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| US10517199B2 |
Methods of positioning a component in a desired position on a board, pick and place machines, and sensors for such pick and place machines
A method of positioning a component in a desired position on a board is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) picking up the component with a nozzle of a movable placement unit of a pick and place machine; (b) transporting the component towards the board as a function of the desired position; (c) obtaining sensor data about an orientation of the component with respect to the nozzle with a sensor of the placement unit; (d) obtaining in the sensor rotational data about the orientation of the nozzle with respect to the placement unit; (e) combining in the sensor the sensor data and the rotational data into a data set; (f) sending the data set from the sensor to a stationary computer and computing a correction instruction in the stationary computer; and (g) placing the component on the board as a function of the correction instruction from the stationary computer. |
| US10517196B2 |
Flexible display device
A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel and a heat dissipating layer. The flexible display panel includes a bending region and a non-bending region. The heat dissipating layer includes a first heat dissipating sublayer and a second heat dissipating sublayer. The first heat dissipating sublayer is disposed on the non-bending region and the second heat dissipating sublayer is disposed on the first heat dissipating sublayer. |
| US10517191B2 |
Liquid immersion server
A liquid immersion server includes a processor, a heat sink to which heat generated by the processor is transferred, a flow channel through which a first refrigerant liquid that has absorbed heat from the heat sink flows, and a cooling bath that stores a second refrigerant liquid that is inactive in a lower section thereof and that stores the first refrigerant liquid in an upper section thereof, wherein when the liquid immersion server is in operation, the processor, the heat sink, and the flow channel are immersed in the second refrigerant liquid, the flow channel has a supply port to which the first refrigerant liquid is supplied from a first pipe and a first discharge port that discharges the first refrigerant liquid that has absorbed heat into the cooling bath. |
| US10517189B1 |
Application and integration of a cableless server system
The present disclosure provides a system and method for enabling cableless connections within a server system. The server system comprises a motherboard (MB) module, a power distribution board (PDB) module, power supply unit (PSU) modules, network interface controller (NIC) modules, fan modules, graphic process unit (GPU) modules, and a hyperscale GPU accelerator (HGX) platform. These components of the server system are interconnected by a plurality of circuit boards. The plurality of circuit boards includes, but is not limited to, a main board, linking boards (BDs), a PDB, a fan board, a power linking board, peripheral-component-interconnect-express (PCIe) expander boards, a plurality of NVLink bridges, and HGX base boards. |
| US10517185B2 |
Modular device
A modular device, including a base unit with a plurality of module sockets and a number of modules that can be detachably connected to the module socket as well as a control unit for the connected modules, and the module sockets have manually actuatable locking devices for the modules. The locking devices include a manually actuated actuating device, which can be pivoted around a pivot axis from a first end position through an intermediate position into a second end position and which locks the module in the first end position and release the module in the second end position, and have a detector for detecting at least the first end position and the intermediate position of the actuating device. |
| US10517179B2 |
Material composition and methods thereof
Provided is a material composition and method that includes forming a patterned resist layer on a substrate. The patterned resist layer has a first pattern width, and the patterned resist layer has a first pattern profile having a first proportion of active sites. In some examples, the patterned resist layer is coated with a treatment material. In some embodiments, the treatment material bonds to surfaces of the patterned resist layer to provide a treated patterned resist layer having a second pattern profile with a second proportion of active sites greater than the first proportion of active sites. By way of example, and as part of the coating the patterned resist layer with the treatment material, a first pattern shrinkage process may be performed, where the treated patterned resist layer has a second pattern width less than a first pattern width. |
| US10517177B2 |
On-vehicle electronic circuit mounting board
An on-vehicle electronic circuit mounting board includes: a surface mount type package component including a plurality of electrode pads disposed along an outer periphery of a component bottom surface; and a printed wiring board having a plurality of lands disposed along the plurality of electrode pads on a top surface of the printed wiring board opposed to the component bottom surface, and in which each land is disposed to be opposed to the corresponding electrode pad and electrically connected to the electrode pad by soldered connection. An outer soldering slope and an inner soldering slope are formed between a land of the plurality of lands and an electrode pad corresponding to the land, and the land is shifted with respect to the corresponding electrode pad such that one of the outer soldering slope and the inner soldering slope faces the wiring board side and the other faces the component side. |
| US10517169B2 |
Characterization vehicles for printed circuit board and system design
A characterization vehicle may include a first test circuit and a second test circuit located on separate panels of a panelized printed circuit (PC) board. The first test circuit may be fabricated in accordance with a first plurality of design parameters. The second test circuit may be fabricated in accordance with a second plurality of design parameters. The first plurality of design parameters and the second plurality of design parameters may be chosen in accordance with a design of experiment (DOE) concerning one or more design rules or design trade-offs such that at least two corresponding design parameters from the first and second test circuits have identical values, and at least two corresponding design parameters from the first and second test circuits have different values. |
| US10517165B2 |
Plasma cutting apparatus
The present invention is a plasma cutting apparatus (A) configured such that a starting gas is switched to plasma gas at the stage when current is applied to an electrode provided to a plasma torch, and a plasma arc is produced at a preset current value on a material (B) to be cut, so as to extend the life of the electrode, wherein the apparatus is configured to have: a starting gas supply unit (2) having a starting gas solenoid valve (2b) provided with a starting gas supply source (2a) and a starting gas pipeline (2c); a plasma gas supply unit (3) having a plasma gas solenoid valve (3b) provided with a plasma gas supply source (3a) and a plasma gas pipeline (3c); a plasma gas connection part (8) for connecting the downstream-side end part of the starting gas supply unit and the downstream-side end part of the plasma gas supply unit; a gas pipeline part (5) for connecting the plasma gas connection part (8) and a torch body (1a); a flow retention member (4) provided to the gas pipeline part; and a control device (10) for controlling the opening and closing of the solenoid valves, and controlling the flow retention member. |
| US10517164B1 |
Universal phase control dimmer for wireless lighting control
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide multi-mode phase control dimmers for lighting devices, particularly for use with wireless lighting control systems. The disclosed universal dimming devices include a load-type detection circuit for determining whether the load for connected lighting devices has an inductive characteristic. The system automatically detects the load characteristic and self-adjusts its phase-cut dimming mode in response. The disclosed solutions require minimal additional components to provide load-type detection beyond those components already included in typical phase dimming applications, particularly in a wireless lighting control environment, thereby minimizing cost. The disclosed solutions have improved reliability by detecting multiple characteristics detected for each of a plurality of AC cycles in order to reliably distinguish between load types. |
| US10517161B2 |
Connected device system
The present invention provides a connected device system, comprising a master network device (2) and a device (5) to be integrated into the connected device system (1). The connected device system is adapted to connect the master network device and the device via a wireless network (4). When being added to the wireless network, the device announces itself in the wireless network and provides an upgrade server in the wireless net-work. The upgrade server makes available for retrieval a digital asset indicative of a characteristic of the device. The master network device detects the device in the wireless network based on the announcement, searches for the upgrade server of the device in the wireless network in response to the detection of the device, and retrieves the digital asset from the upgrade server of the device. This leads to an improved way of integrating the device into the connected device system. |
| US10517159B2 |
Control device
A control device for controlling an electronic device includes: a switch, and a remote controller being operable to separate from or be in combination with the switch, wherein the switch and the remote controller each are configured to control the electronic device, and the remote controller is in combination with the switch when the control device is in a first usage state, or separates from the switch when the control device is in a second usage state. |
| US10517157B2 |
Control system for controlling LEDs in multiple LED computer fans
A data distributer device for controlling the lighting effects of a series of LEDs associated with a plurality of LED computer fans is disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the data distributer device comprises a printed circuit board, a plurality of LED fan data connectors on the printed circuit board, a controller data input connector on the printed circuit board and at least one power input connector on the printed circuit board. The plurality of LED fan data connectors is electrically arranged serially on the printed circuit board. |
| US10517156B1 |
Hybrid driving scheme for RGB color tuning
A device includes an analog current division circuit configured to divide an input current into a first current and a second current, and a multiplexer array including a plurality of switches to provide the first current to a first of three colors of LEDs and the second current to a second of three colors of LEDs simultaneously during a first portion of a period, the first current to the second of three colors of LEDs and the second current to a third of three colors of LEDs simultaneously during a second portion of the period, and the first current to the first of three colors of LEDs and the second current to the third of three colors of LEDs simultaneously during a third portion of the period. |
| US10517155B2 |
Methods and apparatus for vertically stacked multicolor light-emitting diode (LED) display
A method of fabricating a multicolor light-emitting diode (LED) display includes forming a first LED layer on a first release layer comprising a first two-dimensional (2D) material disposed on a first substrate. The first LED layer is configured to emit light at a first wavelength. The method also includes transferring the first LED layer from the first release layer to a host substrate and forming a second LED layer on a second release layer comprising a second 2D material disposed on a second substrate. The second LED layer is configured to emit light at a second wavelength. The method also includes removing the second LED layer from the second release layer and disposing the second LED layer on the first LED layer. |
| US10517153B2 |
Method and system for controlling functionality of lighting devices
A lighting device control system for controlling one or more lighting devices includes a first lighting device comprising an optical radiation source, and a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device includes a processor, a user interface, and a memory device. The memory device includes programming instructions to cause the processor of the portable electronic device to: cause the user interface to output a plurality of candidate optical characteristics for the optical radiation source and a user-selectable setting for at least some of the candidate optical characteristics, receive a selection of at least one of the candidate optical characteristics and an associated setting for each of the selected optical characteristics, generate a light operation request that comprises each of the one or more selected optical characteristics and its associated setting and an account identifier, and transmit the light operation request to the first lighting device. |
| US10517138B2 |
Managing MBMS membership at the service capability exposure function
The present application is directed to an apparatus on a network including a non-transitory memory having executable instructions for configuring membership of a group, and a processor that is operably coupled to the non-transitory memory. The processor is configured to receive a request from a server to add a device to the group. The processor is also configured to send a reply to the server that the device is authorized to join the group. The processor is further configured to receive a query request from the server. Further, the processor checks the status of the device based on the query request. The present application is also directed to a networked system including a server and an apparatus in communication with the server. The present application is also directed to a method for configuring membership of a group. |
| US10517136B1 |
Wireless communication system to detect a sleepy-cell condition
A wireless communication system to detect a sleepy-cell condition. The wireless communication system comprises a remote radio head that receives network data comprising user data and beamforming instructions from a baseband unit. The remote radio head transfers the user data to wireless communication devices over wireless column beams responsive to the beamforming instructions. The remote radio head further detects a loss of the beamforming instructions for a time threshold and responsively transfers a sleepy-cell alarm indicating the baseband unit. |
| US10517134B2 |
Method and system for managing communication between external and implantable devices
Systems and methods for managing bi-directional communication between an external device (ED) and an implantable medical device (IMD) are provided. The method comprises receiving an active ED configuration and a request for communications parameters to be used with the active ED configuration. The method further comprises identifying a pre-existing configuration, from a collection of pre-existing configurations that match the active ED configuration, the collection of pre-existing configurations having an associated collection of predefined parameter sets. The method further determines a resultant parameter set from the collection of predefined parameter sets based on the pre-existing configuration identified and returns the resultant parameter set in connection with the request, the resultant parameter set to be utilized by the ED for bi-directional communication with the IMD. |
| US10517131B2 |
Communication control device, communication control method, communication system and communication device
Provided is a communication control device controlling communication of multiple secondary usage nodes providing second communication services using a part of a frequency band assigned to a first communication service, including a communication unit receiving service area information for estimating service areas of the second communication services provided by the secondary usage nodes and access technique information indicating radio access techniques usable by the secondary usage nodes, a storage unit storing information on the service area and access technique received by the communication unit, an estimation unit estimating service areas of multiple second communication services, and a control unit notifying a secondary usage node providing one of the multiple second communication services of a radio access technique or a channel recommended to the at least one second communication service on the basis of a location relationship between the service areas estimated by the estimation unit and the access technique information. |
| US10517122B2 |
Methods and network nodes for managing establishment of a radio session
A radio network node (110) manages (A010) establishment of a current radio session between a user equipment (120) and the radio network node (110), wherein the current radio session is associated with a current set of characteristics relating to the radio network node (110) and/or the user equipment (120). During establishment of the current radio session, a core network node (130) retrieves (A080), based on the current set of characteristics, an indication about the MCS offset from a memory (141, 142) accessible by the core network node (130). Then, the core network node (130) sends (A090), to the radio network node (110), the indication about the MCS offset. The indication is derived from a previous radio session, wherein the previous radio session is associated with a previous set of the characteristics, wherein the previous set of the characteristics matches the current set of the characteristics. The radio network node (120) determines (A130) a MCS based on the MCS offset and on a Channel Quality Indicator, “CQI”. Furthermore, the radio network node (110) transmits (A140) a data packet according to the MCS. Corresponding computer program sand carriers therefor are also disclosed. |
| US10517114B2 |
Efficient signaling over access channel
An apparatus and method for transmitting an indicator of channel quality while minimizing the use of a broadcast channel is described. A metric of forward link geometry of observed transmission signals is determined. An indicator of channel quality value is determined as a function of the observed transmission signals. An access sequence is selected, randomly, from one group of a plurality of groups of access sequences, wherein each of the plurality of groups of access sequences correspond to different ranges of channel quality values. |
| US10517113B2 |
Radio-network node, wireless device and methods performed therein
Embodiments herein relate to method performed by a radio-network node for handling a data transmission, from a wireless device to the radio-network node, in a wireless communication network. The radio-network node schedules one or more resources for carrying an uplink data transmission from the wireless device over a channel, and for carrying a feedback transmission, of a downlink data transmission from the radio-network node, over the same channel. The radio-network node transmits a control message to the wireless device, which control message indicates the one or more resources scheduled for carrying the uplink data transmission and the feedback transmission over the same channel. |
| US10517112B2 |
Uplink subframe shortening in time-division duplex (TDD) systems
A guard period for switching between uplink and downlink subframes is created by shortening an uplink subframe, i.e., by not transmitting during one or more symbol intervals at the beginning of the subframe interval. A grant message includes signaling indicating when a shortened subframe should be transmitted. An example method is implemented in a first wireless node configured to transmit data in transmit subframes occurring at defined subframe intervals and having a predetermined number of symbol intervals. This example method includes determining (1620) that a transmit subframe is to be shortened, relative to the predetermined number of symbol intervals and, in response to this determination, shortening (1630) transmission of the transmit subframe by not transmitting during a beginning portion of the subframe interval for the transmit subframe and transmitting during the remainder of the subframe interval. |
| US10517111B2 |
Mitigating scheduling conflicts in wireless communication devices
Exemplary embodiments include a method performed by a wireless device configured as a slave in a first piconet and configured as a master in a second piconet. The method includes determining whether the wireless device has data to transmit over the second piconet to an other wireless device, determining an availability of a full slot in a first piconet schedule, selecting a data transmission scheme based on the availability of the full slot in the first piconet schedule and transmitting the data via the second piconet to the other wireless device in accordance with the selected data transmission scheme. |
| US10517107B2 |
Methods, base station, infrastructure node and communications terminal
A method of transmitting data from a first communications terminal to one or more second communications terminals includes receiving from an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network an indication identifying a predetermined pattern of communications resources of a wireless access interface. The wireless access interface provides plural communications resources divided into time divided units. The method also includes transmitting the data in some or all of the predetermined pattern of communications resources to one or more of the second communications terminals in accordance with device to device communications. The predetermined pattern of communications resources is one of plural patterns of communications resources of the wireless access interface for plural of the time divided units. The plural patterns of communications resources are predetermined for a reduction in latency when transmitting the data from the first communications terminal and/or reducing in signalling overhead required to transmit the data. |
| US10517105B1 |
Enhanced LTE retainability when roaming
A device is configured to establish a first roaming network connection to a first roaming network and a second roaming network connection to a second roaming network. The first roaming network has a higher priority than the second roaming network, the second roaming network configured to support a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT, the first RAT having a higher priority than the second RAT. When a current network connection is the second roaming network connection, determining a current RAT used for the second roaming network connection. When the current RAT is the first RAT, determining between an active use state and a non-active use state. When the device is in the active use state, deactivating a capability to reselect to the first roaming network. |
| US10517102B2 |
Methods, network nodes, user equipment, and computer program products for adaptive radio link monitoring
A method for adaptive radio link monitoring RLM) includes a network node obtaining configuration information about a user equipment (UE) receiver configuration associated with a UE, where the UE receiver configuration is implemented by the UE for receiving signals from the network node. The method further includes the network node adapting, based on the obtained configuration information, at least one radio transmission parameter associated with at least one downlink (DL) signal used by the UE for performing the RLM. The method also includes the network node transmitting the at least one DL signal with the adapted at least one parameter to the UE enabling the UE to perform the RLM. |
| US10517101B2 |
Method and apparatus for mitigating signal interference in a feedback system
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process that includes adjusting a filter in electrical communication between an input terminal and a demodulator. The filter is applied to an information bearing signal, e.g., to mitigate interference, received at the input terminal, resulting in a filtered signal. An error signal is received, indicative of errors detected within information obtained by demodulation of a modulated carrier of the filtered signal. A modified filter state is determined in response to the error signal and the filter is adjusted according to the modified filter state, e.g., to improve mitigation of the interference. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10517098B2 |
Interference coordination for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication and wide area network (WAN) communication
Techniques for supporting peer-to-peer (P2P) communication in a wide area network (WAN) are disclosed. In an aspect, interference coordination between P2P devices engaged in P2P communication and WAN devices engaged in WAN communication may be performed based on a network-controlled architecture. For the network-controlled architecture, P2P devices may detect other P2P devices and/or WAN devices and may send measurements (e.g., for pathloss, interference, etc.) for the detected devices to the WAN (e.g., serving base stations). The WAN may perform resource partitioning and/or association for the P2P devices based on the measurements. Association may include selection of P2P communication or WAN communication for a given P2P device. Resource partitioning may include allocation of resources to a group of P2P devices for P2P communication. The WAN may send the results of association and/or resource partitioning to the P2P devices, which may communicate in accordance with the association and/or resource partitioning results. |
| US10517097B2 |
Position information assisted network control
A network controller including processing circuitry may be configured to receive dynamic position information indicative of a three dimensional position of at least one mobile communication node, compare fixed position information indicative of fixed geographic locations of respective access points of a network to the dynamic position information to determine a relative position of the at least one mobile communication node relative to at least one of the access points based on the fixed position information and the dynamic position information, and provide network control instructions to at least one network asset based on the relative position. |
| US10517095B2 |
Communications device, infrastructure equipment, wireless communications network and methods
A user terminal configured to perform communication with an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network. The user terminal including a receiver configured to receive signals transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in accordance with a wireless access interface and a transmitter configured to transit signals to the infrastructure equipment in accordance with the wireless access interface. The user terminal is configured to receive an indication on a downlink of the wireless access interface of one of a plurality of different subcarrier spacing which the communications device should use to transmit or to receive the signals representing the data. |
| US10517094B2 |
Acknowledgement for multiple user communication in a WLAN
An access point generates and transmits, to first client stations and a second client station, a downlink multi-user (MU) physical layer (PHY) data unit having respective media access control (MAC) data units for i) the first client stations and ii) the second client station. The downlink MU PHY data unit includes an indication that the first client stations are to acknowledge the downlink MU PHY data unit in an uplink MU PHY data unit, and indicates that the second client station is to acknowledge the downlink MU PHY data unit in another uplink PHY data unit separate from the uplink MU PHY data unit. The access point receives, from the multiple first client stations, the uplink MU PHY data unit, and polls the second client station to prompt the second client station to acknowledge, in another uplink PHY data unit, that the second client station received the downlink MU PHY data unit. |
| US10517092B1 |
Wireless mesh data network with increased transmission capacity
A method for transmitting node data in a wireless meshed network from a plurality of wireless nodes to at least one consolidating node includes assigning each of the plurality of wireless nodes to one of a plurality of node pools and causing each of the plurality of wireless nodes to transmit node data to one or more other wireless nodes and/or the at least one consolidating node during the assigned time slots. Each wireless node transmits its node data during timeslots which are adjacent to timeslots during which a wireless node from another node pool transmits its node data. The node data for each wireless node includes data originating at the wireless node and node data received from another wireless node of the same node pool which are linearly aggregated using network coding. |
| US10517085B2 |
Method and apparatus for allocating and acquiring ACK/NACK resources in a mobile communication system
A method and apparatus are provided for receiving acknowledgement information by a base station in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting control information for uplink transmission of acknowledgement information, the control information including at least one of information associated with a cyclic shift of a sequence or information for identifying a first resource block (RB) to be used for the uplink transmission of the acknowledgement information; and receiving the acknowledgement information from a user equipment based on the control information. |
| US10517079B2 |
Radio base station and user equipment and methods therein
Embodiments herein include a method in a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink control information in time slots of a subframe over a radio channel to a radio base station. The uplink control information is comprised in a block of bits. The UE maps the block of bits to a sequence of complex valued modulation symbols. The UE block spreads the sequence across Discrete Fourier Transform Spread—Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFTS-OFDM) symbols. This is performed by applying a spreading sequence to the sequence of complex valued modulation symbols, to achieve a block spread sequence of complex valued modulation symbols. The UE further transforms the block-spread sequence, per DFTS-OFDM symbol. This is performed by applying a matrix that depends on a DFTS-OFDM symbol index and/or slot index to the block-spread sequence. The UE also transmits the block spread sequence, as transformed, over the radio channel to the radio base station. |
| US10517077B2 |
Method and apparatus for implementing mobile broadband device service
A method and an apparatus for implementing a mobile broadband device service. The method includes the following steps: obtaining, service information of a mobile broadband device according to a rule set on the host or by calling an application programming interface (API) of a Web server on the mobile broadband device; and when to use a corresponding function of the host for implementing a mobile broadband device service corresponding to the service information, executing, the corresponding function of the host by calling an API provided by an operating system (OS) of the host, to implement the mobile broadband device service. In the embodiments of the present disclosure limitations when the mobile broadband device is managed in the Web manner are reduced, and a capability of managing the mobile broadband device is improved. |
| US10517075B2 |
Angiopoietin-like 4 and a method of its use in wound healing
A method and a pharmaceutical composition for increasing wound healing in an individual in need thereof, the method comprising administering an angiopoietin like 4 (ANGPTL4) polypeptide or a therapeutically active fragment thereof. |
| US10517072B2 |
Autonomous resource selection for vehicle-to-vehicle communications
Various aspects related to selecting a resource selection procedure for V2V communications are described. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for selecting a resource selection procedure for V2V transmissions, is described. The apparatus, e.g., a UE, may be configured to identify that recent sensing history information at the UE is unavailable for a sensing based resource selection procedure. The UE may be further configured to select, in response to identifying that the recent sensing history information is unavailable, a resource selection procedure based on configuration information obtained from a network entity. In various configurations, the UE may select a resource for a V2V transmission based on the resource selection procedure selected based on the configuration information. |
| US10517069B2 |
System information scheduling in machine type communication
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for receiving system information in a wireless communication system including a receiver that receives system information configuration information and receives system information in predetermined subframes of a radio interface, and a controller that determines the predetermined subframes according to the received system information configuration information and controls the receiver to receive the system information in the predetermined subframes, wherein the system information configuration information includes a subframe scheduling field with a plurality of bits, each bit being associated with a subframe and representing whether or not system information is to be received in that subframe. The present disclosure further relates to a corresponding apparatus for transmitting system information and to the respective receiving and transmitting methods. |
| US10517065B2 |
Notifications
A notification of a received communication relating to a communication chain is presented. An input is received in response to that notification. Until a predetermined event occurs, the presentation of at least one type of notification of further received communications relating to that communication chain is suspended in dependence on said input. |
| US10517064B2 |
Data package preparation
Disclosed in this specification is a method comprising inserting an anti-whitened data portion into a data packet that is to be whitened by whitening to yield a whitened data packet for transmission (44) from a first radio communications apparatus (30) to a second radio communications apparatus (10), the anti-whitened data portion having been determined based on anti-whitening data received (43) from the second radio communications apparatus (10) at the first radio communications apparatus, wherein the anti-whitened data portion is obtainable from a specific data block by anti-whitening, the anti-whitening compensating for the whitening so that the whitened data packet comprises the specific data block in non-whitened form. |
| US10517062B2 |
Method for measuring location of user equipment in wireless communication system, and apparatus for performing same
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for measuring a location of a user equipment in a wireless communication system may comprises the steps of: measuring a magnetic field strength at a plurality of points on a trajectory along which the user equipment moves; transmitting, to a network, information including information on the measured magnetic field strength and displacement information indicating a relative location change among the plurality of points; and receiving information associated with the location of the user equipment from the network, wherein the location of the user equipment may be obtained by extracting a location where a magnetic field pattern corresponding to the feedback information appears, from magnetic field data of a three-dimensional space stored in the network. |
| US10517059B2 |
Wireless communication system and method for establishing a connection between user equipment and a mobility management entity thereof
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and method for establishing connection between a User Equipment (UE) and a Mobility Management Entity (MME) in the wireless communication system in which the data-centric terminal requests the mobility management entity for attachment and checks, when the mobility management entity responds, data-centric features supported by the mobility management entity. According to the present invention, it is possible to connect the data-centric terminal to the mobility management entity supporting the data-centric features of the corresponding data-centric terminal efficiently in the wireless communication system. |
| US10517055B2 |
Communication device and communication method
[Object] To provide innovation with respect to which synchronization signal a communication device uses to conduct a synchronization process.[Solution] Provided is a communication device including: a selection unit configured to select a synchronization signal from respective synchronization signals received from two or more other devices on a basis of origin information that is acquired by communication with another device and that indicates an origin of a synchronization signal used for acquisition of synchronization timing in the other device; and a synchronization processing unit configured to acquire synchronization timing using the synchronization signal selected by the selection unit. |
| US10517053B2 |
Radio (NR) wideband sync detection
A network sync signal with unknown frequency location is detected by sampling the received signal over a band of interest in frequency, and over the repetition period of the sync signal in time. The signal is converted to the frequency domain. Sub-bands of the frequency-domain signal, corresponding to different possible sync locations and frequency offsets, are extracted and converted to the time domain, where the sync signal is searched over the reception window length using time-domain matched filtering. |
| US10517052B2 |
Wireless communication equipment and wireless communication method
A wireless communication equipment and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication equipment used for a user equipment side includes one or more processors. The processors are configured to determine indication information about a type of another user equipment carried in a synchronizing signal from the user equipment, the type including a first type and a second type. The processors are also configured to determine, based on the indication information, corresponding device-to-device communication operation of a user equipment aiming at another user equipment. |
| US10517051B2 |
Method for receiving downlink signal by terminal in wireless communication system, and device therefor
Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting a signal to or receiving a signal from a base station by a terminal in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a first packet from the base station; transmitting, to the base station, a negative-ACK(NACK) response to the first packet; receiving a second packet from the base station and determining whether an error has occurred in the NACK response to the first packet; and transmitting, to the base station, information on whether an error has occurred in the NACK response to the first packet. |
| US10517045B2 |
Techniques for power control using carrier aggregation in wireless communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for managing transmissions using multiple component carriers (CCs) in which transmissions using one or more of the CCs may span less than a full transmission time of a slot or other transmission time interval. A UE may signal a capability to transmit such transmissions, and one or more capabilities related to carrier aggregation that may be used by a base station for scheduling of transmissions on different CCs. In the event that overlapping transmissions on two or more CCs exceed a maximum power threshold, various techniques for dropping at least a portion of one or more transmissions of one or more CCs are described. |
| US10517042B2 |
CMAS alert procedures over Wi-Fi for low power devices
Distributing indications of emergency messages via Wi-Fi. A cellular device may temporarily disable its cellular modem. The cellular device may receive an indication over Wi-Fi that an emergency message has been broadcast. In response, the cellular device may activate its cellular modem and retrieve the emergency message via a cellular network. |
| US10517038B2 |
Method and device for generating access point attribute information of wireless access point
A method and device for generating access point attribute information about a wireless access point is provided. The method includes obtaining an attribute operation by a user on a wireless access point, and determining access point attribute information about the wireless access point according to the attribute operation. Based on an attribute operation submitted by UGC of a large number of users on a wireless access point, and then by determining access point attribute information about the wireless access point according to the attribute operation, such as an acceptation/correction/complaint operation on an attribute of an access point, lots of accurate and reliable access point attribute information can be automatically accumulated, without the work of collecting the access point attribute information offline in a labor-consuming and time-consuming manner, constructing, without any costs, an accurate, comprehensive and valuable vast-hotpot-information library for big data mining, and enhancing the user experience. |
| US10517037B2 |
Network access method and mobile communications terminal
Disclosed are a network access method and a mobile communications terminal. The method comprises: determining a network standard supported by a mobile communications terminal; adding to an equivalent public land mobile network (EPLMN) the network identifier of a public land mobile network (PLMN) of the determined network standard supported by the mobile communications terminal; if a PLMN matching the network identifier of the EPLMN is discovered by searching, then establishing a communications connection between the mobile communications terminal and the matching PLMN. |
| US10517036B2 |
Method and user equipment for blocking network access by ACDC
A disclosure of the present specification provides a network access blocking method performed by a user equipment. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving application specific congestion control for data communication (ACDC) blocking information and access class barring (ACB) blocking information; determining the category of an application being executed according to a network access attempt by the application; performing an ACDC blocking check on the basis of the determined category and the received ACDC blocking information. Here, when the network access attempt by the application is not blocked as a result of the ACDC blocking check, an ACB blocking check on the basis of the ACB blocking information may be skipped. |
| US10517035B2 |
Connectivity using a geographic phone number
Techniques for connectivity using a geographic phone number are described. According to various implementations, techniques described herein enable various policies pertaining to the use of telephone numbers at different locations to be enforced. For instance, techniques described herein enable a client device that is outside of a permitted geographic area for a geographic phone number to use a non-geographic phone number to connect a call, while the call can be routed using the geographic phone number. |
| US10517034B2 |
Uplink-aware serving cell selection
An example method comprises receiving an event notification from a cell in a current set of a user equipment, the event notification indicating an uplink signal strength from the user equipment to the cell relative to a threshold; and designating the cell as being either a viable candidate or not a viable candidate to be a serving cell based on the uplink signal strength relative to the threshold. |
| US10517031B2 |
User apparatus, base station, cell selection control method, and parameter transmission method
A user apparatus in a mobile communication system including a base station and the user apparatus, including: reception means that receives, from the base station, a parameter for all symbols that is used when performing cell selection processing or cell reselection processing based on all symbol signal reception quality that is signal reception quality based on measurement in all OFDM symbols; and cell selection control means that performs measurement of the all symbol signal reception quality, and performs cell selection processing or cell reselection processing by using a result of the measurement and the parameter for all symbols received by the reception means. |
| US10517028B2 |
Method and system of managing voice call and IP media sessions in a wireless network environment
A user equipment (UE) and an operating method of the UE in a communication system are provided. The method includes registering the UE through a first cell using a first access technology; detecting a second cell using a second access technology; receiving a first data through the first cell using the first access technology; and receiving a second data through a second cell using the second access technology, wherein the first cell and the second cell are simultaneously active for the UE, and at least one of the first data and the second data is selectively received through at least one of the first cell and the second cell. |
| US10517018B2 |
Load balancing for a cloud-based Wi-Fi controller based on local conditions
Load balancing for cloud-based monitoring of Wi-Fi devices on local access networks is based on local conditions. Requests for connection are received from Wi-Fi devices of the plurality of WLANs exceed a threshold. An indication of at least one condition for each of the WLANs is also received either with the connection request or separately. Example conditions include, without limitation, a number of local connections, network security breaches, guaranteed service levels, local latency or congestion, power outages or reboots, and the like. In response, at least one Wi-Fi device is prioritized and scheduled based on a corresponding at least one condition. |
| US10517016B2 |
Method for determining size of transmission block of uplink signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
A method for transmitting, by a terminal, a high-speed uplink signal to a base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Specifically, the method for transmitting a high-speed uplink signal comprises the steps of: setting a plurality of resource blocks as a resource pool for transmitting a high-speed uplink signal through an upper layer signal; selecting at least one resource block from the resource pool; and transmitting the high-speed uplink signal including a transmission block on the selected resource block to a base station, wherein the size of the transmission block is determined on the basis of the number of the selected resource blocks. |
| US10517014B2 |
Controlling performance of a wireless device in a heterogeneous network
A method of controlling performance of a wireless device is performed by a node that is in electronic communication with a cellular network. The node includes a processor, a non-transitory memory, and a network interface. The method includes receiving a performance value characterizing a performance of a communication channel between a wireless device and a wireless access point. In some implementations, the wireless device and the cellular network are associated with different radio access technologies (RATs). The method includes determining whether the performance value breaches a performance criterion for the wireless device. The method includes adjusting a first amount of data transmitted to the wireless device from a base station of the cellular network and a second amount of data transmitted to the wireless device from the wireless access point. In some implementations, the combined first and second amounts of data satisfy the performance criterion for the wireless device. |
| US10517008B2 |
Apparatus
To make it possible to increase opportunities for terminal apparatuses to receive multicast signals. There is provided an apparatus, including: a first control unit configured to select a first frequency band which is a frequency band for a cellular system and a second frequency band which is not the frequency band for the cellular system when a terminal apparatus is in an idle mode; and a second control unit configured to control the terminal apparatus such that, when the terminal apparatus is in the idle mode, the terminal apparatus receives a paging message transmitted in the first frequency band and receives a multicast signal transmitted in the second frequency band. |
| US10517002B2 |
User equipment (UE) indication of coverage mismatch between common search space (CSS) and user-specific search space (USS) for remaining minimum system information (RMSI) delivery
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for identifying a mismatch between a user's common search space (CSS) and user-specific search space (USS). A base station (BS) may receive an indication that a user equipment (UE) decoded at least one beamformed signal transmitted by the BS in a USS and did not decode at least one beamformed signal transmitted by the BS in a CSS. The BS may take one or more actions based, at least in part, on the indication. Similarly, a UE may decode at least one beamformed signal transmitted by a BS in a USS, transmit to the BS an indication that the UE decoded the at least one beamformed signal transmitted in the USS and did not decode at least one beamformed signal transmitted by the BS in a CSS, and take one or more actions based, at least in part, on the indication. |
| US10517001B2 |
Single radio switching between multiple wireless links
A computing device (such as a computer gaming console) uses only a single radio to concurrently communicate with a wireless network access point and wireless client devices such as game controllers or peripherals. To establish and maintain both a high-throughput link with the access point, and a low-latency link with the client device(s), the single Wi-Fi radio of the computing device is configured to periodically switch between a channel used for the high-throughput link and a different channel that is used for the low-latency link—thus implementing a combination of frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and time division multiplexing (TDM). The console may use aspects of the Wi-Fi protocol standard to ensure that periodically switching its single radio between the two channels is accomplished while maintaining reliable communication on both channels. |
| US10517000B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing beamforming operation in millimeter wave communication system
An apparatus and a method for performing a beamforming operation in an access point (AP) in a millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting a directional reference signal (RS) in an RS transmission (Tx) interval, and transmitting a training signal in an interval different from an interval during which the directional RS is transmitted in the RS Tx interval based on beamforming patterns supported in the AP, wherein a length of the training signal is shorter than a length of the directional RS. The apparatus and the method relate to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). |
| US10516999B1 |
Systems and methods for self-organizing network provisioning based on signal path image
A computer system may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to obtain image data relating to a path of Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) wireless signals sent or received by a base station; analyze the obtained image data to identify sources of interference for the 5G NR wireless signals; and estimate a quality of the 5G NR wireless signals along the path based on the identified sources of interference. The processor may be further configured to determine that the estimated quality of the 5G NR wireless signals is less than a quality threshold; generate a recommendation for a self-organizing network (SON) action relating to the base station, based on determining that the estimated quality of the 5G NR wireless signals is less than the quality threshold; and perform the SON action relating to the base station based on the generated recommendation. |
| US10516995B2 |
Communication apparatus
A communication apparatus may receive a first specific signal including a specific wireless identifier from an external apparatus; determine whether the specific wireless identifier is a first wireless identifier; in a case where it is determined that the specific wireless identifier is the first wireless identifier, shift an operating state of the communication apparatus to one state of a first parent state and a child state, and form the first wireless network to which both the communication apparatus and the external apparatus belong. In a case where it is determined that the specific wireless identifier is not the first wireless identifier, the communication apparatus is maintained in a first non-belonging state. The communication apparatus may receive specific wireless setting information from the external apparatus by using the first wireless network; and belong to the specific wireless network by using the specific wireless setting information. |
| US10516991B2 |
Wireless device, network node, and methods and computer programs for the same
There is provided a method of a wireless terminal arranged to operate in a communication network including communication capabilities according to a first radio access technology, RAT, and a second RAT with the wireless terminal. The method comprises transmitting data to a network node of the communication network or connected to the communication network via a connection using the first RAT. The data enables the network node to determine information about a position of the wireless terminal. The method further comprises receiving a set of parameters from the network node via the connection using the first RAT. The set of parameters is related to any of cell search and system information search for the second RAT. The method further comprises performing cell search or system information search for the second RAT based on the set of parameters. A network node for providing the set of parameters is also disclosed, as well as such wireless device, network node, and computer programs for implementing the methods in such wireless device and network node. |
| US10516987B2 |
Discovery method and device
The present invention discloses a discovery method and device, and relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, to resolve a problem that existing two communication parties cannot accurately discover each other, and then it cannot be ensured that the two communication parties perform service communication in a Prose manner. The method provided in the present invention includes: sending a discovery message, where the discovery message includes application layer identifier information of a discovery target, and the discovery target is at least one target user or at least one communications group of a first user that uses the first MCPTT UE; and receiving a response message sent by second MCPTT UE, where the response message includes a layer 2 identifier of the second MCPTT UE and an application layer identifier of a user that uses the second MCPTT UE. |
| US10516983B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for emergency responses and safety
Systems, devices, and methods for emergency responses are provided. A client device can be provided with a response to an emergency via a networked system that can determine that the client device is located with a defined area of coverage, and can route a call session to a answering platform associated with answering station device that can facilitate a facilitate a safety service. Client devices located outside the coverage area can be directed to communicate via a call to 911. |
| US10516978B1 |
Network based carrier managed long-term evolution advanced device indication for long-term evolution or other next generation network
Tracking areas that comprise service cells capable of providing advanced long-term evolution (LTE-A) features, can be utilized to indicate to a mobile device that the mobile device can access the advanced features. For example, an LTE-A capable mobile device can display an LTE-A icon if the mobile device is in a geographic area that qualifies as an LTE-A tracking area. However, if the mobile device is not capable of receiving LTE-A services, then the mobile device can display an LTE icon instead of an LTE-A icon. |
| US10516976B2 |
Mobile device with applications that use a common place card to display data relating to a location
Some embodiments provide a mobile computing device that includes a number of applications having a common display area to display data relating to a location. In some embodiments, the common display area is a unified display area to display different types of data. The different types of data can include information regarding the location, multimedia associated with the location, user feedbacks regarding the location, a catalog associated with the location, social network data, etc. In some embodiments, the unified common display area is also referred to as a place card because it presents data relating to a place. |
| US10516975B2 |
Enhanced messaging using environmental information
Techniques for acquiring, sending, receiving or using status information from a remote location over a network are disclosed. The status information is transmitted over the network between or among electronic devices. The status information can be provided by one or more sensors associated with the electronic device that is transmitting the status information. The status information can be transmitted with messages so as to enhance the messages. On receipt, the status information can be presented in an audio manner. The electronic devices include at least computing devices, such as computers, personal digital assistants, pagers, and mobile telephones. |
| US10516974B2 |
Method for equipment networking and outputting by equipment, and equipment
Disclosed are methods for equipment networking, and equipment. Equipment acquires at least one of first information indicating a state of the equipment or second information indicating a state of peer equipment. The equipment determines whether a pre-set condition is met by at least one of the first information or the second information. When the pre-set condition is met by at least one of the first information or the second information, the equipment forms a group with the peer equipment. The equipment monitors data characterizing a signal transmitted by the peer equipment. When a first pre-set condition is not met by the data characterizing the signal transmitted by the peer equipment, the equipment quits the group formed with the peer equipment. |
| US10516972B1 |
Employing an alternate identifier for subscription access to mobile location information
Access to location information related to mobile devices is disclosed. A component can receive a subscription request comprising an alternate identity corresponding to a primary identity and related to returning location related data associated with a set of network event locating system (NELOS) information. NELOS information can be received from a NELOS component and can be derived from timed fingerprint location (TFL) information associated with a user equipment (UE). TFL information and NELOS information can be distinct from location information determined from conventional techniques that can provide for additional benefit. The subscription request can indicate continuing access to location information without subsequent requests. Moreover, access can be via a push of information to a subscribing device. |
| US10516969B2 |
Mobile application for an amusement park or waterpark
A mobile application for execution upon an electronic device for an amusement park or waterpark. The mobile application provides information, entertainment or other convenience data to the user while the user is within the park. The mobile application may be configured to determine a position of the electronic device within the park and display notifications including discounts at nearby vendors or restaurants, menus of nearby eateries, or ride recommendations based upon wait times. The mobile application may allow the user to make reservations at nearby restaurants within the park. The mobile application may generate an efficient ride sequence for the user based upon characteristics of either the user or the user's participation within the park and navigate the user around the park according to the ride sequence. Puzzles, games, or other entertainment or educational activities may be displayed to the user for providing rewards based upon their participation. |
| US10516968B2 |
Techniques for determining a position fix of an object using one or more mobile devices co-located with the object
Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for combining observations obtained at two different mobile devices attached to a human user for performing a navigation operation. For example, observations of a signal acquired at a first mobile device may be selected for computing a position fix based, at least in part, on a utility indicator associated with the observations. |
| US10516967B2 |
Method for requesting transportation services
A method for safely and efficiently requesting transportation services through the use of mobile communications devices capable of geographic location is described. Individual and package transportation may be provided. New customers may be efficiently serviced, and the requester and transportation provider locations may be viewed in real time on the mobile devices. |
| US10516963B2 |
Adjusting the perceived elevation of an audio image on a solid cinema screen
Techniques are disclosed for an audiovisual system having a display screen that is solid and/or otherwise non-transparent to sound. The sound output from a loudspeaker is oriented to intersect with a portion of the display screen, and a reflection of the sound off of the display screen is directed toward a viewing position in the audiovisual system. Further signal processing techniques to generate sound for output by a loudspeaker oriented at the display screen and other loudspeakers are disclosed. Additionally, other signal processing and control techniques are disclosed that affect audio and video output in the audiovisual system. |
| US10516960B2 |
Automatic speaker relative location detection
An audio speaker system for a home theater including a number of microphones, a number of speakers, each speaker located at a different location in a room, and a processor electrically connected to the plurality of microphones and wirelessly connected to the plurality of speakers. The processor is configured to generate an audio signal to send to each speaker of the plurality of speakers, output audio from each speaker of the plurality of speakers based on the audio signal, receive the audio at each microphone from each speaker of the plurality of speakers, determine a location of each speaker relative to the plurality of microphones based on the received audio at each microphone, and assign an audio channel to each speaker based on the determined location. |
| US10516959B1 |
Methods and systems for extended reality audio processing and rendering for near-field and far-field audio reproduction
An exemplary extended reality audio processing system (“processing system”) and an exemplary extended reality audio rendering system (“rendering system”) are disclosed to interoperate with one another to perform near-field and far-field audio reproduction. The processing system accesses audio data representative of virtual sound presented, within an extended reality world, to an avatar of a user experiencing the extended reality world. Based on the audio data, the processing system generates complementary first and second multi-channel audio data streams configured, in combination, to represent the virtual sound. The processing system directs the rendering system to concurrently render the complementary multi-channel audio data streams for the user by directing a near-field rendering system included within the rendering system to render the first multi-channel audio data stream, and directing a far-field rendering system included within the rendering system to render the second multi-channel audio data stream. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. |
| US10516956B2 |
Failure detection device, failure detection system, and failure detection method
A failure detection device for detecting a failure of a sound generating device outputting a sound based on sound data from a speaker includes: an electronic watermark signal generating unit configured to generate an electronic watermark signal including collation data used for collation of whether or not a sound is output from the speaker; the speaker configured to output the electronic watermark signal as a sound; a microphone configured to collect the sound output from the speaker; a collation data detection unit configured to detect the collation data from the electronic watermark signal included in the sound collected by the microphone; and a failure determination unit configured to determine the presence or absence of the failure of the sound generating device by collating the collation data detected by the collation data detection unit with the collation data included in the electronic watermark signal. |
| US10516954B2 |
Hearing aid for placement at an ear of a user
This disclosure relates to a hearing aid for placement on head of a user comprising a first second part. The first part may comprise an acoustic input transducer adapted to convert ambient sound picked up at the ear of the user to an electric signal, a signal processor adapted to process the electric signal according to specifications of user into a processed electric signal, and an output transducer adapted to covert the processed electric signal into a transmission signal, The second part may comprise an anchor adapted to fixate said second part under the skin to skull bone of the user, and a receiver adapted to receive the transmission signal and convert the transmission signal to an output signal perceivable as sound by the user. The first part may comprise an inner recess adapted to receive an insert element, where the insert element may comprise a first magnet adapted to in cooperation with the second part to cause the first part to attach to the head of the user. |
| US10516949B2 |
Optical electro-mechanical hearing devices with separate power and signal components
A device to transmit an audio signal comprises at least one light source configured to transmit the audio signal with at least one wavelength of light. At least one detector is configured to detect the audio signal and generate at least one electrical signal in response to the at least one wavelength of light. A transducer is supported with and configured to vibrate at least one of an eardrum, an ossicle or a cochlea. Active circuitry is coupled to the transducer to drive the transducer in response to the at least one electrical signal, so as to provide the user with high quality sound. |
| US10516944B2 |
Sound output apparatus and sound output method
A sound output apparatus includes a touchscreen, a vibrator and a controller. The vibrator produces sound by causing vibration of the touchscreen based on a sound signal. The controller (a) performs a predetermined control of the sound signal while contact of an operation body with the touchscreen is being detected by the touchscreen, and (b) does not perform the predetermined control of the sound signal while contact of an operation body with the touchscreen is not detected by the touchscreen. |
| US10516943B2 |
Microelectromechanical device, an array of microelectromechanical devices, a method of manufacturing a microelectromechanical device, and a method of operating a microelectromechanical device
Aspects of a microelectromechanical device, an array of microelectromechanical devices, a method of manufacturing a microelectromechanical device, and a method of operating a microelectromechanical device, are discussed herein. The microelectromechanical device may include: a substrate; a diaphragm mechanically coupled to the substrate, the diaphragm comprising a stressed region to buckle the diaphragm into one of two geometrically stable positions; an actuator mechanically coupled to the diaphragm, the actuator comprising a piezoelectric layer over the diaphragm; a controller configured to provide an electrical control signal in response to a digital sound input; wherein the actuator is configured to receive the electrical control signal to exert a mechanical piezoelectric force on the diaphragm via the piezoelectric layer to move the diaphragm to create a sound wave. |
| US10516942B2 |
Electronic circuit for a microphone and microphone
An electronic circuit for a microphone and a microphone are disclosed. In an embodiment, the electronic circuit includes a sigma-delta modulator having a configurable resolution and a mode selector, wherein the sigma-delta modulator is selectively operable in at least two operation modes and the mode selector is configured to determine a desired operation mode dependent on an externally provided control signal and to select the resolution of the sigma-delta modulator according to the determined operation mode. |
| US10516941B2 |
Reducing instantaneous wind noise
Wind noise reduction is provided by obtaining a first signal from a first microphone and a contemporaneous second signal from a second microphone. A level of the first signal is compared to a level of the second signal, within a short or substantially instantaneous time frame. If the level of the first signal exceeds the level of the second signal by greater than a predefined difference threshold, a suppression is applied to the first signal. |
| US10516938B2 |
System and method for assessing speaker spatial orientation
System and method for assessing speaker spatial orientation are provided. For example, audio data, as well as input from other sensors, may be analyzed to assess speaker spatial orientation. For example, the audio data may be analyzed to determine that two speakers are engaged in conversation. relative direction of one speaker with respect to the other may be obtained. Spatial orientation of at least one of the speakers may be obtained. The spatial orientation may be assessed according to the relative direction and the determination that the two speakers are engaged in conversation. Feedbacks and reports may be provided based on the assessed speaker spatial orientation. |
| US10516935B2 |
Hybrid transducer
A first acoustic transducer has an armature, and the armature moves within a magnetic field. The first transducer also comprises a first coil. A second acoustic transducer has a first outer circumferential edge and an inner circumferential edge. A housing includes at least portions of the first transducer and the second transducer. The first transducer is disposed at least partially within the cavity and within the inner circumferential edge of the second transducer. The first coil is fixed in space relative to the housing. |
| US10516934B1 |
Beamforming using an in-ear audio device
A beamformer system includes an in-ear audio device, such as an earbud, that has three microphones. Two microphones may be disposed on an external face of the audio-device; one microphone may be disposed in or near the ear canal of a user. Data from two microphones is phase-adjusted and combined; a reference signal is generated by phase-adjusting and removing data from the two microphones from data from a third microphone. The combined data is filtered using the reference signal to remove any residual echo, and the resulting data may be used for communications, speech processing, or other uses. |
| US10516933B2 |
Headset with optical microphone signal transmission
A headset for voice communication is provided comprising an earphone unit having a speaker, a microphone boom comprising one or more microphones wherein the microphone boom is rotatably interconnected with the earphone unit to allow for 360 degrees rotation. The microphone signals are transmitted from the microphone boom to the earphone unit via an optical transceiving unit having a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the microphone boom comprises the transmitter and the earphone unit comprises the receiver. The transmitter comprises a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal and a first processor configured to receive the microphone signals and to encode the clock signal into the microphone signals to form a first communication signal, and wherein the receiver comprises a clock re-generating unit for regenerating the clock signal, and a second processor for decoding the first communication signal according to the re-generated clock signal, and wherein the decoded microphone signals are provided to an electronic circuit in the earphone unit. |
| US10516927B2 |
Acoustic parabolic mirror ring apparatus
An apparatus for enhancing microphone performance of a voice-controlled smart home device is disclosed. The apparatus generally comprises a lower ring having a first diameter an upper ring having a second diameter and a reflective surface. The reflective surface is disposed along the perimeter of the apparatus so as to directionally alter incoming sound waves and focus them toward an array of microphones. |
| US10516924B2 |
Torsion spring ceiling grill
A torsion spring ceiling grill that is reconfigurable to adapt smoothly to various thicknesses of ceiling tiles. The ceiling tile has an opening to which a grill plate and a backing plate correspond. The grill plate attaches to the backing plate via the torsion springs, clamping the ceiling tile in between. The torsion spring assemblies can be reconfigured by repositioning an axle of each torsion spring assembly in its respective slot in vertical spring support panels of the grill plate. The torsion spring assemblies can be releasably secured at any position along the slot. The backing plate has spring-receiving openings on a top horizontal panel that extends out over the opening in the ceiling tile to receive arms of the torsion springs. Arms of the torsion springs may be bound by a severable connector which is severed by a blade above the top horizontal panel during installation. |
| US10516921B1 |
Optical line terminal for providing management function emulating virtual chassis switch for fiber local area network system
Disclosed is a new advance in a network management function of an optical time terminal (OLT). A virtual switch management program is running on the disclosed OLT. The virtual switch management program provides a switch management environment for a single chassis-based Ethernet switch with a plurality of port extender cards corresponding to the optical network terminals and being mounted thereon through a management terminal. The virtual switch management program receives a switch management command for each port extender through the management terminal and outputs a fiber LAN management command corresponding to the switch management command to an optical network terminal corresponding to each port extender. |
| US10516920B2 |
Power tool and method for wireless communication
A power tool having multiple wireless communication states and a method of wirelessly communicating by a power tool. The power tool includes a motor, a battery pack interface that selectively receives a battery pack, a backup power source, and a wireless communication controller coupled to the backup power source and the battery pack interface. The wireless communication controller operates in a connectable state when coupled to a battery pack and transmits tool operational data to the external device and receives tool configuration data from the external device. The wireless communication controller operates in an advertisement state when the wireless communication controller is coupled to and powered by the backup power source. In the advertisement state, the wireless communication controller is configured to transmit the unique tool identifier. The external device may also display an indication of the communication state of the power tool. |
| US10516918B2 |
System and method for audio visual content creation and publishing within a controlled environment
Methods and systems for providing content creation and content publishing in a controlled environment are disclosed herein. A media management device receives an audio track including lyrical content. Further, the media management device performs speech recognition analysis on the audio track to determine lyrical text corresponding to the lyrical content. Additionally, the media management device determines whether the audio track contains prohibited content based on comparing the lyrical text to a blacklist of prohibited information. When the audio track does not include prohibited content, the media management device publishes the audio track to a media library accessible to devices within the controlled environment. |
| US10516916B2 |
Method of processing video data, device, computer program product, and data construct
The invention relates to a method of processing video data, a device (102) and a computer program product for implementing said method, and a data construct including video data processed by said method. The method processes unprocessed video data into processed video data, said unprocessed video data being provided by picking up (112) sequential images of a situation or scene (100), and includes the steps of: applying a motion and gesture recognition technology (114) in real time to said situation or scene; identifying undesirable image contents contained in said unprocessed video data, based on a result of said motion and gesture recognition, said undesirable image contents preferably including inappropriate body expression (128-132) such as obscene gestures or indecent exposures, and providing content information relating to any identified undesirable image contents; and using said content information to produce said processed video data. |
| US10516904B2 |
Controlling delivery of requested content based on delivery bandwidth limitations
A device, computer readable medium, system and method for overcoming bandwidth limitations is disclosed for determining that a bandwidth limitation is related to preventing delivery of content, identifying a version of the content capable of being transmitted over a lower bandwidth, querying a device requesting delivery of the content for an indication of acceptability of a lower bandwidth version of the content instead of a higher bandwidth version, and based on an affirmative response to the querying, causing delivery of the lower bandwidth version. |
| US10516901B2 |
Method and apparatus for advanced audio/video stream management to increase advertising opportunity
A system includes a processor configured to store a buffer of accelerable broadcast content. The processor is also configured to determine that a predefined condition exists, defining a situation where content acceleration is appropriate. The processor is further configured to determine a broadcast content playback point where content should be accelerated and playback a predetermined portion of the buffer at a predefined accelerated pace, responsive to reaching the playback point. |
| US10516899B2 |
Television with interactive portal and system and method for use of same
A television with an interactive portal and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the television, the television is deployed to provide an interactive portal in a hospitality establishment having multiple rooms, such as a hotel. The television is associated with a room and includes a housing that secures a processor, memory, tuner, panel, and audio driver in an interconnected architecture. The television generates a guest interactive portal as well as a housekeeping interactive portal for a guest and housekeeper, respectively. Each of the portals provides relevant feedback on the condition of the room to a server associated with the hotel. |
| US10516897B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method using prediction block and apparatus for same
According to the present invention, an image encoding/decoding method comprises the steps of: performing an intra prediction on a current block so as to generate a prediction block; performing filtering on a filtering target pixel in the prediction block on the basis of the intra prediction mode of the current block so as to generate a final prediction block; and generating a reconstructed block on the basis of a reconstructed differential block corresponding to the current block and on the final prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved. |
| US10516896B2 |
Encoding device, encoding method, and storage medium
An encoding device that performs an encoding process on a moving image by using motion estimation according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a framerate of the moving image; a setting unit that performs setting of the number of reference frames on each frame of the moving image in accordance with the framerate; and an estimation unit that performs the motion estimation by using a frame to be encoded and a reference frame acquired based on the setting, and the setting unit performs the setting such that the number of reference frames is smaller when the framerate is higher. |
| US10516892B2 |
Initial bandwidth estimation for real-time video transmission
A method for initial estimation of bandwidth for real-time video transmission is disclosed herein. The method comprises determining a round trip delay between a video sender and a video receiver, transmitting, by the sender starting from a first point in time, a series of data packets having a packet size based on a predetermined encoder bitrate, receiving, by the sender and at a second point in time, a message from the receiver, wherein the received message comprises a parameter indicative of a total number of bits received by the receiver, determining, by the sender using a processor, an initial estimated bandwidth, based on the received parameter, the first and second points in time, and the round trip delay, and transmitting, to the receiver, a video bitstream using the initial estimated bandwidth. The method can be implemented during a process of establishing a call between the sender and the receiver. |
| US10516890B2 |
Accelerating machine optimisation processes
A method for training learned hierarchical algorithms, the method comprising the steps of receiving input data and generating metrics from the input data. At least one hierarchical algorithm is then selected from a plurality of predetermined hierarchical algorithms based on comparing the generated metrics from the input data and like metrics for each of the plurality of predetermined hierarchical algorithms. The selected hierarchical algorithm is developed based on the input data and the developed hierarchical algorithm is outputted. |
| US10516889B2 |
High precision up-sampling in scalable coding of high bit-depth video
The precision of up-sampling operations in a layered coding system is preserved when operating on video data with high bit-depth. In response to bit-depth requirements of the video coding or decoding system, scaling and rounding parameters are determined for a separable up-scaling filter. Input data are first filtered across a first spatial direction using a first rounding parameter to generate first up-sampled data. First intermediate data are generated by scaling the first up-sampled data using a first shift parameter. The intermediate data are then filtered across a second spatial direction using a second rounding parameter to generate second up-sampled data. Second intermediate data are generated by scaling the second up-sampled data using a second shift parameter. Final up-sampled data may be generated by clipping the second intermediate data. |
| US10516878B1 |
Stereoscopic viewer
Features for a lightweight stereoscopic viewing client are described. The client can generate accurate ground point coordinates from selections within the lightweight viewer by accumulating the transformations from original image sources to the images used to render the stereoscopic scene to accurately predict error for a point selection. The viewer may also be decoupled from a permanent image store allowing on-demand retrieval of images via a network for stereoscopic viewing. |
| US10516872B2 |
Digital enveloping for digital right management and re-broadcasting
An apparatus includes a memory storing a digital envelope and a wavefront demultiplexing (WFD) device which receives M input streams concurrently, M being an integer greater than 1, performs a WFD transformation on the M input streams, and generates M output streams concurrently. A first input stream includes wavefront multiplexed digital identifiers for digital right management. A second input stream is the digital envelope. The first input stream presented in a digital format appears to human perception as having identical features to the digital envelope presented in the digital format. Each output stream is a linear combination of the M input streams such that the digital identifiers are recovered from at least one of the M output streams. The digital envelope is a data file used by a sender to send the M input streams and is scaled with a magnification factor greater than 1 in the WFD transformation. |
| US10516867B2 |
Color conversion device, display device including the same, and method of converting color
A color conversion device includes a conversion determination module which receives input image data including a plurality of pixel data, and to determine whether a dominant color of an input image represented by the input image data is within a predetermined color conversion region, a color conversion module which performs color conversion on pixel data representing a color within the color conversion region among the plurality of pixel data when the dominant color of the input image is within the color conversion region, and a luminance conversion module which performs luminance conversion on pixel data representing a luminance within a predetermined middle luminance region among the pixel data on which the color conversion is performed. |
| US10516865B2 |
Endoscopic image enhancement using contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) implemented in a processor
Systems and methods of enhancing images use a contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) algorithm in a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The images may be obtained by the imaging elements of a multiple imaging elements endoscope of an endoscopy system. |
| US10516864B2 |
Projector system
Cameras that are four imagers that form an imaging system are so configured as to be capable of acquiring parallax information based on two sets of parallax images that differ from each other in terms of imaging range for acquisition of the parallax information with the inter-camera distance reduced. The acquired parallax information is used to detect a pointing element on an irradiated region that is a projection screen to achieve interactive image projection. |
| US10516861B2 |
Image sensor for improving depth of field of image, and method for operating same
An image sensor included in a camera system comprises: a plurality of photodiodes for processing optical signals which have passed through a lens included in the camera system; and at least one mask, disposed on the top of at least one photodiode among the plurality of photodiodes, for enabling the optical signals which have passed through an inner region of the lens included in the camera system to enter the at least one photodiode. |
| US10516860B2 |
Image processing method, storage medium, and terminal
The present disclosure provides an image processing method, device, terminal, and storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an RGB-NIR image sensor replacing a G component in a Bayer RGGB mode with an NIR component; using the RGB-NIR image sensor to obtain an RGB-NIR RAW image; and obtaining an RGB image and a near-infrared (NIR) image by demosaicing the RGB-NIR RAW image based on a vector median method. |
| US10516859B2 |
Solid-state image sensor and electronic device
The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensor and an electronic device that can expand a dynamic range while suppressing degradation of image quality.A solid-state image sensor includes a pixel unit in which basic pattern pixel groups are arranged, each of the basic pattern pixel groups having output pixels of a plurality of colors arranged according to a predetermined pattern, the output pixel being a pixel based on an output unit of a pixel signal, the output pixel of at least one color among the output pixels having three or more types of sizes, and a signal processing unit configured to perform synthesis processing for a plurality of the pixel signals from a plurality of the output pixels having a same color and different sizes. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor. |
| US10516858B2 |
Monitoring system, monitoring method, and program
A plurality of fixed cameras installed in a driving area on a highway and a server device are connected via a network NW. The server device displays the captured images of the fixed cameras on the fixed camera monitor and requests camera position information and zooming position information to respective fixed cameras in response to occurrence of a traffic accident or the like in the driving area. In response to this request, the fixed cameras transmit the camera position information and the zooming position information to the server device. Based on camera position information and zooming position information, the server device derives the occurrence position of a traffic accident or the like, instructs a predetermined drone to capture the image around the occurrence position such as a traffic accident, and displays the captured image transmitted from the drone on a drone monitor. |
| US10516854B2 |
Underwater camera assembly
An underwater camera assembly is configured to be dragged behind a boat underwater. The camera assembly includes a housing having a hollow interior that is configured to hold a camera in waterproof manner. The camera assembly includes at least one rail disposed along an outer surface of the housing and being configured to slidingly receive and interlockingly engage a first accessory (camera positioning fin). The camera assembly can further include a second accessory (trolling fin) that is also interlockingly, yet releasably, engaged to the housing. |
| US10516850B2 |
Method and system for recalling and replaying content during a communications session
Methods and apparatus for recalling and replaying content during a communications session are provided herein. In some embodiments, methods for replaying content during a communications session may comprise detecting a real-time communications session between two or more participant devices, storing content of the communications session transmitted between the two or more participant devices as the real-time communications session persists, receiving a control request from a first participant device of the two or more participants devices to replay a portion of the content; and transmitting the portion of the content to at least one of the participant devices as the real-time communications session persists. |
| US10516845B2 |
Sensors and systems for the capture of scenes and events in space and time
Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods including a light sensor. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes an image sensing array region, a first photosensor having a light-sensitive region outside of the image sensing array region, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is arranged in a first mode to read out image data from the image sensing array region, where the data provide information indicative of an image incident on the image sensing array region of the integrated circuit. The control circuitry is arranged in a second mode to read out a signal from the first photosensor indicative of intensity of light incident on the light-sensitive region of the first photosensor. Electrical power consumed by the integrated circuit during the second mode is at least ten times lower than electrical power consumed by the integrated circuit during the first mode. Additional methods and apparatuses are described. |
| US10516842B2 |
Driving method of semiconductor device and electronic device
A driving method of a semiconductor device that takes three-dimensional images with short duration is provided. In a first step, a light source starts to emit light, and first potential corresponding to the total amount of light received by a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element is written to a first charge accumulation region. In a second step, the light source stops emitting light and second potential corresponding to the total amount of light received by the first photoelectric conversion element and the second photoelectric conversion element is written to a second charge accumulation region. In a third step, first data corresponding to the potential written to the first charge accumulation region is read. In a fourth step, second data corresponding to the potential written to the second charge accumulation region is read. |
| US10516839B2 |
Image sensor, imaging method, and electronic apparatus
The present technology relates to an image sensor, an imaging method, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of improving the image quality. It includes a plurality of signal lines for reading signals from pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, each of the plurality of signal lines being provided for one column of pixels, and a fixing unit configured to fix the potential of the plurality of signal lines to a predetermined potential, is started. The fixing unit fixes the potential of the plurality of signal lines before an operation of resetting the pixel. It is possible to fix the potential of the signal line to a predetermined potential before reading of the signal from the pixel, and to prevent the image quality from degrading due to the discrepancy in the potential when reading is started. |
| US10516837B2 |
Shading correction apparatus and method for operating shading correction apparatus
A correction plate has the same plane size as a small region obtained by equally dividing an image detection region. In addition, the correction plates whose number is equal to the number of small regions are prepared. In a maintenance mode, a plurality of correction plates are laid in the image detection region such that the entire image detection region is covered with the plurality of correction plates. In this state, scanning is performed and a correction image signal obtained by detecting fluorescent light from the correction plate is output. An acquisition unit of a console acquires a correction image signal and a creation unit creates a correction image on the basis of the correction image signal. A correction unit performs shading correction on the basis of the correction image. |
| US10516836B2 |
Imaging device
An imaging device includes a light splitting unit which splits first light from a subject into second light and third light, first and second imaging units, and an arithmetic unit. The first light includes the second light having infrared light and at least one of green light and blue light, and the third light having red light or the green light. The first imaging unit includes a first and a second light reception regions. The first light reception region generates at least one of the group consisting of a B signal according to the blue light and a G signal according to the green light. The second light reception region generates an IR signal according to the infrared light. The arithmetic unit generates a visible light image signal from the R signal, the G signal, and the B signal and generates an infrared light image signal from the IR signal. |
| US10516829B2 |
Mobile terminal and method for controlling same
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal which can be implemented by allowing a user to use the terminal more conveniently, and a method for controlling the same. The present invention may comprise a camera, a display, and a control unit which enlarges a partial region of an original image photographed by the camera at a predetermined magnification and displays the original image and the enlarged image simultaneously on the display, wherein the control unit, upon receiving a magnification photographing input from a user input unit, can activate the camera for photographing, enlarge a partial region of the original image photographed by the camera at a predetermined magnification and display the original image and the enlarged image simultaneously on the display. |
| US10516827B2 |
Imaging apparatus, control method, and non-transitory storage medium
According to an aspect of the invention, an imaging apparatus includes: a focal point detection unit configured to perform focal point detection on the basis of a phase difference between a plurality of image signals obtained by photoelectric conversion of light fluxes each passing through different pupil partial regions of an imaging optical system; an image blur compensation unit configured to compensate for image blur; and a control unit configured to set a position at which a vignetting amount occurring in a light flux passing through the imaging optical system is equal to or less than a predetermined value during a period in which the focal point detection is performed by the focal point detection unit as a center position of a driving amplitude to perform drive control of the image blur compensation unit. |
| US10516823B2 |
Camera with movement detection
An omnidirectional camera is presented. The camera comprises: at least one lens coupled to an image sensor, a controller coupled to the image sensor, and a movement detection element coupled to the controller. The movement detection element is configured to detect a speed and direction of movement of the camera, the camera is configured to capture images via the at least one lens coupled to the image sensor, and the controller is configured to select a digital viewpoint in the captured images. A central point of the digital viewpoint is selected on the basis of direction of movement, and a field of view of the digital viewpoint is based on the speed of movement. A system and method are also presented. |
| US10516819B2 |
Electronic device with multiple lenses and lens switching method
An electronic device able to automatically select one of a plurality of lenses includes a lens module, an image sensor, a focusing module, and a processor. The lens module includes a standard lens, a macro lens, and a telephoto lens. The image sensor captures images and the focusing module controls the lenses to automatically focus on the object. The processor selects the standard lens as a current lens, obtains a first focusing distance at a first moment and a second focusing distance at a second moment, and determines to switch the current lens or not to switch according to a comparison of the first and second focusing distances. The second moment is later than the first moment. A lens switching method is also provided. |
| US10516814B2 |
Camera assembly and electronic device
The present disclosure provides a camera assembly and an electronic device. The camera assembly includes a camera module, a motor and a transmission module. The transmission module is connected between the camera module and the motor. The motor is configured to drive the transmission module so as to drive the camera module to move. The transmission module defines at least one concave part set on a lateral wall of the transmission module. Thus, an empty space may be formed above the concave part. In the electronic device, the empty space may be utilized as the clearance area of the antenna radiator inside the electronic device. Therefore, the performance of the antenna installed close to the camera module may be improved. |
| US10516806B2 |
Processing color image of first color space into renderable image of second color space
A color image is processed into a renderable image. The color image comprises a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has colorimetry defined in a first color space. The renderable image comprises a plurality of renderable pixels defined by a device-vector in a second color space. For each pixel: a device-vector defined in the second color space is selected (301) based on the colorimetry defined in a first color space of the pixel. The device-vector comprises a plurality of elements. Each element includes an identifier and an accumulated weighting. An element of the selected device-vector is reselected (303) until the accumulated weighting (a) is greater than a threshold value (t) associated with the pixel (305). The levels for each color of the second color space (or mappings) for the currently selected (307) element of the selected device-vector is determined (309) to convert the pixel into a renderable pixel. |
| US10516794B1 |
Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus with document width detection
An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit, a document pressing unit, a first position detection unit, a second position detection unit, and a controller. The image reading unit reads an image of a document. The document pressing unit presses the document against a document placement component. The first position detection unit detects a first closed position at which the document pressing unit is not in contact with the document placement component. The second position detection unit detects a second closed position that is closer to the document placement component than the first closed position is. The controller performs first width detection on the document and further performs second width detection. The first width detection is performed in accordance with detection performed by the first position detection unit on a closing operation of the document pressing unit. The second width detection is performed after elapse of a predetermined time in accordance with detection performed by the second position detection unit on the closing operation of the document pressing unit. If the controller receives an image reading instruction before the elapse of the predetermined time, the controller performs the second width detection without waiting for the elapse of the predetermined time and starts an image reading process. |
| US10516793B2 |
Image forming apparatus capable of customizing operation screen based on personal setting information and method for controlling image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains personal setting information about a user who logs into the image forming apparatus from a server apparatus and a display control unit that controls a display unit to display a customized operation screen customized for the user based on the obtained personal setting information. If the personal setting information has been obtained from the server apparatus within a predetermined time, the customized operation screen is displayed. If the personal setting information has been obtained from the server apparatus after the predetermined time elapses, the customized operation screen is not displayed. |
| US10516792B2 |
Setting conditions for image processing in an image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes: an image acquiring section configured to acquire an image formation target page image; a display control section configured to perform processing for displaying the page image in a preview display area; an operation-input acquiring section configured to acquire a first operation input for designating a first position in a designatable area and a second operation input for designating a second position in the preview display area; a determining section configured to determine which allocation setting area corresponding to which number of page images is designated as an area where processing for setting a number of page images allocated to one sheet is executed; and a setting section configured to apply setting of a number of page images allocated to one sheet to the page image for which the first operation input is performed. |
| US10516791B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method for executing an iteration of one or more processes
An information processing system includes a memory and processors. The memory stores flow information and flow identification information for each process sequence performed by using electronic data. The flow information defines program identification information identifying programs for executing the process sequence, and an execution order of the programs. The processors execute computer-executable instructions stored in the memory to execute a process including receiving information relating to the electronic data and the flow identification information, from a device coupled to the system; acquiring the flow information stored in association with the received flow identification information; and executing the process sequence based on the information relating to the electronic data, by executing the programs identified by the program identification information defined in the acquired flow information, in the execution order. When the process sequence includes an iteration of processes, the processes are repeatedly executed according to a condition of the iteration. |
| US10516785B2 |
Methods and systems for controlled distribution of data transfer capacity between mobile devices
Systems and methods enable distribution of data transfer capacity in a WWAN between mobile devices. The data transfer capacity is given by a data plan for the respective mobile device. The systems and methods register first and second mobile devices with a transaction service as acquirers and providers, respectively, of data transfer capacity. The systems and methods detect when a first mobile device indicates a desire to acquire data transfer capacity, identify one or more second mobile devices that are located within reach for short-range communication with the first mobile device, and connect the first mobile device by short-range communication to one of the second mobile devices such that the first mobile device is tethered to the WWAN by this second mobile device. The systems and methods may also distribute authentication data to enable the first mobile device to be authenticated by the second mobile device. |
| US10516784B2 |
Systems and methods for classifying phone numbers based on node profile data
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and storage media for classifying phone numbers based on node profile data. Exemplary embodiments for classifying phone numbers based on node profile data may maintain a plurality of node profiles and generate a plurality of activity field-value pairs from an electronic activity. Each activity field-value pair of the plurality of activity field-value pairs corresponding to at least one participant of the electronic activity. Exemplary embodiments may further parse the electronic activity to identify a string corresponding to an electronic activity phone number, determine a type of phone number to which the electronic activity phone number corresponds using a data structure, identify a node profile of the plurality of node profiles corresponding to a participant of the electronic activity to which the electronic activity phone number corresponds, and update the identified node profile by the determined phone number type. |
| US10516783B2 |
Method and device for processing PCC rule
Provided herein are a method and device for processing a PCC rule. The method comprises: receiving first internet protocol (IP) stream mapping information transmitted by a UE and used for requesting the processing of an IP stream; determining, on the basis of the first IP stream mapping information, first routing rule information comprising a first PCC rule identification of a first PCC rule corresponding to the IP stream or first filter identifier of a first filter corresponding to the IP stream, where the first filter is a filter that the first PCC rule comprises; transmitting the first routing rule information to a policy and charging rules function entity (PCRF), thus instructing the PCRF to process the first PCC rule according to the first routing rule information. |
| US10516781B1 |
Originating calls in a contact center either in a voice dialing mode or a text dialing mode
A dialing list comprising call records can be processed by a call handling component(s) in a contact center in various dialing modes. A call record may be processed to originate a voice call, where the agent manually dials the call as a voice telephone call. In another embodiment, the call record can be processed to originate a SMS text call, where the agent also determines when the call originates. In each embodiment, the agent is presented with a graphical user interface tailored to the dialing mode. The dialing mode used may be defined by the dialing list the call record is retrieved from, information from within the call record itself, application of a rule, or input from the agent. Once the dialing mode is selected, it may be altered under certain conditions. When the call is originated, various compliance oriented tests, including calling windows and call attempts, are performed. |
| US10516779B2 |
Escalation to a human operator
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, relating to synthetic call initiations and bailouts. In some implementations, a method includes analyzing, by a call initiating system, a real-time conversation between a first human and the bot during a phone call between the first human on a first end of the phone call and the bot on a second end of the phone call. The call initiating system can determine, based on the analysis of the real-time conversation, whether the phone call should be transitioned from the bot to a second human on the second end of the phone call. In response to determining that the phone call should be transitioned to a second human on the second end of the phone call, the call initiating system transitions the phone call from the bot to the second human. |
| US10516777B1 |
Enhanced user experience for voice communication
Methods, systems and devices are provided to enable voice activity following a call interruption or when a call experiences or will experience interruption or diminished quality such that call experience is affected to be relayed to the communication device of the other party to the call. When an indication that an active voice call with another communication device is or will experience interruption or diminished quality such that call experience is affected, audio received from a microphone of the communication device may be recorded. A message may be generated from recorded audio and the generated message may be transmitted to the other communication device. Generation and/or transmission of the message may be performed in response to user inputs. |
| US10516775B1 |
Method and system for communication
Provided is a computer implemented method and system for delivering text messages, emails, and messages from a messenger application to a user while the user is engaged in an activity, such as driving, exercising, or working. Typically, the emails and other messages are announced to the user and read aloud without any user input. In Drive Mode, while the user is driving, a clean interface is shown to the user, and the user can hear announcements and messages/emails aloud without looking at the screen of the phone, and use gestures to operate the phone. After a determination is made that a new text message and/or email has arrived, the user is informed aloud of the text message/email/messenger message and in most instances, and if the user takes no further action, the body and/or subject of the text message/email/messenger message is read aloud to the user. All messages can be placed in a single queue, and read to the user in order of receipt. |
| US10516774B2 |
Method for configuring a wireless device
A method for configuring a first electronic device that includes first and second wireless communication systems. A first wireless connection is established between the first electronic device and a second electronic device using the first wireless communication system. Configuration information pertaining to the second wireless communication system is transmitted from the first electronic device to the second electronic device using the first wireless connection. Configuration instructions are transmitted from the second electronic device to the first electronic device over the first wireless connection. The configuration instructions are used to configure the first electronic device to communicate using the second wireless communication system, and the first wireless connection can then be terminated. |
| US10516771B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signal, apparatus for receiving broadcast signal, method for transmitting broadcast signal and method for receiving broadcast signal
A method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving a broadcast signal are discussed. The method for transmitting includes generating service data of a broadcast service, first signaling information for signaling the service data and second signaling information including information for locating the first signaling information, wherein the second signaling information further includes information for identifying the broadcast service and uniform resource locator (URL) information for obtaining the first signaling information, wherein the URL information to which additional information is appended is used for generating a request for obtaining the first signaling information, and wherein the additional information includes information for indicating which type of the first signaling information is requested; generating a broadcast signal including the service data and the second signaling information; and transmitting the broadcast signal. |
| US10516770B2 |
Transmitting entity and method performed thereby for transmitting one or more data packets to a receiving entity
A transmitting entity and a method performed thereby for transmitting one or more data packets to a receiving entity is provided. The transmitting entity and the receiving entity are operable in a communication network. The method performed by the transmitting entity comprises receiving, from an application, a user layer packet, ULP, to be transmitted by means of a transport layer packet, TLP, to the receiving entity. The method further comprises bundling the received ULP together with one or more additional received ULPs in a TLP when a rate of incoming data, bytes or ULPs from the application meets a threshold; and transmitting the TLP to the receiving entity. |
| US10516768B2 |
Methods and systems for switching vehicle data transmission modes based on detecting a trigger and a request for a vehicle data message
A vehicle interface device (VID) switches to a first vehicle data transmission mode (VDTM) from a prior VDTM based on a trigger for transmitting vehicle data messages (VDMs) and which VDMs have been requested at a vehicle data receptor (VDR). A decreased data transfer rate may result from selecting the first VDTM such that some portions of VDMs received while the VID is operating in the other VDTM are transmitted to the VDR from the VID and other portions of those VDMs are not transmitted to the VDR from the VID. An increased data transfer rate may result from selecting the first VDTM such that some portions of VDMs received while the VID is operating in the first VDTM are transmitted to the VDR from the VID whereas those same portions would not have been transmitted to the VDR from the VID if the VID was still operating in the prior VDTM. |
| US10516767B2 |
Unifying realtime and static data for presenting over a web service
A method of presenting data over a Web service interface includes: establishing, by a first computer process, a persistent transmission control protocol (TCP) network connection between the first computer process and a second computer process; dynamically allocating, by the second computer process, memory in response to receipt of static data over the persistent TCP network connection from the first computer process; updating, by the second computer process, the memory in response to receipt of dynamic data received over the persistent TCP network connection from the first computer process; and enabling, by the second computer process, a Web server to access the updated data for presentation by the Web service interface. The static data identifies a given entity and the dynamic data includes metric data provided for the entity. |
| US10516764B1 |
Efficient modification of compressed data
A computing device may receive a compress data streams which may then be decompressed to generate decompressed data. The computing device may then determine if the decompressed data includes a flag indicating that the decompressed data should be modified. If the decompressed data is to be modified, the computing device may add padding values to the compressed data stream until a boundary block of the compressed data stream is reached. The modified compressed data stream may then be transmitted to an endpoint. |
| US10516761B1 |
Configuring and managing network devices using program overlay on Yang-based graph database
In one example, a network management system (NMS) device manages a plurality of network devices. The NMS device includes one or more processing units, implemented using digital logic circuitry, configured to receive configuration data for a plurality of network devices managed by the NMS device, construct a graph database representing the configuration data, wherein to construct the graph database, the one or more processing units are configured to construct a plurality of vertices representing respective elements of the configuration data, and connect related vertices of the plurality of vertices with edges. The one or more processing units are further configured to manage the plurality of network devices using the graph database. |
| US10516759B2 |
System and method for centralized management of software services
Software services are managed from a single machine performing a service. Service providers offering SaaS applications solicit the single machine. Each service provider provides roles and device requirements for performing the corresponding SaaS. The single machine maintains a database that logs the software services offered by the service providers. Whenever a software service is needed, the single machine inventories its client devices for their resource capabilities and compares to the device requirements in the database. The database reveals the client machine(s) that best performs the role for the corresponding SaaS. Software services are thus integrated and managed from the single machine, thus allowing software services to be efficiently and quickly selected as network resources emerge. |
| US10516758B2 |
Method for providing personal information
A method for providing personal information is proposed. A server unit receives preference information of a user from a terminal device, and matches the preference information with another user's preference information in a database according to a matching condition. The server unit provides the another user's preference information to the terminal device when the matching condition is satisfied by the preference information of the user and the another user. |
| US10516756B1 |
Selection of a distributed network service
A technology is described for selecting a distributed network service based at least in part on consistency, availability, and partition tolerance (CAP) metrics. An example method may include receiving a client request for a listing of distributed network services and associated CAP metrics that are within a range of at least one CAP specification included in the client request. In response to the client request, a directory service may be queried for a set of distributed network services having the CAP metrics that are within the range of the least one CAP specification included in the client request. A listing of distributed network services that includes the CAP metrics for the distributed network services may be generated from the set of distributed network services, and the listing of distributed network services and CAP metrics may be returned in response to the client request. |
| US10516747B2 |
Method and system for tracing end-to-end transaction, including browser side processing and end user performance experience
A system is provided for tracing end-to-end transactions. The system uses bytecode instrumentation and a dynamically injected agent to gather web server side tracing data, and a browser agent which is injected into browser content to instrument browser content and to capture tracing data about browser side activities. Requests sent during monitored browser activities are tagged with correlation data. On the web server side, this correlation information is transferred to tracing data that describes handling of the request. This tracing data is sent to an analysis server which creates tracing information which describes the server side execution of the transaction and which is tagged with the correlation data allowing the identification of the causing browser side activity. The analysis server receives the browser side information, finds matching server side transactions and merges browser side tracing information with matching server side transaction information to form tracing information that describes end-to-end transactions. |
| US10516739B2 |
Method for communicating between asset health monitoring devices
An extensible computing system integrates asset health data and user control of devices made by different manufacturers, using a common computer platform application structure and a common platform services structure. A services bus communicates device signals in a standardized format from the common platform services structure to a proprietary extension services structure, which converts the device communication signals from the standardized format to a proprietary communication format. A data highway bus communicates asset health and reliability data in a standardized data format from the proprietary extension services structure to the common extension services structure. The proprietary services structure converts asset health data from a proprietary data format as received from the proprietary device into the standardized data format. An input communicates data in the proprietary data format from the proprietary device to the computer, and an output sends communication signals in the proprietary communication format to the proprietary device. |
| US10516729B2 |
Dynamic graph adaptation for stream processing over hybrid, physically disparate analytics platforms
Dynamic graph adaptation for stream processing over hybrid, physically disparate analytics platforms, by means of a computer-implemented method that includes obtaining a streaming application graph, generating a partitioned graph by partitioning the streaming application graph in response to a topology descriptor and a partitioning algorithm, compiling the partitioned graph into a plurality of subgraphs for deployment to a plurality of respective runtimes that are described by the topology descriptor, and deploying the plurality of subgraphs to the plurality of respective runtimes. |
| US10516726B2 |
Data partitioning in internet-of-things (IOT) network
A method for data partitioning in an internet-of-things (IoT) network is described. The method includes determining number of computing nodes in the IoT network capable of contributing in processing of a data set. At least one capacity parameter associated with each computing node in the IoT network and each communication link between a computing node and a data analytics system can be ascertained. The capacity parameter can indicate a computational capacity for each computing node and communication capacity for each communication link. An availability status, indicating temporal availability, of each of computing nodes and each communication link is determined. The data set is partitioned into subsets, based on the number of computing nodes, the capacity parameter and the availability status, for parallel processing of the subsets. |
| US10516722B2 |
Mobile application system
A method includes accessing a webpage at a web server from a mobile application executing at a mobile device. A mobile application tag may be identified in the webpage, where the mobile application tag is independent of a device type of the mobile device. The method also includes determining that the mobile application tag corresponds to a native device function of the mobile device and accessing the native device function. |
| US10516719B1 |
Wearable device registration system and method
Disclosed is a system and method for searching and registering a wearable Bluetooth device in a surrounding area. The searching Bluetooth device broadcasts a session description protocol (SDP) request message by executing the SDP. When the SDP request message broadcast by the searching Bluetooth device is received, a surrounding Bluetooth device executes the SDP, generates an SDP response message, and transmits the SDP response message to the searching Bluetooth device. When the SDP response message is received, the searching Bluetooth device requests that the server provide the detailed information file of the surrounding Bluetooth device, based on server access information included in the SDP response message. When the detailed information file of the surrounding Bluetooth device is received from the server, the searching Bluetooth device stores the detailed information file. |
| US10516718B2 |
Platform for multiple device playout
Provided is a platform for data devices in which the architecture and runtime parameters of the platform are adaptively updated based on real-time data collected about a network on which the platform operates, the source type (e.g., codec selection) for data being communicated between devices, the grouping/architecture of the devices, or any combination thereof. The platform is thus able to support multiple different types and configurations of data devices under varied, constantly-changing conditions. The platform offers a flexible architecture for a content management and rendering system in which multiple data devices connected via the network each play a unique role in the operation of the system. The data devices are capable of dynamically switching between different roles while the system is in active operation. The platform also includes adaptive delay capabilities as well as adaptive codec selection capabilities. |
| US10516717B2 |
Network-initiated content streaming control
Methods and systems are described for enabling network-initiated control of streaming of segmented content from a content delivery node to at least one client, the client being configured to access at least part of the segmented content on the basis of a manifest file. A first manifest file is received identifying one or more segments and location information for locating one or more content delivery nodes configured to transmit one or more segments to at least one client. In response to reception of the first manifest file, channel set-up information is provided. At least one streaming control channel is established between at least one client and a control channel server function associated with the content delivery node on the basis of the control channel set-up information. The at least one client is configured for receiving at least one manifest file update message via the streaming control channel. |
| US10516712B2 |
Streaming media data transmission method, client and server
A streaming media data transmission method, client and server are used to solve the problem of long time delay of decoding because the client waits a segment with a higher code rate. The client includes: a first processing module configured to determine whether a server distributes a plurality of segments with same content and different code rates; and a second processing module configured to determine whether the server transmits a segment with a high code rate first or transmits a segment with a low code rate first when the first processing module determines that the server distributes a plurality of segments with same content and different code rates. When the client determines that the server transmits the segment with a high code rate first, a received segment is decoded directly, thereby shortening time delay of decoding at the client. |
| US10516711B2 |
Routing data over wireless communication links
Certain examples accommodate data routing optimizations. An example method comprises receiving, by a first playback device, data to be directed to at least a second playback device, the data comprising: i) audio data and ii) non-audio data. The method comprises transmitting, by the first playback device, the non-audio data to the second playback device via a third playback device according to a network protocol for communication between the first playback device and at least the second playback device via a wireless communication link. The method further comprises determining, by the first playback device, that a signal strength of the wireless communication link is above a threshold, and in response to the determination, transmitting the audio data to the second playback device via the wireless communication link, wherein transmitting the audio data comprises transmitting the audio data over the wireless communication link not according to the network protocol. |
| US10516709B2 |
Files automatically shared at conference initiation
The present technology automatically shares materials at the start of a videoconference without requiring a participant to find the materials or instruct the videoconferencing application to share the materials. The conference materials can be automatically shared without any conference participant involvement. The present technology automatically associates materials included in a calendar invitation to the conference or in a shared space referenced in the calendar invitation. These materials can be automatically shared when the conference launches. |
| US10516708B2 |
Method for providing conference service and apparatus thereof
Methods for providing conference service and apparatus thereof are provided, one of methods comprises, receiving identification information of a first user and identification information of a first terminal of the first user from the first terminal of the first terminal, receiving identification information of the first user and identification information of a second terminal of the first user from the second terminal of the first terminal, transmitting first contents to the first terminal of the first user and receiving at least one first reaction information about the first contents from the second terminal of the first user. |
| US10516702B2 |
Managing mid-dialog session initiation protocol (SIP) messages
Processing mid-dialog SIP messages by receiving a mid-dialog SIP message from a SIP user agent client, creating a new SIP session, associating the new SIP session with the mid-dialog SIP message, identifying an application that is associated with the mid-dialog SIP message, providing to the application the mid-dialog SIP message in the context of the new SIP session, receiving an acknowledgement from the application that the application will accept the mid-dialog SIP message, and responsive to receiving the acknowledgement, providing to the application the mid-dialog SIP message in the context of the new SIP session. |
| US10516693B2 |
Cyber security
Disclosed herein is a method for use in detection of abnormal behavior of a group of a plurality of entities of a computer system. The method is arranged to be performed by a processing system and includes: creating a model of normal behavior of the group of entities; and determining, in accordance with the model of normal behavior of the group of entities, a parameter indicative of abnormal behavior of the group of entities. Also disclosed is an equivalent computer readable medium and anomalous behavior detection system. |
| US10516689B2 |
Distributed data surveillance in a community capture environment
Data surveillance techniques are presented for the detection of security issues, especially of the kind where privileged data may be stolen by steganographic, data manipulation or any form of exfiltration attempts. Such attempts may be made by rogue users or admins from the inside of a network, or from outside hackers who are able to intrude into the network and impersonate themselves as legitimate users. The system and methods use a triangulation process whereby analytical results pertaining to data protocol, user-behavior and packet content are combined to establish a baseline for the data. Subsequent incoming data is then scored and compared against the baseline to detect any security anomalies. The design incorporates deployment in a distributed network so that the devices of the network participate in the detection of anomalies as a community. |
| US10516686B2 |
Malware and anomaly detection via activity recognition based on sensor data
A system for malware and anomaly detection via activity recognition based on sensor is disclosed. The system may analyze sensor data collected during a selected time period from one or more sensors that are associated with a device. Once the sensor data is analyzed, the system may determine a context of the device when the device is in a connected state. The system may determine the context of the device based on the sensor data collected during the selected time period. The system may also determine if traffic received or transmitted by the device during the connected state is in a white list. Furthermore, the system may transmit an alert if the traffic is determined to not be in the white list or if the context determined for the device indicates that the context does not correlate with the traffic. |
| US10516685B2 |
Analysis method, analysis device and analysis program
In order to detect an attack to a web application accurately by accurately correlating different types of events having occurred in the same server, an event acquiring unit acquires a log of events containing a HTTP request to a server, an event correlator creates a set of the request and events relevant to the request as an event block by using process IDs of processes having processed events contained in the log, and an attack detector contrasts the event block that is created from the log of events in which an attack is to be detected with an event block that is created from normal events to calculate a degree of similarity and, when the degree of similarity is equal to or lower than a threshold, detects the event block as an event block containing an event that is abnormal due to an attack. |
| US10516684B1 |
Recommending and prioritizing computer log anomalies
Computer log entries are processed to determine a plurality of baseline rank values associated with a ranking dimension. An overall baseline rank indicator is computed using the determined baseline rank values. For each log data component value combination included in a group of log data component value combinations, a comparison rank value associated with the ranking dimension is determined. Each of the comparison rank values is compared with the overall baseline rank indicator. Based at least in part on the comparisons, one or more log data component value combinations included in the group of log data component value combinations are identified as more anomalous than other log data component value combinations included in the group of log data component value combinations. |
| US10516683B2 |
Systems and methods for security breach detection in vehicle communication systems
Systems and methods for detection of security breaches in intravehicular communication systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, this may include intravehicular communication using messages sent with a checksum and a dynamic mathematical operator field. Errors in the checksum may be interpreted as ordinary transmission errors, whereas errors in the dynamic mathematical operator field may be interpreted as potential threats. Repeated errors in the dynamic mathematical operator, and/or unexpected messages in the intravehicular communications, may be interpreted as confirmed hacking. Upon confirmation of hacking, a warning may be issued to an operator and a vehicle safe mode may be entered, including restricting vehicle functionality. |
| US10516680B1 |
Systems and methods for assessing cyber risks using incident-origin information
A computer-implemented method for assessing cyber risks using incident-origin information may include (1) receiving a request for a cyber-risk assessment of an entity of interest, (2) using an Internet-address data source that maps identifiers of entities to public Internet addresses of the entities to translate an identifier of the entity into a set of Internet addresses of the entity, (3) using an incident-origin data source that maps externally-detected security incidents to public Internet addresses from which the security incidents originated to translate the set of Internet addresses into a set of security incidents that originated from the entity, and (4) using the set of security incidents to generate the cyber-risk assessment of the entity. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media may have similar features. |
| US10516679B2 |
Authenticated data streaming
A data-collecting device acquires data associated with a real-time data stream and transmits the data to a data-consuming service hosted on a server computer system in the form of a multipart response. The multipart response includes one or more data content parts and at least one authentication content part. Each of the one or more data content parts contains data representing part of the real-time data stream. Each authentication content part includes authentication information usable to verify the integrity of the data transmitted in the data content parts transmitted prior to the authentication content part. |
| US10516676B2 |
Verification of geolocation of devices in a cloud data center
A processor-implemented method alters a computer resource based on its new geolocation. One or more processors receive a message that a computer resource has moved from a first geolocation to a new geolocation. The processor(s) receive an identifier of the new geolocation for the computer resource. In response to receiving the identifier of the new geolocation for the computer resource, the processor(s) request and receive encrypted data from the new geolocation. The processor(s) apply decryption information to the encrypted data from the new geolocation, where the decryption information is specifically for decrypting encrypted data from the new geolocation. In response to the decryption information failing to decrypt the encrypted data from the new geolocation, the processor(s) determine that the identifier of the new geolocation is false and apply a geolocation based resource policy to alter the computer resource at the new geolocation. |
| US10516675B2 |
Altering application security to support just-in-time access
A method and a computing system for allowing just-in-time (“JIT”) access to a machine is provided. A system receives a request to allow JIT access to the machine. The system directs a port of the machine to be opened for a JIT access period. The system also directs the machine to alter security relating to applications allowed to execute on the machine for the JIT access period. During the JIT access period, the machine can be accessed via the port with the altered security relating to applications. After the JIT access period, the system directs the port to be closed and directs the security to return to the unaltered security. |
| US10516671B2 |
Black list generating device, black list generating system, method of generating black list, and program of generating black list
A blacklist generating device acquires a malicious communication log and a normal communication log. A malicious communication profile extracting function calculates statistics on communication patterns included in the malicious communication log and outputs a communication pattern satisfying a certain condition to a potential blacklist. A normal communication profile extracting function calculates statistics on communication patterns included in the normal communication log and outputs a communication pattern satisfying a certain condition to a whitelist. A blacklist creating function searches the potential blacklist for a value with the value on the whitelist, excludes a coincident communication pattern from the potential blacklist, and creates a blacklist. |
| US10516670B2 |
Genome sharing
Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles. |
| US10516668B2 |
Security module and method within an information handling system
A security module and method within an information handling system are disclosed. In a particular form, a processing module can include a local processor configurable to initiate access to resources of a host processing system. The processing module can also include a security module configured to enable use of the resources of the host processing system using a security metric. According to an aspect, the security module can be further configured to detect the security metric, and enable access to a resource of the host processing system in response to the security metric. The security module can further be configured to disable access to another resource of the host processing system in response to the security metric. |
| US10516663B2 |
Systems and methods for variable-length encoding and decoding for enhancing computer systems
A method including: parsing a first portion of data into at least one first data word having a default first word length; outputting, in a default word length mode, the at least one first data word; outputting a transition word indicative of transitioning to a variable word length mode; outputting, after the transition word, a first word length word indicative of a second word length; parsing a second portion of the data into at least one second data word having the second word length; and outputting, after the first word length word, the at least one second data word having the second word length. |
| US10516658B2 |
Systems and methods for verifying attributes of users of online systems
For sharing of information in a virtual or online environment, methods and systems are provided which enable verifying attributes of an individual. An individual registered for participation in a virtual or online environment may provide evidence of the attributes from a verification source that exists outside the virtual or online environment. An administrator associated with the virtual or online environment verifies the attributes by receipt of the evidence. Alternatively, the attribute for the individual may be verified after receipt of one or more signals indicating individuals registered for participation in the virtual or online environment have corroborated the attributes. A verification indication for an attribute may be shared with other individuals in the virtual or online environment. |
| US10516656B2 |
Device, method, and computer program product for secure data communication
The invention relates to devices, methods, and computer program products for secure data communication according to a network protocol having a plurality of communication layers layered into a protocol stack. Said device comprises a processor system, in which a processor, controlled by a task scheduler, executes a plurality of autonomous software modules, which each run a communication layer of the protocol stack. The software modules are linked via communication channels to the protocol stack and the protocol stack is connected to an interface framework for data communication with an external network. At least one software module uses an assigned cryptographic key for secure data communication in its communication layer. The task scheduler is configured to obtain said key from the external network via the interface framework and to distribute said key to the assigned software module. |
| US10516653B2 |
Public key pinning for private networks
Disclosed are various approaches for validating public keys pinned to services or servers on private networks. A client device can request a first certificate from a trust service. The client device can then validate that the first certificate from the trust service is signed by a preinstalled certificate stored on the client device. Subsequently, the client device can receive a uniform resource locator identifying a network location of an secure sockets layer (SSL) pinning service, wherein the SSL pinning service is configured to provide a hash value for a first public key issued to a computing device. Finally, the client device can receive a second public key from the trust service, wherein the second public key is configured to encrypt network traffic sent to the SSL pinning service. |
| US10516651B2 |
Securely routing sensor data from sensors to a trusted execution environment (TEE)
Various configurations and methods for providing a secure transfer of data from computing device sensors to a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) are disclosed. As disclosed, various data flows, data sequences, and configurations are provided to allow sensor data to maintain integrity and confidentiality while being accessed by trusted agents of a TEE. In an example, a microcontroller-based TEE is operated to communicate with a sensor hub via a secure hardware channel. The microcontroller-based TEE is configured to receive the sensor data via the secure hardware channel, and communicate the sensor data to other trusted agents in the computing system via secure communications. Other variations of secure communications among multiple sensors, trusted agents, TEEs, and third party services are also disclosed. |
| US10516648B2 |
Address translation
A system may include a first network having a first communications protocol, a second network having a second communications protocol and at least one edge device in communication with the first network and the second network. The edge device may include a translator to translate a first address associated with the first network and based on the first communications protocol into a second address associated with the second network and based on the second communications protocol. The second address may include a first address portion based on a first fragment of the first address, a second address portion having a translation key based on a second fragment of the first address and a third address portion having a locator address. |
| US10516647B2 |
Method for establishing data connection on mobile network, mobile network, and policy control entity
A method for establishing data connections on a mobile network, a mobile network, and a policy control entity are disclosed. The method includes: establishing a data channel between a user equipment (UE) and a gateway (GW), and allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the UE according to an address allocation request or a data channel setup request sent from the UE; and triggering the policy control entity to establish or update a policy control session according to the IP address. By using the mobile network and the policy control entity under the present disclosure, after the data channel is established between the UE and the GW, the GW may trigger the policy control entity to establish or update a policy control session. |
| US10516640B2 |
Group message updating and displaying method, apparatus, and terminal
A message update method includes: displaying a group message reminding identifier on a session entry of a specified group on a session list interface when it is detected that a message in the specified group is updated. The updated message of the specified group is obtained from a server when it is detected that an operation on either of the group message reminding identifier and the specified group meets a message update condition. The number of updated messages of the specified group on the session entry is displayed when it is detected that the operation on either of the group message reminding identifier and the specified group does not meet the message update condition. |
| US10516639B2 |
Aggregated notification feeds
Embodiments are described for generating an aggregated notifications feed that organizes notifications into groups of notification thread types. Various notifications in a social media network can be associated with a notification thread, and notification threads can be assigned a thread category. An aggregated notifications feed can be used to provide a user interface with notifications grouped under a corresponding thread category. Grouped notifications can be ordered in several ways such as in reverse chronologic order providing for more relevant notifications to be presented first. This notification ordering can be within a group or can be among groups based on the most recent notification within that group. In some implementations, grouping notifications or ordering notifications can be based on additional parameters such as user preferences, rules obtained for machine learning, or administrator settings. |
| US10516638B2 |
Techniques to select and prioritize application of junk email filtering rules
Techniques to select and prioritize the application of spam filtering rules in a way that reduces processing time may include receiving an email message for a recipient at a spam filter and extracting email characteristics from the message. Global filtering rule statistics and a profile for the recipient may be retrieved. The technique may include selecting a subset of rules from a set of filtering rules according to the email characteristics, the global filtering rule statistics, and/or the recipient characteristics. The subset of rules may be prioritized and applied to the message from highest priority to lowest until a determination of whether the message is spam is reached. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10516637B2 |
Smart communications assistant with audio interface
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for a smart communications assistant with an audio interface. One method includes an operation for getting messages addressed to a user. The messages are from one or more message sources and each message comprising message data that includes text. The method further includes operations for analyzing the message data to determine a meaning of each message, for generating a score for each message based on the respective message data and the meaning of the message, and for generating a textual summary for the messages based on the message scores and the meaning of the messages. A speech summary is created based on the textual summary and the speech summary is then sent to a speaker associated with the user. The audio interface further allows the user to verbally request actions for the messages. |
| US10516633B2 |
Method, system, and storage medium for message processing
The present disclosure is related to the field of communication technologies and provides a method, system, and storage medium for message processing. The method includes the following steps: configuring, by an initiator, a serial number for a message, and sending the message having the configured serial number to a target end; extracting, by the target end, a serial number of a message that a user chooses to reply to, and adding the serial number to a corresponding reply message; and displaying, by the initiator according to the serial number carried in the reply message, the reply message next to a message corresponding to the serial number carried in the reply message. In the present disclosure, the serial number is configured for each message, and the reply message is displayed next to the corresponding message according to the serial number carried in the reply message, thereby improving pertinence between a reply message and its original message. |
| US10516632B2 |
Switchable modes for messaging
Techniques for switchable modes for messaging are described. In various implementations, a software application for messaging includes a conversation mode and an engagement mode each representing different respective modes for presenting a message. The engagement mode, for instance, provides a larger portion of an available display area for the message than the conversation mode. According to one or more implementations, switching between the conversation mode and the engagement mode is based on a user behavior indicating a level of engagement of a user relative to the application. |
| US10516618B2 |
Preamble design on a shared communication medium
Techniques for managing preamble transmission and processing on a shared communication medium are disclosed. An access point or an access terminal, for example, may generate a preamble for silencing communication on a communication medium with respect to an upcoming data transmission, configure the preamble to identify one or more target devices for the silencing, and transmit the preamble over the communication medium in advance of the data transmission. Conversely, the access point or the access terminal may receive a preamble (as a receiving device) over a communication medium, identify one or more target devices for silencing communication on the communication medium with respect to an upcoming data transmission based on the preamble, and selectively silence communication over the communication medium based on itself (as the receiving device) being among the one or more target devices. |
| US10516617B2 |
Network throughput
A technology is provided for improving computer network throughput. Data located in memory of a processing device may be identified. The data packets located in the memory may be sent through a tunneling interface to encapsulate the data packets using a tunneling protocol on a first computing device. Alternatively, the data packets can be sent through a split proxy interface system. The data packets received in the interface may also be encoded using random linear network coding (RLNC) to form encoded packets, using a processor. Further, the encoded packets may be sent across a packet network to a second computing device. |
| US10516615B2 |
Network traffic congestion control
Technologies are described to control network congestion in packet-based networks. In some examples, a method may include receiving an Interest packet requesting content, and returning the content from a local data store if the content is in the local data store. The method may also include determining whether a previous request has been made for the requested content if the content is not in the local data store, and creating a record of the Interest packet and discarding the Interest packet if a previous request has been made. The method may further include determining whether a local IP routing table includes an entry that matches a destination IP address specified by the Interest packet if a previous request has not been made, and forwarding the Interest packet if the destination IP address is in the local IP routing table. |
| US10516614B2 |
Methods and apparatus for multiple user uplink
Methods and apparatus for multiple user uplink are provided. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is provided. The method includes transmitting a quality of service (QoS) message to a device. The QoS message includes a request for a transmission opportunity for sending uplink data to the device. The QoS message includes at least one of a sequence control field or a QoS control field. The method further includes receiving a clear to transmit (CTX) message in response to the QoS message. The method further includes transmitting data to the device in response to the CTX message. |
| US10516611B2 |
Preferential selection of IP protocol version with domain name matching on proxy servers
Systems and methods for the preferential selection or blocking of Internet Protocol (IP) version addresses, e.g., IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, are provided. During a process where address or domain name resolution is performed, an entity may access a domain bypass list to ascertain whether or not to proceed with requests utilizing an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or neither. Such a list may be dynamically or manually created and/or updated such that known issues associated with the use of a particular type of IP version address can be avoided for subsequent resolution requests to access network resources such as web pages, DNS entries, etc. |
| US10516610B2 |
Segment routing packet policies and functions providing processing signaling and packet forwarding efficiencies in a network
In one embodiment, segment routing network processing of packets is performed, including using segment routing packet policies and functions providing segment routing processing signaling and packet forwarding efficiencies in a network. A segment routing node signals to another segment routing node using a signaled segment identifier in a segment list of a segment routing packet with the segments left identifying a segment list element above the signaled segment identifier. A downstream segment routing node receives the segment routing packet, obtains this signaled segment identifier, and performs processing of one or more packets based thereon. In one embodiment, a provider edge node replaces its own segment identifier in a received customer packet, with a downstream customer node using the replaced (signaling) segment identifier (of a provider edge node/segment routing function) for accessing a return path through the provider network. |
| US10516608B2 |
Systems and methods for directly responding to distributed network traffic
Systems and methods are disclosed for directly responding to distributed network traffic received from a plurality of client devices. One method includes receiving, at a source device, client requests including a packet having a reserved portion, a source portion, and a destination portion; determining, for each client request, a target device from a plurality of target devices to respond to the client request; modifying, for each client request by the source device, the destination portion of the packet to an address of target device; modifying, for each client request by a switching layer prior to the target device receiving the modified client request, the destination portion; and responding directly to each client request by the target device without traversing the source device. |
| US10516607B2 |
Layer 3 service implementation in cloud servers and method
A method, computer environment and cloud server configured to facilitate communication among plural networks established in the cloud server. The cloud server (400) includes hardware components (802) configured to process and store information; a hypervisor (430) configured to run on the hardware components (802) and also configured to provide a virtual platform in a kernel space (404); a first virtual machine (410) running on the virtual platform in a user space (402); a first L2aaS network (414) connected to the first virtual machine (410), the first L2aaS network (414) being located in the kernel space (404); a second virtual machine (416) running on the virtual platform in the user space (402); a second L2aaS network (418) connected to the second virtual machine (416), the second L2aaS network (418) being located in the kernel space (404); and a virtual router (424) located in the kernel space (404) and connected to the first L2aaS network (414) and the second L2aaS network (418). The virtual router (424) is configured to provide router functionality between the first and second L2aaS networks (414, 418). |
| US10516603B2 |
Interfaces to manage inter-region connectivity for direct network peerings
Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage inter-regional connectivity for direct network peerings. A system may include a connectivity coordinator, a first resource collection in a first geographical zone and a second resource collection in a second geographical zone. The coordinator implements a programmatic interface defining connectivity operations. The coordinator receives a request via the interface to establish a logically isolated network path to the second resource collection on behalf of a client that has a dedicated physical link set up to connect to the first resource collection. In response to the request, the coordinator performs one or more configuration operations to enable traffic to flow from the client's network to the second resource collection over a logically isolated network path using the dedicated physical link. |
| US10516602B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for adaptive communication in a data communication network
A method for communicating data that includes a computing device receiving a first message and a second message, where the first message is generated in accordance with a first application session protocol and the second message is generated in accordance with a second application session protocol. The method continues with the computing device extracting a first data payload portion and second data payload portion, where the extracting utilizes the first application session protocol and the second application session protocol. The method continues with the computing device generating a common message to include the first data payload portion and the second data payload portion, where the common message is generated in accordance with a common application session protocol. The method continues with the computing device sending the common message to a receiving entity. |
| US10516601B2 |
Method for prioritization of internet traffic by finding appropriate internet exit points
The systems and methods discussed herein provide for faster communications, particularly for high priority traffic, across a distributed network with multiple exit points to a Wide Area Network. Rather than simply routing traffic based on internal or external destination, an intelligent router may measure latency to an endpoint destination via multiple paths, both external and internal, and direct traffic accordingly. Steering high priority traffic via the internal connection to an exit point near the destination server, and then to the server via the external network, may be faster than simply forwarding the connection via the external network from the exit point closest to the source device. Additionally, to reduce bandwidth requirements of the nearby exit point and provide capability for higher priority traffic, low priority traffic may be redirected back via the internal connection and transmitted via a distant exit point. |
| US10516598B2 |
Detecting and preventing network loops
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting network loops. In some embodiments, a system can identify a network path having multiple hops associated with respective nodes which are configured in a forwarding mode. The system can traverse the network path to identify, for each node from the respective nodes, a respective next hop. Based on the respective next hop for each node, the system can determine whether two or more nodes from the respective nodes have a same respective next hop. When the two or more nodes have the same respective next hop, the system can determine that the network path has a network loop. |
| US10516597B2 |
Selective data transmission in networks
Implementations generally relate to data transmission in networks. In some implementations, a method includes determining communication paths in a network, where the communication paths connect a plurality of network nodes, and where the network nodes include one or more edge devices and one or more core devices. The method further includes determining if a forwarding information base (FIB) is permitted at at least one network node. The method further includes filtering one or more packets at the at least one network node if the FIB is not permitted. The method further includes enabling traffic flow of one or more packets at the at least one network node if the FIB is permitted. |
| US10516592B2 |
Communication system, bus load monitoring device, and bus load monitoring method
An object of the present invention is to monitor the load of a bus with high accuracy.A bus load monitoring device includes a determination circuit that determines whether the bus load monitoring device is in a bus-off state or a normal state, a first monitoring circuit that monitors the load of a bus when the bus load monitoring device is in the normal state, a second monitoring circuit that monitors the load of the bus when the bus load monitoring device is in the bus-off state, and a switching circuit that switches a monitoring circuit monitoring the load of the bus to the first monitoring circuit or the second monitoring circuit on the basis of the determination result of the determination circuit. |
| US10516588B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for obtaining quality of service parameter of voice over internet protocol service
An apparatus, a system, and a method for obtaining a quality of service parameter of a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service is presented. The apparatus obtains a quality of service parameter of a VoIP service, and the apparatus sends a quality parameter report of the VoIP service to a centralized processing device. The quality parameter report of the VoIP service includes the quality of service parameter of the VoIP service, so that a network system obtains quality of service of the VoIP service according to the quality of service parameter of the VoIP service, further helping an operator control and adjust the network system based on the quality of service of the VoIP service. |
| US10516580B2 |
Physical infrastructure management system
Systems and methods of the present invention allow for the discovery of physical location information about network assets and the delivery of that information to network administrators. In addition, environmental and other information about network asset locations can be provided to an administrator. Intelligent patch panels and power outlet units are installed in network cabinets to facilitate the acquisition and reporting of physical infrastructure information, including information about network resource availability. |
| US10516579B2 |
Techniques for reconciliation of planned network with deployed network
Techniques are disclosed herein for reconciling planned data for a network (such as a fiber optic network) with data describing the deployed network. Network probing and planning components obtain a snapshot of the deployed network and organize the snapshot into three “layers”: the “link layer,” which represents the physical links that underlie the network, the “digital layer,” which includes optical channel groups that divide the total capacity of the physical links, and the “service layer,” which includes the services delivered over the network. The techniques involve comparing the planned data to the deployed data in the order of link layer, digital layer, and service layer. Differences considered to be “minor” are reconciled automatically. Differences that are “major” are reconciled after receiving instructions from a planner or administrator regarding whether to update the planned data based on what was originally in the planned data or what is in the deployed network. |
| US10516578B2 |
Inferring a network topology
In a method for inferring a topology of components in a network, at least one operation parameter is provided for each of a plurality of components in a network, and a similarity measure is computed between at least two of said components based on values of said operation parameters. Based on said similarity measure, it is determined whether said two components are topologically connected, wherein said similarity measure is computed in terms of a normalized mutual information between said operation parameters pertaining to said two components. |
| US10516577B2 |
Graceful scaling in software driven networks
Provided are methods and systems for graceful scaling of data networks. In one example, an indication of removal of a node from a plurality of nodes of the data network is received. A service policy is generated to reassign service requests associated with the node to another node in the plurality of nodes. The service policy is then sent to each of the plurality of nodes of the data network. To scale out a data network, an indication of presence of a further node in the data network is received, and a further node service policy is generated and sent to each of the plurality of nodes of the data network and to the further node. Additional actions can be taken in order to prevent interruption of an existing heavy-duty connection while scaling the data network. |
| US10516571B2 |
Server load management
System and method for collecting values of one or more parameters of one or more clients that are communicatively connected to a server. A model is constructed based on the collected values of the one or more parameters to thereby model as a function of time the probability that the values of the one or more parameters of the one or more clients will change by an amount that is considered significant, e.g. at the server. An update of the one or more parameters is received from one of the clients. Responsive to receiving the update, the model is used to calculate a timing for the next update of the values from the one of the clients. The calculated timing for the next update is sent to the one of the clients. |
| US10516570B1 |
Systems and methods for tagging client devices
The disclosed computer-implemented method for tagging client devices may include (i) receiving from a router at least one network packet that indicates that a client device has attempted to connect to the router and that includes device information identifying the client device, (ii) prompting, automatically in response to receiving the network packet indicating that the client device has attempted to connect to the router, a user to tag the client device with a descriptive name to facilitate management of the client device, (iii) receiving, in response to prompting the user to tag the client device, a tag that indicates a specific descriptive name for the client device, and (iv) transmitting, automatically in response to receiving the tag, the specific descriptive name to at least one of the router and a cloud security server. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10516566B2 |
System and method for efficient network reconfiguration in fat-trees
Systems and methods are provided for supporting efficient reconfiguration of an interconnection network having a pre-existing routing comprising. An exemplary method can provide, a plurality of switches, the plurality switches comprising at least one leaf switch, wherein each of the one or more switches comprise a plurality of ports, and a plurality of end nodes, wherein the plurality of end nodes are interconnected via the one or more switches. The method can detect, by a subnet manager, a reconfiguration triggering event. The method can compute, by the subnet manager, a new routing for the interconnection network, wherein the computing by the subnet manager of the new routing for the interconnection network takes into consideration the pre-existing routing and selects the new routing for the interconnection network that is closest to the pre-existing routing. The method can reconfigure the interconnection network according to the new routing. |
| US10516562B2 |
Communication device and method for performing radio communication
A communication device is provided that includes a modulation circuit configured to modulate a signal comprising a first signal portion of a first data type and a second signal portion of a second data type. The modulation circuit is configured to modulate the first signal portion in accordance with a first modulation scheme and the second signal portion in accordance with a second modulation scheme. At least one of the first data type is different from the second data type or the second modulation scheme is different from the first modulation scheme. The communication device further includes a modification circuit configured to modify the modulated first signal portion based on a first modification scheme and the second signal portion based on a second modification scheme. The communication device further includes a transmitter configured to transmit the modified first signal portion and the modified second signal portion. |
| US10516559B2 |
Prefixing of OFDM symbols to support variable subframe length
The present disclosure relates to a first radio node configured for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), comprising a receiver, a transmitter, a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor for causing the transmitter in a first mode of operation with a first subcarrier spacing f1: to transmit a sequence of prefixed OFDM symbols, and in a second mode of operation with a second subcarrier spacing f2: to transmit a sequence of prefixed OFDM symbols, wherein the sequence of transmitted OFDM symbols is aligned with a predefined repeating radio frame, which is common to both the first and second modes of operation, or with an integer multiple of the predefined repeating radio frame; and the first and second subcarrier spacings are related by an integer factor, f1/f2=p or f1/f2=1/p, with p≠1 integer. |
| US10516555B2 |
Methods and apparatus for creating interstitial areas in a cable
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a system can include a plurality of cables, wherein each cable of the plurality of cables includes an insulation layer comprising a helix structure. The helix structure of each cable of the plurality of cables can facilitate formation of a plurality of interstitial pathways between the plurality of cables. The system can further include communication device coupled to the plurality of cables, where the communication device facilitates generating electromagnetic waves that propagate along the plurality of interstitial pathways without requiring an electrical return path. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10516541B2 |
Nonce to message binding in digital signature generation
Various embodiments relate to a method for producing a digital signature using a white-box implementation of a cryptographic digital signature function, including: receiving a input message; hashing the input message; generating a nonce based upon the input message and the white-box implementation of the cryptographic digital signature function; and computing a digital signature of the input using the nonce. |
| US10516539B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for authenticated intravascular device use and reuse
Devices, systems, and methods for reconditioning an intravascular device for reuse are provided. The method includes reading first security data from a memory of the intravascular device; determining if the intravascular device is authentic; generating second security data, when the intravascular device is authentic; and writing the second security data to the memory of the intravascular device. Devices, systems, and methods for authenticating an intravascular device for use are also provided. The method includes bringing an intravascular device into communication with a computing device, the intravascular device including a memory; determining if first security data is authentic; determining, when the first security data is authentic, if the intravascular device has been reconditioned; determining, when the intravascular device has been reconditioned, if the second security data is authentic base; and permitting, when second security data is authentic, use of the intravascular device in the clinical procedure. |
| US10516536B2 |
Method and apparatus for logging into medical devices
The invention relates to a method for logging a service technician into an electrical device (20), comprising the following steps: production (3, 4) of a secret key (SKY) as an encrypted login password (LPW) by the electrical device (20), displaying (5) of the secret key (SKY) on a display unit (23) of the electrical device (20) as a QR code (QRC), optical sensing (6) of the QR code (QRC) by means of a mobile device (22), decryption (9) of the login password (LPW) from the secret key (SKY) of the sensed QR code (QRC) by the mobile device (22), displaying of the login password (LPW) on a screen unit (24) of the mobile device (22), entering of the login password (LPW) into the electrical device (20) by the service technician, comparison (10) of the entered login password (LPW) with the produced login password (LPW) by the electrical device (20), release of the login by the electrical device (20) if the two login passwords (LPW) match. The invention further relates to an associated apparatus. The advantage of the invention lies in the combination of the high strength of the cryptographic security with the user friendliness of the QR code and of the relatively short login password to be entered. |
| US10516528B2 |
System and method for managing secret information using virtualization
A distributed computer system and method for managing secret information for virtual entities in the distributed computer system utilizes multiple secret storage service entities to provide secret information to a virtual entity to be hosted in a host computer in the distributed computer system. At least one piece of the secret information for the virtual entity is distributed to the multiple secret storage service entities to provide the secret information to the virtual entity using the at least one piece of the secret information from one of the multiple secret storage service entities. |
| US10516526B2 |
Data transmitting method, server and client
Embodiments of the invention disclose a data transmitting method, a server and a client. The method embodiments of the invention include: obtaining a client application list file uploaded by a client; determining whether a file in a object application list file exists in the client application list file, and determining whether a hash value sha2 of the file in the object application list file is identical to a hash value sha2 of a file in the client application list file; adding the non-existed file into an incremental file list when the file in the object application list file does not exist in the client application list file; adding a file which is not identical into the incremental file list when the hash value sha2 of the file in the object application list file is different from the hash value sha2 of the file in the client application list file; packaging and compressing the object application list file, a signature file of the object application list file and the file in the incremental file list to create an incremental upgrade package such that the client can upgrade the application package through the incremental upgrade package. |
| US10516525B2 |
System and method for detecting anomalies in examinations
The disclosure provides systems and methods for maintaining integrity of documents and activities associated with examinations. The systems and methods store such activities and documents in a distributed blockchain such that integrity is maintained through transparency and redundancy of the records and activities. The systems monitor for any anomalies and notify appropriate individuals when an anomaly is detected, as well as maintaining a log of such anomalies. |
| US10516519B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting response frame based on type in a high efficiency wireless LAN
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting a response frame based on a type in a High Efficiency Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) (HEW). According to an aspect, a method for transmitting an uplink frame by a station (STA) to an access point (AP) in a WLAN may be provided. The method may include receiving, from the AP, a downlink frame including information related to a type of the uplink frame, the type of the uplink frame including a single-user (SU) type and a multiple-user (MU) type; and transmitting, to the AP, the uplink frame having a type determined based on the information related to the type of the uplink frame, wherein, when the type of the uplink frame corresponds to the MU type, the uplink frame is simultaneously transmitted by a plurality of STAs including the STA and at least one other STA. |
| US10516516B2 |
Precoding information obtaining method, and device
Embodiments of the present invention provide a precoding information obtaining method and a device. The method includes: separately precoding, by a network device by using N sub-codebooks, a pilot group including K pilots to obtain N precoded pilot groups, where the sub-codebooks are subsets of a precoding codebook, the precoding codebook includes M precoding vectors, each sub-codebook includes K precoding vectors; sending, by the network device, a precoded pilot group to a terminal device in each of W RB groups; and receiving, by the network device, precoding information fed back by the terminal device for any one of W precoded pilot groups. According to the precoding information obtaining method and the device, a quantity of pilot signals sent by the network device in each RB group is reduced, and pilot overheads in each RB group are reduced. |
| US10516515B2 |
Method and apparatus for use with a radio distributed antenna system having an in-band reference signal
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a network element of a distributed antenna system, a reference signal, a control channel and a first modulated signal at a first carrier frequency, the first modulated signal including first communications data provided by a base station and directed to a mobile communication device. The instructions in the control channel direct the network element of the distributed antenna system to convert the first modulated signal at the first carrier frequency to the first modulated signal in a first spectral segment. The reference signal is received at an out of band frequency relative to the control channel. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10516512B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring control information indicating resource unit in wireless local area network system
The present specification proposes a method of configuring and transmitting a PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) including first to fourth resource unit (RU) areas corresponding to at least first to fourth frequency bands. The first frequency band corresponds to a lowest frequency band, and the fourth frequency band corresponds to a highest frequency band. In the PPDU, a center RU area is arranged between the second RU area and the third RU area. In this case, the PPDU includes a second signal field corresponding to the second frequency band and a third signal field corresponding to the third frequency band. The second signal field may include a control field for the center RU area, and control information for a user allocated to the center RU area may be included a last field of a user-specific control field of the third signal field. |
| US10516497B2 |
Reception apparatus, transmission apparatus, and data processing method
The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a transmission apparatus, and a data processing method that permit downloaded reproduction of non-realtime content by reducing load associated with implementing resident applications.The reception apparatus acquires a first application, included in a digital broadcast signal, that handles a download of content reproduced in non-realtime, acquires metadata, included in the digital broadcast signal, that includes information for controlling the content download in response to operation of the first application, and handles the download of the content included in the digital broadcast signal by controlling the operation of the first application on the basis of the metadata. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a TV receiver. |
| US10516495B2 |
Method for measuring inter-device interference in wireless communication system supporting FDR transmission, and apparatus therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting a full duplex radio (FDR) transmission environment. A method for a terminal to measure interference in a wireless communication system supporting FDR according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving an interference measurement resource at a measurement subframe; and measuring, at the interference measurement resource, interference from a neighboring terminal on the basis of an interference reference signal transmitted from the neighboring terminal. In addition, data is not transmitted or is transmitted with zero-power in the interference measurement resource. |
| US10516492B2 |
Remote apparatus of distributed antenna system
A remote apparatus includes: a plurality of sub amplification units amplifying radio frequency (RF) signals of different frequency bands, respectively; a test signal generation unit generating test signals of a frequency band for any one sub amplification unit among the plurality of sub amplification units; a conversion unit converting intermodulation (IM) signals generated in response to the test signals into a plurality of conversion IM signals by using a conversion signal of which a frequency is swept; and a control unit determining a degree of an intermodulation distortion by the any one sub amplification unit based on signal levels of the plurality of the conversion IM signals. |
| US10516491B2 |
Method for calibrating an antenna system, control device, computer program and computer program products
A method of calibrating an antenna system comprising a number of antenna elements is provided. The method comprises transmitting and measuring at least for first and second reference antenna elements, thereby obtaining first and second sets of corresponding number of measurement values; calculating, for a first type of beamforming and for each calibration antenna element j a correction value—ΔRijk,Type 1, thereby obtaining a first part of a correction matrix; calculating, for a second type of beamforming and for each branch j a correction value ΔRi,jType 2, thereby obtaining a second part of the correction matrix; performing an optimization procedure using as input the correction matrix thereby obtaining, for each row of the correction matrix, a respective optimized constant, and calculating a compensation value Δri for each antenna element based on the respective optimized constant. |
| US10516490B2 |
Optical free air transmit and receive interconnect
An apparatus comprises a substrate; a laser emitter arranged on the substrate, wherein laser energy emitted by the laser emitter includes a center frequency; a photodiode arranged on the substrate; and a laser bandpass filter arranged above the photodiode, wherein the bandpass filter has a passband that excludes the center frequency of the laser energy. |
| US10516489B1 |
Underwater wireless communication apparatus and communication method thereof
An underwater communication apparatus includes a light transmitting device to transmits a first communication light and a light receiving device to receive a second communication light. Further, a light identification device is used to detect a reference pattern in two dimensions, which is set on a node communication apparatus, to obtain a detection pattern. The light transmitting device and the light receiving device respectively corresponding to the light identification device are set at two relative locations. A power apparatus is used to drive the underwater communication apparatus. A control/monitor apparatus obtains the detection pattern from the light identification device and analyze a difference state between the reference pattern and the detection pattern. According to the difference state, it controls the power apparatus to move the underwater communication apparatus to a location for the detection pattern and the reference pattern being two dimensionally aligned. |
| US10516488B2 |
Decoding a combined amplitude modulated and frequency modulated signal
The present disclosure relates to a method for decoding a combined AM/FM encoded signal, comprising the steps of: combining said encoded optical signal with light from a local oscillator configured with a local oscillator frequency; converting the combined local oscillator and encoded optical signal into one or more electrical signals by means of at least one opto-electrical converter having a predefined frequency bandwidth, thereby providing an amplified and encoded electrical signal having one or more encoded signal current(s), where one type of states have a higher oscillation frequency than other type of states; rectifying the encoded signal current(s), thereby obtaining an encoded power spectrum, wherein said power spectrum has different states, such as “0”-states and “1”-states, with different power levels such that they can be discriminated, said local oscillator frequency is defined by a positive local oscillator frequency-offset from the frequency of one of the states in said encoded optical signal, and said local oscillator frequency-offset is selected to be dependent on said frequency bandwidth. |
| US10516487B1 |
Optical transmitting module
An optical transmitting module includes: light sources configured to output optical signals, an optical multiplexer configured to multiplex the optical signals output from the light sources, a collimating lens configured to convert an optical signal output from the optical multiplexer to a form of parallel beam, a package inside which the light sources, the optical multiplexer, and the collimating lens are provided, and an optical isolator disposed on one inner surface of the package, in which the optical signals output from the light sources are multiplexed into a single optical signal through the optical multiplexer disposed inside the package, and the single optical signal passes through the collimating lens and is then optically coupled to an optical fiber stub in a receptacle through a focusing lens disposed outside the package to be output externally. |
| US10516485B2 |
VCSEL based optical links in burst mode
Devices and methods are provided to reduce the wake-up time of a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) used in a data communication link. For example, in one aspect, a method for optical communications includes, in an optical communication device including a light-emitting device, applying a bias current to the light-emitting device and transmitting a pulse to the light-emitting device before transmitting a preamble signal or data signal to the light-emitting device, wherein the pulse has a voltage greater than a highest voltage of the preamble signal or data signal. |
| US10516481B2 |
Upstream failure recovery in an RFoG FFTP network
Devices and methods for bypassing a defective component in a combining network relaying respective upstream and downstream signals between a head end and a plurality of subscribers. The devices and methods may preferably redirect the upstream signal without redirecting the downstream signal using a wavelength-dependent filter. |
| US10516478B2 |
Controller based path estimation and path provisioning using optical impairment data
A method implemented by a domain controller in a network comprises transmitting, by a transmitter of the domain controller to a super controller, an update message comprising path information for one or more parallel paths having a common wavelength from a source to a destination, wherein the one or more parallel paths are free of optical impairments when the update message is transmitted to the super controller, receiving, by a receiver of the domain controller from the super controller, an initiate message comprising an identifier of a path selected from the one or more parallel paths, and provisioning, by a processor of the domain controller, the path based on a verification that the path selected by the super controller is free of optical impairments. |
| US10516476B2 |
Systems and methods for managing multilayer communication networks
A system for mapping a multilayer network having a server layer and a client layer is provided. The system includes a framework configured for comparing information obtained from a first traffic counter of a client port to information obtained from a second traffic counter of a server port to thereby determine if the client port and the server port are linked. |
| US10516465B2 |
Harmonized operation between radio link monitor and beam failure recovery
A method for harmonized operation between radio link monitor and beam failure recovery is proposed. In one example, upon indication of unsuccessful recovery from beam failure, a counter is initiated to count a configured number of OOS indication before RLF is declared due to beam failure. In another example, upon indication of successful recovery from beam failure, a counter is initiated to count a configured number of IS indication before starting over RLM procedure on its previous observations on failed beams. As a result, either early RLF declaration or RLM reset may be triggered based on BFR procedure to more accurately maintain the link quality. |
| US10516463B2 |
Method for indicating a transmission time offset of a feedback message
A method performed by a radio-network node for handling a data transmission in a number of subframes from the radio-network node to a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The radio-network node transmits data over the number of subframes to the wireless device. Each subframe comprises a control part associated with the data of the subframe. Each respective control part comprises a feedback index indicating a transmission time offset of a feedback message. The feedback message is to comprise a respective feedback indication of the number of subframes to be transmitted simultaneously from the wireless device to the radio-network node in the feedback message. |
| US10516462B2 |
Precoding and channel state information acquisition for multi-stream transmissions in massive MIMO systems
A radio access node (RAN) and method of operation of the RAN are provided. The RAN includes a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array. The RAN includes a processing hardware configured to carry out a communication method that includes receiving a digital data stream for transmission on a time-frequency resource. The RAN precodes the digital data stream using a digital beamforming stage to render a precoded digital downlink data stream for downlink data stream signal transmission to a user equipment. The digital beamforming stage includes a first precoding stage configured according to a long-term matrix, and a second precoding stage configured according to a short-term matrix. The RAN is further configured to generate a downlink data stream transmission signal to the user equipment in accordance with the precoded digital downlink data stream. |
| US10516460B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically to a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: identifying static resource in a subframe set; and transmitting and receiving data using the remaining resource, excluding the static resource, in the subframe set, wherein the remaining resource is used for downlink (DL) reception of used for uplink (UL) transmission according to an instruction by a base station. |
| US10516449B2 |
Multi-user MIMO-OFDM system
The present invention discloses various improvements to multi-user multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MU-MIMO-OFDM) wireless communication systems. In one aspect there is disclosed an efficient and accurate channel estimation method and system using locally consecutive pilot sub-carriers. In another aspect there is disclosed an efficient channel feedback method and system by applying a discrete cosine transform to channel coefficients. In another aspect there is disclosed an efficient method and system to calculate a part of the channel inverse by interpolation. These aspects can be used in combination to improve the MU-MIMO-OFDM system. |
| US10516448B2 |
Beam operation device and method in communication system supporting hybrid multiple-input multiple-output mode
The present invention relates to a 5th-generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th-generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE), and subsequent systems. The present invention provides a method by which a mobile station (MS) operates a beam in a communication system supporting a hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mode, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station (BS), information related to the number of beams to be used, by the BS, for a beam training process; receiving, from the BS, a downlink reference signal (RS); performing a channel estimation process on the basis of the downlink RS; and transmitting, to the BS, information related to the number of beams to be used by the MS, after performing the channel estimation process. |
| US10516446B2 |
Wireless power transmitter and method of controlling the same
A wireless power transmitter includes a switch circuit including switches connected to a transmission resonator; a current detector configured to detect a transient current induced in the transmission resonator; and a controller configured to control the switch circuit and adjust an output of the wireless power transmitter based on an amplitude of the transient current. |
| US10516443B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring a communication interface
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for exchanging electrical signals and guided electromagnetic waves between customer premises equipment and service provider equipment to provide uplink and/or downlink communication services. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10516442B2 |
Configurable, power supply voltage referenced single-ended signaling with ESD protection
A single-ended data transmission system transmits a signal having a signal voltage that is referenced to a power supply voltage and that swings above and below the power supply voltage. The power supply voltage is coupled to a power supply rail that also serves as a signal return path. The signal voltage is derived from two signal supply voltages generated by a pair of charge pumps that draw substantially same amount of current from a power supply. |
| US10516436B2 |
Spread-spectrum-signal reception apparatus and spread code initialization method
A spread-spectrum-signal reception apparatus includes a controller to obtain a phase comparison value that is a phase of a spread code at a time at which initialization of a phase of the spread code is performed and which corresponds to a timing of a top of a frame of a received signal, and to output an initialization instruction including the phase comparison value when having determined that a current time is within a range of a time window; and a signal processor to demodulate the received signal in accordance with the spread code, to perform a frame synchronizing process on the demodulated signal to detect a frame timing, and to perform the initialization at a timing determined in accordance with a result of comparison between the phase comparison value included in the initialization instruction and a phase of the spread code at the frame timing. |
| US10516432B2 |
Communication system with switchable devices
According to at least one aspect, a communication system is provided. The communication system includes a first switch device configured to receive a first plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals detected by an antenna array and provide an RF signal selected from among the first plurality of RF signals to a receiver circuit, the first plurality of RF signals comprising a first RF signal in a first frequency range and a second RF signal in a second frequency range that is different from the first frequency range; and a second switch device configured to receive a second plurality of RF signals detected by the antenna array and provide an RF signal selected from among the second plurality of RF signals to the receiver circuit, the second plurality of RF signals comprising a third RF signal in the first frequency range and a fourth RF signal in the second frequency range. |
| US10516431B2 |
Mobile device case for receiving wireless signals
A wireless case for use with a mobile electronic device can include a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, a right side wall, a left side wall. The case can include a wireless receiver configured to receive wireless signals. The case can further include a device interface that can be electrically coupled to the wireless receiver. The device interface can move between an engaged position and a disengaged position. In the engaged position, the device interface can be configured to engage a corresponding interface on the mobile electronic device to deliver the electrical signals from the wireless receiver to the mobile electronic device. In the disengaged position the device interface can be configured to disengage from the corresponding interface on the mobile electronic device to facilitate insertion of the mobile electronic device into the case or removal of the mobile electronic device from the case. |
| US10516426B1 |
Systems and methods for wideband image-rejecting receivers
A wideband receiver includes an active splitter that splits an electronic signal into first and second signals, first and second reconfigurable RF filters, and first and second reconfigurable IF filters. The first reconfigurable RF filter filters the first signal responsive to a first control signal and mixes the first filtered signal and an in-phase LO signal component to output a first IF signal. The second reconfigurable RF filter filters the second signal responsive to a second control signal to generate a second filtered signal and mixes the second filtered signal and a quadrature phase LO signal component to output a second IF signal. The first reconfigurable IF filter filters the first IF signal responsive to a third control signal to generate a first filtered IF signal. The second reconfigurable IF filter filters the second IF signal responsive to a fourth control signal to generate a second filtered IF signal. |
| US10516421B1 |
Apparatuses and methods involving radio configurability for adapting to radio-frequency systems
Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to communications apparatuses and methods thereof that includes a radio frequency (RF) front-end circuitry and RF back-end circuitry. The RF front-end circuit receives sets of RF signals concurrently and as transmitted from at least two disparate communication networks. The front-end circuitry includes a tunable radio having at least one antenna feeding signal conditioning and down conversion circuitry, and decimation circuitry. The decimation circuitry filters and decimates data associated with the RF signals into a plurality of digital data streams. The RF back-end circuitry includes a plurality of digital-signal processors (DSPs) that extract raw data packets from the digital data streams and a microprocessor. The microprocessor transmits the plurality of digital data streams to the plurality of DSPs and transmits the extracted raw data packets, received from the plurality of DSPs, to an end-user device. |
| US10516417B2 |
Polar code encoding method and encoding apparatus
The present invention discloses a polar code encoding method and encoding apparatus. The method includes: mapping M reserved bits of a broadcast signaling respectively to M low-reliability information bits in K information bits of a polar code, and mapping remaining bits of the broadcast signaling to remaining information bits of the K information bits, to obtain bits after mapping, where M |
| US10516413B2 |
Digital-to-time converter and information processing apparatus
A digital-to-time converter has an oscillator; and count circuitry that starts counting a number of oscillations of the oscillator when an activation signal is input, and outputs a first delay activation signal obtained by delaying the activation signal during a period from a timing when the activation signal is input to a timing when a counted number of oscillations reaches a reference number set based on a digital input signal. |
| US10516412B1 |
Image calibration for time-interleaved digital-to-analog converter
An interleaved digital-to-analog converter (DAC) system may include a first sub-DAC and a second sub-DAC and may be configured to provide both a converter output signal and a calibration output signal. The converter output signal may be provided by adding the first sub-DAC output signal and the second sub-DAC output signal. The calibration output signal may be provided by subtracting one of the first and second sub-DAC output signals from the other. The calibration output signal may be used as feedback to adjust the phase of one of the sub-DACs relative to the other, to promote phase matching their output signals. |
| US10516409B2 |
High-speed, high-resolution, photonic-based analog-to-digital converter
A photonic feedforward analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, the signal to be digitized is applied to only one electro-optic modulator. High speed is achieved by taking advantage of the fundamental property of a Pockels Cell to control wave polarization using the electro-optic effect. In a further aspect, once a bit is determined, its state is fed forward to the next least significant bit to aid in determination of the next lower bit. This nonlinear feedforward aspect of the ADC provides simplicity of its architecture. |
| US10516407B2 |
Signal processing device
According to embodiments, a signal processing device includes an AD converter, a memory, a prediction logic circuit, an error amount detection circuit, and a selector. The AD converter converts an input signal to an AD conversion value at a certain sampling frequency. The memory stores an AD conversion output result. The prediction logic circuit predicts a prediction value by using the AD conversion output result at the sampling frequency. The error amount detection circuit determines that there is no error in error determination of the AD conversion value when an error amount between the prediction value and the AD conversion value is smaller than a predetermined amount, and that there is an error in the error determination when the error amount is equal to or larger than the predetermined amount. The selector outputs one of the AD conversion value and the prediction value as an AD conversion output result, on the basis of the error determination. |
| US10516404B2 |
Voltage controlled oscillator using variable capacitor and phase locked loop using the same
A variable capacitor is provided. The variable capacitor includes a plurality of capacitor segments. The plurality of capacitor segments are connected in parallel within the variable capacitor. When a plurality of candidate capacitances allowable to the variable capacitor according to a connection state of the plurality of capacitor segments connected in parallel are sorted in a magnitude sequence, the plurality of candidate capacitances form a geometric series. The variable capacitor is used for a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO), and the VCO is used for a Phase Locked Loop (PLL). |
| US10516403B1 |
High-order phase tracking loop with segmented proportional and integral controls
Clock circuits, components, systems and signal processing methods enabling digital communication are described. A phase locked loop device derives an output signal locked to a first reference clock signal in a feedback loop. A common phase detector is employed to obtain phase differences between a copy of the output signal and a second reference clock signal. The phase differences are employed in an integral phase control loop within the feedback loop to lock the phase locked loop device to the center frequency of the second reference signal. The phase differences are also employed in a proportional phase control loop within the feedback loop to reduce the effect of imperfect component operation. Cascading the integral and proportional phase control within the feedback loop enables an amount of phase error to be filtered out from the output signal. |
| US10516399B2 |
Circuit device, oscillator, electronic apparatus, and vehicle
A circuit device includes a first oscillation circuit, a second oscillation circuit, a clock signal output circuit adapted to output a clock signal based on an output signal of the first oscillation circuit, and an output control circuit adapted to perform output control of the clock signal output circuit. The output control circuit includes a counter circuit adapted to perform a counting process based on an output signal of the second oscillation circuit, and the counter circuit outputs an output enable signal of the clock signal to the clock signal output circuit based on a result of the counting process. |
| US10516397B2 |
System level interconnect with programmable switching
In an example embodiment, a digital block comprises a datapath circuit, one or more programmable logic devices (PLDs), and one or more control registers. The datapath circuit comprises structural arithmetic elements. The one or more PLDs comprise uncommitted programmable logic. The one or more control circuits comprise a control register configured to store user-defined control bits, where the one or more control circuits are configured to control both the structural arithmetic elements and the uncommitted programmable logic based on the user-defined control bits. |
| US10516390B2 |
Circuit to mitigate signal degradation in an isolation circuit
A circuit includes an isolator that provides isolated signal communications between a host-side circuit and a converter-side circuit. The isolated signal communications include a conversion start signal generated in the host-side circuit passing through the isolator to become an isolated conversion start signal in the converter-side circuit. The isolated signal communications includes an isolated system clock generated in the converter-side circuit passing through the isolator to become a system clock in the host-side circuit. A sampling clock generator in the host-side circuit generates the conversion start signal based on the system clock. A logic circuit in the converter-side circuit re-clocks the isolated conversion start signal through the logic circuit. |
| US10516387B2 |
Signal level converter and display driving device
A signal level converter includes a bias generating circuit that generates a bias voltage, and a level shifter circuit that converts a lower voltage signal into a higher voltage signal in response to the bias voltage. The bias generating circuit includes a replica circuit that controls an on-current of the level shifter circuit in response to the bias voltage output from an operational amplifier. |
| US10516386B1 |
Circuit for controlling shape of a driver signal waveform
Briefly, embodiments of claimed subject matter relate to controlling a voltage across a circuit element utilized in a pre-driver for a bidirectional communications bus. In embodiments, a voltage control circuit may be utilized to reduce electrical stress across a capacitor coupled to the pre-driver to the communications bus. The voltage control circuit may operate to provide a voltage to a middle point between two capacitors, of a plurality of capacitors, which may operate to limit voltage across one or more capacitors to below a predetermined limit. |
| US10516382B2 |
Piezoelectric vibration member, method of manufacturing the same, and piezoelectric vibrator
There is provided a piezoelectric vibration member including: a vibration substrate including a vibrating portion and a surrounding portion which is thinner than the vibrating portion; and vibrating electrodes disposed on one surface and the other surface of the vibrating portion in a thickness direction, wherein the vibrating portion includes protrusion portions protruding in relation to one surface and the other surface of the surrounding portion in the thickness direction, and at least one side surface of the protrusion portion has two or more crystal planes. |
| US10516381B2 |
3D-printed protective shell structures for stress sensitive circuits
In one aspect of the disclosure, a semiconductor package is disclosed. The semiconductor package includes a lead frame. A semiconductor die is attached to a first side of the lead frame. A protective shell covers at least a first portion of the first surface of the semiconductor die. The protective shell comprises of ink residue. A layer of molding compound covers an outer surface of the protective shell and exposed portion of the first surface of the semiconductor die. A cavity space is within an inner space of the protective shell and the first portion of the top surface of the semiconductor die. |
| US10516376B2 |
Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method
A signal processing apparatus includes a control section, a signal processing section connected with a plurality of signal processing elements and performs signal processing for enhancing or attenuating an input signal in a specific frequency band, and a crossfade signal section including a crossfade signal processing element capable of replacing at least one of the signal processing elements, wherein the control section controls any one of the signal processing elements among the plurality of signal processing elements, and the crossfade signal processing element, to crossfade to the crossfade signal processing element having the signal processing element as a new characteristic, to perform processing for replacing any one of the signal processing elements by the crossfade signal processing element, and to perform the processing on remaining signal processing elements of the plurality of signal processing elements in the signal processing section. |
| US10516371B2 |
Power converting system
A power converting system that includes: a rectifier configured to convert an input voltage into a output voltage and including an output node that is coupled to floating ground; a radio frequency (RF) power amplifier coupled to the rectifier and configured to generate a load voltage based on an RF clock and the output voltage; a detector coupled to the RF power amplifier and configured to detect the load voltage of the RF power amplifier; an integrator coupled to the detector and configured to generate a direct current (DC) voltage based on the detected load voltage; and a controller coupled to the integrator and configured to, based on the DC voltage, generate a control signal to adjust one or more features of the RF power amplifier is disclosed. |
| US10516369B2 |
Amplifier and radiation detector
In a preamplifier (amplifier) for the radiation detector, an interconnection layer connected to the bonding pad forms one electrode of a feedback capacitor. Since there is no wiring for connecting the bonding pad and capacitor, a parasitic capacitance caused by the wiring will not be generated. Moreover, the capacitor is arranged below the bonding pad with a conductive layer serving as the other electrode, so that the feedback capacitance of the capacitor is included in the parasitic capacitance between the interconnection layer and the substrate. Compared to the conventional case, an amount of capacitance corresponding to the parasitic capacitance caused by wiring and the feedback capacitance for the capacitor is reduced from the input capacitance. Thus, the input capacitance for the amplifying circuit is reduced. |
| US10516368B2 |
Fast envelope tracking systems for power amplifiers
Fast envelope tracking systems are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracking system for a power amplifier includes a switching regulator and a differential error amplifier configured to operate in combination with one another to generate a power amplifier supply voltage for the power amplifier based on an envelope of a radio frequency (RF) signal amplified by the power amplifier. The envelope tracking system further includes a differential envelope amplifier configured to amplify a differential envelope signal to generate a single-ended envelope signal that changes in relation to the envelope of the RF signal. Additionally, the differential error amplifier generates an output current operable to adjust a voltage level of the power amplifier supply voltage based on comparing the single-ended envelope signal to a reference signal. |
| US10516359B2 |
Identification of a secondary part during use in a linear-motor-based system
A method for identifying a secondary part during use in a linear-motor-based system, wherein a primary part includes primary-part coils in the linear-motor-based system, the secondary part has a magnetic active part and the primary-part coils can be actuated via a drive current such that an advancing force acting on the secondary part and movement of the secondary part along the primary part is achievable, where at least one secondary-part winding in a circuit is provided on the secondary part, selected primary-part coils are energized via a primary current at one or more test signal frequencies to induce a secondary current in the secondary-part winding to identify the rotor, a characteristic property of the secondary-part winding or the circuit is representative of the secondary part, and where the secondary current influences a current response of the primary-part coils and the characteristic property is measured using the current response. |
| US10516357B2 |
Generator and method for controlling a generator
A switched reluctance generator and devices and methods for its control are concerned with generators and controls which can operate in an aerospace environment. The generator may have: a rotor having rotor poles; a stator having stator poles; and a controller. Either the rotor or stator poles each have windings to which current can be supplied to energise the poles and from which current can be drawn to a load; and the controller is arranged to: periodically excite each of the windings in turn to a pre-determined level of current; measure the current generated in each winding; cease the excitation when the current generated in each winding exceeds the excitation current; and direct the generated current in each winding to the load. The generator may thereby avoid the need to determine the position of the rotor poles relative to the stator poles to provide the commutation of the generator. |
| US10516354B2 |
Motor control device
To provide a motor control device capable of determining a rotor position with high accuracy not only in normal control but also in flux-weakening control. The motor control device includes: a first rotor position determining unit 28 that determines a rotor position of a synchronous motor by using a rotor position calculation formula with, as parameters, current electrical angle or induced voltage electrical angle, and first current phase or first induced voltage phase obtained based on current peak value and [(induced voltage electrical angle)−(current electrical angle)]; a second rotor position determining unit 29 that determines a rotor position of the synchronous motor by using a rotor position calculation formula with, as parameters, current electrical angle or induced voltage electrical angle, and second current phase or second induced voltage phase obtained based on current peak value and flux linkage of a rotor of the synchronous motor; and a selecting unit 30 that selects the first or second rotor position determining unit 28, 29. |
| US10516352B2 |
Brushless electric motor
A brushless electric motor of a motor vehicle, in particular an ancillary unit, including a first phase winding, which is connected in series to a first semiconductor switch, and including a second phase winding, which is connected in series to a second semiconductor switch. The brushless electric motor includes a test circuit, which is connected in parallel to the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch. A method is also provided for operating a brushless electric motor, and also provided is a drive train actuator of a motor vehicle. |
| US10516351B2 |
Electrical drive for an industrial robot
Provided is an electrical drive for an industrial robot, wherein each driver circuit for the associated power switches of the first half-bridge is designed, in the case of a voltage-free or current-free state of the associated control input, to put the power switch associated with the control input into a non-conductive state, each driver circuit for the associated power switches of the second half-bridge is designed, in the case of a voltage-free or current-free state of the associated control input, to put the power switch associated with the control input into a conductive state, and a switching device is provided, which is designed, with the safety signal for the forced switch-off of the rotating-field voltage, to simultaneously switch the control inputs of the driver circuits for all power switches of the inverter into a voltage-free and/or current-free state. |
| US10516349B2 |
Method of driving vibration actuator with enhanced sliding efficiency, vibration drive device, and mechanical apparatus
A vibration actuator includes a vibration element including a piezoelectric element as an electromechanical energy conversion element and an elastic body which is joined to the piezoelectric element, and a driven element which is brought into pressure contact with the elastic body. Driving vibration is excited in the vibration element by applying a drive signal to the piezoelectric element, whereby the vibration element and the driven element are moved relative to each other. The driving vibration is a vibration in which at least n-th-order vibration and 2n-th-order vibration are combined, n being a natural number. |
| US10516345B2 |
Power conversion controller for electric train
A power conversion controller for electric train in one aspect of the present disclosure includes an active current command value generator, an overhead line voltage detector, an initial value calculator, an adjustment value calculator, an upper limit value setter, and an output limiter. The output limiter outputs a reactive current command adjustment value calculated by the adjustment value calculator as a reactive current command value when the reactive current command adjustment value is equal to or lower than an upper limit value set by the upper limit value setter, and outputs the upper limit value as the reactive current command value when the reactive current command adjustment value exceeds the upper limit value. |
| US10516338B2 |
Voltage converter controller, voltage converter and method for operating a voltage converter
Voltage converter controllers, voltage converters and methods are discussed regarding the adjustment of an on-time of an auxiliary switch of a voltage converter. First and second voltages are measured before a primary switch of the voltage converter is turned on and while the primary switch is turned on, and the on-time is adjusted based on the voltages. |
| US10516337B2 |
DC voltage conversion circuit
A DC voltage conversion circuit in which the miniaturization of the inductor is attained and the frequency of control band can be widened, by suppressing the ripple current which flows into the inductor using a general magnetic core without using a special multi-leg magnetic core. A DC voltage conversion circuit is provided with two sets of magnetic flux cancellation conversion circuits each of which is provided with two sets of series circuits of two semiconductor circuits, a first magnetic flux cancellation type transformer, and a inductor; a second magnetic flux cancellation type transformer connected to the two sets of magnetic flux cancellation conversion circuits; and a control circuit which controls switching devices of semiconductor circuits. |
| US10516333B2 |
Slew control for high-side switch
A circuit for slew rate control for a high-side switch is disclosed. The circuit comprises a sample and level-shift circuit. The sample and level-shift circuit is connected to the high-side switch. The circuit further comprises a sampling capacitor, and the sampling capacitor is configured to sample an input voltage corresponding to the sample and level-shift circuit. Additionally, the circuit includes a charge-limiting circuit. The sampling capacitor is configured to charge a gate capacitance of the high-side switch. The charge-limiting circuit is configured to limit a rate of charge transferred to the gate capacitance of the high-side switch per unit of time. |
| US10516327B2 |
System and method for controlling switching device in power converter
A method for controlling a power converter includes receiving an input signal through an input node and generating an intermediate signal using a capacitor, generating a control signal in response to the input signal and the intermediate signal, coupling or decoupling the input node and the capacitor in response to the control signal, and generating an output signal in response to the intermediate signal. A circuit for controlling a power converter includes an input node receiving an input signal, a first capacitor providing an intermediate signal, a detection circuit generating a control signal in response to the input signal and the intermediate signal, a switching device coupling the input node and the first capacitor in response to the control signal, and a regulator generating an output signal in response to the intermediate signal. |
| US10516326B2 |
Voice coil motor
A VCM is disclosed, the VCM including a rotor including a bobbin arranged at an upper surface of a base formed with an opening, and a driving coil wound on the bobbin, a stator including a driving magnet opposite to the driving coil, and a yoke secured by the driving magnet at an inner surface of a lateral plate, and a tilting unit including a tilt magnet arranged at an outer surface of the lateral plate, a housing fixing the tilt magnet, and a tilt coil unit opposite to the tilt magnet. |
| US10516323B2 |
Segmented switched reluctance motor for powertrain electrification
The present disclosure relates to a transmission system having a transmission subsystem, a transmission housing for housing the transmission subsystem, and a rotor operably associated with the transmission subsystem. The rotor has a weight and dimension to act as a flywheel. At least one stator pole segment is housed within the transmission housing and has at least one stator winding thereon positioned in proximity to a surface of the rotor. An inverter communicates with the stator winding and electrically energizes the winding to cause rotation of the rotor. |
| US10516322B2 |
Method and apparatus for maintenance of electric motor
An electric motor is disclosed having a detachable stator tooth. In some implementations, coil windings of the electric motor may be coupled to one or more drivers independently of other coil windings. A method of repairing and manufacturing an electric motor having a detachable stator tooth is also disclosed. |
| US10516320B2 |
Cooling system for an electric motor
A stator housing has an annular wall including a first end, a second end, an outer surface and an inner surface defining an interior cavity. A stator is arranged within the interior cavity. The stator includes an outer surface portion, a first end turn and a second end turn. A coolant annulus extends about at least a portion of the stator housing. The coolant annulus includes at least one coolant spray passage arranged to direct a spray of coolant at one of the first end turn and the second end turn. A coolant seal and distributor is coupled to the stator housing at the first end sealing against the stator. The coolant seal and distributor includes one or more coolant spray nozzles arranged to direct a spray of coolant onto the other of the first end turn and the second end turn. |
| US10516319B2 |
External fan and drive end housing for an air cooled alternator
An external centrifugal fan and drive end frame for use in an air cooled alternator are provided. Also provided is a vented pulley. |
| US10516316B2 |
Housing for an electric machine
A housing for an electric machine may include an outer housing (2), an inner housing (3) arranged in the outer housing (2) and an intermediate casing space (5) formed between the outer housing (2) and the inner housing (3) as seen in a radial direction with respect to a stator axis (4). The outer housing and the inner housing (2, 3) may be pot-shaped and in each case have a base (9, 10) such that a base intermediate space (11) is formed between the base (9) of the outer housing (2) and the base (10) of the inner housing (3). The housing may further include a plurality of cooling ribs (8) running in an axial direction in the intermediate casing space (5) such that the cooling ribs extend into the base intermediate space (11) and run in a radial direction in the base intermediate space (11). |
| US10516313B2 |
Insulator for armature, motor
An insulator for an armature has holes and guide portions. The holes are penetrated by pins. The pins are connected to one ends of corresponding coils, respectively. The guide portions respectively guide the jumper lines in a circumferential direction with respect to an axis. |
| US10516301B2 |
System and methods for using sound waves to wirelessly deliver power to electronic devices
Wireless charging systems, and methods of use thereof, are disclosed herein. As an example, a method includes: receiving, by a radio of a transmitter, a communication signal from a wireless-power-receiving device, the communication signal containing location data indicating a location of the wireless-power-receiving device. The method further includes, in response determining that the location of the wireless-power-receiving device is within a predetermined range from the transmitter: (i) generating sound waves from a sound wave integrated circuit of the transmitter and (ii) transmitting the sound waves through a plurality of transducer elements to the location of the wireless-power-receiving device, wherein the sound waves are transmitted so that they converge constructively to form a controlled constructive interference pattern in three-dimensional (3-D) space at the location of the wireless-power-receiving device. |
| US10516299B2 |
Power reception device and power reception method for non-contact power transmission
A power reception control device provided in a power reception device of a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-reception-side control circuit that controls an operation of the power reception device, and a power supply control signal output terminal that supplies a power supply control signal to a charge control device, the power supply control signal controlling power supply to a battery. The power-reception-side control circuit controls a timing at which the power supply control signal (ICUTX) is output from the power supply control signal output terminal. The operation of the charge control device is compulsorily controlled using the power supply control signal (ICUTX). |
| US10516297B2 |
Wireless power transfer pad and ground assembly having the same
A wireless power transmission pad for transmitting wireless power to a reception pad including a secondary coil includes: a rectangular-shaped primary coil having an X-width defined in an x-direction and a Y-width defined in a y-direction and having a central space; a ferrite coupled to the primary coil; and a housing supporting the primary coil and the ferrite. A first cross-sectional area of a first portion including the X-width of the primary coil is smaller than a second cross-sectional area of a second portion including the Y-width of the primary coil. |
| US10516291B2 |
Dongle having rechargeable, supercapacitor based power supply
A backup power system is disclosed which has a first port in communication with a server. The server includes first and second ports, and the backup power system is in communication with the second port of the server and receives a first voltage signal from the second port of the server. A second communications port of the system is in communication with a peripheral. The peripheral is powered by a separate connection to the first port of the server. A controller of the system detects when power being provided by the server through the server's second port has dropped below a threshold level. A power storage component responsive to the controller supplies power to the peripheral when the power provided from the server's second port drops below the threshold level. |
| US10516288B2 |
Wireless charging system and method
Each wireless charging device of the wireless charging system has a Bluetooth module for detecting signal strength between the wireless charging device and an electronic device. The signal strength information is shared among the wireless charging devices by their data transceiver units. An analysis module of each wireless charging device automatically determines one wireless charging device having the best connection, and a decision module of the determined wireless charging device transmits a charging permit to the electronic device. Cross connection of the electronic device to multiple wireless charging devices is therefore avoided. |
| US10516284B2 |
Voltage controlled charge pump and battery charger
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for a voltage controlled charge pump and battery charger. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for operating a voltage controlled charge pump. The method includes selectively opening and closing a plurality of switches based on a voltage on a feedback path. The plurality of switches are coupled between a voltage input terminal and a voltage output terminal. A first capacitor is coupled between at least a first switch and a second switch of the plurality of switches. A second capacitor is coupled to the voltage output terminal. The feedback path is coupled to at least one of the voltage output terminal, the first capacitor, and the second capacitor. |
| US10516281B2 |
Charging apparatus for wireless earphone
A charging apparatus for wireless earphones includes a rechargeable battery, first and second electrical cables, and first and second charging receptacles. The first charging receptacle is electrically connected to the rechargeable battery by the first electrical cable and includes a cavity for receiving a first one of the wireless earphones. The first charging receptacle further includes first electrical contacts to electrically interface to electrical contacts of the first wireless earphone and a first audio path between an outer surface of the first charging receptacle and an inner surface of the cavity. The second charging receptacle is electrically connected to the rechargeable battery by the second electrical cable and includes a cavity for receiving a second one of the wireless earphones. The second charging receptacle further includes second electrical contacts to electrically interface to electrical contacts of the second wireless earphone. The second charging receptacle also includes an audio path. |
| US10516277B2 |
Battery connection method and apparatus
An improved electrical connector for electrically connecting a rechargeable battery with an electrically powered device as well as methods of operation for use of an electrically powered device comprising the improved connector are provided. The connector may comprise one or more features including: integration of both first terminals for transmitting charging or discharging signals to and from the battery as well as one or more signal terminals for transmitting one or more balancing signals to and from the battery; implementation of communication means allowing for one or more signals comprising battery specific information to be received by the electrically powered device upon making an electrical connection with the battery; and, one or more safety features for preventing unsupported electrical connections between incompatible connector configurations. An electrically powered implemented with the improved electrical connector may detect one or more characteristics of a battery upon electrically connecting with the battery and may reconfigure one or more operational settings of the electrically powered device in response to the detected characteristics to safely charge or discharge the battery. |
| US10516276B2 |
Secondary battery protecting integrated circuit, secondary battery protecting circuit, charge control circuit, and battery pack
A secondary battery protecting integrated circuit protects a secondary battery by controlling a switch circuit inserted in series on a path connected to a first electrode of the secondary battery. The secondary battery protecting integrated circuit includes: a sense terminal connected to a monitor terminal provided so that a first electric potential of the first electrode is monitorable; a first power supply terminal connected to the path; a second power supply terminal connected to a second electrode of the secondary battery; an internal wiring line configured to connect the first power supply terminal and the sense terminal; an internal switch on the internal wiring line; an abnormality detecting circuit configured to detect a predetermined abnormality; and a switch control circuit configured to turn on the internal switch when the predetermined abnormality is not detected, and configured to turn off the internal switch when the predetermined abnormality is detected. |
| US10516274B2 |
Simultaneous transmission and reception of guided surface waves
Disclosed are various embodiments of a guided surface wave transmitter/receiver configured to transmit a guided surface wave at a first frequency and to receive guided surface waves at a second frequency, concurrently with the transmission of guided surface waves at the first frequency. The various embodiments can be configured to retransmit received power and applied the received power to an electrical load. The various embodiments of the guided surface wave transmitter/receiver also can be configured as an amplitude modulation (AM) repeater. |
| US10516269B2 |
Real time feedback-based optimization of distributed energy resources
An example device includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of voltage values corresponding to voltage nodes in a first portion of a power system and determine, for each voltage node, a respective value of first and second voltage-constraint coefficients. The processor is also configured to receive a power value corresponding to a connection point of the first portion of the power system with a second portion of the power system and determine for the connection point, a respective value of first and second power-constraint coefficients. The processor is also configured to cause at least one energy resource connected to the first portion of the power system to modify an output power of the at least one energy resource based on the value of the first and second voltage-constraint coefficients for each voltage node and the value of the first and second power-constraint coefficients. |
| US10516267B2 |
Method and its system of management of priority-based energy distribution
Disclosed are a priority-based energy distribution method and a priority-based energy distribution system for performing the priority-based energy distribution method. The method may include receiving an energy distribution request including information on demand energy amounts from energy consumers, determining a priority of each of the energy consumers with respect to each of energy suppliers, determining an optimal energy amount of each of the energy consumers based on the determined priority, the demand energy amounts, and available distribution energy resources of the energy suppliers, and distributing energies of the available distribution energy resources to the respective energy consumers based on the determined optimal energy amount. |
| US10516266B2 |
Power supply network control system and method
A method or system for controlling an energy or power supply network having a coordination centre, a plurality of local end-user units and a communications network linking the local units and the coordination centre and a supply network connecting the local units and the coordination centre for energy or power supply. The supply network has constraints that limits power or energy consumption at at least one of the local end-user units. The method or system is adapted so that the coordination centre transmits a control signal indicating a degree of imbalance of the system to the at least one of the local end-user units, and the at least one local end-user unit is adapted to transmit a reaction signal to the coordination centre indicative of a power schedule for the local unit. |
| US10516258B2 |
Retractable cable assembly in use with electrical devices
A retractable cable assembly in use with an electrical charger, power adapter, or other power supply. A cable wound on a spool within the cable assembly housing may be extracted by manually pulling on the cable or pressing of a release switch until the desired length of the cord is drawn. As the cord is drawn a torsional spring rotatably coupled to the spool and located within the core of the spool is compressed. An engaged pawl-ratchet mechanism is used to keep the spool, torsional spring and cord in place during and after extraction of the cord until which time retraction of the cord is desired. Rotation or twisting of the housing lid or of the main housing of the retractable cable assembly housing disengages the pawl-ratchet mechanism, thereby freeing the spool and torsional spring. The compressed torsional spring within the core of the spool rotates immediately as it decompresses causing the coupled spool to rotate and retract the cable, thereby winding it back around the spool within the housing. |
| US10516256B2 |
Enclosure and face plate support member for use with the enclosure
An enclosure system includes a box with a base and four sidewalls, and a support member having opposite first and second ends and defining a longitudinal axis between the opposite first and second ends for supporting components within the box. A component interface portion is formed on the first end, and an enclosure interface portion is formed on the second end. The component interface portion defines a first connection region for selective connection with a component to be located in the box, and the enclosure interface portion defines a non-circular cylindrical locating region for engagement with a corresponding oppositely formed non-circular cylindrical locating region on the base of the box. The engagement between the non-circular cylindrical locating region and the oppositely formed non-circular cylindrical locating region on the base of the box prevents rotational movement of the elongate body member about the longitudinal axis relative to the box. |
| US10516250B1 |
Near-infrared vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser and transfer method thereof
A near-infrared vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser is provided, which utilizes a conventional distributed Bragg reflector and a complex Bragg reflector which consists of a dielectric Bragg reflector and a reflective metal layer to construct a cavity. With the disposition of a confining layer, the light emitted from an active layer is confined in the cavity to resonate so as to emit a laser light. The thickness of the complex Bragg reflector is much thinner than that of the conventional distributed Bragg reflector, thereby lowering the cost of manufacture. In addition, with the transfer method, the laser is transferred to the substrate with high thermal conductivity to increase the heat dissipation efficiency. Therefore, the present invention can maintain operation while emitting a high-power laser. |
| US10516244B1 |
Adapter and adaptation method for hand-held electronic data processing device
An adapter for a hand-held electronic data processing device includes an electrical male connector insertable and configured to fit into a female connector of the electronic data processing device, wherein electrical connector elements, on a surface of the adapter, are coupleable with elements of an external connector, and the surface of the electrical connector elements are at least approximately averagely parallel to the surface of the adapter adjacent to them. The electrical male connector and the connector elements are in electrical connection with each other on or within the adapter for electrical adaptation between the external connector and the female connector of the electronic data processing device. |
| US10516243B2 |
Wire harness connecting structure for two circuit assemblies
A wire harness connecting structure for two circuit assemblies is provided. The structure allows a wire harness to be easily connected to two circuit assemblies with high space efficiency, and can reduce noise in the wire harness. A first connection terminal is provided in a first circuit assembly and a second connection terminal is provided in a second circuit assembly are located adjacent to each other. Two electrical wire-side connection terminals are respectively provided at an end of a first electrical wire and an end of a second electrical wire are housed and positioned in a shared connector housing, and thus a single harness end connector is formed. A wire harness is constituted by the first electrical wire and the second electrical wire. The electrical wire-side connection terminals of the wire harness are configured to be electrically connected to the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal. |
| US10516242B2 |
Multistage signal transmission connector
A multistage signal transmission connector for connecting with a multi-signal plug and a plurality of signal lines includes a socket, a signal terminal unit, and an insertion space. The signal terminal unit is mounted to a side of the socket. The socket includes an axial insertion hole into which the multi-signal plug is inserted. The insertion space is surrounded and defined by the signal terminal unit and extends axially to intercommunicate with the axial insertion hole. The signal terminal unit includes a plurality of signal terminals. Each of the plurality of signal terminals includes a body having an elastic contact portion and an external signal portion. The elastic contact portion protrudes inwards into the insertion space and bends. The external signal portion axially extends towards an outer edge of the insertion space and is electrically connected to the elastic contact portion. |
| US10516241B2 |
Audio intercom plug connector
Presented and described is, amongst other items, an intercom plug-in connector (10) for audio connections, comprising a cylindrical housing (19) extending in the axial direction (27), in particular with a circular, or essentially circular, cross-section, whose first axial end (20) is formed by a plug-in extension (22) that on its front face (39) has a plurality of sockets (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d), in particular four sockets positioned relative to one another in an approximately V-shape, for contact pins (24a, 24b), and which at its second axial end (21) has a phone jack (25) for a phone plug (14). |
| US10516240B1 |
Functional indoor coaxial wall outlet cover
An indoor coaxial wall outlet cover permitting functional use of a coaxial wall outlet while fully concealing the coaxial connector plug of the coaxial wall outlet. The cover has a hidden, functional coaxial connector plug that inserts into the coaxial connector plug attached to the underlying coaxial outlet box in the wall and is connected to an extended coaxial cable having at its distal end one or more functional coaxial connector plugs for use of the wall outlet to connect to a wide variety of home entertainment equipment such as televisions, DVRs, CATV, and satellite TV receivers. The cover can be essentially featureless in outward appearance, and when positioned over a wall coaxial outlet box, the cover can fully hide that box. The cover is thin so that furniture may be positioned effectively flush against the wall in front of the covered coaxial outlet box. |
| US10516233B2 |
Configurable strain relieve plate
A configurable strain relief plate assembly having a bracket member having a pair of arms and a support member between the two arms. The support member has a plurality of holes for connecting a plurality of tie down plates. The assembly has one or more captive screws or other means for connecting the bracket member to an interface module. The assembly further has one or more tie down plates connected to the support member, for example, with screws. Each tie down plate has one or more holes for connecting wires or contacts to the tie down plate, for example, with one or more zip ties or clips. |
| US10516230B2 |
Electrical connector assembly
An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having cavities for receiving electric contact elements and a fastening device to fasten a cable harness that includes the electrical contact elements. The electrical connector assembly also includes a cover attached to the housing. A housing transition portion of the housing and a cover transition portion of the cover cooperate with each other to define a tube shaped guiding channel for guiding the cable harness. The fastening device is arranged inside the guiding channel. The fastening device comprises means configured to cooperate with a cable tie such that it guides and holds the cable tie in a holding direction perpendicular to an extension direction of the guiding channel. |
| US10516228B2 |
Connector having a mechanism which prevents plastic deformation of a terminal
A connector is mateable with a mating connector along an upper-lower direction (Z-direction). The connector comprises a housing and a terminal. The housing has a holding portion and an upstanding portion which are apart from each other in a width direction (Y-direction). The upstanding portion has a stop portion. The terminal has a held portion held by the holding portion and a spring portion extending from the held portion. The spring portion has a base portion and an upward extending portion extending upward from the base portion. The upward extending portion has a facing portion which faces the upstanding portion in the width direction. The facing portion has a stopped portion. Under a mated state where the connector and the mating connector are mated with each other, the stop portion is located above the stopped portion and faces the stopped portion in the upper-lower direction. |
| US10516227B2 |
Connector and communications device
A connector (100) and a communications device is disclosed. The connector includes a connector body (41) and three connecting ends disposed on the connector body. M signal interfaces (51a) inside a first connecting end (42) are in communication with M signal interfaces (51b) inside a second connecting end (43) in a one-to-one correspondence. The first connecting end is connected to a backplane connector (32) on a backplane (31). The second connecting end is connected to one end (45a) of a transmission cable (45), and the other end (45b) of the transmission cable is connected to a communications component (46) on a target board (33a). The backplane is configured to implement communication between X boards (33), and the target board is any one of X boards, where M≥1 and X≥1. A third connecting end (44) is configured to secure the connector body to the target board. |
| US10516224B1 |
Edge launch connector for electronics assemblies
An edge launch signal connector (e.g., RF connector) comprises a connector body having a support aperture, and one or more interface surfaces operable to interface with an edge launch connector support portion of a first circuit board. A plurality of ground contact pins can be supported by the connector body and can be arrayed about the support aperture of the connector body, and a signal pin can be supported within the support aperture. In response to the edge launch signal connector engaging a second circuit board, the signal pin interfaces with a signal contact pad of the second circuit board, and the plurality of ground contact pins interface with at least one ground contact pad. A first circuit board assembly can support a plurality of edge launch signal connectors for blind-mate coupling first and second circuit board assemblies together to accommodate for positional tolerances. |
| US10516223B2 |
LGA socket with improved high-speed differential signal performance
Embodiments are directed to an electrical contact for use in an LGA connector having a split beam cantilever. The contact includes a base adapted for retention in an LGA connector. The contact also includes two cantilever beams extending from the base. The cantilever beams are each connected to the base at a first end of each respective cantilever beam. The contact includes a neck defining a region where a second end of each the two cantilever beams are connected. A contact tip extends from the neck. |
| US10516220B2 |
Method for cohesive joining to a cable end, and also configured cable
The invention proposes a method for cohesive joining to a cable end (1), in which method a welding tool element (30, 37, 41, 43, 45, 48, 53) is fitted on an open bundle end of individual cores (2, 15) of the cable end (1), welding energy is fed into the individual cores (2, 15), and the welding tool element (30, 37, 41, 43, 45, 48, 53) is removed from the bundle end. In the process, an engagement recess (7, 21) can be formed in the open bundle end, an engagement pin (6, 20, 31, 38, 42, 44, 46, 49, 54) of the welding tool element (30, 37, 41, 43, 45, 48, 53) can engage into the engagement recess (7, 21), and at least a portion of the welding energy can be fed via the engagement recess (7, 21). A configured cable comprising individual cores (2, 15) with a receiving sleeve (4, 16, 33) is also presented, wherein the receiving sleeve (4, 16, 33) has an inlet opening (9) for a bundle (3) of the individual cores (2, 15), the receiving sleeve (4, 16, 33) has an end piece (5, 18) which is widened in relation to the inlet opening (9), and there is, at least also in the widened end piece (5, 18), a cohesive connection between at least one subset of the individual cores (2, 15) with respect to one another and/or between at least a subset of the individual cores (2, 15) and the receiving sleeve (4, 16, 33). |
| US10516209B2 |
Phased array antenna device
Synthesizers (32, 24) for synthesizing feedback signals output from a plurality of antenna modules (4) are provided. A distortion compensation signal output unit (15) derives, from a difference between a feedback signal synthesized by the synthesizers (32, 24) and a base band signal output from a modulation unit (12), a distortion compensation coefficient that provides, to the base band signal, distortion characteristics opposite to distortion characteristics of a signal radiated from the phased array antenna and outputs a predistortion signal representing the distortion compensation coefficient to a PD unit (13). |
| US10516208B2 |
Electronic device including shielding structure
An electronic device, of the present disclosure, may include: a housing; an antenna unit disposed inside the housing and including a conductive pattern configured to generate a magnetic field; a plate comprising at least a part of the housing and including a material through which at least a part of the magnetic field generated by the conductive pattern can pass; and a control circuit configured to transmit at least one piece of payment information to an external device using the conductive pattern, wherein the antenna unit including the conductive pattern includes: a first coil having a first plurality of turns that is substantially perpendicular to one surface of the plate; and a second coil having a second plurality of turns that is substantially parallel to the surface of the plate, and a shielding structure comprising a shielding material is disposed inside the first coil or below the second coil. The electronic device, according to various example embodiments of the present disclosure, can implement various read-out methods (for example, a Near Field Communication (NFC) method and a Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) method) with one module due to the shape of the shielding structure disposed in the antenna unit. |
| US10516196B2 |
Dual mode cavity filter and system comprising such filter
A dual mode cavity filter installed aboard a satellite having a first and a second waveguide cavity, a first coupling waveguide iris having an input slot and followed by the first waveguide cavity, a second coupling waveguide iris having a coupling slot, following the first waveguide cavity and followed by the second waveguide cavity, and a third coupling waveguide iris having an output slot and following the second waveguide cavity. The dual mode cavity filter is associated with a plurality of devices having at least one respective commanded rod having a certain insertion length with respect of the waveguide cavities and of the slots. The devices are placed in predetermined positions of the cavities and/or of the irises and are arranged to perform a tuning modification and/or a coupling modification of the filter by controlling the insertion length of the rods in outer space. |
| US10516195B2 |
Anaerobic aluminum-water electrochemical cell
An anaerobic aluminum-water electrochemical cell is provided. The electrochemical cell includes: a plurality of electrode stacks, each electrode stack featuring an aluminum or aluminum alloy anode, and at least one cathode configured to be electrically coupled to the anode; one or more physical separators between each electrode stack adjacent to the cathode; a housing configured to hold the electrode stacks, an electrolyte, and the physical separators; a water injection port, in the housing, configured to introduce water into the housing; and an amount of hydroxide base sufficient to form an electrolyte having a hydroxide base concentration of at least 0.5% to at most 13% of the saturation concentration when water is introduced between the anode and the least one cathode. |
| US10516192B2 |
Battery pack thermal regulation device
The invention relates to a device for the thermal regulation of a motor vehicle battery pack (1) comprising at least one battery (5) contained in a housing (3), the thermal regulation device comprising: at least one heat exchanger (9) in contact with the battery (5), at least one elastic element (15) arranged in the bottom (14) of the housing (3) so as to hold the heat exchanger (9) against the battery (5). An insulator (13) is interposed between the elastic element (15) and the heat exchanger (9). |
| US10516191B2 |
Methods and systems for busbar cooling
A rechargeable battery system, a battery pack, and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed herein. The rechargeable battery system and/or battery pack can be for an electric vehicle. The rechargeable battery system and/or battery pack can include a plurality of battery cells arranged into one or more rows and a busbar. The battery cells can each include a first terminal and a second terminal, and the plurality of battery cells can include a subset of battery cells with the first terminal oriented in a same direction. The busbar can be conductive so as to be able to conduct electrical energy to and from at least the subset of battery cells. The busbar can define a busbar cooling duct having an entrance and an exit. The busbar cooling duct can in thermal connection with a plurality of contacts of the busbar. |
| US10516190B2 |
Surface mount battery and portable electronic device with integrated battery cell
Systems and methods are provided for battery cells including solid electrolytes. Solid electrolyte cells may be integrated with electronic devices. For example, a solid electrolyte cell may be integrated with a metal surface of a circuit board or an electrically conductive surface of a chassis. Surface-mountable solid electrolyte cells may be electrically coupled to circuit traces using, for example, a reflow soldering process. |
| US10516186B2 |
Negative electrode active material including titanium-based composite, method of preparing the same and lithium secondary battery including the same
The present invention provides a lithium secondary battery, including a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material, and a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the negative electrode active material may include a titanium-based composite, wherein, when the lithium secondary battery is charged to SOC 50 under C-rate conditions of 0.1 to 40 C, the titanium-based composite has a ratio of the peak area of a plane (400) and the peak area of a plane (111) of 0.76 or more in a measured X-ray diffraction spectrum (XRD). Therefore, the present invention may provide a lithium secondary battery having excellent output characteristics and a battery pack in which a BMS prediction algorithm is simplified. |
| US10516180B2 |
Carbon dioxide removal system for anode exhaust of a fuel cell
A carbon dioxide removal system includes: an absorption system including a first absorption stage and a second absorption stage. The first absorption stage includes: a first compressor configured to receive and compress a first carbon dioxide-containing exhaust stream from an anode of a fuel cell, and a first direct contact absorption cooling tower configured to absorb carbon dioxide from the compressed first exhaust stream and lower a temperature of the compressed first exhaust stream using a first solvent stream containing a physical solvent, to generate a second exhaust stream. The second absorption stage includes: a second compressor configured to receive and compress the second exhaust stream from the first absorption stage, and a second direct contact absorption cooling tower configured to absorb carbon dioxide from the compressed second exhaust stream and lower a temperature of the compressed second exhaust stream using a second solvent stream containing a physical solvent. |
| US10516179B2 |
Fuel cell system and method of controlling the same
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack having a plurality of cells each having hydrogen channels, a hydrogen channel inlet, and a hydrogen channel outlet, a load supplied with power from the fuel cell stack, a circulation passage connecting the channel inlet with the channel outlet, a hydrogen pump provided in the circulation passage, and a controller. The controller rotates the hydrogen pump in a positive direction so as to feed the hydrogen gas in a first amount into each cell through the channel inlet, at a flow rate larger than a minimum flow rate required for power generation, and then rotate the hydrogen pump in a negative direction so as to feed the hydrogen gas into each cell through the channel outlet, during a period from stop of power supply to the load, to the next start of power supply. |
| US10516177B2 |
Fuel cell purge systems and related processes
A fuel cell purge system includes a primary fuel cell in fluid communication with a purge cell. Fuel and oxidant purged with inert gas impurities from the primary fuel cell react in the purge cell, thereby decreasing the volume of purged gases and facilitating storage while maintaining fuel cell electrochemical performance. |
| US10516175B2 |
Fuel cell system, a fire fighting system, and an aircraft
A fuel cell system for an aircraft includes a fuel cell, wherein at the cathode side a cathode inlet and a cathode outlet is provided, and wherein at the anode side an anode inlet and an anode outlet is provided, and a cathode recirculation channel for passing the cathode product fluid from the cathode outlet to the cathode inlet. In the fuel cell system, the water content of the cathode product fluid in the cathode recirculation channel can be reduced or at least stabilized in a possibly effective way, because the cathode recirculation channel includes a water extraction device for extracting water from the cathode product fluid. |
| US10516166B2 |
Anode of lithium battery and lithium battery using the same
An anode of lithium battery comprises a current collector and an anode material layer. The anode material layer is located in at least one surface of the current collector. The current collector is a three-dimensional porous composite structure. The three-dimensional porous composite structure comprises a porous structure and at least one carbon nanotube structure. The porous structure has a plurality of metal ligaments and a plurality of pores. The at least one carbon nanotube structure is embedded in the porous structure and comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes joined end to end by van der Waals attractive force, wherein the plurality of carbon nanotubes are arranged along a same direction. |
| US10516153B2 |
Negative-electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
The initial charge/discharge efficiency and cycle characteristics of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that contains a silicon material as a negative-electrode active material are improved. A negative-electrode active material particle (10) according to an embodiment includes a lithium silicate phase (11) represented by Li2zSiO(2+z) {0 |
| US10516148B2 |
Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer
The present invention improves productivity of production of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery insulating porous layer in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is a constituent member of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery laminated separator, includes a thermoplastic resin, has a porosity of 25% to 80%, and has a peeling strength of above 0 N/m to 2.0 N/m when press-bonded to a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode at 25° C. through two one-minute 30 kN applications, the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode containing an electrode active material, an electrically conductive agent, and a binding agent in a mass fraction of 92:2.7:5.3. |
| US10516147B2 |
Battery pack with reduced magnetic field emission
Implementations of a battery pack with reduced magnetic field emission are provided. In some implementations, the battery pack may be configured to reduce and/or eliminate the magnetic field normally generated while electrical current is being drawn from one or more cylindrical-steel electrochemical cells (e.g., AA batteries) by a connected electrical device. In some implementations, each electrochemical cell of a battery pack may include a conductive sleeve comprised of four conductive strips that are separated from the electrochemical cell by a thin insulating layer of material. In this way, the conductive sleeve provides a return path for electrical current that minimizes the loop area between the electrochemical cell and the conductive sleeve thereof. In some implementations, the four conductive strips of a conductive sleeve may be equally spaced 90 degrees apart and/or positioned longitudinally on a cylindrical-steel electrochemical cell, separated therefrom by the insulating layer of material. |
| US10516145B2 |
Battery pack array retention
An exemplary battery assembly includes an endplate of a battery array, and an enclosure wall secured directly to the endplate from outside an open area of a battery pack enclosure. An exemplary method of securing a battery array includes positioning a battery array within an open area of an enclosure and, from a position outside the open area, securing an endplate of a battery array directly to a wall of a battery pack enclosure. |
| US10516144B2 |
Energy storage apparatus
Provides is an energy storage apparatus which includes: a plurality of energy storage devices disposed in a row in a first direction, and a bus bar configured to connect external terminals of energy storage devices to each other, wherein the bus bar includes a first member having a first connection portion connected to the external terminal of one energy storage device and a first extension portion extending from the first connection portion; and a second member having a second connection portion connected to the external terminal of another energy storage device and a second extension portion extending from the second connection portion, and the first extension portion has a first conductive surface, and the second extension portion has a second conductive surface which is made to overlap with the first conductive surface in a separable manner in a state where the second conductive surface faces the first conductive surface. |
| US10516143B2 |
Sealing system for a terminal feed-through
A battery includes an outer wall having a through-hole defined by a peripheral opening edge, at least one cell having a positive electrode and a negative electrode, an electrically conductive terminal stud connected to the positive electrode or the negative electrode, including a shaft extending through the through-hole, and at least one clamping element sitting on the shaft and covering the through-hole, and forming an annular gap together with the outer wall, an electrically insulating and annular support element surrounding the shaft of the terminal stud in a sleeve-like manner, and having an outward-facing peripheral contact surface against which the opening edge of the through-hole lies, wherein the support element includes a glass or a ceramic, or a glass- or ceramic-based composite material, and a sealing element arranged concentrically around the support element in the gap between the clamping element and the outer wall. |
| US10516142B2 |
Battery module and battery pack including same
Provided are a battery module capable of preventing damage of a battery cell in as case when the battery cell is mounted and accommodated in a cell cartridge, and a battery pack including the battery module. The battery module according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of battery cells, at least one cell cartridge configured to guide stacking of the plurality of battery cells and to mount therein at least one battery cell among the plurality of battery cells, and a sheet member provided between the battery cell and the cell cartridge, and the sheet member is adhered to the battery cell on a surface where the sheet member contacts the battery cell and is adhered to the cell cartridge on a surface where the sheet member contacts the cell cartridge, to fix the battery cell and the cell cartridge to each other via the sheet member. |
| US10516139B2 |
Organic light emitting display
An organic light emitting display including a back plane including an active area on which an image is displayed, and a bezel area outside the active area; a pixel array on the active area and configured to display the image; an encapsulation plate encapsulating the pixel array; a transparent adhesive film free of a moisture absorption filler, formed on the active area and disposed between the encapsulation plate and the back plane; and a dam including a sealant with a moisture absorption filler formed in the bezel area and adjoining the adhesive layer so as to limit moisture from penetrating into the pixel array. |
| US10516138B2 |
Display device having a density of the first inorganic layer in the first region is higher than in the second region
A display device includes a light-emitting element layer that emits light with a luminance controlled for each of a plurality of unit pixels constituting an image, and a sealing layer provided on the light-emitting element layer and including a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers of the sealing layer includes at least an inorganic layer provided on the light-emitting element layer, an organic layer provided on the inorganic layer, and an inorganic layer that is an uppermost layer. A density of the inorganic layer that is the uppermost layer in a thickness direction changes in the thickness direction. |
| US10516136B2 |
Multilayer thin film encapsulation structure for a organic electroluminescent device
An organic electroluminescent device (100) includes a substrate (1), a driving circuit layer (2), an inorganic protective layer (Pa), an organic flattening layer (Pb), an organic electroluminescent element layer (3), and a TFE structure (10). The TFE structure includes a first inorganic barrier layer (12), an organic barrier layer (14), and a second inorganic barrier layer (16). As seen in a direction of normal to the substrate, the organic flattening layer (Pb) is formed in a region where the inorganic protective layer (Pa) is formed, organic electroluminescent elements are located in a region where the organic flattening layer (Pb) is formed, and an outer perimeter of the TFE structure (10) crosses lead wires (32) and is present between an outer perimeter of the organic flattening layer (Pb) and an outer perimeter of the inorganic protective layer (Pa). In a region where the inorganic protective layer (Pb) and the first inorganic barrier layer (12) are in direct contact with each other on the lead wires (32), a tapering angle θ(12) of a side surface of a cross-section of the first inorganic barrier layer (12) taken along a plane parallel to a width direction of the lead wires (32) is smaller than 90 degrees. |
| US10516134B2 |
Organic EL display device and organic EL display device manufacturing method
In an organic EL display device, a taper angle of a separation layer surrounding edges of an organic EL layer disposed in each pixel and being disposed between adjacent pixels is different from a taper angle of a frame-shaped bank surrounding edges of an organic layer. As a result, qualities required for layers surrounded by the separation layer and the frame-shaped bank respectively are satisfied. |
| US10516133B2 |
Organic EL display panel and method of manufacturing organic EL display panel
An organic EL display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed in a matrix pattern over the substrate, a first current feeding auxiliary electrode layer disposed to extend in a column or row direction in at least one of gaps between adjacent ones of the pixel electrodes over the substrate, a second current feeding auxiliary electrode layer that contains aluminum as a main constituent and is disposed to be superposed on the first current feeding auxiliary electrode layer, a plurality of light emitting layers disposed on the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a common electrode layer disposed continuously to cover the first current feeding auxiliary electrode layer and the second current feeding auxiliary electrode layer as well as an upper side of the plurality of light emitting layers. |
| US10516130B2 |
Light emitting apparatus with optical interference layer having a larger refractive index than a light emitting layer
A display apparatus includes on a substrate a plurality of light emitting elements in which an organic layer including a white light emitting layer is sandwiched between a lower transparent electrode and an upper electrode, and further includes a reflection layer and an optical interference layer provided between the light emitting elements and the substrate, wherein the optical interference layer is made of a material having a lower refractive index than the refractive index of the light emitting layer and the ratio (nr/nb) of a refractive index (nr) with respect to a red wavelength region to a refractive index (nb) with respect to a blue wavelength region is less than 0.95, and the orders of interference m for blue, green, and red wavelength regions are 5, 4, and 3, respectively, when the optical distance from the light emitting layer to the reflection layer is (2m+1)λ/4±(⅛)λ. |
| US10516127B2 |
Quantum rod panel and quantum rod display device
A quantum rod panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a pixel electrode and a common electrode over the first substrate and spaced apart from each other, and a quantum rod layer between the pixel electrode and the common electrode and including quantum rods and metal particles. |
| US10516124B2 |
Photoelectric conversion elements, method of manufacturing photoelectric conversion element, and solid-state imaging device
A photoelectric conversion element includes: a first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer provided on the first electrode, and including an organic semiconductor with quantum efficiency of 1% or less; and a second electrode provided on the photoelectric conversion layer. |
| US10516122B2 |
Display apparatus and electronic apparatus
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a foldable substrate; a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate and each including an electro-optical device; the foldable substrate being folded at a substrate end portion at least on one side thereof around the pixel array section; a peripheral circuit section disposed on the substrate end portion and adapted to drive the pixels of the pixel array section; and a pad section provided on the substrate end portion on which the peripheral circuit section is provided and adapted to electrically connect the peripheral circuit section to the outside of the substrate. |
| US10516118B2 |
Electronic device, display device, method for manufacturing the same, and system including a plurality of display devices
A power saving system using a plurality of flexible display devices placed on various places is provided. A structure of a bendable portion in a display device is improved. Specifically, a wiring partly including a metal nanoparticle is used. Openings are formed in an insulating layer so that the wiring becomes substantially longer by meandering in cross section. When a plurality of openings are formed and aligned, a portion that is easy to bend is formed along the line where they are aligned. A plurality of display panels are used for one display portion. The flexible display portion can be provided on a surface, specifically, a curved surface of furniture such as a chair or a sofa. |
| US10516117B2 |
Metal-assisted delayed fluorescent emttters employing benzo-imidazo-phenanthridine and analogues
Metal-assisted delayed fluorescent emitters employing benzo-imidazo-phenanthridine and analogues for full color displays and lighting applications. |
| US10516116B2 |
Organic compound, and organic thin film and electronic device
An organic compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an organic thin film, an organic thin film transistor, and an electronic device include the organic compound. |
| US10516107B2 |
Memory cell having resistance variable film and method of making the same
A manufacture includes a first electrode having an upper surface and a side surface, a resistance variable film over the first electrode, and a second electrode over the resistance variable film. The resistance variable film extends along the upper surface and the side surface of the first electrode. The second electrode has a side surface. A portion of the side surface of the first electrode and a portion of the side surface of the second electrode sandwich a portion of the resistance variable film. |
| US10516105B2 |
Resistive memory device containing oxygen-modulated hafnium oxide material and methods of making thereof
A resistive memory device includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced from the first electrode along a spacing direction, and a hafnium oxide resistive material portion of a resistive memory cell located between the first electrode and the second electrode and having a compositional modulation in oxygen concentration within directions that are perpendicular to the spacing direction. |
| US10516103B1 |
Magnetoresistive stack and method of fabricating same
A magnetoresistive element (e.g., a spin-torque magnetoresistive memory element) includes a fixed magnetic layer, a free magnetic layer, having a high-iron alloy interface region located along a surface of the free magnetic layer, wherein the high-iron alloy interface region has at least 50% iron by atomic composition, and a first dielectric, disposed between the fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer. The magnetoresistive element further includes a second dielectric, having a first surface that is in contact with the surface of the free magnetic layer, and an electrode, disposed between the second dielectric and a conductor. The electrode includes: (i) a non-ferromagnetic portion having a surface that is in contact with a second surface of the second dielectric, and (ii) a second portion having at least one ferromagnetic material disposed between the non-ferromagnetic portion of the electrode and the conductor. |
| US10516102B1 |
Multiple spacer assisted physical etching of sub 60nm MRAM devices
A MTJ stack is deposited on a bottom electrode. A top electrode layer and hard mask are deposited on the MTJ stack. The top electrode layer not covered by the hard mask is etched. Thereafter, a first spacer layer is deposited over the patterned top electrode layer and the hard mask. The first spacer layer is etched away on horizontal surfaces leaving first spacers on sidewalls of the patterned top electrode layer. The free layer not covered by the hard mask and first spacers is etched. Thereafter, the steps of depositing a subsequent spacer layer over patterned previous layers, etching away the subsequent spacer layer on horizontal surfaces leaving subsequent spacers on sidewalls of the patterned previous layers, and thereafter etching a next layer not covered by the hard mask and subsequent spacers are repeated until all layers of the MTJ stack have been etched to complete the MTJ structure. |
| US10516101B2 |
Physical cleaning with in-situ dielectric encapsulation layer for spintronic device application
A method for etching a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure is described. A stack of MTJ layers is provided on a bottom electrode in a substrate. The MTJ stack is etched to form a MTJ structure wherein portions of sidewalls of the MTJ structure are damaged by the etching. Thereafter, the substrate is removed from an etching chamber wherein sidewalls of the MTJ structure are oxidized. A physical cleaning of the MTJ structure removes damaged portions and oxidized portions of the MTJ sidewalls. Thereafter, without breaking vacuum, an encapsulation layer is deposited on the MTJ structure and bottom electrode. |
| US10516100B2 |
Silicon oxynitride based encapsulation layer for magnetic tunnel junctions
A plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) method is disclosed for forming a SiON encapsulation layer on a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) sidewall that minimizes attack on the MTJ sidewall during the PECVD or subsequent processes. The PECVD method provides a higher magnetoresistive ratio for the MTJ than conventional methods after a 400° C. anneal. In one embodiment, the SiON encapsulation layer is deposited using a N2O:silane flow rate ratio of at least 1:1 but less than 15:1. A N2O plasma treatment may be performed immediately following the PECVD to ensure there is no residual silane in the SiON encapsulation layer. In another embodiment, a first (lower) SiON sub-layer has a greater Si content than a second (upper) SiON sub-layer. A second encapsulation layer is formed on the SiON encapsulation layer so that the encapsulation layers completely fill the gaps between adjacent MTJs. |
| US10516098B2 |
Apparatus for spin injection enhancement and method of making the same
A switching device is disclosed. The switching device includes a spin-orbit coupling (SOC) layer, a pure spin conductor (PSC) layer disposed atop the SOC layer, a ferromagnetic (FM) layer disposed atop the PSC layer, and a normal metal (NM) layer sandwiched between the PSC layer and the FM layer. The PSC layer is a ferromagnetic insulator (FMI) is configured to funnel spins from the SOC layer onto the NM layer and to further provide a charge insulation so as to substantially eliminate current shunting from the SOC layer while allowing spins to pass through. The NM layer is configured to funnel spins from the PSC layer into the FM layer. |
| US10516096B2 |
Magnetic random access memory structures, integrated circuits, and methods for fabricating the same
Spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory structures, integrated circuits, and methods for fabricating integrated circuits are provided. An exemplary spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory structure has a perpendicular magnetic orientation, and includes a bottom electrode and a base layer over the bottom electrode. The base layer includes a seed layer and a roughness suppression layer. The spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory structure further includes a hard layer over the base layer. Also, the spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory structure includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element with a perpendicular orientation over the hard layer and a top electrode over the MTJ element. |
| US10516093B2 |
Piezoelectric material, piezoelectric element, and electronic apparatus
The present invention provides a piezoelectric material not containing lead and potassium, showing satisfactory insulation and piezoelectricity, and having a high Curie temperature. The invention relates to a piezoelectric material includes a main component containing a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by Formula (1): (NaxBa1-y)(NbyTi1-y)O3 (wherein, 0.80≤x≤0.94 and 0.83≤y≤0.94), and an additive component containing at least one element selected from Mn and Ni, wherein the content of the Ni is 0 mol or more and 0.05 mol or less based on 1 mol of the perovskite-type metal oxide, and the content of the Mn is 0 mol or more and 0.005 mol or less based on 1 mol of the perovskite-type metal oxide. |
| US10516091B2 |
Ultrasonic motor, drive control system, optical apparatus, and vibrator
An ultrasonic motor, usable in a drive control system and the like, includes an annular vibrator and an annular moving member arranged so as to be brought into pressure-contact with the vibrator. The vibrator includes an annular vibrating plate and an annular piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes an annular piezoelectric ceramic piece, a common electrode arranged on one surface of the piezoelectric ceramic piece, and a plurality of electrodes arranged on the other surface of the piezoelectric ceramic piece. The piezoelectric ceramic piece contains lead in a content of less than 1,000 ppm. The plurality of electrodes include two drive phase electrodes, one or more non-drive phase electrodes, and one or more detection phase electrodes. |
| US10516089B2 |
Memory cell comprising coupled Josephson junctions
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for operating a memory cell formed from the plurality of coupled Josephson junctions. The memory cell is configured such that applying an electrical signal to the junctions can cause at least one, but not all, of the junctions to change their respective phase states. Subsequent writes to the memory cell using substantially the same electrical pulse do not change the phase state of the plurality of junctions. The memory cell can be ready by providing another electrical pulse to one of the junctions and receiving an output electrical pulse generated in response by a different Josephson junction of the memory cell. A set of phase states are selected to represent the logic values that are stable across anticipated operating conditions for the memory cell. Methods of selecting electrical parameters and manufacturing memory cells are further disclosed. |
| US10516088B2 |
Pin coupling based thermoelectric device
A hybrid solar-thermoelectric device includes a solar device and a thermoelectric device coupled thereto. The thermoelectric device includes a flexible first substrate, and a number of sets of N and P thermoelectric legs coupled to the first substrate. Each set includes an N and a P thermoelectric leg electrically contacting each other through a conductive material on the first substrate. The thermoelectric device also includes a rigid second substrate, a conductive thin film formed on the second substrate, and a number of pins corresponding to the number of sets of N and P thermoelectric legs. Each pin couples the each set on an end thereof away from the first substrate to the conductive thin film formed on the second substrate, and is several times longer than a height of the N and P thermoelectric legs. |
| US10516081B1 |
High efficiency hexagon LED for micro LED application
Light emitting structures are described in which vertical inorganic semiconductor-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) with hexagon shaped sidewalls are mounted within corresponding circular reflective well structures. Diffuser layers may additionally laterally surround the hexagon shaped sidewalls within the circular reflective well structures. |
| US10516079B2 |
Method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component, and optoelectronic semiconductor component
A method is specified for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component, comprising the following steps: A) providing a structured semiconductor layer sequence (21, 22, 23) having a first semiconductor layer (21) with a base region (21c), at least one well (211), and a first cover region (21a) in the region of the well (211) facing away from the base surface (21c), an active layer (23), and a second semiconductor layer (22) on a side of the active layer (23) facing away from the first semiconductor layer (21), wherein the active layer (23) and the second semiconductor layer (22) are structured jointly in a plurality of regions (221, 231) and each region (221, 231) forms, together with the first semiconductor layer (21), an emission region (3), B) simultaneous application of a first contact layer (41) on the first cover surface (21a) and a second contact layer (42) on a second cover surface (3a) of the emission regions (3) facing away from the first semiconductor layer (21) in such a way that the first contact layer (41) and the second contact layer (42) are electrically separated from each other, and the first contact layer (41) and the second contact layer (42) run parallel to each other. |
| US10516074B2 |
Semiconductor device, light emission element array, optical print head, and method of producing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a p type first semiconductor layer that contains acceptors as impurities; an n type second semiconductor layer that is provided on the first semiconductor layer and contains donors as impurities; and a p type first diffusion portion that includes a contact portion in contact with the first semiconductor layer, the contact portion containing acceptors whose concentration is higher than that in the first semiconductor layer. |
| US10516073B2 |
Light emitting, photovoltaic or other electronic apparatus and system
The present invention provides an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device comprised of light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating apparatus comprising photovoltaic diodes, which may be created through a printing process, using a semiconductor or other substrate particle ink or suspension and using a lens particle ink or suspension. An exemplary apparatus comprises a base; at least one first conductor; a plurality of diodes coupled to the at least one first conductor; at least one second conductor coupled to the plurality of diodes; and a plurality of lenses suspended in a polymer deposited or attached over the diodes. The lenses and the suspending polymer have different indices of refraction. In some embodiments, the lenses and diodes are substantially spherical, and have a ratio of mean diameters or lengths between about 10:1 and 2:1. The diodes may be LEDs or photovoltaic diodes, and in some embodiments, have a junction formed at least partially as a hemispherical shell or cap. |
| US10516072B2 |
Materials, fabrication equipment, and methods for stable, sensitive photodetectors and image sensors made therefrom
Optically sensitive devices include a device comprising a first contact and a second contact, each having a work function, and an optically sensitive material between the first contact and the second contact. The optically sensitive material comprises a p-type semiconductor, and the optically sensitive material has a work function. Circuitry applies a bias voltage between the first contact and the second contact. The optically sensitive material has an electron lifetime that is greater than the electron transit time from the first contact to the second contact when the bias is applied between the first contact and the second contact. The first contact provides injection of electrons and blocking the extraction of holes. The interface between the first contact and the optically sensitive material provides a surface recombination velocity less than 1 cm/s. |
| US10516067B2 |
Low-warpage backside aluminum paste for crystalline silicon solar cells
The present invention discloses a low-warpage backside aluminum paste used for crystalline silicon solar cells, comprising 85-95 parts by weight of aluminum powder, 0.1-0.5 part by weight of glass powder, 4-13 parts by weight of organic carrier and 0.6-2 parts by weight of additive. The thermal expansion coefficient of the aluminum pastes is effectively reduced by the use of glass powders with larger particle sizes. In addition, high content of aluminum powder in the paste formula results in a reduced printing wet weight, a high aluminum content in the back surface electric field, and thus, a reduced solar cell warpage without detriment to the performance of the solar cells. |
| US10516065B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods for forming semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device includes an anode doping region of a diode structure arranged in a semiconductor substrate. The anode doping region has a first conductivity type. The semiconductor device further includes a second conductivity type contact doping region having a second conductivity type. The second conductivity type contact doping region is arranged at a surface of the semiconductor substrate and surrounded in the semiconductor substrate by the anode doping region. The anode doping region includes a buried non-depletable portion. At least part of the buried non-depletable portion is located below the second conductivity type contact doping region in the semiconductor substrate. |
| US10516060B2 |
Composite and transistor
A novel material is provided. A composite oxide semiconductor in which a first region and a plurality of second regions are mixed is provided. Note that the first region contains at least indium, an element M (the element M is one or more of Al, Ga, Y, and Sn), and zinc, and the plurality of second regions contain indium and zinc. Since the plurality of second regions have a higher concentration of indium than the first region, the plurality of second regions have a higher conductivity than the first region. An end portion of one of the plurality of second regions overlaps with an end portion of another one of the plurality of second regions. The plurality of second regions are three-dimensionally surrounded with the first region. |
| US10516053B2 |
Field-effect transistor, display element, image display device, and system
A field-effect transistor including: a gate electrode, which is configured to apply gate voltage; a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are configured to take electric current out; an active layer, which is disposed to be adjacent to the source electrode and the drain electrode and is formed of an oxide semiconductor; and a gate insulating layer, which is disposed between the gate electrode and the active layer, wherein the gate insulating layer contains a paraelectric amorphous oxide containing a Group A element which is an alkaline earth metal and a Group B element which is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ga, Sc, Y, and lanthanoid, and wherein the active layer has a carrier density of 4.0×1017/cm3 or more. |
| US10516052B2 |
Semiconductor device and method
A representative method for manufacturing a semiconductor device (e.g., a fin field-effect transistor) includes the steps of forming a gate structure having a first lateral width, and forming a first via opening over the gate structure. The first via opening has a lowermost portion that exposes an uppermost surface of the gate structure. The lowermost portion of the first via opening has a second lateral width. A ratio of the second lateral width to the first lateral width is less than about 1.1. A source/drain (S/D) region is disposed laterally adjacent the gate structure. A contact feature is disposed over the S/D region. A second via opening extends to and exposes an uppermost surface of the contact feature. A bottommost portion of the second via opening is disposed above a topmost portion of the gate structure. |
| US10516047B2 |
Structure and formation method of semiconductor device structure
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a gate stack structure in the dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure further includes a semiconductor wire partially surrounded by the gate stack structure. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes a contact electrode in the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the semiconductor wire. The contact electrode and the gate stack structure extend from the semiconductor wire in opposite directions. |
| US10516043B1 |
Monolithic microwave integrated circuits having both enhancement-mode and depletion mode transistors
A gallium nitride based monolithic microwave integrated circuit includes a substrate, a channel layer on the substrate and a barrier layer on the channel layer. A recess is provided in a top surface of the barrier layer. First gate, source and drain electrodes are provided on the barrier layer opposite the channel layer, with a bottom surface of the first gate electrode in direct contact with the barrier layer. Second gate, source and drain electrodes are also provided on the barrier layer opposite the channel layer. A gate insulating layer is provided in the recess in the barrier layer, and the second gate electrode is on the gate insulating layer opposite the barrier layer and extending into the recess. The first gate, source and drain electrodes comprise the electrodes of a depletion mode transistor, and the second gate, source and drain electrodes comprise the electrodes of an enhancement mode transistor. |
| US10516034B2 |
Semiconductor device and methods of manufacture
A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing are provided. In an embodiment a first nucleation layer is formed within an opening for a gate-last process. The first nucleation layer is treated in order to remove undesired oxygen by exposing the first nucleation layer to a precursor that reacts with the oxygen to form a gas. A second nucleation layer is then formed, and a remainder of the opening is filled with a bulk conductive material. |
| US10516025B1 |
Three-dimensional NAND memory containing dual protrusion charge trapping regions and methods of manufacturing the same
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and a memory stack structure extending through the alternating stack. The memory stack structure includes a tunneling dielectric layer, a vertical semiconductor channel, and a vertical stack of charge storage structures. Each of the charge storage structures includes an annular silicon nitride portion, a lower silicon nitride portion underlying the upper silicon nitride portion, and a spacer located between the upper silicon nitride portion and the lower silicon nitride portion. The upper and lower silicon nitride portions may be charge storage regions, while the spacer may be a floating gate or a dielectric spacer. |
| US10516020B2 |
Semiconductor device including crystal defect region and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes: an n type semiconductor layer including an active region and an inactive region; an element structure formed in the active region and including at least an active side p type layer to form pn junction with n type portion of the n type semiconductor layer; an inactive side p type layer formed in the inactive region and forming pn junction with the n type portion of the n type semiconductor layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the active side p type layer in a front surface of the n type semiconductor layer; a second electrode electrically connected to the n type portion of the n type semiconductor layer in a rear surface of the n type semiconductor layer; and a crystal defect region formed in both the active region and the inactive region and having different depths in the active region and the inactive region. |
| US10516016B2 |
Display device
A display device including a substrate including a first display region having a first width, a second display region having a second width smaller than the first width, a peripheral region at a periphery of the first and second display regions, and a dummy region in the peripheral region, a first pixel in the first display region, a second pixel in the second display region, a first control line connected to the first pixel and extending in the first display region, a second control line connected to the second pixel and extending in the second display region, and a dummy line connected to the second control line in the dummy region, wherein the second control line is at a first conductive layer on a first insulating layer, the dummy line is at a second conductive layer on a second insulating layer on the first conductive layer. |
| US10516012B2 |
Electro-optical device and manufacturing method thereof
An electro-optical device includes a circuit substrate including a flattening layer provided on a surface of the circuit substrate, at least one electro-optical element provided on the flattening layer, a sealing film configured to seal the electro-optical element and including at least a resin layer, and a frame-shaped bank surrounding the flattening layer and covered by the resin layer on an inner side of the frame-shaped bank. In a plan view, an unevenness is provided at a peripheral edge of the flattening layer facing the frame-shaped bank. |
| US10516005B2 |
Display substrate of electronic device and method for manufacturing same
A display substrate of an electronic device and a method for manufacturing the display substrate are provided. The display substrate includes: a base; a thin film transistor formed on a side of the base; an organic light emitting layer, formed on a side of the thin film transistor facing away from the base; and a touch electrode layer, formed in the organic light emitting layer. |
| US10516004B2 |
Organic light-emitting display device with spacer between sub-pixels
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting display device, which prevents lateral current leakage by providing a structure on a bank so as to cut off an organic material, which is formed in a subsequent process, around the structure. |
| US10516002B2 |
Organic light emitting display device
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel regions, a light absorption material layer in a white pixel region of the plurality of pixel regions and including a light absorption dye, an overcoat layer on the light absorption material layer, a micro-lens structure at a top surface of the overcoat layer, and an emitting diode on the micro-lens structure, wherein the light absorption dye has a main absorption wavelength of about 500 to 640 nm. |
| US10515999B2 |
Imaging element, image sensor, imaging apparatus, and information processing apparatus
In an imaging element 28, a first light detecting layer 12 includes organic photoelectric conversion films 38a and 38b oriented in a prescribed axial direction so that it detects a polarized component of incident light which is directed parallel to the orientation axis. The first light detecting layer 12 also has an organic photoelectric conversion film oriented in another axial direction which is arranged in a prescribed pattern on a two-dimensional plane. A second light detecting layer 16 disposed under the first light detecting layer 12 includes photoelectric conversion elements 54a and 54b and detects a polarized component which has passed through the first light detecting layer 12 and which is directed perpendicularly to the orientation axis of the organic photoelectric conversion films 38a and 38b. |
| US10515998B2 |
Metal-insulator-semiconductor-insulator-metal (MISIM) device, method of operation, and memory device including the same
A metal-insulator-semiconductor-insulator-metal (MISIM) device includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer disposed over an upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a back electrode disposed over a lower surface of the semiconductor layer opposing the upper surface, and first and second electrodes disposed over the insulating layer and spaced-apart from each other. |
| US10515992B2 |
Image sensor and method for fabricating the same
An electronic device may include a photoelectric element, a shielding layer on the photoelectric element, and a color filter structure on the shielding layer. The shielding layer may define a first opening over the photoelectric element. The color filter structure may define a second opening over the photoelectric element and the first opening. The color filter structure may appear dark from a view facing the color filter structure. |
| US10515991B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate including a first side and a second side disposed opposite to the first side and configured to receive an electromagnetic radiation, a barrier layer disposed over the second side of the substrate, a color filter disposed over the barrier layer, and a grid surrounding the color filter and disposed over the barrier layer, wherein the barrier layer is configured to absorb or reflect non-visible light in the electromagnetic radiation, and the barrier layer is disposed between the grid and the substrate. |
| US10515988B2 |
Solid-state image sensing device and electronic device
The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensing device and an electronic device capable of reducing noises. The solid-state image sensing device includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge holding unit for holding charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a first transfer transistor for transferring charges from the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge holding unit, and a light blocking part including a first light blocking part and a second light blocking part. The first light blocking part is arranged between a second surface opposite to a first surface as a light receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge holding unit, and covers the second surface, and is formed with a first opening, and the second light blocking part surrounds the side surface of the photoelectric conversion unit. The present technology is applicable to solid-state image sensing devices of backside irradiation type. |
| US10515985B2 |
Transistor display panel including transistor having auxiliary layer overlapping edge of gate electrode
A transistor display panel including a substrate, a gate line disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, a gate electrode protruding from the gate line, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line and the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer and an auxiliary layer disposed on the gate insulating layer and spaced apart from each other, a data line disposed on the gate insulating layer and extending in a second direction which is a direction crossing the gate line, a drain electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer and spaced apart from the data line, and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode, in which the auxiliary layer overlaps an edge of the gate electrode in a plan view. |
| US10515981B2 |
Multilevel semiconductor device and structure with memory
A multilevel semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first array of first programmable cells and a first control line; a second level including a second array of second programmable cells and a second control line; and a third level including a third array of third programmable cells and a third control line, where the second level overlays the first level, where the third level overlays the second level, where the first programmable cells are self-aligned to the second programmable cells, and where a programmable logic cell includes a plurality of the first programmable cells and a plurality of the second programmable cells. |
| US10515979B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor devices with inclined gate electrodes
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a substrate including a cell array region and a contact region, a stack structure including gate electrodes sequentially stacked on the substrate, vertical structures penetrating the stack structure, and cell contact plugs connected to end portions of the gate electrodes in the contact region. Upper surfaces of the end portions of the gate electrodes have an acute angle with respect to an upper surface of the substrate in the cell array region. |
| US10515975B1 |
Method for forming dual-deck channel hole structure of three-dimensional memory device
A method for forming a channel hole structure of a 3D memory device is disclosed. The method includes: forming a first alternating dielectric stack and a first insulating layer on a substrate; forming a first channel structure in a first channel hole penetrating the first insulating layer and the first alternating dielectric stack; forming a sacrificial inter-deck plug in the first insulating layer; forming a second alternating dielectric stack on the sacrificial inter-deck plug; forming a second channel hole penetrating the second alternating dielectric stack and expose a portion of the sacrificial inter-deck plug; removing the sacrificial inter-deck plug to form a cavity; and forming an inter-deck channel plug in the cavity and a second channel structure in the second channel hole, the inter-deck channel plug contacts the first channel structure and the second channel structure. |
| US10515973B2 |
Wordline bridge in a 3D memory array
The present disclosure relates to providing a wordline bridge between wordlines of adjacent tiles of memory cells to reduce the number wordline staircases in 3D memory arrays. An apparatus may include a memory array having memory cells. The memory array includes a first block of pages of the memory cells in a first tile and a second block of pages of the memory cells in a second tile. The apparatus may also include a polysilicon wordline bridge that couples first wordlines of the first block to second wordlines of the second block to couple the first tile to the second tile. The wordline bridge may be formed by applying a hard mask over the first tile, the second tile, and over a portion of polysilicon that connects the first tile to the second tile. |
| US10515972B2 |
Memory cell pillar including source junction plug
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a source material, a dielectric material over the source material, a select gate material over the dielectric material, a memory cell stack over the select gate material, a conductive plug located in an opening of the dielectric material and contacting a portion of the source material, and a channel material extending through the memory cell stack and the select gate material and contacting the conductive plug. |
| US10515969B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first transistor is disposed on the substrate. The second transistor is disposed on the substrate. A gate of the first transistor and a gate of the second transistor are integrally formed, and the first transistor and the second transistor have different threshold voltages. |
| US10515966B2 |
Enhanced channel strain to reduce contact resistance in NMOS FET devices
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a fin structure and an isolation layer formed on the substrate and adjacent to the fin structure. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure formed on at least a portion of the fin structure and the isolation layer. The semiconductor device includes an epitaxial layer including a strained material that provides stress to a channel region of the fin structure. The epitaxial layer has a first region and a second region, in which the first region has a first doping concentration of a first doping agent and the second region has a second doping concentration of a second doping agent. The first doping concentration is greater than the second doping concentration. The epitaxial layer is doped by ion implantation using phosphorous dimer. |
| US10515956B2 |
Semiconductor devices having Fin Field Effect Transistor (FinFET) structures and manufacturing and design methods thereof
Semiconductor devices and manufacturing and design methods thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an active FinFET disposed over a workpiece comprising a first semiconductive material, the active FinFET comprising a first fin. An electrically inactive FinFET structure is disposed over the workpiece proximate the active FinFET, the electrically inactive FinFET comprising a second fin. A second semiconductive material is disposed between the first fin and the second fin. |
| US10515949B2 |
Integrated circuit and manufacturing method thereof
An integrated circuit includes a stacked MIM capacitor and a thin film resistor and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. A capacitor bottom metal in one capacitor of the stacked MIM capacitor and the thin film resistor are substantially at the same layer of the integrated circuit, and the capacitor bottom metal and the thin film resistor are also made of substantially the same materials. The integrated circuit with both of a stacked MIM capacitor and a thin film resistor can be made in a cost benefit way accordingly, so as to overcome disadvantages mentioned above. |
| US10515948B2 |
Semiconductor device including vertical routing structure and method for manufacturing the same
A method includes forming a transistor having source and drain regions. The following are formed on the source/drain region: a first via, a first metal layer extending along a first direction on the first via, a second via overlapping the first via on the first metal layer, and a second metal extending along a second direction different from the first direction on the second via; and the following are formed on the drain/source region: a third via, a third metal layer on the third via, a fourth via overlapping the third via over the third metal layer, and a controlled device at a same height level as the second metal layer on the third metal layer. |
| US10515947B2 |
Decoupling capacitor
A device includes a plurality of active areas, a plurality of gates, and a plurality of conductors. The active areas are elongated in a first direction. The gates are elongated in a second direction. The conductors are disposed between the active areas and elongated in the second direction. Each one of the conductors has an overlap with at least one corresponding gate of the gates to form at least one capacitor. |
| US10515946B2 |
Electronic device for ESD protection
A semiconductor device includes a thyristor disposed in a semiconductor body. The thyristor has an anode, a cathode, a first bipolar transistor located on an anode side, and a second bipolar transistor located on a cathode side. The first and second bipolar transistors are nested and connected between the anode and the cathode. A MOS transistor is disposed in the semiconductor body. The MOS transistor is coupled between a collector region and an emitter region of the second bipolar transistor. The MOS transistor has a gate region connected to the cathode via a resistive semiconductor region that incorporates at least a part of a base region of the second bipolar transistor. |
| US10515942B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing
A semiconductor device includes a first chip, a dielectric layer over the first chip, and a second chip over the dielectric layer. A conductive layer is embedded in the dielectric layer and is electrically coupled to the first chip and the second chip. The second chip includes an optical component. The first chip and the second chip are arranged on opposite sides of the dielectric layer in a thickness direction of the dielectric layer. |
| US10515941B2 |
Methods of forming package-on-package structures
Embodiments relate to packages and methods of forming packages. A package includes a package substrate, a first device die, first electrical connectors, an encapsulant, a redistribution structure, and a second device die. The first device die is attached to a side of the package substrate, and the first electrical connectors are mechanically and electrically coupled to the side of the package substrate. The encapsulant at least laterally encapsulates the first electrical connectors and the first device die. The redistribution structure is on the encapsulant and the first electrical connectors. The redistribution structure is directly coupled to the first electrical connectors. The first device die is disposed between the redistribution structure and the package substrate. The second device die is attached to the redistribution structure by second electrical connectors, and the second electrical connectors are directly coupled to the redistribution structure. |
| US10515930B2 |
Three-layer package-on-package structure and method forming same
A method includes forming a first plurality of redistribution lines, forming a first metal post over and electrically connected to the first plurality of redistribution lines, and bonding a first device die to the first plurality of redistribution lines. The first metal post and the first device die are encapsulated in a first encapsulating material. The first encapsulating material is then planarized. The method further includes forming a second metal post over and electrically connected to the first metal post, attaching a second device die to the first encapsulating material through an adhesive film, encapsulating the second metal post and the second device die in a second encapsulating material, planarizing the second encapsulating material, and forming a second plurality of redistributions over and electrically coupling to the second metal post and the second device die. |
| US10515929B2 |
Carrier and integrated memory
An integrated circuit (IC) chip carrier includes one or more memory devices therein. The memory is integrated into the carrier prior to the IC chip being connected to the carrier. Therefore, the IC chip may be connected to the memory at the same time as the IC chip is connected to the carrier. Because the memory is integrated into the IC chip carrier, prior to the IC chip being attached thereto, reliability concerns that result from attaching the memory to the IC chip carrier affect the IC chip carrier and do not affect the yield of the relatively more expensive IC chip. |
| US10515926B2 |
System and method for providing 3D wafer assembly with known-good-dies
Systems and methods for providing 3D wafer assembly with known-good-dies are provided. An example method compiles an index of dies on a semiconductor wafer and removes the defective dies to provide a wafer with dies that are all operational. Defective dies on multiple wafers may be removed in parallel, and resulting wafers with all good dies stacked in 3D wafer assembly. In an implementation, the spaces left by removed defective dies may be filled at least in part with operational dies or with a fill material. Defective dies may be replaced either before or after wafer-to-wafer assembly to eliminate production of defective stacked devices, or the spaces may be left empty. A bottom device wafer may also have its defective dies removed or replaced, resulting in wafer-to-wafer assembly that provides 3D stacks with no defective dies. |
| US10515924B2 |
Radio frequency modules
Packaged modules for use in wireless devices are disclosed. A substrate supports integrated circuit die including at least a portion of a baseband system and a front end system, an oscillator assembly, and an antenna. The oscillator assembly includes an enclosure to enclose the oscillator and conductive pillars formed at least partially within a side of the enclosure to conduct signals between the top and bottom surfaces of the oscillator assembly. Components can be vertically integrated to save space and reduce trace length. Vertical integration provides an overhang volume that can include discrete components. Radio frequency shielding and ground planes within the substrate shield the front end system and antenna from radio frequency interference. Stacked filter assemblies include passive surface mount devices to filter radio frequency signals. |
| US10515919B2 |
Bump-on-trace design for enlarge bump-to-trace distance
A package includes a first and a second package component. The first package component includes a first metal trace and a second metal trace at the surface of the first package component. The second metal trace is parallel to the first metal trace. The second metal trace includes a narrow metal trace portion having a first width, and a wide metal trace portion having a second width greater than the first width connected to the narrow metal trace portion. The second package component is over the first package component. The second package component includes a metal bump overlapping a portion of the first metal trace, and a conductive connection bonding the metal bump to the first metal trace. The conductive connection contacts a top surface and sidewalls of the first metal trace. The metal bump is neighboring the narrow metal trace portion. |
| US10515917B2 |
Bump on pad (BOP) bonding structure in semiconductor packaged device
The embodiments described above provide enlarged overlapping surface areas of bonding structures between a package and a bonding substrate. By using elongated bonding structures on either the package and/or the bonding substrate and by orienting such bonding structures, the bonding structures are designed to withstand bonding stress caused by thermal cycling to reduce cold joints. |
| US10515912B2 |
Integrated circuit packages
Substrateless integrated circuit (IC) packages having a die with direct diagonal connections, as well as related structures, devices, and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, an IC package may include: a die having a face with a plurality of contacts thereon, a dielectric layer in contact with the face, and a conductive pathway extending diagonally through the dielectric layer and coupling to an individual contact of the plurality of contacts on the die. In some embodiments, a conductive pathway may fan out to translate the contacts from a more dense layout to a less dense layout. In some embodiments, a conductive pathway may fan in to translate the contacts from a less dense layout to a more dense layout. In some embodiments, the dielectric layer and the conductive pathway may extend beyond the footprint of the die on one or more edges. |
| US10515911B2 |
Semiconductor devices
Semiconductor devices include an interlayer insulating layer on a substrate, a first capacitor structure in the interlayer insulating layer, and a conductive layer including a terminal pad on the interlayer insulating layer. The first capacitor structure includes at least one first laminate, the at least one first laminate including a first lower electrode, a first capacitor insulating layer, and a first upper electrode sequentially on the substrate. The terminal pad does not overlap with the first capacitor structure. |
| US10515905B1 |
Semiconductor device with anti-deflection layers
A semiconductor device has a substrate with both compressive and tensile layers deposited overlying a single major surface (face) of the device. The tensile layer may be deposited directly on the substrate of the device, with the compressive layer overlying the tensile layer. A transition material may be located between the tensile layer and the compressive layer. The transition material may be a compound including the components of one or both of the tensile layer and the compressive layer. In a specific embodiment, the tensile material may be a silicon nitride, the compressive layer may be a silicon oxide, and the transition material may be a silicon oxy-nitride, which may be formed by oxidizing the surface of the tensile silicon nitride layer. By depositing both tensile and compressive layers on the same face of the device the opposite major surface (face) is free for processing. |
| US10515904B2 |
Method for forming chip package structure
Methods for forming chip package structures are provided. The method includes disposing a first chip structure, a second chip structure over a carrier substrate and forming a molding compound layer surrounding the first chip structure and the second chip structure. The method includes forming a dielectric structure over the molding compound layer and a first grounding line in the dielectric structure and cutting the first grounding line to form a first end enlarged portion of the first grounding line. In addition, the first end enlarged portion has a gradually increased thickness. |
| US10515902B2 |
Back-end-of-line (BEOL) arrangement with multi-height interlayer dielectric (ILD) structures
Among other things, one or more semiconductor arrangements, and techniques for forming such semiconductor arrangements are provided. A layer, such as a poly layer or an inter layer dielectric (ILD) layer, is formed over a substrate. A photoresist mask is formed over the layer. The photoresist mask comprises an open region overlaying a target region of the layer and comprises a protection region overlaying a second region of the layer. An etching process is performed through the open region to reduce a height of the layer in the target region in relation to a height of the layer in the second region because the protection region inhibits the etching process from affecting the layer in the second region. A first structure, having a first height, is formed within the target region. A second structure, having a second height greater than the first height, is formed within the second region. |
| US10515901B2 |
InFO-POP structures with TIVs having cavities
A method includes dispensing sacrificial region over a carrier, and forming a metal post over the carrier. The metal post overlaps at least a portion of the sacrificial region. The method further includes encapsulating the metal post and the sacrificial region in an encapsulating material, demounting the metal post, the sacrificial region, and the encapsulating material from the carrier, and removing at least a portion of the sacrificial region to form a recess extending from a surface level of the encapsulating material into the encapsulating material. |
| US10515900B2 |
Chip package with fan-out structure
A chip package is provided. The chip package includes a semiconductor die and a protection layer surrounding the semiconductor die. The chip package also includes a dielectric layer over the semiconductor die and the protection layer. The dielectric layer has an upper surface with cutting scratches. The chip package further includes a conductive layer over the dielectric layer and filling some of the cutting scratches. |
| US10515898B2 |
Circuit board incorporating semiconductor IC and manufacturing method thereof
Disclosed herein is a circuit board that includes a first insulating layer having an upper surface; a first wiring layer embedded in the first insulating layer, the first wiring layer having an upper surface exposed from the upper surface of the first insulating layer such that the upper surface of the first wiring layer is substantially coplanar with the upper surface of the first insulating layer; a semiconductor IC mounted on the upper surface of the first wiring layer with a die attach material interposed therebetween; and a second insulating layer stacked on the upper surface of the first wiring layer so as to embed the semiconductor IC, wherein a bottom surface of the die attach material is in contact with both of the upper surface of the first insulating layer and the upper surface of the first wiring layer. |
| US10515894B2 |
Enhanced self-alignment of vias for a semiconductor device
A method of forming a self-aligned pattern of vias in a semiconductor device comprises etching a pattern of lines that contain notches that are narrower than other parts of the line. Thereafter, vias are created where the notches are located. The locations of the vias are such that the effect of blown-out areas is minimized. Thereafter, the lines are etched and the vias and line areas are filled. The layers are planarized such that the metal fill is level with a surrounding ultra-low-k dielectric. Additional metal layers, lines, and vias can be created. Other embodiments are also described herein. |
| US10515891B2 |
Radial solder ball pattern for attaching semiconductor and micromechanical chips
A radial solder ball pattern is described for a printed circuit board and for a chip to be attached to the printed circuit board is described. In one example, the pattern comprises a central power connector area having a plurality of power connectors to provide power to an attached chip, a signal area having a plurality of signal connectors to communicate signals to the attached chip, an edge area surrounding the signal area and the central power connector area, and a plurality of traces each coupled to a signal connector, the traces extending from the respective coupled signal connector away from the central power connector to connect to an external component, wherein the signal connectors are placed in rows, the rows having a greater separation near the edge area than near the central area. |
| US10515888B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a dielectric interposer, a first interconnection layer, an electronic component, a plurality of electrical conductors and a plurality of conductive structures. The dielectric interposer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first interconnection layer is over the first surface of the dielectric interposer. The electronic component is over and electrically connected to the first interconnection layer. The electrical conductors are over the second surface of the dielectric interposer. The conductive structures are through the dielectric interposer, wherein the conductive structures are electrically connected to the first interconnection layer and the electrical conductors. |
| US10515885B2 |
Method of fabricating a flexible display screen having substrate with a plurality of pins inserted in the through holes of lamination plate
The disclosure provides a lamination method for a flexible display screen, including: providing a flexible display screen, the flexible display screen including two first through-holes located in a non-display region thereof and arranged diagonally; providing a flexible lamination plate, the flexible lamination plate including two second through-holes, and the two second through-holes arranged diagonally; providing a lamination device, the lamination device including a rigid substrate and two location pins located on the rigid substrate, and the two location pin arranged diagonally; disposing the flexible lamination plate on the rigid substrate and allowing the two location pins to penetrate the two second through-holes, respectively; disposing the flexible display screen on the flexible lamination plate and allowing the two location pins to also penetrate the two first through-holes, respectively, thereby laminating the flexible display screen and the flexible lamination plate together. |
| US10515884B2 |
Substrate having a conductive structure within photo-sensitive resin
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor substrate structure, semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor substrate structure includes a conductive structure, a dielectric structure and a metal bump. The conductive structure has a first conductive surface and a second conductive surface. The dielectric structure has a first dielectric surface and a second dielectric surface. The first conductive surface does not protrude from the first dielectric surface. The second conductive surface is recessed from the second dielectric surface. The metal bump is disposed in a dielectric opening of the dielectric structure, and is physically and electrically connected to the second conductive surface. The metal bump has a concave surface. |
| US10515883B2 |
3D system-level packaging methods and structures
A 3D system-level packaging method includes providing a packaging substrate having a first functional surface and a second surface with wiring arrangement within the packaging substrate and between the first functional surface and the second surface. The method also includes forming at least one flip package layer on the first functional surface of the packaging substrate and forming at least one wiring and package layer on the flip package layer. The flip package layer is formed by subsequently forming a flip mounting layer, an underfill, a sealant layer, and a wiring layer; and the wiring and package layer is formed by subsequently forming a straight mounting layer, a sealant layer, and a wiring layer. Further, the method includes planting connection balls on the second functional surface of the packaging substrate. |
| US10515882B2 |
Semiconductor device package including electrode solder pads and additional solder pads
A package for a semiconductor device includes: a plate-shaped base member having a substantially rectangular shape in a plan view; a first and second electrode solder pads configured to be electrically connected to a semiconductor element when the semiconductor element is mounted on an upper surface of the base member, the electrode solder pads being disposed at a lower surface side of the base member to face each other in a first direction; and first and second auxiliary solder pads disposed on a lower surface of the base member, the auxiliary solder pads being disposed at both sides of the electrode solder pads such that the first and second electrode solder pads are disposed between the first and second auxiliary solder pads in a plan view. |
| US10515876B1 |
Method for forming semiconductor device and semiconductor device fabricated by the same
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes: providing a structure having a first stop layer formed above a substrate, a first dielectric layer formed on the first stop layer, a second stop layer formed on the first dielectric layer, and conductive lines formed in the first dielectric layer and spaced apart from each other; forming a first dummy layer on the second stop layer; patterning the first dummy layer to form a first patterned dummy layer; forming a second dummy layer on the first dummy layer to form a first trench; etching back the second dummy layer and the first patterned dummy layer to form a second trench, wherein the second trench is self-aligned with the first trench. The second trench extends downwardly to the first dielectric layer and forms an opening at the second stop layer. |
| US10515874B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacture
A semiconductor device including a test pad contact and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device may include a first metal feature and a second metal feature disposed in a single top metal layer over a substrate. A test pad may be formed over and electrically connected to the first metal feature. A first passivation layer may be formed over the second metal feature and the test pad and may cover top and side surfaces of the test pad. A first via may be formed penetrating the first passivation layer and contacting the test pad and a second via may be formed penetrating the first passivation layer and contacting the second metal feature. |
| US10515873B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same
According to one embodiment, a stacked body includes a plurality of electrode layers stacked with an insulator interposed. A conductive via pierces the stacked body, and connects an upper layer interconnect and a lower layer interconnect. A insulating film is provided between the via and the stacked body. A distance along a diametral direction of the via between a side surface of the via and an end surface of one of the electrode layers opposing the side surface of the via is greater than a distance along the diametral direction between the side surface of the via and an end surface of the insulator opposing the side surface of the via. |
| US10515872B1 |
Metallic sub-collector for HBT and BJT transistors
A transistor having an emitter, a base, and a collector, the transistor includes a substrate, a collector contact, a metallic sub-collector coupled to the collector contact, and the metallic sub-collector electrically and thermally coupled to the collector, and an adhesive layer between the substrate and the metallic sub-collector, the adhesive layer bonded to the substrate and in direct contact with the substrate and bonded to the metallic sub-collector and in direct contact with the metallic sub-collector, wherein the adhesive layer comprises an electrically conductive material. |
| US10515871B1 |
Cooling devices having large surface area structures, systems incorporating the same, and methods of forming the same
Cooling devices, systems including cooling devices, and methods of forming tubes for cooling devices are disclosed. A method for forming a tube for a cooling device includes positioning an opal structure on an interior surface of the tube, the opal structure having voids around a plurality of spheres, depositing a material over the opal structure and within the voids around the plurality of spheres, and removing the opal structure such that the material forms a patterned structure having a plurality of dimples and a plurality of pores. |
| US10515870B1 |
Package carrier having a mesh gas-permeable structure disposed in the through hole
A package carrier includes a multilayer circuit structure, at least one gas-permeable structure, a first outer circuit layer, a second outer circuit layer, a first solder mask and a second solder mask. The multilayer circuit structure has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other and a plurality of through holes. The gas-permeable structure is in the form of a mesh and disposed in at least one of the through holes. The first and the second outer circuit layers respectively at least cover the upper and the lower surfaces. At least one first opening of the first solder mask exposes a portion of the first outer circuit layer and is disposed corresponding to the gas-permeable structure. At least one second opening of the second solder mask exposes a portion of the second outer circuit layer and is disposed corresponding to the gas-permeable structure. |
| US10515867B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure including a substrate, a first die over the substrate, a second die over the first die, a heat spreader having a sidewall facing toward and proximal to a sidewall of the first die, and a thermal interface material (TIM) between the sidewall of the first die and the sidewall of the heat spreader. A thermal conductivity of the heat spreader is higher than a thermal conductivity of the TIM. |
| US10515866B2 |
Systems and methods to enhance passivation integrity
Some embodiments relate to a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a layer disposed over a substrate. A conductive body extends through the layer. A plurality of bar or pillar structures are spaced apart from one another and laterally surround the conductive body. The plurality of bar or pillar structures are generally concentric around the conductive body. |
| US10515862B2 |
Wafer based corrosion and time dependent chemical effects
Embodiments may also include a residual chemical reaction diagnostic device. The residual chemical reaction diagnostic device may include a substrate and a residual chemical reaction sensor formed on the substrate. In an embodiment, the residual chemical reaction sensor provides electrical outputs in response to the presence of residual chemical reactions. In an embodiment, the substrate is a device substrate, and the sensor is formed in a scribe line of the device substrate. In an alternative embodiment, the substrate is a process development substrate. In some embodiments, the residual chemical reaction sensor includes, a first probe pad, wherein a plurality of first arms extend out from the first probe pad, and a second probe pad, wherein a plurality of second arms extend out from the second probe pad and are interdigitated with the first arms. |
| US10515856B2 |
Method of making a FinFET, and FinFET formed by the method
A method includes forming first and second fins of a finFET extending above a semiconductor substrate, with a shallow trench isolation (STI) region in between, and a distance between a top surface of the STI region and top surfaces of the first and second fins. First and second fin extensions are provided on top and side surfaces of the first and second fins above the top surface of the STI region. Material is removed from the STI region, to increase the distance between the top surface of the STI region and top surfaces of the first and second fins. A conformal stressor dielectric material is deposited over the fins and STI region. The conformal dielectric stressor material is reflowed, to flow into a space between the first and second fins above a top surface of the STI region, to apply stress to a channel of the finFET. |
| US10515850B2 |
Method and IC design with non-linear power rails
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating an integrated circuit (IC). The method includes receiving an IC layout having active regions, conductive contact features landing on the active regions, and a conductive via feature to be landing on a first subset of the conductive contact features and to be spaced from a second subset of the conductive contact features; evaluating a spatial parameter of the conductive via feature to the conductive contact features; and modifying the IC layout according to the spatial parameter such that the conductive via feature has a S-curved shape. |
| US10515848B1 |
Semiconductor package and method
In an embodiment, a method includes: forming a first dielectric layer over a die, the first dielectric layer including a photo-sensitive material; curing the first dielectric layer to reduce photo-sensitivity of the first dielectric layer; patterning the first dielectric layer by etching to form a first opening; forming a first metallization pattern in the first opening of the first dielectric layer; forming a second dielectric layer over the first metallization pattern and the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer including the photo-sensitive material; patterning the second dielectric layer by exposure and development to form a second opening; and forming a second metallization pattern in the second opening of the second dielectric layer, the second metallization pattern electrically connected to the first metallization pattern. |
| US10515847B2 |
Method for forming vias and method for forming contacts in vias
A method for forming openings in an underlayer includes: forming a photoresist layer on an underlayer formed on a substrate; exposing the photoresist layer; forming photoresist patterns by developing the exposed photoresist layer, the photoresist patterns covering regions of the underlayer in which the openings are to be formed; forming a liquid layer over the photoresist patterns; after forming the liquid layer, performing a baking process so as to convert the liquid layer to an organic layer in a solid form; performing an etching back process to remove a portion of the organic layer on a level above the photoresist patterns; removing the photoresist patterns, so as to expose portions of the underlayer by the remaining portion of the organic layer; forming the openings in the underlayer by using the remaining portion of the organic layer as an etching mask; and removing the remaining portion of the organic layer. |
| US10515844B2 |
Substrate supporting and transferring apparatus, method of supporting and transferring substrate, and manufacturing method of display apparatus using the same
A substrate supporting and transferring apparatus and associated methods, the apparatus including a shuttle configured to move in a x-direction and a y-direction, the y-direction being perpendicular to the x-direction; a lower wedge block on the shuttle, the lower wedge block including a lower surface that is parallel with an upper surface of the shuttle and an upper surface that is inclined with respect to the lower surface of the lower wedge block; an upper wedge block on the lower wedge block, the upper wedge block including a lower surface that is parallel with the upper surface of the lower wedge block and an upper surface that is parallel with the upper surface of the shuttle; and a chuck on the upper wedge block, the chuck being configured to support a substrate. |
| US10515843B2 |
Amalgamated cover ring
The present disclosure generally relates to generally relates to equipment for performing semiconductor device fabrication, and more particularly, to a cover ring for partially covering a surface of a substrate support in high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition processing. In one embodiment, the cover ring may include an annular body, an inner support block with a beveled first edge for stability, one or more thermal breaks to increase thermal movement towards the outer diameter, a rounded shoulder to prevent particle deposition, an outer lip configured to a substrate support pedestal, a vertical appendage to support the substrate, and a thermally conductive coating disposed on the annular ring to direct thermal conductivity towards the outer edge of the ring and prevent particle accumulation. |
| US10515839B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes at least the following three steps. A step (A) of preparing a structure including a semiconductor wafer having a circuit-formed surface and an adhesive film attached to the circuit-formed surface side of the semiconductor wafer. A step (B) of back grinding a surface on a side opposite to the circuit-formed surface side of the semiconductor wafer. A step (C) of radiating ultraviolet rays to the adhesive film and then removing the adhesive film from the semiconductor wafer. In addition, as the adhesive film, an adhesive film having a base material layer, an antistatic layer, and an adhesive resin layer including a conductive additive in this order is used, and the adhesive film is used so that the adhesive resin layer faces the circuit-formed surface side of the semiconductor wafer. |
| US10515838B2 |
Method and apparatus for stacking devices in an integrated circuit assembly
Methods and apparatuses for stacking devices in an integrated circuit assembly are provided. A tray for supporting multiple dies of a semiconductor material enables both top side processing and bottom side processing of the dies. The dies can be picked and placed for bonding on a substrate or on die stacks without flipping the dies, thereby avoiding particulate debris from the diced edges of the dies from interfering and contaminating the bonding process. In an implementation, a liftoff apparatus directs a pneumatic flow of gas to lift the dies from the tray for bonding to a substrate, and to previously bonded dies, without flipping the dies. An example system allows processing of both top and bottom surfaces of the dies in a single cycle in preparation for bonding, and then pneumatically lifts the dies up to a target substrate so that top sides of the dies bond to bottom sides of dies of the previous batch, in an efficient and flip-free assembly of die stacks. |
| US10515835B2 |
High density Tec-Cell carrier
The invention disclosed relates generally to handling substrates and wafers. In an example embodiment, to an improved wafer and substrate carrier or carrier system, method or apparatus. More specifically, to a carrier with improved abilities which may provide high density carriers, improved efficiency and other abilities such as increased cleanliness and reduced contamination to wafers during handling, storage or processing as well as higher density storage and better stocking, storage and handling abilities. |
| US10515834B2 |
Multi-station tool with wafer transfer microclimate systems
Systems and techniques for forming buffer gas microclimates around semiconductor wafers in environments external to a semiconductor processing chamber are disclosed. Such systems may include slot doors that may allow for single wafers to be removed from a multi-wafer stack while limiting outflow of buffer gas from a multi-wafer storage system, as well as buffer gas distributors that move in tandem with robot arms used to transport wafers for at least some of the movements of such robot arms. |
| US10515831B2 |
Medical instrument for in vivo heat source
A biocompatible medical device can be at least partially implantable into a living human or animal subject to provide active treatment of biofilm that can occur use within the subject. The medical device can include a catheter, including an interior conduit capable of permitting fluid flow. A heating device can be located on a portion of the catheter to be located within the subject, the heating device including at least a pair of electrodes having a variable spacing therebetween, the variable spacing specified to allow heat to be generated using a time-varying electromagnetic input signal providing a variable frequency to control a variable location along the electrodes at which heat is generated, such as can provide a virtual matrix of local heat sources. |
| US10515828B2 |
Method of depositing encapsulant along sides and surface edge of semiconductor die in embedded WLCSP
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of semiconductor die. An insulating layer is formed over the semiconductor wafer. A portion of the insulating layer is removed by LDA to expose a portion of an active surface of the semiconductor die. A first conductive layer is formed over a contact pad on the active surface of the semiconductor die. The semiconductor wafer is singulated to separate the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die is disposed over a carrier with the active surface of the semiconductor die offset from the carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and carrier to cover a side of the semiconductor die and the exposed portion of the active surface. An interconnect structure is formed over the first conductive layer. Alternatively, a MUF material is deposited over a side of the semiconductor die and the exposed portion of the active surface. |
| US10515820B2 |
Process and apparatus for processing a nitride structure without silica deposition
Techniques are provided to remove the growth of colloidal silica deposits on surfaces of high aspect ratio structures during silicon nitride etch steps. A high selectivity overetch step is used to remove the deposited colloidal silica. The disclosed techniques include the use of phosphoric acid to remove silicon nitride from structures having silicon nitride formed in narrow gap or trench structures having high aspect ratios in which formation of colloidal silica deposits on a surface of the narrow gap or trench through a hydrolysis reaction occurs. A second etch step is used in which the hydrolysis reaction which formed the colloidal silica deposits is reversible, and with the now lower concentration of silica in the nearby phosphoric acid due to the depletion of the silicon nitride, the equilibrium drives the reaction in the reverse direction, dissolving the deposited silica back into solution. |
| US10515817B2 |
Method for forming features of semiconductor structure having reduced end-to-end spacing
A method includes forming a mask layer over a target layer. A first etching process is performed on the mask layer to form a first opening and a second opening in the mask layer. A second etching process is performed on the mask layer to reduce an end-to-end spacing between the first opening and the second opening. The first etching process and the second etching process have different anisotropy properties. A pattern of the mask layer is transferred to the target layer. |
| US10515816B2 |
Integrating atomic scale processes: ALD (atomic layer deposition) and ALE (atomic layer etch)
Methods are provided for integrating atomic layer etch and atomic layer deposition by performing both processes in the same chamber or reactor. Methods involve sequentially alternating between atomic layer etch and atomic layer deposition processes to prevent feature degradation during etch, improve selectivity, and encapsulate sensitive layers of a semiconductor substrate. |
| US10515809B2 |
Selective high-K formation in gate-last process
A method includes removing a dummy gate stack to form an opening between gate spacers, selectively forming an inhibitor film on sidewalls of the gate spacers, with the sidewalls of the gate spacers facing the opening, and selectively forming a dielectric layer over a surface of a semiconductor region. The inhibitor film inhibits growth of the dielectric layer on the inhibitor film. The method further includes removing the inhibitor film, and forming a replacement gate electrode in a remaining portion of the opening. |
| US10515804B1 |
Single conductor alloy as diffusion barrier system and simultaneous ohmic contact to n- and p-type silicon carbide
Use of a single alloy conductor to form simultaneous ohmic contacts (SOC) to n- and p-type 4H—SiC. The single alloy conductor also is an effective diffusion barrier against gold (AU) and oxygen (O2) at high temperatures (e.g., up to 800° C.). The innovation may also provide an effective interconnecting metallization in a multi-level metallization device scheme. |
| US10515798B2 |
Method of fabricating device including two-dimensional material
A method of fabricating a device including a two-dimensional (2D) material includes forming a transition metal oxide pattern on a substrate and forming a transition metal dichalcogenide layer on a top surface and a side surface of a residual portion of the transition metal oxide pattern. The forming the transition metal dichalcogenide layer may include replacing a surface portion of the transition metal oxide pattern with the transition metal dichalcogenide layer. The transition metal dichalcogenide layer includes at least one atomic layer that is substantially parallel to a surface of the residual portion of the transition metal oxide pattern. |
| US10515795B2 |
Method of depositing thin film
A method of depositing a thin film includes: repeating a first gas supply cycle a first plurality of times, the first gas supply cycle including supplying a source gas to a reaction space; supplying first plasma while supplying a reactant gas to the reaction space; repeating a second gas supply cycle a second plurality of times, the second gas supply cycle including supplying the source gas to the reaction space; and supplying second plasma while supplying the reactant gas to the reaction space, wherein the supplying of the first plasma includes supplying remote plasma, and the supplying of the second plasma includes supplying direct plasma. |
| US10515793B2 |
FinFET device
A device includes a fin structure, a dielectric layer, a gate a spacer, and an epitaxy structure. The dielectric layer is over the fin structure. The gate is over the dielectric layer. The spacer is on a sidewall of the gate. The spacer has a thickness along a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the fin structure, and a distance along the direction from an outer sidewall of the spacer to an end surface of the fin structure is greater than the thickness of the spacer. The epitaxy structure is in contact with the fin structure. |
| US10515792B2 |
Systems and methods for ejection of ions from an ion trap
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for ejection of ions from an ion trap. In certain embodiments, systems and methods of the invention sum two different frequency signals into a single summed signal that is applied to an ion trap. In other embodiments, an amplitude of a single frequency signal is modulated as the single frequency signal is being applied to the ion trap. In other embodiments, a first alternating current (AC) signal is applied to an ion trap that varies as a function of time, while a constant radio frequency (RF) signal is applied to the ion trap. |
| US10515790B2 |
Ion guiding device
The disclosure relates to an ion guiding device, including two sets of electrodes extending along a certain space axis, a first power supply device and a second power supply device. The electrodes are expandably arranged along a direction perpendicular to the space axis, at least one surface of each electrode in each set of electrodes is substantially on the same space plane, and the space planes for each set of electrodes are not same and not parallel, thereby forming an ion transmission channel having the cross sectional area gradually reduced in a direction perpendicular to the space axis; the first power supply device is used for applying radio-frequency voltages on at least a part of electrodes in the two sets of electrodes; and the second power supply device is used for applying voltage signals on at least a part of electrodes in the two sets of electrodes. |
| US10515788B2 |
Systems and methods for integrated resputtering in a physical vapor deposition chamber
Physical vapor deposition systems are disclosed herein. An exemplary physical vapor deposition system includes a target, a collimator, a power source system, and a control system. The power source system is configured to supply power to the collimator and the target. The control system is configured to control the power source system, such that the collimator is bombarded with noble gas ions during a sputtering process and the target is bombarded with metal ions during a re-sputtering process, wherein the collimator functions as a sputtering target during the sputtering process and as the collimator during the re-sputtering process. |
| US10515787B2 |
Oxide sintered body and sputtering target, and method for producing same
An oxide sintered body is obtained by sintering indium oxide, gallium oxide and tin oxide. The oxide sintered body has a relative density of 90% or more and an average grain size of 10 μm or less. In the oxide sintered body, the relations 30 atomic %≤[In]≤50 atomic %, 20 atomic %≤[Ga]≤30 atomic % and 25 atomic %≤[Sn]≤45 atomic % are satisfied. [In], [Ga] and [Sn] are ratios of contents (atomic %) of indium gallium and tin, respectively, to all metal elements contained in the oxide sintered body. The oxide sintered body has an InGaO3 phase which satisfies the relation [InGaO3]≥0.05. |
| US10515783B2 |
Flow through line charge volume
A charge volume configuration for use in delivery of gas to a reactor for processing semiconductor wafers is provided. A charge volume includes a chamber that extends between a proximal end and a distal end. A base connected to the proximal end of the chamber, and the base includes an inlet port and an outlet port. A tube is disposed within the chamber. The tube has a tube diameter that is less than a chamber diameter. The tube has a connection end coupled to the inlet port at the proximal end of the chamber and an output end disposed at the distal end of the chamber. |
| US10515779B2 |
Imaging system and imaging method
An imaging system having a scanning electron microscope capable of rapidly obtaining clear images of inspection targets at different heights is disclosed. The imaging system includes a computer having a memory storing design data including two-dimensional design information of each of layers of a three-dimensional multilayer structure constituting a surface of the specimen, the design data further including height information of each of the layers. The computer is configured to: read the two-dimensional design information and the height information from the memory; calculate a height of an image acquisition position on the specimen from the two-dimensional design information and the height information; and instruct the scanning electron microscope to focus the electron beam on the image acquisition position based on the calculated height of the image acquisition position. |
| US10515777B2 |
Ion milling device and processing method using the ion milling device
This ion milling device is provided with a vacuum chamber (105), an exhaust device (101) for evacuating the interior of the vacuum chamber, a sample stage (103) for supporting a sample (102) to be irradiated inside the vacuum chamber, a heater (107) for heating the interior of the vacuum chamber, a gas source (106) for introducing into the vacuum chamber a gas serving as a heating medium, and a controller (110) for controlling the gas source, the controller controlling the gas source so that the vacuum chamber internal pressure is in a predetermined state during heating by the heater. This enables the control in a short time of the temperature for suppressing condensation, or the like, occurring at atmospheric release after cooling and ion milling a sample. |
| US10515768B2 |
Apparatus and associated methods
An apparatus including an open interconnected wall structure having one or more pores, the open interconnected wall structure including a first electrode material, the pores including an electrolyte and a second electrode material, wherein the electrolyte and second electrode material are supported on the first electrode material within the pores such that the first electrode material is separated from the second electrode material by the electrolyte to enable the generation and/or storage of electrical energy using the apparatus. |
| US10515767B2 |
Mesoscopic framework for organic-inorganic perovskite based photoelectric conversion device and method for manufacturing the same
The invention discloses a perovskite solar cell and a method of fabrication thereof. The perovskite solar cell sequentially comprises a transparent electrode, a mesoporous P-I-N framework and a counter electrode from the bottom to top; the mesoporous P-I-N framework is composed of an n-type semiconductor layer, an insulating layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer in a sequentially stacked mode, and the n-type semiconductor layer, the insulating layer and the p-type semiconductor layer all comprise mesopores filled with a perovskite material. The preparation method sequentially includes preparing the mesoporous P-I-N framework on a transparent conductive substrate through a spin-coating method or a screen printing method, filling with the perovskite material and preparing the counter electrode layer. |
| US10515764B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor having a tuned effective volume
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an element body of roughly rectangular solid shape which is constituted by dielectric layers alternately stacked with internal electrode layers having different polarities and which has a pair of principle faces, a pair of end faces, and a pair of side faces, wherein the multilayer ceramic capacitor is such that: external electrodes are formed on the pair of end faces and one principle face of the element body; and on a cross section taken in parallel with one end face of the multilayer ceramic capacitor near the end face, the ratio of area A constituted by the internal electrode layers connected to the external electrode on this end face side and the dielectric layers present between the internal electrode layers, and area B covering the part of the section excluding the external electrodes, A/B, is 0.92 or more. |
| US10515760B1 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor with dielectric layers including dielectric grains having a core-shell structure
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes disposed to face each other with each of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the ceramic body and electrically connected to the first and second internal electrode, respectively, wherein the dielectric layer includes dielectric grains having a core-shell structure including a core and a shell, and a domain wall is disposed in the shell. |
| US10515759B2 |
MLCC with ID marker for orientation
An MLCC with an identification mark consisting of non-active internal electrodes which can be used to determine chip orientation for mounting or reeling. This allows an MLCC with substantially similar width and thickness to be oriented with the electrodes in a preferred direction (either vertical or horizontal with respect to the board) that results in the minimum noise and vibration compared to other orientations. The presence of an identification mark can also allow for a means of preferentially orienting an MLCC which has an active area that is offset from the geometric center of the part. |
| US10515752B2 |
Thin film inductor and manufacturing method thereof
A thin film inductor includes a body including a coil part disposed therein, wherein the coil part includes a patterned insulating film disposed on a substrate and a coil pattern formed between the patterned insulating films, the coil pattern having a lower height than the insulating film, such that the coil pattern may be formed in a structure with a high aspect ratio while having a uniform thickness, thereby increasing a cross-sectional area of the coil part and improving direct current resistance (Rdc) characteristics. |
| US10515748B2 |
Coil component
A coil component has a first surface and a second surface facing each other. The coil component has a coil conductor formed into a spiral shape and having a central axis intersecting with the first surface and the second surface, an insulation resin body covering the coil conductor and including an inner diameter hole part corresponding to the central axis of the coil conductor and a magnetic resin body disposed on the first surface side of the insulation resin body without being disposed on the second surface side of the insulation resin body. The magnetic resin body is also disposed inside the inner diameter hole part of the insulation resin body. |
| US10515742B1 |
Power cable and system for delivering electrical power
A power cable is presented. The power cable includes a power link. The power cable further includes an enclosure coupled to the power link, where the enclosure is partially open. Moreover, the power cable includes a contactor disposed at least partially within the enclosure and electrically coupled to the power link, where the contactor is configured to be connected to a receiver such that an open end of the enclosure forms a fluid-tight coupling with the receiver and a cavity is defined between the enclosure and the receiver. A system including the power cable and a method for controlling a supply of an electrical power are also presented. |
| US10515739B2 |
Conductive member and method for producing conductive member
Sufficient welding of multiple metal wires in at least a portion of a conductive member that is constituted by multiple metal wires is enabled. The conductive member includes multiple metal wires each including a metal strand and a metal covering layer formed around the metal strand, and a joined portion in which the metal wires are joined by melting of alloy portions of the metal covering layers, the alloy portions including the metal that forms the metal strands. The joined portion can be formed by joining the metal wires to each other by performing heating at a temperature higher than the melting point of the alloy portions of the metal covering layers, the alloy portions including the metal that forms the metal strands. |
| US10515738B2 |
Copper alloy wire, copper alloy twisted wire, covered electric wire, and wiring harness
A copper alloy wire, a copper alloy twisted wire, a covered electric wire, and a wiring harness that have high strength and excellent impact resistance. A copper alloy wire for use as a conductor has a ratio of 0.2% proof stress to tensile strength that is 0.87 or less. A copper alloy twisted wire includes a plurality of the twisted copper alloy wires. A covered electric wire includes a conductor including the copper alloy wire and an insulation cover that covers an outer periphery of the conductor. A wiring harness includes the covered electric wire, and a terminal metal fitting that is attached to the conductor of the covered electric wire. |
| US10515735B2 |
Conductive polymer composite and substrate
An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive polymer composite which has good filterability and good film forming property by spin coating and, when a film is formed, can form a conductive film having high transparency and good flatness property. It is provided a conductive polymer composite comprising (A) a π-conjugated polymer, and (B) a dopant polymer containing a repeating unit “a” represented by the following general formula (1), and having a weight average molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 500,000: wherein, R1, Z1, Rf1, and “a” are as defined in the specification. |
| US10515734B2 |
Aluminum alloy wire, aluminum alloy strand wire, covered electrical wire, and terminal-equipped electrical wire
An aluminum alloy wire is composed of an aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy contains equal to or more than 0.005 mass % and equal to or less than 2.2 mass % of Fe, and a remainder of Al and an inevitable impurity. In a transverse section of the aluminum alloy wire, a surface-layer crystallization measurement region in a shape of a rectangle having a short side length of 50 μm and a long side length of 75 μm is defined within a surface layer region extending from a surface of the aluminum alloy wire by 50 μm in a depth direction, and an average area of crystallized materials in the surface-layer crystallization measurement region is equal to or more than 0.05 μm2 and equal to or less than 3 μm2. |
| US10515732B2 |
Sealing apparatus for mitigating emissions of hazardous gases
A sealing apparatus for mitigating emissions of a hazardous gas flowing between first and second regions. A body of the apparatus includes at least one inlet, at least one outlet spaced apart from the at least one inlet, and a channel connecting the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet in fluid communication. Treatment material housed in at least a portion of the channel is adapted to treat the hazardous gas to form a conditioned gas. In use, the hazardous gas being emitted from the first region is received at the at least one inlet, and the conditioned gas is discharged to the second region at the at least one outlet. The apparatus may be used in combination with a storage container housing radioactive or other toxic waste. |
| US10515730B2 |
Apparatus for storing and/or transporting radioactive materials
A ventilated apparatus for storing and/or transporting high level radioactive waste. In one aspect, the invention is a ventilated apparatus comprising: an overpack body having an inner surface forming a cavity about a longitudinal axis. A bottom portion of the overpack body is formed by a plurality of segments. Each of the segments extends from a first end wall having a projection to a second end wall having a channel. The segments circumferentially surround a longitudinal axis and are arranged in an intermeshing and spaced-apart configuration such that the projections of the first end walls of the segments project into the channels of the second end walls of adjacent ones of the segments, thereby forming inlet ducts between adjacent ones of the segments. The inlet ducts form air inlet passageways from the external atmosphere to a bottom portion of the cavity. |
| US10515726B2 |
Reducing the coulombic barrier to interacting reactants
Methods, apparatuses, devices, and systems for producing and controlling and fusion activities of nuclei. Hydrogen atoms or other neutral species (neutrals) are induced to rotational motion in a confinement region as a result of ion-neutral coupling, in which ions are driven by electric and magnetic fields. The controlled fusion activities cover a spectrum of reactions including aneutronic reactions such as proton-boron-11 fusion reactions. |
| US10515724B2 |
Method and system for determining an association of biological feature with medical condition
A method and a system for determining an association of at least one biological feature with a medical condition utilizes the novel L1/2 penalized network-constraint regression model to achieve an improved biological analysis, in particular by solving high-dimensional problems. The method and the system of the present invention attain high accuracy and preciseness. |
| US10515722B2 |
Medical equipment with diversion mechanism
A method for identifying medical diverters includes identifying users having similar job functions. Use data indicative of user access to a medication dispensing system is retrieved and is analyzed to identify periods of use of the system for users. Boundaries of work shifts are determined and users are organized into work shifts based on periods of use. A comparison period is determined. Diversion data indicative of behavior associated with diversion for each user is identified. A diversion score indicative of a likelihood that a user is diverting medication is generated by averaging the data by shifts worked for each user and statistically comparing the averaged data. Diversion scores are combined for a medication type to generate a group score. A consistency factor is determined and an overall score is generated. A determination whether any overall scores exceed an overall threshold is made. Users whose score exceeds the threshold are flagged. |
| US10515718B2 |
Point-of-care testing system
A point of care (POC) testing system and a method for configuration of a POC testing system are disclosed that provide a workflow solution for the configuration management of POC analyzers. The POC system and method provide for convenient assisted workflows that enable efficient replacement of POC analyzers and enable traceable relocation of POC analyzers within, for example, a hospital. |
| US10515715B1 |
Systems and methods for evaluating compositions
A system, apparatus, and/or method is disclosed for determining a value of a property of a considered chemical composition. An identity of a sample chemical composition may be received. A sample chemical composition may comprise ingredients. Each of the ingredients may be associated with a value of a chemoinformatic property of chemoinformatic properties of the sample chemical composition. A value of a property of the sample chemical composition and at least one of (1) the identity of the sample chemical composition or (2) the values of the chemoinformatic properties of the ingredients of the sample chemical composition may be input into a model. The value of the property of the considered chemical composition may be determined, via the model, based on at least one of (1) an identity of the considered chemical composition or (2) values of chemoinformatic properties of ingredients of the considered chemical composition. |
| US10515714B2 |
Methods for accurate sequence data and modified base position determination
Disclosed herein are methods of determining the sequence and/or positions of modified bases in a nucleic acid sample present in a circular molecule with a nucleic acid insert of known sequence comprising obtaining sequence data of at least two insert-sample units. In some embodiments, the methods comprise obtaining sequence data using circular pair-locked molecules. In some embodiments, the methods comprise calculating scores of sequences of the nucleic acid inserts by comparing the sequences to the known sequence of the nucleic acid insert, and accepting or rejecting repeats of the sequence of the nucleic acid sample according to the scores of one or both of the sequences of the inserts immediately upstream or downstream of the repeats of the sequence of the nucleic acid sample. |
| US10515710B2 |
Hamming-distance analyzer
A device is disclosed that includes a memory array, a comparing circuit, and a calculating circuit. The memory array is configured to store a first response of an under-test device. The comparing circuit is configured to compare the first response with a plurality of responses of the under-test device operated in conditions that are different from each other to generate comparing results. The calculating circuit is configured to output a maximum hamming distance between two of the first response and the plurality of responses according to the comparing results. |
| US10515709B2 |
Sample- and-hold circuit and display device
A sample-and-hold circuit of the disclosure includes: a differential pair that includes a first MOS transistor and a second MOS transistor, in which respective source terminals of the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor are interconnected to a specified node, and an input signal is input to a gate terminal of the first MOS transistor; a capacitor that is coupled to a gate terminal of the second MOS transistor, and samples and holds the input signal; a switch transistor that has a source terminal coupled to the capacitor and the gate terminal of the second MOS transistor, and causes the capacitor to sample and hold the input signal upon application of a predetermined ON voltage; and an ON-voltage control transistor that couples a gate terminal of the switch transistor to the specified node when causing the input signal to be sampled and held. |
| US10515702B2 |
Precharge circuit, and memory device and SRAM global counter using precharge circuit
A precharge circuit includes: a precharge time controller suitable for generating a precharge time control signal based on a threshold voltage of a transistor; a precharge control signal generator suitable for generating a precharge control signal activated during a predetermined period based on the precharge time control signal from the precharge time controller; and a precharger suitable for precharging a bit line and a bit line bar during the predetermined period based on the precharge control signal from the precharge control signal generator. |
| US10515699B1 |
Error handling for match action unit memory of a forwarding element
A hardware forwarding element is provided that includes a group of unit memories, a set of packet processing pipelines, and an error signal fabric. Each packet processing pipeline includes several of match action stages. Each match action stage includes a set of match action tables stored in a set of unit memories. Each unit memory is configured to detect an error in the unit memory and generate an error output when an error is detected in the memory unit. The error signal fabric, for each match action stage, combines error outputs of the unit memories storing match tables into a first bit in the error signal fabric. The error signal fabric, for each match action stage, combines error outputs of the unit memories storing action tables into a second bit in the error signal fabric. |
| US10515697B1 |
Apparatuses and methods to control operations performed on resistive memory cells
Some embodiments include apparatuses having a resistive memory device and methods to apply a combination of voltage stepping current stepping and pulse width stepping during an operation of changing a resistance of a memory cell of the resistive memory device. The apparatuses also include a write termination circuit to limit drive current provided to a memory cell of the resistive memory device during a particular time of an operation performed on the memory cell. The apparatuses further include a programmable variable resistor and resistor control circuit that operate during sensing operation of the memory device. |
| US10515692B2 |
Programming memories with stepped programming pulses
Methods of operating a memory device applying a programming pulse having a plurality of different voltage levels to an access line coupled to a plurality of memory cells, enabling a particular memory cell of the plurality of memory cells for programming while the programming pulse has a particular voltage level of the plurality of different voltage levels, and, after enabling the particular memory cell for programming, inhibiting the particular memory cell from programming while the programming pulse has a second voltage level of the plurality of different voltage levels, different than the particular voltage level. |
| US10515691B2 |
Memory array with bit-lines connected to different sub-arrays through jumper structures
An integrated circuit structure includes an SRAM array including a first sub-array having a first plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of SRAM cells, and a second sub-array having a second plurality of rows and the plurality of columns of SRAM cells. A first bit-line and a first complementary bit-line are connected to the first and the second pass-gate MOS devices of SRAM cells in a column in the first sub-array. A second bit-line and a second complementary bit-line are connected to the first and the second pass-gate MOS devices of SRAM cells in the column in the second sub-array. The first bit-line and the first complementary bit-line are disconnected from the second bit-line and the second complementary bit-line. A sense amplifier circuit is electrically coupled to, and configured to sense, the first bit-line, the first complementary bit-line, the second bit-line, and the second complementary bit-line. |
| US10515690B2 |
Memory architecture and method of access thereto
A memory device includes control line drivers coupled to respective pairs of reference supply voltage controllers and supply voltage controllers. The control line drivers are configured to apply control signals to the reference supply voltage controllers and the supply voltage controllers. For a read operation, the reference supply voltage controllers apply a first voltage to reference voltage supply nodes of un-accessed rows of the array of memory cells and a second voltage to accessed rows. A voltage level of the first voltage is greater than a voltage level of the second voltage. For a write operation, the supply voltage controllers apply a third voltage to un-accessed rows of the array of memory cells and a fourth voltage to accessed rows. A voltage level of the third voltage is greater than a voltage level of the fourth voltage. |
| US10515688B2 |
SRAM arrays and methods of manufacturing same
An embodiment static random access memory (SRAM) array includes a first SRAM mini array having a first plurality of functional SRAM cells in a first column of the SRAM array. Each of the first plurality of functional SRAM cells share a first bit line (BL). The SRAM array further includes a second SRAM mini array having a second plurality of functional SRAM cells in the first column. Each of the second plurality of functional SRAM cells share a second BL independently controlled from the first BL. The SRAM array further includes and a SRAM dummy array between the first SRAM mini array and the second SRAM mini array. The SRAM dummy array includes a plurality of SRAM array abut dummy cells in the first column. A first endpoint of the first BL and a second endpoint of the second BL are disposed in the SRAM dummy array. |
| US10515684B2 |
Read assist circuitry for memory applications
Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit having a wordline driver coupled to a bitcell via a wordline. The wordline driver may include multiple transistors. The integrated circuit may include a read assist transistor coupled to the wordline between the wordline driver and the bitcell. Gates of the read assist transistor and at least one transistor of the multiple transistors may be coupled together. While activated, the read assist transistor may provide a read assist signal to the wordline when the wordline is selected and driven by the wordline driver. |
| US10515676B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for determining a phase relationship between an input clock signal and a multiphase clock signal
Apparatuses and methods for determining a phase relationship between an input clock signal and a multiphase clock signal are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a clock path configured to receive a clock signal and provide internal clock signals and a command path configured to receive a command and propagate the command through the command path responsive to the internal clock signals and provide an internal command having a timing that reflects a timing of the clock signal. The example apparatus further includes a data clock path configured to receive a data clock signal and provide multiphase clock signals based on the data clock signal and provide a delayed multiphase clock signal, and further includes a clock synchronization circuit configured to receive the delayed multiphase clock signal and latch a logic level of the delayed multiphase clock signal responsive to the internal command. |
| US10515675B2 |
Memory device, operating method thereof, and operating method of memory system including the same
A method for operating a memory device includes: receiving a write command; checking out whether a data strobe signal toggles or not after a given time passes from a moment when the write command is received; when the data strobe signal is checked out to be maintained at a uniform level, detecting voltage levels of a plurality of data pads; and performing an operation that is selected based on the voltage levels of the plurality of the data pads among a plurality of predetermined operations. |
| US10515672B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and test method therefor
A semiconductor memory device including a pair of first bit lines extended in a first direction, a pair of second bit lines extended in the first direction, a first word line extended in a second direction crossing the first direction, a second word line extended in the second direction, a memory cell surrounded by the first bit line, the second bit line, the first word line, and the second word line, and including a drive transistor, a first transfer transistor coupled with one of the pair of first bit lines, and having a gate coupled with the first word line, a second transfer transistor coupled with one of the pair of second bit lines, and having a gate coupled with the second word line, and a load transistor, a write drive circuit that transfers data to the memory cell. |
| US10515670B1 |
Memory apparatus and voltage control method thereof
A memory apparatus and a voltage control method of the memory apparatus are provided. The memory apparatus of the invention includes a synchronous circuit, a clock tree and a memory controller. The synchronous circuit receives a reference clock and generating a clock signal. The clock tree is coupled to an output end of the multiplexer and assigns the clock signal to a plurality of signal paths. The memory controller is coupled to the synchronous circuit and controls the synchronous circuit to adjust a frequency of the clock signal according to an operating mode of the memory apparatus. |
| US10515663B2 |
Tape drive bearing temperature control
A determination is made whether read/write is enabled within the tape drive storage unit. In response to determining that read/write is enabled, a determination is made whether a temperature within the tape drive storage unit exceeds a threshold value. In response to determining that the temperature within the tape drive storage unit exceeds the threshold value, a determination is made of a direction of travel of a tape media within the tape drive storage unit. In response to determining that the direction of travel is a forward direction, a first cooling device is powered on. The first cooling device lowers the temperature of a first guide roller and the tape media coming off a first tape storage reel prior to the tape media passing by a read/write head within the tape drive storage unit. |
| US10515662B2 |
Recording apparatus, server apparatus, recording method, program and storage medium
A data recording apparatus including: a data reading device configured to read data from a first recording medium and configured to store data and first management data for managing the data by file; a data recording device configured to record data on a second recording medium; a management data producing device configured to produce second management data for managing data recorded on the second recording medium based on the first management data of the first recording medium on which the data recorded on the second recording medium has been recorded; a data determining device configured to determine data unrecorded on the second recording medium by comparing the first management data read by the data reading device from the first recording medium with the second management data recorded on the second recording medium; a control device configured to read the data determined by the data determining device from the first recording medium and cause the recording device to record the read data onto the second recording medium; and a display device configured to display the recording status of data, managed by the first management data read by the reading device from the first recording medium, on the second recording medium, wherein the recording status includes one of recording of data complete, recording of data in progress, and recording of data yet to begin. |
| US10515661B2 |
Magnetic tape device and head tracking servo method
The magnetic tape device includes a magnetic tape including a magnetic layer, in which an intensity ratio of a peak intensity of a diffraction peak of a (110) plane with respect to a peak intensity of a diffraction peak of a (114) plane of a hexagonal ferrite crystal structure obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer by using an In-Plane method is 0.5 to 4.0, a vertical direction squareness ratio of the magnetic tape is 0.65 to 1.00, Ra measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 2.0 nm, and a C—H derived C concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on the surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is 45 to 65 atom %. |
| US10515660B2 |
Magnetic tape having controlled surface properties of the back coating layer and magnetic layer
A magnetic tape is provided in which the center line average surface roughness Ra measured regarding the surface of the magnetic layer is less than or equal to 1.8 nm, and the logarithmic decrement acquired by a pendulum viscoelasticity test performed regarding the surface of the magnetic layer is less than or equal to 0.050. A back coating layer includes one or more components selected from a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide. In addition, the C—H derived C concentration calculated from the C—H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed regarding the surface of the back coating layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is greater than or equal to 35 atom %. |
| US10515657B2 |
Magnetic tape having characterized magnetic layer and magnetic recording and reproducing device
Provided are a magnetic tape, in which a magnetic layer includes a ferromagnetic powder, a binding agent, and an oxide abrasive, ΔSFD in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape calculated by Expression 1, ΔSFD=SFD25° C.−SFD−190° C., is equal to or smaller than 0.50, a logarithmic decrement acquired by a pendulum viscoelasticity test performed regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 0.050, and an average particle diameter of the oxide abrasive obtained from a secondary ion image obtained by irradiating the surface of the magnetic layer with a focused ion beam is 0.04 μm to 0.08 μm, and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including this magnetic tape. |
| US10515656B2 |
Pitch extraction device and pitch extraction method by encoding a bitstream organized into equal sections according to bit values
A pitch extraction device includes a processor configured to perform a process including: dividing a first bit stream in encoded data into a plurality of sections each having a prescribed section length, the encoded data being obtained by performing entropy encoding on a residual signal calculated by performing linear prediction analysis on a sound signal; allocating a first value or a second value to each of the plurality of sections in the first bit stream in accordance with a bit value in each of the plurality of sections; generating a second bit stream obtained by re-encoding the first bit stream according to the first value and the second value that have been allocated to each of the plurality of sections in the first bit stream; and calculating a fundamental frequency of the sound signal in accordance with an autocorrelation of the second bit stream. |
| US10515651B2 |
Noise reduction operation control method for headset and audio processor in terminal device
A noise reduction operation control method for a headset and an audio processor in a terminal device, where a pin of a universal serial bus (USB) Type-C interface is multiplexed. During implementation of the solutions in this application, a switch circuit corresponding to the pin of the USB Type-C interface is switched to ensure that a normal function of the pin of the USB Type-C interface is not affected. In addition, a digital microphone (DMIC) processor in a terminal device and a noise reduction microphone in a headset are coupled using the pin of the USB Type-C interface such that a noise reduction signal from the noise reduction microphone in the headset is received using the DMIC processor in the terminal device, thereby implementing noise reduction processing for the headset using the terminal device. |
| US10515644B2 |
Methods and systems for interactive rendering of object based audio
Methods for generating an object based audio program which is renderable in a personalizable manner, e.g., to provide an immersive, perception of audio content of the program. Other embodiments include steps of delivering (e.g., broadcasting), decoding, and/or rendering such a program. Rendering of audio objects indicated by the program may provide an immersive experience. The audio content of the program may be indicative of multiple object channels (e.g., object channels indicative of user-selectable and user-configurable objects, and typically also a default set of objects which will be rendered in the absence of a selection by a user) and a bed of speaker channels. Another aspect is an audio processing unit (e.g., encoder or decoder) configured to perform, or which includes a buffer memory which stores at least one frame (or other segment) of an object based audio program (or bitstream thereof) generated in accordance with, any embodiment of the method. |
| US10515637B1 |
Dynamic speech processing
Techniques for dynamically maintaining speech processing data on a local device for frequently input commands are described. A system determines a usage history associated with a user profile. The usage history represents at least a first command. The system determines the first command is associated with an input frequency that satisfies an input frequently threshold. The system also determines the first command is missing from first speech processing data stored by a device associated with the user profile. The system then generates second speech processing data specific to the first command and sends the second speech processing data to the device. |
| US10515634B2 |
Method and apparatus for searching for geographic information using interactive voice recognition
An apparatus for searching for geographic information using interactive voice recognition includes: a receiver configured to receive a voice signal; a voice recognition unit configured to recognize the voice signal; a result analysis processing unit configured to search for geographic information on the basis of the recognized voice signal, and analyze a search result of the geographic information; and a question generating unit configured to generate a question in response to the result of determination. A method for searching for geographic information using interactive voice recognition includes: receiving a voice signal, and recognizing the voice signal; searching for geographic information on the basis of the recognized voice signal; analyzing a search result of the geographic information; and generating a question in response to the result of determination. |
| US10515633B2 |
Method for controlling speech-recognition text-generation system and method for controlling mobile terminal
A method is provided for controlling a device used in a speech-recognition system, in which the device captures speech. The method includes determining a presence or an absence of an object in proximity to the device. The method also includes controlling capturing speech or not capturing speech in accordance with the determination. In the method, the capturing of speech is performed using a microphone of the device. |
| US10515630B1 |
Analysis of a topic in a communication relative to a characteristic of the communication
A device monitors a communication between a user associated with a user device and a service representative associated with a service representative device, and causes a natural language processing model to perform a natural language processing analysis of a user input of the communication to identify a topic associated with the communication. The device determines a first score associated with the topic, and determines a second score associated with enabling the communication, where the first score and second score indicate a service performance score of an entity. The device causes a sentiment analysis model to perform a sentiment analysis of the communication to determine a sentiment score indicating a level of satisfaction the user has relative to the topic. The device updates a transaction protocol associated with the topic based on the service performance score, and/or updates a communication processing protocol associated with the communication based on the sentiment score. |
| US10515629B2 |
System and method for activation of voice interactive services based on user state
The present invention provides a system for activating personal assistance services. The system includes an audio data collector adapted to collect a sample of speech, a processing module, and a service activator couple to an output device. The processing module further includes an audio feature extractor that extracts a plurality of acoustic features from the sample of speech, and a classification unit that classifies a status of a user from the plurality of acoustic features. The Service activator activates a personal assistance service according to the status of the user classified by the classification unit. |