED display screen
Provided herein is an image processing method and device for a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display screen. The image processing method for an LED display screen includes: receiving original image data; acquiring information of an original pixel according to the original image data; executing the information of the original pixel computation according to a preset algorithm to obtain information of target pixels; and controlling an image corresponding to the original image data according to the color information of the target pixel and the position information of the target pixel to be displayed on the LED display screen panel. The disclosure improves the quality of a displayed image of an LED display screen. |
| US10417954B2 |
Display panel and display device
Provided is a display panel, including a plurality of gate lines extending in a row direction and arranged in a column direction; a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction and arranged in a row direction; a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array of M rows by N columns defined by the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines intersecting each other; a first gate driver connected to pixel units from a first row to a mth row; and a second gate driver connected to pixel units from a (m+1)th row to a Mth row, where pixel units from the first row to the mth row of the nth column are connected to an integrated circuit through one of the plurality of data lines and pixel units from the (m+1)th row to the Mth row of the nth column are connected to the integrated circuit through another one of the plurality of data lines, where M, N, m and n are positive integers satisfying the following conditions: 1 |
| US10417948B2 |
Stretchable display device
A stretchable display device includes a first stretchable display panel and a second stretchable display panel overlapping the first stretchable display panel. The first stretchable display panel includes a first stretchable substrate having a first length and a plurality of first pixels spaced apart from one another on the first stretchable substrate. The second stretchable panel includes a second stretchable substrate and a plurality of second pixels spaced apart from one another on the second stretchable substrate. The first stretchable substrate is stretchable in a first direction to have a second length. When the first stretchable substrate is stretched to have the second length, the second pixels are each positioned between the plurality of first pixels when viewed from a plan view. |
| US10417943B2 |
Transparent liquid crystal display on display case
A point-of-sale advertising system for use with a display case having a front glass sheet positioned in front of a cavity for accepting goods, the system containing a transparent LCD positioned behind the front glass sheet, and a plurality of LEDs positioned adjacent to one pair of opposing edges of the LCD and arranged so that light which is emitted from the LEDs is directed backwards towards the cavity. Further embodiments may also contain a door assembly and frame surrounding the front glass sheet and LCD, a switch positioned to determine when the door assembly is open or closed, and electrical circuitry adapted to turn off the LEDs when the door is open and turn on the LEDs when the door is closed. |
| US10417937B2 |
Training device for medicine injection devices and reset device for resetting such a training device
The training device for medicine injection devices comprises a plunger slidably arranged in the cavity of a body. The plunger comprises a compressible element arranged at a distal end of the plunger and adapted to provide a resistance between compressible element and inner wall if the cavity of the body when the plunger is moved in the cavity towards the distal end of the body. The resistance corresponds to an injection resistance of a medicine injected into a patient. The invention also comprises a reset device for resetting the training device from a used status to a condition for reuse. |
| US10417936B2 |
Hybrid physical-virtual reality simulation for clinical training capable of providing feedback to a physical anatomic model
Systems and methods facilitating training in clinical procedures via mixed reality simulations are disclosed. Such a system can comprise a physical model and a virtual model of an anatomic region associated with the procedure, wherein the virtual model associates tissue types with locations in the physical model. The system can include a tracking component that tracks locations of at least one clinical instrument relative to the models, and an anatomic feedback component that can produce perceptible changes in the physical model based on the interaction between the instrument and virtual model. A clinical device interface can detect outputs of clinical devices like electrical signals, pressure or flow, wherein feedback to the physical model depends on the tracked position of a clinical device and output from the same or different clinical device. Another component can generate feedback effects to the clinical device. Aspects can simulate anesthesiology procedures like local nerve blockade. |
| US10417931B2 |
Rehabilitation assistance device and program for controlling rehabilitation assistance device
A rehabilitation assistance device (1), provided with: an arm part (30) having a holding part (20) for holding a part of the upper limb or the lower limb of a user, the arm part (30) movably supporting the holding part (20); a memory unit (80) for storing training information, the memory unit (80) storing first training information defined in advance; a motion information acquisition unit (61) for acquiring motion information associated with the movement of the holding part (20), the motion information acquisition unit (61) acquiring first motion information for the holding part (20) moved on the basis of the first training information; a motion evaluation unit (72) for generating evaluation information in which the motion information is evaluated, the motion evaluation unit (72) evaluating the first motion information and generating first evaluation information; and a display (40) for displaying at least one of the training information, the motion information, and the evaluation information. |
| US10417930B1 |
Vehicle driving simulator with pressure sensitive handlebar input sensor
A vehicle driving simulator includes a chassis having two rotatable drums mounted therein, mechanically connected together, and configured to engage wheels of a motorcycle mounted on the chassis. A tilting yoke mechanism is attached to the chassis and includes a substantially rigid frame and a substantially rigid attachment bracket attached to the motorcycle and pivotally attached to the frame. A resistance device is attached between the attachment bracket and the frame, and a tilt sensor is attached to the frame of the tilting yoke mechanism. A pressure sensor may be mounted to a handlebar of the motorcycle and operably connected to a vehicle driving simulator controller. |
| US10417926B2 |
Biofeedback virtual reality system and method
The present disclosure relates to optimizing an individual's heart-rate cycle using a biofeedback virtual reality system so as to facilitate coherence and resonance, by which a subject's emotional state, stress levels and performance may be concurrently improved. In an embodiment, a biofeedback virtual reality system and method as disclosed herein accesses an individual's current coherence state and based upon that analysis, provides a virtual environment related to the individual's current coherence state and allows the individual to progress to alternative virtual environments that represent “better” or more coherent states. A biofeedback virtual reality system can include a heart monitor and an RR interval monitor that provide information related to the individual's HRV. A biofeedback virtual reality system can be conveniently portable and therefore used at most any location so as to afford the individual the ability to decrease their stress level and/or improve their state of mind as desired. |
| US10417923B2 |
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for memory recall and reactivation by targeted stimulation
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for memory recall and reactivation by targeted stimulation are provided. Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for providing patterns of a reinforcing cue re-presentation during sleep. Systems, apparatuses, and methods are also described for determining patterns of a reinforcing cue for re-presentation during sleep. Systems, apparatuses, and methods are also described for determining reinforcing cues for re-presentation during sleep. Systems, apparatuses, and methods are also described for determining and predicting sleep intervals based only on sleep onset. |
| US10417916B2 |
Method and system to provide contextual auto-correlation of vertical situational display objects to objects displayed on a lateral map display based on a priority scheme
A method and system for displaying contextual correlations of objects of a lateral map (LMAP) display to objects of a vertical situational display (VSD) which includes: receiving a first set of latitude objects of graphic representations of a plurality of conditions on the LMAP display wherein the graphic representations represent a particular condition; receiving a second set of vertical objects of graphic representations of a plurality of conditions on the VSD; and correlating using correlation solutions the first and second set of latitude and vertical objects graphically represented of the particular condition between the LMAP display and the VSD to provide a correlation of both the latitude objects and the vertical objects within the LMAP display for rendering on the LMAP display. |
| US10417915B2 |
Dynamic flight tracking system using airborne communications and ground data services
A system for dynamic flight tracking of an aircraft comprises a ground center configured to communicate with a flight tracking application onboard an aircraft, wherein the flight tracking application is preloaded with default flight tracking preferences comprising a normal time rate interval for sending normal condition position reports to the ground center when a flight condition is normal; abnormal time rate intervals for sending abnormal condition position reports to the ground center when abnormal flight conditions are detected, with the abnormal time rate intervals less than the normal time rate interval; and abnormal flight condition criteria to determine which aircraft conditions to monitor for detecting abnormal flight conditions. The ground center receives flight tracking communications from the aircraft for monitoring flight conditions to determine if the aircraft is encountering abnormal flight conditions, and is operative to send an uplink request to the aircraft to change the default flight tracking preferences. |
| US10417913B2 |
Light impact detection for vehicle using low computation overhead
Light or moderate impacts against a vehicle are detected. Measured acceleration and yaw rate are compared to baseline thresholds in a baseline state. When the acceleration is above the threshold, a distance from an estimated impact location to a vehicle center-of-gravity is determined. When the determined distance is less than a vehicle edge distance, an impact-suspected state will be entered if at least one of the acceleration and yaw rate is above the respective threshold for a predetermined duration. In the impact-suspected state, a plurality of vehicle dynamic behaviors are monitored for confirming occurrence of the light impact. A return is made to the baseline state if the acceleration and yaw rate fail to remain above the respective threshold or if the calculated distance fails to remain less than the edge distance. The impact is detected when at least one of the behaviors confirms the occurrence. |
| US10417912B2 |
System and method for providing distributed on-street valet parking with the aid of a digital computer
A computer-implemented system and method for providing multi-locational curbside valet parking service is provided. A multiplicity of motor vehicle parking spaces are managed by a server. A plurality of smart parking devices and vehicle occupancy sensors are interfaced with the server. Use of a plurality of the parking spaces is reserved for a valet service. A reservation request for the use of the plurality of the parking spaces is accepted for use by the valet service for a period of time. Occupancy of the reserved parking spaces by a motor vehicle is sensed through the vehicle occupancy sensor. A valet drop-off location of at least one of the parking spaces that is reserved for the use of the valet service and is not occupied by a motor vehicle is identified. The valet drop-off location and a location of a lock box are provided to the motorist through a user interface. |
| US10417910B2 |
Driving profiles for autonomous vehicles
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for operating an autonomous vehicle based upon a driving preference. For example, a driving profile, comprising a driving preference (e.g., a speed preference, a route preference, etc.) of a user, may be provided to an automated driving component of the autonomous vehicle. An operational parameter for the autonomous vehicle may be generated based upon the driving preference of the user. The autonomous vehicle may be operated based upon the operational parameter. In an example, a condition of the user traveling in the autonomous vehicle may be determined, and the operational parameter for the autonomous vehicle may be adjusted based upon the condition of the user not corresponding to the driving preference. |
| US10417906B2 |
Lane level traffic information and navigation
A plurality of instances of probe data are received. Each instance is matched to a link of a digital map. A distance parameter for each instance is determined based on the link. Based on a vehicle lane pattern for the link, a most likely lane for each instance is determined based on the corresponding distance parameter. Probe trajectories are constructed based on sequences of instances of probe data identified in the plurality of instances of probe data. At least one of the probe trajectories is analyzed based at least in part on lane change probabilities to generate at least one lane level trajectory. Lane level traffic information is determined based on the at least one lane level trajectory and the corresponding instances of probe data. |
| US10417903B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for using a universal controlling device for displaying a graphical user element in a display device
An apparatus, system and method is described for controlling one or more consumer electronic devices that is performed by a smart device. The smart device causes one or more graphical elements, each for performing a particular operation to be displayed. The smart device then causes an action to be performed when the user selects one of the graphical elements, for example by pressing one of the keys on the universal controlling device or by speaking a command. |
| US10417898B1 |
Locating and signaling device, system and method
Systems, methods and devices for hands-free signaling for tracking, locating and/or monitoring a person are provided in embodiments herein. A system including a portable signaling unit comprising an intra-oral element and a sensor for detecting a compressive force from a user is provided in an embodiment herein. The portable signaling unit may be configured to generate a signal in response to the compressive force detected, in one embodiment. The embodiment further includes a relay device configured to transmit a signal from the sensor, a receiver configured to detect the signal from the relay device, and a processor enabled to receive a signal from the receiver, wherein the signal is used to identify and provide information about a location of the portable signaling unit. |
| US10417897B1 |
Systems and methods for reconstruction of a vehicular crash
A system for notifying emergency services of a vehicular crash may (i) receive sensor data of a vehicular crash from at least one mobile device associated with a user; (ii) generate a scenario model of the vehicular crash based upon the received sensor data; (iii) store the scenario model; and/or (iv) transmit a message to one or more emergency services based upon the scenario model. As a result, the speed and accuracy of deploying emergency services to the vehicular crash location is increased. The system may also utilize vehicle occupant positional data, and internal and external sensor data to detect potential imminent vehicle collisions, take corrective actions, automatically engage autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle features, and/or generate virtual reconstructions of the vehicle collision. |
| US10417890B2 |
Tamper detection device
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic tamper detection device is provided, comprising a tamper loop and a deformable component, wherein a deformation of said component indicates that the tamper loop has been broken. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of producing a tamper detection device is conceived. |
| US10417885B2 |
Surveillance position determining apparatus, surveillance position determining method, and computer-readable medium
A surveillance position determining apparatus includes a memory, a cell divider, a score determiner, and a surveillance position setter. The memory stores map information including at least a predetermined surveillance target region. The cell divider divides the map information stored in the memory into multiple cells in a grid on a horizontal plane. The score determiner determines scores for respective candidate cells among the multiple cells. The scores are each based on easiness of viewing from an own aircraft and difficulty of being viewed from a surveillance target that are quantified. The candidate cells exclude multiple surveillance target cells included at least in the surveillance target region. The surveillance position setter sets surveillance positions on a basis of the respective scores of the candidate cells determined by the score determiner. |
| US10417884B2 |
Method and system for incident sharing in a monitoring system
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a monitoring system used for securing an environment being monitored by the monitoring system. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the invention include a monitoring system that performs methods for detecting an incident occurring in the monitored environment. |
| US10417883B2 |
Doorbell camera package detection
A method for security and/or automation systems is described. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying image data from a signal, analyzing the image data based at least in part on a first parameter, identifying a presence of an object based at least in part on the analyzing, and detecting an object event based at least in part on the identifying. |
| US10417881B2 |
Wireless status indicator light
A visual indicator system including a communications module, a processor, and a visual indicator. The communications module is able to wirelessly receive a condition report from a wirelessly connected device. The processor is able to select a status in response to the condition report received by the communications module. The visual indicator is able to visually indicate a status based upon a selected visual configuration of the visual indicator. The processor is also able to select a particular configuration for the visual indicator based upon the selected status. |
| US10417880B2 |
Haptic device incorporating stretch characteristics
Systems using haptic effect output devices with stretch characteristics are provided. In some embodiments, the stretch haptic effect output devices provide stretch effects responsive to software control. In other embodiments, the stretch haptic effect output devices provide stretch effects responsive to user input as well. Moreover, in some embodiments, the stretch haptic effect output devices provide stretch effects in conjunction and coordination with non-stretch haptic effect output devices as well. |
| US10417875B2 |
Gaming system in which skill level is determined and used to vary game play difficulty
A gaming machine having an electronic display which displays a plurality of empty drinking cups. A game controller causes the display of a ball and its movement toward and into one of the empty cups. A game play mechanism allows the player to direct the movement of the ball. If the player is successful in movement of a ball into a cup, the cup and the ball is then removed from the display. During play of the game, an amount of sobriety is determined in accord with the number of cups removed by the player. In accordance with the amount of sobriety determined, the cups are displayed in wobbling movement in order to give amusement to the game as well as difficulty in the play. |
| US10417873B2 |
Game system, and control method and computer readable storage medium used therefor
Provided is a game system comprising an element selection device which selects some selective elements from a plurality of selective elements and controls a value for each of game elements displayed in a game screen based on the selection by the element selection device, wherein: a growth attribute and a modification attribute are set as factors which determine the value of the game element; and a change condition is set for each attribute in order to make a state of each attribute change in relation to the selection by the element selection device, and the value of the game element is controlled by changing the state of each attribute based on the selection by the element selection device and the change condition set for each attribute. |
| US10417861B2 |
Dynamic configuration of wager-based gaming rules and alternative gaming offerings implemented via computer networks
Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing dynamic configuration of wager-based gaming rules and alternative gaming offerings implemented via computer networks. |
| US10417851B2 |
Data storage library with service mode
A data storage library system includes a data storage library having at least one library frame, at least one environmental conditioning unit associated with the data storage library and configured to control one or more interior environmental conditions within the at least one library frame, and at least one access door for providing access to an interior portion of the at least one library frame. The system also includes a library controller configured to initiate a service mode prior to and/or during a service procedure performed within the at least one library frame, wherein the service mode comprises configuring the at least one environmental conditioning unit to adjust the one or more environmental conditions within the at least one library frame toward one or more exterior environmental conditions outside of the data storage library. Optionally, a lock and/or indicator (visual and/or audible) may control access to the interior of the library frames. Associated methods of servicing a data storage library are disclosed. |
| US10417847B1 |
Secure unlock of room medications cabinet
In a medication administration system, in-room medications cabinets have at least one locked compartment for each patient in the room. The nurse or other caregiver opens the respective compartment by activating a personal electronic device (PED), e.g., cell phone, using a fingerprint or other identifying characteristic, and generates a 2-D bar coded symbol to display on the screen of the PED. The symbol includes the date/time that access was requested. The authorization code, facility code, and date and time are combined and encrypted. The bar-coded symbol is displayed to a reader on the cabinet, which decodes the bar coded symbol, decrypts the contents, and unlocks the patient-specific compartment, but only if the actual time is within a short interval, e.g., 30 seconds, of the date/time in the bar coded symbol. Alternatively, an NFC capability can be employed rather than a bar-coded symbol. |
| US10417843B2 |
Method for predicting an operational malfunction in the equipment of an aircraft or aircraft fleet
Method for predicting an operational malfunction in an aircraft equipment, the parameters of the equipment being monitored and recorded during flights by measurements or signals, the aircraft further including an equipment breakdown detection unit, the breakdown also being recorded in the aircraft memory. During maintenance phases between flights, measurements and breakdowns are retrieved on a programmable computer to form a database, and (a) a data analysis program is executed, a first time, to determine a set of pairs of parameter pairs whose signals develop positively over time in a correlated manner and in the absence of a breakdown, and (b) once the set of parameters pairs has been determined, a detection program is executed to calculate correlations for the pairs in the determined set of pairs and, when the calculated correlation value of one pair for a given flight falls below a predetermined positive detection threshold, a malfunction is reported. |
| US10417842B2 |
Vehicle operation management system with automatic sequence detection
An operation management system for a vehicle controllable by an operator to perform various vehicle actions, the system including a processor, a memory, and a human-machine interface. The processor is configured to store, in the memory, sequences of operator initiated vehicle actions, each operator initiated vehicle action corresponding to an operational response of the vehicle. The processor is further configured to receive a new sequence of operator initiated vehicle actions, and compare the operator initiated vehicle actions of the new sequence to the operator initiated vehicle actions of the stored sequences. If the operator initiated vehicle actions of the new sequence correspond to the operator initiated vehicle actions of at least one of the stored sequences, identify a recommended sequence based on at least one of the new sequence or the at least one of the stored sequences. |
| US10417840B2 |
Methods, systems and apparatus for automated generation of a flight log and a squawk list file
Systems, methods, and computers for aircraft are provided. A system includes a portable device and an on-board computer for an aircraft. The on-board computer is configured to record preliminary squawk events that occur while the aircraft is in flight for potential corrective action. The portable device is configured to communicate with the on-board-computer and is configured for: receiving—from the on-board computer—preliminary squawk events that occur while the aircraft is in flight; presenting the preliminary squawk events; receiving approval inputs that indicate approved squawk events of the preliminary squawk events; and generating a squawk list that includes each of the approved squawk events to be investigated for corrective action after the flight. |
| US10417838B2 |
Driving event classification system
This vehicle monitoring system provides a plurality of sensors in the vehicle recording performance of the vehicle. A processor (remote or on-board) receives data from the sensors. The processor classifies the data from the at least one sensor as an event in one of a plurality of classifications. The processor associates at least one parameter with the classification. |
| US10417834B2 |
Booking and cancellation method, and method for collecting tolls in a toll collection system
Devices, methods, and products are disclosed for collecting tolls for the use of traffic areas which are subject to tolls by a vehicle. To book an authorization for the use of one out of several alternatively usable traffic areas by a vehicle in sufficient time, first position data of the vehicle are associated with alternatively usable traffic areas with regard to the imminent potential use thereof. Use authorizations are booked for the traffic areas. The use of these authorizations can be voided, with the exception of the one that was verifiably used, insofar as second position data of the vehicle are associated with the same traffic areas with respect to a verified non-use. |
| US10417832B2 |
Display device supporting configurable resolution regions
A virtual reality system and a display device that can be used, for example, as part of the virtual reality system. The display device can have more than one data driver, such as an even row data driver and an odd row data driver. The display device can have a configurable resolution such that one region of the display device operates at full resolution while another region of the display device operates at a reduced resolution. The virtual reality system can also track an eye gaze and adjust the full resolution region of the display device to track the eye gaze. |
| US10417831B2 |
Interactions with 3D virtual objects using poses and multiple-DOF controllers
A wearable system can comprise a display system configured to present virtual content in a three-dimensional space, a user input device configured to receive a user input, and one or more sensors configured to detect a user's pose. The wearable system can support various user interactions with objects in the user's environment based on contextual information. As an example, the wearable system can adjust the size of an aperture of a virtual cone during a cone cast (e.g., with the user's poses) based on the contextual information. As another example, the wearable system can adjust the amount of movement of virtual objects associated with an actuation of the user input device based on the contextual information. |
| US10417829B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing realistic 2D/3D AR experience service based on video image
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a realistic 2D/3D AR experience service based on a video. Particularly, the present invention provides a method of providing a realistic AR service with high quality based on AR by using a 2D video image and 3D information in association thereto at the same time, filming a cybernaut and AR content by using two sensors having viewpoints different from each other, and arranging 2D/3D content being an object to be matched within the AR content and which has a 3D position different to a position of the cybernaut in association with a dynamic 3D position of the cybernaut and with a dynamic viewpoint of a service sensor. |
| US10417824B2 |
Method and system for representing a virtual object in a view of a real environment
The invention relates to a method of representing a virtual object in a view of a real environment which comprises the steps of providing image information of a first image of at least part of a human face captured by a first camera, providing at least one human face specific characteristic, determining at least part of an image area of the face in the first image as a face region of the first image, determining at least one first light falling on the face according to the face region of the first image and the at least one human face specific characteristic, and blending in the virtual object on a display device in the view of the real environment according to the at least one first light. The invention also relates to a system for representing a virtual object in a view of a real environment. |
| US10417823B2 |
Computer program product, information processing apparatus, and data processing method for generating 3D surface shapes
A computer program product including programmed instructions that cause a computer to perform acquiring, changing, first generating, second generating, and synthesizing. The acquiring includes acquiring first point cloud data including a position on a first three-dimensional surface shape. The changing includes changing, using a three-dimensional element shape, the first three-dimensional surface shape represented by the first point cloud data to a second three-dimensional surface shape. The first generating includes generating second point cloud data including a surface position on the second three-dimensional surface shape. The second generating includes generating, from the second point cloud data, second shape data representing the second three-dimensional shape. The synthesizing includes synthesizing element shape data of the surface model or the solid model and the second shape data to generate first shape data representing the surface model or the solid model of the first three-dimensional shape. |
| US10417817B2 |
Supersampling for spatially distributed and disjoined large-scale data
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for supersampling a large-scale and disjoined data set. The data set may include point cloud, voxel, or polygonal mesh data. The data set may be rendered using a distributed, sort-last rendering system that includes a plurality of rendering nodes and one or more compositing nodes. The method includes the steps of receiving graphics data at a plurality of rendering nodes, rendering at least a portion of the graphics data by one or more rendering nodes to produce multi-sample image data, encoding the multi-sample image data using a difference encoding technique, and transmitting the encoded multi-sample image data to a compositing node. The multi-sample image data comprises a plurality of values per pixel of a target image corresponding to a plurality of sample locations defined for each pixel of the target image. |
| US10417811B2 |
Recording medium, information processing apparatus, and control method
An information processing apparatus generates rendered images associated with 3D representations of an object indicated by image groups each including a plurality of parts of 2D images by using the image group to perform at least one of movement and deformation of each part included in the image groups. At this time, the apparatus sequentially decides rendering directions in which the object is rendered in the rendered images, and determines a moving direction determined by transition of the sequentially decided rendering directions. The apparatus differentiates the rendering direction, in which at least some parts of the image groups used to generate the rendered images are changed to different parts, in accordance with the determined moving direction. |
| US10417810B2 |
Methods and systems for rendering virtual reality content based on two-dimensional (“2D”) captured imagery of a three-dimensional (“3D”) scene
An exemplary method includes a virtual reality content rendering system receiving two-dimensional (“2D”) color data and depth data captured by a plurality of capture devices disposed at different vantage points in relation to a three-dimensional (“3D”) scene, receiving metadata, generating, for each vantage point associated with each respective capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, and based on the metadata and the depth data, a partial 3D mesh projected into a virtual 3D space to produce a partial representation of the 3D scene in the virtual 3D space, and generating, based on the partial 3D meshes projected into the virtual 3D space, and from an arbitrary viewpoint within the virtual 3D space, an image view of the virtual 3D space. The generating of the image view may comprise accumulating the partial 3D meshes projected into the virtual 3D space. |
| US10417802B2 |
System and method for creating customized characters and selectively displaying them in an augmented or virtual reality display
A system and method of creating customized characters and selectively displaying them in an electronic display, such as an augmented reality or virtual reality display is provided. A digital character may be provided by a character provider for customization by others using the system. Such customizations may be instantiated in user devices that provide electronic displays. Instantiation of the custom digital character may be conditioned on one or more trigger conditions, which may be specified by the character customizer. For example, a digital character customized using the system may be conditioned on triggering events in the real-world or in a virtual world. When a relevant triggering condition is satisfied at a user device, the custom character (i.e., information for instantiating the custom character) may be transmitted to that user device. In this manner, the system may push custom characters to user devices that satisfy the triggering condition. |
| US10417791B2 |
Multi-step texture processing with feedback in texture unit
Techniques are described for using a texture unit to perform operations of a shader processor. Some operations of a shader processor are repeatedly executed until a condition is satisfied, and in each execution iteration, the shader processor accesses the texture unit. Techniques are described for the texture unit to perform such operations until the condition is satisfied. |
| US10417785B2 |
Image calibration for skin lesions
A digital image is captured. The captured digital image includes a calibration pattern. The calibration pattern includes displayed information about the calibration pattern. The displayed information is read to obtain calibration information about the captured digital image. |
| US10417780B2 |
Analyzing images of pests using a mobile device application
Techniques for analyzing images of pests using a mobile device application are described. A mobile computing device may receive, via a graphical user interface (GUI), location information input corresponding to a location of a glueboard, an identification input of a pest type caught on the glueboard, and an image of the glueboard. The device may analyze white and dark areas of the image to determine at least one of: 1) total dark surface area of the glueboard and 2) number and size of multiple contiguous dark surface areas of the glueboard. The device may calculate a quantity of pests based on dark surface area and an average size of the pest. The device may output the quantity of pests to the GUI. |
| US10417779B2 |
Methods and systems for processing plenoptic images
Methods and systems are disclosed for deriving quantitative measurements of an imaged material using plenoptic imaging. In one or more embodiments, image data is generated by a plenoptic camera having a filter configured to transmit a plurality of different spectra in different regions of the filter. A set of plenoptic image data is produced by determining respective sets of pixels in the image data corresponding to the different regions of the filter and determining light intensities of the plurality of different spectra for respective super-pixel groups of the pixels in the image data. One or more additional quantitative measurements of an imaged material are then derived from a comparison of the determined light intensities of two or more of the plurality of different spectra. |
| US10417777B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An image processing apparatus obtains a first image and a second image obtained by imaging an object under different conditions, obtains a region of interest in the first image, obtains a first deformation displacement field between the first image and the second image, approximates the first deformation displacement field in the region of interest using an approximation transformation model of a degree of freedom lower than that of the first deformation displacement field, thereby generating an approximated displacement field, generates, concerning the region of interest, corresponding information between the first image and an image obtained by displacing the first image based on the approximated displacement field, and obtains a second deformation displacement field between the first image and the second image using the corresponding information. |
| US10417776B2 |
Sharing video footage from audio/video recording and communication devices
Sharing video footage recorded by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, such as video doorbells and security cameras. When an A/V recording and communication device records video footage of suspicious activity, or even criminal activity, a user viewing the footage may alert his or her neighbors by sharing the video. In various embodiments, the user may share the video with anyone of the user's choosing, including neighbors, friends, and family. |
| US10417773B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting object in moving image and storage medium storing program thereof
An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a moving image, a detection unit configured to detect a detection target object from an interest image frame in the moving image, a tracking unit configured to obtain a tracked object in a neighborhood region of a detection position of the detection target object in an image frame preceding the interest image frame in the moving image, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the tracked object corresponds to the detection target object by integrating a position where the detection target object is detected by the detection unit and a position where the tracked object is obtained by the tracking unit. |
| US10417771B2 |
Fast MRF energy optimization for solving scene labeling problems
Image scene labeling with 3D image data. A plurality of pixels of an image frame may be label based at least on a function of pixel color and a pixel depth over the spatial positions within the image frame. A graph-cut technique may be utilized to optimize a data cost and neighborhood cost in which at least the data cost function includes a component that is a dependent on a depth associated with a given pixel in the frame. In some embodiments, in the MRF formulation pixels are adaptively merged into pixel groups based on the constructed data cost(s) and neighborhood cost(s). These pixel groups are then made nodes in the directed graphs. In some embodiments, a hierarchical expansion is performed, with the hierarchy set up within the label space. |
| US10417769B2 |
Automatic mode switching in a volume dimensioner
Dimensioners and methods for dimensioning an object includes capturing, using a dimensioning system with a single sensor, at least one range image of at least one field-of-view, and calculating dimensional data of the range images and storing the results. Wherein, the number of views captured of the object is automatically determined based on one of three modes. The first mode is used if the object is a cuboid, or has no protrusions and only one obtuse angle that does not face the point of view, where it captures a single view of the object. The second mode is used if the object includes a single obtuse angle, and no protrusions, where it captures two views of the object. The third mode is used if the object includes a protrusion and/or more than one obtuse angle, overhang, protrusion, or combinations thereof, where it captures more than two views of the object. |
| US10417765B2 |
Adaptive segmentation for rotational C-arm computed tomography with a reduced angular range
The present invention relates to a system (1) for adaptive segmentation. The system (1) comprises a configurator (10), which is configured to determine an adapted angular range (AR) with respect to an operation mode of the system (1) and which is configured to determine a segmentation parameter (SP) based on the adapted angular range (AR). Further, the system comprises an imaging sensor (20), which is configured to acquire images (I1, . . . , IN) within the adapted angular range (AR). Still further, the system comprises a segmentator (30), which is configured to generate a segmentation model based on the acquired images (I1, . . . , IN) using the determined segmentation parameter (SP). |
| US10417764B2 |
System and methods for diagnostic image analysis and image quality assessment
A method of analyzing and assessing an image comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining said image in a digital form; (b) processing said image; and (c) establishing at least one edge line within said image. The step of processing said image further includes: (a) building a 3D graph of intensity distribution within said image; (b) calculating identifying vector angle values (IVAVs); said angles adjoin to points of said 3D intensity distribution graph which correspond to individual pixels of said image; said angles lie in a plane defined by an intensity axis of said image; (c) setting a range of lower and upper thresh-hold level values (THLV1 and THLV2) between which edge points are indicatable; and (d) indicating edge points according to said THLV1 and THLV2. |
| US10417760B2 |
Method and system for determining a respiratory phase
A method is for determining a respiratory phase is based on receiving tomographic raw data on the basis of a spiral scan of an examination region of a patient, the examination region including at least part of the torso and/or abdomen of the patient. Slice image pairs are reconstructed on the basis of the tomographic raw data, wherein a slice image pair includes two slice images having a first interval at an identical position along a predefined axis. The position refers to the position of the examination region. This enables determining of differences between reference positions of the examination region in two slice images respectively of a slice image pair and determining a respiratory phase on the basis of the differences. The differences correspond in each case to the change in the anatomy of the examination region, wherein this change occurs during the first interval. |
| US10417759B2 |
Medical image data processing system and method
A medical image data processing system comprises processing circuitry configured to receive a three-dimensional medical imaging data set, process the three-dimensional medical imaging data set to determine a curved plane that has a shape representative of a shape of at least one anatomical structure, wherein the at least one anatomical structure comprises a plurality of sub-structures, and obtain an image based on values of the medical imaging data set at a plurality of sample points of the curved plane. |
| US10417753B2 |
Location identifying device, location identifying method, and program therefor
A location identifying device includes an image data receiving part that receives data of a photographed image of a field taken from the air, and a location data receiving part that receives data of location, which is measured on the basis of navigation signals from a navigation satellite by a location measuring device while a mobile body having the location measuring device moves along a predetermined path set for the field. The location identifying device also includes a first shape data detecting part that detects a shape of the predetermined path from the photographed image data, a correspondence relationship determining part that determines a correspondence relationship between the shape of the path detected by the first shape data detecting part and the location data, and a field location identifying part that identifies a location of the field contained in the photographed image by referring to the determined correspondence relationship. |
| US10417745B2 |
Continuous motion scene based non-uniformity correction
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for reducing an amount of fixed pattern noise from sequential frames captured by IR imaging sensor(s) that contain known continuous motion component(s). Improved scene based non-uniformity correction techniques are employed for recursively updated set of pixel correction terms for each frame, in order to generate corrected frames. The set of pixel correction terms may be recursively updated through a multi-step process making use of the known continuous motion component, which may comprise a dithered signal. |
| US10417742B2 |
System and apparatus for editing preview images
A system for editing preview images. The system includes at least one source end, a control terminal and at least one display end. The control terminal is coupled between the source end and the display end. The source end provides at least one image. The control terminal provides a user interface. The control terminal includes an image capture module, a previewing module and a media parameter module. |
| US10417741B2 |
Varying effective resolution by screen location by altering rasterization parameters
In graphics processing data is received representing one or more vertices for a scene in a virtual space. Primitive assembly is performed on the vertices to compute projections of the vertices from virtual space onto a viewport of the scene in a screen space of a display device containing a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being subdivided into a plurality of subsections. Scan conversion determines which pixels of the plurality of pixels are part of each primitive that has been converted to screen space coordinates. Coarse rasterization for each primitive determines which subsection or subsections the primitive overlaps. Metadata associated with the subsection a primitive overlaps determines a pixel resolution for the subsection. The metadata is used in processing pixels for the subsection to generate final pixel values for the viewport of the scene that is displayed on the display device in such a way that parts of the scene in two different subsections have different pixel resolution. |
| US10417738B2 |
System and method for displaying graphical effects based on determined facial positions
An electronic device and associated method place a sticker near a facial region in a digital image. The method detects 2D positions of facial features from a 2D digital image, and calculates a projection matrix from a predetermined 3D reference model having predefined facial feature points that correspond to the 2D detected facial features. The method then selects a digital sticker, and for each corner of the selected digital sticker, uses the projection matrix to transform 3D positions of the corner to corresponding positions on the 2D digital image. The method calculates a refinement matrix defining a correlation of each corner of the selected digital sticker to anchor points in the 2D digital image. Using the refinement matrix, the method calculates updated projected 2D positions and displays the selected sticker on the 2D digital image based on the updated projected 2D positions for each corner point. |
| US10417737B2 |
Machine learning model for automatic image registration quality assessment and correction
A medical registration training component executing within a medical registration system performs a training medical registration operation on a pair of medical studies. Responsive to the medical registration training system determining that the training medical registration operation succeeds, the medical registration training system records a medical registration instance for the pair of medical studies in a medical registration history and marks the medical registration instance as a positive instance in the medical registration history. Responsive to the medical registration training system determining that the training medical registration operation requires correction, the medical registration training system records a medical registration instance for the pair of medical studies in the medical registration history and marks the medical registration instance as a negative instance in the medical registration history. The medical registration training system trains a failure prediction machine learning model based on the medical registration history using machine learning such that the failure prediction machine learning model predicts whether a new medical registration operation will require correction. Responsive to the failure prediction machine learning model predicting that the new medical registration operation will require correction, the mechanism takes steps to automatically correct the new medical registration operation. |
| US10417736B2 |
Graphics processing unit and method of controlling cache bypass thereof
A control device for cache bypass includes: an information acquirer configured to acquire information about pixels on a screen space and a texture to be mapped to the pixels; and a controller configured to determine a scale factor, by using the acquired information, and to control texture data corresponding to the texture to bypass a cache based on the scale factor, wherein the scale factor is a ratio of a size of the texture to a size of the pixels. |
| US10417734B2 |
Compute optimization mechanism for deep neural networks
An apparatus to facilitate compute optimization is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory device including a first integrated circuit (IC) including a plurality of memory channels and a second IC including a plurality of processing units, each coupled to a memory channel in the plurality of memory channels. |
| US10417728B1 |
Single secure environment session generating multiple indicia
Systems and methods which are adapted to generate multiple indicia in a single secure environment session are described. Embodiments provide for generation of a plurality of postage indicia in a single postage security device (PSD) transaction, whereby the PSD loads and unloads corresponding virtual PSD information a single time for generating the plurality of postage indicia (i.e., in a single secure environment session). The indicia generated in a same secure environment session according to embodiments of the invention may comprise a plurality of indicia requested by a same, single user. Additionally or alternatively, the indicia generated in the same secure environment session may comprise a plurality of indicia requested by multiple different users. |
| US10417727B2 |
Network system to determine accelerators for selection of a service
A network computer system can control the display of user interface features on remote computing devices. The network computer system can manage a requester profile for each of the plurality of requesters. A requester profile can be associated with historical data corresponding to previous services received or requested by the respective requester. Based on data associated with the requester profile, the network computer system can generate accelerator features to be displayed on a user interface of the computing device of the requester, where each of the accelerator features is selectable to cause the computing device of the requester to determine, without subsequent manual intervention, a service location where a service is to be completed for the requester. |
| US10417726B2 |
Methods and systems for producing shipping labels
Methods and systems for producing shipping labels are provided. Example embodiments provide a Shipping Label Production System (“SLPS”), which produces shipping labels based on a shipping uniform resource identifier (“URI”) that identifies a shipping protocol and includes shipment information and post-back information. The SLPS may be configured to produce, in accordance with the shipping protocol, a shipping label by outputting a shipping label based on the shipment information, and automatically posting information about the producing of the shipping label to a code module identified by the post-back information. In some embodiments, the actions of the SLPS may be initiated by a Web browser in response to a user selection of a shipping URI. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
| US10417725B2 |
Secure consent management system
Features are disclosed relating to a network-based consent management system that securely manages various aspects of consenting and agreeing to engage in physical relationships, including sexual relationships. For example, the system can manage processes such as requesting and obtaining consent, agreeing to provide consent, declining to provide consent, preemptively providing or declining consent without a consent request, verifying identities of individual users, verifying users' capacity to consent, and the like. In addition, the system can securely maintain a record of consent agreements and refusals. Thus, users of the system can initiate or otherwise participate in certain physical interactions with other users, secure in the knowledge that the participants have provided unambiguous informed consent and that a record of such consent has been created and securely stored by a third party. |
| US10417724B2 |
Methods and systems for inventory yield management
In some embodiments, an interactive user interface is provided for an inventory yield management system having access to an inventory database and a class database. The system comprises at least one processor to implement a single interactive user interface comprising a first user interface element configured to present a first user interface view to receive a selection of data stored in the inventory database; a second user interface element configured to present a second user interface view to receive a selection of data for creating a configurable class pass for one or more classes stored in the class database; and a channel indicator for associating a configured class pass with a channel of classes. |
| US10417714B1 |
Systems and methods for updating a driving tip model using telematics data
Methods and systems for improving vehicular safety by utilizing a driving tip model are provided. According to embodiments, an analysis server can analyze telematics data associated with operation of one or more vehicles to identify driving tips that may be aimed to mitigate certain risks or warn of various conditions. The analysis server can provide the driving tips to the vehicles and, in response, receive updated telematics data from the vehicles that reflects operation data for the vehicles subsequent to receiving the driving tips. The analysis server can analyze the updated telematics data to associate certain driving tips with certain telematics data and identify effective driving tips and delivery techniques. The analysis server can update the driving tip model accordingly. |
| US10417710B2 |
Apparatus, methods, system and framework for discovering, copying and curating investment portfolios
The present disclosure relates to a system, apparatus and method through which novice or new investors can begin to invest by using the knowledge shared by seasoned investors, who are incentivized to do so by commissions based on their success. The system follows users through each point in a social investment process, and directs users in novel ways to execute a purchase faster. A user discovers other user portfolios through recommendations made using multi-stage collaborative portfolio filtering. From there, processes are defined for following and “mimicking” a portfolio to display the contents thereof, create personal copies of the portfolio or its strategies, and subscribe to periodic or timely updates on the portfolio. Through this system and processes, investment portfolios are curated, and metrics are created to rank user success and further refine recommendations. |
| US10417706B1 |
Integrating externally-supplied interface component into transaction platform
A method relating to providing a program embedded in an online store user interface (UI) displaying content provided by an online store server, transmitting a first instruction to the program to generate a first display of a first form in one of an inline frame element or a pop-up element in the online store UI to collect data associated with a loan application, determining to approve a loan in view of the data associated with the loan application, determining to approve a loan in view of the data associated with the loan application, transmitting a second instruction to the program to generate a second display of a second form in the one of the inline frame element or the pop-up element in the online store UI to present a term of the loan, identifying a token associated with the loan, and transmitting the token to the online store server. |
| US10417702B2 |
Dynamically providing a third-party checkout option
Methods for facilitating financial transactions include facilitating or otherwise increasing the ease and speed of checkout processes. In particular, one or more implementations comprise an e-commerce payment facilitator that acts as an intermediary between a commerce application and a payment gateway. The e-commerce payment facilitator can provide stored payment information to a commerce application based on a few simple selections by a user. This allows a user to easily and securely complete commerce transactions, which simplifies the user's checkout experience and reduces barriers to purchase. Furthermore, the e-commerce payment facilitator can pass payment details to the commerce application's payment gateway. In addition to the foregoing, methods involve dynamically and intelligently providing a user the option of using payment information stored by the network application. |
| US10417701B2 |
System and method for determining social statements
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a social statement for an account holder of a financial institution. In one example embodiment, the method includes receiving, by one or more computer processors, account holder financial data associated with the account holder, and receiving, by the one or more computer processors, account holder social data associated with one or more social networking profiles of the account holder. The method further includes associating, by the one or more computer processors, the account holder social data with the account holder financial data. In addition, the method includes identifying peer financial data associated with a peer group, and creating a social statement based at least in part on the account holder financial data, the account holder social data, and the peer financial data. Further, the method includes providing the social statement to the account holder. |
| US10417700B2 |
System and method for graphical display of multivariate data
Multivariate graphs specific to a company's performance, alone or in relation to a benchmark, and methods for producing same include defining on a display screen an origin having a first value, extending from the origin at least three axes on the display screen, the axes being generally equidistant from each other and representing a respective variable, plotting on the display screen a value of each variable concerning the company as a point on a respective axis, and using the plotted points to interpolate first segments between the axes on the display screen. Benchmark information, extrinsic to the company, can be obtained, processed into a rating in the same manner as the company data, and superimposed for ready visual comparison of the company's performance to the obtained benchmark. The benchmark information, if shown, is distinguished from the company's performance graph. |
| US10417694B2 |
Location assignment system and method
A computer system and set of routines with access to venue maps, merchandizing plans, and store catalogs for a merchant attempts to assign locations to items in the store catalog based on the merchandizing plan and map; when a location cannot be assigned to an item in a venue, a proxy location is determined based on categories associated with the item, a number of merchandising plans across the venues in which the item occurs, and/or clusters of items. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items. |
| US10417693B2 |
Product palletizing system
A computer-implemented product palletizing system and a method of product palletizing which includes processor in communication with a memory element containing a computer code executable to coordinate the discrete activities of one or more pickers and conveyor product sorting assembly to allocate a plurality of products to a plurality of pallets. |
| US10417688B2 |
System, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for evaluating search results for matching ingredients to products
A system, method and computer product for allowing a processing device to generate search engine results and match ingredients from a recipe or grocery list to products available for purchase from a retailer. |
| US10417686B2 |
Apparatus, article of manufacture, and methods for recommending a jewelry item
Apparatus, article of manufacture and methods for recommending a jewelry item that comprise receiving, at a jewelry interface, user-input data regarding: a selection of at least one jewelry item. The at least one jewelry item comprises a plurality of characteristics. User-input data also includes an indication of a level of importance for at least one characteristic of a jewelry item. Each level of importance corresponds to a co-efficient. An ideal profile is computed based in part on the selection of the at least one jewelry item and the indication of the level of importance, an ideal profile. A matching algorithm is applied to a plurality of jewelry items stored in an inventory. Based on the matching algorithm, at least one recommended jewelry item is identified as most closely matching the ideal profile. An indication of the at least one recommended jewelry item is transmitted. |
| US10417682B2 |
Retail system
A retailing system for providing interaction between a customer and a retailer to assist in the completion of a sale, comprising, a customer interface arranged to display to a customer information about at least one item, an input module arranged to receive input regarding a potential sale of the at least one item from the customer for provision to a database via a communications system, wherein the database is arranged to provide the input from the customer to at least one other user associated with the retailer on a retailer interface viewable by the at least one other user, wherein the at least one other user utilizes the interface to review the input and interact with the customer to assist in the completion of the sale. |
| US10417681B2 |
Individualized digital media delivery systems
Systems and methods for individualized distribution of digital content to purchasers via portable kiosks are described. The systems contain a storage device for storing the digital content and distribution devices for distributing the digital content to a user. The distribution devices can be configured to be portable so that users who are not mobile can access the distribution device. As well, the users can use a receiving device containing unique identification data to receive and access the digital content. Such a system is extremely useful for users who are not mobile and whose use of the distribution devices needs to be controlled, such as detainees in a corrections facility. Other embodiments are described. |
| US10417678B2 |
Analyzing user-preferred characteristics among merchants
A system or method is provided to analyze and determine distinguishing or secondary characteristics among merchants. In particular, the system may collect basic merchant information, such as name, type of business, products/services offered, location, owner, and other basic information regarding merchants. The system may determine merchants that are similar in type, size, location, of other factors, based on the basic information. They system may then determine distinguishing or secondary characteristics among similar merchants. The distinguishing or secondary characteristics may be determined from consumers' transactions with the merchants or other data detected by sensors or devices. |
| US10417676B2 |
Mobile commerce system
A method for having a mobile price transaction system including comparisons. The system obtains information about prices and transactions involving products and services in real time over a wireless link. The actions include making a price comparison inquiry to a central server for the product, service, or price information. The inquiry is formatted in the central server for transmission to sources of the information such as vendors or their web sites. After receiving a response from the sources, the response is suitably formatted and is displayed on the mobile unit. The information will often be available locally on the central server, but the present invention includes commanding remote sources to provide an action such as a response, including a response at a desired time or for desired conditions. |
| US10417674B2 |
System and method for sharing transaction information by object tracking of inter-entity transactions and news streams
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to enable multiple entities having interests in an event (such as a transaction) to receive and view information related to the event. Entities may receive alerts and status information related to different aspects of a transaction or other event. |
| US10417669B2 |
System and method for targeted advertising on parcel packages
A method for displaying messages that are placed on packages being shipped to consumers in the form of labels that are targeted to specific consumers based on publicly available data or shopping behavior data. The method includes receiving information regarding one or more packages to be delivered to one or more recipients. The method also includes retrieving promotion data regarding one or more promotions targeted to the one or more recipients. One or more personalized promotion labels are generated from the promotion data. |
| US10417667B1 |
Method and apparatus for creating web content and identifying advertisements for users creating and viewing content
A system and method allows a user to define books of pictures and customizable text, and HTML code is generated from such definition to allow the books to be displayed on a browser. Based on the user's book definitions or viewers activities, the individual's interests, moods and/or emotions may be identified and ads may be identified and displayed to such person that correspond to such interests, moods or emotions. |
| US10417662B2 |
Systems and methods for saving advertisements
Methods, machine-readable media, apparatuses and systems are provided to save electronic advertisements selected by a user. An electronic advertisement displayed with a first application of a mobile device of the user is received after selection of a save option associated with the electronic advertisement. The electronic advertisement is saved. The electronic advertisement is provided to the mobile device after receipt of a command from a second application of the mobile device. The electronic advertisements may include any type of incentive or offer, including coupons. |
| US10417660B2 |
Selecting advertisements for users via a targeting database
A data processing system collects messages to create user profiles for users of user devices. The messages are collected from various systems and include data regarding user events on user devices. The user profiles are stored in a targeting database. In response to a request for information corresponding to a user device, a user profile is identified using data from the request and information from the profile is provided to the requester. |
| US10417657B2 |
Point management apparatus, system, and method
A point management apparatus includes a storage device configured to store point information about points awarded to a user, the point information including a point ID for identifying the points, a point rate indicating an amount of money per unit point of the points, a stock price and the number of shares of a designated company of when purchased as capital for the points, a user ID for identifying the user, a balance of points owned by the user identified by the user ID, and stock information about a stock of the designated company, which is used to calculate the balance of the points, an arithmetic circuit configured to update the balance of the points owned by the user, which is stored in the storage device, by calculating, based on a new stock price of the designated company, the balance of the points owned by the user read out from the storage device, and the stock information read out from the storage device, the balance of the points owned by the user, and a terminal processing circuit configured to read out, in response to a request from the user, the balance of the points owned by the user from the storage device, and notify a terminal apparatus of the user of the balance via the communication network. Point management system and method are also disclosed. |
| US10417654B2 |
Incentivizing location-based actions by groups
A method of incentivizing location-based actions by groups is disclosed. A group of users of a game networking system is notified that an incentive reward is to be provided based on a number of members of the group performing a location-based action transgressing a threshold. The incentive reward is provided based on the number of members of the group performing the location-based action transgressing the threshold. |
| US10417653B2 |
Inferring consumer affinities based on shopping behaviors with unsupervised machine learning models
A process of discovering psychographic segments of consumers with unsupervised machine learning. A first set of consumer-behavior is converted into respective consumer-behavior vectors for training an unsupervised machine learning model. The unsupervised machine learning model is trained with the first set of consumer-behavior vectors to determine psychographic segments of consumers. A second set of consumer-behavior records is obtained after determining the psychographic segments of consumers and the second set of consumer-behavior records is converted into respective consumer-behavior vectors. The second set of consumer-behavior vectors is classified as each belonging to at least a respective one of psychographic segments with the trained machine learning model to predict, based on the classification, a likelihood of the respective consumer engaging in behavior associated with a corresponding one of the psychographic segments. |
| US10417652B2 |
Method and system for tracking consumer confidence based on transaction data
A method of generating a more objective consumer confidence and more particularly to tracking consumer confidence objectively based on data regarding past transactions. |
| US10417651B2 |
Fuel consumption predictions using associative memories
A method, system, and computer program product for predicting fuel consumption for a vehicle operation is provided. An associative memory device is accessed, using one or more attributes of an operation plan for the planned vehicle operation, to determine at least one historical vehicle operation from a plurality of historical vehicle operations that is similar to the planned vehicle operation. The associative memory device contains data for a plurality of attributes and collected from the plurality of historical vehicle operations. The at least one historical vehicle operation is determined by applying a respective weight defined within the associative memory device to data values for each of the plurality of attributes. Fuel consumption data for the planned vehicle operation is predicted, based on historical fuel consumption data corresponding to the at least one historical vehicle operation. The predicted fuel consumption data is output. |
| US10417648B2 |
System and computer readable medium for finding crowd movements
A method for finding crowd movements is provided. The method includes: collecting location data associated with multiple user devices, mining frequent patterns in the location data to generate multiple representative sequences, and grouping the representative sequences into clusters to find crowd movements according to sequence distances between the representative sequences. Each representative sequence includes at least one line segment between a starting location point and an end location point. |
| US10417647B2 |
System and method for inventory financing
In embodiments of the invention, in accordance with a financing/bailment agreement, a dealer/bailee is required to retain the bailed property units in a controlled area to enable embodiments of the invention to perform real-time execution of inventory financing transactions. The bailed property units are tagged with tags for inventory identification. A reader device associated with the controlled area, detects entry or removal of the bailed property units by detecting a signal from a tag of the bailed property unit, the reader outputting an event signal. A server coupled to the reader, is programmed to access terms of the agreement, to monitor the event signals received from the reader. The server is coupled to one or more banks having an account of the bailor and an account of the bailee. The server is programmed to initiate a financial transfer by the one or more banks from the bailee account to the bailor account in accordance with the agreement, based on removal of the bailed property units in the controlled area. |
| US10417646B2 |
Predicting the cost associated with translating textual content
A prediction of the cost associated with translating textual content in a source language can be determined. A first quantity estimation of first textual content may be determined. The first textual content is to be translated via human translation. A second quantity estimation of second textual content may also be determined. The second textual content is to be translated via machine translation. An indication of a target language is obtained, wherein the source language and the target language form a language pair. The prediction of the cost associated with translating the first textual content and the second textual content from the source language to the target language is then determined. The prediction is based at least in part on the first quantity estimation, the second quantity estimation, and the language pair. |
| US10417644B2 |
Identifying clusters for service management operations
Client instance data including a plurality of incidents is obtained, each incident including a plurality of fields. A target field and an evaluation field are selected from among the plural fields. The plurality of incidents are grouped into a plurality of clusters based on a degree of a natural language text similarity of respective target fields in the plurality of incidents. A quality value is determined for each of the plurality of clusters based on the degree of the natural language text similarity of respective target fields in grouped incidents of the cluster from among the plurality of incidents, and based on respective evaluation fields. Each of the plurality of clusters is ranked based on the respective quality value of the cluster and a number of the grouped incidents of the cluster. At least one of the ranked plurality of clusters is identified to perform a service management operation. |
| US10417642B2 |
User interface for presenting relevant questions to representative
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing a unified representation of all customer relationships with an entity. This representation focuses on customer products in arrears that are to be recovered. The invention presents an overarching view of all customer relationships to a representative. This allows the representative to make decision and take appropriate actions immediately based on the entire relationship with the customer when a customer communication is initiated. As such, the invention correlates all of the customer's relationships with a financial institution into one unified representation for a representative to review. The unified representation takes into consideration all of the customer's relationships as well as external factors on the communications and relationships. Thus providing a holistic customer service experience for a customer with accounts in arrears. |
| US10417638B2 |
Method and system for real time fraud decisioning in transaction processing
A computer-implemented method comprising: intercepting, from an output of fraudulent activity determination software, an electronic transaction message; reading by a processing device, the intercepted message; detecting, that the received electronic transaction message includes a data field comprising a fraud-related decline code; updating, by the processing device, the received electronic message by replacing the fraud-related decline code with a hold code; generating, based upon the detection of the fraud-related decline code, at least one authentication request message configured to prompt at least one of a point of sale device and a user mobile device that authentication data is to be input by a user; transmitting, by a transmitting device and to the point of sale device, the updated electronic transaction message; and transmitting, by the transmitting device and to at least one of the point of sale device and a user mobile device, the at least one authentication request message. |
| US10417637B2 |
Systems and methods for accessing records via derivative locators
Systems and methods are provided for accessing records using derivative locators. An open financial transaction may be initiated by a consumer at a merchant. The merchant may provide information relating to the transaction, which may include information about the consumer's device, to a repository. The merchant may provide transaction information to the acquiring bank, which may provide transaction to the global financial network, which may provide transaction information to an issuing bank. One or more requesting party (e.g., one or more of the acquiring bank, global financial network, or issuing bank) may formulate a derivative locator based on the transaction information received. The derivative locator may function as an index through which records in the repository may be accessed by the requesting party. A time comparison may be made in assisting with accessing the correct record in the repository. The requesting party may determine whether to accept or decline the transaction, optionally with the aid of the information accessed from the repository. |
| US10417636B2 |
Payment vehicle with encrypted image
Described is a payment vehicle for use in initiating a transaction. The payment vehicle includes a body and an image applied to the body. The image includes encrypted data that is readable by an electronic reader to ascertain account details of a payment vehicle user, thereby to initiate the transaction. The image is also visually comparable to the user, or to information produced by the user, to confirm the user's identity. |
| US10417634B1 |
On-line transaction verification service and apparatus
Methods, devices and program products are provided to provide on-line transaction verification. The method comprises receiving a transaction request and sending a transaction verification request to a computing device and/or account associated with a user. The method receives an electronic key authorization (EKA) code from a transaction verification apparatus. The EKA code is inaccessible when first and second housing portions of the apparatus are dis-connected from one another. The method determines whether the EKA code matches an account authorization code. A match indicates approval of the transaction. The transaction verification apparatus comprises a housing separated into first and second housing portions that are physically connectable to, and dis-connectable from, one another. The EKA code is only readable by the computing device from the transaction verification apparatus when first and second housing portions are connected to one another. |
| US10417632B2 |
System and method for secure electronic payment
A payment system is described. The payment system includes a transaction system. The transaction system is configured to receive a request for a code to complete a sales transaction, the request including information about the sales transaction. The payment system is also configured to, in response to said request for said code to complete said sales transaction, generate said code based on the information about the sales transaction. Further, the transaction system is configured to transmit said code to a merchant. |
| US10417631B2 |
Systems and methods for activating account card functions based on physical device interactions
Systems and methods are provided for activating a function of an account card based on physical devices interactions such as a motion pattern detected by the account card. In some embodiments, the account card may include one or more sensors and processing capabilities sufficient to store a motion pattern, detect a motion pattern representing movement of the account card, compare the detected motion pattern to the stored motion pattern, and activate one or more functions of the account card based on the comparison. In some embodiments, the one or more functions may relate to account information communication, such as writing a magnetic stripe, unblocking a magnetic stripe, activating a near field communication chip, displaying an account number, providing power to an antenna, or otherwise enabling communication of the account number based on the capabilities of the card. |
| US10417630B2 |
Transmission-pulse sequence including proxy for secondary magnetic stripe
A contactless payment device and method streams a sequence of magnetic-field pulses directly to two magnetic-stripe read heads of a point-of-sale terminal. The stream of pulses includes essential information needed to approve a transaction. The essential information is structured for a primary “channel” associated with one of the read heads. A series of “proxy” bits are included in the stream in order to satisfy the data collection requirements for a secondary channel associated with the other read head. The proxy bits are included in a custom bit stream that may be used to improve acceptance of payment transmission data at a POS terminal. |
| US10417625B2 |
System and methods of real time merchant alert for offline transactions
Methods of transactions alerting and point-of-sale (POS) terminals are generally described. Offline approved transactions and/or time-out reversals associated with a particular store and/or POS terminal may be detected over a predetermined time period. Whether a particular threshold for each of the offline approved transactions and/or time-out reversals has been reached may be subsequently determined. Once a particular threshold has been reached, an electronic alert indicating a store-wide or a local POS issue may be transmitted to an appropriate internal or external entity. The electronic alert may include information specific to the type of issue as well as specifics about the store and POS terminal encountering the issue. |
| US10417624B2 |
System, method, and apparatus for purchasing, dispensing, or sampling of products
A product dispenser includes a product sampling portion configured to contain a product to be sampled. The product sampling portion includes a product sample dispenser. A packaged product portion is configured to contain and dispense a packaged product corresponding to a product to be sampled. |
| US10417618B2 |
Methods and system for utilizing cash with online activities
Systems and methods for facilitating cash payments for online transactions are provided. In some embodiments, a transaction is initiated online with a retailer where a user indicates that payment will be made for the transaction using cash. The user may then complete payment of the transaction with a cash payment service establishment using transaction identification information given to the user. Systems and methods for retrieving funds from an online/virtual account are also provided. In some embodiments, a user is able to initiate a funds transfer from an online/virtual account which are to be received in the form of cash at a money transfer service location. |
| US10417617B1 |
Systems and methods for remote deposit of checks
Remote deposit of checks can be facilitated by a financial institution. A customer's general purpose computer and image capture device may be leveraged to capture an image of a check and deliver the image to financial institution electronics. Additional data for the transaction may be collected as necessary. The transaction can be automatically accomplished utilizing the images and data thus acquired. |
| US10417614B2 |
Controlling aircraft operations and aircraft engine components assignment
A method of providing a recommendation for optimizing operations of a set of industrial assets is disclosed. Digital twins of the set of industrial assets are generated. The digital twins include data structures representing states of each of a plurality of subsystems of the set of industrial assets over a time period. The states are estimated based on an application of simulations using cumulative damage models. The cumulative damage models model the effects of exogenous factors on the operation of the set of industrial assets over the time period. The digital twins are analyzed with respect to simulated operating performances to determine an optimized control of operations of the industrial assets. The optimized control of operations is calculated to jointly and severally to increase the specified operating performance criteria in time present and future of the industrial assets or decrease an economic risk associated with the operation of the industrial assets, within a specified probability. The recommendation is presented in a user interface for use in optimizing the operation of the industrial assets or automatically changing operating setpoints pertaining to the industrial assets. |
| US10417608B2 |
Real-time analysis of wellsite inventory activity
A method and apparatus for real-time analysis of wellsite inventory activity is described. The method includes logging receipt of inventory items at a wellsite and tracking their use. In certain embodiments, the inventory may be chemical sacks mixed into drilling fluids, and their use may be tracked with an RFID scanner near the threshold of a mixing hopper. The tracking information may be used to update an inventory management database. When an item is used, real-time wellsite data may be analyzed to determine its impact on drilling performance. The efficacy of the item may thereby be determined and stored in a predictive model database. In making future wellsite drilling decisions, the predictive model database may be used to select cost-efficient performance improvement solutions. Additionally, performance information may be used to correct real-time data measured during future uses of the inventory item. Reports may be produced from the collected information, including billing reports, regulatory reports, and end-of-well reports. Information collected from various wells may assist during planning for future well-sites, including assessing inventory needs, developing a logistical plan, and bidding on projects. |
| US10417601B2 |
Confidence ratings for delivery of items
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities for determining/identifying confidence ratings/indicators for delivery of items. In one embodiment, this comprises determining a number of location events that occurred within a zone of confidence for delivery an item to a serviceable address; and responsive to determining the number of location events that occurred within the zone of confidence for delivery the item to the serviceable address, determining, via one or more processors, a confidence rating for delivery of the item to the serviceable address based at least in part on the number of location events that occurred within the zone of confidence. |
| US10417596B2 |
Point-based risk score for managing environmental systems
Methods are provided for calculating a reserve value or a risk value for various locations in an environmentally-controlled space such as a data center, and using the reserve value or risk value to allocate environmental maintenance modules and/or load. For example, an influence model can predict a change in a sensor value at a location for a corresponding change in an operation level of an actuator of one of the environmental maintenance modules. Based on the influence model and an operation level of the actuator, a reserve value can be determined for the location. A risk value for the location can be determined using a risk metric that may use the reserve value, a current sensor value at the location, and a threshold sensor value at the location. |
| US10417593B1 |
System and method for comparing computing resource offerings
A system for comparing disparate computing resource offerings receives a request to compare at least one computing resource offering for a computing environment, the request including at least one infrastructure requirement and a computing environment design topology, the request associated with a unique order identifier, transmits the request to at least one computing resource provider via at least one provider application programming interface (API), the at least one computing resource provider comprising one of an external computing resource provider and an internal computing resource provider, receives a list of at least one computing resource offering from the at least one computing resource provider, normalizes the at least one computing resource offering based on the at least one infrastructure requirement and the computing environment design, and compares the at least one computing resource offering based on the at least one infrastructure requirement and the computing environment design topology. |
| US10417591B2 |
Recursive processing of object allocation rules
Various embodiments are directed towards allocating costs for a plurality of cost objects. In at least one of the various embodiments, a source object and a target object in a data model may be determined such that an allocation rule is used to define one or more cost allocations where the costs flows from the source object to the target object. Allocation rules that are part of a recursive allocation rule may be executed on the source object and the target object until a terminal condition is met. The cost value that corresponds to the source object may be modified based on the allocation rule and the generated cost value. This process may continue until a terminal condition is met. After the terminal condition has been met final costs value corresponding to the target object and the source object may be generated and displayed. |
| US10417589B2 |
Pre-selection of drivers in a passenger transport system
In some locations, such as airports, drivers that provide passenger transport must wait a significant distance away from the pickup location. To reduce the delay between a passenger requesting a ride and being picked up, drivers are pre-dispatched before being assigned to specific passengers. The demand for a future time period is predicted and the number of drivers that should be pre-dispatched to meet that demand is estimated. The estimated number of drivers is sent pre-dispatch instruction indicating they should leave the waiting area and head towards the pickup location. |
| US10417583B1 |
Systems and methods for weather-related vehicle damage prevention
A vehicle weather damage-prevention system is provided. The system may include a vehicle computing device associated with a vehicle, a covered parking location (CPL) computing device associated with a covered parking location, and an insurance computing device. The vehicle computing device may receive weather data and determine whether the vehicle is affected by inclement weather. The vehicle computing device may receive from the CPL computing device information indicating whether the covered parking location has available parking spots. The vehicle computing device may transmit a request to the CPL computing device to reserve a parking spot. The CPL computing device may selectively permit the vehicle access to the covered parking location. The insurance computing device may monitor the vehicle computing device and/or the CPL computing device and determine if an insurance policy is eligible for insurance-related benefits based upon a usage profile of the vehicle or the covered parking location. |
| US10417580B2 |
Iterative refinement of pathways correlated with outcomes
Methods and systems for refining a process model include determining whether the process model is too dense or too sparse. A predictive model is learned from execution traces to predict an outcome. The predictive model is modified responsive to the determination of whether the process model is too dense or too sparse. A refined process model is refined from updated traces based on attributes present in the modified predictive model. |
| US10417578B2 |
Method and system for predicting requirements of a user for resources over a computer network
The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for predicting requirements of a user for resources. The method includes transforming a message posted by the user into a first message vector. The method further includes categorizing one or more first message vectors into one or more categories. The method further includes transforming each of the categorized first message vectors into one or more second message vectors using a wavelet transform technique. The method further includes determining, for each of the categorized first message vectors, a first score based on at least a probability distribution of one or more coefficients associated with each associated feature. The method further includes selecting a predefined number of features based on at least the first score. The method further includes training one or more classifiers on the selected predefined number of features to identify at least the one or more needs of the user. |
| US10417577B2 |
Machine learning system interface
Some embodiments include an experiment management interface for a machine learning system. The experiment management interface can manage one or more workflow runs related to building or testing machine learning models. The experiment management interface can receive an experiment initialization command to create a new experiment associated with a new workflow. A workflow can be represented by an interdependency graph of one or more data processing operators. The experiment management interface enables definition of the new workflow from scratch or by cloning and modifying an existing workflow. The workflow can define a summary format for its inputs and outputs. In some embodiments, the experiment management interface can automatically generate a comparative visualization at the conclusion of running the new workflow based on an input schema or an output schema of the new workflow. |
| US10417572B2 |
Reducing graphical text analysis using physiological priors
Embodiments relate to facilitating a meeting. A method for reducing an amount of communications to analyze in order to determine a cognitive state of an entity is provided. The method determines a first likelihood of an entity to have a particular cognitive state based on a set of physiological measures of the entity. The method receives communications from the entity. The method generates a graph of communications of the entity. The method performs a graphical text analysis on the graph to determine a second likelihood of the entity to have the particular cognitive state. The method determines whether the entity has the particular cognitive state based on the first likelihood and the second likelihood. |
| US10417569B2 |
Detecting deviations between event log and process model
A method for detecting deviations between an event log and a process model includes converting the process model into a probability process model, the probability process model comprising multiple nodes in multiple hierarchies and probability distribution associated with the multiple nodes, a leaf node among the multiple nodes corresponding to an activity in the process model; detecting differences between at least one event sequence contained in the event log and the probability process model according to a correspondence relationship; and identifying the differences as the deviations in response to the differences exceeding a predefined threshold; wherein the correspondence relationship describes a correspondence relationship between an event in one event sequence of the at least one event sequence and a leaf node in the probability process model. |
| US10417568B2 |
Discovering cognition bias toward data presentation styles through file system analysis
A method, system, and/or computer program product establish a data organization format for displaying data to a specific user. A first set of data, which is organized according to a user-selected data organization format, is received from a user. A cognition bias, which defines a preferred manner in which the user cognitively interprets data, is identified by being associated with the user-selected data organization format. The cognition bias is also associated with one or more other data organization formats that support the cognition bias. A second set of data is received and formatted using the one or more other data organization formats that also support the cognition bias. The second set of data is then displayed using the one or more data organization formats that also support the cognition bias. |
| US10417565B1 |
System, method, and computer program for modeling and predicting energy consumption in a building
The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for modeling and predicting energy use by non-plug-load mechanical/electrical systems in a building, such as lighting systems or HVAC systems. The present disclosure also discloses methods for using such models and predictions to identify energy saving measures for a building. An energy-consumption model for a building is built from energy-consumption models for components within the mechanical-electrical systems. Inputs to the energy-consumption model (i.e., values of variables in the energy-consumption model) are measurable, and behavior models are created for each of the inputs primarily from sensor and/or other measurement-device data. Using the behavior models, weather data, and the energy-consumption model for the building, a predicted non-plug-load energy use for the building is calculated based on the current configurations of the mechanical/electrical systems. Potential energy saving measures are identified by modeling the energy-consumption of alternate physical configurations of the mechanical/electrical systems. |
| US10417557B2 |
Generating natural language descriptions of images
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating descriptions of input images. One of the methods includes obtaining an input image; processing the input image using a first neural network to generate an alternative representation for the input image; and processing the alternative representation for the input image using a second neural network to generate a sequence of a plurality of words in a target natural language that describes the input image. |
| US10417556B1 |
Simulation-based controls optimization using time series data forecast
A trained neural network that is configured to generate predictions for periods of time in the future based on input data can be received, where the neural network is trained using training data that includes time series data segmented into windows. Observed time series data can be processed to generate the input data. Using the trained neural network and the generated input data, data predictions can be generated. The predictions can be provided to a reinforcement learning model configured to generate predicted outcomes, where the reinforcement learning model varies parameters to simulate conditions for a first and second entity, and an artificial intelligence agent simulates actions performed by one of the first and second entities, the data predictions being a parameter for the simulation. Parameters for the first and second entities can be selected, where the selected parameters correspond to a predicted outcome that meets a criteria. |
| US10417552B2 |
Curiosity-based emotion modeling method and system for virtual companions
The invention proposes that a software agent for assisting a user in a virtual environment defined by a first concept map, maintains a record of its experiences in the form of a second concept map. The concept maps are compared to obtain a measure of stimulation. The measure of stimulation is used to derive a comparison value indicative an emotional state of the user, and the comparison value is used in a reward function to guide the behavior of the software agent. |
| US10417551B2 |
Wirelessly communicable separable system
An RFID unit includes an RFID unit A and an RFID unit B that are separable on a break line, where the RFID unit A includes an IC chip portion A that stores an UUID and an antenna portion A, and the RFID unit B includes an IC chip portion B that stores an UUID and an antenna portion B. Before the RFID unit is separated into the RFID unit A and RFID unit B, either the RFID unit A or RFID Unit B transmits a first signal including the UUID. After the separation, at least either the RFID unit A or RFID unit B transmits a second signal, different from the first signal, including the UUID. |
| US10417550B2 |
Antenna device and portable terminal including the same
An antenna device includes: an antenna wiring including a spiral wiring having a ring shape, wherein the spiral wiring includes a linear part formed as a straight line or a curved line, and a bent part formed as a meandering line. |
| US10417548B2 |
Method for producing a circuit for a chip card module and circuit for a chip card module
The invention concerns a method for producing a flexible circuit for a chip card module. The invention consists of using conductive pads located on the same face of the module as the contacts intended to establish a connection with a card reader, in order to produce an electrical connection between an antenna and an electronic chip. The connections with conductive pads are located partly inside an encapsulation area and partly outside said encapsulation area and respectively to either side of same. The invention also relates to a flexible circuit for implementing this method. |
| US10417547B2 |
UHF RFID wristband transponder
The present invention provides for an RFID transponder, suitable for use in a wristband, which has a non-uniform loop that provides a staple RF environment between the wrist and the transponder; a tuning capacitor for minimizing the overall transponder link; a single transmission line for fine tunings; and an asymmetric location of the RFID IC and capacitor for accommodating needs for specified “keep out” areas for packaging. |
| US10417545B2 |
Detection device and method of using thereof
A detection device includes a first antenna configured to receive a first radio wave transmitted from an external device, a second antenna configured to receive the first radio wave transmitted from the external device, and transmit a second radio wave to the external device; and a chip configured to obtain a comparison result between a first electromotive force generated by the first radio wave received by the first antenna and a second electromotive force generated by the first radio wave received by the second antenna, and to send the comparison result to the external device through the second radio waive. When the first antenna is disposed closer than the second antenna to a place where the existence of moisture is to be detected, a change of the first electromotive force is greater than a change of the second electromotive force in response to the existence of moisture. |
| US10417543B2 |
Barcoded indicators for quality management
A barcoded indicator operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedance of at least one threshold by at least one product quality affecting parameter, the barcoded indicator including a first barcode including a first plurality of barcode bars and at least a first colorable area, at least a second barcode including a second plurality of barcode bars and at least a second colorable area, and at least one interposed line extending between the first barcode and the second barcode, the interposed line being capable of preventing a barcode reader from reading parts of the first barcode and of the second barcode as part of a single barcode. |
| US10417541B1 |
Reflected light identification (RLID) device
A reflected light identification (RLID) system uses light to communicate stored information across long distances with minimal interference. The RLID system may include a light source that directs an incident light signal to an RLID structure, which then transmits an encoded light signal to a sensor. The RLID system may include a passive RLID structure (i.e., a structure that does not include power source) such as an RLID reflection surface that includes layered reflective films that reflect the incident light signal back in multiple reflections that serially encodes data. The RLID system may also include an active RLID structure (i.e., a structure that includes power source) that uses energy harvesting to extract and accumulate power from an incident light signal, and then uses the harvested energy to transmit a return signal. |
| US10417539B2 |
Image forming apparatus that outputs carrier signals intermittently using a tag reader
A processor causes a transmission circuit to output a carrier signal intermittently. Each time the carrier signal is output, the processor determines whether or not a level of a detection signal is in a satisfactory state. In a first case where the level of the detection signal is determined to be in the satisfactory state, the processor performs a read control to cause the transmission circuit to perform a precharge process and a transmission process. In a second case where the level of the detection signal is not determined to be in the satisfactory state, the processor determines that the unit attachment portion is in a unit non-attachment state. In the first case, when the processor succeeds in identifying the developer information, the processor determines that the unit attachment portion is in a unit attachment state, and otherwise, determines that the unit attachment portion is in an exceptional state. |
| US10417538B2 |
Printing apparatus that displays sheet information, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
A printing apparatus has a sheet holding unit having a detection unit for detecting a size of a sheet which is held and a storage unit configured to store sheet information including at least a size of a sheet as information representing a sheet. The apparatus sets first sheet information selected by a user in association with the sheet holding unit from a plurality of items of sheet information stored in the storage unit and notifies the user of a mismatch in a case where a size of a sheet that the first sheet information set in the setting indicates, and a size of a sheet detected by the detection unit are mismatched. |
| US10417537B2 |
Method for compensating coloring range of colored 3D object
A method for compensating coloring range of colored 3D object is disclosed. The method includes following steps: importing a 3D object; performing an object slicing process to the 3D object for generating multiple object printing-route information for multiple printing layers; performing an image slicing process to the 3D object for generating multiple color printing-route information for the multiple printing layers; performing an extension process to the color printing-route information for generating updated color printing-route information, the updated color printing-route information may cover extension blocks respectively generated from each sliced object after the sliced object is printed. |
| US10417536B2 |
Printer with a diversified printed output and control method of a printer
A printer has a print unit, a printer communicator, printer storage, and a printer controller. The controller controls the printer communicator to receive a print command that includes character data and a font command. The controller acquires font data for characters specified by the character data based on font data and relational information stored by the printer storage 21. The controller generates print data by applying a specific process related to the font type and controls the print unit based on the generated print data to print on a print medium. |
| US10417532B2 |
Offline identity authentication method and apparatus
Provided are a method and a device for offline identity authentication. The method includes: acquiring two or more images for identity authentication to constitute a to-be-authenticated multivariate image group; extracting a concatenated PCA convolution feature of each of the images in the to-be-authenticated multivariate image group, to obtain feature vectors; fusing information on the images in the to-be-authenticated multivariate image group based on the feature vectors according to a score fusion strategy with a supervisory signal, to obtain a fusion vector; and inputting the fusion vector to a pre-trained SVM classifier to authenticate and determine whether the images in the to-be-authenticated multivariate image group are consistent with one another, to obtain an identity authentication result. |
| US10417529B2 |
Learning combinations of homogenous feature arrangements
One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving an input, and classifying the input utilizing a learned linear combination of multi-dimensional filters. Each multi-dimensional filter identifies a multi-dimensional pattern of a homogenous feature. The method further comprises generating an output indicative of a classification of the input. |
| US10417527B2 |
Identifying an object within content
A method for identifying an object within a video sequence, wherein the video sequence comprises a sequence of images, wherein the method comprises, for each of one or more images of the sequence of images: using a first neural network to determine whether or not an object of a predetermined type is depicted within the image; and in response to the first neural network determining that an object of the predetermined type is depicted within the image, using an ensemble of second neural networks to identify the object determined as being depicted within the image. |
| US10417526B2 |
Object recognition method and device
This inventor provides a kind of recognition method and device, including the following stages: S1: get the first feature vector by putting the depth image of current best view of the object to be recognized to feature extractor; S2: get the output of pooling layer by putting the first feature vector to first hidden layer, then get the classification by putting the output of pooling layer to a hierarchical classifier; S3: generate the partial region of current view according to the output of pooling payer and view observation vector; S4: get the second feature vector by putting the partial region to second hidden layer, and the second feature vector includes the output of pooling layer and information of current view; S5: generate the next best view using a fully connected layer and the second feature vector; S6: repeat S1 to S5 until reach the leaf node of the hierarchical classifier. This inventor scans and recognizes the unknown scene, while solving the problem of next best view. |
| US10417523B2 |
Dimension grouping and reduction for model generation, testing, and documentation
An example method includes receiving analysis data and output indicator, mapping data points from a transposition of the analysis data to a reference space, generating a cover of the reference space, clustering the data points mapped to the reference space using the cover and a metric function to determine each node of a plurality of nodes, for each node, identifying data points that are members to identify similar features, grouping features as being similar to each other based on node(s), for each feature, determining correlation with at least some data associated with the output indicator and generate a correlation score, displaying at least groupings of similar features and displaying the correlation scores, receiving a selection of features, generating a set of models based on selection, determining fit of each generated model to output data and generate a model score, and generating a model recommendation report. |
| US10417522B2 |
Using a probabilistic model for detecting an object in visual data
A probabilistic model is provided based on an output of a matching procedure that matches a particular object to representations of objects, where the probabilistic model relates a probability of an object being present to a number of matching features. The probabilistic model is used for detecting whether a particular object is present in received visual data. |
| US10417516B2 |
System and method for preprocessing images to improve OCR efficacy
A system to preprocess images to increase accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR) includes a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to scan an electronically stored representation of a whole or partial document, identify an image in the electronically stored representation, and recognize row-based text within the electronically stored representation. In addition, the processor is configured to align the row-based text vertically, generate a resultant electronically stored representation of the whole or partial document having the row-based text aligned, and save the resultant electronically stored representation for subsequent OCR processing. The electronically stored representation of the whole or partial document may contain at least one image having a JPG, TIF, GIF, PNG, or BMP, type of format. |
| US10417515B2 |
Capturing annotations on an electronic display
A system is described which comprises an electronic display device, an annotation capture module and a camera. The annotation capture module is configured to trigger a change in an image displayed on the electronic display device responsive to a capture trigger and the camera is configured to capture one or more images of the electronic display device in response to the capture trigger and/or a trigger received from the annotation capture module. The annotation capture module is further arranged to identify any manual annotations made by a user on the electronic display device by analyzing the images of the electronic display device captured by the camera, wherein at least one of the images was captured after the change in the image displayed. |
| US10417512B2 |
Driver abnormality detection device and driver abnormality detection method
Provided is at least two of a direction determination unit which determines that the state is abnormal when a gaze direction of a driver of a vehicle is not within a first predetermined range based on a captured image of a head of the driver, a height determination unit which determines that the state is abnormal when a height of an eye of the driver is not within a second predetermined range based on the captured image, and a position determination unit which determines that the state is abnormal when a position of the head in a lateral direction is not within a third predetermined range based on the captured image; and an abnormal state determination unit which determines whether the state of the driver is abnormal based on the determination results of the determination units. |
| US10417509B2 |
Variable speed sign value prediction and confidence modeling
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for predicting the value of a variable speed sign (VSS) and determining the predicted value's associated confidence level. Highly assisted driving (HAD) vehicles may read or capture images of the VSS. The speed limit values, images, or videos of the VSS are reported and received by a network and database for analysis. A predicted speed limit value is determined for the variable speed sign from at least a portion of the received traffic data. A confidence level is also calculated for the predicted speed limit value for the variable speed sign. |
| US10417505B2 |
Vehicle detection warning device and vehicle detection warning method
A vehicle detection warning device may have a rear camera, a vehicle detecting unit that detects a rear vehicle according to high-brightness regions included in obtained images, a warning start deciding unit that causes a warning processing unit to start a warning when the rear vehicle is detected, a summarizing unit that counts the number of times the high-brightness region is included in images obtained by a plurality of imaging operations performed by the rear camera, an area calculating unit that calculates the area of the high-brightness region, and a warning termination deciding unit that causes the warning processing unit to stop the warning when the number of times counted by the summarizing unit decreases and the area calculated by the area calculating unit falls to or below a predetermined value. |
| US10417503B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus includes an object detection unit configured to detect an object from an image, a tracking unit configured to track the detected object, a trajectory management unit configured to manage a trajectory of the object being tracked, and a specific object detection unit configured to detect a specific object from the image. In a case where the specific object determination unit detects the object being tracked by the object tracking unit to be the specific object, the trajectory management unit manages a trajectory of the object being tracked at a time point before the time point the object being tracked is detected to be the specific object as the trajectory of the specific object. |
| US10417498B2 |
Method and system for multi-modal fusion model
A system for generating a word sequence includes one or more processors in connection with a memory and one or more storage devices storing instructions causing operations that include receiving first and second input vectors, extracting first and second feature vectors, estimating a first set of weights and a second set of weights, calculating a first content vector from the first set of weights and the first feature vectors, and calculating a second content vector, transforming the first content vector into a first modal content vector having a predetermined dimension and transforming the second content vector into a second modal content vector having the predetermined dimension, estimating a set of modal attention weights, generating a weighted content vector having the predetermined dimension from the set of modal attention weights and the first and second modal content vectors, and generating a predicted word using the sequence generator. |
| US10417496B2 |
Visibility enhancement devices, systems, and methods
Embodiments include systems of and methods for an electronic device having a camera configured to capture image data, a display configured to display the captured image data and content corresponding to an application of the electronic device, and a motion sensor configured to detect motion of the electronic device. The electronic device also includes circuitry configured to activate the camera when motion is detected by the motion sensor, and control the display to display at least a portion of the captured image data at a size proportional to an amount of motion as detected by an output of the motion sensor. |
| US10417495B1 |
Systems and methods for determining biometric information
Described herein are systems and methods for detecting a gaze direction and/or pupil dimension of an eye based on an image of the eye. Example systems and methods include: (i) capturing an image of an eye; (ii) based on the image, determining a set of edge pixels corresponding with an edge of a pupil of the eye; (iii) selecting at least one subset of pixels from the set of edge pixels; (iv) fitting an ellipse to each subset of pixels; (v) determining a respective confidence value for each fitted ellipse based on a distance between each pixel of the set of pixels and an edge of the respective fitted ellipse; (vi) determining a best-fit ellipse based on the respective confidence value(s); and (vii) determining, based on the best-fit ellipse, at least one of a gaze direction of the eye or a pupil dimension of the eye. |
| US10417487B2 |
Pattern recognition apparatus, pattern recognition method, and storage medium
A pattern recognition apparatus extracts a feature amount of each of a plurality of pixels included in an input image, and calculates, for each of the plurality of pixels, a degree of matching between the feature amount of the pixel and the feature amount of each of one or more pixels included in a peripheral area of the pixel. Then, the pattern recognition apparatus estimates a position of each of a plurality of objects to be recognized by voting for one or more of the plurality of objects to be recognized from each of the plurality of pixels based on the extracted feature amount and the calculated degree of matching. |
| US10417485B2 |
Method and module of gesture recognition
A gesture recognition method includes determining whether an object stays within a plurality of video frames for more than a specific time; determining a finger number corresponding to the object to generate a finger number determination result, and determining whether or not the object moves away from a light sensing unit to generate an object moving-away determination result, when the object stays within the plurality of video frames for more than the specific time; and determining a gesture of a user according to the finger number determination result and the object moving-away determination result. |
| US10417479B2 |
Method for controlling unlocking and terminal
A method for controlling unlocking includes the follows. When a touch operation of a finger of a user on a fingerprint recognition sensor of a terminal is detected, N first fingerprint images are received according to N capacity auto control (CAC) parameters corresponding to a default finger, and M second fingerprint images are received according to M CAC parameters corresponding to fingerprint stabilization, wherein N is a positive integer, and M is an integer greater than 1; the best fingerprint image of the N first fingerprint images and the M second fingerprint images is selected; the selected fingerprint image is compared; the terminal is unlocked when the selected fingerprint image is matched. |
| US10417477B2 |
Display device
A display device with a display panel including a display area and a plurality of pixels arranged in the display area, a photosensor layer including a sensing area overlapping the display area and a plurality of photosensors arranged in the sensing area, a light-guiding layer arranged between the display panel and the photosensor layer and configured to include a plurality of light-transmission holes corresponding to the photosensors, respectively, and a light-condensing layer arranged between the display panel and the photosensor layer to overlap the light-guiding layer. |
| US10417470B2 |
Reading and displaying of dynamic machine-readable optical representation of data
Methods are disclosed for reading and displaying dynamic machine-readable optical representations of data. An example method includes: capturing a current frame of a plurality of frames with an optical sensing device, wherein each of the plurality of frames comprises syncdata and a portion of a data payload; decoding the syncdata and the portion of the data payload of the current frame, using a processor operatively coupled with the optical sensing device; storing the portion of the data payload of the current frame in a memory operatively coupled with the processor; determining whether all of the plurality of frames have been captured, based on the decoded syncdata, using the processor; if all of the plurality of frames have been captured, combining each stored portion of the data payload into the data payload, using the processor; and, if all of the plurality of frames have not been captured, repeating the above steps. |
| US10417469B2 |
Navigation using self-describing fiducials
In one embodiment, a self-describing fiducial includes a communication element that optically communicates navigation-aiding information. The navigation-aiding information may include a position of the self-describing fiducial with respect to one or more coordinate systems and the communication element communicates the navigation-aiding information to one or more navigating objects in the vicinity of the self-describing fiducial. |
| US10417467B2 |
Radio tag reading apparatus and control method
In one embodiment, a radio tag reading apparatus has an antenna device, a storage device, and a controller. The controller judges what frequency band is usable or not out of a plurality of frequency bands stored in the storage device. Further the controller makes the antenna device radiate a radio wave in the judged usable frequency band at a transmission rate in accordance with a width of the judged usable frequency band. |
| US10417465B2 |
Interrogator and interrogation system employing the same
An interrogator, methods of discerning the presence of an object, and interrogation systems employing the same. In one embodiment, the interrogation systems include multiple interrogators that communicate with a base command unit to track a location of an object. In another embodiment wherein the object is an RFID object (e.g., an object with an RFID tag), the interrogators employ signal processing techniques such as precharging the RFID object, and correlating a reference code with a reply code from the RFID object using selected techniques to increase a sensitivity of the interrogator, especially for adverse environments. In other embodiments, the interrogation systems include variations of metal instruments and sponges employed therewith. In yet another embodiment, the interrogation system includes metal interrogators capable of discerning the presence of a metal object, especially in a presence of another metal object. |
| US10417460B1 |
Low power analog vector-matrix multiplier
Methods and apparatuses enable a general-purpose low power analog vector-matrix multiplier. This Abstract is not intended to limit the scope of the claims. |
| US10417453B2 |
Preemption of a container in a secure computation environment
A container corresponding to executable code may be received. The container may be executed in a secure computation environment by performing one or more operations specified by the executable code of the container. An instruction to terminate the executing of the container may be received from a high level operating system (HLOS) that is external to the secure computation environment. A determination may be made as to whether the container is associated with a preemption privilege and the executing of the container may be terminated after receiving the instruction from the HLOS based on the determination of whether the container is associated with the preemption privilege. |
| US10417450B2 |
Data processing systems for prioritizing data subject access requests for fulfillment and related methods
In various embodiments, a data subject request fulfillment system may be adapted to prioritize the processing of data subject access requests based on metadata of the data subject access request. For example, the system may be adapted for: (1) in response to receiving a data subject access request, obtaining metadata regarding the data subject; (2) using the metadata to determine whether a priority of the data subject access request should be adjusted based on the obtained metadata; and (3) in response to determining that the priority of the data subject access request should be adjusted based on the obtained metadata, adjusting the priority of the data subject access request. |
| US10417449B2 |
Protection of confidential data being displayed or input in a mobile device
To protect confidential data, a mobile device determines whether the mobile device is at a location susceptible to visual capture of confidential data entered into the phone by external cameras. The mobile device determines whether focus of a display is on a field in which confidential data is entered. If the mobile device determines that it is at a location susceptible to an external imaging device visually capturing confidential data input into the input field, then the mobile device activate a light source on a same side as the screen presenting the display. |
| US10417446B2 |
Information management apparatus and method for medical care data, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information sharing apparatus (management apparatus) for medical care data of a patient body includes a data uploader for classifying the medical care data into confidential data for a primary use in medical care of the patient body, and published data published for a secondary use different from the primary use, to store the confidential data and the published data in a storage medium. A problem event detector monitors the confidential data being added or updated, to check occurrence of a problem event of clinical exacerbation of the patient body. An activation processor checks occurrence of a flag signal for activating relocation of the confidential data to the published data upon the occurrence of the problem event. A relocation unit filters the confidential data at least partially to produce published data upon occurrence of the flag signal after the occurrence of the problem event. |
| US10417445B2 |
Context-aware privacy meter
Technologies are presented that provide context-aware privacy metering regarding establishments, such as consumer establishments. A method of rating privacy of one or more establishments may include receiving a location designation of a user device from the user device (automatically or via user input), obtaining privacy-related information regarding one or more establishments in proximity of the location designation, and generating one or more privacy score vector algorithms for the one or more establishments based on the privacy-related information regarding the one or more establishments. The method may further include obtaining a privacy profile of the user, determining one or more privacy scores for the one or more establishments by applying the privacy profile of the user to the one or more privacy score vector algorithms. The method may further include generating and providing a privacy-related recommendation regarding a particular establishment. |
| US10417440B2 |
Systems and methods for digital content delivery
Methods, apparatus, systems and machine readable medium for the delivery of digital content are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving a first document from a first document source, classifying the first document with a first tag based on a type of the document, classifying the first document with a second tag based on a first intended recipient, encrypting the first document, publishing the first document for receipt by the first intended recipient, verifying an identity of the first intended recipient and granting the first recipient access to the first document based on the verified identity. |
| US10417438B2 |
Computer system of secure digital information managing
The present invention relates to a computer system (10) for the secure management of digital information implementing probative value traceability of that digital information, the system in particular being usable in the field of digital archiving, and comprising information production means (12), information preservation means (14), information distribution and consumption means (16) and means (18) for the traceability of digital information including a log (24) of events relative to digital information and detection means (22), to record that event in the event log (24).The detection means (22) are further able to detect each event relative to each item of digital information during the production thereof and during the distribution or consumption thereof, to record that event in the event log (24) that is shared between these different means. |
| US10417437B2 |
Maintaining data security in a network device
A network device for maintaining data security generates different keys corresponding to data received from a sender. The different keys comprise a secret key, a client key, and a server key. The client and server keys form the secret key when combined. The network device encrypts the data with the secret key and discards the secret key in response. The network device generates a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for requesting the data from the network device. The URL comprises the client key and a randomly-generated data identifier associated with the data. The network device sends the URL to an electronic address of a recipient and discards the client key in response. |
| US10417433B2 |
Encryption and decryption of data owned by a guest operating system
An apparatus includes one or more processor core, trusted key store, memory controller, and a memory module. The memory controller includes an encryption/decryption module that encrypts data being stored to the memory module for a guest OS being executed by the processor core(s) and that decrypts data being read from the memory module for the guest OS. Data owned by the guest OS is encrypted and decrypted by the encryption/decryption module using an encryption key stored by the trusted key store in association with the guest OS. A method encrypts data owned by the guest OS using the encryption key assigned to the guest OS and stores the encrypted data on a memory module, wherein the encrypted data is stored in association with the process identifier of the guest OS, and decrypts the encrypted data using the guest OS encryption key and provides the decrypted data to the guest OS. |
| US10417432B2 |
Methods and systems for blocking potentially harmful communications to improve the functioning of an electronic device
Methods and systems are provided for sharing information and improving the functioning of devices by blocking potentially harmful communications. In the methods and systems disclosed, a security component on an electronic device may receive a policy. The security component may also receive, from a local device proxy on the electronic device, information pertaining to a communication. The security component may compare the information pertaining to the communication to the policy. The comparison may result in a determination that the communication is potentially harmful. The security component may then instruct the local device proxy to block the communication from proceeding past the local device proxy. |
| US10417431B2 |
Security domains for aware placement of workloads within converged infrastructure information handling systems
Disclosed methods and systems discover trust and security information indicative of trust and security capabilities of information handling resources. Based on the trust and security information and a corresponding algorithm, a trust index may be calculated for a particular system. Trust index values may be used to influence subsequent placements of virtual machines, application services, or other objects. Discovery may include invoking resource-specific trust and security discovery adapters to access a resource manifest indicating an interface and trust and discovery artifacts associated with the resource of interest and determine which, if any, of the applicable trust and discovery artifacts are implemented in the applicable system. The trust index may be calculated by determining which trust and security artifacts a particular system includes and, for each such artifact, multiplying a trust assessment assigned to the artifact by a user configurable weighting and summing the resulting products for each artifact. |
| US10417425B2 |
Secured cyber-physical systems
Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes causing at least one reset for one or more components of a cyber-physical system, the cyber-physical system including a mechanical apparatus with at least one of a mechanical input or a mechanical output, and at least one controller to control operations of at least one of the mechanical apparatus and inhibit computing-based attacks on the cyber-physical system. The method further includes determining, upon resumption of operation of the cyber-physical system following the at least one reset, a post-reset state of the one or more components of the cyber-physical system based, at least in part, on mechanical attributes of the mechanical apparatus following the at least one reset resulting from inertia of the mechanical apparatus during the at least one reset. |
| US10417424B2 |
Method of remediating operations performed by a program and system thereof
There is provided a system and a computerized method of remediating one or more operations linked to a given program running in an operating system, the method comprising: querying a stateful model to retrieve a group of entities related to the given program; terminating at least a sub set of the group of entities related to the given program; generating a remediation plan including one or more operations linked to the given program, the one or more operations being retrieved based on the group in the stateful model; and executing the remediation plan by undoing at least part of the one or more operations linked to the given program thereby restoring state of the operating system to a state prior to the given program being executed. There is further provided a computerized method of detecting malicious code related to a program in an operating system in a live environment. |
| US10417413B2 |
Context-aware intrusion detection method for smart devices with sensors
A smart device can include a data oriented sensor providing a numerical value, a logic oriented sensor providing a state, a sensor value collector connected to the data oriented sensor, a sensor logic state detector connected to the logic oriented sensor, a data processor connected to the sensor value collector and the sensor logic state detector, and a data analyzer connected to the data processor. The data processor can take the numerical value received from the sensor value collector, calculate an average value from the numerical value, sample the state receiving from the sensor logic state detector, and create an input matrix by using the average value and the sampled state. The data analyzer can receive the input matrix, train an analytical model, and check a data to indicate whether a state of the smart device is malicious or not. |
| US10417412B2 |
Protecting computer code against ROP attacks
A method, computer product and computerized system, the method comprising: obtaining computer code, wherein the computer code is comprised of code blocks arranged in a first order and providing a functionality, wherein each code block of the code blocks comprises one or more program instructions; determining, by a processor, one or more constraints on reordering the code blocks in a second order, such that a second computer code comprising the code blocks arranged in the second order, when executed, provides the functionality; and providing the constraints to an automatic solver for determining the second order. |
| US10417407B2 |
Method for secure synchronization and pairing between devices and apparatus using the method
An electronic device includes a biomedical sensor configured to generate a first signal by detecting a biomedical signal, a motion sensor configured to generate a second signal by detecting a motion, and a communication interface configured to provide a secure communication channel with another electronic device, and receive a third signal through the secure communication channel. The electronic device further includes a controller configured to generate a secret key for the secure communication channel, based on the first signal, and determine whether to perform a predetermined function, based on the second signal and the received third signal. |
| US10417403B2 |
Automation authentication and access
A method and system for improving automated software execution is provided. The method includes receiving in real time from a video retrieval device, visual data associated with a user of a hardware device. The user is identified with respect to the visual data. Internal software applications and hardware structures are scanned in real time and relationships between a group of Web based software applications and a group of internal software applications and hardware structures authorized for access by the user are determined. Information associated with network and hardware device access by the user is analyzed actions for execution with respect to access to the group of Web based software applications and internal software applications and hardware structures are determined. In response, the automated actions are executed with respect to access to the group of Web based software applications and internal software applications and hardware structures. |
| US10417402B2 |
Supplemental hand gesture authentication
Providing supplemental authentication of a user based on hand gesture activity of a user with an application of a device after a user has completed a successful authentication challenge to initially access the device. Hand gesture activity of the user with the device is recorded during current use of an application of the device. The recorded hand gesture activity during current use of an application of the device is compared to previous recorded hand gesture activity during use of the same application of the device by an authorized user to provide a supplemental authentication of the user. When the recorded hand gesture activity does not match the previously recorded hand gesture activity during use of the same application, the use of the application on the device is halted and an additional authentication challenge requiring input from the user is presented to the user. |
| US10417397B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus connected to a device and a server via a network includes a license-information acquiring unit, an installed-information acquiring unit, a display controller, and an execution controller. The license-information acquiring unit acquires information related to an application software license from the server. The installed-information acquiring unit acquires, from the device, information related to installed application software installed in the device. The display controller performs control so as to display image information expressing the acquired installed application software. The execution controller executes the application software by receiving a command from a user for an operation related to the application software, which is performed by using the displayed image information. The execution controller controls an operation performable by the user with respect to the installed application software based on license information acquired by the installed-information acquiring unit. |
| US10417396B2 |
System and methods for provisioning and monitoring licensing of applications or extensions to applications on a multi-tenant platform
Embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism for a multi-tenant platform operator (or a developer or publisher of an application or an extension to an existing platform application) to control the access and functionality available within the application or extension on an account specific basis, based on the subscription license terms applicable to each account/customer. Embodiments of the invention enable a more practical and efficient management of access controls and functionality for a relatively large customer base, where certain accounts, customers, or users may be entitled to a different or at least partially different set of rights and functionality. |
| US10417395B2 |
Application usage analytics for licensing analysis
A system and method for performing licensing monitoring and compliance within a service provider platform are provided. The system comprises a memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored within the memory. The system further comprises a central instance that executes on the processor and comprises a license repository containing licensing data for application components. The system further comprises a customer instance that includes a third-party application component installed within the customer instance from an application store. The system further includes a licensing module. The third-party application component is switchable between a monitor mode in which the licensing module reports usage of the third-party application component to the central instance and an enforcement mode in which the usage is controlled on the customer instance based on the license repository. |
| US10417392B2 |
Device-independent management of cryptographic information
Some embodiments provide an account-based DRM system for distributing content. The system includes several devices that are associated with an account and a set of DRM computers that receives a request to access a piece of content on the devices associated with the account. The DRM computer set then generates a several keys for the devices, where each particular key of each particular device allows the particular device to access the piece of content on the particular device. In some embodiments, the DRM computer set sends the content and keys to one device (e.g., a computer), which is used to distribute the content and the key(s) to the other devices associated with the account. In some embodiments, the DRM computer set individually encrypts each key in a format that is used during its transport to its associated device and during its use on this device. |
| US10417389B2 |
Application development system for medical pumps
An application authoring tool and application program system for medical pumps provides each pump with a standardized hardware interface abstracting the hardware and tasks done by the pump in order to provide a uniform interface for application programmers across different pump types. The standardized interface may translate hardware communication with hardware on different machines, do hardware signal range checking, and handle routine but detailed hardware tasks such as error reporting. A system for installing multiple applications on pumps allows a flexible trade-off between reducing pump programming time by loading specialized application programs and preserving pump flexibility by allowing the user to select among multiple applications. |
| US10417388B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing virtual treatment experience
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a virtual treatment experience which can make a user to understand the necessity for treatment and learn how to counteract side effects of the treatment. The apparatus may include a patient information manager configured to acquire medical information including disease name and blood value of a patient and treatment information including treatment program information and prescription information, a virtual activity provider configured to proceed with a virtual activity according to a manipulation command from a user terminal of the patient and provide an additive score and a subtractive score according to a result of proceeding with the virtual activity, and a controller configured to calculate health value information by quantifying a current health condition of the patient based on the blood value of the patient, select a first display image of an avatar corresponding to the calculated health value information, recalculate the heath value information of the patient using health value information set according to the number of days for which the treatment program has been applied and the provided additive score and subtractive score, and change the first display image of the avatar to a second display image according to the recalculated health value information of the patient. |
| US10417386B2 |
Information processing device and method
There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a date of prescription of a prescription drug and the number of days of prescription of the prescription drug, a calculation unit to carry out division based on the number of days of prescription of the prescription drug and the number of days of prescription of another prescription drug and identify whether or not the prescription drug is a long-acting medicine based on whether or not a result of the division satisfies a predetermined condition, and a medication schedule generation unit to generate medication schedule information of the prescription drug based on the date of prescription of the prescription drug and the number of days of prescription of the other prescription drug when the prescription drug is the long-acting medicine. |
| US10417385B2 |
Methods and systems for audio call detection
Systems and methods allow caregivers, central monitoring, and/or other persons to monitor whether a patient or another person has generated a call, such as an audio call. The systems and methods work by detecting audio within one or more audio detection zones, which are predefined areas surrounding the patient or other person to be monitored. The systems and methods detect when a command/keyword is spoken in the audio detection zone and generate an appropriate alert to an appropriate role. |
| US10417383B2 |
Remote medical evaluation
A consult coordination center (CCC) computer may comprise a database and a processor. A scheduling module executed by the processor may schedule a patient assessment session for a facility, the patient assessment session comprising an assessment of at least one patient in the facility by a remote health care professional to determine whether the at least one patient should be given more immediate care. An assignment module executed by the processor may assign the scheduled patient assessment session to a health care professional computer. A connection module executed by the processor may create a remote connection between the health care professional computer and a computer at the facility via a network to facilitate the patient assessment session, the remote connection comprising a video feed from the computer at the facility to the health care professional computer. A data module executed by the processor may retrieve a report of a previous patient assessment session at the facility from the database, send the report of the previous patient assessment session at the facility to the health care professional computer, receive a report of the patient assessment session, and store the report of the patient assessment session in the database. |
| US10417375B2 |
Time-driven placement and/or cloning of components for an integrated circuit
Techniques that facilitate time-driven placement and/or cloning of components for an integrated circuit are provided. In one example, a system includes an analysis component, a geometric area component and a placement component. The analysis component computes timing information and distance information between a set of transistor components of an integrated circuit. The geometric area component determines at least a first geometric area of the integrated circuit and a second geometric area of the integrated circuit based on the timing information and the distance information. The placement component determines a location for a latch component on the integrated circuit based on an intersection between the first geometric area and the second geometric area. |
| US10417370B2 |
Classical simulation constants and ordering for quantum chemistry simulation
Quantum computations based on second quantization are performed by applying one body and two body terms in a selected order. Typically, terms associated with operators that commute are applied prior to application of other terms. In a particular example, one body terms of the form hpp are applied first, followed by two body terms of the form hprrp. |
| US10417363B1 |
Power and scan resource reduction in integrated circuit designs having shift registers
Embodiments relate to methodologies for applying multibit cell merging to functional shift registers, thereby saving area, reducing scan-wirelength, saving power and reducing wiring congestion in integrated circuit designs. In embodiments, during synthesis, shift registers in a design are identified. In these and other embodiments, in identified shift registers, functional shift register flip-flops are merged into non-scan multi-bit flip-flops using a physically aware approach. |
| US10417359B2 |
Optical metrology of lithographic processes using asymmetric sub-resolution features to enhance measurement
A process of calibrating a model, the process including: obtaining training data including: scattered radiation information from a plurality of structures, individual portions of the scattered radiation information being associated with respective process conditions being characteristics of a patterning process of the individual structures; and calibrating a model with the training data by determining a ratio relating a change in one of the process characteristics to a corresponding change in scattered radiation information. |
| US10417358B2 |
Method and apparatus of obtaining feature information of simulated agents
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus of obtaining feature information of a simulated agent. The method further comprises: for each agent class, respectively obtaining feature information of real agents belonging to the class and freely participating in traffic activities, the number of real agents belonging to each class being greater than one; for each agent class, extracting representative feature information from feature information of each real agent belonging to the class, and taking the extracted feature information as feature information of simulated agents belonging to this class. The solution of the present invention may be applied to improve correctness of testing results of unmanned vehicles. |
| US10417349B2 |
Customized multi-device translated and transcribed conversations
Systems and methods may be used to provide transcription and translation services. A method may include initializing a plurality of user devices with respective language output selections in a translation group by receiving a shared identifier from the plurality of user devices and transcribing the audio stream to transcribed text. The method may include translating the transcribed text to one or more of the respective language output selections when an original language of the transcribed text differs from the one or more of the respective language output selections. The method may include sending, a user device in the translation group, the transcribed text including translated text in a language corresponding to the respective language output selection for the user device. In an example, the method may include customizing the transcription or the translation, such as to a particular topic, location, user, or the like. |
| US10417348B2 |
Method for processing and loading web pages supporting multiple languages and system thereof
The present invention relates to the application field of computer networks, and disclosed are a method for processing and loading a web page supporting multiple languages and a system thereof, so as to reduce time and cost of labor investment when some language is added or modified, save storage capacity of a web page server, increase the speed of page loading and translation rendering, and reduce the redundancy of a translation file set. The present invention is based on a tree-shaped translation file set, where each hypertext markup language (HTML) has a corresponding translation file. The method includes the following steps: scanning all translation files in a translation file set; extracting a same language string in different translation files or in different node sets of a same translation file, and inserting the same language string into a minimum common ancestor translation file of the different translation files or a common node set of the same translation file; deleting the same language string from the original translation files or node sets. |
| US10417347B2 |
Computer messaging bot creation
Creation data can be received from a computer-readable developer profile, with the creation data including instructions to create a messaging bot. A messaging bot definition can be generated using the instructions, and a messaging bot may be executed using the definition. The instructions may include natural language instructions defining one or more messaging bot characteristics. The natural language instructions can be matched with one or more commands to include one or more characteristics in the messaging bot, and instructions for those characteristic(s) can be included in the messaging bot definition. The instructions can be instructions that are not in a computer programming language, and they can be instructions to create one or more general messaging bot characteristics configured to be implemented with a specific dialog structure that defines one or more specific natural language dialog scripts. |
| US10417343B2 |
Determining safety risk using natural language processing
A network system coordinates users who provide geographical location-based services to users. Users can provide textual feedback regarding the services provided by other users. To create a safe user experience and encourage users to continue using the services, the network system determines safety risks of the users by analyzing the textual feedback from users along with metadata associated with the textual feedback. For example, the network system determines a safety score for a user based on classifying textual feedback according to different types of safety risk related to topics such as vehicle operation or interpersonal behavior. The network system can train classifiers using feature vectors derived from textual feedback previously received from users of the network system, which may be labeled in a supervised training process. The network system may provide interventions to high-risk users to help mitigate their safety risk and prevent safety incidents from occurring. |
| US10417340B2 |
Cognitive collaborative moments
A method, computer system, and computer program product for cognitively summarizing one or more collaborative moments is provided. An embodiment may include receiving a plurality of communications sent during a collaborative session. The embodiment may also include grouping the plurality of received communications into one or more bursts. The embodiment may further include assigning one or more keywords or one or more entities to each burst. The embodiment may also include generating a summary for each burst using one or more natural language processing techniques based on the assigned one or more keywords or one or more entities. The embodiment may further include transmitting the generated summary to each user participating in the collaborative session. |
| US10417339B2 |
Suggestion of alternate user input using different user interface
Method(s) and apparatus(es) relating generally to an electronic device having a display and a touch-sensitive input device are disclosed. In such a method, a first keypad is displayed on the display. Obtained is sensed information from the touch-sensitive input device responsive to user input in association with the first keypad. The user input is determined to be for a second keypad different from the first keypad. A corresponding input to the user input is determined using the sensed information in association with the second keypad. The corresponding input is displayed on the display. |
| US10417332B2 |
Predicting text by combining attempts
The description relates to predicting text based on multiple user attempts at inputting text. One example can include a computing device comprising a user interface. In this example, the user interface is configured to receive evidence from a first user attempt at inputting text and configured to receive evidence from a second user attempt at inputting the text. The computing device also includes a text prediction engine configured to combine the evidence from the first user attempt at inputting the text and the evidence from the second user attempt at inputting the text to predict the text. |
| US10417326B2 |
Methods and apparatus for obtaining a snapshot of a medical imaging display
A method comprising, responsive to a selecting event, rendering an interactive display screen of a saved first state of a display layout of a medical information compilation, the interactive display screen comprising first information in a first display area and second information in a second display area, the saved first state comprising a plurality of display attributes of the first information and the second information, wherein the first information and the second information each include one of (i) a medical image, (ii) medical notes, or (iii) a medical record is described. |
| US10417322B2 |
Real-time collaborative clinical document analysis and editing
Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation. |
| US10417320B2 |
Providing insertion feature with clipboard manager application
An insertion feature is provided with a clipboard manager application. The clipboard manager application initiates operations to provide the insertion feature upon detecting a copy operation. In response, an item associated with the copy operation is stored. Next, a paste input is intercepted. A sample content of the item is rendered in a clipboard user interface (UI) for a selection. Upon detecting the item as selected, the item is inserted into a previously active application. |
| US10417318B2 |
Treatment controller
A content modification system includes a treatment controller which may be hosted at a web server. The treatment controller receives a request for content from a user. One example of a request is an HTTP request for a web page. The treatment controller determines a representation of the requested content and receives a modification instruction for modifying the requested content. The treatment controller is operable to modify the representation according to the instructions and render the representation to a predetermined format for delivery to the user. |
| US10417317B2 |
Web page profiler
A method, computer system and computer program product for profiling a web page. Components in the web page are identified. Times to display the components for the web page in a browser in a graphical user interface on a display system for a client data processing system are identified while the components are processed for display on the display system during use of the application by a customer. A profile of the times is created to display a group of the components on the display system when a user input from the customer requests information about the times to display the group of the components, enabling identifying a corrective action that increases a speed at which the web page is displayed on the display system for the client data processing system. |
| US10417315B2 |
Configuring a page for drag and drop arrangement of content artifacts in a page development tool
A method, system and apparatus for configuring a page for drag and drop arrangement of content artifacts can include populating a content artifact registry with a plurality of content artifacts, each of the content artifacts defining a draggable and droppable form of a particular type of page content. The method further can include defining a drop zone within the page to receive a dragged and dropped one of the content artifacts, the drop zone defining a consumable type of page content and an action to undertake when consuming a dropped one of the content artifacts having a particular type of page content consistent with the consumable type of page content. |
| US10417301B2 |
Analytics based on scalable hierarchical categorization of web content
Various methods and systems for performing analytics based on hierarchical categorization of content are provided. Analytics can be performed using an index building workflow and a classification workflow. In the index building workflow, documents are received and analyzed to extract features from the documents. Hierarchical category paths can be identified for the features. The documents are indexed to support searching the documents for the hierarchical category paths. In the classification workflow, a query, that includes or references content, may be received and analyzed to extract features from the content. The features are executed against a search engine that returns search result documents associated with hierarchical category paths. The hierarchical category paths from the search result documents may be used to generate a topic model of the content associated with the query. The topic model, used for web analytics, includes scores for the hierarchical category paths and for enumerated category topics. |
| US10417300B2 |
Systems and methods for improved web-based document retrieval and object manipulation
Systems and methods are provided for improving web-based document retrieval and object manipulation. In an implementation, objects within web documents (e.g., a web page) are manipulated when the objects are visible through a viewport of a user's web browser. According to a method, an object selected from a web document is manipulated when that selected object is displayed within the viewport of the user's browser. The manipulation may include downloading content associated with the stored object and additionally, or alternatively, executing a script associated with the stored object. Additionally, or independently, methods may be provided for blocking the download of an object in a retrieved web document until that object is displayed or visible in the user's browser viewport. |
| US10417299B1 |
Embedded streams user interface
A system and method for providing or presenting secondary or embedded streams includes a primary stream generator, a secondary stream generator and a user interface engine. The primary stream generator generates the primary stream for the user and is coupled to a content source to extract data and coupled to provide the primary stream. The secondary stream generator generates a secondary stream for the user, is coupled to the content source to retrieve data and is coupled to provide the secondary stream. The user interface engine produces a user interface including a primary stream of content with an embedded secondary stream. The user interface engine is coupled to receive the primary stream from the primary stream generator and the secondary stream from the secondary stream generator. The present disclosure also includes a method for generating a user interface with an embedded stream. |